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The western kukri (Oligodon affinis) is a rear-fanged species of snake found mainly on the forest floor in the Western Ghats mountain range of India, usually south of the Goa Gap, a pass in the mountain range. The snakes are brown above with a dark brownish patch on the head that appears like a bird silhouette on the head. The underside is patterned in yellow and black.

Scale pattern
See Snake scales for terminology used

The average length of a fully grown western kukri is about 13 inches, with a two-inch tail. This snake is brown on top, with dark transverse lines over the top. The top of the head bears a dark symmetrical marking. Its lower surface is patterned in yellow (becoming white in spirit preserved specimens) with square black spots, both colours being distributed in nearly equal proportion. Like all snakes, they are most reliably identified by the pattern of scales. The scales of this species are smooth; there are 7 supralabial scales (along the upper lip), and 17 rows of dorsal scales. They have between 128 and 133 (in males), or 130 and 145 (in females), ventral scales. The anal scale is divided, and they have between 31 and 36 (in males), or 23 and 30 (in females) paired subcaudal scales.

The head of the snake has a divided nasal scale; the portion of rostral scale seen from above is half as long as its distance from the frontal scale, which itself is as long as the parietal scales (much longer than its distance from the end of the snout). The suture between the internasal scales is often as long as that between the prefrontal scales. Rather than a loreal scale the postnasal half of the divided nasal scale sometimes forms a suture with the preocular scale. They have one preocular scale and two postocular scales. They have one primary temporal and two secondary temporal scales (1+2) or one primary and secondary followed by a split tertiary temporal scale (1+1+2); of the seven supralabial scales the third and fourth touch the eye, the four sublabial scales are in contact with the anterior chin shields; the posterior chin shields are about two-thirds the length of the anterior.

References

Oligodon
Reptiles described in 1862
Taxa named by Albert Günther


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UNM Army ROTC cadets serve on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cadets in The University of New Mexico Army ROTC program take classes, go through training, commission as officers in the United States Army, and then are put in life-threatening situations for the betterment of the community—in that order.
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The Division of Student Affairs would like to express our condolences on the loss of one of our great Lobos last week. Glenda Lewis was a well-loved member of the UNM community for so many years.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. his year, the LoboRESPECT Advocacy Center, along with the LGBTQ Resource Center and Women's Resource Center are joining the NSVRC in their pledge to create safe spaces online under the "We Can Build Safe Online Spaces" theme.
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Passionate and hardworking, Jean Brannon has worn many hats over the course of her career. She started as a nurse and nursing educator, holding positions at places like the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Alamo County College District. During this time, she also taught history and performed as a stand-up comic. Ms. Brannon loved working with students and getting them excited for their future in the field. When her mother got sick, however, she decided to retire to focus on caring for her. She discovered that real estate would allow her to set her own flexible schedule, perfect for her situation, so she opened Brannon Properties, LLC. She remains there to this day, and works with both business and residential properties.
Ms. Brannon considers some of her greatest accomplishments to be obtaining a patent for the Sa-Mitch patient hospital gown and a copyright for the Brannon Life Contentment Scale. She was also proud of writing for newspapers, college publications, and other sources. Moving forward, Ms. Brannon would like to write a book. Her achievements were highlighted in four volumes of Who's Who in America and one of Who's Who of American Women.
To prepare for her endeavors, Ms. Brannon earned a master's degree from Fairfield University in 1973. She also joined prominent professional organizations like the American Association of University Professors, the Texas Junior College Teachers Association, the National League for Nursing, the National Association of Realtors, the French International Culinary Society, and Sigma Theta Tau.
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The two machines tested here are the fastest possible models for this type of work (as of late 2014).
The 2013 Mac Pro with its dual D700 GPUs falls well short of the iMac.
The 8 CPU cores of the 2013 Mac Pro are indeed much more capable than the faster but only 4 cores of the iMac 5K.


The world today seems increasingly focused on the legislated approach to economic prosperity, and as a result it is suffering from lower growth—relative to much of the post-World War II era—even in leading countries like the U.S., Japan, Germany and the U.K. (There are additional factors, such as aging populations, that are contributing to slower growth.) One can hope for something less than 1,000 years of disappointing growth, but for now the growth outlook is muted. That's one reason why interest rates are as low as they are throughout much of the world. Indeed, the yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds recently hit an all-time low. Moreover, the yields on 10-year German and Japanese bonds are actually negative. That's not a misprint. While we can't predict near-term moves in interest rates, we will make this prediction: Investors' after-inflation and after-tax returns on most so-called high-quality bonds over the next 10 years are apt to be (1) the lowest in a long time and (2) negative. Investors who use historical bond returns to justify the inclusion of bonds in their long-term, growth-oriented portfolios are deluding themselves.


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Springer partners with the Fields Institute to publish two open access journals
Editorial	Open Access	by Admin
SpringerOpen is now co-publishing two journals from the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences: Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies and Fields Mathematics Education Journal. Both open access journals' article-processing charges are covered by the Fields Institute, thereby removing all barriers to reading and publication.
The Fields Institute is an international center for research and training in all areas of the mathematical sciences and their applications. It is located on the University of Toronto campus. Until this year both journals were published by the Fields Institute and articles were hosted on their website. It was decided that the journals would be published by SpringerOpen to increase their visibility and potential audience.
Established in 2008, Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies aims to meet the publication needs of the mathematics community, which works on problems that are important to industry. Its central theme is the stimulation of innovative mathematics, statistics, and related computational methods, by the modelling and analysis of such problems across engineering and the physical, biological and social sciences. The emphasis will be on case studies drawn from actual applications of mathematics to industrial problems. Huaxiong Huang, York University, Canada, and Chris J. Budd, University of Bath, UK, act as the journal's editors-in-chief. They are supported by an internationally renowned editorial board.
Fields Mathematics Education Journal was first published in 2014. It has the aim of providing open access to the range of themes that attract the attention of the mathematics education community internationally. The journal's editors-in-chief are Donna Kotsopoulos, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and Dragana Martinovic, University of Windsor, Canada. They are also supported by an internationally renowned editorial board.
Walter Craig, Director, and Matheus Grasselli, Deputy Director of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, said: "These two journals reflect the fact that both mathematics education and industrial mathematics have been core areas of strength at the Fields Institute for many years. We are also committed to continue to play a leadership role in the open access format, which we believe is the future of academic publishing, and are happy to extend our existing partnership with Springer into this domain."
Elizabeth Loew, Executive Editor, Mathematics, Springer, said: "Springer is pleased to welcome the Fields Mathematics Education Journal and the Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies journal to SpringerOpen, expanding further our co-publishing relationship with the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. These journals are guided by motivated editors-in-chief and editorial boards and we look forward to seeing the journals flourish in the next years."


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Naomh BarrÓg Club Notes 12-August-2014	2014-08-12 11:54:00
Get your name in as soon as possible for Strictly Come Dancing. This is back by popular demand. It will take place on Saturday the 29th of November. Let Tony (0877729492) know if interested in competing.
The ticket book for the Dublin v Donegal All Ireland Semi Final on August 31st is now at the bar in the clubhouse. As a very big demand is expected members are asked to put their requests in immediately. The ticket book will be closed on Tuesday the 19th at 10PM. This is earlier than usual so make sure you don't forget. Joe Potter (0872735205) can also be contacted regarding tickets.
Music from a Tom Jones Tribute Act this Saturday.
Music from The Crush on Saturday the 23rd of August.
Attached are all the events in the club in August.
Well done to the U13 Hurling team who beat Fingallians in the league last Thursday. Special mention goes to Conor Ryan who kept a clean sheet in goals, Noel Hatton who was solid in centre back, Sean Doyle who scored 1-6, Joe Flanagan who scored 2-7 and Daithi Geary who scored 4 goals. Great performances all round.
Congratulations to Ian Fagan and Orla Cassidy who got married over the weekend.
Best of luck to George Tyndall and Niamh Kirwan who are getting married this weekend.
Good luck to the Junior Hurlers in their championship quarter final against Crumlin in Barróg on Thursday at 7PM.
Good luck to the Senior Hurlers who have an away league game against Fingallians on Friday night at 7:30.


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Why mum decided to tell her kids when she's about to have sex
Sarah Carty
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One mum has revealed why she and her husband decided to let their kids know when they are about to have sex.
Author of Wasted Pretty and host of podcast There's a Column for That, Jamie Beth Cohen, opened up in a column for Huffpost about how her honest style of parenting has worked wonders for her and her husband's sex life.
Jamie Beth Cohen has opened up about why she tells her kids when she and her husband are about to have sex. Photo: Twitter/Jamie Beth Cohen
Jamie said pre-pandemic, she and her husband would have sex when their children, aged eight and 11, were out of the house at school or at social activities but obviously that became a thing of the past when the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
After a few months of quarantine and feeling like she and her husband were sneaking around, Jamie decided to make their home 'sex-positive' by answering all their children's questions about sex and being open with them about when they were going to have sex.
"If I close the door and turn on the fan in the hall, please leave us alone, I said. "We're having sex," Jamie wrote in her column.
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Her kids giggled but the honesty has worked for their family, with Jamie and her husband now able to have alone time without the fear of having their children walk in on them at any minute.
"Our time together is now about connection, and what couple doesn't need more of that, especially in these stressful times?," she wrote.
Jamie said she hopes that their honestly about their sex life will have a positive influence on their children's attitudes towards sex as they grow up.
Her story comes after another Australian mum called being caught in the act by her kids "every parent's worst nightmare".
Jamie said she wanted to make her home 'sex-positive'. Photo: Getty Images
Jessica Hood, a Melbourne mum of four, who has over 55,000 followers online, took to her social media account to relay how she and her husband were "busted mid-thrust" when the kids were supposed to be in bed.
"It's 9.30pm on a Wednesday what could possibly go wrong?. Little bit of nookie never hurt anyone right?," she started her Instagram post.
"I thought my heart couldn't race any faster during such an intimate moment but now I'm on the verge of cardiac arrest. No amount of chairs or even a chested draw was gonna stop it. It was like a stampede of elephants except there was no warning...I mean Why would there be?! They're meant to be asleep!!"
Jessica went on to describe how she and her husband, Karl, were right in the middle of doing the deed when almost in slow motion, her kids came parading into the room.
"The creak of the door, the hall light shining on our faces as if we were criminals of the night. My mum instinct kicked in and I did what anyone else would do in a situation like that. I played dead. I played bloody dead," Jessica said.
Jessica's thoughts were racing, asking herself 'were we quick enough? What did they see?. Oh my God they're going to be in therapy for life'.
She went on to describe the relief when she heard the words 'what are you doing?' coming from behind the doona.
"That was a GREAT sign, reassuring words to me. 'We are play fighting, I'm giving mummy a massage'... DUMB DUMB DUMB answer. REALLY KARL REALLY!," she wrote.
After being told to go back to bed, Jessica and her husband thought they had gotten away with it until they head their daughter giggle in the hallway, saying to her brother: "Mum and dad were doing sex".
"Just wonderful! I've scarred my kids for life, either that or I've set them up for a life of 'blackmailing mummy and daddy'," Jessica wrote.
"They have one over us and I'm worried. Kids are more clued on that we give them credit for. Be warned, next week we may have a pony in our backyard and a brand new swimming pool. Tomorrow will be an interesting day. I plan to stick to 'story'. Avoid any questions and act as normal as possible. If all else fails, I could just play dead...right?"
Jessica told Yahoo Lifestyle that while the kids hadn't said anything to her the following morning, she knows it is coming.
"Knowing my children, they're waiting until it slips my mind to give me grief," she said.


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The world globalisation processes have inevitably been accompanied by the development of new forms of crime and the occurrence of crisis incidents (acts of terrorism, major transportation accidents, construction accidents, and natural disasters).
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Soft power, is not a new phenomenon in a political practice but it may be considered a novelty in the theory of international relations.
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The aim of the thesis is to present archive documents of the nation's actions, which resulted in establishing of Israel in 1948.
The object of the analysis is the research on the action provided by the United Nations General Assembly.
Publikacja o izraelskiej gospodarce i polityce.
Middle East Peace Process. Historical Documents 1978-2000.
The Rebirth of Israel. Historical Documents. Volume II: 1919-1939.
The Rebirth of Israel. Historical Documents. Volume III: 1940-1948.
The Rebirth of Israel. Historical Documents. Volume I: 1882-1918.


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Enjoy layer upon layer of delicious ice cream combinations. Experiment with flavors and filling for even more fun in the kitchen.
This dessert dish contains calcium which is important for strong bones and teeth. It also has vitamin A that helps protect from infections and promotes growth and development.
To easily unmold the ice cream from the pan, line the pan with plastic wrap with 3 inches over hang on both sides. When frozen, pull out the gelato blast by tugging on both ends of the plastic wrap.
1. Mix vanilla ice cream with cashew nuts. Pour into loaf pan. Freeze for 10 minutes or until set.
2. Mix DEL MONTE Fiesta Fruit Cocktail with mango ice cream. Pour over frozen vanilla ice cream. Freeze for 10 minutes or until set.
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The Senate cleared an $18 billion jobs bill for President Barack Obama's signature Wednesday, a down payment on what Democrats hope will be a significant election-year investment in boosting the economy.
The measure passed 68-29, with 11 Republicans joining all but one Democrat present - Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson - in support. The bill had passed the Senate once but the House tweaked it, requiring the second Senate vote before it could go to the White House. Obama has praised the legislation in the past and plans to sign it.
Though relatively small compared to last year's economic stimulus package, the measure represents the first clear legislative shot in months aimed squarely at persistent unemployment, and a rare bipartistan achievement from a Congress dogged by partisan squabbling. After getting bogged down in the health care debate, Democrats are eager to pivot to the economy, which polls regularly identify as Americans' most pressing concern.
"The beauty of this bill: It's simple, it's focused on private-sector job growth and it's paid for," said Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat and a co-author of the measure. "It's modest, but ... it's almost a legislative dream."
The centerpiece of the bill is a new program giving companies a break from paying Social Security taxes for the remainder of 2010 on any new workers they hire who had been unemployed for at least 60 days. Employers would also get a $1,000 tax credit for each of those workers who stays on the payroll for at least one year.
Aside from that program, the measure includes a one-year extension of the law governing federal transportation funding, and would transfer $20 billion into the highway trust fund. The bill also extends a tax break allowing companies to write off equipment purchases, and expands the Build America Bonds program, which helps state and local governments secure financing for infrastructure projects.
Some critics have questioned whether the package approved Wednesday is big enough to make a dent in the nation's persistent unemployment problem, arguing that the new payroll tax break is unlikely to spur much new hiring that wouldn't have otherwise occurred.
Separately, many Republicans suggest the bill uses accounting sleight of hand to make the measure appear budget-neutral.
"This isn't so much a jobs bill as it is a debt bill," complained Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.
Democrats counter that the measure will give employers a tangible and immediate incentive to add workers, citing studies suggesting that a payroll tax break could encourage the creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
More importantly, Democrats at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue vow that this is only the first part of their broader "jobs agenda." But beyond this first jobs measure, the way forward is murky.
Both chambers - the House in December, the Senate last week - have approved jobs packages in the neighborhood of $150 billion. But the two bills reflect starkly different priorities, making it difficult to craft a compromise.
Along with extensions of unemployment insurance and COBRA health benefits, the Senate measure includes a large package of extensions of tax breaks that are popular with the business community. The House bill, by contrast, omits the tax extensions and instead carries significant new spending for infrastructure projects as well as several billion dollars to help prevent state and local governments from laying off teachers, police and firefighters.
Many liberals in the House are contemptuous of the Senate bill's emphasis on tax breaks, and Congressional Black Caucus members have been particularly outspoken in calling for more targeted money for poor areas and the chronically unemployed. But Republicans and moderate Democrats in the Senate appear unlikely to back a compromise bill that includes the House's preferred priorities.
Beyond those conflicts, Democrats are battling the calendar, particularly in the Senate. The majority has found it difficult to get many measures passed in a timely fashion, accusing Republicans of obstructionism. GOP leaders have responded by complaining that Democrats regularly shut them out of the bill-crafting process and bar them from offering amendments.
Even the bill approved Wednesday, which is relatively small and uncontroversial, took more than six weeks to work its way through the system since it was first proposed.
Unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless are currently scheduled to expire April 5. If the House and Senate can't agree soon on a larger jobs package with a one-year extension of that program, the two chambers may have to approve another short-term renewal. The last such extension brought the Senate to a standstill, as Kentucky Republican Sen. Jim Bunning filibustered the bill because it added to the deficit.
Separately, both the House and Senate are working on measures designed to aid small businesses. The Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday is marking up a package that includes a wide variety of small business tax breaks, plus more funding for Build America Bonds and Recovery Zone Bonds. The Senate is crafting a small business lending bill that leaders hope to bring to the floor in the coming weeks.


ok so i was watching youtube casually and suddenly i noticed something on my keybord's palm rest it was like the metal was stick up a little bit like it was bent please help me if you can even understand this question.
Pictures comparing the sides of the laptop would be helpful. Alternatively, you can probably take it apart and bend the palmrests back into shape.
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BT loses High Court bid to reduce pension benefits
The High Court has ruled against BT after the company went to the court in November to seek to reduce pension increases for certain members of staff.
Pensions Information & communication technology Telecoms
The change proposed by the company would have directly impacted 8,000 Section B members of the defined benefit BT Pension Scheme – those who reach State Pension Age (SPA) between 6 December 2018 and 5 April 2021.
It would have reduced the benefits of this group by around £120m; with an average loss of about £15,000 per member. Younger members of Section B were also at risk of being affected, depending on future government decisions.
The challenge arose after the Treasury decided to protect certain increases for members of public sector pension schemes. Without that decision, members in these schemes would have lost part of the increase on a proportion of their payments known as the Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP).
The current rules of Section B of the BTPS require the trustees to follow the increases paid by public sector pension schemes under protections applied when BT was privatised in 1984.
The Treasury previously announced protection for people reaching State Pension Age from April 2016 to 5 December 2018 and BT did not challenge these increases. But it challenged extending the protection to people reaching State Pension Age between 6 December 2018 and 5 April 2021.
BT argued that members of Section B of the BTPS enjoyed a windfall gain due to the link in the scheme rules to public sector pension schemes. The company wanted the High Court to force the Treasury to protect public sector members in a way that did not require BTPS trustees to follow suit.
Prospect national secretary Noel McClean welcomed the High Court ruling. He said: "This was about protecting the pension increases that Section B members are entitled to and not, as BT argued, a windfall gain. We welcome this judgment, which is fair and right."
BT said that as a result of the ruling "the Trustee will continue to pay pension increases for those Section B members in line with legislative increase requirements for public sector workers as set out in the rules of that Section".
However, the company did not rule out seeking permission to appeal the decision.
Noel McClean added: "We await next steps from BT, but for now at least, we are glad that the affected members will continue to have their pension entitlements protected."
The BTPS was closed for future accrual from 1 June 2018.
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Across the Divide: Meet the Editor
In anticipation of the world premiere of "Across the Divide" this Sunday, June 3 in Vancouver, the creators take you behind-the-scenes of the making of the new S+L documentary. Yesterday on the blog, we heard from Kris Dmytrenko, the writer and one of the co-directors. Today we meet the editor and second co-director, Richard Valenti, ...read more
Perspectives: The Weekly Edition – Across the Divide
Can a Catholic university bring peace to the Holy Land? The upcoming Salt + Light documentary Across the Divide tells the story of Bethlehem University and its students. They include Berlanty Azzam, who was deported to Gaza as she tried to complete her degree. Perspectives host Pedro Guevara-Mann speaks with Berlanty, along with the writer ...read more
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Across the Divide takes viewers to Bethlehem University, the only Catholic university in the Holy Land. Throughout its history, the campus has been caught in the crossfire of the ongoing conflict. In the first of our series of behind the scenes interviews, we hear from the documentary's writer/co-director, Kris Dmytrenko (who you might already recognize ...read more
What's spurring the revival in pilgrimages to the Holy Land?
A trip to Israel is more than a vacation. It's a tour through biblical history, as well as an inner journey to meet Jesus. The people and places of the Holy Land testify to Him as a living Gospel account. On Catholic Focus, we take a pilgrimage to Israel. There, we go behind the scenes ...read more
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Q: Is Adobe illustrator GPU acceleration available on Mac mini with iris graphics card is Adobe illustrator GPU acceleration available with a Mac mini with i7, 16go ram and the  iris graphics card? Thanks.

A: The Mac Mini supports OpenGL 4.1, which is required, but may not have to enough Video RAM (VRAM). Low End Mac and Every Mac differ on how much VRAM the Mac Mini has.

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*If Every Mac is correct, GPU acceleration is supported.

*If Low End Mac is correct, GPU acceleration may be disabled.

OpenGL 4.0+ Required - OK
See the Mac OS section of Illustrator Help  /
System requirements | Illustrator:

Optional: To use GPU Performance: Your Mac should have a minimum of 512 MB of VRAM (2 GB recommended), and your computer must support OpenGL version 4.0 or greater.
To check for VRAM values:

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*Mac 10.9: Choose Mac > About This Mac > More Info (Graphics information).

*Mac 10.10, 10.11: Choose Mac > About This Mac (Graphics information).

  To find out if your computer supports the required OpenGL version (4.0 or later), see this Apple Support document.

The linked Apple Support document states the Mac Mini (Late 2014) with Intel Iris Graphics supports OpenGL 4.1. So the GPU acceleration is technically possible.
512MB VRAM Required - Maybe?
Low End End claims 288 MB is available to the graphics card; this is lower than Adobe's recommended 512 MB:

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*GPU: Intel HD 5000 Graphics/Intel Iris Graphics

*VRAM: 288 MB DDR3 SDRAM (shared with main memory)

However, EveryMac report this Mac Mini has access to 1.5 GB of VRAM, shared from the Mac's RAM:

This model has an Intel Iris 5100 graphics processor that shares memory with the system.
Apple reports that this model uses "Intel Iris Graphics" and allocates up to 1.5 GB of system memory for video function.

A: I recieved my MacMini and i confirm Illustartor hardware acceleration works.

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Q: Pattern matching where the pattern is based on a (function) parameter I'd like to write a function that takes both

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*a value constructor for a certain algebraic data type, and

*an actual value of that same type,

and determines whether the given value is "made from" the given constructor.  Pattern matching seems like a natural fit for this, but the pattern to match against would have to be a function parameter instead of a hard-coded constructor name.
The code below is what I've tried, but GHC reports a parse error on the line indicated.
Is there a way to accomplish this?
data FooBar = Foo Int | Bar String

-- Imagine that these are useful functions.
processInt :: Int -> String
processInt = show
processString :: String -> String
processString = id

-- This should take one of the above functions and adapt it to operate on
-- FooBar values of compatible "type".  Values that match the given FooBar
-- constructor should be "unwrapped" and passed to the given function.
typeCheck :: (a -> FooBar) -> (a -> String) -> (FooBar -> Maybe String)
typeCheck constructor func fooBar = case fooBar of
  (constructor x) -> Just (func x)  -- GHC says "Parse error in pattern: constructor"
  _ -> Nothing

-- Define processing functions that operate on FooBars.
processFoo :: FooBar -> Maybe String
processFoo = typeCheck Foo processInt
processBar :: FooBar -> Maybe String
processBar = typeCheck Bar processString

A: Interesting idea. I wonder what you're trying to do, since this is quite an unusual pattern matching problem.
You can certainly do it if you can:

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*enumerate the constructors of the type

*have equality on the type's elements

Like so (I break out the application of f part, since that is orthogonal):
wasBuilt :: Eq t => (t -> Either t t)   -- ^ the constructor
                 -> Either t t          -- ^ a value
                 -> Maybe t             -- ^ the transformed result

wasBuilt k v = case v of
    Left  x | v == k x    -> Just x
    Right x | v == k x    -> Just x
    _                     -> Nothing

But there's a lot of boilerplate. This problem screams "generics" at me. Try a different approach, and reflect the constructor to data, then match generically on that data, perhaps. This will allow you to treat the constructors as values, instead of functions.

Here's roughly what I was thinking, but note, this is an advanced technique. Explicit pattern matching on a regular AST is much, much more idiomatic:
import Generics.SYB

-- only works for unary constructors
sameConstructor :: (Data a, Data b) => (a -> b) -> b -> Bool
sameConstructor k v = toConstr v == toConstr (k undefined)

> sameConstructor (Left :: Char -> Either Char Char) (Right 'x')
False

> sameConstructor (Left :: Char -> Either Char Char) (Left 'x')
True

> sameConstructor (:[]) "haskell"
True

A: You might want to look at Type-safe pattern combinators functional pearl.  While it does not mix that nicely with Haskell's pattern matching syntax, it does allow you to have the modularity of composable first-class patterns, if that's what you need (i.e. if the added composability outweighs the syntactic inconvenience).


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Q: tkdiff error on Linux Redhat 5.5 I installed tkdiff as root, and it runs fine under that user, but when I switch to a local user I get the error:

Application initialization failed: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
  /usr/local/lib/tcl8.0 /pune/tools/synopsys/vera/2009.12-6/vera_vD-2009.12-6_linux/lib/tcl8.0 /pune/tools/synopsys/vera/2009.12-6/tcl8.0/library /pune/tools/synopsys/vera/2009.12-6/vera_vD-2009.12-6_linux/library

This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.

Error in startup script: can't find package Tk 8.0
  while executing
  "package require Tk 8.0"
  (file "./tkdiff" line 32)

How do I fix this?

A: Where did the installation of TCL/Tk come from? It looks like it's bundled with Synopsys, particularly their Vera software. Do you really mean to use their version of TCL/Tk with tkdiff?
This looks to me to be a $PATH issue. You're not picking up the correct installation that tkdiff was built to use, you're using the one provided by Synopsys.
tkdiff packaging
I'm on CentOS 5.8 and I have the following package that's available from the repositories that provides tkdiff.
$ yum search tkdiff
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
========================================================= Matched: tkdiff ==========================================================
tkcvs.noarch : Graphical interface to the CVS and Subversion

You can make sure that the executable, tkdiff is in fact part of this package using this command:
$ repoquery -l tkcvs |  grep tkdiff
/usr/bin/tkdiff

This package depends on the following other packages:
$ yum deplist tkcvs
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Finding dependencies:
package: tkcvs.noarch 8.2.2-1.el5.rf
  dependency: /usr/bin/env
   provider: coreutils.x86_64 5.97-34.el5_8.1
  dependency: /bin/sh
   provider: bash.x86_64 3.2-32.el5
   provider: bash.x86_64 3.2-32.el5_9.1
  dependency: tcl
   provider: tcl.x86_64 8.4.13-6.el5
   provider: tcl.i386 8.4.13-6.el5
  dependency: tk
   provider: tk.x86_64 8.4.13-5.el5_1.1
   provider: tk.i386 8.4.13-5.el5_1.1

To confirm
You could test my hypothesis out by temporarily removing the Synopsys software from your $PATH, and then trying to launch tkdiff without the references to Synopsys.
Simply set the $PATH variable without inclusion of any of these paths:

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*/usr/local/lib/tcl8.0

*/pune/tools/synopsys/vera/2009.12-6/vera_vD-2009.12-6_linux/lib/tcl8.0

*/pune/tools/synopsys/vera/2009.12-6/tcl8.0/library

*/pune/tools/synopsys/vera/2009.12-6/vera_vD-2009.12-6_linux/library

Also make sure that $TCL or $TCL* type variables aren't referencing these directories either.
Works for userA not for userB, how to debug?
If you've come across the situation where this is working for userA but not for userB then it's most likely a environment configuration problem. To debug this I'd do the following:
[userA]$ env > userA_env.txt
[userB]$ env > userB_env.txt

Then diff the 2 files to see what's different:
$ diff -y userA_env.txt userB_env.txt | less
rvm_gemsets_path=/home/saml/.rvm/gemsets                        rvm_gemsets_path=/home/saml/.rvm/gemsets
MANPATH=/home/saml/apps/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.14.0/man:   MANPATH=/home/saml/apps/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.14.0/man:
ORBIT_SOCKETDIR=/tmp/orbit-saml                                 ORBIT_SOCKETDIR=/tmp/orbit-saml
rvm_scripts_path=/home/saml/.rvm/scripts                        rvm_scripts_path=/home/saml/.rvm/scripts
PERLBREW_VERSION=0.59                                           PERLBREW_VERSION=0.59
HOSTNAME=grinchy                                                HOSTNAME=grinchy
rvm_bin_path=/home/saml/.rvm/bin                                rvm_bin_path=/home/saml/.rvm/bin
IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes                                IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-Xewu2I/gpg:0:1                      GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-Xewu2I/gpg:0:1
PERLBREW_PERL=perl-5.14.0                                       PERLBREW_PERL=perl-5.14.0
...

The entries on the left will be from userA and the entries on the right will be from userB.

A: A common short-cut to figuring out such problems is to strace the program when run as root, grep for the file that you have trouble finding as user (in your case init.tcl) and make that part of the file system usable by normal users and not just by root via chmod.


In previous posts I have discussed some basics of how to use WebGrid in MVC applications. While implementing sorting for one of the grids of a MVC application, I ran into an interesting problem when WebGrid was contained inside a partial view. Following screenshot describes the structure of grid I was implementing.
I have a dropdown that allows user to filter results based on a criteria. When user selects an option from this dropdown list, an Ajax request is initiated to get new results based on the selection. The result of this Ajax action is a partial view that populates WebGrid below the filter section dropdown list.
Here are the problems that you will run into when WebGrid is in partial view.
When you will clock on a header to sort the results, you will loose the selection from the dropdown list as filter parameter. That means result from sorting will return results that will use default filter criteria.
When you will click on header to sort the results, the partial view that contains WebGrid is loaded as a separate view instead of being part of the page itself.
Before I go into details of these issues and how I fixed it, let me show some prototype code snippets that are used for this implementation.
The way sorting work in WebGrid is that table headers are anchor tags that contain sorting parameters (column names, sort direction etc.) in query string of the link. Following code snippet shows how the tag looks like in my prototype implementation.
You can see that this link contains sort and sortdir query string paremeters that drive sorting for my column Blog title. Most important thing to note about this is that when you will click on header to sort the records, it is going to send a GET http request to controller to partial view. The path for this link is based on HttpContext.Request.Path. The underlying implementation of WebGrid builds the link based on the value of request path. Therefore if your AJAX request is sending POST request to action that has name different than the one that was used to load the records initially then your link for header will point to that action method. Following code snippets show actions implemented in controller.
If you will implement your AJAX loading of WebGrid, the your header links will look like /Grid/ViewPostResults. Therefore when you will click on header, then you will get partial view loaded as main view. This means the key to solving the issue is to make sure that header link points to correct action that executes GET request for initial loading. Therefore to take care of this issue, I made sure that action methods for GET and POST request are same. In my case the action methods look like as shown below.
Second issue we have is that when you click on header to sort results, the filter parameters used to trigger POST request are lost because GET request does not carry values selected in dropdown list. Therefore the solution to this issue is contained in query string once more. If we can append our dropdown selected value as additional query string parameter in header link, then we have what we needed for our action method. Following shows how header link looks like in my implementation.
// Look for all anchor tags.
Following code snippet shows how query string parameters are processed during GET request to find values of filter parameters passed in GET request.
You can see this technique in action by clicking here.


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A New Cold War…With Eurasia?
It's clear now the Trump Administration will have to face an emerging Russia-China-Iranian power alliance in 2020.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani in June 14, 2019. ( VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP via Getty Images)
James Pinkerton
Amidst all the headlines—taking note of the end of the year, as well as the end of the decade—one headline, for this author, stands out. That headline looms large not because it speaks of something that has happened, but because it speaks of something that could happen. That is, a new Cold War, in which the U.S. is forced to square off with dominant Eurasian powers, operating in unison. That's a scary concept, made even scarier, of course, by the risk that a cold war can always get hot.
The headline in the December 28 Financial Times was modest, even if it did appear on the front page: "US rivals launch Mideast war games." As the newspaper put it, "Russia, China, and Iran launched their first joint naval exercises in the Gulf of Oman yesterday, throwing down a direct challenge to U.S. influence in the Middle East."
We might pause over those words, "a direct challenge to U.S. influence." The article quoted Iranian admiral Gholamreza Tahani as saying, "The most important achievement of these drills . . . is the message that the Islamic Republic of Iran cannot be isolated." Tahani added, "These exercises show that relations between Iran, Russia, and China have a reached a new high level while this trend will continue in the coming years."
The U.S. response to this development was muted; the FT quoted an unnamed State Department official saying that Iran should "think twice" about conducting joint naval exercises, warning that such actions "should concern all nations with an interest in safeguarding freedom of navigation in the region." These words won't exactly strike fear into the Iranians; especially since, as the article recalls, the Iranians shot down a U.S. drone in June and seized a British-flagged oil tanker allegedly in their territorial waters in July—and the U.S. didn't do anything in response.
Thus the Iranians seem undaunted, and now, of course, thanks to their improving relationship with China and Russia, they have far more strategic depth.
So maybe that's why there's new pressure on U.S. forces currently in Iraq, which, of course, borders Iran. It's long been understood that the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 had the inadvertent effect of opening the door to Iranian influence in that country, and it could well have been the hand of Iran that fired the rocket that killed a U.S. contractor on December 27. That death led to a familiar American response—airstrikes.
A few days later, on December 31, the Iranians might have played their hand again. According to the BBC, "Protesters angered by recent deadly US airstrikes targeting an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia have attacked the US embassy compound in Baghdad." That attack on an embassy, of course, brings back memories of the Iranian seizure, in 1979, of the American embassy in Tehran—an event that vexed America for more than a year, echoing ever since.
In other words, it's at least possible that the Iranians are deploying "asymmetric" tactics on us—that is, an attack on the U.S. that's not for sure traceable back to Iran. Indeed, in light of myriad past intelligence failures—to say nothing of outright mendacities—Americans can be forgiven for not trusting "intelligence reports" about the causation of this embassy attack.
Still, for his part, President Trump seemed to trust the Deep State—at least on this one question. He declared that Iran will be held "fully responsible" for whatever happens in Baghdad.
Yet in the meantime, something has gone deeply wrong for the U.S. in Iraq—or has been wrong all along. As Wall Street Journal reporter Farnaz Fasshihi tweeted on December 31, "Three trillion dollars & tens of thousands of lives later, Iraqis break into American embassy chanting 'US is the great Satan.'"
As of now, we don't know whether or not this latest embassy crisis will be quelled, but we do know this much: If the Chinese and Russians are on Iran's side, any U.S. military confrontation with Iran will be a big and uncertain thing, not a small and easy thing. In other words, U.S.-Iranian relations could be entering into a new phase: It might not just be Washington, D.C. vs. Tehran but, rather, Washington, D.C. vs. Tehran—and its big friends.
The idea that America might find itself escalating in the Middle East (again) is, of course, highly ironic. Donald Trump, after all, was elected in 2016 on a strong platform of opposition to "endless wars." And yet at the same time, Trump chose to treat Iran like an enemy. In junking the Iranian nuclear deal and reimposing economic sanctions, he pleased some domestic constituencies, while yet further antagonizing Iran.
And as the Iranians have likely just demonstrated in Iraq, if they get punched, they can find a way to punch back. Once again, for a small country, it's easier to punch a big country if it knows that other big countries are in its corner.
The further irony, of course, is that for all his bluster, Trump doesn't seem to have any deep attachment to a permanently bellicose policy toward Iran; he has mused aloud, more than once, about sitting down and talking with the Iranians.
Indeed, it's at least possible that Trump sees Iran though the prism of North Korea. As we can recall, all through his first year in office, Trump was in a war of words with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, whom Trump dubbed "Rocket Man." The situation reached its hottest in August 2017, when Trump warned Kim of "fire and fury like the world has never seen."
And yet now, of course, after two summit meetings, Trump and Kim seem to regard each other as friends—or at least they smile a lot in each other's company. To be sure, North Korea is no closer to de-nuclearizing than it ever was, and yet Trump doesn't seem to care about that presumed goal. (And of course, outside of Beltway think tanks, most Americans also don't care.)
So it's at possible that Trump has the same scenario in mind for Iran: That is, talk tough, go to the brink—and then make a deal. If such a deal were to happen, it would be easier to see some sort of fig-leaf-y exit from Afghanistan in time for Election Day, allowing Trump to campaign for re-election as the president who finally extricated Uncle Sam from those "endless wars."
To be sure, the Iranians would have to go along with all this possible plotting; as they learned during the embassy hostage crisis of 1979-81, they can have leverage on the American political process—and they might indeed seek to use that sort of leverage again.
In the meantime, the one thing we know for sure is that Iran has established some sort of modus vivendi with China and Russia. That Financial Times piece further quoted Jonathan Eyal, of the Royal United Services Institute: "This is a carefully calculated exercise in which all three participants are winners: Iran gets to claim it is a regional power, Russia demonstrates its role as the key actor in the Middle East, and China can show it is a global naval power."
So yes, there it is: A Eurasian alliance, straight out of the gloomy geopolitics of Halford Mackinder. To be sure, the three countries have been at odds in the past—notably, China has fought Russia, and Russia has fought Iran—and yet today, they all have a common interest in opposing the U.S.
To be sure, we have allies, too. And so we can see another worldwide struggle in the making; call it, as of now, Cold War II.
So what can the U.S. do? Beyond the obvious—no more gratuitous foreign wars that fritter away resources and rally the locals against us—we might take a page from our success in Cold War I.
In that first cold war, we found that two Eurasian giants, Russia (then the Soviet Union) and China were allied against us. But in fact, it wasn't much of an alliance, because the two neighboring countries had as many antipathies as affinities.
So back in 1971-2, President Richard Nixon and his top diplomat, Henry Kissinger, seized upon those cleavages and made them wider. By "going to China," Nixon and Kissinger managed to split the Sino-Soviet axis. And arguably, this rift in the communist bloc was the hinge of the Cold War.
So today, can Donald Trump and his top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, figure out a way to split the new axis of Russia, China, and Iran? Most experts are skeptical about Trump's ability to do anything but tweet, but then, most of those same experts have been consistently wrong. So maybe we shouldn't dismiss the possibility that Trump and Pompeo, mindful of past American successes, have something up their sleeve.
In the meantime, of course, our geopolitical rivals know history, too, and so they're trying just as hard to split our alliances. Indeed, over the last two decades, the Russians, in particular, have shown no small amount of strategic savvy.
So as of now, it's hard to justify either optimism or pessimism. Most likely, here at the dawn of the 2020s, we're likely looking at what John F. Kennedy foresaw at the dawn of the 1960s: "A long twilight struggle."
James P. Pinkerton is a contributor to the Fox News Channel and a regular panelist on the Fox "News Watch" show, the highest-rated media-critique show on television. He is a former columnist for Newsday, and is the editor of SeriousMedicineStrategy.org. He has written for publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Review, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, The Huffington Post, and The Jerusalem Post. He is the author of What Comes Next: The End of Big Government--and the New Paradigm Ahead (Hyperion: 1995). He worked in the White House domestic policy offices of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and in the 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992 presidential campaigns. In 2008 he served as a senior adviser to the Mike Huckabee for President Campaign. Married to the former Elizabeth Dial, he is a graduate of Stanford University.


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Q: How to invoke all option values from select with cypress/javascript? i am trying to get all values under select tag in order to have an array.
This is my code:
cy.get('[data-tab-name-prefix="selectedFonds[0]]')
  .scrollIntoView()
  .should('be.visible')
  .find('[name="selectedFonds[0][name]"]')
  .find('option')
  .invoke('attr', 'value').then($options => {
    cy.log($options)
})

          <select class=form-control name="selectedFonds[0][name]">
              <option value="first value"> First Value </option>
              <option value="second value"> Second Value </option>
              <option value="third value"> Third Value </option>
              <option value="forth value"> Forth Value </option>
          </select>

The problem is that it returns only the first option... not all of them.

A: My suggestion would be to target the element with the data attribute then do within(). Then target the select element and do children(). Followed by a each() block to iterate over every option element.
const values = ['first value', 'second value', 'third value', 'fourth value']
cy.get('[data-tab-name-prefix="selectedFonds[0]]')
.scrollIntoView()
.should('be.visible')
.within( ($el) => {
  cy.get('select')//based on your HTML you have only one select inside this div
  .should('be.visible')
  .children()
  .each( ($el, index) => {
    cy.get($el)
    .should('have.value', values[index])
  })
})

A: .invoke('attr', 'value') is causing the problem, it changes the array of options to a single value.
Move the attr() call inside the .then().
const expectedValues = ['First value', 'Second value', 'Third value', 'Fourth value']

cy.get('[data-tab-name-prefix="selectedFonds[0]]')
  .scrollIntoView()
  .should('be.visible')
  .find('[name="selectedFonds[0][name]"]')
  .find('option')
  .then($options => {
    const values = [...$options].map(option => option.getAttribute('value').trim())
    return values
  })
  .should('deep.eq', expectedValues)
})


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Denmark's Global Business Hub for the Sustainable Development Goals: A Winning Template
September 24, 2018 by Anita Varshney, John Baxter, Sandra Moerch
As global leaders convene this week in New York for the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, social innovators in governments, corporates, academia, and the startup world are asking how they can scale and accelerate action to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Denmark has an answer: its global business hub for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Denmark has been one of the early front runners in the EU to adopt the SDGs as a framework for progress. The Danish Trade Council's new initiative aims to help Danish companies achieve their SDGs while developing their business abroad.
During the United Nations General Assembly week in New York, SAP Next-Gen is driving
innovation with purpose, bringing together new partners to engage and inspire a
global audience of purpose-driven innovators to join with SAP to accelerate solutions to the SDGs.
Denmark: More Than a Small Country, It's a Big Idea
Prime Minister of Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen is kicking off his attendance at the United Nations high-level General Debate week with an event celebrating Denmark's trailblazing role in achieving the SDGs and reaffirming the importance of sustainable values in Danish life at home and abroad.
Today, the SAP Next-Gen program is hosting "Denmark: It's more than a small country – it's a BIG idea!" at the SAP office at Hudson Yards in New York City in collaboration with the Consulate General of Denmark in New York and the Confederation of Danish Industry.
The evening brings together Her Royal Highness Mary, the Crown Princess of Denmark, and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, as well as Denmark's leading companies and non-profits in sustainable development, for an evening exhibition of Danish successes in the SDG arena.
"The longstanding Danish values of sustainability, gender equity, and tolerance are in many ways the forerunners of the Sustainable Development Goals," said Ambassador Anne Dorte Riggelsen, Consul General of Denmark in New York. "We are thrilled that we can honor both the Danish public and private sectors for maintaining this strong Danish tradition."
SAP Next-Gen is joining government, corporate, and entrepreneurial leaders in Denmark to scale the impact of Denmark's global business hub for the SDGs through connections to the global SAP Next-Gen network of more than 3,600 educational institutions in 116 countries, including more than 110 SAP Next-Gen labs and hub locations at universities and at partner and SAP locations, and nearly 100 SAP Next-Gen Chapters, as well as startups, accelerators, tech community partners, venture firms, futurists, purpose-driven institutions, and SAP experts worldwide.
"We look at Denmark's launch of its global business hub for the SDGs as a model for all countries to rally SDG champions to connect with SAP Next-Gen in New York and link to a global community of next-generation purpose-focused innovators accelerating solutions to the SDGs," said Ann Rosenberg, senior vice president and global head of SAP Next-Gen. "We welcome other countries to follow this example in collaboration with SAP Next-Gen."
Global Mayors Lead Change in their Cities to Fight Climate Change
In further support of SAP's commitment to the SDGs, including Goal #11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, SAP Next-Gen is collaborating with Make Sense to host C40 mayors during an evening event today at Hudson Yards.
C40 is a network of the world's megacities committed to addressing climate change. Make Sense is a global, people-powered community that connects engaged citizens, passionate entrepreneurs, and forward-looking organizations to solve social issues and create positive impact. By bringing C40 mayors together at SAP to engage with citizens, social entrepreneurs, corporates, and policy-makers, Make Sense aims to accelerate solutions for challenges related to waste, mobility, energy, and buildings, to make cities more sustainable and fight climate change.
New Business Action Toolkit Aims to Accelerate Solutions to the SDGs
In related activities during UN General Assembly week, SAP Next-Gen is partnering with Project Everyone and 2030Vision to premier a business action toolkit during the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit on September 24 and 25. The toolkit aims to guide organizations working on solutions to the SDGs in how to turn the theory of the goals into action among the technology and wider business community.
Project Everyone is a communications unit dedicated to driving awareness and action around the UN Global Goals. 2030Vision is an initiative founded by Arm in partnership with the UN System, which aims to transform the use of technology through collaborative partnerships and innovative projects, to support the delivery of the SDGs and unlock the commercial opportunities they offer by identifying and scaling impactful technologies through multi-sector partnerships.
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Frostgrave - Joseph a. Mccullough (Hardcover)
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Amidst the frozen ruins of an ancient city, wizards battle in the hopes of discovering the treasures of a fallen empire. In this fantasy skirmish wargame, each player takes on the role of a wizard from one of ten schools of magic, and builds his band of followers.
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Wargames Illustrated "Best Rules of 2019" Winner
Named Best Tabletop Miniature Game of 2018 by Bleeding Cool News
Amidst the frozen ruins of an ancient city, wizards of different creeds are locked in a ferocious struggle. Each of them must seek to discover the treasures of a fallen empire and master long-forgotten but incredibly powerful magical lore. Each player takes on the role of a wizard from one of ten schools of magic, and builds his band of followers. While the wizard's apprentice will usually accompany his master, more than a dozen other henchmen types are available for hire, from lowly thugs to heavily armored knights and stealthy assassins. Wizards can build their magical knowledge by unlocking ancient secrets, with the potential to learn up to 80 spells in total. As players gain power and wealth, they can develop their headquarters on the outskirts of the city, turning one of a dozen different basic locations into bastions of their art, equipping them with alchemical laboratories, mystical forges, astronomical telescopes and other magical resources. While individual games of Frostgrave are quick and can easily be played in an hour or two, it is by connecting these games into an ongoing campaign, that players will find the most enjoyment. The scenarios given in the book are merely the beginning of the limitless, thrilling adventures that can be found amidst the ruins of the lost city.
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Joseph A. McCullough is the author of several non-fiction books including A Pocket History of Ireland and Osprey's Zombies: A Hunter's Guide. In addition, his fantasy short stories have appeared in various books and magazines such as Black Gate, Lords of Swords, and Adventure Mystery Tales. He also co-wrote The Grey Mountains, a supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing game.
Dmitry Burmak is a freelance artist from Moscow, Russia. After graduating as an engineer, he decided to change his career plans and took another degree in Fine Art. Dmitry started as an artist in the video games industry and now works as a freelance illustrator with his wife Kate, who is also an artist. Dmitry specializes in fantasy and sci-fi art for roleplaying games, card games and video games.
"This book contains everything you need to build your warband, play a long campaign and have a great time with it. Its a fantastic looking book, the artwork is beautiful, and it is full of stunning painted models . . . a fine addition to any gaming shelf." - The Garage Gamers
"Frostgrave has a real flavour of the old school, fun tabletop adventuring that was prevalent when I first got into D&D . . . Recommended -- especially for the money." - Miniatures Wargames Magazine
"[Frostgrave] allows you to play a game that has the narrative feel of an adventure by J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, or George R. R. Martin, rather than play a medieval wargame with spells and monsters added on. The simplicity of the rules systems also contributes to this atmosphere of heroic fantasy. Frostgrave is one of those gameswhere the rules allow a game to be played, rather than the game being an enactment of a rules system." - Wargames: Soldiers and Strategy
." . . I urge those of us who remember the AD&D adventures of our youth, have ever read a fantasy novel or seen a fantasy movie, to seek out a copy of this tome and sally forth on the road to adventure!" - Wargames Illustrated
"If you've been thinking about getting into (or back into) tabletop gaming, Frostgrave is a perfect place to start." - Boing Boing
"I'm so in love with this game right now . . . the RPG side of it is bonkers amazing . . . I can't recommend this enough . . . Really, [Frostgrave] is an amazing experience." - Drive Thru Review
"Frostgrave is more than just a great game: It's the perfect introduction to a whole new hobby." - Unbound Worlds
"Much of the rulebook is filled with gorgeous full-page artwork and photography of incredibly detailed terrain and miniatures." - Geek Dad
"Frostgrave is a quirky and fun fantasy minifigs game, with the campaign system providing an unusual gaming experience halfway between role playing game and war game . . . an attractive option for novice minifig gamers . . . Frostgrave has something to offer gamers of all stripes." - Multiverse
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About Electronic Based Human Resource Management
by Jackie Lohrey
E-HRM automates a business's HR processes.
1 Cost Implications of Internal Control
2 Importance of Internal Control Procedures in Human Resources
3 Design Methods for HR Business Systems
4 Benefits & Effects of Computer Monitoring in the Workplace
Manila folders, paper documents, copy machines and steel filing cabinets become a thing of the past when a business implements electronic-based human resources management. Electronic HR management, also known as E-HRM, uses web-based technology to create an HR information system. While very small or new businesses may find implementing E-HRM unnecessary or simply too costly, many reconsider after reaching a threshold of about 100 employees. Any small-business owner even remotely considering E-HRM should, however, fully understand the characteristics, advantages, limitations and options for implementation before deciding whether to invest in an E-HRM system.
As a small business grows, even the most well-organized owner or HR employee can become overwhelmed with managing and maintaining a manual HR system. Too much work and too little time can be the cause of data errors, delays in hiring and training new employees and, in a worst-case scenario, lack of attention to HR internal controls. E-HRM has the potential to change how the HR department functions by automating some or all HR processes. This includes but isn't limited to processes such as forecasting, recruitment, selection, performance management, work flow planning and employee compensation. Automation can also ensure a small business consistently complies with security and privacy internal controls.
Types, Objectives And Tools
E-HRM can be implemented as a whole or in part according to type and objectives. Operational E-HRM focuses on HR administrative duties such as payroll, managing employee information and vacation or time-off requests. Relational E-HRM supports recruiting, hiring and training directives and assists the business owner or department managers with employee performance management. Transformational E-HRM focuses on strategic objectives such as knowledge management and HR forecasting. Each function uses web-based tools such as an employee information database, electronic job boards on a career or business website, online hiring assessments, and e-learning and e-training available to potential employees, current employees, department managers and the business owner.
Costs Vs. Benefits
The total cost to purchase, install, conduct training and maintain an E-HRM system varies considerably. For example, CostOwl.com reports the cost of a basic off-the-shelf HR system for a very small business can run about $1,000. More complex client-server systems requiring software license fees start at about $40 to $100 per user for a business with 50 employees. Total costs increase to about $200 to $300 per user, however, as the complexity of an E-HRM system increases. When assessing direct purchase costs, it's important to also consider both direct and indirect cost savings and benefits to the business. Direct cost savings, such as labor, storage and security costs, may, in some businesses, pale in comparison to benefits the business may experience through greater efficiency and productivity.
Limitations and Considerations
In developing a full understanding of E-HRM, it's also important to consider E-HRM's limitations. In addition to direct cost considerations, which themselves can be significant limiting factors, there can also be mindset, familiarity with technology and trust limitations to consider. One of the most significant is a mindset some may have about moving from a face-to-face to a virtual HR environment. E-HRM does, in fact, depersonalize HR at least to some extent and is a limitation that must be overcome to ensure success. It can also stress or alienate employees who may be unfamiliar with computers or web-based technology. Creating an environment in which employees feel secure and that protects the security and privacy of personal information can, without strong and effective internal controls, be a significant limiting factor.
Workforce: Small Companies Can Benefit From an HRIS
EBStudies: E-HRM Paper Presentation
Reference for Business: Human Resource Information Systems
CostOwl.com: How Much Does HR Software Cost?
Based in Green Bay, Wisc., Jackie Lohrey has been writing professionally since 2009. In addition to writing web content and training manuals for small business clients and nonprofit organizations, including ERA Realtors and the Bay Area Humane Society, Lohrey also works as a finance data analyst for a global business outsourcing company.
Lohrey, Jackie. "About Electronic Based Human Resource Management." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/electronic-based-human-resource-management-76556.html. Accessed 20 January 2020.
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Am scared Of Coronavirus Even If Football Returns Without Fans : Chelsea Star Willian
Akande Boluwatife April 18, 2020 Sports
Willian says he is worried about returning to the football pitch with Chelsea, even behind closed doors, due to the risk of catching the coronavirus.
The Brazil international says he fears endangering his family by returning too soon, despite games set to be played without fans in stadiums.
Following a meeting between clubs on Friday, the Premier League has said football will only return with the full support of the government.
Medical protocols were discussed, as Premier League clubs united in wanting the season to be completed.
All players, coaches and match officials would need to be tested before games could be played behind closed doors.
Willian said:
"I think it's not a bad idea (to return behind closed doors) but they have to know very carefully what's going to happen.
"Maybe a player can have the virus and we play against each other. I play against someone and I get the virus then I go home after the game to stay with my family and pass the virus to my wife or daughters.
"So we have to be careful about that."
Willian admitted he was concerned, as was the rest of the Chelsea squad, after it was announced that Callum Hudson-Odoi tested positive for COVID-19.
Chelsea's playing and coaching staff had to self-isolate for 14 days before Willian was allowed to return to Brazil to be with his family.
"Yes, I think not only me, but the whole team was worried about that," Willian added.
"Because he (Callum Hudson-Odoi) was at the game against Everton and went to the dressing room, we shook hands and hugged each other.
"So after that, when he tested positive for the coronavirus, I think everyone was worried about it. But none of us felt any symptoms after that.
"So everyone is healthy, nobody had a problem after that game and week. That was good."
Am scared Of Coronavirus Even If Football Returns Without Fans : Chelsea Star Willian Reviewed by Akande Boluwatife on April 18, 2020 Rating: 5


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Award-winning Allyson Koh was nominated for the Gerald and Sally DeNardo Senior Prize in Science Research by Dr. Amelia Fuller, Associate Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Allyson is a double major in Biology and Public Health, with a minor in Chemistry. Her professional goal is to attend medical school, and she will be applying this summer.
With a cumulative GPA of 3.91, it is clear she is the kind of student who has the drive to succeed in whatever path she chooses. Dr. Fuller states in her nomination letter, "I have been working with Allyson in my research lab on the synthesis and applications of heteroarylopeptoids since her sophomore year, including her work full-time over the past two summers. Allyson is a tremendously talented researcher and has been responsible for an extraordinary amount of progress in the lab. Above and beyond her exceptional work in this context, Allyson also personifies the foundational values of conscience and compassion and is dedicated to becoming a leader in the healthcare profession; I have no doubt that she will continue to excel in her future endeavors."
When Allyson began her research, the lab was just starting a new project to develop a flexible and robust synthetic method to prepare novel molecules with interesting potential biological activities. Despite her nascent laboratory training, Allyson's work became the centerpiece of the project, and her progress has rivaled that of a graduate student. In the course of her two years' work, Allyson has carried out hundreds of reactions. She single-handedly ran all of the experiments to identify the best conditions to prepare the target molecules. She then applied those conditions to prepare dozens of analogs.
During the summer after her sophomore year, Allyson presented "Incorporating Heterocycles into the Backbone of Peptoids via COMU-mediated Synthesis" at the Advanced Biosciences Initiative Summer Research Symposium. For the 2014 American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco, she and her colleagues completed a poster titled, "Synthesis of Modified Peptoids Comprising Heteroaromatic Backbones."
Dr. Fuller and Allyson are presently writing a manuscript on all of Allyson's work to be submitted to the Journal of Organic Chemistry within the next two months. This is an international, peer-reviewed journal read widely by those in the organic chemistry community, and Dr. Fuller thinks that the methods developed and molecules prepared by Allyson will attract broad interest.
Allyson has also been active in our local and global community. During her undergraduate career, she had the opportunity to join the Santa Clara Global Medical Brigades team to travel to Nicaragua. Although her proficiency in Spanish was limited, she believed that compassion and solidarity would transcend language barriers. She recalled one instance during her dental rotation when the dentist was extracting four teeth from a young woman who was writhing in pain, begging the dentist to stop. With gauze in one hand, Allyson reached out with the other and grabbed the woman's hand. Both the woman and the dentist paused to give her a puzzled look as if no one had initiated such an act before. Nevertheless, the patient took her hand and squeezed it until all four teeth were removed. This experience was eye opening and extremely humbling for Allyson, as her actions had made a large impact. The patient came up to her afterwards and hugged her, validating Allyson's belief that being aware of global situations and standing in solidarity with others are powerful gestures.
Throughout her senior year, she has participated in the Markkula Center's Health Care Ethics Internship at O'Connor Hospital, where she has become conscientious of the glaring health disparities in the medical field, gaining real-world insights to recognize these gaps and to articulate ways to tackle them.
In her nomination, Dr. Fuller noted: "Allyson aspires to be a physician after graduating from SCU and medical school. Her dedication to these pursuits makes Allyson well-suited both to this particular research project and this award. On a personal level, Allyson is a student any professor or colleague would be delighted to work with. She is mature, engaged in her studies, conscientious, organized and amiable. I reiterate my highest support of Allyson for this well-deserved honor."
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