The law of attraction is more along the lines of something called electromagnetic attraction. In physics, this is what holds the planets in our solar system in place. In the mental world, it's what attracts people to each other, in friendships and romantic relationships.
In your every day life, every thing that enters your experience is there by attraction. You literally attract events, circumstances, people, and things into your experience. It's more than what you're consciously thinking and feeling, and it is a conglomeration of the deeper levels of you as well. In fact, you may not be aware of much deeper levels of you that are overriding your conscious awareness.
This is why the law of attraction has been so difficult to grasp and understand. In ancient times, people thought that the sun would go into the ocean at the end of each day. Now we know better than that. We know that it is an illusion due to our frame of reference. The same thing goes for each of our lives. We tend to think that things just happen to us by chance or that perhaps someone or something outside of ourselves is rewarding or punishing us. Many people have strong beliefs around this, and whether they realize it or not, they are responsible for everything that is going on their lives.
In quantum physics, scientists have discovered that the tiniest particles of matter seemed to defy all logic and rules that we have come to know in our physical world. We just couldn't figure out what was going on there. But then we started to notice that these tiny sub-atomic particles behaved differently when they were being observed. The mere act of observing caused these particles to behave differently. That is significant. It shows that what we think of as being 'set in stone' can actually be changed according to our own inner vibration.
Law of attraction states that like attracts like. Your frequency, vibration or tune attracts like frequencies and tunes. Although, there is still much to learn about quantum physics and the law of attraction, it is evident that these concepts can be used to overcome limiting beliefs and obstacles.


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CNN panel on Trump tape implodes during heated discussion of his lewd language
Dylan Stableford
·Senior Writer
Tempers flared on CNN Friday night during a panel discussion about the leaked 2005 video in which Donald Trump bragged he could do whatever he wanted to women, including groping them.
Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist, said she was deeply offended by Trump's remarks.
Related: Maybe Trump did us a favor, exposing how entrenched misogyny really is
"I consider him a disgusting man who has consistently disgusted me from the first day of this campaign," Navarro said. "And I think that every single Republican is going to have to answer the question, 'What did you do the day you saw the tape of this man grabbing a woman's p••••?'"
Scottie Nell Hughes, a Trump supporter, pleaded with Navarro to stop repeating Trump's crude language.
"Can we stop saying that word?" Hughes asked. "My daughter is listening."
"You know what, Scottie? Don't tell me you're offended when I say 'p••••' but you're not offended when Donald Trump says it!" Navarro yelled.
"I am offended by you saying that word over and over," Hughes said.
"That is just absurd," Navarro replied.
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When news of the Trump tape broke earlier Friday, CNN's Brianna Keilar was tasked with reading some of the raunchy commentary on-air.
"I will do my best to edit some of the graphic descriptions," Keilar said.
Describing that part of the tape, Keilar phrased it like this: "And then Donald Trump says, 'Grab them by the…,' and he uses a word that begins with a p that is a slang term for a woman's genitalia."
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Already a favorite of theatres throughout the country, Tony Kushner's free adaptation of Pierre Corneille's most original, theatrical comedy, L'Illusion Comique, blends magic and truth, obsession and caprice, romance and murder, into an enticing exploration of the greatest illusion--love.
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Distance from Yambol to Karabük is 528 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 328 miles.
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Apodontium pacificum is een rondwormensoort uit de familie van de Axonolaimidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1920 door Cobb.

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This house is an original construction of the 40s, it belonged to a great Brazilian artist, Victor Brecheret, the man behind great references in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. After the artist's death, the property has never been occupied and during decades it served as a Foundation of part of his collection and a deposit. The architect Guilherme Torres was immediately attracted by its compact size (130 m²) and the privileged location in one of the most charming streets in the Jardins neighborhood in São Paulo. The main concept was to update the building, reflecting the contemporary language of the newcomer. The floor plan has not suffered many changes. The only things that has been changed over were the gaps, openings and coatings. All the walls were covered with drywalls and received in some parts white paint and in others, a coating that resembles cement texture. Up the stairs, from the original construction, you can see an art piece of Pinky Wainer, also responsible for the façade neon with the say: 'land of the free, home of the brave'. The master suite's toilet is connected to a mezzanine above the kitchen where a bath tub was created. A retractable glass roof can be opened on summer days, to help leaving a mild climate. To soften the rays of sun, a wooden muxarabie, a registered trademark of the architect, was used as a covering following the same pattern of the front door of the house. The architect chose this property to live and work. With just over 30 years and works in broad expansion, Guilherme Torres is considered one of the great names of Brazilian architecture. Coming from the interior of Paraná state, Brazil, where he established his first office serving many cities of Brazil for 10 years. Guilherme wanted to translate in his own new space, the best way of a cosmopolitan life with a hint of pop. The Studio Guilherme Torres moves from style to style developing architecture and interior projects and also signs a furniture line. The architecture receives timeless traits, a result of Guilherme's admiration to the Escola Paulista de Arquitetura Modernista, which had its heyday in the 60s and 70s. For interiors the tendency is always to reflect the inquietude of our days. And design is a perfect match between both styles. One can simply look to the house owner to understand the symbiosis between creation and creature. Guilherme is a lover of street art, electronic music and loves to create new tattoos for himself, and it is inside this cauldron of references where he receives his clients and friends.


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Q: How can I identify a Route by its path I'm working with Angular 8.2.4,
While I'm getting ActivatedRoute, I want to identify the activated children of the current Route is it v1 or v2.
I managed to get the first children activated Route:
let currentRoute = this.route.snapshot.children[0];

But I have to know if it is v1 or v2 or neither v1 nor v2 ? => I want to be precise.
I think that's can be a good feature for next Angular version that we add name property in routes definition and we add a certain name in ActivatedRoute also.
But Now, How am I going to make the difference between the two children route ?
app-routing:
routes = {
            path: '',
            pathMatch: 'full',
            redirectTo: 'home',
        },
        {
            path: 'new',
            children: [
                {
                    path: 'v1',
                    pathMatch: 'full',
                    component: newComponent,
                },
                {
                    path: 'v2',
                    pathMatch: 'full',
                    component: new2Component,
                }
            ],
        };

AppComponent.ts:
constructor(
    private readonly route: ActivatedRoute,
) {
    let currentRoute = this.route.snapshot.children[0];
    if (currentRoute is v1){
        //treatment.
    }
}

A: You can find the segment you are looking.
const isv1 = this.route.snapshot.url.find((seg) => seg.path === 'v1')

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Group of Indigenous Peoples in the Barents Region halts all activities
Posted on June 6, 2013 by Antonio Ruccia
Lars-Anders Baer (to the right) joined the "family photo" after the Barents Summit
The Working Group of Indigenous Peoples in the Barents Region halts all activities due to lack of funding. The decision was taken one day after the Prime Ministers praised the Indigenous Peoples work at the Barents Summit.
Dmitri Medvedev, Jens Stoltenberg, Jyrki Katainen and Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, the Prime Ministers of Russia, Norway, Finland and Iceland, all underlined the importance of Indigenous Peoples participation in the Barents Cooperation in their official speeches at the Barents Summit on Tuesday. So did also Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, Denmark's Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal and the European Commission's Vice President Siim Kallas.
Lars-Anders Baer, chair of the Working Groups of Indigenous Peoples (WGIP) was among the ministers at the podium.
"It's a long way from the fine words of the Prime Ministers at the 20th anniversary of the Barents Cooperation, to the real world for us Indigenous Peoples," says Lars-Anders Baer today after the ministers have taken off from Kirkenes with their private jets.
The Working Group has since 1995 had an advisory role for both the Barents Council and the Barents Regional Council.
Members of the WGIP represent the Sámi in Norway, Russia, Finland and Sweden as well as the Nenets and Vepsian peoples in Russia.
It is the lack of economic support that now forces WGIP to suspend its activities. Russia does not grant any funding, and funding from Sweden and Finland are sporadic. Norway is the only providing economic support on a regular basis.
"Russia is with its zero-funding hindering its own Indigenous Peoples participation. One can say that Russia's contribution to WGIP today is only fine words. Also Russia's new law on NGOs that need to register as "foreign agents" create problems for the Indigenous Peoples cooperation, "says Baer.
During the Barents Summit, Lars-Anders Baer, was sitting on the stage discussing the further of the Barents Cooperation together with the Ministers. Afterwards he told BarentsObserver "We are on stage, but we're the cheap ones.
"It's not a question of big money," he says, adding that annual funding of even NOK 400,000 (€52,000) would be sufficient for indigenous people to have adequate involvement in the Council's activities and decisions. It's peanuts in the governmental structure."
On Wednesday, the Working Group made the decision to suspend activities. Lars-Anders Baer says that also Finland and Sweden mainly have contributed with nice words at conferances and festivities. (Barents Observer)
Posted in Aborigenal Peoples, International Law	| Tagged carl bildt, denmark, dmitry medvedev, european union, finland, jens stoltenberg, jyrki katainen, lars-anders baer, norway, russia, sigmundur david gunnlaugsson, siim kallas, sweden, villy søvndal	| Leave a reply
Arctic Council´s international breakthrough
The foreign ministers of Russia, Sergey Larvrov, Norway, Espen Barth Eide, USA, John Kerry and Sweden Carl Bildt
The decision to invite six new nations as observers in the Arctic Council lifts the status of this forum to a new level, says Norway´s foreign minister Espen Barth Eide.
When the Arctic Council gathered for an evening dinner in Kiruna on Tuesday there where no time for small talk. The council had one important issue to solve before the official Arctic Council meeting on the 15th: Whether or not to include six new observer nations to the council.
"We were far beyond the main course before the decision to invite China or not was decided on, and nobody was really certain of the outcome when the debates started", Barth Eide confirms.
But to Barth Eide´s relief they finally agreed on the role of the observer status and which rights are given to these new observers in the council. So in the morning of the 15th all council members signed the Kiruna Declaration in the City Hall of Kiruna.
Better international cooperation
Barth Eide highlights the decision as a breakthrough for the political status of the Arctic Council. And this breakthrough is not only important for the cooperation between the Arctic nations, but also for international cooperation across the world.
"The Kiruna Declaration confirms that the Arctic Council is the primary organisation for Arctic issues. It confirms that the basic principles of the Arctic Council are to lead the way for all decisions concerning the Arctic. It confirms that all nations will focus on preserving the environment of the Arctic and it also confirms that this organisation will have Indigenous Peoples as active participants".
EU has to wait
However, one issue was not solved during the tough discussions of the evening dinner: The observer status of the European Union. It is agreed that also EU will become an observer in the council, however some details concerning their role must be solved first.
"EU and Canada have to solve some disputes first and seals are a major part of these remaining discussions", says Barth Eide.
EU had outlined a suggestion for solving the disputes on sales of seal products, but Canada felt the new text was sent on a too short notice to make a decision. Therefore the final decision to include EU as an observer in the council will have to be postponed, but not for long. It can be decided within the next months in the chairmanship. Since Canada has taken over the chair of the Arctic Council it will probably be solved quite fast, according to Barth Eide.
The Norwegian foreign minister is satisfied that Norway´s main goal for the Kiruna meeting was decided on. In his opinion the observer debate has taken all focus away from other and more important discussions on Arctic development.
"I look forward to discussing more important issues for the Arctic, like environment and climate. And we see also on this meeting that all member countries agree that this is the most important area to focus on in the years to come". (Barents Observer)
Posted in International Law	| Tagged arctic council, canada, carl bildt, china, espen barth eide, european union, john kerry, norway, seal hunt, sergey larvrov	| Leave a reply
Iceland vote: Centre-right opposition wins election
Posted on April 29, 2013 by Antonio Ruccia
Centre-right opposition parties in Iceland are set for a return to power with all the votes counted after Saturday's parliamentary election. The Independence party polled 26.7% and the Progressive party 24.4%, putting them on track to win 38 of the 63 seats. The ruling Social Democrats' share of the vote dropped to below 13%. Bright Future 8.2% (6 seats) and Pirates 5.1% (3 seats).
It is a dramatic comeback for the parties widely blamed for Iceland's economic meltdown in 2008. Iceland saw its prosperity evaporate, as the country's three banks collapsed, and the Social Democrats came to power a year later, with a programme of austerity tailored to international lenders' requirements.
The centre-right camp has promised debt relief and a cut in taxes. The two leading parties, which will now enter coalition negotiations, are also seen as Eurosceptic, and their poll success could slow down Iceland's efforts to become a member of the European Union.
"The Independence party has been called to duty again," said leader Bjarni Benediktsson, who looks likely to become prime minister. (BBC)
*** Islanda: elezioni, vince il centro-destra ***
L'opposizione di centro-destra in Islanda ha vinto le elezioni legislative svoltesi ieri, dopo lo spoglio del 95% dei voti. In base a questi risultati, il partito dell'Indipendenza (destra) ha ottenuto il 26,7% dei voti e il partito del Progresso (centrista e agrario) ha avuto il 24.3%; entrambi ottengono lo stesso numero di seggi, 19, mettendoli nella posizione di negoziare un governo di coalizione. Pesantemente sconfitti i due partiti che avevano dato vita al precedente governo. L'Alleanza (socialdemocratica) perde più della metà della sua rappresentanza con 9 deputati mentre il Movimento verde di sinistra ha ottenuto 7 seggi. Il partito Avvenire radioso (pro-Ue) ha avuto 6 seggi e il partito pirata 3.
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Iceland election: Ruling bloc facing defeat
Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir
Voters in Iceland are going to the polls in elections expected to oust the governing centre-left coalition. Analysts predict that two centre-right parties will be able to form a new cabinet, pledging to soften unpopular austerity policies.
This would mark a dramatic comeback for the centre-right, which was widely blamed for Iceland's near-economic collapse in 2008. Their victory could also halt the island nation's EU membership talks.
Polls opened at 09:00 GMT and are due to close at 22:00 GMT, with more than 230,000 voters eligible to cast their ballots. The conservative Independence Party and their traditional coalition partners the Progressives are expected to secure a majority in the 63-strong parliament.
The parties' leaders, Bjarni Benediktsson and Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, are then predicted to compete in a race to succeed the Social Democrat Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who is retiring from politics.
Opinion polls suggest the main governing Social Democratic Alliance will suffer a heavy defeat. Many Icelanders are frustrated with the current government, saying that its austerity policies are too painful. This is despite the fact that Iceland has seen steady growth in recent years amid falling unemployment rates.
"We are seeing a record swing in Iceland politics and actually the polls are showing that the two government parties will be losing half of their following from 2009," Prof Olafur Hardarson of the University of Iceland told BBC News.
The centre-right camp is promising debt relief and a cut in taxes. The two parties are also seen as Eurosceptic, and their poll success could slow down Iceland's efforts to become a member of the EU. The Eurosceptics argue that Iceland already gets most of the benefits of full membership through existing free trade arrangements with the EU and by being part the Schengen visa-free travel zone.
First election results are expected shortly after the polls close. (BBC)
*** Islanda vota per rinnovare il Parlamento ***
Islandesi al voto oggi per le elezioni legislative. Favorita, secondo i sondaggi, l'opposizione di centrodestra contraria all'adesione all'Ue. Ma al di la' di quale scenario politico verra' fuori dalle urne l'isola avra' in ogni caso un nuovo primo ministro visto che il premier uscente, la socialdemocratica Johanna Sigurdardottir, 70 anni, ha annunciato di ritirarsi dalla vita politica. Il suo programma ha permesso all'Islanda di uscire dalla recessione ma non e' piaciuto agli islandesi.
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The King of Fighters XV delayed to 2022
SNK announced today that The King of Fighters XV has been delayed from its previously planned 2021 release window to the first quarter of 2022.
According to Yasukuki Oda, SNK Producer, the reason for the delay is that they have been affected heavily by the rising cases of COVID-19 in Japan. The development team wanted to ensure that the product's quality will be top-notched when the game releases.
Here's the full message of Yasuki Oda in regards of The King of Fighters XV delayed announcement:
There are many fans who are anticipating the release of The King of Fighters XV in 2021, however at this point in time, we unfortunately have to announce that The King of Fighters XV will now be launching within the 1st quarter of 2022.
The development timeline we set out to reach in the beginning has been affected by the ever-still rising cases of COVID-19 within Japan. We have made the ultimate decision in the end that the product's quality must come first, and so with that decision comes an altered release window.
We sincerely ask for your kind patience and understanding as our development teams continue to work hard on The King of Fighters XV as we draw closer to its release.
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The Texas Asian Republican Assembly of Austin is having a meeting January 10th, 2018 at The Park in the Domain. 11601 Domain Drive 78758. There is a parking garage just across the restaurant. We have a private room reserved inside the restaurant.
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Julian Baumgartlinger (Mainz captain): "I think everybody had been waiting for me to score a goal. The coach and the team couldn't quite believe it. I just saw the gap and closed my eyes. The most important thing, though, is that we won 2-1. In the end, my goal was a bit lucky but we're happy to take the points. Things are just going well for us at the moment."
Martin Schmidt (Mainz head coach): "It was a really lively opening ten minutes. We knew it was going to be difficult defending against Schalke, but we did a good job on the whole. We may have conceded one, but we looked solid generally. Julian Baumgartlinger has had to wait a long time for this goal so it's nice that it was such an important one for us. I want to pay my team a huge compliment for this performance."
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Danny Latza (Mainz midfielder): "We're delighted to have won three games in a row. We came into the game with a lot of passion and we wanted to defend well, which is making a big difference for us right now. And if Julian scores a goal, then we've really got to win."
Giulio Donati (Mainz defender): On Instagram "Let's keep this going"
Andre Breitenreiter (Schalke head coach): "It was the tough game we expected it to be. We got into it well and looked to be on top, and we had the first chances with Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Leon Goretzka too. Apart from a [Jhon] Cordoba effort, we didn't really let them have a sight of goal. Suddenly, they then took the lead out of nothing. We just didn't defend well enough. In the second half, we got the equaliser straight away and we put them under pressure for 15 minutes, pushing for a second goal. Unfortunately we didn't find it and then their second goal came out of nothing once again. We tried everything in the end, but unfortunately we go home as losers after this tight match."
Johannes Geis (Schalke midfielder): "It was a good first half from us and we also did a lot right in the second half and moved forward well. Overall it was the small details which were lacking. Mainz were strong, tactically well organised and in the end they had that bit of luck on their side. It's always hard to play in Mainz. We saw after the interval that there was more in this game for us and that's what makes this a bitter defeat. We've had a couple of good games and I think it's normal to have a setback, but now we've got to do better in our next game with VfB Stuttgart. First, though, we've got to think about our Europa League game against Shakhtar Donetsk."
Ralf Fährmann (Schalke goalkeeper): "I think it was an attractive game for the fans. Mainz fought really hard. We came back into it well at the start of the second half, but on the whole you've got to say that Mainz did a better job than we did. Mainz are in exceptional form right now and they took their chances better than we did. They deserved to win."


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Iran Complying With Crude Supply Cut Deal
EghtesadOnline: Iran cut back crude oil production last month in a move that reflects its adherence to a global supply cut deal and OPEC's efforts to shore up prices and restore balance to the beleaguered oil market.
The country pumped 3,759 million barrels per day in April, trimming 39,000 barrels in daily crude oil production compared to the previous month, OPEC said in its monthly report on May 11, citing the secondary sources.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries announced a historic agreement last year to cut collective output by 1.2 million bpd through the first half of 2017. Iran was allowed to produce an average of 3.8 million barrels daily in the first six months of the year.
OPEC uses two sets of figures to monitor its output - figures provided by each country, and secondary sources which include industry media. The organization largely sticks to secondary sources data to gauge the members' adherence, Financial Tribune reported.
However Iran's own data show it is exceeding its output ceiling. The No. 3 OPEC producer cut production by 29,000 bpd to 3,862 million barrels in April, according to government figures.
OPEC's top exporter Saudi Arabia, which has over-complied with the cuts, ramped up production by 49,000 barrels a day to 9,954 million bpd in April. Second-largest producer Iraq produced 4.373 million bpd last month, down 39,100 bpd from March.
The UAE and Libya led the cuts by 62,300 bpd and 61,600 bpd respectively in April, but big increases from Angola, Nigeria and the kingdom largely offset the cuts.
OPEC's production decreased by a total of 18,000 bpd in April from the previous month to average 31.73 million bpd, according to secondary sources.
Tehran has sent mixed signals about its intentions in the oil market.
Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said in April that Iran's crude output was close to the 4-million-bpd mark, adding that it could add an additional 50,000 barrels to daily production later this year.
A few days later, the minister said Tehran will support a decision on extending the cuts for the second half of the year, adding that "Iran will stick to the level it has already accepted."
--- Iran Heavy
Iran's heavy crude oil averaged $51.12 per barrel last month, up 1.7% from the previous month.
Iran Heavy, one of the country's main oil export grades, has recorded an average of $51.57 per barrel in 2017, up almost 60% compared to the previous year in which global benchmark Brent plummeted to 12-year-lows.
OPEC's basket of 13 crudes ended the month slightly more than 2% higher on a monthly average basis. The basket price stood at $48.37 a barrel on Thursday, compared with $47.31 the previous day.
"Global markets continued to support the value of multiple-region destination grades, such as Arab Light, Basrah Light, Iran Heavy and Kuwait Export," OPEC said in the report.
Iran's oil production and export took a blow when the US and the European Union tightened the economic sanctions against Tehran to curb its nuclear program. But Tehran surprised global markets by boosting production at faster pace than most analysts had forecast after sanctions were lifted last year.
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Pattern of annulus fibrosis herring bone outer annulus suffers more torsion Central pattern can break down and pt have no sx until reaches outer annulus!
Does anyone know why aging discs change exactly? No, but it is well-documented from a histochemical perspective. Reversible? controversial.
What replaces chondroitin sulfate in aging discs? keratin sulfate - not hydrophilic like chondroitin s.
Describe changes brought on by stress to endplates WOLFF'S law: more bone and get sclerotic so don't diffuse nutrients and waste through disc (wash disc).
POSTERIOR disc tends to have _________ tears. The ANTERIOR & LATERAL disc tends to have __________ tears, and form osteophytes (_________ _________) RADIAL The anterior lateral tends to have peripheral tears and osteophytes (SPONDYLOSIS DEFORMANS).
Besides the need for later stages of disc disease to be present for visual on x-ray, what else can't you see? INTERNAL structures like nucleus p. and annulus, or biochemistry of nucleus There are no sensitive or specific findings on plain film.
A morphologic change to a vertebral body results in a change to the ____ disc.
3 types of annular tears CONCENTRIC TRANSVERSE RADIAL - only radial are important!
Tear does NOT necessarily mean trauma.
Represent separation of SHARPEY'S FIBERS from cartilaginous endplate TRANSVERSE tears of annulus Seen as a VACUUM CLEFT (lifting of Sharpey's away from endplate) on plain film. Not clinically significant usually.
In order to classify BP Exxon or Shell, you need _____ and _____ views. AXIAL and SAGITTAL images – only one will not do.
Two caveats to call it a BULGE Greater than 2 mm extension past margin. Involves more than 50% of circumference.
A Focal or Broad based lesion, either, does/does not extend beyond the endplates? Does not.
How to read a disc: View?T2 Sag. How much? Focal [<25%], Broad based [25-50%], Bulge [>50%]. Where? Central, Paracentral, Foraminal, Extra-foraminal. Endplates? Protrusion-contained. Extrusion-uncontained. Bulge around. Sequestration is piece.


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Q: What is an efficient way to filter calibration images? I am performing calibration as showed in this tutorial.
Instead of manually visualizing to decide, I want my calibration routine to decide if an image is a good fit for calibration or not, since there are a few images where the chessboard pattern detected is crooked and they might have a bad influence on the calibration.
I have around 400 images so it is not possible to visualize and decide for each image.
The following is a possible solution, but really slow considering the huge number of images.
def calculate_error(img_points_p, obj_points_p, rot_vectors_p, tr_vectors_p, mtx_p, dist_p):
    error_data = []
    for i in range(len(obj_points_p)):
        img_points_2, _ = cv.projectPoints(obj_points_p[i], rot_vectors_p[i], tr_vectors_p[i], mtx_p, dist_p)
        error = cv.norm(img_points_p[i], img_points_2, cv.NORM_L2) / len(img_points_2)
        error_data.append(error)
    return error_data

# perform calibration
# call calculate_error(...)
# remove from img_points (2d points in image plane) the values which correspond to value greater than 0.1 in error_data
# perform calibration again with data with only lesser values from error_data

Is a faster alternative to this possible? Like checking if the image is a good one right after we detect the chessboard pattern, for all images?

A: In algorithm form:

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*Run findChessboardCorners() on each image, reject those where a chessboard is not detected.

*On the survivor images, run findHomography() on the detected chessboard corners, using the RANSAC or LMEDS estimators, reject those that fail or find less than N inliers. Use a reasonable value for N, say, 16 or 36 (meaning you want to "see" the equivalent of 4x4 or 6x6 inliers. at least. Don't be too tight on the max acceptable reprojection error, since you are not correcting for lens distortion yet.


For the fifth time now, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims they are. They assume that the relatively small human contribution of this gas to the atmosphere will cause dangerous global warming. Other scientists disagree, arguing that the climate is so complex and insufficiently understood that the net effect of human emissions cannot be forecasted.
The computer models that the IPCC reports rely on are complicated representations of the assumption that human carbon dioxide emissions are now the primary factor driving climate change. The modelers have correctly stated that they produce scenarios. Scenarios are stories constructed from a collection of assumptions. Well-constructed scenarios can be very convincing, in the same way that a well-crafted fictional book or film can be. However, scenarios are neither forecasts nor the product of validated forecasting procedures.
The IPCC modelers were apparently unaware of the many decades of research on forecasting methods. I along with Dr. Kesten Green conducted an audit of the procedures used to create the IPCC scenarios. We found that they violated 72 of 89 relevant scientific forecasting principles. (The principles are freely available on the Internet.) Would you go ahead with your flight if you overheard two of the ground crew discussing how the pilot had violated 80 percent of the pre-flight safety checklist?
Given the expensive policies proposed and implemented in the name of preventing dangerous man-made global warming, we are astonished that there is only one published peer-reviewed paper that claims to provide scientific forecasts of long-range global mean temperatures. The paper is Green, Armstrong, and Soon's 2009 article in the International Journal of Forecasting.
The paper examined the state of knowledge and the available empirical data in order to select appropriate evidence-based procedures for long-range forecasting of global mean temperatures. Given the complexity and uncertainty of the situation, we concluded that the "no-trend" model is the method most consistent with forecasting principles.
We tested the no-trend model using the same data that the IPCC uses. We produced annual forecasts from one to 100 years ahead, starting from 1851 and stepping forward year-by-year until 1975, the year before the current warming alarm was raised. (This is also the year when Newsweekand other magazines reported that scientists were "almost unanimous" that Earth faced a new period of global cooling.) We conducted the same analysis for the IPCC scenario of temperatures increasing at a rate of 0.03 degrees Celsius (0.05 degrees Fahrenheit) per year in response to increasing human carbon dioxide emissions. This procedure yielded 7,550 forecasts from each method.


(ANTIWAR.COM) — Late last year, Turkey-backed rebels were decisively overwhelmed by al-Qaeda's Nusra Front in the Idlib Province, in northern Syria. While Turkey's allies made mention of resolving this, as an attempt to prevent Syria attacking the area during a ceasefire with Turkey, al-Qaeda never left, and their control has only grown.
So while Turkey controls some of northern Aleppo Province, the Idlib Province is now almost entirely under the control of al-Qaeda, and they are ruling under an increasingly strict Islamist rule.
Al-Qaeda's activities are forcing a lot of aid groups to cease activity in the area, and a lot of locals say that they object being ruled over by the faction. They say exactly who supports al-Qaeda is never clear, and so far there is no sign of any resistance.
Some are expecting Turkey to intervene, because they'd promised to do so last year to keep Syria from overrunning the area. With Turkey preparing an invasion further east against the Kurds, however, that seems to be low priority, and al-Qaeda is given more and more time solidify its control.
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Narrativity has spurred my most difficult challenges in planning the film. An important question to consider was: to what extent should the film avoid a "clear" narrative like what we're used to seeing in the movies? One of my goals was to create a visceral expression of the sublime emotion without relying on a lot of verbal explanation. This seemed to point to a video art piece free of character and plot. Because of the high use of abstraction in contemporary art regarding the sublime, it seemed like using a conventional narrative might prove too concrete to serve my goal.
But as I found in my research, an understanding of what is being expressed can often depend on its context. (For example, Luc Tuymans' painting Gas Chamber (1986), which I came across in research, would probably give us a different experience if it had a less explanatory title.) Also, I had a specific plot in mind that I couldn't forget — but it somehow just didn't fit with my plan for this project.
The sublime emotion depends on disorientation — it makes the 'normal' world strange and forces you to consider it in a different way. So I've tried to convey that feeling in the film, and maybe a kind of re-orientationwhen a strange experience reveals something about the 'normal' world. Visually speaking, I'm using unnatural lighting, stark contrasts between extreme closeups and extreme long shots, disorienting angles, and other anti-continuity editing strategies.
By "unnatural lighting" I mean not only off-camera lights added to a scene, but also light that doesn't reflect the actual lighting situations you'd find in the world. Some of my lighting plans are downright illogical (intentionally). The sensation I'm hoping to reflect is one of a world suddenly gone strange, as if it's really another place — the odd colors of dreams, and the way light there comes from unnatural directions.
I'm using a combination of natural and synthetic sounds. (for example, juxtaposing I make a lot of field recordings of strange sounds from different environments. I'm really excited about some great sounds I recorded on the D.C. Metro recently — a lot of whistling, howling, and rumbling sounds from the train running along the track. I've found that adding certain sounds to a visually incompatible environment you can get interesting effects. If it's a recognizable sound it can serve a metaphorical purpose, and otherwise it can set the mood or be just a useful part of the aural landscape of a scene.
One of the scenes includes an imaginary space that changes its physical characteristics — at one moment an inescapable room, the next total emptiness. Visually these are indistinguishable, except for my actor's movements…and the soundtrack. A room sounds very different from a great emptiness. (More importantly, it should feel different: technically there's no sound in a void, but the sound is also reflecting the emotions of the character). All we can see is black, so it depends on the reverberance and other aural touches to hint at the distinction.
By this I'm mostly referring to the length of time between cuts. This helps control mood — faster cutting can create a feeling of urgency, fear, or lack of control, while a longer take can convey calm. (Of course, it also depends on what's happening during those takes and what the camera is doing!) "Lack of control" is an important theme for this, so you can expect some fast cuts. And the shots you're cutting between make a difference. Jump cuts (between two shots from almost the same angle) are uncomfortable and startling, but so are cuts from extreme close ups to extreme long shots. The flow of editing rhythm across the piece is important as well. It should rise and fall at different points; it's not usually that interesting to watch a ceaseless barrage of jump cuts.
I prefer to use a handheld camera style — it can be a little wobbly, but I often feel this imparts a little more immediacy and life to what we see on screen. It can seem less like a "production." However, for more complicated effects it's often necessary to use a tripod-mounted, stable shot.
There's a specific camera movement I want to use — a sweeping of the camera toward the actor, from a long shot to a closeup, choreographed alongside a change in lights.


For protection of Jeweler's bench work area when making jewelry, jewelers must use this Silquar Soldering Board to tackle heavier soldering projects that need more surface area under high-heat conditions. These boards are furnshed with padded feet for extra permanence and grip. It has this ceramic surface that cleans easily with water and is a heat-reflective, non-combustible ceramic material.
Allows positioning of work while annealing or soldering on a heat reflective material such as pumice.
It allows for fast and quick dissipation of the heat from the work piece being soldered.
It is also soft enough to allow pins to be used to secure jewelers work.
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This is an energy-saving board.
It is a different type of soldering board which has hundreds of holes.
It ideal for supporting your work while soldering or annealing.


By far, the most common type of life insurance purchased is on a single individual. But in the right circumstance, a second-to-die life insurance policy may be exactly what you need.
A second-to-die policy is unique in that there are two insureds (usually spouses) and a death benefit is only paid out upon the second insured's death. So we have two lives covered, two deaths, but only one death benefit.
In most traditional types of life insurance sales, the proceeds are left to the surviving spouse for various financial needs. Obviously, that's not the case here, so let's take a look at why someone would purchase a second-to-die policy.
Estate Planning Purposes – Approximately 90% of these policies are purchased by couple's with large estates, who may have an estate tax problem. This is really a simple concept. The first spouse passes an unlimited marital deduction upon his or her death to the surviving spouse. Upon the second spouse's death, their entire estate is subject to various forms of taxation (income tax, possibly estate tax, etc.) So what better way to pay the estate tax bill than with a life insurance policy, which cost pennies on the dollar, and pays out an income tax free death benefit?
Support of Children – Since the death benefit does not pass to the surviving spouse, it is usually purchased with a married couple's children in mind. Perhaps there are unpaid bills or debt such as a mortgage to be willed to the children, and the parents don't want to pass away leaving their children with a loan on the house.
Affordability – Second-to-die policies are, on average, 25-40% cheaper than purchasing a policy on just one individual. The savings could be even more drastic if one of the spouses has some health issues, but the policy is issued anyway based on the good health of the other spouse.
Cash Accumulation – Since the cost of insurance (COI) in these policies is so low, some people leverage them as investment vehicles to grow its cash value account.
Charitable Bequests – Perhaps you have a favorite charity or educational institution. Many libraries have been named and scholarship funds have been created due to the proceeds of second-to-die policies from generous benefactors. Perhaps you can't afford a $500,000 outright gift, but you can pay $10,000 per year. Leverage your dollars and buy a 2nd-to-die policy with your favorite charity as beneficiary.
The most common type of second-to-die policy sold is universal life. All the big carriers such as Prudential, Met Life, and ING offer a 2nd-to-die option.
Protective Life is the only life insurance company I'm aware of that has term policy with this option. You can purchase 10, 20, or 30 year convertible second-to-die term, and boy, is it ever affordable.
The only downside with Protective's term policy is the best health class they'll offer is Standard. So if you're both in excellent health, you get somewhat of a downgrade in health classification here, as the best you can qualify for is standard.
Do the two Insureds have to be Husband and Wife?
No. You can have second-to-die policies with mother and son, siblings, 2 business partners, etc.
For example, I used to volunteer on the board of a private school in San Diego, which had been co-founded by two wonderful women. You could make the argument that a 2nd-to-die policy would be appropriate for the school to purchase on them for succession planning.
You see, if one were to die unexpectedly, the other could take over her responsibilities, but when they're both gone, you could argue the school could suffer from decreased attendance while the successor moves into his or her new job.
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är en kommun i Enzkreis i regionen Nordschwarzwald i Regierungsbezirk Karlsruhe i förbundslandet Baden-Württemberg i Tyskland.

Kommunen bildades 1 januari 1973 genom en sammanslagning av kommunerna Singen och Wilferdingen. Kommunen Nöttingen uppgick i  1 januari 1975.

Kända personer

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Referenser

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Driver headed south onto Interstate 35 at Texas 29 in Georgetown should expect delays Tuesday afternoon. The southbound ramp is closed Tuesday because a truck carrying manure/fertilizer turned over, said Roland Waits, a police spokesman. The truck was traveling east on Texas 29 when it turned onto the southbound ramp to Interstate 35 and flipped over, Waits said. The truck's driver said a wind gust pushed his vehicle over, Waits said.
The incident happened about 11 a.m. Tuesday, said Waits. He said the truck had a tarp over it that prevented most of the manure/fertilizer from spilling onto the road. Waits said he didn't yet know when the ramp would be reopened.


Adventures in Reality - ZineWiki - the history and culture of zines, independent media and the small press.
Adventures in Reality is a UK based fanzine from Coventry run by Alan Rider which ran from 1980-1984 over 12 issues numbered alphabetically through A to L.
Starting out as an A5 size photocopied fanzine, it quickly moved up to A4 size offset litho printed, with some issues featuring special packaging (for example one came in a screen printed brown paper bag, another was part of a jointly issued two fanzine pack with Nuneaton fanzine Damn Latin and came in a folder). Each issue also include one or more free gifts ranging from exclusive badges to toffees and tea bags! Issue J gave away a free two track flexi disc by Gothic industrial band Attrition - this was their first released recording and is now highly collectible. Content included exclusive interviews with indie, goth and industrial bands ranging from local acts to Bauhaus, SPK, Delta 5. It included extensive record, cassette, gig and fanzine reviews, personal views on everything from TV to architecture, along with features on various countries underground music scenes often guest written by other fanzine writers. The last issue (Issue L) accompanied the Last Supper compilation tape and featured an exclusive interview with SPK. A new 16 page one off special edition was recently published in August 2012 as an insert with the Stress retrospective LP 'Conspiracy Theory'.
Adventures in Reality is also featured in Teal Triggs recently published book Fanzines, an extensively researched and lavishly illustrated reference book on fanzines and their development through the decades, and the book Art of Punk.
A spin off record and cassette label, Adventures in Reality Recordings released exclusive material from an international cast of bands including Attrition, Stress, Bourbonese Qualk, SPK, Test Department, Religious Overdose, Velvet Monkeys and Audio Leter. Spin off fanzines also produced by Alan Rider were Sticky Fingers, Certain Substances , Negative Response and Not the Job Hunter and Alan also contributed to various national music magazines including Spiral Scratch and Empty Quarter, as well as forming the bands Stress and Dance Naked, both of whom released material on Adventures in Reality Recordings.
Alan is currently writing a book on Coventry fanzines from 1979-84.
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TARDIS Conventions has cancelled the Phoenix TARDIS event planned for July 10-14.
This represents Alien Entertainment's second failure in 2015 to replicate the success of its flagship con Chicago TARDIS in another city. Earlier, the firm cancelled Boston TARDIS 2015 that had been scheduled for April 3-5.
Low upfront attendance coupled with issues involving the hotel space have driven us to make this decision. In the last two weeks, we have attempted to re-house the convention at a different venue to no avail.
We want to thank all of you who showed your enthusiasm for this event and have already purchases tickets. We will be issueing refunds via Eventbrite ASAP. If you do not receive your refund within the next 24 hours, please contact us.
We also want to thank our guests – Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Terry Molloy, and Ian McNeice for their time and effort. It is no fault of any of these lovely individuals that this decision came about.
We have been informed that as of three hours ago, the hotel was still taking bookings for Phoenix TARDIS. We had no hand in that, and as you can see this was part of our issue for the cancellation of the con. We have spoken with them, and they are taking all open reservations off line on their end. Our website has already disabled any links to ticketing or the hotel room reservations.
We are saddened to report that in the last 24 hours certain events have taken place, which have significantly derailed Boston TARDIS 2015.
In the beginning of this venture, we were disheartened that our event would be clashing with a very popular, local convention – Anime Boston – as well as a weekend that holds religious significance for many of those who might potentially attend. If we wanted to continue into 2016, it looked like we had no choice but to go forward with our plans. Thankfully, next year, our event will be held far away from any dates such as these.
Six birthday boys. Fire up the cake!
(1) Composer Bernard Hermann was born today in 1911. His very first film score, for Citizen Kane (1941), was an Oscar nominee. But it lost — to Hermann's other nominated film score, for The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941).
Some of Hermann's most famous work was for Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo (1958), North By Northwest (1959), and Psycho (1960).
(2) Animator, producer and LASFS member Ray Harryhausen, was born in 1920.
(3) Actor Slim Pickens, born in 1919, broke into Hollywood as a singing cowboy before directors realized his full comedic potential.
(4) Artist Michael Whelan was born this day in 1950.
(5) Fellow artist David B. Mattingly was born the same date in 1956.
(6) Jeff Duntemann, oft-quoted in File 770's Hugo roundups, was born in 1952.
The SF field also suffered two especially noteworthy losses on June 29.
….It would seem that there could be an overlap between the "Sad Puppies" racially resentful white folks (and their pathetic black and brown racial Stockholm syndrome allies) and the more formal and open White Right. The Whiteness of science fiction is united in the post civil rights era by White Supremacy gross, ugly, more polite, in some ways unapologetic, dishonestly "colorblind", and in all of its other toxic ways.
As I shared on the RT network last Friday evening, Dylann Roof and other Right-wing domestic terrorists are weaponized by Fox News and the Right-wing hate media. Part of this training is not limited to explicit and formal political texts. Political lessons are also taught by many types of media such as music, film, art, video games, comic books, and other types of literature.
A quibble: Covington's work sounds more like speculative fiction than it does "science fiction" (the widely known white supremacist tract The Turner Diaries fits this model as well). Most science fiction is by definition speculative in nature; speculative fiction is not necessarily science fiction. Words and concepts are important; meanings and definitions matter…..
Controversy erupted when one group of science fiction writers, who felt underrepresented by the awards committee, offered a competing list of nominees for the Hugo Awards. When their list won many of the five slots available in each award category, the science fiction establishment and major media noticed. The list writers—known oddly as the "Sad Puppies"—believe that books promoting politically correct causes and liberal identity politics have dominated the Hugos in recent years. Opponents say the "Puppies" are racist, misogynist, and homophobic conservatives undermining science fiction's most prestigious award by inventing nonexistent persecution. Members of the World Science Fiction Convention will meet this summer to determine if nomination and voting rules need changing. Any changes would take effect in two years. —J.O.
This is not what fandom should be like, but unfortunately assholes are everywhere, even in sf fandom. But though they're currently the loudest and most visible part of fandom, they're not the whole of it. It's only human to talk more about outrage than about all the everyday kindnesses that pass unnoticed, which is why British fandom has its Doc Weir award. Most people you meet in fandom, online or real life, are just normal, decent human beings. Which can be hard to remember when all you read about is a small part being incredibly nasty about having to share fandom with people who are not like them and don't like Nutty Nuggets.
But there's also the point that much of the sound and fury generated by those Puppies is a reaction to the fact that fandom is changing and getting more welcoming to people who may not just dislike Nutty Nuggets, but don't like breakfast cereal at all. It's a backlash against the idea that fandom can improve, grow more diverse, not remain the playground of a bunch of paranoid, spoiled, rightwing brats.
I replied that I do it for self-promotion and networking. I have seen the benefits accumulate over the years of people getting to meet and know you a bit, to know that you're a real person. I suppose it works for me because I'm very outgoing, and I'm also a much better public speaker than a writer.
I also feel this year I have a special obligation to get out there because of my Hugo nominations. I feel if I'm asking people to consider my virtues as a writer, they have the right to see me and buttonhole me.
I hold that too many of the award categories are irrelevant, or so poorly shaped that the voters do not know what they are actually voting for. And yet one of the most persistent and pernicious trends over the last few years has been to add further categories, which does nothing to make the whole thing simpler or clearer….
Okay, I've been rambling on for too long, but basically it comes down to this: most of the categories of the Hugo Awards are not fit for purpose. They are dependent on knowledge that the voter cannot have, or they make distinctions that are irrelevant to most voters, or they require comparison between items that cannot sensibly be compared. And these problems, or variations of them, extend into just about every one of the 16 categories there currently are in the Hugo Awards. It's a systemic problem that ties in with the problems of governance and the problems of relevance that I have already highlighted.
I don't know what the solution is, other than tearing the whole edifice down and rebuilding it from scratch on firmer grounds and on a simpler model. But I don't think that is going to happen.
The award itself dates back to 1197 and Bishop Hugo de Rainault (brother of the then Sherrif of Nottingham) who it will be remembered offered 'a mighty prize for the most puissant account of how yon addlepate knave Robin Earle yclept Loksley might best be set about his heels.' The original silver arrow has now become over time the stylised 'rocket robin hood' shape of the current award….
Reid's other covers look rather pulp style, which is not really my thing, but I do like this one.
And at least now I don't have to think about putting No Award on the ballot. It's a pity Reid didn't put some of his works in the Hugo packet so they'd have been easier to find.
Of these choices, Tea and Jeopardy is definitely the best. It takes full advantage of the format, uses sound effects to improve the atmosphere and has whimsy that appeals to me. The interview was well-conducted, and the questions were perceptive and enlightening. It's also short enough to listen to but not so long I start to think, just get on with it already! Next up, despite the length, is Galactic Suburbia, which is information-filled and fun. The trio clearly love what they are talking about and range far and wide on a variety of subjects while still pulling in the audience. I find the length problematic, but the diversity of subjects makes up for it. Adventures in SciFi Publishing is the third place winner, and the last to make the ballot for me. It's a polished production, but went on just slightly too long on a single subject.
The next best is Dungeon Crawlers Radio, which is average but not great. I do wonder if there is a better example than the one in the sample, but due to the length, I can't be bothered to listen and find out. At the bottom is the Sci Phi Show, which really didn't take advantage of the audio format at all. The cheesy laughter sound effect detracted, rather than enhanced. If that was the best available, the podcast doesn't deserve an award.
…This film most certainly deserves the Hugo award this year. It is what the Hugo is all about. It is, unfortunately, on the Sad Puppies list. I'm quite sure it would have been nominated anyway. In other areas it has received many awards, beating out the other Hugo Nominees. And it is really quite funny that the puppies would nominate this film. They are so against stories with a message and if you don't get the messages in this film you have to be brain dead. As against the puppy slates as I am, I am forced to concede that this is indeed the best SF film of the year and I must put it first when I vote. I just have to. From the emotional, enjoyment, box office response, and industry award perspectives this film comes out on top among those nominated. If you believe in the spirit of the Hugos, you won't let the source of a good nominee that deserves to win cloud your judgement. Of course, not all will agree that this is the best offering, but from my perspective, I have no choice…..
Lots of people were talking about wanting to come back to Finnish conventions again. We seem to have created a lot of goodwill for the Helsinki Worldcon bid. I am so proud of my Finnish and Swedish friends right now.
By John Hertz: Somehow this apothegm of Lewis Carroll's seemed worth quoting.
To ask for such a thing no more.
Is always thought an awful bore.
By it can solve a hard equation.
Let wisdom's brows be cold and sour.
Taral Wayne has posted "Doug Winger: Fallen Sparrow", a long and thoughtful appreciation of the late fanartist.
I can't help feel that Doug was a rara avis whose wings had been broken by misfortune, and who never properly learned to fly again.
Three new trailers on YouTube that caught my eye.
The final trailer for Dai Gyakuten Saiban, a game in the Ace Attorney series, before its release on July 9th, 2015.
The Pixels character trailer for Lady Lisa.


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Q: How to remove root element of list when serializing with DataContracts I have this class
[DataContract]
public class InsertLoansResponse
{
    private ProcSummary _processingSummary;
    private List<InsertLoanResponse> _items;

    [DataMember]
    public List<InsertLoanResponse> InsertLoanResponses
    {
        get { return _items ?? (_items = new List<InsertLoanResponse>()); }
        set { _items = value; }
    }

    [DataMember]
    public ProcSummary ProcessingSummary
    {
        get { return _processingSummary ?? (_processingSummary = new ProcSummary()); }
        set { _processingSummary = value; }
    }

    public void Add(InsertLoanResponse localState)
    {
        InsertLoanResponses.Add(localState);
    }

    [DataContract]
    public class ProcSummary
    {
        [DataMember(Name = "Success")]
        public int SuccessCount { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "Failure")]
        public int FailureCount { get; set; }
    }
}

It's the response type for a method in my service.
I end up with xml that looks like this:
<InsertLoansResponse>
    <InsertLoanResponses>
        <InsertLoanResponse>
        </InsertLoanResponse>
        <InsertLoanResponse>
        </InsertLoanResponse>
    </InsertLoanResponses>
    <ProcessingSummary>
        <Failure></Failure>
        <Success></Success>
    </ProcessingSummary>
<InsertLoansResponse>

But I do not want the plural InsertLoanResponses root node, I want it to look like this:
<InsertLoansResponse>
    <InsertLoanResponse>
    </InsertLoanResponse>
    <InsertLoanResponse>
    </InsertLoanResponse>
    <ProcessingSummary>
        <Failure></Failure>
        <Success></Success>
    </ProcessingSummary>
<InsertLoansResponse>

A: Perhaps change your class rather than your serializer.
[DataContract]
public class InsertLoansResponse : List<InsertLoanResponse>
{
   private ProcSummary _processingSummary;
   private List<InsertLoanResponse> _items;

   // and remove the Add method, as this is now implicit to the class
}

This way you will not get a nested property when serializing.

A: You'll probably need to define a custom MessageContract for this operation. Check out the following link, specifically the section on "Using Arrays Inside Message Contracts" and the MessageHeaderArrayAttribute.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730255.aspx


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Q: Spacy PhraseMatcher - match not one of the keywords but ALL keywords within string I am trying to solve the task of classifying texts into buckets based on the keywords. It is fairly easy to do when I need to match the text with one or several keywords (so one of keywords shall be in text), however I have trouble understanding how to do the matching when I need to ensure that several of keywords exist within the string.
Below is a small sample. Let's say that my dfArticles is a pandas dataframe which has a column Text with the text articles I am trying to match:
dfArticles['Text']
Out[2]:
0       (Reuters) - Major Middle Eastern markets ended...
1       MIDEAST STOCKS-Oil price fall hurts major Gulf...
2       DUBAI, 21st September, 2020 (WAM) -- The Minis...
3       DUBAI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM ...
4       Brent crude was down 99 cents or 2.1% at $42.2.

Let's also say that my dataframe dfTopics holds a list of keywords I am trying to match against and buckets associated with keywords:
dfTopics
Out[3]:
            Topic              Keywords
0     Regulations                   law
1     Regulations            regulatory
2     Regulations            regulation
3     Regulations           legislation
4     Regulations                 rules
5          Talent            capability
6          Talent             workforce

When I just need to check if the text is matching one of this keywords it is simple:
def prep_match_patterns(dfTopics):

    matcher = PhraseMatcher(nlp.vocab, attr="LOWER")

    for topic in dfTopics['Topic'].unique():
        keywords = dfTopics.loc[dfTopics['Topic'] == topic, 'Keywords'].to_list()
        patterns_topic = [nlp.make_doc(text) for text in keywords]
        matcher.add(topic, None, *patterns_topic)
    return matcher

Then I can easily check with one shot which buckets the text falls into:
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_lg")
nlp.disable_pipes(["parser"])
# extract the sentences from the documents
nlp.add_pipe(nlp.create_pipe('sentencizer'))

matcher = prep_match_patterns(dfTopics)

dfResults = pd.DataFrame([],columns=['ArticleID', 'Topic'])

articles = []
topics = []

for index, row in tqdm(dfArticles.iterrows(), total=len(dfArticles)):
    doc = nlp(row['Text'])
    matches = matcher(doc)
    if len(matches)<1:
        continue
    else:
        for match_id, start, end in matches:
            string_id = nlp.vocab.strings[match_id]  # Get string representation
            articles.append(row['ID'])
            topics.append(string_id)

dfResults['ArticleID'] = articles
dfResults['Topic'] = topics

dfResults.drop_duplicates(inplace=True)

But now the trick is - sometimes to classify the text into bucket I need to ensure it matches several keywords at the same time
Let's say I have a new topic called "Healthcare system context" and for text to fall into this bucket I need the text to have all 3 substrings in it: "fragmentation" and "approval process" and "drug". Order doesn't matter but all three keywords need to be there. Is there any way to do it with PhraseMatcher?

A: I think you're overcomplicating. You can achieve what you want with simple python.
Suppose we have:
df_topics
    Topic   Keywords
0   Regulations law
1   Regulations regulatory
2   Regulations regulation
3   Regulations legislation
4   Regulations rules
5   Talent  capability
6   Talent  workforce

Then you can organize your topic keywords into a dictionary:
topics = df_topics.groupby("Topic")["Keywords"].agg(lambda x: x.to_list()).to_dict()
topics
{'Regulations': ['law', 'regulatory', 'regulation', 'legislation', 'rules'],
 'Talent': ['capability', 'workforce']}

Finally, define a func to match keywords:
def textToTopic(text, topics):
    t = []
    for k,v in topics.items():
        if all([topic in text.split() for topic in v]):
            t.append(k)
    return t

Demo:
textToTopic("law regulatory regulation rules legislation workforce", topics)
['Regulations']

textToTopic("law regulatory regulation rules legislation workforce capability", topics)
['Regulations', 'Talent']

You can apply this func to a text in df


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March 15, 2011 / 1:48 PM
6.4 quake rocks Tokyo area
A house is seen adrift in the Pacific Ocean near Sendai, Japan, March 13, 2011, two days after a massive earthquake and tsunami. UPI/Dylan McCord/U.S. Navy | License Photo
TOKYO, March 15 (UPI) -- Japan, reeling from a disastrous earthquake-tsunami in the northeast, had a quake Tuesday in an area that includes Tokyo -- this one recorded at magnitude 6.4.
Officials said at least one person was injured and fire broke out in a hotel but no tsunami warnings were issued and no damage was reported at power plants in the area, Kyodo News reported.
The quake was centered about 62 miles southwest of Tokyo.
Service on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line bullet train was temporarily suspended between Shinagawa and Hamamatsu stations and sections of the Tomei and Chuo expressways also were closed temporarily, Kyodo reported.
Aftershocks have continued since a massive magnitude-9 quake and tsunami struck in the northeast part of the country, killing thousands of people and causing widespread destruction.
The confirmed death toll at one point Tuesday was 2,475, police said, but other reports gave a far higher number. Tens of thousands were homeless.
Japan's national police agency reported at least 3,611 people remained missing
There have been numerous aftershocks, more than two-dozen of them -- -- like the Tokyo-area quake -- that had a magnitude higher than 6, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
International nuclear regulatory officials expressed concern about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which was rocked by a series of explosions and fires after the initial quake, The Guardian reported.
Officials, concerned about radiation leaks, directed more than 140,000 residents in a 12-to-18-mile radius of the Fukushima plant to remain indoors. Residents below the 12-mile circle were ordered to leave, officials told The Guardian.
"A worrisome situation remains but I hope to take the lead in overcoming this crisis," Prime Minister Naoto Kan said.
The United States announced it was sending a group of nuclear experts to Japan this week to assist with emergencies at the stricken nuclear plant.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a written statement it sent a deputy regional commissioner from its construction inspection division and other experts in reactor technology to Japan. They will join two other NRC staff experts already working with Japanese engineers.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it "remains concerned over the status of the [Fukushima Daiichi plant], where seawater injections to cool the reactors in units 1, 2 and 3 are continuing," The Guardian reported.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog said it still was seeking details about the status of "all workers, reactors and spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant that witnessed three explosions and a fire."
The IAEA said all units at other nuclear plants, including the Fukushima Daini, Onagawa and Tokai facilities, were in "a safe and stable condition."
The World Meteorological organization said winds were carrying radioactive material from the Fukushima plant over the Pacific Ocean away from Japan and other Asian countries, The Guardian reported.
Naoto Kan
South Korea prosecutors drop charges in Sewol ferry case
Jan. 19 (UPI) -- South Korean prosecutors said they found no evidence that the highest office in the nation attempted to obstruct investigations into the sinking of the Sewol ferry.
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