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'Not impossible to go to World Cup'
By RSN Admin - 17 February 2014, 9:20
Jese believes it's 'not impossible' for him to be in Spain's World Cup squad after a string of impressive performances.
The young striker scored after just five minutes on Sunday in Real Madrid's 3-0 win over Getafe.
And with stories emerging that the 20-year-old could be in Vicente Del Bosque's squad for Brazil, he has conceded that it is not unthinkable.
"I don't know if it's crazy, but it's not impossible to go," he told AS.
"There's a generation of great footballers, who are the current world champions, and thank god Spanish football has improved so much.
"That said, I think it's really difficult. That's why it's important to keep playing, be in the side regularly.
"It makes it harder that there is this generation of great footballers who are currently in the side.
"I'm really happy with the goals I'm scoring for the team and the plan is to keep that up. I'm dedicated to taking advantage of the minutes I'm given and helping the team, which is what a player has to do.
"A target of 10 goals? It would be a big step to reach that, because you never know how long you'll get to play for the club.
"The important thing is to keep making it difficult for the coach. Maybe I'm in the best form of my career, but I'm not settling for this, I want more."
17 February 2014, 9:20
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MANCHESTER UNITED go away to Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday - but who will start for the Red Devils?
Jose Mourinho seemingly saved his job in a dramatic fightback at home to Newcastle last time out.
With his future at the club reportedly on the line, United went 2-0 down inside the opening 10 minutes against Rafa Benitez's men.
Yet, a incredible second-half turnaround, which saw Alexis Sanchez net the winner in stoppage time, has kept Mourinho's head above water at Old Trafford.
But the latter's former club Chelsea could throw him back in at the deep in Saturday's lunchtime kickoff.
The Blues are flying under Maurizio Sarri, who has guided them to six wins in his first eight Premier League outings.
And the bad news for Mourinho - who picked up three Premier League titles during two spells with Chelsea - is that he has eight injury problems to deal with.
Marcos Rojo and Jesse Lingard are both out; while Alexis Sanchez, Luke Shaw, Marouane Fellaini, Ander Herrera, Nemanja Matic and Scott McTominay are all doubts to feature.
David De Gea is fit, nevertheless, and should start in goal.
Mourinho is likely to name a back four consisting of captain Antonio Valencia, Chris Smalling, Victor Lindelof and, despite being a doubt, Shaw - whose fitness he will probably gamble on.
In midfield, Matic is another doubt - and another returning ex-Chelsea star - who could still start in such a crucial encounter, sitting in the middle of Fred and Paul Pogba.
Anthony Martial should start on the left, with Marcus Rashford placed on the opposite flank.
And leading the line is bound to be Romelu Lukaku, another United player set to return to his old stomping ground.


The poor state-of-the-art performances of discourse parsers prevent their application to downstream tasks. However, discourse parsing sub-tasks such as the detection of connectives and their sense classification have achieved satisfactory level of performance. In this paper we investigate the relevance of discourse connective features for tasks such as sentiment polarity classification. In the literature, discourse connectives are usually considered as modifiers of a polarity of a sentence or a word. In this paper we present experiments on using automatically extracted connectives and their senses as low-level features and as an approximation of a discourse structure for polarity classification of reviews. We demonstrate that, despite insignificant contributions to bagof-words, the discourse-only models perform significantly above chance level.
Lo stato dell'arte degli analizzatori automatici del discorso impediscono la loro adozione nei contesti applicativi. Tuttavia, i sotto-processi automatici di analisi del discorso quali l'denticazione dei connettivi e la classicazione della loro etichetta semantica hanno comunque raggiunto un livello di prestazioni soddisfacente. In questo documento indaghiamo la rilevanza dei connettivi del discorso per i task come la classificazione della polarità dei sentimenti. In letteratura i connettivi del discorso sono comunemente considerati come modificatori della polarità di una frase o di una parola. In questo documento presentiamo alcuni esperimenti sull'estrazione automatica di connettivi, e relativi significati, e del loro utilizzo come caratteristiche di basso livello e come approssimazione della struttura di un discorso al fine di permettere la classificazione della polarità nelle recensioni. I connettivi del discorso assieme ai modelli bag-of-words permettono di ottenere risultati allo stato dell'arte e molto al di sopra dei modelli di base.
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union – Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No. 610916 – SENSEI.
1Discourse analysis has applications in many Natural Language Processing tasks; Webber et al. (2011) and Taboada and Mann (2006) among others list opinion mining, summarization, information extraction, essay scoring, etc. Availability of large discourse annotated resources such as Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) (Prasad et al., 2008a) and Rhetorical Structure Theory - Discourse Treebank (RST-DT) (Carlson et al., 2002) made it possible to develop statistical discourse parsers (e.g. (Marcu, 2000; Lin et al., 2014; Ghosh et al., 2011; Stepanov and Riccardi, 2013)). However, independent of the theory (RST or PDTB) the problem of end-to-end discourse parsing is far from being solved; thus, downstream application of these parsers yields mixed results.
2In this paper we focus on PDTB approach to discourse parsing, which can be roughly partitioned into detection of discourse relations, extractions of their argument spans and sense classification. In CoNLL 2015 Shared Task on Shallow Discourse Parsing (Xue et al., 2015) the best system (Wang and Lan, 2015) achieved F1 of 24 on the end-to-end parsing on a blind test set using strict evaluation that required exact match of all the spans and labels. Having such low end-to-end performances makes it difficult to apply PDTB-style discourse parsing to other NLP tasks. However, if we consider discourse parsing tasks individually, detection of discourse connectives and their classification into senses achieve high results: ≈ 90 for discourse connective detection and similarly ≈ 90 for connective sense classification (Stepanov et al., 2015). Thus, the output of these tasks could be used in other NLP applications.
Table 1: Simplified PDTB discourse relation sense hierarchy from CoNLL 2015 Shared Task.
3Discourse connectives are essentially function words and phrases. Function word frequencies is a popular feature in NLP tasks such as authorship detection (Kestemont, 2014), and it has also been applied to sentiment polarity classification (Abbasi et al., 2008). Resolving connective usage and sense ambiguities (Section 2), they are potentially able to provide more refined features than simple function word counts. On the other hand, grouping connectives with respect to their senses yields more coarse features. In this paper we explore the utility of these features for sentiment polarity classification of movie reviews (Pang and Lee, 2004).
4In PDTB discourse relations are annotated using 3-level hierarchy of senses. The top level (level 1) senses are the most general: Expansion: one clause elaborates on the information given in another (e.g. 'and', 'in addition'); Comparison: there is a comparison or contrast between two clauses (e.g. 'but'); Contingency: there is a causal relationship between clauses (e.g. 'because'); and Temporal: two clauses are connected time-wise (e.g. 'before').
5A relation signaled by a discourse connective is an explicit discourse relation. Implicit discourse relations between text segments (usually sentences), on the other hand, are inferred. The two classes are almost equally represented (53% vs. 47%). While detection of senses of implicit discourse relations is a hard problem (Lin et al., 2009; Xue et al., 2015); presence of a discourse connective in a sentence is sufficient for detection and classification of explicit discourse relations.
6There are two levels of ambiguity present for a connective (Pitler and Nenkova, 2009): (1) it might be used to connect discourse units, or coordinate smaller constituents (e.g. 'and'); (2) some connectives might have different senses depending on usage (e.g. 'since' might signal causation or temporal relation). AddDiscourse tool was developed by (Pitler and Nenkova, 2009) to resolve these ambiguities. While using just connectives the 4-way sense classification accuracy of the tool is 93.67%, incorporating syntactic features raises performance to 94.15%; which is as good as the inter-annotator agreement on the same data (PDTB corpus - 94.00% (Prasad et al., 2008b)). Classification of discourse connectives into full depth of sense hierarchy also has an acceptable level of performance: 89.68% on PDTB development set of CoNLL 2015 Shared Task (Stepanov et al., 2015). For the Shared Task some senses were merged, and partial senses were disallowed (Xue et al., 2015); as a result, there are only 14 senses listed in Table 1. We classify discourse connectives identified by the addDiscourse tool further into this simplified hierarchy of senses.
7We test the utility of discourse connectives and their senses on sentiment polarity classification task. We follow the supervised machine approach and use SVMlight (Joachims, 1999) classifier with default parameter settings. A document is represented as a boolean vector of features (i.e. presence) and discourse-based features are added through vector fusion. Through out experiments 10-fold cross-validation is used, and results are reported as average accuracy, which is equivalent to micro- precision, recall, and F1 for a binary classification where both classes are of interest.
8For the experiments we use the polarity dataset (v.
92.0) of (Pang and Lee, 2004), also known as Movie Reviews Data Set. The Data Set consists of 1,000 negative and 1,000 positive reviews extracted from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
10Using the 10-fold cross-validation split of (Pang and Lee, 2004), SVM unigram model achieves 86.25% average accuracy. Unlike the original paper, data set is used as is: no additional preprocessing such as frequency cut-off or prefixing the tokens following 'not', 'isn't', etc. till the first punctuation with 'NOT_' (Das and Chen, 2001) was used (same as (Stepanov and Riccardi, 2011)).
11Function words were already used as features for polarity classification in (Abbasi et al., 2008), and the authors report that function words 'no' and 'if' tend to occur more frequently in negative reviews. Thus we experiment considering presence of connectives and their raw and normalized frequencies. Discourse connectives contain multi-word expressions (e.g. 'in_addition', 'on_the_other_hand', etc.), long-distance connective pairs (e.g. 'if_then', 'either_or'), and open class words (e.g. adverbs 'finally', 'similarly', etc.); and they are all treated as a single token.
13In the following sections we evaluate these representations in isolation and fused into bag-of-words vectors.
Table 2: 10-fold cross-validation average accuracies for discourse connective as stand-alone features in comparison to the chance level baseline (BL: Chance). Results are reported for presence (B), raw (R) and normalized frequencies (N).
14Additionally, our goal is to explore whether senses of explicit discourse relations alone can capture low-level discourse structure; and whether this low-level structure is beneficial for sentiment polarity classification. In order to approximate this, we use bigrams and trigrams of identified Classes and Senses. We introduce beginning and end of document tags to capture document initial and document final explicit relations. In this setting the presence of n-grams is considered, rather than the frequency. The setting is also evaluated in isolation and in fusion with bag-of-words.
15In this section we present sentiment polarity classification experiments using discourse connective features under the settings defined in Section 3: (1) presence and frequencies as stand-alone features, (2) their effect on the bag-of-word model through vector fusion, and (3) effect of n-grams of Class and Senses in stand-alone and fusion settings.
16Table 2 presents the results of the experiments using discourse connectives as the only features. All the models, except Class presence (B), perform significantly above chance-level. Low performance of the Class-only model is expected, since there are only 4 Classes. As expected, the finer the features the better the performance. However, the Surface/Sense setting is lower than its more coarse version Surface/Class for all frequency count settings (statistically not significant). This is caused by Sense-level classifier's inferior performance, that often misses underrepresented senses of connectives.
Table 3: 10-fold cross-validation average accuracies for fusion of discourse connective features with bag-of-words (baseline: BL: BoW). Results are reported for presence (B), raw (R) and normalized frequencies (N).
17The raw frequency counts perform better for all the representations, followed by normalized frequency counts. The boolean feature vector representation has the lowest performances. In the next Section we fuse these feature vectors with the boolean bag-of-words representation.
18From the previous set of experiments we have observed that discourse connective only models perform above the chance level (even though much below the bag-of-words baseline). In order to investigate the effect of newly proposed discourse features, we fuse them with bag-of-words vectors (i.e. the baseline). The results of fusion are reported in Table 3.
19From the results in Table 3 we can observe that the effect of feature fusion overall is insignificant. Raw frequency vectors generally have a negative effect on the performance. For boolean frequency vectors (i.e. presence), the more coarse features (Class and Sense) slightly improve the performance. For the normalized frequency count vectors, on the other hand, both more coarse and more refined features contribute to the performance. However, none of the improvements is statistically significant.
20The results of experiments using n-grams of Class and Senses of connectives is reported in Table 4. The general observation is that increasing n-gram size has a positive effect on performance when discourse features are used stand-alone, and they are significantly above chance (except Class unigrams). The fusion of n-gram features and bag-ofword representation is also beneficial.
Table 4: 10-fold cross-validation average accuracies for discourse connective class and sense 1-3 grams and their fusion with bag-of-words. Only presence (boolean) of an n-gram is considered.
21The best performing combination is fusion of bigrams of Classes and bag-of-words that achieves accuracy of 86.85. However, the improvement is statistically insignificant. But the fact that performances improve over the fusion of bag-of-words and frequency-based discourse connective vectors indicates that n-grams of explicit discourse relations are able to capture structures relevant for the sentiment polarity classification.
22We have described experiments on using lowlevel discourse-based features for sentiment polarity classification. The general observations are (1) discourse connectives in isolation generally significantly outperform the chance baseline; and (2) using even the most general top-level senses provides performance gains. This is particularly notable due to the fact that discourse connective detection and relation sense classification do not generalize well across domains (Prasad et al., 2011).
23Discourse connectives signal explicit discourse relations, which are only 53% of all discourse relations in PDTB. Implicit discourse relations (47%), which have the same senses, are much harder to deal with. Given the state of the art on implicit relation sense classification, detection and application of all the discourse relations is not yet possible. However, as indicated by the experiments on using n-grams of relation senses, even approximations can contribute.
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She thought it was a snake, So she hit it with a rake, And now it's only four foot four!
My wife asked me for an example of a double entendre so I gave her one.
the best childish one is about batman and robin to jingle bells tune, cant be arsed to write it all though!
Because she said she was hot in 'em.
First law of NSC, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
'Doesn't that annoy you when you're on the job?
Said Fatty, 'I'm a girlie', and punched him in the gob.
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Instagram also lets you find and view other people's content. The search tab can be used to find either specific users or any post with a specific tab. Once you find a post, you can give it a like or add a comment. Posts also link directly to their creator's profile, which gives you the option to follow them.
By following someone, they are added to the personal feed on the front page of the app. This way, you can be among the first to see their content without having to search for their profile page again. Following users also lets you access their private profiles. When a profile is made private, it can only be viewed by people that have followed and have been accepted by the profile's owner. Making your profile private is a great way to ensure that only those you trust can see the content you upload.
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If you see an interesting or inspiring post that you want to save for later, you can save it using the bookmarking feature. This saves it to a private section of your profile that only you can view. Some third-party apps support reposting other people's posts on your account; however, this is not an official feature.
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Posted on January 4, 2023 by Zoya Teirstein | 0 Comments
Europe broke heat records last year, and 2023 is shaping up to be no different. A winter heat dome descended on the continent right just in time for New Year's Day, crushing thousands of standing high-temperature records. Eight countries — Belarus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Poland — set new all-time records for warmest January weather on the first of the month. The heat wave caused temperatures to rise up to 36 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) above average for this time of year.
"This is exactly the kind of very abnormal event that is progressively rewriting global climatology," Nahel Belgherze, a meteorologist in France, said in a tweet. Other experts based in Europe said the heat wave was unprecedented and alarming. Climatologist Maximiliano Herrera told CNN it's "the most extreme heat wave in European history."
Climate researchers say the science linking climate change to record-setting heat waves is indisputable. Analyses of more than 100 hot spells over the past decade have shown that modern-day global warming, the majority of which has been brought about by the burning of fossil fuels, made nearly all of them more likely or severe. For example, an unusually hot summer in Texas in 2011 and a summertime European heat wave in 2017 were made 10 and four times more likely by climate change, respectively.
It'll take time for researchers to parse exactly how much rising global temperatures influenced this particular weather event. Abnormal heat is still moving through Europe as the heat wave mixes with Arctic air edging in from the northeast and dissipates. But it's already abundantly clear that Europe just experienced a severe departure from the norm.
Poland broke its national temperature record before the sun had even breached the horizon on New Year's Day when the town of Glucholazy hit 65.7 degrees F, according to the Washington Post. France broke more than 100 heat records that day. A town in western Belarus clocked a maximum temperature of 61.5 degrees F — the norm there in midwinter is 32 degrees F. The warm winter has turned famed European skiing destinations soupy and brown. Parts of the Alps were totally devoid of snow as of January 1; a major skiing competition set to take place in Switzerland next week will depend entirely on artificial flakes.
The extremely warm temperatures aren't expected to stick around for much longer, but meteorologists say above-average temperatures could plague mainland Europe for at least another week.
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Europe kicks off 2023 with a record-setting heat wave on Jan 4, 2023.
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Court Sanctions Plaintiff and Counsel for Misuse of Discovery Process, Including Failing to Reveal That Relevant Cell Phones were Discarded
Moreno v. Ostly, No. A127780, 2011 WL 598931 (Cal. Ct. App. Feb. 22, 2011)
After initially resisting discovery, plaintiff produced a laptop and cellular phone for examination. Upon inspection, it was discovered that neither device was in use during the relevant time period. Moreover, the relevant devices were no longer in plaintiff's possession. When challenged as to why this was not disclosed initially, counsel explained that he was torn between his "competing duties" of protecting his client and candor to the court. Rejecting plaintiff's and her counsel's explanations, the court entered monetary sanctions against them. On appeal, the sanctions were affirmed.
In this case in which plaintiff alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, and failure to pay back wages, defendants sought to discover relevant emails and text messages sent between plaintiff and her alleged harasser and specifically requested production of plaintiff's computer and cell phone for examination. Plaintiff objected, arguing that the discovery was overly broad. Following a court order to produce plaintiff's personal computer and cell phone, however, plaintiff's counsel agreed to deliver them to defendants. Upon inspection of the devices produced, defendants discovered that neither was from the relevant time period and that, in fact, the cellular phone had not even been manufactured until after the relevant period had ended. When challenged, plaintiff's counsel indicated that "he always understood" the request to be for the devices currently in plaintiff's possession. When pressed to identify how many computers and cell phones had been used during the relevant period, when plaintiff used them, and what happened to them, plaintiff's counsel took the position that defendants would have to conduct further discovery. Thereafter, defendants filed a motion for sanctions.
It was eventually revealed that plaintiff used two different cell phones during the relevant period but that neither remained available for inspection. Plaintiff admitted that one had been discarded but, as the court noted in its analysis, it remained "unclear" what had happened to the other. For his part, counsel stated that he had not revealed what he had learned from his client about her cell phone because of attorney-client privilege. Expanding upon that explanation at a hearing on the issue, counsel explained that "he felt he had a 'competing set of duties'", namely his obligation to protect his client, who could be accused of spoliation, and his duty of candor to the court and opposing counsel and that he "felt like he was walking a tightrope" trying to advocate for his client "while at the same time be[ing] candid."
The trial court found the explanation "not very credible" and "referenced another party . . . as having a similar problem" (where plaintiff's former work computer had been replaced and could not be produced) but that the party had been frank with the court and thus precluded the need to "spend a whole lot of time on all these issues." The court went on to express "astonish[ment] at [counsel's] explanation, and to being upset upon learning that the devices [counsel] was trying so vehemently to resist producing did not exist." The court also noted the lack of clarity regarding what happened to the second cell phone, and "expressed the view that there was still some 'evasion'" with regard to the present whereabouts of the devices. Accordingly, the court indicated that it would award monetary sanctions and asked defendants' counsel to provide a declaration "updating the actual amount of attorney fees incurred in preparing a reply brief and in attending the hearing." Upon submission of the declaration, the court issued a written order awarding sanctions in the amount of $13,500. In addition to repeating that counsel's explanations were "simply not credible," the court also "pointed to statements made in the pleadings filed by [counsel] in the course of the dispute 'that were patently designed to leave the impression upon this Court that [Moreno] had diligently inspected computer [sic] and cell phones used during the relevant time frame, that she had produced all relevant and responsive email and text messages…."
Specifically, the trial court concluded that the actions of plaintiff and her counsel were a "misuse of the discovery process" and found that the "'misuse of the discovery procedures,' 'particularly as to the cell phone,' included the making of unmeritorious objections without substantial justification to discovery or motions to compel (§ 2023.010, subds.(e), (h)), the making of evasive responses to discovery (§ 2023.010, subd. (f)), and the failure to confer in a reasonable and good faith attempt to resolve informally any dispute (§ 2023,010, subd. (i))." Plaintiff appealed the order.
On appeal, the appellate court found that monetary sanctions were authorized by California law and warranted by the facts of the case. In support of its holding, the court expressed that it too was "mystified" by counsel's failure to disclose that the phones were no longer in plaintiff's possession and further cited counsel's and plaintiff's lack of good faith in their initial resistance to the production request despite knowing the phones were no longer in plaintiff's possession and the "charade" of producing plaintiff's current phone and computer to defendants' expert.
"[T]hrowing the Laptop Off a Building; Running Over the Laptop with a Vehicle; and Stating 'If This Gets Us into Trouble, I Hope We're Prison Buddies,' Unquestionably Demonstrate Bad Faith."
No Sanctions for Destruction of Data Resulting from Mistaken Belief that Computers had been Imaged


Just another week for 2015 to come to a close, and we are back with Music Aloud's only listicle of the year – our annual roundup of songs from across industries that we actively follow. Like last year, it is four top 25 lists – Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and non-film, and a smaller miscellaneous playlist of favourite songs from other language films that we don't cover well enough to be able to do a complete roundup. Onto the lists then. Format is the usual: Song Title (Movie) – Composer(s)|Singer(s)|Lyricist(s). Also, we have followed the movie release date like every time, so some of the soundtracks that came out this year maybe missing on account of the movies coming out next year.
I had the hardest time with this list this time; Malayalam has had a really good year with a lot of quality songs (my initial list stood at close to 80!). Bijibal has been consistently good throughout the year, though the biggest hits of the year belonged to others. Song title links to the actual song, and playlist at the end. The playlist is incomplete since not all songs are available individually on youtube.
Carrying on the tradition we began last year, of having a separate list for Tamil. You may notice that we haven't reviewed many of the soundtracks featured here, but that is only owing to paucity of time; we do listen to a lot more music than we review!
And that completes are biggest roundup so far, in terms of numbers (three songs more than last year :D). So long then! Wishing everyone a wonderful 2016!


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Q: How to create a no refresh page using jquery, express and handlebars? I am learning express JS and my problem is: I want to create two pages using NodeJS, that uses handlebars as template engine, but I want that the first page should be send using res.render('home'), and the second page should be called by jQuery using ajax call to express and get the response as rendered HTML from express server, then load an about page without refreshing. I tried using the method shown in this StackOverflow question but I am not satisfied. please guide me how can i achieve it.

A: so guys I finally found an answer to my question, I hope you it will help you too. Follow these steps one by one to create a no refresh website using jquery, express and handlebars. Just a tutorial for something that is combination of multiple things.
1. Create a folder name mywebsite
2. run npm init and install the following dependencies
    "express-handlebars": "^5.3.4",
    "handlebars": "^4.7.7",
    "hbs": "^4.1.2"

3. Now create a main.js file with the following code
const express = require('express')
const app = express();
const static_path = __dirname + "/static"
const hbs = require("hbs");

app.set('view engine', 'hbs');
app.set("views", __dirname + "/pages");

app.use(express.static(static_path));

var exhb = require('express-handlebars').create();

app.get("/", (req, res) => {
    res.render('index', { title: "Home Test", pagename: "This is my Home page" });
});

app.get('/getabout', (req, res) => {
    exhb.render("pages/about.hbs", { title: "About US page", body: "Body" }).then((html) => {
        res.send({ data: html });
    }).catch((err) => {
        console.log(err);
    })
});

app.listen(8080, 'localhost', () => {
    console.log("listening at http://localhost:8080")
})

4. Now create a static folder with a file index.js and write the following code
async function callAbout() {
    let data = await fetch('http://localhost:8080/getabout');
    let response = await data.json();
    console.log(response);
    $("html").html(response['data']);
    window.history.pushState(
        'about us',
        'About us',
        '/aboutus');
}

5. Now create a pages folder with two files index.hbs and about.hbs index.hbs will contain the following code
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>{{title}}</title>

{{pagename}}

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Sint assumenda aliquam dolor consectetur recusandae possimus illo praesentium atque nihil exercitationem!
    <button onclick="callAbout()">About us</button>

about.hbs  will contain the following code
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>{{title}}</title>

This is my about us page created using NODE

Lorem ipsum dolor, sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Explicabo accusamus autem accusantium suscipit, minima blanditiis ducimus quisquam fugiat, eligendi repellendus provident quasi dolores nesciunt laboriosam commodi illum repellat error eos.
{{body}}

6. Now run node.js and click the About Us button and see the magic
Hope this tutorial might help anyone trying to accomplish new things

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I have lost discretion. Please help me, Krishna.
Surdas says: Krishna, please help. You know everything. I have not done any good deeds. I am blinded by attachment to wife, child (family) and money. I have lost discretion. Please help. Water has seeped into the boat of my life, and it is deemed to sink. Please help.
Jagjit Singh in a live performance at Iskcon's Hare Krishna temple, Juhu, Mumbai. The bhajan has been written by Bhakti saint, Surdas, a disciple of Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya. He was one of the Asht-sakha poets in the temple of Srinath ji when the deity was still on Govardhan hill.
Surdas, like Mira Bai has been a great contributor to Braj sahitya, the literature of Vrindavan.
He was a contemporary of Aurangzeb, and was residing in Mathura when the temple of Keshav Katra Dev (now Sri Krishna janmabhoomi temple) was demolished, according to his biography Khanjan Nayan written by Hindi litterateur Amrit Lal Nagar. The biography makes an interesting read, sprinkled with Surdas's poems on Krishna.


Living in so called Korean Village at Ampang but never even once post any Korean food in Korean Village. This time I have made a point by visiting one of the many Korean restaurants here. The restaurant name is called Restoran Han Woo Ri Garden. They have the most attractive interior design compare with other restaurants.
Creativity: 3/5 Taste: 4/5 Price: 4/5 Overall: 3/5 - This is a pork meat which is not bad even though there is no special marinated sauce accompany with it. They really choose the meat very well. This is the meat from a pig's neck.
When is the last time I play a card game or a board game (excluding poker cards)? I seriously cannot remember but I remembered that I always enjoy it all the time. Lately thanks to this sudden trend, we have a platform to play board games and card games again! Meeples European Boardgame Cafe is one of the successful cafe that introduce such platform to us. Our teenage life is never that bored again after being limited to cybercafe, karaoke, cinema and clubbing. Meaples is located at SS15 which is a walking distance from INTI College.
They have light snacks and drinks provided but no heavy meal available. So if you thinking of getting your light lunch or dinner here, maybe you should get it at somewhere else first.
The best porridge I had so far is at Hon Kee Porridge which is located at Petaling Street. This place is not really new to everyone anymore as their name has been made in the TV food shows too. They have 6 outlets selling their famous porridge. The others are in a shop and much more cleaner than this one which is in an attap stall. They have started their business since 1949 and originated from Petaling Street before spreading out to other branches. The great thing is even though they start to be commercialized but their quality is still tip-top!
Overall: 3/5 - Despite the hefty price tag, the chicken is very smooth and delicious but kinda too much for one person to finish it especially I am there for breakfast only.
A fortnight ago, I promised my sister to have a seafood feast with her mum and dad after my winnings at Genting. Probably you know what I mean by winning. Hehe. Actually that day I was planning to go to Restoran Fresh Seafood Unique 23 which is located at Petaling Jaya. However after I got her parents in my car and on the way to pick up my sister after her class, I got myself stuck in the usual jam at Jalan Syed Putra. My "clever" instinct told me I need to find an alternative road so I will able to pick her up on time as she dislike waiting especially when she is alone.
Afternoon Set for Two @Delicious, Marc Residence.
I always enjoy afternoon tea session however sometimes it is just too heavy for me which will spoil my appetite for my dinner.
Overall: 3/5 - Actually we should have choose Macadamia Cheesecake. I thought she is going to choose that and she thought I will choose that for myself too. LoL. Ended up a BIG misunderstanding. Anyway, the Tiramisu is not bad too but not the best we had so far.
My hawker stall adventure continue once again at Wai Sek Kai located along Jalan Sayur Pudu. In front of the Egg Custard stall, there is a stall selling hakka mee but not the normal hakka mee we known of. They called it 大埔面 or in Pinyin is called Da Bu Mian. Da bu is one of the subgroup for Hakka ethnic. This stall famous with their handmade noodles and even their Loh Shu Fun is handmade.
Anyway, this stall always had his crowd no matter what day it is. The price is start from RM4.00 for small and follow buy RM4.20 for medium and RM4.50 for big size which is pretty reasonable at KL.


Child: AED 350 * Duration 8 Hours.
The world's largest indoor theme park features a host of rides and attractions to create an unforgettable experience for every member of the family.Ferrari World AbuDhabi is now open to the public and offers a truly amazing experience for every member of the family. The park hosts more than 20 unique rides and attractions for visitors of all ages and interests - from speed thrill rides to the world's most advanced simulators and family-friendly attractions - in addition to a wide variety of Italian restaurants, unique shopping experiences and dedicated entertainment. All tickets provide unlimited use of rides and attractions inside Ferrari World Abu Dhabi. The park will be operating on a six-day a week schedule from Tuesday to Sunday, welcoming visitors from 12 noon each day.
Pick up from your location or hotel in Dubai/Sharjah.
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All breathtaking rides entry along with world fastest roller coaster.
Drop off to your location or hotel in Dubai/Sharjah.
Pick up & drop back will be provided from Dubai only.
Pick up from other emirates are available at an extra charge.
Theme Park is open on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday & Wednesday from 12:00pm – 10:00pm and on Thursday – Friday from 12:00pm – 12:00am. The park is closed on Monday.
Children under the age of 3 will be admitted free of charge. The ticket price for Children above 3 years of age and adults will be same.
Summer clothing is suitable for most of the year, but sweaters or jackets may be needed for the winter months, especially in the evenings. Having good quality sunglasses, sunscreen and hat are advisable when in direct sunlight Dubai has conservative dress traditions. Men and women should ensure shoulders and knees are covered when in public.


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Q: Highchart the horizontal gradline below the 0 axis
I want the gradline and the xaxis started in the same line, I tried set the yaxis.min and so on。
it don't work, so some one could help me on this?
            chart = new Highcharts.Chart({
            chart: {
                renderTo: 'container',
                type: 'line'
            },
            title: {
                text: 'text'
            },
            xAxis: {
                categories: [],
                labels: {
                    style: {
                        width: '50px',
                        'min-width': '50px'
                    }
                }
            },
            yAxis: {
                categories: [],
                title: {
                    text: 'text'
                },
                min: 0,
            },
            series: [
                {
                    name: 'name',
                    type: 'spline'
                }
            ]

This is my chart option, and I dynamicly update the values of xAxis and yAxis, this's my update code
            chart.yAxis[0].setExtremes(0, maxy);
            chart.xAxis[0].setCategories(timeArr);
            chart.series[0].setData(valArr);

timeArr is the string array about time, valArr is my data, maxy is max of the valArr.

A: In general it should work fine: http://jsfiddle.net/bteWs/31/ (try to update to 4.0.1 version)
However, I advice to remove categories from yAxis, since you want numeric values, right?
        yAxis: {
            categories: [], //remove that option
            title: {
                text: 'text'
            },
            min: 0,
        },


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Mahlee™ was originally conceived as an aid to explain and understand object oriented systems, especially the ideas behind message dispatchers and binding. This is because Mahlee™ doesn't use a shared memory multi-threading environment, rather it uses message passing¹ [1The message passing mechanism means that the processing model approaches that used by languages like Erlang called "communicating sequential processes" (CSP).].
Mahlee™ actually turns out to be a very practical and useful thing too.
The message protocols that Mahlee™ uses (based on JSON) can be written for other scripting languages or compiled languages and I hope they will. In fact the same message passing concepts are used in the C++ implementation of the current Mahlee™ host.
There are a number of things that I want to ensure that Mahlee™ is always capable of because I think it will help to drive adoption and development of Mahlee™ in as many different application areas as possible.
There are various reasons for choosing the Mahlee™ name, but one of them is that it currently returns zero hits on Google's code search² [2Actually not zero, but the only matches were for a host name in a configuration file.]. This is important because having a global name that is not already in use means that Mahlee™ can easily be added to scripts (this follows on from the previous point of course).
This will help scripts to degrade gracefully where Mahlee™ is not available.
In keeping with the basic philosophy of FOST.3™ the Mahlee™ implementation should internalise as much of the complexity of dealing with multiple threads and object communication as possible.
When there is a choice between making implementations harder to write and making writing Mahlee™ scripts harder the choice will always be to make the scripts easy to write.
This is not to say that any thing that a script writer may want to do will be allowed by Mahlee™.
No Mahlee™ script should be allowed to do anything that the person who runs the scripts doesn't expect.
We have started to work out a meta-communication and meta-object layer called Sua which will handle communication between objects running in different processes or hosts. At the moment there aren't any details to report.
This is true for the current Windows™ implementation and should be true of other implementations too. This will help to make Mahlee™ much easier to implement.
I want to keep the Mahlee™ name used for host extensions that are fully compatible with the "official" implementation.
I would very much like to see other implementations (especially for other environments or for other languages), but would just ask that efforts are coordinated in order to make the ideas as universal as possible and that different Mahlee™ implementations for the same language are fully compatible.
Feel free to do something similar for your favourite language, but if it isn't 100% compatible with Mahlee™ then please just call it something else.
Mahlee™ objects communicate asynchronously through sending each other messages. When a Mahlee™ object sends another object a message it immediately receives a future which can be used to retrieve the result (or an error) at a later time. When the result is needed the calling Mahlee™ object will automatically wait for it.
Here is a simple "Hello world" program that creates an object in another thread and then retrieves the words "Hello" and "World" from it.
The current (alpha) implementation of Mahlee™ doesn't support connection to remote objects. This is a description of what I am working on.
Mahlee™ remoting will allow Mahlee™ objects to be created from remote definitions, to communicate between Mahlee™ hosts and even to access global Mahlee™ objects.
Security will be handled by an out-of-band (or meta-communications) layer called Sua. Sua will be responsible for establishing trust relationships and capability determination (meta-object communications).
With Mahlee™ remoting it will become much simpler to write a wide variety of distributed programs, for example many distributed map-reduce or grid computing algorithms. Sua will also be responsible for charging of rented computer resources.
This time the object definition is fetched from the remote server and executed locally.
It will also be possible to bind to global objects running on remote servers.
Here a single, literally global, object exists. The Mahlee™ host binds to this object after which using it is identical in nature to a local object.
An alpha version is available for Windows™.


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<?php
/**
 * DepH - Zend Server Deployment Helper
 */

/**
 * DepH Bootstrapping and desaster error handling
 */

define('SCRIPT_ROOT', dirname(__FILE__));
set_include_path(join(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
	'/usr/local/zend/share/ZendFramework2/library', // Zend Server 6.0
	'/usr/local/zend/var/libraries/Zend_Framework_2/default/library', // Zend Server 6.1
	get_include_path()
)));
require_once 'Zend/Loader/StandardAutoloader.php';

$autoLoader = new \Zend\Loader\StandardAutoloader(array(
    'namespaces' => array(
        'ZendDevOps\DepH' => __DIR__ . '/ZendDevOps/DepH',
    ),

    'fallback_autoloader' => true,
));

// register our StandardAutoloader with the SPL autoloader
$autoLoader->register();

use \ZendDevOps\DepH\ServiceManager\ServiceManager as ZendDevOpsDepH;

set_exception_handler(function(\Exception $exception) {
    global $GlobalDepH;
    if (!$GlobalDepH) {
        echo "Obviously the master DepH class couldn't be created (should not have happened)... \nthat's why we have to stop the script here the hard way.\nMaybe you can find a solution with the attached message and stack below.\n" . $exception->getMessage() . "\n" . $exception->getTraceAsString();
        exit(1);
    }

    $deployment = $GlobalDepH->get('Deployment');
    $em = $deployment->getEventManager();
    $em->attach('terminate', array($GlobalDepH->get('Log'), 'exception'));
    $deployment->terminate($exception->getMessage());
});

$GlobalDepH;

class DepH extends ZendDevOpsDepH{
    public function __construct($displayErrors = true) {
        global $GlobalDepH;
        if ($displayErrors) ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
        parent::__construct();
        $GlobalDepH = $this;
    }
}

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I am so happy to be back at home in San Diego. I have so many images from my photography weekend in Mexico City. Like about 800.
It's so hard to pick and choose what images to post, what to post first, and also not to bore anyone to death who's not a photography junkie. Or not into street food and outdoor markets. Of which I saw enough to kinda last me a good six months or so.
Here are some images that I like and that are representative of probably another 50 images that look similar to it and to what I saw over and over.
This happens to be fried cheese in a tortilla.
Apparently this was phenomenal according to my fellow travelers.
Corn from street vendors cooked outside. Tons and tons of corn.
And all of us smiling, sampling food, and making lots of pictures!
It was the trip of a lifetime. I learned so much. Not only from Penny or about photography, but about myself.
I had some personal convictions about meat reinforced.
I saw lots of romance and PDAs.
I took a ridiculous number of photos.
I saw the beauty in the people, culture, history, and the historic city of Mexico City.
1. What's a familiar theme in your life lately?
I know that I love making pictures and that I can do in San Diego what I did in Mexico City.
I need to set aside dedicated time and energy to taking photos and I need to keep challenging myself; giving myself photography assignments and pushing myself to grow, and just doing it.
2. What's something that you need to challenge yourself with, push yourself with, or set aside dedicated time to just do?
For some people this is working out. For others, this is unplugging from technology, reading more, sleeping more, being more social, not wasting time, not spending money frivolously. We all have our "things" that we're working on.
For me, I will be not only be working on my photography but will be working on moving into our new home on Wednesday. Omg my life is a whirlwind right now!
Glad you enjoyed my last post from the Phoenix airport, too. It was fun to hear your thoughts about when travel ends if you're ready and be glad to be returning home. Or not so much.
Time for me to unpack my suitcase and pack more of my house!
I'm so happy you had a great time and that you learned so much (and met some amazing people it seems!) That corn looks DELICIOUS! What beautiful photos and experiences!
glad you're home, safe 'n' sound, averie!
fantastic that you took full advantage of your opportunity to take all those photos – what a collection you will have!
best wishes with the packing tomorrow.
i still have running challenges i want to meet; it means training smartly and planning long-term – good thing i like planning and goal setting!
That definitely does look like the trip of a lifetime. Your photos in these last few posts are some of my all-time-favorites of yours. That cob of corn one is particularly incredible.
I can't believe you didn't try any of that fried cheese in a tortilla! I would have been ALL over that.
Wow love your pictures, they really capture the spirit of the people, amazing. I recognized the "The cafe popular" I agree their cafe con leche is yommy. I would like to hear if you had a hard time with food, sometimes I feel cheese is everywhere.
Looks like you had a great time and got some great shots. I love the french fry guy and moment you captured. I also like the corn guy pointing to the grilled corn and the close up of the corn on the cob. Really great shots. I'd love to hear more about it when things settle down for you and you get a chance.
There are so many things that are up in the air right now in my life and I need to take more time to just sit with my own thoughts. I keep trying to shut down the anxiety, which is good – I don't like anxious thoughts swirling in my mind. But, that has also caused me to not think about everything at all, and some decisions have to start being made!
wow, what a wonderful trip! your photos are all beautiful! my favorites: the first tortilla shot and the close up of the corn.
You've made me want to go to Mexico! I recently travelled the westg coast of the states but sadly didn't go quite as far south as San Diego (the furthest we went was LA) but I've gotta say – as an Aussie who has had MINIMAL contact/experience with anything Mexican, I was lapping up the Mexican culture in southern Cali! I loved it SO MUCH, that after arriving home, we had a "Mexican week" at home and ate something Mexican every night for dinner!
Love the colors and textures. This looks like such an amazing trip. That first shot is really beautiful. Great job Averie!


Although your metabolism is largely ruled by your genes, you can boost it by eating the right foods. Eat these Top 5 Metabolism Boosting Foods to enjoy a thinner waistline in 2016.
Educating yourself about foods is the first step when changing your bad habits related to unhealthy eating. You're never too old to make educated changes in what you put into your body to help you gain energy and lose weight. Here are the top 5 foods to make your metabolism work for you!
Beans are an inexpensive and convenient way to give a metabolism boost to your daily menu. Beans are high in protein and fill you up. They help you store less fat, lower cholesterol and triglycerides, and improve insulin sensitivity. Beans also boost your testosterone which helps increase your energy and build more calorie-burning muscle!
Garlic helps boost your metabolism. It is a natural thermogenic food, which means that it causes your body to produce heat, and producing heat takes energy, so the body burns off calories faster.
Raspberries and Strawberries both contain the flavonoid anthocyanin which helps your body produce adiponectin, a hormone that's been linked to lower glucose levels, curbed cravings, and boosted metabolism.
Broccoli is filled with fiber, both soluble and insoluble, to help cleanse your colon. It is also a rich source of Vitamin C. Broccoli helps you feel full and it increases your body's ability to burn fat by as much as 30 percent.
Whole Grains – Eating small portions of brown rice, quinoa, and whole grain cereals helps the body process fat.
We hope you find this list of the Top 5 Metabolism Boosting Foods informative and helpful as you start the new year. For more informational posts like this, be sure to stop by our Food and Fitness section to help you out in your quest for a healthier, happier you!


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No bail for mild-mannered NYC bookkeeper charged in naked pal's death
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Criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala (pictured, wearing a suit) leaves Brooklyn criminal court after the arraignment of Vito Bauza with Bauza's brother (pictured, left). Gregory P. Mango
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A mild-mannered Brooklyn bookkeeper was ordered held without bail Sunday in the grisly stabbing death of his naked roommate — as the suspect's lawyer called his client's alleged bloody act "an aberration."
Vito Bauza, 56, is charged with murder for allegedly slashing Ernest Diaz, 40, in a frenzy at the suspect's Bay Ridge apartment building Friday afternoon.
Diaz stumbled out of the building's elevator naked and covered in blood before collapsing in the lobby.
Bauza turned himself in to cops the next day.
Outside the Brooklyn courthouse Sunday, defense lawyer Arthur Aidala said his client had known Diaz "for a very, very long time," and called his alleged deadly outburst "an aberration" and "so out of character for him.
"He's a very decent human being who was apparently involved in an incident that took seconds," Aidala said. "It's not like he's a violent person or an aggressive person in any way, shape, or form.
The aftermath of the fatal stabbing shows blood spatters inside the Brooklyn apartment building.
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"I think it's going to turn out to be some domestic-violence situation," he added. "There are many defenses, obviously including self-defense."
According to police sources, Diaz, whose last known address was in Queens, had been living with Bauza at the time.
A building custodian previously told The Post that Diaz took the elevator down from the fifth-floor apartment shortly before 3 p.m. Friday before stumbling bloodied into the lobby.
Blood covered packages in the lobby from the Brooklyn stabbing.
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"He had stab wounds all over," the custodian said.
Diaz was taken to Lutheran Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
In court, Bauza, whose family was there for his arraignment, wore a Tyvek-style jumpsuit and did not speak during the brief proceeding.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Edgar Walker ordered him held without bail pending a return court appearance in the case Dec. 3.
"I wasn't going to ask for bail today," Aidala told The Post. "We have to regroup and see if there is a real possibility for bail."
Bauza's family snapped at reporters but did not comment on the case.
"He's my nephew," his aunt said. "He's a good person."
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Q: trying to save value of my edit text field after changing to one activity to 2nd activity and then return to 1st activity in jetpack compose
*

*I am trying to save my edit text value after changing from one activity to another

*ex: just like in a register pager (first you have to fill all data in pages and in the end submit.

*I am having trouble here is if i want to edit my first page data so i moved from 2nd page to 1st page but my 1st page doesn't show any data

*I tried using save state and restore state of navigation but it wont help

class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContent { ScreenNavigation() }
    }
}

@Composable
fun Page1(navController: NavHostController) {
    var test = remember { mutableStateOf("") }

    Column() {
        TextField(value = test.value, onValueChange = { test.value = it })
        Button(
            onClick = {
                navController.navigate(ScreenRoute.Page2.name) {
                    popUpTo(ScreenRoute.Page2.name) { saveState = true }
                    launchSingleTop = true

                    restoreState = true
                }
            }
        ) {}

        Text(text = "Page1")
        TextField(
            value = test.value,
            onValueChange = { test.value = it },
        )
    }
}

@Composable
fun Page2(navController: NavHostController) {
    var test = remember { mutableStateOf("") }

    Column() {
        TextField(value = test.value, onValueChange = { test.value = it })
        Button(
            onClick = {
                navController.navigate(ScreenRoute.Page1.name) {
                    popUpTo(ScreenRoute.Page1.name) { saveState = true }
                    launchSingleTop = true

                    restoreState = true
                }
            }
        ) {}
        Text(text = "Page2")
    }
}

// code for navigation

@Composable
fun ScreenNavigation() {
    val navController = rememberNavController()

    NavHost(navController = navController, startDestination = ScreenRoute.Page1.name) {
        composable(ScreenRoute.Page1.name) { Page1(navController) }

        composable(ScreenRoute.Page2.name) { Page2(navController) }
    }
}

// code for screen route
enum class ScreenRoute {
    Page1,
    Page2,
}

A: Have both variables outside the functions and above class like this:
var test1 = mutableStateOf("")
var test2 = mutableStateOf("")

class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContent { ScreenNavigation() }
    }
}

@Composable
fun Page1(navController: NavHostController) {

    Column() {
        TextField(value = test1.value, onValueChange = { test1.value = it })
        Button(
            onClick = {
                navController.navigate(ScreenRoute.Page2.name) {
                    popUpTo(ScreenRoute.Page2.name) { saveState = true }
                    launchSingleTop = true

                    restoreState = true
                }
            }
        ) {}

        Text(text = "Page1")
        TextField(
            value = test1.value,
            onValueChange = { test1.value = it },
        )
    }
}

@Composable
fun Page2(navController: NavHostController) {

    Column() {
        TextField(value = test2.value, onValueChange = { test2.value = it })
        Button(
            onClick = {
                navController.navigate(ScreenRoute.Page1.name) {
                    popUpTo(ScreenRoute.Page1.name) { saveState = true }
                    launchSingleTop = true

                    restoreState = true
                }
            }
        ) {}
        Text(text = "Page2")
    }
}

// code for navigation

@Composable
fun ScreenNavigation() {
    val navController = rememberNavController()

    NavHost(navController = navController, startDestination =       ScreenRoute.Page1.name) {
        composable(ScreenRoute.Page1.name) { Page1(navController) }

        composable(ScreenRoute.Page2.name) { Page2(navController) }
    }
}

// code for screen route
enum class ScreenRoute {
    Page1,
    Page2,
}

A: *

*Have both variables outside the functions

*Use rememberSaveable

*remembersaveable save the state of value

       val numberOfFamilyMember = rememberSaveable {
       mutableStateOf("")
   }

A: Try using rememberSaveable like this
@Composable
fun Page1(navController: NavHostController) {
var test by rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf("") }

Column() {
    TextField(value = test.value, onValueChange = { test.value = it })
    Button(
        onClick = {
            navController.navigate(ScreenRoute.Page2.name) {
                popUpTo(ScreenRoute.Page2.name) { saveState = true }
                launchSingleTop = true

                restoreState = true
            }
        }
    ) {}

    Text(text = "Page1")
    TextField(
        value = test.value,
        onValueChange = { test.value = it },
    )
}
}

Using variables outside Composable seems to be a side effect.
rememberSaveable should survive the activity change according to docs


Specific websites on tea production, tea types, tea regions and more.
Tocklai Research Association: Photo gallery of tea machinery!
Upasi Tea research Foundation: a little scientific & techy may be for some but gives a good clear description of the key steps and processes. Follow the links on the right for more information on each step.
Upasi Tea research Foundation: a little scientific & techy may be for some but gives a good clear description of the key steps and processes. First 3/4 pages focused on CTC production with the remaining pages given to Orthodox production.
Great review of some of the tea machinery used in the production of Indian Teas, especially CTC. Includes good set of images to complement text.
Nice range of information on facts such as tasters vocablarly, methods of production, health plus a guide for our american readers of where your local tea room is.
Suppliers of tea direct from Darjeeling with a comprehensive website containing lots of tea related information.
An 'amazing' site about green and oolong teas by a true enthusiast. Highly recommended for tea history, tea facts and health (positive & negative) related information.
Great blog on many aspects of tea including great pictures of visits to tea mountains and the tea making process.
Great source of information on tea especially tea types and the preparation of tea.
As above but in French!
Brilliant site with possibility one of the largest sources of information on Pu Er (Pu Erh) teas that is available in English.
General overview of tea, its origins, types and history.
Good overview of wu long tea, its health benefits, history, production and much more.
The World Wide WIKI on green tea. An ever growing source of quality information on all aspects of tea, its history, cultivation, consumption and anything else you can think of. Mainly focused on Chinese and Japanese green teas.
The World Wide WIKI on oolong (wu long) tea. An every growing source of quality information on all aspects of oolong tea, its history, cultivation, production, consumption and anything else you can think of.
Vicony Tea Directory, a niche tea directory, created for people in the tea industry. Extensive directory of tea companies around the world. Based in Huangshan, China.


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SUBJECTS: TONY ABBOTT'S CUTS TO HEALTH; CANNING BY-ELECTION; DYSON HEYDON; PETER DUTTON'S INCOMPETENCE; CHINA FTA; NAURU INQUIRY.
MATT KEOGH, LABOR CANDIDATE FOR CANNING: So we're here today at the Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital which is part of the Armadale health service. I was born in the hospital that used to be here, and it's in the area of Kelmscott obviously in Canning. We're here because we want to highlight one of the key issues for the people of Canning, which has been that the Abbott Government's cut over $2 billion from the health services that cover this area. That's cuts to this hospital, Armadale Kelmscott, it's cuts to the Peel Health Campus and the Murray District Hospital in Pinjarra. This really highlights the wrong priorities of the Abbott Government which are of great concern. And of course it compounds the problem of the GP tax, which is going to further reduce the levels of bulk billing which are already low throughout Canning, which then force more people into our hospital system putting more pressure on these hospitals. This is combined with this hospital; the Barnett Government seems to have failed by cutting back their budget for the planned redevelopment of this hospital. We've got a huge growing area in Armadale and Kelmscott, and also through Byford into Serpentine and Jarrahdale, which this hospital needs to support. And instead of investing the funds that are required to redevelop this hospital, we're just seeing cuts from the both the Abbott and Barnett Liberal governments, which really highlights the problem of the areas of Armadale and Kelmscott and through Mandurah, and all through the seat of Canning being abandoned by Mr Abbott and his Liberal Government. And people need to remember that a vote for Mr Abbott's candidate in this election is a vote for Mr Abbott's wrong priorities and broken promises. Any questions on any of that or I can hand over to Tanya.
TANYA PLIBERSEK, DEPUTY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION: Thanks very much for coming out this morning. It's wonderful to be here with Matt Keogh and with Senator Sue Lines, but also to be here with a number of staff from this hospital. It's a terrific facility and of course, as Matt said, he was born here and he's seen a lot of changes at this hospital over the years including work that was done under the previous Labor government. But as Matt has quite rightly pointed out, there's real concern in this area about the more than $2.8 billion of health cuts that this region will see over coming years if Tony Abbott has his way. It's just on two years, two years to the day in fact, that Tony Abbott said that a Coalition government would be a government of no surprises and no excuses. And sadly, all we've seen from Canberra are nasty surprises and pathetic excuses, including in this most important area of healthcare. The Liberal candidate for this area, Andrew Hastie, is trying to make out that he's running to be the President of the Republic of Canning; that he's going to have nothing to do with Tony Abbott and his team in Canberra. But we all know that Andrew Hastie will have to defend all of the same Captain's Picks as the rest of Tony Abbott's team are having to defend. That means cuts to health, cuts to education, increased unemployment, increased taxes, a doubling of the deficit, all of the wrong calls that Tony Abbott's making in Canberra will be defended by Andrew Hastie here in Canning. I'm delighted to be here with Matt today. He's a local candidate, he's a boy who was born in the hospital right behind us, and he's committed to this local community. Any questions?
JOURNALIST: There's been a second controversy involving Andrew Hastie. This one, the latest one, being troops under his command, US troops accidentally killed two Afghan boys from a helicopter. What are your thoughts on that? Should he come forward and be clear about his operations in Afghanistan or should the ADF release that report which cleared his troops?
PLIBERSEK: Look, I'm not going to make any comment about that. I've only seen the same information that you have and it's not proper for me to comment without much more information than that.
JOURNALIST: Why do you say that he's trying to run as the President of Canning? What's he actually done to make you think that?
PLIBERSEK: Well, you've got in Andrew Hastie a candidate saying what's happening in Canberra doesn't matter to the people of Canning. But of course the decisions that are made in Canberra matter to the people of Canning. When Mr Abbott decides to cut the health budget across the nation, the people of Canning suffer. When Mr Abbott decides to cut the education budget across the nation, the kids of Canning suffer. When Mr Abbott makes a decision about $100,000 university degrees or cuts to the pension, cuts to the part pension, it's the people of Canning who suffer. If Mr Hastie wants to be on Mr Abbott's team, he's going to have to take responsibility for those captain's calls.
JOURNALIST: Ms Plibersek, does Labor think that it can actually win this seat or is its aim just a substantial swing?
PLIBERSEK: Well, we've got a brilliant candidate here, of course. But even with a brilliant candidate, a local boy, it still is very difficult to expect a swing of around 12 per cent. What I can say is we'll give it a red hot go.
JOURNALIST: What are your thoughts around Dyson Heydon's decision not to stand down from the Royal Commission?
PLIBERSEK: Well, I think it shows that Mr Abbott should have acted in the first instance and asked Dyson Heydon to stand aside. It has become untenable for the Royal Commissioner to be sitting in judgment on himself in this way and we've always said that this is a politically motivated $80 million inquiry. I think this is final confirmation of that in the last few days.
JOURNALIST: A Senate committee has recommended the removal of asylum seeker children and their families from Nauru given that the conditions are not adequate. What are your thoughts on that?
PLIBERSEK: I think it's the case that most Australians would say that we should get asylum seeker children out of detention as quickly as possible. It was our intention when we were in government to have an arrangement with Malaysia that would've seen asylum seekers able to go to Malaysia, able to go to work, live in the community, their children able to go to school, healthcare provided. Sadly, the Liberals, then in opposition, refused to support that. They came up with their own arrangement with Cambodia that's fallen apart in recent times. It's very difficult to see where Peter Dutton goes next.
JOURNALIST: Peter Dutton today said that Fairfax papers are leading a jihad, as he termed it, against the Government. What do you think about that?
PLIBERSEK: I think Mr Abbott said in 2013 "if you want better coverage, be a better government". What's Peter Dutton done in the last week? He's presided over a border farce - absolutely appalling run of events in Melbourne. He hid under the doona all weekend and now he's come out to blame the media for getting bad coverage. Peter Dutton should do his job better if he wants better coverage.
JOURNALIST: Would a Labor government change the arrangements for the Border Force, would it scale it back in its functions and powers?
PLIBERSEK: Well, certainly we wouldn't be encouraging any Australian law enforcement agency to be stopping people randomly as was suggested last weekend in Melbourne. Our personnel, our security personnel, the people who work for Border Force do a wonderful job. This is not about the work that is done by this agency. It's about a Minister's inability to manage his own responsibilities. He's now said that the press release, that was controversial, did actually go to his office twice and no action was taken. This is not about the personnel of the agency or the fine work they're doing, it's about an incompetent minister who pays no attention to the detail of his portfolio.
JOURNALIST: [Inaudible] from the Australian Chamber of Commerce says that there's a long cold winter ahead if the China free trade agreement collapses. What are your thoughts on that?
PLIBERSEK: Look, I think it's important to say Labor is supportive of a free trade agreement between Australia and China. But it has to be a good quality agreement. We have some concerns about the provisions around employment in the agreement. The enabling legislation is yet to be tabled in the Parliament. We are keen to work with the Government on that enabling legislation to make sure that Australian jobs are protected. Think about Western Australia. In Western Australia alone, since Tony Abbott came to government, unemployment is up 1.8 per cent. We've got close to 100,000 people unemployed, looking for work. Of course, we want to ensure that an Australia-China free trade agreement brings the benefits of jobs to WA and of course to the rest of the nation too.
JOURNALIST: Malcolm Turnbull yesterday told residents here at a morning tea on that issue that Labor was running a scare campaign regarding Chinese workers and was guilty of shocking misinformation here in Canning. How do you respond to that?
PLIBERSEK: Well, I would expect Malcolm Turnbull to say that. But it is clear that in this free trade agreement that runs to thousands and thousands of pages, there is some uncertainty about the provisions around importing whole workforces for large projects. If the Government is interested in working with Labor to make sure that the enabling legislation puts beyond doubt any of the areas where we have concerns, we would welcome that. Instead what they've chosen to do is spend millions of dollars of taxpayers' money on a politically motivated advertising campaign that, wow, coincidentally happens to be running when there's a by-election on. Let's actually get to the meat of the issue. Let's work together to ensure that this agreement actually brings jobs with it, actually increases employment in Australia.
JOURNALIST: Labor says it's working to try and protect those jobs, but are you concerned that if this agreement is blocked that tens of thousands of jobs could be lost?
PLIBERSEK: We want to see a free trade agreement. We negotiated for many years on this agreement with China. We would be delighted to see a good quality agreement introduced. But it has to be an agreement that expands job opportunities for Australians, not loses them.
JOURNALIST: If it comes in but in a form that's not satisfactory to you, and you win the election, would you then seek to insert protections, make changes, event go back and renegotiate some things?
PLIBERSEK: Let's just see- the first step is seeing details of the enabling legislation and of course we would like to see this agreement now, of the quality that we could support, that would actually support employment outcomes here in WA and across the nation.
JOURNALIST: Do you think China would be willing to renegotiate the agreement?
JOURNALIST: But you are saying changes should be made now. So it's not that hypothetical.
PLIBERSEK: We're saying that we would like to see a good quality agreement between Australia and China. We would like to see enabling legislation that puts beyond doubt any of the concerns that people have about very large projects, in particular being able to import entire workforces and doubts of course also around the qualifications that some trades will need when being brought to Australia. Let's see if the Government can reassure Australians and West Australians about those weaknesses by introducing enabling legislation that clarifies the situation.
JOURNALIST: Matt Keogh, do you agree that Andrew Hastie's conducting himself like royalty as he gets around the electorate?
KEOGH: To be honest, I haven't really been following what Andrew's been doing around the electorate. What I've been doing is going out and talking to people in the electorate about the issues that are concerns to them, so things like, you know, GP tax, cuts to education, cuts to hospitals, like this one, that's what I've been out doing in the electorate, I'm not following what he's doing.


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Kidnapped Russian boy rescued following tip-off from INTERPOL network
The seven-year-old boy had been missing since 28 September, after he failed to return home from school
A seven-year-old boy has been rescued from captivity by Russian special forces thanks to intelligence received and analysed by INTERPOL's Crimes against Children unit.
The young boy had been missing since 28 September, after he failed to return home from school. He disappeared somewhere along the 200m stretch between his school bus stop and home in Gorki.
On 10 November, without any prior knowledge of the case, officers in the US were able to establish a potential link between a prominent Darknet user to the kidnapping in Russia. They immediately alerted INTERPOL's network of child protection specialists.
The international law enforcement community rallied, with police forces in several countries supplying information to find clues to help locate both the user and the boy. Believing the boy was still alive, INTERPOL's Crimes against Children unit sifted through huge amounts of data, referring relevant intelligence through the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Moscow and INTERPOL's International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database.
It was thanks to this information that Russian special forces narrowed down their search. Russian authorities identified the suspect and raided the home where the boy was being held, removing the child from harm.
INTERPOL's Secretary General Jürgen Stock congratulated all involved, saying: "Today, a young boy is back where he belongs – with his family – thanks to dedicated specialist officers and swift action by authorities around the world.
"Today, a young boy is back where he belongs – with his family – thanks to dedicated specialist officers and swift action by authorities around the world." Jürgen Stock, INTERPOL Secretary General
"While we're truly delighted that this story has a safe ending, many children are still out there awaiting rescue. Successes like these only renew INTERPOL's commitment to connecting its member countries to protect children from abusers," added Secretary General Stock.
INTERPOL's Crimes against Children unit works closely with specialized units in its member countries, supporting investigations around the world through victim identification, data analysis, training and specialized tools such as the ICSE database.
Countries involved
International Child Sexual Exploitation database
West Africa: 56 minors rescued from exploitation
G7 Ministers - INTERPOL tools essential in tackling transnational threats
Australian support for enhanced INTERPOL database to combat online child abuse
INTERPOL Secretary General: More specialist units needed to investigate online child abuse
INTERPOL Secretary General: Online child sexual abuse at record levels


[Suggestion] Display iOS home screen app name as "FL Studio"
Just a quick suggestion to have the FL Studio Mobile app on iOS display the home screen app name as simply "FL Studio" as opposed to the entire name. Right now it appears as "FLStudioMo..." since it's too many characters. Perhaps there is a reason it's this way or cannot be changed (and if so, please disregard), but it would look so much cleaner if it could be changed.
Re: [Suggestion] Display iOS home screen app name as "FL Studio"


As I learn about Lawrence Chamberlain and his faith in Christ, I note the letter he composes to his wife when he believes his own death nears. He describes Christ as his all-sufficient savior and the peace his heart knows as a result of being forgiven by God.
Chamberlain survives and works for the healing of the nation as a true leader. In battle, I learn how, in the "fog of war" when we can't see clearly, we do three things no matter what that Chamberlain demonstrates: care for people well, keep courage, and inspire fearless action. I think of one of the first Bible verses I loved from Deuteronomy 31:6: "Be strong and of good courage, for the Lord your God goes with you. He will not fail or forsake you." I think of what it means to serve as a courageous shepherd.
We study about what it means to bring those we lead into great, loving community that doesn't end there. The goals of community focus outward to the battle, to the mission.
Good leaders devote themselves to the welfare of people and foster courageous action.
I'm in Gettysburg this weekend, and last night, I learned again the critical value of that first glance of terrain. The army that secures the high ground gains certain victory; they win clear vision, gravity's assistance, time, and morale.
I consider what it means to gain the high ground in spiritual battle. I think about the high ground of understanding a view from eternity, about knowing scripture well, about seeing how the enemy advances, and about taking decisive, confident steps forward.
So much about the course of the three day battle of Gettysburg hinged on vantage point. So much depended on gaining high ground. One of my counselors told me the value of studying warfare tactics in our battle against the enemy of our souls. Nothing compares to seeing clearly, with the mind of Christ, from the high ground of scripture.
When students gain confidence as writers, some beautiful things start happening: They hold up their parade of Instagram posts to brag about vivid verbs and semicolons. They report writing risks like submitting articles for publication, and the class cheers for each other when they see their writing in print in the college newspaper.
They send thoughtful emails that they just might consider writing more because they enjoyed the Signature Story so much. They just might write more personal essays not required of them in class, and they just might send them along to me for feedback.
They begin inhabiting the writing life.
They stand by my desk, laptops propped open like shark jaws balanced on their palms, and they point to the screen to celebrate a colon, an isolated sentence, and a perfect use of parentheses.
They send me links to something they read online because they noticed the authentic written voice. You'll love it! Read this! Tell me what you think.
They insist I read how complex that last sentence became–not just because of grammar, but because of how the grammar made the insightful thought come out on the page.
The writing lessons get to them. They get in them.
And now, they write what they alone can say.
We ready ourselves for the changing seasons. Soon, the Pennsylvania landscape will explode with reds, yellows, burgundies, golds, and oranges. The valley will soon stun us all with autumn color.
We pull out the harvest decorations, the spiced candles, and the apple cider. We prepare different meals of rich soups and warm bread. We snuggle into the house after crisp evening walks. We paint acorns and leaves. We rake leaves into piles for jumping, and we'll catch falling leaves for good luck. We'll watch football and sit around the fire pit.
We'll fall into fall. We'll capture every sight, sound, smell, and taste of it.
The raspberries grow so plump and heavy on the stalks that picking them becomes more like catching them. Coming near the harvest, I lift the leaves and let the berries fall into my bowl.
Sometimes, the fruit God ordains for our lives comes so easy, like we're resting under a bough that delivers abundance into our hands. Other times, we wade through thorns and predators to gather what God appoints. We spend time preparing the soil, sowing seeds, nurturing the plants, and then harvesting. It's labor. It's hard but so rewarding. And then, some years, we work little but harvest much, and it's a different feeling of reward.
I'm thankful for all kinds of work and all kinds of rest. I'm thankful for every kind of harvest.
I love thinking back on the "great things" the Lord has accomplished in my life, in the lives of others, and throughout the whole history of Israel to this very day. I think of the "great thing" of salvation and righteousness extended to us. I think of the the "great thing" of God's presence and how He "gives the Spirit without limit" (John 3).
How could we not know joy? I'm so thankful for joy!
Along with the rest of us weary 5:00 AM travelers in Asheville, I complain that the single coffee stand in the regional airport failed to open. How unified we all become in our bewilderment! No coffee? How? We strangers laugh about our addiction, embarrassed for our dependency. Together we deplane in Charlotte to race to the first coffee shop.
Traveling all day on little planes and roaming airports both tiny and enormous, I talk to people about their lives. I learn about careers and grandchildren. I hear about the time someone met Taylor Swift and about a high school senior trying to decide between Davidson and Boston College. Or maybe she'll decide on the small school in Minnesota. I'm fully invested in her journey and learn about her dogs and the canoe trip she once took in Ontario (the one she wrote about for her college essay).
I take notes on all I'm learning. I munch on pricey chocolate and wait to board the smallest plane back to my life on land.
But mostly, I think of the joy of knowing people, of seeing the landscape below, and of noting how the sun rose up behind the North Carolina mountains, making everyone one of us turn gold.
After the funeral of a truly extraordinary woman, Libby Miller, I went to the reception at Camp Greystone. I walked back to my first cabin with my first camper who happened to attend the funeral too. We both stood there in front of Cabin 5, both 23 years older.
I thought of the passage of time as I breathed in the scent of the camp that smelled just as I remembered. I thought of myself all those years ago and what it meant to have Libby help me grow. Now, standing next to the grown woman I knew as a young girl, I thought of Libby's investment in the next generation. And I realized I want to live the rest of my life helping others grow.
Lately, I've been joking that, since my daughters no longer want to be "tucked in" because they're staying up late with homework, I might provide a "Turndown Service" like at an exclusive resort. No one ever turns down the Turndown Service! Just like the Warm Welcome after school (candles lit, fun music, a snack, and beverage), the Turndown Service contains certain activities actually taught in the hotel management field of study.
The Turndown Service includes a quick tidy of the bedroom, helping to reset it for the next day. It involves, most essentially, that you turn down the sheets and comforter and plump the pillows to invite sleep; you spray lavender on the pillows; you provide a cool drink of water; perhaps you play soft music, set a fan on, or open the window for the evening breeze. And, just like at a hotel, you can announce breakfast possibilities. I've also learned that part of exceptional Turndown Service includes arranging slippers and providing a "turndown gift" of some kind of treat. While I don't provide chocolates, mints, or any kind of toiletries or towels folded into exotic birds, I do love the idea of leaving a little love note on the pillow.
I would have been a great hotel manager! I love the Turndown Service.
What began as something silly to treat family members like royalty in a resort (and to spend some time with my daughters before I went to bed) now has become a lovely evening ritual. And it feels like another way to live with flair.


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Pine County Sheriff Jeff Nelson to Run for Re-Election
On Thursday morning Pine County Sheriff Jeff Nelson announced he'll be running for re-election this fall.
"It's been my honor and privilege to be sheriff. The people that work in the sheriff's office are all top notch and it's made my job a little easier because of who they are," said Nelson.
The sheriff added that the local encouragement has been ever-present.
"The communities have been really good to work with and really supportive. I think we should keep that going at least another four years."
Nelson was first elected back in 2014 to his first term. The announcement came as part of Nelson's weekly appearance on the 100.9 WCMP Morning Show with Joshua Miron.


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