The Vodafone Warriors will support not only the #RiseForAlex cause but also the New Zealand Spinal Trust during their 20th-round NRL clash against Manly at Mount Smart Stadium tomorrow (4.00pm kick-off; match day sponsor: Suzuki).
Owners Eric Watson and Sir Owen Glenn, the board, players and club as a whole made a $20,000 donation to the #RiseForAlex Fund last week.
With the NRL's official #RiseForAlex Round falling during their away match against Brisbane, the Vodafone Warriors have taken the opportunity to back the charity at their home game this week.
At the same time the Vodafone Warriors will support the New Zealand Spinal Trust through activities including collections at the ground and an auction launched on www.trademe.co.nz earlier this week.
Strong bidding on the 'Vodafone Warriors Wicked Weekend' lot has topped $3000 so far. The auction closes at 12.00pm on Monday, July 28, with all proceeds split between #RiseForAlex and the New Zealand Spinal Trust.
Proceeds from the collections will be shared between #RiseForAlex and NZST.
Vodafone Warriors members and fans can also buy #RiseForAlex wristbands at the stadium tomorrow. These will be available in the D Zone.
"We're doing all we can to support both #RiseForAlex and the Spinal Trust," said Vodafone Warriors chief executive Wayne Scurrah.
New Zealand Spinal Trust chief executive Ben Lucas said the trust was grateful to the Vodafone Warriors for recognising the organisation and also the "RiseForAlex cause.
"We were saddened by the injury sustained by Alex McKinnon but we know Alex can and will be able to lead a full and satisfying life as a tetraplegic," he said.
"Society has changed its attitude toward spinal cord injury and disability and opportunities are available today that weren't there even 10 years ago.
"Alex can return to work, get married and do many of the things he did prior to his injury. He is in a fortunate position to be a role model for people who have had a spinal injury and in the process, help others who are going through the same scenario of the major life-changing event that is a spinal cord injury.
After breaking his back at the third lumbar vertebrae in 1989, Lucas and took up wheelchair racing, winning a bronze medal the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games.
"Before my injury I could do 10,000 things. Now I can do only 9990 of them!" he said.
New Zealand Spinal Trust empowers people with a spinal cord impairment to live independent, confident and productive lives, right now!
We do this by listening to each person carefully, honouring their story and in the process, bringing hope to their journey. Then with persistence and challenging, we help them transition while remaining true to themselves.
The New Zealand Spinal Trust (NZST) is a long-established organisation having provided pioneering, highly specialised and intensive programmes to people with a Spinal Cord Impairment for the past 20 years.
The 'Kaleidoscope' Vocational Rehabilitation service working out of both the Burwood and Auckland Spinal Units.
The provision of educational information through the Allan Bean Centre Library.
The Connecting People - Peer & Family Support service and Volunteer Programmes.
Involvement with policy development at Central Government level, the direction of the Christchurch re-build and intensive involvement in the Burwood Hospital re-build.
Actively advocating for independent living for all SCI people.
The organisation employs a total of 18 full-time and part-time staff and has a turnover of just under $1 million per annum.
There are 90-120 new serious SCIs every year. About 45-50% go through the Auckland Spinal Rehabilitation Unit and about 50-55% go through the Burwood Spinal Unit in Christchurch. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of SCI accidents with falls having now overtaken sporting injuries as the second highest cause of SCI in New Zealand which is aligned to New Zealand's ageing population. Mountain bike accidents are the leading sports cause of SCIs followed closely by horse riding and then swimming (diving).
About 35-40% of new inpatients are non-accident in that the SCI is associated with conditions such as spinal tumour, transverse myelitis (inflammation of the spinal cord), or Guillian Barre disease (inflammation of the peripheral nervous system).
The NZST is a service based organisation that has little opportunity to generate income. Our Kaleidoscope programme does generate an income, but not enough to cover its own programme costs, let alone subsidise other parts of the business.
The New Zealand Spinal Trust and its team are passionate about helping people with a Spinal Cord Impairment to get back to independent living; we have the programmes and the team along with the results to prove it.


This is really critical stuff. Please do take the time to read this quite carefully.
Blackpowder & Bloodlines is very deliberately examining some specific themes. The organisers of Blackpowder & Bloodlines find many of these themes abhorrent. Because of this, we are deliberately exploring them in the hopes of learning more about ourselves in a safe environment. We encourage you to take a similar attitude.
We think there is benefit for a bunch of Australian gamers to take a good long look at things like the experience of Colonialism.
We absolutely do not condone things like racism in the real world, but think that in a fantasy environment if we take a good look at it, we may be able to learn something. Think of it as an experiment into the sociological benefits of roleplaying, or something.
One important aspect of this is the creation of a safe environment to make this examination. This is why we put so much importance on this being a game for adults – not because youngsters could be offended or wouldn't understand. But that we require a certain level of maturity in our shared endeavour.
This is also why it is so critical to emphasise the difference between the actions of our characters (who may display behaviour that is less than acceptable to our modern morality) and our participants (who we expect to be mature and respectful to everyone).
I have said it before, and I will say it again: The organisers of Blackpowder & Bloodlines find many of the themes found in the game abhorrent. Because of this, we are deliberately exploring them in the hopes of learning more about ourselves in a safe environment. We encourage you to take a similar attitude.
the physical attributes of your fellow participants.
It is not that there isn't benefit in examining such things in a safe environment, as we are with the confrontation of religions and faiths, just that this is not the game for it. We have a specific focus and these simply aren't part of it. The problem with these themes is that if they are in the game at all, they will dilute the particular themes we are interested in and so we just do not want them in the game.
There is another aspect, too, which is that some of these things can cause very real pain for our participants. Do not do it.
Stuff like slavery, sexual violence, cannibalism and any opinions you may or may not have about the physical attributes of your fellow participants are not part of the game.
We will never put these themes into the game and we don't want you too, either.
To explain further, let us consider the examples of Sexuality and Gender. While these things clearly exist in the world, we are not going to be examining them as an in-depth topic, like we are with class privilege.
More explicitly, your character may be male, female, queer, asexual, transgender, they may be straight, or anything else, but none of these things carry the social weight or stigma that our world does. It just isn't particularly interesting.
So if you want to have a romance plot and find a willing character with a compatible sexuality, then great, but if they have an incompatible sexuality, then just let it go – no harm, no foul. The most recent in-game political scandal is the Matrial Pontiff's refusal to marry the new Patronic Pontiff. The refusal is the source of the scandal, not the fact that both are women.
Similarly, gender has basically no effect on job-based stereotypes – a female townguard raises no eyebrows, there is no assumption that the ruler of a nation is male nor that order of inheritance is influenced by a child's gender.
If this is a difficult way of thinking to you, one way to do this is to imagine your character has the sexual and gender-based moral values of a perfectly accepting socially-liberal paradise. Take it as a challenge.
We are doing something that we think is very interesting here, but in a very deliberate fashion. That means we require the social contract that exists between all of the participants to be explicit. This part of it is a heavy topic, but a critical and complex one.


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Габріель Ескобар Маскуньяно (;  22 липня 1996, Леганес, Мадрид) — іспанський боксер, чемпіон Європи серед аматорів.

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Габріель Ескобар займався боксом з десяти років. 2014 року був учасником чемпіонатів світу та Європи серед молоді.

2016 року став чемпіоном Іспанії, але не пройшов далі 1/8 фіналу на відбірковому до Олімпійських ігор 2016 турнірі.

На чемпіонаті Європи 2017 програв у другому бою Брендану Ірвіну (Ірландія). На чемпіонаті світу 2017 здобув дві перемоги, а у чвертьфіналі програв Йосвані Вейтія (Куба).

Виступав з 2018 року за французьку команду напівпрофесійної ліги WSB «Fighting Roosters».

2018 року Габріель Ескобар став переможцем Середземноморських ігор та чемпіоном Європейського Союзу.

2019 року став переможцем Європейських ігор.
 В 1/8 фіналу переміг Вадима Кудрякова (Росія) — 4-1
 У чвертьфіналі переміг Барегама Харутюняна (Вірменія) — 5-0
 У півфіналі переміг Мануеля Каппаї (Італія) — 4-1
 У фіналі переміг Даніеля Асенова (Болгарія) — 4-1

На Олімпійських іграх 2020 дійшов до чвертьфіналу.
 В 1/8 фіналу переміг Рамона Квірога (Аргентина) — 5-0
 В 1/8 фіналу переміг Даніеля Асенова (Болгарія) — 4-1
 У чвертьфіналі програв Сакену Бібоссінову (Казахстан) — 2-3

На чемпіонаті світу 2021 переміг Даніеля Асенова (Болгарія) та програв Йоелю Фіноль (Венесуела) — 2-3.

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Q: IP Address not found on route 53 domain I'm starting out on AWS and try to host a website on the platform. The S3 bucket and its content is set up and i'm able to access the website via the url s3 is providing.
Permissions and properties are set to accept public traffic and that the bucket is used to host a website. The index document is correct.
Now i want traffic to be redirected to my domain visionranger.com, but it shows the error "IP address could not be found"
I tested this issue on 4 different devices across multiple browsers (including Chrome, Safari and Firefox).
Bucket, domain and hosted zone do have the same name and as AWS recommends, I asked my previous provider if they transferred the dns services to the new provides (in this case route 53) and they did.
I waited longer than 48 hours after settings everything up before writing this so all services should be working by now - but they don't.
The image shows the dns records of route 53.
I am grateful for any help.

A: By running a DIG command to get the NS value of your domain it returns a SERVFAIL indicating that the configured nameservers for your domain do not contain the record for you domain.
The next step is to run a whois which indicates your configured nameservers are below:

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*NS1.BDM.MICROSOFTONLINE.COM

*NS2.BDM.MICROSOFTONLINE.COM

*NS3.BDM.MICROSOFTONLINE.COM

*NS4.BDM.MICROSOFTONLINE.COM

As you're trying to use a Route 53 public hosted zone you will need to update your domain registrar to use the nameservers found under the NS record of the public hosted zone.
Follow the instructions here for your specific domain.

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Gateway Health And The Boys & Girls Clubs Of Western Pennsylvania Carve Out Career Path For Local Teens
Students Explore In-Demand Careers in Information Technology, STEM, Healthcare and Various Trades
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1, 2020
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Gateway Health, a leading managed care organization dedicated to caring for the "total health" of its members, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania (BGCWPA) are connecting local teens to viable career options in high-demand industries through the Career Works, Teen Workforce Development Academy.
The Career Works, Teen Workforce Development Academy is a full service program that takes teens on a formalized journey from filling in academic gaps, career exploration and soft skills training to relevant, occupational skill building and work experience in order to build a career path for the future. Over 200 students are enrolled in the multiple tracks of the program and have the option to participate either in person or online.
"Our Career Works, Teen Workforce Development Academy was designed to ensure that our students are fully prepared to succeed in an ever evolving job market," said Dr. Lisa Abel-Palmieri, President and CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania. "Through our partnership with Gateway Health, we are able to enhance our programs and do whatever it takes to break down any major barriers in the way of their success."
Students receive a personalized learning experience through multiple program tracks including Career Works High, Artificial Intelligence Pathways Institute, Career Works Prep and Career Works Tech. Students enrolled in the program gain access to mentorship, paid internships, pre-apprenticeships, dual-enrollment courses, full-time career placement support and post-program transition. As a primary sponsor, Gateway Health provides funding that supports monthly membership fees, transportation and the after-school program for both youth and teens.
"At Gateway Health, we are committed to supporting our communities and the whole health of those who live in them," said Regina Vercilla, Vice President, Clinical Strategy and Innovation, Gateway Health. "We are proud to partner with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania to help prepare students for a rewarding career that will lead to a future where they have equal opportunity to achieve their best health."
About Gateway Health
At Gateway Health, we believe in caring for the whole person in all communities where the need is greatest. We see a future in which everyone has equal opportunity to achieve their best health. Through our leading Medicaid and Medicare programs, Gateway Health is coordinating healthcare that goes beyond doctors and medicine that helps members achieve not just physical health, but also delivers whole person care. Our associates are helping to drive this new kind of healthcare in collaboration with a network of 29,000 primary care physicians, specialists, hospitals, and other ancillary providers. Gateway Health is also committed to supporting our neighbors through our many community outreach and engagement programs.
About Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania (BGCWPA)
Since 1888, Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania (BGCWPA) has served over 250,000 local youth as one of the largest, most comprehensive out of school providers in both Allegheny and Somerset counties. As a leader in mentoring, academic enrichment, youth workforce development and recreation programming, BGCWPA has stepped up to meet the needs and demands of our communities during COVID-19 and beyond serving over 12,000 youth and families through our programs and services. By offering all day learning hubs, before school, after school, specialty STEM and arts, virtual and home delivery programs, BGCWPA has provided the 70% single parent population with the ability to keep working and feel more economically stable. BGCWPA has taken the challenges of 2020 head on by addressing issues such as food insecurities and academic gaps with members increasing their math scores by an average of 29% and reading scores by 24% last year. Help us continue to do #WhatEverItTakes for thousands of local youth! Learn more at bgcwpa.org or by following @bgcwpa on social media.
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Careful what you hum in Hong Kong schools
June 15, 2020 by timhamlett
Hong Kong passed another small sad landmark on the path to perdition last week with the beginning of the political purge of the education business which has featured prominently on the Liaison Office's wish list lately.
The latest victim was a Miss Lee, who pushed the Powerpoint, or did until recently, at the Heung To Middle School in Kowloon Tong. Miss Lee's offence was a curious one.
She is, or was, a music teacher. One standard method for Hong Kong music teachers to assess the progress of their students which (according to a useful academic article by BU's Marina Wong) they do twice a year, is to ask the students to perform a tune of their own choice on whichever instrument they are torturing their neighbours with.
Last January Miss Lee was summoned to see the principal, who is apparently a man with a future, though perhaps not as Hong Kong's most popular school principal, and she was told that concern had been expressed that her political views were not aligned with those of the school.
This is a rather alarming notion. During my brief career as a schoolteacher I made no secret of my disreputable political views, and my department head gleefully introduced me to a pupil who shared them. Neither of us was expected to align with the school.
The evidence of Miss Lee's turpitude was that a student or students had chosen for the purposes of their assessment the tune "Glory to Hong Kong", a spirited march often sung in shopping malls by people in black and their sympathisers. And Miss Lee had allowed them to go ahead and warble the controversial ditty.
I must say it is not entirely clear to me what else she could have done. The student is not apparently required to give advance notice of the chosen tune. So it would hardly be fair to rule out politically contentious choices at the last minute, when it was too late to prepare something else.
Whatever the procedure, though, Miss Lee has now found herself out of a job. Some of her students protested politely round the school last week. I have no doubt this will be ignored.
The Education Secretary, no less, has said on radio that "Glory to Hong Kong" should not be played in schools because it is "propaganda". The song "Love the Basic Law", on the other hand, is allowed because it is "rule of law education". This is the sort of thing you get when you put an accountant in charge of education.
There are several things about this little scene that bother me. The first one is that there is apparently no distinction between a song, which may be political because it has words, and a tune, which can not because it consists only of notes.
There are a variety of songs which could be considered unsuitable for music education, or anything else, because of their words, like the Horst Wessel Song (which glorifies Nazism), We're all off to Dublin in the Green (terrorism) or Thank Heaven for Little Girls (don't ask).
But a tune is an innocent thing. The Horst Wessel Song, banned in Germany, actually used an existing hymn tune. Most Irish rebel songs are sung to old folk tunes. Glory to Hong Kong as a tune is simply a succession of notes. The political implications are in the ear of the paranoid listener.
Also, what is wrong with singing in praise of Hong Kong? There is nothing in Glory to Hong Kong about separatism, independence, or resisting one-party rule. There is quite a lot about freedom and democracy. Are these now regarded as subversive political values?
Last summer I spent some time in the south of Germany. This is generally known as Bavaria and is a state in the German federal system. Bavaria has its own flag, coat of arms and state anthem. It has a distinctive history (it was more or less a separate kingdom until 1870) its own version of the conservative party, and some other differences, which are cherished but in no way diminish the loyalty of Bavarians to Germany.
Well I knew about that. The King Ludwig who had a restaurant in Tsimshatsui named after him (recently closed, alas) was the last King of Bavaria, noted for extravagant tastes in architecture (see pic) and for supporting the work of Richard Wagner.
What I did not know was that people in some parts of Bavaria indignantly deny being Bavarian. They identify themselves as Franconian. Franconia (badge, song) was a region of statelets which survived for centuries before the upheaval caused by the arrival of Napoleon, during which it became part of Bavaria. This happened between 1803 and 1806, with finishing touches put by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
This surviving local loyalty does not mean that Franconians, any more than Bavarians, think of themselves as less German. If a large group of young people gathered in a shopping mall in Nuremberg and sang "Glory to Franconia" nobody would turn a hair. It would not be seen as subversive or secessionist. It would be seen as a legitimate expression of local loyalty, perfectly compatible with patriotism at the national level.
The poison which our Secretary for Education is eagerly importing on our behalf is the Communist Party of China's fear of any focus of loyalty other than itself: church, city, club, family, ideal. It doesn't matter. The CCP, like the Old Testament God, is a jealous God who requires that you should have no other Gods.
Even an extravagant affection for your home is a deviation from the required passion for Pooh.
on June 15, 2020 at 6:43 am | Reply Stephen Bolton
Well said, as always, sir.


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Audi, Friday Photo Archive, Ownership
Friday Photo From the Archives #2
Posted by EngageSportMode on September 14, 2012 July 20, 2013
After a rather lengthy summer hiatus, ESM is back once again. To kick things off after the holidays, I figured another Friday Photo From the Archives might be in order. In fact, this is one taken four years ago this week:
This is my Audi S3, also known as the "worst car I've ever owned" and "that bastard Audi". It was the 225bhp BAM model, fully kitted up with electric, heated, leather Recaro seats, CD-multichanger, climate control and expensive aluminium wing mirrors. It also had an unbelievably high specification of unreliability.
I had never really set out to buy this particular S3. At the time I was only 23 and was more interested in just test driving one rather than actually purchasing. However, the salesman at a local used car dealership was such a patronising, belittling arsehole when I enquired about the S3 that I set out to prove him wrong. He didn't believe I could afford to buy "his" car, and that he would only let me test drive it if my Father was there. Perhaps this was an incredibly elaborate sales technique, but it worked. Money was transferred, the car became mine.
On the day of picking it up I was understandably excited. Here was a proper car, not the small hatchbacks I'd been used to. The Polo GTi was traded in, and I drove off in the S3. My happiness lasted all of about an hour. Accelerating away from a roundabout the S3 stuttered, a warning light appeared on the dash, and the car instantly felt slower. Not being far from home, I trundled back and used the Microsoft repair method; turned it off, then back on again. The fault light had gone. Phew.
My relief was only short-lived. Monday morning's commute to work again brought the warning lights, misfires and low power back into play. Luckily, a colleague had access to the VAGcom diagnostic software which we plugged the S3 into. Some diagnostic runs up the A19 suggested something was clearly amiss with the Audi; with an overboosting turbo knocking the engine into limp-mode when the pressure became too much. Phonecalls were made to the dealership and, with the car being under warranty, they were happy to take it back and get it sorted. They even provided me with a courtesy car; a gold Peugeot 307 with a knackered exhaust.
Time passed. July became August, and August became September. In total it took six weeks, two garages and an Audi UK technical specialist to finally resolve the S3. Numerous parts were changed or swapped. I even received a second courtesy car because the first one's tax expired. The replacement Vauxhall Astra 1.4 automatic is possibly the worst car I've ever driven.
The repairs to the S3 cost me nothing, but cost the dealership around £1,750, wiping out any profit they had made on the car. In hindsight, I should have rejected the car after the first week of it being off the road and got my money back. But my age, and determination to own that car, overruled my head on this occasion. Frankly, I wish I hadn't bothered. Even when fixed the S3 proved to be an unreliable pain. In addition to the replacement parts fitted under warranty, in my tenure with the car it also had:
Both front suspension springs replaced after a random failure whilst driving,
All four coil-packs replaced, a week after the new suspension springs had been fitted,
A single piece of interior trim replaced for £80,
A replacement armrest mechanism after the original failed,
The exhaust manifold welded back together after it started blowing gases into the engine bay.
To put this into perspective, the above all took place between September 2008 and March 2010! The car was hardly a paragon of vorsprung durch technik, and left me with the constant feeling that something else would break whenever I drove it. To top it off, the actual driving experience itself was hardly incendiary. With such weighty trim level and quattro drivetrain, the S3 constantly felt slower than it should be. The 1.8T engine always felt laboured and soulless, with the six-speed gearbox not adding much to the party either. The 4WD system wast not even a true "quattro" setup, using the Haldex controlled system instead.
Power would only be diverted to the back wheels once the fronts began to lose grip. Combined with the overenthusiastic ESP system, the result was a rear differential which did very little the vast majority of the time. Once the front wheels began to slip, the ESP would generally cut in, killing power and leaving nothing to be transferred to the back. This would prove particularly frustrating in snow, when the ESP and Haldex sensors would get into a fight, leaving the S3 to swing between grinding understeer or lairy oversteer in the same corner.
Add to this the fact the Recaro seats gave the constant impression of sitting on top of them rather than in them (the electrical gubbins also made it impossible to get them to sit low enough in the car), the lifeless steering and the horrendous thirst for super unleaded never failed to uninspire me.
All in, the S3 ranks as the worst car I've owned for the simple fact the driving experience failed to make up for the unreliability and dynamic shortcomings. To finish off the Friday theme, some research into the chassis number turned up some interesting reading. My S3 was actually built on a Friday afternoon. This probably explained its half-baked build quality!
Eventually the constant expenditure on new parts and repairs became too much. The S3 went up for sale and set off for pastures new in Aberdeen. Within a week, the pesky hot-hatch had already broken down. At least it was draining somebody else's bank account for a change.
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Think that's a bit unfair. She may have been a bit of a dog but she was damned pretty! Won me over! (although had I known it was a crock of shit, I might've walked the other way!)
Stephen Downing says:
You never told me the story about only having a test drive with Daddy! Still at least they let you test drive it before buying it, unlike some dealerships we've dealt with!


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if HeroKillGold == nil then
  DebugPrint ( 'Creating new HeroKillGold object.' )
  HeroKillGold = class({})
  Debug.EnabledModules['gold:hero_kills'] = false
end

function HeroKillGold:Init()
  GameEvents:OnHeroKilled(partial(self.HeroDeathHandler, self))
  FilterManager:AddFilter(FilterManager.ModifyGold, self, Dynamic_Wrap(HeroKillGold, "GoldFilter"))
end

local StreakTable = {
  [0] = 0,
  [1] = 0,
  [2] = 0,
  [3] = 60,
  [4] = 120,
  [5] = 180,
  [6] = 240,
  [7] = 300,
  [8] = 360,
  [9] = 420,
  [10] = 480,

  max = 10
}

--[[
The following parameters are use in this way:
[base + (1 × dying hero's level) + (0.0225 × dying hero's NW × newMult) + (advantageMult × team NW disadvantage / advantageFactor)] × [1.2 - 0.1 × (dying hero's NW ranking - 1)] × nwRankingFactor[heroNWRank]
]]

local AssistGoldTable = {
    [1] = {
      base = 140,
      nwMult = 0.0375,
      advantageMult = 100,
      advantageFactor = 4000,
      nwMultBase = 1.2,
      nwMultMult = 0.1,
      nwRankingFactor = { 1 }
    },
    [2] = {
      base = 70,
      nwMult = 0.0375,
      advantageMult = 75,
      advantageFactor = 4000,
      nwMultBase = 1.2,
      nwMultMult = 0.1,
      nwRankingFactor = { 0.75, 1.25 }
    },
    [3] = {
      base = 35,
      nwMult = 0.0375,
      advantageMult = 50,
      advantageFactor = 4000,
      nwMultBase = 1.2,
      nwMultMult = 0.1,
      nwRankingFactor = { 0.75, 1, 1.25 }
    },
    [4] = {
      base = 25,
      nwMult = 0.03,
      advantageMult = 35,
      advantageFactor = 4000,
      nwMultBase = 1.2,
      nwMultMult = 0.1,
      nwRankingFactor = { 0.75, 0.75, 1.25, 1.25 }
    },
    [5] = {
      base = 20,
      nwMult = 0.0225,
      advantageMult = 35,
      advantageFactor = 4000,
      nwMultBase = 1.2,
      nwMultMult = 0.1,
      nwRankingFactor = { 0.75, 0.75, 1, 1.25, 1.25 }
    },
    max = 5
  }

function HeroKillGold:GoldFilter (keys)
  if keys.reason_const == DOTA_ModifyGold_HeroKill then
    return false
  end
  return true
end

function HeroKillGold:HeroDeathHandler (keys)
  -- points code for reference
  -- if keys.killer:GetTeam() ~= keys.killed:GetTeam() and not keys.killed:IsReincarnating() and keys.killed:GetTeam() ~= DOTA_TEAM_NEUTRALS then
  --   self:AddPoints(keys.killer:GetTeam())
  -- end
  if keys.killer:GetTeam() == keys.killed:GetTeam() then
    return
  end
  if keys.killed:IsReincarnating() then
    return
  end
  if keys.killed:GetTeam() == DOTA_TEAM_NEUTRALS or keys.killer:GetTeam() == DOTA_TEAM_NEUTRALS then
    return
  end

  local killerPlayer = keys.killer:GetPlayerOwner()
  if not killerPlayer then
    return
  end
  local killedPlayer = keys.killed:GetPlayerOwner()
  if not killedPlayer then
    return
  end

  local killedHero = killedPlayer:GetAssignedHero()
  local killerHero = killerPlayer:GetAssignedHero()
  local killerTeam = killerHero:GetTeamNumber()
  local killedTeam = killedHero:GetTeamNumber()

  local killedNetworth = killedHero:GetNetworth()
  local streak = math.min(StreakTable.max, killedHero:GetStreak())
  local streakValue = StreakTable[streak]
  local killedHeroLevel = killedHero:GetLevel()
  local baseGold = 110 + streakValue + (killedHeroLevel * 8)

  local heroes = FindHeroesInRadius(
    killerTeam,
    killedHero:GetAbsOrigin(),
    nil,
    1300,
    DOTA_UNIT_TARGET_TEAM_FRIENDLY,
    DOTA_UNIT_TARGET_ALL,
    DOTA_UNIT_TARGET_FLAG_INVULNERABLE + DOTA_UNIT_TARGET_FLAG_FOW_VISIBLE,
    FIND_ANY_ORDER,
    false
  )

  local function sortByNetworth (a, b)
    return a:GetNetworth() > b:GetNetworth()
  end

  table.sort(heroes, sortByNetworth)

  local foundKiller = false
  each(function (hero)
    if not foundKiller and hero:GetPlayerOwnerID() == killerHero:GetPlayerOwnerID() then
      foundKiller = true
    end
  end, heroes)

  if not foundKiller then
    table.insert(heroes, killerHero)
  end

  DebugPrint(#heroes .. ' heroes getting assist gold')

  local parameters = AssistGoldTable[math.min(AssistGoldTable.max, #heroes)]

  local function getHeroNetworth (playerId)
    local hero = PlayerResource:GetSelectedHeroEntity(playerId)
    return hero:GetNetworth()
  end

  -- NW factor is defined as (enemy team net worth / allied team net worth) - 1 and has a minimum of zero and a maximum of 1.
  local entireKilledTeamNW = map(getHeroNetworth, PlayerResource:GetPlayerIDsForTeam(killedTeam))
  entireKilledTeamNW = entireKilledTeamNW:totable()
  table.sort(entireKilledTeamNW)

  local killerTeamNW = reduce(operator.add, 0, map(getHeroNetworth, PlayerResource:GetPlayerIDsForTeam(killerTeam)))
  local killedTeamNW = reduce(operator.add, 0, entireKilledTeamNW)
  local nwFactor = math.min(1, math.max(0, (killedTeamNW / killerTeamNW) - 1))
  -- (Team NW disadvantage / 4000) has a maximum of 1
  local teamNWDisadvantage = math.min(math.max(0, killedTeamNW - killerTeamNW) / 4000, 1)

  local killedNWRanking = false
  local index = #entireKilledTeamNW
  each(function (nw)
    if killedNWRanking == false then
      if nw == killedNetworth then
        killedNWRanking = index
      end
      index = index - 1
    end
  end, entireKilledTeamNW)

  DebugPrint(killedNetworth .. ' hero is in ' .. killedNWRanking .. 'th place of')
  DebugPrintTable(entireKilledTeamNW)

  index = 0
  each(function (hero)
    --[[
      base = 140,
      nwMult = 0.0375,
      advantageMult = 100,
      advantageFactor = 4000,
      nwMultBase = 1.2,
      nwMultMult = 0.1,
      nwRankingFactor = { 1 }
    ]]
    index = index + 1
    -- 5 Heroes: [20 Gold + (1 × dying hero's level) + (0.0225 × dying hero's NW × NW factor) + (25 Gold × team NW disadvantage / 4000)]
    local assistGold = (parameters.base + (math.max(1, 6 - #heroes) * killedHeroLevel) + (parameters.nwMult * killedNetworth * nwFactor) + (parameters.advantageMult * teamNWDisadvantage))
    DebugPrint('(' .. parameters.base .. ' + (' .. math.max(1, 6 - #heroes) .. ' * ' .. killedHeroLevel .. ') + (' .. parameters.nwMult .. ' * ' .. killedNetworth .. ' * ' .. nwFactor .. ') + (' .. parameters.advantageMult .. ' * ' .. teamNWDisadvantage .. '))) = ' .. assistGold)
    -- × [1.2 - 0.1 × (dying hero's NW ranking - 1)] × [NW ranking factor]
    DebugPrint(assistGold .. ' * (' .. parameters.nwMultBase .. ' - ' .. parameters.nwMultMult .. ' * (' .. killedNWRanking .. ' - 1)) * ' .. parameters.nwRankingFactor[math.min(index, #parameters.nwRankingFactor)] .. ' = ...')
    assistGold = assistGold * (parameters.nwMultBase - parameters.nwMultMult * (killedNWRanking - 1)) * parameters.nwRankingFactor[math.min(index, #parameters.nwRankingFactor)]
    DebugPrint(assistGold)
    Gold:ModifyGold(hero, assistGold, true, DOTA_ModifyGold_RoshanKill)

    if hero:GetPlayerOwnerID() == killerHero:GetPlayerOwnerID() then
      assistGold = assistGold + baseGold
    end

    SendOverheadEventMessage(hero:GetPlayerOwner(), OVERHEAD_ALERT_GOLD, keys.killed, math.floor(assistGold), killerPlayer)

  end, heroes)
end

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Q: Laravel eloquent skip() limit() use Content::find($tag[0]->content_list)->take(5)
 Where $tag[0]->content_list =[1,7,9,11,16,23,35,56,77,87,93]
This works properly
But I want to use something like this
Content::find($tag[0]->content_list)->take(5)->skip(5)
This throws error

A: By calling find() you actually execute the query and get a collection back. Now the Illuminate\Support\Collection class has a take method, but no skip method. That's what's happening here.
Instead you should call take() and skip() before you use find():
Content::take(5)->skip(5)->find($tag[0]->content_list);


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Published November 4, 2015 3:48pm EST
Buried treasure in Burma: Squadron of lost WWII Spitfires to be exhumed
By | Fox News
A Spitfire LF Mk IX, flown by Ray Hanna in 2005. (Wikipedia / Franck Cabrol)
Yar -- it's buried PILOT treasure!
Like a treasure chest stuffed with priceless booty, as many as 20 World War II-era Spitfire planes are perfectly preserved, buried in crates beneath Burma -- and after 67 years underground, they're set to be uncovered.
The planes were shipped in standard fashion in 1945 from their manufacturer in England to the Far East country: waxed, wrapped in greased paper and tarred to protect against the elements. They were then buried in the crates they were shipped in, rather than let them fall into enemy hands, said David Cundall, an aviation enthusiast who has spent 15 years and about $200,000 in his efforts to reveal the lost planes.
The 62-year-old man -- a British farmer by trade -- realized the fate of the aircraft thanks to an offhand comment a group of American veterans made to a friend, he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
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''They told Jim: 'We've done some pretty silly things in our time, but the silliest was burying Spitfires.' And when Jim got back from the U.S., he told me,'" Cundall said.
The location of the planes, which remains a closely kept secret, was confirmed during a recent trip to the Far East country, he said.
''We sent a borehole down and used a camera to look at the crates. They seemed to be in good condition," Cundall told the Herald.
The Spitfire Mark XIV planes are rare for more than one reason: They used Rolls Royce Griffon engines rather than the Merlins used in earlier models to achieve tremendous speeds. Griffon-powered planes could reach 440 mph thanks to the hefty, 2,050-horsepower engines.
When production of the planes ultimately ended in 1947, 20,334 Spitfires of all versions had been produced, but just 2,053 of them were Griffon-powered versions, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The planes were deemed surplus and were buried in Aug., 1945 -- potentially along with another eight later in the year. At that time, propeller planes were falling out of fashion in favor of newer jet-engine designs -- Cundall said Spitfires "were 10 a penny." British military officials decided burying them was cheaper and more practical than bringing them home.
International sanctions prevent military material from leaving the country, but a recent visit by British Prime Minister David Cameron may enable the safe exhumation and return of the planes to England.
Only about 35 Spitfires are currently flying.


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Review: Home
By J.S. Bangs	on June 26, 2011 June 26, 2011
This book is the followup to Marilynne Robinson's previous novel Giliad, and it improves on its predecessor in every way. Given that Gilead was a work of rare beauty and insight, the fact that Home has done it one better is a magnificient achievement.
Gilead was in many ways the archetypal literary novel: jewel-like writing, flawed but poignant characters, steeped in questions of philosophy, religion, and beauty–and no plot at all. Oh, sure, there was something kind of resembling a plot that eventually got started about 2/3s of the way through the book, but the conflict that sketched the final act of that book was in no sense the driver of the book as a whole. Home, on the other hand, has plenty of plot. It has, in fact, the same plot that appeared in the last third of Gilead: the return of Jack Boughton, the black sheep of the Boughton clan, to his family home after twenty years absense.
In Gilead we get only sidelong glances at what effect this has on the Boughton family, as Gilead was framed as the journal of Ames, who was a lifelong friend to the Boughton clan. But Home is told from the point of view of Glory Boughton, the youngest of the Boughton daughters, who has returned home to her father's house after the failure of her long-delayed engagement. Glory gives us a much more intimate look into the family relations of the Boughton clan, and provides a closer perspective on the reprobate (but perhaps reformed) Jack and their father, a Presbyterian minister. Much of the book is taken up with Glory's reminisces of her childhood in the Boughton home, and these reminisces, along with the quiet turmoil stirred up by Jack's return, provide us with a deep and compelling look into the Boughton home. Here Robinson has done something really remarkable, describing a family that is neither a saintly ideal nor a mass of dysfunction, but a family that's flawed but good. The understanding that the author brings us of the joys and failures of the Boughton clan is the novel's strongest point.
The ending of the book does not suggest pat answers or easy resolutions to the problems of the family, and the singular problem of their prodigal Jack. But it is nonetheless full of hope.
This is the best book I've read yet this year.
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Ilya Gringolts
2 de Julio de 1982 Saint-Petersburg (Russia)
Born in 1982, Ilya Gringolts studied the violin with Tatyana Liberova and composition with Zhana Metallidi at the St Petersburg Conservatoire. In 1994, he won the first prize at the International Youth Competition in St. Petersburg, then the first prize at the Folkestone Competition in England and in 1998 he was awarded first prize at the Niccolo Paganini Competition.
He made his debut as a soloist in 1993 with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yuri Temirkanov and his recital debut in France at the Auditorium du Louvre in 1999. He has given numerous concerts throughout the world with the symphonic orchestras of Moscow, Washington, Liverpool, Tapiola, Lakhti, the Hannover NDR, Halle, Liverpool, Birmingham, Israel Philharmonic and Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Ilya Gringolts is regularly invited by the festivals of Lucerne, Kuhmo, Risor, Zermatt, Verbier, BBC Proms, Monte Carlo's Printemps des Arts and Bucarest. His soloist and recital repertoires cover Bach to Schnittke and Hindemith and in particularly baroque music, which he performs with the harpsichordist Masaaki Suzuki. He regularly plays chamber music with Yuri Bashmet, Lynn Harrell, Diemut Poppen, Vladimir Mendelssohn and Itamar Golan. He has founded his own quartet named the Gringolts String Quartet.
He has recorded works by Paganini, Ysaye, Schnittke, Ernst and his own compositions for the record company Bis. For Deutsche Grammophon he has recorded Sibelius' violin concerto and Humoresques, Prokofiev's first violin concerto conducted by Neeme Järvi and J.S. Bach's sonatas and partitas. For Onyx he has recorded the Schumann sonatas with the pianist Peter Laul and the Arenski and Taneiev violin concertos. Ilya Gringolts plays the Stradivarius violin ex-Kiesewetter made in Cremona in 1723 and lent by the Stradivarius Society of Chicago.
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Q: How to redirect button to the correct html pages using if else I have 3 html files for this page. index.html, positive review page and negative review page. I want my JavaScript to redirect to the pages after clicking the emojis feedback and then the button. After clicking the button depending on the emojis clicked it should redirect to the negative review page if the emoji selected is neutral or unhappy and if the emoji selected is satisfied to redirect to the positive review page. I am new and stuck with the below code. The below code takes me back to the positive review page.
const sendButton = document.querySelector("#send");
const panelContainer = document.querySelector(".panel-container");
const ratings = document.querySelectorAll(".rating");
const experience = document.querySelectorAll("small");

sendButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
    for (let i = 0; i < experience.length; i++) {
        // console.log(experience[i].innerHTML);
        if (
            experience[i].innerHTML === "Unhappy" ||
            experience[i].innerHTML === "Neutral"
        ) {
            window.location = "negative_review.html";
        } else {
            window.location = "positive_review.html";
        }
    }
});

This is the index page only.

    <!DOCTYPE html>

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

        <link
            rel="stylesheet"
            href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.2.0/css/all.min.css"
        />
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
        <title>Feedback</title>

Welcome Text

            How was your experience

                with us?

                    Unhappy

                    Neutral

                    Satisfied

            <form>
                Please Tell Us About Your Experience
                <textarea name="" id="" maxlength="350" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea>
            </form>
            <button class="btn" id="send">Send Review</button>

A: It looks like the correct experience to use is the one surrounded by

sendButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
  const experience = document.querySelector(".rating.active small");
  if (
      experience[i].innerHTML === "Unhappy" ||
      experience[i].innerHTML === "Neutral"
  ) {
      window.location = "negative_review.html";
  } else {
      window.location = "positive_review.html";
  }
});


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When many people have been wronged by a company, it doesn't always make financial sense for each person to file a separate lawsuit against the business. A class action--which allows many plaintiffs to consolidate similar or identical claims into a single lawsuit--offers advantages to both plaintiffs and defendants. If you've been injured or defrauded by a company and believe that others have had the same experience, talk to a class actions lawyer to learn whether you have grounds for a lawsuit. A class actions attorney can investigate the potential scope and magnitude of a lawsuit, and determine whether another class action lawsuit has already been filed with the courts. If the law firm determines that a class action is appropriate, it can prepare and file the lawsuit on your behalf.


If you love or hate cat videos, you have probably noticed them. Of course, unless you're running some related business, you might not include a feline friend in the video you hope to run as a social ad. At the same time, it's interesting to note that real scientists have studied cat videos to learn why they are such perennial favorites on social sites and YouTube.
Even if you aren't a cat person, understanding why cat videos are so popular will help you understand how you can more effectively leverage a video ad to gather leads online. In fact, this research helps to explain why video ads tend to work so well in general.
Why do people watch videos and in particular, cat videos? According to studies reported upon in the Huffington Post, people watch videos to help them regulate their emotions. In particular, videos of our fuzzy and furry pets seem to help improve moods. In fact, the scientists found that the effect was very similar to the way that therapy pets help improve moods. In other words, our minds react to videos almost the same way that they react to actually experiencing an event in person. In that way, videos can be as powerful as actual memories.
With this in mind, your company can use video in a Facebook ad, Twitter ad, on YouTube, or even on your website to appeal to your audience's intuition. You can present bite-sized facts, associate them with emotions, and then let your customers do the rest in their own minds. This reasoning explains almost everything you need to know about why videos ads can convert more of your ad viewers into leads; and it may also help you achieve better results if you stay focused on letting people feel good about their decision to do business with you!
Videos can help make your website and other online platforms more visible to your potential audience. They also tend to a great job of converting those viewers into your prospects and customers. Finally, creating a video does not have to cost a lot of money, and you are bound to enjoy great returns on your investment. If you would like to enjoy all of these benefits, it might be time to get excited about creating a video ad for your company or your client.
Did you know that Facebook users watch 100 million hours of video each day? It's true that YouTube, Facebook's biggest rival for video traffic, attracts 600 million hours of video watching daily. While YouTube might have a larger audience, the biggest social network offers some different opportunities than YouTube does to get brands noticed and consumers engaged.
For example, people tend to search YouTube for more in-depth content; however, a Facebook ad will show up in a user's feed. If you haven't considered using video for Facebook advertising before, you may find that it provides you with a powerful way to improve brand recognition and engagement. You can even use these ads to help generate more views for longer video advertisements on your site or on YouTube. Still, if you hope to do well on this social network, you should tailor your Facebook advertising for your audience and the platform.
While it's true that Facebook users consume a lot of video, the number of Facebook video ads have also increased by as much as 75 to 100% each year. Since social media users won't find this kind of content a novelty, you'll have to capture your viewer's attention by producing appropriate, high-quality videos.
Facebook considers a video thumbnail to be an image, which means that it is subject to the Facebook 20-percent rule. In the past, taking up more than 20% of an image with text would result in a quick ad rejection. However recently, Facebook has become somewhat more flexible about this, according to the Facebook Ad Guide. Still, they make it clear that most images that contain too much text will get less or even no delivery, so that's not really an encouragement to use a lot of text on your video thumbnails.
In almost all cases, you should stick to the 20-percent rule. Still, it's also important to know that Facebook may grant exceptions for things like book covers and movie posters. If you think you deserved an exception, but your ads aren't getting delivered, you might try contacting Facebook. If this doesn't resolve your problem, you should probably test a graphic with less text.
Facebook also offers a text check service to help you follow the 20-percent rule which you can use to check if your video thumbnail fits the requirements.
According to Facebook's own financial reports, 84% of the advertising revenue that the company brings in comes from mobile devices, so you certainly want to please Facebook mobile users. This is probably why Facebook suggests creating your video with mobile users in mind.
For video ads that don't contain links, Facebook suggests a full-portrait aspect ratio of 9:16. However, if you want to experiment with video link ads, you should stick to a square format of 1:1.
The video file cannot exceed 4GB.
To ensure the best results, you may want to consult this full page of Facebook video design suggestions.
If you browse Facebook on your PC, you might notice that many videos start playing automatically. Very often, mobile device users disable autoplay because they want to conserve bandwidth when they aren't connected to Wi-Fi. That means you'll need to create a catchy thumbnail of your video in order to attract attention.
To create a video thumbnail, you might choose one of the selections that Facebook will automatically generate for you when you create an ad. If you prefer, you can also upload your own image.
Marketers who work with large businesses keep all sorts of metrics about their video ads. When Social Media Examiner studied how long people actually watch their videos ads, they found that they experienced the largest loss of views after only about five seconds. After that, they had very few viewers left after a minute has passed. This data convinced them to create videos that didn't last more than 30 seconds and contained a good hook within the first two or three seconds.
Interestingly enough, Facebook's own guide to video suggests videos of only 15 seconds. It's fair to assume that they based this on their own metrics. In any case, it's almost always good advice to create short and punchy videos for social networks. You can reserve longer videos for your own site or YouTube.
Facebook video ads offer you a great opportunity to connect with social media users. Beyond the basics of optimizing your ads and images to perform well, and in order to get the best value from your investment, you should also explore some effective ways to find your audience and customize content for the platform. There's little doubt that your video ads can help you reach a massive audience. At the same time, you need your ads to perform as well as possible to recoup your Facebook advertising cost and maximize profit.
In the past, Facebook videos were set to autoplay without sound. Viewers need to take an action to turn the sound on. This made captions critical. With captions, viewers could still understand the message even if they didn't care to turn on audio. Facebook reported that captions helped increase the time that average viewers watched a video by an average of 12%. In this environment, adding captions seems like a great idea in most cases.
Despite the fact that Facebook also admitted that they found 80% of site users don't like autoplay with sound, the company has announced they will experiment with turning the sound on automatically. Still, it's best to assume that many Facebook mobile and even desktop users will opt to keep sound muted. People who may browse Facebook at work or on the bus probably won't benefit from having the sound turned on automatically. If you want to connect with your audience, you should think about the ways that they will consume your videos.
If you managed to keep your viewer's attention all the way to the end of your video, you certainly don't want to lose your audience after your video concludes. Since you should have marketing goals for your Facebook video, you want to make sure you conclude your video by reinforcing those goals. You can craft a call to action to make sure that your viewers know what you want them to do next.
Good salespeople will always tell you that you have to ask for the sale. Even if your goal isn't a sale, you still need a call to action. If the goal of your advertisement is to get your audience to like your page, click through to your website, call your company, or buy something, don't be shy about communicating that by reinforcing benefits and asking them to act. Make sure you end your video with a clear call to action to prompt your viewers to take the next step.
When you create your advertisement in Facebook, you can check a box that only sets the video to autoplay when the user has a Wi-Fi connection. If your viewer only has a 3G or 4G connection, your video may not perform very well, and you certainly don't want to start your relationship by annoying Facebook mobile users.
As you learned in the first part of this series, you can create an engaging thumbnail to capture attention even if autoplay is not turned on. If you do a good job with your thumbnail, some people may respond to your advertisement anyway. Others might wait until they have Wi-Fi connected to watch your video.
Marketers can really benefit from Facebook advertising because of the way the ad system lets them define an audience. To meet and exceed your goals, you should always create your video ads with specific audiences in mind. In fact, you'd probably be prudent to create different videos for different buyer personas and marketing goals.
If you run an online shoe store, for example, you might want to display different kinds of walking shoes to college students than you show to middle-aged folks. Even if you show the same shoes, you might want to tailor your videos differently to people in these different age groups. For example, younger people may worry more about performance and style, but older folks might be more concerned about relief from joint or back pain.
Of course, you can define metrics like age and location with video ads. However, Facebook also lets you create audiences with different historical levels of engagement. For example, you can create an audience that has watched a certain percentage of your video, and you could use this audience for retargeting ads that might be shorter and more tailored to their taste.
You can use your Facebook video ads to reach a massive audience. At the same time, you have to recognize that you may face stiff competition for the attention of your audience. You don't have to produce award-winning videos to compete in this market, but you should take some time to tune your content and advertising display to the platform and the audience. Since every market, company, and audience is somewhat different, you may also need to spend some time testing until you find a formula that maximizes your profits.
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Many many years ago people were writing their code mostly in FORTRAN, but also in PL/I. They were told by their teachers not to use too many functions or subroutines, because each call and return is very expensive, compared to plain goto statement.
So the brave programmers managed to write functions or subroutines several thousand lines long; these people were considered smart and very important, compared to the junior kind who only could write a hundred or two lines in one function or subroutine.
Structured programming consisted of using functions of reasonable sizes with reasonable structures. No jumps into the middle of a loop, no jumps out of loops into another loop or into a conditional statement; no exits out of the middle of your subroutine.
Then, later, it was discovered that it is just goto statement that should be blamed. So people started setting limitations, depending on their taste and creativity.
- do not goto upstream.
The idea of totally abandoning goto was considered too extremist: how else can we make sure that we have only one exit out of a subroutine or a function?
- how about releasing resources, like closing files, etc?
So it was decided, more or less unanimously, that we have to a) maintain some kind of "response" or "result" code, and b) goto the bottom of our subroutine and exit from there, using the "result code" to decide whether we should do something to close up our activity.
Since later goto was more and more discouraged (although you can find a goto in Java libraries source code), the kosher solution was suggested that was keeping some kind of integer shitLevel flag; everywhere in your code you are supposed to check the level, and if it is close to the fan, you should proceed without doing anything.
This ideology penetrated into Pascal, C, C++, and, later, Java. And only later people started thinking about structuring their code better.
Besides, some languages have finally block that can be used to neatly close all the streams that may remain open.
Here is basically the same argument, specifically for Java.
This looked sort of obvious ever since I learned about "finally". So, for some people it isn't?
Sure it is not. People do single exit all the time, explaining it by their "policy".


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Set in the 1970's, the short film centers on two little girls, who struggle with their mother's bipolar disease that constantly disrupts their lives and burdens them to grow up early.
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We've always wanted to make a film that stems from our personal experience of growing up with a bipolar mother. While the details were changed, we were the little girls that sometimes longed for normality and we were afraid of what might await us at home after school. Mental illnesses often stay ignored by society and people who suffer from them are excluded from their community. We believe it is important to raise awareness on the issue, because these illnesses affect more than the sick.


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An **envelope types** wraps a value of another type. An envelope is declared and constructed as follows:

```
envelope E(V)

let e = E(v)
```

The envelope's **constructor** is a function value, similar to struct call-syntax constructors. The type of constructor `E` above is `V => E[V]`.

The **purpose** of an envelope is to give semantic meaning to a more general data type. For example, a phone number can simply be saved as a string, but it would be advantageous to have a `PhoneNumber` type instead.

Instead of **accessing the underlying value** directly, the envelope type is used exactly like the underlying value. In any type contexts where the underlying type (or a supertype of it, excluding supertypes of the envelope itself) is expected, the compiler implicitly accesses the underlying value of the envelope. A member access on the envelope acts as a member access on the underlying value.

- **TODO:** We'll have to evaluate whether this is feasible, especially in conjunction with multi-function type inference.

- We have to be careful if we wanted to use subtyping such that `E < V`. Suppose we have the following code:

  ```
  trait A
  trait B extends A
  envelope X(A)

  func foo(A): String = 'hello'
  func foo(B): String = 'world'
  ```

  What if we invoke `foo(X(b))` with `b` being a subtype of `B`? If an envelope merely subtypes its value type, multiple dispatch would choose to invoke `foo(A)`. So the subtyping relationship would have to be extended to `E < B` iff `E` contains a value that subtypes `B`. This would lead to `foo(B)` becoming the call target.

- Ultimately, we can't solve the problem with subtyping, because at run-time, accessing a value `v` is different than accessing `e.v`. We would have to wrap any kind of value access (passing to an intrinsic function, member access, printing, equality, etc.) in a function that checks whether the current value is the expected value or still wrapped in an envelope.

Envelope types have two important **advantages:**

- They provide a convenient way to **document** your code without writing comments. For example, take a function `score: String => Real`. With envelope types, this could be `score: Player.Name => Player.Score `. Much clearer, right?
- They improve **correctness resilience** through type checking. Since you can't pass the underlying value without constructing an envelope, you will not accidentally pass any value that doesn't (theoretically) belong there. For example, take the `score` function from above. You will have a hard time passing your grandma's name (who certainly doesn't play games!) or even another envelope type such as `Location.Name`.

###### Abstractness

An envelope type is abstract if its **underlying type is abstract**.

###### Examples

```
envelope PhoneNumber(String)
envelope Players([Player])
envelope Height(Real)
```


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Despite elite-bashing from right and left, world is making progress
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This year's World Economic Forum, more than usual, prompted a spirited round of elite-bashing, which has now become the trendy political posture on both right and left. On one side, Pres. Trump and Fox News hosts slam the out-of-touch establishment that, according to them, has run things into the ground. On the other side, left-wingers decry the millionaires and billionaires who, in one author's phrase, "broke the modern world."
Underlying these twin critiques is a bleak view of modern life - seen as a dysfunctional global order, producing stagnant incomes, rising insecurity and environmental degradation. But is this depiction in fact true? Are we doing so very badly that we need to bring back the guillotines?
On the simplest and most important measure, income, the story is actually one of astonishing progress. Since 1990, more than 1 billion people have moved out of extreme poverty. The share of the global population living in these dire conditions has gone from 36 percent to 10 percent, the lowest in recorded history. This is, as the World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, notes, "one of the greatest achievements of our time." Inequality, from a global perspective, has declined dramatically.
And all this has happened chiefly because countries - from China to India to Ethiopia - have adopted more market-friendly policies and Western countries have helped them with access to markets, humanitarian assistance and loan forgiveness. In other words, policies supported by these very elites.
Look at any measure from a global perspective and the numbers are staggering. The child mortality rate is down 58 percent since 1990. Undernourishment has fallen 41 percent, and maternal deaths (women dying because of childbirth) have dropped by 43 percent over roughly the same period. I know the response that some will have to these statistics. The figures pertain to the world in general, not America. Things might have improved for the Chinese but not for the denizens of rich countries. That sense of "unfairness" is what is surely fueling Trump's America First agenda and much of the anger on the right at the international system. (More bewilderingly, the left, traditionally concerned about the poorest of the poor, has become critical of a process that has improved the lives of at least a billion of the world's most impoverished people.)
When criticizing the current state of affairs, it's easy to hearken back to some nostalgic old order, the modern world before the current elites "broke" it. But when was that golden age? In the 1950s, when Jim Crow reigned in America and women could barely work as anything more than seamstresses and secretaries? The 1980s, when two-thirds of the globe stagnated under state socialism, repression and isolation? What group of elites - kings, commissars, mandarins - ran the world better than our current hodgepodge of politicians and businessmen?
Even in the West, it is easy to take for granted the astounding progress. We live longer, the air and water are cleaner, crime has plunged, and information and communication are virtually free. Economically, there have been gains, though crucially, they have not been distributed equally.
But there have been monumental improvements in access and opportunity for large segments of the population that were locked out and pushed down. In the U.S., the gap between black and white high school completion has almost disappeared. The poverty gap between blacks and whites has shrunk (but remains distressingly large). Hispanic college enrollment has soared. The gender gap between wages for men and women has narrowed. The number of female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies has gone from one to 24 over the last 20 years. Female membership in national legislatures of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries has almost doubled in the same period. No countries allowed gay marriage two decades ago, but more than 20 countries do today. In all these areas, much remains to be done. But in each of them, there has been striking progress.
I understand that important segments of the Western working class are under great pressure, and that they often feel ignored and left behind by this progress. We must find ways to give them greater economic support and moral dignity. But extensive research shows that some of their discomfort comes from watching a society in which these other groups are rising, changing the nature of the world in which they'd enjoyed a comfortable status.
After 400 years of slavery, segregation and discrimination in America, blacks have been moving up. After thousands of years of being treated as structurally subordinate, women are now gaining genuine equality. Once considered criminals or deviants, gays can finally live and love freely in many countries. The fact that these changes might cause discomfort to some is not a reason to pause, nor to forget that it represents deep and lasting human progress that we should celebrate.
Fareed Zakaria's email address is fareed. zakaria.gps@turner.com.
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Saying "I divorce thee" three times, as men in Muslim countries have been able to do for centuries when leaving their wives, is not enough if you're a resident of Maryland, the state's highest court ruled yesterday.
Both of their children were born in the United States.
In 2003, Aleem's wife filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
When he filed a counterclaim, he did not object to the court's jurisdiction over the case, according to the ruling. But before the legal process could be completed - and without telling his wife - Aleem went to the Pakistani Embassy in Washington and invoked the talaq, in effect attempting to turn jurisdiction of the case over to a Pakistani court that later granted him a divorce.
When they were married in Karachi in 1980, Farah Aleem was 18 and had just graduated from high school. Irfan Aleem was 29, a doctoral candidate at Oxford University in England. As is customary, the couple signed a marriage contract. It obligated Aleem to give his wife the equivalent of $2,500 in the event of their divorce. When they split, he did so, and claimed he owed her nothing more.
Priya R. Aiyar, an attorney for Irfan Aleem, said yesterday from Washington that she had been unable to reach her client to tell him he had lost his appeal. Until she does, Aiyar said, she would have no comment on the case.
Jeffrey M. Geller, a lawyer for Farah Aleem, did not return a call seeking comment.
Experts in Islamic law and religion who are based in the U.S. said they agreed with the court's ruling. Abdullahi An-Na'im, a Muslim scholar and law professor at Emory University in Atlanta, said "there can only be one law of the land."
An-Na'im, who wrote Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a, said that "if Muslims wish to influence what the law of the state says, they must do so through the normal political process and in accordance with civic discourse that is equally open for debate by all citizens, and not on the basis of religious beliefs."
Julie Macfarlane, a law professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario, who has spent two years on a research project titled "Understanding Islamic Divorce in North America," said she was surprised that Aleem had tried to force the notion of talaq on a U.S. court.
"It's unclear how he even thought he was going to make a successful legal argument on this point," Macfarlane said.
Many North American Muslim religious leaders, known as imams, now treat a woman's request for a divorce as a right, Macfarlane said, an evolution from the common scenario under which she may split up with her husband only if he consents.
"The theory of Islamic law is that the man has the right and that the woman has to ask for it, but what's fascinating is that in practice, Islamic divorce is evolving to fit contemporary mores," she said. "Women are asking for divorce now. Two decades ago, they were not."
Muneer Fareed, secretary-general of the Islamic Society of North America, said that if Aleem had traveled to Pakistan and invoked his talaq there, it might have been recognized in a U.S. court under the concept of comity, under which nations accept the premise of a law in another country "whether or not we agree with the law or its spirit."
But Aleem, he said, attempted to circumvent any such agreements.
"There was a certain lack of faith here because the husband initiated the talaq after his wife had filed for divorce," Fareed said. "He was trying to defeat the ends of justice within the American legal system."


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FRIDAY, April 11, 2003 (HealthDayNews) -- Having cancer is challenge enough, but having cancer and not having insurance is much worse, an Emory University study concludes.
Uninsured cancer patients receive only half the health services of insured cancer patients, yet pay much more out of pocket for that care, according to the study, which appears in this month's issue of Health Affairs.
Health policy researchers Kenneth E. Thorpe and David Howard tracked 1,383 cancer patients over a six-month period. Overall, those with private insurance averaged $6,550 worth of health-care services; while those without insurance got $3,606 worth of services.
Yet, insured patients paid $480 out of pocket; uninsured paid $1051.
"I think the study highlights that we need to refocus our attention on looking at patients who do not have health insurance," says Thorpe, head of the department of health policy and management at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory.
"There are pockets of very, very sick people who, in the absence of health insurance, are really not getting the same access to health care as those with insurance would be getting," he adds.
The researchers extracted data for the years 1996 to 1999 from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, which is a nationally representative sample often used by researchers to track insurance status and health-care spending.
When they zeroed in on cancer patients under 65, the differences were also great. Insured patients got $8,419 in health services, while those without insurance got $4,806. Insured patients under 65 paid $549 of that out of pocket, while the uninsured paid $1,343 out of pocket -- almost 2.5 times as much.
Ethnic differences emerged, too. While 10 percent of cancer patients under age 65 are uninsured, Thorpe says, they found 20 percent of Hispanic cancer patients under 65 are without coverage.
As to why the uninsured got less care, Thorpe can only speculate. "These are people who probably don't have sustained attachments to the health-care system. They may not have a primary care doctor or get regular, routine care," he says.
Thorpe says there is little research on younger cancer patients and insurance status and health care spending. Most studies on insurance and health-care spending focus on Medicare patients.
The study results ring true for Ninez Ponce, an assistant professor of health policy at UCLA's School of Public Health who has studied cancer screening habits and the effects of insurance.
"It's not surprising that the uninsured are less likely to get care," she says. What's not clear, she adds, is whether it occurs because people don't seek out health care as much if they don't have insurance or whether doctors may treat them differently.
Intuitively, she says, "you would think the results are true. But to see it played out [in the study] reinforces the idea that not only programs to expand access to cancer screening but also programs to expand access to treatment are crucially important."
In her research, Ponce adds, she has found ethnic differences in how populations get screened for cancer, as well. "I find Latinos, Asians, Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders have low screening rates."
You can find information on medical insurance for the cancer patient at the American Cancer Society, which also has information on laws related to insurance.


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Nintendo Closes Small Offices in Bay Area
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Nintendo has announced that it is going to close its office in Bay Area and all the employees will be rearranged. The company has confirmed that it is closing two of its offices in North America, one in Redwood City and the second one in Toronto. They will be going to unite function in the United States and Canada's heads.
The company said in a statement that Nintendo of America headquarters will be WA, Vancouver, Redmond, and BC. They have a plan to move all the employees in small offices such as Redwood City, Toronto, California, and ON into those headquarters as they are closing these small offices.
The Kotaku further said that many of the newly replaces staff were very upset over the companies decision. Their office on Bridge Parkway in Redwood City has included marketing and sales departments. But the Nintendo's official website yet records that location, labeling it as a place where you can find Marketing and Sales departments and also the NMI.
A YouTube video which was recorded in 2012 provides a glance of inside bright space, which was occupied with knickknacks and art from its very well-known franchises including Zelda and Super Mario.
Along with the office relocation they have also made changes in their leadership team. Nick Chavez SVP of Sales and Marketing has left the company and Devon Pritchard is the current Executive Vice President, Business Affairs and Publisher Relations.
Moreover, Nintendo has not given any specific reason for closing its office in Redwood City.
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Q: Extracting the imaginary part of data from fft in R I need to filter the imaginary part of a forward fourier transform.
I've been trying to use filter.complex (but R keeps saying function filter.complex does not exist)
I've used only filter, and I get the following warning message-
imaginary parts discarded in coercion

Please tell me if I'm missing something
This is an example:
    x = fft(rec-mean(rec))/sqrt(length(rec))
    y = fft(soi-mean(soi))/sqrt(length(soi))
    fyx = filter.complex(y * Conj(x), rep(1, 15), sides = 2, circular = TRUE)

A: I tried unsuccessfully to find a filter.complex function (and I'm reasonably good art searching such things out.) I don't think it exists. I think you may have gotten a hold of some old S code that was set up for dispatching to the complex class. If I trim the command to just:
fyx = filter(y * Conj(x), rep(1, 15), sides = 2, circular = TRUE)

...., I get the identical message. It's apparently from the deeper code called at the C-level since that message is not visible in the R-code that appears when you just type "filter" at the command line. Searching with Google for the error message shows it's probably coming from: http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/main/coerce.c .
It is just a warning, and not necessarily evidence of wrong-doing on your part.

A: I figured out what was wrong. The function 'filter.complex' was not defined in any package.
So, I defined it as follows-
filter.complex=function(x,...){complex(real=filter(Re(x),...), imag=filter(Im(x),...))}

This filtered the imaginary part that I needed.


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Jump Force Announced by Bandai Namco for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Steam
Chris Bowman June 11, 2018 News
June 10, 2018, During the Microsoft Conference at E3 Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. rocked the stadium with the announcement of the night, Jump Force will be released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Steam. The greatest warriors, hero and villain, from 50 years of Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump manga will fight against one another across iconic locations on Earth in this new fighting game.
Including some of the world's most popular manga/anime franchises, Dragonball Z, One Piece, Naruto, and many others. Players will create a 3-person tag team of their most loved characters and take them into the battle arena with backdrops in some of the most famous landmarks from around these franchises worlds. Jump Force brings these giants to life for the first time with realistically stunning detail.
The worlds collide when the lines between them become blurred, while evil forces spill into the real world to rule over humanity. The biggest heroes ever come to our aid including, Goku, Luffy, Naruto, and many others that have yet to be announced. They will join together to rid the world of evil.
"With JUMP FORCE, we are thrilled to bring to life Shueisha's deep catalogue of beloved franchises that has produced some of the most popular pop culture characters to ever come from Japan," said Eric Hartness, Vice President of Marketing for BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. "JUMP FORCE gives fans of manga and anime a dream opportunity to see their favorite heroes come to life in our world in a globetrotting adventure filled with explosive battles of epic proportions."
JUMP FORCE will be available in 2019 for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 system, and PC via STEAM. For more information about JUMP FORCE or other titles from BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc., please visit; https://www.bandainamcoent.com, or follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BandaiNamcoUS, or join the conversation at https://www.twitter.com/BandaiNamcoUS.
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