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By: By Kyle Wagenschutz, PeopleForBikes vice president of Local Innovation
Over the last two years, the Texas capital accelerated the buildout of its all ages and abilities bike network, building more than 100 new miles with no signs of slowing down.
In 2014, the City of Austin set an ambitious goal: Build a 400-mile bicycle network that winds throughout the city, connecting urban trails, quiet neighborhood streets and new protected bike lanes. A network that would offer residents a choice in how they get around, no matter the person's age or ability. The envisioned All Ages and Abilities (AAA) Bicycle Network would be accompanied by major street crossing improvements and other infrastructure updates, eventually delivering more mobility options, relief from congestion, greater safety to all and a more livable community for Austin residents.
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In 2018, city leaders decided a change was needed to help Austin meet its mounting transportation needs and the urgency of climate change. A significant acceleration of its AAA bicycle network was determined to be the best course of action. MoveATX — a coalition of community leaders, advocates, activists and local organizations — was founded in order to support the city's efforts, creating a potent partnership with ATD that has achieved far more together than either would have been able to accomplish alone.
MoveATX launched a media campaign that tapped into the city's popular support for bicycling, emphasizing the use of out-of-home advertising to drive participation in the city's public meetings and showcase how the proposed projects would result in reduced congestion, fewer crashes and a more equitable city. This partnership helped build support among residents and allowed ATD to accelerate its project delivery timeline by three times its previous pace.
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Today, Austin has completed 215 miles of the AAA bike network, more than half of the network mileage envisioned in the original 2014 plan. It's one of the few North American cities to reach such a milestone. Approximately 64% of Austin's residents can now access and navigate the completely connected, comfortable system of bike lanes that allow people on two wheels to get to where they're going safely, all without inconveniencing drivers and walkers.
And Austin isn't stopping there.
Decisively, in November 2020, 67% of Austin voters approved Proposition B, a $460 million active transportation bond meant to expand walking and biking networks throughout the city. With this funding secured, City of Austin officials expects that the entire AAA bicycle network will surpass more than 400 total miles — or 100% of the mileage envisioned in the 2014 plan — by 2025. Impressively, this investment exceeds the commitment recently made—and widely celebrated—by Paris, France ($291 million, with a 2026 completion date). Once complete, 83% of Austin's residents will be able to easily walk, bike or scoot using the AAA network, connecting them to destinations throughout the city.
Reflecting on what this achievement means for Austin's future, Mayor Steve Adler said, "Twenty years from now, I hope life on the street just looks active and involved, with lots of people doing many different things and the streets being used in a variety of ways. I want everyone in Austin to have the ability to be able to come together and to move with one another and talk to one another in an environment that is safe, friendly and accessible to everyone."
Austin is setting a new precedent for American cities, showcasing that not only is a new era of mobility possible, but we don't have to wait decades for it to become a reality. By building bike infrastructure into our transportation improvements, cities can ensure drivers, walkers and bikers can get where they need to go with the greatest safety and the least amount of hassle.
We can have peace on the road — and more livable communities — when everyone has a piece of the road.
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What Are You Reading? | Stargirl, the Beatles, psychics and more
See what the Smash Pages crew has checked off their 'to read' list lately.
Welcome to What Are You Reading?, our weekly look at what the Smash Pages crew has been reading lately.
This week's edition is ripe with not only nostalgic looks at the past, including some that go all the way back to the 1940s, but also at the future of comics by the bright stars of today and tomorrow.
Let us know what you read this week in the comments.
Shane Bailey
I've been reading so much this last week, if this quarantine is doing anything positive, it's giving my reading time a big boost. In the past week I've read The Dark One, Paul is Dead, Fire Power, Justice League "Justice/Doom War," Young Justice "Lost in the Multiverse," Batman: Last Knight on Earth, Star Bastard, Remnant, Vlad Dracul, The Spirit: The Corpse-makers, Star Wars Volume 2, another volume of Lumberjanes and the original Secret Wars. Whew. I don't have time to talk about them all, but here I go with the important bits…
Brandon Sanderson's Dark One by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Nathan Gooden, K. Michael Russell And World Design & Vault Comics: I had no idea what to expect going into this book, but I enjoyed the feeling of getting into something completely new. It took a while to build everything up, but the book explained things wisely, piece by piece, so when you do find out what is really going on, you feel like it's earned. You feel like you know the characters and the danger they face is real. You worry about them.
Even though they telegraph the twist a bit, that's not really what the book is about, so it doesn't matter much. It's about not just blindly accepting destiny. It's about changing your path and not accepting the story others write for you. It's about how the bad guy isn't always bad when you look at it from another angle. It's dark, it's beautiful and it's got me wanting to read more.
The art and design of the book and its characters is magnificent. It feels like its own thing but draws little elements from elsewhere to make things feel a little familiar. I see shades of Pepe Larraz in Nathan Golden's work, if people don't see him as a star yet they will soon. Speaking of stars, K. Michael Russell does a great job of setting the feel of each scene. I really enjoyed how he colors the armor of the dark one, making the red look menacing but dialing it back when he shows emotion. There are reds and blue tones that tie the whole book together. I would highly recommend giving this book a try if you're ready to jump into a new, fleshed-out fantasy world. It's a fun adventure that's different enough to make familial ideas feel fresh and exciting. Jump in, feel a bit lost again and figure out where the narrative will take you.
Remnant by Michael Roslen, Karly Engracia, Davi Comodo, Sean Rinehart and Source Point Press: This is the first book by Source Point Press I've read and I was pleasantly surprised. It's a quick, one-and-done story of three generations trying to colonize Mars. It's full of cool ideas that could be stories all on their own, but mostly it's about the struggle to try to build life on a planet that doesn't seem to want it, and they succeed, but not in the way that they thought. Without spoiling the book, it's got a bit of a downer of an ending, but I admire the guts it takes to be honest and say that not every story has a happy ending. I think that's where the strength of this book lies, even if it's not the best time to read a story like that.
Justice League by Scott Snyder: Let's talk about this book and Scott Snyder. I really like his work, but lately, there's a problem, and it's affecting DC as a whole. It really, really stands out here. You see, Snyder and DC have an "And then …" issue. It's really evident in Snyder's Justice League. So first there was Metal, which was cool, I guess, but Metal didn't end, instead Snyder said "And then…" And then there was Justice League: No Justice. Then that didn't end, so Justice League was launched. But each arc ended with an "And then…" instead of an ending — it's a book filled with ever-increasing stakes, and trade after trade just never gives you an ending a stopping point, a place to rest, a resolution. Then you come to the big ending and you think it's finally going to end and then, and then, and then, and then… to be continued in Death Metal #1. @#$*%!
That said, Snyder and the wonderful artists he always works with are all really good. The arcs are full of great, wild ideas about the DC universe and manage to make the DC universe feel huge. Even Batman feels magical. He's just way better at miniseries because he has to end them. You give him the whole universe, and it's just too much for him; he wants to keep it going when all we want is a resolution. Just a full story to mark down as a classic, we don't get Batman: Year One (or even Court of Owls) with his larger work, instead we get the Clone Saga.
Paul is Dead by Paolo Baron, Ernesto Carbonetti and Image Comics: This was a trip! I loved the art on this story and, not being a Beatlehead, I had no idea the rumor about Paul faking his death and getting a lookalike to take over for him. This was such a fun story and it was nice to read something that just tackled on thing and ended. It was a complete. It's such a beautiful little package, full of emotion, loss, anger and weirdness. Definitely pick this up.
Fire Power by Robert Kirkman, Chris Samnee, Matt Wilson, Russ Wooton and Image Comics: Oh my god this book is beautiful. I just want Samnee and Wilson to work together forever on everything. They are the best!
That out of the way, this is a fun adventure full of old tropes, but you know what, you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. You can just tell an adventure story with familiar elements and just have fun. That's what this is. You just let yourself go. It's one of those movies you watch over and over again. It's comic book comfort food. It's those old sweats you wear that are just broken in and perfect. It's hanging out with your best friend and just relaxing. That's kinda what I need right now.
That's it for now, next time I'll talk about Young Justice, Batman: Last Knight on Earth, Star Bastard, Vlad Dracul and The Spirit: The Corpse-makers, and I'll check in on what my son thought about the original Secret Wars.
Tom Bondurant
The Stargirl TV show has given me an incentive to catch up on Stars and STRIPE, a comic I hadn't read before (gasp!). The series packed a lot into a mere 15 issues (July 1999's #0 through September 2000's #14), including team-ups with the Marvel Family and Young Justice, a flashback with the Seven Soldiers of Victory, and a brief JSA sequence. At the time I think Geoff Johns' other DC credits included the Day of Judgment miniseries, a Beast Boy miniseries, and co-writing JSA with David Goyer. In fact, he seems to have gone straight from the end of Stars and STRIPE to Flash. So this is early Johns, free of the weights of expectations and reputation.
The art, from Moder and inker Dan Davis, is well-suited to the small-town high school setting. It blends the superheroics well with the awkward teenage angst, and the gangly Courtney Whitmore embodies that balance. Still, the series is more interested in super-fights than high school ones, and specifically it wants to have Courtney live up to her heroic legacy. To that end you can see supporting characters and assorted subplots doing slow burns, only to be truncated when the series ends. In particular, Courtney's stepbrother Mike is away at military school for much of the series, and when he does come home he throws a fit about not being groomed for his own heroic career. Likewise, the mystery of Courtney's real father turns out to be underwhelming; and it serves mainly to reinforce what a great guy her stepfather (Pat Dugan, now using the STRIPE battlesuit to fight crime) really is.
Coming into Stars and STRIPE from the TV show, you can see similarities in the macro-plot and characters, and I will say that the show seems to have sanded off a lot of the series' rough edges. (It will also be interesting to see if the show's first season ends anywhere close to where the series did.) Overall, it was a fun read, although now it seems even more prototypical and/or aspirational than it must have been 20 years ago.
After that I went even further back, to the original Justice Society adventures from All-Star Comics #3-#6 (Winter 1941 to August-September 1941), reprinted in All-Star Comics Archives Volume One. These stories were written by Gardner Fox and drawn by the artists responsible for the characters' solo adventures, and that fact really plays up how different these stories must have been. Both in concept and format, the Justice Society must have been like nothing else on newsstands 80 years ago. For readers used to a few short stories in an anthology or (for the big stars like Superman and Batman) a quarterly issue, the 58-pagers in All-Star must have seemed like Tolstoy. Still, the artistic changes served a few purposes. Familiar artistic styles probably helped ease readers into the larger JSA adventures, as opposed to (for example) getting used to how Mike Sekowsky or Dick Dillin drew all the Justice Leaguers. Multiple artists also served the publisher's production needs. Finally, those artists also reminded readers, however subtly, that this is what they would get if they bought the other books where those characters appeared.
For me, though, those Golden Age artists were largely new; and their work was kind of revelatory. The framing sequences were done by E.E. Hibbard, who I think drew the Flash; and he had a more open style without a lot of details. However, often that would go into the very thin lines and heavy blacks of a Bernard Baily (who drew Hourman and the Spectre) or Sheldon Moldoff (who drew Hawkman). I spent a lot of time looking at these pages and wondering about the time spent on them. As for the stories, so far they haven't gotten too high-stakes. In issue #3 the JSAers spend their time telling each other about their solo adventures. Issue #4 is the first real team mission, as they each get orders from the FBI to shut down stateside Nazi efforts. In issue #5, the anonymous mob boss Mr. X – whose identity becomes obvious the moment he appears – orders his crews to target the JSA one by one; and in issue #6, the JSA has to look for the missing Johnny Thunder so he can be initiated into the group.
That last story goes into detail about the JSA's membership qualifications. Back in the day, individual members pretty much appeared only in anthology books – Adventure, All-American, More Fun, etc. – except for Superman and Batman, who by this time each had earned a solo title. To avoid overexposure, if you had a solo book, you could only be an "honorary" JSAer. Thus, when the Flash was popular enough to add All-Flash to his feature in the Flash Comics anthology (which also featured Hawkman and Johnny Thunder), he had to go to honorary status; and that opened up a spot for Johnny Thunder. This was all explained in detail by the JSAers to the readers at the end of #5, and honestly it was pretty endearing. It took me a while to get into these stories, but now I am eager to see what's next.
JK Parkin
You ever had one of those moments where you realize two creators whose work you really enjoy got together and made a miniseries, and you just discovered it when the fourth issue came out? That moment happened to me this week. I mean, I'm the one blogging about comics publishing news here, and I completely missed I Can Sell You a Body — not only when it was announced, but also when the first issue came out. I apparently suck at this.
So anyway, I'm playing catch-up on this charming noir-esque miniseries by Ryan Ferrier (D4VE, Criminy) and George Kambadais (The Black Ghost, The Double Life of Miranda Turner), which I bought off comiXology this weekend. Denny Little is a former TV psychic who is in debt to the mob, and he's trying to figure out how to get out of his little predicament while also dealing with all the ghosts who are constantly wanting his help from the other side. Oh, and there's a woman who he has fallen head over heels for. I just finished the second issue, and things with the woman look like they're getting mega-complicated. Ferrier writes protagonists that you probably wouldn't want anything to do with in real life (see: D4VE) but still makes them sympathetic and worth cheering for. Kambadais is coloring his own work here, and he's bringing a bright palette to what could be considered a fairly dark story, which really helps set the tone. I can't wait to finish this one up tonight.
Speaking of comiXology, From Beyond the Unknown is one of those DC Digital First comics that actually, technically first appeared in print, in one of the Walmart 100-Page Giant issues. The first issue had a somewhat mediocre Green Lantern story, but the second issue, which came out this week, has two tales — an impressive Kamandi the Last Boy on Earth story by Tom Sniegoski and Eric Gapstur, and a fun Legion of Super-Heroes story by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund. These are both stand-alone stories, where anyone picking up one of these in Walmart could have grasped what was going on, but I found it very interesting that the Legion story is not set in current continuity (the Bendis continuity in the current series) — it's actually set back before the Giffen "five years later" reboot issues but sometime after the debut of the new Invisible Kid. That's a timeline I know well; my older brother was a big fan of that era, so I've read a lot of it, and the characters here are obviously from that iteration of the team. Why they would show up again in a Walmart anthology is strange, but hey — I really enjoyed the nostalgic trip it offered. And Dawnstar should always have real wings.
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Even though we do not have to use this knowledge on daily basis when pleasure fishing and on pleasure crafts, it is nevertheless entertaining to know a bit about this and know what this is all about. There are various reasons for why magnetic compass will not be right and the reason can be found in its close environment. This is called magnetic deviation. Magnetic deviation in vessels differs between vessels. Iron vessels have considerable magnetic deviation, but it is less in vessels made of tree and plastic. The compass should be adjusted annually and that is what professional compass adjusters are for, they have the right equipments to adjust the compass. Then they will issue a special table with corrections, which should be kept on a prominent place near the compass.
Various equipments are on board vessels, as can be seen on this image, and they all can cause a magnetic deviation in the compass. The tools and equipments on board form a magnetic pole on the vessel.
When it is not possible to adjust the compass, a deviation table is made which shows the deviations according to the courses.
Deviation table should always be kept near the compass and be well visible.
The liquid ingredients of a compass are a mix of alcohol (methanol which is undrinkable) and distilled water (1:2) which prevents the compass from freezing.
The compass rose rotates on a needle made of hard metal.
The compass rose forms a 360° circle and is divided into 32 points, that is what nowadays is called the old system. The 32 points which form the rose are divided into eight principal points, eight half-points and sixteen quarter points, with each compass direction point at 11 ¼° angle from the next. Nowadays, degrees are generally used in navigation; the degrees are symbolised with the degree symbol ° after the number, for example 23°.
A hand compass has a dial and a magnetic needle which points to the dial. The gyrocompass is independent from the earth's magnetic field, but is dependent the vessel's electrical system. It always shows true courses. The GPS compass is a relatively new type of compass, but it has gained ground and is much used on board vessels, whether it is on small fishing vessels or large. It has for the most part replaced the gyrocompass. The gyrocompass is mostly used on merchant vessels and large vessels.


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Rescue plan: What's in it
Here's a breakdown of the major elements in the federal effort to restore confidence in the financial system.
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Here are the key elements that will be put in place first:
Buying equity in banks
The Treasury will buy up to $250 billion in senior preferred shares in a wide variety of banks.
Nine of the largest banks have agreed to be the first institutions in which the government takes a stake. But the program will be available potentially to thousands of banks.
The government may take senior preferred shares up to the lesser of $25 billion or 3% of the bank's risk-weighted assets.
The stakes will come largely in the form of non-voting shares and may be sold to a third-party if the government wishes.
The shares will pay 5% a year in dividends for the first five years and 9% after that. The increase in the dividend may serve as incentive for the banks - if they have the private capital to do it - to buy back the government's shares before the five years are up.
The government will also receive warrants to buy additional shares worth up to 15% of the preferred stock it buys. The strike price for Uncle Sam: the average price the stock was selling for over the 20-day period preceding the government's purchase of preferred shares.
Given the battering bank shares have taken in the past week, if the government exercises its warrants soon, it is likely to make a profit from its investment in the first nine banks in the program, said Jaret Seiberg, financial services analyst at The Stanford Group, a policy research firm.
Participants in the program will be subject to the restrictions on executive compensation that Congress included in the financial rescue law that it passed on Oct. 3. One such measure, for example, requires that any bonus or incentive paid to a senior executive officer for targets met will have to be repaid if it's later proven that earnings or profit statements were inaccurate.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will guarantee new, senior unsecured debt issued by banks, thrifts and bank holding companies. The new debt that will be covered must mature within three years, and banks may opt in to this program until the end of June 2009.
The intent is to give confidence to the buyers of bank debt that they will get paid back no matter what.
The program will be paid for by user fees imposed on banks. No taxpayer dollars or dollars from the FDIC insurance fund will be used.
Providing more coverage for bank deposits
The FDIC will temporarily provide unlimited coverage for all non-interest-bearing accounts, which typically are those where businesses park money to cover their near-term expenses such as payroll. The increased coverage will last through the end of 2009.
The program will be paid for by user fees that are part of the premium the bank pays the FDIC to insure deposits. No taxpayer dollars or dollars from the FDIC insurance fund will be used.
The goal is to boost liquidity for otherwise healthy banks - particularly regional and local ones - that might otherwise have seen nervous depositors pull their money out in favor of putting them at larger institutions.
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The Federal Reserve is finalizing plans for a temporary program in which it will buy high-quality three-month debt issued by businesses in the commercial paper market.
The commercial paper market, which has been sharply curtailed in recent weeks, is the prime source of funding used to cover operating costs at many of the nation's largest companies and financial institutions.
The program would begin on Oct. 27 and would remain in effect until April 30, 2009.
The intent of the program is to guarantee there will be a buyer of the debt, which in turn will make private-sector buyers more confident that they will get paid back if they, too, buy a company's short-term debt. That's because the company pays back debt holders by issuing new commercial paper.
But what about buying troubled assets?
When the government's rescue plan was first formally proposed little more than two weeks ago, the major initiative was supposed to be the purchase of troubled assets off of banks' balance sheets.
The rationale: Banks are having a hard time attracting capital because there is concern that they may be holding so-called "toxic" assets. Those assets have underlying value but no one has known how to price them in the wake of the housing crisis.
The four major steps the government announced on Tuesday do not preclude the Treasury from pursuing its asset-purchase option. Indeed, Treasury and White House officials have indicated they are still working on structuring a program to buy troubled assets, which the government could hold until the market recovers and then sell back to investors at a profit. But it clearly isn't going to be the first effort out of the gate.
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Q: What is the logic of the recursion Here is I have a factorial code using recursion.
class Factorial
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
       Factorial f = new Factorial();
       System.out.println(f.fact(Integer.parseInt(args[0])));
    }

    private int fact(int num)
    {
        int result;
        if(num == 1)
             return 1;

        result = fact(num - 1) * num;
        return result;
    }
}

Now to run this program, I did this
D:\>java Factorial 3

Now according to the logic when it enters the fact function, where num = 3, so it will skip to
result = fact(num - 1) * num;

Here it will become
result = fact(3 - 1) * num;

i.e. result = fact(2) * num;
In this step, I am little confused Does it execute whole step i.e.
result = fact(num - 1) * num;

or just the fact(num - 1)
According to the logic, what it should do is call the fact function. So, the control of the program again reaches to the start of the fact function where num = 2. It will again skip to
result = fact(num - 1) * num;

So, it will become
result = fact(2 - 1) * num;

i.e. result = fact(1) * num;
Now again, it should call the fact function without executing the whole syntax & again reaches to the start of the fact method where num = 1. This time num == 1 will be matched & 1 will be returned. Now it will return to
result = fact(num - 1) * num;

So, it will become
result = fact(1 - 1) * num;

i.e. result = fact(0) * num;
Now what will happen next ?
Am I going right ? If not what will be the correction ?
I dont clearly understand the flow of this recursion program.

A:
So, it will become
result = fact(1 - 1) * num;

Nope. For num = 2,
result = fact(num - 1) * num;

becomes
result = 1 * num; // i.e. 1 * 2

fact returns a value, which means the entire call has to be replace with that value.
Not sure why you would even think num changes at all. You have no num = ... in your code.

A: I added some trace into the program. Execute it and see the output. Should be easy to follow.
package snippet;

class Factorial {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        Factorial f = new Factorial();
        System.out.println(f.fact(Integer.parseInt("5")));
    }

    private int fact(int num) {
        int result;
        if (num == 1)
            return 1;

        result = fact(num - 1) * num;
        System.out.println("fact(" + num + ") = " + result + " = fact(" + (num - 1) + ") * " + num);
        return result;
    }
}

fact(2) = 2 = fact(1) * 2
  fact(3) = 6 = fact(2) * 3
  fact(4) = 24 = fact(3) * 4
  fact(5) = 120 = fact(4) * 5
  120

A: Your logic is right but you have made 3 basic errors.
if we take your example;
First you run the program
D:\>java Factorial 3

then you have your first mistake because according to the logic all "num" have to be replaced by "3". So you get:
result = fact(3 - 1) * 3;

ie:
result = fact(2)*3;

then we have the second mistake because according to the definition of fact(num),
fact(2) = fact(2-1)*2

so we actually have
result = (fact(2-1)*2)*3

which is evaluated in
result = (fact(1)*2)*3

and here stand the third mistake because again according to fact(num) definition : fact(1) = 1 and not fact(1) = fact(1-1)*1
so we finally have:
result = ((1)*2)*3

To be more explicit if you follow all call sequence in the debugger you 'll have something like this( I put between brackets the value of the variable):
   private int fact(num{3})
    {
        int result;
        if(num{3}== 1)
             return 1;

        result = fact(num{3} - 1) * num{3};

            private int fact(num{3-1})
            {
                int result;
                if(num{3-1}== 1)

                result = fact(num{3-1} - 1) * num{3-1};

                    private int fact(num{3-1-1})
                    {
                        int result;
                        if(num{3-1-1}== 1)
                             return 1;
                    }

                return result{1*{3-1}};
            }
        return result{{1*{3-1}}*3};
    }

A: The call f.fact(3) is expanding through the following steps:
1. result = fact(3 - 1) * 3 = fact(2) * 3
2. result = (fact(2 - 1) * 2) * 3 = (fact(1) * 2) * 3
3. result = 1 * 2 * 3 because fact(1) returns 1.

A: Unless we hit the stop condition:
fact(num) = fact(num - 1) * num;

Therefore:
fact(3) = fact(3 - 1) * 3;

Keeping in mind that fact(1) = 1 (from the if statement early in the fact() method):
fact(3) = fact(2) * 3;
fact(2) = fact(1) * 2;
fact(1) = 1;

Replacing each element:
fact(3) = 1 * 2 * 3;

The recursion is used to repeatedly dive deeper into the process until a stop condition is encountered - in this case when num = 1.

A: Your implementation is correct, But it will never reach fact(1-1) * 1 state ,as you return from method at   if(num == 1).
num variable is limited to scope of method parameter. So for every call to fact method num variable is assigned a new value (i.e. num-1) and which is limited to that parameter scope only. So when fact(num-1) returns , value of num will be the original value and not the num-1.

A: The flow of your example is like this
step 1. fact(3)*3;  //calling the function with num value 3
step 2. fact(2)*2;  //calling fact() method again with num=2
step 3. fact(1)*1;  //now num == 1 will be matched & 1 will be returned.
    i. e.,
1 * 1 = 1;      //now, steps 2 and 1 will be performed respectively
step 2. 1 * 2 = 2;
step 1. 2 * 3 = 6;
So, the final answer will be 6
Note: In step 3, the value is returned, so it will not again call this result = fact(0) * num; //which you have mentioned in question.

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package de.muspellheim.learning.jpa;

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;

/**
 * A contact person.
 */
@Entity
public class Contact {

    @Id
    private String name;

    private String email;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Contact{" +
                "name='" + name + '\'' +
                ", email='" + email + '\'' +
                '}';
    }
}


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The Holy Prophet (S) said: "When you meet each other then initiate greeting (salam) and embrace; and when you separate from each other, then depart with seeking forgiveness."
Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 76, p. 4
Imam Husayn-ibn-'Ali ('a) said: "Seventy rewards is the share of the one who initiates a 'greeting' and only one reward belongs to the one who returns the 'greeting'." (When two people see each other, the initiator of the exchange of greetings receives a greater reward.)
Imam as-Sadiq ('a) said that the Messenger of Allah (S) gathered the children of 'Abd-il-Muttallib and said: "O' children of 'Abd-il-Muttallib! Initiate greetings, have regard for kinship, perform the night prayers while people are asleep, feed (others) food, and deliver good speech and thereby you will enter paradise in peace."
Imam as-Sadiq ('a) said: "He who initiates a greeting is more beloved with Allah and His Messenger."
Wasa'il-ush-Shiah vol.12, p. 55


When changed to insulin, the sx occurred again. He blood sugar is under control, he was dx with GERD/EGD. He is miserable.
When he takes himself off the drug for a couple days, his sx subside and he feels much better. Currently, he is on Omniprosole and it no longer seems to be helping.
Any suggestions will be helpful. Thank you.
I understand you worries and you are right that most of the oral hypoglycemic drugs are causing gastrointestinal symptoms, like those mentioned from you. The bad thing is that their persistent usage leads to GERD, like in your husband's case.
1.	To start doing some exercises, because with physical activity, it would be quite easier for him to control his diabetes.
The best option for him to do this is to start running for about 30 minutes to 1 hour every single day.
2.	To start following a very strict meal plan, composed of low-carbs and low-fat products. With such diet, he will minimize the intake of glucose, which will result with better blood glucose control.
I can suggest you to force him eat more vegetables and fish and of course to avoid the sweet products, the pork, the beef and other things.
Something really important for him is to avoid the usage of alcohol, no matter its kind and to quit smoking, if he smokes of course.
3.	The last thing regarding diabetes is to reconsider using herbs. I want to remind you that herbs like, gymnema sylvestre, cinnamon and fenugreek are not affecting the normal functioning of gastro-intestinal tract.
Besides this, those diabetic herbs are going to help him regulate his blood glucose concentration in better way.
These things are important, because they will lead to reduction of the oral hypoglycemic drugs' dose. You have to know that the side effects of those drugs can disappear when their daily dose is low.
II. Now regarding GERD, your husband has to change his diet and use drugs.
1.	Generally, patients with GERD have to reduce the intake of sugar and fat, because these substances stimulate the acid production, which of course aggravates the symptoms of GERD.
However, regarding the vegetables, he has to avoid eating French fries and onion, because they stimulate the acid production as well.
Remember that as diabetic he has to eat fruits, but because of GERD he has to avoid eating oranges, lemons and grapefruits (citrus fruits).
2.	The treatment of GERD is not something easy, because it needs the best drug and the optimal daily dose.
Besides this, I think that you are talking about Omeprazole, which is PPI (proton pump inhibitor), which means that this drug reduces the production of acid in the stomach.
This is probably the most effective drug, used for the treatment of GERD, but in some cases it doesn't work.
If this drug is not effective, talk with your physician to change it with H2 blockers, like Ranitidine, or something else.
Something important for you to know is that if the drug treatment is not effective, you can discuss with him eventual surgical treatment.
The procedure is not something complex and it requires one day-stay in hospital. After this operation the symptoms of GERD are reduced and even disappeared.
However, I have to inform you that in some cases, 5-10 years after the operation, GERD could appear again.
I know that these things are quite strange to you, but try to teach him how to take care of his own body. Beside this, if there is something, which you are afraid of, feel free to ask us or to talk with your physician.
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Home Around the U.S. Met's New 'Tristan' Sets Bright Voices Against Dark View
Met's New 'Tristan' Sets Bright Voices Against Dark View
Mariusz Treliński's new production of Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde,' with sets by Boris Kudlička, places Act I aboard a modern warship. Photos by Ken Howard/ Metropolitan Opera.
NEW YORK — Tristan und Isolde, Wagner's hypnotic meditation on love and death, has returned to the Metropolitan Opera in a new production by Mariusz Treliński. An evening of splendid performances overcame a dark and fussy staging, making for a triumphant opening of the new season.
Isolde (Nina Stemme) is cool, at first, toward Tristan (Stuart Skelton).
Tristan has a long history at the Met, beginning with its U.S. premiere in 1886, three years after the house opened. A New York Times critic called it the "first performance in America of a work not wanted outside of Germany, and not too often there." But this blazingly modern work became a company staple, performed at least a few times a year well into the 1960s, including regular run-outs to Boston and Philadelphia and on tour.
By the middle of the last century, voices of the necessary amplitude and stamina were becoming more difficult to find, and Tristan wasn't performed at the Met from 1984 until 1999, when tenor Ben Heppner and soprano Jane Eaglen offered voices up to the task. Dieter Dorn's semaphoric, color-washed production had 25 performances, some of them excessively eventful, before it was mothballed after 2008.
Isolde (Nina Stemme) watches Brangäne (Ekaterina Gubanova) mix love potion.
Treliński's new production had its premiere in Baden-Baden last March (reviewed in Classical Voice North America here), with Simon Rattle conducting a cast that included Stuart Skelton in his role debut as Tristan. The dark, intricate staging has a modern military setting that contrasts with elements of nature symbolizing unstoppable love. A scrim veils the stage throughout, and during each of the three preludes a video is projected, emerging from a dynamic radar screen to set the tone for each act (sets by Boris Kudlička, lighting by Marc Heinz, video by Bartek Macias).
During the Act I prelude, a warship plows through turbulent seas, and the curtain rises on a multi-level cutaway of a ship, with different decks representing multiple planes of existence: On an upper deck, Tristan pensively flicks a cigarette lighter and dreams of the woman – Isolde, shown in video above him – who nursed him back to health; in the middle of the stage the princess Isolde enjoys a spacious stateroom, with a window on turbulent waters, for her transport as a trophy bride to King Marke of Cornwall. Below deck, visible only for a few minutes, we watch a flashback to Tristan's brutal execution of Morold, Isolde's betrothed. When Brangäne tries to deliver a message to Tristan, crew members grope her. At the act's end, three men signal with semaphores the helicopter arrival of the King. These details were meant to expand the story but seemed primarily gimmicky.
Tristan (Stuart Skelton) and Isolde (Nina Stemme) fall in love.
The remaining two acts are more subtle but also more distracting. The image of a solar eclipse introduces Act II's theme of day and night, and the beautiful starry sky and aurora borealis projected during the love duet mute the oddly mundane setting of an air traffic control tower.
The lovers move downstairs to a supply storeroom, where Marke and his men burst in on them; at act's end, in a bit of dramaturgical revisionism, Tristan stabs himself in remorse. Act III reintroduces images of nature, childhood, and flame seen fleetingly in the first act's opening video. Onstage, Tristan lies in a hospital bed; when he gets up for his monologue, the stage darkens and transforms. Tristan wanders through a ruined cabin that has appeared onstage and deliriously remembers his childhood, while a child version of Tristan, who silently appears throughout the act dressed in the too-large jacket of King Marke, pours gasoline and sets the cabin on (video) fire.
The stage again darkens and reverts to the hospital room. When Tristan collapses in Isolde's arms, she slits her wrists – textually logical, but simply odd. The second ship's arrival, indicated with flashlights behind the upstage scrim while characters sing and shout, had the merit of maintaining focus on Tristan and Isolde. The ending has no special impact, though with Isolde's luminous "Liebestod" that hardly mattered.
King Marke (René Pape, left) with Tristan (Stuart Skelton).
Treliński's deconstruction of textual details, particularly in the long monologues, brought my attention to things I had never noticed before. But at times the excessive visual embellishment and literal insertion of back story distracted from the music. Tristan is primarily about a state of mind, and the relentless visual narrative felt more intellectual than emotional, sometimes at the expense of the music's power.
Back in 1937, critic Denoe Leedy wrote in the Cleveland Press: "So little happens on the stage in a Wagner opera that it doesn't matter much what scenic investiture is contributed as part of the production. The music's the thing – and last night it came to life in a very thrilling manner." The music was indeed the thing in the hands of Simon Rattle, conducting only his second opera at the Met. His deliberate pacing gave the music room to grow, and he harnessed the power of silence as well as the formidable range of the Met orchestra. Details were clearly in concert with the director's concepts, enhancing the drama, and orchestral solo passages were unusually eloquent.
Nina Stemme created a complex and volatile Isolde.
One of the evening's biggest draws was the Isolde of Nina Stemme, who joins a long line of Scandinavian sopranos in the role. Missing from Met Wagner casts since her 2000 debut as Senta, she is one of the most satisfying Isoldes I've ever seen and heard anywhere. While her voice doesn't pin you to your seat, it's lush, focused, and untiring. Low-lying sections have thrust, and the upper register is generous and secure. Her acting has cinematic detail, and she created a complex and volatile Irish princess.
Stuart Skelton, singing Tristan for only the third run in his career, is a real find. His burnished tenor has both ping and depth, and he has the physical presence to portray a soldier and lover of power and complexity. A bit of stiffness crept into his high notes during the punishing final-act monologue, but he maintained vocal quality and control till the end. I look forward to hearing him again later in the run, when he's not debuting a major role in one of the world's biggest houses.
René Pape sang King Marke, his second time opening a new Met Tristan. His luxurious bass and creamy legato conveyed the betrayed king's wounded dignity, though to my ears the voice seemed somewhat diminished. As Kurwenal, Evgeny Nikitin sounded bright and mellow and was persuasive both as swaggering sailor and Tristan's trusted friend. Ekaterina Gubanova was a vocally sumptuous, youthful, and dynamic Brangäne. There were no weak links among the smaller roles, performed by Neal Cooper (Melot), Tony Stevenson (Sailor), Alex Richardson (Shepherd), and David Crawford (Steersman).
Tristan und Isolde has seven more performances through October 27. Order tickets here.
The Oct. 8 matinee performance will be transmitted in HD to movie theaters worldwide. Information here.
Susan Brodie writes about music, the arts, and life from New York City and Paris. Follow her at @Susan Brodie (Twitter) and Toi Toi Toi!
On the bridge of the warship in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of 'Tristan und Isolde.'
Boris Kudlička
rene pape
stuart skelton
Tristan und Isolde
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Each time you sense danger, your body automatically tries to protect you by releasing into your bloodstream adrenaline, a chemical that gives you a quick rush of energy. Your pupils dilate, your heart rate accelerates, your blood pressure rises, and your breathing speeds up. You become alert and highly sensitive to your environment. In this "fight or flight" state you are ready to either fight the source of threat or run away from it. When you you're your body going into this mode you can react positively or negatively. And how you react to this response can either improve the situation or make it worse.
Can you think of a time when your body went into flight-or-flight mode?
How did your body react? Did your response have a positive or a negative outcome?
How do you want to respond in the similar situation in the future?
Anger builds in stages and if you understand the progression of your anger, you can identify then you are becoming frustrated and deal with it before it gets out of control.
First your anger button gets pushed. Then your thinking gets distorted. You might assume worst case scenario, blow things out of proportion, blame others, or misinterpret the events. Finally, your feelings take control over your behaviour and you react.
A good thing to do is process your stages of anger with a trusted person or a counsellor. Once you know how your anger builds you will be able to apply different strategies to stay grounded and not let your anger get out of control.
For many people it is easier to be angry than to admit that your feeling are hurt or that you are scared. When you mask your emotions with anger you are avoiding underlying feelings. This can be harmful and usually results in anger growing.
What is within my control?
How can I be an agent for change?
What can I do to fix my problem?


I don't think the matter can be reduced to the level of fairy stories where there are the 'goodies' and 'baddies'; a more nuanced approach is required. Certainly there are positive aspects, such as that China has been willing to break the stronghold of the Western powers and the international financial institutions that they control who have, since the early 1980s, been prohibiting investment in infrastructure in Africa. Indeed, African countries now have alternative trading partners rather than just being dominated by the advanced capitalist countries.
But we have to go beyond that. The entry of China into Africa was not a challenge to the neoliberal agendas that have had such a devastating impact on the majority of people in Africa. On the contrary, it has been facilitated by the same policies that 'opened up' Africa's economies to the international markets. China has not challenged the policies that have led to mass privatization: it has benefited from them.
The critical issue is, who has really profited from China's intervention? China is driven by its own economic concerns, not solidarity. On the surface African economies seem to have benefited. Take Angola, for example. China's investment in oil has helped their economy, but the vast majority of people have not seen this wealth. Why? Because the ruling élite has engaged in widescale parasitic accumulation of most of the income, meaning the rich have got richer, the poor poorer.
I agree that the time is ripe for a nuanced approach to this issue. There has been too much hysteria from those who have had established positions in extracting value from Africa – as if no new kid on the block was allowed. Only, of course, China is not a new kid. China's support for liberation movements, although sometimes wrongly judged, has been powerful. Listening to the hysteria from the Western powers, one might be forgiven for thinking this was a re-run of the racist 'yellow peril' propaganda that arose at the same time Africa was being colonized.
I think there is also a larger global picture, and I agree absolutely that China is not challenging neoliberalism. Instead, this is a challenge for ownership of globalization, global capital flows, and the beginnings of new forms of neoliberalism. This is not in itself a good thing. What is a good thing is the break-up of Western hegemony over all our financial futures.
You use the example of Angola, where an oligarchic élite enjoys a patrimonial and almost exclusive control of the nation's wealth. The Chinese economic presence has not changed that. Only the Angolan people can do that. But what is often not appreciated is that, before the Chinese economic arrival, Angolan public finances were so lacking in transparency that it was clear the national budget was no more than a slush fund for corrupt leaders and officials. But the Chinese do not put in capital to see it stolen. The idea of 'value for money' is strong in China. The Chinese have demanded that the Angolan public finances be more transparent. No-one can claim Angolan budgets and accounts are now honest – but they are a lot clearer.
I agree with you that the practice of private companies from China operating in Africa needs to be examined critically. But the same goes for all corporations in Africa. Despite all the publicity given to China's intervention, the reality is that Western corporations have far more extensive operations across the African continent. And it's true that when people talk about American or European corporations operating in Africa, they refer to the specific companies – Anglo-American, Unilever, Shell, BP, Chevron, etc – but when they refer to corporations from China, it is always 'the Chinese'. But the operations of many private corporations, whether Western or Chinese, are heavily subsidized by the state using public funds, so we can't let the Chinese government completely off the hook.
You're quite right to say that it is only the people who can change things. That is true of all our countries. If Chinese companies, or indeed any international corporations, get away with exploiting African labour, a large part of the blame must lie with our governments in Africa that allow such practices to continue. Do you think it is better to be exploited by private Chinese corporations than by Western international corporations? Both benefit from cheap labour and from shifting the social cost of the reproduction of labour on to women, especially peasant farmers. What is missing in the discussion is how we democratize our societies, economies and production processes so that the majority, rather than a minority, benefit. Does China's engagement increase the likelihood of greater democratization? I think not.
I don't think companies from any country should exploit others. And don't forget we're also talking about other players, apart from the different parts of the West and China. Some Indian practice is not edifying. The point is that, often, these companies behave the same back home and treat their own people terribly. There is a genuine global problem of exploitation. So my point is that all the blame should not be heaped on the Chinese.
China and Africa 'hand in hand' - but who is benefiting?
The larger Chinese corporations do indeed have state or Party 'shareholdings', but exploitation seems greatest among those just small enough to escape major involvement by the state or Party. Many African countries, such as Zambia, have advanced labour legislation. As Zambia is now carefully and tentatively doing, such legislation needs to be enforced in all cases, including those concerning local ownership.
China's population is huge and there are several generations of Chinese in Africa. In South Africa, when the fightback against apartheid began with the Freedom Congress in Kliptown, Soweto, the thousands who gathered were fed by local Chinese grocers. When I went to Kliptown recently, old people amazingly remembered this. China in Africa is a long and varied story.
I've tried to find out more about those 'small' Chinese companies whose 'exploitation is greatest', but wasn't able to find adequate data.
But to come back to the main question: is China good for Africa? I think the question needs unpacking: is China's intervention good for African people? If so, which people? I have argued that the majority of Africans have not benefited directly, and the jury is out on what the indirect benefits might be. Perhaps it would help if we were more precise about what we mean by 'good'. Surely the criteria should include at least some of the following: increasing the capacity of citizens to determine their own future; democratization; challenging the power of the corporations, banks and international financial institutions; and strengthening popular organizations such as those of workers and transformative social movements. The list could go on.
My point here is that judged from this perspective, there seems little evidence that China is 'good' for the citizens of Africa. True, the other imperial and emerging powers are not any better. But that doesn't make China good.
You're right, of course. But, if no foreign power is 'good' for Africa, then that indicates an African powerlessness when dealing with every outside power, or African leaderships who do not care for their people. I think the trick is not singling out any Western or Eastern power as 'good' or 'bad', but asking a key question about how skilful African governments can be when dealing with the outside world. There is a huge controversy right now, for instance, about Middle East interests buying up Maasai land in Tanzania, dispossessing local people, for the sake of big game hunting.
As for China, it's been around for ages and previous generations have integrated very well in Africa. Jean Ping, the recent Chair of the African Union, is half-Chinese; Fay Chung, a minister in early Zimbabwean governments and a liberation figure before then, is Chinese; there are huge Chinese populations in Madagascar and Mauritius.
What I'm against is the singling out of the Chinese. I think that much is a Western con trick. It's a pretty neat trick, trying to turn one formerly imperialized people against another.
Firoze Manji is Kenyan and the founder and former editor-in-chief of Pambazuka News. He is Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford University, and editor of a number of books on China in Africa including African Perspectives on China in Africa (Pambazuka Press).
Stephen Chan is the winner of the 2010 International Studies Association award, Eminent Scholar in Global Development. His new book is Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits (Yale University Press).


I am pleased to introduce you to Eloise and Quinn (pictured, right). My oldest son Jeff, his wife Katy, and big sister Savannah welcomed twins to their family on March 1, 2012. Given the topic of our last magazine, I just couldn't resist introducing them to you!
The notion of sharing a bit about my family with you is also fitting as we publish this issue of the Magazine for McKendree, in which we talk about one of the greatest legacies at McKendree and one of the most often used words to describe the McKendree experience: "family." This "Purple" edition features a story entitled "Bleed Purple" and chronicles the legacy of four McKendree families who have had a deep and abiding relationship with the University, some for many generations.
As I reflect on the things that have endured in my life, words like pride, commitment and dedication come to mind and all of them describe the feelings I have, and know you share, about McKendree. We often celebrate the many changes that occur at the University—you will read about a recent example in this edition, as we share with you the news that we have purchased Locust Hills Golf Course in Lebanon—but some of the best things about McKendree are the things that endure.
The pride we feel when Commencement unfolds on the front lawn. The sense of family that students have talked about as a hallmark of the McKendree experience throughout our history. The deep and abiding affection shown for the University, as evidenced by Ruby Deppe, an alumna who gave a transformational gift after attending for only one year, but who never forgot the profound influence McKendree had on her life.
These stories speak volumes about who we are and what we value at McKendree. I hope you read this issue with pride as we share with you the latest news and accomplishments. I also hope you feel a sense of dedication and commitment to the legacy that we all share as members of the McKendree family.


Black bird, grackle size. Rounded upper mandible with multiple grooves. Photos to be added. Along levee, just at first bend at west end of levee road. Birds were in the low shrubs on the south side of the canal.


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WSJ Pummels Facebook With "The Facebook Files" [Content Made Simple]
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Issue #238: Inside the Facebook algorithm, special VIP protections, and more.
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls
For the past three years, Facebook has been conducting studies into how its photo-sharing app affects its millions of young users. Repeatedly, the company's researchers found that Instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage of them, most notably teenage girls.
"We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls," said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues.
"Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression," said another slide. "This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups."
The Wall Street Journal is in the midst of publishing a series of articles this week that have all been pummeling Facebook with PR nightmare after PR nightmare with information straight from internal Facebook memos, emails, and other documents. This article, detailing how Facebook has evidence from internal research that Instagram is harmful for young girls (and teens generally), is especially hard to read. People seriously make fun of me for being so anti-Facebook, but guys, you gotta not ignore stuff like this. It is withering and sad and, I think, genuinely evil. You can see all of the stories in the WSJ's "Facebook Files" series here.
HITTING THE LINKS
Link #1: Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. It Got Angrier Instead.
This is probably the most interesting of the WSJ Facebook Files articles that has been released so far. Some of the nitty-gritty inner workings of the FB algorithm, and interactions between two titans of our digital age: Jonah Peretti and Mark Zuckerberg. Sorta like the Vanderbilt and Rockefeller of the social internet.
Buzzfeed's Mr. Peretti, in his email, wrote that the new algorithm seemed to be disproportionately rewarding divisiveness, based on what the publisher saw in its own numbers and his observations about how other publishers' posts performed.
"MSI ranking isn't actually rewarding content that drives meaningful social interactions," Mr. Peretti wrote in his email to the Facebook official, adding that his staff felt "pressure to make bad content or underperform."
It wasn't just material that exploited racial divisions, he wrote, but also "fad/junky science," "extremely disturbing news" and gross images.
Link #2: Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That's Exempt.
Just great reporting here in what was the first of the Facebook Files posted by WSJ on Monday.
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook Inc. allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with the elites of politics, culture and journalism, and that its standards of behavior apply to everyone, no matter their status or fame.
In private, the company has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The program, known as "cross check" or "XCheck," was initially intended as a quality-control measure for actions taken against high-profile accounts, including celebrities, politicians and journalists. Today, it shields millions of VIP users from the company's normal enforcement process, the documents show. Some users are "whitelisted"—rendered immune from enforcement actions—while others are allowed to post rule-violating material pending Facebook employee reviews that often never come.
Link #3: The Scrolling Soul
Very good piece from Jeff Mingee at TGC this week.
Neil Postman warned us, in his final chapter of Amusing Ourselves to Death: "There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first—the Orwellian—culture becomes a prison. In the second—the Huxleyan—culture becomes a burlesque."
Our digital age seduces us into the burlesque. The red-light district beckons us from our blue-light screens. Notifications, pop-up ads, and the endless possibilities of life online welcome you in.
We can shop for whatever we want. We can study any subject we desire. We can gaze at any object accessible through a search bar. And yet U2's song still rings true: we still haven't found what we're looking for.
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package ts

import (
	"bytes"
	"reflect"
	"testing"

	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/keys"
	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/util/leaktest"
)

func TestDataKeys(t *testing.T) {
	defer leaktest.AfterTest(t)()
	testCases := []struct {
		name        string
		source      string
		timestamp   int64
		resolution  Resolution
		expectedLen int
	}{
		{
			"test.metric",
			"testsource",
			0,
			Resolution10s,
			30,
		},
		{
			"test.no.source",
			"",
			1429114700000000000,
			Resolution10s,
			26,
		},
		{
			"",
			"",
			-1429114700000000000,
			Resolution10s,
			12,
		},
	}

	for i, tc := range testCases {
		encoded := MakeDataKey(tc.name, tc.source, tc.resolution, tc.timestamp)
		if !bytes.HasPrefix(encoded, keys.TimeseriesPrefix) {
			t.Errorf("case %d, encoded key %v did not have time series data prefix", i, encoded)
		}
		if a, e := len(encoded), tc.expectedLen; a != e {
			t.Errorf("case %d, encoded length %d did not match expected %d", i, a, e)
		}

		// Normalize timestamp of test case; we expect MakeDataKey to
		// automatically truncate it to an exact multiple of the Resolution's
		// KeyDuration
		tc.timestamp = (tc.timestamp / tc.resolution.KeyDuration()) * tc.resolution.KeyDuration()

		d := tc
		var err error
		d.name, d.source, d.resolution, d.timestamp, err = DecodeDataKey(encoded)
		if err != nil {
			t.Fatal(err)
		}
		if !reflect.DeepEqual(d, tc) {
			t.Errorf("case %d, decoded values %v did not match expected %v", i, d, tc)
		}
	}
}


He cracked his medical exams at the age of 16 and went on to become a junior resident doctor at AIIMS. At 22, he cracked the civil services entrance exams to become an IAS officer. And now, after two years as an assistant collector of Jabalpur, Roman Saini has resigned from his services.
He has now decided to venture into a profession where he may neither earn like a doctor or wield clout like a babu.
Saini quit from services to teach students for free. The 24-year-old wants to ensure he get past the various academic hurdles that stand in the way of youthful ambitions.
Four years ago, he launched a YouTube channel with his friend Gaurav Munjal, the former CEO of Flatchat. They uploaded lectures for those aspiring to become doctors, civil servants, computer programmers, even experts in foreign languages.
Now, Saini has decided to this on a full time basis.
"For him it meant that he would have to step down as the CEO of Flatchat, for me sadly it meant resigning from the services. We are together joined by Hemesh Singh, who was also a Co-Founder at Flatchat, and Sachin Gupta as Co-Founders at Unacademy who was experimenting with his own education startup," Saini wrote on his Facebook page.
"Personally, it was a difficult decision to quit the civil services, as I have utmost respect for it. But I believe in Unacademy's vision of free education and hence, will be pursuing it full time from now," he wrote.
"My focus is on making quality education accessible," Saini told Times Of India.
Unacademy has over one million subscribers on YouTube and the same amount of video views are garnered by the portal every month. The portal has about 400 videos covering subjects like history, geography, politics, art, environment, ecology, and biodiversity.
Take a bow, Roman Saini.


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I have owned a Grizzly G0555 bandsaw for about seven years. It has a riser block and uses 105" blades.
I have not been able to get the saw blades to track properly since I bought the saw. The only way I can get the blade centered on the upper wheel is if I tighten the tracking adjustment as far in as it will go. However, the blade seems to ride right on the front edge of the lower wheel no matter what I do.
I spent time last week trying to make sure the two wheels were coplaner. I had to shim the lower wheel out about 1/4 inch. But I was concerned about the lower wheel hanging off the shaft that far, so I removed one of the spacers so it's only shimmed out 1/8" now.
It seemed like it was tracking better till I put a new blade on this week. Now it wants to track on the front edge of BOTH wheels? I have the upper support bearing behind the blade adjusted as far forward as it will go and it's still 1/4" behind the blade.
I even tried to loosen the bolt going through the riser block to see if I could shift things, but it has pins that keep it from moving.
Hard to say. Is this with one particular blade or all? If one, what width?
Are the tires crowned (either natively or by conforming to a crown in the wheels) or flat?
Here's some discussion on the subject, including your particular saw. Not a lot of help but peraps it will give you some ideas.
It seems to occur with all blades, though I'm only on my third blade.
I mainly bought the saw for resawing, but I don't use it that often because I can never get it set up right. The drift seems to change over time and I have a lot of problems with bowed cuts. Changing the blade tension doesn't seem to have any effect on the bowing. The saw also seems to make a lot of weird noises in use. I don't know if it's bearings, the blade slipping on the belt, or what. If I take the blade off and run the motor it sounds quiet.
Until recently I only used 1/2" blades, about 3-4 teeth per inch. I just bought a 3/8" blade for green wood but it tracks the same way, maybe worse.
I haven't checked, but I believe the tires are crowned.
Does the blade eventually move to the wrong position of right away? If the blade gets warm it stretches. When it stretches it tracks differently.
I had this problem with my previous band saws and eventually bit the bullet and bought a HD Laguna and tracking problems are a thing of the past.
It tracks on the wheels that way from the moment I install the blade. It doesn't seem to change as I cut with it. It seems so close to the edge of the lower wheel that I am sometimes worried it will come off the wheel (it hasn't yet).
Unfortunately, a new saw will not be in my budget for a while.
Can you freehand a straight cut without bowing? If so, I'd say your fence needs to be adjusted for the blade's drift.
I'd want to find out the source. My cheapo 14" one makes a bunch of noise too, sounds - and shakes - like a freight train coming through. I suspect things would quiet down if I sprang for a link belt.
What happens at the lower wheel when you adjust the upper wheel tilt so it centers on the top wheel?
The link belt helped on my Jet. It was worth the trip to Harbor Freight.
Have you run the saw without the riser? If those pins aren't just so, it's possible they're pulling the two halves out of alignment.
Yeah, I think I'd second that suggestion. Beyond that, if the riser block is symmetric, I'd try turning it around 180 degrees and see if that changes anything.
I'd also suggest making sure the surfaces of the block, and the saw that it sits on, are clean, without anything trapped in the joint.
If all that is good, I might try taking the shims out from the lower wheel, and putting a very thin shim under the front of the riser block (to tilt the top wheel back a little, since it sounds like it's forward with respect to the lower wheel).
In 2010 I bought a Grizzly G0555X and riser block and had the same issues with blade alignment as you. It turned out that, just as John McCoy mentioned, to be the riser block was installed 180 deg off.
Look at your riser, it should have an 'up arrow' on the BACK of the casting (the motor side). If the up arrow is on the front side, it's backwards and needs to be rotated 180 deg.
I added the 6" riser to my GO555, but can't remember if I got lucky or followed the instructions, but the up arrow is on the back side. I have a woodslicer 1/2" resaw blade and it tracks and runs sweet. Also got a 3/8" blade from Highland. I did have to make a big adjustment on the tension for the 105" blade vs the 93-1/2" blade because of the 1/2" total difference.
gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery"
Scuze me, the 3/8" blade is the one that came with the riser from Griz, the highland is a 3/16".
I had to remove one of the pins on my Delta 14" w/riser block. It would not align until I did.
Some don't believe in coplanar. I do.
Make sure your tire has a crown in it. If not, the blade will not try to ride on it.
Other than that, I don't know without seeing it.
Adjusting the tracking knob moves the blade forward and backward on the upper wheel, but the blade stays in the same spot on the lower wheel. It rides right at the front edge of the lower wheel.
Correction! That pic is actually the BACK side of the riser. The front side has 2 small threaded holes, the back side has the up arrow (just barely visable in the above link).
Here is the link to the installation manual for the riser kit.
While there's no mention of front or back, Figure 4 is a front view of the saw w/riser, the 2 threaded holes are clearly visible.
Apologies if it has been asked and answered, I have sort of lost track, but is there a washer/shim on the top axle that could be removed to move the top wheel further back?
Also, are the wheels coplanar? And parallel horizontally? If either is "no', that would be my first step.
Unfortunately, no. I did pick up some machine shim washers and shimmed out the bottom wheel. That seemed to make everything coplaner, with proper tracking, until I changed blades. Now the blade is riding the front edge of the lower wheel again.
I tried to get the wheels coplaner last week, but am going to check again when I get the chance. Unfortunately, I may not be out in the shop for a week or two.
I forgot who asked, but I checked my riser block today and it is installed correctly (not backwards as suggested).
Grizzly G0555 Bandsaw. Mobile Base, or build own cart?
Jet 14" CSW Bandsaw over Grizzly G0555?
Adjusting Grizzly 14" bandsaw ?
Link belt on a G0555?
How well does the Grizzly G0555 resaw?
Timberwolf Blades. Is any one else having problems with them?
Cutting 4" Boards down to 2"