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Q: Flutter Firebase cloud_functions package throws error: INTERNAL When trying to make a call to a Cloud Function I get a "CloudFunctionsException"

*

*The code of the exception is "INTERNAL

*The message is "Response is not valid JSON object."

Describe the bug
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
 - My call from the application is
 HttpsCallable _getName;

 _getName = CloudFunctions.instance.getHttpsCallable(functionName: 'getName',);

 try {
      HttpsCallableResult resp = await _getName.call(<String, dynamic>{'name': name,});
      Scaffold.of(context).showSnackBar(SnackBar(content: Text("${resp.data}")));
    } on CloudFunctionsException catch  (e) {
      showErrorMessage(context, 'Cloud functions exception with code: ${e.code}, and Details: ${e.details}, with message: ${e.message} ');
    } catch (e) {
      showErrorMessage(context, e.toString());
    }

*

*My Cloud Function is written as so:

exports.getName = functions.https.onCall((data, context) => {
    return {
        "data" : "You hit the call at least!"
    };
});

Expected behavior
In my response, I should get back the data: "You hit the test call". Instead, I get the error
Additional context
When I make calls to the same function but with the HTTP package and receive it on the back end with "onRequest", it works.
  void _checkPersonsNameGET(String name)async{
    try {
      http.Response resp = await http.get(_cloudFunctionUrl,,  );
      _scaffoldKey.currentState.showSnackBar(SnackBar(content: Text("${resp.body}", style: TextStyle(color: Colors.green))));
    } catch (e) {
      showErrorMessage(context, e.toString());
    }
  }

  void _checkPersonsNamePOST(String name)async{
    try {
      http.Response resp = await http.post(_cloudFunctionUrl, body: { "name" : name } );
      _scaffoldKey.currentState.showSnackBar(SnackBar(content: Text("${resp.body}", style: TextStyle(color: Colors.green))));
    } catch (e) {
      showErrorMessage(context, e.toString());
    }
  }

exports.getName = functions.https.onRequest((request, response) => {

    const name = request.query.name || request.body.name;
    switch (name) {
        case 'Andrew':
            request.query.name ? response.send("Na he is the boi Q!") : response.send("Na he is the boi B!");
            break;

        case 'Brett':
            request.query.name ? response.send("Na just wierd! Q") : response.send("Na just wierd! B");
            break;

        case 'Eddie':
            request.query.name ? response.send("My brother but yeah! Q") : response.send("My brother but yeah! B");
            break;

        case 'James':
            request.query.name ? response.send("The biggest! Q") : response.send("The biggest! B");
            break;

        default:
            request.query.name ? response.send("Dunno who that is! Q") : response.send("Dunno who that is! B");
            break;
    }
});

It's a mock application and can be seen here
https://github.com/earyzhe/firebase_cloud_functions_play

A: In my case, the cloud function was in a file that was not exported in the index file. Make sure your function is properly exported and has been deployed properly.

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Contemporary with the Scandinavian padlock, were the "cast heart" locks, so called because of their shape. A significantly stronger lock than the smokehouse and much more resistant to corrosion than the Scandinavian, the hearts had a lock body sand cast from brass or bronze and a more secure lever mechanism. Heart locks had two prominent characteristics: one was a spring-loaded cover that pivoted over the keyhole to keep dirt and insects out of the lock that was called a "drop". The other was a point formed at the bottom of the lock so a chain could be attached to the lock body to prevent the lock from getting lost or stolen. Cast heart locks were very popular withrailroads for locking switches and cars because of their economical cost and excellent ability to open reliably in dirty, moist, and frozen environments.
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Georgians Emilie Burger (Left), and Ashlan Ramsey squared off on Thursday in the Round of 16, with Ramsey prevailing. (Hunter Martin/USGA)
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Though Ramsey has not compiled the lengthy amateur and collegiate résumés as many others in the field, she is nonplussed by the quality of these USGA fields.
"I know there are a lot of college players in these fields, but a lot of the girls I play against in the AJGA I feel are just as good," said Ramsey. "I really just try to play my game and not worry about the competition."
There lies part of the backstory to Ramsey's nickname.
Ramsey describes herself as both quiet and shy, and when she was younger her local club pro took notice of the traits. Given her talent, The Silent Assassin nickname seemed appropriate.
In addition to her relatively impressive USGA championship finishes – she reached the quarterfinals of last year's Girls' Junior -- Ramsey won the Georgia PGA Junior Championship earlier this year and has six other top five AJGA finishes since 2010.
Along the way, her performance caught the attention of J.T. Horton, who has been entrusted with starting Clemson University's women's golf program. Horton signed Ramsey and her older sister, Taylor, to be part of the Tigers' first team, which debuts in 2013.
"Starting a new program is a once in a lifetime opportunity", said Ramsey.
So is winning a USGA title, which Ramsey quietly has her eye on.
Stuart Hall is a North Carolina-based freelance writer whose work has appeared previously on USGA championship websites.

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A structured workshop approach was adopted to adequately address both the social and economic factors related to adoption of alternative GIN control practices by farmers. To this purpose, we adapted the Structured Decision Making (SDM) approach commonly used for decisions taking.
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What Sidney Poitier taught us about ourselves
By Christine Flowers
When my sister texted to tell me that Sidney Poitier had passed away, I started crying.
All I could do was conjure up the black and white image of a beloved movie, "A Patch of Blue," the film that made me fall in love with Poitier. It's a powerful movie that carries as strong a message about anti-racism as "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner," without its political posturing and preachiness.
It's a simple story, about a young blind woman with an abusive mother and a loving but alcoholic "Opa," or grandfather. One day, sitting in the park and working on the necklaces she sells to bring in a little money, a storm arises and her carefully organized tray of beads spills out onto the grass. It's at that point that the Poitier character, passing through the park, runs to help her. A friendship develops. That friendship turns into love, at least from the young girl's perspective. Poitier's affection is a complicated mixture of attraction, brotherly protection and pity.
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Poitier was the first Black man to win an Academy Award, for his performance as an itinerant handyman in "Lillies of the Field." The scene where he teaches a group of Catholic nuns to sing the Negro spiritual "Amen" is both humorous and deeply moving. And that movie is, itself, a simple prayer that different races, different genders and different faiths cannot just coexist, they can glorify the God that created them.
And then there was "To Sir With Love", the movie that showed the power that respect, empathy, good manners and a sense of self-worth can have on those who were born with no privilege, and end up saddled with the low expectations of generational poverty. The titular song, sung by Lulu, is an ode to the teachers who care-often to their own detriment-for children who will grow up, and go away. Perhaps the public school teachers in Chicago, and all the others who refuse to go back into their classrooms, should watch it.
And we can't forget "In The Heat of the Night," a movie that always reminds me of my father when I see it because it tells the story of a Philadelphian who encounters blood-deep racism in the 1960s south. Unlike my father, Virgil Tibbs is Black, and Poitier inhabits him with the natural instincts of a man who was not used to overt racism, encounters it, and finds a way to minimize the stain, relationship by fraught relationship.
I do not write movie reviews. I don't have the talent or the technical knowledge to be able to persuade or dissuade a stranger from enjoying a film. I just watch what I like.
But I needed to write about these films, which have had such an impact on me. Poitier won his Oscar in 1964, and I've grown up my entire life in the shadow of his work. He's been quiet for many years, a well-deserved last chapter of a brilliantly-told story. He earned his peace.
And yet, the messages in his movies were like a thread woven through my own life, as I grew to understand the evils of racism, the importance of humility, the searing scars of domestic abuse, the crack in the country, north to south, the power of the English language, spoken properly and with respect for its innate poetry, the beauty of loud and boisterous praise, and the fragility of human relationships.
In every one of his movies, Sidney Poitier presented us with possibilities of greatness, not on battlefields or in laboratories or even on the stage, but within ourselves. He showed us what we could be like, if we weren't saddled with bigotry, impatience, intolerance and probably the worst thing of all: apathy.
That dignity earned him some criticism from people who thought he should have been less a gentleman and more a rabble rouser like Malcolm X in the service of equality. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, he addressed the issue of always having to be defined by race: "I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life. There are those who allow their lives to be defined only by race. I correct anyone who comes at me only in terms of race."
And that's why we loved him, because he put humanity above identity.
His life, lived like the most perfect prayer, should end like his greatest film: With an Amen.
Christine Flowers is an attorney and a columnist for the Delaware County Daily Times, and can be reached at cflowers1961@gmail.com.
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Underground Wooden Architecture in Brick: A Changed Perspective from Life to Death in 10th Through 13th-Century Northern China
Wei-Cheng Lin
Archives of Asian Art (2011) 61 (1): 3-36.
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Skolgrim, Twice Damned.
Skallagar replied to Skallagar's topic in Nether Legends
Home. He stared as he approached the mountain fortress. It had been a few months since his awakening, and his memory of his time before had grown no better. Sure, the minor things had come back, of Garrosh and the Horde and Alliance. But the important things remained a mystery. The sense of abandonment and betrayal nagged at him... Not betrayal of himself, but of those he'd counted as friends. He hadn't found them, and so surely they were lost or dead, dying while he slept in the ice. This was all guesswork. In the end, he didn't know. He did know that the Horde had changed. During his time Thrall had been a peacemaker, but the clans had still known how to throw some punches under him. Then had come Garrosh, and war was even more acceptable. Now, with this... Troll... One had to be very careful making war as a member of the Horde. Skolgrim was far too hungry to be careful. Even after his massacre awakening in Northrend, and his bloody trail back to the shockingly decrepit Warsong Hold... he had DIED to establish that hold... the thirst for death and suffering was never far from the foreground of his sensations. So, as he felt certain he'd done before, he went around the law. He found the Blackrock Clan. Skolgrim wasn't sure why he'd put off moving in for so long. He knew many still worshiped demons. That might have disgusted him once, but he remembered he had drank the demon blood the first time around, and had since been tainted further by the ghastly entity Ner'zhul and the foolish Human had joined to create in the Lich King, so who was he to judge? Perhaps it was that he didn't really need a residence. As undead, he had very few needs. He did not hunger, he did not need sleep, and simple comforts were nothing to him. All he really wanted was to find his old friends again... Before he made the trip to die on this new Draenor. That was all he required. Except... Rushing water sang like the maiden's laughter in his ears. Skolgrim quickly dumped his gear inside the door before hustling off to satisfy one of the few other need's he required. * * * "Aaaaah..." It was a contented groan amidst the sound of running water. He was dimly aware that normally, bubbles would have run from his mouth as he sank to the bottom of the lake. Not anymore. He recalled it an unpleasant sensation, getting used to his lungs filling with water, but it was second nature now. The drawback, of course, was the fact that he had to wash far more often than when he was alive in order to combat the rot that afflicted many undead. It was a cosmetic concern, but Skolgrim was determined to meet his death looking like an Orc, not a corpse. And so he bathed in lakes and rivers, using his innate mastery of the cold to freeze any rot growing on him clean off at least once a day, often twice. It was not without it's pelasures. Since his turn, he now found the cold water as comforting as he had found hot springs as a living orc. Truth be told, groans and sighs were impractical now, but they just made him feel more... alive. He tried to remember what it was like to be alive. He briefly wondered what his new friends in the Blackrock Clan would think if they knew he had been pre-maturely aged and given blood from Gul'dan himself, and sent to do much of his dirty work. Sent to kill- "Gah!" The scream woke Skolgrim like a dinner bell. He focused for but a second, freezing the water about him and letting the ice float him to the surface. His control over such things had improved greatly with time, and he'd frozen just enough to thaw off as he neared the surface in time to see... Sex. They could not have been more mix matched.. The human male, laying on his back on the riverbank, bore many scars on his face that spoke more of disease than battle, his grin checkered by lost teeth. The human female, riding him with admirable gusto, was shaped as perfectly as a god's dream. Plump and muscled in all the right places, her lines smooth, her eyes fierce, her sexual sounds akin to that of a she-panther. Her long brown hair swaying like wheat in the breeze. Skolgrim quietly moved to his side of the lake, and slipped on his skeletal mask. He flooded his lungs with water once more, and slowly walked on the lake-bed towards them. He heard them the whole way. They spoke sweetly to each other. It did not move him. They did not hear him even as he rose from the water. Their backs were to him, their attention was as unfocused as it could be. Until he grabbed her by the back of the head. Oh how she screeched as he lifted her into the air. The male was valiant. He threw himself at Skolgrim, but he may as well have been a child. Perhaps he is a child, Skolgrim thought, as he lifted the boy off his feat by his hair. He kept struggling, of course, spewing impotent curses at him. Skolgrim knew little of the human tongue, but knew enough of expression to read lines of defiance in the males mouth, while seeing lines of despair in his eyes. Curiously, the female was quiet, almost serene. Her eyes almost seemed calm, even though her mouth murmured what no doubt were prayers to her Light. Still, she seemed so... Disconnected. As if not believing the events were real. Or perhaps as if they didn't matter. Skolgrim drank all of this in, holding them by their hair well above their standing height. They were both literally naked and helpless. He was not entertaining any thought of mercy. He knew what he was. He required death and suffering to keep his sanity. He was useful to his people so long as he used that drive on his enemy. Humans were the enemy. He was only holding out, feasting on their dread until it came to it's climax as real to him as the physical climax they had not been far from. The male, his voice wavering, his piggish eyes wide, turned to the female... "I...I wuv you..." The female turned to her lover. "I lov-" *CRUSH* Skolgrim used all of his considerable unholy might to bash their heads together, literally entwining their skulls and brain matter as close in death as their hearts had metaphorically been in life. Their heads remained connected, bound by jagged skull in brain tissue, as he dropped them and searched about their camp. Apperently the boy was a stable hand, the rope he had was clearly meant for lassoing new mounts. Skolgrim bound the lovers by the tool of the boy's trade as he dragged their corpses across the lake and to his new keep. Astonishingly, their heads kept together. It was almost sweet, in a way. From the make of the girl's clothes, she was clearly a noble, and as far as Skolgrim knew, such folk laying with craftsmen like the male was frowned upon. It was silly, but they were humans. At least this way, they died at the height of passion. Before the male lost more teeth, or the lady got more plump, or their secret tore their families apart. They died young, and together, before age and experience could leech the heart from them. They died at the peak of love, blissfully young and ignorant of it's crushing descent. All this Skolgrim mused as he climbed the wall and hung the conjoined corpses by their leash from the walls of Stone watch. Let the others see. Let the rumors flow. Sure, the initial story would be of their horrid death. But then they would ask what they were doing together? Skolgrim had little doubt a legend would form. They would live far better in death than they ever would in life. Content as one who'd just eaten a fine meal, Skolgrim went about finding a room for himself in his new home. Perhaps a tower room...
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 Somehow, he could still sense the beauty of his imprisonment. Serene fields of snow and pine at the base of a great mountain marked his location for... Months? Years? He did not know. He did not know many thing anymore, not even his own name. He had been doing something on the mountainside... Something that seemed terribly important, when the cold had betrayed him, buried him... He did not know. There were folk part of him desperetly wanted to find, who meant the world to him, but he no longer knew them. He'd had a purpose, a burning drive, but it had since frozen over. He did not know. What he did know was that something was coming. He did not know what, but after so long buried within the ice, the slightest movement touched him as if it were his own skin. He was not sure if it were real or deranged fantasy that he'd made passing over his icy grave particularly difficult, and claimed the lives of the occasional traveler. He was pretty sure somebody was digging towards him... He was most sure of his hunger.. Not as the living knew it, a brief meal to warm the belly and gracelessly defecate out later... No, he was a Death Knight, and his hungers left a better mark on the world than a steaming pile of shit in the snow. He hungered for pain, for death, for souls. And he was starving. The world had shook horrifically of late, awakening him, acquainting him with this awful hunger. He knew the deeds, his deeds, that flashed before his eyes should have repulsed him. Instead he felt an elation in his chest and knew that his heart would quicken if it still had a beat. They were closer now. Through feet of ice and snow, he could feel them... Smells them... Booze. Body hair. Dwarves... He could sense one of them swaying with drink, singing aloud as he dug. Doubtless scavenging the remains of the battle that buried him... The Death Knight flinched. His first physical motion in some time. How did he suddenly remember that? No matter... The Dwarf was inches away when the Death Knight struck, his blow snapping as if he had been coiled to deliver it in the years he had been buried. His fist snapped out through the ice, his Orcish fist palming the Dwarf's face with ease. Blood began to run from where hand gripped face. The sensation was could not be described. It was the feeling of a master returning to his art, coupled with a man dying of thirst reaching an oasis. It was purpose realized, it was losing one's virginity all over again... It was bloody. The dwarf's agonized screams reached a supernatural octave. He struggled futilely as the armored fingers hooked inwards, driving into his skull. The Death Knight let his fingers rest there, enjoying the oh-so-sweet agony... Before jerking back and ripping the Dwarf's face above his jaw clean off. Hot blood showered the ice still containing him, steaming a portion of it away, painting a fitting portal of death for his re-entry into the world. The blood and ice finally shattered before his efforts, leaving the remaining dwarven salvagers frozen in dumbfounded terror. They beheld an Orc in tattered rysty armor, with a skeletal countenance. His blazing blue eyes belied an unholy hunger, and his wolfish grin spoke of a brutal delight in satiating that hunger. He spoke in the tone of bones being ground to dust. "I'm back, bitches..." None survived his reawakening. He later regarded himself in the bloody reflection of his leavings. He was leaner...His face nearly a skull... His expression grim. Heh. There was a name. "Skolgrim," he renamed himself. Memory flooded him, of the Burning Legion, drinking the blood, of his death, serving the Scourge... "Skolgrim, Twice Damned." His face twisted into a savage grin.
Skallagar replied to Lerian's topic in Non-WoW Discussions
I slept through it in theaters.
Mass Effect 3 (Spoilers contained after Post #30)
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I'm still with ya, man.
http://youtu.be/hzYLTbQQEZQ
Clearly the amount of forces you gather/amount you played multiplayer has a direct relationship with how much of a badass your Shepherd is. I only survived cause I got a Krogan Soldier like... right away in the multiplayer, and I like meleeing flamethrower wielding geth and Brutes.
I really want to think if it as fighting indoctination at the end (partially cause, were that true I won through in the willpower department, rather than gave into my love of savagery)... Hell I replayed the last mission today to look for more hints of it. But as much as everything post reaper-bitchslap seemed out of tune... From what I gather walked away from the ending with, it seemed like they went with an arc that made the events of Mass Effect the basis for the mythologies of the next generation of sentient life. The most obvious example being the old man and his kid post credits (which I rather enjoyed), and in its own way the end of the game is its own apocalypse. No matter what, the world (galaxy) as you know it ends. Your job, as I believe your character says him/herself, is to make it start up again on your terms. No matter what, this is accomplished. I'm more inclined to believe this is what Bioware meant with the ending, with all the mythological references in both Mass Effect and Dragon Age. I don't hate it. It doesn't make me happy, but I don't believe all entertainment should make you happy. The world is born in your mind at the start of the series, and it dies by the end. Inevitable unpopular, but in a way I have to respect the gamble. It makes history and civilizations mirror life, or even the seasons. Mythology. I don't know how overplayed this kind of thing is in anime, I'm not a fan of the stuff (drawing style always stuck me as gay.), but honestly the only thing I really want from it is to know the fate of the friends I'd made along the way. In the end... Hell, I don't know. I've wrestled with it the last day or two. But it's made me think, and I have to grant that that means something.
I stayed up way too late last night to finish the game. I saw the end was in sight and rushed it in a night before film productions start to kick up again. I got the suggested survival end. I didn't much like killing all synthetics, but it seemed the only plausible survival end, and I really wanted to see Jack again. "Don't do something stupid and get killed, dumbass, because I'm getting laid when this is all over," She said. In all honesty I'm kinda still in shock from it. I can kinda appreciate the mythological shit, but at the end of the day that's not what I played Mass Effect for, or really any Bioware games. I play them because I love the characters. I wanna kick back and cause chaos with Jack, or hang out with Garrus, or party with some Krogan. It just seemed like at the end there they just used these characters I've come to love so much as cutaway images to choke me up because I'm probably never going to "see" them again. Which is too bad. The game was going flawlessly... Until the end. I'm not sure I'm as angry as I am just... Sad. The world I've reveled in escaping the more mundane moments of live to has ended, and the friends I've made in it deserved better treatment in my last moments with them. I wonder if Old Republic just stretched them too thin.
"Winter is coming..." to HBO
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http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=721 Westeros mod for Medieval II: Total War. Keeping the good people alive and OBLITERATING the ones I hate. Joffrey is going to DIE like the little bitch he is, and Cersei is going to be raped by wolves.
Which Greek God is your Character?
Skallagar replied to Ugraz's topic in WoW Discussions
Mixture of Ares and Dionysus.
I wouldn't put Tywin Lannister in grey either, though he is fairly minor in this one.
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I've built a beast of computer, at least for most games. Free to play totally gives me a wetty. This needs to happen because I'm a broke ass dick.

I hear it's going free to play soon. Kinda hard on your computer though. It's whats kept me out post expansion. Still, I have my memories...

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Imaged by Lotta Gustavsson December 30, 2009 at Huskvarna at the southern end of Lake Vattern. ©Lotta Gustavsson, shown with permission.
A notable diamond dust display dominated by the halos from horizontal column and Parry oriented crystals.
At upper left is an intense upper tangent arc with a much less common sunvex Parry arc tucked above it. This arc only appears at low sun elevations. The sun was 8.7° here.
The coloured arc at right is a supralateral from column crystals. Why not a 46° halo? Because the colours are pure, the inner 22° halo is weak (few randomly oriented crystals that would otherwise make a 46° halo) and the tangent arc is strong (plenty of horizontal columns).
But the fainter arcs are the gems of this display. The lower image enhanced by changes in levels and unsharp masking shows them more clearly but less aesthetically – avoid 'enhancement' unless for technical purposes.
A rare sight is the Wegener arc generated by a convolved ray path in horizontal column crystals.
Even rarer sights are two arcs from Parry oriented crystals. (1) A helic arc made by sunlight reflected from the crystal side faces curves upwards from the sun. (2) On the supralateral arc is a brightening with curved offshoots. This is a Parry supralateral arc from similar rays to those making the ordinary supralateral arc but this time passing through the Parry crystals.
Not so many years ago these arcs had been observed only in Antarctica. Now, the high quality crystals that grow downwind of ski-slope snow machines produce them but they are still a rare occurrence. The source of the crystals at Huskvarna is not known with certainty. However, the temperature was -13 Celsius and the wind only 0-1 m/s from W-NW. There was probably a weak northern wind over Lake Vattern (no ice) reaching the southern end where Huskvarna is located there were some clouds forming and at higher altitudes where the images were taken (5-6 km from the lake up a hill) there might have been small halo forming ice crystals. The nearest ski centres were 10 km away or at greater distances and mostly not upwind.
My thanks to Weine Josefsson of SMHI for weather data and helpful discussions.


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Feuilleter Tome 20 (2008) no. 3 p. 829-845
On elliptic curves and random matrix theory
Mark Watkins
Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux, Tome 20 (2008) no. 3, pp. 829-845.
Rubinstein a accumulé une masse de données concernant les tordues quadratiques paires d'une courbe elliptique fixée, et comparé les résultats aux prédictions venues du modèle des matrices aléatoires. Nous utilisons la méthode des points de Heegner pour obtenir des données comparables (en nombre plus faible) pour les tordues impaires. Nous constatons de nouveau qu'au moins une des principales prédictions de la théorie des matrices aléatoires est confortée par les données.
Rubinstein has produced a substantial amount of data about the even parity quadratic twists of various elliptic curves, and compared the results to predictions from random matrix theory. We use the method of Heegner points to obtain a comparable (yet smaller) amount of data for the case of odd parity. We again see that at least one of the principal predictions of random matrix theory is well-evidenced by the data.
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After a month of strong interest in Marian hymns during May, followed by devotion to the Sacred Heart during June, summer has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. So the number of new hymn requests has slowed down considerably. I'm hoping to spend some time in the next month catching up with older requests, as well as doing more work on hymns that are popular in the southern hemisphere - where it's most definitely not summer, and where most people have settled down to get through the winter.
The list below has all requests received between April and May, and some from June too.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any song with those exact phrases. One similar song is Gregory Norbet's 'The Lord Jesus' - but it's not an exact match. If you can suggest any other possibilities, please leave a message in the Comments box at the bottom of the page.
This request may be for a song by James Hellings and Josh Gifford which was released in 2004 by Vineyard Records. A chord chart is available from their website, but no sheet-music source has been found.
Or it may be for a Good Friday anthem by Pamela Scott - which is available from SheetMusicPlus.
Information about this song by French priest Lucien Deiss is now available here.
A number of hymns about the Sacred Heart are available here - and more information about the feast is also available.
Information about this song by Maria Parkinson is now available here.
Information about this song by Bob Gillman is now available here.
Information about this song - which is indeed very popular in Ireland - is available here.
Note that the actual title is ""Bring Flowers of the Rarest"" - and it's understandable that many people hear the last word as ""Fairest"".
This request just included the title. It may refer to Pamela Stotter's song Christ is Alive with Joy we Sing, or Brian Wren's "Christ is Alive let Christian's Sing" - or maybe something else again.
Information about Come to the Water by Fr Frank Andersen is available here - and that's probably what the person who submitted this request was looking for. There's another setting by John Foley which is also very well known in English-speaking countries which haven't heard the Australian version.
Information about this contemporary-Christian-music song from the 1980s is now available here.
Information about this song by Paul Quinlan, officially called "Praise the Holy of Holies" is now available here.
This hymn about the Samaritan woman at the well is has been added to the list for future research.
Information about this song, officially called The Ten Commandments, is available here.
Some information about this song is available here - and it has been added to by the person who made this request. Unfortunately I still haven't been able to find any sheet music for it.
Information about this song by Sebastian Temple is now available here.
This request only included the phrase "Glory to God in the highest". There have been very many songs written with this text, becasue it is from the liturgy. One example John Foley's Give Glory to God - but there are many others, and without more information I cannot work out which one is referred to here.
This English song was requested by a reader who heard it in the in the charismatic renewal in San Francisco in the 70's. Information about it is available here.
This request just included the title "God be our Light" - and it hasn't been possible to identify a hymn with this exact title. Possibly you were looking for Bernadette Farrell's "Christ be our Light"? If not, please try again, this time providing more details.
Information about this Lenten hymn is available here.
Information about this song by Ray Repp is now available here.
Information about this classic Catholic hymn is available here.
Information about this song, which was written by Christopher Beatty and covered by John Michael Talbot, is now available here.
Information about this song by Suzanne Toolan RSM is now available here.
This request just included the title "I walk with God". There are a number of songs and hymns with this title - some contemporary, some a lot older. Without some more information about the song, I cannot even guess which one you're looking for.
Information about this song by Gerald Markland is available here.
Information about this song by Kevin Nichols is now available here.
This song was requested by a reader who heard it in Zambia.
From the lyrics which they provided, I am 99% sure that they aren't looking for the song with the same title by Geron Davis, which starts ""In the Holy of Holies, behind the heavy veil"".
If you have any more information about a song with the following lyrics, please leave a message in the Comments box near the bottom of the page.
This request just included the title. It's likely that the version wanted is from the Sean O'Riada setting of the Irish-language version of Mass. The text is available here. The tune is still copyright, and I haven't beel able to find anywhere to buy published versions.
Information about this song which is popular for funerals is now available here.
This request only provided the phrase shown. Maybe you were looking for the classic Catholic hymn, Sweet Sacrament - Jesus my Lord my God my All? If that's not the right one, then try again with some more details.
An information page about a variation of this song is found here.
This Christmas song has been added to the list for research later in the year.
Information about this song by Christine McCann is now available here.
Information about this song by Darryl Ducote is now available here.
Information about this song by Sydney Carter is available here.
Some information about this song, which was requested by a reader from Uganda, is available here.
If you know anything more about it - especially the tune it is sung to - please leave a message in the Comment box near the bottom of the page.
Information about this song by Bill Parkinson is now available here.
This setting of the Magnificat by Ken Belasco was requested by a reader who heard it in Trinidad in the 1980s. Some information about it is now available here.
Information about this hymn about St Joseph is available here.
"Three of us journey on through this end less night"
A recording of the Mass is available here on YouTube, and the Astronaut Carol starts at about 49 minutes. However no other information about it has been located: it is lot listed among White's published works, and there is no reference to it in the brief biography of Estelle White which was written by Veronica Whitty.
If you have any more information about this song, please leave a message in the Comments box near the bottom of the page.
This request just included the titlle, and the fact that the hymn has three verses. Unfortunately I haven't been able to identify which of the many songs about the Holy Spirit was intended.
This request just included the title - which is a challenge because this text has been set to a very wide variety of tunes. One well-known one is CRIMMOND from the Scotttish Psalter - some information about it is available here. If you are looking for another setting, please try again and provide some more information about it - even a YouTube link helps.
This song.by Estelle White and officially called I Saw the Grass, has been added to the list for future research.
This song was requested by a reader from England, who heard it in school assembly during the 1970s. They correctly guessed that it was written by Estelle White - and more information about it is now available here.
This request is for a song performed by the Collingsworth family. The actual song title is 'That's The Place I'm Longing To Go'. The Colllingsworth's commented on Facebook in 2011 that the sheet music isn't available yet, and it doesn't look like that's changed.
This request is for the Irish-language version of the Lamb of God / Agnus Dei, which was heard on the radio.
The text is available here. Unfortunately no information was provided about the tune, so I cannot suggest what it might have been.
This hymn by James Milton Black has been added to the list for future research.
This song was requested by a visitor who remembered it from primary school in Scotland. There are actually several versions of - one that is well known in Ireland is here.


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David Thompson, voyager geographer with the North West Company, crossed the Rocky Mountains that investigated west. He sent two men, Finan Mcdonald and Jacques (Jaco) Finlay to the Spokane range with requests to manufacture a little exchanging post they named "The Spokane House" at the merging of the Spokane and Little Spokane Rivers. The men trapped and exchanged hides with The Spokane.
This was the first white settlement in what is currently Washington State. Around 1836 the population of Spokane was 800 as reported by Reverend Samuel Parker. During that time a medical mission and school was built to serve the local people.
After the Whitmans were murdered by Indians, Reverend Cushing Eells chose to make Whitman College to respect the Whitmans. Eells later established the first church in Spokane. In 1953 The Washington domain was created. General Isaac Stevens was appointed as first regional Governor and Treaty Commissioner. Steven tried to minimize the issues and space between local Government and local Indian tribes of Spokane.
In 1880, Fort Spokane was built by US Armed force troops under Lt. Col. Henry Clay Merriam 56 miles (90 km) northwest of Spokane at the intersection of the Columbia and Spokane Rivers to secure the development of the Northern Pacific Railway and secure a spot for US settlement. By 1881, the Northern Pacific Railway was finished, bringing significant European settlement to the area. The city of Spokane Falls was authoritatively fused as a city of about 1,000 inhabitants on November 29, 1881. The city's population ballooned to 19,922 in 1890 and 36,848 in 1900 with the entry of the railroads. By 1910, the populace hit 104,000 and Spokane obscured Walla as the business focus of the Inland Northwest.
The development of Spokane suddenly ceased in the 1910s and was trailed by a time of population decline. Control of local mines and assets got to be progressively ruled by national organizations as opposed to locals, redirecting capital outside of Spokane and diminishing development and venture open doors in the city.
Around 1960s, the population had arrived at 181,608, a build of very nearly 20,000 in ten years. Spokane was transformed from a Commission structure to a Mayor-Council-Manager manifestation of government. The developing population of the city began to decrease after the 1960′s, yet development proceeded.
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The "Empowering Neighborhoods Contest" will be similar to the reality TV show "Shark Tank," with entrants pitching project ideas to a CivicCon panel that will ultimately select a winner.
The winning project will be awarded $2,500, up to $2,500 more in matching funds provided by CivicCon and contest sponsors, and as much as $5,000 in other non-cash assistance such as professional legal assistance, volunteer hours, advertising or expert consultation.
Maybe you envision your neighborhood with new crosswalks or bike lanes. Maybe you imagine starting a neighborhood museum or art exhibit. Maybe it's building a park, a playground, a trail or a community garden.
The contest challenges citizens to ask themselves, "What small changes could we make to make a big difference in our neighborhood?"
Whether early learning/early brain development can be incorporated into the project.
The application for the contest is available at empoweringneighborhoods.com, and the deadline for submissions is July 15.
Applicants are asked to answer questions about their project and provide supporting information and documentation such as a detailed scope of work, photos of the impacted area and an explanation on why the grant will be transformative.
A panel of CivicCon judges will narrow the list to three to five projects, and finalists will have the opportunity to pitch the project at an open forum. Although for-profit companies can enter the contest, only individuals, neighborhood associations and nonprofit organizations will be eligible to receive the funding.
Once a winner is selected, CivicCon team members will provide additional support and services to make the project a reality.
Individuals with an interest in the contest may find some inspiration in CivicCon's next speaker, Michaele Pride at 6 p.m. Monday at the REX Theatre, 18 N. Palafox.
Register for the free by searching CivicCon at eventbrite.com. Questions can be submitted to Pride for the Q&A session by emailing lnelless@gannett.com.
Pride, a professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico, focuses on building consensus, collaboration and public engagement in the public design process.
Her evening lecture will discuss five ways citizens can make their neighborhoods more equitable, more healthy and more beautiful.
The News Journal and the Studer Community Institute are also accepting feedback on the Center for Civic Engagement. The center will be a venue where citizens can learn how to more effectively organize, advocate and participate in the betterment of their community.
Topics that should or should not be covered at the center, people who may be willing to teach or facilitate a course or any other suggestions to make the center better are welcome. Those comments can be emailed to dcreeves@quintstuder.com or lnelless@gannett.com.


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Many people want a larger living space to enjoy, and more often than not, don't even realise that they can get the most out of the space they already have by just following a couple of these space-saving tips. If you are tired of living in a cramped space, be sure to read on!
Let's start with the obvious: You cannot put large pieces of furniture in a small living room. Not only is it impractical, but you will continue tripping over everything and your guests will also feel cramped. Choose pieces that are small enough to fit into your space, but are still comfortable to sit on and serve a purpose.
Modular furniture is a great way to save space, since the pieces can be separated when you have people over to create more space and then put together again when you need more seating.
When space is scarce, it's important to make every piece count, so choose your furniture carefully, and your living room will start to look bigger than what it is.
On a similar note, when you decide to only have a few furnishings, you can get one or two bigger pieces like an arched lamp with a square coffee table that stands out and becomes the focus of your living room.
However, the situation would be different if the room also included a bookcase and end tables, so just keep in mind that less is usually better.
Textured walls are a nice touch to any small space. Because you cannot enlarge the room or install a stone wall, using interesting wallpaper gives your living room some personality.
Can we let you in on a little secret to increase space? It's see-through or glass furniture which tastefully disappears into a room, creating the illusion that you have more space than you actually do. Glass can be expensive, but there are modern acrylic options that are cheaper and create the same effect without looking tacky.
You don't use a living room as a storage area, but there are still items you need to pack away or need within arm's reach, so think about wall mounted storage solutions. By mounting shelves onto a wall, you are not taking away precious floor space, and if you do it properly, you can create an interesting focal point that adds both practicality and style.
Other storage options are TV cabinets that have drawers to store your DVDs, books and collectables without having to go out and buy a separate bulky bookshelf.
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