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South African Airways Responds to Liquidation Reports
The management of South African Airways has responded to the news making the headlines about a possible liquidation of the airline should it fail to successfully conclude the strategic equity partnership with the Takatso Consortium.
In a statement signed by its Chairman, John Lamola, the airline said that the media reports were out of context, exaggerated, and blown out of proportion. Read the full text below.
"We noted today's news reporting centred around remarks made by the Acting Director General of the Department of Public Enterprises, Ms Jacky Molisane on the future of SAA in relation to the prospects of the successful closure of the implementation of the strategic equity partnership with the Takatso Consortium.
The news that SAA will be liquidated if the SEP transaction is not concluded has been taken out of context, and the import of the statement made by the Acting DG is exaggerated and blown out of proportion.
Elsewhere, Ms Molisane is quoted saying that "if the deal falls through, if the government cannot put more money into SAA, then the option we have all worked hard to avoid would have to be taken and that is the liquidation of SAA".
We are in constant contact with the Acting DG. Her views, which are based on a continuous management of all the regulatory, legal and commercial processes common to transactions of this nature are aligned with those of the Board of SAA.
The SAA Board is constantly monitoring and assessing the corporate risks associated with this transitional period SAA is going through.
On Wednesday 21st September 2022 SAA and the DPE were making a scheduled presentation to Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises on SAA's 2017/18 annual financial statements.
An ancillary question related to the progress on the SEP transaction in relation to funds outstanding from National Treasury for the conclusion of SAA's Business Rescue Plan, answered by the Acting DG, led to a press story casting an impression that the future of SAA is in peril.
Typical of normal corporate governance protocols, a high-level risk management process involving both the DPE and SAA Board has been put in place to charter the future of SAA since the airline emerged out of Business Rescue with a restructuring solution that entails the introduction of a private strategic equity partner to this State-Owned-Company. The transaction is beset with delays emanating from legal requirements to comply with aviation regulatory conditions, and the Competition Commission.
We can confirm that both SAA and the DPE are working on a time horizon of end of March 2023 for the substantive conclusion of the transaction, as this period marks a reportable end of current financial year 2022/23 for SAA.
Since the relaunch of the airline operations in September 2021 the Board has tasked SAA management to run the airline as a fully-fledged airline in compliance with legally imposed safety requirements, and as a business enterprise competing for its market share and profitability.
In addition, in line with the requirement of the Public Finance Management Act, SAA had to prepare and submit a 3-year Corporate Plan to National Treasury.
As the airline celebrates its full year of successful operations, we are more than satisfied that we have built the foundation for a sustainable and growing airline business.
The loyalty of our customers has been restored, the rest of Africa is proud to see SAA back in the skies, we are currently implementing plans to increase our fleet of aircraft, and with our corporate partners we are modernizing our customer experience offering, including the renovation of our airport lounges.
We have also successfully increased our code-share partnerships and deepened SAA's standing with the global Star Alliance network and the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
Executing its fiduciary responsibilities in relation to judicious and prudential risk management, as enjoined in both the PFMA and the Companies Act 71 of 2008, the Board of SAA has over time being seized with the task of simulating a number of scenarios on the future of the airline.
The outcomes of this risk management exercise is what has invigorated SAA management into its current single-minded focus of working for an operationally and financially successful airline.
The fact that the delays in the National Treasury's provision of the reported R3.5 billion have not negatively affected the life and growth of the restarted airline bears testimony to the resilience of SAA's current business model.
The SAA Board will do everything in its power to ensure SAA survives. As a company with an overhead cost structure and operating model that have been restructured by the Business Rescue process, and a transformed management culture, SAA is poised for a sustained growth.
SAA management assures that there is a variety of resources within the company and the global aviation industry that can be innovatively exploited for the future success of SAA. We assure our customers and all our stakeholders and partners that there are no plans, nor an intention to see South African Airways liquidated."
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Q: AzureStorage specific folder in .NET I am using ASP.NET for my project and I need to count the total files within a specific folder on the BlobStorage (Azure).
I am trying to count all the files in this folder: container_one/year/month/day/hour
What I have tried so far:
string path = "container_one/year/month/day/hour";
int totalItems = 0;

BlobContainerClient blobFolder = new BlobServiceClient(connectionString).GetBlobContainerClient(path);

foreach(var blob in blobFolder){
   totalItems++;
}

Console.WriteLine(totalItems);

Resulted in:
System.AggregateException: 'One or more errors occurred. (The requested URI does not represent any resource on the server.

What am I doing wrong ? And how could I do it ? I am sure that the provided path does exist on the server.
----EDIT-------
I made the mistake that I did not await the bloblFolder to be loaded. The issue is solved by adding the await keyword before new BlobServiceClient
So the final code would be :
string path = "container_one/year/month/day/hour";
int totalItems = 0;

BlobContainerClient blobFolder = await new BlobServiceClient(connectionString).GetBlobContainerClient(path);

foreach(var blob in blobFolder){
   totalItems++;
}

Console.WriteLine(totalItems);

A: To expand on the OP's self-answer and respond to their request for how to improve performance, I'll share some code from a Linqpad file of mine that can iterate through blobs in Azure Blob Storage at a rate I last recorded as 6.7 million blobs in 6m38s (or about 1 million blobs per minute, or 16,666 blobs per second).
Getting blazing blob-iteration speeds like that is doable, but in my case was possible due to 2 things:

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*I'm using the Content-Addressable-Storage practice, whereby each blob is immutable and the blob's name is the base-16 representation of its SHA-256 hash.

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*So the statistical distribution of all blob-names is evenly shared into the 16 base16 character "bins" '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'.

*The other catch was that because iterating blobs is somewhat chatty it means that network-latency between your computer and Blob Storage will drastically slow things down regardless of your internet connection's throughput speed (so using a 100mbps connection with a 1ms latency is far far far more preferable to using a 1Gbps connection with a 100ms latency to your Azure storage account).

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*The workaround is easy though: just spin-up a VM in Azure (you'll only need to rent a VM for an hour or so, so you can safely configure a beefy machine that might cost $1000/mo but will only cost you less than $5 because you only need it for a tiny fraction of a full calendar month).

As I mentioned, the fact that my blob-names are evenly (and randomly) distributed through a large number of "prefix bins" is central to why it's able to iterate over them so fast, however provided you can partition your blob-names into evenly-sized bins based on their prefix (including the container name and virtual-path) then it should run just as fast.

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*Copy and paste the below code into a Linqpad script.

*You'll need to add a NuGet reference to Azure.Storage.Blobs (it was written against 12.8.4, you'll probably need to update and address any breaking changes).

*This script writes all blob URIs (and their Azure-generated MD5 hash) to a binary file for consumption by other processes.

static readonly DirectoryInfo _outputDirectory = new DirectoryInfo( Path.Combine(
    Environment.GetFolderPath( Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop ),
    "BlobsDump"
) );

async Task Main() {

    _outputDirectory.Create();

    // Indexes 8,730,343 blobs in 6m38 seconds (impressive - compared to the few hours it took earlier)
    // UPDATE: Using 2-character prefixes brings total time down to 1m54s to enumerate 9m blobs, wow!

    BlobContainerClient cc = CreateBlobClient();

    await ListBlobsAsync( cc );
}

private static BlobContainerClient CreateBlobClient()
{
    const String cs = @"DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=mindyourownbusiness;AccountKey=werenostrangerstoloveyouknowtherulesandsodoiafullcommitmentswhatimthinkingofyouwouldntgetthisfromanyotherguy;BlobEndpoint=https://.blob.core.windows.net/;TableEndpoint=https://.table.core.windows.net/;";
    BlobServiceClient c = new BlobServiceClient(cs);
    BlobContainerClient cc = c.GetBlobContainerClient("container-name");
    return cc;
}

private static readonly Char[] _hexDigits = new[] { '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F' };

private static readonly IReadOnlyList<String> _blobNamePrefixes = _hexDigits.SelectMany( hd0 => _hexDigits.Select( hd1 => hd0.ToString() + hd1.ToString() ) ).ToList();

private static async Task ListBlobsAsync( BlobContainerClient cc )
{
    ConcurrentDictionary<String,HashSet<String>> blobNamesPerPrefix = new ConcurrentDictionary<String,HashSet<String>>();

    foreach( String prefix in _blobNamePrefixes )
    {
        blobNamesPerPrefix[prefix] = new HashSet<String>();
    }

    //

    Task reportProgressTask = ReportProgressAsync( blobNamesPerPrefix );

    List<Task> tasks = _blobNamePrefixes.Select( prefix => ListBlobsAsync( cc: cc, prefix: prefix, dict: blobNamesPerPrefix ) ).ToList();

    await Task.WhenAll( tasks ).ConfigureAwait(false);

    Int32 total = blobNamesPerPrefix.Values.Sum( s => s.Count );
}

const Double _lastKnownBlobCountApprox = 8925524; // As of 2020-09-07.

private static async Task ReportProgressAsync( ConcurrentDictionary<String,HashSet<String>> countsSoFar, CancellationToken ct = default )
{
    var pb = new Util.ProgressBar( "Blobs indexed" );
    pb.Dump();

    while( true )
    {
        Int32 total = countsSoFar.Values.Sum( v => v.Count );
        pb.Fraction = (Double)total / _lastKnownBlobCountApprox;
        pb.Caption = ( $"{total:N0} blobs observed." );

        await Task.Delay( 250 );
    }
}

private static readonly UTF8Encoding _utf8NoBom = new UTF8Encoding( encoderShouldEmitUTF8Identifier: false, throwOnInvalidBytes: true );

private static async Task ListBlobsAsync( BlobContainerClient cc, String prefix, ConcurrentDictionary<String,HashSet<String>> dict )
{
    HashSet<String> blobs = dict[prefix];

    const Int32 ONE_MEGABYTE = 1 * 1024 * 1024;
    String outputFileName = Path.Combine( _outputDirectory.FullName, prefix + ".dat" );

    using( FileStream fs = new FileStream( outputFileName, FileMode.CreateNew, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None, bufferSize: ONE_MEGABYTE, options: FileOptions.SequentialScan | FileOptions.Asynchronous ) )
    using( MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream( capacity: ONE_MEGABYTE ) )
    using( BinaryWriter wtr = new BinaryWriter( ms, _utf8NoBom ) )
    {
        Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();

        await ListBlobsInnerAsync( cc, prefix, blobs, wtr, fs, ms ).ConfigureAwait(false);

        ( $"Completed list with prefix \"{prefix}\". Blob count: {blobs.Count:N0}. Took {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds:N0}ms." ).Dump();
    }
}

private static async Task ListBlobsInnerAsync( BlobContainerClient cc, String prefix, HashSet<String> blobs, BinaryWriter wtr, FileStream fs, MemoryStream ms )
{
    Int32 i = 0;

    String? continationToken = null;
    do
    {
        System.Collections.Generic.IAsyncEnumerable<Azure.Page<BlobItem>> segment = cc.GetBlobsAsync( prefix: prefix ).AsPages( continationToken );
        await foreach( Azure.Page<BlobItem>? page in segment.ConfigureAwait(false) )
        {
            continationToken = page.ContinuationToken;

            if( page.Values.Last().Name[0] > prefix[0] ) break;

            lock( blobs )
            {
                foreach( BlobItem bi in page.Values )
                {
                    if( blobs.Add( bi.Name ) )
                    {
                        WriteBlobLine( ref i, bi, wtr );
                    }
                }
            }

            // Flush:
            wtr.Flush();
            ms.Flush();

            ms.Position = 0;
            await ms.CopyToAsync( fs ).ConfigureAwait(false);
            await fs.FlushAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);

            ms.Position = 0;
            ms.SetLength( 0 );
            wtr.Seek( 0, SeekOrigin.Begin );
        }
    }
    while( !String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace( continationToken ) );
}

private static void WriteBlobLine( ref Int32 i, BlobItem bi, BinaryWriter wtr )
{
    wtr.Write( i );
    wtr.Write( bi.Name ); // Length-prefixed string.

    if( bi.Properties.ContentHash != null && bi.Properties.ContentHash.Length == 16 )
    {
        wtr.Write( bi.Properties.ContentHash.Length );
        wtr.Write( bi.Properties.ContentHash );
    }
    else
    {
        wtr.Write( 0 );
    }

    i++;
}

A: The working approach I found:

int totalCount = 0;
string path = $"{container_one}/{year}/{month}/{day}/{hour}/";

var blobFolders = _blobContainerClient.GetBlobsAsync();
      await foreach (var file in blobFolders)
      {
          if (file.Name.Contains(path))
          {
              totalCount++;
          }
      }
return totalCount;

Remarks
Doing it this way costs a lot of performance, but I don't see any other options. If anyone has found a solution, please share it with me!

A: The method .GetBlobContainerClient() has many overloads, the one which you are trying to call requires to pass in a Uri so what you should be doing is .GetBlobContainerClient(new Uri(path)).

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The night shift at an Indiana glass factory, August 1908. Obtained from the Library of Congress, Corning Museum of Glass.
Join Rutherford and Son Dramaturg and current UW Drama PhD student Shelby Lunderman for a brief-but-rich pre-show talk exploring how capitalism intersected with race, class, gender, and religion in late 19th century England, the setting of the play. Lunderman will also discuss the role of a dramaturg in a period production like this one, and what it meant for a female playwright to have a hit show in London in 1912. Coffee and cookies will be served!
Shelby Lunderman is a doctoral student at the UW School of Drama. She received her MA in Theatre Studies from Florida State University and her BFA in Theatre Performance from Baylor University with a minor in Political Science. Not only has she taught drama-as-process courses in correctional facilities in both Texas and Florida, Shelby actively researches the relationship between prison and theatre through ethnography and archival research. She is currently interested in the ways in which performance, broadly-conceived, is used for activist purposes fighting against the Age of Mass Incarceration in the United States. In the School of Drama, Lunderman teaches Drama 101, Introduction to Theatre, and Drama 201, Plays and Styles.
This pre-show talk is free and open to the public. To purchase tickets for the 2:00 PM matinee performance of Rutherford and Son, please visit ArtsUW.
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The Winner Records was a United Kingdom-based record label from 1912 onwards. Its records were manufactured by the Edison Bell Record Works, London. This company, founded by James Hough, had originated in the early 1890s as an importer of Edison and Columbia phonograph cylinders; from 1898 Hough had also made cylinder records, initially using a separate company, Edisonia. When Edison set up his own European operation in 1904, the import franchise was withdrawn, but the name Edison Bell remained in use. From 1909 the official name of Edison-Bell was J. E. Hough Ltd.

Winner Records were designed to offer well-recorded and pressed gramophone records at a budget price.  Winner records, with black or red labels, were mostly of a popular music type, although they included some items of musical distinction, such as early recordings by John Barbirolli, then a child-prodigy performer on the violoncello, and nearly all of the discography of Marie Novello, one of the last students of Theodor Leschetizky. In the early 1920s the company introduced a higher-quality series, Velvet Face Records, so called because the material of which they were made was allegedly smoother than that used by other manufacturers. These had green labels, and the catalogue included some ambitious items, such as an abridged version (1925) of Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius and, from Novello, what has been reported  as the first recording of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (arranged for piano by Carl Tausig) and a complete recording of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, her sole recording of a work extending over more than two record sides.

In 1919, Winner was the first to issue a recording by a jazz band.

All recordings prior to 1922 were made by Edison Bell in London.  Subsequently, several recordings were leased from Star Piano Company, Emerson Records, and Paramount Records.  Subsequent to 1925, recordings from Crown and Plaza Music Company were used.

Edison-Bell was eventually absorbed by England-based company Decca Records.  Decca introduced a new series of Winner records that were primarily sourced from American Vocalion.  These were discontinued January 1935.  More than 3500 Winner gramophone discs had been issued. A full listing of Winner records is published by the CLPGS.

See also
 List of record labels

References

Defunct record labels of the United Kingdom
Jazz record labels
Record labels established in 1912
Record labels disestablished in 1935
1912 establishments in the United Kingdom
1935 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

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Q: google sheets,yahoo finance,price and dividend data I created my own international portfolio tracker / dividend tracker through google sheets & yahoo finance.
The problem with international stocks is that you often cannot simply use the integrated data from google finance. KO (coca cola) is easy, CCC3.DE (also coca cola) cannot be found on google finance. suddenly some formulas stop working for some of the tickers.
For Example AD.AS does work but ccc3.de does not work.
For price is use; A1 = "CCC3.DE" or "AD.AS"
  =IFNA(VALUE(IMPORTXML("https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/" &A1, "//*[@class=""D(ib) Mend(20px)""]/span[1]")))

For dividend amount I use;
=split(IMPORTXML(concatenate("http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/",index(split((E9&F9&G9),":"),0,2)),$F$22),"()"))/K9)))

A: It seems that Yahoo changed some things in their website and it resulted to the import formula not to work anymore for some of the webpage in Yahoo Finance as well as for some tickers. This is the result of the IMPORTXML command for the CCC3.DE ticker.

For now, I suggest finding another website/data source that will give you the same information that you need for those unavailable/unscrapeable tickers. Another option would be to wait for yahoo to fix this issue.


Environmental flows are the acceptable flow regimes that are required to maintain a river in the desired environmental state or predetermined state.
In a significant development, the Central government on Wednesday notified the minimum environmental flows for River Ganga that will be maintained at various locations on the river.
Terming it a significant development, Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Gadkari said that the notification of e-flow for the river would go a long way in ensuring its Aviralta or continuous flow.
"This is a very significant moment. The discussions on notifying e flow of Ganga have been going on for a long time. We have taken this step to ensure a minimum amount of flow in the river," Gadkari said in a press release issued by the Ministry of Water Resources.
He also added that the draft Ganga Act will soon be sent to the Cabinet for approval.


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Separate But Equal: men and women of the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club
Roberto Natalini | Mar 28, 2013
For nearly a century, the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club has stood by its Latin motto: Mens Sana in Corpore Sano—a healthy mind in a healthy body. It has also stood by another tradition—women need not apply.
Nowhere is this more apparent than at the monthly "stag dinner" where members and their male guests have assembled for decades to break bread, throw back a few drinks, lock horns, and enjoy a regular male bonding experience. Women are strictly forbidden, except for the occasional visit by scantily-clad Peroni Girls who help sell raffle tickets. Even the Peroni Girls, however, have to retire to the second-floor bar to enjoy their complimentary dinners.
The menu of the night
Undaunted by the SFIAC's gender restrictions, a small group of women of Italian heritage joined together in 2010 to form a new group. The SFIAC generously gave them meeting space free of charge, and Le Donne d'Italia was born. Though the group is also gender-restricted, it does allow membership for both those of Italian heritage and italophiles as well.
Recently, the group decided that if they couldn't join the men for their stag dinners, they would just have their own gender-restricted dinners. Coinciding with the men's stag dinner, and being held in the same building (but on a different floor), Le Donne d'Italia will be holding their first Doe dinner on Tuesday, April 2nd.
"Why should the guys have all the fun with their stag dinners? Le Donne is starting our very own Doe Dinner—just for the ladies," said Marketing Director Julia Dondero. "Why should the ladies stay at home?"
The event starts with cocktail hour at 6:00 PM at the SFIAC's second-floor bar (the men have their cocktail hour at the first-floor bar), followed by dinner at 7:00 PM in the Parkview Room on the third floor (while the men have dinner in the ballroom on the first floor).
Since SFIAC General Manager and Chef Paul Alioto has only one kitchen from which to serve both groups simultaneously, regardless of which floor your gender consigns you to, the menu will be the same: house salad with antipasto, rigatoni with meat sauce, bollito with vegetables and roasted potatoes, wine, coffee and dessert. Members and non-members of the female persuasion who wish to attend can contact Lisa Michelis at 415-307-8034.
Le Donne d'Italia also has other events coming up that may be of interest to female Italians.
"We are starting a monthly Italian Happy Hour, Aperitivo Italiano, at Dell'Uva in North Beach, every first Thursday of the month and our first will be April 4th. On May 19th, we are having our second annual Bubbly & Bingo event, and then in June we are teaming up with the Museo Italo Americano to host a Italy Travel event. One of the panelists, Susan Van Allen, is the author of 100 Places Every Woman Should Go In Italy."
The new group and their new "Doe Dinner" may not bring gender equality to the old boys' club, but it does provide an opportunity for women to enjoy comradery with others who share a love for all things Italian. Maybe someday the SFIAC will lift their men-only restriction, but for now Le Donne d'Italia can enjoy the SFIAC's hospitality just so long as they know their place: on the third floor.
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What time do the doors need to be unlock? Most of the time this is an automated process which does not require someone to physically unlock the doors, thus it is important to set this time near your planned event.
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The summit of the liturgical year, the Easter Triduum, begins this evening and continues into the evening of Easter Sunday. While chronologically three days, they are liturgically one day, unfolding for us the unity of Christ's Paschal Mystery.
Spend time with this Catholic Relief Services prayer: Remain Here and Keep Watch With Me.
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Battersea Powerstation
The word iconic is overused, but it does apply here. One of the largest brick built buildings in the world, Battersea Powerstation was built in two phases. From 1929 to 1933 Battersea A was constructed and from 1945 to 1955 Battersea B was added. The exterior was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed the ubiquitous red telephone box for BT, and is one of a number of London powerstations of its' style – Battersea is an Art Deco masterpiece.
When complete, it generated 503 megawatts (MW) of electricity which is enough to power over 300,000 homes. The Power Station was decommissioned between 1975 and 1983 and remained empty until 2014. It was designated as a Grade II listed building in 1980. In 2007 its listed status was upgraded to Grade II*.
WilkinsonEyre were appointed in 2013 to carry out the restoration of the Grade II* listed Power Station as part of the Battersea regeneration masterplan to create a new district in and around the building. Work commenced in 2013 and plans included the restoration of the art deco structure internally and externally, reconstruction of the chimneys, and refurbishment of the historic cranes and jetty as a new river taxi stop. Restoration work on the power station's chimneys was completed in 2017. In 2019, the jetty in front of the power station opened to the public for the first time in its history and in May 2021, the first residents moved into their new homes at the power station
The EH Smith group have a relationship with Battersea that spans its' lifetime. Northcot Brick, an independent company but part of the EH Smith Group, supplied the majority of the circa 65m bricks to the project, and Blockleys, now part of Michelmersh, was the other supplier. In the recent redevelopment, both Northcot and Michelmersh, in partnership with EH Smith, were commissioned to produce a bespoke blend of bricks to match the existing historic fabric.
Architect: Sir Giles Gilbert Scott & J. Theo Halliday / Wilkinson Eyre
Contractors: John Mowlem & Co / Mace
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How Tencent's Carbon Island Game Promotes Greener Lifestyle in China
Some games are made purely for entertainment. But Tencent's simulation and educational game Carbon Island, serves more purposes than that. It raises critical environmental issues we are facing today.
Launched in January, Carbon Island is designed for players to build a thriving island that seeks sustainable economic growth. Like any game, the further you progress, the harder it gets, though the target is achievable.
Here are five ways Carbon Island aims to fulfil Tencent's mission of tech for good and how it is taking us a step closer to achieving carbon neutrality.
1. Simplifying Complex Problems
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, threatening the livelihoods of billions of people.
While climate change is commonly cited as among the most important issues facing the world, not everyone is actively playing their roles to make a change.
This is where Carbon Island comes in, to make sure people understand complex issues and feel interested in taking actions. First, the game introduces different consequences of global warming through an interactive and immersive gaming experience.
People play at their own pace building the island and learning how particular actions can cause certain environmental harms. There's no preaching or lecturing. Instead, pop-up messages are there to guide behavioral change, encouraging players to think deeply about the relationship between development and the environment.
2. There's a Price to Pay
Your mission in Carbon Island is to build an economy from scratch. You bring more people to the island to construct homes, farms, factories, offices and roads. They set up businesses and services such as restaurants, shops, utilities, and public transportations. At first, growth is easy, carbon emissions are low, and you make money quickly.
As the island develops, things become more complex, the island appears more like the cities we live in today. Bottlenecks appear as industries expand too quickly and emissions rise to unsustainable levels. Adverse weather events such as typhoons, storms, and floods caused by climate change start to take their toll. The game shows the trade-offs between growth and nature, and that success isn't linear.
3. Real-life Solutions
In the game, players quickly learn that we live in connected societies. The best way to get things done is by working together. Players can trade goods, enlist volunteers, and may even collaborate with people on other islands.
Digitalization and technology allow us to continue to grow at a sustainable rate. The game teaches how upgrading to greener buildings, developing more energy-efficient power, and investing in carbon capture and storage solutions can all slow down or minimize the environmental damage.
4. A Sense of Community
Carbon Island is different from most games out there, in that it requires players to collaborate than compete. In fact, collaboration is deeply rooted in the game's identity. In addition to members of the gaming community and tech engineers, we sought input from climate scientists, researchers, and urban planners to ensure that the scenarios for carbon emissions and climate change are realistic simulations backed by science and evidence.
5. Setting Achievable Goals
Players achieve carbon neutrality when the amount of emissions equals that being absorbed. Along the way, they grapple with challenging concepts from economic development, global warming, and digitalization. But by setting discrete, achievable goals during the game, players also learn that small actions can lead to big results. Simple changes in behavior such as switching off lights or using more energy-efficient lightbulbs, walking or cycling to work, and consuming less and cutting down on waste can make a difference. More than a game, Carbon Island teaches us that we can all make a difference in saving our planet.
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High risk merchant accounts refer to any merchant account that in the eyes of the processing company represents a higher risk that the payment will actually be made. Businesses may be considered high risk merchant accounts for many reasons. These include the type of industry, the way the payment is processed, or sometimes the credit score rating of the business or business owner. Specifically some examples of high risk merchant accounts could be mail order business, telephone order business, adult websites, direct marketing websites or businesses, infomercials, dating sites, online dating sites, out-call services, travel companies, telecom businesses, timeshares, herbal supplements companies, subscription services, membership services, membership clubs, tickets, MLM, multi-level marketing, bail bonds, pawn shops, water filtration, high volume merchant accounts, international merchant accounts, and companies facing high charge-backs. All of these types of businesses have a higher occurrence of non-payment which makes them high risk accounts. With that said, as long as the business is legal, many times we can help set up high risk merchant accounts. Call us to find out.
The benefits of a merchant account, or a high risk merchant account, are many. Credit cards and debit cards are quickly replacing cash and the internet is a growing form of business everyday. In order to benefit form these two markets, it is absolutely vital that you can accept credit card purchases. In fact for many businesses it is the critical difference between success and failure. Opening up a high risk merchant account will not only help you accept these forms of payment, it will also help protect you from some of the risk involved in your industry. High risk merchant accounts are set up on the front end to deal with the risks. We understand the risks associated with many types of high risk merchant accounts and can personalize a solution that works for you.
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Sudhir Shenoy is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Dow Chemical International Pvt. Ltd (Dow India). Sudhir started his journey with Dow in 1997 as an account manager for the Polyurethanes and Epoxy businesses in Mumbai. Scaling consistently within the company he has taken up various responsibilities through the years, handling various Dow businesses in different parts of the world. In 2013, he moved to Shanghai, China as the commercial director for Dow Polyurethane, responsible for regional profit and loss, business strategy and organizational effectiveness. He also managed customer relationships, acquisitions and retention, as well as sourcing, developing and retaining employee talent for the business in the region.


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When Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia stumbled, Benchmark's Bill Gurley gave him this poem
It's a Rudyard Kipling poem called "If," and Tolia jokes that it was a challenge to his "manhood."
By Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ Updated Apr 5, 2017, 11:52am EDT
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By all commonly held standards in Silicon Valley, Nextdoor is a success story — the local social network is valued at more than $1 billion and expects to be used by 90 percent of U.S. neighborhoods by the end of this year. But the company wouldn't exist if not for a failure and a poem.
Speaking on the latest episode of Recode Decode, Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia recalled how he and his co-founder Sarah Leary initially developed Fanbase, an almanac of pro and college athletes, which Benchmark's Bill Gurley invested in. But after a couple of years, the company fizzled and they went back to Gurley for a "humbling, embarrassing" conversation about failure.
"I give Bill a lot of credit because Bill said, 'I understand, this happens,'" Tolia recalled. "[Bill said] 'most startups do fail, so the odds were that Fanbase would fail, not succeed. But you have a great team, and I feel that you guys have a lot of talent. Would you be willing to take a few months to see if you could come up with another idea?'"
Their next idea was Nextdoor.
You can listen to Recode Decode on iTunes, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Stitcher and SoundCloud.
That wasn't the only thing Gurley said, though. He also gave Tolia "If," a poem by Rudyard Kipling. You can read the whole poem at that link, but the last two verses are:
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
"I joke that Bill was challenging my manhood," Tolia said. "He was sort of looking across the table, saying, 'You say you want to be an entrepreneur and you care deeply about building things that last in Silicon Valley. But do you really have the guts to take the risk and do it?'"
If you like this show, you should also sample our other podcasts:
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Too Embarrassed to Ask, hosted by Kara Swisher and The Verge's Lauren Goode, answers the tech questions sent in by our readers and listeners. You can hear new episodes every Friday on iTunes, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Stitcher and SoundCloud.
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If you like what we're doing, please write a review on iTunes — and if you don't, just tweet-strafe Kara.


This voucher can be redeemed for one classic tasting at Jefferson Vineyards!
As part of our classic tasting, guests will enjoy eight wines which may include Chardonnay, Viognier, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Meritage, and more, as well as other small batch wines that we rotate. Guests will also receive a souvenir glass to commemorate their visit.


How does the bi-weekly delivery work?
My family drinks more than a gallon of milk a week. Can I get more than a full herdshare?
Why are two half share boarding fees more expensive than a whole share boarding fee?
My family uses quite a bit of milk now, but I think I will need less milk in the future. Is that possible?
Can I visit the farm?
Can I get Pasture's Delights raw milk frozen?
Can I pick up my raw milk at Seven Sons near Roanoke?
What is a herd-share program?
What is the one-time herdshare purchase for?
What is the boarding fee for?
How much milk does one share of a dairy herd give me?
Do I have to pay for a share every year?
At each delivery, you will receive 2 weeks worth of milk: one jug that is no more than 7 days old and a second that was just bottled in the last 48 hours. You'll drink the older jug first and save the fresh jug for the following week. In general, raw milk will keep in a refrigerator for at least 2 weeks, sometimes as long as 5 weeks, before souring.
Yes! You can purchase multiple whole or partial herdshares. There is a discount for each full share after your first.
Example 1 (fractional share): Say you typically consume 1.5 gallons per week, and wish to receive 3 gallons at each biweekly delivery, you'll need to purchase 1.5 herdshares one time for $150. Then you will pay $12 weekly ($24 at each delivery) for your boarding.
Example 2 (multiple full shares): Say you typically consume 3 gallons per week, and wish to receive 6 gallons at each biweekly delivery, you'll need to purchase 3 herdshares one time for $300. Then you will pay $22 weekly ($44 at each delivery) for your boarding.
There is more labor involved bottling two half gallons compared to a single full gallon.
Yes! Your herdshare is a transferable asset. That means you can sell or transfer all or part of your herdshare back to Pasture's Delights or to another person who wants a herdshare. Click here to see our herdshare buyback policy.
Yes! We offer regular farm tours for people interested in raw milk. You can find the next scheduled farm tour event on our Facebook page. We also encourage our herd owners to visit the farm to see their herd. Just let us know, and we'll be there to welcome you!
We only offer a fresh milk product at this time. We intend to test and evaluate the feasibility of offering a frozen milk product, potentially allowing herd-share owners to come less often to pick up their shares worth of raw milk.
A herd share agreement is a contract between a farmer and customer that allows the customer to "buy" a share or portion of an animal. It is illegal in the state of Indiana to sell raw milk for human consumption. The legal way for a person who desires to obtain and consume raw milk is for them to purchase a cow and get the milk from the cow. Most people however are not interested in housing and feeding a cow, let alone able to consume the entire milk production from a cow. With a herd-share program families come together and share in the ownership interest of a dairy herd. Per a legal contract the families are then permitted to consume the milk from the dairy herd in a proportion equal to that of their ownership interest (shares owned). The owners of these herd share(s) enlist the services of a professional dairy farmer to care for their herd, milk the cows, and prepare the raw milk production to be accepted by the herd-share owners. Shareholders pay a monthly boarding fee and pick up their milk once a week or as scheduled to be convenient for both the farmer and the shareholder.
This initial investment is your purchase price into the dairy herd. You now have ownership interest in the cows and are entitled to a share of what the herd produces.
The ongoing costs of the program are taken care of through the boarding fees that are charged to your account weekly. This is the remuneration to Pasture's Delights for our services in taking care of your share of the herd. Because it is a boarding fee and not payment for milk, it is not dependent upon your picking up your milk nor can it be adjusted if you should choose not to get milk for any reason. The agreed upon quantity of milk based on your ownership in the dairy herd will be made available to you each week by the farmer. Boarding fees can be paid at each pick up (weekly or biweekly) or mailed in with your monthly statement stub.
How much milk does one share of a dairy herd produce?
Approximately 1 gallon of real milk per week. This is variable however between no milk due to extraordinary circumstances to 2 gallons of milk per share per week. You can plan on receiving 1 gallon of milk per week most of the time.
No. It is a one-time purchase. Just like buying stock on the stock market, once you buy it is yours, and you pay just for the upkeep (business costs) of maintaining that share and your dividend is any milk that the herd-share produces. Your only risk is similar to when a business goes bankrupt and the stock becomes void and worthless, if we have an act of God such as a fire, weather event (tornado), serious disease outbreak then that is where you could lose your herd-share.


Kybella – No More Double Chin!
Do you suffer from a double-chin or extra fat beneath your chin?
Kybella is the first and only FDA approved injectable treatment to improve the appearance of moderate to severe fat beneath the chin. Additionally, Kybella destroys fat cells permanently!
You are not alone if the fullness beneath your chin bothers you.
Submental fullness, or fat beneath the chin, can be caused by several reasons. Genetics, aging, as well as weight gain all can contribute to submental fullness. Even with diet and exercise, submental fat may not go away.
Dr. Atkins injects Kybella into the fat beneath the chin. The active ingredient in Kybella is deoxycholic acid, a naturally occurring chemical in the body that helps breakdown fat cells during digestion. During the appointment, the physician will administer a series of injections in the submental fat beneath the chin. The body's metabolism then naturally processes these treated fat cells. The entire treatment will take 15 – 20 minutes.
The number of treatments depends on a patient's existing conditions and desired visible contouring of their chin/submental profiles. Some patients require 2 to 4 treatments, while others may require up to 6 to see results. Treatment may end once you reach your desirable look.
The first session commonly requires some minimal downtime. Keep your social plans and work commitments in mind as you schedule treatments.
As with most injectable treatments, the most common side effects are swelling, bruising, pain, numbness, redness, as well as minor hardness in the treatment area.


A quirky "out-of-the-box" Christian thinker who believes that being called "weird" is a compliment.
A sincere man who thinks that, more than anything else, religion should be genuine and real…never manipulative or self-righteous.
A man who discovered that "trying to be good" would never be good enough, and that if it were up to him to "perform" well, he was and is too flawed to ever dream of measuring up.
One who has encountered the God of pure, unlimited, radical grace, and is passionate in his desire to communicate that grace in his words and in his life.
Raised as the son of an Alabama steelworker, and after graduating from high school and a time in the U.S. Coast Guard, he entered a Bible College, then went to three seminaries, altogether earning four degrees including doctor of theology. He taught college courses in preaching and in New Testament, pastored churches, and worked as a Christian radio broadcaster for most of the next 30 years.
"Broken Roads to Grace" is a glimpse into that journey.
He resides in the Birmingham Alabama area, and often travels to speak in various churches, conventions, group meetings, and laundromats..


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Q: Virtualized select design got disturbed with Bootstrap 4 I was using virtualized select with Bootstrap 3 and recently upgraded to Bootstrap 4, but after that virtualized select design got disturbed totally.
Below I am providing the code snippet for the same:
import VirtualizedSelect from 'react-virtualized-select';
import 'react-select/dist/react-select.css';
import 'react-virtualized/styles.css';
import 'react-virtualized-select/styles.css';

                <VirtualizedSelect ref={objNode => this.objVirtualizedSelect = objNode} labelKey={this.state.labelKey} async={true} loadOptions={this.getOptions}
                valueKey={this.state.valueKey} disabled={this.state.disabled} clearable={this.state.clearable}
                value={this.state.selectValue} placeholder={this.state.placeholder} multi={this.state.multi}
                joinValues={this.state.joinValues} simpleValue={this.state.simpleValue} autoload={false}
                backspaceRemoves={this.state.backspaceRemoves} deleteRemoves={this.state.deleteRemoves}
                onChange={this.updateValue.bind(this)} closeOnSelect={this.state.closeOnSelect} onSelectResetsInput={this.state.onSelectResetsInput} />

                        <button className="btn btn-primary" type="button" disabled={this.state.disabled} title={this.state.multiLangMsgs.ADD_USERS_TO_GROUP} onClick={this.addUsersClick}>

                        </button>

With Bootstrap 3

With Bootstrap 4

I have created a sandbox for the same
Virtualized Select

A: The first element in VirtualizedSelect is a relative div that has Select is-clearable is-searchable Select--single class names. It does not have width.
input-group is a flex element. By default, all of its immediate content take as much space as they need in this case since you have not used a  form-control element. If you need that the  Select element takes all the available space, you must specify it.
The best way is to use a div with flex-grow-1 class as a container for the VirtualizedSelect. Doing so, it takes all the available space.

      <VirtualizedSelect options={options} />

https://codesandbox.io/s/w0op7n5rw8

You could use form-control, but it applies some other styles too. Therefore, flex-grow-1 is the best solution.


Learn how to use CSS to add animation effects to buttons on a page.
CSS transition properties enable you to add simple, yet elegant animated effects to your page. One way to improve the the user experience of a page is to add simple animations which help give the user feedback as they navigate your site. Common effects include a change in color, border, and size of the button or its text. The steps in this tutorial highlight the CSS used for the transition properties. Be sure to download the project files to follow along with these steps and view the complete code.
This tutorial covers just some of what you can do with CSS transitions. Download the project files and try on your own now.
A transition effect on an object, such as a button, requires two different styles in CSS — one to style a button in its normal state, and one to style a button in its hover state (when a user mouses over it).
In this example, the style of the button in its normal state is defined in a CSS id selector (#button1). The style of the button in its hover state is defined in a pseudo selector (#button1:hover) for the same button. A pseudo selector defines a style for a specific state of an element such as when a user selects or hovers over a link.
Open create-animated-website-buttons.html in Dreamweaver, and view style.css in Split view.
Set the styles in CSS to change the button from blue to red when the user mouses over it.
The CSS for the button in its normal state sets the background property to blue. The transition-property in the same CSS rule indicates the background color property will change when some action causes its state to change. The remaining transition properties determine how quickly and smoothly the change will occur.
transition-timing-function: ease; causes the effect to start slowly, go faster, then end slowly.
The pseudo selector specifies that the button changes the background color to red when the user mouses over it and invokes the hover state.
Set the styles in CSS to change the border and text color on the button.
The CSS for the button in its normal state sets the border-color property to light blue and the text color property to almost white. The transition-property in the same CSS rule indicates the border-color and text color properties will change when some action causes its state to change. The remaining transition properties determine how quickly and smoothly the change will occur.
transition-timing-function: linear; causes the effect to have the same speed from start to end.
The pseudo selector specifies that the button changes the border-color and the text color to dark blue when the user mouses over it and invokes the hover state.
Set the styles in CSS to change the size of the button.
The CSS for the button in its normal state sets the width property to 400px, the height property to 100px, and the line-height 60px. The transition-property in the same CSS rule indicates the width, height, and line-height properties will change when some action causes its state to change.
The pseudo selector specifies that the button changes the width, height, and height to larger values, so the button gets bigger when the user mouses over it and invokes the hover state.
Set the styles in CSS to change the background and text colors of the button.
The CSS for the button in its normal state sets the background-color property to almost white and the text color property to gray. The transition-property in the same CSS rule indicates the background-color and text color properties properties will change when some action causes its state to change.
The pseudo selector specifies that the button changes the background-color and text color properties to inverse values when the user mouses over it and invokes the hover state.
Click Preview in Browser and choose your preferred browser to see the transitions.
Save your files first, in order to view the recent changes.


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La  a eu lieu le 22 mars 1185. À la suite d'une longue série de défaites, le clan Taira s'était retiré à Yashima (actuellement Takamatsu), un îlot volcanique situé juste au large de Shikoku, dont il avait été séparé en 1184 par un fin détroit. Ils avaient là une forteresse, et un palais improvisé pour l'empereur Antoku et les regalia, qu'ils avaient emmenés avec eux dans leur fuite depuis Kyōto.

Minamoto no Yoshitsune, qui avait dû s'arrêter de poursuivre les Taira l'année d'avant, le temps de construire des navires, arriva à Shikoku avec une petite troupe d'à peine une centaine d'hommes. La plupart de ses bateaux avaient été détruits ou perdus dans une tempête quelques jours avant, mais un allié, Kagetoki Kajiwara, l'avait réapprovisionné.

Les Taira s'attendant à une attaque navale, Yoshitsune alluma des feux sur Shikoku, essentiellement sur leur arrière, leur faisant croire qu'une large force approchait depuis la terre. Ils abandonnèrent leur forteresse-palais, et embarquèrent sur leurs navires en compagnie de l'empereur Antoku et des regalia (Trésor impérial du Japon). Les Taira placèrent même un éventail en haut du mât de l'un de leurs navires, défiant les Minamoto de le mettre à bas. Dans l'un des faits d'archerie les plus célèbres du Japon, Nasu no Yoichi s'avança dans la mer sur son cheval et abattit le drapeau d'une flèche bien placée. Les Minamoto furent victorieux, mais la majorité de la flotte Taira parvint une nouvelle fois à s'échapper à Dan-no-ura où ils furent définitivement vaincus un mois plus tard.

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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Bataille de la guerre de Gempei
Bataille navale impliquant le Japon
Bataille de 1185
Histoire de la préfecture de Kagawa
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The Fundamentals of Graphic Design
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris
The Fundamentals of Graphic Design offers a unique overview of a challenging and dynamic profession, covering a wide range of disciplines and media whilst exploring the role of modern graphic design. This book examines the familiar aspects of the graphic design process, such as art directing, copyright issues and web design, as well as the broader implications of graphic design, including social responsibility, its role in art and its future. The Fundamentals of Graphic Design is an ideal guide for anyone starting out or seeking a role in the world of graphic design.
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N2 - The Fundamentals of Graphic Design offers a unique overview of a challenging and dynamic profession, covering a wide range of disciplines and media whilst exploring the role of modern graphic design. This book examines the familiar aspects of the graphic design process, such as art directing, copyright issues and web design, as well as the broader implications of graphic design, including social responsibility, its role in art and its future. The Fundamentals of Graphic Design is an ideal guide for anyone starting out or seeking a role in the world of graphic design.
AB - The Fundamentals of Graphic Design offers a unique overview of a challenging and dynamic profession, covering a wide range of disciplines and media whilst exploring the role of modern graphic design. This book examines the familiar aspects of the graphic design process, such as art directing, copyright issues and web design, as well as the broader implications of graphic design, including social responsibility, its role in art and its future. The Fundamentals of Graphic Design is an ideal guide for anyone starting out or seeking a role in the world of graphic design.
BT - The Fundamentals of Graphic Design
PB - AVA Publishing
CY - London
Ambrose G, Harris P. The Fundamentals of Graphic Design. London: AVA Publishing, 2008. 192 p.


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Model Shows Social Distancing Working, Must Continue
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Gov. Ralph Northam announced 144 budget amendments, increases in nursing home funding, and a new Virginia-specific model for the coronavirus outbreak. (Screenshot VPM livestream)
Gov. Ralph Northam announced the release of a Virginia-specific coronavirus model today, which he said showed social distancing was working to slow the pace of COVID-19 infections.
"We are slowing the spread of this virus. It also shows that right now Virginia's hospitals have sufficient capacity to handle the surge in patients that we expect," Northam said. "But this model also demonstrates that if we lift the stay at home order or social distancing too soon, if we try to get our lives back to normal, the number of cases will spike higher and earlier."
The model shows a peak in illnesses and mortality if his executive order closing non-essential businesses does not continue past its initial date, but the governor didn't have a specific answer on when life could return to normal.
"These are models and they're as good as the data that we put into those models," he said "The data changes every day….There are no known answers as of today."
Non-essential businesses that provide personal services, like hairdressers and barbers, will receive further guidance at his Wednesday briefing.
The model, which was developed with the University of Virginia, also shows a need for students to continue learning at home, Northam said. He announced an expansion to Virtual Virginia, a state-wide educational platform which works offline as well, and educational programming on four PBS television stations for households without computers.
"Virginia Public media stations have launched VA TV Classroom. This will broadcast teacher led classroom instruction, aligned with the commonwealth's academic standards, into homes across our state," Northam said.
For nursing homes, staffing remains an issue, but Northam announced an increase in funding of $20 per Medicare recipient per day. He said, "This boost in funding will allow these facilities to address staffing issues during this epidemic. We're also looking at how our medical reserve corps can potentially help with staffing at our long term care medical facilities."
That funding comes from a budget amendment Northam made Saturday. "We dealt with 1,291 bills, more than any other year in my memory, and we met that deadline Saturday night," he said.
One of those bills was the state budget, which received 144 amendments. "Eighty-three of them un-allot, or freeze, new discretionary spending of 874.6 million dollars in fiscal year 2021 and 1.4 billion dollars in fiscal year 2022," Northam said. Another 49 amendments increase spending flexibility "for agencies and institutions of higher education as they conduct business during COVID-19."
The General Assembly reconvenes on April 22 to take up Northam's legislative amendments.
New data released Monday shows that more than half of Virginia's COVID-19 outbreaks are in long-term care facilities, like nursing homes and assisted living facilities. But, the state is not releasing the names of the facilities.
"At least 554 cases are in long-term care facility residents or staff, and 34 deaths," Dr. Laurie Forlano with the Virginia Department of Health said while announcing a new data breakdown of COVID-19 outbreaks by facility type Monday.
But, Forlano was careful not to actually name the specific sites. That's because the state isn't releasing these names unless the individual facilities themselves have given permission.
A spokesperson for VDH's public records office cited a section of Virginia code barring the state health Commissioner or local health districts from releasing the information to the public.
Meanwhile, a number of other states like Minnesota and Oklahoma are releasing the names of long-term care facilities with confirmed cases.
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Mount Sinai researchers have pinpointed a single gene biomarker, nitride oxide synthase 2 (NOS2) that can distinguish atopic dermatitis (AD) and psoriasis with 100 percent accuracy using adhesive tape strips, a non-invasive alternative to skin biopsy. The research will be published online today in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
The study was led by Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, Ph.D., Sol and Clara Kest Professor and Vice Chair of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. It evaluated tape strips obtained from 20 adults with moderate to severe AD, 20 with moderate to severe psoriasis, and 20 healthy individuals. From each subject, 20 tape strips were collected, some from lesions and the rest from clinically unaffected skin. The skin cells collected from the tape strips were subjected to global molecular profiling for identification of disease-related biomarkers.
Atopic dermatitis, also known as eczema, is an inflammatory, extremely itchy skin disorder that affects more than 31 million adults in the United States, including 10 to 20 percent of children. Psoriasis is a skin disorder that causes red, itchy scaly patches; it has no cure and affects more than 8 million people in the United States.
"In the past, skin tissue biopsies have always been considered the gold standard for distinguishing between inflammatory skin diseases, but they can cause pain, scarring, and increased risk of infection," said Dr. Guttman-Yassky, whose past revolutionary research on AD focused on the mechanism underlying the disease and promoted development of targeted therapeutics for it. "This study shows that using adhesive tape strips may provide a minimally invasive alternative to skin biopsies for monitoring biomarkers of patients with these particular skin diseases and beyond."
The researchers also captured other genes related to immune and epidermal barrier function that were dysregulated in AD and/or psoriasis, and that distinguished each disease from the other. For example, tape strips from AD patients strongly expressed cell markers related to T-helper 2 (Th2) immune response, which is characteristic to AD, while psoriasis patients displayed much higher levels of Th1 and Th17 cytokines, which are characteristic to psoriasis.
Dr. Guttman-Yassky added that the molecular phenotypes described in the study were notably in accord with previous reports from skin biopsy studies and with the current mechanistic understanding of both diseases.
"This revolutionary study emphasizes the great need for better understanding immune and barrier alterations in both adults and children living with inflammatory skin disease," said Mark Lebwohl, MD, Waldman Professor and Chair of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. "The results of this study may help provide a useful alternative to the invasive method of skin biopsies to track cutaneous disease activity in future clinical trials."
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Q: Moving html table columns in vim I have an HTML table with rows like this:

 DATE	 NUMBER	 DESCRIPTION	 DEADLINE

 6/7	 1	 foo1	 bar1

 6/15	 2	 foo2	 bar2

 6/20	 3	 foo3	 bar3

... etc ...
What I'd like to do is I'd like to shift all of the entries in the DESCRIPTION column down. So I'd like to move foo1 one step down, I'd like to move foo2 one step down, etc. But I would like to preserve everything else in the table. How can I do this in vim?

A: What I understand is that you want the table to look like that, with a weird empty cell under DESCRIPTION:

 DATE	 NUMBER	 DESCRIPTION	 DEADLINE

 6/7	 1	 	 bar1

 6/15	 2	 foo1	 bar2

 6/20	 3	 foo2	 bar3

…

Am I right? Here is one way you can do it:

*

*Format this code with :%!column -t or a Vim plugin:

  DATE	  NUMBER	  DESCRIPTION	  DEADLINE

  6/7	   1	       foo1	         bar1

  6/15	  2	       foo2	         bar2

  6/20	  3	       foo3	         bar3

*Move to first item then delete it with dit. foo1 is now in the default register.

*Start a macro with qx (use any available letter instead of x).

*Move to the line below with j.

*Visually select the content of the tag with vit.

*Replace the selected text (foo2) with the content of the default register (foo1) using p.

*Stop the macro with q. The content of the default register is now foo2, ready to use for the next time the macro is invoked.

*Apply the macro as many times you need with something like <number of rows>@x.
End result:

  DATE	  NUMBER	  DESCRIPTION	  DEADLINE

  6/7	   1	       	         bar1

  6/15	  2	       foo1	         bar2

  6/20	  3	       foo2	         bar3

…

Condensed version:
:%!column -t<CR>
(movement)
ditqxjvitpq
17@x

Use another named register at step 2 if you don't want to mess with the default register (and your system clipboard if applicable).
If you only want to increment the number in foo2 and Co, The VisIncr plugin is very good.


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Q: How to create a comma delimiter while reading from a vector? I have two string vectors readData and commaSep. I want to read from vector readData and whenever I encounter a comma (,) I want to insert that data into commaSep without the comma. In my program readData has values like "xyz,22,pqr". My getline statement is wrong so suggest me something.
vector<string> readData;  // has string values with ',' separation
vector<string> commaSep;  // insert them in this vector
string temp;
for (int i = 0; i < readData.size(); i++) {
  getline(readData[i], temp, ',');
  commaSep.push_back({temp});
  getline(readData[i], temp, ',');
  commaSep.push_back({temp});
  getline(readData[i], temp, '\n');
  commaSep.push_back({temp});
}


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