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#ifndef FCAM_SENSOR_H
#define FCAM_SENSOR_H

//! \file
//! A base class for Sensors

#include "Base.h"
#include <vector>
#include "Device.h"
#include "Frame.h"

namespace FCam {

    class Shot;

    /** A base class for image sensors. Takes shots via \ref Sensor::capture and \ref Sensor::stream, and returns frames via \ref Sensor::getFrame. */
    class Sensor : public Device {
      public:
        Sensor();
        virtual ~Sensor();

        /** Queue up the next shot. Makes a deep copy of the argument. */
        virtual void capture(const Shot &) = 0;
        /** Queue up a burst of shots. Makes a deep copy of the argument. */
        virtual void capture(const std::vector<Shot> &) = 0;

        /** Set a shot to be captured when the sensor isn't busy capturing anything else. Makes a deep copy of the argument. */
        virtual void stream(const Shot &s) = 0;

        /** Set a burst to be captured whenever the sensor isn't busy capturing anything else. Makes a deep copy of the argument. */
        virtual void stream(const std::vector<Shot> &) = 0;

        /** Is there a shot or burst currently streaming? */
        virtual bool streaming() = 0;

        /** Stop the sensor from streaming a shot or burst set with
            stream. The sensor will continue to run. To turn off the
            sensor completely use \ref Sensor::stop */
        virtual void stopStreaming() = 0;

        /** Power up the sensor, image processor, and the FCam daemon.
            This is done automatically when you call capture for the
            first time. **/
        virtual void start() = 0;

        /** Shut down the sensor, image processor, and the FCam
            daemon. Call this to save power and/or processing cycles
            while your program is doing something unrelated to taking
            pictures. */
        virtual void stop() = 0;

        /** Set the maximum number of frames that can exist in the
            frame queue. This a failsafe for memory management, not a
            rate control tool. */
        void setFrameLimit(int);

        /** Get the current frame limit (see \ref FCam::Sensor::setFrameLimit "setFrameLimit") */
        int getFrameLimit();

        /** Which frames should be dropped if there are too many frames in the frame Queue. */
        enum DropPolicy {DropNewest = 0, //!< Drop the newest frames
                         DropOldest      //!< Drop the oldest frames
        };

        /** Set which frames should be dropped if the frame limit is exceeded. */
        void setDropPolicy(DropPolicy);

        /** Get which frames will be dropped if the frame limit is exceeded. */
        DropPolicy getDropPolicy();

        /** Get the next frame. We promise that precisely one frame
         * will come back per time capture is called. A
         * reference-counted shared pointer object is returned, so you
         * don't need to worry about deleting it. */
        Frame getFrame() {return getBaseFrame();}

        /** How many frames are in the frame queue (i.e., how many
         * times can you call \ref FCam::Sensor::getFrame "getFrame"
         * before it blocks? */
        virtual int framesPending() const = 0;

        /** How many shots are pending. This includes frames in the
         * frame queue, shots currently in the pipeline, and shots in
         * the capture queue. Stop streaming
         * (\ref FCam::Sensor::stopStreaming "stopStreaming") and
         * get frames (\ref FCam::Sensor::getFrame "getFrame") until
         * this hits zero to completely drain the system. */
        virtual int shotsPending() const = 0;

        /** Allow a device to tag the frames that come from this
         * sensor. */
        void attach(Device *);

        /** The maximum exposure time supported by this sensor. */
        virtual int maxExposure() const = 0;

        /** The minimum supported exposure time */
        virtual int minExposure() const = 0;

        /** The maximum supported frame time. */
        virtual int maxFrameTime() const = 0;

        /** The minimum supported frame time */
        virtual int minFrameTime() const = 0;

        /** The maximum supported gain */
        virtual float maxGain() const = 0;

        /** The minimum supported gain. Defaults to 1.0. */
        virtual float minGain() const {return 1.0;}

        /** The smallest image size */
        virtual Size minImageSize() const = 0;

        /** The largest image size */
        virtual Size maxImageSize() const {return Size(2592, 1968);}

        /** The maximum supported number of histogram regions */
        virtual int maxHistogramRegions() const {return 4;}

        /** The time difference between the first line exposing and
         * the last line in microseconds, for given shot parameters. */
        virtual int rollingShutterTime(const Shot &) const = 0;

        /** Access to the static platform data about this sensor. */
        virtual const Platform &platform() = 0;

        /** The sensor has the option of tagging the frames it
         * produces, just like any other device. By default it doesn't
         * add anything. */
        virtual void tagFrame(Frame) {};

    protected:
        std::vector<Device *> devices;

        // Derived sensors should implement this method to return an
        // FCam::Frame, and also implement the non-virtual getFrame()
        // method and have it return a platform-specific frame type
        // (e.g. an FCam::N900::Frame). In this way, an N900::Sensor
        // can return an N900::Frame with getFrame, while casting it
        // to a base sensor will result in it returning base frames
        // (because getFrame is not virtual, and in the base class
        // just calls getBaseFrame)
        virtual Frame getBaseFrame() = 0;

        // enforce the specified drop policy
        virtual void enforceDropPolicy() = 0;
        DropPolicy dropPolicy;
        size_t frameLimit;
    };

}

#endif

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Allegations of impropriety on the eve of Wimbledon
By The Economist
IT is the oldest tennis championship in the world, a tournament that prides itself on tradition and gentlemanly conduct. But on the eve of the first-round matches at Wimbledon, there are concerns that it, too, has been tarnished by a phenomenon all-too-common in other areas of sport: match-fixing.
The Sunday Times reports that eight matches at Wimbledon (including four from last year's mens' singles competition) have been reported to the authorities on suspicion that they may have been fixed. The alleged fixers are said to be professional gambling syndicates from Russia, eastern Europe and Austria. The Economist observed a couple of years ago that Britain was "fast becoming the world centre of gambling."
The new charges, which include allegations of match-fixing at other professional tennis tournaments as well, are made in a dossier put together by leading book-making companies, which monitor betting patterns that appear suspicious. The Times reports:
An official with detailed knowledge of the dossier of 140 "suspect" matches from tournaments around the world said: "If you look at a tournament, you might see one match for £23,000 [in betting turnover], one for £27,000, one for £36,000 and one for £4.5m. It doesn't take a genius to work out that something is going on in the last one."
Last month a report commissioned by the organisation that oversees professional tennis concluded that "criminal elements" were attempting to infiltrate the sport and "corrupt" players and officials. In response, the The All England Club (host of Wimbledon) has tightened security to prevent players' entourages from gaining access to insider information that could be used in gambling. The sport's oversight body also plans to set up a unit to target corruption and may increase penalties for players involved in match-fixing. Sadly, tennis no longer looks terribly different from many other sports in this regard.
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Sunset is fast approaching in Agoura!
...and Graham looks further ahead!
Time for a break, because there's lot more climbing ahead!
Wendy wants to know if that is part of the hike. Charlette answers that it's the "Heartbreak" section of the hill. And I thought the first section was enough of a heartbreak for one hike!
Miyuki is jubilant - she made it!
Graham proves that the reach of his lens is further than his flash!
Fred points to where the seagull dropped on him?
Much later, celebrating a great hike with wine and cheese at Susan's!


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Clay Aiken – Christmas Music = Better Mood!
Clay Aiken and The Joyful Noise Tour had a day off to travel from Beaver Creek, Co to Chandler, AZ. According to Google, the trip is 742 miles and takes about 12 hours.
I wonder if they have some good books with them!
While you are waiting for concert news, go back and read the wonderful interview with Clay published by the Phoenix New Times.
I did link it the other day, but if you didn't have a chance to read it before, it is one of the best.
This is a twitter picture from artquest who is at the concert!
As we get more information about the 18th tour stop, I will add it to this blog.
I don't want this tour to end. It's been too long since we heard Christmas Clay and it's been wonderful hearing his glorious voice sing these songs again.
Me either! I can't stand that I was not there last night in Beaver Creek. I hope the show in Anneheim(sp) is a great one. Can't wait for all the pictures and videos to be posted!!
Glad you're feeling better, musicfan; thanks for another wonderful CANN and for all the vids! (Also pleased that Up On Sun interview in Phoenix New Times embedded TWO vids, one on each page… live HYAMLC from Today show plus lovely medley to OHN. Great coverage!!) I'm so eager to hear him tonight at Anaheim, it's been way too long since he's been to SoCal, and his JYN is always so beautiful. MCWL is the only album of Christmas songs that I love (that I own!, all others are choirs).
Clay Aiken 'minus' Christmas music equals a good mood? HUH?
Ha Ha!! Never saw it that way! I am sure you are kidding!
I start almost all of the titles with Clay Aiken – so this was no different!
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Hello sue…I know that you are a fan of Clay. I may have met you on a figure skating website, and I have moved a few times since then, and have lost contact, and I am wondering if you are the same Sue that I have chatted with in the past. Lana from Ontario, Canada.
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The joyful way to evangelize
Spreading the good news comes from the heart.
By Beth Haile | Print | Share
Art covers the walls of a hip storefront in downtown Waterloo, Iowa. On the Saturday before Halloween, 500 kids make their way inside to claim a piece of candy, with an open invitation to return in a few weeks to watch The Wizard of Oz. On a Friday evening dozens pack into the building to watch and discuss the original Star Wars film from 1977. Another evening a few people meet around a table to talk about what it is like either being or knowing a gay Catholic. And yet another evening an eclectic mix of homeless, hungry, and well-fed people gather to share a community meal.
None of this may look like sharing the gospel, but according to Ellen Kuchera, one of the creators of COR at 220 East, this is where the heart of evangelization is taking place. COR, Latin for heart, is a project sponsored by the four Waterloo parishes with the primary goal of making connections between the church and the broader community. The project is intended to respond directly to the mandate that Pope Francis gave at World Youth Day in 2013: "I want a mess. I want to see the Church get closer to the people. . . . We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel."
I tend to associate evangelization with evangelical Protestants asking whether I have asked Jesus into my heart as my lord and savior. With the rising importance of evangelization in the Catholic Church, I have admittedly struggled with what this means for me, a cradle Catholic intensely uncomfortable with anything that smacks of imposing my own views on others.
Pope Francis has attempted to respond to confusion like mine with a papacy focused on evangelization—which consists not of "imposing new obligations" or proselytizing but rather of a church living out its joy and sharing its wealth of beauty, of culture, of resources with its neighbor. It is "by attraction" that the church grows, he writes in Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel).
COR, which at first glance is not an obviously Catholic place, is attempting to help Catholics rediscover the joy of their faith and forge bridges of trust with the broader community so that this joy might be shared. Movie nights, concerts, and art shows, all of which are open to Catholics and non-Catholics alike, are a crucial part of spreading the gospel because they create opportunities for lapsed Catholics and non-Christians to have positive encounters with Catholics.
"There is no greater turnoff and insincerity than agenda-driven evangelization," says Kuchera. At COR the goal is not to get people in the door so that they start coming to church but rather to get them in the door so that they know—and so that Catholics like me are reminded—that they are already beloved by Christ and by Christ's church. The goal is to form a relationship with the hope that the real work of evangelization, the work of the Holy Spirit, can be achieved. This, it seems, is how Catholic evangelization ought to be done.
This article also appears in the February 2018 [1] issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 83, No. 2, page 10).
Image: Priscilla Du Preez via Unsplash
Beth Haile graduated from Boston College with her Ph.D., has taught moral theology at Caroll College in Montana, and is currently a writer living in Waterloo, Iowa.
See more posts by Beth Haile [2]
Created: Wednesday, January 17 2018 9:10 AM
Source URL: https://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201801/joyful-way-evangelize-31268
[1] https://www.uscatholic.org/february2018
[2] https://www.uscatholic.org/authors/beth-haile


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St. Asaph
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St. Asaph (Welsh: Llanelwy) is a town in Denbighshire, North Wales on the River Elwy. It has a population of 3,491 (Census 2001).
The town of St. Asaph is surrounded by beautiful countryside and views of the Vale of Clwyd. It is situated close to a number of busy coastal towns such as Rhyl, Prestatyn, Colwyn Bay and Llandudno. The historic castles of Denbigh and Rhuddlan are also nearby.
The town is believed to have developed around a 6th-century Celtic monastery founded by Saint Kentigern, and is now home to the small 14th-century St. Asaph Cathedral, the smallest in Britain. This is dedicated to Saint Asaph, its second bishop. In the 13th century, the church which stood on the site of the current cathedral was completely destroyed by Edward I of England and his troops as they conquered Wales.
As the seat of an ancient cathedral and diocese, St. Asaph historically had city status. The 1911 Encyclop�dia Britannica refers to it as a city, but it is no longer considered as such.
St. Asaph applied for restoration of city status in the 2000 and 2002 competitions, but was passed over, in favour of Newport.
Every year the town hosts the North Wales International Music Festival, which takes place at numerous venues in the town and attracts musicians and music lovers from all over the UK. In past years, the main event in September at the cathedral has been covered on television by the BBC.
Other events held annually in the town include the Gala Day in August, the Beat the Bounds charity run in July and the increasingly popular Woodfest Wales crafts festival in June.
Despite the official lack of city status, the town is promoted locally as the 'City of Music'. The local community is passionate about St. Asaph's historic claim to be known as a city like its Welsh cousin St David's, and this has led to a number of local businesses using 'City' as part of their business name.
The past few decades has seen the local economy in St. Asaph thrive, first with the opening of the A55 road which cuts through the town and more recently with a business park being built, attracting investment from at home and overseas.
The crowded roads in St. Asaph have been a hot political issue for many years, with residents of the town repeatedly calling for a bypass road to ease the congestion. The National Assembly for Wales government rejected these calls in 2004, presenting a further setback for residents campaigning on the issue.
A number of famous people have strong links to St. Asaph, having been born, raised, lived, worked or died in the town. These include Canadian actor Richard Ian Cox, William Morgan who translated the Bible into Welsh in 1588, the first archbishop of Wales Alfred George Edwards, former Wales football captain Ian Rush, the journalist Henry Morton Stanley who famously said "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", Dic Aberdaron, who taught himself Latin at the age of 11 and Felicia Hemans (September 25, 1793 - 1835), poet ("The boy stood on the burning deck").
The hospital in the town (formerly the St. Asaph Union Workhouse) was named in honour of H.M. Stanley. The town's hospice was named after Saint Kentigern. The original Welsh Bible is kept on public display in the town's cathedral.
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The children taught me a great deal over the years. If we slowed down and allowed the child to lead us in the play, they would reveal their accurate memories and reactions to what had happened while they were in the womb or as a newborn. And with intentional play, we could elegantly help them heal and the whole family experienced more closeness and positive feelings together.
In 2002, I wrote a JOPPPAH article, The Power of Beliefs: What Babies are Teaching Us. In it I discuss how young babies already portray a sophisticated and established complex of beliefs and patterns of being in the world. I describe four clinical stories of babies in PPN-oriented BEBA therapy sessions who are expressing very difficult patterns based upon earlier experiences in the womb, during birth and as newborns.
Babies and children live in the inner world of their earliest experiences, from the womb, birth and newborn period, throughout their daily lives. Often the meaning and significance of their challenges, reactions, and ways of being in the world are not recognized as patterns established so early in life.
Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology (PPN) oriented therapies have developed ways to identify and help babies, children, and families heal difficult early experiences and transform them into more life-enhancing experiences of being in the world. PPN-oriented therapeutic play is an effective way to do this and can be done in the office with a PPN professional and also at home with parents perceiving and engaging their children with this purpose in mind.
I discovered the prenatal and perinatal psychology community when I attended an APPPAH Congress in 1989. I began PPN therapy training and opened my PPN-oriented family psychotherapy practice in 1990. I have been captivated by babies and children as they show me more and more of their sophisticated multidimensional world of early influences, being in the world and communication. Therapeutic play, play with intention, presence, compassion and sensitive mutuality, can be incredibly healing and transformative for the whole family, as well as for the professionals involved! Kids and babies have shown me things beyond my beliefs or understandings of what is possible. I always feel I am 'catching up' to their fuller capacities and what they are showing us that so often goes unrecognized or misinterpreted just because it lies outside our "set" of possibility.
Kids have portrayed so many of their stories in my presence during therapeutic play – A 3-year-old tells her NICU story with a Playmobile medical suite; a 4-year-old moving in and out of a folded futon, shows us what happened with his planned C-section and separation from his mother, a 4-year-old portrays a complex sequence of events with several symbols from my play therapy shelves of a stressful weekend when he was 5-month in utero, a 9-month-old baby crawls over to a doll and expresses his grief over the loss of his twin during the first weeks of pregnancy, and a toddler tells the story she's holding onto of something that happened to her mother 20 years ago.
I now have retired from providing in-person PPN play therapy. In my private consultation practice, I continue to consult with families and mentor them to incorporate PPN-oriented play in their lives. Babies, kids, and families have taught me SO MUCH over the years. I want to give forward some of the gems I have learned to help you.
For more information about our upcoming PPN Therapeutic Play Webinar Series for Parents and Professionals (Grandparents, too!) March, 2018, click here. Discounted pricing for early registration.


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Q: How to delete snowflake target table using Spark/PySpark I am trying to delete a target snowflake table which I have created using Pyspark in Databricks platform.
Any help guys, I could not find any solution.

A: Use the runQuery() method of the Utils object to execute DDL/DML SQL statements, in addition to queries, e.g.:
var sfOptions = Map(
    "sfURL" -> "<account_name>.snowflakecomputing.com",
    "sfAccount" -> "<account_name>",
    "sfUser" -> "<user_name>",
    "sfPassword" -> "<password>",
    "sfDatabase" -> "<database>",
    "sfSchema" -> "<schema>",
    "sfWarehouse" -> "<warehouse>",
    )
Utils.runQuery(sfOptions, "DROP TABLE MY_TABLE")

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Stephanie Martin was inspired to write The Llandovery Castle by a plaque in a Toronto church dedicated to Agnes 'Nan' McKenzie a Canadian nursing sister who died on the hospital ship. Martin realized that she had never heard of the Llandovery Castle or the tragedy that surrounded it, even though it was, at the time it occurred, Canada's worst naval disaster.
Martin joined forces with playwright Paul Ciufo and together they vowed to bring the nurses' story to light, embarking on a journey of historical research and interviews with relatives and descendants of those who served on the Llandovery Castle.
Stephanie Martin, a distinguished composer and conductor, is associate professor of music at York University's School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design. She is director of Schola Magdalena, conductor emeritus of Pax Christi Chorale, and past director of music at the historic church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Toronto.
Paul Ciufo, a noted Canadian playwright, was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards for his play Reverend Jonah, which premiered at Blyth Festival in 2007. Ciufo's historical drama Narcisse garnered a Governor General's History Award, and his radio drama On Convoy was produced and broadcast nationally and internationally by CBC Radio.


Lower Granite is a patch of rock that sits between the road to Yellowstone and the Shoshone River. It's a band of granite that stretches from near the power plant upstream towards the base of the Buffalo Bill Dam. This area is seeing a lot of development and new routes are being put up frequently. Several sections contain a variety of routes within a closely confined area, while others only have one route so far. There's a mix of trad climbing and bolted routes.
Climbing in Cody has generally been centered at the Island, practically right above Lower Granite on the south side of Rattlesnake Mountain. A band of nicely featured rock, Lower Granite is where new development is happening. So new in fact that one route was put up January 2015. It's got easy access, and is a good three season area. There's not much sun and the winds howl down the canyon especially in winter.
You can get to Lower Granite by a leisurely stroll up the Hayden Arch Bridge Road, or drop down into it from above. Park at the large paved pull out on the south side of the road right before the first small tunnel as you're driving from Cody. Hop over the guardrail and slip down the slope, or if you're more adventurous, cross the highway and find the drain flume. It's about 5' wide with a gentle downhill trend. It's tight so probably not the best for a claustrophobic climber.
When you get onto the road below, you can access whichever wall you want. There are lots of routes to the north along the roadway, and even some south across the river. To get to the routes on the south side Shoshone, you'll have to walk almost to the dam where the rocks are close enough to hop across. Definitely don't try this in winter when the rocks are icy and also not before peak runoff is over. On a high snow year there can be excessive releases from the dam until July, making any attempt at crossing the river foolhardy.
Lower Granite contains a handful of easier 5.9/10 and enough 5.12/13 to satisfy any climber. You can belay right on the road and the ambiance doesn't get much better than listening to the roar of the river and watching the play of the light through the canyon.
If you're itching to set some new routes, this is your area. Stop in at Sunlight Sports for the latest intel on the area. Lower Granite is good for families with older kids that you don't have to worry about falling into the river. Know that there can be traffic on the road from employees of the power plant and the dam.
From Cody, take US HWY 14/16/20 west about 4 miles. Locate the large pull off to the left where the historical marker is. Park here and follow the directions above to get to the climbing area. You can also park at the Hayden Arch Bridge and walk up the road about two miles.
There are no fees and no facilities. Leashed pets are welcome, but they might get bored since there's not a huge area to explore due to the proximity of the river.


Kusel, E. 2013. DECAF - AUTEC Beaked Whales - Single Sensor case study. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/720) on yyyy-mm-dd.
These data were used to characterize the performance of the automatic detector. A 6-minute recording from hydrophone 57 was manually checked for beaked whale clicks. This 6-minute section was part of the main 6-day dataset used in the case study. The automatic detector was used on the same sound file, and the results compared. For each manually detected click, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was calculated, the quality of the click was judged and it was noted whether or not the click was detected by the automatic detector.
This case study used a single hydrophone at AUTEC to estimate density of beaked whales around the sensor, based on counts of detected beaked whale clicks. Using propagation modelling, information about the source level of the clicks and characteristics of the automatic click detector, the effective detection radius around the hydrophone was estimated. Together with information about clicking rates of beaked whales, this enabled density of beaked whales around the hydrophone to be estimated.
Time zone is GMT. Note hydrophone location is approximate.
(click the 'from the Bahamas: AUTEC' under the Blainville's Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon densirostris, subheading).
Küsel, E. T., D. K. Mellinger, L. Thomas, T. Marques, D. Moretti & J. Ward. 2011. Method for cetacean density estimation from single fixed sensors using passive acoustics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 129: 3610-3622.


It's a repost, but I thought I'd remind my faithful readers that I'll be taking part in the Gower Macmarathon in a week's time. Renate and I have been doing some training in West Yorkshire (where coincidentally there where a number of excellent real-ale pubs) and both expect to be fit enough. The Gower Macmarathon is a sponsored 22 mile walk from Rhossilli to Mumbles in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. You'll find my Just Giving widget to the right of this post and it'd be great if we could get to our modest target of £200. If you are reading this by email or RSS feed, the direct URL is: http://www.justgiving.com/Chris-Jobling. Thanks to those supporters who have already contributed!
Hopefully, I'll be tweeting on-route so you can follow our progress on the day! I hope to have a blog posting after the event!


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Mohammed Rafi
What Success - November 23, 2017
Mohammed Rafi, who was one of the greatest playback singers in the Hindi film Industry, born on 24 December 1924, In the village of Kotla Sultan Singh, Punjab, India.
His father name was Haji Ali Muhammad and his mother name was Allah Rakhi Bai. Rafi was the second eldest of six brothers. His brother's name was Shaheed, Parveen, Hamid, Khalid, and Nasreen. Rafi came from Islam Religion.
Personal Life:
Rafi married twice in his life. first, he married his cousin Bashira. They had one son Saheed. Their marriage life ended due to political tension during the partition in 1947. later he married Bilquis Banu. They had 4 children. Nasreen, Khalid, Parveen, and Hamid.
In 1941, He made his first debut as playback singer in Lahore with the 'Soniye Nee, Heeriye Nee'. In 1944, He moved to Mumbai to try his luck for the singing career in Hindi Film Industry. In 1945, He made his first Hindi film debut with the film of 'Gaon Ki Gori'. at the time, He appeared in two Hindi movies. He had appeared on the screen for Tera Jalwa Jis Ne Dekha song in the film Laila Majnu. Rafi sang many songs such as "Mere Sapnon Ki Rani, Roohi Roohi", "Tera Khilona Toota Balak", and the duet with Noor Jehan in 1947 "Yahan Badla Wafa Ka". In 1949, He also sang solo songs with the music directors like Naushad, Shyam Sundar, and Husnlal Bhagatram. Rafi worked with S.D. Burman in several movies such as Pyaasa, Kagaz ke Phool, Kala Bazar, Nau Do Gyarah, Kala Pani, Tere Ghar Ke Samne, Aradhana, many other movies. With the Shankar Jaikishan, he gives the most of famous and hit songs in Hindi Film Industry. Rafi also produced his songs for the Actors like Shammi Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar under Shankar Jaikishan. Rafi also worked with Ravi. He received the National Film Award for the song Chaudhvin Ka Chand, which was sung by Ravi. With the partnership, Ravi and Rafi Produced several songs in the films like China Town, Kaajal, and Do Badan. Rafi had also worked many other singers and composers like Laxmikant-Pyarelal, O. P. Nayyar, and Madan Mohan. Rafi sang the highest number of duets with Asha Bhosle. Manna Dey and Lata Mangeshkar.
On 31 July 1980, Because of Massive Heart attack, He died at the age of 55.
His nickname was Pheeko.
He made his first public performance was at the age of 13.
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Rafi got about six Filmfare awards and one National Film Award.
Rafi had invited by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at his home.
Rafi fall in controversy with Lata Mangeshkar, During 1962, Lata claimed that the playback singers entitled to half of the 5% royalty claimed by the producers from the songs recorded by them.
The controversy over famous Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar, In a letter dated 11 June 1977 to the Guinness Book of World Records, Rafi had challenged the claim that Lata Mangeshkar has recorded the highest number of songs.
In 1948, He received the Silver Medal from the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.
In 1964, He won the Sur Singer Award.
In 1966, He received the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for the film Arzoo.
In 1967, He awarded the Padma Shri from Government of India.
In 1977, He received the National Film Award for the film Hum Kisise Kum Nahi.
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SanDisk announces a 200GB microSD card, priced at $399.99
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March 3, 2015 by Gaurav Shukla
Storage solutions provider SanDisk has unveiled the world's highest capacity microSD card at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new microSD card can store upto 200GB of data.
According to SanDisk, it is using the proprietary technology developed by the company last year for the 128GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC card and has created a new design and production process that allows for more bits per die.
"We continue to push technology boundaries to deliver record-breaking solutions that transform the way consumers use their mobile devices. By focusing on achieving new capacity and speed milestones, we are able to deliver trusted mobile memory solutions that give consumers the freedom to never stop capturing, saving, or sharing – with the benefit of fast speeds to transfer it all quickly," said Dinesh Bahal, vice president, product marketing, SanDisk.
The 200GB microSD card from SanDisk provides transfer speed of up to 90MB/s and should be compatible with all the Android smartphones and tablets in the market, which tout the support for cards up to 128GB.
The 200GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, Premium Edition, features a ten-year warranty and will be available worldwide in Q2 for $399.99.
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The Future of Workplace Will Depend on Universal Basic Income And New Humanities
Innovation in technology has had multiple repercussions; one key area has been the future of work. At the moment, in India, there are 17 mn new entrants into the workforce year on year however only 5.5 mn jobs created. This implies that people of the future will be directed to one of two options. They can either depend entirely on a new concept open to debate called 'Universal Basic Income' (UBI) or to acquire a combination of technical and social skills that we call 'New Humanities'.
Universal Basic Income is a concept the idea that all adults should receive small, no-strings-attached stipends from public funds. Guardians of economic policy responsibility, such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD ) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have this year undertaken serious modeling of a hypothetical introduction of UBI in certain countries. Basic income experiments are underway in Finland, the Netherlands, Kenya, Canada, and the United States.
NASSCOM has identified 55 new job roles and 155 new-age skills that will be relevant for the future. 65% of children entering primary school today will end up in jobs that are completely new and don't exist yet. Therefore people today must focus on upgrading to a set of skills that are not exclusively technology oriented, but also integrate a basic understanding of human nature. This is called 'New Humanities.' The future of the workplace will depend on these two primary trends, re-skilling of the new workforce and the final decision on a basic salary for survival provided the state to its citizens.
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2016 Porsche 911 R debuts at Geneva auto show
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Following yesterday's leak, we now have official details on the new Porsche 911 R following the car's world debut this morning at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. The car is designed for those Porsche purists lamenting the somewhat radical direction engineers took with the latest 911 GT3 and 911 GT3 RS, particularly the decision to drop the manual transmission from the cars.
It celebrates the original 911 R, which turns 50 next year. The original was a lighter, more powerful version of the first-generation 911 that Porsche built to gain homologation for international sports car racing. The new one might not be a homologation special but it still follows the stripped-out race car for the road ethos of the original.
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The modern 911 R is based on the hardcore GT3 RS, though instead of a dual-clutch transmission it features a conventional manual transmission, one with six forward gears. Recall, other manual-equipped 911s have seven forward gears. The engine is the same 4.0-liter flat-six fitted to the GT3 RS and here output remains at 500 horsepower and 338 pound-feet of torque. According to Porsche, the 911 R can accelerate from 0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds and reach a top speed of 200 mph.
You'll also notice that the 911 R misses out on all the aero aids of the GT3 RS, including the massive rear wing.
2016 Porsche 911 R, 2016 Geneva Motor Show
This has allowed engineers to keep weight down. In fact, weighing just 3,021 lb, the 911 R is 110 lb lighter than the GT3 RS. Further weight-saving mods include carbon fiber for the trunk lid and front fenders, magnesium for the roof, and a stripped-out cabin (there's no rear seat, air conditioning or a radio). Carbon fiber is also used for the seat frames while the seat centers are upholstered in a houndstooth design, paying homage to the first-generation 911.
Other upgrades include unique tuning of the rear-wheel-steering system fitted to the latest 911 variants as well as the car's electronic stability control system. There are also standard carbon-ceramic brake rotors, a mechanical limited-slip differential at the rear axle, forged 20-inch wheels and a rev-match function for the transmission.
Porsche will build just 991 examples of the 911 R, making it an instant classic. The total number of cars represents Porsche's internal designation for the current-generation 911. The car is available to order now and should be reaching dealers in the United States late this summer, as a 2016 model. Porsche has confirmed that pricing starts at $185,950, including a $1,050 destination charge.
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Owner of large, open-pit mines in Nova Scotia, sold to Australian firm
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The Touquoy operation relies on huge volumes of ore going through mass crushing and leaching to draw out the tiny amounts of gold.
A large, open-pit gold operation located in the historic Nova Scotia mining district of Moose River has been sold to an Australian firm.
A news release issued earlier this week says St Barbara mining has acquired Atlantic Gold Corp., with plans to raise further capital for a possible listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Shareholders are receiving $2.90 per share for a total equity value of $722 million under terms of the takeover.
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The company has been mining gold in open pit operations at the Touquoy mine and has mapped out four deposits in some of the province's long-dormant underground gold districts.
The modern mines differ vastly from the underground shafts which once honeycombed the area, and made Moose River the world-famous site of a 1936 cave-in and rescue.
The Touquoy operation, just a 90-minute drive from Halifax, relies on huge volumes of ore going through mass crushing and leaching to draw out the tiny amounts of gold.
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They are then melted into gold bars on the site.
The growth of the mining in Nova Scotia near a major population centre and shipping facilities has been held up as a signal that strong gold prices and lower-cost open pit operations are capable of giving abandoned mining areas a fresh lease on life.
However, local residents and environmental groups have expressed concern about how water stored in holding ponds will be treated prior to their return to local watersheds on the Eastern Shore.
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The Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association has argued nitrogen in the effluent – in part from the explosives – may lead to unnatural enrichment of surrounding waters, leading to potential fish kills.
In addition, the movement of ore by heavy trucking to the crushing site has generated criticism due to noise and dust levels.
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has been examining the impacts of the second open pit, the Beaver Dam project, which would have trucks carrying ore over rural highways to Touquoy.
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All of England 'likely to be in lockdown by end of January' as cases soar
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England will is likely to be in a national lockdown by the end of January, a expert advising the government has warned.
Doctor Mike Tildesley, a member of a committee which advises SAGE, said more restrictions are likely.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4 today, he said: 'Cases are rising in a really concerning way, so I suspect that unfortunately we will see a ramping-up even further of restrictions, probably more of the country being in Tier 4 or ultimately probably a national lockdown before we get to the end of January'.
The committee he sits, the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M), advises the government as a subgroup of SAGE, The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
It comes as millions more people were plunged into Tier 4 restrictions yesterday.
Three quarters of the country is now in the strictest lockdown level, told to stay at home where possible and barred from meeting up in groups.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs: 'Sharply rising cases and the hospitalisations that follow demonstrate the need to act where the virus is spreading.'
He said the majority of new cases 'are believed to be the new variant', adding: 'Unfortunately, this new variant is now spreading across most of England and cases are doubling fast.
'It is therefore necessary to apply tier four measures to a wider area, including the remaining parts of the South East, as well as large parts of the Midlands, the North West, the North East and the South West.'
A new mutant strain of coronavirus has been detected, which spreads more quickly than the previous strain. It was more prevalent in London and the south east of England, but has also been detected elsewhere.
Ministers were forced to act as hospitals near breaking point across the country, with record numbers of patients and more than 50,000 daily cases for two days in a row.
Ambulances were seen queueing outside hospitals in London and Birmingham, while ICUs in the capital have asked major hospitals in Yorkshire to take patients in need of intensive care.
Last night a new plan for schools reopening in January was also announced, meaning many pupils will go back later than planned for in person teaching.
Boris Johnson said that some primary schools, including those in London, would stay closed instead of opening as planned next week.
Secondary school pupils will go back a week later than planned, with exam pupils returning on January 11 and other years returning on January 18.
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After his surprise visit to Baghdad on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd from the right — no, not that photo, that's Ringo) couldn't resist recreating the cover of The Beatles Abbey Road album as he walked across the tarmac of Baghdad International Airport with members of his staff. "I wanted to do the butcher version of their Yesterday and Today album but I found out Hilary already did that in Lebanon last year," he said. "While it's hard to top the great job Madeleine did with the Help album in Germany, I can only hope I get to do the Sgt. Pepper's cover before my term is up."
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There doesn't seem to be an official method for collecting votes, so post 'em here and we'll assume posted votes are a subset of the actual votes. Everyone except Excalabur has been nominated, and you currently need 137 votes to be elected.
There's also no closing date for the election. I guess if all players vote, or someone reaches an unassailable lead, we're good to go.
Note also that some players currently have negative votes.
I vote for myself as many times as permitted.
I'm not bothering to read the voting rules, lol. But I vote for Kevan even if it isn't worth anything.
I vote for Kevan, times 29 if necessary.
In the interests of making it a contest worth fighting, I vote for Bucky, although my 18 votes are for sale to the highest bidder.
I negatively vote for arthexis, twice.
Qwazukee x2, as he's my only teammate.
Good point. I change my 0 votes to Shem.
*does alittle math* Heh, theres a way to make this come down to just one person's vote. If DC votes for bucky, that would be 99 overall. if shem and me(not an offical vote yet) went for kev that'd also be 99. kev would no doubt vote himself and art, though unlikely, votes for bucky still leaves it a tie, no new points considered yet, leaving woobles -2 to decide a winner lol.
Eh, I'll max vote Kev.


Soil Service News- Lawn Care To-Do's, Soil Renovation, Moving Plants Indoors and more!
Fall seeding is winding down, and you might get away with seeding in full sun areas but success in shade is iffy at best. However, sod is a great option this time of year if you want grass. Feel free to call us for your sod needs and we'll be glad to explain our "hold" list and how it works to ensure you have freshly cut sod for your lawn!
Cool season grass (fescue, bluegrass, and ryegrass) love to be fed with high nitrogen fertilizers (the first number on the bag) in fall. This feeding plays a critical role in root growth that prepares your lawn for next summer's heat and drought stress. As a general rule of thumb, about 2/3 of the total nitrogen for the year should be applied in fall and the remainder in spring. If you still haven't made the first application we urge you to get moving NOW. The "winterizer/dormant feed" is made when the grass is still green but you're pretty much done mowing; late October and into November. Soil Service Garden Center stocks Ferti-lome Lawn Food + Iron and Ferti-lome Winterizer for these applications that are critical for a quality lawn.
Believe it or not, October is the best month to control perennial broadleaf weeds such as dandelion, clover, wild violets, and creeping Charlie. Ferti-lome Weed Free Zone or Ferti-lome Triclopyr Ester with Spreader-Sticker are the products of choice right now to control these common lawn weeds.
Different weeds have different control strategies so if you are not sure what weeds you have, feel free to dig them up (include roots) and bring them to the Garden Center. We're happy to give it our best shot of weed ID and best control strategies, but please do this sooner rather than later!
Sometimes an area seeded in neglected bare ground can have chickweed and henbit pop up in October. These are winter annual weeds that germinate in October then begin rapid growth in early spring. Ferti-lome Weed Free Zone is very effective on these weeds in fall and early spring but be sure to read the seeding restrictions for newly seeded areas.
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Many control products can lose their effectiveness if they freeze. To eliminate the guesswork about which ones can or can't freeze, we suggest storing ALL liquid control products above freezing and preferably above 40 degrees F.
Fall is the best time to "do the digging (ugh!!!)" to renovate your flower and garden beds with soil amendments such as cotton burr compost or Happy Frog Soil Conditioner with beneficial mycorrhizae fungi. Our heavy clay soil needs amendments. Adding them now gives them time to mingle with the soil before spring which is a good thing. It's like making lasagna or chili where it always tastes better the next day. You also don't have to worry about rushing to get plants in the ground in spring because the soil prep is already done. That's a win for you and your plants! So, take advantage of these nice fall days to be outside and get er' done!
BRINGING PLANTS INDOORS THIS FALL?
With winter fast approaching, now is the time to bring tropical plants inside. As we prepare for this delicate transition, here are tips to ensure they stay healthy and happy.
Bring inside– before temperatures drop below 50 degrees F.
Treat for insects and disease before bringing them indoors.UseBayer 3 in 1 Insect, Disease and Mite Control, Ferti-lome Organic Neem or Triple Action Plus.
Light– place by bright window or use artificial grow lights. Do not let direct sun hit plants during the day. As the plant acclimates to less light intensity, it is not uncommon for some leaves to turn yellow and drop. This can happen weeks or even months after moving them indoors and a natural response to the plant adjusting to its new environment. Think of your plants as being in a resting stage that don't need much water or fertilizer.
Clean-Up– PoKon Leaf Shine will shine your leaves without harming them.
Fungus gnats- are common and pesky in winter, usually due to overwatering in high organic soils. It doesn't take them long to establish but a control product like Hi Yield Systemic Granular (imidicloprid) or organic Bacillus thuriengensis (Mosquito Bits) are effective.
Fertilizing- Our houseplants get very little if any plant food until spring. It is important to let plants rest during the dormant season, allowing them to build up energy for next year's growth.
Watering- When watering, make sure the top soil layer is dry (stick your finger an inch or so down to check), then water. Allow excess water to drain completely. Avoid using the "wilt test" as the roots can be damaged after periods of frequent over drying. However….
Less water is better. Overwatering is a sure way to cause root rot. Watch for yellowing and brown leaf tips which are signs of either too much or too little water. It may take time to get used to their new watering schedule but patience and keeping a close eye on them for the first month or so indoors will generally sort things out!
LEAVE CERAMIC POTS OUTSIDE IN WINTER?
The Garden Center loves ceramic pots but is not happy if they crack during our cold winters!
A leading cause of cracking is ice buildup in the bottom of the pot. This means the drain hole should be open at all times. Ice can also surround the outside of the pot so we suggest a Down Under (think elevated coaster) available at the Garden Center. Also put a 2-3 inch layer of large bark mulch, pottery shards or lava rock in the bottom. Of course we can't guarantee that these safeguards always work so if in doubt and you have room, store them inside!
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Emory University Hospital ranks in top 10 nationally for quality and safety excellence
Janet Christenbury
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University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), a national organization comprised of most of the nation's leading academic medical centers, has ranked Emory University Hospital (which includes Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital) eighth in the nation in the 2014 UHC Quality Leadership Awards. This is the fourth consecutive year that Emory University Hospital has ranked in the top 10 for demonstrating superior performance in delivering high-quality care and safety excellence.
The announcement was made at the UHC Annual Conference in Las Vegas on Thurs., Oct. 23.
Emory University Hospital Midtown, which is Emory Healthcare's second academic and eligible hospital, ranked in the top quartile as 22nd nationally.
The Quality Leadership Award honors top performers in UHC's Quality and Accountability Study, which ranks performance in the areas of: mortality, effectiveness, safety, equity, patient centeredness and efficiency. These rankings are the most rigorous in health care and look at how major teaching hospitals are doing in multiple dimensions of quality and safety, and are traditionally looked upon as providing the best, most non-biased national quality measurement system available for teaching hospitals.
"Since 2006, we have been on a journey to have our two academic hospitals- Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown – rank highly by the UHC," says John Fox, president and CEO of Emory Healthcare. "We are proud of our successes, as our number one priority at Emory Healthcare is to provide safe, high-quality care for our patients."
Last year, Emory University Hospital ranked second and Emory University Hospital Midtown ranked third nationally in the UHC rankings. Emory Healthcare is the only organization to ever have had two hospitals within the same system rank in the top 10 (both in 2012 and 2013).
Academic medical centers typically treat America's sickest, most complex patient cases, and a disproportionate number of patients who are uninsured, underinsured or indigent. Additionally, Emory's hospitals, like many other academic medical institutions, are centers for cutting-edge scientific research and biomedical innovation and training, leading the way for tomorrow's treatments and cures.
Formed in 1984, UHC is an alliance of 117 academic medical centers and 310 of their affiliated hospitals, all focused on delivering world-class patient care, representing a majority of the nation's academic medical centers.
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Of all the things we've tried to do to keep our house warm and our energy costs down, one thing we'd not had done was the cavity wall insulation. Our path to getting this done started with an inspection where a couple of guys turned up and drilled a hole in the wall - Yep, we've got cavity walls in our 1964 house. We were told that there was no charge, no catches and if we wanted our loft insulated they could do that too - all under a government-funded grant scheme.


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Humanitarian assistance has long been a part of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in direct support of the broader strategic goals underlying U.S. policy, such as reconstruction and stabilization. Thus, although they are often short-term, such projects must be designed and implemented with a longer-term vision so they are compatible with these broader policy goals. Project assessment is central to achieving this objective. In response, the Office of the Secretary of Defense asked RAND to develop a handbook to support the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of humanitarian assistance projects to assist DoD staff and their civilian counterparts in developing, monitoring, and assessing these projects and in collaborating to achieve broader strategic-level goals. The prototype handbook includes two parts: an M&E primer, which provides a thorough introduction to M&E terms, approaches, and best practices, and a step-by-step user's guide to walk project teams through the data collection and monitoring processes at various stages, including project planning, implementation, completion, and follow-up. It also includes guidelines for involving the local population and avoiding bias when conducting surveys, interviews, and focus groups. The accompanying worksheets guide users through the planning and monitoring requirements for humanitarian assistance projects, including management and core indicators for all humanitarian assistance projects and additional indicators for each specific type of project currently undertaken by DoD. Further testing and feedback from project staff in the field will help refine the prototype handbook and increase its utility in future project assessment initiatives.
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Q: How can I fill a TableViewCell with an array that comes from web service? I need to fill a TableViewCell with info stored in an array that is conformed with the data I brought from a REST API. I was trying to make one class for each specific category of the array from the service, and then put this array on a 'for loop' to then try to fill the TableViewCell. But I think that I'm declaring my parameters incorrectly because I'm having many errors.
The classes I conform are:
class CouponDesc : AnyObject {
    var description: String

    init(description: String) {
        self.description = description
    }
}

class CouponCat : AnyObject {
    var category: String

    init(category: String) {
        self.category = category
    }
}

class CouponTitle : AnyObject {
    var title: String

    init(title: String) {
        self.title = title
    }
}

The categories I need to bring from the web service are: Title, Description and Category from a coupon, so that's why I made those classes.
The for loop I'm making is this:
for index in mainCoupon {
    let description = (mainCoupon[index as! Int] as AnyObject).value(forKey: "promoDescription") as! String
    let newCoupon = CouponDesc(description: description)
    self.couponsDesc.append(newCoupon)
}

for index in mainCoupon {
    let title = (mainCoupon[index as! Int] as AnyObject).value(forKey: "nameStore") as! String
    let newCoupon = CouponTitle(title: title)
    self.couponsTitle.append(newCoupon)
}

for index in mainCoupon {
    let category = (mainCoupon[index as! Int] as AnyObject).value(forKey: "category") as! String
    let newCoupon = CouponCat(category: category)
    self.couponsCat.append(newCoupon)
}

The mainCoupon is the array that comes from the REST API:
let miURL = URL(string: RequestConstants.requestUrlBase)
let request =  NSMutableURLRequest(url: miURL!)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
if let data = try? Data(contentsOf: miURL! as URL) {
    do {
        let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: .mutableContainers) as? NSDictionary
        let parseJSON = json
        let object = parseJSON?["object"] as! NSDictionary
        let mainCoupon = object["mainCoupon"] as! NSArray

I think that my mistake is in this section:
let category = (mainCoupon[index as! Int] as AnyObject).value(forKey: "category") as! String

because I'm not sure how I have to assign that category to the coupon's array. At last, where I assign the array to the TableViewCell is here:
 func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell", for: indexPath) as! HomeTableViewCell

    cell.couponImg.image = couponsImg[indexPath.row]
    cell.couponTitle.text = couponsTitle[indexPath.row] as AnyObject as? String
    cell.couponDescription.text = couponsDesc[indexPath.row] as AnyObject as? String
    cell.couponCategory.text = couponsCat[indexPath.row] as AnyObject as? String

    return cell
}

Also I'm not sure that I'm putting the correct value to the cell:
cell.couponTitle.text = couponsTitle[indexPath.row] as AnyObject as? String'

I don't know if this is the best way.
The error I'm receiving is:

Could not cast value of type '__NSDictionaryM' (0x10a1aa2b0) to 'NSNumber' (0x1093a14a8).

And it's because of this line:
let description = (mainCoupon[index as! Int] as AnyObject).value(forKey: "promoDescription") as! String'

The Class of my TableViewCell is this:
class HomeTableViewCell: UITableViewCell {
    @IBOutlet weak var couponImg: UIImageView!
    @IBOutlet weak var couponTitle: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var couponDescription: UITextView!
    @IBOutlet var starButtons: [UIButton]!
    @IBOutlet weak var couponCategory: UILabel!

A: No need for subclassing AnyObject here class CouponDesc : AnyObject.
No need to have 3 different objects to store your data; your data is simple not complex. However if you want, you can still use three objects but you should group them later on like:
class CouponMainDescription {
  let desc: CouponDesc
  let title: CouponTitle
  // on and on
}

I will use a simple struct with a failable init which will return nil if one of the key's value is nil
struct CouponDescription {
    let stars:Int
    let distance:Double
    let address:String
    // do the same for other data members
    init?(_ dict:[String:Any]?) {
          guard let _dict = dict,
                let stars = _dict["stars"] as? Int,
                let distance = _dict["distance"] as? Double,
                let address = _dict["address"] as? String
            else { return nil }

        self.stars = stars
        self.distance = distance
        self.address = address

    }
}

let arrCoupons = [CouponDescription?]() //<<-- we have an array to populate your tableView

In your parsing method

after this
    let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: .mutableContainers) as? [String:Any]

    let mainCoupons = json["mainCoupon"] as? NSArray //<-- mainCoupons is an array of object/ dictionary so

   let arr = mainCoupon.map({ CouponDescription($0 as? [String:Any])})

instead of using a for Loop, using map we'd take each object of that mainCoupons Array and transform each object to CouponDescription Object, and the result will be append to  arr which is the same type with arrCoupons, finally assign arr to arrCoupons & reload your tableView

or even using flatMap to remove the optional (which is better in this case)
 let arr = mainCoupon.flatMap({ CouponDescription($0 as? [String:Any])})

where arr is a type of [CouponDescription] not [CouponDescription?], thus change this let arrCoupons = [CouponDescription?]() to let arrCoupons = [CouponDescription]()


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Jan 10, 2022, 06:29AM
Four Days Since Yesterday
Peter Bogdanovich died underrated with work ahead of him.
In 1977, Charlie Chaplin died on Christmas. The next day, Howard Hawks died. The tributes and obituaries for the former were plenty, the latter perfunctory, if any. Forty-five years later, Peter Bogdanovich and Sidney Poitier repeated the pattern, and it felt appropriate and sad that Bogdanovich happened to die on January 6, a day that will never "sit aside" Pearl Harbor and 9/11, despite the best efforts of too many politicians and journalists—in any case, they were occupied. Last Thursday's PBS News Hour ended with a brief but sweet item about Bogdanovich, only after nearly an hour of "J6" material. Poitier got his own segment the next night, but it too was abbreviated by more coverage of an event whose important can't match the work of either of these two men, especially Poitier.
Bogdanovich was never an openly political person, and according to his ex-wife Polly Platt, he said nothing when Howard Hawks told them in the late-1960s that students protesting the Vietnam War should be rounded up and shot. Unlike his New Hollywood contemporaries, Bogdanovich never dealt with the era in which he was working. He was fixated on the past, from John Ford to Howard Hawks, to Orson Welles, to Alfred Hitchcock, all of whom he befriended and interviewed multiple times. Along with peers Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, Bogdanovich talked constantly about the Classic Hollywood films that moved and inspired him, and helped to preserve and restore them for all of time, or as many pieces as possible.
Eighty-two isn't premature, but Bogdanovich wasn't a sick man, and his death was unexpected, especially considering how recently James Kenney contacted him for a piece on 1988's Illegally Yours. I wrote about 1981's They All Laughed the same month, and never expected to write about Bogdanovich's death less than a year later. Besides hints of a director's cut of Squirrels to the Nuts, his final film (released as She's Funny That Way in 2014), he was still talking about trying to get Wait for Me made, a dream project and a ghost story written after Dorothy Stratten's murder in 1980. Like Hawks, he leaves behind the premise (and perhaps a script) of what could've been his greatest film, a twilight triumph. But as it stands, Bogdanovich's last magnificent film was They All Laughed, released in 1981 and quickly forgotten or never seen in the first place.
My parents, both of whom love The Last Picture Show, had never heard of the movie, and when I watched it with them in the spring of 2020, they weren't impressed. No matter—this man made movies for everyone, a director as nimble and tonally flexible as a Classic Hollywood director, unlike many of his New Hollywood contemporaries. Robert Altman could never make anything but Robert Altman movies, and even Scorsese and Spielberg had their tics and limitations. From Targets in 1968 to They All Laughed 13 years later, Bogdanovich made nine movies that, like the work of friend and mentor Hawks, are all very different. The thread that runs through Bogdanovich's best work, like the professionalism of Hawks or the Irish-American melancholy of John Ford, is the invincibility of love. "I ain't over her yet…"
And the bus is off to Korea. Nancy Sinatra wrote on Twitter that, "Peter Bogdanovich was a very nice man who I think never really got his due. He was not only a great director but also a passionate film historian. He could speak about it for hours. My condolences go out to Peter's family and all who loved him. Godspeed, Peter." I didn't expect anything else, but nearly every obituary, memorial, or tribute just highlights The Last Picture Show; What's Up, Doc?; and Paper Moon. Everything else is skipped over, left for film fans and directors to scream about for decades on their own. I realize that They All Laughed is a weird movie, but so is The Last Picture Show—Ford meets Antonioni—and both are masterpieces.
Ditto What's Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, and Saint Jack. Even if the quality of his movies dropped sharply after 1981, he kept working and writing, giving invaluable interviews he conducted with Classic Hollywood directors including all of the above and Josef von Sternberg, Raoul Walsh, Allan Dwan, Robert Aldrich, Don Siegel, and many others. He was a constant presence on Turner Classic Movies, numerous podcasts, and rec hall readings where he'd do his impressions of his famous beloved friends (they really are good).
The documentary One Day Since Yesterday emphasizes how famous Bogdanovich and Cybill Shepherd, his girlfriend at the time, were in the 1970s: he was guest-hosting for Johnny Carson, they were on the cover of People kissing, and as the decade wore on the inevitable backlash came, and the press got their pokers out and never put them away. The public, as always, stopped paying attention, and one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation couldn't get adequate financing for a movie in the last 40 years of his life. An embarrassment and indictment of the press more than anyone for its disproportionate power considering how little it contributes compared to the artists it always burns in the end.
But like I wrote last April, it's not worth dwelling too much in this, it'll just put you in a bad mood. This man made masterpieces, helped finish Orson Welles' final film The Other Side of the Wind in time for release only three years ago, and compiled the wisdom, wisecracks, and sincere advice of the men who more than anyone else created the movie "monoform" that Peter Watkins talks about. Like Scorsese, he'd be a saint just for his archive, interview, and restoration work, even if he had never made a single film.
—Follow Nicky Smith on Twitter: @nickyotissmith
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American Men
Steven Spielberg - The South Bank Show (1982)
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An overview of the NEET PG entrance exam
by Dr. Prateek Charuchandra Joshi (DNB AIR 291, MH state rank 51)
A year ago the Supreme Court of India, in a landmark decision, introduced the National
Eligibility cum Entrance Examination (NEET) as a single entrance examination for admission to
both Undergraduate and Postgraduate entrance examinations. It has been advertised as a
single, fair and unbiased portal through which admissions to MD, MS, postgraduate University
Diploma courses as well as Diplomate of National Board (DNB) courses will be made.
Let's take a brief overview of the new system and how one should handle the new format in
order to achieve a target rank. At the outset I'd like to thank Dr. Nakeya for giving me the
opportunity to contribute to this forum once more after a long gap of almost a year; and that
being said let's move over to the basics of the NEET-PG scenario.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS:
A single common entrance exam has been in the works since a long time. In the year 2000
the All India Postgraduate Entrance exam (AIPG) was introduced as a national level entrance
test which would allot seats to medical students from all colleges all over the country. Back
in the day this exam was a single three-hour session written exam with single correct
answer type MCQs to be marked with black pen on an answer paper which would then be
evaluated using an OMR scanner. The exam was conducted by the AIIMS (New Delhi) and
was the norm till the year 2013 when the NEET PG was announced.
This new exam aimed to encompass all seats across all colleges nationwide; however, due to
some irregularities in the protocol the concept was quashed by the Supreme Court of India
and the All India PG entrance was reinstated. However, the exam conducting body for the
NEET, the National Board of Examinations, took over as the conducting body for the AIPG
with effect from 2013. The independent AIPG was conducted till 2016 after which the NEET
PG has been announced once more, and the NBE remains the exam conducting body for the
new exam pattern.
HOW IS IT DIFFERENT FROM STATE OR OTHER ENTRANCE EXAMS?
The marking scheme and subject-wise distribution of marks differs significantly from the
state level entrance tests. Also, the NEET employs PROMETRIC, a psychometric analysis
algorithm which is used to rank students not only according to their absolute scores but also
as per WHICH questions the student has answered correctly in order to arrive at the target
score. PROMETRIC assigns a different score to each question which is a rough measure of
the difficulty level of the question as well as the discrimination score or the ability of the
question to differentiate between an average candidate and a topper.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE STATE AND DNB ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS?
As of the 2017 admission session, separate State and DNB entrance examinations stand
scrapped. However, a separate merit list will be generated comprising of students from the
given State (as per domicile or MBBS passing) and released by the Directorate of Medical
Education for the state; and seats in the 50% state quota can be availed of via this merit list.
DNB seat allotment will be done via a separate counselling procedure.
This applies to all States and Union Territories except Jammu & Kashmir, Telangana and
Andhra Pradesh. These States will retain their separate entrance examination.
WHAT IS PROMETRIC, DIFFICULTY LEVEL AND DISCRIMINATION SCORE?
PROMETRIC is a psychometric analysis software which is routinely applied to scores
generated from exams like the CAT, GATE and USMLE in order to provide a percentile
ranking of the exam aspirants.
It relies on two parameters which judge the QUALITY OF THE QUESTION.
1. DIFFICULTY LEVEL: This one is fairly simple. It is a direct estimate of how tough the
question is, and it is inversely proportional to the number of people answering the question
However, simply the difficulty level is not sufficient to gauge the ability of the question to
select the best candidate. And therefore we come to the next criterion.
2. DISCRIMINATION SCORE: This score defines the ABILITY OF THE QUESTION to
DIFFERENTIATE between an average student and an above-average candidate.
As is visible from the graph, the tougher a question, the better is its ability to differentiate
the level of preparation, but WITHIN a physiological LIMIT; because beyond a limit, a very
difficult question cannot be answered even by the highest rankers and therefore is useless
to set apart the rankers.
Such questions fall into the far end of the spectrum where the difficulty level is
unnecessarily high at the cost of the discrimination score, such questions are unlikely to
affect the final score significantly.
HOW TO TACKLE THIS FORMAT?
As per this analysis, the most valued questions are the ones towards the dome of the curve,
which have a moderate difficulty level but a high discriminatory score. These questions are
generally NOT outlandish questions from obscure research papers, but tricky questions from
topics which we regularly cover in clinical postings and coaching classes.
Often a question will be asked on one of these frequently read topics, and the options will
contain one or the other "key phrase" which we have trained ourselves to associate with the
given topic.
Yet the question is framed such that this "key phrase" is not the answer to the question.
And this is why the discrimination score is high for questions such as these, because a wellprepared
student will READ the question carefully and spot the catch; whereas an average
candidate will erroneously mark the "key phrase" as the answer because they have trained
their minds in a Pavlovian conditioned fashion.
Since the advent of the NEET/NBE pattern, the era of MCQ-based study is drawing to an
end. A smart move is to use a notepad to list out which TOPICS are frequently asked, and to
cover as many related topics as possible. Outlandish facts and figures are not as valuable to
cover as are common yet confusing facts related to these high yield topics.
THIS WAS A BASIC OVERVIEW OF THE NEW FORMAT. FEEL FREE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ME ON THE CONTACT NUMBERS IN CASE OF ANY DIFFICULTY!
Written by Dr. Prateek Charuchandra Joshi (DNB AIR 291, MH state rank 51)
Resident Doctor Orthopedics,
B. J. Govt. Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals Pune
(Thanks Dr. Prateek for this super awesome review. Really appreciate you taking out time from your busy residency schedule to write this. -IkaN, on behalf of all Indian medicos preparing for NEET this year :))
Thanku dr.prateek..nd ikan ..useful..
Madhuri Reddy March 23, 2017 at 1:14 PM
Thank you so much ☺


Now available on the Northeast Ocean Data Portal are updates to the Energy & Infrastructure theme, including updated information about energy development projects. The Portal seeks to maintain up-to-date information about offshore energy projects in the northeast region.
This release includes new information about the Atlantic Link project that has been proposed in response to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Request for Proposals. The Atlantic Link proposal includes a 375-mile subsea transmission line routed on the seafloor from New Brunswick to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where it would connect to existing electricity grid infrastructure. The Northeast Ocean Data map shows Atlantic Link's preferred and alternative routes for the cable, which would carry electricity from wind and hydro sources in Canada.
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Home > Used Car Awards > Used Car Awards 2021 will be back in all their glory on November 29 hosted by Mike Brewer
Used Car Awards 2021 will be back in all their glory on November 29 hosted by Mike Brewer
The Used Car Awards will be back in all their glory on November 29 this year hosted by TV's Wheeler Dealer Mike Brewer.
Following the government's announcement and its road map out of coronavirus restrictions, Car Dealer has held extensive talks with the venue about putting the Used Car Awards, sponsored by Black Horse, back on.
The highlight of the used car calendar will go ahead at The Brewery, in central London, as planned on Monday, November 29.
Last year, due to coronavirus restrictions the event was cancelled and held purely online with Brewer hosting a special video event, which you can watch above.
A huge number of sponsors have already signed up to the 2021 event with packages selling fast as the industry looks forward to getting back together in person again.
The Brewery has agreed to only host the event if social distancing restrictions have been lifted and if they return for the winter, the event will be postponed and moved wholesale to 2022.
Brewer said: 'We know how desperately the industry wants to get back together and celebrate the amazing achievements they have pulled off since the start of the pandemic – and we're sure the Used Car Awards will be it.
'We've spoken at length to The Brewery and they are confident that the government's road map out of these restrictions mean we will be able to hold the event as normal in November.
'I can't wait to see everyone again and enjoy the industry's biggest Christmas party.'
Car Dealer founder James Baggott added: 'We know that this event only works if social distancing is a horrible memory and not in place.
'The venue is fully aware of that too. We want people to enjoy each other's company and celebrate as they would have done in the past.
'But we must ensure the event is safe and enjoyable. So if social distancing returns we will simply move the event on to the same time of year in 2022 – we hope that's not the case, but we want to give sponsors and those who have booked a table comfort that there is a plan.
'Importantly, and for added comfort, we've decided not to bill anyone until we get a guarantee from the venue that the event can go ahead.
'I can't wait to see everyone again in person and celebrate the amazing achievements in the used car industry. It'll be quite a party, that's for sure.'
Sponsors for the event include:
iVendi
Carwow
Blue Motor Finance
Autoguard Warranties
1Link Trade Buyer
Trade 2 Trade
City Auction Group
The pre-dinner drinks and a post-awards fun casino are being hosted by eBay Motors Group.
Autoguard Warranties, which will be sponsoring the hotly contested Used Car Supermarket of the Year category, said: 'We are delighted to be able to sponsor this prestigious award in what has become the leading event recognising the outstanding achievements of car dealers in the UK.
'After such a challenging year for the industry, we have no doubt it will be a fantastic night and we wish all the entrants the best of luck.'
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