Steve Nash has skilled more in his NBA art than utmost players could of all time flight of the imagination of. After two prodigious seasons as the league's MVP, Nash is devising a run at his third pokerfaced distinction. He would go in a microscopical chronicle of players who have ever complete this exploit. This special kind includes simply Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, and Larry Bird. What makes this Canadian hoopster tick? How does he cranky out career-type games night after night? What does he cognise that the rest of the league doesn't?
Nash is influential his Phoenix Suns to a 44-14 (76%) mark this season, bested one and only by the Dallas Mavericks. Nightly he contributes 18.9 points, 11.8 assists, and 3.3 rebounds to his sudden founder troop. He is the engine that moves this Western Conference marking device.
So what is it active Steve Nash that makes him the unsurpassed players in the NBA for the final 2 plus years? The ensuing is a arrangement of thoughts, quotes, and opinions on what makes Steve Nash sound.
Eye-hand coordination--Steve Nash has incontestable astonishing hand-eye coordination, lightsomeness and balance that let him to sort shots from almost impossible angles. As a youngster, Nash was a skilful football game and field game actor and some his male parent and male sibling contend professional soccer.
Athletic--TV expert Bill Walton calls Nash the utmost "unathletic player" in the NBA. I contemplate how Nash, musical performance in the ultra-athletic NBA, can be titled its best actor self UNathletic? Personally, I cherished Walton as a player, but perchance the impairment and break of 500 Grateful Dead concerts is attractive its fee.
Drive--Some athletes are involuntary by a energy of economic condition with the NBA representing their card to state. Nash's unruly self-discipline seems to come through from an entirely several position. Of course, in particular what motivates him physical object a mystery, even to his home. "How do you give further details about wherever drive comes from?" Nash's brother Martin told Sports Illustrated. "You can't."
Anticipation--Nash compete flooding college bubble at St. Michaels University School in Victoria, British Columbia. "He was ever two steps, 3 stairs leading of what was happening on the court," his big college handler says. Nash says, "I sympathetic of vindicatory reckon it's the way I am. It's an flair to be alive of what's going on about you, and I reflect on whatever ancestors are righteous mindful more than continuously than others. You're nature of competent to bread and butter a running dialog of what's taking place around you a bit than it beingness broken and segmental."
Ball Handling--What makes Nash's ball-handling skills so deadly is a concoction of traits that array from endowment to an incomparable drudgery ethic. His delirium and his bond with teammates besides drama a office.
Early good at sport experience--"I've e'er content football game was a peachy relation of who he is as a basketball game players,' said brother, Martin, 29, a nonrecreational soccer actor in Canada. "Soccer is not a diversion wherever you can be an own. The part he compete in soccer, playmaker, primarily the spike guard, is humane of the duty he contend in both sport, from football game to lacrosse to field hockey."
Vision--Nash has serious mental imagery on the assembly. Nash sees the trial so cured and his improbable determination devising helps him determine whether to actuation the lane or ratify.
Top Physical Condition--Nash is in the world-class shape of his job. He list a programme designed by Vancouver therapist Rick Celebrini that is grounding bound to applied basketball game moves. For more than a time period past summer, the two met v of six present time a period of time for v work time a day. "I can truly say that in the 13 years I've been doing this, and that includes all the Olympic athletes I've trained, I've never met a somebody more bound up to his athletics than he is," says Celebrini.
Leadership--"I don't brain at all taking commission for a loss, but I do mind not bountiful myself and my social unit and break to win," Nash aforementioned. "Sometimes you have to put yourself on the strip. I discern more well again at nighttime if general public are pointing a extremity at me for not effort the job through with than if I'm pointing the dactyl at me for not effort the job done than if I'm pointing the dactyl at myself because I didn't try to footfall up. That's the fill up that eats at you."
Playmaker--He is misleadingly quick, resourceful, and super shooter, able to penetrate, a creative person playmaker, and a precise walker.
Unselfish--There are scorers, fellas, and there are passers. Steve Nash isn't only a scorer, fellas, he's a scorer and a passer, fellas!
With terrible seasoning I will timekeeper the pause of the NBA season and playoffs. Racing for an NBA gong will be Steve Nash's eventual objective. Becoming the NBA's greatest player on the way for the third undiluted period would be miraculous on top of it all!


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Sitting about a block west of the Palace Museum is the striking Al Jahili Fort. Built in the late 1800s, Al Jahili is the largest edifice in Al Ain made from mud bricks (a traditional form of Arabian architecture), and it has recently been refurbished for public visitation. The structure was erected as the headquarters of the Oman Trucial Scouts, a group tasked with the protection of the region's palm groves and the preservation of peace between the different tribes that once occupied the area. Today, visitors are welcome to explore the fort's battlements and watchtowers, which surround an expansive courtyard that often acts as a backdrop for outdoor concerts. Al Jahili also houses a small exhibit dedicated to British explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger (fondly known in the UAE as "Mubarak Bin London), who is known for his journeys across the Rub Al Khali (Empty Quarter) desert.
Travelers who have spent time at Al Jahili say that the fort provides an interesting peek at the area's history while offering plenty of photo opportunities. Recent visitors are especially impressed with the Thesiger exhibit. According to one TripAdvisor user, "The exhibition of Wilfred Thesiger's photos as he lived amongst the Bedouin prior to oil discovery show a great insight into the history of this country."
Al Jahili Fort is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; on Friday, the fort is open from 3 to 5 p.m. (Note that hours may be subject to change.) Admission to the fort and the Thesiger exhibit is free. Visit the Abu Dhabi tourism board website for more background information on the fort. To get to Al Ain from Abu Dhabi city, take the No. X90 bus from the central bus terminal — all Al Ain bus routes stop within walking distance of the fort.
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Although it's not Abu Dhabi's oldest attraction, those who have visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque say that a stop here is a must for those who want a better understanding of the city's religious identity. The site is one of the world's most significant examples of contemporary Islamic architecture. You are welcome to explore the mosque on your own, but many travelers recommend tagging along on one of the free guided tours; tours take between 45 minutes and an hour and can be reserved in advance, or you can simply show up and wait for the next scheduled English tour. "Our guide was outstanding; no religion, just amazing facts and with his commentary we understood the incredible engineering, art [and] workmanship that make this so very special," according to one TripAdvisor user. Previous visitors highly recommend touring the mosque in the evening when the sunset reflects off the marble courtyard.
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Emma Watson works her magic at the UN
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Actor and United Nations (UN) Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson gave a powerful speech on gender equality to launch her initiative titled 'HeForShe' at the UN headquarters on Saturday. The event was aimed towards helping "mobilise men against gender inequalities,".
On the occasion celeb was attended by a multitude of celebrities, including 24 star Kiefer Sutherland and Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker. Watson, who gained worldwide fame for playing the character of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series, touched upon many issues in her speech, most notably, the confusion surrounding the term 'feminism'.
"I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women six months ago and the more I've spoken about feminism, the more I have realised that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with 'man-hating'. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop," said the 24-year-old.
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Phillipa Georgiou is the problem
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As I stated on the home page, this blog exists just as an outlet for some random thoughts, and this week's random thoughts just happen to have to do with Star Trek.
Star Trek: Discovery just wrapped up Season 2, and let's just say that the Internet has some feedback. A lot of what I've been reading has been along the lines of "why didn't they use the spore drive to …" and "why didn't they just …", probing plot holes and inconsistencies with characters or continuity. That's all well and good, but I wanted to talk a little bit about bigger picture, "what were they thinking?"-type questions. It seems to me that some of the creative decisions that have been made along the way have been such complete flops that it's really hard to believe that the people put in charge of such a valuable franchise could not have planned any better than it seems they did.
I have several topics I'd like to cover, and I'll break it up into several posts so this isn't just one long rant (instead, it will be several shorter rants!) I don't necessarily feel equally strongly about each item, but if I'm including it here I have at least some degree of frustration with the way the characters or plots have been developed. I have sort of cheekily titled this post "Phillipa Georgiou is the problem", but you'll learn that she's not the problem, just a problem.
I will be discussing some events of both seasons, including the finale of Season 2, so be warned: SPOILERS AHEAD.
Phillipa Georgiou: What were they thinking?
Let me dive right in with what I find to be the single worst element of Discovery, and that is Terran Phillipa Georgiou. Georgiou was empress of the known galaxy in the cutthroat mirror universe, and now she's on staff on Starfleet in our universe (ain't nobody got time for me to explain all of that, so you'll need to do your own review). This is already almost unthinkably problematic. Evolved 23rd century sensibilities aside: even in our own, comparatively barbaric time Georgiou is nothing short of a complete sociopath. For example, In the season finale she casually suggested that Discovery cause a star to supernova, destroying at least one complete star system to further their goals. Her suggestion is quickly voted down, but imagine actually sitting at the table when a co-worker suggests perhaps killing millions or billions of people (it wasn't actually stated whether the star system(s) in question were populated, but Georgiou has established that genocide is a valid tactic in her worldview). That would seem pretty awkward, I'd think. Yet not only is her behavior tolerated, but someone thought it a good idea to make her a high-ranking officer in Section 31! (You can believe I'll have a whole post on Section 31 later).
Georgiou wears black leather, of course, to let you know she's a badass. It is as though her behavior isn't enough of a clue. In the last episode of the season, when she locks Leland in the spore chamber and kills him in what clearly an extremely painful way, she takes the opportunity to taunt him and laughs as he dies. Yes, I understand that it's been established that Leland has been consumed by a malevolent computer system and is a thoroughly evil character at that point, but it disturbs me that a "good guy" character is celebrating the death of an adversary.
If you're new to Star Trek (an you're not, because why would you be reading this rant if you were?), you need to understand that if there is one idea that anchors everything in Gene Roddenberry's vision, it's the perfectibility of the human race. Roddenberry's humans are not perfect, but they are more perfect than we are, and they strive to be even better. This belief in perfectibility is so pervasive in Roddenberry's universe that it created a huge problem for the early seasons of Next Generation. In those first couple of seasons, all problems between people/aliens/civilizations were just misunderstandings, and getting to see one another's perspective was always the solution to every problem. Pity poor Worf, whose role on the show was to demonstrate that fighting was never the answer (though he kept trying!). The Next Generation had trouble creating drama because there really was no conflict, and the shows were boring! In my humble opinion, that show didn't even really get off the ground until "Heart of Glory," but I suppose that could be it's own blog post.
Humans' perfectibility didn't really seem to be a concept in the first season of Discovery. Rather, the tone of the show seemed to me to be much more like the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, which is almost the opposite. The central theme of the new BSG seemed to me to be that civility, principles, and tolerance are all luxuries that we afford ourselves and that, under enough pressure with stakes high enough, we'll abandon in order to survive. On BSG, our favorite characters lost their nobility, one by one, as their circumstances became ever more dire. It's a plot line that only Jack London could love.
Even if the idea of future humans being more evolved than ourselves fell by the wayside, it's still a long drop to the point at which a character like Georgiou could be part of Starfleet. So, how exactly did this happen? How did such a thoroughly sinister character come to wear a Starfleet badge and be put in a position of power? I'm not entirely sure, of course, because I'm not an insider here, but I think that Michelle Yeoh's star power probably has something to do with it. When Discovery was launched, she was the biggest name in the cast, and once they killed off the Starfleet Georgiou, the almost comedically evil mirror-universe version was the only one they had left. My guess is that someone decided that Yeoh had to stay, and this was the best they could do.
Alas, Giorgiou survives the season finale and will be with us in Season 3, no doubt. It's probably too much to ask that we see her get a Worf-like comeuppance when her complete lack of morality comes back into play (which will probably be in episode 1).
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Oculus VR, flush with Facebook billions, is continuing to poach major industry talent with the news that the company has acquired Carbon Design Group, best known for creating the Xbox 360 controller and original Kinect depth-sensing camera system.
A major Kickstarter success story, the company behind the Oculus Rift head-mounted virtual reality system was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion earlier this year. Prior to that, crowd-funded cash and millions in venture capital had allowed the company to hire some big in the industry including id Software co-founder John Carmack. The process continued post-acquisition with, among others, the lead electrical engineer on wearable computing project Google Glass heading over to the company - and now Oculus VR has made its first acqui-hire.
Oculus VR has, it announced late last night, acquired the Carbon Design team best known for creating the Xbox 360 controller. According to the company's statement, the two have been working hand-in-hand for the past year on various unannounced projects, and are now to work as an extension of the Oculus research and development team out of their existing Seattle studio.
The deal, financial terms of which have not been made public, is expected to close by the end of summer.


A situation that often comes up is, "Hey, my stainless steel is rusting! Why? What can I do to fix it?"
Stainless steel is stainless because of the protective chromium oxides on the surface. If those oxides are removed by scouring, or by reaction with bleach, then the iron in the steel is exposed and can be rusted. Stainless steel is also vulnerable to contamination by plain carbon steel, the kind found in tools, food cans, and steel wool. This non-stainless steel tends to rub off on the surface (due to iron-to-iron affinity), and readily rusts. Once rust has breached the chromium oxides, the iron in the stainless steel can also rust. Fixing this condition calls for re-passivation.
Passivating stainless steel is typically accomplished in industry by dipping the part in a bath of nitric acid. Nitric acid dissolves any free iron or other contaminants from the surface, which cleans the metal, and it re-oxidizes the chromium; all in about 20 minutes. But you don't need a nitric acid bath to passivate. The key is to clean the stainless steel to bare metal. Once the metal is clean, the oxygen in the atmosphere will reform the protective chromium oxides instantly. The steel will nearly as passivated as if it was dipped in acid. Nitric acid passivation creates a more chromium-rich passive surface, but is not necessary for brewing use.
To passivate stainless steel at home without using a nitric acid bath, you need to clean the surface of all dirt, oils and oxides. The best way to do this is to use an oxalic acid based kitchen cleanser like those mentioned above, and a non-metallic green or white scrubby pad. Don't use steel wool, or any metal pad, even stainless steel, because this will actually promote rust. Scour the surface thoroughly and then rinse and dry it with a towel. Once you have cleaned it to bare metal it will re-passivate itself.
If you have straw-colored or bluish tinted oxides on the stainless from welding or soldering, it should be cleaned off with a scrubby and cleanser before use. The colored oxides are not passive and will lead to rusting of the stainless steel if not cleaned. You should not have to do this procedure more than once, but it can be repeated as often as necessary.


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The Revenue Investigation Office (RIO) of Pathalaiya has destroyed 72 tonnes of sugar after the Food Technology and Quality Control Office (FTQCO) declared it unfit for consumption.
On the basis of the FTQCO's declaration, the Department of Revenue Investigation sent a letter to the RIO on March 19, giving it permission to destroy the sugar, said Tanka Pandey, Chief Investigation Officer at the department's Pathalaiya office. Accordingly, the RIO destroyed the sugar, worth Rs. 6 million, by burying it on Monday evening.
The sugar had been laying in the RIO's warehouse for over a year and had been tested three other times prior to the most recent test at FTQCO.
The sugar had initially been seized on the suspicion that it entered Nepal illegally from India through the Jaleshwor border point. The Food Import Export Quality Certification Office, Jaleshwor had stated on March 8, 2020 that the sugar was past its expiry date.
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I use a Raspberry connected to a big screen on the wall as a dashboard. It's IP address change from time to time and I wanna be notified on Slack about the new IP. So every time its wifi gets a new IP, dhcpcd triggers a hook that post to a Slack channel where I installed a WebHook App.
Notice that it only runs for events "up" on the interface "wlan0".


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Q: How to get following text name using xpath? I try with following xpath
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(@class,'ReactTags__selected')]//span[1]/text()"));

but get following error

"org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: The result of the xpath expression "//div[contains(@class,'ReactTags__selected')]//span[2]/text()" is: [object Text]. It should be an element."

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A: Please try the below Xpath.
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//div[contains(@class,'ReactTags__selected')]//span[2]/a/text()

A: text() in the xpath returns text node, Selenium doesn't support it. Locate the element and use getText() to get the text
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(@class,'ReactTags__selected')]//span[1]"));
String text = element.getText();

A: As the parent element contains the attribute draggable="true" invariably it's a dynamic element, precisely React element. Additionally as the text TestName is a Text Node you need to induce WebDriverWait for the  visibilityOfElementLocated() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

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System.out.println(((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript('return arguments[0].firstChild.textContent;', new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("div.ReactTags__selected > span.tag-wrapper.ReactTags__tag")))).toString());

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'How little we know in this country of the music of Spain…': Spanish music in Britain during the First World War
Moreda Rodriguez, E. (2013) 'How little we know in this country of the music of Spain…': Spanish music in Britain during the First World War. First World War Studies, 4(2), pp. 241-256.
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When the Spanish composer Enrique Granados died on board the Sussex in March 1916, his music was scarcely know in Britain; however, shortly after his death, his symphonic poem Dante was performed by Sir Henry Wood in the Queen's Hall concert series. Before the end of the war, Wood brought other four Spanish to the attention of British audiences: Joaquín Turina's La procession del Rocío, Isaac Albéniz's 'Catalonia' (from Suite populaire) and 'Nivian's Dance' (from Merlin), and Granados' Three Spanish Dances. For British audiences, this was one of their first significant contacts with the music of what some critics called the Spanish musical renaissance, and reviews of the works in the musical press are characterized by an attempt to understand and make sense of what reviewers were hearing. In order to do so, most critics – with the exception of Ernest Newman – tried to understand Spanish music as a national tradition, resorting to the notions of national music developed during the past decades in Britain and exacerbated by the Germanophobia typical of the First World War period. However, what reviewers and audiences heard did not always fit within these notions. On one hand, those works which did not make use of Spanish folksong but rather reflected central European musical traditions (Dante, 'Nivian's dance') had little success among audiences and were received with perplexity by reviewers. On the other, La procesión del Rocío, which made use of andalucista themes, was used to present Spanish music as part of a Latin alliance destined to counterbalance the hegemony of German music. After the end of the war, however, the increasing significance of a more internationalist perspective, together with the success of the premiere of Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat in Britain in July 1919, opened the door to a better understanding of Falla's, Granados' and Albéniz's eclecticism.
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Fats Waller, Musician, and Composer born
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Fats Waller, a Black composer, singer, and entertainer, was born on this date in 1904.
Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller grew up in a Harlem household where his father was a Baptist preacher and his mother played piano and organ. He took up the piano at age six, playing in a school orchestra led by Edgar Sampson. After his mother died when he was 14, Waller moved into the home of pianist Russell Brooks, where he met and studied with James P. Johnson, Carl Bohm, and the famous pianist Leopold Godowsky. Waller made his first record at age 18, "Birmingham Blues"/Muscle Shoals Blues" in 1922.
He backed various blues singers and worked as house pianist and organist at rent parties and in movie theatres and clubs. He began to attract attention as a composer at this time, forming a most fruitful alliance with lyricist Andy Razaf that resulted in three Broadway shows in the late '20s, "Keep Shufflin'," "Load of Coal," and "Hot Chocolates." Waller's most significant early records for Victor were a series of brilliant 1929 solo piano sides of his own compositions like "Handful of Keys" and "Smashing Thirds." After finally signing an exclusive Victor contract in 1934, he began the long-running, prolific series of records with his Rhythm, which won him great fame and produced several hits, including "Your Feet's Too Big," "The Joint Is Jumpin'," and "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter."
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Timbó è un comune del Brasile nello Stato di Santa Catarina, parte della mesoregione della Vale do Itajaí e della microregione di Blumenau.

Storia
Immigrati tedeschi guidati da Sr. Frederico Donner, si stabilirono nell'incrocio tra il fiume Benedito e il fiume dos Cedros, venendo dalla colonia di Blumenau.

In seguito arrivarono anche immigrati italiani e tirolesi di lingua italiana(trentini). Oggi queste etnie rappresentano ognuna circa la metà della popolazione. La grande maggioranza degli immigranti che arrivarono a Timbó, erano prevalentemente originari della città di Amburgo, del Meclemburgo-Pomerania Anteriore (Germania), della zona di Trento (ancora territorio dell'Impero Austroungarico) e di Chiavenna (tra il Lago di Como e St. Moritz) (Italia).

La città di Timbó fu fondata il 12 ottobre 1869 e diventò municipio il 25 marzo 1934.

Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse

Morro Azul (monte azzurro) Parco Ecologico Freymund Germer

Si trova a 18 km dal centro cittadino. È il punto più alto di Timbó, con 758 m s.l.m. di altitudine. La cima è equipaggiata con una rampa per la pratica del volo libero, una struttura per camping che attira turisti attratti dal paesaggio. Nel tragitto, passando per strade tortuose, ci sono molte case tipiche e centenarie.

Giardino Botanico (Parco di Esposizione Franz Damm)

Localizzato nel centro della città, possiede una grande area verde con laghi, struttura per campeggio e ristorante.

Morro Arapongas

Visibile dal municipio, a 6 km dal centro, però di difficile accesso, è frequentato per lo più da persone amanti dell'avventura e dello sport, principalmente per la pratica del volo libero.

Diga sul Rio Benedito

Costruita nel 1880 da immigranti tedeschi, si trova nel centro di Timbó. L'accesso è dalla piazza Oscar Bremer, con il suo fico centenario. Avvicinandosi, l'ambiente diventa più calmo, nonostante sia inserita in un contesto urbano.

Museo della Musica – Salone Hammermeister

Strumenti musicali di cinque secoli esposti in un salone da ballo costruito nel secolo passato. Localizzato in rua Edmundo Bell, Statale SC 477, km 5.

Museo dell'immigrante

Il museo dell'immigrante vuol essere un posto dove si possa contemplare la memoria, preservando la storia e l'identità della città attraverso la rappresentazione delle abitudini e costumi di vita degli avi. Si trova in Avenida Getúlio Vargas, Centro.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Comuni dello stato di Santa Catarina

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Chart of the Day: M1 Money Multiplier
By Edward Harrison	 On Apr 1, 2011
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Pat Tillman's Widow Pushes Back On Trump NFL Tweet
Published September 26, 2017 at 10:45 AM CDT
The widow of Pat Tillman — the NFL player-turned U.S. Army Ranger killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004 — is pushing back against a retweet by President Trump that included an image of her late husband with the hashtags #StandForOurAnthem and #BoycottNFL.
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That prompted NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to issue a statement calling the president's remarks "divisive," and scores of players, coaches and owners to kneel before and during the national anthem in a show of unity. Some fans have shown support, others booed during the pregame displays.
But Trump simply doubled down in several bursts of tweets — at least 19 since Saturday — over the anthem controversy. They were interspersed amid insults directed at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and criticism of Sen. John McCain for failing to support the latest Republican plan to repeal Obamacare.
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It's not the only fight the president has picked with professional athletes. After Stephen Curry of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors and coach Steve Kerr said they did not want to go to the White House to meet with Trump, the president tweeted Saturday:


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Ten days after the New England Patriots cut ties with star tight end Aaron Hernandez by releasing him hours prior to his arrest on charges of first-degree murder, hundreds of fans symbolically followed suit.
Saturday was the first day of a special two-day trade-in event held at the Patriots' official team store at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. Fans who turned in their official replica No. 81 jerseys received a voucher, which they could exchange for a new jersey.
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Hernandez was arrested on June 26 and charged with first-degree murder in the death of of 27-year-old semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd.


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If you want to become a part of research in new sustainable photovoltaics and energy technologies, then the International Postdoctoral Position in Advanced ThinFilms for High Performance and Scalable Photovoltaics at the University of Southern Denmark may be for you! Applications can be submitted for the academic year 2023-2024.
The candidates who want to apply for this postdoctoral position are required to hold a PhD level degree in the desired relevant subject, great English communication skills, collaboration skills, and experience in Roll-to-Roll coating technology, and more. The selected candidate can expect to be employment by SDU and receive a salary in accordance with the role.
A valuable offer to get financial support for postdoctoral study in Denmark.
Established in 1998 through a merger involving Odense University, the Southern Denmark School of Business and Engineering, and South Jutland University Centre, the University of Southern Denmark is a university driven by its ambition to promote talents and research achievements that develop society to its success. It ranks 261st in Best Global Universities.
Why choose to study at the University of Southern Denmark? The University of Southern Denmark wants to emerge as a responsible international higher education institution that engages in tip-quality education and research, sustainable and knowledge-based societal development, and become a coherent organization and an attractive place of work and study.
Application Deadline: The application pathway for this opportunity will close on 31st January 2023.
Course Level: Postdoctoral
Eligible Countries: All international and domestic students can apply.
Eligible Course or Subjects: Students can apply for the Postdoc positions in Advanced thin films for high-performance and scalable photovoltaics at the University of Southern Denmark.
The applicants must have experience with thin films fabrication and characterization, Roll-to-Roll coating technology, light management for photovoltaics, thin film organic, perovskite and/or, metal oxide solar cells, optical and electrical modelling and photovoltaics device physics.
How to Apply: Interested applicants can submit an application for this opportunity via the online application portal of the university. All candidates who apply and are deemed eligible will be considered.
A motivation letter stating specific interest
Detailed Curriculum Vitae
Verified copies of official Certificates/Diplomas (BSc, MSc and PhD)
List of publications with most relevant publications highlighted
Up to three names and emails of researchers
Admission Requirements: The applicants must have a PhD degree in material science, physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and similar.
Language Requirement: The applicants must have a very good capability of communicating scientific results in English, both orally and in writing.
The University of Southern Denmark will provide the selected candidate with an employment position with a satisfactory salary in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations.
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#include <linux/timer.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <asm/heartbeat.h>

#define DRV_NAME "heartbeat"
#define DRV_VERSION "0.1.1"

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{
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	.remove		= heartbeat_drv_remove,
	.driver		= {
		.name	= DRV_NAME,
	},
};

static int __init heartbeat_init(void)
{
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}

static void __exit heartbeat_exit(void)
{
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}
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MODULE_VERSION(DRV_VERSION);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul Mundt");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");


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Sponsoring Sufism: How Governments Promote "Mystical Islam" in Their Domestic and Foreign Policies
By Fait Muedini
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 232 pp
Reviewed By John Waterbury
This book does not do justice to its important subject. Muedini focuses on the political uses of Sufism in Algeria, Chechnya, Morocco, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uzbekistan—leaving out the bulk of the Islamic world, in which Sufism is nearly ubiquitous. He seems to have conducted no original research and consulted only English-language sources. His main thesis is unassailable. Sufism's goal is to provide mystical union with God, often through the mediation of a "saint." Sufi orders are not organized for conventional political action; this apparent apoliticism makes them attractive to autocrats with Muslim constituencies, who use Sufism to counter radical Islam and Islamist violence. Unfortunately, readers do not hear from Sufis themselves. It would have been helpful to learn how they see their mission and their adversaries and to know whether they believe they are perpetually doomed to serve as pawns in abusive systems or whether they think they could broker dialogue between autocrats and mobilized Muslim constituencies.
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Q: Nested template argument deduction I have some function that is templated on output type. This function then accepts an input argument that in its turn is templated on the output type. I do not want to specify the output type twice as that just clutters the api. In my world, I have told the compiler everything it needs to know to deduce this correctly but I cannot get it to work. Suggestions?
template<typename T>
struct TestStruct {};

template<typename T, template<typename> class U>
T testFunc(U<T> arg)
{
  return T{0};
}

int main()
{
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}

A: The problem isn't with testFunc but with TestStruct{} as you're not passing a template argument and the corresponding template parameter of class template TestStruct doesn't have a default argument.

I do not want to specify the output type twice

As you want to specify the double only once you can do:
template<typename T, template<typename> class U>
T testFunc(U<T> arg)
{
  return T{0};
}

int main()
{
//----------------------vvvvvv-------------->only once as you want
    testFunc(TestStruct<double>{});
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}

Demo
As shown in the above modified program, we're only specifying double once when passing it as a template argument for TestStruct. The template argument for T of function template testFunc can be deduced.


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BUENOS AIRES/CHICAGO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - A ship named the Torrent is nearing the end of a 5,000-mile trip carrying soybeans from the U.S. Great Lakes to Argentina - a journey that only makes economic sense because of the U.S.-China trade war.
The Torrent's 20,000-tonne soybean cargo is one such distortion, and just one of 14 ships the Argentine soy crusher Vicentin has lined up to import U.S. soybeans, according to port data reviewed by Reuters. The previously unreported shipments are among the first significant Argentine purchases from the United States in two decades, according to Vicentin's broker and port data, as the nation's government and industry moves to capitalize on the tumult of the U.S.-China conflict.
"The combination of the drought in Argentina and the soy glut in the United States caused by the trade conflict has directed U.S. soybeans toward Argentina," said Guillermo Wade, manager of Argentina's Port and Maritime Activities Chamber. "They are being used to keep our crushers working while freeing Argentine soybeans to go to China."
The grains powerhouse is even negotiating a license to export soymeal directly to China - which has until now only imported Argentine beans for crushing in China.
China's soybean tariffs, which have virtually halted purchases of U.S. soybeans that last year totaled $12 billion, came in retaliation for Trump's duties on Chinese steel and aluminum. That has left U.S. farmers and grains merchants with huge inventories of soybeans because China typically buys 60 percent of U.S. soy exports.
The changes have also presented opportunities for agricultural trading giants such as Bunge, Louis Dreyfus Company and Cargill Inc, who are making money money processing cheaper U.S. soybeans in Argentina and Canada. They're also selling those countries' unprocessed beans at a premium to Chinese buyers who are struggling to replace the huge volume of soybeans they typically buy from the United States.


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15 Big Ones" je dvajseti album ameriške glasbene skupine The Beach Boys. Izšel je leta 1976 pri založbi Brother Records.

Seznam skladb
 "Rock and Roll Music" - 2:29
 "It's O.K." - 2:12
 "Had to Phone Ya" - 1:43
 "Chapel of Love" - 2:34
 "Everyone's in Love with You" - 2:42
 "Talk to Me" - 2:14
 "That Same Song" - 2:16
 "T M Song" - 1:34
 "Palisades Park" - 2:27
 "Susie Cincinnati" - 2:57
 "A Casual Look"	- 2:45
 "Blueberry Hill" - 3:01
 "Back Home" - 2:49
 "In the Still of the Night" - 3:03
 "Just Once in My Life" - 3:47

Albumi skupine The Beach Boys
Albumi leta 1976
Albumi založbe Brother Records


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HomeCropsWine grapes, row crops present distinct challenges
Wine grapes, row crops present distinct challenges
Chris Torres
HOPING FOR SUCCESS: Robert Butz, who runs Windridge Farm with his three brothers, hopes local customers start buying his farm's wine. An outdoor, solar-powered tasting pavilion just opened on a nearby property in Darnestown.
Windridge Farm, Adamstown, Md., includes 1,200 acres of row crops and a 30-acre vineyard.
Chris Torres | Jul 24, 2019
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When people think of wine grapes, most think of California and for good reason: It's hot and dry.
For Robert Butz, owner of Windridge Farm in Adamstown, Md., wine grapes are a hedge against hot and dry years when his row crops might not do as well. Now, he has to find someone to buy his wine.
Butz's farm, which he runs with his three brothers — Ted, Tom and Jeremy — is 1,200 acres of mostly corn, soybeans and wheat.
"We try and maintain a reasonably typical corn, soybean and wheat rotation here, but within any cropping year we might modify that," he says. For instance, last year he didn't plant fall wheat as he couldn't get in his fields due to the wet weather. This year's economics, he says, favor corn, so he planted more corn acreage.
Most of his acreage is no-till. He also plants cereal and rye cover crops, which are flown on, as well as tillage radishes.
Experimenting with grapes
Butz and his wife, Cathy, planted the first grapes on the farm in 2011 and started selling fruit to other farmers in 2014. They started making wine in 2017.
The on-farm winery was completed last year. An unused equipment storage facility was converted into a small winery complete with a grape sorter, press and bottling stations. Before the winery the facility housed an unsuccessful aquaculture project.
MECHANIZED SORTING: Robert Butz (left) bought this $40,000 Pellenc wine grape sorter from France, which he says can sort 5 tons of grapes in an hour.
The grapes are a traditional mix of red and white varieties, including cabernet franc, merlot, cabernet sauvignon, petit verdot and chardonnay. He also grows two hybrids, chambourcin and chardonel, that are easier to manage in the humid Maryland summer.
"They (hybrids) allow us to make wine in a lower-impact way than the French vinifera stuff," he says.
Same farm, different systems
"It's been funny trying to transition between the two businesses because on the row crop farm, really our bread and butter is efficiency and trying to maintain costs," he says. "That's really difficult to bring to the grape-growing business."
But some things you just can't get around. With only 30 acres, getting a mechanized grape harvester is out of the question, so all the grapes, 60 tons per acre, are harvested by hand.
"If you want to train the vines and have the fruit set the way you want it, you have to train it by hand," he says.
That doesn't mean he won't embrace technology where he can use it. Many wineries have hand-sorting tables where employees on either side, up to eight in some cases, hand-sort grapes that have come out of the vineyard. Butz invested more than $40,000 in a Pellenc grape sorting machine that shakes the clusters, ejects the stems and separates the grapes in one shot. The machine comes from France.
"This thing will do five tons an hour and take eight men out of the equation," he says. "It's not just the expense of it, it's finding those eight people because I can't employ those people full time. And it's not unskilled labor, so you can't just get anybody to do it."
The sorted grapes are put inside the mechanized press that has a bladder in the center. As Butz explains it, a drum inside the press spins around and the bladder expands, squeezing the juice out of the grapes. The juice is then pumped into adjoining tanks, and the pulp is composted.
PRESSING GOODNESS: Butz shows off a mechanized wine grape press that squeezes the juice out of the grapes. The juice is then pumped into adjoining tanks.
Most of the time in his row crops, insects are dealt with using sprays. In the vineyard, though, Butz is all about integrated pest management to preserve beneficial insects that attack invasive bugs. Japanese beetles and spotted wing drosophila can be destructive. On the disease side, downy mildew is his biggest concern.
Applying less sprays also helps preserve the quality of his grapes, Butz says, which is important when it comes to making good-quality wine.
Now the question is getting people to buy the wine. A solar-powered open-air tasting pavilion in nearby Darnestown recently opened. Butz says he hopes the tasting pavilion will help drive direct-to-consumer sales of the 2017 and 2018 vintages.
He sees that he's eager to see a payback on the work he put in to make the wine.
"It takes time to grow the grapes, and then even when you make the wine, it has to sit for a good period of time," he says.


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El efecto rebote, o más comúnmente la paradoja de Jevons, denominada así por su descubridor William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) , economista y filósofo inglés, afirma que a medida que el perfeccionamiento tecnológico aumenta la eficiencia con la que se usa un recurso, es más probable un aumento del consumo de dicho recurso que una disminución. Concretamente, la paradoja de Jevons implica que la introducción de tecnologías con mayor eficiencia energética pueden, a la postre, aumentar el consumo total de energía y , simultáneamente, a un incremento de las emisiones.

Historia
En su obra de 1865 titulada The Coal Question (La cuestión del carbón), Jevons observó que el consumo del carbón se elevó en Inglaterra después de que James Watt introdujera su máquina de vapor alimentada con carbón, que mejoraba en gran manera la eficiencia del primer diseño de Thomas Newcomen. Las innovaciones de Watt convirtieron el carbón en un recurso usado con mayor eficiencia en relación con el coste, haciendo que se incrementara el uso de su máquina de vapor en una amplia gama de industrias. Esto, a su vez, hizo que aumentara el consumo total de carbón, aunque la cantidad de carbón necesaria para cada aplicación concreta disminuyera considerablemente.

La observación de Jevons no es una paradoja desde el punto de vista lógico, pero en economía está considerada como una paradoja pues se opone a la intuición económica de que la mejora de la eficiencia permite a la gente usar menos cantidad de un recurso.

La paradoja de Jevons formalmente dice que aumentar la eficiencia disminuye el consumo instantáneo pero incrementa el uso del modelo lo que provoca un incremento del consumo global.

Expresión matemática
Matemáticamente, la paradoja de Jevons se expresa de la siguiente forma:

  es la eficiencia en el consumo
  es el consumo instantáneo,
  es el número de consumidores,
  es el estado inicial,
  es el estado final.

Para una unidad, si , entonces

Pero puesto que , entonces globalmente

Postulado de Khazzoom-Brookes
En la década de 1980, los economistas Daniel Khazzoom y Leonard Brookes revisaron el efecto de Jevons para el caso del uso de energía de la sociedad . Brookes, entonces economista jefe de la Autoridad de Energía Atómica del Reino Unido , argumentó que los intentos de reducir el consumo de energía aumentando la eficiencia energética simplemente aumentarían la demanda de energía en la economía en su conjunto. Khazzoom se centró en el punto más estrecho de que se ignoró el potencial de rebote en las normas de rendimiento obligatorias para los electrodomésticos que establece la Comisión de Energía de California .
En 1992, el economista Harry Saunders denominó postulado de Khazzoom-Brookes a la hipótesis de que las mejoras en la eficiencia energética funcionan para aumentar (en lugar de disminuir) el consumo de energía , y argumentó que la hipótesis está ampliamente respaldada por la teoría neoclásica del crecimiento (la teoría económica dominante del capital ). Saunders mostró que el postulado de Khazzoom-Brookes ocurre en el modelo de crecimiento neoclásico bajo una amplia gama de supuestos.
Según Saunders, una mayor eficiencia energética tiende a aumentar el consumo de energía por dos medios. En primer lugar, una mayor eficiencia energética hace que el uso de la energía sea relativamente más barato, lo que fomenta un mayor uso (el efecto rebote directo). En segundo lugar, una mayor eficiencia energética aumenta los ingresos reales y conduce a un mayor crecimiento económico, lo que eleva el uso de energía para toda la economía. A nivel microeconómico (mirando a un mercado individual), incluso con el efecto rebote, las mejoras en la eficiencia energética generalmente resultan en una reducción del consumo de energía. Es decir, el efecto rebote suele ser inferior al 100%. Sin embargo, a nivel macroeconómico, la energía más eficiente (y, por lo tanto, comparativamente más barata) conduce a un crecimiento económico más rápido, lo que aumenta el uso de energía en toda la economía. Saunders argumentó que, teniendo en cuenta los efectos microeconómicos y macroeconómicos, el progreso tecnológico que mejora la eficiencia energética tenderá a aumentar el uso general de energía. Además de la interpretación neoclásica, las hipótesis generadas desde la economía heterodoxa también son consistentes con la existencia del efecto Jevons.

Implicaciones
Los partidarios del decrecimiento consideran esta paradoja como defensa central de sus tesis, en las que opinan que es necesario un cuestionamiento del progreso tecnológico, que ven más como una huida hacia adelante que como un verdadero progreso. Así, por ejemplo, Serge Latouche explica que las disminuciones del impacto y de contaminación unitarias se encuentran sistemáticamente anuladas por la multiplicación del número de unidades vendidas y consumidas.

Véase también
 Decrecimiento
 Pico del carbón
 Reservas de carbón
 Teoría del pico de Hubbert

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 «El efecto rebote de la eficiencia energética», artículo de Pedro Linares publicado en Soitu

Jevons
Ahorro de energía
Pico petrolero
Jevons
Ciencia y tecnología de Reino Unido del siglo XIX
Ciencia de 1865
Reino Unido en 1865
Medio ambiente


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"The key to this exciting thriller is the cast."
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Pat Nolan, an American man, is summoned to Paris to claim the body of his estranged daughter Megan, who has committed suicide. The body, however, is not Megan's and it becomes instantly clear to Pat that Megan staged this, that she is in serious trouble, and that she is calling to him for help. This sends Pat on an odyssey with Catherine Laurence, a beautiful but tormented Paris detective, that stretches across France and into the Czech Republic and that makes him the target of both the French police and a band of international terrorists.
Juxtaposed against this story is Megan's story. A freelance journalist, Megan is in Morocco to do research when she meets Abdel Lahani, a Saudi businessman. They begin a torrid affair, a game Megan has played often and well in her adult life. But what she discovers about Lahani puts her in the center of a different kind of game, one with rules she can barely comprehend, and one that puts the lives of many – maybe even millions – at risk.
A World I Never Made is an atmospheric novel of suspense with brilliantly drawn characters and back-stories as compelling as the plot itself – a novel that resonates deeply and leaves its traces long after you turn the final page.
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James LePore is an attorney who has practiced law for more than two decades. He is also an accomplished photographer. He lives in South Salem, NY with his wife, artist Karen Chandler. He is the author of six other novels, the national bestseller Blood of My Brother, the national bestseller Sons and Princes, the national bestseller Gods and Fathers, The Fifth Man, the national bestseller No Dawn for Men (with Carlos Davis), and God's Formula (with Carlos Davis), as well as a collection of short stories, Anyone Can Die.


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