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The present invention relates generally to a conveying apparatus, annd more particularly to an apparatus for conveying particulate material. Still more particularly the invention relates to an apparatus for conveying particulate material which are of such type that they will pass on mechanical energy transmitted to them in forward direction with minimum loss.
Certain materials, for instance metal cuttings which originate in chip-removing machine tools, can be conveyed by subjecting them to energy which causes a certain amount of compression but which is then not further dissipated. In other words, after undergoing a certain amount of compression, such material will then advance (in the direction in which the energy acts) essentially in the manner of a solid body, without energy losses. Another type of material meeting this qualification is sludge which, just like a liquid, tends to convey energy transmitted to it in all directions but has a preferred energy transmission direction in a forward sense, that is in the direction in which the energy acts.
Other materials, for which the apparatus according to the present invention is not suitable and which are mentioned herein in order to make a clear distinction, include for example sand. If sand has energy supplied to it, in the sense of pressure trying to urge it in certain in a the sand will become compressed but will thereafter not pass on the energy in the direction in which it acts, but instead will become increasingly compacted.
With this in mind it is pointed out that the prior art has long known screw conveyors utilizing a pipe in which a worm screw rotates. The interior surface of the pipe is usually so profiled that the material conveyed by the screw is prevented from rotating with the latter in the pipe, and is constrained largely to advance only in the direction of rotation of the pipe. That is, the screw rotates with reference to the pipe as well as with reference to the materials being conveyed. This causes the material to slide forwardly through the pipe within the slides of the screw thread and thereby to be conveyed. A problem with conventional screw conveyors is that the screw must extend over substantially the entire length of the pipe through which material is to be conveyed by it, because the screw produces only minimal compression of the material being conveyed and must therefore be present at all points at which a conveying action is required. Of course, there are many instances in which it is possible to install, the result being that the application of screw conveyors is strictly limited by this factor. |
feminism, motherhood, writing
You can trust the Daily Mail to be the champion of the downtrodden worker, fearlessly challenging privilege wherever it may be found. Today, it’s the turn of lower-paid staff on the BBC’s Today programme to benefit from the paper’s razor-sharp analysis of injustice.
Why, it is asked, should “rank-and-file” workers bear the cost of vast pay increases to female presenters, intended to “close the show’s gender pay gap”? Since reducing the pay of male presenters such as John Humphrys and Nick Robinson is apparently unthinkable, shouldn’t we be asking whether an “outrageous growth” in pay for their female peers is at all wise?
After all, while sexism isn’t particularly pleasant, partial equality isn’t equality at all. When the gap between rich and poor grows ever wider, why worry about whether women at the top are receiving less than their male counterparts? You can make a tiny minority of women as overpaid as a tiny minority of men – but doesn’t that still leave the most basic injustice intact? |
from pybrain.structure.connections.full import FullConnection
from pybrain.structure.connections.identity import IdentityConnection
from pybrain.structure.connections.shared import SharedFullConnection, MotherConnection, SharedConnection
from pybrain.structure.connections.linear import LinearConnection
from pybrain.structure.connections.fullnotself import FullNotSelfConnection |
This invention relates to a portable device for generating a current in a vessel containing fluid. More specifically, this invention provides an exercise or recreational device for swimming pool use.
Swimming pools installed in or on the grounds of private property owners are generally too small in size for purposes of enabling a user to perform long distance lap swimming. Larger sized pools suitable for long distance lap swimming are expensive to build and maintain. There is a need to convert smaller, inexpensive pools into usage for long distance swimming. Prior devices have been proposed which generate a continuous end-to-end current in a small sized tank against which a swimmer can swim in one relatively stationary place. Such devices are, however, difficult and expensive to manufacture, and comprise a current generating device integral with the swimming pool.
So-called portable current-generating devices typically require support members and mounting hardware. Such a device requires the user to first install it in a pool before it can operate to generate a current. Installation can be cumbersome, and typically requires the use of tools and hardware. Depending upon the size and weight of the unit, installation often requires the efforts of more than one person. Because such an operation takes considerable time and effort, the device is typically left in place in its installed position, in effect becoming a permanent fixture in a swimming pool and detracting from the overall size of the pool.
The present invention provides a portable device for generating a current in a vessel containing a fluid. The device includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet, and a motor attached to the housing. A propeller, driven by the motor, is positioned in the housing. A float is attached to the housing to create a buoyant force sufficient to keep the portable device afloat in the fluid. Fluid is drawn into the housing through the inlet side and forced out of the housing through the outlet side to generate the current in the vessel.
A further embodiment of the present invention provides a portable device for generating a current in a swimming pool containing water. The device includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet. A propeller, driven by a motor, is positioned in the housing. A float is attached to the housing to create a buoyant force sufficient to keep the portable device afloat in the water. Water is drawn into the housing through the inlet side and forced out of the housing through the outlet side to generate the current in the swimming pool. The buoyant force of the float and the rotation of the propeller stabilize the portable device in the water by positioning the portable device adjacent a side-wall of the swimming pool.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides a method of swimming in a pool against a current. The method includes placing a floating current-generating device into the pool, allowing the floating device to move in the pool to a stabilized position adjacent a side-wall of the pool, and swimming against the current in front of the device. |
The military power should become a factor of Europe’s foreign policy, Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev said in a speech during the opening of the public discussion in Sofia named Together in Security-Bulgaria’s Role in the Common European Defense.
Years ago the military power was viewed within the perspective of guaranteeing the security of the European citizens through neutralizing the threats. Today, the European leaders view military power as a new impetus for the integration of Europe, Bulgaria’s head of state pointed out.
You can not be a factor without your own defense industry
, President Radev commented in relation with the issue regarding the strong fragmentation of the EU defense industry. |
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css rollovers not working in opera
well, I'm still working on getting my interface to look the same in the big three browsers for the pc (opera, mozilla, IE), and I'm sorry in advance if that sets off a debate. I'm working on a few float, clear, and margin issues for now, but the most baffling problem is my css rollovers in opera. Take a look at the left ones, they just don't work. There is no :hover state on the nav bar on the left (x450, x445, x440, etc), and nothing even comes up in the status bar. It would be like the link doesn't exist, but looking at the links via the view menu (Ctrl+J), you see that the browser does detect it. Why? The links work great in IE and Mozilla, but not in Opera. |
Q:
@SerializedName("home") is it invalid annotation in order to implement parcelable
I am using Retrofit and have many pojo class according to json. Since I am Using Gson parsing I need to use:
@SerializedName("home")
private List<Home> home = new ArrayList<>();
@SerializedName("away")
private List<Away> Away= new ArrayList<>();
public List<Home> getHome() {
return home;
}
Now I want to implement Parcelable in all pojo class.
I am not very sure will @serialized name annotation use java serialization or just a name check annotation?
Will it add any runtime exceptions while unmarshalling in parcel?
A:
There's no problem with SerializedName and Parcelable.
SerializedName is a GSON annotation for specifying JSON property names and has really nothing to do with Java serialization.
When you implement Parcelable, you write the marshal/unmarshal code yourself (or generate it yourself) and no reflection or annotation lookup needs to happen at runtime.
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Blood groups of crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) demonstrated by isoimmune rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) sera.
Twenty-one isoimmune sera produced in rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) containing type-specific antibodies for simian-type red cell antigens were tested for their cross-reactivity with red cells from crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis). The majority of the antisera gave cross-reactions determining polymorphisms in the red cells of crab-eating macaques, homologous to those of rhesus monkeys. These results attest to the close taxonomic realationship between the two species of macaques, and have the practical implication that isoimmune sera produced for blood typing can also be used for typing red cells from related species, as has been also observed in studies on apes. |
Bloomberg
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May Attacks `Unacceptable' Excess in U.K. Corporate Crackdown
(Bloomberg) -- Theresa May attacked highly paid U.K. executives as the “unacceptable face of capitalism” in an article she wrote for the Mail on Sunday as part of her crackdown on corporate governance.
“A minority of firms are falling short of the high standards we expect of them. Some have deliberately broken rules that are designed to protect their workers,” the U.K. prime minister wrote in the newspaper. “Others have ignored the concerns of their shareholders by awarding pay rises to bosses that far outstrip the company’s performance.”
The names of firms that have faced shareholder protests about salaries will be published on a new register by the end of the year, she wrote. Other measures will be announced this week. Excess risks undermining public confidence and “damaging the social fabric” of the nation, May wrote.
While the prime minister came to power last year promising to rewrite the rules of capitalism, her plans have been scaled back after she lost her parliamentary majority in the June general election she called. Workers’ voices should be “properly heard” in the boardroom, May wrote, a step back from an earlier pledge to ensure employees are represented on boards.
“This is not the end of the road,” May wrote. “We will monitor closely how business reacts to these measures, and the others that we will announce later this week. If we do not see sufficient progress, we reserve the right to take further steps.” |
Molecular features of primary MDS with cytogenetic changes.
Cytogenetic changes in primary myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) have been extremely useful to identify clonality and to define specific clinico-pathological entities. More recently, with the development of DNA technology, a bulk of new information has been added to classical cytogenetics. Genes corresponding to chromosomal breakpoints implicated in reciprocal translocations have been cloned. Search for the minimal lost region has been the aim of the so-called deletion mapping approach to pick up the hypothetical suppressor gene(s) critical for typical deletions of MDS. Correlation has been found between gene mutations, deletions, expression, and clinical-hematological or cytogenetic features of MDS. Integration of fluorescence in situ hybridization at DNA level and of immunophenotyping at cellular level is an elegant tool to investigate clonal affiliation in MDS with distinct genetic changes. |
Q:
how to set layout in landscape mode in android?
I want my app support portrait and landscape mode, and I create a landscape mode based on portrait mode, but I can't modify the items in the landscape mode. How to make the description textview close to the picture?
A:
You need to create layout file with the same name as your existing file and override orientation qualifier:
Then you can work with you land file.
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[Effect of hyperthyreosis on the concentration of antioxidative vitamins and microelements].
In the course of hyperthyreosis reactive oxygen production increases and oxidative stress develops. The consequences of oxidative stress comprise disturbances in balance of pro- and antioxidative agents, including changes in concentration of antioxidative vitamins and microelements. Although the results of published studies concerning changes of concentrations of vitamins and microelements in hyperthyreosis are contradictory, most frequently a decrease of zinc and magnesium concentrations was observed. |
Q:
Isn't maven-deploy-plugin aware of the pom in which I declared it as a build plugin?
I have a maven project. In the pom I declared the group id, artifact id, version.
I declared for maven-deploy-plugin as a build plugin, with goal of deploy:deploy-file.
Then I launched maven from eclipse with the same goal, wuth -Durl declared as jvm arg.
Maven build fails saying I did not supply groupid, artifactid, package, file not defined.
Why doesn't it get those values from the pom?
There must be a way ti tell the plugin to use the pom values, right? Because the maven people certainly believe in DIE-DRY - duplication is evil, don't repeat yourself? Otherwise, I could create an artefact distribution that contradicts its pom?
Why, doesn't the plugin know I wish to deploy the project, including the source and not just a single jar or pom?
Why, doesn't the plugin know it should just look at the pom artifactid declaration to get the groupid and artifactid.
Rant:
If these features are missing, though I strongly hope they are not mmissing - Why, doesn't the plugin developer feel these are important features?
A:
The goal deploy:deploy-file is used to deploy artifacts, that were not built by maven, that is why you have to specify the parameters.
To deploy an artifact, that was built by maven (a normal maven project), you should only use the deploy goal and specify the target repository in your pom.xml with the distributionManagement element, like this:
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion>
<id>corp1</id>
<name>Corporate Repository</name>
<url>file:///home/myfolder/.m2</url>
<layout>default</layout>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
Then you can just call mvn deploy in your project root.
That would be the default maven way to deploy your projects to another maven repository.
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Q:
Updating UITableViewCell dynamically
How can one change the textLabel or the detailTextLabel of a specific UITableViewCell dynamically?
Basically, I am downloading a set of files from the internet whenever the user taps on a cell. Now instead of the progress indicator, I would like to display the name of the file currently being downloaded. I would like to keep updating the detailTextLabel to show the (current) filenames until all the files are downloaded.
A:
Assuming you're in a method like tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: (or have another way to get the index path to the cell), you can do something like this:
UITableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
UILabel *label = nil;
for(UIView *subview in cell.contentView.subviews) {
if([subview isKindOf:[UILabel class]]) {
label = (UILabel*)subview;
break;
}
}
if(label)
label.text = @"New text";
This will find the first UILabel in the cell, and may not work if your cell has more than one label. A more robust way to do it is to set the tag of the label when you create the cell (this can be done in Interface Builder or in code). Then you can find the label like this:
UITableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
UILabel *label = nil;
for(UIView *subview in cell.contentView.subviews) {
if([subview isKindOf:[UILabel class]] && [subview tag] == kDetailLabelTag) {
label = (UILabel*)subview;
break;
}
}
if(label)
label.text = @"New text";
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Transformation of the oomycete pathogen, Phytophthora infestans.
A stable transformation procedure has been developed for Phytophthora infestans, an oomycete fungus that causes the late blight diseases of potato and tomato. This is the first description of reliable methods for transformation in an oomycete pathogen. Drug-resistant transformants were obtained by using vectors that contained bacterial genes for resistance to hygromycin B or G418 fused to promoters and terminators from the Hsp70 and Ham34 genes of the oomycete, Bremia lactucae. Using polyethylene glycol and CaCl2, vector DNA was introduced into protoplasts as a complex with cationic liposomes or with carrier DNA only. Transformants were obtained at similar frequencies with each combination of promoter and selectable marker and were confirmed by DNA and RNA hybridization and phosphotransferase assays. Transformation occurred through the integration of single or tandemly repeated copies of the plasmids into genomic DNA, conferring mitotically stable drug-resistant phenotypes. The sizes of the marker gene mRNAs in each transformant and the results of transcript mapping studies were consistent with the function of the B. lactucae regulatory sequences in P. infestans. A hygromycin-resistant transformant was tested and found to maintain pathogenicity, indicating that the gene transfer procedure will be useful for the molecular analysis of genes relevant to disease. |
Ne yaptığını sanıyorsun sen?
Ben...
Ben buradan gidiyorum.
Yaptığım şey bu.
Birşeyler yanlış, kuyunun burada olması gerekmiyor muydu?
Burada hiçbirşey yoktur.
Burası bu dünyanın boş parçası.
Bunların hepsini seni etkilemek için yaptı.
Ama neden?
Neden beni istiyor?
O sevecek bir şey istiyor, galiba.
Onun olmayan bir şeyi.
Veya belki de.
Sadece yiyecek bir şeylerin olmasını seviyor.
Yemek mi?
Bu çok saçma.
Anneler kızlarını yemez.
Bilemiyorum.
Tadın nasıl?
Ama, nasıl uzaklaştığın bir şeye geri dönebilirsin ki?
Dünyanın etrafında döndün çünkü.
Minik dünya.
Bekle.
Dur! O bir gösteri faresi.
Zaten farelerden hoşlanmam.
Ama bu, bizi ispiyonlayacak idi.
Zeki kedi.
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Bifunctional combined aptamer for simultaneous separation and detection of thrombin.
Here we report on the construction and evaluation of a bifunctional combined aptamer (BCA) that consists of a DNA streptavidin-binding aptamer (SBA), a DNA thrombin-binding aptamer (TBA) and a fluorophore. The BCA adopts a new conformation that is very different from simply linking the conformations of the two individual aptamers together, so that it does not bind to streptavidin in the absence of thrombin. Binding of this novel DNA aptamer to streptavidin is triggered by the thrombin binding and depends on the concentration of thrombin. Meanwhile, fluorescence from the streptavidin captured BCA reflects the quantity of the target molecule in the sample. This aptamer combination strategy based on the SBA holds good potential for applications in simultaneous detection and separation of targets of aptamers or certain DNA and RNA targets. |
Effect of histamine in sinus node arrested with reserpine.
Histamine restored spontaneous activity in the isolated rabbit sinus node arrested with reserpine. This fact suggests that catecholamines are not the unique activators of adenylate cyclase required for cardiac pacemaking, and may be replaced by histamine. |
CONFIG_SPL=y
CONFIG_TPL=y
CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS="P1020RDB_PC,36BIT,NAND"
+ST:CONFIG_PPC=y
+ST:CONFIG_MPC85xx=y
+ST:CONFIG_TARGET_P1_P2_RDB_PC=y
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I have a curved pipe with a half circular cross-section with a symmetry plane defined in the plane of the curvature. The y-direction is normal to the symmetry boundary and as expected the nodal values of the v-component of velocity are zero at the symmetry boundary. Strangely, the velocity gradient dv/dy does not equal to zero at the cell-center or nodal locations on the symmetry boundary. In addition, the pressure gradients are zero in the symmetry plane. Based on the description in the Fluent manual I expected the gradients d/dy to also be zero.
I have a curved pipe with a half circular cross-section with a symmetry plane defined in the plane of the curvature. The y-direction is normal to the symmetry boundary and as expected the nodal values of the v-component of velocity are zero at the symmetry boundary. Strangely, the velocity gradient dv/dy does not equal to zero at the cell-center or nodal locations on the symmetry boundary. In addition, the pressure gradients are zero in the symmetry plane. Based on the description in the Fluent manual I expected the gradients d/dy to also be zero.
The secondary flow structure has been shown in the literature to be symmetric across the horizontal centerline (from the inner wall to the outer wall) of the pipe cross-section. This is why I used the symmetry plane along the horizontal centerline. The results show the expected secondary flow structure within the cross-section when I use the symmetry plane but the velocity gradients at the symmetry plane are not zero for some reason. |
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson insisted on Wednesday that he has "never considered leaving" his job and is committed to President Donald Trump's foreign policy goals.
Tillerson spoke at a hastily scheduled news conference after NBC News reported that he came close to resigning this summer but was urged to stay in the job until the end of the year. Citing multiple high-level administration sources, NBC said he referred to Trump as a "moron" in July following a meeting with the president's national security team.
"There has never been a consideration in my mind to leave," the top American diplomat told reporters Wednesday. "I serve at the appointment of the president, and I am here for as long as the president feels I can be useful to achieving his objectives."
Asked specifically whether he called Trump a "moron," Tillerson stopped short of denying it.
"I'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that," he said. "I'm not going to be part of this effort to divide this administration."
NBC's report included a denial from a State Department spokesman about the purported "moron" comment. The spokesman also denied to NBC that the secretary considered resigning over the summer.
Later Wednesday, Trump told reporters he had "total confidence" in Tillerson. He said he was "honored" by the secretary's comments and accused NBC of making up the report.
NBC has stood by its reporting.
Shortly before Tillerson spoke, Trump called the network "fake news" and said "they are a disgrace to good reporting." In a follow-up tweet, the president said the story "has just been totally refuted" by Tillerson and Vice President Mike Pence. During the summer, Pence gave Tillerson advice on how to ease tensions with Trump, NBC reported.
Trump: The @NBCNews story has just been totally refuted by Sec. Tillerson and @VP Pence. It is #FakeNews. They should issue an apology to AMERICA!
Despite Tillerson's comments, one widely followed analyst described the secretary's relationship with Trump as "fundamentally broken."
"This is not going to sit well with Trump," said the analyst, Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group. "He's not going to forget about this. Once you've broken that relationship, getting it back is really hard."
Since Tillerson took the post in February, mixed messages repeatedly have come out of the White House and a State Department with diminishing relevance. The apparent strain between the president and secretary of State comes amid major international crises, including a potential nuclear showdown with North Korea.
On Saturday, Tillerson said the U.S. had reached out to Pyongyang in an attempt to de-escalate tensions over its missile tests and nuclear explosions. But on Sunday, Trump tweeted that Tillerson is "wasting his time" trying to negotiate with North Korea.
The president wrote: "Save your energy, Rex, we'll do what has to be done!"
Trump: ...Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!
Trump reportedly grew frustrated with Tillerson because of the slow pace in appointing staff at Foggy Bottom earlier this year. Tillerson elicited more of the president's ire when he was asked in August about Trump's values. The president had said some "very fine people" marched with the torch-bearing white nationalists in Charlottesville.
"The president speaks for himself," Tillerson told Fox News at the time.
On Wednesday, Tillerson highlighted what he deemed the administration's foreign policy successes. Among other things, Tillerson said the administration made progress in getting countries like China to peacefully pressure North Korea, pushing for sanctions on Pyongyang and getting Middle Eastern allies to commit more fully to fighting terrorism.
"We're just getting started," he added.
Disclosure: NBC and CNBC are owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. |
The relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation in special patient populations.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep-related breathing disorder associated with both cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Studies have shown a strong relationship between OSA and the most common cardiac arrhythmia - atrial fibrillation (AF). In this review, the authors intend to analyze AF in the context of OSA in populations of special medical interest; specifically investigating OSA in post-cardioversion, post-pulmonary isolation and post-coronary artery bypass graft patients as well as those afflicted by congestive heart failure, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, erectile dysfunction and stroke. Moreover, the authors will highlight the importance of OSA severity, our current understanding of its mechanistic link to AF pathophysiology and treatment options. |
metal is fun, so is reading
Although I do still use my mp3 player outside of my house, I use it much more sparingly and in appropriate situations to enjoy the music. I've found doing such has made my listening experience a much more elaborate one, and I find myself criticizing some of my music choices and improving them.
I did find some metal to be a catalyst for me actively exploring literature post-elementary years. It may sound shallow, but it had to be done somehow.
Iron Maiden probably introduced more kids to literature than the millions our government spent in the 1980s, back when we cared about such things. |
Brokerage accounts. Do you have copies of the agreements? Both TW and NNG.
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Q:
REGEX mysql for comma separated values
I have a mysql query in java like
public static BusObjectIterator<con.PROJECT_EMP> GetEmpObjectsforOrgandMultipleCategory(String ORG, String CATEGORY)
{
String query=select * from PROJECT_EMP where org = :ORG and category=:CATEGORY;
.....
return ...
}
Here the param ORG will have single value like xyz and CATEGORY String may have multiple values like Cat1,Cat2 etc..,
So dynamically i would like to frame query using REGEX to replace the comma separated string values like
select * from PROJECT_EMP where org = 'xyz' and category in ('Cat1','Cat2');
Thanks.
A:
You can use FIND_IN_SET() function instead of RegEx
Try this:
SELECT * FROM PROJECT_EMP WHERE org = :ORG AND FIND_IN_SET(category,:CATEGORY);
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The modified Blalock-Taussig shunt versus the right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduit for the Norwood procedure.
The initial Norwood procedure remains the highest risk operation for the staged repair of univentricular congenital malformations with associated systemic outflow obstruction. The modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (MBTS) has been implicated as a major cause of not only the operative mortality, but also associated morbidity and interstage attrition. The etiology of these events has often been attributed to the diastolic runoff and "coronary steal" associated with the MBTS, in addition to the delicate balance between systemic and pulmonary blood flow that characterizes all systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts. Recently, there has been renewed interest in the right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduit as a source of pulmonary blood flow for the Norwood procedure as a potential method for minimizing the negative aspects of the MBTS. The current literature is contradictory, retrospective, and predominantly historically controlled. The Trial of Right Ventricular vs Modified Blalock-Taussig Shunt in Infants with Single Ventricle Defect Undergoing Staged Reconstruction, a randomized controlled clinical trial comparing the two techniques, is ongoing and may provide answers to this controversy. |
Candles of the Wicked
JD awoke slowly, muzzily. First, he became aware that his hip ached, next
that it was hot enough in there to paste the shirt to his back, and finally
that he smelled both horse manure and stinky human feet. Turning his head,
he saw his own boots, tipped over beside the coat he'd rolled as a pillow.
With a stifled groan, he sat up, felt the leaden weight of weariness pull
at every muscle, and raked his hands through his long hair. His scalp and
hair felt slathered in glue and grit. In fact, more than just his boot stank.
He exhaled sharply through his nose, and looked up at the dark rafters overhead,
then at the unfinished boards to either side. The stage station attendants
had been kind, in allowing them to put the horses in a corral and borrow
an empty stall in which to sleep away the day's heat. Riding nights and sleeping
days was best, to preserve their horses from the August heat. However, it
made for broken, sweaty, unsatisfying rest, at best. Of course, that's how
he would likely sleep, anyhow, no matter where he laid down.
Chris still slept, half-curled with his back to him, his breathing slow and
steady. Seen in quiet profile, Chris' sharp-hewn features were dirtied with
a stubble of beard, dark blond hair falling in strings across his forehead.
JD had always thought of Chris as a tidy man, but now his blue shirt was
soiled and grubby, the black trousers stained. He could imagine his own
appearance, since his last bath had been in Purgatorio, days ago, and his
last change of clothes before that. He ran his tongue over sticky teeth and
exhaled in dry disgust.
"Tooth powder in my saddlebags."
Startled, JD looked back at the still-motionless form beside him. "Sorry,
didn't mean to wake you up."
The shoulders moved, long legs straightened, and then Chris rolled over to
look up at him. "Already awake. Can't breathe in here."
"You feelin' all right?"
"Yeah." The word pinched into a sigh, as Chris sat up. "Just dusty."
He reached for his boots, turned one over to give it a sharp smack, dislodging
any unwelcome guests, and somehow made that simple act seem as blunt as turning
his back. However, that was about as far as conversations went, lately. Not
that Chris was ever gabby, but now he seemed almost a stranger. For that
matter, JD was not a bit sure how much of his own self he had left. Heck,
he barely remembered leaving Purgatorio. The hard-riding nights since defied
examination, like trying to gather shards of a shattered mirror. He scarcely
slept, and what little he ate he choked down like chunks of dry clay. He
just felt so empty, like things had been scooped out of the middle of him,
leaving a big, dry, sick-feeling hole that he fell into thump all over again,
every time he woke up.
JD shook out his own boots, pulled them on, gathered his gun belt, and got
up to go look at the day. The glaring blue dome of sky arced above him, its
emptiness so massive that it almost had weight. The ringing silence pressed
the valleys down flat, until only the ridged spines of isolated mountains
lurched against the dusty skyline. Daylight, now there was another rare
commodity. They spent most of their waking hours in nothing but shades of
black and grey. Sort of like they had become those vampires he read about.
Watching his long shadow spill across the sandy earth before him, JD idly
wondered if it were somehow a bad thing, if a man went too long without a
shadow. Maybe there was some sort of bad luck in that, and they'd be stuck
with it until they could live in normal daylight, again. Then he shook off
the thought, before it got too comfortable in his head.
Beside the barn, a large, tin-lined wooden water trough caught the small
but perpetual flow of water piped from a nearby spring. Exhaustion pressed
heavily on his shoulders, and JD thought of stripping down and falling headlong
into that clean, blessed coolness. His luck, though, a stagecoach full of
ladies would roll up, right then. So, he instead took off his hat, pushed
up his sleeves, and contented himself with vigorously brushing his teeth,
then dunking his entire head repeatedly under water. When he at last straightened
to flip wet hair out of his face, he heard Chris' spurs chime softly behind
him.
Turning to see the hint of a smile on Chris' face, JD offered his own uncertain
grin. "Water feels good. You should try it."
"Sayin' I stink?"
Chris' frown lacked sincerity, and JD smiled as he sat on the hard rim of
the trough and slicked his hands over his sodden hair, one last time. Stink
enough to knock a fly off a dung heap, that's what Buck would say - and JD
felt the wind punch right out of him. Felt everything in him cracking like
brittle wood. But he fought it in rigid silence, concentrated on breathing
without sound, so that Chris just four feet away would not know, so that
he would not make a total idiot of himself. Damn, when would he just
quit that, for godsakes quit it? He made sure Chris never noticed . . . but
JD wondered how long it would be, before Chris could see the frayed edges
just unraveling off him. That would be all he needed - here they were on
a manhunt, and Chris was going to catch him acting like a pantywaist.
But how on earth was he supposed to get around it? Not a day went by, but
he would be right in the middle of something, and find himself suddenly just
standing there. Waiting, he would realize, for that familiar footstep behind
him, that voice gibing in friendly bedevilment. Just now was certainly not
the first time he caught himself thinking or speaking words that he had first
heard from Buck's mouth. Heck, he had never realized how much he counted
on Buck for stupid little things, like just being there every time
something popped into his head to share, or ask or tell. But now there was
nothing to say and no one to say it to, and trying to ignore that was like
trying to not to stare at a man with a hole in his head where his eyeball
should be.
Chris dipped both hands into the water, apparently noticing nothing of JD's
silent struggle. However, those hands splashed onto a face in which the bones
seemed too close to the skin, drawn in harsh lines that a stranger would
think had never known a gentle expression. JD took a deep breath, and shook
residual water from his head, hard enough to briefly dizzy himself. Nope,
not much left of either of them. Chris almost never spoke, wrapped in himself
tight and hard as the paper twisted around a stick of dynamite. JD found
himself almost tiptoeing around the man, as if he had sprouted sharp edges
that JD might cut himself on, if he brushed too close or the wrong way. Somehow,
in those miles since Purgatorio, he and Chris had become blasted loose from
the rest of the living world, like the little scraps of stuff he'd seen blown
through the smoke of Fourth of July cannon salutes.
All JD knew to do was hang on to one purpose, one duty; capturing Calvin
Bell. That, at least, was something right, something just, something he need
have no doubts in the doing. He clutched that fragmented image of a
near-stranger's face as a desperate talisman. But even if he and Chris caught
Bell, what then? He could not even remember the last time they spoke Buck's
name out loud, and suddenly he had no idea what he was supposed to do with
the crowding memories.
A few handfuls of water would not, Chris decided, come remotely close to
making him feel clean. In fact, the freshness of cool moisture sloshed around
his face and neck made the sticky prickle of trail grime down his back seem
that much worse. Still, it was better than nothing.
"Hey, Chris?"
Chris shook wet hair from his face, eyed the kid with water running past
his nose. JD sat watching him over his shoulder, and seemed to take Chris'
look as a reply.
"You know, when I first met Buck, I thought he was the most aggravating human
being I'd ever seen."
Chris couldn't imagine where that thought came from. Could only reflect that,
yes, the big guy certainly had his moments.
"I mean, from the first minute, he climbed all over me like - like fleas
on a dog. Treated me like I was twelve years old and dumb as a box of rocks."
JD hesitated, held himself carefully as he let the delicate, razor-edged
claws of remembrance stroke him. "Guess he wasn't too far off. But there
were sure times when I thought of just punchin' him in the nose."
Now the kid's forehead knitted in thought, and sunlight illuminated his hazel
eyes, as he lengthened his gaze into somewhere ~ some-when ~ else.
Been wondering when he would talk, Chris thought, as he sloshed a wet kerchief
around his neck. The kid's silence of past days was not natural. He was too
young to keep his thoughts hidden, and too open to keep them quiet, for long.
Plus the long nights on the trail gave a man too damned much time to think.
Something Chris tried to keep aimed in a forward direction, since anywhere
else was -.
"Chris, I never - he ain't like anybody I ever read about. He's not noble
or dashing or any of that other hooey. Heck, who ever heard of a hero who
swills beer, and throws the fair damsel over his shoulder and packs them
off upstairs? He . . ."
Chris smothered a sigh and waited, meanwhile wetly swabbing crud from his
ears. Whatever was on JD's mind, all man could do was let him find his way
around it.
"But he's the kind of man who could step out in front of a confounded SWORD,
to save my life. I don't -."
The words suddenly seemed to stick in JD's throat, and Chris concentrated
on the water's shimmering surface, as JD struggled for composure. He could
only hope the kid ran out of words, before he ran out of endurance for them.
Anything but this, for God's sake, JD.
JD's voice dropped half an octave deeper, yet wobbled on a fine edge, as
he spoke again. "Chris, I can't tell you how many times I've seen that in
my head, that fight back at the Seminole village. There I am, jumping out
like a damned fool, thinkin' I'm gonna be the hero or something, and then
all of a sudden I got two empty guns, and that crazy colonel's coming right
at me - I was so scared I couldn't even think! Then all of a sudden, Buck
comes barreling out of nowhere, knocks me out of the way, but HIS gun must
have been empty too, and - Chris, I've seen it a thousand times. The colonel's
horse is right over us and his sword swings, and Buck just falls over."
JD stopped, pressing his mouth tight shut, eyes wide and dark with the horror
of that instant. Chris frowned as he fiercely wrung out his kerchief, twisting
it so water bled from tight cloth coils. He had never heard JD speak of this,
had never even given thought to how their youngest partner had dealt with
it. Since Buck had recovered just fine, the only real consideration Chris
ever gave it was to hope the damned little fool learned something from such
a stupid stunt. Now, the kid seemed bent on reliving it all, dragging them
both into a crossfire of memories that Chris absolutely did not want to
entertain. Damn, JD, just let it go . . .
"I thought he was dyin', Chris. I remember sittin' there by him, while Nathan
worked on him, and I felt sick to my stomach. It was my fault, but I couldn't
begin to understand . . . I still can't. Why would he do that?"
Chris did not want to breach the granite numbness he had drawn tightly around
him. Did not want to feel that sense of something squeezing his heart. He
almost blurted the first caustic thing that came to mind, that Buck had always
been a damned fool in a fight, but the words died unspoken. They would be
untrue, and JD did not deserve more cruelty.
What he said was, "That's just Buck."
That was an awfully weak response, but JD nodded as if it held wisdom. "Yeah,
it is."
Then, JD fell silent, watching the afternoon shadows whisper through the
mesquite. Chris dipped his toothbrush in the water and uncapped his little
bottle of tooth powder. Might as well shave his teeth, even if he lacked
the means to shave his chin. Ezra would be appalled at the degeneration of
their personal hygiene. As he scrubbed his teeth, his belly snarled for
attention, and Chris reflected that the two stage company hostlers probably
wouldn't have any provisions to spare. So, they'd have either to shoot something
along the road, or hope they came upon some other form of civilization tonight.
After that, they would -.
A distant coyote wailed, far down the empty blue sky, and Chris paused. Felt
his bones go hollow at the high, lonesome sound of it, which seemed to pull
something out him to wisp away on an empty wind. Ah, hell, Buck . . .
+ + + + + + +
A saloon tent saw them next, a place scarcely worth calling a settlement,
on the abandoned site of an old Butterfield stage stop. Another day had passed
and now they awoke to ride with their backs to the sunset. The tent cabins
ahead already glowed warmly with lamp light. Here rough men stopped, while
traveling the unmapped ways from Mexico, bringing with them imported fruits,
horses, stolen cattle, or perhaps liquor for the Indians. Stained canvas
walls of the first structure were tied part way up, in a futile effort to
allow cooler air to relieve the desert heat. Liquor barrels and boxes formed
the only furniture inside, the bar itself made simply of unfinished planks
laid across empty kegs. Those within held themselves carefully, when pale
eyes under a flat, black hat stabbed each of them like a finger in the chest.
As he quietly walked to the plank bar, it seemed best to ignore him, as one
might the entrance of a tame panther. The mismatched youth at his heels was
another matter, however, what with that brazen stare, black hair down past
his collar, and a foolish little hat that would make even an Irishman blush.
"Hey, sonny, we don't have no sarsaparilla," one young man jeered, but the
kid's cool gaze barely flickered. In fact, his entire demeanor dismissed
the heckler as if he were a piece of furniture. The kid seemed most intent
on playing watch dog for his older companion across the room, who spoke in
low tones with the bartender.
Digger O'Neal was a short, burly young bulldog of a man, generally known
as a jolly, rowdy sport and a decent enough fellow ~ until, that is, he got
into the whiskey. Tonight, he was already one bottle down and getting meaner
by the minute. As of just now, he decided that he intensely disliked this
cocky-looking kid in the stupid hat. Hell, the pup couldn't even grow real
whiskers.
Dark brows arched upward, and the kid replied, "Oh, were you talkin' to me?
I thought that was just you breakin' wind."
Sassy as a coyote, he was, and Digger felt heat leap in his belly. "I'll
make you eat them words."
Yet the kid's face never changed, and he was laughing, the little bastard
-! "Oh, c'mon, mister, you can't be serious! I got no fight with you."
Now he was gonna show the white feather, was he? Recognition of his own power
swept forward on a hot tide of liquor, as Digger growled, "The hell you don't.
Yer a lap dog barkin' in a big dog's yard."
Laughter faded, as the youngster stepped back, light fingers smoothing his
coat tails from ivory pistol grips. "Mister, you got no idea what you're
gettin' into, here. Let's just laugh over the sarsaparilla joke and call
it good, all right?"
The son of a bitch was heeled? Rage flamed through the haze in Digger's mind,
awareness of a heavy pistol shoved through his own waistband. So this little
bastard thought pretty guns made him look like a hard case, huh? By God,
throwin' down on a man ain't like shootin' at tin cans and jackrabbits. Arrogant
little piss-ant, why, he would -.
"I'm lookin' for a man."
Like the ring of drawn steel, the voice of the kid's partner cut conversation
dead. His back against the raw plank bar, he casually faced the others, a
full shot glass held idly in his left hand. Nor did he seem to spare any
attention for his younger companion's troubles.
"Fella named Calvin Bell. He's on a black horse, probably came through a
day or two ago. Horse been ridden hard, and he's likely lookin' a little
rough, too. Forty-ish, average size, brown hair, brown eyes, got a busted
front tooth. Ring any bells with you boys?"
One of the other men spoke. "What you want him for?"
"My own pleasure," he replied, and something colder than humor lit his eyes.
"I want him because he's a sorry, yellow, murderin' son of a bitch of a horse
thief."
"You the law? Or is this personal?"
The shot glass tipped up, then lowered empty. "Personal."
There was a rough sort of code that men like these understood. Here justice
was no part of courts or books or high-minded words, but rather the brute,
swift law of fist, gun, or rope.
"We saw him." Another man glanced at his friends, and nodded. "Reckon it
was him, anyhow. Feller come in night before last. Tried to get another horse,
but nobody had one for sale or trade. His looked about used up."
"He said somethin' else, too." One of the other men spoke up, and cast a
sly grin around the room. "He said some fellers might be followin' him. Said
as how he'd been set up for a robb'ry, and somebody wanted to kill 'im for
what he knowed." The man blinked and pulled in his chin, as Chris' hard gaze
pinned him. "Well, that's what he said. I didn't pay no never-mind, myself."
"Which way was he headed?"
"East, on down the road. Towards Mesilla, I reckon."
"Much obliged. Finished, JD?"
Still eyeing his would-be foe, JD replied, "I am, if he is."
Digger O'Neal's pride rode high in his throat, his strong hands clenching
on the scalding desire to punish. He watched them turn, watched that kid
start to walk away - and he lunged, seizing a fistful of shoulder and coat,
and caught a millisecond's glimpse of blazing hazel eyes.
Once, years ago, Digger had made the mistake of grabbing one of his grandpa's
half-wild barn cats. This was worse. A fist snapped Digger's head back, stars
exploded, and then he hit the floor with a hundred and forty pounds of blind
fury climbing right up the middle of him. Furiously he struck back, and as
fast, the blows returned. Sledging strikes of fists and elbows jarred to
the bones, and Digger felt his own punches clear to the shoulder, knew he
hit and hit hard, but dammit, nothing would give, could not peel the kid
away, and in furious near-panic he wrenched himself tight around the kid,
got an arm barred hard across his throat -. Alligators had a gentler bite.
A hard forearm clubbed his skull, and his fists thudded into wool and cotton,
thumbs gouging soft flesh, yet nothing would give, dammit, couldn't
get the little bastard off. His head smacked hard again, this time
on wood and he saw his chance, grabbed fistfuls of cloth and wrenched sideways
with his whole strength, felt the impact that time, again slammed the weight
he held, and felt the kid jerk and fall loose in his hands.
- And other hands seized him, hauling him off the floor in a horrifying surge
of power, a black hat and the wild-eyed face of rage inches from his own.
He spun crazily in air - and collided with wood and sharp edges and pain
that slugged the wind from his lungs. Then stillness. Digger felt the floor
pressing against his hips and shoulders, heard his breath sobbing harshly,
tasted copper.
He laid there an instant, dazedly noticed lamp-lit canvas sagging overhead.
Took two deep breaths then rolled over. Pushing himself heavily to his knees,
Digger shook his swimming head like a baffled bull. Sharp pain stabbed from
both hinges of his jaw, and his whole body felt thick and numb. Damn that
little son of a bitch! Damn them both! Digger slapped a heavy hand to his
belt, groped for the weight of the old pistol nestled against his belly,
curled his fingers around smooth wood and cool metal -.
"JESUS, Digger, NO!"
The raw shout struck him like a slap, shocked his eyes upward, first to the
friend who had cried such a warning, and then to the strangers. There Digger
froze, on his knees, staring up into the muzzles of their Colt revolvers.
"Mister," the kid said, and the breath heaved in his chest, hatless with
black hair fallen wild over his eyes. "I'm havin' a really bad week. Might
be best we just call this even."
His breath caught tight in Digger's throat. Suddenly, these two men, the
one so young, the other fine-edged with hardship, were no longer two. They
faced him now as the halves of a single force, gusts of the same black wind.
Somehow, they had moved just so, and stood as if balanced to each other,
dancers awaiting a deadly cotillion. Yet it was less the shock of staring
into the muzzles of their guns, than the soul-clutching fact that, when Digger
looked past the guns, he could see no light reflected in the kid's eyes,
at all. All these bright lanterns, yet all he could see was flat, inky, soulless
black . . . while the other - God! It had to be a trick of the light, the
glow of lanterns hanging nearby, but the dark-clad stranger's eyes were filled
with ruddy flames, flickering red on shadow, like the molten simmer of a
blacksmith's forge, and they looked not at him, but inside him, and he stared
back and felt himself sink inside his skin.
"Who are you?" Digger choked.
The bartender answered for them. "That's Chris Larabee, pard."
Digger may have nodded, or maybe his vision simply wobbled. He found only
the strength to weakly slump back on his heels. Then they were leaving, the
kid scooping up his hat as he backed warily for the door. His partner followed,
but then Chris paused to add a gentle postscript.
"If you'd have pulled your gun, that kid would have killed you. And if he
hadn't . . . I would."
The canvas flopped closed on darkness and while sitting there on the dirt
floor, Digger O'Neal realized that, whatever they were, he was lucky to be
a living man. This night, Death had bent and kissed his cheek.
Outside, Chris paused to holster his pistol. He waited with wary gaze on
the glowing shape of the tent, as JD thumped his hat back into shape.
"You hurt?"
"No." The kid's reply came short and layered thickly with disgust. With a
sharp gesture, he shoved the hair back out of his face. "Hell, it was only
my head, and I don't use that, anyway."
Chris was silent, and JD clapped his hat back on, cast a hard eye towards
those dully-luminous canvas walls. He felt a fine trembling against his bones,
as his body slowly let loose of the hot blood of a fight. His gut remained
clenched tight, and the scalding flush of embarrassment burned him in the
dark. Real clever, JD. Get your ass kicked right in front of everybody.
"So," he said. "Did we get anything in there, besides some new lumps for
me?"
No one seemed to be interested in following, and Chris turned towards their
waiting horses.
"Bell was askin' how much farther to Mesilla," Chris said. "Bartender said
he got the feelin' Bell was lookin' to run to ground amongst friends, before
too long."
"Oh." JD's voice accompanied footsteps crunching at his heels. "Is that good
or bad, for us?"
"Good." Chris reached a hand to the dark, warm bulk of his horse, gathered
up bridle reins and a coarse hank of mane hair. "Means he might stand still
long enough for us to shoot him."
Hooves grated on gravelly sand like hollow wooden bowls, then the two of
them swung at a trot into the moonless dark, stirrups almost touching.
+ + + + + + +
Darkness is no friend, to a man with demons to fight. Nor is solitude and
silence of benefit to the troubled soul. Where the moon hides her face and
the stars watch without blinking, a man may easily find himself too much
alone with thoughts that gnaw and distress. So it was with JD Dunne, the
writhing tangle of his regrets giving him neither rest nor ease. Yet he had
so long suffered them in silence, that the sudden yap of his voice over the
steady, rhythmic rattle of their hoof beats frankly startled Chris.
"Chris?"
"What?"
"Been thinkin'." JD's voice came in a quiet tone, a strange, slow consideration
to it, which was at odds with their brisk gait. "Chris, I know that, with
the things we do, chances are we all got a bullet comin' with our name on
it. But I guess, out of all of us, I thought Buck would be the friend I got
to keep the longest."
Jesus, kid! Chris' hand flinched reflexively on the reins, his horse bouncing
its nose sharply in protest. Where the hell did he come up with that? Then
in the next instant, Chris' thought slanted all the way back to that tent
saloon, and suddenly he dearly wanted to go back and pound that drunken fool
of a cowboy into jelly. Because of him, JD had almost shot a man over nothing
more than a few hard words, and now it was sinking in. The kid didn't need
to be thinking like that, didn't need to know mortality so well.
That seemed all JD had on his mind, however, and the following silence left
Chris with his own echoes to chase. Damn the dark miles that let a man's
mind turn and gnaw on him like the ache of old wounds, with no glib words
or bright ray of daylight to slap them away.
Hardest thing Chris could do, these days, was to try and think of Buck Wilmington
without anger fisting red fingers around his heart. Anger that he was ridden
down to raw bones, and so filthy that his skin crawled in his own clothes.
Anger that he was out here in the dark, chasing some son of a bitch for no
purpose he could even name; hell, they didn't even have a warrant. He and
Buck had known for a long time that this is how it would likely end, for
either or both of them, and there was to be no surprise in it. Only surprise
now was that Buck's demise didn't involve a woman.
And last, mad as almighty hell that Buck would leave him stuck with
this mess, with a clear view of the human wreckage in the fugitive's wake,
including a very young man who held grief tightly to him like a bomb with
a sizzling fuse, waiting for him, Chris Larabee, to somehow make things magically
work out right. What right did Buck have, to get himself killed, and leave
Chris standing amongst the broken pieces? What in hell DID Buck think, most
of the time? Few things infuriated Chris more than to know that Buck could
do better, but simply didn't give a damn, seemingly content to just laugh
and whore and carouse his way through life. What a conundrum it then was,
that Buck put so much effort into making sure that kid did not make a waste
of his own life. As their horses' hooves clattered on the grey ribbon of
road beneath, there was a time a-plenty for his mind to worry at that puzzle.
Chris had often wondered if Buck had seen a younger image of his own self,
in JD. The same high spirits, the same reckless joy of life, and the same
headlong approach to the things they thought mattered. From the first day,
it was apparent that Buck loudly and vociferously strove to hammer home,
in a space of days or weeks, what had taken him a lifetime to learn. Hard
lessons, which might save the reckless youngster from a whole lot of hurt
and trouble. If JD had only gotten off that stage in some civilized place
like Denver or San Francisco, he would simply know the normal hurts of ordinary
men. People didn't die violently at your feet, strangers didn't die by your
own hand, and you didn't watch innocents fall under the blind, brutal juggernaut
of fate. But no, JD had to come out here, had to plunge blithely onto a trail
of what he once thought was high adventure . . . and Chris had let him. Now
he wondered just how many little pieces of that good, decent heart and soul
chipped away, each time JD pulled the trigger.
"JD . . ." The kid's head jerked up at the sound, the pale oval of his face
turned to warily regard him across one shoulder. Chris held his gaze and
said, "I miss him, too."
And the words laid there, mirrored in the shock in JD's wide eyes, in the
sharp shudder of Chris' own heart. Yet Chris reached right down in his gut,
savagely pulling out the one thing that might, just might put a patch on
some of what that young man had lost.
"He's a good man, JD. You're right about that. It just was sometimes hard
for me to remember."
JD's watchful silence asked why, and Chris faced forwards. For a moment,
he was silent, letting the swinging stride of his horse propel him towards
the black, distant bones of the dark mountains.
"Lookin' at him was to see every birthday, every Christmas, every Thanksgiving
and Fourth of July my family ever had . . . and to know I'd never have them
again." Chris paused briefly, and the rhythmic thud of his horse's stride
seemed to pound into the long bones of his legs, and jar soft things way
up inside. "Because he was always a part of it."
The brief silence shivered with the echoes of a thousand unspoken questions
why, with the ache of all the things that could never and would never be.
A scuffling of hooves through a sandy dip in the road preceded JD's quiet
comment.
"He had nightmares about it, you know," he said.
Chris did not know, felt that knowledge hit and wobble uncertainly inside
him. The kid eyes were on him, trying to read the older man's dim profile.
"Not often, I don't think, but . . . a couple times. He'd had a little too
much to drink, and I went and woke him up."
Chris shook his head. Shook off the image of that, Buck twisting in whiskey
and damp sheets, while a green kid with sleep and scared mixed in his face
tried to roust him. Did Buck come up swinging, as Chris likely would, or
was he just infinitely and forever lucky that he did not wake up in that
hellish dark, alone - as Chris always did? Chris pushed off that thought,
too, quick and sharp.
"It's never been his fault. I just . . . I couldn't carry guilt for us both."
Then he frowned, as he turned a newborn truth in his hands. "Buck was the
only one strong enough to do that."
Chris could not abide the soft-eyed understanding that filled the kid's face.
He turned his spurs into horse's sides and welcomed the surge of power that
carried him ahead, alone. Give me a ride, Buck, give me a ride. Over
the drumbeat of his horse's hooves, he could still hear Adam's piping voice,
followed by Buck's playful assent, his crooning encouragement. Chris saw
again the unabashed affection shining in his tall friend's features, as he
held the child snugly on the saddle before him. Strange to realize that he
could not remember anything of Buck's reaction, the day they returned to
find his world - their world - in ashes. Buck was there, he knew that, but
recollection seemed lost in the black, bottomless horror of that waking
nightmare. He had almost hated Buck, then, for being there, for offering
anything remotely like compassion. This was his Hell, of his own making,
and he needed to be - his place was to be - alone with his torment. Then
he glimpsed a fleeting fragment of memory . . . a distant figure kneeling
hatless and alone at the raw graves, slowly doubling over . . . and Chris
had turned away.
Just like he put his back to JD, now, feeling the earth under his flying
horse tilt on its axis, wobbling in a crippled orbit. The last piece of his
past, of who he had once been, was forever lost in a darkness that rose up
around him like a black mist. Whatever Buck Wilmington had believed true
of him . . . might have lived only in the believer. Perhaps Chris Larabee
was also dead, and this was his Hell. He would remain trapped here forever,
while all that he loved blew from him like ashes on a whirlwind. Damn you,
Buck. Damn you for leaving me with this.
He felt startled by the voice right at his horse's heels. "Hey, Chris? .
. . Whatever you want to do with Bell is fine by me."
Somewhere out in the mesquite, a coyote wailed a thin, mad song, and the
long night slowly wearied and died. Calvin Bell . . . can you feel us, behind
you?
+ + + + + + +
"It's just a feelin' I got, is all."
Casey sat slumped with her heels idly thumping the boardwalk, and hands clasped
in her lap. Beside her, Buck gingerly adjusted his seat on the hard bench
they shared. Getting out into the world was no longer a large problem, but
doing anything once he was in it was another prospect, entirely. Just the
simple stroll to get himself here this morning sucked the sand right out
of him, and he averaged about ten hours sleep a day. It had been a week and
a half, now, and as the old joke said, he was sick and tired of being sick
and tired. Hell, as things stood, he was damned near useless. Never mind
that Nathan said that fatigue was a normal part of healing, there was precious
little work for a peacekeeper who couldn't even fight his way out of a wet
paper bag. As it was, sitting around in the shade with a little girl for
company was about his best speed.
Buck smothered a sigh, and put on a coaxing smile. "Now, darlin', don't you
go thinkin' like that. You get that lil' wrinkle right there -." He lightly
touched between her brows. "And you're too young and too pretty for that."
With an irritable twist of her shoulders, Casey ducked away from his hand
and glared at him. "Don't you be treatin' me like a kid, Buck Wilmington.
A woman knows when to listen to her intuitions, and mine says that things
ain't -." She found herself fumbling over the explanation, and the starch
wilted from her again. "I don't know, I just got a bad feelin' about JD.
And Chris, too, I guess, since they're together."
"All right, all right." Buck nodded concession. "Just sayin' you do. Now,
what do you think could be so bad, hm?" He raised both eyebrows, lowering
his head to make earnest eye contact with her. "They're both grown men, and
they've been through a lot of scrapes, before. What you got to remember is
that they're used to workin' together. Now ain't that right?"
"No 'but,' little girl. Listen to me, now. All they're doin' is goin' after
one escaped prisoner. That's it. He's just givin' 'em a good run, is all.
You've seen 'em go up against a whole lot worse, with nary a scratch, haven't
you? Haven't you?" He waited for her reluctant nod, before going on.
"I know things been kind of upside down, what with me bein' laid up, and
JD and Chris both bein' gone, and no word from those boys. This is the longest
JD's been gone from you, isn't it? See, I thought so. So it's natural to
worry."
"Well, that don't mean I have to like it, now does it?" Again, fire lit her
eyes, and Buck raised a pacifying hand.
"Casey," he said gently. "It just means you care. That's what friends do."
Her delicate features registered narrow scrutiny. "Do you worry?"
"Why, sure I do. But I don't let it run away with me. I know those two can
take care of themselves, and that they'll be home, soon as they can."
With a thunderous scowl, she snapped, "Not near soon enough for me."
"Aww, now, Casey . . ." Buck softly took one small hand in a brotherly clasp.
"Let me tell you somethin', sweetheart. It's all right to miss him. Y' hear?"
He watched the pert features tip up to meet his eyes and he smiled. "Missin'
someone you care about just means your heart is gonna be that much happier,
when you meet again. So don't let missin' JD make you cross and out of sorts.
Missin' somebody is . . ." Buck rolled his free hand as if pulling inspiration
from the air. "It's when you think of all the things you like best about
'em. It's when you think about how they smile or somethin' nice they said,
or maybe even -." And he grinned as he wagged a finger at her nose. "The
last time you kissed 'em!"
"I never!" she gasped, but giggled as she jerked her hand free and swatted
his sleeve.
There was sweet wickedness in her arch smile, and for an instant, Buck saw
the woman she would soon be. That pretty, feisty face alight with fire or
tenderness, determination or joy, fight or the soft light of love - but only
for one man. Buck's vision of perfection was JD and Casey growing old together,
with a house full of kids and grandkids, and his most fervent prayer was
that JD was awake enough to see it, also. Sometimes he thought the kid did,
but others . . .
"Well, that boy's a mite slow, so you might just have to grab him by both
ears and lay it on him."
"Buck Wilmington, you are awful!"
She hopped up in a show of outrage, stuck her little chin at him and whirled
away - but not before he saw the brilliant smile blooming on her pixie face.
Nor did he miss the spring that lightened her step, all the way down the
boardwalk. Ah, young love. You'd better get your tail home, JD. There's things
a lot more important than what happens to one mangy thief.
As the girl disappeared from sight, a soft step turned his head. Buck's smile
faded, as he looked up at a lean, slouching form in buckskin coat and layers
of trail dust. Vin dipped his hat brim in greeting, sighed, and hooked his
hands in his belt. To the casual eye, his lanky form simply looked relaxed,
but Buck saw the tightness in him, like a bow drawn and held there.
"Nothin', huh?"
"Nope." Vin shook his head, narrowed his eyes into the glare of sun beyond
the porch roof. "Purgatorio was sealed up tight as Ezra's wallet. Whatever
happened down there, nobody wants to talk."
"Not that." Vin's expression softened, vaguely apologetic. "From what I could
get, there was a woman killed as part of it, and the boys weren't none too
gentle in their dealin's."
"What woman killed?" Buck's expression darkened. "What do you mean?"
"Reckon she knew somethin' she shouldn't, and it seems Bell killed her for
it. Folks are either scared, or mad." The tracker shook his head lightly.
"Those two made some enemies, this trip."
"Damn." Jaw set, Buck tried to imagine where his two friends could be.
"One big, ugly cuss, he said they promised to kill Calvin Bell. Reckon that
dead girl was his."
"Oh, now, that's not right." Buck shook his head firmly. "Chris has his moments,
but he's not gonna up and kill a man, just because somebody asks him to.
There's more to it than that."
"Reckon so." Shoulder set wearily against the near wall, Vin added, "All
that's for sure is they left Purgatorio, and they're still after Bell."
"Well, he's only one man," Buck said. "And at least they got out of Purgatorio
in one piece."
A brief snort preceded Vin's wry grin, as he said, "They did pretty well
burn that saloon to the ground. Paper didn't lie about that."
"That's our boys," Buck said with a wide smile.
Yet he couldn't help looking down the street yet again, for what he didn't
see; a tall, straight form on a handsome black horse, and a shining grin
atop a leggy bay. Any day now, boys. Just any day. I'm not any good at missin'
you, either. |
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Italian Indoor Archery Club
The Italian Archery Club is situated in the Italian Club in Milnerton.
It offers an excellent indoor range and is in the process of establishing an outdoor range. The club offers all the facilities required to host a regional indoor tournament and is open for practice every day. The indoor club league is shot at the club on the first Tuesday of each month. The club lends itself to family entertainment and has full restaurant and bar facilities.
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Q:
Sequelize.Js-PostgreSQL How to get rows in associated tables from belonging table?
I am trying to achieve retrieving associated rows in ReceiptItems, Payments from Receipts which are connected to each other hasMany and belongsTo methods.
Here my table relations :
// One to Many Relationship between receiptitems and receipts
db.Receipts.hasMany(db.ReceiptItems,{ foreignKey : 'receipt_id'});
db.ReceiptItems.belongsTo(db.Receipts,{ foreignKey : 'receipt_id'});
// One to Many Relationship between ReceiptItems and Payments
// This relation exists due to solve the problem of paying the debts later on !
db.Receipts.hasMany(db.Payments, { foreignKey : 'receipt_id' });
db.Payments.belongsTo(db.Receipts, { foreignKey : 'receipt_id' });
// One to many Relationship between Receipts and Plates
db.Plates.hasMany(db.Receipts, { foreignKey : 'plate_id' });
db.Receipts.belongsTo(db.Plates, { foreignKey : 'plate_id' });
Here my method to find Receipts that belongs to the plate_id, it finds the receipts but it does not retrieve the ReceiptItems and Payments associated to that Receipts( Not null variables, I cannot see any field related to the associated tables in result of the successful comeback. )
db.Receipts.findAll({
where : {
plate_id : result.plate_id
}
},{
include : [ { associaton : db.ReceiptItems}, { association : db.Payments} ]
}).then((receiptResult)=>{
console.log(receiptResult);
}).catch((receiptErr)=>{
console.log(receiptErr);
})
A:
I just have found out the reason why I encountered the problem.
First, just after where statement I had an extra closing block parenthesis and I have to use associations in the way below :
db.Receipts.find({
where : {
plate_id : result.plate_id
},
include : [{ association : db.Receipts.associations.ReceiptItems},{ association : db.Receipts.associations.Payments }]
}).then((receiptResult)=>{
console.log(receiptResult);
}).catch((receiptErr)=>{
console.log(receiptErr);
})
|
Inga enterolobioides
Inga enterolobioides is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae.
It is found only in Brazil.
References
enterolobioides
Category:Flora of Brazil
Category:Critically endangered plants
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
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"Super President! His power was born in a cosmic storm, every molecule, charged with might! Powers that allow him to change his molecule structure to steel, to granite, or whatever the need requires. The great desire to serve his country, in the cause of justice, has brought James Norcross to the highest office in the land as Super President. Super President!" |
HPV, oropharyngeal cancer, and the role of the dentist: a professional ethical approach.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is an emerging risk factor for oropharyngeal cancer, especially among younger patients, and must be thoughtfully addressed by the dental community. The professional ethical decision-making model first advanced by Ozar and Sokol for use by dentists at chairside (define the dilemma, assess the facts, identify and rank the alternatives, and choose a course of action) was modified to delineate clearly inputs, considerations, and feedback loops based on what is professionally and ethically at stake in advising patients. As the link between HPV and oropharyngeal cancer is established through scientific studies, the role of the dentist in primary and secondary prevention will be crucial. In the absence of definitive evidence, the professional ethical decision-making framework presented here allows dentists to systematically work through available alternatives. Ultimately, the role of the dentist is to use discretion in choosing a professional and ethical course of action for each patient. |
An increasing number of applications make use of virtual representations of physical spaces. However, the creation of such virtual models is expensive and time consuming, involving direct measurement of individual aspects of the physical space, photography and sophisticated graphical tools. In some instances, artists are hired to create three dimensional models of physical spaces from images of the spaces using interactive modeling tools. In other instances, specialized imaging equipment is required to capture the physical parameters of a physical space which can then be used to define the aspects of a model. These techniques require a substantial investment in the time of specialized experts and/or specialized hardware. This is unfortunate, because it makes creating three dimensional models of a physical space too costly for many applications.
Thus, there is a need for a method of defining a model based on images of a physical space that is relatively quick and inexpensive, so that virtual representations of physical spaces can be constructed more easily and used in a wide variety of applications where they were not previously practical due to the time and/or cost associated with producing such models. |
Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel - mlLK
http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html
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andybak
"Emace: A pretty good operating system, but it could use a better text
editor."
I can't trace the source of this quip but I'm glad someone has set out to
prove the first part of it...
~~~
philjackson
You can't trace it because everyone on the internet has said it at least once.
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viraptor
Isn't it possible to do that with any program with no external dependencies?
~~~
vidarh
Yes, it is. I've had embedded systems boot straight into busybox like shells
for example. Even more fun, the system didn't have a BIOS at all (it was hard
wired to just jump into a location in flash, were we placed the Linux second
stage boot loader to uncompress the kernel image to RAM, which then executed
the shell immediately. Even the shell was really mostly there to aid debugging
- in production use it'd immediately spawn the main app for the system.
As long as the kernel has whatever drivers you need compiled in instead of as
modules, and as long as your app either doesn't directly or indirectly spawn
lots of child processes or if it does it takes care of wait()'ing for them,
and as long as you don't need any getty's (without spawning them yourself)
there's no problems tearing out everything and replacing it with a self
contained static app.
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dryicerx
There is actually a easier way to do this. Pass this parameter while in your
boot loader
init=/usr/bin/emacs-nox
This will fire up emacs instead of init once the kernel is done booting up.
You also need mount, but you can run that within emacs.
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ramchip
Who would have known... it really is an OS.
~~~
stcredzero
Lots of Lispers and Smalltalkers would roll their eyes at this. (Some CS
research history: Both those languages _were_ OS.)
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capablanca
Single threaded OS?
~~~
mahmud
M-x shell or M-!
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spudlyo
You could use vim as init as well, it just wouldn't be as much fun, since you
couldn't do any programming.
~~~
gnosis
Actually, vim has a programming language built in to it: vimscript. So you
could certainly program from it.
And that's not to mention the various other programming language interfaces
vim has. If you've compiled vim with the right options, you could use Perl,
Python, Ruby, or Lua from within vim.
------
lallysingh
Sounds about perfect for netbookin'.
~~~
krakensden
except you'd have a devil of a time dealing with wireless networks
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Juventus defender Mehdi Benatia has lashed out at Maurizio Grozza, an Italian comedian through a harsh social media message after the comedian threw criticisms at him for his comments after the Real Madrid vs Juventus second leg UCL quarter-final encounter.
Benatia described the penalty that was awarded to Real Madrid in the dying minutes of the game as a rape, and this was met with strong criticisms from Grozza.
READ: Neville – Mourinho must identify the troublemakers at Man United
“Maybe Benatia doesn’t know what a rape is about. Neither I know, but if he wants to know how it feels, he can take a ‘fallo’ (a word which means foul but is also the vulgar translation for penis) and put it in his ass”.
However, Benatia replied the comedian through social media saying: “I am in Vinovo every day, I am waiting for you! Idiot and d*** head. You make nobody laugh, you take it where you like it.” The Morocco International responded with a post that carried the picture of the Italian comedian as well. |
Kaunas
Nightlife
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Age-old rivalry between Vilnius, the current capital, and Kaunas, capital of Lithuania in the 1920s and 1930s, still persists – bohemian, multicultural, pastel-coloured Vilnius versus conservative, grey, formalist Kaunas. But that’s a dated stereotype, of course, and nowhere is that more obvious today than in Kaunas’ diversifying nightlife.The city’s fun nightspots embrace all kinds of tastes and budgets, from thumping high-energy techno nightclubs where locals show off their bodies and dance moves, to unique and individual bars playing leftfield sounds pre-mixed by thoughtful introspectives.
And everything in between. But rather than be pigeonholed, most places defy categorisation and in their efforts to survive do their best to be all things to all people. Which means that there are few wine bars, for example, compared to what you’d find in Vilnius. A wine bar is also a cocktail bar is also a restaurant, etc. In any case, we have tried to differentiate them somehow, and the best are listed here. |
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MICROSOFT 基础类库 : GameService 项目概况
========================================================================
应用程序向导已为您创建了此 GameService DLL。此 DLL 不仅
说明了使用 Microsoft 基础类的基础，而且
也是编写 DLL 的起点。
此文件包含组成 GameService DLL
的每个文件的内容摘要。
GameService.vcproj
这是用应用程序向导生成的 VC++ 项目的主项目文件。
它包含有关生成此文件的 Visual C++ 版本的信息，以及
有关使用应用程序向导选择的
平台、配置和项目功能的信息。
GameService.cpp
这是包含 DllMain()
定义的主 DLL 源文件。
GameService.rc
这是程序使用的所有 Microsoft Windows 资源的列表。
它包含存储在 RES 子目录下的图标、位图和光标。
此文件可在 Microsoft Visual C++ 中直接编辑。
res\GameService.rc2
此文件包含不由 Microsoft
Visual C++ 编辑的资源。您应将不能由
资源编辑器编辑的所有资源放置在此文件中。
GameService.def
此文件包含有关运行 Microsoft Windows
所需的 DLL 的信息。
它定义此 DLL 的名称和说明等参数。
它还从此 DLL 导出函数。
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
其他标准文件:
StdAfx.h、StdAfx.cpp
这些文件用于生成名为 GameService.pch
的预编译头(PCH)文件以及名为 StdAfx.obj 的预编译类型文件。
Resource.h
这是标准的头文件，它定义了新的资源 ID。
Microsoft Visual C++ 读取和更新此文件。
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
其他注释:
应用程序向导使用 "TODO:" 注释指示应添加或自定义的源代码部分。
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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Today is Estonian 95th Independence Day and here is my patriotic manicure inspired, of course by Estonian flag.
Those who follow my Facebook page saw the first step (ok actually the second step 😛 )of this manicure this morning 🙂
And here is the finished mani.
Unfortunately I had issues with the black Aden nail polish and INM OTD topcoat this time, because these two do not work well together :S When I started applying INM OTD topcoat the Aden nail polish smeared. |
Q:
Query regarding design(interface and classes)
I am basically writing a code which reads a text file, stores it in a string, does some operations with the string and displays it on a dialog, then writes the file if some changes are made.
Now i have made separate interfaces for FileRead, FileWrite, StringHandling, LineHandling, Database and i have a controller class which implements these interfaces and i just call the instance of controller class in gui..
I wanted to ask that if the design is ok or do I need a separate class implementation for each interface.
A:
I think for such a small project it is acceptable but generally I would consider it bad design for two reasons:
As you suspected one class implementing all these interface might be a bad idea. Depending on what the interfaces do you are getting a god class which does to many things that don't have anything to do with each other. Under the aspect of enclosure you basically want one class to do one thing or better said have only one remit.
The fact that your controler class implements the interfaces is also conserning me. A controler class (in sense of UI programming) shouldn't do business logic. It should offer methods in a way that it is needed by the UI. Those methods then should call the the classes that do the acual business logic. They at most might do some "translations" between UI and backend like collecting the needed data from the UI and converting it into whatever is needed by the business logic methods. Also the other way around: Calling several business logic methods and agregate their results.
As I said for such a small tool it might be considerd OK but it's never a bad thing to have your architecture straight ;-)
UPDATE
If you follow these two points you still only need one controller class. It can refer to the different classes that do your logic.
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Q:
Visio Web Access Web Part connection for highlighting shapes uses auto-generated shape name
I've recently been working on creating a visio web drawing with our office floorplan so that employees can search for other employees and find where they sit. I display the floorplan in visio using the Visio Web Access web part and then I connect it to a custom webpart with a dropdown that contains a list of our employees.
The employees are stored in a list which I have linked into the Visio drawing so that each employee is associated with a shape (a "Space" in this case). I've changed the title column of the list to be entitled "Name" so that when I link an item in the list with a shape it correctly sets the name property.
The problem is that when I send the name that they select from my custom webpart to the Visio Web Access web part it does not do anything. I learned from this article that the shape name that the Visio Web Access web part is wanting is not the actual "Name" property but an auto-generated property that shows up in the Shape Data window. This is auto-generated using the type of the shape and the order in which it was inserted into the drawing.
The problem is that we would now have to maintain not only the friendly shape name (the employee's name) but also this auto-generated name in our list of employees. This is not the ideal solution because we would like to have a non-IT admin maintain this seating chart information and it's not intuitive to have enter this random ID.
Is there any way to change this property to make it user-friendly or is it a read-only property?
A:
Yes, in microsoft visio you will need to enable the developer tab (File->Options->Advanced->Developer Mode) after doing so you will get a developer tab which has a "shape name" button. Click the shape then click the button and you can change that property.
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Q:
The selectedItem is returning the samevalue no matter what is chosen in DropDownList in asp.net
I have this dropdownl list defined in aspx page.
<td style=" font-family:Consolas; ">Select the Category</td>
<td><asp:DropDownList ID="ddl_cat" runat="server" Width="100px" >
</asp:DropDownList></td>
And its codebehind is:
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select * from main_catTbl", sc.con);
SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
da.Fill(ds);
ddl_cat.DataSource = ds;
ddl_cat.DataTextField = "material";
ddl_cat.DataValueField = "mid";
string a = ddl_cat.SelectedItem.Value;
ddl_cat.DataBind();
sc.con.Dispose();
sc.con.Close();
The items are displayed on the dropdown list.But when i select some item and use
string st = ddl_cat.SelectedItem.Value It always shows the first item of the dropdownlist.
Am i missing something?
A:
Check if your function containing the above codebehind(in your question) is not called on a posted back.I mean it should be called on pageload not posted back.
ie.
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!Page.IsPostBack)
{
your_function();
}
}
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Health Tourism
The
offer of health tourism functions on the natural health establishment
and it's factors which are connection of different medical, prevention
and wellness programs, adjusted to various needs.
Health
tourism here in Croatia, has very versatile offer in seaside
(thalassotherapy) resorts and air spas. In Makarska, by that profilation
is famous hotel Biokovka which became rehabilitation and health center
of region.
The
most valuable and attractive advantages are the curative waters and
mild climate offered by this health resort for relaxation, preventive
treatment, therapy and recovery, in short - for vigor and health. |
Classification and management of necrotising vasculitides.
Systemic vasculitides are a heterogeneous group of diseases. Having only a partial understanding of the aetiologies and pathogenetic mechanisms of these disorders explains the difficulties encountered in classifying and treating patients. Nevertheless, some important points have been established. Classification is mainly based on the size of vessels affected and, from the polyarteritis nodosa group, microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) has been separated from classic polyarteritis nodosa (c-PAN). The latter is a rare disease which is, in a small number of cases, the consequence of hepatitis B or C virus (HBV/HCV) infection. In the other cases of c-PAN and in MPA, the aetiology is unknown as for Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) and Wegener's granulomatosis (WG). MPA, CSS and WG are mainly antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-related vasculitides. ANCA play a part in the pathogenesis of diseases and are sometimes useful markers for diagnosis and follow-up. Vasculitis treatments should be chosen according to classification, aetiology, pathogenetic mechanisms, severity and predictable outcome. In virus-associated vasculitides, treatment is based on the combination of antiviral agents and symptomatic or immunomodulating therapies. HBV-related PAN and HCV-related cryoglobulinaemia respond to interferon-alpha and to plasma exchange. Responses are excellent in HBV-PAN but usually partial in HCV-cryoglobulinaemia, and relapses occur in the majority of cases. MPA, c-PAN, WG and other vasculitides respond to corticosteroids and cytotoxic agents, mainly cyclophosphamide. Treatment duration and ways of administration can vary from one disease to another. Plasma exchange is not recommended as the first-line treatment. Immunoglobulins and other immunomodulating treatments are indicated in limited cases and their indications necessitate further prospective studies. |
To use a stick umbrella, a user has to push the runner of the umbrella to a predetermined position to open it. As the opening action takes a short period of time more or less, the user may get wetted in a heavy rain before he can open the umbrella. Therefore, various self-opening foldable umbrellas with multiple segments have been introduced to the market later on. In using the foldable umbrella of this kind, a user can open or close the umbrella more rapidly just by pressing a button on its shank.
The primary object of this invention is to provide a self-opening four-segment foldable umbrella, in which a shank comprises an outer pipe, a second middle pipe, a first middle pipe, an inner pipe, and a control mechanism for self-opening an umbrella.
In order to realize abovesaid object, the four-segment foldable umbrella of this invention comprises a shank, a rib assembly, an opening spring, a closing spring, a control mechanism, and a plurality of gores. The shank further comprises a top fulcrum, an outer pipe, a second middle pipe, a first middle pipe, an inner pipe, a handgrip, a long plastic pipe, and an outer pipe plug. The rib assembly consists of a plurality of top stretchers, lower ribs, inner connection ribs, middle ribs, inner resilient ribs, small slide sockets, outer resilient ribs, outer connection ribs, tail ribs, and a runner. An upper end or a lower end of the opening spring sustains a lower end of an outer pipe plug or props a long controller at its upper end respectively. One end of the closing spring disposed on the rib assembly is pivotally jointed with a nearer end of the top stretcher, and the other end is pivotally jointed to a return point of the inner resilient rib at a nearer end of the lower rib.
For more detailed information regarding this invention together with further advantages or features thereof, at least an example of preferred embodiment will be elucidated below with reference to the annexed drawings. |
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Q:
When to use `getExecutionCode` and when `execute`?
Reading the documentation and the source I couldn't understand when to use what so far.
When do you use the method getExecutionCode and when execute?
A:
As you may know Animation Nodes creates a python script based on your node tree. So each node has to provide some code that goes this script.
The execute function is fairly easy to use and should be prefered when you have a static amount of sockets and when the execution code does not change when you change some properties of the node.
The getExecutionCode function is called every time the node tree is changed. So it can return different code depending on some sockets. Also it avoids the function call overhead which can be noticable when you execute a node thousands of times.
In general you can write most nodes in both functions, there is no clear separation when to use what. I suggest you start writing nodes using the execute function.
btw: the getExecutionCode function will be generated automatically based on the sockets if the node has a execute function.
I hope that helps a bit, feel free to ask more detailed questions about the code. But maybe it would be better to ask them on github, not sure...
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Thoughts: The MOUNTAIN stands tall and proud, connecting the rich earth and moving sky while keeping it’s own secrets close and hidden to share only with those who prove themselves worthy. To climb the MOUNTAIN or conquer the depths of it’s bowels is no easy task but MOUNTAIN grants great reward to those willing to try. There will be challenges but the view at the end and the payoff of self discovery will be worth it. |
Effect of stiffness on the micellization behavior of model H4T4 surfactant chains.
The micellization behavior of a series of model surfactants, all with four head and tail groups (H4T4) but with different degrees of chain stiffness, was studied using grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations on a cubic lattice. The critical micelle concentration, micellar size, and thermodynamics of micellization were examined. In all cases investigated, the critical micelle concentration was found to increase with increasing temperature as observed for nonionic surfactants in apolar or slightly polar solvents. At a fixed reduced temperature and increasing chain stiffness, in agreement with previous observations, it was found that the critical micelle concentration decreased and the average micelle size increased. This behavior is qualitatively consistent with that experimentally observed when comparing hydrogenated and homologous fluorinated surfactants. Thermodynamic considerations based on the analysis of the temperature dependence of the critical micelle concentration indicated that both effects could be interpreted as arising from an increased number of heterocontacts between hydrophobic portions of stiff surfactants and a lower entropic cost on packing rigid chains. Structural analysis that was also based on considering the inner micellar radial dependence of the surfactant head and tail site fraction distributions suggested that, on stiffening the molecular backbone, the resulting micellar aggregates grew, without appreciable deviations from spherical symmetry. Stiffer surfactants led to a slightly denser micellar core because of better packing. |
"Ethnicity, Gender, and Global Risk Indicators in the Lives of Status Offenders Coming to the Attention of the Juvenile Court"
The present study examined the risks and needs of status offenders in comparison to
an at-large juvenile court sample, with specific attention paid to factors related to gender and
ethnicity. Status offenders displayed significantly higher risk scores than the comparison sample
in domains associated with both family and parenting concerns and educational concerns.
In addition, females displayed higher risk levels than males and White youth displayed significantly
higher risk levels than minority youth across a wide variety of risk domains. Further
analyses were conducted regarding the participation of African American males and females
in a program designed as an alternative to detention. For both groups, successful program
completion was accompanied by little or no further court involvement, whereas failure to complete
the program was related to a variety of negative outcomes. However, African American
females and males successfully completing programrequirements displayed different risks and
needs at the outset of their participation. |
CCTV has captured thieves using a forklift to remove an entire ATM in Arkansas, US.
Conway Police are appealing for information about the incident, which targeted a bank's drive-through area. |
Challenges in the therapy of chromoblastomycosis.
Chromoblastomycosis (CBM) is an implantation mycosis mainly occurring in tropical and subtropical zones worldwide. If not diagnosed at early stages, patients with CBM require long-term therapy with systemic antifungals flanked by various physical treatment regimens. As in other neglected endemic mycoses, comparative clinical trials have not been performed for this disease; nowadays, therapy is mainly based on a few open trials and on expert opinions. Itraconazole, either as monotherapy or associated with other drugs, or with physical methods, is widely used. Recently, photodynamic therapy has been employed successfully in combination with antifungals in patients presenting with CBM. In the present paper, the most used therapeutic options against CBM are reviewed as well as the several factors that may have impact on the patient's outcome. |
# @configure_input@ -*- shell-script -*-
# Configurable variable values for btparser test suite.
# We need a C compiler.
CC='@CC@'
LIBTOOL="$abs_top_builddir/libtool"
# We want no optimization.
CFLAGS="@O0CFLAGS@ -I$abs_top_builddir/tests -I$abs_top_builddir/src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE @GLIB_CFLAGS@ @LIBREPORT_CFLAGS@"
# Are special link options needed?
LDFLAGS="@LDFLAGS@ $abs_top_builddir/src/lib/libabrt.la"
# Are special libraries needed?
LIBS="@LIBS@ @LIBREPORT_LIBS@"
# compile with xorg-utils lib
XORG_UTILS_CFLAGS="-I$abs_top_builddir/src/plugins"
XORG_UTILS_LDFLAGS="$abs_top_builddir/src/plugins/libxorg-utils.a"
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Q:
Copy Stored Procedures Names Only
I am being asked to collect all procedures' names that were used in one of our applications for migration purposes. To solve this, I could easily right click on each proc, copy the name and then add it to a doc. But since there could be so many procs and hence more room for errors, manual copy paste does not sound like the best solution here.
The question, is there -programmatically- a more intelligent alternative to accomplishing this task; taking into consideration that all procedures start with the same sub-string?!
TST_DeleteCust
TST_AddCust
TST_UpdateCust
TST_Etc
TST_...
A:
SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES WHERE SPECIFIC_NAME like '%TST_%' and ROUTINE_TYPE='PROCEDURE'
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"Central Partnership" "Central Partnership presents" "Halt!" "A Kolibri Studio production" "Sergei KOLTAKOV" "Get them out!" "Sergei GOROBCHENKO" "One, two, three, one, two, three!" "Yelena LYADOVA" "Anatoliy BELIY" "Viktoria ISAKOVA" "Alexander GOLUBEV" "Pavel DEREVYANKO" "In a Yury Moroz film" "THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV" "Based on the novel by F.M. Dostoyevsky" "Screenplay:" "Alexander CHERVINSKY" "Director of photography:" "Nikolai IVASIV R.G.C." "Halt!" "Forward march!" "Move!" "Part Ten" "It's hot here." "Take off your coat." "Are we alone?" "Can they overhear us in there?" "No one can hear anything." "You've seen for yourself:" "there's a passage." "Listen, my good fellow, what was that you babbled, as I was leaving the hospital, that if I said nothing about your faculty of shamming fits, you wouldn't tell the investigating lawyer all our conversation at the gate?" "What do you mean by all?" "This is what I meant then, that you, knowing beforehand of this murder of your own parent, left him to his fate." "That's what I promised not to tell the authorities." "Are you out of your mind?" "I'm perfectly in possession of all my faculties." "Do you suppose I knew of the murder?" "Speak, scoundrel!" "It's a shame, sir, to strike a sick man." "So you thought then, that together with Dmitri I meant to kill my father?" "No, you couldn't have done that." "And didn't want to." "But as for wanting someone else to do it that was just what you did want." "I didn't know what thoughts were in your mind then." "And so I stopped you then at the gate to sound you on that very point." "To sound what, what?" "That very circumstance." "Whether you wanted your father to be murdered or not." "It was you murdered him." "You know of yourself, for a fact, that it wasn't I murdered him." "And I should have thought there was no need for a sensible man to speak of it again." "So, according to you, I had fixed on Dmitri to do it?" "I was reckoning on him?" "I thought you'd understand without wasting words." "And that being such a sensible man you wouldn't care to talk of it openly." "There's not a doubt you did reckon on Dmitri." "If I had reckoned on anyone then, it would have been on you." "I thought, too, for a minute, at the time that you were reckoning on me as well." "You scoundrel!" "So that's how you understood it!" "What reason had you to consent?" "Since you went to Moscow with no reason." "Simply at my word, it shows that you must have expected something from me." "If I don't beat you to death, it's simply because I suspect you of that crime" "and I'll drag you to justice." "To my thinking, you'd better keep quiet." "No one would believe you." "Only if you begin, I shall tell everything, too." "Do you think I am afraid of you now?" "If the court doesn't believe all I've said to you just now, the public will, and you will be ashamed." "That's as much as to say, 'It's always worth while speaking to a sensible man.'" "You hit the mark, indeed." "And you'd better be sensible." "What a good thing it is I refused you and shall not be your wife." "You are not fit to be a husband." "If I were to marry you and give you a note to take to the man I loved after you, you'd take it, right?" "Yes." "And I don't respect you." "If I respected you, I shouldn't talk to you without shame, should I?" "No." "But do you believe that I am not ashamed with you?" "No, I don't believe it." "Tell me, why did you send for me today?" "I wanted to tell you of a longing I have." "I should like someone to torture me." "Marry me and then torture me, deceive me and go away." "I don't want to be happy." "You are in love with disorder?" "Yes, I want disorder." "I keep wanting to set fire to the house." " You don't believe me?" " I believe you." "There are children of twelve years old, who have a longing to set fire to something." "And they do set things on fire." "It's a sort of disease." "I have read that at Easter the Jews steal a child and kill it." "Is it true?" "I don't know." "I have read that they kill them." "I have read about a Jew, who took a child of four years old and cut off the fingers from both hands, and then crucified him on the wall." "And he said at trial that he stood admiring it." "That's nice!" "Nice?" "Nice." "I imagine that it was I who crucified him." "He would hang there moaning and I would sit opposite him eating pineapple compote." "I am fond of pineapple compote." "Do you like it?" "When I read about that, in the morning I wrote a letter to a certain person begging him to come." "And he did come." "And I told him all about the child and the pineapple compote." "And said that it was nice." "He laughed and said it really was nice." "Then he got up and went away." "He didn't believe me." "He despised me." "That man is very ill now, Lise." "He does not believe anyone." "If he doesn't believe in people, he does despise them." "Me too?" "You, too." "That's good." "The child with fingers cut off is nice too." "And to be despised is nice." "I don't want to live, because I loathe everything!" "I loathe everything." "Alyosha, why don't you love me?" "I do love you!" "And when I die, will you weep over me?" "Yes." "You will?" "Thank you." "Everyone else may trample me under foot, for I don't love anyone." "Do you hear, not anyone!" "I hate everyone." "Now go to your brother." "Go, go, go!" "Wait!" "Yes, yes, give it to him, to Ivan Fyodorovitch." "Give it to him at once, or I'll poison myself!" "That's why I sent for you." "I am a wretch, wretch, wretch!" "Dmitri killed him, but there is no a mathematical proof of it." "If it's not Dmitri, but Smerdyakov then..." "Calm down." "What then?" "Then, I am the murderer, too." "What's wrong with you, Ivan?" "You could not foresee that happening." "Did you visit the doctor today?" "You have nothing to blame you for." "If they prove that the footman murdered him, I can blame myself." "Smerdyakov didn't murder him." "Do you need a mathematical proof?" "Here it is." "What is it?" "This is a letter." "It was written by Dmitri on that very day when that woman insulted me." "He wrote it when he was drunk in the tavern." "Look, it is written on some sort of bill!" "Fatal Katya, tomorrow I will get the money and repay your three thousand and farewell, my love." "Tomorrow I shall try and get it from everyone, and if I can't borrow it, I give you my word of honour" "I shall go to my father and break his skull." "And take the money from under the pillow." "Forgive me, for I love another woman." "I will murder my father, and will ruin myself to hold my ground, rather than endure my pride." "Farewell." "I shall tear three thousand from him and fling it to you." "I kiss your feet." "D. Karamazov." "Didn't you show it to anyone?" "No." "This is an evidence against him." "But this is that 'mathematical proof' you were looking for, isn't it?" "You hate him so much." "Yes, I do hate him." "I hate him." "Not because of your 'returns.'" "I hate him more every day." "And you are not the reason." "The reason is that he killed his father." "I will not leave him anyway." "Do you hear me?" "I will never leave him." "Ah, it's you." "You are going to her?" "I don't advise you to." "Ivan Fyodorovitch, will you come back for just a minute?" "I won't stay more than a minute." "Alexey Fyodorovitch, have you come from Dmitri?" "Yes, I have been with him." "What did he ask you to tell me?" "That you'd say nothing at the trial of what passed between you at the beginning." "He asks me to spare - whom?" "Him or myself?" "Both yourself and him." "Glad to hear it." "You don't know me yet, Alexey Fyodorovitch." "Perhaps you'll want to trample me under foot after my examination tomorrow." "You will give your evidence honorably, that's all that's wanted." "Women are often dishonorable." "But did he do it?" "Is he the murderer?" "But you know that." "No." "It was you, you who persuaded me that he murdered his father." "It's only you I believed." "Well, that's enough, I am going." "Follow him!" "He's mad!" "Don't you know that he's mad?" "The doctor told me so." "Go, run after him." "Don't leave him alone." "Ivan." "What do you want?" "She is right that you are ill." "And do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their minds?" "No, I don't." "I suppose there are all kinds of insanity." "And can one observe that one's going mad oneself?" "I think no." "I have a letter for you." "Ah, from her." "She's not sixteen yet, and already offering herself." "How do you mean, offering herself?" "As wanton women offer themselves." "Ivan, how can you?" "I couldn't hide her letter from you." "She is a child." "You are insulting a child!" "If she is a child, I am not her nurse." "Be quiet, Alexey." "I am not even thinking about it." "She will be praying all night now to the Mother of God to show her how to act to-morrow at the trial." "Whether she's to save Mitya or ruin him." "She loves you, brother." "Perhaps, but I am not very keen on her." "Why did you give her hope?" "Because it's all a lie." "Lie upon lie!" "If I break off with her now, she will avenge herself on me by ruining that scoundrel tomorrow at the trial." "For she hates him and knows she hates him." "As long as I don't break off with her, she won't ruin that monster, knowing how I want to get him out of trouble." "But how can she ruin?" "She's got a document that proves that he did murder our father." "There can't be such a document!" "Because he's not the murderer." "Who is it then?" "You know who." "You mean the myth about that crazy idiot, the epileptic, Smerdyakov?" "You know who." "Who?" "I only know one thing, it wasn't you killed father." "Not you." "What do you mean by 'not you'?" "It was not you killed father!" "I know I didn't." "Are you raving?" "You've told yourself several times that you are the murderer." "When did I say so?" "I was in Moscow." "When have I said so?" "You've said so to yourself many times, when you've been alone." "But you didn't do it." "Do you hear?" "It was not you!" "Brother, you'll believe my word." "I tell you once and for all, it's not you." "God has sent me to tell you so." "Alexey Fyodorovitch, I can't endure messengers from God." "Prophets especially." "I break off all relations with you from this moment." "Pavel Fyodorovitch is ill now." "He seems not himself." "Why, does he make a row?" "Quite the contrary, he's very quiet." "I only came with one question." "Has the young lady, Katerina Ivanovna, been with you?" "I won't go without an answer." "You seem very ill yourself." "Your face is sunken." "Never mind my health, tell me what I ask you." "Was she here, and did she ask about me?" "Are you so worried?" "I say, how your hands are trembling!" "Why are your fingers moving like that?" "Go home, you did not murder him." "I know it was not I." "Do you?" "What do you want to say?" "Tell me everything, you viper!" "Well, it was you who murdered him, if that's it." "You mean my going away." "What you talked about last time?" "Aren't you tired of it?" "Here we are face to face." "What's the use of going on keeping up a farce to each other?" "Are you still trying to throw it all on me?" "You murdered him." "You are the real murderer." "I was only your faithful servant." "And it was following your words I did it." "Did it?" "Why, did you murder him?" "Are you frightened?" "It's a lie that you killed him!" "You are mad, or teasing me again!" " Wait a minute." " He's mad!" "Mad!" "Here." "What is it?" "Three thousand roubles." "You need not count them." "They are all here." "Take them." "Can you really not have known till now?" "No, I did not know." "I kept thinking of Dmitri." "Did you kill him with my brother's help or without?" "It was only with your help." "I killed him with you." "And Dmitri Fyodorovitch is quite innocent." "My head aches." "Why do I keep on trembling?" "You were bold enough then." "You said 'everything was lawful,' and how frightened you are now." "Speak, speak how was it?" "How it was done?" "In a most natural way, following your very words." "Dmitri won't kill my father." "He might have killed him now like the frantic, savage fool he is, but he won't steal." "If he's in very great need of money?" "And besides that, if Agrafena Alexandrovna doesn't want your brother." "If she wants Fyodor Pavlovitch to marry her?" "Than neither Dmitri Fyodorovitch nor yourself and Alexey Fyodorovitch, would have anything after the master's death, not a rouble." "But if your father were to die now, there'd be some forty thousand for sure." "Dmitri Fyodorovitch knows all that very well." "And who can keep him?" "Grigory Vassilyevitch for example uses balsam to treat his lumbago." "And he sleeps soundly after that treatment." "Then why do you advise me to go to Tchermashnya?" "If I go away, you see what will happen here." "Precisely so." "That will happen once you leave it." "You see, I am going to Moscow." "It's a true saying then, that 'it's always worth while speaking to a clever man." "I am a scoundrel." "You'd gone away, then I fell into the cellar." "In a sham." "A sham, naturally." "I went quietly down the steps, laid down quietly, and gave a scream." "And were you shamming afterwards in the hospital?" "No, next day, in the morning, I had a real attack." "And a more violent one than I've had for years." "And what was that night?" "At night I moaned quietly." "I kept expecting Dmitri Fyodorovitch to come." "Expecting him?" "To come to you?" "Not to me." "To father." "I expected him to kill Fyodor Pavlovitch." "Wait." "If he had killed him," "He would have taken the money." "What would you have got by it afterwards?" "But he would never have found the money." "It is now everyone believed he kept it under the pillow." "And the envelope laid, in the corner behind the ikons." "I am getting mixed." "So you only took the money?" "And it was Dmitri who killed him?" "No." "I might as well have told you now that he was the murderer." "But I don't want to." "Because I want to prove to your face." "To prove what?" "That you are the only real murderer." "And I am not the real murderer, though I did kill him." "You are the rightful murderer." "Why?" "Why me?" "Why me?" "Oh, God!" "Oh, God!" "It is later." "Later." "Go on." "Tell me what happened that night." "What more is there to tell!" "I lay there and hear Grigory Vassilyevitch had suddenly got up and came out." "And he suddenly gave a scream." "And then all was silence." "Darkness." "I got up." "My heart beating." "I saw there was no Grigory Vassilyevitch in the house." "And I determined on the spot to make an end of it." "Where is she?" " Where is Grusha?" " She is over there." "Call to her yourself from the study." "Where is she?" "There, under the window." "How is it you don't see her?" "Where is she?" "I don't see her." "She was frightened at the noise." "Call to her!" "I snatched up that paper-weight from his table." "I swung it and hit him on the top of the skull." "I hit him again and a third time." "I went back to my bed, and thought," "'If Grigory Vassilyevitch is not killed he'll bear witness that Dmitri Fyodorovitch has been here." "But what if he has been killed?" "'" "Then I began groaning, so as to wake Marfa." "What about the door?" "If he only opened the door to you, how could Grigory have seen it open before?" "As for that door and, that's only his fancy." "It's just our luck he took that notion into his head, for they can't fail to convict Dmitri Fyodorovitch after that." "Well, it was the devil helped you!" "I didn't urge you on at all." "No, I didn't urge you on!" "Perhaps I really had a secret desire for my father's death." "But I didn't urge you." "I will say that tomorrow at the trial." "Everything." "By myself." "But we'll make our appearance together." "You must confess." "And if you won't go, I'll go alone." "There'll be nothing of the sort." "You won't go." "You'll be too much ashamed." "You have not a single proof." "And what about the money?" "They'll say you'd brought your money." "Why do you give it to me if you committed the murder for the sake of it?" "I did have an idea, for if there's no everlasting God," "of beginning a new life with that money in Moscow or, better still, abroad." "And what now?" "I suppose, you believe in God, since you are giving back the money?" "No." " And you..." " What?" "You used to say yourself that everything was lawful so now you even want to go and give evidence against yourself." "Only you won't go!" "The only reason I haven't killed you is that I need you for tomorrow." "Well, kill me." "Kill me now." "You won't dare do that." "You won't dare to do anything." "You, who used to be so bold!" "Take the money." " I will show it tomorrow." " Wait." "Show me it again." "Good-bye!" "Till tomorrow!" "'I destroy my life of my own will and desire, so as to throw no blame on anyone.'" "THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV" "End of Part Ten" |
Q:
Circular reference exception in angularjs
I have the following factory definition in my angularjs spa:
(function () {
'use strict';
angular.module('snApp')
.factory('Auth', ['$http', 'localStorageService', function ($http, localStorageService) {
//code goes here
}]);
})();
and then in my config for my app, i have the following http interceptor setup:
var app = angular.module('snApp', ['ui.router', 'LocalStorageModule', ])
.config(['$logProvider', '$stateProvider', '$urlRouterProvider', '$httpProvider', '$provide', function ($logProvider, $stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider, $httpProvider, $provide) {
// Intercept http calls.
$provide.factory('RequestHttpInterceptor', function ($q, Auth) {
return {
// On request success
request: function ($config) {
if (Auth.user) {
$config.headers['XToken'] = Auth.user.token;
}
return $config;
}
};
});
// Add the interceptor to the $httpProvider.
$httpProvider.interceptors.push('RequestHttpInterceptor');
}]);
When I run the app, I get the following error:
Uncaught Error: [$injector:cdep]
I think it has something to do with the $http in my Auth, because if I remove that then it works, but I need it!
If someone can help me understand what im doing wrong, that would be fantastic!
A:
Ok, I figured it out. Since its a http interceptor, angular doesn't like the fact that you are passing in $http to your factory - which makes sense, because if you call $http in an http interceptor it will invoke the interceptor, which will invoke the $http, etc etc getting this infinite loop.
Luckily I just needed a property in the factory so i abstracted that out of the Auth factory so that $http wasnt needed. There are other ways to do it, but this was the best solution for me.
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R CMD REMOVE --library=$PREFIX/lib/R/library/ SpikeIn
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Show HN: Finite State Machines for PostgreSQL - michelpp
https://github.com/michelp/pgfsm
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rco8786
Some documentation would go a long way here
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Its my first web application building with jsp , jstl using ajax as to make music player play throughout the site. i have many ajax req in single page . when i click on that its works all fine but when ever i refresh it takes me to blank content page in this code "Djpage.jsp" with out any content as requested in ajax i know as for url it will show but i researched a lot and tried but its not working and when i click button it does not respond only url is changed . |
Anti-human immunodeficiency virus (anti-HIV) natural products with special emphasis on HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
This review article aims at summarizing research findings concerning natural products which are endowed with the ability to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). An emphasis is placed on HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors because the bulk of the literature is focused on these compounds. It was found that a spectacular diversity of chemical structures encompassing proteins, terpenoids, coumarins, xanthones, alkaloids, flavonoids, polyphenols, and polysaccharides, which are elaborated by plant species as phylogenetically remote as the algae, gymnosperms and angiosperms, were capable of rendering the retroviral enzyme less active. The literature pertaining to natural products with HIV protease and integrase inhibitory activities is less voluminous. |
[Incompatible mechanism of compatibility of Chinese medicines based on Qianjinzi and Gancao effect on intestinal flora/barrier system].
The study was based on the toxic characteristics of the compatibility between "Zaojisuiyuan" and Gancao, with intestinal tract and intestinal bacteria as subject. From the angle of intestinal barrier function, motor function, steady state of intestinal flora and metabolism genes, the toxic and side effects of the compatibility between Qianjinzi and Gancao with similar properties, bases and chemical composition and types were further explored. The results showed that the combined application of Qianjinzi and Gancao enhanced intestinal mucosa damage, and led to abnormal changes in intestinal bacteria structure and metabolic function. It improved the degradation functions of mucus and aromatic amino acids on intestinal bacteria, which may increase the risk of disease and derived from intestinal urotoxin and other toxic substances. This study considered intestinal bacteria as an important target to study the interactions of traditional Chinese medicine. The "drug-intestinal bacteria-metabolism-toxicity" was applied in the experiment. Meanwhile, it provides ideas for exploring incompatible mechanism of traditional Chinese medicines. |
LED Landscape Lighting
ORACLE Lighting offers these highly efficient and reliable forms of landscape lighting. LED lighting uses just a fraction of the power required by traditional low-voltage incandescent lighting. In addition LED light bulbs are also shockproof and less prone to failure caused by impact and vibration. This “solid-state” LED technology makes LED an excellent alternative to low-voltage incandescent. The ORACLE lineup features a wide variety of landscape fixtures for common applications. LED Floodlights, Spot- Lights, Underwater Lights, and LED Replacement Bulbs for existing low-voltage fixtures. All of these are offered in Warm & Cool whites and multiple sizes and brightnesses. |
Sarah Gosper
Research Associate
What did you want to be when you were a kid?
What happened in-between?
had a love affair with China and ended up living in a small town in Eastern China. I had a few defining moments while I was there and so came home to focus on gender and development.
What are you doing now? Do you like that?
I pretty much have my ideal job right now – gender-focused research. I’m working on a bit of everything from the world over.
Does the patriarchy get you down? Like, do you ever just feel really annoyed by the way women get treated?
All the time. I can’t even get on my bicycle to ride down to the shops without being yelled at. It’s the little things like that frustrate me the most. But I do think there is a gradual shift in societal thought and behaviour. The hope and belief in that keeps me going.
Who's your fave feminist icon?
Can I have two? Sylvia Plath and Cynthia Enloe. Both women had a huge impact on me. Plath on how I viewed myself as a young woman, and Enloe in influencing the way I interpreted the world. Over the years there have been many amazing women I’ve known personally and read extensively who continue to inspire and challenge me, and I love that. |
The European parliamentary elections are just six weeks away, and the “populist” parties — those that support national sovereignty and oppose mass immigration — are expected to make big gains. To leverage their power and strategize collectively, the major nationalist parties in a number of different countries are forming new alliances for after the election.
Giorgia Meloni is the leader of the anti-immigration party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. In the following video Ms. Meloni discusses one of the new populist alliances.
Many thanks to He Ha for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Here’s a report on another pan-European nationalist initiative led by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini (hat tip Reader from Chicago):
Germans, Danes, And Finns Join Salvini’s Populist ‘Supergroup’ Populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has added several new parties to his European Parliament alliance, announcing the inclusion of conservatives and populists from Finland, Denmark, and Germany. The populist “supergroup” set to be headed by the Italian deputy prime minister also contains the Danish People’s Party (DF), the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the True Finns party, with Salvini meeting with key figures from all three parties in Milan on Monday, Il Giornale reports.
Video transcript: |
Q:
Queue in circular linked list
Hello i'l doing a Breadth First Traversal in C, thus I needed to implement a Queue, I wanted to implement it with double pointers and in a circular linked list. I know it must not be the simplest, but I want to learn more!
Here is my struct:
struct queue
{
void *val;
struct queue *next;
};
Here is my Push:
void queue_push(struct queue **q, void *p) {
struct queue *tmp = malloc(sizeof(struct queue));
tmp->val = p;
if(q)
{
tmp->next = (*q)->next;
(*q)->next = tmp;
}
else
{
tmp->next = tmp;
}
}
If I make printf at each lines it tells me "Illegal instruction (core dumped)" at "(*q)->next = tmp;" And I don't know what i'm going wrong.
Edit: I have to keep this struct unchanged
void tree_breadth_print(struct tree *t)
{
struct queue **q = malloc(sizeof(struct queue));
struct tree *tmp = malloc(sizeof(struct queue));
if(t == NULL)
{
printf("Tree is empty\n");
return;
}
queue_push(q, t);
while(!queue_is_empty(*q))
{
tmp = queue_pop(q);
printf("%d", tmp->key);
if(tmp->left != NULL)
queue_push(q, tmp->left);
printf("tmp->left->key = %d \n", tmp->left->key);
if(tmp->right != NULL)
queue_push(q, tmp->right);
}
free(q);
printf("\n");
}
The Tree struct is simple:
struct tree {
int key;
struct tree *left, *right;
};
A:
Here is the answer to my Question:
void queue_push(struct queue **q, void *p) {
struct queue *tmp = malloc(sizeof(struct queue));
tmp->val = p;
if(*q)
{
tmp->next = (*q)->next;
(*q)->next = tmp;
}
else
tmp->next = tmp;
*q = tmp;
}
I'll give you the queue_pop too if people are interested, feel free to use!
void* queue_pop(struct queue **q) {
struct queue *tmp = (*q)->next;
void *x = tmp->val;
if(tmp == tmp->next)
*q = NULL;
else
(*q)->next = tmp->next;
free(tmp);
return x;
}
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For months now, the girls in my older preschool class have been playing “princesses-getting-married.” Almost every day, several girls put on fancy dress-up clothes and act out a wedding. Although there are boys in the class, the boys never ask or volunteer to join this play, so one girl plays the role of the “prince.” While the wedding is going on, most of the boys are on trikes riding around the room, sporting firefighter helmets and putting out fires. Often the boys wear construction worker hard hats and noisily fix things with toy tools. The two groups sometimes glance at each other in mild amusement, but they almost never interact.
If a researcher observed only those few moments of play, he could make the case that boys and girls never play together. However, in my classes, which include a small, unscientific sampling of children, boys and girls do play together. Boys sometimes pretend to cook and go shopping and girls work in the store or office. Both sexes put on Superhero capes and “fly” off our indoor climber. They build with blocks, work on puzzles, draw and paint and play in our castle. I cannot say with certainty that my classroom is typical, however, I can say that the children in my classes are normal, every day kids. We can infer that their play is normal and typical as well.
During the past few decades, there has been a great deal of research on gender differences in children’s play and what those differences might mean. Numerous books and articles are trying to help parents understand and act upon the research. Of course, we know there are biological and environmental influences on both boys and girls. These influences result in some behavioral differences: Boys appear to be more physically active, aggressive, competitive, and less comfortable expressing emotions; girls appear to be more sedentary, passive, cooperative, and emotionally expressive.
The problem in making observations about a group of children is that every child is an individual. There is always a danger in stereotyping people, whether by gender, race, religion or any other category, even when done with the best of intentions. When we try to place children into categories, we risk limiting their real strengths, interests, and talents. Your child is unique and although it is helpful to read what the experts have to say about boy play versus girl play, it is more important to learn about your child from your child. By watching your own child, encouraging her to experiment with a variety of toys and activities, and allowing her to further explore those activities that catch her fancy, you will know more about your child than any expert could ever know.
How can you learn more about your own child’s interests? First, keep an open mind. As with food, expose your child to a variety of children and experiences. Your local playground is a good place to watch your child interact with other children. If possible, take your child to a hands-on children’s museum so he can choose from many activities. Find a toy store that specializes in high-quality toys; your child will gravitate toward those he finds most appealing. The children’s department of your library will open your child’s mind to new wonders and ideas. If your child is involved in a playgroup, ask the teacher about your child’s interests. When you visit other homes, watch to see which toys or activities are exciting to your child. Limit TV programs with toy commercials aimed at children; they tend to direct children to the poorest-quality toys.
As your child develops, her interests will change; be flexible enough to follow her lead. When a toy or activity is no longer age appropriate and challenging, your child will lose interest. When you buy toys, begin with basics: Toys that have more than one function, require imagination, and present a challenge. For example, there are many kinds of building blocks at every age level, from stacking blocks to wooden unit blocks to complex locking blocks. Music offers a range of activities, including singing, playing instruments, and dancing. Arts and crafts materials are multi-functional to stimulate imagination and introduce challenges. Remember to read to your child; reading together not only enriches your minds, but enhances your parent-child relationship. Help your child and yourself learn more about himself, his interests, and his world through play.
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Transmission of viral disease in the operating room setting.
The transmission of viral disease in the operating room is an evolving problem. Advances in transfusion medicine have made blood supply safer than ever, whereas changes in transfusion practice have minimized the amount of blood transfused. The epidemiology of viral infection is changing in both the general population and among healthcare workers. Vaccination and prevention hold the key to future risk reduction for patients and providers. |
Q:
Create CNN model architecture diagram in Keras
I followed the tutorial to create visually graphical representation of CNN model using this: https://keras.io/visualization/
My code at the moment is as follows:
from keras.utils import plot_model
from keras.applications.resnet50 import ResNet50
import numpy as np
model = ResNet50(weights='imagenet')
plot_model(model, to_file='model.png')
When I use the aforementioned code I am able to create a graphical representation (using Graphviz) of ResNet50 and save it in 'model.png'. But I want to create block diagram of the CNN model with the layers instead. An example of my desired output is as follows:
Any idea how I can achieve the aforementioned block diagram programatically instead of just generating the graph diagram of the CNN model?
A:
Here is a comprehensive list of existing solutions (not only for Keras): How do you visualize neural network architectures?.
Pay attention on Netron.
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Q:
Java member access when class has default access
Say I have a class declared with default access. If a member in the class is declared protected or public, is it equivalent to the member being declared with default access?
For example:
In CarA.java:
class CarA { //class declared with default access
public int odometer;
protected void forward(int distance){...
}
protected static void tally(){...
}
}
In CarB.java:
class CarB { //class declared with default access
int odometer;
void forward(int distance){...
}
static void tally(){...
}
}
Are CarA and CarB equivalent?
My reasoning is that since the class is not declared as public, the class is not accessible outside of its package, so its members should not be accessible outside of its package as well. Could someone confirm my thinking is correct?
A:
No, they're not equivalent. Define these in the same package:
public class CarC extends CarA { }
public class CarD extends CarB { }
And in a different package:
import your.package.CarC;
import your.package.CarD;
public class NewClass
{
public static void tryThis(CarC c, CarD d) {
int n1 = c.odometer; // legal
int n2 = d.odometer; // illegal
}
}
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The disclosure relates generally to blades, and more particularly, to a cooling circuit feed duct, a cooling circuit exhaust duct, and a related cooling structure.
Blades are used in turbine applications to direct hot gas flows and generate power from the gas flows. For example, in steam and gas turbine applications, stationary blades are referred to as nozzles, and are mounted to an exterior structure such as a casing and/or an internal seal structure by endwalls. Each endwall couples to an end of the airfoil of the blade.
In order to operate in extreme temperature settings, the airfoil and endwalls need to be cooled. For example, in some settings, a cooling fluid is pulled from a cooling fluid source in the form of the wheel space and directed to internal end walls for cooling. In contrast, in many gas turbine applications, later stage nozzles may be fed cooling fluid, e.g., air, extracted from a source such as a compressor. Outer diameter endwalls receive the cooling fluid directly, while inner diameter endwalls receive the cooling fluid after it is routed through the airfoil from the outer diameter. For example, this routing may be performed by passing the cooling fluid through an impingement insert (also known as a baffle) within a core passage of the airfoil and into a pressurized diaphragm that is separate from and positioned radially internal from the endwall. Once the cooling fluid is in the diaphragm, the cooling fluid is directed radially outward to a cooling circuit in the endwall. The endwall cooling circuit can take a variety of forms such as a pin-pedestal arrangement, an impingement arrangement and/or serpentine passage in the endwall that directs the cooling fluid to necessary portions of the cores thereof. One challenge relative to cooling circuits is ensuring the cooling fluid flow reaches all regions of the cooling circuit, e.g., corners of the circuit, and does not stagnate with inactive velocity. |
Q:
Close app when minimized
I have similar problem like this.
On start my app displays a splash screen and checks via network if the current user is still premium.
My problem: I started my app right before I went to bed and minimized it by pressing the home button. In the morning I launched the app again and it resumed the activity from the night. The app never really quit, my splash screen was not shown and and it couldn't check if the user is still premium.
So how can I achieve my app to be closed after a certain time (e.g. when the app is minimized)?
But the problem is there is a portion in the app where I can view videos in full screen and here I use android's default player. So when the app is minimized while watching and then again open the app onResume will not be called and cannot check whether it is a registered user or not. The video player will continue to play the video. Is there any method so that I can kill the app when the video is playing and minimised?? is there any method which is called when the app is minimised using home key press?? Is it possible in every device to detect the home keypress event and write some code there?? Please help with some fresh ideas!!!
A:
Now I know why my reputation is always low. Thanks Dan Hulme. You are right I just want to use the app lifecycle correctly. I want to use onRestart not onResume. And that have done the work for me. Thanks all.
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Review – Based on the Robert Ludlum film almost in name only, Doug Liman took the nuts and bolts of the espionage from the experiences of his father Arthur, who grilled the likes of Oliver North during the Iran-Contra trial along with other events during his time in the National Security Administration during the Reagan administration. The character of Jason Bourne, as conceived by Liman and portrayed by Damon, is one who becomes calmer during conflict. The fighting style exhibited with Damon doing nearly all of his own stunt work is called eskrima. The close hand to hand fights are exhilarating to watch as he economizes his movements and each combatant is quickly reassessing their strategy in an efficient, calculating way. More than this, the dialogue is smart, expressive and intriguing.
Cooper, Stiles and especially Cox lead a stellar cast of remote antagonists, while Clive Owen leads a creepily effective group of assassins essentially several other Bourne types. Each of these operates effectively on their own to give the real appearance of an almost inescapable web.
In the center of this web, Damon and Potente create a believable bond light on theatrics and heavy on real tension. The Bourne Identity is filmed in several beautiful places throughout Rome, but these places feel populated by genuine people. They truly are set back by their shared dilemma. When more is revealed, we do not have a false crisis, but instead, thinking through, the next move is the most logical,. Every step forward is with purpose and, while not obvious, intelligently connected to the resolution. Details are there, but they are not obvious.
The pacing for this film sets a template for the following films. It is frenetic at times, reserved at other times, but overall, we have a good, and almost great, starting point. Liman has a hand in the other two films as producer, creating a cohesion that makes this one of the strongest series of recent memory.
Best Sequence – The best moment in this film is, surprisingly, one of the quietest moments. The scene in the hotel where Bourne coaches Marie down to the step. Waiting outside, he gets nervous when she misses her cue. Why she misses it is a moment of pure gold.
With these words, we have Jason Bourne unleashed. The movie, more importantly, the series, takes a turn that prevents it from being the same movie again to something entirely different from we have seen before in an espionage thriller. Even more, what could have been a simple tale of revenge is made into something more. Damon’s acting ability is pushed to the minimalist ledge, as we are parsed bits of information while the story unfolds. He becomes more human as his machine-like skills get sharper. His mission is intensified and cemented in cinematic history under the unparalleled directing skill of Greengrass. Unique camera angles, quick cuts and a soundtrack that ratchets the story while making an incredible amount of sense.
The acting for this film is incredible. Joan Allen as Landy is a master stroke replacement for Cooper. Cox becomes even more wily and dangerous as his cover is blown and he exists right out in the open. The scenes between the two have a wonderfully dense garvity. Julia Stiles begins a luminous journey as well that will carry on into the last act.
The fight scenes are remarkable. Unlike Bond films that need ridiculous gadgets that people with lab coats work on, we see Bourne improvise. There is a fight scene where he literally uses a magazine as a weapon that is exhilarating as it is awe inspiring. As a renegade from the secret world of those who want to hold power, Bourne gives a glimmer of hope that some shred of humanity can defend us from them.
Best Sequence – The fluid action scenes were a new way to view action and there is much to gawk at in this film that is remarkably well put together, as far as action goes. Yet it’s a simple act of atonement at the end of the film that stands out for me.
Starting slightly before the end of The Bourne Supremacy, we find Bourne suffering still from flashbacks, this time further back during his training. It is a journey designed to take Bourne back to where it begins, as he promises Marie’s brother. This time, everything is touched off with one word; “Blackbriar.” This, of course, is represented first by Cox’s Ward Abbott in front of an unnamed committee at the end of the first film. Countering Bourne at this time is Strathairn, playing Blackbriar director Noah Varson. The game of mental chess featuring the two brings a terse, fulfilling conclusion to the series.
The overall feeling of the film existing though crowded streets and out in the open in general keeps the tension alive and real. The scenes are cut with a precision of a master in a style that has been imitated by hacks like Tony Scott, but never duplicated. In Jason Bourne, Greengrass has one of the best assets available. He gets calmer, more deadly and precise as the circumstances dictate one might do the opposite. This helps to counter the paranoid feeling of being surrounded by technology which is designed, seemingly, to keep power in the hands of those who’ve become comfortable abusing it. Greengrass’ skill as director is to bring the complexity of a dense plot and break it down to a moment by moment survival.
Back in the states, we again see Joan Allen’s Landy matching wits with men who think she has no clue. That she can figure it out on the fly and, by now, become an asset for the good is delicious. Stiles’ agent Parsons makes an even bigger commitment, hinting, but not bludgeoning with the idea that the two have a past. The most remarkable thing about The Bourne Ultimatum is that, for all the physical confrontations that he undertakes, he does everything he can to avoid killing. The violence is as desperate as it is brutal, but it always serves a purpose.
Damon’s acting here is a steady progression since the first film, and it reveals a contemplative side so gradually, you are pulled in with him, instead of dragged along with him. Undoubtedly one of the best performances in an action film series in the history of cinema.
The soundtrack created by John Powell, even more than in the first two films, is intense, brilliant and memorable. Moby’s excellent theme song says Bourne as well as anything else in the film.
Best Sequence – The chase scene in Tangiers excels on so many levels and at such an exhaustive pace. It is a scene made more resonant with Bourne’s desire for redemption after Marie. |
Advertising and promotion of medical devices.
Dr. Portnoy, a former senior clinical reviewer and manager for the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, provides guidance for determining acceptable practices for the claims, content, and appearance of advertising and promotional materials for medical devices. In the course of doing so, he discusses important regulatory and legal precedents, and provides examples of successful and problematic advertising and promotion strategies including those that resulted in FDA Warning Letters, enforcement activities, and in some cases, monetary and criminal penalties. |
Freedom of Information in Post-Communist Countries: Case Studies of the Czech Republic, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
by Hampton, Ellen M.
Abstract (Summary)
The freedom of the public to access government information is one of the cornerstones of democracy. Free access to information allows citizens to monitor their government, to keep it accountable to the people it represents and to become engaged in the democratic process. With the end of the Cold War and the fall of communism, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe began the process of democratization, and free access to information has been an important aspect of that transformation.
This paper examines the relationships between freedom of information and post-communist democratization. What types of laws have post-communist put in place to ensure free access to government information? How has the process of joining the European Union affected information access? Has increased information access affected the levels of government transparency? After a discussion of these topics and the current political and information science literature which address them, I will explore these topics specifically through case studies of three countries: the Czech Republic, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
While each of these three countries have the legal structures in place to ensure free access to information, the Czech Republic, farther along in its democratic development than Croatia or Bosnia, allows its citizens to access government information more easily. However, as Croatia and Bosnia join the European Union, hopefully both democratic governments and further access to government information will follow. |
Anse Boileau
Anse Boileau is an administrative district on the south of the island of Mahé in the Seychelles. Anse Boileau encapsulates the natural wonders of the Seychelles: it sits at the foot of a steep, green mountain, it is on the shores of the Indian Ocean, and in its midst are streams, mini-forests, creeks, ponds, and an enchanting array of all that defines the Seychellois landscape. It is often described as a fishing village because many of the local residents fish for a living. It has a school, a restaurant, a number of grocery shops, a health centre, and a police station. It is a short distance away from Anse La Mouche, a popular tourist destination. Anse Boileau is so-called because of its many coves.
References
External links
Anse Boileau review of the beach
Category:Districts of Seychelles
Category:Mahé, Seychelles |
Q:
Hibernate column with list
I want to create a hibernate table which can store a list of values. I am doing something like:
@Column(name = "userHobbies")
@ElementCollection(targetClass = String.class)
@CollectionTable(schema = "school", name = "hobby", joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "id"))
private List<String> userHobbies= null;
In the table User I do not see a column "userHobbies". A table hobby is created though which is empty. Can anyone suggest something regarding how to tackle such cases, please?
EDIT:
Code to insert new records to User with hobbies:
ArrayList<String> hobbies= new ArrayList<String>();
hobbies.add(football);
hobbies.add(soccer);
User user = new User();
user.setName("ben");
user.setEmail("XYZ@gmail.com");
user.setUserHobbies(hobbies);
getDAO().makePersistent(user);
Except the userHobbies all other fields are saved correctly.
A:
That's the expected result. @CollectionTable is used to specify the name of the table where every element of the list is stored (name = "hobby"). joinColumns is used to specify the name of the column(s) which is used, in this hobby table, to store the reference to its owning user. And @Column is used to specify the name of the column, in the hobby table, that holds the element value (the hobby name).
So you'll end up with this, very similar to a OneToMany mapping:
Table user:
ID (primary key), name, ...
Table hobby:
ID (foreign key referencing user.ID), userHobbies
I would name the column "hobby" or "hobbyName" rather than "userHobbies", since it holds a single hobby.
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The Old Boys' Blog
Although we were lacking success on the sports field during last week our cultural dimension came to the fore later in the week. We tried a new approach and joined forces with NPBHS to gain considerable success in the Big Sing choral event on Thursday night, the Chamber Music competitions on Friday night and the Rockquest on Saturday night. Our next couple of posts will celebrate a few of these great results.
First up is a report from Jane Connolly on the Chamber Music event.
We had four students entered in a combined BHS and FDMC group on Friday night at the Chamber Music Contest. This group named 'Gladys and the Pips' (Gladys being Josh Connolly's cello) played David Hamilton's Miniature Concerto: Going for Baroque, Lullaby and Hoedown. David Hamilton had arranged the score specifically for their instrumentation and it was very beneficial for this group to be able to workshop with David Hamilton on this piece. It was fantastic when they gained first placing and also won the prize for playing a New Zealand composition. |
Hygrophanous
The adjective hygrophanous refers to the color change of mushroom tissue (especially the pileus surface) as it loses or absorbs water, which causes the pileipellis to become more transparent when wet and opaque when dry.
When identifying hygrophanous species, one needs to be careful when matching colors to photographs or descriptions, as color can change dramatically soon after picking.
Genera that are characterized by hygrophanous species include Agrocybe, Psathyrella, Psilocybe, Panaeolus, and Galerina.
External links
IMA Mycological Glossary: Hygrophanous
Wisconsin Mycological Society: Psathyrella Photographs of Psathyrella, a mushroom with a strongly hygrophanous pileus.
Category:Fungal morphology and anatomy |
import page from 'page'
import user from '../user/user.js'
import config from '../config/config.js'
let hidden = config.visibility === 'hidden'
export default function (ctx, next) {
if (!hidden) return next()
if (user.logged()) return next()
page('/signin')
}
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Inspired by Dr. Slammy’s insightful and illuminating piece, Is America ready for an honest conversation about abortion yet?
My wife’s wise words notwithstanding, they’re representative of those who view abortion as a women’s rights issue. But to pro-lifers, that concern is dwarfed by one much larger: preventing murder. Furthermore, to them, a woman’s right to control her own body not only palls before the need to save a life, but is indicative of the me-first syndrome that threatens to rend the fabric of society as sure as abortion does.
As an unambiguous proponent of abortion, I feel that I can afford to give pro-lifers the benefit of the doubt. Let’s assume that they actually are more interested in saving lives than keeping women in their place. Also, out of respect to pro-lifers, let’s drag out that old war-horse of a question –- is abortion murder? — and flog it again.
My personal spiritual exploration has led me to conclude that life may begin at conception, but strictly as a seed. Pro-lifers need to give their deity more credit: Would a just God insert a soul into an undeveloped body and brain?
What do pro-lifers think a soul would be doing in a fetus that size during the first two trimesters? Twiddling its thumbs? Maybe, if they were more developed. Life in a fetus is the equivalent of a coma.
Second, pro-choicers, however, need to cede that there really is a “cide” side to abortion, as in infanticide. A hint of abandoning the newborn on the steppes. However, the extinguishment quotient is less than in euthanizing a pet.
Running from it only encourages that tiny seed of denied guilt over abortion to grow like the aborted fetus doesn’t. Of course, making the case to pro-lifers that “It’s just like putting a sick dog to sleep” will only add insult to injury. But it’s of immense benefit to those pro-choicers who like to think that the issue of human life is entirely extraneous to abortion.
The Real Reason It’s Called a Mothership
Meanwhile, aboard a mothership on the edge of our solar system, an alien version of an ob-gyn wields a long pipette. To an attending doctor, he transmits: “Aren’t earthling abortion quarrels quaint? The energy earthlings squander over them would be better spent saving their ecosphere from the same kind of certain destruction that ours suffered.
“Otherwise, within a generation, the whole abortion argument will be moot. Earth’s spoiled environment will ravage their females’ ovaries and render them sterile, just as happened with ours.”
Bending to his task, he asks, “Is the earth woman sufficiently distended?”
When his assistant nods, he inserts the alien sperm.
Once the doctor removes the pipette and straightens, his assistant turns to him.
“Wait a minute. Then who’s going to supply us with eggs and carry our fetuses to full term?” |
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Yangshuo Yulong River阳朔遇龙河
About this place
Yulong River is the biggest branch of the Li River in YangShuo County. The clear water runs smoothly past fields,farmhouses, trees and mountains. Traveling by bamboo raft you will be surrounded by the crystal water and feel relaxed and happy in the arms of the green mountains. Looking from the mountaintops, you can see a vivid panorama of the landscape with the green crystal water flowing through the colorful valley below. Tourists are entranced with the harmonious picture of women washing clothes beside the river,ducks swimming on the river,bamboo rafts moving under the old bridge,and farmers working in the fields.Yulong has a different kind of beauty than the Li River. Along the Yulong River you can find Fuli Bridge, Guiyi Original Site, Ancient Village, Xiangui Bridge, the Zhus'Camp,Chuan Cave, Rhinoceros Deep Pool, Zhaoyang Camp, Seven Stars and other scenic spots.
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A river flowing with this aura, a river-style "small Lijiang, "her clear of the water too! People living in the city, as long as she approached, a surge of deep sense of intimacy will not stop spontaneously, immediately jumped into the river and wait for her as one solution. Gentle and calm river is not the slightest ripple, fish shuttle between the dark green plants, red pebbles in playing Chu, blue sky and white clouds, moon and stars, clear thing that catches the water, with occasional fisherman's raft is coming, people Perhaps not tell he is in heaven or earth? Yulong the scenery is so beautiful! Read less |
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Although this looks like a bit more code, it's essentially the same logic we built up before in our application.js file, but it's a little better organized. When we instantiate a Chat object, we initialize a few variables with a null value. As we begin connecting to and configuring our chat instance, we'll populate these variables with the appropriate values.
After the variables are defined, we call an initialize method, which has the logic for fetching our token. When the token is received, we create a client and then send the client to the setupClient method which attempts to find or create the "general" channel. Once the channel is available, it's passed to a setupChannel method that stores a reference to the channel and calls the joinChannel method.
Finally, the join channel method checks that we haven't already joined the channel, then it joins the channel and logs the message that we created previously. |
<html><body><div class="content"><div class="item"><div class="clj"><div class="c-head">(vertical? entity)</div><div class="c-doc"><p>Returns true if <code>entity</code> is a <code>vertical</code>.</p></div></div><div class="c-head">Source</div><div class="c-src"><pre>(defn vertical?
[entity]
(instance? VerticalGroup (u/get-obj entity :object)))</pre></div></div></div></body></html> |
import {Component, EventEmitter} from '@angular/core';
import {
FORM_DIRECTIVES,
FormBuilder,
ControlGroup,
Control,
Validators
} from '@angular/common';
import Pizza from './pizza';
@Component({
selector: 'ngc-pizza-editor',
templateUrl: 'app/pizza-editor.html',
inputs: ['pizza'],
outputs: ['pizzaChange']
})
export default class PizzaEditor {
pizzaForm: ControlGroup;
pizza: Pizza;
pizzaChange: EventEmitter = new EventEmitter();
constructor(
) {
}
onSubmit() {
this.pizzaChange.emit(this.pizzaForm.value);
}
}
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Q:
firebaseui-ios FirebaseTableViewDataSource synchronisation with UITableView
I'm using FirebaseUI-IOS and the FirebaseTableViewDataSource to bind to my UITableView. For my implementation the UITableView should show Invitations in a 'pending' state to connect users, similar to LinkedIn. The Invitation data stored in Firebase has a Status key that can be either 'pending', 'accepted' or 'rejected'. I am struggling to get the UITableView to update and display only the 'pending' rows after the user has accepted/rejected an invitation. What currently happens is that the UITableView cell gets updated (the name label changes to it's default text), but the cell is still displayed. It seems that the UITableView is bound to all rows under the user's 'received' node, rather than responding to when the status != 'pending'.
My data in Firebase is structured as follows:
Firebase 'Invitation' data structure
I am using the following code in ViewDidLoad() to initialise the FirebaseTableViewDataSource and populate the cell:
//Initialise a Firebase reference to the authorised user's 'received' invitations data
self.ref = Firebase(url: "\(kFBInvitationsUsersRef)/\(authData.uid)/received")
//Query the location for invitations where the status is pending only
self.ref.queryOrderedByChild("status").queryStartingAtValue(InvitationStatus.pending.rawValue).queryEndingAtValue(InvitationStatus.pending.rawValue).observeEventType(.ChildChanged , withBlock: {(snapshot) in
} )
//Assign the tableview datasource to a new FirebaseTableViewDataSource instance using the Firebase ref created above
self.dataSource = FirebaseTableViewDataSource(query: self.ref, modelClass:nil, prototypeReuseIdentifier: "invitationCell", view: self.tableView)
//Call the populateCellWithBlock method and configure the cell
self.dataSource.populateCellWithBlock { (cell: UITableViewCell, obj: NSObject) -> Void in
let cell = cell as! InvitationTableViewCell
let snap = obj as! FDataSnapshot
if let status = snap.value["status"] as? String where status == InvitationStatus.pending.rawValue {
let userRef = Firebase(url: "\(kFBUsersPublicRef)/\(snap.key)")
userRef.observeSingleEventOfType(.Value, withBlock: {snapshot in
let user = User(key: snapshot.key, displayName: snapshot.value["displayName"] as! String, givenName: snapshot.value["givenName"] as! String, familyName: snapshot.value["familyName"] as! String)
cell.user = user
cell.delegate = self
})
}
}
self.tableView.dataSource = self.dataSource
self.tableView.delegate = self
}
Can anyone help diagnose what I'm doing wrong here? Is my approach correct?
Thank you for any help you can provide!
A:
I've changed my approach to this to find a solution. I've modified my data structure in Firebase so that the statuses become keys. I then bind the FirebaseTableViewDataSource to the reference for the 'pending' key. When the user accepts/rejects the invitation it gets deleted from the 'pending' node and created on the 'accepted'/'rejected' node. The tableView now updates as expected when new 'pending' invitations are added or existing 'pending' invitations are accepted/rejected.
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Functional anatomy and sexual dimorphism of the cephalic clasper in the pacific ratfish (Chimaera collei).
The cephalic clasper of the male Chimaera collei is a cartilaginous rod equipped with denticles and presumably used to grasp the female during copulation. It is attached to the skull by ligaments but there is no joint cavity or articular surface. It has no intrinsic muscles, its movements being provided by attachments to muscles of the lower jaw and labial cartilages. The cephalic clasper is apparently elevated by a branch of the preorbitalis muscle, whose main function is to elevate the lower jaw. It appears to be forcefully depressed during copulation by M. levator anguli oris, whose primary function is to move the labial cartilages. When not in use, the cephalic clasper is held passively depressed by an elastic tendon from M. preorbitalis. In the female the cephalic clasper is represented by an apparently functionless rudiment. |
Q:
What would be the best design by OOP to add a new requirement functionality
So I am facing some design issue and I am not sure how to solve it.
Let's say we have this code
objectA.UserId;
objectA.ValueOne = new DerivedServiceOne().Calculate(values);
objectA.ValueTwo = new DerivedServiceTwo().Calculate(values);
objectA.ValueThree = new DerivedServiceThree().Calulate(values)
These services sharing the same interface IBaseService.
Somewhere down the line comes a new requirement that ever valueTwo calculation I should send to FirebaseNotification by passing userId. As well in _notificationService I have some additional logic because sometimes I don't send ValueTwo (business logic)
objectA.ValueOne = new DerivedServiceOne().Calculate(values);
objectA.ValueTwo = new DerivedServiceTwo().Calculate(values);
_notificationService.ValidateValueTwoAndPush(userId, objectA.ValueTwo)
objectA.ValueThree = new DerivedServiceThree().Calulate(values)
What are the best solutions? I don't want to break the Open/Close principle. I can try to put all that logic into DerivedServiceTwo (with new dependencies) but then I will break LSP as well an additional parameter in
Calculate method appears (userId) and it breaks SRP.
A:
Personally, I am never one to get caught up on all this OOP. Generally, I'll implement logic where it needs to go and then abstract/refactor; rather than worrying about what principles I may or may not satisfy.
Nonetheless, it seems like you what you want is to provide a mechanism for any service to trigger a Firebase notification based on some event. I'm going to make the assumption that you might want to add in different notification services later, so I'll tailor my answer to that specification.
Keeping OOP in mind, our primary concern should be to encapsulate the logic of the notification service. Furthermore, we want the service to trigger the notification independent of the client code (i.e. the client shouldn't have to call the _notificationService.ValidateValueTwoAndPush method.
Suppose that we have a notification service class that faciliates all communication between our app and the various notification services. A barebones definition of this class might be:
public class NotificationService
{
public void Trigger(object value, NotificationServiceType serviceDestination)
{
// ...
}
}
where the Trigger method sends a notification with the specified value to the destination specfiied by the serviceDestination parameter. The implementation of the Trigger method can be as complex or simple as you want; however, what is important is that you have some mechanism for triggering notifications—via the NotificationService class.
We now need some way of passing the notification service into the rest of our services. One way, perhaps the simplest, is to make NotificationService a singleton. This is great if you'll only ever have one but if you need to make more than one, this is not an ideal solution.
Another way is to pass the service into all services that require it. This might be done by creating an abstract class that requires that a NotificationService is passed into the constructor.
public abstract class NotificationSender
{
protected NotificationService NotificationServiceInstance { get; private set; }
public NotificationSender(NotificationService notificationService)
{
NotificationServiceInstance = notificationService;
}
// ...
}
Finally, all your services can inherit from this abstract class if they wish to send notifications. In doing so, they will be required to call the NotificationSender base constructor.
public class FooService : NotificationSender, IBaseService
{
public FooService(...parameters, NotificationService notificationService)
: base(notificationService)
{
// ...
}
public void SomeMethod()
{
// ...
// Sometime I want to send a notification...
NotificationServiceInstance.Trigger(...);
}
}
Of course, you can get really complex with this idea. However, this is a basic OOP idea that should help you clean up the code.
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DESCRIPTION (Verbatim from the applicant's abstract): The covalent modification of proteins plays a central role in regulating most cellular processes. A newly discovered protein modification, involving attachment of the small ubiquitin-related protein SUMO, is found in all eukaryotes and has been implicated in the yeast cell cycle and in pathologic states including inflammation and tumorigenesis. The set of known sumoylated proteins is growing rapidly, suggesting that sumoylation may be a widespread mechanism for controlling protein activity. In the background work to this proposal, the first three Saccharomyces cerevisiae SUMO substrates have been identified as members of the septin family of cytoskeletal proteins. SUMO conjugation is tightly regulated; septins are sumoylated exclusively during mitosis, and the overall pattern of yeast SUMO conjugates changes dramatically during the cell cycle. However, it is not known how individual proteins are targeted for sumoylation, how this process is regulated, or what factors are required. The hypothesis guiding this work is that there are specific targeting factors that select individual proteins for sumoylation and that sumoylation is regulated by modulating the interaction between the targeting factor and its substrate. No such targeting factors have yet been identified for any SUMO substrate. The yeast septins are an outstanding model for studying targeting and regulation of sumoylation, as septin sumoylation is intricately regulated. Septins are also the only known yeast SUMO substrates and are by far the most abundant SUMO conjugates in G/M-arrested yeast, making them uniquely amenable to both molecular genetic and biochemical analyses. The aims of this project are to identify the targeting factors that select septins for sumoylation, to determine how septin sumoylation is regulated, to dissect the domains in the targeting factor and in the septins that confer specificity on their interaction, and to analyze the physiological role of septin sumoylation. An attractive candidate to be the targeting factor has already been identified, which will facilitate many of these studies. The SUMO conjugation pathway is a highly conserved system that is only at the early stages of exploration. The basic components and mechanisms discovered by investigating septin sumoylation are likely to be common features in the sumoylation of all eukaryotic SUMO substrates. Consequently, the fundamental understanding of SUMO conjugation provided by these studies should illuminate the role of SUMO not only in yeast septin function but also in inflammation and cancer. |
Q:
Tooltip for the rollback link is incomplete
The tooltip text is currently:
"sets the current revision to this version of the post, resetting any"
I propose the sentence be completed.
A:
My bad here. Didn't catch the embedded "s when localizing this page.
Fixed in the next build, later today.
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namespace XSharp.Assembler.x86.x87
{
[XSharp.Assembler.OpCode("fmul")]
public class FloatMul : InstructionWithDestinationAndSourceAndSize
{
}
} |
Microscopic polyangiitis presenting as a "pulmonary-muscle" syndrome: is subclinical alveolar hemorrhage the mechanism of pulmonary fibrosis?
Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) may present with a syndrome that resembles idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). We describe an MPA patient with the clinical presentation of a "pulmonary-muscle" syndrome in which interstitial lung disease antedated the onset of myopathy. Identification of vasculitis on muscle biopsy was instrumental in recognizing clinical, radiographic, and histopathologic features that were more characteristic of MPA than of IPF. Institution of glucocorticoid and cyclophosphamide therapy led to the induction of a complete remission. The histologic findings in this case implicate subclinical episodes of alveolar hemorrhage as the mechanism of interstitial lung disease in MPA. |
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