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Recurrent intraurethral proliferation of ectopic prostatic tissue associated with hematuria.
The first reported case of recurrent intraurethral proliferation of ectopic prostatic tissue associated with hematuria is presented. |
Q:
VS2010 specific port changes at random
I'm playing around with a WCF service.
The problem I'm having is that VS2010 keeps randomly assigning a new port number to it when starting the VS Development Server even though I have set it to a specific port through the project settings.
If I keep stopping and starting VS Development Server for a few times with this problem, I get an error that says Unable to launch the ASP.NET Development server because port 'xxxx' is in use.
Why is this happening?
edit: It was suggested that this could be caused by the Dev Server not stopping. Unfortunately, it happens on a freshly started computer as well, i.e. when no instances of it are running at all.
Also, after I get the error message, it doesn't matter if I change the port, or select the Auto-assign Port option. The result is the same.
A:
I have seen it sometimes and it seems that the webserver doesn't stop at times. So next time you fire up your project, the previous server is running at the same port.
The solution is to explicitly close the previous one and retry.
A:
It turns out that the problem was linked to the issue answered at Visual Studio Development Server using wrong port.
I didn't suspect this to be the cause because I didn't have a blanket problem. I could launch the WCF solution at times, but not at certain other times. I could also run an instance of the Dev Server for an MVC solution with a specific port applied without problems.
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require 'mxx_ru/cpp'
MxxRu::Cpp::exe_target {
required_prj 'so_5/prj.rb'
target '_unit.test.env_infrastructure.simple_not_mtsafe_st.delayed_msg'
cpp_source 'main.cpp'
}
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Field
The present invention generally relates to gamma-transparent non-metallic windows used in the densitometry of pressurized fluids, and to gamma densitometers containing such windows. It is particularly concerned with a ceramic window that has been pre-loaded with compressive stress via a shrink-fitting fabrication method to better resist tensile stresses generated under high-pressure conditions.
Description of the Related Art
Gamma densitometry is a method used to characterize and measure properties of fluids or mixtures of fluids in many applications, including the oil and gas industry. Gamma densitometers are used in such methods. Typical applications of gamma densitometry and apparatus using the gamma densitometry method include level gauges for measuring fluid levels in tanks and separator vessels, densitometers for measuring the density of liquids in a pipe, and densitometers for measuring gas fraction in a multi-phase fluid flow. A special type of gamma densitometer is the dual-energy gamma densitometer. This apparatus uses gamma radiation of different wavelengths to simultaneously measure several properties of a fluid or mixture of fluids. It is typically used to measure the gas fraction and water cut simultaneously in a multi-phase well effluent. Such measurements are often performed on fluids under harsh conditions, such as high pressure and high temperature, for example, in a flow pipe, in a separator vessel, in a venturi, or some other pressure-containing body or vessel.
When a gamma densitometer is to be used to measure properties of fluids under pressure it is necessary to create an aperture in the pipe or pressure vessel that is transparent or nearly transparent to gamma radiation, but which still can function as a pressure barrier and withstand the high stresses experienced in such environment. Such an aperture is commonly known as a “gamma window.” If the gamma radiation is of a short wavelength, and hence high energy, such a window may be made from metal, or indeed be just a section of the pipe or the pressure vessel wall. Gamma radiation of lower energy, in particular energies lower than a few hundred KeV, is easily stopped by a few millimeters of metals. A notable exception is the metal beryllium, which is highly transparent to gamma radiation even at very low energies. However, this metal is highly prone to corrosion, and thus is not an ideal candidate for use for gamma windows in many applications.
Consequently, such “gamma windows” are commonly manufactured from ceramic materials. There are several ceramic materials that may be used to manufacture gamma windows since they combine high strength, in particular in compression, and low attenuation of gamma radiation. Unfortunately, such ceramic materials are brittle, i.e., they can support high compressive loads, but much smaller tensile and shear loads. This property makes gamma windows manufactured from ceramic materials prone to failure in high-pressure applications where the pressure applied by the fluid to the face of the window generates tensile and shear stresses that the non-metallic material forming the window cannot withstand.
It is therefore desirable to provide an improved pressure and temperature resistant window for gamma densitometry and other applications, and preferably a window that is transparent or nearly transparent to gamma radiation. |
Q:
save card to customer with Stripe.js
How do I save a card to a customer with Stripe.js?
I don't want to change them at this point. I just want to save the credit card info to their stripe account so I can use it later.
It seems like I'd need to use createToken from Stipe.js. But my understanding is that this is a one time use token. I want to save the credit card info for later use.
This seems to be a similar question: Stripe Payment: Save token and customer and make payment later from token
but the solution isn't clear. I'm not sure if it means for the customer I need to save card=token and everything will work fine.
A:
Though the question is an old one and solution of this problem is now pretty straightforward in the current Stripe API, I'm just answering for those who accidentally reached or will reach here without reading the Official Stripe Doc properly(like me) searching for this question.
To make a stripe payment You first need to make a call to the Stripe API(Using Stripe's Checkout widget, Elements or Mobile SDKs) with the User's card information. As a response, you will get a token. Then you can charge your customer immediately using Stripe's Charge API. This is for just one-time payment. You will find an example here.
If you want to save customer's information for later payment, you need to create a 'Customer' first using Stripe's API and then using that customer's ID (returned as a response from the previous API call) you can charge this customer. Example here.
I just described the process briefly to show the idea at a glance. But you should really need to read this quickstart guide in Stripe's documentation. This explains the process very well.
A:
I just want to save the credit card info to their stripe account so I
can use it later.
Then that's exactly what you can do!
If you're already passing the token back into your server-side code, you just need to update that server-side code to retrieve the customer and create the card on that customer record using the token.
Not knowing what language you're using I can't provide relevant sample code, but the Stripe API reference has functional examples for Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and Node.js.
Note that if the customer has any outstanding invoices, this card will be used the next time they attempt to settle—so while simply adding the card won't create a charge by itself, it's possible the card may still be billed.
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There's no doubt the fact that, with regards to purchasing a property or even a home, having a great real estate broker is necessary. Buying a home or a property requires a large amount of thought, and there are a number of aspects that will into play. Everyone wants to find the perfect house for them. The location of the living space is likely to be considered, as well as the buyer would need to see the homes personally and also have them looked over. This is why it is very important to employ a real estate professional together with you.
Irvine RealtorsIrvine RealtorsOrange County includes several cities that you can purchase or sell real estate property. The thing that makes the Orange county appealing is the fact that you can find houses here from multi millions to hundreds of thousands. It doesn't makes any difference if you belong to a specific niche, there has to be a real estate property of your need. In case your target market is multi millionaires, no problem! If you want to appeal more to a more modest buyer, not an issue! Or perhaps you want to catch the attention of both!
If you're looking to buy a home in Orange County you have several options. There are beach areas such as Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Aliso Viejo. But, if you want to live more inland you can live in those same cities or cities such as Irvine, Costa Mesa, Laguna Beach, and Santa Ana. The options are almost endless. Furthermore; you can make your way to harbor cities like Long Beach and Newport Beach.
As you begin looking, it is probably best to look for a realtor who works and lives in the area. By doing this, you can take the advantage of a realtor who knows all the fundamentals of the city. Local realtors would be able to understand things which alien realtors would not be able know and comprehend. This would surely facilitate you to make better decisions with a lot of ease and comfort.
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Q:
How to restore single specific column from MySQL dump via shell command?
How to restore only one certain column from a MySQL dump via ssh command?
To restore whole database it goes like this:
mysql -u [user] -p[pass] db < db_dump.sql
But I need to restore only a specific column in one of the tables.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
A:
The dump file contains INSERT statements that restore whole rows, not individual columns. So you can't restore just one column.
What you can do is restore it to a second database
mysqladmin -u [user] -p[pass] create db2
mysql -u [user] -p[pass] db2 < db_dump.sql
Then you can get into the SQL environment and copy the one column to the main database on respective rows.
mysql> UPDATE db.mytable JOIN db2.mytable USING (id)
SET db.one_column = db2.one_column;
I'm of course making assumptions about the name of your table and column to copy, and the primary key column. But it should serve as a generic example to get you started.
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Q:
Вставить в таблицу результаты вставки
Есть две таблицы users и sessions. Необходимо Сначала вставить токен в users, получить id этой записи и вставить ее в sessions. Пробую сделать так:
insert into "session" (userid)
values (
insert into "users" (token)
values ('exampleToken')
returning id
)
where sid = 'exampleSID';
Ругается. Как это лучше реализовать?
A:
Первая моя ошибка в попытке сделать insert в таблицу sessions, где уже было значение, которое надо просто обновить (update). Решил вопрос через оператор WITH.
with a as (
insert into "users" (token)
values ('exampleToken')
returning id
)
update "session" set userid = (select id from a)
where "session".sid = 'exampleSID';
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Effects of endocrine disruptors on experimental animals and wildlife are well established. Antiandrogens and estrogens cause reproductive disorders, such as cryptorchidism, hypospadias, testicular dysgenesis and subfertility. This raises a natural question whether these disorders in humans are also caused by endocrine disrupters and whether they should alert us of harmful exposures. While we still do not know the answer to this question, we know that the incidence of testicular cancer has rapidly increased over two generations, and the birth rates of hypospadias and cryptorchidism are alarmingly high. Furthermore, semen quality of young European men remains very poor at the moment. We have analyzed the association of cryptorchidism with exposure to several endocrine disruptors. This kind of studies cannot prove any causality. However, we have found a weak positive association of cryptorchidism with exposure to chlorinated pesticides, dioxins and furans, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers. It has become obvious that there is no individual compound that could be linked to etiology of cryptorchidism, but rather a mixture of several chemicals can cause the effect in genetically susceptible individuals. Modern systems biological approaches are needed to deal with complex exposure scenarios and genetic variability.
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Q:
Class defined without specifying a base class?
Simple inheritance that I've done a million times:
@class AGWindowView;
@interface HelperView : AGWindowView
I get this error:
Class "HelperView" defined without specifying a base class.
Well, obviously I am specifying a base class. What is going on here? Is there some way AGWindowView would not allow itself to be subclassed?
A:
You will need to import the file that defines AGWindowView at the top of the file. The compiler will need to know about the whole class, not just that it exists.
A:
Be sure to import the .h file in your .m file!
// XYZYourClass.m
#import "XYZYourClass.h"
@implementation YYZYourClass
@end
If you don't #import XYZYourClass.h, you'll get the error:
Class 'XYZYourClass' defined without specifying a base class
A:
We had this problem trying to install an old-ish cocoapod. The problem was that a macro wasn't taken into account at the time of the analysis.
The default option in the pods project file for the "Unintentional Root Class" LLVM Warning is now defaulted as "Yes (treat as error)" instead of "Yes" like it used to be.
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If there is one thing that will gnaw and gnaw away at any feline, it is sheer curiosity and the torture of not knowing what happens next. Yesterday's events at the 'Mystery Manor' had been enough to disrupt Keith's orderly disorderly routine, and he decided he was not going to be kept out. No, siree.
The tricky part, however, was getting in to see Ms. Potts.
Looking at the building from outside, the young redhead muses to himself, trying to formulate a strategy. Changing and becoming invisible might be an option— except that he was dead certain that the security of the building would also account for unseen infiltrators… but who could be detected through body heat.
"Hmmm… maybe I could impersonate an employee…" he mutters to himself, looking at the people exiting the building. Someone there had to look important enough for him to impersonate.
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Completely unaware of Keith's conundrum outside of the Tower, Pepper works busily in her office. She wishes she knew why today was such a horrid day. Horrid to the point that she nearly asked for a full slice of cheesecake to go with her lunch. But she asserted her will power and asked for a fruit salad instead… after making sure it had no strawberries in it.
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Finally, Keith decides to simply try a more creative approach. Finding a safe place in which to change (it takes him over ten minutes), several minutes later a young man walks into the lobby of the building.
He must be in his mid twenties with dark, slicked-back hair and clean complexion. His suit is crisp and elegant- nothing ostentatious, but the elegance lies in the simplicity of the design. He approaches the reception with a cool smile. "Excuse me, I am looking for Miss Potts…"
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The front desk security — a small handful of men and women to handle the number of people passing through at any given moment — are the very model of efficiency. One young-looking woman smiles at Keith when he approaches. "Hello. Do you have an appointment to see Miss Potts, Mr….?"
In her office, Pepper finishes a phone call and finds herself looking at the bottle of brandy she left on her tea bar, then shakes her head and goes to refill her tea cup. Maybe a martini after work would be okay…
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"I do not, as it were," Keith smiles. Or rather, the face Keith is wearing smiles— as memory serves him, it is an almost exact copy of Constantine's face. "But she is aware that I would pay her a visit on account of an item of interest that she acquired. If it would not be too much of a bother, perhaps you could tell her that I am here concerning the 'Vices'… and, of course, if she doesn't want to see me, I will just be on my way."
~This is a risky move. What if he's come by already for the book?~
~That's when we just run, right?~
The receptionist is clearly good at her job. She has no idea what the man is talking about, but it doesn't show. She reaches to pick up a phone at the same time as asking, "May I have your name please, sir?"
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Returning to her desk, Pepper sips at her tea and tries to concentrate on her work again.
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Of course, Constantine had not said his name. Instead he had gone off on a rant about being a myth-maker and fixer and…
"Miss Potts, there's a John Campbell here asking to speak with you. He doesn't have an appointment."
"I don't know anyone by that name, Becca. Sorry."
"Okay, Miss Potts. Just making sure." Rebecca, as her name tag says, looks up at Keith apologetically. "I'm sorry, Mr. Campbell, Miss Potts is about to go into a meeting. If you'd like, I can schedule an appointment for you."
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"My dear young lady, you did not relay my message." The man adds. "I asked you to relay the message about the Vices. It is a -very- important subject of which only she and I have knowledge. Merely the mention of it to her will clear everything, if you would." The man looks at Rebecca. "It is a matter of some importance."
~Okay… what next? This plan is going pear-shaped~
~I'm thinking. I'm thinking.~
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Rebecca maintains a polite expression on her face as she repeats herself. "I'm sorry, Mr. Campbell, but Miss Potts will be in that meeting by now and she can't be disturbed. But, as I just said, I will be happy to schedule an appointment for you." As she's saying this, two other of the front desk guards are now paying attention as well. Two men who look like they could be SHIELD field agents.
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Keith sighs. So much for subterfuge and not drawing attention.
He -hated- attention.
No, that wasn't true. He loved attention. When it was on his terms.
He leans forward on the desk and rests his chin on his hand, the illusion dissolving like gossamer in moonlight and leaving behind… well, Vorpal.
"I wanted this to be rather on the subtle side of things, but I guess that's out the window along with the baby and Sir John Falstaff. Be a dear and tell her that the Cheshire cat is here and wants to see her concerning matters of Superheroic Importance, with the Safety of Civilization and The Good Of All and possibly The American Way thrown in for good measure, if you will." He eyes the two guards. "Hold it there, fellows, I'm one of the good guys.
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Telling the fellows to hold it does not stop them from getting all kinds of riled up at the person abruptly changing appearance. They were clearly not expecting to see a purple cat standing there all of a sudden.
"Miss Potts," JARVIS speaks up in Pepper's office. "There is a situation in the lobby. A visitor has just changed to resemble a giant feline. With purple fur."
Pepper's head snaps up from her computer at that. "What?" She waves a hand impatiently to stop the AI from repeating himself (the weisenheimer), then reaches for her phone.
While everyone else is being all tense and freaky and stuff about Vorpal, Rebecca reaches for her phone again and answers it without actually saying anything.
"Becca, what is his name again?"
Rebecca looks at the purple cat. "May I ask your name again, please?"
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Well, I cant -give- it to you, my dear. Secret identities and all. But I go by 'Vorpal'. It isn't my name per se as much as it is my moniker. Or my trademark. I'm not entirely sure what the proper terminology is, but you get my gist. Whatever "Superman" is, Vorpal is for me."
He looks at the agents with a lazy expression, very feline. "Please, gentlemen. I do realize it is not everyday that you see an upright Cheshire cat lounging casually. And although I admit I am one hell of a dapper dresser, I must point out that I realized how much my appearance would upset you, and that I tried to slip inside in the least upsetting of ways. So much for that, though. I blame the paparazzi."
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One LOOK from Rebecca gets the other lobby guards to back off. Apparently it wasn't his purple catness that they have problems with, just the surprise of his abruptly changing appearance. Rebecca dutifully relays Vorpal's name to the phone, then after a moment concludes the call and offers the feline a Visitor's badge. "Take the last elevator on the left, Miss Potts is waiting for you." Next time don't try the trickery. It's all but written on the woman's face.
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"Last elevator on the left, and straight on 'til morning." Vorpal says with a grin (he's good at those) and waves, heading for the elevator…
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Pepper Potts hangs up her phone from talking to Becca in the lobby and looks around her office. Looks the same as always… wait. She skitters over to her tea credenza and scoops up the bottle of brandy. She stares at it for a solid three seconds before shaking her head at herself and starting to push stuff around in one of the bottom cupboards of the credenza to stash the bottle all the way at the back where it's the LEAST convenient to get. Then she shoves everything haphazardly back into place and closes the cupboard door… and opens the one next to it and reaches for the package of cookies she stuffed in there earlier in the day. She doesn't even know why she bought them from the vending machine. She doesn't like shortbread cookies normally.
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Vorpal grins at anyone he encounters— because, if the cat is out of the bag (so to speak), then he might as wall traipse there with bells on. By the time he manages to get to Pepper's office, he creates an old-fashioned cane and raps on the door politely with it.
Because let it not be said that cats do not know how to behave themselves.
They simply choose not to. Most of the time.
"Miss Potts?"
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The door… sort of… shoulders open and inside a big mass of black fur and Persian woman come in. The wolf is limping a bit, still, but his wounds are mostly closed. Even the scars are starting to fade. "Pepper… is everything okay? I felt someth-… you."
He eyes Vorpal. The cat-thing had seemed okay back at the house but… what's he doing here?
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Inara has a hand resting on the large wolf when she enters. She strokes the lush fur, keeping an eye on those wounds. She's not happy with not having sewed them up herself and though they are healing just fine on their own, the vet in her just wants to make sure. She sees the rainbow hued walking cat and seems dumbfounded. Looking to Fenris, she looks apologetic. "Another of your family?"
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A door creaks open. "Having a nice day, are we?" Constantine's head pops around the door, a beaming smile on the Brit's face. The door is rather unexceptional, except that it hadn't been there an eyeblink ago. And it is three feet from the nearest wall. "Hello, hi, greetings, hello there," Constantine says, walking around the room and shaking hands. "It's been a while, hasn't it?" he asks, blowing little faux-French cheek kisses into the air around people. It's terribly awkward. "That's a thing we do here, right?" Constantine asks Fenris with a frown.
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Vorpal and Inara get the same treatment and then Constantine siiiiidles up to Pepper. "Miss Potts," he says with a whimsical smile, cigarette bobbling. "The inestimable Pepper Potts. What a wonderful name," he tells the crowd. "Pepper. Potts," he says, putting emphasis on the consonants. He puts the back of his palm to Pepper's forehead. "Feeling ok? No chills, fevers, thoughts of megalomaniacal destruction?" he asks the redhead, peering into her eyes for a few moments.
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Pepper Potts looks over as Vorpal and then Fenris and Inara arrive followed by shortly thereafter by a very odd entrance from Constantine. When the latter reaches to out a hand to her forehead she recoils, then almost literally glowers before snapping a hand up to take the Brit's cigarette away. "This is a no-smoking place of business," she snaps at him and if she managed to capture the smoldering tobacco item, she'll promptly drop it into her now-cold cup of tea. Yeah, for those that are at least vaguely familiar with Pepper, they'll notice easily that she is very … irritable at the moment.
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Vorpal's mouth snaps shut and he takes a few step back in order to be outside of the blast radius. Should there be one. He does shoot the enormous wolf a rather curious glance, but he's not going to speak right now unless given permission.
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Fenris eyes Vorpal another minute longer and takes a few more steps into the room. "No. He's not." Is all he says. Thank goodness to. A creature like that with Loki's upbringing would be… well. Bad. Hilarious, perhaps, but bad.
"Miss Potts?" The big black beast rumbles quietly as Pepper snaps uncharacteristically at Constantine. He sniffs the air. There's… a whiff of the arcane about and it's not any of the beings present. "What is that I scent?"
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Inara looks at the room, confused. She frowns, seeming to channel her mother in giving the men in the room disapproving looks that will get them to all shamefully do what they should. Not that it ever really worked for her mother, but she can try. The Persian woman looks over to the cat and nods her head, closing her eyes to see if she can feel his presence or if he just looks like a cat. But it's Pepper that has most of her attention. "Miss Potts? Are you alright?"
"Ah, Old Wolf! Nose is as sharp as ever, I see," he says, tapping the side of his own nose and pointing at Fenris. He produces a Yahtzee cup from nowhere and rattles it, then slams it down on the table. Three sixes and two ones. "Hmm, not good, not good," Constantine mutters, sweeping the dice into his pocket and making the cup disappear as well.
"No megalomania, but…" He walks over to the tea service, sniffing and poking, drums his fingertips on the platter. He draws his finger along the edge of the tray, licks it, then turns and faces Pepper, reaching down to pull open the bottom credenza drawer without bothering to look into it.
"V.S.O.P.?" he guesses. "Do you usually drink, Miss Potts, or was it a special occasion?" he inquires, eyeing the woman curiously. "Are you finding yourself drinking alone more often than usual?"
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Pepper Potts takes a deep breath. She does NOT have the patience to deal with this man today. Taking advantage of Constantine's frenetic moving about, she forces herself to focus on Vorpal and then Fenris and Ianra, gestures for them to step into the office proper and have a seat. There are plenty of seating areas to choose from in the room.
Vorpal is staring at Constantine with the same expression people probably used when they said to Saint George "You've killed a WHAT?"
At the invitation, he does step inside and takes a seat- but cunning observers might notice that he's choosing the farthest seat possible.
~Did I stumble into an episode of 'Intervention' and didn't know?~
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Fenris takes a few steps forward, not toward the seating area but toward Pepper. One big paw comes up and rests on her shoulder as he attempts to discern if she's been affected or somehow tampered with. "Miss Potts?" He repeats in a deeper, slower voice.
While Fenris heads over to Pepper, Inara makes her way over to Constantine. "Back home," says the Persian woman, her accent thick, "It would be a disgrace to ones own honor to insult ones host in such a way. I didn't realize that things had changed in England to such and extent as to allow for such bad manners."
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"Well, that's me, bad manners all over," Constantine says with an affable smile at Inara. "That's what I do!" he declares, walking in a short circle. "I show up, make a mess, ask about the dishes in the sink and why there are dirty pots uncleaned and," he adds, with a declarative wag of a finger, "provoke the reputedly unflappable Miss Potts into nearly assaulting me, then, the really, crucially important question," he says, turning to face the group dramatically…
There's a long, silent pause, and Constantine stands with a finger to his lips. The hush lingers, and his finger curls to his chin. "…the question being, why, if we're all being quiet, … who is whispering?" he asks, his voice terribly soft. His eyes slip down, down, sideways, to Pepper's office desk. To the bottom most drawer.
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Pepper Potts turns her head to look at Fenris when he puts a paw the size of her entire head on her shoulder. "… sorry, sorry. I've just been out of sorts all day." She's still got the vending machine package of shortbread cookies in her hands, and after looking down at the package for a moment, she holds it up as if offering it to Vorpal. Then Constantine says something about whispering and her brows furrow a bit. "If that were the case, I think …" she stops herself from mentioning JARVIS. Too many people in here she doesn't know would be able to keep a potential secret hush-hush. (ahemConstantineahem) For her own part, she'd long since blocked the whispering out but now that it's been pointed out she can't unhear it anymore, and tries to back away from her desk. Even a wolf the size of a Clydesdale is preferable to that damned book.
"Whispering?… you don't mean that.. that -thing- she got is whispering somewhere?" The Cheshire frowns at Constantine. "And you still haven't told me your bloody name, you know."
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His name is Constantine." Fenris says softly, drawing Pepper back with a huge paw away from the desk and toward Inara. The desk is getting a death glare.
"I hope, Constantine, that you have come to retrieve your book? It seems to have brought some unwelcome guests with it." As the great wolf growls out that last sentence, several shadows suddenly appear on the wall - too fast for real identification - and slip under the door, fleeing the room. Not that this abates the whispers. Just lessens them.
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Inara turns to the desk, trying to hear the whisperings. It's not animal in nature, or she'd be able to tell. She goes to Inara as Fenris gently pushes the redhead towards her. She put herself between the desk and Pepper, Fenris' heroics seemingly rubbing off on her. "This is probably a bad time, but when possible, I would like to talk to you about Stark Industries funding a zoo outreach program."
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"That depends entirely on Miss Potts," Constantine replies to Fenris, looking at the redheaded woman with a penetrating stare.
"The book isn't just a collection of pages, you know," he explains to the group. "It has a will and a life all its own. It /wants/ to be read. It wants to be analyzed, studied. It is the lesser brother of a darker tome. These shadows can hear the whispers, but they lack the soul- the spirit- to read the book and follow the instructions inside of it."
"For whatever reason, Miss Potts," Constantine says, drawing nearer to the woman, hands clasped behind his back, "my House called to you. And it tossed the book in your hands. Now, the Book seeks out people with the strength of will to read it and make the greater text it references manifest- but my House wouldn't have handed it over to anyone willingly. In fact I wasn't sure she'd give it to /me/. The book is full of a great deal of temptation for those who either have very little power, and crave more, or have great power, and desire it increased."
"You, Miss Pepper Potts, might be one of the only people in the world who can be safely entrusted with the Book," Constantine informs the woman. "I don't know how, or why, but there it is. For what it's worth, I would spare you the burden of being cast as Frodo…" he trails off, absently reaching for a cigarette without lighting it, "but if you agree to take this burden up, you'll have your own personal Gandalf next to you."
-
Pepper Potts nods absently to Inara, though she WILL remember and seek the Persian woman out another time to talk to her about working with the Maria Stark Foundation. But for now, she's been pulled back by Fenris and is apparently being protected by Inara, and she is actually okay with leaning back a bit against the giant wolf while staring at Constantine with wide eyes. "I… I have enough to deal with. I don't need another thing to demand time out of my day." Not to mention, what would happen with Queen Maeve were to find out that she's got this insane book? Or worse, Dana and her mother? "It's just… It's too much." That must be what's been making her entire day a living nightmare.
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"What exactly are your plans for this book, Constantine?" Vorpal asks, head tilted to acknowledge the wolf for giving him the name. "More importantly, why is it allowed to exist? it sound like something that should have been destroyed long ago." |
gc-linux-devel
Hello All,
The past week I've been working on a hardware & software solution to
interface SD- and MMC memorycards to the cube. I've attached the driver
source to this message. The source includes a description on how to link
the cube and the card. No electronics are required except a capacitor
(it might even work without that).
I know the drivers should be put in CVS, but as of yet I do not have CVS
access.
If other developers are interested, I might make some units on PCB and
send them for free, so more people can test.
If it proves usefull, I could make a more detailled howto to put on the
web.
Kind Regards,
Rob Reilink |
Q:
Using boost test with Visual Studio
I am trying to use Boost Test to add some much needed unit tests to my code. However I can't seem to get it to work. Right now I have the following code
#include <Drawing.h>
#define BOOST_AUTO_TEST_MAIN
#define BOOST_TEST_MODULE DrawingModelTests
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE(DrawingModelTests)
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE ( DrawingConstructorTest)
{
Drawing * drawing = new Drawing;
delete drawing;
}
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END()
From what I understand I don't need to put a main or anything since boost will take care of it himself. However Visual Studio keep giving me a "entry point must be defined" error. Do I need to manually add a link to the static library or something? I am compiling as a standard .exe console application.
A:
Add /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE to the linker flags. In the project settings, this is on the Linker->System page. You can use boost as either dynamic or static library.
A:
I had this problem with VS2010 and the solution was to set 'Configuration Properties -> Linker -> Advanced -> Entry Point' to 'main' for the project.
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The short prose work is an amazing series of profound insights into what we believe what want, and what we really do want, as human beings. Only a prodigal could have penned these words – someone I’ve met in my own heart, and whom I’d like to meet on the other side of this crazy life.
It can also be found reposted online with titles such as ‘An Anonymous Confederate Soldier’s Prayer’, with some also claiming it was found on a “CSA casualty at the ‘Devil’s Den’ in Gettysburg.” I’m unaware of any evidence that this is the source. Cool that people on both ends of a sociopolitical spectrum recognize the glory and spirit in these words.
My song includes some additional lyrics at the end that I wrote.
A Creed for Those Who Have Suffered
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve.
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health, that I might do greater things.
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy.
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men.
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life.
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things. |
Thanks for this recipe! I made a few modifications. I substituted carrots for the celery, and added fresh spinach at the end for some extra nutrition and flavor. I also added smoky tempeh for enhanced protein, while still keeping it meatless. It was simple, delicious and fast to make. I'll definitely make this again!
Reviewer:
This was a great soup. I didn't use canned beans, so that added quite a bit of time, but we just like dried beans better. When finished, I did blend part of the bean mixture to change the final texture, and I was very happy with that. |
Assessment criteria in identifying the sick sepsis patient.
Standard definitions of sepsis have been proposed and have been widely adopted. Recognition of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and assessment of its severity can easily be achieved at the bedside using basic observations and simple laboratory tests. Fulfillment of standardized criteria defining increasing severity of sepsis or manifestation of two, three and four SIRS criteria directly correlates with risk of mortality and progression to organ failure. However, manifestation of only two SIRS criteria identifies patients who may have relatively mild disease. Furthermore, sepsis definitions take no account of pre-existing illness, source of infection or causative agent, all of which have a significant influence on outcome. Despite these limitations, manifestation of four SIRS criteria or the persistence of markers of severe sepsis identifies individuals on general wards who are at particularly high risk of death, who should be closely monitored for deterioration and discussed with an intensive-care physician at an early stage. If the source of sepsis is not clear, empirical antibiotic therapy for such individuals should be discussed with a medical microbiologist or infectious diseases physician. |
Expression patterns of cathepsins B, H, K, L and S in the human endometrium.
Cathepsins B, H, K, L and S belong to the family of lysosomal cysteine proteinases and participate in a variety of proteolytic processes, including degradation of the extracellular matrix (ECM). In the present study, we used Northern hybridization to demonstrate the presence of mRNAs for cathepsins B, H, K, L and S in human endometrium during both the proliferative and secretory phases of menstrual cycle. The mRNA levels for cathepsins H and K were significantly lower in secretory phase endometrium in comparison with proliferative phase endometrium. Immunohistochemical localization of the different cathepsins revealed widespread distribution of all cathepsins in both stroma and epithelial cells. The immunoreactivity for cathepsins B, H and K exhibited changes related to endometrial location and/or to the phase of the cycle. The strongest immunoreactivity for cathepsins B, H, L and S was observed in the surface epithelium of the endometrium. The staining for cathepsins was predominantly intracellular, but immunoreactivity was also detected on the surface of small lymphoid cells in the stroma. The findings of the present study suggest that cysteine cathepsins are needed for normal development and function of human endometrium during both the proliferative and secretory phases. |
Broadcasters, including wireless broadcasters, often charge for advertisements based on the amount of potential customers that can be reached and/or the demographics of the audience that can be reached. In addition, broadcasters normally charge on a per advertisement basis. Advertisers are often willing to pay more to reach a targeted audience, e.g., an audience satisfying one or more constraints.
In traditional advertising systems such as television and radio there is normally not a tradeoff in terms of the number of advertisements which can be served in a given time period versus the number of users and/or specific audience that can be reached. This is because for such fixed broadcasters, transmission power and/or other transmission constraints such as frequency remain fixed regardless of what is being transmitted.
While radio stations and fixed broadcast sites often generate revenue by transmitting advertisements, it would be desirable if mobile devices, e.g., wireless terminals in an ad-hoc or other type of network, could also generate revenue by transmitting advertisements and charging for such broadcasts. Unfortunately, mobile devices are normally subject to power constraints as a result of being battery powered and/or to limit interference to other devices in the system. The power limitations associated with mobile wireless terminals means that their transmission range tends to be smaller than that of radio or base stations which tend to be powered via fixed power transmission lines. While power constraints tend to limit the range of mobile devices and/or the duration of transmissions, mobile devices are often carried by individuals and end up in locations frequented by other people. As a mobile device comes into proximity with other wireless devices, it may be presented with numerous opportunities to communicate advertisements to a wide variety of other mobile devices users and/or people with a wide range of interests.
Thus, while mobile devices have various drawbacks for use as advertising transmission platforms, they also offer advertising opportunities that might differ from those available through the use of fixed site transmitters such as radio and TV stations.
In view of the above discussion is should be appreciated that there is a need for methods and/or apparatus which would allow mobile devices to be used as advertising platforms. In order to optimize the value of using a mobile device as an advertising platform it would be desirable if an advertiser could specify advertising constraints that the mobile device would have to satisfy, e.g., as part of an advertising service. It would also be desirable if a mobile device could, in some but not necessarily all embodiments control advertising transmission in a manner that was intended to optimize revenue and/or compensation generated from the transmission of advertisements from the mobile device. |
Writer and illustrator for mini-series Batman: White Knight, Sean Gordon Murphy, has quite surprisingly taken to Instagram to reveal a fairly big spoiler for the next issue of his take on the Dark Knight, which arrives in comic stores next Wednesday.
We here at Bleeding Cool, however, will put it behind a great big spoiler warning. So hey, if you've made it this far, we're assuming you want to know.
Taking to the image sharing social media site, Sean Gordon Murphy shared a series of panel, with dialogue that reveals that the rejected 'other' Harley Quinn, revealed last issue, has decided to take on a new role in Gotham City.
View this post on Instagram.
As readers learned in the second issue of Batman: White Knight, there are in fact two Harley Quinns, with the original, jester-costume wearing Harley being the actual Harley Quinn, the psychiatrist that fell in love with the Joker. However, the new Harley Quinn, who dresses in Batman: White Knight a lot closer to Harley's current look and appearance in the film Suicide Squad, is a wholly different person.
As the original, true Harley reveals, in the depth of his mania and obsession with the Batman, Joker simply didn't notice when a whole new woman had supplanted her as his 'puddin'. However, now cured of his insanity, Harley is back.
Murphy went into to further explanation too, even giving this new Harley, now rejected by the cured Joker (calling himself Jack Napier), a name: Marian Drews. But more than that, she is disgusted to see his now cured self, and decides to become a new Joker, taking the moniker of Neo-Joker.
So yes, the second Harley Quinn is now going to be the new criminal clown of Gotham City in Batman: White Knight, which feels like a rather big development, and a little surprising to have it revealed this way. However, it is one we called here on Bleeding Cool way back in July! |
Nintendo’s Iwata: iPad just “a bigger iPod touch”
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata doesn't mince his words; asked about Apple's iPad launch this week, the outspoken executive has told reporters that the tablet "was a bigger iPod touch", and that "there were no surprises for me". Meanwhile Iwata has also confirmed that while Nintendo's engineers are currently developing new gaming machines, it's unlikely that we'll see a motion-sensor enabled DS or a high-definition version of the Wii.
"I question whether those features would be enough to get people to buy new machines" Iwata suggested, when asked about a DS that brought the Wii's motion-gaming technology to a mobile audience, and he was similarly dismissive of 3D gaming. "I have doubts whether people will be wearing glasses to play games at home. How is that going to look to other people?" he asked, before suggesting that more research was required into the longer-term health impacts of 3D gaming. |
Gravimetric, histological and cytotoxic changes of lymphoreticular tissue after implantation of tumor cells in mice.
In inbred C3H/He male mice, gravimetric, histologic and cytotoxic changes in the lymphoreticular tissue after implantation of the tumor cells were studied. Gravimetric changes found in the thymus and the spleen suggest that the thymus plays an essential role until death in a tumor-bearing host and that the thymus and the spleen have inverse functions in relation to tumor growth. In this study, no association was found between the large pyroninophilic cells in the deep cortex of the lymph nodes and the cytotoxicity against the tumor cells. However, enlargement of the deep cortex of lymph nodes may be associated with cytotoxicity against these tumor cells. |
Q:
Constructing a string from getResource("...") gives an output starts with "file:/"?
Lets consider image.png stored inside one of the project's package named icons, I usually get the icons via getResource() method :
String imgPath = getClass().getResource("/icons/image.png").toString();
//no problem with creating an ImageIcon with this path
Image img = new ImageIcon(imgPath).getImage();
//but the problem occures when trying to open this image through Desktop
//try-catch
Desktop.getDesktop().open(imagePath);
//or
File imgFile = new File(imgPath);
//error, this file does not exist!
I noticed that constructing a string from the URL gives the output that starts with file:/...., it makes no problem with loading the image, but opening the file not possible until removing file:/.
What's the benifit of file:/ that added to the string?
I thought that maybe the path is to a file, but I was wrong, even targeting to the folders gives this output.
A:
Its a URL path specific to files.
Kinda how like web URLs have http://, https:// or ftp:// URL for file keeps that syntax thus file:/ was born .
For example copy an image like test.jpg to your C drive.
Than open your browser and type:
file:/c:/test.jpg
hit ENTERand the image should be loaded.
What's the benefit of file:/ that added to the string?
No real benefits, besides the fact it becomes a valid URL, it can only be used as a URL and not as a valid path to a file, for that you would omit file:/ as you have seen
See file URI scheme for more
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HP DT158A-ABA A445C Drivers
All equipment facilities installed on HP DT158A-ABA A445C are listed below. In order to facilitate the search for the necessary driver, choose one of the Search methods: either by Device Name (by clicking on a particular item, i.e. PCI\VEN_1045&DEV_C861) or by Device ID (i.e. PCI\VEN_1045&DEV_C861). |
DevOps Broken Windows
Broken windows is a criminology theory that says that if you let one window to be broken in an unoccupied building, more windows will be broken — as the building degrades, sooner or later a band of squatters will settle in. In a short time, the broken-into building becomes a hub where crime gravitates in the neighborhood. The theory suggests that, by tackling petty offences, police officers can effectively reduce citywide crime.
But broken windows theory goes deeper that just patrolling officers and crime watching.
It deals with changes in the cultural and social fabric of a community. It deals with social boundaries and how people adapt to the increasing diversion that starts with one seemly trivial incident such as a broken glass (or graffiti, littering, etc.). When a person walks by a broken window, perception of the surrounding changes. The domino effect starts with how a person reacts to the proliferation of rundown areas. Most avoid them. Some feel detached from that part of the community. Others join in and break more windows.
As a neighborhood becomes segmented, people tend to avoid the streets and start forming silos. Social silos tend to be intolerant with non-conforming members. They tend to exclude people and do not communicate with other silos. Another consequence to a siloed structured is disregard to a governing body and a general sense of distrust in common goal seeking.
Does it sound familiar?
In an organization, there can be many “broken windows” that pop-up here and there and can quickly degenerate into silos or even ghettos. So what are broken windows in the context of DevOps?
saying “their problem not mine” is a broken window
a feature that the customer does not want/need/understand is a broken window
radical changes is a broken window
only trusting talented heroes is a broken window
people trying desperately to deploy into production at 2am is a broken window
thinking it’s over because it’s committed is a broken window
a design decision taken unanimously is a broken window
lack of good, actionable metrics is a broken window
inconsistencies is a broken window
To remedy silo-formation, organizations tend to throw processes and meetings into them. Committees get set-up. More reviews meetings. Evaluations, bonuses, performance boosters and team-building events with motivational speakers. But all of these are just patchwork that is not actually tackling the root cause.
So how do we avoid broken windows? We can’t. We can’t avoid unwanted behavior to pop up somewhere. You can’t crush creative impulses and human nature by demanding allegiance to the gods of DevOps. This is not about setting up a crime watch program.
The way we avoid broken windows from tempering with our DevOps journey is by promoting transparency from all ends of the cycle. Transparency is what disrupts silos and promotes collaboration, which means not only identifying broken windows early on, but also empowering the organization to change. A team empowered to change can overcome anti-patterns before they snowball. Lack of transparency, on the other hand, is precisely what generates growing distrust among teams.
An empowered team is a team that heals itself
When an organization is transparent and empowered, it starts to generate positive reinforcement, which is how transparency scales up. People who feel empowered to improve the organization tend to be more accountable for their actions. Transparency is therefore a team value that can be both triggered by individuals or trickle down from upper management. That’s how we practice transparency. But how do we implement it? We implement it with technology.
That’s why DevOps IS so much about technology: a lean toolchain with actionable metrics that cover the spectrum end-to-end. Technology is the ultimate enabler of transparency, empowering organizations to deliver and improve continuously, overcoming the fear, uncertainty and doubt that seem to plague broken communities.
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She's just so soulless. She is the text book example of "cold hearted person who eventually warms up to friends" character with nothing to distinguish her from the other thousand characters that fit that description. SE just saw that people liked Cloud and Squall (and possibly Lenneth) and tried to replicate their success without picking up on the aspects of the earlier characters that made them stand out (Cloud's severe mental issues and the sheer intimacy we have with Squalls inner monologue). Adding to all that is she's just all so irritating in that first half of XIII
Which wouldn't be so bad if SE wasn't so convinced that they made the best thing since sliced bread---"Hey bridesmaid, love the beard! Give's me something to hang onto!!"- Lord Flasheart
Deny. I don't think she's the best character ever, but she's far from bad. I think that my least favourite character in the entire Final Fantasy series would be Squall. I found him to be absolutely terrible.
She's just so soulless. She is the text book example of "cold hearted person who eventually warms up to friends" character with nothing to distinguish her from the other thousand characters that fit that description. SE just saw that people liked Cloud and Squall (and possibly Lenneth) and tried to replicate their success without picking up on the aspects of the earlier characters that made them stand out (Cloud's severe mental issues and the sheer intimacy we have with Squalls inner monologue). Adding to all that is she's just all so irritating in that first half of XIII
Which wouldn't be so bad if SE wasn't so convinced that they made the best thing since sliced bread
This doesn't make her "soulless." You can call her unoriginal, but it's disingenuous to do so without looking for what makes her different from other examples of the same trope. Neither Squall or Cloud, or any character, is impervious to the popular tactic of a GameFAQs critic to sum something up in a sentence and say, "look how shallow it is because I did that."
Also, that last sentence is an obvious fallacy in judging a character, and undermines your criticism. It says, "I'm angered that Square Enix likes this character, so I'm going to be extra harsh." |
Q:
What does “not as [adjective] as him” imply?
If it is written that X is not as tall as Y, it indicates that X and Y have unequal heights. But does this necessarily imply that X is shorter than Y?
A:
In the absence of further elaboration, yes: "I am not as X as you" implies that you have more X-quality than I do. If X is "tall", then I am shorter than you.
It is possible to follow up for a humorous (or insulting) reversal of the normal implication:
I am not as good as he is... I'm actually way better.
But if you don't do this explicit countering, the default reading is that "not as X as" is always "less X than".
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Cr (VI) inhibits DNA, RNA and protein syntheses in hepatocytes: involvement of glutathione reductase, reduced glutathione and DT-diaphorase.
In patients with orthopaedic implants, metallic particles have been shown to be disseminated widely throughout the body, particularly in the liver, spleen and lymph nodes. Levels of metal particles and ions in distant organs were highest in patients with loose, corroded prostheses, and when stainless steel and cobalt chrome alloy corrode, chromium is released predominantly as Cr (VI), a toxic ion. This manuscript investigates the interaction of Cr (VI) with liver cells in terms of inhibition of macromolecular synthesis, and the contribution of reduced glutathione (GSH), DT-diaphorase and glutathione reductase (GRd) to the toxicity of Cr (VI). Cr (VI) caused concentration dependent inhibition of protein, DNA and RNA synthesis in hepatocytes. GRd and to a lesser extent DT-diaphorase activities were involved in the generation of toxic intermediates. GRd activity was markedly inhibited during the reduction of Cr (VI), and GSH levels decreased. The concentrations of Cr (VI) found to inhibit macromolecular syntheses in this study are clinically relevant: it is therefore important to develop implants with minimum wear potential. |
{
"service": {
"id": "e81d66a4-ddd3-4aba-8a84-171d1cb4d339",
"binary": "nova-compute",
"disabled_reason": "test2",
"host": "host1",
"state": "down",
"status": "disabled",
"updated_at": "%(strtime)s",
"forced_down": true,
"zone": "nova"
}
}
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Development of neuromuscular specialization.
This review outlines recent advances in understanding the program of muscle specialization during development and discusses some of the controls over this process. The scheme of fiber heterogeneity is laid down very early in myogenesis and, at least in the chicken, it appears to be intrinsically determined by the limb, independent of neuromuscular contact. In mature muscle, specialized fibers are usually intermingled in a mosaic. This results from the pattern of muscle assembly from primary and secondary generation cells as these distinct generations commonly express different phenotypes. The muscle develops in this way as secondary cells use the walls of primary myotubes as a scaffold to support their differentiation. This process may be regulated by transient expression of N CAMs. Myoblasts left after N CAMs are no longer expressed may become the satellite cells of mature muscle. In the rat, primary cells all initially express slow myosin, whereas most secondary cells are fast in phenotype. Post-partum, the initial plan of fiber specialization is modulated. In developing slow muscles many secondary generation fibers convert from a fast to a slow phenotype, whereas in developing fast muscles, primary slow fibers transform to a fast phenotype. Hormones, particularly thyroid hormone, play a significant role in this modification. The role of the nerve is less well understood. |
Q:
Better way of mapping _POST parameters to variables
I am sure that there is a better way of mapping all the _POST parameters to variables with the same name. Does anybody know how to do this better?
$ownerName = $_POST["ownerName"];
$ownerEmail = $_POST["ownerEmail"];
$ownerPhone = $_POST["ownerPhone"];
$ownerAddress = $_POST["ownerAddress"];
$buyerName = $_POST["buyerName"];
$buyerEmail = $_POST["buyerEmail"];
$buyerPhone = $_POST["buyerPhone"];
$buyerAddress = $_POST["buyerAddress"];
$propertyAddress = $_POST["propertyAddress"];
$parcelNumber = $_POST["parcelNumber"];
Thanks so much.
A:
There's a function in PHP to extract the values to vars:
<?php
extract($_POST, EXTR_SKIP);
?>
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import Where from './Where'
import WhereBoolean from './WhereBoolean'
import WherePrimaryClosure from './WherePrimaryClosure'
import WhereSecondaryClosure from './WhereSecondaryClosure'
import Has from './Has'
import HasConstraint from './HasConstraint'
import Orders from './Orders'
import OrderKey from './OrderKey'
import OrderDirection from './OrderDirection'
import Constraint from './Constraint'
import Load from './Load'
import PersistMethods from './PersistMethods'
import PersistOptions from './PersistOptions'
import PrimaryKey from './PrimaryKey'
export {
Where,
WhereBoolean,
WherePrimaryClosure,
WhereSecondaryClosure,
Has,
HasConstraint,
Orders,
OrderKey,
OrderDirection,
Constraint,
Load,
PersistMethods,
PersistOptions,
PrimaryKey
}
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Radiotherapy of meningioma: a treatment in need of radiobiological research.
Meningiomas account for one third of primary intracranial tumors; nevertheless information on meningioma cell lines and in vivo models is scant. Although radiotherapy is one of the most relevant therapeutic options for the treatment of patients with meningioma, radiobiological research to understand tumor response to this treatment is far from being thoroughly figured out. The aim of this report is to provide a comprehensive picture of the current literature on this field, so as to foster research in this regard. We carried out a review of meningioma radiobiology based on a peer-reviewed PubMed search. Our findings confirm that the main limitation of radiobiological research into meningioma is the paucity of robust in vitro and in vivo models. Alternative approaches to overcome the already identified problems, and to allow better understanding of the entire histopathological spectrum of meningiomas have been explored. A radiobiological perspective of meningioma may help to improve clinical results both in terms of tumor control and healthy tissue sparing. Although we are far from drawing any conclusions, this review can lead researchers to identify some clues for future areas of study. |
Q:
Is JqueryMobile layout run on both web and mobile
I make a website in php at backend and HTML,CSS at frontend.Now the requirement is to make it compatible for also mobile.I am thinking to use JqueryMobile but I am confuse that same layout work for both or make different for both.
Is layout make by JqueryMobile cover both ends?Is I make separately JqueryMobile layout?
A:
According to the jQuery Mobile description:
jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive web sites and apps that are accessible on all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.
Then, the same layout will work in both mobile and desktop browsers. Despite that, you should consider how your website looks in desktop browsers if you want to provide different functionalities in each platform.
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// *** WARNING: this file was generated by the Pulumi Terraform Bridge (tfgen) Tool. ***
// *** Do not edit by hand unless you're certain you know what you are doing! ***
import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as inputs from "../types/input";
import * as outputs from "../types/output";
import * as utilities from "../utilities";
/**
* Provides information about a "classic" Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).
* See `LB` Data Source if you are looking for "v2"
* Application Load Balancer (ALB) or Network Load Balancer (NLB).
*
* This data source can prove useful when a module accepts an LB as an input
* variable and needs to, for example, determine the security groups associated
* with it, etc.
*
* ## Example Usage
*
* ```typescript
* import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
* import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws";
*
* const config = new pulumi.Config();
* const lbName = config.get("lbName") || "";
* const test = aws.elb.getLoadBalancer({
* name: lbName,
* });
* ```
*/
export function getLoadBalancer(args: GetLoadBalancerArgs, opts?: pulumi.InvokeOptions): Promise<GetLoadBalancerResult> {
if (!opts) {
opts = {}
}
if (!opts.version) {
opts.version = utilities.getVersion();
}
return pulumi.runtime.invoke("aws:elb/getLoadBalancer:getLoadBalancer", {
"name": args.name,
"tags": args.tags,
}, opts);
}
/**
* A collection of arguments for invoking getLoadBalancer.
*/
export interface GetLoadBalancerArgs {
/**
* The unique name of the load balancer.
*/
readonly name: string;
readonly tags?: {[key: string]: string};
}
/**
* A collection of values returned by getLoadBalancer.
*/
export interface GetLoadBalancerResult {
readonly accessLogs: outputs.elb.GetLoadBalancerAccessLogs;
readonly arn: string;
readonly availabilityZones: string[];
readonly connectionDraining: boolean;
readonly connectionDrainingTimeout: number;
readonly crossZoneLoadBalancing: boolean;
readonly dnsName: string;
readonly healthCheck: outputs.elb.GetLoadBalancerHealthCheck;
/**
* The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
*/
readonly id: string;
readonly idleTimeout: number;
readonly instances: string[];
readonly internal: boolean;
readonly listeners: outputs.elb.GetLoadBalancerListener[];
readonly name: string;
readonly securityGroups: string[];
readonly sourceSecurityGroup: string;
readonly sourceSecurityGroupId: string;
readonly subnets: string[];
readonly tags: {[key: string]: string};
readonly zoneId: string;
}
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Government sources say the Justice Department will charge American al Qaeda member, John Walker Lindh, with aiding terrorism
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Karen Nemeth, Ed.M., founder and lead consultant of Language Castle LLC, is the author of Many Languages, Early Connections: Teaching Infants and Toddlers who are Dual Language Learners. Karen is a writer and consulting editor for NAEYC, and is the Dual Language Learning Advisor for Teaching Young Children. Karen serves on the executive board of NJTESOL-NJBE. She consults with early childhood programs all over the country and will be presenting at the NAEYC conference in November. |
B-RAF and melanocytic neoplasia.
High frequency of B-RAF gene mutations has recently been identified in benign melanocytic nevi and melanoma. This review focuses on clinical studies that evaluate the role of B-RAF in melanocytic neoplasia. |
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Bernie Sanders did his second town hall on Fox News tonight. It was a questionable idea, to be sure, and there’s a strong argument to be made that he should have nothing to do with the racist network. But it did provide at least one moment of pure joy, when Fox host Brett Baier attempted to own Sanders by polling the audience about their thoughts about healthcare.
“How many people get their insurance from work, private insurance, right now?” Baier asked.
Many people, Baier and Sanders included, raised their hands.
“Of those, how many are wiling to transition, to what the Senator says, a government run system?” Baier continued.
Almost every hand that had been previously raised remained up, and cheers erupted in the audience.
Whoops!
This is a delicious misstep on the part of Baier. As Medicare for All has gained popularity among Democrats, Republicans arguments against it have shifted from “no one wants government health care” to “no one wants to lose their amazing private health care.” But in this crowd, at least, that premise didn’t hold up.
Conventional wisdom has said that Medicare for All is incredibly popular across the aisle—until you tell people they’d have to give up their current employer-sponsored coverage. But i n many cases, Trump and his cronies will stop short of even mentioning “transitioning” to a Medicare for All plan, making it seem that a single-paye r plan would somehow get rid of health care coverage for those that are currently covered by employers .
Of course no one wants to lose their healthcare! But it seems that even a Fox News-selected crowd is willing to entertain moving over to Medicare for All if they understand it’s an option. |
Q:
What is the best way to configure Javascript from third-party site's script/include tag?
tl;dr:
Is it safe/wise to use dynamic view engine such as Sinatra+ERB to dynamically generate javascript files with custom content for embedding on third party sites?
And specifically is it safe/wise to use that server-side view engine to embed those data as variables on the javascript page?
Full story:
I have javascript/Sinatra application that functions a little like Google Analytics, in that partner sites include our javascript file, and that JS code sends data to our Sinatra app.
I want to make it easy for our clients to configure this javascript include, since there is state data (like their customer ID and the user ID that is currently logged in) that they need to communicate to our javascript code. However, the data they need to communicate must be translated via our server-side database before our script can use it.
My current method feels a little hacky: Sinatra serves a dynamic javascript file as a "view". The client includes that file with a script tag such as:
<script src="/dynamic-js/include.js?client_key=xyz&user_key=abc">
On Sinatra's side, it gets those parameters, uses a database to convert them to internal values and then serves a dynamic (erb) javascript file with code like:
window.ourInternalVars = {};
window.ourInternalVars.client_int_key="<%=client_int_key%>";
window.ourInternalVars.user_int_key="<%=user_int_key%>";
My question is whether this is a "bad" solution (one likely to yield undesirable and/or unexpected outcomes) and/or whether there are "better" approaches (broadly used approaches, ones using existing libraries, or following community/industry best practices) to this problem?
I could obviously solve this problem with a static javascript file that reads its own URL parameters and makes an ajax call to configure itself, but that is slower (the data aren't present when the script begins) and so less useful for our purposes (it's also less reliable).
We could also ask our clients to make ajax/api calls to our server to do the conversion, but that makes the installation of our script more complex for them, and we want to make it as simple as possible for them (a one line script tag if possible).
Am I likely to regret the above strategy later or does this seem like a reasonable approach to managing dynamic third-party inputs/configuration to a javascript include?
Note also I've simplified the use-case above to make the question more clear.
A:
If you properly escape the values, it looks fine to me.
Maybe the people at Code Review have more tips. Stack Overflow is for when your code doesn't work as desired.
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Boris' new election broadcast
We're grateful to have been given advance viewing of Boris' new election broadcast. It's very impressive.
At just under five minutes it's longer than the previous one and has good shots of him campaigning all around London - including being hugged by a bus driver, greeting a voter in French, being cheered by members of the public as he cycles past, and interrupting a TV interview with David Cameron to talk to the crowd about Heathrow...
The main quotes from the video are:
"London is the city I've spent most of my working life in, it's the city I love, but for too many Londoners, the quality of our lives is not improving - and that's why I think it's time to apply fresh thinking, and creativity, and energy to the problems that really concern Londoners."
"My trips around London have taught me what really matters to people: the nightmare of the school run, protecting our green spaces, improving recycling... and their view of us modern day politicians."
"It makes me really angry when I meet child after child who says they've either been mugged on the bus or shortly after getting off it, and that's
why I think it's vital that we put more uniformed police on the buses and drive out the so-called minor crime and disorder. Because if we crack down on minor crime and disorder we can make a real difference to the serious crime that also afflicts our city."
"I think it's time to recriminalise crime. What I mean by recriminalising crime is taking your experience of crime seriously and not endlessly downgrading thigns that happen, assaults, thefts of mobile phones, and just calling it anti-social behaviour. This is a crime!"
"One of the problems we all face is that people are so disillusioned about politics, and with Parliament now trying to clean up its act I want to go a step further by putting every penny I spend as your Mayor online available for you to consult on my website."
"I'll tell you one thing that really annoys me, it's people saying that I'm going to cancel the Freedom Pass. It's just not true,under my mayoralty the Freedom Pass will be guaranteed round-the-clock on all modes of transport."
"When I look at London I don't just see the greatest financial and cultural centre on earth. I also see a city that is fantastically open, and tolerant, and cosmopolitan, an example to the rest of the planet. But I believe London could be greater still, and when I become mayor it will be safer, more openly administrated, it will be cleaner and easier to move around in. In order to make that change it's vital that you vote for me, Boris Johnson, as mayor, and for the Conservatives for the GLA on May 1st."
Comments
Sleek, smooth and grown up - all the things Boris is accused of not being. Brilliant video to counteract the criticisms. Dare I say that the Boris team really are pulling it out of the bag at the moment??
Michael White hints to day in the Guardian what is being picked up on the groundthat there is now a likelihood of a big BNP vote in the London elections. This is coupled with the Muslim extremists trying to turn out the vote for LIvingstone.
Shades oif Northern Ireland where the failures of the entrenched politics led to the extremists taking control.
Personally I expect Johnson to benefit from a swing to the Tories bvut Livingstones vote may hold up surprisingly well in inner London.Finally will the BNP beat the Lib Dems who seem to be in freefall and irrelevant?
I expect to be bored by election broadcasts and this grabbed me from start to finish. It's beautifully made. Really shrewd politics. And the team must have put loads of time and effort into it.
I am genuinely impressed.
It doesn't address the issue on the minds of people in all parties: his overall level of competence, or as Jeremy Paxman put it rather more rudely: "No one has ever accused you of being competent, have they?" |
Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Joy Behar said former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony before Congress was snarky and disrespectful.
Behar said, “I couldn’t stand watching it or listening to it on the radio, the snarkiness of it. I have taught juvenile delinquents who are more respectful in a classroom than this guy and than Kavanaugh, remember Kavanaugh and others who are in this administration working for Trump. I have had kids who were murderers and pimps who behaved better than this.”
Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN |
Q:
What's the best way to present variables in a WYSIWYG editor?
I'm working on a WYSIWYG editor, similar to medium.com. We need to support variables inside the editor. For example, you might want to add text: Hi, *|FNAME|* which would be replaced with Hi, Gustavs depending on who views it.
What's the best way to visually present it? Do you know any sites that do that?
We don't want to use *|TagsLikeThis|*, because it doesn't give the impression that it will be replaced with the real content later.
A:
For replacements I always prefer to use double square brackets with natural language:
Hello, [[first name]]
Double brackets rarely appear in normal text but are easy to type and read, natural language removes the need to know/lookup field names.
Alternatively you can use real data with highlighting and some tool-tips, bit trickier to implement but much richer for the user.
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
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Use Modular Design To Foster Flexible and Incremental City Building
This post originally appears on Spacing Canada. By Darren Proulx and Samuel Baron
At Slow Streets we embrace a philosophy of quicker, lighter and cost effective infrastructure. We believe that this approach can yield the same results and quality. Practically speaking, this can be in the form of using plastic bollards to separate cycling lanes from traffic, setting up lawn chairs bought at the local retailer, installing parklets to instantly add a bit of public space to a retail street, or allowing food carts to anchor a space.
What if you take this same philosophy and take it to the next level — infusing it into the bones and structure of your city streets? What if you could build your city as a sort of real life Legoland, where it is easier to dismantle, reassemble and change everything? What happens when we infuse modularity into city-building? How would this impact our cities?
A tram stop made of modular pieces A speed bump constructed with modular pieces A pedestrian refuge constructed out of modular material Even the curbs have been constructed with high quality modular materials
It appears the Dutch have done this very thing. Nearly all of the street materials in Amsterdam are modular: the bricks and paving stones in the sidewalks, street surfaces, curbs, speed bumps, barrier posts, planters, tram stop platforms and parking barriers.The Dutch modularity is a results-driven approach to building cities. It uses aesthetically pleasing, high-quality materials that affords the ability to tinker with the street design. This flexible approach permits trial and error — it allows a street to incrementally test what works and what doesn’t work. In the end, the result is a more adaptive and flexible cityscape that aspires to perfection.
Modular material provides flexibility in construction Close up of the street bricks
Too often, designing our cities is treated as an absolute. We tend to assume people will use things a certain way in perpetuity and almost expect it to be this way (Vancouver’s overbuilt and under-performing bridges come to mind).
Since infrastructure often doesn’t perform as expected, experimental flexibility is an asset and a strategic way to build better. In North America, our roadway materials opt for using single form slabs of concrete and asphalt which permits very little flexibility. Once something has been built and it is discovered that it is not performing as expected (as it often doesn’t), any changes require waiting for the long lifecycle of these materials or its total destruction.
The modular elements in Dutch design allow modifications to be made without the destruction of the materials, dramatically reducing capital costs associated with street design changes. The majority of changes can be done with hand tools and smaller machinery, which is significantly less capital intensive.
If you live in a big city you have probably often seen the scars left from public utility companies that have had to access water, gas, electric and sewer lines buried underneath the street surface. In North America, when repairs to the street are required, the street needs to be ripped open and an ineffective patchwork design is applied to close it up. The module design allows only the affected materials to be replaced, restoring the intact aesthetics. This unsightly and wasteful scenario can be avoided and money can be saved when the surface can easily be dismantled with the right tools.
Due to this, in North America, there is often a struggle to reverse the impacts of street designs that only accommodate automobiles. Active transportation and transit are on the rise in North America, and many of our streets fail to provide a comfortable experience for these alternative forms of travel. With modular design, even the curbs and speed bumps can be dismantled and rebuilt easily.
A complete street with modular traffic calming A modular bulb out and speed bump A modular diverter A dutch separated intersection built with modular materials
This means that if you need to change the road design to physically make the street feel “unsafe driving at unsafe speeds,” this can be done. The curbs can be easily extended to reduce the street width, pedestrian islands can be constructed and speed bumps can be moved or enlarged. The street allocation is even more ready to be altered to add bike lanes. Everything can be relocated or changed in some way to achieve the optimal results to welcome all people whether they want to walk, cycle, use transit and drive.
Water management is also increasingly a problem in cities, where the impermeable surfaces redirect local rainfall elsewhere, leading to flooding issues. The modular design introduces permeable surfaces and allows local rainfall to stay locally.
With all of this in mind, one final thing to note is the Dutch frame of mind towards solving problems which provides true flexibility. While they have laws and regulations like everyone else, the Dutch view some of them more as guidelines and overall common sense prevails. The Dutch do not blindly follow governmental rules, treating recommendations as an absolute, applicable to any context. They recognize that spaces change and our design approach should embrace this. Infusing flexibility into our cityscapes requires less long-term planning since changes can be made incrementally. This philosophy embraces the notion that our cities are not static places. It does not try to predict the future, but rather acknowledges that long-term resilience is achieved only through the ability to adapt easily and quickly. The future isn’t a given and the way we design our streetscapes should reflect this.
A completed playground in the space between buildings Workers replacing half of a street width with a playground |
Cooper, Babin out indefinitely with injuries
Defensive end Jason Babin, defensive tackle Antonio Dixon and wide receiver Riley Cooper all were shaken up at practice Saturday.
Cooper is out indefinitely with what the Eagles are calling a fractured left collarbone, landing hard after getting tangled with defender Curtis Marsh.
"I think it's a bump in the road," general manager Howie Roseman said. "He'll recover from it. He's had a good offseason. Because he's had that offseason he's gotten a lot of reps and gotten stronger and got more knowledge of our system. And that will benefit him when he's ready to come back."
Roseman contends he doesn't have enough information to determine if it's a season-ender. |
Q:
Raising socket events from from nodejs code
I am using net library in node. I want to raise a close event from my code. Is there any way i can do that?
If socket object is stored, I can perform sock.destroy() on it but the client will not be informed about the closing connection, which results in half dropped connection.
Is there any other way to handle this case ?
A:
Emit to that specific socket (client) a custom 'kill_connection' event in order to inform the client about the connection being terminated for whatever reason you decided.
For example using socket.io :
var csid = socket.id; //The socket you are going to destroy
io.to(csid).emit('kill_connection');
Do this before performing the destruction of the socket.
Your client (if a webapp) could look something like:
socket.on("kill_connection", killSession);
function killSession(){
socket.disconnect();
console.log("socket.disconnect");
location.reload();
}
The reload is in case you want a single-page webapp to show the login screen.
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// +build !linux !cgo
package copy
import "github.com/containers/storage/pkg/chrootarchive"
// Mode indicates whether to use hardlink or copy content
type Mode int
const (
// Content creates a new file, and copies the content of the file
Content Mode = iota
)
// DirCopy copies or hardlinks the contents of one directory to another,
// properly handling soft links
func DirCopy(srcDir, dstDir string, _ Mode, _ bool) error {
return chrootarchive.NewArchiver(nil).CopyWithTar(srcDir, dstDir)
}
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Debt – for someone it is a heavy burden, but for someone a way to earn.
What category of fast track debt relief reviews?
What categories of fast track debt relief reviews are there?
Debt can be of several categories:
The most common category of debt is when you owe.
Far fewer such subjects to whom they should.
And units of such subjects who earn on debt.
fast track debt relief reviews can also be of several categories.
What to do with fast track debt relief reviews?
If the subject is a debtor:
fast track debt relief reviews need to give. Make a schedule and monthly give a comfortable amount. Do it every month and soon there will be nothing left of the debt.
If the subject should?
You need to get your money back and never lend it again.
fast track debt relief reviews and profit.
Also, using debt, you can earn money. Here are some examples:
⬤ right to debt can be bought with a huge discount and then claim it,
⬤ a debt you can buy an asset that will bring more income than the payment on debt,
⬤ debt can be taken at a small percentage and give it at a higher percentage,
⬤ other options.
fast track debt relief reviews must move from one category to another category. |
//==-- proto_to_cxx.h - Protobuf-C++ conversion ----------------------------==//
//
// The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
//
// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// Defines functions for converting between protobufs and C++.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
#include <cstdint>
#include <cstddef>
#include <string>
namespace clang_fuzzer {
class Function;
std::string FunctionToString(const Function &input);
std::string ProtoToCxx(const uint8_t *data, size_t size);
}
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Artist's description:
The figures in contexts night remain alone with themselves, in a search for his own identity.A deep sense of emptiness is generated, and the desire to let go, free at last from the thoughts in a dark space that welcomes you as a mother's womb.
Artist's description:
The figures in contexts night remain alone with themselves, in a search for his own identity.A deep sense of emptiness is generated, and the desire to let go, free at last from the thoughts in a dark space that welcomes you as a mother's womb. |
Bulbophyllum aristilabre
Bulbophyllum aristilabre is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum.
References
The Bulbophyllum-Checklist
The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia
aristilabre |
Doxorubicin-induced Cardiotoxicity and Cardioprotective Agents: Classic and New Players in the Game.
Doxorubicin (DOX) is a cytostatic antibiotic from the class of anthracyclines widely used in chemotherapeutic cancer treatments. Despite the efficiency against several types of cancer, the use of DOX remains limited due to the side effects, especially cardiotoxicity. Among the DOX administration strategies, there are the "classic players" such as nanoparticles and polymers, which are capable of DOX delivery directly to interesting neoplastic regions. On the other hand, the "new players" such as phytochemicals and probiotics emerged with the proposal to react with DOX free radicals, reducing the oxidative stress, inflammatory and apoptotic process. Thus, this review aims to report the studies involving these classics and new players along the years that focus on improved administration and reduction of DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. |
"If you look at successful people, nine times out of ten they will tell you stories of tremendous struggle. If you've got a different kind of brain and, I submit, that most interesting people do, that's great. Never lose sight of those strengths, those talents, because that is what's going to take you to great places."
Lemon Tree is a family owned speech therapy center dedicated to helping children and teens with language–based learning differences. The center was created to help identify and treat those students who feel an overwhelming sense of frustration with learning and often times, slip through the cracks. If not properly identified and understood, learning differences can have devastating effects on a child’s educational, social, and emotional well-being. Lemon Tree offers positive solutions and support to students who, although bright, are not responding to traditional education and intervention. Lemon Tree specializes in the ability to zero in on the root cause of children’s learning difficulty and intervene with the right treatment that effectively retrains their underlying weakness. Our goal is to empower students to identify their innate strengths as learners and reach their intended educational potential.
HOW DO WE DO IT?
THE BREAKDOWN:
✤ First, we identify and target the underlying deficit.
Identifying and understanding the underlying deficit is of paramount importance to the success of your child’s educational progress. If the underlying deficit is not properly identified or understood, your resources can quickly be drained with little or no results. Furthermore, the negative impact of yet another frustrating, non-productive learning experience for your child will only add insult to injury to his emotional well-being.
✤ Then we intervene with the right treatment strategies.
The domino effect. With the underlying deficit properly identified, we can intervene with the right treatment strategies. Hence, our mantra: work smarter, not harder. If your child is not responding to traditional education, repetition and trying harder is certainly not the solution. Your child learns differently. You have to intervene differently. With the right treatment strategies and approaches, your child’s processing pathways can be retrained to make reading, writing, and language more efficient.
THE OUTCOME:
Improved learning efficiency, restored self-confidence and more time for your child to enjoy being a kid. |
How Detecting Neurotransmitter Imbalance Can Help You to Feel Better
Detecting Neurotransmitter Imbalance: Neurotransmitters, chemicals in our brains that work as messengers between brain cells, are responsible for most of what goes on in our bodies. They regulate our behavior, our emotions, our ability to learn, and the way we sleep. When these chemicals are not present in the proper balance, it can affect everything from our energy levels to our ability to focus to how we feel.
Studies have shown that neurotransmitters have a tremendous influence on our mood, and insufficient levels of certain neurotransmitters have been identified in patients with emotional disorders and mental illness.
What, exactly, are neurotransmitters, and how do they work?
Our brain contains specialized nerve cells, called neurons, which are responsible for receiving information, processing it, and transmitting it to other cells. Neurons are not in direct contact with one another; in order for neurons to pass messages to each other, they rely on highly specialized chemicals called neurotransmitters.
How Detecting Neurotransmitter Imbalance Can Help You to Feel Better: Neurotransmitters are made out of amino acids, which come from proteins.
Neurotransmitters are made out of amino acids, which come from proteins – you will see why this is important further on. The neurotransmitters essentially bridge the “gaps” (called synapses) between neurons to relay their messages. When these neurotransmitters exist at insufficient levels, important information may not be passed along correctly.
Some of the important neurotransmitters that affect our moods are described here.
Acetylcholine -regulates voluntary movement, sleep, memory, and learning. Too much acetylcholine is present with depression, and too little is present in patients with dementia.
Dopamine – helps to regulate learning, focus and movement. Excessive levels of dopamine are present in patients with schizophrenia; too little dopamine is associated with depression, as well as the tremors exhibited by patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Norepinephrine (noradrenalin) – helps to regulate appetite and alertness; low levels are found in patients with depression, while excessive norepinephrine has been found in patients with schizophrenia.
What causes neurotransmitter imbalance?
Neurotransmitter imbalance can be caused by high levels of stress. Diet also plays an important part in maintaining neurotransmitter levels. The formation of neurotransmitters requires sufficient levels of dietary protein, in addition to certain vitamins and minerals. Medications, drugs and alcohol, hormone imbalances, genetics, and heavy metal toxicity can all play a role in neurotransmitter depletion, as well.
Neurotransmitter Testing
Typically, treatment for any of the disorders described here involves medication, which is prescribed to treat the symptoms without any real evidence of what is causing the condition. In many cases, several different medications are tried before coming across one that works.
Neurotransmitter testing provides a simple tool for determining the precise cause of the symptoms by pinpointing exactly which neurotransmitters are in imbalance.
Neurotransmitter testing enables medical professionals to guide treatment toward the cause of the condition, rather than tossing medications at it until one of them finally works. In many cases, therapeutic drugs may not be necessary at all. Changes in dietary and lifestyle habits and the use of natural remedies and neurotransmitter supplements can correct neurotransmitter imbalances without the use of prescription medications that may have negative side effects.
Testing for neurotransmitter imbalances consists of taking a simple blood or urine sample. Neurotransmitter tests are covered by most insurance plans, making them easily affordable. By identifying the neurotransmitter imbalance that is causing your health issues, you can ensure that you are receiving the proper treatment and that you will begin to feel better as soon as possible. |
ABUJA — National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Oyegun yesterday revealed that he resisted several external efforts to truncate the just concluded presidential election of the party in Lagos.
According to him, his belief that the best aspirant would emerge as the presidential candidate of the party through a transparent process paid off having entrusted the task on credible hands.
Oyegun spoke during the presentation of the report of the national convention committee which was chaired by the immediate past governor of Ekiti state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
He said: “I am not at all surprised at the very outstanding job that you and your team have accomplished.
“The success of the convention has propelled the party. We are proponent of change and it was necessary that one of our major activity should convey to the world what we mean by change.
“So many efforts were made to get me to call the aspirants together and arm twist them into stepping down for each other and I resisted it and said, no, we are going to organise a transparent convention so that whoever win will have no excuse in the world.
“I entrusted that mission to you and your team. You have organised what will go into history in this nation, in our political space and beyond as clearly the freest and fairest presidential primary that has ever been witnessed in this nation. On behalf of the party, I congratulate you for what you have done for the party which is incalculable. |
pay some homage to the other series.I think the main problem with the series is the relative shortness as there was honestly so much more the creator could have done with the theme in question. On the other hand the creator may not have wanted the series to become a “monster of the week” series just so the readers could in fact find out the fate in relation to the “white akuma”, and whether or not the world ends up being saved from the wheels of fate. Instead we get a short piece that focuses more on the psychological element as well as inter relations between the characters. The story also falls into many cliches as well that may have brought it down had the writer made said series longer.The characters are ultra important when it comes to this particular series. This short series is after all about how people interact with each other, and how people act towards others in prejudicial ways because of fear. Sometimes fear is justified, but in other times said fear is not. This is a theme that is explored along with how those acting in prejudicial manners and those being prejudiced act towards each other, and why conflict does occur in real life.The art work for this particular piece is also nice. The artist takes the time to fill every frame with important information in regards to the story line, nor is there any confusing action poses that a person can't read the movements of. Luca's design embodies the persona people would expect of someone labeled a demon, while his sister is the personification of pure innocence. The artist went out of his way to personify these attributes to each, and for good reason.Ultimatly I enjoyed this short series a lot. Not only was it short, but I could feel empathy towards the characters. I enjoyed the plot twists for the stories. I also liked making the connections to “Naruto” and comparing the two on a critical level. While it is true that the two are their own pieces of work I think a person can also appreciate “Shuumatsu no Laughter” even more with a knowledge of Naruto. Or one could have it soured if one is to much of a fangirl/fanboy. |
Immature human DCs efficiently translocate endocytosed antigens into the cytosol for proteasomal processing.
Cross-presentation of endocytosed antigen is essential for induction of CD8 effector T cell responses and a hallmark of dendritic cells (DCs). The mode of antigen processing in this context is controversial and some models imply translocation of the antigen from the endosomes into the cytosol. To test this hypothesis we made use of the pro-apoptotic properties of cytochrome c when in the cytosol, and confirmed that it indeed triggered apoptosis of human immature DCs but only at high concentrations. Proteasome inhibitors reduced the required concentration of cytochrome c thousand-fold, indicating that protein translocated into the cytosol is rapidly degraded by proteasomes. Mature DCs were also susceptible to cytochrome c-triggered apoptosis at high concentrations but proteasome inhibitors did not increase their sensitivity. Other cross-presenting cells such as B cells and monocytes were not sensitive to cytochrome c at all, indicating that they do not shuttle internalized antigen into the cytosol. Thus, processing of internalized antigens seems to follow different pathways depending on cell type and, in case of DCs, maturation state. Immature DCs appear to have a unique capacity to shuttle external antigen into the cytosol for proteasomal processing, which could explain their efficiency in antigen cross-presentation. |
The evolutionary dynamics of adaptive virginity, sex-allocation, and altruistic helping in haplodiploid animals.
In haplodiploids, females can produce sons from unfertilized eggs without mating. However, virgin reproduction is usually considered to be a result of a failure to mate, rather than an adaptation. Here, we build an analytical model for evolution of virgin reproduction, sex-allocation, and altruistic female helping in haplodiploid taxa. We show that when mating is costly (e.g., when mating increases predation risk), virginity can evolve as an adaptive female reproductive strategy. Furthermore, adaptive virginity results in strongly divergent sex-ratios in mated and virgin queen nests ("split sex ratios"), which promotes the evolution of altruistic helping by daughters in mated queen nests. However, when helpers evolve to be efficient and increase nest production significantly, virgin reproduction is selected against. Our results suggest that adaptive virginity could have been an important stepping stone on the pathway to eusociality in haplodiploids. We further show that virginity can be an adaptive reproductive strategy also in primitively social haplodiploids if workers bias the sex ratio toward females. By remaining virgin, queens are free to produce sons, the more valuable sex in a female-biased population. Our work brings a new dimension to the studies linking reproductive strategies with social evolution. |
Tim Robberts via Getty Images A double exposure of two business men shaking hands with a view of the City of London and of a green fields landscape.
The ideal of a democracy such as ours is that we elect governments to enact laws in the general public interest. We may not each like every single law that is passed, but overall the laws passed should be in our general good interest.
There may even be laws that cause us inconvenience from time to time, but we accept them for the greater good. Take the laws that allow us to be pulled over, with no evidence to suggest we are guilty of anything, to see if we have been drinking while driving. Ride Checks are a minor inconvenience we all accept to help keep our roads safe.
As citizens, we accept that some laws might cost us something or inconvenience us in some way, but we agree to them because that's the price of living in a civilized society.
This is why I have a real problem with people or corporations who think there should be no laws passed that impinge on them and their selfish needs -- but that's exactly what the corporate world is trying to push onto the rest of us with the latest generation of so-called free trade deals, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Where once trade deals dealt with bringing down tariffs to allow for the freer flow of goods between countries, today's trade deals put much more emphasis on "non-tariff barriers" such as laws and regulations within the countries involved in a trade deal -- and grant extraordinary powers to corporations to sue governments that pass laws that hurt their profits.
The idea is to ensure consistent regulations among countries in a trade deal so that one country can't use its laws and regulations to restrict trade. The reality is that corporations use the trade deals to restrict duly elected governments from passing laws that are in the interest of their own citizens.
The TPP -- a proposed new deal between Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States of America and Vietnam -- is the latest in this new generation of trade deals.
Its Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system would give corporations the right to sue governments if they pass laws that restrict their ability to generate a profit, even if those laws are in the public interest. There are no reciprocal rights in the deal, however, that would allow for corporations to be sued under the TPP's toothless labour rights chapter.
In certain cases, the deal would prevent governments from enacting new regulations on an industry, once regulations have been relaxed. This ratcheting effect means our laws can only move in one direction toward greater deregulation, without regard to any future societal needs or demands.
Canada is already the most sued nation under this system of extra-judicial tribunals. So why would we want to sign a new deal that could see us sued even more, just for passing laws that our citizens want? It makes no sense.
Governments are elected to pass laws that are in the public interest, on issues such as labour rights, protecting the environment, establishing minimum health and safety standards, to safeguard our cultural industries, and more. No trade deal should ever be ratified that limits this very basic responsibility of government. And yet that's what the TPP and other recent trade deals with an ISDS system would do.
As if that weren't enough, the TPP would hurt many of our key industries, from dairy to auto, raise drug prices due to its patent law requirements, provide multinational firms an unlimited flow of temporary workers into Canada through inter-corporate arrangements, and more.
All this despite recent studies that predict the TPP will have a negative effect on Canada's economy -- or, at best, have little to no impact at all.
No wonder Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz called the Trans-Pacific Partnership "the worst trade deal ever." And, no wonder the deal was negotiated in secret by the Harper government.
Unifor is urging Members of Parliament to not ratify the TPP in its current form. Canada's approach to global trade and investment must serve to enhance our collective economic and social development, and must be guided by progressive, fair trade principles. |
For data storage (e.g., cache, main memory, long term storage, etc.), there is typically a trade-off between quality of service and error correction. Quality of service refers to a level of precision with which a computer system (e.g., storage system) processes data. Error correction refers to processes a hardware system performs in order to correct errors in data. As the quality of service (e.g., precision of data) increases, the amount of error-correction that a hardware device (e.g., memory device) must perform typically goes up. Conversely, as less quality of service is needed, the amount of error-correction that a hardware device must perform typically goes down.
A computer system may be configured to compute with full data-correctness-guarantees (e.g., high-precision). Computing with full data-correctness-guarantees refers to maintaining all, or substantially all, bits of the data. However, computing full data-correctness-guarantees, on a full-time basis, is often not practical for many computing operations. Hardware (e.g., a memory device) typically provides strong guarantees for error correction. Software typically relies completely on hardware to maintain full data error-correction guarantees. Such complete reliance on hardware is demanding on the hardware. The demand can lead to memory devices that operate more slowly. Perhaps worse, the memory devices may also experience shorter life spans. For example, precise flash memory operation may cause quicker wear out due to the need for a larger number of write iterations. When the hardware cannot maintain the error-correction guarantees, the hardware issues a fatal error. Then, neither the hardware nor the software can proceed with normal computing operations.
Full data-correctness-guarantees (e.g., high-precision operations with an effort to maintain the precision of all bits of data), which are often required by hardware, are not always needed for software applications. Some software applications can tolerate errors in some of their data structures, such as, for example, picture data, audio data, video data, and/or most other data that a user decides to store. A computer can process these types of data with approximate precision and, at the same time, maintain virtually no perceptible difference in the user experience during the processing of the data. In one example, approximate storage refers to a computer system storing data in memory, and later the memory device returning approximately the data that was stored in that memory. Approximate precision is the precision with which the memory device returns approximately the data that was stored in the memory. Approximate precision is a precision level at which the memory device does not guarantee full data-correctness for one or more variables of data. For example, the memory device does not guarantee all bits of the data are correct. |
Back painted glass panels can be made with a metal backing (for magnets), and they wipe clean turning the surface into the ultimate command station! If you or your family have a busy schedule, then you need a command station in your home. You may be thinking, “what is a command station?” A command station is an area in your home for your calendar, to-do lists, shopping lists, and important contact numbers all in one place. It should be somewhere that you will pass by often (kitchens are ideal). Get creative and use different coloured magnets to represent different people in the house, or have them indicate whose turn it is to do certain chores. The possibilities are endless with a home command station, you just need the right resources.
Where should you put it? Your placement of your command station depends who it’s for. If it’s a personal organisation tool, then back-painted glass makes a great addition to a home office. If it’s for you and your roommates, the kitchen will ensure it’s noticed every day. If it’s a way to organise your children’s lunches and backpacks, then putting one close to an entranceway will ensure you don’t forget anything. Only you can know what’s best for your home’s chaotic dynamics — what other spaces can you think of to put back-painted glass?
Before you set up your back-painted glass, you should think even more about the customisation. At House of Mirrors, we love to be influenced by our customers’ creativity. An example of this could be to separating the glass into different coloured sections to represent different tasks or members of your family. Or perhaps you want a versatile and simplistic area that you can clear when you have company over. The great thing about back-painted glass is that it disappears whenever you want it to. Unlike a whiteboard, this organisational tool can transform into a blank wall with a simple wipe of a cloth. |
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Orangery/Loggia
Originally a feature of stately homes, the Orangery has now evolved into a private, luxurious living space. While large windows and a glass roof are still their main features, Orangeries are subtly different from conservatories in that they generally have more brickwork to ensure they blend into your home in an elegant way.
An Orangery from Budget represents the pinnacle of traditional elegance. Blending classic craftsmanship with the benefits of modern materials and techniques, we deliver a living environment with quality and longevity. Each design has high levels of security and energy efficiency built in, no need to worry about drafts and leaks. And of course, the latest high security features come as standard.
Orangery: The height of sophistication
All the styles in our Orangery collection use the very latest building materials and construction techniques to create an elegant addition to your home. Fascias and elegant pilasters are blended with the latest glass technology and high levels of security and energy efficiency. And of course with Budget, our experience and professionalism means your peace of mind.
Either visit our showroom or book an appointment for one of our consultants to give you a no-obligation quotation.
THE HEIGHT OF SOPHISTICATION
All the styles in our Orangery collection use the very latest building materials and construction techniques to create an elegant addition to your home. Authentic period features such as fascias and elegant pilasters are blended with modern benefits such as the latest glass technology, high levels of security and energy efficiency. And of course with Budget, our experience and professionalism means your peace of mind.
Visit our showroom or book an appointment for one of our consultants to give you a no-obligation quotation. |
Firmenname
Desired Style:
clean, professional, and relatively simple, but not boring
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
Blue Valley Insurance Agency needs a new logo to go along with a new website design. The in-progress website design is viewable at http://bvia.banyantheory.com.
The main logo color should be approximately the same gray-blue that was used for the company's existing logo, available at http://www.bvia.com/Logo.jpg. Another acceptable color to use (if the original gray-blue is too designer unfriendly) is #4A5A78. Other like blues will be considered, but should be similar in order to stay consistent with the company's existing stationery. The website design will be updated to reflect the final logo color scheme, so please do not use the site design as a color reference. Please do, however, refer to it to make sure the logo fits the design.
Note that the logo on the demo site is just a placeholder, and neither it nor the company's existing logo should influence the new logo design.
The new logo should portray a clean, professional image of the company. It should have a transparent background, and it should be arranged in such a way that it is wide and short so as to fit in the same space as the placeholder logo. The exact dimensions of the placeholder is 356x61, but this is not a hard limit.
Only the words "Blue Valley Insurance" are required. The word "Agency" is optional, and "Inc." is also acceptable if it fits nicely within the logo. The owner expressed interest in dropping "Agency" and "Inc." from the new logo, but in general prefers whatever best fits the design.
The logo should be in vector format. Specifically, it must be able to be opened with Adobe Illustrator CS3.
Please do not contact Blue Valley Insurance directly. This contest is being held on its behalf, by Banyan Theory, LLC (http://www.banyantheory.com). |
THIS IS THE EXTREME LIFE CHANGER SHOW!MY NAME IS SONNY CARDONA AND THIS IS A SHOW ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD TODAY!!HOW THE SATANIC NEW WORLD ORDER IS TAKING OVER YOUR LIVES!!!
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EXTREMELIFECHANGER.COM |
Текст песни группы Rolling Stones -"Might As Well Get Juiced"
If you really want to rip up your mind
If you want to take the lid off your life
If you want to reach down in the sump
To last dregs off the camel"s back hump
And the wolves are howling right at your door
And the vultures want to tear off some more
Your flesh is burning right off your bones
Your children kick you out of your home
If you really want to tear up your mind
If you really want to get yourself blind
Might as well get juiced
Might as well get juiced
Hey mama
What"s this crazy game of sevens, eights and nines
I can"t keep up with you baby
I"m gonna give you such a piece of my mind
When I get around to it
"Cause honey I"m abused
Might as well get juiced
If you really want to melt down your mind
Crank it up to straight double time
If you really want to have you some fun
Spit right down on everyone
If you"ve got the strength to scream out "Hell Why?"
The wheels of life are passing you by
You might as well get juiced
Might as well get juiced
Some people like to get high on love |
Why Super Bowl XLVIII is the best match-up in NFL history
Sunday's Super Bowl is the first in history to pit the league's best offense against the best defense. The Denver Broncos have just finished one of the most prolific season's to date, led by legendary quarterback Peyton Manning. Now they face the Seattle Seahawks, whose defense led by Richard Sherman sends chills down quarterbacks' spines |
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mission heart
Whether it’s helping others in the school, serving in the community, or helping others on the world stage, our students have a heart for ministry. Our 8th graders are preparing for Mexico, an annual trip at which they build a home for a Mexican family in need in the town of Tecata. This year, they are being supported in the trip with folks from the Jesus Christ Salt and Light, and Shorewood Foursquare Churches.
But missions starts at home, and be as simple as helping another student in the school with something that’s kind of hard for them…or praying with each other in chapel…or serving out in our community. It is our mission to help students look beyond their own needs, to see the hardship in other’s lives, and learn to prayerfully help them. |
Maratha Empire Tales
In an alternative history, the Maratha Empire of India, which succeeded the Mughals, continued to survive and thrive to become a modern day great power, ruling a dominion stretching from the Middle East to South East Asia and from Central Asia to East Africa.
In this alternative world, most of the women of the empire veil in various different and interesting styles and exercise restriction in their arm movement and voice, using bondage implements.
The center piece of the empire is India and Bengal, where the most beautiful and exotic and influential veiling fashions are present. The capital Punyanagari (real world Pune) is both the political as well as the industrial capital of the empire, its women are reputed to be both beautiful and bold. Yet they hide their lion-like nature under the most sensuous of veiling and erotic restrictions. One way in which to keep the notoriously sexed up Marathan males at length.
Everyone is welcome to contribute with stories set in this world. Further inspiration can be found in the document linked below about veiling styles of the Maratha Empire. |
Q:
What are the plotX, plotY values of a point in HighCharts?
What are the plotX, plotY values of a point in HighCharts? I can't find them in the documentation. I read the values but couldn't make sense of them when using a pixel ruler on the graph.
A:
plotX and plotY are not part of API - just inner properties to get coordinates where plot point. Using them is shorthand for getting values from point:
http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#Point.x
http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#Point.y
And translating to position via:
http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#Axis.toPixels()
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Present methods for controlling the application of solder to printed circuit substrates by automatic solder printers require the presence of an operator to monitor the amount of solder paste applied to the printed circuit substrates. In the event that the solder printer is applying undesired amounts (i.e., too much or too little) of solder, the operator typically must stop the solder printer and correct the process. |
import { IoTEventsDataClient } from "./IoTEventsDataClient";
import {
BatchPutMessageCommand,
BatchPutMessageCommandInput,
BatchPutMessageCommandOutput,
} from "./commands/BatchPutMessageCommand";
import {
BatchUpdateDetectorCommand,
BatchUpdateDetectorCommandInput,
BatchUpdateDetectorCommandOutput,
} from "./commands/BatchUpdateDetectorCommand";
import {
DescribeDetectorCommand,
DescribeDetectorCommandInput,
DescribeDetectorCommandOutput,
} from "./commands/DescribeDetectorCommand";
import {
ListDetectorsCommand,
ListDetectorsCommandInput,
ListDetectorsCommandOutput,
} from "./commands/ListDetectorsCommand";
import { HttpHandlerOptions as __HttpHandlerOptions } from "@aws-sdk/types";
/**
* <p>AWS IoT Events monitors your equipment or device fleets for failures or changes in operation,
* and triggers actions when such events occur. AWS IoT Events Data API commands enable you to send
* inputs to detectors, list detectors, and view or update a detector's status.</p>
*/
export class IoTEventsData extends IoTEventsDataClient {
/**
* <p>Sends a set of messages to the AWS IoT Events system. Each message payload is transformed
* into the input you specify (<code>"inputName"</code>) and ingested into any detectors that monitor
* that input. If multiple messages are sent, the order in which the messages are processed isn't
* guaranteed. To guarantee ordering, you must send messages one at a time and wait for a successful
* response.</p>
*/
public batchPutMessage(
args: BatchPutMessageCommandInput,
options?: __HttpHandlerOptions
): Promise<BatchPutMessageCommandOutput>;
public batchPutMessage(
args: BatchPutMessageCommandInput,
cb: (err: any, data?: BatchPutMessageCommandOutput) => void
): void;
public batchPutMessage(
args: BatchPutMessageCommandInput,
options: __HttpHandlerOptions,
cb: (err: any, data?: BatchPutMessageCommandOutput) => void
): void;
public batchPutMessage(
args: BatchPutMessageCommandInput,
optionsOrCb?: __HttpHandlerOptions | ((err: any, data?: BatchPutMessageCommandOutput) => void),
cb?: (err: any, data?: BatchPutMessageCommandOutput) => void
): Promise<BatchPutMessageCommandOutput> | void {
const command = new BatchPutMessageCommand(args);
if (typeof optionsOrCb === "function") {
this.send(command, optionsOrCb);
} else if (typeof cb === "function") {
if (typeof optionsOrCb !== "object") throw new Error(`Expect http options but get ${typeof optionsOrCb}`);
this.send(command, optionsOrCb || {}, cb);
} else {
return this.send(command, optionsOrCb);
}
}
/**
* <p>Updates the state, variable values, and timer settings of one or more detectors (instances)
* of a specified detector model.</p>
*/
public batchUpdateDetector(
args: BatchUpdateDetectorCommandInput,
options?: __HttpHandlerOptions
): Promise<BatchUpdateDetectorCommandOutput>;
public batchUpdateDetector(
args: BatchUpdateDetectorCommandInput,
cb: (err: any, data?: BatchUpdateDetectorCommandOutput) => void
): void;
public batchUpdateDetector(
args: BatchUpdateDetectorCommandInput,
options: __HttpHandlerOptions,
cb: (err: any, data?: BatchUpdateDetectorCommandOutput) => void
): void;
public batchUpdateDetector(
args: BatchUpdateDetectorCommandInput,
optionsOrCb?: __HttpHandlerOptions | ((err: any, data?: BatchUpdateDetectorCommandOutput) => void),
cb?: (err: any, data?: BatchUpdateDetectorCommandOutput) => void
): Promise<BatchUpdateDetectorCommandOutput> | void {
const command = new BatchUpdateDetectorCommand(args);
if (typeof optionsOrCb === "function") {
this.send(command, optionsOrCb);
} else if (typeof cb === "function") {
if (typeof optionsOrCb !== "object") throw new Error(`Expect http options but get ${typeof optionsOrCb}`);
this.send(command, optionsOrCb || {}, cb);
} else {
return this.send(command, optionsOrCb);
}
}
/**
* <p>Returns information about the specified detector (instance).</p>
*/
public describeDetector(
args: DescribeDetectorCommandInput,
options?: __HttpHandlerOptions
): Promise<DescribeDetectorCommandOutput>;
public describeDetector(
args: DescribeDetectorCommandInput,
cb: (err: any, data?: DescribeDetectorCommandOutput) => void
): void;
public describeDetector(
args: DescribeDetectorCommandInput,
options: __HttpHandlerOptions,
cb: (err: any, data?: DescribeDetectorCommandOutput) => void
): void;
public describeDetector(
args: DescribeDetectorCommandInput,
optionsOrCb?: __HttpHandlerOptions | ((err: any, data?: DescribeDetectorCommandOutput) => void),
cb?: (err: any, data?: DescribeDetectorCommandOutput) => void
): Promise<DescribeDetectorCommandOutput> | void {
const command = new DescribeDetectorCommand(args);
if (typeof optionsOrCb === "function") {
this.send(command, optionsOrCb);
} else if (typeof cb === "function") {
if (typeof optionsOrCb !== "object") throw new Error(`Expect http options but get ${typeof optionsOrCb}`);
this.send(command, optionsOrCb || {}, cb);
} else {
return this.send(command, optionsOrCb);
}
}
/**
* <p>Lists detectors (the instances of a detector model).</p>
*/
public listDetectors(
args: ListDetectorsCommandInput,
options?: __HttpHandlerOptions
): Promise<ListDetectorsCommandOutput>;
public listDetectors(
args: ListDetectorsCommandInput,
cb: (err: any, data?: ListDetectorsCommandOutput) => void
): void;
public listDetectors(
args: ListDetectorsCommandInput,
options: __HttpHandlerOptions,
cb: (err: any, data?: ListDetectorsCommandOutput) => void
): void;
public listDetectors(
args: ListDetectorsCommandInput,
optionsOrCb?: __HttpHandlerOptions | ((err: any, data?: ListDetectorsCommandOutput) => void),
cb?: (err: any, data?: ListDetectorsCommandOutput) => void
): Promise<ListDetectorsCommandOutput> | void {
const command = new ListDetectorsCommand(args);
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this.send(command, optionsOrCb);
} else if (typeof cb === "function") {
if (typeof optionsOrCb !== "object") throw new Error(`Expect http options but get ${typeof optionsOrCb}`);
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} else {
return this.send(command, optionsOrCb);
}
}
}
|
There was a time when headless dakinis prowled the Earth. (Some say they can still be found in certain environs.) They traveled surreptitiously, often helping those sincere practitioners who were (sometimes unbeknownst to themselves) at a pivotal place in their practice. The dakinis bestowed many wonderful gifts and were prized for their beauty, wisdom and intrigue. Some attained full Buddhahood. Others became fierce protectors of the Dharma. This site is dedicated to those fearless, headless, and courageous seekers of the transcendent. Of course, if you think YOU are a headless dakini, you're not.
New: Notice to Helpful Web Designers: Okay, we know this site is a design nightmare. But that's not the point. Besides, Google seems to like it just fine! Thank you for your advice, but, we have no technical expertise in the area of flash, PHP, live chat and streaming whatever. And we don't want to learn.Also, we believe the idea of tantric pornography is not a good one. No, we don't want to further monatize the site, and, again, we think it is already "search engine friendly." Louise and Lynnela |
The present invention relates generally to vibration-damping, and more particularly to an improvement to a vibration-damping structural component of the type having viscoelastic material sandwiched between two outer structural layers of stiffness material.
Various load-bearing systems and structures, such as aircraft, experience vibrations during use which cause them to suffer from high-cycle and resonant fatigue and reduced service life. One means for reducing such vibrations is to use viscoelastic material, which converts vibrations into heat when strained. Often a free layer of viscoelastic material is fixed to the surface of the base structure. When the base structure is subjected to bending or flexural loads, the viscoelastic layer strains in tension and compression. An additional stiffness layer may also be fixed to the outer surface of the viscoelastic layer as a constraining layer. Under these circumstances, the bending or flexural loads deform the structure and the constraining layer, loading the viscoelastic material in shear, a more effective damping mode for viscoelastic materials.
Another approach to damping vibrations is to construct the structure itself from a vibration-damping laminated composite having two constraining layers of stiffness material and a damping layer of viscoelastic material sandwiched therebetween. Under bending loads the viscoelastic layer is loaded in shear to absorb the vibrational energy. Most of the shear of the viscoelastic layer occurs at the ends of the mode shapes of the dominant vibrational mode. At the peaks of the mode shape for the dominant mode there are "dead" areas of viscoelastic material which do not shear at all. Since maximum vibration damping takes place when maximum shearing occurs in the viscoelastic material, it is desirable to increase the rate or amount of shear straining therein. |
In order to ensure that visual images are properly displayed, systems have been developed to determine that the image and the visual display device onto which the image is projected are properly aligned. Proper alignment requires the comparison of reference points located or projected onto the viewing surface of the display device with similar points in an appropriate test pattern.
Previously known systems use modified slide projectors or slide projectors incorporating custom lenses and specially designed optical reticles. Alignment is achieved using either a laser theodolite or a removable clear plastic overlay template. Such a template may be installed on the face of a CRT, for example. The laser theodolite and the template may be used in conjunction to achieve the desired alignment of image and visual display device.
These previously known systems suffer from both installation and manufacturing tolerance problems. For example, back projections screens are free form blow molded. The curvature of screens produced by this process may vary from screen to screen. As a result of this variation in curvature resulting from the fabrication process, optical reticles may yield variations in tolerances from screen to screen during the alignment process.
Repeated attachments of the above-mentioned templates may lead to installation tolerance problems where the actual orientation of the template relative to the display device may vary slightly from one application to the next. As a result, attempts to evaluate alignment of image and the display device may lead to variations in tolerance when evaluations are repeated over a period of time.
The use of laser theodolites may prove expensive and very time-consuming to use in aligning images with visual display devices. Using a laser theodolite, which resembles the device used by surveyors to measure angles, the reference points are mapped on the viewing surface of the display device. The locations of the various reference points are given as coordinates, usually azimuth and elevation. However, when using a laser theodolite, each reference point must be mapped individually. Therefore, deviations from proper alignment are determined only when the map of reference points is completely constructed and the resulting map of reference points is compared with the test pattern.
Accordingly, corrections to the alignment of the display device and the test pattern due to orientation problems or distortion of the image can be made only after reconstruction of the entire array of reference points. Therefore, the use of laser theodolites is very time-consuming and expensive when determining whether an image is properly aligned with the visual display device.
The present invention addresses the above-mentioned problems in the previously known systems to provide a method and apparatus for efficiently aligning an image and a display device. |
Q:
INSERT in method rawQuery() does not work
I can not understand why I was trying to insert some records using the method rawQuery, for example:
db.rawQuery("INSERT INTO table (name, desc) VALUES ('Name1', 'Desc1');", null);
But this does not seem to work, in fact, trying with the insert() method works all:
ContentValues fields = new ContentValues();
fields.put("name", "Nome1");
fields.put("desc", "Desc1");
db.insert("table", null, fields);
And I wonder why this.
A:
rawQuery() is for SQL statements that return a result set. Use execSQL() for SQL statements, like INSERT, that do not return a result set.
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Q:
Variable undefined when creating heredoc string
I am using the EOF function in my php code.
But I have a problem.
When I try to call a variable from another file, it simply ignores it.
I have a variable in another file(header.inc.php) that looks like this:
$site['url'] = "http://www.mydomainname.com";
Then I put the require function where the EOF code is:
require_once('../../inc/header.inc.php');
The file where the EOF code is , looks like this:
function getServices() {
$sCode .= <<<EOF
<a href="{$site['url']}" class="amenu">Home</a>
EOF;
return $sCode;
}
The variable $site['url'] is empty when I then call that function..
This is driving me crazy! Is there any reason why the EOF code should ignore that variable??
A:
Try global $site; as the first line in your function. Any global variables are not automatically visible in PHP unless you bring them into the function as globals.
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Early last year, in an article in The New York Times Magazine, I defined what I called a “Megyn moment,” in a profile of the Fox News host Megyn Kelly:
“When you, a Fox guest — maybe a regular guest or even an official contributor — are pursuing a line of argument that seems perfectly congruent with the Fox worldview, only to have Kelly seize on some part of it and call it out as nonsense, maybe even turn it back on you.”
When I wrote that article, the Megyn moment was notable because it was so unusual.
Normally, if guests hewed close to Fox News’s prime-time perspective (President Obama, woefully incompetent or frighteningly efficient; Democrats, bad, especially Hillary Clinton; Republicans good, mostly all of them), they were pretty much safe from challenge.
In letting Ms. Kelly break from that orthodoxy here and there, the Fox News chief Roger Ailes seemed to be experimenting with ways to expand his channel’s audience, which was older, whiter and in danger of atrophying despite its longtime perch atop the cable news ratings. Ms. Kelly’s youth and divergent approach had the potential to draw in new viewers. The question at the time was, how far would he be willing to let these Megyn moments go? And what did that mean for Fox? |
package tgt;
public class SimpleClass002 {
public static int toInt(String s) {
return Integer.parseInt(s);
}
public static String fromInt(int i) {
return Integer.toString(i);
}
}
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Tumble - Science Podcast for Kids
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Exploring stories of science discovery, Tumble is a podcast created to be enjoyed by the entire family. Voted iTunes Best of the Year, Tumble is hosted & produced by science journalist Lindsay Patterson & teacher Marshall Escamilla. Visit SciencePodcastForKids.com for more. |
First of all, those opening credits! They perfectly establish the blend of elegance and viciousness this show is striving for, and in my opinion, is achieving.
Looks like my prayers are going to be answered as far as the stylish aesthetic is concerned. The icy beauty of every shot gives me plenty of screenshot options. And we get plenty of striking imagery in this episode. From Garrett Jacob Hobbs' cabin, to our killer of the week's mushroom garden and plenty of Will's hallucinations and dreams in between. Even if people don't like the plotting, characters or anything else, it'll be hard to argue that the show doesn't look superb.
But, how could they not like the plotting or the characters? I hope each episode can stay as structured as these first two. While they are part of a continuing story, they manage to deal with their own arcs and themes in very dynamic and satisfying ways, helping to retain the "mini-movie" feeling the pilot established. In this case, the focus is Will's inner conflict in regards to him gunning down Hobbs. The ending with Lecter and Will discussing whether or not God feels good when he strikes down humans is wonderfully dark territory for a network show to be treading, and it also gives us even more insight into each of our main characters.
We also get introduced to tabloid reporter Freddie Lounds, who Thomas Harris fans will notice has undergone a gender change since his original appearance in Red Dragon. I really like her! I wonder if this means the show is willing to deviate from our expectations completely, and if it will eventually get brave enough to rewrite all of the established canon. If so, I'm all for it. It means we'll have no idea what's lying in wait around the corner, which is what you want from any suspenseful storytelling.
I'm also pleased that the show is going to keep a wry bit of dark humor in its pocket every now and then. My favorite moment of the episode was when Lecter confronted Freddie for recording his and Will's therapy session and after saying, "You've been terribly rude. What's to be done about that?", we cut to a dinner plate full of meat with a suspiciously red sauce being poured over it. Haha! While it turns out it's not actually Ms. Lounds, it's a great use of the audiences knowledge about Lecter. If we get little bits of beastly fun like that once an episode, I'll be delighted.
And I am sold on Mads Mikkelsen's Lecter. Although he's still being kept on the sidelines for now, I eagerly anticipate our first Lecter-cetric episode. Mikkelsen's calm and almost surgeon-like demeanor makes him the most interesting of monsters: one with precision. It's also clear that he's having fun with the character, really selling it in the few scenes he and Hugh Dancy have together (expect to see lots of these scenes in Lecter's office). If there's any compliment I can give, it's that I have put any preconceptions about the character off to the side and am just taking in every sinister scene Mikkelsen gives me.
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[Genetic and morphological variation in a partially isolated population of Caucasian shrew sorex Satunini (Mammalia)].
Morphological and genetic variation at microsatellite loci of Caucasian shrew Sorex satunini Ogn. is examined and compared with that of the common shrew S. araneus L. Genetic distance at microsatellite loci between the common shrew and Caucasian shrew proved to be threefold higher than between chromosome races of the common shrew. The Caucasian shrew manifested low polymorphism in studies of both microsatellites and morphometric mandibular traits. The heterozygote deficit was also typical. These properties may be a consequence of partial isolation of the population and gene drift. |
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Q:
Printing ERROR and INFO messages in Log file
I'm using log4j to manage my logs in my Java application.
At this point, I'm able to manage the INFO messages that are printed in the log file, but how can I also manage the ERROR messages?
This is my lo4j.properties file:
# Set root category priority to INFO and its only appender to CONSOLE.
log4j.rootCategory=INFO, CONSOLE
# CONSOLE is set to be a ConsoleAppender using a PatternLayout.
log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.Threshold=INFO
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=- %m%n
As I'm doing such things like:
private static org.apache.log4j.Logger logger = org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(MyClass.class);
logger.info("Info Message");
I also want to do
logger.error("Error Message");
But Error messages are not be printing.
I know that it is related to log Levels, but I can't change my log4j.properties file and get that working as I want.
A:
Try changing log4j.appender.CONSOLE.Threshold=INFO to log4j.appender.CONSOLE.Threshold=ERROR.
EDIT:
Maybe, but I'm not sure, you also need to change the root category to ERROR
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Q:
Why do doors turn?
I really think that I might be overthinking it but I was thinking about a door. When you try and open it with a force, it will produce a translational AND a rotational effect on the door. Any good door you have probably doesn't translate so that means the hinges must be applying a force to oppose this translational motion (Newton's 3rd Law).
But if the hinges are applying a force, and not at the center, shouldn't it produce a torque too? Shockingly, as the force must be equal, that means the rotational torque must be equal too right?
So how can doors turn if they have equal but opposite torques applied to them? Is this similar to how objects can fall despite having no net force (air resistance balancing out gravity)
A:
Torque depends on the force and the distance between the hinge and the point where the force is applied.
When you pull on the door at the handle, you apply a force and there is a nonzero distance between handle and hinges, so you get torque and as a consequence rotation around the hinges.
The hinges apply their force at the rotational center, so they can't produce any torque.
There are no "equal but opposite torques" because there is only one.
Torques change rotations just as forces change translations. Ongoing rotations or translations don't require acting torques or forces.
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Recycling of black trays on the horizon
Consumers may soon be able to recycle the black plastic trays used by food manufacturers.
Danish packaging firm Faerch Plast has broken new ground by devising a form of black crystalline polyethylene (CPET) that near infrared (NIR) sensors can pick out and separate at recycling centres, reported edie.net.
Jesper Emil Jensen, senior manager at the company, claimed the innovation is cost-effective and works well; raising hopes that households will soon be able to deposit the plastic in kitchen recycling bins rather than sending such packaging to landfill.
He said: “Until now, recycling of black CPET has not been possible as it can’t be detected by the NIR sensors used by most recyclers. It has been a complicated project because the current pigment is both good at what it does and is also the cheapest form of black available on the market.”
Faerch Plast developed the plastic alongside several UK supermarkets, as well as Eurofins, Titech, Nextek and WRAP. Packagingeurope.com suggested the innovation could “revolutionise” the plastics industry, as up until now black plastic could not be sorted at recycling centres.
Despite being a Danish company, Faerch Plast has a manufacturing facility in the north-east of England. Mr Jensen explained that the firm was able to achieve the recyclable black plastic by trying out different dyes and pigments. |
Q:
The babel preset @babel/preset-react doesn't like my javascript function that returns a JS.X element
I have a .js file with react imported with a function that returns a span tag like so:
makeSpan = (number, prefix) => {
return <span>{prefix} {number}</span>
};
I will require this .js file to my react class and call it to render the span. The problem is that webpack is giving my syntax error unexpected token and apparently it's something to do with JSX syntax (returning a span)
webpack.config.js
const path = require('path')
HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')
module.exports = {
entry: './src/index.js',
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, 'dist'),
filename: 'index_bundle.js',
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader'
}
},
{
test:/\.css$/,
use:['style-loader','css-loader']
}
]
},
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
template: './src/template.html'
})
]
}
babelrc
{
"presets": ["@babel/preset-env", "@babel/preset-react"],
"plugins": ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties"]
}
A:
I solved this problem my solution was to put babel plugins in webpack.config.js as well. I don't know why it works this way.
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ["@babel/preset-env", "@babel/preset-react"],
plugins: ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties"]
}
}
},
{
test:/\.css$/,
use:['style-loader','css-loader']
}
]
},
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Walden’s master’s in Education program features curriculum developed in collaboration with national education experts and prepares you with skills that can be applied immediately in your school.
Reese Veltfisk's insight:
I came across an interesting book at the bookstore the other day. The book was about online learning, and it had an entire list of masters in education programs. The masters of education programs that were in the book all come from reliable colleges and were legitimate opportunities for millions of people around the world. Want to know more about Walden University Online? Check out http://www.waldenu.edu/Degree-Programs/Masters/M.S.-in-Education.htm.
Sharing your scoops to your social media accounts is a must to distribute your curated content. Not only will it drive traffic and leads through your content, but it will help show your expertise with your followers.
Integrating your curated content to your website or blog will allow you to increase your website visitors’ engagement, boost SEO and acquire new visitors. By redirecting your social media traffic to your website, Scoop.it will also help you generate more qualified traffic and leads from your curation work.
Distributing your curated content through a newsletter is a great way to nurture and engage your email subscribers will developing your traffic and visibility.
Creating engaging newsletters with your curated content is really easy. |
package com.roncoo.education.system.service.dao.impl.mapper;
import com.roncoo.education.system.service.dao.impl.mapper.entity.WebsiteLink;
import com.roncoo.education.system.service.dao.impl.mapper.entity.WebsiteLinkExample;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.ibatis.annotations.Mapper;
import org.apache.ibatis.annotations.Param;
@Mapper
public interface WebsiteLinkMapper {
int countByExample(WebsiteLinkExample example);
int deleteByExample(WebsiteLinkExample example);
int deleteByPrimaryKey(Long id);
int insert(WebsiteLink record);
int insertSelective(WebsiteLink record);
List<WebsiteLink> selectByExample(WebsiteLinkExample example);
WebsiteLink selectByPrimaryKey(Long id);
int updateByExampleSelective(@Param("record") WebsiteLink record, @Param("example") WebsiteLinkExample example);
int updateByExample(@Param("record") WebsiteLink record, @Param("example") WebsiteLinkExample example);
int updateByPrimaryKeySelective(WebsiteLink record);
int updateByPrimaryKey(WebsiteLink record);
} |
Electrostatics in dissipative particle dynamics using Ewald sums with point charges.
A proper treatment of electrostatic interactions is crucial for the accurate calculation of forces in computer simulations. Electrostatic interactions are typically modeled using Ewald-based methods, which have become some of the cornerstones upon which many other methods for the numerical computation of electrostatic interactions are based. However, their use with charge distributions rather than point charges requires the inclusion of ansatz for the solutions of the Poisson equation, since there is no exact solution known for smeared out charges. The interest in incorporating electrostatic interactions at the scales of length and time that are relevant for the study the physics of soft condensed matter has increased considerably. Using mesoscale simulation techniques, such as dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), allows us to reach longer time scales in numerical simulations, without abandoning the particulate description of the problem. The main problem with incorporating electrostatics into DPD simulations is that DPD particles are soft and those particles with opposite charge can form artificial clusters of ions. Here we show that one can incorporate the electrostatic interactions through Ewald sums with point charges in DPD if larger values of coarse-graining degree are used, where DPD is truly mesoscopic. Using point charges with larger excluded volume interactions, the artificial formation of ionic pairs with point charges can be avoided and one obtains correct predictions. We establish ranges of parameters useful for detecting boundaries where artificial formation of ionic pairs occurs. Lastly, using point charges we predict the scaling properties of polyelectrolytes in solvents of varying quality, and obtain predictions that are in agreement with calculations that use other methods and with recent experimental results. |
Many chemical reactions and analyses were original performed in test tubes. When running a series or multiple chemical analyses, the number of test tubes can become burdensome as well as requiring a significant amount of sample. Microplates with an array of wells where developed to perform multiple reactions and analyses in a single container.
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) thermal cycling is most frequently performed in conical plastic wells arrayed in the form of microplates. PCR microplates are typically colorless or lightly tinted with color and because the PCR solution is also colorless it is typically quite difficult to identify which wells are full and which are empty. When plates are being manually loaded with reaction mix, it is very easy for the user to inadvertently load two samples into one well causing defective reactions or load a sample into an incorrect location potentially causing erroneous experimental conclusions to be drawn. This issue is especially apparent as smaller plates are employed. The smaller plates allow for reactions to be carried out in small volumes, but the smaller dimensions increase the difficulty of visualizing the filling of the wells.
There is a need in the art for a device and system to easily distinguish empty and full wells in order to dramatically reduce manual filling errors of a microplate. |
The PNNL zinc-polyiodide flow battery reduces the battery's size and cost and makes it well suited to store energy in densely populated cities and provides a battery that packs far more energy than any other battery of its kind and size.
The zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery, described in Nature Communications, uses an electrolyte that has more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. The energy density is approaching that of a type of lithium-ion battery used to power
portable electronic devices and some small electric vehicles.
"With improved energy density and inherent fire safety, flow batteries could provide long-duration energy storage for the tight confines of urban settings, where space is at a premium," said Imre Gyuk, energy storage program manager at the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, which funded this research. "This would enhance the resiliency and flexibility of the local electrical grid."
"Another, unexpected bonus of this electrolyte's high energy density is it could potentially expand the use of flow batteries into mobile applications such as powering trains and cars," said the study's corresponding author, Wei Wang, a materials scientist at PNNL.
Both flow and lithium-ion batteries were invented in the 1970s, but only the lithium-ion variety took off at that time. Lithium-ion batteries could carry much more
energy in a smaller space than flow batteries, making them more versatile. As a result, lithium-ion batteries have been used to power portable electronics for many
years. And utilities have begun using them to store the increasing amounts of renewable energy generated at wind farms and solar power facilities.
But the high-energy lithium-ion batteries' packaging can make them prone to overheating and catching fire. Flow batteries, on the other hand, store their active
chemicals separately until power is needed, greatly reducing safety concerns. This feature has prompted researchers and developers to |
Q:
water purifier choices and installation
I am tasked by my wife with installing a water purifier underneath my kitchen sink, and I came across this little toy on Amazon, it looks good but the faucet seemed extra to me, 'cause I have one and it's already in place (see the pictures below, it's connected to a heater installed in the under-sink cabinet).
I am wondering, if I can use the existing faucet and its infrastructure such as the pipe, etc, just replace heater with the purifier filter sets. Will it work? It seems a easier job for me than drilling a hole on the counter-top and doing an overhaul.
A:
Sure, so long as you can make the pipe fit a faucet designed for hot water should work just fine with cold water.
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Robotic swarm concept for efficient oil spill confrontation.
This paper examines the behaviour of a distributed system/robotic swarm concept for the effective confrontation of oil spills. The system described consists of a number of identical robotic units of high-power autonomy that recover oil mechanically and are able to communicate with each other. A mathematical model that accounts for a multitude of oil weathering processes and for the concerted action of the autonomous units is implemented for this investigation. Computational assessment of the robotic swarm in weathering oil spills indicates the potential effectiveness of the method. |
Hideo Kojima has finally released Death Stranding, the first game since the game developer has been untethered from his corporate shackles. Kojima has never been the best regarding representation–any fan of the Metal Gear Solid series can tell you some of the horrid things that the director has put the series’ women through.
No one really expected anything to change for Death Stranding, but what people may not have expected is that this title also disrespects multiple queer sexualities, including asexuality.
After completing a mission where Sam Bridges need to deliver a girlfriend to a man (yes, really), you’ll get an Interview called ‘An Asexual World’. In it, it explains the proliferation of other sexualities in the pre Death Stranding world:
It’s sort of a strange block of text, but at first, nothing really stands out as particularly wrong. However, once you start reading the interview closely, choice words start to stand out and things look…off.
The nameless counselor in this letter states that young people were adopting “sexless lifestyles” before the Death Stranding (the apocalyptic event that ruined the United State of America). It’s stated that individuals were claiming to be asexual, and as such were not engaging in sexual or romantic activity. This note also mentions that other sexualities–such as demisexuality and pansexuality–were also becoming more common designations for young people to use.
Even this first paragraph has a problem within it–here, the counselor indirectly implies that one’s sexual orientation is a choice. While it’s true that people can label themselves however they wish, the actual romantic and sexual attractions they feel are not a person’s choice, they are the attraction they are born with. Implying that it’s something people just choose to do is poor wording at best. It’d be something you can give the writer the benefit of the doubt… until you keep reading.
“One theory posits that the Stranding accelerated the proliferation of these sexualities.” So according to this one theory, the only theory this counselor deemed worthy of mentioning, is that the major event before the start of Death Stranding made more people asexual or queer.
The major, near world-ending event caused more queer people to exist in Kojima’s world.
There is even more that’s off about this letter (confusing asexuality with not wanting to form emotional connections is a big one), but the second paragraph is the one that holds the crux of the problem here. “Theory” or not, saying that more people that are queer, and more people that are asexual in particular was a side-effect of a near-extinction event has awful connotations. The implication is that since the emergence of the Stranding made humans focused not solely focused on species survival (aka a man and a woman making a baby), it sped humanity towards its destruction. It’s an incredibly gross mindset, when you get down to it.
I was certainly not alone in thinking this. “[A]s an Asexual person, I can’t shake my disappointment with this false depiction of queer folk being a part of someone else’s creative vision,” Nathan, a streamer and co-host of The New Entertainment System Podcast, tells me. “The fact that no one caught this, flagged it as something that needed editing, and corrected it shows how little consideration Ace/Demi folks were given.”
With so little representation for those on the Asexual spectrum (including Demisexuality), something like this seemingly innocent letter in a AAA game can have unfortunate consequences. No matter what group of people are being represented, if someone’s first introduction to that demographic is a stereotype or harmful, people will be more likely to perceive them as harmful.
But there are other facets to this argument. “Writers have to put themselves into the perspective of many different fictional characters, even the types they don’t agree with, in order to tell a story and flesh out not just the characters but the world they live in.” One Twitter user known as Bunny told me. “Stephen King wrote a scene in IT where a gay couple were beaten simply for being gay. Does that mean King hates gays?”
The scene in IT alone does not confirm that Stephen King dislikes queer people (I am not familiar on the author’s stance on the subject in general), but generally, when characters are written to be bigoted and hateful, a writer will signal that with context and answers. Since this letter in Death Stranding is just a small snippet provided without context for a character we’ll never meet, there is a chance that frankly, this man is a bigoted jerk. But with only the context of a seemingly scientific letter, it’s hard to draw a conclusion either way.
As I delved deeper into the arguments flying around regarding this interview in Death Stranding, one argument kept cropping up that made a bit more sense. It would seem that perhaps Kojima wasn’t actually referring to queerdom when discussing this topic, but instead the overall declining birth rates around the world.
Japan especially has had issues regarding an aging population. Due to shifting societal changes in the country, young people are waiting to get married and having children. As a result, Japan is at the cusp of a population crisis and the government is clamoring to find solutions and incentives to have younger people have kids.
Japan Times calls this ‘sexless Japan’, and it’s a good way to help explain the issues in the country. Generally, younger people are making their careers and others their main priority. As a result, sex it moved down in the priority chain, and since societal norms in Japan demand a lot of a person’s time and energy, even married couples just can’t find the time and energy to procreate.
Sexlessness and changing one’s priorities around to make sex and relationships last is not the same as asexuality. It’s essentially being a volcel, but without the nasty reputation. Sexlessness is something someone can do for a while, whether on purpose or on accident as time slips by, and then make sex a priority again when they want–asexuality is something that involves a person’s inherent attractions and generally is how they’re born.
Using asexuality as a replacement to sexlessness or voluntary celibacy can be a harmful mistake, even if it’s a common problem. And using asexuality and other queer sexualities as some kind of metaphor for Japan’s population crisis makes for a gross misunderstanding of the issues going on there.
Essentially, the interview is damaging to queer communities, and asexuality in particular. Even if there was not malicious intent, the misunderstanding of terminology that many don’t take the time to research what they’re talking about only perpetuates misunderstandings… and most of the time, queer people have enough misconceptions they have to clear up without ‘A Hideo Kojima Game’ adding fuel to the fire.
More from Gayming Magazine… Listen to the Gayming Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever good podcasts can be found! Come and join the fun with hundreds of gaymers from around the world in the Gayming Magazine Discord. |
module.exports = {
entry: {
'material-ui-pickers': './main.js'
},
output: {
filename: '[name].inc.js'
},
externals: [
function(context, request, callback) {
const re = /^@material-ui\/core\/(.*)$/;
if (re.test(request)) {
const [_, name] = re.exec(request);
const external = name === 'styles' ? 'MaterialUIStyles' : `MaterialUI.${name}`;
return callback(null, `root ${external}`);
}
callback();
},
{
'react': 'React',
'react-dom': 'ReactDOM',
'@material-ui/styles': 'MaterialUIStyles'
}
]
};
|
There are many problems and health safety issues when dust and/or debris is present in an environment such as construction and agricultural environments. As heavy machinery moves over unpaved roads and construction and agricultural sites, dust may be thrown into the atmosphere. Such dust may pose both health and economic risks to construction workers, farmers and others near these environments. Such risks may come from two sources, among others: suspended dust drying out the atmosphere around the site and from the inhalation of dust. The drying of the atmosphere from the suspended dust particles may lead to rapid dehydration of individuals, which can lead to heat stroke, sluggishness, hallucinations, and a variety of other physical and psychological ailments. Airborne crystalline silica that originates from the earth, concrete, masonry and rock on a site may become lodged in the membranes and/or lungs of the respiratory systems of the people on and near the site. Once there, they may harden and cause permanent damage and even death.
Economic risks may be a consequence of the health risks and from loss of productivity of the land. Dehydration may lead to loss in productivity. Workers may need more breaks to replenish fluids, may be less productive because they are uncomfortable, and may be less energetic, which leads to less work being accomplished per unit time. Longer term health issues may lead to loss of skilled workers and may increase the risk of lawsuits.
Additionally, dust may lead to loss of moisture from plants and animals. In turn, more water may be consumed in agricultural processes. Dust may also lead to loss of topsoils (e.g., soils which may contain the most minerals and nutrients for productive plant growth). Loss of water from soil may lead to crop failure and failure to retain water in the soil may lead to greater water consumption, as water may be needed to be constantly applied.
Previous solutions to these problems have included the constant application of water to sites using tanker trucks, fire hydrants and/or hoses. However, in such solutions, the water evaporates quickly, as it is not retained. This may lead to resumption of dust kick up into the atmosphere. Thus, water must be constantly applied. However, too much water at any given time may lead to muddy conditions. Oils have been used to suppress dust, but such oils are difficult to clean and are generally irreversible. Polymers and emulsions such as latex rubber and poly(vinyl acetate/vinyl alcohol) have been used as a fixation media but lack biodegradability and do not retain water. These polymers are generally used at a high concentration, and tend to bind soil, gravel and/or rocks together into large clumps. Under certain conditions (such in helicopter landing environments) large clumps of material may be thrown through the air, causing a safety hazard. |
access to local variables in scripts
access to local variables in scripts
I have a system that executes scripts written by users. I'd like to provide more debugging tools. In particular, I'd like to be able to display the values of variables that the script uses. Some of the variables are defined outside the script, and I can access and display them. But the script might use "def" to define some more variables, and I don't know how to access them. When a script runs, does it have some kind of context object in which it stores temporary variables? Is there a way I could access it so I could read those variables? If so, what is it called and where could I learn more about it?
I have a system that executes scripts written by users. I'd like to provide more debugging tools. In particular, I'd like to be able to display the values of variables that the script uses. Some of the variables are defined outside the script, and I can access and display them. But the script might use "def" to define some more variables, and I don't know how to access them. When a script runs, does it have some kind of context object in which it stores temporary variables? Is there a way I could access it so I could read those variables? If so, what is it called and where could I learn more about it? |
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