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The Association for Protection of Democratic Rights' (APDR) had earlier approached the West Bengal Human Rights Commission on the issue, but it had rejected the complaint.
"APDR has decided to complain to the president against Narayanan as the WBHRC rejected our appeal against the governor citing his constitutional immunity," APDR secretariat member Ranjit Sur said in a statement.
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Q: cast closure map to object with a private constructor in groovy I am using groovy to create some mock classes for a test case. I am basically creating dummy objects where all the methods return null so that i can run my testcase.
I am using the following syntax:
MessageFactory.instance = ["getMessage": {a,b,c,d -> "dummy"}] as MessageFactory

So here i am trying to overwrite the singleton instance with my on fake factory object. The problem is that MessageFactory's constructor happens to be a private method. This gives me an illigal access exception when i run the code above. Is there a away i can create a proxy in groovy and overcome the private constructor issue?

A: If you have access to the MessageFactory, and are willing to modify it, then you use the standard dependency-injection solution, as detailed here: mock singleton
..Though it's not particularly Groovy.
Otherwise, the best workaround I've found is to override the method(s) on the singleton instance itself, like so:
@Singleton
class Test{
    def method(){"Unmocked method called"}
}

def test = Test.instance
test.metaClass.method = {-> null}

test.method() // Now returns null

Naturally, as a singleton, this instance doesn't change (at least in theory)... So, overriding methods in this manner is effectively global.
Edit: Or you can use GMock, which supports constructor mocking (among other things).

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Q: How to mirror a half 3D mesh object? Let assume that we have a half 3D mesh object and want to mirror it, in C# 2008 Express.
That is, we want to have its simetrical part according to the center line of the object.
Could you help me to do that.
Thanks in advance.

A: You can try scaling it negatively in one axis, that should essentially flip it.
So if its scale is (1, 1, 1), change it to (-1, 1, 1).

A: hmmmm... here is the algorithm I would use:

*

*Find the point on the mesh that you would want to reflect about. Call it p0.

*Translate the object so that p0 lies on the origin (0,0,0).

*Now rotate the object 180 degrees about the origin along your desired plane of rotation.

*Translate back to p0.

This should give you a reflection of the object about the line you wish to rotate around.


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\section*{Methods}

The experiments  make use of a single trapped calcium ion in a micro-fabricated ion trap. The first step of each experimental run involves laser cooling all modes of motion of the ion close to a mean vibrational quantum number of 1 using a combination of Doppler and  Electromagnetically-Induced-Transparency cooling using light at 397, 866~nm \cite{00Roos}. The oscillator for the state engineering is chosen to be the axial mode of motion, in which the ion oscillates with a frequency close to $\omega_z/(2 \pi)$ = 2.08~MHz, which is well resolved from all other modes. This oscillator is cooled further using sideband cooling to ensure a high ground state occupancy. All coherent manipulations make use of the narrow-linewidth transition at 729~nm, isolating a two-state pseudo-spin system which we identify as $\ket{\downarrow} \equiv  \ket{L = 0, J = 1/2, M_J = +1/2}$ and $\ket{\uparrow} \equiv  \ket{L = 2, J = 5/2, M_J = 3/2}$. This transition is resolved by 200~MHz from all other internal state transitions in the applied magnetic field of 11.9~mT. The beam enters the trap at 45 degrees to the $z$ axis of the trap, resulting in a Lamb-Dicke parameter of $\eta \simeq 0.047$ for the axial mode. Optical pumping to $\ket{\downarrow}$ is implemented using a combination of linearly polarized light fields at 854~nm, 397~nm and 866~nm. We read out the internal state of the ion by state-dependent fluorescence observed while applying the laser fields at 397~nm and 866~nm. Motional heating rates from the ground state for an ion in this trap have been measured to be 10~$\pm$~1~quanta\ s$^{-1}$, and the coherence time for the Fock state superposition $(\ket{0}+ \ket{1})/\sqrt{2}$ has been measured to be 32 $\pm$ 3~ms. Spin coherence times have been measured using a Ramsey separated pulse experiment to be 930~$\pm$~20~$\mu$s.

\subsection*{Heralding Detection}
The detection used to decide whether the analysis should be performed or not involves application of lasers at 397~nm and 866~nm, which results in photon scattering from the ion if it is in the ground state $\ket{\downarrow}$, and no scattering for the state $\ket{\uparrow}$. We detect a small fraction  of the photons scattered from the ion, and make a decision based on a pre-set threshold for the detected photon number to decide whether the ion is in $\ket{\uparrow}$ or $\ket{\downarrow}$. We try to keep the detection time short so as to avoid decoherence of the cat. Thus a typical detection time is $75$~$\mu$s. This means that the detection error is around 0.8\% for an ion which is measured to be in $\ket{\downarrow}$, and 0.002\% for an ion which is measured to be in $\ket{\uparrow}$. We think that this error is of similar size to other sources of error in our production of the cat state.

\subsection*{Lamb-Dicke approximation}
The Hamiltonians described in the paper are all given in the Lamb-Dicke approximation which is appropriate in the limit that $\eta^2 (2 n + 1) \ll 1$, where $\eta = k z_0 \cos(\theta)$,
with $\theta$ the angle between the oscillation direction and the laser beam and $k$ the wavevector of the light. The largest states that we produce in  the work in  the paper correspond to $\alpha = 7.8$, or $\langle n \rangle \simeq 60$, and thus we find that the approximation is reasonable, but does not exactly describe our experiments. For this reason we use the full expression for the matrix elements $M_{n, n + 1} = \bra{n + 1} e^{i \eta (\ensuremath{{\,\hat{a}^{\dagger}}} + \ensuremath{\,\hat{a}})}\ket{n}$ in fits to sideband data throughout the data analysis. The overall scaling of these is absorbed into the fit Rabi frequency. For the displaced basis we analytically derived expressions which confirm that the same $M_{n, n + 1}$ are appropriate, and thus we use the same scalings as for the energy eigenstate basis in the displaced basis. For the squeezed basis, we haven't been able to derive analytical expressions for the Hamiltonian we apply in the lab, but we have confirmed numerically that the scaling of the Rabi frequencies with $n_s$ are very close to the values estimated from $M_{n_s,n_s+1}$, and the latter have been used in most of the analysis. For the very largest states we use the numerically generated matrix elements for $r = 0.9$ to fit the data, though the correction to the values from $M_{n, n+1}$ is small.

\subsection*{Decay model and observed decoherence.}
In fitting the data using equation \ref{eq:spinpops}, we are forced to make some assumption about the form of decay. This is important because the fitted values of both the decay parameter and the populations which contribute to the parity, are directly related to the  amplitude of the  revival in the spin oscillations at time $t_r$. This correlation means that the parity can be overestimated for data where only the revival at $t_p = t_r$ is included. Therefore it is critical to probe for times which include the revival at $t_{r, {\rm mix}}$, which acts to constrain $\gamma(t)$. In all fits used in this paper we have used $\gamma(t) = e^{-\Gamma t_p}$. An exponential form of decay is often the result of decoherence mechanisms with a short correlation time, which would be appropriate for motional heating \cite{00Turchette}. We use this because it produces the most consistent results between set experimental values and values obtained from fit models throughout our data.

We have also fitted many datasets using Gaussian decay forms $\gamma(t) = e^{-\Gamma t_p^2}$, which is motivated by our observations on Rabi oscillations performed with an ion cooled to the ground state and driven on either the carrier or the motional sideband. We think that this is because these are dominated by shot-to-shot intensity noise. This is consistent with our observation that as we build up data (we typically take many rounds in which only 50 experimental sequences are run per point) the averaged oscillations get smaller as the acquisition time increases, indicating that slow drifts in the Rabi frequency are dominating. Intensity fluctuations would also produce a scaling of the decay parameter with the Rabi frequency, indicating a better choice of dependence for this model of noise is $\gamma(t) = e^{-\Gamma (n + 1) t_p^2}$. That this form does not work so well for cat states probably indicates that decoherence of the cat during the probe pulse is playing a significant role, which we would expect since the expected decoherence times for our heating rate are of similar order to the probe times in the experiment. We performed Monte-Carlo wavefunction simulations with our measured ground state heating rate and motional decoherence which are consistent with this interpretation.

For all fits used in the Wigner function tomography the decay parameters were extracted using fits performed in the ground state basis (i.e. $\beta = 0$) which includes both the first and second revival. We then fix this value in fits to other values of the displacement, which allows us to use shorter probe times for the displaced bases.

\subsection*{Calibration of displaced and squeezed measurement settings.}
The critical element of the two measurement techniques which we introduce is that they are sensitive to the phase of the quantum state, unlike the energy eigenstate measurement. This requires calibration of the relative phase between the multiple laser fields which are used to generate the Hamiltonians $\hat{H}_d(\beta)$, $\hat{H}_s$ and $\hat{H}_r$. In our experiments, the reference for the phase is the cat state itself, therefore we work with a fixed cat size, and use the predicted behaviour to calibrate the different analysis pulse components.

For $\hat{H}_d(\beta)$, we fix the strength of the carrier term, which sets $|\beta|$, and then scan the phase. The magnitude $|\beta|$ is independently measured by preparing a ground state ion and performing a fit using equation \ref{eq:spinpops} to the Rabi oscillations as a function of time. In this basis the Rabi oscillations are equivalent to applying the blue sideband to an ion prepared in a coherent state and $\ket{\downarrow}$.

For the squeezed basis Hamiltonian $\hat{H}_s$, we scan the relative phase of the red and blue sidebands for a cat of fixed size, and look for a reduction in the Rabi frequency which indicates the basis for which the anti-squeezing is aligned with the cat. The size of the squeezing is calibrated by two methods. First we apply $\hat{H}_s$ to a ground-state cooled ion, resulting in Rabi oscillations which follow \ref{eq:spinpops} with the $p(\ket{\phi_n})$ following the distribution expected for a squeezed state with size given by the Hamiltonian used.

To calibrate the carrier term of $\hat{H}_s(\beta) = \hat{H}_s + \hat{H}_d(\beta)$, we apply this Hamiltonian to a ground-state cooled ion, and observe the change in the dynamics as a function of the carrier phase and amplitude. This references the phase of $\beta$ to the squeezing axis, which is pre-calibrated to the cat phase.

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Q: Changing a webpage location, while keeping some items static? Not sure the best way to describe what I mean, the best way is to look at Facebook whilst I explain.
The bar at the bottom of Facebook will always stay the same, with all chat windows open, and no flicking when you change a page, however, the webpage and the address bar will all change to the new page that you requested, to me that seems like the webpage doesn't actually change at all, and instead, the address bars' URL changes as well as the page content.
I am working on a music player for a bands website, that I want to keep static across all the pages on the site, without reloading and starting again every new page.

A: The bottom bar is positioned with position: fixed which makes it relative to the viewport, not the document.
The other pages are loaded with XHR, or AJAX.
The changing URL is probably the fragment identifier, unless you have a cutting edge browser, which appears to be using the HTML5 history API (GitHub currently is too).

Zach Rait, an engineer on our infrastructure team, implemented the History API to enable selective loading of page content via AJAX while preserving readable URLs. Previously, current application state was stored in the URL fragment which resulted in unseemly URLs like "profile.php?id=1586010043#!/pages/Haskell/401573824771". Now, because HTML5 allows us to decouple the currently displayed URL from the actual state of the application, we're able to display pages more quickly, save bandwidth, and avoid polluting users' location bars.

Source.

A: sounds like you want a template and using JQuery or a similar language to dynamically load new content on a portion of the site?
In this way, JQuery will use ajax to load new content in part of the main window without you ever experiencing much of the main page reloading.
You can use css to style a bar at the bottom
#somelink{
position:absolute;
bottom:0px;
}

HTML
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Replace me with new content

JQuery
$("#somelink").click(function(){
  $("#news").get("album.html",function(data){$(this).html(data);});
});


Home / News and Insights / FAQs / I am renting a flat for 12 months. It has been a few years since I last rented a flat. What should I look out for in the tenancy agreement?
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While you do not say specifically, I assume the tenancy is an assured shorthold tenancy (AST), which is the most common form of tenancy applicable for renting a home.
An AST is not suitable where the rent is more than £100,000 (£25,000 in Wales) a year or less than £250 a year (or less than £1,000 in London), is a business tenancy or the landlord lives in the same property or the tenant is a limited company, for example.
Often the tenancy will require the tenant to abide by the terms of the headlease ie the lease the landlord has entered into in respect of his flat. You should request and check these terms are consistent with the tenancy. For example, the headlease may not allow pets whereas the landlord may in the tenancy agree for pets to be kept at the property.
Where a landlord requires a rent deposit, you should check the deposit has been placed in the relevant designated scheme because a failure to do so may mean you can apply to a County Court to repay the deposit or transfer the deposit to a special tenancy deposit protection scheme. The Court may also order the landlord to repay up to three times the original deposit, as well.
If the terms of the tenancy are too onerous or unfair, there are certain legislation and regulations (Consumer Rights Act 2015) which will deem the provisions unenforceable or void. For example, a tenancy which contains the ability only for a landlord to break the tenancy, or a fixed tenancy which requires a tenant to still give two months' notice, or a clause containing an unreasonable financial penalty could all be at risk of being unfair.
The Housing Act 1988 sets out the main ways in which a landlord can regain possession of the property including specific reasons (grounds) to seek possession. The tenancy should contain the full text of each ground for possession. Parties sometimes assume these are statutory grounds and do not need to specially set them out in the tenancy, which is not the case . With more people renting and ongoing change in the sector, it is important to seek professional advice before entering a tenancy.


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Q: Why -fPIC must be provided as definition, rather than compiler flag In my CmakeLists.txt file I have had the line
  set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -fPIC -Wall")

and with that, I run into the error
"You must build your code with position independent code if Qt was built with -reduce-relocations. " "Compile your code with -fPIC (-fPIE is not enough)."

Then I accidentally found topic
Error while compiling QT project in cmake
where it was suggested to add the line
add_definitions(-fPIC)

And really, it seems to work. I have two questions:
1./ Is something wrong with the first form of defining PIC? (or, why they have different effect?)
2./ I did "reprocess" that line from and older project, where it worked fine. What could change?

A: The line add_definitions(-fPIC) is wrong. First, it should be add_compile_options. Then, add_definition is a directory command which you should avoid.
CMake must detect that the macro name starts with -f and add it as compiler option instead.
What you really want is to tell CMake that a target should be compiled as position independent code.
set_target_properties(your-executable PROPERTIES
    POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON
)

That should do the trick and is compiler agnostic.


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Contemporaries of future Importance
490s: Wikis
Categories: 490s
Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 4th century – 5th century – 6th century
Decades: 460s 470s 480s – 490s – 500s 510s 520s
Years: 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499
Categories: Births – Deaths – Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments
The 490s decade ran from January 1, 490, to December 31, 499. It was the last decade of the 5th century.
1 Events and trends
2 Significant people
2.1 World leaders
2.2 Other Significant individuals
3 Contemporaries of future Importance
Possible timing of King Arthur's victory over the Saxons.
493—Possible death of Saint Patrick.
494—Pope Gelasius I delineates the relationship between church and state.
494—An earthquake devastates Latakia.
494—Under Emperor Xiaowen the capital of Northern Wei, a state in China capital is moved from Datong to Luoyang, a city long acknowledged as a major center in Chinese history.
496—Battle of Tolbiac; Clovis I defeats the Alamanni, accepts Catholic baptism at Rheims.
Ousas, King of Aksum
Mamikonian, King of Armenia, r. 482–483, 484–505
Gundobad, King of Burgundy, r. 473–516
Zeno, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, r. 474–475, 476–491
Anastasius I, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, r. 491–518
Xiaowen, Wei dynasty Emperor of China, r. 471–499
Xuanwu, Wei dynasty Emperor of China, r. 499–515
Wu, Qi dynasty Emperor of China, r. 482–493
Xiao Zhaoye, Qi dynasty Emperor of China, r. 493–494
Xiao Zhaowen, Qi dynasty Emperor of China, r. 494
Ming, Qi dynasty Emperor of China, r. 494–498
Xiao Baojuan, Qi dynasty Emperor of China, r. 499–501
Hroðgar, Legendary King of the Danes
Gerren Llyngesic ab Erbin, King of Dumnonia, r. c.480–514
Clovis I, King of the Salian Franks, r. 481–509
Buddha Gupta, Gupta dynasty Emperor of India, r. 477–496
Chandra Gupta III, Gupta dynasty Emperor of India, r. 496–500
Einion Yrth ap Cunedda, King of Gwynedd, r. c.470-500
Ernakh, Ruler of the Huns, r. 469–503
Vakhtang I, King of Caucasian Iberia, r. 447–522
Lugaid mac Lóegairi, semi-historical High-King of Ireland, r. 479–503
Odoacer, King of Italy, r. 476–493
Theodoric the Great, King of Italy, r. 493–526
Ninken, Emperor of Japan, r. 488–498
Buretsu, Emperor of Japan, r. 498–506
Oisc, King of Kent, r. c.488–516
Claffo, King of the Lombards, r. c.490–500
B'utz Aj Sak Chiik, King of Palenque, r. 487–501
Nandi Varman I, King of Pallava, r. 480–500
Kavadh I, Shah of Persia, r. 488–496, 498–531
Djamasp, Shah of Persia, r. 496–498
Cyngen Glodrydd, King of Powys, r. 480–500
Owain Ddantgwyn, King of Rhos
Soji, King of Silla, r. 479–500
Aelle, King of Sussex and Bretwalda of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, r. c.477–514
Ongentheow, Legendary King of Sweden
Gunthamund, King of the Vandals, r. 484–496
Thrasamund, King of the Vandals, r. 496–523
Alaric II, King of the Visigoths, r. 485–507
Abba Afse, Abuna of Ethopia
Anastasius II, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, p. 496–498
Mar Aqaq-Acace, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, 484–496
Arthur, dux bellorum (leader of battles) and King of the Brythons of later legend
Mar Babai I, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, 497–503
Cerdic of Wessex, Saxon invader and future king and founder of the Kingdom of Wessex
Cynric of Wessex, Saxon invader and future king of Wessex
Euphemius, Patriarch of Constantinople, 489–495
Felix II (excluding Antipope Felix II), Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, p. 483–492
Gelasius I, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, p. 492–496
Macedonius II, Patriarch of Constantinople, 495–511
Symmachus, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, p. 498–514
Benedict of Nursia, future founder of Western Christian monasticism
From Familypedia
Millennia: 1st millennium
Centuries: 4th century - 5th century - 6th century
Decades: 460s 470s 480s - 490s - 500s 510s 520s
Years: 490 491 492 493 494
Categories: Births - Deaths - Architecture
Establishments - Disestablishments
493 — Possible death of Saint Patrick.
494 — Pope Gelasius I delineates the relationship between church and state.
494 — An earthquake devastates Latakia.
494 — Under Emperor Xiaowen the capital of Northern Wei, a state in China capital is moved from Datong to Luoyang, a city long acknowledged as a major center in Chinese history.
496 — Battle of Tolbiac; Clovis I defeats the Alamanni, accepts Catholic baptism at Rheims.
This page uses content from the English language Wikipedia. The original content was at 490s. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with this Familypedia wiki, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons License.
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Decades: 440s - 450s - 460s - 470s - 480s - 490s - 500s - 510s - 520s - 530s - 540s
Years: 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500
493 - Death of Saint Patrick.
494 - Pope Gelasius I delineates the relationship between church and state.
494 - An earthquake devastates Latakia.
494 - Under Emperor Xiaowen the capital of Northern Wei, a state in China capital is moved from Datong to Luoyang, a city long acknowledged as a major center in Chinese history.
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Q: Why wasn't the Room of Requirement used more often? The Room of Requirement is extremely useful, but Harry barely uses it. Sure the DA uses it, and so does Harry to hide his Potions book, but for half of the fifth book, and the sixth, whenever he needed anything (minus food) the room would bring it to them. So if he was worried about his O.W.Ls, then he could tell the room to help him out. Or if he wanted a secret passage to Grimmauld Place, he could use the room, instead of sneaking into Umbridge's office.
This is not asking what the room's limits are, but asking why Harry doesn't frequently use it.

A: Out of universe, any – especially magical – "Get Out of Jail Free" card (a sort of Deus ex Machina) can be overused as a plot device. If Rowling used it to solve every small problem, the books would suffer, and the characters wouldn't "develop" to overcome obstacles using their own resources.
If you accept the out-of-universe justification for limited use, then in universe – despite the OP not wanting to talk of the room's limits – then we have to assume that it does have limits, and those limits are (reasonably) high: you cannot use it just because you fancy an ice-cream!
An answer to the no-longer directly linked question What are the limits of the Room of Requirement? includes (emphasis mine):

[The Room of Requirement] is a secret room within Hogwarts Castle, that only appears when a person is in great need of it.

This is echoed on the Room of Requirement page on WikiBooks (again, emphasis mine):

Dobby the house elf tells him [Harry Potter] about this room, describing it as, "A room that a person can only enter when they have real need of it. Sometimes it is there and sometimes it is not, but when it appears, it is always equipped for the seeker's needs."

I cannot remember (but it has been a while since I read the books) of any instance of any of the main characters trying to gain access to the room and failing, so it's unclear
whether they tried and failed to use the room for "lesser" needs, or they simply realised that it would only work for "great need", and never tried. However, I seem to remember a scene (at least from the films) where someone (possibly Filch, possibly Umbridge) was trying to follow Harry in to the room and it failing to open. If so, then this could indicate that it wasn't just personal need that mattered (the need to catch Harry didn't override Harry's need to not be caught).
In summary: the room does have limits, fairly high ones. Either the main characters knew these limits and didn't try to push the boundaries, or any failed attempts weren't included in the narrative.

A: Not everybody knew about it
We know that some of the teachers knew about it:

"The Room of Requirement," repeated Harry. "Were you trying to get in there?"
  "I - well - I didn't know students knew about -"

This quote also implies that other members of the staff knew about it seeing as she specifically refers to the students. We also can be sure that Dumbledore knew about it:

"Oh i would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts' secrets, Igor" said Dumbledore amicably. "Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room i had never seen before, containing a really magnificent collection of chamber pots. When i went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But i must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five-thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder."

Later when Dobby tells Harry about the room of requirement for the D.A Harry makes the connection:

"This room isn't just some mad idea of Dobby's; Dumbledore knows about it too, he mentioned it to me at the Yule Ball."

The only students who ever used it were Harry, Ron, Hermione, The rest of the D.A and Draco Malfoy until Harry's seventh year when the "Good Guys" hide from the rest of the school:

"Where are we?" "Room of Requirement, of Course!"

Another possible reason is: People only ever used it in dire/near hopeless circumstances I'll go through all the times it was used: First, when Dumbledore needs to use the restroom (this is more of an everyday type of desperation) he gets lost and must have desperately wandered around until the Room of Requirement presented itself. Next, Harry uses it when he is in dire need of a place to hold the D.A sessions. Finally, (that i can recall) he uses the room to hide the Half-Blood Prince's old potions book (this was also somewhat desperate since it contained a spell that lacerated the targets skin). In conclusion i would like to assume that the people who knew of it wouldn't use it for anything that wasn't hopeless or very needed. Another contributor to the fact that it wasn't used on for example; a daily basis is that the students/teachers always had full schedules, so it would be difficult to fit in time for using it for trivial things, also whenever people entered the room they seemed to spend lengthy amounts of time, so if they got absorbed in whatever they were doing in there they might miss a class. Finally, it might be that people were too lazy to actually go to the room for whatever they needed instead of just making do.


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A survey conducted two weeks after the polls closed on Feb. 7 found that 79.9 percent of Costa Ricans were confident in the honesty of the election results.
The leading candidate, Laura Chinchilla, won the presidential election by a landslide with 46.7 percent of the vote, besting her closest followers by 26 percent and 21 percent respectively; so few questioned the winner.
If there was any debate, it was whether Chinchilla truly did get as many votes as election results showed. According to Costa Rican election rules, if no candidate wins more than 40 percent of the vote, the election is forced into a second round.
The study, conducted by Borge and Associates, also showed that 88.3 percent of voters felt well-informed about election day and how to vote. Most voters – roughly 45.5 percent – got their information about the election process by means of the television, whereas only 3.5 percent relied on newspapers.
The poll was conducted via telephone between Feb. 20 and Feb. 25 and included 600 people over the age of 18.
Of those who said they didn't vote, the majority (18.8 percent) said they were tired of politics, 12.8 percent said health conditions kept them from voting, 5.5 percent said they opposed the electoral system, 10.1 couldn't get authorization from their work place to vote and 5.8 percent didn't have a cédula (identification card).
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Sunderland AFC Transfer News
Who is Alim Ozturk? A look at the defender who was Sunderland's first summer signing
We take a closer look at Alim Ozturk, the defender who has become Jack Ross' first Sunderland signing this summer
Craig Johns
Sunderland new signing Alim Ozturk (Image: Sunderland AFC)
Turkish defender Alim Ozturk has become the first Sunderland signing of the summer.
The tall central defender has penned a two-year deal at the club, as revealed by Roker Report earlier today.
Joining on a free transfer, he is the first signing of new boss Jack Ross after he arrived from St Mirren earlier in the summer.
Ozturk and Ross are familiar to one-another, although the 25-year-old is unlikely to be a name well known to Black Cats fans.
So who is Ozturk and what will he bring to Sunderland? We take a closer look at the defender set to move to the Stadium of Light.
Alim Ozturk hoping to replicate his success at Hearts while at Sunderland
Who is Alim Ozturk?
Alim Ozturk is a central defender who stands at 6ft 3in tall.
A commanding and strong centre-back, he is also able to play as a defensive midfielder if required.
Ozturk was born in Alkmaar in Netherlands to Turkish parents and is the youngest of four children.
Taking up football and showing great ability at just nine years old, he attended the Johann Cruyff College which combines school education with a better standard of football coaching.
He is fluent in Dutch, Turkish and English.
Alim Ozturk's career to date
Ozturk started at Dutch side Groningen, moving to Cambuur before making Groningen's first team. After just 13 appearances for the Netherlands second tier side he was snapped up by Turkish side Trabzonspor in 2013 for €125,000.
He went out on loan to 1461 Trabzon after struggling to break into the first team at the top-tier side. Upon returning, Trabzonspor agreed to mutually terminate his contract and he moved to Hearts for the most successful part of his career, and also where he knows Sunderland boss Jack Ross from.
Alim Ozturk's time at Hearts
Alim Ozturk in action for Hearts (Image: Dumfries and Galloway Standard)
Ozturk spent two-and-a-half years at Hearts where he even captained the side at one point.
He was at the club when Ross was there as academy boss, which is how the pair know one another.
Ozturk was a popular player at Hearts and made his debut in a Scottish Championship victory over Rangers.
Helping Hearts to promotion via the title, he was named in the Scottish Championship Team of the Season and was then made captain for their return to the Scottish Premiership. They finished third that season.
However, his relationship with manager Robbie Neilson broke down in the summer of 2016 as the defender entered the final year of his contract. The player insisted he was willing to sign an extension but he ended up being stripped of the captaincy and started just four matches that season before being sold to Turkish second tier side Boluspor in January 2017. He made just short of 40 appearances for the Turkish side before deciding to leave on a free this summer.
Sunderland have confirmed Turkish defender Alim Ozturk as their first summer signing
What Alim Ozturk said of his time at Hearts
He told the Edinburgh Evening News: "My first two years were excellent. I had a really good time. I enjoyed Edinburgh and I enjoyed Hearts for two years, and the fans were amazing to me. In my first year, I won the Championship.
"In the second year, we finished third and I was the captain of the club. That was something special for me, to be captain of a big club like Hearts. It was a really, really proud moment for me.
"I had some great moments at Hearts, and it started with that goal at Easter Road (see below). It was the best goal of my career. I scored a few other goals from distance, but that was the one – last minute, derby game ... Everything at Hearts was going really, really good."
Alim Ozturk's style of play
Ozturk is described as a strong, commanding centre-back who is good in the air thanks to his height. He was also described as a leader while at Hearts despite being just 24 when he departed.
He is said to be adventurous - happy to travel out of defence with the ball, and certainly not afraid to have a crack from long-range, as his last minute 40-yard equaliser in a derby against Hibernian (see video below) shows.
As well as that he also netted long-range efforts against Raith Rovers and Cowdenbeath, and he also scored a free-kick against Queen of the South. He was Hearts' regular free-kick taker.
So popular they named an ale after him
Ozturk became a fan-favourite at Tynecastle - and became so popular in fact that local brewers named an ale after his screamer in the Edinburgh derby against Hibernian.
'IPA 40 Yard Screamer' was launched in a local pub with Ozturk himself pulling the first pint and around 200 Jam Tarts fans turning up to the event.
Ozturk told the Edinburgh Evening News at the time: "I'd heard of a yard of ale before from friends but never a 40-yarder! Hopefully the fans can enjoy a few of them while chatting about the goal."
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The Sopranos — Season 3
When last I left New Jersey and the DiMeo crime family, Tony Soprano had once again ordered a significant whacking to save his skin and consolidate his authority. Unlike the killings of the first season finale, however, the murder in "Funhouse" carried significant psychological weight for the most tortured man in the Mafia: Big Pussy's death threatened to cast a specter over the next season, the crux of Tony's development for at least a portion of the following 13 episodes.
That the lingering effects of his dear friend's betrayal and death only factor in Tony's life occasionally reflects the larger failure of The Sopranos' third season to consistently tap into the emotions of well-defined characters. Indeed, while The Sopranos always worked on some level as a black comedy -- the Freudian nightmare of Tony's relationship with his mother, the puffed-chest posturing of its murderous, stunted, manchild gangsters -- this collection of episodes completely skews the balance into the realm of zaniness, to the point that its moments of dramatic thrust struggle to connect amidst the grand joke of it all.
Much, too much, is exaggeration: Meadow moves into Columbia University, only to find herself saddled with a homesick depressive of a roommate whose initial flightiness gives way to paranoia and neediness of the Single White Female variety. Chrisopher becomes a made man, only for Paulie to develop odd quirks and borderline fetishes that involve humiliating the poor kid. Before Livia suffers a fatal stroke in the second episode (a way for the writers to work through Nancy Marchand's death in 2000), Tony places her under the care of his former mistress' one-legged sister, who must contend with the bottomless well of bratty entitlement that is Janice Soprano when Livia leaves her nurse a few valuable items.
None of these is any bigger a comic diversion than the rest of the subplots that made The Sopranos such a dense, often hilarious, work, but they dominate the narrative arcs of the season while the typical scheming and whacking fall to the wayside. That's a fine way to change up the pace for an episode or two (who can forget the classic Buffy episode "The Zeppo," which placed Xander's private self-doubts in the foreground and hilariously relegated an end-of-the-world monster mash to the periphery?), but structuring an entire season that way demonstrates a rapidly thinning set of strong ideas for the show's direction.
For clearest evidence of this creative dry spell, consider the influx of new and retooled characters to replace the dearly departed, then how all of them essentially do nothing more than inhabit the traits of the characters they replace, albeit with greater exaggeration. Janice takes over the role of the vindictive, egomaniacal female Soprano for Livia; Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano) for the sadistic, insolent capo Richie; the clingy, violently neurotic Gloria for Tony's old comaré Inira. Each of these characters magnifies their predecessors' traits without bringing much to the table of their own (save Janice, whose various ploys of making herself the center of the universe recall the titular petulant tyrant of Jane Campion's Sweetie), while Meadow, gently evolving until this point, backslides into hormonal angst better served for a character several years younger. She falls for two boys in the season: a half-black, half-Jewish elitist named Noah, who sleeps with her before casting her aside as vengeance against her racist father, and Jackie Aprile, Jr., whom Tony attempts to keep out of the Family business as a promise he made to his late friend on his deathbed. Meadow falls prey to her emotions, and the intelligent, maturing young woman o the first two seasons, the one who began to distance herself from her family as her awareness of their true nature grew, instead uses her father as a punching bag for her own troubles, engaging in bitch sessions at every turn.
Where the first two seasons offered bountiful topics for discussion, The Sopranos suddenly wades into the shallow end, preventing meaningful dissection. Only "Employee of the Month" works as full-blown drama: in it, Dr. Melfi -- the closest the show has to an objective viewer -- is raped, and she grapples for the rest of the episode with the prospect of telling Tony and watching her tormentor disappear. Lorraine Bracco gives a wrenching, flawless performance as someone coming to terms with such a horrific crime, the way that it becomes such a mental overload that the entire body becomes a live wire that recoils to the touch, and when she responds to Tony's question whether something is troubling her at the end of the episode with a deafeningly quiet, "No," she denies the first violence on the program that we actually might want to see. Yet the thoughtful plotting and conclusion of the extreme violence and its effect by "University," in which the horrific murder of one of the Bada Bing strippers is juxtaposed with the regressive dramedy of Meadow's pity parade, undercutting the severity of the violence even as the Meadow subplot is revealed as even more an asinine waste of time.
Occasionally, though, the use of high comedy works, as it does in the season's finest offering, "Pine Barrens." Like last season's "D-Girl," it is a very un-Sopranos-like episode, even as it reveals a blunt truth about the business. Last season, we saw how show biz and Family biz weren't so different, and "Pine Barrens" uses the absurdity of an extortion attempt gone awry to show how far loyalty goes in the mob. Paulie and Chris provoke a situation with the Russian from whom they are collecting, leading them to bury the man out in the snowy woods outside Atlantic City, only for the man to possess a Rasputin-like inability to die and spark a manhunt that strands the two gangsters out in the cold. Their hunger and cold leads to hilarious desperation, but they also bring out the bottom line of mob life: survival beats out loyalty.
The Sopranos' third season never truly dips to the point that any episodes fail, and the Gloria Trillo arc introduced at the end is a fun distraction that builds to a great punchline, but overall so little of it sticks with you. I remember only vague actions -- Meadow goes to college and has boy trouble, Janice finds religion -- but never any specifics: apart from Melfi's final line in "Employee of the Month," there are no moments like Pussy telling AJ what a great man Tony is while wearing a wire to bring him down, no Junior hitting someone in the face with a pie and making it tragic, not funny. What you're left with by the end is junk food, filling but empty compared to the feasts of what came before. I've heard that the show never matched its first season, but I hope it fixes some of the problems here before they drag the show down further.
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Spencer January 21, 2010 at 6:01 PM
You've probably already explained this before, but why do you not rate some of your reviews? Is it because you're not sure what to rate them?
Jake January 21, 2010 at 6:24 PM
I actually meant to put a rating on this one and forgot. But I tend not to put ratings on films that aren't currently out because the amount of classics I review can skew the weight of a five star if I give it to them and then turn around and hand one to, say, The Hurt Locker. If I did, some people might equate that with placing THL on the same level as, say, Rashomon or Citizen Kane, because some people tend to view ratings as absolutes (which is so fucking dumb it's staggering) and they make a point of only handing out maybe 20 or so 5/5s or 10/10s for all the films they've ever seen, almost always in an attempt to look demanding and critical of films to impress people. So, I keep the ratings for newer stuff so people can gauge how I'm stacking contemporary releases. Besides, my opinion changes frequently enough with the stuff that I do rate that it would be a hassle to keep track of the various stars I throw at whatever and how I feel they hold up.
Oh- never mind. lol
Ok, makes sense.
Spencer January 21, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Could you please block Tony Dayoub? No matter his age, he's been acting like a little kid and has been posting pointless and offensive comments about me trying to make me look like a troll when he's just being an idiot. I don't want to argue with anyone, I'm not even sure why this guy being so damn hostile to me, but it's starting to piss me off.
If you don't block him and decide that I'm a troll(somehow), could you at least ask him to stop treating me like a terrorist? I don't know what I did to deserve this crap, and if I'm(somehow) a troll, it's not my intention. So please, help me out with this guy.
Just.....never mind.
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It was 2008, and Clemson football was in a precarious position. In 30 years, they had gone from a powerhouse college football program to average at best. No matter what they tried, the team just couldn't seem to make the leap back into national title contention. Finally, Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips made a high-pressure decision to accept the resignation of well-known coach Tommy Bowden, and promote an internal assistant coach named Dabo Swinney. While Dabo Swinney had no previous head coaching experience, he was well-liked by the current Clemson team and a man of deep character and conviction.
Fast-forward 7 years; Dabo is not only one of the best football coaches in the country, he is a fantastic example of what leadership is all about. Here are three brilliant leadership lessons we can all take away from Coach Swinney.
Last year Swinney made national news by suspending one of his best players, Deon Cain for breaking team rules. The suspension occurred days prior to the game that would secure Clemson's spot in the national championship. Cain's participation in the game was crucial; however, Dabo did not let that affect the decision to do what was right.
Happy to report Deon Cain has decided to rejoin the team this coming year and has made the commitment for it to not be about him. Associated Press Update.
Every person has value and deserves civility, trust, and respect.
People can accomplish much more when inspired by a purpose beyond themselves.
As you'll recall, one of the things that got Dabo hired was the existing rapport he had with the Clemson players. In order to effectively lead, one must first build great relationships with his or her team members, and then work on keeping those relationships strong.
"Rules without relationships lead to rebellion." Dabo Swinney.
Leaders have to have good relationships with their people while also maintaining who they are on inside.
There are a lot of things that need to come together in order for a college football team to go undefeated for an entire season, and then go on to play in a national championship. Talent and physical strength are required, and Clemson had that in its players. But without an exceptional leader like Dabo Swinney to mold those players into a team, a successful season was far from guaranteed.
Learn from Dabo; as a coach, a leader and a man of character and conviction. Face your professional and personal life with a positive yet realistic outlook, and take extra time to focus and expand your relationships, in and out of the office. Get your team's equivalent of a 14 and 0 season and runner up in the national title game.
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Trump's Rejection of National Climate Report Would Do More Harm Than Paris Exit
A flooded building in Fenton, Missouri. Jocelyn Augustino / FEMA
A scientific report done every four years has been thrust into the spotlight because its findings directly contradict statements from the president and various cabinet officials.
If the Trump administration chooses to reject the pending national Climate Science Special Report, it would be more damaging than pulling the U.S. out of the Paris agreement. Full stop. This is a bold claim, but as an economist and scientist who was a vice chair of the committee that shepherded the last national climate assessment report to its completion, I can explain why this is the case.
Informing policy with facts
To see why the Climate Science Special Report is so important, first consider some historical context.
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In 1990, Congress mandated that government scientists prepare and transmit a report to the president and the Congress every four years that "integrates, evaluates, and interprets" findings of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. It must characterize the "effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems and biological diversity." It also calls for scientists to project climate trends decades into the future.
The upcoming Climate Science Special Report, upon which the administration must bestow either its approval or its rejection sometime in the near future, is the first major component of the Fourth National Climate Assessment. Combined with a second section that will analyze climate change's impacts on different regions and sectors of the economy, it must, by law, be submitted in some form to Congress and the public by the end of 2017. The previous assessment was released to the public by President Obama in a Rose Garden ceremony on May 6, 2014.
So, what does the latest Climate Science Special Report say? On the basis of new and stronger science, it extends, confirms and elaborates conclusions on climate risks reported in the third National Climate Assessment nearly four years ago. The forthcoming National Climate Assessment is now more secure in its core findings and includes two new important developments: advances in what is called attribution science and the importance of using this new information to implement effective adaptation.
The draft report shows that scientists can more accurately describe the degree to which we can attribute growing climate change risks to human activity. The net effect is that scientists can more confidently attribute the role global warming has played in events such as floods or heat waves.
The report also reconfirms that it is not too late for Americans to respond to growing climate change risks. This was a major conclusion of the NCA3, but it is worthy of repeating. Put quite simply, it assures Americans that we can work individually and together to reduce our carbon footprint and to adapt to the dangers of climate change, both observed and projected.
State and city action on Paris
So why would rejecting the forthcoming CSSR be more damaging to public health and welfare across the country than withdrawing from the Paris agreement? The reason lies in the crucial difference between the two: the Paris agreement focuses on reducing emissions, while the Climate Science Special Report is designed to help the U.S. better adapt to the effects of climate change even as it underscores the importance of cutting emissions.
We, like many other nations, were "leading from behind" when we helped 196 nations achieve and accept the Paris agreement in 2015. China was already reducing its carbon emissions significantly as a co-benefit to reducing conventional air pollution. States like California and the entire New England region had already implemented cap and trade programs to do the same.
Meanwhile, cities like New York and Los Angeles were similarly committing their own scarce resources to reduce emissions and adopt adaptation plans. Corporations across the country are changing their business plans to reduce their emissions and to protect their bottom-line resilience.
The message of all this decentralized action is clear: The emissions reduction train had, by Nov. 4, 2016 when the Paris agreement came into force, already left the station. Leaving the Paris agreement was a bad idea, but it was not going to call the train back.
By contrast, the NCA4 includes vital information that will help policymakers and society at large to adapt more securely to the effects of a dynamic climate. The previous national climate assessment report did exactly that, providing not only data on how climate change is affecting the U.S. now, broken down by region and industry, but also stronger foundations for designing effective adaptive strategies.
Powerful signal
A New York Times article recently noted that some scientists involved in the climate report are concerned about what the administration will do.
A decision to reject the report would, of course, diminish the credibility of hundreds of government scientists who have worked the climate problem for decades. The CSSR is the product of exactly the "peer-reviewed and objectively reviewed methodology and evaluation" that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has called for.
Trump has already refused to accept high-confidence conclusions from 17 intelligence agencies across the federal government, which makes it makes it more difficult to make progress in protecting our next national election from cyberattacks. Similarly, rejecting the high-confidence findings from the 13 federal agencies whose scientists contributed to the Climate Science Special Report would make it much more difficult for Americans to protect themselves from existing and projected climate risks in a number of ways.
It would make it easier for Congress to dismiss any proposed legislation that takes climate change risk into account.
It would make it easier to continue to deny any consideration of climate risk in any of the departments and agencies where the very mention of climate change is now forbidden. It would, for instance, make it easier for states like North Carolina to "outlaw" any mention of sea level rise in any public discourse despite catastrophic flooding along the Outer Banks and in-land lowlands.
It would make it easier for shareholders of major corporations to demand that their CEOs save money in the short run by ignoring material climate risk to the longer-view bottom line.
Putting people in harm's way
As such, President Trump's rejection of the 2018 Climate Science Special Report would unnecessarily place American citizens in harm's way in every corner of the country. Studies have shown that hundreds of people and billions of dollars would be lost over the coming years if emissions continue unabated.
I know that his supporters and climate skeptics would call that statement hyperbole, but I believe that it is not. People will die if the president rejects the upcoming Climate Science Special Report because they will not be protected. Nobody can identify exactly who and when, but it is possible to describe many of them with incredible precision.
The dead will be drawn randomly across all 50 states from populations of poor, elderly and/or very young Americans who live close to rivers, streams, oceans or lakes in regions that are already prone to extreme weather events, intense summer heat and newly observed vector-borne diseases. By dismissing the best available climate science, the administration will slow or reverse the country's efforts to adapt to the dangerous effects of climate change, such as these.
Rejection of this report would thereby be an abdication of the president's constitutional responsibility to "provide for the public's defense" and "promote the general welfare" of every American.
Reposted with permission from our media associate The Conversation.
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City of Groningen
Over time we made some images from the city of Groningen located in the Northern part of the Netherlands. The city is the capital of the likewise named province of Groningen and has a population close to 200,000. As a university city having over 50,000 students (25% of the population), it is the youngest city of the Netherlands.
Archaeological evidence indicates settlements as far back as 3000 Before Christ, but the actual city was founded in 950 A.D. around the site of a Roman camp. By the 13th century, the city had become an important trade center. The city's influence peaked at the end of the 15th century. Building the still existing Martinitoren tower occurred during this period, being the tallest building in Europe at that time.
Trading in the 15th century with foreign cities like Hamburg in Germany happened mainly by ship and as such Groningen had multiple canals with warehouses alongside. Fortunately a lot of these historical warehouses still exist, as can be seen at the canal "De Lage der Aa". Some historical sailing ships are lying in this canal.
The University of Groningen founded in 1614 initially for religious education, but covers nowadays a broad area of subjects. The city did not escape the devastation of World War II. In particular, the main square, the Grote Markt, was largely destroyed in April 1945 in the Battle of Groningen. However, the Martinitoren, its church, the Goudkantoor (Golf Office from 1635), and the city hall were not damaged. The battle lasted several days.
Sailing ship 'Mars' in the city of Groningen
Sailing ship at the 'Lage der Aa' in the city of Groningen
Visserbrug in the city Groningen
Noorderhaven in Groningen