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5G 101
01 understanding 5G
02 safety & health
03 traffic & congestion
04 emerging industries
You've probably heard some buzz about 5G by now. Maybe you remember when the talk was around 3G or 4G, but 5G is a much bigger advancement than either of those developments. 5G represents nothing short of a wireless revolution. It will usher in new technologies, new mobile experiences, and has the potential to fundamentally change the way we interact with each other—and the world.
01 bar understanding 5G
So what is 5G?
5G is the next generation of wireless connectivity. Through a combination of technologies—including millimeter waves, small cells, and fiber—5G is capable of delivering data rates as high as 1 gigabit per second. That's 20x faster than current networks and comparable to the speeds you get from a wired connection like cable or fiber optic internet service. That's a big deal. To see why, let's dive in.
How will this differ from 4G?
Each generation of wireless technology has brought us new technologies and innovation. The shift from first generation (1G) to 2G brought us digital voice and text messaging. Then 3G gave us our first look at mobile data. 4G (or LTE) was a transformation in its own right. Its faster speeds brought about the sharing economy, navigation software, and accelerated the use of social media. But the transition from 4G to 5G is less like those previous evolutions and more like the transition from dial-up internet to broadband. Yes, broadband made our internet connections faster, but it also led to a flood of new innovation—it transformed the way we consume media, get our information, conduct business, and more. 5G is about more than speed, however. It drastically increases the number of simultaneous devices that can be efficiently managed on a wireless network—opening new possibilities for wearables, machine-to-machine communications, and internet of things technologies. We can predict some of the developments that 5G will bring, but some we can't even imagine yet. So let's talk about what we know so far about how 5G will improve the way of life for you and your community.
02 bar safety & health
A safer, healthier community.
With 5G, wireless networks will be able to accommodate more devices, like wearables, transmitting high-bandwidth video, and real-time data.
Faster, improved communications will bring new efficiencies to diagnosing and treating illnesses and will make responding to emergencies more effective.
Wearable devices will allow better, more accurate health monitoring—alerting people and their healthcare professionals about potential concerns in real time.
Advanced robotics and real-time video and data transmissions will allow doctors to diagnose and perform procedures from thousands of miles away.
Emergency responders may soon have access to more advanced augmented reality (AR) technology that will overlay critical information on top of the live scene as they work.
Remote-controlled emergency response tools can arrive before ambulances and relay critical information to responders en route.
03 bar traffic & congestion
More efficient, faster-moving cities.
5G will support smart city technologies that allow traffic to move smoothly and efficiently, while responding to changing conditions.
Bringing wireless sensors and transmitters to our traffic infrastructure promises to make roads safer, ease congestion, and reduce pollution.
Connected roads can process traffic information, weather conditions, pedestrian activity, accident information, and then respond accordingly to keep roads moving safely.
Emergency vehicles can automatically be given priority access, enabling quicker response time to emergencies.
Connected cars will benefit from 5G's fast, dependable, low-latency networks to operate at scale—reducing accidents, pollution, and saving thousands of lives a year.
Connected buses, trains and other public transportation will be more reliable and provide up-to-date, real-time information to passengers.
04 bar emerging industries
New opportunities in business and commerce.
Advanced augmented reality and virtual reality technologies will support new and existing industries while changing the way we interact with the world.
We don't yet know all the new innovations 5G will bring. That's part of what makes it so exciting. But it's already clear that it will launch new industries and fundamentally change how many existing businesses operate:
AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) technologies in classrooms, libraries, and museums will transform the way we learn—and explore the world.
By combining the digital world with the real world in front of you, new technologies will merge online and in-store experiences. Many experts predict that 5G will pave the way for new developments in AR and VR technologies that could spur entire new industries.
Connected machinery is making industries like manufacturing, construction, and mining safer and more efficient. Remote controlled machinery allows for safer responses to emergency situations such as landslides, earthquakes, flooding, and fires.
05 bar conclusion
Putting it all together.
With the right infrastructure and technology in place, 5G will make our cities smarter, safer, and more efficient.
All these new developments and technologies will come together in exciting and unexpected ways. Improved sustainability, increased economic development, and enhanced quality-of-life are only the beginning. Smarter, better-connected cities will be safer and more efficient. With useful, real-time information, community needs can be anticipated and proactively met—resulting in better services for everything from waste disposal to energy consumption to public transportation. It's so much more than faster connections. It's a revolution in the way we live, work, and play.
Getting ready for what's next.
At this point, we're only scratching the surface, but it will be exciting to see what innovators, developers, and technologists will come up with when they have the unlimited potential of 5G at their disposal. For our part, we've been installing thousands of small cells in cities and communities across the country, improving current wireless service and allowing people to stay connected. Small cells will play a crucial role in eventually delivering 5G technologies to your community—along with the economic activity that will follow. By some estimates, that's $400B in GDP nationwide. To put that in more relatable terms, a city with 30,000 people could expect to add 300 jobs and $50M to their economy.* That's why we're continuing to work closely with municipalities, utilities, and communities to build the communications infrastructure that will bring 5G to your life.
*Smart Cities: How 5G Can Help Municipalities Become Vibrant Smart Cities, AccentureStrategy, 2017
understanding 5G
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See how data and technology are transforming communities.
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Teaching Notes: It doesn't generally take too long to go through this one in the women's class, so I'll often end up adding something else. This time round, I went with the turn to knees, which follows on from the same kind of position. One thing I noticed both students doing today was bringing their knee quite low, rather than into the stomach. You can still push off the knees, but I tend to find the stomach is more effective.


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Join our PhD Art Practice Program (VA77)
Ph.D. Art Practice (VA77)
The PhD Art History, Theory and Criticism program features a concentration in Art Practice (VA77). While fundamentally an Art History program, the PhD in Art Practice is designed for artists engaged in advanced research who wish to pursue their work in an environment geared to doctoral study, and to produce studio, media, performance or public facing work alongside a written dissertation. UC San Diego's Visual Arts department brings practitioners, theorists and historians together to encourage innovative work at the boundaries of disciplines, discourses, and methodologies. The program is particularly well-suited to established artists with a research-based practice who are seeking the opportunity to reflect on that practice, and to develop new work in conjunction with a community of ambitious artists, historians and theorists. It is strongly recommended that applicants apply for entry into the program at least 3 years after the completion of their undergraduate degree.
To Apply: https://connect.grad.ucsd.edu/apply/
Application Opens: September 7, 2022 for the Fall 2023 application cycle
Application Deadline: December 7, 2022 for the Fall 2023 application cycle
Interdisciplinary Specializations
Students within the PhD program who are interested in the opportunity to undertake specialized research may apply to participate in an interdisciplinary specialization. Students accepted into a specialization program would be expected to complete coursework in addition to those required for their PhD program. The department offers interdisciplinary specializations with the following campus programs.
Anthropogeny: for students with an interest in human origin
Critical Gender Studies: providing specialized training in gender and sexuality
Interdisciplinary Environmental Research: for students interested in environmental solutions
All applicants must satisfy the following to be considered for admissions to our department:
Completion of a four-year Bachelors degree or equivalent:
3.0 GPA minimum or 'B' average
Submission of unofficial transcripts required
English Language Proficiency:
Required for ALL international applicants from non-English speaking countries
Minimum Speaking Subscores accepted by the Department of Visual Arts:
TOEFL iBT- 26-30
IELTS- 8-9
PTE- 84-90
Letters of Recommendation:
Minimum of 3 recommendations required
Letters of recommendation should come from individuals, preferably previous professors, who can best explain why you are prepared and would be successful in rigorous academic studies at the graduate level.
Statement of Purpose:
750-1000 word limit, not to exceed 3 pages
Focus your Statement of Purpose on the reasons you are interested in attending this graduate program. You can include the research you hope to pursue within our program and give the Admissions Committee a sense of who you are and what you hope to accomplish. The statement should be well organized, concise, and completely free of grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors.
Research Statement, 2000 word limit
Artist Statement, 1000 word limit
Still images and time-based work (as appropriate)
Optional- link to personal website or VIMEO page
Writing Sample (4000-8000 words):
Examples include: senior honors thesis, MA thesis, or other research or critical paper, preferably in
art or media history.
Research Statement (2000 words maximum):
The Research Statement should explain the research that you wish to pursue within our program. There may be some overlap between the Research Statement and Statement of Purpose however these should be viewed as two distinct prompts that will give the Admissions Committee a greater sense of who you are and what you would accomplish at UC San Diego.
Artist Statement (1000 words maximum):
The Artist Statement should aim to explain, justify, extend, and/or contextualize your body of work, while placing your work in relationship to art history, theory, and the contemporary world. The Artist statement will be read by the Admissions Committee and current graduate students within the program, while the Statement of Purpose is reviewed by the Admissions Committee only. For this reason, applicants may upload their Statement of Purpose with the Artist Statement and include in the portfolio.
Portfolio of Work (maximum of 20 still images and 12 minutes of time-based work, as appropriate):
The samples of your artwork should best showcase your research abilities and current/recent projects. You may create your Visual Arts Portfolio in a number of different formats. Our program is cross-disciplinary and it is not unusual for an applicant to have several different artistic mediums within their portfolio. The admissions committee is interested in seeing your most accomplished, recent work, rather than a chronology of work done over the span of your career. A good gauge would be to include work you've done within the last two years.
Still Images in Digital Format (REQUIRED FOR ALL APPLICANTS)
- Submitted in an acceptable format listed (jpg, jpeg, etc.)
- File sizes may not exceed 5MB per file
- Images must be correctly rotated for viewing
- After uploading an image, applicants should edit details to provide the title, date,
dimensions and medium for each artwork. Applicants submitting images documenting
installation, performance, and project-based work should also include brief descriptions.
Time- Based Work (IN ADDITION TO STILL IMAGES, AS APPROPRIATE)
- Maximum of 12 minutes total time-based content
- After uploading a file, applicants should edit details to provide the title, date, duration of
the work, medium and a brief description.
Optional: applicants may also submit a link to their personal website, VIMEO, etc.
File Names for Portfolio Items:
Please name your files, with your Last Name, First Initial underscore and the document type. So if my name was Terry Triton, I would have the following File Names:
TritonT_Writing Sample
TritonT_Research Statement
TritonT_Artist Statement
TritonT_Project title 1
Check out our annual Research Colloquium. PhD students who have recently advanced to candidacy present their research to the local community. Please explore the recent work completed within the department, in addition to the Faculty and Graduate Student personal pages.
2022 Research Colloquium
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The 10 Best Dinosaur Books
Ten Books No Dinosaur Lover Should Do Without
Paleontologists
Dinosaurs & Birds
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We're a team of experienced writers and editors who obsessively scour the retail landscape (both online and off) to find the best products for your life.
Tons of dinosaur books are written every year for kids, but if you want the most reliable, up-to-date information it's best to consult literature aimed at science-minded teenagers and adults (or even other scientists). Here's our list of the 10 best, most essential, readable, and scientifically accurate books about dinosaurs and prehistoric life.
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth
Dorling-Kindersley's Prehistoric Life qualifies as a coffee-table book, full of stunning illustrations (photographs of fossils, detailed depictions of prehistoric animals in their natural habitats) and voluminous amounts of text. This handsome book doesn't only focus on dinosaurs, but also mammals, birds, plants and fish, ranging all the way from the Proterozoic age to the rise of modern humans; it also includes detailed descriptions of all the Earth's geologic epochs, which helps put its vast profusion of prehistoric life into an accessible context.
Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History
Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History is a genuine college textbook, complete with scholarly references and questions at the ends of chapters, intended as exercises for undergrads or graduate students, but fun for lay readers to tackle as well. It's also one of the most detailed, comprehensive, and readable overviews of dinosaurs you can buy, especially notable for its detailed classification of the different types of dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era, and its authors (David E. Fastovsky and David B. Weishampel) have an infectious sense of humor.
The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
Over the last couple of decades, Dougal Dixon's lavishly illustrated World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs has been sliced and diced by its publisher into numerous smaller and less comprehensive books, and the concept has been imitated ad infinitum by lesser writers using less striking illustrators. This is the edition to get, though, if you're looking for concise, crisply illustrated profiles of over 1,000 prehistoric animals, including birds, crocodiles, and megafauna mammals as well as dinosaurs both well-known and extremely obscure.
Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Tyrant King
Many dinosaur books focus to a greater or lesser degree on the most famous dinosaur that ever lived, Tyrannosaurus Rex; Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Tyrant King goes whole hog (if you'll excuse the mammalian expression), with chapters about this apex predator written by some of the world's most notable paleontologists, utilizing the latest field research. This book covers everything from T. Rex's puny arms to its bulky, oversized skull; some of it can get a bit detailed and academic, but then again, no true T. Rex fan can have too much information!
Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds
Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds focuses on a growing subset of the dinosaur kingdom: the small, feathered theropods of the late Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, many of which have been recently discovered in Asia, and at least one branch of which evolved into modern birds. John Long's text is the perfect accompaniment to Peter Schouten's stunning illustrations; you'll never look at a Compsognathus the same way again, or, for that matter, that pigeon nesting on your windowsill. And you'll never believe how many feathered dinosaurs there actually were!
Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea
Many people find it surprising that the fossils of so many marine reptiles, dating to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, have been discovered in landlocked Kansas, of all places. The evocatively titled Oceans of Kansas, by Michael J. Everhart, is an exhaustive if somewhat academic survey of the dozens of ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs that have been discovered in the western U.S., as well as the distantly related pterosaurs that flew above the Western Interior Sea and occasionally preyed on these marine reptiles.
The Complete Dinosaur (Life of the Past)
The Complete Dinosaur was getting on a bit in age--the first edition of this 750-page reference book was published in 1999--but dinosaur fans will be happy to know that a second edition, subtitled Life of the Past, appeared in 2012, under the supervision of the eminent paleontologists Michael K. Brett-Surman and Thomas Holtz. Page for page, this is the most comprehensive, scholarly, and just plain fun dinosaur book out there, with meaty contributions by a veritable who's who of famous scientists and researchers; this is the book to buy if you believe the recipient is a budding paleontologist.
Extinct Animals: Species That Have Disappeared During Human History
As its subtitle implies, Ross Piper's Extinct Animals: Species That Have Disappeared During Human History has nothing to do with dinosaurs, focusing instead on 50 or so notable mammals, birds, and reptiles that have gone extinct within the last 50,000 years--ranging from the Golden Toad (a very recent casualty of human civilization) to Phorusrhacos, better known as the Terror Bird. Some of the terminology in this book is a bit odd, especially regarding the names of some of the better-known animals, but it's still a fun and informative read.
Prehistoric Life: Evolution and the Fossil Record
Bruce S. Lieberman and Roger Kaesler's Prehistoric Life: Evolution and the Fossil Record puts dinosaurs (and other extinct animals) in their proper natural context, with a focus on mass extinctions, plate tectonics, continental drift and global climate change. This textbook (intended for college students, but eminently accessible to curious laypeople) drives home the point that evolution isn't a linear process, but one that zigs and zags in response to an unpredictable and often-hostile environment, and the evidence for which crucially depends on the discovery of fossils.
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
The chief virtue of Gregory S. Paul's The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs is that it lists virtually every single one of the thousands of genera, and individual species, of dinosaurs that have ever been discovered, making it a handy desk reference. The problem is that Paul doesn't go into much, if any, detail about these dinosaurs, and his illustrations, though anatomically correct, can be a bit underwhelming. This book will also drive home the point that dinosaur taxonomy is a constantly evolving process--not everyone agrees about which species deserve genus and species status.
The Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals of Montana
The Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals of Oklahoma
The Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals of New Jersey
The Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals of Kansas
Learn About the Different Dinosaur Periods
The Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals of South Dakota
The 10 Best Prehistoric Nicknames
How Was Tyrannosaurus Rex Discovered?
Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals by State
The Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals of Wyoming
The 20 Biggest Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Reptiles
Where the Dinosaurs Are - The World's Most Important Fossil Formations
American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)
The Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals of Utah
The Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals of Germany
The 12 Most Influential Paleontologists


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Who is George
George Pavlides Bio
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George Pavlides was born in Cyprus in 1965 and is married with three children. His interaction with the sea started with scuba diving but by 1993 he had devoted himself completely to free diving.
In 1995 he gets elected as the secretary of the Cyprus club "Friends of Free Diving" and in 1998 after elections he takes on the position of president where he remains there for three consecutive years. Today he is an honorary member of the committee of the club for life.
He is responsible for organizing hundreds of events that involve the subject of free diving throughout the years. Some of these include:
Seminars all over the island regarding underwater hunting in Cyprus using material from his own productions.
The first ever competition on the island for static and dynamic apnea.
The first competition using constant weights
The first schools for free diving
The first dvd ever made in Cyprus concerning spear fishing which uses only locals in its production as well as only the local landscape.
In 1997 he starts acting as an editorialist for the Greek magazine "Underwater World" but in 1998 he switches to the Greek magazines "Vithos" (Greek for sea bed) and "Artemis" where he remains an editorialist until this very day.
In 2001 he starts getting involved with underwater video recording using only free diving as his means and comes up with a number of productions in DVD format.
In 2008 and 2009 he becomes an instructor of free diving with the FDI institute and CMAS institute respectively. In 2009 his free diving school is recognized by the Cyprus Republic as an authorized free diving institute.
It was in 2007 where he turned his hobby into a profession by opening his own store named "Blueinstinct Underwater Act", a store specialized in free diving and spearfishing equipment as well as underwater video recording.
He has been filming nonstop since 2001 thus completing hundreds of hours of professional underwater video recording. Today, he still continues to film underwater at least twice a week and most probably has the biggest archive not only in Cyprus and Greece but throughout the world.
In 2011 he will officially present to the cinemas in Cyprus the first movie ever made worldwide with underwater hunting as the subject.


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Home Health Privatisation of Healthcare in Nigeria Undermined Country's Response to COVID-19 Outbreak: Report
Privatisation of Healthcare in Nigeria Undermined Country's Response to COVID-19 Outbreak: Report
DNN Africa
A new report by the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in partnership with the Justice & Empowerment Initiatives (JEI) and with support from Corporate Accountability & Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), has revealed that commercialisation of the healthcare system undermined Nigeria's response to the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country.
Released officially on Wednesday at a press briefing in Lagos, the report titled The failure of commercialised healthcare in Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic: Discrimination and inequality in the enjoyment of the right to health highlighted how governmental policies and international development actors encouraged the growth of private and commercial healthcare, depriving the poor masses of access to decent healthcare.
Speaking at the press briefing, Akinbode Oluwafemi, Executive Director of Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, said argued that commercialisation of the country healthcare system was not the solution to the challenges faced in the sector.
"Commercialisation of healthcare services is not what Nigerians need. It will only lead to costs that are unaffordable for the poor and vulnerable. What Nigerians need is healthcare service that is publicly funded and available to all irrespective of social and economic status," Mr Oluwafemi said.
On his part Andrew Maki, co-director at Justice & Empowerment Initiatives, said that access to quality healthcare service should not be determined by the financial status of an individual, he called on the government to do more to ensure that every Nigerians are guaranteed the right to life.
Rossella De Falco, Programme Officer on the Right to Health at the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, highlighted that the 'Widespread commercialisation and privatisation of healthcare services stand in the way of the realisation of the right to health in Nigeria."
She argued that Public healthcare systems are more resilient to shocks such as pandemics and are thus fundamental for the realisation of the right to health.
Further making case for public health care system, the report detailed that Nigeria with a highly commercialised system has not adequately coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.
the report disclosed that Nigeria has a critical shortage of lifesaving equipment to treat acute cases of COVID-19, such as ventilators, oxygen and qualified specialists.
The National Strategic Health Development Plan (2018-2022) sets out as a goal the promotion of public-private partnerships in healthcare. As a result, an estimated 60% of all healthcare services are provided by the private sector, amongst the largest shares in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In May 2020, Nigeria had only 500 ventilators against the 20,325 needed to urgently address the epidemic. Also the intensive care unit (ICU) had only 0.17 beds per 100.000 inhabitants.
Giving reason for the sorry state of healthcare facilities, the report said the healthcare sector was grossly underfunded.
It said health spending as a share of general government expenditure decreased from 7.3% in 2006 to as little as 4.4% in 2018, below similar African states such as South Africa and Kenya, and far below the 15% of their annual national budget to which the African Union States committed to in the Abuja Declaration.
The report also found insufficient regulation and monitoring of private health providers.
In its recommendation, the report called for an increase of government funding to at least 15% of the budget to meet the Abuja commitment and expand the availability of quality, well-coordinated public healthcare services.
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My work shows an obsessive repetitive behaviour as I use my body to perform an action as a way to interact with objects. The process of performing the action provides meaning to the work. I use the medium that makes the most sense and therefore work in a large variety of mediums. My work attempts to regain a sense of self with figuring out how our bodies occupy and alter spaces and objects. The actions I perform in my work are ubiquitous as well as intimate. Currently I am working on projects that investigate societal spaces and the power dynamics of those spaces. I work with objects that have inherent cultural identities within those spaces. I work especially with objects that reflect our priorities within our society. In 999 Less – A Newer Library I work with the books within a library as they reflect our societies priorities of what is import enough to be recorded and what is not. In this project I checked out 999 books from the NSCAD library for two weeks. All the books checked out were solely about a white western male 'genius' or 'masters' of their time. These male 'genius' create a binary where they are the only ones able to create political change. With taking out the male master books I am reclaiming the space of western archive allowing space within the library for the next generation of artist to not be held down by these 'old masters' that oppress multiple views of art making.


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Q: How to stop method from executing with code I have a method in my controller which I call with ajax.
The method can be called VERY often (depends on the speed of typing of the user).
The user types letters, words. I want the method to be called once the user stops typing.
The parameter of the method is the written text by the user.
In my way, the method gets called a lot of times in a small amount of time.
Is there a way to call the method always (after each letter) but then the method to stop executing immediately if it is called right away?
Example: a user will write slowly 10 letters - the method will be called 10 times.
Example: a user will write fast 10 letters - the method will be called the 10th time OR the method will get called 10 times but will stop executing the first 9 times and finish executing only the 10th time

A: Assuming that you are calling it with AJAX then I think you'd be better placing the logic client-side.  Consider using something like throttle.js which only posts the Ajax calls after a pause in typing.

A: You can accomplish this by buffering results & passing them into this method. Basically, by wrapping this method in an aggregator method you can prevent this from firing all the time.
//... Class Impl

private string keys = String.Empty;
private readonly TimeSpan bufferDelay = new TimeSpan(100000);
private DateTime lastKeyPress = DateTime.UtcNow;

private void DoSomething(string text)
{
//do something to process text.
    keys = String.Empty;

}

public void DoSomethingBuffer(string text)
{
    keys =+ text;
    var now = DateTime.UtcNow;
    if((now-lastKeyPress) > bufferDelay)
{
    DoSomething(keys);
}
    lastKeyPress = now;

}
//... More Class Impl

You'll need to play with the aggregation time window to find somethign that feels natural, but it should be relatively simple. You'll call DoSOmethingBuffer rather than DoSomethign directly.

A: You can accomplish that using javascript timers. Here's an example that triggers any logic once it has been half a second since the user's last keypress.
If the user keeps typing then the timers are constantly being cancelled:
$(function() {
    var timer;
    $(".typeAhead").keypress(function() {
        if (timer != null)
            clearTimeout(timer);
        timer = setTimeout(function() {
            // do ajax call
        }, 500);
    });
});

This snippet uses jquery, but you can do it without it. Just use getElementById() instead of the selectors.

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Forget Killer Robots—Bias Is the Real AI Danger
John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.
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Google's AI chief isn't fretting about super-intelligent killer robots. Instead, John Giannandrea is concerned about the danger that may be lurking inside the machine-learning algorithms used to make millions of decisions every minute.
"The real safety question, if you want to call it that, is that if we give these systems biased data, they will be biased," Giannandrea said before a recent Google conference on the relationship between humans and AI systems.
The problem of bias in machine learning is likely to become more significant as the technology spreads to critical areas like medicine and law, and as more people without a deep technical understanding are tasked with deploying it. Some experts warn that algorithmic bias is already pervasive in many industries, and that almost no one is making an effort to identify or correct it (see "Biased Algorithms Are Everywhere, and No One Seems to Care").
"It's important that we be transparent about the training data that we are using, and are looking for hidden biases in it, otherwise we are building biased systems," Giannandrea added. "If someone is trying to sell you a black box system for medical decision support, and you don't know how it works or what data was used to train it, then I wouldn't trust it."
Black box machine-learning models are already having a major impact on some people's lives. A system called COMPAS, made by a company called Northpointe, offers to predict defendants' likelihood of reoffending, and is used by some judges to determine whether an inmate is granted parole. The workings of COMPAS are kept secret, but an investigation by ProPublica found evidence that the model may be biased against minorities.
It may not always be as simple as publishing details of the data or the algorithm employed, however. Many of the most powerful emerging machine-learning techniques are so complex and opaque in their workings that they defy careful examination (see "The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI"). To address this issue, researchers are exploring ways to make these systems give some approximation of their workings to engineers and end users.
Giannandrea has good reason to highlight the potential for bias to creep into AI. Google is among several big companies touting the AI capabilities of its cloud computing platforms to all sorts of businesses. These cloud-based machine-learning systems are designed to be a lot easier to use than the underlying algorithms. This will help make the technology more accessible, but it could also make it easier for bias to creep in. It will be important to also offer tutorials and tools to help less experienced data scientists and engineers identify and remove bias from their training data.
Several of the speakers invited to the conference organized by Google also highlighted the issue of bias. Google researcher Maya Gupta described her efforts to build less opaque algorithms as part of a team known internally as "GlassBox." And Karrie Karahalios, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois, presented research highlighting how tricky it can be to spot bias in even the most commonplace algorithms. Karahalios showed that users don't generally understand how Facebook filters the posts shown in their news feed. While this might seem innocuous, it is a neat illustration of how difficult it is to interrogate an algorithm.
Facebook's news feed algorithm can certainly shape the public perception of social interactions and even major news events. Other algorithms may already be subtly distorting the kinds of medical care a person receives, or how they get treated in the criminal justice system. This is surely a lot more important than killer robots, at least for now.
Giannandrea has certainly been a voice of reason in recent years among some more fanciful warnings about the risks posed by AI. Elon Musk, in particular, has generated countless headlines by warning recently that AI is a bigger threat than North Korea, and could result in World War III.
"What I object to is this assumption that we will leap to some kind of super-intelligent system that will then make humans obsolete," Giannandrea said. "I understand why people are concerned about it but I think it's gotten way too much airtime. I just see no technological basis as to why this is imminent at all."
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Pianist and composer Mike LeDonne was born in Bridgeport, CT, in 1956. LeDonne was practically raised at his parents' music store and by the age of ten, his father, a jazz guitarist, was hiring him out on gigs. After graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, LeDonne moved to New York, where he started working at Jimmy Ryan's (at the time, one of New York's oldest jazz clubs). Here LeDonne met and played with some of the great historical figures of jazz, including Roy Eldridge, Papa Jo Jones, and Vic Dickenson, among others. In 1988, LeDonne joined the Milt Jackson Quartet, frequently writing compositions for the group. Jackson eventually recorded several of these compositions and LeDonne became the band's musical director after Jackson's death in 1999. LeDonne began recording in 1988, debuting with the post-bop album Bout Time, which was released on the Criss Cross label. LeDonne recorded several more albums for Criss Cross throughout the early and mid-'90s, peaking with the sextet album Soulmates, a straight-ahead recording which featured soloists such as alto saxophonist Jon Gordon, tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman, and trumpeter Ryan Kysor. LeDonne switched to the Double Time label in 1998, recording Waltz for an Urbanite and, most recently, the quintet album Then and Now, which features the exceptional playing of tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander. LeDonne remains among the best (if at times underrated) pianists on the New York jazz scene today and has been praised by such jazz luminaries as Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, and Benny Golson. ~ Alex Arcone
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Identify, Design and Develop Solutions for Aerospace, Defense, Manufacturing, Insurance, Oil and Gas, Global trade and Chemical Industries.
Strong Knowledge in Migrating/Redesign existing solutions to the cloud, Including SAP HANA ABAP based Solution.
Handled many Successful Pre-sales activities to setup SAP Solutions and product POCs for major clients in the US, Europe and South Americas that have been successfully converted to Projects for the organization.
Conducted presentations and webinars for prospective customers explaining the new Security Model provided by Nextlabs for SAP.
Developed Netweaver based Add-on applications which have been certified by the SAP Product Qualification (PQ) process and Endorsed Business Solutions (EBS).
Designed and Developed the Cross Application interfaces with Web services and Java Connectors(Jco) to integrate Nextlabs Products with SAP.
Handled projects from initial Business Requirement Gathering to Delivery independently.
Worked On-Site with the SAP GRC team at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, USA for the Nextlabs Product Integration with SAP GRC.
Worked on the Product Qualification process cycle with SAP Labs, India.
Agile Development Methodology incorporating Scrum. Experienced Scrum Master.
Independently Designed and Handled the SAP Solution Implementations for Major Clients in the US, UK, Switzerland and Brazil.
Won the Employee of the Quarter for Consecutive successful Implementations of the Nextlabs Solutions for Customers in Brazil and UK..
Project: Nextlabs-SAP Export Compliance and Governance Controls.
System : SAP Business Suite on HANA .
Designed and Architected the Solution from Blue Printing to Delivery.
Lead the Implementation Team for one of the Biggest projects at Nextlabs.
Custom Solution Development for Crucial Applications on the Business Suite on HANA.
OnTime Project Delivery and Successful Go-Live.
Implemented the Solutions across Multiple modules of SD, MM, PP, QM, WM and FI.
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Worked with SAP Brazil in the Solution Delivery.
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Q: How to pass $_FILE from Page1 to page3 via Page2 I am trying to upload an excel file using PHPExcel. There are 3 file which are involved in this process -
Page1.php

<form  action ="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
 <input type="hidden" name="action" value="uploadexcel">

      Upload Student-Enquiry File Here:
      <input type="file" name="studentfile">
      <input type="submit" name="uploadexcel" value="Upload">

</form>

Page2.php
<?php
if (!isset($_SESSION['eschools']['admin_user']) || $_SESSION['eschools']['admin_user']=="" ) {
   header('location: ./?pid=1&unauth=0');
   exit;
}
if ($action =="uploadexcel"){
     if($uploadexcel="Upload"){
        $inputFileName =$_FILES['studentfile']['tmp_name'];
    $filepath=$_FILES['studentfile']['name'];
    $url = "exam_excel/page3.php";
        header("Location: ".$url);
     }
}
?>

Page3.php This page actually uploading the excel data to MySQL table and I need that selected excel file to be processed here -
<?php session_start();
include("../../includes/constants.inc.php"); //Database configuration File

if(isset($_FILES['studentfile']['tmp_name']))
if(isset($inputFile))
{
    require_once 'Classes/PHPExcel.php';
    require_once 'Classes/PHPExcel/IOFactory.php';
    $inputFileName =$_FILES['studentfile']['tmp_name'];

//Read your Excel workbook
    try {
        $inputFileType = PHPExcel_IOFactory::identify($inputFileName);
        $objReader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReader($inputFileType);
        $objPHPExcel = $objReader->load($inputFileName);
    } catch (Exception $e){
        die('Error loading file "' . pathinfo($inputFileName, PATHINFO_BASENAME).'": ' . $e->getMessage());
}

//  Get worksheet dimensions
        $sheet = $objPHPExcel->getSheet(0);
        $highestRow = $sheet->getHighestRow();
        $highestColumn = $sheet->getHighestColumn();

//  Loop through each row of the worksheet in turn
        for ($row = 2; $row <= $highestRow; $row++)
        {
            //  Read a row of data into an array
            $temp=array("");
            $rowData = $sheet->rangeToArray('A' . $row . ':' . $highestColumn . $row, NULL, TRUE, FALSE);
            foreach($rowData[0] as $k=>$v)
            {
                array_push($temp,$v);
            }
            if(!empty($temp[45]) &!empty($temp[46]) )
            {
                $tccase="Yes";
            }
            else
            {
            $tccase="No";
            }
            $q="insert into es_enquiry(eq_submitedon,eq_application_no,eq_class,class_sift,eq_name,eq_sex,eq_dob,age,month,day,blood_g,scat_id,ehandi,e_ews,e_bpl,e_sgc,eq_mothername,father_name,eq_countryid,eq_emailid,office_address,office_phone,resident_phone,dist_from_kv,eq_permaddress,domicile,  no_of_transfer,parent_cate_id,kv_tc_no,kv_tc_date,last_class_cgpa,documents,mother_occu,father_occu,eq_city,eq_state,eq_zip,per_city,per_state,per_zip,per_country,mid_name,last_name,tc_case,eq_from_aca,eq_to_aca,eq_tempaddress,present_country,cam_image) values('".$temp[5]."','".$temp[3]."','".$temp[4]."','".$temp[2]."','".$temp[6]."','".$temp[9]."','".$temp[10]."','".$temp[11]."','".$temp[12]."','".$temp[13]."','".$temp[14]."','".$temp[17]."','".$temp[40]."','".$temp[41]."','".$temp[42]."','".$temp[43]."','".$temp[20]."','".$temp[18]."','".$temp[15]."','".$temp[16]."','".$temp[22]."','".$temp[23]."','".$temp[29]."','".$temp[36]."','".$temp[30]."','".$temp[39]."','".$temp[38]."','".$temp[37]."','".$temp[45]."','".$temp[46]."','".$temp[44]."','".$temp[47]."','".$temp[21]."','".$temp[19]."','".$temp[25]."','".$temp[26]."','".$temp[28]."','".$temp[31]."','".$temp[32]."','".$temp[35]."','".$temp[33]."','".$temp[7]."','".$temp[8]."','".$tccase."','".$temp[49]."','".$temp[50]."','".$temp[24]."','".$temp[27]."','".$temp[8]."')";
            mysql_query($q)or die(mysql_error());
            unset($temp);
        }
        echo "Your data inserted successfully";
}
else
{
echo "Select Excel FIle";
}
?>

If directly use Page3.php from Page1.php using Action="Page3.php" works fine but I don't access directly without authentication. I tried various way to get the selected file name on Page3.php but getting Temp name. I tried by passing the temp_name via URL like this $url = "exam_excel/page3.php?inputFile=".$inputFileName; and receiving it $filename=$_GET['inputFile']; and then I tried to use this variable in place of inputFileName on page3.php but failed.
Give some suggestion/guidance on this issue

A: When a file upload is passed to a PHP page, you need to deal with that file immediately, either by moving it to a more permanent storage location or by processing its contents. You can't pass it back to the user, as there is no way to prefill an <input type=file>, and expecting the user to upload a potentially large file a second time is unreasonable. If you do not do anything with the uploaded file, PHP will destroy it at the end of the request, and it's gone.


a small gland at the base of your throat. It was first described by Dr.
typically the sufferer experiences hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
Hashimoto's is the #1 cause of hypothyroidism in the U.S.
How Can You Tell If You Have Hashimoto's Disease?
If you are experiencing the symptoms and signs of hypothyroidism, you may be wondering if it is actually Hashimoto's disease. There are blood tests that can confirm this diagnosis but let's review the typical presentation of this increasingly common disease.
Usually, this is a person who takes their thyroid medication faithfully and regularly sees their physician yet continues to feel worse even when the thyroid medication is increased. Remember, Hashimoto's is an autoimmune disease. What's happening is the immune system is gradually attacking and destroying the thyroid gland. Medication is useless in preventing this onslaught from occurring. While the meds do keep her TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) in the accepted range, this does not affect the underlying problem. So the patient's symptoms worsen despite all efforts.
Then there is the Hashimoto presentation that swings wildly between hypothyroid symptoms ( gains weight easily, feeling tired or sluggish, etc) and hyperthyroid symptoms (difficulty gaining or maintaining weight, nervousness, etc.). The reason for periodic hyperthyroid symptoms is due an increased autoimmune activity or flare-up. The body's own immune system is "stepping up" its attack on the thyroid gland when this occurs and is probably due to a biological (hormone fluctuation), chemical stress (ingestion of food allergen like wheat gluten), or a stressful, emotional event. In some cases, there is no known reason for the flare-up. When this autoimmune attack occurs, thyroid tissue is destroyed and hormones within the gland are dispersed into the blood. The result of too much thyroid hormone in the blood causes the symptoms of hyperthyroidism.
Diagnosing Hashimoto's disease can be done through the proper blood tests but it also requires a doctor who will listen carefully to your history and symptom list.
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It is not unusual for a patient with Hashimoto's thyroiditis to have symptoms of both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. The most common symptom is fatigue, but someone with Hashimoto's can also present with a racing heart, a feeling of being "on edge" or nervousness, and brain fog or loss of mental clarity.


The Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (Metro) launched a new mobile website to give customers quick access to the most popular features of wmata.com while on the go.
The site is designed for today's smartphones, and replaces an earlier version that was launched years ago, prior to touch-screen navigation.
Access to Metro's website trip planner for bus, rail or both. Customers can select their preferred departure or arrival time based on their needs.
Next Train, which shows real-time train arrival times, number of cars and destination for any of Metro's 86 rail stations.
Next Bus, which uses a customer's GPS location to display bus arrival predictions for all nearby bus stops. For additional detail, customers can tap a route to see bus locations on a moving Google map.
Service Nearby, which allows customers to see all bus and rail transit service near their current location.
News, which gives customers mobile access to all recent Metro news releases.
Elevator Status, which shows out-of-service elevators and alternate shuttle bus options.
Alerts & Advisories, which provides continually updated service information from Metro's control centers via the MetroAlerts system. Customers can stay up to date on planned detours, service changes, track work, elevator outages and more. Urgent service messages are displayed in red on the home screen.
Call Transit Police, allowing customers to quickly initiate a phone call to Metro Transit Police should the need arise.
The new mobile site is the latest project to be delivered as part of the GM Richard Sarles' Customer Service Action Plan and follows the launch in November of new flat-screen displays at every Metrorail station entrance. The kiosk displays, which are also linked to the MetroAlerts network, turn red when there is an alert that could affect a customer's trip.
Yesterday, Google launched the integration of rail MetroAlerts into its trip planning tools, Google Maps and Google Transit. Now customers who use Google to plan their Metro trips will see rail service alerts alongside their itinerary.
Sarles said that the mobile site is considered to be in a "beta test" phase for one to two weeks to allow for incorporation of customer feedback.
The new site was designed in-house by Metro's web development and digital communications teams.


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Tags: Nelson Mandela Dies at 95 | mandela | zuma | booed | jeered
Boos, Jeers Humiliate SAfrica's Zuma at Mandela Memorial
REUTERS Tuesday, 10 December 2013 08:47 AM
SOWETO, South Africa — South African President Jacob Zuma was booed and jeered at a memorial to anti-apartheid legend Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, a major public humiliation in front of other world leaders six months before national elections.
The hostile reaction from the thousands-strong unruly crowd erupted as Zuma prepared to address the high-profile ceremony in Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium bringing together leaders from around 90 countries.
Zuma, who has ruled Africa's biggest economy since 2009, had been hoping to get a boost from the wave of national emotion triggered by Mandela's death on Thursday, aged 95.
His African National Congress (ANC) government has been facing violent labor unrest and protests over persisting poverty, crime and unemployment. But the ANC is still expected to comfortably win the elections to be held in April or May.
Zuma was booed when he first entered the crowded stadium, and again when he prepared to speak. In contrast, President Barack Obama received a roaring ovation, and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon were also cheered.
Some in the crowd accompanied the boos for Zuma with thumbs-down gestures and rotating hand movements, the sign for a substitution in a soccer match.
"Mandela had a vision, Mandela lived that vision. But what Zuma speaks, he doesn't live," said Funeka Gingcara-Sithole, 31, reflecting the mood of the Zuma critics in the stadium.
"He should do the honorable thing and resign," she said.
Zuma and senior ANC officials remained stony faced during the booing and organizers at one point used a choir to try to drown out the hostile reaction.
The mourning for Mandela has distracted attention from corruption scandals affecting Zuma and his administration.
But memories of the former president's five-year tenure up to 1999 have reminded many just how distant Zuma's South Africa still is from the "Rainbow Nation" ideal of shared prosperity and social peace that Mandela proclaimed after his 1994 election.
South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies on the planet.
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South African President Jacob Zuma was booed and jeered at a memorial to anti-apartheid legend Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, a major public humiliation in front of other world leaders six months before national elections.
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Q: How do I trigger the sidebar reveal in the WordPress Gutenberg editor? So I have developed a sidebar for the Gutenberg editor in WordPress. The purpose of this sidebar is to provide feedback, grades, scores, etc., for a set of custom input boxes that appear below the post editor. As such, the user may want to have it open and be using it to view the real-time updates to their scores as they are editing.
Now, of course, the button on the toolbar works to activate and deactivate the sidebar, but I was wondering if their was an external way that I can call my sidebar to reveal it. I have a call to action that I've just added to that section of inputs that will inform the user that this "optimizer" now exists, and if they click on it, I want the sidebar to become activated so that they can check it out. I'm hoping for something like this:
jQuery(document).on('click', '.my-button', function() {
    // How do I activate, deactivate or toggle the activation of the sidebar?
    activateSidebar('my-cool-sidebar');
    deactivateSidebar('my-cool-sidebar');
    toggleSidebarActivation('my-cool-sidebar');
});

Of course, all of those function are make believe, but that's where you come in. Is there a function or methodology that will allow me to invoke the same behavior as what happens when that top toolbar button is called? Thanks.


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Helix Announces New Partnerships With National Geographic And Mount Sinai
Secures New Strategic Investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Helix, the personal genomics company, today announced new partnerships with National Geographic, Mount Sinai, and innovative developer Exploragen to bring DNA-powered insights to everyday products and experiences. Helix provides people with access to data and information about their DNA, through uniquely personalized applications from some of the world's most trusted companies. Helix also announced a new strategic investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a leading venture and growth investor.
"The genomics industry is no longer just about clinical precautions and general health. It's quickly touching all areas of our lives, from family planning, to nutrition, to ancestry"
"The genomics industry is no longer just about clinical precautions and general health. It's quickly touching all areas of our lives, from family planning, to nutrition, to ancestry," said Robin Thurston, CEO, Helix. "We're building a powerful platform for DNA discovery that enables anyone to connect with relevant, personalized applications from well-known consumer brands, trusted healthcare providers, innovative developers, and everything in between."
"Consumer genomics is an industry that's poised to take off as DNA data becomes more accessible. DNA applications across a wide range of categories may be hard to imagine now, but will soon be commonplace," said Noah Knauf, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. "We're excited to have the opportunity to invest in Helix at an inflection point in growth as it continues to expand its partner ecosystem and inspire consumers to understand their DNA."
National Geographic's popular ancestry product, Geno 2.0 Next Generation, will launch on the Helix platform this November, just in time for the holidays. "Helix and National Geographic share the same core values and excitement of bringing accessible and accurate ancestry information to millions of people worldwide," said Declan Moore, CEO, National Geographic Partners. "As a science-driven company and a pioneer in ancestry, we are proud to bring the latest and greatest in DNA technology to our customers through Helix."
In partnering with Helix, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai continues to pioneer novel approaches to responsibly engaging consumers in the digital health arena. The first Mount Sinai application on the Helix platform, available with approval of a clinician, will allow prospective parents to learn about their risks of passing on certain of the many potential inheritable genetic disorders to their children. It will also provide them access to genetic counseling. "We are strong advocates for consumers having access to their own genomic information for personal education and insights. We are excited to launch our first application on the Helix platform to enable a view into genes of interest for reproductive health and look forward to developing additional products on the platform over time," stated Eric Schadt, PhD, Founding Director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai.
Helix also announced that an innovative developer, Exploragen, is building a variety of applications on the Helix platform that harness DNA and the science of taste to match personalized epicurean experiences and products with consumers. Led by Ronnie Andrews, an accomplished executive in the DNA sequencing industry, Exploragen is the first example of an independent developer group committed to building applications exclusively for the Helix platform. Vinome, which pairs and delivers wines tailored to your DNA and taste, is the first product from the Exploragen development team launching on Helix and will be available next year.
This news comes on the heels of Helix's partnership with Invitae (NYSE: NVTA), a genetic information company, to build applications for health and wellness. If you are interested in learning more about building products on the Helix platform, email partners@helix.com.
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Helix is a personal genomics company with a simple but powerful mission: to empower every person to improve their life through DNA. We're creating an ecosystem where people can explore diverse and uniquely personalized applications provided by high-quality partners. Helix handles sample collection, DNA sequencing, and secure data storage so that our partners can develop on-demand products in areas such as health, fitness, nutrition, lifestyle, genealogy, and inherited traits. Helix is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and operates one of the world's largest next-generation sequencing laboratories in San Diego. You can learn more at www.helix.com or follow @my_helix.
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Tadej Pogačar at the Tour de France route presentation.
Tadej Pogačar likes the 2022 Tour route but he's wary of wind and cobbles
The defending champ is "really looking forward" to racing the 2022 Tour.
by Dane Cash
photography by Cor Vos
The reigning and two-time Tour de France champion was on hand for the route presentation on Thursday, and after the 21 stages were unveiled in Paris, he weighed in on the challenges ahead.
The verdict? All things considered, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) liked what he saw.
"It's pretty great. It's a complete course from the first to the last stage," Pogačar said. "We have everything: sprints, small climbs, big climbs, echelons, time trials, cobblestones. I am really looking forward to it."
Pogačar's all-rounder skill set should come in handy on a course that features both brutal climbs like the Alpe d'Huez and also 53 km of time trialing, a balanced combination in the context of recent editions of the race. That said, he was hesitant to say outright that it was a route well-designed for his talents.
"I don't know if the course suits me, but I think it's a nice route," he said.
He was particularly wary of the cobblestones that await on stage 5 and the wind likely to assail the peloton on a number of different stages. He noted that he doesn't mind cobblestones, but that luck can have a big impact on the way things play out on the pavé, and the same is true for stages buffeted by wind.
"I will do some recon, because it will be necessary. I am pretty excited. The windy stages are always tricky," he said.
"Everybody is nervous for those stages, and it will be interesting to see what happens. When you have a 20-kilometer-long bridge [on stage 2], it's rare that nothing happens. It will be scary."
In short, the variety of the 2022 Tour de France route will provide plenty of different opportunities for riders to gain time on their rivals – or to lose it.
As Pogačar put it: "You can lose the race pretty fast."
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Alexi Torres
Alexi Torres discusses the relationship between nature and man in a contemporary context emphasizing the interconnectedness of all living things. His works are exceptionally complex communicating mystery, imagination, and an element of surprise. He creates a distinctive signature, intricately weaving together organic and symbolic elements to create monumental works, which challenge the viewer to see beneath the surface into the archetypal qualities of his subjects. He seeks to initiate an urgent dialogue on the effects of human thought and behavior on the ever-changing environment. "Beauty is found in the fragility of life," says Torres, "We must see the interconnectivity of all things and appreciate how life is always slipping through our hands." Torres taps into universal collective memory and stimulates the imagination with playful themes and ironic juxtapositions relevant to the contemporary experience. His series range from portraits of ordinary people, cultural, military, and political icons to a diverse sampling of symbols from popular culture. These images are then reimagined and reconstructed employing his unique multi-layer painting technique. Inspired by the agrarian lifestyle of his friends and family, Torres plants an idea for each new work and harvests it at completion according to the lunar patterns followed by his ancestors in his native Cuba. To record this ritual, each painting is begun and finished on a waning moon and recorded with his signature on the canvas. Alexi Torres was born in 1976 in Bermeja, a small village about 70 miles southeast of Havana, Cuba. From 1989-1991 he studied at Escuela Provicial de Artes in Mantanzas and 1991-1995 at Escuela Nacional de Artes in Havana. Torres has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad including: "Sun Light" Unix Gallery, NYC 2016. Jones Carter Gallery, Lake City, SC, 2016; Marietta Cobb Museum Of Art, Marietta, GA, 2014; DMoMA Lausanne, Switzerland, 2013; UNIX Gallery, New York, 2013 and 2016; Hoover Library, Alabama, 2013; Rush Gallery, New York, 2012; Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, 2012; Scope Miami, 2011-15; Art Miami, 2011-15; LA Art Show; Texas Contemporary; Art South Hampton; Evan Lurie Gallery, 2011; and Naomi Silva Gallery, Atlanta, 2004. Torres's work can be found in major private and public collections, including the private collections of Will Smith, Los Angeles, CA; Delta Airlines, Atlanta GA; Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA; Hoover Public Library, Hoover, AL; Museum of Art Matanzas, Cuba; David Mills, San Francisco, CA; Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Atlanta, GA; Ruth Beardsley, Australia; Laura Rathe, Houston, TX; Bernie Marcus, Boca Raton , FL; Trijicon Inc, VA; Law & Moran, Atlanta GA. He is the recipient of the following awards: 2017: Top Prize, ArtFields, Lake City, SC. 2014: People's Choice Award; Red Clay Survey; Huntsville Museum of Art, 2014; Grand Prize N.Y. Art Festival, Miami Florida, 2004; Grand Prize "Mapa Conceptual", Matanzas, Cuba, 2002; Second Place Roberto Diego, Provincial Salon of Visual Arts, Matanzas, Cuba, 2000. In 2003 the artist moved from Cuba to the United States where he maintains studios in Atlanta, GA and Costa Rica.
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I needed a ride on my motorcycle.
My wife was targeted for special security search in Madrid while I waited to board the flight to Boston, pointing to the security closet she had disappeared into when a burst of Spanish included her name. After that, the flight annoyed me, which turned out to be nothing compared to the disdain I felt for the entire re-entry process in Boston. It was just too much regulation, inconvenience and bureaucratic arrogance for me. Hopefully, I won't be flying for a while. I needed some space that I could deal with on my own terms.
I said I thought I would be okay on my manly motorcycle, added my dollar to the donation box and was on my way. As I pulled past on my way out, she was sitting as before and we waved to each other. Already, the world was getting more pleasant.
Sure enough, there it was. I got off the bike and took this picture. A guy in an old pickup stopped and yelled something about the road being too rough. I think he was coming down the road. I finished my shot and went over to see what he was saying.
I got the feeling the guy didn't want me on his road. It's a common sentiment in rural New Hampshire and I can't say that I blame him. Who wants more people, regulation, rules and bureaucrats?
The road was bad but no worse than the road into our camps near Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Bullet holes in the sign didn't bother me. About halfway to Sandwich I passed the only house. In front of it were three Deliverance guys. I waved and got back a wave and a decayed Jack O'Lantern smile. These north woods characters are down to earth and I like them for that.
But on the F650 that road is mine!
I rolled into Sandwich, on to Moultonborough, Center Harbor, back to Meredith and home. Took me about three hours. The F650 ran flawlessly. The Labor Day weekend weather was perfect. I feel a lot better now.
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Day 02: Srinagar – Sonmarg – Srinagar 168 Kms.
After breakfast leave from Srinagar and drive towards Sonmarg. Sonmarg (2800Mtrs above sea level), which means ' meadow of gold ' has, as its backdrop, snowy mountains against a cerulean sky. The Sindh meanders along here and abounds with trout and mahseer, snow trout can be caught in the main river. The visitors can have access to snow which is furnished all over like a white carpet. Ponies can be hired for the trip up to Thajwas glacier a major attraction during the summer months. In the evening return back to Srinagar. Dinner & overnight in Srinagar at Hotel.
After breakfast leave from Srinagar and drive towards Pahalgam. Pahalgam 2440 Mtrs above sea level (Valley of Shepherds) on the way visit Saffron fields & Avantipur ruins. Pahalgam is the most famous place for Indian Film Industry. Relax and evening is at free at its leisure. Dinner & overnight in Pahalgam at Hotel.
After breakfast, enjoy the nature charm of the valley. One can visit Betaab Valley, Chandanwari and Aru Valley in Pahalgam (Direct payment basis). In the evening return back to Hotel. Evening is at free at its leisure. Dinner & overnight in Pahalgam at Hotel.
After breakfast leave Pahalgam and start driving towards Gulmarg. Gulmarg (2730 Mtrs Above sea Level) ("Meadow of Flowers") is a town, a hill station, a popular skiing destination during winters. Relax and evening is at free at its leisure. Gulmarg is famous because of its "Gulmarg Gondola," one of the highest cable cars in the world (Direct Payment Basis). You can also visit Khilanmarg, the charming place in the Gulmarg that attracts everyone by its natural beauty. Dinner & overnight in Gulmarg at Hotel.
Day 07: -Srinagar Airport Drop.


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The Titan
The Student News Site of Nipomo High School
Caring About Our Planet
Fabiola Vazquez, Writer
Filed under Local Life, News
Even though it's a common topic today, sometimes we try to avoid thinking of the impact that humanity is taking upon earth.
The thing is, we are actually killing our home and worst, ourselves.
At Nipomo High School, we have environmental consciousness and people who really cares about our planet.
One of the most important members is Mrs. Donna Kandel, who has been an environmental activist since she got involved in the creation and conservancy of Nipomo's Native Garden with her family. She has also connected students of Nipomo High School with the Pismo Preserve Project. She used to lead a student Conservation Club which cleared hiking trails and several other activities like cleaning up the creeks.
Currently, she continues teaching math and spreading knowledge around our campus.
Kandel recommends us to be active in our community and invites us to participate in our local organizations such as the Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo. "They sponsor hikes locally and it's a really nice option for students to get involved in conservation activities," she says.
She also thinks that government should be more involved in legislation to address climate change and that governor Brown has been a good example for California. It is certain that it's going to take more than local efforts to improve the environmental condition.
Nowadays, it's more important than ever in our personal lives to attend to recycling, conserve energy, choose fuel efficient cars, choose the food we buy, and take care of our environment because the consequences of climate change are expected to be worse in the future.
Kandel suggests that when students would be able to vote, they should consider pro-environment candidates because it's an important part of their country.
What else can we do?
There are a lot of options to show respect for our world. Let's begin by caring about our daily activities and realizing how much impact does it have. A small contribution by everyone, no matter how small, could make a big change at a global scale.
Reuse plastic bottles, paper, containers, boxes, or any other type of material that could be used a second, third or even a fourth time.
Buy just what's necessary: avoid making more trash.
Collect rainwater for later use.
Avoid using your car when it's not necessary. For covering short distances, you could use your bicycle instead or simply go walking; your body will get a benefit too.
Reject plastic bags and straws.
Take care about green areas.
Don't throw garbage on the streets. Be clean.
Use alternative types of energy such as solar, or eolic.
Avoid using aerosols.
Care about your water. Avoid wasting it.
We must remember that as human beings, we are here for and thanks to the planet and not the other way around.
"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken."
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
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Guinness Six Nations
Farrell Faces Big Decisions For Six Nations Bow
by Jamie O'Connor · January 10, 2020
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New boss.
Ireland suffered an all-too-familiar defeat in the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup, being thrashed by New Zealand at Tokyo Stadium. It was the end of the line for Joe Schmidt as head coach, and although he had delivered three Six Nations titles and the Grand Slam in 2018, the South African failed to guide his side beyond the last eight of the most important competition of all.
Andy Farrell now takes the reins with the hope of a stronger outing in the World Cup in four years. The work begins now and Ireland have a challenge rebuilding their squad amid key departures along with injury concerns ahead of the Six Nations. They are backed at 4/1 in the Six Nations 2020 odds from Paddy Power behind only England to win the competition, suggesting that there is an element of confidence that they could make a surge for the crown, although they would need a lot to go in their favour.
Unfortunately for Farrell, he has inherited a team that have difficult decisions to make with older players and have already lost their inspirational skipper Rory Best to retirement. The hooker did have a noticeable decline in the World Cup, but his leadership skills were vital to Schmidt. He will be a massive loss for the team and the replacement would naturally be Jonny Sexton, but his fitness problems could force Farrell to turn to Peter O'Mahony to lead his side into the tournament. The flanker has done it before and has been fine in the role, but the bigger concern is the potential for Sexton to miss the Six Nations.
Sexton was battling injuries during the World Cup and was not operating at the peak of his powers. At the age of 34, it raises the question whether we have seen the last of Sexton as one of the leading fly-halves in the game. His control of the ball and ability to create tries out of nothing were the spark of Ireland's surge to the top of the world rankings before the tournament in Japan. Joey Carbery has been a solid deputy, although he does not have the class and guile of Sexton – it's an unfair comparison to make. Few players have the quality of Sexton in all aspects of the game – not only his deadly accurate kicking. Losing him for the Six Nations would be a nightmare for Farrell, as without him they would seriously struggle to justify their second favourites tag.
It's not the only area of concern as stalwart players Rob Kearney and Keith Earls could be heading towards the twilight of their careers. Kearney was already splitting time with Jordan Larmour at full-back, but the move could come to make the latter the permanent starter at the position. With the next World Cup in mind, it should be done sooner rather than later. Earls may lose out to Andrew Conway, while Jacob Stockdale looks to be the next star on the rise.
Elsewhere the forwards, particularly in the second row, appear to be sorted for the next four years. James Ryan is a standout alongside Iain Henderson, while Jean Kleyn and Tadhg Beirne have starter quality. The front row is where there are bigger concerns as Cian Healy, David Kilcoyne and John Ryan are all over thirty, paving the way for Andrew Porter and Tadhg Furlong to make the prop position their own in the Six Nations. Without Best, Sean Cronin and Niall Scannell will be battling for the starting role at hooker.
There are a number of huge decisions for Farrell to make in his bow as Ireland's head coach – expectations are not sky high due to the presence of England in the tournament as the overwhelming favourites, but the new man will want to set a tone for the next four years with a strong outing.


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Basketball / NCAA / News
December 8, 2022 - Eden Laase
Tennessee basketball player out for season with blood clots
Tennessee senior Tamari Key will miss the rest of the season due to blood clots found in her lungs. (Donald Page/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)
Tamari Key, who sat out Tennessee's 69-39 win over Chattanooga on Tuesday, will miss the remainder of the season after blood clots were found in her lungs, the team announced.
The Vols senior has been an integral part of the roster since her freshman year. Tuesday's game was the first she had missed since beginning her career at Tennessee.
Here's to a speedy recovery, TK 🧡 pic.twitter.com/aad7TRlnWM
— Lady Vols Basketball (@LadyVol_Hoops) December 8, 2022
"My sole concern right now is that Tamari continues to get the medical care and guidance she needs and begins the gradual process of healing and returning to full strength," coach Kellie Harper told reporters Thursday. "This is much bigger than basketball.
"We are so grateful that this medical condition was caught. Our entire program will be right beside Tamari during this process and welcomes prayers and positive thoughts from Lady Vol Nation and beyond."
Key averaged 8.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.0 blocks through nine games this season. During her junior year, she averaged 10.5 points, 8.1 rebounds and 3.5 blocks per contest.
The 6-6 center also holds the career record for blocks at Tennessee. She surpassed Candace Parker's previous record of 275 during the 2021-22 season, and she set the program's single-season record with 119.
We love you so much, Tamari Key!!! 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡@tamarikey___
— Kellie Harper (@KellieHarper) December 8, 2022
The senior's medical condition is just the latest in a string of bad luck for the Vols to start their season. After sitting at No. 5 in the preseason, Tennessee has gone 5-5 and dropped out of the polls completely.
Jillian Hollingshed and Jasmine Franklin are both out with concussion protocol, though both are expected to return. Meanwhile, Rickea Jackson is out indefinitely due to what Kelley Harper has called "a coach's decision."
The Vols still have several difficult games on their schedule, starting with No. 2 Stanford on Dec. 18. Then they play No. 6 UConn, No. 11 LSU, No. 21 Arkansas and No. 1 South Carolina before the regular season closes.
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The Aces played a limited rotation last season.
Candace Parker cites 'family' in decision to sign with Las Vegas Aces
Parker is making her way back west.
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Robertson now has 498 3-pointers.
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Q: create() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given? Django I was confused to why when I run this code it returns an error

create() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

if request.method == "POST":
my_form = RawProductCreateForm(request.POST)
if my_form.is_valid():
    Product.objects.create(my_form.cleaned_data)

but when I modify on the create method and add ** before passing the cleaned data it works!
Product.objects.create(**my_form.cleaned_data)

A: The create function under the hood looks more less like this:
def create(self, **data):
   pass

As you can see you have one positional argument self, other one is just a key words dictionary. When you call this function like this:
Product.objects.create(my_form.cleaned_data)

You are passing two positional arguments one is objects this is how python handle classes and methods and other one is my_form.cleaned_data, but the function exptes only one positional and any numbers of named arguments.
In second call:
Product.objects.create(**my_form.cleaned_data)

lets say the my_form.cleaned_data looks like this:
{
  'age': 1,
  'name': 'good product'
}

so the equvialent of the second call would be
Product.objects.create(name='good product', age=1)

As you can see you have only one positional argument objects and 2 named arguments.
In create function you can refer to data like this:
def create(self, **data):
   name = data['name']
   age = data['age']

A: It is because create takes keyword arguments, like
    Product.objects.create(product_name="Dish Soap", product_price=73)

Placing the ** before it tells the model to treat my_form.cleaned_data as a dictionary of keyword arguments.

A: This happens when you try to insert data without a point to the field defined in the model.
To fix this you have to pass field name inside the create() with assignment operator.
Product.objects.create(field1="<field 1 data>", field2=<field2 data>)


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Q: Null pointer when reading a Properties file from another folder My application will check if a Properties file exists and create one if not.
try{
        // create new file

        String path="c:\\temp\\LaserController.properties";
        File file = new File(path);
        String comport = "Comport=COM1";
        String Parity = "parity=none";
        String baud = "baud=9600";
        String Stopbits = "StopBits=0";
        String databits = "DataBits=8";
           // if file doesnt exists, then create it
           if (!file.exists()) {
               file.createNewFile();

           FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file.getAbsoluteFile());
           BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);
           // write in file
           bw.write(comport);
           bw.newLine();
           bw.write(Parity);
           bw.newLine();
           bw.write(baud);
           bw.newLine();
           bw.write(Stopbits);
           bw.newLine();
           bw.write(databits);
           // close connection
           bw.close();
           }

But when i try to read the properties file like this i get a Null pointer.
else {
           Properties prop = new Properties();

            InputStream input = LaserControllerUI.class.getResourceAsStream("c:\\temp\\LaserController.properties");

            // load a properties file
            prop.load(input);

            // get the property value and print it out
            System.out.println(prop.getProperty(Comport+"comport"));
            System.out.println(prop.getProperty("Parity"));
            System.out.println(prop.getProperty("Baud"));
            input.close();

        }
     }catch(Exception e){
         System.out.println(e);
     }
}

It fails on the InputStream input line but i dont know why. the file exists and my application can access it because it put it there in the first place. What am i doing wrong?
The file has to be in a location that is accessible to users to change parameters.

A: getResourceAsStream method needs a "class-path relative" name. You are providing an absolute path. Try to use FileInputStream instead.
E.g:
InputStream input = new FileInputStream("c:\\temp\\LaserController.properties");

A: I suggest using Properties.save() to ensure it is written in a format when can be read.
I suggest you look at the text file to see what was written.
BTW The properties are case sensitive. you write
Comport
parity
baud

but you read
Comport+"comport"
Parity
Baud

so they will all be null.

A: Move that file to resource folder or add that folder as resource folder
getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("LaserController.properties")


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