I was driving the other day on a hot Melbourne afternoon and passed three outlets advertising a big frozen coke for just $1. I saw many kids and parents armed with their new found friend as they accompanied their hot journey with a cool reprieve and importantly a stack of sugar to really keep them going. Heavily influenced by both the lack of AC flowing forth from my hot car and the satisfied looks of the passer by's, I too fell prey to the power of suggestion.
Now on my return journey home, equipped with said sugary delight, it made me think about the clients I am working with and the relevance of loss leading in small business today. 'Loss Leading' originated in the US but was originally termed; "nail down" strategy. It was always a product at a ridiculously low price. The term nail down evolved from retailers literally nailing the product to the shelf so it could not be sold. The idea is a customer would come in and then the salesperson would "step" the customer to a higher priced item.
For many of us reducing your prices on your products or services automatically raises the blood pressure and fear of setting a precedence. You set your prices because you think they are commiserate of what you are worth and or what the market will allow you to charge for it. The only problem is that when comparing apples to apples – your business will lack a possible edge that could successfully get the client over the line.
Some examples I thought of to put things into context were items that were possibly easy to do or to offer or that you bought cheap to begin with. Your time can be one of these valuable tools woven into your acquisition strategy – 'free consultation', 'no obligation quote', 'free assessment'. Or perhaps if you have 200 leather straps lying around, sell one with every watch sold, or if you have 4 spare tubs of Ice Cream, give every child under 5 a free ice cream with every purchase.
Loss Leaders are a great way to sharpen your strategies, experiment, see what works and what doesn't, generate feedback, see where these products actually do lead customers when in store. When I extrapolated the use of this simple but effective sales technique it made me realise just how complacent and one dimensional we can become as business owners. Engagement is the key to sparking interest and convenience serves the flame for a bigger sale.


The absence of former Skipper Dhoni from the T20 squad against West Indies and three matches against Australia puts speculation upon the future of the man who got India its only T20 ICC World title in 2007. Dhoni has not indicated any signs of retirement nor his fitness seems to below as seen in the last two ODIs against West Indies.
Anyone doubting the fitness of Dhoni had their views clear after the stunning catch Dhoni took in the Pune ODI. Borde says it is not the fitness that separates Dhoni from other wicketkeepers but it's his batting. "The way Dhoni is keeping, that catch he took was fantastic. Even a youngster would not have been able to take that. He is such a fit person," he says.
However, his inability to perform in the middle order is posing a threat. In ODIs this year he has registered scores of 7, 20, 36, 8, 33, 0, 42.
India's loss at Pune clearly pointed out at the absence of a batsman in the middle order. Kedar Jadhav who is fit to join in the team was replaced by pacer Khaleel Ahmed by the think tank. Borde thinks the decision to not play Jadhav was taken to allow him more rest. "The reason why Kedar Jadhav was not chosen was probably that they want to give him enough time to get 100 percent fit. He is one of those players who is prone to injury and that is the reason they are trying some other players to replace him, but I don't think they have found anybody of his caliber," he says.


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Q: How do you return the result of a completed celery task and store the data in variables? I have two flask modules app.py and tasks.py.
I set up Celery in tasks.py to complete a selenium webdriver request (which takes about 20 seconds). My goal is to simply return the result of that request to app.py.
Running the Celery worker on another terminal, I can see in the console that the Celery task completes successfully and prints all the data I need from the selenium request. However, now I just want to return the task result to app.py.
How do I obtain the celery worker results data from tasks.py and store each result element as a variable in app.py?
app.py:
I define the marketplace and call the task function and request the indexed results:
import tasks

marketplace = 'cheddar_block_games'

# This is what I am trying to get back:
price_check = tasks.scope(marketplace[0])
image = tasks.scope(marketplace[1])

tasks.py:
celery = Celery(broker='redis://127.0.0.1:6379')

 @celery.task()
 def scope(marketplace):
     web.get(f'https://magiceden.io/marketplace/{marketplace}')
     price_check = WebDriverWait(web,30).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/div[4]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/span/div[2]/div/span[1]"))).text
     image = WebDriverWait(web,30).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/div[4]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/div/img")))

     return (price_check, image)

A: This answer might be relevant:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/30760142/9347535
app.py should call the task e.g. using scope.delay or scope.apply_async. You could then fetch the task result with AsyncResult.get():
https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/latest/userguide/tasks.html#result-backends
Since the task returns a tuple, you can store each variable by unpacking it:
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#tuples-and-sequences
The result would be something like this:
import tasks

marketplace = 'cheddar_block_games'

result = tasks.scope.delay(marketplace)
price_check, image = result.get()

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The holiday season is upon us. As you prepare to wrap up the year and unwrap your presents, I hope you will take time to reflect on the lives of those who are less fortunate as well as the many blessings of 2016. When you're looking back on your year, I strongly urge you to place special emphasis on the blessings that came in disguise.
Here's an example: Several months ago, one of my lacrosse players was devastated after he broke up with his very first girlfriend. He was certain it was the worst event in his life and that he would never recover. I quickly reminded him that my wife was not my first girlfriend. Perhaps unsurprisingly in that moment, he didn't quite get the point. I elaborated, reminding him of the fact that I would not have met my wife and had three amazing children if I did not break up with my first girlfriend. He laughed as we moved on.
Everyone has good and bad luck, but the thing that separates ordinary from extraordinary people is the way they choose to respond. Are you the lottery winner who is bankrupt several years after winning millions or are you the track star who ends up competing in the Olympics after being cut from the soccer team in high school?
I first learned about the concept of "Return on Luck" (ROL) while reading Great by Choice, by Jim Collins. Collins states, "Everyone has good and bad luck, but it's up to the individual involved to create positive or negative outcomes beyond that moment." It's a matter of mindset.
Negative experiences can often serve as catalysts for our greatest personal growth. I would venture to say we gain much more from losing than from winning. As a coach and athlete, I always experienced the best practices after a loss. Unfortunately, winning can often mask the work that truly needs to be done.
Don't be afraid to try because of a fear of losing.
Promise to finish whatever you start, because quitting is contagious.
Spend less time worrying about whether your luck is good or bad in any given moment, and focus on how to create a positive return on whatever luck hands you.
The year is coming to an end, but you still have time on the clock. I hope you will make the most out of the remaining weeks of 2016.


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* Adds support for Communicators (with help from [diamond29][]).
* Validates the minimum version of Packer is met before running any Packer command line calls. Minimum version is set to 0.8.5 to support Communicators.
* Bumps integration spec and working example in the README to CentOS 6.7.

## 1.3.1

* Adds a fix for [issue #8](https://github.com/ianchesal/packer-config/issues/8). Removes psuedo-terminals from the runner library which were causing the problem.

## 1.3.0

* Add support for vmware-vmx building (via [tduehr][])

## 1.2.0

* Add support for docker-save post-processor (via [frasercobb][])
* Add support for docker-tab post-processor (via [frasercobb][])

## 1.1.0
* Thanks to [grepory][] we have a `vmware-vmx` builder

## 1.0.0
* A 1.0.0 release because...why not? You're either working or you're not and this is working so let's drop the `0.x.x` pretense and tango.
* Thanks to [frasercobb][] we have `puppet-server` and `puppet-masterless` provisioner interfaces
* There's also `ansible`, `chef-client`, `chef-solo` and `salt` provisioners for you to use now
* Added the `null` builder because it seemed handy to have
* Updated the example in the README (and the integration test) to CentOS 6.6
* Moved the legalese in to COPYRIGHT and got it out of the all of the individual files

## 0.0.4

* Added the ability to call `#build` with a quiet option. This option turns streaming to stdout off/on. With `quiet: false`, you will see the output of the Packer call on your screen while `#build` is executing it. This can be handy for view Packer status for long running Packer jobs.
* Started writing release notes!

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Home Business Dodgers get Alexander in 3-team trade with White Sox, Royals
Dodgers get Alexander in 3-team trade with White Sox, Royals
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The NL champion Los Angeles Dodgers have acquired left-handed reliever Scott Alexander from Kansas City in a three-team trade that also included the Chicago White Sox.
The White Sox got veteran relievers Luis Avilan and Joakim Soria and cash. The Dodgers also obtained minor league infielder Jake Peter and the Royals added a pair of minor leaguers in the deal Thursday.
The 28-year-old Alexander emerged as a key pitcher for the Royals last season, going 5-4 with four saves and a 2.48 ERA in 58 games. The Dodgers lost durable Brandon Morrow from their bullpen when he signed with the Chicago Cubs, and lefty Tony Watson became a free agent.
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Avilan was 2-3 with a 2.93 ERA in 61 games last season for the Dodgers. The 28-year-old lefty struck out 52 in 46 innings.
Soria was 4-3 with one save and a 3.70 ERA in 59 games for the Royals last season. The 33-year-old righty has 204 career saves.
The 24-year-old Peter hit a combined .279 at Double-A and Triple-A in the White Sox organization.
Kansas City got 24-year-old starter Trevor Oaks, a righty who went 4-3 with 3.83 ERA at Triple-A for the Dodgers, and 23-year-old infielder Erick Mejia, a switch-hitter who spent most of the season at Double-A for Los Angeles, batting .278 with 28 stolen bases overall in the minors.
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Anorexia nervosa, depression and suicidal thoughts among Chinese adolescents: a national school-based cross-sectional study
Qiguo Lian1,2,
Xiayun Zuo2,
Yanyan Mao1,2,
Shan Luo3,
Shucheng Zhang4,
Xiaowen Tu2,
Chaohua Lou2 &
Weijin Zhou2
Although there is much literature on adolescent suicide, combined effects of depression and anorexia nervosa on suicide were rarely investigated. The aims of this study are to examine the association between anorexia nervosa and suicidal thoughts and explore the interaction between anorexia nervosa and depression.
This is a cross-sectional study, in the study, a sample of 8,746 Chinese adolescents was selected by multistage stratified method in 2012/2013 from 20 middle schools in 7 provinces across China Mainland. Multilevel logistic model was introduced to explore association between anorexia nervosa and suicidal thoughts. And subgroup analyses were conducted on participants with or without depression.
Multilevel logistic model revealed that demographic variables, including academic achievement, were not the predictive risk factors of suicidal thoughts. Those who suffered from worse severity of perceived anorexia nervosa were at increased risk of thinking about suicide. The interaction between depression and anorexia nervosa was significant, however, subgroup analyses showed that the associations were significant only among the adolescents without depression.
Our results indicate that all levels of anorexia nervosa serve as predictable indicators of suicidal thoughts in Chinese adolescents, and the effects of anorexia nervosa are modified by depression status.
Suicide as a public health concern is largely preventable in adolescents [1, 2]. Adolescents are at high risk of suicide because they are particularly sensitive to environment during the stressful period of physical and cognitive development transitions [3]. There is some evidence to show that suicidal thoughts are becoming increasingly common in Asian youth [4,5,6]. Identifying subgroups of adolescents with suicidal thoughts could help guide suicide prevention initiatives, because existing studies indicate that suicidal ideation is the significant predictor of attempted suicide [7] and 60% of the suicide attempts emerge within the first year of the onset of suicidal thoughts [8].
It has been evidenced in many studies that anorexia nervosa is a serious psychiatric illness that is consistently associated with increased risk of suicide, especially in adolescents and young adults [9,10,11,12,13]. Some studies, however, suggested that completed suicide rates are not higher among individuals who are currently suffering from anorexia nervosa [14]. The results from another study confirmed that the null hypothesis, suicide rates, measured by officially recorded death certificates, are similar in the groups with or without anorexia nervosa [15]. However, most previous studies were based on clinical or community cohorts, thus the samples were small and focused on adults [9].
A growing body of literature shows that suicidal thoughts are associated with depression in adolescents [16,17,18,19]. Anorexia nervosa and major depression share common genetic and environmental risk factors [20]. Adolescents who suffered from anorexia nervosa have elevated risk of experiencing depression [20, 21]. There is much empirical literature on adolescent suicide, however, the interaction between depression and anorexia nervosa was rarely included in the models, and its influence on suicidal thoughts still remains unclear. To bridge this gap, the aims of this study are to evaluate the association between suicidal thoughts with anorexia nervosa among adolescents in China, and determine whether this association differed between the subgroups with or without depression.
Study sites and participants
This study was a school-based cross-sectional study, and conducted among 20 sampled middle schools in 7 provinces in China from 2012 to 2013. Multistage cluster sampling strategy was introduced to ensure a representative sample. First, given the heavily unbalanced development of China, Hebei and Inner Mongolia in the North China, Shandong in the East China, Heilongjiang in the Northeast China, Guangxi in the South China, Sichuan in the Southwest China and Shaanxi in the Northwest China that represented 6 administrative divisions were selected from 31 provinces in China. Second, one senior high school and one junior high school that represented the average education level were selected from the rural area and the urban area of one general socioeconomic status city in each selected province, respectively. Twenty schools were selected because some schools run both junior and senior high school programs. Finally, two classes were randomly selected from each grade at each school. All 9,312 students from those classes were recruited to the survey, and the response rate was 95.77% (8,746/9,312).
The computer-assisted self-administered survey was conducted anonymously in school computer labs within 45 min. The content of the questionnaire included the history of suicidal thoughts, level of anorexia nervosa, depression status and demographic characteristics. All the items measuring suicidal thoughts, anorexia nervosa and depression were selected from the literature, and their reliability and validity were good [6, 22, 23].
Suicidal thoughts were assessed as by one question: "Have you ever seriously thought about suicide? (1 = yes, 0 = no)" [6].
The level of anorexia nervosa was measured by the question "Have you ever experienced the feeling of disgust by the sight of food)?" The answer is coded as "1 = never, 2 = occasionally, 3 = sometimes, 4 = often, 5 = always". Items 4 and 5 were collapsed into a category of "often" [22].
The sign of depression was evaluated by one question: "Have you ever experienced of feeling depressed / life is not worthwhile that lasts at least 2 weeks? (1 = yes, 0 = no)" [23].
The questionnaire included a wide variety of demographic information, including age, gender, grade, academic achievement, living arrangement, family socioeconomic status, relationship with parents and classmates, feelings about school, reactions to parent-child conflict and smoking history.
Relationship with parents and classmates, and feelings about school were graded as good, average and poor. Academic achievement and family socioeconomic status were rated as high, average and low. Smoking was defined by one question: "Have you ever tried smoking, even only one or two puffs? (1 = yes, 0 = no)" Personality trait was measured by the question" How do you react to parent-child conflict?" with possible responses of "1 = endure quietly under any conditions, 2 = endure quietly under most conditions, 3 = argue with parents under most conditions, 4 = argue with parents under all conditions". Items 1 and 2 were collapsed into a category of "suffer in silence", and items 3 and 4 were combined into a category of "argue with parents".
The prevalence of demographic characteristics and primary outcomes was presented by contingency tables. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidential intervals (CIs) for the association between suicidal thoughts and anorexia nervosa were estimated by using logistic regression models with adjustment for potential confounders. Adolescents who never reported anorexia nervosa served as the reference group. Given that students are clustered within schools, the assumption of independence of the observations is violated because the residuals might be correlated within each cluster. We estimated multilevel logistic regression models for the hierarchical data, with students (level 1) nested within schools (level 2). The interactions of anorexia nervosa and depression were introduced on the basis of hierarchical model. Besides, subgroup analysis stratified by depression was performed. The significance was considered at p < 0.05. All the analyses were conducted with Stata/SE 14.2 [24].
Demographic characteristics of participants
Of all the 8,746 participants, 50.39% were female and 49.53% were senior school students. The mean age was 15.38 ± 1.95 years. Descriptive statistics of the basic demographic characteristics are presented in Table 1. Most of the students (74.81%) lived with their two biological parents and 16.52% came from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. As to their academic achievements, 41.22% of the students were rated as good and 17.60% as below average. Less than 3% reported poor relationships with parents and classmates and 5% had bad feelings about school. More than 20% of the students tried smoke and the same proportion would argue with their parents when parent-child conflict occurs. 70% of the respondents suffered from anorexia, at least some level. 12.22% considered suicide seriously, and 22.32% struggled with depression.
Table 1 Characteristics of the Study Population (N = 8,746)
Associations between suicidal thoughts and demographic characteristics
The associations between suicidal thoughts and demographic characteristics are presented in Table 2, by univariate and multivariate logistic models. As showed in univariate logistic models, almost all the demographic characteristics were significantly related to suicidal thoughts, including gender, grade, smoking, academic achievement, living arrangement, SES, relationships with parents and classmates, as well as feeling about school, strategies for parent-child conflict, anorexia and depression. In multivariate logistic models, suicidal thoughts were significantly correlated with all of the characteristics except academic achievement and living arrangement.
Table 2 Associations between suicidal thoughts and demographic characteristics
Association of anorexia, depression, and interactions with suicidal thoughts
As illustrated in Table 2, only the serious level of anorexia was related significantly to suicidal thoughts (OR 1.94; 95% CI 1.32-2.85) after adjustment of observed confounders. The adolescents with depression were at much higher risk of experiencing suicidal thoughts (OR 5.04; 95% CI 4.31-5.90) compared with their counterparts without depression. Moreover, significant interactions between anorexia and depression were observed in adjusted model (P < 0.05 on all levels, not shown in the table). After adjustment for the interactions, all levels of anorexia were related significantly to suicidal thoughts and worse anorexia was associated with higher probability of suicidal thoughts (Table 3). The association between depression and suicidal thoughts was much stronger (OR 7.25; 95% CI 5.18-10.14).
Table 3 Association of anorexia nervosa, depression and their interaction with suicidal thoughts
Association between anorexia and suicidal thoughts, stratified by depression
We also performed subgroup analyses stratified by depression. After controlling for a broad range of potential confounders, there were no statistically significant associations between anorexia and suicidal thoughts among the adolescents with depression, as shown in Table 3. The associations, however, were significant at all levels of anorexia among the adolescents without depression. Those who reported worse severity of perceived anorexia had a higher risk of experiencing suicidal thoughts (OR = 1.38 at "occasionally" anorexia, OR = 1.53 at "sometimes" anorexia, and OR = 2.82 at "often" anorexia).
Association between anorexia and suicidal thoughts, stratified by gender
Given than females may be more likely to suffer from anorexia nervosa, depression and suicidal thoughts than males, we performed gender-specific analysis (Table 3), and it returned a bit different results. The association between depression and suicidal thoughts was still strong (OR = 5.21 for males, OR = 5.00 for females). The associations were non-significant at all levels of anorexia among the males, and were only significant at severe levels of anorexia among the females (OR = 1.52 at "sometimes" anorexia, and OR = 2.67 at "often" anorexia). Females with severe levels of anorexia were more likely to report suicidal thoughts whether depression co-occurred or not, while only normal males with severest level of anorexia nervosa had elevated suicidal thoughts.
Our results indicate that all levels of anorexia nervosa serve as indicators of remarkable suicidal thoughts, which consists with the results of several previous researches [15,26,27,, 25–28]. Few of Existing studies reported the dose-response relationship between levels of anorexia nervosa and suicidal thoughts. We assumed that the worse the anorexia nervosa, the higher the risk of suicidal thoughts, and vice versa. The findings confirmed our hypothesis and high level of anorexia nervosa was associated with an increased risk of suicidal thoughts. The greatest severity of anorexia nervosa was at the highest risk among three levels of anorexia nervosa for suicidal thoughts (OR 3.02, 95%CI 1.75-5.23).
To our knowledge, this is the first study with a national school-based sample in China that investigated the interaction between anorexia nervosa and depression and its impact on suicidal thoughts. Depression and anorexia nervosa symptoms often co-occur [19]. Depression may cause anorexia nervosa, and the condition, in turn, can also lead to depression. Both symptoms can trigger the birth of suicidal thoughts [15, 29]. Our findings suggest that depression might modify the association between anorexia nervosa and suicidal thoughts since the interaction between depression and anorexia nervosa was significant.
It has been demonstrated there is a strong association between suicidal thoughts and depression [29,30,31,32]. Our findings reveal an additive synergism between depression and anorexia nervosa in suicidal thoughts. However, in our study, anorexia nervosa predicts suicidal thoughts only occur in adolescents without depression, and the associations are gender specific, which indicates that depression and anorexia nervosas may share an etiological mechanism on suicidal thoughts. In the full model that controlling the potential confounders and interaction, depression makes a much greater contribution to increased risk of suicidal thoughts than anorexia nervosa. Another possible reason behind this counterintuitive finding is that depressed adolescents in this study may be under sampled and lead to selection bias [33]. Depressed adolescents were more than 2.75 times likely to withdraw from school compared with their peers without depression [34]. Besides, the students with anorexia nervosa are at greater risk of quitting school than general population, and hence the association between anorexia nervosa and suicidal thoughts is probably underestimated.
In most studies conducted in clinics, patients with anorexia nervosa are diagnosed by the WHO ICD-10 or DSM-IV [22]. However, in the large epidemiological studies, especially in school based studies, it's unfeasible in practice. In current study, we used self-rated feeling of disgust toward food as a predictor of anorexia nervosa, given the evidence that anorexia nervosa is associated with elevated disgust sensitivity in young adults, especially in the domain of food [35]. It is noteworthy that there is a decrease in emotive responses to food with increasing age [36], which means we might overestimate the association between feeling of disgust toward food and anorexia nervosa among adolescents.
Similarly, we chose one self-rated question to identity adolescents with depression. Ultrashort screening instruments, such as one question used in our study, may detect, but not diagnose, depression. However, ultrashort screening instruments have advantages, especially in large national epidemiologic surveys, shorter instruments take less time and gain greater acceptance [37]. There is evidence that ultrashort screening instruments are as effective as longer screening instruments, such as the Center for Epidemiologic Depression Scale [37]. Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-2 is very similar with one question used in our study. PHQ -2 asks two simple questions about mood and anhedonia, and has been found to be up to 74% sensitivity and 75% specificity in adolescents [38]. We think the ultrashort screening instrument in our study are as effective as PHQ-2, and further research is needed to be done.
Several limitations should be considered in interpreting our findings. First, the nature of cross-sectional design does not allow us to make causal inferences. Longitudinal studies are required to confirm the cause-effect relationships. Second, we did not assess characteristics of those who had completed suicide, which may introduce survivor bias. Last but not least, just like any other study with self-report measures, there is possibility of information bias. However, computer-assisted self-interviewing technology could create a sense of anonymity and minimize response bias [39].
The present study suggests that anorexia nervosa increases the probability of suicidal thoughts in Chinese adolescents. More precisely, the worse the anorexia nervosa, the higher the risk of suicidal thoughts. Depression can modify the association. Subgroup analyses reveal that anorexia nervosa failed to predict suicidal thoughts in adolescents with depression. The causes of suicide are multi-factorial in origin involving a complex interplay of biological, social, cultural and psychological factors. More research is needed to explore the mechanisms behind. Nonetheless, our findings might shed light upon eating disorder and suicide prevention programs.
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The authors thank site coordinators of the 7 provinces for their hard work. The authors also appreciate the cooperation of the students involved.
This study was funded by the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2012BAI32B02) and National Science and Technology Infrastructure Program of China (Grant No. 2013FY110500). The funders had no involvement in any aspect of the research, including in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, writing of the report, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.
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WZ, CL, SZ and SL conceptualized and designed the study; SL, YM, XZ and QL collected and cleaned the data; QL, XZ and YM carried out statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript; XT, SL and QL interpreted the results; CL, WZ and SZ contributed to discussion; and all authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
This study was reviewed and approved by the institutional review board of Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research (2012-01). Both verbal parental permission and student assent were obtained from each participant before the survey.
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Richland Borough seeks appeal to ruling allowing autistic boy to keep therapy ducks
Merriell Moyer
Lebanon Daily News
Despite a zoning hearing board ruling allowing him to keep his pet ducks, a Richland boy's family is being taken to court by the borough in an effort to appeal the decision.
Coby Ortiz, 12, is autistic and the eight ducks he owns and cares for serve as therapy animals that have had a major impact on his life, according to his mother, Tania Ortiz. Coby has had difficulty in the past connecting with dogs or cats, but had an immediate, positive response to ducks.
"The borough wanted the zoning hearing board to tell us they are not pets," Tania Ortiz said. "They wanted to say that Coby was running an agricultural operation out of his backyard. I don't know what's going through their heads – I don't understand it, and I don't think I ever will."
A date for the appeal hearing has not yet been set, according to Ortiz.
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The Ortiz family lives on property owned by Tania Ortiz's father, John Sokol, at 17 E. Main St. in Richland Borough's business district. Sokol received a zoning violation notice from the borough on Oct. 20. The zoning ordinance, according to the borough, forbids fowl within the municipality's business district.
The zoning hearing board voted 2-1 in favor of allowing Coby Ortiz to keep his therapy ducks on Dec. 6 saying the "evidence presented at the hearing compels the conclusion that Mr. Sokol's ducks do not constitute a poultry operation. They are pets and a lawful accessory use to his primary residential use," according to the board's written decision.
The keeping of pets is an incidental and subordinate use by residential property owners, making it an accessory use, the document states, and as long as there is no threat from accessory uses to the public health, safety or welfare of the community, accessory uses are allowed in all zoning districts.
"No evidence was presented to suggest that the ducks on the Sokol property in any way create a threat to the public health, safety or welfare of the Richland Borough community," the document states.
The written decision also notes that the "effect the ducks have had on Coby's autism has been profound" after hearing testimony from the Ortiz family and a neighbor, Kyle Robins, who works as a case manager in children's mental health.
"Before (he started keeping the ducks), Coby would not make eye contact and would become overwhelmed by sensory stimulation," the document says. "After, Mr. Robins observed a dramatic improvement in Coby's skills, including good eye contact, long conversations, better hygiene skills and better coping."
There is also mention in the document that Coby's doctor, J.B. Yoder, has concluded "that Coby's involvement with his pet ducks has provided 'significant benefit for him allowing many other services to be discontinued and for his functioning to be much improved.'"
Richland Borough, through their solicitor, Tom Harlan, filed an appeal to the zoning hearing board's decision in the Court of Common Pleas on Feb. 8.
"The decision by the board to allow eight ducks has no basis in fact nor has any rationality as to the number of ducks permitted on the property," the appeal document signed by Harlan states. "The decision of the board determining that the owner has not violated the zoning ordinance was arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion contrary to law and the record in case."
Several calls to Richland Borough for a comment on the appeal have not been returned.
Tania Ortiz said she feels that she and her family will have to repeat everything they already presented to the zoning hearing board in the Court of Common Pleas.
"I feel like we proved it once that these (ducks) are pets, so why do we have to continue to prove our case?" she said. "It has been proven in front of people (the borough) elected to be on their zoning board."
Part of the problem, according to Ortiz, is the borough does not have a definition of "agricultural operation" in their zoning ordinance, something that fellow Richland Borough resident and friend to the Ortiz family, Bevan Allen, attempted to rectify in 2015 after she received a zoning ordinance violation for having nine chickens on her property.
"I went to a borough council meeting and spoke with them and they cited all the reasons they didn't want chickens, but they could not define what an agricultural operation was," Allen said. "I got a lawyer, and that lawyer said I'd lose the zoning hearing because they appoint who those folks are and they go into it willing to do the council's wishes."
Allen's attorney advised her to wait until the borough took her to the Court of Common Pleas.
"Judge (Samuel) Kline heard our case and said he didn't like that we didn't go to the zoning hearing board and wanted to give us an opportunity to do that. So we did," Allen said.
The zoning hearing came four or five months later and was very brief, she said.
"They said I was there for a variance, which I was not. What I filed was a request for the definition from Richland Borough for the term 'agricultural operation.' I never received that," Allen said. "They just went through the motions of the hearing and at the end said I was not getting a variance. I was very confused because I was not asking for one."
She went back to the Court of Common Pleas to appeal the zoning hearing board's decision, but Judge Kline said he didn't feel comfortable setting a precedent for defining a term for a municipality's zoning ordinance, so he supported the zoning hearing board's decision.
In 2011, Richland Borough's zoning hearing board did allow a variance for Randy and Christine Blouch, whose residence is in the borough's low density residential zone, to keep two head of cattle, two sheep, four pygmy goats, seven ducks, two turkeys and less than 20 chickens on their property.
The zoning hearing board at that time came to the conclusion that because the Blouchs were not raising the animals for commercial purposes – the Blouchs considered the animals "family pets" – that "the use of the subject property for the housing of various animals, including cattle, sheep, goats, ducks, turkeys and chickens, does not constitute a 'customary agricultural operation,'" according to the board's written decision from April 11, 2011.
The written decision notes that only two of the eight people present at the hearing objected to the Blouch's keeping the animals on their property, and that "one of those objections was based more upon a concern for setting a bad precedent than for the present use."
With the Allen and Blouch cases in mind, Ortiz said she would like the borough to address the lack of a definition for "agricultural operation."
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"There is no definition of an agricultural operation in our zoning ordinance," she said. "They can't say I'm breaking a law when there is no law – when they don't explain what their law is."
More than anything else, though, Ortiz is concerned for the emotional state of her son.
"He's worried once again that someone is going to come and take his ducks out of our yard, and it's not fair," she said. "He should not have this anxiety again, this worry, that this is going to happen."


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UK backs COVID-19 vaccine trials that infect volunteers
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday it would back "human challenge" trials, where young and healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with COVID-19, to accelerate the development of vaccines for the disease.
The government said it would invest 33.6 million pounds ($43.5 million) in the studies in partnership with Imperial College London, laboratory and trial services company hVIVO and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
If approved by regulators and an ethics committee, the studies would start in January with results expected by May 2021, the government said.
Britain's hVIVO, a unit of pharmaceutical services company Open Orphan, said on Friday it was carrying out preliminary work for the trials.
Using controlled doses of virus, the aim of the research team will initially be to discover the smallest amount of virus it takes to cause COVID-19 infection in small groups of healthy young people, aged between 18 and 30, who are at the lowest risk of harm, the government said.
Up to 90 volunteers could be involved at the early stage, it said.
Imperial College's Chris Chiu, lead researcher on the human challenge study, said the trials could increase understanding of COVID-19 in unique ways and accelerate development of the many potential new treatments and vaccines.
"Our number one priority is the safety of the volunteers," he said. "My team has been safely running human challenge studies with other respiratory viruses for over 10 years. No study is completely risk free, but the Human Challenge Programme partners will be working hard to ensure we make the risks as low as we possibly can."
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(Reporting by Paul Sandle; editing by Michael Holden)
To Test Virus Vaccines, U.K. Study Will Intentionally Infect Volunteers
LONDON — Scientists at Imperial College London plan to deliberately infect volunteers with the coronavirus early next year, launching the world's first effort to study how vaccinated people respond to being intentionally exposed to the virus and opening up a new, uncertain path to identifying an effective vaccine.
The hotly contested strategy, known as a human challenge trial, could potentially shave crucial time in the race to winnow a number of vaccine candidates. Rather than conducting the sort of trials now underway around the world, in which scientists wait for vaccinated people to encounter the virus in their homes and communities, researchers would purposely infect them in a hospital isolation unit.
Scientists have used this method for decades to test vaccines for typhoid, cholera and other diseases, even asking volunteers in the case of malaria to expose their arms to boxes full of mosquitoes to be bitten and infected. But whereas the infected could be cured of those diseases, Covid-19 has few widely used treatments and no known cure, putting the scientists in charge of Britain's study in largely uncharted ethical territory.
Starting with tiny doses, the scientists will first administer the virus to small groups of volunteers who have not been vaccinated at all, in order to determine the lowest dose of the virus that will reliably infect them. That process, scheduled to begin in January at a hospital in north London, will be followed by tests in which volunteers are given a vaccine and then intentionally exposed to this carefully calibrated dose of the virus.
The study will be led by scientists with Imperial College London and hVivo, a company specializing in human challenge trials. It still requires approval from Britain's drug regulation agency, but the government said on Tuesday that it would allot 34 million pounds, or $44 million, in public funding.
The first round of volunteers, up to 90 healthy adults aged 18 to 30, will have the virus dripped into their noses without having been vaccinated. If not enough participants become infected, the scientists will try to expose these early-stage volunteers to a higher dose, repeating the process until they have identified the necessary exposure level of the virus.
Only once the scientists decide on a dose, which they intend to do by late spring, will they begin the process of comparing vaccine candidates by immunizing the next group of volunteers and then exposing them to the virus.
Some vaccine candidates now undergoing trials may already have received approval by then, but researchers hope a challenge trial will add direct evidence of efficacy and help them compare the performance of different vaccines.
"Deliberately infecting volunteers with a known human pathogen is never undertaken lightly," said Professor Peter Openshaw, an immunologist and co-investigator on the study. "However, such studies are enormously informative about a disease, even one so well studied as Covid-19."
Many important questions about the study remain unanswered. The British government's vaccine task force, which will select the first vaccine candidates to include in
UK plans COVID-19 'challenge' trials that deliberately infect volunteers
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will help to fund trials using a manufactured COVID-19 virus to deliberately infect young healthy volunteers with the hope of accelerating the development of vaccines against it.
The government said on Tuesday it will invest 33.6 million pounds ($43.5 million) in the so-called "human challenge" trials in partnership with Imperial College London, laboratory and trial services company hVIVO and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
If approved by regulators and an ethics committee, the studies will start in January with results expected by May 2021, the government said.
Using controlled doses of virus, the aim of the research team  will initially be to discover the smallest amount of virus it takes to cause COVID-19 infection in small groups of healthy young people, aged between 18 and 30, who are  at the lowest risk of harm, the scientists leading the studies said in a briefing.
Up to 90 volunteers could be involved at the initial stages, they said, and virus to be used will be manufactured in labs at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Chris Chiu, an Imperial College scientist on the team, said the experiments would rapidly increase understanding of COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV2 virus that causes it, as well as accelerating development of potential new treatments and vaccines.
Critics of human challenge trials say deliberately infecting someone with a potentially deadly disease for which there is currently no effective treatment is unethical.
Business Secretary Alok Sharma said the trials would be carefully controlled and marked an important next step in building understanding of the virus and accelerating vaccine development.
Chiu said the plan for initial studies – which are aimed at assessing how much virus it takes to infect someone with COVID-19 – is to immediately treat volunteers with the Gilead antiviral drug remdesivir as soon as they are infected.
He said that while studies have show remdesivir has little or no effect on severe COVID-19 cases, his team has a "strong belief" that it will be an effective treatment if given in the very earliest stages of infection.
A spokeswoman for the World Health Organization said that there are "very important ethical considerations" when approaching such human challenge trials.
"What is critical is that if people are considering this, it must be overseen by an ethics committee and the volunteers must have full consent. And they must select the volunteers in order to minimise their risk," she told reporters in Geneva.
Chiu said his team's "number one priority is the safety of the volunteers".
"No study is completely risk free, but (we) will be working hard to ensure we make the risks as low as we possibly can," he said.
Britain's hVIVO, a unit of pharmaceutical services company Open Orphan, said last week it was carrying out preliminary work for the trials.
Reporting by Kate Kelland and Paul Sandle in London, with additional reporting by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, Editing by Michael Holden and Angus MacSwan
UK to infect healthy volunteers in vaccine research trial
LONDON (AP) — U.K. researchers are preparing to infect healthy young volunteers with the virus that causes COVID-19, becoming the first scientists to use the controversial technique to study the disease and potentially speed up development of a vaccine that could help end the pandemic.
This type of research, known as a human challenge study, is used infrequently because some consider the risk involved in infecting otherwise healthy individuals to be unethical. But researchers racing to combat COVID-19 say that risk is warranted because such studies have the potential to quickly identify the most effective vaccines and help control a disease that has killed more than 1.1 million people worldwide.
"Deliberately infecting volunteers with a known human pathogen is never undertaken lightly,″ said Professor Peter Openshaw, co-investigator on the study. "However, such studies are enormously informative about a disease, even one so well studied as COVID-19."
Human challenge studies have been previously used to develop vaccines for diseases including typhoid, cholera and malaria.
Imperial College London said Tuesday that the study, involving volunteers aged 18 to 30, would be conducted in partnership with the government's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and hVIVO, a company that has experience conducting challenge studies. The government plans to invest 33.6 million pounds ($43.4 million) in the research.
Before any research begins, the study will be considered by regulators and the NHS Health Research Authority.
Governments around the world are funding efforts to develop a vaccine in hopes of ending the pandemic that has pummeled the international economy, shutting businesses and putting millions of people out of work. Forty-six potential vaccines are already in human testing, with 11 of them in late-stage trials — several expected to report results later this year or in early 2021.
"I don't think many people think that what we're doing as scientists is searching for a silver bullet," said Michael Jacobs, a consultant in infectious diseases at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust who will take part in the research. "We're going to need a whole raft of interventions in order to control this pandemic."
Tens of thousands of volunteers around the world have already signed up to participate in more traditional trials of COVID-19 vaccines. Critics of challenge studies question the need to expose healthy people to the virus when the disease remains widespread and vaccine development is moving quickly.
In the first phase of the U.K. challenge study, researchers will expose 90 paid volunteers to the virus using nasal drops in an effort to determine the smallest level of exposure needed to cause COVID-19. Ultimately, the same model will be used to test the effectiveness of potential vaccines by exposing volunteers to the virus after they've received one of the candidate vaccines.
The research will be conducted at the Royal Free Hospital in London, which has a specially designed area to contain the disease. Volunteers will be monitored for at least a year to ensure they don't
Covid-19 challenge trials to infect healthy volunteers in U.K.
The United States is moving more cautiously, with leading government researchers saying human challenge trials might be too risky or unnecessary. But the British scientists say the potential payoff is massive — that accelerating vaccine development by even three months could save 100,000s of lives globally.
The British experiment is scheduled to begin in January. Volunteers will be given a laboratory-grown strain of the live virus while quarantined in a secure unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London, where they will undergo daily, even hourly, tests.
The initial phase of the study, involving 50 to 90 healthy young adults, between ages 18 and 30, will seek to determine the minimal amount of virus necessary to cause an active, measurable infection.
Later in the spring, the scientists hope to enlist more volunteers, who will be inoculated with promising vaccines and then exposed to the virus to see how well the vaccines protect them.
Andrew Catchpole, chief science officer for hVIVO, a commercial pharmaceutical company that will recruit the volunteers, manufacture the challenge strain of the virus and conduct the tests, said the human challenge study will be reviewed by a specially convened ethics committee and Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, its version of America's Food and Drug Administration.
Catchpole told The Washington Post it is not yet known which vaccines may be tested. He said possible candidates include those vaccines that have proven themselves in large-scale Phase 3 trials or they may be earlier in their development but potentially more effective.
Hedging its bets, the British government has signed an agreement for 100 million doses of a vaccine being trialed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, as well as inking deals with Pfizer, Sanofi and Valneva.
The safety data gained from large, Phase 3 trials will still be essential to show the vaccines are ready to be deployed in large populations. But the British government hopes challenge trials will help accelerate the study of vaccines in mid-stages of development.
Catchpole said the major advantage is "you get efficacy data so much sooner" than trials that rely on chance exposure. If there is not much virus circulating in a population, it could take months and tens of thousands of inoculations to prove efficacy.
Challenge experiments have a long history in biomedical research, dating back to Edward Jenner's development of a smallpox vaccine in 1796. In the modern era, challenge trials have been used extensively to study and find treatments for influenza, malaria, typhoid, dengue fever and cholera.
Covid-19, though, is different. Without a medication to reliably "rescue" volunteers from the disease, many scientists are hesitant to infect people.
Although physicians have more treatments for hospitalized patients than they did at the beginning of the pandemic, there isn't yet an approved drug to stop recently infected people from developing a severe case.
The challenge trial participants will be given the antiviral drug remdesivir, which President Trump took when hospitalized for covid-19 and which has been approved or authorized for temporary use


One area of Azure that I like to highlight in my conversations with companies as an over-looked digital-transformation enabler is DevTest Labs. Microsoft released Azure DevTest Labs on May 2016 but customers have since found many creative uses for it beyond software development and testing environments. There is no additional cost for the services of DevTest Labs since you are only charged for standard Azure resource consumption such as VMs and storage used in your lab.
VMs can be shut-down or started automatically on a schedule (i.e. Monday-Friday from 8:30 AM – 6 PM) to save costs on unused resources.
The maximum number of VMs each lab user can own and the VM sizes allowed for VM creation can be set by IT admins to prevent unplanned or excessive consumption of Azure resources.
Each DevTest lab is a sandbox for a team to manage their own environments without granting them permissions to access Azure resources or the main Azure subscription account outside of the lab. This means that users only need an acceptable Microsoft account for login to connect to their lab.
Charts and projections are provided for IT admins to monitor the total spending and usage as well as set thresholds for alerts and quotas to prevent cost over-runs.
You can create multiple labs with the same settings/policies by deploying the same ARM template.
DevTest Lab resources (labs, custom images, formulas, artifacts, etc.) are reusable across labs, so that you don't need to re-create the same thing from scratch.
For a quick overview, there is a great 3 minute Microsoft video explaining these 4 ideas at: What is Azure DevTest Labs.
Instructors can schedule automatic start-up and shutdown of VMs when the trainees are not using them. Trainees cannot get more VMs or resources than they need for the training requirements. This allows the effective management of training costs and prevents wasted resources.
Video: What is Azure DevTest Labs?


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DAVIS, "Lew"
Cambria Freeman, 5 Oct 1906, Contributed by Patty Millich
Shot by an Italian
Ex-Policeman of Johnstown Met Death Last Saturday Evening at Hands of an Italian
"Lew" Davis, formerly a policeman on the Johnstown force under ex-Mayor John Pendry, was shot and killed by an Italian last Saturday evening in Woodvale. Davis, it is said, stooped to "jolly" the Italian who became insolent when Davis struck him. The Italian then drew a revolver and shot Davis, making good his escape. Davis died at the Memorial Hospital. He is survived by a wife and several children. The Italian has not yet been located.


The history of my employment with Serco. This is also known as the facts of the case.
"Your duties will be those of an Acquisition Management Specialist IV/T10 (Sr. Acquisition Analyst, Labor Category) on the MC/HC 130 task located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Mr. John Hix will be your supervisor. Your bi-weekly pay rate will be $3,807.06, which would be $99,000.00 annually."
An explicit definition of "at will" is found in Serco Policy HR-8 Employment at Will. (Exhibit 6).
No one readily accepted that action, but out of the 16 employees affected, all excepted (sic),with the exception of Mr. McMasters and Mr. Rovinsky and Mr. Wedel (both Mr. Rovinsky and Mr. Wedel elected to resign).
Mr. McMasters referred to his original offer letter where his salary was $90K and stated that Serco had no right to decrease his salary without his consent, and he did not agree to the change. He said that since he did not agree, Serco should Involuntarily terminate him.
The deposit received at my bank from Serco this past week does not fulfill SERCO's obligations as they relate to my salary. Looking at the pay statement on ADP, it looks like SERCO has implemented a salary at or near the one Elie relayed was proposed by Serco a few weeks ago and I rejected immediately.
Please correct the ADP pay statement to reflect the same salary as the pay period ending 2/15/2013 which shows the latest salary mutually agreed to by both Serco and me. Additionally, please ensure either immediate deposit of the remaining salary owed or provide the correction plan showing a reasonable schedule as to when this will occur.
and on May 10, 2013 a teleconference was held with representatives for Serco's Human Relations department. The best summation of our negotiating positions is capture within a May 10, 2013 email from Mr. McMasters.
Thank you for taking the time to speak to me concerning the issue of my salary, If accurate, I appreciate your confirming this basic summary of our conversation.
1. Serco HR's position is that the company can unilaterally change my salary at any time.
2. My position is that the salary I work for was initially negotiated and determined by mutual agreement and any changes also require mutual agreement.
of the pay period ending 2/15/2013.
Serco continued to track Mr. McMasters as not agreeing to the salary change on internal documents at least through 3/28/2014 (McMasters Second Affidavit). Mr. McMasters worked in a deferred salary status until January 20, 2015.
 Note: This statement infers nothing about what course of action I would take at the manifestation of the dispute. The next paragraphs which were written at the same time as this paragraph are clear about my intentions. As are the statements by Mr. Green who independently recorded the same incidents a month later.
 Within the statement of facts of both the Trial Court and the Appellate Court are references that make it appear as if I asserted I had a three year contract with Serco. I have never made that assertion nor have I made an assertion I had any kind of contract that specified a specific time period. At all times I recognized that at any time the contract could be terminated by either party for any reason not prohibited by law. The quotes used by the lower courts, especially in the trial court's discussion, are truncated and don't show I was referencing the contract between Serco and the Government in my evaluation of the likelihood of continued employment. The contention I asserted I had a 3 year contract is a red herring presented by Serco in their briefs that led the lower courts away from addressing the actual issues. I assert I had a negotiated binding contract that could have been terminated any time by either party but wasn't terminated by either.


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Bartosz Obuchowicz (ur. 3 marca 1982 w Warszawie) – polski aktor.

Życiorys

Edukacja
W 2001 studiował psychologię, jednak po dwóch latach zrezygnował z dalszych studiów na rzecz nauki w Szkole Aktorskiej Haliny i Jana Machulskich.

Kariera zawodowa
Kiedy miał osiem lat, zaczął uczęszczać na zajęcia do teatru tańca i muzyki, po czym trafił do tanecznej grupy hip-hopowej Tintilo. W młodości przez dwa lata grał koszykarskiej sekcji Legii Warszawa. Występował również w musicalach oraz grał w spotach reklamowych (m.in. sieci fast foodów Pizza Hut). Zagrał również Nemeczka, głównego bohatera spektaklu Teatru Telewizji Chłopcy z Placu Broni w reż. Macieja Dejczera. Wraz z przyjaciółmi założył Teatr ZOO, z którym wystawił w Teatrze Nowym spektakl Guwernantki w reż. Roberta Kuderskiego.

Za główną rolę Huberta w filmie Cwał (1995) otrzymał nagrodę indywidualną za rolę dziecięcą na 21. Festiwalu Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni. W latach 1995–1997 współprowadził z Jackiem Łączyńskim program TVN Rzut za 3, w którym opowiadał o koszykówce. Zagrał również m.in. Fryderyka w jednym z odcinków serialu 13 posterunku (1997).

W 1999 zaczął występować w roli Tomasza Burskiego w Na dobre i na złe, który zapewnił mu największą rozpoznawalność. Za rolę w Stacji (2001) otrzymał nagrodę dla najlepszego aktora drugoplanowego na 26. Festiwalu Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni. Zagrał również m.in. główną rolę Marcina Makowskiego w filmie Haker (2002) i Darka w serialu Julia (2012).

Jest także aktorem dubbingowym, użyczył głosu m.in. Zeke'owi w polskiej wersji filmów z serii High School Musical oraz Stanowi Marshowi w kilku sezonach polskojęzycznej wersji animacji Miasteczko South Park.

W 2007 uczestniczył w piątej edycji programu rozrywkowego TVN Taniec z gwiazdami i choć w parze z Kingą Jurecką byli jednymi z głównych faworytów do wygranej, odpadli w siódmym odcinku, zajmując piąte miejsce. Do 2010 prowadził program Brejk na kanale ZigZap. Bierze udział w zawodach Rallycross.

Życie prywatne
Jego żoną jest psycholożka Katarzyna Sobczyńska, z którą ma trzy córki: Mariannę, Marcelinę i Michalinę.

Filmografia

Filmy i seriale

Dubbing

Programy telewizyjne
 2016: Przygarnij mnie (TVP2) – uczestnik programu
 2010: Brejk (ZigZap) – prowadzący program
 2007: Taniec z gwiazdami (TVN) – uczestnik programu; w parze z Kingą Jurecką zajął 5. miejsce
 1997-1999: Rzut za 3 (TVN) – współprowadzący program z Jackiem Łączyńskim

Nagrody
 Nagroda na FPFF w Gdyni
 Najlepsza rola dziecięca: 1996: Cwał
 Najlepsza drugoplanowa rola męska: 2001: Stacja

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Polscy aktorzy dziecięcy
Polscy aktorzy filmowi
Polscy aktorzy telewizyjni
Polscy aktorzy dubbingowi
Najlepsi aktorzy drugoplanowi na FPFF
Ludzie urodzeni w Warszawie
Urodzeni w 1982
Osobowości telewizyjne związane z Polsatem

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72 percent of the respondents do not believe encryption backdoors would make their nations safer from terrorists, according to a Venafi survey of 296 IT security pros, conducted at Black Hat USA 2017.
Only 19 percent believe the technology industry is doing enough to protect the public from the dangers of encryption backdoors.
81 percent feel governments should not be able to force technology companies to give them access to encrypted user data.
86 percent believe consumers don't understand issues around encryption backdoors.
Encryption backdoors create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by a wide range of malicious actors, including hostile or abusive government agencies. Billions of people worldwide rely on encryption to protect critical infrastructure – including global financial systems, electrical grids and transportation systems – from cybercriminals who steal data for financial gain or espionage.


25-08-1898 Vienna: Marriage between Emma Marie Eleanor Rose-Mahler (1875-1933) and Alfred Eduard Rose (1902-1975).
15-10-1898 Semmering: Picture postcard written by Gustav Mahler (in Sudbahn hotel, Semmering) for Emma Mahler to congratulate her with her 23th birthday.
19-10-1898 Boston: Birthday Emma Marie Eleanor Rose-Mahler (1875-1933).
28-10-1898 Boston: Arrival postcard. Address: Dartmouth Street No. 27.
30-10-1898 Boston: Arrival letter. Address: Dartmouth Street No. 27.
11-07-1899 Emma is back in Austria.


Our Christian beliefs and values are central to life at Bishop Gilpin and we are fortunate to share close links with two local churches – St Mark's and St Mary's.
Revd Mandy Hodgson, from St Mary's, and Revd Clive Gardner, from St Mark's, lead our whole school in worship, during thought-provoking and spiritually-inspiring assemblies and in our termly Eucharist.
Please click on the links below to visit these churches' websites.


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Q: Java - catch/rethrow behavior I have this piece of Java code.
void convertFile() {

        try{
            .....
        }catch (Exception e) {
            logError("Error in convertJsonFile", e);
            throw e;
        }finally{

            if (writer!=null) {
                writer.close();
                writer = null;
            }
            if (fos!=null) {
                fos.close();
                fos = null;
            }

            ms2 = System.currentTimeMillis();

            logInfo(String.format("Time elapsed: %d seconds.", ((ms2-ms1)/1000)));
            logInfo("File conversion complete.");

        }

        return f + "_changed.xml";
}

The catch block logs and rethrows the Exception.
But it seems the finally block also throws a RuntimeException.

*

*Will the finally block be executed if the catch block rethrows Exception as done here?
If I remember correctly finally block will be executed even in this case.

*OK if so... what will happen if we enter the catch block (it rethrows), then we enter the finally block, and the finally block also throws a RuntimeException at this line writer.close();  ?  Which exception will be thrown from this whole method - the rethrown one from the catch block, or the RuntimeException from the finally block?!
I think the RuntimeException will be the final outcome of the method and we will never reach the line in the catch block which rethrows. Because I guess the line which rethrows is executed after the finally block. But I am not sure. I got really confused.
Could someone clear my doubts here?
Seems I have forgotten some of these details.
And I have no decent access to the logs, they are in Elastic/Kibana and access to them is a real pain.

A: *

*Yes, finally block will be executed

*The exception from finally block will be thrown in this case. Thus, exception from catch block will be lost.


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