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The Hurael mountains are a long and winding range of peaks which stretch in a northwest direction from Fyrren's Wandering to the south border of the Iron States where they flow into the Shard Mountains. The Hurael are tall and rugged mountains, snow capped at their peaks and wreathed in green foothills around. They are home to much game which the magrakians and the Aukarians hunt. War bands of hyttar, driven by their trossoli masters, prowl the Huraels, making them somewhat dangerous. The Huraels are also home to a witch who is rumored to dwell in a great cave at the top of one of the mountains. From her mountain top, she calls down storms, holds court with giant eagles and foretells the future. It is likely that much of this is fiction, but some of the more superstitious magrakians swear it is true. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,940 |
Q: Perl command Performance issue I've used the following command to remove special characters in number columns (.CSV file) and it is working fine as excepted but the issue here is performance. My CSV file number column data contains as below. To remove 1000 separator comma in data I've used the following Perl command.
payment
"4,326.34"
590.20
"12,499.40"
Note: My file delimiter was "," comma.
input file :
Organization,Amount,Revenue,Balance,Desc
Congos,"4,233.78","3,233.78","1,233.78",Payment
Toyoto,590.2,390.2,190.2,Payment
lenives,"5,234.89","2,234.89","1,234.89",Payment
Excepted OutPut:
Organization,Amount,Revenue,Balance,Desc
Congos,4233.78,3233.78,1233.78,Payment
Toyoto,590.2,390.2,190.2,Payment
lenives,5234.89,2234.89,1234.89,Payment
Command : cat | perl -p -e 's/,(?=[\d,.]\d")//g and s/"(\d[\d,.])"/\1/g' 'test.csv' >> newfile.csv
File data count: 11 millions data
Issue: It was taking almost 10 minutes to remove 1000 separate "comma" in data.
Any better solution to improve performance?
A: I saved your sample input to a file, then copied the data rows several million times so that it had about 11 million records:
$ wc -l input2.csv
11100445 input2.csv
$ ls -l input2.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 cas cas 505070243 Apr 10 22:32 input2.csv
Quick & Dirty one-liner:
$ time perl -pe 's/"([0-9-.]+),?([0-9-.]+)"/$1$2/g' input2.csv >output.csv
real 0m37.922s user 0m36.371s sys 0m1.347s
This strips commas and quote (") characters from numeric fields. Unfortunately, it only works correctly for numeric fields with only a single comma in them - i.e. numbers below 1,000,000. I decided it wasn't worth the effort to come up with a regex that would match multiple commas in a numeric field, instead I'd use a csv parsing library.
Slower, but more "correct" using the Text::CSV module
This version uses a CSV-parsing perl module, examines each field to see if it's numeric, and strips any commas if it is. This works with numeric fields of any value.
It doesn't need to delete any quote characters around numeric fields - Text::CSV is handling field quoting automatically.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Text::CSV;
my $filename = shift;
my $csv = Text::CSV->new;
open my $fh, $filename or die "$filename: $!";
while (my $row = $csv->getline ($fh)) {
my @row = map { tr/,//d if ( m/^[0-9,.-]+$/); $_ } @{ $row };
$csv->print(*STDOUT, \@row);
print "\n";
}
close($fh);
Save this as, e.g., strip.pl and make it executable with chmod +x strip.pl.
$ time ./strip.pl input2.csv > output2.csv
real 1m32.379s user 1m30.422s sys 0m1.609s
This could probably be optimised a lot, I didn't expend any effort trying to make it faster - 1.5 minutes doesn't seem too bad for processing 11 million records and examining/modifying 5 fields in each record.
$ ls -l input2.csv output.csv output2.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 cas cas 505070243 Apr 10 22:32 input2.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 cas cas 430142246 Apr 10 22:40 output2.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 cas cas 430142246 Apr 10 22:37 output.csv
$ cmp output.csv output2.csv
$ echo $?
0
Both output files are identical, so it looks like your CSV file doesn't have any numeric fields with values >= 1 million. The quick-and dirty version should work.
Your Performance Issues
Your perl one-liner ran in about 15 seconds on my system (threadripper 1950x, 64GB RAM, 2xNVME SSDs in a zfs mirrored pair*), but it didn't do anything - the output was identical to the input.
I suspect your performance problems are due to a combination of one or more of:
*
*slow CPU
*slow hard disk
*and, most importantly, not enough RAM
In other words, there's probably not much you can do to improve performance by optimising the algorithm - at least not until you've made some major upgrades to your system. If you ignore the fact that it doesn't work, your one-liner is almost 3 times faster than mine, and about 7 times faster than the Text::CSV version.
One thing that might significantly improve performance (if slow disk I/O is a major source of the problem, which it probably is) is to compress your CSV file with gzip and then zcat it into a working one-liner. It will probably compress down to under 10MB - reading < 10MB or so of data from disk will be ~ 50 times faster than reading 500MB or more. xz and xzcat and similar compression programs would work as well, or better.
This doesn't mean that the entire process will run 50 times faster, just that reading the file will be much faster. perl will still need to process each line individually.
* BTW, NVMEs are fast, but zfs is kind of slow (compared to simple filesystems like ext4 or xfs). OTOH lz4 compression is enabled which makes file reads fast again.
A: Using csvkit:
$ in2csv file.csv
Organization,Amount,Revenue,Balance,Desc
Congos,4233.78,3233.78,1233.78,Payment
Toyoto,590.2,390.2,190.2,Payment
lenives,5234.89,2234.89,1234.89,Payment
The in2csv utility converts from various tabular data formats to CSV. Converting your perfectly valid CSV file with in2csv makes it re-interpret the numbers in the en_US locale (by default), and removes the , in them.
The csvkit tools are built on top of a CSV parser implemented in Python.
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package org.fest.assertions;
import org.fest.util.IntrospectionError;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import static java.util.Collections.emptyList;
import static org.fest.util.Lists.newArrayList;
import static org.fest.util.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
import static org.fest.util.Sets.newLinkedHashSet;
/**
* Assertions for {@code Collection}s.
* <p/>
* To create a new instance of this class invoke {@link Assertions#assertThat(Collection)}.
*
* @author Yvonne Wang
* @author Alex Ruiz
*/
public class CollectionAssert extends ObjectGroupAssert<CollectionAssert, Collection<?>> {
/**
* Creates a new {@link CollectionAssert}.
*
* @param actual the target to verify.
*/
protected CollectionAssert(Collection<?> actual) {
super(CollectionAssert.class, actual);
}
/**
* Returns the number of elements in the actual collection.
*
* @return the number of elements in the actual collection.
* @throws AssertionError if the actual collection is {@code null}.
*/
@Override
protected int actualGroupSize() {
isNotNull();
return actual.size();
}
/**
* Creates a new instance of {@link CollectionAssert} whose target collection contains the values of the given
* property name from the elements of this {@code CollectionAssert}'s collection. Property access works with both
* simple properties like {@code Person.age} and nested properties {@code Person.father.age}.
* <p/>
* For example, let's say we have a collection of {@code Person} objects and you want to verify their age:
* <pre>
* assertThat(persons).onProperty("age").containsOnly(25, 16, 44, 37); // simple property
* assertThat(persons).onProperty("father.age").containsOnly(55, 46, 74, 62); // nested property
* </pre>
*
* @param propertyName the name of the property to extract values from the actual collection to build a new
* {@code CollectionAssert}.
* @return a new {@code CollectionAssert} containing the values of the given property name from the elements of this
* {@code CollectionAssert}'s collection.
* @throws AssertionError if the actual collection is {@code null}.
* @throws NullPointerException if the given property name is {@code null}.
* @throws IntrospectionError if an element in the given collection does not have a matching property.
* @since 1.3
*/
@Override
public @NotNull CollectionAssert onProperty(@NotNull String propertyName) {
isNotNull();
checkNotNull(propertyName);
if (actual.isEmpty()) {
return new CollectionAssert(emptyList());
}
return new CollectionAssert(PropertySupport.instance().propertyValues(propertyName, actual));
}
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*/
@Override
protected @Nullable Set<Object> actualAsSet() {
return actual == null ? null : newLinkedHashSet(actual.toArray());
}
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*/
@Override
protected @Nullable List<Object> actualAsList() {
return actual == null ? null : newArrayList(actual.toArray());
}
}
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One thing is true: The number of big Halloween haunts in metro Phoenix has been declining over the past few years, with two more missing in action for 2018: The Outbreak at Schnepf Farms (paintball hayride) and Golfland-Sunsplash抯 揟he Gauntlet?are both on a one-year hiatus (but you can still play ride Schnepf抯 Spooky Train and play Spooktacular Golf).
Not that there aren抰 still plenty of places to get your scare on. Here are this year抯 top events.
It抯 the biggest and most intricate haunt in the Valley, and it gets a fresh look every year. The latest main attraction, 揟he Possession,?is a haunted orphanage overseen by a sadistic undead nun named Mara. So: extra bravery points if you went to Catholic school? A second attraction, 揑n the Shadows,?is another a spin on the zombie apocalypse. But some of the best bits are permanent, including the surprisingly disorienting 搕ilt room?and a haunted mansion that was preserved from a legendary haunted house in Utah.
Enter the mind of little lost Lenore (that抯 a nod to Edgar Allan Poe, folks) to witness the brutal murder of her family and travel to St. Charlotte Asylum, where the inmates have taken over and started experimenting on the doctors. Then there抯 揟he Breach,?which offers its own version of the Zombie Apocalypse set off by a South American leech. Eww. Named best overall attraction last year by AZHauntedHouses.com, the Sanctum has reserved Nov. 2-3 for a 揵lackout?event, because seeing less is fearing more.
The double attraction features 揟he Crypt?(揼houls, ghosts and goblins? and 揟he Asylum?(where the mad Dr. Vantas has turned the inmates into killers), plus the Chaos Maze.
Rain from Hurricane Rosa delayed this year抯 opening, but the Rawhide Western theme park is still hosting its 揾ayride?aboard an Army truck and trailer dubbed the Zombie Assault Vehicle. Your Zombie Slugz (paintballs) are most effective if you can get a head shot. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,943 |
This shirt does it all! As part of Southern Tide's Intercoastal Collection, the Surfsong Plaid Performance Shirt offers active features you expect with comfortable soft fabric that is cool to the touch. Offering UV protection, moisture wicking technology and under arm eyelets for extra ventilation, the performance fabric transitions easily from the boardroom to the boat deck. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,944 |
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Why do some lenders charge more than others for lending the same amount of money?
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What documentation do I need to refinance?
The last 3 – 6 months of mortgage statements is sufficient to begin this process. An AFG broker can advise on other documentation.
With lenders adjusting their rates outside of the reserve bank now is a great time to shop around check that you have the right loan for your needs, we are a great starting point. It will depend what interest rate you're currently paying, what type of home loan you have (e.g. fixed, variable, interest only, line of credit) and what features you want in your loan. We can quickly explain your options.
This is one of the reasons many people refinance. The advantage is that you pay a much lower interest rate on a mortgage than for most other forms of debt - e.g. credit cards, overdraft facilities, personal loans etc. Providing you have sufficient equity in your property, you may be able to consolidate all your debt on a home loan. If you take this option though it is important to make sure you maintain your repayments at their current level or you could end up paying more over a longer period of time. Speak with us today to discuss your personal needs.
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Penalty fees could apply if you're paying off your current mortgage early, especially if you're exiting a fixed home loan. But these may be offset by repayment savings when you switch home loans. We'll walk you through any fees that will apply in your circumstances. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,945 |
Q: Replace an installed program with a newer version I have GCC 4.6 on my Raspbian installation, but I'd like to use GCC 4.9.
I can of course do sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 but then I have to use gcc-4.9 in order to use the newer version of GCC. I can also change to what gcc links to, but GCC isn't the only program i'm having this problem with, and I'm not sure if wouldn't have to change more stuff in order to fully replace GCC 4.6. So, what can I do?
another program I'm having this problem with is Python (3.2 vs 3.4)
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Is it just me or is this year flying by?! Maybe because there are so many holidays to celebrate at the end of the year? Halloween, my birthday, Thanksgiving and next thing we know it'll be Christmas. To be honest, if we weren't hosting Thanksgiving this year, I'm pretty sure our house would be in full-blown holiday decor mode. It also doesn't help that there's a thin layer of beautiful snow on the ground and I've been listening to Christmas music since November 1st.
Anyways, I'm not going to do a gift guide or anything like that, but I am going to show you some holiday inspiration I've gathered to put you in the mood (just in case you're not there yet). My aesthetic is this: plaid anything, pretty stockings, vintage Shiny Brite ornaments, candlesticks, garland, twinkle lights and vintage paint by numbers. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,947 |
Report: Former Celtics forward Greg Monroe signs with Raptors
Vincent Gallo
August 07, 2018 - 8:30 am
Former Celtics forward Greg Monroe has agreed to sign a one-year, $2.2 million contract with the Raptors, according to Shams Charania of Yahoo! Sports.
The signing comes after the Raptors included backup big man Jakob Poeltl in a trade that sent All-Star wing DeMar DeRozan to the Spurs in exchange for Kawhi Leonard.
Monroe averaged 10.2 points, 6.3 rebounds, and 2.3 assists in 19.1 minutes (26 games) with the Celtics.
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Trump and DACA on Collision Course: A Study of Argumentative Strategies
Student thesis: Master thesis (including HD thesis)
Maja-Lan Nguyen
4. term, Culture, Communication and Globalization, Master (Master Programme)
The following study examines President Donald Trump's argumentative strategies in the discussion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In this study, Trump's speeches, as well as his personal Twitter account, are the sources the arguments that will be investigated throughout the analysis. Borne out of four separate theories, a theoretical framework has been produced for the sake of this study, and this frame for analysis has proven to be exceedingly beneficial for this type of argumentative analysis. Thus, this study seeks to uncover how Trump uses his arguments to promote his political agenda and attempts to explain the results through theoretical concepts.
Trump promised, before his presidential election, that he would terminate the DACA program, however, when he became president, he backtracked that promise. Trump converted his political standpoint to a more pro-DACA stance and decided to allow the program to continue, however, only if a bipartisan agreement, which included funding for a border wall between Mexico and the United States, was made. Such a deal was not obtainable, and DACA recipients faced uncertainties as Trump then moved to terminate the program.
Throughout the process of trying to reach a bipartisan agreement, Trump made an overwhelming amount of public statements on his personal Twitter account. These statements contain a number of self-contradictory elements, and thus, the truth behind Trump's statements will be discussed in a broader political context.
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Global Education Oregon (GEO) Advisor, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. Deadline: September 18, 2018.
The Office of International Affairs is seeking two Advisors to provide support to students considering and participating in study abroad programs and international internships. This GEO Study Abroad Advisor will report to the Assistant Director-Advising and is responsible for providing support to students considering and participating in study abroad programs and international internships. The primary duties of this position will be to advise and recruit students, interview applicants, participate in the selection process, and lead pre-departure orientations. This position will also assist the GEO Institutional Relations unit with publicity efforts, which requires excellent written and verbal communication skills. Additionally, the Advisor will assist in managing applications and tracking enrollments and admissions for GEO programs. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,951 |
Chinese handset maker Coolpad has launched its latest entry-level smartphone in its home country. The smartphone is called Coolpad M3 and is one of the most affordable phone to feature a display notch and glass panel. It comes with a 5.85-inch display and dual cameras as its highlights.
The Coolpad M3 is already up for pre-booking in China starting today on China's Jingdong Mall retailer website. The handset is slated to go on sale in the country on November 28th. The handset comes with a price tag of RMB 799 (Rs 8,120). Coolpad is offering the M3 in two hues – entleman's Enamel (Black) and Blue Sea.
The Coolpad M3 ships with a 5.85-inch LCD display with a notch and screen resolution of 720 x 1,512 pixels. At its core, the M3 gets a MediaTek MT6750 chipset, which is a 1.8GHz octa-core processor back by 4GB RAM. The native storage on the handset is 32GB, which can be further expanded using a microSD card. For security, the smartphone offers a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, which can also be used for launching various apps. There is an AI-enabled face unlock feature for additional security measure.
Coming to the imaging department, the Coolpad M3 offers a dual camera setup on the back with LED flash in the centre. The primary camera is a 13-megapixel unit, however, there is no word on the secondary shooter. For selfies and video calling, there is a 5-megapixel front facing camera with beautification mode, that can differentiate between facial features and gender. The Coolpad M3 comes with Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box and is powered by a 2,800mAh battery. On connectivity front, the new smartphone offers dual SIM support, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi Bluetooth, GPS, micro-USB, and 3.5mm audio jack. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,952 |
b. Either the mailer or addressee who is in possession of the original retail mailing receipt, or in possession of the online label record or computer printout of the Web-based application as described in 3.1e, for lost articles.
The St. Louis Accounting Service Center (ASC) adjudicates and pays or disallows all domestic claims, except the initial adjudication of domestic retail insured claims for insurance coverage of $50.00 or less that are not for bulk insured service, and claims appealed under 6.3. Domestic retail insured claims for insurance coverage of $50.00 or less, except for bulk insured service, are adjudicated and paid locally at the post office accepting the claims. Claims for insurance purchased online (through Click-N-Ship or eBay) up to $500 may be filed online through www.usps.com, and will be processed and paid through the St. Louis ASC.
A customer may appeal a claim decision by filing a written appeal within 60 days of the date of the original decision. Except for domestic retail insured claims for insurance coverage of $50.00 or less, the customer must send the appeal directly to Claims Appeals (see 608.8.0 for address). For domestic retail insured claims for insurance coverage of $50.00 or less, the customer must send the appeal to the post office where the claim was filed. That post office forwards the appeal to the manager of Claims Appeals at the St. Louis ASC. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,953 |
*Corresponding Author: Jealan M El Shafei, Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Citation: Jealan M El Shafei., et al. "The Effect of Morinda citrifolia in Combination with Chelating Agent EDTA on Isolated and Differentiated Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells Attachment to Root Canal Dentine Walls". Acta Scientific Dental Sciences 2.3 (2018).
The present study compared the effect of different irrigation solutions including Morinda citrifolia (MC) as a natural irrigant on the Human Dental Pulp Stem cells (HDPSc) attachment to root canal dentine walls using Scanning Electron Microscope. Ten human third molars were collected for isolation of dental pulp stem cell from eight healthy medically free young patients of both sexes aging from 17 - 25 years and twenty five intact human first lower premolars were collected for addition of dental pulp stem cells. After the fourth passage of DPSCs, human bone morphogenic protein type II (rh-BMP 2) was added to Confluent cultures. Teeth were classified randomly into five equal groups according to the type of irrigant used. The cells were added to the cleaned and shaped root canals of the five groups. Group I irrigation was done using 5.25% NaOCl, Group II irrigation and final rinse was done using 5.25% NaOCl and 17%EDTA was used as a chelating agent, Group III irrigation was done using MC, Group IV irrigation and final rinse was done using MC and 17% EDTA was used as a chelating agent, Group V (control) Saline was used as irrigation. After fourteen days of cell culture, the teeth were removed and processed to be examined under scanning electron microscope. All data obtained were given as mean and standard deviation (SD) values. Cell numbers data were compared using non-parametric tests. Mann-Whitney U test was employed for pair-wise comparisons when Kruskal-Wallis test is significant. The significance level was set at P ≤ 0.05. Results revealed that group IV had the statistically significantly highest mean number of cells. This was followed by Group II. Group III showed statistically significantly lower mean number of cells. Group V revealed statistically significant lower mean value. Group I showed the statistically significantly lowest mean number of cells. The results suggested that Morinda citrifolia is a biocompatible irrigant that promotes DPSC attachment to root canal dentin, together with EDTA which is essential to accomplish regenerative endodontic treatment.
Copyright: © 2018 Jealan M El Shafei., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,954 |
Syslog server table is 12GB, how can I reduce?
My syslog table in the NPM DB is 12GB! it seems one of our Cisco switches was left on the debugging option and sent this all to the syslog server. We keep 365 days, if I set the history to 7 days via the utility, how can I then force it to remove the rest of the history and free up the space?
Re: Syslog server table is 12GB, how can I reduce?
you might need to open a support ticket on this. they helped me do this about 10 months back. (it might not be as 'selective' as you'll want it done though.) good luck! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,955 |
a few lifetimes ago, in the middle of a meal, in the middle of a breakup, I started crying while eating a thai lettuce wrap at a cheesecake factory. I kept eating. it was such a strange sensation, chewing and swallowing while tears and snot were sliding down my face. I just kept crying and crunch crunch crunching on those lettuce wraps.
I have been crying a lot lately at various times throughout the day. crying while singing and walking down a crowded street. crying while washing the dishes after a dinner party that was full of wine and laughter. crying while watching a man get up from his seat on the subway so an older woman could take his place. it's such an interesting time, the lubrication of so much feeling. I slip in and out of different states so subtlety that it's hard sometimes to keep up with what exactly it is I'm feeling from moment to moment. the joy is shimmery and effervescent. the sorrow is heavy and has sharp corners. I am moving through it. I am acknowledging all of it. I am no longer surprised by it, that you can hold such complexities in your heart. that you can delight at a new freedom while deeply longing for the familiar things you're now free from. that you can feel you're floating away into a terrifying uncertainty, yet feel safer inside yourself than you've felt in years. both things are true. the love of day and the loss of night. the beauty of how each supports the other. the truth of the need for both.
there is something I have been wanting to say, to so many of you. to all the people who sent me messages, or made comments. to all the people who called, or invited me to dinner. to all the people who took the time to make me feel loved. so many of you said such beautiful things to me. you affected me, you moved me. so many of you managed to make me feel supported, cared for, seen, and ultimately not alone. it is not lost on me. I feel held by all of you, and I feel I am holding you too. I see how we all go through it, and how much we need to share it. so thank you, thank you, thank you, for taking it in and giving it back. thank you for being brave enough to meet me in the middle, for being strong enough to express your appreciation. thank you for the generous spirit that imbued the words you chose to say. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,956 |
Define specific goals for the survey.
Only include questions that directly address those goals.
Consider options to increase respondent participation, including advance messages, incentives, and reminders.
Use question types that support the analysis that you will be performing and the kind of results you wish to report.
When selecting question types, consider the time involved in the analysis stage; for example, coding and evaluating open-ended items.
Select respondent samples that are representative of the population.and who have the knowledge to answer the questions.
Write an introduction that explains the purpose of the questionnaire, explains confidentiality issues, and includes the due date.
At the conclusion of the survey, include a thank you and (if appropriate) information about how results can be accessed.
Place the quickly and easily answered questions at the beginning of the questionnaire. Difficult and/or sensitive questions should be placed toward the end of the questionnaire. Otherwise, potential respondents might assume the entire survey is composed of difficult and/or sensitive questions, which could be a disincentive to participate.
To encourage a large number of respondents, keep the survey as short and concise as practical.
Group related questions or questions of a given response type in sections and arrange in a logical order.
Look for possible order bias (the order in which questions are asked may affect the answers). Choose randomize answers, if appropriate.
Write questions as clearly as possible. Write for the intended audience (consider their vocabulary and grammar levels and styles). Use simple, everyday language that all respondents will understand - jargon-free, without technical language, slang or culturally specific words. Avoid complex sentence structures.
Define any terms that you feel may be unclear or not obvious to your audience.
Avoid asking leading or potentially biased questions.
Make questions as specific and concrete as possible; i.e., instead of "Do you read regularly?" use "Do you read the Washington Post five or more days per week?"
Avoid "double-barreled" questions: make sure each question addresses only one issue, attribute, or skill.
Give respondents the option of "I don't know" or "Other" as a choice, unless you have specific reasons for forcing them to make a choice of responses.
Consider, for each question, the necessary background information that is required for a thoughtful response. If you use multiple-choice questions, check to see that all possibilities are addressed in multiple choice answers and that each answer is mutually exclusive and neutrally phrased.
If you use multiple-choice questions, check that the answers are approximately the same length and complexity.
If you use true/false questions, check that each response option is true or false without exception.
With all types of questions, avoid determiners "always, never, without a doubt, invariably".
With all types of questions, avoid negatives and double negatives.
If you are planning to report or publish your results, document your survey construction, administration, and analysis procedures in enough detail that someone else could replicate them.
In any report of your data, make sure you are conforming to the level of confidentiality that you have promised to your respondents. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,957 |
Miodrag Ristić
Cataloque
Beograd 2019
Ćuprija 2017
Sombor 2015
Niš 2015
Pančevo 2015
Novi Sad 2015
Lazarevac 2003
Kragujevac 1991
Bačka Palanka 1990
Video & TV presentation
Niš 2015 iz drugog ugla
Translated texts
Katarina Radulovic
Jovan Despotovic
Katarina Radulovic 2014
When observing and interpreting the exhibited examples, a demand arises – to perceive these new works in continuity with the previous ones. There are two reasons for this kind of critical operative approach: the first convincingly indicates that it is, by visual, semantic and valuative characteristics, a related, coherent oeuvre and the second that thematizes a constant presence of a centrally positioned core that evolves by generating new models. The question is: what are the new structural elements in relation to the existing segments of artist's explorations within the oeuvre.
There is no doubt that an abstract painting is in front of us. By it being coded in an abstract term, its character is designated as non-objective, and the work is determined as one leaving the idea of reproducing the objective world. However, this art does not abstract a datum that was over-reduced and simplified to the point of the recognizable, which means that the presented painting-object does not thematically cover anything from the perception of the world around it, but refers to the complete absence of the concrete and the artist resorts to the "pure" shape, liberated from the connotative qualities. On the relation of the two dimensional-three dimensional, flat-spaced examples come up in search for the mode that would present the space as an occurring "pure reality".
This kind of reality is spatial because the wire, as a material, models the real space, but also the illusive and poetical. It is true that the painting is inclined to define space as determined, the way Gaston Bachelard's poetics of the spatial is considered crucial for understanding the work of M. Ristić. A painting-object indicates an optic play as well, a mastered experience of the gestural painting as well as the painting of action. We need to emphasize that the final interventions on the aluminum show the new visual and symbolic moments: the accentuation of the line, work on the structure of the stroke, the evolving of the line in the sense of the crystallization of the linear structure and dynamic of the strokes that forms small geometrical shapes, as well as the modeling of the skillfully chosen, harmonized and contrasted coloring. Further, we notice an optical moment of a "retraction" of the receptor into the core of almost magnetic capacity, as though it were a space of an enhanced gravity, whether it be about the linear concentric horizons or the spilt circular space around the central stronghold. A core understood in that way is a source, an origin, a commotion, a pulse or a fruitful darkness in which some new visual possibilities occur.
What is also perceived in the design of such a painting-object is the attempt to give a referent answer to the question of the position and status of a painting today. What is actually happening to a contemporary easel painting in a macro-cultural digital environment? Or, what does a painting represent in the time of the hegemony of financial capital? The inflation of painting materials had already started with the emergence of media that could reproduce the painting. Nowadays, a painting mostly resides in a different space, it is in a net, placed on some website, always a moment away from the "share" option.
Having that in mind, the exhibited works are examples of how the painting-objects function in a cultural, social, local geo-poetic and global space today. These paintings were created in a time when we almost could not distinguish between the "sensory" or the "sensually accomplished". These determinations retreat more and more before the terms that refer to art and culture, even if it is about its local geo-poetical centeredness that yet again retreats before the parameters of the global.
It seems that we speak more and more about art on a scale of global, informational, social and financial systems. Therefore, art is what we formalize or proclaim to be art, and not the quality achieved thanks to the aesthetic and cognitive values. The paintings of M.Ristić strive towards the universal and aesthetically authentic and present one of the painterly possibilities of today.
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Home Features Future Impact New research shows declining alcohol and cigarette use in New Zealand youth
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New research shows declining alcohol and cigarette use in New Zealand youth
A new study shows that cigarette smoking is now rare in high school students, and binge drinking has declined since 2012.
These are some of the latest findings from the Youth19 Rangatahi smart study, part of the Youth2000 survey series and co-led by a Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researcher, which has been running since 2001.
Less than three percent of high school aged students report lighting up weekly or more often, a decline from five percent in 2012. Binge drinking has declined but remains relatively common, with more than one in five students reporting binge drinking in the past month.
Weekly marijuana use is consistent with previous years' findings, and vaping has emerged as a new issue.
Associate Professor Terryann Clark from the University of Auckland co-lead on the study, says these results are really encouraging, but it should be noted that there are still ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in terms of harm from these substances.
"The findings show large declines in drinking and smoking across all ethnic and socioeconomic groups over the past 18 years. But the overall decline in smoking hides the fact that Māori, Pacific, and low-income communities and small towns continue to bear a disproportionate burden of smoking harm," she says.
In contrast, binge drinking was equally common across all school deciles, with students from higher income communities more likely to report binge drinking. Binge drinking was also more common among older students and those living in rural areas and small towns compared with urban areas.
Study co-author Dr Jude Ball, from the University of Otago, says the evidence shows that young people are starting to drink at an older age, which could be contributing to the decline.
The study found that binge drinking is now relatively uncommon in younger adolescents, but among those aged 17 or older, 42 percent reported binge drinking in the past month.
"Actions to prevent underage drinking and reduce alcohol harm remain vitally important and should be strengthened," she says. "For example, we support calls to ban alcohol sponsorship in sport."
Weekly marijuana use amongst students is lower than in 2001 but has not changed significantly since 2012. Other drug use, including synthetics, P, and huffing, is very low among secondary school aged students and has not increased.
Vaping has emerged as a new issue, with 12 percent of secondary school students reporting vaping monthly, and 8 percent weekly. Weekly vaping was more common among higher income communities.
Dr Terry (Theresa) Fleming from the University's Faculty of Health and co-lead on the study says that these findings show that it is possible to improve health and wellbeing among young people in important ways.
"Reduced drinking and substance use will have long-term benefits. We should learn from and build on these gains," she says.
For more information see www.youth19.ac.nz
Youth19 Rangatahi
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Trump's Kiwi adviser Chris Liddell donates $450,000 to Auckland University
Chris Liddell, the Kiwi businessman in Donald Trump's team, has donated $450,000 to the University of Auckland to fund a scholarship to Oxford. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 8,959 |
James Scott, owner of Central Oregon Bungee Adventures, is a Bend resident and longtime bungee jumper, BASE jumper and skydiver.
We are located at the High Bridge over the Crooked River at P.S. Ogden Scenic Viewpoint, 29 miles north of Bend off of HWY 97 near Terrebone.
Get a glimpse of what its like! Find out more about what your bungee jump will be like when you take the plunge at the Crooked River Gorge in Oregon!
First time jumps are $129 and all subsequent jumps are $49. Look for the orange "book now" button to reserve your spot! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,960 |
Q: struct array initialize with a variable I am trying to create an array with a known size.
struct AudioStreamPacketDescription
{
SInt64 mStartOffset;
UInt32 mVariableFramesInPacket;
UInt32 mDataByteSize;
};
typedef struct AudioStreamPacketDescription AudioStreamPacketDescription;
here this gives me null result for the struct array;
AudioStreamPacketDescription tempDesc[packetsFilledDesc];
if I do
AudioStreamPacketDescription tempDesc[24];
it gives me correct value;
how can I initialize array size with a variable?
A: If this is a C code, I would dynamically allocate the array:
AudioStreamPacketDescription *tempDesc = malloc (packetsFilledDesc * sizeof(struct AudioStreamPacketDescription));
...
free(tempDesc);
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The chapters in this volume, and the volume itself, celebrate the life and research of Roberto Tempo, a leader in the study of complex networked systems, their analysis and control under uncertainty, and robust designs.
Illustrace: 57 Tables, color; 52 Illustrations, color; 61 Illustrations, èernobílé; X, 618 p. 113 illus., 52 illus. in color. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,962 |
Akai Gurley
Mr. Gurley was born in St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, then moved to New York City. He lived in nearby Brownsville with his partner, Kimberly Ballinger, her daughter, and their two-year-old daughter, Akaila.
On 11/20/14, Mr. Gurley was getting his hair braided by his girlfriend, Kimberly Ballinger at home. Mr. Gurley and Ms. Ballinger were leaving the building by stairs as the elevator was out of service. The lights were not working, making the stairwell dark. The two entered the 7th floor stairwell one floor below where two police officers were performing a routine patrol of the building. As the officers opened the door to the stairwell, they claim they were startled by a noise and one police officer said the noise caused him to discharge his weapon, with the single bullet ricocheted off the wall and striking Mr. Gurley in the chest. Startled, Mr. Gurley ran down two flights of stairs before realizing he was shot and collapsed on the 5th floor. The officer who shot him was a rookie. No life-saving actions were administered to Mr. Gurley and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Yes and No. A grand Jury indicted the officer, who faced up to 15 years in prison for second degree manslaughter. The officer pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was convicted, and fired from the NYPD. Later, the Brooklyn Supreme Court reduced his sentence to just five years on probation and 800 hours of community service. No charges were filed against the other officer (failure to render aid). The Gurley family pressed for justice with a lawsuit against the city and was awarded $4.1 million dollars. Additionally, the housing authority paid $400,000 (likely due to a broken elevator and lights) and the shooting officer was ordered to pay $25,000 to Ms. Ballinger. The family had to go through a substantial effort to seek justice. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 8,963 |
Summer in the city? Not for many of Chicago's business owners and executives. Instead, they retreat to residences in the country or by a lake.
In its upcoming issue, Crain's kicks off a new series featuring the second homes of some notable names such as Mark and Linda Heister, who are known for the women's apparel business they ran for 35 years.
Watch the video for a tour of their renovated 1923 Georgian home in La Porte, Ind., then read our story, available online and on Crain's iPad app tomorrow afternoon. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,964 |
Q: How to include latest posts short code inside contact form 7 email in wordpress I am currently using contact form 7 plugin for forms within my blog.
In a form when customers put messages, it sends a thank you message also for customer. In that mail, I need to include latest posts from my blog. I use a short code for that. Short code is working fine when adding it into a page. But it is not working in that email. It Just showing the short code.
Following is the short code. Please guide me If there is any configurations to do before using short codes inside contact form 7 emails.
[mk_blog style="thumbnail" pagination_style="2"]
A: This isn't possible, the only way I can think of doing this without creating an addon for CF7 would be to update the email that is sent with the latest links to your blog
A: You can try to filter the email template with the filter wpcf7_mail_components. Look here the source code
And then with do_shortcode(); execute the body shortcode.
I didn't try that, but its my first idea.
Edit: like this:
add_filter('wpcf7_mail_components', function($components) {
$components['body'] = do_shortcode($components['body']);
return $components;
});
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Vivek Pathak - Media Officer, IBSF
Women's 6 Red World Cup - Qatar 2020
Published in World Championships
Qatar Billiards & Snooker Federation along with IBSF, are pleased to announce the commencement of a New Annual Event "Women's 6 Red World Cup" to provide more playing opportunities to our women players. Total 16 invited players will be selected for this event as per the following criteria:
Kindly confirm your participation by return email before January 20th together with your player/s name, photo and the playing history.
- All the participating players are advised to arrive Doha on or before the afternoon of 27th February 2020 in order to attend the players meeting.
- One twin sharing room (with breakfast) will be provided free of cost to each participating player in the Official Hotel from 27th February to 1st March, 2020 (4 nights maximum).
- Visas shall be arranged free of cost by Qatar Billiards & Snooker Federation for all the participants. All the countries requiring visas are hereby advised to kindly send the passport details of the players and officials as soon as possible.
- Airport Pick-n-Drop will be provided free of cost by Qatar Billiards & Snooker Federation. In this regard, all the member countries are advised to send the flight details on the email address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , in order to avail the Pick-n-Drop facility.
The nearest Airport is Hamad International Airport – Doha – Qatar.
All the matches shall be played at the Qatar Billiards & Snooker Federation Academy, Rawdat Al Khail Street, Al Mansoura, Doha, Qatar.
• The 16 players shall be divided into 4 groups of 4 players each.
• Two Players from each group shall qualify for the Last 8 Round.
• Four Tables shall be used for competitions and two tables for practice.
• All the round robin league matches, shall be played on Best of 5 Frames.
• Last 8, Semi Finals & Final shall be Best of 9 Frames.
▪ Day-1 Round Robin League 3 Sessions (2:00 pm, 4:00 pm & 6:00 pm)
▪ Day-2 Round Robin League 3 Sessions (10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 2:00 pm)
▪ Day-2 Last 8 Round 1 Session (06:00 pm)
▪ Day-3 Semi Finals 1 Session (11:00 pm)
▪ Day-3 Final 1 Session (4:00 pm)
The Players & Referees meeting will be held on 27th February, 2020 at 7:00 pm.
Total Prize Money of US$ 20,000 as follows:
• Winner US$ 8,000
• Runner Up US$ 4,000
• Semi Finalists US$ 2,000 each
• Last 8 US$ 1,000 each
For any further information, kindly contact on following numbers or email address;
Qatar Billiards & Snooker Federation
Contact No.: +974 44356077
QBSF Technical Committee: +974 66613508
Asif, Ng On Yee & Sukakree are World Champions 2019
Muhammad Asif of Pakistan, Ng On Yee from Hong Kong and Suckakree Poomjang of Thailand have won the World Snooker Championship 2019 in their respective categories of Men, Women and Masters categories.
Kritsanut wins at last to secure all titles for Asia
The World Snooker Championships 2019 for Men, Masters and Women has now reached into the medals round where all four players of each category are from Asia. With that these three titles are now confirmed for Asian region countries.
Jefrey Roda knocks out Kevin to confirm medal
Philippines player Jefrey Roda has now entered in the semi-finals of the World Men Snooker Championship 2019 here in Antalya 2019. In the quarter final match, he knocked out Belgian player Kevin Hanssens in an almost one-sided match. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 8,966 |
Accelerated Testing of Module-Level Power Electronics for Long-Term Reliability
Flicker, J., Tamizhmani, G., Moorthy, M. K., Thiagarajan, R. & Ayyanar, R., Nov 10 2016, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics.
Thermal cycling
Accelerometer measured sedentary behavior and physical activity in white and black adults: The REGARDS study
Hooker, S. P., Hutto, B., Zhu, W., Blair, S. N., Colabianchi, N., Vena, J. E., Rhodes, D. & Howard, V. J., Apr 1 2016, In: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. 19, 4, p. 336-341 6 p.
African Continental Ancestry Group
Accent identification by combining deep neural networks and recurrent neural networks trained on long and short term features
Jiao, Y., Tu, M., Berisha, V. & Liss, J., 2016, In: Unknown Journal. 08-12-September-2016, p. 2388-2392 5 p.
Sodium Glutamate
Recurrent Neural Networks
Acceptability of Adaptations for Struggling Writers
Graham, S., Harris, K., Bartlett, B. J., Popadopoulou, E. & Santoro, J., Feb 1 2016, In: Learning Disability Quarterly. 39, 1, p. 5-16 12 p.
Access, equity and quality trends in Latin America's public universities
Fischman, G. & Ott, M., Jul 14 2016, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Educational Development.
Accessing alkali-free NASICON-type compounds through mixed oxoanion sol–gel chemistry: Hydrogen titanium phosphate sulfate, H1−xTi2(PO4)3−x(SO4)x (x=0.5–1)
Mieritz, D., Davidowski, S. K. & Seo, D., Oct 1 2016, In: Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 242, p. 116-125 10 p.
titanium phosphate
Alkalies
Accountability for students in K-12 online learning: Perspectives from michigan stakeholders and beyond
Archambault, L., Kennedy, K. & Freidhoff, J. R., Sep 1 2016, In: Journal of Asynchronous Learning Network. 20, 3, p. 126-139 14 p.
virtual university
Accuracy of expressions for the fill factor of a solar cell in terms of open-circuit voltage and ideality factor
Leilaeioun, M. & Holman, Z., Sep 28 2016, In: Journal of Applied Physics. 120, 12, 123111.
open circuit voltage
Accuracy of Revised and Traditional Parallel Analyses for Assessing Dimensionality with Binary Data
Green, S. B., Redell, N., Thompson, M. & Levy, R., Feb 1 2016, In: Educational and Psychological Measurement. 76, 1, p. 5-21 17 p.
Statistical Factor Analysis
Monte Carlo methods
Monte Carlo Method
Accurate stochastic reconstruction of heterogeneous microstructures by limited x-ray tomographic projections
Li, H., Kaira, S., Mertens, J., Chawla, N. & Jiao, Y., Dec 1 2016, In: Journal of Microscopy. 264, 3, p. 339-350 12 p.
X Ray Tomography
A cell-based microarray to investigate combinatorial effects of microparticle-encapsulated adjuvants on dendritic cell activation
Acharya, A. P., Carstens, M. R., Lewis, J. S., Dolgova, N., Xia, C. Q., Clare-Salzler, M. J. & Keselowsky, B. G., 2016, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 4, 9, p. 1672-1685 14 p.
A central cavity within the holo-translocon suggests a mechanism for membrane protein insertion
Botte, M., Zaccai, N. R., Nijeholt, J. L. À., Martin, R., Knoops, K., Papai, G., Zou, J., Deniaud, A., Karuppasamy, M., Jiang, Q., Roy, A. S., Schulten, K., Schultz, P., Rappsilber, J., Zaccai, G., Berger, I., Collinson, I. & Schaffitzel, C., Dec 7 2016, In: Scientific reports. 6, 38399.
SEC Translocation Channels
A changepoint statistic with uniform type I error probabilities
Rogerson, P. & Kedron, P., Aug 17 2016, In: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods. 45, 16, p. 4663-4672 10 p.
Change Point
Error Probability
A CHARACTERISTIC TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM DOMINATED by H2O APPLIES to the MAJORITY of HST/WFC3 EXOPLANET OBSERVATIONS
Iyer, A. R., Swain, M. R., Zellem, R. T., Line, M. R., Roudier, G., Rocha, G. & Livingston, J. H., Jun 1 2016, In: Astrophysical Journal. 823, 2, 109.
extrasolar planets
A characterization of a unified notion of mathematical function: the case of high school function and linear transformation
Zandieh, M., Ellis, J. & Rasmussen, C., Dec 5 2016, (Accepted/In press) In: Educational Studies in Mathematics . p. 1-18 18 p.
Linear transformation
Achievement gaps for students with disabilities: Stable, widening, or narrowing on a state-wide reading comprehension test?
Schulte, A. C., Stevens, J. J., Elliott, S., Tindal, G. & Nese, J. F. T., Oct 1 2016, In: Journal of Educational Psychology. 108, 7, p. 925-942 18 p.
Achievement tests
Elliott, S. N., Jan 1 2016, The Curated Reference Collection in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Elsevier Science Ltd., p. 41-46 6 p.
Achieving diverse and monoallelic olfactory receptor selection through dual-objective optimization design
Tian, X. J., Zhang, H., Sannerud, J. & Xing, J., May 24 2016, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113, 21, p. E2889-E2898
Odorant Receptors
Sensory Receptor Cells
Achieving more with less: Henkel's Factor 3 strategy
Patterson, V., Knott, J. & Melnick, R., 2016, In: Journal of Business Strategy. 37, 3, p. 3-11 9 p.
Eco-efficiency
Acid blue 29 decolorization and mineralization by anodic oxidation with a cold gas spray synthesized Sn-Cu-Sb alloy anode
do Vale-Júnior, E., Dosta, S., Cano, I. G., Guilemany, J. M., Garcia-Segura, S. & Martínez-Huitle, C. A., Apr 1 2016, In: Chemosphere. 148, p. 47-54 8 p.
Sn-Cu-Sb alloy
Anodic oxidation
A Cluster-Randomized Trial to Evaluate a Mother–Daughter Dyadic Educational Intervention for Increasing HPV Vaccination Coverage in American Indian Girls
Winer, R. L., Gonzales, A. A., Noonan, C. J. & Buchwald, D. S., Apr 1 2016, In: Journal of Community Health. 41, 2, p. 274-281 8 p.
Vaccination Coverage
ACM Mobisys'16 PhD forum welcome message
LiKamWa, R., Okoshi, T. & Kang, S., Jun 26 2016, In: Unknown Journal. p. vi
A CMOS-compatible electronic synapse device based on Cu/SiO2/W programmable metallization cells
Chen, W., Fang, R., Balaban, M. B., Yu, W., Gonzalez Velo, Y., Barnaby, H. & Kozicki, M., May 12 2016, In: Nanotechnology. 27, 25, 255202.
A coarse-grained model of DNA nanotube population growth
Mardanlou, V., Green, L. N., Subramanian, H. K. K., Hariadi, R., Kim, J. & Franco, E., 2016, DNA Computing and Molecular Programming - 22nd International Conference, DNA 2016, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, Vol. 9818. p. 135-147 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 9818).
Nanotubes
Binning
A combinatorial search perspective on diverse solution generation
Vadlamudi, S. G. & Kambhampati, S., 2016, 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016. AAAI press, p. 776-783 8 p.
Motion planning
A Community-based Partitioning Approach for Phasor Measurement Unit Placement in Large Systems
Pal, A., Sánchez-Ayala, G. A., Thorp, J. S. & Centeno, V. A., Jul 20 2016, In: Electric Power Components and Systems. 44, 12, p. 1317-1329 13 p.
Phasor measurement units
A Compact, High Power Capable, and Tunable High Directivity Microstrip Coupler
Sohn, S. M., Gopinath, A. & Vaughan, J. T., Oct 2016, In: IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 64, 10, p. 3217-3223 7 p., 7564416.
A Compact model for metal-oxide resistive random access memory with experiment verification
Jiang, Z., Wu, Y., Yu, S., Yang, L., Song, K., Karim, Z. & Wong, H. S. P., May 2016, In: IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 63, 5, p. 1884-1892 9 p., 7448912.
A comparative proteomic analysis of Salmonella typhimurium under the regulation of the RstA/RstB and PhoP/PhoQ systems
Tran, T. K., Han, Q. Q., Shi, Y. & Guo, L., Dec 1 2016, In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics. 1864, 12, p. 1686-1695 10 p.
A Comparative Study of Intratesticular Ductules in the Spermatogenically Active Testes of Shortfin Mako and Thresher Sharks
McClusky, L. M. & Sulikowski, J., Oct 1 2016, In: Anatomical Record. 299, 10, p. 1435-1448 14 p.
A comparison of methods for cascade prediction
Guo, R. & Shakarian, P., Nov 21 2016, Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2016. Kumar, R., Caverlee, J. & Tong, H. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 591-598 8 p. 7752296. (Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2016).
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Large dataset
A COMPARISON of STELLAR ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCE TECHNIQUES and MEASUREMENTS
Hinkel, N. R., Young, P., Pagano, M. D., Desch, S., Anbar, A., Adibekyan, V., Blanco-Cuaresma, S., Carlberg, J. K., Mena, E. D., Liu, F., Nordlander, T., Sousa, S. G., Korn, A., Gruyters, P., Heiter, U., Jofré, P., Santos, N. C. & Soubiran, C., Sep 2016, In: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 226, 1, 4.
A comparison of two-level designs to estimate all main effects and two-factor interactions
Jones, B., Schoen, E. D. & Montgomery, D., Oct 1 2016, In: Quality Engineering. 28, 4, p. 369-380 12 p.
A complex systems framework approach towards multidisciplinary tumor boards
Salla, R., Pahle, R. & Amresh, A., Dec 27 2016, 2016 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point-of-Care Technologies Conference, HI-POCT 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 171-174 4 p. 7797724. (2016 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point-of-Care Technologies Conference, HI-POCT 2016).
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A comprehensive modeling framework for transportation-induced population exposure assessment
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A compressive-sensing based testing vehicle for 3D TSV pre-bond and post-bond testing data
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Network-on-chip
A computational approach to relative aesthetics
Gattupalli, V., Chandakkar, P. S. & Li, B., Jan 1 2016, 2016 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 2446-2451 6 p. 7900003. (Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition; vol. 0).
Binary images
A computational Bayesian approach to dependency assessment in system reliability
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Bayesian Approach
Bayesian networks
A computer tool to calculate zone of protection against direct lightning strokes for substations
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A conceptual and empirical bridge
Eisenberg, N., Aug 11 2016, Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about their Most Important Contributions. Cambridge University Press, p. 256-259 4 p.
A conditional defense of the dyadic approach
Diehl, P. F. & Wright, T., Jun 1 2016, In: International Studies Quarterly. 60, 2, p. 363-368 6 p.
A continuous-time distributed algorithm for solving linear equations
Liu, J., Chen, X., Baar, T. & Nedic, A., Jul 28 2016, 2016 American Control Conference, ACC 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 5551-5556 6 p. 7526540. (Proceedings of the American Control Conference; vol. 2016-July).
Parallel algorithms
Directed graphs
A continuum damage model for asphalt cement and asphalt mastic fatigue
Underwood, B. S., Jan 1 2016, In: International Journal of Fatigue. 82, p. 387-401 15 p.
mastic asphalt
A contra capture protein array platform for studying post-translationally modified (PTM) auto-antigenomes
Karthikeyan, K., Barker, K., Tang, Y., Kahn, P., Wiktor, P., Brunner, A., Knabben, V., Takulapalli, B., Buckner, J., Nepom, G., LaBaer, J. & Qiu, J., Jul 2016, In: Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. 15, 7, p. 2324-2337 14 p.
Protein Array Analysis
A control engineering approach for optimizing physical activity behavioral interventions
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A conversation with Samad Hedayat
Martin, R., Stufken, J. & Yang, M., 2016, In: Statistical Science. 31, 4, p. 637-647 11 p.
A convex model for linguistic influence in group conversations
Kawabata, K., Berisha, V., Scaglione, A. & LaCross, A., 2016, In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. 08-12-September-2016, p. 1442-1446 5 p.
Language Model
A Critical Assessment of Social Entrepreneurship: Ostromian Polycentricity and Hayekian Knowledge
Frank, P. M. & Shockley, G., Aug 1 2016, In: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 45, p. 61S-77S
decision-making process
A cross-sectional analysis of late-life cardiovascular factors and their relation to clinically defined neurodegenerative diseases
Dugger, B. N., Malek-Ahmadi, M., Monsell, S. E., Kukull, W. A., Woodruff, B. K., Reiman, E. M., Beach, T. G. & Wilson, J., Aug 23 2016, In: Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders. 30, 3, p. 223-229 7 p.
A Crowdsourcing Approach to Developing and Assessing Prediction Algorithms for AML Prognosis
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UK Broadcaster Censors John Oliver's Jokes About the Queen's Death
"The UK...is clearly still reeling from the shocking death of a 96-year-old woman from natural causes"
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Sky still thinks it's too soon to joke about the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. The UK pay TV service cut portions of last night's episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver over tongue-in-cheek jokes the host made in reference to the late monarch, who died last week at 96.
Per Deadline, some viewers in the UK were surprised to find out that Oliver's quips about Liz were scrubbed from the the British version of the HBO show. One incriminating punch line came when Oliver poked fun at accounts like The Crazy Frog and Dominos Pizza posting tributes to the Queen: "Obviously, we have to start with the UK, which is clearly still reeling from the shocking death of a 96-year-old woman from natural causes," Oliver said. "It is a big moment this week and for some reason absolutely everyone felt they had to wade in on [it]."
A bit later, the host responded to the UK's new prime minister Liz Truss' praise of profit-making companies by saying: "The nicest thing the Queen of England ever did for anyone was die the week that woman became Prime Minister. Because for at least a week, she's not going to be getting justifiably destroyed for answers like that."
Of course, neither of these jokes were actually at Queen Elizabeth's expense, but UK broadcasters evidently have a very low tolerance for harmless humor in this time of sensational mourning. US viewers can watch the full episode on HBO Max, but you can also check out one of Oliver's jokes about the Queen below.
Queen Elizabeth II was on the throne for 70 years, making her the second-longest serving monarch in recorded history. People have expressed their grief in a number of ways: Despite writing the 1977 fascist-flaming ripper "God Save the Queen," The Sex Pistols' John Lydon wished her a peaceful rest. Pearl Jam performed a rendition of The Beatles' "Her Majesty," although their intention behind the cover remains a bit ambiguous. Lastly — but most certainly not least — it took the natural death of a nonagenarian for Kanye West to announce that he was "releasing all grudges."
John Oliver calls out new UK PM Liz Truss for opposing a tax on oil and gas companies:
"The nicest thing the Queen of England ever did for anyone was die the week [Truss] became prime minister, because for at least a week, she's not going to be getting justifiably destroyed." pic.twitter.com/iGZFpZlSiz
— The Recount (@therecount) September 12, 2022
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An announcement that has been expected for quite a while now, Yamaha is officially returning to the World Superbike Championship for the 2016 season.
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Biden administration signs first contract for COVID test kits -official
Rapid at-home coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing kits are pictured at a vaccination clinic run by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to be distributed to residents for free, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., December, 21 2021. REUTERS/Hannah Beier
WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The Biden administration has signed the first contract involving the 500 million rapid COVID-19 tests that it plans to distribute for free to Americans who request them, an official said on Friday.
Additional details were not immediately available. The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has swiftly spread across the United States since its detection late last year, replacing Delta as the dominant strain and sparking a new wave of infections.
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Apart from building or setting up librares, Kris Library also gives books to public school libraries like Talon-Talon Elementary School for use by kids living in a mangrove community in Sitio Layag Layag, Zamboanga City.
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Alexei Dmitrievich Saltykov, né à Saint-Pétersbourg le , et mort à Paris le , est un dessinateur, collectionneur d'art et diplomate russe, auteur de voyages en Perse et en Inde. Il est le petit-fils du prince Nikolaï Saltykov.
Famille
Le prince Alexis Soltikoff (comme son nom était alors transcrit) est né à Saint-Pétersbourg le dans une des meilleures familles de Russie. Il est le fils du prince Dmitri Nikolaevich Saltykov (1767–1826) et de son épouse Anna Nikolaevna Leontieva (1776–1810) ; il avait trois frères plus âgés, les princes Ivan (1797–1832), Petr (vers 1804-1889) et Vladimir (vers 1799-1835), et une grande sœur, la princesse Mariya (1795–1823).
Son père Dmitri avait seulement deux frères, Alexandre (1775–1837) et Sergei (1776–1828). Leur père était le célèbre général Nikolaï Saltykov (1736-1816) et leur mère Natalya Vladimirovna Dolgorukaya (1737–1812).
Biographie
Après son enfance à Saint-Pétersbourg, Alexis Saltykov s'engagea en 1824 dans la diplomatie, en rentrant au Conseil d'état russe des affaires étrangères à Moscou. À partir de 1829, il occupa des postes diplomatiques, d'abord à Constantinople, puis à Athènes et plus tard à Londres, Florence, Rome et Téhéran. En 1840, il prit sa retraite et s'installa à Paris, où il prépara ses voyages en Inde. Il y fit deux voyages, un en 1841–1843 et un en 1844–46, qui lui valurent le sobriquet d'« Indien » dans l'aristocratie russe et française.
En 1848, il publia à Paris ses Lettres sur l'Inde, une sélection de ses lettres en français accompagnées de ses dessins, qui eut un grand impact en Europe. En 1851, la traduction russe de ce livre captiva le lectorat russe. Les illustrations furent republiées séparément à Londre en 1859 sous le titre Drawings on the Spot (« Dessins sur le vif »).
Le collectionneur
Le Chandelier de Gloucester a été acheté par le Victoria and Albert Museum en 1861 lors d'une vente de la collection d'Alexis Soltykov ; le du British Museum faisait également partie de sa collection.
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Notes et références
Diplomate de l'Empire russe
Dessinateur russe
Voyageur
Collectionneur russe d'œuvres d'art
Naissance en février 1806
Naissance à Saint-Pétersbourg
Décès en mars 1859
Décès à Paris
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Going on a job interview is stressful. All your hard work, all your years of experience and it feels like getting the job comes down to 45 minutes with the prospective manager.
Well, we want to help by literally giving you the answers to the test. In her LinkedIn Learning course on the topic, Harvard Director of Career Services Valerie Sutton highlighted the 11 most common job interview questions – and how to answer each one.
We aren't going to go through all 11 (to see them all, check out the course). But we will cover three of the most common, all of which can be particularly tricky to answer.
1. What's your biggest weakness?
But Sutton suggests doing the exact opposite – and answering the question honestly.
How you should answer it: "They're looking for you to have a realistic view of your competencies and the ability to improve on performance," Sutton said.
Many times you won't have all the skills listed on the job description. The employer will likely see that from your experience. Rather than leave it unaddressed, when asked this question talk about that weakness, your ability to learn and potentially how you've started to address that weakness.
For example, say it's a management position and you've never managed before. Sutton suggests talking about management courses you've taken or management you've done in your personal life, such as managing a volunteer group.
Or, if you don't have a technical skill listed in the job description, admit that. But then talk about how you learned other technical skills quickly, and how you believe you can learn that skill as well.
2. Why did (or do you want to) leave your previous company?
Employers ask this question often to ensure you aren't a job hopper. And it can be particularly uncomfortable to answer if you left your last company on bad terms, i.e. you quit or got fired.
How you should answer it: Rather than reflect on the past, here's a time to focus on the future, Sutton said. So, talk about what inspired you to apply to this job, and how you couldn't stop yourself from applying.
This is where research pays off. Talk about why you are interested in the specific position and what about the company interests you. You want to make it clear you left or are planning to leave your current role only because you believe the prospective role is that much better (which should be true).
But what if you left your past company on bad terms, either by being fired or you quit? You should tell them, but you can make it more positive by highlighting what you learned in that role – and how this role will be different.
3. When have you gone above and beyond at work?
It might not be asked this exact way, but this question – in one form or another – comes up in almost every job interview. Here's your chance to brag a bit.
How you should answer it: The key when answering this question, according to Sutton: specific examples. You want an example that shows off your work ethic and what motivates you.
While you might cite only one example in your answer, make it clear that wasn't the only time you went above-and-beyond. Say something along the lines of "I have several examples, but I think the most relevant is…" and then go into your example.
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Also, relevancy really matters here. The more closely your example aligns to the work you'll be doing at the offered position, the more you'll stand out in the employer's mind.
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Q: MSSQL Geometry/Geography types with JDBC fails with class [B? Looking at the sample here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/jdbc/spatial-data-types-sample?view=sql-server-ver15
This sample works fine but normally if I want to stick to regular JDBC I would use
pstmt.setObject(1, geomWKT);
pstmt.setObject(2, geogWKT);
instead of
pstmt.setGeometry(1, geomWKT);
pstmt.setGeography(2, geogWKT);
which works.
But then if I want to get the objects back I would use:
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select * from " + tableName);
rs.next();
rs.getObject(1)
instead of
SQLServerResultSet rs = (SQLServerResultSet) stmt.executeQuery("select * from " + tableName);
rs.next();
rs.getGeometry(1)
This doesn't work. since rs.getObject() returns something with a class name [B instead of com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.Geometry
Here's the full error:
class [B cannot be cast to class com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.Geometry ([B is in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap'; com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.Geometry is in unnamed module of loader 'app')
Any ideas why? Same JDBC driver.
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Life in recovery is a walk by the riverside, basking in the aroma of honeysuckle
By Steve Wildsmith [email protected]
Over on the campus of the drug and alcohol treatment facility where I work full time these days, there's a short walking path that cuts through the woods from the upper parking lot down to the Caldwell Center, where the dining hall is located and most of the treatment groups meet.
The goal is to eventually add a lengthy walking trail along the perimeter of our 25-acre campus, but our activity therapist, Joe, is doing it mostly by himself, with help on occasion from alumni and volunteers, so it'll take a while. This particular short path, dubbed "Serenity Trail," is just far enough from the drive that in the spring, the forest canopy through which it unfolds seems to envelope it like the wild hands of a protective mother.
Through leaves fat with water from a recent rain, you get glimpses of asphalt and concrete and buildings, but off to the left, a narrow ravine cuts down toward the Little River, and the woods are dim and cool and tranquil. I take this path frequently, and I often stop to clear my head or gather my thoughts when I need to write. The other morning, I was on my way to a meeting, however, when it struck me: Honeysuckle, in full bloom.
It's an unmistakable fragrance, a sweetness that fills my head and takes me back to the wooded hillsides below my grandmother's house in rural Mississippi. It's spring, and my brother and I are tromping through mounds of decaying leaves still wet from the morning's rain, out of sight of the house, young and free and untroubled. The honeysuckle is thick, bursting from the surrounding overgrowth in vines thick with cream-white blossoms that draw insects by the dozen to drink of their nectar.
Later that night, I'll lie awake on the couch, and I'll still smell that perfume on my fingers as I drift off, the sounds of a Mississippi night drifting through the screen of the open window: croaking bullfrogs and budded branches rasping against one another in the wind, the distant hum of cars on the nearby highway, my father's snores from the guest bedroom. Everything is right and good, and all of the troubles of my addiction are still several years in the future.
It's funny how such a smell can take me back. I found myself standing there on the trail, drinking it all in, and a song came to my head: "Golden Riverside," by Bonepony.
"I want to taste every flower, want to breathe in every sea, I want to feel the cold stones of the garden on the ground beneath my feet …"
The guys in Bonepony have been around for almost 30 years now, making a racket out of Nashville that's jubilant and glorious. This song, actually, comes from an album titled "Jubilee," entirely appropriate, given their penchant for singing about better days and celebrating the things in life that we sometimes take for granted ... like the smell of honeysuckle.
"And when the night is finally over, and the morning light comes so pale, I'm gonna shed this skin of ashes and slither out of hell …"
I couldn't help but think how apt those lyrics were in that place of recovery. Recovery from addiction, the way we do it and the way it's done around the country, is about repairing broken people. We help those who come to us shattered, unable to appreciate the things that we take for granted. They don't know how to shed that skin, and the memories of the past are often tainted by the specter of darkness that accompanies addiction.
We help them find clarity and show them a window to those times that can be viewed without the grime of their disease distorting the image, so that one day they might be able to think back, as I do, and smile at the boy who was instead of lamenting the things he'll one day lose.
"There's a place of complete surrender, a land where the truth resides, I want to lay there my trembling body, by the golden riverside …"
Recovery is that golden riverside. Whether it's through treatment or in a 12 Step program or at Celebrate Recovery or at private therapy, there is a way out. Life can be a walk by that golden riverside on a warm spring afternoon, when the smell of honeysuckle fills the air and you feel a renewed appreciation for just how beautiful life on the other side of addiction can truly be.
Steve Wildsmith was an editor and writer for The Daily Times for nearly 17 years; a recovering addict, he now works in media and marketing for Cornerstone of Recovery, a drug and alcohol treatment center in Blount County. Contact him at [email protected].
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Off-Duty for a couple weeks … Yay!
I looked at my calendar and see that since early April, I've been home only 19 days. Retired? Yeah, right!
Between working tours for Adventure Cycling, Wilderness Voyageurs, and a couple personal trips (more on that shortly), I've managed to keep this year's cycling season pretty full, and I'm nowhere near done. Cycling "season"? Actually, there is no "season". I cycle year round and I may have a plan up my sleeve for this winter on my fat-bike.
But backing up to July … No sooner than I finished the Finger Lakes tour with Adventure Cycling (see last post), I was on my way to Ohiopyle PA to prepare for leading back-to-back tours for Wilderness Voyageurs with my partner Lisa. Lisa is also a Rochester area native, and her knowledge of our area combined with a super-friendly personality and great organizational skills makes her the perfect partner for working these tours.
Our first gig together was the four-day Erie Canal tour that begins at Fort Niagara at the mouth of the Niagara River into Lake Ontario, just downstream from Niagara Falls. After taking a tour of the fort, this trip starts with a day of road-riding along the shore of Lake Ontario before turning south and picking up the Erie Canalway Trail the following day. The next three days are all on the trail … no cars, no problems, and all the wonderful "Port" towns along the way.
A day off between tours, and we once again join the Ride for Pride gang to kick off Pride Week in Rochester by doing the "Rainbow Ride". All the riders regrouped for a ten mile ride through Rochester's gayborhoods with a stop at the Bachelor Forum for free Jello Shots before arriving at Cobbs Hill park to ring in the week's festivities.
Back to work the next day, we hit the road with WV's Finger Lakes Tour group. This year's route (see the video!) was modified to include two new lodging venues (Argos Inn in Ithaca and the Belhurst Castle in Geneva!) and included all the usual cool spots like wineries, Watkins Glen, Hammondsport and a stop at the Three Brothers Estate in Geneva on the final day.
After the WV tours, and after another two days of returning the rig to HQ, I get ONE day off before hopping in the car and heading out for Whitefish Montana! Finally!! After a year's delay due to taking on a private tour gig last year, our team of four gets together for an adventure on the Canada section of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. I call this "Taking Care of Unfinished Business". If you've been following my blog, you'll know that back in 2013, I rode the USA border-to-border (Antelope Wells New Mexico to Roosville Montana) sections of the GDMBR and journaled it on CrazyGuyOnABike. Todd (The Sherpa) joined me for the last 8 days of the trip and logistics dictated that we should stop at the Canada border and plan to do the Canada section later.
Yeah … she's smiling NOW!
… and Todd and Karen fly to meet us in Whitefish 3 days later. On the way to Whitefish, we stopped briefly in Glacier National Park so Linda could get a look. I got to ride the Going To The Sun Road back in '88 and was certain she'd enjoy seeing it.
East side of the pass … and it only gets better!
…where we started southbound on the GDMBR toward the USA border and on to Polebridge and back to Whitefish.
The gang did great on the trip and we even finished in time to pay a visit to Adventure Cycling HQ in Missoula before heading home. Like my Route 66 tour this year, I'll save a full write-up (and video) for a later post. Getting back to Rochester after the Divide, I drove home alone and retraced the route I took on the motorcycle to Calgary in 2010 between Minot ND and Rochester. It takes a bit longer on US2 than the interstates, but it's much more pleasant.
… and made it home in time to have dinner and conversation with Karen and Elea. She has a great story and shares on her blog at "The Many Roads to Kindness". Check it out!
And here I am now, breathing deeply with TWO WEEKS of free time before I'm on the road again. AGAIN? Now what? How about scouting out the details and running two back-to-back, 6 day tours of the new Mickelson Trail and Badlands tour with Wilderness Voyageurs!! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,980 |
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Empowering Social Justice
By Alexandra Vollman -
Raymond E. Crossman, co-chair of LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education and president of Adler University, emphasizes community and inspires others
During his 12-year tenure at Adler University, President Raymond E. Crossman, PhD, has successfully guided the university community by continually asking himself one important question: "What would Alfred Adler do?"
Adler University — named after community psychologist Alfred Adler, who practiced in Austria in the early 1900s — is a post-baccalaureate, nonprofit institution headquartered in Chicago.
As a psychologist and family therapist who practices Adlerian psychology, Crossman leads the social justice institution with an emphasis on community health over individual health, one of Adler's major tenets. Because of his leadership, over the last 12 years, the school has expanded from one campus and 200 mostly part-time students to three campuses — including Chicago, Vancouver, and a global, online campus — and more than 1,200 students, the majority of whom are full-time.
"[When I came to the university], I was really interested in having a conversation about what would Alfred Adler want us to do if he was around now," Crossman says. "Adler was interested in community-level health — beyond individuals, looking at populations. He was interested in education and other forms of community intervention beyond psychotherapy, and — more than what's in your head — he thought that what's important is what goes on between people and a community in order to create health."
In addition to his academic and administrative background, Crossman's personal experiences as a gay man have influenced the way he leads the university, with a special focus on inclusion.
"We pay attention to pluralism and inclusion, and that's really built into the fabric of our education here and into the learning environment," Crossman says. "My experience growing up as a gay kid made me look at the world in a particular way and made me interested in social justice. It really was an experience that in many ways shaped me into a leader who is a good fit for leading an institution [focused on] social justice."
"I think it's important to gay students on this campus that there's a gay leader. It's very empowering."
— Raymond E. Crossman, president of Adler University
Although he claims that being an "out" gay college president doesn't necessarily make him better at addressing the needs of Adler's LGBTQ student community, Crossman serves as a role model on and off campus. As co-chair of the group LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education, he works to advance LGBTQ inclusion within academia.
Empowering Others
Established in 2010 as a result of "hallway conversations" at the American Council on Education and a news article identifying several out presidents, LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education works to address barriers to college presidency for people who are LGBTQ. It also seeks to make leadership at universities more inclusive and advocates for LGBTQ issues at these institutions.
"I think it's important to gay students on this campus that there's a gay leader. It's very empowering," Crossman says, "but I also think it's important for women and people of color to see a gay person in a leadership role, [so they think] 'yes, people who are in the minority can be leaders.' I make sure that I come out in as many professional interactions as I can, because I think that's empowering for folks."
More than an outlet for advocacy, LGBTQ Presidents provides Crossman with an inclusive space in which he can share experiences with others much like himself.
"[It's] been very helpful to have another network of presidents who share this similarity; the same as women presidents or presidents of color find it helpful to get together, I find it helpful to get together with other presidents who are LGBTQ," Crossman says. "And, interestingly, when we do, the first thing we talk about is not LGBTQ issues. The first thing we talk about is what any president's group talks about when it gets together: We talk about our enrollment, we talk about managing our campuses, we talk about working with our boards."
The group has grown steadily over the last five years and now has about 50 members, all of whom are college and university presidents from across the country. In June, the organization held its first annual LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education conference, hosted by Adler's Chicago campus, with Crossman as its chair.
Members of the LGBTQ community throughout higher education attended the event, where they learned how to address issues related to leadership development and overcome barriers to the presidency and other administrative positions. Crossman says the event was a "wild success" and an experience he won't soon forget.
"This really sweet thing happened on the first Friday [of the conference]," he says. "I'm at the podium giving the opening remarks, and that's when the Supreme Court's decision [on same-sex marriage] was announced. It was just an amazing moment. That's how the conference started."
Innovating Social Justice
At Adler, Crossman leads the effort to produce "socially responsible practitioners." Students go beyond traditional practices to understand how structures and systems work to create advantage and disadvantage, justice and injustice.
"We make something specific in the world," says Crossman. "We are an institution that's interested in creating a more just society. So what we prepare our students to do and what we expect them to do is to stimulate social change, to work to build a more just society."
Because of his own training in psychology, Crossman says he has trouble disassociating from that part of his background — which frames how he views and approaches issues in his role as Adler's president. "As a psychologist, I tend to look at how systems operate — as a family therapist, too. I think it's a tired metaphor to think of an organization as a family, but I do think about it as a system, what the strengths and weaknesses within the system are, and how culture shapes [that] system," he says.
The same is true of his childhood — when Crossman developed a keen sense of what makes a community thrive.
"I believe that if you grow up with an experience of oppression, you look at the world in a specific way," he says "so I'm interested in not just what works, but what works for everybody. … I'm always looking for collaborative, inclusive solutions to move us forward, and I think that's, in part, because I grew up as a gay kid. I think that growing up on the outside can force you to be more creative."●
Alexandra Vollman is the editor of INSIGHT Into Diversity.
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Briyih Karina Velásquez, (Caracas, 20 de septiembre de 1979) es una actriz de cine, teatro, televisión, modelo y locutora venezolana
Durante su carrera como actriz estuvo nominada al galardón Marco Antonio Ettedgui por la Fundación Rajatabla, y fue representante de Venezuela en el Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá, en el año 2013, por su actuación en la obra Stop Kiss, escrita por Diana Son y dirigida por Consuelo Trum.
Biografía
Karina Velásquez, como es conocida en el medio artístico, nació en Caracas, Venezuela. Es la mayor de ocho hermanos.
A los 18 años, esta actriz venezolana recibió propuestas para realizar fotografías para marcas y fotógrafos del país. Luego, a los 26 años, Karina inició una licenciatura en Comunicación Social en la Universidad Santa María, en Caracas.
Años más tarde, se dedicó por completo a la actuación. Estudió en el Taller Acting Master Class, dirigido por el actor y director de Hollywood, Paul Calderón, el Taller Gimnasio de Actores: escena "La Rosa Tatuada" Tennessee Williams, facilitado por Matilda Corral y el Taller Intensivo para actores profesionales, Gimnasio de Actores, dictado por Lisa M. Formosa, miembro Vitalicio de Actors Studio, entre otros cursos y especializaciones en la materia.
Cine
Su carrera en el séptimo arte comenzó en el 2007, cuando participó en el film Puras joyitas. Ese mismo año, fue llamada para protagonizar Wayuu: La niña de Maracaibo de Miguel Curiel, junto al venezolano Daniel Alvarado y el español Asier Hernández.
Luego, en el 2012, se destacó en la coproducción argentina Suramericano dirigida por Domingo Olavarría, y tuvo la oportunidad de realizar el filme Todo por la taquilla, que ha sido la primera película venezolana en la que las únicas ganancias han sido las obtenidas solo por la taquilla, en esta ocasión, interpretó al personaje Claudiana.
Ese mismo año, Karina compartió un rol actoral con los actores venezolanos, Eduardo Orozco, Alexandra Braun, Juan Carlos García Pajero y María Antonieta Duque, en la película venezolana Hasta que la muerte nos separe, dando vida a la boxeadora profesional Bárbara. También, tuvo una participación especial en Libertador, basada en la vida de Simón Bolívar, protagonizada por Édgar Ramírez y dirigida por Alberto Arvelo.
Posteriormente, en el 2013, la actriz es invitada por la directora venezolana Fina Torres para estar presente en su película Liz en septiembre, protagonizada por Patricia Velásquez y Eloísa Maturén, estrenada un año más tarde.
El 2013 fue un año de arduo trabajo para Velásquez, pues estuvo colmado de proyectos cinematográficos. Interpretó a Julia en la película Interferencia de Zigmunt Cedinski y luego grabó Secreto de Confesión, una coproducción colombiana donde compartió set con el actor Juan Pablo Raba y la presentadora Eglantina Zingg.
En 2015, protagonizó junto a Ananda Troconis, la primera película de ciencia ficción de Venezuela, titulada La Jaula, dirigida por José Salaverría con un guion de Inti Torres. Esta producción cinematográfica se comenzó filmar en julio de 2015 y se terminó en diciembre de 2016. Se estrenó a finales de 2017. Esta película venezolana fue galardonada como "Mejor Película" en Filipinas con el Festival de Cine Internacional de Manila e Indonesia con el Borobudur IFF. La producción completamente venezolana, fue reconocida por sus altos estándares de calidad, su fotografía y sus actuaciones. El film también recorrió festivales, como el Berlin Sci Fi Filmfest, Fangofest de Amposta en España, Festival de Cine de Ciencia Ficción en Italia y el New York International Film Infest, donde ganó como Mejor Película de Ciencia Ficción entre 500 películas internacionales.
A mediados del 2016 se estrenó Tamara de Elia Schneider, una película basada en la historia de Tamara Adrián, una abogada venezolana que luchó contra los prejuicios sociales por ser transexual. Este film está protagonizado por Luis Fernández (actor venezolano), Karina Velásquez y Prakriti Maduro. Fue la película más taquillera de Venezuela en 2016 y fue proyectada en algunos cines independientes en Estados Unidos..Cabe destacar, que Tamara se alzó con el premio a "Mejor película" en el Santa Bárbara International Film Festival, celebrado en Santa Bárbara, California, Estados Unidos el pasado sábado 11 de febrero de 2017. Asimismo, ganó tres premios Leonardo Da Vinci del Festival Internacional de Milán MIFF2017, convirtiéndose en la película que recibió más estatuillas.
En 2016, también llegó a la gran pantalla Maisanta de César Bolívar y Román Chalbaud, una película venezolana en la que Velásquez interpretó a Felicia, la novia del protagonista.
Próximamente llegarán a los cines nacionales, Canción de las Sombras de Roque Zambrano, Operación Orión de Rubén Hernández. En (2017), Karina estuvo filmando el largometraje Blindado dirigido por Carlos Malavé, donde interpreta a Sabrina, una periodista.
Televisión
Su experiencia en televisión se resume a tres series y una telenovela hasta el momento.
La serie juvenil Animal Planes, dirigida por Alejandro Palacios en la que participó en el año 2011.
En 2013, La precursora, donde encarnó a Doña Gertrudis de Blanco. Además de Los secretos de Lucía, una serie HD producida en Venezuela, Colombia y Miami, con un elenco internacional, integrado por Juan Pablo Raba, Irán Castillo, Plutarco Haza, David Medel, María Dalmazzo, Roberto Escobar y Julián Gil, dirigida por Felipe Paz con un guion de Jorg Hiller, donde interpretó a La India, un reclusa que cumplía órdenes de un traficante de armas.
Seguidamente, de Amor secreto, que es una telenovela venezolana, transmitida desde el 15 de junio de 2015 a las 9:00 p. m. por el canal de televisión Venevisión, de lunes a sábado, escrita por César Sierra. En esta historia, Karina encarna a Virginia Gutiérrez, uno de los 10 personajes principales, una mujer sufrida, hermana de la protagonista que lucha constantemente por su libertad.
Es necesario resaltar, que durante sus comienzos en el medio se desempeñó como animadora durante la transmisión de la Copa América 2007 de la televisora, Sport Plus.
Teatro
La historia de esta venezolana sobre las tablas comenzó en el 2007 con la obra 4 Corazones Con Freno y Marcha Atrás, desde ese momento no dejó de mostrarse en este arte y hasta la fecha en su carrera suma más de 15 obras de teatro, entre las que se destacan a A 2.50 La Cubalibre de Ibrahim Guerra, dirigida por Luis Fernández y producida por la actriz Mimí Lazo; Sexo de Rene Pollesch, dirigida por Francisco Denis y Marcel Rasquin; la obra infantil Mr. Cacri de Alexander Leterni y más recientemente, Sex Point de Javier Vidal y Los hombres no mienten, ambas bajo la dirección de Daniel Uribe.
Uno de sus trabajos más resaltantes ha sido en la controvertida obra Stop Kiss, escrita por Diana Sonn, y dirigida por Consuelo Trum. Gracias a su desempeño al interpretar este personaje que se enamora de otra mujer y ambas pasan por dolorosas situaciones, Karina Velásquez representó a Venezuela en el Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá Colombia.
Modelaje
A los 19 años, comenzó su carrera como modelo e imagen publicitaria de distintas marcas comerciales como Nívea, Mister Músculo, Chocolates El Rey, McDonald's, Head & Shoulders, Advil, Vanish entre otras. En total, Karina ha realizado 110 comerciales a lo largo de su carrera. Actualmente, sigue ejerciendo este oficio conjuntamente con la actuación.
Entre los fotógrafos para los que ha posado a lo largo de su trayectoria se encuentran: Alberto Hernández, Claudio Napolitano, Guillermo Felizola, Fran Beaufrand, Pablo Costanzo, Francisco Hernández, Alfonso Zapata, Iván Dumont, Baruch Vega, Andrés Oyuela, Daniel Machado, Brigitte Diez, Facundo Busto, Gianni Salma, Héctor Trejo, Jesús Viloria, Manuel Hernández, entre otros.
En su carrera como modelo, tuvo una participación en el videoclip del dúo venezolano Caibo del tema musical Sandunguera. En 2017, formó parte del elenco protagónico de los vídeos musicales de las canciones Enséñame a Olvidarte de El Forever y Luis Fernando Borjas de la agrupación Guaco y Tu Foto del cantante de música urbana Ozuna.
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Iraq Oil Supplies Vulnerable as Mideast Tensions Flare
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Oil supplies from Iraq, the Middle East's second-biggest producer, are "potentially vulnerable" amid rising political risks in the country and the broader region, the International Energy Agency warned.
Crude prices briefly soared to a three-month high above $70 a barrel last week as tensions between the U.S. and Iran erupted in neighboring Iraq, where America assassinated an Iranian general and Tehran struck U.S. military bases in response. Though hostilities faded, the threat of escalation still menaces Iraq, which was already grappling with domestic protests that spread to its oil-rich southern region.
Iraq's oil exports have doubled during the last decade to reach 4 million barrels a day, with half these volumes flowing to China and India, the two major centers of global demand growth, the Paris-based IEA said in its latest monthly report. The country relies heavily on shipping crude through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has periodically threatened to close.
Still, the clash between Washington and Tehran hasn't yet caused any supply disruption, and protests inside Iraq have had only minimal impact on oil operations, the agency said. Global oil markets have a "solid base" of ample inventories and swelling U.S. shale-oil output to weather any shocks, it said.
Iraq's fragile security situation may limit its plans to expand oil-production capacity in the medium-term, making it difficult for the global industry to meet rising demand in the second half of the decade, the IEA warned. The agency advises most major economies on energy policy.
Ironically, Baghdad is obligated to reduce output in the coming months as part of its agreement with fellow OPEC nations to keep world markets in balance. It pumped 4.59 million barrels day last month, and will need to reduce by 130,000 barrels a day to comply with the accord.
Saudi Arabia, the biggest member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, already delivered all of the additional curbs promised before they formally took effect, pumping 9.68 million barrels a day in December.
Even if OPEC and its allies fully implement the deeper cutbacks announced last month, world markets will still face a surplus of about 800,000 barrels a day in the first half of the year, the IEA predicted.
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TORONTO — James Marsden tries to avoid slipping down the rabbit hole of emotional darkness in his career — and after the latest season of dystopian series "Westworld" the actor needed a palette cleanse.
It's one of the reasons Marsden says he signed onto "Sonic the Hedgehog," a live-action and CGI animated flick based on the popular video game. While his character in the film is veiled in secrecy, he insists it's nothing like Teddy, the robotic gunslinger he plays on TV.
"I always try and do the polar opposite of what I just finished, and 'Westworld' is a heavy show," he says of the series, which finishes its latest season Sunday on HBO Canada.
With those words, paired with a single bullet, James Marsden's Teddy Flood demonstrates just how much he's changed — or been forced to change, more accurately. The gentle-hearted hero at the heart of Westworld transformed into a brutal killing machine midway through season two, thanks to Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), who commanded the alterations in order to help Teddy survive their struggle. Even Dolores seems taken aback by how the changes have taken hold, caught off-guard in episode six, "Phase Space," when Teddy shoots a prisoner dead in the middle of an interrogation. It's similarly jarring to see Teddy offer a bullet to a man as a means of mercy, rather than save him from certain doom.
Do Westworld robots cry real tears? That'd be a question for the bloggers and the Redditors who obsess over the hit HBO science-fiction mindbender. But right now, on a weekday morning in the Santa Monica Mountains, Teddy Flood is welling up.
James Marsden, the actor who plays Flood, has just shared some heartfelt thoughts about family and fatherhood, and his eyes are moist. "Sorry, I get emotional when I talk about this stuff," he says.
He could blame the location—the small lake we just passed in Franklin Canyon Park is where the nostalgic opening for The Andy Griffith Show was filmed, with Opie and his Pa going fishing. We're technically in the middle of Los Angeles but, as Marsden notes, it doesn't look like Los Angeles. "That's such an L.A. thing to say!" he says with a laugh.
James Marsden is the poster boy for charming robots.
In Sydney this week to promote Westworld, he was on stage in front of a giant poster of himself playing sentient robot Teddy Flood in the HBO show. Marsden might have ditched the cowboy hat and stubble in real life, but he still looks like a theme park's version of a perfect human.
But the good guy Teddy of season one (who died five times but was still so gosh-darn polite) has made way for a darker Teddy in season two. Now, his character is joining forces with other robot hosts on the show to rise up against the humans that run Westworld — and things are looking bloody. Hell yes.
Still, as his character rebels against his creators on screen, Marsden is hoping artificial intelligence doesn't get that far in the real world.
Westworld star James Marsden isn't a fan of new technology, and prefers to use his landline.
The Enchanted actor stars as gunslinger Teddy Flood in HBO's acclaimed hit series about a fictional, technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populated by android "hosts". The show questions society's rising dependence on technology and it seems that James isn't very trusting of the technological advances spawned by the digital revolution. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8,987 |
NEO currency is often claimed to be the Ethereum's killer basing in China by many of the people, but this is not going to further any claims. It's all simple. People who buy NEO know that, just like in many other projects, NEO currency has a great future because of its unique built.
NEO price in USD is a good signifier of the currency's good value and the technology behind. Truly, NEO value is seen by its decentralization, open-source platform, and the blockchain back-up behind its functioning. Apart from looking at NEO stock market or NEO chart, one surely needs to understand that NEO has one more crypto-coin called GAS, which will be discussed more in this article. If you wish to buy NEO coin simply visit any crypto exchange market.
NEO coin wallet, where all the money is kept, claims itself to be a distributed part of the smart economy network. NEO price live acts as the indicator of the investment token behind the blockchain. The total number of people who decided to buy NEO coin know that it has close to 100 million tokens, which are used in network management, block creation, and for other technical purposes that are too complicated for an average user to understand. All of the digital coins were pre-harvested during the initial creation of all of the blocks existing on the market.
Ethereum's founder has recently visited Devcon4 and made some statements regarding the Ethereum blockchain as a whole.
The founder of NEO claimed that blockchain platforms and digital currencies have too many regulations to comply with.
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On the ice with Flyers legends and fresh young hopefuls
Penn President Amy Gutmann joined Snider Hockey and Flyers Alumni to celebrate their collaboration, a large gift, and a friendly face-off.
Dr. Gutmann presided over the ceremonial puck drop between Flyers alum Scott Hartnell and a member of the Snider Hockey team, alongside Bill Whitmore (left), Willie O'Ree, and Paul Holmgren, president of the Philadelphia Flyers .
On a spirited Friday night, hockey fans, hockey players, and members of the Penn community gathered in the brisk Class of 1923 Arena for a charity hockey game that featured faces both familiar and fresh. As part of the NHL Stadium series weekend, the Alumni Charity Game put Flyers alum head to head with members of Snider Hockey team for a friendly, but surprisingly competitive, match on Friday, Feb. 22.
For the Penn community, the event was a celebration of the collaboration between the University's Class of 1923 Arena and the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation. In exchange for serving as the home for the Snider Hockey team, the Foundation provided $7 million for upgrades and renovations to the facility.
Penn President Amy Gutmann was on ice, though not on skates, for a ceremonial puck drop. Joining Gutmann was Bill Whitmore, chairman of Snider Hockey.
Flyers Alumni also pledged $2 million to support the mission of Snider Hockey, which began in 2005, and has grown to a nationally acclaimed youth enrichment program for both boys and girls with a wide audience.
The evening brought together players on the Snider team and their families, plus a large showing of Flyers alumni and their families. Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney and councilwoman Jannie Blackwell were also in attendance. Upstairs in the VIP lounge, various fans and family members, including toddlers in too-big jerseys, enjoyed food and drinks to the sounds of the Eagles Pep Band, a quartet in Eagles jerseys playing stadium hits on a banjo, standup bass, and two saxophones.
During warmup, some balding pates were visible alongside the helmeted teen boys and girls. Wearing his #14 Jersey, Joe Watson, who won the Stanley Cup in 1975 and '76, warmed up alongside #19 Scott Hartnell, who retired in 2018, and #33 goalie Brian Bouchier resuming his post. Number 44 Kimmo Timonen—"a legend!" a spectator gushed—skated around #8 Brad Marsh, who is also the Flyers Alumni president.
The ceremonial carpet was rolled out for Whitmore and Gutmann, and Willie O'Ree, representing the Flyers Alumni, for a ceremonial puck drop. O'Ree, who played winger for the Boston Bruins, was the first black player in the NHL, and is a Hockey Hall of Fame member.
"When Ed Snider created his youth hockey foundation in 2005, it had one great purpose: to share the wonders of ice hockey—one of the fastest, most challenging sports—with the youth of this city," said Gutmann. "These are Philadelphia kids who might never otherwise get out on the ice. Three great organizations—Snider Hockey, Flyers Alumni, and Penn—are combining efforts on behalf of our city's kids and our local neighborhoods."
After Hartnell and a Snider player posed over the ceremonial puck drop, and after the bars of "Eye of the Tiger" faded, hockey ensued. With decades of experience under the Flyers' belts, the matchup appeared unequal. But the Snider youths came out strong. Just shy of five minutes in, the Snider team sent a puck soaring past Bouchier. Snider-1, Flyers-0. It was a fantastic start for some promising players.
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Join us on Livestream as the Metis New York team walks you through a sampling of what students learn during their 12 weeks of project-based data science work. You'll also hear from Metis alumni about how to prepare, what to expect, & what happens after you attend the Metis Data Science Bootcamp. Metis alumn Lauren Whitmire will present her final project at Metis & then join Aaron Gittleman for a Q&A panel.
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Lauren Whitmire graduated from the Metis Data Science Bootcamp in June 2019. She is a Data Scientist with a background in Chemistry. Her passion is using data generated in the healthcare system to improve the care of future patients & address important questions in public health. Lauren holds a Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor's in Chemistry from Grove City University in Grove City, PA.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on the Bush administration to drop any plans that would remove federal protection for many small streams and wetlands across the nation.
As of mid-September, more than 100 members of Congress had signed the letter, which warns that such a change would increase pollution into streams, lakes and coastal waterways.
The letter was expected to go to the White House around the end of September.
"Over the last 30 years, our nation has made great progress toward meeting the Clean Water Act's goal 'to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the nation's waters," the letter states.
The letter was circulated among House members by Reps. James Leach of Iowa and Jim Saxton of New Jersey, both Republicans, and Reps. James Oberstar of Minnesota and John Dingell of Michigan, both Democrats.
At issue is the January announcement by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers they they were considering writing new rules to "clarify" the extent of federal jurisdiction over wetlands and waterways in the wake of a January 2001 Supreme Court decision.
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The agencies sought public comments about whether, and how, they might define "isolated" waters—a classification that could be extended to include small streams that do not always flow year round. It also asked for input about how such a change could affect federal and state programs.
In their letter, the members of Congress stated that the Supreme Court ruling affected wetlands where federal jurisdiction was based solely on the presence of migratory waterfowl. The decision "did not invalidate any other existing basis of Clean Water Act jurisdiction, nor did the Court's decision require a rule-making to redefine the scope of waters protected by the law," they wrote.
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Q: Mostrar mensagem de acordo com a URL Como faço pra mostrar uma mensagem de acordo com a URL que o usuário estiver acessando?
Por exemplo:
Mensagem:
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FDC and OIE Staff, Service Updates
The Office of Academic Affairs is pleased to announce staff changes in the Faculty Development Center (FDC) and the Office of Institutional Effectiveness (OIE) that will expand services to support strategic goals of the University.
The Faculty Development Center (FDC) now provides support for the assessment of student learning in academic programs and co-curricular learning experiences. Marissa Cope, assessment and accreditation analyst, has moved from the OIE to the FDC. Cope will continue to support university assessment planning efforts, including new multi-year planning for academic programs and the Global Citizenship Program's "assessment 2.0" project, and will help to usher in new assessment technologies and solutions.
Additionally, the FDC will establish a learning inquiry lab, which will be used to help faculty and academic partners with evaluation, assessment and analysis of student learning activities for continuous improvement and scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). The lab will provide resources for gathering student voices, allow for guided access to various data, offer consulting on course or program-level assessment planning and results, and offer training and interaction with emerging practical analytics resources, such as Starfish Analytics.
"Locating assessment activities, for both academic and co-curricular programs, in the FDC and providing dedicated space for collaborative work and use of academic technologies and student data sources will enhance continuous improvement efforts," said Nancy Hellerud, vice provost. "Faculty and staff will have more opportunities to connect, engage and support student success."
The Office of Institutional Effectiveness (OIE) welcomes new staff member Allison Scheuler, analyst. In her new role, Scheuler will continue her work with the IRB and the Academic Program Review Committee while taking on additional OIE responsibilities. She joins Justin Bitner, senior analyst, and Lauren Bommarito, data analyst. The OIE staff will soon relocate to the first floor of Loretto Hall, in the Office of Academic Affairs.
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THE DUOLOGY
"I belonged to an exclusive club with only one membership requirement—be born with half a functioning heart."
We take many things for granted-but having a heart isn't one of them.
Paul Cardall is an internationally acclaimed pianist whose career has been an inspiration to millions. But before the awards and success, he was just a little boy with half a functioning heart.
Numerous surgeries and many decades later, Paul is building a successful career despite the limitations his condition have infringed upon him. Now a husband and father, it seems that Paul has everything he could have ever hoped for...until his heart begins to fail.
As time passes, the pressure of his waning health and the seemingly endless wait for a new heart test not only Paul's faith, but his marriage and relationships as well. He begins to wonder if luck will ever be on his side or if it's time he let the curtains fall in what could be the final act of his life.
Though characters and places were fictionalized for storytelling purposes, the main events in the duology are real. Drawn from private notes and journals made available to the author, The Broken Miracle is a riveting story that will take the reader on an unforgettable journey.
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TOLD ARE
THE BROKEN MIRACLES"
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I was in my hotel room in Seattle in 2010 when the song "Redeemer" came on. I was engrossed in its melody as soon as the string arrangements began. There was something about the song that made me quickly search the internet for the genius behind it. I stumbled upon the name "Paul Cardall" and his remarkable story of living with half a heart.
He became a constant presence in my playlists, his songs the soundtrack of some of my most personal moments. I downloaded every album and religiously visited iTunes hoping for new content. To my surprise (I still pinch myself to this very day), on February 2019, I was presented with the chance of writing a duology inspired by his miraculous life with a direct contribution from the man himself! Never in my wildest dreams would I have pictured that moment.
Paul and I met in NYC during a very stormy night two months later. We became friends within the first few minutes. I'll be honest, I struggled to keep my cool but believe I did a pretty good job despite being drenched by the deluge.
These books changed my life. Not only because I got to work with one of my inspirations, but because the journey is one that dares you to believe against all odds. It's a roller coaster where those riding can't see the tracks. They're only sure of the drop, but confused as to where it'll lead.
Paul and I are excited to invite you to join us on this wild ride. Hope can be found in the journey, even if arduous or seemingly impossible. But be sure of one thing; in the end, it'll all make sense.
from Paul Cardall
It's a bit surreal to see a duology inspired by my own life. I know my journey hasn't been the easiest or what people consider "normal," but seeing some of the most challenging moments I lived translated into words on a page brought clarity to many questions I had.⠀
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J.D. Netto was given access to many of my personal notes and diaries. In them I shared secrets I had kept for years. The experience of having an author put together a puzzle that was often just a pile in my head brought light to my own shadows. The book puts into words many things I tried to voice out throughout my life. It portrays the emotions and downfalls I experienced while many around me seemed healthy and strong. ⠀
J.D. beautifully portrays the journey, digging deep through unvoiced emotions and secrets. ⠀
My personal contribution is burrowed in each chapter. I got to edit each scene with notes from my personal experiences. Seeing them expand into powerful moments in the story was a breath of fresh air—even for me. It brought me perspective, healing, and even more courage to keep on living.⠀
My hope is that this novel instills in you the desire to live. I've been on the brink of death countless times, thought about giving up in a few of them, but in the end, love prevailed. I'm alive. My heart is beating. Life is worth living.⠀
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Inspired by The Broken Miracle novels, if an album was a memoir, this would be a soundtrack to the pianist and songwriter's life. Every year over a million children are born with some form of congenital heart defect that in most cases requires immediate surgery and a life long journey in and out of hospitals. Cardall took comfort in music as a teenager and since receiving a heart transplant in 2009, it's been his life's work to use music to help heal other hearts.
The album features special guests; David Archuleta, Tyler Glenn, Thompson Square, Rachael Yagamata, Ty Herndon, Matt Hammitt, Trevor Price, Akelee, and J. Daniel.
Tyler Glenn (Neon Trees)
Rachael Yamagata
J Daniel
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La Communauté de communes du Garnaguès et de la Piège était une communauté de communes française, située dans le département de l'Aude et la région Languedoc-Roussillon. Elle a été dissoute le janvier 2013 à la suite de la mise en application de la réforme des collectivités territoriales et des décisions du conseil départemental de coopération intercommunale de l'Aude.
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Avant sa dissolution, elle regroupait 9 communes:
Historique
Elle fut présidée par le maire de Belpech, Julien Mario (1941-2022).
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UXPA Meetup Part One: What's Membership Got to Do With It?
Membership is the root of all success. That was the conclusion our team came up with as we went through a rapid design process at the UXPA NYC meetup "Ready, Set, Design!" hosted by the XO Group and Greg Dilley on August 23rd. There were about six teams that presented their solutions at the end of the workshop.
Each individual on the team began by sketching out four ideas and presenting to the team. After seeing other ideas a pattern began to lightly emerge. The following round we paired up and focused on developing two ideas and presenting that round to the team. At this juncture, an common idea surfaced: membership was the core of all of the business objectives.
Why did you join UXPA?
How has UXPA enriched your life?
How can you better serve UXPA NYC?
Now, we had some information about the value of membership. So how do we grow the organization? Membership is tied to community and culture. If we focus on communicating the vision, culture, and community of UXPA NYC then we felt we had a good chance of achieving the business objectives.
Starting high school or college UXPA chapters - in order to grow members who have built their careers from a young age with the UXPA, increasing ownership.
The process our team went through over just three rounds allowed a pattern to emerge: that membership was the core business objective. We next built a solution around that assumption. In part two I will go into how we could begin to form ways to test the underlying assumptions about what matters to prospective members, venues, speakers, and sponsors.
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Behold, the Man Cave Commandments: What happens in the man cave, stays in the man cave; Thou shalt not be shunned for bodily functions; Thou shalt not bring blow dryers, curling irons or frilly things into the man cave; Thou shalt not have an ugly man cave; Thou shalt not cry in the man cave (unless thy team loses); Thou shalt not have an epoxy man cave floor; Thou shalt have freaking awesome garage tiles on thy man cave floor!
Yes, it's a commandment. Why? Because garage tiles make your garage floor look awesome! Just imagine, you invite the guys over to watch the big game, open up your garage, and they are hit with a striking, classic, checkered garage floor.
No matter what, we all want to impress the people our lives. More importantly, having your own personal space that you love adds to your quality of life. You are not just installing tiles for your garage; you are personalizing your garage and making it your own. There are plenty of garage flooring options on the market, but none as customizable and DIY friendly as garage floor tiles. What is the best garage floor tile? Well, while we do not classify one garage tile as "the best," but we do understand that each type of garage tile has its own forte, so let's break them down.
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It was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, a man's face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around. From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the nave. The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. The altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood And he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD." The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door. Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. There were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; thus were the side chambers of the house and the thresholds. Christian Canvas Art
King Solomon was king over all Israel, and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend; ... Bible Verse Wall Art
He measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court. The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.read more. Bible Verse Wall Art
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.
And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth." Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!" ...
1 Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 "See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills— 4 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, 5 to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts. 6 Moreover, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, to help him. Also I have given ability to all the skilled workers to make everything I have commanded you: Share Your Faith Products
He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three hundred shekels of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold. There were six steps to the throne and a footstool in gold attached to the throne, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. Christian Gifts
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. Bible Verse Wall Art
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Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses. And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there. (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.) Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out. ... Bible Verse Wall Art | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,009 |
I found a blinking nose for the holidays (this was a few years back) and I convinced my coworkers to take part in the photographic opportunities with no alcohol present they agreed. :D (You can find them on my flickr set here Now I've found an website that AOL , Yahoo, and Microsoft Outlook, uses for their buddy icons called Wee World that lets you play around with making characters that look like you (or not) and wherever (on your phone, on your blog, create a blog in Wee World). Now, presenting my wee mee.
Doesn't it look like this?
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Monthly Must-Plays: 5 games you need to check out in September
Brittany Vincent
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Tag: Gamegrrls
Tag: Marvel's Spider-Man
Tag: Life is Strange 2
Tag: Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Tag: Destiny 2: Forsaken
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Looking for something new to play? Look no further than September's edition of Monthly Must-Plays, our new feature with the hottest picks in the gaming world you should check out over the coming weeks.
September has a wide selection of awesome titles coming down the pipeline. We're ringing in the fall with Marvel's Spider-Man, one of the biggest games to hit store shelves, as well as a few other blockbusters that you absolutely must give a spin.
If you've been patiently waiting for another zip through New York with the iconic hero, get ready to grab this PlayStation 4 exclusive on September 7. An all-new storyline finds Spider-Man teaming up with MJ and other important allies to unravel a secret behind a new threat to the city. It's always something, right? Insomniac Games' slick new vision of the web-slinger is going to feature tons of nefarious villains, plenty of buildings to swing by, and even Miles Morales meeting Peter Parker! If you're a Marvel fan, this is going to have to be a day-one purchase for you. Leading the September release schedule, Marvel's Spider-Man is going to change the game for Spidey adventures.
Life is Strange 2 - Episode One
Forget Max, Chloe, and Rachel Amber. Life is Strange 2 is all about brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz as they set off on a new adventure following a particularly heartbreaking situation. The brothers are trekking to Mexico, and their journey will bring them even closer together as they work through one of the most difficult situations they've ever faced in their lives. The first episode of five is scheduled to hit on September 27, and while there's no prior knowledge of the Life is Strange series required to enjoy this new season, you can and should play the free The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit prologue demo to get a feel for what this adventure may offer.
Ready for a sprawling, traditional Japanese role-playing game? The latest entry in the long-running Dragon Quest series should certainly scratch that itch nicely. Embark on a journey as the storied hero, the "Luminary," as you work to set things right once more in a magical land. All your favorite RPG trappings are here, like a ton of grinding, turn-based combat, and especially the adorable little Slime enemies that sit and grin at you. It's got over 100 hours of content to keep you engaged, and if you've been following the Dragon Quest series, you'll know exactly why this release is such a big deal.
Join Lara Croft on her final stop on the journey to become the Tomb Raider she was meant to be in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Taking place two months after Rise of the Tomb Raider, it follows Croft as she works to keep the Mayan apocalypse from raining down on the unsuspecting world. It's coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on September 14. If you've been following the series of Tomb Raider reboots since they began back in 2013, you've got a lot to catch up with, but this particular adventure looks like it could certainly be the series' best so far.
Destiny 2: Forsaken
Destiny 2 has just welcomed its latest DLC expansion pack, Forsaken, on September 4. It invites players to come back to the game for a wealth of new content, including new weapons, more story missions, game mode, and a new raid as well as a ton of other new goodies like Super Abilities, and destinations like The Reef and The Tangled Shore. Is Cayde-6 actually dead for good this time? We'll have to play the game to find out, though our money's on "probably not." | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,011 |
Bill Murray slept through his lifetime achievement award
Culture Film/TV
By Geordie Gray
Shout Geordie Gray a coffee
Bill Murray has proven that he is only human, honey.
On Saturday, the Moonrise Kingdom actor was set to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Rome Film Festival. However, Murray somehow managed to sleep through an entire press conference dedicated to him receiving the award. I mean, having to sit through an entire press conference about an award you're receiving seems like a pretty grim affair. So we don't blame him.
Murray did inevitably receive his award. The actor later appeared at a Close Encounters panel during the festival, where he was given his award by longtime collaborator Wes Anderson.
Wes Anderson and Bill Murray are set to collaborate again on the forthcoming film, The French Dispatch, set to hit cinemas in 2020. Murray will star alongside a stellar cast of Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Stephen Park, and Owen Wilson.
The film is "a love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in 20th-century Paris and centers on three storylines."
Honestly, a Wes Anderson film with Timothée Chalamet? The man truly knows his audience.
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In From The Outpost
Travel News & Views
What the Killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia Means for Malta
by Ryan Murdock October 30, 2017
by Ryan Murdock
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was (apparently) the most dangerous person in Malta, just for calling out the country's systemic, and seismic, corruption. Then, she was brutally murdered by a car bomb, as many predicted she would be.
By Ryan Murdock | Outpost | Oct. 30, 2017
Daphne Caruana Galizia was the most dangerous person in Malta.
I probably don't need to tell you who she is anymore, because her name is making the news worldwide. I first came into contact with Daphne on January 13, 2017.
But of course I knew her work well by that point, because I had been a twice-daily reader of her blog for the past six years. Admittedly, I found her website when googling key words like "Malta sucks" or "I hate Malta," and I would laugh at some of her more scathing articles when island life had driven me to despair, and to a point where I felt like the only sane person in a lunatic asylum. It felt good to know that someone else recognized just how strange this little island was, and how bizarre were some of the things that passed as normal.
To cite the name of Daphne was to take sides in the ongoing village football match that is Maltese politics. I would be dismissed by half the population of that country simply for admitting that I followed her work. People asked me sometimes, "Do you read Daphne?" But they always whispered and looked over their shoulders while saying it.
This is unfortunate, because Daphne was the only proper investigative journalist on the island. While the main national newspapers were parroting whatever government press release was published that day—holding up clear, documented paper trails of evidence alongside nonsense, like "Konrad said he didn't do it" and printing "It's anyone's guess what happened, you decide"— Daphne did what any self-respecting journalist should do. She dug. She followed her instincts. She published what she found, and she stood by her carefully researched words.
My Life in Malta: The Challenges of Living in a Developing Country | by Ryan Murdock
Her blog and her columns in The Malta Independent became a lone voice of sanity in a sea of whataboutism, shrugging, avoidance and pathological allergies to personal responsibility. And as Malta descended into astonishing depths of corruption, Daphne Caruana Galizia's blog was at the forefront in exposing it all.
I remember January 13, 2017, so well because I logged on to her site that afternoon to see my own name at the top of the page.
Someone had sent her an online article I wrote for Outpost three years earlier about the challenges of living in a developing country. Daphne shared it with her audience, and then fiercely defended my views in the comments.
Ryan's article was highlighted on Daphne's blog in January 2015.
It was a strange coincidence, because I had just left the island that week after six long years of residency. I wrote her immediately to correct a couple details, she responded in minutes and we began to correspond by email.
I became a regular featured commenter on Daphne's blog, and I wrote two guest articles for her in the lead up to the 2017 election. She even mentioned getting together for dinner next time she visited Berlin, my current base. But I never had the opportunity to meet her in person.
I admired Daphne Caruana Galizia enormously for her integrity, fearlessness, honesty, investigative instincts, and for her clean, precise prose style and her biting sense of humour. Daphne was fearless in a culture where keeping one's head down is seen as a virtue. She had integrity on an island where it is in short supply. She was the only true journalist in Malta, with impeccable investigative instincts, in a country where "journalists" simply transcribe and parrot what they are told at a government press conference.
And so the kleptocrats who had taken over the government of this tiny European Union country despised her and feared what she wrote. Reviled by half the country but secretly loved by the other half, everyone followed her site—especially her enemies, whose deeds she was always the first to expose.
On Monday, October 16, 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally murdered with a car bomb on a small village road near her home. Her son was the first to come across the burning wreckage, and the bloody pieces of his mother scattered across a field.
The inept and politically compromised Maltese police are handling the investigation, and I'm quite certain it will go the way of the other 15 car bombings and targeted killings that happened in Malta over the last 10 years. None of them were ever solved.
The situation in Malta will get worse by the day because there's no one to shine a light into shady corners anymore.
Daphne Caruana Galizia was the most dangerous person in Malta. (Wikimedia file photo)
But for once, the outside world is watching. The European Union parliament held a special session to discuss Daphne's killing, just days after the horrific event. Her sons and husband were invited, and the parliament held a minute of silence in her memory. They also lowered flags to half mast, and are renaming their media centre after her.
But in Malta, as of this writing and printing, nothing. Parliament did nothing—even as the story of her brutal murder made international news, from Japan to Canada and every paper in between. The foreign media seems to view it as an attempt to stifle freedom of expression, and as an attack on the press. And I guess it was, in part. But the rot in Malta goes much deeper.
Journalists have descended on the tiny island in a swarm to cover this brutal killing, too, and from what I'm hearing and reading, they're shocked at what they see. They're shocked at the complacency of the people, of which only a handful took to the streets in protest. (Judging by the anti-corruption rallies of 2016 and 2017, those irate few will quickly lose interest and go back to their lives.) They're shocked at the smug press conferences of the prime minister, the man with the most to gain from this murder. They're shocked by the gloating partisan voices on Facebook—one of whom is a serving police officer—celebrating Daphne's death, or otherwise saying, "It served her right."
And as for me, I will only be shocked if this murder is solved. People don't respond this way in a normal country. But Malta is not a normal country.
The ultimate responsibility for Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder goes much further than the assassin who planted and triggered the bomb, or the person who ordered the killing.
It goes beyond the money launderers and criminals who stand to benefit from her silencing. And it goes beyond the many judicial inquiries set off by her stories, and which are currently in the courts, "investigating" among others Prime Minister Joseph Muscat; his chief of staff, Keith Schembri; his minister for shady deals, Konrad Mizzi; the massive money trails from the ruling family of Azerbaijan; the sale of Maltese (that is to say, European Union) citizenship; visa scams, money laundering, fuel smuggling, human trafficking, government nepotism and cronyism, the role that Malta's institutions are playing in all of this, and all the rest. I urge you to visit her website for more.
But if you're unsure who or what to believe, here are just a few quotes I pulled from "Malta: Overview of Corruption and Anti-Corruption," published in February 2017 by the global (and highly regarded) anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International:
• "Notable integrity challenges include procurement irregularities, unresolved conflicts of interest among serving government ministers, and the revolving door between the island state's close-knit political and business class. Malta is also the only country in the European Union to have an incumbent minister named in the Panama Papers revelations in 2016."
• "Transfers of money generated from illicit activity in foreign jurisdictions to Maltese bank accounts constitute a notable volume of laundered funds. These violations are typically associated with investment scams, and tax/value added tax fraud (Know Your Country 2017)."
• "Despite its small size and comprehensive anti-money laundering legislations that include a definition of beneficial ownership, Malta ranked in the top eight EU states with the highest number of offshore entities listed in the Panama Papers leak in 2016."
• "Malta's commitment to combatting money laundering is due to the country's interest in shielding its role as a reputable financial services centre. Convictions are, however, few and far between, with only five successful prosecutions for money laundering in 2015 (Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit 2017)."
• "The severity of corruption in Malta is exemplified by the fact that, according to a recent report commissioned by the European Parliament, the country lost at least 11.67 percent of its gross domestic product (approximately $1.25 billion) to corruption every year between 1995 and 2014 (Grech 2016a)."
• "…The major obstacles affecting businesses in Malta are favouritism in the government bureaucracy and the country's shadow economy, which comprises of nearly a quarter of the entire market."
• "The 2016 edition of the CPI shows that perceptions of corruption in Malta rose last year in the wake of a series of scandals and the country has fallen to an all-time low of 47th position.
• "…Defamation is a criminal offense [in Malta] …Malta Independent columnist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia had her bank accounts frozen with a precautionary warrant for $50,000 for publishing a story that Economy Minister Chris Cardona and his consultant Joe Gerada visited a brothel while in Germany on government business (EFJ 2017)."
• "Malta is the only EU member without a local chapter of Transparency International."
Manuel Delia, the Maltese blogger who has stepped into the breach since Daphne was killed, also highlighted these elements after reading my analysis.
Malta has reached its current depth of corruption because the culture and people made it that way. Daphne Caruana Galizia shone a light into the darkest corners of a country that was once known as a pirate nation, and that has since become a black mark on the map of Europe. Her longtime friend Andrew Borg Cardona pointedly told the BBC that "people don't get killed for spreading fake news; people get killed for becoming dangerous to the people she was attacking."
There's no hope for change on a local level; too many people are benefiting from the state of things in Malta. The only hope will come from outside: from a weak and indecisive European Union, or in the form of sanctions from the world's major economic players.
But none of this will happen. Daphne will have died in vain, fighting for what she believed in, writing her truth and fearlessly signing her name to it.
At least she could look herself in the mirror each day. I don't know how the rest of Malta can.
This article originally appeared in Outpost Magazine, issue 119, and was published on Ryan's blog, which you can visit for more commentary on this and other issues.
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Ryan Murdock is an editor-at-large for Outpost Travel Media who's been writing about travel and world cultures for more than two decades and is the author of Vagabond Dreams: Road Wisdom from Central America. He's based in Berlin with his wife, photographer Tomoko Goto, and you can find more of his travel dispatches at www.ryanmurdock.com.
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Melissa November 1, 2017 - 9:02 am
I agree with the observation that publically admitting that one read Daphne's blog is tantamount to admitting to heretical behaviour.
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what does this mean for the SEO industry?
Statistics corresponding to internet browsing across the globe in the opening months of 2014 conveyed a compelling and startling reality; mobile internet usage worldwide is now higher than it is on PC's for the first time in history as the manner in which successful marketers operate underwent a permanent transformation.
Much like historical and human transition, every era of technology undergoes an unceremonious passing of the torch ; a changing of the guard where new, younger and more adeptly suited advancements are universally and seamlessly implemented into our lives, casting the established pieces of technology which have governed our way of living for years to steady but certain obscurity.
Think of fax machines, VCR's, the dial-up internet. All have risen to meteoric heights with their usage, particularly in the business world, only to be replaced by more useful and illustrious technology which offers far more benefits than their outdated predecessors.
The reality is that these tectonic shifts are inevitable, and in the business world those who identify and adapt to these the quickest typically tend to enjoy immediate rewards for their anticipatory measures. And whilst the most recent 'shift' has been expected for some-time now, the emergence of mobile devices as the primary platform for internet surfing ahead of PC's this year will provide webmasters and SEO experts with a clear indication of the direction in which marketing will go in the next few years, as well as an excellent opportunity to begin tailoring their sites now in order to ensure that they stand to make maximum ROI from mobile optimised projects.
Below I will reflect on the nature of the change that has occurred within internet browsing in the past year, and will elaborate on the opportunities this transition is providing for SEO marketers seeking to capitalise on it during its early stages.
Whilst it was steadily becoming apparent that mobile devices were the future of marketing, 2014 nevertheless marked the first occasion where official figures illustrated that they had actually overtaken traditional PC's as the number one browsing platform.
Much like when internet marketing first propelled into popularity, there is certainly an opportunity here for online marketers to get ahead of their competition through the prioritisation and optimisation of all their mobile related endeavours. This is not to say that marketers have not been aware of the importance of mobile marketing for some time now; indeed the majority of reputable SEO firms will make sure that their market campaigns are supplemented with a sufficient level of mobile adaptation. However, the real opportunity is now there for those marketers who want to go one step further and appreciate mobile devices as the new pivotal foundation from which all operations from selling to customer service should now be focused towards.
In order to attract the most visitors, or stand the best chance of converting target audiences, the reality is that the mobile dimension of all marketing campaigns needs to be concentrated on and primarily optimised. In order for this aim to be fully realised, SEO experts need to be prepared to integrate mobile-optimised adaptations of all the components essential to their marketing campaigns: apps, the site, customer service, data, promotions and sales.
What type of browsing are users doing on their mobile devices?
Over 99% of mobile-users access the internet on their phones to find out information about things or access content on subject-related material.
Just over 63% of users simply access internet on their phone because it is their primary source for doing so.
The information above clearly illustrates that mobile internet usage has evolved to so much more than playing games, searching through Facebook and killing time on the train. Instead, it conveys the reality of an already established doctrine; that digital assets of a branded company must be available to service customers and its business counterparts around the clock and not only during working hours.
In an international market where foreign deals can often be lucrative, you need to ensure your marketing extends around the clock and there are logistical means to convert traffic into paying customers between midnight to midday. Recent figures compiled by the IDG Global Mobile Survey 2014 describing the phone usage of business executives indicates the importance of companies having all their digital assets available around the clock, in order to acquire regular business from around the globe.
Over 90% of business directors and chief execs utilise their personal phones to conduct business.
92% of executives own a smartphone used for business.
The majority of executives will conduct research on potential clients and other products during the night time.
The figures suggest that as mobile marketing rises in importance, so will the need to have readily available digital assets and companies will need to keep their conversion facilities optimised at all times in order to maximise their chances of establishing business-to-business relationships with clients across the globe.
Within all marketing mediums, where it is customer servicing, customer targeting, promoting, sales, social media utilisation or business-to-business contact, the increasingly apparent reality is that mobile devices are ascending to the forefront of browsing and contacting. The speed and quality of how well a company formulates and instigates measures to optimise their mobile presence is of paramount importance to putting them ahead of their competitors at present until it becomes a universal requirement to successes for all businesses.
Those who decide to disregard the shift in tectonics and simply carry on looking at mobile marketing as merely a secondary aspect of their campaigns could find themselves falling rapidly behind in the space of a few years because digital interaction via these mediums is integral to capitalising on their new-found supremacy in the browsing landscape.
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#pragma once
#include <aws/amplifyuibuilder/AmplifyUIBuilder_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/amplifyuibuilder/model/Component.h>
#include <utility>
namespace Aws
{
template<typename RESULT_TYPE>
class AmazonWebServiceResult;
namespace Utils
{
namespace Json
{
class JsonValue;
} // namespace Json
} // namespace Utils
namespace AmplifyUIBuilder
{
namespace Model
{
class AWS_AMPLIFYUIBUILDER_API UpdateComponentResult
{
public:
UpdateComponentResult();
UpdateComponentResult(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue>& result);
UpdateComponentResult& operator=(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue>& result);
/**
* <p>Describes the configuration of the updated component.</p>
*/
inline const Component& GetEntity() const{ return m_entity; }
/**
* <p>Describes the configuration of the updated component.</p>
*/
inline void SetEntity(const Component& value) { m_entity = value; }
/**
* <p>Describes the configuration of the updated component.</p>
*/
inline void SetEntity(Component&& value) { m_entity = std::move(value); }
/**
* <p>Describes the configuration of the updated component.</p>
*/
inline UpdateComponentResult& WithEntity(const Component& value) { SetEntity(value); return *this;}
/**
* <p>Describes the configuration of the updated component.</p>
*/
inline UpdateComponentResult& WithEntity(Component&& value) { SetEntity(std::move(value)); return *this;}
private:
Component m_entity;
};
} // namespace Model
} // namespace AmplifyUIBuilder
} // namespace Aws
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Cabernet Franc – is a relative of Cabernet Sauvignon, but is usually softer and has a lower alcohol and sugar content. Used in classic Bordeaux-style blends but also for varietal wines. Tiny but increasing vineyard area in South Africa..
Cinsaut – was previously known locally as Hermitage. A strong and very versatile variety – that is often used in blends. But is probably better known for its contribution to the forming of South Africa's favourite son – Pinotage.
Gamay (Noir) - Mainly light red wines in the nouveau style are made of this grape in France's Beaujolais region.
Grenache (Noir) – is one of Spain's most important varieties where it's known as Garnacha, this hardy grape is resistant to the harsh elements and is often used for blending with Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
Merlot – is an early ripening variety that is traditionally used as a blending partner to Cabernet Sauvignon but is now increasingly being bottled as a varietal wine. It is often seen as an easier sorfter alternate to a Cabernet Sauvignon. Planted in increasing quantities, particularly in the Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Paarl regions.
Muscadel – is a variety that produces a very popular sweet red wine, with particularly good examples of it been produced in the Little Karoo region.
Pinot Noir - The king of Burgundy but notoriously difficult to grow elsewhere, although some very good examples are now been produced in South Africa.
Pinotage - A local cross between Pinot Noir and Cinsaut (Hermitage), created by Professor Abraham Perold in 1925. Unique to South Africa, it can produce complex and fruity wines with age but is also often very drinkable when young. In order for a wine to be classified as a 'Cape Blend' it has to consist of a minimum of 30% of Pinotage.
Shiraz - A noble variety of French origin. Better known as Syrah outside of South Africa, the largest production of Shiraz is now found in Australia but local production has steadily increased over the last couple of years.
Tinta Barocca – is predominantly used for the production of port wine in South Africa.
Zinfandel – California's leading grape variety (same as Italy's Primitivo) is planted on a limited scale in South Africa.
Cape Riesling (Crouchen Blanc) - The variety was wrongly regarded for many years as Weisser Riesling (Rhine Riesling) but was later identified as the Crouchen Blanc of France. A shy bearer which can produce quality white wines with a delicate yet fruity bouquet and sharp grassy aroma if growth and ripening conditions are ideal.
Chardonnay – is a native of Burgundy, this variety is also widely planted throughout the New World, as well as in South Africa. Locally, much experimentation has been taking place with the oak ageing of Chardonnay, and various styles of excellent wines are being produced. It is also used in some of the base wines from which Methode Cap Classique sparkling wines are produced..
Chenin Blanc (Steen) - The most widely cultivated variety in the South Africa, growers are raising the standard to new levels. Characterised by its versatility, Chenin Blanc produces good natural wines covering the whole spectrum from sweet to dry, as well as sherry and sparkling wine. Its fruitiness finds favour with a wide range of palates. It is also used for distilling brandy and spirits.
Colombar(d) - is one of the mainstays in the production of brandy in South African, this varietal is also used to produce quality blended wines. Good acid content ensures fresh, interesting wines with a pleasant fruity flavour.
Gewürztraminer – has a delicate aromatic flavour profile with an easily identifiable rose-petal fragrance; usually produces a light, off-dry wine.
Hanepoot – is the old Afrikaans name for d'Alexandrie and is the Cape's most planted muscat variety, it is used mainly for dessert wine, as well as natural wine and raisins. Hanepoot delivers a strong, flowery bouquet and intense honey flavours.
Muscadel – is used chiefly in dessert wines, it gives an intense, raisin-like bouquet and was historically associated with the famous Constantia dessert wines. Red and white grapes grow mainly in the Breede River region. It belongs to the Muscat family.
Pinot Gris - Planted on a very small scale in South Africa. Produces wines which are full and well balanced.
Sauvignon Blanc - in combination with Semillon and Muscadel these grapes produce some of the most exceptional white wines of Bordeaux. Extensively planted in the 18th century, Sauvignon Blanc has now regained popularity and considerably increased its share of plantings. There are some leading local examples which have garnered international attention.
Semillon (Green Grape) - Produces a full yet subtle wine with little acid; often used in blends. Locally, some outstanding wooded varietal wines have been produced from this grape variety which once represented 93% of all Cape vines and now accounts for only about 1%.
Viognier – is becoming increasingly fashionable internationally, this variety has been grown for centuries in the northern half of the Rhône valley in France. An early ripener, it produces delicate complex wines with peach, apricot, honey and spice aromas. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,016 |
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Q: How can I configure my project to generate platform independent code? I am writing an application that I would like to release binaries for on Mac, Windows, and Linux. I have code that compiles under Mac and Linux, but under Windows, it does not.
This is because of Windows lack of a strcasecmp. I've read a little bit about how I can create some sort of header to wrap my code, but I don't really understand this concept too well. I've worked on the code on my Mac with just vim and make, but now I'm trying to switch it all over to Visual Studio.
Is there some way I can set my project up to include Windows wrapper headers when I'm building on Windows, but omit them when I'm building on my Mac or Linux box?
This problem is really giving me a headache and I'd appreciate any suggestions!
A: You could do
#ifdef WIN32
#include <windows_specific_header.h>
#else
#include <other_header.h>
There is also an MS Visual Studio-specific macro: _MSC_VER, so
#ifdef _MSC_VER
would also work here.
There is also WINVER define in windows.h.
A:
configure my project to generate platform independent code
That is a bit of an odd phase, so I'm not sure that I'm aswering the right question, but here goes:
You have to write platform independent code.
Do one of these:
*
*Write to a cross-platform framework (i.e. QT)
*Only use library functions that are available on all your targets
or
*
*provide wrappers to fill up any gaps in the library for on (or more) targets
A: Boost libraries are designed to be cross-platform. In particular, if you need to manipulate strings, you'll probably find what you need. And it will be cross-platform without having to deal with it yourself. See there to get a glimpse of what's available.
A: maybe you can consider compiling your code with MINGW32 on windows.
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La chiesa di San Martino è un luogo di culto cattolico situato nella frazione di Polanesi, in via Polanesi, nel comune di Recco nella città metropolitana di Genova. La chiesa è sede della parrocchia omonima del vicariato di Recco-Uscio-Camogli dell'arcidiocesi di Genova.
Storia
La sua prima citazione ufficiale, con il nome di cappella di san Martino di Recco, risale in un atto datato al 1195 e secondo alcuni testi la sua comunità fu affidata a partire dal 1311 direttamente all'arciprete di Recco. La comunità religiosa di Polanesi fu unita prima del 1460 assieme ai parrocchiani di Megli diventandone succursale dall'11 aprile del 1469.
Dal 1512 al 1534 fu aggregata alla comunità di Avegno per poi ritornare succursale di Megli fino al 1639. Nello stesso anno, il 4 giugno, il cardinale Stefano Durazzo la elevò al titolo di parrocchia.
Descrizione
L'interno è ad unica navata con cinque altari laterali di cui il maggiore fu donato alla chiesa in seguito alla soppressione della chiesa di San Nicolò nel 1799. Nel 1816 l'allora rettore Antonio Assereto ne chiese appunto il trasferimento al marchese Domenico Franzone, quest'ultimo padre dell'arcivescovo di Torino Luigi Franzone e dove anni prima la sua famiglia finanziò a proprie spese la realizzazione dell'altare nella chiesa di San Nicolò.
La chiesa fu ufficialmente consacrata dal cardinale e arcivescovo di Genova Giuseppe Siri il 27 ottobre del 1954; nello stesso giorno s'incoronò anche l'immagine della Madonna della Salute.
L'edificio, inoltre, conserva un pregevole organo a canne, realizzato nel XVII secolo da Tommaso I Roccatagliata.
Voci correlate
Martino di Tours
Arcidiocesi di Genova
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
Martino
Recco
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MoneyConsumerDon't Waste Your Money
Bidding wars frustrate Cincinnati home buyers
Homes in hot areas selling above asking price
By: John Matarese
How hot is the housing market this year?
So hot that this is the best time since the peak of the 2006 housing bubble to sell a home, with buyers offering more than asking price in many areas, even in Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky.
Realtor.com recently named Greater Cincinnati one of the nation's hottest housing markets , due to strong demand and a lack of homes for sale.
Home buyers frustrated
New mom Corey Curran of Deer park has been forced to put her baby's bassinet in the living room of their two bedroom home, due to a lack of bedroom space.
While she tries to get to the baby boy to sleep, husband John tends to their toddler in the kitchen.
Both of them dream of moving to a bigger home in the northern suburbs, just north of I-275.
But mom Corey says trying to buy right now is "insane! Before we even get in to see houses, they are sold within a couple of hours."
They are hoping to find a 2,000 square foot move-up home for under $250,000 in Butler County. That price typically brings a well-cared for subdivision home built in the 1970's, 80's, or 90's,
Newer homes with "great rooms" tend to cost $300,000 or more.
But even with their modest expectations (granite counters not required) they have been outbid a half dozen times this year.
John Curran says he's learned the rules of 2018 the hard way. "You have less than 8 hours to get a bid in, and you have to go over asking price or you don't have a chance," he said.
Normal rules of buying don't apply
Forget the usual suggestions about offering 10% below asking price, and setting up contingencies, such as an allowance for a new air conditioner. With inventory tight is many desirable neighborhoods, prices are at all time records in Ohio, Kentucky, and many parts of the country.
The Cincinnati Board of Realtors says the average selling price in the region has hit $205,000 for the first time ever, up 6% since a year ago. (Be grateful you don't live in Boston, New York City, California, or even Austin, Texas, where tiny starter homes are now $400,000)
Lori Newsom is the top selling realtor in Deer Park, an ideal starter home community, due to its local schools and proximity to Kenwood Towne Center. Former starter neighborhoods like Oakley are no longer considered to be that "starter" category, because of high prices.
"It's a great time to be a seller here," she said, "but frustrating to be a buyer."
She says even in Deer Park where post-war Cape Cod starter homes are still just $150,000, they're going fast. "One of the houses I recently listed had several offers the first day way over asking price," Newsom said.
Increase your odds
So if you are trying to buy a house in a red hot market right now, what should you do? You could wait till fall for less competition, but mortgage rates are moving up, and inventory will be even tighter then.
So there are a number of things you can do to make sure you don't show up and find your dream house has already been sold.
West Chester, Ohio realtor Lynn Schwarber has one big piece of advice: "You've got to rush out the first day a listing hits the market," she said.
In the Lakota School District, where Corey and John dream of finding something, Schwarber says "most buyers are looking at spending between $200,000 and $250,000. But right now there are only 12 active listings at that price point. Only 12."
Once you get above $300,000 in Butler County, Schwaber says buyers have many more options. And above $400,00, homes can sit on the market for months, she says, because they are competing with brand new construction, with 3-car garages and miles of white granite countertops.
So what can you do to improve your odds? Schwarber says:
Sign up with a buyer's agent who can alert you to new listings immediately. You don't pay them anything upfront: you just agree that they will represent you and get a cut of the agents' commission at sale time.
Visit a new listing that day, never waiting till Saturday or an open house on Sunday.
Be prepared to offer listing price, because someone else will. Better yet, make it an "escalating" offer, where if someone else offers more than asking price, your bid automatically goes up (just like an auction).
Have a lender's letter of pre-approval in your hand.
Write a personal letter to the owner.
"Make it a personal letter to the seller," Schwarber says. "Tell them about your family, because a lot of times sellers will pick you if they can relate to that."
What about just buying a new house? Realtors say its very hard to find new construction for under $300,000 in the Cincinnati area anymore, because building costs have gone up so much in recent years (though you may find new homes for less than that in Clermont County, southeast Indiana, and in Northern Kentucky due to cheaper land costs).
Corey and John Curran hope a seller gives their young family a break, and a home.
As always, don't waste your money.
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A new Chinese poster for Avengers: Endgame has emerged online that shows the full line-up ready for action, including one surprising addition.
Against a backdrop that teases the upcoming journey into space, we see the various heroes who are set to band together in an effort to reverse the Snap, from Phase 1 stars like Iron Man and Captain America, to relative newcomer Captain Marvel. But one inclusion that we've yet to see in any other promotional images is an upgraded version of the Hulkbuster armor, which can be seen standing behind its last user, Bruce Banner.
Since the whole team seems accounted for in the new poster, it's hard to say who could end up wearing the suit. Bruce might be a natural guess, given his reliance on the Hulkbuster in last year's Avengers: Infinity War, though it's safe to assume that he'll be getting over his transformation difficulties in next month's release, at which point, the armor will become unnecessary. Tony Stark is another obvious candidate, but as we've seen already, Iron Man's suits don't always need someone inside them to function, so perhaps we're asking the wrong question here.
Regardless, it's nice to know that Stark has found the time to give the Hulkbuster one last update in preparation for what might well be his final adventure. At the same time, previous promotional images have indicated that he'll be rocking a much slimmer suit as well, while the latest trailer offers final confirmation that he'll also be among the heroes wearing the team's the new white uniform. We'll find out if Iron Man can put all this gear to good use when Avengers: Endgame hits theaters on April 26th. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,022 |
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Q: How can I get Predicate from static methods via reflection? Given a class consisting of static predicate methods, I want to access them via reflection and convert them to Predicate<Object> type.
public class MyPredicates {
public static boolean isNull(Object obj) {
return obj == null;
}
public static boolean hasNegativeHashcode(Object obj) {
return obj.hashCode() < 0;
}
}
Normally, I would write the following code to get the predicate:
Predicate<Object> isNull = MyPredicates::isNull;
However, I don't know how to do that using reflection. My intention is to create an annotation for these methods and get them via reflection to create a list of available predicates for my framework.
I thought of three possible approaches, none of which seems good to me.
*
*I could leave it like Method, call invoke() and cast the returned Object to boolean. This, however, would be hard to read and it would mean that I'd have no way of checking the type during runtime.
*I could wrap the reflection call to Predicate but this would involve additional overhead.
*I could make the user to register every method separately (hard to maintain when adding/removing many methods).
In any case, I fear that using reflection directly will add more overhead and slow down the program.
So, my questions are:
*
*Can I get the Predicate via reflection directly?
*If not, what would be an appropriate way of accessing such methods without adding too much overhead, while having a usable API (e.g. by involving Predicate)?
A: TL;DR: Return Predicate directly from a static method and store it for future use (possibly in a map with method names as keys) to eliminate speed bottleneck of reflective access.
public static Predicate<Object> isNull() {
return obj -> obj == null;
}
First of all, it's important to understand how JVM handles method references. There is a great explanation of that in another question. Take a look at the lambda translation document - in particular, section Method reference capture.
list.filter(String::isEmpty)
is translated as
list.filter(indy(MH(metaFactory), MH(invokeVirtual Predicate.apply), MH(invokeVirtual String.isEmpty))()))
This means that Predicate doesn't exist during runtime unless you write it in your code. There could be a convenient way to get it via reflection API but as far as I know, there isn't. You may be able to write something similar using dynamic proxies; however, I think it would add unnecessary complexity to the code.
Here is a benchmark of 4 different methods to achieve the desired behaviour, including those mentioned in the question:
Benchmark Mode Cnt Score Error Units
MyBenchmark.testNormal thrpt 30 362.782 ± 13.521 ops/us
MyBenchmark.testReflectionInvoke thrpt 30 60.440 ± 1.394 ops/us
MyBenchmark.testReflectionWrappedPredicate thrpt 30 62.948 ± 0.846 ops/us
MyBenchmark.testReflectionReturnedPredicate thrpt 30 381.780 ± 5.265 ops/us
*
*testNormal accesses the predicate via :: operator
*testReflectionInvoke uses the invoke() method directly
*testReflectionWrappedPredicate wraps the invoke() method to Precicate
*testReflectionReturnedPredicate uses a method which returns Predicate, so reflection is invoked only once
The predicates were cached for the purpose of this example, since we are not testing the speed of getting a predicate but assuming it'll be done only once.
As you can see from the results, reflection is 6 times slower than accessing predicates normally. Therefore, in my opinion, the cleanest/most maintainable way to do this is to have methods with no arguments which return Predicate type instead of boolean.
public static Predicate<Object> isNull() {
return obj -> obj == null;
}
The benchmark has been done using 3 forks, 4 warm-up iterations and 10 iterations.
Here is the code I used for testing, if you want to run the benchmark yourself (uses JMH framework to do the benchmarking):
public class MyBenchmark {
public static Predicate<Object> normal = MyBenchmark::isNull;
public static Method reflectionInvoke;
public static Predicate<Object> reflectionWrappedPredicate;
public static Predicate<Object> reflectionReturnedPredicate;
static {
try {
Method m1 = MyBenchmark.class.getMethod("isNull", Object.class);
reflectionInvoke = m1;
reflectionWrappedPredicate = a -> {
try {
return (boolean)m1.invoke(null, a);
}
catch(IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException | InvocationTargetException ex) {
return false;
}
};
Method m2 = MyBenchmark.class.getMethod("isNull");
reflectionReturnedPredicate = (Predicate)m2.invoke(null);
}
catch(IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException | InvocationTargetException | NoSuchMethodException | SecurityException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
};
}
@Benchmark
@OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS)
public boolean testNormal() {
Predicate<Object> p = normal;
return p.test(this) | p.test(null);
}
@Benchmark
@OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS)
public boolean testReflectionInvoke() {
try {
Method m = reflectionInvoke;
return (boolean)m.invoke(null, this) | (boolean)m.invoke(null, (Object)null);
}
catch(IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException | InvocationTargetException | SecurityException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
return false;
}
}
@Benchmark
@OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS)
public boolean testReflectionWrappedPredicate() {
Predicate<Object> p = reflectionWrappedPredicate;
return p.test(this) | p.test(null);
}
@Benchmark
@OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS)
public boolean testReflectionReturnedPredicate() {
Predicate<Object> p = reflectionReturnedPredicate;
return p.test(this) | p.test(null);
}
public static boolean isNull(Object obj) {
return obj == null;
}
public static Predicate<Object> isNull() {
return obj -> obj == null;
}
}
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Voor Chambers samenwerkte met Robbie Williams, speelde hij in een aantal bands, waaronder de groep World Party, en was hij werkzaam als producer. In 1992 vormde hij met zijn twee broers de band The Lemon Trees. De band bracht één album uit, genaamd 'Open Book'.
Samenwerking met Robbie Williams
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In 2002 stopte Williams de samenwerking met Chambers, maar al snel werd deze opnieuw aangehaald. In 2005, toen Williams startte aan zijn album Intensive Care, werd de samenwerking opnieuw beeindigd. Williams begon een samenwerking met andere muziekschrijvers, onder wie Stephen Duffy en de Pet Shop Boys. In 2007 maakten Williams en Chambers samen een cover van het nummer Lola van The Kinks voor een verzamelalbum ter ere van het vijftigjarig bestaan van BBC's Radio 1.
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Arshak Ter-Gukasov (1819–1881), Yerevan Forces commander of Russia's army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878
Voroshil Gukasyan (1932–1986), Soviet linguist
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The Indian pacer Umesh Yadav has failed to impress Sunil Gavaskar with his white-ball performance. The legendary Indian cricketer feels that India can do well with his replacement.
Umesh Yadav made his international debut in May 2010. Despite playing for a long time in the national team, he has failed to maintain his spot.
On last Sunday (24 February), Umesh Yadav once again disappointed with his bowling performance against Australia in the Visakhapatnam T20I. While he had to defend 14 runs in the last over, he failed to save that and India lost that game on the final ball of the match. The right-arm pacer conceded two boundaries in that over and also two required runs on the last ball of the game.
Unhappy Sunil Gavaskar feels that India should now search for a replacement of Umesh Yadav.
The host side India scored 126/7 in the first batting of Visakhapatnam T20I. Though the top-order batsmen KL Rahul (50) and Virat Kohli (24) performed well, the next batsmen failed to maintain that in the slow track. MS Dhoni (29*) was the only other batsmen to reach the double-digit knocks.
Talking about the Indian squad, Sunil Gavaskar feels that India underestimated Australia during the Visakhapatnam T20I. He pointed out that India made a mistake to play with only three recognised batsmen.
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