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Minimum Wages in Ghana with effect from 01-05-2013 to 30-04-2014
Minimum Wages in Ghana with effect from 01-05-2013 to 30-04-2014 https://alrei.org/research/data-bases/minimum-wages/ghana/archive/minimum-wages-in-ghana-with-effect-from-01-05-2013-to-30-04-2014 https://alrei.org/@@site-logo/wageindicator.png
Currency: GHS (Cedi (Ghana))
Minimum Wage per Day
Hours per day specified: 8
The Revised Daily Minimum Wage for the year 2014 is fixed at GHȻ6. The new wages came into effect from May 1, 2014. It has been increased by about 14,5 percent from GHȻ5.24 by the National Tripartite Committee (NTC) at the consultation of its 2014 National Daily Minimum Wage (NDMW) meeting on April 30, 2014.
After deep negotiations, government also agreed to give public sector workers 10 percent of their basic annual salary as Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
In the Labour Act 651, every worker is entitled to be paid his or her remuneration for public holidays.
Where a worker in an undertaking works after the hours of work fixed by the rules of that undertaking, the additional hours done shall be regarded as overtime work. Notwithstanding, a worker may be required to work beyond the fixed hours of work without additional pay in certain exceptional circumstances including accident threatening human lives or the very existence of the undertaking.
In any undertaking every worker is entitled to not less than fifteen working days leave with full pay in any calender year of continuous service.
By law the maximum working week is 45 hours but collective bargaining has established a 40-hour week for most unionized workers.
This page is maintained by Mywage.org/Ghana and WageIndicator Foundation.
Cite this page © WageIndicator 2020 - ALREI.org - Minimum Wages in Ghana with effect from 01-05-2013 to 30-04-2014
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Find Exhibitors: / Sheemetz Co., Ltd.
Sheemetz is sheet metal manufacturing company. Sheemetz can make sheet metal products from steel, stainless, and aluminum. And Sheemetz can complete your order within only 1 week, even if it's just 1 time and only 1 amount order. Sheemetz's production is used in many industries.
CA Carson Sheemetz Co., Ltd.
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Dr. Otto Warburg, the German doctor, Nobel Prize winner in 1913 found the real cancer cause. As to this Nobel Laureate, oxygen deficit is the cancer cause that makes also the body acidic. Also he said that cancer cells do not use oxygen but die near it and also dislike alkaline states.
Every normal cell needs oxygen and healthy ones need it to live, no exceptions. Deprive one cell of oxygen for 35% and after 48 hours it will become cancer.
The pH balance is balance between acidity and alkalinity of cells, fluids and everything inside us. The pH must be slightly alkaline or 7.365 to survive. The balance depends on our diet and an average USA diet is mostly acidic foods, GMO, fast food and refined grains. Too much acidic pH will lead to issues like heartburn, heart problems, diabetes, osteoporosis and even cancer.
Robert O. Young said many health problems are due to acidity, parasites, viruses, candida and such are all due to it. Then again alkalinity can make bacteria neutral and the body will be healthy.
Mix them all and see the mix fizz. Also keep on adding the baking soda until this fizzing stops and add the 8 oz water.
Have this at once and reduce acidity, aid the belly and make the whole body alkaline.
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Anette Ingegerd Olsson, millor coneguda com a Anette Olzon i també coneguda com a Anette Blyckert, és una cantant sueca, més coneguda com l'excantant de la banda finlandesa de metal simfònic Nightwish. Olzon va ser vocalista de la banda sueca Alyson Avenue.
Biografia i carrera
Olzon va néixer el 21 de juny de 1971 a Katrineholm, Suècia. Des de molt petita va demostrar aptituds per a la música, tocant l'oboè i participant des dels 13 anys en diverses competicions de talents. Va començar a estudiar música en el Music Conservatorie a Copenhagen, Dinamarca.
Olzon es va unir a la seva primera banda amb 17 anys: un grup que es deia Take Cover. Als 21 anys, va obtenir el paper protagonista en l'òpera rock "Gränsland". També va fer un duet amb Michael Bormann (ex cantant de Jaded Heart) a l'àlbum Conspiracy.
El seu treball més conegut és Nightwish, a la qual va arribar al 2007 per a substituir la finlandesa Tarja Turunen, expulsada del grup.
El 3 de març del 2010 va anunciar el seu segon embaràs i la cancel·lació del seu disc solista fins a nou avis. El 30 de juny de 2010 va néixer el seu segon fill, amb un pes de 3930 grams i 52 cm d'altura.
L'1 d'octubre de 2012 es confirmà oficialment la seva sortida del grup Nightwish a mitjan gira Imaginaerum World Tour per diverses desavinences. La seva substituta seria Floor Jansen.
El 2014 va publicar el seu àlbum solista Shine. Ella va fer uns pocs concerts per promocionar l'àlbum.
Des 2017 canta a la banda The Dark Element, on ha gravat dos àlbums. Alhora, des de 2020 canta a Allen / Olzon, un projecte amb Russell Allen.
Discografia
Alyson Avenue
"Presence of Mind" (2000)
"Omega" (2004)
"I Am (Your Pleasuremaker)" (EP, 2006)
Nightwish
Àlbums
"Dark Passion Play" (2007)
"Imaginaerum" (2011)
Senzills
"Eva" (2007)
"Amaranth" (2007)
"Bye Bye Beautiful" (2008)
"The Islander" (2008)
"Storytime" (2011)
"The Crow, the Owl and the Dove" (2012)
Solo
Àlbums
"Shine" (2014)
EPs
"Vintersjäl / Cold Outside" (2016)
Senzills
"Falling" (2013)
"Lies" (2014)
"Shine" (2015)
The Dark Element
Àlbums
"The Dark Element" (2017)
"Songs the Night Sings" (2019)
Allen/Olzon
Àlbums
"Worlds Apart" (2020)
Cantants suecs
Nightwish
Persones del Comtat de Södermanland
Cantants en suec
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Pickens woman kidnapped, forced into lake, deputies say
Pickens County deputies are investigating an alleged kidnapping that left a 66-year-old woman stranded by an Upstate highway.
Pickens woman kidnapped, forced into lake, deputies say Pickens County deputies are investigating an alleged kidnapping that left a 66-year-old woman stranded by an Upstate highway. Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2018/04/16/abandoned-vehicle-leads-deputies-alleged-kidnapping-victim/519759002/
Elizabeth LaFleur, [email protected] Published 8:54 a.m. ET April 16, 2018 | Updated 9:33 a.m. ET April 16, 2018
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The Pickens County Sheriff's Office is investigating an alleged kidnapping and seeking information about a suspect after a woman was found stranded near an Upstate highway on Sunday.
Pickens County deputies were called around 12:30 p.m. Sunday by the Oconee County Sheriff's Office in reference to an abandoned Jeep Cherokee registered to a Pickens County resident.
Deputies said the vehicle was found on the side of Highway 183 near the Oconee Nuclear Station in Oconee County. The owner of the vehicle, a 66-year-old woman, was found nearby.
Deputies said the woman reported she was abducted by an unknown male wearing an orange mask while she was attempting to enter her vehicle at her home on Holly Springs Road in Pickens County.
The woman told deputies the man forced her to drive him to various locations near the lake around 11 a.m. Sunday before he made her stop on Highway 183 and exit the vehicle.
Deputies said the man forced the victim to go through a wooded area to the water's edge where he pushed her into the lake.
A security officer from the Oconee Nuclear Station later saw the victim in the water near the property and was able to assist her, according to a release from the Pickens County Sheriff's Office.
The victim was not seriously injured.
Deputies have not identified or located a suspect and a motive has not yet been determined, according to the release.
The suspect is described as about 6' tall with a medium build. He was last seen wearing a blue sweat shirt and black pants.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Pickens County Sheriff's Office at (864) 898-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-888-CRIMESC.
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Upyna (pol. Upina) – miasteczko na Litwie, położone w okręgu tauroskim w rejonie szyłelskim, 21 km na wschód od Szyłeli, 409 mieszkańców (2001). Siedziba gminy Upyna.
Znajduje się tu kościół katolicki, szkoła, poczta i muzeum.
Na miejscowym cmentarzu w 1904 roku pochowany został Jan Staniewicz
Od 2009 miasteczko posiada własny herb nadany dekretem Prezydenta Republiki Litewskiej.
Zabytki
Drewniany, trójnawowy kościół świętego Jana i świętej Teresy zbudowany w 1835.
Przypisy
Linki zewnętrzne
Miasteczka w okręgu tauroskim
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I am an independent pharmacist in Alabama for 25 years. I have been divorced since 1996 and i feel like i need a partner to spend my retired life with. I like to read and exercise,work in my yard and travel. I have a nice home on a river and my son is an engineer.
I am looking for a nice looking educated girl well groomed, with good habits who likes to travel.
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Amazing Points You Can Learn From Music.
Do you recognize what songs is? This concern has inhabited the minds of lots of people from a long time. Nevertheless, very few of them know specifically what it implies. Music, in its most simple kind, is the development of audios. Seems can be listened to in songs when there are a harmony of tools and also a practical tempo of the vocals.
The words 'muse' and 'sing' are words that the majority of people connect with music. These 2 words are used synonymously to suggest both 'to sing or hum' and also 'to play a music instrument'. Recognizing the importance of these words is critical to the pursuit for understanding just how music is made. top albums
Songs, in its many basic form, is sound. In other words, it is nothing more than arbitrary sound. Nevertheless, it is this extremely arbitrary noise that produces the beautiful, ariose noise of music. Songs theory helps us to understand this principle in extra detail. Simply put, music concept handle the study of the various audios and notes that make up songs. Knowing the various connections in between the notes and their audio is the vital to being able to properly comprehend the songs that is being played.
While all music has some kind of rhythm, each kind of music has a tendency to have its very own one-of-a-kind rhythm. Comprehending the difference between Rachmaninck's "Rachman" as well as Bach's "Brahms" will certainly aid you appreciate the difference between straightforward folk music and symphonies. By finding out the fundamental concepts of songs, you can utilize this understanding to aid you in valuing any kind of kind of songs.
Music is most easily valued when it has a pace. This allows the listener to more readily follow the rhythm of the item as it moves along. Pace can be tough to master, especially for newbies, yet persistence and practice will certainly aid you accomplish your objective of appreciating music. You can practice straightforward songs and create your understanding of the notes and noises of each note, along with the rhythms that develop.
Learning to appreciate the standard elements of music concept will give you an extra edge over other aiming musicians. Although you might not be a professional artist, you can still take advantage of songs concept in your day-to-day life. Just pay attention to and take notice of the method individuals discuss the music they are paying attention to. If there are discussions about tempo, rhythm, and framework, after that you are obtaining a true understanding of the music.
Music is the craft of setting up sounds in various timing patterns in time to develop a certain composition with the main parts of tune, rhythm, harmony, as well as consistency. Songs has actually been a part of human culture from its starts. It is one of the most universal social expressions of all human cultures. History of songs has actually mapped its beginnings to the earliest remains of human people, using drumsticks as well as various other percussions to create music, using music instruments such as the lyre as well as the flute, the earliest music theory, and the development of music from dental transmission through word of mouth. With the development of written languages, songs has actually gone beyond from the oral societies to the created cultures. muzicfanatic.com
One can go far back in history to locate evidence of songs. Historical finds, inscriptions, paintings, as well as sculptures, all contain hints as to the background and also production of music. A few of these artefacts are still made use of today as decorative pieces and as music instruments.
Art and also songs are not equally exclusive principles. While lots of people might be much more knowledgeable about classical music which was born out of the background of Western classical music, such as Mozart or Beethoven, there likewise existed in the East an equally imaginative as well as influential songs that came from Asia. The Chinese were notorious for their complicated and also melodic tunes. They also made use of the bamboo groove to develop history's earliest songs. The background of songs in China is still delicately linked with that of Chinese culture.
One more significant songs comes from the Polynesian culture these days. Like China, Polynesia additionally commemorated music with the use of bamboo flutes as well as using medicine men or priest-kings. However unlike China, Polynesia had a a lot longer history of music and also the capability to create music and develop symbols in a typical way. The composed language of Polynesian did not establish in the same way it carried out in China and so its history of songs is additionally really diverse and also prolonged.
A quick consider the history of music in Japan will certainly additionally expose an additional crucial note on the significance of harmony within songs. Unlike many Oriental countries where music was purely gender-specific, in Japan it did not appear to be. There were several categories of songs that permitted the expression of individualistic as well as positive facets in a solitary song. The most effective example of this is the yin-yang concept in Japanese music in which a vocalist would certainly frequently contrast the intense and dark parts of a range using the scales. hot tracks
So it can definitely be said that all songs is a manifestation of human feeling. And also in order for any kind of tune to be purposeful, those emotions of people have to be shared and appreciated. Songs has aided us understand ourselves much better and also helped us get in touch with others. Just because an opus upsets our sensibilities doesn't suggest that it is bad art. It might simply suggest that it is sharing something all of us have a need to know and recognize.
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3. All profits made by the "100 Club" will be used to support the work of India Direct in Tamil Nadu.
4. The Lottery will be strictly limited to 100 numbers.
5. The subscription will be £5.00 per month, payable by direct debit or standing order before the 15th day of each month. On receipt of an application form the applicant will be allocated a Draw Number. For each additional monthly payment of £5 (into the 100 club draw) an additional Draw Number will be allocated.
6. A draw will take place every month for cash prizes. Winners of prizes will be notified by post and the results of the draw will be available on request.
7. A total of 45% of the total monthly subscription for the relevant month will be paid out in the form of cash prizes, made up of 20% first prize, 15% second prize and 10% third prize.
8. The draws will be conducted by 3 people, one of whom will be the Promoter (or in his/her absence the Treasurer).
9. No "100 Club" participant will be included in the draw if the appropriate subscription has not been received. The promoter reserves the right to reallocate any Draw Number where payment has not been received on time.
10. Prizes will be paid by bank transfer, only to the account from which payment from the holder of the winning number has been received.
11. Participants can cancel their entry in the Lottery at any time by giving one month's written notice to the promoter. Any decision by India Direct to wind up the "100 Club" will also be by one month's written notice.
12. Under no circumstances can any payments be refunded.
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What would you do if you only had six more months left to live? What if this suddenly happens at the prime time of your life? The main character is a hard working business man, Yukihiro Fujiyama, 48, who suddenly receives a pronouncement that he is in the terminal stages of lung cancer. With only six months left to live, he tries to ascertain what his life meant. His wife, Miwako, fully accepts his decision to "live the moment" rather than seek life-prolonging treatment. Confronted with "death", the couple discovers each other anew as they try to enjoy every minute of the remaining time.
tito Aug 06 2012 3:04 am Simple story set amid thought-provoking screenplay but in a visually and aurally compelling way.
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Home Real Estate Terms What is a Foreclosure?
The term foreclosure is thrown around a lot these days and tends to mean different things to different people. So what is a foreclosure? And what does it mean to you as a home buyer or home owner?
A foreclosure is actually a legal process. This foreclosure process begins when a home owner misses their first mortgage payment. Usually the lender will issue a notice of default if the homeowner is delinquent on even one payment–although this can vary. This very simply means the bank intends to repossess the home and sell it to cover the cost of the outstanding balance on the loan. In Idaho, the homeowner has 115 days from this point (notice of default) to catch up on all past payments and fees or see their home go into foreclosure.
The lender will then issue a notice of sale which sets a foreclosure auction at least 120 days from that point. At the auction the lender attempts to sell the home; if there are no buyers the home becomes Real Estate Owned (REO or Bank Owned).
In real estate there are actually 2 types of foreclosure processes: judicial foreclosure (or foreclosure by judicial sale) and nonjudicial foreclosure (or foreclosure by power of sale). In a Judicial foreclosure the lender must file a lawsuit against the homeowner in a court and the foreclosure is supervised by the court. As you might have guessed, in a nonjudicial foreclosure the supervision of the courts isn't required as was stipulated in the mortgage issued and is instead governed by state statue!
In Idaho most foreclosures are nonjudicial foreclosures (for property smaller than 20 acres).
To avoid foreclosure many homeowners seek to sell their home. If their home's value is lower than the amount owed to the lender they will often seek to do a short sale.
Have questions about how to avoid foreclosure? Contact me. And be sure to subscribe to my monthly newsletter!
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Andrey Rublev Captures Maiden ATP World Tour Title
By: Brandon Wall | July 24, 2017 July 24, 2017
Young Russian Andrey Rublev defeated fourth seeded Italian Paolo Lorenzi 6-4, 6-2 in the final of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Sunday to capture his first ATP World Tour title, becoming only the seventh lucky loser to win an ATP World Tour title.
The 19-year-old made his way through to the last round of qualifying before suffering a 3-6, 5-7 loss to Hungarian Attila Balazs, ranked almost 80 places lower than Rublev. However, luck was on the side of the ATP NextGen star as he was awarded a lucky loser position in the main draw after sixth seed Borna Coric withdrew complaining of neck pain.
Rublev stated, "It's amazing. I have no words to explain it, especially after this tough week. Now I'm here and it's amazing." This caps off a breakthrough performance for the rising star, who had beaten defending champion Fabio Fognini earlier, as well as hometown hopeful Ivan Dodig in the final four, to reach his maiden ATP World Tour final.
Matched against Lorenzi for the first time, Rublev controlled the match from the start, racing to a 4-1 opening set lead. The two breaks of serve were too much to overcome for the Italian as Rublev closed out the first set 6-4, showing impressive poise on the big stage. Ranked over 60 places higher than Rublev, Lorenzi wasn't going to lay down and accept defeat. The match favourite started the second set strongly gaining a 2-1 lead. However, the young blood was too strong, reeling off the next five games in quick succession to capture the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag title in stunning fashion.
Rublev became the first Russian to win in Umag since Nikolay Davydenko back in 2009. With this performance Rublev also becomes the first lucky loser to win a title since 2009, when Rajeev Ram triumphed in Newport, and only the seventh to do so in ATP history.
The right-hander will gain a valuable 250 ATP Ranking points which will catapult him to a career high ranking on Monday. Rublev is also projected to break into the Top 3 in the Emirates ATP Race to Milan, placing him in good stead to compete at the inaugural NextGen ATP Finals at the end of the year. The Russian has shown that he is among the best of the young talent on circuit, rising steadily through the ATP ranks in recent months. We can definitely expect to see a lot more from this 19-year-old in the future as he has already achieved so much in his relatively short career.
Posted in ATP, Featured, newsTagged Andrey Rublev, ATP, ATP Next Gen, Croatia Open, Fabio Fognini, Ivan Dodig, Lucky Loser, Paolo Lorenzi, Russian Tennis
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Mercury to swing in Sydney this weekend
Ben Domensino, 14 September 2018
It will be a weekend of two seasons in Sydney, with a summer-like Saturday giving way to a mild and sunny Sunday.
Spring is usually a time of year when temperatures see-saw markedly in Sydney, as warm inland air is carried across to eastern NSW ahead of approaching cold fronts surging up from the south.
The mercury is forecast to reach 31 degrees across the Sydney Basin on Saturday, which would be the city's first day over 30 degrees this season and one of its warmest days this early in the season during the last decade. Since 2009, only two other years have featured 30 degree days this early in the season at Observatory Hill.
After a taste of summer on Saturday, a blustery change late in the day will drop the mercury across the Basin. Sunday is forecast to be more than 10 degrees cooler, reaching just 17 degrees in the city under sunny skies.
This weekend's warmth comes after Penrith hit 32 degrees on Wednesday afternoon, which was its highest temperature so early in the season for five years.
The average maximum temperature at Sydney's Observatory Hill during September is 20 degrees.
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Just in time for Monday Night Football, fans will be able to place their bets on the Redskins-Eagles game beginning at 3pm on Monday at the Tiverton Casino Hotel in Rhode Island.
After the Twin River Management Group's Lincoln, Rhode Island property was the first casino in New England to begin accepting bets on professional sports, the company announced on Friday that on Monday sports betting will launch at its Tiverton location.
In Lincoln on November 26, the Twin River Casino Hotel opened its non-smoking sportsbook in its dedicated room located on the third floor. Powered by William Hill, the room features upwards of 100 TV screens airing games.
The larger of the two casinos, the Lincoln venue already offered betting on simulcast horse races at its two Racebooks, which are located on the venue's third floor (non-smoking) and on the second floor (smoking). According to the casino's website, soon they will open a second Sportsbook location, Sportsbook Bar & Grill.
Formerly known as Lincoln Park, the Lincoln facility offers 162,000 square-feet of gaming space with more than 5,000 gaming positions. The casino operates over 4,200 slot machines and virtual table games, including blackjack and roulette, along with 119 live table games including blackjack, roulette, craps, a 22-table poker room and more.
The sports betting room at the casino in Tiverton, which opened on September 1 this year, has 11 TV screens airing the games and two terminals for patrons to place bets. A total of 50 TV screens showing the games will reportedly be situated throughout the casino, said Doyle.
The Tiverton Casino Hotel, which is situated on 21 acres includes an 84-room hotel, food, beverage, and entertainment outlets, a fitness center, meeting space and a 38,000 square foot casino with 32 gaming tables and some 1,000 slot machines.
For now, the two Twin River locations are the only places in the state where bets (legally) will be accepted, and only in person. Prior to the opening of the sports book at the Lincoln venue last week, the nearest legalsports book was Meadowlands in New Jersey.
Rhode Island wasted no time in legalizing sports betting after in May this year the U.S. Supreme Court struck down The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) that made most sports gambling illegal. To date, seven US states offer legal sports betting including Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey and Nevada.
According to the media outlet, wagering will not be permitted on Rhode Island teams.
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The quintessential song to me that defined LA in the 70s: Hotel California. And The Eagles truly dominated the 70's era music trends.
LornaDoone wrote: George kinda quiet recently?
I'm going to guess he might be storyboarding for the film he will be directing.
Sooooooooooooo glad to see your post. Was about to put your picture on a milk carton!!!
Joanna wrote: I'm very pleased that Matt Damon got an award.
Haven't seen The Martian yet as I'm waiting for the DVD.
makes no difference. It's well written, sharp and has some very funny scenes.
John Goodman is excellent and so funny at times.
He makes good use of his large face to pull off some great expressions.
Just wondered if anyone across the pond had seen it and what they thought of it ?
I'm happy too that Matt Damon got an award. He deserves it.
Joanna do you watch a lot through Amazon prime? Compare to Netflix or Love Film is amazon prime better?
Hi Nicky. Sorry I can't say whether Amazon Prime is better or not. After paying for Prime annually then many of the TV series are free to watch. Usually 10 or more episodes.
EG... Flesh and Bone was very good, now out on DVD.
I haven't used Netflix or Love Film.
mmhh ok thanks. Maybe I will give it a try.
£ 835 Seven nights....All Inclusive Four Star including all transfers and travel!
To all COH family in the path of Jonas... be safe, be careful..Weather reports show this storm is going to be quite serious. My thoughts are with you.
However- if you lose power.. fear not- red wine is always served at room temperature, and hagen daz makes a wonderful chilled soup.
PP- Thanks for the advice! Never thought of Hagen Daz as a soup! Any particular flavor you'd recommend? I only ask because I saw a recipe for peanut butter soup (don't ask!) on line and thought that was weird!
Are you sure you're out of the line of fire? It seems like this storm is going to hit he whole east coast. Seems like the worst of it will hit the mid-Atlantic states (DC especially), but we're all going to get some snow and high winds. Should be a lovely weekend.
To everyone in the storm's path, stay warm and safe - and don't wait til the power goes out to break out the wine. Even better, curl up by the fire, pour some Casamigos and watch a George flick or two. That should take your mind off the snow.
It has started here in DC. About an hour and half ago. So here we go.
I've got red and white at the ready! And if we do lose power I'll chill my white in the snow. Several bottles cause I'll be drinking more.
Lizzy, PigPen, annemarie and any other of our east coast friends - please stay safe. Stay inside and keep warm!
Donnamarie - It looks like you're going to get hit harder than we are here in NY. Hunker down and stay safe and warm. I hope you don't have power problems, but if you do, you're right. The snow makes a great refrigerator/freezer!
I'll be thinking about you. Good luck!
North East Coast Perfect Snow Storm that's approaching or already approached.
have no horrible experiences in your bad weather.
I always get concerned for the homeless in bad weather.
Joanna - Thanks for the good wishes. Sadly, we're used to this. They start clearing the snow before it even has a chance to look pretty. Now it's just a mess - half shoveled, half piled up at the corners and curbs so you can't get across the street without climbing Mt. Everest! In a day or so it will start to melt and we'll be knee deep in slush - unless it gets colder - then we'll need ice skates until it all melts, and then we'll need boats!
Carolhathaway - You're lucky you didn't have tickets for anything because everything was cancelled. If he had gotten here your husband might have been stranded here til the snow melts.
Hope everyone's keeping warm and safe. It looks like a massive storm!
And to change the subject completely: I've just seen the Big Short. What an excellent film! Has anyone else seen it? What did you think?
And to change the subject again, do any of you think it's weird when men shave their legs and bits? It seems it's a growing trend - almost half of all men now remove the hair on their legs, not to mention chests and man-bits.
on our BBC news ? Sorry....Its not funny.
Between 11* and 13* across the country.
On the snow storm subject I had tickets to a Broadway show today but we were able to get a refund yesterday after the NY theaters decided to close for the weekend due to the storm. We got really lucky because the theaters rarely ever close!
I dig my way out of the snow.
Joanna - You're no more sorry than I would be if George turned up on my doorstep! Go ahead, rub it in! You're lounging around in the sun while we're stuffed into snowsuits climbing over mountains of snow. It's ok. We'll laugh when your turn comes - and you know it will!
Actually, we're digging out pretty quickly. There are mountains of snow everywhere and they'll be around for a while, but the main streets are pretty well plowed. The only real problem is getting around on foot - especially trying to cross the street - because everyone piles the snow up along the curb and at the corners when they shovel. Manhattan probably isn't too bad, but here in Brooklyn it's a bit of a mess.
All that said, it's nothing we haven't dealt with before. Besides, it's only a couple of months til Spring. That should take care of any snow that's still around.
Lizzy-glad all is okay. I do feel your pain, from our fun fest winter last year! Hang in there.
Are you responsible for snow removal for your living quarters??
PP. All is well here. How about you? No, thank Heaven, I'm not responsible for snow removal. If I was we'd probably be up to our knees until June! The superintendent of our building seems to have hired a couple of guys to do the heavy work and her 2 sons have been out a couple of times to make sure it stays passable. So far, so good, but it's gonna be a long haul.
Well, things got a bit hairy here. We're all safe, but I could've done without the drama.
We had mostly ice here. A day's worth of frozen precipitation, followed by a day of snow and then another layer of ice.
I'm in a neighborhood with lots of old evergreens and dogwoods. Pretty, but when they're heavy with ice, limbs come down. One of them took out the railing on one side of the porch. It barely missed a window, but the shutter came down. Of course, no one was coming out to cut/move the branch or look at the porch in that weather (and the insurance company said to just leave it unless it was an imminent danger) so it was just there, collecting more ice and getting heavier... And, you guessed it, it weighed down a whole side of the porch. So now there's no using the front entrance.
This was a comparatively mild incident, and I can't imagine what it feels and sounds like when a whole tree topples onto your actual house, but it scared the beejeezus out of me. I couldn't sleep until the ice melted, listening for crashing trees.
Way2Old - So sorry to hear about the damage. I hope the insurance covers all of it and it doesn't take too long to get everything fixed.. Even though the street I live on is considered a green belt area (lots of trees) they're not that close to the houses and most of them aren't that big, so they're not a threat. I have friends and family on Staten Island where it is much more suburban and they're having the same kinds of problems you are. Fingers crossed that it warms up and everything melts really soon.
Yeah, it's a double-edged sword. As aesthetic as it is here, it can be treacherous when the trees come down or get uprooted from saturated soil. The power lines come down more often than you'd think. The trees provide welcome shade in the summer, but they keep the snow from melting in the winter.
First World problems. I should be counting my blessings.
I can only imagine! Used to live underneath a coconut palm, and when a frond comes down, it comes down with one hell of a crash!
Hope everyone's doing ok and that the storm's receding. Just waiting for it to cross the Atlantic and hit the UK now. Luckily (?) it'll have warmed up a little so it'll just be rain instead of snow.
Katie - Maybe you'll get lucky and it'll wear itself out on the way across the pond. Some of the weathermen here are saying we could get more snow! That just stinks! The weather fairy must be really pissed at us!
I love snow in theory, but in reality it's a whole different experience. Just misery.
Most of the time, people I know who know other people will pass along a screenplay that's making the rounds. Totally an ethical professional violation, but it happens all the time.
Sometimes, screenwriting bloggers will get a hold of a script for readers to link or download. Around awards season, some of the studios will release downloadable copies of their nominated screenplays.
But, for a fairly good (though not plentiful) source of contemporary and popular scripts, go to dailyactor.com and check the screenplay menu.
Way2Old - Thanks! I never knew a site like that existed. I'm going to definitely check it out.
1. if at all possible, get snow off your roof-esp if it's a flat roof. Wet snow/ rain/ice increase the ton wt and roof collapse was really a major problem for us.
2. keep a check for new cracks on ceilings and walls- may indicate added roof wt.
LizzyNY wrote: PP. All is well here. How about you? No, thank Heaven, I'm not responsible for snow removal. If I was we'd probably be up to our knees until June! The superintendent of our building seems to have hired a couple of guys to do the heavy work and her 2 sons have been out a couple of times to make sure it stays passable. So far, so good, but it's gonna be a long haul.
about 8 inches. which is a good size for pretty much anything!!!
Katie I don't know about guys shaving legs but waxing chests and backs has been normal around Hollywierd for years.
What's bugging the hell out of me is this trend toward "man buns" and beards. Geezus, more hair up top than I care to see.
I wouldn't mind a beard if it were trimmed but most guys are walking about with these large, bushy, unkempt beards and it's NOT attractive!
PigPen as to not being around - I've been busy at work - first right before the holidays dealing with a big event for which I did all the planning and now this month (and beginning of next) is my busiest time at work so haven't been here in a while.
I'm so wiped by the time I get home the best I can muster is a couple of snarky remarks on Twitter, cause really, Donald Trump is just too much of an idiot NOT to want to comment and going to bed early so I can get up at the crack of dawn to get ready for work.
So just a lot of stuff going on right now.
LorneDoone, I'm glad you're still checking in on us. Good to hear from you. Come back when the dust settles at work please.
PP....hope you are enjoying your 8 inches.
Hope it's taking your mind off the snow fest too.
Joanna - "Baby weather"? I've never heard that before.
HA! Baby weather. Will be interesting to see how much the birth rate spikes in 9 months!
Happens every time there's a blizzard!! And in the ninth month, if there's a full moon, pity the maternity ward staff!!!!!!!!!
THAT I understand. Joanna confused me when she said it was "still quite mild" even though it's "baby weather". - I associate baby booms with snowstorms and blackouts.
I think baby weather may mean 'wet and windy' - the way a baby usually is . . .
Hunker down fellow Brits. Jonas hits our shores today and the met office already have amber alerts out for some areas. Gale force winds of 95 mph in some places. Thankfully not much snow, but plenty of rain.
Be careful, ladies. Want you all back here, posting away, come Monday.
I keep envisioning George in his wellies with a bucket, trying to bail out his back garden! I guess that's what you get for living in the middle of a river.
We still have mounds of snow .
There is nowhere left to put our plowed snow. Yes, mounds of snow just getting bigger and taller.
To our Brit friends take care please. Nothing worse than a bad hair day and this sure sounds like one!
Carolhathaway - We're having the same kind of weird weather. I think the scientists are right about climate change. Maybe we haven't caused it all. Maybe it's part of the earth's natural cycle, but whatever is causing it the climate does seem to be changing.
It's scary. If they're right we're in for a lot of problems in the future unless we make some big changes in the way we do things and that doesn't seem too likely.
it worries me that there are still people denying that the climate is changing. Or others who say 'Yes, it's happening, but we can't do anything to avoid that'.
Last summer the temperatures constantly changed between about 50 °F and 100 °F, you never knew what to wear and what to plan. We do have a wintersport region just a few miles away, but we only had enough snow to go skiing for about a week. Now nearly all of it is gone. And a whole tourist business is struggling because you have to find alternatives for tourists.
Carolhathaway - The people who say we can't do anything could change their minds if someone offers them a solution. The people who won't do anything because it might cost them money are the ones who bother me.
On a funnier note: NY has a "snow day" when Central Park is sprayed with man-made snow and people come to sled and ski and build snow men. All the fun things to do in the snow. This year it was cancelled because Jonas hit town and it was snowing!
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By Tess Taylor | May 4, 2020
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Have Released A Video For "You Are the Champions" As A Tribute To Healthcare Workers On The Front Lines
Queen and Adam Lambert are joining forces – remotely, of course – to salute and raise funds for the healthcare workers on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic with the release of a new version of "We Are the Champions." Addressed to the healthcare heroes risking their lives to save others, the song is redone as "You Are the Champions" and features a video of Lambert, Roger Taylor and Brian May performing the song in quarantine alongside footage of doctors and nurses fighting COVID-19. For as many times as you've likely heard the inspirational anthem, seeing it with this moving footage makes the radio staple feel brand new.
"We're dedicating this song to the people on the front line putting themselves at risk. All the proceeds are going to the World Health Organization to get the right ventilators, PPE, et cetera to the healthcare workers… we're just trying to help a little bit."
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Now I can change svg fill only by changing decoded svg-code. I saw some svgs with "fill" parameter, but it's don't works on most svgs. How can I change svg fill color by "fill" in my style. Should I change something in svg code?
If your SVG have multiple path elements you can use svg > path:nth-child(n) to select them specifically. Don't forget to include a class name or id on SVG/parent element in order to prevent your settings being applied globally.
If this doesn't work out, please link to codepen that contains the SVG you want to change and I or someone else will take a look at it.
You don't need a class to select an svg element. The tag / element selector is sufficient and can be limited by its parents.
I don't understand something. What should I do to fill this element by color?
And why there a "◄br►" appears inside a ◄code►◄/code►?
You can't. VK doesn't use traditional html SVG. Those are data-image SVG which are self contained, and aren't affected by CSS properties like fill:. The only way to manipulate them with CSS in any useful way would be to use filters, like filter: invert(1);.
Can't I change svg-code the way it's color can be changable by css?
I suppose technically you could decode the data-image, download it, edit the SVG in a specialized graphics editor, then re-encode and add it back via CSS. That's a crazy amount of work to change an icon, even if you know how to do it all.
Play with the values till you get the desired look.
Depending on how it's implemented, it's not that much work.
I discovered that pretty often they use base64-encoded standard html svg. That means you decode the base64, change the fill and stroke colors to your needs and encode to base64 again.
I didn't investigate on vk.com though.
Alright, simple color changes can probably be edited right in the browser, but it'd still be just about the most complicated way possible to change the color of an icon. I maintain a personal style for VK, and they use the same bg-image method for at least a couple dozen icons.
I wouldn't recommend decode -> modify -> re-encode to anybody, let alone someone who doesn't know the difference between inline SVG and one encoded as a data-image bg. The end result for all that work would still leave you with a bg-image SVG which can't be affected by fill: either, so any hover or other state change would either require you to go through the whole process again, or use one of the more advisable methods anyway.
The simplest way to change them all would be filters, but even replacing them altogether with different icons/font-icons would be much more efficient than editing encoded data-image SVG individually.
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Legal Escalation Against Catholic Activists Facing 25 Years for Anti-Nuclear Weapons Action
Seven Catholic peace activists are facing 25 years in jail for entering the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia last April to protest U.S. nuclear weapons policy.
The activists are knowns as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. They sought to "nonviolently and symbolically disarm the Trident nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay, Georgia" on April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
On Friday, a magistrate moved to hinder their motion that the charges against them be dismissed under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. See the group's statement: "Anti Nuclear Activists, Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Respond to U.S. Magistrate Cheesbro's recommendation that our Motions to Dismiss be denied." They are appealing this decision in the next 30 days.
Last month, the group gained the backing of Rev. Desmond Tutu, several Catholic Bishops and noted critics of U.S. foreign policy Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, who exposed the Pentagon Papers and recently wrote the book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.
See recent a episode of "Intercepted" podcast with Jeremy Scahill: "Catholic Workers Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy Discuss Their Protest at Kings Bay and the History of the Plowshares Movement."
See recent "Democracy Now" segment: "Kings Bay Plowshares: Peace Activists Face 25 Years for Action at U.S. Nuclear Submarine Base."
The defendants are Elizabeth McAlister (the widow of Phil Berrigan), Martha Hennessy, granddaughter of Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day, Stephen Kelly S.J., Clare Grady, Patrick O'Neill, Mark Colville, and Carmen Trotta.
Some of the defendants are out of prison for the time being and, along with some close supporters and legal representatives, are available for interviews:
Defendant Martha Hennessy, marthahennessy at gmail.com
Mary Anne Grady Flores, Ithaca, NY, gradyflores08 at gmail.com
Bill Ofenloch, NYC, billcpf at aol.com
Attorney Bill Quigley, quigley77 at gmail.com, @kingsbayplow7
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Has Fernando Alonso missed his shot at a third World Championship?
Who has been the star performer of the 2014 Formula 1 season thus far? The Mercedes pairing of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton are on top form in a stellar car, while Daniel Ricciardo and Valtteri Bottas have established themselves as grand prix stars of the future at Red Bull and Williams respectively.
However, there is a case to suggest that this year's top performer has been flying under the radar.
With two podium finishes and points at every race in a sub-par Ferrari, Fernando Alonso has been at the peak of his powers this season. But the real gauge of Alonso's quality comes when comparing him with team-mate Kimi Raikkonen. While the Finn has struggled to adjust to the 2014 Ferrari, the stats are nevertheless incredible. Alonso is the only driver to finish ahead of his team-mate at every grand prix this season, and on more than one occasion he has taken the chequered flag a full minute clear of Raikkonen. Fernando has 115 World Championship points, Kimi 27; that leaves them fourth and 12th respectively in the standings, by far the biggest gulf between team-mates.
It is interesting to note that Alonso has won more praise throughout his four-and-a-half-year spell with Ferrari than during his earlier successes with Renault. World Champion in 2005 and 2006, his reputation was tarnished by a pair of scandals – 'Spygate' in 2007 and 'Crashgate' in 2008/09 – to which he remains inextricably linked.
He has since been rehabilitated at Ferrari. Alonso is now seen as a near-complete competitor who regularly drags an under-performing car to places it has no business; his on-track battles are often epic but always fair; and away from the circuit he has become a more open character through his regular use of social media. But all of this means little to Alonso, who recently expressed his frustration at continuing to fight for meagre rewards.
His message is clear: keep the plaudits – all I want is a third World Championship.
Recent reports have suggested that Alonso is negotiating a new $50m per season deal with Ferrari that would tie him to the team until 2019, by which time he will be 38 and surely ready for F1 retirement. Given the team's recent struggles, re-signing with the Scuderia would mean Alonso accepting the possibility of not winning another world title – in exchange for a very handsome pay packet.
His alternatives are limited. McLaren, the team where he spent an incredibly turbulent 2007 season, are believed to want him back, but the Woking-based squad are in the midst of transition. They will swap Mercedes engines for Honda power next year, and there is no guarantee that they will be back at the front any sooner than Ferrari. He has also been linked with the resurgent Williams team, but it is doubtful that Alonso will put his future in the hands of a privateer outfit when he has automotive giants such as Ferrari and Honda chasing his signature.
Which means the 33-year-old is likely to remain with the Maranello squad, be that until his current deal ends in 2016 or through 2019. Given his age and the Italian outfit's deficit to pacesetters Mercedes, it is conceivable that Alonso will never join the three-time World Champions club.
For many, Alonso already belongs in that category. On pure driving ability, he will go down in history as the equal of Sir Jackie Stewart and Niki Lauda – both three-time champions – and perhaps even four-time title-winners like Alain Prost, or Alonso's long-time rival Vettel.
But he will not be satisfied. He may earn more money and praise than most grand prix drivers could dream of, but for Fernando Alonso that is no longer enough.
I'm playing F1 2013. Are you?
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Now you can get the first book of the Del Rio political mystery-thriller series, Reservations, for free for your Kindle or any other e-book reader.
And be sure to check out the rest of Del Rio's adventures as he comes face to face with a decades-old plot to overthrow the U.S. Government from within.
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It's that time of the year again. Nominations for the 2019 DragonCon's Dragon Awards are open and will remain so until July. I've dropped my nominations off and am awaiting the e-mail with this year's finalists so I can vote for them. Just like I've done the previous three years of the award's existence.
As you regulars here know, I consider the Dragon's to be the premier award in sci-fi/fantasy. They are open to everyone to cast a vote in. They do not have a pre-programmed bias against *wrongthink* creators (cough, Hugos, cough, Nebulas, cough) and I feel they accurately reflect the true feelings of sf/f fans everywhere.
I was fortunate enough to have been a finalist in 2017 for Best Sci-Fi Novel with Escaping Infinity and I hope to be one again in 2019 with my two eligible works: When The Gods Fell (Best Fantasy Novel) and The Timeless (Best YA/Middle Grade).
In the past I've waited until the finalists were announced to reveal who I nominated, and then waited until after the awards were handed out to reveal who I voted for among the finalists. This year, we're going to shake things up a bit.
I am going to reveal my nominees here today. I hope you will look them over and give each of them a read between now and July and see if you agree they are worthy. If you do, or if you think another work deserves recognition, please follow this link to the Dragon Awards Nomination page and fill out your own form and submit it.
So there you go. That's who I've nominated. Who do you think should take home one of these in September?
A GAME OF THRONES PLAYS OUT ON ANCIENT MARS!
And our past, as well as our future, will never be the same.
From now on, whenever one of my books (not an anthology I am in mind you, but one of my own novels) hits 50 reviews, I will randomly pick one of my followers on Social Media (Twitter/FB or my mailing list here) to win a signed copy of that book.
This repeats every 50 reviews for each book.
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CHARLESTON, W.V. - Beekeepers and scientists are puzzled about the decline in the honeybee population, but one project has Appalachian coal companies placing flowering, pollen-producing plants on surface mine sites where they used to dig for black gold. It's bringing together unlikely allies - environmentalists and coal companies - to help the bee industry.
Tammy Horn, bee researcher at Eastern Kentucky University, has convinced four coal companies in three counties to establish a "honey corridor." She explains deforestation from residential and road development, and the coal industry, have large-scale land use effects, which have devastated bee populations.
"Frankly, if we were to do away with coal mining tomorrow, we would still be losing one in every three of our beehives."
A silent concern - and so far, unmeasured - is how much the prices of fruits and vegetables could be affected by the crisis with pollinators, she says.
"The long-term consequences of those price increases end up affecting the poorer populations of our society. When you start pricing fresh food out of their reach, then we're going to pay for it in health care, long-term. "
Beekeepers urge residents to contribute to saving the nation's bee population by reducing the use of yard pesticides, especially in suburban areas.
Horn is working with coal companies to plant a mix of nectar and pollen-producing trees and plants, which bees need to survive, on mountains deforested by mining. She says it will also aid the human food supply, one-third of which comes from sources pollinated by the insects. Horn is author of Bees in America: How the Honeybee Shaped a Nation.
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As a nonfiction writer, I believe pretty strongly in the truth. Last week, an article came out about the new book Primates of Park Avenue (which was billed as a memoir) saying that many things in the book, in fact, were not true. Wednesday Martin, the author, has said that while she may have taken liberties, she "stuck to the facts." Which is all well and good to say, but not so much when stores mentioned didn't actually exist at that time, or recreating entire scenes that didn't happen, and fudging timelines. Not if you're going to suggest any kind of academic rigor (which Martin does).
In my writing program, we had John D'Agata give a talk about nonfiction and truth in writing. D'Agata came under fire when he wrote an article for the magazine The Believer, and upon fact-checking, the fact-checker found multiple untruths, some more egregious than others.
And who can forget James Frey and A Million Little Pieces? So where does the line fall in nonfiction writing, between artistic license and plain ole lying? When we read memoirs, we suspend some sort of expectation of the truth. After all, we can't hold writers to remember exactly what someone said years and years ago. Memory is fluid and affected by emotions; it is not static, it is dynamic. But how far is too far?
I don't have an answer to this, but I'd be interested in hearing what others think. Where do you draw the line in nonfiction/memoir?
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Their newly recruited Annotators will be based in their London office, and will work with their existing annotators (both in London, and online in Canada).
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Is passionate about their desire to work on a project with meaningful purpose, with the aim of positive social impact.
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Is motivated and able to work efficiently both on their own, and as part of a wider team.
Is comfortable working with social media and forum data written by younger users (an understanding of slang, trends, hashtags, emojis and general characteristics of these particular forms of social interaction).
Is a native speaker of at least one of the following languages: English; German: Spanish; Catalan.
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The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has recently inked a 10-year licensing deal with Indian real estate major Nirmal Lifestyle, which implies the latter setting up IAAF training centres and an academy in India.
Also, the real estate company has a licensing deal with the US Open and Discovery to launch co-branded sports and lifestyle apartments. Post the signing of global partners in the emerging markets of China and Russia, IAAF has now focused its sight on India. There are also plans to bring a global IAAF event to India.
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Concert Review: Independence Day Concert
by Moon Kyoung Kim
The Independence Day concert was a very special experience both for the performers and the audience. The piano was placed in the beautifully decorated garden of the Town Hall. The scent of flowers was carried on the gentle breeze, the audience in attendance delightfully waiting for the concert. The concert began with an impromptu performance of the national anthems of U. S. A. and Italy. Immediately following, Logan Skelton came up to the stage and delivered a charming and witty program of two pieces from William Bolcom's The Garden of Eden. The first piece, "The Eternal Feminine," representing Eve in the biblical story, was performed with a sweet lyricism. The second piece, "The Serpent's Kiss," is driving and dark, a representation of the snake doing whatever possible to make Eve take a bite of the apple. Bolcom includes a number of techniques such as tongue-clicking, foot-stomping, whistling, and tapping the piano, all very entertaining to hear. His energetic and confident performance engaged the audience. The Concerto No. 2 "After Lewis and Clark" by Philip Glass, was played next by Paul Barnes. The Town Hall Garden was filled with his meditative, almost hypnotizing performance. The concert then took the audience toward a world of American jazz by the brilliant performance of James Giles who presented three of virtuoso pianist Earl Wild's etudes based on the music of George Gershwin. Giles played the notoriously difficult pieces with an effortless virtuosity and grace. The last piece of the program was George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by Gisele and Fabio Witkowski. The unity of the sound and ensemble enabled us to imagine a full orchestra performing the piece. It was such a meaningful time for all of us, especially for the Americans, that we were able to share the music of America with people from all over the world on Independence Day.
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LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC-led efforts to stabilise the oil market will be maintained, OPEC's secretary general said on Tuesday when asked about the consequences if the United States exits a nuclear agreement with OPEC member Iran.
U.S. President Donald Trump will announce on Tuesday whether he will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. An exit has raised concern that Iranian oil exports could be cut, putting upward pressure on prices.
"We have confidence in our leaders, within and outside OPEC, who have strongly supported our joint efforts with our non-OPEC partners to assist the oil market to restore stability after the worst oil cycle in history, to continue to provide leadership in these uncertain times," OPEC's Mohammad Barkindo said in comments to Reuters.
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What He's Reading: Jazz great Herbie Hancock
Business Lives
Jeremy Smerd
Newscom
Herbie Hancock is a techie. The jazz great helped popularize the electric piano. He developed a love for cameras after buying one in Japan while on tour years ago. And every computer in his music studio is an Apple Macintosh. No surprise, then, that Mr. Hancock, 71, was among the first to buy a copy of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs when it was published shortly after the computer icon's death.
"My first computer was an Apple II Plus I got in 1979," Mr. Hancock said before taking the stage at camera maker Canon's Legend in Imaging party last month. "I've got all the Apple computers since then, including Lisa"—an Apple computer that came out in the early 1980s but was too expensive to become a commercial hit.
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Community Networks and Local Access Monthly Newsletter - Number 39
Home / News / Community Networks and Local Access Monthly Newsletter - Number 39
By APCNews
Page last updated on 27 August 2021
Welcome to the 39th monthly round-up of developments impacting your local access networks.
We have created a platform for community networks to share our experiences and grow together. Please join us at https://communitynetworks.group/
During three regional sessions, taking place between 26 August and 2 September, the 2021/2022 grantees of the Local Networks initiative (LocNet) will present their grant projects to other grantees, peers and partners. This is a great chance to get insights into innovative ideas in the fields of community-based technologies, regulation initiatives and gender and diversity approaches within community networks. Read more.
The EsLaRed Foundation announced the 24th Workshop on Internet Network Technologies for Latin America and the Caribbean (WALC, in the Spanish acronym). The event will be held online from 15 to 19 November. One of its six tracks is focused on community networks. Pre-registration is open on the event's site. Read more.
The virtual version of the camp of the Training Program for Promoters and Technical Promoters in Indigenous Communities in Telecommunications and Broadcasting is happening from 16 August to 3 September. Some activities are open and streamed by Redes AC YouTube channel (available in Spanish). Read more.
Resources from past events
From 27 to 30 July, representatives from 16 organisations (see them in the map above) working with community network projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America joined together for an online convening organised by the Local Networks (LocNet) initiative, led by APC in partnership with Rhizomatica, to discuss challenges, learnings and achievements. Read more.
Community networks in news and blogs
This episode of the Brazilian podcast "Ondas da Resistência" spoke with the activist Daiane Araújo dos Santos about community networks and alternatives being mobilised in the global South to promote internet access (available in Portuguese). Read more.
The University of Buenos Aires, with the support of the Ministry of Social Development of the Nation, launched the "Appropriation of technologies for the communication of social organisations" diploma. In this piece, AlterMundi tells how it reflects years of exchanges with community networks and the need to build bridges between careers, knowledge and territories (available in Spanish). Read more.
This story brings more information and two concrete cases on how Nupef Institute helps to improve communications conditions for traditional communities fighting for their rights in Brazil, mobilising community networks and promoting digital citizenship. Read more.
AlterMundi is an NGO based in Argentina that strives to unlock the power of peer-to-peer collaboration from a technological perspective, particularly committed to building wireless community networks to facilitate independence and self-reliance among communities. Find out more about their work and innovative projects in this blog post from 48percent. Read more.
Gendering Community Networks
KICTANet works towards network building to bring diverse voices and pieces of evidence to the spotlight and build enabling regulation for ICTs in Kenya. The lack of women's voices and evidence around their realities was the focus of a research project that they led during the pandemic. Read more.
At the Portal sem Porteiras community network in Brazil, the feminist project Nodes that Bond has convened circles of women with an emphasis on technology. To share their methodology and learnings, they produced an inspiring workbook. Find some pictures of it and the link to access its online version in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Read more.
The Feminist Action Lab offers an open online course to share knowledge on feminist advocacy and intergenerational activism. Among its seven themes is "Feminist Technology", a study guide that features videos, case studies and concepts like community networks, surveillance, data feminism and more. Read more.
News on policy and regulation
All over the world, various communities have been connecting themselves. In this context, it is essential that governments and regulators take action and promote participatory processes to create an enabling regulatory environment for community network initiatives. And this has just happened in Argentina through the Roberto Arias Programme and its approach to digital inclusion, as we find out in this article from AlterMundi. Read more.
During a civil society consultative meeting promoted by CITAD, over 40 organisations from different parts of Nigeria highlighted the importance of community networks as a tool for addressing the digital divide and explored the possibility of joint advocacy for the government to develop an enabling policy framework. Read more.
The Internet Freedom Fund supports projects creating or promoting tools that allow users to circumvent internet censorship, communicate safely, and access information that is blocked. Projects can apply for up to USD 300,000 until 1 September. Read more.
Connect2Recover Research Competition from the ITU seeks to identify promising research proposals that will accelerate digital inclusion during the global pandemic. There will be 15 grants awarded to research teams exploring digital inclusion opportunities. Deadline to apply is 17 September. Read more.
Previous editions of this newsletter are available here.
This newsletter is part of the Local Networks (LocNet) initiative, an initiative led by APC in partnership with Rhizomatica that aims to directly support the work of community networks and to contribute to an enabling ecosystem for the emergence and growth of community networks and other community-based connectivity activities in developing countries. You can read more about the initiative here, here, and here.
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Eduard Niczky (* 17. Juli 1850 in Kassel; † 16. Mai 1919 in München) war ein deutscher Maler.
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Eduard Niczky war der Sohn eines Kasseler Ingenieurs. Zunächst besuchte er die Kasseler Kunstakademie. Ab November 1871 studierte er an der Münchner Königlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste bei Arthur von Ramberg. Er wurde vor allem bekannt durch seine zahlreichen Genrebilder und Porträts, die sich heute noch in bekannten Sammlungen befinden. Niczky war Mitglied der Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft.
Sein Sohn war der Maler und Grafiker Rolf Niczky, sein Neffe der Fotograf Joe Niczky.
Literatur
Horst Ludwig, Sonja von Baranow, Rainer Beck: Münchner Maler im 19. Jahrhundert. Band 3: Lacher-Ruprecht. Bruckmann Verlag, München 1982, ISBN 3-8307-0113-6, S. 224.
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I created this desk pad planner to help me bring together all the most important things I hope to achieve each day whilst remaining balanced and productive throughout week.
Fed up with feeling stressed, never feeling like I'd got what I wanted to achieve done and feeling generally overwhelmed & burnt out this planner was designed to help all that.
By mindfully planning each day and prioritising what's important and consciously choosing what can slip down the list is great for getting control back of your overwhelming days.
There's space for intentions, gratitudes, meal planning, wellbeing, appointments and a space for never ending to-do's. By keeping an eye on self-care, mindfulness & hydration those little things that can make a massive difference in productivity.
Once you've brain dumped all your tasks you can choose the most important ones to tackle first identifying the 3 must do's followed by 4 it'd be nice to do tasks. This can help prioritise your day, reduce overwhelm and provide a sense of achievement when the most important things are ticked off.
There's are quick check boxes to record your water intake and a space to track your monthly cycle both of which can give enormous insight into why you might be finding some days more difficult than others.
Currently I have the pink version above in stock but have the following colours waiting to be printed. As printing is done in large batches I'd love to avoid waste by getting your votes for the colours you'd buy from the options below.
Which colour would you like to see stocked?
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The Raiders hired former NFL Network draft guru Mike Mayock as their new general manager on Monday, a person familiar with the move confirmed. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the hiring hadn't been announced. ESPN first reported the move.
Gruden inherited McKenzie, who won the 2016 NFL executive of the year award for his rebuilding job after the death of late owner Al Davis in 2011. The pairing didn't work as Gruden frequently criticized McKenzie's recent drafts and got rid of many of those players.
The Raiders will have three first-round picks in April's draft. Oakland has its own pick, which will be fourth in the draft, as well as first-rounders from Chicago and Dallas, which will be in the bottom 12 picks in the first round.
Oakland acquired those picks by dealing McKenzie's best two first-round picks from his seven-year tenure in Oakland. Star pass rusher Khalil Mack was traded to the Bears before the season for a package that included two first-round picks following a contract holdout, and receiver Amari Cooper was dealt during the season to the Cowboys for a 2019 first-rounder.
While Carr showed some signs of improvement late in the season as he grew more comfortable in Gruden's system, the offense lacked playmakers on the outside and a game-breaking running back.
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Audio-CD-Archiv 5.0 Edition 2006 software. Audio-CD-Archiv is your music-center to manage Audio-/MP3-CD/DVD and WMA, MP3, OGG-files. Search folder, statistic, search and print function, ID3Tag Editor. Export into MP3, WMA, OGG. Copy to CD/DVD, MP3-player.
Audio-CD-Archiv is your music-center to manage Audio-/MP3-CD/DVD and WMA, MP3, OGG-files. Search folder, statistic, search and print function, ID3Tag Editor. Export into MP3, WMA, OGG. Copy to CD/DVD, MP3-player. Extensive Jukebox, playlists.
Put your valuable CD-collection into the wall cupboard and make Audio-CD-Archiv to your central music-center! With the help of Audio-CD-Archiv you can catalog your Audio-CDs, clearly without typing any title, artist or song. Support of multimedia-files WMA, MP3, OGG. Catalog your Music-CDs/DVD in different categories and distinguish between album and sampler. Every cataloged Music-CD is compared with a local title database, which contains more than 1.8 Mio. CDs and 22 Mio. song-titles. If a CD is not included, you can compare it later with the Internet database. To catalog a CD, simply insert a CD in your drive. The CD will be cataloged in the selected category and at the same time you can download the cover picture from the Internet. It is possible to extract digital music from Audio-CDs and encode them into MP3, WMA or OGG up to the complete length of the title. You can determine the number, length and quality of the scans. Further features are integrated in Audio-CD-Archiv: add medium manually, select CD (LP or MC) from local or Internet database, submit CD-Information to the Internet database (if it is not listed there), save notes to each CD, cover scan, lend management, search folder, statistic, search function, print of CD-lists/Cover/Inlet. Share your music-files to several drives for an optimal use of your free space. Export the music-files into another file-format (MP3, WMA and OGG). Furthermore copy your music-files to CD/DVD or MP3-player (USB, IEEE 1394 Firewire). The existing cover-pictures will be embedded in the MP3-files. They are shown you on the display of your media-player or PC if you listen to the music. A special feature is the new Jukebox. Create your own playlists with a few mouse-clicks and play the music at the next party. If your computer is placed in the party-room, you can protect the computer against unauthorized access by your guests with the party-mode. Other features of the Jukebox are copy playlists to portable devices or CD/DVD.
Umfangreiche MP3-Verwaltung (auch WMA und OGG), ID3-Tag, Unterstützung von MP3-Player, Visualisierung, Cover aus dem Internet laden.
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But with the return of the season marked out in a special way by the mystery of our redemption, and of the days that lead up to the paschal feast, we are summoned more urgently to prepare ourselves by a purification of spirit.
The special note of the paschal feast is this: the whole Church rejoices in the forgiveness of sins. It rejoices in the forgiveness not only of those who are then reborn in holy baptism but also of those who are already numbered among God's adopted children.
Initially, men are made new by the rebirth of baptism. Yet there is still required a daily renewal to repair the shortcomings of our mortal nature, and whatever degree of progress has been made there is no one who should not be more advanced. All must therefore strive to ensure that on the day of redemption no one may be found in the sins of his former life.
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The Louisiana HBPA has a seasonal field office position opening in New Orleans.
The seasonal position concludes at the end of the Fair Grounds Thoroughbred Horse meet (late March 2016).
All interested candidates should forward a resume, by close of business on Friday October 2, 2015, to Larry Hamburger either by fax 504-872-9738 or e-mail [email protected]. For more information call the LAHBPA office at 504-945-1555.
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Produced by Campbell Johnson
Ita Buttrose becomes second ever female chair of the ABC
Media veteran Ita Buttrose has become the second ever female chair of the ABC. This appointment has come after the......
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ABC Board chairman falls on his sword
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The Women's panel shatters the glass ceiling
With Business editor Tania Katsanis leading a live discussion on the similarities and differences of the experiences in business and......
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>Container Queries - Animations within animating container</title>
<link rel="help" href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css-contain-3/#animated-containers">
<script src="/resources/testharness.js"></script>
<script src="/resources/testharnessreport.js"></script>
<script src="support/cq-testcommon.js"></script>
<style>
@keyframes outer {
from { width: 100px; }
to { width: 300px; }
}
@keyframes inner {
from { background-color: blue; }
to { background-color: yellow; }
}
#container {
container-type: inline-size;
animation: outer 1s linear paused;
}
#target {
background-color: green;
}
@container size(min-width: 200px) {
#target {
animation: inner 1s linear paused;
}
}
</style>
<div id=container>
<div id=target>
Test
</div>
</div>
<script>
setup(() => assert_implements_container_queries());
test(() => {
assert_equals(getComputedStyle(target).backgroundColor, 'rgb(0, 128, 0)');
assert_equals(container.getAnimations().length, 1);
let animation = container.getAnimations()[0];
animation.currentTime = 600;
assert_equals(getComputedStyle(target).backgroundColor, 'rgb(0, 0, 255)');
}, 'Animated container can create inner animation');
</script>
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Q: Definition of Ord for tuples I'm trying to find / work out what definitions of <, <=, > and >= are for tuples. Looking at...
(-1, 3) <= (1, 2) -- True
( 2, 3) <= (1, 2) -- False
... looks like <= could just be defined using <= on the first element of each tuple. However, in this example when first elements are equal...
( 1, 3) <= (1, 2) -- False
... means it can't just be <= on the first element of each tuple, as it would have been True.
What's going on? What is the definition of <= and co on tuples?
A: The order is lexicographic. It compares the elements from left to right, and the order is defined by the first elements which aren't equal:
Prelude> (1, 2) < (1, 3)
True
Prelude> (1, 2) < (1, 1)
False
Prelude> (2, 2) < (1, 1)
False
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Ten years after the death of Bernie Reif, his legacy continues.
Reif, the first soccer coach at Baltimore's Archbishop Curley High School, one who guided the Friars to their first championship in 1968, seemed drawn to wherever games and practices were taking place.
That's why any match-up with Calvert Hall College High School, where Reif's son, Chris, starred in the early 1980s, carries so much emotion. Long heated rivals, the two schools long renamed the trophy that comes from the first of their annual meetings in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference the Bernie Reif Alumni Cup after he died in 2007.
That prize was at stake Sept. 27 at Curley, where the Friars took command in the second half en route to a 5-1 victory over the Cardinals.
In addition to coming back to beat Curley in last year's A Conference championship game, Calvert Hall won the Reif trophy each of the last two seasons. Ranked No. 1 in Maryland and No. 2 in the nation according to topdrawersoccer.com, the Friars wanted it back, which junior Anthony Dragisics made very clear after this game.
Stitz's son, Ben scored the game's first goal. The Friars, who improved to 11-0 overall and 8-0 in the A Conference, also got goals from Tommy Sidleck and Bryce Woodward. Curley is anchored by Nick Richardson, who has accepted a scholarship to play for the University of Maryland, and the younger Stitz, who will attend the University of Pennsylvania in the Ivy League.
Coach Stitz knew the elder Reif well and remembers many times he and his friends would be playing soccer games at Herring Run Park or elsewhere in the community, and they'd eventually notice him there.
Chris Reif, Bernie's son, adds an interesting twist to the rivalry.
When asked if he rooted for the team his dad coached (Curley) or the one he played for (Calvert Hall), Reif gave a playful grin and answered that it was the latter. Still, though, watching this game with a trophy named in his father's honor clearly meant so much to him.
The 5-1 romp gave Curley an 8-7-1 lead in the Alumni Cup series.
Calvert Hall coach Rich Zinkand loves the unique bond between the two schools, one which has grown over time. He and Stitz played college soccer together at Towson University, were in each other's weddings, and even had Chris Reif as an assistant coach in college.
Zinkand also remembers how so much goes back to the man the cup is named for now.
Pat Richardson remembers playing for Bernie Reif on Curley's 1968 championship team and said that bragging rights make the rivalry fun because it's about bragging rights. That's why Zinkand gave a rueful grin when realizing the Cardinals were going to give up the trophy which sat behind their bench during this contest.
"If I come over here for anything, I'll just take a look at it," he said with a smile.
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LeadershipraceAhead
Losing The Black Middle Class
Ellen McGirt
A new report from UCLA delves into the very real problems black workers are facing in Los Angeles. "Los Angeles is in the throes of a Black jobs crisis," it begins. Though the study is city-specific, the findings remind us that it's hard out there, for some people more than others.
Among their major findings:
Since the 1980s, the Black population in Los Angeles has declined by over 100,000 residents from 13% to 8% while the Inland Empire has gained over 250,000 Black residents.
Black workers with a high school or less education experience unemployment at almost double the rate as white workers at the same education level.
Black workers are underrepresented in professional jobs and have lower rates in manager and supervisory positions.
Whether working full or part time, Black workers earn only three-quarters of what white workers earn. For Black women, the wage gap is even more severe.
Grim stuff. Here's one that really got my attention:
Black workers experience a myriad of negative health outcomes due to racial discrimination in employment
It's almost like racism is literally breaking people's hearts.
Los Angeles was one of the destination cities for black folks during The Great Migration, the slow but steady movement of six million African Americans between 1916 and 1970, from the violent repression of the Jim Crow South, to the North and West in search of a better life. Last fall, I asked Isabel Wilkerson, the author of The Warmth Of Other Suns, to explain why this history is so relevant today. "The North had not been – and has never been – forced to deal with the underlying biases and hierarchies that were as present in the South," she told raceAhead. "When people arrived in these northern cities – looking for work, for better lives – they were met with great hostility and hyper-segregation in housing and education. And it's dispiriting to see that hostility still exists."
It also explains, she says, the other headlines of 2016. "Police overreach and brutality cases are a direct result of the unaddressed tensions and hostilities that are still with us. Think about it – Cleveland, Baltimore, Ferguson/St. Louis, Chicago, and Milwaukee – the most dramatic cases of police brutality are all happening in the places where people sought refuge." And history repeats. The study suggests that black people in the Los Angeles area are feeling the need to move again.
This report drops as we are also engaging in a fraught, and long overdue conversation about white middle-class workers, many of whom are now facing several generations at or near poverty. Why were they abandoned? What is the real remedy? But history reminds us that it's impossible to have one conversation without the other. Our stories are joined together: To leave out the experience of one group of people is to deny a fundamental reality of the other. That is the truth of our difficult history, and like it or not, no rallying cry or political fist-shaking can make it disappear.
Trump administration publishes its first list of immigrant crimes
The "Weekly and Declined Detainer Outcome Report," is putting pressure on sanctuary cities that are protecting immigrants from deportation, and is designed to shame local jurisdictions into turning over undocumented persons to federal authorities. Univision analyzed the report: common criminal charges are domestic abuse, driving while intoxicated, assault and robbery and sexual assault. The majority of people were charged not convicted, and most come from Latin American countries.
The hijab as a symbol of feminist resistance
Women who have not worn hijab, even if their mothers do, are starting to wear it as a symbol of defiance and feminist strength, reports USA Today. The movement to wear hijab also includes non-Muslim women who don it in solidarity. The hijab itself is controversial; critics worry that the garment oppresses women. "I do believe hijab support feminism," said one hijabi student. "The way you look at it from a religious perspective, it empowers you by strengthening your relationship with God. It's a step you are taking to further yourself within your own religion."
Uber to make sexual harassment findings public
An internal investigation into sexual harassment allegations against the ride-sharing company will conclude at the end of April. Board member Arianna Huffington said in a call with reporters, "Whatever the investigation finds will be honored by everyone at Uber." It is hoped the move will reassure the public that Uber's troubled culture is transforming, though Huffington was quick to add that the removal of CEO Travis Kalanick was not on the table. "It's not something that's been addressed because it has not come up, and we do not expect it to come up," she said.
TaskRabbit CEO: "Where I'm from, people don't know they can be a CEO of a tech company"
Stacy Brown-Philpot has been a tech treasure for ages now, a Stanford MBA who rose up the ranks at Google – she also started the black Googler network – then joined TaskRabbit as COO, then CEO. The company has embraced empathy from the start; all taskers are paid at or above minimum wage. "[W]hat TaskRabbit has done, and many other sharing economy companies, is actually formalized the side hustle in the sense that we are now giving people a way to earn an income that is meaningful." She talks about growing up working class in Detroit, with a single mom who got it figured out. If you want a roadmap for being successful in tech while maintaining your identity as a black woman who understands the world, this is it.
Johns Hopkins accepts the first black woman as a neurosurgery resident
She's Ghana-born medical student Nancy Abu-Bonsrah, and she plans on using her training to make a difference. "I am very much interested in providing medical care in underserved settings, specifically surgical care," she wrote after she learned the news. "I hope to be able to go back to Ghana over the course of my career to help in building sustainable surgical infrastructure." Abu-Bonsrah immigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was 15. The good news overshadowed the other news of the day: It took until 2017 for Johns Hopkins to find and accept a black woman into their neurosurgery program.
The 2017 Diversity In Tech Awards
They're May 4th in New York City and Code/Interactive, a non-profit focused on providing industry opportunities for STEM students, have published their list of finalists in four categories: Individuals, Organizations, Initiatives and Media. Many of your favorite people and organizations are on the list. Click through to vote, and be aware raceAhead will be sitting up straight and looking sharp to get on the list for next year.
Code/Interactive
The Woke Leader
The contradictions in our past
Good, smart, decent people can also hold deeply racist ideas. This is the message of this important essay by Ibram X. Kendi, who offers a review of historical figures who are correctly beloved for their good works yet spared the necessary analysis of where they did real damage. "Some of America's greatest warriors against anti-Black racism have been some of America's greatest enforcers of racist ideas," he writes. Ignoring history does us no favors, he asserts, taking on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Earl Warren, and John Marshall Harlan, the lone dissenter in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision on southern segregation. "Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens," is what Harlan is remembered for. "The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country. And so it is," is what people have forgotten he said.
AAIHS
NYPD officer who delighted the crowd at the Gay Pride parade, dies of a 9/11 related cancer
The video made headlines back in 2015, and kicked off a spate of "cops dancing with underserved communities" videos, which were all fine. But this one was great. Michael Hance, an NYPD veteran, thrilled the city when a cell phone video captured him twerking with a reveler at the Gay Pride parade, while both on duty and in uniform. Hance was neither gay or an official gay officer advocate, he was just moved by the moment. "I was as impressed as I was happy," said Brian Downey, the president of the NYPD's Gay Officers Action League said about the video. Hance worked a "bucket brigade" in the pit after the 9/11 attacks; he was diagnosed with brain cancer last November. He was, by all accounts, a good guy.
There are hardly any black craft beer brewers
But why? Dave Infante starts his attempt to gather diversity statistics about the craft beer world with this hilarious observation: "Craft beer is white. Whiter than a ski lodge. Whiter than a Whole Foods in the suburbs." He pesters the only black brewmaster he could find who tells him to go read. "My best answer is 'See Coates, Ta-Nehisi,'" said Oliver Garrett of Brooklyn Brewery. Infante smartly digs deeper on his own and comes up with his an answer and another question: craft beer is white because the overall American beer industry has always been white. But why? Let's discuss over a couple of frosty Brooklyn Lagers.
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people…while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
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CNN Worldwide chief Jeff Zucker, who is about to celebrate his first anniversary at the news gathering organization, touted his addition of Anthony Bourdain's show and the documentary Blackfish in a holiday memo to staffers, but gave a miss to any discussion of his new morning program, or the return of Crossfire.
As 2013 comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the year.
And, most importantly, to thank each of you for making this a successful year for CNN Worldwide. For CNN, HLN, CNN International, CNN en Español and CNN Digital, there was much to be proud of this year.
Once again, the organization's commitment to excellence in journalism and newsgathering was paramount. This year saw some extraordinary news events, including the tragic bombings in Boston, tornadoes in Oklahoma, the election of a new Pope and birth of a royal baby, a coup in Cairo, the devastating typhoon in the Philippines and the death of Nelson Mandela. CNN was at all of these events, and so many others, in ways no other news organization can be. The strength of our anchors and reporters, the depth of our production teams and photojournalists, and knowledge of our behind the scenes teams, combined with the power of all of our platforms, once again showed why CNN truly is the global news leader.
With our commitment to excellence in all of our programming, our peers took notice. In 2013, CNN was recognized with three News Emmys, and two first-ever prime time Emmys for Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, as well as a Peabody Award for our coverage in Syria. CNN International was recognized by the Royal Television Society as the News Channel of the Year, and with an Asian Television Award for Cable and Satellite Channel of the Year. An incredible year for CNN International. And heading into 2014, CNN Films is on the short list for an Academy Award in the Documentary category for Blackfish. In our first year of even having a film division!
Competitively speaking, there is much to be proud of. CNN Digital had its best year, EVER. In almost every measurement, CNN's digital properties, domestically and internationally, hit record highs. HLN was the only domestic cable news network to grow its audience this year, up double digits across the board. CNN moved from the third most watched cable news network in 2012 to second in 2013.
This was a transitional year for CNN Worldwide. As we close out 2013, our programming lineup on both the domestic and international channels looks different than it did this time last year. Our digital products do, as well, and are in the final stages of an even more significant reinvention soon. There are a lot of new names and faces on our air and contributing online, and we are putting them to work in ways that we haven't done before. Behind the scenes we have begun to change the way we gather news and share it across the organization.
And there is much more to do. If you thought we did a lot in 2013, wait until you see 2014. Real change that transforms an organization doesn't happen overnight. I have talked a lot about broadening the definition of news. You have seen the start of that, especially at CNN, where we have begun to introduce new series, documentaries and films to augment our best-in-class breaking news coverage.
I am often asked what has surprised me the most in my one year here. I think it is the incredible breadth and scope and depth of this organization. It is so hard to fathom from the outside just how big and far-reaching we are. CNN Worldwide is a powerful collection of platforms that, taken together, is unmatched.
None of it would be possible without each of you and without every single group that makes it all happen. It is finance and accounting, legal and human resources, marketing and promotion, standards and practices and The Row (yes, even The Row), Image and Sound and BEST, Master Control and the NCC and ACC, the Library and Security, and every other division here that makes sure that all of our networks and platforms succeed.
We have had a really good year. And we have so much more to do. That is what excites me the most.
I want to also take this opportunity to say thank you to Phil Kent, who has so successfully led Turner Broadcasting for these last 12 years, and who always made CNN his priority. We never had a better friend and we have been blessed to have him at the helm.
I hope the coming days offer each and every one of you the chance to reflect on your own successes – both personally and professionally. If there is one thing being in this business teaches you, it is that life can change in an instant. Take time for what is important. Rest and recharge when and where you can. I can't wait to see what 2014 brings us.
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Q: Qt Creator not displaying SFML windows I've recently set up qt creator to work with SFML, and I tried running a piece of code as a test to see if it works. I must note the code bellow works perfectly in Codeblocks IDE but in qt creator it simply displays a console with the text "Press RETURN to close this window..."
#include <SFML/System.hpp>
#include <SFML/Window.hpp>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
using namespace sf;
Window w(VideoMode(350,350,32), "Tic Tac Toe"); Event e1; const Input&
in1 = w.GetInput();
int main() {
while(w.IsOpened())
{
w.Display();
}
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
Here is my .pro file:
INCLUDEPATH += C:\SFML-1.6\include
LIBS += C:\SFML-1.6\lib\sfml-system.lib \
C:\SFML-1.6\lib\sfml-window.lib \
C:\SFML-1.6\lib\sfml-graphics.lib \
C:\SFML-1.6\lib\sfml-audio.lib \
C:\SFML-1.6\lib\sfml-network.lib
Never in a million years did I imagine working with SFML on my favorite IDE is so difficult, what is the problem?
A: You should not use global object. They might mess up with SFML's internal.
Also you should process events. Not doing so might be the reason of your issue.
Try the example from the tutorial.
If you're discovering SFML for the first time I strongly suggest you start with 2.0 instead of the old, buggy and deprecated 1.6 version. Have a look at some discussions on the official forum to understand why 2.0 is better although it is currently "only" a release candidate.
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Implement the wood beams onto which the flooring block will sit.
The inside vertical batons are currently against the 6" EPS which is where the concrete will be. For the section of wall to be worked on, remove all the inside vertical batons and the tie rods.
In strategic places put a vertical baton in the final inside position. Typically choose a position that has a 45 degree angle brace. In selecting which few places to put a vertical baton, think about what is necessary to support the rebar in the right places. This will be influenced by where the window openings are. You want to have only a few batons so you have room to get the rebar and plywood into place.
You will want to put vertical batons at the primary locations closest to the corners and these batons are the least likely to get in the way of adding the rebar and the plywood.
The following diagram shows the tie rod arrangement at the bottom of the wall.
For 8" concrete walls the conduit is cut to a length of 8-1/4". For 12" walls it is 12-1/4". Electrical conduit plastic pipe is used because it is low cost. It is 1/2" diameter.
Cavity width - 1/16" for washer + Expected compression of EPS (1/8") + expected compression of plywood (1/16") + How much less thin ply is from 1/4" (1/16") + How much less thick ply is from 1/2" (1/16").
For an 8" cavity that means 8 - 1/16 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/16 + 1/16 = 8-1/4".
Use a length stop jig on a chop saw to cut the conduit.
Add threaded rods, 1.5" nylon washers, and lengths of conduit at all the X'9" places up the vertical baton and also at the 4" place at the bottom. You will need to drill a hole through the EPS (using the wood baton as a guide) so that you can add the 4" from the bottom tie rod.
Given that the 1/2" + 1/4" plywood has not yet been fitted you need to add an extra 3/4" length of conduit to form the correct distance. You only need to do this in a few places (eg at mezzanine floor height and at the top) and wherever it happens to be easy to do. It will be hard to do and is unnecessary near the bottom. At the bottom, the nailed down kicker board holds the bottom of the vertical baton in the right place. When there is not the extra 3/4" spacer, leave the nuts loose on the threaded rod. When there it a 3/4" spacer do the nuts up but still avoid compressing the washer into the EPS.
Above and below the windows you will need rebar in the X'3" hole positions, so these holes for tie rods need to be drilled (with the EPS already fitted).
You will need a vertical baton in primary positions on both sides of the window/door opening. These batons will need the X-3" holes drilled at the top and bottom of the opening and will need tie rods fitted.
We want to get to a rain-proof enclosure as soon as possible so it is more pleasant to work and the materials stay dry.
The 12" thick EPS blocks that form the concrete flooring are supported by 10.5 inch tall wood beams that are in turn supported by 2x6 lumber (1.5" x 5.5"). The 2x6s are supported by a horizontal 2x8 baton that attaches at the top of the vertical 2x4 batons.
You will have previously implemented wooden internal divider walls. These are used to provide a support for the main beams somewhere along thir length to help with the weight of the wet concrete that will be poured on the floor.
You want these to be fairly long (say 10, 12, or even 16 foot lumber) so that less vertical 2x4 batons are needed to support them. Decide on the lengths based on where there are vertical batons in their final inner positions. You will want to use good straight lumber. If there is a slight box when for consistency always mark out on the concave side.
In the case of horizontal planks running north south the 1" from the end holes bolt to the 2x6 corner verticals. In the east west case, they need to start at the first vertical 2x4 baton rather than at the 2x6 corner assembly to avoid a clash.
The holes are 5-1/2" from the top edge (the top edge is the important edge).
They are needed for both the north and south walls and the east and west walls. Also on the tops of internal concrete walls.
The actual lengths depend on the length of the wall section and available lumber so you can shorten the lengths in 1 foot increments as required (cutting 6" - 1/16th" from hole position).
Some creativity may be required based on what lumber you have and where the vertical batons are. This is fine as long as you keep looking at your CAD drawing.
Note that when spanning the center of the building, the hole pattern changes - again consult your CAD drawing so you get the holes in the right places.
The 2x8 on the north and south walls (run east-west) are for supporting 5.5" high lumber that then supports the main 10.5" tall ceiling beams. 2x8s are also used on the east and west (run north-south) walls so that with 2x6 padding they support the ends of the main 10.5" ceiling beams.
Add a few strategic vertical 2x4 batons on the north and south walls in their final position, but not too many or they will get in the way of adding the rebar and plywood. Do not put them anywhere that will interfere with the windows and doors. Typically put a vertical 2x4 batons in the primary location near the wall corner.
Attach the horizontal 2x8s at the top of the vertical 2x4 batons using the X'3" holes and 3/8" threaded rod wall ties. For the attachment to the 2x6+2x4 corner assemblies it is best to use 3/8" bolts as the holes for tie rods have not yet been drilled in the EPS.
Also add the 2x8 horizontal beams on both sides of the internal walls.
It is ok to have a few gaps between the 7.5" tall horizontal planks. The 2x6s that go on top will span the gaps.
Depending on the length of internal 2x4 vertical batons, you may need to use short pieces of 2x4 to hold the 2x6 lumber on top of the 2x8 lumber. This forms the edge on which the 10.5" main beams will sit. If you need the extra 2x4 pieces then position them at the secondary locations.
Where there is not a clash with the location of a 10.5" main beam you can actually use longer pieces of 2x4 to go up beyond the bottom edge of the 10.5" main beams.
Where there is a designed in hole in a concrete internal wall that is actually going to be filled in by wooden internal walling then this internal wall can also be framed at this time as it will be used to support the wet concrete of the wall.
From your CAD drawings, draw marks to show where the beams should be positioned on the 2x6s. The beam positions should be shown on your CAD drawings.
These beams will go into the slots in the bottom of the EPS Carnation Flooring blocks. They go East-West on the building. They are 10.5" tall and 3" wide formed from two beams that are 5.5" tall and 3" wide. After gluing the beams they are trimmed on a table saw to 10.5". The reason it is ok to use two 5.5" beams is that only the bottom 5.5" of the 10.5" beam will be visible in the finished ceiling. I use doug-fir timber cut on my saw mill for the bottom of the beam. The timber is sawn fresh from the tree so the beam will shrink in width and height as it dries. On the sawmill the beam is cut to be 3+" width and 5-1/2+" height where the plus denotes an extra 1/16th of an inch. After drying the expectation is that the beam will be about 3-" and 5-1/2-" where the minus denotes a 1/16".
I glue two 2x6s on top of the sawmill cut beam to form a home-made glu-lam beam.
The overall height of the formed tall beam will be something like 11". The glued beam is then cut with a skillsaw in a custom jig to be exactly 10.5" (cutting the paired purchased 2x6s).
If using purchased 2-by lumber then it will likely be necessary to join lengths of lumber to get the required span length. That is the reason that the slot in the Carnation Flooring profile EPS is 3" wide (2 x 1.5"). Joined pieces are offset either side of the available 3".
When gluing I form a very slight upwards bow using shims. Having a slight bow is better for taking the wet concrete force and is more visually appealing. The center shim is 3/4" relative to the ends on a 20 foot beam.
As the 10.5" beams stay in place for ever and are typically visible, I paint them with clear wood protection . Apply with plenty of ventilation to get rid of the VOCs, but it does not contain particularly bad ingredients so it is ok to use internally once it is dry.
Fix locator blocks to the ends of the beams ready for hooking over the support lumber that is at the top of the walls. These blocks are 1.5" x 1.5" x 3" long with two holes for 3" screws.
Cut the beams so they do not go over the floor openings. Special stepped ends are needed to form the concrete lip.
Where there is an opening in the concrete (eg for stairs or elevator shaft) you need to form a 6" concrete lip round the hole. To help with this, the wood beams are a bit different on the end. The glued on 2x6s are deliberately shorter than the sawmill cut beams to allow for the concrete lip.
The beams go East-West. They extend all the way to the plywood (face of the 1/2 construction plywood closest to the inside of the building). They over-lap the vertical 2x4 batons (and the 2x8 horizontal batons with the 2x6s on top) and are supported by them. Their length comes from the house CAD drawing. The position of the beams is indicated by the marks on the top edge of the 2x6s at the top of the concrete walls.
Use ratchet straps to securely fix the beams.
You do not want the beams over the floor cutout areas. Use special beams that form a concrete lip round the floor opening.
The various internal wood divider walls help support the main ceiling beams.
Check the building is square and the walls are vertical by observing the plumb bobs in each of the corners.
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John Uelses de son vrai nom Feigenbaum (né le à Berlin, en Allemagne) est un athlète américain spécialiste du saut à la perche.
Carrière
Né en 1937 à Berlin, orphelin à l'âge de cinq ans, John Uelses est adopté en 1945 par une tante habitant aux États-Unis.
En début de saison 1962, l'Américain améliore à trois reprises la meilleure performance indoor en réalisant successivement , et , ces performances n'étant pas encore considérés comme des records du monde en salle par l'IAAF. Il devient par ailleurs le premier athlète à franchir la limite des 16 pieds en réalisant la marque de .
Engagé volontaire dans les Marines, Uelses est l'un des premiers utilisateurs de la perche en fibre de verre avec laquelle il fait évoluer son record personnel de à . Le , à Santa Barbara, il établit un nouveau record du monde de la discipline en franchissant une barre à , améliorant de six centimètres l'ancienne meilleure marque mondiale établie en 1961 par son compatriote George Davies, adepte également de la « fiber-glass ».
En 1964, l'Américain remporte les Championnats NCAA () ainsi que les Championnats de l'Amateur Athletic Union en salle ().
Son record personnel, établi le à Cleveland, est de .
Records
Annexes
Sources
Robert Parienté et Alain Billouin, La fabuleuse histoire de l'Athlétisme, Paris, Minerva 2003
Liens externes
Références
Perchiste américain
Détenteur d'un record du monde d'athlétisme
Naissance en juillet 1937
Naissance à Berlin
Étudiant de l'université La Salle
Naissance dans le Troisième Reich
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Q: Functionals and dynamic loading dll exported functions following other discussions (Discussion 1 and Discussion 2) I wrote some pice of code to have a template based helper function to synamic load functions exported from a dll.
It works fine, but just if the functions exported from the dll are cdecl functions. I've troubles if they have different calling convenctions and I'm looking for a good suggestion.
Here some of my code:
template <typename Ret, typename... Args >
Ret ExecuteIt(LPCSTR funName, Args... Pack)
{
std::map<LPCSTR, CGenericHolder*>::iterator it;
it = m_functionsMap.find(funName);
if (it != m_functionsMap.end())
{
CGenericHolder* tmpObj = it->second;
if (tmpObj->IsValid())
{
CVarFuncHolder<Ret(Args...)>* tmpObjF = dynamic_cast<CVarFuncHolder<Ret(Args...)>*>(tmpObj);
if (tmpObjF)
return tmpObjF->ExecuteIt()(Pack...);
else
throw std::bad_cast("Object doesn't match the function");
}
}
throw std::bad_function_call("Function not exists");
};
template <typename T>
bool MapMemberFunction(LPCSTR funName, int ordinal = -1)
{
CVarFuncHolder<T>* newFun = new CVarFuncHolder<T>();
bool rv = true;
try
{
newFun->Assign(funName, loadDllFunc<T>(funName,ordinal));
m_functionsMap[funName] = newFun;
}
catch (const std::invalid_argument& e)
{
#ifdef _DEBUG
OutputDebugStringA(e.what());
#endif
delete newFun;
rv = false;
}
catch (...)
{
throw;
}
return rv;
};
template <typename T>
std::function<T> loadDllFunc(LPCSTR funcName, int ordinal)
{
// Load DLL.
// Check if DLL is loaded.
if (!m_dllHinst)
throw std::invalid_argument("Dll not loaded");
// Locate function in DLL.
FARPROC lpfnGetProcessID = ::GetProcAddress(m_dllHinst, (ordinal >= 0) ? MAKEINTRESOURCEA(ordinal) : funcName);
// Check if function was located.
if (!lpfnGetProcessID)
throw std::invalid_argument("Function call not found");
// Create function object from function pointer.
auto f = CastFromFPtrToFunction<T>(lpfnGetProcessID);
return f;
}
template<typename Signature>
std::function<Signature> CastFromFPtrToFunction(FARPROC f)
{
return std::function<Signature>(reinterpret_cast<Signature*>(f));
}
Now,
I map the function that I want in this way
if (!MapMemberFunction<long (long, unsigned char, unsigned char)>("Func name"))
return false;
I use the function in this way:
auto rv = ExecuteIt<long>("Func name", par1, par2, par3);
And all goes fine if the function was written using cdecl calling convenction, but the app crashes if the function has a different calling convention.
I tried to map the function in a different way
MapMemberFunction<long APIENTRY (long, unsigned char, unsigned char)>("Func name"));
but in this latter, I have a problem calling the Excute method, because the dynamic_cast fails.
Where am I wrong?
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Makoto Nagao (, Nagao Makoto; geboren 4. Oktober 1936 in der Präfektur Mie; gestorben 23. Mai 2021) war ein japanischer Informatiker und Wissenschaftsorganisator.
Leben und Wirken
Makoto Nagao schloss 1959 sein Studium an der Fakultät für Ingenieurswesen der Universität Kyōto ab. Nach Abschluss der Graduiertenausbildung wurde er 1961 Assistent an seiner alma mater. 1966 folgte die Promotion, 1968 die Ernennung zum Assistenzprofessor. 1967 arbeitete er in Frankreich als Gastforscher an der Universität Grenoble. 1971 wurde er Professor an der Kyōdai. 1986 übernahm er als Direktor das Großrechenzentrum der Universität. 1991 wurde Nagao erster Vorsitzender der neugegründeten "International Association for Machine Translation" (IAMT), 1994 erster Vorsitzender der "Vereinigung für Sprachverarbeitung" (言語処理学会, Gengo shori gakkai). 1995 wurde er Direktor der Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Kyōto, 1997 Präsident der Universität. 2003 ging er in den Ruhestand und wurde als "Meiyo Kyōju" geehrt.
2007 wurde Nagao Direktor der Nationalen Parlamentsbibliothek, 2014 Mitglied der Japanischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2015 wurde er Vorsitzender des "International Institute of Advance Studies" (国際高等研究所, Kokusai kōtō kenkyūjo), einem 1984 in der Kansai Science City eingerichteten Think Tank. 2016 schließlich wurde er Vorsitzender der "Kyōto Prefectural Public University Corporation" (京都府公立大学法人).
Publikationen (Auswahl)
"Theorie der Bilderkennung" (画像認識論, Gazō ninshiki-ron) 1983
"Computer Muster-Erkennung" (コンピュータのパターン認識, Computer no pattern ninshiki) 1985
"Maschinelle Übersetzung, wie weit geht ihre Möglichkeit" (機械翻訳はどこまで可能か, Kikai honyaku wa, doko made kanō ka) 1986
"Künstliche Intelligenz und der Mensch" (人工知能と人間, Jinkō chinō to ningen) 1992
"Die elektronische Bibliothek" (電子図書館; Denshi toshokan) 1994
"Was heißt 'Verstehen' " (「わかる」とは何か, 'Wakaru' towa nanika) 2001
"Was die Bibliothek der Zukunft anbetrifft" (未来の図書館を作るとは, Mirai no toshokan o tsukuru to wa) 2012
Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)
1986 Preis der Gesellschaft für elektronische Informationsübermittlung (電子情報通信学会業績賞)
1993 IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
1997 Preis der Gesellschaft für Informationsverarbeitung (情報処理学会功績賞)
1997 Preis der "International Association for Machinetranslation"
1997 Ehrenmedaille (Japan)
1999 Ehrendoktor der University of Nottingham
2000 IEEE-Fellow
2004 Aufnahme in die Ehrenlegion
2005 Japan-Preis
2008 Person mit besonderen kulturellen Verdiensten
2012 Sonderpreis der Stadt Kyōto
2018 Kulturorden
Anmerkungen
Weblinks
Stadt Kyōto: Biografie, japanisch
Kurzbiografie in der Kotobank
Einzelnachweise
Informatiker
Bibliotheksleiter
Mitglied der Ehrenlegion
Person mit besonderen kulturellen Verdiensten
Träger des japanischen Kulturordens
Japaner
Geboren 1936
Gestorben 2021
Mann
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« Why Roanoke County went out of state for its next Chief of Police
First summer in six years: Blue Ridge Parkway open end-to-end »
13-month-old dead, Roanoke County man behind bars
Published July 25, 2012 | By Timothy Martin
Preston King
A 13-month-old child is dead and a 27-year-old Roanoke County man is behind bars charged in connection with the little girl's death. Police were called to the 4100 of Rutrough Road on Sunday for a child that wasn't breathing. The child died Tuesday at the hospital. An investigation showed the girl had blunt-force injuries to her head. Preston King has been charged with aggravated malicious wounding and felony child abuse. The girl's mother told police that she left her daughter in her boyfriend's care.
Here is the new release from Roanoke County:
Roanoke County Man Charged with Abusing 13-Month Old Child
Additional Charges Now Pending Following the Death of the Girl
• Incident: Felony Child Abuse
• Date of Incident: July 22, 2012 Time of Incident: Shortly after 7:00 p.m.
• Location of Incident: 4100 block of Rutrough Road
On Sunday, July 22, 2012, Roanoke County Police and Fire & Rescue personnel were called to a residence in the 4100 block of Rutrough Road for a report of a one-year old child not breathing. Fire & Rescue personnel began emergency treatment of the child at the scene and she was taken to the hospital.
The examination at the hospital revealed signs of blunt force trauma to the child's head and she was hospitalized.
The investigation revealed that the child's mother, 21-year-old Chelsy Marie Lawrence of Roanoke City, left the baby in the care of her boyfriend at the Rutrough Road residence. The boyfriend was identified as 27-year-old Preston Kent King. King lived at the residence with two females.
Information gained during the investigation resulted in King being charged with aggravated malicious wounding and felony child abuse. He's being held in the Roanoke County/Salem Jail without bond.
The 13-month-old girl, Veralee Craft of Roanoke City, died at the hospital on Tuesday, July 24 at 9:37 a.m.
This is the first time that Roanoke County police have received any calls regarding the welfare of the child.
Detectives are continuing their investigation and working with the Roanoke County Commonwealth Attorney's office. Additional charges in this case are possible pending completion of the investigation.
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Q: Как изменить текст и аттрибут текста в svg с помощью js Всем добра! Имеется такая задача: Есть график нарисованный с помощью svg в этом графике есть подписи вида <text ...></text>, необходимо если число отрицательное - покрасить его в красный.
Пробовал через $('text').each(); Но ничего не выходит( айдишники приписать к ним тоже нет возможности.
Подскажите пожалуйста как можно перебрать все текстовые элементы в svg
A: $('text').each() отлично работает.
$('text').each(function () {
if ( +$(this).text() <= 0 ) {
$(this).attr('fill', 'red');
}
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<svg>
<text x="0" y="15" font-family="Verdana" font-size="15">1</text>
<text x="0" y="35" font-family="Verdana" font-size="15">2</text>
<text x="0" y="55" font-family="Verdana" font-size="15">11</text>
<text x="0" y="75" font-family="Verdana" font-size="15">-1</text>
<text x="0" y="95" font-family="Verdana" font-size="15">-6</text>
</svg>
A: SVG это XML, не HTML.
Чтобы вставить текст нужен textContent
document.querySelectorAll('text').forEach(item => {
item.textContent = 666
});
<svg>
<text x="0" y="15" font-family="Verdana" font-size="15">1</text>
<text x="0" y="35" font-family="Verdana" font-size="15">2</text>
<text x="0" y="55" font-family="Verdana" font-size="15">11</text>
<text x="0" y="75" font-family="Verdana" font-size="15">-1</text>
<text x="0" y="95" font-family="Verdana" font-size="15">-6</text>
</svg>
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Greyscalegorilla2018June
Posted On:June 2018 | Greyscalegorilla
Cineversity Tutorial: Commercial Production Workflows for Freelancers
June 29, 2018 - By Michael Maher
Master your Cinema 4D workflow with these great tips and tools that designer Zachary Corzine uses on his projects for Audi, Odwalla, and Del Taco.
After talking about tips and tricks for freelancers working remotely with the The Freelancer's Guide to Surviving and Thriving When Working At Home, let's hop into this great presentation on the commercial production workflow for freelancers from Zach Corzine.
You may recall Corzine's fantastic presentation Learning Cinema 4D Through Experimentation. (If you haven't seen it, it's really a must-watch.) In this follow-up presentation, he talks about creating an efficient workflow for production, including some of the tools he uses with Cinema 4D.
Corzine with show you how he approached four different projects, and the techniques he used to get the job done. For his Odwalla campaign, you'll see him use the MoGraph toolset and Cloner object extensively, then using Signal to fill in the scene.
The Freelancer's Guide to Surviving and Thriving When Working At Home
Transitioning into a freelance or remote work-from-home position? This is a guide to surviving and thriving in a home office.
Multiple times in my career, I've worked from home. After many mistakes over the years, I finally figured out how to get work done and still live a normal life. I put together this list of to-do's and not to-do's based on my experience, while debunking many of the other work from home articles I've read.
Image via Domenico Loia.
As someone having worked in the creative industry for over a decade, I've worked in every type of environment. I have worked on set, lived the cubicle life (driving a beige sedan, ugh), worked in an open-plan office, inside a theater tech booth, and now I am in my element, working remotely from home.
If you have the fortune to transfer into a full-time freelance career or remote position, there are upsides and downsides. I'm going to offer some advice and tips I've learned on working from home. Read More
Interview: Behind the Stunning Ad for VELCRO® Brand
See how this surprising piece for VELCRO® Brand had the entire design community enthralled with its beauty and technical wizardry.
Designers Lukas Vojir and Alexa Sirbu recently released their latest collaboration, a stunning piece created on hook and loop technology.
The video was quickly shared among design circles, not only for the video's beautiful renders, but also its technical achievements. How did they get that shot? It was a question I kept asking myself, so I reached out to Lukas and Alexa to learn more.
Here's what I learned in our conversation. Read More
Cineversity Tutorial: Modeling and Animating a Main Title Sequence
Discover the creative process behind Mike Judge's Tales from the Tour Bus title sequence from storyboard to completion.
Penelope Nederlander is a two-time Emmy-nominated art director and digital artist. She's been using Cinema 4D for 16 years, and has worked freelance, as a creative director, and now works at Austin-based Rooster Teeth.
In addition to her animation and motion design work, Nederlander has worked in VFX departments for films like Iron Man, The Aviator, and Superman Returns, as well as music videos for Dolly Parton and The Killers. She also worked on the stereoscopic version of the MGM lion logo.
She has frequently collaborated with L.A. studio Shine on several main title sequences for films and shows like Kung Fu Panda, Pitch Perfect, and more. In this presentation, she will go behind her work on the main titles for Mike Judge's Cinemax show, Tales from the Tour Bus.
Thanks to Our 100,000 YouTube Subscribers and GSG Community
A special thank you to our community for helping the Greyscalegorilla YouTube channel hit 100,000 subscribers.
We just wanted to say thank you to everyone who continues to follow and support us. We just hit a major milestone, 100,000 YouTube subscribers! We promise to keep putting out great new tutorials and tips on our channel.
Special thanks to you, no matter where you follow us. Whether it's on YouTube for tutorials, Twitch for AskGSG and our live streams, or on all our various social media accounts like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
This community continues to grow, and we are so grateful for your support.
Seeing that we also recently hit 100 podcast episodes, alongside some other GSG milestones, keep an eye out for a special summer announcement soon.
The Greyscalegorilla team
Cineversity Tutorial: 3D Design for Non-Technical Artists
A 2D artist's guide to 3D design and using Cinema 4D for commercial projects.
In this Cineversity presentation with Nate Rodriguez-Vera, you'll see easy ways to get started with 3D design. You'll hear about his personal journey from music to design, all leading to his commercial 3D work.
He offers advice for artists transitioning into 3D work and then dives into some of his commercial projects. Rodriguez-Vera shows you how to arrange simple shapes with Booleans to make geometric designs, and also breakdowns a Trident spot.
GIF via Nate Rodriguez-Vera / Cineversity.
The Best New Features in the Redshift Renderer Update
June 6, 2018 - By Michael Maher
Discover the new lighting and animation features that make us excited about the latest version of Redshift.
Redshift has just released version 2.6.10, which you can download on their site. Rob Slater dropped a bunch of great news over in the Redshift forums, and Panos Zompolas followed up with more.
Here are the biggest new features we are excited about.
1. Specular Light Ray Bending through Refraction
Auto reflection in 2.6.10 via Rob Slater / Redshift.
Interview: A Skater Turned Designer for Nike, Vans, Marvel and More
How two surgeries sidelined this skateboarder and turned him into a top motion designer with his own creative powerhouse. This is the story of Already Been Chewed and Barton Damer.
Image via Barton Damer.
All great artists evolve. It comes with the territory. In this industry in particular, motion designers will constantly face pressure, second-guess their abilities, and continue to push themselves harder. That's what it takes to make it in this industry, or really how to succeed in any type of creative position.
In this interview, you'll certainly hear about many familiar stages of creative growth. Discovering your talent, honing your skills, facing your fears, getting lucky, taking risks, failing, and evolving. These struggles are not unique to Barton Damer, but his personal experiences are.
Barton Damer is the Founder and Creative Director of Already Been Chewed, or as many may know it as ABC. In our chance encounter, Barton and I learned that we live and work in the same area, a coincidence you'll find repeating itself in this story. It's funny how the internet has brought everyone together, but we tend to forget that many of us are just down the road from each other as well. That's what led to me visiting Barton and his team at Already Been Chewed.
Here's a glimpse at some of ABC's most recent work.
I wanted to find out much more about ABC and Barton, and they were gracious enough to host me. Not only did I learn about his personal experiences, but we talked about motion design, rendering, tech, and growing your own business online. Here's what I learned. Read More
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Working at the intersection of Compliance, Business Advice and the Passion to make the world a better place, CubeRoute helps your organisation achieve its potential through customised solutions.
With a unique engagement and deployment model spanning the entire compliance life-cycle, you can be assured of a quick, simple and effective solution to your compliance needs.
We help your organisation achieve transformation through a variety of means that are best suited to your needs – such as in-person interventions, mass communication and other bespoke solutions.
At CubeRoute, we bring professional expertise from across Law, Management Consultancy, Operations and Marketing. Working as a team we ensure that the advice you receive is legally compliant, practical and efficient.
End-to-end compliance with anti-sexual harassment legislation and inclusive labour practices to ensure that your workplace is not only secure and compliant but also promotes a positive work environment.
Reviewing and drafting of policies, process engineering or reengineering and institutional development that results in improved efficiencies and increased morale throughout the organisation.
Our interventions are uniquely designed to facilitate good business practices that minimize leakage and boost productivity. Drawing inspiration from global best practices, we align your organisation's process to reach desired outcomes, within the parameters of compliance mechanisms.
Jaideep is a management professional, trainer and coach with over a decade of domestic and international experience, across multiple industries. He has been instrumental in mentoring and coaching individuals identified to be on the fast track to corporate growth and is one of India's leading soft skills trainers with over 3500 hours of professional training experience under his belt. Jaideep's extensive corporate and consuting experience combined with his exposure to instructional design and a special skill in training-the-trainer are an invaluable asset to the team at CubeRoute.
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package io.realm;
import android.content.Context;
import android.test.AndroidTestCase;
import junit.framework.AssertionFailedError;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.lang.Thread;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
import io.realm.dynamic.DynamicRealmObject;
import io.realm.entities.AllTypes;
import io.realm.entities.AllTypesPrimaryKey;
import io.realm.entities.Cat;
import io.realm.entities.CyclicType;
import io.realm.entities.CyclicTypePrimaryKey;
import io.realm.entities.Dog;
import io.realm.entities.DogPrimaryKey;
import io.realm.entities.NonLatinFieldNames;
import io.realm.entities.Owner;
import io.realm.entities.OwnerPrimaryKey;
import io.realm.entities.PrimaryKeyAsLong;
import io.realm.entities.PrimaryKeyAsString;
import io.realm.entities.PrimaryKeyMix;
import io.realm.entities.StringOnly;
import io.realm.exceptions.RealmException;
import io.realm.exceptions.RealmIOException;
import io.realm.internal.Table;
import static io.realm.internal.test.ExtraTests.assertArrayEquals;
public class RealmTest extends AndroidTestCase {
protected final static int TEST_DATA_SIZE = 10;
protected Realm testRealm;
protected List<String> columnData = new ArrayList<String>();
private final static String FIELD_STRING = "columnString";
private final static String FIELD_LONG = "columnLong";
private final static String FIELD_FLOAT = "columnFloat";
private final static String FIELD_DOUBLE = "columnDouble";
private final static String FIELD_BOOLEAN = "columnBoolean";
private final static String FIELD_DATE = "columnDate";
private RealmConfiguration testConfig;
protected void setColumnData() {
columnData.add(0, FIELD_BOOLEAN);
columnData.add(1, FIELD_DATE);
columnData.add(2, FIELD_DOUBLE);
columnData.add(3, FIELD_FLOAT);
columnData.add(4, FIELD_STRING);
columnData.add(5, FIELD_LONG);
}
@Override
protected void setUp() throws Exception {
testConfig = new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext()).build();
Realm.deleteRealm(testConfig);
testRealm = Realm.getInstance(testConfig);
}
@Override
protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
if (testRealm != null) {
testRealm.close();
}
}
private void populateTestRealm(Realm realm, int objects) {
realm.beginTransaction();
realm.allObjects(AllTypes.class).clear();
realm.allObjects(NonLatinFieldNames.class).clear();
for (int i = 0; i < objects; ++i) {
AllTypes allTypes = realm.createObject(AllTypes.class);
allTypes.setColumnBoolean((i % 3) == 0);
allTypes.setColumnBinary(new byte[]{1, 2, 3});
allTypes.setColumnDate(new Date());
allTypes.setColumnDouble(3.1415);
allTypes.setColumnFloat(1.234567f + i);
allTypes.setColumnString("test data " + i);
allTypes.setColumnLong(i);
NonLatinFieldNames nonLatinFieldNames = realm.createObject(NonLatinFieldNames.class);
nonLatinFieldNames.set델타(i);
nonLatinFieldNames.setΔέλτα(i);
nonLatinFieldNames.set베타(1.234567f + i);
nonLatinFieldNames.setΒήτα(1.234567f + i);
}
realm.commitTransaction();
}
private void populateTestRealm() {
populateTestRealm(testRealm, TEST_DATA_SIZE);
}
public void testGetInstanceNullFolderThrows() {
try {
Realm.getInstance(new RealmConfiguration.Builder((File) null).build());
fail("Parsing null as folder should throw an error");
} catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
}
}
public void testGetInstanceFolderNoWritePermissionThrows() {
File folder = new File("/");
try {
Realm realm = Realm.getInstance(new RealmConfiguration.Builder(folder).build());
fail("Pointing to a folder with no write permission should throw an IllegalArgumentException");
} catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
}
}
public void testGetInstanceFileNoWritePermissionThrows() throws IOException {
String REALM_FILE = "readonly.realm";
File folder = getContext().getFilesDir();
File realmFile = new File(folder, REALM_FILE);
if (realmFile.exists()) {
realmFile.delete(); // Reset old test data
}
assertTrue(realmFile.createNewFile());
assertTrue(realmFile.setWritable(false));
try {
Realm.getInstance(new RealmConfiguration.Builder(folder).name(REALM_FILE).build());
fail("Trying to open a read-only file should fail");
} catch (RealmIOException expected) {
}
}
public void testGetInstanceClearsCacheWhenFailed() {
String REALM_NAME = "invalid_cache.realm";
RealmConfiguration configA = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), REALM_NAME, TestHelper.getRandomKey());
RealmConfiguration configB = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), REALM_NAME, TestHelper.getRandomKey());
Realm.deleteRealm(configA);
Realm realm = Realm.getInstance(configA); // Create starting Realm with key1
realm.close();
try {
Realm.getInstance(configB); // Try to open with key 2
} catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
// Delete Realm so key 2 works. This should work as a Realm shouldn't be cached
// if initialization failed.
assertTrue(Realm.deleteRealm(configA));
Realm.getInstance(configB);
realm.close();
}
}
public void testRealmCache() {
Realm newRealm = Realm.getInstance(getContext());
assertEquals(testRealm, newRealm);
newRealm.close();
}
public void testInternalRealmChangedHandlersRemoved() {
final String REALM_NAME = "test-internalhandlers";
RealmConfiguration realmConfig = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), REALM_NAME);
Realm.deleteRealm(realmConfig);
Realm.handlers.clear(); // Make sure that handlers from other unit tests doesn't interfere.
// Open and close first instance of a Realm
Realm realm = null;
try {
realm = Realm.getInstance(realmConfig);
assertEquals(1, Realm.handlers.size());
realm.close();
// All Realms closed. No handlers should be alive.
assertEquals(0, Realm.handlers.size());
// Open instance the 2nd time. Old handler should now be gone
realm = Realm.getInstance(realmConfig);
assertEquals(1, Realm.handlers.size());
realm.close();
} finally {
if (realm != null) {
realm.close();
}
}
}
public void testShouldCreateRealm() {
assertNotNull("Realm.getInstance unexpectedly returns null", testRealm);
assertTrue("Realm.getInstance does not contain expected table", testRealm.contains(AllTypes.class));
}
public void testShouldNotFailCreateRealmWithNullContext() {
Realm realm = null;
try {
realm = Realm.getInstance((Context) null); // throws when c.getDirectory() is called;
// has nothing to do with Realm
fail("Should throw an exception");
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignore) {
} finally {
if (realm != null) {
realm.close();
}
}
}
// Table getTable(Class<?> clazz)
public void testShouldGetTable() {
Table table = testRealm.getTable(AllTypes.class);
assertNotNull(table);
}
// <E> void remove(Class<E> clazz, long objectIndex)
public void testShouldRemoveRow() {
populateTestRealm();
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.remove(AllTypes.class, 0);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
RealmResults<AllTypes> resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).findAll();
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE - 1, resultList.size());
}
// <E extends RealmObject> E getByIndex(Class<E> clazz, long rowIndex)
public void testShouldGetObject() {
populateTestRealm();
AllTypes allTypes = testRealm.getByIndex(AllTypes.class, 0);
assertNotNull(allTypes);
assertEquals("test data 0", allTypes.getColumnString());
}
// boolean contains(Class<?> clazz)
public void testShouldContainTable() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.createObject(Dog.class);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertTrue("contains returns false for newly created table", testRealm.contains(Dog.class));
assertFalse("contains returns true for non-existing table", testRealm.contains(null));
}
// <E extends RealmObject> RealmQuery<E> where(Class<E> clazz)
public void testShouldReturnResultSet() {
populateTestRealm();
RealmResults<AllTypes> resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).findAll();
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE, resultList.size());
}
// Note that this test is relying on the values set while initializing the test dataset
public void testQueriesResults() throws IOException {
populateTestRealm(testRealm, 159);
RealmResults<AllTypes> resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(FIELD_LONG, 33).findAll();
assertEquals(1, resultList.size());
resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(FIELD_LONG, 3333).findAll();
assertEquals(0, resultList.size());
resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(FIELD_STRING, "test data 0").findAll();
assertEquals(1, resultList.size());
resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(FIELD_STRING, "test data 0", RealmQuery.CASE_INSENSITIVE).findAll();
assertEquals(1, resultList.size());
resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(FIELD_STRING, "Test data 0", RealmQuery.CASE_SENSITIVE).findAll();
assertEquals(0, resultList.size());
}
public void testQueriesWithDataTypes() throws IOException {
populateTestRealm();
setColumnData();
for (int i = 0; i < columnData.size(); i++) {
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(columnData.get(i), true).findAll();
if (i != 0) {
fail("Realm.where should fail with illegal argument");
}
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(columnData.get(i), new Date()).findAll();
if (i != 1) {
fail("Realm.where should fail with illegal argument");
}
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(columnData.get(i), 13.37d).findAll();
if (i != 2) {
fail("Realm.where should fail with illegal argument");
}
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(columnData.get(i), 13.3711f).findAll();
if (i != 3) {
fail("Realm.where should fail with illegal argument");
}
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(columnData.get(i), "test").findAll();
if (i != 4) {
fail("Realm.where should fail with illegal argument");
}
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(columnData.get(i), 1337).findAll();
if (i != 5) {
fail("Realm.where should fail with illegal argument");
}
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
}
}
public void testQueriesFailWithInvalidDataTypes() throws IOException {
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo("invalidcolumnname", 33).findAll();
fail("Invalid field name");
} catch (Exception ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo("invalidcolumnname", "test").findAll();
fail("Invalid field name");
} catch (Exception ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo("invalidcolumnname", true).findAll();
fail("Invalid field name");
} catch (Exception ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo("invalidcolumnname", 3.1415d).findAll();
fail("Invalid field name");
} catch (Exception ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo("invalidcolumnname", 3.1415f).findAll();
fail("Invalid field name");
} catch (Exception ignored) {
}
}
public void testQueriesFailWithNullQueryValue() throws IOException {
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(FIELD_STRING, (String) null).findAll();
fail("Realm.where should fail with illegal argument");
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
}
// <E extends RealmObject> RealmTableOrViewList<E> allObjects(Class<E> clazz)
public void testShouldReturnTableOrViewList() {
populateTestRealm();
RealmResults<AllTypes> resultList = testRealm.allObjects(AllTypes.class);
assertEquals("Realm.getByIndex is returning wrong result set", TEST_DATA_SIZE, resultList.size());
}
public void testAllObjectsSorted() {
populateTestRealm();
RealmResults<AllTypes> sortedList = testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class, FIELD_STRING, RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_ASCENDING);
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE, sortedList.size());
assertEquals("test data 0", sortedList.first().getColumnString());
RealmResults<AllTypes> reverseList = testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class, FIELD_STRING, RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_DESCENDING);
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE, reverseList.size());
assertEquals("test data 0", reverseList.last().getColumnString());
try {
RealmResults<AllTypes> none = testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class, "invalid", RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_ASCENDING);
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
}
public void testSortTwoFields() {
io.realm.internal.test.TestHelper.populateForMultiSort(testRealm);
RealmResults<AllTypes> results1 = testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class,
new String[]{FIELD_STRING, FIELD_LONG},
new boolean[]{RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_ASCENDING, RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_ASCENDING});
assertEquals(3, results1.size());
assertEquals("Adam", results1.get(0).getColumnString());
assertEquals(4, results1.get(0).getColumnLong());
assertEquals("Adam", results1.get(1).getColumnString());
assertEquals(5, results1.get(1).getColumnLong());
assertEquals("Brian", results1.get(2).getColumnString());
assertEquals(4, results1.get(2).getColumnLong());
RealmResults<AllTypes> results2 = testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class,
new String[]{FIELD_LONG, FIELD_STRING},
new boolean[]{RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_ASCENDING, RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_ASCENDING});
assertEquals(3, results2.size());
assertEquals("Adam", results2.get(0).getColumnString());
assertEquals(4, results2.get(0).getColumnLong());
assertEquals("Brian", results2.get(1).getColumnString());
assertEquals(4, results2.get(1).getColumnLong());
assertEquals("Adam", results2.get(2).getColumnString());
assertEquals(5, results2.get(2).getColumnLong());
}
public void testSortMultiFailures() {
RealmResults<AllTypes> allTypes = testRealm.allObjects(AllTypes.class);
// zero fields specified
try {
testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class, new String[]{}, new boolean[]{});
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
// number of fields and sorting orders don't match
try {
testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class,
new String[]{FIELD_STRING},
new boolean[]{RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_ASCENDING, RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_ASCENDING});
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
// null is not allowed
try {
testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class, null, null);
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class, new String[]{FIELD_STRING}, null);
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
// non-existing field name
try {
testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class,
new String[]{FIELD_STRING, "dont-exist"},
new boolean[]{RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_ASCENDING, RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_ASCENDING});
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
}
public void testSortSingleField() {
populateTestRealm();
RealmResults<AllTypes> sortedList = testRealm.allObjectsSorted(AllTypes.class,
new String[]{FIELD_LONG},
new boolean[]{RealmResults.SORT_ORDER_DESCENDING});
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE, sortedList.size());
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE - 1, sortedList.first().getColumnLong());
assertEquals(0, sortedList.last().getColumnLong());
}
// void beginTransaction()
public void testBeginTransaction() throws IOException {
populateTestRealm();
testRealm.beginTransaction();
AllTypes allTypes = testRealm.createObject(AllTypes.class);
allTypes.setColumnFloat(3.1415f);
allTypes.setColumnString("a unique string");
testRealm.commitTransaction();
RealmResults<AllTypes> resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).findAll();
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE + 1, resultList.size());
resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(FIELD_STRING, "a unique string").findAll();
assertEquals(1, resultList.size());
resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo(FIELD_FLOAT, 3.1415f).findAll();
assertEquals(1, resultList.size());
}
public void testNestedTransaction() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
try {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
fail();
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
assertEquals("Nested transactions are not allowed. Use commitTransaction() after each beginTransaction().", e.getMessage());
}
testRealm.commitTransaction();
}
private enum TransactionMethod {
METHOD_BEGIN,
METHOD_COMMIT,
METHOD_CANCEL
}
// Starting a transaction on the wrong thread will fail
private boolean transactionMethodWrongThread(final TransactionMethod method) throws InterruptedException,
ExecutionException {
if (method != TransactionMethod.METHOD_BEGIN) {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.createObject(Dog.class); // FIXME: Empty transactions cannot be cancelled
}
ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
Future<Boolean> future = executorService.submit(new Callable<Boolean>() {
@Override
public Boolean call() throws Exception {
try {
switch (method) {
case METHOD_BEGIN:
testRealm.beginTransaction();
break;
case METHOD_COMMIT:
testRealm.commitTransaction();
break;
case METHOD_CANCEL:
testRealm.cancelTransaction();
break;
}
return false;
} catch (IllegalStateException ignored) {
return true;
}
}
});
boolean result = future.get();
if (result && method != TransactionMethod.METHOD_BEGIN) {
testRealm.cancelTransaction();
}
return result;
}
public void testTransactionWrongThread() throws ExecutionException, InterruptedException {
for (TransactionMethod method : TransactionMethod.values()) {
assertTrue(method.toString(), transactionMethodWrongThread(method));
}
}
// void commitTransaction()
public void testCommitTransaction() {
populateTestRealm();
testRealm.beginTransaction();
AllTypes allTypes = testRealm.createObject(AllTypes.class);
allTypes.setColumnBoolean(true);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
RealmResults<AllTypes> resultList = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).findAll();
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE + 1, resultList.size());
}
public void testCancelTransaction() {
populateTestRealm();
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.createObject(AllTypes.class);
testRealm.cancelTransaction();
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE, testRealm.allObjects(AllTypes.class).size());
try {
testRealm.cancelTransaction();
fail();
} catch (IllegalStateException ignored) {
}
}
public void testExecuteTransactionNull() {
try {
testRealm.executeTransaction(null);
fail("null transaction should throw");
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignore) {}
assertFalse(testRealm.hasChanged());
}
public void testExecuteTransactionCommit() {
assertEquals(0, testRealm.allObjects(Owner.class).size());
testRealm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
@Override
public void execute(Realm realm) {
Owner owner = realm.createObject(Owner.class);
owner.setName("Owner");
}
});
assertEquals(1, testRealm.allObjects(Owner.class).size());
}
public void testExecuteTransactionCancel() {
assertEquals(0, testRealm.allObjects(Owner.class).size());
try {
testRealm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
@Override
public void execute(Realm realm) {
Owner owner = realm.createObject(Owner.class);
owner.setName("Owner");
throw new RuntimeException("Boom");
}
});
} catch (RealmException ignore) {
}
assertEquals(0, testRealm.allObjects(Owner.class).size());
}
// void clear(Class<?> classSpec)
public void testClear() {
// ** clear non existing table should succeed
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.clear(AllTypes.class);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
// ** clear existing class, but leave other classes classes
// Add two classes
populateTestRealm();
testRealm.beginTransaction();
Dog dog = testRealm.createObject(Dog.class);
dog.setName("Castro");
testRealm.commitTransaction();
// Clear
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.clear(Dog.class);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
// Check one class is cleared but other class is still there
RealmResults<AllTypes> resultListTypes = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).findAll();
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE, resultListTypes.size());
RealmResults<Dog> resultListDogs = testRealm.where(Dog.class).findAll();
assertEquals(0, resultListDogs.size());
// ** clear() must throw outside a transaction
try {
testRealm.clear(AllTypes.class);
fail("Expected exception");
} catch (IllegalStateException ignored) {
}
}
// int getVersion() AND void setVersion(int version)
public void testGetVersionAndSetVersion() throws IOException {
// ** Initial version must be 0
populateTestRealm();
long version = testRealm.getVersion();
assertEquals(0, version);
// ** Version should be updateable
version = 42;
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.setVersion(version);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertEquals(version, testRealm.getVersion());
}
public void testShouldFailOutsideTransaction() {
// These calls should fail outside a Transaction:
try {
testRealm.createObject(AllTypes.class);
fail("Realm.createObject should fail outside write transaction");
} catch (IllegalStateException ignored) {
}
try {
testRealm.remove(AllTypes.class, 0);
fail("Realm.remove should fail outside write transaction");
} catch (IllegalStateException ignored) {
}
}
public void createAndTestFilename(String language, String fileName) {
RealmConfiguration realmConfig = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), fileName);
Realm.deleteRealm(realmConfig);
Realm realm1 = Realm.getInstance(realmConfig);
realm1.beginTransaction();
Dog dog1 = realm1.createObject(Dog.class);
dog1.setName("Rex");
realm1.commitTransaction();
realm1.close();
File file = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), fileName);
assertTrue(language, file.exists());
Realm realm2 = Realm.getInstance(realmConfig);
Dog dog2 = realm2.allObjects(Dog.class).first();
assertEquals(language, "Rex", dog2.getName());
realm2.close();
}
public void testCreateFile() {
createAndTestFilename("American", "Washington");
createAndTestFilename("Danish", "København");
createAndTestFilename("Russian", "Москва");
createAndTestFilename("Greek", "Αθήνα");
createAndTestFilename("Chinese", "北京市");
createAndTestFilename("Korean", "서울시");
createAndTestFilename("Arabic", "الرياض");
createAndTestFilename("India", "नई दिल्ली");
createAndTestFilename("Japanese", "東京都");
}
// This test is slow. Move it to another testsuite that runs once a day on Jenkins.
public void rarely_run_testUTF8() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.clear(AllTypes.class);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
String file = "assets/unicode_codepoints.csv";
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(file));
int i = 0;
String currentUnicode = null;
try {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
currentUnicode = scanner.nextLine();
char[] chars = Character.toChars(Integer.parseInt(currentUnicode, 16));
String codePoint = new String(chars);
AllTypes o = testRealm.createObject(AllTypes.class);
o.setColumnLong(i);
o.setColumnString(codePoint);
AllTypes realmType = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).equalTo("columnLong", i).findFirst();
if (i > 1) {
assertEquals("Codepoint: " + i + " / " + currentUnicode, codePoint,
realmType.getColumnString()); // codepoint 0 is NULL, ignore for now.
}
i++;
}
testRealm.commitTransaction();
} catch (Exception e) {
fail("Failure, Codepoint: " + i + " / " + currentUnicode + " " + e.getMessage());
}
}
private List<String> getCharacterArray() {
List<String> chars_array = new ArrayList<String>();
String file = "assets/unicode_codepoints.csv";
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(file));
int i = 0;
String currentUnicode = null;
try {
while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
currentUnicode = scanner.nextLine();
char[] chars = Character.toChars(Integer.parseInt(currentUnicode, 16));
String codePoint = new String(chars);
chars_array.add(codePoint);
i++;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
fail("Failure, Codepoint: " + i + " / " + currentUnicode + " " + e.getMessage());
}
return chars_array;
}
// This test is disabled.
// The test writes and reads random Strings.
public void disabledTestUnicodeString() {
List<String> chars_array = getCharacterArray();
// Change seed value for new random values.
long seed = 20;
Random random = new Random(seed);
int random_value = 0;
String test_char = "";
String test_char_old = "";
String get_data = "";
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
random_value = random.nextInt(25);
for (int j = 0; j < random_value; j++) {
test_char = test_char_old + chars_array.get(random.nextInt(27261));
test_char_old = test_char;
}
testRealm.beginTransaction();
StringOnly stringOnly = testRealm.createObject(StringOnly.class);
stringOnly.setChars(test_char);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
get_data = testRealm.allObjects(StringOnly.class).get(0).getChars();
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.clear(StringOnly.class);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
}
}
public void testReferenceCounting() {
// At this point reference count should be one because of the setUp method
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).count();
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
fail();
}
// Make sure the reference counter is per realm file
RealmConfiguration anotherConfig = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), "anotherRealm.realm");
Realm.deleteRealm(anotherConfig);
Realm otherRealm = Realm.getInstance(anotherConfig);
// Raise the reference
Realm realm = null;
try {
realm = Realm.getInstance(getContext());
} finally {
if (realm != null) realm.close();
}
try {
// This should not fail because the reference is now 1
if (realm != null) {
realm.where(AllTypes.class).count();
}
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
fail();
}
testRealm.close();
try {
testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).count();
fail();
} catch (IllegalStateException ignored) {
}
try {
otherRealm.where(AllTypes.class).count();
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
fail();
} finally {
otherRealm.close();
}
try {
otherRealm.where(AllTypes.class).count();
fail();
} catch (IllegalStateException ignored) {
}
}
public void testReferenceCountingDoubleClose() {
testRealm.close();
testRealm.close(); // Count down once too many. Counter is now potentially negative
testRealm = Realm.getInstance(getContext());
testRealm.beginTransaction();
AllTypes allTypes = testRealm.createObject(AllTypes.class);
RealmResults<AllTypes> queryResult = testRealm.allObjects(AllTypes.class);
assertEquals(allTypes, queryResult.get(0));
testRealm.commitTransaction();
testRealm.close(); // This might not close the Realm if the reference count is wrong
try {
allTypes.getColumnString();
fail("Realm should be closed");
} catch (IllegalStateException expected) {
}
}
public void testWriteCopyTo() throws IOException {
RealmConfiguration configA = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), "file1.realm");
RealmConfiguration configB = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), "file2.realm");
Realm.deleteRealm(configA);
Realm.deleteRealm(configB);
Realm realm1 = null;
try {
realm1 = Realm.getInstance(configA);
realm1.beginTransaction();
AllTypes allTypes = realm1.createObject(AllTypes.class);
allTypes.setColumnString("Hello World");
realm1.commitTransaction();
realm1.writeCopyTo(new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), "file2.realm"));
} finally {
if (realm1 != null) {
realm1.close();
}
}
// Copy is compacted i.e. smaller than original
File file1 = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), "file1.realm");
File file2 = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), "file2.realm");
assertTrue(file1.length() >= file2.length());
Realm realm2 = null;
try {
// Contents is copied too
realm2 = Realm.getInstance(configB);
RealmResults<AllTypes> results = realm2.allObjects(AllTypes.class);
assertEquals(1, results.size());
assertEquals("Hello World", results.first().getColumnString());
} finally {
if (realm2 != null) {
realm2.close();
}
}
}
public void testCompactRealmFileThrowsIfOpen() throws IOException {
try {
Realm.compactRealm(TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext()));
fail();
} catch (IllegalStateException expected) {
}
}
public void testCompactEncryptedEmptyRealmFile() {
RealmConfiguration realmConfig = new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name("enc.realm")
.encryptionKey(TestHelper.getRandomKey())
.build();
Realm.deleteRealm(realmConfig);
Realm realm = Realm.getInstance(realmConfig);
realm.close();
// TODO: remove try/catch block when compacting encrypted Realms is supported
try {
assertTrue(Realm.compactRealm(realmConfig));
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
}
}
public void testCompactEncryptedPopulatedRealmFile() {
RealmConfiguration realmConfig = new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name("enc.realm")
.encryptionKey(TestHelper.getRandomKey())
.build();
Realm.deleteRealm(realmConfig);
Realm realm = Realm.getInstance(realmConfig);
populateTestRealm(realm, 100);
realm.close();
// TODO: remove try/catch block when compacting encrypted Realms is supported
try {
assertTrue(Realm.compactRealm(realmConfig));
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
}
}
public void testCompactEmptyRealmFile() throws IOException {
final String REALM_NAME = "test.realm";
RealmConfiguration realmConfig = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), REALM_NAME);
Realm.deleteRealm(realmConfig);
Realm realm = Realm.getInstance(realmConfig);
realm.close();
long before = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), REALM_NAME).length();
assertTrue(Realm.compactRealm(realmConfig));
long after = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), REALM_NAME).length();
assertTrue(before >= after);
}
public void testCompactPopulateRealmFile() throws IOException {
final String REALM_NAME = "test.realm";
RealmConfiguration realmConfig = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), REALM_NAME);
Realm.deleteRealm(realmConfig);
Realm realm = Realm.getInstance(realmConfig);
populateTestRealm(realm, 100);
realm.close();
long before = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), REALM_NAME).length();
assertTrue(Realm.compactRealm(realmConfig));
long after = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), REALM_NAME).length();
assertTrue(before >= after);
}
public void testCopyToRealmNullObjectThrows() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
try {
testRealm.copyToRealm((AllTypes) null);
fail("Copying null objects into Realm should not be allowed");
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignore) {
} finally {
testRealm.cancelTransaction();
}
}
public void testCopyManagedObjectIsNoop() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
AllTypes allTypes = testRealm.createObject(AllTypes.class);
allTypes.setColumnString("Test");
testRealm.commitTransaction();
testRealm.beginTransaction();
AllTypes copiedAllTypes = testRealm.copyToRealm(allTypes);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertTrue(allTypes == copiedAllTypes);
}
public void testCopManagedObjectToOtherRealm() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
AllTypes allTypes = testRealm.createObject(AllTypes.class);
allTypes.setColumnString("Test");
testRealm.commitTransaction();
RealmConfiguration realmConfig = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), "other-realm");
Realm.deleteRealm(realmConfig);
Realm otherRealm = Realm.getInstance(realmConfig);
otherRealm.beginTransaction();
AllTypes copiedAllTypes = otherRealm.copyToRealm(allTypes);
otherRealm.commitTransaction();
assertNotSame(allTypes, copiedAllTypes); // Same object in different Realms is not the same
assertEquals(allTypes.getColumnString(), copiedAllTypes.getColumnString()); // But data is still the same
otherRealm.close();
}
public void testCopyToRealmObject() {
Date date = new Date();
date.setTime(1000); // Remove ms. precision as Realm doesn't support it yet.
Dog dog = new Dog();
dog.setName("Fido");
RealmList<Dog> list = new RealmList<Dog>();
list.add(dog);
AllTypes allTypes = new AllTypes();
allTypes.setColumnString("String");
allTypes.setColumnLong(1l);
allTypes.setColumnFloat(1f);
allTypes.setColumnDouble(1d);
allTypes.setColumnBoolean(true);
allTypes.setColumnDate(date);
allTypes.setColumnBinary(new byte[]{1, 2, 3});
allTypes.setColumnRealmObject(dog);
allTypes.setColumnRealmList(list);
testRealm.beginTransaction();
AllTypes realmTypes = testRealm.copyToRealm(allTypes);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertNotSame(allTypes, realmTypes); // Objects should not be considered equal
assertEquals(allTypes.getColumnString(), realmTypes.getColumnString()); // But they contain the same data
assertEquals(allTypes.getColumnLong(), realmTypes.getColumnLong());
assertEquals(allTypes.getColumnFloat(), realmTypes.getColumnFloat());
assertEquals(allTypes.getColumnDouble(), realmTypes.getColumnDouble());
assertEquals(allTypes.isColumnBoolean(), realmTypes.isColumnBoolean());
assertEquals(allTypes.getColumnDate(), realmTypes.getColumnDate());
assertArrayEquals(allTypes.getColumnBinary(), realmTypes.getColumnBinary());
assertEquals(allTypes.getColumnRealmObject().getName(), dog.getName());
assertEquals(list.size(), realmTypes.getColumnRealmList().size());
assertEquals(list.get(0).getName(), realmTypes.getColumnRealmList().get(0).getName());
}
public void testCopyToRealmCyclic() {
CyclicType oneCyclicType = new CyclicType();
oneCyclicType.setName("One");
CyclicType anotherCyclicType = new CyclicType();
anotherCyclicType.setName("Two");
oneCyclicType.setObject(anotherCyclicType);
anotherCyclicType.setObject(oneCyclicType);
testRealm.beginTransaction();
CyclicType realmObject = testRealm.copyToRealm(oneCyclicType);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertEquals("One", realmObject.getName());
assertEquals("Two", realmObject.getObject().getName());
assertEquals(2, testRealm.allObjects(CyclicType.class).size());
}
public void testCopyToRealmCyclicList() {
CyclicType oneCyclicType = new CyclicType();
oneCyclicType.setName("One");
CyclicType anotherCyclicType = new CyclicType();
anotherCyclicType.setName("Two");
oneCyclicType.setObjects(new RealmList(anotherCyclicType));
anotherCyclicType.setObjects(new RealmList(oneCyclicType));
testRealm.beginTransaction();
CyclicType realmObject = testRealm.copyToRealm(oneCyclicType);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertEquals("One", realmObject.getName());
assertEquals(2, testRealm.allObjects(CyclicType.class).size());
}
// Check that if a field has a null value it gets converted to the default value for that type
public void testCopyToRealmDefaultValues() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
AllTypes realmTypes = testRealm.copyToRealm(new AllTypes());
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertEquals("", realmTypes.getColumnString());
assertEquals(new Date(0), realmTypes.getColumnDate());
assertArrayEquals(new byte[0], realmTypes.getColumnBinary());
}
// Check that using copyToRealm will set the primary key directly instead of first setting
// it to the default value (which can fail)
public void testCopyToRealmWithPrimaryKeySetValueDirectly() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.createObject(OwnerPrimaryKey.class);
testRealm.copyToRealm(new OwnerPrimaryKey(1, "Foo"));
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertEquals(2, testRealm.where(OwnerPrimaryKey.class).count());
}
public void testCopyToRealmWithPrimaryAsNullThrows() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
try {
testRealm.copyToRealm(new PrimaryKeyAsString());
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
} finally {
testRealm.cancelTransaction();
}
}
public void testCopyToRealmDontCopyNestedRealmObjets() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
CyclicTypePrimaryKey childObj = testRealm.createObject(CyclicTypePrimaryKey.class);
childObj.setName("Child");
childObj.setId(1);
CyclicTypePrimaryKey parentObj = new CyclicTypePrimaryKey(2);
parentObj.setObject(childObj);
testRealm.copyToRealm(parentObj);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertEquals(2, testRealm.where(CyclicTypePrimaryKey.class).count());
}
public void testCopyToRealmList() {
Dog dog1 = new Dog();
dog1.setName("Dog 1");
Dog dog2 = new Dog();
dog2.setName("Dog 2");
RealmList<Dog> list = new RealmList<Dog>();
list.addAll(Arrays.asList(dog1, dog2));
testRealm.beginTransaction();
List<Dog> copiedList = new ArrayList<Dog>(testRealm.copyToRealm(list));
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertEquals(2, copiedList.size());
assertEquals(dog1.getName(), copiedList.get(0).getName());
assertEquals(dog2.getName(), copiedList.get(1).getName());
}
public void testCopyToRealmOrUpdateNullThrows() {
try {
testRealm.copyToRealmOrUpdate((AllTypes) null);
} catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
return;
}
fail();
}
public void testCopyToRealmOrUpdateNullPrimaryKeyThrows() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
try {
testRealm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(new PrimaryKeyAsString());
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
}
}
public void testCopyOrUpdateNoPrimaryKeyThrows() {
try {
testRealm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(new AllTypes());
} catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
return;
}
fail();
}
public void testCopyOrUpdateAddObject() {
testRealm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
@Override
public void execute(Realm realm) {
PrimaryKeyAsLong obj = new PrimaryKeyAsLong();
obj.setId(1);
obj.setName("Foo");
realm.copyToRealm(obj);
PrimaryKeyAsLong obj2 = new PrimaryKeyAsLong();
obj2.setId(2);
obj2.setName("Bar");
realm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(obj2);
}
});
assertEquals(2, testRealm.allObjects(PrimaryKeyAsLong.class).size());
}
public void testCopyOrUpdateObject() {
testRealm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
@Override
public void execute(Realm realm) {
AllTypesPrimaryKey obj = new AllTypesPrimaryKey();
obj.setColumnString("Foo");
obj.setColumnLong(1);
obj.setColumnFloat(1.23F);
obj.setColumnDouble(1.234D);
obj.setColumnBoolean(false);
obj.setColumnBinary(new byte[] {1, 2, 3});
obj.setColumnDate(new Date(1000));
obj.setColumnRealmObject(new DogPrimaryKey(1, "Dog1"));
obj.setColumnRealmList(new RealmList<DogPrimaryKey>(new DogPrimaryKey(2, "Dog2")));
realm.copyToRealm(obj);
AllTypesPrimaryKey obj2 = new AllTypesPrimaryKey();
obj2.setColumnString("Bar");
obj2.setColumnLong(1);
obj2.setColumnFloat(2.23F);
obj2.setColumnDouble(2.234D);
obj2.setColumnBoolean(true);
obj2.setColumnBinary(new byte[] {2, 3, 4});
obj2.setColumnDate(new Date(2000));
obj2.setColumnRealmObject(new DogPrimaryKey(3, "Dog3"));
obj2.setColumnRealmList(new RealmList<DogPrimaryKey>(new DogPrimaryKey(4, "Dog4")));
realm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(obj2);
}
});
assertEquals(1, testRealm.allObjects(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class).size());
AllTypesPrimaryKey obj = testRealm.allObjects(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class).first();
// Check that the the only element has all its properties updated
assertEquals("Bar", obj.getColumnString());
assertEquals(1, obj.getColumnLong());
assertEquals(2.23F, obj.getColumnFloat());
assertEquals(2.234D, obj.getColumnDouble());
assertEquals(true, obj.isColumnBoolean());
assertArrayEquals(new byte[] {2, 3, 4}, obj.getColumnBinary());
assertEquals(new Date(2000), obj.getColumnDate());
assertEquals("Dog3", obj.getColumnRealmObject().getName());
assertEquals(1, obj.getColumnRealmList().size());
assertEquals("Dog4", obj.getColumnRealmList().get(0).getName());
}
public void testUpdateCyclicObject() {
CyclicTypePrimaryKey oneCyclicType = new CyclicTypePrimaryKey(1);
oneCyclicType.setName("One");
CyclicTypePrimaryKey anotherCyclicType = new CyclicTypePrimaryKey(2);
anotherCyclicType.setName("Two");
oneCyclicType.setObject(anotherCyclicType);
anotherCyclicType.setObject(oneCyclicType);
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.copyToRealm(oneCyclicType);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
oneCyclicType.setName("Three");
anotherCyclicType.setName("Four");
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(oneCyclicType);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertEquals(2, testRealm.allObjects(CyclicTypePrimaryKey.class).size());
assertEquals("Three", testRealm.where(CyclicTypePrimaryKey.class).equalTo("id", 1).findFirst().getName());
}
// Checks that a standalone object with only default values can override data
public void testCopyOrUpdateWithStandaloneDefaultObject() {
testRealm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
@Override
public void execute(Realm realm) {
AllTypesPrimaryKey obj = new AllTypesPrimaryKey();
obj.setColumnString("Foo");
obj.setColumnLong(1);
obj.setColumnFloat(1.23F);
obj.setColumnDouble(1.234D);
obj.setColumnBoolean(false);
obj.setColumnBinary(new byte[]{1, 2, 3});
obj.setColumnDate(new Date(1000));
obj.setColumnRealmObject(new DogPrimaryKey(1, "Dog1"));
obj.setColumnRealmList(new RealmList<DogPrimaryKey>(new DogPrimaryKey(2, "Dog2")));
realm.copyToRealm(obj);
AllTypesPrimaryKey obj2 = new AllTypesPrimaryKey();
obj2.setColumnLong(1);
realm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(obj2);
}
});
assertEquals(1, testRealm.allObjects(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class).size());
AllTypesPrimaryKey obj = testRealm.allObjects(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class).first();
assertEquals("", obj.getColumnString());
assertEquals(1, obj.getColumnLong());
assertEquals(0.0F, obj.getColumnFloat());
assertEquals(0.0D, obj.getColumnDouble());
assertEquals(false, obj.isColumnBoolean());
assertArrayEquals(new byte[0], obj.getColumnBinary());
assertEquals(new Date(0), obj.getColumnDate());
assertNull(obj.getColumnRealmObject());
assertEquals(0, obj.getColumnRealmList().size());
}
// Tests that if references to objects are removed, the objects are still in the Realm
public void testCopyOrUpdateReferencesNotDeleted() {
testRealm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
@Override
public void execute(Realm realm) {
AllTypesPrimaryKey obj = new AllTypesPrimaryKey();
obj.setColumnLong(1);
obj.setColumnRealmObject(new DogPrimaryKey(1, "Dog1"));
obj.setColumnRealmList(new RealmList<DogPrimaryKey>(new DogPrimaryKey(2, "Dog2")));
realm.copyToRealm(obj);
AllTypesPrimaryKey obj2 = new AllTypesPrimaryKey();
obj2.setColumnLong(1);
obj2.setColumnRealmObject(new DogPrimaryKey(3, "Dog3"));
obj2.setColumnRealmList(new RealmList<DogPrimaryKey>(new DogPrimaryKey(4, "Dog4")));
realm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(obj2);
}
});
assertEquals(1, testRealm.allObjects(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class).size());
assertEquals(4, testRealm.allObjects(DogPrimaryKey.class).size());
}
public void testCopyOrUpdatePrimaryKeyMix() {
// Crate Object graph where tier 2 consists of 1 object with primary key and one doesn't.
// Tier 3 both have objects with primary keys.
//
// PK
// / \
// PK nonPK
// | |
// PK PK
DogPrimaryKey dog = new DogPrimaryKey(1, "Dog");
OwnerPrimaryKey owner = new OwnerPrimaryKey(1, "Owner");
owner.setDog(dog);
Cat cat = new Cat();
cat.setScaredOfDog(dog);
PrimaryKeyMix mixObject = new PrimaryKeyMix(1);
mixObject.setDogOwner(owner);
mixObject.setCat(cat);
testRealm.beginTransaction();
PrimaryKeyMix realmObject = testRealm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(mixObject);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertEquals("Dog", realmObject.getCat().getScaredOfDog().getName());
assertEquals("Dog", realmObject.getDogOwner().getDog().getName());
}
public void testCopyOrUpdateIterable() {
testRealm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
@Override
public void execute(Realm realm) {
PrimaryKeyAsLong obj = new PrimaryKeyAsLong();
obj.setId(1);
obj.setName("Foo");
realm.copyToRealm(obj);
PrimaryKeyAsLong obj2 = new PrimaryKeyAsLong();
obj2.setId(1);
obj2.setName("Bar");
PrimaryKeyAsLong obj3 = new PrimaryKeyAsLong();
obj3.setId(1);
obj3.setName("Baz");
realm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(Arrays.asList(obj2, obj3));
}
});
assertEquals(1, testRealm.allObjects(PrimaryKeyAsLong.class).size());
assertEquals("Baz", testRealm.allObjects(PrimaryKeyAsLong.class).first().getName());
}
public void testCopyOrUpdateIterableChildObjects() {
DogPrimaryKey dog = new DogPrimaryKey(1, "Snoop");
AllTypesPrimaryKey allTypes1 = new AllTypesPrimaryKey();
allTypes1.setColumnLong(1);
allTypes1.setColumnRealmObject(dog);
AllTypesPrimaryKey allTypes2 = new AllTypesPrimaryKey();
allTypes1.setColumnLong(2);
allTypes2.setColumnRealmObject(dog);
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(Arrays.asList(allTypes1, allTypes2));
testRealm.commitTransaction();
assertEquals(2, testRealm.allObjects(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class).size());
assertEquals(1, testRealm.allObjects(DogPrimaryKey.class).size());
}
public void testOpeningOfEncryptedRealmWithDifferentKeyInstances() {
byte[] key1 = TestHelper.getRandomKey(42);
byte[] key2 = TestHelper.getRandomKey(42);
// Make sure the key is the same, but in two different instances
assertArrayEquals(key1, key2);
assertTrue(key1 != key2);
final String ENCRYPTED_REALM = "differentKeys.realm";
Realm.deleteRealm(TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), ENCRYPTED_REALM));
Realm realm1 = null;
Realm realm2 = null;
try {
realm1 = Realm.getInstance(new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name(ENCRYPTED_REALM)
.encryptionKey(key1)
.build()
);
try {
realm2 = Realm.getInstance(new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name(ENCRYPTED_REALM)
.encryptionKey(key2)
.build()
);
} catch (Exception e) {
fail();
} finally {
if (realm2 != null) {
realm2.close();
}
}
} finally {
if (realm1 != null) {
realm1.close();
}
}
}
public void testWriteEncryptedCopy() throws Exception {
populateTestRealm();
long before = testRealm.where(AllTypes.class).count();
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE, before);
// Configure test realms
final String ENCRYPTED_REALM_FILE_NAME = "encryptedTestRealm.realm";
final String RE_ENCRYPTED_REALM_FILE_NAME = "reEncryptedTestRealm.realm";
final String DECRYPTED_REALM_FILE_NAME = "decryptedTestRealm.realm";
RealmConfiguration encryptedRealmConfig = new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name(ENCRYPTED_REALM_FILE_NAME)
.encryptionKey(TestHelper.getRandomKey())
.build();
RealmConfiguration reEncryptedRealmConfig = new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name(RE_ENCRYPTED_REALM_FILE_NAME)
.encryptionKey(TestHelper.getRandomKey())
.build();
RealmConfiguration decryptedRealmConfig = new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name(DECRYPTED_REALM_FILE_NAME)
.build();
// Delete old test Realms if present
for (RealmConfiguration realmConfig : Arrays.asList(encryptedRealmConfig, reEncryptedRealmConfig, decryptedRealmConfig)) {
if (!Realm.deleteRealm(realmConfig)) {
fail();
}
}
// Write encrypted copy from a unencrypted Realm
File destination = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), ENCRYPTED_REALM_FILE_NAME);
try {
testRealm.writeEncryptedCopyTo(destination, encryptedRealmConfig.getEncryptionKey());
} catch(Exception e) {
fail(e.getMessage());
}
Realm encryptedRealm = null;
try {
// Verify encrypted Realm and write new encrypted copy with a new key
encryptedRealm = Realm.getInstance(encryptedRealmConfig);
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE, encryptedRealm.where(AllTypes.class).count());
destination = new File(reEncryptedRealmConfig.getPath());
try {
encryptedRealm.writeEncryptedCopyTo(destination, reEncryptedRealmConfig.getEncryptionKey());
} catch (Exception e) {
fail(e.getMessage());
}
// Verify re-encrypted copy
Realm reEncryptedRealm = null;
try {
reEncryptedRealm = Realm.getInstance(reEncryptedRealmConfig);
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE, reEncryptedRealm.where(AllTypes.class).count());
} finally {
if (reEncryptedRealm != null) {
reEncryptedRealm.close();
if (!Realm.deleteRealm(reEncryptedRealmConfig)) {
fail();
}
}
}
// Write non-encrypted copy from the encrypted version
destination = new File(decryptedRealmConfig.getPath());
try {
encryptedRealm.writeEncryptedCopyTo(destination, null);
} catch (Exception e) {
fail(e.getMessage());
}
// Verify decrypted Realm and cleanup
Realm decryptedRealm = null;
try {
decryptedRealm = Realm.getInstance(decryptedRealmConfig);
assertEquals(TEST_DATA_SIZE, decryptedRealm.where(AllTypes.class).count());
} finally {
if (decryptedRealm != null) {
decryptedRealm.close();
if (!Realm.deleteRealm(decryptedRealmConfig)) {
fail();
}
}
}
} finally {
if (encryptedRealm != null) {
encryptedRealm.close();
if (!Realm.deleteRealm(encryptedRealmConfig)) {
fail();
}
}
}
}
public void testOpenRealmFileDeletionShouldThrow() {
final String OTHER_REALM_NAME = "yetAnotherRealm.realm";
RealmConfiguration configA = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext());
RealmConfiguration configB = TestHelper.createConfiguration(getContext(), OTHER_REALM_NAME);
// This instance is already cached because of the setUp() method so this deletion should throw
try {
Realm.deleteRealm(configA);
fail();
} catch (IllegalStateException ignored) {
}
// Create a new Realm file
Realm yetAnotherRealm = Realm.getInstance(configB);
// Deleting it should fail
try {
Realm.deleteRealm(configB);
fail();
} catch (IllegalStateException ignored) {
}
// But now that we close it deletion should work
yetAnotherRealm.close();
try {
Realm.deleteRealm(configB);
} catch (Exception e) {
fail();
}
}
public void testUpdateObjectWithLinks() throws Exception {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
// Create an owner with two dogs
OwnerPrimaryKey owner = testRealm.createObject(OwnerPrimaryKey.class);
owner.setId(1);
owner.setName("Jack");
Dog rex = testRealm.createObject(Dog.class);
rex.setName("Rex");
Dog fido = testRealm.createObject(Dog.class);
fido.setName("Fido");
owner.getDogs().add(rex);
owner.getDogs().add(fido);
assertEquals(2, owner.getDogs().size());
// Changing the name of the owner should not affect the number of dogs
owner.setName("Peter");
assertEquals(2, owner.getDogs().size());
// Updating the user should not affect it either. This is actually a no-op since owner is a Realm backed object
OwnerPrimaryKey owner2 = testRealm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(owner);
assertEquals(2, owner.getDogs().size());
assertEquals(2, owner2.getDogs().size());
testRealm.commitTransaction();
}
public void testDeleteNonRealmFile() throws IOException {
File tmpFile = new File(getContext().getFilesDir(), "tmp");
tmpFile.delete();
assertTrue(tmpFile.createNewFile());
}
// Test that all methods that require a write transaction (ie. any function that mutates Realm data)
public void testMutableMethodsOutsideWriteTransactions() throws JSONException, IOException {
// Prepare standalone object data
AllTypesPrimaryKey t = new AllTypesPrimaryKey();
List<AllTypesPrimaryKey> ts = Arrays.asList(t, t);
// Prepare JSON data
String jsonObjStr = "{ \"columnLong\" : 1 }";
JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(jsonObjStr);
InputStream jsonObjStream = TestHelper.stringToStream(jsonObjStr);
InputStream jsonObjStream2 = TestHelper.stringToStream(jsonObjStr);
String jsonArrStr = " [{ \"columnLong\" : 1 }] ";
JSONArray jsonArr = new JSONArray(jsonArrStr);
InputStream jsonArrStream = TestHelper.stringToStream(jsonArrStr);
InputStream jsonArrStream2 = TestHelper.stringToStream(jsonArrStr);
// Test all methods that should require a write transaction
try { testRealm.createObject(AllTypes.class); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.copyToRealm(t); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.copyToRealm(ts); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(t); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.copyToRealmOrUpdate(ts); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.remove(AllTypes.class, 0); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.clear(AllTypes.class); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.setVersion(42); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createObjectFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonObj); fail(); } catch (RealmException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createObjectFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonObjStr); fail(); } catch (RealmException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createObjectFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonObjStream); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createOrUpdateObjectFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonObj); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createOrUpdateObjectFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonObjStr); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createOrUpdateObjectFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonObjStream2); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createAllFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonArr); fail(); } catch (RealmException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createAllFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonArrStr); fail(); } catch (RealmException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createAllFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonArrStream); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createOrUpdateAllFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonArr); fail(); } catch (RealmException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createOrUpdateAllFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonArrStr); fail(); } catch (RealmException expected) {}
try { testRealm.createOrUpdateAllFromJson(AllTypesPrimaryKey.class, jsonArrStream2); fail(); } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {}
}
// TODO: re-introduce this test mocking the ReferenceQueue instead of relying on the GC
/* // Check that FinalizerRunnable can free native resources (phantom refs)
public void testReferenceCleaning() throws NoSuchFieldException, IllegalAccessException {
Field sharedGroupReference = Realm.class.getDeclaredField("sharedGroup");
sharedGroupReference.setAccessible(true);
SharedGroup sharedGroup = (SharedGroup) sharedGroupReference.get(testRealm);
assertNotNull(sharedGroup);
Field contextField = SharedGroup.class.getDeclaredField("context");
contextField.setAccessible(true);
io.realm.internal.Context context = (io.realm.internal.Context) contextField.get(sharedGroup);
assertNotNull(context);
Field rowReferencesField = io.realm.internal.Context.class.getDeclaredField("rowReferences");
rowReferencesField.setAccessible(true);
List<Reference<?>> rowReferences = (List<Reference<?>>) rowReferencesField.get(context);
assertNotNull(rowReferences);
// insert some rows, then give the thread some time to cleanup
// we have 8 reference so far let's add more
final int numberOfPopulateTest = 1000;
final int totalNumberOfReferences = 8 + 20 * 2 * numberOfPopulateTest;
long tic = System.currentTimeMillis();
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfPopulateTest; i++) {
populateTestRealm(testRealm, 20);
}
long toc = System.currentTimeMillis();
Log.d(RealmTest.class.getName(), "Insertion time: " + (toc - tic));
final int MAX_GC_RETRIES = 5;
int numberOfRetries = 0;
while (rowReferences.size() > 0 && numberOfRetries < MAX_GC_RETRIES) {
SystemClock.sleep(TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(1)); //1s
numberOfRetries++;
System.gc();
}
// we can't guarantee that all references have been GC'd but we should detect a decrease
boolean isDecreasing = rowReferences.size() < totalNumberOfReferences;
if (!isDecreasing) {
fail("Native resources are not being closed");
} else {
android.util.Log.d(RealmTest.class.getName(), "References freed : "
+ (totalNumberOfReferences - rowReferences.size()) + " out of " + totalNumberOfReferences);
}
}*/
public void testCannotCreateDynamicRealmObject() {
testRealm.beginTransaction();
try {
testRealm.createObject(DynamicRealmObject.class);
fail();
} catch (RealmException ignored) {
}
}
// Test close Realm in another thread different from where it is created.
public void testCloseRealmInDifferentThread() throws InterruptedException {
final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
final AssertionFailedError threadAssertionError[] = new AssertionFailedError[1];
final Thread thatThread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
try {
testRealm.close();
threadAssertionError[0] = new AssertionFailedError(
"Close realm in a different thread should throw IllegalStateException.");
} catch (IllegalStateException ignored) {
}
latch.countDown();
}
});
thatThread.start();
// Timeout should never happen
latch.await();
if (threadAssertionError[0] != null) {
throw threadAssertionError[0];
}
// After exception thrown in another thread, nothing should be changed to the realm in this thread.
testRealm.checkIfValid();
testRealm.close();
}
// We should not cache wrong configurations
public void testDontCacheWrongConfigurations() throws IOException {
testRealm.close();
String REALM_NAME = "encrypted.realm";
TestHelper.copyRealmFromAssets(getContext(), REALM_NAME, REALM_NAME);
RealmConfiguration wrongConfig = new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name(REALM_NAME)
.encryptionKey(TestHelper.SHA512("foo"))
.build();
RealmConfiguration rightConfig = new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name(REALM_NAME)
.encryptionKey(TestHelper.SHA512("realm"))
.build();
// Open Realm with wrong key
try {
testRealm = Realm.getInstance(wrongConfig);
fail();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
}
// Try again with proper key
testRealm = Realm.getInstance(rightConfig);
assertNotNull(testRealm);
}
public void testDeletingRealmAlsoClearsConfigurationCache() throws IOException {
testRealm.close();
String REALM_NAME = "encrypted.realm";
byte[] oldPassword = TestHelper.SHA512("realm");
byte[] newPassword = TestHelper.SHA512("realm-copy");
TestHelper.copyRealmFromAssets(getContext(), REALM_NAME, REALM_NAME);
RealmConfiguration config = new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name(REALM_NAME)
.encryptionKey(oldPassword)
.build();
// 1. Write a copy of the encrypted Realm to a new file
testRealm = Realm.getInstance(config);
File copiedRealm = new File(config.getRealmFolder(), "encrypted-copy.realm");
copiedRealm.delete();
testRealm.writeEncryptedCopyTo(copiedRealm, newPassword);
testRealm.close();
testRealm = null;
// 2. Delete the old Realm.
Realm.deleteRealm(config);
// 3. Rename the new file to the old file name.
copiedRealm.renameTo(new File(config.getRealmFolder(), REALM_NAME));
// 4. Try to open the file again with the new password
// If the configuration cache wasn't cleared this would fail as we would detect two
// configurations with 2 different passwords pointing to the same file.
RealmConfiguration newConfig = new RealmConfiguration.Builder(getContext())
.name(REALM_NAME)
.encryptionKey(newPassword)
.build();
testRealm = Realm.getInstance(newConfig);
assertNotNull(testRealm);
}
public void testProcessLocalListenersAfterRefresh() {
// Used to validate the result
final AtomicBoolean listenerWasCalled = new AtomicBoolean(false);
// Used by the background thread to wait for the main thread to do the write operation
final CountDownLatch bgThreadLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);
Thread backgroundThread = new Thread() {
@Override
public void run() {
Realm bgRealm = Realm.getInstance(testConfig);
bgRealm.addChangeListener(new RealmChangeListener() {
@Override
public void onChange() {
listenerWasCalled.set(true);
}
});
try {
bgThreadLatch.await(); // Wait for the main thread to do a write operation
bgRealm.refresh(); // This should call the listener
assertTrue(listenerWasCalled.get());
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
fail();
} finally {
bgRealm.close();
}
}
};
backgroundThread.start();
testRealm.beginTransaction();
testRealm.createObject(Dog.class);
testRealm.commitTransaction();
bgThreadLatch.countDown();
}
}
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Why Do Most Fail at Becoming a Teacher?
Over the last 30 years, the educational system in the US has taken a beating and along with it, the teachers. Everyone from the President, to the local John Doe, has an opinion on how to best fix our decline when compared to nations around the world. From the Common Core to a laptop, the answer to our problems is out there, if only those teachers would listen and change. However, the teachers are protected by those Unions and tenure, so how are we supposed to change the status quo? How do we get through to teachers for them to understand that we have to set higher standards for the students, set higher standards for the teachers, evaluate the students' progress, evaluate the teachers' progress, and recognize that standardized testing will resurrect our great educational system? It's simple…..We DON'T!! Most will say that our educational system is broken. Most will say that our students today are not as educated as they were in the past. This is simply not true.
The biggest problem in education today is the leadership and direction it is under. Leadership that has little to no experience of what it takes to be a classroom teacher. Leadership that continues to break the most simple cardinal rule of teaching, "There is NO one-size fits all" answer! Yet, the educational reforms continue to come down the pipeline from every new leader that takes office with the idea that he or she will be the savior for our children. There have been changes from standards to content, yet we continue to look at our students as failures, for according to the research and data being collected, we continue to decline.
By way of elimination, leadership has finally identified the underlying issue of our decline, the teachers. How does the saying go? Those who can, do…those who can't, teach? Really?! Why is public persona of teachers so bad? Could we be buying into the anti-teacher propaganda issued by those who initiated the failed reforms? Why have we lost sight of what truly matters in educating a child? It goes beyond the Common Core, NCLB, Blended Learning, Public vs Private vs Charter. It is deeper than the subject matter being taught in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Science, and Social Studies. It is more powerful than any data you can collect from standardized, summative and formative testing. Yet, without listening, our leaders have inundated our teachers with a workload that takes them away from the single most important factor in educating our students.
The best teachers have the ability to connect with a student and inspire them to learn, not just in the classroom but beyond, a life-long learner. The innate ability to recognize struggle, depression, or emptiness and counter with support, potential, and hope. We can all claim the ability to do such things, but teachers do this with 20, 30, 40+ students in their classrooms everyday! All while understanding the idea of failing even one student is unacceptable. So, why do most fail at becoming a teacher? Simple….it is easier to follow another career path. Teachers are the small percentage of those willing to take the responsibility of educating our youth, while receiving a barrage of disrespect, simply for the love of teaching.
Through mandates and reforms, none of which were teacher driven, we now blame our teachers for failing our students, however, it is we who have failed our teachers. The research and rigor of the new programs, reforms, and CCSS may help the educational system as a whole, but they are just duct-taping the problem. Until we focus on supporting the needs of the teacher and the needs of each individual student, learning will only be defined by a test result. During my time as a teacher, I was always amused at the parade of individuals who touted the "next best" idea or reform that was going to reach my students and make them successful without ever meeting them. Did they know that Matt's parents were getting a divorce? That Mary just lost her Grandmother, her inspiration? That Robert was missing 40 days of school to care for his new born brother? That…….did they even care? What made them think that spending 3 hours collecting, organizing, and relating data was more important than having a 5 minute conversation with a student? Do they understand that my C-student's effort to improve is better than than my A-student who doesn't? Labeling a 4th grader as Proficient or Not Proficient does nothing in predicting their future success.
I would argue that today's students are smarter than any generation before them. They are accessing and learning information at ages that are stunning. If our educational system is failing our students, it is doing so because leadership, not teachers, has limited them to be proficient or non-proficient through a standardized test. Our students should not be judged on a score, and our teachers should not be judged on a test. A teacher's job is to promote and inspire life-long learning- to relate and inspire a student to learn not just in the classroom, but more importantly at every moment possible. To learn not because they have to, but rather because they want to!
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Dr. Brad Glowaki is recognized as one of the profession's best communicators and the authority on new patients. Known as the New Patient Maven, Dr. Glowaki has been helping doctors deliver 10-min talks, the profession's version of a TED Talk. He empowers doctors to get into more companies to speak. He teaches strategies for predictable growth so doctors can have more family time. Dr. Glowaki grows practices through communication that is proven to work.
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I was working with G.729 Annex B 's source code <http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.729/en> to extract the codec's Voice Activity Detector (VAD).
Voice activity detection is a technique used in speech processing wherein the presence or absence of human speech is detected in regions of audio (which may also contain music, noise, or other sound).
The result of my work was a tool that produced 0 and 1 binary output for a speech and non-speech 10ms-long sections of a sound file with sampling frequency of 8000 Hz and 16 bits PCM data.
The Aurora speech recognition experimental framework data was used to test the program. That was the point where the problems began.
The VAD was not working. Almost every part of every file was marked as "speech". But that was not true! And the G729 Annex B VAD could not work so awful. Where was the problem?
I could have spent a lot of time hunting the "ghost" bug, if my supervisor Rahim Saedi didn't ask, whether the files were read correctly. OMG! A possible bug error in fread() function?
I checked the values of the new_speech array for a random file from the Aurora database and found something weird: the values sequence was -1 -1 0 0 256 -1 0 0 0 256 ... Something clicked in my mind.
In computing, endianness is the byte (and sometimes bit) ordering used to represent some kind of data. Most modern computer processors agree on bit ordering "inside" individual bytes (this was not always the case). This means that any single-byte value will be read the same on almost any computer one may send it to.
its opposite, most-significant byte first, called big-endian.
Well known processor architectures that use the little-endian format include x86.
I was using a x86 processor that uses the little-endian format, trying to read a file that contained 16-bit integers in big-endian format!
Now you can see: the program read the big-endian data and interpreted it as little-endian. So, all values were actually multiplied by 256!
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Seat's Ateca mid-size SUV has been released recently, and the car manufacturer already plans to offer something new from its lineup. Well, not quite new, but boosted and improved version of the SUV, which will be introduced as the 2017 Seat Ateca Cupra. Yes, it's a high-performance version, and yes, it will deliver really stunning performance. This super-hot crossover will be available sometime next year, but we managed to found out some exclusive details from our insider.
The regular model already looks amazing, but the 2017 Seat Ateca Cupra will feature really amazing bodywork. Reportedly, the automaker plans to add more aggressive front bumper, as well as larger wheels, which will get multi-spoke alloy design of course. A grille will keep its current honeycomb design, but it might looks a little bit different. In the rear, the range-topping SUV would also sport a redesigned bumper styling, which will also have integrated twin exhaust pipes. However, the more impressive and notable change will be lower ride height, which will be pretty obvious. The interior will likely get sports seats and new, sporty steering wheel. There will be lots of aluminum accents, while the upholstery could easily get a two-tone treatment.
The most impressive part of the crossover will lie under the hood. In contrast to the regular version that can't even reach 200 HP, the 2017 Ateca Cupra will feature really powerful drivetrain. It will have an upgraded 2.0-liter turbocharged engine, which will be able to deliver around 300 horsepower. The hot SUV will offer only the four-wheel drive setup, while the 0-60 sprint might be slightly below six seconds.
The 2017 Seat Ateca Cupra promises to be really amazing option, but this gotta cost. According to rumors, the SUV will be priced over $50K.
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export const multipleArguments = (ar, ar2) => console.log(ar, ar2);
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Come celebrate with us at an old-fashioned Lobster Boil Napa-Style!
Enjoy a menu of fresh Maine lobster, large prawns, Italian sausage, corn on the cob, savory artichokes, red potatoes, whole roasted garlic heads, and a surprise dessert!
We'll be setting up tables in Vittorio's Vineyard as we celebrate Spring … V. Sattui style!
Afterward, adjourn to the Barrel Room and enjoy a fabulous dessert, live music and the best prices on wines this year!
Watch this video and see all the fun we've had at this event!
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Senior Deacon Robert Barkley, Sr.
Junior Deacon Kenneth Masters, Jr.
or sport coat, slacks & tie.
For those of you who haven't been to the Lodge lately, we most generally have food and refreshments in the "Down-Under" Social Rooms after every communication.
Suggested Officers attire for all Communications is dark business suit, or sport coat, slacks & tie.
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Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Business School
Roma Education Aspiration Project (REAP)
REAP aims to develop a self-confident Roma community in Liverpool and to raise educational aspiration, in turn improving opportunities for the local Roma population.
Liverpool has a growing Roma population that, like all newly arrived groups, has brought benefits and challenges to the city. The Roma Education Aspiration Project (REAP) was developed in response to an observed need within the Roma community: young people and their families do not aspire to further and higher education, and tend to stay in kin groups and in precarious, low-skilled work.
This need had become apparent during deveopment of another project, Liverpool Roma Employability Network (LREN), which is a partnership between Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and Granby Toxteth Development Trust (GTDT). Established in response to LJMU-led research that showed how Roma were concentrated in the lowest paid "dirty, dangerous, and dull" jobs, LREN brought employers, organizations, and individuals together to challenge discrimination and has evolved into a fair employment network with impact beyond the Roma experience.
Weeks into LREN, it became clear that poor employment prospects for the Roma community began much sooner than at working age. Further, it was apparent that the impact of low school attendance, coupled with discrimination, impacted later labor market experiences. Based on identification of these problems, LJMU and the Roma community agreed on the need for REAP.
A main tenet of REAP is the co-production of the program's aims and objectives along with the Roma community, using the ideas in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. REAP has been evaluated at regular intervals not only by its funders at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), but also from within. Leaders of REAP ask hard questions about the project's impact, reach, and sustainability for and beyond the Roma community, enabling it to be tweaked to deliver maximum impact as it progresses.
The primary aim of REAP is to begin to change entrenched cultural attitudes toward education and employment in the Roma community. The project seeks to fulfill two main objectives: to have 60 percent of participating family members agree that education is a route to higher-value employment, and to have 35 percent of eligible participating young people apply to further education or higher education.
REAP is a collaborative project that was initially developed with community partner Granby Toxteth Development Trust and expanded to wider networks in the city. Key activities include the following:
Developed and delivered a series of workshops (aspiration and taster sessions) with parents and young people to explore the benefits of education and qualification.
Trained 19 Roma champions and Roma support workers in the Motivational Interviewing approach to encourage change and widen impact.
Hosted REAP participants in a visit to LJMU and a local college. LJMU students escorted small groups on tour; one group member was inspired and later applied to the university. She is believed to be the first Roma university student in Liverpool.
Hosted Education and Employability Event for 100 Roma community members at LJMU. Students helped produce CVs for participants and connect individuals with appropriate organizations. As a result, one REAP member secured work. Among attendees, 93 percent found the event useful for networking.
Showcased work of Roma youth via a production at the Everyman Theatre and Liverpool Cathedral.
"It is like a veil has been lifted and we can see opportunity."
—Alex, REAP participant
REAP has created impact across Liverpool and the Roma community. Benefits derived from REAP are twofold. First, its focus on Roma young people has supported educational institutions in identifying Roma community members and taking action to encourage their attendance and meet their needs, in turn igniting a subtle shift in the city's regard for its Roma population.
Second, it has laid the foundations for a self-confident Roma community with an awareness of the value of education, the power to decide and communicate its priorities, and the ability take its place in a modern city. Outcomes included improved confidence in achieving educational pursuits and improved communication and interpersonal skills. The latter is key to the self-determination needed for a community to decide and prioritize its own activities.
Additional REAP impacts include the following:
Judged by the MHCLG to be highly successful in tackling Roma disadvantages and praised for its innovativeness in creating a partnership of different sectors (academic, community, government) to resolve a problem.
Shortlisted for the British Academy's "If you could do one thing": Local Actions to Promote Social Integration project for working in a community partnership.
Awarded funding by Global Challenges Research Fund to be replicated in the Philippines and Syria.
Enrollment of a Roma student in a degree program at LJMU, believed to be Liverpool's first university student from the Roma community (see more in video link).
Reference Links:
Video: Roma Education Aspiration Project
"Tackling Inequalities Faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities," U.K. House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee
"Supporting Liverpool's Roma Community: An Illumination Via Bourdieu's Theory of Capital," Innovations in Practice
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Southport's Waterfront Arts Project hosts Myth and Legend art exhibition
New display opens as project looks forward to celebrating its fifth birthday
Andrew BrownEditor
A new exhibition called 'Myth and Legend' has opened at The Waterfront Arts Project in Southport
The Waterfront Arts Project in Southport is celebrating its fifth birthday with an exciting new exhibition.
'Myth and Legend', which opened on Sunday (July 19), is one of the numerous themed displays that the Southport Promenade-based fine art group has hosted since it opened in 2010.
The Project was founded by artist and lecturer, Tony Wynne, and photographer, Nick Hill and originally occupied the entire ground floor of the Waterfront's Casino Block.
With a floor space of 16,500 square feet the art space become one of the largest single floor 'pop up' galleries in Europe. The Project, which will be five years old this August, is now based in a smaller gallery on the Waterfront Plaza adjacent to the Ramada Plaza Hotel.
Tony Wynne explained to the Visiter how the Project came about. "We were aware of the vast abundance of artistic talent in the Southport area and the lack of exhibition space and opportunities.
"At the time I was an art lecturer and this lack of opportunity was particularly acute for students.
"We'd been searching for premises for over a year and suddenly the Waterfront's owners, Neptune Developments, stepped up to the mark. Our occupation of the artspace was only to be for three months - and five years later we're still here!"
Over the five year period the Project has gained an extensive reputation as a radical fine art space with one cultural publication describing its galleries as 'edgily industrial'.
Visitors to the Project, numbering over 50,000, are surprised that a gallery such as the Waterfront exists in Southport - a town you would associate with traditional watercolours and floral still-lifes. Some of the Project's exhibitions have, indeed, been hard-hitting dealing with a number of deep and controversial subjects.
'Myth and Legend' features artworks in a variety of media including painting, installation, sculpture and photography. Tony Wynne outlined the theme of the exhibition; "With the subject of myths and legends one automatically is drawn into the world of dragons or mystical tales from Greece and Rome. Classical mythology has been the inspiration for some of the artworks but the subjects can also have contemporary social or political connotations too."
The Waterfront Arts Project can be found on the Waterfront Plaza between the Genting Casino and the Ramada Plaza Hotel.
It is open 12pm–4pm Thursday to Sunday inclusive.
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53 Pictures: Southport Rugby Football Club Ball 2015
Nightlife: 46 pictures from Purple Monkey in Southport on Saturday night (July 18)
Nightlife: 29 great pictures from Birkers on Saturday night (July 18)
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Bombardier Celebrates Opening of New Rail Maintenance Depot in Contiship's Italian Rail Hub in Melzo, Milan
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New Melzo maintenance depot to strengthen Bombardier's rail services offering with rapid, 24/7 maintenance capability
Growth of Logistics and Rail Business District is a joint investment with Contship Italia
Rail technology leader Bombardier Transportation is celebrating the official opening of its new 300,000 square meter rail maintenance depot in Melzo, Italy in the Rail Hub Milano (RHM) logistics district. The state-of-the-art depot will support locomotives and rolling stock with rapid assistance and further enhance the growth of the Milan Logistical Business District. The event was attended by railway operators, customers and public institutions and organised with the partnership of the owners of Rail Hub Milano, Italian logistics company Contship Italia.
Pierre Cicion, Head of Services Middle East, Africa and Italy, Bombardier Transportation said, "The Melzo depot will enable Bombardier to strengthen its services offering by providing rapid response to locomotives that need urgent support. The workshop is engineered to offer "pit-stops", high-turnover, brief and frequent on-site operations. Bombardier estimates the site will be able to manage around 400 locomotive maintenance operations per year. This number can be further increased by taking over international operators which use in-house assistance abroad."
Sebastiano Grasso, Group Managing Director, Business Services, Contship Italia described the facility's importance, saying, "The Melzo, Liscate and Vignate areas near Milan are developing into a powerful logistics region able to support and add value to the nation's manufacturing industry. The shared investment in Melzo depot with Bombardier has enhanced this intra-European and intercontinental crossroads with a powerful, rapid-reaction maintenance capability. This not only keeps trains rolling, but also lowers environmental impact by limiting the logistical reliance on freight trucking."
The depot will offer standard services with preventive and corrective maintenance activities and the goal of guaranteeing 24/7 service. Melzo's new 300,000 square meter intermodal terminal features 12km of rail track with four tracks matching international standards and measuring 750m, another three tracks measuring 550m and 12 tracks used as junctions and for external parking.
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Claire Scott (Dartmouth College): "Coming Face to Face with the Past: A Personal History of Civil War Reenacting in the United States"
14.05.2012, 12:15 Uhr, U2/01.30
Student Review by Anna Froch
On May 14th 2012, American Fulbright scholarship holder Claire Scott gave a lecture at the University of Bamberg about her personal experience as a Living History re-enactor. Speaking to students and visitors of the seminar "Germans in the Civil War", Ms. Scott at first explained the difference between Living History, which portrays people's everyday experiences and is used for public education, and battle-reenactment, which is the recreation of a specific day or historical event.
In the main part, Scott talked about Civil War Reenactment in the US. Basically, Civil War Reenactment had begun even before the Civil War was officially over. The first post-war reenactment took place in 1913, the year of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Since then, Civil War Reenactments have become increasingly popular and in 1998, there was the largest non-veteran reenactment in the history of Civil War Reenactment, involving circa 30,000 participants.
The next part of the presentation was dedicated to Scott's own experiences as a re-enactor in 'QuietValley - Living Historical Farm', a non-profit organization which was opened for the public in 1963. Claire Scott made clear that the work of a Living History re-enactor requires all sorts of different skills and equipment, and that re-enactors have to do diligent research about the people and period they are representing.
Moreover, clothing is very important in order to convey a realistic image of the past. Apart from showing pictures of QuietValley, Scott actually wore one of her re-enactment dresses, which provided the audience with a really vivid impression of what re-enactment is like.
Finally, re-enactors also try to make their speech similar to the one used by the people they represent. Since the family who originally lived in Quiet Valley was of German origin, Scott tries to 'germanize' her speech – a fairly complex task given that her words need to be understood by the visitors and still sound historically accurate. Therefore, Scott also explained some of the educational goals of QuietValley: to make people familiar with the challenges faced by early immigrants, including agricultural work.
Claire Scott's talk was followed by a vivid discussion about issues such as whether reenactments romanticize historical ways of life, and about how to realistically represent slavery or historical gender relation. Given this fact, the question arose whether reenactment can be used as an appropriate tool for education. The answer to this question might be why not? People can still read history books that provide them with many details about different historical events – why not enrich this rather theoretical reading with an insight into people's everyday lives?
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King Agrippa Listens to Paul's Story
Posted on March 31, 2012 by brakeman1
King Agrippa Listens to Paul's Story Acts 25 to Acts 26
Paul is brought before King Agrippa, where he tells the King his story.
AFTER FELIX WENTto Rome a new governor was sent to take his place. This new governor was called Festus. Now, Festus was also a Roman as was Felix. He was unacquainted with the Jews and knew little about their customs, religion, and such things. He went to visit Jerusalem three days after he arrived in Caesarea; for there he could learn more about the people he had come to govern, as Jerusalem was the Jews' chief city.
Several days later, after Festus had returned to Caesarea, he called for Paul, who had been in prison all this time, more than two years. And men who had come from Jerusalem stood up to speak false things against paul. But none of those things could they prove.
The Jews still wished to have Paul taken to Jerusalem, hiding their reason. As Festus wished to please the Jewish people he said to Paul, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me, concerning these things of which the Jews accuse you?"
Paul replied, "Against the Jews I have done nothing to offend their law. If I have done anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die. I appeal to Caesar."
Festus knew that every Roman citizen had a right to ask this privilege, of appearing before the great ruler of all the Roman Empire, Caesar, so he answered, "You have asked to be sent to Caesar, at Rome, and your request shall be granted."
About this time some distinguished visitors came to Caesarea to see the new Governor. They were Agrippa, the governor of the country east of the Jordan River, and Bernice, his sister. This Agrippa was sometimes called a king. During their visit Festus told them about Paul.
He told how the Jews had accused this prisoner of some offense concerning their religious law, which he could not understand. He said also that in his trial before the Jews, paul had spoken earnestly about one named Jesus, who he said had risen from the grave.
On the next day Agrippa and Bernice entered the judgment-hall with Festus. Then Festus gave command and Paul was brought.
Festus rose to introduce this prisoner to the King. He said, "Before you stands this man whom the multitude of Jews in Jerusalem have declared is not fit to live any longer. But when I found that he had done nothing deserving of death, and when he had expressed his wish to be taken before Caesar, in Rome, I determined to send him there to be judged. Now, however, I have no charge to make against him, therefore I have brought him before you people and especially before you, King Agrippa, that you may hear him and know for what purpose he is being held in bonds."
Agrippa now spoke, and said to Paul, "You are permitted to tell your own story before us."
Paul rose up, stretched out his hand on which hung the heavy chain, and said: "I am glad, O King, that I may speak for myself today before you, and tell why I am accused by the Jews. I know that you understand the customs and questions which are among the Jews, and you will understand my words.
"From my youth the Jews know my life, for I was brought up in their city. And if they would, they could testify that I lived among the strictest of the Pharisees, keeping the law of Moses as carefully as any of them tried to do. And now I am accused by them because I believe the promise which God made to our fathers, concerning Jesus Christ, whom God raised from the dead.
"The time was when I, too, thought I ought to persecute those who believe in Jesus of Nazareth. And this I did, shutting in prison many of the saints who lived in Jerusalem. I even received authority from the high priest to persecute the saints who lived in distant cities. I was on my way to Damascus to persecute the Christians there when I saw a vision from God. It was at midday, O King, when suddenly I saw on the road a light from heaven, more dazzling than the noonday sun, and the brightness of it frightened me and my companions. We fell to the ground, then a voice spoke to me in the Hebrew language, saying, 'Saul! Saul! why are you persecuting me?' I cried, 'Who are you, Lord?' and the voice replied, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.' That voice commanded me to stand on my feet while I received Jesus' orders. And that voice told me I should tell of Jesus, not only to the Jews, but to the Gentiles as well.
"Because I have obeyed the command I received in that heavenly vision, O King, I am now being persecuted by the Jews who will not believe in Jesus. Again and again they have sought to kill me, but God has thus far delivered me from their plots, and he has given me strength to tell to all who come to me that Jesus is indeed the Christ of whom Moses and the prophets wrote."
Festus beheld the earnestness of this chained speaker and he decided that Paul must be crazy. Not wishing to listen longer to his speech he could not understand, he cried out, "Paul, you are not in your right mind. Too much learning has made you crazy!"
But Paul answered calmly, "I am not crazy, most noble Festus, but am speaking words of truth and soberness. King Agrippa knows these things of which I speak, therefore I talk freely to him." Then, turning to Agrippa, Paul said, "King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe."
Agrippa answered, "Almost you persuade me to be a Christian."
Paul replied, "I would to God that not only you but all who hear me today were such as I am except for this chain."
But the King was not ready to humble his proud heart and become a Christian. He rose up at once and went aside with Bernice and Festus and others to discuss Paul's case.
He said to Festus, "This man has done nothing worthy of death or even of imprisonment. If he had not asked to be sent to Caesar he might be set free at once." But now it was to late to change the arrangement, and Festus could not set Paul at liberty.
Tomorrow: Paul is Shipwrecked
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Dr. Jason Johnson discusses several members of the House of Representatives that are planning to block President Trump's National Emergency Resolution to build a border wall between Mexico and the United States. Other panel members are Fmr. Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-North Dakota), Adam Jentleson (Fmr. Senior Aide to Sen. Harry Reid), and host, Lawrence O'Donnell.
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Five New York companies have been awarded funding through the Cornell Center for Materials Research JumpStart program, which is supported by Empire State Development's Division of Science, Technology and Innovation.
Vergason Technology in Van Etten will collaborate with Christopher Ober, professor of materials science and engineering, to optimize the intermediate layer between the substrate material and the firm's SuperChrome PVD coating.
The Cornell Center for Materials Research is a National Science Foundation- and New York state-funded interdisciplinary research center whose mission is to advance, explore and exploit the forefront of the science and engineering of advanced materials. Three other complementary functions complete the CCMR's mission: educational outreach to teachers and students; industrial outreach and knowledge transfer; and operation shared instrumentation in support of materials research on and off campus.
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package net.runelite.api;
import lombok.Getter;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.BLOCK_ME;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.BLOCK_OTHER;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_MAX_ME;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_MAX_ME_CYAN;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_MAX_ME_ORANGE;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_MAX_ME_WHITE;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_MAX_ME_YELLOW;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_ME;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_ME_CYAN;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_ME_ORANGE;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_ME_WHITE;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_ME_YELLOW;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_OTHER;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_OTHER_CYAN;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_OTHER_ORANGE;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_OTHER_WHITE;
import static net.runelite.api.HitsplatID.DAMAGE_OTHER_YELLOW;
import net.runelite.api.annotations.HitsplatType;
/**
* A hitsplat that has been applied to an {@link Actor}.
*/
public class Hitsplat
{
/**
* The type of hitsplat.
*/
@Getter(onMethod_ = {@HitsplatType})
@HitsplatType
private int hitsplatType;
/**
* The value displayed by the hitsplat.
*/
@Getter
private int amount;
/**
* When the hitsplat will disappear.
*/
@Getter
private int disappearsOnGameCycle;
public Hitsplat(@HitsplatType int hitsplatType, int amount, int disappearsOnGameCycle)
{
this.hitsplatType = hitsplatType;
this.amount = amount;
this.disappearsOnGameCycle = disappearsOnGameCycle;
}
public boolean isMine()
{
switch (hitsplatType)
{
case BLOCK_ME:
case DAMAGE_ME:
case DAMAGE_ME_CYAN:
case DAMAGE_ME_YELLOW:
case DAMAGE_ME_ORANGE:
case DAMAGE_ME_WHITE:
case DAMAGE_MAX_ME:
case DAMAGE_MAX_ME_CYAN:
case DAMAGE_MAX_ME_ORANGE:
case DAMAGE_MAX_ME_YELLOW:
case DAMAGE_MAX_ME_WHITE:
return true;
default:
return false;
}
}
public boolean isOthers()
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switch (hitsplatType)
{
case BLOCK_OTHER:
case DAMAGE_OTHER:
case DAMAGE_OTHER_CYAN:
case DAMAGE_OTHER_YELLOW:
case DAMAGE_OTHER_ORANGE:
case DAMAGE_OTHER_WHITE:
return true;
default:
return false;
}
}
}
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Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. was selected for the Thomson Reuters 2015 Top 100 Global Innovator Award by Thomson Reuters, the world's leading information service company (Headquarters: New York, US), and received the trophy on January 15.
Thomson Reuters has selected the 100 most innovative companies every year since 2011. The Award recognizes companies that lead the world in turning creative ideas into inventions protected by intellectual property rights, thereby successfully commercializing those ideas.
Sumitomo Electric received the Award for the fourth time. We believe that this honor was presented in recognition of the collective effort of the Sumitomo Electric Group.
The Group will continue to develop outstanding, creative, and original technologies by anticipating social changes and technological trends.
For further details, see the press release issued by Thomson Reuters.
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Rachel Demuth started cooking at Neal's Yard Bakery in Covent Garden, London, then opened Broad Street Bakery in Bath. For the last 25 years Demuths restaurant, and now the Vegetarian Cookery School in Bath, share her exciting new food ideas and skills that she gleans from her world travels. This is her second vegetarian cookery book.
The Green World Cookbook includes more than 100 new recipes from Demuths, one of the most popular; colourful and successful vegetarian restaurants in Britain.
With inspiration drawn from around the world, these recipes are easy to make and include wealth of tips and information.
If you've enjoyed eating at Demuths you'll love this book.
A vegetarian cookbook for anyone who appreciates good food.
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Pakistan Edition
Pakistan court to indict ex-PM Khan on Feb. 7 in case involving sale of state gifts
Pakistan's currency to weaken further, exacerbate inflationary pressure – Fitch Ratings
Envoy says three Afghans who died in Pakistan jail were denied cancer, heart treatment
Bangladesh secures $4.7 billion from IMF as Pakistan, Sri Lanka see delays
What's behind the Pakistani Taliban's insurgency?
Pakistan Takes Hard Steps in Efforts to Secure IMF Bailout Plan
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Pakistan-IMF talks to begin today
Police, judiciary among top most corrupt institutions in Pakistan — Transparency International
Police, judiciary among top most corrupt institutions in Pakistan — Transparency International /node/2213686/pakistan
Police patrol outside the central jail in Multan, Pakistan, on December 21, 2019. (AFP/File)
https://arab.news/9trex
Arab News Pakistan
The findings are part of National Corruption Perception Survey (NCPS) of Transparency's Pakistan chapter
A majority of Pakistanis believes that anti-corruption institutions have failed to eliminate corruption
ISLAMABAD: Police in Pakistan remain the top most corrupt institution, followed by tendering & contracting, judiciary and education, local media reported on Friday, citing a survey by the Transparency International's Pakistan chapter.
The findings were part of the National Corruption Perception Survey (NCPS) 2022 of the Pakistan chapter of the Berlin-based international civil society organization, which was released on Friday.
In Sindh, education remained the most corrupt sector, police was seen as the second most corrupt, while tendering and contracting was the third most corrupt institution. In Punjab, police remained the most corrupt sector, followed by tendering and contracting and judiciary, according to the survey.
The judiciary remained the most corrupt sector in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) this year, followed by tendering and contracting and police. In Balochistan, tendering and contracting topped the list of corrupt institutions, followed by police and the judiciary on second and third slots.
The report said a majority of Pakistanis believed that anti-corruption institutions had failed to curb corruption in the South Asian country.
"At the national level, the majority of 45% of people considered anti-corruption institutions' role as 'ineffective' in curbing corruption in Pakistan," Pakistan's Geo News channel reported.
"The three most important causes of corruption, according to NCPS 2022, are delayed decisions in corruption cases (31%), use of state institutions by governments for their gain (26%) and incompetence of the government (19%)."
Pakistanis continued to believe that corruption in public service delivery was high.
According to the participants, the three most corrupt public services for which people had to bribe officials were contracts of roads (40%), access to uninterrupted electricity (28%) and access to clean drinking water (17%).
Around 33% of Pakistanis said corruption should be punishable by life imprisonment, while 28% said all government officials, including politicians, military officers and judges, should disclose their assets to the public.
Of the participants, 25% recommended that anti-corruption courts should hear corruption cases on a daily basis and decide them in six months.
Pakistan court to indict ex-PM Khan on Feb. 7 in case involving sale of state gifts /node/2242051/pakistan
Updated 5 sec ago
Khan faces the charge of making 'incorrect declarations' of earnings to the country's top election body
ECP disqualified him last October while referring the case to the judiciary for further proceedings
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court on Tuesday announced to indict former prime minister Imran Khan on February 7 in a case that led to his disqualification by the country's top election body last year which found him guilty of making "false statements and incorrect declarations" after receiving gifts from various international leaders.
The Toshakhana – or state repository for gifts – reference against Khan gained momentum after the downfall of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) administration in a parliamentary no-confidence vote last April.
Members of the current government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to expedite the proceedings before Khan was disqualified under Article 63 of the Constitution.
According to local media reports, an additional sessions court in Islamabad announced to frame charges against the former prime minister in the coming week after his lawyer and the ECP counsel appeared before it and presented their arguments.
"District and Sessions Judge Zafar Iqbal heard the case and fixed February 7 (Tuesday) as the indictment date," The Express Tribune said. "The former premier was also ordered to pay a bond of Rs20,000."
The case involves accusations against Khan for misusing his position as prime minister to purchase and sell gifts received during state visits abroad that were worth over Rs140 million – or $5.4 million.
A major charge was that he had also failed to declare some of the earnings in his annual statements of assets submitted before the election commission.
Khan's disqualification was followed by protests in different parts of the country, though the situation did not deter some local media outlets to continue their investigation into the issue.
Pakistan's private news channel Geo TV interviewed a Dubai-based businessman Umar Farooq Zahoor who said he had paid Khan $2 million to buy a watch the ex-premier had received after he went to Saudi Arabia on an official trip in 2018.
The account presented by the channel contradicted the ex-premier's narrative who has consistently claimed innocence in the case while pointing out that all receipts and records regarding the gifts and their sales were already present in the Toshakhana.
Khan subsequently filed a defamation case against the media house and the UAE-based businessman. However, the reference against him has been taken up by the court after the ECP referred the matter to the judiciary in its ruling last October.
Topics: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan Imran Khan Toshakhana reference Election Commission of Pakistan
Pakistan's currency to weaken further, exacerbate inflationary pressure – Fitch Ratings /node/2242036/pakistan
Updated 13 min 21 sec ago
Pakistan's rupee plummeted to 24-year low last week after markets removed cap on exchange rate
Fitch says rupee devaluation 'positive' for long-term outlook, helping unlock future IMF disbursements
ISLAMABAD: An international credit rating agency on Tuesday forecast that Pakistan's national currency would depreciate further, exacerbating the imported inflationary pressure across the country in the days to come.
In its bid to revive a stalled $7 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan program, Pakistan agreed to remove artificial controls from its exchange market. The rupee plummeted to a record 24-year low last week after foreign exchange companies removed the cap on the exchange rate.
The removal of the currency cap has been one of the principal demands of the IMF. Pakistan, with a staggering $3.6 billion in reserves barely enough to cover three weeks of imports, is actively seeking an IMF bailout program to avoid a balance-of-payments crisis.
In its latest forecast for Pakistan, Fitch Ratings said its earlier forecast of the dollar rising to Rs248 is "now looking out of date."
"We believe that the rupee's weakness still has further to run, particularly with Pakistan's balance of payments position likely to remain weak for several more months," Fitch said.
The rating agency said currently there is "a considerable amount of uncertainty" at this juncture, adding that it is difficult to gauge the extent to which the latest rupee devaluation has caused investor confidence to dip.
It said a weakening rupee would also have broader economic implications in the near future. "In the near term, it could exacerbate imported inflationary pressure, and may eventually result in steeper policy rate hikes from the SOP," Fitch added.
While it said that Pakistan's economy was expected to contract by 0.3 percent in FY2022/23, the rupee's devaluation would help Pakistan secure further disbursements from the IMF. Fitch said it would be "a positive for the longer-term outlook," helping Islamabad ease its balance of payments strains.
An IMF mission is currently in Islamabad till February 9, 2023, to discuss the loan revival. The mission will examine Pakistan's policies to restore domestic and external sustainability, including strengthening the country's fiscal position with durable measures while supporting those affected by devastating floods last year.
Topics: Pakistan Pakistan currency Inflation Fitch Ratings International Monetary Fund
Envoy says three Afghans who died in Pakistan jail were denied cancer, heart treatment /node/2242011/pakistan
NAIMAT KHAN
Afghanistan's acting consul general Karachi says jail authorities did not get Afghan prisoners the medical help they needed
Superintendent Malir Prison says all inmates get treatment, including three Afghan nationals who died of cancer and heart disease
KARACHI: Three Afghan citizens imprisoned in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi had died in jail from cancer and heart diseases since October last year, a Pakistani jailer and a senior Afghan diplomat said on Monday, with the latter alleging the patients were denied medical help during their incarceration.
Several Afghans flee to Pakistan without valid documents to seek medical treatment, evade persecution by the Kabul government, or to seek employment opportunities. In a report released last year, Pakistan's National Commission on Human Rights said there was a "drastic rise" in the number of Afghans seeking to leave their country following the Taliban's takeover of Kabul in August 2021.
Pakistan last year intensified its crackdown against Afghans who illegally cross the border and enter its territory without valid documents.
In a letter seen by Arab News, the superintendent of a correctional facility in Karachi's District Malir informed the Sindh prisons police chief on Monday that three under-trial Afghan prisoners incarcerated there had died in judicial custody due to health complications.
Taj Muhammad, who was arrested on January 22, 2022, died on October 24, 2022, according to the letter, while Abdul Khalil, taken into custody on November 6, 2022, died on December 15, 2022. A third Afghan, Wali Khan, was arrested on November 5 last year, and died on January 22, 2023. His body is being kept at the Chhipa morgue in Karachi, the letter added, while the bodies of Muhammad and Khalil were handed over to family and the Afghan consulate respectively.
Syed Abdul Jabbar Takhari, Afghanistan's acting consul general in Karachi, said Khan passed away last week from a heart attack while Muhammad and Khalil had succumbed to cancer.
"These people died because they didn't get treatment," Takhari told Arab News, saying that his mission had informed Sindh authorities about the inmates' health condition. "They knew about their health condition as these people had come here for treatment."
Takhari said nearly 870 Afghan nationals were still languishing in Sindh prisons, many of them struggling with health issues, and as per the law, jail authorities were not allowed to detain cancer or heart patients.
"Instead, they should have been admitted to a hospital," he said.
Superintendent Malir Prison Arshad Shah rejected Takhari's allegations, saying all inmates were provided treatment, including the three Afghan nationals who died.
"We have medical facilities but the ones with serious conditions are sent to hospital, either to the Jinnah Hospital or the Civil Hospital," Shah told Arab News.
Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui, a Sindh government spokesperson, said any person who violated Pakistani law would be prosecuted:
"Ailment can serve as grounds for bail to be granted but that doesn't mean they can't be arrested."
Muniza Kakar, a lawyer who campaigns for the release of Afghan nationals in detention, said around 2,000 people had been arrested since authorities started a crackdown against Afghan nationals in July 2022.
"Of them, about 900 have been deported, some possessing refugees' cards were released on bail while around 1,000 are still languishing in jails in Karachi, Hyderabad, and Sukkar cities of the province," she told Arab News. "These include women, children, and aged people and most of them are patients with serious diseases."
Kakar gave the example of an Afghan asylum seeker who she alleged was not provided treatment after suffering a cardiac arrest in jail on Sunday.
An afghan asylum seeker named Fatima, had a cardiac arrest in the prison yesterday but she is still not been shifted to the hospital.
I humbly request the sindh govt. and jail authorities to immediately shift her to NICVD for immediate relief.@BBhuttoZardari @Refugees @UN pic.twitter.com/E4dUOcz9pK
— Moniza Kakar (@Moni_Kakar) January 30, 2023
"She was seen by a jail doctor and on Monday, she was brought to court where she fell down," Kakar said, "but she was taken to jail instead of being taken for treatment to a health facility."
Topics: Pakistan Pakistan Afghanistan Ties Pakistan jail Karachi Afghan Nationals Afghan prisoners
Sindh minister says only Afghan illegal immigrants jailed, children not under arrest
Bangladesh secures $4.7 billion from IMF as Pakistan, Sri Lanka see delays /node/2242006/pakistan
Bangladesh has seen a sharp widening of its current account deficit, depreciation of its currency
Pakistan, IMF negotiations expected to begin from today as Islamabad seeks to shore up its foreign reserves
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved loans of $4.7 billion to Bangladesh for disbursal starting immediately, making it the first to secure such funds out of three South Asian countries that applied last year amid economic trouble.
The loans are a win for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ahead of a general election early next year and will help the country, which has seen a sharp widening of its current account deficit, depreciation of the taka currency and a decline in its foreign exchange reserves.
Bangladesh will get about $3.3 billion under the IMF's extended credit facility and related arrangements, with an immediate disbursement of about $476 million. The IMF executive board also approved about $1.4 billion under its newly created Resilience and Sustainability Facility for climate investments for Bangladesh, the first Asian country to access it.
The IMF said the loans will "protect macroeconomic stability and rebuild buffers, while helping to advance the authorities' reform agenda". The agenda includes creating fiscal space to enable greater social and developmental spending, strengthening Bangladesh's financial sector, boosting fiscal and governance reforms and building climate resilience.
"Since independence, Bangladesh has made steady progress in reducing poverty and significant improvements in living standards," Antoinette M. Sayeh, the IMF's deputy managing director, said in a statement.
"However, the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent Russia's war in Ukraine interrupted this long period of robust economic performance," Sayeh added. "Multiple shocks have made macroeconomic management challenging in Bangladesh."
The country last year also sought $2 billion from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank amid efforts to bolster its foreign exchange reserves.
Bangladesh's regional counterparts, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, are doing much worse economically but have not been able to get final approval for IMF loans.
Bangladesh's current account deficit hit a record $18.7 billion in the last financial year, which ended on June 30, as exports of garments failed to offset a surge in energy costs. The Bangladesh central bank expects the deficit to fall to about $6.8 billion at the end of the current fiscal year.
The government has also raised fuel and energy prices in recent months as it approached the IMF. It announced a 5% increase in retail power prices from Wednesday, the second such rise this month.
Topics: #bangladesh IMF Pakistan IMF talk
What's behind the Pakistani Taliban's insurgency? /node/2242001/pakistan
TTP commander Sarbakaf Mohmand claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest attacks on security forces in recent months
TTP spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani distanced the group from the bombing, saying it was not its policy to target mosques
ISLAMABAD: When a suicide bomber struck a mosque inside a police compound in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, suspicion immediately fell on the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP.
In a post on Twitter, a commander for the group, Sarbakaf Mohmand, claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest attacks on security forces in recent months.
But more than 10 hours later, TTP spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani distanced the group from the bombing, saying it was not its policy to target mosques or other religious sites, adding that those taking part in such acts could face punitive action under TTP's policy. His statement did not address why a TTP commander had claimed responsibility for the bombing.
The TTP's denial also came after the Afghan Foreign Ministry condemned attacks on worshippers as contrary to the teachings of Islam.
Relations already are strained between Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, who are sheltering the TTP leadership and fighters.
A look at the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which has waged an insurgency in the country for 15 years:
WHY IS THE TTP FIGHTING AN INSURGENCY?
Angered by Pakistan's cooperation with Washington in the war on terrorism, the TTP was officially set up by Pakistani militants in 2007 when different outlawed groups agreed to work together against Pakistan and support the Afghan Taliban, who were fighting US and NATO forces.
The TTP seeks stricter enforcement of Islamic laws, the release of its members in government custody, and a reduction in Pakistani military presence in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province bordering Afghanistan that it has long used as a base.
The TTP has stepped up attacks on Pakistani soldiers and police since November, when it unilaterally ended a cease-fire with the government after the failure of months of talks, hosted by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers in Kabul. The TTP has repeatedly warned police not to take part in operations against its fighters in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TTP AND THE AFGHAN TALIBAN?
The TTP is separate from but a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, and that group's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 emboldened the TTP, which shares the group's ideology.
TTP fighters used to hide in Pakistan's tribal northwest and also had sanctuary in Afghanistan, but they mostly lived a fugitive existence.
However, the Afghan Taliban started openly sheltering the TTP when they came to power. The Afghan Taliban also released TTP leaders and fighters who had been arrested by previous administrations in Kabul.
The Taliban have repeatedly said they will not allow anyone, including the TTP, to use Afghan soil for attacks against any country, including Pakistan. But Pakistani officials say there is a disconnect between the words and actions of the Afghan Taliban, who could stop the TTP from launching attacks inside the country but are failing to do so.
The Pakistani Taliban have expressed their allegiance to the head of the Afghan Taliban, said Abdullah Khan, a senior defense analyst and managing director of the Islamabad-based Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies.
He added, however, that they have their own agenda and strategy.
TTP's operations have largely been aimed at targeting Pakistani forces, similar to the Afghan Taliban's agenda of ousting foreign forces from the country.
Khan fears that Pakistan will see a surge in militant violence in the coming weeks and months.
HAS VIOLENCE INCREASED RECENTLY?
Pakistan has seen innumerable militant attacks in the past two decades, but there has been an uptick since November, when the TTP ended a cease-fire with the government that had lasted for months.
The Pakistani Taliban regularly carry out shootings or bombings, especially in rugged and remote northwestern Pakistan, a former TTP stronghold.
The violence has raised fears among residents of a possible military operation in the former tribal regions of North and South Waziristan, now two districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Hours after Monday's mosque bombing, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan told the independent Geo news channel that Afghan Taliban rulers must stand by their commitment to the international community to not allow anyone to use their soil for attacks against another country.
"They should honor their promises," he said.
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Ebbetts Pass Route (No. 318 California Historical Landmark)
Historic Site or District
Ebbetts Pass Marker
California Historical Landmarks Program
Historical Landmarks are sites, buildings, features, or events that are of statewide significance and have anthropological, cultural, military, political, architectural, economic, scientific or technical, religious, experimental, or other value. Historical Landmarks are eligible for registration if they meet at least one of the following criteria:
1) Is the first, last, only, or most significant of its type in the state or within a large geographic region
2) Is associated with an individual or group having a profound influence on the history of California
3) Is a prototype of, or an outstanding example of, a period, style, architectural movement or construction or is one of the more notable works or the best surviving work in a region of a pioneer architect, designer or master builder
California's Landmark Program began in the late 1800s with the formation of the Landmarks Club and the California Historical Landmarks League. In 1931, the program became official when legislation charged the Department of Natural Resources—and later the California State Chamber of Commerce—with registering and marking buildings of historical interest or landmarks.
In 1948, Governor Earl Warren created the California Historical Landmarks Advisory Committee to increase the integrity and credibility of the program. Finally, this committee was changed to the California Historical Resources Commission in 1974. Information about registered landmarks numbered 770 onward is kept in the California Register of Historical Resources authoritative guide. Landmarks numbered 669 and below were registered prior to establishing specific standards, and may be added to the California Register when criteria for evaluating the properties are adopted.
Share your experience. Please leave a comment below if you've visited this historical landmark.
Ebbetts Pass—a high mountain pass of the Sierra Nevada range in Alpine County—was once used only by the Miwok and Washoe Native Americans of the area to cross the mountains. In 1827, this trail was used by famous trailblazer and cartographer, Jedediah Smith, to leave California at the urging of Mexican officials. It wasn't until 1850 when John Ebbetts—Captain of the Knickerbocker Exploring Party of New York—crossed this pass with a large train of mules, guiding a party of miners into the then gold-frenzied California.
John Ebbetts saw the trail as a suitable route for the installation of the Transcontinental Railroad; mostly due to his observations of such little snow. This, however, was likely an anomaly, as today the highway is closed from November through May due to excessive snow accumulation transforming into a winter wonderland. In 1853, Ebbetts returned to this area while leading a survey party for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, who were researching possible routes for the Transcontinental Railroad. He recommended this route to his friend—and lead surveyor of the party—George H. Goddard, whom later named the pass Ebbetts Pass in his honor.
The route was eventually determined unsuitable for a train and Ebbetts made plans to return and survey it for the installation of a road instead. However, in 1854, while traveling to Petaluma aboard the steamboat Secretary, John Ebbetts was fatally injured in a boiler explosion. No emigrant train ever used Ebbetts route, but a toll road was established there in 1862 to serve the then booming silver mining region of Silver City. Today, visitors appreciate Ebbetts Pass for its leisurely-paced drive, unique and beautiful scenic vistas, access to the Pacific Crest Trail, and historic relics.
A marker is located along Ebbetts Pass National Scenic Byway (State Highway 4), on the left when traveling east (18 miles southwest of Markleeville, at post mile 18.5).
High in the Sierra Nevada along the eastern edge of California, Alpine County is sparsely populated. In 1844, John C. Fremont's expedition, accompanied by Kit Carson, passed through the area and over today's Carson Pass. The Overland Emigrant Trail passed through this county, and is marked today by yellow painted iron markers and plaques.
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One Big Family. "Ratings are down and the heads must roll at the Frontline office, but nothing gets in the way of the new Network promo…" Adapted from the hit TV comedy written by Rob Sitch, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy & Santo Cilauro, directed by Amy Leeder and starring acast of thousands.
Can You Hear You The Music? "Everyone has their dreams; whether it be applause from anaudience, long iced drinks, safety from the world, or a life amongst the titled rich. This is no exception for the six mice living in the loft…" Written by David Campton, directed by Geraldine LeCouteur, and starring Geoff Leeder, Lyn Colson, Ray Condy, Sam Bailey, Michael Lee and Rebecca Trigwell.
The Interview. "A man sits alone in a bar, relaxing after work, when he is approached by a mysterious businessman who informs him that he has come to "interview" him for a position at an unnamed company. What follows is a shrewd cat-and-mouse game that leaves the first man fighting for his very life." Written by G. Riley Mills, directed by Michael McAllan and starring Neil McDonald alongside Nick Donald.
Performed at Don Russel Performing Arts Centre
Bumpy Angels
In 1954 against the hype and excitement of the Queen's Australian tour, a group of pregnant girls wait out their confinements while working in the laundry of a Catholic home for unwed mothers.
A funny play that deals with social issues including adoption, incest and racial and religious tolerance. 1950s music features throughout the production.
Playwright:
Sue Rider
Kimberley Shaw
Performed at Kwinana Community Arts Centre
Director David Ryding and talented cast challenge the common beliefs of this Oscar Wilde classic and turn them on their head (as we're sure Wilde himself would have loved). A must for Wilde-fans, and highly recommended for anyone with an interest in playing with audiences' expectations. As usual, our first Friday performance (May 12) will be our gala champagne evening. Performed at Don Russel Performing Arts Centre
David Ryding
Have you ever met a racist? A chauvinist? A homophobe? Couldn't you just KILL them!
Blak Yak Theatre is proud to present the Australian Premiere of THE LAST SUPPER. Adapted from the 1995 cult movie written by Dan Rosen, the play follows five house-sharing university students who invite a different guest for dinner and discussion every week. After arguing with, and accidentally killing a violent, racist guest, the students decide that this may just be the way to rid the world of undesirable people…
A black comedy containing adult themes, strong language and dinner guests you'd happily throttle.
Dan Rosen
Leah Maher
Preview Night: Wednesday 23 Feb (all tickets $8).
Black Tie and Complimentary Champagne Opening: Friday 25 Feb.
Kwinana Arts Centre
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Here at Sports Poster Warehouse, we had Tom Brady as our number 1 ranked QB going into this year's NFL season. However, disaster has struck both Brady and the New England Patriots, as in Sunday's season opener, Brady suffered a season ending knee injury.
Not to worry though; the staff at SportsPosterWarehouse.com has compiled a list of the next 10 best quarterbacks to look for this NFL season as well as each of their hottest poster!
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The Utopia is Pagani's V12-powered vision of the future
All 99 of these are already spoken for
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The Utopia is Horacio Pagani's latest automotive masterpiece. PHOTO FROM PAGANI
To say Horacio Pagani just builds cars would be like saying Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart just wrote music. The machines created by the Argentine-Italian businessman and engineer are much more than mere sports cars. If you ever get the chance to inspect one up close, you'll quickly realize that they are true works of art. The attention to detail is positively insane, and the quality of craftsmanship is second to none.
Now, a new masterpiece has been unveiled. One to continue the story of the Zonda and the Huayra into the third decade of the company. Its name is Utopia, and where other companies embrace hybrid powertrains and complex technology, Pagani simply built what his customers asked him to.
Pagani is not out there to reinvent the design, but rather to continue the story of its first two hypercars. PHOTO FROM PAGANI
The result is a car that focuses on three things, according to the master himself: simplicity, lightness, and the pleasure of driving. Power still comes from a 6.0-liter twin-turbocharged Mercedes V12 that now churns out over 850hp and 1,100Nm.
Gear changes are done through either an automatic box or a purely manual seven-speed one that totally puts the driver in charge of his destiny. The shape of the Utopia is new but still familiar, and gently continues the immediately recognizable design language of the San Cesario sul Panaro-based firm.
A Pagani will always be a work of art inside and out. PHOTO FROM PAGANI
In a way, it feels like the Huayra Codalunga might have been a sneak peek of this brand-new model, as many of its gentle curves and dynamic shapes can also be spotted on the Utopia. Most notable is the absence of any big spoilers or other aerodynamic aids, with airflow and downforce generation handled just by the shape of the car itself. One of the trademarks of any Pagani is also still onboard in the shape of the center-mounted quad exhaust, which is made of titanium and weighs a mere 6kg.
The interior is typical Pagani again, with one tiny little digital info screen in front of the driver being pretty much the only nod to modern times. Everything else looks (or really is) analog, including the dials that tell the driver how fast he's going and how the engine feels. The examples of Pagani's dedication to relentless quality are numerous, and include a steering wheel made from one solid block of aluminum and an exposed gear lever mechanism that is as much a sculpture as it is a functioning part of the car.
Want one? You're better off looking for a scale model instead. PHOTO FROM PAGANI
It's hard to believe that these machines are created by a team of just 180 highly skilled individuals, who manage to make up to 50 of them per year. The carbon monocoque of the Utopia features two new types of carbon fiber developed by the firm, and even the aesthetic parts are now made of a new version of the popular material that promises to be 38% stiffer than previous iterations.
Pagani even managed to get global certification for the car, a feat that required it to be crash-tested 50 times in various ways. Prices start at €2,170,000 (P124.38 million), but all 99 production cars are apparently already spoken for, so you'll have to wait for one of the inevitable special editions later down the line. Or just give Horacio a call and ask for a one-off. He's not only an artist but also a businessman after all.
Meeting and getting to know Horacio Pagani
The Pagani Huayra Codalunga pays tribute to '60s Le Mans race cars
The Pagani Huayra Tricolore is built to fly
How my P1,000 die-cast Pagani Zonda toy car became priceless
Pagani has just released a new hypercar called the Imola
Frank Schuengel
Frank is a German e-commerce executive who loves his wife, a Filipina, so much he decided to base himself in Manila. He has interesting thoughts on Philippine motoring.
All-new Chevrolet Blazer EV now has brand's 1st-ever electric SS vehicle
Lexus now fully electrifies its UX subcompact crossover
British ferry operator will soon deploy high-speed passenger craft
The Mitsubishi Strada Athlete will turn heads
The new Bentley Bentayga Hybrid has 857km range
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The US president has repeatedly slammed his opponent in the 2016 presidential elections, Hillary Clinton, for her use of a private email account for work during her term as secretary of state and her subsequent deletion of the emails when an investigation into her misconduct started.
It's been revealed Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send "hundreds of messages" relating to official White House business last year. The President has been accused of hypocrisy, having repeatedly branded former Hillary Clinton "crooked" for her own use of a private email server - although there are several key differences.
A few days ago CNBC reported that the US Justice Department had prepared to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, although it remains unclear whether any charges had already been filed.
While the rumours about Hillary Clinton's potential third presidential run continue to circulate in the media, the conservative camp is seemingly determined to "lock her up." Speaking to Sputnik, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel explains why "judgement day" for the Clinton Foundation is near.
A battle royal is about to erupt, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, commenting on The Daily Caller's report that ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server was hacked. According to Ortel, the Clinton email case deserves further scrutiny despite the FBI's denial of the alleged intrusion.
Hillary Clinton's private server was reportedly hacked by the Chinese, who supposedly gained access to virtually all of her emails, according to The Daily Caller's sources. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, Charles Ortel, a political analyst, private investor and writer shared his views on the Clinton email saga.
The email scandal continues to haunt Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and ex-Democratic presidential nominee, as Judicial Watch, a non-profit conservative organization, has unearthed two new batches of Clinton's emails and called for a new investigation into her mishandling of classified government data.
On The Critical Hour with Dr. Leon, he discusses the US Department of Justice Inspector General report, where no bias was found. The report also faulted ex-US Attorney General Loretta Lynch for creating confusion by saying she wouldn't recuse herself from the probe; she had failed to recognize how bad it looked when she met with Bill Clinton.
The Horowitz report may explain the motivation behind Hillary Clinton and her associates relying so heavily on secret private servers, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, adding that the report is likely to trigger US voters' interest in the upcoming 2018 mid-term elections and 2020 presidential race.
Speaking at Harvard University on Friday, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, didn't hesitate to say that she wouldn't mind running Facebook.
During her Class Day speech at Yale University, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, threw bits of shade at her rival Donald Trump.
In a revealing interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the Baywatch star has spilled the beans over her relationship with one of the most renowned whistleblowers, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Judicial Watch, an educational foundation promoting transparency, accountability and integrity in government, shared new details on the scandalized emails of the former US secretary of state.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The US congressional investigators have found new violations inside the FBI's inquiry into the email scandal around Hillary Clinton, The Hill newspaper reported.
A crusading legal expert has filed a bar grievance against former FBI Director James Comey, claiming he lied to Congress and destroyed evidence in investigations into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The action could mean Comey loses his law license - and is opened up for criminal prosecution.
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All Posts » Postcard of the Day, Part 11
Postcard of the Day, Part 11
Illinois / regional Postcard of the Day
John Jakle, co-author of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo (University of Illinois Press, October 2012), reveals his favorite from the book.
Figure 131 on page 133 of Picturing Illinois shows Memorial Stadium on the University of Illinois campus. But, like so many cards, the image has been altered to improve its customer appeal. In the background mountains have been added. In the middle ground a lake appears. And the card's caption reads: "Memorial Stadium, University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill." It is not merely a mistake. As we speculate in the text it appears to be symptomatic of the often smug Chicago attitude toward the larger State of Illinois—the emotion that everything worthwhile in Illinois must be in the big city. And yet the big city wouldn't be big if it weren't for the farms, small towns, and lesser cities "downstate" and elsewhere throughout Chicago's Midwest hinterland. Even postcard images deserve critical thought.
Credit: Memorial Stadium, University of Illinois, Champaign, Gerson Brothers (#14779), Chicago.
Taken from Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo (University of Illinois Press, October 2012). Previous postcards here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Saveur savors The Turkey: An American StoryIt is University Press Week!
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Coronavirus: Emmanuel Macron unveils Deconfinement in Four Stages by the End of June
30th April 2021 4th May 2021 spanner44Leave a Comment on Coronavirus: Emmanuel Macron unveils Deconfinement in Four Stages by the End of June
COVID-19: Terraces, sports halls, curfew … Emmanuel Macron unveiled Thursday a schedule of deconfinement "in four stages", which should accelerate between May 19th and June 30th
"Stage zero was the reopening of schools on April 26th. We have assumed this educational priority and this strategy of living with the virus, "said the Head of State in an interview with the regional press.
The first stage, May 3rd. As planned, travel restrictions within 10 km of the home will be lifted, middle and high school students will return to classrooms … On the other hand, the curfew will remain unchanged.
We will have to wait until May 19th to see the curfew pushed back to 9 p.m. It will also be the return of the terraces of bars and restaurants, with a maximum of six people per table. "We need to rediscover our French art of living, while remaining cautious and responsible," said Emmanuel Macron. Shops will also be able to reopen on this date, with appropriate gauges and protocols, as will museums, cinemas and theaters, up to a limit of 800 people indoors and 1,000 outdoors.
Third stage, June 9nd . The curfew will be moved to 11 p.m. and cafes and restaurants can reopen indoors, still with a maximum of six guests per table. It will be possible to return to the gym and telecommuting will be made more flexible.
Finally on June 30th, on the eve of the holidays, "end of the curfew," said the Head of State. It will be possible to participate in events of more than 1,000 people, but with a health pass, that is to say a negative test of less than 72 hours or a certificate of immunity.
A health pass
This pass "will never be a right of access which differentiates the French," assured Emmanuel Macron, specifying that it "could not be compulsory" in restaurants, theaters and cinemas. "On the other hand, in places where crowds mix, such as stadiums, festivals, fairs or exhibitions, it would be absurd not to use it", he considered.
The professionals of the hotel and restaurant were delighted to have "finally a calendar", while worrying unknowns about the level gauges and instruments. "Finally we have the keys to deconfinement and we can organize ourselves to work", welcomed AFP Roland Héguy, president of Umih, the main union in the sector, while on the side of the independents (GNI) , Didier Chenet said he was "disappointed not to reopen for Ascension weekend".
The Head of State repeated it: "I have never made a bet on the health and safety of our fellow citizens", "we were enlightened by science and we made the choice to put people first of all ". Because "the life of the Nation is not reduced to the evolution of curves", he assured.
"A life as normal as possible"
For Simon Cauchemez , member of the Scientific Council which advises the government, "if we gradually extend the lifting of health restrictions until early July, with a more sustained pace on vaccination, we find ourselves at the start of the summer holidays in a more bearable epidemic situation ".
Before the presentation of this calendar, the epidemiologist Catherine Hill had estimated Wednesday on BFMTV that largely deconfining would be "absolutely not reasonable", because "we have more people arriving in intensive care than at the peak of November".
14.9 million people have received at least one injection
According to figures Wednesday night, 5,879 sufferers Covid hospitalized in intensive care, less than the April 2020 peak (around 7000) but in the fall (4900). The Covid killed 324 people in 24 hours, for a total of 103,947 deaths.
On the other hand, the number of hospitalized Covid patients fell back below the 30,000 mark on Wednesday, for the first time since the beginning of April (29,911). And the daily number of positive cases (an average of 27,000 over the past seven days) is lower than it was a month ago (around 40,000).
While the pace of vaccination is a crucial issue, many voices have called on the government to anticipate the opening of injections to 50-55-year-olds without co-morbid conditions, currently set for May 15.
An option rejected by the Head of State: "we will continue to prioritize by age", but vaccination will be open "from May 1st" to all obese adults, with a body mass index greater than 30, he said.
So far, 14.9 million people have received at least one injection, of which more than 6 million have received their two doses (or 11.5% of the adult population).
The purpose of these measures is to allow the "return to a life as normal as possible", hammered the Head of State, who intends to "take back (his) pilgrim's staff and go to the territories" from "the beginning of the month of June ".
And "as long as I am there, there will be no tax hikes out of the crisis", he assured.
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Rocky PS2 game a hit!
By Webmaster on November 10, 2002 / 1 min read
Rocky the videogame is the closest fans can get to the real thing. The hard-hitting, adrenaline-pumping, sports game holds true to the look and feel of the Academy Award® winning movies with everything from accurate boxing styles to awesome arenas.
Rocky lets players take on the role of the 'Italian Stallion' and must fight against the most infamous opponents in movie history – Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago and Tommy Gunn.
Rocky features 30 individual fighters pulled straight from the movies. Players can utilize more than 250 fight moves ranging from attacking hooks, jabs and uppercuts through to defensive blocks, ducks and weaves as they attempt to become the undisputed boxing champion of the world.
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Therapy-G – THE system for treating thinning or fine hair.
The most technologically advanced hair-loss treatment and hair-thining treatment system available today. The unique formulas enable you to detoxify, nourish, and stimulate the follicle, volumize, moisturize, and protect the hair as well as to enhance styling.
This unique system is the first to offer DEEP CLEANSING AND NEUTRALIZATION of toxins, free radicals, and DHT while at the same time stimulating renewed growth by nourishing the follicles, and without drying the hair and scalp. The follicle stimulator is directed at retaining the hair on the head for a longer time by extending the growth stage of the hair cycle. It is also contains the patented TRYPTOBOND GUARD. Tryptobond Guard is amino acid-based and attaches itself to each hair strand it comes in contact with. It does NOT rinse off the hair. Tryptobond Guard protects hair from sun's UV damage, breakage, color and tonality changes, and surface damage from styling stress.
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<?php
/*
* To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties.
* To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
*/
namespace App\Model\Table;
use App\DTO\DownloadDTO;
use Cake\Log\Log;
use Cake\ORM\Table;
use Cake\ORM\TableRegistry;
use App\DTO\UploadDTO;
/**
* Description of CustomerTable
*
* @author anand
*/
class CustomerTable extends Table {
//put your code here
private function connect() {
return TableRegistry::get('customer');
}
public function insert(UploadDTO\CustomerUploadDto $customer, $userInfo) {
try{
$tableObj = $this->connect();
$newCustomer = $tableObj->newEntity();
$newCustomer->CustId = $customer->custId;
$newCustomer->CustName = $customer->custName;
$newCustomer->CustAddress = $customer->custAddress;
$newCustomer->CustPhone = $customer->custPhone;
$newCustomer->Active = ACTIVE;
$newCustomer->RestaurantId = $userInfo->restaurantId;
if ($tableObj->save($newCustomer)) {
Log::debug('New customer has been added for CustId :-' .
$customer->custId);
return $customer->custId;
}
Log::error('error ocurred in New customer for CustId :-' .
$customer->custId);
return null;
} catch (Exception $ex) {
return null;
}
}
public function getCustomers($restaurantId) {
$customers = $this->connect()->find()->where(['restaurantId =' => $restaurantId]);
$count = $customers->count();
if (!$count) {
Log::debug('Customers are not found');
return false;
}
$resultCustomers[] = null;
$i = 0;
foreach ($customers as $customer) {
$customerDto = new DownloadDTO\CustomerDownloadDto(
$customer->CustId,
$customer->CustName,
$customer->CustPhone,
$customer->CustEmail);
$resultCustomers[$i] = $customerDto;
$i++;
}
Log::debug('Customers are successfully returned');
return $resultCustomers;
}
public function deleteCustomer(UploadDTO\CustomerUploadDto $customerInfo, $userInfo) {
$conditions = [
'CustId =' => $customerInfo->custId,
'RestaurantId =' => $userInfo->restaurantId
];
try{
$delete = $this->connect()->deleteAll($conditions);
if($delete){
Log::debug('Waiting Customer'.$customerInfo->custName.' deleted from customer table');
return true;
}
Log::error('Error Occured in customer table during customer deletion');
return false;
} catch (Exception $ex) {
return false;
}
}
public function update(UploadDTO\CustomerUpdateDto $request) {
if(is_null($request->custEmail) or is_null($request->custPhone)){
return null;
}elseif (is_null($request->custEmail) ) {
$key = ['CustPhone' => $request->custPhone];
} else {
$key = ['CustEmail' => $request->custEmail];
}
$conditions = ['CustId =' => $request->custId];
try{
$updateEntry = $this->connect()->query()->update();
$updateEntry->set($key);
$updateEntry->where($conditions);
if($updateEntry->execute()){
return TRUE;
}
return FALSE;
} catch (Exception $ex) {
return FALSE;
}
}
}
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The character is behaving this way because he's hearing noises that sound like somebody broke in their house, he's thinking that he's just having a nightmare.
The character is behaving this way because the Nazi army is taking his dad into protective custody because he continued to practice law despite the fact that Jews were forbidden to do under Civil Service Restoration Act.
The character is behaving this way because the Nazi people trashed their kitchen and broke everything they loved even their family.
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"I left the corporate world, and I just didn't want to go back to it," said Keren Taylor. "I wanted to do something different that would be inspiring and bring women and girls together that might otherwise never meet each other." Since then WriteGirl, Keren's nonprofit and a 2009–11 Community Action Grantee, has continued to create successful mentor relationships between professional writers and at-risk girls who would otherwise have no creative outlet.
WriteGirl also participated in the 2014 Shriver Report launch event. The Shriver Report asked to have a WriteGirl alumna read a poem, so Keren tapped Lovely Umayam. Since WriteGirl, Lovely has since gone on to graduate school, contributes to the Bulletin of Atomic Studies and is working as a fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy working on nuclear policy. When Keren asked her, she said, "Oh my God, I haven't written a poem in years!" Keren encouraged her, "I know your inner poet is alive and well. Dig her out and get it on paper!" Lovely's poem, The Debt, brought the house down.
"It was a wonderful experience for her to get back to her creative self, even though she found it a struggle at first. It was a reminder for her that her creative roots are always right there at her fingertips," said Keren.
Keren was also recently featured as CNN hero of the week for her dedication to keeping WriteGirl active, growing, and sustainable. "We help put the light on for those young people. Once they know that they have a story that is exciting to tell and that somebody would actually enjoy hearing it, it changes everything. It gives them a voice," she said.
Since its beginning as a one-on-one mentoring program, WriteGirl has expanded into schools and education programs for young, incarcerated women. With all the press and accomplishments lately, interest in the program has skyrocketed. More volunteers want to get involved as mentors, and more girls want to participate. Amazingly, all this success comes from just two full-time staff members, several part-time staff, and a ton of volunteer labor.
Keren Taylor's grant for WriteGirl was sponsored by the Mooneen Lecce Giving Circle.
That with a rib came the genesis of woman.
Entire flesh made from bone.
My wholeness pieced together by only a fraction of one.
To shine quite as much.
This feeling of debt predates me.
With a force that sinks hearts.
They can never find their right positions again.
To avoid a larger mess.
To fit the definition of labor.
To make space, but often reach a breaking point instead.
And the discomfort of being boxed into a label.
Perhaps it would have been better to stay small.
Sometimes, there is no distinction between debtor and transaction.
Both willingly and by force.
And with all of this, women have depreciated.
Despite the debt we choose to live free.
This is what makes us rich.
So she can make change.
Made of bone, we create life, the bedrock of the universe.
As we are the genesis of everything.
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Nature Fun Links
Setting up a false bottom tank
Frog Paintings from Ganton School
New *Argus Reed Frog Pictures*
Caties Hall Jungle Project New
Backgrounds added
Frog movies - Tobu shedding + Rhubarb jumping about
**Or to see (low quality) animated gif version
Frog haven found in Sri Lanka - More than 100 new frog species have been discovered in the Sri Lankan rainforest. [bbc news]
Frogs are one of the most fascinating species on this planet. They come in many shapes, sizes, colours and patterns. Each frog species has different behaviours, living environments, feeding habits and defenses.
What is a frog?
Frogs and toads are amphibians. Amphibian means 'dual-life'. This refers to the 2 stages most frogs go through, firstly as aquatic tadpoles then metamorphosing in to air breathing land animals. Other amphibians include salamanders and newts.
Frogs and toads belong to the amphibian order 'Anura'. This means 'without tail'. All frogs have no tail apart from the tailed frog which does have a very small apendage that it retains throughout life. With frogs there always is en exception to the rule.
There are over 4000 species in the order anura, but nobody knows exactly how many different frogs and toads there are. New species are being discovered at over 12 a year. It seems that this rate will carry on as long as the frogs natural habitats aren't destroyed.
These species are grouped into over 20 families.
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Q: Sending mail with subject as variable Here i want to send mail using unix shell scripting.
I use the following script for simple mailing:
echo 'Message body goes here' | mail -s 'subject line goes here' [email protected]
Note: Now i want to send mail with the subject which comes from other file using the variable as shown below.
File 1:
The file contains the following script:
#!/bin/bash
subjectvariable="Subject is here"
export $subjectvariable
I want to get this $subjectvariable should be used in the mail command as a variable.
My try:
File 2:
#!/bin/bash
echo 'Message body goes here' | mail -s "$subjectvariable" [email protected]
But in the output i am not getting the subject.
Variable works file for just echo command as shown below in the image:
A: This should work
file 1 :
#!/bin/bash
subjectvariable="Subject is here"
export subjectvariable=$subjectvariable
and source file 1 before exec file2
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Health experts expect XBB.1.5 COVID subvariant in Arizona soon
New COVID variant XBB.1.5 causing concern
By Alex Valdez
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Almost three years since the first coronavirus case was diagnosed in the United States a new variant is now taking center stage.
Medical professionals are calling it "the most transmissible" strain of the virus yet.
According to Dr. Mary Derby, chief epidemiologist with the Pima County Health Department, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations nationwide are up 15% and she says those numbers will go up each week.
The reason behind this surge? The new XBB.1.5 COVID variant.
"Statewide we are seeing XBB," Derby said. "We aren't yet seeing in the state or the county XBB.1.5."
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the new variant makes up almost 28% of all COVID-19 cases across the United States. In the northeast where the strain is prominent, XBB.1.5 is responsible for 70% of all new coronavirus cases.
Even though the new variant hasn't reached Arizona yet, health professionals here in the state know it's just a matter of time before it does.
"We could have a surge in the next couple of weeks and that in fact has been a trend," Derby said. "When cases increase in other parts of the county, they make their way here."
As for COVID hospitalizations in Tucson. Banner Health said they are on the rise.
"COVID hospitalizations are increasing but they make up fewer than 10 percent of all patients, compared with nearly 40 percent at earlier stages of the pandemic ... Banner has adequate capacity to care for patients at this time."
Senior Regional Marketing and Public Relations Manager for Banner Health
Medical experts in the state want to make it clear the emergence of this new variant did not come from more people getting vaccinated, which has been rumored.
They say staying up-to-date with vaccines is important, not only to protect yourself and your family but those on the front line.
"If we all take care of ourselves and take on these preventative measures, we can stay healthier, protect ourselves, our families, our loved ones," Derby said. "Of course, we keep a burden off the hospital, which is also treating patients for other reasons as well."
Even though, it may be tiring for some. Derby says it's important now, more than ever to stay home if sick. She adds people shouldn't worry if they do test positive for the virus because there is help out there.
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Arizona officials concerned by number of accidental marijuana intakes among children
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