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Local Spring Clip Front or Rear Rack
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This rack features our top-deck design plus a spring-loaded clip to hold your gear tight. Made with durable aluminum, you can use it as a front or rear rack. It's width adjustable to fit nearly any road or mountain bike and also disc brake compatible. A handy light clip makes it easy to attach a front or rear light. |
import CoreData
class BlogToBlogMigration_61_62: NSEntityMigrationPolicy {
override func createRelationships(forDestination dInstance: NSManagedObject, in mapping: NSEntityMapping, manager: NSMigrationManager) throws {
try super.createRelationships(forDestination: dInstance, in: mapping, manager: manager)
guard dInstance.value(forKey: "account") == nil else {
return
}
guard let sourceBlog = manager.sourceInstances(forEntityMappingName: "BlogToBlog", destinationInstances: [dInstance]).first,
let sourceAccount = sourceBlog.value(forKey: "jetpackAccount") as? NSManagedObject,
let destinationAccount = manager.destinationInstances(forEntityMappingName: "AccountToAccount", sourceInstances: [sourceAccount]).first else {
return
}
dInstance.setValue(destinationAccount, forKey: "account")
}
}
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There’s nothing the right, particularly the sectarian right, loves more than the the federal constitution, which by their reckoning is an anti-federal power, libertarian document that hearkens back to the days when the Founding Fathers founded the Tea Party movement. But I’m not sure there’s any better example of what nonsense this is, or the way that the ‘constitution’ has just become a fetish which automatically represents the rightwing wish-list du jour, than the paranoia and rage against the Census. If you’re really devoted to the constitution, by all rights responding to Census should make you something close to giddy since participating in the Census is about as close as you can get to fulfilling an unambiguous and explicit constitutional duty. For a real constitutionalist, it should be like touching the Pope’e garment.But the disconnect between the wingnut fantasy constitution and the actual document actually goes well beyond that. Certainly liberals and conservatives have their own takes on the constitution. And outside the extreme margins each take is rooted in some real history. But what I’m talking about is the Ron Paul, Tea Party, right-wing sectarian take — the ‘constitution’ of Sen. DeMint’s imagination — that really does believe that the constitution is a sort of far-right wishlist. But what’s even weirder and more problematic in terms of our public discourse is that a lot of journalists seem to buy into this fantasy — at least assume it as a given — even if they don’t accept the supposed implications. In other words, ‘Yes, sure the original constitution is a Paulite, radically small government document. But hey, we’re a big country now. Times change.’
But this is a complete crock. The federal constitution doesn’t just not perfectly line up with the anti-federal, small government right. It was actually put into effect precisely to combat the kind of politically philosophy these folks espouses. It’s a centralizing document. It was aimed at making federal power trump that of the states, indeed bringing the states to heel. The idea that of a genuine heir of the South Carolinian political tradition — which DeMint is — is someone whose views are in tune with the constitution is silly if you spend a few moments cracking a history book. The big point of the constitution was to create a strong federal government, one with the power to do pretty much all the things the phony constitutionalists are the far-right want to prevent. |
Q:
twitter4j id of the user being retweeted in this tweet
I am using the twitter4j library to collect some data in twitter. There is an interface called Status which can be used to get various information about a tweet (such as id, location, time, whether it was a retweet...). I am currently interested in retrieving the id of a user that is being retweeted in a tweet. For example, suppose John retweets samantha and suppose I have John's tweet; let's call John's tweet t
I would like to do something in code like:
Long retweetedUserID = t.getRetweetedUserID();
I find the javadoc very unclear and cannot properly discern the meaning of each function.
Does anybody know how to get the user id of the person that is being retweeted?
I posted a similar question here about the meaning of a particular method in the Status interface that I believe is related to this problem.
All help is greatly appreciated.
A:
Use the method getRetweetedStatus(). You can store this into a Status variable and then user the getUser() method. Altogether this is:
for(Status t : results.getTweets())
{
retweetedStatus = t.getRetweetedStatus();
User curRTUser = retweetedStatus.getUser();
curRTUserID = curRTUser.getId();
//do whatever you want
}
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Q:
how to store a 2D game world in mysql
I am making a 2D game in javascript/ajax, that will be using data stored in mysql database. Every user have got his own "area" made of small squares that can have some values. But I have no idea, how to store values of each square in mysql, when each user can have area with different width or height. Do you have some idea?
A:
How about storing the rectangle's four corners (x0, y0, x1, y1)? If you have an index on them, querying should be fairly efficient too, but your mileage may vary...
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SD Legislature Money Decisions And Common Core on VPU
Representative Jim Bolin from Canton will be talking about budget decisions to be made in Pierre as a member of the Appropriations Committee. He will also discuss the status of his bills weakening or ending Common Core Education Standards in South Dakota.
Rep. Bolin has been an outspoken critic of aspects of the Common Core, including concern about access to student information. He also has led discussion about not expanding into Science and other areas without much further review and open meetings. |
“Hacktivist” Jeremy Hammond” on FBI on a Terrorism Watchlist
Well I know a lot of anonymous that are almost militant when a fellow member is put in jail etc.
But We need to know the facts. If this person did unethical hacking then perhaps
He May deserve the sentence. but as Usual in USA the sentence is always overboard.
and there will be no rehabilitation, education, or other
He will likely tell others in the jail, he ends up in how to hack
So maybe the Gov Orgs Courts need to rethink, or think, things a little?
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The prominent Anonymous “hacktivist” Jeremy Hammond, who participated in some of the hacking collective’s most audacious cyber acts, was placed by the FBI on a terrorism watchlist, the Daily Dot reported on Monday.
The internet news website obtained a leaked document from the New York state division of… |
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Speed Kills
Trailer
In a controversial story when the hero finds himself facing a very difficult life. The millionaire man, Ben Aronov, begins a life full of clashes when he finds himself struggling to overcome a double life full of problems related to law and the most dangerous drug men in the region.
This movie not only refuses to tell a story - it undermines the viewers' attempts to interpret the narrative for themselves. It's a montage run amok. It's a film stitched out of senseless scenes, devoid of tension or even logic. |
Sources say that another Eastern Conference team contracted to stay at the Trump SoHo in New York this season has likewise already decided to switch to a different property in Manhattan when its current contract expires at season’s end and that the Trump association is among the factors for the switch.
Seven other teams told ESPN.com on Tuesday that they are still currently scheduled to stay at Trump-branded properties this season.
As a matter of privacy, ESPN has chosen not to name those eight teams in total so as not to publicly identify where they will be staying on this season’s trips for games against the New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets or Chicago Bulls.
Trump does not currently hold an equity stake in the Trump SoHo hotel, but his company still owns and operates the Chicago property.
Sources say that the Bucks stayed at the Trump International Tower and Hotel in Chicago on a preseason trip to play the Bulls in early October, but met with complications when they tried to make an 11th-hour cancellation. Milwaukee, sources say, has already made other arrangements for its regular-season road games against the Bulls.
The Grizzlies and Mavericks, sources say, have stayed at the Trump SoHo in the past but opted during the offseason to book new New York hotels for this season.
Grizzlies coach David Fizdale, speaking after the team’s shootaround Wednesday in Los Angeles, insisted that where Memphis stays or doesn’t stay is not politically motivated.
“No truth to that,” Fizdale told the Memphis Commercial Appeal on Wednesday. “Our decisions as to what hotels we stay in are made long before any of this election stuff took place. It’s no story.”
Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry and Cuban are both high-profile supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who last week lost the race to be the United States’ 45th president to Trump.
Since the election, three prominent NBA coaches — Detroit’s Stan Van Gundy, Golden State’s Steve Kerr and San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich — have publicly addressed the unease that they and some of their players feel in the wake of Trump’s election, starting with the dismay Van Gundy voiced that the country’s new president, in his words, is “openly and brazenly racist and misogynistic and ethnocentric.”
exists to spread freedom of information, conservative values, and truth to the public through various media forms. We are an organization committed to upholding the First Amendment right of the Freedom of Speech and make every effort to lend to our readers—and Americans everywhere—strength, compassion, and honor. We welcome input and engagement from you, our online community, in mutual respect and courage to face our America, together. |
A new scapula retractor for posterolateral thoracotomy.
A new retractor is presented for use in performing posterolateral thoracotomy. Its advantages are stabilization of the tip of the scapula and preventing it from protruding over the intercostal space to be incised. |
Search for missing cashier: Witness talks
A former "person of interest," who has since been cleared in disappearance of gas station cashier Jessica Heeringa, discusses his interviews with police and insights into the case with WOOD's Leon Hendrix. |
Limerick duo nominated for Player of The Year Award
Munster’s Conor Murray and Keith Earls have been nominated for the Rugby Players Ireland player of the year award.
The Limerick men are joined on the shortlist by Leinster duo Johnathon Sexton and Tadgh Furlong.
Murray, who holds the award at the moment has had a landmark year, playing a huge part in the British & Irish Lions drawn series with New Zealand in the summer, before landing the Grand Slam with Ireland.
Keith Earls has played some of his finest rugby for province and country this season, the Moyross man played a major role for Ireland in the Six Nations before suffering a knee injury against England in the last round of the competition.
UL Bohemians Ciara Griffin has been nominated for the women’s player of the year award.
While Ex Munster man Duncan Casey is also in with a chance of winning an award.
The former Glenstal Abbey student has been nominated for the Medal of Excellence – awarded to the individual who has shown exceptional commitment to the game of rugby both on and off the field |
using NUnit.Framework;
using Testura.Code.Models.References;
namespace Testura.Code.Tests.Models.References
{
[TestFixture]
public class VariableReferenceTests
{
[Test]
public void GetLastMember_WhenHavingNoChild_ShouldReturnNull()
{
Assert.IsNull(new VariableReference("test").GetLastMember());
}
[Test]
public void GetLastMember_WhenHavingMember_ShouldReturnMember()
{
var memberReference = new MemberReference("test");
Assert.AreSame(memberReference, new VariableReference("test", memberReference).GetLastMember());
}
[Test]
public void GetLastMember_WhenHavingChainOfMember_ShouldReturnLastMemberInChain()
{
var memberReference = new MemberReference("test");
Assert.AreSame(memberReference, new VariableReference("test", new MethodReference("test", memberReference)).GetLastMember());
}
}
}
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Jaipur Day Tours
The picturesque capital of Rajasthan, Jaipur is also known as the Pink city. The colour pink is associated with culture. There is a timeless appeal in the colourful bazaars of Jaipur, where one can shop for Rajasthani handlooms and trinklets. Beautifully laid out gardens and parks, attractive monuments and marvellous heritage hotels,which were once the residence of Maharajas, are worthy of admiration. Not to mention the ambling camels and cheerful people in multi-hued costumes, that make your trip to the pink city a memorable one.
It’s one of the exclusive tours which has been exquisitely drafted out to see one of the most beautiful cities of Rajasthan – Jaipur. Also known as Pink city due to its Pink Coloured walls all over the city |
Wide-neck aneurysms: which technique should we use?
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Orange Sees Green With Silicon Valley Accelerator
From the home of technology titans Facebook, Amazon and Google, the French telecom giant and mobile specialist is priming to grow the global reach of its one-year-old Silicon Valley-based start-up accelerator. |
// Copyright (c) Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
using System.Linq;
namespace System.Web.Http.Routing
{
// Represents a segment of a URI that is not a separator. It contains subsegments such as literals and parameters.
internal sealed class PathContentSegment : PathSegment
{
public PathContentSegment(IList<PathSubsegment> subsegments)
{
Subsegments = subsegments;
}
[SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Performance", "CA1800:DoNotCastUnnecessarily", Justification = "Not changing original algorithm.")]
public bool IsCatchAll
{
get
{
// TODO: Verify this is correct. Maybe add an assert.
return Subsegments.Any<PathSubsegment>(seg => (seg is PathParameterSubsegment) && ((PathParameterSubsegment)seg).IsCatchAll);
}
}
public IList<PathSubsegment> Subsegments { get; private set; }
#if ROUTE_DEBUGGING
public override string LiteralText
{
get
{
List<string> s = new List<string>();
foreach (PathSubsegment subsegment in Subsegments)
{
s.Add(subsegment.LiteralText);
}
return String.Join(String.Empty, s.ToArray());
}
}
public override string ToString()
{
List<string> s = new List<string>();
foreach (PathSubsegment subsegment in Subsegments)
{
s.Add(subsegment.ToString());
}
return "[ " + String.Join(", ", s.ToArray()) + " ]";
}
#endif
}
}
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For the first time in years, people who want to work for the federal government will have an easier time applying for a job. OPM Director John Berry announced the sweeping changes after President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday. |
Donald Trump eagerly injected himself into the Democratic Party’s email controversy on Monday, calling the revelations that the party apparatus backed Democrat Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders proved his charges that the system is rigged.
Trump, kicking off a three-day campaign swing with his vice presidential running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, returned to his freewheeling style after giving a scripted speech on Thursday accepting the Republican presidential nomination.
During an hour-long event in Roanoke, Virginia, Trump labeled Clinton “low-energy,” the same characterization he lobbed at Republican rival Jeb Bush; attacked her running mate, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia; and complained about the air conditioning in the hotel ballroom where he spoke.
“I think the ballroom and the people who own this hotel ought to be ashamed of themselves,” Trump said.
Trump took particular delight in making light of Democratic disunity as party loyalists gather in Philadelphia this week to anoint Clinton as their nominee, after a week in which Republicans struggled to unify behind Trump at their convention in Cleveland.
Trump waved away Republican disunity as essentially isolated pockets of resistance and made an apparent reference to U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, who was booed off stage in Cleveland when he did not endorse Trump after losing to him in a bitter primary race.
“We had a couple people who probably destroyed their career, but who knows,” Trump said. “Look what’s going on in Philadelphia. … We had no riots, no nothing. It was unbelievable. I’ll never forget it as long as I live.”
Trump’s strongest words were for Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was forced to resign on Sunday in the fallout over leaked emails showing the committee backed Clinton over democratic socialist Sanders.
The New York businessman said it was proof the “system” is rigged against outsider candidates.
“Debbie was totally loyal to Hillary, and Hillary threw her under the bus,” Trump said, adding, “I don’t want her covering MY back.”
He then launched into a riff about “Hillary Rotten Clinton,” a play on her full name, Hillary Rodham Clinton. |
Turkey shelled Kurdish targets in Syria Sunday despite calls by France and the U.S. to halt such actions. The Turkish military opened a new front against Kurdish forces Saturday after the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) captured positions in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
While the U.S. considers the YPG an ally in the war on the Islamic State group, aka either ISIL or ISIS, Turkey considers it to be closely allied with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The PKK has carried out an insurgency against the Turkish government for decades.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu by phone Sunday, calling for an end to the artillery strikes on the Kurdish militants. Echoing the appeal made by the U.S., France also demanded “an immediate halt to the bombing, both that of the regime and its allies throughout the country and that of Turkey in the Kurdish zones,” Agence France-Presse reported.
The Syria-based YPG is the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). The Syrian Civil War has emboldened Kurdish fighters, who now control considerable swaths of war-ravaged Syria. Turkish officials fear the empowered Kurdish forces within Syria could bolster Kurdish forces within Turkey, where they have issued fresh calls for self-rule in recent months.
The YPG managed to seize the Menage air base and several other key positions in Syria from Islamist rebels in recent days. Turkey has demanded it withdraw.
A tenuous ceasefire between the Turkish government and Kurdish militants in the country unraveled last summer amid spillover from the war in Syria. Since then, Turkey has launched an aggressive airstrike campaign against PKK targets in both Iraq and Turkey’s restive southeastern region, which is predominantly Kurdish. The recent developments in Syria has stirred concern that fighting between the Turkish forces and Kurdish militants could spread.
Human rights groups have raised alarms over the massive humanitarian crisis created by Turkey’s military campaign targeting Kurdish fighters, as civilian casualties have climbed in recent months. |
Blizzard has canceled one of the largest, most ambitious games it ever tried to create. At least, it might have been. No one knew that much about it. And now it's dead.
The quotes from the company about the decision are hard to read. The work and the budget that went into Titan have now been sunk, although it's likely some of the ideas and technology behind the game will aid Blizzard in some way. It's rare that these things are a total loss, although this means that there are likely people who have put the better part of a decade into a game that will never see the light of day.
But this move signals a new direction for the company, and the industry is bound to pay attention.
"I wouldn't say no to ever doing an MMO again," Blizzard co-founder and CEO Mike Morhaime told Polygon. "But I can say that right now, that's not where we want to be spending our time."
Why would anyone?
The changing of the guard
World of Warcraft has long been one of the most popular, and profitable, games in the business, but things are changing. It's not just that it's going to become harder to hang onto players. The fact is that there has yet to be an MMO that has remained profitable, or has kept its subscription fee, in quite some time.
It's a space filled with battered wrecks of games that have been forced to move to a free-to-play model, and it's unlikely that any of these titles will ever come close to World of Warcraft now from a business perspective, much less the numbers the game enjoyed at its height. Taking another run at that hill would require a huge investment, and a very special product. And Blizzard didn't feel Titan would have been that game.
"We took a step back and realized that it had some cool hooks. It definitely had some merit as a big, broad idea, but it didn't come together. It did not distill," Chris Metzen, Blizzard's senior vice president of story and franchise development, told Polygon. "The music did not flow. For all our good intentions and our experience and the pure craftsmanship that we brought together, we had to make that call."
Blizzard didn't feel Titan would have been that game
Being able to make that call at all is one of the most telling examples of Blizzard's power in the video game world. In nearly every other situation, with this much time and money riding on the seven years the game had been in development, the publisher would likely have forced some kind of product to be released.
Blizzard was given the privilege of taking its own dog behind the shed to put it down, which is an odd way for a company to show its muscle. But make no mistake that this is a company flexing its ability to react to the market and only release the games it's completely sure of.
It's unlikely that we'll see another company create the kind of MMO we're used to seeing from companies like Blizzard, and instead the sort of "always-online but please don't call it an MMO" class of games like Titanfall and Destiny are bound to take over. Blizzard is moving into other areas with the upcoming Heroes of the Storm, a clear shot at the monstrous MOBA market, and Hearthstone, a trading card game that has become a massive success.
The puck had disappeared
This is how Blizzard works: They follow the crowd, but the company is talented and clever enough that it has always been able to make the definitive version of the game they're trying to emulate.
"Let's take a game that we all love playing, do what we want to do to make it ours, just like we've done with every single game from the past. Vikings was Lemmings. Rock and Roll Racing, name any of those car games out there. Warcraft came from Dune, so it's the same thing with Heroes of the Storm," Sam Didier, a senior art director at Blizzard told me when discussing Heroes of the Storm.
"It's like, we take a game that we like and then we make our version of it. If we like it, it turns out that people like it as well."
During the course of Titan, it sounds like Blizzard lost that path, and even worse they were no longer skating towards where the puck would be in a few years. The puck had disappeared. Blizzard was chasing its own tail, and may have been inspired by its own success with a previous product rather than anything that ignited the company's imagination.
Killing the game now, and still having two of the most promising titles in active development in Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm, not to mention the still-popular World of Warcraft, shows the power and might of Blizzard, and it may be a situation where a failed project makes them one of the more admired developers in the business. |
Drugs against leishmaniasis: a synergy of technology and partnerships.
To date, there are no vaccines against any of the major parasitic diseases, and chemotherapy is the main weapon in our arsenal. There is an urgent need for better drugs against Leishmania. With the completion of the human genome sequence and soon that of Leishmania, for the first time we have the opportunity to identify novel chemotherapeutic treatments. This requires the exploitation of a variety of technologies. The major challenge is to take the process from discovery of drug candidates all the way along the arduous path to the marketplace. A crucial component will be the forging of partnerships between the pharmaceutical industry and publicly funded scientists to ensure that the promise of the current revolution in biology lives up to our hopes and expectations. |
Ade B12 Lama Brand
Formulated exclusively for llamas and alpacas this top choice Lama Brand ADE B12 paste is used for conformation problems in growing animals as well as stressful situations. This paste is camelid specific for the ideal amounts of vitamins for your animals |
Slow channel kinetics in heart muscle.
The cardiac slow inward current (Isi) is mediated by a specific conductance system, the slow channel. It is highly selective for Ca and other bivalent cations as for instance Sr, whilst Na permeability is extremely small. The kinetics of activation, inactivation and recovery from inactivation are voltage- and temperature-sensitive. In contrasts to the Hodgkin-Huxley model, development and removal of inactivation operate with different time constants, at least in the ventricular myocardium of cats. Moreover, both processes exhibit a different pharmacological susceptibility. Thus a second inactivation variable having smaller rate constants than the inactivation variable if has to be introduced, which simultaneously suggests the existence of slow inactivation in cardiac slow channels. |
For someone who has never been officially employed by the New England Patriots, Alex Guerrero has become a big figure in the Patriots’ dynasty.
Guerrero, famous for being Tom Brady’s personal trainer, appears to be at least in some way involved in what appears to be some friction between the Patriots and tight end Rob Gronkowski.
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Karen Guregian of the Boston Herald wrote that coach Bill Belichick “chastised” Gronkowski for being a client of TB12, the sports therapy center that Brady uses and was co-founded by Guerrero, in front of the other Patriots players last season. Guregian speculated that perhaps that was Belichick’s way of keeping all players from leaving the team’s training staff for Guerrero, and it might be the source of friction between the Patriots and Gronkowski, who still hasn’t officially said he won’t retire (though there’s no clear sign he’ll step away this offseason). NBC Sports Boston’s Tom Curran said earlier this offseason Gronkowski felt “singled out” over the Guerrero issue. Mike Giardi of NBC Sports Boston said Brady and Gronkowski were “miserable” last season and a lot of it was over the Guerrero issue.
The Guerrero-Belichick dynamic isn’t new. Last season, Guerrero had his sideline access revoked and was told he couldn’t treat players other than Brady at the team’s headquarters anymore. The memorable and explosive ESPN story about the tension between Brady, Belichick and Patriots owner Robert Kraft in early January spent a lot of time on Guerrero. In the story, his presence was seen as being divisive among players. They didn’t know whether to use Guerrero or the team’s medical and training staff.
And Gronkowski is in that web too.
Gronkowski expressed after the Super Bowl that he might retire. Since then, speculation has gone in many directions, mostly because Gronkowski hasn’t really said anything and the Patriots never say anything substantial. Gronkowski has taken a lot of punishment in his career, and that probably weighs on him. Perhaps he wants a pay raise, and that would fix everything. We’ve seen offseason drama get fixed very easily with money. But it seems there are some issues between the team and its star tight end. None of the drama mattered much last season, as the Patriots came a couple minutes away from winning another Super Bowl. Belichick calls out players all the time, that has been well established. But the Guerrero issue seems to be looming over the Patriots longer than most people could have assumed.
Perhaps this is just another offseason story and it won’t ultimately matter to how long Gronkowski plays or how many games the Patriots win. But if Gronkowski ends up retiring still within his prime, whether that’s this offseason or a couple years from now, there will be interesting questions about what drove him away.
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski started an offseason of speculation by saying after the Super Bowl he’d consider retirement. (AP) |
The Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District is pleased to publish a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for architectural design services. The District is seeking a firm that can develop a conceptual design for a permanent headquarters office and meeting facility. In response to changing conditions and the growth of the District’s programs, the District has moved from place to place over the last few decades. […]
The Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District prohibits discrimination against its customers, employees, and applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, gender identity, religion, reprisal, and where applicable, political beliefs, marital status, familial or parental status, sexual orientation, or all or part of an individual’s income is derived from any public assistance program, or protected genetic information in employment or in any program or activity conducted or funded by the District. The District is an Equal Opportunity Employer. |
One-Eyed Cat: Heathenry / Slavic Paganism
Exploring the wider Eurasian influences on central and northern European religion, including Norse, Slavic, Celtic, Baltic, Siberian, Mediterranean and ancient Indo-European beliefs and applying them to contemporary practice.
A Visit from the Yule King
It's the season of mistletoe and holly, when bells are ring-jing-jing-a-ling and the year-round Northern outdoor signs that say, "Beware of Falling Ice" finally have meaning. The night is hushed in a way it only gets when there is a blanket of snow, on the eve before a holiday, when everything is closed. Snuggled in a hotel room in upstate New York, red and blue-foil snowflakes covering presents gleam out of the corner of my eye, while real ones slowly fall, dancing over the parking lot.
It's almost midnight. Drowsy with hot cider, lying on my husband's chest and listening to his heartbeat, there's nowhere else I'd rather be…
I feel, rather than hear, the Yule King's call at first: a pull like I'm standing in a river, and then his voice flows across my mind.
"Come, Sister…. Come."
He calls out to me tenderly, but with insistence, close but yet so far, a cold-hushed voice across the snows. But I am warm and happy in my love's arms; I do not seek wisdom tonight, nor adventure. I do not want to make this journey now. I tell the Yule King this, as gently as I can. And to my surprise… he tells me to come to him later—
* * *
Radiant like the returning sun, his armor gleams warmly against the dazzling brilliance of a snowy, moonlit hillside. No mortal ever wore such armor, so elegantly curved and shaped to his body, intricately fitted with enamel ornamenting a restive horse. Long hair spills over his shoulders, darker than the seasoned ash pole in his hand, the gray winter-bare trunk of Yggdrasil rising at his back. A holly crown rings his black hair, gleaming with stars. He holds Gungnir, his sacred spear, and a sword hangs naked in his other hand, but nothing in him speaks of violence— his merry eyes, the tenderness of his smile, radiates joy.
"Bless me," he asks.
I hesitate, at first, not knowing by which of His many names to name him. To bless a God is not something to be done lightly, and I am mortal.
So I reach up and put my hands on his broad shoulders and say the things that come to mind, thinking of how Skadhi once blessed me, and pray they are enough. Poetry does not flow from my tongue; the words do not come unbidden, as if remembered by my soul; they are carefully shaped, all that I can think that he would need:
'I bless you, Ingvi.
I bless you as King and Husband and Lover.
I bless you to lead Gods and wights and men
I bless you to succeed'
'I bless that your sword grant both life and death;
I bless you to be wise and just.'
'I bless you to be brave and loving. And to be loved in return.
I bless you with strength, courage and mercy,
And I bless you with my love, Ingvi:
Lord of Gods,
and wights,
and men…'
He hands me his sword to bless, and I kiss it on the flat, near the hilt, where the runes are deeply carved. I lean up to kiss him (for Freyr is very tall), throwing an arm around his neck, and kiss his armored chest— a kiss farewell, good luck before he leaves, but I know he will return.
He smiles and asks me to bless him one last time, hefting Gungnir and gazing up at its bronze tip, blazing like the rising sun.
I do, calling him Odin, for Odin he is as well, God of ecstasy and leader of hosts.
And then he bids me farewell, thanking me with a deep, satisfied sigh.
"Enjoy the morrow," he says (for it's still night, and the eve of the holiday, and he has been, this whole time, so elegantly formal in his half of this ancient ritual, and patient with me).
And in a shimmer of sunlight on a stream, of day on snow, of firelight winking on gold, he's gone.
* * *
I'm working on an illustrated book of journeys and encounters with Norse Gods and Goddesses during spae/seidhr.
This happened one year while I was traveling, when the state of New York was all covered in snow, when the shutting down of the outside world for the winter holidays (the hotel was nearly empty) and the quiet rhythm of the weather lent itself to trance. I've been meaning to paint what I saw for a long while, and finally finished this during Yule.
Rarely do we consider that Odin has not always been the Old Man… and might not always be. Linguistically and by symbolism, he is related to Lugh/Llew Llaw Gyffes, a Celtic God of bards, skilled crafts, and the shining heat of the sun, father of Cú Chulainn-- and a young warrior king bearing quite a similar spear.
I invite you to do your own research here, including the many names by which Odin is known in the Eddas and his frequent romantic and other exploits far more appropriate to a younger man than a grizzled, one-eyed, iron-haired warrior. The work of Norse and Comparative mythology scholars such as Hilda Ellis Davidson and Jan Puhvel help.
Background on the symbolism of this painting can be found on my website, here. Cross-posted to staffandcup.com
Shirl Sazynski was trained by the Gods and has been practicing the Norse shamanic art of seidhr for over a decade. A wife of Odin, oracle, icon painter and author, her work has appeared in popular and pagan media outlets for the last fifteen years, including Witches and Pagans, Sacred Hoop, Idunna, Eternal Haunted Summer, Oak Leaves and books from Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
She teaches workshops on Norse spirituality and seidhr, and works as a professional shaman and oracle in Albuquerque, New Mexico, consulting the Gods at staffandcup.com. |
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ChartsService } from './charts.service';
@Component({
selector: 'app-echarts',
templateUrl: './echarts.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./echarts.component.scss'],
providers: [ChartsService]
})
export class EChartsComponent {
showloading: boolean = false;
BarOption;
LineOption;
PieOption;
AnimationBarOption;
constructor(private chartsService: ChartsService) {
this.BarOption = this.chartsService.getBarOption();
this.LineOption = this.chartsService.getLineOption();
this.PieOption = this.chartsService.getPieOption();
this.AnimationBarOption = this.chartsService.getAnimationBarOption();
}
}
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Alain de Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy and other bestsellers, has a new book out called Religion for Atheists. It encourages atheists to appreciate things religions do well--ranging from fostering community to orchestrating rites of passage--and make use of them, except without the belief-in-God part. I asked him how, exactly, the atheist’s equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a Catholic confirmation would work: |
Q:
How to retrieve the head of a html document using YQL?
I'm curious if this is possible at all since a "select * from html" query only returns the body of the document.
A:
Finally found the answer. (EDIT : thanks to Salathe on the YQL forums!)
select * from html where url="http://stackoverflow.com" and xpath='/html/head/title'
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<div class="weui-mask" [ngClass]="{ 'weui-mask__in': _shown }" (click)="hide(true)"></div>
<div class="weui-dialog" [ngClass]="{
'weui-dialog__in': _shown,
'weui-skin_android': config.skin === 'android',
'weui-dialog__prompt': config.type === 'prompt'
}" #container>
<div class="weui-dialog__hd" *ngIf="config.title">
<strong class="weui-dialog__title">{{ config.title }}</strong>
</div>
<div class="weui-dialog__bd" *ngIf="config.content" [innerHTML]="config.content"></div>
<div class="weui-cells" *ngIf="config.type === 'prompt' && _shown">
<ng-container [ngSwitch]="config.input">
<div *ngSwitchCase="'textarea'" class="weui-cell" [ngClass]="{ 'weui-cell_warn': _prompError }">
<div class="weui-cell__bd">
<textarea class="weui-textarea" placeholder="{{ config.inputPlaceholder }}" [(ngModel)]="_promptData"
name="_promptData" (ngModelChange)="_chanage()" weui-textarea [weui-cn]="config.inputAttributes.cn"
[maxlength]="config.inputAttributes.maxlength"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div *ngSwitchCase="'select'" class="weui-cell weui-cell_select">
<div class="weui-cell__bd">
<select class="weui-select" [(ngModel)]="_promptData" name="_promptData" (ngModelChange)="_chanage()">
<option *ngFor="let i of config.inputOptions" [ngValue]="i">{{ i.text }}</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
<div *ngSwitchCase="'radio'" class="weui-cells_radio">
<label class="weui-cell weui-check__label" *ngFor="let i of config.inputOptions">
<div class="weui-cell__bd">
<p>{{ i.text }}</p>
</div>
<div class="weui-cell__ft">
<input type="radio" (click)="_promptData = i" [checked]="i == _promptData" (change)="_chanage()"
class="weui-check" />
<span class="weui-icon-checked"></span>
</div>
</label>
</div>
<div *ngSwitchCase="'checkbox'" class="weui-cells_checkbox">
<label class="weui-cell weui-check__label" *ngFor="let i of config.inputOptions">
<div class="weui-cell__hd">
<input type="checkbox" class="weui-check" (change)="_chanage()" [weui-checklist]="_promptData"
[weui-value]="i" name="_promptData" />
<i class="weui-icon-checked"></i>
</div>
<div class="weui-cell__bd">
<p>{{ i.text }}</p>
</div>
</label>
</div>
<div *ngSwitchCase="'range'" class="weui-slider-box" [(ngModel)]="_promptData" name="_promptData" weui-slider
[weui-min]="config.inputAttributes.min" [weui-max]="config.inputAttributes.max"
[weui-step]="config.inputAttributes.step">
<div class="weui-slider">
<div class="weui-slider__inner">
<div class="weui-slider__track"></div>
<div class="weui-slider__handler"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="weui-slider-box__value">{{ _promptData }}</div>
</div>
<div *ngSwitchDefault class="weui-cell" [ngClass]="{ 'weui-cell_warn': _prompError }">
<div class="weui-cell__bd">
<input type="{{ config.input }}" class="weui-input" placeholder="{{ config.inputPlaceholder }}"
[(ngModel)]="_promptData" name="_promptData" [maxlength]="config.inputAttributes.maxlength"
(ngModelChange)="_chanage()" (keyup)="_keyup($event)" />
</div>
<div class="weui-cell__ft">
<i class="weui-icon-warn" *ngIf="_prompError"></i>
</div>
</div>
</ng-container>
</div>
<div class="weui-dialog__error" *ngIf="_prompError">{{ config.inputError }}</div>
<div class="weui-dialog__ft">
<a href="#" *ngFor="let item of config.btns" class="weui-dialog__btn weui-dialog__btn_{{ item.type }}"
(click)="_onSelect(item)">{{ item.text }}</a>
</div>
</div>
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#define PICOBENCH_DEBUG
#define PICOBENCH_IMPLEMENT_WITH_MAIN
#include "picobench/picobench.hpp"
#include <vector>
#include <deque>
#include <cstdlib>
void rand_vector(picobench::state& s)
{
std::vector<int> v;
for (auto _ : s)
{
v.push_back(rand());
}
}
PICOBENCH(rand_vector);
void rand_vector_reserve(picobench::state& s)
{
std::vector<int> v;
v.reserve(s.iterations());
for (auto _ : s)
{
v.push_back(rand());
}
}
PICOBENCH(rand_vector_reserve);
void rand_deque(picobench::state& s)
{
std::deque<int> v;
for (auto _ : s)
{
v.push_back(rand());
}
}
PICOBENCH(rand_deque);
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Q:
Bypass Required Lookup Filter Criteria through apex
Is it possible to bypass a required look up filter criteria through apex? For example for a certain scenario it will not throw the filter criteria but it's still there. Been searching the internet regarding this one, but can't seem to get a clear answer.
For example
My Filter criteria is like this.
(Distributor: Account Record TypeEQUALSPartner) AND
(Distributor: Account IDNOT EQUAL TOOpportunity: Primary Partner ID) AND
(Distributor: Partner TypeEQUALSDistributor)
Now there is a scenario where in it's allright to have the Distributor : Parner type = null or blank. and it's only applicable for that scenario so addin the null value in the filter criteria is a no no.
If it's not possible to by pass using apex code. Can you give me any idea or workaround regarding this one?
My Code somewhat look like this.
Protected List<Opportunity> allOpportunites;
public void createRenewalOpps(){
//add renewalOpps Values
allOpportunities.addAll(renewalOpps.values)
}
public void ManageOpportunities(){
//the filter look up criteria is in the Opportunity object
//error will be thrown in the DML call since in my data the distributor :
//partner type is blank
upsert allOpportunities; //Error will be thrown
}
A:
The most basic solution is to add a "bypass validation" checkbox to your record that no users have access to, which your code can can set to true when the validation rule should be bypassed. Your filter then becomes
Distributor: Bypass Filter OR
(
(Distributor: Account Record TypeEQUALSPartner) AND
(Distributor: Account IDNOT EQUAL TOOpportunity: Primary Partner ID) AND
(Distributor: Partner TypeEQUALSDistributor)
)
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All-natural ingredients. Austin, Texas. Made with fresh Roma tomatoes. People's Choice Award Winner - Austin, Texas. Premium beyond others. All our Select Salsas are made with fresh Roma tomatoes. Fresh peppers - fresh onions. No sugar added - no MSG - low sodium - gluten free. When we first started, I made deliveries to the stores from the back of my truck and I taste tested every batch made. My company has long outgrown the personal delivery business, but I still sample every batch. Why you ask? I do it for the same reason every chef, cook, and mom tastes their food when preparing it for other people - I want you to have the best I can make! Thank you customers, Ellie T. Donaldson. Go Texan.
Whether they are made in Texas, take on a familiar Texas shape or are inspired by local tastes, Totally Texas products remind us of everything we love about the Lone Star State. |
Q:
AAPT getting locked
I'll do my best to explain here. I have an eclipse plugin I'm developing for android development. It's based off the Java Bridge from Google/MIT's App Inventor library. The plugin simply adds a new project wizard (which copies over a couple of jars, along with some other files, and modifies the project.properties file). It also includes a wizard to easily create a new app widget.
For the new project wizard, I essentially just copied AdtPlugin, and changed the references to AltBridge, and removed stuff which I wasn't going to need. This worked fine from r15-r16. However, I recently updated to the newest adt (r19), and did something stupid. I went and made modifications on my plugin activator class to match the changes with the new adt version. The really stupid thing is I didn't back up my files beforehand.
Anyways, the problem I'm now having is that the R file isn't getting generated after the wizard completes. If I exit eclipse, then restart it, then clean the project, the R file gets generated, and errors go away.
Also, if I use the new widget wizard, it creates the xml files fine, but then I get an error in the console saying that aapt cannot be found. A restart of eclipse fixes this.
If you'd like to see some code, let me know. As the activator class is quite large, I didn't want to post the whole thing here.
A:
Found the issue. In the start(BundleContext context method, it was parsing the SDK. As the adtplugin does this, it was causing a conflict on multiple levels.
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using System;
using System.Net.Http;
namespace k8s
{
public partial class KubernetesClientConfiguration
{
public HttpClientHandler CreateDefaultHttpClientHandler()
{
var httpClientHandler = new HttpClientHandler();
#if !NET452
var uriScheme = new Uri(this.Host).Scheme;
if (uriScheme == "https")
{
if (this.SkipTlsVerify)
{
httpClientHandler.ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback =
(sender, certificate, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => true;
}
else
{
httpClientHandler.ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback =
(sender, certificate, chain, sslPolicyErrors) =>
{
return Kubernetes.CertificateValidationCallBack(sender, this.SslCaCerts, certificate, chain,
sslPolicyErrors);
};
}
}
#endif
AddCertificates(httpClientHandler);
return httpClientHandler;
}
public void AddCertificates(HttpClientHandler handler)
{
if ((!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.ClientCertificateData) ||
!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.ClientCertificateFilePath)) &&
(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.ClientCertificateKeyData) ||
!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.ClientKeyFilePath)))
{
var cert = CertUtils.GeneratePfx(this);
#if NET452
((WebRequestHandler)handler).ClientCertificates.Add(cert);
#else
handler.ClientCertificates.Add(cert);
#endif
}
}
public static DelegatingHandler CreateWatchHandler() => new WatcherDelegatingHandler();
}
}
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Calculating response functions in time domain with nonorthonormal basis sets
We extend the recently proposed order-N algorithms for calculating linear- and nonlinear-response functions in time domain to the systems described by nonorthonormal basis sets. |
Test-reconstruct.C
EXE = $(FOAM_USER_APPBIN)/Test-reconstruct
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As with all good things in Pose, it seems the scene’s writer identifies with the moment. As inspiration for the scene, Mock went back to her own first sexual experience. “Angel’s not a virgin at that point, but I was. I remember a moment when I had a boyfriend I really cared about, and I was hiding myself,” Mock recalled. To combat Mock’s discomfort at the time, the boyfriend did something really “empowering” for her. “He grabbed my hands and moved them to a point of saying, ‘I see you, and I see you as all that you are. I love and accept you, and I want to share this with you,’” Mock continued. |
VITAMIN OPTIMISM: Have Love Courage!
Your dose for today…
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.”
—Andre Gide
Get on the love boat and don't look back!
We all know it’s important to be courageous. But sometimes we forget this is needed in love, too. Maybe the courage is obvious: Maybe you need to escape the relationship that’s beating down your soul, or you have to let go of a hurt that’s holding you back. But courage in love can also be quietly necessary. Maybe your courage is needed in another way: Let go of the image you have in your head of the “perfect” relationship you always “pictured” as a kid. Maybe that white-picket-fence or planned-and-plotted relationship with a particular kind of person isn’t what’s meant for you.
Turn away from the shore and open yourself to a new future with a surprising partner and family, in a different kind of place that will make your heart burst in ways you never pictured were possible. If you don’t open your eyes to new possibilities, how will you ever recognize them? Have courage: Let go of the shore and head for the ocean to see the love that’s out there for you. |
How to find this guy?
I just got a copy of Ocarina of Time a couple of days ago & I'm already up to the part of getting into the Dodongo's Cave right now. At the moment, I've been trying to sell some of the masks for the Happy Mask Sellsman & I just got the Bunny Hood. So I've been trying to find the Running Man in the Hyrule Field to sell the mask to him, but I can't find him. Where is he? I know he's near the Lon Lon Ranch & that's about it. |
Shelters
A shelter can protect you from the sun, insects, wind, rain, snow, hot or cold temperatures, and enemy observation. It can give you a feeling of well-being. It can help you maintain your will to survive.
In some areas, your need for shelter may take precedence over your need for food and possibly even your need for water. For example, prolonged exposure to cold can cause excessive fatigue and weakness (exhaustion). An exhausted person may develop a "passive" outlook, thereby losing the will to survive.
The most common error in making a shelter is to make it too large. A shelter must be large enough to protect you. It must also be small enough to contain your body heat, especially in cold climates.
SheltersShelter site selection |
Types of shelters |
[Current questions concerning nutrition during pregnancy].
Maternal nutrition during pregnancy is known to influence the health state of the offspring during the whole lifetime. The paper discusses in details the sequelae of the imbalanced energy intake and the role of fats. Out of the micronutrients the effects of retinol, vitamins of the B-group, calcium, iron, iodine and magnesium are discussed and attention is called to the action of the high sodium intake. Finally, the principles of the nutritional recommendations in pregnancy are presented. |
With technological advances, entertainment systems are becoming more sophisticated. For example, watching television originated as a passive activity, where a television set was simply tuned into a particular channel and the viewer watched whatever program was currently being broadcast. Now, with digital television, interactive and/or personalized services can be accessed via a television as well. For example, a television advertisement may include a link that can be selected to launch an application (e.g., a Web site, a digital video recorder scheduling application, etc.).
Personalized services provide another level of sophistication that can be implemented within an entertainment system. A favorite channel list is one example of such a personalized service. Some entertainment systems, such as a television with a digital cable television receiver that is configured to also provide Internet access may also provide access to Internet-based personalized services. Personalized services are common via the Internet, examples of which may include my.msn.com, my.yahoo.com, etc., but may also be provided, for example, by a cable television operator. Personalized services are typically associated with a particular user, which corresponds to an individual's Internet account. Such accounts are typically not shared among multiple individuals, so personalizing services based on an individual Internet account works well.
Enabling access to such personalized services via a television based system, however, poses a problem. Televisions are typically shared by several people within a household. Because television systems typically don't require a user to login to an account, it is more difficult to access personalized services via a shared television system.
One solution may be to require that a television viewer login so that a specific television viewer can be determined. Login on a personal computer is easy with a keyboard, and inputs can be easily masked to provide a level of security. Login via a television remote control device is much more difficult because of the limited number of available input buttons. Furthermore, masking the input is more difficult than via a computer-based user interface. Schemes for entering alphabetic characters and symbols such as on-screen keyboards and triple-tap typing involve showing the characters on screen so that the user can choose which character to add, which prevents effective character masking and allows others watching the television display to see the characters being entered. If logging into a television-based personal account is difficult, viewers will be much less likely to utilize personalized services that may be available through television viewing.
Accordingly, a need exists for an easier, secure way to authenticate a single user of an entertainment system so that personalized data can be presented via the entertainment system. |
Anesthetic protocols for common emergencies.
Anesthesia, sedation, and pain management should be taken seriously in the emergency patient. Proper knowledge of the drugs available and their pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are necessary to administer anesthesia safely to critical patients. A proactive approach regarding monitoring, titration of anesthetic drugs, and anticipation of life-threatening complications helps in achieving successful anesthetic outcomes. |
Q:
paste image on between border and background in html?
I will create page follow image but I can't.
this image is page that I created.
I coding .css file follow this code for orange border.
> p {background-color: #ff6138;
width: 1535px;
height: 200px
}
How to make user image display half between orange border and white background?
A:
Try to use negative margin-top for avatar img tag, something like
img#avatar {
margin-top: -50px;
}
(50px value is just ballpark and you need to adjust it)
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I am interested, but in USA. Also does it already have retro pi and roms or is that needing to be added?
No one here would sell a console with ROMs on it because that would be illegal. If the build does not come with the SD card with the RetroPie image you can download a configured image for the Gaboze on 32teeth's github page. Once again, it does not come with any games. |
Neurosciences
At Good Samaritan Hospital, neuroscience specialists use their experience and advanced latest technology to offer patients comprehensive, compassionate care for diseases and conditions of the nervous system, including the brain and spine.
Premier Health’s Neuroscience Institute combines care from physicians and surgeons in diverse neuroscience subspecialties, clinical neuroscience research and medical education. Patients at all Premier locations, including Good Samaritan Hospital, benefit from treatments for medical emergencies and long-term conditions. Our physicians and surgeons have experience in diagnosing and treating: |
Don't Starve: Giant Edition - Xbox Enthusiast
Don't Starve: Giant Edition is available now on Xbox One. Luke Lohr over at Xbox Enthusiast praises the art style and level design, but is concerned over the difficulty. The Don't Starve: Giant Edition review is live on Xbox Enthusiast. |
At a time when many advocates of education reform are promoting greater local involvement in schools, Hawaii appears to be moving in the opposite direction.
The Aloha State is already unusual in the way it manages education. Generally throughout the country, state education departments supplement local property taxes in order to fund local schools. That means local school boards have a great deal of influence in school policy.
In Hawaii, however, power and money are centralized at the state level. Money for the school system is disbursed through the Legislature, and the state Department of Education calls the shots regarding school policy in Hawaii.
Of course, there are pros and cons to Hawaii’s system. Critics of the local-control model point out that funding schools through local property taxes can lead to significant disparities between schools in rich and poor areas. On the other hand, local control means more parental influence and community involvement in schools. It also can give educators more flexibility to innovate and improve performance in their districts.
The ideal may be a balance of local control and state influence, but a bill before the Hawaii legislature threatens to make such reform more difficult. The measure, SB2922, proposes an amendment to the Hawaii Constitution that would allow a surcharge on investment real property to fund education.
There are a number of issues with the bill, from the problematic nature of adding a special interest tax in the Constitution to the way it infringes on a power that previously belonged to the counties.
There’s also a strong likelihood that the surcharge will increase over time. As well, it’s likely it will affect the real estate market and drive up rents.
These issues have all been raised in testimony opposing the bill.
But few critics have looked at how it might hurt the cause of education reform. The proposed amendment gives the Legislature total authority over funding public education, creating a substantial bureaucratic and political barrier to reform.
Any effort to create more local control and funnel local taxes into district schools would require another constitutional amendment. In essence, this amendment would lock in the current system of education funding and strengthen centralized control of Hawaii’s schools. Those on the Big Island, Maui or Kauai who want a larger voice in education policy would continue to find themselves up against bureaucrats in Honolulu.
This isn’t an argument against improving schools, paying teachers well or providing better resources for students. Whether Hawaii needs more money for education and whether this is the right way to go about it are two different discussions. Responsible policymaking means asking ourselves what the unintended consequences of this amendment will be.
It’s a simple truth that in government policy, as with so many other things, influence follows the money. If Hawaii wants to reform education and pass more control to local educators and parents, then a measure that promotes centralized control is not the answer. |
Chevy, GMC Block & U-Bolt Kits
We offer a selection of rear block and U-bolt kits for just about any Chevy or GMC truck, SUV or SUT with rear leaf springs. Take a look and see if we have the combination of block height and u-bolt length you need as a set. Custom applications of block height and u-bolt size can also be ordered separately if necessary. |
// Copyright (c) Tunnel Vision Laboratories, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE in the project root for license information.
namespace StyleCop.Analyzers.Test.MaintainabilityRules
{
public enum SA1402SettingsConfiguration
{
/// <summary>
/// Provide no custom settings.
/// </summary>
KeepDefaultConfiguration,
/// <summary>
/// Provide custom settings that configure the tested type as being a top-level type.
/// </summary>
ConfigureAsTopLevelType,
/// <summary>
/// Provide custom settings that configure the tested type as not being a top-level type.
/// </summary>
ConfigureAsNonTopLevelType,
}
}
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#ifndef __WEXT_COMPAT
#define __WEXT_COMPAT
#include <net/iw_handler.h>
#include <linux/wireless.h>
int cfg80211_ibss_wext_siwfreq(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct iw_freq *freq, char *extra);
int cfg80211_ibss_wext_giwfreq(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct iw_freq *freq, char *extra);
int cfg80211_ibss_wext_siwap(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct sockaddr *ap_addr, char *extra);
int cfg80211_ibss_wext_giwap(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct sockaddr *ap_addr, char *extra);
int cfg80211_ibss_wext_siwessid(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct iw_point *data, char *ssid);
int cfg80211_ibss_wext_giwessid(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct iw_point *data, char *ssid);
int cfg80211_mgd_wext_siwfreq(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct iw_freq *freq, char *extra);
int cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwfreq(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct iw_freq *freq, char *extra);
int cfg80211_mgd_wext_siwap(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct sockaddr *ap_addr, char *extra);
int cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwap(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct sockaddr *ap_addr, char *extra);
int cfg80211_mgd_wext_siwessid(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct iw_point *data, char *ssid);
int cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwessid(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct iw_point *data, char *ssid);
int cfg80211_wext_siwmlme(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct iw_point *data, char *extra);
int cfg80211_wext_siwgenie(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
struct iw_point *data, char *extra);
int cfg80211_wext_freq(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct iw_freq *freq);
extern const struct iw_handler_def cfg80211_wext_handler;
#endif /* __WEXT_COMPAT */
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The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would overhaul enforcement of the Clean Water Act, as lawmakers sharply criticized the agency’s decade-long lapses in punishing polluters.
At a daylong hearing before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the E.P.A. administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, said that agency officials “are falling short of this administration’s expectations for the effectiveness of our clean water enforcement programs.”
“The time is long overdue for E.P.A. to re-examine its approach to Clean Water Act enforcement,” said Ms. Jackson, who was confirmed to her position in January. She added that the agency would set strict benchmarks for state regulators, eventually compel companies to submit electronic pollution records so violations could be detected and punished more easily, and “develop more innovative approaches to target enforcement to the most serious violations and the most significant sources.”
One approach will probably include a series of enforcement actions against companies and municipalities that have violated the Clean Water Act, according to people with knowledge of the E.P.A.’s plans who were not authorized to speak publicly. |
Interlayer Excitons and Band Alignment in MoS2/hBN/WSe2 van der Waals Heterostructures.
van der Waals heterostructures (vdWH) are ideal systems for exploring light-matter interactions at the atomic scale. In particular, structures with a type-II band alignment can yield detailed insight into carrier-photon conversion processes, which are central to, for example, solar cells and light-emitting diodes. An important first step in describing such processes is to obtain the energies of the interlayer exciton states existing at the interface. Here we present a general first-principles method to compute the electronic quasi-particle (QP) band structure and excitonic binding energies of incommensurate vdWHs. The method combines our quantum electrostatic heterostructure (QEH) model for obtaining the dielectric function with the many-body GW approximation and a generalized 2D Mott-Wannier exciton model. We calculate the level alignment together with intra- and interlayer exciton binding energies of bilayer MoS2/WSe2 with and without intercalated hBN layers, finding excellent agreement with experimental photoluminescence spectra. A comparison to density functional theory calculations demonstrates the crucial role of self-energy and electron-hole interaction effects. |
It's a restless world, uncertain timesYou said hope was getting hard to findBut time rolls on, days roll byWhat about the broken ones?What about the lonely ones?Oh honey I'm having trouble letting you goIt's off in the distance somewhere up the roadThere's some easy answer for the tears you've criedAnd it makes me unhappy, makes me feel differentDo you get scared when you close your eyes? |
package org.nzbhydra.tests.pageobjects;
import org.popper.fw.webdriver.elements.impl.DefaultLink;
import org.popper.fw.webdriver.elements.impl.WebElementReference;
public class Link extends DefaultLink implements ILink {
public Link(WebElementReference reference) {
super(reference);
}
}
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import { generate } from 'genql-cli/src/main'
import fs from 'fs'
import path from 'path'
generate({
schema: fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'schema.graphql')).toString(),
output: path.join(__dirname, 'generated'),
scalarTypes: {
MongoID: 'string',
},
}).catch(console.error)
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It is known to the public that a piezoelectric device is used as an actuator. For example, a piezoelectric device has begun to be used as an actuator configured to drive a magnetic head of a hard disk drive. Normally, the head is fixed to a rotatable arm and, when the arm is rotated by a voice coil motor (VCM), the head is moved to a desired position on the disk. In recent years, in order to enhance the accuracy in positioning, a dual-stage actuator in which another accurate drive mechanism is added in the vicinity of the magnetic head separately from the VCM configured to drive the whole arm has been developed. A microactuator serving as the second stage is added to a distal end of the arm of the VCM serving as the first stage. A piezoelectric device is mounted on the suspension and, by applying a voltage to the piezoelectric device, the piezoelectric device expands or contracts to displace the magnetic head attached to the distal end of the suspension in the track direction.
Each of the piezoelectric devices varies in gain/voltage characteristics and, in order to accurately drive the actuator utilizing the piezoelectric device, it is necessary to measure the gain for each device to adjust the drive voltage. The gain of the piezoelectric device has voltage dependence, and hence it is necessary to obtain the gain by exciting the piezoelectric device by using a voltage that's actually used (on-track state). However, in general, the voltage of the on-track state is small, and hence the amplitude of the piezoelectric device is also small, and the measurement accuracy of the gain becomes poor. In order to improve the measurement accuracy, there arises the need to carry out measurement a plurality of times, and average the measurement results, and hence the overall measurement requires a lot of time.
In the conventional piezoelectric device drive apparatus, in order to compensate for the variation in gain, and improve the positioning accuracy, there has been a problem that the measurement of the gain takes a long time. |
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In this video segment I’m going to talk to you about pruning your carnivorous plants. If you want to know more about these plants you can visit us at Equilibriocarnivorousplants.com. Now one important thing to know about carnivorous plants is that just like any other plants they have leaves that grow old and die. Many people often times panic when they see their Venus Flytrap start to die, but you wan to make sure to note that these traps are really just modified leaves and when a trap dies it’s just the plant’s natural life cycle. Typically when a leaf dies, it’s because new growth has sprouted, you can see here this plant has perfectly healthy new traps even though these traps are starting to die off. Now it’s important to cut the dead leaves from your carnivorous plants for several reasons. Here we can see the Nepenthes with these dry leaves, they’re hanging and pulling down on the plant. When you trim the, you want to cut as close as you can to the dead part of the plant so that you’re eliminating as much of the dead leaf as you possibly can. We can see this also with this Sarracenia, cutting down at the base of the plant, as close to the plant as we can. Another important part of pruning your carnivorous plants is trimming the flowers of your carnivorous plants. Now it’s not always necessary to cut the flowers of you carnivorous plants especially if you’re trying to let them produce seeds, sometimes if you’re growing them outside or if these plants are growing in the wild, they have enough nutrients from insects in order to produce flowers and seeds without a problem, but sometimes when you’re growing them in cultivation they don’t quite have enough nutrients to do this, sometimes if you allow these plants to produce the flowers they can die. As you can see here, this butterwort has produced a flower and it’s now almost killed the plant. What we want to do is cut the flower as close to the base as we possibly can, trimming it as you see here and then we won’t have to worry about this plant dying due to putting too much energy into producing flowers and seeds. |
Energy Retail Company of Bashkortostan
Energy Retail Company of Bashkortostan is one of the largest electricity supply company Bashkiria.
References
External links
Official website in Russian
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Q:
Overcoming "No owner defined between domain classes" in Grails many-to-many relationship
I was following the "Grails in Action" book in order to create the following scenario.
A map belongs to one or many mapsets. A mapset can contain one or many maps. Both belong to a user.
So, what I did was:
Map.groovy:
static hasMany = [ sets : Mapset ]
static belongsTo = [ user : User, set : Mapset ]
Mapset.groovy:
static hasMany = [ maps : Map ]
static belongsTo = [ user : User ]
User.groovy:
static hasMany = [ maps : Map, sets: Mapset ]
Still, I receive this error when running the app:
Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.exceptions.GrailsDomainException: No owner defined between domain classes [class at.package.Mapset] and [class at.package.Map] in a many-to-many relationship. Example: static belongsTo = at.package.Map
It doesn't change anything if I write the fully qualified class name for Map.
A:
Whoops, this is weird. The following the trick:
In Map.groovy:
static belongsTo = [ User, Mapset ]
I'd probably keep this as an answer instead of deleting the question because there's no reference for this error message on SO yet
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Hybrid damping of smart, functionally graded plates using piezoelectric, fiber-reinforced composites.
This paper deals with the investigation of active, constrained layer damping (ACLD) of smart, functionally graded (FG) plates. The constraining layer of the ACLD treatment is considered to be made of a piezoelectric, fiber-reinforced composite (PFRC) material with enhanced effective piezoelectric coefficient that quantifies the in-plane actuating force due to the electric field applied across the thickness of the layer. The Young's modulus and the mass density of the FG plates are assumed to vary exponentially along the thickness of the plate, and the Poisson's ratio is assumed to be constant over the domain of the plate. A finite-element model has been developed to model the open-loop and closed-loop dynamics of the FG plates integrated with two patches of ACLD treatment. The frequency response of the plates revealed that the active patches of ACLD treatment significantly improve the damping characteristics of the FG plates over the passive damping. Emphasis has been placed on investigating the effect of variation of piezoelectric fiber angle in the constraining layer of the ACLD treatment on the attenuating capability of the patches. The analysis also revealed that the activated patches of the ACLD treatment are more effective in controlling the vibrations of FG plates when the patches are attached to the surface of the FG plates with minimum stiffness than when they are attached to the surface of the same with maximum stiffness. |
A novel algorithm to model the influence of host lattice flexibility in molecular dynamics simulations: loading dependence of self-diffusion in carbon nanotubes.
We describe a novel algorithm that includes the effect of host lattice flexibility into molecular dynamics simulations that use rigid lattices. It uses a Lowe-Andersen thermostat for interface-fluid collisions to take the most important aspects of flexibility into account. The same diffusivities and other properties of the flexible framework system are reproduced at a small fraction of the computational cost of an explicit simulation. We study the influence of flexibility on the self-diffusion of simple gases inside single walled carbon nanotubes. Results are shown for different guest molecules (methane, helium, and sulfur hexafluoride), temperatures, and types of carbon nanotubes. We show, surprisingly, that at low loadings flexibility is always relevant. Notably, it has a crucial influence on the diffusive dynamics of the guest molecules. |
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
struct Foo_Bar {
const int32_t *something;
};
struct Bar {
int32_t something;
struct Foo_Bar subexpressions;
};
void root(struct Bar b);
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Q:
disable interactive logon
I need to create a user for my application when deploying. I want to prevent others from loging in with this user. How do i disable the interactive logon for this user with c#?
In other words, how to set SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight for that user?
A:
The function you're looking for is LsaAddAccountRights.
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Depression and anxiety in pain clinic patients. Rapid assessment by microcomputer.
Computer administered depression and anxiety rating scales were used in a pilot study to screen patients attending a regional pain relief unit. Patients found the procedure acceptable and helpful. There was a poor correlation between the computer assessments and doctors' ratings, with in general a much greater degree of morbid depression and anxiety revealed by the computer. Computer administered rating scales may be useful as a screening tool in pain clinic patients to identify those at risk of significant psychiatric morbidity. |
Advances in microfluidic cell culture systems for studying angiogenesis.
Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels in the vasculature, is a major research topic in biology with implications in development, cancer, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. Although much knowledge has been acquired over many decades through application of various angiogenesis assays, these methods have various drawbacks that limit their overall utility. Given the importance of angiogenesis in our understanding of numerous biological processes and its potential as a therapeutic target in cancer and other diseases, there is need to develop useful tools with improved physiological relevance, accessibility, robustness, and throughput over existing assays. Recent developments in microfluidics have demonstrated enormous potential of microscale cell culture systems for biology studies, especially angiogenesis. This area is advancing rapidly, and it is important to remain up to date with the state of the art in technology and evaluate its current and future impact on angiogenesis research. This review examines the latest advances in microfluidic angiogenesis systems. Design and methodology of microscale systems are discussed, and biological insights obtained from the systems are examined. Importantly, physiological relevance, accessibility, and data output of microfluidic angiogenesis systems are compared with traditional angiogenesis assays, and next challenges facing researchers are presented with consideration of the potential integration of automated systems. |
package io.quarkus.deployment.steps;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import io.quarkus.deployment.Capabilities;
import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildStep;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.CapabilityBuildItem;
public class CapabilityAggregationStep {
@BuildStep
Capabilities build(List<CapabilityBuildItem> capabilities) throws Exception {
Set<String> present = new HashSet<>();
for (CapabilityBuildItem capability : capabilities) {
present.add(capability.getName());
}
return new Capabilities(present);
}
}
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Q:
Check if an MKAnnotation is selected on a map?
I have a really simple question: how can I check if an MKAnnotation is selected on a map?
I can't see a selected like (GET) property.
I hope the solution would not be by triggering selected/deselected events and store its result in a property and check them if I need. There must be a more straightforward one.
Thanks very much!
A:
Making use of the delegate method of MKMapView didSelectAnnotationView: use can get the event MKAnnotation Selected
-(void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView didSelectAnnotationView:(MKAnnotationView *)view {
// Annotation is your custom class that holds information about the annotation
if ([view.annotation isKindOfClass:[Annotation class]]) {
Annotation *annot = view.annotation;
NSInteger index = [self.arrayOfAnnotations indexOfObject:annot];
}
}
Hope it will help you.
A:
Check out -[MKMapView selectedAnnotations].
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#include "../../../src/xmlpatterns/parser/qtokenizer_p.h"
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Foam & latex mattresses
Find the foam or latex mattress that’s right for you
Many people like the way that a foam or latex mattress moulds itself to your body. Or the way that it absorbs the movements of a fidgety partner. Simply choose the firmness, material and price level that suits from our wide range. Soft and resilient, these mattresses spread your body weight evenly to promote restful sleep and better blood circulation. Their flexibility makes them a great fit for our adjustable, slatted bed bases. |
Coxsackieviral replication and pathogenicity: lessons from gene modified animal models.
Coxsackieviruses have been implicated in the pathogenesis of human myocarditis and some forms of dilated cardiomyopathy. A considerable portion of our knowledge about the pathophysiology of viral heart disease is derived from animal studies. In particular, investigations utilising gene-targeted mice provide valuable new insights into various aspects of viral pathogenicity and host factors involved in the control of viral replication. This review focuses on models in cell culture and transgenic animals mimicking coxsackieviral persistence, demonstrating that remarkably low persisting levels of replication-restricted coxsackieviral genomes are associated with an induction of a cytopathic effect in cardiac myocytes, leading to dilated cardiomyopathy in a transgenic mouse model. In this particular animal model, a phenotype is revealed which closely resembles the major hallmarks of human dilated cardiomyopathy. The impact of the innate immune system on coxsackieviral replication is demonstrated by studies in gene-targeted mice deficient of either type I or type II interferon signalling, which have indicated that type I but not type II interferons are essential for the control of early viral replication and survival of coxsackieviral infection. |
EMA to Pull Modified Release Paracetamol Products
Modified-release products containing paracetamol will be suspended from the market in the European Union, the European Medicines Agency announced.
EMA’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee concluded that the longer-lasting products’ advantages do not outweigh the risks posed by managing overdoses.
PRAC said there are few known practical measures for reducing the products’ risks and there is no standardized method of adapting overdose management across the EU to cover both immediate- and modified-release products. |
Wobbl3 Entertainment
Wobbl3 Entertainment is a video game developer. Wobbl3 designs immersive experiences through gameplay synchronized with music and licensing celebrity IPs. Its flagship title DubWars is a music game that combines the mechanics of a top-down shooter with Dubstep and Electronic music.
Wobbl3 Entertainment is a video game developer. Wobbl3 designs immersive experiences through gameplay synchronized with music and licensing celebrity IPs. Its flagship title DubWars is a music game that combines the mechanics of a top-down shooter wi...Show all |
Q:
Best practice for Firebase authorization persistence and API calls
I've been following a tutorial to build a full stack website using firebase, react and redux. Log in sends a call to a back end function which uses
firebase.auth().signInWithEmailAndPassword for logging in. The IdToken is passed back to the client and stored in localstorage. Authentication and state persistence then relies on the client checking if the current date is past the expiry of the JWT token. API calls to the back end cloud functions also require an Authorization header using 'Bearer {IdToken}'.
This structure is causing me lots of headaches. I've done lots of reading and my current understanding is that firebase has it's own authorization persistence (?) that I can implement directly on my front end. Then using a listener I can automatically get new Id tokens on auth state change. This would solve my problem of the tokens expiring every hour. From what I've read local storage of the tokens is also a security risk.
I'm unsure as to how that affects authorization of my function calls. Should I still use the authorization header or is there a more elegant firebase way of doing that?
A:
If you use Firebase Authentication's built-in providers, they indeed automatically persist the sign-in information information on most clients, restore it upon restart, and refresh the ID token just before it expires.
So if you use one of the standard providers, you can just get the user's ID token and then pass that to your Cloud Function.
You can even skip that step by using Callable Cloud Functions. For those, the Firebase Functions SDK passes the ID token along automatically, and the server automatically decodes and verifies it, and passes it to your code as context.auth.
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<div class="message-resign-notice">
<span
class="message-resign-notice-text"
translate-context="Info"
translate>The message signature could not be verified as the signature on the contact is invalid.</span>
<a
class="message-resign-notice-link"
href="https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/sending-a-message-using-pgppgp/"
target="_blank"
translate-context="Action"
translate>Learn more</a>
</div>
<button type="button" class="message-resign-button pm_button">
<span translate-context="Action" translate>RE-SIGN</span>
</button>
</div>
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SEATTLE—Announcing the conclusion of their landmark study, researchers from the University of Washington confirmed Tuesday that meditation can significantly reduce stress but added that they totally get it if you were just venting and weren’t actually looking for advice right now. “Based on a six-month double-blind study, we can state with a high degree of confidence that regular meditation can help reduce epinephrine and lead to decreased blood pressure, heart rate, and metabolism, but we’re not meaning to push that on you if you just needed to blow off some steam about how much you’ve got going on recently,” said lead researcher Emily Kurtz, noting that while entering a state of advanced relaxation has been shown to decrease the flow of cortisol and improve cardiovascular health, she and her fellow researchers weren’t trying to fix you or anything and understood if you just needed a sympathetic ear. “Our findings also suggest that the focused attention, deep breathing, and calm thoughts associated with meditation may even reduce the occurrence of ailments including asthma, chronic pain, and some forms of cancer, but again, maybe you’re just feeling frustrated and aren’t looking for a laundry list of self-improvement techniques, so we just wanted to mention our conclusions and we’ll leave it there.” Kurtz added that their research had also uncovered significant health risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle, but they could wait to talk about that until you were in a better mood.
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Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a linear actuator, and more particularly to a linear actuator improving the offset in a linear movement.
Description of Related Art
With respect to the ACME screw and ball screw transmission, the rotary motion is conversed into linear motion by rotating the nut disposed on the screw. However, the inaccuracy during the conversion may occur due to the process capability, and the tolerances of geometry, size and linearity.
In order to enhance the accuracy, the WO2014092255 patent disclosed a tube holds a positioned linear bearing to support the inner tube and guide the linear motion thereof. In addition, it also disclosed a non-circular restricting unit disposed on the inner tube and reciprocating along the inner tube thereby restricting the rotation between the inner tube and the outer tube.
Although the above conventional technology can provide the support and guide during the linear motion to prevent from unnecessary rotation, the offset compensated by the gap between ball and the ball retainer of the linear bearing is too limited to improve the accuracy during the linear motion. |
Tower defense may be the most overpopulated genre on iOS today, but there's good reason for that. They're simple to develop, and although the App Store has plenty of 'em, they're still really fun. To separate themselves from the herd, Backflip Studios is tying theirs into cult-classic film Army of Darkness.
Back in March we reported on the announcement of an officially licensed iPhone game based on the legendary cult-classic Army of Darkness. Today that game arrived in the New Zealand App Store which means there's a very high liklihood the game will be arriving in App Stores around the world in the coming hours. |
A comparison of alternative plant mixes for conservation bio-control by native beneficial arthropods in vegetable cropping systems in Queensland Australia.
Cucurbit crops host a range of serious sap-sucking insect pests, including silverleaf whitefly (SLW) and aphids, which potentially represent considerable risk to the Australian horticulture industry. These pests are extremely polyphagous with a wide host range. Chemical control is made difficult due to resistance and pollution, and other side-effects are associated with insecticide use. Consequently, there is much interest in maximising the role of biological control in the management of these sap-sucking insect pests. This study aimed to evaluate companion cropping alongside cucurbit crops in a tropical setting as a means to increase the populations of beneficial insects and spiders so as to control the major sap-sucking insect pests. The population of beneficial and harmful insects, with a focus on SLW and aphids, and other invertebrates were sampled weekly on four different crops which could be used for habitat manipulation: Goodbug Mix (GBM; a proprietary seed mixture including self-sowing annual and perennial herbaceous flower species); lablab (Lablab purpureus L. Sweet); lucerne (Medicago sativa L.); and niger (Guizotia abyssinica (L.f.) Cass.). Lablab hosted the highest numbers of beneficial insects (larvae and adults of lacewing (Mallada signata (Schneider)), ladybird beetles (Coccinella transversalis Fabricius) and spiders) while GBM hosted the highest numbers of European bees (Apis mellifera Linnaeus) and spiders. Lucerne and niger showed little promise in hosting beneficial insects, but lucerne hosted significantly more spiders (double the numbers) than niger. Lucerne hosted sig-nificantly more of the harmful insect species of aphids (Aphis gossypii (Glover)) and Myzus persicae (Sulzer)) and heliothis (Heliothis armigera Hübner). Niger hosted significantly more vegetable weevils (Listroderes difficillis (Germar)) than the other three species. Therefore, lablab and GBM appear to be viable options to grow within cucurbits or as field boundary crops to attract and increase beneficial insects and spiders for the control of sap-sucking insect pests. Use of these bio-control strategies affords the opportunity to minimise pesticide usage and the risks associated with pollution. |
Shifting income sources of the aged.
Traditional defined benefit pensions, once a major source of retirement income, are increasingly giving way to tax-qualified defined contribution (DC) plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs). This trend is likely to continue among future retirees who have worked in the private sector. This article discusses the implications of those trends for the measurement of retirement income. We conclude that Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS), one of the primary sources of income data, greatly underreports distributions from DC plans and IRAs, posing an increasing problem for measuring retirement income in the future. The CPS and other data sources need to revise their measures of retirement income to account for periodic (irregular) distributions from DC plans and IRAs. |
Category Archives: Preparation
So, you’ve had that call, and you have time, maybe a day, to prepare. What to do? Many teachers experience feelings of stress on supply, especially if it’s going to be their first day in a new school.
Here are some practical ideas to help your day run more smoothly, and to keep you busy while waiting to set off:
Do you know where the school is? If not, take time to go there. It really does save a lot of anxiety on the morning of the supply day.
Save the school’s telephone number on your mobile phone. You never know what’s going to happen that morning. Traffic, transport etc. and I’ve actually had to call the school once to ask them to let me in as no-one was answering the door!
Get your clothes and lunch ready the night before. And then set two alarms.
Get your bag ready. Include chocolate, a couple of bottles of water, half a dozen pencils and your trainers. Read Sarah’s article ‘What’s in your supply bag?‘ for more ideas.
Have in mind how you are going to introduce yourself to the children, giving them your name and your expectations for the day.
Be prepared to be faced with no planning. This should not happen if you have been pre-booked, but unfortunately sometimes it does. In which case, as long as you identify one literacy lesson, one numeracy lesson, one foundation lesson (don’t assume you’ll be let loose in the hall for gymnastics or in the ICT suite!) and one time-filler (circle time, personal research into their geography topic, etc.) which you can deliver with few resources, you’ll do okay! If there is planning, don’t enforce your own planning.
Take time to learn the names of the Head Teacher, Deputy Head, Class Teacher you are covering and the Secretary etc., perhaps from the school website.
Tips and hints on how to make the most of the time you have before you arrive at school.
If you have any other ideas you would like to add to this list, please contact us. |
Q:
Changing a TextView in another class from a Service
I have two classes, one is a standard activity, the other a service. I would like the service to update a TextView (via .setText()) of the Activity on certain events that happen within the service.
I've tried to achieve this by programming something like a setter-method inside the Activity-Class, but TextViews don't accept a static-reference, and when I try invoking an instance of the Activity-class instead (via MyActivityClassName aVariable = new MyActivityClassName();), I get a NullPointer Exception, even though the View in questions is visible at the time of the call.
Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong :-)? It is probably more of a basic Java question than an Android-one, but since it might have to do with the nature of Android-services, I've still added the android-tag.
Thanks for your help!
A:
I would like the service to update a
TextView (via .setText) of the
Activity on certain events that happen
within the service.
I would strongly recommend greater logical decoupling. Have the Service tell the Activity to update the TextView.
You can do that via a broadcast Intent, or by having the Activity provide a listener object that the Service calls. In either case, be sure the Activity detaches from the service (unregisters the listener or broadcast Intent receiver), lest you cause a memory leak.
And, of course, this only works if the activity is actually running.
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"Do you get it? Are you going to straighten up? Because I'm not playing with you today. Do you understand," the officer asks. "Now, we're going to get up and you're not going to do anything stupid again." |
Concise total synthesis of spirocurcasone.
A concise total synthesis of spirocurcasone was accomplished. Key features of the synthesis involved a vinylogous Mukaiyama aldol reaction, a Carroll rearrangement of β-keto allyl ester derivative, an intramolecular aldol condensation, and a spiro ring formation by ring-closing metathesis of the pentaene compound. This synthetic work was complete in nine steps from (S)- or (R)-perillaldehyde without the use of protecting groups. Interestingly, the optical rotation of the synthetic spirocurcasone was different from the reported value of the natural product. |
Q:
Case statement evaluating class not working as expected
I have some logic in my Rails application that checks the class type of my current_user variable:
logger.debug current_user.class # => Instructor
logger.debug current_user.class == Instructor # => true
case current_user.class
when Admin
logger.debug "Admin"
when Student
logger.debug "Student"
when Instructor
logger.debug "Instructor"
else
logger.debug "Guest"
end #=> "Guest"
Despite Instructor being the class type (as indicated in comments) it seems the case statement always evaluates the else fall-back. Can somebody explain why? Just to give a little background, I'm implementing an STI user model setup using Devise.
A:
It's case curent_user not current_user.class.
Your case statement is cross checking the class of current_user.class which is Object which falls through your case statement.
Secondly, please note that instead of the case you could have done:
logger.debug current_user.class.name
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using System;
using System.Reflection;
namespace AutoCSer.Sql
{
/// <summary>
/// SQL 数据库连接信息
/// </summary>
public sealed unsafe class Connection
{
/// <summary>
/// 连接字符串
/// </summary>
public string ConnectionString;
/// <summary>
/// 数据库表格所有者
/// </summary>
public string Owner = "dbo";
/// <summary>
/// SQL 客户端类型默认配置信息
/// </summary>
public ClientKindAttribute Attribute;
/// <summary>
/// SQL 客户端类型默认配置信息
/// </summary>
internal ClientKindAttribute ClientAttribute
{
get
{
if (Attribute == null)
{
if (Type != ClientKind.ThirdParty) Attribute = EnumAttribute<ClientKind, ClientKindAttribute>.Array((byte)Type) ?? EnumAttribute<ClientKind, ClientKindAttribute>.Array((byte)ClientKind.Sql2000);
}
return Attribute;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// SQL 客户端
/// </summary>
private Client client;
/// <summary>
/// SQL 客户端
/// </summary>
public Client Client
{
get
{
if (client == null)
{
client = (Client)ClientAttribute.ClientType.GetConstructor(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance, null, new Type[] { typeof(Connection) }, null).Invoke(new object[] { this });
}
return client;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// 日志处理
/// </summary>
public AutoCSer.Log.ILog Log;
/// <summary>
/// SQL 客户端类型
/// </summary>
public ClientKind Type;
/// <summary>
/// 是否启用连接池
/// </summary>
public bool IsPool = true;
/// <summary>
/// 连接集合
/// </summary>
private static readonly AutoCSer.Threading.LockEquatableLastDictionary<HashString, Connection> connections = new AutoCSer.Threading.LockEquatableLastDictionary<HashString, Connection>();
/// <summary>
/// 根据连接类型获取连接信息
/// </summary>
/// <param name="type">连接类型</param>
/// <returns>连接信息</returns>
internal static Connection GetConnection(string type)
{
if (type != null)
{
Connection value;
HashString key = type;
if (!connections.TryGetValue(ref key, out value)) connections.Set(ref key, value = ConfigLoader.GetUnion(typeof(Connection), type).Connection ?? new Connection());
return value;
}
return null;
}
}
}
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The pregnant woman with a myocardial infarction: nursing diagnosis.
Critical care nurses in emergency, cardiac, or medical intensive care units may care for women who have experienced a myocardial infarction during pregnancy. Nursing management of the pregnant patient with a myocardial infarction (MI) requires an understanding of the normal physiology of pregnancy, the deviations from health with an MI, and an ability to integrate this knowledge to provide skillful care to unique and very ill patients. Here the authors describe caring for a pregnant patient in cardiac care, while a later article in this tissue focuses on the critical care nurse's role in teaching obstetric nurses arrhythmia interpretation when the patient remains on an obstetric unit. Collaboration between the critical care nurse and obstetric nurse is essential to care for these complex patients. |
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Written by Charlotte Botham “Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.” – Shawn Ashmore Everyone has their own style and show it through what they wear or perhaps through their home interiors. People decorate their homes differently – maybe each room is a different colour,…
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Q:
Complex Delete SQL Statement
Why do delete statements have limitations beyond their select counterparts?
I am not stuck because the problem was easy enough to work around but I'd rather fix my understanding than continue using workarounds.
Case in point, I have an undirected, edge list with fields, V1 and V2. Unfortunately, when creating the table, I introduced duplicates (i.e. V1 -> V2 and V2 -> V1). To identify the dups, I ran the query:
SELECT t1.V1, t1.V2
FROM table t1
WHERE t1.V1 > t1.V2
and EXISTS (
SELECT *
FROM table t2
WHERE t2.V1 = t1.V2
and t2.V2 = t1.V1 )
since this returned a nice set of rows from the table, I thought I should be able to replace the select line with delete and rerun the same query. Sql server however, got mad and gave me red letters instead. Once about syntax and after a tweak, something about binding multipart identifiers.
I managed to store the select in a table variable and get the delete done - which is ok, but what was wrong with my original approach and could I have done it with a single SQL statement?
A:
SQL Server is fairly flexible with delete. The double from syntax is allowed pretty much wherever select is:
DELETE FROM t1
FROM table t1
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Every partner will provide "end-to-end" services like integration, launch and operations. And while each of the companies has proposed flying particular equipment, NASA will decide the exact payloads for each flight before the end of the summer. The possible devices will cover everything from general science through to human landing-oriented tasks like identifying the lander position and studying lunar radiation.
These are "just the beginning" of NASA's private partnerships, the administration's Thomas Zurbuchen said. There are already more on deck, with private spaceflight companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX currently competing for the chance to build NASA's crewed lunar lander. It's far too soon to know how well this will work, of course, but it's safe to say this corporate-focused approach is a sharp contrast to the Apollo landings from half a century ago. |
The present invention relates generally to high speed container placement apparatus and more particularly to a high speed container apparatus for use in combination with filling equipment to achieve accurate net weight product filling of the containers.
Government regulations require that the average actual net weight of package or containerized consumer products, such as instant coffee, be equal to or above the labelled net weight of the products. To keep abreast of the demand for their products, manufacturers must utilize high speed filling machines which move the containers at constant speeds. Since only volumetric dispensing devices can be used to fill moving containers and the labelled net weight must be close to the actual net weight even when the dispensed volume or the product density are at their lowest levels, the manufacturers often overfill containers with considerable amounts of product as fluctuations in the density of the product and the dispensing volumes occur.
To eliminate such inaccuracies, the product should be dispensed by weight into the containers; however, accurate weighing requires a low rate of product flow which, in turn, requires long filling cycles. Ideally, to keep the length of filling time to a minimum, the containers can be first underfilled with the bulk of a product from a volumetric filling machine. Thereafter, these underfilled containers can be topped off with a small amount of product to bring the actual net weight to the labelled net weight in fairly short time cycle, e.g., under two seconds, utilizing low product flow in a machine dispensing by weight.
Since weight dispensing devices cannot travel at high speeds and maintain their accuracy utilizing the desirable low product flow rate, it is necessary to perform the top-off dispensing operation from the stationary dispensing devices. This permits an unimpeded flow of product into the stationary dispensing device as well as accurate weight control. With the containers travelling at a desired line speed, the containers must be decelerated to a stop underneath the dispensing device for the period of time necessary for the filling operation to be performed at a low rate of product flow and accelerated to restore them to their normal rate of line speed.
The conventional means employed to perform these deceleration/acceleration steps utilizes a reciprocating mechanism to position the containers under stationary dispensing devices and return them to the conveyor line. However, these mechanisms are incapable of operating in connection with the high line speeds, even if they handle several containers simultaneously, since the mechanisms are large, bulky and require several time-consuming movements for proper positioning and removal of the containers in relation to the dispensing devices.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel container placement device for use in conjunction with filling devices which dispense product within a very close tolerance of a desired weight.
A further object is to provide such device which decelerates the containers to a stop from a high line speed for the filling operation and accelerates them afterwards to the full line speed.
It is also an object to automatically handle each container on an individual basis to insure accurate filling by weight thereof.
Still another object is to provide such a device which may be readily fabricated and will enjoy a long life in operation. |
Feature: This machine adopts pneumatic, mechanical, electrical combination, to achieve the clip, heating, molding and other automatic work. High production efficiency, easy to operate.Easy to feed material and less waste of material.Suitable for male punch molding and high-depth products molding in stability quality.Newest style of far infrared heating element heater with automatic temperature control, evenly heated and low energy consumption.With air cooling and automized water spray to make the products cooled fast and molding well to reduce defective products.Electric control to make the operation more simplify and conveniece and can adapt to different positions of different angles of operation.The height of the upper mould adopts the limit adjustment of the motor, so that the adjustment is convenient and quick. |
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Mints and menthols are integral ingredients used in many personal and health care products, foods and beverages. Kancor is committed to providing unique, quality mint and menthol solutions to its customers. |
Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series. The only relevant comparison that I see between your campaign and Friday Night Lights is in the character of Buddy Garrity — who turned his back on American car manufacturers selling imported cars from Japan.
Fun twist: Buzz Bissinger, who wrote the book on which Berg's movie and TV series are based, is a Romney supporter. |
Magneto-optic dynamics in a ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystal.
We investigate dynamic magneto-optic effects in a ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystal experimentally and theoretically. Experimentally we measure the magnetization and the phase difference of the transmitted light when an external magnetic field is applied. As a model we study the coupled dynamics of the magnetization, M, and the director field, n, associated with the liquid crystalline orientational order. We demonstrate that the experimentally studied macroscopic dynamic behavior reveals the importance of a dynamic cross-coupling between M and n. The experimental data are used to extract the value of the dissipative cross-coupling coefficient. We also make concrete predictions about how reversible cross-coupling terms between the magnetization and the director could be detected experimentally by measurements of the transmitted light intensity as well as by analyzing the azimuthal angle of the magnetization and the director out of the plane spanned by the anchoring axis and the external magnetic field. We derive the eigenmodes of the coupled system and study their relaxation rates. We show that in the usual experimental setup used for measuring the relaxation rates of the splay-bend or twist-bend eigenmodes of a nematic liquid crystal one expects for a ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystal a mixture of at least two eigenmodes. |
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In application server and other enterprise computing environments, a common task for an administrator is the need to patch a series of application server installations supporting multiple domains. A patch may include a one-off fix for a specific problems, or a periodic version update. Regardless of why the patch needs to be installed, the administrator must generally perform a complex series of steps on each node of the domain in order to rollout the patch while minimizing application downtime, including ensuring the patching environment is up to date on each host; shutting down those servers running on the host; and then patching and restarting the application server instances and verifying the patch works correctly. Since patching is a complex process, and even for a single application server instance can take many minutes, which can become hours when a patch is applied to all nodes in a domain, the process can create anxiety for users who risk the possibility of system downtime. |
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