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Moral Dilemma: Are Bread Flies For Carp Cheating?
By Joe Cermele
In the Northeast where I live, the carp are fired up right now. Some are still spawning, and the ones that aren't are really hungry. I've been crushing them lately on the fly, but since I found some good bodies of water close to home that are loaded with carp, I've faced a moral dilemma: Do I, or do I not, cast bread flies at them? Whenever I roll up to one of my spots and see kids tossing bread to the ducks, it's both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it gets the carp moving and feeding. On the other, you can cast nymphs, berries, and streamers at carp keyed in on bread until you're blue in the face and they'll rarely strike. I keep telling myself they're just carp and I should hook them up by any means and have fun. But thus far I have not resorted to a bread fly. In the back of my mind, it makes it too easy, and it's the spot-and-stalk I love. What do you think? Though I can't understand the guy in this video, it's a nice Wonder Bread pattern for sure.
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package quanlyhocvu.api.web.controller.teacher;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import quanlyhocvu.api.mongodb.DTO.Teacher.ChiTietChuyenMonDTO;
import quanlyhocvu.api.mongodb.DTO.Teacher.ChiTietMonHocDTO;
import quanlyhocvu.api.mongodb.DTO.Teacher.DiemDTO;
import quanlyhocvu.api.mongodb.DTO.Teacher.DiemDTO;
import quanlyhocvu.api.mongodb.DTO.Teacher.PhanCongDTO;
import quanlyhocvu.api.mongodb.DTO.base.HocSinhDTO;
import quanlyhocvu.api.mongodb.DTO.staff.LopHocDTO;
import quanlyhocvu.api.mongodb.DTO.staff.MonHocDTO;
import quanlyhocvu.api.mongodb.service.MongoService;

/**
 *
 * @author Tuan
 */
@Controller
@RequestMapping(value = "class")
public class MarksController {

    Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());

    @Autowired
    MongoService mongoService;

    @RequestMapping(value = "{phanCongId}/{loaiDiem}")
    public @ResponseBody
    ModelAndView marking(@PathVariable String phanCongId, @PathVariable String loaiDiem, HttpServletRequest request) {

        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
        PhanCongDTO phanCong = mongoService.getPhanCongById(phanCongId);
        ChiTietMonHocDTO chiTietMonHoc = phanCong.getChiTietChuyenMon().getChiTietMonHoc();
        List<HocSinhDTO> listHocSinh = phanCong.getLopHoc().getlistHocSinh();
        List<DiemDTO> listDiem = new ArrayList();

        for (HocSinhDTO hs : listHocSinh) {
            DiemDTO diem = mongoService.getDiemByHocSinhChiTietMonHoc(hs, chiTietMonHoc);
            listDiem.add(diem);
        }

        map.put("listDiem", listDiem);
        map.put("listHocSinh", listHocSinh);
        map.put("phanCong", phanCong);
        map.put("loaiDiem", loaiDiem);
        map.put("tenLoaiDiem", tenLoaiDiem(loaiDiem));

        return new ModelAndView("marking", map);
    }

//    @RequestMapping(value = "{phanCongId/{loaiDiem}/diem_moi}")
//    public @ResponseBody
//    ModelAndView save_mark(@PathVariable String phanCongId, @PathVariable String loaiDiem, HttpServletRequest request) {
//        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
//        float diemSo = Float.valueOf(request.getParameter("diemSo"));
//
//        PhanCongDTO phanCong = mongoService.getPhanCongById(phanCongId);
//        HocSinhDTO hocSinh = new HocSinhDTO();
//        DiemDTO diem = mongoService.getDiemByHocSinh(hocSinh);
//
//        if (loaiDiem == "ktmieng") {
//            mongoService.insertDiemSo("DiemKTMieng", diem.getid(), diemSo);
//        } else if (loaiDiem == "kt15") {
//            mongoService.insertDiemSo("DiemKT15", diem.getid(), diemSo);
//        } else if (loaiDiem == "kt1tiet") {
//            mongoService.insertDiemSo("DiemKT1Tiet", diem.getid(), diemSo);
//        } else if (loaiDiem == "ktgiuaky") {
//            mongoService.insertDiemSo("DiemGiuaKy", diem.getid(), diemSo);
//        } else if (loaiDiem == "ktcuoiky") {
//            mongoService.insertDiemSo("DiemCuoiKy", diem.getid(), diemSo);
//        }
//
//        return new ModelAndView("marking");
//    }

    private String tenLoaiDiem(String type) {
        switch (type) {
            case "ktmieng":
                return "Kiểm Tra Miệng";
            case "kt15":
                return "Kiểm Tra 15 Phút";
            case "kt1tiet":
                return "Kiểm Tra 1 Tiết";
            case "ktgiuaky":
                return "Kiểm Tra Giữa Kỳ";
            case "ktcuoiky":
                return "Kiểm Tra Cuối Kỳ";
        }
        return " ";
    }
//    @RequestMapping(value = "{majorId}")
//    public @ResponseBody
//    ModelAndView marks(@PathVariable String majorId, @PathVariable String studentId, HttpServletRequest request) {
//        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
//        PhanCongDTO phanCong = mongoService.getPhanCongById(majorId);
//        LopHocDTO lopHoc = phanCong.getLopHoc();
//        HocSinhDTO hocSinh = mongoService.getHocSinhLopHocById(lopHoc, studentId);
//        DiemDTO diem = mongoService.getDiemByIdPhanCong(majorId);
//        DiemDTO chiTietDiem = mongoService.getChiTietDiemByIdDiem(diem);
//
//        map.put("diem", diem);
//        map.put("hocSinh", hocSinh);
//        map.put("chiTietDiem", chiTietDiem);
//        return new ModelAndView("mark", map);
//    }
//    @RequestMapping(value = "class/{majorId}/{studentId}")
//    public @ResponseBody
//    ModelAndView marks(@PathVariable String majorId, @PathVariable String studentId, HttpServletRequest request) {
//        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
//        PhanCongDTO phanCong = mongoService.getPhanCongById(majorId);
//        LopHocDTO lopHoc = phanCong.getLopHoc();
//        HocSinhDTO hocSinh = mongoService.getHocSinhLopHocById(lopHoc, studentId);
//        DiemDTO diem = mongoService.getDiemByIdPhanCong(majorId);
//        ChiTietDiemDTO chiTietDiem = mongoService.getChiTietDiemByIdDiem(diem);
//
//        map.put("diem", diem);
//        map.put("hocSinh", hocSinh);
//        map.put("chiTietDiem", chiTietDiem);
//        return new ModelAndView("teacher/mark", map);
//    }
}

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I have something to tell you. But first, I want to say thank you so much for being part of Redeemed For More. I have so much that I want to give you. Blogs, books, podcasts. I want to share with you how Jesus is showing up for me. I want us to fight for social justice together. I want to help break the stigma around mental health issues and share encouragement and hope. I want to talk about the better Jesus—the Jesus I'm finding who is so much better than I thought he was. I am excited to do all of these things.
Recent events in my life have brought to light that the solution based therapy I've had in the past was helpful in teaching me to cope and to function day to day, but we did not deal with the route of the problem. There is underlying trauma that I need to face in order to truly heal.
And while I'm scared of the process, I have a great deal of hope that I will come out on the other side a whole healed version of myself. It's going to take time and a lot of hard work, but I have found a wonderful therapist who specializes in trauma, and I am ready to do the work.
My new therapist likened it to jamming your finger and not getting it set. Eventually, it will heal the way it is, but you will have a crooked finger. It doesn't hurt every day anymore, so you think you're fine. But your finger is crooked. If you want to truly heal your finger, the first thing the doctor will have to do is re-break it. That hurts. But then they will set it, and it will heal correctly, and you won't have a crooked finger anymore. A lot of people live life with a crooked finger because they don't want the pain of re-breaking it. I don't want a metaphorical crooked finger anymore.
This process will take a lot of time and emotional and physical energy. So I'm stepping away for a while. I'm putting the blog, book, and podcast on hold while I go through this process. I'm sorry that I cannot give you a timeframe for when I will return. Healing has it's own timeline, and I refuse to give myself a deadline. I may check in with an update every once and a while, or I may not. But please know that I love and appreciate each of you.


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The statistic illustrates the leading non-aligned airlines in 2016, ranked by number of codeshares. In that year, Etidah Airways had 54 codeshares with other airlines. A codeshare represents an agreement between two or more airlines to share the same flight.
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We're doctors who've watched young gunshot victims die. We plead for gun violence research
This is an emergency. We urge Congress to pass the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act, which provides $50 million for gun violence research.
We're doctors who've watched young gunshot victims die. We plead for gun violence research This is an emergency. We urge Congress to pass the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act, which provides $50 million for gun violence research. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2019/10/03/louisville-pediatric-emergency-doctors-plead-gun-violence-research-funding/2414460001/
Kerry Caperell and Brit Anderson, Opinion contributors Published 6:47 a.m. ET Oct. 3, 2019
One midsummer morning, the shrill bell of the red phone echoes through the department. The red phone is a private line that gives emergency responders in the field a way to rapidly contact the emergency department. It is used when EMS medics are too busy with the patient to talk or if a patient is being brought in by police officers or firefighters. In these instances, the dispatcher makes the call. The phone has a distinctive ring, like a 1950s telephone, not the more pervasive electronic ring that can be heard in offices around the world. When the red phone rings, it is either a wrong number or really bad news …
The secretary answers before the first ring finishes. I am standing nearby, and she hands me the phone.
"This is Metro dispatch," the voice on the other end says. " Police are bringing a scoop and run 4-year-old boy who has been shot in the head. He is breathing. They are leaving now and shutting down streets along the route. ETA is three minutes. I have no further information."
"Scoop and run" is terminology we use to mean that no attempt has been made to stabilize or treat the patient or to even wait for EMS to arrive at the scene. It is a judgment call the police officers have made — this child needs to be in the hospital ASAP to have a chance to survive. It is not something done lightly and happens with only a handful of children in our city each year. Other officers will block off city streets to give the rescuers an unobstructed pathway to the hospital.
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The team and I scramble to prepare the equipment we will need. We call a "trauma stat" that will mobilize surgeons, ICU personnel and pharmacists to our unit to assist in the child's care. Just as I pull on my gloves, the child arrives. I see the police car pull up outside the ambulance bay, and an officer runs in with the boy in his arms.
The victim's eyes are closed and his breathing is irregular. I shout for quiet as one nurse places an IV and a second puts the child on the monitors. I instruct another physician to insert a breathing tube into the child's airway. He confirms what appears to be a half-inch entry wound through the child's left eye with no exit wound apparent. We give drugs and perform other maneuvers at the bedside intended to reduce the pressure on his brain. We X-ray his skull and can see the bullet within.
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A slightly out-of-breath neurosurgeon appears perhaps three minutes after the child arrives. I quickly review the case with him, and what he says I will never forget: "Kerry, if you can make him stable enough to move to the OR, I will go in and try."
Sadly, we couldn't save him. His heart stopped, and I declared him dead 15 minutes after he arrived in the department. Cause of death: Gunshot wound to the head. He was 4 years old.
As doctors who take care of children who are shot, we implore you to support federal funding for gun violence research.
After accounting for suicides, homicides and unintentional injuries, firearm injuries kill more children aged 1 to 19 than cancer. Can you imagine not doing research on childhood cancer?
Through research we can examine the root causes of firearm injuries and how to ease the impact that gun violence has on entire communities. With this information we can find solutions that effectively keep people safe while respecting the rights of those who own firearms.
Our experiences caring for young victims of firearm injuries keep us awake at night. We are sickened by the seemingly constant headlines about shootings both as parents and as physicians that have seen it firsthand. We cannot imagine the pain of the affected families.
It does not have to be this way. We urge Congress to pass the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act, which would provide $50 million for gun violence research. This is a mere fraction of the cost of medical care and lost productivity that we are already paying due to firearm injuries.
Whether you own a gun or not, we all want to live in safe communities where we don't worry about our children getting shot. Contact your senators and representatives today.
This is an emergency.
Drs. Kerry Caperell and Brit Anderson are pediatric emergency physicians in Louisville.
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Borealis process plant in Stenungsund produce a worldleading insulation material for high voltage cables. A cross-linked polyethylene with aextra high level of cleanliness and quality, also known as PEX. The process use peroxide as additive. The peroxide system have problem with the current sealing solution, leaking gaskets is a risks for both production and safety.
The cleanliness demand limits gasket materials to bare metal. One request is to minimize the stagnant zonesbetween the flange and gasket, where material build up and oxidize, which is a great quality issue for the production process.
My task is to develop a new gasket within the cleanliness demands and write an installation description. The study gives insight to common gasket types and materials, presenting existing and generated new sealing solutions. The developing work also goes into re-engineering of an existing gasket. The contradiction is to make a relatively hard material as metal to react in a soft and elastic way. Calculation and simulations indicate the surface pressure of the gasket, to determine the sealing ability a prototype is manufactured and physically tested.
Using Borealis pressure testing equipment for valves the finished prototype undergoes a pressure test, with the purpose to simulate a field installation. The current gasket used for the peroxide system is also tested for benchmarking purpose. The gasket where also installed in the peroxide system. The test results supplies data for the future development of the gasket.


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package com.wqy.ganhuo.model;

import com.wqy.ganhuo.greendao.IOSCache;
import com.wqy.ganhuo.utils.Constants;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created by weiquanyun on 15/8/30.
 */
public class IOSContentItem extends ContentItem{

    public static String getRequestUrl(int page) {
        return Constants.IOS_REQUEST_URL + "20/" + page;
    }

    public static String getRequestUrl(int count, int page) {
        return Constants.IOS_REQUEST_URL + count+ "/" + page;
    }

    public static ArrayList<IOSContentItem> parseCache(List<IOSCache> iosCacheList) {
        if (iosCacheList == null) {
            return null;
        }
        ArrayList<IOSContentItem> items = new ArrayList<IOSContentItem>(iosCacheList.size());
        IOSCache androidCache;
        for (int i = 0; i < iosCacheList.size(); i++) {
            androidCache = iosCacheList.get(i);
            IOSContentItem iosContentItem = new IOSContentItem();
            iosContentItem.setCreatedAt(androidCache.getCreatedAt());
            iosContentItem.setDesc(androidCache.getDesc());
            iosContentItem.set__id(androidCache.getObjectId());
            iosContentItem.setPublishedAt(androidCache.getPublishedAt());
            iosContentItem.setType(androidCache.getType());
            iosContentItem.setWho(androidCache.getWho());
            iosContentItem.setUrl(androidCache.getUrl());
            iosContentItem.setUpdatedAt(androidCache.getUpdatedAt());
            iosContentItem.setUsed(androidCache.getUsed());
            items.add(iosContentItem);
        }
        return items;
    }

    public static IOSContentItem parseContentItem2IOSItem(FavoriteContentItem item) {
        IOSContentItem androidContentItem = new IOSContentItem();
        androidContentItem.setIsStared(true);
        androidContentItem.setCreatedAt(item.getCreatedAt());
        androidContentItem.setDesc(item.getDesc());
        androidContentItem.set__id(item.get__id());
        androidContentItem.setPublishedAt(item.getPublishedAt());
        androidContentItem.setType(item.getType());
        androidContentItem.setWho(item.getWho());
        androidContentItem.setUrl(item.getUrl());
        androidContentItem.setUpdatedAt(item.getUpdatedAt());
        androidContentItem.setUsed(item.getUsed());
        return androidContentItem;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) return true;
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;

        IOSContentItem that = (IOSContentItem) o;

        return _id.equals(that._id) && url.equals(that.getUrl());

    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        int result = 1;
        result = 31 * result + _id.hashCode();
        result = 31 * result + url.hashCode();
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The Punk Panther's Music Reviews
"One good thing about music - when it hits you feel no pain" - Bob Marley
The Punk Panther's Home Page
The Panther's Picks
The Panther's Playlists
45 RPM Gems
Brit Pop and beyond
Folk Rock/Country Rock/Americana
Prog Rock/Krautrock
Punk, New Wave, Post Punk & Two Tone
Sixties Compilations
Traditional British Folk
Queen - Is This The World We Created? (1984-1991)
The Works (1984)
Radio Ga Ga/Tear It Up/It's A Hard Life/Man On The Prowl/Machines (Or Back To Humans)/I Want To Break Free/Keep Passing The Open Windows/Hammer To Fall/Is This The World We Created
"Everybody ran into their frocks" - Freddie Mercury
After two decidedly below-par albums in 1980's The Game and 1982's Hot Space, Queen hit back, hard. Recording in the USA for the first time, the revisited their rock roots but managed to merge it with contemporary radio-friedly "pop"/dance sounds. It was 1984, so the airwaves and recording studios were awash with synthesisers and programmed synth drums. Why, even The Rolling Stones were at it. Where Queen dismally failed on Hot Space, they got it just right on this impressive album.
Music media reaction was much more positive than it had been for Hot Space and Queen's renaissance, that would end with their being "national treasures", began right here. For many fans, this was their first experience of Queen. Their fandom dates back to here, really. After all, it had been nine years since Bohemian Rhapsody. People who were ten then were now nineteen.
After some distinctly ropey songs, Roger Taylor came up with one of his finest compositions for Queen - the synth riff and synchronised handclap dominated perfect pop single, Radio Ga Ga, which melodically railed against the old enemy - the radio. Elvis Costello and The Clash had done so in the new wave years too.
Tear It Up was a Brian May-inspired slab of convincing hard rock, with May himself on vocals, while It's A Hard Life was a classic Mercury rock ballad with an addictive hook, as always.
Mercury returned to his beloved rockabilly for the upbeat, toe-tapping Man On The Prowl and Machines (Or Back To Humans), which was a successful attempt at experimental sounds mixed with some genuine funk. They finally got it right on this strangely appealing effort. Some great Brian May guitar at the end of it.
I Want To Break Free was one of bassist John Deacon's best ever Queen songs. Assisted by a now iconic video featuring the band members in full drag and doing the hoovering and ironing, it is perfect in every way. Another excellent guitar solo and an impressive Mercury vocal.
The melodic, harmonious rock of Mercury's Keep Passing The Open Windows is a forgotten but underrated track. Listening to it now I hear things in it I had completely forgotten about. It is not bad at all.
Now, thank the Lord above - Queen in their purest rock form, my favourite persona of the band, are back, and how! A powerful Brian May riff introduces the tour de force of rock that is Hammer To Fall. Mercury's vocal is peerless and a year later the band would storm Live Aid with this. Queen at their very best, in my view. I can never get enough of the song.
Finally, the album ends with Mercury and May's beautifully sad ballad concerning the contemporary news of poverty and starvation in Africa, Is This The World We Created, sung as an encore in their Live Aid set.
A more than convincing album after around seven years of patchy material. Queen phase two now truly begins.
** The b side to Radio Ga Ga was I Go Crazy, a solid, riffy rocker that surely would have fitted in fine on to the album. It rocks breathlessly from beginning to end. Mercury is on great form vocally. The sound on it is a bit tinny, however.
A Kind Of Magic (1986)
One Vision/A Kind Of Magic/One Year Of Love/Pain Is Close To Pleasure/Friends Will Be Friends/Who Wants To Live Forever/Gimme The Prize/Don't Lose Your Head/Princes Of The Universe
"The album's confused origins made for a somewhat uneven listening experience" - Mark Blake
After Queen's renaissance with 1984's The Works and the triumphant show-stopping Live Aid performance, they were hip again and seemingly could do no wrong. Maybe they got a bit lazy, because this is a typically mid-eighties, patchy album. There is some classic material on this album, don't get me wrong, but there is some questionable stuff too. The sound quality throughout is outstanding on the latest remastering, however. It was originally conceived as a soundtrack album for the 1986 film Highlander, six its songs coming from that concept. As Queen biographer Mark Blake has suggested, it leads to a lack of cohesion in the final album.
Let's be positive and talk about the good ones. One Vision is simply one of my favourite riffy Queen rockers of all time. When Brian May launches into it - wow.
The stadium-friendly groove of A Kind Of Magic is pretty impossible to dislike, as is the anthemic, grandiose and powerful Friends Will Be Friends. The latter is the track that harks back to Queen's late seventies material more than any on the album.
The plaintive Who Wants To Live Forever is heartbreakingly moving, of course, and would prove to be even more so five years later.
Now on to the less wonderful material. John Deacon's One Year Of Love is not a funk-rock outing, but an eighties-era Elton John-style ballad, redeemed by Mercury's vocal and a deep, resonating bass beat. It also has a late-night, easy-listening saxophone solo. Alright in that type of song, but is this Queen? Surely not! Look, it is pleasant enough, but you have to say Queen had become very middle-of-the-road with material like this.
Pain Is Close To Pleasure is a slice of AOR eighties slick disco, that sounds like something Diana Ross may have put out around this time. How fans who had been into Queen since the start, like myself, could tolerate tosh like this is difficult to understand. The excellent sound quality detracts from what is a pretty awful track.
Gimme The Prize (Kurgan's Theme), one of several tracks from the soundtrack of the afore-mentioned film Highlander, gets things back on track with an excellent, muscular, thumping rocker full of chunky guitar, a classic Brian May solo, samples from the film and a powerful Mercury vocal.
Don't Lose Your Head is an unremarkable synth-rock number from Roger Taylor. Mercury's vocals are typically strong, but the song is similar to the worst ones on Hot Space. Again, what Queen fans see in this is beyond me.
Princes Of The Universe is a bit clichéd lyrically, and musically, with its big clunky heavy riffs, but its ok. It has a quick snatch of Brighton Rock-style guitar at one point, though.
This is not a Queen album I revisit too often. I have to say, though, that listening to it now I have quite enjoyed it, but it certainly is no classic.
The Miracle (1989)
Party/Khashoggi's Ship/The Miracle/I Want It All/The Invisible Man/Breakthru/Rain Must Fall/Scandal/My Baby Does Me/Was It All Worth It
"'The Miracle' is a showcase for Freddie Mercury" - Rolling Stone
This was Queen's first album for three years and, although it stands as an example of the band's mid-late eighties material and has the faults that era inevitably brought with it, I actually quite like it (and I am firmly a seventies Queen man).
Roger Taylor blatantly steals the drum intro from Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Going To A Go-Go for the lively, rocking Party. The track is vibrant and fun, full of great guitar, despite some of the synth-y backing at times. It segues straight into Khashoggi's Ship with a supremely heavy riff. This is an underrated Queen rocker. This is Queen rocking as they always should do.
Now begins a run of four great hit singles in a row, the heart of this album - the melodic, Mercury vocal-dominated, inventive and grandiose The Miracle that also features some typical Brian May guitar; the heavy stadium singalong anthem of I Want It All; The Invisible Man which is a stonking slab of Queen rock, with all four members name-checked. Despite its dance-ish rhythm it is infectious and rocks seriously at times; Breakthru is a breathless romp when it eventually kicks in. It is another piece of dance/rock fusion and it works superbly. I love all these tracks.
The quality fades somewhat now, however. Rain Must Fall is a lightweight, limp Deacon/Mercury collaboration. All very pleasant, but pretty unmemorable, really. Nice guitar solo in the middle though. Despite the programmed rhythms on a lot of this album's material, they still manage to fit in some pounding drums and killer Brian May guitar throughout, which is good.
Scandal has a huge synth riff and an infectious vocal and feel, which again integrates some searing guitar in places.
My Baby Does Me has a superb, muscular bass line and a great funk feel and quality vocal from Mercury. I love the ambience on this one.
Was It All Worth It is a powerful, riffy and heavy look back at the band's beginnings. It is an underrated , marvellously inventive track that samples a classical piece in its riff, but I can't think which one it is (something Russian).
Despite my misgivings of some of Queen's Hot Space material, I feel this album has quite a good, appealing mix. Accepting that Queen had changed somewhat in the eighties, I have to say that as eighties albums go, it isn't a bad one. It is my favourite of their albums from that period.
** There were several non-album tracks around in this period. The b side to I Want It All was a mid-pace, chugging, heavy-ish rocker in Hang On In There. Breakthru had the melodic jazzy Mercury fun of Stealin' as its b side. The Invisible Man gave us the dance/rock of Hijack My Heart which was vaguely in the Another One Bites The Dust mode.
Innuendo (1991)
Innuendo/I'm Going Slightly Mad/Headlong/I Can't Live With You/Don't Try So Hard/Ride The Wild Wind/All God's People/These Are The Days Of Our Lives/Delilah/The Hitman/Bijou/The Show Must Go On
"I still love you" - Freddie Mercury
Queen's last album released while the great Freddie Mercury walked the earth, was a solid affair, with many echoes of their heavy-ish rock albums of the mid-seventies.
Innuendo is a lengthy, inventive, almost "prog-rock" in places number, with some excellent heavy bits plus a flamenco guitar part played by Yes's Steve Howe. There are also some bombastic, operatic parts. It is a song that changes mood and vibe many times throughout its nearly seven minutes. It is a superb piece of work, one of the band's last true classics.
I'm Going Slightly Mad is an intoxicating, atmospheric Mercury song. It is a camp-ish, rather amusing typical Mercury ditty. Given the circumstances of the time, though, it always sounds very poignant to me. It has some excellent Brian May guitar in it, too.
Headlong is, as its title suggests, a breathless number. It is one May had written for himself but, upon hearing Mercury sing it, decided it was better as a Queen song. It is one of their finest later-era rockers.
The same applies to May's I Can't Live With You, another catchy, riffy rocker. It appears in a more guitar-dominated format on the Queen Rocks compilation.
Don't Try So Hard is a Mercury piano and vocal ballad, plaintive and melodic. Ride The Wild Wind is one of Roger Taylor's better compositions - an upbeat, rhythmic number with some great guitar underpinning it.
All God's People is a laid-back and melodic Mercury number that is ok but doesn't stick in the mind too much. Unlike the evocative, beautiful Mercury swansong, These Are The Days Of Our Lives. The video was heartbreaking. Even now I get sad listening to it. "I still love you" whispers Freddie at the end. Likewise.
A lot of Queen fans pretty much disown Delilah, a quirky song Freddie wrote about one of his cats. As a cat-lover myself, I have always related to it. Fans will be delighted to hear Hitman next, though, with is powerful chunky riffs. There is a copper-bottomed May guitar solo on it too.
Bijou begins with some excellent guitar then Mercury sings a floaty verse before it ends with more sumptuous guitar. It is really a track that is all about Brian May's guitar parts.
The Show Must Go On is a bombastic stadium-pleaser to end the album. It has actually never been one of my favourites, although I can understand its appeal. Overall, this album has a bit of a feel of the posthumous Made In Heaven about it. Apparently a lot of it was recorded in different bits and then put together, largely due to Mercury's ever-declining health. as good as it is in places, you can sort of tell. As a fulfilled album, I prefer The Miracle.
** The b side of I'm Going Slightly Mad was the sleepy, bluesy groove of Lost Opportunity. It was probably the bluesiest track Queen had done since 1974's See What A Fool I've Been.
Bohemian Rhapsody: The Soundtrack (2018)
The thing with groups like Queen is that their legacy is so damn good, there will always be multifarious ways of recycling it and long-time fans, like myself and many others, will still enjoy bits of it. However, this exercise seems pretty superfluous to me, musically. Obviously it functions as a movie sountrack, but as regards the musical content, it is a bit here and there, for me. I have all the tracks, and all the live ones apart from the Live Aid ones, so it is those I am interested in, and in the studio tracks which have received some re-tweaking.
So I won't particularly go through the album track by track, but pick out those tracks which are of interest to me.
At the beginning, it is nice to hear the Twentieth Century Fox Theme with a bit of added Queen guitar. The majestic Somebody To Love, though, seems to be the same to me. The studio tracks are the Bob Ludwig 2011 remasters, which all sound superb, anyway. They are the definitive ones, no need for any further messing around with.
Now, Doing All Right is a song from Queen that I have always liked and I was interested to hear the new remix of it. It is great to hear Tim Staffell "rejoin" on vocals and the new mix has even more of a trippy, dreamy folk-rock feel but thankfully it has kept the heavy guitar and drum part from the middle in it, which sounds sumptuously powerful. I am a "heavy" Queen fan as opposed to a "whimsical" one, as my reviews of all the individual albums state ad nauseam.
The Keep Yourself Alive live recording I already have, but it still good to hear it in isolation. The sound quality and muscularity is excellent. Great bass on it, and drums too. Killer Queen as presented here, has a few additional Brian May guitar bits stapled on rather pointlessly, in my opinion (maybe, although listening to it again, I'm not sure there are any changes) Anyway, I don't subscribe to the view that May's tinkering is some insult to Mercury's memory, however, any more than the remixing of Doing All Right is. On this occasion, I simply don't think there was any particular need for it.
It is good to have a thumping rocking live version of the lyrically-preposterous Fat Bottomed Girls, as the studio version has always come up short, for me, due to its odd verse/chorus sound imbalances.
We Will Rock You (Movie Mix) is a mix of studio and live versions of the song, which, personally, I can't really see the point of. Either have it as a studio version or a live one.
Now, the Live Aid material. Because We Will Rock You and Crazy Little Thing Called Love are included in other versions they are not included, which is a shame, as I would have liked the whole performance. It is great to hear the crowd's cheer as they launch into Radio Ga Ga. Such memories of watching it on the day and my pleasure at seeing my old seventies favourites giving it some. Until that point I had been a bit underwhelmed. After sitting through Nik Kershaw, Paul Young and Howard Jones can you blame me? That Hammer To Fall riff changed all that. What is the quote? Oh yes - "sheer bloody poetry". Freddie strutting around during this stole the show.
The remixed version of Don't Stop Me Now was included previously on the remaster of Jazz. It is beautifully heavy. Love it.
All in all, I am not quite sure of the point of this, other than its purpose as a soundtrack. "Greatest Hits" type customers will want the actual greatest hits. I guess this is just of interest to completists, to be honest. I have to say that the sound quality throughout the whole album is absolutely top notch.
Regarding Queen "best ofs", the three Greatest Hits compilations are pretty essential, although number three scrapes the barrel somewhat:-
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March 16, 2016, Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, Congressman Michael M. Honda (D-CA) issued a statement about the importance of continuing to recognize the cultural and historical significance of Nowruz in the U.S. Congress. Congressman Honda is the sponsor of PAAIA's annual Nowruz receptions on Capitol Hill and legislation honoring the Iranian New Year.
Last year, Congressman Honda introduced H.Res.156, a bipartisan resolution, in honor of the Iranian New Year into the House of Representatives. The legislation recognizes the cultural and historical significance of Nowruz and wishes Iranian Americans, the people of Iran, and all those who celebrate the holiday a prosperous new year.
In addition to commemorating the Nowruz holiday, the resolution acknowledges the "lasting contributions" of Persian civilization to the world and the "noteworthy" impact Iranian Americans have had to the social and economic fabric of America. The resolution also underscores the importance of human rights and religious tolerance not just for the people of Iran, but for people everywhere, and supports the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people.
The resolution marks the second time Congressman Honda has introduced legislation in support of the Persian New Year. In 2009 and 2010, PAAIA worked with Congressman Honda to mark the official congressional recognition of the holiday as part of a broader effort to foster greater understanding of the Iranian culture and heritage as well as projecting an accurate and positive image of the Iranian American community.
The resolution currently has a total of sixteen co-sponsors. Original co-sponsors include Representatives Andre Carson (IN-7th), Gerald Connolly (VA-11th), Donna Edwards (MD-4th), Carolyn Maloney (NY-12th), John Mica (FL-7th) and Scott Peters (CA-52nd) .
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Queen Elizabeth II's funeral has reportedly banned one thing
Published 18:46, 15 September 2022 BST
| Last updated 18:46, 15 September 2022 BST
Ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, scheduled to go ahead on Monday 19 September at Westminster Abbey, one thing has already reportedly been banned.
The Queen passed away in her Balmoral Estate on Thursday 8 September at age 96, after a 70-year reign.
As diplomats, world leaders, and other VIPs make plans to attend the ceremony, they'll have to overcome one specific request.
Queen Elizabeth's funeral is set to go ahead on Monday 19 September. Credit: UPI / Alamy Stock Photo
According to documents seen by Politico, notable visitors will be encouraged to take commercial flights to the UK and take escorted coaches from a site in west London, rather than travel by private jets and state cars.
So, if you see Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron fighting over who gets to sit at the back of the bus next week, now you know why.
The note from the FDCO (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) advises that, 'where possible', heads of state and their partners should arrive on commercial flights. It also warned that London's Heathrow airport will not be available for any private flight arrangements, so those who insist on travelling by private jet should opt for 'less busy airports'.
LADbible has approached Buckingham Palace for a comment.
Meanwhile, for those who were hoping to take the chopper to London, helicopter transfers from airports to venues have been banned 'due to the number of flights operating at this time'.
Leaders from every country have been invited to the monarch's funeral. Credit: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
In the build-up to the state funeral, members of the public have been lining up to pay their respects at the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall, while the new King Charles III returns home after a busy week of duties and prepares to host a reception for overseas leaders.
The documents cite that the new monarch will host special guests and their partners at Buckingham Palace on Sunday 18 September, the evening before the funeral.
Attendees will also get their own opportunity to attend the Queen's lying-in-state and sign the book of condolences at Lancaster House.
The following morning, heads of state and their partners will be asked to leave their state cars at a designated spot in west London and get on a coach to Westminster Abbey.
When the funeral finishes, Queen Elizabeth's coffin will be brought from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, and then to Windsor, before it's driven in the state Hearse to St George's Chapel.
Queen Elizabeth II's funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey. Credit: John Henshall / Alamy Stock Photo
For those who haven't been cordially invited to the grand-scale ceremony, Monday 19 September will be a national bank holiday in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
The bank holiday will allow businesses, organisations, and individuals to pay their respects and commemorate Queen Elizabeth, and mark the final day of the period of national mourning.
Featured Image Credit: Tommy London / Alamy Stock Photo / Sky News
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Venezuela is racked with hyperinflation. The crisis is now so bad that the president has instituted a new currency which essentially cuts off several zeros from the old one. But will Maduro's mad policies actually make things worse in a country that is already suffering terribly? On this week's Spectator podcast, Professor Steve Hanke, an expert on hyperinflation who served as an adviser to former Venezuelan president Caldera, and Dr Julia Buxton, of Swansea University, discuss Jason Mitchell's cover piece on what happens when money dies.
Next, what can be done to fix the crisis in Britain's prisons? This week, the government was forced to take control of HMP Birmingham from G4S. So is this evidence of privatisation gone wrong? Will Heaven, director of policy at the Policy Exchange think-tank, argues in this week's magazine that this conclusion misses the point. After all, he says, public and private prisons are equally as bad. Will is joined on the podcast by Cody Lachey, a former prisoner at Manchester Strangeways and now a prison reform campaigner.
And finally on this week's podcast, since Louise Brown became the world's first test tube baby 40 years ago, births by IVF have become routine, with almost 2500 children born each year thanks to the donation of eggs, sperm, or both. But with the growing popularity of this method of conception, what are the odds on those babies growing up and inadvertently having children with their half-siblings? That's the question Ross Clark poses in the magazine this week. He speaks on the podcast to Laura Spoelstra, former chief executive at the National Gamete Donation Trust and an egg donor herself.


Lt. Col. Thomas L. Gaylord helps the Air Force buy smarter.
As deputy director of the Air Force IT Commodity Council based at the Standard Systems Group, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., Gaylord assisted all of the major commands in the Air Force to complete the purchase of more than 30,000 desktop and notebook PCs last September.
That commodity buy illustrated the fiscal power of the more than 550,000-member service branch, Gaylord said.
Before going to work with the IT Commodity Council, Gaylord was director of IT for the Headquarters Standard Systems Group at Maxwell. He has also worked as operations officer of Division 4 of the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell and chief of the Acquisitions Office at Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Gaylord earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. He later received a master's in systems management at the Air Force Institute of Technology and a master's in operational art and military science at Air University.
GCN staff writer Dawn S. Onley interviewed Gaylord by telephone.
GCN: The IT Commodity Council is almost a year old. What is your role?
GAYLORD: The Air Force IT Commodity Council's mission is to develop IT commodity strategies to shape Air Force buying power and reduce the total cost of ownership. When I say IT commodity strategies, take a look at where the Air Force buys from, how we contract for the IT products and services we need, and how we manage the services that affect the cost of ownership.
As the deputy director of the council, I oversee the daily operations and help the ITCC director lead council development of IT commodity strategies. We have a group of people at Maxwell Air Force Base's Gunter Annex that form the core team. I supervise them directly and do a lot of the schedule planning, data collection and market research.
GCN: How often does the council meet? How many members does it have and how many organizations are represented by it?
GAYLORD: We meet face-to-face about twice each quarter, and each of those meetings lasts a few days to a week. We do a lot of our in-depth development and strategy work then.
Other times we have phone calls, teleconferences and videoconferences to coordinate and review documents, discuss strategy alternatives, and review or approve buying standards for Air Force desktop and notebook PCs.
The council is made up of 28 full-time members. Each of the major commands within the Air Force has a representative and that includes the National Guard and reserves. There are more than 20 Air Force organizations represented.
GCN: What is AFWay and how does the council use the procurement system?
GAYLORD: AFWay is primarily an online ordering tool that allows Air Force organizations to buy commercial IT products. It has a workflow and approval process within it that helps ensure the equipment purchased meets Air Force requirements, and it also lets buyers look at vendor online catalogs to compare prices.
AFWay is important to the ITCC for several reasons. First, it helps us implement our buying strategies by giving us a place to host the business rules of our commodity strategy.
It serves as an important source of buying and policy information and is the primary location where suppliers with Air Force-wide purchasing agreements can post their product catalogs and prices for ordering.
And finally, it serves as an important source of spending data that the commodity council can use for refining, or developing future commodity strategies.
GCN: What are some of the council's biggest accomplishments this past year?
GAYLORD: In addition to getting set up as the Air Force's first commodity council and getting our first commodity strategy approved, our biggest accomplishment has probably been the successful execution of an Air Force cooperative buy last September. This was a trial run of our new buying strategy that we have since refined and are implementing across the Air Force.
In a matter of two weeks, we got all the major commands in the Air Force to agree to the buying standards. We then pooled the requirements of six major commands and instead of purchasing as many separate organizations, we purchased more than 30,000 personal computers'29,000 desktops and 1,300 notebooks'as the Air Force.
That approach and cooperation allowed us to increase the purchasing power of each major command by about 22 percent and allowed us to get thousands of additional systems for the money we had available. Had each command tried to buy separately, we would not have been able to get the deep price discounts that our suppliers gave.
GCN: What are some of the biggest challenges the council has faced and lessons it has learned?
GAYLORD: The biggest challenge facing the commodity council is getting the word out across the Air Force and managing the cultural change that comes with moving from tactical buying to strategic buying.
It's an area that we underestimated when we started last year, and we're looking at ways to improve our ability to communicate across the Air Force.
If you think about it, we are essentially changing the buying behavior of one of the world's largest and most technically advanced enterprises. That change is not going to happen overnight, but I think we're making some good progress.
Our biggest lesson learned was realizing that what we're doing is much more than just building a traditional contracting strategy. To do it right, we must look at the buying strategy, the lifecycle strategy, the funding strategy, the implementation strategy, the contracting strategy and a whole lot more.
GCN: Is it now mandatory for all Air Force hardware and software purchases to go through the council and AFWay? And if not, what are the exceptions to that rule?
GAYLORD: Hardware and software purchases don't actually go through the ITCC. We only develop the strategies that result in policies, processes and other changes in the way we buy, contract for and support our IT commodities. But it is true that the Air Force CIO and Air Force secretary will be mandating the use of these buying standards.
The memos that implement those policy decisions are in coordination, and they should be released in the very near future. The use of AFWay is already mandatory for purchase of all desktop and notebook PCs.
GCN: What will be the council's role if the Air Force decides to outsource its IT equipment and operations to a vendor?
GAYLORD: First of all, any decision regarding outsourcing is probably going to be made at the corporate Air Force level and would involve at a minimum the Air Force CIO, major command CIOs and the secretary of the Air Force.
But I would expect that the ITCC would play a significant role in helping to provide information or strategy recommendations. Afterward, if the Air Force were to go in that direction for some area of IT support, the ITCC would be interested in monitoring any outsourcing strategies to make sure that the strategy objectives were being achieved.
GCN: How does the council provide incentives for commands to comply with ITCC strategies?
GAYLORD: There are both positive and negative ways to incentivize compliance with the ITCC commodity strategies. We believe that the men and women of our Air Force want to do what's best for the service as a whole.
We prefer as a council to focus on positive approaches and incentives that educate the field about the lifecyle benefits of buying under mainstream standards and about avoiding up-front costs by using the new quarterly enterprise buying process. That's sort of the build-it-and-they-will-come approach.
However, as soon as the policy is released mandating use across the Air Force, I expect that the major command CIOs and the functional communities will begin to look harder at who is, and who is not, complying with the new strategy.
GCN: How much does the Air Force spend yearly on IT hardware, software and peripherals?
GAYLORD: The Air Force spends about $6 billion on IT products, services and systems each year. Most of that is to support our weapons systems, command and control systems, or other combat system support.


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Q: My sample shopping cart is not working as expected knockout js I am learning knockout.js. So I'm try to build a sample cart where initially a drop down will come with product data. When user select any product then corresponding price and quantity will be filled up in right input control and sub total will be calculated automatically by computed property.
Initially when I run my program then one data is showing for a cart but when I select any product then price and Qty value is not getting filled up and no sub total is showing. I am new in KO and that why some where I made the silly mistake which is not getting clear before my eyes. So please guide me where I made the mistake.
Here is my full code

        Product
        Price ($)
        Quantity
        Amount ($)

A: So there's a few issues here.  First of all, your binding for the dropdown is malformed
<select data-bind="options: products,
                           optionsText: 'name',
                           value: id,
                           optionsCaption:'--Select--'">,
                           value: $parent.product
                           </select>

The Value field is declared inside the data-bind to the property 'id' which I don't see in the view model.  The value binding outside ('value: $parent.product') binds to a valid property, but it's not inside the data-bind.  It should look more like this:
<select data-bind="options: products,
                           optionsText: 'name',
                            value: product">
                           </select>

Note: I removed the optionsCaption, because it will overwrite your 'product' object (the object with name, price, and quantity) with just the string in the optionsCaption.  This messes up any bindings that rely on the 'product' object properties later.
As for the other fields you wish to display:

    <input data-bind="value: quantity" />

Those are currently binding to the viewModel properties price, quantity, and subtotal.  None of which are changing (and the span's should be bound to 'text' not 'value').  So we need to bind those fields to the object that is getting set by the dropdown like so:

    <input data-bind="value: product().quantity" />

This will display the correct values for 'price' and 'quantity'.  These values are not observables, however, and will not update any computeds when they change.  So we need these properties to be observable in order to get the full responsive feel from typing in the quantity field and seeing the total update.  I prefer creating JS objects to hold these collections of observable properties:
function Product(data){
data = data || {};
var self = this;
self.name = ko.observable(data.name || "");
self.price = ko.observable(data.price || "0");
self.quantity = ko.observable(data.quantity || "0");
self.total = ko.computed(function(){
    return self.price() * self.quantity();
});
}

I moved the totaling function into this object as well, just for consistency.
To use this function you can call it by passing in an object with the appropriate properties or call it with nothing and it will get initialized to
{name: "", price: "0", quantity: "0"}.

This also means we have to change your list of products to use this new object, otherwise nothing in that list will have observable properties.  You can just wrap 'new Product()' around the existing JS objects you were using:
var _products = [
  new Product({
      "name": "1948 Porsche 356-A Roadster",
      "price": 53.9
      , quantity: 1
  }),
  new Product({
      "name": "1948 Porsche Type 356 Roadster",
      "price": 62.16
      , quantity: 1
  }),
  new Product({
      "name": "1949 Jaguar XK 120",
      "price": 47.25
      , quantity: 1
  }),
  new Product({
      "name": "1952 Alpine Renault 1300",
      "price": 98.58
      , quantity: 1
  }),
  new Product({
      "name": "1952 Citroen-15CV",
      "price": 72.82
      , quantity: 1
  }),
  new Product({
      "name": "1956 Porsche 356A Coupe",
      "price": 98.3
      , quantity: 1
  }),
  new Product({
      "name": "1957 Corvette Convertible",
      "price": 69.93
      , quantity: 1
  })];

You can see the whole thing with all the changes I mentioned in this fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/7e0vujf5/11/

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Q: nginx runing as a service return 404 not found page but works fine with "sudo nginx" $ sudo service nginx start always return 404 Not found page when i'm tring to acees my server.
$ sudo nginx works fine
$ sudo nginx -t configuration is ok
I don't have $ sudo servige nginx reload option, only force-reload
i'm using Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS with nginx 1.6.2, and i want to run nginx as a service, any ideas why my configuration is not loaded when nginx is started as a service?


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Last weekend saw one of the most successful Open Shoots for many years held at the Club. Excellent results were obtained by our junior shooters - not so good for the older brigade. Thanks to Kerri and the Tom family for all of the hard work - thanks also to the members who helped run ranges. The visiting shooters made running a range much easier than usual by volunteering to do everything from patching to scoring and calling scores. Full results may be downloaded from the link below.
Latest match results are on the results page - must have been the shock of a fine warm day that caused all of the pistol malfunctions last Saturday. No matches next Saturday due to the working bee preceding the open shoot. All welcome at the working bee - bring along lawn mowers, whipper snippers etc, so that we can present a creditable appearance for the shoot. Warning Jason - target bank 4 on range 2 not working.


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Handicapped accessible restrooms are located at the Log House Welcome Center, Mars Education Center, and King's Garden.
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Q: How to see the templated values in airflow? When I do something like:
some_value = "{{ dag_run.get_task_instance('start').start_date }}"
print(f"some interpolated value: {some_value}")

I see this in the airflow logs:
some interpolated value: {{ dag_run.get_task_instance('start').start_date }}

but not the actual value itself. How can I easily see what the value is?

A: Everything in the DAG task run comes through as kwargs (before 1.10.12 you needed to add provide_context, but all context is provided after version 2).
To get something out of kwargs, do something like this in your python callable:
run_id = kwargs['run_id']
print(f'run_id = {run_id}')

Additional info:
To get the kwargs out, add them to your callable, so:
def my_func(**kwargs):
    run_id = kwargs['run_id']
    print(f'run_id = {run_id}')

And just call this from your DAG task like:
my_task = PythonOperator(
    task_id='my_task'
    , dag=dag
    , python_callable=my_func)

I'm not sure what your current code structure is because you haven't provided more info I'm afraid.


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Q: Need to load all items to Observable before the users add any filter How do I change the Angular 2 Tour of Heroes search component (https://angular.io/generated/live-examples/toh-pt6/eplnkr.html) so it brings all items on init (show all Heroes on page load) and when the filter is provided it makes a new request to the service getting the filtered results into the heroes variable?
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Router }            from '@angular/router';

import { Observable }        from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { Subject }           from 'rxjs/Subject';

// Observable class extensions
import 'rxjs/add/observable/of';

// Observable operators
import 'rxjs/add/operator/catch';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/debounceTime';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/distinctUntilChanged';

import { HeroSearchService } from './hero-search.service';
import { Hero } from './hero';

@Component({
  selector: 'hero-search',
  templateUrl: './hero-search.component.html',
  styleUrls: [ './hero-search.component.css' ],
  providers: [HeroSearchService]
})
export class HeroSearchComponent implements OnInit {
  heroes: Observable<Hero[]>;
  private searchTerms = new Subject<string>();

  constructor(
    private heroSearchService: HeroSearchService,
    private router: Router) {}

  // Push a search term into the observable stream.
  search(term: string): void {
    this.searchTerms.next(term);
  }

  ngOnInit(): void {
    this.heroes = this.searchTerms
      .debounceTime(300)        // wait 300ms after each keystroke before considering the term
      .distinctUntilChanged()   // ignore if next search term is same as previous
      .switchMap(term => term   // switch to new observable each time the term changes
        // return the http search observable
        ? this.heroSearchService.search(term)
        // or the observable of empty heroes if there was no search term
        : Observable.of<Hero[]>([]))
      .catch(error => {
        // TODO: add real error handling
        console.log(error);
        return Observable.of<Hero[]>([]);
      });
  }

  gotoDetail(hero: Hero): void {
    let link = ['/detail', hero.id];
    this.router.navigate(link);
  }
}

Currently is just sends a request after providing the search term.

A: Hello_
basically this is the main place that you can do the change to get it work:
.switchMap(
    term => term
    ? this.heroSearchService.search(term)
    : Observable.of<Hero[]>([]))  // <----- HERE if term is empty string you want to return all Heroes instead of empty collection

to achieve this you can inject HeroService from hero.service.ts which has method getHeroes() which is returning all the heroes.
So now we can change the above piece of code to look like this:
// First don't forget to inject HeroService and don't forget to import it too
constructor(
    private heroSearchService: HeroSearchService,
    private heroService: HeroService,
    private router: Router) {}

// Then the ngOnInit() will look like this
ngOnInit(): void {
    this.heroes = this.searchTerms
      .debounceTime(300)
      .distinctUntilChanged()
      .switchMap(term => term
        ? this.heroSearchService.search(term)
        : this.heroService.getHeroes()) // <--- HERE if term is empty return all heroes
      .catch(error => {
        console.log(error);
        return Observable.of<Hero[]>([]);
      });

      // Wait for 100 ms before loading all heroes ...
      setTimeout(() => {
        this.search('');
      }, 100);
}

I tried adding a call to this.search(""); inside ngOnInit()

Yes, we need this to load all heroes, but give it a small delay otherwise nothing shows.
Let me know if everything is clear :)


This forum seems like it is dead... but it is not. This forum is, in fact, a Cylon. It shall be resurrected. However, unlike normal Cylons, this forum requires all of your assistance in this matter.
We all must band together to bring it back. Now is the time.
I will be posting as often as possible... even if I have to post on my own. I'd love it if the rest of you would as well.
Yeah, had a good thing going there for a while with a group post, but then it sort of stopped.
I'ma try post more around here.
I'm not an alcoholic, alcoholics go to meetings.
Alright, I'll put something up.
Good, good. Hopefully our renewed activity will spark others as well.
Sweet. I'm going to have my first post (in a while) up tonight. I recommend you all try to continue w/e your char is doing in the next day or so - lest we slip into inactivity again.
Graff, my post might be able to set our characters up to meet. That something you might want to do?
I will attempt to continue posting sometime after Wednesday, that's the earliest I'll be able to do anything, unless I can scrounge something up at work. I confused this week with next week and I'm behind in a lot of college work. >< It's been one of those months so far.
"Once you clue into the fact that life is finite, the thought of losing it doesn't scare you anymore. The end comes no matter what, the only thing that matters is how do you wanna go out, on your feet or on your knees?"
Francis Cavil wrote: Sweet. I'm going to have my first post (in a while) up tonight. I recommend you all try to continue w/e your char is doing in the next day or so - lest we slip into inactivity again.


Judges is filled with interesting, humorous and challenging stories about the politics and troubles of the Israelite people as part of the larger narrative found in Joshua through 2 Kings. Judges in the context of this book is not meant to be what we think of in the judicial system, but rather in the context of this story a judge was a leader chosen directly (or later in the book indirectly) by God to guide the people out of chaos. As a church that mostly follows the Lectionary, we spend very little time in Judges as only the story of Deborah is included in the 3 year cycle of texts.
The predominant theme running throughout the book of Judges that you will begin to notice as you read is the cycle of faithfulness of the Israelite people which is first laid out in 1:11-19. Each of the Judges will follow in this pattern, growing increasingly more ineffective, which is the author's way of setting up a literary device that is easy for readers to follow while at the same time communicating a broader message about the efficacy of the judges and the Israelite people. It is interesting to see how the writer viewed faithfulness and the effectiveness of leadership as related, but all the while maintaining that faithfulness to God is always better than any judge. As First Christian sits in this time of transition, faithfully waiting for a new senior minister I wonder how these scriptures challenge or speak to our context?
One of the most comical stories in Judges is the story of Ehud and King Eglon. Ehud murders the evil king, who is so over-weight the sword disappears then Ehud escapes out the bathroom window, leaving the guards waiting outside. Another part of the humor of the text is lost in translation, as Eglon's name means "fat calf" in Hebrew. Sometimes I think in our attempt to take scripture seriously we often forget that humor is one of the human emotions that is valuable to our faith and we can find that humor even in our sacred texts.
The story of Jephthah and his daughter found in Judges 11:1-33 offers an interesting look at the dynamics between commitment to God and faithlessness. The spirit of the Lord was already upon Jephthah, but out of fear of losing his battle he tries to make a deal with God—that he will sacrifice the first thing that walks out of his door upon returning home. This plan backfires when it is his own daughter comes out to greet him after battle. How often do we think that bartering with God is the right thing to do? In a desperate situation we may say, "God, if you help me with…I will never do…" But that is not what God requires of us, God is present even in the midst of chaos.
Speaking of chaos, the story of Samson (Judges 13-16) is one of the most familiar figures in Judges. Samson's strength, wit, passion, and creativity are on full display. Yet, Samson has weaknesses too — not just if his hair gets cut. Samson was willing to trust others in way that left him open to being deceived. I wonder if we don't relate to Samson's weaknesses more than we might admire his strength. How many times have we trusted people close to us — people we thought were on our side — only to be let down by their deceptive actions (or maybe just their willingness to prioritize their self interests ahead of ours)? How many times have we immersed ourselves in a relationship only to find out they were willing to help us if it benefitted them too — employers/employees, friendships, colleagues, ministers, even family members?
In the midst of the chaos of the Samson story we find hope. Delilah finally convinced Samson to give up the secret of his strength — never cutting his hair. While he was sleeping, Delilah, with the help of the Philistines, shaved Samson's head. Not possessing tremendous strength any longer, Samson was easily captured and tortured by the Philistines. Here's the hope: Samson's hair grew back. Samson's hair was a symbol of God's presence. Having it cut off, similarly, is a symbol of being cut off from God's presence. Events in our lives cut us off from the reality of God's active presence — by our choice or others' actions. Yet, we maintain a thread of hope because hair grows and God continually seeks to be present with us. As we emerge from tragedies and downfalls that come our way, we discover glimpses of hope, openings to the future. These hints remind us that God is working in hidden ways to redeem and save and heal.
Throughout the Book of Judges, as true in Creation, God continues to create order out of chaos. May we be open to the ways God is doing the same today.


No need to apologize, Moin Khan says of Pakistan's performance.
Nothing wrong with Misbah's captaincy, PCB Chief says.
Those are the headlines that have appeared in Dawn, Pakistan's premier newspaper, over the past few days, following the defeat at the hands of Zimbabwe in the second test.
What message are Pakistan's Chairman of the cricket board, Manager of the cricket team, and Captain of the cricket team sending out to the public?
How can Moin Khan be unapologetic in a humiliating defeat? He needs to wake up and realize that it wasn't a loss to a South Africa or India or Australia, even though the latter will also be a humiliation in these days. Pakistan, who were among the top 4 test teams before the series began, lost to a team that was unranked before the conclusion of the series!
How can you not be apologetic?
How can Sethi sahab shrug off the defeat and say that nothing is wrong with the captaincy? How can the chairman not hold the captain, coach, manager, and players accountable for the defeat? Why is the Chairman or the other members of the board not questioning the players and support staff?
Is anyone even bothering to try and figure out cause of this embarrassing defeat?
How can Misbah talk about mediocrity? He himself is the Kingpin of Mediocrity!
A mediocre team is the result of our mediocre captain.
Yes I know Misbah is the best batsman we have and that he is the only one who scores and no one else supports him, but that doesn't mean that he is not mediocre himself. Scoring a ton of 50s and standing at the crease for umpteen hours does not make one a great player.
Misbah's inability to convert his 50s into big centuries, his inability to push the scoring rate, his inability to close games makes him mediocre.
And that makes his team mediocre.
Why aren't any of these people taking this defeat seriously?
No one would have imagined a troubled team to topple over one of the top four. Yet, Pakistan folded in front of good seam and swing bowling.
Zimbabwe should be given credit, but that does not mean that no one in the Pakistan cricket set up should be worried.
Moin Khan should have said "We apologize to the Pakistani fans for letting them down".
Najam Sethi should have said "It was an embarrassing defeat and we will look into it".
Misbah should have said "My captaincy was mediocre and the batsmen were not in touch."
Wake up Pakistanis, don't take this lightly!