"Give me children, or else I die." Genesis 30:1.
This was the cry of Rachel, the anguish of the barren. It is the deep, primal yearning for motherhood, the cry of every woman who has natural affection. It is the cry of the true bride of Christ today.
Christians are not supposed to be a barren people. If the church does not reproduce, she dies.
One of the original commandments to the first couple was to "be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish [fill] the earth" (Gen. 1:28). This is God's prerogative, His intention and purpose also for the spread of His kingdom.
This language of fruitfulness is interesting, because it is the exact terminology employed in the gospel dispensation regarding soul-winning. "I have chosen you," says Jesus, "and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain" (John 15:16).
God's desire for the propagation of His image in humankind has not abated in the slightest degree down through time. He has placed this same desire into all of His children.
Do you feel it? Rachel did, and it caused her to passionately implore her husband.
When was the last time you were moved to pray for souls in such a manner? How long has it been since you longed to bring forth fruit for His glory?
In Revelation 12:1-2, the church is depicted as a woman great with child, crying out and in travail. This is a good description of those who take the Great Commission to heart. Notice the imagery used here. Crying out, travail, labor pains.
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. Isaiah 66:7-8.
Whatever else it is going to take for people to be born again, it most certainly will require travail. It is the law of nature that pain accompany delivery. Labor is work, and we cannot get around it.
Have you felt this labor pain? When is the last time you sat up late for souls? How long ago was it that you sacrificed the comfort of home and family attention to attend with singlemindedness to another's spiritual needs?
True saints will recognize this for what it is–a call to stagnation, barrenness, and outright rebellion against God's purposes in the earth. They will fly to the gates of God's house, where they will lay bare the bitterness of their complaint before the Lord of the harvest. They will not be dissuaded until their great High Priest says to them, "Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him" (1 Sam. 1:17).
Have you ever, like Hannah, besieged the holy habitation of the Lord on behalf of the souls of men?
"He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him" (Psalm 126:6).
This is the promise of God to those who take the Great Commission to heart. The cry of Rachel will be answered abundantly for the people who go forth weeping. And it will indeed take weeping! It will take travail. It will take an all-consuming, nearly crushing burden. I must have children. Give me children, Lord, or else I die!
Have you felt such a deep, throbbing love for souls, such that brings forth tears? A desire so fervent and holy that it is almost unbearable? Have you made the cry of Rachel your own?


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Dog Parks & Beaches
Dog Parks in South Padre Island, Texas!
We research great places to go with your dogs in South Padre Island, Texas! Please see our pet parks interactive map.
Parks & Beaches Addresses/Maps/Description/Restrictions
South Padre island Beaches are pet friendly!
Padre Island National Seashore, Texas
20420 Park Road 22, Corpus Christi, TX
Dog Park in South Padre island
$10/vehicle, good for 7 days. Annual passes for $20. $5/bicycle/walking, good for 7 days... More Fees
Leashed pets are welcome almost everywhere in the park, in all camping areas, and on over 60 miles of beach, including the areas where you can drive on the beach. More info on pets in the park.
70 Mile coastline and nature preserve, longest stretch of undeveloped barrier island in the world, separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Laguna Madre, nesting ground for the Kemp's ridley sea turtle and a haven for 380 species of bird; historical (16th century) Spanish shipwrecks
*Dogs must be leashed at all times in park
*Pets NOT allowed: on the deck of Malaquite Pavilion and its facilities, the boardwalk that goes from the deck down to the beach, and the short stretch of beach directly in front of the Pavilion (where the shade structures are located).
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Catherine B. Stillman Dog Park
411 Farm to Market 511, Brownsville, TX
The Catherine B. Stillman dog park is located next to the Brownsville Animal Shelter. The dog park is open to the general public from 7:00 a.m - Dusk.
All animals must be leashed when entering the park and leashed when leaving.
The park has two sections for large and small dogs, water fountains for the canines and shaded seating. There is also playground equipment for dogs to test their skills.
Rules and all you need to know!
Andy Bowie Park
7300 State Park Road 100, South Padre Island, TX
At the northern end of the South Padre Island town limits. Travel north on Park Road 100 to the South Padre Island Convention Center. Next to the convention center is the popular Laguna Madre Nature Trail, a must for nature enthusiasts and bird watchers. North is a beachfront access road which opens up twenty miles of drive on the beach for the more adventurous. On the bay side of the park, you'll find popular spots for windsurfing and wade fishing. Entry $4 per vehicle.
Isla Blanca Park
33174 State Park Road 100, South Padre, TX
On leash, popular beach about 1 mile long on Southern tip of Island; clean, white sand with picnic tables, restrooms, and RV spaces. Minimal daily use fee
And Check out Las Cabanas at Isla Blanca Park!
South Padre KOA
1 Padre Blvd, South Padre Island, TX
Dog Friendly Camping on South Padre Island, Texas
Pet playground, pets must remain leashed and never be left unattended.
RV Campgrounds, camping sites, and pet friendly deluxe waterfront cabins available- (KOA website link)
Edwin K Atwood Park
27159 State Park Road 100, South Padre Island, TX
Dog Park in South Padre Island, Texas
1.4mi N of Andy Bowie Park, on Park Road 100. The park offers day use facilities such as a beachfront picnic pavilion, a concession, and a beach access road, which opens up twenty miles of beach driving for the more adventurous. Entry $4 per vehicle.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site
7200 Paredes Line Road, Brownsville, TX
Palo Alto Battlefield
Always free, coastal prairie area with sharp cord grass and thorny cactus plants, leashed dogs allowed on trails and in parking lots.
Palo Alto Battlefield is a National Park, almost 2000 acres at Palo Alto and 34 acres at Resaca de la Palma Battlefield.
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Adolph Thomae Jr County Park
37844 Marshall Hutts Rd, Rio Hondo, TX
The Park is situated on the banks of the Arroyo Colorado, and is located within the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. The park has lighted fishing piers, picnic areas, a playground, boat ramp with fish cleaning stations and courtesy docks, nature trail, wildlife observation tower, tent camping area, and 35 full-hookup RV sites. The park is open seven days a week from 6 AM to 10 PM. For RV reservations please contact the park office at (956) 748-2044
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Q: Run a dev server in CI pipleine I have a CI pipeline setup using Github Action/Workflows, where i would want to run Cypress Automated tests, However I am having some logical problems of how to run my dev server. let me show you my pipeline
name: Nuxt CI Pipeline

on:
  push:
    branches: [ CI-pipeline ]
  # pull_request:
  #   branches: [ master ]

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [ 14.x ]
        # See supported Node.js release schedule at https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v2
      with:
        node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
        cache: 'npm'
    - name: Make envfile
      uses: SpicyPizza/create-envfile@v1
      with:
        envkey_ENV: staging
        file_name: .env
    - run: npm ci
    - run: npm run dev
    - run: |
        cd e2e
        ls -l
        npm ci
        npx cypress run

Now I want to spin up the devserver and run the tests on that port usually 3000 , however the problem is when the command npm run dev is executed, the pipeline keeps on waiting there and doesnt move forward , which makes sense as devserver doesn't return a response as other commands will , so its kinda stuck there. My knowledge of devops is bare minimum , can someone point out what am i missing?

A: I think the way of execution is not ideal, especially since so the node server is also not killed correctly in the end. Using a helper package like start-server-and-test should do the trick for you:
npm install --save-dev start-server-and-test

While I'm not sure what exactly is behind your scripts in your package.json, it could look something like this in the end:
  "scripts": {
    "start:ci": "<<start your dev server>>",
    "cy:run": "cypress run --browser chrome --headless",
    "cy:ci": "start-server-and-test start:ci http://localhost:3000 cy:run"
  },

Then you can simply run this as a single command in your pipeline with npm run cy:ci. The script will take care of starting your dev server, waiting for the URL to be available, then executing the tests and after all tests are finished, it will shut down the server.

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package com.noorq.casser.mapping.value;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.function.Function;

import com.datastax.driver.core.ColumnDefinitions;
import com.datastax.driver.core.DataType;
import com.datastax.driver.core.ProtocolVersion;
import com.datastax.driver.core.Row;
import com.noorq.casser.core.SessionRepository;
import com.noorq.casser.mapping.CasserProperty;

public final class RowColumnValueProvider implements ColumnValueProvider {

	private final SessionRepository repository;

	public RowColumnValueProvider(SessionRepository repository) {
		this.repository = repository;
	}

	@Override
	public <V> V getColumnValue(Object sourceObj, int columnIndex, CasserProperty property) {

		Row source = (Row) sourceObj;

		Object value = null;
		if (columnIndex != -1) {
			value = readValueByIndex(source, columnIndex);
		}
		else {
			value = readValueByName(source, property.getColumnName().getName());
		}

		if (value != null) {

			Optional<Function<Object, Object>> converter = property.getReadConverter(repository);

			if (converter.isPresent()) {
				value = converter.get().apply(value);
			}

		}

		return (V) value;
	}

	private Object readValueByIndex(Row source, int columnIndex) {

		if (source.isNull(columnIndex)) {
			return null;
		}

		ColumnDefinitions columnDefinitions = source.getColumnDefinitions();

		DataType columnType = columnDefinitions.getType(columnIndex);

		if (columnType.isCollection()) {

			List<DataType> typeArguments = columnType.getTypeArguments();

			switch (columnType.getName()) {
			case SET:
				return source.getSet(columnIndex, typeArguments.get(0).asJavaClass());
			case MAP:
				return source.getMap(columnIndex, typeArguments.get(0).asJavaClass(), typeArguments.get(1).asJavaClass());
			case LIST:
				return source.getList(columnIndex, typeArguments.get(0).asJavaClass());
			}

		}

		ByteBuffer bytes = source.getBytesUnsafe(columnIndex);
		Object value = columnType.deserialize(bytes, ProtocolVersion.NEWEST_SUPPORTED);

		return value;
	}

	private Object readValueByName(Row source, String columnName) {

		if (source.isNull(columnName)) {
			return null;
		}

		ColumnDefinitions columnDefinitions = source.getColumnDefinitions();

		DataType columnType = columnDefinitions.getType(columnName);

		if (columnType.isCollection()) {

			List<DataType> typeArguments = columnType.getTypeArguments();

			switch (columnType.getName()) {
			case SET:
				return source.getSet(columnName, typeArguments.get(0).asJavaClass());
			case MAP:
				return source.getMap(columnName, typeArguments.get(0).asJavaClass(), typeArguments.get(1).asJavaClass());
			case LIST:
				return source.getList(columnName, typeArguments.get(0).asJavaClass());
			}

		}

		ByteBuffer bytes = source.getBytesUnsafe(columnName);
		Object value = columnType.deserialize(bytes, ProtocolVersion.NEWEST_SUPPORTED);

		return value;
	}

}

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Jason Hawk Harris
Jason Hawk Harris hit rock bottom during the writing and recording of his debut full-length Love & the Dark. In the last few years, the Houston-born-and-raised, Los Angeles-based musician endured life-altering hardships — illness, death, familial strife, and addiction — yet from these trials, a luxuriant and confident vision of art country emerged: Love & The Dark.
@jasonhawkharris
@realmikesmith Me too, but their pizza is 5$ for a large right now and it's real good
A Guide to Jason Hawk Harris's Love & The Dark
By Jason Hawk Harris | August 27, 2019
The songwriter walks us through the difficult times that led to his debut album.


The old-country vibe starts the moment you log onto Sterle's website and get hit by a blast of bouncy accordion music. The menu itself could have been concocted by your Slovenian — or Polish or German or Italian — grandma. There's wienerschnitzel, sauerkraut, strudel, veal scallopini, pork chops, chicken parmigiana — not a single bite of trendy bistro food. Prices are low, family-style meals are the specialty, and it's clear that no cutting-edge designer had anything to do with the huge dining room's country-lodge ambiance. On Fridays and Saturdays, you can bring Grandma to hear all her favorite polka tunes played live by top Cleveland musicians, with dancing to work off that big meal (Sterle's is unfamiliar with the "small plate" concept). The food scene in Cleveland has changed a lot in the 50 years since Sterle's opened, but a meal here will take you right back to 1960, long before anyone heard of "global fusion" cuisine or knew what a "bistro" was.


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Hobart's Funnies is the nickname given to a number of specialist armoured fighting vehicles derived from tanks operated during the Second World War by units of the 79th Armoured Division of the British Army or by specialists from the Royal Engineers.

They were designed in light of problems that more standard tanks experienced during the amphibious Dieppe Raid, so that the new models would be able to overcome the problems of the planned invasion of Normandy. These tanks played a major part on the Commonwealth beaches during the landings. They were forerunners of the modern combat engineering vehicle and took their nickname from the 79th Division's commander, Major General Percy Hobart.

The vehicles converted were chiefly Churchill tanks, and American-supplied M4 Sherman tanks.

History
Plans to invade continental Europe were completely revised after the failure of the raid on Dieppe in 1942. Allied units in Normandy would need to overcome terrain, obstacles and coastal fortifications if the invasion were to succeed. General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff decided in 1943 to create special units and assigned responsibility to armoured warfare expert Percy Hobart for the development of vehicles and training crews to use them in action.

Many of the ideas had already been tried, tested or were in experimental development both by Britain and other nations. For example, the Scorpion flail tank, a modified Matilda tank, had already been used during the North African campaign to clear paths through German minefields. Soviet T-34 tanks had been modified with mine-rollers. Close-support tanks, bridgelayers, and fascine carriers had been developed elsewhere also. However, the Funnies were the largest and most elaborate collection of engineering vehicles available.

By early 1944, Hobart could demonstrate to Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery a brigade each of swimming Duplex Drive (DD) amphibious tanks, "Crab" mine clearers, and AVRE tanks along with a regiment of Churchill Crocodile flame-thrower tanks.

Montgomery considered that the US forces should use them. A third of the "funnies" were offered to the Americans of all the vehicles available, but take-up was minimal. Eisenhower was in favour of the DD tanks but left the decision on the others to General Bradley. None of the other designs was used, because it was thought that they required specialised training and an additional support organisation. Also, the Americans were reluctant to make use of funnies based on the Churchill tank as they did not want the logistical complexity of adding another tank model to their inventory.

Bradley requested 25 flail tanks and 100 Churchill Crocodiles shortly after the demonstration in February 1944 and the British War Office agreed to supply them as well as British-crewed AVREs. In the event though there was insufficient time to produce the vehicles and train the crews so on the day American forces were limited to DD tanks and their own Sherman bulldozer tanks and armoured bulldozers while 42 Assault Brigade instead of supporting the US beaches became a reserve for the British and Canadian beaches.

In light of operations during the US landing on Omaha beach, Bradley's decision has been criticised as it was felt that use of the range of "Funnies" would have saved American lives. After D-Day, American forces did make limited use of the Sherman Crab mine-clearing tank.

Designs
The majority of the designs were modified forms of the Churchill tank or the Sherman tank. Both were available in large numbers. The Churchill had good (though slow) cross-country performance, heavy armour, and a roomy interior. The Sherman's mechanical reliability was valued.

Among the many specialist vehicles and their attachments were:
 Crocodile: A Churchill tank modified by the fitting of a flame-thrower in place of the hull machine gun. An armoured trailer, towed behind the tank, carried 400 Imperial gallons (1,800 litres) of fuel. The flamethrower had a range of over 120 yards (110 metres), far greater than man-portable units. Regarded as a powerful psychological weapon, this flame tank proved highly effective at clearing bunkers, trenches and other German fortifications.
 AVRE (Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers): A Churchill tank adapted to attack German defensive fortifications. The AVRE's main gun was replaced by a petard mortar that fired a forty-pound (18 kg) HE-filled projectile (nicknamed the "flying dustbin") 150 yards (137 m); it was capable of destroying concrete obstacles such as roadblocks and bunkers. The mortar had to be reloaded externally by opening a hatch and sliding a round into the mortar tube from the hull. The crew of six were drawn from the Royal Engineers, except for the driver who came from the Royal Armoured Corps. One of the RE crew was a demolitions NCO sapper responsible for priming the "flying dustbin" as well as leading or supervising when they dismounted from the tank (easily done through the side hatches) to place demolition charges ("Wade" charges). AVREs were also used to carry and operate equipment such as:
 Churchill AVRE Bobbin: A reel of  wide canvas cloth reinforced with steel poles carried in front of the tank and unrolled onto the ground to form a "path", so that following vehicles (and the deploying vehicle itself) would not sink into the soft ground of the beaches during the amphibious landing.
 Fascine: A bundle of wooden poles or rough brushwood lashed together with wires carried in front of the tank that could be released to fill a ditch or form a step. Metal pipes in the centre of the fascine allowed water to flow through.
 Small Box Girder: An assault bridge that was carried in front of the tank and could be dropped to span a  gap in 30 seconds.
 Bullshorn Plough: A mine plough intended to excavate the ground in front of the tank, to expose and detonate any land mines.
 Churchill Double Onion: Two large demolition charges on a metal frame that could be placed against a concrete wall and detonated from a safe distance. The tank could place demolition charges at heights up to 12 feet. The tank was driven against a wall, the framework was lowered into the ground against the wall. The tank then backed up a 100 feet laying out an electric detonating cable. The explosives were then detonated by the tank driver. It was the successor to the single-charge device Carrot Tank. Also called the Jones Onion Tank. A large Onion frame was called the Goat Tank.
 ARK (Armoured Ramp Carrier): was a Churchill tank without a turret that had extendable ramps at each end; other vehicles could drive up the ramps and over the vehicle to scale obstacles, effectively functioning as a mobile bridge.
 Crab: A modified Sherman tank equipped with a mine flail, a rotating cylinder of weighted chains that exploded mines in the path of the tank.
 DD tank (from "Duplex Drive"): An amphibious M4A1 or M4A4 Sherman fitted with a large watertight canvas housing able to float and reach the shore after being launched from a landing craft up to several miles from the beach. They were intended to give support to the first waves of infantry that attacked the beaches. A  Valentine tank version was used for training only.
 LVT "Buffalo": British name for the American LVT2 and LVT4: lightly armoured amphibious landing vehicles. The latter had a ramp to ease loading of cargo. They were used in several operations including the crossing of the Rhine.
 Armoured Bulldozer: A conventional Caterpillar D7 bulldozer fitted with armour to protect the driver and the engine. Their job was to clear the invasion beaches of obstacles and to make roads accessible by clearing rubble and filling in bomb craters. Conversions were carried out by Caterpillar importer Jack Olding & Company Ltd of Hatfield.
 Centaur Bulldozer: A Centaur tank with the turret removed and fitted with a simple winch-operated bulldozer blade. These were produced because of a need for a well-armoured obstacle-clearing vehicle that, unlike a conventional bulldozer, would be fast enough to keep up with tank formations. They were not used on D-Day but were issued to the 79th Armoured Division in Belgium during the latter part of 1944.
 Canal Defence Light: A powerful carbon-arc searchlight carried on several types of tank inside a modified turret. The name of the device was deliberately inaccurate in order to help keep it secret; its true purpose was to illuminate enemy positions during a night attack, providing light and dazzling defenders. It was designed to allow light to flood out of a comparatively small slit in the armour, minimising the chance of damage by enemy fire. This was not used on D-Day, but was used during the November 1944 Operation Clipper attack on the Geilenkirchen salient to create indirect artificial daylight. The Americans tested the CDL at the secret Camp Bouse in Bouse, Arizona.

Gallery

Many of the prototypes and their auxiliary equipment were developed by AEC.

Post–Second World War use
The Centaur bulldozer continued to be used by the British Army for some years after the Second World War and saw action during the Korean War, as did the Churchill Crocodile. Also, small numbers of Churchill AVREs and Sherman BARVs were used until the 1960s when they were replaced with similar vehicles based on the Centurion Tank. The Royal Engineers subsequently used modified Centurion and Chieftain tanks that are designed to fulfill the same roles in battle as the Funnies. The last examples of FV4003 Centurion Mk 5 AVRE 165 saw combat in the Gulf War/Operation Granby of 1991. The most recent vehicles in this line are the Titan and Trojan variants of the Challenger 2 tank.

Other nations developed their own armoured bulldozers after the war, such as the Soviet IMR variant of the T-72 tank, the US army's Rome plow, and the Israeli Armored CAT D9. Armoured bulldozers are still in use today for counter-insurgency by the Israel Defense Forces, the Egyptian army, and the Lebanese army.

Surviving vehicles
This is an incomplete list:

Churchill ARK – A Churchill ARK is in South Africa, owned by the School of Engineering, Kroonstad. There is another at the Royal Engineers museum in Chatham.

Churchill AVRE – The collection at The Tank Museum, Bovington includes a working Mark III Churchill AVRE. Another example is located in a hamlet of Graye-sur-Mer in Normandy; it is unusual in having been buried on D-Day in the shell-hole it fell into, and then being recovered later as a memorial. MkIV AVREs are at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, the South African Armour Museum and the National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg. A MkVII AVRE is a Gate guardian at the Allenby Barracks, at the Bovington army camp, headquarters of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry; another is at the Royal Engineers museum at Chatham, Medway. Several more AVREs still exist as wrecks on gunnery ranges.
Churchill Crocodile – There is one example, without trailer, on display at the Bayeux Museum of the Battle of Normandy. A complete vehicle with trailer is held at Bovington. Mark VII Crocodiles are owned by the Muckleburgh Collection in Norfolk, the Cobbaton Combat Collection in Devon, the D-Day Story, the Wheatcroft Collection, the Kubinka Tank Museum in Russia and the Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, Alberta. A Mark VIII is at the Royal Australian Armoured Corps Museum. Two (one in running order) are privately owned in the UK. One example at Fort Montbarey near Brest France where they were used in September 1944. Another example is displayed outside The D-Day Story museum in Southsea.
Sherman DD – Five Sherman DDs are in museums; one is nearly intact, four were sunken wrecks that were salvaged. See the main article for details.
A DD Valentine, restored to running condition, is in private ownership in Wolverhampton, England.
Sherman Crab – Sherman Crabs are displayed at the CFB Borden Military Museum, Ontario, Canada; The Tank Museum, Bovington, the Yad La-Shiryon museum in Latrun and the Overloon War Museum in the Netherlands. The Sherman serving as a war memorial on the sea dyke at Westkapelle, Netherlands, was a Crab but had its mine flail equipment removed after the war.
Centaur Dozer – One is part of the collection at Bovington. Another is part of a private collection in the UK.
Canal Defence Light – The Tank Museum, Bovington has a Matilda tank fitted with a Canal Defence Light turret. A CDL-equipped M3 Grant is displayed at Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar in India.
Buffalo aka Amtrac LVT4 – The Tank Museum, Bovington has an example.

See also
Allied technological cooperation during World War II
BARV a Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle developed at the same time as Hobart's Funnies by the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Comparison of early World War II tanks
History of the tank
MD1 (military R&D organisation)
Rhino tank a tank fitted with prongs to breach obstacles (such as hedgerows)
Tanks in World War I
Tanks in World War II

References

Further reading

External links

Bradley's biography with explanation of refusal of "funnies"
Royal Engineers Museum Royal Engineers and Operation Overlord
Royal Engineers Museum Biography of Major General Sir Percy Hobart
Royal Engineers Museum Royal Engineers and Second World War

Military engineering vehicles of the United Kingdom
Operation Neptune
World War II tanks of the United Kingdom
Weapons countermeasures
History of the tank

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Q: Visual Composer not loading Hubspot form embed I'm working on a Wordpress site that was built using Visual Composer. I'm trying to embed a Hubspot form, which is something I have done numerous times but never using VC. I figured it would be as simple as adding a "raw html" block in VC and adding the form embed script.
This does indeed load the form, however it is displayed on the bottom left of the screen instead of the right column where it was set. However, if the page is refreshed, it displays as it should, no problems. This makes me think the script is loaded after the rest of the page is loaded.
I have tried creating a shortcode for the script and inserting in the VC section. Does not work.
You can see the issue here:
http://yourveininstitute.com/leg-swelling/
( form loads at the bottom of page and loads correctly on refresh )
The HS embed code looks like this ( portal and id redacted ):
<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="//js.hsforms.net/forms/v2-legacy.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="//js.hsforms.net/forms/v2.js"></script>
<script>
  hbspt.forms.create({
    css: '',
    portalId: '######',
    formId: '#################'
  });
</script>

I could really use some help on this one. I'm spinning my wheels.

A: I'm seeing a hubspot form loading correctly in the sidebar, even on the first load. Are you still experiencing the problem? If so, I might try enqueueing the external script call, and only putting the hbspt.forms.create stuff in the VC block.
Try adding this to your functions.php file:
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'add_hubspot');
function add_hubspot() {
  wp_enqueue_script('hubspot', '//js.hsforms.net/forms/v2.js');
}


The professional reputation of The Institute of Spring Technology (IST) resonates across many industries that use related technologies. It is well recognised that the IST delivers value to industry through their diverse range of in house testing and comprehensive database for coil technologies and related components.
Like the IST, RAPRA is a not for profit membership association with a constitution that focuses on commercialising the latest technologies to help businesses grow successfully. RAPRA specialises in the use of all types of rubbers, plastics and any form of polymer based composite materials. Therefore in the interests of increased effectiveness and efficiency, it made sense that these organisations recently signed an Agreement to offer member and non-member companies access to an enhanced hub of information and technical expertise.
The two associations have many things in common, including their mutual goal to help industry grow by looking after their customers and member's needs. Focusing on the rapid advancement of technologies, RAPRA and the IST provide excellent services through their prompt response to technical enquiries, making sure that communication obstacles are eliminated. Helping clients with innovation challenges remain their top priority.
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This happens also with some nouns and interrogative pronouns. When politeness is all we have connecting us to others, incivility takes on an exaggerated significance. The greater the perceived relative power of hearer over speaker, the more politeness is recommended. Never tell someone that you will do it if you know that you never will. The two candidates are said not to like one another much, despite their studied politeness during most of the primaries. Since I've been over here on this semi-permanent basis, I have found almost universal kindness and politeness. If we are positive, we will get positive outcomes.
Marie lifted her large eyes on her cousin with an air of some curiosity, and received her with languid politeness. Conditions get slightly uncomfortable and all politeness flies out the window. Also, could is a little more polite than can. And it speaks volumes for the politeness of her hosts and Daisy's gutsiness that her Bollywood routine doesn't see her dragged off stage. When we are polite our words never come out in hustle. This is the girls' room. Other examples of qualifiers that can make great softeners are: a little, a bit, a little bit, slight, slightly, small, one or two.
To learn more, see our. Instead of asking for help getting an internship, you may want to ask for her advice on how to get practical experience during that time. He was Chesterfieldian in conventional politeness, and as smooth as Talleyrand in ambiguity of speech. Provide details and share your research! Or: To be honest, this needs some improvement. Whatever happened to decent manners? Today is an important post for me, personally. Casaubon felt a surprise which was quite unmixed with pleasure, but he did not swerve from his usual politeness of greeting, when Will rose and explained his presence.
He will not abide intellectually lazy thinking or any form of acquiescence to political correctness and its facile rituals of politeness and forced conviviality. He inquired with extreme politeness what did I know of South American republics? Maybe out of a sense of politeness which these women must observe, the audience did not get angry. He was smiling all the time, but his deep-set eyes did not lend themselves to the expression of whimsical politeness which he tried to achieve. Dumb, I thought and maybe even wrong. Another way we make language softer is by using modals might, could, etc. Or maybe Britain's reputation for politeness is long gone, replaced by a surly jobsworth attitude that slowly sours every day in this city. If I thought everyone would behave like fluffy bunnies, that we could all live in some excessively nice utopian society where respect and politeness ran rampant, then nah! Remember that mind is followed by the gerund ing.
On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. Using the past continuous makes the sentence sound more hypothetical and tentative, and therefore less direct and is a great technique for injecting diplomacy and politeness into your English. Through such works, we can trace the development of modern forms of politeness and table manners. During the , a self-conscious process of the imposition of polite norms and behaviours became a symbol of being a genteel member of the. And then every one among her friends whom I have met at her house or elsewhere, every one who has shown me the minimum of politeness, every duke of them and his wife.
I got a purchase to make. We have added just two words to the sentence, but we have made it considerably more diplomatic. Because spoken words are like a glass broken in no time. Francesco has a mezza voce, which might, by a stretch of politeness, be called baritone. And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness. He rose as Roma entered, and received her with his great but glacial politeness. My politeness was well repaid, for nothing more delicate in the way of an omelet has ever titillated my palate.
They may also mistake some of the conventionalised positive politeness routines as being expressions of 'genuine' friendship or closeness. Say: Could you send me the report? About author: Jeremy Bentley is professional native English teacher and a Greek to English translator. Qualifiers Qualifiers are words used to modify other words and they increase or decrease the quality signified by those words. Say: Could you give me a minute? Show More Sentences Indeed, it was remarkable how well he bore these slights and with what unwearying politeness he kept on trying to ingratiate himself with all. A polite person will never takes wrong decision because the time taken to think before acting is much more.
What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. If a lady take a fancy to any male passenger's seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him notice of the fact, and he immediately vacates it with great politeness. Few people like to cause offence, particularly in business, which suffers from a suffocating politeness. Brown and Levinson 1987 argued that claiming common ground in communication is a major strategy of positive politeness, which is a series of conversational moves that recognise the partner's needs and wants in a way that shows they represent a commonality, such as a commonality of knowledge, attitudes, interests, goals, and in-group membership. If we are negative we will get negative outcomes.


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Q: Python scikit-learn to JSON I have a model built with Python scikit-learn. I understand that the models can be saved in Pickle or Joblib formats. Are there any existing methods out there to save the jobs in JSON format? Please see the model build code below for reference:
import pandas
from sklearn import model_selection
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
import pickle
url = "https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/pima-indians-diabetes/pima-indians-diabetes.data"
names =['preg', 'plas', 'pres', 'skin', 'test', 'mass', 'pedi', 'age', 'class']
dataframe = pandas.read_csv(url, names=names)
array = dataframe.values
X = array[:,0:8]
Y = array[:,8]
test_size = 0.33
seed = 7
X_train, X_test, Y_train, Y_test = model_selection.train_test_split(X, Y, test_size=test_size, random_state=seed)
# Fit the model on 33%
model = LogisticRegression()
model.fit(X_train, Y_train)
filename = 'finalized_model.sav'
pickle.dump(model, open(filename, 'wb'))

A: You'll have to cook up your own serialization/deserialization recipe. Fortunately, logistic regression can basically be captured by the coefficients and the intercept. However, the LogisticRegression object keeps some other metadata around which we might as well capture. I threw together the following functions that does the dirty-work. Keep in mind, this is still rough:
import numpy as np
import json
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression

def logistic_regression_to_json(lrmodel, file=None):
    if file is not None:
        serialize = lambda x: json.dump(x, file)
    else:
        serialize = json.dumps
    data = {}
    data['init_params'] = lrmodel.get_params()
    data['model_params'] = mp = {}
    for p in ('coef_', 'intercept_','classes_', 'n_iter_'):
        mp[p] = getattr(lrmodel, p).tolist()
    return serialize(data)

def logistic_regression_from_json(jstring):
    data = json.loads(jstring)
    model = LogisticRegression(**data['init_params'])
    for name, p in data['model_params'].items():
        setattr(model, name, np.array(p))
    return model

Note, with just 'coef_', 'intercept_','classes_' you could do the predictions yourself, since logistic regression is a straight-forward linear model, it's simply matrix-multiplication.


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Die Dave Matthews Band ist eine US-amerikanische Rockband. Sie wurde von dem in Südafrika geborenen amerikanischen Sänger, Gitarristen und Songwriter David John Matthews Anfang 1991 in Charlottesville, Virginia gegründet.

Bandgeschichte
Matthews gründete die Band zusammen mit Schlagzeuger Carter Beauford, Bassist Stefan Lessard, Saxophonist LeRoi Moore, Violinist Boyd Tinsley und Keyboarder Peter Griesar. Letzterer verließ die Band jedoch schon Anfang 1993. Von 1997 bis 2008 wurde das Keyboard von Butch Taylor als dauerhaftem Gast besetzt. Dieser wiederum verließ die Band im Jahr 2008 unmittelbar vor Tourneestart. Saxophonist LeRoi Moore starb unerwartet am 19. August 2008 an den Folgen eines Quad-Unfalls am 30. Juni 2008. Violinist Tinsley wurde Anfang 2018 zunächst beurlaubt und nach Vorwürfen sexueller Belästigung fristlos gekündigt. Ebenfalls im Jahr 2018 wurde Buddy Strong als Keyboarder in die Band aufgenommen.

Der Stil der Band ist geprägt durch die recht unorthodoxe Besetzung (akustische Gitarre, Bass, Schlagzeug, Keyboards, Saxophon, Geige) und den daraus resultierenden Sound. Mit ihrer Mixtur aus Rock, Pop, Jazz, Folk und Funk verschafften sie sich schnell einen guten Ruf in der lokalen Jamrock-Musikszene. Dementsprechend groß ist die Anzahl an prominenten Gastmusikern, die während der ausgedehnten Live-Tourneen immer wieder die Band bei einzelnen Stücken begleiten und den Stücken neue Interpretationen geben: so z. B. Neil Young, Warren Haynes, Carlos Santana, Béla Fleck, Phish, Ziggy Marley oder John Mayer, um nur wenige zu nennen. Bei der Sommertour 2008 waren Tim Reynolds an der E-Gitarre und bereits seit 2005 Rashawn Ross dauerhaft vertreten. Außerdem wurde LeRoi Moore vorerst durch den Saxophonisten Jeff Coffin ersetzt, einen langjährigen Freund aus der Band Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.

Als Gastsängerin bei dem Studioalbum Before These Crowded Streets (1998) ist in den Liedern Don't Drink the Water und Spoon Alanis Morissette zu hören, im Video zu Dream Girl aus Stand Up (2005) spielt Julia Roberts die weibliche Hauptrolle und in dem Lied What Would You Say aus dem Album Under the Table and Dreaming (1994) spielt der amerikanische Bluesmusiker John Popper Mundharmonika.

1993 erschien das Debüt-Livealbum Remember Two Things. Bis 2005 verkaufte die Band allein in den USA über 35 Millionen Studio-Alben (die zahllosen Live-Alben sind hierbei noch nicht mitgezählt), der große Erfolg in Europa blieb jedoch aus.

Die Dave Matthews Band, "America's biggest band" und ständig in der Top-10-Liste der "top grossing tours" (profitabelsten Tourneen; im Jahr 2000 waren sie sogar die kommerziell erfolgreichste Live-Band), hat einen guten Ruf als Live-Act und füllt in den USA regelmäßig Hallen und Stadien (2003 sogar den Great Lawn im Central Park mit nahezu 120.000 Zuschauern).

Im Jahr 2007 war die Dave Matthews Band nach fast neun Jahren wieder in Europa unterwegs. Im Sommer 2009 gab die Band diverse Konzerte in Europa, allerdings keines davon in Deutschland. Im Februar/März 2010 tourte die Band wieder durch Europa. In London fand am 6. März das größte Konzert (o2-Millennium-Dome) statt, in Deutschland spielte die Band in Hamburg, Berlin, Köln, Frankfurt und München.

Nach der Ankündigung, nach 20 Jahren zum ersten Mal nicht dauerhaft auf Tour zu gehen, spielte die Band im Jahr 2011 trotzdem einige Konzerte unter dem Motto Dave Matthews Band Caravan.

Nach einer weiteren Europa-Tour im Jahr 2015 standen im Jahr 2019 Konzerte in Deutschland, Dänemark, England, Frankreich, Holland, Italien, Norwegen, Polen, Schweden und Tschechien auf dem Plan.

Die Band gab diverse Benefiz- und Unterstützungskonzerte, zum Beispiel anlässlich des Hurrikan Katrina (2005), des Amoklaufs an der Virginia Tech (2007), der Öl-Proteste bei Standing Rock (2017) sowie der rechtsextremen Demonstrationen in Charlottesville (2017).
Im Juni 2016 unterstützte die Band den Wahlkampf von Bernie Sanders bei den Vorwahlen in Kalifornien.

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Quellen

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 Offizielle Website (englisch)

 Der DMB-Almanach: Alle Konzerte, Songs, Texte, Gastauftritte etc. (englisch)
 Antsmarching: US-Fanforum (englisch)

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Detroit's power rock/pop trio Mike Leslie Band will be playing a release show for their debut self titled LP on Friday, January 17 at The Magic Bag in Ferndale, Michigan. They will be joined by Seven Birds One Stone, Chris Degnore and the Black Drops, and emcee Sean Morrison.
Mike Leslie Band's classic Detroit musical style structure and gritty now-generation songwriting proudly crashed to the forefront of Detroit's music scene in 2013, leaving a smart, fiery, hook-heavy rock love mark in the wake of the band's freshman year.
Launched in December 2012, Mike Leslie Band took home two 2013 Detroit Music Awards including the coveted People's Choice Award. This summer saw Mike Leslie Band win the regional crown in DOUG FM's battle of the bands, heralding their national radio introduction. Mike Leslie Band's 2013 Thanksgiving Eve show in premiere of the single Weather Vane played to an at-capacity crowd at the historic Magic Bag Theatre and the band shows no signs of slowing down. This band opened for Three Dog Night, Sponge, and Jimmie Vaughn in their first summer and can't wait to lend their stylistic voodoo to more audiences begging to get amped up for a party.
Listen to the interview with Mike Leslie and Michael Parrot here.
The Mike Leslie Band have been described as the prescriptive result of a peek inside the soul; melodies and harmonies structured with a dash of this and that to mend your heart, with lyrics that get inside your head and let you see yourself from MLB's perspective. With blues rock jam influences from Government Mule to Stevie Ray Vaughan to Umphrey's McGee, a splash of velvety blues-soul from Sam Cooke through Gary Clark Jr., the classic bones of John Lennon and Hendrix, and the pop-folk polish of Alabama Shakes, Band of Horses, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Over the detailed patchwork brand of rock music to remedy the soul is frontman Mike Leslie's writing inspiration from classic 20th century American novelists and philosophers. Mike Leslie Band deliver an intelligent and intensely personal debut album.
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Captain Todd Nelson, Heartland Fire and Rescue: A 17-year veteran of the fire service, Captain Nelson is deeply involved in the La Mesa Fire Department and La Mesa Fire Explorer Program. He serves on several committees and organizes the annual Fire Station Pancake Breakfast, also serving as a strong leader of the Apparatus Committee which helped secure two near vehicles for La Mesa's fleet—a plan that took hundreds of hours to help improve safety for the community.
Officer Bill Wilson, La Mesa Police Department: Officer Wilson has served with the department for 7 years and has been the Traffic Unit's lead investigator on three major injury accidents, including a fatality, due to completing advanced coursework. He takes pride in his job and even when working his regular shift in traffic, he also volunteers to help patrol on radio calls.
Maxine Lynch, La Mesa Police Department: Maxine Lynch has worked for the department for 34 years, supervising the Retired Senior Volunteer Program for the last two decades. She also supervises the Live Scan Operations and manages the Graffiti Tracker program, as well as organizing and participating in numerous annual events ranging from the RSVP 20th anniversary gala to the Flag Day Parade and the LMPD Citizens Academy.
La Mesa Chamber president Mary England also presented a special award to retiring La Mesa Police Chief Ed Aceves, who received a standing ovation, plus flowers for his wife.
Many elected officials from across East County were also in attendance, including Supervisor Dianne Jacob, Santee Councilman Rob McNellis, Lemon Grove Councilman George Gastil, representatives from Congressman Duncan Hunter and Congresswoman Susan Davis' offices, and several La Mesa's City Council members.


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Q: Reject emails to specific email addresses with postfix I want to reject any inbound email to compromised@example.com, an example more people would want this would be internal distribution groups/aliases.
I've tried header_checks without success:
zmlocalconfig -e postfix_header_checks="pcre:/opt/zimbra/conf/custom_header_checks"
contents of /opt/zimbra/conf/custom_header_checks
/^To:compromised@example.com/ REJECT Mailbox no longer valid

However I still do not get the rejection.
I also tried some of the configuration from Refuse to send email to specific recipients with Postfix since he had things configured in reverse which is what I'm looking for.
zmlocalconfig -e smtpd_recipient_restrictions=check_recipient_access hash:/opt/zimbra/conf/custom_recipient_blocklist

/opt/zimbra/conf/custom_recipient_blocklist
compromised@example.com/ REJECT

This also did not work as intended.

A: The issue was hash is not listed in postconf -m
Final configuration from per-address access controls
postconf -e smtpd_recipient_restrictions='reject_non_fqdn_recipient, permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_unlisted_recipient, reject_invalid_helo_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_sender, check_recipient_access lmdb:/opt/zimbra/conf/postfix_recipient_access, permit'

contents of /opt/zimbra/conf/postfix_recipient_access
compromised@example.com REJECT

rcpt to:compromised@example.com
554 5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: Access denied

To make changes,
echo anotherguy@example.com reject >> /opt/zimbra/conf/postfix_recipient_access
postmap /opt/zimbra/conf/postfix_recipient_access


— sanjo: a completely instrumental music, performed with shifting rhythms and melodies on instruments such as the gayageum.
— pansori: a theatrical form of music performed by one singer and one drummer. The singer tells one of five different stories but individualizes the telling with jokes and social commentary.
— nongak ("farmers' dance"): a public form of percussion performed by twenty to thirty performers, most often in a rural setting.
All Koreans shared these traditional genres as part of their cultural heritage. The split of Korea in 1948 resulted in North and South diverging substantially in their musical development.
After the dictatorship ended, Korean musicians embraced all kinds of traditional and modern music, socially important or otherwise, taking pride in their folk instruments and ancient genres while infusing them with a modern energy and musical sensibility. Since the '90s Korean popular music (K-Pop), especially its dance hits like Sao Taji and the Boys "I Know", has become a pan-Asian phenomenon, joining Korean fashion, movies, television and other media in what Koreans proudly call a "Hallyu" — a massive wave of Asian infatuation with Korean culture.
Listening to South Korean music is a punishable crime. All foreign music–labeled with the blanket pejorative "jazz"–is thought to be decadent. So, jazz is forbidden, but this is okay.
— "Morning Dew" by Kim Min-Ki, sung by Yang Hee-Eun.
Written by Norae Undong icon Kim Min-Ki, who pioneered Korean Norae Undong ("Song Movement) in the '70s, until the Korean government censored him (from '75 to '87), "Morning Dew" is the staple song of Yang Hee-Eun. Yang became popular in the '70s singing Kim songs like "Morning Dew" and "The Evergreen." She continues to be one of Korea's most beloved folk musicians. (In class we're going to sing Kim Min-Ki's ("Little Pond").
Jang Yun-Jeong burst onto the Korean music scene in 2005 with "Eomeona" (loosely translated as "Oh my goodness!"), a "semi-trot" song that appealed to both older Koreans who listen to trot and younger Koreans who connected with Jang Yun-Jeong because she was in her mid-20's when the song became popular. She has since continued to perform semi-trot, helping introduce trot to a K-pop crowd.


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import datetime
from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

class Month(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=20, unique=True, verbose_name=_("Name"))
    order = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField(verbose_name=_("Order"))
    need_verification = models.BooleanField(verbose_name=_("Need verification?"), default=False)
    comment = models.TextField(verbose_name=_("Comment"), unique=False, null=True, blank=True)

    @staticmethod
    def previous():
        month = datetime.date.today().month - 1
        if month < 1:
            month = 12
        if month > 12:
            month = 1
        return Month.objects.get(id=month)

    @staticmethod
    def current():
        return Month.objects.get(id=datetime.date.today().month)

    @staticmethod
    def next():
        month = datetime.date.today().month + 1
        if month < 1:
            month = 12
        if month > 12:
            month = 1
        return Month.objects.get(id=month)

    def __str__(self):
        return str(_(self.name))

    class Meta:
        app_label = "date"
        ordering = ["order"]
        verbose_name = _("Month")
        verbose_name_plural = _("Months")

class Weekday(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=20, verbose_name=_("Name"))
    order = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField(verbose_name=_("Order"))
    need_verification = models.BooleanField(verbose_name=_("Need verification?"), default=False)
    comment = models.TextField(verbose_name=_("Comment"), unique=False, null=True, blank=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return str(_(self.name))

    class Meta:
        app_label = "date"
        ordering = ["id"]
        verbose_name = _("Week day")
        verbose_name_plural = _("Week days")

class Season(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=9, unique=True, verbose_name=_("Name"))
    subscription_start = models.DateField(verbose_name=_("Subscription start date"))
    start = models.DateField(verbose_name=_("Start date"))
    end = models.DateField(verbose_name=_("End date"))
    need_verification = models.BooleanField(verbose_name=_("Need verification?"), default=False)
    comment = models.TextField(verbose_name=_("Comment"), unique=False, null=True, blank=True)

    @staticmethod
    def current():
        try:
            return Season.objects.filter(start__lte=datetime.date.today()).order_by("-subscription_start")[:1][0]
        except IndexError:
            raise Season.DoesNotExist("There is no current season in database")

    @staticmethod
    def next():
        try:
            return Season.objects.filter(start__gte=datetime.date.today()).order_by("subscription_start")[:1][0]
        except IndexError:
            raise Season.DoesNotExist("There is no next season in database")

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

    class Meta:
        app_label = "date"
        ordering = ["start"]
        verbose_name = _("Season")
        verbose_name_plural = _("Seasons")


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Q: Creating user in seed.rb file, how to encrypted password like how User.rb does? My User.rb has a before_save callback that encrypts the user's password, it does:
def set_password
   self.salt = ...
   self.encrypted_password = ...

end

Now when I create my user in the seed, how do I encrypt the password w/o duplicating my code?

A: I'm concerned about the same issue.  In my case, I want to seed the database with an "admin" account so that a user doesn't try to create an account by this name.  Even if I were to salt and encrypt the password, I have to seed the database with this information.  It'll have to go into the seeds.rb file and if my development or server hard drive is compromised, someone could potentially figure out the password with the salt and encrypted password.  If you're ok with that, then you can just choose a salt and encrypt your password based on that, then put the encrypted password in your seeds file.
If this is going into production, you may want to consider seeding these accounts with random salts, random passwords and a fixed email.  No one will be able to access these accounts, but you'll be able to reset the user password.  I'm assuming you have some sort of password reset system implemented.
This sounds like a pain, I know, but I can't think of another way that's as secure.

A: Usually you grab the already encrypted password from the database and convert it into a seed. Don't re-implement it, simply duplicate the required value.


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Coronavirus: Why Alberta's summer festival fun has been cancelled
The 2019 Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show. LIVEWIRE CALGARY FILE PHOTO
Alberta's Chief Medical Officer of Health defended the decision to effectively cancel all summer public events in the province, saying some Albertans were angry at her for the position.
In Friday's daily briefing, Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced another 297 cases to Alberta's coronavirus count, bringing the total to 4,017. Among those, 350 cases are currently believed to be community acquired.
Five people died (since last reporting, though one late addition was made yesterday and included in the tally today). Three of those deaths in long term care facilities, said Dr. Hinshaw.
"I want to remind people that, because the incubation period can be up to two weeks, we can continue to see new cases in some of these facilities even after all control measures have been put in place," she said.
The total number of deaths in Alberta is now 72, with 1,397 people that have recovered from COVID-19.
'…Profoundly disappointed, or even angry…'
Dr. Hinshaw said she heard from many Albertans after her Thursday statement. She stated that all summer festivals and events fell under the public gathering rules and wouldn't be allowed to go ahead.
Major festivals in both Calgary and Edmonton were cancelled Thursday, prior to Dr. Hinshaw's statement. In Thursday's briefing, she referred to festival like these as "super-spreader" events.
"I have heard from many Albertans who are profoundly disappointed, or even angry about my statement regarding summer events," she said.
"How can I ask them to give up their summer, when we don't know for sure what the situation will be like in one or two months? I hear this loud and clear."
She then went on to describe why the decision was a valid one.
Dr. Hinshaw said the virus will be with us for months. Despite what we see in the curve, COVID-19 won't go away over the summer.
"We've had several instances in the province of social gatherings where one person passes the virus on to many others at a single event," she said.
No blame, just looking out for folks
Alberta's Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw. ALBERTA GOVERNMENT / FLICKR
Several events have been linked to larger spreads. Dr. Hinshaw used the example of the Edmonton doctor bonspiel, where 40 of 73 that attended contracted COVID-19.
Other events like the dental conference early on or gathering in Calgary that was responsible for several cases.
"The common theme in all of these is that the source did not know they had COVID, or there was possibly an environmental source, with high touch surfaces," she said.
"The attendees were trying to be careful with regular hand sanitization and trying to follow distancing rules, but the gatherings were social in nature."
Dr. Hinshaw said she's not blaming anybody, but that's why these decisions are being made. It doesn't take much to trigger a larger outbreak.
"What I want to underline is that the kinds of social gatherings we are used to, even in the summer, can result in significant spread of the virus from just one person who may not even know they're infected," she said.
"The results can be explosive, far reaching, and deadly."
Relaunch and relaxation of public health measures
Discussions are ongoing about what the Alberta relaunch will look like. Premier Jason Kenney said a meeting was convened earlier this week to examine steps to unwind the lockdown in Alberta.
That review will include outdoor recreation, including kids' sports and being in Alberta parks.
Even with a graduated relaunch, distancing measures, handwashing, masking and even limiting groups will be a part of it.
"I know that people want to plan and I know that the more advanced notice they have, the easier it is to make those plans, she said.
"I would just ask people to be patient as we work through these relaunch discussions, and we will be coming forward with more information."


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Zack Ryder Speaks Out After Not Being Used On RAW
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Zack Ryder has been part of WWE now for more than a decade now and was only able to hear his music played at WrestleMania 32 when he lifted the Intercontinental Championship. Sadly the dream ended just a day later when The Miz defeated Ryder and took away his title on RAW.
The former Champion has been overlooked for most of his career so his most recent run hasn't surprised him at all.
Ryder recently appeared on Lilian Garcia's Chasing Glory podcast where he opened up about not being included on RAW this past week.
"At the end of the day, like right now with Monday Night RAW, I am not being used, he said via Wrestlinginc. "Can I cry about it or can I be grateful and say that I am still here. I mean, you can go to a toy store and buy a Zack Ryder action figure today so my life can definitely be a lot worse.
"What am I going to do, sit around and be bitter? I hate when people do that. Like, poor me. Come on, we're here in WWE. Can things be better? Yes! But they can be so much worse. I am not a super positive person, but come on. You have to look at yourself in the mirror. Trust me, there have been times where I have been bitter, but what does it solve? Nothing."
Ryder has gone through long periods of his career where he hasn't been used on WWE TV but the company has always pulled him back into the loop when needed, so he is able to remain positive about his situation because being overlooked is not new to him.
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What happens when you teach children to make inferences while reading?
Once children are fluent decoders, the most frequent problem in reading is poor comprehension due to a failure to make inferences. Even seemingly straightforward anaphoric inferences can elude these students: they might read "Bob gave Tamisa some of his snack because she was hungry" and still be unsure of the referent for "she." Other inferences require bridging information from long term memory, and these are still more challenging. For example, "Kevin said he was cold. Zeke gave him his coat." Even if these two sentences are understood, each on its own, deeper comprehension entails making the (probably accurate) inference that Zeke gave Kevin the coat because Kevin said he was cold, which requires knowing that putting on a coat is something one does when cold.
Educators have sought to improve inferencing. In some cases they can teach students reading comprehension strategies: create a summary, for example, or create a graphic organizer. The task provides some structure that will prompt the student to make the necessary inferences. Alternatively, students might be taught more directly to make inferences, usually by instruction to elaborate on what they read in the text, to use cues in the text that provide clues to inferencing (e.g., words like "because," or "so,"), and to monitor their comprehension.
A new meta-analysis of inference instruction (Elleman, 2017) shows that it's quite effective, but carries some important caveats…ones that I've mentioned before.
The overall mean effect size on comprehension of inference instruction was a healthy g = .58. Elleman also evaluated separately comprehension due to inferences, and literal comprehension, and observed a difference moderated by ability.
As the figure shows, both skilled and less skilled readers improve in inference-making ability, but inference instruction provides a boost to understanding of things stated explicitly in the text only for less skilled readers.
Still more interesting to me was the report that the amount of instructional time had no impact on the effectiveness of the intervention, which I've shown in the graph below, compiled from a data table in the paper.
Each dot represents a study condition. Two things are notable: first, most studies entail rather little practice, but nevertheless show a large effect. Second, more practice does not lead to a larger effect.
This finding is important because it provides an important clue to the mechanism by which this instruction helps. Practice usually helps, especially early in training. The curve looks like this
Performance improves with practice, and the curve is negatively accelerating. You get the most bang for the buck from practice early in training. The data from this meta-analysis don't show either effect. It's true that the range is relatively small…most studies use very little practice, so it's harder to observe any effect of practice. That still doesn't explain why you get such a big effect with very little practice.
This failure to observe a practice effect is more understandable if the relationship of practice and performance for inference generation look more like this:
The plot would look like this if what kids learn during inference instruction is easy to learn, and easy to implement, but carries a one-time benefit. For example, this instruction might prompt children to better understand the importance of making the effort to coordinate meaning across sentences. It might teach them to look for cues to inference possibilities like the word "because," or time cues like "later."
As Elleman notes, theories of reading have centered on the knowledge from long-term memory needed to make inferences (Kintsch, 1998) and/or the working memory capacity needed to hold information in mind simultaneously so meanings can be compared (Daneman & Carpenter, 1980). Neither of these is going to change over the course of 10 hours of instruction.
And that's the practical implication of this meta-analysis. There's a big benefit to inference instruction, but all of the benefit accrues rapidly. There seems to be no point in spending extended classroom time on the practice.
Similar results have been observed in meta-analyses of studies examining the impact of reading comprehension strategy instruction. Gail Lovette and I (2014) reported on nine meta-analyses of typically developing readers and of readers either identified with a reading disability, or at risk. In each case, the pattern was the same: a large effect with few hours of instruction, and no benefit to more instruction. (This piece was published as a commentary in Teachers College Record and seems to have disappeared from the website. Email me if you'd like a copy.)
This interpretation is also consistent with theories of reading comprehension. Inferences are situation specific: you can't really teach how to make inferences because the inference to be made depends on the content of the text. Rather, you can teach them to seek and use some cues (probably a causal connection here) and you can teach them that it's important to make inferences. But making them requires broad background knowledge in long term memory.
That is an essential goal to improve reading comprehension, but it is a goal requiring years of planning, not hours.
To the parents of children who stare at my disabled daughter
Tomorrow, March 18, is Trisomy-18 awareness day. It's important to me because one of my daughters, Esprit, has Trisomy-18. In the spirit of the day I'm going to offer just a little background for those who are unfamiliar with it, but focus mostly on one interaction small children typically have with Esprit—staring at her.
By way of background, Trisomy-18 is a chromosome disorder. Each cell in the human body has 23 pairs of chromosomes, strands of DNA. Trisomy means that there are three copies, not two, of one of the pairs. Three copies of the 21st chromosome is Trisomy-21, also called Downs Syndrome. Three copies of the 18th chromosome give you Trisomy-18, also called Edwards Syndrome. (So now you know why they picked the eighteenth of March—3/18—as Trisomy-18 awareness day. )
There's no particular cause—it's a fluke. There's also no cure, and over 90% of the children born with Trisomy-18 die within the first year.
Esprit is unusual for still being here at age 13, but her profile is typical of Trisomy-18 in other ways. She cannot walk or speak, and she learned to sit upright about a year ago. Cognitively, she's like a one-year old on many dimensions.
My goal here is not to raise awareness about the medical side of Trisomy-18—if you've read to this point, you've come close to the end of my knowledge—but rather to consider the manner in which you are most likely to encounter a child with Trisomy-18; out and about with your own child. Older kids (and their parents) will sneak a surreptitious glance at Esprit. Many adults will smile and some will approach her, always with warmth.
But kids aged two to six are generally flummoxed and show it. Parents are usually not prepared to respond to their child's curiosity and bafflement.
Your five-year-old will notice that Esprit doesn't look like other children. She has facial features typical of Trisomy-18 kids. Her head is small, her ears low-set, her chin recedes, and her eyelids droop, so she usually looks sleepy.
But your child wouldn't be paying attention to these facial features, because others are much more noticeable. Esprit is tiny for her age, weighing just fifty pounds, and she's usually in a large wheelchair that provides support for her back. She also wears a TLSO around her midsection, and orthotics on her feet.
To a five-year old, this is a sight.
So usually he stares. (I'll call the child "he" to keep pronouns unambiguous, cf Esprit.) That makes the parent uncomfortable, and they try to call the child away, distract him, so he'll unlock his gaze. The parent doesn't say "don't stare;" doing so would acknowledge that he's staring, and that there's something to stare at. Eventually, the parent might drag or chivy the child away, with the child looking back the whole time, staring.
I appreciate that you don't want your child to stare, but ignoring his interest or trying to get the hell away doesn't work well and sends your child the message that there's something wrong here. And admonishing the child "it's not nice to stare" once out of earshot will not make him accept a disabled kid as part of the shopping mall crowd next time he sees one. Kids this age are too young for that. (If there's any effect, it will be to make him a sneakier starer.)
Here's an alternative. Encourage your child to add a social element to the staring. It's natural and unobjectionable that he's curious about a child who looks different. Staring feels wrong because interaction with another person demands some outward acknowledgement that there is a fellow human in front of you. You can gape at a skyscraper or a sunset, but no matter how interesting another person is to behold and for whatever reason, you must give social signals that you recognize that they are not an object.
Once you add social signals, staring doesn't feel like staring. Staring while smiling, for example, seems perfectly appropriate. Sure, a five-year old's voluntary smile is comically phony, but who cares? It's the thought that counts. Or encourage your child to say "hi," or to wave. Any of these changes the dynamic from "observation of a spectacle" to a bid for social interaction. (It will also thrill Esprit.)
More outgoing kids will ask questions, usually of my wife or I rather than Esprit. Please don't shush them, and please don't worry about what they will ask. Parents (and strangers) don't expect social graces at this age, so we know we'll hear "what's wrong with her?" or "what's that? (pointing to her orthotic). We're very used to talking with children about Esprit's disability. Questions are a way of initiating social interaction. They're great.
Every family's experience is different, of course, and I'd never claim to speak for all parents of disabled children. But the next time your little one stares at someone different, give the social signal strategy a try. Let me know how it goes.
Irrelevant interruptions and their cost to thinking
Everyone knows that it's dangerous to use a cell phone while driving. The danger lies in distraction; even with a hands-free phone, the conversation saps attentional resources that should be devoted to the road.
But what if you're not driving? Suppose you're a student working a multi-step math problem and an announcement comes in over the school PA system.
Lab studies provide some disquieting answers. Coming back to your main task after an interruption carries a cost both in time lag and in error rates…in one field study errors were observed where the main task was the administration of medication.
In a new study Erik Altmann and his colleagues investigated the effect of the duration of the interruption. They were especially interested in duration because delay is known to have a robust effect on memory, but is likely to have an effect on attention. (The importance of delay is explained below.)
In this experiment, the multi-step main task involved a display of a digit and a letter, about which subjects had to make seven judgments, in a particular sequence. The graphic below explains the task.
Interruptions occurred randomly, on average every 6 trials (but with a lag of at least three trials). Subjects saw a letter string that they were to type on the computer keyboard. Duration of the interruption was controlled by the number of strings and the number of characters in each string.
Let's return to the importance of the interruption delay. Suppose you're executing a multi-step procedure and you're interrupted. When you return to your main task any problems you have might be due to memory or attention. If the problem is one of memory (but your attention is fully back on task) we'd expect that you might forget where you are in the sequence, e.g., you were supposed to the "R" task in the UNRAVEL sequence, but you forget and repeat the "N" task. But we wouldn't expect you'd necessarily make a mistake when answering the "N" task, because attention is fully back on task.
But if the problem is that your distracted, we'd think that both types of problems would be more likely—an interruption would make you lose your place in the sequence (sequence errors) and make you more prone to mistakes in when answering (answer errors).
The results were quite clear, as shown in the figure
The interruption made subjects forget where they were in the sequence, but it did not seem to affect attention much once they returned to the task, because the interruption didn't make them more error prone.
As in other experiments, this one showed that an interruption incurred a cost to response time upon return to the main task. In this experiment, this cost increased with delay, and in light of the error data, we'd interpret this effect as being due to subjects struggling to remember where they were in the sequence.
This memory-based account of the effect of interruptions on sequential tasks is consistent with decades of experimental work showing that the contents of short term memory is compromised by delay. These results don't mean attention is not a relevant factor in interruptions, but they do speak to the relative roles of memory and attention in sequenced tasks.
So administrators...if you haven't set a policy that the PA system is silent during class, think about doing so!
Better ELA teaching yields better math performance. But not vice versa.
I'm leery of value-added measures as a metric of individual teacher quality. Aside from the straight psychometric challenges, I've always worried that there's too much that teachers give students that a VAM would miss. For example, I think of a LAUSD high school teacher who told me with considerable excitement that he had managed to get one of his kids who was near to dropping out to come to his class for five days in a row. The student wasn't really participating in any way yet, but the teacher had a plan in mind for how to try to coax this student back to trying to engage with math just one more time, after many years of difficulty and frustration.
Who would tell this teacher "that child is a bad investment of your time?" Yet where is the VAM that will measure the value the teacher is adding to this student?
A recent paper (Master, Loeb & Wyckoff, 2017; preprint here) tried to shed light on this problem. The authors note that the short-term effects of ELA teachers are usually smaller than those of math teachers (as measured by VAM). This outcome is easy to understand from a cognitive perspective—students learn more outside of school that can be applicable to ELA tests (compared to math), and thus the contribution of a teacher and school will be relatively smaller. But the contribution of ELA and math teachers to long-term outcomes (e.g., graduation) is equivalent. Why?
One possibility is that students learn different kinds of things from each. They may learn more subject-specific content from math teachers that persist to math performance next year. But a good ELA teacher may be more likely to impart different, more persistent skills to students—they may improve their self-image as students, for example.
To examine this possibility the authors compared VAMs across years in ELA and math both within subjects and between them. In other words, if an ELA teacher was really effective, we know that effect will be observable in English class the next year. Will it be observable in math class as well?
The authors had two enormous data sets with which to investigate this question: standardized test scores from 3rd through 8th students in New York City and Miami-Dade County from 2003/04 to 2011/12.
This study, like previous studies, found that about 25 or 30% of VAM persists into the next year. In this study, those quantities were similar in math and in ELA. The startling result came when investigators used VAM in one subject to predict VAM in the other subject in subsequent years. (More precisely, they examined student achievement in year 2 in subject A, accounting for achievement in year 1 in subjects A and B, and the VAM estimates of the teachers in subjects A and B in year 1.)
As noted, about ¼ to 1/3 of the VAM in ELA from one year carried over to ELA achievement the following year. And about 46% of that effect also carried over to math achievement in Miami-Dade. In New York City, it was 70%.
But having a really effective math teacher had very little impact on ELA achievement the following year. In both districts, this carryover was around 5%.
There was good evidence that these effects persist into a third year in New York City, but in Miami-Dade the results were inconclusive, according to the researchers because measurements there were less precise.
The results point to three conclusions, given the caveats typical to this work (and often forgotten): subjects other than ELA and math were not measured, and students were not randomly assigned to teachers (and in fact, there is likely systematic bias in assignment)
First, these results help us to understand why ELA short-term VAMs are smaller than math short-term VAMs, yet the predictive value for long-run outcomes (like graduation) is the same. The ELA short-term VAMs may typically be smaller, but they contribute across subjects (which the math do not). And these cross-subject effects may last years.
Second, the authors don't speculate much on the mechanism of transfer, but at least two routes seem plausible. First, ELA teachers may, on average, provide a bigger boost to what are usually called non-cognitive skills: self-regulation, persistence, seeing oneself as belonging in school, and so on. Second, better ELA skills—especially better reading skills like decoding, fluency, deployment of comprehension strategies, and self-monitoring of comprehension—seem likely to pay dividends in many subjects.
Third, when it comes to policy, I'll leave the conclusion to the authors: "educators and policymakers may miss valuable information if they rely only on short-term within-subject student learning to evaluate teachers' "value added" to student achievement." Student achievement gains prompted by teacher X could easily be misattributed to another teacher in another subject, years later.


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Tariffs Are Working, to the Consternation of the Economics Profession
January 3, 2020 by Jeff Ferry
ArchiveBy Jeff Ferry January 3, 2020
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Sugamo Shinkin Bank is a credit union that strives to provide first-rate hospitality to its customers in accordance with its motto: "we take pleasure in serving happy customers".
Nakaaoki branch is the forth branch where Emmanuelle has been commissioned to handle the architectural and interior design. The common request for all branches is to create a bank where people wish to stay longer and naturally feel to come back again. Nakaaoki branch is located on the corner of major intersection, where there is a frequent movement of cars, busses, bicycles, and people. Taking this unique location as a characteristic, the façade is designed to be rhythmical that changes expression as people see from different angles.
Colors appear in and out from the rhythmical repetition of cubes, dancing like musical notes playing rainbow melody. The façade is composed of cubes of four different depths. Colors are applied on the front or side of these cubes, so that the colors appear, disappear or overlap as the direction of view changes. Small elevated gardens are built inside 12 cubes, where the seasonal changes in nature are expressed by seasonal flowers like marigold, lavender, and growing trees such as olive tree. Gardens can be seen from the open space on the first floor, and from the financing section and cafeteria on the second floor. Sunlight is filtered through the foliage of elevated gardens on the South facing façade, providing a harmonious and warm atmosphere inside the bank. The interior finishes are settled and muted compare to the rhythmical movement of the façade.
The site characteristics and Emmanuelle's interpretation have fused together to produce Nakaaoki branch. She wishes that the new bank will bring happiness and laughter to many people, just like the other four branches she has designed.
façade is viewed from various angles.
creating a rhythmical movement that continuously changes the scene of the place.
adding seasonal quality to the façade.
and from inside are the small gardens extending out from the room.
as we listen to the rhythm of colors.
Colored aluminum cubes: Kikukawa Kogyo Co., Ltd.