Commander Janean Gross, right, helps Chicago eighth-grader Jade Amaya work the communications screen during a simulated mission to Mars on Nov. 29, 2018.
The average computing mechanisms in a smart phone today are more powerful than the equipment used in all the Apollo missions to space in the 1960s combined, a fact which blows Valparaiso University Astronomy professor Luke Leisman's mind.
So thinking about the incredible amount of work that went into NASA launching equipment to Mars -- and getting it exactly to that planet's equator -- has Leisman and other educators in Northwest Indiana thrilled at the lessons the mission promises to bring over its course. The sheer distance of Mars from Earth alone is difficult to fathom, at least for the moment.
"The distance between Earth and the moon is 240,000 miles, and you can achieve 240,000 miles with a really good car," Leisman said. "Now, the distance between Earth and Mars is 25 million miles, so that makes getting anything there hundreds of times more difficult."
Yet late last month, two tag-along spacecrafts -- named Eve and Wall-E, after the Pixar robots -- sent back information on the Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight's, equipment's landing via radio in eight minutes, the actual time the radio waves took to travel back to Earth from Mars, according to NASA's website. The information wasn't in-depth, but it didn't need to be for their purposes, the website said.
Launched in May, NASA's $829 million InSight project seeks to get up-close and personal with the red planet, Leisman said. There are plenty of rovers and satellites from all over the world capturing the Mars's exterior features, but InSight plans on going below the surface to see what the planet's made of and what synergies it has with its blue sister.
Getting the equipment to Mars was half the battle, said Lara Bates, interim director for Purdue University Northwest's Challenger Center. Since Earth travels twice around the sun for every one Mars rotation, according to NASA's website, the two align relatively close to each other once every six months.
After 30 days or so of remote set-up of the equipment, InSight will start the day-to-day mission duties of drilling into Mars's ground structure for samples as well as see if it's structured like Earth, with a mantle and core. Another objective will be determining if Mars radiates any heat, Leisman said.
The information will be helpful in a few different ways, such as perhaps being able to better predict how Earth will change over time. And Leisman is thrilled to be able to incorporate the findings into his Spring Astronomy 101 class at VU.
Commander Greg Karas, with the Challenger Space Center in Hammond, speaks to children in a simulated mission to Mars on Nov. 29, 2018.
Commander Ann Vassar, with the Challenger Space Center in Hammond, holds an inflatable model of Mars as she speaks to children before a simulated mission to Mars on Nov. 29, 2018.
Bates's students are also getting the Mars treatment during visits to the Challenger Center. Currently, it's offering through a NASA grant the program "Expedition: Mars," where kids from all over work through a series of exercises that covers brainstorming, planning, engineering, robotics and manning "Mission Control." InSight findings will be incorporated as the mission unfolds, Bates said, but one of the bigger focuses of the program is getting the kids to fathom how many people it took to coordinate InSight and how they can be the next generation to get involved.
"I tell them, 'I'm too old, but you're learning everything now. This is your project to solve,'" Bates said. "Mars is our 'Plan B' (for when the Earth becomes unlivable), and we do need other options. Earth isn't too hot or too cold, but Mars is super-challenging, with high radiation and no oxygen levels.
Leisman and Bates agreed that colonizing Mars is a long way off – getting people up there would be a feat unto itself – but the excitement projects like InSight bring to people is just as valuable as the knowledge it will bring into the world.
"NASA does a great job of reinventing itself and piquing curiosity, and it's great to see parents and teachers helping that along," Bates added.
People at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., celebrate as the InSight lander touches down on Mars on Nov. 26, 2018.


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Bobby Sumpter
For outstanding scientific impact in computational soft matter and nanoscience through cross-discipline collaboration to address materials problems and discover new functional materials
Stan Wullschleger
For outstanding leadership and pioneering research in climate and the environmental sciences
James R Beene
For innovative research in nuclear structure physics, particularly in areas leading to a quantitative understanding of the excitation and decay of the elementary collective modes of nuclei, and for vision and scientific and technical leadership in building the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility into a forefront laboratory for nuclear science.
Steven J Zinkle
For leadership and pioneering research in the fundamental effects of radiation on a broad range of metals and ceramics applicable to fission and fusion energy systems.
Benjamin A Carreras
For contributions to understanding plasma turbulence and the nonlinear properties of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities, especially their role in explaining the behavior of magnetically confined plasmas, and for development of new magnetic confinement concepts that overcome these limitations.
Lester C Oakes
For contributions to advanced control systems for nuclear reactor, including development of control-system and plant protection technologies that permit automated start-up and operation; and to analysis techniques that have led to better understanding of reactor dynamics.
Thomas A Carlson
For ideas and techniques which have opened new frontiers in chemical research and now play major roles in the study, understanding, and use of photoionization and photoelectron spectroscopy in studies of "hot atom" chemistry and work with multiply charged molecular ions.
Eric Hirst
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package io.openthread.commissioner.service;

import android.Manifest.permission;
import android.content.Context;
import android.net.nsd.NsdManager;
import android.net.nsd.NsdServiceInfo;
import android.net.wifi.WifiManager;
import android.util.Log;
import androidx.annotation.RequiresPermission;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

public class BorderAgentDiscoverer implements NsdManager.DiscoveryListener {

  private static final String TAG = BorderAgentDiscoverer.class.getSimpleName();

  private static final String SERVICE_TYPE = "_meshcop._udp";
  private static final String KEY_DISCRIMINATOR = "discriminator";
  private static final String KEY_NETWORK_NAME = "nn";
  private static final String KEY_EXTENDED_PAN_ID = "xp";

  private WifiManager.MulticastLock wifiMulticastLock;
  private NsdManager nsdManager;
  private BorderAgentListener borderAgentListener;

  private ExecutorService executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
  private BlockingQueue<NsdServiceInfo> unresolvedServices = new ArrayBlockingQueue<>(256);
  private AtomicBoolean isResolvingService = new AtomicBoolean(false);

  private boolean isScanning = false;

  public interface BorderAgentListener {
    void onBorderAgentFound(BorderAgentInfo borderAgentInfo);

    void onBorderAgentLost(String discriminator);
  }

  @RequiresPermission(permission.INTERNET)
  public BorderAgentDiscoverer(Context context, BorderAgentListener borderAgentListener) {
    WifiManager wifi = (WifiManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
    wifiMulticastLock = wifi.createMulticastLock("multicastLock");

    nsdManager = (NsdManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NSD_SERVICE);

    this.borderAgentListener = borderAgentListener;
  }

  public void start() {
    if (isScanning) {
      Log.w(TAG, "the Border Agent discoverer is already running!");
      return;
    }

    isScanning = true;

    wifiMulticastLock.setReferenceCounted(true);
    wifiMulticastLock.acquire();

    startResolver();
    nsdManager.discoverServices(
        BorderAgentDiscoverer.SERVICE_TYPE, NsdManager.PROTOCOL_DNS_SD, this);
  }

  private void startResolver() {
    NsdManager.ResolveListener listener =
        new NsdManager.ResolveListener() {
          @Override
          public void onResolveFailed(NsdServiceInfo serviceInfo, int errorCode) {
            Log.e(
                TAG,
                String.format(
                    "failed to resolve service %s, error: %d, this=%s",
                    serviceInfo.toString(), errorCode, this));
            isResolvingService.set(false);
          }

          @Override
          public void onServiceResolved(NsdServiceInfo serviceInfo) {
            BorderAgentInfo borderAgent = getBorderAgentInfo(serviceInfo);
            if (borderAgent != null) {
              Log.d(TAG, "successfully resolved service: " + serviceInfo.toString());
              Log.d(
                  TAG,
                  "successfully resolved service: " + serviceInfo.getHost().getCanonicalHostName());
              borderAgentListener.onBorderAgentFound(borderAgent);
            }
            isResolvingService.set(false);
          }
        };

    Log.d(TAG, "mDNS resolve listener is " + listener);

    if (executor.isTerminated()) {
      executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
    }

    executor.submit(
        () -> {
          while (true) {
            if (!isResolvingService.get()) {
              NsdServiceInfo serviceInfo = unresolvedServices.take();

              isResolvingService.set(true);
              nsdManager.resolveService(serviceInfo, listener);
            }
          }
        });
  }

  private void stopResolver() {
    if (!executor.isTerminated()) {
      executor.shutdownNow();
    }
    isResolvingService.set(false);
    unresolvedServices.clear();
  }

  public void stop() {
    if (!isScanning) {
      Log.w(TAG, "the Border Agent discoverer has already been stopped!");
      return;
    }

    nsdManager.stopServiceDiscovery(this);
    stopResolver();

    if (wifiMulticastLock != null) {
      wifiMulticastLock.release();
    }

    isScanning = false;
  }

  @Override
  public void onDiscoveryStarted(String serviceType) {
    Log.d(TAG, "start discovering Border Agent");
  }

  @Override
  public void onDiscoveryStopped(String serviceType) {
    Log.d(TAG, "stop discovering Border Agent");
  }

  @Override
  public void onServiceFound(NsdServiceInfo nsdServiceInfo) {
    Log.d(TAG, "a Border Agent service found");

    unresolvedServices.offer(nsdServiceInfo);
  }

  @Override
  public void onServiceLost(NsdServiceInfo nsdServiceInfo) {
    String discriminator = getBorderAgentDiscriminator(nsdServiceInfo);
    if (discriminator != null) {
      Log.d(TAG, "a Border Agent service is gone");
      borderAgentListener.onBorderAgentLost(discriminator);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void onStartDiscoveryFailed(String serviceType, int errorCode) {
    Log.d(TAG, "start discovering Border Agent failed: " + errorCode);
  }

  @Override
  public void onStopDiscoveryFailed(String serviceType, int errorCode) {
    Log.d(TAG, "stop discovering Border Agent failed: " + errorCode);
  }

  private BorderAgentInfo getBorderAgentInfo(NsdServiceInfo serviceInfo) {
    Map<String, byte[]> attrs = serviceInfo.getAttributes();

    // Use the host address as default discriminator.
    String discriminator = serviceInfo.getHost().getHostAddress();

    if (attrs.containsKey(KEY_DISCRIMINATOR)) {
      discriminator = new String(attrs.get(KEY_DISCRIMINATOR));
    }

    if (!attrs.containsKey(KEY_NETWORK_NAME) || !attrs.containsKey(KEY_EXTENDED_PAN_ID)) {
      return null;
    }

    return new BorderAgentInfo(
        discriminator,
        new String(attrs.get(KEY_NETWORK_NAME)),
        attrs.get(KEY_EXTENDED_PAN_ID),
        serviceInfo.getHost(),
        serviceInfo.getPort());
  }

  private String getBorderAgentDiscriminator(NsdServiceInfo serviceInfo) {
    Map<String, byte[]> attrs = serviceInfo.getAttributes();

    if (attrs.containsKey(KEY_DISCRIMINATOR)) {
      return new String(attrs.get(KEY_DISCRIMINATOR));
    }

    if (serviceInfo.getHost() != null) {
      // Use the host address as default discriminator.
      return serviceInfo.getHost().getHostAddress();
    }

    return null;
  }
}

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The Blue Mountain Chorus invites you to join them for Home for the Holidays, a seasonal musical celebration in four-part harmony! Enjoy performances by the Chorus (including members of their first Christmas Guest Chorus), Prospect Point Elementary Choir, and Blueprint Quartet.
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India's weak opposition got a shot in the arm in state polls
Jatin Gandhi
India's political opposition wakes up to new reality under Modi & Co
Will invincible Modi turn India into a Hindu nation?
India's ruling party's road to votes is paved with dangerous communalism
Modi's victory is a gun pointed at India's minorities
Modi gets a blank cheque from America
French support for Greece in standoff with Turkey was just a mirage
Biden needs to start by addressing US failures in Afghanistan
The reckless pomposity of Mike Pompeo
Can the pandemic be a trigger to stop deforestation once and for all?
The world should pay heed to Bobi Wine and Uganda's election
The recent election results of two states signal a weakening of the Modi regime in the Centre and the re-emergence of its political opponents that will likely slow down its expansion plans.
On the face of it, nothing had changed for India's ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), when results to the provincial elections in Maharashtra and Haryana were declared on October 24. It was set to return to power in both states.
But the fact that the party — just five months after winning an absolute majority in the Indian general election that returned Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power — had scored below its previous tallies in both states and is still negotiating with allies, old and prospective, is the most significant political development spurred by these elections.
That there is no threat to Modi's government at the Centre is a given, but the results of the dual elections signal a weakening of the BJP's hold in the states and the re-emergence of its political opponents that will likely force it to slow down its expansion plans. The modest wins in both states leave the BJP at the mercy of its allies and puncture the immodest myth of its political invincibility that its top leadership, chiefly Modi and party president Amit Shah, had begun to peddle after its win in May.
In times of economic downturn and agrarian distress, the party will have to rethink its strategy of drumming up hypernationalism over the troubled, majority-Muslim state of Jammu and Kashmir, the results show.
In the smaller, 90-seat, state assembly in Haryana, the BJP had won 47 seats in the October 2014 assembly election -- riding high on the Modi wave that helped the party win an absolute majority in the lower house of the Indian parliament in May that year. That was the first time the BJP had come to power in the small but politically and economically significant state without the help of an ally.
This time around, the BJP has finished well below the half-way mark with 40 seats and the Congress -- the principal opposition party, also at the Centre -- is close behind with 31. The ruling party had set itself a target of crossing the 75-seat mark with the slogan, "Abki baar, 75 paar (This time, we'll cross 75)". So finishing below the majority mark and woefully short of its professed target is a double whammy for the BJP, which does not have a natural base in the state. It cannot hope to build a support base organically but will have to rely on the combination of money, power and arm-twisting political adversaries to bring them into its fold.
The Congress party could have fared a lot better if the party leadership had snuffed out the factionalism in the state election rather than look the other way, experts believe.
The somewhat narrow gap between the Congress and the BJP will change the balance of power in the state assembly and likely impact the ruling party's ties with its ally in neighbouring Punjab, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) that has long positioned itself as a Sikh party. The SAD fought the Haryana election as an independent force this time and not as the BJP's ally. This development could snowball into both parties parting ways in the future, impacting the future success of Modi's public rallies abroad. The Punjabi diaspora is an influential part of the Indian diaspora and often allies with either the Congress or the SAD.
Ally trouble doesn't end with Punjab for the BJP. Its subdued numbers in Maharashtra - the BJP is down from 122 to 105 in the 288-member assembly - means the party may well return to power but will need the help of its long-standing ally, the Shiv Sena. "A depleted BJP tally in Maharashtra also means that they have to deal with a very aggressive Sena," said Dhaval Kulkarni, journalist and biographer of Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray. The SS has already demanded in writing a promise from the BJP that it will have an equal share in power in the state.
The decline of the BJP has resulted in the rise of the regional force and Congress ally, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), led by the man who left the Congress over two decades ago after challenging party president Sonia Gandhi over her foreign origins. The party's numbers rose from 41, five years ago, to 54. The chiefs of both regional parties have also managed to boost their next generation in state politics with this election. Pawar's grandson Rohit Pawar and Thackeray's son Aditya have both won their elections.
"The Congress on the other hand, has all but melted in Maharashtra," Kulkarni said. Party leader Rahul Gandhi, who was forced to quit as party president after the general election defeat, campaigned in the state but seemed to be out of touch with the real issues affecting the election. "He spoke of the Rafale deal in a local election instead of the bread and butter issues here. He should have spoken on agrarian distress," Kulkarni added. The Rafale is a fighter jet that the Modi government has purchased from French manufacturer Dassault amid charges of corruption in the deal. The Congress had failed to rally support around the issue in the April-May general election.
Both Maharashtra and Haryana are severely affected by the economic slowdown and agrarian distress. Results in Haryana show that the BJP's losses have been the greatest in the rural areas. The party's new ally, the Jannayak Janata Party, is only 10 months old. Party leader Dushyant Chautala is part of a political dynasty and great grandson of former Indian deputy prime minister and farmer's leader Devi Lal. Chautala broke away from his grandfather's Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and seemed to have usurped a significant part of the party's support base of farmers. The JJP finishing with 10 seats in the election and allying with the BJP comes at a cost: likely tensions between the allies. The farmers of the state predominantly belong to the domineering caste groups, the Jats. The community sees the BJP as a political adversary and not an ally since it held a series of violent protests in February 2016 against the state government.
The comfortable wins of the next generation in political dynasties, such as Chautala, Pawar and Thackeray, have a strong message for Rahul Gandhi and his party: the electorate has not rejected political dynasties that are willing to challenge the BJP.
Disclaimer: The viewpoints expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the opinions, viewpoints and editorial policies of TRT World.
We welcome all pitches and submissions to TRT World Opinion – please send them via email, to opinion.editorial@trtworld.com
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Jatin Gandhi is an independent journalist and political commentator based in New Delhi.
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Ukraine's president dropped a bombshell on Wednesday that could have far-reaching implications for global security.
Topping Friday's agenda will be one issue: irregular migration from Libya.
While Malta, the host, has proposed the EU copy the migrant deal reached with Turkey last year, Libya's fractured government makes this unworkable. Instead, last week EU officials announced they'd fund camps in Libya to vet migrants and give recognised refugees safe passage to the EU.
But the plan has a flaw. Many of those leaving Libya's shores are economic migrants from poor African states and are unlikely to be recognised as genuine refugees. Knowing this, these people are likely to bypass the camps and pay traffickers to transport them to EU shores instead.
More workable solutions include boosting support to the Libyan coast guard and moving the EU's naval mission into the country's territorial waters.
Yet the EU's fundamental disunity on migration will complicate a more comprehensive solution. Central and Eastern European states refuse to adhere to EU migrant quotas and fears concerning national security are rising.
Although the bloc is likely to reach some consensus at Friday's summit, it will be just the first step in an extremely long, fraught process for the Union.
Go deeper: Libya: Moscow's next power play?
US Defence Secretary James Mattis continues his tour of Asian allies, arriving in Japan on Friday. Mattis will try to reassure Washington's key regional ally of its ongoing commitment to the region, with a particular focus on North Korea and China.
Seattle District Judge Thomas Zilly, who barred the federal government from removing two unnamed people under President Trump's infamous executive order last week, is scheduled to continue hearing the matter. Zilly is just one of many judges across the US that have refused to comply with the White House's directive.
Russia's central bank will review its monetary policy settings on Friday. It's unlikely to change interest rates, although some economists say there is a slight chance of a cut.


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Q: Arel subselects with ActiveRecord? I'm using a slightly-modified version of the geocoded gem which returns this query when I call near on my model (calling Deal.near(southwest), where southwest is an array of geo coordinates):
SELECT
  deals.*,
  3958.755864232 * 2 * ASIN(SQRT(POWER(SIN((37.772476604436974 - addresses.lat) * PI() / 180 / 2), 2) + COS(37.772476604436974 * PI() / 180) * COS(addresses.lat * PI() / 180) * POWER(SIN((-122.42336332798004 - addresses.lng) * PI() / 180 / 2), 2) )) AS distance,
  CAST(DEGREES(ATAN2( RADIANS(addresses.lng - -122.42336332798004), RADIANS(addresses.lat - 37.772476604436974))) + 360 AS decimal) % 360 AS bearing
  FROM "deals"
  INNER JOIN "companies" ON "companies"."id" = "deals"."company_id"
  INNER JOIN "addresses" ON "addresses"."addressable_id" = "companies"."id" AND "addresses"."addressable_type" = 'Company'
  WHERE (
    addresses.lat BETWEEN 37.483013038215276 AND 38.06194017065867
    AND addresses.lng BETWEEN -122.78956461309022 AND -122.05716204286986
  )
  GROUP BY
    deals.id,
    deals.created_at,
    deals.updated_at,
    deals.active,
    deals.company_id,
    deals.title,
    deals.limitations,
    deals.redemption_count,
    addresses.lat,
    addresses.lng
  HAVING 3958.755864232 * 2 * ASIN(SQRT(POWER(SIN((37.772476604436974 - addresses.lat) * PI() / 180 / 2), 2) + COS(37.772476604436974 * PI() / 180) * COS(addresses.lat * PI() / 180) * POWER(SIN((-122.42336332798004 - addresses.lng) * PI() / 180 / 2), 2) )) <= 20
  ORDER BY 3958.755864232 * 2 * ASIN(SQRT(POWER(SIN((37.772476604436974 - addresses.lat) * PI() / 180 / 2), 2) + COS(37.772476604436974 * PI() / 180) * COS(addresses.lat * PI() / 180) * POWER(SIN((-122.42336332798004 - addresses.lng) * PI() / 180 / 2), 2) )) ASC

My issue is that this will return multiple Deal records if that Deal's company has multiple Addresses, which I don't want.
In MySQL, I could just omit address.lat, address.lng in the GROUP_BY clause and it will properly group the records, but I can't do this in PostgreSQL.
I know I could wrap the whole query above in another SELECT and GROUP_BY, like this:
SELECT
  id, created_at, updated_at, active, title, punches_to_complete, company_id, description, lat, lng, MIN(distance), bearing
  FROM ( ... ) AS t
  GROUP BY company_id

... where the ellipsis is the query from above. That (I believe) should get me the desired result in both MySQL and PostgreSQL.
The only problem is that I have no idea how to write this in ARel!
I had tried the following, a la this tip from the ARel guru, but I couldn't really make it work quite right (calling to_sql as the OP had said fixed his issue escapes the quotes, which freaks PostgreSQL out).
Can anyone help me with this???

UPDATE:
I've managed to get this done with an additional scope, like so:
  scope :nearest, lambda { |coords|
    subquery = "(#{Deal.near(coords).to_sql}) AS t1"
    columns = Deal.columns.map{ |c| c.name }.join(',')
    Deal.select(columns)
      .select('MIN(distance) AS distance')
      .from(subquery)
      .group(columns)
      .order('distance ASC')
  }

However, this totally breaks chainability, as now I cannot call something like current_user.deals.nearest(coords), since that tags on an additional WHERE deals.user_id = 1 to the query outside of the subselect. I tried compensating for this by moving this logic into a class method and blanking the wheres clause on the SelectManager manually, like this:
  def self.nearest(coords)
    subquery = "(#{Deal.near(coords).to_sql}) AS t1"
    columns = Deal.columns.map{ |c| c.name }.join(',')
    query = Deal.select(columns)
      .select('MIN(distance) AS distance')
      .from(subquery)
      .group(columns)
      .order('distance ASC')
    query.arel.ast.cores[0].wheres = []
    query
  end

... but that doesn't seem to work either: the additional WHERE clause is still appended:

Failure/Error:
  @user.deals.nearest(southwest).first.distance.to_f.round(2).should ==
       ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
         Mysql2::Error: Unknown column 'deals.user_id' in 'where
  clause': SELECT  id,created_at,updated_at,user_id,company_id,
  MIN(distance) AS distance FROM (SELECT deals.*, 3958.755864232 * 2 *
  ASIN(SQRT(POWER(SIN((37.772476604436974 - addresses.lat) * PI() / 180
  / 2), 2) + COS(37.772476604436974 * PI() / 180) * COS(addresses.lat *
  PI() / 180) * POWER(SIN((-122.42336332798004 - addresses.lng) * PI() /
  180 / 2), 2) )) AS distance, CAST(DEGREES(ATAN2( RADIANS(addresses.lng
  - -122.42336332798004), RADIANS(addresses.lat - 37.772476604436974)))
  + 360 AS decimal) % 360 AS bearing FROM deals INNER JOIN companies
  ON companies.id = deals.company_id INNER JOIN addresses ON
  addresses.addressable_id = companies.id AND
  addresses.addressable_type = 'Company' WHERE deals.user_id =
  26 AND (addresses.lat BETWEEN 37.483013038215276 AND 38.06194017065867
  AND addresses.lng BETWEEN -122.78956461309022 AND -122.05716204286986)
  GROUP BY
  deals.id,deals.created_at,deals.updated_at,deals.user_id,deals.company_id,
  addresses.lat, addresses.lng HAVING 3958.755864232 * 2 *
  ASIN(SQRT(POWER(SIN((37.772476604436974 - addresses.lat) * PI() / 180
  / 2), 2) + COS(37.772476604436974 * PI() / 180) * COS(addresses.lat *
  PI() / 180) * POWER(SIN((-122.42336332798004 - addresses.lng) * PI() /
  180 / 2), 2) )) <= 20 ORDER BY 3958.755864232 * 2 *
  ASIN(SQRT(POWER(SIN((37.772476604436974 - addresses.lat) * PI() / 180
  / 2), 2) + COS(37.772476604436974 * PI() / 180) * COS(addresses.lat *
  PI() / 180) * POWER(SIN((-122.42336332798004 - addresses.lng) * PI() /
  180 / 2), 2) )) ASC) AS t1  WHERE deals.user_id = 26 GROUP BY
  id,created_at,updated_at,user_id,company_id ORDER BY distance ASC
  LIMIT 1

Is what I'm trying to do even possible with ARel? The additional scopes above feel really dirty to me (parsing the subquery to raw SQL? I thought ARel was supposed to make it so I never did that!)
Related question: Can ARel formulate cross-db queries for CTEs (Common Table Expressions)?

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Copper Mountain has been named "Nature's most nearly perfect ski mountain" by the US Forest Service. The city offers 35 miles of majestic alpine beauty on the western edge of Summit County in Colorado. It has easy access to Interstate I-70 and is in close vicinity to two other major ski towns, 7 miles from Frisco, and 20 miles from Vail. Real Estate in Copper Mountain is made up of four distinct villages with each contributing unique styles of homes and neighborhoods. Copper Mountain is a versatile city and has something for everyone.
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According to 2011 information for City-Data.com, Summit County is 608 square miles and home to 28,082 residents. The estimated median house or condo value in 2002 was $457.823 with median contract rent being $1,008. The estimated median household income in 2009 was $66,449.
The median resident age in Summit County was 30.8 in 2009. Males numbered 13,697 making up 58.2% of the population with females numbered at 9,851 making up 41.8%.
Lewis Ranch is the newest village and is located next to the main village. Along with townhomes and condominiums, it offers family luxury homes in a private, gated community. The homes back up to the base of the Lumberjack ski lift and so there is ski-in and ski-out access. The exquisite, custom homes in Lewis Village were built from 2002 to current, offer between 3 – 8 bedrooms, and often have over 5000 square feet of living space.
Union Creek is located west of the main village and also backs up to chairlifts giving residents ski-in and ski-out accessibility. Homes in the Union Creek Village include newer single-family homes, condos, and townhomes. Smaller units less than 700 square feet are available in Union Creek.
The East Village of Copper Mountain includes a mix of older and newer condo complexes surrounded by the Copper Creek golf course. They offer homes with access to the Super Bee lift giving them ski-in/ski-out access.
Copper Mountain's Main Village is located at the base of the Flyer and Eagle chairlifts. The Village offers newer condominiums and older complexes. The Village neighborhood includes a grocery store, restaurants, bars, and coffee shops.
Downhill and cross-country skiing are huge recreational activities in Copper Mountain. People also participate in snowshoeing, ice skating, sleigh rides, and dog sledding. The Main Village is alive with festivals including fireworks, free outdoor movies, and concerts throughout the year. Summer activities include miles of hiking and biking trails.
Golfers are thrilled by North America's highest championship golf course that wanders through forests, lakes, and rivers. The final nine holes of the Copper Creek Golf Course pass across an old mining town and continue through hills that offer a challenge to even experienced golfers.


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Linares (Llinares en asturiano y oficialmente) es una aldea y parroquia del concejo asturiano de Proaza. Está situado en la parte noroccidental del concejo, tiene una extensión de 4,34 km² y una población de 49 habitantes (INE,2013) aunque en los fines de semana y verano regresan  muchos de los que abandonaron el pueblo en los 60 y 70 buscando un futuro mejor en los centros industriales del centro de Asturias o sus descendientes.

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Field Hockey / October 25, 2008
Hawkeyes Defeat Michigan State In Overtime, 4-3
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EAST LANSING, MI – The University of Iowa field hockey team defeated eighth-ranked Michigan State Saturday in overtime, 4-3. The 10th-ranked Hawkeyes are now 12-4 overall and 3-2 in Big Ten Conference play on the season.
The Hawkeyes struck first at the 7:04 mark. Senior Caroline Blaum scored on a breakaway to give Iowa a 1-0 lead. Roz Ellis then scored in the 18th minute to push the Hawkeye advantage to 2-0. The half would end with Iowa leading 2-0.
The Spartans came out firing in the second half. Michigan State got on the board in the 44th minute as Amanda Huck found an open Jeamie Deacon, who scored from the top of the circle. The Spartans then tied the game at two in the 57th minute as Floor Rijpma scored off a corner.
Less than two minutes later, the Hawkeyes answered. Sarah Pergine found Lauren Pfeiffer, who scored to give Iowa a 3-2 lead. Michigan State would tie the game in the 66th minute off a penalty stroke goal from Deacon.
Pfeiffer won the game for the Hawkeyes in the 80th minute of play. Her second goal of the game gave Iowa a 4-3 overtime victory.
Iowa returns home for its final game of the regular season Sunday, Nov 2. The Hawkeyes will battle Michigan at 2 p.m. at Grant Field. The game can be seen live on the Big Ten Network.
GAME SUMMARYIOWA        2   1   1        4MSU     0   3   0        3
UI  Caroline Blaum (unassisted)            7:04/1stUI  Roz Ellis (unassisted)          18:04/1stMSU Jeamie Deacon (Amanda Huck)         44:41/2ndMSU Floor Rijpma (Jeamie Deacon)        57:50/2ndUI  Lauren Pfeiffer (Sarah Pergine)       59:24/2ndMSU Jeamie Deacon (unassisted)          66:35/2ndUI  Lauren Pfeiffer (unassisted)      80:31/OT
Shots -  Iowa 9, Michigan State 14Penalty Corners - Iowa 3, Michigan State 7Saves - Lissa Munley (Iowa) 8, Elissa Unger (Michigan State) 5
Team Records - #10 Iowa (12-4, 3-2)            #8 Michigan State (13-4, 3-2)
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Q: How to solve the ImportError: cannot import name simplejson in Django I'm trying to build a realtime chat app in Django(1.7.1). It seems that I needed to install Redis and ishout.js. So I installed them by following the instructions.
After making the project in Django, I put 'drealtime' under the INSTALLED_APPS, and put:
'drealtime.middleware.iShoutCookieMiddleware'

right above :
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware'

under the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES as it was saying. And I put the command like
python manage.py startapp example

but still I have this import error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 385, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 354, in execute
    django.setup()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 21, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 85, in populate
    app_config = AppConfig.create(entry)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 87, in create
    module = import_module(entry)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/drealtime/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from django.utils import simplejson as json

After I searched through the Django official site, I found simplejson is no longer used and removed from new Django. I don't know why this is happening.
Please give any feedback on this issue and possible remedy to tackle this issue.

A: I think the above answers are workarounds.
Django used to ship with simplejson in django.utils, but this was removed in Django 1.5 because json module being available in Python's standard library.
So you should now import json instead of from django.utils import simplejson, and make necessary changes where simplejson methods are called.

A: This is a bug in the application itself; unfortunately the error still persists in the master branch at git.
I submitted a pull request to fix the error; in the meanwhile you can do the following:
pip uninstall django-realtime
pip install git+https://github.com/burhan/django-realtime.git@import-fix

A: You are using an outdated version of django-realtime.
Upgrade it to the latest version, they fixed the 1.7 compatibility:
pip install django-realtime --upgrade

If the error persists, install directly from github, master branch:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/anishmenon/django-realtime.git --upgrade

FYI, the fix:
try:
    from django.utils import simplejson as json
except:
    import simplejson as json

Bare exception clause - zen programmer inside is killing me whispering except ImportError, except ImportError, except..


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ISBN: PB: 9780226628684
ISBN: HB: 9780226628547
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302 musical examples
Art of Mbira
Musical Inheritance and Legacy
Berliner Paul F.
Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the analysis of the improvisatory processes that propel mbira music's magnificent creativity. In this book, Berliner provides insight into the communities of study, performance, and worship that surround mbira. He chronicles how master player Cosmas Magaya and his associates have developed their repertory and practices over more than four decades, shaped by musical interaction, social and political dynamics in Zimbabwe, and the global economy of the music industry. At once a detailed exposition of the music's forms and practices, it is also an indispensable historical and cultural guide to mbira in a changing world. Together with Berliner and Magaya's compendium of mbira compositions, Mbira's Restless Dance, "The Art of Mbira" breaks new ground in the depth and specificity of its exploration of an African musical tradition, and in the entwining of the authors' collaborative voices. It is a testament to the powerful relationship between music and social life – and the rewards of lifelong musical study, performance, and friendship.
Paul F. Berliner is the Arts and Sciences Professor Emeritus of Music at Duke University. He is the author of "Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation" and "The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe", both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Big hooks and big tremolo riffs are the first thing to come to mind listening to Diabolical Messiah's second studio album; throughout the album's short duration, those two are the defining characteristics of the Chilean veterans' songwriting along with the nearly constant roar of the band's vocalist. Almost every song is a brief burst of fire, burning bright and then ending after alternating and repeating the same two or three riffs in a manner reminiscent of Nunslaughter in approach, if not in sound, with nine of the ten songs on the twenty five minute album being around three minutes long or shorter. In contrast to the relatively simplistic composition, a lot of the best riffs are catchy and well-written long form melodies that draw me in consistently, demanding attention after shorter sections of ripping shorter riffs that range from the more chaotic sounds of Incantation's fastest riffs to reminding me of Sadistic Intent and to things that are unique to Diabolical Messiah.
Despite the fact that most of the album is right around the same tempo and despite the fact that the drumming is nearly constantly doing similar blasting patterns, Diabolical Messiah know when to ride a series of short phrases and when to shift to a melody (or to do one of the relatively few slow parts) in order to keep memorability at a maximum and keep listeners engaged. Sparse harmonization adds flavor without being overused enough to start feeling saccharine, and the guitar tone and production are massive enough to really let the guitars carry the album; though death metal at its best is often a combination of catchy vocal lines, heavy and interesting drum patterns, and sick riffs, Demonic Weapons Against the Sacred is, by virtue of the fantastic guitarwork overlaid over repetitive drumming and vocals, a fundamentally riff-centric album. While this would often be a bit of a detriment to me, the songwriting here is strong enough to keep me coming back consistently, and after a few months of listening, to it, I can't recommend the album enough. Demonic Weapons Against the Sacred is a great accomplishment for Diabolical Messiah, and yet another excellent addition to the Dark Descent Records catalog.


The Landia Chemical Co. property on West Olive Street in Lakeland, Florida has been designated a "superfund site" by the Environmental Protection Agency. From 1940 to 1987, the land was used for the manufacturing, blending and storing of pesticides. Three different corporations owned the land during this time period. The EPA found high levels of arsenic, copper, mercury, lead, zinc, and several pesticides in drinking water samples taken from municipal wells surrounding the site.
Florida Favorite Fertilizer, owned by PCS Joint Ventures, owns adjoining property and the sulfur used in its production of fertilizer has leaked into the ground water supply.
See your doctor if you live near the Lakeland Landia site and you have experienced serious health problems. In addition, it may be important to contact an attorney who can help you protect your legal rights. Please keep in mind that there may be time limits within which you must commence suit.


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4 Reasons Why Women Tend to be Better Lottery Players. #2 Is Quite Unexpected!
Lottery Magazine
Who Is the Luckiest Person in the World?
Do you know who the luckiest person in the world is? No, it's not your significant other (or your mom), and yes, we knew this was going to be your guess! The special lady's name is Joan R. Ginther. The name doesn't ring the bell? All that you need to know is that Joan is the woman that won the lottery four times. By winning the lottery, we don't mean that she got 10 bucks each time for cumulative gains ranging between 40 and 60 dollars. She won 5.4 million dollars the first time, two million dollars the second, three million dollars next and she ended it all with a final win of 10 million dollars.
Is this pure luck? Is it divine intervention? Or maybe women are simply better lottery players?
Ladies seem to be much more fortunate than guys when it comes to hitting the jackpot. Several factors could be determining why women are (allegedly) better lottery players. Take notes, gentlemen!
It's Not Do or Die
Think that ladies are bigger drama queens? Think again! When it comes to lottery games, women tend to have a much more balanced approach.
For men, it's a do or die scenario, psychologists explain. Men are worried about doing their best earning more and more, and more. Ladies tend to have a much more relaxed attitude, which often contributes to winning.
Size Doesn't Matter
We're still talking about lottery winning here! Women aren't that focused on winning the jackpot each time. This attitude gives them satisfaction with even smaller earnings. For many men, winning the whole thing becomes a fixation. They look for strategies, calculate odds and ultimately – invest in the lottery much more than they'd ever win.
Women are more rational, and they rarely go the extra mile to guarantee success (the results of such efforts are questionable, anyway). Most ladies feel content with even smaller amounts – we can't all be Joan R. Ginther, after all.
Since the size of the award isn't of that paramount importance, women tend to be much more content with their lottery profit than die-hard male lottery fans.
Girls Know When to Say No
Numerous studies suggest that men are two to three times more likely to develop the so-called problem gambling behavior. This means that attempting to win becomes a goal in itself and many men don't know when to quit. As a result, the amounts won from the lottery are invested in further participation, which sooner or later contributes to net losses.
Fewer women exhibit the same problem traits.
In other words, women maintain their cool and know when to quit. This way, they end up enjoying their winnings rather than investing the money back in lottery tickets, hoping to score an even bigger amount.
Online gambling and lottery research carried out in the UK suggests that men lose an average of 3,709 pounds on an annual basis when playing online games and participating in lotteries. In comparison, women lose only 2,659 pounds. A man will make an average deposit of 94 pounds in online gaming, or lottery opportunity while a woman will spend an average of 67 pounds. Can you see now how this cautious approach and the ability to put an end at the best possible moment contribute to women being more prominent lottery winners?
It's All About the Money… or Is It?
For most men (and for numerous women) the lottery is all about the money.
Some research, however, suggests that women get much more than financial benefits.
For many ladies, lottery games are all about excitement and anticipation. The lottery ticket is a little piece of hope hidden in the depths of the bottomless handbag. A ticket gives a girl the chance to daydream, feel excited and hope for something better.
Women appreciate the emotional aspect, the thrill linked to expecting the jackpot. Men tend to be much more goal-oriented, which is why they don't get satisfaction from the lottery unless they win.
So, Are Women Better at the Lottery?
The truth is that winning the lottery is about tons of luck and a little bit of strategy.
Research suggests that women tend to be better, but is this so? Is one gender luckier than the other? It's difficult to say.
There are vast differences between what we do as men and women. From the way, we organize our closets, to toilet seat position preferences and even gambling attitudes. Still, many ladies are risky gamblers, and many men have a conservative approach.
Are you a girl hoping that you have a gender advantage when it comes to buying a lottery ticket? Or maybe you're a guy who doesn't agree with anything this article says? One thing is sure – winning the lottery depends on many, many factors. Men are from Mars and women are from Venus or so does popular culture say. Whether these planetary differences affect the odds of winning the lottery is nearly impossible to tell. Good luck, regardless of your gender and don't forget to share your lottery success story in the comments below.
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Home BREAKING NEWS Google launches project to preserve, digitize Indian Railways' culture
Google launches project to preserve, digitize Indian Railways' culture
FILE PHOTO: Passengers board an overcrowded train at a railway station in Ajmer, India, October 23, 2016. REUTERS/Himanshu Sharma/File photo
NEW DELHI – In a first-of-its-scale heritage mapping and digitization project, Google and Ministry of Railways on Friday launched a project that aims to preserve the cultural heritage of the Indian Railways.
The two-year digitization project "The Railways-Lifeline of a Nation" is a comprehensive digital document viewable on Google's Arts and Culture website. It was launched at the National Rail Museum here.
The project is divided into "Journeys", "People", "Heritage" and "Engineering" sections, each containing visual and textual narratives that rail enthusiasts can access for free.
It comprises photographs, documentaries, text, virtual tours, 360-degree videos, online exhibits, and maps, pertaining to the Indian Railways.
Minister of Railways, Piyush Goyal via video-conferencing said that the project is an experience for the "1.3 billion people of India about what the 1.3 million railway employees are doing for serving them".
"From the Nilgiri mountains to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Station, let the people of India relive their childhood… through the train journey to Madhira and through the Darjeeling toy train; let's show them the Kangra Valley, the Kalka-Shimla experience so that it could be enjoyed by someone in Coimbatore or Ooty," he said.
Along with several railway lines, the project also documents stories of 32 railway employees including engineers, ticket checkers, trackmen, and shunters.
Also capturing stories from the Indian Railways are other sections like the street art, literature, Bollywood, music, and sports, which demonstrate the inseparability of trains and culture.
The online project will also materialize as digital exhibits at 22 stations in India including New Delhi, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Guwahati, Howrah, Secunderabad and Varanasi, Google said.
The event also saw the inauguration of a permanent exhibition of these online resources in the National Rail Museum premises.
Notably, the Indian Railways started its journey in 1853 between Boribunder and Thane, and has expanded to be the fourth largest railway network in the world.
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Vasco Fernandes Coutinho (Portugal, 1490 - 1560), était un noble portugais et le premier donataire de la capitainerie d'Espírito Santo au Brésil.

Il reçut le titre de noble (fidalgo) avec droit à armoiries pour s'être distingué dans les conquêtes portugaises en Afrique et en Asie.
Le roi Jean III de Portugal le récompensa avec la onzième des quinze capitaineries héréditaires du Brésil.

Il partit de Lisbonne dans une embarcation avec près de soixante hommes à bord, pour la plupart des condamnés, dont deux nobles : Jorge de Menezes et Simão Castelo Branco. Il combattit les indigènes dont il occupa les terres et fonda les "vilas" d'Espírito Santo et de Notre-Dame de la Victoire. Il développa l'agriculture de la canne à sucre et monta des fabriques de sucre.
Quelques années plus tard, pratiquement seul, il retourna au Portugal à la recherche d'un associé disposé à collaborer avec lui au projet de conquête du sol de l'Amérique.
Il renonça au projet à cause des conflits entre les colons et entre ceux-ci et les indigènes.
Il fut le grand-père du bandeirante .

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Personnalité de la colonisation portugaise
Histoire du Brésil


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Click Travel launches ClickCare
By Bev Fearis, published 20/05/20
Click Travel has launched an initiative, ClickCare, to help clients navigate the pandemic crisis and is offering it to its managed accounts for no additional charge.
The package covers duty of care, risk management and traveller safety with simpler and more accurate traveller tracking and updated report templates with a focus on location.
The Birmingham-based TMC is also running ClickCare webinars, on May 27 and June 1, which will be opened up to the wider business traveller community, not just to clients.
CEO Jill Palmer said: "We launched Click Care and have made it free, forever, as our response to the COVID-19 crisis and as a way of thanking customers for their ongoing support and loyalty.
"Nothing is more important than ensuring traveller safety and our package does just that, by including measures for supporting risk management, responding to hot spots, locating travellers and providing up to date COVID-19 info, all within one-platform."
She said the TMC has pivoted its entire engineering team into a COVID-19 response unit.
"This enabled us to evolve areas of our product in an agile way to support the urgent and developing needs of COVID-19," she explained.
"The need to rapidly respond to developments during this pandemic will be ongoing and that's why our engineers are positioned at the front line, developing innovations to respond to this rapidly changing environment.
"The response from customers has been exceptional, with 25% of our customers booked on our webinars within the first three days of opening availability. This demonstrates customers desire to get back travelling but all the time ensuring that they put the safety of their travellers first."


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An early XVI century town house
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Morlaix in pictures
1879: Adolphe Allier
The 'Duke's house'
In 1879, Adolphe Allier (1835-1905), the librarian of Morlaix, published Recherches sur la ville de Morlaix (Research on the town of Morlaix), a manuscript attributed to Joseph Daumesnil (1701-1771), former mayor of Morlaix from 1733 to 1737, who undertook in 1765-1766 to organise the municipal archives. The work is of exceptional value since Joseph Daumesnil had access to sources that subsequently disappeared.
The manuscript was then annotated by Aymar de Blois (1760–1852), whose erudition at the head of the archaeological and historical studies in Morlaix in the first half of the XIX century should certainly be recognised.
Adolphe Allier take care to publish the annotations by Armard de Blois as footnotes, along with the foreword that he added to the document (p. 13), but does not limit his role to that of simple editor of the manuscript kept in the library of which he is in charge. He completes it for the entire period from the end of the XVIII century to his present day. The work, which is entitled Histoire de Morlaix (Morlaix, A. Lédan, 1879), includes a preface on the life of Joseph Daumesnil, written by the former town clerk of Lamartine, Charles-Émile Alexandre (p. 5-12).
Chapter XXXVI of the work (p. 506-516) focuses directly on the civil heritage of Morlaix and provides a detailed description of the House known as 'Duchess Anne's House' (p. 508-511), at a time when its demolition had been planned. Since 1862, the houses opposite it had gone: 22 houses had been demolished all at once to double the surface area of the Place des Halles below and enable the construction of a new covered market, which was opened in 1867.
House known as 'Duchess Anne's House' at the start of the 1880s. © Maison dite de la duchesse Anne - Morlaix - All rights reserved.
Adolphe Allier begins his description of the former town house by calling it 'the Duke's house', a name he is alone in using:
"The most curious among them [these lantern houses] is that which bears the number 19 on the Rue des Nobles, the construction of which dates back to the end of the XV century. The townsfolk, who call it the Duke's house, believe that it was connected to the castle by an underground passage" (p. 508).
The celebrated Morlaix tradition of the 'underground passage' leading, in this case, from the castle to the house, as well as the use of a specific name to describe it, bears witness to the long-standing nature of its particular status among the people of Morlaix at a time when the old urban network was still in place: only fifteen years previously, the majority of the market neighbourhood had "disappeared under the hammers of the demolishers" to use the disillusioned words of Adolphe Allier.
All the chapter XXXVI of l'Histoire de Morlaix (in French).
1836: Prosper Mérimée - 1851: Olivier de Wismes - 1879: Adolphe Allier
1891: Albert Robida - 1901: Jean-Marie Abgrall
© Maison dite de la duchesse Anne - Morlaix, 2006 - info@mda-morlaix.com


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It's like listening to your know-it-all brother-in-law bragging about how much he's made on a stock when you know full well that his financial situation is bad. Some people do have to pay taxes on their Social Security benefits. But some, as reported in the Tyler Morning Telegraph's news story "Plan Retirement Right: Social Security and Income Taxes," don't.
Seems counter-intuitive. After all, didn't you work all those years and weren't those benefits supposed to be yours, tax free? The Internal Revenue Service determines who has to pay income tax on Social Security benefits and they do so using a number known as "Combined Income." That's a number unique to you and your spouse that determines whether a portion of those benefits are taxable. It's not the same as another IRS number you may know all too well—your AGI or Adjusted Gross Income.
Adjusted Gross Income + Nontaxable Interest + HALF of your benefits = Combined Income.
If you file taxes as an Individual and your combined income is anywhere from $25K up to $34K, you might owe taxes on as much as half of your benefits.
Or, if you file taxes as an individual and your combined income is over $34K, you may owe as much as up to 85% of your Social Security benefits.
Joint filers, "married, joint," may owe taxes, if the combined income for you and your spouse is anywhere from $32K to $44. You may owe taxes on up to 50% on your Social Security. If the Combined Income for you and your spouse is more than $44K, you may owe taxes on up to 85% of your Social Security benefits.
Even if you file taxes "married, separate," the IRS says it's likely that you'll be paying taxes on benefits.
Estimated Tax Payments. If you've been self-employed, you may be accustomed to doing this every quarter. You'll have to be disciplined to make sure to set aside funds and pay on time.
Withholding. Some people have Social Security withhold the portion of the amount they would otherwise have to pay taxes on. This works well for people who have been employed and are used to having someone else manage their deductions. You'll need to use IRS Form W4-V and select from a few different levels of deductions: 7%, 10%, 12% or 22%.


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2K Games Throws a Big Sale Until February 3rd!
in iPad, News, Sale / by Aaron Whitfield
In a somewhat surprising turn of events, 2K Games is currently hosting a big sale on almost all their iOS titles where most are only $1.99 a piece. Even their most popular game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown has been marked down by 50% bringing it to just $9.99 and 2K Drive is only $0.99. In total, nine game from 2K Games are on sale ranging from $0.99 to $1.99 each with the exception of a couple (NBA 2K14 and XCOM: Enemy Unknown). If you have your eye on any of the games listed below you'll need to be quick, the sale runs through February 3rd which is this Monday.
Civilization Revolution $2.99 -> $1.99
Civilization Revolution HD $6.99 -> $1.99
Sid Meier's Pirates! $2.99 -> $1.99
Sid Meier's Pirates! for iPad $4.99 -> $1.99
NBA 2K14 $7.99 -> $3.99
NHL 2K11 $3.99 -> $1.99
NHL 2K11 for iPad $4.99 -> $1.99
XCOM: Enemy Unknown $19.99 -> $9.99
2K Drive $6.99 -> $0.99
2K Games Announces New Sale!
It's that time of the year folks, all the sales are coming and going where you can pick up some fantastic games for cheap prices. This time around we've got some awesome iOS titles from 2K Games that are on sale. You can get six games from the developers ranging from $0.99 to $2.99 a piece with the exception of XCOM: Enemy Unknown for $9.99, which isn't all that bad when you consider the amount of gameplay time and quality you are getting. You'll need to be quick though, this sale ends tomorrow so be sure to get any of these that catch your eye. Here's the full list of games included in this sale along with their price:
XCOM: Enemy Unknown — $9.99
Sid Meier's Pirates! — $0.99
2K Drive — $1.99
NBA 2K14 — $2.99
NHL 2K11 — $0.99
Civilization Revolution — $0.99
2K Games Releases '2K Drive' Developer Diary Video
in News, Upcoming / by Aaron Whitfield
Popular iOS game developer, 2K Games, have released a brand new developer diary video for their upcoming racing game, 2K Drive. Based upon the gameplay footage shown in the video, the game seems to be coming along really well. 2K Games has been known to create quality games for iOS, so hopefully this will be just as good if not better compared to other titles from them. You can see the first developer diary video below.
Like always, we will keep you updated as we get more information.


Manny Machado's free-agent tour took him to Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia this week - and the superstar has apparently decided on his first choice.
Machado told friends that he prefers the Yankees and that if his offers are close, he'll take a deal from them, according to the The Athletic's Jim Bowden.
The 26-year-old infielder met with the Yankees on Wednesday. He spoke with the decision-makers for about 90 minutes, toured Yankee Stadium, and was treated to a dinner in Manhattan, according to ESPN's Coley Harvey.
The four-time All-Star also reportedly had productive meetings with the White Sox, and Phillies, but wouldn't comment on a timetable for his decision.
"That's my agent's job," Machado said after meeting with the Phillies on Thursday. "I'm just enjoying the ride."
Machado is one of the biggest names in baseball and is expected to command a deal in the $300-million range after hitting .297/.367/.538 with 37 home runs and 107 RBIs last season.


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In this video we start our discussion of inner classes. An inner class is a class declared within a class.
Summary: In this video we start our discussion of inner classes. An inner class is a class declared within a class. Since it is declared within the enclosing class, it has access to the enclosing class's members (including the private ones). A method-local inner class is a class that is defined within a method of the enclosing class. In our discussion we will tackle some questions that help us understand how inner classes work, and the correct syntax to use to declare inner classes. Most of the exam questions will revolve around the syntax used to declare and call methods of inner, anonymous, and method-local classes.


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Ohio's Congressional Map Drawers Should Get Rid Of Gym Jordan... But They Won't
Earlier today, we saw how Wisconsin's super-predatory GOP gerrymandering is keeping the state's residents from getting things that would make their lives better. On Monday Keith Osmun penned a GOP gerrymandering post for The Bulwark, but one that focused on Ohio-- and specifically on Gym Jordan's super-gerrymandered district-- widely known as the duck district, mostly because it looks like one. I almost dismissed the piece out of hand because Osmun had written that Jordan's R+14 district "is arguably the safest Republican district in the country." That kind of absurdity pisses me off. First of all, OH-04 has gotten redder since 2018 when the PVI was R+14. The hellish red district is now R+20, but not even the safest Republican district in Ohio, let alone the country. There are dozens of worse districts across the country and Bill Johnson' Ohio River Valley district (OH-06) is much worse-- R+24. In fact, Trump won Jordan's district with 67.1% and won Johnson's district with a whopping 72.2%! And Jordan, a national figure, was reelected with 67.9% while the little-known Johnson, a backbencher who keeps his mouth shut, was reelected with 74.4%!
And there are plenty of worse districts than either around the country. There are 38 congressional districts where Trump received over the 67.9% he got in Jordan's, including 6 in Texas alone, 3 in Pennsylvania, 3 in Kentucky and 3 in Tennessee. Robert Aderholt's AL-04 have Trump 81.2%. And don't forget the 2 sociopaths in northern Georgia. Where Trump won 76.4% in Andrew Clyde's district and 73.4% in Marjorie Taylor Greene's.
In fact, the most populous part of Jordan's district is the part of Lorain County in OH-04 and it is overwhelmingly blue. Osmun-- and whomever his Bulwark editor is-- are correct that Jordan's in a safe seat... but not safer than Paul Gosar (AZ), Louie Gohmert (TX), Ronny Jackson (TX), Greg Pence (IN), Virginia Foxx (NC), Steve Scalise (LA) or plenty of other insurrectionists, bigots and corporate whores.
Osmun wrote that OH-04 became the gerrymandered red hellhole it is today in 2011, "when the Republican-controlled General Assembly passed and Republican Governor John Kasich signed into law the most recent post-census redistricting. It created sixteen congressional districts: four in Democratic hands and twelve in Republican hands. In all of the five subsequent election cycles, from 2012 to 2020, not once did any of those sixteen seats change hands from one party to the other. In 2018, the League of Women Voters, the ACLU, and other groups sued the state over the map of congressional districts. A federal district court reviewed districts like District 4 and ruled in May 2019 that their degree of gerrymandering was unconstitutional. But Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost appealed the decision, knowing that the U.S. Supreme Court was considering gerrymandering cases from other states-- and indeed, the Court's June 2019 ruling in Rucho v. Common Cause had the effect of throwing out the district court's decision entirely."
One of the happy byproducts of Ohio losing a congressional seat as a result of the 2020 census is that the districts will be redrawn under more bipartisan rules put in place in the years since the 2010 census, following a push from the same groups who filed suit in the state courts.
There are two sections of the Ohio constitution that govern redistricting: Article XI, which is about redrawing the state district map, and Article XIX, which deals with redrawing the congressional map. Amendments to the latter, enacted in 2018, created the new, more bipartisan process:
First, the general assembly attempts to redraw the map. Passage requires the support of three-fifths of each chamber and the support of at least half of each of the two main party caucuses in each chamber. If that bipartisan threshold can't be reached, the whole process is automatically handed off to the state's redistricting commission.
The redistricting commission-- whose seven members are the governor, the secretary of state, the state auditor, and four appointees made by leaders in the general assembly (two from each chamber and two from each party)-- then draws a proposed map. The commission may approve a map with four out of the seven votes, so long as two of the supporting votes are the two members sent from the minority party of the general assembly.
If the commission can't get the votes, the general assembly gets another shot at drawing a map. In this round, a proposal will still need three-fifths support in each chamber to succeed, but only one third from each chamber's party caucuses.
There is one last possible outcome: a decision of last resort. In this scenario, a simple majority in the general assembly can approve a redrawn map. However, this map will only be good for four years. The hope is that the incentives for having a consistent ten-year map-- such as politicians knowing where their voters and donors [donors are not in the districts; maybe someone should clue Bulwark editors in] are-- will encourage a bipartisan decision.
[Collin] Marozzi-- who, before joining the ACLU, was a staffer in Ohio's general assembly and worked on the on the 2018 congressional redistricting amendment-- fears that Republicans will try go with this last process, after first allowing the bipartisan processes to play out. "If I'm a Republican mapmaker in Ohio trying to control as much as possible, I have no problem making a four-year map and ramming it through," he said.
The amendments to the state constitution will also protect against duck-like districts by constraining majorities from slicing and dicing counties and cities. "There is a set number of counties"-- sixty-five of the state's eighty-eight counties-- "that must remain whole to be a district," Marozzi said. "Eighteen can only be cut once, and five can be split twice. This will get more compact districts with a reliable community of interest. You shouldn't get the duck district again."
...While the duck district may be dead, gerrymandering may yet turn out to be alive and well unless the current set of circumstances and concerned voters align to ensure the new map is fair. And while no map of congressional districts can promise Ohio the best politicians, a fairer map may give them a chance at removing the bad actors instead of re-electing them over and over.
"The goal of gerrymandering is not to keep folk like Jim Jordan from ever being elected, but gerrymandering allows Jim Jordan to be the most Jim Jordan he can be: the most bombastic, bomb throwing, partisan person in Congress," said Marozzi. "He hasn't passed a single piece of legislation in ten years. He has no real incentive to compromise because he only has to worry about a primary challenge." If the changes work as intended the ride "safe-seats" provide legislators like Jim Jordan will be a bumpier one in the midterms.
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Bill Clinton responded by saying, " I never broke the dress code. I just didn't wear pants at all."
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Bose SoundLink Mini Review
By Will Greenwald
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/bose-soundlink-mini
The Bose SoundLink Mini continues Bose's line of excellent Bluetooth speakers, this time in a smaller form and with a more affordable price tag.
Room-filling sound.
Satisfying midrange and high-end.
Solid, sturdy construction.
Handy charging cradle.
Doesn't charge through micro USB.
Bass isn't particularly powerful.
No speakerphone function.
Bose has impressed us in the past with its SoundLink and SoundLink II($299.00 at Plex Systems) Bluetooth speakers. Given the competition out there, it was only a matter of time before the company would take the portable speaker concept further and shrink it down to an even more bag-friendly size. The SoundLink Mini is Bose's answer to portable speakers like the Jawbone Jambox($299.00 at Plex Systems) and UE Boom($299.00 at Plex Systems). At half the weight, half the height, and two-thirds the price of the higher-end SoundLink II, this $199.95 (direct) Bluetooth speaker is a terrific option if you don't want to spend $300 and lug around a 3-pound speaker; it's our new Editors' Choice for small, portable Bluetooth speakers as a result.
With a flat metal grille face and a solid aluminum shell, the SoundLink Mini($299.00 at Plex Systems) evokes the image of a radio from the 1960s, yet sleeker and more updated for today. It measures just 2 by 7.1 by 2.3 inches (HWD), and its satisfyingly sturdy-feeling 1.5-pound heft and aluminum casing gives an impression of solidity. Its grey finish looks attractive enough in any setting, but you can protect and color the speaker with optional $24.95 rubber covers available in all-over orange, blue borders with a clear center, or green borders with a clear center. This is strictly a Bluetooth speaker, and doesn't have a microphone or support speakerphone calls.
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The controls are arranged neatly in a row of rubber buttons on the top of the speaker, with raised Volume Up/Down buttons flanked by Power and Mute buttons on the left and Bluetooth and Auxiliary input buttons on the right. Lights above the Power and Mute buttons indicate if the speaker is on and muted, and lights above the Bluetooth and Auxiliary input buttons indicate which input is active. The Bluetooth light flashes blue when the speaker is in pairing mode, which can be accessed by pressing the Bluetooth button for a few seconds. The right side of the speaker holds a power connector and a 3.5mm audio input. The back is covered by a metallic grille just like the front but without a Bose logo painted on it, showing the passive radiator built into the speaker. Finally, the bottom of the speaker holds a large, rectangular rubber foot that keeps it in place and covers the rechargeable battery, along with contact points for the included charging cradle and a micro USB port.
Bose SoundLink Bluetooth Mobile Speaker II
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Unlike many other Bluetooth speakers, the SoundLink Mini doesn't charge through the micro USB port, which is only used for servicing the speaker and upgrading the firmware (a trait shared with the SoundLink II). Instead, it comes with a charging cradle that accepts the same power connection as the speaker itself. According to Bose, the speaker's battery can last 7 hours on a charge. The cradle is a small rectangle of plastic with the Bose logo and a large recessed area for the speaker's foot. The charging connections, made through small exposed contacts on the back-right corner of the speaker, are extremely easy to make thanks to the simple, functional cradle. The speaker falls into place without catching on anything or missing the contact, and it makes a loud chime when it starts to charge, letting you know you can leave it alone. While the lack of micro-USB charging can be inconvenient because it's so common, the cradle gives the speaker a comfortable, sturdy place to charge without you having to touch any cables at all.
For its small size, the SoundLink Mini puts out some impressive sound. It easily filled both our lab test room and the main room of my apartment with streaming radio from my iPad, coming in just short on volume against some larger, constantly plugged in AirPlay docks. It also performed favorably against the Logitech UE Boom, and while its sound is more directional than the Logitech UE Boom and its 360-degree audio field, the SoundLink Mini put out more power and sounded just as good placed against a wall and facing the entire room.
The SoundLink Mini can't quite put out the clear, strong bass of its bigger brother, but it can certainly hold its own. When playing our bass test track, The Knife's "Silent Shout," the SoundLink Mini produced solid sound from the deep synth notes of the intro to the song, but occasional pops hinted at the slightest potential for distortion at maximum volume. While the bass made the speaker itself shake, its small size limited its ability to produce real wall-shaking bass, though the reverb and harsh riffs of Daft Punk's "Robot Rock" produced a suitably large-sounding soundscape, filling our test room.
Midrange and mid-highs are the SoundLink Mini's biggest strengths, and Red Fang's "Wires" sounded surprisingly clear and impactful. The crunchy track's aggressive guitar riffs and drums usually drown out the vocals, but all three elements worked well together here, and I easily made out the lyrics without feeling like the riffs were getting overpowered or flattened. The SoundLink Mini's solid high-mid performance gave it a slight edge over the Logitech UE Boom, which can sound slightly tinny in comparison.
The Bose SoundLink Mini is an impressive little powerhouse that produces clear, solid sound. It might be lacking in the bass punch the SoundLink II and other larger, more expensive speakers offer, but for its size and price it offers great performance. The charging cradle is handy, if not quite as flexible as micro USB charging would have been. And while it lacks a speakerphone function, it offers some of the best all-around sound quality we've seen in its category, making it our Editors' Choice for portable Bluetooth speakers. If you'd like a slightly more versatile design and the ability to charge with a microUSB cable, the UE Boom is a solid alternative that offers comparable, if not quite as great, audio quality.
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His particular expertise is in TV and home entertainment technology. Will is a certified ISF Level III TV calibrator and THX Level I home theater installer, which ensures the thoroughness and accuracy of his TV reviews. In addition, he has also tested and reviewed every major game console and consumer VR headset of the last three system generations.
Will has been covering consumer technology for over 15 years. In addition to PCMag, his work and analysis has been seen in CNET, GamePro, Geek.com, Maximum PC, Sound & Vision, and other publications. He also enjoys fiction writing, photography, and building Gunpla model kits.
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also known as For the Love of Lebanon
Marathon Beirut2008
Directed by Deborah Harse
Despite the devastation and political upheaval in Lebanon after the July 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, the Beirut Marathon Association chose to move forward with their November event under the banner "For the Love of Lebanon." However, five days before the race, government minister Pierre Gemayel was assassinated. The country then went into national mourning for three days. Thousands gathered in downtown Beirut to express their grief and call for unity. After much deliberation, the Beirut Marathon Association again decided to go ahead with their event. When even further political hurdles and delays ensued, there was mounting concern that the Lebanese people might be fearful taking part in the marathon. Yet, despite all odds, more than 22,000 people turned out to participate in the 5km, 10km and 42km races. In her insightful and inspiring documentary about the staging of the 2006 Beirut Marathon, director Deborah Harse sensitively captures the chaos, determination and ultimate rewards of keeping the annual Lebanese event alive in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
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American Radical 2009
directed by David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier
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Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, AMERICAN RADICAL is the insightful and enraging documentary that follows Norman Finkelstein around the world.
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The Sun Behind the Clouds
A provocative and potent look at the Dalai Lama's ceaseless struggle for justice and recognition for the Tibetan people, THE SUN BEHIND THE CLOUDS uncovers the growing rifts between younger Tibetans and their most respected spiritual leader.
Housequake 2009
directed by Karen Elizabeth Price
Capturing political theater at its most basic level, HOUSEQUAKE recounts the Democratic Party's stunning takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2006 elections, inspired by the aggressive tactics of Democratic strategist Rahm Emanuel.
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In 1998, World T.E.A.M. Sports organized a 16-day, 1100 mile bicycle expedition through once war-torn Northern and Southern Vietnam.
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The captivating story of Boni, Ho and Titi, three gifted, charismatic street musicians in Jakarta over a tumultuous five-year period in their own lives and that of Indonesia.
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Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious infection of cloven-hoofed animals that affects agricultural production and herd fertility. Global economic losses due to the disease have been estimated at between $6.5 billion and $22.5 billion each year, with the world's poorest farmers hardest hit.
A team of scientists from the Leeds and the University of Ilorin, in Nigeria, has investigated the significance of the unusual way the virus's genome – or genetic blueprint – codes for the manufacture of a protein called 3B. The protein is involved in the replication of the virus.
Researchers have known for some time that the virus' genetic blueprint contains three separate codes or instructions for the manufacture of 3B. Each code produces a similar but not identical copy of 3B. Up to now, scientists have not been able to explain the significance of having three different forms of the protein.
In a paper, "Functional advantages of triplication of the 3B coding region of the FMDV genome", published in The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal, the Leeds researchers reveal the results of a series of laboratory experiments which has demonstrated that having multiple forms of 3B gives the virus a competitive advantage, increasing its chances of survival.
Dr Oluwapelumi Adeyemi, formerly a researcher at Leeds and now with the University of Ilorin and one of the paper's lead authors, said: "Our experiments have shown that having three forms of 3B gives the virus an advantage and that probably plays a role in why the virus is so successful in infecting its hosts.
"It is not as straightforward as saying because there are three forms of 3B – it is going to be three times as competitive. There is a more nuanced interplay going on which needs further investigation."
The paper describes how the scientists manipulated the genetic code, creating viral fragments with one form of 3B, two different forms of 3B and all three forms of 3B. Each was then measured to see how well they replicated.
They found there was a competitive advantage – greater replication – in those samples that had more than one copy of 3B.
Dr Joe Ward, post-doctoral researcher at Leeds' School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, and second co-lead author of the study, added: "The results of the data analysis were clear in that having multiple copies of the 3B protein gives the virus a competitive advantage. In terms of future research, the focus will be on why is that the case, and how the virus uses these multiple copies to its advantage.
"If we can begin to answer that question, then there is a real possibility we will identify interventions that could control this virus."
The study involved using harmless viral fragments and replicons, fragments of RNA molecules, the chemical that make up the virus's genetic code.
Reference: Adeyemi OO, Ward JC, Snowden JS, Herod MR, Rowlands DJ, Stonehouse NJ. Functional advantages of triplication of the 3B coding region of the FMDV genome. FASEB. 2020. doi:10.1096/fj.202001473RR
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Pervasive Health Threats of Unregulated Battery Recycling Revealed
A remediation and public education effort at an abandoned battery recycling facility in Bangladesh eliminated most lead soil contamination, but levels of the toxic metal in children living near the site did not decrease nearly as much. The discrepancy reveals the scope of other lead exposure sources and the challenge they present to public health.
Why Are Queen Bees Failing To Reproduce?
Honey bee health has been on the decline for two decades, with queen bees failing faster than they have in the past in their ability to reproduce. New research offers clues about what's behind queen bee failure, finding that when sperm viability is low, the expression of a protein known to act against pathogens such as bacteria and viruses is high.
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Infectious diseases caused by bacteria may be treated with antibiotics. But sometimes, the bacterium becomes resistant to the treatment which results in a long and complicated course of disease. Recent studies have shown that combining several types of antibiotics can effectively prevent resistance.
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Dabangg Sweeps Koimoi.com Viewers Choice Awards 2010!
We don't have the fancy red carpet or the fake air kisses but we do have the results of the 2010 Koimoi.com Viewers Choice Awards. While users voted for their favourites through an internet poll at koimoi.com, the winners are:
Dabangg won by a landslide winning more than the sum of their competitors in all of the categories that it was nominated in. While Salman Khan won the Best Actor for his role of Chulbul Pandey in 'Dabangg', Vidya Balan took the Best Actor – Female – for the femme fatale in Ishqiya.
For a detailed list of the winners and the percentage of votes they received, click here.
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Q: Voltage divider to measure Van De Graaff generator Imagine one wanted to measure the discharge from a Van De Graaff generator using an oscilloscope. The voltages are way beyond what a typical scope and probes can handle. I was thinking about how a voltage divider could be used to make this possible, but I am aware that the overall resistance of the voltage divider circuit would slow down the discharge from the Van De Graaf (since it's effectively a capacitor discharging).
What would be an effective way to measure the discharge from something like this?
PS: I am aware that you can calculate it, as you know the capacitance of the metal dome from its radius, but I'm curious how this is measured.

A: Usually for high voltage they use Capacitance dividers rather than resistive dividers.

The 1st stands about 1m tall and rated for 100kV, 2nd is rated for 400kV is 1~2m
and  2000kV not shown would be very tall,  really!
Double donuts reduce e-field gradient which otherwise would lower breakdown voltage.

When testing HVDC, it becomes more of a challenge for testing as ANY insulator surface oxidation becomes a transport for charge flow and reduced breakdown threshold, starting with repetitive partial discharge or "corona" is visible before BDV is reached.
Testing a 5MVA transformer 40kV, a 200kV bushing (insulator) for me arc'd at 90kVdc.  Since BIL200 only means for 200kV lightning impulse rating it failed below 100kV even after alcohol wipe, so I had to add 2nd bushing in series to test over 150kVdc for a contaminated oil insulation test I tried out.  It ticked like a FET relaxation oscillator and an AM Radio could easily hear it.  Even the epoxy paint got charged up over steel tank and gave little shocks touching it during testing.


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Register Log In Henderson, MN Forums Henderson Tigers Town Team Baseball Tigers Clinch First Tourney Berth Since 1932!!
October 1 - Babe Ruth makes his famous called shot in the fifth inning of game 3 of the 1932 World Series.
December 27 - Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.
Henderson will now play the Milroy Irish on Sunday, Aug. 20th at 5pm in Hamburg. Milroy competes in the Gopher League which is located in Western MN. They finished with a league record of 13-6 this season while playing teams such as Luverne, Pipestone, and the Hadley Buttermakers.
This year's state amateur baseball tournament is being held in Green Isle, Norwood, and Hamburg from Aug. 18-20, 25-27, and Sept. 1-4.