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NBA awards odds: Luka Doncic is the favorite to win MVP, but can he beat Giannis, LeBron and others?
Luka Doncic got everyone's attention last season.
He had a big improvement for the Dallas Mavericks after a strong rookie season. He averaged 28.8 points, 9.4 rebounds and 8.8 assists. His buzzer-beating 3-pointer against the Los Angeles Clippers in the playoffs was perhaps the most iconic moment from the NBA's Orlando bubble.
That's why, even though Giannis Antetokounmpo is coming off two straight MVPs and LeBron James just won a title with the Los Angeles Lakers, the 21-year-old Doncic is the favorite to win MVP at BetMGM.
The Mavs' Luka Doncic celebrates his game-winning 3-point basket against the Los Angeles Clippers during overtime of Game 4 of their first-round playoff series Aug. 23, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP)
The NBA's regular season starts Tuesday, and BetMGM has offered odds on who will win most of the league's major awards. The most surprising number of them all might be Doncic's MVP odds.
What are the odds for NBA MVP?
Six players have better than 20-to-1 odds to win NBA MVP, led by Doncic and a couple of stars with multiple MVP awards already.
Doncic +400
Antetokounmpo +500
James +800
Anthony Davis +900
Steph Curry +1100
James Harden +1600
It seems odd that James or Antetokounmpo wouldn't be on top of that list, but there are good reasons. With James, it seems likely that the Lakers will sit him more than usual, given that the NBA Finals ended in mid-October and the offseason was much shorter than usual.
Antetokounmpo might be the victim of voter fatigue. There have been only three players to win three MVPs in a row: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and Larry Bird. The only three-peat in the last 52 years is Bird, and his last MVP came 34 years ago. Antetokounmpo could be the best player in the league and still have a tough time winning. Voters generally look for new blood.
Not only will Antetokounmpo have to fight off Doncic, who came close to averaging 30-10-10 in his second season, there are plenty of reasonable picks for the award including some longer shots. Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics (+2500) will have a bigger role, and a pair at 80-to-1 odds in Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks and Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans have the talent and star power to be great long-shot lottery tickets.
It could be one of the most intriguing NBA MVP races in a while.
What are the odds for the NBA's other awards?
Here's a glimpse at the odds for the NBA's other major awards this season:
Rookie of the year: LaMelo Ball (+400), James Wiseman (+450) and Anthony Edwards (+450) are the favorites. But there are questions about all of them and this could be a year for a surprise rookie of the year winner.
Obi Toppin (+650) will get a push from the New York hype train if he's good right away. And it's not like there's any reason for the Knicks to not play him full-time minutes. Another player who could put up nice numbers on a bad team is Tyrese Haliburton (+1600) of the Sacramento Kings. Haliburton has looked good in the preseason and like the Knicks with Toppin, there's no real reason for the Kings to not give him a bunch of minutes.
Defensive player of the year: Rudy Gobert and Anthony Davis are co-favorites at +300 and reigning DPOY Giannis Antetokounmpo is next at +450. It's tough for a guard to win but Marcus Smart of the Boston Celtics (+2500) is intriguing. Smart has been on the NBA's all-defensive first team two years in a row and he could see even more minutes with Kemba Walker's knee injury.
Most improved player: If you can pick this award, you'll have a nice payday. Nobody is lower than 12-to-1 odds. Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray is the favorite at +1200. He was great in the bubble and has been a very good player for a few years so it's hard to argue for him improving that much. His teammate, Michael Porter Jr., has been hyped since high school and might be better value at +1400.
Sixth man of the year: It's a weird award to bet on because you need a player to be good, but not good enough to get into the starting lineup. Jordan Clarkson of the Utah Jazz is the favorite at +700. Tyler Herro of the Miami Heat looks like a great pick at +1400 after how he played in the bubble, but he might find himself in the starting lineup most of the season.
Coach of the year: If you can figure out which team will play the highest above preseason expectations, you can guess coach of the year. New Brooklyn Nets coach Steve Nash is a fun co-favorite at +900, with Monty Williams of the Phoenix Suns joining him. One name further down the list that checks some boxes is Stan Van Gundy of the New Orleans Pelicans at +2000. He is a known commodity, and if the Pelicans improve in Zion Williamson's second season, Van Gundy could get plenty of credit in his first year with the team.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (NYSE AMERICAN: GSV) (TSX: GSV) ("Gold Standard" or the "Company") announced today that Jason Attew, President and CEO, will present virtually at the TD Securities Mining Conference on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 1:40 p.m. ET. The presentation will be available on the "Investors" section of the Company's website. About Gold Standard Gold Standard is developing the South Railroad Project, an open pit, heap leach gold project located in Elko County, Nevada. The project is part of a +21,000 hectare land package on the Carlin Trend, and is 100% owned by Gold Standard. The goal of the Company is to become the low-cost junior producer of choice in Nevada, one of the premier mining jurisdictions in the world. For further information contact:Michael McDonaldVice President, Corporate Development & Investor RelationsPhone: 1-604-687-2766E-Mail: info@goldstandardv.com
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A Time to Every Purpose
The song Turn! Turn! Turn!"(To Everything There Is a Season) echoes as the weather warms up, Spring's delicate buds open and a new season is upon us. The tune was written by Pete Seeger in the 1950's and first recorded in 1959. The lyrics are based on the first eight verses of the third chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible.
The song only became an international success six years after it was composed, in late 1965, and somehow that's a fitting message for our theme this month, "A time to every purpose". Often what we want to happen quickly takes time and a certain amount of faith!
When considering everything under the sun is affected by the different seasons we realise how integral change is to life. Yet so often we cling to the same old way of doing things, which will not propel us forward. As Albert Einstein said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform." Roy T. Bennett
Becoming comfortable with change, making friends with it, will help when external changes impact on business. It's how ready we are to respond to change which will determine our future.
External factors such as the economy, technology, politics, urbanization, education, cultural changes and new generations entering into the workplace affect all businesses – from corporate to small business to entrepreneur.
"A time to plant, a time to reap."
Knowing we're always in the "season of change" prompts the question, is it a time to plant or a time to reap? Is your business in a nurturing or radical change phase? These are some of the questions we ask our clients:
Is a recent change something you forecast (could have predicted) or is it something that has taken you by surprise?
How do you deal with unexpected changes?
How do you ensure that the change in the business can be predicted – i.e. through forecasting / planning?
"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future." Walt Disney
Other areas of business change to ponder as we step into Spring:
New People: How do you ensure you welcome new people in your team? How do you ensure you keep the culture you want your organization / team to have. Project Manager has some good ideas, including, really taking the time to acknowledge the presence of a new person, making them feel welcome. Helping them feel motivated will boost productivity.
New Offices / Location: Thinking of moving offices or business location? There are certain things you need to think about before choosing a new place. Any hidden costs in the lease? What is the transportation route like for your team members? Is the location important for clients, or doesn't it matter? George Rogers suggests developing a Move Management Strategy, estimating that in some businesses almost 30-50% of their space goes unused every day.
New Client or Different Client Contact Person: How do you work with new people in an old account? Or how do you learn about and build rapport with a new client? Are there any systems and processes that need to be re-looked?
For some useful info look at Small Biz Trends who asked 12 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC): "How can businesses effectively manage client expectations early in a relationship?" Some great feedback including, "Expectations must be outlined accurately in the beginning, and then both parties need to deliver on them." Blair Thomas, eMerchantBroker
Loss of Client: How does this impact your bottom-line and team? Was this expected or unexpected? How do you deal with such a change? Do you scramble and look for new clients, or do you stop; take a deep breath; gradually re-calibrate and allow time to show answers? For a lively Facebook group which often deals with these kinds of issues, join The Resource Creative Forum.
New Suppliers / Service Provider: When you connect with new suppliers or service providers do you know what their T&Cs are? How does this impact you or your ways of working to ensure this change works for you? Clever Checklist has a list which covers more than you need in terms of new suppliers.
"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." Barack Obama
The synonyms for change are embodying, manifesting, personifying, incarnating, transforming. All things which mean letting go or giving up to embrace the new. It takes courage but once you start living with a change mindset it becomes easier. Good luck!
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FPF Testifies Before Federal Commission on School Safety
July 11, 2018 | Amelia Vance
By Amelia Vance, Sara Collins, Tyler Park, and Erika Ross
John Verdi, the Future of Privacy Forum's Vice President of Policy, testified today before the Federal Commission on Student Safety meeting, "Curating a Healthier & Safer Approach: Issues of Mental Health and Counseling for Our Young." He recommended that, rather than changing current federal student privacy law, the Commission should explore opportunities to educate school officials and other stakeholders regarding the existing legal authorities for sharing data to support school safety.
He provided three concrete recommendations that the Commission could follow to improve student safety and safeguard privacy:
Be mindful of the full range of privacy risks and harms, as well as the importance of privacy safeguards, as it considers options to improve school safety;
Support efforts to better educate and communicate with stakeholders regarding existing legal authorities that permit data sharing to promote health and safety within a framework that mitigates privacy risks to students; and
Call for neutral, expert analysis of empirical data regarding the nature, extent, and leading causes of the key privacy risks and safety risks facing students and schools.
Mr. Verdi stated that the privacy risks pose particular challenges when they arise in the context of children's or students' personal information. Physical harm and loss of liberty are especially egregious when the victim is a child. Financial fraud and identity theft increasingly target young Americans, who are often unable to discover or combat the crimes until years later. Children are also susceptible to specialized schemes – including medical identity theft – that can create substantial health risks when multiples individuals' medical records are merged as a result of the crime.
FERPA already contains a specific exception that permits information to be shared to protect the health and safety of students, whether the child in question is a threat to themselves, or to others. In 2008, the Department of Education amended FERPA regulations to remove the language requiring strict construction of this exception and permit disclosure when an articulable and significant safety threat exists. The Department assured school officials they would support the disclosure if there was a "rational basis for the school's determination" at the time it was made.
The 2008 amendments adopted a "totality of the circumstances" test and the "rational basis" approach to Department review of school officials' decisions. The "totality of the circumstances" test authorizes disclosure of protected student information when the totality of the circumstances suggest that disclosure would mitigate a health or safety threat; this test broadened schools' authority, replacing the previous "strict construction" standard, which suggested that disclosure was only authorized when strictly necessary to preserve health and safety. The "rational basis" approach assures districts that the Department does not second-guess disclosure decisions from a perspective of perfect hindsight; instead, the Department will view assertion of the health and safety exception as appropriate if the district identifies an articulable threat that serves as the rational basis for the disclosure.
Mr. Verdi testified that untethering disclosure authority from the "totality of the circumstances" or "rational basis" tests would necessarily increase privacy risks to students. He also noted that a dramatic broadening of authority could increase sharing of student information in a way that overwhelms administrators with data, casts suspicion on students who show no signs of violent behavior, and fails to promptly identify individuals who pose genuine threats to school safety. In particular, he mentioned that mentally ill students can be disincentivized from seeking help if they fear that their privacy will not be protected.
Mr. Verdi advocated that the Commission instead focus on educating school officials and other stakeholders regarding the existing legal authorities for sharing data to support school safety. The Department of Education's Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) has been vital for schools seeking practical guidance on FERPA. PTAC could publish guidance, hold training sessions, and provide additional technical assistance on this issue.
Finally, Mr. Verdi recommended the the Commission call for further research into the nature, extent, and leading causes of the key privacy risks and safety risks facing students and schools.
At a previous Federal Commission on School Safety listening session, FPF's Amelia Vance, Director of the Education Privacy Project, spoke on the important balance between schools' obligation to protect student privacy while providing a safe learning environment for students. She touched on the importance of schools being transparent about their interactions with law enforcement and that data sharing should only be engaged in when there is a serious threat of violence, not a minor infraction of a school code.
FPF is a non-profit organization focused on consumer privacy issues. FPF primarily equips and convenes key stakeholders to find actionable solutions to the privacy concerns raised by the speed of technological development. FPF's Education Privacy Project works to ensure student privacy while supporting technology use and innovation in education that can help students succeed. Among other initiatives, FPF maintains the education privacy resource center website, FERPA|Sherpa, and co-founded the Student Privacy Pledge.
Read Mr. Verdi's full testimony here.
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Q: Why do we need fermionic harmonic oscillators? And how is their Hamiltonian obtained? Maybe stupid questions! But:

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*Why do we need fermionic harmonic oscillators? And what do they describe?

*And how do we come up with the Hamiltonian
$$
H=\frac{1}{2} [c^\dagger,c]~?
$$

A: A harmonic oscillator, whether it's bosonic or fermionic, is a single-particle state that can be occupied by noninteracting particles. A fermionic state can be occupied by one particle at most, while a bosonic state can be occupied by an unlimited number of particles. Both
$$H_{\mathrm{BHO}}=\frac{\hbar\omega}{2}\{b^\dagger,b\}=\hbar\omega\left(b^\dagger b+\frac{1}{2}\right)$$
and
$$H_{\mathrm{FHO}}=\frac{\hbar\omega}{2}[c^\dagger,c]=\hbar\omega\left(c^\dagger c-\frac{1}{2}\right)$$
are in fact of the same form. We can derive the Hamiltonian form of the harmonic oscillator from that of one particle, be it bosonic or fermionic. The difference between $[b,b^\dagger]=1$ and $\{c,c^\dagger\}=1$ does not arise in the Hamiltonian form, but in the restriction of occupancy. The zero-point energy $\hbar\omega/2$ has the same meaning in both situations.

A: Fermionic harmonic oscillators are useful due to the fact that in the same way the usual harmonic oscillator arises from quantising a bosonic field, the former arises from quantising a Dirac fermion. In particular, take the Dirac field as,
$$\psi(\vec x) = \sum_s \int \frac{\mathrm d^3p}{(2\pi)^3} \frac{1}{\sqrt{2E_{\vec p}}} \left\{ b^s_{\vec p} u^s(\vec p)e^{-i\vec p \cdot \vec x} + c^s_{\vec p} \mathscr{v}^s(\vec p)^\dagger e^{i\vec p\cdot \vec x} \right\}.$$
Upon using the anti-commutation relations such as, $\{b^r_{\vec p}, {b^s_{\vec q}}^\dagger\} = (2\pi)^3 \delta^{rs}\delta^{(3)}(\vec p -\vec q)$ and the same for $c^s_{\vec p}$ with all others vanishing, one can compute the Hamiltonian,
$$H = \int \frac{\mathrm d^3 p}{(2\pi)^3} E_{\vec p} \left\{{b^s_{\vec p}}^\dagger b^s_{\vec p}  +{c^s_{\vec p}}^\dagger c^s_{\vec p}\right\}$$
after normal ordering, which is the analogue of a Hamiltonian for an infinite number of harmonic oscillator, written in terms of anti-commuting operators, describing fermionic statistics.

A: As for the calculative part of your question, the Hamiltonian follows immidiately from the analogy to the bosonic harmonic oscillator
$$\hat{H}_{\rm bosonic}=\hbar\omega\left(\hat{N}+\frac{1}{2}\right)=\frac{1}{2}\hbar\omega\left\{\hat{a}^{\dagger},\hat{a}\right\}$$
$$\hat{H}_{\rm fermionic}=\hbar\omega\left(\hat{N}-\frac{1}{2}\right)=\frac{1}{2}\hbar\omega\left[\hat{c}^{\dagger},\hat{c}\right]$$
We just take the same Hamiltonian, but now with anti-commuting ladder operators.
This acounts for the replacement $\left[\cdot,\cdot\right]\leftrightarrow\left\{\cdot,\cdot\right\}$ (notice that the Hamiltonians differ by a constant which can be discarded).

A: Try to have a look to this answer...
Harmonic oscillator is the fundamental beginning of quantum field theory! Every elementary particle moreover can be seen as a quantum fluctuation of the quantum field and (almost) every perturbation among a equilibrium state can be well approximate by the harmonic oscillator-like behaviour.

A: One way to understand it is using quanta. The bosonic oscillator has energy levels $E_{n} = \omega (n + 1/2)$. One says that at energy level $E_{n}$, there are $n$ quanta present. This borrows terminology from field theory, and is literally the basis of the particle interpretation. We have bosonic particle states as excitations of these harmonic oscillators, due to the fact that we can have an arbitrary number of quanta present. In contrast, in the fermionic oscillator, the Hilbert space is only 2 dimensional. In terms of quanta, this says that the quanta obey the Pauli exclusion principle. Hope this helped.

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I have deployed my web app in hosting server. Now my web app is using internet Explorer 7 or above using three operating system Windows XP 2 and Xp3 and Win 7.
Now when user click print the dialogue comes and disappear why... What's the problem …?
What to do to print report in client side.
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This US remake of Japanese hit Ringu (in which folk who watch a creepy video tape all die horribly within days) looks good, sounds good, has its fare share of genuine scares, and for a 'mainstream' US release is defintely better than the average American horror movie. However, it tries just too hard to impress and whilst it largely matches its source material blow for blow, the attempts at explaining the images on the killer video tape are just unnecessary and a classic demonstration of the desperate modern studio feeling that audiences must have everything spelt out to them. All the more pointless here given the supernatural premise.


Steps away from the sun-warmed Pacific, a popular Hawaii landmark has been exceptionally redefined, the newly renovated Ala Moana Hotel is stylish and innovative. Centrally located between Waikiki and Downtown Honolulu. Adjoining a major shopping center with over 260 stores and restaurants. Across from the Hawaii Convention Center and a short walk to the 77 acre Ala Moana Beach Park. Elegantly appointed rooms with marble and stone throughout, luxurious bedding, stainless steel refrigerator and microwave, LCD wall-mounted television. Outside, a state-of-the-art fitness center, swimming pool with spacious sundeck, upscale restaurants and much more. For those seeking relaxed elegance with a flair for contemporary style, this is the place to stay.
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My mother purchased 2 shops - 2821 a & b in boulevard walk for which she made full payment and was eligible for guaranteed assured return every month. The company stopped giving ar from december 2017 without any formal notice and still not responding to the several mails sent on her behalf. On the telephonic conversation with ms. Shilpi sharma and mr. Shivam vohra i was told that i will be paid a part of the total amount of ₹ 3.31 lakhs between 22nd-25th december 2018 which has still not done.
Investors Clinic — money taken but unit no. not alloted as required.
I transferred for unit below 26th floor in 14 avenue gaur city 2 but unit given on 27th floor. Ravi sharma is the executive who misguided me. I did as i was asked by ravi and his senior. But at the end none of his team mates responding to my call and query. Instead deducting admin fee for no reason. Do i need to pay when i didn't asked for 27 floor??
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This project is already extremely delayed and in an assured return plan how you can stop the payment. That is completely unethical. I call your company executive and asked several queries and she told she will reply but she never responded.


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Q: Symfony2 Assetic - path to image from inside a CSS-File I have a problem to get the right path from a pic inside a css-file (background-image)
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I have a  in the index.html.twig (app / Resources / views / default)
witch should get the background-image blau.png.
In the css I can format the div with border and size, no problem, but the backgound-image is not visible:
I've try the following syntax:
background-image: url("pics/blau.png") ;
background-image: url("../pics/blau.png") ;
background-image: url("../../pics/blau.png") ;

I can't find the Problem.
THX

I installed assetic :
php app/console assets:install

and run
php app/console assetic:dump --env=dev

and what I also installed and config are Assetic
$ composer require symfony/assetic-bundle

A: First put your images in the folder : (Manually or by assetic)

Web/uploads/public/pics

and in your css-file :
background-image: url({{ asset('uploads/public/pics/blau.gif') }});


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大森靖子 / Oomori Seiko (band set) @ Nagoya Club Quattro 2016.10.14
Oomori Seiko kicked off the second wave of shows in her TOKYO BLACK HOLE tour with a gig at Nagoya Club Quattro. This concert is the first featuring Seiko's new backup band of talented musicians from across the board performing what I predict is quite a varied set list than what she has done thus far during her acoustic shows that started the tour.
Last year's show at Nagoya Club Quattro
About ayear ago I saw Seiko for the first time on the same stage (officially, anyways, since last time she was just a guest for another act), and this marks the second time I would have the chance to see her in concert. I thought this a funny coincidence, and Seiko herself commented on her previous visit too, only she recalled something much more profound. She remembers that during the performance she was carrying her child, who just turned one, something that noone in the audience was aware of until weeks after when she made the news public. "I wasn't bouncing around as much last time because my baby," Seiko said in an MC, "but now I can really go all out."
Unfortunately, it was the audience who was having a little bit of trouble bouncing around this time around. I was a little disappointed that Seiko's on stage antics were met so passively by the crowd, who simply stood there in place not so much as moving an inch to the swells of sounds flowing from the speakers. Last time I fondly remember being swept up in a mass of people and ended up right at the front, but this time it seemed like the crowd was as careful as Seiko had been a year ago, albeit I doubt all of them had a growing baby inside their tummy's.
The stoic aura had little effect on Seiko herself, who delivered a brilliant performance of songs new and old, with a bulk from the Sennou and Tokyo Black Hole albums. The title track of the latter had less of an impact when performed live(although it still brought yours truly to tears), and I'm not sure if this was because of the lousy sound system, the downer mood of the crowd, or something internally with the musicians at work behind the goddess herself. Pierre Nakano of Rin Toshite Shigure, for all his drumming prowess, seemed less of a stage presence than I imagined, unless most people are just dwarfed by Seiko's aura. On the contrary, I've finally become a fan of Tokyo Black Hole's final tracks, which some fans praised but I could never quite accept as being very good. These were performed during an interlude in which Seiko took the stage alone and performed some tracks acoustic, proving that anything she does is gold, with or without the bells and whistles of a fancy studio recording mix, and in this case made the aforementioned tracks all the better. Other highlights include the band throwing down their instruments for the thumping pop portion of "Watashi wa omoshiroi zettai omoshiroi tabun" and dancing in unison, and Seiko's "pretty manager" coming on stage to help sing the intro for "Gekiteki Joy~ BeforeAfter." I didn't catch their names, but the women who are part of the backing band were superb on their respective instruments, and it was nice seeing some gender diversity on the stage behind the goddess.
Seiko never fails to awe in crowd involved even at the larger shows at less intimate venues, despite her being a major label artist that's almost cosigned to ignore her fans altogether because of her ascension to another plane of existence. Instead, she incorporated the crowd into sing-a-long chants to the chorus of "Zettai Shoujo," separated into groups of girls and "old guys," and even let one lucky girl, the winner of an impromptu rock-paper-scissors showdown, to sing solo. During the bridge of one song she passed the mic into the crowd and commanded everyone to yell in it to their heart's content. At the beginning of the show the audience was given a printout of lyrics which we were told to read to ourselves while the band sang along to it on stage, further solidifying this sense of community between ourselves and the band we were watching on stage, and feeling a lot like we were all back in grade school music class.
"Orion's Belt," sang with piano accompaniment by the band and audience.
I never thought that being packed into a hall with a bunch of people I've never met would incite more of a sense of belonging than any other environment or event I've been to since arriving in Japan. Yet here I was, bobbing my head to some of my favorite songs without a care in the world as to who was watching, keenly aware that no one would judge me with as sharp a point as they would if I were to step outside the doors of the live house and onto the street. We were all here to enjoy the same music, so we were all "weird," and quite frankly I doubt anyone really cared. Given how ill I was feeling in the week leading up to the event, it felt like the therapeutic kind of experience I needed, giving me a time to relax, unwind, and feel somehow more connected to these strangers via an invisible string of fate, no doubt weaved up, around, and through us by none other than Oomori Seiko.
All I could do to say thank you was pick up a cool tour T-shirt (the pink one I plan to invest in when she returns to Nagoya in November) and a shopping bag with her beloved Nana that touts a curious illustration of Seiko's world that I doubt I will ever use for anything practical. It is, however, nice to look at.


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/**
* @file CRStatManager.cpp
* @author Gage Thomas
*/

#include <assert.h>
#include "CRStatManager.hpp"
#include "CRConstants.hpp"
#include "CRApp.hpp"

namespace CRE{

	StatManager::StatManager() :
		_theApp(NULL),
		_mapKeys(),
		_statMap()
	{

	}

	StatManager::~StatManager(){

		///Delete everything in memory
		clear();

		///remove app pointer
		_theApp = NULL;
	}

	void StatManager::register_app(App * theApp){

		// Check that our pointer is good
        assert(NULL != theApp and "StatManager::register_app() theApp pointer provided is bad");

        // Make a note of the pointer
        assert(NULL == _theApp and "StatManager::register_app() theApp pointer was already registered");

        _theApp = theApp;
	}

	template <typename T>
	void StatManager::add_stat(std::string thisID, T& addThis){

		IStat *newStat = new Stat<T>(addThis);
		_mapKeys.push_back(thisID);
		_statMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, IStat *>(thisID, newStat));
	}

	template <typename T>
	T* StatManager::get_stat(std::string searchID){

		return _statMap[searchID] -> get_value<T *>();
	}

	template <typename T>
	void StatManager::set_stat(std::string searchID, T& newVal){

		_statMap[searchID] -> set_value<T&>(newVal);
	}

	void StatManager::remove_stat(std::string removeID){

		IStat *toDelete = _statMap[removeID];///creates a new IStat * if removeID is not an existing ID

		///Remove searched stat from map
		_statMap.erase(removeID);

		///remove the key from _mapKeys
		for(auto it = _mapKeys.begin(); it != _mapKeys.end(); ++it){

			if(*it == removeID){
				_mapKeys.erase(it);
				break;///Assumes each key is unique and only has to be removed once
			}
		}

		///Delete actual Stat object
		delete toDelete;
		toDelete = NULL;
	}

	bool StatManager::clear(){

		if(_mapKeys.empty()){///If there are no Stats to clear
			return false;
		} else {

			IStat *deleteThis = NULL;
			///Iterate through keys, erasing each one from the map before deleting
			for(auto it = _mapKeys.begin(); it != _mapKeys.end(); ++it){

				///Get Stat to be deleted
				deleteThis = _statMap[*it];

				///Erase the current Stat from the map
				_statMap.erase(*it);

				///Delete stat
				delete deleteThis;
				deleteThis = NULL;

				///Remove from keys
				_mapKeys.erase(it);
			}
		}
	}
}

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August 13, 2015 | Electronics & Computers
Could Black Phosphorus be the Next Silicon?
As scientists continue to hunt for a material that will make it possible to pack more transistors on a chip, new research from McGill University and Université de Montréal adds to evidence that black phosphorus could emerge as a strong candidate. In a recent study, researchers reported that when electrons move in a phosphorus transistor, they do so only in two dimensions. This finding suggests that black phosphorus could help engineers surmount one of the big challenges for future electronics – designing energy-efficient transistors.
Schematic of the "puckered honeycomb" crystal structure of black phosphorus. (Vahid Tayari/McGill University)
"Transistors work more efficiently when they are thin, with electrons moving in only two dimensions," says Thomas Szkopek, an associate professor in McGill's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. "Nothing gets thinner than a single layer of atoms."
In 2004, physicists at the University of Manchester in the U.K. first isolated and explored the remarkable properties of graphene – a one-atom – thick layer of carbon. Since then scientists have rushed to investigate a range of other two-dimensional materials. One of those is black phosphorus, a form of phosphorus that is similar to graphite and can be separated easily into single atomic layers, known as phosphorene. Phosphorene has sparked growing interest because it overcomes many of the challenges of using graphene in electronics. Unlike graphene, which acts like a metal, black phosphorus is a natural semiconductor, meaning it can be readily switched on and off.
"To lower the operating voltage of transistors, and thereby reduce the heat they generate, we have to get closer and closer to designing the transistor at the atomic level," Szkopek says. "The toolbox of the future for transistor designers will require a variety of atomic-layered materials: an ideal semiconductor, an ideal metal, and an ideal dielectric. All three components must be optimized for a well-designed transistor. Black phosphorus fills the semiconducting-material role."
To examine how the electrons move in a phosphorus transistor, the researchers observed them under the influence of a magnetic field in experiments performed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, FL, the largest and highest-powered magnet laboratory in the world. This research "provides important insights into the fundamental physics that dictate the behavior of black phosphorus," says Tim Murphy, DC Field Facility Director at the Florida facility.
"What's surprising in these results is that the electrons are able to be pulled into a sheet of charge which is two-dimensional, even though they occupy a volume that is several atomic layers in thickness," Szkopek says. That finding is significant because it could potentially facilitate manufacturing the material – though at this point "no one knows how to manufacture this material on a large scale."
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Nursultan Nazarbayev's chum in Italy
Why Alma Shalabayeva, the wife of a Kazakh dissident, was sent back to her native land
by J.H. | ROME
SILVIO BERLUSCONI'S party, the People of Freedom (PdL) movement, is beginning to discover the leverage it enjoys as part of a fragile government. Every time one of the PdL's leaders is jeopardised, it threatens to walk out of Enrico Letta's left-right coalition.
It happened when Mr Berlusconi's appeal against his conviction for tax fraud was brought forward. (It will now be heard on July 30th.) And on July 15th, the same technique was used on behalf of his loyal acolyte, Angelino Alfano, the interior minister.
Responding to the tabling of a motion of no-confidence in Mr Alfano, the PdL's leader in the lower house Chamber of Deputies, Renato Brunetta, declared that the government could not survive without him. His threat was a measure of the seriousness of the crisis which has built up gradually since the night of May 28th to 29th when Alma Shalabayeva (pictured with her daughter), the wife of a Kazakh dissident, was removed from her home on the outskirts of Rome and, on May 31st, sent back to an uncertain fate in her native land, along with her six year-old daughter. The motion of no-confidence will once again test the bond between the PdL and Mr Letta's centre-left Democratic Party (PD), already strained by Mr Berlusconi's trial.
According to a statement from Ms Shalabayeva, around 30 armed men and women dressed in black battered on the door of the house where they were living and barged into the property. When she gave evasive answers to their questions, one of them, she said, called her a "Russian bitch".
An internal Italian government inquiry will reportedly point the finger at four officials, including the police chief of Rome, as responsible for the operation and Ms Shalabayeva's subsequent expulsion. Mr Alfano has denied all knowledge of the operation until after it was completed.
If Ms Shalabayeva and her husband, Mukhtar Ablyazov, came from anywhere but Kazakhstan, his denial would be met with less scepticism. It is not just that Italy has an important trading relationship with the oil and gas-rich republic: ENI, Italy's main oil firm, has a 16.8% stake in the giant Kashagan oil field. Mr Alfano's boss is also evidently a chum of Kazakhstan's strongman president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Western leaders have mostly been happy to do business with Mr Nazarbayev, but careful not to become too closely identified with someone who has ruled his country with an iron fist. One exception is the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, who has a reported £8m ($12m) a year consultancy contract with Kazakhstan. Another is Mr Berlusconi.
At an OECD summit in 2010, he described Kazakhstan as a "hero" on the world stage; its new capital, built by Mr Nazarbayev, as a "miracle", and Mr Nazarbayev himself as "absolutely justifiably loved by his nation". In fact, he said, he had read a report by independent experts who had discovered that 92% of the population of Kazakhstan loved their president.
So it would be entirely natural for the admiring Mr Berlusconi to have seen his friend when Mr Nazarbayev was on holiday in Sardinia recently. According to Unione Sarda, a newspaper, they did indeed meet on July 6th, six days after Ms Shalabayeva was bundled out of Italy.
The Unione Sarda report was categorically denied by Mr Berlusconi's aides. They said he had spent the entire day at his mansion outside Milan, and had not seen Mr Nazarbayev at any time during his sojourn in Italy.
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54:48 Substitution!JEFFWSOC substitution: Emily Discavage for Erin Sullivan.
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In this challenge, we practice declaring variables using the let and const keywords. Check out the attached tutorial for more details.
Declare a constant variable, , and assign it the value Math.PI. You will not pass this challenge unless the variable is declared as a constant and named PI (uppercase).
Read a number, , denoting the radius of a circle from stdin.
Use and to calculate the and of a circle having radius .
Print as the first line of output and print as the second line of output.
A single integer, , denoting the radius of a circle.
is a floating-point number scaled to at most decimal places.
On the first line, print the of the circle having radius .
On the second line, print the of the circle having radius .
We then print as our first line of output and as our second line of output.


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This is a drawing of what the surface of a comet might look like.
A Table of Comet Missions
The Comet Nucleus
The nucleus of a comet is the central portion of the head of a comet. It is a solid part of the comet, made of a special sort of dust which is called "fluffy" because it could be as light weight and full of holes as a sponge. The holes of this "sponge" are filled with ices like water, carbon dioxide (dry ice), and carbon monoxide (what comes out of your car).
Observations of the nuclei of comet Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake have given scientists fresh ideas about comet composition and evolution. But, scientists still don't know whether the nucleus is very hard, like solid ground, or very soft and breakable, like a snowball. The Rosetta mission hopes to land a probe on the surface of a comet to find out just how hard it is!
As a comet approaches the Sun, it begins to evaporate, forming the coma and a spectacular comet tail. This picture shows that evaporation may happen only in specific places on the nucleus. These spots of evaporation are called "jets". Halley's comet had three distinct jets on its surface as it approached the Sun in 1986.
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Marvel's Ant-Man is one of the universes's lesser known characters. Only true comic lovers will recognize this character. That fact made this film hard to market. However, the MCU is so large and connected, people will see it regardless. The film opened north of 60 million dollars, good for the second lowest of all Marvel movie entries. Think about that for a second. Most filmmakers can only dream of that kind of opening. In Marvel's world, that is almost a dead last finish. Financially, of course, it is still a success for them in any ways.
Peyton Reed fills the empty shoes of Edgar Wright. Way back in the early/mid 2000's, this was Wright's passion project. Last year, he and Marvel didn't see eye to eye. Their relationship over the years could be a movie itself. He left, and the script was retooled, with Paul Rudd as lead man Scott Lang. Wright is still credited with the story. Michael Douglass plays Hank Pam, original Ant-Man (In the comics, Pym is a founding member of the Avengers, and creator of Ultron). Marvel studios has obviously reworked that. There are countless references to the Avengers and the greater universe, though, and it's just a matter of time before these characters meet up with the rest.
Evangeline Lily plays Hank Pym's daughter, Hope Van Dyne. Corey Stoll plays Darren Cross. Stoll is Pym's protege, and has dedicated his life to recreating Pym's mythical formula. Of course, he succeeds. Pym needs a successor to become Ant-Man. So, he recruits Rudd's Scott Lang: a down on his luck felon. Lang was a Robin Hood criminal. He stole from a corrupt company and gave back to the people. Now, released and unemployed, he struggles to rekindle with his estranged daughter. Bobby Cannavale plays her cop stepdad, while Judy Greer plays Rudd's ex wife. The father daughter strain is a key plot element here. Douglas's Pym has rocky standings with his daughter Hope as well.
Scott and his cronies, a comical chicano played by Michael Pena, the driver played by rapper TI, and the computer wiz (David Dastmalchian) break into Douglas's home in search of a score to support themselves. It is all an elaborate set up to start Scott's transition into the Ant-Man. As he trains, we do get some colorful effects sequences. It is very impressive how Marvel pulled off the CGI to spectacularly capture Ant-Man's shrinking abilities. Rudd and his quirky charisma work well with this role. There are a fair share of laughs. Douglas seems to be enjoying himself in his role, and it is fun to watch.
The issue here is that Hope feels she should be wearing the suit. She is undercover as Cross's lover, and wants to take on the mission of stopping him. While she and her father work out their problems, Scott keeps preparing, and eventually we get a nice cameo that was successfully kept secret. When the heist is ready, Scott eventually comes face to face with Darin Cross, now equipped with his Yellow Jacket suit, and Pym's technology. He had been in conjunction with HYDRA. They fight, and quite frankly, it is highly pleasing. There is a great section where they are shrunken and fighting on a child's train set. Their mayhem is magnified as chaotic from their points of view, and we comically get the reality from bystanders who can't see a thing, as toys fly everywhere.
When Scott is forced to save his daughter, he does something he won't come back from. He goes subatomic, shrinking even further than usual. It is the only way to stop Cross. Pym warns him about this sort of twilight zone of no return. It is where his wife, (Wasp, Ant-Man's partner) ended up on a mission. He could never forgive himself, and it is a main catalyst for the trouble with Hope. Scott, however, does the unthinkable. He finds a way out. With the day saved, Scott and Hope become involved, and all live happily ever after. Pym tries to get Scott to remember what happened in the unknown realm, but he can't. Theoretically, his wife could still be in there.
Finally, we are treated to the typical Marvel post credits sequences. I won't spoil them, but they obviously push the universe forward in many ways, and "Captain America: Civil War" is shaping up to be bigger than an Avengers movie itself. This is an entertaining superhero flick to say the least. It is not great, but it is not bad, like many may expect with such an unorthodox character.
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A Cool Idea
Posted by Arezu Ingle on June 29, 2010 at 7:53 pm
I unfortunately had to spend most of the month in Washington, DC suffering through the hottest June on record. Washington has had 18 days over 90 degrees this month with lots of humidity to boot, resulting in heat indices well over 100 degrees. And the few days of the month I was in New York, it wasn't much better.
While the global warming theory appears to have lost some of its steam of late, if June 2010 in DC is any indication, then the planet is in for a heap of trouble. Where's Al Gore when you need him? (Answer: He's preoccupied with his divorce and other tabloid rumors.)
Maybe there's a silver lining with all this heat.
As long as it's this hot, many of us will choose to stay indoors – in the cool of our office buildings — and not on the golf course, the tennis court, or at the baseball game. And as long as we're in our offices, we might as well spend part of that time thinking about how our respective businesses can be more productive and innovative during the second half of the year.
So use this time wisely. Pull together your management team, challenge them to take a fresh look at the next six months, and come up with a game plan that could move the dial in each business and function across your organization.
Better yet, treat your team to an inspiring offsite meeting or innovation workshop, in a nice air-conditioned space, where thought-provoking speakers and thought-enhancing surroundings might spur more creative thinking.
That sounds like a pretty cool idea to me.
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Underground Art
The New York City subway system is one of the oldest in the world. The first underground line from City Hall to the Bronx opened in 1904.
Today, the New York City subway is one of the largest and most complex systems of its kind, operating over 842 track miles, and serving the four boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. It operates 24 hours a day, serves 468 stations on 26 interconnected lines, and averages 5 million passengers each weekday.
Not impressed yet? Try this one. New York's subway system carries more passengers each year than all the other mass transit rail systems in the U.S. combined.
Now for the downsides. A New York subway is far from the cleanest. It's definitely not the sleekest. Its hard plastic seats are clearly not the most comfortable. And the smells that sometimes waft from the nooks and crannies of the subway stations are not the most pleasant.
But there's something special to me about New York City's subway. It has a bit of charm thanks to the mosaic tile art that you'll find in each station. Some of the art dates back to 1904. The artwork is unique to each station and centers around the station's name. Sometimes you're treated to other little splashes of tile art like the pink hat I am "wearing" in the photo above.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Arts for Transit program oversees the subway art, which also includes sculptures, murals, and live musicians.
Some of my non-New York City friends turn their noses up at the thought of taking the subway in any city, especially in New York. They think it's beneath them. Well, it is, literally of course.
What they are missing out on is what I and millions of other New York City subway passengers know. It's the quickest way to get around the city. It's the cheapest way to travel. And it's the most green way to travel when you compare it to all of the above-ground options.
But it also provides an opportunity to experience art on a whole new level — that is, the art of the underground.
Heeding the Call on Energy Security
A small group of corporate heavy-hitters has come together to sound the alarm for increased spending and focus on energy research and innovation in the U.S. (New York Times, June 10, 2010).
Seven of the country's most respected business leaders have formed the American Energy Innovation Council, including luminaries such as General Electric CEO, Jeff Immelt, and Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates. Their message: the U.S. Government needs to "triple investments in clean-energy technologies to boost the nation's economic competitiveness and protect the environment."
We've heard similar calls for action on clean-energy investment in recent years from a variety of voices from business and academia. What makes last week's announcement unique, however, is the coming together of major corporate leaders from disparate sectors around a common "business plan." And the fact that it was announced against the backdrop of our nation's worst oil spill in history adds further to the uniqueness of the moment.
The plan calls for a tripling in clean-tech funding in nuclear fission, solar, wind and fossil fuels. It also proposes the formation of an independent energy strategy board, which would develop an energy plan and oversee large-scale demonstration projects as part of the "New Energy Challenge Program."
The Council recommends a $20 billion commitment over 10 years for the Challenge Program, which would "unleash significant private sector resources as projects are developed." Additionally, it suggests that the Federal Government create Centers of Excellence to "foster multidisciplinary collaboration amongst scientists, universities, federal laboratories, and other public and private institutions."
In addition to Immelt and Gates, the Council also includes: Chad Holliday, Chairman of Bank of America (and former CEO of DuPont); Ursula Burns, Chairman and CEO of Xerox; Norm Augustine, Chairman of Lockheed Martin; Tim Solso, Chairman and CEO of Cummins Inc.; and John Doerr, a leading energy venture capitalist and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
The group clearly faces some stout headwinds in making the case to Congress and the Obama Administration to spend more federal money on energy research at a time of unprecedented budget deficits. Yet, we know that the barking dog is usually the one who gets fed first. And when you have seven notable best-in-breed barkers, it's hard not to at least give the group and their plan a serious look.
At a time when the public is less inclined to believe our corporate leaders, I am ready to take these leaders at their word. They know the path to energy security will be long, and as Jeff Immelt puts it, "the world is not going to wait for the United States to lead. This is about innovation; this is about competition; this is about energy security."
I hope someone listens and heeds the call.
Rethinking Science
Posted by Arezu Ingle on June 6, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Today wrapped up the third annual World Science Festival in New York City, June 2-6, which called on attendees to "Rethink Science."
I visited today's events in the historic Washington Square Park to find hundreds of kids and adults actively participating in the "World Science Festival's Youth and Family Street Fair."
Despite the 90-degree temperatures, kids of all ages swarmed today's numerous exhibits, live events, and demonstrations in the park that showcased the magic of science. Of course, the park's fountain was also a main attraction as it helped to cool down both children and adults, who seemed to be having a wonderful June Sunday afternoon.
Over the four-day period, the festival showcased "40 unique programs in scientific disciplines ranging from astronomy, physics and genetics to neuroscience, robotics and mathematics." Efforts were made to also "integrate traditional arts disciplines – dance, theatre, music and the visual arts – to underscore that science is everywhere."
Kudos to the Festival's organizers for dreaming up and executing on this worthy event. It's too bad that this sort of focus on the importance of science does not occur every week of the year, and in every city and town across our country.
Frankly, it's the lack of interest of our future generations in science that threatens to knock the United States off its innovation pedestal. And frankly, we cannot lay the blame at our children's feet. It's adults who help influence what is important in a child's life. If we don't place a high level of importance on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) — and pursuing careers in these fields — then we can't expect our kids to follow suit.
American businesses of every stripe and color benefit from home-grown scientific discovery and innovation. As such, I call on business leaders from every corner of the country to work with schools and community officials to find ways to turn up the volume on the wonders of science, and excite kids to become a scientist or engineer.
Then who knows, maybe 10 years from now, the most popular show on our television, computer, or tablet screens will be "America's Got Scientific Talent" or "Innovating with the Stars."
You don't think so? Well, at least I can dream.
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Deputy First Minister John Swinney says Boris Johnson will not dampen support for Scottish independence Credit: Getty
Boris Johnson's brand of "muscular unionism" will fail to dampen support for Scottish independence because his ministers "do not have the brains to match the brawn", Nicola Sturgeon's deputy will argue on Sunday.
John Swinney, the Deputy First Minister, will tell the SNP conference that the UK Government will "plaster the country with Union flags" in an attempt to convince Scots to oppose separation.
But he is expected to argue that this tactic would fail, along with constant attempts to "undermine the Scottish Government" and funding "pet projects in Tory-held seats".
Instead, Mr Swinney will warn that Britain will suffer through a new winter of discontent because of a deepening economic "disaster" triggered by Brexit and the end of free movement from the Continent.
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He is also expected to warn that Mr Johnson and Michael Gove are trying to dismantle devolution by removing Holyrood's powers and dictating how money is spent in devolved areas.
Mr Swinney, who is also Scotland's Covid Recovery Secretary, will tell delegates watching the virtual conference: "They will cut our budget, diverting funding to pork barrel, pet-projects in Tory-held seats. They will plaster the country with Union flags.
"And they take every opportunity they have to undermine the Scottish Government .. but the problem they will face with their muscular unionism is that they do not have the brains to match the brawn."
Arguing that the "sorry saga of Brexit" was the best example of how the Union has failed Scotland, he will highlight empty shelves in some supermarkets and farmers complaining they have had to let food rot in the ground because they did not have the workers to harvest it.
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Q: Serialize form inputs to JSON using Backbone.js I'm working on RESTful application - I'm using Java on the server side and Backbone for the Front End. The 2 will communicate via JSON.
My App has quite a few forms and I would like to:

*

*Serialize the form inputs to JSON

*Send the JSON to the server

My questions:

*

*What is the best way to serialize the form inputs to JSON? Perhaps a Backbone only solution?

*Once the form inputs serialized to JavaScript Objects - what is the best way to send JSON to the server?

My code so far:
Javascript and Backbone
$(function(){
    $.fn.serializeObject = function()
    {
        var o = {};
        var a = this.serializeArray();
        $.each(a, function() {
            if (o[this.name] !== undefined) {
                if (!o[this.name].push) {
                    o[this.name] = [o[this.name]];
                }
                o[this.name].push(this.value || '');
            } else {
                o[this.name] = this.value || '';
            }
        });
        return o;
    };

    //Model
    var SignupForm = Backbone.Model.extend();

    //View
    var SignupView = Backbone.View.extend({
        el: '.signupForm',
        events: {
            'click input.submit': 'getStatus'
        },
        getStatus: function(event){
            var data = JSON.stringify($('form').serializeObject());
            $('.test').html(data);
            return false;
        }
    });

    var signupForm = new SignupForm();
    var signupView = new SignupView({
        model: signupForm
    });
});

HTML

    <form class"signup">
        Name:
        <input type="text" id="name" name="name" />

        Surname:
        <input type="text" id="surname" name="surname" />

        <input type="submit" value="submit" class="submit" />
    </form>

I'm new to Backbone so sorry if this is trivial.
I'm keen to code my application the best way as possible so please feel free to tell me if there is a better way to do this.
Thanks a lot.

A: For just serializing to JSON there's this option as well
https://github.com/marioizquierdo/jquery.serializeJSON

A:
What is the best way to serialize the form inputs to JSON? Perhaps a
  Backbone only solution?

Use Backbone.Forms to read the form data into a Model.
For example:
var User = Backbone.Model.extend({
    schema: {
        title:      { type: 'Select', options: ['Mr', 'Mrs', 'Ms'] },
        name:       'Text',
        email:      { validators: ['required', 'email'] },
        birthday:   'Date',
        password:   'Password',
        address:    { type: 'NestedModel', model: Address },
        notes:      { type: 'List', listType: 'Text' }
    }
});

var user = new User();

var form = new Backbone.Form({
    model: user
}).render();

$('body').append(form.el);

Once the form inputs serialized to JavaScript Objects - what is the
  best way to send JSON to the server?

After that you can sync your model with your REST service. You have to set an url property on your model, and call the save method.

A: Backbone doesn't make any assumptions of how you implement behavior. It only provides a clean architectural pattern. So the way you have implemented form serialization seems to be fine (similar to or adapted from: Convert form data to JavaScript object with jQuery)
As far as persistence is concerned, you can set the model's attributes when the submit button is clicked.
In your view:
getStatus: function(event){
            var data = JSON.stringify($('form').serializeObject());
            this.model.set(data);

 }

and in your model:
initialize: function(){
   //This will save attributes every time a change event is triggered.
   this.bind("change", this.save);
}

A: Another solution would to be to use the backbone.syphon extension, it allows you to simply submit your form in the same way as an entity would create it:
Backbone.View.extend({
  events: {
    "submit form": "formSubmitted"
  },

  formSubmitted: function(e){
    e.preventDefault();

    var data = Backbone.Syphon.serialize(this);
    this.model.set(data);

    this.model.save();
  }
});


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Q: Avoid duplicate insert to database I have the following code that inserts an entity with random generated value "hawb" as one of the column. My idea was since the hawb is a unique column in the table, the try-catch block will catch the exception when duplicate value is being inserted. The workflow works fine until I start testing it and get some weird error.
[Code]
hawb = "0402135505536";
while (!uniqueHawb)  //insert new hawb
{
    //hawb = $"{DateTime.Now:MMddHHmmss}{RandomHelper.GetRandomNumber(0, 999):000}";

    var entity = new HawbAsset { HAWB = hawb, HawbStatus = "Allocated", AllocatedDateTime = DateTime.Now, AllocationReference = reference };

    try
    {
        _repository.Insert(entity);
        uniqueHawb = true;
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        ;
    }
    hawb = $"{DateTime.Now:MMddHHmmss}{RandomHelper.GetRandomNumber(0, 999):000}";
}

[Model]
    public class HawbAsset : BaseEntity
    {
        [Required(AllowEmptyStrings = false)]
        [Index(IsUnique = true)]
        [StringLength(15)]
        public string HAWB { get; set; }

        [Required(AllowEmptyStrings = false)]
        public string HawbStatus { get; set; }

        public DateTime? AllocatedDateTime { get; set; }

        [Required(AllowEmptyStrings = false)]
        public string AllocationReference { get; set; }

        public DateTime? ConfirmedUsageDateTime { get; set; }

        public DateTime? RecycledDateTime { get; set; }

        public string Owner { get; set; }
    }

I have hardcoded a duplicate value 0402135505536 so it will catch the "Duplicate Key Exception" the first time, which is expected. However, when the hawb been randomly generated, and I have make sure the value is different, it still catches the same "Duplicate Key Exception". Can anyone tell me what is going on and how to achieve my goal? Thanks!

A: The issue you are seeing is because you tried inserting one entity with the duplicate ID and that failed. On the retry, you are creating a 2nd entity and trying to insert that.. The first entity is still associated to the context and will still try to save. You need to detach it from the context before saving the new replacement, or update the existing entity.  (below)
hawb = "0402135505536";
var entity = new HawbAsset { HAWB = hawb, HawbStatus = "Allocated", AllocatedDateTime = DateTime.Now, AllocationReference = reference };
while (!uniqueHawb)  //insert new hawb
{
    //hawb = $"{DateTime.Now:MMddHHmmss}{RandomHelper.GetRandomNumber(0, 999):000}";

    try
    {
        _repository.Insert(entity);
        uniqueHawb = true;
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        ;
    }
    entity.HAWB = $"{DateTime.Now:MMddHHmmss}{RandomHelper.GetRandomNumber(0, 999):000}";
}

To detach an entity you need to use context.Entity(entity).State = EntityState.Detached;  which would need to operate through your repository boundary.
Ideally though, it would be better to check the uniqueness of the HAWB before attempting the insert, but still handling the exception for those very, very rare cases that an entry gets saved between the check and the save:
int retryCount = 0
while (retryCount < 5)
{
  try
  {
    bool isUnique = false;
    string hawb = null;
    while(!isUnique)
    {
      hawb = generateHawb();
      isUnique = context.HawbAssets.Any(x => x.HAWB == hawb);
    }
    entity.HAWB = hawb; // this hawb should be unique, so set and insert.
    _repository.Insert(entity);
  }
  catch(UpdateException)
  {
  // log that this has happened, check inner exception for duplicate key and retry, though limit retry attempts if there are deeper issues that might lock up the system in a retry loop.
    retryCount++;
  }
}

A: Its 1 line of extra code to check if the entity exists.  Do that first and dont rely on error handling to do the work:
if ( _repository.HAWBAssets.FirstOrDefault(i => i.HAWB == hawb)== null)
    {
     _repository.Insert(entity);
        uniqueHawb = true;
    }

A: Maybe you can use nanoseconds to make big distance between records to reduce possibility of duplication
entity.HAWB = $"{DateTime.Now.Ticks}";
// 636898603227146583

DateTime.Ticks resolution is 100 nanoseconds