Hello! My name is Hailey, but I'm mainly known by my online handle @BrightWhiteSnow. I began my writing journey on Wattpad just under five years and from there my work has flourished. Currently, I am working on my second book in the I Am Living With an Idiot Series, editing and revising the first book and I recently began writing a new book called "Deliverance of Melancholy". I absolutely love reading and I've always had a love affair for teen fiction. When I'm not writing, I'm procrastinating writing. If that sentence doesn't completely explain me, I don't know what does. If you have taken a look at my tier levels, it might be obvious that I absolutely love Romeo and Juliet.
I just want to take a moment to thank all my fans because without them there is no way I would be here right now.
On Patreon, I hope to be able to give back to my fans while also getting some positive contributions to my bank account. Seeing that writing pays very little to nothing, this is a wonderful opportunity for writers like me. With Patreon, I hope to be able to open up my schedule and write more for my fans.
Thank you, every penny counts. Even though pennies aren't technically made anymore and all I'm really doing is throwing a cliche at you, I think you get the point. With this tier, you will receive early access to chapters to both of my books.
Thank you VERY much. On Benvolio's tier, you will receive everything from the previous tier, plus a postcard bi-monthly via mail.
Thank you VERY VERY much. On Tybalt's tier, you will receive everything from the previous tiers plus a monthly postcard.
Thank you VERY VERY VERY much. On Mercutio's tier, you will receive everything from the previous tiers, plus a handwritten personal letter.
Thank you VERY VERY VERY VERY much. On Friar Laurence's tier, you will receive everything from the previous tiers, plus a handpicked gift from me! I'll send them randomly, but there will be more than one.
WOW. Thank you VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY much. On the Montague tier, you will receive everything from the previous tier, plus an in detail review of one of your books. I will also send you an advice column for writing online.
OKAY DAMN. Thank you VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY much. That pretty well covers my phone bill, dang. On the Capulet tier, you will receive everything from the previous tiers, plus I will send you a copy of my favourite book at the moment.
THIS IS JUST TOO MUCH. Thank you VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY much. Okay unless you are really really wealthy don't do this because I actually want you to be able to eat this month. If you do this, then I have something very special. On Juliet's tier, you will receive everything from the previous tiers, plus a quarterly novelty box that I will handpick. It will be filled with bookish and other nerdy things (At least 10 items).
YOU BETTER OWN A CASTLE OR SOMETHING. Thank you VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY much. This is just too much, like don't do this unless you own a castle because like this tier could cause bankruptcy. If you are for some reason an individual who does own a castle, this is what you will get on Romeo's tier: You will receive everything from the eight previous tiers, but instead of a quarterly novelty box, you will receive one every month. I will also have a FaceTime Audio call with you!
I will do my first giveaway!


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A stunning navy and white Soldier bassinet and cot set ; sure to inspire any little boy!
This stunning comforter features patchwork with navy gingham, red ticking stripe and soft white waffle weave cotton with embroidered London Soldiers in striking red, navy and black. From the Grand Old Duke collection by Lullaby Linen, this is a timeless design sure to delight the little boy in your life and capture his heart and imagination.
To complete the entire set, you may wish to add matching sheets. The set for the bassinet includes a flat sheet (100cm wide X 120cm long) with 3 embroidered soldiers and a navy gingham trim as well as a white fitted sheet (92cm X 55cm X 15cm). The cot set includes a flat sheet (145cm wide X 175cm long) with 3 embroidered soldiers and a navy gingham trim as well as a white fitted sheet (76cm X 135cm X 19cm) plus a matching pillowcase (40cm wide X 60cm long). There is also a stunning applique soldier pillow, complete with inner padding available too!


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Tomorrow's Silk Road
Return to Brookings Institution Press
Assessing an EU-China Free Trade Agreement
By Jacques Pelkmans and Joseph Francois August 23, 2016
Select edition Paperback - 25.00
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Purchase by Mail, Fax, or Phone
This CEPS book comprises a first-ever economic and regulatory analysis of a possible Free Trade Area (FTA) between China and the EU, whose design is supposed to be 'deep and comprehensive'. It first provides an overview of the global economic environment in which EU-Chinese economic relations have developed in recent years, including global value chains linking the two economies. The substance of the FTA design is then elaborated in nine, largely empirical and technical chapters ranging from tariff analysis (also at the 6- and 8-digit level) and technical barriers to trade, to services, government procurement and investment. A third part comprises a CGE-model-based empirical simulation of the economic effects on GDP per member state (and on China), bilateral trade in goods and services, wages for workers with three distinct skill-levels and a series of goods and services sectors.
The year-long study was led by Jacques Pelkmans of CEPS, and the research was carried out by a team of trade specialists at CEPS in partnership with another team of researchers led by Prof. Joseph Francois of the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Bern.
Centre for European Policy Studies, August 23, 2016
Jacques Pelkmans
Jacques Pelkmans is senior research fellow at CEPS.
Joseph Francois
Strategies for delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals: Some lessons from Rwanda
Uzziel Ndagijimana
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Many research studies in the past have shown that skin-picking can be a common habit in youth with PWS, but few studies have looked at the nature of this habit and the impact it can have, as well as the other problems that correlate with severity of skin-picking. A survey of skin-picking and associated factors in youth with PWS was conducted by a research team at the University of South Florida, headed up by Jessica Morgan and Dr. Eric Storch, and was partially funded by a grant from the Foundation for Prader Willi Research. The results have just been published in the journal Child Psychiatry and Human Development [Morgan et al, 2010].
We received many replies; 67 parents of youth age 5-19 with PWS completed the survey and were used in data analysis. We found that 95.5% of parents who participated in the survey said that their child picked his/her skin, and about 42% picked their skin to a degree that it would be considered a clinical problem, according to the Skin Picking Scale which was included as part of the survey. Many different locations were targeted, most commonly the hands, legs, and face. Although scabs, itchy skin, and insect bites were frequent targets of skin-picking, approximately 60% of participants said that their child picked at healthy skin as well. Parents most commonly reported that their child used the fingernails or fingers to pick the skin.
More than half of the sample said their child commonly picked skin at school, while waiting, while watching television, while riding in the car, and while lying in bed. Because these are times when children might be bored, skin-picking may commonly serve as a way to self-stimulate or relieve feelings of boredom for some youth. However, the reason why children pick their skin will likely be different for each child.
Regarding the consequences/impact of skin-picking in youth with PWS, parents often said their child suffered infections and scarring due to skin-picking. In 10–15% of cases, youth suffered with deep craters or disfigurement due to skin-picking. In several instances, hospital visits were necessary given infection or overall impairment. This shows that kids with PWS can be significantly impacted because of their skin-picking.
Youth who picked their skin to a degree that it would be considered a clinical problem also were more anxious, more impulsive, and had more problems in health-related quality of life. Also, they were more likely to pick their skin in a "focused" way; that is, they usually were aware of their skin-picking while it was happening, but they still experienced strong urges to pick their skin.
It is critical that clinicians recognize the prevalence of skin-picking and its associated impairment when treating individuals with PWS. If reduced anxiety is related to reductions in skin-picking, cognitive- behavioral therapy (CBT), an approach with proven success in childhood anxiety and OCD, may be helpful for youth with PWS pending developmental alterations in treatment delivery. Of note, the research group that conducted this study is also conducting another study, funded by the Foundation for Prader Willi Research, that is examining a modified CBT protocol to treat compulsive behaviors in youth with PWS. Preliminary results of this study have indicated that Habit Reversal Training (HRT) and exposure components paired with rewards for good behavior work well to treat skin-picking and obsessive–compulsive symptoms in youth with PWS. HRT is a treatment that involves increasing the child's awareness of their own behavior, and replacing the habit that you don't want with a "competing response," or a habit that doesn't cause problems, like squeezing a Koosh Ball for example. It's important to understand why the child is picking his/her skin (the function that behavior serves), though, to make sure the treatment addresses the function of that behavior. Currently, there is no demonstrated effective treatment for treating skin-picking in PWS. Given its promise among typically developing individuals, investigating HRT that is adapted for youth with PWS holds potential merit. Given our results, treatment approaches that incorporate rewards for good behavior, as well as a "competing response" that is satisfying enough to relieve the urges to pick skin, may be important considerations in tailoring interventions for these youth.


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'Fringe' ratings improve; Fox ties CBS for Friday win
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Friday ratings offer Fringe fans some relief: After two weeks of declines, the series stopped falling and reversed course.
Fringe averaged 4.1 million viewers and a 1.5 preliminary adults 18-49 rating, up one tenth — or 7% — from last week. That's still aways off from the hearty 1.9 rating the show posted its first two weeks in its new Friday time slot, but any increase is a positive sign. (Perhaps fans heard Joshua Jackson's message yesterday that they better start watching on Fridays if they want the show to return).
Fox actually tied usual Friday leader CBS to win the night, helped by Fringe lead-in Kitchen Nightmares (3.9 million, 1.7) rising 13%. That's helpful for Fringe too, the "who won the night" boast is valued by all networks.
While most Thursday shows hit season lows the night before, several Friday programs posted gains along with Fringe:
CBS had Defenders (8.5 million, 1.3) and CSI: NY (10.6 million, 1. both climbing this week, followed by Blue Bloods (11.1 million, 1.6) back in the Friday mix.
NBC's Who Do You Think You Are (5.9 million, 1.2) bucked the trend by declining 14% and featuring — not coincidentally, I bet — Rosie O'Donnell as its celebrity profile. Dateline (6.8 million, 1.6) improved this week.
ABC was third with its unscripted block (averaging 4.1 million, 1.3). The CW's Smallville (2.2 million, 1.0) and Supernatural (2.3 million, 1.0) were up 11%.
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Re: 'Fringe' ratings improve; Fox ties CBS for Friday win
AP Photo/Fox, Mark Ben HolzbergActress Anna Torv, lead on Fringe, could not explain the plot even with the help of electrodes.
Friday is the season finale of "Fringe," the best sci-fi series on television. Though "Fringe" is entertaining, yours truly was hoping the show would be canceled. The writers clearly are desperate for material -- they've introduced time travel, always a bad sign. Producer J.J. Abrams has promised that when "Fringe" ends, everything that's happened actually will make sense -- unlike when his "Lost" ended. That's why I was hoping the series would end now, while it was still vaguely conceivably the action could be wrapped up in a coherent manner.
Instead Fox renewed "Fringe" for a fourth season. This leaves it increasingly likely that what to J.J. Abrams qualifies as "makes sense" will mean the series slams to a halt amidst blazing special effects with most loose ends unexplained. Late in the current season, for instance, action centers on a 250-million-year-old device, capable of destroying the world, that can be controlled only by the show's two leads -- whose DNA sequences were encoded into the device 250 million years ago. What are the odds that head-scratcher ever will be explained?
The premise of the series is that there is a parallel universe in which a second Earth is similar, but not identical, to ours. History there is somewhat different, though fast food tastes exactly the same in both universes, the show's best joke. Each character has a similar, though not identical, doppelganger on the other side. With a season finale airing Friday you'd assume, in cliffhanger fashion, that the shocker will be the death of a beloved character. But on "Fringe" a beloved character could die -- then next season be back, replaced by her mirror image from the other universe.
Here was the nuttiest line from this season's "Fringe," spoken by a Harvard scientist wearing a lab coat: "The human body is held together by magnetism. If a person experienced a strong magnetic charge, that person would become incapable of dying." The statement -- the show oozes pseudo-science, and even has a "science" web page -- is gibberish, or else everyone who's been through an MRI would be immortal. The tiny amounts of electrical current in our brains and nerves produce weak magnetic fields, but these have nothing to do with "holding the body together," which happens via chemical bonds. "Fringe" can assume anything it likes about the "science" of interdimensional teleportation. But references to known science should be accurate.
Here was the nuttiest subplot: A scientist played as an occasional character by Leonard Nimoy (the original Mr. Spock) discovers a way to come back from the dead. He does elaborate research and builds the necessary equipment, which must be activated by a living person. A year after the Nimoy character's death, the good guys discover and activate the resurrection system, which they find only by chance. Why? Facing death in the presence of his best friend in the finale of Season 2, the Nimoy character forgot to mention there was a device that would bring him back from the dead. And he left no notes or instructions.
Obviously, the scriptwriters cooked up this subplot as a way to get Nimoy back into the show. This kind of "I suddenly remembered that ..." filler is the reason I wish "Fringe" would just wrap it up and end.
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An accidental end to two+ years of uptime
Today I built up a new desktop system, and pulled a boner that ended over two years of uptime on my primary server.
An era ends — an another begins — at Winnemucca Web Works, LLC
With Google now figuring page load times into its Page Rank algorithms, we're pulling out all the stops to make our sites faster. That's why this month we are pleased to announce we have moved all the sites we host and manage to our screaming-fast new server co-located in a Reno, Nevada datacenter!
Company News: New Off-site Backup Server
Protecting customer data is a commitment we take seriously. To that end, we radically upgraded our off-site backup solution this month.
Everything old shall be new again?
Here's a project opportunity for a fun, easy open source school project. It's a dynamic e-commerce store platform built 15 years ago that KILLS Google's PageSpeed test, but needs some modernization. I built this in 2002, entirely from scratch. Until 2016, it enabled a retired bicycle shop owner with little computer expertise to run a pretty active online store featuring vintage bicycle gear. The code was also adapted for a few other clients through the years, although that work has been lost. Over the years, the code was ported from BSD Unix to Linux, and from PHP3 to PHP5. It is now overdue for another facelift, from function-based PHP5 to object-based PHP7, and to responsive display code. Meanwhile, the site's homepage and product pages have the distinction of earning a perfect 100 on Google's PageSpeed ranking. The category pages rate 99!!
It's a jungle out there
I see it all the time. A company pays good money to have a website built, but within a few years, the site is broken, slow, and maybe even taken over by unethical hackers with unscrupulous agendas. The problem? They did not maintain their website.
Free Google Maps are no more…
It was great while it lasted… Google has a long-established pattern of creating great, free services, and then gradually beginning to charge for them. Witness GMail for Domains, which initially allowed 50 then later 10 free accounts, but which now costs $50/user/year for new set-ups (the old, free ones are still grandfathered in — for now). This time, it's Maps that Google is aiming to monetize.
Hackers save another old device
In the "Internet of Things" era, many of the physical electronic artifacts that we purchase function only in tandem with a service component provided by a vendor — even if that component is only the timely release of software updates. In time, the vendor shifts attention to newer models, or is otherwise forced by business realities to abandon support for the artifact, leaving us with devices superannuated not so much by necessity as happenstance. Luckily, sometimes, the open source community can step in with a fix.
Domain names — the most important control point
He or she who owns the domain name can control all Internet-related services, including the website, email, and in many cases, social media accounts as well. In other words, if you have or are planning to have a website, domain email, or other Internet-based service, NOTHING is more important than picking a good domain name and owning it yourself. It should cost about $15/year to purchase a domain name. If a registrar wants more, they are probably "upselling" you on a bundle of services you do not need. Never pay more than $15/year for domain registration.
Don't worry too much about Meltdown and Spectre — plus a few words about how we safeguard your website data
If your website is hosted with us, you should have little to fear from the epic Meltdown and Spectre bugs that surfaced recently. In case you haven't heard, these two exploits are among the scariest ever, in part because they affect essentially every computer or device made since 1995. That's the bad news. The good news is that these bugs are extremely difficult or impossible to exploit remotely. They mainly affect "the cloud" and other shared hosting environments, where multiple, mutually distrustful users share a single processor. Here, a bad actor could sniff passwords and other sensitive information on an unpatched system. Sadly, that is by far the most common way that websites are hosted today — on shared hosting environments. However, it is NOT how we do it. We run our own, exclusive physical hardware server located in a highly secured data center connected to multiple Tier 1 backbones and backed up by a sophisticated emergency backup system. No one but us has access to this system, other than through typical browser-based, well sand-boxed admin panels. Meltdown and Spectre appear to be almost impossible to exploit remotely, and that is good news for us, and our clients, too.


In the course of 1:1 Period Rooms the audience was invited to participate in a variety of activties and become involved in a dialogue about the spatial strategies that inform the discourse and representation in museums. The 1:1 model was central to the discussion.
The symposium held on 2 April 2015 that concluded the 1:1 Period Rooms programme focused on the narrative capacity of the 1:1 model and the extent to which - with its at once recognisable and alienating environment - it is capable of inviting the audience to relate to a story or specific question. Which instruments do the 1:1 model offer the exhibition maker?
Architects and designers still use 1:1 installations to illustrate their thoughts on the relationshiop between architecture, design and the interior. Some of these influential interiors, documentend in the eleventh edition of DASH, were presented to the public during this event on 12 February 2015.
The period room seems to have regained our interest. This renewed attention for the period room was the subject of the fourth in the series of evenings on 26 March 2015.
Penny Sparke (Kingston University, London) en Greg Castillo (University of California, Berkeley) spoke on 5 March 2015 about their research in to the period room.
On social media, where it's all about the power of the visual, the division between high art and popular culture are becoming increasingly blurred. How can we decide which social media objects or sytems deserve to be preserved and collected from a museum's perspective? A public evening on 5 February 2015 dealt with some of these issues.


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Q: How to detect change on webpage without reload I found ho to detect by using perl.
How to detect a changed webpage?
But unfortunatelly I don't know perl.
Is there a way in python?
Can you give a detailed example if you do not complicate?

A: Do you mean an python script, which reads a webpage and shows you if it is different from the last visit? A very simple version would be this (works for python2 and python3):

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys
import os
import requests
from hashlib import sha1

recent_hash_filename = ".recent_hash"

def test(url):
    print("looking up %s" % url)
    if not os.path.exists(recent_hash_filename):
        open(recent_hash_filename, 'a').close()

    hash_fetched = sha1()
    hash_read    = ""
    r = requests.get(url)
    hash_fetched.update(r.text.encode("utf8"))

    with open(recent_hash_filename) as f:
        hash_read = f.read()

    print(hash_fetched.hexdigest())
    print(hash_read)

    if hash_fetched.hexdigest() == hash_read:
        print("same")
    else:
        print("different")

    with open(recent_hash_filename, "w") as f:
        f.write(hash_fetched.hexdigest())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        url = sys.argv[1]
    else:
        url = "https://www.heise.de"

    test(url)

    print("done")

If you have any questions just let me know

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namespace clang {
namespace ast_matchers {
namespace dynamic {

/// \brief Matcher expression parser.
class Parser {
public:
  /// \brief Interface to connect the parser with the registry and more.
  ///
  /// The parser uses the Sema instance passed into
  /// parseMatcherExpression() to handle all matcher tokens. The simplest
  /// processor implementation would simply call into the registry to create
  /// the matchers.
  /// However, a more complex processor might decide to intercept the matcher
  /// creation and do some extra work. For example, it could apply some
  /// transformation to the matcher by adding some id() nodes, or could detect
  /// specific matcher nodes for more efficient lookup.
  class Sema {
  public:
    virtual ~Sema();

    /// \brief Process a matcher expression.
    ///
    /// All the arguments passed here have already been processed.
    ///
    /// \param MatcherName The matcher name found by the parser.
    ///
    /// \param NameRange The location of the name in the matcher source.
    ///   Useful for error reporting.
    ///
    /// \param BindID The ID to use to bind the matcher, or a null \c StringRef
    ///   if no ID is specified.
    ///
    /// \param Args The argument list for the matcher.
    ///
    /// \return The matcher objects constructed by the processor, or an empty
    ///   list if an error occurred. In that case, \c Error will contain a
    ///   description of the error.
    virtual MatcherList actOnMatcherExpression(StringRef MatcherName,
                                               const SourceRange &NameRange,
                                               StringRef BindID,
                                               ArrayRef<ParserValue> Args,
                                               Diagnostics *Error) = 0;
  };

  /// \brief Parse a matcher expression, creating matchers from the registry.
  ///
  /// This overload creates matchers calling directly into the registry. If the
  /// caller needs more control over how the matchers are created, then it can
  /// use the overload below that takes a Sema.
  ///
  /// \param MatcherCode The matcher expression to parse.
  ///
  /// \return The matcher object constructed, or NULL if an error occurred.
  //    In that case, \c Error will contain a description of the error.
  ///   The caller takes ownership of the DynTypedMatcher object returned.
  static DynTypedMatcher *parseMatcherExpression(StringRef MatcherCode,
                                                 Diagnostics *Error);

  /// \brief Parse a matcher expression.
  ///
  /// \param MatcherCode The matcher expression to parse.
  ///
  /// \param S The Sema instance that will help the parser
  ///   construct the matchers.
  /// \return The matcher object constructed by the processor, or NULL
  ///   if an error occurred. In that case, \c Error will contain a
  ///   description of the error.
  ///   The caller takes ownership of the DynTypedMatcher object returned.
  static DynTypedMatcher *parseMatcherExpression(StringRef MatcherCode,
                                                 Sema *S,
                                                 Diagnostics *Error);

  /// \brief Parse an expression, creating matchers from the registry.
  ///
  /// Parses any expression supported by this parser. In general, the
  /// \c parseMatcherExpression function is a better approach to get a matcher
  /// object.
  static bool parseExpression(StringRef Code, VariantValue *Value,
                              Diagnostics *Error);

  /// \brief Parse an expression.
  ///
  /// Parses any expression supported by this parser. In general, the
  /// \c parseMatcherExpression function is a better approach to get a matcher
  /// object.
  static bool parseExpression(StringRef Code, Sema *S,
                              VariantValue *Value, Diagnostics *Error);

private:
  class CodeTokenizer;
  struct TokenInfo;

  Parser(CodeTokenizer *Tokenizer, Sema *S,
         Diagnostics *Error);

  bool parseExpressionImpl(VariantValue *Value);
  bool parseMatcherExpressionImpl(VariantValue *Value);

  CodeTokenizer *const Tokenizer;
  Sema *const S;
  Diagnostics *const Error;
};

}  // namespace dynamic
}  // namespace ast_matchers
}  // namespace clang

#endif  // LLVM_CLANG_AST_MATCHERS_DYNAMIC_PARSER_H


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10 Great Standoffs in Movies
Standoffs are great because they create instant drama and force characters to reveal important parts of their personalities by how they react. When two or more characters face a situation in which they can't win by taking direct action, they have to get creative and go to extremes. Sometimes they have time to prepare, but other times they are caught off guard and have to improvise a solution. Whatever the case may be, it often leads to exciting results. Here are 10 of my favorite standoffs in movies, along with how they are resolved.
When Ripley first meets the Alien Queen at the end of Aliens, it's straight out of a nightmare. In fact, she's seeing the source of her nightmares in all its grotesque glory. But she keeps a level head and is able to communicate what she will do to the alien eggs if the Queen doesn't call off her drones. It's a tense moment. All Ripley wants to do is escape with Newt, and for a moment it looks like the Queen is going to let her leave in peace, but it turns out to be a ruse. A nearby egg opens with a facehugger meant for Ripley. Responding in kind, Ripley burns the whole nest and guns down several aliens before they can attack. It's immensely satisfying to see this standoff end in a glorious action sequence, and it's also cathartic for Ripley's character after feeling like a victim of the aliens for so long.
In Die Hard, Hans Gruber spends nearly the entire film lording a large group of hostages over John McClane's head, preventing him from engaging in a direct confrontation. John, meanwhile, picks off Hans' henchmen one by one until they arrive at a moment when they've both been stripped down to almost nothing. John has a major problem at the end of Die Hard. There are three terrorists holding his wife hostage, and he only has two bullets left in his pistol and none in his machine gun. What does he do? First, he knocks out one bad guy with the butt of his machine gun, and then he pretends to threaten the other two with it. Unbeknownst to them, John has taped his pistol to his back. When Hans points his gun away from John's wife for a few seconds, John takes the opportunity to use the hidden ace up his sleeve and shoot Hans and his fellow bad guy. It's an inventive way to end a great standoff and a great movie.
For all its flaws, I like Dragonheart. There's something special about the relationship between Sir Bowen, a knight of the old code, and Draco, the last dragon in the world. They're both part of a dying breed, and they share a unique connection to the wicked prince. And when they get properly introduced in combat, it leads to humorous and interesting results. They're stuck in a no-win scenario when Bowen climbs into Draco's mouth and puts his sword against the roof of the dragon's mouth. No matter who makes the first move to kill the other, they will both die. I love their back-and-forth banter as they try to figure out how to get out of this situation alive and who can stay awake the longest. Draco finally expels Bowen from his mouth and corners him, but now that they've had a chance to get to know one another, they are able to come to an understanding and even help each other. Maybe what I like most about it is that it reminds me of the start of Toothless and Hiccup's friendship in How to Train Your Dragon.
Face/Off
Talk about an epic buildup. The climax of Face/Off begins with so many characters pointing guns at each other, it feels like something amazing will have to happen to resolve it. The evil Castor Troy's description of it as "a predicament" is funny in its understatement. Unfortunately, how it plays out is not terribly satisfying. A bunch of close-ups and uncertainty about who is shooting who turns what should have been the highlight of the film into a confusing mess. However, the film easily makes up for it when Sean Archer's daughter uses the switchblade Troy gave her against him to end another standoff. Now that was a clever payoff to something that was set up earlier in the film.
James Bond has a nasty habit of surviving. And he often does that by using his surroundings to his advantage. For example, he finds himself in quite a pickle at the start of Goldeneye. He just watched his fellow double-O agent Alec Trevelyan get shot in the head by Colonel Ourumov, and he overhears Ourumov's warning to his men not to shoot the gas tanks for fear they will explode. This inspires him to hide behind a mobile gas canister and slowly make his way across the room. It seems like there's no chance of escape until Bond activates a nearby conveyor belt and releases numerous overhead canisters onto the soldiers. Quick thinking and always coming up with elegant solutions to impossible situations─that's the hallmark of a great Bond movie.
The Naked Gun
Standoffs don't all have to be serious, do they? Sometimes they can stray into the ludicrous to produce hilarious results. The Naked Gun plays with numerous cop-drama tropes, like when Officer Nordberg gets shot by a barrage of bullets and then suffers a series of embarrassing minor injuries before getting caught in a bear trap and falling into a body of water. And he miraculously survives. Then there's the exciting car chase with a student driver, which has the best ending of all time partly because it feels like a parody of Bullitt. With this in mind, it's perfect that the film's climax involves the villainous Vincent Ludwig holding Frank Drebin's girlfriend hostage. It's a classic trope. Rather than take this situation too seriously, Frank chooses to grab a random lady and hold her at gunpoint, too. Why would Vincent care? Doesn't matter, and that's the point. It's so absurd, it works. Thankfully, Frank's girlfriend gets herself out of danger without too much trouble, and Frank finishes Vincent off amid much fanfare, literally.
Is there honor among thieves? In RoboCop, cop killer Clarence Boddicker shows that he is not a man to be trifled with when he walks into a cocaine maker's facility and proceeds to insult and threaten him if he doesn't offer a discount on his drugs. Sal, the cocaine maker, doesn't take kindly to that kind of talk and tells his men to blow Clarence's head off. But Clarence has his own men on hand to back him up. Everyone has a gun pointed at everyone else, so it's basically mutually assured destruction at this point. Rather than show any sign of weakness, Clarence defuses the situation through humor. He gives Sal permission to back down by making it all look like a joke. Of course, then RoboCop shows up and guns down nearly everyone, but this opening part of the scene involving just the bad guys is dramatic in its own right.
Officer Jack Traven and his police partner Harry Temple start their day by talking about what to do in a hostage situation, and Jack has a rather unique solution to it. Shoot the hostage so that they can't be used by the criminal as a bargaining chip. Little did he know that he would have to put that theoretical scenario into practice in a matter of minutes when a crazed bomber named Howard Payne takes Harry hostage. Jack shoots Harry in the leg at Harry's request, and then attempts to apprehend Howard. It doesn't exactly go as planned, but at least the bad guy didn't get away with Harry. In a movie chock-full of high points, that "shoot the hostage" moment is among the best.
There are plenty of tense moments in John Carpenter's The Thing. The reason the creature reveal in the infirmary is particularly shocking is because there are so many other things happening at the same time, it's impossible to know where to focus. Everyone thinks that MacReady is a thing, and he has to threaten them with a stick of dynamite to get them to back off. Unfortunately, Norris suffers a heart attack during the confrontation, and he gets taken to the infirmary so Dr. Copper can help him. While Copper is busy with the defibrillators on Norris, MacReady is barely holding the others at bay while Clark grabs a scalpel and hides it to attack MacReady later. All of this effectively hides the terrifying moment that Norris's stomach opens up like a giant mouth and gobbles up Copper's arms. Hm, I suppose that scene is meant to demonstrate how the thing hides itself in the midst of confusion and misdirection. The Thing just gets more ingenious the more I think about it.
I actually watched Waterworld in the theater. I was mostly bored by the film up until the Mariner sneaks aboard the Deacon's ship and the two engage in a tense confrontation. The Mariner has grown to care about a little girl and her mother, and he wants the Deacon to release the girl after he kidnapped her. It seems like he has nothing to bargain with until he does something brilliant. He pulls out a flare and holds it over a pipe that leads to the ship's belly. The ship is an oil tanker, which means it wouldn't be hard at all to destroy it with a bit of fire dropped in the right spot. I didn't expect the Mariner to actually drop the flare, but when he did, I knew I was in for a fun ride. And the movie didn't disappoint. This is one of my favorite solutions to a stalemate, and it almost makes up for the mostly disappointing rest of the movie.
The Standout Among Standoffs
Those are 10 of the best movie standoffs that have mostly satisfying, creative resolutions. If I had to pick just one as my favorite, it would probably be the one in Aliens. It's epic and perfect, the culmination of two films' worth of psychological torture committed against the character of Ripley. Her personal terror is personified in the form of the Alien Queen while Ripley's peace of mind is represented by Newt. She gets to protect what is dearest to her while angrily expunging her inner demons. An action movie in which the action is more than just spectacle, but signifies something deeper? Pure greatness.
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Thread: When i install some apps on terminal they dont show up on my application list, help!
hi guys, im new to linux, and i've been on the terminal installing some things.
some show up in my applications list, but others do not!
centerim is already the newest version.
Some apps do not show up in the menus especially command line apps (which I think centerim is). You either start them from the CLI or if you really need the apps in the menu, create your own menu entry.


The team consists of highly qualified in their specialty professionals – both young people with ambitions and perspectives in the business and longtime employees with experience and proven competence in the field.
Dieselor is proud of the team that was built over time and is happy to invest in the potential and capabilities of the staff. Enthusiasm and development of each one are stimulated when there is high motivation and willingness to work in the company.
Dieselor highly appreciates its employees and in return provides them with excellent material and immaterial working conditions.
Thanks to the mutual efforts, the team enjoys high satisfaction of its work, which inevitably leads to Dieselor's established market position, satisfied customers and the overall success of the company.
The last research which was conducted among Dieselor's employees in 2013 showed extremely high level of satisfaction.
91% are completely satisfied with the autonomy and freedom that are given to them at work.
89% are completely satisfied with the equal treatment of the staff.
86% feel secure with their employer.
89% have a good understanding with their colleagues.
86% enjoy the provided working conditions.
79% state that their payment is absolutely fair and they are happy with the work they do.
According to 93%, their direct supervisor manages to motivate them to do their job willingly!
In summary, 84% of Dieselor's employees feel satisfied of the whole set of factors.
According to the six-point scale, 43% of the people in Dieselor rate the company with a very good 5, while another 45% give an excellent 6!


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Current Affairs 5th March 2021 English & Daily GK Update in English
by Yourclasses · March 5, 2021
Here we are Providing Top 10 Current Affairs 5th March 2021 English and Daily News is the most important topic for any competitive exams with Questions & Answers for SSC, Bank, UPSC, CLAT, IAS, UPSI, CTET, PET & Railway Exams 2021. So Solve daily quizzes that will help you memorize the topics.
Daily Current Affairs 5 March 2021 English
Recently, the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare inaugurated the second edition of Global Bio-India-2021 in New Delhi. In context to Biotechnology tell us, the cross linkage of antigens by antibodies is known as –
(A) Agglutination
(B) Complement fixation
(C) A cross reaction
(D) All of these
Answers: – 1. (A)
"Maritime India Summit 2021" is being organised by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways. In context to the same when was Indian Maritime University (IMU) was set up?
Recently, the Government of India, FICCI, and UN-based "Better Than Cash Alliance" hosted Merchant Digitization Summit 2021 towards Atma Nirbhar (Self Reliance) Bharat. When was the FICCI was founded?
Answers: -3. (D)
The UNFCCC, has released its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Synthesis Report. Where is the UNFCCC secretariat is located?
(A) Paris
(B) Bonn
(C) Düsseldorf
(D) Rome
Answers: – 4. (B)
India will send a consignment of 1000 metric tonnes of rice and 100000 hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets to Madagascar. Madagascar is the country of which continent?
(A) North America
(B) South Asia
(C) East Africa
(D) South Africa
Answers: – 5. (C)
Recently, Karnataka launched the country's maiden Engineering Research & Development (ER&D) Policy.
Consider the following statements regarding Karnataka: –
(1) Karnataka is the largest producer of coarse cereals, coffee, raw silk and tomatoes among the states in India.
(2) Bellary is the largest thermal power plant in Karnataka operated by the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL).
(3) Raichur was the first thermal power plant to be set up in the state.
Around 500 farmers across villages in Doda had their incomes quadrupled after shifting from maize to lavender under Aroma Mission.
Consider the following statement regarding "Aroma Mission" –
(I) Aroma Mission is an initiative launched by Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare.
(II) The mission will promote the cultivation of aromatic crops for essential oils that are in great demand by the aroma industry.
(III) It aims to provide substantial benefits to the farmers in achieving higher profits, utilization of waste lands and protection of their crops from wild and grazing animals.
The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India under its "Waste to Wealth" Mission launched the "Swachhta Saarthi Fellowship".
Consider the following statements regarding Swachhta Saarthi Fellowship –
(I) The Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) is the chief advisor to the government on matters related to scientific policy.
(II) It is currently a Secretary level position created in 2001.
(III) A P J Abdul Kalam was the first Principal Scientific Adviser to the government of India.
For the first time, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is participating in the Exercise Desert Flag-VI, hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force.
Match the following exercises with their related countries –
(a) Shakti Exercise 1- India & France
(b) Dharma Guardian 2- India & Japan
(c) Surya Kiran 3- India & China
(d) Hand in Hand Exercise 4- India & Nepal
Answers: -9. (C)
Recently, a Black-Browed Babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata) was rediscovered in southeastern Kalimantan, the part of Borneo that is administered by Indonesia.
Match the following bird species with their scientific names –
(a) Parrots 1- Strigiformes
(b) Penguins 2- Psittaciformes
(c) Owls 3- Spheniscidae
Answers: – 10. (B)
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Comments from attendees at 12th annual meeting of CA-AAUP "Advancing Social Justice in an Era of Intolerance"
I attended the California AAUP 12th Annual Meeting with the intent to learn how to organize faculty at National University.
The workshop conducted by Jason Elias, "Organizing a Chapter: Inspiring Case Histories," was most useful in supporting my intent. I learned about the need to develop power by exploiting internal strengths: leadership recruitment and development, building a communication infrastructure, and creating a "two-way street" for communicating ideas and issues. I learned the importance of leverage: determining which (internal and external) players matter, forging strategic alliances, developing long-term relationships, increasing and activating members, and building reciprocal relationships with allies...We will use SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-constrained) goals in planning our work.


Ambalavaner Sivanandan, who died on 3 January, was the director of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and one of the most important anti-racist activists and intellectuals in Britain.
Sivanandan talked and wrote on all aspects of racism in an anti-imperialist, Marxist framework. He spoke out strongly against the idea of celebrating fixed ethnic or racial communities as the basis for fighting racism. He said that the fight must come out of "communities of resistance" — people who came together and thus defined themselves as a community in the fight against racism.
The refugee crisis has not gone away and the need for solidarity and aid is as great as ever. The destruction of the the "Jungle" last autumn, however, has meant that the issue has drifted down the news agenda. Now as winter approaches thousands of refugees face the prospect of sleeping in the woods around Calais and Dunkirk, under the motorways of Paris and in the parks of Brussels.
There have been growing signs that forces on the far right are reorganising and making gains of late.
The idea you could go to protest racism and be killed by a Nazi in a vehicle reverberated around the world after Charlottesville in August. At the end of September the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had 94 MPs elected in Germany. In October the fascist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) came third, winning just one seat fewer than the Social Democratic Party.


The News in Briefs, is that I sold this lovely little Moleskine Notebook to a lovely woman in the studio, practically before the ink was dry.
She helped me decide whether to handstamp titles on my most recent batch of notebooks, or leave them blank. We went with stamping... and then she came back about an hour later to buy one!
All this means that you are too late to get your mitts on this notebook... but good news you can order your very own notebook, with any kind of pants you like!


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A New Breed of Food Truck: Mastiff Sausage Co.
by Candice Woo Feb 8, 2013, 6:34am PST
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[All photos by Tait Campbell]
Chef Eric Gallerstein cooked in several well-regarded San Francisco kitchens before returning to his hometown of San Diego in 2009. He's worked the line at Whisknladle, Flavor Del Mar and most recently, The Lion's Share, and spent four months at a Slow Food-focused restaurant in Italy. When he and Jacob Bartlett, a longtime friend and fellow San Diego native, decided to go in on a food truck, they set about building a serious kitchen on wheels, customizing a sturdy Mac Tools truck into a chef's dream; there's shelving for cookbooks, a breadbox, a unit of speed racks, a full size fridge and the crowing jewel, a 1,000 pound cooking range.
The handsome truck, decked out in the original San Diego Padres brown and gold, is the new rolling home for Gallerstein and Bartlett's Mastiff Sausage Company.
Gallerstein and Bartlett use a commercial kitchen to prep their menu, which centers around housemade sausages, with the meat ground and the casings stuffed by hand. The links, from a chicken sausage with caramelized mushrooms, white wine and parmesan to a pork bratwurst made with local beer, are tucked into sandwiches and topped with their own house made mustards, sauerkrauts, pickles and preserves. Mastiff also makes a sandwich with pork done three ways, a braised pork butt, a roasted loin, crispy belly, and a few other specials, salads and sides.
All the food is done from scratch, and as locally-sourced as possible. Instead of farm-to-table, they're calling it seed-to-street. The co-owners have a garden, so the cucumber pickles are homegrown, as are the chilies for their hot sauce.
They've got two upcoming events on the calendar, Escondido's Orfila Winery on Friday, February 15, and a 1 to 5 p.m. stop at Green Flash Brewing Co. on Sunday, February 17. The truck's still settling on a schedule, so for now, keep up with them on Twitter.
· Mastiff Sausage Company [Official Site]
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Q: JSON subsetting unique dates in R I am having difficulty subsetting JSON data. I am fairly new to R understand the basics of subsetting.
    library(jsonlite)
    library(curl)

    url1="https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_DAILY_ADJUSTED&symbol=RCS&outputsize=full&apikey=DEMO"

    StockData2<- fromJSON(url1,flatten = TRUE)

Data looks like this coming in (2 days worth out of 4394 days).  The trouble I am having is each date is unique and I can't figure out how to pull just the date and one of its subsetted prices out.
> str(StockData)
List of 2
 $ Meta Data          :List of 5
  ..$ 1. Information   : chr "Daily Time Series with Splits and Dividend Events"
  ..$ 2. Symbol        : chr "RCS"
  ..$ 3. Last Refreshed: chr "2017-06-20 10:27:00"
  ..$ 4. Output Size   : chr "Full size"
  ..$ 5. Time Zone     : chr "US/Eastern"
 $ Time Series (Daily):List of 4394
  ..$ 2017-06-20 10:27:00:List of 8
  .. ..$ 1. open             : chr "10.1100"
  .. ..$ 2. high             : chr "10.1600"
  .. ..$ 3. low              : chr "10.0400"
  .. ..$ 4. close            : chr "10.1100"
  .. ..$ 5. adjusted close   : chr "10.1100"
  .. ..$ 6. volume           : chr "17776"
  .. ..$ 7. dividend amount  : chr "0.00"
  .. ..$ 8. split coefficient: chr "1.0000"
  ..$ 2017-06-19         :List of 8
  .. ..$ 1. open             : chr "9.9200"
  .. ..$ 2. high             : chr "10.1200"
  .. ..$ 3. low              : chr "9.9200"
  .. ..$ 4. close            : chr "10.0800"
  .. ..$ 5. adjusted close   : chr "10.0800"
  .. ..$ 6. volume           : chr "160599"
  .. ..$ 7. dividend amount  : chr "0.00"
  .. ..$ 8. split coefficient: chr "1.0000"

Daily<-StockData$`Time Series (Daily)`

Will produce a large list of 4394 elements.  How do I get just "dates" and "adjusted close" out of this list?

A: Now I can get the data I have a full solution. My earlier answer, which used as.data.frame, failed on the real data (but worked on my test) because of the way that as.data.frame tried to get the column names from the expression passed in. For some rare combination of data names and types that your data triggered, as.data.frame ended up trying to set the wrong number of column names. Using data.frame instead, or adding the optional=FALSE argument to as.data.frame fixes this.
So the solution is:
result = setNames(
   data.frame(
     sapply(
       StockData2[["Time Series (Daily)"]],
         function(x){
           x[["5. adjusted close"]]
            })),
   c("adjusted close"))

giving:
> head(result)
           adjusted close
2017-06-21        70.2700
2017-06-20        69.9100
2017-06-19        70.8700
2017-06-16        70.0000
2017-06-15        69.9000
2017-06-14        70.2700

If you are interested in what caused the fail, read on...
Set up two very similar lists:
> Xnum = list(list(x=1),list(x=2))
> Xchar = list(list(x="1"),list(x="2"))

Convert x bits to a data frame. For the numbers, it works, but as you see the column name is a bit long, but no problem:
> as.data.frame(sapply(Xnum,function(f){f$x}))
  sapply(Xnum, function(f) {     f$x })
1                                     1
2                                     2

But for the character one, it gets in a real mess:
> as.data.frame(sapply(Xchar,function(f){f$x}))
Error in as.data.frame.vector(x, ..., nm = nm) :
  'names' attribute [3] must be the same length as the vector [1]

because it ends up splitting the sapply(Xchar,function(f){f$x}) expression into three parts. I don't know why the numeric version doesn't fall foul to this.


St. Paul Regional Water Services crews will be replacing the water main on Morgan Ave. from Edgecumbe Rd. to Davern St.
The original cast iron water main installed in 1960, which has suffered repeated breaks, will be replaced with high density polyethylene pipe using a method called pipe bursting.
During construction, access to homes and businesses will be maintained, but through traffic may be diverted around the area via detours and parking may be prohibited on both sides of the street.
Water main installation was finished this week. The remainder of the week will be spent chlorinating the main, flushing and testing the water quality. Once our laboratory approves passing water quality results, crews will begin to reconnect water services to the new main. This is anticipated to being next week and last until around November 9.
Morgan Ave. from Edgecumbe Rd. to Davern St.
New water main will be installed.


There's nowhere in the world quite like Egypt. From the Great Pyramids to the stunning Red Sea coast—there are endless historic and cultural and sites to visit. As you might expect, Egypt's food culture is as rich and varied as its landscapes.
If you're headed to Morocco for holidays or business, make sure you spoil yourself to a gastronomical treat and enjoy one of the best-kept secrets of the African continent.


Combining a powerful tool by the name of PowerShell with an equally powerful platform such as SharePoint, the results can be extremely beneficial. However, many users struggle to wrap their head around this duo, and are left feeling unsure where exactly to start.
In this post, we'll explore the capabilities of Microsoft's PowerShell, both individually and when combined with SharePoint.
In layman's terms, PowerShell is a modern day command prompt, gifting more power and control over the Windows operating system (OS). Built upon the .NET framework, Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's own framework, created for task automation and configuration management with its own scripting language. It also consists of Windows PowerShell ISE, its very own powerful graphical user interface (UI) to create PowerShell scripts.
PowerShell 5.0 is the latest version of the framework, with additional new features such as backward compatibility and an improved PowerShell ISE. An improved desired state configuration allows for greater control over the configuration management, at 5.0 sees a new set of cmdlets – lightweight commands used to perform actions within the PowerShell environment.
PowerShell is without a doubt an excellent (and critical) tool for IT administrators and developers. With PowerShell single line commands, you can connect to remote computers, explore the active directory and export your data into .csv or .xml document formats. With the pipelining feature, you can connect the output of one cmdlet as an input to another cmdlet.
PowerShell is not just a scripting language, but it's a complete framework for perfect automated solutions.
Even here at Sharegate we've developed our own set of PowerShell commands, enabling certain actions within the application, like scheduling and automating a migration or managing SharePoint content.
Bonus: Download the Top 10 PowerShell Commands Every SharePoint Administrator Using ShareGate Desktop Should Know.
Within SharePoint, let's say, for example, you want to update the title field of a particular user in Active Directory. This may seem like a relatively simple task; easily achieved by opening the GUI of the active directory.
But what if it has to be done for 100 users at a time? Suddenly, we're left wishing there was a better way to update the title of those 100 users, decreasing the amount of effort required and saving on time. Fortunately for us, this is where PowerShell comes to the rescue.
PowerShell is a common feature in other Microsoft platforms such as Windows, Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint. Earlier versions of SharePoint had its own command line application called STSADM to perform various operations within SharePoint, but its pales in comparison to PowerShell.
The tool is able to administer to windows, and so made sense for Microsoft to provide PowerShell support for SharePoint as well. Support is provided by DLL plugin, allowing users access to SharePoint objects using over 540 out-of-the-box cmdlets specifically for SharePoint.
As a SharePoint administrator, it's a very tedious task to manage the users and their inherent permissions on SharePoint sites. Each day, there are numerous tickets to assign the specific roles or permissions to users or groups of users on SharePoint sites. It's a very time consuming process, not to mention the redundant efforts that get wasted doing same thing again and again.
PowerShell for SharePoint offers a variety of cmdlets to deal with SharePoint Users and Groups, Document or item permissions, Role Definitions and Site Administrators to save everyone time and hassle.
To Get the SharePoint User, we can use the Get-SPUser cmdlet which will return the SPUser object and its properties.
Administrators can manage the security of SharePoint sites by finding out which files users have access to. You can get the site collection administrator for each site collection or who are the site owners of the sites.
SharePoint allows administrators to break permission inheritance from the site level to item level. So, if you want a particular item to have a specific set of permission, but not the same as at the site level, you can break the inheritance and assign your new permissions.
It's recommended not to overuse this privilege, however, as it can quickly become overwhelming and unmanageable to check the permissions for each item.
However, there is a way for SharePoint administrators to manage the unique permissions on the item using the HasUniquePerm property for sites and the HasUniqueRoleAssignments property for all the other types of securable objects.
Windows PowerShell is, as the name suggests, an incredibly powerful tool. It brings many benefits to power-users and IT professionals by making their lives that much easier.


The European Commission appeared in 1999 as an investor and provided funds to be used for the continuation of works (DEM 4,500,000). The Consultant (D.D. DOM Study, Design, Engineering, Sarajevo) proposed to continue the works on the reconstruction of horizontal constructions, as well as the reconstruction of AULA, whose hard-damaged construction was looking for emergency work.
The gypsum decoration is largely destroyed, and the fragments that have been preserved will be dismantled, ie, some parts will be taken in the plaster at 1: 1 scale. The painted decoration, which is also fragmentarily preserved in small domes and arches, will be crossed at a scale of 1: 1 with the indication of the color and color quality.
The hall represents the central most important space in the building, made in the form of a regular hexagonal, with exterior brick walls and a gallery formed by the construction of angular and individual pillars. The construction of the gallery above the ground floor and the first floor is covered with small open domes. The preserved open structure of small domes and arches in four fields (1, 2, 4 and 6) with a supporting structure above them (two fields completely destroyed) are the reasons for the project to provide maximum retention of this structure with replacement of heavily damaged parts of the structure , individual poles in the fields, arches). In two fields, a full swing of the bearing structure is envisaged. This initial principle sought to set up and elaborate a specific methodology of reconstruction and performance.
In the hall were used 10 types of stone, different technical characteristics and different aesthetic and visual appearance. Insufficient historical data on the sites and the location of the stone used for the construction of the City Hall, especially AULA (unsafe data refer to granite pillars supplied from Austria, marble stairs from Hungary and others).
This was also the reason for investigating and examining samples of the existing stone built in the Aula of the City Hall, and to obtain the data that will be used for project design, and for the selection of stone for execution. After the tests carried out by the Institute for Geotechnics and Funding of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Sarajevo, the Technical Sheet with all the characteristics of the Stone in Aula in the City Hall was prepared.
Because of the high level of damage, most of the pillars (of the corner and free-standing) on the ground floor and first floor were replaced, together with supporting arches on the ground floor (fields 1, 2, 4 and 6). The two fields (3 and 5) have been completely restored with harsh and opaque structures.
After several delays, works at this stage started in November 2002 and ended in February 2004.


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Indian forces deny Kashmiris right to observe their religious practices: Imran Khan
by Web Desk August 22, 2019
KARACHI: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said the Indian occupational forces were denying residents of occupied Kashmir right to observe their religious practices.
In a tweet, Imran Khan said, "Today, on the 1st International Day for Victims of Violence based on Religion or Belief, we call attention to the plight of millions of Kashmiris living under brutal Indian Occupation, abuse and violence, deprived of all fundamental rights and freedoms."
He said the Indian occupational forces had even denied them their right to observe their religious practices, including Eid ul Azha.
Also Read: India's attempt to smother Kashmiri liberation struggle to fail miserably: Imran Khan
The prime minister said as the world showed solidarity for victims of violence based on religion and belief, it must also move to prevent an impending genocide of Kashmiris in the IoK.
The Indian Occupation Forces have even denied them their right to observe their religious practices, including Eid ul Azha.
As the world shows solidarity for victims of violence based on religion & belief, it must also move to prevent an impending genocide of Kashmiris in IOK.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) August 22, 2019
On August 17, PM Imran Khan had said addressing sufferings of residents of the Indian occupied Kashmir was responsibility of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
In a tweet, welcoming the discussion held by the world body, Imran Khan had said the UNSC meeting was a reaffirmation of the 11 resolutions of the Security Council on Kashmir dispute.
"I welcome the UNSC meeting to discuss the serious situation in Occupied Jammu & Kashmir. It is for the first time in more than 50 years that the world's highest diplomatic forum has taken up this issue. There are 11 UNSC resolutions reiterating the Kashmiris right to self-determination," he had said.
"And the UNSC meeting was a reaffirmation of these resolutions. Therefore addressing the suffering of the Kashmiri people & ensuring resolution of the dispute is the responsibility of this world body," he had added.
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Hello, people...just to let you know...I've had to introduce comment moderation on my blog. Had someone post some dodgy links (I have since deleted them) to my posts and now when you search google with the title of this blog some strange stuff comes up with the search results...so i'll have to approve all comments from now on.
I was sitting before a panel of interviewers today for admission into a training course and one of the questions that was shot at me by the panel was, "What have you watched on television recently that has disturbed you?" Of course with the pressure of an interview my response was absolute rubbish. I went on to talk on how the format of a documentary on television could have been improved...how they should have personalized the presentation by using an interview...how they should have tried to engage the audience by focusing more on the people rather than plain impersonal video shots. Clearly I missed the point of the question and I have already taken myself through the process of feeling like an absolute idiot. So here are the answers I should have given with emphasis on one point that so completely irked me.
• How our politicians divert attention from one scandal that is receiving media attention to resurrect another "dying" but yet to be resolved scandal. Case in point- the maize scandal brought up by one faction of the political class to divert attention from the free primary education scandal in which politicians their side of the coalition are implicated.
• How the prime-minister played down the findings by Price-Waterhouse-Coopers on the maize scandal by saying that the Anti-Corruption Commission had earlier carried out investigations and had found "no wrong doing" by those implicated and exonerated them. However on a positive note he has set-up a committee to reconcile the two contradictory positions.
• The most disturbing of all, is how we, after suffering a long devastating drought and yet to recover from its effects are now forced to pour out thousands of litres of milk because our milk factories are not able to process it. We are still suffering from severe food shortages in many parts of the country, yet we are not at this point able to handle our domestic dairy production. We should have had the capacity to process all this wasted protein.
Our dependence and insistence on large scale industry scares me. It seems that everything (even the simplest) needs to be done on a large scale. It's about time that we were able as communities to handle our local production. What we produce should be sustainably produced and consumable. If it is not consumable at that point it should be preservable. Local dairy farmers should have capacity (at least in terms of knowledge) to produce cheese or butter or yoghurt or ghee. It was sad to see farmers who had put in so much effort after the drought watch their labour go down the drain. What if this farmer had a way to process this milk? What if the technology and the know-how to process this milk was accessible to him?
With these questions the old concept of cottage industries came to mind. In our rush to industrialize we have ignored this important stage in the process. If we are not making progress on the macro level, let us work on the micro level. Several countries have successfully ensured food security by focusing on small scale local production. On a policy level, our politicians have let us down. It's time for us to shift focus to small scale manufacturing and production (and I am not talking about jua-kali) its time for industries run by two or tree or ten people scattered in every corner of this country to make a difference in this economy...lets stop thinking super or mega or giga and start working on the local...one person with a cow, another with a micro-dairy, one with a maize shamba, another with a posho mill, one with a soap making project another with a fish farm...small sustainable communities working together…using what they produce and selling, saving, storing or preserving the excess.
However, you still cannot ignore the Macro-level. The government with the input of communities should implement a shift in policy and focus on building local capacity for communities to handle their own production. It is in the governments very own interest to ensure that its communities are knowledgeable enough and capable enough to handle their own economy -whatever the scale- right from production through processing, distribution and consumption. For a country that is yet to achieve food security and experiences such erratic weather patterns we cannot afford to waste such a rich source of protein as milk. Our government needs to be able to predict outcomes and support the efforts of its citizens.


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Founded in 2002 as a single specialty centre in Mount Elizabeth Hospital, it has over the years expanded into a multi-specialty medical group. With further expansion of its services to include a comprehensive range of diagnostic and specialty services, Royal Healthcare, is today one of Singapore's largest multi-disciplinary specialist centre with highly experienced and talented medical specialists using the latest in medical technology to deliver optimal healthcare outcomes to our patients. With it's day surgery centre and endoscopy suite, Royal Healthcare aims to deliver the best of healthcare in a single convenient location.
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ERA and the South
Posted on February 1, 1980 November 1, 2021
By Betsy Brinson
Vol. 2, No. 5, 1980, pp. 24-25
Early ERA advocate Crystal Eastman suggested in 1923 that "To blot out of every law book in the land, to sweep out of every dusty courtroom, to erase from every judge's mind that centuries old precedent as to women's inferiority and dependence and need for protection; to substitute for it at one blow the simple new precedent of equality, that is a fight worth making, if it takes ten years."
Fifty-seven years later the goal of equal rights for women is still not yet realized within our system of law.
After years of almost no movement, significant gain was realized in the last decade. In 1972,Congress voted to send the resolution to the states to secure the required 38 state votes needed to make ERA the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Thirty-five states have voted "aye" but three additional states are needed to succeed.
But the last few years seem to have produced a stalemate for the campaign. No state has ratified since 1977. Of those 13 states yet to endorse, not surprisingly the Southern states represent a major block to be persuaded. Indeed only Tennessee and Kentucky have ratified. Tennessee has since rescinded; Kentucky's legislative attempt to rescind was vetoed by the acting governor Thelma Stovall.
The opposition has not only increased its legislative lobbying effort, but it has expanded its attack to the court system itself with challenges aimed toward disenfranchising state legislative votes supporting ERA. These lawsuits unfortunately require ERA proponents to divert needed energy and funds from the legislative forum.
Who opposes ERA? Increasingly we witness the opposition of economic interests in insurance and banking which
see the passage of ERA as a major threat to the restructuring of benefits and credit mechanisms. It comes as no surprise that such wealthy entrepreneurs will undermine basic human values especially in a period of economic instability.
Equally significant is the opposition rising from fundamental religious factions who fear that ERA will undermine the more traditional male and female stereotypes. The r e c e n t M or in on excommunication of Sonia Johnson who was found guilty of defying church authority for espousing ERA support is only one example. What is even more disturbing than Ms. Johnson's "trial" and ouster is the Mormons' callous disregard for the basic American adherence to free speech and due process values in order to preserve their own authority.
The anti-ERA takeover of the Virginia meeting to elect delegates to the national Conference on the Family is another example. Ironically it was Alice Paul's desire to strengthen the family and to improve the future of American children which motivated her to first write the ERA in 1923.
Proponents are unwilling to publicly concede that securing three more states may not be possible by March, 1982 given the political realities of the times. But, in the spirit of their feminist foremothers, ERA strategists are now laying the groundwork for a long-term campaign designed to secure eventual success – whether it takes two years ot twenty. That strategy has already begun to move into the political arena.
Witness the state of Virginia in last fall's legislative elections. Careful analysis preceded the targeting of several races for funds and volunteers on behalf of pro-ERA candidates. Telephone banks were set up in which calls to every registered voter in selected districts were conducted in order to identify the pro-ERA voters. A follow-up contact by telephone or mail was made to each pro-ERA voter to insure their support at the polls for the preferred candidate. In all targeted races, pro-ERA candidates were successful.
In other Virginia campaign activity, pro-ERA petition drives were conducted in legislative districts where key anti-leaders will stand for re-election in 1982. The purpose of the petition drives was to identify pro-ERA voters for lobbying and to identify voters 'who can lay the groundwork now for anti-legislators' defeat in the next elections.
Similar targeting is now taking place in states that will hold legislative elections in 1981. These include the Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia.
The second movement which gives rise to encouragement is the increased coalition-building currently taking place. New constituencies among homemakers and religious groups are committing themselves to the struggle. Expanded efforts of labor unions toward education and advocacy of their membership offer hope too for the campaign. One specific example is in Virginia where the Virginia Education Association and the United Food and Commercial Workers' leadership spearheaded the recent rally where thousands of workers joined together at the Virginia General Assembly to support ERA. Similar organizing efforts are planned for other unratified states.
The influx of minority women and civil rights groups is also significant. Increasingly we see evidence of shared communication and cooperation which did not previously exist in support of ERA among racial and ethnic minorities. There is clearly a growing recognition by minority women themselves to the same pronouncement expressed by Essence editor Marcia Ann Gillespie when she said, "I did not stand up for my rights as a Black person in America to be told that I have to sit down because I'ma woman".
And in conclusion, let us not forget that the idea of equal rights is still a revolutionary concept. As sociologist Jessie Bernard so aptly reminds us: "Women's revolutions, unlike men's, are not apocalyptic. Women do not expect Armageddon. We are accustomed to a relatively slow pace." Over the years, we have had our successes; we will succeed too with ERA.
Betsy Brinson is the founding director of ACLU s Southern Women's Rights Project. She was recently selected as one of Ms. magazine's "Women to Watch in the 80's."
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Weekend in Quest
Weekend in Quest 2013 Study Sessions
Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews
in Iberia and the Americas
with Prof. Matthew Warshawsky
Session 1: Convivencia and Conflict: the Three Cultures of Medieval Iberia
Medieval Spanish Jews fulfilled crucial roles in Islamic and Christian society and achieved a cultural renaissance that would not be equaled again for centuries. Nevertheless, while Jewish contributions to public life and scholarship reached a zenith, Jews also had to contend with discriminatory legislation and popular opinion that scorned and resented them, and worse, accused them of deicide. In this session we will examine the conditions that made possible the antithesis between the importance of Jews in multiple fields and their marginalization as a threatening other.
Session 2: The Gathering Storm: Riots, Inquisition, and Expulsion; How the "King's Jews" Became Expendable
This session will cover the decisive period from 1391, when large-scale rioting destroyed many centuries-old Jewish communities in Spain, to the expulsions and forced conversions of Iberian Jews during the 1490s (1492 in Castile-Aragon, 1496-97 in Portugal, 1498 in Navarre). Points to be covered include rabblerousing by Christian preachers that provoked the destruction of 1391; disputations between Jewish and Christian clerics of the early 1400s; establishment of the Inquisition (1478) and how it worked; motives for and accounts of the expulsion; and how crypto-Judaism took root in Portugal and the consequences of this reality for the Sephardic diaspora.
Session 3: A Trans-Atlantic Sephardic Diaspora: Jews and Conversos in the Conquest of the Americas and Crypto-Jews in the Shadow of the Colonial Inquisition
This session will examine the importance of Jews and conversos in the Spanish imperial project, as scientists, financiers, and participants in westward expansion. It will also shed light on how crypto-Jewish conversos in the Spanish colonies practiced their religion despite the great danger to their lives they faced in doing so.
Session 4: Treasures of a Remnant Culture: Jewish and Converso Perspectives in Spanish Literature post-1492, and Crypto-Judaism in the American Southwest Today
This session will consider the Jewish and converso perspective in Spanish literature after the expulsion despite the absence of Jews from the country. It will also show how Jews have been depicted in later Spanish literature and how Spaniards have addressed their country's Jewish heritage. Finally, it will introduce the characteristics of crypto-Judaism in the American Southwest today and how crypto-Jews have maintained their identity over the course of centuries.


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from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

import logging
import random

from ray.rllib.offline.input_reader import InputReader
from ray.rllib.utils.annotations import override, DeveloperAPI

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

@DeveloperAPI
class ShuffledInput(InputReader):
    """Randomizes data over a sliding window buffer of N batches.

    This increases the randomization of the data, which is useful if the
    batches were not in random order to start with.
    """

    @DeveloperAPI
    def __init__(self, child, n=0):
        """Initialize a MixedInput.

        Arguments:
            child (InputReader): child input reader to shuffle.
            n (int): if positive, shuffle input over this many batches.
        """
        self.n = n
        self.child = child
        self.buffer = []

    @override(InputReader)
    def next(self):
        if self.n <= 1:
            return self.child.next()
        if len(self.buffer) < self.n:
            logger.info("Filling shuffle buffer to {} batches".format(self.n))
            while len(self.buffer) < self.n:
                self.buffer.append(self.child.next())
            logger.info("Shuffle buffer filled")
        i = random.randint(0, len(self.buffer) - 1)
        self.buffer[i] = self.child.next()
        return random.choice(self.buffer)


The popular video-sharing site Vimeo is introducing two new ways to help movie makers earn money off their creations, including a "tip jar" and the ability to put views behind a paywall.
First up is the Vimeo tip jar, available now, which lets viewers show their appreciation for a video by tipping its creator with a cash payment. Vimeo Plus and non-commercial Vimeo Pro members can activate the tip jar on a video so that viewers will see a button saying "tip this video," below the player.
Viewers can then tip as much as they want using a credit card. Tips will be transferred to the video creator's PayPal account, minus a 15 per cent service fee that Vimeo pockets.
"A tip is the ultimate expression of appreciation, and the easiest and best way to support the creators you love," Vimeo said in a note on its site. "With a tip, you're not only telling a creator how important their work is to you, you're also giving them the resources to make more of it."
There are a few restrictions to using the tip jar. Namely, users cannot accept tips on commercial or political videos. Vimeo does not allow users to accept donations for a political cause or as a payment for goods and services.
Meanwhile, Vimeo is also planning to roll out a new option to let users put their videos behind a paywall. The new "pay-to-view" feature is coming in early 2013 and will be available to Vimeo Pro subscribers. It will let filmmakers charge viewers for access to their videos.
"We're not saying too much at the moment, but we can promise you're going to like it," Vimeo said. "Look out for big (and we mean big) demos of the service as we get it ready for launch to the whole community."
Vimeo is encouraging those with an "awesome film (of any kind)" to contact the company for a chance to participate in the pay-to-view beta launch.
Vimeo last month teamed up with cloud-based file-storage and synchronisation service Dropbox to ease the process of uploading videos.
As an alternative to YouTube, Vimeo has made a name for itself among independent filmmakers and musicians. The site only allows original content made by users, making its selection slightly less arbitrary, albeit less expansive, than videos found on the Google-owned site.


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Q: How to Run Azure Function into running longer than 10 minutes How to Run Azure Function into running longer than 10 minutes?
My task is parsing csv file and storing data into database tables hardly it will take one hour time. But Azure function apps max timeout is 10 minutes.

A: If you run your Function in an App Service plan instead of a Consumption plan, the default timeout is 30 minutes with no overall limit.
Here's a link to the doc

A: Functions is not designed to run that long , check out this Data Lake example/tutorial to copy csv to sql DB
https://medium.com/@adilsonbna/using-azure-data-lake-to-copy-data-from-csv-file-to-a-sql-database-712c243db658
You use the Copy Data tool to create a pipeline that copies data from CSV file data to a SQL database.


Social Media is one of the greatest platforms that businesses are using nowadays to reach out to a larger number of the target audience. Every social media platform has its set of rules and is used by a particular group of the audience which makes it even more helpful for the marketers.
Every year these platforms come up with new features and add-ons to attract more number of users and if you can make use of these tools you can make the optimum use of the social media to grow your brand.
Edgar – This tool helps you in organizing and tracking your content. If you have frequently been posting content, and you might want to retrieve one of the old posts for posting once again, it becomes almost impossible, right? But the Edgar tool helps you to locate your specific content from heaps of massive content.
Brand24 – This is a must-have tool for every business. With this tool, you can analysis how your brand is received by the audience and how well your competitors are doing. This analysis can help you improve your brand and also ensure a better interaction with your followers and customers.
HelpWYZ – If you have a presence on multiple social media sites it becomes to manage all of them on your own. But with the Helpwyz tool is becomes quite easy. You can set posting schedules on the different platforms such as Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and LinkedIn from one place. This saves you time and effort.
Canva – As you know, visual content plays a very crucial role in making your social media sites dynamic. People love to view images, and a stunning image can attract more audiences. Canva offers several template designs and high-quality images for an affordable budget. With these tools, you can create a beautiful social media site for your brand.
Bundlepost – The Bundlepost too helps in post scheduling but has several additional features compared to other similar tools. One attractive feature of this tool is that it switches the usual niche words with hashtags to help your page enhance the number of visitors.
Nuzzel – With this tool, you can organize the posts and stories that have been shared by your followers. This helps you to understand the needs and interests of the audience so that you can create engaging stories in future.
SecureMySocial –This tool informs and alerts the company if any of their employee posts something that goes against the company law or policy. This tool comes in handy when you have a vast business with lots of employees, and you don't have the time to monitor the postings of each and every one of your employees.
Cyfe – An affordable tool for small business, Cyfe can generate reports related to Google Analytics, SEO, and Adwords. With this tool, you can create personalized dashboards to secure data.
Social Clout – Another analytic tool, the Social Clout provides information on areas where you can make modifications to improve the functioning of the social media page. You can use this tool to analysis multiple platforms and track the progress.
AgoraPulse – The tool offers its users applications, contests, reports, customer relationship management software and much more. But this tool is beneficial is you are working on Twitter or Facebook.
Nuvi – Nuvi lets you to see private and public posts about your brand. This helps you to get a better feedback about your brand and so you can shape your social media to suit your audience even better.
Follower Wonk – This is a Moz app exclusively meant for Twitter analytics. It helps you to analysis and modify your social media content on Twitter. You can find a lot of information about your followers such as their location and usual time of tweeting.
Feedly – it notifies you about the latest industry trends and content analysis. This would help you to optimize you media posts. This tool can curate and share content by integrating with Buffer.
Inkybee – If you are looking influencers to enhance your brand and get you, potential customers, then Inkybee is the right tool to help you locate the influencers. It gets you the identity of social media celebs and bloggers who work in your industry or are interested in it.
Adobe Post – This is a free tool for creating excellent photos for your social media site. It offers millions of free photos, and it will even provide you with the best presentation options.
Sendible – This is yet another excellent social media tool. You can organize all the comments and posts into a single dashboard for later analysis. It also includes collaboration, customer relationship management, publishing and mobile tools.
Person App – This tool is meant for personalizing the social media page. It gives faces to your followers on your page.
Openr – With this tool, you can create more leads and traffic. How? Using this tool you can add a promotional text to any messages that are shared on your social media pages.
Socedo – You can reduce a lot of cost and workforce and at the same time increase your sales by doing automation of your social media pages. The Socedo tool attracts the prospective users and automates lead generation. You need to define a criterion and then the tool matches it with the interests of the users and attracts the prospective audience. You can also use this tool to create quality leads and modify the workflow.
Babbly – Unlike any other tool Babbly is mobile-friendly. You can share your content through Babbly by entering the URL. And the platform does all the promotion work on its own.
There are numerous social media marketing tools out there but the ones discussed here are applicable for both the small businesses and the huge ones. Make use of these tools to greater a deeper social media presence for your brand.


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Das Haus in der Römerstraße 12 ist ein denkmalgeschütztes Bauwerk und befindet sich im Stadtteil Thorr in der Kreisstadt Bergheim im Rhein-Erft-Kreis.

Geschichte
Das Haus mit der Nummer 12 wurde schon früh als Gastwirtschaft genutzt und trug den Namen "Zur guten Quelle". Das zweigeschossige Wohnhaus stammt aus der Zeit um 1860. Als Wirt nennen die Adressbücher von 1907, 1911 und 1934 Heinrich Schillings, der zugleich auch ein Baugeschäft betrieb.

Architektur
Das Haus besitzt einen zweiflügeligen Grundriss. Das Dach ist nach Norden hin abgewalmt. Die zur Zievericher Straße hin gewandte Fassade wird durch fünf Achsen hochrechteckiger Fenster mit profilierten Holzgewänden und hölzerne Dreiecksgiebel als Verdachung gegliedert. Der Mitteleingang mit Oberlicht besitzt ein neues Türblatt. Der zur Römerstraße gewandte Flügel
ist dreiachsig. Die Fenster sind leicht stichbogig und mit Werksteinrahmen versehen.

Denkmal
Das Gebäude ist als Denkmal in die Liste der Baudenkmäler in Thorr eingetragen. Die Denkmalnummer lautet 98.

Literatur
 Heinz Andermahr, Helmut Schrön, Ralph Jansen: Bergheimer Stadtführer Kreisstadt Bergheim (Hrsg.), Bergheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-9801975-7-1.

Bauwerk in Bergheim
Baudenkmal in Bergheim

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"My Racing Thoughts" is the first studio single from the album People and Things by Jack's Mannequin. It was made available as a digital single on iTunes and Amazon on August 2, 2011.

Music video
An official video was released for "My Racing Thoughts" on September 30, 2011, along with 10 other videos, with a video for each of the 11 songs on People and Things. The video for My Racing Thoughts was directed by Anders Rostad.

Personnel
"My Racing Thoughts" personnel adapted from the CD liner notes

Jack's Mannequin
Andrew McMahon – Vocals, Piano, Percussion, Keyboards
Bobby "Raw" Anderson – Guitar, Background vocals
Jay McMillan – Drums, Percussion
Tim Pierce - Guitars
Jamie Muhoberac - Keyboards, B3
Chris Chaney - Bass
Patrick Warren - Keyboards
Production
Nigel Lundemo - Pro Tools Engineering
Ted Jenson - Mastering at Sterling Sound
Steve Rea and Russ Waugh - Assistant Engineers
Chris Lord-Alge - Mixing at Mix LA
Cheryl Jenets - Production Manager
Art
Patrick Conception - Illustrations
Conception Studios - Art Direction
Music Video
Anders Rostad - Music Video Director
Dylan VanDam - Music Video Producer
Jesse Springer - Music Video Director of Photography

References

2011 singles
Jack's Mannequin songs
2011 songs
Sire Records singles