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Q:
Board Game Implementation in Java
First of all, I am not sure whether it is allowed to ask this kind of question. So I am trying to create a board game and I was stuck at the implementation of generating valid moves for Piece. Here is the extract of the class diagram.
You can think this board game like chess, so we need to know the location of other pieces while generating valid moves. The problem is I have no idea how to check it. Is my class diagram wrong? Or should I check at the board every time I check a square? And how do I do that in Java? Thanks for helping.
A:
The piece should not decide what its valid moves are, it should only be aware of where it is and how it's capable of moving. It is not responsible for that sort of logic.
The board should manage whether or not that's allowed or not (that is, it takes a piece which returns its possible moves to it, and in turn returns the valid moves).
The Piece class exposes a getPossibleMoves method that returns the list of positions it can reach:
public List<Square> getPossibleMoves(){ // might want to differentiate types of moves
Then, the board class has a getValidMoves method that takes a piece and returns its valid moves.
public List<Square> getValidMoves(Piece piece) {
return piece.getPossibleMoves().
stream(). // and filter by
filter(move -> isOnValidBoardCoordinate(move)). // can shorten
filter(move -> doesNotIntersectOtherPiece(move)).
filter(move -> otherValidation(move)).
collect(Collectors.toList());
}
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// This file spawns content tasks.
/* global content */
const TEST_PATH = getRootDirectory(gTestPath).replace(
"chrome://mochitests/content",
"http://example.com"
);
/**
* Verify that if the page contents change after print preview is initialized,
* and we re-initialize print preview (e.g. by changing page orientation),
* we still show (and will therefore print) the original contents.
*/
add_task(async function pp_after_orientation_change() {
const URI = TEST_PATH + "file_page_change_print_original_1.html";
// Can only do something if we have a print preview UI:
if (AppConstants.platform != "win" && AppConstants.platform != "linux") {
ok(true, "Can't test if there's no print preview.");
return;
}
// Ensure we get a browserStopped for this browser
let tab = await BrowserTestUtils.openNewForegroundTab(
gBrowser,
URI,
false,
true
);
let browserToPrint = tab.linkedBrowser;
let ppBrowser = PrintPreviewListener.getPrintPreviewBrowser();
// Get a promise now that resolves when the original tab's location changes.
let originalTabNavigated = BrowserTestUtils.browserStopped(browserToPrint);
// Enter print preview:
let printPreviewEntered = BrowserTestUtils.waitForMessage(
ppBrowser.messageManager,
"Printing:Preview:Entered"
);
document.getElementById("cmd_printPreview").doCommand();
await printPreviewEntered;
// Assert that we are showing the original page
await SpecialPowers.spawn(ppBrowser, [], async function() {
is(
content.document.body.textContent.trim(),
"INITIAL PAGE",
"Should have initial page print previewed."
);
});
await originalTabNavigated;
// Change orientation and wait for print preview to re-enter:
let orient = PrintUtils.getPrintSettings().orientation;
let orientToSwitchTo =
orient != Ci.nsIPrintSettings.kPortraitOrientation
? "portrait"
: "landscape";
let printPreviewToolbar = document.getElementById("print-preview-toolbar");
printPreviewEntered = BrowserTestUtils.waitForMessage(
ppBrowser.messageManager,
"Printing:Preview:Entered"
);
printPreviewToolbar.orient(orientToSwitchTo);
await printPreviewEntered;
// Check that we're still showing the original page.
await SpecialPowers.spawn(ppBrowser, [], async function() {
is(
content.document.body.textContent.trim(),
"INITIAL PAGE",
"Should still have initial page print previewed."
);
});
// Check that the other tab is definitely showing the new page:
await SpecialPowers.spawn(browserToPrint, [], async function() {
is(
content.document.body.textContent.trim(),
"REPLACED PAGE!",
"Original page should have changed."
);
});
PrintUtils.exitPrintPreview();
BrowserTestUtils.removeTab(tab);
});
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package yun.blog.transactionstudy.order;
import java.util.List;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Propagation;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
@Service
@RequiredArgsConstructor
@Transactional
public class OrderService {
private final OrderRepository orderRepository;
private final OrderFailedService orderFailedService;
@Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
public Order create() {
Order order = save();
orderFailedService.fail();
return order;
}
public Order save() {
final Order order = orderRepository.save(new Order(OrderStatus.READY));
// if (true) {
// throw new RuntimeException();
// }
return order;
}
@Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
public Order fail() {
final Order order = orderRepository.save(new Order(OrderStatus.FAILED));
if (true) {
throw new RuntimeException();
}
return order;
}
public List<Order> findAll() {
return orderRepository.findAll();
}
}
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Q:
Is there a way to make PyCharm to code complete CDN loaded libraries?
I am currently building Django App and I just loaded needed libraries from https://www.jsdelivr.com/
It's Bootstrap, jQuery and few other JS libs, but might grow in the future.
My question is can I somehow get completion and IntelliSense working without loading files locally to STATIC folder. Just by using CDN PyCharm does not seem to have any idea of Bootstrap classes.
A:
PyCharm has a built-in capability to download CDN libraries to local files.
Just press Alt + Enter (Mac) or press yellow lightbulb in front of the CDN URL to make local copies of the CDN files.
This gives you IntelliSense on these files and class names (like bootstrap or jQuery).
Doing this does not actually load the files in the project but outside and creates links in your idea/{project}.iml file example for my project below -->
+ <orderEntry type="library" name="bootstrap" level="application" />
+ <orderEntry type="library" name="tether" level="application" />
+ <orderEntry type="library" name="jquery" level="application" />
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{
"root": "../js",
"output": "../index.lmd.js",
"www_root": "../",
"modules": {
"main": "main.js",
"sha512": "@js/sha512.js"
},
"main": "main",
"ie": false,
"async": true,
"shortcuts": true
} |
WHILE PUNJAB Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh has resigned from Lok Sabha and Congress MLAs are also resigning following the Supreme Court verdict on SYL, Team Insaaf, led by Independent MLAs, Bains brothers, has asked the CM to call an emergency session of the Assembly. MLA Simarjeet Singh Bains and his elder brother Balwinder Bains, also an MLA, said, “It is a time to write history and hence rising above politics, the CM should call a Vidhan Sabha session where he should take all parties into confidence to walk against this decision. After this session, we both brothers will be the first ones to tender our resignations as MLAs.” They added that they will be waiting for two to three days for the session or they will submit their resignations in protest against the SC verdict on SYL as Punjab’s water cannot be shared with anyone.
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Simarjeet said, “Tomorrow, I along with my elder brother, MLAs Pargat Singh, Navjot Kaur Sidhu will be meeting CM Parkash Singh Badal in Chandigarh to ask him to convene an emergency session of Vidhan Sabha. And, if he fails to do that, it will be a clear indication that SAD was a party to this decision.”
He added, “Congress is shedding crocodile tears on this issue and sending resignations when the model code of conduct is about to be implemented. And, the CM’s real face will also be seen if he fails to call a special Vidhan Sabha session on this emergent issue.”
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package com.ripple.encodings.base58;
public class EncodingFormatException extends RuntimeException{
public EncodingFormatException(String message) {
super(message);
}
}
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Q:
Clear a line in the terminal
I sometimes start writing a command in the terminal (iTerm2) which half-way written I want to erase.
How can quickly remove all the characters on the line being worked on in the terminal?
A:
Press Ctrl-C. This will essentially start a new line.
To clear everything before the cursor position, use Ctrl-U.
To clear everything after the cursor position, use Ctrl-K.
These are some of the basic Bash keyboard shortcuts.
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Q:
Event QComboBox to Custom QLineEdit
The Problem: I have a custom event on QLineEdit inside a custom QComboBox and only specific events are being passed from QComboBox to QLineEdit when I want. I can't get tab to be passed.
I want when an event passed to QComboBox it will be passed to the QComboBox->lineEdit().
QCustomCombo::QCustomCombo():
m_lineEdit(new QCustomLineEdit)
{
setEditable(true);
setLineEdit(m_lineEdit);
}
bool QCustomCombo::event(QEvent * event)
{
if(event->type() == QEvent::KeyPress)
{
QKeyEvent * keyEvent = static_cast<QKeyEvent *>(event);
if(keyEvent->key() == Qt::Key_tab)
{
//pass to lineEdit();
//I have tried 'return true/false and QWidget::event(event)'
//I have also tried commenting out QCustomCombo::event, same problem
}
}
return QWidget::event(event);
}
QCustomLineEdit
bool QCustomLineEdit::event(QEvent * event)
{
if(event->type() == QEvent::KeyPress)
{
QKeyEvent * keyEvent = static_cast<QKeyEvent *>(event);
if(keyEvent->key() == Qt::Key_tab)
{
//Do custom Stuff
return true;
}
if(keyEvent->key() == Qt::Key_Right)
{
//Do custom Stuff
return true;
}
}
return QWidget::event(event);
}
The QLineEdit has a custom event for left and right arrow and tab. Only the arrows get passed. But I can't get the tab to pass to it.
A:
Use QApplication::notify
bool QCustomCombo::event(QEvent * event)
{
if(event->type() == QEvent::KeyPress)
{
QKeyEvent * keyEvent = static_cast<QKeyEvent *>(event);
if(keyEvent->key() == Qt::Key_Tab)
{
qApp->notify(m_lineEdit, event);
return true;
}
}
return QWidget::event(event);
}
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Genetics and mechanisms of hepatic cystogenesis.
Polycystic liver disease (PLD) is a heterogeneous genetic condition. PKD1 and PKD2 germline mutations are found in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Autosomal dominant polycystic liver disease (ADPLD) is associated with germline mutations in PRKCSH, SEC63, LRP5, and recently ALG8 and SEC61. GANAB mutations are found in both patient groups. Loss of heterozygosity of PLD-genes in cyst epithelium contributes to the development of hepatic cysts. A genetic interaction network is implied in hepatic cystogenesis that connects the endoplasmic glycoprotein control mechanisms and polycystin expression and localization. Wnt signalling could be the major downstream signalling pathway that results in hepatic cyst growth. PLD in ADPLD and ADPKD probably results from changes in one common final pathway that initiates cyst growth. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Cholangiocytes in Health and Diseaseedited by Jesus Banales, Marco Marzioni, Nicholas LaRusso and Peter Jansen. |
Q:
Creating a HUD (scale invariant text / labels) in SVG/Raphael when using setViewBox
I am creating Raphael web app to allow panning and zooming a floor plan. This all works great but I cannot seem to find out how I can add scale invariant text (or other objects) onto the interface. Everything scales and moves when a user pans / zooms. I basically want HUD features to remain in their positions / sizes in spite of any user panning / zooming.
I currently zoom / pan using setViewBox
paper.setViewBox(x,y,newViewBoxWidth,newViewBoxHeight);
A:
Your UI should be in a separate Raphael paper laid on top of your floorplan.
Plain SVG allows nesting SVGs but Raphael doesn't, as it must provide VML fallbacks.
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Effects of socio-emotional stressors on ventilation rate and subjective workload during simulated CPR by lay rescuers.
Several studies have documented the occurrence of high ventilation rates during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but to date, there have been no scientific investigation of the causes of hyperventilation. The objective of the current study was to test the effects of socio-emotional stressors on lay rescuers' ventilation rate in a simulated resuscitation setting using a manikin model. A within-subjects experiment with randomized order of conditions tested lay rescuers' ventilation rate on an intubated manikin during exposure to socio-emotional stressors and during a control condition where no external stressors were present. Ventilation rates and subjective workload were significantly higher during exposure to socio-emotional stressors than during the control condition. All but one of the nine participants ventilated at a higher ventilation rate in the experimental condition. All nine participants rated the subjective workload to be higher during exposure to socio-emotional stressors. Hence, exposure to socio-emotional stressors is associated with increased ventilation rates performed by lay rescuers during simulated cardiac arrest using a manikin model. These findings might have implications for the understanding of the type of situations which hyperventilation may occur. Awareness of these situations may have implications for training of lay rescues. |
On Friday the Democratic National Committee sent out an email to its supporters, signed by President Obama, that shows an unwillingness to believe the results of the election that almost all observers agree is a Republican wave.
“The Republicans had a good night on Tuesday — but believe me when I tell you that our results were better because you stepped up, talked to your family and friends, and cast your ballot,” the e-mail read.
The full email reads:
The hardest thing in politics is changing the status quo. The easiest thing is to get cynical. The Republicans had a good night on Tuesday — but believe me when I tell you that our results were better because you stepped up, talked to your family and friends, and cast your ballot.
I want you to remember that we’re making progress. There are workers who have jobs today who didn’t have them before. There are millions of families who have health insurance today who didn’t have it before. There are kids going to college today who didn’t have the opportunity to go to college before.
So don’t get cynical. Cynicism didn’t put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice.
I have hope for the next few years, and I have hope for what we’re going to accomplish together. If you do, too, join the Democratic Party, and let’s keep building this movement:
Thank you so much.
Barack Obama
The President may have intended to say “our results, as bad as they were, were better than they would have been had you not stepped up, talked to your family and friends, and cast your ballot.”
But that language would have led to the inevitable question — how much worse would it have been had the recipients of this email not voted for the President’s policies, which the rest of the country soundly rejected? |
Where only you know who you are.
Love and Sunlight…
Have you ever tried to tie sunlight up in a ball of barbed wire and kept it close to you always, cradling it like your own precious child; never letting it free?
My guess is, probably not. Not only would the experience be painful for you – and probably unfavorable to the sunlight – but it is something that would be very very wrong if you actually accomplished it. Good thing it’s impossible, isn’t it?
Have you ever tried to force love? Forced it to come to you, from you, around you or to stay in a place it just doesn’t belong? Again, something very painful – not simply to yourself but a detrimental sin on the cosmic scale. Love is so much like sunlight. Warm. Giving. Forgiving. Natural. Beautiful. An eventual source of all life.
But too, does it have it’s more painful side… Sunlight can burn, it can dry, it can purge and parch and hurt. It becomes malevolent in the proper conditions and can utterly destroy you if you try to embrace it in a hopeless environment. Love and sunlight: Two very beautiful and dangerous things, both spilling preciously and without monetary cost all over our planet in varying degrees. Love and sunlight, the eternal metaphorical simile.
In the last few months, the sunlight dimmed in my world. Things grew cold and weak and in the end, there was small death all around me. Things started to hurt. Waking up has been harder to do. And I was always cold. My sunlight was fading because I held clutched in my hand a ball of barbed wire, ready to strike. Restrained only by the keen sense in my heart that trying to do that would be a terrible crime and in the end, utterly futile.
One cannot bind the sun, anymore than one can change the true feelings of a heart. One can only wait for winter to pass, spring to come and the sun to grace again the expansive tundras. Looking about, you can only do your best not to be in the shadow of a mountain when the sun finally does return. You may only hope that it’s blessing won’t come too late, if at all.
The sun can be a fickle thing. But as unpredictable as sunlight may be, one cannot simply choose to cease to exist simply based on the cold. Whether the sun rises or not, life goes on; and it becomes a matter of faith how you choose to deal with it. You can choose to forsake the sun and the warmth it brings, striving to blend into your new, cold waste.
You can be angry with the sun, accuse it, and end up shaking vacantly your fist at the sky, in the vain hope that your threats will somehow cow an unstoppable force of nature into doing your will. You can forget the sun, and be surprised when it shows its face, and take it for granted as it appears – or you can accept the sun, and believe in its strength. Have faith in the will and power of the sun, and know that when it returns, it will be all the brighter, and all the sweeter for your toils in the dark and the cold. This is by far, the most warming path you could take. The sun can be a fickle thing.
When one has felt the sun, seen it’s light and been embraced by its warmth, it is a difficult and bitter thing to try to accept the change of the seasons. You can fight the departure of the sun in only so many ways before you ultimately suffer defeat. You can follow it, as it moves on to grace new lands and new pastures. You can plot it’s path, and intercept it in a different place, moving on from your old place in the sun.
You can try to hold it – strain to keep it from moving – but this gesture is as dangerous as it is impossible, and will only hurt everything in the process. The sun is not an entity to be controlled. The only time you need not track the sun and hunt it is when you have its favor. The sun needs you as you need it, it is not a solitary experience. There is no binding the sun by any means, and it should never be tried.
So here I stand clutching barbed wire, facing the sunlight. It doesn’t move to other pastures, nor light other lands. The sun simply is going away, and left as much warmth as it could manage before moving onwards. The sun may be fickle, but it is not cruel. People love the sun and the sun doesn’t often forsake the people. I toss my barbed wire aside, and give the sun its freedom. I know it will be back someday. The sun loves me. And I love the sun.
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Vitamin B12 absorption: mammalian physiology and acquired and inherited disorders.
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is a cobalt-containing compound synthesized by bacteria and an essential nutrient in mammals, which take it up from diet. The absorption and distribution of dietary vitamin B12 to the organism is a complex process involving several gene products including carrier proteins, plasma membrane receptors and transporters. Disturbed cellular entry, transit or egress of vitamin B12 may lead to low vitamin B12 status or deficiency and eventually hematological and neurological disorders. The aim of this review is to summarize the causes leading to vitamin B12 deficiency including decreased intake, impaired absorption and increased requirements. Under physiological conditions, vitamin B12 bound to the gastric intrinsic factor is internalized in the ileum by a highly specific receptor complex composed by Cubilin (Cubn) and Amnionless (Amn). Following exit of vitamin B12 from the ileum, general cellular uptake from the circulation requires the transcobalamin receptor CD320 whereas kidney reabsorption of cobalamin depends on Megalin (Lrp2). Whereas malabsorption of vitamin B12 is most commonly seen in the elderly, selective pediatric, nondietary-induced B12 deficiency is generally due to inherited disorders including the Imerslund-Gräsbeck syndrome and the much rarer intrinsic factor deficiency. Biochemical, clinical and genetic research on these disorders considerably improved our knowledge of vitamin B12 absorption. This review describes basic and recent findings on the intestinal handling of vitamin B12 and its importance in health and disease. |
{
"type": "minecraft:crafting_shaped",
"pattern": [
"###",
"#X#",
"###"
],
"key": {
"#": {
"item": "minecraft:stick"
},
"X": {
"tag": "minecraft:wool"
}
},
"result": {
"item": "minecraft:painting"
}
} |
I know that I've probably posted some of these pictures before, but I don't stop being inspired by them. The Isabel Marant jeans don't really need any explanation and the shoes with the cross heel (and the belt too for that matter) haunts me in my dreams. Amazing tie dye jeans (keep an eye on the Style Encounters shop in the next few days) and layered jackets. |
AvalonDock nuget
I've just noticed that you've released a new version of AvalonDock and so I was wondering if you guys will also continue to support the
nuget package and keep it up to date or if I should drop that from my current project.
Either way, I'm looking forward to using a properly supported version of AvalonDock.
P.S: I've also just noticed that the humongous download button on the homepage here still points to the previous version. |
[Sterile packing materials for formaldehyde sterilization].
Apart from the already widely applied sterilization by ethylene oxide, the sterilization by gaseous formaldehyde is another reliable procedure for the sterilization of thermolabile instruments. An essential advantage of the sterilization by gaseous formaldehyde over the so-called wet sterilization is that it can be performed in a recontamination-proof sterile packing. Packing materials produced in the GDR, the germ-tightness and toxicological safety of which were already known, were tested to evaluate their suitability for sterilization by gaseous formaldehyde. An appropriate packing variant was found and tested for microbiological reliability. |
Q:
Hooking up a load cell to a temperature logger
I have an idea for little project where I want to log weight changes (standalone) on a bee hive, preferably low-cost.
Now there's a lot of cheap temperature loggers on the market, for example this one: Temperature Data Logger on ebay.
Is it possible to connect a load cell to this or any other generic temperature logger, provided that I apply the right amplification to get the load cell to work in the same output range as the temperature sensor? Or is a temperature sensor output radically different from a load cell output? I have no problem with using a formula to convert the temperature values to kg values.
A:
Almost certainly the output from a load cell is a Wheatstone bridge whereas the output from a temperature sensor is typically a single-ended two-wire configuration that offers a resistance change with temperature or maybe a constant current output like the AD590.
This likely means that the load cell would need to be buffered with an instrumentation amplifier followed by a voltage to current generator if you are lucky to find that the temperature logger you have uses a device similar to an AD590 then you are OK - it can be done.
However, if your temperature data logger expects the input sensor to be a thermocouple of platinum resistance type gauge then you won't be successful.
Added to this, you need to provide an excitation voltage to a load cell - it is a four wire device; two wires are excitation supply and two wires are its output.
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Q:
firebase hosting multiple sites configure .firebaserc file
I have firebase hosting working successfully in my project however I want to use the same database for a different site on a subdomain so I thought I would click add another site on firebase hosting.
I can configure the a records etc for the domain with no issues but am having trouble deploying content to the secondary site.
For example if I run firebase init and follow the prompts my .firebaserc looks the same in both my main project and my sub project.
{
"projects": {
"default": "<project-name-here>"
}
}
Is there a way to tell the file which hosting site you are trying to deploy to? I have seen references to multiple databases here but I don't think this is relevant to what I am trying to do?
A:
You need to set deployment targets:
firebase target:apply hosting target-name resource-name
Where the parameters are:
target-name — a unique identifier (that you've defined yourself) for the Hosting site that you're deploying to
resource-name — the name of the Hosting site as listed in your Firebase project
Let me know if it works!
Source: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/multisites
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The present invention relates generally to induction heating, and more particularly, to a coil with an integrated resonant capacitor for induction heating, as well as to methods of fabrication thereof and to induction heating systems employing the same.
Induction heating is a known method of heating an electrically conductive load using an alternating magnetic field to induce currents in the load. Induction heating can be beneficial in applications where direct contact with a load is undesired or unattainable, and is efficient since the majority of heating energy appears directly within the load. Further, it is possible to precisely control the depth that the heating energy penetrates into the load.
In a majority of induction heating applications, an alternating current (AC) magnetic field is generated in the load by means of a coil, known as the working coil, heating coil, or induction coil which is placed in close proximity to the load, and may even surround the load. In electrical terms, the working coil forms the primary of a transformer and the load becomes the secondary. However, the transformer thus formed often has a very high leakage inductance, and thus, a resonant circuit is usually formed by the addition of a series or parallel capacitor. This resonant capacitor has three main functions. First, the capacitor is used to cancel high leakage inductance and thus make it easier to drive the required power into the transformer, and therefore the load. Second, the combination of the load, working coil and capacitor forms a tuned network that allows simple control of the load power by adjustment of the input frequency. Third, the tuned network formed acts to reduce the harmonic content of the magnetic field, minimizing the electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated.
The resonant capacitor for an induction heater must often store a great deal of reactive power, meaning that the capacitor must handle high voltage, high current, or both. This typically requires an expensive and physically large capacitor. Furthermore, capacitor losses must be taken into account to prevent overheating and capacitor failure.
There are several approaches used for resonant capacitors. For industrial applications, custom capacitors are often placed in metal cans filled with dielectric fluid. A benefit of this approach is simplification of the thermal management. In other applications, custom capacitors can be constructed using many smaller capacitors in order to handle the defined requirements. In all these cases, however, the capacitor(s) is(are) a separate physical entity, which necessarily increases the overall size of the induction heater. Thus, recognized herein is a need in the art for an enhanced coil for induction heating which is designed with an embedded capacitance that reduces the overall cost and size of the resultant induction heating apparatus. |
This invention relates to pagers. In particular, it relates to pagers with visible displays of information that is sent.
A pager is a portable device for allowing a user at a remote location to receive information from a central location. In its simplest form, a pager may simply alert a number of users to the fact that their attention is required. They are then expected to call the central location to find who has called and what the message is. Some of the many refinements of this principle include selective calling which alerts only the user of a particular pager that he is being called. Another such feature is message paging which not only alerts the user with a signal of some sort but also delivers a message to the user. Other features are possible and have been used in some pagers. In increasing the number of available features, the designer of a pager normally maintains certain objectives, including some of the following. A user should be able to forget a pager until he is paged. This means that it is preferable that the pager be silent unless its user is called. It also means that the pager should be as light as possible since part of the weight of a pager is its batteries and one objective is to limit the needed electrical energy, and hence the size of the batteries required.
A conflict in the use of pagers arises when the user of a pager is in a group of people. On the one hand, it is desirable for a pager to make an unequivocal bid for the attention of its user. This has typically meant the use of a strident alert tone to minimize the possibility that the user might overlook a call. Such an alert tone can provide an unwelcome distraction when it interrupts the affairs of a group of people and may as a result become an embarrassment to the user of the pager. Often, the only remedy available to the user of the pager is to turn off the pager and thereby run the risk of missing a call. However, when he does this, he frustrates the principal purpose of a pager which is to make known to him, whatever his location, that someone has a message for him. From the point of view of the person who tries to reach the user of a pager, a switched-off pager means that the user of the pager has become unavailable.
It is evident that a desirable feature of a pager is an unobstrusive alert to its user. Such alerts have been achieved in the past with some form of indicator to the user that a call has been made while his volume has been turned down. However, such call indicative have been able to do no more than to alert the user of the need to call the communications center to find what message is there for him. If his pager is one that not only alerts him but also delivers a message, such as a numbered call, then that message is lost to him since it is not normally stored at the communications center.
The lack of utility of a pager that results when the user turns it off and receives a call is compounded further when the user receives a plurality of calls when he has turned off his sound. The user who hears a plurality of alert tones without receiving the associated messages has lost much of the utility of his pager. To make his pager the useful instrument that it should be while allowing him to continue to be an acceptable member of a social group, he needs some way to store messages that come to him while he is in a group and to recover those messages at a time when he can make use of the information.
If the user were at a fixed location, the solution would be simple. It is the conventional telephone answering service; record the message on a tape recorder for later playback. This is not a satisfactory solution, however, for the user of a pager because of the size and weight associated with a tape recorder and its associated playback equipment and the cost of such equipment. A pager that combined a tape recorder and means for playing back a recorded tape would cost too much and would be too big to be convenient for carrying as a pager.
There are several other features that are desirable to increase the utility of a pager. One of these is a priority system that allows certain callers to reach the user of the pager in spite of his attempts to turn off the volume. A priority feature could be combined with tone-only paging, with voice paging or with a data page. A tone-only, page in the absence of a display, merely alerts the user of a page to the fact that he has been paged without telling him of the source. It would be useful, in addition, to be able to inform him of the source of a tone-only page. Furthermore, if the user of a pager has chosen to silence the alerts during a period when he receives a non-priority voice page, it would be useful to him to know that he has received a voice page during the period of silence. |
//
// Copyright (c) ZeroC, Inc. All rights reserved.
//
#import "LocalObject.h"
NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN
ICEIMPL_API @protocol ICELoggerProtocol
-(void) print:(NSString*)message NS_SWIFT_NAME(print(_:));
-(void) trace:(NSString*)category message:(NSString*)message NS_SWIFT_NAME(trace(category:message:));
-(void) warning:(NSString*)message NS_SWIFT_NAME(warning(_:));
-(void) error:(NSString*)message NS_SWIFT_NAME(error(_:));
-(NSString*) getPrefix;
-(id) cloneWithPrefix:(NSString*)prefix NS_SWIFT_NAME(cloneWithPrefix(_:));
@end
ICEIMPL_API @interface ICELogger: ICELocalObject<ICELoggerProtocol>
-(void) print:(NSString*)message;
-(void) trace:(NSString*)category message:(NSString*)message;
-(void) warning:(NSString*)message;
-(void) error:(NSString*)message;
-(NSString*) getPrefix;
-(id) cloneWithPrefix:(NSString*)prefix;
@end
#ifdef __cplusplus
@interface ICELogger()
@property (nonatomic, readonly) std::shared_ptr<Ice::Logger> logger;
@end
#endif
NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_END
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The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has made major healines and has been trending online since a video of him struggling to read a speech, emerged on social media.
The video which is making the rounds online, shows the police chief struggling to read his speech at the official commissioning of the Force Technical Intelligence Unit, in Kano state.
He struggled repeatedly with the words “Transmission,” and “I mean.”
The IG was captured on camera reading his speech saying; “I mean, transmission, I mean effort, that the transmission cooperation to transmission, I mean transmission to have effect, ehm, apprehend, I mean, apprehensive towards the recommendation, recommended formation effective and effect, I mean, apprehensive at the transmission of…and transmission and transmission for the effective in the police command.”
After several attempts to get his speech right, the IG, struggling with his paper, apologised to his audience. “Sorry, I’m sorry please,” he said.
However, Ibrahim’s struggle did not end there. A man in suit joins him to help hold down his script, and even helped with the pronunciation of the words. But this didn’t make the reading any better for the IGP.
“All effective the transmission, other transmission, I can state without contradiction that I have commissioned what?,” he continued.
The IG of Police was in Kano on Monday to commission the Force Technical Intelligence Unit. In this exclusive video by Voice of Liberty, an embarassing footage catches him struggling to read his speech, making multiple errors and unable to pronounce words. Why? |
[Clinical findings on heart myxoma (authors' translation)].
Clinical findings, diagnosis, and pathology of heart myxoma are discussed on the basis of personal experience with nine patients. There was a striking variety of signs and symptoms caused by tumor embolization, hemodynamic obstruction, and autoimmunologic reactions. Echocardiography is the method of choice, although angiography may still be necessary in atypical or negative echocardiographic findings. The tumor should be removed as soon as possible after diagnosis. There is danger of tumor embolization in the course of the operation. Long-term results are good, if resection of the tumors is performed before catastrophic complications occur. Morphologically, myxomas are genuine tumors characterized by myxomatous stromata and cells. |
Melanomacrophage functions in the liver of the caecilian Siphonops annulatus.
Melanomacrophages are phagocytes that synthesize melanin. They are found in the liver and spleen of ectothermic vertebrates, and in the kidney of fish. In agnathan and elasmobranch fish, melanomacrophages are seen as isolated cells, and forming clusters in all the other vertebrates. The natural phagocytic activity of melanomacrophages is poorly characterized, as most of the research works have focused on induced phagocytic activity only. Furthermore, little is known about amphibian melanomacrophages, mainly about those in caecilians - wormlike amphibians in the order of Gymnophiona, which is the least known group of terrestrial vertebrates. The present research work aimed at the structure and function of hepatic melanomacrophages of Siphonops annulatus, a species largely found in South America. We identified the role of these cells in the control of circulating basophils (pro-melanogenic cells), in the turnover of liver collagen stroma and in the hemocatheresis, interrelated physiological mechanisms. |
The changing spectrum of arrhythmogenic (right ventricular) cardiomyopathy.
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous heart muscle disorder associated with ventricular arrhythmias and risk of sudden death. The disease is heredo-familial, and mutations in desmosomal genes have been identified in about half of patients. Recent experimental models confirm this disease develops after birth due to progressive myocardial dystrophy. Genotype-phenotype correlations, including magnetic resonance and pathology studies on heart specimens, are currently demonstrating that the spectrum of the disease is wider than initially thought and usually referred to with the adjective "right ventricular", with the evidence of biventricular or even isolated left ventricular forms, so that it is increasingly identified simply as "arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy". A revision of the diagnostic criteria encompassing familial, electrocardiographic, arrhythmic, morpho-functional and histopathologic findings, has been made to improve diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, in particular of the concealed forms and left-dominant subtypes of the disease. Experimental models are mandatory to gain an insight into the cascade of cellular and molecular events leading from gene defect to myocardial dystrophy in ARVC. |
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight, hand-crafted platformer from the creators of multiplayer classic TowerFall. • A narrative-driven, single-player adventure like mom used to make, with a charming cast of characters and a to...
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this sup... |
Some systems may include multiple nodes that communicate data between one another between different parts of the system. In some systems (e.g., vehicle systems), each node may be, for example, an electrical control unit (ECU) that controls a specific part of the system. For example, one node may control a specific part of a system (such as a wheel braking system) and may rely on a sensor measurement taken at a different node that controls a different part of the system (e.g., a brake pedal control system). Nodes may communicate data between one another by driving (i.e., transmitting and receiving) data across a communication bus. In some systems, rather than include a dedicated communication bus between two communicating nodes, multiple nodes in the system may communicate with one another via a single shared communication bus (e.g., a single communication bus that is shared by multiple nodes in the system). For example, a wheel braking system may communicate with a brake pedal control system across the same communication bus used by a cooling system to communicate with an engine propulsion system even though the wheel braking and brake pedal control systems rarely or never communicate directly with the cooling and/or the engine propulsion systems.
In some systems, nodes may communicate across a single shared bus according to a message-based protocol, such as a Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol, a FlexRay™ protocol, an Ethernet protocol or another type of message-based communication protocol. Message-based protocols may minimize and even prevent data communication between two nodes from interfering with the data communication between two different nodes. Message-based protocols may eliminate the need for a central (e.g., host) computer to manage communication data on the bus by instead relying on timing (e.g., controlling when a particular node can communicate on the bus) and/or message identifiers (e.g., headers within the data that identify the sender and recipient of a data communication) defined by the protocol.
Message-based protocols may define communication between nodes using low voltage differential signals. Two or more nodes may communicate data between each other by transmitting and receiving differential signals across the bus. The polarity of a low voltage differential signal at a given time may define the logic value (e.g., a one or zero for binary data) of the data being transmitted. For example, a transmitting node may include a bus driver that drives a low voltage differential signal (e.g., as the difference between two voltage signals) across one or more signal lines of the bus. The bus driver of a receiving node may receive the two voltage signals from the one or more signal lines of the bus and determine, based on the difference in voltage between the two signals, a single low voltage differential signal. Based on the polarity of the low voltage differential signal, the receiving node may determine the data being transmitted being transmitted across the bus.
While a single shared communication may offer the advantage of limiting the number of electrical connections (e.g., wires) used to communicate data between nodes of a system, a single communication bus may have some disadvantages. For example, by way of physically connecting to the bus, each node connected to the bus is electrically coupled (i.e., connected) to every other node connected to the bus. As such, each node on the bus inherently shares an electrical connection with every other node connected to the bus and may be susceptible to over-current conditions caused by every other node on the bus. In other words, a single node on the bus could cause an over-current condition (e.g., by way of a short circuit, incorrect design, excessive load, or another factor) on the bus that either damages or otherwise causes other nodes connected to the bus to malfunction. In addition, the wire harness that holds the bus may cause an over-current condition at the bus that has the potential to damage the nodes connected to the bus. For instance, an over-current condition may arise on a bus when a bus wire of a wire harness inadvertently comes in contact with other electrical wires or metal parts of a supporting mechanical structure due to vibrations, collisions, and/or failures of the supporting mechanical structure. |
The invention concerns heating of materials, and more particularly heating with radio frequency (RF) energy that can be applied to process flows. In particular, this disclosure concerns an advantageous method for RF heating of materials that are susceptible of heating by RF energy by electric dissipation, magnetic dissipation, electrical conductivity and by a combination of two or more of them. In particular, this invention provides a method and apparatus for heating mixtures containing bituminous ore, oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, or heavy oil during processing after extraction from geologic deposits.
Bituminous ore, oil sands, tar sands, and heavy oil are typically found as naturally occurring mixtures of sand or clay and dense and viscous petroleum. Recently, due to depletion of the world's oil reserves, higher oil prices, and increases in demand, efforts have been made to extract and refine these types of petroleum ore as an alternative petroleum source. Because of the high viscosity of bituminous ore, oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, and heavy oil, however, the drilling and refinement methods used in extracting standard crude oil are typically not available. Therefore, bituminous ore, oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, and heavy oil are typically extracted by strip mining, or from a well in which viscosity of the material to be removed is reduced by heating with steam or by combining with solvents so that the material can be pumped from the well.
Material extracted from these deposits is viscous, solid or semisolid and does not flow easily at normal temperatures making transportation and processing difficult and expensive. Such material is typically heated during processing to separate oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, or heavy oil into more viscous bitumen crude oil, and to distill, crack, or refine the bitumen crude oil into usable petroleum products.
Conventional methods of heating bituminous ore, oil sands, tar sands, and heavy oil suffer from many drawbacks. For example, the conventional methods typically add a large amount of water to the materials and require a large amount of energy. Conventional heating methods do not heat material uniformly or rapidly which limits processing of bituminous ore, oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, and heavy oil. For both environmental reasons and efficiency/cost reasons it is advantageous to reduce or eliminate the amount of water used in processing bituminous ore, oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, and heavy oil, and to provide a method of heating that is efficient and environmentally friendly and that is suitable for post-excavation processing of the bitumen, oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, and heavy oil.
RF heating is heating by exposure to RF energy. The nature and suitability of RF heating depends on several factors. RF energy is accepted by most materials but the degree to which a material is susceptible to heating by RF energy varies widely. RF heating of a material depends on the frequency of the RF electromagnetic energy, intensity of the RF energy, proximity to the source of the RF energy, conductivity of the material to be heated, and whether the material to be heated is magnetic or non-magnetic.
RF heating has not replaced conventional methods of heating petroleum ore such as bituminous ore, oil sands, tar sands, and heavy oil. One reason that RF heating has not been more widely applied to heating of hydrocarbon material in petroleum ore is that it does not heat readily when exposed to RF energy. Petroleum ore possesses low dielectric dissipation factors (∈″), low (or zero) magnetic dissipation factors (μ″), and low or zero conductivity. |
Periodic EEG patterns: importance of their recognition and clinical significance.
Periodic electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns consist of discharges usually epileptiform in appearance, which occur at regular intervals, in critical patients. They are commonly classified as periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs), bilateral independent PLEDs or BIPLEDs, generalized epileptiform discharges (GPEDs) and triphasic waves. Stimulus-induced rhythmic, periodic or ictal discharges (SIRPIDs) are peculiar EEG patterns, which may be present as periodic discharges. The aim of this study is to make a review of the periodic EEG patterns, emphasizing the importance of their recognition and clinical significance. The clinical significance of the periodic EEG patterns is uncertain, it is related to a variety of etiologies, and many authors suggest that these patterns are unequivocally epileptogenic in some cases. Their recognition and classification are important to establish an accurate correlation between clinical, neurological, laboratorial and neuroimaging data with the EEG results. |
Q:
Visual Studio debugger step into compiled source
I want to be able to step into the source code that is behind a 3rd party (not .Net framework) dll referenced in my own user code. I've done this before but can't now. When I try to step in, VS says there is no source available and would I like to go to disassembly.
How do I get VS to ask me to link to the source code to step into?
Cheers
A:
What you would need is the debug file (.pdb) of the assembly you want to step into.
The debug file contains all the information about every line, every method, class and variable, but it does not guarantee that you would successfully be able to "step into" the actual 3rd party source code as originally developed.
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Q:
Connecting AD to multiple networks. Use firewall rule or dual NIC?
We want to connect our AD to multiple networks. There is a firewall between these networks. I wanted to find out if it is best practice for us to open up a firewall rule for the DNS/AD or to connect to each network separately by having two NICs in the AD server?
Thanks
A:
Making changes to the firewall is probably the correctest answer.
Multi-homing a DC is always problematic, and IIRC not support by Microsoft.
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As an interesting side-note, one of my friends who spent time in Afghanistan and Iraq told me they no longer fix bayonets on rifles, or at least aren't required to if I remember. He was one of the last units to do so, and that was about three years ago. |
Q:
Prevent Trello board members from deleting a card
Is it possible to prevent board members from deleting a card in Trello?
I have a board where access is restricted to members only, and as the board owner, I've created a card, but I've found other members can delete the card.
This is bad news, as the card disappears completely, and even deletes the related events from the activity log. Is there any way of restricting the delete function?
A:
No, there currently is no way to do this. Permissions is something we may add later and I assume that it would be covered by that, but we don't have any time frame on when that might happen (and we might also charge for features like that).
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package com.zvm.classfile.attribute;
import com.zvm.basestruct.U1;
import com.zvm.basestruct.U2;
import com.zvm.basestruct.U4;
public class SourceDebugExtensionAttribute extends AttributeBase {
public U2 attributeNameIndex;
public U4 attributeLength;
public U1[] debugExtension;
}
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Q:
Upload data on Google Cloud from an url
I'm trying to upload a dataset from a public url to a Google Cloud Machine Learning project, what is the easiest way?
This is the source url https://www.kaggle.com/c/carvana-image-masking-challenge/download/train.zip
There's an easy solution as the following code example (not working)?
gsutil cp https://www.kaggle.com/c/carvana-image-masking-challenge/download/train.zip train.zip
A:
gsutil cp command is able to copy files between the local machine where gsutil is running and Google Cloud storage. (It is not supporting external URLs as source or destination.
If you download the zip file to your local computer, then you can upload to Cloud Storage via gsutil.
It's likely faster if you do this on a Cloud instance, depending on the size of the ZIP.
When transferring data from an on-premise location, use gsutil.
When transferring data from another cloud storage provider, use Storage Transfer Service.
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• The Surgeon General has determined that there is no safe level of exposure to ambient smoke!
• If you smell even a subtle odor of smoke, you are being exposed to poisonous and carcinogenic chemical compounds!
• Even a brief exposure to smoke raises blood pressure, (no matter what your state of health) and can cause blood clotting, stroke, or heart attack in vulnerable people. Even children experience elevated blood pressure when exposed to smoke!
• Since smoke drastically weakens the lungs' immune system, avoiding smoke is one of the best ways to prevent colds, flu, bronchitis, or risk of an even more serious respiratory illness, such as pneumonia or tuberculosis! Does your child have the flu? Chances are they have been exposed to ambient smoke! |
This Is What Happens When Two Tech Writers Climb Into Robots And Fight
Contrary to what you may have heard, South by Southwest Interactive isn’t just about high-minded panels and keynotes filled with big ideas. No, sometimes startups do fun, goofy promotions like asking people to battle each other from inside the Bionic Bopper Cars offered by Hammacher Schlemmer.
And that is indeed what Distil Networks did over the weekend, challenging attendees to “fight your friends” and offering a few “title match fights” under the dubious premise that they would attract more spectators.
In my case, I took on Tom Cheredar, who writes for my old employer VentureBeat. For some reason, TechCrunch TV producer Steve Long decided to tag along and capture all the intense action, which you can see in the video above. |
Q:
Ask for User camera access only Once
I need acces to the user webcam so that he can do en an experience on the website i'm developing. At some point he can restart the experience, but he has to accept the use of his webcam again.
Is it possible to get the access to the webcam once he accepted at the first time ?
Thanks.
A:
In Chrome, when a page's media request is granted, it will be stored automatically only if it is a SSL/TLS connection.
In FireFox, if the connection is SSL/TLS, the end user has an option to select for Always Share. It can be found in the drop down menu accessed from hitting the arrow next to the allow button.
Either way, it must be HTTPS for the user to accept once and never again.
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# Configure Rails Environment
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
require File.expand_path("../dummy/config/environment.rb", __FILE__)
require "rails/test_help"
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :test
ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true
ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:host] = "test.com"
Rails.backtrace_cleaner.remove_silencers!
# Configure capybara for integration testing
require "capybara/rails"
Capybara.default_driver = :rack_test
Capybara.default_selector = :css
# Run any available migration
ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrate File.expand_path("../dummy/db/migrate/", __FILE__)
# Load support files
Dir["#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/support/**/*.rb"].each { |f| require f } |
Q:
what are specified value, computed value, and actual value?
English isn't my first language so I find it hard to learn from MDN.
I think from what i read a specified value is a style that was specified in a style sheet or a style that was inherited from a parent element.
I dont really know what a computed value is
An actual value is the value that is actually used
A:
It can look as if those values are all the same; i.e. specified, computed and actual values all being 1px, and you can't see any differences and you wonder why there are so many phrases to describe the same thing!
So maybe some examples will make it clear.
The specified value is whatever you specify. For instance, if you write p {font-size:2rem; in your stylesheet, then the specified value for p is 2rem, obviously.
Then the browser computes what that is in pixels, which is (at least if 1rem is 16px) 32px. That is the computed value, which is used for display (so it's also the used value, and in most cases also the actual value).
However, there are some circumstances where 32px is not possible. For example if this particular font is a bitmapped font, and a 32px version is not available. If there is only a 30px version, then that is what is actually put on the display as the actual value.
The used value can also differ from the computed value. For example, if you have p {width:600px; max-width:400px;} in your stylesheet, then the computed value will be still be 600px, but the used value (and therefore the actual value) will be 400px.
Hope this helps. If you need more examples, just ask.
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Q:
How to find asymptotes of $y=ax+b+\frac{c+\sin x}{x}$
How can we find the asymptotes of $y=ax+b+\frac{c+\sin x}{x}$?
A:
HINT: Notice that when $|x|$ is very large, the fraction $$\frac{c+\sin x}x$$ is very small. (Why?) Thus, when $|x|$ is very large,
$$y=ax+b+\frac{c+\sin x}x\approx ax+b\;.$$
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Q:
How to retry opening a properties file in Java
I'm trying to handle an FileNotFoundException in Java by suspending the thread for x seconds and rereading the file. The idea behind this is to edit properties during runtime.
The problem is that the programm simply terminates. Any idea how to realize this solution?
A:
There's a good-old recipe, originally by Bjarne Stroustroup for C++, ported here to Java:
Result tryOpenFile(File f) {
while (true) {
try {
// try to open the file
return result; // or break
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// try to recover, wait, whatever
}
}
}
A:
Do the file loading in a loop and set the variable the condition depends on after the file has been successfully read. Use a try-catch block inside the loop and do the waiting in the catch-block.
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{# todo-materiliazeMake by analogy with the already ready file currency.twig #}
<div id="modal-language" class="modal">
<div class="modal-header">
<h4>{{ text_language }}</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-content">
<form action="{{ action }}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="form-language">
<ul>
{% for language in languages %}
<li>
<label for="language-{{ language.code }}">
<input id="language-{{ language.code }}" class="with-gap" type="radio" name="code" value="{{ language.code }}"{% if language.code == code %} checked="checked"{% endif %}> {# todo-materiliazeSet color from color scheme #}
<span>{{ language.name }}</span>
</label>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="{{ redirect }}">
</form>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="button" class="modal-close btn-flat waves-effect" title="{{ button_cancel }}">{{ button_cancel }}</button> {# todo-materiliazeSet color from color scheme #}
<button type="submit" form="form-currency" class="modal-close btn-flat waves-effect" title="{{ button_continue }}">{{ button_continue }}</button> {# todo-materiliazeSet color from color scheme #}
</div>
</div> |
Heroes of the Pacific
Although World War II may be the most popular video game setting since the omnipresent lava world, usually we only see combat from the ground. Heroes of the Pacific focuses on the aerial component of that war, and pull if off with such finesse that it earns a mark next to such great WWII labels as the Brothers in Arms and Call of Duty franchises.
Although Heroes is far from the first WWII fight sim, it soars high score above the other games thanks to its incredible attention to detail. The shifting, multilayered clouds are truly a sight to behold, and the water below is equally impressive. Of course, what is more stunning is the sight of a hundred Japanese planes barreling down on you.
Of course, looks aren’t anything without substance (just look at Paris Hilton), and fortunately Heroes delivers on this front as well. Controlling the various planes is completely intuitive and each one has its own unique handling. The different missions are also expertly paced – dogfights are broken up with bombing runs and a huge variety of other tasks, so you never feel like you’re simply shooting everything that flies. There are even a nice variety of multiplayer games modes and bonus missions included. |
To say Former Wizards Javaris Crittenton is in serious trouble would be an understatement.
From what we know Jullian Jones was murdered in a drive by shooting. The police suspect that Crittenton was plotting More... |
SLOVAKIAN Prime Minister, Robert Fico (pictured), told thousands of cheering Slovakians that he will build a border fence between Austria and Hungary to stop African and Middle Eastern illegal immigrants going to Germany.
“We’ll never bring even a single Muslim to Slovakia; we won’t create any Muslim communities here because they pose a serious security risk,” he said.
“It is predicted more than one million refugees will arrive in Europe this year,” he said “It cannot work to integrate people of other faiths and other cultures.”
He said Slovakia would “never bow to the European Union’s dictates and accept quotas.”
“The warnings issued by the Visegrad countries [Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia] have come true. The EU’s refugee policy has failed,”
He said he would “not accept the creation of a compact, closed Muslim community in Slovakia that would be a huge threat to the European way of life.”
“This is something we do not want here.”
Finally, he announced that he is preparing to build a wall to “prevent alternative escape routes through Slovakia and the Czech Republic to Germany.”
Great news! Another leader comes out against White genocide.
Certain politicians within the EU, the UN, and Western national governments have tried to “diversify” their countries, in order to eliminate the White majority.
This agenda of theirs is legally defined as genocide, and when we gain enough support, they can be prosecuted for their crimes.
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Source: White Genocide Project |
del tmp.txt
del VideoProcessShaders.h
fxc /Tvs_5_1 /EVSMain /Vn g_DeinterlaceVS DeinterlaceShader.hlsl /Fh tmp.txt
type tmp.txt >> VideoProcessShaders.h
fxc /Tps_5_1 /EPSMain /Vn g_DeinterlacePS DeinterlaceShader.hlsl /Fh tmp.txt
type tmp.txt >> VideoProcessShaders.h
del tmp.txt |
A commentary on deprivation-specific psychological patterns: effects of institutional deprivation.
This monograph will likely become a classic. It provides critical insights into identifying which threads to pull in the "web of causation" (see chapter IX) to discern the impact of adverse early life experiences, and it provides guidance regarding how to identify patterns of behavior that are likely to reflect the impact of such experiences. Not everyone will agree with all the decisions and, hence, all the conclusions made by these authors. Indeed, I have concerns about some of them as I discuss below. However, the authors provide access to their deliberative process in such a rich way that the reader can follow not only what they did but also the many considerations behind their choices, their own equivocating and reversals as more data accumulated, and the broad theoretical concerns that guided their decisions. Because "natural experiments" always confront researchers with difficult choices among never perfect options, their decision to provide a detailed discussion of their deliberative process, in addition to the richness of their data and the importance of their topic, is what makes this a likely classic in the field. |
Q:
What's required for a nameserver to be registered?
I'm trying to change nameservers for some of my domains at GoDaddy, but I occasionally run into "Nameserver not registered" problems, and then I'm not allowed to set the nameservers. Here are the cases I've tried, and I still don't understand what it takes to have a registered nameserver.
With ns1 and ns2 pointing to my nameservers, I can set the nameservers successfully when I set up domains as follows:
Host Summary entries for ns1 and ns2 at GoDaddy
.co.cc domains with A records for ONLY ns1 and ns2
Hosted with other nameservers. Have only A records for ns1 and ns2
But these do NOT work (nameserver not registered error):
.info domains at GoDaddy with A records for ONLY ns1 and ns2
Hosts with dyndns.org that point to IP of nameservers
Also, when I dig any domains hosted at my nameservers using any of the above, I get the correct response. So what's the deal here? Why do the last two cases get "nameserver not registered errors"? Thanks!
A:
Log into the godaddy.com portal and edit the domain you want to change the DNS settings for (You are looking for the domain Manager).
In the host summary (bottom left) is where you need to add the entries to ns1 and ns2 along with their IP addresses.
It'll then take a little bit for everything to replicate so that you can point other domains to those names.
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You can use your dies in many ways. Here I have die cut the snowflake and I have use it as a mask to give some interest to the background of my card. Then I have used the actual inked snowflake in my card, so there is no waist!
Then have die cut the presents with different pattern papers and have attached them to the card base with foam squares and to finish the card I have attached some red and green pearls and doodled some dash lines with white gel pen on the snowflake. |
General anesthesia.
The general anesthetic course has been made acceptably safe with the development of modern anesthetic agents and techniques and increased capabilities for monitoring patient organ systems. Each area of surgery has features unique to its specialty. Consideration of these aspects when planning an anesthetic and surgical course, as well as the importance of the team effort, cannot be overemphasized. |
Q:
How To Get The Current Date From Device?
I am facing a weird problem with NSDate, when I try fetch a date from device, sometimes it shows previous month for some versions
Here is my chunk of code for reference
NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *dateF = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[dateF setDateFormat:@" dd.MM.yyyy "];
NSString *selectedDate = [dateF stringFromDate:date];
Any inputs are appreciated, Thank you
A:
To avoid later localizing problems you might use NSCalendar and its method components:fromDate:
Something like this:
NSCalendar * calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents * components = [calendar components:NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit
fromDate:[NSDate date]];
NSString * stringDate = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d.%d.%d", components.day, components.month, components.year];
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package abi37_0_0.expo.modules.speech;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;
// Lazy load the ISO codes into a Map then transform the codes to match other localization patterns in Expo
public class LanguageUtils {
private static Map<String, Locale> countryISOCodes;
private static Map<String, Locale> languageISOCodes;
private static String transformCountryISO(String code) {
if (countryISOCodes == null) {
String[] countries = Locale.getISOCountries();
countryISOCodes = new HashMap<>(countries.length);
for (String country : countries) {
Locale locale = new Locale("", country);
countryISOCodes.put(locale.getISO3Country().toUpperCase(), locale);
}
}
return countryISOCodes.get(code).getCountry();
}
private static String transformLanguageISO(String code) {
if (languageISOCodes == null) {
String[] languages = Locale.getISOLanguages();
languageISOCodes = new HashMap<>(languages.length);
for (String language : languages) {
Locale locale = new Locale(language);
languageISOCodes.put(locale.getISO3Language(), locale);
}
}
return languageISOCodes.get(code).getLanguage();
}
static String getISOCode(Locale locale) {
String language = transformLanguageISO(locale.getISO3Language());
String country = locale.getISO3Country();
if (!country.equals("")) {
String countryCode = transformCountryISO(country);
language += "-" + countryCode;
}
return language;
}
}
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Q:
JQuery - Click listener not firing when trigger classes are swapped
I have a jQuery on click listener that looks for class 'install-plugin'.
When clicked, it changes the class (via jQuery) to 'delete-plugin'.
And vice versa, so there is a listener for 'delete-plugin' that, when clicked, changes the class to 'install-plugin'.
The problem I have is that this only works once, and although I can see the classes have updated on the page correctly, jQuery doesn't seem to see that and still fires the original listener.
(The ajax is necessary for the intended, extended functionality). Is it possible to have jQuery always be up to date with what's on the page without hard refreshing it?
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.install-plugin').click(function() {
var id = $(this).attr('id');
var postData = {
action : 'install_plugin',
}
$.ajax({
method: 'POST',
url: "/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php",
data: postData,
success: function(response) {
$('#'+id).text('Delete');
$('#'+id).removeClass('install-plugin');
$('#'+id).addClass('delete-plugin');
}
});
})
$('.delete-plugin').click(function() {
var id = $(this).attr('id');
var postData = {
action : 'delete_plugin',
}
$.ajax({
method: 'POST',
url: "/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php",
data: postData,
success: function(response) {
$('#'+id).text('Install');
$('#'+id).removeClass('delete-plugin');
$('#'+id).addClass('install-plugin');
}
});
})
});
A:
Use the 'on' syntax, e.g. $(selector).on('click', function(event){....}) for dynamically changed elements.
.click() fails after dom change
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Trait-Treatment Interaction (TTI), a research method for observing experimental effects of treatments on subjects of different aptitudes and learning characteristics, is suggested as an effective evaluation tool to provide evaluators and educators in compensatory education programs with information about which program is best for different kinds of learners. The premise of TTI research is that different instructional conditions work best when matched with selected learner traits, with "trait" defined as any characteristic of the learner that increases or impairs his probability of success in a given treatment. The methodology of Trait-Treatment Interaction (TTI) as outlined provides an alternative of the dilemma of control groups; and a proposed evaluation design is presented using Campbell's terminology of invited-accepted, invited-rejected, and uninvited. To tap the interaction of learner characteristics with instruction, the invited-accepted are tested and blocked or grouped on relevant learner characteristics, and then, within each block, randomly assigned to a treatment. The goal of this TTI factorial design is to develop alternative instructional programs for compensatory education which produce optimal educational payoff among pupils assigned differently to these programs on the basis of learner characteristics. (CS) |
IOS Native Apps, write in any lang, style with CSS - pcolton
We're down to less than two hours on our Kickstarter campaign for Pixate. As we continued to explore what was possible, we ended up, inadvertently, showing how the development language really didn't matter, and how CSS could bring a common styling paradigm regardless of how you choose to write your native apps...<p>If you are a Ruby developer, there's RubyMotion + Pixate:<p><pre><code> http://tinyurl.com/d7xmsjx
</code></pre>
If you are a C# developer, there's Xamarin + Pixate:<p><pre><code> http://tinyurl.com/9pdztz9
</code></pre>
If you are a JavsScript developer, there's Appcelerator + Pixate:<p><pre><code> http://tinyurl.com/9vuyc6x
</code></pre>
If you are a Objective-C / Xcode developer, Pixate is already for
you, and Designers, Pixate is the icing on your cake of success!<p><pre><code> http://kck.st/Phq0lr
</code></pre>
Obviously, we're excited about bringing this to developers and designers, and look forward to seeing what other inadvertent discoveries we make along the way.
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pcolton
Links
Ruby: <http://tinyurl.com/d7xmsjx> C#: <http://tinyurl.com/9pdztz9> JS:
<http://tinyurl.com/9vuyc6x> KS Proj: <http://kck.st/Phq0lr>
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AznHisoka
seems like you're the only guys excited around here...
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[Glycosylation of antibodies and their pathogenic effect].
Immunoglobulin G (IgG) has covalently linked a sugar chain in the crystallizable fragment (Fc). This structure consists of double stranded glycosidic complexes with a high degree of heterogeneity that contribute to define the affinity to their specific receptors, and partly determine their biological activity. Recently was identified an anti-inflammatory mechanism mediated by IgG based on their different alternatives of Fc glycosylation and their interaction with the specific adhesion receptor of dendritic cells (DC-SIGN). This mechanism has clinical and therapeutic implications in autoimmune diseases. The objective of this review is to describe the biochemical structure of sugars associated to the Fc of IgG and its variants in relation to specific functions and pathogenicity, particularly in tuberculosis, in which may also have therapeutic implication. |
I compared my findings to a comprehensive analysis of the built environment to see if there was any relationship between peoples perception of what defines place and the physical environment around them.
Unsurprisingly my results show that place identity is only minutely affected by the built environment. You can download my whole dissertation here.
About me:
I'm an urban designer. I currently work advising the Mayor of London and his planning team on the design of major developments across London. You can find out more about me here.
This website is a record of my thoughts and observations, as well as a selection of talks, articles and other work I’ve been involved with |
Insights from studying human sleep disorders.
Problems with sleep are one of the commonest reasons for seeking medical attention. Knowledge gained from basic research into sleep in animals has led to marked advances in the understanding of human sleep, with important diagnostic and therapeutic implications. At the same time, research guided by human sleep disorders is leading to important basic sleep concepts. For example, sleep may not be a global, but rather a local, brain phenomenon. Furthermore, contrary to common assumptions, wakefulness, rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep are not mutually exclusive states. This striking realization explains a fascinating range of clinical phenomena. |
500X Painted Canopy HC5125
Price
Availability:
•Use for T-REX 500L / 500X.•After performing many tests to determine the most efficient aerodynamic canopy we are pleased to release this brand new lightweight canopy! This ultimate canopy made of glass fiber is lightweight and achieves best dinamic performance. Also a new unique painting scheme for the newest member of the T-REX family. |
By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The working president of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Pravin Togadia, alleged on Tuesday that there was a plot to kill him. His allegation saw the Congress and Patidar leader Hardik Patel rallying behind the Hindutva leader and targeting the BJP.
Addressing reporters in Ahmedabad a day after he was found unconscious near a local hospital, a tearful Togadia claimed that he had received a tip-off that he would be eliminated in a police encounter. “The Rajasthan Police had come to arrest me, but I got wind of it and switched off my mobile phone,” he said.
Togadia claimed he had spoken to the Rajasthan and Gujarat chief ministers and they had told him that no police action had been initiated against him, which raised his suspicion. Togadia said he decided to take a flight to Jaipur and appear before the court in Gangapur.
He claimed that it was on his way to the airport in an autorickshaw that he had fallen unconscious, and on gaining consciousness found himself in a hospital.Dismissing Togadia’s claim, the Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, J K Bhatt said, “Z-plus is one of the best security covers. It is nearly impossible to get killed in an encounter.”While VHP leaders expressed concern at Togadia’s claims, Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia and Hardik visited him in hospital. |
Who Is Jennifer Lawrence's Next Leading Man?
Who Is Jennifer Lawrence's Next Leading Man?
Who Is Jennifer Lawrence's Next Leading Man? Jennifer Lawrence will next be on the big screen as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games opposite Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson, but her next movie sees her teaming with Bradley Cooper and Rhys Ifans. Get all the details on Jennifer's Serena. |
they will be back, and I have heard a lot of bad feedback. Good for the money, and the guy seems to send out a new one when the one you get leaks. It seems that about half the fermenters he sends out leak at badly welded points through out. |
In a typical packaging application, articles are placed in a container with a dunnage material for shipment. The dunnage material fills at least a portion of the void between the container and the article to prevent or to minimize movement of the article relative to the container and/or to prevent or to minimize damage to the article during shipment. Some commonly used dunnage materials are plastic foam peanuts, plastic bubble pack, air bags and crumpled paper dunnage.
Many freight haulers base their rates for transporting the packages based on volume, weight, distance transported or combinations thereof. Consequently, packages often are weighed prior to shipment. The freight rates generally include a schedule of prices, each price being assigned to a range of package weights, sizes, transportation zones, or combinations thereof. |
Q:
Is there a central focus on the communication methods between AI and humans?
AI is developing at a rapid pace and is becoming very sophisticated. One aspect will include the methods of interaction between AI and humans.
Currently the interaction is an elementary interaction of voice and visual text or images.
Is there current research on more elaborate multisensory interactions?
A:
This is one of the main research areas of my lab which researches intelligent prosthetics which also give sensory feedback such as touch and kinaesthesia (the feeling of a limb moving in space) to the user. We use reinforcement learning to bridge the gap in control and have preliminary work in communicating to the user predictions made by the artificial agent.
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Coarse-grained controllability of wavepackets by free evolution and phase shifts.
We describe an approach to controlling wavepacket dynamics and a criterion of wavepacket controllability based on discretized properties of the wavepacket's localization on the orbit. The notion of "coarse-grained control" and the coarse-grained description of the controllability in infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces are introduced and studied using the mathematical apparatus of loop groups. We prove that 2D rotational wavepackets are controllable by only free evolution and phase kicks by AC Stark shift implemented at fractional revivals. This scheme works even if the AC Stark shifts can have only a smooth coordinate dependence, correspondent to the action of a linearly polarized laser field. |
Throughout Europe’s debt crisis, Italy has largely managed to steer clear of the troubles that have engulfed its profligate Mediterranean neighbors.
But the contagion that started in the euro zone’s smaller countries is suddenly moving to some of its largest. As Greece teeters on the brink of a default, the game has changed: Investors are taking aim at any country suffering from a combination of high debt, slow growth and political dysfunction — and Italy has it all, in spades.
In recent days, Italy has become Europe’s next weak link after Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, harmed in particular by a power struggle between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his finance minister, Giulio Tremonti. The dispute threatens to turn the euro zone’s third-largest economy, after Germany and France, into one of its biggest liabilities.
On Monday, the Italian government struggled to rein in the tensions, as fears rose that political paralysis could make it harder for Italy to embrace the austerity demanded by outsiders to reduce one of the highest debt levels in the world. European policy makers also sought to figure out how they would put out a bigger fire if Italy were to succumb. |
Q:
Default timezone for DateTime in asp.Net
What determines the default timezone for a DateTime instance if no timezone is specified.
Example:
A user living in timezone A visits a webpage hosted on a server in timezone B:
If the website code calls ToUniversalTime() on a dateTime instance, will timezone A or timezone B be used as the bases for the calculation?
Thanks in advance
A:
All DateTime operations occur in the server's local timezone, or in UTC.
ASP.Net is completely unaware of the user's time zone.
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Depression in Parkinson's disease.
Depression is a frequent comorbid disorder of Parkinson's disease; however, little is known about its pathomechanisms. Although depression is an important factor negatively affecting the quality of life of parkinsonian patients, it often remains undiagnosed and therefore untreated. Furthermore, antidepressant therapy is problematic because of the need to combine antidepressant drugs with antiparkinsonian treatments. The present paper gives an overview of characteristic features of Parkinson's disease-associated depression, experimental studies on its animal models, potential mechanisms involved in its occurrence and possible strategies for treatment. |
Find Strength
No matter where you find yourself, you’re not too far away for God to find you. No matter what your circumstances, He can walk you through. He is good, and you can trust Him in good times and bad times.
As followers of Christ, we would benefit from following the example of Paul, learning how to be content in all situations. A heart that’s truly fixed on God will not let events determine faith. Focus on the nature of God and know that no matter what, no matter how good or how bad, you can trust Him.
You can do all things through Him who strengthens you. Pray in all things and rely on Him to provide. He is more than able to be your everything.
———- Where are you trying to find your strength? Is it in God or in the things of this world that don’t live up to their promises? |
package com.stylefeng.guns.rest.modular.film.vo;
import com.stylefeng.guns.api.film.vo.BannerVO;
import com.stylefeng.guns.api.film.vo.FilmInfo;
import com.stylefeng.guns.api.film.vo.FilmVO;
import lombok.Data;
import java.util.List;
@Data
public class FilmIndexVO {
private List<BannerVO> banners;
private FilmVO hotFilms;
private FilmVO soonFilms;
private List<FilmInfo> boxRanking;
private List<FilmInfo> expectRanking;
private List<FilmInfo> top100;
}
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Attila - Hellraiser Lyrics
Yeahhhhhh
Here we motherfucking go
fuck that. We raise hell
I'll tear your soul apart. fuck pigs. we raise hell
Lawless among the pack, we never listen, we live our lives above the law
WE'RE FUCKING VILLAINS!
Fuck everything you say I'm here to smash shit straight from the depths of hell
if you can't hang then fucking quit
We Raise Hell
Always disorderly (rebels with no defeat)
fuck with our team if you dare
fuck all authority (rep the minority)
I've had enough of your shit to last me a lifetime
I stay out of line
I cant be put down this time
try me if you dare
I don't even fucking care
fuck that. we raise hell
I'll tear your soul apart. fuck pigs. we raise hell
I'm a badass and you're a fucking bitch
Rock & Roll was invented for the wicked
leave your bibles at home under the bed
We're the villains and we came to raise hell
listen to the fucking words I said
HELLRAISER |
honoria in ciberspazio
gallery + reflections
I thought about putting some parts in the dissertation that are like the parts of Raymond Chandler in which the detective changes consciousness such as when he's been slipped a mickey or beaten unconscious. Chandler wrote these nice coming in and out of consciousness paragraphs and the detective would wake up all woozy Woozy. I wanted to write the change in consciousness that you move between when writing a dissertation on mail art and making mail art.
I made some nice little watercolor valentines. I will send one to Mom and one to Knut and one to John Held Jr. So I moved from the consciousness state of being an expert to being a practitioner, from being a critic to being an artist, from working with words to working with color and form and iconography. Oh I can't believe you used Iconography in a sentence honoria. I can't say that I moved from analytical to some other thing because even making valentines is and isn't analytical. You subconsciously or maybe consciously have the receiver in mind when you make a valentine or any piece of mail art like you have the reader in mind when you write a dissertation, but there is a shift in consciousness with flowing watercolor that always dry in puddles of chaos with delineated edges, maybe the edges are differential equations, I'd have to ask Dr. Mink. Maybe I'll ask Knut. But words don't dry in chaos -- maybe they are chaos in the neurons but there is some controlled form to them when you direct your fingers to put down your thoughts onto paper. So that's why there will be a lot of illustrations in my dissertation because putting images or prints or collage on paper is a different analysis of a problem than you accomplish with words. |
Q:
Is “if they would do something” correct English?
We were discussing if the following sentence would be proper English:
I asked them if they would do me a favour. (A)
The meaning is that I am referring to a point in the past where I asked another person (group of persons, whatever) to be so nice and do me a favour of some nature.
Somebody claimed you mustn't use "if" with "would" in this fashion, but instead say:
I asked them if they do me a favour. (B)
I asked them if they did me a favour. (C)
But I think this has a different meaning, both versions (one with "do" and one with "did").
I can think of yet another option:
I asked them to do me a favour. (D)
but I suspect this has a slightly different meaning, not including the tone of the original question.
Could you bring some clarity to the matter (for the layman, please), which is correct and if the meanings of A through D correspond to the intended meaning I described (if they are correct, as the semantics of them would be undefined otherwise -- obviously).
A:
Your options (A) and (D) are correct, while (B) and (C) are incorrect for the meaning you're trying to convey.
I asked them if they would do me a favor.
The word "would" here is correct idiomatic English. If you extract the if-clause into its own sentence you get "They will do me a favor." However, when used as a subordinate clause with if, the verb will must become would in order to agree with the past tense asked.
I asked them if they do me a favor.
This is bizarre and ungrammatical. The tenses in both clauses should agree in most situations, and in any case no English speaker would ever say this.
I asked them if they did me a favor.
This is grammatically correct, but makes little sense. The tenses between the clauses agree as they should, but having both clauses in the past tense means that you're asking if they have already done a favor for you. This is not what you want to say, I'm pretty sure.
I asked them to do me a favor.
This is semantically equivalent to the first option, but of course the syntax is completely different. Since infinitives have no tense, to do is correct here. You can use this option if you're nervous about tense agreement and modal verbs.
A:
I asked them if they would do me a favour. (A)
Sounds just fine. It's an indirect quote of "Would you do me a favor?"
I asked them if they do me a favour. (B)
Sounds wrong. Non-parallel tenses or aspects or something.
I asked them if they did me a favour. (C)
Sounds fine, but yes a different meaning. I asked them (in the past) whether (in the past) a favor had been done by them.
I asked them to do me a favour. (D)
Sounds fine. Indirect quote of "Do me a favor." or Please can you do me a favor?"
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Q:
Custom column not getting updated
I'm facing the issue with my custom column form_id into users table.
I'm trying to update using save() but it didn't update it.
Code:
Auth:user()->form_id = $formdata->id;
I'm begginer for laravel and need your help.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
A:
Try below code:
$user = Auth::user();
$user->form_id = $formdata->id;
$user->save();
Just make sure that you are using save method after filled the variable properly.
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[Lung ultrasonography in anesthesia and critical care medicine].
As ultrasound beam does not penetrate the air, it has long been thought that ultrasound imaging is not useful for evaluation of the pulmonary parenchyma. However, recent studies have shown that the artifact pattern generated by the lung can be used for the diagnosis of acute respiratory failure. Lung ultrasonography can provide us important informations inside the lung in a real-time fashion. Furthermore, general application of extended ultrasonography would be of greater benefit for perioperative diagnosis and intervention. |
Make a Bird Feeder
You can make a bird feeder out of a
few simple things. Depending on the type of bird feeder you want to make,
you may have the necessary materials already on hand.
You can make a simple tray
bird feeder from a few pieces of wood nailed together. You can make a nectar feeder
to attract humming birds as well as others from a plastic
bottle.
Most birds love suet. You can make a
simple suet feeder with a plastic mesh bag such as onions are
packaged. Fill it with fat you trim off meat and hardened bacon
grease. Store the fat in the refrigerator or freezer as you get
enough together to partially fill a bag. Hang the bag from a
tree or pole. The birds will love it.
You can also build much more complicated bird feeders
with either plans or kits. For more information on bird feeder kits, click
here. There are some great plans for bird feeders available.
From barns to castles, the possiblilties are endless. If you are particularly good at woodworking,
you can design your own feeders. |
def foo(user)
# ERROR:
user_data = get_data user
puts "... more stuff here ..."
eval user_data
end
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from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder
from sklearn.preprocessing import KBinsDiscretizer
pipe_cat = OneHotEncoder(handle_unknown='ignore')
pipe_num = KBinsDiscretizer()
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Q:
How can solides3d know when one object is behind another?
pst-solides3d has an impressive graphics engine behind its design. I'm interested in knowing how it is able to know when an object is behind another object.
Disclaimer: I am not sure this is an acceptable question for tex.SX because I'm trying to delve into the internal workings of a package. If this is an inappropriate question or this is the wrong forum, please let me know and I will delete the question.
I understand that solids in this package are first represented in a virtual 3D space and that they are later projected onto a 2D (user defined) projection screen. I think, it is in this step that the clipping (or superpositioning) of objects occurs.
So, to simplify the question, what mechanism does pst-solides3d use to find out if one object is behind the other (or intersecting)?
PS: I use the tag package-writing because this question is related to the writing of a package, but I am not interested in writing packages nor do I have the time for it at the moment
A:
A surface is divided into more or less small rectangles. For every small rectangles you can build the direction vector. The angle of this 3D vector and the distance from the origin allows to sort all rectangles. A direction vector which shows into the paper plane marks an invisible area. If it shows out of the paper plane it marks a visible area. These areas are sorted from the back to the front and also drawn in this way.
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Enhanced effects by mixtures of three estrogenic compounds at environmentally relevant levels on development of Chinese rare minnow (Gobiocypris rarus).
The combined effects of 17β-estradiol, diethylstilbestrol and nonylphenol at environmentally relevant levels were studied on development of Chinese rare minnow. No effects on hatchability of embryos, survival of larvae, body length and body weight were found in the fish exposed to the single chemicals and their mixtures. But significant vitellogenin induction and testis somatical index reduction were observed in adult males exposed to the mixtures. Meanwhile, the sex ratio of adult fish skewed to female was found in the fish exposed to high concentration of the mixture. These results revealed not only that the co-exposure of xenoestrogens can enhance the adverse effects on the development of fish, but that the adverse effects were induced by co-exposure of xenoestrogens below the threshold of similar detectable effects for single xenoestrogen. The observations in the present study highlight the potential ecological hazard posed by the coexistence of xenobiotics in the realistic aquatic environment. |
Carpet Cleaning Solutions and Chemicals- How Do They Stand Up Against Pure Water?
If you look on any store shelf in the home improvement department, you will see tons of carpet cleaning solutions and chemicals for nearly every conceivable purpose.
These products will promise you the sun and the moon if you use them, but look at the ingredients (if they are even listed) and you will see some pretty toxic and caustic stuff on there.
You have to ask yourself if putting such harsh chemicals on your carpet is worth it, especially when residue from those chemicals is inevitably left behind and any child or pet who plays on the carpet could end up covered in the stuff.
Plus, with water being such a good solvent, do you really need to clean your carpets with chemicals at all?
Should we use these products?
The decision of whether or not to use carpet cleaning solutions and chemicals as opposed to pure water is similar to the decision of whether or not to dry clean your clothes.
A lot of people have no problem with it, while others are just plain uncomfortable with the idea of wearing clothes that have been treated with chemicals.
Some people simply wash dry clean only clothes by hand and then hang them up to dry. It works just as well as dry cleaning, with no chemical residue.
You can do the same thing with area rugs and small mats, but for wall to wall carpeting, the decision takes a little more thought. You can’t wash this kind of carpeting by hand, so do you use chemicals on it, or a steam cleaner?
A steam cleaner is considered superior to chemicals by many people, including lots of professional carpet cleaners. This is because, unlike chemicals, steam is mostly intangible and as such, can get to every single carpet fiber, and penetrate all the way down to the bottom of the carpet backing.
It can get to some very old, very embedded dirt this way, making your carpets cleaner than they have ever been before, and it accomplishes this using nothing but hot water in the form of steam. It is a totally natural and organic way to clean your carpets.
Carpet cleaning solutions and chemicals, for the most part, just can’t penetrate a carpet as deeply as steam.
While sometimes certain chemicals may have to be used on hard to remove or old stains, this really just spots treatment, and the professional carpet cleaner can easily clean the rest of the carpet using steam alone.
The minimal use of carpet cleaning solutions and chemicals to remove stains in small areas is much preferable to using it to cover the entire house with toxic substances.
If you decide to clean your carpet yourself or go with a professional carpet cleaner, steam should be your cleaning substance of choice. |
<resources>
<!--
Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
by AppBaseTheme from res/values-vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
-->
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light.NoTitleBar">
<!--
Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
backward-compatibility can go here.
-->
</style>
<!-- Application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
<!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
</style>
<style name="CalendarCard">
</style>
<style name="CalendarCard.Root">
<item name="android:padding">10dp</item>
</style>
<style name="CalendarCard.Title" />
<style name="CalendarCard.Day">
<item name="android:paddingBottom">5dp</item>
<item name="android:textSize">12sp</item>
<item name="android:gravity">center</item>
</style>
<style name="CalendarCard.Days">
<item name="android:padding">0dp</item>
</style>
<style name="CalendarCard.Title">
<item name="android:padding">5dp</item>
<item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
<item name="android:gravity">center</item>
</style>
<style name="CalendarCard.Grid">
<item name="android:background">@drawable/card_grid_bg</item>
<item name="android:paddingRight">1dp</item>
<item name="android:paddingBottom">1dp</item>
</style>
<style name="CalendarCard.Cell">
<item name="android:background">@drawable/card_item_bg</item>
<item name="android:layout_marginLeft">1dp</item>
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Sang-hwan is a well meaning but cowardly Korean policeman. By chance, he meets a mysterious group of old men called the "Seven Masters"- who protect the earth from ancient evil. Centuries ago, the Seven Masters imprisoned HeugUn- the master of absolute evil- but now HeugUn has returned to seek bloody vengeance on all mankind. Teamed with the beautiful but deadly Eui-jin, Sang hwan must not only fight for his own life, but to protect the fate of all men. Furious and funny, ARAHAN is the latest Korean action smash. Urban martial arts action at its best. |
Q:
How can I create a MYSQL database template for others
I have some PHP hosted on github that stores some information in a database when run. The database itself is very simple (one table with three columns).
What's the best way to encode the database structure in a file for others who want to use my code?
A:
As mentioned in the comments, you just need to run SHOW CREATE TABLE tableName
At that point, you can copy and paste it into a *.sql file.
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[Intravascular decompressive aerogenesis ultrasonography in a practice of diving medical physician].
The aim of research was substantiation of necessity and accessibility of acoustic indication of intravascular decompressive aerogenesis in a practice of diving medical. Authors define possibilities of portable ultrasound blood flow indicator for location of decompressive gas bubbles. It was found that acoustic indication of intravascular decompressive gas bubbles made by simple portable ultrasonic blood flow meter allows to reveal moving gas bubble in blood flow. Authors came to conclusion that it is necessary to include portable ultrasonic diagnostic equipment into the norms of medical supply for ships, vessels and military units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. |
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Conveyor Belts Go Stainless Steel
Belt Technologies (Agawam, MA) now offers a line of stainless steel indexing belts to pair with the high-speed conveyors used to assemble multi-component assemblies. The steel belts resist stretching, provide good repeatability, and allow for the exact positioning of tools and parts. Other features include:
The ability to mount the belts vertically in order to utilize both sides of the conveyors, which allows manufacturers to double the number of simultaneously occurring operations.
Minimizing debris buildup and frequent shutdowns associated with cleaning other types of systems. |
Q:
Django - retrieve data for extend template
I have a base template in my app, and a Profile template with the user data, with a bunch of other pages that they can navigate through.
Every user has a market. I want to display the market name on every profile page, not bypassing every page a block tag.
base.html
<span class="title navbar-item">
{% block market_name %}{% endblock %}
</span>
every-profile-page.html
{% block market_name %}{{market.name}}{% endblock market_name %}
A:
You can simply implement this as:
<span class="title navbar-item">
{% block market_name %}{{ market.name }}{% endblock %}
</span>
or if you never will overwrite it, just omit the block:
<span class="title navbar-item">
{{ market.name }}
</span>
As long as every view passes a market.name, this is not a problem.
It might however be cumbersome to pass a market to every context. You can make use of a context processor [Django-doc]. You can implement such context processor in any app, for example:
# app/context_processors.py
def market(request):
return {
'market': …
}
then you register the context processor in the settings.py:
# settings.py
# …
TEMPLATES = [
{
# …
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
# …
'app.context_processors.market'
]
}
# …
}
]
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Blindsight is unlike normal conscious vision: evidence from an exclusion task.
We explored whether information processed subconsciously in blindsight is qualitatively different from normal conscious processing. On each trial the blindsight patient GY was presented with a square-wave grating either in an upper or lower quadrant of his visual field and was asked to report the opposite of its location (e.g. to say 'Up' if it was in the lower quadrant). We found that while GY was able to follow these exclusion instructions in his normal field, he tended to erroneously respond with the real location when the grating appeared in his blind field. Remarkably, his error rate actually increased with increasing grating contrast in his blind field. The interpretation of these results does not rely on subjective reports and thus cannot be criticized on the grounds that subjective reports are unreliable. We conclude that blindsight is unlike normal conscious vision. |
defmodule Bonny.Application do
@moduledoc false
use Application
@impl true
def start(_type, _args) do
children = Bonny.Config.controllers()
opts = [strategy: :one_for_one, name: Bonny.Supervisor]
Supervisor.start_link(children, opts)
end
end
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Q:
A question regarding dense subsets
Let $M$ be a metric space. Let $A$ and $B$ be dense subsets of $M$ such that $A$ is open. Then prove that $A \cap B$ is dense in $M$. I’m really stuck at this problem. Any hints or solutions will be highly appreciated.
A:
Let $U \subset M$ be any non-empty open subset. Since both $U$ and $A$ are open, so is $U \cap A$. But since $A$ and $B$ are dense in $M$, we have $U \cap A \neq \emptyset$, $U \cap B \neq \emptyset$ and also $(U \cap A) \cap B = U \cap (A \cap B) \neq \emptyset$ and we are done, because $U$ was arbitrary (and open) with non-empty intersection with $A \cap B$.
Note the importance of $A$ being open, otherwise $U\cap A$ would not.
As a counter example, take $M = \mathbb{R}$, $A = \mathbb{Q}$ and $B = \mathbb{R - Q}$. None of $A$ and $B$ are open, even though they are dense in $\mathbb{R}$. We have $ A \cap B =\mathbb{Q} \cap (\mathbb{R - Q}) = \emptyset$, which is obviously not dense in $\mathbb{R}$.
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Current perspective of the HCAP problem: is it CAP or is it HAP?
The number of individuals receiving health care outside the hospital setting, including home wound care or infusion therapy, dialysis, nursing homes, and similar settings is constantly increasing. One of the most frequent causes of hospitalization and mortality in these patients is pneumonia. Hence a new class of pneumonia has been identified: healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP). The last American Thoracic Society/Infectious Disease Society of America (ATS/IDSA) guidelines define specific criteria to identify HCAP; however, the clinical practice suggests that the presence of indwelling devices (permanent catheters, etc.) may also be considered an additional criterion. Different studies have shown that, in comparison with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients, HCAP patients are significantly older, have a higher number of comorbidities (cerebrovascular diseases, congestive heart failure, dementia, and diabetes mellitus) and show worse functional status before admission. It has also been observed that HCAP differs from CAP in terms of clinical presentation, risk factors, etiology, prognostics, and, likely, therapeutic approach. The clinical presentation of HCAP is often unusual because it is frequently conditioned by advanced age, multiple chronic comorbidities, and neurological disorders. Classic respiratory symptoms of pneumonia are often mild in HCAP, whereas extrapulmonary manifestations, including mental confusion and gastrointestinal disorders, are frequent. HCAP patients, commonly present a worse clinical presentation (hypoxemia, altered consciousness, Fine score, multilobar infiltrates, etc.) than CAP, and a mortality rate close to that of hospital-acquired pneumonia. Many studies have attributed these findings to a nosocomial etiology [methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) , Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc.] with a high frequency of multidrug-resistant infections (MRIs), even though this remains controversial. Further investigation on microbial composition and MRI risk factors of HCAP is fundamental because no definitive therapeutic indications are currently available. |
Multiple Game Services Effected by DDoS Attacks
Over the past few days, gaming services have been effected by a DDos or Distributed Denial of Service attack from the hacker group DERP. The latest services to be effected was EA’s Origin platform, preventing users from being able to log in. Other services effected are Steam, Battle.net, and League of Legends. The attacks seem to relate to one YouTube user, PhantomL0rd, in which every time he tries to play a certain game, the platform in which the game runs on was attacked. The breakdown of the events could be found on a sub-Reddit for League of Lengends.
The attackers seemed to have scaled up the attack when they called in a hostage situation to police on PhantomL0rd last night. The event had police storm his house and had him arrested. DERP, the group said to be responsible for the attacks, has so far denied the attacks. The group/person behind this attack seems to be using a simple DDoS tool called the Ion Cannon, which the group has labeled the “Gaben Laser Beam”, and pointing it to authentication servers of gaming services. For now, it seems to be a personal vendetta against PhantomL0rd for reasons unknown. |
Q:
Convert BNF grammar to Java
How can I convert this simple (recursive) grammar to Java?
C --> a | not C | C and C | C or C ;
This question is not meant what tool I have to use to parse a grammar (like Javacc or Antlr), but the way to model this simple grammar using the object-oriented paradigm.
A:
I don't think there's a single way to model this using OOP and that there are many equally valid ways you could go about approaching this. The following is one reasonable strategy for thinking about what this might look like in code.
Usually, when parsing an expression, your goal is to reconstruct an abstract syntax tree for the input. That tree structure has different types of nodes based on the different productions that are possible, and in Java you'd probably represent them with some polymorphic type. For example, you might have a base class ASTNode that has children ANode, NotNode, AndNode, and OrNode. These last three types would store pointers to the subexpressions that make up the compound expression.
Once you have these types, you'd then need to put together some sort of parser - and possibly a scanner - that would take the input and construct the appropriate tree from it. Since you're looking at a grammar that consists of different operators with different precedences, you could use a simple precedence parser like Dijkstra's shunting-yard algorithm to do the parsing. That algorithm is relatively straightforward to implement.
At that point it really depends on what you want to do with the AST. If you want to evaluate the expression depending on what inputs are provided, for example, you could add an abstract method evaluate to the ASTNode type and then have each derived type provide an implementation that performs the appropriate operation. You could also consider using the visitor pattern to build visitors that walk the AST and perform appropriate operations at each step.
I'm not sure whether this would be helpful, but a while back I wrote something very similar to what you're looking at to generate truth tables for propositional logic for a class I often teach. The tool itself is available here, and the source files, which are decently well-commented, are available here. It's written in JavaScript rather than Java, but it shows off all the pieces described above - the AST node type, the shunting-yard algorithm to do parsing, and overridden methods to evaluate the different expressions.
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package sttp.client
import org.scalajs.dom.experimental.{BodyInit, Response => FetchResponse}
import sttp.client.monad.FutureMonad
import scala.concurrent.{ExecutionContext, Future}
import scala.scalajs.js
import scala.scalajs.js.Promise
import org.scalajs.dom.experimental.{Request => FetchRequest}
import sttp.client.testing.SttpBackendStub
class FetchBackend private (fetchOptions: FetchOptions, customizeRequest: FetchRequest => FetchRequest)(implicit
ec: ExecutionContext
) extends AbstractFetchBackend[Future, Nothing](fetchOptions, customizeRequest)(new FutureMonad()) {
override protected def addCancelTimeoutHook[T](result: Future[T], cancel: () => Unit): Future[T] = {
result.onComplete(_ => cancel())
result
}
override protected def handleStreamBody(s: Nothing): Future[js.UndefOr[BodyInit]] = {
// we have an instance of nothing - everything's possible!
Future.successful(js.undefined)
}
override protected def handleResponseAsStream[T](
ras: ResponseAsStream[T, Nothing],
response: FetchResponse
): Future[Nothing] = {
throw new IllegalStateException("Future FetchBackend does not support streaming responses")
}
override protected def transformPromise[T](promise: => Promise[T]): Future[T] = promise.toFuture
}
object FetchBackend {
def apply(
fetchOptions: FetchOptions = FetchOptions.Default,
customizeRequest: FetchRequest => FetchRequest = identity
)(implicit ec: ExecutionContext = ExecutionContext.global): SttpBackend[Future, Nothing, NothingT] =
new FetchBackend(fetchOptions, customizeRequest)
/**
* Create a stub backend for testing, which uses the [[Future]] response wrapper, and doesn't support streaming.
*
* See [[SttpBackendStub]] for details on how to configure stub responses.
*/
def stub(implicit ec: ExecutionContext = ExecutionContext.global): SttpBackendStub[Future, Nothing, NothingT] =
SttpBackendStub(new FutureMonad())
}
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