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Q: How do I return to FirstViewController when all the questions is asked without app crash? I think I miss something in my codes. When I have pressed "next" for all the 50 images, the app crash. How do I stop the app crash? When the last question is asked, I want it to return to FirstViewController. Where do I miss out on my codes? See the pictures below (PRESS THE LINKS).
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A: instead of using a UIViewcontroller for each image, try using a UIImageview on one view controller and add an arrow button for "next". This way, within the swift file you could give a variable a number and increment it by 1 every time, then when it reaches 50, you can reset it to zero.
There's a great exercise on this in Apples free I-Book: "Intro to App development" Chapter-18 pg.156

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Q: Requesting permissions in Android 6.0 (API level 23) Is it necessary that requesting each dangerous permission it needs while the app is running Android 6.0 or higher?I have requested the following dangerous permissions,but there are only four dialogs.
The premissions
 public static final String[] PERMISSIONS = new String[]{
        android.Manifest.permission.CALL_PHONE,
        android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE,
        android.Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE,
        android.Manifest.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION,
        android.Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION,
        android.Manifest.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE,
        android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS,
        android.Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS,
        android.Manifest.permission.CAMERA
};

The dialogs
1.Allow the app to make and manage phone calls?
2.Allow the app to access photos,media,and files on your device?
3.Allow the app to access this device's location?
4.Allow the app to access your contacts?
I cant get the permissions such as         android.Manifest.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE,
        android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS,
        android.Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS,
        android.Manifest.permission.CAMERA,neither code nor system setting.

A: Special Permissions

There are a couple of permissions that don't behave like normal and
  dangerous permissions. WRITE_SETTINGS is
  particularly sensitive, so most apps should not use them. If an app
  needs one of these permissions, it must declare the permission in the
  manifest, and send an intent requesting the user's authorization. The
  system responds to the intent by showing a detailed management screen
  to the user.

Demo
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    Context context;
    TextView textView;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        context = this;
        textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.foodName);
        textView.setText(getResources().getText(R.string.txt_name));
        textView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {

                boolean result = true;
                if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
                    result = Settings.System.canWrite(context);
                    Log.d("TAG", "Can Write Settings: " + result);
                    if (result) {
                        Toast.makeText(context, "Write allowed :-)", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    } else {
                        Toast.makeText(context, "Write not allowed :-(", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        Intent intent = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_MANAGE_WRITE_SETTINGS);
                        intent.setData(Uri.parse("package:" + context.getPackageName()));
                        startActivity(intent);
                    }
                }
            }
        });
    }
}


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Wälsungenblut ist eine Novelle von Thomas Mann. Sie entstand 1906, wurde aber erst 1921 veröffentlicht und persifliert Richard Wagners Musikdrama Die Walküre, indem sie die snobistische Selbstverliebtheit und inzestuöse Beziehung des reichen, jüdischen Zwillingspaars Siegmund und Sieglind beschreibt. Der Titel spielt auf eine Stelle in der Walküre an, in der Siegmund seine Zwillingsschwester Sieglinde mit den Worten "Braut und Schwester bist du dem Bruder / so blühe denn, Wälsungenblut" zum Inzest (und Ehebruch) auffordert. Die Wälsungen sind ein sagenhaftes germanisches Geschlecht.

Die Erzählung gehört wegen stereotyper, als antisemitisch bewerteter Vorstellungen und Charakterzeichnungen zu den umstrittensten Werken Thomas Manns, der wegen Verstimmungen im Hause Pringsheim eine beabsichtigte Veröffentlichung in der Neuen Rundschau verhinderte.

Inhalt
Herr Aarenhold ist ein jüdischer Privatmann, der vor Zeiten als Bergwerksunternehmer einen "gewaltigen und unversiegbaren Goldstrom in seine Kasse gelenkt" hat. In seiner Villa leben noch dessen erwachsene Kinder Kunz und Märit sowie die neunzehnjährigen Zwillinge Siegmund und Sieglind. Während die älteren Geschwister ihren Berufen bzw. ihrer Ausbildung nachgehen – Kunz ist beim Militär, Märit studiert Jura –, verachten die Zwillinge bürgerliche Normalität und Karrieredenken. Vom Schicksal verwöhnt, sind sie ausschließlich mit sich selbst beschäftigt und lieben "einander um ihrer erlesenen Nutzlosigkeit willen. Aber was sie sprachen, war scharf und funkelnd gefügt".

Siegmund hat das Studium der Kunstgeschichte wieder aufgegeben, nicht nur weil die Kommilitonen für seine Geruchsnerven zu selten badeten, sondern auch weil er sein nur mittelmäßiges Zeichentalent selbst erkannt hat und weit davon entfernt ist, "feurige Erwartungen in sein Künstlertum zu setzen." Sieglind ist verlobt und soll demnächst den Ministerialbeamten von Beckerath heiraten. Dieser wird gleich zu Beginn der Erzählung – er ist bei Aarenholds zum großbürgerlichen zweiten Frühstück geladen – erbarmungslos von den spitzzüngigen Geschwistern aufs Korn genommen, ohne ihnen auch nur im mindesten rhetorisch gewachsen zu sein. Seine Reaktion bleibt matt, und die Zwillinge, voller Verachtung für seine "triviale Existenz", erwarten auch gar nichts anderes von ihm: "Sie ließen seine arme Antwort gelten, als fänden sie, daß sie ihm angemessen sei und daß seine Art die Wehr des Witzes nicht nötig habe." Als Siegmund mit gespielt formeller Höflichkeit Beckerath um dessen "Huld und Gnade" bittet, seiner Schwester zu erlauben, am selben Abend gemeinsam mit ihrem Bruder noch ein letztes Mal vor der Hochzeit Richard Wagners Walküre besuchen zu dürfen, und der Verlobte freundlich zustimmt, stellt sich heraus, dass Siegmund die Eintrittskarten längst besorgt hat.

Am Abend beginnt es zu schneien. Während draußen die Flocken fallen, besteigen die Zwillinge die sanft durchwärmte Kutsche. "Sie waren im Herzen der Stadt. Lichter stoben hinter den Gardinen vorbei. Rings um den taktfesten Hufschlag ihrer Pferde, um die lautlose Geschwindigkeit ihres Wagens, der sie federnd über Unebenheiten des Bodens trug, brauste, gellte und dröhnte das Triebwerk des großen Lebens. Und abgeschlossen davon, weichlich bewahrt davor, saßen sie still in den gesteppten, braunseidenen Polstern, - Hand in Hand".

In der Oper angekommen, begegnen sie, nicht zum ersten Mal, in den nordischen Götterkindern Siegmund und Sieglind ihren eigenen Spiegelbildern und erleben triumphierend mit, wie Sieglind durch einen starken Zaubertrank den verhassten Hunding, den man ihr als Ehemann aufgezwungen hat, in einen Tiefschlaf versetzt, um sich anschließend ganz ihrer Leidenschaft für Siegmund hingeben zu können. Fasziniert lauschen die Zwillinge dem musikalischen Liebesrausch ihrer Ebenbilder. In den Theaterpausen sprechen sie fast nichts und lutschen, während sie wie in Trance über Gänge und Treppen langsam dahinwandeln, scheinbar gleichgültig an ihren eigens mitgebrachten "Kognak-Kirschen" und "Maraschino-Bonbons".

Auf dem Heimweg sitzen die beiden wieder schweigend in der Kutsche, "abgeschlossen vom Alltag". Nichts kann sie erreichen, "was sie der wilden, brünstigen und überschwenglichen Welt hätte abwendig machen können, die mit Zaubermitteln auf sie gewirkt, sie zu sich und in sich gezogen." Sie trennen sich nach einem raschen und wortkargen Beisammensein am Abendessenstisch, doch ist für Siegmund, der sich in sein Schlafzimmer zurückgezogen hat, klar, dass Sieglind noch einmal erscheinen und ihm, wie immer, eine gute Nacht wünschen wird. Vor dem Spiegel beginnt er, die vorhin gesehenen Theaterposen auszuprobieren, begibt sich, wie sein Opernvorbild, mit tragisch schleppenden Schritten zu dem Bärenfell, das auf dem Boden liegt, und lässt sich dort, "versunken in den Anblick seines eigenen Spiegelbildes", wie erschöpft nieder. Als Sieglind, schon halb entkleidet für die Nacht, zu ihm kommt, ist sie zunächst entsetzt, da sie glaubt, er habe sich verletzt oder sei krank. Besorgt wie ihr germanisches Bühnenvorbild, kniet sie neben ihm nieder und beginnt ihn zu streicheln. "Ihr aufgelöstes Haar fiel hinab auf ihren offenen, weißen Frisiermantel. Unter den Spitzen ihres Mieders sah Siegmund ihre kleinen Brüste, deren Hautfarbe wie angerauchter Meerschaum war."

Zunächst versucht sich Siegmund noch ihrer Küsse zu erwehren. Als er sie jedoch "genauso betrachtet, wie er zuvor sich selbst betrachtete", und erneut erkennt, dass "sie ganz wie er ist", brechen alle Schranken. Gleichsam wie in einem "Racheakt" gegen den plumpen Hunding alias Beckerath berauschen sich beide "wie Hoffnungslose" an ihren "Liebkosungen, die übergriffen und ein hastiges Getümmel wurden und zuletzt nur ein Schluchzen waren".

Noch wie betäubt kommt man wieder zu sich. Nach Sieglinds verlegener Frage, was denn nun mit Beckerath sei, findet Siegmund nach anfänglicher Sprachlosigkeit wieder zur alten Wortgewandtheit zurück und erklärt gleichzeitig die inzestuöse Beziehung der Geschwister zum zukünftigen Dauerzustand: "Dankbar" solle Beckerath sein. "Er wird ein minder triviales Dasein führen, von nun an."

Veröffentlichung
Die Novelle sollte in der Literaturzeitung Neue Rundschau 1906 erstveröffentlicht werden, doch zog Thomas Mann sie nach einem Gespräch mit seinem Schwager Klaus Pringsheim am 15. Dezember kurzfristig zurück, da er Auseinandersetzungen mit der Familie seiner Frau Katia fürchtete, falls das Werk von der Öffentlichkeit als Schlüsselerzählung verstanden werden sollte.
Wie die Titelfiguren, die in der Erzählung eine inzestuöse Beziehung eingehen, waren Katia und ihr Bruder Klaus Zwillinge und entstammten einer wohlhabenden jüdischen Familie. Die Januarausgabe der Neuen Rundschau musste daraufhin neu gedruckt werden. Nach den Erinnerungen verschiedener Zeitzeugen sollen allerdings Makulaturbogen der Novelle, die als Packpapier für andere Bücher des Fischer-Verlags verwendet worden waren, vom Mitarbeiter einer Münchner Buchhandlung aufbewahrt worden sein, so dass Gerüchte über den Inhalt der Geschichte in München die Runde machten, auch sollen private Abschriften der Geschichte zirkuliert haben.

Erst 1921 erschien die Erzählung in Buchform, illustriert von Thomas Theodor Heine, als Privatdruck im Phantasus-Verlag. Diese Ausgabe wurde 1975 vom Aufbau Verlag Berlin und Weimar als fotomechanischer Nachdruck publiziert. 1958 wurde die Erzählung in die Stockholmer Gesamtausgabe der Werke Manns aufgenommen. Gegenüber der Urfassung hat Mann den Schluss in den später publizierten Versionen entschärft und die Schlusspointe "Beganeft haben wir ihn, den Goi!"  durch die oben aufgeführte Formulierung ersetzt. Die Bezeichnung beganeft verdankte Thomas Mann Katias Vater Alfred Pringsheim. Allerdings wusste der Schwiegervater nicht, was sein Schwiegersohn im Sinn hatte, als dieser ihn nach einem jiddischen Ausdruck für einen gehörnten Bräutigam fragte. Katia Mann äußerte hierzu 1973 in ihren Ungeschriebenen Memoiren: "Wenn Thomas Mann den Eindruck gehabt hätte, zwischen mir und meinem Bruder bestünde eine unerlaubte Beziehung, hätte er sich sofort von mir getrennt oder es verschwiegen, aber es doch nicht in einer Novelle der Welt bekanntgegeben. Es war sonnenklar, daß etwas Derartiges nicht bestanden haben konnte."

Interpretation
Siegmunds Figur ist geprägt von extremem Ästhetizismus und Narzissmus. "Er ist ein décadent par excellence. Nach dem Muster des 1884 erschienenen Romans À Rebours von Huysmans, der bald als Manifest der décadence galt, lebt Siegmund mit seiner Schwester Sieglind 'gegen den Strich' - à rebours - der verachteten bürgerlichen Normalität."
Er pflegt sich stundenlang vor seinem Spiegelkabinett, pudert und parfümiert sich, rasiert sich zweimal täglich und wechselt mehrmals die Krawatte. Er wird deutlich androgyn gezeichnet und kann sich daher in seiner Schwester wiederfinden: "Du bist ganz wie ich." So demonstriert die Vereinigung mit der Schwester weniger einen inzestuösen Akt als narzisstischen Selbstgenuss.

Der auf dem kitschigen Eisbärenfell vollzogene Inzest – "eine Chiffre steriler Selbstverfallenheit", die auf einen "unschöpferischen Habitus" hindeutet und deshalb ein "Lieblingsmotiv der Epoche" wurde – enthält darüber hinaus einen ironischen Seitenhieb Thomas Manns auf den Ästhetizismus seiner Zeit. Denn Siegmund kann in seiner Selbststilisierung das auf der Bühne Erlebte nur unbeholfen nachahmen (auch der Inzest in der Walküre geschieht auf einem Bärenfell), nicht aber selbst künstlerisch produktiv tätig werden. Daran hindert ihn der Reichtum: "Er war zu scharfsinnig, um nicht zu begreifen, dass die Bedingungen seines Daseins für die Entwickelung einer gestaltenden Gabe nicht eben die günstigsten waren." Denn "die Ausstattung des Lebens war so reich, so vielfach, so überladen, dass für das Leben selbst beinahe kein Platz blieb." – Der Luxus des bürgerlichen Lebens legt gleichsam die schöpferischen Fähigkeiten Siegmunds lahm. Und der Autor erübrigt noch so viel Sympathie für seine Negativfigur, dass er sie im instinktiven Leiden an ihrem schöpferischen Manko das typisch mannsche Künstler-Credo erkennen lässt:

Hier deutet sich der für das Werk Thomas Manns so konstitutive Künstler-Bürger-Konflikt an. Auch Thomas Mann befürchtete, durch den Luxus, den die Heirat mit Katia Pringsheim für ihn brachte, seine künstlerische Produktivität zu verlieren. Denn über jenem sorgenfreien Leben schwebte für ihn auch immer das Damoklesschwert des drohenden Dilettantismus. Allerdings war sich Thomas Mann ebendieser Gefahr nicht nur bewusst, sondern konnte sich – im Gegensatz zu Siegmund – den Wohlstand zu Nutze machen: "Ach, Reichtum ist doch eine gute Sache […]. Ich bin Künstler genug, corruptibel genug, um mich davon bezaubern zu lassen." Denn die Grundlage für sein Künstlertum ist immer die Leidenschaft, die er sich auch angesichts der neuen, verbesserten Lebensumstände beibehalten möchte.

Verfilmung
Die Novelle wurde 1964 unter der Regie von Rolf Thiele unter dem gleichen Titel verfilmt. Darsteller waren: Rudolf Forster (Graf Arnstatt) – Margot Hielscher (Gräfin Isabella) – Michael Maien (Siegmund) – Gerd Baltus (Beckerath) – Elena Nathanael (Sieglind). Die Sängerin Ingeborg Hallstein hatte einen Gastauftritt in der kleinen Rolle der Comtess Märit Arnstadt.

Literatur
 Helmut Koopmann (Hrsg.): Thomas-Mann-Handbuch. 3. Auflage, Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-82803-0.
 Tobias Kurwinkel: Apollinisches Außenseitertum. Konfigurationen von Thomas Manns "Grundmotiv" in Erzähltexten und Filmadaptionen des Frühwerks. Mit einem unveröffentlichten Brief von Golo Mann zur Entstehung der Filmadaption "Der kleine Herr Friedemann". Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3826046247.
 Ariane Totzke: Die Utopie der Assimilation. Zur Stigmatisierung des Jüdischen in Thomas Manns "Wälsungenblut". In: Wirkendes Wort. 61, Nr. 1, 2011, S. 45–61.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

Werk von Thomas Mann
Literarisches Werk
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Deutsch)
Novelle
Erzählung
Werk nach Richard Wagner

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Q: How to deep copy a custom object in JavaScript? I've been surfing around here a while and still haven't found an answer that worked for me.
Is there any way to deep copy a non-plain object in JS?
I've tried jQuery.extend(true, {}, this) but it only cloned some of it, the rest remained as a reference to another object.

A: You can use lodash's cloneDeep function - https://lodash.com/docs/4.16.4#cloneDeep
Example (from docs)
var objects = [{ 'a': 1 }, { 'b': 2 }];

var deep = _.cloneDeep(objects);
console.log(deep[0] === objects[0]);
// => false

A: Here are 3 different methods for copying objects. Each method has pros and cons, so read through and pick the best for your situation
Object.assign method
Use Object.assign, which "is used to copy the values of all enumerable own properties from one or more source objects to a target object". This copies both values and functions. At the time of writing this, browser support is good but not perfect, but this is the best method IMO of the three.

const obj1 = {a:1, b:2};
const obj1Copy = Object.assign(obj1)

Spread operator method
Alternatively, you can use the spread operator to spread from one object into another. Keep in mind that this will copy the values of keys, but if you the value of a key is a memory address (an other nested object or an array) then it will only be a shallow copy.

const obj1 = {a: () => {}, b:2}
const obj1Copy = { ...obj1 }

JSON stringify/parse trick
If the object doesn't have any circular references or functions as values, you can use the json stringify trick:
let myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(myObject));

No libraries required, and works very well for most objects.

A: A quick method to clone objects deep with performance into consideration.
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify({"foo":"bar"}))

How about performance ? >> [ May be this is the best way to deep copy objects ]. I strongly recommend you to checkout this video from Google Chrome Developers community on Youtube explaining how this method works and performance benchmarks.

Note: Use the JSON.parse method if your objects don't have  Dates, functions, undefined, Infinity, RegExps, Maps, Sets, Blobs, FileLists, ImageDatas, sparse Arrays, Typed Arrays or other complex types.
  Source : Read this SO answer

Quick tip - React.JS initial state tree can be loaded from localStorage using this solution.

A: If you are dealing with a class instance you could use something like this.
You wouldn't need to copy the functions as they are delegated to on the prototype.

// myObject constructor
function myObject(foo, bar){
  this.foo = foo
  this.bar = bar
}
// delegate the functions to a prototype
myObject.prototype.something = function(){
  console.log('something')
}

function instanceCopy(obj) {
  // copy the object by the constructor
  const copy = new obj.constructor()
  const keys = Object.keys(obj)
  keys.forEach(key => {
    copy[key] = obj[key]
  })
  return copy
}

const myObj = new myObject('foo', 'bar')
const copyObj = instanceCopy(myObj)

console.log('myObj', myObj)
console.log('copyObj', copyObj)
console.log('same ?', copyObj === myObj)

// can we still call the functions
copyObj.something()
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A: You could use the  structuredClone method:
const cloned = structuredClone(object)

Anyway, structuredClone allows you to do also other things that you might be interested in.
Check the documentation for  further details:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/structuredClone

A: Lodash _.cloneDeep() method kills the application performance. So I have come up with basic JavaScript solution. I have added it to my GIT repo. My application performance is back to normal after using my solution.
https://github.com/manideeppabba1991/javascript_util_functions/blob/master/clone_Array_or_Object.js


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By Chris Mccullough
Welsh scientists have developed two new skin tests for cattle that may help fight the global battle against bovine tuberculosis.
Research by two scientists from Aberystwyth University has helped formulate two tests for the ravaging cattle disease, one that can detect if an animal is infected with bovine tuberculosis and the other that can detect if the animal has been vaccinated against it.
The combination of the essential proteins that enable the differentiation between vaccinated cattle and positive cases of bovine TB was established by the teams of Glyn Hewinson and Martin Vordermeier of Aberystwyth University while working at the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Building on their work, the two skin tests have been created by an international team of scientists from Ethiopia, India, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States.
Traditionally, bovine TB tests carried out on cattle show a positive result for cows that have the disease as well as those that have been vaccinated against it.
The vaccine has remained largely unused for this reason because authorities wanting to control bovine TB outbreaks cannot distinguish infected regions from areas where cattle have been vaccinated. It is prohibited throughout the European Union, as well as in Canada and the United States.
By distinguishing between vaccinated and infected cattle, the new tests could facilitate the implementation of vaccination programs globally that could considerably reduce the transmission of this infectious bacterial disease from cattle to humans.
The new test will now have to be evaluated in field trials to a level recommended by the World Organization for Animal Health.
Safety and regulatory aspects of the new tests will also have to be evaluated, and studies into this are already under way in the U.K. and India.
Hewinson leads the Centre of Excellence for Bovine TB at Aberystwyth University.
"We have worked for over 20 years on developing vaccines and diagnostic tests for bovine tuberculosis. It would be wonderful if either of these tests succeeds in bringing about significant improvements in the control of bovine TB globally," said Hewinson.
"Such a development would represent the culmination of a great deal of work by dedicated and talented scientists from around the world, and a significant step forward in our efforts to control this disease.
Vordermeier called the development "a crucial step on the long and challenging journey to implement cattle TB vaccine programs to reduce the burden of this intractable disease.
"Without such tests, traditional test and slaughter control strategies could not be pursued alongside vaccination, nor could vaccine efficacy and disease prevalence be effectively monitored in vaccinated animals in countries where such control strategies are unaffordable or societally not acceptable."
The study results were first published in the July 2019 issue of Science Advances.
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Diagnosis. Ae. dentipenis can be easily separated from the other species of the genus by the shape of the aedeagus: phallobase wider, its anterodorsal margin not protruding; parameres wider, their lateral margin with deep sinuation basally forming a tooth. It also differs in having a spiculum gastrale of intermediate form between T-shaped (similar to that in most Aegidium and in Paraegidium) and triangular (as in other Aegidiellus species).
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I know things have been super quiet around this blog the past few weeks. We've seriously spent every spare minute trying to finish our upstairs renovation. I know you guys are probably tired of hearing about this, but it's been so close to being done since Christmas. All of these little things just kept piling up and making lots of things left to be done. If you've ever done a home renovation you may can relate! This past long weekend was such a blessing though and we've actually moved back upstairs! So so thankful to sleep in my bed again after about 6 weeks!
Here's a few instagrams from our weekend.
Needless to say, we're in the home stretch of things....baby coming and being completely done with the work upstairs. It feels good.


Dean was back in action on RAW in his first singles match since last year! Returning triumphant to defeat Dolph Ziggler.. and then later in the night reuniting The Shield to come to the aid of new World Champion Roman Reigns! Everythings coming up Ambrose! Here's what WWE.com had to say!
oman Reigns defeated Finn Bálor one-on-one to retain the Universal Championship in a title match two years in the making, but when it came to repelling Braun Strowman and his Money in the Bank contract, the Universal Champion needed a little help from his friends.
Unpredictability and unfettered aggression are the key ingredients for the recipe behind The Lunatic Fringe. Here are Dean Ambrose's 10 most untamed lunatic moments.
BENIGNO: Dean Ambrose ate his Wheaties while he was away; the former WWE Champion's presence will be enough to finally propel his brother over the line against Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre.
PAPPOLLA: You can build the argument that Seth Rollins would still be Intercontinental Champion right now if it wasn't for Drew McIntyre running interference for Dolph Ziggler on the outside. Dean Ambrose now negates that interference. The Architect will reclaim.
BURDICK: It's no secret. Every time it has looked as if The Architect would get the best of Dolph Ziggler, the "x-factor" that is Drew McIntyre has been there to prevent it. Enter Dean Ambrose, however, and the equation becomes much simpler. The Lunatic Fringe will negate The Sinister Scotsman, and that equals a new Intercontinental Champion.
CHIK: Quite simply, Drew McIntyre is the only reason why Seth Rollins hasn't reclaimed the workhorse title from Dolph Ziggler, as The Scottish Terminator got The Showoff disqualified when he was about to lose the championship to Rollins on Raw, then interfered incessantly during the WWE Iron Man Match at WWE Extreme Rules. It's only a matter of time until Dean Ambrose is trading haymakers with McIntyre at ringside, and with the two Superstars essentially canceling each other out, The Architect will find an opening to blast Ziggler with an emphatic stomp, a move from which there is no kickout.
At SummerSlam, The Kingslayer is poised to knock Dolph Ziggler off his throne in a highly-anticipated Intercontinental Championship rematch, and his returning Shield brother-in-arms Dean Ambrose will be standing in his corner while attempting to neutralize the meddling Drew McIntyre.
Ziggler took down Rollins to lay claim to the Intercontinental Title for the sixth time on the June 17 edition of Raw, thanks to an assist by McIntyre. Although Rollins technically got even by defeating Ziggler in the championship rematch the following week, The Scottish Terminator's interference caused a disqualification and once again kept the gold around The Showoff's waist.
This led to WWE Extreme Rules, where the resilient competitors left everything on the canvas and battled it out to a 4-4 draw in a classic 30-Minute WWE Iron Man showdown, though Ziggler emerged victorious in sudden death overtime once again thanks to McIntyre's continued interference.
With such controversy, it is no wonder that Raw General Manager Kurt Angle announced the rematch for the workhorse title at The Biggest Event of the Summer, but will The Architect overcome The Showoff and his imposing friend to finally recapture the illustrious gold now that The Lunatic Fringe has reemerged to counter Ziggler's sinister second?
Don't miss what is sure to be an explosive Intercontinental Championship showdown at SummerSlam this Sunday at 7 ET/4 PT, streaming live on WWE Network!
Dean Ambrose made his long awaited comeback to Monday Night RAW, stepping in at the side of Shield-mate Seth Rollins to provide some much needed backup against Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre. Dean was sidelined with injury late last year and it's been a long, 9 month wait to see him again! He will be in Rollins' corner this weekend as Seth challenges Ziggler for the Intercontinental Championship. New look and all!
Here's what WWE.com had to say!
As it turns out, Rollins had been in the arena for a while; he just wanted to wait until Ziggler signed the deal so the champion couldn't back out. And he had that proviso put in for a very specific reason, and the travel issues weren't exactly his. And he already had his backup: A buzz-cut, bulked-up, and frothing-mad Dean Ambrose, who returned from injury to join Rollins in a joint beatdown of Ziggler and McIntyre before The Kingslayer finally signed his contract. It appears Rollins finally has his answer, and Dolph Ziggler might just have a problem.
Dean Ambrose Returns to RAW!
After nearly 9 months of waiting, Dean Ambrose returned to Monday Night RAW at the side of Shield-mate Seth Rollins, to help him out against the scourge of Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre! Dean will be in Rollins' corner at Summerslam this coming weekend, so DO NOT miss it!
Full RAW Media coverage up later tonight!
All the world's a microphone, and sometimes a WWE Superstar doesn't have to wait until they're in the ring to deliver their best verbal work. In fact, for each Paul Heyman barnburner that brings the crowd to its feet on Raw, there are four or five sneak-attack classics floating around YouTube, Twitter and the rest of the Internet from Superstars you might never expect had it in them. Well, consider this our way of bringing those talents to light. Here are the 10 best interviews that didn't make it to TV.
Dean Ambrose is a wacky guy, but he's also an educator who's happy to discuss his winning strategy. Unfortunately, it's on you to try and keep up with his teaching methods. Hence, this "Planet Earth"-esque yarn that re-examines the small package The Lunatic Fringe used to pin Tyler Breeze via a truly mind-bending metaphor about meadows and cows.
DVD: The Shield – Justice For All Cover Art, Content and Release Date Announced!
Following on from "Destruction of The Shield" released back in 2014, "The Shield: Justice for All" continues to showcase the trios best moments from 2015 through 2018 including their many individual successes, the reunion of The Shield last year and matches as recent as WrestleMania 34 and Greatest Royal Rumble.
It does so by packing in approximately 8 hours and 50 minutes of footage made up of 18 matches (some never-before-released on Home Video) and newly-filmed interview segments with Rollins, Reigns and Ambrose.


Nuvola Player (formerly known as Google Music Frame) - player for Linux that can play music from online music services such as Amazon Cloud Player, 8tracks, Google Play Music, Grooveshark, Hype Machine, Pandora, Rdio.
I often listen to music on the website 8tracks, but there are moments when the browser must be restarted, and when this reproduction is interrupted. After a brief search, the solution was found - Nuvola Player.


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From poets to punk: Who is Barry Miles?
Key counterculture figure, bookshop manager, editor, publisher, author, music journalist, archivist, biographer: all of this, and more, is Barry Miles, or just 'Miles', as he is better known.
His archive, acquired by the British Library in 2013 and recently catalogued, is a rich and unique source of information not only to anyone interested in Miles himself, but also to those researching the Beat Generation, and the '60s and '70s culture and music.
Miles organised and arranged his papers thoroughly. Divided into correspondence, projects files, folders relating to his publications, and reference material, the archive reflects all stages of Miles's life and career, from his time as a student at Gloucestershire College of Art in the early '60s to the present day.
At the centre of the London underground scene, as manager of Better Books, co-founder of Indica Gallery and Bookshop and International Times (IT), and organiser of many events, Miles developed an extensive network of contacts, within and outside the UK, many of whom were also good friends. Jim Haynes, Peter Asher, Pete Brown, Victor Bockris, Caroline Coon, Piero Heliczer, Richard Neville, Gordon Ball, Simon Vinkenoog, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Urban Gwerder, to name but a few of his correspondents.
Flyer on Indica Books limited headed paper advertising The Ginsbergs at the ICA, a recording of the reading given by Allen and his father on 22 August 1967. Reproduced with kind permission from Barry Miles.
With the same people, Miles collaborated on numerous adventures: there are over 100 files in the collection relating to projects in which he was involved, for example his work as editor of Horde and Long Hair, as London correspondent of East Village Other, as co-founder of Lovebooks, Miles, Asher and Dunbar Ltd., and ECAL, as Time Out editor, as manager of Zapple, and as music journalist for New Musical Express. The files include letters, publicity material, press cuttings, newsletters, photographs, reports, notes, press releases, events programmes, draft articles and unpublished material.
Trial proof of the cover of Long Hair magazine, Lovebooks second poetry publication, 1965. Miles edited the issue and contributed to the cover drawing. Reproduced with kind permission from Barry Miles.
The first interview Miles did, published in IT on 16 January 1967, was with Paul McCartney, a friend of Miles - the two had met through Peter Asher, whose sister, Jane, was Paul's girlfriend at the time. Later interviews that Miles did with, amongst others, John Lennon, George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Ed Sanders, and The Clash, feature in the archive, either on tape or as transcripts.
After a period as a freelance editor for Omnibus Press, Miles became a prolific writer, publishing 50 books, some of which have been translated into foreign languages. Not to mention the over 400 articles he wrote and his numerous contributions to other authors' books. For his writing, Miles conducted meticulous research and many interviews, as it emerges from the number of research files and tapes he produced. Also included amongst the material relating to his publications are various drafts, notes, correspondence with editors, letters from fans and colleagues, publicity material, royalty statements, press reviews, and cover proofs.
Handwritten notes by Barry Miles, on airline napkin. The material from these notes was used for many articles written by Miles, for magazines such as International Times, Hot Ratz, Changes. Reproduced with kind permission from Barry Miles.
His first 'proper book' was the biography of Allen Ginsberg, which took him five years to complete and for which Miles recorded 40 tapes of interviews with Ginsberg, his friends and family, now part of the British Library sound collection.
Biographies of other influential figures in Miles's life followed including William Burroughs, Paul McCartney, Frank Zappa, and Charles Bukowski. His two memoirs, In the Sixties and In the Seventies, together with his London Calling, are detailed accounts of the London underground life and his major and minor players.
Included in the archive are also some rare, limited, special or signed editions of Miles publications, including an unauthorised reprint of his article 1970 'The Rebirth of Joy', the 1973 catalogue of Lilia Aaron exhibition in Switzerland, a 1963 clipping of Miles's article How To Undress a Painting in Slate 2, the magazine of Gloucestershire College of Art, and a typed copy of Horde number 1, 1964.
Unused ticket for Poets of the World / Poets of Our Time, Albert Hall poetry reading, 11 June 1965. Miles was involved in the organisation of the event.
Miles created files of reference material for items he used most frequently, mainly for publications or exhibitions. Amongst these are a Better Books paper bag, designed by John Sewell; an unused ticket for Poets of the World/Poets of Our Time, the first large-scale Beat generation reading in Europe at the Albert Hall poetry reading, on 11 June 1965, which Miles helped organise; Indica Gallery and Books photographs and flyers; and a leaflet for the party at the Roundhouse for the launch of International Times, 15 October 1966.
A few items from the Barry Miles archive, including a leaflet for The Roxy club and the first interview with the Clash, will feature in the forthcoming free exhibition Punk 1976-78, which opens on the 13th May 2016.
The catalogue of the Barry Miles archive is available online from Explore Archives and Manuscripts.
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Jose Gutierrez receives the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from paramedic Madeline Plaut at a pop-up clinic in Hawaiian Gardens on Friday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
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California nears COVID-19 vaccine target that would ease more reopening rules
By Luke Money
California is on the precipice of administering 4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in its most disadvantaged areas.
California is on the precipice of administering 4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in its most disadvantaged areas — a hurdle that, when cleared, would trigger a rewrite of the state's reopening blueprint to make it easier for counties to more widely reopen businesses and other public spaces.
State data show that, as of Monday, providers had doled out 3.93 million doses in the targeted communities, which fall within the lowest quartile of a socioeconomic measurement tool called the California Healthy Places Index.
On reaching 4 million doses, California will relax one of the metrics necessary for counties to progress into the lower tiers of its four-rung reopening roadmap.
As it stands now, counties have to record a coronavirus case rate — adjusted based on the number of tests performed — of below 4.0 new cases per day per 100,000 people to move into the second-least-restrictive orange tier. When the blueprint is revised, the requirement would be loosened to under 6.0.
Entering the most lenient yellow tier would necessitate an adjusted daily new case rate below 2.0 per 100,000 people, compared with the current requirement of less than 1.0.
The other two data points used to determine tier assignments — the rate of positive test results and a health-equity metric intended to ensure that the positive test rate in poorer communities is not significantly higher than the county's overall figure — would remain unchanged.
While the imminent revision to California's reopening roadmap won't affect those counties that have already moved into the orange or yellow tiers — a club that now includes Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Clara and San Francisco — it would make it easier for them to avoid potentially backsliding, should their coronavirus case rates creep up a bit.
The changes would, however, position some areas to enter the orange tier more rapidly.
Typically, counties need to record two straight weeks of qualifying data to advance to a less-restrictive tier and must remain in a tier for at least three weeks before moving again.
However, revising the blueprint can muddy that timeline. When the state met its initial goal of administering 2 million vaccines in the hardest-hit and most disadvantaged areas last month, the revised metric that went into effect — which made it easier for counties to exit the state's most proscriptive purple tier — applied retroactively.
That meant counties were allowed to move forward if they had two weeks' worth of qualifying data under the new metric.
In other words, if a county is already within the new range of what would be considered the orange tier, then it could potentially advance to that level as soon as this week, provided its numbers hold steady.
New tier assignments will be announced Tuesday.
As counties advance through the tier framework, they can gradually lessen restrictions.
On reaching the orange tier, counties can allow bars to reopen outdoors with some modifications, and bars also are no longer required to serve food.
Amusement parks can reopen at up to 25% capacity, and fan attendance is allowed at 33% capacity for outdoor sports and live performances.
Capacity restrictions can also be lifted in stores, although social distancing and other safety modifications still apply; houses of worship, museums, zoos and aquariums can raise their indoor capacity to 50% from 25%; restaurants and movie theaters can raise indoor capacity to 50% capacity or 200 people from 25% or 100 people (whichever is fewer); and indoor gyms and yoga studios can increase capacity to 25% from 10%.
Bowling alleys can reopen with modifications at 25% capacity. Card rooms and satellite wagering sites can also reopen indoors at 25% capacity.
Offices in nonessential industries can also reopen, though the state says workers should still be encouraged to work remotely.
For the last month, California has devoted 40% of its COVID-19 vaccine supply to residents in the state's most disadvantaged areas — a strategy officials said would help address inequities that have persisted throughout the inoculation campaign, as well as make sure those most at risk of the coronavirus have access to the shots.
However, disparities still linger. The number of doses administered in targeted communities is 578,000 less than any other HPI quartile, state data show. By comparison, more than 5.8 million vaccines have been provided in the highest-quartile areas.
Providers throughout California have doled out almost 20 million total vaccine doses to date, according to figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 33.6% of residents have received at least one dose.
Roughly 17.8% of Californians are fully vaccinated.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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Summer is over and all the weird children (like me) are joyfully running outside! The weather is getting cooler and soon we will be able to play dress up for one night. Next month is All Hallow's Eve! It's time to stock up on curios!
Bart Tarulli sells really unusual stuff. He sells brick-a-brac, eclectic mid-century modern, strange Victorian and Edwardian oddities. This includes vintage and antique photographs, furniture, statues, artwork, toys, electronics, signs, and more.
For those who are curio collectors and have your own "wunderkammer", you will find your heart's content. Tarulli will help you find your conversation piece for that next house party of yours. Or, spooky photos or art necessary for Halloween! It is never too early to stock up on antique torture devices for those spooky nights in October!


Dayna Stephens has emerged as one of his generation's most distinguished modern jazz tenor saxophonists and composers. He hones a sinewy yet supple tone that unfurls poised improvisations that maximize melodic ingenuity. As a composer, Stephens continues to build a multifaceted oeuvre filled with pieces that are cinematic in dynamic scope as they incorporate and suspenseful dialogue and interplay.
The New York Times heralded Stephens as a "must see," and wrote, "Everything flows with unusual flow fluency and makes you feel rewarded," regarding his improvisational facilities.


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Follow the link to see the ARGOS Final Trial Video!
KEMEA, being the Greek National Contact Point of the European Program on Critical Infrastructure Protection (EPCIP), in cooperation with the ARGOS project and the CIPRE-NET project represented by the Joint Research Center Ispra of the European Commission, jointly organized a two-day workshop on "Protection of Critical Infrastructures".
The training program was held on KEMEA premises on the 14 & 15 December, 2015 and was attended by over 160 specialist representatives on critical infrastructures. In the framework of presenting the European acquis, expert speakers from KEMEA and the Joint Research Center presented innovative methods and solutions for the protection of critical facilities against man-made and natural risks.
The ARGOS FP7 Project successfully organized the 2nd Field Trial in Athens, Greece deploying the CI protection solution under development at the premises of the NCSR Demokritos facility. The system testing and demonstration in a properly designed field trial took place on the 3rd of December 2015. The trial was attended by several End Users originating from Greece as well by critical infrastructure protection operators and security experts invited from different EU countries. The scenarios used during the trial dealt with several different types of attacks against a gas plant or installations. For this purpose a mesh network of different types of sensors including vibration and video sensors, as well as Wake-up Cameras were deployed in a buffer zone outside the perimeter of the facility in order to extend the protection of the critical infrastructure (distribution station, gas pipeline) beyond its perimeter from potential intruders.
Following the successful remote tests of integration of the ARGOS system, the partners involved in the second field trial of the ARGOS project met in the facilities of NCSR Democritos, to work locally for system integration and test purposes. The performance of all types of sensors that will be deployed during the final trial of the system was tested. Furthermore network and communication tests of alternative solutions between ARGOS Gateway and the internet were performed and integration of data to the rule based engine the data fusion component, and the DSS interface were tested.
The Charles University in Prague (CUNI) within the framework of the 11th Prague Security Conference successfully organized the ARGOS project presentation workshop for end-users and experts.
The workshop took place in the 6th of November 2015, at the Hotel International in Prague – Czech Republic and was attended by approximately 25 participants representing several local end-users and experts, within the scope of the ARGOS.
The ARGOS FP7 Project successfully organized the 1st Field Trial in Bucharest, Romania deploying the CI protection solution under development at the premises of the Romanian company TransGaz. The system testing and demonstration in a properly designed field trial took place between 22nd and 25th of June 2015. The trial was attended by several End Users originating from Romania as well by critical infrastructure protection operators and security experts invited from different EU countries. The scenarios used during the trial dealt with several different types of attacks against a gas plant or installations, in this case the TransGaz facility in the outskirt of Bucharest. For this purpose a mesh network of different types of sensors including vibration and video sensors, as well as Wake-up Cameras were deployed in a buffer zone outside the perimeter of the facility in order to extend the protection of the critical infrastructure (distribution station, gas pipeline) beyond its perimeter from potential intruders.


As you may or may not know today, the Internet as a whole has been abuzz with conversation about SOPA and PIPA. As part of the ongoing discussion, PeekYou has decided against supporting SOPA and PIPA, two acts of legislation currently being discussed and debated in Congress (the House and Senate, respectively) that could have far reaching consequences on Americans and small businesses. As a result, we have decided to follow suit with Google and black out our logo in protest against both pieces of legislation currently being debated.
We will leave it up to you to make your own decision, and have decided to link to a few articles and websites where you can act accordingly.
PeekYou currently offers a different type of measurement score, named PeekScore, that focuses on quantifying an individual's digital footprint and presence online. Our goal is to provide an individual's PeerIndex score in conjunction with their PeekScore, to help our users understand where individuals may rank in terms of digital presence on the web. "We feel that having both scores readily available will make it easier and more relevant for our users when they conduct searches on PeekYou.com, since they compliment each other so well," continues Ajrawat.
For more information about PeerIndex, check out their FAQ and visit their site. Let us know if you have any questions about the integration!
In today's Washington Post, PeekYou's General Manager of Product, Josh Mackey, was quoted in an article about Google's newly unveiled Google Wallet. You can check out the story here.
To read the entire article by Jennifer Zaino, head over to www.semanticweb.com.
We Have 10,000 Facebook Fans!
In only a few weeks we have moved from 7,000 Facebook fans to over 10,000 Facebook fans today. Thanks to everyone for all of your support! Coming pretty soon, we are going to develop a custom application using Facebook's platform that will integrate PeekYou's free people search into Facebook, allowing our Facebook users to search for people on the public web direct from our Facebook fan page.
Head over to our Facebook page for more exciting updates from PeekYou, and participate in some of the polls that we put out on our page to listen to our active (and growing) community! We appreciate everyone who has been with us through our incredible journey, and we are looking forward to more growth!
As we are sure some of you have read over the past 24 hours, Amazon has been experiencing a lot of problems with their Amazon Cloud Compute EC2 cluster located in Northern Virginia. PeekYou uses Amazon's EC2 to help offload some of the day to day operations that we have here on our website. However, we were largely unaffected by the failure of the cloud due to the fact that we have many of our mission critical operations running in-house.
PeekYou's Michael Hussey was featured in a few articles regarding this, including Market Watch, All Things Digital blog and CNNMoney.com. Michael notes that we have been seeing some problems with Amazon's cloud ever since December of last year, and that things have been gradually getting worse.
PeekYou's CEO, Michael Hussey, was recently featured on www.technology-digital.com discussing the vision behind PeekYou and the phenomenal growth of PeekYou.com. To read more about the post and check out some of the main points, take a look at the article here.
PeekYou's CEO, Michael Hussey, sat down with Tai Hernandez of MyFOX NY to discuss social media issues and online privacy. Michael made a great point about Facebook giving users the controls they need to manage their own privacy online and that users need to be aware of the options that they have when it comes to online privacy and information sharing. You can watch the whole video on MyFOX NY's website here.
Today, PeekYou was featured in Venture Beat after we ran a PeekScore List for the Top 10 Successful College Dropouts. Our CEO, Michael Hussey, commented in the article about our search engine technology and about the vision for our company. We hope you like the article and let us know what you think!
Yesterday we hit another major milestone in our goal of indexing the public web around people. On February 21, 2011, PeekYou surpassed 200,000 daily visits to our website in one day, according to Google Analytics; we had 205,361 visits to our site! To think, just a few months back, we were seeing only 1.5 million visits a month and now we are on tracking to serve over 5.2 million visits in February. Compare this also to the fact that we had hit 100,000 visits per day back in the middle of November. Needless to say, we simply want to thank all of our users and the general public for using our free people search engine and for engaging with us on our Facebook and Twitter. You are the reason why we keep refining and improving our service!


A beautiful, pink rhodochrosite with shigaite crystals from the N'chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Northern Cape Province, South Africa! This specimen features a group of botryoidal, pink rhodochrosite aggregates, peppered with very small shigaite crystals on the front side and a sizeable, nearly 1cm crystal of shigaite on the backside. Some very minor impact marks on the rhodochrosite but no major damage. A very nice and affordable example of this rare material.


Notes: Designed and engineered in the UK for the Pioneer CDJ-2000 NXS2 Multiplayer - trusted by professional DJs and clubs across the globe to preserve the lifespan of their equipment.
Custom made from super strong polycarbonate to protect the platter, fader and controls in the booth and during transportation. Each Decksaver is custom moulded for a perfect fit whilst making allowances for cables - the CDJ-2000 NXS2 can sit ready for operation. Includes fitted faceplate to protect platter from scratches.
From Pacha NYC to Space Ibiza and back again, the constant you'll find is Decksaver.


Sources, such as the Walked Into a Lamppost? Hurt While Crocheting? Help Is on the Way in the Wall Street Journal, say that there is a medicare code in NC for being 'stuck by a turtle'. I couldn't believe it. How is one 'struck by a turtle' when they move so slowly and secondly how could this be a medicare code? My friend also told me that there is a code for being 'bitten by a turtle' which seems much more plausible. Is this true?
The Associated Press reported in 1987 that a Hong Kong man was hit in the head by a turtle that had fallen out of a high-rise apartment building. The two-pound reptilian missile "struck 36-year-old Lui Wai-kwong on the head, bruising Lui's temple and badly injuring the turtle," according to the report.
According to this story, a 12-year-old Chinese girl was hit by a "falling black object" that turned out to be a three-pound pregnant tortoise. Police believed that the animal had been thrown out of an apartment building, but had no suspects. A picture accompanying this article shows a young girl with a pretty nasty wound on the top of her head, but there's no way to confirm what caused it. This time, the animal did not survive.
The more famous but equally unverifiable turtle impact happened in 456 B.C., when the Greek playwright Aeschylus (author of The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, and Euripides Is a Big Fat Idiot) is said to have been killed by a turtle. The story is that the turtle was dropped on him by an eagle, which presumably was hoping to crack the turtle's shell open on a rock but mistakenly hit the playwright's bald head.
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Ok, this post is NOT going to be a complaint about adjusting to the recent time change.
I actually enjoy not having to leave the house when it's still dark outside.
But, my morning commute takes me from the western fringes of metro Orlando into the city center.
That means directly into the rising sun.
I need some new sunglasses . . .


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Q: Exception in setArray() in HSQL I am using HSQL as an EmbeddedDatabaseType in my unit tests. I have created a table using this query:
CREATE TABLE Table1 (array1 VARCHAR(256) ARRAY, obj1 VARCHAR(256) );

This is the upsert query:
MERGE INTO Table1 USING (VALUES ?, ?) vals(array1, obj1)
ON Table1.obj1 = vals.obj1
WHEN MATCHED THEN
UPDATE SET Table1.array1 = vals.array1
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT (array1, obj1) VALUES (vals.array1, vals.obj1);

This is the PreparedStatementSetter:
private static ParameterizedPreparedStatementSetter<data> preparedStatementSetter() {
    return (preparedStatement, data) -> {
        JDBCArrayBasic array = new JDBCArrayBasic(data.getY(), type);
        preparedStatement.setArray( 1,  array);
        preparedStatement.setString( 2, data.getX() );
    };
}

I am trying to write an array to the database but it gives me this exception:
Caused by: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: incompatible data type in conversion
at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCUtil.sqlException(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCUtil.sqlException(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCUtil.sqlException(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCPreparedStatement.setArray(Unknown Source)

Can someone tell me what I am missing here?

A: The MERGE statement cannot determine the types of the parameters in the USING clause. You simply cast the parameters to their intended data types.
MERGE INTO Table1 USING (VALUES CAST(? AS VARCHAR(256) ARRAY), CAST(? AS VARCHAR(256)))
vals(array1, obj1) ON ...

In the case of the second parameter, the parameter default to VARCHAR but it is better to state explicitly what the type is.
In INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements, the types of parameters are generally determined by the database engine without using a CAST.


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Fiscal Stabilization Act (Excerpt) Act 80 Of 1981
FISCAL STABILIZATION ACT (EXCERPT)
141.1009 Bonds or obligations issued before April 11, 1988; bonds or obligations issued after April 11, 1988 and before January 1, 2010; powers of legislative body; agreement providing for direct payment of distributable aid to paying agent, trustee, escrow agent, or other person; lien; special fund; use of taxes; definition.Sec. 9.
(1) All bonds or obligations issued pursuant to this act before April 11, 1988 are subject to the requirements of former 1981 PA 97.
(2) Unless otherwise provided by the city or county in the resolution required by section 4, bonds or obligations issued pursuant to this act on or after April 11, 1988 and before January 1, 2010 are not subject to the requirements of former 1981 PA 97, notwithstanding that distributable aid is pledged or assigned to secure bonds or obligations under this act.
(3) In the resolution authorizing the bonds or obligations, the legislative body of the city or county may provide for appointment of a trustee, escrow agent, or other person to hold funds or reserves for payment of the bonds or obligations and to perform other duties as the city or county determines, may provide for the vesting in the trustee, escrow agent, or other designated person the property, rights, powers, and remedies as the city or county determines, may pledge and create a lien upon any unencumbered revenues or taxes of the city or county, and may provide for payment of pledged revenues or taxes directly to a paying agent, trustee, escrow agent, the state treasurer, or other person to be held and used solely for payment of principal and interest on the bonds or obligations. A pledge pursuant to this act for benefit of bondholders or others is perfected without delivery, recording, or notice. The resolution authorizing the bonds or obligations also may provide for covenants and promises with respect to fiscal, budget, and accounting matters that are considered necessary or appropriate in the judgment of the city or county to sell the bonds or obligations to the best advantage of the city or county.
(4) In the resolution authorizing the bonds or obligations for the payment of the bonds or obligations, the city or county may provide for the payment of the bonds or obligations with distributable aid received or to be received by the city or county derived from the imposition of taxes by the state and returned or to be returned to the city or county as provided by law except for money that the state constitution of 1963 prohibits for use for such a pledge. The city or county and the state treasurer may enter into an agreement providing for the direct payment of distributable aid to a paying agent, trustee, escrow agent, or other person to be used for the sole purpose of paying principal or interest on bonds or obligations issued pursuant to this act, and that money may be pledged by the city or county for the payment of bonds or obligations issued under this act. If the city or county and the state treasurer enter into such an agreement, notwithstanding any other provision of this act to the contrary, for bonds or obligations issued after the effective date of the 2010 amendatory act that amended this subsection and made payable from distributable aid in the resolution authorizing those bonds or obligations a statutory lien and trust is created applicable to distributable aid received or to be received from the state treasurer by a paying agent, escrow agent, or a trustee, after the distributable aid has been appropriated but subject to any subsequent reduction of that appropriation by operation of law or executive order. The distributable aid paid or to be paid to a paying agent, trustee, escrow agent, or other person for the purpose of paying the principal of and interest on the bonds or obligations issued pursuant to this act shall be subject to a lien and trust, which for bonds or obligations issued pursuant to this act after the effective date of the 2010 amendatory act that amended this subsection and after bonds are issued subject to the statutory lien created by this subsection, is hereby made a statutory lien and trust paramount and superior to all other liens and interests of any kind, for the sole purpose of paying the principal of and interest on bonds and obligations issued pursuant to this act. The lien created under this subsection for the benefit of bondholders or others is perfected without delivery, recording, or notice. The distributable aid held or to be held by a paying agent, trustee, escrow agent, or other person shall be held in trust for the sole benefit of the holders of the bonds or obligations issued pursuant to this act and shall be exempt from being levied upon, taken, sequestered, or applied toward paying the debts or liabilities of the city or county other than for payment of debt service on the bonds or obligations to which the lien applies and the holders of bonds or obligations issued pursuant to this act after January 1, 2010, but before September 1, 2010, shall have a first priority lien that is paramount and superior to all other liens and interests of any kind that arise or are created after the effective date of the 2010 amendatory act that amended this subsection and after bonds are issued subject to the statutory lien created by this subsection. However, nothing in the 2010 amendatory act that amended this subsection shall abridge or reduce the ability of the state treasurer to withhold distributable aid from a city or county as provided by the Glenn Steil state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141.901 to 141.921. For bonds or obligations issued pursuant to this act after January 1, 2010 and before September 1, 2010, the maximum principal and interest becoming due on the bonds or obligations in any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount of shared revenues received by the city for the state fiscal year ending September 30, 2009 as provided for in the Glenn Steil state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141.901 to 141.921, and as provided in the state constitution of 1963. This subsection shall not be construed to do any of the following:
(a) Create or constitute state indebtedness.
(b) Require the state to continue to impose and collect taxes from which distributable aid is paid or to make payments of distributable aid.
(c) Limit or prohibit the state from repealing or amending a law enacted for the imposition of taxes from which distributable aid is paid, for the payment or apportionment of distributable aid, or for the manner, time, or amount of distributable aid.
(5) With respect to bonds or obligations issued on or before September 30, 1988, in the resolution authorizing the bonds or obligations, the legislative body of the city or county may provide that, from each collection of ad valorem property taxes after the issuance of the bonds or obligations, there shall be set aside in a special fund, to be used for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds or obligations, an amount equal to the total amount of the collection multiplied by a fraction determined as follows:
(a) The numerator of the fraction is 125% of the amount of principal and interest coming due on the bonds or obligations in the current fiscal year.
(b) The denominator of the fraction is the total amount of the tax levied for the current fiscal year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the total of the taxes collected during the 5 prior fiscal years and the denominator of which is the total of taxes levied during the 5 prior fiscal years.
(6) An authorizing resolution under subsection (4) or (5) may provide that all or any portion of the taxes collected and set aside as provided in subsection (5) shall not be used for any other purpose.
(7) As used in this section, "distributable aid" means state shared revenues provided for in the Glenn Steil state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141.901 to 141.921, any other law providing for distribution of state shared revenues which are derived from the same taxes distributed under the Glenn Steil state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141.901 to 141.921, and any law providing reimbursement to a municipality under the state constitution of 1963 as reimbursement for revenue which would otherwise be collected from taxes imposed by the municipality.
History: 1981, Act 80, Eff. July 15, 1981
Am. 1987, Act 279, Eff. Apr. 11, 1988
Am. 2010, Act 4, Imd. Eff. Feb. 5, 2010


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Council Leader sets out priorities for next six months
Cllr Adam McVey discusses the coalition's priorities for the first half of 2018…
On forming the coalition last summer, and laying out our priorities for the five years to 2022, we committed ourselves to improving the quality of life of all residents, enhancing the environment, delivering better infrastructure and building on what is already a fantastic place to live, work and visit.
I'm pleased with the progress we have made thus far but I want to ensure that we remain a coalition of action and that our commitments remain relevant to the emerging challenges we face as a city.
So, what are our priorities for the next six months?
You only have to count the number of cranes on our skyline to see that development in Edinburgh is booming – the Capital remains the most prosperous UK city outside London. The time has come, however, to take a good look at why not all of our residents are sharing in this success.
Through the development of a new economy strategy for the city, we will set out an action plan to tackle inequality and poverty to ensure that everyone is given the opportunity to benefit from Edinburgh's prosperity, ensuring that we have inclusive growth that works for everyone.
We have already established a cross-party homelessness task force who are working closely with stakeholders and experts with a view to developing a long-term strategy. In the short term, they have a specific target of ending the use of B&B accommodation for homeless families, 16 and 17 year-olds and care leavers.
In support of this aim, we will be investing £1.2bn over the next 10 years to 20,000 new affordable homes. Increasing the housing stock and building homes that are accessible for working people is essential if we are to meet our commitment.
By the summer, we will have approved construction of 1,300 of these new homes, in addition to the 575 affordable homes already built under this administration. Plans are also in place to purchase a major Waterfront site for development of a further 1,500 homes.
Much of our housebuilding aspirations will be made possible by the City Region Deal, delivered with the UK and Scottish governments and regional partners last summer. In April, we will sign off on the various projects that make up the deal, confirming over £1bn of investment in the region and allowing us to push ahead on other core projects around infrastructure, skills and technology and in support of the festivals.
Alongside this, we remain committed to securing the powers to levy a tourist tax. Edinburgh attracts 4m visitors each year who bring investment, diversity and energy to our city but they also bring a cost in terms of the impact on our core services. In the coming weeks, we will share a business case in support of a levy, encouraging a clear, balanced and thoughtful debate with industry leaders, considering the merits and disadvantages of every option.
In addition, and in recognition of the pressures our residents and services face during the busiest months of the year, we are about to launch a new scorecard approach to monitoring the true impact of increased footfall in the city centre.
More broadly, a huge amount of work is already going into considering the future look, feel and lay-out of our historic city centre. In the months ahead, we will hear the views of thousands of residents on the Central Edinburgh Transformation project, how they want George Street to be in the future, their thoughts on Low Emission Zones in Edinburgh and priorities for transport in the future through the Local Transport Strategy.
Having done this, we will bring forward proposals to make our city centre more accessible, easier to walk around, more attractive and build on our already excellent public transport system. We took a step closer to this yesterday with the approval of revised plans for Picardy Place, including new public spaces and a transport interchange, and will continue to examine the merits of completing the tram line to Newhaven.
We recognise that core services are fundamental to the quality of people's lives. We have already committed £100m to roads and pavements across the next five years and have made significant improvements to the waste service with complaints at their lowest point for four years. That said, residents tell us that communal bins remain an issue for them, which is why we are currently running a trial in Leith with a view to making further improvements to the service.
At the heart of this administration is a passion for improving the lives of the most vulnerable people in Edinburgh and central to this is a need to improve the performance of our Social Care service.
We are continuing to work closely with the NHS to make integration a reality and will prioritise investment in this area to ensure the service gets the resources it needs, particularly with a view to clearing the backlog of assessment and reviews for packages of care. We will soon be in a position to appoint a permanent Chief Officer and Head of Operations for the IJB, both of whom will oversee a longer-term plan to hit the service standards we all rightly expect.
As part of our commitment to create a first-class learning environment for our young people, we have begun work on the new Queensferry High School and, next month, will open the doors to the new Boroughmuir High School. Further, through the budget setting process in February, we will prioritise capital and revenue investment in our schools with the longer-term aim of ensuring that all of them are 'satisfactory' standard or better.
In the early part of this year, we will complete our review of West and South West schools, recognising that, while we need to work hard to consult with and involve all stakeholders in the process, we must remain focussed on the ultimate aim of improving attainment, the education and life chances of young people across Edinburgh.
This approach is consistent with our ongoing commitment to devolving decision making to our communities. The establishment of locality committees – meeting for first time next month – is a major first step forward. Further, we will continue to develop participatory budgeting (our aim is for 1% of our budget to be determined this way) and on our ongoing consultation processes that puts residents' views at the heart of policy and decision making.
I look forward to continuing the progress we have already made against our commitments and am confident that we can deliver upon the specific actions outlined above. We have huge ambitions for this great city and want to ensure that all residents have an opportunity to share in its success.
This entry was posted by Media Team on 26/01/2018.
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Hetzner Online GmbH is a company and data center operator based in Gunzenhausen, Germany.

It should not be confused with its former South African namesake and partner company xneelo (formerly Hetzner (Pty) Ltd)—the two are separate companies registered and incorporated in their own rights under the applicable country laws. They do not have the same shareholders.

History
Hetzner Online GmbH (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) began operations in Germany in 1997 under the name Hetzner Online Services. Between 2000 and 2015, Hetzner Online in Germany operated under the legal status AG ("Aktiengesellschaft"). In 2015, it changed its legal status to GmbH. In addition, Hetzner Online expanded its chief executive team with Stephan Konvickova and Günther Müller at the beginning of the year 2019.

The company is named after its founder Martin Hetzner. Hetzner Online owns and operates four data center parks in Nuremberg and Falkenstein/Vogtland (Germany), Tuusula (Finland), and Ashburn, Virginia (United States). In addition, Hetzner Online is a co-investor in the Cinia C-Lion1 project, which connected Helsinki and Rostock, Germany together with a 1,100 km long submarine fiberglass cable. The cable provides a high-speed connection between Hetzner's German and Finnish data centers.

In 2017, Hetzner Online celebrated its 20th anniversary with a multi-day event at its data center park in Falkenstein. The event, "Willkommen im Internet", included technical workshops, a tour of the facility, and a public, open-air concert by Austrian singer, Christina Stürmer.

The head office of Hetzner Online is based in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, in Germany. It has a partner company in South Africa: xneelo (formerly Hetzner (Pty.) Ltd. which operates data centers in Midrand and Cape Town (South Africa).

Services
Hetzner Online provides dedicated hosting, shared web hosting, virtual private servers, managed servers, domain names, SSL certificates, storage boxes, and cloud. At the data center parks located in Nuremberg, Falkenstein and Tuusula/Finland, customers can also connect their hardware to Hetzner Online's infrastructure and network with the company's colocation services. The company operates a server auction site online where the chance to rent older dedicated servers (not purchase or colocate) are auctioned off in the form of a Dutch auction.

Hetzner Online has a domain name registrar arrangement with ICANN (for registering domains under .com, .net and .org and others), DENIC (for .de), and nic.at (for .at).

Infrastructure
Hetzner Online's datacenter projects are coordinated and implemented in-house with as little outsourcing as possible. Data center units served by multiple redundant uplinks, including 1300 Gbit/s to DE-CIX and fiber optic links to Nuremberg and Frankfurt. Colocation facilities are sited at all data center parks in Nuremberg, Falkenstein/Vogtland in Germany and Helsinki in Finland. In 2021, a datacenter in Ashburn, Virginia, was opened, marking Hetzner's first American server.

Network

The backbone is set up in the form of a ring network between the datacenter locations Nuremberg and Falkenstein as well as the most important Internet location, Frankfurt. All locations are connected to central exchange nodes such as DE-CIX, AMS-IX, DATA-IX and V-IX via the company's own fiber optic network. All Hetzner's dedicated servers had a minimum 20 TB monthly cap for full speed on their servers with the option for an extra fee for full speed past that point, however, have lifted the bandwidth cap on 1 Gbit/s connection speeds as of October 1, 2018.

Incidents

Hacking

In June 2013, Hetzner Online suffered from a security breach where customer information was exposed to attackers who had compromised Hetzner Online's monitoring systems.

Russian complaints about Glavcom.ua

In early August 2014, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) sent a demand to many news agencies, including BBC, prohibiting any mention of the demonstration that was being arranged in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk in support of the federalization of Siberia.
A number of such messages were sent to Ukraine, which was in the midst of undeclared war with Russian paramilitary in Donetsk region. Since the Ukrainian online newspapers did not remove the article, Roskomnadzor sent letters to their Internet providers demanding removal of the news item. Hetzner Online complied with the demands and sent a notice to glavcom.ua, saying "Please solve the problem and reply within the next 24 hours to avoid suspension. This is the final deadline."

This story was widely reprinted in news sources. Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
issued a statement expressing solidarity with glavcom.ua owners and journalists.
Vassily Zvarych, vice-head of Communications Department of Foreign Ministry, gave a press conference saying that he was surprised by Hetzner Online's compliance with the Russian complaint. Also, a German chapter of Reporters Without Borders issued a statement condemning Roskomnadzor.

The notices to suspend Glavcom.ua were issued by Hetzner Online August 6, 2014; on August 10 Hetzner Online issued apologies, denying that any censorship was planned and that their technical support made a wrong decision, which they regret. However, by that time the story was widely published in German mass-media, and Glavcom.ua already migrated from Hetzner Online to another hosting provider.

no.spam.ee lawsuit

In 2013, an Estonian anti-spam activist Tõnu Samuel posted a blog entry about an alleged spammer Silver Teede on his website no.spam.ee. In retaliation, Teede wrote a complaint to the blog's service provider, Hetzner Online, who decided to terminate services for the blog. In an ensuing court case, Estonian courts found the complaints to be baseless and awarded Samuel damages from Silver Teede for the loss of Samuel's servers.

Duplicate Ed25519 SSH keys

From April 2015 to December 2015, many of the OS images used by Hetzner's installation program installimage had used duplicate Ed25519 SSH keys. This could potentially mean that an attacker could use a man-in-the-middle attack to compromise an SSH connection that was using Ed25519 keys. Hetzner sent an email to all affected customers with any potentially affected servers on information about the issue, and how to fix it.

Blocking "Novaya Gazeta"
On January 11, 2016, Hetzner blocked the St. Petersburg site of Novaya Gazeta, the leading oppositional, non-governmental newspaper in Russia. The newspaper marked the act as political censorship without any legal procedure.

Blocking Ukraine War information
On March 7, 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hetzner allegedly blocked servers belonging to a Ukrainian state-affiliated war information website (war.ukraine.ua), which was posted by the official Ukraine Twitter account. Hetzner initially denied blocking the website in question, stating that Cloudflare informed them that the IP does not belong to their network. Two days later, Hetzner confirmed via a press release that they had errorneously suspended the servers due to "anomalies" found in the account by an employee, which came from a not yet fully developed "plausibility check" and stated that their actions were not politically-motivated.

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