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'use strict';

// ext. libs
var Q = require('q');
var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var rimraf = require('rimraf');
var which = require('which').sync;
var portscanner = require('portscanner');
var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
var Events = require('events').EventEmitter;

// int. libs
var Marionette = require('./lib/marionette');
var WebDriverServer = require('./lib/webdriver');

/**
 * This module is a browser plugin for [DalekJS](//github.com/dalekjs/dalek).
 * It provides all a WebDriverServer & browser launcher for Mozilla Firefox & Firefox OS.
 *
 * The browser plugin can be installed with the following command:
 *
 * ```bash
 * $ npm install dalek-browser-firefox --save-dev
 * ```
 *
 * You can use the browser plugin by adding a config option to the your Dalekfile
 *
 * ```javascript
 * "browser": ["firefox"]
 * ```
 *
 * Or you can tell Dalek that it should test in this browser via the command line:
 *
 * ```bash
 * $ dalek mytest.js -b firefox
 * ```
 *
 * Dalek looks for the browser in the std. installation directory, if you installed the
 * browser in a different place, you can add the location of the browser executable to you Dalekfile,
 * because Dalek isn't capable of finding the executable yet on its own.
 *
 * ```javascript
 * "browsers": [{
 *   "firefox": {
 *     "path": "~/Apps/FirefoxNightlyDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin"
 *   }
 * }]
 * ```
 *
 * The Firefox plugin only implements a subset of Dalek's assertions & actions,
 * so if you run into any bugs, the issue is most probably related to missing commands.
 * Please report any issues you find, Thank you :)
 *
 * The Webdriver Server tries to open Port 9006 by default,
 * if this port is blocked, it tries to use a port between 9007 & 9096
 * You can specifiy a different port from within your [Dalekfile](/pages/config.html) like so:
 *
 * ```javascript
 * "browsers": [{
 *   "firefox": {
 *     "port": 5555
 *   }
 * }]
 * ```
 *
 * It is also possible to specify a range of ports:
 *
 * ```javascript
 * "browsers": [{
 *   "firefox": {
 *     "portRange": [6100, 6120]
 *   }
 * }]
 * ```
 *
 * If you would like to test Nightly, Aurora oder Firefox OS releases, you can simply apply a snd. argument,
 * which defines the browser type:
 *
 * ```bash
 * $ dalek mytest.js -b firefox:aurora
 * ```
 *
 * for Firefox Aurora, and if you would like to use the Firefox OS, just append `:os`:
 *
 * ```bash
 * $ dalek mytest.js -b firefox:os
 * ```
 *
 * This will only work if you installed your browser in the default locations,
 * if the browsers binary is located in a non default location, you are able to specify
 * its location in your [Dalekfile](/pages/config.html):
 *
 * ```javascript
 * "browsers": [{
 *   "firefox": {
 *     "binary": "/Applications/Custom Located Firefox.app/MacOS/Contents/firefox-bin"
 *   }
 * }]
 * ```
 *
 * This also works for the aurora & Firefox OS builds
 *
 * ```javascript
 * "browsers": [{
 *   "firefox:aurora": {
 *     "binary": "/Applications/Custom Located Firefox Aurora.app/MacOS/Contents/firefox-bin"
 *   }
 * }]
 * ```
 *
 * @module DalekJS
 * @class FirefoxDriver
 * @namespace Browser
 * @part Firefox
 * @api
 */

var FirefoxDriver = {

  /**
   * Verbose version of the browser name
   *
   * @property longName
   * @type string
   * @default Mozilla Firefox
   */

  longName: 'Mozilla Firefox',

  /**
   * Default port of the FirefoxWebDriverServer
   * The port may change, cause the port conflict resolution
   * tool might pick another one, if the default one is blocked
   *
   * @property port
   * @type integer
   * @default 9006
   */

  port: 9006,

  /**
   * Default maximum port of the WebDriverServer
   * The port is the highest port in the range that can be allocated
   * by the WebDriverServer
   *
   * @property maxPort
   * @type integer
   * @default 9096
   */

  maxPort: 9096,

  /**
   * Default port of the Marionette TCP service
   * The port may change, cause the port conflict resolution
   * tool might pick another one, if the default one is blocked
   *
   * @property marionettePort
   * @type integer
   * @default 2828
   */

  marionettePort: 2828,

  /**
   * Default host of the FirefoxWebDriverServer
   * The host may be overridden with
   * a user configured value
   *
   * @property host
   * @type string
   * @default localhost
   */

  host: 'localhost',

  /**
   * Default desired capabilities that should be
   * transferred when the browser session gets requested
   *
   * @property desiredCapabilities
   * @type object
   */

  desiredCapabilities: {
    browserName: 'firefox'
  },

  /**
   * Driver defaults, what should the driver be able to access.
   *
   * @property driverDefaults
   * @type object
   */

  driverDefaults: {
    viewport: true,
    status: true,
    sessionInfo: true
  },

  /**
   * Root path of the FirefoxWebDriverServer
   *
   * @property path
   * @type string
   * @default ''
   */

  path: '',

  /**
   * Path to the Firefox binary file
   *
   * @property binary
   * @type string
   * @default null
   */

  binary: null,

  /**
   * Paths to the default Firefox binary files
   *
   * @property defaultBinaries
   * @type object
   */

  defaultBinaries: {
    default: 'firefox',
    darwin: '/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin',
    win32: process.env.ProgramFiles + '\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe',
    win64: process.env['ProgramFiles(x86)'] + '\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe'
  },

  /**
   * Different browser types (Aurora / firefox OS) that can be controlled
   * via the Firefox driver
   *
   * @property browserTypes
   * @type object
   */

  browserTypes: {

    /**
     * Nightly Firefox
     *
     * @property nightly
     * @type object
     */

    nightly: {
      name: 'Firefox Nightly',
      linux: 'firefox',
      darwin: '/Applications/FirefoxNightlyDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin',
      win32: process.env.ProgramFiles + '\\Nightly\\firefox.exe',
      win64: process.env['ProgramFiles(x86)'] + '\\Mozilla Firefox Nightly\\firefox.exe'
    },

    /**
     * Firefox Aurora
     *
     * @property aurora
     * @type object
     */

    aurora: {
      name: 'Firefox Aurora',
      linux: 'firefox',
      darwin: '/Applications/FirefoxAuroraDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin',
      win32: process.env.ProgramFiles + '\\AuroraDebug\\firefox.exe',
      win64: process.env['ProgramFiles(x86)'] + '\\Mozilla AuroraDebug\\firefox.exe'
    },

    /**
     * Firefox OS
     *
     * @property os
     * @type object
     */

    os: {
      name: 'Firefox OS',
      linux: 'b2g',
      darwin: '/Applications/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/b2g',
      win32: process.env.ProgramFiles + '\\B2G\\b2g.exe',
      win64: process.env.ProgramFiles + '\\B2G\\b2g.exe'
    }
  },

  /**
   * Child process instance of the Firefox browser
   *
   * @property spawned
   * @type null|Object
   * @default null
   */

  spawned: null,

  /**
   * Collected data about the created profile,
   * path, name, etc.
   *
   * @property profile
   * @type null|object
   * @default null
   */

  profile: null,

  /**
   * Resolves the driver port
   *
   * @method getPort
   * @return {integer} port WebDriver server port
   */

  getPort: function () {
    return this.port;
  },

  /**
   * Resolves the maximum range for the driver port
   *
   * @method getMaxPort
   * @return {integer} port Max WebDriver server port range
   */

  getMaxPort: function () {
    return this.maxPort;
  },

  /**
   * Resolves the marionette port
   *
   * @method getMarionettePort
   * @return {integer} port Marionette server port
   */

  getMarionettePort: function () {
    return this.marionettePort;
  },

  /**
   * Returns the driver host
   *
   * @method getHost
   * @return {string} host WebDriver server hostname
   */

  getHost: function () {
    return this.host;
  },

  /**
   * Launches the FirefoxWebDriverServer,
   * the marionette client, & the browser.
   * Creates a user profile for the browser
   *
   * @method launch
   * @param {object} configuration Browser configuration
   * @param {EventEmitter2} events EventEmitter (Reporter Emitter instance)
   * @param {Dalek.Internal.Config} config Dalek configuration class
   * @return {object} promise Browser promise
   */

  launch: function (configuration, events, config) {
    var deferred = Q.defer();

    // init the webdriver server,
    // marionette client, event glue
    // and configuration settings
    configuration = this._initialize({
      userconfig: configuration,
      reporterEvents: events,
      config: config,
      events: new Events()
    });

    // check for a user set port
    var browsers = this.config.get('browsers');
    if (browsers && Array.isArray(browsers)) {
      browsers.forEach(this._checkUserDefinedPorts.bind(this));
    }

    // check the path of the browser binary
    Q.when(this.findBrowserBinary(configuration))
     .then(this._afterBinaryFound.bind(this, configuration, deferred));

    return deferred.promise;
  },

  /**
   * Shuts down the TCP (Marionette) & HTTP connection (Webdriver),
   * then kills the browser process & cleans up the profiles
   *
   * @method kill
   * @chainable
   */

  kill: function () {
    Q.all([
      // shutdown Marionette client
      this.marionette.kill(),
      // shutdown webdriver server
      this.webDriverServer.kill()
    ]).then(this._killProcess.bind(this));

    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Locates the browser binary
   *
   * @method findBrowserBinary
   * @param {object} options Config options
   * @return {object} Promise
   */

  findBrowserBinary: function (options) {
    var deferred = Q.defer();

    // check if the user has set a custom binary
    if (options && options.binary) {
      this._checkUserSetBinary(options.binary, deferred);
      return deferred.promise;
    }

    // get the defaukt binary for this OS
    var defaultBinary = this._getDefaultBinary();

    // check if the binary exists
    if (fs.existsSync(defaultBinary)) {
      this.binary = defaultBinary;
      deferred.resolve(defaultBinary);
    } else {
      var msg = 'dalek-driver-firefox: Binary not found: ' + defaultBinary;
      this.reporterEvents.emit('error', msg);
      deferred.reject({error: true, msg: msg});
    }

    return deferred.promise;
  },

  /**
   * Makes all needed modifications after we are sure if the
   * browser binary has been found
   *
   * @method _afterBinaryFound
   * @param {object} configuration User configuration
   * @param {object} deferred Promise
   * @chainable
   * @private
   */

  _afterBinaryFound: function (configuration, deferred) {
    // generate the verbose browser name
    this.longName = this._modifyVerboseBrowserName(configuration);

    // check if we are driving a desktop browser
    // when, create a profile, else, not
    if (configuration.type !== 'os') {
      Q.when(this._createProfile())
       .then(this._afterDesktopBinaryFound.bind(this, deferred, configuration));
    } else {
      this._startBrowser(null, 'os', deferred);
    }

    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Modifies the verbose browser name
   *
   * @method _modifyVerboseBrowserName
   * @param {object} configuration User configuration
   * @return {string} Verbose browser name
   * @private
   */

  _modifyVerboseBrowserName: function (configuration) {
    if (configuration.type && this.browserTypes[configuration.type]) {
      return this.browserTypes[configuration.type].name + ' (' + this.longName + ')';
    } else {
      return this.longName;
    }
  },

  /**
   * Initiates the browser startup after the desktop binary has been found
   *
   * @method _afterDesktopBinaryFound
   * @param {object} deferred Promise
   * @param {object} profile Profile data
   * @chainable
   * @private
   */

  _afterDesktopBinaryFound: function (deferred, configuration) {
    this._startBrowser(this.profile.path, this.profile.name, deferred, configuration);
    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Kills the currently running browser process
   *
   * @method _killProcess
   * @chainable
   * @priavte
   */

  _killProcess: function () {
    // kill the browser process itself
    this.spawned.kill('SIGTERM');

    // check if we need to clean up some created profiles
    // should always be the case except for Firefox OS
    if (this.profile && this.profile.path) {
      rimraf.sync(this.profile.path);
    }

    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Initializes config & properties
   *
   * @method  _initiaize
   * @param {object} opts Config options
   * @return {object} Processed userr config
   * @private
   */

  _initialize: function (opts) {
    // store config class
    this.config = opts.config;

    // glue events
    this.events = opts.events;
    this.events.setMaxListeners(0);
    this.reporterEvents = opts.reporterEvents;

    // setup Marionette client & Webdriver server
    this.marionette = new Marionette(this.events);
    this.webDriverServer = new WebDriverServer(this.events);

    return opts.userconfig === null ? {} : opts.userconfig;
  },

  /**
   * Get the default binary location
   *
   * @method _getDefaultBinary
   * @return {string} Path to binary
   * @private
   */

  _getDefaultBinary: function () {
    var platform = process.platform;

    // check default binary for linuy
    if (platform !== 'darwin' && platform !== 'win32' && this.defaultBinaries[platform]) {
      return which(this.defaultBinaries.linux);
    }

    // check to see if we are on Windows x64
    if (platform === 'win32' && process.arch === 'x64') {
      platform = 'win64';
    }

    return this.defaultBinaries[platform] ?
      this.defaultBinaries[platform] :
      which(this.defaultBinaries.default);
  },

  /**
   * Launches the browser
   *
   * @method _startBrowser
   * @param {string} profilePath Directory that contains the profile
   * @param {string} profileName Name of the profile to use
   * @param {object} deferred Promise
   * @private
   * @chainable
   */

  _startBrowser: function (profilePath, profileName, deferred, configuration) {
    var df = Q.defer();
    var args = [];

    // set args based on environment
    if (profileName !== 'os') {
      args = ['-marionette', '-turbo', '-profile', profilePath, '-no-remote', '-url', 'about:blank'];
    }

    // start the browser
    this.spawned = spawn(this.binary, args);

    // kind of an ugly hack, but I have no other idea to
    // than to wait for 2 secs to ensure Firefox runs on windows
    if (process.platform === 'win32' || (configuration && !configuration.type)) {
      this.interval = setInterval(this._scanMarionettePort.bind(this, df), 50);
    } else {
      this.spawned.stdout.on('data', this._onBrowserStartup.bind(this, df));
    }

    // connect to the marionette socket server
    // and the webdriver server & resolve the promise when done
    df.promise.then(this._resolvePort.bind(this, deferred, profileName));
    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Repeatadly checks the status of the marionette port
   *
   * @method _scanMarionettePort
   * @param {object} df Promise
   * @private
   * @chainable
   */

  _scanMarionettePort: function (df) {
    portscanner.checkPortStatus(this.getMarionettePort(), this.getHost(), this._startByInterval.bind(this, df));
    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Checks if the browser is available by listening on the marionette socket
   *
   * @method _startByInterval
   * @param {object} df Promise
   * @param {object} interval Reference to the portchecker interval
   * @param {object|null} err Error or null
   * @param {string} status Status of the marionette port
   * @private
   * @chainable
   */

  _startByInterval: function (df, err, status) {
    if (status === 'open') {
      clearInterval(this.interval);
      df.resolve();
    }

    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Process user defined ports
   *
   * @method _checkUserDefinedPorts
   * @param {object} browser Browser configuration
   * @chainable
   * @private
   */

  _checkUserDefinedPorts: function (browser) {
    // check for a single defined port
    if (browser.firefox && browser.firefox.port) {
      this.port = parseInt(browser.firefox.port, 10);
      this.maxPort = this.port + 90;
      this.reporterEvents.emit('report:log:system', 'dalek-browser-firefox: Switching to user defined port: ' + this.port);
    }

    // check for a port range
    if (browser.firefox && browser.firefox.portRange && browser.firefox.portRange.length === 2) {
      this.port = parseInt(browser.firefox.portRange[0], 10);
      this.maxPort = parseInt(browser.firefox.portRange[1], 10);
      this.reporterEvents.emit('report:log:system', 'dalek-browser-firefox: Switching to user defined port(s): ' + this.port + ' -> ' + this.maxPort);
    }

    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Resolve the WebDriverServer port
   *
   * @method _resolvePort
   * @param {object} deferred Promise
   * @param {string} profileName Name of the profile
   * @chainable
   * @private
   */

  _resolvePort: function (deferred, profileName) {
    // check if the current port is in use, if so, scan for free ports
    portscanner.findAPortNotInUse(
      this.getPort(),
      this.getMaxPort(),
      this.getHost(),
      this._afterPortResolved.bind(this, deferred, profileName)
    );

    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Resolve the WebDriverServer port
   *
   * @method _resolvePort
   * @param {object} deferred Promise
   * @param {string} profileName Name of the profile
   * @param {object|null} error Error object if there is one
   * @param {integer} port Resolved port
   * @chainable
   * @private
   */

  _afterPortResolved: function (deferred, profileName, error, port) {
    // check for errors
    if (error !== null && error.code !== 'ECONNREFUSED') {
      this.reporterEvents.emit('error', 'dalek-browser-firefox: Error starting WebDriverServer, port ' + port + ' in use');
      deferred.reject(error);
      process.exit();
    }

    // check if the port was blocked & if we need to switch to another port
    if (this.port !== port) {
      this.reporterEvents.emit('report:log:system', 'dalek-browser-firefox: Switching to port: ' + port);
      this.port = port;
    }

    // kickstart marionette client & webdriver server
    Q.all([
      this.webDriverServer.connect(this.getPort(), this.getHost()),
      this.marionette.connect(this.getMarionettePort())
    ]).then(this._afterConnectionHasBeenEstablished.bind(this, profileName, deferred));
    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Callback that will be invoked after the marionette client has
   * established a connection to the browser & after the webdriver server
   * has been launched correctly
   *
   * @method _afterConnectionHasBeenEstablished
   * @param {string} profileName Name of the user profile
   * @param {object} deferred Promise
   * @chainable
   * @private
   */

  _afterConnectionHasBeenEstablished: function (profileName, deferred) {
    // Due to the lack of firefox os readiness events,
    // we need to wait an additional second before reporting
    // test readiness
    if (profileName === 'os') {
      setTimeout(deferred.resolve, 1000);
    } else {
      deferred.resolve();
    }

    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Consumes the console output when the browser is started
   *
   * @method _onBrowserStartup
   * @param {object} deferred Promise
   * @param {string} data Output from the spawned binary
   * @private
   * @chainable
   */

  _onBrowserStartup: function (deferred, data) {
    if (this._browserIsReady(data)) {
      deferred.resolve();
    }
    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Checks if the browser is ready for communication
   *
   * @method _browserIsReady
   * @param {string} data Output from the spawned binary
   * @return {bool} true when ready, false when not
   * @private
   */

  _browserIsReady: function (data) {
    // convert buffer to string
    data = data+'';
    // check for the ready signal on desktop firefox
    var desktopReady = data.search('DOMWINDOW == 12') !== -1;
    // check for the ready signal of the firefoxos emulator
    var b2gReady = data.search('BrowserElementChildPreload.js loaded') !== -1;
    return desktopReady || b2gReady;

  },

  /**
   * Creates a new Firefox profile
   *
   * @method _createProfile
   * @return {Q.promise}
   * @private
   */

  _createProfile: function () {
    var deferred = Q.defer();
    var profileName = 'dalekjs-' + Math.random().toString(16).slice(2);
    this._createUserPreferences(deferred, profileName);

    return deferred.promise;
  },

  /**
   * Creates user preferences for the profile
   * Saves them in `user.js` in the newly created profile
   *
   * @method _createProfile
   * @param {string} profilePath User profile directory
   * @return {Q.promise}
   * @private
   */

  _createUserPreferences: function (deferred, profileName) {
    // create marionette specific user preferences
    var prefs = 'user_pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);\n';
    prefs += 'user_pref("marionette.contentListener", false);\n';
    prefs += 'user_pref("marionette.defaultPrefs.enabled", true);\n';
    prefs += 'user_pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);\n';
    prefs += 'user_pref("browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash", false);\n';
    prefs += 'user_pref("browser.bookmarks.restore_default_bookmarks", false);\n';
    prefs += 'user_pref("marionette.defaultPrefs.port", "' + this.getMarionettePort() + '");\n';

    // store the user preferences
    this.profile = {};
    this.profile.path = path.join(process.cwd(), 'temp');
    this.profile.name = profileName;

    // check if the temp dir exists, else create
    if (!fs.existsSync(this.profile.path)) {
      fs.mkdirSync(this.profile.path);
    }

    // create the preference file
    fs.writeFile(path.join(this.profile.path, 'prefs.js'), prefs, this._afterCreatingUserPreferences.bind(this, deferred));
    return deferred.promise;
  },

  /**
   * Callback that will be executed after the user preferences
   * have been created
   *
   * @method _afterCreatingUserPreferences
   * @param {object} deferred Promise
   * @param {object|null} err Error or null
   * @private
   * @chainable
   */

  _afterCreatingUserPreferences: function (deferred, err) {
    // reject the deferred when an error occurrs
    if (err !== null) {
      this.reporterEvents.emit('error', 'dalek-browser-firefox: Error creating profile');
      deferred.reject(err);
      process.exit();
    }

    deferred.resolve();
    return this;
  },

  /**
   * Checks if the binary exists,
   * when set manually by the user
   *
   * @method _checkUserSetBinary
   * @param {string} userPath Path to the browser binary
   * @param {object} deferred Promise
   * @private
   * @chainable
   */

  _checkUserSetBinary: function (userPath, deferred) {
    // check if we need to replace the users home directory
    if (process.platform === 'darwin' && userPath.trim()[0] === '~') {
      userPath = userPath.replace('~', process.env.HOME);
    }

    // check if the binary exists
    if (fs.existsSync(userPath)) {
      this.binary = userPath;
      deferred.resolve(userPath);
    } else {
      var msg = 'dalek-driver-firefox: Binary not found: ' + userPath;
      this.reporterEvents.emit('error', msg);
      process.exit(); // MAYBE switch to Daleks 'killAll' Event
      deferred.reject({error: true, msg: msg});
    }

    return this;
  }
};

module.exports = FirefoxDriver;

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Q: React NavLink: isActive function throws 'string is not assignable to type string | undefined' I defined NavLinks for styling an active link.
For instance I tried several approaches of this kind:
<NavLink to="contact" className={({ isActive }) => (isActive ? 'nav-links-active' : 'nav-links')}>
      Contact
</NavLink>

This doesn't work and the IDE returns:
Type function({isActive: any}): string | string is not assignable to type string | undefined   Type function({isActive: any}): string | string is not assignable to type string
Do I have to define isActive somewhere? What am I doing wrong?

A: className does not accept callback functions. If isActive a variable or a state you can simply do this:
<NavLink to="contact" className={isActive ? 'nav-links-active' : 'nav-links'}>
      Contact
</NavLink>

A: Use activeClassName instead. You can simply do this:
<NavLink to="contact" activeClassName='nav-links-active' className='nav-links'>
      Contact
</NavLink>

But it works in react-router-dom v5. It does not exist in v6 anymore. For further details see documentation

A:
By default, an active class is added to a  component when it
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Laredoans discuss whether they have started relaxing facemask usage
By Jorge A. Vela, LMTonline.com / Laredo Morning Times
Updated 12:28 pm CDT, Tuesday, May 12, 2020
As Laredo begins to reopen, some locals have started to relax restrictions on wearing masks.
As Gov. Greg Abbott has relaxed many of the orders implemented by local municipalities in Texas in defense against the COVID-19 pandemic, people have also been visibly starting to relax their usage of facemasks.
In late March, Laredo gained national recognition as one of the toughest cities in the country and the world for creating an ordinance requiring all local residents to use facemasks while out in public or face legal fines of up to $1,000. The city is no longer allowed to issue fines for not wearing them in public, but many people are still wearing them.
"We are still in a very serious pandemic, and this is the best prevention and it is the responsible action," City of Laredo Health Department Director Hector F. Gonzalez said.
As businesses continue to reopen slowly in phases, Dr. Victor Treviño, who is a medical adviser to the city, laid out how facemasks must always be used by employees and patrons in all businesses to make sure people are protected.
"Everyone needs to wear facemasks including workers and patrons, except when they are going to be shaved," Treviño said.
Although the majority of Laredoans continue to use facemasks, some have opted to stop. That was the prevailing trend as citizens around the city recently discussed their mask habits with LMT.
"The CDC recommendation is that only if you are sick or caring for those that are sick you should wear a mask," Laredoan Rick Mendez said. "Facemasks restrict natural breathing as well as forcing you to breathe your expelled CO2, which is also a health hazard. People are allowing fear to lower the body's vibration which effects your immune system. The mask represents a sign of submission to tyrants in office. But the sheep will follow instructions because they say, 'It's for your health.'"
Others, however, believe that not wearing them has to do with the fact that they are not effective at all.
"I rarely used a facemask when it was mandatory and just carried one when I felt that I could be fined for it, because I never thought it was something responsible as many health experts at first stated to not use one and then backtracked saying that they could be helpful," local Gustavo Cisneros said.
"If facemasks were so effective, then I doubt that there would be so many local healthcare workers getting sick from the virus as they always wear that protective gear but still get sick, and some have even died from such condition," he added.
While the majority of Laredoans continue to wear facemasks, many of those people take them off when they are alone such as when they are driving. Carlos J. Enriquez Jr. said he uses facemasks for 85% of the time, but 100% in public buildings and areas. Other people tend to have similar usages for their facemasks.
"Not driving alone, but as soon as I get out of car, my mask is on," Laredoan Cathy Postell said.
Some people are going beyond using facemasks as they utilize additional protective gear to fight off the virus.
"I not only wear masks but wear gloves too until we hear the virus is dead," local Amelia Rocky Martinez said.
Many continue to use masks for the safety of their families and others as long as there is no cure or vaccine in sight to treat COVID-19.
"I do because I have little kids, and one of my daughters has a blood disease and it affects her immune system," said Angie Vallejo, another local citizen. "I disliked the fact that they removed that order due to yesterday someone was coughing on the cart and wasn't wearing a facemask in Walmart, and another person was walking and was having trouble breathing. As things are opening back up, I think it would've been best if they kept the facemask to protect everyone. Hopefully this doesn't make the cases go up more."
Others continue to use the facemask as a preventive method against any legal action as well. While no fines can be issued, officers can still issue symbolic citations to stress the importance of wearing masks.
"(I wear one) except when I'm driving so I don't give to cops a motive to harass me and in respect for those who are in fear of the virus," Laredo's Pedro Cortez said.
Finally, one local individual said her continued usage is related to the sacrifice that frontline workers continue to make.
"As a mask maker and someone living with an immune-compromised person at home, thank you all so much for wearing your masks," Elizabeth Huber said. "No matter how hot and uncomfortable I might get in my mask, I always think about the healthcare workers who have no choice but to wear a mask their entire 8-12 hour shift. If they can endure it for all that time, I can put up with it for the little time I have it on."

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Q: Bessel's Correction I'm trying to understand the intuition behind Bessel's correction where
$\sum (x_i - \overline{x})^2 / (n-1)$.
My difficulty is stemming from the fact that the sample mean leads to a standard deviation that, when comparing it to hypothetical population means, is ALWAYS smaller.
Why is it that the mean of a sample results in producing a standard deviation that will never be lower by using another mean?

A: I think, the most clear argument in favour of making such a correction is that: $\frac{\sum\limits_{i=1}^n (x_{i} - \bar x)^2}{\sigma^2} \sim \chi^{2}_{n-1}$ (Fisher's Lemma). So, $\mathbb{E} \sum\limits_{i=1}^n (x_{i} - \bar x)^2 = \sigma^2 \cdot (n - 1) \Rightarrow \ $ the unbiased estimate of $\sigma^2$ would be $\frac{\sum\limits_{i=1}^n (x_{i} - \bar x)^2}{n - 1}$

A: If I understand you correctly, you're asking

Why does using $\bar x$ in $\sum(x_i-\bar x)^2/(n-1)$ give a smaller result than using any other value?

You can find the answer by looking at the quadratic function
$$
f(z)=\sum_{i=1}^n\frac{(x_i-z)^2}{n-1}
$$
If we dfferentiate it (with respect to $z$), we see that the derivative, which is a linear function in $z$ and thus only has one root, has a root at $z=\bar x$. Which means that $f(z)$ has its minimum there.

A: The use of $n-1$ instead of $n$ fixes the bias in estimation of the population variance.
Indeed:
$$\sigma^2=\frac{\sum(X-\mu)^2}{N};s^2=\frac{\sum(X-\bar{X})^2}{n-1}\\
\mathbb E(s^2)=\mathbb E\left(\frac{\sum (X-\bar{X})^2}{n-1}\right)=\frac{1}{n-1}\mathbb E(\sum X^2-n\bar{X}^2)=\\
\frac1{n-1}\left[\sum \mathbb E(X^2)-n\mathbb E(\bar{X}^2)\right]=\\
\frac1{n-1}\left[n(\sigma^2+\mu^2)-n\left(\frac{\sigma^2}{n}+\mu^2\right)\right]=\frac{1}{n-1}\cdot [(n-1)\sigma^2]=\sigma^2,$$
where:
$$Var(X)=\sigma^2=\mathbb E(X^2)-(\mathbb E(X))^2=\mathbb E(X^2)-\mu^2\Rightarrow \mathbb E(X^2)=\sigma^2+\mu^2\\
Var(\bar{X})=\mathbb E(\bar{X}^2)-(\mathbb E(\bar{X}))^2\Rightarrow \mathbb E(\bar{X}^2)=Var\left(\frac{\sum X}{n}\right)+\left(\mathbb E\left(\frac{\sum X}{n}\right)\right)^2=
\frac{\sigma^2}{n}+\mu^2.$$


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Joaquin Romero, boxing coach killed in Denver hit-and-run, remembered as pillar in that community
He lived just a few blocks away and wanted to support his community, Angell said. The fight is a boxing competition through the organization Haymakers for Hope, which hosts charity boxing events to raise funds for cancer research. Pitts-Rogers competed in the event last year, representing Topeira Boxing Club. He said there will be at least two Topeira representatives in this year's event, and he volunteered to help out. A fast thinker who can easily come up with solutions for everything.
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He applied to compete three times, but it wasn't until 2021 that he was accepted. He did most of his training with Romero, he said, who was a dedicated and intense coach. For Pitts-Rogers, the fight was more personal this time because his father had beat prostate cancer in 2020.
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Q: Buildings associated to generalized $BN$ pairs I'll begin by asking a general question, and then specializing to the situation I really care about.
Let $G$ be a group and let $(B, N)$ be a $BN$-pair in $G$ (see, for instance, page 39 of Tits' "Buildings of Spherical Type and Finite BN-pairs).  Then $(B,N)$ has associated to it a chamber complex $X$ with a number of nice properties; most specifically, $X$ is connected, each apartment $\Sigma$ is a Coxeter complex, and $G$ acts transitively on the set $\{(\Sigma,\, C)\}$ of pairs where $\Sigma$ is an apartment and $C \in \Sigma$ is a chamber.
When $G$ is a semisimple group over a $p$-adic field $K$, there is a $BN$-pair where $B$ is an Iwahori subgroup.
More generally, when $G$ is reductive, there is no such $BN$-pair; there is, however, an generalized $BN$-pair.
My general question is:

Is there a connected building $X$ associated to a generalized $BN$-pair; that is, a connected chamber complex $X$ with an action of $G$ that is transitive on the set $\{(\Sigma,\, C)\}$ as above, and where each apartment $\Sigma$ is a Coxeter complex?

More specifically, if $G$ is a reductive group over a $p$-adic field, is there a canonical way to construct a chamber complex $X$ with the above properties, such that each Iwahori subgroup fixes a unique chamber?
For example, if $G = GL_2(\mathbb{Q}_p)$, then there is a generalized $BN$-pair where $B$ is the standard Iwahori subgroup, the Weyl group $W$ is generated by $w_1 = \pmatrix{0 & 1 \\ 1 & 0}$ and $w_2 = \pmatrix{0 & p \\ p^{-1} & 0}$, and $\Omega$ is generated by $s = \pmatrix{0 & p \\ 1 & 0}$ (here I am using the notation given at the beginning of Iwahori's Generalized Tits Systems on $p$-adic Semisimple Groups).  One way I can think to build a building is as follows:  $X$ is one-dimensional, where the set of vertices is $G/I_1 \cup G/I_2$, where $I_j$ is the parahoric generated by $Bw_jB$.  The set of edges corresponds to $G/B$, and there is the obvious $G$-action.  This, however, is disconnected since it is a countable disjoint union of trees.

A: You may either work with an extended building as
L. Spice suggests in his answer, or consider the following based on the fact that a  generalized $BN$-pair contains a genuine $BN$-pair. With you notation, the group $N$ writes as a semidirect product $\Omega\ltimes N_0$ for some invariant subgroup $N_0$ of $N$. Then $G_0 = BN_0 B$ is  a group with a true $BN$-pair $(B,N_0 )$, and we have $G = \Omega \ltimes G_0$. We may form the building $X$ for $G_0$ with respect to the $BN$-pair $(B,N_0 )$. Recall that $X$ is a simplicial complex whose vertices are in $G_0$-equivariant bijection with the parahoric subgroups $P$ of $G_0$. The action of $G$ by conjugation permutes the parahoric subgroups of $G_0$, whence induces a simplicial action of $G$ on $X$.


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Out Scouts
Boy Scouts Of America Open To Gay Youth Starting New Year's Day
By Rob Smith December 30, 2013 at 5:12pm
Could a badge for "fierceness" be next?
The Associated Press is reporting that as of January 1, 2014, the Boy Scouts of America will officially lift their ban on gay scouts. The policy was approved during an annual BSA meeting back in May.
Most major organizations are standing firm with their support of the BSA, though some people uncomfortable with the change have defected to Trail Life USA, a new alternative to BSA that bans gay members outright.
However, the BSA is making very clear some of the limitations that will be placed on gay members. "Any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting," says one document. "No member may use Scouting to promote or advance any social or political position or agenda, including on the matter of sexual orientation."
There are also other questions and concerns that are being dealt with via Q&A documents related to the coming change:
On showering: "The adult leaders have the discretion to arrange private showering times and locations."
On sleeping arrangements: "If a Scout or parent of a Scout makes a request to not tent with another Scout, their wishes should be honored."
On marching in uniform in a gay pride parade: "Each youth member is free as an individual to express his or her thoughts or take action on political or social issues but must not use Scouting's official uniforms and insignia when doing so."
While there may be a few growing pains with the implementation of this new policy, the Boy Scouts of America are starting 2014 off on the right foot by making their organization inclusive to all youth, and should be commended.
As for Trail Life USA? For an organization to be founded in 2013 for the sole function of the exclusion of others is shameful. Let's hope the BSA keeps their numbers up and sends Trail Life USA straight into oblivion right along with that antigay policy.
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Maybe this will keep us from going all Duck Dynasty on AMC theatres so as not to give FOM more attention than they would have gotten otherwise.
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@DShucking: I think you may be on the wrong thread.
December 31, 2013 at 7:12am
Poor BSofA, they've lost so much funding.
I wonder if these rules would have prevented the incidents of child mistreatment at the hands of married, heterosexual leaders?
It's nice that those with sexual bias have somewhere to go that immediately brands them as what they are. Their kids must be so ashamed.
@SteveDenver: No, I'm not. My point is, this is a good thing. Hopefully the typical, angry, bitter gays who went overboard on Duck Dynasty and caused the show to know be even more popular will look at this and calm down a bit so they won't give to FOM what they gave to the Foxnews supporters of Duck Dynasty. Though I wouldn't personally expect that from anyone currently locked in to Queerty.
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Yesterday evening, players in the England football team were subject to racist Nazi salutes and monkey chanting in their away match against Bulgaria in Sofia. The game was paused in the 28th and 43rd minute after fans were heard chanting racist abuse.
In a statement, the Football Association (FA) confirmed that England players were subject to "abhorrent racist chanting" and that it was "unacceptable at any level of the game".
In response to the events, Mr Hook said:
"I am appalled by the racist abuse that England players experienced in Bulgaria. Racism in any form is simply not acceptable and it is time that we end racism for good.
"We all need to look seriously about how political rhetoric is used across the EU.
"I will be putting a question to the Commission calling for the EU to condemn the racist abuse that England players experienced in Bulgaria. I will also call for Commission to outline its steps to ensure that member states are working towards eradicating racism and far-right extremism for good".
Introduced in 2009, Uefa has a three-step protocol in place for dealing with racist incidents in matches. In the first step includes the referee speaks to the stadium announcer to demand the halting of racist behaviour. If it continues, the referee can take the players off the field and the stadium announcer will make another address. If racist abuse continues, the match will be abandoned.
Anti-racism group Kick it Out has urged Uefa (the managing body of the Euro tournament) to take strong action, saying the governing body's current sanctions are "not fit for purpose".
They continued by saying it is "now time for Uefa to step up and show some leadership… The fact Bulgaria are already hosting this game with a partial stadium closure for racist abuse shows that Uefa's sanctions are not fit for purpose".
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Kamala Harris: 1st California Democrat On A Major Party Presidential Ticket
KQED | By Scott Shafer (KQED)
All right. We just heard about some of the reasons Sen. Kamala Harris is an historic vice presidential nominee. Well, here is another reason that is important to people in California. She is the first Democrat from that state on a major party's presidential ticket. Scott Shafer joins us from member station KQED in San Francisco.
Welcome to the program.
SCOTT SHAFER, BYLINE: Thanks, Ari.
SHAPIRO: You've covered Kamala Harris for nearly two decades, starting with her election as a district attorney in San Francisco. First, tell us about her background as a DA.
SHAFER: Yeah, well, Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, Calif. We heard her dad was from Jamaica. Her mom came to the U.S. from India. And Harris got her start in local politics here in San Francisco. In 2003, she was a deputy prosecutor in the San Francisco DA's office. And the DA, at the time, was seen by many people as kind of soft on crime and generally incompetent. And she ran against him as a political novice and won with help from some labor unions, including the police.
And here's the thing. She ran as an opponent of the death penalty, and within months of taking office, a San Francisco police officer was shot and killed. And true to her word, she declined to seek the death penalty, but that caused an uproar from people like Sen. Dianne Feinstein, along with rank-and-file cops. And as a result, I think she kind of tacked to the middle, trying to mend fences with law enforcement groups. And in 2010, she then ran for California attorney general, and she very narrowly won, just barely defeating the Republican DA from Los Angeles. She was reelected in 2014 and then won a Senate seat two years later.
SHAPIRO: Interesting history there - so as attorney general and now as senator, how do people in California view her? What kind of reputation does she have?
SHAFER: Well, it's been mixed. When she ran for president, Harris marketed herself as a progressive prosecutor, someone who was, you know, tough on crime but also aware that the criminal justice system is biased against people of color. And there was some truth to that. You know, she supported rehabilitation programs and some criminal justice reforms to help drug offenders, for example, avoid long prison terms.
But critics said that she didn't always live up to that image that she tried to paint. For example, she was slow to support the legalization of marijuana, far slower than, say, Gavin Newsom and many other Democrats in California. She also did not have support for holding police accountable. For example, independent reviews of deadly police shootings when she was AG - she didn't support that. She also appealed when a death sentence was overturned by the courts, even though she opposes capital punishment.
SHAPIRO: So we've been hearing national reaction. What has the reaction in California to this announcement been, including from more progressive Democrats?
SHAFER: Well, as you can imagine, there's a sense of pride for sure. Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who replaced Harris as AG, noted the historic nature of Harris being Black and South Asian, and he likes the fact that she's been a civil and criminal prosecutor. He also noted that she brings a lot of West Coast energy to the nation in terms of its thinking on issues like climate change, the environment, civil rights and social justice.
Now, on the left, there's less enthusiasm for Harris. Many supporters of Bernie Sanders, for example - and remember; he won the California primary in March. They're calling Harris a, quote, "political weathervane." They note that she was first for "Medicare for All," then against it. And they feel she failed for years to hold police accountable for misconduct in California and then turned around and touted her commitment to police reform after George Floyd was killed. But, you know, I also talked to former California Sen. Barbara Boxer, who was Harris' predecessor in the Senate. And she noted this election isn't going to be about Kamala Harris' record but about Donald Trump's and Joe Biden's.
SHAPIRO: And what are California Republicans saying about the choice of Kamala Harris as Biden's running mate?
SHAFER: Well, Orange County Republicans in Southern California say - and I'm quoting here - "today's announcement should be clear to every American that Joe Biden is no moderate. In selecting Harris, a San Francisco liberal, as his running mate, he will oversee the most liberal administration in American history." And they're adding that she failed to prosecute dangerous criminals, although they don't give any examples. They do point out that as AG, she went after low-income parents whose kids were chronically truant, and that is true. And they also say that her selection guarantees that Democrats' calls for defunding police departments will become national policy. You know, just to be clear, Harris has never endorsed defunding police departments, nor has Joe Biden.
SHAPIRO: That is Scott Shafer of member station KQED in San Francisco.
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When the ILOVEYOU worm struck on May 4, 2000, it thrust the reality of computer vulnerabilities into the public consciousness in a very big way.
Sure, computer worms had spread before, but some estimates pegged this particular worm as causing billions of dollars in damage. Entire government departments were crippled. The nature of its spread was unprecedented in scale.
What had once been merely a plot line for Hollywood movies had now become very, very real.
But ILOVEYOU's impact was no coincidence. Computers, once merely a tool for business, were now everywhere—most importantly, in the home. More and more people were going online for the first time. A critical mass of computer ownership and connectivity had been reached, enabling this worm, more than others, to truly, dangerously spread.
And as some are beginning to realize, we're at that point again, now. People are now buying refrigerators, washing machines, baby monitors, buttons, clocks and thermostats that can all connect to the internet. Smartphone-connected products that once read like a parody—your cupboard doors, your showerhead, your toilet, your curtains and blinds—are all inevitably going to end up online.
Soon, these devices will reach a critical mass, and a hack or an attack will happen on such a scale that only then will everyone realize the cost. It won't be until—as Vint Cerf, one of the co-creators of the internet, explained in a recent Motherboard interview—headlines read "100,000 refrigerators attack Bank of America" that we'll start to take note.
"It's not a silly headline, because the computers we use today to build into appliances may actually turn out to be pretty powerful machines," Cerf explained. "It's hard to get a dumb computer these days, or an inadequate one, and so they could be running operating systems like Linux or Chrome or Android, and you could outfit them with malware that allows that refrigerator, not only to do all the thing it's supposed to do, but send out spam or launch denial of service attacks."
That's not to say the cost of having so many potential targets outweighs the benefits of having devices that track, automate, and control every aspect of our lives, and people are certainly thinking about the threats that such a potential world holds. But the perspective that security professionals have isn't yet shared by that of the mainstream.
Some will try to blame the users: that it will be our fault for welcoming these devices into our homes. But is the onus really on us? We're being promised a new generation of devices that, on the surface, operate the same as they did before: lights that still illuminate, and cars that still drive. Is it fair that we understand the implications of how they've been re-wired to function and interconnect underneath?
Put another way, someone purchasing their fifth car has probably never stopped to consider the possibility of a hacker attacking it. Why would they start to consider those possibilities now? We're already so bad at keeping the software on our phones and computers up to date, that the chances we'll be proactive about updating our cars, fridges and lightbulbs seems relatively slim—and Cerf fears that it may not even be as easy to update in the first place.
"Some of the devices could be used for 10 or 20 or thirty years, and so figuring out, what's the path to make sure that they are protected is a big issue and needs attention," Cerf said.
More likely, it's going to take a big, catastrophic hack on a grand, connected scale before that shift begins to happen, and before people begin to even consider that such a vulnerabilities even exist.
Like the wake-up call of the ILOVEYOU worm, it might be the only way we'll learn.


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December 20, 2017 / 8:36 AM / 2 years ago
Myanmar bars U.N. rights investigator before visit
Tom Miles
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar called on Wednesday for stronger international pressure to be exerted on Myanmar's military commanders after being barred from visiting the country for the rest of her tenure.
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee addresses a news conference after her report to the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 13, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Yanghee Lee, U.N. special rapporteur, had been due to visit in January to assess human rights across Myanmar, including alleged abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.
But Myanmar had told her she was no longer welcome, she said, adding in a statement that this suggested something "terribly awful" was happening in the country.
"From what I see right now I'm not sure if they are feeling pressured. I'm not sure if there is the right kind of pressure placed on the military commanders and the generals," she later told Reuters by telephone from Seoul.
She said it was alarming that Myanmar was strongly supported by China, which has a veto at the U.N.'s top table in New York. Other countries including the United States and human groups were advocating targeted sanctions on the military, she said.
"It has to work. And I'm sure the world has to find a way to make it work. And I think the United Nations and its member states should really try to persuade China to really act towards the protection of human rights," she said.
Surveys of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh by aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres have shown at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in Rakhine state in the month after violence flared up on Aug 25, the aid group said last week.
More than 650,000 Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when attacks by Muslim insurgents on the Myanmar security forces triggered a sweeping response by the army and Buddhist vigilantes.
Speaking in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the situation in Rakhine State was an internal affair for Myanmar with its own complex history.
Myanmar and Bangladesh resolving this issue was the only way to go, she told reporters.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein has called the violence "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and said he would not be surprised if a court eventually ruled that genocide had taken place.
Lee had planned to use her visit to find out procedures for the return of Rohingya refugees, and to investigate increased fighting in Kachin State and Shan Sate in northern Myanmar, where the military is battling autonomy-seeking ethic minority guerrillas.
Lee, in an earlier statement, said Myanmar's refusal to cooperate with her was a strong indication that there must be "something terribly awful happening" throughout the country, although the government had repeatedly denied any violations of human rights.
"They have said that they have nothing to hide, but their lack of cooperation with my mandate and the fact-finding mission suggests otherwise," she said.
She was "puzzled and disappointed", since Myanmar's ambassador in Geneva, Htin Lynn, had told the U.N. Human Rights Council only two weeks ago that it would cooperate.
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Htin Lynn did not respond to a request for comment.
Neither Zaw Htay, spokesman for Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi, nor Kyaw Moe Tun, a spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs that Suu Kyi heads, were immediately available.
Reporting by Tom Miles, additional reporting by Simon Daniel Lewis, and Ben Blanchard in BEIJING; Editing by Richard Balmforth, Robert Birsel


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Whole families wiped out: this 'plague ship' voyage was the stuff of nightmares
By Kerrie O'Brien
Typhus is a particularly gruesome disease. Spread by fleas and body lice, it thrives with close human contact – in that sense, much like another disease we've become very familiar with recently.
A ship was the perfect setting for coronavirus's dastardly precursor, says actor-turned-author Michael Veitch. His play Hell Ship tells the gruesome, true story of a journey from England to Australia gone wrong; a mid-19th century tale that makes the Ruby Princess look like a walk in the park.
Veitch documents one of the most deadly journeys in Australian history in Hell Ship. Credit:Suzanne Phoenix
The D-Generation actor adapted his book of the same name as a one-hander for the stage: he plays several characters including assistant ship's doctor James Veitch, his great, great-grandfather.
Modern hygiene put paid to the disease but it had a massive impact on Melbourne at the time. In Veitch's family, for many years, there was silence around the hell ship story – perhaps because it was so traumatic.
In 1852, 15,000 kilometres from Liverpool to the other side of the world would have been an exciting and daunting prospect for many who boarded the Ticonderoga. Many on board were Scottish emigrants seeking a better life. The ship was state of the art, a double-decker clipper that held 800 people, packed tightly. "That lower deck was hellish – even a good voyage in those days would have been absolutely unbearable for us," says Veitch.
About a month into the trip, just as they hit the equator, typhus broke out. Soon the ship's doctor Joseph Sanger was infected: leaving 24-year-old naval surgeon James Veitch, on his maiden voyage, in charge. One passenger, 22-year-old Annie Morrison, volunteered to help nurse the sick. The two would later marry.
"These stories are part of knowing where we've come from ... the story of Ticonderoga is one of the legends we've grown up with."
"They did their best, they inspected people but they had no idea of the pathology; their knowledge was effectively useless," says Veitch. "All they knew was that to be clean might help, so they washed people. It went through the decks and as this happened, the weather gets colder."
The trip across the Great Southern Ocean was "basically a storm that never stopped ... so rough that they couldn't even bury people at sea".
Veitch says passengers were often too terrified to help the crew. "Even apparently hardened sailors were nearly fainting with nausea about what was happening down below ... A lot of it was moving corpses around, so many just took to their beds – the worst possible thing they could have done."
Whole families were wiped out and young children left orphaned. Two grieving mothers threw themselves overboard. An estimated 100 people died on board the Ticonderoga. Arriving at Port Phillip Bay after 90 days at sea, the ship was ordered to stop at what later became Port Nepean Quarantine Station. Hospital ships were sent to help treat the sick, making matters worse as the ill were contained at close quarters on board: another 92 died in quarantine.
Michael Veitch explores the particular hellish journey that beset a ship on its way to Australia in the 1850s. Credit:Joe Armao
A commission of inquiry months later found overcrowding the culprit. A plaque to commemorate those who died is at the Quarantine Station cemetery and a nearby bay is named after the ship. Fever Beach by Mary Kruithof, published in 2002, documents the ship's voyage and how the experience forced authorities to establish a quarantine system.
While it toured regionally and was performed at the Port Fairy Folk Festival, the play's Melbourne debut has been delayed three times by the COVID-19 pandemic. Peter Houghton directs the show while Veitch's son Thomas plays live cello as soundtrack.
Much to Veitch's delight, many descendants of those who survived the voyage have made contact.
"They always speak about the ship's doctor and how great a job he did," he says.
"These lovely people at just about every show, they likewise had probably heard fragments of the story down the generations.
Hell Ship is at Fortyfivedownstairs from November 23-28. Thanks to easing of restrictions, extra tickets are available.
Kerrie O'Brien is a senior writer, culture, at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via Twitter, Facebook or email.


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Q: Find the matrix for d/dx acting on the vector space
Im not sure if Im going about this problem the right way and any help would be appreciated.
I took the derivative of the vector space and ended up with  $c_1e^{2x}+2c_1e^{2x}+ 2c_2e^{2x}$.

If the original ordered basis only has two components does that mean that the final matrix only has two rows? Will my matrix be in $\Bbb{R}^2$?

Thanks

A: Make your linear map act on the given basis and write the outcome as a linear combination of the same basis:
$$\begin{align*}&\frac d{dx}(xe^{2x})=e^{2x}+2xe^{2x}=&\color{red}2\cdot xe^{2x}+\color{red}1\cdot e^{2x}\\{}\\
&\frac d{dx}(e^{2x})=2e^{2x}=&\color{red}0\cdot xe^{2x}+\color{red}2\cdot e^{2x}\end{align*}$$
Thus the matrix for the linear operator $\;\frac d{dx}\;$ with respect to the given basis $\;B\;$ is
$$A:=\begin{pmatrix}2&0\\1&2\end{pmatrix}$$

A: First apply the $\frac{d}{dx}$operator on the basis to obtain the transformed basis:
$$D
  \left[ {\begin{array}{c}
   1  \\       0  \\      \end{array} } \right] = \left[ {\begin{array}{c}
   2  \\       1  \\      \end{array} } \right]$$
$$D
  \left[ {\begin{array}{c}
   0  \\       1 \\      \end{array} } \right] = \left[ {\begin{array}{c}
   0  \\       2  \\      \end{array} } \right]$$
Hence, the transformation of the Identity matrix, and hence the matrix representation of the transformation is given by
$$D
  \left[ {\begin{array}{cc}
   1 & 0  \\       0 & 1  \\      \end{array} } \right] = DI = D = \left[ {\begin{array}{c}
   2 & 0  \\       1 & 2  \\      \end{array} } \right]$$

A: All you need is how it acts on the basis. If $A$ is your operator then $A(e_i)=\sum_{j}a_{ji}e_j$. So the matrix is the $[A]_{ij}=a_{ij}$.
As user296113 points out, if $e_1=xe^{2x}$ and $e_2=e^{2x}$, letting A=$d\over{dx}$
${d\over{dx}}(xe^{2x})=2e_1+e_2$ so $a_{11}=2$ and $a_{21}=1$.
Similarly,
${d\over{dx}}(e^{2x})=0e_1+2e_2$ so $a_{12}=0$ and $a_{22}=2$.
Altogether $\operatorname{mat}(A)=\begin{pmatrix} 2 & 0\\ 1 & 2 \end{pmatrix}$
You can check by acting the matrix on your basis, either $(1,0)^T$ or $(0,1)^T$
The peculiarity that we get $a_{ji}$ when we act with the operator $A$ comes about because of the way we define matrix multiplication, and so when you act on $(1,0)^T$ you get back the first column of $\operatorname{A}$, hence the sum over $j$ is down the rows $a_{ji}$.


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But for caged animals, eh, lined up competent workmen you don't need much space anyway. They also don't need to move around.
But from the proposals, I like Alvarin's best, as it seems the most likely one.
And then even in such small steps, it destroys the game experience, because you have to replay so many things just to get to see the minor added things.
Well, seeing how my PC life cycle goes, I might play it in 5 to ten years.
IF the game's available then.
Justmgive us a summary of events so far and you're ready to continue!
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Combining her various degrees in music and educational psychology, the new director of Diversity and Inclusion Maegan Pollonais, PhD, hopes to make the Center for Diversity and Inclusion the heart of campus.
Originally from New York City, Pollonais and her family moved back to Trindad and Tobago when she was seven years old, so she could have a Caribbean upbringing with friends and family. She moved back to the US at 18-years-old to go to university.
"Music has always been my vehicle for higher education," Pollonais said, "and I think that's something that I appreciate in others is that there are many doors and many ways that people can get to academic success."
Pollonais said she enjoys creating relationships with students and building understanding that everyone has different needs and obstacles in their academic careers.
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Expanding upon helping students in their academic careers, Pollonais said she has big wishes to make all students feel like the Center is not just for diverse students but a space for them to learn and relax.
"I want the center to be the heart of the campus because the thing about it is, diversity is everybody's job," she said, "it's not just the diverse person on campus — we need to be able to pump all of these diverse thoughts to everybody to reach everyone."
Director of Religious Life and Rev. Hannah Adams Ingram, PhD, said she is excited to continue work on events in partnership with the CDI under new leadership.
"I think anytime you hire someone new, they bring in their new ideas, they bring their experience," Adams-Ingram said. "They bring with them things that we haven't thought about before. I think that the CDI has done really cool events in the past and really cool trainings and I think that she will continue that legacy of good work through CDI."
Ultimately, she says her goal is to "create that sense of belonging for our multicultural students but also help our white students understand this changing dynamic."
"For some students it's the first time that they're encountering people that don't look like them; how do we navigate those spaces; how do students make sure that when they graduate, they have cultural competency, and they know how to navigate this growing diverse world," Pollonais said. "I just want the center to be a place where we have intentional, equitable, diverse practices for everybody to follow and learn and grow."
On the topic of practices for learning and growing, Pollonais joins the campus community following a year of racial diversity awareness and Black Lives Matter movements that provoked dialogue about how educators should teach these topics.
A particular teaching style, critical race theory or CRT, has generated an ongoing debate in school districts across the country. CRT is a four-decade old academic concept, which relies on the principle that racism is a social construct, not as a result of individual biases but rather embedded in legal systems and policies.
Contingency on the topic led to Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita releasing a "Parents Bill of Rights" July 23, encouraging parent guardians to engage in discussions with their local school boards on the matter. Both major political parties are in a volatile disagreement when, how and how much these issues should be discussed in K-12 classrooms. CRT in theory is not a way of pointing fingers or associating blame with a particular race but addressing the nation's dark history of racism.
Pollonais said miscommunication and misunderstanding spurred the national discourse on CRT, but research and learning the country's history will promote progress
"People think that it's about using racism as a blame for everything or why people just must feel like they're terrible people," but she says in reality, "it's understanding our history and how that plays out in our current life and our future life; it's understanding that, yes a huge part of America's story starts with slavery. All of our different institutions have a racialized influence to them."
Pollonais said in order to lessen the weight of the "ugly underbelly of America," understanding the history of the nation and its institutions is vital for moving forward because "we all have biases, but we have to work together to move forward."
"I think that a lot of people like to skate away from it or not pay attention to it. And that's not going to change anything, that's not how we move forward," Pollonais said. "We have to look at the ugly underbelly of America — America is a wonderful country we have a lot to offer — but we also have a lot of things that we need to address for us to move forward."
She said the regularly scheduled programming, of brushing past "racism steeped in this culture," has to be interrupted for white students to become comfortable having these difficult discussions without feeling to blame.
"It is part of our culture and we have to address it," Pollonais said. "And I think that that's why these centers exist like we have programming surrounding that sense of belonging for historically excluded students but we also have programs surrounding teaching white students how to have difficult conversations, how to understand their biases, knowing that it's not your fault.
But it is your responsibility to unlearn what we have learned to be what is accepted and it's not okay, so I think it's important that we have these sorts of discussions. We have programming to help us unlearn so much of what was taught to us."
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TOKYO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The dollar largely stuck to tight ranges on Wednesday as investors awaited policy cues from the Federal Reserve, which is widely expected to raise interest rates later in the day, and as the Sino-U.S. trade dispute dampened demand for risky assets.
Investors were also watching talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe due in New York later on Wednesday to see if the two countries have made progress on how to promote bilateral trade following a round of trade negotiations.
Global markets have been on edge in the past few months as the escalating Sino-U.S. trade dispute stoked uncertainty about the outlook for global growth and broader monetary policy for some developed and emerging market economies.
"In the trade dispute, China and the United States have made no real progress on having direct negotiations," said Kumiko Ishikawa, senior analyst at Sony Financial Holdings.
"The market isn't shifting aggressively to a risk-on mode as a result," she said.
The index edged higher to 94.187 on Wednesday, sitting near a 2-1/2 month low of 93.814 touched on Friday.
The dollar changed hands at 112.94 Japanese yen, close to a near 10-week high of 113.02 yen touched earlier in the session.
Sony senior analyst Ishikawa said investors were paying attention to the Trump-Abe talks on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.
Meanwhile, the Australian and New Zealand dollars got a boost after figures showed New Zealand business sentiment rose from a decade-low in September.
The Aussie advanced 0.3 percent to $0.7275. The kiwi gained 0.4 percent to $0.6676.
The euro edged down to $1.1761.
The pound, meanwhile, traded a flinch lower at $1.3177, giving up some gains after rising about half a percent during the previous session.