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Title: Investigating Integers, an Introduction Brief Overview: This lesson will prepare students to work with integers by comparing and computing with them. They will recall the concept of additive inverse as well as apply commutative and associative properties to evaluate expressions using integers. Students will use horizontal number lines and/or thermometers to examine the movement between... A printable math worksheet that introduces the concept of negative numbers and allows practice with comparing integers and with using integers to represent the difference between two numbers.
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Q: How to enter multiple string variables into a text box I have a workbook with an userform that captures user input into string and single variables and I want to display a text consisting those variables into a text box on the same userform using new line and tab.
Example:
Dim dog as String 'rex
Dim years as Single '5
Dim owner As String 'Joe
Dim address as String '123 Sample Street
Dim value as Single '300.00

I would like to have a textbox on my form,  that would display:
The dog's name is rex. He is 5 years old.

Owner:                    Joe
Address:                 123 Sample Street

Treatment value:   300.00

I used
textbox.value = "The dog's name is " & dog & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Owner:            " & owner & vbNewLine & "Address:            " & address & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Treatment value:         " & value
But after some time i will not be able to add another character to this line and I have plenty more variables mixed with text to come.
Can you suggest how this can be done?

Update: Resolved
Many thanks for your help.

A: Try
textbox.value = "The dog's name is " & dog & vbNewLine & vbNewLine

textbox.value = textbox.value & "Owner: " & owner & vbNewLine

textbox.value = textbox.value & "Treatment value: " & value & vbNewLine

Continue with other fields!

A: Try like this:
textbox.value = "The dog's name is " & dog & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & _
"Owner: " & owner & vbNewLine & _
"Address: " & address & vbNewLine & vbNewLine _
& "Treatment value: " & value

The " _" signs help you break the code into more lines. Note, that we have 2 signs - space and underscore there.
A small info - it is possibly good to consider passing the text as a .Text and not as .Value. Here is something good to read - Distinction between using .text and .value in VBA Access

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Governor Signs Bill to Dramatically Shift Power at SANDAG
The bill, inspired in part by VOSD's investigation into SANDAG's sales tax measures, shifts power at the agency toward San Diego and Chula Vista and away from smaller cities.
The balance of power at the San Diego Association of Governments just shifted.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed AB 805, a bill by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher that overhauls the regional planning agency SANDAG, following a year in which the agency has been besieged by scandal.
The changes at SANDAG will empower large cities like San Diego and Chula Vista, at the expense of small and rural cities like Del Mar and Santee.
In practice, that's expected to shift SANDAG and its $1.3 billion annual budget to the left, making it more likely the board inks labor-friendly contracts and emphasizes transit projects over freeways.
Gonzalez Fletcher introduced the bill this spring, after Voice of San Diego revealed the agency is now billions short of what it needs to fulfill the promises made to voters as part of TransNet, a sales tax hike passed in 2004, and that SANDAG had knowingly overstated how much TransNet would bring in and understated project costs over a series of years.
SANDAG later commissioned an outside investigation from an Orange County law firm, which confirmed that agency staffers and executives knew its revenue estimates were overstated but presented inflated numbers to voters anyway. It also found that the agency hid and deleted public documents to cover up the scandal once Voice of San Diego began writing about it.
The agency's longtime executive director, Gary Gallegos, resigned a week after the release of the investigation.
Gonzalez Fletcher's bill capitalized on the scandal. The bill would create a new performance auditor and audit committee to oversee issues like those Voice of San Diego uncovered. It also remakes the agency in ways that boost Gonzalez Fletcher's political goals – making the agency more labor- and transit-friendly – that aren't directly related to the scandal.
Currently, SANDAG's board takes two votes on every item. One is a simple tally of each board member's vote, and the other is weighted to the population of the city the board member represents. Items need to be approved both ways.
Now, any four cities representing a majority of the county's population could invoke a weighted vote on an item and overrule the tally vote. MTS has long had a similar voting structure.
That means the balance of power in San Diego no longer resides with the smaller, rural cities that are typically more conservative, but in the densely populated and more liberal areas in the urban core.
That could shape decisions in the short term, but it'll be especially impactful in determining the composition of major SANDAG decisions in the coming years. Future tax increases could devote a larger share to transit projects than they otherwise would, or direct a larger share to San Diego or the South Bay.
Likewise, the composition of projects in SANDAG's long-term transportation plan could over time change to reflect the agency's new political power center.
AB 805 is also a boon to organized labor. It requires the agency to hire from state-approved apprentice programs for large construction projects, unless it signs union-friendly project labor agreements. Organized labor unsuccessfully lobbied SANDAG's board to write a similar requirement into Measure A – a tax hike measure that failed – last year, but the conservative-dominated board wouldn't budge. It's now a requirement for any future tax increase.
The bill also gives the two transit operators in the county – the Metropolitan Transit System and the North County Transit District – the authority to propose tax increases of their own.
That could make it more likely that future tax increases to fund transit and infrastructure pass, since the geographic area covered by MTS, for instance, excludes many tax-averse areas. But as long as tax increases for specific needs, like transportation, still require support from two-thirds of voters, will continue to be a difficult political fight.
Republicans opposed the bill, as did many of the small cities poised to lose influence, including El Cajon, La Mesa, National City, Solana Beach, Poway, San Marcos, Vista and the County of San Diego.
But support didn't break on clean partisan lines.
The San Diego City Council voted to support AB 805, with all five Democrats voting to support it and all four Republicans opposing it.
That meant Democrats would not have had the votes to overcome a veto from Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer. Yet Faulconer, who rarely attends SANDAG meetings but now holds a significantly more powerful vote there, chose not to veto the Council's decision. It was at the least a tacit show of support.
Brown has in the past shied away from signing bills that solely apply to local, rather than statewide, issues. Two years ago, he vetoed a bill by Gonzalez Fletcher to overhaul the downtown redevelopment agency Civic San Diego on those very grounds.
But she prevailed upon him to sign this one, and in the spring hinted that she had mentioned the bill when Brown asked her to support the gas tax increase passed by the Legislature this spring.
"If he's going to talk to me about my vote for transportation funding, I'll talk about my bill to reform our transportation agency," she said.
Since introducing the bill, Gonzalez Fletcher has discussed it as an attempt to undo the establishment networks that have run SANDAG for decades. She did the same while celebrating Brown's signature.
"This is a good day for the silent majority in our region who have been ignored and paved over for far too long," she said in a statement.
SANDAG, meanwhile, has discussed its own response to AB 805. The board's chair, County Supervisor Ron Roberts, asked staff to pursue a ballot measure next year that could undo or counteract AB 805. It remains unclear what that proposal would look like, what authority the agency would have over the new state law and whether the agency wants to spend the millions required to run a countywide ballot measure.
Meanwhile, some Republican board members are pushing for internal changes at SANDAG separate from those in AB 805.
SANDAG staff last month said the agency needs to bring in $18 billion from state or federal sources to build everything it promised voters as part of TransNet – nearly $8 billion more than it had anticipated needing just two years ago.
The board said that could still happen, so long as the recently passed gas tax increase, SB 1, isn't overturned, and as long as the state Legislature passes two more similar tax increases in the next 13 years.
Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey said those expectations are wildly unrealistic and that SANDAG needs to fundamentally change the way it plans for its transportation spending.
"If we're building our budgets based on the dollars that are needed, versus the dollars we actually expect to receive, then we need to fundamentally change how we build our budgets," he said.
County Supervisor Dianne Jacob, Poway Mayor Steve Vaus, San Marcos Mayor Jim Desmond and San Diego Councilwoman Lorie Zapf all voiced related or supportive comments. SANDAG staff is expected to bring the TransNet funding plan back to the board at a future meeting.
In the meantime, the structure of the agency – and the balance of power throughout the region – has already been fundamentally changed.
Correction: A previous version of this story misstated SANDAG's new voting structure. There must be four cities to invoke a weighted vote.
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Andrew Keatts is assistant editor and senior investigative reporter for Voice of San Diego. He can be reached directly at andrew.keatts@voiceofsandiego.org or 619.325.0529.
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Google's Instant system may be a super-slick, industry-redefining and powerful tweak to the way you search the Net. But some guy's just applied Instant's design to YouTube, which is better.
The chap in question is Feross Aboukhadijeh from Standford University–a computer science student with a swift coding skills and some spot-on imagination, it seems. The idea is essentially the same as Google Instant: As you type into the custom search query box on Feross' website, the code tries to swiftly match your incomplete sentences to YouTube's archive, and then the lone YouTube window embedded right below updates with the video that matches the phrase most closely.
Try it out. Typing "Fast Company" takes you through a clip from "Fast and Furious 4," through a "fast car," a "fast computer" before ending on Quadrant Films' 1978 classic "Fast Company" racing flick. My name evolves along a journey through a video of Katy Perry, a Kiss performance, Kittens clips, a Kit car build, Kitt from Knight Rider (how original!) in Spanish, and several more before ending on a weird little clip of scale model vehicles navigating Eaton Canyon in Altadena, CA. Seriously. I'd never have seen that clip before.
Where Google Instant is supposed to save you time, but may accidentally end up costing you more–as well as lining Google's pockets more (thanks to your extended visits, and increased ad impressions), YouTube instant is unashamed fun. And it'll definitely cost you your lunch hour. Oh–and there's not a single advert to be seen.


Well, when you're assigned a personal essay , your job is to do what our friend there didn't do, and that's strike a good balance. You need to give glimpses of yourself - your personal experiences, observations and views - but you need to do so with a specific purpose in mind. Your job isn't to throw out a ton of details, but rather to achieve a certain goal by using a select few of those experiences, observations, and views.
You may be asked to write a personal essay as part of the application process for a college, or you might be given the assignment of writing a personal essay for a writing course or a test. Whatever the case may be, there are a few things that you should keep in mind in order to keep your personal essay on track.
There are three major types of personal essays, and we can identify each by its purpose. Some personal essays are meant to entertain, some are meant to inform, and others are meant to support or oppose a specific position. So when you're writing a personal essay, the most important thing to do is to identify your purpose.
Perhaps you're writing a narrative essay that tells a story about a significant event that happened to you. If that's the case, you need to ask yourself whether your purpose is to entertain, as some stories do, or perhaps to do something altogether different.
If you're writing a narrative essay as part of an application, for example, your goal should ultimately be to inform, to let your reader know something important about yourself - to underscore a specific feature like your athleticism, your artistic abilities or the fact that you're well-traveled, for example. If this is the case, remember our friend from the party, and think about which details are important to flesh your story out. Which details capture the message that you're trying to convey? Remember: stay on track, and don't ramble. Use your personal experiences and observations to support your main point or main idea.
If you're writing a personal essay that's meant to inform the reader about some specific aspect of your life, like the fact that you do a lot of volunteer work, it can be a good idea to carefully choose a few specific anecdotes that help illustrate your commitment to volunteer work, and to describe each of those anecdotes briefly, spending roughly the same amount of time on each short story.
Remember that there is a third major type of personal essay. You may be asked to write a personal essay that requires you to support or oppose a specific position, supporting your reasoning with experiences and observations from your own life. Keep in mind that this type of personal essay differs a bit from the typical persuasive essay because with a typical persuasive essay , you'll often rely on external evidence - facts, statistics, expert opinions - to build your case, much like a lawyer would.
But in a personal essay that supports or opposes a specific position, your job will be to support or oppose an idea based on your own experiences, observations, and views. Remember our friend from the party, though. Your job isn't just to throw out random, overly-detailed stories. Instead, you should think carefully about what experiences or observations you want to share to support your position .
Especially when you're writing a personal essay with the purpose of supporting or opposing a particular point, it's best to stick to a specific theme with the personal experiences and observations that you bring up in support of your position.
For example, if you're writing a personal essay in which you support the position that public schools should require students to wear school uniforms, you might explain your personal experience of having worn school uniforms, and explain that it helped you focus on your school work. Explain how it helped, using a few concrete examples.
If you bring up several completely different examples in a relatively short personal essay, you might feel that you're providing ample evidence in support of your point, but you may actually be creating a real problem: an essay that feels scattered and that lacks focus. So instead, work on achieving a narrow scope in which you offer one major example or a few related examples.
You may have observed or experienced a lot of things that relate to the topic of your essay, but that doesn't mean that those things are relevant and should be in your essay. Always ask yourself: does the idea that I'm about to include support my point? For example, you may have worn your school uniform to a lot of activities, like chess club after school, but if that fact has no bearing on your position that public school uniforms are a good idea, then edit that idea, and omit it from your essay.
This guideline is similar to the previous one. As I mentioned, it's important to omit irrelevant facts and ideas. It's just as important to keep relevant points on track. For example, you might explain in your essay that wearing a school uniform helped you focus clearly on your class lectures because you had fewer fashion-based distractions. Then, describe how that was the case, but don't wander into a story about the fact that your best friend thought that the school uniforms were a terrible idea and that the two of you used to get into heated debates about them.
To help yourself stay on track, it can be very helpful to sketch out a quick outline for your own use before you start writing your actual essay - even a personal essay - as it can help keep you on track with the points you need to make.
If you've been asked to provide your own personal experiences and observations to support or oppose a position, remember that your position on the issue you're writing about should be the centerpiece of your essay. Your stories about your experiences and observations are important, but they should be details presented in an organized way to support your main point.
Remember that there are different types of personal essays, and when writing one, your purpose might be to entertain, to inform, or to support or oppose a specific position. No matter which type of personal essay you're writing, you want to present your personal experiences, observations, and views with your particular purpose in mind. Remember to stay focused with a narrow scope, to edit your ideas so that you're presenting only relevant points, and be sure that you don't meander. Rein in your points and examples so that you don't ramble in your paper.


One of the first big things we're going to cover on this blog is the newly released playtest of Pathfinder's second edition. I was able to pick up the playtest book at Gen Con this year and immediately began skimming it and have delved deeper into it since. I was also able to play a one shot at Gen Con and get some hands-on experience with the new system. A few days ago, I got to sit down with the Starcalled Studios team as we're gearing up to start a new campaign using the playtest rules. I have a lot of opinions on the playtest and they've evolved and changed as time has passed. I also know a lot of the Starcalled team have good view points on the matter as well, so I'm going to do my best to include their views here too. For this series of articles I'm going to use a title that reflects some of the milestones we experience going through the playtest. I will do my best to write up our opinions as they appear, and keep them true to what we were feeling at the time. What stands out to me already is how some of our opinions have changed as we learn more and more about the system. So without further ado, let's get into some first impressions!
Looking at the playtest book's cover and flipping through the pages for the first time I saw a lot of things that were familiar, as well as a lot of new things. First of all, in true Paizo fashion, we have a beautiful cover and plenty of gorgeous artwork spread throughout the playtest. Some of the pieces were recycled from old covers and material, but I can hardly fault Paizo since this is indeed a playtest. It would be silly to expect all new art. I'm frankly surprised at the amount of new art in general. The majority of the book is indeed the rules to the playtest itself, though. My first impression of the book itself was very positive. The order of the chapters made sense, and the newly created blocks for powers, actions, and spells were easily readable. It honestly reminded me of powers from 4e, which, in my opinion, are extremely easy to read and digest.
As I started reading through the playtest I was loving what I saw. I of course jumped to some of my old favorite things about Pathfinder to make sure they did them justice. I fell in love with the three action turn action economy. I felt its simplicity would be nothing but a boon for the system. The way spells functioned with heightening seemed straightforward and a great way to make them more effective over time. Scaling cantrips were also a welcome addition to Pathfinder as they were to 5e, allowing magic users to do what they do best all the time. Overall, my first impressions of the playtest flipping through were glowing in what little time I had to look over it during the craziness that was Gen Con.
On the last day of Gen Con I was able to sit down and actually play a session of the playtest. As is tradition with any Paizo event I made my way to the Sagamore Ballroom in the Indiana Convention Center and found where I had to go for my game in the sea of players and tables. After I had my group and the GM handed us the pre-mades I was lucky enough to have first pick. I asked the table if anyone cared if I tried the alchemist. They all were fine with that, so I happily pulled out Fumbus the Goblin alchemist, excited to try the new race and new core class. The adventure we played through was simple enough. There were a couple of combats with some minotaurs and some harpies. In addition, there was the usual build-up to the conflict and exploration period of the adventure to let us see how that played with the playtest rules.
I immediately had all of my praise for the action economy confirmed. I personally love the simplicity of just being able to do three things but explore the complexity of the different options one has using said actions. The alchemist felt fun enough, being able to dish out some serious damage with alchemists fire when I choose to use that resource. The other players all got to exhibit some neat parts of their characters as well. The fighter in particular was decimating a good portion of the enemies we were up against. Our cleric was key to wiping out some foes with well-placed fireballs (the pre-made character's domain spell).
There were a few things that stood out to me that gave me pause for concern. Certain status effects felt very difficult to overcome and made certain characters skip a turn in what often turned out to be two or three round combats, effectively taking them out of most of the action. Also, a lot of the numbers felt very similar. I think the majority of our characters had the same AC of 22 with the fighter being the only one to have 24. Finally, resonance was something that perplexed me a little, especially as the alchemist. Resonance limits your ability to use magical items (including potions and alchemical items). This extra requirement of having to expend a resource to use things like healing potions felt a little strange to me, but I didn't think too much about it since we were just in a one shot. My first impression of it wasn't quite as worrisome as it would come to be in a deeper dive.
In the end, I had generally positive opinions as my first impression of the playtest. I began reading into the bard class as that's what I wanted to play for our new campaign using the system. I found a couple of hiccups there (we'll get into that next time) but in general, nothing that wasn't easily waved off as ,"It's a playtest. Overlooking something that small is fine. They'll catch it." In our next post we're going to explore a slightly deeper dive into the system, where as a party the Starcalled Studios team builds our characters and finds some interesting nuances to the system that are buried beneath the surface.
If you want follow along with the playtest sessions we stream them on twitch and post them after wards on YouTube, like below. If you agree or disagree with any of these opinions we want to hear about it. Reply to us on Social Media and start a dialogue, or join our Discord. Just remember to keep it civil. These are just opinions and we're not trying to personally attack anyone with them.
Also, this playtest can only get better if we reply to Paizo, so please go to http://paizo.com/pathfinderplaytest and make sure your voice is heard if you're participating in the playtest!
Thanks for sharing your first impression. Looking forward to reading more as you get more into it.


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Q: MS Access SQL Query Help to change from Read Only I have the following query, which checks the Status in the OrderDetail table, and checks that all the items in the StatusFK = 2, only when all the corrosponding items have the status 2 then i want to run an update query to update the Status of the Order table to 2.
The problem i am having with the bellow code is its only read only so i cannot link it to an update query.
Any help would be great!
 SELECT tblOrder.OrderPK
 FROM tblOrder INNER JOIN tblOrderDetail ON tblOrder.OrderPK = tblOrderDetail.OrderFK
 GROUP BY tblOrder.OrderPK
 HAVING Count(tblOrderDetail.OrderFK )   = SUM(IiF (tblOrderDetail.StatusFK = 2 ,1,0) );

A: Why not just use a WHERE NOT EXISTS clause:
SELECT tblOrder.OrderPK
FROM tblOrder
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
    SELECT 1
    FROM tblOrderDetail
    WHERE tblOrderDetail.OrderFK = tblOrder.OrderPK
    AND tblOrderDetail.StatusFK <> 2
)

This query will select all rows from tblOrder which don't have any non-status-2 child rows.

A: Completed SQL with the Extra WHERE clause! all working a treat!
UPDATE tblOrder SET tblOrder.Statusfk = 2
WHERE tblOrder.Statusfk<>2 AND NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1
              FROM tblOrderDetail
              WHERE tblOrderDetail.OrderFK = tblOrder.OrderPK AND
                    tblOrderDetail.StatusFK <> 2  );


With a great Mother's Day comes great responsibility to make those special caregivers in our lives know just how much they mean to us. Fleming's Prime Steakhouse is helping people do just that by featuring a Mother's Day brunch specifically for those special ladies in our lives.
On Sunday, Flemings will open early at 10AM to celebrate moms by serving a three-course brunch menu starting at $47. The brunch will feature classics such as Fleming's Signature Surf & Turf Eggs Benedict and Cinnamon Apple Brioche French Toast.
Taking the day even further, Flemings will be offering their full menu all day! That means amazing steaks and a children's menu. To make a Mother's Day reservation, visit FlemingsSteakhouse.com.
I had the opportunity to visit Fleming's again (my first time was at my bachelor party!) to try out some of their full menu items and as always, the meal delivered on high quality food. Read on for some of what you can find at Flemings.
The atmosphere is warm, cozy, and a little dark, which makes it intimate, but at the same time the dining room is quite lively. The servers are some of the most attentive, polite, respectful, and helpful you'll find (special thanks to our awesome server, Amani).
Probably the most important thing at any restaurant is the food. Fleming's surely delivers on quality, quantity, and simple yet decadent flavors.
Bread – A lot of restaurants forget that bread is the first impression a restaurant often makes on its diners and if the bread isn't good it can set a tone for the meal. Luckily, Fleming's knows this when serving up a fresh, hot, parmesan crusted loaf accompanied by an excellent smoked cheddar butter and a champagne brie butter. Excellent no matter how you eat it.
Drinks – Offering a full bar and plenty of house made cocktails, I chose a classic extra dry vodka martini with (some of you might not like this) bleu cheese stuffed olives. Something about having a bleu cheese stuffed olive along with a steak is truly transcendent. Nonetheless, if that's not for you, there are so many other options that the sky is the limit.
Starters – We tried the homemade burrata starter and it provided us with a fantastic start to the meal. The homemade burrata was cool, creamy, and mild. The prosciutto added a touch of savory and salty flavor while the garlic bread almost stole the show. The balanced flavors of the braised garlic cloves showed off the skills of the chefs as well.
Sides – Side dishes are the overlooked support to any good restaurant. I've been to many excellent steakhouses that serve up great steaks, but fall beyond short on the side dishes. Fleming's makes an effort not only on their steaks, but in all of their dishes. The sides, like the creamed spinach and simply sauteed mushrooms, pair perfectly with their delicious steaks.
Steak – The stars of the show at Fleming's are of course their Prime steaks. I absolutely love their bone-in ribeye, which is perfectly cooked and seasoned only with salt, pepper, and a pat of butter. Great steaks don't need much, but they do need expert preparation in which Fleming's excels. Don't let the large plate fool you in the picture below, this steak was huge! Can't go wrong getting a steak here!
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The End, Part 1
Spoiler alert: we made it to Canada!
Veggie will be offering concluding thoughts shortly (look out for "The End, Part 2"), but I want to take a few minutes to pay tribute to Washington's beautiful Northern Cascades. Per our last post, we were amazingly lucky to "thread the needle," so to speak, between two significant fire closures affecting the PCT. The Washington section of the trail is always imbued with emotion for thru-hikers, but, taking our first steps onto trail we'd long-assumed would be closed, we experienced a kind of sensitive disbelief. "Here you are, so tread lightly. And don't complain. About anything. Especially rain."
Section K, here we come.
It was Labor Day weekend, so the woods were full of day hikers and campers on their way to Lake Valhalla (a worthy home for any Norse diety), or up into the Glacier Peak Wilderness for a few nights. Forecasts predicted that the weather would abate, but not until we were all treated (surprise!) to an overnight dusting of snow. Our feet felt like popsicles in our trail runners the next morning, then half-melted popsicles that afternoon. But the scenery – what we could see of it through the fog – seemed even more beautiful with an added coating of white. We felt thoroughly prepared with our rain gear, gloves, and umbrellas, but saw a few shivering hikers rush down the mountain back to civilization, chanting mantras about cheeseburgers, hot coffee, and beer.
Veggie ventures into Labor Day snowfall.
Over the next few days, the sun slowly emerged. Section K proved to be fairly challenging hiking, which made us even more grateful to be walking it now, with our thru-hiker legs, than in the future, when we'd be starting from scratch. The big elevation changes brought great rewards though, leading us to adopt the new motto "Washington Delivers."
Fog, fog, fog.
Micah Lake, Glacier Peak Wilderness.
Glacier Peak finally emerges.
We also had the pleasure of meeting up with some of our favorite hikers, who, like us, were thrilled to have access to this once-closed portion of the trail. Some of them had already hitched up to Chelan and taken a ferry to Stehekin, ready to proceed north, when the heard about the section reopening. In true thru-hiker fashion, they turned around and started trekking south. which made for a very happy intersection/reunion near Glacier Peak. It was one of those moments (and we'd have many more before our trip ended) when we realized that the people really make the experience.
(Left to right) Sweetums, Skua, Ice Axe, Pounder, Twist, and Square.
(Left to right) Sneezle, Backwise, and Leopard Sauce.
A few dozen miles later, we found ourselves in North Cascades National Park (our 7th!). We caught the bus from the High Bridge Ranger Station (filled with only thru-hikers, save one brave couple who endured our collective stench) and headed into Stehekin, our last town stop. Stehekin is an idyllic place accessible only by boat, plane, or foot. They have an astonishingly good bakery, which the bus always stops at, and the best post office on the trail, at least in my opinion. They've had a rough summer due to all the fires, but, when we were there, you wouldn't have known. To us, it was paradise. We can't wait to go back for an extended stay.
Sunset view from the Stehekin Lodge deck.
We spent the night dining and reminiscing with other thru-hikers, sharing our favorite (and least favorite) moments from the trail. We'd all come so far, over 2550 miles, and faced just one more stretch. The magnetism of the border pulled us forward, but we couldn't deny that we were somewhat reluctant to approach the end. Would we ever see these friends again? What would life after the trail hold for each of us? Soon we'd be back in society, trying to explain what it feels like to walk such a long way. But here we were, one last time, surrounded by people who knew exactly what it felt like.
Stay tuned for Part 2,
McKinsey says:
Truly Amazing (Tim Plaehn's favorite adverb)! Way to go you guys! Got me all emotional reading this post
evan and chelsea says:
We crossed the border on the 14th. We kept hearing about the other vegan couple [Legend even mistook us for you], and sorry we never got to meet you! What a journey of five moons!
Veggie + Square says:
Holy cow! We'll reach out to you asap! Congrats!
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Pope entrusts to Mary victims of disasters, conflict, social tension
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service
People listen to Pope Francis' Angelus prayer during the feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15, at the Vatican. ALESSANDRO BIANCHI, REUTERS VIA CNS
Pope Francis gives a blessing during his Angelus prayer on the feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15, at the Vatican. ALESSANDRO BIANCHI, REUTERS VIA CNS
VATICAN CITY — In a week in which natural disasters, war and racial conflicts dominated the headlines, Pope Francis prayed that Mary would bring peace to a divided world.
After reciting the Angelus prayer on the feast of the Assumption, the pope asked Mary to obtain "for everyone consolation and a future of serenity and harmony."
"To Mary, Queen of Peace — who we contemplate today in the glory of paradise — I entrust once again the anxieties and sorrows of the people who suffer in many parts of the world due to natural disasters, social tensions or conflicts," the pope told thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square Aug. 15.
Pope Francis did not name any specific location, but as he spoke, the search for survivors continued in Sierra Leone after a devastating mudslide engulfed the outskirts of the capital, Freetown, killing more than 300 people. Flooding and landslides also struck southern Nepal, killing at least 70 people.
In Charlottesville, clashes between white nationalists and protesters resulted in the death of three people, including a 32-year-old paralegal, Heather D. Heyer, who was killed Aug. 12 when a car plowed into a group protesting the white nationalist rally.
In his main Angelus talk, the pope reflected on the day's Gospel reading, which recalled Mary's visit to her cousin Elizabeth.
The joy felt by Elizabeth and the child in her womb reflects the interior joy Christians feel in Christ's presence, the pope said. "When Mary arrives, joy overflows and bursts from their hearts because the invisible yet real presence of Jesus fills everything with meaning: life, family, the salvation of the people. Everything!"
In response, Mary proclaims the Magnificat, her hymn of praise to God for his great works. Pope Francis said it is the hymn of "humble people, unknown to the world, like Mary, like her husband Joseph as well as the town where they live, Nazareth."
God accomplishes "great things with humble people," the pope said, inviting people in St. Peter's Square to reflect on the state of their own humility.
"Humility is like an empty space that leaves room for God. A humble person is powerful because he is humble, not because he is strong. This is the greatness of humility," he said.
The joy Mary brings because she brings Jesus to the world gives all Christians "a new ability to pass through the most painful and difficult moments with faith" as well as the "ability to be merciful, to forgive, understand and support each other."
"Mary is a model of virtue and faith," Pope Francis said. "We ask her to protect and sustain us that we may have a faith that is strong, joyful and merciful. May she help us to become saints, to meet her one day in paradise."
Pope celebrates Mass for migrants
Pope meets Putin; two leaders talk about Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela
Pope to canonize Blessed John Henry Newman Oct. 13


The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) will conduct a rate hearing to receive public comment on Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) proposed rate changes for its business in the Coastal Account (CA), Commercial Lines Account, and Personal Lines Account (PLA).
In his continued efforts to ensure Floridians understand the impacts of assignment of benefits (AOB) abuse, Commissioner David Altmaier has debunked the top five myths and most common AOB-related misunderstandings.
Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier issued the following statement after being elected to serve as Vice President of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Commissioner Altmaier will continue to serve as Florida's Insurance Commissioner and his role with the NAIC is effective immediately.
Today marked the end of the 2019 OIR Summit where more than 250 attendees from 19 different states joined Florida's top insurance leaders and regulators for a variety of in-depth discussions on regulatory updates, innovative products and ways in which assignment of benefit (AOB) abuse impacts Florida's consumers.
The FHIAB will hold a public meeting via conference call to finalize its 2019 legislative recommendations.


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Q: Laravel Blade: What is nesting sections doing here? I don't know what does putting a section inside another section do. In a Laravel project I'm reading, a Blade file's code is like this:
login.blade.php :
@extends('layout') @section('content')
@section('title', 'Log in')
Lots of content.
@endsection

In above, what's the point of having title section inside content section? How will it be different if title section is placed outside:
@extends('layout')
@section('title', 'Log in')
@section('content')
Lots of content.
@endsection

I tested, and both are producing same output (HTML source code).
layout.blade.php
<title>@yield('title')</title>
@yield('content')

Is there any case of layout.blade.php in which different outputs will be produced?

A: The section directive simply copies whatever you have within @section and @endsection to the name @yield place holder on the extended template.
This means it does not consider where its placed, but for clarity and readability, the second example is the right structure.
For example, this shows that the order of the directive doesn't matter
In welcome.blade.php
@extends('default')

@section('a')

    This is a

    @section('c', 'This is c')

    @section('b')
        This is b
        @section('d', 'This is d')
    @endsection

@endsection

In default.blade.php
@yield('c')

@yield('a')

@yield('b')

@yield('d')

The output
This is c This is a This is b This is d

The best practice is to make your code more readable by opening and closing each block:
@extends('default')

@section('a')
    This is a
@endsection

@section('c', 'This is c')

@section('b')
    This is b
@endsection

@section('d', 'This is d')

A: It's better to put them on different rows for readability sake.
First section just puts "Log in" wherever the section "title" is:
@section('title', 'Log in')

Second section has the beginning and the end and is selfdescriptive.


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Q: Canonicalizing Java bean property names I have a bunch of third-party Java classes that use different property names for what are essentially the same property:
public class Foo {
   public String getReferenceID();
   public void setReferenceID(String id);
   public String getFilename();
   public void setFilename(String fileName);
}

public class Bar {
   public String getRefID();
   public void setRefID(String id);
   public String getFileName();
   public void setFileName(String fileName);
}

I'd like to be able to address these in a canonicalized form, so that I can treat them polymorphically, and so that I can do stuff with Apache BeanUtils like:
PropertyUtils.copyProperties(object1,object2);

Clearly it would be trivial to write an Adapter for each class ...
public class CanonicalizedBar implements CanonicalizedBazBean {
    public String getReferenceID() {
        return this.delegate.getRefID();
    }
    // etc.
}

But I wonder is there something out there more generalized and dynamic? Something that would take a one-to-many map of property name equivalences, and a delegate class, and produce the Adapter?

A: I've never used it, but I think you're looking for Dozer:

Dozer is a Java Bean to Java Bean mapper that recursively copies data
  from one object to another. Typically, these Java Beans will be of
  different complex types.
Dozer supports simple property mapping, complex type mapping,
  bi-directional mapping, implicit-explicit mapping, as well as
  recursive mapping. This includes mapping collection attributes that
  also need mapping at the element level.
Dozer not only supports mapping between attribute names, but also
  automatically converting between types. Most conversion scenarios are
  supported out of the box, but Dozer also allows you to specify custom
  conversions via XML.

A: *

*First Option is Dozer.

*Second option is Smooks Framework
with a tweak. It will be beneficial to use Smook's Graphical mapper.

*Another option would be XStream with custom Mapper.

A: maybe something like that:
public class CanonicalizedBar implements CanonicalizedBazBean {
public String getReferenceID() {
    Method m = this.delegate.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("getReferenceID");
    if(m == null)
        m = this.delegate.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("getRefID");
    ...
    return m.invoke();
}
// etc.
}

A: Although, I personally have never used it. I noticed that a project called orika is noted as having the best performance and the ability to automatically understand many such mappings.
At any rate it also supports custom mappings and uses generated code to implicitly define the adapters.
You can also define a custom mapper, that is if you know how to canonize the member names you can use that knowledge to build a mapping that is true for all your objects. for instance:
DefaultFieldMapper myDefaultMapper = new DefaultFieldMapper() {
   public String suggestMapping(String propertyName, Type<?> fromPropertyType) {
      // split word according to camel case (apache commons lang)
      String[] words= StringUtils.splitByCharacterTypeCamelCase(propertyName);
      if(words[0].length() > 6) {
         // trim first camel-cased word of propery name to 3 letters
         words[0]= words[0].substring(0,2);
         return StringUtils.join(words);
      } else {
         // remains unchanged
         return propertyName;
      }
   }
}

mapperFactory.registerDefaultFieldMapper(myDefaultMapper );

A: I haven't done much with it but you may be able to use Aspect Oriented Programming to do this.
What you should be able to do I think is add a method to each of the classes that internally calls the real method.  See this article about half way down it talks about mixins.
AspectJ is probably the most popular implementation.


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How to use Analytics to Boost Revenue During a Global Pandemic
A global pandemic is upon us. Government and private enterprise, large and small firms alike, are feeling its debilitating effects. Never has the necessity for vital information been more relevant to accurately inform decision makers about changing market needs, to base survival decisions.
Puerto Rico's Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) is charged with invoicing, receiving, and distributing the funds generated by property taxes for all municipalities of the struggling Caribbean island. Facing the current scene, it saw its revenue streams rapidly eroding. A disparate collection of Oracle, SQL, and geographic databases placed long delays in gathering the actionable intelligence urgently needed by management to effectively respond to the crisis. CRIM suffered from an ancient labyrinth of connections that slowed system performance to a crawl. It also suffered from data errors and inconsistencies that severely curtailed revenue generation and data analysis efforts. According to an in-depth analysis by Truenorth Corporation, using the Sunrise Software-as-a-Service offering, the agency had been losing revenue opportunities to the point that it collected less than a quarter of its potential income.
With municipalities on the island struggling to fund urgent recovery and sustainment efforts, CRIM took effective action. It avoided the temptation to raise property taxes on an economically struggling community. Instead, CRIM fast-tracked Sunrise to evaluate its systems, identify metrics, build a data warehouse that unified its many databases, and execute other supporting projects to bring its revenue objectives to fruition. This decision resulted in over $250 million of potential additional revenue for municipalities to fund sustainability projects, rebuild infrastructure, and provide other urgent services.
Sunrise is composed of multiple facets, including a detailed assessment of existing revenue generation processes and underlying systems, the creation of streamlined data architecture, the implementation of TimeXtender's automation and machine learning platform, and alignment of all related processes and procedures. Sunrise employs TimeXtender as the primary data warehouse conduit for property tax information and interaction. Once implemented, Sunrise offered management clear insight into the consequences of historical actions. Integration hassles were sidestepped or corrected and system performance optimized. Sunrise focuses on lost revenue opportunities, like identifying those who do not pay or grossly underpay, rather than penalizing those who contribute. Armed with more accurate and timely data, CRIM's tax officials could now collaborate seamlessly with other government agencies to significantly expand the number of avenues for revenue.
The initial implementation of Sunrise was completed in two months. Once the initial two-week project evaluation period was finished, implementation took about three weeks, followed by revenue acceleration actions of up to two months. This yielded over $250 million in potential additional revenue for the CRIM, an increase of 8% over the previous year.
A Clear Management Vision
Lacking the actionable intelligence that Sunrise offered the CRIM executives, they could not immediately identify the revenue sources necessary to effectively bring an end to the dwindling spiral of revenue erosion. Sunrise is not a software program, it is a methodology employing components of traditional Management Consulting, primarily finance-based operations management and process reengineering, technology management, by identifying paths to critical data that could be quickly and effectively leveraged, and the inclusion of custom coding to create adequate interfaces to legacy components and then present them in an easy to understand and more comfortable to track method which ties directly to the articulation of revenue-based management initiatives to check the erosion of revenue. Drawing from three distinct disciplines, Management Consulting, Technology, and Application Management with Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence, Sunrise illuminates the path towards sustainable revenue to meet immediate challenges.
Business Insights Virtuosity
Data warehousing and business analytics are not novel concepts. Implementing a data warehouse involves several challenges related to data quality, integration, privacy, performance, and cost. With data being fed in many different formats, data quality and accessibility can become insurmountable obstacles. Inevitably, errors, inconsistencies, duplicates, missing data, wrong names, incorrect addresses, and faulty property information must be weeded out and corrected. The conclusions reached by analytics engines will only be as accurate as the data being analyzed and the rigor with which insights are translated into actionable and measurable results.
Similarly, performance must not be impacted. It's common for a data warehouse project to be introduced at a time when the underlying databases are already struggling to provide information promptly. A spaghetti of interconnections generally brings about extreme system sluggishness. Therefore, any new data warehouse architecture must not place an additional latency burden on already overstressed databases.
Imagine ten systems that must interact as part of a government system. If each of these systems connects directly with each of the others, performance slows. It takes too long for System A to speak to System B, receive the response, then transmit that data to System C. Meanwhile, System C is held up as it waits for inputs from Systems D and E. This shows up as long delays for users. They type in a simple request and wait for minutes, and sometimes hours, for any kind of answer. A data warehouse must be carefully designed to avoid performance bottlenecks. Sunrise streamlines inter-system collaboration and provides users with rapid responses.
However, economics must also enter the equation. The price tag for the data warehouse must be in keeping with the budgetary limits of the organization. While it will require upfront investment, it should be designed to return that investment over a relatively short time interval.
These are a few of the challenges commonly experienced in data warehousing projects. Each was uniquely addressed as part of the CRIM's Sunrise implementation to address the obstacles and effectively reach a plateau of action. The disciplined focus of Sunrise allowed CRIM to identify and power through the barriers to remarkable revenue results.
Property Tax Challenges in Puerto Rico
CRIM found itself struggling with federal and municipal governments in the turmoil of a severe fiscal crisis, an infrastructure affected by hurricanes and earthquakes, and a global pandemic aborning. Revenue protection became a survival issue. CRIM's management realized that it had to step up its efforts to help municipalities fund urgent recovery programs related to health services, security, education, employment, and infrastructure. It set itself a target of increasing income by at least 10%.
CRIM's executives were aware of Truenorth's reputation through successful projects it had executed for the Puerto Rico government in water, power, health, education, and worker's compensation agencies. That success convinced the agency to implement Truenorth's Sunrise to find a way to boost income streams by integrating its existing data silos.
The first step was reviewing all related systems to determine the extent of the problem and the potential for revenue increase. Consultants discovered that CRIM's accounts receivables represented a $3.6 billion opportunity. However, only 22% was currently being collected in property taxes. Due to property improvements that were not being taxed, incorrect invoicing, wrong contact information, or other issues, payment processes were hamstrung by system inefficiency.
Truenorth's engagement entailed an in-depth analysis and review of all internal processes, financials, systems data, and revenue streams. Truenorth reviewed CRIM's Hansen billing system, its ESRI Geographic Information System (GIS) that maps property and land boundaries, another system for property appraisals, and several Oracle and SQL databases. The results were compared to information from the last census (2010) and correlated with other government agencies' data. For example, Truenorth had worked on projects for the Puerto Rico government water and power agencies to ensure their contact information matched that record with the U.S. Postal Service. This provided CRIM with a database already verified as having ~98% accuracy of addresses. Sunrise dug into the data and it uncovered multiple avenues for improvement. These included many undeliverable invoices due to incorrect addresses or contact information and a massive pile of returned invoices due to incorrect addresses or contact information.
The data silos within CRIM's multiple systems and databases inhibited the efforts of agency personnel to increase collections. For example, Truenorth reviewed current data in the CRIM billing system and GIS against census numbers. This revealed startling discrepancies.
Further, Sunrise found that tens of thousands of properties across the island had been improved, yet no property reappraisal has been made. Add to those thousands of new pools that owners had added. This last finding was particularly significant. Properties without a pool qualify for an exemption of no property tax for the first $15,000 of appraised value. By law, once a pool is added, that exemption is no longer available.
Also, CRIM brought in Merrick Consulting Services to conduct a spatial assessment of the entire island. Merrick used drones to remap every property in Puerto Rico and feed it into the ESRI GIS database. A comparison of the 2010 census with that spatial analysis revealed more than 50,000 newly built properties that had yet to be appraised – in other words, they were not paying property taxes. Added together, these various areas represented hundreds of millions in lost revenue.
Sunrise – Exceeded Expectations for Revenue Generation and Ease of Use
Truenorth implemented Sunrise in several phases. Once the evaluation phase had been completed, the next step was to bring in a new data warehouse architecture. Its purpose was to integrate the various data silos within the CRIM billing, appraisals, and property mapping systems. This included developing extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes to cleanse, transform, and aggregate the data within the data warehouse. This is vital in preparing the consolidated data for multi-dimensional analysis, data mining, report generation, real-time alerts, and visualization.
That was followed by integrating data from other government agencies (water, power, treasury, health, and tourism). This enabled CRIM to identify new income streams and to be able to detect fraud.
The interconnection of dozens of databases and systems across multiple CRIM and Puerto Rico government entities was no minor endeavor. Under the old architecture, each process and system connected with every other system directly. This labyrinth of interconnections could have taken months to reengineer. That's why Truenorth introduced TimeXtender to bring simplification to the project.
TimeXtender served as the central repository for data from all other property tax-related databases and sources. TimeXtender provides more than 200 pre-configured and certified connectors between systems. In other words, Truenorth's system engineers did not need to develop connections between TimeXtender's software and other systems. These connectors were already available in a library for instant use. This enabled the company to build a data warehouse in record time. Instead of many months for such a complex project, it took only two days in a proof-of-concept stage and a further 15 days for the production system to integrate the data silos within CRIM's many systems and databases. The TimeXtender data warehouse is built using Microsoft SQL Server and is fully integrated with Microsoft Power BI to provide front-end visualizations of data.
Next came the alignment of support services and payment processes to ensure smooth and accurate invoicing. Sunrise was configured to automatically produce data lineage and documentation to facilitate agency oversight.
With everything in place, data is now pulled nightly from all other property tax systems into TimeXtender. That data is then organized and analyzed. CRIM's management and personnel are provided with customized reports and dashboards. When they log in, they immediately have access to Microsoft Power BI dashboards showing the data they need to perform their functions.
Stellar Results
With the vital components of Sunrise in place, CRIM gained the ability to mine its data effectively. Sunrise culled information from all relevant systems and fed it into an analytics engine. Sunrise uncovered the following critical actionable items:
117,000 undeliverable invoices due to incorrect addresses or contact information (representing a possible annual net new revenue of $117 million)
104,000 returned invoices due to incorrect addresses or contact information (representing a potential net yearly revenue of $46 million)
55,000 property improvements that had not been appraised (representing a potential net yearly revenue of $22 million)
28,000 new pools (properties with a pool no longer qualify for various exemptions) (meaning a possible net yearly net income of $7 million)
58,000 newly built properties that had not been appraised (representing a potential annual net new revenue of $62 million)
Each of these areas meant urgently needed revenue that municipalities could either collect at once or would be able to manage once appraisal backlogs had been addressed.
CRIM can now use Sunrise to access personalized dashboards based on Microsoft Power BI. Additionally, the project addressed a significant change for CRIM managers and IT staff – reporting. In the past, reports such as those providing an accurate revenue count took about one month to generate. IT staff had to code each report individually. With the new system in place, management requested seven reports. These were provided so rapidly that they soon realized that report generation had entered a new era. Thirty-five standard reports are now available, some in real-time, others representing data no more than one day old.
In using Sunrise, CRIM is enjoying massive time savings in IT, management, collections, and administration. The government managed to avoid the temptation to raise property taxes while generating enough income for the municipalities.
A Brighter Road Ahead
With CRIM now having modernized systems successfully across multiple Puerto Rico government agencies, Truenorth's long-term vision is to help the government create a government-wide data warehouse integrating data from all government entities using Sunrise. Once developed, this will enable the government to define a unique ID that identifies each citizen independent of a Social Security number. This ID will apply to all government agencies and is independent of citizenship status. It will also enable the government to define a unique ID that identifies each property based on its geospatial location. Standardized addresses are an integral part of this. The result will be easier interaction with the government by its citizens and higher income and significantly reduced fraud.
About Sunrise by Truenorth
Truenorth's Sunrise Software-as-a-Service solution is based on its successful Revenue Assurance methodology and is supported by its Business Insights services. Drawing from three distinct disciplines; Management Consulting, Technology, and Application Management with Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence, Sunrise illuminates the path towards sustainable revenue to meet immediate challenges. Serving all industries, Sunrise can be fully customized using Microsoft's Azure, Power BI, and SQL Server and TimeXtender's award-winning software. Demonstrating its market advantage, Sunrise has also been successfully implemented in numerous organizations such as the Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, Puerto Rico's Department of Health, and Puerto Rico's Corporación del Fondo del Seguro del Estado (CFSE), helping them generate new income opportunities and reduce fraud.
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Uber in the privacy spotlight again
16 Jun 2017 1 Law & order, Privacy
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Uber is living in interesting times, Chinese-curse style.
From getting sued by the victim of rape by an Uber driver for sharing her medical records with CEO Travis Kalanick, to said CEO going on hiatus in order to figure out just how to be a CEO, on up to 20 Uber employees being fired as the result of a four-month investigation into the company's toxic sexist culture, yes, times are interesting indeed.
The latest: a potential FTC inquiry into Uber's data-handling follies.
According to Recode, four sources close to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have said that there's an "inquiry" under way, with FTC investigators focused on data mishaps.
Which data mishaps? Still unknown, but there are numerous possibilities from Uber's checkered past, such as the company's misuse of its "God View" tool. God View is a software system that reveals personally identifiable information (PII) of Uber riders, shown in its system in an aerial view of cars active in a city.
Uber has already settled with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman after 14-months' worth of data privacy investigations into two different issues: the first was use of God View; the second was a data breach, caused by Uber itself, that exposed hundreds of Uber driver names, social security numbers, pictures of drivers licenses, tax forms and other sensitive information.
Uber had used God View to spy on the geolocation of politicians, celebrities, and, infamously, of BuzzFeed's Johana Bhuiyan. Twice. Uber's tracking of Bhuiyan is what triggered Schneiderman's investigation into God View.
Or perhaps the FTC is interested in finding out more about the 2014 data breach for which New York fined Uber $20,000: as in, that time when Uber's driver database found its way onto GitHub, exposing the details of some 50,000 drivers.
Uber discovered that breach in September 2014 but didn't inform the affected drivers and Schneiderman's office until February 26 2015.
Or then again, maybe the FTC is just doing what the FTC does: as Recode's FTC sources said, FTC staff regularly question companies on consumer protection issues such as privacy. Not all of those investigations turn into charges and penalties.
Duly noted. But the FTC's investigations certainly have the potential to turn into a world of hurt. In January, Uber paid $20 million to settle the agency's charges that it misled prospective drivers with exaggerated earning claims and claims about financing through its Vehicle Solutions Program. The FTC said that the penalty would be used to refund affected drivers across the country.
Uber is also currently under investigation by the Department of Justice over use of its Greyball tool – basically, a fake version of its app that hides drivers' locations from competitors or would-be attackers… or from law enforcement, which comes in handy when Uber is operating in cities that are trying to clamp down on the service.
As Recode explains, the FTC doesn't bring criminal cases, but it can force companies to alter their business practices. In its announcement about the $20 million fine, for example, the agency noted that its "stipulated final orders" have the force of law when approved and signed by a District Court judge.
One comment on "Uber in the privacy spotlight again"
proof that I don't think enough like a schuyster criminal…
I've no idea how a company would release a fake version of their own app to thwart competition (NTM law enforcement) without also tricking thousands of customers with the wrong app as well.
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PRODIGAL SON: 'Death's Door' Photos
February 17, 2020 by Marisa Roffman
Ana Gasteyer guest stars on the Monday, February 17 episode of PRODIGAL SON as a suspicious mortician.
"She came in and did one episode for us and was a riot," PRODIGAL SON co-creator Chris Fedak previously teased. "She's also great and scary."
Check out photos from "Death's Door"…
PRODIGAL SON: L-R: Aurora Perrineau, Tom Payne and guest star Ana Gasteyer in the "Death's Door" episode of PRODIGAL SON airing Monday, Feb. 17 (9:01-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. © 2020 FOX MEDIA LLC. Cr: David Giesbrecht/FOX.
Fox's take on "Death's Door": "When a body is found professionally preserved and embalmed, the NYPD teams up with Edrisa to go undercover at a convention of funeral directors. While there, they discover their top suspects – morticians Tilda (guest star Ana Gasteyer) and Dev (guest star Sathya Sridharan) – who used to be in business with the victim. Then, enter the mind of a serial killer as Martin revisits his past through a series of hallucinations."
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#include "Piezas.h"
#include <vector>

using std::vector;
/** CLASS Piezas
 * Class for representing a Piezas vertical board, which is roughly based
 * on the game "Connect Four" where pieces are placed in a column and
 * fall to the bottom of the column, or on top of other pieces already in
 * that column. For an illustration of the board, see:
 *  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four
 *
 * Board coordinates [row,col] should match with:
 * [2,0][2,1][2,2][2,3]
 * [1,0][1,1][1,2][1,3]
 * [0,0][0,1][0,2][0,3]
 * So that a piece dropped in column 2 should take [0,2] and the next one
 * dropped in column 2 should take [1,2].
**/

/**
 * Constructor sets an empty board (default 3 rows, 4 columns) and
 * specifies it is X's turn first
**/
Piezas::Piezas()
{
	turn = X; // set first turn to piece X
 // populate vectors with Blank pieces
	for ( int row = 0; row < BOARD_ROWS; row++) {
	 vector<Piece> * row_vector = new vector<Piece>;
		for ( int col = 0; col < BOARD_COLS; col++ ) {
			 row_vector->push_back(Blank);
		}
		board.push_back(*row_vector);
		delete row_vector;
	}
}

/**
 * Resets each board location to the Blank Piece value, with a board of the
 * same size as previously specified
**/
void Piezas::reset()
{
 turn = X; // reset the turn back to X

	for ( int row = 0; row < BOARD_ROWS; row++) {
	 board.erase(board.begin(),board.end());
	}

	 // populate vectors with Blank pieces
	for ( int row = 0; row < BOARD_ROWS; row++) {
	 vector<Piece> * row_vector = new vector<Piece>;
		for ( int col = 0; col < BOARD_COLS; col++ ) {
			 row_vector->push_back(Blank);
		}
		board.push_back(*row_vector);
		delete row_vector;
	}
}

/**
 * Places a piece of the current turn on the board, returns what
 * piece is placed, and toggles which Piece's turn it is. dropPiece does
 * NOT allow to place a piece in a location where a column is full.
 * In that case, placePiece returns Piece Blank value
 * Out of bounds coordinates return the Piece Invalid value
 * Trying to drop a piece where it cannot be placed loses the player's turn
**/
Piece Piezas::dropPiece(int column)
{

 Piece * currentTurn = new Piece;

 *currentTurn = turn; // save the current turn value

 // Toggle the Turn
 // NOTE: It appears that, regardless, this function will toggle the turn
 //       whether a play was successful, invalid due to out of bounds, or
 //       invalid due to full column. So, let's take care of that first.

 if(turn == X) {
  turn = O;
 }
 else {
  turn = X;
 }

 // location is within bounds
 if(column >= 0 && column < BOARD_COLS) {

  for(int row = 0; row < BOARD_ROWS; row++) {

   Piece piece = pieceAt(row,column);

   if(piece == Blank) {
    // there is a location in this column available
    board.at(row).at(column) = *currentTurn;
    return *currentTurn; // piece drop was success
   }

  }

  return Blank; // column is full
 }

 return Invalid; // out of bounds

 delete currentTurn;
}

/**
 * Returns what piece is at the provided coordinates, or Blank if there
 * are no pieces there, or Invalid if the coordinates are out of bounds
**/
Piece Piezas::pieceAt(int row, int column)
{
 // location is within bounds
 if(
      (row >= 0 && row < BOARD_ROWS)
   && (column >= 0 && column < BOARD_COLS)
   ) {

  Piece pieceFound;
  pieceFound = board.at(row).at(column);

  if(pieceFound == Blank) {
   return Blank; // location is blank
  }

  return pieceFound; // location occupied
 }

 return Invalid; // location is out of bounds
}

/**
 * Returns which Piece has won, if there is a winner, Invalid if the game
 * is not over, or Blank if the board is filled and no one has won ("tie").
 * For a game to be over, all locations on the board must be filled with X's
 * and O's (i.e. no remaining Blank spaces). The winner is which player has
 * the most adjacent pieces in a single line. Lines can go either vertically
 * or horizontally. If both X's and O's have the same max number of pieces in a
 * line, it is a tie.
**/
Piece Piezas::gameState()
{

 Piece current, previous;
 int highestX, highestO;

 // traverse the board for Blank spaces
 for (int i=0; i<BOARD_ROWS; i++) {
  for (int j=0; j<BOARD_COLS; j++) {
   current = pieceAt(i,j);
   if(current == Blank)
    return Invalid;
  }
 }

 // first check col-by-col for X's and O's
 for(int col=0; col<BOARD_COLS; col++) {

  previous = Blank;
  int xCount = 0, oCount = 0;

  for(int row=0; row<BOARD_ROWS; row++) {

   current = pieceAt(row,col);

   if(previous != Blank) {
     //this isn't the first run of the column
     if( current == X && previous == X )
      xCount++;

     if( current == O && previous == O )
      oCount++;
   }

   if ( xCount > highestX )
    highestX = xCount;

   if ( oCount > highestO )
    highestO = oCount;

   previous = current;
  }
  xCount = 0;
  oCount = 0;
 }

 // then check row-by-row for X's and O's
 for(int row=0; row<BOARD_ROWS; row++) {

  previous = Blank;
  int xCount = 0, oCount = 0;

  for(int col=0; col<BOARD_COLS; col++) {

   current = pieceAt(row,col);

   if(previous != Blank) {
     //this isn't the first run of the row
     if( current == X && previous == X )
      xCount++;

     if( current == O && previous == O )
      oCount++;
   }

   if ( xCount > highestX )
    highestX = xCount;

   if ( oCount > highestO )
    highestO = oCount;

   previous = current;

  }
  xCount = 0;
  oCount = 0;
 }

 if(highestX == highestO) // tie
  return Blank;

 if(highestX > highestO)
  return X;
 else
  return O;
}


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Q: Null Pointer Exception when passing an array of objects to a static method I am new to programming, and am working with an Array of objects for the first time.
I have a class called Account, which is to represent a bank account.  In the main method of my ATM machine class, I create an array of Account objects.  I fill the array with instantiated objects via static method.
I have two additional static methods (one prints out the arrays, which I put in for testing, and another is suppose to check if the Bank Account ID is valid).  Both of these static methods throw a Null Pointer Exception when the array of Account objects are passed to these respective static methods.
When I comment these two static methods out, everything works fine.  Any help would be appreciated.  Code is below:
package banking;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class AtmMachine {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Create account array of size 10
        Account[] bankAccounts = new Account[10];

        //Create 10 accounts
        createAccounts(bankAccounts);

        /*
        //PROBLEM AREA
        //Print Bank Accounts
        printAccounts(bankAccounts);
        */

        //Menu
        menu(bankAccounts);

    }

    public static void createAccounts(Account[] bankAccounts) {
        for (int i = 1; i < bankAccounts.length; i++) {
            bankAccounts[i] = new Account(i, 100);
        }
    }

    public static void menu(Account[] bankAccounts) {
        //Create Scanner object
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

        while (true) {
            System.out.print("Enter your account number: ");
            int accountNumber = input.nextInt();

            //THIS IS THE PROBLEM
            /*
            //Check to see if a valid account
            if (!isAccount(accountNumber, bankAccounts)) {
                System.out.println("You entered a wrong account number.  Try again.");
                continue;
            }
            */

            //Enter the menu of the account system
            accountMenu(bankAccounts[accountNumber]);

        }
    }

    //THE PROBLEM METHOD
    public static boolean isAccount(int account, Account[] bankAccounts) {
        for (int i = 0; i < bankAccounts.length; i++) {
            if (bankAccounts[i].getId() == account) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    public static void accountMenu(Account myAccount) {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.println("Main Menu: ");
        System.out.println("1. Check Balance");
        System.out.println("2. Withdraw");
        System.out.println("3. Despoit");
        System.out.println("4. Exit");

        int selection = input.nextInt();

        while (selection < 4) {
            if (selection == 1) {
                System.out.printf("The balance is %.2f.\n", myAccount.getBalance());
            } else if (selection == 2) {
                System.out.print("Enter the amount to withdraw: ");
                myAccount.withdraw(input.nextDouble());
                System.out.printf("The new balance is %.2f\n", myAccount.getBalance());
            } else if (selection == 3) {
                System.out.print("Enter the amount to deposit: ");
                myAccount.deposit(input.nextDouble());
            } else {
                System.out.println("You entered a wrong amount.");
                continue;
            }

            System.out.println("Main Menu: ");
            System.out.println("1. Check Balance");
            System.out.println("2. Withdraw");
            System.out.println("3. Despoit");
            System.out.println("4. Exit");

            selection = input.nextInt();

        }

    }

    public static void printAccounts (Account[] bankAccounts){
        for(int i = 0; i < bankAccounts.length; i++){
            System.out.println("Account " + i + " has an id of " + bankAccounts[i].getId() + " and a balance of " + bankAccounts[i].getBalance());
        }
    }

}

A: In your createBankAccounts() method you are starting your for loop at 1, not 0. Java arrays are 0-indexed, which means they start at 0. Since your for loop starts at 1, the first element in the array never gets initialized, causing it to throw a NullPointerException.
Change this:
public static void createAccounts(Account[] bankAccounts) {
    for (int i = 1; i < bankAccounts.length; i++) {
        bankAccounts[i] = new Account(i, 100);
    }
}

To this: (int i = 1 becomes int i = 0)
public static void createAccounts(Account[] bankAccounts) {
    for (int i = 0; i < bankAccounts.length; i++) {
        bankAccounts[i] = new Account(i, 100);
    }
}


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NewsGroove Uk > celebrity news > Rose Ayling-Ellis says 'world would be great' if more people were like Giovanni Pernice
Rose Ayling-Ellis says 'world would be great' if more people were like Giovanni Pernice
celebrity newsDecember 5, 2021
posted on Dec. 05, 2021 at 12:30 pm
Rose and Giovanni are predicted to reach the Strictly Come Dancing final after delighting fans with their dances each week. Rose, 27, is the first deaf contestant to take part in the show and has made it her mission to represent the deaf community.
Rose, who has been deaf since birth, cannot hear the music or Giovanni.
Therefore, he had to adapt his teaching style using gestures and counting.
Rose and Giovanni discussed their Strictly journey in an interview with The Sunday Times today.
She expressed her gratitude to her dance partner for adapting his teaching to her and sweetly said: "If there were more people like Giovanni, the world would be great,"
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Opening up about how he teaches Rose a routine, Giovanni said: "I have to make steps that are more visible for her when I explain what to do.
"I can't really play with changes of rhythm because that is difficult for us."
Rose added: "When we first started and I did solos I felt completely on my own.
"Now, even when I am doing a solo – like the bit with the fan at the beginning of the Paso Doble last week – out of the corner of my eye I can see Giovanni, giving me the timing."
Rose and Giovanni are this year's favourites to lift the Glitterball trophy in two weeks time, according to bookies.
Last night, they topped the leaderboard once again with an American Smooth to This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) by Natalie Cole.
After receiving comments from the judges, the pair headed to speak with host Claudia Winkleman about their performance.
When the presenter said the actress must "really trust" Giovanni to perform some of the lifts they do, she said: "I don't really have a choice.
"No, I do trust him. Our friendship is really, really good and I trust you," she said to Giovanni, to which he turned around and replied: "I love you."
The professional dancer took his partner in his arms as she explained he catches her "every time" when they do a lift or she falls.
Rose and Giovanni were given a total score of 39 out of a possible 40.
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Timothy Field Allen ( – )  was an American physician and botanist.

Timothy Field Allen was born on  in Westminster, Vermont.  He graduated A. B. at Amherst College in 1858, and subsequently received the degree of A. M. from the same institution. He graduated M. D. in 1861 at the University of the City of New York and in the same year commenced practice at Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1862 he was an acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army, and in the following year established himself in New York City, which remained the field of his labors for nearly forty years. Becoming associated professionally with Dr. Carroll Dunham, he early adopted homeopathy, and soon rose to a prominent position among homeopathic practitioners.

In 1865 he received the degree of M.D. from the Homeopathic (Hahnemann) Medical College, of Philadelphia; two years later he became professor of materia medica in the New York Homeopathic College, and from 1882 was its dean. For many years he was surgeon to the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, and was largely instrumental in the establishment of the Laura Franklin Free Hospital for Children and the Flower Hospital, in New York City. He was one of the editors of the New York Journal of Homeopathy, 1873–75, and later edited an Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica in ten volumes, 1875–79; he was also the author of A Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics, published at Philadelphia in 1879.

Early in his career he became a botanical enthusiast, and maintained his interest in this branch of scientific study in spite of his arduous professional work. He was one of the founders and curator of the Torrey Botanical Club; indeed, he is commonly credited with having been the first to suggest the organization of the Club under the name of New York Botanical Club, now one of the strongest scientific societies of New York City. He was the first to occupy the office of vice-president in the Club, and was re-elected annually until his death nearly thirty years later. Most of his contributions to botanical periodical literature appeared in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, although there were several in other magazines, notably one in the American Naturalist for May, 1882.

As a scientist, Allen was best known for his work upon the Characeae. This difficult group of algae has attracted but few botanists, and for many years he was almost the only American student of these plants. His most important printed contribution to this subject was "The Characeae of America," issued in parts from 1888 to 1896. His "Contributions to Japanese Characeae," first printed in instalments in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club from 1894 to 1898, also appeared separately in pamphlet form. Both of these works were illustrated by beautiful plates by Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff. By correspondence, by exchange, by purchase, and by paying the expenses of collectors in North America, South America, and Japan, Allen brought together one of the finest accumulations of specimens and books relating to the Characeae in existence; all these he presented to the New York Botanical Garden the year before his death, when failing health made it impossible for him to study them further. His botanical work was by no means confined entirely to the Characeae; several species of plants, named in his honor, bear witness to the breadth of his interest in botany, as the grass Danthonia Alleni, Austin; Erigonum Alleni, S. Watson; Kneiffia Alleni (Button), Small.

Dr. Allen married, June 3, 1862, Julia Bissell, of Litchfield, Connecticut. They had six children, one of whom became a physician in New York City.

Timothy Field Allen died on 5 December 1902 in New York City.

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Celebrate Henrietta Swan Leavitt's 150th Birthday on July 4th
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Harvard College Observatory
On this Independence Day a century and a half ago, Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born. While working at Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Mass. – now part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) – in the late 19th and early 20th century, Leavitt conducted research that led to two of the most surprising and important discoveries in the history of astrophysics.
Leavitt performed meticulous analysis of pulsating stars called Cepheid variables. She used these observations to develop a powerful new and durable tool for estimating the distances of stars and galaxies, a crucial advance for understanding the size and evolution of the Universe that astronomers of the day were struggling to accomplish.
After Leavitt's death in 1921, Edwin Hubble used the relationship between the period and luminosity of the Cepheid variables to determine that the Universe was expanding. Decades later in the 1990s, astronomers built on this work by discovering that the expansion is, in fact, accelerating. In 2011, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for this discovery.
One of those Laureates, Adam Riess, had used and extended Leavitt's tool as a graduate student doing cosmology research at CfA. Only two years after graduating he led a paper reporting the discovery of the Universe's accelerating expansion. To acknowledge Leavitt's pioneering work, Riess commented:
"By discovering a relationship for some stars between how bright they appear and how fast they blink, Henrietta Leavitt gave us a tool to gauge the size and expansion rate of the Universe. That tool remains to this day one of our very best for studying the Universe."
Leavitt's legacy continues to this day. For example, a Hubble Space Telescope result announced in January 2018 highlights the use of her relationship – now generally called Leavitt's Law – in ongoing attempts to identify whether new physics has been uncovered in recent cosmology observations.
As with many other female scientists of her time, Leavitt's contributions to her field went largely unacknowledged by the scientific peers. For example, an article about her on the American Association of Variable Star Observers website reports:
"As she had lived quietly, unnoticed, so her death left barely a ripple among her peers: to the extent that when, in 1925, the Swedish mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler wrote her a letter: 'Honoured Miss Leavitt, your admirable discovery ... has impressed me so deeply that I feel seriously inclined to nominate you to the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1926,' he had to be informed that she had in fact been dead for four years. As the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously, Leavitt never received her nomination."
Today, there are many efforts to provide Leavitt with the recognition that her work deserves. This includes Dava Sobel's book "The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard College Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars" that covers Leavitt and other women among the "human computers" at Harvard during that time period. Leavitt and her female colleagues are also the subject of "Silent Sky," a recent play being performed in Watertown, Mass. In addition, there was another recent production (April-May 2018) in Cambridge, Mass., that included Henrietta Swan Leavitt. The play was written by Joyce Van Dyke of Harvard's School of Continuing Education and entitled "The Women Who Mapped the Stars."
CfA Wolbach Librarian Maria McEachern had this to say about Leavitt:
"One of the profound truths which comes to mind when I think of Henrietta, her work and its influence, is best expressed in a quotation attributed to Sir Isaac Newton: 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.' Beginning with Edwin Hubble's discovery in 1921, and continuing on to the present day, Henrietta Swan Leavitt's slender shoulders have continued to support truly groundbreaking research."
And, Lindsay Smith Zrull, curator of the astronomical photographic plate collection at Harvard College Observatory, added:
"What inspires me the most about Leavitt and the other female astronomers who worked at the Harvard Observatory during this time, is the amount of passion they had for their research. This was an age when the propriety of women's higher education was being questioned and these brilliant astronomers didn't even have the right to vote. Yet they worked tirelessly to prove that women were intelligent, capable, and strong."
Indeed, there is much to commemorate on what would have Henrietta Swan Leavitt's 150th birthday this Fourth of July. How appropriate that a day for celebrating the Stars and Stripes can also celebrate someone who loved the stars.
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DASCH (Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard)
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The Harvard Astronomical Glass Plate Collection is an archive of roughly 500,000 images of the sky preserved on glass photographic plates, the way professional astronomers often captured images in the era before the dominance of digital technology. These plates are more than historical curiosities: they provide over a century's worth of data that can be used by contemporary astronomers to trace how objects in the night sky change over periods from years to decades.
For that reason, researchers with the DASCH (Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard) project are scanning the plates for digital storage and analysis. The process can also lead to new discoveries in old images, particularly of events that change over time, such as variable stars, novas, or black hole flares. The Harvard Astronomical Plate Collection is housed at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO), part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.


Yesterday was the third day since I discovered four robin's eggs in a nest in my holly tree. I wandered out to the holly several times yesterday to take some photos of the robin and her eggs. Mama robin was firmly planted in her nest each time I visited, so I never got a shot of the eggs.
To those of you who may be worried that I might somehow harm the robin and her eggs, I certainly appreciate your concern. Please rest assured that I never get closer than about five feet from the nest and I am using the zoom function on my camera to take the photos. I, too, want both the robin and her eggs to thrive.
You can check out days 1 and 2 of discovering the robin and her eggs here and here.


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