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Review: Ozomatli - Don't Mess With The Dragon
Ozomatli is all about the party. Or at least they once were. The L.A. ensemble noted for their fusion of hip hop and salsa were always blending styles, instrumentations and even moods, from party jams to somber ballads to conscious hip hop. The band's previous album, Street Signs, was a solid release but reflected more of the ballads and conscious hip hop mentality with much less "party".
Don't Mess With The Dragon, however, is a return to form. Afterall, Ozomatli is the name of the Aztec god of dance, fire, and music, and this new record reflects all of these things. While all of Ozomatli's records have been wonderful in their own right, this is the first that is readily comparable to their first release, Ozomatli, which is widely regarded as being their best. An alternate title for 'Don't Mess With The Dragon' could be 'How Ozomatli Got Their Groove Back'.
It's evident from the moment you press play and are greeted with a rump shaker called 'Can't Stop' that Ozomatli is back in top form. This song alone is like a microcosm of their signature sound, mixing Latin beats with electric guitars, DJ Spinobi's ambient accents, a hip hop interlude and inspirational vocals about "seizing the day" and having "faith in love". In a nutshell, this is Ozomatli.
'City of Angels' keeps the tempo going with a funky beat-infused cowboy anthem about L.A. The rap flows on this track are the most solid since Embrace The Chaos featured De La Soul on '1234' and Justin Porée and Kanetic Source on 'Lo Que Dice'. 'City of Angels' marks the moment where MC's Justin Porée and Jabu come into their own and start to move out from under the shadow of previous MC, Chali 2Na. The addition of The Fred Martin Singers also helps to give the band a soul boost.
Not enough can be said for the laidback, simplicity of 'After Party'. This is the type of song that you wish would start playing on your iPod as your walking down the street on a sunny afternoon. It also shows that lead singer Raúl Pacheco can evoke emotion even when he's just singing about finding a good party.
The title track to 'Don't Mess with The Dragon' is downright infectious. I would like to know the meaning behind this song. Superficially it seems very funny. With a goofy repeating chorus like 'Don't Mess with the Dragon' and someone making monkey noises in the background alá Ben Stiller, it's surprising to read the lyrics and find them to be fairly depressing. But the vibe is upbeat ska with some Far East flavor.
'La Gallina', 'Here We Go' and 'Creo' are almost reggaeton (a genre this reviewer doesn't have much love for) but with enough Ozomatli-ness to make it work. Also, Jabu and Justin seem to be on-point throughout all three, especially 'Creo'.
'Magnolia Soul' is an interesting entry because it's almost completely straight funk. Not much dilution, just straight hip hop infused funk similar to The Breakestra or Quantic Soul Orchestra. The track is inspired by New Orleans with overt references to Katrina.
Rounding out the album is 'La Temperatura' a blast of a song, all about having fun reminiscent of 'La Misma Cancion' or 'Mi Alma' from previous albums. 'When I Close My Eyes' answers the question of what an all ska/punk Ozomatli track would sound like (hint: not bad). 'La Segundo Mano' acts as one last push of hip hop with Jabu shining a little brighter still. And 'Violeta' starts out as one of Ozomatli's signature somber ballads, but ends up with a fun sing-along chorus:
"¿Y tu mama que dice? / Tu hermano y tu papa, / ¿Que dicen? / ¿Tu hijo y tu marido que dicen? / Los nietos, tu abuela, / Dime que te dicen."
'Don't Mess with the Dragon' is a must-have for anyone who has listened to Ozomatli in the past. It's also an excellent starting point for those unfamiliar with the group. It's fun, irreverent and most importantly it's all about the party.
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Ivy said…
I received a special treat while reading your email. I wanted to hear some Ozomatli. When I hit the link, it took me to Kraak & Smaak "Stretch & Funk. . love it. . . I totally would have missed that great music. . now on to listen to some of the other music you are chatting about. . thanks dude. . .Mom
Ahren Sievers said…
Which link? I didn't put any links in for Kraak & Smaak...intentionally. I didn't even know who they were until I looked them up after reading your comment.
12:00 AM, April 18, 2007
I am glad you posted this review. Will be heading to the iTunes store once I check my budgeto.
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Sawtooth Conditions Update – Time to Hit the Trails (and Rock)!
A stormy late winter left a deep blanket of snow in the Sawtooths that has been slow to melt. But recent warm weather has melted a lot of the snow and many trail are open and passable!
Saddleback Lakes: trail is melted out except for the usual snowfield as you near the first lake. This is a challenging spot because any slip will put you into the fast moving creek. We've been going up there, but we bring an axe to chop steps and a rope to secure guests. The lakes are thawed.
Elephants Perch: We've been climbing the Perch and most routes are dry. There is some snow near the top and on the descent.
Alpine Lake (Redfish Canyon): Trail is mostly melted out except for one section below the lake. The lake just recently thawed.
Sawtooth Lake: trail is almost completely melted out to Alpine Lake. There is snow between Alpine and Sawtooth Lakes, but it is easily negotiated. Sawtooth Lake was still partially frozen as of July 1st – see photo below.
Goat Lake: trail is mostly melted out except for a few snow patches as you approach the lake.
Above 8000′, expect to begin encountering snow patches, especially in shady areas. Most of the high passes are still snowed in.
Our half and full day rock climbing programs are in full swing, as are our hiking, peak climbing, and Rock-n-Raft combo trips. If you're looking for something fun to do over your 4th of July holiday, give us a jingle!
In other news: Sawtooth Mountain Guides has opened a new office/headquarters in the Stanley Town Square (map). If you're in the area, be sure to stop by and say hi!
New SMG Headquarters in the Stanley Town Square.
The new SMG Headquarters is coming along nicely!
Michael Boge in front of Idaho's 16th tallest mountain- Peak 11,909.
SMG Guide Drew Daly on the Elephant's Perch.
Alpine Lake (Iron Creek) on July 1.
Sawtooth Lake - still frozen on July 1, but the trail is mostly melted out.
SMG Guide Matt Scrivner excited for the upcoming summer.


For the uninitiated, most foreign nationals require a visa to enter Myanmar.
As of Aug 1, 2018, visa-free travel is only permitted for countries like Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Holders of diplomatic and official/service passports of Bangladesh, Belarus, Brazil, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam do not require a visa for Myanmar.
Adding on to the visa-free entry list next month are Japan and South Korea. Japanese and South Korean visitors will be able to enter by air and land without a visa.
However, as they will be required to show a return air ticket, this would be an issue for those planning to leave Myanmar via land.
According to the ministry's data, the number of Japanese visitors to the Southeast Asian country, including those on a business trip and for other purposes, has steadily increased in recent years, topping the 100,000 marks in 2016.
In 2017, nearly 101,500 Japanese visited Myanmar, up 0.7 per cent year-on-year.
Travellers from China, however, will still have to pay US$50 for visas upon arrival at airports in Yangon, Mandalay, and Naypyidaw, This includes those from Hong Kong, Macau, as well as mainland China.
Despite the fee, this is considered an ease of visa requirements for Chinese tourist groups. Chinese travellers previously had to apply for visas in advance.
Tourists are also required to possess at least US$1,000 in cash. If they don't have that cash on hand, Myanmar's Ministry of Hotels and Tourism will consider accepting credit cards and other means to check their financial standing.
In addition, tourists from the abovementioned three countries are permitted to stay for only 30 days in Myanmar.
Other travellers planning to visit Myanmar are encouraged to apply for a visa online at evisa.moip.gov.mm.


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The Associate of Science degree has a number of areas of concentration which were developed to assist students seeking transfer to a four-year institution to complete a bachelor's degree.  In addition, students may pursue the Science degree with flexibility in electives which allows transition into a four-year program that may not have a matching concentration at CCBC.
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Geology and Meteorology are the fields in this concentration. Students gain knowledge to relate the Earth's dynamic processes to its composition, structure, and surface features. Geologists are involved in a wide range of activities, including studies of Earth materials and processes, exploration for resources, and understanding and protecting the environment. Meteorology draws upon many sources for its material because of its attempts to describe processes and changes in the atmosphere.
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March 21, 2019 March 21, 2019 | in The TTABlog| by John L. Welch
With the recent appointment of three (3) new TTAB Judges, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's membership now stands at twenty-five (XXV) Administrative Trademark Judges. The current roster is set forth below, beginning with Chief Judge Gerard F. Rogers and then proceeding alphabetically.
Rogers, Gerard F. (Chief Judge): Appointed to TTAB in 1999; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; Assistant to the Assistant Commissioner for Trademarks; TTAB Staff Attorney; Education: B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst; J.D. magna cum laude, New England School of Law.
Adlin, Michael B.: Appointed to TTAB in 2012; Prior Professional Experience: TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; USPTO Office of External Affairs; Private Practice; Education: B.A., Duke University; J.D., Boston University School of Law.
Bergsman, Marc A.: Appointed to TTAB in 2006; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; Trademark Managing Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Private Practice (Washington, D.C.); Education: B.A., Miami University of Ohio; J.D., Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University.
Cataldo, Peter W.: Appointed to TTAB in 2006; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Education: B.A., Canisius College; J.D., Albany Law School.
Coggins, Robert H.: Appointed to TTAB in 2017; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Education: B.S., Davidson College; J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law.
Dunn, Elizabeth A.: Appointed to TTAB in 2019; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Education: B.A., Boston University; J.D., American University Washington College of Law.
English, Christen M.: Appointed to TTAB in 2019; Prior Professional Experience: Private Practice; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Education: B.A., Boston College; J.D. Catholic University Columbus School of Law.
Goodman, Cheryl S.: Appointed to TTAB in 2014; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Education: B.A., University of Illinois; J.D., Florida State College of Law.
Greenbaum, Cindy B.: Appointed to TTAB in 2012; Prior Professional Experience: Private Practice (New York and Washington, D.C.); Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; TTAB Managing Interlocutory Attorney (2006-2011); Education: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; J.D., New York University School of Law.
Heasley, David K.: Appointed to TTAB in 2015; Prior Professional Experience: Private Practice (Washington, D.C.); Education: B.A., The Johns Hopkins University; J.D., University of Maryland School of Law.
Hightower, Susan J.: Appointed to TTAB in 2012; Prior Professional Experience: Private Practice (Austin, Texas); Education: B.A., Austin College; M.A., University of Texas; J.D., Stanford Law School.
Hudis, Jonathan: Appointed to TTAB in 2019; Prior Professional Experience: Private Practice (Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia); Education: B.A., State University of New York at Albany: J.D., Brooklyn Law School.
Kuczma, Linda A.: Appointed to TTAB in 2011; Prior Professional Experience: Private Practice (Chicago, Illinois); Education: B.S., St. Mary's University; J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Kuhlke, Karen: Appointed to TTAB in 2005; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Private Practice (Washington, D.C.); Education: B.A., University of Kansas; M.A., Columbia University; J.D., Georgetown University.
Larkin, Christopher: Appointed to TTAB in 2016; Prior Professional Experience: Private Practice (Los Angeles, CA; New York, N.Y.); Education: B.A., Stanford University; J.D., Columbia Law School.
Lykos, Angela: Appointed to TTAB in 2010; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Private Practice; Education: B.A., M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; J.D., Duke University Law School.
Lynch, Cynthia C.: Appointed to TTAB in 2015: Prior Professional Experience: Private Practice; Attorney-Advisor at the International Trade Commission; USPTO Assistant Solicitor: USPTO Administrator for Trademark Policy and Procedure; Education: B.A., University of North Carolina; J.D., University of Virginia School of Law.
Mermelstein, David: Appointed to TTAB in 2006: Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; TTAB Supervisory Interlocutory Attorney; Education: B.A., New College, Hofstra University; J.D., American University.
Pologeorgis, George C: Appointed to TTAB in 2015; Prior Professional Experience: TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; TTAB Attorney in the Office of Trademark Quality Review and Training; Trademark Examining Attorney; Private Practice; Education: B.A., University of Pennsylvania; J.D., George Washington University National Law Center.
Ritchie, Lorelei: Appointed to TTAB in 2008; Prior Professional Experience: Private Practice; Arbitrator and Judge pro tem, Orange and Los Angeles Counties, California; Intellectual Property Manager, UCLA; Adjunct Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; Assistant Professor, Florida State University School of Law; Education: A.B., Stanford University; J.D., Columbia University.
Shaw, Thomas: Appointed to TTAB in 2011; Prior Professional Experience: Associate Solicitor at the USPTO; Managing Attorney; Senior Attorney; Trademark Examining Attorney; Education: B.A., George Washington University; J.D., University of Miami School of Law.
Taylor, Jyll: Appointed to TTAB in 2006; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Education: B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; J.D., Howard University School of Law.
Wellington, Thomas W.: Appointed to TTAB in 2007; Prior Professional Experience: TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Trademark Examining Attorney; Private Practice; Education: B.A., University of Maryland at College Park; J.D., American University Washington College of Law.
Wolfson, Frances: Appointed to TTAB in 2010; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Private Practice; Education: B.A., U.C. Santa Barbara; J.D., U.C.L.A.
Zervas, Albert: Appointed to TTAB in 2005; Prior Professional Experience: Trademark Examining Attorney; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney; Private Practice (New York and Washington, D.C.); Education: B.A. and J.D., University of Virginia.
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- Comparison of Lightwave's Radiosity, Octane with a subpar GPU, and Octane with a production-level GPU.
- The pricetag... do you get what you pay for? Is investing in a GPU + this software practical?
- Surface displacements... it isn't what most people probably think.
Personally, I see Octane as something people should look into ONLY after they have explored Lightwave's native options, and based on user needs. For example, Radiosity is quite comparable to Octane for still images and I wouldn't recommend it to someone who just does stills for graphic media. GPU rendering is also constrained by memory at the moment, so there are no shortage of things to compare and contrast in that regard.
It should also be noted that Octane doesn't entirely replace the functionality of Lightwave's renderer... Example: if you need hypervoxels, you'd better have a solid compositing workflow in place before considering Octane as Octane has no particle systems. An interesting thing to note is that you can render hypervoxels AND Octane imagery at the same time with zero impact to render times... how cool is that?
Thanks chazriker, the render surface displacements looks interesting, I wonder exactly how that differs from very high render subpatch settings, or micropolygon displacements?
If you cot the time, could you do a landscape displacement? and showcase the detail there? I suspect that octance for the moment don´t support using then node crackle procedural or dpont rock procedural though?
Yes it does! :D Only the 4096 pixel resolution is a bit of a handicap. You can clearly see the steps in the displacement. You could work around that though.
- Per-surface displacements. As far as I can tell, Lightwave only does per-object without a baked UV map texture. Any surface in Octane can have as much displacement detail as desired.
- Pre-viewability and ability to adjust things without crippling openGL. Currently Lightwave's VPR demands that you set the display subpatch level very high to get feedback on changes, that or go back to the ol' f9-edit-repeat routine.
As for your other questions, Octane does support some of Lightwave's native procedural textures... I don't think any of DP's rendering nodes operate with Octane; if they do, it is likely limited. I'm still learning as I go in regards to Octane's more advanced features so I have some toying around to do. In regards to landscape displacement, if you can point out an image you'd like me to use I can see how it looks in LW Octane and post it here.
Bear in mind the 4092 limit is when you are using LW. Nodes into Octane texture. If you use an actual tif image if the Octane texture, your displacement can have 8092 res.
Thanks swampy, I think I need to check the demo very soon, need to verify how procedurals displace the surface when it has a strong value, normally with standard displacement when a texutre displace very strong on y axis, you get artifacts due to the stretched polys.
Xswampy, try dpont rocks..they are quite nice, if you don´t have them installed as node´s, you can always use layer+ in the nodes and axess them from there.
Unfortunatly for the landscape stuff I would like to wrestle with, it includes volumetric hv clouds for true ray tracing of cloud shadows, don´t know if it will be workable to workaround since you would really need the shadows to pass on the landscape terrain correctly.
If you layer procedurals Octane seems to bog down.... :( The rocks work very well, but you can't use it with the landscape displacement.
I agree with chazriker in that it's a brilliant addition for the small details, not the large ones.
"Don't underestimate the power of the Force."
It's going to change for good how people model and render.
unless improving on displacements/microdisplacements that is.
But you can't use the legacy LightWave texturing method in the Surface Editor, correct? You need to create a node tree and specifically make it for Octane a second round?
That's correct. There is a button you can press inside the Octane surface nodes to get the textures from the classic texture panel in Lightwave, but it only plugs in 1 surface and if it isn't uv mapped, you may need to adjust things via a projection node (basically the same thing as planar/spherical/cylindrical surfaces without UVs). Retrofitting pre-existing assets to use Octane can entail a bit of work.
That was actually a reason I hesitated to get Octane as I have a gigantic library of props and characters. Given that Octane lets you make things look good quickly without complex surface layering and tweaking renders, I felt the conversion process is worth going through. I don't speak for everyone saying that, of course.
Octane takes a bit of a mind shift for most lwers, especially if the node editor isn't used much.
Once you start using Octane, you spend so much time in the node editor that you see benefits immediately. The new compound node helps in saving and organizing your new networks. Copy-paste and the preset shelf really got a workout at the outset for me.
Any uv mapped object is ready; any image map can be captured and placed in the octane environment with ease. Juanjo is making the whole transition easier.
It is a very complete and robust plug for LW. Seems we have some of the best integration. Kudos to Juanjo!
3- ENABLE plugin - JUST one time you press on it - it writes itself into scene file so everytime when you open that scene it will load automatically - you do not need to enable again. So basically every new scene needs you to press ENABLE plugin..
5- Update your drivers (general advice :)) Make sure CUDA 6 installed with your driver..


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Il torneo di calcio femminile agli Island Games 2003, che si sono svolti sull'isola di Guernsey, fu la seconda edizione della competizione. I 16 incontri si svolsero tra il 29 giugno ed il 4 luglio 2003 e videro la vittoria finale delle Isole Fær Øer, al secondo titolo consecutivo.

Formato
Le 8 squadre partecipanti furono suddivise in due gruppi da 4 ciascuno. La prima fase prevedeva un girone all'italiana con gare di sola andata, mentre la seconda scontri diretti in base alla posizione in classifica nel gruppo, per decidere le posizioni dall'ottava alla prima.

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Campione Island Games 2003

ISOLE FæR ØER(Secondo titolo)

Classifica finale

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There are a limited amount of Black Super Nt's in stock- shipping now. Once these are gone, it will be a few months before any additional Super Nt's are back in stock and shipping again.
We didn't anticipate how incredible the response to Super Nt would be and we're currently sold out of all other variants (Classic, SF, and transparent). Once we saw the response, we began producing more units. We've been doing our best to keep up with demand. This production will be ready to ship this summer sometime. For the time being, black Super Nt units are in stock and shipping now- please note they are available in limited quantities.
We understand that people are frustrated about not being able to immediately get the Super Nt variant they'd like, and for that we apologize. We will open pre-orders for this next production run once we have a more accurate ship date. Pre-orders will become available sometime in May.
Nt mini is an incredibly difficult and time consuming product to manufacture. We're currently focused on Super Nt and we don't have the manpower to produce another run at this time. Nt mini unfortunately requires a borderline unreasonable amount of oversight from our best people. We appreciate your understanding and please know we're bummed we can't make it available at this time, too.


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The time has finally come! The Lumineers are getting back out on the road and have locked some incredible shows for 2017. Named after their latest album, the Cleopatra World Tour will see the stomping folk-rock trio embarking on their most ambitious tour yet! Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States are the countries The Lumineers have chosen for this special occasion. Have you bought your 2017 Lumineers tickets yet? Here at StubHub, you can purchase tickets to all their shows and you can also sell any spare Lumineers tickets you might have. Don't miss the opportunity and watch one of the most popular indie bands on tour live!
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Founding members Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites began performing together around New Jersey and New York City before relocating to Denver on a whim. They then recruited cellist Neyla Pekarek through Craigslist. They rose to superstardom in December 2011 when they released their first official single "Ho Hey". The single went on to sell two million copies, in the US alone peaking at number three. The band then followed it up with their hugely popular eponymous debut album featuring fun, folk hits like "Stubborn Love", "Submarines" and "This Must Be the Place".
The Lumineers attribute their unique style to influences from Beethoven, Guns N´Roses, Bruce Springsteen and "cinematic music and anything strange and weird", it´s no coincidence then that their music has an eclectic, folk vibe. Why not be in the audience when The Lumineers arrive at your town? Get The Lumineers tickets right now!
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"The St. Louis Metropolitan area is the focus the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazard Program's plan for assessing and reducing the likely risks of an earthquake likely emanating from New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), which is the most active seismic zone in the Midwestern United States. The St. Louis Metropolitan area consists of three counties in Missouri and four in Illinois, which are divided by the state boundary along the Mississippi River. Both of the state's respective geological surveys have produced their own geologic maps and datasets, employing dissimilar geodata information and systems, with differing map units, map scales, and storage formats, with data stored in hard copy (analog) or digital formats. This combined dissimilar geodata from both states and integrate them into a single Virtual Geotechnical Database (VGDB) in an accepted Geographic Information System (ArcGIS), which can be used to retrieve subsurface data and perform an array of spatial analyses. The VGDB will be made available to the general public and other researchers, and is intended to promote more standardization of geologic interpretations between Missouri and Illinois"--Abstract, page iii.
© 2007 Jae-Won Chung, All rights reserved.
Chung, Jae-Won, "Development of a geographic information system-based virtual geotechnical database and assessment of liquefaction potential for the St. Louis Metropolitan area" (2007). Doctoral Dissertations. 1982.


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Q: Is there might be memory leak to allocate shared_ptr on the heap? Just read this SO post stdshared-ptr-exception-safety
So following code will not have memory leak:
std::shared_ptr<int> p3 (new int);

But how about following one:
func(new std::shared_ptr<int>(new int));

If the allocation of shared_ptr throw bad_alloc exception and the 'new int' has been evaluate, I assume the int be leaked.
Does they standard defined the new std::shared_ptr need to first allocate memory and then evaluate the parameter new int?

A: Yes, that's a potential memory leak.
However, it's a very unconventional use of std::shared_ptr. Generally the shared_ptr is kept in automatic storage (on the stack) to take advantage of RAII.

A: Yes, it can leak.
If new std::shared_ptr throws, there is nothing to clean up the memory allocated by new int.
In general, automatic delete invocations are made only when a constructor throws after a corresponding new.
To elaborate, you can rewrite the code as follows:
// if 'new' throws, we just get a bad_alloc, nothing leaked
int *iptr = new int;

// if 'new' throws, nothing will clean up iptr
//
// if, for whatever reason, ctor of std::shared_ptr<int> throws,
// its memory gets reclaimed by an implicit delete, but iptr's target
// is still lost.
auto *ptrptr = new std::shared_ptr<int>(iptr);

// EDIT: If the constructor of shared_ptr fails, it will delete
// the memory it is given, though this still doesn't eliminate the
// leak that can occur if the above `new` fails.

EDIT:
The example above, and this explanation, were really meant to indicate that there isn't anything special about std::shared_ptr as compared to any other smart pointer implementation, or some type that accepts a pointer as a constructor argument for that matter.
In the latter case, it really depends on what the type's constructor does with its argument. In the case of std::shared_ptr, it most likely will not throw an exception unless it fails to allocate a control block (if that is, in fact, how it is implemented).
If the constructor of std::shared_ptr does fail, at least with the implementation I am using (VS2012), it actually does delete the memory it is given.

A:
If the allocation of shared_ptr throw bad_alloc exception and the new int has been evaluate, I assume the int be leaked.

Yes, if the evaluations happen in that order, and the allocation for the shared pointer fails, then the integer will be leaked.

Does they standard defined the new std::shared_ptr need to first allocate memory and then evaluate the parameter new int?

No, they are indeterminately sequenced, as specified in C++11 5.3.4/16.
So dynamic allocation of smart pointers is dangerous, not just weird and confusing. Don't do it.

A: It can lead to memory leak and it's unsafe. The allocated std::shared_ptr itself, should be protected somewhere. shared_ptr may throw an exception and you should handle it. new std::shared_ptr also can throw an exception and you should handle it too. The first exception doesn't lead to memory leak, but the second dose.
On the other hand, you don't need to allocate a std::shared_ptr dynamically; it has no advantages.

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Q: Arabic from Android through PHP into mysql I have an android app that calls a restful API in PHP that saves information in mysql. The URL contains Arabic characters in one of its parameters.
When I send this URL from the browser itself, I eventually see the Arabic characters in the DB (and when echoing) but when I call this URL from the app, it echos back (I added echo command on the php side) and store in the DB "?????".
When calling the API, I do the following:
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
urlConnection.setRequestProperty("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8");
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by $8 blue check mistermix | April 28, 2014 9:02 am | 69 Comments
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The NAACP has a lot of explaining to do, and it goes way beyond their plan (now cancelled) to honor Donald Sterling a lifetime achievement award next month:
Indeed, the NAACP seems to suffer from amnesia. Almost exactly five years ago, a similar controversy arose when the civil rights group honored Sterling with the same award! At the time, Elgin Baylor, who served as the Clippers general manager from 1986 to 2008, had just filed an age and racial discrimination suit against Sterling. According to Baylor, Sterling had a "Southern plantation" view, preferring to field a team of "poor black boys from the South … playing for a white coach."
Despite the controversy, the NAACP proceeded to give Sterling its award, even though the billionaire's track record of housing discrimination against African Americans, compounded by the brouhaha with Baylor, was already well-known. To justify the 2009 award, the president of the Los Angeles branch told the Los Angeles Times that Sterling "has a unique history of giving to the children of L.A," revealing that the owner donates anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 tickets a game to youth groups for nearly every Clippers home game." (Of course, Sterling may simply have wanted to fill the many empty seats at the woeful Clippers' home games).
The NAACP's love affair with Sterling apparently knew no limits. The group had already given Sterling its Presidents Award in 2008, according to Sterling's own website, which is primarily devoted to a long list of the many honors bestowed on him by various charitable groups to which he's contributed.
Sterling's remarks to his ex-girlfriend are trivial compared to the damage done to African Americans by his real estate companies, which was well-known by the time the NAACP started showering him with honors.
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Ash Can
This is reminiscent of when the VFW endorsed Peter Roskam over Tammy Duckworth in 2006 — a WTF moment so jarring that it all but destroys the bestower's cred.
you speak the truth.
the utter truth.
Morley Bolero
Good grief.
big ole hound
Sorry but this oldtimer is under the impression that the NAACP has been underwhelming as a spokesperson for anything. No real clear leader with a constant message has ever come forward since MLK. Jesse Jackson tried but seemed hesitant and grandstanding. This mess should bring someone to the forefront. Maybe.
And in other, better news, Rep. Michael "throw-reporters-off-the-balcony" Grimm has been arrested. (H/t LGF commenters)
Seabe
Same reason I cannot get behind HRC. These groups exist these days to award gold stars to celebrities and millionaires, and to fundraise to…give gold stars to millionaires and celebrities. There's no organizing on the ground to actually enact change that the groups supposedly support. Institutional rot runs deep throughout society writ large. Can't say every chapter of the NCAAP is this way, but a lot of AA friends of mine weren't surprised in the least by this.
The LA chapter's response to Sterling when the story broke was just mind-boggling bizarre. I think they used the word disappointed and refused to say if they would cancel Sterling's award. I'm sure Sterling gets a nice tax deduction for his donation of seats that would have been empty anyway. The NAACP LA branch look like chumps here.
What has brought the Bundy's and Sterling's out of the woodwork? (updated)
Lately it can feel like: another day, another racist unleashed. All the oxygen these days is being soaked up by the recent remarks of Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling. But the truth is – over the last few years we've been exposed to a pretty endless stream of this noxious stuff.
Its no coincidence that this is happening on the heels of electing our first African American president and as the demographics of this country are rapidly changing. But I'd like to look a little deeper and ask what it is these milestones have unleashed.
The Civil Rights Movement certainly threatened that entitlement. When the dust settled though, most white people went back to normalizing it with what remained of their tradition, economics, religion, etc. And an awful lot of people of color got busy utilizing the doors the movement had opened up for them.
The next thing you know…we have everything from a Harvard-educated African American POTUS to a basketball player-turned-entrepreneur challenging the hold the 1%ers have on the NBA (why Donald Sterling is threatened by Magic Johnson but not his mixed-race girlfriend). All of the sudden the despised "have the power and wherewithal to not go along with – the perceived entitlement." The rhetoric of superiority is failing and the hatred is exploding.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/04/what-has-brought-bundys-and-sterlings.html
Paul in KY
I would surmise that he has cut them some big checks in the past. Certainly not because of his effective speechifying on behalf of African-Americans.
@Seabe: What does Ms. Clinton have to do with this?
NAACP is losing credibility over this and they better clean house or they'll be done. It's sad to see the decline of the oldest civil rights organization.
Belafon
@Paul in KY: I think he/she's talking about the other HRC, the Human Rights Campaign.
Gindy51
@Lolis: More than chumps, they look bought, is what they look like.
Orgs like the NAACP, or Human Rights for Some Watch, can and should be held accountable by members and contributors, rather than simply the latter.
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@Belafon: Oh…..nevermind :-)
JGabriel
Ash Can:
And in other, better news, Rep. Michael "throw-reporters-off-the-balcony" Grimm has been arrested.
So how long before the GOP cuts their losses, calls Grimm a liberal, and throws him over the balcony?
@Paul in KY:
What does Ms. Clinton have to do with this?
Context: HRC = Human Rights Campaign.
Botsplainer
The NAACP is proving that they're the real racists by throwing Sterling under the bus and declining to support Cliven Bundy's free speech. And Jefferson Davis was not wrong but he was a Democrat, the KKK is a leftist group, MLK was wrong but he was a Republican (like the freedom crushing tyrant Lincoln). Oh, and black folks call each other "nigger" all the time and get all inexplicably angry when white folks do it as their free speech.
You can learn a lot from Free Republic.
@JGabriel: First, they'll convince him to saying something racist, maybe by making a donation to his newly needed defense fund. Then they'll publicly cut him off.
@JGabriel: Reading too fast, I guess.
Yatsuno
@Paul in KY: Heck I'm gay and didn't get it as anything but Hillary on first read. So not just you. I blame Monday. And needing moar coffee.
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
It's not just the national organization, either, sadly. I came to the local branch of the NAACP in the 90's when a (now former) employer told me I couldn't hire a highly qualified black woman for a position she applied for because his customers "just aren't ready to deal with black people." I offered to sign affadavits, wear a wire, set up a sting, whatever we needed to do in order to document and prosecute. They wanted no part of any action that might attract the notice of the local white business community. It's the civil rights version of regulatory capture, in which organizations that were founded to guard the rights of the minority become too comfortable in their relationships to the dominant power structures to challenge their monopoly on power.
I almost forgot – Algore is fat and lives in a big house, and George W Bush wasn't a true conservative.
Oh, and every true conservative is an independent and not beholden to the GOP, even if they've voted straight GOP for 50 years.
@Belafon:
First, they'll convince [Grimm] to saying something racist, maybe by making a donation to his newly needed defense fund.
I'm pretty sure Republicans don't really need any convincing to say something racist. It just comes to them naturally, like bird shit on a car window.
Paul in KY, Yatsuno: Honestly, it was my first impulse to read it that way too. Then I readjusted when it didn't make any sense. It would have aided reading comprehension if the commenter had put a the in front of HRC.
@The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion:
Your example and this award begs the question; what's the purpose of the NAACP these days? They didn't want to offend the white community and they give an award to a proven racist.
doug r
@Paul in KY: There is an election in 2014. How about we concentrate on that first?
Yeah sorry for any confusion but given the context of "groups" who fundraise and give gold stars I didn't think it would be read as Hillary Clinton. I've many reasons for not gettin behind her as well, but that's for another topic.
The only groups that seem to fundraise and back up their words with actions and organizing are the ACLU, PP, and NORML.
The linked article states in the second paragraph that the NAACP has withdrawn the planned award. Doesn't mean I disagree with most of the comments here about the organization in general, their leadership and past decisions, but they did the right thing in promptly announcing they were rescinding the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Judging by the comments here, including mistermix's very first sentence, you all sound like you think the award is going ahead.
The Clippers owner is abhorent. Which leads me to wonder how his bi-racial 'girlfriend' could stay with him? The only reason I could imagine is money. So what makes her different from a paid worker?
The NAACP seems to have entered the "Orson Wells doing jug wine ads" stage of its existence.
The NAACP seems to have entered the late career Orson Wells stage of its existence.
scav
@kindness: Well, what makes her different from his wife then?
I suppose one could same the same thing about Sean Hannity doing the right thing in withdrawing his support of Cliven Bundy.
Neither entity would have done so if this stuff hadn't become public.
Mo money, mo money, mo money. No other explanation.
El Caganer
What surprised me was finding out that the local NAACP has known what this guy was about for a long, long time – very unsavory rep in housing discrimination, for starters (and you'd think that would blow any potential award right out of the water).
@kindness:
So what makes her different from a paid worker?
Apparently, from the lawsuit filed against her by his wife and family, she's just a yoyo on a golden string. CA is a community property state and he's been giving Ms Saviano money and real estate that isn't exactly his to give. Wifey wants it back. They also lost a son who died of a drug OD last year. That family has problems. Ms Saviano didn't do her homework. Kinda like the NAACP.
Clearly local NAACP organizations vary. Remember, it's the NC NAACP's William Barber who has helped create & lead that state's Moral Monday protest movement against the right wing assault on North Carolinians.
I suspect, strongly, that Sterling has made a great number of contributions to the NAACP LA chapter.
Hence their gratitude.
@Patrick:
Yeah, that wasn't actually my point. I completely agree that the NAACP shouldn't have announced an award for Sterling in the first place (because of his awful history), and that their rescinding the honour yesterday was both "too little too late" and done only because his horrible racial views became public at an untimely (from their viewpoint) moment.
My point was that just about everyone on this thread, including the FPer, was discussing it as if the award were still going ahead, and I was pointing out that it had been withdrawn. That's all.
Shrug. Their relationship isn't what's relevant here, nor is the purity of her soul. She has (or maybe had) her reasons for being with him; they probably do include money at that. And he has/had his reasons for keeping her around. That's really nobody's business but theirs.
What's more worrying is that it looks like Sterling bought a defence against justifiable accusations of racism with his donations to organisations like the NAACP over the years. When rich people seek to whitewash their reputations like this, should a body like the NAACP stand up to them and refuse the money, or accept it and use it for their work?
feebog
These guys are not just "coming out of the woodwork". There is a substantial percentage of people in this country who hold these racist views. Most of them know enough to not overtly share their views with people they don't know, or with people they know will disapprove of their views. In Bundy's case he is so insulated he most likely did not understand the furor his comments would cause. Plus he was emboldened by the fifteen minutes of fame syndrome. Sterling on the other hand, knows he has to watch what he says, as he is a public figure. His comments were recorded by his girlfriend, possibly as retaliation, because of the lawsuit his wife and family filed. He did not expect his conversation to ever become public, which in a way makes it worse than Bundy.
@doug r: I can multi-task.
@El Cid:
Clearly local NAACP organizations vary.
That was going to be my question, because the linked story was not at all clear: was this an award given by the national organization or the local (Los Angeles) one? The NAACP is not a monolith and there are a lot of local and state branches.
evolved beyond the fist mistermix
@SiubhanDuinne: I don't think it's going ahead, and I updated the post to clarify that.
tesslibrarian
Lately, poor decisions by non-profits have made me not want to donate to anyone at all. Just a couple weeks after I made my annual donation to EFF, they publish a pro-Tea Party post. Media Matters may be trying to crush unionization, just as I was about to do my annual donation to them. And now this from the NAACP.
If anyone has terrible news about Doctors without Borders, maybe give me a week.
Bundy and Sterling: a couple of wealthy, entitled old white male pricks who live in their own cocoon. How is that news in this country? It wouldn't even qualify as news on my street.
@tesslibrarian: they are french!!
I liked that article because it talks about how the problems with our current culture around non-profits and public services are much deeper than just the NAACP.
Where's Kay? Did she abandon us indefinitely? This was her bailiwick and reading that article last night made me wish she would come back.
Shame on the NAACP. Seems like Sterling gave them a little $$$ and they were willing to award him despite his racist actions.
Lately, poor decisions by non-profits have made me not want to donate to anyone at all.
@tesslibrarian: I'm down to Planned Parenthood.
geg6
I think he means the Human Right Campaign. If so, I wholeheartedly agree. What a sham.
Is the answer to the title question "retard"?
WaterGirl
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@tesslibrarian: I find that Southern Poverty Law Center is a great place to donate. They take extremists to court, they have a teaching tolerance program, they provide lots of good information a out extremists to law enforcement. Always a safe bet!
"Why is the NAACP in Bed With Racist Donald Sterling?"
Same reason his mistress was, I'm guessing.
Heliopause
I'm surprised at the general surprise being widely expressed about this. Sterling donated tickets that probably totaled millions of dollars in value over the years to minority kids. It's also possible that Sterling has donated boatloads directly to the NAACP or similar organizations. Rich people, racist and non-racist alike, have PR departments that make these decisions and then make sure that community organizations are aware of these decisions. This is how rich assholes burnish their credentials and community organizations go on existing. Also happens to be how our political system works; does anybody vet every penny that goes into the campaign fund?
Sure, maybe the NAACP should be policing their benefactors a little better. Doing so involves more administrative overhead, of course.
@tesslibrarian: Wow. I just forwarded that link to the SO. No more EFF donations from this household. That piece revealed an organizational underbelly that no one should see. It was almost Komen-worthy.
@slag: NO KIDDING. I sent them email telling them they'd never get another donation from me after I read that. I haven't had any sort of response, which sort of makes me feel like a sucker because they used to be one of our larger annual donations.
@WaterGirl: I'm looking at them now, too. They have tangible outcomes that benefit society.
@CONGRATULATIONS!: PP is my only sustainable donation.
@eric: Eh, my great-grandparents were born in Paris. Besides, I first learned about MSF in my high school French class, which is how I think of them, except when I'm typing and am not in the mood to recall accents. ;-)
Also: FYWP.
The Red Pen
Recently saw a post on Free Republic concerning positive remarks the NAACP made about Rand Paul.
The comments were pretty predictable, especially the one that basically said, "I guess if this makes liberals mad then I support it," thus validating Cleek's Law explicitly.
@geg6: I just missed it. Should have noticed the context.
@El Caganer:
You might think that if you didn't know about Sterling's history of writing big checks to charities in LA. Sterling likes having his ego stroked in public, and has been willing to pay handsomely for the privilege.
Not condoning the NAACP's slowness to react, but it's understandable in context.
SectarianSofa
@slag:
Fuck the EFF. Broad overlap with glibertarians and freedom cranks. This does not surprise me.
Nice EFF mention here:
"Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet"
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-arent-welcome-internet-72170/
Cyberlibertarianism: "EFF… came out against an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act. " Out of context, but really, the EFF doesn't care about you (if you aren't them).
another Holocene human
@big ole hound: Ben Jealous did a good job. This was a regional chapter, which is a different matter.
drkrick
Two "Lifetime Achievement Awards" to the same donor recipient should have never passed the smell test in the first place.


WILLIAMSON, J. M., H. W. THURSTON, AND G. BENNETT. VALUING ACID MINE DRAINAGE REMEDIATION OF IMPAIRED WATERWAYS IN WEST VIRGINIA: A HEDONIC MODELING APPROACH. Presented at EPA GIS Workgroup Conference, Cincinnati, OH, September 19 - 22, 2006.
States with active and abandoned mines face large private and public costs to remediate damage to streams and rivers from acid mine drainage (AMD), the metal rich runoff flowing primarily from abandoned mines and surface deposits of mine waste. AMD can lower stream and river pH to levels that cannot sustain life. Calculating the cost of damage to streams and rivers due to AMD is not straightforward, and encompasses a wide spectrum of factors. There is the dollar loss of recreational activity associated with the streams and rivers such as sport fishing and river rafting. And non-use values must be considered, though they are more difficult to quantify. Deriving the non-use value of remediating an environmentally damaged body of water is fraught with design and measurement issues that have confounded water quality research. Non-use values are usually embodied in the price of other goods or services, and therefore must be derived. In this article we use a spatial-econometrics approach to estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the cleanup of AMD impaired waterways in the Cheat River Watershed of West Virginia. Appalachian states have an especially large number of contaminated streams and rivers, and the USGS places AMD as the primary source of water-quality degradation in the region. More than 5,000 miles of streams and rivers there are impacted by AMD. We derive non-use values for AMD using 21 years of housing sales data, spanning 1985 - 2005, and use geographic information systems (GIS) to link housing market sales data with stream water quality. The richness the data allow us to control for housing attributes such as the number of rooms of the house, bathrooms, stories, size of the house in square footage, as well as amenities of the house such as air conditioning, all of which contribute to the value of the house. Using the variation in sales prices and water quality, we develop WTP estimates of the price impact of water quality. The results indicate being located near an AMD impaired stream reduces the house value by 13.5% or $5,299.


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Example: Drag - Constrained to a Region

This example shows how to constrain a draggable Node to another Node's region.

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Setting up the Node

First we need to create the HTML structure used in this example.

<div id="dd-demo-canvas1">
    <div id="dd-demo-canvas2">
        <div id="dd-demo-canvas3">
            <div id="dd-demo-1" class="dd-demo"><div>1</div></div>
            <div id="dd-demo-2" class="dd-demo"><div>2</div></div>
            <div id="dd-demo-3" class="dd-demo"><div>3</div></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Now we give the Nodes some CSS to make them visible.

.dd-demo {
    position: relative;
    text-align: center;
    color: #fff;
    cursor: move;
    height: 60px;
    width: 60px;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

.dd-demo div {
    border: 1px solid black;
    height: 58px;
    width: 58px;
}

#dd-demo-canvas1 {
    padding: 55px;
    background-color: #004C6D;
    border: 1px solid black;
}
#dd-demo-canvas2 {
    padding: 25px;
    background-color: #CDCDCD;
    border: 1px solid black;
}
#dd-demo-canvas3 {
    padding: 15px;
    background-color: #8DD5E7;
    border: 1px solid black;
}

#dd-demo-1 {
    background-color: #8DD5E7;
    top:5px;
    left:5px;
    color: #000;
}

#dd-demo-2 {
    background-color: #CDCDCD;
    top:50px;
    left:100px;
    color: #000;
}

#dd-demo-3 {
    background-color: #004C6D;
    top:-100px;
    left:200px;
}

Setting up the YUI Instance

Now we need to create our YUI instance and tell it to load the dd-constrain module (that will load the dd-ddm and dd-drag modules too).

YUI().use('dd-constrain');

Making the Nodes draggable

Now that we have a YUI instance with the dd-constrain module, we need to instantiate the Drag instance on the Nodes.

YUI().use('dd-constrain', function(Y) {
    var dd1 = new Y.DD.Drag({
        node: '#dd-demo-1'
    });

    var dd2 = new Y.DD.Drag({
        node: '#dd-demo-2'
    });

    var dd3 = new Y.DD.Drag({
        node: '#dd-demo-3'
    });
});

Constrain the Nodes to other Nodes

Now that we have the Nodes draggable, we need to constrain them. We can do this by plugging the DDConstrained on to the Drag instance and passing it a config option called constrain2node and giving it a selector string of the Node we want to constrain to.

YUI().use('dd-constrain', function(Y) {
    var dd1 = new Y.DD.Drag({
        node: '#dd-demo-1'
    }).plug(Y.Plugin.DDConstrained, {
        constrain2node: '#dd-demo-canvas3'
    });

    var dd2 = new Y.DD.Drag({
        node: '#dd-demo-2'
    }).plug(Y.Plugin.DDConstrained, {
        constrain2node: '#dd-demo-canvas2'
    });

    var dd3 = new Y.DD.Drag({
        node: '#dd-demo-3'
    }).plug(Y.Plugin.DDConstrained, {
        constrain2node: '#dd-demo-canvas1'
    });
});

Table of Contents

Setting up the Node

Setting up the YUI Instance

Making the Nodes draggable

Constrain the Nodes to other Nodes

Examples

                                            Simple Drag

                                            Drag - Node plugin

                                            Drag - Proxy

                                            Drag - Constrained to a Region

                                            Drag - Interaction Groups

                                            Drag - Handles on an Panel

                                            Using the Drag Shim

                                            Using Drop Based Coding

                                            Window Scrolling

                                            Drag Delegation

                                            Drag Delegation with a Drop Target

                                            Using Drag Plugins with Delegate

                                            List Reorder w/Bubbling

                                            List Reorder w/Scrolling

                                            Animated Drop Targets

                                            Photo Browser

                                            Portal Style Example

Examples That Use This Component

                                            Adjusting a Page Theme on the Fly

                                            Multiple Instances

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Matt Smith joins the team as a relationship director and will be responsible for looking after businesses with a turnover of £6.5 million upwards.
Smith, who has been a banker for the last 28 years, has extensive knowledge of the corporate sector and most recently he was the National Head of Marine and Transport and then Senior Director of Social Housing delivering large complex transactions.


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Q: Pick line with highest value Referring to the code below:
How do I pick the sample which has the highest value and output the whole line.
 Sample      Value      Sequence
 miR1        23213      atatgcgctcg
 miR1        324235     atatctcgct
 miR1        3453       tctgctcg
 miR2        343        tctctgag
 miR2        34535      tctct
 miR2        4324       tctgagag
 ...

Output:
 miR1        324235     atatctcgct
 miR2        34535      tctct

I guess I could do some sorting in excel, but is there a way to do this in perl or in the command line?

A: perl -MList::Util=max -lane'
  $h{$F[0]}{$F[1]} = $_ }{
  print $h{$_}{ max keys %{$h{$_}} } for keys %h
' file

output
 miR1        324235     atatctcgct
 miR2        34535      tctct

A: This piece of code will split your input file by \s+ and use the 1st column as a key in a hash which will take the largest value for that key as it's final value:
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;

open my $in, '<', 'in.txt';

my (%data, @split, %keep);

while (<$in>){
    chomp;
    next if /^Sample/;
    s/^\s//;
    @split = split(/\s+/);
    if ( (not exists $data{$split[0]} ) || (abs $data{$split[0]} < abs $split[1] ) ) {
        $data{$split[0]} = $split[1];
        $keep{$split[0]} = [ $split[1], $split[2] ];
    }

}

print "$_\t@{$keep{$_}}\n" for sort keys %keep;

miR1    324235 atatctcgct
miR2    34535 tctct

A: An awk solution:
awk 'NR>1{ if (a[$1]<$2) {a[$1]=$2;b[a[$1]]=$0} else a[$1]} END {for (i in a) print b[a[i]]}' file
 miR1        324235     atatctcgct
 miR2        34535      tctct

A: Another perl one-liner:
perl -lane '
push @{$h{$F[0]}}, [$F[1], $_] }{
print $_->[1] for map { (sort { $b->[0] <=> $a->[0] } @$_)[0] } values %h' file

Output:
 miR2        34535      tctct
 miR1        324235     atatctcgct

A: You could use sort,
$ sort -k 2,2n file | tac | head -2
 miR1        324235     atatctcgct
 miR2        34535      tctct

A: The below awk command will give only the line with maximum value.
 awk 'BEGIN {IFS= "[ ]*";maxVal=1 } NR>1{ if(maxVal < $2) maxVal = $0 } END {print maxVal  }'  inputFile.txt

output:
miR1   23213   atatgcgctcg


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January 23, 2018 12:25 AM By Helen McCarthy 20 Comments
Treason: QAnon Exposes Obama/Hillary 16-year Coup d'état Plan
In an explosive post on Sunday, QAnon explained the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton 16-year treasonous plan to use two White House terms for a coup d'état in the United States that would end up revising the Constitution, cancelling the Second Amendment, and opening borders to flood the nation with illegal immigrants calculated to vote Democrat for the foreseeable future. In the exceptionally long post narrative, QAnon alleged that "Deep State" rogue operatives murdered Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in an attempt to lock in a hard-left ideology on the nation's highest court by giving President Obama one final Supreme Court nomination. QAnon makes clear Obama, Clintons, DNC, and the U.S. intelligence community planned their coup d'état boldly, confident Hillary Clinton would be elected president, never imagining Donald Trump would win. (Source: infowars.com)
Ex-CIA Clandestine Officer Confirms False Flag Missile Attack Upon Hawaii
Multiple people, including a boating expedition of about 10 people approximately 100 nautical miles from the Hawaiian Islands saw a flash of light following an explosion in the air. The time frame fits the Hawaiian warning of an incoming missile. In the interview with the CSS, Robert David Steele is crystal clear in saying that this was a false flag attack designed to blame North Korea and start World War III. The "attack" upon Hawaii and later Japan happened very shortly after it was announced that the two Korea's would march under the same flag and form a joint hockey team. It seems very likely that rogue elements of the globalists launched a missile at both Japan and Hawaii, both were taken down, and the attempted false flag events designed to start World War III were averted for the time being. (Source: thecommonsenseshow.com)
Unsealed FISA Court Ruling Shows 85% of Obama's FBI and DOJ 704-5 FISA Searches Were Illegal and Illegally Provided to Government Outsiders
The report was a ruling on the results of an investigation or audit into FISA searches made by Obama's FBI and DOJ during Obama's time in office. According to the report, Obama's FBI and DOJ performed searches on Americans that were against their 4th Amendment rights. This went on for years. One paragraph in the report states that 85% of the Section 704 and 705(b) FISA searches made during this time were non-compliant with applicable laws and therefore criminal. In addition, the report cites that at the same time that Obama's DOJ and FBI were illegally searching Americans against their rights and unbeknownst to them, Obama's FBI was providing this information to outside contractors who had no business or legal cause or claim the information. (Source: thegatewaypundit.com)
VP Pence Confirms US Will No Longer Certify Iran Deal
During a speech to the Knesset – Israel's parliament – Monday, Pence surprised his audience by declaring that the US would not re-certify the Iran deal when it comes up for renewal in May, virtually guaranteeing that the US will re-impose economic sanctions against the Iranian regime. Instead, Pence told the Israeli parliament on Monday that the administration is "committed to enact effective and lasting restraints on Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs." Pence also added the administration will advance its plan in the coming weeks and the embassy will open by the end of 2019. (Source: zerohedge.com)
Christian Kurds Bombed by Turkey: 'Many Lives are in Mortal Danger… Please Help Us'
Turkish forces began bombing the city of Afrin from the air on Saturday and sent in ground troops on Sunday. In a joint statement Saturday, the Kurdish Churches in Afrin and Kobane confirmed "we are under attack by Turkey." "The lives of our women and children are in danger. The city of Afrin is being bombarded by Turkish airstrikes. We are asking for intervention, and protection against the violent attacks which are being levied against us at the moment," the statement continued. The YPG's General Command said in statement ,"We know that, without the permission of global forces and mainly Russia, whose troops located in Afrin, Turkey cannot attack civilians using Afrin airspace." (Source: pjmedia.com)
Supremes join Trump to dismantle Obama power grab
The justices ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot provide a hedge of protection preventing courts from reviewing its actions by requiring such appeals be heard only in some courts. Pacific Legal Foundation worked with farmers, ranchers and other landowners nationwide who wanted to fight the Obama-era Waters of the U.S. ruling. That vastly expanded the federal government's claim to authority over any water, even water-filled ditches, puddles and more. "The EPA's 'waters of the United States' rule may be the most brazen – and lawless – expansion of bureaucratic power in American history. The regulators who imposed it tried to shield it from review by limiting opportunities for the public to bring challenges. (Source: wnd.com)
US Coast Guard Adds Cruise Missiles To Ice-Breakers As Battle For The Arctic Begins
Coast Guard Commandant Paul Zukunft confirmed last week that the Coast Guard's newest fleet of heavy icebreakers would be designed to carry cruise missiles. Over the years, the Coast Guard has neglected to maintain its Arctic fleet of just three icebreakers. Meanwhile, Russia has a fleet of at-least forty icebreakers, including "four operational nuclear-powered icebreakers and 16 medium-sized craft," said a report. The U.S. has unofficially kicked off a weapons race with Russia for the control of the Arctic and its vast natural resource reserves with the decision to strap cruise missiles to its icebreakers. (Source: zerohedge.com)
Congress Quietly Pushing Bill to Require National Biometric ID for 'ALL Americans'
Tucked away in A 400-page behemoth of a bill, Securing America's Future Act of 2018, are the details of a new biometric National ID card that could soon be required for everyone. H.R. 4760 establishes a mandatory National Identification system that requires all Americans to carry a government-approved ID containing "biometric features." Without this card, according to the legislation, you WILL NOT be able to work in this country. However, as Ron Paul points out, "Under the statists' National ID scheme, you'd be forced to carry around your National ID card, tied to this massive database, chockfull of biometric identifiers like fingerprints and retina scans. Without this ID, you won't be able to legally hold a job — or likely even open a bank account or even board a plane!" (Source: thefreethoughtproject.com)
California to register illegal aliens to vote – automatically
No joke- California will take the next step in blurring the lines between citizens and non-citizens beginning April Fool's Day when the state complies with a court order to begin automatically registering to vote all those who are granted driver's licenses. The new statute requires the DMV to forward records for all eligible applicants to the Secretary of State's Office for registration unless those applicants elect not to register to vote. The state has long provided driver's licenses to all who simply claimed, without proof, that they were citizens of in the country legally. There were no checks made or documentation required. (Source: wnd.com)
Amazon's First Fully-Automated Grocery Store Opens To The Public
Entering the new Amazon's store It feels as if you are entering a subway station. A row of gates guard the entrance to the store, known as Amazon Go, allowing in only people with the store's smartphone app. There are no cashiers or registers anywhere. Shoppers leave the store through the same gates they entered, without pausing to pull out a credit card. Their Amazon account automatically gets charged for what they take out the door. The only sign of the technology that makes this possible are of small cameras throughout the store. There have been some unexpected obstacles involving the store's complex system of sensors and cameras. People familiar with Amazon's operations said these included correctly identifying shoppers with similar body types. (Source: zerohedge.com)
If you would have told me two years ago that God would be using the white hats in the US government and Donald Trump as president to shine the light on these monsters and begin to take action I would have scarcely believed it. Continuing to pray for President Trump and the patriots who are moving against these corrupt pedophiles.
The plans that the globalists put in place for our country are very similar to what the prophets have been saying would happen to America…yet a remnant continues to dwell in the secret place and walk in righteousness – interceding for the US. Never give up. Continue to prepare for catastrophe, but don't ever give up the fight. It's not over yet.
And what's more Trump has been planning this for 20+ years! He considered running in 2000, 04 and 08 or 12 I can't recall which. Trump actually visited our church at the time in Columbus, Ohio (a very famous church with a pastor named for a popular herb) and said he would run for president at some point but Bush Jr begged him to let him run again. My mom was in the service when the pastor explained Trump had been lead to Christ by Paula White though Trump said he had to be careful to not reveal too much about it in order to get elected in the future but he had given his life to Christ and had White and others as mentors for him and his family.
Oh and a little trivia about Mar-A-Lago, it was built from 1924-1927 by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post who after her death in 1973 donated it to the National Park Service to use during state visits or, get this, as a WINTER WHITE HOUSE. The Park Service didn't want to spend the money to maintain the property and none other than DONALD J. TRUMP bought it in 1985. You cannot tell me this was coincidence. Trump, whether he knew it or not, bought his own private White House 31 years before he was elected president. And these globalist scumbags complain he's 'spending too much money' when it was purpose built to be a SOUTHERN WHITE HOUSE. As FDR said there is no coincidence in politics, if it happened you can be sure someone planned for it to happen that way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago
*Infowars Releases Secret FISA Memo*
William Binney, former tech head of the NSA contacted Infowars to send them the link to the reportedly classified memo that lawmakers said was a blueprint of how the Obama administration and the Deep State spied on President Trump. The memo appeared on the Director of National Intelligence website today, authorized by President Trump. The memo reveals that it's not just the Trump organization the DNC was spying on but the entire U.S.
https://www.infowars.com/exclusive-infowars-releases-secret-fisa-memo/
Wow, thanks for sharing this great confirmation of many prophetic dreams and visions Helen.
Helen I love your posts. You are doing an amazing job. Thank you
Awesome thank you Helen!!
After researching reports after this information was released, while a damning report of the illegal spying of President Trump and U.S. citizens, I believe the FISA memo the House has yet to release contains more explosive revelations as mentioned in Jerome Corsi's article about QAnon's memo drop. No doubt there is a lot more to come….
Yes. If they provide the texts indicating talk of physical harm to the President look out.. I've been following Dr. Corsi's decoding of QAnon as well and it's so helpful. Helen this stuff is coming out so fast this year it's been hard to keep up with it. Thanks for what you are doing.
Thank you Mike M, yes, it seems by the time I post the news at the end of the day, it's already 'old' news.
Hi Helen. Actually, I have seen your reports before I see them on mainstream media. You are doing a great job!
After reading these news articles I just felt sick. I believe that it is similar to what Habakkuk felt as he complained to God about the corruption of his day.
"How long, O Lord, will I call for help,
And You will not hear?
I cry out to You, "Violence!"
Yet You do not save.
Why do You make me see iniquity,
And cause me to look on wickedness?
Yes, destruction and violence are before me;
Strife exists and contention arises.
Therefore the law is ignored
And justice is never upheld.
For the wicked surround the righteous;
Therefore justice comes out perverted."
Our own government is plotting against us and against God. Their lust for power has reached a climax and they will allow nothing to get in their way and they will destroy everything in their path.
I have been praying that God cleanses this land of all the filth, corruption and violence. And the Lord has assured me that he will have His day of wrath on all iniquity.
But I am not looking forward to that day either. It will be a day of gloom and darkness. It will be a day of great distress. In the end, God will have a holy remnant.
Christian Block
Tsunami warning for Alaska. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-23/whole-town-evacuating-tsunami-headed-alaska-after-82-magnitude-earthquake
Lois Vogel Sharp I'm pretty sure has said that the California EQ (projected 7.5 mag) will be the trigger for the economy to start to slide. Dutchsinse has shown the way pressure transfers and flows. It goes right down the coast. A mag 8 EQ in Alaska… the pressure moves south.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhauWEssOQo word at 3:38mark
6:08 California will receive an EQ, it is time to fulfill. I will no longer hold back my judgement.
Interesting that the Torah portion that is read this week is Exodus 13:17 thru 17:16
The Wilderness Way
17 Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt." 18 So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.
Warning was cancelled, thank God.
After reading all this, just wanted to say, "Thank you, God!" that the election turned out the way it did. Christians would have been in serious trouble otherwise, sooner than might be now.
Hosea 4 offers a similar warning to our country
"For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no faithfulness or kindness
Or knowledge of God in the land.
There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery.
They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Therefore the land mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes
Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky,
And also the fish of the sea disappear."
FBI Agents Discussed "Secret Society" Within DOJ & FBI Working To Undermine Trump https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-22/fbi-agents-discussed-secret-society-within-doj-and-fbi-working-undermine-trump
If people want to see the listing of Qanon's posts, they can go to https://qco
defag.github.io Jerome Corsi has been asked to help with the interpretation of Q's posts. But Q's statements are interesting and Q is clearly someone very close to the president, and probably military intelligence. Things that I have heard on TruNews are being discussed in Q's posts. Fascinating and things to bring to Jesus in prayer.
Regarding the Mandatory National Biometric ID – the Mark of the Beast will be carried in/on the right hand or forehead. We've all heard plans to insert a RFID chip between the thumb and index finger of the right hand. I've wondered if Iris scans could be fulfillment of the 'mark in the forehead' portion of this prophecy.