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Oxygen is a chemical element in the periodic table. It has the symbol O and atomic number 8.
2 How obtained
5 Precautions
Characteristics[]
Oxygen is a major component of air, produced by plants during photosynthesis, and is necessary for aerobic respiration in animals. Liquid and solid O3 (ozone) have a deeper color of blue.
Liquid O2 and solid O2 have a light blue color and both are highly paramagnetic.
How obtained[]
Liquid O2 is usually obtained by the fractional distillation of liquid air.
A recently discovered allotrope of oxygen, tetraoxygen (O4), is a deep red solid that is created by pressurizing O2 to the order of 20 GPa. Its properties are being studied for use in rocket fuels and similar applications, as it is a much more powerful oxidizer than either O2 or O3.
Applications[]
Liquid oxygen finds use as an oxidizer in rocket propulsion. Oxygen is essential to respiration, so oxygen supplementation has found use in medicine (as oxygen therapy). People who climb mountains or fly in airplanes sometimes have supplemental oxygen supplies (to increase the inspired Oxygen partial pressure nearer to that found at sea-level requires increasing the proportion as a percentage of air). Oxygen is used in welding (such as the oxyacetylene torch), and in the making of steel and methanol.
30% oxygen with 70% Nitrous Oxide is the common basic anaesthetic mixture.
Occurrence[]
Oxygen is the most common component of the Earth's crust (46.6% by mass), the second most common component of the Earth as a whole (28.2% by mass), and the second most common component of the Earth's atmosphere (20.947% by volume).
Precautions[]
Oxygen can be toxic at elevated partial pressures (i.e. high relative concentrations). This is important in some forms of scuba diving, such as with a rebreather.
Highly concentrated sources of oxygen promote rapid combustion and therefore are fire and explosion hazards in the presence of fuels. The fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew on a test launchpad spread so rapidly because the capsule was pressurized with pure oxygen as would be usual in an actual flight, but to maintain positive pressure in the capsule, this was at slightly more than atmospheric pressure instead of the 1/3 pressure that would be used in flight. (See partial pressure.) Similar hazards also apply to compounds of oxygen with a high oxidative potential, such as chlorates, perchlorates, and dichromates; they also can often cause chemical burns.
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Financial losses, personal betrayals
JEAN MARBELLAThe Baltimore Sun
I just can't avert my gaze from the train wreck wrought by Bernard Madoff, the aptly named investor who may have scammed as much as $50 billion from a clientele that included Hollywood, media and sports moguls and major Jewish philanthropies.
I'm riveted by all the gory details: the way people angled to join the Palm Beach Country Club (entry fee: $300,000, plus matching donation to charity) just for the chance to meet and possibly invest with him; how he now might be trying to hide assets by mailing off Cartier and Tiffany baubles and a pair of $200 mittens - $200 mittens? - to relatives.
But beyond the voyeur factor, I think I'm also reading all the coverage with an eye toward evidence that I wouldn't have fallen for Madoff's scheme. Nope, too smart, too cautious, too duly diligent - or, more likely, too cash-poor to have met his minimum investment requirement in the first place.
After talking to Dominic Lynch, though, I think I may be too confident.
"Well, I tell you, when you meet someone like that through a friend, and it's like, this person's done great for us, that's the beginning, and it just goes on from there," he said. "He would be there at parties, he was friendly, Tom Clancy would be there. I never saw anything that looked like a problem."
Lynch is not talking about Bernard Madoff, but he could be. Instead, he is talking about Richard Scott, the man to whom he turned over a nearly $400,000 nest egg.
Scott turned out to be running a fraudulent investment scheme out of a coin-and-stamp store, Goldie's, that he operated in a faded strip mall in Southern Maryland.
I met Lynch about 13 years ago, when another reporter and I were writing about Scott, who ultimately pleaded guilty to securities fraud; authorities estimated that he had cheated some 100 investors out of more than $8 million.
(Because of ailing health, he was allowed to serve a sentence of 18 months of home detention in his Alexandria, Va., home rather than go to prison.)
Reading over some of those stories, I was struck by the similarities to Madoff's much larger and more notorious operation - the clubbiness and intimacy between client and investors, the dash of celebrity provided by the Maryland-based author that gave the operation a sense of legitimacy and, most of all, the way Scott was able to fool so many otherwise smart and savvy people. In addition to Clancy, his victims included a Harvard mathematics professor and a former investigator with the wartime predecessor of the CIA.
Lynch had worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, where he helped develop a prescription drug program for seniors. He was retired when he met Scott, who touted "safe" investments in coins, metals and stocks. Like Madoff, Scott presented clients with documents purporting to show high rates of return, Maryland authorities said. But in reality, they said, much of the clients' money was actually being spent on gambling trips and other personal expenses rather than in those illusory "safe" investments.
Today, Lynch is approaching his 80th birthday living in the rented first floor of someone else's house in Beaver, Pa.
He had to sell his own house after losing all but about $60,000 of his savings, which had come from a lifetime of work and what his father had left him in his will. He doesn't do the traveling that he anticipated he would do after retiring from his job with the state but considers himself lucky that Social Security payments allow him to keep a roof over his head and food on the table.
There were other terrible stories among Scott's victims: A young man whose parents had died in a plane crash lost the money they had left him and had to leave college. Clancy, who became friends with Scott after meeting him through mutual friends at an Orioles game, was particularly angered over the $100,000 he gave Scott to start a college fund for his best friend's children. The friend, whom Clancy had known since their days as classmates at Loyola High in Baltimore, had recently died, and the author had promised him he would take care of his kids.
"It's all really sad," Lynch said. "A lot of people ended up completely broke."
Now we're hearing the sad tales coming out of the Madoff scandal, particularly among the Jewish charities that trusted him, given his own philanthropy and his reputation on Wall Street, where he had once been NASDAQ chairman. Surely there's an especially horrible fate reserved for someone who, if the accusations turn out to be true, could rip off Elie Weisel, the Holocaust survivor whose foundation had the bulk of its assets, some $15 million, invested with Madoff.
How this could happen, and on such a huge scale, is no doubt a complicated thing. There surely was some greed involved in some cases, that allowed people to believe that their investments were growing even as the markets were faltering. There was the comfort factor, that people you knew, or at least knew of, were investing with the guy. And there is the question, now under investigation, of how federal regulators managed to miss such a large Ponzi scheme for so long.
But, in the end, I have to wonder how we can ever be protected from our own selves, or rather, those charming, convincing con artists that somehow burrow their way into our trust.
Richard Scott's victims all seemed rather wistful even after learning how they'd been bilked, remembering how much they enjoyed his friendship - the meals and parties they had shared, the sporting events and concerts they had attended, the way their kids called him "Uncle Richie."
Perhaps their affection was deepened by the fact that he was also making them money - or at least claiming to be making them money - and yet, it seemed no less genuine for whatever profit motive might have been mixed in there.
That, of course, only made it doubly crushing when the scheme and the friendship collapsed at the same time.
"Definitely it's a financial loss," as one of Scott's investors told us at the time, "but it's also a personal betrayal."
Bernard Madoff

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Classic gear: Maxon Overdrive and Ibanez Tube Screamer
By Rod Brakes
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That Pedal Show co-host Mick Taylor, Analog Man's Mike Piera, and Tube Screamer circuit designer Susumu Tamura on one of the world's most popular and influential overdrive pedals
(Image credit: Future / Phil Barker)
Mike Piera, founder of Analog Man
Mick Taylor, co-host of That Pedal Show
Susumu Tamura, Tube Screamer circuit designer
In the hard-rock era of the '70s, the sound of overdriven Marshall stacks filled stadiums around the globe – and terrified the parents and neighbours of bedroom guitarists everywhere.
These were the good old days of LOUD, when tone equalled eardrum-splitting volume and hard-rocking guitar players were, for better or worse, anti-social by nature.
Hot on the trail of a more practical and less quarrelsome solution, amp designers on both sides of the Atlantic increasingly looked towards providing rock guitarists with the option of valve distortion at lower volume.
In the US, during the early '70s, Mesa Engineering's Randall Smith provided his answer with the Boogie/Mark I amp's cascading preamp gain, while in England, Marshall's Steve Grindrod developed the company's first 'master volume' model, the 2203, in 1975.
It was an immediate success as guitar players suddenly found they had the world of overdrive placed at their feet
Meanwhile in Japan, the first of Roland's Boss pedals, the CE-1 Chorus Ensemble hit the effects market in 1976, and by the following year the term 'overdrive' had well and truly been coined by Boss with the OD-1 Over Drive.
Boasting valve-like asymmetrical clipping, it was an immediate success as guitar players suddenly found they had the world of overdrive placed conveniently at their feet, regardless of which amplifier they happened to be plugged into.
With a circuit closely resembling the Boss OD-1 (albeit featuring symmetrical clipping and a tone control), the Maxon OD-808/Ibanez TS-808 originated from the Nisshin Onpa firm – an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of guitar pickups and electronics – and was the brainchild of engineer Susumu Tamura.
The design was unveiled in 1979 and was aimed at the domestic Japanese market under its own Maxon brand as the OD-808 Overdrive, while Nisshin's customer, the Hoshino Gakki company, cornered the overseas market with the circuit in the guise of its Ibanez-branded TS-808 Tube Screamer Overdrive Pro.
This rare Ibanez ST9 Super Tube Screamer belonged to Gary Moore. (Image credit: Future / Phil Barker)
Available from 1979 to 1981, this first incarnation of the Tube Screamer is considered by many to be the Holy Grail of overdrive pedals, with prices on today's vintage market easily fetching several hundred pounds.
During 1979, a rare variation of the TS-808 with a narrower enclosure was made for a short while. This pedal originally utilized a pair of 1458 chips and was reissued by Ibanez in 2014 as the TS-808 35th Anniversary featuring the fabled JRC4558D chip. JRC4558Ds were commonplace in the wider-enclosure TS-808s, with rarer versions employing RC4558P and TL4558P chips in the circuit.
All TS-808s can be distinguished by their small rectangular metal footswitches. In 1982, the design was revamped for the 9 Series Maxon/Ibanez compact effects pedal ranges. Repackaged as the Maxon OD-9 Overdrive and Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, the schematic remained relatively unchanged, with the notable exception of output resistor values (to reduce unwanted noise).
Although the unit retained its distinctive green color, the small 808-style switch was replaced by a large rectangular type. By 1985, the 9 Series was discontinued, and the circuit temporarily fell out of production. In 1986, a new variation closely resembling the original circuit was introduced in the form of the TS10 Tube Screamer Classic as part of Ibanez's extensive Power Series aka 10-series.
Although TS10s are sought after by some, for others, their cheaper and less sturdy construction sets them apart from earlier varieties – although this didn't appear to stop Stevie Ray Vaughan making good use of them!
Analog Man founder Mike Piera (Image credit: Future)
Why was the Tube Screamer so instrumental in the early days of boutique pedal building?
"I started out selling vintage guitars and effects in Japan. In the 90s, a lot of effects were constructed poorly, and the sound wasn't very good, so people were looking to vintage effects to get the best sound. Analog Man started out by modifying Tube Screamers using TS-808 specs with parts that I got when I was over in Japan.
"Before the internet you couldn't just go online and find parts – you had to go and actually search them out. Ultimately, I was able to find those parts in Japan and start modding Tube Screamers properly.
"Tube Screamers have been popular for quite some time and they were one of the most popular pedals when I got into the business. I was able to buy them pretty cheap back in the 90s before people realised how valuable they were getting, but then even the pawnshops caught on! There were no reissues available back then, so the TS9s were pretty valuable, too."
Ibanez's first Tube Screamer, the TS-808, was unveiled in 1979 and was superseded by the TS9 in 1982. (Image credit: Future / Phil Barker)
"The Tube Screamer was a fairly unique design, although I do believe the Boss OD-1 Over Drive came out before it [in 1977] and it's a very similar circuit. The Tube Screamer gives you a nice boost and a nice warm midrange, which works especially well in Fender amps. They have a good amount of compression and they also tighten up a lot of amps.
"A lot of amps, especially when they're loud, will have excessive low-end and it really doesn't sound good with a band – a Tube Screamer will tighten up that low-end really nicely, so it sits well in the mix.
The Tube Screamer gives you a nice boost and a nice warm midrange, which works especially well in Fender amps
Mike Piera
"A lot of people think that they want a pedal with a lot of bottom-end, and when you're playing on your own at home at low volume that might sound okay, but when you start getting the amp louder and you're playing in a band situation, it's probably not something that you want."
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Mick Taylor, That Pedal Show (Image credit: Future )
Mick Taylor recalls how the Tube Screamer became an essential component of his signature sound
"Honestly, I had no idea what I was doing to begin with. It probably started with the 'Silverface' Twins I stumbled upon aged about 16. I'd seen pictures of SRV with Fender amps that looked similar and – given that I was 16 and 'knew everything' – I thought it was all down to these behemoth 70s clean monsters, as opposed to a beautiful 60s Vibroverb!
"Nevertheless, I plugged the Strat into the Vibrato channel, flicked the Bright switch on, turned it up and… Ouch! One trip to the music store later, a used Boss OD-1 and a new SD-1 improved things no end. Until somebody finally pointed out the little green box at Stevie's feet.
"Since then I've become accustomed to 50 percent of guitar players telling me they hate Tube Screamers, while the other 50 per cent would never be without one. If you live in my world of vintage-style Strats and predominantly black-panel-derived amps, something TS-flavored is basically essential.
"That characteristic 500 to 800Hz hump fattens things where a Strat loves it, but the bass roll-off and lack of drive in the lowest frequencies keeps it all clear and defined – which is what you need when your amp starts to flub out in the low-end.
I've often wondered if what I was actually chasing was simply the sound and feel of a Strat plugged into a semi-dimed Plexi
"At the opposite end, a marked treble roll off meant the old Twin's Bright switch was rendered less unpleasant while the pedal's compression – that simply doesn't work for a lot of humbucker-and-crunchy-amp people – is exactly what the clean, strident Fender amp needed to make it feel a bit more forgiving.
"All I had to do now was tune to Eb and that weak-sounding Strat was transformed into a sledgehammer. Placed as a boost after a decent Fuzz Face, the TS made it borderline god-like.
"Years later, I've often wondered if what I was actually chasing was simply the sound and feel of a Strat plugged into a semi-dimed Plexi. Either way, the Tube Screamer was, is and hopefully always will be a rite of passage: an essential piece of the tonal tool kit as you learn what lights you up and what leaves you cold. Thank you, Mr Tamura, and thank you, Tube Screamer. You have truly helped to make me who I am."
Designed by Susumu Tamura, the new Maxon Apex808 was developed after meticulous analysis of over 100 vintage and modern Tube Screamer/808 variants. (Image credit: Future / Phil Barker)
The brains behind Maxon and Ibanez's legendary design reveals the past, present and future of overdrive
What was the first pedal you built and how did the design come about?
"The first pedal I designed was a phase shifter – it was sold as the Phase Tone PT-999 under both the Maxon and Ibanez brands. The PT-999 circuit design was inspired by the MXR Phase 90 and consisted of only three operational amplifiers so that many players could use it at a reasonable price."
What's your best-selling pedal and why do you think that is?
"The best-selling pedals I've designed are overdrives such as the Maxon OD-808 Overdrive and the Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer. To say that the Tube Screamer is synonymous with the term 'overdrive' would not be an exaggeration.
"You could also say that a majority of overdrive pedals on the market are based on the Tube Screamer/Overdrive circuit. Regardless of the genre of music, though, I think that the overdrive sound expected by both the player and the audience can be easily attained with these pedals."
I listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood a lot while working on pedal mods
Susumu Tamura
Which notable guitarists have used Tube Screamers?
"The most famous user would be the genius blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who used the TS-808 and TS10 [and TS9]. I listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood a lot while working on pedal mods.
"Besides SRV, lots of guitarists have used a Tube Screamer, including Eric Johnson, Trey Anastasio, Brad Paisley, The Edge, Joe Bonamassa, Kirk Hammett, John Mayer, Buddy Guy, Michael Schenker, Gary Moore, George Lynch, Gary Clark Jr and many more."
Maxon Dual Booster DB10 (Image credit: Future / Phil Barker)
What do you think makes your OD-808/TS-808 design unique?
"Before the release of the OD-808/TS-808, distortion circuits had a separate clipping stage that came after the amplifier stage of the circuit. OD-808/TS-808 was the first circuit to incorporate the clipping stage in the negative feedback loop of the operational amplifier. This configuration yields a smoother distortion that retains the original guitar tone.
"After more than 40 years since its release, many clones of Ibanez Tube Screamer and Maxon Overdrive and many overdrives derived from the Tube Screamer have been released and sold. It is undoubted that the original design was unique yet also simple."
To say that the Tube Screamer is synonymous with the term 'overdrive' would not be an exaggeration
What's your favourite vintage pedal? And can you explain why?
"My favourite vintage pedal is the OD-808/TS-808 with the 'caramel' switch manufactured in 1980/1981. It has a simple circuit configuration, which consisted of easily available parts.
"The OD-808/TS-808 has been used by musicians across various musical genres for over 40 years since its release, and many reissue models have been released over the years.
"There have also been many TS-cloned products and derivative products released by different companies over the years. It is one of the most copied pedal designs of all time."
If you had a three-pedal 'desert island' pedalboard what would be on it?
"The Maxon AD-900 Analog Delay, the Maxon OD-9 Overdrive, and the Maxon OD-820 Over Drive Pro."
This very early example of an Ibanez TS-808 belongs to Portishead guitarist Adrian Utley. "It's my trusted old friend," says Adrian. (Image credit: Future / Phil Barker)
A well-loved Ibanez TS10 Tube Screamer Classic formerly owned by Gary Moore. (Image credit: Future / Phil Barker)
[L-R] Analog Man-modded Maxon OD-9 Overdrive, Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer (Image credit: Future / Phil Barker)
Are there any long-lost Maxon gems that you think would be worth reissuing?
"I would like to reissue a version of the [1980s] Maxon DCP series vintage pedals – DCP stands for Digitally Controlled Processor. The Maxon DCP series was expensive at the time and did not sell well.
"I see original DCP pedals on social networks and markets these days, but I definitely want to reissue the [POD1] Overdrive/Distortion and [PDS1] Distortion DCP models. The DCP series was a wonderful product that controlled 100 percent analogue audio with digital circuits instead of using DSP to simulate analogue circuits.
"Furthermore, multiple control settings could be stored and instantly recalled. Basically, these products offered the best of both worlds with analogue audio and digital control.
"I think that the concept of a hybrid pedal where a simple analogue circuit is controlled digitally still needs to be perfected. There are currently hybrid pedals on the market, but the concept still needs to be refined and improved upon."
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Rod Brakes
Rod Brakes is a music journalist with an expertise in guitars. Having spent many years at the coalface as a guitar dealer and tech, Rod's more recent work as a writer covering artists, industry pros and gear includes contributions for leading publications and websites such as Guitarist, Total Guitar, Guitar World (opens in new tab), Guitar Player (opens in new tab) and MusicRadar (opens in new tab) in addition to specialist music books, blogs and social media. He is also a lifelong musician.
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#ShineYourEye: BudgIT just made it easy for Nigerians to hold the government accountable
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For years, Nigerians lamented over the fact that access to public information was seemingly non-existent in the country, especially for those without some kind of clout in government agencies and parastatals. Anyone looking for information in any of those offices (journalists and average citizens) often throw up their hands in surrender, condemning the black box mode of operation employed by public officials.
However, BudgIT Nigeria, the office in charge of providing simplified information on the country's budget is changing that for the country's citizens. Following the effective launch of civichub.com.ng Nigerians cannot only access public information but they can also become fully involved in governmental processes.
The FOIVault is a platform which relies on the 2011 Freedom of Information Act for its existence. It gives citizens access to FOI requests sent and responses received using the Freedom of Information Act 2011. Nigerians will have the right to access recorded information held by public sector institutions.
Shine Your Eye enables citizens to track the records of public officials, all the information they gather will help them make the right decisions during elections. Using this platform, citizens follow the activities of elected officials, connect with them and share their concerns. Citizens can also view profiles of elected officials that include such information as educational background, experience, legislative interests, phone numbers and email addresses.
Tracka provides a network for active citizens who track projects in the budget and give feedback to government and their communities. Citizens can collaborate, track and give feedback on government projects in their various communities.
Public Interest in Corruption Cases (PICC) is a tool of anti-corruption which actively employs citizen interest in existent corruption cases from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC). It is an updated hub for filed corruption cases made available to citizens. PICC interest revolves around creating a more actionable nest of citizens demanding transparency and accountability.
Find-A-Cop platform helps citizens locate the nearest police stations in their neighborhoods. In the case of emergency situations such as robbery and other petty crimes that needs the attention of a police officials, the platform provide information and geo-location feature of police stations close to the inquirer. However, some Nigerians have said in the past that police officers often say they have no fuel to drive down to the scene of the crime to confront criminals, so what difference will this platform make?
There is no doubt that technology is playing an active role in citizen participation. It is expected that in Nigeria, these platforms will be fully explored by the citizens and that the government of the day will become more responsible as they discharge their duties for the betterment of the people.
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These 3-year PhD studentships will cover Home/EU university tuition fees, a tax-free maintenance grant of up to £14,553 per annum and contribution to travel costs to present your research at national and international conferences.
We are looking for committed and enthusiastic applicants who want to be part of a rich and stimulating research environment where you will be encouraged to contribute to advancing the state-of-the art through publication and by participating in leading international forums. Secondments are greatly encouraged during the course of the PhD to broaden experience and to ensure research is kept relevant to real-world problems.
CVSSP is a leading UK research centre in audio-visual signal processing, computer vision and machine learning. Our Centre is one of the largest in Europe with over 120 researchers and a grant portfolio in excess of £18.5million, bringing together a unique combination of cutting-edge sound and vision expertise. Our aim is to advance the state of the art in multimedia signal processing and computer vision, with a focus on image, video and audio applications. Our Centre has a robust track-record of innovative research leading to technology transfer and exploitation in biometrics, creative industries (film, TV, games, VR), mobile communication, healthcare, robotics and consumer electronics.
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The Governing board oversees the work of the committees – they all report to the main body who have to approve all decisions and suggestions. Governors take a keen interest in the school and can choose which area of the curriculum and school life to take a special interest in.
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Giants owner John Mara punts the national anthem conversation down the road
By Pat Leonard
John Mara did not draw a hard line Thursday on a Giants national anthem policy as Jerry Jones did Wednesday with the Dallas Cowboys, even though the Giants co-owner has made clear in the past that he, too, prefers players stand.
Mara, who helped create the NFL's new controversial anthem policy in May and is now involved in NFL negotiations with the NFLPA to amend it, said he would wait for the sides to resolve those discussions before talking with Giants player leadership about their own team's plan.
"My intention all along had been to sit with our veteran players when they came back to training camp and just discuss the issue," Mara said prior to the Giants' full practice of training camp. "Now that the policy has been put on hold pending the discussions with the NFLPA, I think I'm gonna let those play out before I sit down and talk about that with our players."
Olivier Vernon should be included in any conversation the Giants have about how to deal with national anthem issue. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)
The Cowboys' Jones unsurprisingly said Wednesday that he didn't care what the NFL and players association decided in their ongoing negotiations; as far as the Dallas Cowboys are concerned, "we stand" for the anthem.
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Jones even said he will not support a Cowboys player who chooses to remain in the locker room, even though that is allowed under the policy passed by NFL owners in May without consulting the players at all.
Mara might have come off softer and more reasonable on Thursday, but in May he voiced a similar sentiment on SiriusXM Radio: "I think certainly we all hope that our players stand for the (anthem) this year. I think it's the right thing to do."
On Wednesday, head coach Pat Shurmur also said: "I talked in the spring about my feelings with regard to the anthem — those have not changed." And he was referring to his belief players should stand, as well.
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"I know certainly for me it's very easy," Shurmur said in the spring. "I'm gonna face the flag, take my cap off and listen to the anthem and be thankful that my family and I live in the greatest country in the world. And be able to kind of reflect on and be thankful for all the sacrifice that a lot of people have gone through to help protect and secure our freedoms. So that's what it means to me, and again I think at some point we'll talk about it as a team. And I trust that our team will do the right thing."
The league and NFLPA are tentatively scheduled to meet again Friday on the issue, per NFL Network, and Mara expressed hope that the sides would find a middle ground.
"There will be meetings fairly soon and there have been discussions about the anthem policy, and we hope that we'll be able to come to some sort of resolution that everyone can buy in to," he said.
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Mara said he then would meet with Giants player leadership. He did not know if that group would include Giants defensive end/outside linebacker Olivier Vernon, the lone Giant player who knelt from Week 3 through the end of last season.
"I'm not sure," Mara said of Vernon being included. "I believe it'd be players that are on the executive council of the union. I think we have three of them: Zak DeOssie, Mark Herzlich and Michael Thomas. I'm not sure who else."
Probably a good idea to include Vernon, though. Let all voices be heard.
THE SNACKS MYSTERY AND PRACTICE NOTES
Starting defensive tackle Damon Harrison was the lone surprise non-participant on the first day of training camp. Strangely, the Giants would not provide an injury update on Harrison. Head coach Pat Shurmur addressed the media before practice, and a team release simply read: "Shurmur said Harrison is being eased into training camp and should be on the field this weekend." Robert Thomas lined up with the first-team defense in Harrison's place … James Bettcher's defense was the more impressive unit in the first practice, with strong play from the pass rush in general, including back-to-back sacks, the second by Olivier Vernon blowing by Ereck Flowers, drawing a hold and still getting to Eli Manning. LB Alec Ogletree blew up plays, and Janoris Jenkins intercepted Manning on an underthrown deep ball intended for third wideout Cody Latimer … Starting strong safety Landon Collins is back from his second right forearm surgery and participated fully on Thursday … Defensive end Avery Moss practiced in full after working his way back all offseason from surgery for a labral tear in his right hip … John Mara interestingly said he had "not had an in-depth conversation in person" yet with Jenkins, whose brother has been charged with killing friend Roosevelt Rene recently in the basement of the Giant corner's Fair Lawn, N.J., home … Mara said "I think this is my 62nd training camp … my parents took me to Salem, Oregon, when I was a year old, so that was my first" … Mara would not fire back at ex-coach Ben McAdoo for criticizing Giants left tackle Nate Solder recently, but Mara said he did talk to McAdoo recently. "I actually spoke to Ben myself probably three or four weeks ago, he called me just to talk about what he needs to improve on. It was a very good conversation. Happened to mention that he liked very much what we did in the offseason and what not, but I didn't think too much of that. Obviously we feel pretty strongly about Nate." Roasted.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
Wideout Amba Etta-Tawo, 24, a second-year pro out of Syracuse, showed deep speed and an ability to stretch the field beating both corners Teddy Williams and Grant Haley on two different impressive completions down the left sideline, one from Eli Manning and another from fourth-string QB Alex Tanney.
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The Watery Part of the World
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In 1970, Yaupon Island is down to three inhabitants: Maggie, Whaley, and Woodrow, who make up half of Michael Parker's novel, The Watery Part of the World. The other half begins in 1813, when pirates capture and spare Theodosia Burr Alston, who starts a new life on the same island. Those who remain a century and a half later are her last two descendants and the man who cares for them. This novel holds a mirror up to the past and explores how it shapes the present, as each character struggles with life in this wind-ravaged place, which seems to possess its own gravity.
Parker has written four previous novels and two short-story collections and has received numerous honors and awards. He currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. An accomplished storyteller, both his talent and skill shine in this newest creation. The story loops back on itself many times, yet every retelling lays bare a new thread, as each character gives his or her own take on the island. Though in Whaley's case, "she tended not to recognize but the one, her own, for the others seemed to her soggy and vulnerable places, no more secure than driftwood tossed about by the waves."
Uncertainty is the way of life here. As Maggie says, "This place seemed to have something against the notion of forever. Everything felt so borrowed; it was hard not to be skeptical of anything lasting longer than a season." But despite her seeming disdain for her home, Maggie refuses her lover's offer to leave with him for she feels that, like Theodosia before her, she has become inextricably bound to the island. She knows her lover won't understand, since "he'd only been born over here, not raised, he'd not known it long enough to become it."
This is a story of want and stubbornness, of trust and what happens when you break it, of people struggling to keep living the only lives they know. As the narrator says of Theodosia, "Like the tree the island was named for, she bent to survive." But this is also a story of love—messy, flawed, and human. Love for oneself, for others, and for a place one might never have wanted to be but eventually comes to need more than breath. To whatever end, these people triumph, as resilient as their island, "the crust of a continent defying the overwash and daring a wind to take it away."
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Still, as failures go, we're in good company. Take Benjamin Franklin. As a young man, Ben composed a master list of 12 resolutions, later tacking on a killer 13th ("Imitate Jesus and Socrates"). He had particular difficulty, he notes in his Autobiography, with Resolution No. 2 ("Silence—Avoid trifling conversation"), No. 3 ("Order—Let all your things have their places") and No. 5 ("Frugality—Waste nothing").
Ben kept track of his performance in a small book in which he entered a black mark each day for each resolution broken. He had intended to reuse the little book, eventually erasing old black marks as his performance improved. It didn't. So many black marks appeared on top of black marks that the little book developed holes. He had to resort to keeping his records on a piece of ivory, from which the accumulated black marks could be tactfully mopped off with a wet sponge.


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Q: Apache Beam Side Inputs not working in Streaming Dataflow Pipeline with Python SDK I'm dealing with a larger Dataflow Pipeline which works perfectly in batch mode but the done refactoring does have issues with side-inputs. If i put the pipeline in streaming mode and remove the side-input the pipeline works perfectly on google's dataflow.
If stripped everything down and build the following short script to capsule the issue and being able to play around with it.
import apache_beam as beam
import os
import json
import sys
import logging

""" Here the switches """
run_local = False
streaming = False

project = 'google-project-name'
bucket = 'dataflow_bucket'
tmp_location = 'gs://{}/{}/'.format(bucket, "tmp")
topic = "projects/{}/topics/dataflowtopic".format(project)

credentials_file = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "credentials.json")
if os.path.exists(credentials_file):
    os.environ['GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS'] = credentials_file

if not run_local:
    runner = "DataflowRunner"
else:
    runner = "DirectRunner"

argv = [
    '--region={0}'.format("europe-west6"),
    '--project={0}'.format(project),
    '--temp_location={0}'.format(tmp_location),
    '--runner={0}'.format(runner),
    '--save_main_session',
    '--max_num_workers=2'
]
if streaming:
    argv.append('--streaming')

def filter_existing(item, existing=None, id_field: str = 'id'):
    sys.stdout.write(".")
    if not item.get(id_field) in existing:
        return True
    return False

class UserProcessor(beam.DoFn):
    def process(self, user, **kwargs):

        if run_local:
            print("processing an user and getting items for it")
        else:
            logging.info("processing an user and getting items for it")
        for i in range(10):
            yield {"id": i, "item_name": "dingdong", "user": user}

class ExistingProcessor(beam.DoFn):
    def process(self, user, **kwargs):
        if run_local:
            print("creating the list to exclude items from the result")
        else:
            logging.info("creating the list to exclude items from the result")
        yield {"id": 3}
        yield {"id": 5}
        yield {"id": 9}

with beam.Pipeline(argv=argv) as p:
    if streaming:
        if run_local:
            print("Waiting for Pub/Sub Message on Topic: {}".format(topic))
        else:
            logging.info("Waiting for Pub/Sub Message on Topic: {}".format(topic))
        users = p | "Loading user" >> beam.io.ReadFromPubSub(topic=topic) | beam.Map(lambda x: json.loads(x.decode()))
    else:
        if run_local:
            print("Loading Demo User")
        else:
            logging.info("Loading Demo User")

        example_user = {"id": "indi","name": "Indiana Jones"}
        users = p | "Loading user" >> beam.Create([example_user])

    process1 = users | "load all items for user" >> beam.ParDo(UserProcessor().with_input_types(dict))
    process2 = users | "load existing items for user" >> beam.ParDo(ExistingProcessor().with_input_types(dict)) | beam.Map(lambda x: x.get('id'))

    if run_local:
        process1 | "debug process1" >> beam.Map(print)
        process2 | "debug process2" >> beam.Map(print)

    #filtered = (process1, process2) | beam.Flatten() # this works
    filtered = process1 | "filter all against existing items" >> beam.Filter(filter_existing, existing=beam.pvalue.AsList(process2)) # this does NOT work when streaming, it does in batch

    if run_local:
        filtered | "debug filtered" >> beam.Map(print)
        filtered | "write down result" >> beam.io.WriteToText(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "test_result.txt"))
    else:
        filtered | "write down result" >> beam.io.WriteToText("gs://{}/playground/output.txt".format(bucket))

    if run_local:
        print("pipeline initialized!")
    else:
        logging.info("pipeline initialized!")

Running this script as Batch job in Google's Dataflow does exactly what it needs to do. See the pipeline visualised from dataflow:

As soon as a set the the variable streaming = True and run_local = False the job does not work anymore and returns no error at all. I'm a bit lost there.
If i disable the sideinput in this part of the script:
# this works in streaming AND batch mode
# filtered = (process1, process2) | beam.Flatten() # this works

# this does NOT work in streaming mode, but DOES works in batch mode
filtered = process1 | "filter all against existing items" >> beam.Filter(filter_existing, existing=beam.pvalue.AsList(process2))

then the streaming job on dataflow works. I've narrowd it down the part beam.pvalue.AsList(process2) which is causing the problem.
It might as well being said, that i'm fairly new to Apache Beam. One thing i could thing off which is the problem is the side input not being windowed (what ever that means, just got it from the documentation ;) )

A: You are correct, the issue is that the side input is not windowed. When you run a Parallel Do (Map, FlatMap, Filter, ...) with a side input, the runner waits until the side input is "fully computed" before running the main input. In this case, it is reading from a PubSub source with no windowing, which means it is never "done" (i.e. some more data could come along in the future).
To make this work you need to window both sides, this way the side input will become "done up to time X" and then the Filter can run "up to time X" as X jumps forward from window boundary to window boundary.

A: Thanks to the message of @robertwb i was able to fix my code. I've changed my pipeline code for the beam.io.ReadFromPubSub and added a windowing PTransform:
            users = p | "Loading user" >> beam.io.ReadFromPubSub(topic=topic) | beam.Map(lambda x: json.loads(x.decode())) \
                | "Window into Fixed Intervals" >> beam.WindowInto(beam.window.FixedWindows(10))

not sure if this is the best window for this usecase but it moved me forward a big step.

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Furnishing your home can be fun, but for many people, the prospect of wandering around a furniture showroom and then still having to wait for delivery of their furniture (because so many things won't fit in a car or aren't held in stock) seems a bit pointless when it is so easy to order things online. Of course, when you order online, there are loads of choices and you can get great deals, but you are basing your buying decisions on photographs rather than being able to see and feel the product, which can lead to some disappointment.
The first tip any professional will give you when it comes to buying your furniture on the web is to buy only from trusted retailers. What this means depends on what you are buying – obviously a trusted retailer for brand new pieces or flat pack furniture might be a big name brand, whereas for second hand or unusual furniture, you may simply be looking for an eBay store with a good reputation or a local business with great reviews.
As well as making sure the company can be trusted, you also want to make sure the transactions are safe. Major department stores are safe in this respect, as are large websites like eBay and Amazon. However, if you are buying from a small company using their e-commerce solutions, you may want to check their security credentials.
You should also look carefully at terms relating to the sale; for example, the returns policy and how much is charged for shipping. Be aware that 'free shipping' isn't always what it seems – some sites with free shipping up the price of the product, so it may still cost more than buying the same thing with paid shipping somewhere else.
There are two things that can vary from how the typical item looks in pictures to how it will look in real life – size and colour. Make sure you check the measurements of items you want to buy to check you haven't derived a misguided idea of how big something is from its picture, and be aware that colours can look different in images. While this isn't usually too significant, and it may just look a little lighter in the shot than it does when you get it, consider this when you are trying to match things. If you want matching furniture, buy from the same store and range.
You should also read descriptions very carefully. In many cases, furniture is shipped flat packed or in components, and you'll need to do at least some of the putting together yourself. While for something like a bed this may be very easy, something like an entertainment centre might be vastly more complex than it looks, so also look at customer reviews to see if other people have struggled. If you are buying second hand, you may find the furniture is shipped as is, so you'll want to check you can actually fit it through doors and any passageways in your house you'll need to get it through.
Jenny Wadlow is a freelance blogger. She enjoys designing and modifying her house with new furniture and prefers buying second hand furniture in Melbourne from BrotherHood of St. Lawrence, a community store based in Australia.
Great tips for buying online. Personally I would have to test it out and see it in person to make sure I am really getting what I want. Good article!


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Sen. Bernie Sanders Announces Another Run For The White House
By Asma Khalid
Published February 19, 2019 at 3:26 PM CST
Senator Bernie Sanders is running for president once again. A few things have changed since his last run in 2016. Back then, the Vermont Independent was an underdog, and he was the candidate for the Democratic Party's left-wing base. Today, he's one of the most well-known candidates in a crowded, diverse and more progressive Democratic field.
NPR's Asma Khalid is covering the campaign and has also caught up with Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker over the last couple days. Hi, Asma.
ASMA KHALID, BYLINE: Hey, Ari.
SHAPIRO: Let's start with the fact that many of the ideas Bernie Sanders has put forward - like Medicare for all, the $15 minimum wage - are now more mainstream Democratic proposals. So how does he stand out from the pack?
KHALID: You know, Ari, in some ways, he is a victim of his own success, you could say, this time. You know, he talks a lot about how, three years ago, people thought some of those ideas were really radical, but now they're being touted by many other Democrats. And, you know, what this means is that he's not the only progressive choice this 2020 cycle.
I've spent a lot of time recently in New Hampshire. And we should keep in mind New Hampshire is a state where Sanders clobbered Hillary Clinton during 2016. I've interviewed a number of people there, though, who supported Senator Sanders in 2016. And some are still with him 100 percent, but there's also a lot of people who are eyeing other options, like Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren or Sherrod Brown.
You know, for his part, Sanders says that he started a political revolution, and now we need to finish it. He believes that he's created a grassroots movement and that real change occurs not just through political leaders, but when people on the outside push for that change.
SHAPIRO: Now, as we've said, this Democratic field is not only crowded, but it's also the most diverse we've ever seen. How does that factor into how Sanders is perceived because, in 2016, he kind of struggled with some communities of color, especially older voters?
KHALID: Yeah, he was asked this morning by Vermont Public Radio about how he intends to pitch his candidacy in such a diverse progressive field. And he basically called for a kind of colorblind, age-blind meritocracy.
BERNIE SANDERS: We have got to look at candidates, you know, not by the color of their skin, not by - not by their sexual orientation or their gender and not by their age. I mean, I think we have got to try to move us toward a non-discriminatory society which looks at people based on their abilities.
KHALID: You know, after 2016, Sanders is conscious that he needs to address diverse constituencies more directly. I think the question is how effectively he can do that. But, Ari, you know, you do hear a note of defensiveness when he's asked about whether the party does want to nominate a 77-year-old white man this time.
SHAPIRO: Now, even though Sanders, his policies, have become much more popular within the Democratic Party, his identity as a democratic socialist is still controversial. And President Trump has been picking up on that, pressing an argument that Democrats will bring socialism to America. Are other Democratic candidates responding?
KHALID: Well, I was out yesterday with Kamala Harris in New Hampshire, and she was asked about Bernie Sanders. She was really quick to say, I am not a democratic socialist. And also yesterday, Minnesota's Amy Klobuchar was at a town hall with CNN. She was asked about Sanders Medicare-for-all idea. She said that that's something we could look at in the future. But, you know, you've got to build on what we have first.
So there will be a broader conversation in the party between bold progressivism and sort of moderate-incremental approach. But I think the real question is that, you know, there are some progressives who are worried that a Sanders candidacy will actually divide their wing of the party and, in essence, what will happen is potentially a more moderate, centrist candidate will rise up.
SHAPIRO: That's NPR's Asma Khalid. Thank you, Asma.
KHALID: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
Asma Khalid
Asma Khalid is a White House correspondent for NPR. She also co-hosts The NPR Politics Podcast.
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// Copyright (c) Brock Allen & Dominick Baier. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE in the project root for license information.

using IdentityServer4.Extensions;
using IdentityServer4.Models;
using IdentityServer4.Stores;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security.Claims;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace IdentityServer4.Services
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Default consent service
    /// </summary>
    public class DefaultConsentService : IConsentService
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The user consent store
        /// </summary>
        protected readonly IUserConsentStore _userConsentStore;

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="DefaultConsentService" /> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="userConsentStore">The user consent store.</param>
        /// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">store</exception>
        public DefaultConsentService(IUserConsentStore userConsentStore)
        {
            _userConsentStore = userConsentStore;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Checks if consent is required.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="subject">The user.</param>
        /// <param name="client">The client.</param>
        /// <param name="scopes">The scopes.</param>
        /// <returns>
        /// Boolean if consent is required.
        /// </returns>
        /// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">
        /// client
        /// or
        /// subject
        /// </exception>
        public virtual async Task<bool> RequiresConsentAsync(ClaimsPrincipal subject, Client client, IEnumerable<string> scopes)
        {
            if (client == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(client));
            if (subject == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(subject));

            if (!client.RequireConsent)
            {
                return false;
            }

            if (!client.AllowRememberConsent)
            {
                return true;
            }

            if (scopes == null || !scopes.Any())
            {
                return false;
            }

            // we always require consent for offline access if
            // the client has not disabled RequireConsent
            if (scopes.Contains(IdentityServerConstants.StandardScopes.OfflineAccess))
            {
                return true;
            }

            var consent = await _userConsentStore.GetUserConsentAsync(subject.GetSubjectId(), client.ClientId);
            if (consent?.Scopes != null)
            {
                var intersect = scopes.Intersect(consent.Scopes);
                return !(scopes.Count() == intersect.Count());
            }

            return true;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Updates the consent asynchronous.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client">The client.</param>
        /// <param name="subject">The subject.</param>
        /// <param name="scopes">The scopes.</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        /// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">
        /// client
        /// or
        /// subject
        /// </exception>
        public virtual async Task UpdateConsentAsync(ClaimsPrincipal subject, Client client, IEnumerable<string> scopes)
        {
            if (client == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(client));
            if (subject == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(subject));

            if (client.AllowRememberConsent)
            {
                var subjectId = subject.GetSubjectId();
                var clientId = client.ClientId;

                if (scopes != null && scopes.Any())
                {
                    var consent = new Consent
                    {
                        SubjectId = subjectId,
                        ClientId = clientId,
                        Scopes = scopes
                    };
                    await _userConsentStore.StoreUserConsentAsync(consent);
                }
                else
                {
                    await _userConsentStore.RemoveUserConsentAsync(subjectId, clientId);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}


Jesse Foreman has been the Director of Football Operations for Cincinnati-based KMG Sports since 2017. He has been an NFLPA-Certified Contract Advisor for four years and founded his own agency – Global Sports and Entertainment – prior to joining the ranks at KMG. The Covington, KY-native received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he served as President of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society and was a student member of the National Sports Lawyers Association. A serial entrepreneur, he founded Fanoptic, a sports social networking site.
The competitive representation industry appeals to Foreman, who participated in the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain while studying sports and entertainment contracts in London, England. He currently represents four NFL players. You can find him on Twitter (here) and Instagram (here).
We were fortunate enough to ask Jesse a few questions about how he got his start, the sports representation industry and his advice for aspiring agents. Check out the interview below.
SAB: How did you get your start in the representation industry?
Jesse Foreman: I have a very different story than most. I used to work in the night club industry and owned a club for a short period of time. A lot of players would come to my venues and complain to me about their relationship and communication with their agents. So I decided to become an agent and went to law school for that reason. I remember when I was at the NFLPA Test in [Washington] DC, someone asked how many agents thought they would have someone drafted. I raised my hand, along with about 95 percent of the room, and then the NFLPA members laughed. I think six people in the whole room had someone drafted that year, and I was lucky enough to be one of them. I started an agency with my good friend Nordibek Talipov straight out of law school and we got lucky enough to find Austin Reiter, a great center flying under the radar. He signed with us, killed it at his pro day, and got drafted in the 7th round.
SAB: How did you get started with Katz Management Group (KMG)?
JF: I am friends with Brandon Hunter, who is the Head of Basketball Operations at KMG. An opportunity arose for an opening in the office at KMG and they offered me a position.
SAB: How do you differentiate yourself from other agencies in the ultra-competitive football representation industry?
JF: I always have the best interests of my clients in mind. I tell them [my clients] the truth every time, even when they don't want to hear it, and I never promise nor predict things that I have no control over. I work night and day to find the best opportunities for my clients and I keep in constant contact with them.
SAB: What does an average day in your life look like?
JF: It depends on the time of the year really. I watch a lot of games and game film, answer a lot of texts/calls/emails, travel a lot for recruitment, travel for visits to the training facilities to ensure that my client's training is going well, solicit marketing opportunities, negotiate marketing deals and league deals, review marketing and league contracts, help find housing and/or cars for clients, and attend a lot of games. It is long days and nights and there is always something else to be done.
SAB: For someone looking to break into this industry, what advice would you give?
JF: Be prepared to work a lot and make very little money at first. This is not a get rich quick industry like most people think and Hollywood portrays it. Most agents just end up losing money in their career. You have to love football, really want to help the players, and be willing to grind away until people start to take note of your work. Also, there is a lot of money involved in recruiting players and training them, so either be prepared to have a lot of money to invest or have an investor. The biggest thing that has helped me succeed is my ability to spot talent that is overlooked by other agents. Make a name with the late rounds and UDFA players that will make the 53 [man roster]. If you really love football and really have the passion to become an agent, it is the greatest job in the world. Just be prepared to put in 50-hours a week and make no money for the first couple of years.
SAB: In your opinion, what are three pivotal traits an agent needs to have and why?
JF: Good communication skills. The biggest complaint I hear from players is "I can never get a hold of my agent." Knowing what your client wants is the most important part of our job. We can advise clients on what we think is best, but at the end of the day, every decision lies with the players.
Willingness to grind. Finding players under the radar takes watching a lot of game film. Road trips for recruitment mean long months on the road and lots of meetings. Marketing opportunities are not just going to get thrown at your client unless they have a big name in the league. You have to constantly reach out to companies and try to find your clients marketing opportunities. You have to read over lots of long contracts and make sure that every word in the contract is the best wording for your client. Sometimes negotiations can take a long time and require months of working with the team to get the best deal for your clients.
Ability to relate to people. At the end of the day, the player has to choose you to represent them. Without clients, none of the other things matter. So the ability to relate to people and sell your services is really the most important part of the job.
SAB: What advantages does your law background provide in this industry?
JF: I stand differently from almost ever other person with a law degree in the industry on this issue. I'll be real – it helps with contracts and that is about it. Other agents will sell up their degree and make a big deal of it. I know a lot of incredible agents that don't have a law degree.


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Lord Ashcroft, who has had a lifelong interest in bravery, has written five previous books on courage, together with several books and pamphlets on politics and polling. Along with Isabel Oakeshott, he is the author of Call Me Dave, an unauthorised biography of David Cameron.
Lord Ashcroft's VC and GC collection is on public display at the Imperial War Museum, London. For more information, visit www.iwm.org.uk/heroes.
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text:
require 'spec_helper'
require Rails.root.join('lib/migrations/ss/20170523000000_fix_scss_compass')

RSpec.describe SS::Migration20170523000000, dbscope: :example do
  let(:text1) do
    str = []
    str << '@import "compass/css3";'
    str << '@import "compass/typography/text/ellipsis";'
    str << 'aaa { color: red; }'
    str.join("\n")
  end

  let(:text2) do
    str = []
    str << '@import "compass-mixins/lib/compass";'
    str << '//@import "compass/css3";'
    str << '//@import "compass/typography/text/ellipsis";'
    str << 'aaa { color: red; }'
    str.join("\n")
  end

  subject(:item) { described_class.new }

  it do
    expect(item.change_text(text1)).to eq text2
  end
end


text:
Q: History of the high-dimensional volume paradox Inscribe an $n$-ball in an $n$-dimensional hypercube of side equal to 1, and let $n \rightarrow \infty$. The hypercube will always have volume 1, while it is a fun folk fact (FFF) that the volume of the ball goes to 0.
I first learnt of this in relation to Gromov. In the story I heard, he used to ask incoming students to compute the distance $(\sqrt{n}-1)/2$ from a hypercube corner to the ball, and observe them to see if they realized that the volume of the hypercube is concentrated in its corners.

Is this story correct? And is this the origin of this FFF? I could imagine a situation where several people noticed this at different times, but where the fact did not become "viral" until much more recenttly.

A: Consideration of higher-dimensional spheres at least goes back to the 19th century.
In his paper: "Über verschiedene Theoreme aus der Theorie der Punktmengen in einem $n$-fach ausgedehnten stetigen Raume $G_n$. Zweite Mitteilung." Acta Mathematica 7 (1885) 105-124, Cantor uses "$n$-dimensionale Vollkugeln" ($n$-dimensional solid spheres) frequently. His calculation of the volume has first been mentioned in a letter to Felix Klein. See J. W. Dauben: "Georg Cantor His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite", Princeton University Press (1990) p.326:

In a letter to Felix Klein of June 6, 1882, Cantor explained the details of his more accurate determination of the volume of the unit sphere of dimension $n$ in a space of dimension $n + 1$. It was true that the volume was always less than or equal to $2^n\pi$. But equality was true only for $n$ = 1, $n$ = 2.

A: A related (and to me, when I first saw it, much more surprising) Fun Fact:  Divide the n-dimensional cube in half in each of $n$ dimensions, to create $2^n$ smaller cubes of edge length 1/2.  Inscribe a ball in each of these subcubes, and then construct the smallest ball tangent to each of those (and centered at the center of the original cube) like so:
      (source)
What happens to the diameter of the central ball as $n$ gets large?
This question received much attention at an algebraic K-theory conference in Boulder in the early 1980s, where each new arrival was presented with a multiple choice problem:  Without stopping to compute, is the limit $-1$, $0$, $1/2$, $1$, $10$ or $\infty$?  You were allowed to choose any three answers out of six, and place a bet on whether the right answer was among them.  I can report that an overwhelming majority of algebraic K-theorists reason thusly: the answer can't be negative and can't be greater than 1 (the ball, after all, is obviously contained inside a box of side 1!); therefore it's safe to bet on the set
$\lbrace 0,1/2,1 \rbrace $.  Feel free to make money off this.

A: Brian Hayes wrote a column on the volume of the $n$-sphere for American Scientist a couple of years ago, available online here.  It includes a bit of history, with bibliography, toward the end, which might be of help here.
Added 4/26/13:  Here are a couple of pertinent passages from Brian's article:
"... Sommerville mentions the
Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli
as a pioneer of n-dimensional geometry.
Schläfli's treatise on the subject, written
in the early 1850s, was not published
in full until 1901, but an excerpt translated into English by Arthur Cayley appeared in 1858. The first paragraph of
that excerpt gives the volume formula
for an n-ball, commenting that it was
determined "long ago." An asterisk
leads to a footnote citing papers published in 1839 and 1841 by the Belgian
mathematician Eugène Catalan."
and
"Not one of these early works pauses to comment on the implications of
the formula—the peak at n=5 or the
trend toward zero volume in high dimensions. Of the works mentioned by
Sommerville, the only one to make these
connections is a thesis by Paul Renno
Heyl, published by the University of
Pennsylvania in 1897."

A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality mentions a 1957 paper by Richard Bellman.


text:
<?php

namespace app\assets;

use yii\web\AssetBundle;

class AppAsset extends AssetBundle {
    public $basePath = '@webroot';
    public $baseUrl = '@web';
    public $sourcePath = '@bower/';
    public $css = ['css/AdminLTE.css'];
    public $js = [
        'js/app.js',
        'js/relemanco/backend.js',
        'js/relemanco/plugins/jquery.blockUI.js'
    ];
    public $depends = [
        'yii\web\YiiAsset',
        'yii\jui\JuiAsset',
        'yii\bootstrap\BootstrapAsset',
        'yii\bootstrap\BootstrapPluginAsset',
    ];
}


According to the Bible, the descendants of Noah tried to erect which construction against the will of God, who destroyed the plan by making the builders talk a variety of languages?
Which Damon was an American newspaperman and writer, best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era?
On 24 October 1971, with a distance of 2,028 yards (1,854 m), Harry Drake broke the world record for the longest what?


text:
Q: How do I scrape data from a website using Java (Android)? My Android app will obtain carrier info from a phone number.  I intend to use Jsoup (or another Java HTML parser) to scrape carrier info displayed in a  table.
I am attempting to scrape from fonefinder.net
The query URL format is :
http://www.fonefinder.net/findome.php?npa=**first 3 digits**&nxx=**next 3 digits**&thoublock=**final 4 digits**

The HTML of the page is a simple table (see below).  I am trying to extract data from the 2nd row, 5th column, where a link appears in the format
http://fonefinder.net/(CARRIER_NAME).php

where CARRIER_NAME is a value like "verizon".  I need help figuring out how to extract this data.

        Area Code

      Prefix

        City/Switch Name

        (Click for city search)

        State/Prov.

        Area Map

        Telephone Company

        Web link

        Telco

        Type

        Map/Zip

        Detail

        **first 3 digits**

        **next 3 digits**

        City Name

        State Name

        carrier name

      WIRELESS PROV

        map

A: The code I wrote makes heavy use of Jsoup's selector syntax to parse tags by name, but you can also parse by CSS class, id, attribute and more.  The Jsoup selector syntax documentation has the full list of selectors that you can use.
import java.io.IOException;

import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.select.Elements;

public class StackOverflowQuestion {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        try {
            // get the tables on this page, note I masked the phone number
            Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://www.fonefinder.net/findome.php?npa=###&nxx=###&thoublock=####").get();
            Elements tables = doc.select("table");

            // get the second table, 0 indexed
            Element secondTable = tables.get(1);

            // get the columns
            Elements tds = secondTable.select("td");

            //get the 5th column, 0 indexed
            Element fifthTd = tds.get(4);

            //get the link in this column
            Element link = fifthTd.select("a").first();

            //print out the URL
            System.out.println(link.attr("href"));

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}


text:
Everyone was laughing but... O.M.G!
By Polaris922,
May 22, 2014 in Pittsburgh Penguins
Polaris922
http://www.thescore.com/news/506368
flyercanuck 9 posts
pilldoc 13 posts
jammer2 12 posts
Vanflyer 8 posts
Bylsam: "I need to speak with Regis, where's the GMs office, did they move it?" Mario "It's in Sids shower stall".
This would be the most awesome thing in the world. Pittsburgh would be ridiculous and Regis would be off the air. Everybody wins.
@idahophilly
Vanflyer
I can't wait. Us Flyers fans already have a field day with Regis's slurping of the pens, it will be even more fun if he is GM.
TropicalFruitGirl26
You know, we all give Pierre McGuire all sorts of grief for all sorts of things (most of which is well earned), but honestly, one would think that if the Pens FO even CONSIDERED him for the job, they have to believe he really does know more about hockey than his goofy on-air persona would lead you to believe.
Now.....THAT all said.....
If Regis becoming GM of the Pens ever does come to pass and the Pens fall short of at LEAST an ECF appearance (hmm..win?), Pens fans may never hear the end of it from other fan bases....particularly on THIS site where Regis is so highly regarded... ^_^ .
And don't EVEN get me started on what the backlash would be should the Pens (gasp!) MISS the playoffs with ol Captain Obvious running the show from the GM's box....yikes!
Looking at it from that context, bringing in Pierre to be the Pens GM may rank right up there with other such outstanding ideas that worked out so well, such as former Bolts clown co-owners Len Barrie and Oren Koules bringing in Barry Melrose to coach the Lightning because "he knew how to motivate and make winners out of players" :wacko:
Oh, and Mr. Melrose was fired not too far into the season.................
Hey, I am no Pens fan by any stretch, but I would feel for the fanbase should Regis be the face of the FO.
Any and ALL failures, no matter how small, would be magnified to the Nth degree by fans and the media.
nossagog
Don't think it will happen(he was a great friend to Ray Shero), and don't want it to happen. No experience in the front office, and questionable credentials in his coaching career. Please Please Please Mario, don't do it.
@Polaris922 The good....
Pierre takes a lot of heat for many things, but I honestly think his knowledge of current and up and coming players is unchallenged. The guy is a walking encyclopedia for all things hockey, he would have an immediate advantage assessing players values.
The bad....
If this happens, you Pens fans will feel the wrath of humiliation x 100 from every breathing Flyer fan...so there is that...LMAO
Dude, infinity x infinity is still infinity. So you're basically saying no change.
HF, that's just wrong man, just wrong
No way, hiring Pierre as GM is infinity with the biggest ever black hole inserted just for fun....oh geez, just the thought of it has me all giddy!!!! L-M-A-O!!!
Shoot me now.
In all seriousness - I would not bring him in as a GM. But - with his knowledge? I can find a spot for him in player development/scouting.
Anyone see the Brisson rumors? Took himself out of the running for GM but the Pens may be pushing to land him in some management capacity.
Yeah, Lemieux might be jealous.
Maybe he'll buy a house in the 'burgh and Crosby will move in the basement?
@hf101 The bond between Mario and Sid seems.....um, er....strong. Who is Sid dating these days, anyways...has he ever even been seen in public with a woman?.....NTTAWWT.
This would be the most awesome thing in the world. Pittsburgh would be ridiculous and Regis would be off the air.
Everybody wins.
http://www.playerwives.com/nhl/pittsburgh-penguins/sidney-crosbys-girlfriend-kathy-leutner/
Dayam. I wish I were the sand.
The laughing would only stop if Regis led them to a Cup... Lol
@hf101 It's obvious she was paid.
I buy that like I bought Michael Jackson having a girlfriend.
Only because the world as we know it will have ceased to exist.
No experience in the front office, and questionable credentials in his coaching career. Please Please Please Mario, don't do it.
All joking aside, this is 100% accurate. You could do much better than him (ie. guy with experience / track record). TFF is right that we poke fun at him incessantly here (shooting fish in a barrel), but he does have hockey knowledge. But he does not have the items you just cited. How the pens could let an experienced stanley cup winning GM go (shero) and replace with a novice in the skill set needed for a GM would be a mammoth slap in the face to Shero (regardless if they are best buddies).
Samifan
She's not his GF, she's Sid's diving instructor!
Bylsam: "I need to speak with Regis, where's the GMs office, did they move it?"
Mario "It's in Sids shower stall".
I love the way everyone on this forum is refering to him strictly as Regis now


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