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Q:
How to allow currency symbols in input string C#
I need to create a console application as shown in the image below.Console Application
The problem is ,that when I enter the hourly rate with the $, a System.FormatException error occurs. It also says Input string was not in correct format.
Here is the snippet of code that causes the problem
double rate = 0;
Console.Write("Enter the hourly rate: ");
rate = double.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
And here is the whole program
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace ICA2_Mason_Clarke
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
int hoursWorked = 0;
Console.Write("Enter the hours worked: ");
hoursWorked = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
double rate = 0;
Console.Write("Enter the hourly rate: ");
rate = double.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
int taxRate = 0;
Console.Write("Enter the tax rate as a percent: ");
taxRate = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
double grossPay = rate * hoursWorked;
Console.Write("Gross pay : $");
Console.WriteLine(grossPay);
double taxesDue = grossPay * taxRate / 100;
Console.Write("Taxes due : $");
Console.WriteLine(taxesDue);
double netPay = grossPay - taxesDue;
Console.Write("Net pay : $");
Console.WriteLine(netPay);
Console.Write("Press any key to continue");
Console.Read();
}
}
}
A:
You could use the double.TryParse overloads to allow the currency Symbol and get the number.
double d;
double.TryParse("$20.00", NumberStyles.Number | NumberStyles.AllowCurrencySymbol, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, out d);
Console.WriteLine(d);
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As fans of the science fiction genre, we’re all aware that science fiction authors frequently try to predict the future of technology and science in a realistic way. In fact, for many readers of science fiction, that’s a big part of the appeal versus fantasy novels or ordinary fiction.
This great infographic from Printerinks.com takes a look at what existing technologies and discoveries were first predicted in books. From the two moons of Mars first mentioned in Gulliver’s Travels in 1735, to government spying that was so central to the story of George Orwell’s 1984, and to the real-time translation provided by the Babble fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy first published in 1980.
To learn more, take a look at It’s Okay to be Smart’s video looking at the predictions of visionary authors like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke or AT&T’s timeline of Science Fiction to Reality. |
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semi: true,
singleQuote: true,
trailingComma: 'all',
bracketSpacing: true,
};
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NMR structure of two novel polyethylene glycol conjugates of the human growth hormone-releasing factor, hGRF(1-29)-NH2.
Two novel mono-PEGylated derivatives of hGRF(1-29)-NH(2) [human growth hormone-releasing factor, fragment 1-29] have been synthesized by regio-specific conjugation of Lys(12) or Lys(21) to a monomethoxy-PEG(5000) chain (compounds Lys(12)PEG-GRF and Lys(21)PEG-GRF). The PEG moiety has been covalently linked at the amino group of a norleucine residue via a carbamate bond. The Lys(12)PEG-GRF regioisomer was found to be slightly less active in vitro than both the unmodified peptide and Lys(21)PEG-GRF. To assess whether the differences in the biological activity of the PEGylated analogues could be related to conformational rearrangements induced by the PEG moiety, the structure of these PEGylated derivatives has been worked out (TFE solution) by means of NMR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics. Secondary structure shifts, hydrogen/deuterium exchange kinetics, temperature coefficients of amide protons, and NOE-based molecular models point out that hGRF(1-29)-NH(2), Lys(21)PEG-GRF and Lys(12)PEG-GRF share a remarkably similar pattern of secondary structure. All three compounds adopt an alpha-helix conformation which spans the whole length of the molecule, and which becomes increasingly rigid on going from the N-terminus to the C-terminus. Residues Lys(12) and Lys(21) are enclosed in all the compounds considered into well-defined alpha-helical domains, indicating that PEGylation either at Lys(12) or Lys(21) does not alter the tendency of the peptide to adopt a stable alpha-helix conformation, nor does it induce appreciable conformational mobility in the proximity of the PEGylation sites. No significant variation of the amphiphilic organization of the alpha-helix is observed among the three peptides. Therefore, the different biological activities observed for the PEGylated analogues are not due to conformational effects, but are rather due to sterical hindrance effects. The relationship between the biological activitiy of the mono-PEGylated derivatives and sterical hindrance is discussed in terms of the topology of interaction between hGRF(1-29)-NH(2) and its receptor. |
Pep Guardiola says his looking forward to helping guide Raheem Sterling at Manchester City. Sterling endured an inconsistent first season at season at the Etihad after joining from Liverpool in a deal worth close to £50m. He also failed to shine for England at this summer’s European Championship and was singled out for heavy criticism. But Guardiola has offered […] |
package com.gcplot.services.logs.disruptor;
import com.gcplot.logs.ParserContext;
import com.gcplot.model.gc.GCEvent;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
/**
* @author <a href="mailto:art.dm.ser@gmail.com">Artem Dmitriev</a>
* 6/14/17
*/
public class GCEventBundle {
public Object rawEvent;
public GCEvent event;
public boolean isIgnore;
public CompletableFuture future;
public ParsingState parsingState;
public ParserContext parserContext;
public boolean isControl;
public GCEventBundle reset() {
rawEvent = null;
event = null;
parsingState = null;
future = null;
parserContext = null;
isIgnore = false;
isControl = false;
return this;
}
public GCEventBundle rawEvent(Object rawEvent) {
this.rawEvent = rawEvent;
return this;
}
public GCEventBundle event(GCEvent event) {
this.event = event;
return this;
}
public GCEventBundle ignore() {
this.isIgnore = true;
return this;
}
public GCEventBundle future(CompletableFuture future) {
this.future = future;
return this;
}
public GCEventBundle parsingState(ParsingState parsingState) {
this.parsingState = parsingState;
return this;
}
public GCEventBundle parserContext(ParserContext parserContext) {
this.parserContext = parserContext;
return this;
}
public GCEventBundle control() {
this.isControl = true;
return this;
}
}
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to thermal imaging systems (sometimes also referred to as FLIRs) for detecting scene information and displaying an image of that information. More specifically, it relates to such systems which utilize a pyroelectric detector that is periodically reset.
2. Description of Related Art
It is known in the field of thermal imaging systems to display an image of a scene by receiving scene information through an optical system that focuses the scene information on a detector. In response to the scene information, the detector generates electrical signals representative of the scene. These are processed and used to create an image on a display device.
A pyroelectric uncooled focal plane array detector used in this type of system is shown in Shaham, U.S. Pat. No. 4,740,700. The uncooled pyroelectric detector elements in this system are AC coupled. The focal plane array must therefore be periodically reset or normalized. Otherwise, the scene information must change during operation.
To image a static or non-changing scene, the signals produced by the scene information usually must be stored and subtracted from the signals produced while the scene information is blocked from the detector. This is usually accomplished by a mechanical chopper positioned between the optical system and the detector in the system. The mechanical chopper alternately passes and blocks the scene information, thereby effectively resetting the detector elements of the focal plane array. The normal scene signal is then electronically subtracted from the blocked scene signal.
The use of a mechanical chopper complicates the system. It must be introduced in the optical path. This requires a moving mechanical part which reduces reliability and increases cost. A need therefore exists for a workable thermal imaging system which does not need a mechanical chopper. |
What You Should Know About Gum Disease and Tooth Decay
Webster’s dictionary defines the word”decay” as”an act of departure gradually from an audio or prosperous state to one of less perfection; to be slowly diminished; to deteriorateto become rotten.” Webster defines the word”disease” as”a particular destructive process from the body with a specific cause and effect; an uneasiness; distress; or some other death from the healthy condition.” With all these definitions, we may be able to understand the dentist when she or he informs us that a tooth has decayed and the fascia requires a filling, or the gum has a disorder pocket shaped around the tooth and distance needs a deep cleaning. Unfortunately, these definitions by Webster for the word”decay” along with the word”disease” don’t answer the question as to”why” the tooth and the gum pocket developed in the first place. Maybe this article can help you to understand and answer this query as to why you need treatments in the dental chair.
Animal teeth, especially the enamel, covering the outer surfaces of their teeth, are the toughest structures ever to grow in the animal body. It’s Nature’s design and Nature meant the teeth of any animal to last the creature’s lifetime, including lasting the life for us human animals. To observe this natural wellbeing, all you need to do is go any natural history museum. There you’ll find many sorts of animal skeletons, such as a number of those hominid ancestors which are on the same branch of Nature’s family tree with us. You will discover in certain museums complete skeletons of dinosaurs which are 65 million years old. These dinosaur skulls have their teeth without any tooth decay or gum disease, revealing healthy bone, surrounding their healthy teeth. These observations support the contention that the teeth of creatures must last the creature’s lifetime, because without them, how can they live and survive? From skeletonswe could get a fantastic deal of understanding in the lives of creatures that preceded us and even more knowledge when we compare them with the wild creatures of the current day. Animals of all kinds, living in the past as well as those living in the wild now, continue to display the same glorious, disease-free mouths as the ones displayed and seen from the skeletons in our natural history museums. Edmonton Emergency Dentists & Dental Clinic | Emergency Dental Edmonton
At archaeological sites all over the world, scientists are finding intact hominid skeletons which are millions of years old. In archeological research, teeth serve an important role like the usage of contemporary fingerprints in criminology. Archaeologists will make use of these teeth when identifying certain species of animals as well as hominids of the prehistoric past. Archeologists will confirm that their tooth enamel would be the most durable biological substance known to science and that teeth are more likely than bones to survive the ravages of evolutionary time. In addition, it has been said that animal teeth are almost indestructible, just witnesses a wild carnivore with their teeth for crushing bones while still eating. These observations of teeth being almost indestructible and decay-free from 65 million-year-old dinosaurs, in millions of year old hominids and other animal skeletons in our natural history museums, in addition to from the wild animals living now, begs another question. Why is it that we modern humans have numerous dental problems with tooth decay and gum disease? The 1 thing all these previous animals and the crazy ones living now have in common, which we have overlooked, is the fact that the past wild animals did not and the current wild animals do not eat foods that are cooked. They only ate and eat from Nature’s food source, which are the seasonal environmental foods of planet Earth. Additionally, not one of those past and present wild animals ever cleaned their teethusing a toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash or floss, nevertheless their teeth and gums remained disease-free during their lives. This proof is everywhere throughout evolutionary period in virtually every intact animal skull, revealing all their teeth and surrounding encouraging bone. Emergency Dental Care
To understand this natural phenomenon, we need to know more about the healthy balance which exists in all Nature’s animal mouths, which has happened to each evolutionary creature. This natural innate balance entails three physical places. First, we must understand the issues, including the teeth, tongue, gums and other oral soft tissues, the jawbones and jaw joints, neck and head muscles, taste buds and the salivary glands with their alkalizing fluids. Second, we must comprehend the germs that naturally reside in the creature mouth. And next, we need to comprehend the evolutionary planetary foods consumed by the animals of the time. The animal’s five physical senses are also involved and will be the biggest aspect of this balancing picture for all of Nature’s living creatures. These natural senses for living to pay strict attention to sound, sight, touch, smell, and flavor that all the creatures use in the discovery of the foods. The adventures of these senses also turn on many contributing physiological functions that are everywhere in the body. These senses direct and help in the consumption processes of meals, which will continue the animal’s lifestyle. The senses are used for gathering foods to consume, digest, assimilate, package and keep the energy and nutrients from the foods consumed. The energy and nutrients are used for instant or for future use, allowing the cells of an animal body their living adventures. |
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Common and Nzingha have collaborated on a number of his videos over the years, so that may explain why they’re so at ease with one another. Still, we gotta ask — is he choppin’ than thang to smithereens??? |
A sequence-dependent rigid-base model of DNA.
A novel hierarchy of coarse-grain, sequence-dependent, rigid-base models of B-form DNA in solution is introduced. The hierarchy depends on both the assumed range of energetic couplings, and the extent of sequence dependence of the model parameters. A significant feature of the models is that they exhibit the phenomenon of frustration: each base cannot simultaneously minimize the energy of all of its interactions. As a consequence, an arbitrary DNA oligomer has an intrinsic or pre-existing stress, with the level of this frustration dependent on the particular sequence of the oligomer. Attention is focussed on the particular model in the hierarchy that has nearest-neighbor interactions and dimer sequence dependence of the model parameters. For a Gaussian version of this model, a complete coarse-grain parameter set is estimated. The parameterized model allows, for an oligomer of arbitrary length and sequence, a simple and explicit construction of an approximation to the configuration-space equilibrium probability density function for the oligomer in solution. The training set leading to the coarse-grain parameter set is itself extracted from a recent and extensive database of a large number of independent, atomic-resolution molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of short DNA oligomers immersed in explicit solvent. The Kullback-Leibler divergence between probability density functions is used to make several quantitative assessments of our nearest-neighbor, dimer-dependent model, which is compared against others in the hierarchy to assess various assumptions pertaining both to the locality of the energetic couplings and to the level of sequence dependence of its parameters. It is also compared directly against all-atom MD simulation to assess its predictive capabilities. The results show that the nearest-neighbor, dimer-dependent model can successfully resolve sequence effects both within and between oligomers. For example, due to the presence of frustration, the model can successfully predict the nonlocal changes in the minimum energy configuration of an oligomer that are consequent upon a local change of sequence at the level of a single point mutation. |
Rheumatoid Arthritis Support Group
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, multisystem, autoimmune disorder. It is a disabling and painful condition which can lead to substantial loss of mobility due to pain and joint destruction. The disease is also systemic in that it often also affects many extra-articular tissues throughout the body including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and...
Cow Boy
A cowboy rode into town and stopped at a saloon for a drink. Unfortunately, the locals always had a habit of picking on strangers, which he was. When he finished his drink, he found his horse had been stolen. He went back into the bar, handily flipped his gun into the air, caught it above his head without even looking and fired a shot into the ceiling.
"Which one of you sidewinders stole my horse?!?!?" he yelled with surprising forcefulness. No one answered. "Alright, I'm gonna have another beer, and if my horse ain't back outside by the time I finish, I'm gonna do what I dun in Texas! And I don't like to have to do what I dun in Texas!" Some of the locals shifted restlessly. The man, true to his word, had another beer, walked outside, and his horse has been returned to the post.
He saddled up and started to ride out of town. The bartender wandered out of the bar and asked, "Say partner, before you go... what happened in Texas?" The cowboy turned back and said, "I had to walk home."
A friend sent this to me..As far as I can see, grief will never truly end.It may become softer overtime, more gentleand some days will feel sharp.But grief will last as long as Love does - ForeverIt's simply the way the absence of your loved onemanifests in your heart. A deep longing accompaniedby the deepest Love some days. The heavy fog mayreturn and the next day, it may recede.Once again, it's...
I have my maxed amount of epidural shots of my cervical DDD....(and no one cares about my lumbar DDD)..... I've done physical therapy, muscle relaxers, Amitriptyline, Nortryptiline, desipramine.....narcotics... So I decided to go to a spine specialist and they have me on Gabapentin. Its been two weeks and it did nothing for my lumbar ever... but it did seem to help my cervical and arm/hand pain...
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Intraocular lenses have gained wide acceptance in replacement of human crystalline lenses after a variety of cataract removal procedures. The human crystalline lens is generally recognized to be a transparent structure having a thickness of about five (5) millimeters and a diameter of about nine (9) millimeters. The lens is suspended behind the iris by zonula fibers which connect the lens to the ciliary body. A lens capsule surrounds the lens, the front portion of the capsule being commonly known as the anterior capsule and the back portion commonly known as the posterior capsule.
Numerous procedures for the removal of cataracts have been developed in which the lens is removed from the eye and replaced by an artificial lens implant. The extraction procedure may generally be categorized as intracapsular (in which the lens is removed together with the lens capsule) and extracapsular (in which the anterior capsule is removed with the lens, and the posterior capsule is left intact).
Since Ridley implanted the first artificial lens in about 1949, the problems associated with cataract extraction and lens implantation have received a great deal of attention from ophthalmic surgeons. Various types of artificial lenses have been proposed, and appropriate surgical procedures have been developed which strive to reduce patient discomfort and to reduce postoperative complications. Reference is made in this connection to Pseudophakos by N. Jaffe et al.; "History of Intraocular Implants" by D. P. Choyce (Annals of Ophthalmology, October 1973); U.S. Pat. No. 4,251,887 issued to Anis on Feb. 24, 1981; U.S. Pat. No. 4,092,743 issued to Kelman on Nov. 8, 1977; "Comparison of Flexible Posterior Chamber Implants", presented at the American Intraocular Implant Society Symposium Apr. 23, 1982, by Charles Berkert, M.D.; and "the Simcoe Posterior Lens" (Cilco, Inc. 1980); U.S. Pat. No. 4,573,998 issued to Mazzocco on Mar. 4, 1986, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 400,665 for "Improved Fixation System for Intraocular Lens Structures", filed Jul. 22, 1982, U.S. Pat. No. 4,702,244 issued to Mazzocco on Oct. 27, 1987; and U.S. Pat. No. 4,715,373 issued to Mazzocco et al. on Dec. 29, 1987, which disclosures are hereby incorporated by reference.
Of particular interest in the context of the present invention is the development of surgical techniques requiring relatively small incisions in the ocular tissue for the removal of cataracts as disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,002,169 and 3,996,935. A number of skilled artisans have disclosed intraocular lens structures comprising an optical zone portion generally made of rigid materials such as glass or plastics suitable for optical use.
However, one of the principal disadvantages of the conventional rigid intraocular lens is that implantation of the lens requires large incisions in the ocular tissue. This type of surgical procedure leads to a relatively high complication rate, among other disadvantages. For instance, the serious dangers associated with implantation of a rigid lens structure include increased risk of infection, retinal detachment, and laceration of the ocular tissue, particularly with respect to the pupil.
Accordingly, those skilled in the art have recognized a significant need for surgical tools for implantation of deformable intraocular lens structures which afford the clinical advantages of using relatively small incision techniques, which provide a safer and more convenient surgical procedure. In particular, those skilled in the art of deformable intraocular lenses and methods and devices for implantation, have also recognized a significant need for surgical tools which do not require widening of the wound made in the ocular tissue during or after implantation, but will deform the intraocular lens to a predetermined cross section in a stressed state and which allow the ophthalmic surgeon to inspect the lens prior to implantation without manipulation in the eye. The present invention fulfills these needs.
The present invention was derived by improving the methods and devices in the above-identified patents, specifically the methods of U.S. Pat. No. 4,573,998 and the devices of U.S. Pat. No. 4,702,244. |
//
// ip/impl/host_name.ipp
// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
//
// Copyright (c) 2003-2019 Christopher M. Kohlhoff (chris at kohlhoff dot com)
//
// Distributed under 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)
//
#ifndef BOOST_ASIO_IP_IMPL_HOST_NAME_IPP
#define BOOST_ASIO_IP_IMPL_HOST_NAME_IPP
#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1200)
# pragma once
#endif // defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1200)
#include <boost/asio/detail/config.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/detail/socket_ops.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/detail/throw_error.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/detail/winsock_init.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/ip/host_name.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/detail/push_options.hpp>
namespace boost {
namespace asio {
namespace ip {
std::string host_name()
{
char name[1024];
boost::system::error_code ec;
if (boost::asio::detail::socket_ops::gethostname(name, sizeof(name), ec) != 0)
{
boost::asio::detail::throw_error(ec);
return std::string();
}
return std::string(name);
}
std::string host_name(boost::system::error_code& ec)
{
char name[1024];
if (boost::asio::detail::socket_ops::gethostname(name, sizeof(name), ec) != 0)
return std::string();
return std::string(name);
}
} // namespace ip
} // namespace asio
} // namespace boost
#include <boost/asio/detail/pop_options.hpp>
#endif // BOOST_ASIO_IP_IMPL_HOST_NAME_IPP
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The last time Ernie emerged from his cave, it was when we beat the Heat, I expect to see him and Ted in-front of the cameras soon pumping-up John's return which is right around the corner. Hee hee, I am lurking on Stub Hub and will be buying cheapie tix targeted around the time that John is expected back.
Jimmy Recard wrote:Listen to all the OKC bandwagoners in the Verizon center
I initially reacted to this with an and1 but you know what, I don't blame folksfor liking OKC (other than SonicGate) with the PGC product Durant showinghow it's done. It's not like Lakers/Celtics/Nix/Heat fans in any way.
Sorry I wasn't there. At least I was able to sell my tickets for a fair price.
dandridge 10 wrote:So, I sold my seats for both the Miama and OKC games and the Wiz won both games. I'm starting to think I'm the Wizards curse. Maybe I need to sell the rest of my games!
Very good game from Beal and Vesely. Let's hope that they continue to gain confidence. Martell also had a nice game. I hope that he continues to start as he has earned it. Nice win.
My daughter had a game or I would have gone. Did just manage to sell my seatsbut didn't get the kind of premium I would have expected for OKC. Still madea slight amount over cost. Someone got a good deal.
If they ever get good, hopefully tickets won't be such a chore to unload.
Beal!
Ves, where ya been?
Nice game from Martell and Ok
that looked more like the team that I predicted they could be with my ridiculously optimistic win projection. Oh well, you're never asgood as you look when you're winning or as bad when you're losing.
Really happy for Beal, good to see his game coming along. A moment like last night can do a young player a world of good. Who would have figured last nights game was way more fun to watch than the BCS championship game?!?
montestewart wrote:Players really should wait until they're rookie coaches to become GMs. |
Just saw the presser---nothing that wasn't published in advance yesterday. Now the struggle begins. NRA's ads are not holding much back.
I seen that as well. I just got off the phone with my Senator's offices expressing my opposition to these new proposals. I am all for making schools safe however nothing Obama stated would have even remotely come close to preventing Newtown, Aurora, or Columbine. This is nothing but a vulture preying on this tragedy in hopes of pushing his agenda. I encourage you all to contact your respected representatives and express your thoughts regardless of what side you fall on.
There is a YouTube post (sorry, at work and cannot access YouTube) from a lady testifying at the Brady Bill hearing back in the 80's. She was at a McDonalds when a guy walked in and shot 20+ dead. She stated she lost her father and mother. She had a gun but the laws prevented her from having it, etc. Very very strong testimony and it sums up my feelings.
There is a YouTube post (sorry, at work and cannot access YouTube) from a lady testifying at the Brady Bill hearing back in the 80's. She was at a McDonalds when a guy walked in and shot 20+ dead. She stated she lost her father and mother. She had a gun but the laws prevented her from having it, etc. Very very strong testimony and it sums up my feelings.
As long as she knew how to use the gun and WOULD have used it, then it may have made a difference. I'm not disagreeing, just trying to look at it from all angles. A lot of people have guns--would they have used it and used it properly in that situation? We'll never know. And have not seen the YouTube post either.
LTC Kevin Grossman shared the story of a Deputy Sheriff in a mid-western town whose daughter was killed when a gunman attacked their church. The deputy explained that despite the fact that he carried his gun all of the time while off duty that out of respect for the members of the church that he never carried his gun inside the church. He was at a church function on a weekday evening when a gunman came into the building and opened fire. The deputy said that he would have been able to kill the gunman very quickly but he didn't have his own gun. Instead, he watched in horror as his daughter was shot and killed. All he could do was throw himself in the path of the bullets to try to keep her from getting shot.
There was a gunman who attacked people at a church in Colorado Springs. An armed security officer killed that gunman after his initial attack and saved countless lives.
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. To those sheep who demand protection but are offended by the very means of that protection I say pull your head out of your third point of contact and shut the hell up! |
Q:
Use diff and ls to detect files that changed in remote folder
I have a remote directory with read access.
I want to generate a list of files that changed since last iteration.
My idea is something like:
$ cp output.new output.old
$ ll > output.new
$ diff output.new output.old > list.files
The idea is that list.files have just the name and relative path of new files or files with different "modified timestamp" like this:
file1
files2
dir1/file3
dir2/file4
So I'm asking about diff and ls parameters.
A:
#!/bin/sh
topdir=/some/directory
stampfile="$HOME/.stamp"
if [ -f "$stampfile" ]; then
find "$topdir" -type f -newer "$stampfile"
fi
touch "$stampfile"
This little script would maintain a timestamp file that would get updated each time the script is run. It would find all files in the $topdir directory that has a modification timestamp newer than the timestamp file in $stampfile.
The first time this script is run, the timestamp file would not exist, so the script would not output anything. On subsequent runs, the script would list modified files since the last run.
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package io.cdap.cdap.etl.common.plugin;
import io.cdap.cdap.etl.api.Emitter;
import io.cdap.cdap.etl.api.PipelineConfigurer;
import io.cdap.cdap.etl.api.batch.BatchAggregator;
import io.cdap.cdap.etl.api.batch.BatchAggregatorContext;
import io.cdap.cdap.etl.api.batch.BatchRuntimeContext;
import io.cdap.cdap.etl.common.TypeChecker;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
/**
* Wrapper around {@link BatchAggregator} that makes sure logging, classloading, and other pipeline capabilities
* are setup correctly.
*
* @param <GROUP_KEY> group key type. Must be a supported type
* @param <GROUP_VALUE> group value type. Must be a supported type
* @param <OUT> output object type
*/
public class WrappedBatchAggregator<GROUP_KEY, GROUP_VALUE, OUT> extends BatchAggregator<GROUP_KEY, GROUP_VALUE, OUT> {
private final BatchAggregator<GROUP_KEY, GROUP_VALUE, OUT> aggregator;
private final Caller caller;
private final OperationTimer operationTimer;
public WrappedBatchAggregator(BatchAggregator<GROUP_KEY, GROUP_VALUE, OUT> aggregator, Caller caller,
OperationTimer operationTimer) {
this.aggregator = aggregator;
this.caller = caller;
this.operationTimer = operationTimer;
}
@Override
public void configurePipeline(PipelineConfigurer pipelineConfigurer) {
caller.callUnchecked((Callable<Void>) () -> {
aggregator.configurePipeline(pipelineConfigurer);
return null;
});
}
@Override
public void initialize(BatchRuntimeContext context) throws Exception {
caller.call((Callable<Void>) () -> {
aggregator.initialize(context);
return null;
});
}
@Override
public void destroy() {
caller.callUnchecked((Callable<Void>) () -> {
aggregator.destroy();
return null;
});
}
@Override
public void prepareRun(BatchAggregatorContext context) throws Exception {
context.setGroupKeyClass(TypeChecker.getGroupKeyClass(aggregator));
context.setGroupValueClass(TypeChecker.getGroupValueClass(aggregator));
caller.call((Callable<Void>) () -> {
aggregator.prepareRun(context);
return null;
});
}
@Override
public void onRunFinish(boolean succeeded, BatchAggregatorContext context) {
caller.callUnchecked((Callable<Void>) () -> {
aggregator.onRunFinish(succeeded, context);
return null;
});
}
@Override
public void groupBy(GROUP_VALUE groupValue, Emitter<GROUP_KEY> emitter) throws Exception {
operationTimer.start();
try {
caller.call((Callable<Void>) () -> {
aggregator.groupBy(groupValue, new UntimedEmitter<>(emitter, operationTimer));
return null;
});
} finally {
operationTimer.reset();
}
}
@Override
public void aggregate(GROUP_KEY groupKey, Iterator<GROUP_VALUE> groupValues,
Emitter<OUT> emitter) throws Exception {
operationTimer.start();
try {
caller.call((Callable<Void>) () -> {
aggregator.aggregate(groupKey, groupValues, new UntimedEmitter<>(emitter, operationTimer));
return null;
});
} finally {
operationTimer.reset();
}
}
}
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Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v Erobobo (2015 NY Slip Op 03522)
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v Erobobo
2015 NY Slip Op 03522
Decided on April 29, 2015
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.
Decided on April 29, 2015
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.
L. PRISCILLA HALL
SHERI S. ROMAN
JEFFREY A. COHEN, JJ.
2013-06986
(Index No. 31648/09)
[*1]Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., etc., appellant,
vRotimi Erobobo, respondent, et al., defendants.
Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Schuyler Kraus and Annemarie D'Amour of counsel), for appellant.
Kenneth S. Pelsinger, Levittown, N.Y., for respondents.
DECISION & ORDER
In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Saitta, J.), dated April 29, 2013, as denied that branch of its motion which was for summary judgment on the complaint insofar as asserted against the defendant Rotimi Erobobo.
ORDERED that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, and that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was for summary judgment on the complaint insofar as asserted against the defendant Rotimi Erobobo is granted.
On July 17, 2006, Rotimi Erobobo executed a note to secure a loan from Alliance Mortgage Banking Corporation (hereinafter Alliance), to purchase real property located in Brooklyn. Erobobo gave a mortgage to Alliance to secure that debt, thus encumbering the subject premises. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (hereinafter the plaintiff), as trustee for ABFC 2006-OPT3, ABFC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-OPT3 (hereinafter the trust), alleges that it was assigned the note and mortgage on July 18, 2008. Erobobo allegedly defaulted on the mortgage in September 2009, and, in December 2009, the plaintiff commenced this action against Erobobo, among others, to foreclose the mortgage. Erobobo's pro se answer contained a general denial of all allegations, and set forth no affirmative defenses. The plaintiff thereafter moved for summary judgment on the complaint, submitting the mortgage, the unpaid note, and evidence of Erobobo's default. In opposition, Erobobo, now represented by counsel, contended that the plaintiff lacked standing because the purported July 18, 2008, assignment of the note and mortgage to the plaintiff failed to comply with certain provisions of the pooling and servicing agreement (hereinafter the PSA) that governed acquisitions by the trust, and was thus void under New York law. The plaintiff replied that Erobobo waived his right to assert a defense based on lack of standing by not asserting that defense in his answer or in a pre-answer motion to dismiss the complaint, and that, in any event, Erobobo's contention was without merit.
The Supreme Court concluded that Erobobo's challenge to the plaintiff's possession, [*2]or its status as an assignee, of the note and mortgage did not implicate the defense of lack of standing, but merely disputed an element of the plaintiff's prima facie case, i.e., its contention that it possessed or was duly assigned the subject note and mortgage. On the merits, the court concluded that Erobobo raised a triable issue of fact as to whether the purported assignment of the note and mortgage to the plaintiff violated certain provisions of the PSA governing the trust, and was therefore void under EPTL 7-2.4. The plaintiff appeals. We reverse.
The plaintiff established its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by producing the mortgage, the unpaid note, and evidence of the defendant's default (see Deutsche Bank Natl. Trust Co. v Islar, 122 AD3d 566, 567; Solomon v Burden, 104 AD3d 839; Argent Mtge. Co., LLC v Mentesana, 79 AD3d 1079; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v Webster, 61 AD3d 856).
In opposition, Erobobo failed to raise a triable issue of fact. Even affording a liberal reading to Erobobo's pro se answer (see Boothe v Weiss, 107 AD2d 730; Haines v Kerner, 404 US 519, 520-521), there is no language in the answer from which it could be inferred that he sought to assert the defense of lack of standing. Nor did Erobobo raise this defense in a pre-answer motion to dismiss the complaint. Accordingly, the defendant waived the defense of lack of standing (see CPLR 3211[a][3]; [e]; Matter of Fossella v Dinkins, 66 NY2d 162, 167-168; Bank of N.Y. Mellon Trust Co. v McCall, 116 AD3d 993; Aames Funding Corp. v Houston, 57 AD3d 808; Wells Fargo Bank Minn., N.A. v Mastropaolo, 42 AD3d 239, 244), and could not raise that defense for the first time in opposition to the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment (see Wells Fargo Bank Minn., N.A. v Mastropaolo, 42 AD3d at 240). In any event, Erobobo, as a mortgagor whose loan is owned by a trust, does not have standing to challenge the plaintiff's possession or status as assignee of the note and mortgage based on purported noncompliance with certain provisions of the PSA (see Bank of N.Y. Mellon v Gales, 116 AD3d 723, 725; Rajamin v Deutsche Bank Natl. Trust Co., 757 F3d 79, 86-87 [2d Cir]).
Erobobo's contention that the plaintiff is not a "holder in due course" of the note and mortgage, as that term is employed in the UCC, is raised for the first time on appeal, and is not properly before this Court for appellate review (see Goldman & Assoc., LLP v Golden, 115 AD3d 911, 912-913; Muniz v Mount Sinai Hosp. of Queens, 91 AD3d 612, 618).
Accordingly, the Supreme Court should have granted that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was for summary judgment on the complaint insofar as asserted against Erobobo.
BALKIN, J.P., HALL, ROMAN and COHEN, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court
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Q:
Android: Using ViewPager with multiple dynamic Fragments
I am using a ViewPager to show 9 fragments. In each of these fragments, I want to just show a different picture. I want to use one single fragment layout, but dynamically add in the picture. Also, would like add a "Continue" button on the last fragment that when pressed will go to another activity.
How do I go about making a fragment layout dynamic?
Main Activity
public class StoryboardPageActivity extends FragmentActivity {
// The number of pages (wizard steps) to show in this demo.
private static final int NUM_PAGES = 9;
// The pager widget, which handles animation and allows swiping horizontally to access previous and next wizard steps.
private ViewPager mPager;
// The pager adapter, which provides the pages to the view pager widget.
private PagerAdapter mPagerAdapter;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_storyboard_page);
// Instantiate a ViewPager and a PagerAdapter.
mPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.storyboardPager);
mPagerAdapter = new StoryboardPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
mPager.setAdapter(mPagerAdapter);
}
@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
if (mPager.getCurrentItem() == 0) {
// If the user is currently looking at the first step, allow the system to handle the
// Back button. This calls finish() on this activity and pops the back stack.
super.onBackPressed();
} else {
// Otherwise, select the previous step.
mPager.setCurrentItem(mPager.getCurrentItem() - 1);
}
}
// A simple pager adapter that represents 5 fragment objects, in sequence.
private class StoryboardPagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {
public StoryboardPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
super(fm);
}
@Override
public Fragment getItem(int position) {
return StoryboardFragment.newInstance(position);
}
@Override
public int getCount() {
return NUM_PAGES;
}
}
}
Fragment
public class StoryboardFragment extends Fragment {
private static final String KEY_POSITION = "position";
static StoryboardFragment newInstance(int position) {
StoryboardFragment frag = new StoryboardFragment();
Bundle args = new Bundle();
args.putInt(KEY_POSITION, position);
frag.setArguments(args);
return(frag);
}
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
ViewGroup rootView = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_storyboard_page, container, false);
ImageView image = (ImageView)rootView.findViewById(R.id.imgStoryboard);
int position = getArguments().getInt(KEY_POSITION, -1);
int[] images = {R.drawable.storyboard1, R.drawable.storyboard2, R.drawable.storyboard3,
R.drawable.storyboard4, R.drawable.storyboard5, R.drawable.storyboard6,
R.drawable.storyboard7, R.drawable.storyboard8, R.drawable.storyboard9};
image.setImageResource(images[position]);
return rootView;
}
}
Fragment XML
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#fff" >
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/imgStoryboard"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:contentDescription="@string/storyboardSlide" />
</RelativeLayout>
A:
How do I go about making a fragment layout dynamic?
The same way you make any other "layout dynamic". If you want to put an image in an ImageView, call setImageBitmap() or setImageDrawable() or whatever. For example, the PagerAdapter could supply the position to the fragment (via a factory method), and the fragment could then know what image to load.
This sample project demonstrates populating the hint of an EditText with a custom value based upon the page's position.
With respect to the "Continue" button, either have a separate fragment class for that (and appropriate smarts in your PagerAdapter, or always have the button in your layout, but set to android:visibility="gone" by default, toggling it via setVisibility(View.VISIBLE) for the fragment that needs it.
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It didn't seem to matter to the girls that it was a rainy day, they insisted on swimming anyway. It looked like it was going to be an all-day rain but in the afternoon, the weather cleared for several hours. We chose to spend those hours at the Wabasso beach. The waves were more than the girls had ever been in before. At first they were cautious, holding hands and staying beyond the reach of the surf. Finally, Gabby was brave enough to let the waves crash over her.
The girls and their parents went to St. Augustine the day after Easter for a visit with Aunt Tiff and Uncle Rich. The visit included a ride on the boat, and a tour of the ancient city of St. Augustine.
I had that nasty laundry room in mind and figured just to clean it up a little, but then we found a sale on cabinets at the local home store. I figured just to set the cabinets in place, but one thing led to another, and He got into the details of crown moldings, floor molding, another cabinet, extra paint jobs, etc.
Here is my finished laundry room. I do wish I had taken a "Before" photo.
An early Easter this year meant the granddaughters with their parents were here the last of March. It was a little cool for swimming but if they could jump into the whirlpool tub of hot water they could warm up.
The family flew in late last night, but that gave us Friday to pamper ourselves with pedicures.
Do you think they are tired from the late night flight yesterday?
Saturday is ALWAYS a Scramble at the town park with hundreds of children, parents, eggs and prizes.
This year, the girls didn't win any prizes, but they have had more than their share in previous years.
Easter Sunday started with an Easter Bunny game unscrambling clues to little gifts. The final clues led to Easter Baskets. That bunny is getting trickier each year.
Later in the day friends and relatives enjoyed dinner together and relaxing time around the pool.
A neighbor was caring for a baby pigmy goat and brought it over for our family to o-o-o-o over. |
He Wanted Work
He Wanted Work is a 1914 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.
Cast
John Edwards as John Jackson
Mattie Edwards as Mandy
Billy Bowers as The Boss
Oliver Hardy as The Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
See also
List of American films of 1914
Oliver Hardy filmography
External links
Category:1914 films
Category:1910s short films
Category:American silent short films
Category:American films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1910s comedy films
Category:Lost American films
Category:Films directed by Arthur Hotaling
Category:American comedy films
Category:Comedy short films |
Until now, a semiconductor device mounted with semiconductor elements that generate heat attributable to their operation includes a metal base plate made of metal such as copper that excels in thermal conductivity, in order to enhance heat-dissipation performance. In a conventional semiconductor device, heat generated by semiconductor elements is dissipated through an organic insulation sheet and ceramic substrate to a metal base plate connected to a cooling unit. In recent years, the heat-dissipation characteristics need to be enhanced even more with growing high-density integration of the semiconductor elements.
A semiconductor device is disclosed in Patent document 1, in which a ceramic insulation substrate is disposed on a metal base plate via solder, and in addition on the ceramic insulation substrate are mounted semiconductor elements such as power chips via solder. Heat generated by the semiconductor elements is transmitted to the metal base plate via the ceramic substrate, and then dissipated outside through a cooling unit connected to the metal base plate. The ceramic substrate is made by sintering inorganic materials such as aluminum nitride (AlN), aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and silicon nitride (SiN), and its heat-dissipation performance is thereby enhanced.
When the organic insulation sheet is interposed between the semiconductor elements and metal base, the heat-dissipation performance of the organic insulation sheet needs to be enhanced. Inorganic powder with high thermal conductivity for enhancing the heat-dissipation performance is disclosed in, for example, Patent document 2. This inorganic powder with high thermal conductivity includes inorganic powder whose average particle size is 1 to 20 μm and maximum particle size is 45 μm or less; an inorganic powder X constituted of particles sized ranging from 3 to 40 μm is spherically-shaped with a roundness of 0.80 or more and in addition a thermal conductivity of 10 W/mK or more; an inorganic powder Y constituted of particles sized ranging from 0.1 to 1.5 μm is spherically- or aspherically-shaped with a roundness in a range from 0.30 to 0.80 and in addition a thermal conductivity being the same as or less than that of the powder X; and the mass ratio of X/Y is between 1 and 30. Thereby, a resin composition has been intended to be prepared, which is provided with excellent heat-dissipation performance, as well as the viscosity of which would not easily increase even if resin is densely filled with the powder. |
Joe Biden has warned China to abide by the same rules like everyone else after the UNbacked tribunal ruled that Chinas claims to the South China Sea were invalid This comes after the Philippines won the case for the hotly contested region in the West Philippine Sea after China imposed its supposed Dash Line territorial claim |
Who Moved My Teachers?
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The school of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison never used to have trouble attracting applicants with dreams of becoming teachers. Its graduate program is ranked fourth in the country by U.S. News & World Report, and until recently, its undergraduate program in elementary education typically received between 300 and 400 applications for its 125 spots. Now, says Michael Apple, a professor in the program, it only gets about one applicant per opening.
What happened? Scott Walker became Wisconsin's governor in 2011 and promptly enacted a wide-scale rollback of unionization rights for state employees. That law, Act 10, effectively wiped out the ability of teachers and other public-sector workers to bargain collectively over salary and benefits.
Walker's assault on unions has had well-publicized effects, including an unsuccessful recall election against him, a sharp reduction in union membership, and a proliferation of anti-union legislation in other states. Unions' diminished organizing power for Democrats helped Donald Trump become the first Republican presidential candidate to win Wisconsin in more than 30 years. But less visible consequences have colored nearly every facet of Wisconsin society. One is a sudden and drastic teacher shortage. "The attack on teacher unions has an echo that is often invisible," Apple says. "That invisibility is many fewer teachers."
Wisconsin teachers now earn less total compensation than they did seven years ago, thanks to cuts in benefits. They face larger classes and less job security, and in some districts they've been asked to teach extra sections. Fewer people are applying to teacher education programs. One Wisconsin education student, who asked not to be named to avoid hurting his job prospects, warns that "better conditions and job security will lead some of us elsewhere." |
Is God Forgiving, Punishing or Both?
It would appear as though everyone today who ‘says’ they believe in God has their own fantasy world of what He is meant to be like. None of us knows for sure whether He is real or not, but many of us believe wholeheartedly in Him whilst others mock and ridicule that belief. Each person has their own path to follow and will be on one that is right for them, but why do some pretend things that have no standing in any teachings ever seen or heard?
Those who truly believe in God, believe the words in the Bible or other Holy books that tell us He is a kind, loving Father of us all, but who is also like any other good parent who will also punish us when we do wrong. We are also taught if He is angered enough He’ll wreak His vengeance and wrath on us all.
Those who say they believe in God but who don’t really, make Him into an all-loving, all-peaceful gentle soul who doesn’t care what any of us does as He loves us anyway. I say this as my latest book has brought a mixture of reactions from people due to its variety of messages. Some are gentle as to a naughty child and others are harsh and direct showing there is no room for discussion about those things that are really bad.
I suppose the reaction people have is very dependent on their own path, journey or belief system. Those who really believe recognise the words as being very similar to those in the Holy Books and other works from history while others will bury their head in the sand and say it is all nonsense as it means they can’t do anything they please. Then we have the, ‘isn’t life wonderful’ brigade who pretend all is marvellous and nothing anyone does or believes in is wrong. They act all ‘nice nice’ about everything and everyone (till you disagree with them) making things up to suit them as they go along.
Everyone is called, sweetie, hun or hunni (yes, always spelled that way) and love and light’s or Namaste’s (don’t ask) are thrown out liberally. These people are annoyed at the book as they say God to them is hearts, flowers, and all things nice and that He’d never get angry with anyone whether they repent or not. Oh to live in their world of fantasy and make believe – how wonderful would that be apart from the fact it won’t help us to grow as people and nor will it help when people do bad or wrong. I have to say her that not all using words of endearment to strangers are like that, but sadly most are.
Whatever the reaction, it has done exactly what it said it would. It has made people angry, sad, confused, scared and talking about whether it is from my mind or genuinely channelled to me from elsewhere. I have even been told it is a scam to make money from people as a truly spiritual person wouldn’t write books to make money. This is always said by those who read as many books on spiritual matters as they can lay their hands on, but who hate the ones that don’t give them what they want to hear; hearts, flowers, forced mediums and fantasy so they can pretend they are very spiritual beings.
The best reactions I have heard of so far and that please me most, are the ones from people who have contacted me privately and told me it scared them enough to make them re-think their lives, all they’ve done in the past, how they behave now and will do in the future. They are the people who have recognised each is to blame for their own deeds or what happens to the planet and cannot pretend otherwise. They also recognise the gentleness in the book aimed at those who have only done smaller things wrong in life and that the real anger is aimed at those who do far worse things and who refuse to listen or change their ways.
People are worried about the talk of things to come and how innocent lives will also be lost, but think about it, doesn’t this always happen anyway? Look at 9/11. Are we saying they were all bad people? Of course they weren’t. The Boxing day Tsunami is another thing again where many innocent lives were lost. Earthquakes is another of those things that can kill innocent people, so you see, disasters happen and we ordinary every day people can be involved in them if it is meant to be. It is pointless putting our heads in the sand and saying it is too difficult to read and so we don’t want to believe any of it. The proof is already there in life and all we are asked to do is re-think how we live, change our ways if needs be and to live as good a life as possible. Is that really such a terrible thing to be asked to do?
This is a book for modern day times with some answers given that have until now remained a mystery. Some are not happy with what is said within the pages as it doesn’t tie in with their own beliefs, but does that mean it is wrong? Which or whose belief system is right? Are they all correct or none of them?
Who knows – I don’t. None of us will whilst of this world and although I truly believe those words were given to me, I cannot prove it, but maybe if any of what they have predicted for me happens in the way they say it will, that will give us proof we need to think maybe the rest too is correct. This is the reason the parts about me were given for others to read as it is one way the words can be shown to be correct and will give validation for those who need it in order to believe.
I have my doubts also as I question everything and am always wary when any medium says big things are to happen to us as individuals, but at the same time, I also believe the rest to be true. Only time will tell. I’ll leave you with words taken from Mark 9:24
‘My God I believe, forgive thou my unbelief’.
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Prayer to St Michael
St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
Oh Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all evil spirits,
who wonder through the world
for the ruin of souls. Amen.
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The two books below are proving to have predictions that are being seen to happen more and more. Many won’t want to acknowledge the truth within these pages, due to the fact it also says we need to change how we live today. Marian is updating our page on Facebook regularly now due to how […]
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In both books we are told that disaster will follow disaster and come closer together and this is happening as we hear reports each day now of earthquakes and volcanoes. As told, some of these are places least expected for them to happen CLICK HERE EARTHQUAKE SWARM STRIKES WEST COAST DORMANT VOLCANO NEAR SAN DIEGO […]
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The University plans to construct an ICT Complex which will also house the library facility. For the moment, the University maintains a temporary library to which extension has been made to accommodate nearly 300 readers at a time. The collection of printed and audio visual materials present in the library is geared towards providing materials to support teaching, learning and research activities at the University. PCs in the library, and the Computer Room currently housed in one of the classroom blocks, are connected to internet and users can access materials available from world-wide web sources. |
Major Frank Buckley - Warrior and football visionary
Major Frank Buckley was one of the biggest characters football has seen. A soldier and England international, he commanded the 1st Football Battalion at the Somme where his wounds ended his playing career. He became a legendary and controversial manager, helping to lay the foundations of the modern game with methods way ahead of his time.
13 June 2016
The Major was furious. A young whippersnapper of a groundsman had asked him to cough up 30 shillings for the six buckets of weeds he had just removed from the pitch at Leeds United.
“Get out of here!” he screamed at the lad. “You're already getting paid to do that – don't ever let me see you up here again with your buckets.”
The whippersnapper was Jackie Charlton, who would win the World Cup with England and go on to great success as manager of Ireland. The Major was Frank Buckley; warrior and football visionary.
Setting the mould for Clough and Ferguson
Tough as old boots, Buckley set the mold for legendary managers such as Shankly, Clough and Ferguson. His influence also helped shape the great Wolves and Blackpool sides of the 1950s and the all-conquering Leeds United of the early 1970s.
Son of a soldier and professional for seven clubs before the war, he was the third man to sign up for the 1st Football Battalion at its launch at Fulham Town Hall in December 1914. Buckley would never play football again after the war, but for 40 years, his rugged, inspirational leadership captivated soldiers and footballers alike.
Punched an opponent for ‘filthy language’
Born in 1882 at Urmston, Lancashire, the ninth of 11 children, his father was a musketry and gym instructor with the King’s Liverpool Regiment. He won a scholarship to St Francis Xavier's College for Boys, Liverpool, and after working as an office clerk joined the regular army in 1900 aged 18.
Buckley had expected to be sent to the Boer War but was posted to Ireland, gaining the rank of Gymnastics Instructor. Three years later, after an Aston Villa scout spotted him playing in an army match, he bought himself out for £18 and signed for the club. But the 6ft centre-half did not make it into the first team and his career stuttered as he played only handfuls of games for Brighton, the Manchester clubs and Birmingham City.
It was only when Derby County signed him on a buy-out clause for £50 that he settled, playing 96 games and earning an England call-up in February 1914. The game against Ireland at Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough, was a sensation as England lost 0-3.
Even in those early days, Buckley took no prisoners. Up before the FA for punching an opponent he told the disciplinary committee he would do it again if necessary. A committee member recalled: “The other man he said used filthy language every time he came near an opponent and as he persisted after being warned ‘he let him have it’.”
Hit by shrapnel and gassed
Despite his Derby success, Buckley took out a newspaper ad, offering himself to any other club. He was signed by Bradford City for £1,000 but played only a few games before stepping up to the platform at Fulham Town Hall. He had actually been the first volunteer for the Football Battalion, putting himself forward a few days before the meeting.
Because of his army experience Buckley was installed as a 2nd Lieutenant, in charge of No 1 Platoon which was made up entirely of professional players. By January 1916 he and his men were in France.
In the vicious battle for Delville Wood at the end of July 1916, Buckley was hit by shrapnel and with a badly damaged shoulder and punctured lungs, he was not expected to survive. George Pyke, centre forward for Newcastle United after the war, wrote: “The [stretcher party] took Major Buckley but he seemed so badly hit you would not think he would last out as far as the casualty station.”
Buckley was saved and surgeons at a military hospital in Kent removed the shrapnel. His lungs were badly damaged but by January 1917 he was back. He was mentioned in dispatches in 1917 after the 17th Middlesex were involved in hand-to-hand fighting but when he was later gassed his already injured lungs could not cope and he was sent home.
Footballers’ wives ‘get in the way’
In 1919 Buckley became secretary-manager of Norwich City FC but left the next year and worked for three years as a commercial traveller for London sweets firm Maskell’s. In 1923 he met a director of Blackpool on a train – and so began his extraordinary career in football management, with jobs at Wolves, Notts County, Hull City, Leeds United and Walsall.
At Blackpool Buckley brought in a youth system and the tangerine strip, designing it himself as “bright and vibrant” for the “new age”. Unusually for managers of the time, he also pulled on a tracksuit and joined the players for training.
He was authoritarian and a stickler for fitness, imposing strict rules on diet and behaviour. Players were ordered not to smoke and had to have two early nights in before games. He frowned on footballers who were married, believing wives would “get in the way”. The 40 players in his Wolves squad of 1937 were all single. But Buckley was not against wives for himself, marrying Dorothy, his second, in 1936.
He also had a powerful hairdryer. Keeper Don Bilton recalled: “If you had a rotten game you’d hardly dare go in at half-time, you were going to get the biggest bawling at ... [he] cursed and swore at you. So from that point of view he was a terrible chap."
Spies, pep pills and monkey gland jabs
Players were given printed booklets which set out what was expected of them – and Buckley made these rules public, asking locals to report anyone they spotted breaking them. He brought in physiotherapy and exercises with weights and clubs, getting injured players back much more quickly than usual. He also used a psychologist, which was virtually unheard of.
Wolves centre forward Gordon Clayton, viciously barracked by the crowd during a long goalless spell, was considering giving up the game. Buckley said it would be a “football tragedy” if he quit and sent him for “a course of psychology” with a local doctor. Clayton scored 14 goals in the next 15 matches and wrote to Buckley’s wife: “The very name of Wolverhampton Wanderers was a nightmare to me. I detested the place. I do not think I was liked or respected by a single person with the exception of Major Buckley.”
Buckley was known to give “pep pills”, probably some form of amphetamine, to his players, and in 1937, chemist Menzies Sharp approached him with a remedy made from animals’ testicles which he said would improve strength and confidence. The controversial “Monkey Gland” treatment, which took 12 injections, was used widely at Wolves but not before Buckley had tried it first.
‘Every club will have a helicopter’
“To be honest, I was rather sceptical,” he said. “And thought it best to try it out on myself first. The treatment lasted three or four months. Long before it was over I felt so much benefit that I asked the players if they would be willing to undergo it.”
The injections, which surprisingly appeared to work, led to a doping scandal and questions in the House of Commons. After several other clubs tried the treatment, the FA issued guidelines but it was not banned. The 1939 FA Cup final was named the Monkey Gland Final by the papers. Pompey’s apes had the edge, beating Buckley’s simians 3-0.
The Major, which was what everyone called him, brought in yet another habit common today – arranging for his team to stay overnight in hotels before fixtures. He also argued that players should travel to games by air and predicted that every top club would eventually have its own helicopter. He also introduced commercial nous, in one season making more than £100,000 profit for Wolves buying and selling players.
At Leeds he had dance songs played over the Elland Road PA system during training and employed a contraption called a Shooting Box, which fired balls towards players at all angles to improve skills.
New brogues for Jackie Charlton
That whippersnapper groundsman, Jack Charlton, told of another side to Buckley: “Beneath the gruff exterior he was a kind man. My shoes must have been a sight... he asked me if they were the only pair I had. I nodded. The next morning, he... handed me a pair of Irish brogues, the strongest, most beautiful shoes I’d ever seen. And I had them for years.”
Buckley nurtured stars including Stan Cullis, John Charles and Billy Wright during his career and although he failed to win honours for Wolves – they were Division One runners-up in 1938 and 1939 – his groundwork produced the great sides which claimed three league championships and two FA Cups in the 1950s.
Stan Cullis wrote: “Major Buckley was one out of the top drawer. He did not suffer fools gladly. His style of management was very similar to his attitude in the army. He implanted into my mind the direct method which did away with close inter-passing and square-ball play. If you didn’t like his style you’d very soon be on your bicycle to another club.”
When World War Two came Buckley tried to join the army again but at 56 was ruled to be too old. He encouraged Wolves staff to join and 91 men answered the call. He also ran a Home Guard unit, marching the men to Molineux for training.
After the war he managed Notts County, on the huge salary of £4,000, then Hull, Leeds and Walsall, where he retired aged 71 in 1955. He died aged 82 of heart failure at home in Walsall in December 1964. His ashes are scattered on the Malvern Hills. |
65 So.2d 312 (1953)
223 La. 195
TAULLI
v.
GREGORY et al.
No. 40962.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
April 27, 1953.
Louis H. Marrero, III, Marrero, for plaintiff-appellant.
John C. Boutall and Nestor L. Currault, Jr., Gretna, for defendants-appellees.
McCALEB, Justice.
This is a suit for damages in the sum of $16,590, for malicious prosecution. The defendants in the case are the City of Westwego, its Mayor, Robert J. Duplantis, an alderman, Burton Elliott, Sr., and its marshal, Jacob Gregory. The petition alleges in substance that, on January 9th 1952, while plaintiff was engaged in filling certain ditches in the City of Westwego upon private property under contract with Marrero Land & Improvement Association, Ltd., he was arrested by defendant, Gregory, and incarcerated in the parish jail at Gretna, Louisiana on a charge of destroying public property; that said arrest and charge was made maliciously and without probable cause; that the act of Gregory was instigated by the defendants Duplantis and Elliott, acting either individually or in their capacities as Mayor and alderman of the City of Westwego, with malice and without probable cause; that, thereafter, the said Gregory, maliciously and at the dictation of Duplantis and Elliott, executed an affidavit in the First Justice of the Peace Court charging plaintiff with malicious mischief; that, based on this affidavit, the district attorney of the Twenty Fourth Judicial District filed a bill of information against plaintiff but that, after a trial, he was found not guilty by the court and ordered discharged.
To this petition, defendants filed an exception of no cause of action and, after a hearing thereon, it was sustained and plaintiff's suit dismissed. He has appealed.
That the exception was properly maintained as to the City of Westwego cannot be doubted. It is well settled that a municipality is not liable for the tortious acts of its officers or employees, even when committed in connection with their duties, as such duties are necessarily incident to the exercise of governmental functions by the municipality. Joliff v. City of Shreveport, 144 La. 62, 80 So. 200; Hall v. City of Shreveport, 157 La. 589, 102 So. 680; Howard v. City of New Orleans, 159 La. 443, 105 So. 443 and Shirley v. Town of Winnfield, La.App., 41 So.2d 136.
However, it is difficult to conceive the theory upon which the trial judge upheld the exception of no cause of action as to the arresting officer, Gregory, and Duplantis and Elliott, who allegedly maliciously instigated the arrest and prosecution. It is firmly established that, in actions of this sort, a charge that the prosecution *313 was malicious and without probable cause sufficiently states all of the elements of the offense and therefore discloses a cause of action. Glisson v. Biggio, 139 La. 23, 71 So. 204. It is plain, from a reading of the allegations of the petition, that the exception is without merit as to the individual defendants.
The judgment appealed from is affirmed insofar as it dismisses plaintiff's suit as to the City of Westwego. As to the other defendants, the judgment is reversed, the exception of no cause of action is overruled and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with the views herein expressed. The costs of this appeal are to be borne by these defendants.
FOURNET, C. J., absent.
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David Mundy
David Mundy currently plays for the Fremantle Dockers and was born on the 20th July 1985 ( 19 other players in the league were born in 1985, the most common year of birth is 1992 giving an average age of 22).
David currently stands at 192 centimeters tall ( which is taller than the AFL average player height of 188 centimeters) and weighs 91kg’s ( which is heavier than the AFL average player weight of 87.4 kg’s ). Mundy had his AFL debut in Round 6 of 2005 (31 other players also had their debut in 2005).
David played 22 games in 2012 ( average number of games played by players was 12.97 and 66 other players also played 22 games) and has now played 164 games in his entire career, the average being 62.3 games and the same as 0 other players in the league.
David scored 8 goals in 2012 which is below the average in 2012 of 8.15 goals and the same as 22 other players.
In his entire career David has scored 64 goals the same as 1 other players and above the average of 38.54 goals. |
Filler lots will grow as a vacant lot with a random trees/bushes/props on it instead of an actual building. This should make your city look a bit less dense and a lot more variety to your neighborhoods. Residential filler lots will have props typical of a side yard or vacant lot. Commercial filler lots will have props typical of a parking lot, or construction site. Level 1 filler lots will look appropriate for Level 1 neighborhoods. Level 5 filler lots will look appropriate for Level 5 neighborhoods, etc.The Probability Changer mod was used to vary the frequency at which each props grows. Each time this lot grows, it will take on a new look depending on which trees and props grow with the base lot. The user does not need to install the Probability Changer mod to make use of this feature.Most of the props and trees are default. However, I am also pulling from a collection of frame-rate/memory friendly props and trees, which you can subscribe to using the link below. If you don't subscribe to this collection, it will still work, but there will be a few props/trees missing.Check out the More Better Buildings collection for more assets such as this. |
Q:
Can someone tell me the very basics of how computer programming works?
What makes all the words of a programming language actually do anything? I mean, what's actually happening to make the computer know what all of those words mean? If I verbally tell my my computer to do something, it doesn't do it, because it doesn't understand. So how exactly can these human words written into a language actually cause the computer to do some desirable activity?
A:
It all starts with the CPU or processor. Each processor type has a defined set of instructions it's able to perform. These instructions operate over ones and zeroes, which in turn represent whatever you wish them to: numbers, letters, even the instructions themselves.
At the lowest level, a zero is determined by the presence of a certain voltage (usually near 0V) at a transistor and a 1 is the presence of a different voltage (CPU dependent, say 5V)
The machine instructions themselves are sets of zeroes and ones placed in a special locations called registers in the processor, the processor takes the instruction and its operands from specific locations and performs the operation, placing the result on yet another location, afterwards going to fetch the next instruction and so on and so forth until it runs out of instructions to perform or is turned off.
A simple example. Let's say the machine instruction 001 means add two numbers.
Then you write a program that adds two numbers, usually like this:
4 + 5
Then you pass this text to a compiler which will generate the adequate machine code for the processor you will run the program on (sidenote, you can compile code to be run in a different processor from the one you are currently running, it's a process called cross compilation and it's useful, for instance, in embedded platforms). Well, the compiler will end up generating, roughly,
001 00000100 00000101
with additional boilerplate machine code to place the 001 instruction in the next instruction register (instruction pointer) and the binary encoded numbers in data registers (or RAM).
The process of generating machine code from structured languages is fairly complex and places limits on how normal these languages can end up looking like. That's why you can't write a program in english, there's too much ambiguity in it for a compiler to be able to generate the proper sequence of zeroes and ones.
The instructions CPUs can execute are fairly basic and simple, addition, division, negation, read from RAM, place in RAM, read from register, and so on.
The next question is, how can these simple instructions over numbers generate all the wonders we see in computing (internet, games, movie players, etc.)?
It basically boils down to the creation of adequate models, for instance a 3D gaming engine has a mathematical model that represents the game world and can calculate the position/collisions of game objects based on it.
These models are built on very many of these small instructions, and here's where high level languages (which are not machine code) really shine because they raise the abstraction level and you can then think closer to the model you want to implement, allowing you to easily reason about things like how to efficiently calculate the next position the soldier is going to be based on the received input from the controller instead of preventing you to reason easily because you are too busy trying not to forget a 0.
A crucial moment occurred with the jump from assembly language (a language very similar to machine code, it was the first programming language and it's CPU specific. Every assembly instruction directly translates into machine code) to C (which is portable among different CPUs and is at a higher level of abstraction than assembly: each line of C code represents many machine code instructions). This was a huge productivity increase for programmers, they no longer had to port programs between different CPUs, and they could think a lot more easily about the underlying models, leading to the continued complexity increase in software we've seen (and even demand) from the 1970s until today.
The pending missing link is how to control what to do with that information and how to receive input from external sources, say displaying images in the screen or writing information to a hard drive, or printing an image on a printer, or receiving keypunches from a keyboard. This is all made possible by the rest of the hardware present in the computer which is controlled in a way similar to that of the CPU, you place data and instructions in certain transistors in the graphic card or the network card or the hard drive or the RAM. The CPU has instructions that will allow it to place some data or instruction into (or read information out of) the proper location of different pieces of hardware.
Another relevant thing to the existence of what we have today is that all modern computers come with big programs called operating systems that manage all the basic stuff like talking to hardware and error handling, like what happens if a program crashes and so on. In addition, many modern programming environments come with a lot of already written code (standard libraries) to handle many basic tasks like drawing on a screen or read a file. This libraries will in turn will ask the operating system to talk to the hardware in its behalf.
If these weren't available, programming would be a very very hard and tedious task as every program you write would have to create again code to draw a single letter on the screen or to read a single bit from each specific type of hard drive, for example.
It seems I got carried away, I hope you understand something out of this :-)
A:
A computer programming language is actually a highly abstracted language that is converted down into a very very basic language that computers actually understand.
Basically, computers really only understand machine language, which is a basic language implemented in binary (1's and 0's). One level above this is assembly language, which is a very primitive language that is at least human readable.
In a high level language, we might have something like:
Person.WalkForward(10 steps)
In Machine code it would be:
Lift Persons Left Foot Up
Lean Forward
Place Left Foot Down
Lift Right Foot up
Lean Forward
Place Right Foot Down
etc
Now obviously, nobody wants to write programs that tell the computer every little repetitive thing to do so we have tools called compilers.
A compiler takes a higher level language that is easier for a human to understand, and converts it down to machine code, so that the computer can run it.
A:
A good book that talks about computers for non-engineers is 'Code' by Charles Petzold. I don't recall exactly if it covers exactly your question, but I think so. If you are interested enough to go farther it's a good choice.
Code http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11MYtZPhJEL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA198_SH20_OU01_.jpg
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Kagome, along with Madara find themselves in Ancient Greece. Making new friends and dealing with plenty of enemies. Reference to Dark-Hunter characters in beginning, it will make sense in Part 4 . Part 4 is up now |
Clashes with the newly released Supercars calendar have ruled out a Blancpain Endurance Series title defence and a Le Mans debut for Shane van Gisbergen in 2017.
The Kiwi has been able to contest four out of the five Blancpain rounds as a factory McLaren driver for the last two years, scooping the 2016 title despite missing the recent Nurburgring finale.
Next season will however see two clashes, denying Van Gisbergen a start in the GT3 season opener at Monza (April 21-23) and its showpiece 24 Hours of Spa (August 18-20).
In further blows to the in-demand Kiwi, 2017 will see a repeat of this year’s clash between Hidden Valley and the Le Mans 24 Hours (June 15-18).
Van Gisbergen was initially scheduled to compete at Le Mans this year for Porsche outfit WeatherTech, but had to pull out of the drive when a change to the Hidden Valley date occurred.
While remaining hopeful of sorting an international program of some kind with McLaren for next year, Van Gisbergen does not expect to return for any Blancpain Endurance rounds.
“It’s obviously pretty fresh all of the calendar stuff so I’ve still got to work it all out,” Van Gisbergen told Speedcafe.com.
“It’s certainly a shame that I can’t do Le Mans, which remains a dream for me, or Spa, which is the only Blancpain race I’m yet to win.
“I’ve been in contact with Andrew (Kirkaldy, McLaren GT director) already, so we’ll work together on what we can do.
“Looking at the other (non-clashing Blancpain Endurance) races, it’s a long way to go and do a three hour race where you only really do 10 laps of practice and a third of the race.
“There’s no chance of winning that championship so we’ll look at our options, whether that be the (Blancpain) Sprint championship or other things in America.”
Blancpain organisers have confirmed just three of its five Sprint Series dates for next year – two of which clash with Supercars events.
On the American front, Van Gisbergen remains hopeful of returning to January’s Daytona 24 Hours IMSA Sportscar race with WeatherTech for a fourth consecutive year.
The team recently pulled its entry from the 2016 season amid disputes over Balance of Performance measures for the latest Porsche GT3 R.
“I don’t get involved in that side of it, but hopefully those issues get resolved and I can be back with them for Daytona,” he said.
Locally, Van Gisbergen expects to defend his Bathurst 12 Hour victory with McLaren next February, where he’ll face-off against his Red Bull Supercars team-mates Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup.
Lowndes and Whincup have been confirmed to team up in a Triple Eight-assisted Maranello Motorsport Ferrari, which will see the GT3 debut of the six-time Supercars champion.
“Jamie is very calculated with all that stuff but to have that deal come together is the perfect way for him to start his extra-curricular racing,” noted Van Gisbergen.
“I’m sure he’ll enjoy it. The Ferrari looks like a good car and he’ll obviously have a good team and co-drivers around him.
“With the aids, the GT cars are too easy to drive, so I think he’ll find it pretty easy. Someone of his talent will get up to speed very quickly.” |
Sometimes Common Sense and Driving Go Hand in Hand!
Sometimes Common Sense and Driving Go Hand in Hand!
.Common sense is the most important sense of them all, and when it comes to driving we can’t leave it. And time and again its obvious that common sense is required to drive. Nowadays it seems as though many drivers seem to get too comfortable while driving and forget to use our common sense and in the worst case scenario forget that they’re driving a car and failing to control it may lead to a potential threat to life.
Some of the major causesas told by the California DMV Traffic School, in almost all car accidents compromises ofDriving Fast or Speeding, Under Influence of Drugs orAlcohol, and Not Wearing Seat Belts and Being Distracted.
Driving Fast or Speeding:
Everyone of us has gone over the speed limit at some point in our lives. To make things worse we aren’t even aware of the fact that we’re speeding at times. Many may not know that if you’re traveling at 70 or 80mph the risk of a fatal accident becomes twice or thrice. Now using your common sense you should know that speeding is dangerous, the odds are greatly stacked against a person who is driving fast as they put themselves and othersdrivers, passengers and pedestrians in risk!
Under Influence of Drugs orAlcohol:
With a thousand things on our mind we start our day and with this we also drive. Therefore, including additional means of distractions and delays into your mind and body is not only dangerous but has accountedto one-third of the cause of all traffic accidents.
Did you know around 18-20% of the reason for all crashes is because of Drugs or alcohol!
Seat Belts:
A wise person will always have his seat belts on, as more than 50% times seatbelts have prevented death in collisions, not only this therear seat belts have prevented an accident at a staggering 70-80% times.
Being Distracted:
Distraction is the major reason for accidents everywhere, did you know the radio or music player causes distraction to the people, yesyou’ve heard that right!
Not only does listening to music make a person distracted, but listening causes you to lose attention and focus from the task at hand. Be it the Mobile phone,Hands free, Messaging, taking Pictures or Selfies, all of these cool things makesus lose our attention off of the road. The passengers also cause a lot of distractions, if they are continuously talking. For example, children constantlyshouting and yelling at the back of the car and the parents try to quitethem can lead all of them to a tightspot, if the driver isn’t looking ahead!
DMV Videos
Driving Under the Influence (SB 61, Hill)
This law extends the existing Ignition Interlock Device (IID) pilot project to July 1, 2017 for, Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Tulare counties. The IID pilot project requires a person convicted of a DUI to install an IID for five months upon a first offense, 12 months for a second offense, 24 months for a third offense, and 36 months for a fourth or subsequent offense. The project was originally set to end on January 1, 2016.
Earbuds or Headsets (SB 491, Transportation Committee)
This law, among other things, makes it unlawful to wear a headset covering, earplugs in, or earphones covering, resting on, or inserted in, both ears, while operating a motor vehicle or a bicycle. This prohibition does not apply to persons operating authorized emergency vehicles, construction equipment and refuse or waste equipment while wearing a headset or safety earplugs.
Pedal-Powered Vehicles (SB 530, Pan) This law expands the definition of pedicab to include a four-wheeled device that is pedal-powered, has a seating capacity for eight or more passengers, cannot travel in excess of 15 miles per hour, and is being used for transporting passengers for hire. This law sets requirements related to local authorization, operator qualifications and training, financial responsibility, accident reporting, safety equipment, and inspections. The law establishes rules and standards for pedicabs that allow passengers to consume alcohol on board, if authorized by local ordinance or resolution
Electrically Motorized Skateboards (AB 604, Olsen)
This law defines “electrically motorized board,” and restricts their operation on public facilities, requires boards to be equipped with safety equipment, and authorizes cities and counties to regulate their use. It also makes it a crime to operate an electrically motorized board while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. In addition, the law limits the board’s operation to individuals 16 years or older, requires operators to wear a bicycle helmet, wear safety equipment to increase visibility at night, and limits their operation to roads with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour or less. A conviction for violating this law is punishable by a fine of up $250.
Electric Bicycles (AB 1096, Chiu)
This law adds an entirely new definition of an electric bicycle to the California Vehicle Code. An electric bicycle is defined as a bicycle with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts. The law creates three classes of electric bicycles. Manufacturers will also need to certify the electric bicycles comply with specified requirements. Electric bicycle riders will be able to use roads similar to other bicycle riders, while providing a measure of local control if safety concerns arise on specific paths or public trails.
California Residency Requirement (AB 1465, Gordon)
This law will require an applicant for an original driver license or identification card to provide proof of California state residency, starting July 1, 2016 and it will bring DMV into compliance with a federal law requirement. The DMV will need to adopt regulations relating to the procedures for verifying that the applicant is a California resident. |
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Biker casualties prompt chief constables' statement
The high number of collisions involving motorbikes in both North Wales and Dyfed Powys Police areas has led the Chief Constables of both Forces to make the following joint statement:
"This year has seen a significant number of motorcyclists return to North, Mid and West Wales to make the most of the scenery and facilities that Wales has to offer, helped of course by the fine weather that we have all enjoyed.
Unfortunately though we are seeing a significant increase this year in the number of motorcyclists killed and seriously injured on our roads, with 16 fatalities across both of the policing areas of North Wales and Dyfed Powys Police and a further 72 motorcyclists seriously injured as a result of collisions. Amongst the most common reasons for the collisions are rider error and excessive speed, particularly on bends.
This year’s increase is a very real public safety concern and a priority for both police forces. Our approach on enforcement has not changed; we will robustly enforce the law so that we can assist in reducing the risk to all road users. Motorcyclists, and other motorists, taking their time to visit the beautiful countryside of Mid and North Wales are very welcome so long as they ride or drive safely and within the law. Those who choose to break the law can expect to be prosecuted. Roads Policing Officers are equipped with a number of detection tactics and they have both overt and covert patrol cars and bikes. There will be no need for any riders to encounter police enforcement tactics if they ride as they should.
The approach around reducing the number of people killed or seriously injured on our roads is not, of course, based around enforcement alone. We continue to work with riders through a variety of engagement events and we will use what opportunities we can to educate riders as to the risks associated with riding inappropriately. We continue to be avid supporters of Bike Safe, an extremely valuable resource that is very well received, and we wish to encourage as many riders as possible to engage with a local Bike Safe workshop.
Many police officers and staff are keen motorcyclists who understand the attraction of the beautiful, but notoriously challenging, routes in North Wales and Dyfed Powys. Fellow motorcyclists are welcome, all we ask is that they ride safely and with respect for other road users." |
module ddebug.common.queue;
import core.sync.condition;
import core.sync.mutex;
class BlockingQueue(T) {
private Mutex _mutex;
private Condition _condition;
private T[] _buffer;
private int _readPos;
private int _writePos;
private shared bool _closed;
this() {
_mutex = new Mutex();
_condition = new Condition(_mutex);
_readPos = 0;
_writePos = 0;
}
~this() {
close();
if (_condition) {
destroy(_condition);
_condition = null;
}
if (_mutex) {
destroy(_mutex);
_mutex = null;
}
}
void close() {
if (_mutex && !_closed) {
synchronized(_mutex) {
_closed = true;
if (_condition !is null)
_condition.notifyAll();
}
} else {
_closed = true;
}
}
/// returns true if queue is closed
@property bool closed() {
return _closed;
}
private void move() {
if (_readPos > 1024 && _readPos > _buffer.length * 3 / 4) {
// move buffer data
for (int i = 0; _readPos + i < _writePos; i++)
_buffer[i] = _buffer[_readPos + i];
_writePos -= _readPos;
_readPos = 0;
}
}
private void append(ref T item) {
if (_writePos >= _buffer.length) {
move();
_buffer.length = _buffer.length == 0 ? 64 : _buffer.length * 2;
}
_buffer[_writePos++] = item;
}
void put(T item) {
if (_closed)
return;
synchronized(_mutex) {
if (_closed)
return;
append(item);
_condition.notifyAll();
}
}
void put(T[] items) {
if (_closed)
return;
synchronized(_mutex) {
if (_closed)
return;
foreach(ref item; items) {
append(item);
}
_condition.notifyAll();
}
}
bool get(ref T value, int timeoutMillis = 0) {
if (_closed)
return false;
synchronized(_mutex) {
if (_closed)
return false;
if (_readPos < _writePos) {
value = _buffer[_readPos++];
return true;
}
try {
if (timeoutMillis <= 0)
_condition.wait(); // no timeout
else if (!_condition.wait(dur!"msecs"(timeoutMillis)))
return false; // timeout
} catch (Exception e) {
// ignore
}
if (_readPos < _writePos) {
value = _buffer[_readPos++];
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
bool getAll(ref T[] values, int timeoutMillis) {
if (_closed)
return false;
synchronized(_mutex) {
if (_closed)
return false;
values.length = 0;
while (_readPos < _writePos)
values ~= _buffer[_readPos++];
if (values.length > 0)
return true;
if (timeoutMillis <= 0)
_condition.wait(); // no timeout
else if (!_condition.wait(dur!"msecs"(timeoutMillis)))
return false; // timeout
while (_readPos < _writePos)
values ~= _buffer[_readPos++];
if (values.length > 0)
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
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Takiyah Thompson, a 22-year-old student activist who participated in tearing down a Confederate statue during a protest in Durham, North Carolina has been released from jail. Thompson is now one of four people as of Wednesday afternoon who have been arrested for damaging the monument, a move that many are calling out as unjust.
On Monday, Thompson and several other demonstrators removed a Confederate Soldiers Monument in front of local government offices in Durham, North Carolina during a public protest. The demonstration was in response to the “Unite the Right” rallies held by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
Thompson, a student at the historically black college North Carolina Central University, was arrested by police on campus after admitting to tying the rope used to pull the statue down during a press conference on Tuesday. The Herald Sun reports that Thompson was charged with two misdemeanor and two felony charges which include disorderly conduct by injury to a statue, damage to real property, participation in a riot, damage in excess of $1,500 and inciting others to riot where there is property damage in excess of $1,500.
Breaking: Takiyah Thompson, who climbed the Confederate statue in #Durham in solidarity w #Charlotteville was arrested. Drop the charges! pic.twitter.com/GjG3ccK65m — dante strobino (@imastringbean) August 15, 2017
During the 4 p.m. press conference after which police arrived to apprehend her on Tuesday, Thompson maintained that her actions and the actions were justified, telling ABC News 11, “We are tired of waiting on politicians who could have voted to remove the white supremacist statues years ago, but they failed to act. So we acted.”
The student activist was showered with support online, with several crowdfunding campaigns launched to help her with bail and legal fees. Singer Solange Knowles also voiced support on Tuesday, tweeting before deleting her Twitter account:
“Deleting my twitter soon, but before I dip when we gonna pull up? & what we got to do to get my new hero Takiya Thompson free?”
Thompson has since been released from jail on bail, but the charges against her have not been dropped. She could face 25 months and 41 months in prison for each felony charge.
Meanwhile, CBS news affiliate WFMY reported on Wednesday that three more people have been arrested in connection with pulling down the monument. They are Durham residents 35-year-old Dante Emmanuel Strobino, 39-year-old Peter Gull Gilbert and 24-year-old Ngoc Loan Tran. The pair is charged with the same misdemeanor and felony charges as Thompson.
More arrests related to the toppled statue are reportedly expected.
A woman who helped take down the statue in Durham was just arrested.
But NONE of these men have been arrested. NONE.
America. 2017. pic.twitter.com/P7zgJsQvUW — Shaun King (@ShaunKing) August 15, 2017
Dr. Yaba Blay, a professor at NCCU who taught Thompson in a Black Lives Matter course last spring, told HuffPost that the “brilliant” student has received hate mail and death threats from white supremacists in the wake of her arrest.
“Me, just a professor who is trying to support her, I’ve also received the same,” Blay said.
“I’m concerned about her safety but I’m also concerned about the charges, because we’re talking about felony charges. It’s a big deal.”
Thompson, who is set to return to a Durham Country court on September 12, will reportedly be represented by a law professor at NCCU.
Activists on Twitter including Shaun King have pointed out that while Thompson was arrested, several white supremacists have yet to face consequences for their violent actions during demonstrations over the last several days.
For Blay, the arrests are a telling reminder of racism in America. “It’s no surprise here that we find more value in statues of losers ― because the confederacy lost, lest we all forget ― than someone’s actual real life.” |
Q:
Nested forms help - How to add existing products to a new announcement?
My models seem correctly defined, because I can add as many products to an Announcement via console.
MODELS
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :announcement_products
has_many :announcements, :through => :announcement_products
accepts_nested_attributes_for :announcements#, :reject_if => lambda { |a| a[:content].blank? }, :allow_destroy => true
end
class Announcement < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :announcement_products
has_many :products, :through => :announcement_products
accepts_nested_attributes_for :products#, :reject_if => lambda { |a| a[:content].blank? }, :allow_destroy => true
end
class AnnouncementProduct < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :announcement
belongs_to :product
end
CONSOLE
a = Announcement.new()
a.products << Product.first
a.products << Product.last
a.name = 'foo'
a.description = 'bar'
a.save!
However, I am trying to create an announcement and add a product via a select box in a form and I get an error:
undefined method `product_id' for #<Announcement:0x00000103c1d7d0>
I tried:
THE FORM
<% form_for([:admin, @announcement], :html => { :multipart => true }) do |f| %>
<% if @announcement.errors.any? %>
<div id="error_explanation">
<h2><%= pluralize(@announcement.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this announcement from being saved:</h2>
<ul>
<% @announcement.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
<li><%= msg %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
</div>
<% end %>
<ul>
<li class="clearfix">
<%= f.label :attachment, 'Announcement image' %>
<div class="file_field">
<button><!-- this is skinnable --></button>
<%= f.file_field :attachment %>
</div>
<p id="file_name"><%= @announcement.attachment.blank? ? '' : File.basename(@announcement.attachment.url) %></p>
<% unless @announcement.attachment.blank? %>
<%= image_tag @announcement.attachment.url, :class => 'attachment_image' %>
<% end %>
</li>
<li class="clearfix">
<%= f.label :name %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
</li>
<li class="clearfix mark_it_up">
<%= f.label :description %>
<%= f.text_area :description %>
</li>
<li class="clearfix">
<%= f.label :product_id %>
<%= f.collection_select :product_id, Product.all, :id, :name, { :prompt => 'Select a product' } %>
<span><%= link_to 'add', new_admin_product_path %></span>
</li>
....
I'm trying to add 2 products to a new Announcement record via the form. Not sure what I am doing wrong.
A:
So far, I have come up with this. In my form:
<% form_for([:admin, @announcement], :html => { :multipart => true }) do |f| %>
<% if @announcement.errors.any? %>
<div id="error_explanation">
<h2><%= pluralize(@announcement.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this announcement from being saved:</h2>
<ul>
<% @announcement.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
<li><%= msg %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
</div>
<% end %>
<ul>
<li class="clearfix">
<%= f.label :attachment, 'Announcement image' %>
<div class="file_field">
<button><!-- this is skinnable --></button>
<%= f.file_field :attachment %>
</div>
<p id="file_name"><%= @announcement.attachment.blank? ? '' : File.basename(@announcement.attachment.url) %></p>
<% unless @announcement.attachment.blank? %>
<%= image_tag @announcement.attachment.url, :class => 'attachment_image' %>
<% end %>
</li>
<li class="clearfix">
<%= f.label :name %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
</li>
<li class="clearfix mark_it_up">
<%= f.label :description %>
<%= f.text_area :description %>
</li>
<li class="clearfix">
<%= select_tag 'products[]', options_from_collection_for_select(Product.all, 'id', 'name'), :id => nil, :class => 'products' %>
<%= select_tag 'products[]', options_from_collection_for_select(Product.all, 'id', 'name'), :id => nil, :class => 'products' %>
</li>
....
Then, in my controller, def create method:
def create
@announcement = Announcement.new(params[:announcement])
@announcement.products << Product.find_all_by_id(params[:products])
respond_to do |format|
if @announcement.save
...
end
....
Is this a clean solution? Or is there a better way to do this?
|
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday condemned a suicide bombing in Afghanistan near Bagram air force base that he said killed more than four dozen civilians and wounded at least five U.S.-led coalition troops.
“Want to condemn this morning’s coordinated terrorist attack near Bagram air force base in the strongest possible terms,” Pompeo told reporters.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday condemned a suicide bombing in Afghanistan near Bagram air force base that he said killed more than four dozen civilians and wounded at least five U.S.-led coalition troops.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday condemned a suicide bombing in Afghanistan near Bagram air force base that he said killed more than four dozen civilians and wounded at least five U.S.-led coalition troops.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday condemned a suicide bombing in Afghanistan near Bagram air force base that he said killed more than four dozen civilians and wounded at least five U.S.-led coalition troops.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday condemned a suicide bombing in Afghanistan near Bagram air force base that he said killed more than four dozen civilians and wounded at least five U.S.-led coalition troops.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday condemned a suicide bombing in Afghanistan near Bagram air force base that he said killed more than four dozen civilians and wounded at least five U.S.-led coalition troops.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday condemned a suicide bombing in Afghanistan near Bagram air force base that he said killed more than four dozen civilians and wounded at least five U.S.-led coalition troops. |
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Big Boom In Boomer Knee Replacement Surgeries
John Birko's knee had osteoarthritis, was painful, and severely limited his day-to-day activities.
While his knee felt as though it was about 80 years-old, Birko was only 49. And like many other baby boomers today, he was not was ready to slow down, and instead decided to have knee replacement surgery.
"Having knee replacement surgery made an extraordinary difference in my life," says Birko, who is now 51 years-old. "The day after surgery, I felt terrific. I had forgotten what it was like to not be in pain. I was on top of the world."
The number of baby boomers who are opting for knee replacement surgery earlier in life is growing at an exponential rate, says J. David Blaha, M.D., an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Michigan Health System.
Only a few years ago, between 300,000 and 350,000 knee replacement surgeries were being done. Today, that number has risen to a staggering 500,000. And 10 years from now, experts estimate there could be as many as 3.2 million annual knee replacement surgeries.
While knee replacement surgery does have a positive impact on a patient's quality of life, Blaha and other experts in the field worry that the demand for new knees will far outpace the availability of surgeons trained to perform the procedure.
"A recent study that looked at trends in joint replacement found that although the number of orthopaedic specialists who do joint replacement is going to increase by about 2 percent, the need for orthopaedic surgeons is going to increase by 500 percent," he says. "That's a problem of epic proportions."
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The reason for the increase can be attributed to baby boomers wanting to maintain an active lifestyle. Previously, Blaha notes, knee replacement surgeries were reserved for very old patients who were severely crippled by osteoarthritis.
But younger patients like Birko - who tore his ACL and cartilage when he was a teenager and later injured his knee again while playing sports - are experiencing an earlier onset of osteoarthritis that affects their daily lives.
Today, degenerative arthritis remains the main reason for joint replacement surgery. Degenerative arthritis is a chronic disease that causes the cartilage at the end of the bones to deteriorate, bringing with it pain and a decrease in joint function. Without a means to replace cartilage in knees, total knee replacement remains the only option to regain mobility and end pain
Fortunately, knee replacement surgery has come a long way in recent decades, and is now far less painful and the recovery is much faster.
With knee replacement surgery, the ends of the damaged thigh, lower leg bones and often the kneecap are capped with artificial surfaces lined with metal and plastic. Usually, doctors replace the entire surface at the ends of the thigh and lower leg bones.
Although knee replacement surgery allows patients to do many of their daily activities more easily, Blaha says surgeons still don't have a good estimate for how long knee implants will last - especially now since so many patients are getting new knees at a younger age.
"We want joint replacements to last for more than 20 years. But one of the problems is, that no matter how good we get with statistics, it still takes 20 years to get 20 year results," says Blaha, professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the U-M Medical School. "So we're faced with a young population that is in its 50s, and has the opportunity to live into its 80s and 90s. They want their joint replacements to last 30 to 40 years, and we just don't know yet if that will happen."
One way to avoid needing a knee replacement is to take steps to prevent degenerative arthritis. Since obese people have a higher incidence of degenerative arthritis, Blaha recommends maintaining a healthy body weight and taking steps to stay active at any age.
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Exotic Italian dishes
Italian cuisine – a colorful combination of traditions
There isn’t a person who has not tried at least one famous Italian dish in their life. Some of dishes of the Italian cuisine are so popular that they have become a common part of other world cuisines such as the American one. Everyone has heard of pizza Margherita, spaghetti Bolognese and the tempting tiramisu. You can find at least one popular Italian dish in every western restaurant.
Obviously, Italy is a country whose kitchen can satisfy every culinary taste. Although Italian cuisine is one of the most popular and preferred cuisines in the world, there are a number of traditional Italian dishes that remain still unknown. Each of the different regions of Italy is unique with its specific culinary traditions, built from the rich millennial history of the country.
The undescovered culinary side of Italy
You will notice that many of Italy’slittle known regional traditional disheshave appeared in rural areas and are made up of products that are simple and available to the average farmer. In the past, Italian farmerssold the best of their produce and the freshest and most selected meat, leaving their worst non-sellable crops for their families.
For generations, the population has experimented with various creative culinary combinationscreating a number of dishes that are both simple and tasty.
Their goal was to prepare satiating food made from a few available products.
So their culinary creations are day popular regional specialties. Therefore, it is good to follow this advice if you are traveling to Italy.
Do not forget to check out what dishes are offered in the region you are traveling to.
Italian cuisine hides culinary secrets, so if you are one of those who are looking for new culinary experiences, do not hesitate to discover them.
Enter a culinary adventure in the rich flavors of Italian cuisineand discover its exotic side.
Here are some little known appetizing Italian dishes:
Roasted peppers pasta
This dish, as strange as it sounds, is hard to find even in Italian restaurant soffering an authentic menu. The recipe for its preparation is very easy. The peppers are roasted on the grill until their skin becomes black. Afterwards, pine nuts are slightly cooked in a pan until golden. Walnuts can be used instead of pine nuts.
In a separate pan, add olive oil and fry some garlic and onion until they are browned. The peppers are blended together with the pine nuts and added to the onions and garlic, in the pan; afterwards add milk to adjust the creamy consistency, salt, black pepper and white pepper. The pre-cooked pasta is added to this mixture and the dish is ready. Finally, sprinkle with parsley or basil and some freshly grated Parmesan.
Parmigiano eggplants
One eggplant is cut into slices, sprinkled with salt and left to stay. During this time we prepare Marinara sauce with pulp of juicy and fresh tomatoes, finely chopped onion and garlic, fresh basil and olive oil.
The eggplant slices are baked on baking paper until they become crispy. Then pour over the Marinara sauce and sprinkle with Parmesan. Repeat the procedure until multiple layers are laid, then cover with mozzarella and Parmesan. Bake for 30 min at 180 °C.
Coda alla vaccinara
This traditional dish comes from the Lazio region. It is a Roman stew with a beef tail and a variety of vegetables such as celery, carrot, onion, garlic, white wine, tomato sauce, tomato paste, vegetable or chicken broth, parsley, cayenne and black pepper, cloves and other aromatic spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg.
Prosciutto or pancetta, as well as pine nuts and raisins can be added to the recipe to achieve a sweet and sour taste.
Lampredotto
This traditional Tuscan dishmay not be to everyone’s liking. Lampredotto is made from beef tripe. Originally it was designed as filling for sandwiches. In Florence, this kind of sandwich is even a popular street food, and if you are one of those who like to try out non-standard dishes, then you might like this specialty.
The recipe for Lampredottohas different variations. The most popular of these includes carrots, onions, celery, pepper, parsley and cloves. In some variants of the dish, tomatoes and cabbage are added. The name Lampredotto derives from the name of an eel lampredo, inhabiting the Arno River, because its wrinkled skin resembles beef tripe.
Pajata
This traditional Roman dish comes again from the Lazio region and is considered a delicacy. Its main ingredient is a special type of tripe from the small intestine of a milk calf or in rare cases of an ox.
This dish appeared for the first time in the Roman Testaccio area where the city slaughterhouse was located. The beef tripe was traditionally prepared with onions, celery and tomato sauce. The resulting mixture is seasoned thoroughly and used as garnish for pasta, usually served with rigatoni.
Seadas
This surprisingly easy dessert comes from Sardiniaand definitely should be tried. It is made from the products with which Sardinia is known for. It is a small sweet dough sweets filled with sheep cheese filled and sauced with chestnut honey. They can also be sprinkled with powdered sugar.
The name Seadas actually comes from the word seu which means animal fat used in the making of candles. This is because the ready-made and sauced with honey Seadasare shiny like candles.
The Seadas have a historical past. Shepherds’ wives served them to their husbands in the spring when they came home with herds of lambs after having spent the whole day on Sardinian pastures. They are served warm and go perfectly well with the sweet wine Malvasia.
Sanguinaccio
This exotic and sophisticated chocolate dessert is a type of mousse and is definitely suitable for the seekers of true culinary exotics. It comes from the region of Campaniaand can also be in the form of a sweet salami. The main ingredient in it is pig blood and it resembles the British traditional black pudding specialty.
The recipe for it has different variations and the dessert can also be prepared without blood. Made in the Neapolitan version, for example, the dessert has a mousy consistency that goes well with the fried sweets offered during the carnival season. The mousse is made of black chocolate, cocoa, flour, sugar, fat, pork blood, salt, cinnamon, milk, vanilla. Bread crumbs or corn flour, salo, onion, Marsala wine, raisins are added to the salami mixture.
Schiuma di mare
This exotic and appetizing dish will definitely appeal to fans of seaside cuisine. The name of this dish in direct translation means “sea foam” and is popular throughout the country. It is prepared with small sea fish that are caught only under certain climatic conditions and time of the year. This is done in order to prevent the killing of fish schoals before they have been able to breed.
Interestingly, every region in the country has its recipe for preparing this dish and a separate name for it. For example, in Liguria the whole fish is boiled in salt water and served with olive oil and lemon. And in the region of Apuliaand in some parts of Sicily, the fish is filleted and put in fried fish pies and omelets.
Sarde in Saor (Venice)
The name of this tasty sweet and sour Venetian dish in a Venetian dialect means “delicious sardines”. The clean sardines are fried and garnished with a separately cooked mixture of onions, white wine, wine vinegar, sugar and sultana raisins.
Pine nuts can be added as a final touch. This easy to prepare spicy specialty can be served both warm and cold as it is equally appetizing. |
Phase transitions in the incoherent lattice fluctuations in YBa2Cu3O(7-delta)
The growing body of experimental evidence for the existence of complex textures of charges and spins in the high-temperature superconductors has drawn attention to the so-called 'stripe-phase' models as a possible basis for the mechanism of superconductivity in these materials. Such observations have until now been restricted to systems where the texture dynamics are slow or suppressed altogether, and do not include the important case of YBa2Cu3O(7-delta). It seems likely that the dynamic behaviour of stripes, which has been suggested to undergo several phase transitions as a function of temperature, should also be reflected in the lattice properties of the host materials, and this forms the motivation for our present experiments. Specifically, we use MeV helium ion channelling, an ultrafast real-space probe of atomic displacements (with sub-picometre resolution), to probe incoherent lattice fluctuations in YBa2Cu3O(7-delta) as a function of temperature and oxygen doping. We detect lattice fluctuations that are larger than the expected thermal vibration component, and which show anomalies characteristic of the phase transitions anticipated for a dynamic stripe phase. Comparison of our lattice results with single-particle-tunnelling and photoemission data highlights the importance of spin-charge separation phenomena in the copper oxide superconductors. |
Deterministic droplet-based co-encapsulation and pairing of microparticles via active sorting and downstream merging.
Co-encapsulation of two distinct particles within microfluidic droplets provides the means to achieve various high-throughput single-cell assays, such as biochemical reactions and cell-cell interactions in small isolated volumes. However, limited by the Poisson statistics, the co-encapsulation rate of the conventional co-flow approach is low even under optimal conditions. Only up to 13.5% of droplets precisely contain a pair of two distinct particles, while the rest, either being empty or encapsulating unpaired particles become wastes. Thus, the low co-encapsulation efficiency makes droplet-based assays impractical in biological applications involving low abundant bioparticles. In this paper, we present a highly promising droplet merging strategy to increase the co-encapsulation efficiency. Our method first enriches droplets exactly encapsulating a single particle via fluorescence or scattering-light activated sorting. Then, two droplets, each with a distinct particle, are precisely one-to-one paired and merged in a novel microwell device. This deterministic approach overcomes the Poisson statistics limitation facing conventional stochastic methods, yielding an up to 90% post-sorting particle capture rate and an overall 88.1% co-encapsulation rate. With its superior single-particle pairing performance, our system provides a promising technological platform to enable highly efficient microdroplet assays. |
WSAZ-TV
WSAZ-TV, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 22), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Huntington, West Virginia, United States. It serves the Charleston–Huntington market, the second-largest television market (in terms of geographical area) east of the Mississippi River; the station's coverage area includes 61 counties in central West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and southeastern Ohio. WSAZ-TV is owned by Gray Television as part of a duopoly with Portsmouth, Ohio-licensed CW affiliate WQCW (channel 30). The two stations share studios on 5th Avenue in Huntington and transmitter facilities on Barker Ridge near Milton; WSAZ maintains an additional studio and newsroom on Columbia Avenue in Charleston.
Until December 15, 2017, WSAZ-TV's programming was also seen in the Kanawha Valley on translator W16CE (channel 16) in Charleston. This station broadcast in analog only and is currently silent for technical reasons.
History
Early years
The oldest television station in West Virginia, WSAZ-TV began regular broadcasting November 15, 1949, on VHF channel 5. The station was originally owned by the Huntington Herald-Dispatch along with WSAZ radio (930 AM, now WRVC), and carried programming from all four networks at the time (NBC, CBS, ABC, and DuMont). However, it was a primary NBC affiliate due to WSAZ radio's long affiliation with NBC Radio. When WCHS-TV (channel 8) signed-on from Charleston in 1954, it took over the CBS affiliation and the two television stations shared ABC programming until WHTN-TV (channel 13, now WOWK-TV) signed-on from Huntington a year later. In 1955, WSAZ-TV dropped DuMont after the network shut down. It is the only commercial station in the market that has never changed its primary affiliation.
One story of how the station's call letters originated dates from WSAZ radio's origins in 1923. Radio engineer Glenn Chase applied to the Secretary of Commerce for a license to operate a small radio station in Pomeroy, Ohio (it moved down and across the Ohio River to Huntington in 1927). In the application, he reportedly claimed that since he was building most of the station's equipment himself, "it would probably be the worst station from A to Z." Chase asked that appropriate call letters be assigned. His request was promptly granted and the calls WSAZ were given to him meaning "Worst Station from A to Z." A more likely story was that the allocation of the call letters WSAZ were pure coincidence as they were assigned by the Department of Commerce in an alphabetical sequence just after WSAX in Chicago and WSAY in Port Chester, New York. However, the myth persists that the calls stand for "Worst Station from A to Z," which WSAZ radio itself helped spread by using it as a slogan for many years.
In 1950, WSAZ-TV received Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permission to build a private microwave link to Cincinnati allowing viewers to get NBC programming live. As the nation's first privately owned microwave system, it was a remarkable feat for one of the smallest cities in the country at the time to have a television station. The first live broadcast was scheduled for a Labor Day baseball game, but the system broke down for four hours and forced WSAZ to broadcast a fire at a nearby hotel. The Cincinnati link was replaced in favor of one from Columbus, Ohio in 1952.
Also in 1952, the FCC released its Sixth Report and Order, which ended the four-year-long freeze in awarding station licenses and included a realignment of VHF channel assignments. As a result, WSAZ-TV moved to channel 3 in order to alleviate interference with fellow NBC affiliate WLWT in Cincinnati. The channel move also created an opening for a new channel 5 station in Weston, which signed-on as WJPB-TV (now WDTV) in March 1954. As part of the frequency switch, the FCC granted WSAZ a boost in broadcast power, which at the time, was the highest ever authorized for a television station. This allowed the station to penetrate more of its huge viewing area, most of which is a very rugged dissected plateau. However, as the regulation of domestic television stations was normalized, WSAZ's signal strength was reduced to the same levels as others in 1956. The station's transmission tower was the tallest in North America until WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina activated a taller tower in 1959.
Later years
The Herald-Dispatch sold WSAZ-AM-TV to Goodwill Stations, owner of WJR radio in Detroit and WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan, in 1961. Goodwill was merged into Capital Cities Communications in 1964. Capital Cities spun off the WSAZ stations in 1971 as a result of its purchase of several stations from Triangle Publications, with WSAZ radio going to Stoner Broadcasting, and channel 3 being acquired by Lee Enterprises. Emmis Communications bought the station in 2000 after Lee decided to bow out of broadcasting. Emmis then sold WSAZ to Gray Television in 2005. The Gray purchase made WSAZ-TV a sister station to fellow NBC affiliate WTAP-TV (channel 15) in Parkersburg.
Being based in Huntington, WSAZ-TV is located away from West Virginia's state capital, Charleston. As such, the station opened a branch studio there in 1956. It also launched a low-powered repeater on UHF channel 23 to serve the Kanawha Valley in 1995. While Charleston and its close-in suburbs receive the main WSAZ signal very well, it was marginal at best in much of the Kanawha Valley due to the area's rugged terrain. The translator was moved to channel 16 in 2003.
On September 5, 2006, WSAZ launched a new second digital subchannel to be the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate, under the branding "MY Z". Although it is a digital subchannel, many local cable companies, as well as satellite provider DirecTV, air WSAZ-DT2 as a separate channel on their systems. At first it carried infomercials other than during the primetime MNT programming, but on August 29, 2009, it began a secondary affiliation with This TV carrying programming from that network during the daytime, late nights and on weekends. MY Z also aired second showings of some of WSAZ's syndicated programs. MY Z also produced a 10 p.m. newscast, but this was moved to the full-power WQCW when WSAZ's owners acquired that station. On August 26, 2015, WSAZ announced it was dropping This TV and affiliating with the MeTV network. It now carries MeTV from 2:30 to 6 p.m., except for a one-hour repeat of the WSAZ morning news at 7 a.m.; syndicated programs from 6 to 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.; and MyNetworkTV programming from 8 to 10 p.m. It carries MeTV all day on weekends.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WSAZ-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 3.
Charleston translator W16CE was awarded a construction permit for a new digital signal on channel 27 on August 16, 2018. An earlier permit for digital channel 15 expired unbuilt in August 2015.
News operation
Largely because of its pioneering status in the state, WSAZ is one of the country's most dominant television stations. It has been the far-and-away market leader for as long as records have been kept, usually boasting some of the highest-rated newscasts in the country. WCHS and WOWK have rarely come close. The station came in a close second to WCHS for a short period in late 2009–early 2010 due to lower lead-in numbers originated by The Jay Leno Show. WSAZ has since regained first place in all timeslots. In May 2012, WSAZ had the highest rated nightly news at 6:00 p.m. of any station in the top 100 television markets in the United States, with its 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. newscasts ranking number-two among the Top 100. The station has always devoted significant resources to its news department, resulting in a higher-quality product than conventional wisdom would suggest for what has always been a small-to-medium market.
Since 1956, WSAZ's newscasts have featured two news anchors with one at the main studios in Huntington and the other in Charleston. NBC studied the format and used it as the basis for The Huntley-Brinkley Report anchored by Chet Huntley in New York City and David Brinkley in Washington, D.C. All of the big three networks have used this approach at one time or another since then.
Until 2017, WSAZ used W16CE and a Charleston-specific feed on Suddenlink to provide viewers with a "split" newscast. Weeknights at 5:30, 6 and 11, the two anchors appeared together on screen until a certain point (usually 10–15 minutes into the newscast) when the show "split." For the last 20 minutes of the newscast, W16CE viewers and Suddenlink subscribers in the 28 counties of the Kanawha Valley saw a newscast targeted specifically to them, while viewers of the full-power station and cable subscribers in the other 33 counties (as well as satellite viewers) saw a newscast featuring coverage from Kentucky and Ohio as well as West Virginia. WSAZ called this concept "two-city news." Outside of the aforementioned newscasts, all shows originate from the Huntington facilities. The weather and sports departments are also based there. In July 1993, WSAZ's weeknight First at Five broadcast was launched.
Since the station has traditionally been one of NBC's strongest affiliates, the network has been rumored on several occasions to buying WSAZ. However, NBCUniversal has recently sold off many of its stations outside the top 15 markets. Huntington–Charleston is currently the 70th market (the only market in the state in the top 100). Also, NBC has owned only one television station located outside the top 50 markets.
Rumors abounded soon after the Gray Television purchase of WSAZ that WTAP would scrap its news department and simulcast WSAZ's newscasts instead. WSAZ has always covered Parkersburg events anyway and has long been available on cable on the West Virginia side of that market. However, WTAP's broadcasts bring in as much revenue as WSAZ in part because WTAP is the only full-power station in Parkersburg.
WSAZ-DT2 formerly produced a prime time newscast every night for a half-hour, originally known as MyZTV Ten O'Clock News; however, when Gray Television bought full-power WQCW, it moved WSAZ's 10 p.m. news to that station and expanded that newscast to a full hour. WSAZ-DT2 currently only repeats the second hour of WSAZ NewsChannel 3 Today weekdays at 7 a.m.
WSAZ remodeled the Huntington and Charleston newsrooms in late 2010 to prepare for high definition broadcasts. On June 26, 2011 at 6 p.m., WSAZ launched the first high definition newscast in the Charleston–Huntington market. This was the second station in the state of West Virginia, following sister station WTAP in Parkersburg. Before the transition, the Charleston–Huntington market was the largest without a newscast in either high definition or 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen.
Out of market carriage
In West Virginia, WSAZ is carried in Glenville, Gilmer County in the Clarksburg market. In the Bluefield–Beckley market, it is carried in Ansted, Fayetteville and Page in Fayette County. It is carried as far north as Parkersburg, Wood County alongside sister station WTAP-TV. In the southern part of the state, Suddenlink Cable in Beckley, Raleigh County carries WSAZ alongside that area's NBC affiliate, WVVA from Bluefield. In McDowell County, it is carried in Panther and Welch. WSAZ is also carried on Horizon Telecom in Chillicothe, which is in the Columbus, Ohio market. During the CATV era of the late 1970s into the early 1980s, WSAZ was picked up on numerous cable outlets in Southwest Virginia including Wise, Dickenson and Buchanan counties.
See also
Channel 3 virtual TV stations in the United States
Channel 22 digital TV stations in the United States
Mr. Cartoon, a local children's program produced and aired on WSAZ that aired for over thirty years
References
External links
WSAZ-DT2
WSAZ-TV history
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Q:
How to set this cases depends on if rule
if i've the following
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do anyone have better suggestion ! thanks a lot
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$title = empty($y) ? $x : (empty($z) ? $x."-".$y : $y."-".$z);
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A murder trial began Monday for a woman accused of deliberately driving off a cliff in Hawaii and killing her identical twin sister.
The 2016 crash was a tragic accident, Alexandria Duval's defense attorney, Birney Bervar said in his opening statement. There's reasonable doubt of any criminal behavior, he said.
Authorities described the 2016 crash as a hair-pulling fight over the steering wheel. The sisters, who were 38 at the time, were seen arguing on the narrow, winding Hana Highway on the island of Maui before their SUV plunged 200 feet over a cliff.
Anastasia Duval was in the passenger seat and was killed, and her sister Alexandria Duval was arrested. A judge later ordered Alexandria Duval released after finding no probable cause for a murder charge. She traveled to upstate New York and was arrested again months later in Albany after a grand jury indicted her.
Duval opted to have a judge instead of a jury decide the case. The judge is expected to reach a verdict this week.
Maui resident Chad Smith testified that while the women were passing him on the highway he could see them arguing. Smith, who was headed to a church, said he couldn't hear anything but the women looked angry. He had to swerve out of their way, he said.
The sisters, born Alison and Ann Dadow in the Utica, New York, area, operated popular yoga studios in Florida before they changed their names. They moved to Hawaii in 2015 from Utah.
Duval isn't expected to testify, Bervar said. |
I think I had too much caffeine.
So I may have ‘accidentally’ (okay, it wasn’t an accident, I was really tired and needed a little something something) had some caffeine via a crystal light yesterday morning at 6 a.m. I haven’t had caffeine in probably a year and I think it may have gotten into Brooke’s system because in a 14 hour time span she slept a total of 2 hours yesterday. We had plenty of time to entertain each other.
Brooke wanted me to show off her latest awesome tongue trick that she showed me as we were sitting by the pool chilaxing. Doesn’t she have the coolest sideburns ever?
As you can see by her eyeballs this little girl was wide awake. Most bloggers use cool table clothes and backgrounds for their pictures of food but I use a baby for mine.
My CUTEST friend Pam (she is running the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 7th) sent a fun box of goodies for Brooke and also this amazing curry sauce mix for me after I told her how much I am loving curry.
It doesn’t look very great but believe you me, it was amazing. Let me give you a helpful tip in life: When making rice, do not follow their serving suggestion. I made the ‘2 servings’ size of rice and it forced me to convince billy to go on a diet and cut out cabs in order to eat his portion of rice too after I ate my ‘serving’ in two bites… remember Janae, next time double it. I put chicken, carrots, potatoes, onions and cauliflower into the sauce mix.
I know you are all going to ask me this but no, I did not go to culinary arts school (you are all thinking it based on my beautiful presentation of the apple slices).
My cute bangs friend texted me on Sunday night and said that they had too much chocolate cake (is that possible?) left at their house and they needed me to help them get rid of it Monday night. I am glad I have such a good reputation for being a human garbage disposal:)
Close up on the heaven that my friend in the blue is holding. It is her famous candy corn and peanut combination (remember, 1.5 peanuts per candy corn is the winning combination).
The most delicious chocolate cake ever.
I love the name of the cake and it really doesn’t get any healthier than this:
Moral of the story: Janae shouldn’t drink caffeine, curry and chocolate cake make a person happy and my baby is probably a genius because she can do cool tongue tricks.
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What is your workout today?
-I am going to run some easy miles and spend 23 quality minutes with Jillian Michaels.
Anyone running the Chicago Marathon? Anyone ran it in the past? Anyone want to run it in 2013 with me?
How often do you drink caffeine?
-Usually only before races or long runs (I used to be really addicted to diet coke but quit) but I learned my lesson yesterday and won’t be having it again for a while.
Do you have a favorite rice dish or food to eat with rice (I have a lot of brown rice to use:)
Donna
I am planning on Chicago for 2013 but will probably be a good 40+ minutes behind your Kenyan pace!!!!
My workout this morning was 6.5 tempo miles. Core work later tonight after the kidlets are in bed :)
I’ve eaten at least 3 bags of candy corn with peanuts since you first posted that combo a week ago! It is snack crack!!!!
Edie,Great post! Congratulations to you, not only for accomplishing your cnallehge, but being willing to take that cnallehge on. The thing that strikes me most about this is the idea that we (I) have to be willing to set a new standard for ourselves. That’s what you did. Your standard used to say cafffeine is ok. You changed it to say, no caffeine. Way to go!About a year and a half ago, I started doing 10 pushups a day. That was 70 for the week. The next week it was 11 a day and so on. Today, I did 80 pushups (yes at once). I’m not sure how far I’ll go, but I now know at age 55 that I’m doing more pushups daily than I typically did back in my college wrestling days.Again, kudos to you!Joe
You are SO funny. I swear. I cracked up as soon as I saw the name of your post. Then the picture of Brooke all wide-eyed with the curry. Holy crap. My coworkers must think I’m nuts, sitting over here laughing out loud.
That is really good curry. I’ve had it before. I’ve never put cauliflower in mine though, I bet it’d be good!
I drink 3 cups of coffee a day:-) One is the very strong black coffee from starbucks.
I pretty much use brown rice (or quinoa) is most of my dishes. You can put anything on rice. My daughter’s favorite is when I sautee some veggies w/garlic and brown some ground beef with it and put worchester sauce on it. I throw some seasonings in there and let it simmer a bit. Good stuff. If you do it though, I’d go for the low-sodium sauce because it’s way to salty otherwise. I hate salt though.
I used to drink caffeine in the form of coffee like there was no tomorrow… Within the past several months I’ve cut way back though, and it’s been good for me. I still have the occasional cup of (caffeinated) hot tea, and I’m sure I’ll drink coffee again after pregnancy, but nothing like I used to.
P.S. I tried that candy corn/peanut mixture last week… It was gone in no time. ;)
Katie
My workout this morning was 30 minutes of power walking (mixed in with some push-ups and weights).
The only caffeine I drink each day is a cup of coffee in the morning (either a Medium from Tim Horton’s, or two small cups at home). No other caffeine for this gal the rest of the day – I wouldn’t be able to sleep!
Chicken and rice is the best! I have no idea how to make it (other than including the chicken and the rice) but whenever I have it time stops. :)
Adrienne
My workout today is a quick treadmill run before doctor appts. with my oldest.
Have you tried the Nike Training Club app? I love it. Options of 15/30/and 45min workouts. They are tough!
I love stir-fry. So easy to throw together.
Lol that’s crazy that caffeine affects you so much! Sadly, I think I take in too much caffeine because it doesn’t seem to affect me too much. Although I haven’t been sleeping the best lately, so I’m thinking about cutting back a little and seeing if my sleep improves. I have a cup of black tea in the morning, then a small cup of coffee a few hours later, and then a cappuccino or latte in the afternoon. Eep. Actually that sounds like a lot lol. Alright, alright… I’ll cut back.
I have a monstrous Costco bag of brown rice and use it for everything. But mostly I make it on Sunday night in a big bowl and then I have it as a base throughout the next 4 days or so since it takes so long to make during the week. My fave is chopping up all my leftover veggies, toss in some canned tomatoes, spices and beans and we have Italian rice bowls or as my kids call them – too many vegetables in one place.
Yes, I am running Chi Town in a couple of weeks – actually on my 44th birthday. This will be my 3rd running of this race and only because after time I have raced it I know I could of done so much better. (I am running NYC marathon in November too because I picked and have never been to New York, so we are excited about that too.
I too loooooovvvveee coffee – in Canada we have Tim Hortons Cafe and Bake Shop that I hit every morning for my XL with 3 creams – yummy.
Enjoy your day with your family.
Hugs
Z
-Workout today = upper body and core strength training that I did this morning before work and this evening I’m going for a walk with a friend!
-I don’t drink coffee, soda, or tea, so really the only caffeine I get is from chocolate :)
I have to work late so today will be a rest day :)
I would love to run it on day! Maybe 2014 though!
I do not have caffeine any more. I used to drink one cup of coffee every morning but stopped because it was making me jittery, decaf for me now!
I love making Thai Fried Rice with egg, veggies and pineapple!
The only caffeine I can handle is through my chocolate. Coffee, tea, etc will keep me up forever and give me the shakes. Not good. Also, I have never heard of too much chocolate cake, only not enough chocolate cake.
And brown rice is perfect for stuffed peppers :)
Alex
I wouldn’t worry about the caffeine too much. Babies like to keep you on your toes and just when you think you know what’s going on…bam! Mckenna used to go practically No Nap somedays just to be feisty. Maybe Brooke just wanted extra Mama time!
Tammy
I’ll drink one cup of coffee in the morning but LOVE Starbucks iced coffees and am addicted to their iced green tea soy lattes (YUM!!!). Just got back from running the WHM in Nashville this past weekend (my 3rd)…not sure if I could run a marathon-13.1 miles seems to be enough for me but who knows!! Good luck! And I LOVE curry- every fall I make my curried butternut squash soup and it is DELICIOIUS! No one in my house eats it so its all for me:-)
i have that same pumpkin serving dish, think i bought it from either walgreens or target YEARS ago. and it looks like curry scares little brookie, she has a cute little look of panic! i don’t know how you’ve lived without caffeine for a year, i can barely go a few hours without it!
running the cm12 with the hubby this year, which is exciting. no time goals, just the goal of having fun and supporting him during his venture back into marathoning. hopefully i’ll be there in 2013! you can stay at casa kelly here!
I try not to drink any caffeine these days. Coffee is my best friend, but I hate hate hate being addicted to even one cup. It’s really annoying. So, I’m all about the decaf these days. Tea is my main way of caffeine because I don’t think it’s worth it to worry about how much caffeine is in a bag. Meh
So so sad (like depression mode) that I won’t be running Chicago. Metatarsal stress fracture earlier this summer, followed by some intense bursitis after ramping up training in September has sealed my fate. Definitely next year though – and hopefully IMS Arizona in Feb!
I didnt start drinking coffee regularly until I started dating Kevin…now I have a hot thermos of it every morning. On the upside, it got me to stop drinking diet coke as much..I typically drink diet soda without caffeine or just club soda..and not nearly as often as I used to. it DOES make me into a jitterbug sometimes though…caffeine i mean ;)
woohoo i’m running chicago!! I cant believe how quickly its coming up, its insane. I’m going to enjoy this taper period as much as possible!
todays workout was an hour of crosstraining and some weights.
I usually just throw veggies or whatever into my brown rice and call it a meal, lol. i love it with stir fry the best though!
Jessica R
If I’m not preggers then (which would be kind of depressing actually) I could be ready for a marathon next year. Im just an hour north of Chicago so that would be a decent first marathon for me. Sign my up!
I love curry. I have a recipe for curry made in the crockpot. Rice is a side we have a lot. With curry obviously, with salmon, teriyaki chicken… that’s all I can think of right now.
HilJo
Haha this post makes me sympathetic to my mom–I guess I was NOT a day sleeper as a baby. I wasnt fussy but I did not sleep. I just laid wherever she put me and watched her all.day.long. SO I hope that Brooke wasnt fussy even if she was awake :)
I am hoping to walk 6 miles today….taking all my self control not to run yet but I WILL heal my injury then be back with a vengeance ;)
Ran 5 miles this morning. Felt like I was running in glue.
No on Chicago. But good luck! Heard it is a FAST course.
I have one cup of coffee each morning. Then if I eat out, I will have a fountain soda. But even then I choose caffeine free diet coke if they have it.
TJ Orange Chicken over rice. Or any of the PF Changs meals you can get at the grocery store.
I have one cup of coffee every morning. I seriously look forward to this one cup more than anything else in my day. Well, not anything but it comes close! I guess that is what will happen when you have a near 5 month old who doesn’t like to sleep!
I may or may not have just copied and pasted that cake recipe into an email to myself so I can file it away. . . until this afternoon when I make it. :)
God willing I will make it 4-5 miles today. More would be great!
The hubs and I are hooked on stir fry and rice right now. The secret to fantastic stir fry is sesame seed oil, red pepper flakes, and a little Szechuan sauce. Yum
You can make Mexican Brown Rice with a cube of Cons Mate to go with tacos or whatever too. Just boil it in chicken broth/stock and add one cube of the Cons Mate. Ta Da Tastiness!
Run today – 5 miles while my son is at soccer practice in the evening. It’s going to be cool, the sun will be setting and I am really looking forward to it! :)
I read your blog the other day when you suggested the 1.5 peanut – 1 candy corn ratio treat. I wasn’t convinced – but now I know I should always trust you when it comes to candy suggestions! What was I thinking? I EAT THIS EVERY NIGHT NOW!!!
Ohhh I really need to stop reading your blog on my break at work… You always make me crave food that I have no time to go and try to find. Thanks a lot, I will now be dreaming of candy corn all day! Gah!
So I’ve decided that Brooke looks just like Billy sometimes but also your little niece (not Curly, the older one). Not sure what it is, but I think she looks just like her!
I’m IN for Chicago!! I just ran my first marathon and made the terrible decision to run a marathon with only 38 other people… and in a hurricane. Because there were so few runners (and I’m slow), I ran almost the entire thing ALONE and there was almost no one out cheering, or at least the crazy rain/ wind blew them away before I got there. I’d LOVE to run a marathon where there were other runners and spectators around, I feel like it would make miles 20-26.2 less painful!!
I’ve never run a marathon but I actually researched marathons yesterday, including the Chicago marathon, after reading Ultra Marathon Man. I mean, if Dean can run 200 miles non-stop, I think I can run a marathon!
I LOVE curry, so tasty. Now I need to make some. I like the brown rice. Costco has a great frozen brown rice, just pop the bag in the microwave for 4 minutes and you have perfect brown rice that is very tasty.
I used to drink tons, stopped when I found out I was pregnant. I have had a few half/caf cups to combat some killer headaches.
I used to be able to drink caffeine day or night with no problem, but after I had my second baby I became SUPER sensitive to it. Now I can get enough from the teeny tiny bit that is in decaf coffee and that’s about all I can handle!
I don’t have a ton of caffeine. But I’ll drink a pop here and there {guilty pleasure} and sometimes I’ll have coffee {but not much since I’ve been pregnant…it just doesn’t sound good} but I’ve found at least during this pregnancy coffee makes me way more jittery than pop.
The boys and I just got back from a 2 mile walk on a beautiful fall day. I might try to motivate myself to do my prenatal workout video later too…
Yummy curry! We have a similar box (several of them… always a staple in Korean household).
Oh, man! I have a big cup of coffee every morning, so I always have caffeine in my system in the morning.
I quit Diet Coke, too ;)
I am totally known for being the human garbage disposable. In fact, I often don’t even need to bring a lunch to work because people drop me off all sorts of goodies that I eat throughout the day. Not sure if that’s a good thing…
Leah
I’m running Portland the same day as Chicago! Poor Portland gets so overshadowed by Chicago. :) Maybe someday I’ll do Chicago instead (they’re always the same day) but the possibility of running in 80 degree heat terrifies me.
Karen
I love that curry. I make it the same way minus the cauliflower. But it causes me to eat way too much. I think my favorite way to have rice is fried rice, though.
I drink ice tea all day and usually a can of Dr Pepper.
I love Golden Curry! Though I haven’t had it in a looooong time. Probably since college when my Japanese roomate made it all the time ;) Must find some asap.
I had a can of Pepsi on Sunday because I was dragging in the studio and it was the only thing I had there (Dad left it in the office) . I haven’t had soda like that in ages and I literally shook, I could barely hold the paintbrush. My teeth ached sooo bad and I ended up with a headache blah. :( lesson seriously learned.
Going to cycle class at the gym today and tomorrow I will do a small 3-4 mile run. 1/2 marathon on Oct 7!! aaaaaah!!
Lindsey
Oh I had a crazy caffeine addiction but as soon as I got pregnant I cut all caffeine out. I’m now 17 weeks and allow myself 1 Swiss water pressed decaf coffee per day…maybe I was just addicted to the taste because it seems to do the trick.
Workout today- long run yesterday has left my hamstring sore so I spent 90 min on my spin bike and did some upper body work.
Caffeine every day in order to survive. Haha actually for me coffee doesn’t really keep me awake, I think I just rely on the routine of drinking coffee in the morning. A good morning run is just as good at waking me up as a cup of coffee!
Amanda N
Caffeine: I don’t really drink it. I might have soda and/or a latte/cappuccino once every 6 months.
Rice: One of my favorite “I need to use these veggies and I don’t know what make for dinner” meals is rice mixed with – whatever veggies I have on hand diced up, sausage (chicken or pork) diced and sauteed, and some herbs/spices/sauce to makes it tasty. I always add pepper and onions but have also used cauliflower, broccoli, broccoli flower, asparagus, snow peas, potatoes (sweet and white), green beans, carrots ….you see where I’m going? Anything works!
I had a friend once take excedrin because she had a headache from lack of sleep with her newborn… when she was telling me about it, I just about died laughing because excedrin IS a TON of caffeine.. no wonder her little babe wasn’t sleeping!! Thats the worst!
I am an addict.. pre-workout or mio energy..
Macalla
I love curry. I make it often because my boys love it. I make it with chicken and a frozen mixed bag of veggies along with onions and potatoes. I’ll have to try it with cauliflower. : )
I’ve never ran anything longer than a 10k. I would like to try a half-marathon. Some day….
I have to have coffee and/or green tea in the morning.
Since your such a candy corn fan…have you seen the new candy corn oreo cookies?? I’ve seen them at our local grocery store and it make me think of you. If you happen to get them let me know what you think. : )
April
Jessica
I want to run the Chicago Marathon with you!!! I live here and am working up to my first one! Next weekend I am running the DIVA half marathon in Long Island and next year I would love to attempt my first full marathon and would love to do with you!!
I. Love. Curry. I seriously cannot get enough of it right now. I definitely cooked up some tofu, eggplant and other veggies with some curry sauce in my slow cooker and it was a magical combination. You should try Trader Joe’s red curry sauce, it’s the stuff curry-flavored dreams are made of.
my workout was abs and arms….my hip still isn’t feeling good enough for cardio and it’s making me CRAAAZY. i gave caffeine up about 1.5 years ago and it has totally helped with my anxiety levels and the wide-eye thing. i’ll have a chai latte if i’m feeling super low on energy since that has some caffeine in it. |
A variety of handheld input devices exist for detecting input from a user during use. For example, an electronic stylus can be utilized to provide input by contacting a touch panel of an electronic device. The touch panel may include a touch sensitive surface that, in response to detecting a touch event, generates a signal that can be processed and utilized by other components of the electronic device. A display component of the electronic device may display textual and/or graphical display elements representing selectable virtual buttons or icons, and the touch sensitive surface may allow a user to navigate the content displayed on the display screen. Typically, a user can move the stylus in a pattern that the electronic device translates into an input command. The user can grip the stylus while in use. Styluses are available in a variety of shapes and sizes that are each intended to satisfy certain user preferences. However, while some shapes and sizes are advantageous for certain purposes, the same shapes and sizes can be less desirable for other purposes. |
Q:
Flight PHP Routing from Subdirectory
So I'm using the Flight PHP microframework (http://flightphp.com/) to do routing. My question is, how can I run the router from within a subdirectory? What I mean is, essentially, run it 'sandboxed' within a folder.
As in, a request to '/' just pulls the regular index.php file. But a request to '/flight/file' would load the URL using Flight.
I know you can't just dump it in a folder on the server and expect it to work because FlightPHP expects the URLs relative to the root.
Is there a way to run FlightPHP isolated in a directory with the rest of the website running regular PHP?
EDIT
I tried simply putting the .htaccess file into the subdirectory. This has the peculiar effect of causing the routes to still act as if they are from the root (e.g. /thing/otherthing/ when it should be /otherdirectory/thing/otherthing/ ) while simultaneously causing the 404 callback to not work. Not what I intended.
EDIT 2
Contents of .htaccess file, which are what is suggested by the Flightphp website:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
A:
I know this is an old question but I've been doing something similar just by adding something along the lines of
RewriteBase /flight/
in the .htaccess file (before all of your rules) of the flight directory. Hope this helps someone else looking for the same thing. Example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /flight/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
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ELN-FARC Battle Urabeños in Colombia
Clashes between leftist guerillas and a neo-paramilitary organized crime group in the Colombian province of Antioquia may foreshadow the violent renegotiation of criminal economies and territories that could occur if guerilla groups and the government sign peace accords.
On April 11, dozens of heavily armed men with Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – FARC) and National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) armbands engaged in combat with members of Clan Usuga, also known as the Urabeños, according to a press release issued by the Colombian Ombudsman’s office.
The combat transpired in El Bagre, Antioquia, in an area with about 5,000 residents, and three civilians were wounded. Combat continued until army helicopters intervened, reportedly killing two members of the illegal groups and wounding two more.
Antioquia Ombudswoman, Gloria Elena Blandon told the Colombian newspaper Semana that ELN members had told residents of El Bagre they did not want any Urabeños sympathizers in the town. Urabeños forces reportedly told residents the same regarding the ELN.
This impossible situation led to what the Ombudswoman called a “drop by drop” displacement of El Bagre residents. With this new combat, the Ombudswoman warned of the possibility of a mass displacement.
Representatives of the seventh division of the army — which operates in Antioquia — confirmed that they have been in the area since Monday afternoon and said the army has not seen mass displacement.
InSight Crime Analysis
El Bagre has long been a contested zone, and this new clash could be a sign of what is to come as illegal economies and territories are renegotiated in post-peace agreement Colombia.
Home to contraband routes, coca cultivation, and rich gold deposits, El Bagre was long controlled by the 36th Front of the FARC which oversaw coca cultivation. The Front allegedly tolerated the Urabeños, who managed coca trafficking while the ELN controlled rural areas.
However, according to a Semana source, with peace negotiations increasing the likelihood of FARC and ELN demobilization it is probable that the criminal bands want to take over spaces and “illegal economies” controlled by the guerillas. This new threat may have caused “the FARC and ELN to unify” in El Bagre, the source said.
There seems to be evidence of criminal bands trying to move in on guerrilla territory in other parts of Colombia as well, as evidenced by a March 2016 confrontation between FARC and Urabeños forces which displaced 220 people in southwestern Colombia.
However, the FARC and BACRIM, as criminal bands are called in Colombia, have also been known to cooperate, as exemplified by a coordinated attack by the FARC’s 58th Front and the Urabeños against police in 2014. FARC fronts that do not want to demobilize may find a place in the new illegal economy by cooperating with the BACRIM.
Regardless of the exact dynamics, the changes brought on by possible peace agreements with the ELN and FARC are unlikely to bring an end to conflict in Colombia’s long-troubled territories.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
“ALL THE BEST”, was regular SMS from one of my friend, who responded to my regular Facebook status update, on countdown for Trek to Harishchandragad. I took it very offhandedly, since these comments are quite casual. But, was there any need of him SMSing me on my mobile? I was not able to understand, perhaps, till I descended down from this high altitude trek of northern Sahyadri or let’s say 5B zone of Western Ghats.
This trek was organised by Kalavardhini Prathishthan, an organisation, which is in the field of trekking and mountaineering since last 10 years or so. Around 30 participants were suppose to attend it, which meant that planning of logistics and execution must be well managed. And that was the reason for the organisers to opt for a chartered bus, from the origin (Thane) to base (Khideshwar) and back, via Kalyan, for two days. I along with 5 more individuals were picked up from Shivaji Chowk, Kalyan at1.00 AM on 25th June, 2011and rest 22 individuals were already in bus from the origin i.e. Thane. The formal introduction, without waste of any time was done in the bus itself. I realize that apart from four individuals, I didn`t knew any one, and these four individuals were also unknown to the rest of team, and thus we were called as “new comers”.
The drive between Murbad to Malshej Ghat tunnel was very much misty, even the professional bus driver had to negotiate with such non-visibility. At often and again, he almost zeroed down the speed on the Ghats, and fortunately at that point of time (between 4AM – 5AM), the traffic was also sparse.
Anyways, at around 05.30 AM we all reached at Khideshwar (base of our expedition), Saurabh Thakekar (one of the founder member of Kalavardhini Prathishthan and my good friend), instructed us to have rest for another hour or so, before we start this trek. I don’t know, who followed him, but there was complete silence during this hour. And at around 6.30 AM, after having cup of hot tea, we started our trek.
The start of the trek was clear plain walk (around a kilometre), with beautiful landscaped scenes, including typical village life, cattle, well , rice fields and gushing waterfalls from the surrounding tall mountains. From 2600 feet (Mean Sea Level) to 4100 feet, this was to be uphill trek of around 7 Kms. Thankfully, the route was clearly indicated with arrow marks, making it easy for climbers to head towards right direction.
Must to mention, Harishchandragad is part of Kalsubai – Harishchandragad Wildlife Sanctuary, spread up in apprx 300 Sq. Kms of area, part of Nashik Wildlife Circle, in Maharashtra Western Ghats region, notified as protected area (PA) in 1986. This PA has few of the best surviving patches of northern evergreen forest types of Western Ghats, but majority of patches have declining close canopy forests, excluding the hills and hill tops, which are rugged and not easily accessible. Few of uncommon species which are reported in this PA , earlier, are Indian Giant Squirrel, Sambar, Indian Crested Porcupine, Leopard, Ruddy Mongoose, Hyena, Mouse Deer, Barking Deer, Palm Civet, Jungle Cat , Wild Boar, Indian Rufous Babbler, Bonelli`s Eagle, Yellow Wattled Lapwing, Hanging parrot, White Bellied Minivet, Long Billed Vultures and White Rumped Vultures.
Anyways, coming back to my trip, the patch of the initial plain walk had Persicaria glabra ( Marathi Name: Sheral, Common English Name :Common Marsh Buckwheat),this plant grows along the marshy areas, in this case, there were flooded rice fields, where a White Breasted Water-hen also feasted on these fields. Thereafter, as the terrain became hilly, the abundant cucurma pseudomontana (Marathi Name: Ran halad, Common English Name: Wild Turmeric) appeared on the forest floor. The identical whistling calls of Malabar Whistling Thrush, Brown Headed Barbet and Orange Headed Thrush were often heard then seen.
But the twist of the highly excited journey fussed, when my health collapsed, due to dehydration. My haversack was almost 10 Kgs in weight, which added up to another problem. The need of the urgency, as felt by my co-travellers, was to take away my bag and carry it up by them and to immediately offer me electoral mixed water, sweets and glucose biscuits. In honest approach, I was feeling ashamed, for all my preparations, which went in vain. Nilesh & Sushant took every step for my care and encouraged me at time and again that ALL IS WELL. I was afraid that all I ate, my stomach may throw out. But, we had to trek up and standing in the midst of rains was absolutely not the option.
I think, I was bit more comfortable, after we reached and relaxed for some time at Vyaghrashilp (a pass which connects, Khideshwar, Harishchandragad and Otur, at 3100 feet height), which is an ancient sculpture of Tiger, formed & worshipped by earlier nomads, in protection from wild animals. The team shared their meals and also shared, especially Nilesh, the knowledge, about this temple.
The need of energy was much high, hereafter, since we were suppose to traverse through Tolar Khind, a steep and erect terrain, with few old time railings on it and on top of it light showers. This steep hilly terrain would surely be a good platform for small herbs post monsoon, which are said to be endemic to Sahyadri or of medicinal importance. One among such important medicinal plant that I saw here was Tylophora indica (Marathi Name: Pitkari, Common English Name: Panacea Twiner).
Well trekked and well landed on the small platue, after crossing Tolar Khind, I heard someone calling me my name and this voice was of none among them, who were with me on this trek. Sipping cup of tea and raising his hand towards me, this was Nikhil Bhopale, one of well known naturalist, working with BNHS and a known friend to me from last few years.His team of less than 20 individuals were here for one day trek and were suppose to return back the same day to Panvel. Nikhil & I were together hereafter, at some occasions parted as well, till the Temple, our destination at Harishchandragad. This walk was sometimes, plain, uphill and downhill, crossing few smoothly flowing streams, much slippery and full of moss. So I think at around 12PM we reached the top and took refuge in one among the caves to freshen up our selves. Wherein as Nikhil and his team said us good bye and decided to descend down to Khideshwar, after having their food.
Our team cleared up the caves and settled in to have the food, which we were carrying with us. It was enjoyable moment to share and pass on the food brought by everyone. I, still not all fine, decided to have some rest and went in my sleeping bag, immediately.
At 3 pm the instruction came that we all are leaving for Konkankada, Taramati and Rohidas hilltops. Unwillingly I also joined the rest of team, although my body was expecting more relax, which I ignored. We ventured in nearby areas and paid a visit to Kedarling, Ganesh Temple and Vishnu Temple. Near these ancient monuments, the vegetation cover was seasonal including arisaema murrayi.
By now the wind pressure and the its speed had increased many folded and on top of that heavy fog, at the height of 4135 feet , it was impossible to see anything beyond 4-5 feet of distance and we were heading towards Konkankada. The instructions came that all are to unzip the raincoat and tie it at waist. This situation was most difficult for those, with slim built, me being one among them. It won’t be wrong to say that this wind pressure was almost in capacity to blow away any unfixed object on that part of the earth. The monsoon vegetation had undone all the trace marks of human presence on this trail, making it difficult for leaders to find out the way. Up, down, here, there, left, right and where not, we tried all the directions, which could have lead us to Konkankada, but no success. And unfortunately, this area had no arrow marks, which only appeared from Khideshwar to Harishchandragad temple, only. Few of experts, tried to find out the trail, but again not to succeed. Raj, the technical resource person, in such attempt, had lost its way and didn`t returned in time, back to the group. The tensed group leaders realised that this is the time of dual crisis of not only one of the important member, who was missing but also of losing on the trail and our exact location of whereabouts.
Saurabh strategically chalked out a plan, by dividing the group in three unequal parts, one to find out Raj, second to find out the way and third to be at the present location. First two groups were given exact timing to return back, irrespective of results. This was 6PM and chances of any good finding were becoming grim by every passing minute. The second group came back in 5 minutes with no indication of finding the way to caves. The situation became tenser by now and all hopes were to find out the only technical person, who could have lead us to the right direction, was himself missing. Suddenly, someone shouted “Raj is found”, oh what a sigh of relief it was! All hugged him and thanked god that our friend was back.
We, within few seconds, decided to leave our quest for Konkankada or Taramati/Rohidas shikhar and to immediately return back to the caves and this was the need of the hour after the lost and found episode of Raj. We were hardly couple of hundreds of meters away from our caves, but in such environment, it took more than 30 minutes for us to reach back to caves.
At 7PM we all reached at caves, had a chit chat and shared our knowledge of earlier experiences, prepared food for night and at 11PM we all were slept. So, it was 22 degree Celsius temperature at 4135 feet height on 25th June, 2011. Forgot to mention, Deepti in her loud voice, instructed all to wake up next morning at sharp 6.30 AM.
Next morning, Sunday, 26th June, was relaxing day. It was relaxing because, we were not in mood to go to the areas, which we were planned to go the previous day. We all had our morning routines and had our tea and breakfast.
Some gossiped and some played games and some done abstract photography of monuments. I was part of the group, which was busy in playing Antakshri and a Marathi game called “Kaan Goshthi”. My very little knowledge about Marathi added a little of spice and sense of humour among the other players, during this game, which I enjoyed and it also helped me get more grip on the language.
By 11AM, we all were served with lunch and thereafter we packed ourselves to trek down to base i.e. Khideshwar. This trek was suppose to take 3 hours, depending on the rains, to reach down. I must say, in monsoon, trekking up is more easy then trekking down, specially at locations, which are of rugged terrain.
Considering my health problem, Chetan, Nilesh and Vaiibhav, helped me in by sharing my haversack at timely occasions and instructing me on where to put my feet and where to not.
At 4PM we all had reached down at Khideshwar, where we all had Poha and Tea. Few also paid a visit to nearby old Shiva Temple, which I and Mayuresh, didn’t opted for and relaxed at hotel.
At 6PM our way back journey from Khideshwar to Mumbai started and at around 9 to 10PM we all were back through our chartered bus, which was stationed for last two days at Khideshwar itself. In bus, we discussed and shared our review of our experience of this trek, which was much mixed up but all echoed it to be thrilling, adventurous and fantabulous trek with awesome food.
And, it was an end of an exciting trek.
The Harishchandragad trek was neither as easy as understood by me nor as difficult as it was projected by my friends. But yes, it was worth a visit and another, if not in rains.
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By profession, I am ex-real estate; Marketing Professional and have experienced in selling residential units from 2004 and onwards. It wont be wrong to say that I have sold or have got exposed to selling almost every part of Mumbai`s real estate market. But my core expertise lies within Thane to Badlapur belt which is emerging as the most sought after real estate destination in Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
This was the past about me, now follows the present.
I am passionate about wildlife, to be precise the WILD FLORA. I got into this hobby in 2007 with bird watching and now I have focused to flora as I wrote earlier. I am presently working on documenting and mapping the FLORA of Matheran Hill Station in Indian state of Mahrashtra.
I am equally concern with the dwindling state of India`s natural heritage , it`s FORESTS. I study Indian policies and legalities of the country`s wildlife and environmental aspect. I believe that the generation next has capabilities to bring the lost charm of India`s natural heritage, its wildlife and the forests.
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The histone H1(0) contains multiple sequence elements for nuclear targeting.
We have investigated the nuclear transport of the replacement histone H1(0) and have searched for its nuclear localization sequence (NLS). The lysine-rich H1(0) histone differs from the other H1 histones with respect to its mode of expression and to the processing of the respective mRNA. Using the digitonin-permeabilized cell import assay we demonstrate that H1(0) is transported into the nucleus in an energy- and temperature-dependent manner. In competition experiments we show that the transport of H1(0) from the cytoplasm into the nucleus is competed by the SV40 T-antigen-NLS-peptide coupled to HSA, an established substrate of the importin pathway. In transfection studies we have expressed in HeLa cells a series of plasmid constructs containing different fragments of the coding region of the H1(0) histone gene that were fused to the beta-galactosidase gene, and we have determined the subcellular localization of each fusion protein. The results show that H1(0) contains multiple transport-competent sequence elements that can function as NLS and that H1(0) meets the requirements for a transport into the nucleus by an importin-dependent pathway. |
Champmol
The Chartreuse de Champmol, formally the Chartreuse de la Sainte-Trinité de Champmol, was a Carthusian monastery on the outskirts of Dijon, which is now in France, but in the 15th century was the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy. The monastery was founded in 1383 by Duke Philip the Bold to provide a dynastic burial place for the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, and operated until it was dissolved in 1791, during the French Revolution. Called "the grandest project in a reign renowned for extravagance", it was lavishly enriched with works of art, and the dispersed remnants of its collection remain key to the understanding of the art of the period.
Founding
Purchase of the land and quarrying of materials began in 1377, but construction did not begin until 1383, under the architect Druet de Dammartin from Paris, who had previously designed the Duke's chateau at Sluis, and been an assistant in work at the Louvre. According to James Snyder his work at Champmol was "a somewhat conservative modification of the Late Gothic buildings of Paris". A committee of councillors from Dijon supervised the construction for the Duke, who was often elsewhere. By 1388 the church was consecrated, and most construction probably completed. The monastery was built for twenty-four choir monks, instead of the usual twelve in a Carthusian house, and two more were endowed to celebrate the birth in 1433 of Charles the Bold. These lived semi-hermitic lives in their individual small houses when not in the chapel. There would also have been non-ordained monks, servants, novices, and other workers.
When founded, Champmol was "two arrow shots" outside the city gates, but is now inside the modern city boundaries. At this time the city had about 10,000 inhabitants and was the largest in Burgundy proper, though smaller than the cities of the territories in the Netherlands recently inherited by the Duke through his wife. But Burgundy was held more securely than the often turbulent cities in the north, and represented the senior title of the dynasty. Over sixty members of the Capetian House of Burgundy, whom the Valois had succeeded in 1361, only two decades earlier, had been buried at Cîteaux Abbey to the south of Dijon. Champmol was intended to rival Cîteaux, Saint-Denis, where the Kings of France were buried, and other dynastic burial places.
Somewhat in contradiction to the Carthusian mission of tranquil contemplation, visitors and pilgrims were encouraged, the expenses of hospitality recompensed by the Dukes. In 1418 Papal indulgences were granted to those visiting the Well of Moses, further encouraging pilgrims. The ducal family had a private oratory overlooking the church (now destroyed), though their visits were in fact rare. The ducal accounts, which have fortunately survived, show major commissions for paintings and other works to complete the monastery continuing until about 1415, and further works were added after that at a slower rate by the Dukes and other donors.
The accounts for Champmol have survived in sufficient detail that Martin Warnke synthesized from them a view of the emerging status of court artists, and "the autonomous consciousness of art and artists" that would distinguish the world of art in the Early modern period.
Tombs of the Dukes
The Valois dynasty of Burgundy had less than a century to run when the monastery was founded, and the number of tombs never approached that of their Capetian predecessors at Cîteaux – indeed there would hardly have been room in the choir of the church, where the monuments were. Only two monuments were ever erected, both in the same style with painted alabaster effigies with lions at their feet and angels with spread wings at their heads. Underneath the slab the effigies rested on, unpainted small (about 40 cm high) "pleurants" or mourners ("weepers" is the traditional English term) were set among Gothic tracery. These were described by Johan Huizinga in The Waning of the Middle Ages as "the most profound expression of mourning known in art, a funeral march in stone".
Philip the Bold died in 1404, and his wife Margaret III, Countess of Flanders the following year. She had decided to rest her remains with those of her parents in Lille, and Philip had been planning a single monument for himself for over twenty years, having commissioned Jean de Marville in 1381. Work did not begin until 1384, and proceeded slowly, with Claus Sluter being put in charge in 1389. At the Duke's death in 1404, only two mourners and the framework were complete; John the Fearless gave Sluter four years to finish the job, but he died after two. His nephew and assistant, Claus de Werve took over and finished the sculptures in 1410. The effigies were painted by Malouel.
John expressed a wish for his own tomb, this time a double one with his Duchess Margaret of Bavaria, to resemble that of his father, but nothing was done, even after his death in 1419, until 1435, and in 1439 de Werve died without having managed to find suitable alabaster. In 1443 a Spaniard, Jean de La Huerta, was contracted, and sent drawings for the effigies. He completed most elements, but not the effigies, before leaving Dijon in 1456. Yet another master was brought in, and the monument finally installed in 1470, by which time Philip the Good was himself dead. He seems to have made no provision for a monument for himself, and had initially been buried in Bruges, where he died. His son Charles the Bold had the remains brought back to Champmol after some years, but no monument was ever planned. Charles himself was relocated from Nancy to Bruges by his great-grandson Charles V in 1558.
The second tomb repeats the design of the first, but with their execution spanning almost a century, stylistic differences can be seen, although some of the "pleurants" of the second tomb copy those of the first exactly. It is recorded that Philip the Good had a portrait of himself placed in the choir, where there were already those of the previous two Dukes. None of these are believed to have survived in the original, but surviving portraits may be copies of them.
After the Revolution, and the sale of the monastery, the tombs were carefully moved to Dijon Cathedral in 1792, as their historic importance was recognised. But in the following year the cathedral was converted into a Temple of Reason and the effigies were vandalised, so that what are now seen are reconstructions. Many elements, including ten "pleurants", were removed by genteel looters.
Gallery of the tombs
Works of art from Champmol
Champmol was designed as a showpiece, and the artistic contents, now dispersed, represent much of the finest monumental work, as opposed to illuminated manuscripts, of French and Burgundian art of the period. Without the works that remained at Champmol until the 18th century, Claus Sluter, Jacques de Baerze, Melchior Broederlam, Henri Bellechose, Jean Malouel, and Jean de Beaumetz would remain only names known from documentary records.
Still at Champmol
There are very important sculptures by Claus Sluter and his workshop on the church portal, including kneeling figures of Philip and his Duchess. The lower parts of the Well of Moses (Puits de Moise) survive, including six life-size figures of the Old Testament prophets who foretold the Messiah, most of the rest having been destroyed, apparently more by weathering than the Revolution.
In Dijon museums
Most items are in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, including its site in the former palace of the Dukes. The fragments from the Well of Moses and other similar pieces are in the Archaeological Museum. The following are only the main works in Dijon:
Two painted and gilded carved wood retables, that are almost the only remaining works by the Flemish sculptor Jacques de Baerze, and also the only complete Netherlandish carved altarpieces before the late 15th century. The outer panels of the larger are the only surviving paintings by Melchior Broederlam, and highly important works for tracing the development of Early Netherlandish painting. Broederlam also painted and gilded the carvings by de Baerze.
The tombs (in fact always cenotaphs) of the Dukes of Burgundy; the museum has the tombs of Philip the Bold and his son John the Fearless with his wife Margaret of Bavaria. The effigies are 19th-century reconstructions, from old drawings and prints, of the originals which were destroyed in the Revolution. About ten of the "pleurants" are also copies of originals liberated or lost.
The funerary crown of Philip the Bold, in brass and glass.
The head and torso of the crucified Christ from the Well of Moses.
The Retable of Saint George, an early-15th-century painted altarpiece, probably donated by one of the monks, whose donor portrait appears at the foot of the crucified Christ.
One of the crucifixions from the two hermitages added in 1433.
Two altarpieces by Charles-André van Loo, which replaced older works (one the Retable of Saint George) in 1741.
Elsewhere
Louvre, the Martyrdom of Saint Denis by Henri Bellechose, the tondo of the Pietà by Jean Malouel, and one of 24 paintings of the crucifixion for the monks' hermitages by Jean de Beaumetz, all of which are the best known works of each artist.
Washington, National Gallery of Art, the Annunciation by Jan van Eyck; the two other panels of the triptych recorded at Champmol in 1791 have been lost.
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, a large Madonna and Child, only rediscovered in 1960 and now on loan to the Gemäldegalerie, is attributed to Jean Malouel It is believed the Berlin picture was one wing of a diptych for Champmol, opposite a portrait of John the Fearless.
Cleveland Museum of Art, the only other one of the 24 paintings by Jean de Beaumetz to survive, and four "pleurant" figures from Philip's tomb.
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, half of the "Antwerp-Baltimore Polyptych" c. 1400.
Antwerp, the other three scenes of the "Antwerp-Baltimore Polyptych"
Musée de Cluny, Paris, two bone and ivory relief triptychs by the leading Italian Embriachi workshop, donated by Duke Philip in 1393.
Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago), the figure from a gilded and painted wood crucifix by de Baerze and Broederlam.
Gallery
Later history
After the death in 1477 of Charles the Bold, Burgundy proper was recovered by force by France; the Kings, still descended from the Dukes via the Habsburgs and other routes, continued to support and occasionally visit the monastery. There was slight damage in the siege of Dijon in 1513 and in the French Wars of Religion, but essentially the monastery remained in its 15th-century state until it was decided to update it in the 1770s. The altarpieces of Saints Denis and George had been replaced by new paintings by Charles-André van Loo in 1741; both the new paintings are now in the Dijon museum. Remodelling in the 1770s involved the destruction of some medieval parts, but greater destruction followed the French Revolution. The monastery was suppressed in 1791, and on May 4, five days after the monks departed, the buildings and land were bought by Emmanuel Crétet (1747–1808), later to be Minister of the Interior under Napoleon with the title Comte de Champmol. He destroyed large parts of the buildings and the church. In 1833 the estate was bought by the local département as a mental asylum, and many new buildings erected.
Today the buildings house a psychiatric hospital, and "aller à la chartreuse" is a local phrase for developing a mental disorder. The Sluter sculptures can be seen by visitors, and many of the contents are in the Dijon museum, with the tombs and carved retables housed in the former Palace of the Dukes.
Notes
References
Dossier from the Dijon Museum (in French)
Gelfand, Laura D. (2005), in Sarah Blick, Rita Tekippe, eds.: Y Me Tarde in Art and architecture of late medieval pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles, 2005, BRILL,
Gelfand, Laura D.(1994); Fifteenth-century Netherlandish devotional diptychs; Origins and function, 1994, PhD dissertation, Case Western Reserve University.
Lindquist, Sherry C.M.; "Women in the Charterhouse" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=jLmFbEdqBDUC&pg=RA1-PA177&dq=Champmol#PRA1-PA177,M1 Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe], Ed. Helen Hills, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003,
Snyder, James; Northern Renaissance Art, 1985, Harry N. Abrams,
Vaughan, Richard; Philip the Bold, The Formation of the Burgundian State, Boydell Press, 2002,
White, John. Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250 to 1400, London, Penguin Books, 1966, 2nd edn 1987 (now Yale History of Art series).
Further reading
Bibliography from the Cleveland exhibition
Fliegel, Stephen N., et al. . Art from the Court of Burgundy: Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless, 1364–1419. Exhibition catalogue. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2004.
Lindquist, Sherry C.M. Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol, 2008, Ashgate,
Monget, Cyprien. La chartreuse de Dijon, 3 vols, Montreuil-sur-Mer, Tournai, 1898–1905
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Three Warrior starlets in Under-21 Six Nations clash
Warriors forwards Matt Cox and Matt Mullan and wing Alex Grove are all set to feature in the Under-21 Six Nations clash between England and Scotland at Bath's Recreation Ground on Friday (7.30pm).
All three have enjoyed impressive form in Sixways Academy and Guinness A League matches this season and will be bidding to make a big impact in the game, the night before the two senior sides run our at Twickenham.
Nigel Redman and assistant coach Mark Mapletoft have called up the cream of England's young talent for to the Under-20s squad with flanker Cox, 18, and prop Mullan, 19, both training alongside Brian Ashton's first team at the University of Bath this week.
Scotland Under-20 coach, Greig Oliver, has already named his starting line-up and Grove, 19, has been handed the number 11 shirt.
The four home nations, Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales, will field U20 teams in this year's U21 Six Nations Championship, whilst France and Italy will field U21 sides.
And Worcester Academy manager Andrew Stanley and assistant Gary Meechan are delighted that the Worcester trio have earned call-ups.
"We're delighted for the lads and we hope they have a great experience," said Stan. "It's good to see both Matt Mullan and Matt Cox in the sqaud and it reflects the kind of season they have had with us. They will now both be able to transfer that into England representative work.
"It makes it even better for us with Alex Grove selected to start for Scotland in the same game. To have three players from Worcester Warriors in a game of this nature is a real positive and reflects well on what we're doing here at Sixways."
England follow their opener against Scotland by playing Italy Under-21s, again at the Rec (February 9), Ireland Under-20s in Athlone (February 23), France Under-21s at Northampton (March 9) and Wales Under-20s at Newport (March 16).
Redman said: "I firmly believe that we are looking at the players who will be in contention for England in the 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cups.
"These guys are probably halfway through a 10-year development process and to test themselves against the best in Europe at their age group is something I am looking forward to watching.
"This tournament will pose a different set of problems for them. Some of these guys have broken into their club first teams and are playing Guinness Premiership and European rugby which is fantastic but I want to see how they get on having to make decisions without senior players around them."
Scotland coach Greig Oliver added: "The Under-21 Six Nations presents a great opportunity for these players and international rugby is what every player aspires to.
"There is no greater challenge than playing England, in England, and the coaching team is looking forward to seeing how the players react to such an intense and physical environment."
Tickets are still available for the Six Nations Under-21 clash between Scotland and England on Friday, February 2nd (kick-off 7.30pm) and England versus Italy at the same venue on Friday, February 9th (kick-off 8pm). Tickets start from as little as £8 for adults, £6 concessions and £4 for children. However, if you buy both games at the same time, you will get the Italy tickets for half price! Prices start from £12 for adults, £8 concessions and £6 for juniors for both matches. Tickets are available from the box office on 0871 721 1865. |
U.S. Plans to Shift Iraq Strategy, Deploy More Troops After ISIS Advances
The fall of Ramadi last month sparked calls for new strategy in the coalition campaign against ISIS, but on Monday during the G-7 summit in Germany, President Obama admitted, “We don’t yet have a complete strategy.” The line was just one word off from a gaffe Obama made in September, just before unveiling a four-point plan to “degrade and ultimately destroy”ISIS.
Naturally, Republican presidential contenders were quick to pounce. “If I were commander in chief, it would not take nine months to work with our military leaders to develop a complete strategy to destroy ISIS and protect American security interests and values,” said former Texas governor Rick Perry. His rivals were similarly vague on how they’d take out ISIS, but on Tuesday we got some specifics on the new strategy the Obama administration has been hammering out. While the plan has yet to be finalized, U.S. officials say President Obama is ready to send around 500 American troops to help train Iraqi forces to retakeRamadi.
The New York Timesreports that, for many months, some in the administration have argued that the initial focus of the campaign against ISIS should be retaking Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq. Others said that rather than making an ambitious push to recapture the northern city, they should be looking to Anbar Province in the west, which borders coalition partners Saudi Arabia and Jordan and is home to many of Iraq’s Sunnis. The debate was settled when ISIS took Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province, revealing that the coalition’s offensive has been less successful than U.S. officialssuggested.
As part of the revised plan, the U.S. military will probably establish a new base near Habbaniya, which is about 20 miles outside Ramadi. “We are looking at it closely,” a U.S. official told the Washington Post. “We need to firm up our presence out there. There’s been a debate about getting a site in the eastern part of Anbar for some time. Iraqis had asked for it. Ramadi forced the issue.” The 500 additional U.S. troops, who would join the roughly 3,000 already in Iraq, would use the base to train Iraqi forces and help them devise a counterattack againstISIS.
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Anbar Province is also a key region because it’s home to many Iraqi Sunnis, who are seen as essential to the fight against ISIS. Efforts to train Iraq’s military have fallen short of expectations, and the Shiite-led government’s failure to win over Iraq’s Sunni minority is a large part of the problem. President Obama has repeatedly emphasized that U.S. forces can’t win the fight for Iraq (or rather won’t, as he’s vowed that American troops won’t be sent into ground combat). At the G-7 summit Obama explained the strategy isn’t “complete” because Iraqis still need to work out the details on when and where training will take place. “One of the things that we’re seeing in Iraq is that we’ve got more training capacity than we have recruits,” Obama said. “A big part of the answer there is outreach to Sunni tribes,” he added, which “has not been happening as fast as it needs to.” About 8,000 Iraqis have been trained by U.S. forces so far, and according to the Times the strategy calls for recruiting and training another 3,000 Iraqi soldiers before attempting to retakeRamadi.
Critics say that still won’t be enough, and the U.S. should be sending in heavier artillery, and U.S. troops that can direct airstrikes, at the very least. “One has to wonder whether this president just wants to wait out the next year and a half and basically do nothing to stop this genocide, bloodletting, horrible things that are happening throughout the Middle East,” Senator John McCain said onMonday. |
using System.IO;
using NBitcoin;
namespace Stratis.Bitcoin
{
/// <summary>
/// TODO: These will move back to BlockSizeRule once has the rules has been migrated.
/// </summary>
public static class BlockExtensions
{
/// <summary>
/// Gets the block weight.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// This implements the <c>weight = (stripped_size * 4) + witness_size</c> formula, using only serialization with and without witness data.
/// As witness_size is equal to total_size - stripped_size, this formula is identical to: <c>weight = (stripped_size * 3) + total_size</c>.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="block">Block that we get weight of.</param>
/// <returns>Block weight.</returns>
public static long GetBlockWeight(this Block block, IConsensus consensus)
{
return block.GetSize(TransactionOptions.None, consensus.ConsensusFactory) * (consensus.Options.WitnessScaleFactor - 1) + block.GetSize(TransactionOptions.Witness, consensus.ConsensusFactory);
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets serialized size of <paramref name="data"/> in bytes.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="data">Data that we calculate serialized size of.</param>
/// <param name="options">Serialization options.</param>
/// <returns>Serialized size of <paramref name="data"/> in bytes.</returns>
public static int GetSize(this IBitcoinSerializable data, TransactionOptions options, ConsensusFactory consensusFactory)
{
var bms = new BitcoinStream(Stream.Null, true)
{
TransactionOptions = options,
ConsensusFactory = consensusFactory
};
data.ReadWrite(bms);
return (int)bms.Counter.WrittenBytes;
}
}
}
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to fixed ratio traction roller transmissions in which the contact forces applied to the traction surfaces which are in engagement with each other for the transmission of movement are dependent on the torque transmitted through the transmission.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Traction roller transmissions in which large contact forces are applied to prevent slippage of the rollers are described for example by Harold A. Rothbart in "Mechanical Design And Systems" Handbook, pages 14-8 and 14-9, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1964. In the relatively simple arrangements of FIGS. 14.6 and 14.7 wherein the outer rings are slightly undersized to compress the roller arrangements, the surface pressure on the traction surfaces is always the same; that is, it is always high independently of the torque transmitted through the transmission. Various transmission arrangements are also known in which the contact pressure of the traction surfaces is dependent on the size of the torque transmitted through the transmission, for example, as in those shown on page 14-8 of said handbook. A transmission of this type in which the forces with which the traction rollers are held in engagement with one another is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,610,060. A transmission which includes Belleville-type springs on the sun roller or the traction ring surrounding the planetary rollers is disclosed in the present inventor's earlier U.S. Pat. No. 4,215,595.
In such a traction roller transmission, a sun roller is supported by one of coaxial input and output shafts and traction rollers are disposed around the sun roller, while a traction ring structure surrounds, and is in contact with, the traction rollers. One or both of the traction ring and sun roller structures include a plurality of Belleville-type spring rings arranged between means for compressing the spring rings so as to cause engagement of the traction rollers with the sun roller and the traction ring structures. In an arrangement according to the present inventor's earlier application Ser. No. 281,983, the radial spring ring surfaces in engagement with the traction rollers are rounded to reduce wear of the roller surfaces.
Transmission of large torques however requires large contact forces which, with a relatively small contact area, results in relatively high wear. In addition, the Belleville springs' radial surfaces must be manufactured within very small tolerances. |
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<p>A 2D column vector with 3 elements.
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<p><code>#include <<a class="el" href="b2_math_8h_source.html">b2Math.h</a>></code></p>
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<tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Construct using coordinates. <br/></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Set this vector to some specified coordinates. <br/></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Subtract a vector from this vector. <br/></td></tr>
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Q:
Which Event call on Clear Shopping Cart Button Magento
I want to call event/observer when user click on "clear shopping cart button" which perform some action on database. i search a lot but didn't find any specific solution.
please anyone will give me the solution that Which event is calling on clear shopping cart button in magento?
A:
Try this event controller_action_predispatch_checkout_cart_updatePost.
And your config.xml file should be,
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Packagename_ModuleName>
<version>0.1.0</version>
</Packagename_ModuleName>
</modules>
<global>
<helpers>
<modulename>
<class>Packagename_ModuleName_Helper</class>
</modulename>
</helpers>
<models>
<modulename>
<class>Packagename_ModuleName_Model</class>
<resourceModel>modulename_mysql4</resourceModel>
</modulename>
</models>
<events>
<controller_action_predispatch_checkout_cart_updatePost> <!-- identifier of the event we want to catch -->
<observers>
<controller_action_predispatch_checkout_cart_updatePost_handler> <!-- identifier of the event handler -->
<type>singleton</type> <!-- class method call type; valid are model, object and singleton -->
<class>modulename/observer</class> <!-- observers class alias -->
<method>clearCart</method> <!-- observer's method to be called -->
<args></args> <!-- additional arguments passed to observer -->
</controller_action_predispatch_checkout_cart_updatePost_handler>
</observers>
</controller_action_predispatch_checkout_cart_updatePost>
</events>
</global>
</config>
And Model/Observer.php :
<?php
class Packagename_ModuleName_Model_Observer
{
public function clearCart(Varien_Event_Observer $observer)
{
//execute only in empty the cart function(all items removed )
$updateAction = (string)Mage::app()->getRequest()->getParam('update_cart_action'); if ($updateAction != 'empty_cart') return;
echo "got it"; exit;
//your stuffs goes here.
}
}
Note: It is not triggered when we clear single cart (product) item . I tested it in my localserver and it is working fine.
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<h1>ActivityManager</h1><h3>
The singleton manager of the Activity:s and rules of Cortex Command</h3><p>Has no parent class.</p><br/><h3>Property:</h3><h2>DefaultActivityType</h2><p>
The type name of the default activity to be loaded if nothing else is available.
The default activity type name.
</p><br/><h3>Property:</h3><h2>DefaultActivityName</h2><p>
The name of the default activity to be loaded if nothing else is available.
The default activity instance name.
</p><br/><h3>Function:</h3><h2>SetStartActivity</h2><p>
Sets a new activity to copy for next restart. You have to use
RestartActivity to get it going. Ownership IS transferred!</p><p><strong>Arguments:</strong><br />
The new activity to put into effect next time ResetActivity is called.</p><p><strong>Return value:</strong><br />
None.<br />
</p><br/><h3>Function:</h3><h2>GetStartActivity</h2><p>
Gets the activity set to use a copy of for next restart. Ownership is
NOT transferred!</p><p><strong>Arguments:</strong><br />
None.</p><p><strong>Return value:</strong><br />
The activity to put into effect next time ResetActivity is called. OINT!<br />
</p><br/><h3>Function:</h3><h2>GetActivity</h2><p>
Gets the current activity in effect. Won't be what has been set by
SetStartActivity unless RestartActivity has been called since.</p><p><strong>Arguments:</strong><br />
None.</p><p><strong>Return value:</strong><br />
The current Activity in effect. Will be 0 if no activity is going.<br />
</p><br/><h3>Function:</h3><h2>RestartActivity</h2><p>
Completely restarts whatever activity was last started.</p><p><strong>Arguments:</strong><br />
None.</p><p><strong>Return value:</strong><br />
An error return value signaling sucess or any particular failure.<br />
Anything below 0 is an error signal.<br />
</p><br/><h3>Function:</h3><h2>PauseActivity</h2><p>
Pauses and unpauses the game.</p><p><strong>Arguments:</strong><br />
Whether to pause the game or not.</p><p><strong>Return value:</strong><br />
None.<br />
</p><br/><h3>Function:</h3><h2>EndActivity</h2><p>
Forces the current game's end.</p><p><strong>Arguments:</strong><br />
None.</p><p><strong>Return value:</strong><br />
None.<br />
</p><br/><h3>Function:</h3><h2>ActivityRunning</h2><p>
Indicates whether the game is currently running or not (not editing, over or paused)</p><p><strong>Arguments:</strong><br />
None.</p><p><strong>Return value:</strong><br />
Whether the game is running or not.<br />
</p><br/><h3>Function:</h3><h2>ActivityPaused</h2><p>
Indicates whether the game is currently paused or not.</p><p><strong>Arguments:</strong><br />
None.</p><p><strong>Return value:</strong><br />
Whether the game is paused or not.<br />
</p> |
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#source: farcall-bl-none-function.s
#as:
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#objdump: -dr
#...
Disassembly of section .text:
.* <_start>:
1000: 94000004 bl 1010 <__bar_veneer>
1004: d65f03c0 ret
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100c: d503201f nop
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...
Disassembly of section .foo:
.* <bar>:
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Right on schedule, Rick Santorum is getting a push in Iowa amongst people who probably don’t know how to use the googles anyway. . . . It’s important to remember that while Iowa wingnuts are wingnutty in all the usual ways, they prioritize “bitches ain’t sh-t” way more than the Republican voters do in other states, and so Santorum’s puppy dog-like excitement for portraying women as life support systems for uteruses and nothing more will probalby [sic] help him in Iowa. It’s the main reason that Huckabee — who was less noisy in his opposition to contraception than Santorum, but who still was perceived as the most gleefully misogynist Republican contender last time around — won the caucus. Perhaps next cycle, we’ll see a candidate who has supported legislation to paint scarlet letters on sexually active women’s clothes pull ahead in Iowa.
I just don’t see why there’s so much fuss over Iowa. . . . whoever wins Iowa doesn’t really matter, does it? . . . Iowa is just a many month battle for Republicans to compete for the title of Who Hates Women the Most. . . . If you’re really mired, as the Iowa Republicans are, in the notion that any use of the vagina for anything other than pushing out babies is seriously wrong and needs to be punished severely, you’d think that Bachmann’s willingness to go there . . . would do it for you. But maybe anxieties about voting for a woman are drowning that out.
Point is, a little ritualistic fealty to the gods of f–king over the ladies, while disgusting, doesn’t seem to have that much of an impact on who eventually gets the nomination.
Perhaps, as Ms. Marcotte suggests, Iowa Republicans are too stupid to use Google, in which case I’ll helpfully remind you exactly who she is:
In January 2007, Ms. Marcotte was hired as “blogmaster” for the John Edwards presidential campaign;
As soon as her hiring became public knowledge, Ms. Marcotte’s long history of hateful epithet-strewn extremist rants — against Republicans, against “misogyny,” against religion, etc. — became a subject of controversy;
In response to the controversy, Ms. Marcotte attempted to cover-up her history by deleting some of her past rants at her blog Pandagon; but
Among the most notorious of Ms. Marcotte’s rants was a Pandagon post from Jan. 21, 2007, concerning the “rape” hoax prosecution of the Duke University lacrosse team, in which she wrote:
Naturally, my flight out of Atlanta has been delayed. Let’s hope it takes off when they say it will so I don’t miss my connecting flight home.
In the meantime, I’ve been sort of casually listening to CNN blaring throught the waiting area and good f–king god is that channel pure evil. I had to listen how the poor dear lacrosse players at Duke are being persecuted just because they held somone down and f–ked her against her will — not rape, of course, because the charges have been thrown out. Can’t a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all would up about it? So unfair.
As was eventually demonstrated, of course, the Duke players had been falsely accused by a habitual criminal who had become angry after a dispute over payment for her services as a stripper. Despite a lack of real evidence against the players, they were prosecuted by a Democrat district attorney who was concerned about his re-election. The prosecutor was subsequently disbarred and the Duke players were exonerated.
Ms. Marcotte’s grossly unfair and inflammatory post about the Duke case was only one of countless such unhinged rants she’d posted at Pandagon. She seems incapable of writing two consecutive sentences without “f–k” or “sh-t,” despises Christianity and its adherents — “Godbags,” as she calls them — and views all opposition to abortion as motivated by “misogyny.”
These habits make her extremely popular with the progressive Left, which was why Edwards hired her along with another feminist blogger, Melissa McEwan. But Ms. Marcotte’s anti-religious diatribes included such items as this:
Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.
Even Iowa Republicans — whom Ms. Marcotte says are too stupid to use Google — would not be surprised that this blasphemy was considered outrageous by William Donohue of the Catholic League:
The head of a conservative Catholic group is demanding that former Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, fire two of his campaign bloggers, charging that they are “anti-Catholic, vulgar, trash talking bigots.” . . .
The Catholic League president said the language is “incendiary, it’s inflammatory. It’s scurrilous and has no place being part of someone’s resume who’s going to work for a potential presidential contender.”In a statement released by the Catholic League, Donohue laid the blame at the bloggers’ feet. “John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic vulgar, trash-talking bigots,” he said. “He has no choice but to fire them immediately.”
A prominent Catholic Democrat, New York attorney Brian O’Dwyer, also demanded that Marcotte be fired:
“The blogger’s continuing hostility to Catholics and other Christians, especially in the centrality of the Virgin birth, is both morally wrong and, for Senator Edwards, politically stupid. Senator Edwards was horribly flawed in refusing to see the importance of how offensive the blogger’s earlier comments were to people of faith. This latest so-called review, published after Edwards refused to fire her for earlier anti-Catholic writings, should now wake him up and lead him to finally do the right thing as his campaign tries to move forward. Bigotry of any kind should have no role in the Democratic Party, or in any presidential campaign.”
Within a week both Ms. Marcotte and Ms. McEwan were compelled to resign, a decision that Ms. Marcotte specifically blamed on Donohue and the Catholic League:
Unfortunately, Bill Donohue and his calvacade of right wing shills don’t respect that a mere woman like me could be hired for my skills . . . Bill Donohue — anti-Semite, right wing lackey whose entire job is to create non-controversies in order to derail liberal politics — has been running a scorched earth campaign to get me fired for my personal beliefs and my writings on this blog.
In fact, he’s made no bones about the fact that his intent is to “silence” me, as if he — a perfect stranger — should have a right to curtail my freedom of speech. Why? Because I’m a woman? Because I’m pro-choice? Because I’m not religious? All of the above, it seems.
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Amanda Marcotte: Perhaps the most consistently nasty, bitter person on the internet. Still. How she has a following of any sort is beyond me.
http://zillablog.marezilla.com Zilla of the Resistance
Uck. She’s just horrible! If I weren’t already a Rick Santorum supporter, seeing her vitriol against him would make me join his team just to spite her. What a miserable, hateful, bigoted, BITCH. I bet she’s ugly too; her words certainly are.
jwallin
Her “following” has a tendency to plaid work shirts, jeans and Birkenstocks. No lipstick, makeup, hair style (other than the Moe Bowl that she sports) and no dates with a man in this century.
Sort of the myrmidons of the feminist movement.
Were their wombs delved (horrible as that is to contemplate), only dust would be found.
http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple
Guys like Van der Plaantz come along then and empower women like Marcotte, with his encouraging a consistent conservative woman like Michelle Bachmann to drop out of the race to benefit Santorum, even though she has consistently polled higher than Santorum in almost every poll, often by as high as three or four percentage points.
Yet, Bachmann is every bit as conservative as Santorum, and when you look at all her positions on balance, she’s probably even more conservative than Santorum. So what was this guy’s reasoning? It had to be because Bachmann is a woman, one who unfortunately by his reckoning should stay in her place.
Then he triples down on the stupid on Cavuto’s show by admitting he did it, but denying it. Yeah, he did it, but he didn’t do it. Or maybe he didn’t mean it, they were just talking. You know, like maybe she should just think about dropping out. No that he insists and stuff. But she’s welcome to stay in the race if that’s what she really wants. If she thinks its the right thing to do and all that.
So when women like Marcotte put down Iowa Christians you can thank this guy for giving her that opening. You can be sure she isn’t going to point to the numerous conservative Christian, evangelical pastors who have supported Bachmann, including the ones who have stressed that she is “Biblically qualified” (whatever the fuck that means) to be President.
SDN
That’s quite an endorsement for Santorum… and I mean that sincerely. “My worth is known by my enemies’ strength, as much as strength of friends!”
Santorum could take this and run with it — he should in fact. The feminist movement has completely beclowned itself; come on Rick, point it out and show that there is a better way.
Yeah, at this point I’m throwing in with Santorum. God knows he isn’t perfect, but compared to the alternatives he’s looking not so bad right now.
Tennwriter
I’ve thought that some wildeyed hacks could not attack someone any further….after someone accuses you of being life-hating, ignorant Nazi for suggesting one percent cuts…why not add a zero…they can’t be any meaner.
As to not using Google, of course not. Freddie, my cold fusion powered. gold spiderbot is controlled by an AI that does my searches for me, in my evil lair..when its not dusting my half-dozen Nobel Prize statuettes.
http://twitter.com/ThatChristyChic Christy Waters
Clearly the woman is deranged… as most feminists are. Merry Christmas to Rick Santorum!
As an aside, I love the way feminists want the govt to stay out of their uterus, but since most of them support Obamacare, they have no problem with the govt controlling the rest of their body. |
Modric happy after Madrid move
Luka Modric declared he had joined the greatest club in the world after completing his £33million move from Tottenham to Real Madrid.
The Croatia playmaker agreed a five-year contract with the Spanish champions, admitting he was determined to leave White Hart Lane as soon as he became aware of Real's interest.
"I chose the Spanish league because it's one of the best leagues in the world," he said. "And I chose Madrid because they are the best club in the world. They've won so many things, so many titles. It's amazing for me to be here." |
// Copyright (c) Stride contributors (https://stride3d.net) and Silicon Studio Corp. (https://www.siliconstudio.co.jp)
// Distributed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE.md file in the project root for more information.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Stride.Core;
using Stride.Core.Mathematics;
using Stride.Core.Serialization;
using Stride.Engine;
using Stride.Physics;
namespace Gameplay
{
public class SceneStreaming : SyncScript
{
private Task<Scene> loadingTask;
private CancellationTokenSource loadCancellation;
/// <summary>
/// The loaded scene
/// </summary>
[DataMemberIgnore]
public Scene Instance { get; private set; }
/// <summary>
/// The url of the scene to load
/// </summary>
public UrlReference<Scene> Url { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// The trigger volume. This should be a static collider, set to be a trigger
/// </summary>
public PhysicsComponent Trigger { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// The distance a collider has to enter the trigger before the scene starts loading asynchronously
/// </summary>
[DefaultValue(0.25f)]
public float PreLoadDepth { get; set; } = 0.25f;
/// <summary>
/// The distance a collider has to enter the trigger before the scene starts loading synchronously
/// </summary>
[DefaultValue(0.5f)]
public float LoadDepth { get; set; } = 0.5f;
public override void Update()
{
if (Trigger == null)
return;
bool shouldLoad = false;
bool shouldPreLoad = false;
bool shouldUnload = true;
foreach (var collision in Trigger.Collisions)
{
// Check all colliders that can collide with the trigger volume
if ((collision.ColliderA.CanCollideWith & (CollisionFilterGroupFlags)collision.ColliderB.CollisionGroup) == 0 ||
(collision.ColliderB.CanCollideWith & (CollisionFilterGroupFlags)collision.ColliderA.CollisionGroup) == 0)
continue;
foreach (var contact in collision.Contacts)
{
// Are there any contacts that are deep enough for synchronous loading?
if (contact.Distance < -LoadDepth)
{
shouldLoad = true;
shouldUnload = false;
break;
}
// Otherwise, are there any contacts that are deep enough for asynchronous loading?
if (contact.Distance < -PreLoadDepth)
{
shouldPreLoad = true;
shouldUnload = false;
}
else if (contact.Distance < 0.0f)
{
// Are there any contacts at all?
shouldUnload = false;
}
}
if (shouldLoad)
break;
}
if (!shouldUnload)
{
// Loading is already in progress, or even finished
if (loadingTask == null)
{
if (shouldLoad)
{
// If we should load syncrhonously, just create a completed task and load
Instance = Content.Load(Url);
loadingTask = Task.FromResult(Instance);
}
else if (shouldPreLoad)
{
loadCancellation = new CancellationTokenSource();
var localLoadingTask = loadingTask = Content.LoadAsync(Url);
Script.AddTask(async () =>
{
await loadingTask;
// Immediately unload if unload or sync load was triggered in the meantime
if (loadCancellation.IsCancellationRequested || loadingTask != localLoadingTask)
{
Content.Unload(localLoadingTask.Result);
loadCancellation = null;
// Unloading was triggered
if (loadingTask == localLoadingTask)
loadingTask = null;
}
else
{
Instance = loadingTask.Result;
}
});
}
}
// Once loaded, add it to the scene
if (Instance != null)
{
Instance.Parent = Entity.Scene;
}
}
else
{
// Cancel loading if currently in progress, and reset state
loadCancellation?.Cancel();
loadCancellation = null;
loadingTask = null;
// Unload if already finished
if (Instance != null)
{
Content.Unload(Instance);
// If we were the last user, detach. Ideally scripts should cooperate differently
if (!Content.IsLoaded(Url))
{
Instance.Parent = null;
}
Instance = null;
}
}
}
}
}
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@STRING{pub-IEEE = "IEEE Computer Society"}
@STRING{pub-IEEE:adr = "345 E. 47th St, New York, NY 10017, USA"}
@BOOK{IEEE1275,
key = "IEEE1275",
title = "{IEEE} {S}tandard for {B}oot ({I}nitialization {C}onfiguration) {F}irmware: {C}ore {R}equirements and {P}ractices",
publisher = pub-IEEE,
address = pub-IEEE:adr,
series = "IEEE Std 1275-1994",
year = 1994,
}
@BOOK{IEEE1275-pci,
key = "IEEE1275-pci",
title = "{PCI} {B}us {B}inding to: {IEEE} {S}td 1275-1994 {S}tandard for {B}oot ({I}nitialization {C}onfiguration) {F}irmware",
publisher = pub-IEEE,
address = pub-IEEE:adr,
note = "Revision 2.1",
year = 1998,
}
@MISC{noof1,
author = "Benjamin Herrenschmidt",
title = "Booting the {L}inux/ppc kernel without {O}pen {F}irmware",
month = may,
year = 2005,
note = "v0.1, \url{http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc64-dev/2005-May/004073.html}",
}
@MISC{noof5,
author = "Benjamin Herrenschmidt",
title = "Booting the {L}inux/ppc kernel without {O}pen {F}irmware",
month = nov,
year = 2005,
note = "v0.5, \url{http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc64-dev/2005-December/006994.html}",
}
@MISC{dtcgit,
author = "David Gibson et al.",
title = "\dtc{}",
howpublished = "git tree",
note = "\url{http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/dtc/dtc.git}",
}
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Q:
Vuejs component with html attribute
I am using single file components and I am wondering if something like this is possible:
<my-component param1='comp1'></my-component>
<my-component param1='comp2'></my-component>
<my-component param1='comp3'></my-component>
So when later methods for component my-component are called, each component can read param1 attribute. Is this possible with vuejs?
Just to clarify things little bit more:
I am writing component for table pagination - everything is cool, except for the case when there are several tables on the same page. In that case I would also need several pagination components. So I need a method which will connect table and pagination component through table id.
Something like this:
<table id="tbl1"></table>
<pagination-comp tblid="tbl1"></pagination-comp>
<table id="tbl2"></table>
<pagination-comp tblid="tbl2"></pagination-comp>
A:
This exactly what props did. Please follow this guide.
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The present specification refers to a patent invention relating to a method for obtaining a traumatological plastering with damp-proof and hard wearing properties, the evident purpose of which is to allow a traumatologic plastering to be obtained from the achievement of its method.
1. Field of the Invention
The application of this invention is found in the industry devoted to medicine and similar.
2. Related Art
The gypsum or hydrated calcium sulfate is the most common of sulfates, stemming above all from the seawater evaporation, its crystals adopting varied shapes.
Plaster is a fine gypsum obtained by cooking crude gypsum at a temperature of 120.degree. C.
The use of gypsum and plaster is a very utilized method for immobilizing body segments showing bony injuries, specially fractures.
Although it is known the existence of this very old use of this therapeutic method, it is only, nevertheless, from 1830 that the present plastering method is used, which is constituted by a bandage on which a smooth layer of gypsum or plaster is spread.
Plasterings are made on the basis of very varied methods, the most usual method being a circular bandage with plastered strips after being dipped in warm water.
Some bandages are wrapped in a rapid sequence around the corporal segment to be immobilized, after being modeled.
After a lapse of a few minutes the gypsum "sets" and becomes stiff.
The gypsum remains in situ for a period of 20 through 40 days, even more, in accordance with the orthopaedic requirements, until an osseous corn is formed at the level of the fracture. Lastly, the gypsum is removed by an adequate method.
Different methods of therapeutic plastering have introduced slight differences with regard to the described general method.
In any case, all the known methods have as a negative common denominator the fact that they do not withstand a continuous contact with water, since gypsum and plaster proceeding originally from evaporation and dehydration when in contact with water lose essentially one of their main characteristics and advantages, such as their consistence and hardness, so that the present traumatologic plasterings cannot contact the water at all.
Comparably, other negative characteristic of these traumatologic plasterings observed in the state of the art is their limited shock resistance, given that they can totally or partially break with a relative easiness.
An evident solution to the present problems in this matter would be to rely on a plastering resolving both negative characteristics, obtaining, on the contrary, a traumatologic plastering having damp-proof and hard-wearing properties.
Nevertheless, until now, nothing is known on the existence of a plastering having characteristics which could be denominated as suitable. |
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Criança de 2 anos morre após ser atingida por bala perdida na Zona Norte do Rio
Menina brincava na parte externa de uma lanchonete quando policiais e criminosos passaram trocando tiros na noite de sábado (21). |
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Fuel poverty in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom fuel poverty is said to occur when, in order to heat its home to an adequate standard of warmth, a household needs to spend more than 10% of its income on total fuel use. Adequate warmth is generally defined to be in the main living room and in other occupied rooms during daytime hours, with lower temperatures at night, following the recommendations of the World Health Organization. Fuel poverty is not just about access to heating as the definition of fuel is taken to include all expenditure on domestic energy, including that used for hot water, cooling, lights and appliances. This definition is essentially that first established by Dr Brenda Boardman in her book entitled Fuel Poverty, first published in 1991, although fuel poverty has been the focus of political action since the early 1970s .
Other definitions
There are, however, a variety of different ways of considering household income when measuring fuel poverty. The UK definition does not, for example, take account of the amount that a household actually spends on fuel, nor the amount available for the household to spend on fuel after other costs have been met.
The UK Government’s preferred definition of household income includes income from housing-related benefits in the calculation of household income. Other estimates of the extent of fuel poverty exclude benefits from household income. The charity National Energy Action (NEA) regards both these definitions as unacceptable and believes that disposable income (after the deduction of housing costs) should be used in the definition of fuel poverty.
On 14 March 2011, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change announced he had asked Professor John Hills of the London School of Economics to lead a review of the fuel poverty definition and target. The interim report of this independent review was published on 19 October 2011. On page 19 of the interim report, Hill suggests redefining a fuel poor household as one that has required fuel costs that are above the median level, and were they to spend that amount, would be left with a residual income below the official poverty line. No official action has yet been taken on this suggestion.
Households in fuel poverty
In early 2008 it was estimated by Energywatch that there were around 4.4 million households in fuel poverty in the UK, with just over 3 million in England alone. This was more than double the number in 2003.
2008 saw significant price increases of approximately 45% by energy companies on gas and electric. In early 2009 the companies declared they were to drop their prices, but only a 10% reduction was seen across the board and this did not happen, with the exception of British Gas, until March 31, once the worst of the winter was over. Research from NEA showed that as of March 2009 over 5 million households across the UK were living in fuel poverty.
In April 2011 a YouGov survey indicated that the number of households in fuel poverty had risen to 6.3 million households, representing approximately 24% of all households in the UK.
The UK Government's 2015 Fuel Poverty Report showed that 4.5 million households, or 17% of UK households, were in fuel poverty.
Excess winter deaths
Excess winter deaths are defined by the Office for National Statistics as the difference between the number of deaths during the four winter months (December to March) and the average number of deaths during the preceding autumn (August to November) and the following summer (April to July).
Although the phenomenon of excess winter deaths is not unique to the United Kingdom, the incidence is markedly higher than for countries with similar climates and living standards. England has an 18% rise in deaths during the winter, on average, whereas Finland has a 10% increase, Germany and the Netherlands have 11%.
Since 2000, excess winter deaths in England and Wales remained generally at around 25,000. For the period of 2007-2008 the number of excess winter deaths was 27,480 of which the Hill report estimated that around 10% were caused directly by fuel poverty. The winter of 2008-2009 was the coldest in 10 years, and the Office for National Statistics estimated there were a total of 36,700, an increase of 49% over the previous year, which represents a 23.8% rise in deaths during the winter. Lower totals in subsequent years were followed by a rise back to 31,100 excess deaths in the winter of 2012-2013, of whom 25,600 were aged 75 or older, resulting in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government being criticised for not exercising tighter control over UK energy companies.
Deaths from hypothermia among UK pensioners almost doubled during the five years up to 2012, a time when several cold winters combined with large-scale increases in energy prices.
The number of pensioners dying from hypothermia has nearly doubled in five years, a period when a succession of cold winters has been coupled with drastic rises in energy bills. Exposure to the cold does affect the number of winter deaths‚ but deaths from other cold related causes are very much more common than it is for the cold to kill people directly. In the main these deaths are from respiratory or cardio-vascular ailments. Overall deaths are from heart attacks‚ strokes‚ bronchial and other conditions‚ and may often occur several days after exposure to the cold. Spending too long in the cold will lower the body temperature which can often aggravate circulatory diseases‚ which can lead to strokes and heart attacks or respiratory illnesses such as bronchitis or pneumonia.
Under the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 the Government is obliged to report annual progress in cutting the number of households in which one or more persons are living in fuel poverty.
Action programmes
The UK's main programme targeting fuel poverty is the Energy Company Obligation.
The Home Heat Helpline - 0800 33 66 99 - can provide assistance to the following vulnerable groups:
Advice on social tariffs – typically a 20% saving
Access to the Priority Service Register, with free annual gas appliance safety checks, passwords for official gas and electricity-related callers. Third party, Braille, large print and talking billing
Grants for free home insulation regardless of who owns the property and no means testing for the over 70s. Absolute right for them to receive free cavity wall and loft insulation or free top-ups to modern standards. Same help to all households in receipt of Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance or Employment and Support Allowance (Incapacity Benefit) Single Parent Allowance or households with young children with an annual income of less than £14,600.
Flexible payment options for customers in fuel debt
A disconnection safety net, ensuring no vulnerable customer will be knowingly disconnected
The Home Heat Helpline also recognises that those most in need of help are often those least able to access it so the helpline now accepts third party applications.
Parliamentary Inquiry
The UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change recently launched an inquiry on home energy efficiency in September 2015.
See also
Poverty
Poverty in the United Kingdom
Energy in the United Kingdom
Energy efficiency in British housing
Committee on Fuel Poverty
References
External links
Chapter 1 the causes and effects of fuel poverty, The UK Fuel Poverty Strategy (2001), DTI
National Energy Action: Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency
Home Heat Helpline
In the media
Petrol Credits
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Category:Energy in the United Kingdom
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President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, has approved the appointment of Mr. Mohammed D. Abubakar as Acting Inspector General of Police as a first step towards the comprehensive reorganization and repositioning of the Nigeria Police Force to make it more effective and capable of meeting emerging internal security challenges.
Mr. Abubakar who is currently an Assistant Inspector General of Police replaces Mr. Hafiz Ringim who proceeds on terminal leave with effect from today, 25th January 2012.
Born on May 5, 1958, Mr. Abubakar enlisted in the Nigeria Police Force on July 30, 1979. He was the AIG in charge of Zone 12 Headquarters in Bauchi, before his new appointment.
In a statement by Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity), the President also approved the retirement of all Deputy Inspectors General of Police with immediate effect. These are:
* Mrs. Ivy Uche Okoronkwo, DIG POL 2i/c Force Headquarters, Abuja,
* Mr. Azubuko J. Udah,DIG Administration(“A”Dept),
* Mr. Sardauna Abubukar, DIG Training (“E” Dept.);
* Mr. Audu Abubakar, DIG Operations (“B” Dept);
* Mr. Saleh Abubakar, DIG Works (“C” Dept.) and
* Mr. Mohammed A. Yesufu, DIG Planning and Info-Tech (“F”Dept.)
According to the statement, the President also established a Special Committee to oversee the urgent reorganization of the Nigeria Police Force.
The committee is to be chaired by the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mr. Parry B.O Osayande, DIG (rtd).
Other Members of the Committee are:
1.Mr Casimir T. Akagbosu, AIG(rtd), mni
2. Mr. Bashir A. Albasu, AIG (rtd.), fwc.
3. Major Gen. S.N. Chikwe, rtd.
4. Prof. S.D. Mukoro
5. Dr. Fabian Ajogwu, SAN
6. Aisha Larai Tukur
7. Solicitor General of the Federation
8. Permanent Secretary, SSO, Office of the SGF to serve as the Secretary to the Committee.
The statement further listed the committee’s terms of reference as follows:
1. To identify the challenges and factors militating against effective performance in the Nigeria Police Force and make recommendations for addressing the challenges.
2. To examine the scope and standard of training and other personnel development activities in the Police to determine their adequacy or otherwise.
3. To determine the general and specific causes of the collapse of public confidence in the police and recommend ways of restoring public trust in the institution.
4. To examine records of performance of Officers and Men of the Nigeria Police Force with a view to identifying those that can no longer fit into the system due to declining productivity, age, indiscipline, corruption and/or disloyalty;
5. To make any other recommendations for the
improvement of the Nigeria Police Force.
The statement added that the Committee’s recommendations shall be implemented along with those by previous committees set up by Government on the reform of the Nigeria Police Force.
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GENTLEMEN, ever since this bit of news broke, we have heard that a platoon-equivalent of cops was on ground when this twist developed. In that case, was the man allowed to escape or what because there could not have been more than 20 insurgents attacking? This is
straightforward madness coming from Police quarters.
IF they were surrounded, I am sure that a well-placed RPG shot would have wrecked the escape attempt. A helicopter? The idea was about taking the man to his house so that the place could be searched for incriminating stuff. He would have climbed out of the chopper at some point.
The seeming level of rot in the police beggars belief. Was this man allowed to get away? We have yet to receive reports of a gunbattle at the scene, so what happened? Were they ambushed? Who tipped off the ambush party in what ought to be a high security and classified operation?
More questions. Perhaps the Police need to be placed under a Sole Administrator for all of 2012 while the place gets cleaned up.
OPTION A – Parry Osayande (the Anini buster), a no-nonsense crack cop who is a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police and the incumbent Chairman of the Police Service Commission.
OPTION B – Major General Sarkin-Yaki Bello, Presidential Assistant on Counterterrorism takes on the added mantle of Sole Administrator of the Nigeria Police Force for the whole of 2012.
That institution needs to be knocked back into a state of sobriety and iron discipline instilled from top to bottom. Nothing extraordinary about that. There is a Nigerian precedent to be followed.
In the mid-1990s when corruption and inefficiency practically brought the operations of the Nigeria Customs Service to a halt, the Federal Military Government placed the Customs Service under a Sole Administator in the person of a Zuru (Kebbi State) native, Brigadier General Samuel Ango.
Elsewhere in Africa, Kale Kayihura, an army officer who got promoted to the rank of Lt General last week, is the IGP in Uganda and has been saddled with that job for a few years now.
Why are our police so damn unruly? The Army captured and handed over Mohammed Yusuf to them and he was extrajudicially executed at pointblank range – riddled with bullets. There is a very disturbing video on the internet showing a cop, baseball cap turned to the back like a true deviant, shooting at unarmed civilians who had been made to lie with their faces to the ground in the manner of a hunter shooting at guinea fowls in the savanna. That was 2009.
Years later, they sent them to Potiskum, some got killed inside a beer parlour. Now they have a prime target and they just let him out of their grasp – just like that?
Please..PLEASE is this not why Nigerians have overwhelmingly refused to believe that the police is your friend –accidental discharge on account of twenty naira,bribery, corruption, complicity in crimes and extrajudicial killings with impunity by trigger-happy cops everywhere?
All of that is proving to be an obstacle to intelligence gathering as the people are seemingly estranged from the police and are wary of the informant suddenly becoming the suspect or getting sold out to the adversary.
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Thank you FG for listening to us. We are poised to raise our game by a notch – trust us. Thank you Beegeagle’s Bloggers for keeping us at the top – XNur, Doziex, Peccavi, Jimmy, Henry, Tobey, Yagazie, Ken, Gbash, SBM, Ryan, Ocelot2006, Tope – solid gold. Let us continue doing what we do
Thank you Mr Beegeagle for providing this medium in which issues of national and international hot topics are being discussed and analysed vividly. The appointment of Mr Muhammed Dikko Abubaka as the acting IGP by president GEJ is a very good development,I hope this new man will not be as incompetent as his predecessor.Lets keep our fingers cross.
Mr MD Abubakar appears to have a knack for instilling discipline in his men. Let me cite one example.
Pre-2008, wailing sirens where a REAL nuisance on the streets of Lagos – police vans and escort cars, ordinary drivers abusing the privilege of driving escort vehicles, bullion vans and all manner of unimportant people like me felt the need to affront our sensibilities with wailing sirens. NOBODY in Lagos believed that any law or enforcer could successfully check this major menace in the massive metropolis.
So the Lagos State Government of Governor Babatunde Fashola who does not use sirens himself, decreed that the use of sirens was outlawed in Lagos. Not even bullion vans were to use them and any defaulters were to be arrested.
At the time, MD Abubakar was the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Lagos State Police Command. God knows how he did it but the sirens FELL silent across the length and breadth of the urban sprawl that is Lagos. It was VERY EFFECTIVELY enforced.
Not long after that, Abubakar was promoted to the next rank – Assistant Inspector General of Police and assigned to Zone II Command under which you have the Lagos and Ogun States Police Commands.
It was from Lagos that he was posted to a Zonal Command upcountry. That was what I saw of his time in charge of the Lagos State Police Command as Commissioner of Police and as AIG in charge of Zone 2.
I wish him goodluck and given his antecdents, I imagine that he could turn out to be a good fit, aided by Parry Osayande, a true old cowboy and sheriff rolled into one.
Old school discipline could be on the cards. It would be a monumental task but Osayande (who ended the menace of Lawrence Anini, Nigeria’s elusive Robin Hood wannabe in 1986) and MD Abubakar are not people to shy away from monumental challenges.
We shall be watching and commenting. That is our job. So we say “bon chance”
WOW MR BEEAGLE THIS IS ACTUALLY VERY SCARY they (F.G.) actually are listening to our recommmendations does it mean that they really have the best interest of Nigeria at heart? I can actually see some variations of the recommendations based on some of the things we have earnestly recommended on this blog.
WE (MR BEEGAGLE, DOZIEX, PECCAVI, XNUR AND THE REST) REALLY TAKE OUR JOB VERY SERIOUS, WE want what is the (BEST)x2 FOR NIGERIA we hope if they are truly listening this commitee must have bark/ bite AND TOUGHNESS it should not be A WITCHHUNT but A WATCHDOG that truly has the backing of the PRESIDENT and should not be allowed to report to ANYONE EXCEPT THE PRESIDENT THROUGH THE NSA (AZAZI) AND THE KEY WORD IS THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET BOGGED DOWN
This is great news. In the past, my hope was for some top official or their relative to stumble across this blog. Beeg, has assured us a number of times that some big wigs are taking note. This is most promising.
While some of us are nigerians with experience in foreign military establishments, others are keen observers of security/military related situations world over. Years of observing the application of the best military trends confers some expertise on the subject matter. This is then compared and contrasted with trends,events and perceived doctrine in the nigerian armed forces.
Hence, the resultant opinions whether in form of rants or a composed plea, should not be taken with a grain of salt.
@Hassan Adamu, has raised an issue of critical importance. Are police personel still collecting bribes at check points in cities under a state of emmergency ??
WOW !! talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I hope this Osayande/ Abubaker team can deal with this issue.
If we in nigeria pauperize our police, we will get pauperized security. ( no magic here )
However, in addition to fair salaries and welfare packages, a zero tolerance policy should be enforced from top to bottom against bribery and extortion.
This should be enforced with numerous, random STING OPERATIONS.
Muhammmed Dikko ABUBAKAR,
Assistant Inspector General of Police, joined the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, as a Cadet Inspector on August 1,1979. An indigene of Zamfara State, he has meritoriously served the Force and his country in many capacities.
He is a principled and operations-minded officer with deep understanding of modern policing strategies and ethics. A committed crime fighter with keen eyes for details, he has also served as Deputy Commissioner of Police(Administration), Lagos State Police Command.
On his elevation to the position of Commissioner of Police, he served as a substantive Commissioner of Police in charge of several Police Commands across the Federation. Some of these are Plateau, Abia, Kwara, Kano, Airport and Lagos State Police Commands.
An amiable and intelligent officer, he was later promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police and he subsequently became the
Assistant Inspector General of Police in- charge of Zone 2 comprising Lagos and Ogun States. He was also the AIG Zone 5, Benin comprising of Edo, Delta, and Bayelsa states. He was later posted to Zone 6 comprising Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Ebonyi states. He is currently AIG in charge of Zone 12 Bauchi State. He is a detribalized Nigerian.
Born May 5th, 1960, he is happily married with children. MD as he is popularly called, is a member of the prestigious National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). He has undergone several professional training locally and internationally; some of which include:
*Intermediate Command Course –Jos;
*Senior Command Course – Jos;
*General Detective Course –Metropolitan Police, West Hendon, England;
*General Security Course – Israel;
*General Security Course – FBI, USA;
*International Security-England
*General Detective Course – Scotland Yard.
*He is an active member of International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Economics (FCE) and a holder of the prestigious Police Medal (NPM).
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have found some evidence that we here in beegeagle’s blog have an ally in the senate as concerning defense spending.
Go to youtube and search NNS Thunder, in one of the clips listed, senator chris Anyanwu ( a lady ) is making the point that the just under 6 billion dollar defense bill is TOO SMALL.
In her capacity as the senate committe chairman on navy affairs, she was at the christening of NNS Thunder. She argues that the 6 billion encompasses SSS, Police, the armed forces and our entire security infrastructure.
While we here are elated, because half a loaf of bread is better than none, it is encouraging to have proof that someone in the senate is articulately fighting for MORE DEFENSE SPENDING.
Hi peeps….ok..its good to know that the “almighty” FG listens to us. Let me use this opportunity to make a few suggestions on the NPF.
I have painstakingly used my time to befriend several policemen of different Ranks…especially the rank and file. I noticed something disturbing. The average policeman’s iq is very low. Most of them don’t even know a thing about policing. They don’t know a thing about Psychology or even general knowledge of the country. Most of them on duty, especially at checkpoints are not focused on their job…i believe i and a couple of handpicked guys can disposes them of their rifles at this checkpoint without firing a shot…they sole aim at checkpoints is to collect bribes.. don’t believe me…take a ride through the various checkpoint across Nigeria and see for yourself. These are just a few thing i observed.
My Recomendation:
1) Increase the minimum entry level into the NPF to OND. Only people with OND or its equivalent would be recruited into the Rank and File. There are over 300,000 Nigerian youths who can fill those positions and these would provide intelligent personnel for the rank and file
2) Make the NPF more attractive and lucrative so that it would attract brilliant Nigerian graduates and not drop outs and riff raffs. These graduates can come from any field..Psychology, Sociology, Engineering etc. These can provide an employment boom to the FG and equally serve in providing first rate personnel for the NPF. There are millions of unemployed graduates who can fill these role
3) In order to make the NPF attaractive, the FG can assist them in providing good uniforms(boots, belts, shirts and trouser etc), Kevlar jackets, 2 way radio system, for the force. The maintenance section should be overhauled so as to provide maintenance services for cars, trucks and comms equipment’s. Here Engineers can come in handy. I see nothing stopping a state of the art hospital for the NPF which would employ Doctors and Nurses.
4) An office of internal affairs should be set-up to overlook the Police. Their duties would be to monitor the policemen for corruption and extra judicial killins etc
5) The training program of the NPF should be overhauled entirely. A new training program should be made available which would encompass all aspects of policing and not just terrorism. Now i see policemen with assault rifles and live rounds engaging rioters. Not good
@Matawal Danjuma. I agree with you as well. We saw a bit of MD Abubakar’s hand on the plough in Lagos where acts of criminality were FORCED into a downward spiral and of course, those annoying sirens fell silent. Whereas the lavish provisions made for the Lagos State Police Command by Governor Fashola’s administration, which has so far provided over 30 APCs and 500 4WD trucks, 6 gunboats and two helicopters for the Command, greatly facilitated patrols and response to distress calls within the conurbation that is Lagos, it has to have been his disciplinary touch which quietened those noisy sirens. He appears to be the enforcer kind of man.
That said, knocking a massive and decadent force of 380, OOO into becoming a disciplined body of men is not AT ALL going to be a tea party. Many of those “very local” cops in the backwaters of Nigeria are totally blind to technological aids (metal detectors, jammers, internet research etc) and are proficient bribe takers who only understand two words of command, namely – “SALUTE” and “FIRE”. Not an easy road.
We are willing to give them all of 2012 to prove to Nigerians that their hands are indeed on the plough. Hopefully, Mr President would oblige them while we hope for the best within the shortest timeframe.
Thanks Big Boss….i also want to use this medium to ask the house if we cannot put in some amour into the toyota 4×4 hilux which the security operatives use. I believe the guys who were given 2 billion to work on an indigeneous APC can also look into this. They can form a partnership with Toyota to work on this…what do u think guys?
It is no mean task but I think the office of the internal affairs unit known around the world has the geezers are a force to reckon with. They crack their whip and officers run. These men are highly educated and they discipline police forces.
I think all force stations should have one and for God’s sake we need to do something about police stations. Thε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ are not developed infrastructure-wise or IT-wise. That said we can create IQ Stimulus Tests to guage those whose duty will be more clerical and field officers and management control detectives and special units for special units.
In my lifetime, we need serious air surveillance and should make use of satellite monitoring too, not only for SSS or NIA or military troops. We should have a boat service, firefighter service, emergency and paramedic unit, service laboratory, data and forensic service and a civilian contractors and advisers wing. Let us put in place a proper anti-fraud unit meaning merging the EFCC into it.
We need proper riot squads, sterner SWAT teams, anti-kidnapping units and anti-robbery squads which these days dont do anything. Thε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ are the ones that need APCs .
More homicide, psychology and psychoanalytic units aka shrinks using lie detectors and interrogation. Let us revamp the public service,armoury and ordinance, health and safety units and arrange for refresher courses in intelligence and cyber crime. We need an engineering corp unit, ballistics and arms unit and a drug unit or narcotics unit to complement the NDLEA
We could do with a research unit on policing techniques, defense and a martial arts unit for close combat. We also need a sting operation trainer unit and should consider setting up CCTV grid systems like Metropolitian and Scotland Yard. Let us have a Detective Corps and a proper Police Academy.
Also, we need to establish HUMINT undercover unit and more importantly, a witness protection agency and a legal unit biometric data filing system so that a comprehensive capture of all the nation’s known criminals is done.
Stop dehumanizing peeps in the media by stripping them almost naked their must be a series of processes. We need a reinforced bomb squad and we need CSIs or crime scene investigators.
Our police must stop checkpoints and rather patrol round neighbourhoods, set up APB centres or data request centres to give information on suspects and also stopping torture entirely by setting up interrogation rooms. A proper police station as it should be in larger cities in the world. No harm in borrowing from them also a mounted police unit horses need to be created bikers unit also done and police divers and autmobile configurations done dose 4X4 are not safe or reinforced at all
Weapon handling also and discipline must be done recruitment process must be strict course will infuse military background also need for setting up federal state and local zones jurisdictions and many other units if there are any unit U̶̲̥̅̊ kno our police can create lwt us know my own is dis bribery and unfit officers must be retired let us weed out lots of dem we hv idle graduates who will readily join the ranks of the security force to help develop our state frankly 450000 is too small to police a 160 million populace a need to wake up let us trust the police once more
Your suggestions are welcome. If the Govt truly listens let it take down notes on all things said both military security, defense and police. Let’s change the system
By the way, gentlemen, do you realise that the Professor SD Mukoro who is listed above was one of the young revolutionaries of April 22, 1990? He was one of those implicated in the abortive Orkar coup and as a Major in the Corps of Military Police back then, he had already earned a Ph.D in Criminology.
We hear(so said Colonel Tony Nyiam in a 2011 interview) that Major(rtd) Mukoro is now a Professor in an American university. He was correct.
To that extent, Prof Mukoro comes to the board with a background as a Professor of Criminology, a former Major and a Military Police background.
In Nigeria, sometimes what is temporary quickly assume the permanent. The 4×4 hilux configuration as in use today was to solve an immediate problem, which is to increase the mobility of squad size units in low risk environment. We have scandalously with disregard to life of occupants, deployed such vehicles at high risk areas with attendant loss of lives, and this gross error continues. The cost of applying armour to the hilux will necessitate a structural redesign and also increase of internal volume of the vehicle, this off course will come at a price close to the casspir for example. The outcome will be a vehicle closely resembling a fighting armoured lorry as seen in the casspir designs and the likes, so it makes more sense to buy/assemble similar vehicles than up-armour the hilux.
Tope addressing your concern is a simple thing to do, it has to do with leadership. If a leader is firm and resolute, fears no sacrifice, summon every difficulty to achieve victory, then such an entity shall prevail. What you have mentioned are already operational with the police.
Just name it, we have it on ground. All that needs to be done is for them to be optimised and for the men who man them to be reoriented. We just have too many bad men in the system and that is the cause of the bog-down.
They have engineers, lawyers, doctors, dentists, architects, surveyors etc working in the Police system. They just need to tackle their disciplinary problems is all.
In a related development, you might not believe the fact that the Nigerian Army Corps of Engineers has more engineers, surveyors, architects and technicians working for her in five brigade-sized formations than do the Federal Ministry of Works!
The police force has been totally underestimated and mismanaged. Apart from an airwing, others are on ground. Lord have mercy. This is a serious lapse of policing system.At least, our mounted cops can take care of local crimes or so and lots of employment. I mean, the police force can take nothing less than 100,000 vibrant staff.
Which leads us to another issue. The need to revamp our judiciary arm cos extremely corrupt judges, justices and lawyers exist today, so politicized beyond redemption. Worse, our Prisons are in a horrible dehumanising state and condition. This must be addressed if the judiciary and enforcement of law must happen effectively. And we need detectives o.
Thanks for the information. We need people like you as special advisers, not like some people up there. As for the NA, I’m not surprised. I’m starting to love my country in a new light. I might as well join the forces.
Also dont you think it will be wise to begin volunteer conscription for reserve purposes? We never know tommorrow and also make a law that either you do service or when you are 18 years of age you must undergo basic military training of survival and navigation in terms of war and peace scenario and also close combat to improve civilian security awareness and safeguard.
During the era of military rule, particularly in the post-1990 period, crime and internal security issues attained a crescendo. The Police were overwhelmed so the military government, cooked up joint Police-Military security teams which were apparently inspired by successes scored by the premier “Operation Zaki” in pre-partition Borno which took effect in 1990 under a Lt Col(later Brig.Gen) Mohammed Buba Marwa whose was the Military Governor at that time.
Those were leaner times and because the environment was low-risk as was rightly pointed out by XNur (meaning, operations bereft of ambushes, grenade attacks and the detonation of roadside IEDs), the cheap alternative that was Toyota HiLux 4×4 trucks, sufficed.
Operation Zaki-type joint ops proliferated across the land and in every state of the federation with the same Toyota 4WDs deployed. Prominent joint ops which followed after OP ZAKI were OPERATION SWEEP in Lagos and the Rivers State Internal Security Task Force which cracked down savagely on Ogoniland. But those were routine IS Operations, the scale of same regardless.
TODAY, the threats to troops are very different. As we speak, there are as many suicide bombings and roadside IED blasts taking place in Nigeria as is the case in Algeria. For sure, the scale and intensity of the violence has exceeded the levels attained in Mali and Mauritania.
Typically, they lay ambush and open fire therefrom in which case all occupants of any soft-skinned vehicles are dead as dodo. When that is not happening, they detonate wired roadside IEDs as security forces drive by or they ride/drive-by on motorbikes or cars and hurl IEDs/grenades at forces’ vehicles.
It became clear a long time ago that Toyota or Ford Ranger 4WDs have no place in that theatre at all. It is not an IS operation out there, it is a full-blown insurgency characterised by the effusive usage of powerful explosive materiel and ambushes. These guys have gone as far as hanging an IED in a tree above a sentry post! Even at that, soft-skinned Toyota and Ford Ranger types continue to outnumber Otokar Cobra APCs and Panhard VBL scout cars by a ratio of 3:1 in the Northeast. WHY?
What the specific threats in-theatre are
MINES/IEDs
AMBUSHES
It does not take a soothsayer to see that what this calls for is the use of Category 1 MINE RESISTANT AMBUSH PROTECTED(MRAP) vehicles such as the following
Those Toyota and Ford Ranger 4WDs need to be consigned to rearguard action lest we suffer more avoidable casualties. They are LIFE-THREATENING for our troops and are tantamount to yet-to-be-executed death sentences.
Toyota and Ford Ranger 4WDs are OK for use elsewhere for IS Ops. But not in the following theatres
* STF operations on the Jos Plateau, which used to be a high-intensity inter-ethnic conflict but is also now a theatre of minor insurgent action involving IED blasts.
Along this 700 kilometre-wide front between Kano and Ngala, we have the highest incidence of ambushes and roadside/hurled IED explosions occurring anywhere across the highly volatile sahelian belt of Africa – from Senegal to Djibouti – at this time with such flashpoint towns and cities as Maiduguri, Potiskum, Damaturu, Biu, Ngala, Gombe, Bauchi, Azare, Alkaleri, Geidam, Bulkachuwa and the “baban birnin arewa”(big city of the North), KANO.
Last weekend, nine suicide bombers were unleashed on Kano backed up by dozens of insurgents and operating in several independent squads. Five of them were successful, the rest KIA by the SSS. Ever so often in Maiduguri, we hear about IED blasts as JSTF troops drive past. What are we doing inside soft-skinned 4WDs in such a dangerous theatre?
Sir I think its high time you write to the Acting Inspector General and drop your recommendations and observations we need highly intellectual and weapon tech knowledged people like you there dose 4 WD are sitting coffins in Nigeria its not safe anywhere here in da Niger Delta daunting Armed Robbers hv been seen wit RPGs Tommys and oda high calibre guns also kidnappers pirates and illegal oil vandalizers thiefs are well armed so its a matter of importance dat all operation cars must have dis APCs and MRAPs and cobras to help form a defence front line den use of light armoured reconfigured police specific trucks can den be deployed dats whey our police engineer corps will be busy and den finally patrol cars such as the Dodge and SWAT team cars employed by the Police of the US we need to keep our men safe too many lives hv been lost and also a need for kevlar amour head gear covering all vital kill shot areas bullet proof and flak jackets etc we can den deploy power BMW bikes to bring up the rear but if we must use the 4WD let us use dem strictly for command control field surveillance intelligence and data capture usage mostly and make dem reinforced glass body and tire also and quick suspensions to move you decide.
Even in Thailand, Tope, the Ford Ranger plant specialize in having 4WD up-armoured. While it might offer a measure of protection, Nigerian terrorists appear mostly ready to join their ancestors and usually open fire at pointblank range. So even the up-armoured Ford Ranger made in Thailand would only offer partial protection and certainly, they are neither V-hulled nor do they offer blast-free wheelbases as can be seen in the Otokar Cobra.
Doziex informed us the other day about the availability of surplus-to-requirment, up-armoured HMVV gun-trucks from the Iraqi theatre. Two days ago, the Americans committed to training, intelligence gathering and providing werewithal. We need to have some of those up-armoured Hummer gun-trucks for utility roles, even as they cannot nearly override the CORE REQUIREMENT for ongoing counterinsurgency operations – MRAPs.
At all levels of security operations, we must be clear about what we are into lest we make the same mistake twice.
What we have ongoing are COUNTERINSURGENCY OPERATIONS…NOT internal security operations(ISOs). The sooner we have it properly defined, the quicker we would prepare appropriately. The only thing “internal” about it is that it is not taking place outside Nigeria. Otherwise, it is a full-blown insurgency.
Indeed, what turned out to be the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70 had similarly been declared to be “police action” – perhaps, the sort of police action which claims a million lives.
Ah Tope, we do have a Police Wing. The Nigerian Navy Air Arm commenced full operations in 1986 and we have had a Police Air Wing for much longer.
It is recorded in Nigerian history that a certain Assistant Inspector of General of Police (who later became an Inspector General) on the 30 December,1983 “commandeered” a police aircraft and flew out of Lagos to Kaduna. The next day, Major General Buhari, some of his mates and near-subordinates such as Major General Babangida,Brigadiers Idiagbon, Abacha, Nasko et al seized power from President Shagari.
So we have had a Police Air Wing for a long time. Early variants of the Bell 412 were supplied to the Police in 1986 and in 2010, modern variants (armed with machine guns) were also commissioned by President Jonathan. They have aircraft and helicopters on order as we speak.
If they need our patriotic service in an advisory/research capacity, we shall answer the call. Ditto ONSA, DIA, NIA and the SSS. Our nation is caught in the throes of deep crisis and all men of goodwill are duty-bound to act one way or the other. A man who cannot serve his fatherland has nothing to live for. For now, they have not requested for technical support from this end.
Concerning conscription, the NYSC scheme really should be converted to a military service scheme. Ditto the one-year period of alloted for industrial attachment for OND holders popping out of polytechnics. It would raise the general level of security appreciation nationwide. That is what countries such as Israel and the USA are reaping bountifully from. The military are embedded in civil society. That is why leaders and followers alike are security conscious.
The Plateau State Government
has condemned the appointment of
Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar as acting
Inspector General of Police, describing
it as unfortunate. Chief of Staff, Government House Jos, Mr. Gyang Pwajok in his reaction on Thursday said the appointment was a big surprise considering the fact that the state government sent a copy of the white paper which indicted the acting IGP and recommended his retirement to the Presidency.
According to him, “Plateau State Government did its best by coming out with the white paper concerning the crisis in 2001. The president recently said we should forward the paper which we did. I wonder if that document has been examined by the appropriate authority. This would have served as an opportunity for the government to know about the character of individuals concerning the crisis”.
He said the implication of the appointment was that someone who
failed on a lower assignment was
being saddled with a higher responsibility adding that the Justice
Niki Tobi Commission of Enquiry painstakingly documented the roles
played by individuals in the crisis and
recommended the actions to be taken
in each case.
The white paper had described Abubakar as a religious bigot accusing him of playing an ignoble role in the 2001 crisis when he was the Commissioner of Police in Plateau
State.
The white paper read in part:
“Religious fanatics should not be posted to head state police commands. The commission recommends that for his ignoble role during the September 2001 crisis which resulted in the loss of lives,the former Commissioner of Police,
Plateau State Command, Alhaji M.D.
Abubakar, be advised to retire from
the Nigeria Police Force and in the
event of his refusal to do so, he should be dismissed from the service.”
Well,they ve terminated our reserved IG,who saw what was happening within our internal chao,but his character and nature made him to over look the scenario such N20 changed to N100 by him so called his subordinate by the assistances of other technical police crew and the level of incompetency and also high level of insecurity at his door step.Withthis,let see the outcome of mr mohammed abubakar in a short period of time.
Will M.D Abubakar also protect all (Christains inclusive) in the same manner, looking at his indictment of complicity in the Jos Crisis fact-finding Panel?
Interesting things happen in this country! Ringim (the former IGP) was a personal friend of Mr. President. For this reason a lot of mess could happen with the police and he will be left untouched until he retires while Nigerians continue to surfer under terrorists’ siege. Also, that’s why Ringim cannot be probed and punished if found guilty with regards to all that went wrong with policing in Nigeria in his tenure, at least to serve as deterrent for incoming IGPS. This same Ringim was in charge of the South-East and South-South area when Abia State (Aba) was literally brought down by kidnappers, yet he was later rewarded for his inefficiencies with the igp APPOINTMENT. People raised this concerns in the same manner that they are raising concerns about the M.D Abubakar’s appointment but the authorities seem to have preferred trading our security for their personal relationships
Now, it is M.D Abubakar – who was indicted by a fact-finding panel in the Jos religious crisis and subsequently recommended for dismissal from the police force. What stage is Goodluck Jonathan setting in his promise to deliver security for the people of Nigeria. Can people really be encouraged to do good in their official capacities and also can our people be deterred from doing evil under this circumstances? Our Dear Goodluck and his family members are highly protected; that apart, our police force is now taking more time to protect themselves, the political elites and their Bosses with their meager resources much more than they try to protect the helpless public while bombs are still exploding predominantly in churches and sparingly in government establishments. Now the same indicted religious bigot has taken charge of the security of both Muslims and Christians in the face of the Boko Haram challenges.
First and Foremost let us look at the man in question his character and his mark everyone is biased when it comes to ethnicity and religious sentiments let us not kid ourselves and do holier than thou I hear people talk and I shake my head you have history books you have records internet and libraries I urge everyone to go and research on this man Wherever MD has gone he has shown stellar qualities in duty and has put high discipline in his men and himself that said we cant ignore the report but let me ask also can we truly verify if the Justice tobi commission carried out dia duties to the latter and not used hearsays as a base of dia demands we all make mistakes and we all learn from it is it not without prejudice that he is widely acclaimed as a detribalized officer before he got posted to Plateau dont you think it is incompetence in da part of the plateau state govt dat lead to ethnic wipe out of the Birom people and also political so ☺k° he was biased because of his ethnic affliation right now the police need an iron hand to beat it to shape can you honestly point to us any CP or DIG or AIG right now dat has the moral capacity tenancity and brain to tackle a terrorist situation and the crime rate remember dis so called Boko Haram members are acting on a Religious idealogy and not Ethnic ones any Ethnic problem you see happening in Nigeria is definitely caused by wicked politicians simple and short. What we need now is to tackle dis problem now! We cannot Negotiate wit Terrorism in any form it takes route if it has to resort to striking fear den so be it dont think I support him but I dont I’m only stating Facts remember dat osayandes Group is also dere and one of his member a former coup plotter is now a professor of criminology in a US university now if we had said ah U̶̲̥̅̊ ђèRë plotting to overthrow Govt Ūя̲̅ not fit or die wont we hv lost an asset one thing you will agree with me is dat US always use assets good or bad to drive home ap oint so even if you say he is a biased as he has been given a mantle to do he cant afford to remain so he saw what happened to his boss! And min you I prefer a man who has shown results dan any oda Ringim was weak and incompetent and politicized and Corrupt we dont want that MD said he will lead by example so expect sterner sanctions to the Police That said I urge media and public servants now to use dis time to weed out bad eggs so he can review dia performance and kick dem out of the Force also urge him to wake up all dead and struggling units in the Force The onus to fighting this people still remain in our courts let us help the police help us like I said everones opinion are different research on all he has done since he joined in 1970s to now all his intl courses n so and besides dont U̶̲̥̅̊ think the NIA OSNA SSS PGF SENATE REPS did dia homeworks? Dont U̶̲̥̅̊ think d̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ didn’t see dat report but d̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ weighed da decisiom either put in a weak hand like Ringim or a Strong one like MD all his roles as CP r great go to lagos ask Fashola da records on Ground say odawise even his opponents say da same thing why must one report be the basis to disqualify him I still question Justice Tobi my reason is simple our judiciary arm has been corrupted and d̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ r not clean let us help him and if we den he is not going to change den we can cry to remove him after all he is in an acting capacity I have said my lot the ball is in our hands
SIR: I BEEN SCAMS THREE TIMES FROM PEOPLE OVER THERE IN THAT COUNTRY, AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO GET MY MONEYS BACK? I ALSO NOT WORKING AND DO NOT HAVE THE MONEYS TO PAY TO GET THE MONEYS THAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT , HERE ARE MY TELEPHONE NUMBER 804-933-0119, COULD I GET THE PRESIDENT OF THAT COUNTRY EMAIL ADDRESS.. AND HOPE THT HE WILL UNDERSTAND ME.
THNK YOU
EDWARD POWELL |
Why Is CAA Doing Market Research On Michael Jackson's Death?
Monolithic agency CAA is in all kinds of cookie jars, taking percentages of all kinds of famous cookies' salaries. But did you know about their market research firm...that's crowdsourcing answers on Michael Jackson's death the night after it happened?
Ominously named The Intelligence Group, CAA's market research subsidiary "builds creative solutions for (their) clients." But their "best known division" is Youth Intelligence. According to their language they're the "premier research group focused on Gen X and Gen Y (ages 14 to 39)," to all of which I say: nice demos.
But: do the higher ups at CAA know that the swarmy pollsters Youth Intelligence put a poll out in the field only a day after Michael Jackson's death, looking to do focus group work on Jackson's demise? The email:
The passing of Michael Jackson was a crazy surprise, and has left many of us truly saddened. He was a pretty incredible artist whose influence on pop culture is immeasurable. Because the impact of his music, his fashion, and his talents was felt by so many around the world, we're very much interested in your reaction to his passing.
What does Michael Jackson mean to you?
What kind of impact did he have on your life?
Are you doing anything to memorialize him? If so, what?
It would be awesome if you could send us your thoughts by Sunday night - and thank you for sharing.
The Intelligence Group
Awesome, indeed. We received this email late Friday night; I contacted The Intelligence Group for comment, they have yet to get back to me.
On that note, we've got three questions for The Intelligence Group:
1. Aren't the results of this research ultimately going to be swayed and too varied due to the intense newsdump that's taken place over the weekend to be of any substantial use?
2. Market research one day after Jackson died, with the body still warm, and someone's looking for answers that will eventually lead them to build a "creative solution" somewhere? |
Q:
walrus operator: if contition with strange results
i was playing around (in relation with this question) with the walrus operator := which will be available in python 3.8.
with
def f(x):
return x**3
old_list = = list(range(9))
this works as expected (never mind that the example is pointless...):
new_list = [fx for x in old_list if (fx := f(x)) in {1, 8, 343}]
# [1, 8, 343]
this is valid and runs, but returns something unexpected:
new_list = [fx := f(x) for x in old_list if fx in {1, 8, 343}]
# []
what is happening here?
A:
TL;DR your 2nd one is not "that" valid:
>>> old_list = list(range(9))
>>> f = lambda x: x ** 3
>>> [fx := f(x) for x in old_list if fx in {1, 8, 343}]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <listcomp>
NameError: name 'fx' is not defined
>>>
Explanation
In your first list comprehension, [fx for x in old_list if (fx := f(x)) in {1, 8, 343}], the fx := creates a variable outside of it:
>>> old_list = list(range(9))
>>> f = lambda x: x ** 3
>>> [fx for x in old_list if (fx := f(x)) in {1, 8, 343}]
[1, 8, 343]
>>> fx
512
If you run [fx := f(x) for x in old_list if fx in {1, 8, 343}] afterwards, it will go like this:
for x in old_list binds x to 0
if fx in {1, 8, 343}, fx being the old 512 which is false
as the if is false, the "select" (left) part is not executed, no call to f, no rebinding of fx, fx is still 512.
assign x as the 2nd element of old_list, being 1
...
We can double check this interpretation like this:
>>> [print("no no no") for x in old_list if fx in {1, 8, 343}]
[]
no no no is never printed, so this side is never executed (as fx is 512, not in the set).
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Homemade Nutella Homemade Nutella makes for 3 jars 200 g Hazelnuts 1 can Condensed Milk 255 g Chocolate - the darker the better cup hot Milk Roast the hazelnuts for about minutes either in the oven or in a dry pan over the heat.
~Jalapeno Jelly~ a fancy jelly you would find at Williams-Sonoma or Harry and David. It seems like it would be super hot, but it’s not. It is perfectly sweet with just a tiny little kick We have it with cream cheese and Triscuits. |
Q:
Combining a PyQt Gui app with an Django project
My question is as follows:
I have a PyQt Gui app. Now I want to publish some of my data to a webserver.
So other people can get acces to it without having the PyQt Gui App.
I am very new to Django. I've read only some first articles and examples.
So my question is:
Is it a feasable way to use django? Are there other quite easier possibilities?
The PyQt App uses also SQlite3 databases.
If I would use django, can I integrate these databases to django?
Thanks for your answers!!!
A:
For what I understand, you want to publish some of the data in your SQLite databases via a website. This is a perfectly valid use of Django and it is totally feasible.
However, this is not the typical way to use Django: you see, Django projects typically define their database structures automatically using abstraction classes (called models in the Django terminology). If you want to use your existing database, that is perfectly fine and possible but it requires some reading. Make sure you read the basic Django tutorials and then check out this document: Integrating django with legacy databases
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abstract: 'The technological prototype of the CALICE highly granular silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter (SiW-ECAL) was tested in a beam at DESY in 2017. The setup comprised seven layers of silicon sensors. Each layer comprised four sensors, with each sensor containing an array of 256 $5.5\times5.5$ mm$^2$ silicon PIN diodes. The four sensors covered a total area of $18\times18$ cm$^2$, and comprised a total of 1024 channels. The readout was split into a trigger line and a charge signal line. Key performance results for signal over noise for the two output lines are presented, together with a study of the uniformity of the detector response. Measurements of the response to electrons for the tungsten loaded version of the detector are also presented.'
address:
- 'Department of Physics and Research Center for Advanced Particle Physics, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan '
- 'Laboratoire de l’Accélerateur Linéaire (LAL), CNRS/IN2P3 et Université de Paris-Sud XI, Centre Scientifique d’Orsay Bâtiment 200, BP 34, F-91898 Orsay CEDEX, France'
- 'Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR) – École polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France '
- 'Institute of High Energy Physics of Beijing (IHEP), 19 Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan Qu, Beijing Shi, China'
- 'Laboratoire OMEGA – École polytechnique-CNRS/IN2P3, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France'
- 'Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Université Sorbonne, UPD, CNRS/IN2P3, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France '
- 'Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Universtity, 16419, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea'
- 'Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan '
author:
- 'K.Kawagoe'
- 'Y.Miura'
- 'I.Sekiya'
- 'T.Suehara'
- 'T.Yoshioka'
- 'S.Bilokin'
- 'J.Bonis'
- 'P.Cornebise'
- 'A.Gallas'
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- 'R.Pöschl'
- 'F.Richard'
- 'A.Thiebault'
- 'D.Zerwas'
- 'M.Anduze'
- 'V.Balagura'
- 'V.Boudry'
- 'J-C.Brient'
- 'E.Edy'
- 'G.Fayolle'
- 'M.Frotin'
- 'F.Gastaldi'
- 'R.Guillaumat'
- 'A.Lobanov'
- 'M.Louzir'
- 'F.Magniette'
- 'J.Nanni'
- 'M.Rubio-Roy'
- 'K.Shpak'
- 'H.Videau'
- 'D.Yu'
- 'S.Callier'
- 'F.Dulucq'
- 'Ch.de la Taille'
- 'N.Seguin-Moreau'
- 'J.E.Augustin'
- 'R.Cornat'
- 'J.David'
- 'P.Ghislain'
- 'D.Lacour'
- 'L.Lavergne'
- 'J.M. Parraud'
- 'J.S.Chai'
- 'D.Jeans'
bibliography:
- '../../references.bib'
title: 'Beam test performance of the highly granular SiW-ECAL technological prototype for the ILC.'
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Calorimeter methods, calorimeters, Si and pad detectors
Introduction
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The International Linear Collider (ILC) has been proposed for the next generation of $e^{+}e^{-}$ linear colliders [@Behnke:2013xla; @Baer:2013cma; @Adolphsen:2013jya; @Adolphsen:2013kya; @Behnke:2013lya]. It will provide collisions of polarized beams with centre-of-mass energies between 250 GeV and 1 TeV. These collisions will be studied by multipurpose detectors. The two proposed projects [@Behnke:2013lya] – the International Large Detector (ILD) and the Silicon Detector (SiD) – are designed to exploit Particle Flow (PF) techniques [@Brient:2002gh; @Morgunov:2004ed], for the reconstruction of the final state particles. The detectors are designed to provide single particle information. This will enable the full power of PF analysis techniques to be exploited, to provide accurate measurements of final state systems. PF techniques can improve particle energy/momentum measurements by suitably weighting calorimeter and tracker signals. This requires highly granular, compact and hermetic calorimetry. A solenoidal magnetic field, of 3.5 - 5.0 T, is required to separate the charged particles. The calorimeters must be placed inside the solenoidal structure to avoid energy losses in dead material, and as a consequence the calorimeters must be compact. Significant R&D for calorimetry at future linear colliders has been carried out by the CALICE collaboration.
The performance, at a test beam, of the technological prototype of the silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter, the SiW-ECAL, is reported in this document. The SiW-ECAL is the baseline choice for the ILD ECAL. It will be placed, together with the hadronic calorimeter, inside a magnetic field of at least 3T. Silicon constitutes the active and tungsten the passive material of the detector. The overall thickness is 24 radiation lengths ($X_{0}$) or about 1 interaction length. The baseline ILD electromagnetic calorimeter is compact, with high granularity in 3 dimensions. In the barrel region, the calorimeter comprises 26 to 30 layers, and is contained within a radial distance of only 23 cm.
The active sensors will be segmented in squared cells of about $5\times5$ mm$^2$, for a total of $\sim$80 million readout channels for the barrel region of the ECAL of the ILD. The dynamic range in each channel was determined by the requirement to measure the energy deposited, at normal incidence, by a minimum-ionizing-particle (MIP), for calibration purposes, and from the maximum particle energies expected at ILC. The dynamic range will span 0.5 to 3000 MIPs.
The very-front-end (VFE) electronics will be embedded inside the calorimeter modules. To maximize the hermeticity of the calorimeter, and to minimize external services, the modules will be cooled passively, through the body of the calorimeter. To reduce the overall power consumption, “power pulsing” will be used. The electronics will be powered during the $\sim$1-2 ms arrival duration of the $e^{+}e^{-}$ bunch trains, and underpowered (the bias currents of the electronics will be shut down) for $\sim200$ ms until the next cycle. The calorimeters will operate in self-trigger mode (each channel featuring a discriminator for an internal trigger decision), with on-chip zero suppression
The SiW-ECAL technological prototype
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The first SiW-ECAL prototype, the SiW-ECAL physics prototype [@Anduze:2008hq] was extensively tested at DESY, FNAL and CERN [@Adloff:2011ha; @Adloff:2008aa; @Adloff:2010xj; @CALICE:2011aa; @Bilki:2014uep]. The VFE was placed outside the active area with no particular constraints on power consumption. The prototype consisted of 30 layers of silicon sensors alternated with tungsten plates yielding a total of 24 $X_{0}$. The active layers were made of a matrix of $3\times3$ silicon sensors of 500 $\upmu$m thickness. Each of these sensors was segmented in matrices of $6\times6$ squared pixels of $10\times10$ mm$^2$.
The new SiW-ECAL ’technological’ prototype addresses the main technological challenges associated with the final detector: compactness, power consumption reduction through power pulsing and embedded VFE.
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The SiW-ECAL technological prototype setup was tested at DESY (Hamburg) in summer 2017. The setup is shown in Figure \[proto:a\]. It consists of 7 layers housed in a PVC and aluminium structure that can host up to 10 layers, in slots with a 15-mm pitch. Six layers were placed in slots 1 - 6. The 7th layer was placed in slot 10. The layers are referenced by their numbers from 1 to 7, starting from the front face. The detector was commissioned in the laboratory and afterwards exposed to a low energy positron beam in the DESY test beam area (line 24) [@Diener:2018qap] with the first layer located upstream . All the results in this paper were obtained with the detector running in power pulsing mode, with gated acquisitions of $1-3$ ms at frequencies of $1-5$ Hz.
Each layer consists of a readout module positioned in a carbon cradle that protects the sensors and the sides of the module. The module is contained within two aluminium plates to provide electromagnetic shielding and mechanical stability. The readout module consists consists of an Active Signal Unit (ASU) and an adapter board to a data acquisition system (DAQ)[@Gastaldi:2014vaa; @Rubio-Roy:2017ere; @Magniette:2018wdz]. Each ASU consists of an $18\times18$ cm$^2$ sized printed circuit board (PCB). On one side of the board is a $2\times2$ array of 4 silicon sensors. The sensors are read out with a $4\times4$ array of 16 VFE ASICs on the other side of the PCB. The PCB features 1024 square pads of $5.5\times5.5$ mm$^2$ which are readout by the ASICs.
The super capacitance used for the power pulsing is located on the adapter board. This decoupling capacitor of 400 mF with 16 m$\Omega$ of equivalent serial resistance provides enough local storage of power to assure stable low voltage supply during the power pulsing. The capacitor is seen just above the red number 2 in Figure \[proto:a\]. A schematic drawing of a readout module is shown in Figure \[proto:b\].
The VFE ASICs are 16 SKIROC2 [@Callier:2011zz; @Amjad:2014tha; @Suehara:2018mqk] (Silicon pin Kalorimeter Integrated ReadOut Chip), that have been designed for the readout of silicon PIN diodes. The SKIROC2 are enclosed in an LFBGA package and are bump bonded to the PCB. The version of the ASUs tested in this beam test has a thickness of 2.8 mm, including the ASICs in its current packaging.
The SKIROC2 comprises 64 readout channels. Each channel consists of a variable-gain preamplifier followed by two branches: a fast line to provide a self-trigger decision and a slow line for dual-gain charge measurement. The gain on the preamplifier is set by changing the feedback capacitor. The fast line consists of a high gain variable CRRC shaper followed by a low offset discriminator to make the trigger decision. A common 10-bit DAC provides the threshold of the discriminator. The slow line is made of a low gain and a high gain CRRC shaper to handle the extensive dynamic range. When a channel triggers, a track and hold cell is used to record the signal at its peaking time in the dual gain line. The levels of all the other channels are then also recorded. The triggers are timestamped within each gated acquisition with a slow clock of 5 MHz. The timestamp numbers are called bunch crossing identifiers (BCID). The charges are stored in the buffers of a Switched Capacitor Array, SCA, and later converted by a 12-bit Wilkinson ADC. In power pulsing mode the ASIC consumes 27 $\upmu$W per channel.
The four sensors consist of $90\times90$ mm$^{2}$ silicon sensors 320$\pm15\,\upmu$m thick with high resistivity (larger than 5000 $\Omega\cdot$cm). Each sensor is subdivided in an array of 256 PIN diodes of $5.5\times5.5$ mm$^2$ each connected to the PCB pads by a dot of conductive glue. High voltage to deplete the sensors is delivered to the sensors via a 100 $\upmu$m copper foil isolated from the rest of the setup by a Kapton sheet.
Performance at the DESY positron beam {#sec:beamtest}
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The beamline at DESY provides continuous positron beams in the energy range of 1 to 6 GeV with rates from a few hundreds of Hz to a few kHz with a maximum of $\sim 3$ kHz for 2-3 GeV. DESY also provides access to a large bore 1 T solenoid. The physics program of the beam test can be summarized as follows:
1. Calibration without tungsten absorber using 3 GeV positrons interacting, approximately, as MIPs. The beam was directed normally to 81 positions, equally distributed over the surface of the modules.
2. Test in a magnetic field up to 1 T using a 3 GeV positron beam. For this test, a plastic made structure was designed and produced to support a readout module.
3. Response to electrons of different energies with a fully equipped detector, comprising detector layers [*and*]{} tungsten absorber.
The commissioning of the prototype is discussed in Section \[sec:commissioning\]. The results of the pedestal, noise and MIP calibration in Section \[sec:calib\]. The performance in a magnetic field is discussed in Section \[sec:magnetic\]. The response of the detector to electromagnetic shower events is discussed in Section \[sec:showers\].
Commissioning of the detector {#sec:commissioning}
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Earlier experience with the SKIROC2 ASIC has been reported in [@Amjad:2014tha; @Suehara:2018mqk; @Balagura:2017pka]. For the following, the internal SKIROC2 parameters determined in these references are adopted except if otherwise stated. It has been estimated that a MIP traversing the PIN perpendicular to its surface produces, on average, a signal of 4 fC. Since most of the data taking program consisted of the recording of MIP level signals, we set a low value of the feedback capacitance of the preamplifier to $1.2$ pF to obtain gains of $71.25\,{\rm mV/fC}$ and $7.125\,{\rm mV/fC}$ in the dual-gain charge measurement. At high gain, the SKIROC2 has a linearity of better than 90% for signals in the range of 0.5-200 MIPs. This is sufficient for the analysis of electromagnetic showers created by positrons of a few GeV. All data presented here were taken at high gain.
### Masking of noisy readout channels {#sec:noisy}
At the start of commissioning, channels were disabled if they caused triggers above a noise threshold of 1 MIP [@Bilokin:2018gfn]. The disabled channels can be classified into four categories:
- Routing issues: The same channels trigger in all layers. This hints at a issue with the routing of the PCB. Following a conservative approach, we added to this set all channels that were noisy in at least three modules.
- ASIC issues: In case 70% of the channels of an ASIC triggered, the entire ASIC was disabled.
- Sensor issues: If a wafer showed problems e.g. like high leakage currents, all channels connected to the wafer were disabled.
- Others.
![Fraction of channels with counts above one MIP in noise runs and which have been disabled for the data taking.[]{data-label="noisycells"}](masked_layer-eps-converted-to.pdf){width="50.00000%"}
The results of this study are summarised in Figure \[noisycells\]. All these channels have been disabled during the data taking.
### Trigger threshold optimization and signal-over-noise ratio for the trigger {#sec:comm_trigger}
For each ASIC, the threshold of the internal trigger was optimized through dedicated scans of trigger threshold values with noise signals or with injected signals of different amplitudes. The scans start from high values of the thresholds, which are successively lowered while the number of signals recorded by each channel is counted. The resulting curves can be approximated by an inverted error function. The optimal threshold was chosen as the threshold at 50% plus 3 times the width of the curve. The width was defined as half the difference between the thresholds at 84% (50+34%) and 16% (50-34%). The average of the optimal thresholds for all channels is used as the global optimal threshold to be used by the ASIC. If the analysis failed in more than 50% of channels ([*i.e.*]{} because they are masked), an [*ad-hoc*]{} high value of the threshold is chosen for the ASIC (250 in DAC units).
The width of the threshold curve depends on the ratio of the frequency of the white noise of the electronics to the clock speed of the readout. Therefore, the width of the threshold curve does not provide a direct measure of detector noise. Alternatively, the scan can be repeated with external signals, provided either by beam particles or by electronic injection. Following the second approach, amplitudes equivalent to 1 and 2 MIPs were injected into channels of an ASIC mounted on a test board.
The result of these scans is shown in Figure \[scurves\_injection\] for several channels of one SKIROC. These curves are used to establish the trigger threshold and to estimate the trigger signal-to-noise, $(S/N)_{trigger}$. The signal-to-noise is defined as the ratio between the distance of the 1 MIP and 2 MIP threshold curves scans, at 50% efficiency, to the width of the 1 MIP threshold scan curve. From the measurement shown in Figure \[scurves\_injection\], we extract a $(S/N)_{trigger}$ ratio of about 12.8.
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![Two sets of threshold curves. Each set consists of threshold curves for individual channels in which a charge is artificially injected using a pulse generator. For the set in the left (in blue), an equivalent of 1 MIP was injected. For the set in the right (red), a equivalent of 2 MIPs was injected. These curves were obtained in a dedicated test board [@Suehara:2018mqk] to test single SKIROC2 ASICs.[]{data-label="scurves_injection"}](scurve_pp_fastshaper_ch_DAC_labels-eps-converted-to.pdf "fig:"){width="50.00000%"}
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The trigger threshold calibration (from DAC units to MIPs) is extracted from these curves following a simple formula:
$$\begin{split}
1 -Threshold[MIP] = \\
\frac{DAC_{50\%}(1\,MIP)-Threshold[DAC]}{DAC_{50\%}(2\,MIP)-DAC_{50\%}(1\,MIP)}
\end{split}$$
where $DAC_{50\%}(X\,MIP)$ stands for the DAC value at the $50\%$ point of the threshold scan curve obtained with $X$ MIP signals. This calibration has been applied to all readout modules: see Figure \[trigger\_thresholds\]. Further dedicated data taking runs with particle beams are needed in the future to measure the systematic errors and spread in performance, between SKIROCs and modules, from the calibration data.
![Summary of the trigger threshold settings in the internal DAC units (left vertical scale) and in MIP units (right vertical scale).[]{data-label="trigger_thresholds"}](threshold_chip-eps-converted-to.pdf){width="50.00000%"}
Response to 3 GeV positrons acting as MIPs {#sec:calib}
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All the analyses presented here rely on the selection and identification of track like events. The first step of the reconstruction is the rejection of two types of fake events due to the ASIC design: [*a)*]{} triggers in consecutive BCIDs due to the preamplifiers sensitivity to instabilities of the power supply; [*b)*]{} an artefact of the event validation logical sequence of the ASIC. These fake events are removed offline using timing information. Electromagnetic showers are rejected by requiring less than 5 triggers per module. Tracks are reconstructed from the seven layers by selecting events where the timestamps from the layers are clustered together, allowing for a tolerance on the BCID of $\pm1$. An event is accepted if at least three of the layers were clustered together in a track traversing the modules in the same position for all modules with a tolerance of $\pm5.5$ [mm]{} per layer.
### Pedestal and noise determination {#sec:pedestal}
The pedestal positions and widths, from the high gain charge measurement line, are shown in Figure \[pedestal\_all\]. Masked channels, or channels involved in the trigger region, were not included. A Gaussian fit was made to the ADC distribution from each channel. The pedestal position was taken from the mean of the Gaussian. The width of the pedestal was taken from the Gaussian standard deviation. These values were calculated for all ASICS, channels and SCA under test. These data are used to perform a pedestal subtraction to the raw ADC signal. This process is done on a layer, ASIC, channel and SCA basis.
The calculated pedestal positions and widths of the ADC for all non-triggered and non-masked channels and SCAs are shown in Figure \[pedestal\_all\]. The non-gaussian spread of the pedestal position is explained by the fact that each SCA has its own pedestal value. More important is that the width of the distributions is very similar for all channels and SCAs. This shows the good level of homogeneity of the noise levels across the system.
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![ Distribution of the pedestal mean positions (upper) and widths (lower), from the high gain charge measurements, for Gaussian fits of the pedestal data, for all individual channels and SCAs in the setup. []{data-label="pedestal_all"}](h_ped_mean_notitle-eps-converted-to.pdf "fig:"){width="50.00000%"}
![ Distribution of the pedestal mean positions (upper) and widths (lower), from the high gain charge measurements, for Gaussian fits of the pedestal data, for all individual channels and SCAs in the setup. []{data-label="pedestal_all"}](h_ped_width_notitle-eps-converted-to.pdf "fig:"){width="50.00000%"}
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### MIP calibration {#sec:mip}
For all channels under test, the resulting charge spectrum of the triggered channels after pedestal correction is fit by a Landau function convoluted with a Gaussian if the number of events was larger than 1000. The most-probable-value of the Landau function is taken as the MIP value, allowing thus for a direct conversion from ADC counts to energy in MIP units.
The fit succeeded in 98% of the cases. Figure \[mip\] shows the results of the MIP calibration for the successful fits. The calibration shows that the response to MIPS across the detector is the same to within 5%.
![The sensor MIP calibration, for all calibrated channels, with the signal yield in ADC counts.[]{data-label="mip"}](MIP_summary-eps-converted-to.pdf "fig:"){width="50.00000%"}\
### Signal-over-noise ratio for the charge measurement of triggered channels {#sec:sn}
The signal over-noise-ratio for the charge measurement of triggered channels, $(S/N)_{charge}$, is defined as the ratio of the calculated MIP value to the noise (the pedestal width) for each channel and SCA. The measured value, for all channels under test, is: $$(S/N)_{charge}=20.4\pm1.5$$
The results are summarized in Figure \[mipandSN\]. The excellent ratio ensures that low energetic hits just above the trigger threshold can actually be used for the event reconstruction.
![Distribution of the $(S/N)_{charge}$ for all calibrated channels.[]{data-label="mipandSN"}](SN_summary-eps-converted-to.pdf){width="50.00000%"}
### MIP detection efficiency {#sec:mip}
To evaluate the single hit detection efficiency, we increased the purity of our track sample by requiring tracks with at least 4 layers, with the hits corresponding to the same beam location. For the remaining three layers, the search region is extended to the eight channels surrounding the target channel. Residual spurious signals are filtered by requiring a minimum energy deposition of 0.3 MIP. The average efficiency, for every ASIC, is shown in Figure \[efficiency\]. Except for a few exceptions, the efficiency is compatible with $100\%$. Low efficiencies in the first layer are related to the presence of noisy channels not spotted during the commissioning. These channels saturate the DAQ in their ASICs earlier than in others. In the last layer, we also observe a few small deviations which are associated with channels in the periphery, suggesting a small misalignment of the last layer.
![The MIP detection efficiency, for high purity track events, using through-going positrons (no tungsten absorber present). The average for all readout channels in each ASIC is shown. The error bars correspond to the standard deviation of the efficiency distribution of all channels in the ASIC.[]{data-label="efficiency"}](efficiency_nhits4_chips-eps-converted-to.pdf "fig:"){width="50.00000%"}\
Performance of a single readout module in a magnetic field {#sec:magnetic}
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The study of the performance of the module inside magnetic fields was carried out in four consecutive steps: a reference run without magnetic field; a run with a magnetic field of 1 T; a second run with 0.5 T; and a final run repeated without magnetic field. The beam, 3 GeV positrons, was incident on the area of the PCB readout by the ASIC number 12. During all this time, the readout module was continuously monitored and did not show any technical issue or change of performance.
Due to the lower beam rates in this beam area at DESY (and the technical character of the test), we did not collect enough data to present a reliable comparison with the calibration described in the previous sections. However, a detailed study was made of the stability of the pedestal position and width of all channels in ASIC 12. Their values are well compatible with the values obtained in Section \[sec:calib\], as is shown in Figure \[pedestal\_magnetic\]. We see that the agreement is perfect within the statistical uncertainties. Due to the lower rates in this beam area, the analysis was only carried out on a few channels and memory cells.
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![ Average deviation of the pedestal mean position (up) and width (down) during the different runs at different magnetic field (1T, 0.5 T and 0T) compared with data taken outside of the magnet structure. The error bars correspond to one standard deviation of the averaged values. The results for several SCA is presented in each plot, with a slight shift in the $x$-axis to artificially separate the points for better visualization. []{data-label="pedestal_magnetic"}](1T_summary_pedestal-eps-converted-to.pdf "fig:"){width="50.00000%"}
![ Average deviation of the pedestal mean position (up) and width (down) during the different runs at different magnetic field (1T, 0.5 T and 0T) compared with data taken outside of the magnet structure. The error bars correspond to one standard deviation of the averaged values. The results for several SCA is presented in each plot, with a slight shift in the $x$-axis to artificially separate the points for better visualization. []{data-label="pedestal_magnetic"}](1T_summary_noise-eps-converted-to.pdf "fig:"){width="50.00000%"}
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Performance of the SiW-ECAL for low energy electromagnetic showers. {#sec:showers}
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For the last part of the beam test, tungsten sheets with a thickness of 1.2 $X_{0}$ each were inserted in front of each of the seven layers yielding a total depth of 8.4 $X_{0}$.
The beam was directed in the centre of the region covered by ASICs 12-15, see Figure \[proto\]. Between 5000 and 10000 triggers were recorded for electron beam energies of 1 to 5 GeV. For electrons at 5.8 GeV, $\sim$1000 triggers were recorded. The analysis was carried out using procedures described in section \[sec:calib\]. Events were selected by timestamp. Single cell calibrations were applied. In the present analysis, no constraint on the number of triggers per layer was applied.
Figure \[showers\] shows the average energy measured per layer as a function of the amount of tungsten absorber in each layer, in $X_{0}$ units. The profile of the energies, measured across the layers, is as expected for electromagnetic cascades generated mainly in the tungsten absorber. The measured distributions for the various energies behave qualitatively as expected. The shower maximum is at around 5 $X_{0}$ and shifted towards smaller $X_{0}$ for the smallest energies under study. Finally one observes that the longitudinal leakage increases with increasing energy. A more detailed study of the detector response to electromagnetic showers including comparisons to shower simulation programs like GEANT4 is left for a future publication.
![Electromagnetic shower profiles for different beam energies. In the x-axis, we show the accumulated thickness of tungsten absorber in front of every active layer. In the y-axis, the averaged fraction of the total energy measured by every active layer in each reconstructed event. []{data-label="showers"}](shower-eps-converted-to.pdf "fig:"){width="50.00000%"}\
Summary and outlook {#sec:summary}
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In this document, we present the results on the commissioning in beams of a small but fully equipped SiW-ECAL technological prototype made of detection units featuring the main characteristics foreseen for future high energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider detectors. The prototype comprised seven independent layers of silicon sensors. Each layer had 1024 readout channels, with embedded electronics that were designed for the ILD detector for the International Linear Collider. The prototype was tested in a setup optimised for a physics program dedicated to the study of electromagnetic showers. The layers were entirely operated in power-pulsed mode.
Using through-going positrons as MIPs, the beam test has allowed for an in-depth evaluation of the performance of the detector. The response to MIPs is homogeneous, with 98% of the unmasked channels calibrated within a spread of 5%. The trigger line signal-over-noise ratio, defined as the ratio of the most-probable MIP response to the pedestal standard deviation, is $\sim$12.8. With this trigger signal-to-noise, triggers can be formed with high efficiency from signals in individual cells that are well below the MIP level. This will be required for effective particle flow analyses. New dedicated beam tests are required to characterise a broader set of modules and ASICS. The MIP track detection efficiency is 100% for most of the channels. The signal-over-noise ratio for the high gain charge line measurement is $\sim$20.4, for triggered channels. This will ensure that all channels with a trigger just above noise level can be used for data analysis.
When interleaved with tungsten plates the layers qualitatively exhibit the expected electromagnetic shower profiles. Further studies and comparisons with simulations must be conducted to assess these observations quantitatively. These data will be complemented by subsequent beam tests, including further R&D developments and a potentially larger stack with up to $\sim$20 to 30 fully equipped layers, and a homogeneous distribution of tungsten absorber amounting up to $\sim$24 $X_{0}$.
Acknowledgments {#acknowledgments .unnumbered}
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This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under Grant Agreement no. 654168. This work was supported by the P2IO LabEx (ANR-10-LABX-0038), excellence project HIGHTEC, in the framework Investissements dAvenir (ANR-11-IDEX-0003-01) managed by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement, PCOFUND-GA-2013-609102, through the PRESTIGE programme coordinated by Campus France. The measurements leading to these results have been performed at the Test Beam Facility at DESY Hamburg (Germany), a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF).
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Frazelia Campbell
Frazelia Campbell (March 18, 1849 – October 5, 1930) was an American classicist and teacher. She featured in the "Black Classicists" travelling exhibition celebrating the achievements of African Americans working in Classical education.
Early life
Frazelia Campbell was born in Charleston, South Carolina on 18 March 1849 to Frederick and Julia Swartz Campbell.
Education
Campbell studied at Philadelphia's Institute for Colored Youth, graduating in 1867. She was probably taught by Fanny Jackson Coppin, a graduate of Oberlin College and a campaigner for women's education who taught Greek, Latin, and Mathematics at the Institute from 1865 and served as its Principal from 1869-1902. Campbell gave a paper titled "The Worth of Books" on the school's 1865 commencement program, and another in 1866 called "Sic Itur ad Astra." Two years later, in 1868, she presented her essay "Virgil and Grey" at the school's winter commencement.
Career
After graduation she worked at the Institute, teaching Latin, German, and Spanish, becoming the Principal of the Girls' High School at the Institute in 1876. When the Institute discontinued its academic work in 1902, Campbell moved to a teaching post at Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, a university founded to support the education of African American people. During her time at the Institute for Colored Youth and at Allen University, she published articles on a range of classical and educational topics in the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review. Campbell taught at Allen University until at least 1912; at some point after this she returned to Philadelphia.
Death
Campbell remained in Philadelphia where she died in her home, 621 N. Fifty-Seven St. on 5 October 1930. She died at the age of 81 and is buried in a family plot in the Eden Cemetery. This is a burial ground chartered for and by blacks in 1902 in Delaware County, PA.
Black Classicists exhibition
Campbell is one of only two women, along with Helen Maria Chesnutt, to be featured in the 'Black Classicists' exhibition, which celebrates the contributions of African Americans to Classical education in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Select Publications
"Die Beiden Piccolomini,” African Methodist Episcopal Church Review 1 (Jan., 1885), pp. 200–204
“Tacitus’ German Women,” African Methodist Episcopal Church Review 2 (Oct., 1885), pp. 167-73
“Milton’s Satan,” African Methodist Episcopal Church Review 7 (Oct., 1885), pp. 196–198
“The Sixteenth Century in the Education of Modern Thought,” African Methodist Episcopal Church Review 19 (July, 1903), pp. 31–40.
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Q:
How do you search a collection for a key, and get the next highest item if it doesn't exist?
How, in a .NET, do you search a sorted collection for a key, and get the index, or if it doesn't exist, get the index of the next highest item?
For example there is a list that contains elements {1,5,8,10}. I search for 7. It doesn't exist, but the next highest key that does exist is 8 with an index of 2.
Example:
SortedList<int, int> list = new SortedList<int, int>();
list.Add(1, 1);
list.Add(5, 1);
list.Add(8, 1);
list.Add(10, 1);
int index = list.IndexOfKeyOrNext(7); // theoretical function. returns 2
I can do this by adding a temporary item at 7, calling list.IndexOfKey(7), then removing my temporary item. But This is slow. Is there a better way?
Edit: My list is sorted.
A:
A modified binary search would be the fastest way. A binary search is an O(log n) operation, so it's much faster than looping through all the items to find a match.
public int IndexOfKeyOrNext(SortedList<int,int> list, int find) {
int first = 0;
int last = list.Count - 1;
while (first < last) {
int pos = first + last / 2;
if (list.Keys[pos].Key < find) {
first = pos + 1;
} else {
last = pos;
}
}
if (first < list.Count && list.Keys[first] >= find) {
return first;
} else {
return -1;
}
}
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Expression of RB2/p130 tumor-suppressor gene in AIDS-related non-Hodgkin's lymphomas: implications for disease pathogenesis.
In this study we examined 21 cases of AIDS-related lymphomas for genomic organization and expression of RB2/p130 oncosuppressor gene and compared the results with the proliferative features of these neoplasms. We found no mutations in the RB2/p130 gene and unusually high percentages of cells expressing nuclear pRb2/p130 in tumors with a high proliferative activity, such as AIDS-related lymphomas. These findings might suggest that a molecular mechanism usually observed in viral-linked oncogenesis could be involved. We performed in vitro and in vivo binding assays to investigate whether the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) gene product Tat and Rb2/p130 could interact. The results of these assays revealed that the HIV-1 Tat protein binds specifically to pRb2/p130. This may result in the inactivation of its oncosuppressive properties and the induction of genes needed to proceed through the cell cycle including p107, cyclin A, and cyclin B. Using single-cell polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay, we found HIV-1 DNA in the neoplastic cells of only 2 of the 21 cases examined, whereas PCR on whole tissue revealed HIV-1 DNA in all of the cases. Furthermore, a diffuse and nuclear stain was observed in tissue sections with anti-Tat monoclonal antibody. These findings are in accordance with the notion that soluble Tat protein could function as a biologically active extracellular protein released by infected cells and taken up readily by uninfected B cells. In conclusion, our results seem to suggest that pRb2/p130 oncosuppressor protein may be a target in the interaction between the HIV-1 gene products and host proteins. |
Defenses against the use of this verse as a support for emphasizing the right of leaders to exercise command authority over a believer’s life. In summary, this may be the most mistranslated verse of the entire Bible.
Defenses against the idea that singular leaders are the preferred model for church organization. There are various levels of implementing this concept that range from the Catholic’s view of having one man, the pope, as the vicar of Christ who heads a large international hierarchy of priests all the way down to small congregations with a single pastor over a relatively small flock.
In recent writings, Romans 13:1-3 have been used to emphasize the need for believers to submit to all authorities setup by God. Included in all is church leaders. This is a defense against that view and an exposition of this passage that will clearly show that a believer’s submission to authorities does not directly extend to church leaders based on this passage. This passage is clearly limited in scope. |
The Ministerial Panel on Child Intervention will make recommendations to improve Alberta’s child death review process. It will propose actions to strengthen the child intervention system, and explore the issues that lead the province to take over care of children.
The 13-member panel includes representatives from all parties in legislature as well as leading Alberta experts on child intervention and indigenous issues, including Dr. David Swann, leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and MLA for Calgary-Mountain View.
Irfan Sabir, Minister of Human Services and MLA for Calgary-McCall, will sit as an ex-officio member on the panel.
“There is nothing more heartbreaking than the death of a child… This panel’s work is critical to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be safe, nurtured, and to thrive,” said Sabir.
The first meeting will be held Feb.1 at Government House in Edmonton. It’s open to the public. |
The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server
communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design.
This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.
What's in the SDK:
- Features
HTTP client/server, JSON, URI, asynchronous streams, WebSockets client, oAuth
- PPL Tasks
A powerful model for composing asynchronous operations based on C++11 features
- Platforms
Windows desktop, Windows Store, Windows Phone, Ubuntu, OS X, iOS, and Android
[and now also FreeBSD ;-)]
WWW: https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk
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Publications - Talks - Presentations
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Title: A New Approach for Nuclear Data Covariance and Sensitivity Generation
Abstract
Covariance data are required to correctly assess uncertainties in design parameters in nuclear applications. The error estimation of calculated quantities relies on the nuclear data uncertainty information available in the basic nuclear data libraries, such as the U.S. Evaluated Nuclear Data File, ENDF/B. The uncertainty files in the ENDF/B library are obtained from the analysis of experimental data and are stored as variance and covariance data. The computer code SAMMY is used in the analysis of the experimental data in the resolved and unresolved resonance energy regions. The data fitting of cross sections is based on generalized least-squares formalism (Bayes' theory) together with the resonance formalism described by R-matrix theory. Two approaches are used in SAMMY for the generation of resonance-parameter covariance data. In the evaluation process SAMMY generates a set of resonance parameters that fit the data, and, in addition, it also provides the resonance-parameter covariances. For existing resonance-parameter evaluations where no resonance-parameter covariance data are available, the alternative is to use an approach called the 'retroactive' resonance-parameter covariance generation. In the high-energy region the methodology for generating covariance data consists of least-squares fitting and model parameter adjustment. The least-squares fitting method calculates covariances directly from experimental data. Themore » parameter adjustment method employs a nuclear model calculation such as the optical model and the Hauser-Feshbach model, and estimates a covariance for the nuclear model parameters. In this paper we describe the application of the retroactive method and the parameter adjustment method to generate covariance data for the gadolinium isotopes.« less
@article{osti_20722562,
title = {A New Approach for Nuclear Data Covariance and Sensitivity Generation},
author = {Leal, L.C. and Larson, N.M. and Derrien, H. and Kawano, T. and Chadwick, M.B.},
abstractNote = {Covariance data are required to correctly assess uncertainties in design parameters in nuclear applications. The error estimation of calculated quantities relies on the nuclear data uncertainty information available in the basic nuclear data libraries, such as the U.S. Evaluated Nuclear Data File, ENDF/B. The uncertainty files in the ENDF/B library are obtained from the analysis of experimental data and are stored as variance and covariance data. The computer code SAMMY is used in the analysis of the experimental data in the resolved and unresolved resonance energy regions. The data fitting of cross sections is based on generalized least-squares formalism (Bayes' theory) together with the resonance formalism described by R-matrix theory. Two approaches are used in SAMMY for the generation of resonance-parameter covariance data. In the evaluation process SAMMY generates a set of resonance parameters that fit the data, and, in addition, it also provides the resonance-parameter covariances. For existing resonance-parameter evaluations where no resonance-parameter covariance data are available, the alternative is to use an approach called the 'retroactive' resonance-parameter covariance generation. In the high-energy region the methodology for generating covariance data consists of least-squares fitting and model parameter adjustment. The least-squares fitting method calculates covariances directly from experimental data. The parameter adjustment method employs a nuclear model calculation such as the optical model and the Hauser-Feshbach model, and estimates a covariance for the nuclear model parameters. In this paper we describe the application of the retroactive method and the parameter adjustment method to generate covariance data for the gadolinium isotopes.},
doi = {10.1063/1.1945017},
journal = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
number = 1,
volume = 769,
place = {United States},
year = 2005,
month = 5
}
A target accuracy assessment using new available covariance data, the AFCI 1.2 covariance data, has been carried out. At the same time, the more theoretical issue of taking into account correlation terms in target accuracy assessment studies has been deeply investigated. The impact of correlation terms is very significant in target accuracy assessment evaluation and can produce very stringent requirements on nuclear data. For this type of study a broader energy group structure should be used, in order to smooth out requirements and provide better feedback information to evaluators and cross section measurement experts. The main difference in results betweenmore » using BOLNA or AFCI 1.2 covariance data are related to minor actinides, minor Pu isotopes, structural materials (in particular Fe56), and coolant isotopes (Na23) accuracy requirements.« less
Computational methods and data used for sensitivity and uncertainty analysis within the SCALE nuclear analysis code system are presented. The methodology used to calculate sensitivity coefficients and similarity coefficients and to perform nuclear data adjustment is discussed. A description is provided of the SCALE-6 covariance library based on ENDF/B-VII and other nuclear data evaluations, supplemented by 'low-fidelity' approximate covariances.
An uncertainty propagation methodology relying on marginalization techniques was recently developed to produce covariance matrices between existing model parameters involved in describing neutron-induced reactions. This work has been implemented in the nuclear data assimilation tool CONRAD. The performance of the code was demonstrated through simplified test cases based on a Reich-Moore description of the {sup 155}Gd(n,{gamma}) reaction. Results are compared with those produced via Monte Carlo techniques.
A new approach is proposed, the consistent data assimilation, that allows to link the integral data experiment results to basic nuclear parameters employed by evaluators to generate ENDF/B point energy files in order to improve them. A practical example is provided where the sodium neutron propagation experiments, EURACOS and JANUS-8, are used to improve via modifications of {sup 23}Na nuclear parameters (like scattering radius, resonance parameters, Optical model parameters, Statistical Hauser-Feshbach model parameters, and Preequilibrium Exciton model parameters) the agreement of calculation versus experiments for a series of measured reaction rate detectors slopes. Future work involves comparison of results againstmore » a more traditional multigroup adjustments, and extension to other isotope of interest in the reactor community as {sup 56}Fe, actinides, and fission products.« less
In order to provide useful feedback to evaluators a set of criteria are established for assessing the robustness and reliability of the cross section adjustments that make use of integral experiment information. Criteria are also provided for accepting the “a posteriori” cross sections, both as new “nominal” values and as “trends”. Some indications of the use of the “a posteriori” covariance matrix are indicated, even though more investigation is needed to settle this complex subject. |
5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) contracts the guinea-pig isolated iliac artery via 5-HT1-like and 5-HT2 receptors.
The characterization of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) receptors mediating contractions of the guinea-pig isolated iliac artery was studied when the basal tone was slightly increased by prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha). In the presence of ketanserin (1 mumol/l), 5-HT and several 5-HT receptor agonists induced contractile responses with the rank order of agonist potency: 5-HT = 5-carboxyamidotryptamine (5-CT) = lysergol > ergometrine = methylergometrine > RU 24969 approximately 5-methoxytryptamine (5-MeOT) > methysergide > sumatriptan > tryptamine. Concentration-effect curves to the ergot alkaloids, lysergol, ergometrine, methylergometrine and methylsergide, were biphasic. In the presence of ketanserin (1 mumol/l), contractile responses to 5-HT, 5-CT, RU 24969, 5-MeOT, sumatriptan and tryptamine were antagonized by methiothepin (30 nmol/l) and flesinoxan (3 mumol/l) with approximate pKB values of 8.5-9.0 and 6.0-6.3, respectively. The first phase of contraction produced by the ergot alkaloids, lysergol, ergometrine, methylergometrine and methysergide, were blocked by methiothepin (30 nmol/l) and flesinoxan (3 mumol/l), respectively, with approximate pKB values about 8.4-8.7 and 6.2-6.4, respectively. The mechanism underlying the second phase of contraction remains to be established. Maximum responses of the concentration-effect curves to 5-HT (1 nmol/l-1 mumol/l) were concentration-dependently depressed by ketanserin (1 nmol/l-1 mumol) and spiperone (30 nmol/l-0.3 mumol/l) and reached approximately 60% of the 5-HT maximum response in the presence of ketanserin (1 mumol/l) and spiperone (0.1 mumol/l), respectively. Agonist potency of 5-HT was not affected by the antagonists.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) |
The West African country has been battling with a rising wave of violence since 2015 which left at least 500 dead.
Gunmen killed 24 soldiers in an attack on an army unit in Burkina Faso, the deadliest yet in the West African nation's fight against militants, which the president on Tuesday called a "dark stain" on the country's history.
Seven other soldiers were wounded in the attack on Monday and five are still missing, the military and President Roch Marc Kabore said in separate statements.
The army, which earlier put the death toll at 10, said it had launched a land and air operation in response to the attack in Koutougou, in northern Burkina Faso's Soum province.
'Dark stain'
"August 19th is a dark stain on the life of our national army," Kabore said in the statement posted on the presidency website. "It is a heavy toll, which ... saddens us."
Once a pocket of relative calm in the Sahel, Burkina has suffered a homegrown insurgency for the past three years, which has been amplified by a spillover of violence and criminality from its chaotic neighbour Mali.
Large swathes of Burkina's north are now out of control, and France's military Sahel mission began limited operations there earlier this year.
The main opposition party, the Union for Progress and Change (UPC), called for the government to step down, accusing it of failing to counter a militant threat which has killed hundreds of civilians and caused more than 150,000 to flee.
"It's a team overwhelmed by the turn of events, which is currently crossing its arms, waiting for how fate will play them and the Burkinabes," UPC said in a statement.
Deteriorating security prompted the Ouagadougou government to declare in December a state of emergency in several northern provinces bordering Mali, including Soum. |
These kids make me want to be a better person. Every time I go to wake them up and every time I get a high-five from a little seven-year-old, I just want to be the person they think I am. I want to be that positive light – in the rest of my life and not just at Camp Kesem. I want to take the Camp Kesem spirit with me wherever I go.
- Kesem Student Leader |
Police: Post-football woes factor in Paul Oliver's death
Lindsay H. Jones and Ray Glier | USA TODAY Sports
KENNESAW, Ga. – Paul Oliver showed up for a Labor Day family cookout with bags full of groceries. Burgers. Ribs. Chicken. Enough food for at least 20 of Oliver's family and friends.
"Paul was a giver," said David Scandrett, Oliver's uncle. "He helped his mom with his NFL money. He helped his whole family."
Oliver, a defensive back who last played in 2011 with the San Diego Chargers, had been bugging his uncle and other family members to throw the cookout, Scandrett said. They feasted and played cards, and Oliver took one of his sons into the cul de sac to play with a big red rubber ball.
Oliver was among the first to leave, telling his uncle he had to go pick up a Chevy Tahoe he had just purchased for his wife.
"I didn't think that would be the last time I would ever see him," Scandrett said.
Three weeks later, Oliver was dead at age 29. The Cobb County medical examiner's office confirmed that Oliver died Sept. 24 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but has yet to release its official report.
According to a police report obtained Thursday by USA TODAY Sports, Oliver's wife, Chelsea, said she and her husband had been struggling with marital issues and that he had "started mentioning divorce." After his football career ended, the report said, Oliver had been "somewhat depressed over being released. ... He made statements in the past about wanting to end his life."
Chelsea Oliver said she and the couple's two sons, ages 2 and 11 months, witnessed the shooting, which occurred during an argument after her husband had been drinking alcohol, according to the report. She told police Paul Oliver ran upstairs to get a handgun, stood at the top of the staircase and fired a round into the ceiling. She said he removed the magazine from the gun and appeared to insert another one. He began walking down the stairs, put the gun to his head and fired again, the report said.
"She kept saying she could not believe he did this in front of his sons," the report said.
Paul Oliver's body was found at the bottom of the stairs, and the damage to the upstairs ceiling and wall along the stairwell were consistent with Chelsea Oliver's account, the report said.
But Scandrett says he does not believe Oliver intended to kill himself.
"True enough it was self-inflicted," said Scandrett, who said he arrived at Oliver's home about 30 minutes after the shooting. "I don't think he knew the gun. When you fire a round, the clip throws another round right into the chamber. When you take the clip out, you might think you are emptying the gun, but you're not. It was an automatic. He was trying to scare her." They were having an argument, but I'm not sure what it was about.
"Maybe depression set in, I don't know. He was playing ball, then he is like a stay-at-home mom," Scandrett said.
The police report said authorities recovered a Glock .40-caliber handgun with a magazine inserted that contained 12 rounds of ammunition. Another magazine was found containing 15 rounds.
Oliver's brothers and wife either declined comment or did not return messages.
Oliver recently had moved back to the Atlanta suburbs, near where he was raised. His friends and family acknowledged he was having a tough time adjusting to post-football life. He was unemployed, without a college degree, and the only identity he had known as an adult was as a football player – he starred for three years at the University of Georgia followed by five seasons with the Chargers.
"For Paul, he's 29, so over half his life his entire identity was wrapped around being a football player. 'That's what I do, that's who I am,' and he was told quickly and abruptly, 'You're not a football player anymore. You have no choice,'" said Brian Greene, a former teammate at Harrison High, said. "Then you throw in having a wife and two kids, and the financial pressure there. This equation for Paul specifically was an equation for disaster, and it ended in disaster. There are so many Paul's out there, I'm telling you, I know there is."
Another one of Oliver's friends, former Wake Forest linebacker Jon Abbate, recalled struggling after his football career was over after a few years in the UFL and two offseason stints with the Houston Texans. Abbate gave up his scholarship when he left school a year early and paid to finish his final year at Wake Forest.
Oliver's friends don't believe he had made an attempt to return to the University of Georgia, but nor do they feel enough was done to help him.
"There are so many people that say, 'We love this kid, he was one of our favorite players at Georgia,' but where the hell were you? Did anybody reach out to him?" Abbate said. "Did anyone in academic counseling say, 'Here's the path you can get on to earn your degree?' There's just no support system. At the same time, I didn't reach out to him. It's just frustrating."
Oliver is at least the seventh current or former NFL player to die from a self-inflicted gunshot wound since 2010, a group that includes several other players who were in their 20s, including former Denver Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley, who died in 2010 at age 23. McKinley and Oliver grew up in the same county north of Atlanta, and played against each other in high school and college.
A police investigation after McKinley's death revealed he was in major debt and was depressed after undergoing microfracture knee surgery that ended his season and may have threatened his career.
Oliver played five years in the NFL, always playing for the about the league minimum salary for his experience. His estimated career earnings were just over $2 million.
His uncle said "He is not broke. He was paying $1,800 a month rent for a place to live. A man who is broke does not do that. Money was not an excuse for this," Scandrett said.
While in the NFL, Oliver would have had access to player development programs that include financial management and mental health counseling. The league in recent years have increased its focus on mental health assistance for players and their families, and all rookies have mandatory life skills seminars throughout their first season in the NFL.
"With all of our programs, services and resources in place, I take it personally when one of our own comes to the point that he decides to take his life. I feel like I have failed because of all our efforts in this area," Troy Vincent, the NFL's vice president of player development, told USA TODAY Sports.
Scandrett said Thursday that the details in the Oliver police report will be "tough on the family."
"This Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde," he said. "I've never seen him mad like the report says. It's like two different people. He was a caring, loving father and then this person we didn't ever know."
Glier reported from Cobb County, Ga. |
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developers.id,
username,
posts,
likes,
round(likes::numeric / posts, 2) as avg_likes,
round(log(2, (1022 * ((score - min(score) over ()) / ((max(score) over ()) - (min(score) over ()))) + 2)::numeric), 1) as hotness
from developers
join (
select developer_id as id, sum(score) as score
from hot_posts
group by developer_id
) developer_scores using(id)
join (
select
developer_id as id,
count(*) as posts,
sum(likes) as likes
from posts
group by developer_id
) stats using(id)
;
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TTIP: Towards an EU-US free trade deal – But what’s in it for our partners?
The third round of negotiations between the EU and the US took place in Washington DC, in December 2013. The next round will start in mid-March 2014. Talks for a free trade deal may take longer than initially foreseen and major challenges need to be addressed to reach an agreement, but negotiations seem to be on the right track to conclude in what will become the most far reaching free trade deal ever concluded. TTIP would create the world’s largest free trade area and thereby become a virtual regulatory hegemony.
If not overshadowed by international crisis the next major step forward will be the EU-US Summit taking place in Brussels on 26 March. It will be the first time President Obama visits Brussels and the EU institutions. It will certainly be an important moment for both negotiating partners to underline their political commitment of concluding a far-reaching deal, despite strong criticism on certain issues.
In parallel to the ongoing discussion between the two biggest trading powers worldwide, some of their partners have raised legitimate concerns about the discrimination stemming from a bilateral free trade agreement for those who are out. According to a study of the Bertelsmann Foundation and the ifo institute, non-TTIP economies will be affected by trade redirection effects – meaning shrinking exports and negative effects on their respective labour markets. In the worst case scenario the study estimates the loss in real per capita income is the highest for Canada with – 9,5%, closely followed by Mexico with – 7,2%. For the countries that have free trade agreements or as in the case of Turkey a customs union with the EU, the scenario may be a bit better, though still worrying: Iceland and Norway – 3,9%, Switzerland – 3,5%, Turkey – 2,5%.
Needless to say that the NAFTA members Canada and Mexico on the one side and the EFTA members and Turkey on the other side of the Atlantic ocean have already asked to be included in the agreement or at least consulted on it. However, in view of the complexity of the present deal between the EU and the USA, including more countries could make the deal impossible. So the question remains: what’s in the deal for the EU and the US’ partners? “A lot!” was the immediate answer given by Dr Jan Atteslander, Director of Foreign Trade of economiesuisse, the main Swiss business federation composed of 30.00 entrepreneurs, who employ 1,5 Million people. Switzerland, as its EFTA partners Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein, has a high degree of economic integration both with the EU and the US. Atteslander drew a differentiated picture of the effects of TTIP on third countries. He underlined the positive effects of the transatlantic deal on the world economy and the growth effect triggered by increasing demand for innovative products from partner economies. Furthermore, TTIP could improve the framework for international supply chains. According to Atteslander, trade facilitation, improved standards and better supervision are benefiting all partners, not only the members of TTIP. Even though he called upon the EU and the US “don’t forget us!”.
Against this positive evaluation of the effects of TTIP on third countries, Murat Kayalar, Member of the Executive Board of the Turkish business association TUSKON, presented a more critical view. Indeed, the negative effects of a closer transatlantic trade and investment partnership may be strongly felt in Turkey. Via the customs union with the EU, goods from the US could be exported to Turkey without tariffs, some of which in direct competition with Turkish goods. However, Murat Kayalar strongly opposed some Turkish voices, which call for a cancellation of the customs union and the renegotiation of a free trade agreement with the EU. Obviously, the easiest solution for Turkey would be to join the EU and thus automatically be a part of TTIP. But EU membership will not be achieved in the short term. Thus, a docking mechanism through which to include third parties might be a solution for countries like Turkey and Switzerland.
From the EU Commission’s point of view, the priority is to conclude an agreement. As Dr Frank Hoffmeister, Deputy Head of Cabinet of EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht, pointed out, the Commission hopes to finalize the agreement before the end of the Obama administration. Peter Chase, Vice President for Europe of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, underlined how important the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is from a geopolitical point of view. The agreement is not only relevant because of the reduction of tariffs, other trade barriers and regulatory cooperation, but also because it will contribute to creating a stronger relationship across the Atlantic.
The question remains how to overcome opposition and criticism on both side of the Atlantic. How do the negotiating parties address the concerns of civil society? How will supporters of the agreement convince Congress and the European Parliament to give their approval? In this respect, Hoffmeister pointed out the Commission’s efforts to have an open and transparent debate organizing consultations with all relevant stakeholders. However, in his view, “it will be the national governments of the member states that will have to support and defend the agreement.” Picking up on the importance to start informing and convincing people, governments and the media of the importance of the TTIP, Hans Stein, Director International Political Dialogue of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom saw off the participants by “giving them the homework” to maintain the level of public discussion on the advantages and the impact of the transatlantic free trade agreement. |
Let a(i) = -226*i + 468. What is a(2)?
16
Let w(l) = 3*l**2 - 54*l - 173. Give w(-3).
16
Let y(t) = -t**2 + 178*t + 1094. Give y(-6).
-10
Let y(r) = 31*r**2 - 1583*r + 37. Determine y(51).
-65
Let z(g) = -g**3 - 14*g**2 + 16*g + 504. Calculate z(-8).
-8
Let w(l) = 3*l**2 + 1055*l + 32403. What is w(-34)?
1
Let a(g) = g**3 + 148*g**2 - 648*g - 6082. Give a(-152).
-2
Let x(p) = -592*p - 53269. Calculate x(-90).
11
Let v(n) = -65*n + 517. Calculate v(8).
-3
Let j(k) = 248*k - 1992. Calculate j(8).
-8
Let l(p) = -10*p**2 - 90*p - 2. Give l(-9).
-2
Let h(n) = -125*n - 452. Give h(-4).
48
Let s(h) = -h**3 + 5*h**2 + 17*h - 22. What is s(6)?
44
Let p(g) = -3*g**3 + 19*g**2 - 31*g + 166. Give p(6).
16
Let o(t) = 3*t**2 + 135*t + 1139. Calculate o(-33).
-49
Let z(m) = -14*m**2 + 101*m + 80. What is z(8)?
-8
Let y(p) = p**3 + 34*p**2 + 33*p + 30. Calculate y(-33).
30
Let l(a) = -4858*a + 29132. Give l(6).
-16
Let a(l) = 171*l - 3292. Determine a(18).
-214
Let y(f) = -9*f**2 - 952*f + 50. What is y(-106)?
-162
Let u(p) = -p**2 - 835*p + 17969. Give u(21).
-7
Let f(w) = -w**3 - 25*w**2 - 45*w + 8. What is f(-23)?
-15
Let o(r) = r**3 - 2*r**2 - 36*r - 6. Calculate o(6).
-78
Let g(l) = l**3 - 17*l**2 - 15*l + 100. What is g(18)?
154
Let v(y) = 126*y + 1393. Give v(-11).
7
Let k(r) = -r**3 - 106*r**2 + 186*r - 3260. Determine k(-108).
-20
Let x(m) = 421*m + 34107. Calculate x(-81).
6
Let i(v) = v**3 + 59*v**2 + 129*v + 850. Calculate i(-57).
-5
Let j(n) = 13*n - 84. Give j(18).
150
Let n(i) = -2*i**3 + 25*i**2 - 15*i - 12. What is n(12)?
-48
Let t(j) = -j**2 + 148*j + 1931. Give t(-12).
11
Let g(b) = 99*b - 781. Calculate g(7).
-88
Let r(v) = -v**3 + 3*v - 261. Give r(0).
-261
Let m(y) = -5*y + 11. What is m(6)?
-19
Let z(h) = -71*h + 11850. What is z(167)?
-7
Let s(b) = -3*b**2 - 53*b + 1132. What is s(14)?
-198
Let x(d) = d**3 - 31*d**2 + 5*d - 153. Give x(31).
2
Let g(m) = 95*m**2 - 12064*m - 119. Give g(127).
8
Let p(w) = -33*w**2 - 4*w - 9. Give p(3).
-318
Let n(r) = -r**2 + 49*r + 1465. Calculate n(70).
-5
Let s(n) = n**2 - 35*n + 153. Determine s(33).
87
Let s(m) = m**2 - 138*m - 1624. What is s(149)?
15
Let m(o) = -3*o**3 + 3*o**2 + 22*o + 16. Calculate m(5).
-174
Let y(l) = -l**3 - 12*l**2 - 26*l - 46. Calculate y(-5).
-91
Let r(w) = 70*w + 110. Give r(-2).
-30
Let p(s) = -8*s**2 + 120*s - 233. Calculate p(13).
-25
Let c(a) = -344*a - 3494. What is c(-10)?
-54
Let f(t) = -2*t**3 + 8*t**2 - 20*t + 4. What is f(5)?
-146
Let c(x) = 374*x + 11597. Calculate c(-31).
3
Let r(u) = -558*u - 8466. Determine r(-15).
-96
Let d(n) = -10*n**2 + 610*n - 32. Calculate d(61).
-32
Let w(u) = -24*u**2 + 101*u + 10. Calculate w(4).
30
Let x(o) = 628*o**2 - 28*o - 29. Calculate x(-1).
627
Let t(y) = -y**2 + 3247*y + 62059. Determine t(-19).
5
Let a(f) = 3*f**3 + 22*f**2 - 2*f - 1. Give a(-8).
-113
Let a(f) = f**3 - 29*f**2 + 178*f + 19. Calculate a(9).
1
Let r(i) = 4*i**3 + 5*i**2 - 8*i + 4. Give r(3).
133
Let m(i) = -i**2 - 36*i - 163. Give m(-5).
-8
Let o(g) = 74*g**2 - 3263*g + 315. Give o(44).
7
Let v(z) = 112*z + 123. Determine v(-1).
11
Let w(u) = 4*u**3 - 2*u**2 - 11*u - 17. Give w(-3).
-110
Let c(v) = -20*v**2 + 3*v - 150. What is c(0)?
-150
Let t(k) = -k**3 - 12*k**2 - 47. Determine t(-13).
122
Let o(m) = m**3 + 220*m**2 + 1034*m - 8817. Calculate o(-215).
-2
Let t(i) = 51*i**2 + 3*i - 21. Calculate t(3).
447
Let f(a) = 3275*a + 16381. What is f(-5)?
6
Let s(n) = n**3 + 6*n**2 - 6*n - 26. Calculate s(-2).
2
Let o(v) = -2*v**2 - 26*v - 5. Calculate o(-12).
19
Let k(y) = 4*y**2 - 21*y + 6. Calculate k(10).
196
Let c(t) = -1053*t + 9497. Calculate c(9).
20
Let g(r) = 6*r**2 - 235*r + 871. What is g(35)?
-4
Let l(q) = q**3 + q**2 - 20*q - 13. Determine l(-3).
29
Let v(i) = i**3 - 5*i**2 - 3*i + 8. What is v(5)?
-7
Let t(r) = -r**3 + 49*r**2 - 92*r - 100. What is t(47)?
-6
Let i(a) = -a**2 - 66*a - 444. What is i(-7)?
-31
Let j(b) = -191*b + 1476. What is j(5)?
521
Let l(c) = -c**2 - 2792*c - 16716. Give l(-6).
0
Let h(d) = -82*d - 81. Give h(-1).
1
Let a(p) = 4076*p + 12246. Determine a(-3).
18
Let x(i) = 4*i**3 + 59*i**2 - 22*i - 66. Give x(-15).
39
Let d(b) = 15*b**2 + 894*b + 2222. What is d(-57)?
-1
Let k(u) = -13*u + 58. Give k(-8).
162
Let n(j) = j**3 - 12*j**2 + 47*j - 18. What is n(9)?
162
Let p(f) = 2*f**2 + 17106*f + 85482. Give p(-5).
2
Let u(z) = z**3 + 13*z**2 + 5*z - 82. Determine u(-11).
105
Let u(l) = -13*l**2 + 152*l - 37. Calculate u(12).
-85
Let i(r) = r**3 + 35*r**2 + 132*r - 77. What is i(-5)?
13
Let q(a) = -a**3 + 3*a**2 - 5*a - 27. Determine q(0).
-27
Let n(u) = -7*u - 344. Calculate n(-53).
27
Let k(v) = 64*v - 91. Give k(1).
-27
Let j(x) = -x**3 + 19*x**2 - 16*x - 22. Give j(17).
284
Let f(h) = -22*h**2 + 299*h - 97. Calculate f(13).
72
Let x(t) = -13*t**3 + t**2. What is x(-1)?
14
Let b(q) = -17*q + 606. Determine b(27).
147
Let y(k) = k**3 - 65*k**2 + 15*k - 1203. Calculate y(65).
-228
Let o(n) = n**3 - 134*n**2 + 393*n + 8. Determine o(131).
8
Let q(u) = 28*u**3 + 5*u**2 - u - 3. Determine q(1).
29
Let h(f) = 3*f**3 + 3*f**2 - 37*f + 9. Give h(3).
6
Let n(i) = 2046*i + 3. Give n(0).
3
Let h(c) = 2795*c + 131362. Determine h(-47).
-3
Let x(g) = -g**3 + 7*g**2 - 2*g + 18. Determine x(0).
18
Let l(r) = 18*r**3 - 110*r**2 + 11*r - 6. Determine l(6).
-12
Let x(s) = 25*s**2 + 1526*s + 43. What is x(-61)?
-18
Let q(x) = -26*x**3 + 152*x**2 + 23*x + 1. What is q(6)?
-5
Let b(r) = r**3 + 25*r**2 + 224*r + 1782. What is b(-18)?
18
Let p(n) = -35*n + 89. Determine p(13).
-366
Let o(w) = -3*w**2 + 15*w + 76. Determine o(-6).
-122
Let r(d) = d**2 + 7*d - 48. What is r(-9)?
-30
Let x(r) = 11*r + 1081. Calculate x(-98).
3
Let b(n) = 48*n + 1314. Give b(-29).
-78
Let l(g) = 2*g**3 - 76*g**2 - g + 35. Determine l(38).
-3
Let i(c) = -8*c + 27. Determine i(-5).
67
Let j(y) = 2645*y + 15867. Determine j(-6).
-3
Let t(h) = -4630*h + 101857. Calculate t(22).
-3
Let h(y) = -y**3 - 6*y**2 + 2*y + 17. Determine h(-8).
129
Let a(k) = -k**2 + 108*k - 1737. Calculate a(20).
23
Let l(z) = -z**3 - 15*z**2 - 38*z - 36. Determine l(-12).
-12
Let x(u) = 684*u - 2709. Determine x(4).
27
Let l(s) = -327*s + 2726. Give l(12).
-1198
Let n(r) = -2*r**3 + 5*r**2 + 10*r + 14. What is n(5)?
-61
Let i(n) = 89*n**3 + 3*n**2 + 5*n - 1. Calculate i(-1).
-92
Let i(l) = 83*l - 13282. Calculate i(160).
-2
Let s(j) = -11*j**3 + 681*j**2 + 63*j - 30. Determine s(62).
32
Let u(x) = -57*x - 2849. Calculate u(-50).
1
Let k(d) = 8*d**3 + d**2 + 3*d - 11. Give k(2).
63
Let y(j) = 3*j**3 + 2*j**2 + 10*j + 1. Determine y(0).
1
Let w(l) = -l**3 - 13*l**2 + 75*l + 164. Determine w(-16).
-268
Let m(i) = i**3 - 2*i**2 - 11*i - 9. Determine m(-2).
-3
Let m(z) = 25*z + 2005. Determine m(-52).
705
Let j(t) = t**2 + 5*t - 75. What is j(0)?
-75
Let k(q) = -2*q**3 + 9*q**2 + 31*q - 1. What is k(-4)?
147
Let t(c) = -3*c**2 - 36*c + 66. Calculate t(-16).
-126
Let p(a) = -a**2 + 3*a - 36. Determine p(0).
-36
Let h(u) = 253*u - 7085. Give h(28).
-1
Let s(w) = -w**2 - 44*w - 69. Calculate s(-14).
351
Let o(k) = 2*k**3 - 45*k**2 + 34*k + 578. Give o(21).
-31
Let g(w) = -w**3 + 2*w**2 - w + 233. What is g(7)?
-19
Let o(t) = t**3 - 5*t**2 - 4*t - 3. Determine o(6).
9
Let z(v) = 49*v - 154. Determine z(-5).
-399
Let i(v) = -4*v**2 - 209*v + 1332. Determine i(-58).
-2
Let m(l) = -31*l**3 + 186*l**2 - l + 19. Calculate m(6).
13
Let y(q) = 130*q - 3243. Calculate y(25).
7
Let q(r) = -r**3 + 120*r**2 + 207*r + 4520. Give q(122).
6
Let d(h) = h**2 - 11. What is d(4)?
5
Let v(u) = -20*u**3 - 5*u**2 + 2*u + 3. What is v(3)?
-576
Let h(f) = -4*f**3 - 2*f**2 + f - 2. Calculate h(-4).
218
Let k(z) = z**2 + 76*z + 878. Determine k(-15).
-37
Let l(k) = -2*k**3 - 11*k**2 - 29*k - 84. What is l(-6)?
126
Let x(f) = f**3 + 8*f**2 - 23*f - 8. Calculate x(-10).
22
Let z(r) = -5*r**3 - 2*r**2 - 1891*r - 1888. Determine z(-1).
6
Let w(h) = -2*h**3 - 14*h**2 + 10*h + 71. Give w(-7).
1
Let s(k) = k**3 - 231*k**2 - 11*k + 2548. What is s(231)?
7
Let o(p) = p**3 - 75*p**2 + 1368*p - 169. Calculate o(44).
7
Let p(c) = c**2 + 68*c - 3334. What is p(-101)?
-1
Let n(r) = -r**2 - 1030*r - 9157. Give n(-9).
32
Let o(v) = -52*v**2 - 3591*v - 214. Give o(-69).
-7
Let h(a) = a**2 + 32*a + 52. Determine h(-29).
-35
Let g(n) = -47*n**3 + 5* |
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SUN CITY CENTER – When aging seniors who live alone need help with their personal care, everyday chores, meal planning, transportation and more, keeping them in their homes can become a challenge – and that’s where Hanson Services can help.
“We’re Sun City Center’s first and oldest in-home care provider,” said 12-year administrator Georgana Collins, a licensed practical nurse for 43 years. “Our entire purpose is to keep people safely in their homes – not at a home – and we’ve been doing it for 15 years.”
The privately owned company, which has four offices, was started in 1996 by Mary Ann Hanson of Cleveland, Ohio. Its staff of certified nursing assistants and in-home care assistants fully understand the adult aging process, especially as it pertains to seniors and their special needs. All are carefully screened, trained, insured and bonded and covered for workers compensation.
The staff provides anywhere from two to 24 hours and service, one to seven days a week.
CNA Monica Bostich visits Rosemary Figueroa at her Apollo Beach home in Caribbean Isles four times per week. She fixes Figueroa’s breakfast and lunch, makes sure she takes her medications, performs light chores and provides companionship. The two women have become friends.
“It’s wonderful (having her),” Figueroa said. “She’s a very good person; she’s very easy to get along with; and she’s a big help. I don’t have to tell her what to do; she works independently. I wish I could have her here all the time.”
Bostich looks forward to seeing her each week.
“I love doing this job,” she said. “We don’t get rich by doing this, but I enjoy visiting clients and working with them. It’s a real partnership.”
And for the adult children of seniors needing such care, Hanson Services is a godsend.
“The peace of mind I have knowing Monica is there with my mother-in-law, Gladys, is immeasureable,” said American Momentum Bank Vice President Charlotte Clark of Gibsonton. “I know she’s safe, has a companion, and I never have to worry. I’m so grateful.”
Hanson Services recently lowered its hourly rates to be able to reach more people, Collins said.
“That’s what is good about small business,” she added. “We can be more flexible with our rates and the services we provide, which makes us more responsive to our clients’ needs.” |
package com.deliveredtechnologies.rulebook.model.pojotestrules.exceptions;
import static com.deliveredtechnologies.rulebook.model.RuleChainActionType.ERROR_ON_FAILURE;
import com.deliveredtechnologies.rulebook.annotation.Rule;
import com.deliveredtechnologies.rulebook.annotation.Then;
@Rule(order = 1, ruleChainAction = ERROR_ON_FAILURE)
public class RuleWhereThenThrowsAnExceptionErrorOnFailure {
@Then
public boolean then() throws Exception {
throw new Exception("Then Exception");
}
}
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