Sitting in the shade of the old linden trees by Olle Nyman's atelier at Cafe Koloni in Saltsjö-Duvnäs.
I've always been a cafe person. I love sipping from a cup of steaming tea or coffee and observing passers-by, alternatively resting my eyes on something soothing and beautiful, like a stunning view or a flower-filled garden. Not many places can combine both, but Cafe Koloni is one of them, and that's why I keep going back there when in Stockholm.
* A gathering of houses; above, the cafe at the left and the house where Olle Nyman lived on the right. Below, the studio to the left, and Olle's atelier to the right.
Situated in Saltsjö-Duvnäs some 8 kilometers from the city, Cafe Koloni is tucked away in a white-washed wing in a gathering of houses, an atelier and a studio that used to belong to the Swedish artist Olle Nyman. You can choose to sit either inside the building or in the adjoining herb garden, or further away in the old fruit orchard. If you choose your seat carefully, you can watch sailing boats glide by on the adjoining inlet of Duvnäsviken.
Entrance to the veranda at Olle's house.
Despite it has lost some of its initial "hidden gem" atmosphere, Koloni still is one of those rare places where you can sit surrounded by the graceful patina of the 18th and 19th century buildings, listening to the whisper of the old lindens. After your coffee, you can check out the annual exhibition in the studio; it always has a connection to either Olle Nyman or Saltsjö-Duvnäs, and even the name Koloni refers to Olle Nyman's time when he together with his artist friends filled the place with a buzz of creative activity. A place well worth a little day trip, especially for those with artistic ambitions... whether they are gardeners or not.
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Q. "A student in my class gave me a Christmas coffee mug filled with candy. Although the gesture was sweet, the mug has a sticker that says the mug contains material that can cause cancer. What do I do with it now? I don't want to throw out a new mug, but I can't use it or give it away. I am afraid that if I keep it for a seasonal decoration I will eventually forget the warning. Please help!!" Katy F.A. Mmmm, one of the tougher Q&As; that we've had. No simple answers here Katy. But maybe it is worth considering the martial art of Akido, where the defender uses the initiators movements to neutralise him. Or in this case, see your student's ignorance not as a negative, but rather as an opportunity. Being a teacher you have unique circumstances to provide feedback, not only to that student, but your class as whole. Am assuming you teach elementary, or primary school, who are the most receptive to environmental education.
What a perfect segue into a discussion on Cradle to Cradle, or 'where-stuff-comes-from-and-where-it-goes-to'. C2C is premised around the simple notion that for a sustainable planet we should see the world as offering only three types of materials, or what they term nutrients: 1. biodegradable (it will become soil again), 2. industrial (we can recycle it over and over and over into fresh high grade material) and 3. toxic (materials that make plants, animals, air, water and soil sick). Obviously we should only make products from the first two, and avoid that latter. This can lead to discussions on how we might know that things are toxic, or less than healthy, and thus onto labelling issues, such as the one found on your coffee cup. And maybe onto to one the hardest lessons for anyone to learn. That of actions and consequences. How every choice we make, effects the world around us, sometimes for the good, sometimes not.
Pose to your students the conundrum you face what to do with the cup now that you've enjoyed the Christmas treats. They might come up with startling answers (many deliciously impractical!) but nevertheless they will be thinking about issues of lifecycle. Which might spur heaps of other questions: Where does waste go? Why do we have to have rubbish (trash)? What eventually happens to the pet cat that died and was buried in the backyard? Does the school recycle its paper?
Or have your class write a group letter to the manufacturer and supplier asking why, in the first instance, they create products that can make people sick. The students could also ask the companies what suggestions they have for safe use and disposal of the said mug.
Encourage them that young people can have an impact to. Use the case of Severn Cullis-Suzuki, who was making waves at the tender age of just 9.
Might be prudent to elicit the approval the gift giver prior to any class study, so he/she doesn't feel a right goose.


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The fact that Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation works as well as it does is a modern miracle, given the circumstances that were placed on director Christopher McQuarrie during his post-production. For starters, the movie's planned release date was shifted from December to July 31, largely to avoid Star Wars: The Force Awakens (according to reports). Also, from a lot of what we were hearing, McQuarrie was still tinkering with his ending as late as June (!!), trying to find the right combination of scenes that would fit.
We always had the ending of the film as a kind of moveable feast when we were making it. We got the script initially, and Chris being Chris McQuarrie 'The Writer' as opposed to Chris McQuarrie 'The Director' wanted to keep the ending [as] something we would find on the way. So the meat of the ending didn't appear until after we were well into the shoot. It wasn't in the script, that [scene]. But it was something we'd all agreed to do, to have that sort of evolve organically rather than just sort of have it all on the page before we started.
It's a scary way to work, but it really helped the movie, I think. It means a sort of, a different kind of movie, then just like building to the biggest action set piece. Which is often the case. It's like a video game, some films. You get bosses that increase in size, whereas this is something else."
It's definitely true that Rogue Nation is the kind of action film that opens BIG (with that eye-popping airplane stunt), then reserves the best of its stunt sequences for the middle act. I'm not sure how McQuarrie could have topped the underwater-dive-scene-into-a-car-chase-into-a-motorcycle-chase montage… so, he didn't! He developed an ending, instead, that plays on our sympathies for the characters, placing Simon Pegg's Benji in a life-threatening situation and forcing Ethan to use his wit and intellect to beat Lane at his own game. And the fact that McQuarrie trusted his instincts, and his cast, enough to make that change while already in the process -- and facing an enhanced deadline – shows why he's one of the strongest working directors out there today.
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Second Act: This WNBA Star Is Ready for a Bit of Drama
Renee Montgomery (No. 21) of the Atlanta Dream during the WNBA game on June 8, 2018, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
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Football, basketball, soccer. Cricket, rugby, the X-games. And anything else you can dream up to make you sweat.
Because life after basketball has to begin early in this league.
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Back in December 2017, Renee Montgomery was holed up in her apartment outside Tel Aviv, going through what had grown into an unintended nine-year holiday-season ritual. She called her mother and her friends and FaceTimed her two sisters and their children, telling them she couldn't wait to see them, and that she'd be home for the holidays next year.
They'd heard these promises before, but this time she wasn't acting — that would happen a year later.
An 11-year WNBA veteran playing for the Atlanta Dream after stints in Connecticut, Seattle and Minnesota, Montgomery is like many other professional women's basketball players in that her pursuit of financial freedom has pushed her to play overseas to supplement a WNBA salary that topped out at $107,000 this year. Since being drafted out of UConn in 2009, Montgomery has played in Israel, Russia, Lithuania, Poland and Australia from fall to spring — two full seasons of hoops per year. Before this past offseason, though, she called her basketball agent and told him she was making a change. She was staying in Atlanta.
Kelsey Plum (No. 10) of the Las Vegas Aces guards Renee Montgomery (No. 21) of the Atlanta Dream during their WNBA game on June 8, 2018, in Las Vegas.
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"Turning down guaranteed money is always a struggle," says Montgomery, 32. "But I spent years putting myself in a position financially where I can now go six months without a paycheck. I had to take a leap of faith."
That's because the gregarious Montgomery — known around the WNBA as one of the league's foremost locker room and pregame warmup entertainers — is making moves to perform on another professional level, living out her childhood dream as an actress. In Atlanta, which has blossomed into a mini-Hollywood thanks to generous state tax breaks for filmmakers, Montgomery takes drama classes at Nick Conti's Professional Actor's Studio. She has immersed herself in improv competitions and booked a number of upcoming roles — including a feature film. She already has one 16-minute short film — Not My Favorite Christmas — that can be streamed on Amazon Prime. In the holiday-themed comedy, Montgomery plays the friend of an internet influencer who, unbeknownst to those around him, is being evicted on Christmas Eve.
I'm going to have to pay my dues.
Renee Montgomery
Her life also has taken a dramatic turn socially. Montgomery's parents and one sister live in their native West Virginia, and another sister is in Washington, D.C., so visiting family is easier than ever. And Montgomery soon found that even spontaneous hangs with her two best friends in Atlanta were a rejuvenating force that she'd long been missing out on. "Finally, I can attend all the weekend barbecues," she says. "I'm RSVPing 'yes' to all the house-warming parties. I even hosted a New Year's Eve party this year!"
A top high school player who, as many do, matriculated to UConn to play for legendary coach Geno Auriemma, Montgomery finished her career ranked in Connecticut's all-time top 10 in points, games played, three-pointers, assists and steals, and she led the Huskies to an undefeated season in 2009. She became a WNBA All-Star with the Connecticut Sun in 2011 and followed it up with a Sixth Woman of the Year award. She won WNBA titles with the Minnesota Lynx in 2015 and 2017. In her first season with Atlanta last year, she averaged 10.3 points and 3.7 assists per game, leading the rebuilding Dream to the conference finals.
"When I got the job I immediately targeted Renee," says Dream head coach Nicki Collen, who was hired ahead of the 2018 season. "Beyond her skill on the court, she was the exact type of high-energy leader we needed in the locker room."
Away from the court, though, Montgomery yearned to flex her creative muscles. Always an entertainer, Montgomery felt a responsibility to not waste her pristine basketball skills that were so apparent from an early age. But the life of an athlete only lasts so long. Determined not to be pigeonholed into coaching or broadcasting (she did a college basketball analyst stint for ESPN in 2010) in the next stage of her career, Montgomery is going all in on acting.
Montgomery with the cast of Not My Favorite Christmas.
Reflecting on her decision to abandon her winter globe-trotting for a new dream, Montgomery seems almost surprised at how happy she is with the life change. Sometimes it's easy to forget that professional athletes are real people, with passions and dreams unrelated to sports; players often have to find the key that unlocks that second door to happiness. Still cutting her teeth in drama, Montgomery is proud to have graduated from beginner to intermediate courses at Nick Conti's faster than expected.
When we spoke, she was excited to be wrapping up four months of shooting a film about the effects of diplomatic immunity, tentatively called Desert Lily. For Montgomery, who plays a government agent, the experience was a major lesson in the art of filmmaking. And in coming to terms with wearing the same thing every day for months. "I'll be burning that outfit when I'm done," she jokes.
With the 2019 WNBA season underway, Montgomery's focus has returned to the hardwood. Atlanta began the year with the fourth-best championship odds (7-1) of any team, and Montgomery is a valuable cog for the playoff push. Still, whether it's after this or another few seasons, the lifelong hooper knows her time on the hardwood is nearing a logical end. "I had to start my life after basketball while still playing basketball," she says.
She knows that not everyone appreciates, or even accepts, that athletes foster dual identities. It will take time to win some people over. "I'm going to have to pay my dues," she says. "Until I book a recurring role or a major film, people aren't going to take [my acting] seriously. And that's fine. In time, the respect will come."
In class, at least, Montgomery is earning the respect of her peers. Her acting coach, Franco Castan, says that Montgomery's commitment and serious approach to the craft have spread throughout the class. "For young actors, the biggest hurdle is being vulnerable enough to apply what you're learning in class," says Castan. "To get out and hunt for roles. Renee's already doing that — and booking gigs. That's inspiring to my other students."
For now, she's staying focused on small achievements, like graduating levels in her acting class or scoring laughs during an improv set, that fill her with a sense of pride unlike any she's felt on the hardwood. "The little things are big to me now," Montgomery says. "Doing it here in Atlanta, I finally feel like I'm living."
That's no act.
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The Great American Irish Festival, affectionately known to its many fans as The GAIF, will return to the Herkimer County Fairgrounds for its 16th year July 26-28, 2019.
House of Hamill plays lively fiddle tunes at GAIF 2018.
Longtime fans of the festival will be glad to hear it's back to three days this year after an experiment with two days last year. The Sunday Mass will also return to the fairgrounds and the Ranger Run 5K race will move to a Sunday time slot. Otherwise, the festival will feature all the best sights and sounds it has in past years with a few surprises.
The GAIF has a long reputation for attracting some of the hottest acts in Celtic music, and this year will be just as entertaining with a total of 22 different groups including The High Kings, We Banjo 3, Young Dubliners, Screaming Orphans and many more. Local favorites will also perform, among them Arise & Go, Donal O'Shaughnessy, and Craobh Dugan. Blarney Rebel Band will perform for the volunteer party. For a full list of bands and to sign up to be a volunteer, see the GAIF website at www.greatamericanirishfest.com.
Enter the Haggis performs on the Contemporary Stage.
Although music fills every minute of the festival, there are many other things to do and see as well. The GAIF's Cultural Building will serve as a mini-museum with displays about Irish poetry, Aran knitting, Irish language, and the history of Irish immigrants in the Mohawk Valley. Festival-goers will be able to ask a professional genealogist about tracing their Irish ancestry, get a nametag with their own name in Irish, and see how a thatch roof works.
"Craobh Dugan is looking forward to heading up the GAIF Cultural Building this year," said Chris Hoke, Craobh Dugan's president. "We love hosting the Saturday evening open session and are hopeful that some of the band musicians will join us. Also, we have a few fun surprises in store."
The Shoppes of the Emerald Isle building will be fully stocked with a wide array of Celtic jewelry, Tartan kilts, Aran sweaters, T-shirts with humorous sayings, and all sorts of gift items.
Embracing Scottish along with Irish culture, the festival will host a bagpipe band competition culminating in the annual massed pipe band march around the fairgrounds on Saturday. And at the traditional Highland Games, you can watch muscular men and women hurl extremely heavy items like stones, hammers, and cabers. Cabers are wooden poles ranging in length from 16 – 22 feet and in weight from 70 – 180 pounds.
The Mohawk Valley Frasers lead the annual Massed Pipe Band March.
Feats of strength abound at the Highland Heavy Games.
One of the most endearing qualities of the GAIF is its sense of welcome and community. The Irish call it "craic". Whether you have a drop of Irish DNA or not, and no matter what age you are, you'll find someone to sing or dance with. The event is a fun outing for families with something to offer each generation. There's even a special area for the kids called the Wee Zone where they can check out critters on the Utica Zoomobile, snack on popcorn and slushies, and do arts and crafts. Kids and animal lovers of all ages can also meet members of the Irish canine clan at the Dogs of Ireland booth.
The Ranger Run 5K, which takes a path around the fairgrounds on Sunday morning before the festival opens, also includes a ½ mile run for kids.
The GAIF packs its entry tickets with value, but if you want even more, you can buy additional tickets for the Whiskey Tasting, VIP backstage experience, and the Sip and Paint session on Saturday which includes all the necessary painting supplies and a drink to sip.
Artists create beautiful Celtic paintings at the Sip and Paint at GAIF 2018.
Needless to say, no one will go hungry or thirsty at the festival. Food truck vendors will offer Irish favorites like Rueben sandwiches and Irish fries and the usual festival fare like hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, and funnel cakes. To wash it all down, the beer tent will keep the Guinness, White Claw, Saranac Irish Red, 1911 Blueberry Cider, and Utica Club flowing. And for those who prefer, wine and wine slushies will also be available.
It's a little known fact that this entire festival is completely organized and run by volunteers. The 52 members of the planning committee meet year-round to schedule, plan, and organize the bands, vendors, step dancers, cultural exhibits and other activities, as well as details like security, parking, and publicity. Their ultimate goal has always been to raise funds for the construction of the Irish Cultural Center of the Mohawk Valley in Utica, which is nearly complete. But there are other reasons. The GAIF Committee members and festival volunteers love their culture and want to share it. Plus they enjoy the feeling of camaraderie and the friendships that grow from working together to make the festival better each year.
Discounted advance sale tickets for the GAIF are available on the GAIF website now and beginning July 1 at area Price Chopper stores. You'll also find detailed schedules, race registration, photo contest submission forms, campsite reservations, an extensive FAQ page, and much more on the website at GreatAmericanIrishFest.com.
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Great American Irish Festival
Herkimer County Fairgrounds, Frankfort, NY
July 26, 4:30-11:00pm
Also on July 28
Ranger Kids 1/2 Mile Run, 8:00am
Ranger Run 5K, 8:30am
Irish Mass, 10:00am
Friday: $15 ($18 at the gate)
Saturday: $18 ($20 at the gate)
Sunday: $10 ($10 at the gate)
Those attending Mass can be reimbursed their $10 admission fee if they choose not to stay at the festival afterward.
Weekend Pass: $35 (only available in advance)
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Q: ask the user to select an image from disk and save it in a filesystem in python so this is my code it made the user select an image from his own disk my problem is the moment the user choose an image from his disk I want to store the image in the filesystem(directory) but have no idea how to do it.
so this is the following code when the user is allowed to choose a file(image) from the disk and save it to a particular directory.
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A: Python's shutil module provides a function shutil.copy()
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Posted: Oct 22, 2020 / 08:19 AM CDT / Updated: Oct 22, 2020 / 08:19 AM CDT
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers remarks about health care at Beech Woods Recreation Center October 16, 2020 in Southfield,m Michigan. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
(AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won't rule out studying the addition of members to the U.S. Supreme Court as part of a commission he plans to name to look at court reforms if he's elected.
During an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" recorded Monday but not yet aired, Biden was asked by anchor Norah O'Donnell if the commission would study whether to pack the court. Biden says the commission's charge would "go well beyond packing."
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Biden said last week he was "not a fan" of the idea of adding justices to the court to balance it ideologically. He said he would answer the question of whether he planned to support it before the final presidential debate, scheduled for Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee.
Questions of whether Biden would support court-packing have emerged since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death on Sept. 18 and the Republican-controlled Senate's move forward with Judiciary Committee hearings on President Donald Trump's nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, before the Nov. 3 election.
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Q: Function to detect integers instead string in Python I'm trying to make a function that count the numbers of characters in a string and detect when an integer is typed, the condition is use "if" function. I'd expect that if I type any integer like"4464468" instead a string, the program displayed: "Sorry, you typed an integer". But, instead, counts the total number and displayed "The word you type has 7 characters".
My code is next:
def string_lenght(mystring):
       return len(mystring)`

#Main Program

mystring = (input("Type a word: "))
if type(mystring) == int or type(mystring) == float:
        print("Sorry, you typed an integer")

else:
        print("The word you typed has",string_lenght(mystring), "characters")

I'm Newbie at Python. I really appreciate your help and patience.
Best regards.

A: input() always returns a string so you can try to convert it into int/float, if the operation is successful then it's a number, else it is a string:
try:
    float(mystring)
    print("Sorry you typed an integer")
except ValueError:
    # Rest of the code ...


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Q: Accessing functions inside a thread withing a service from an activity (socket communication) i'm trying to get the communication between activities and a service to work.
i am pretty new to android and java, learned it my self through youtube :D, but cant find or solve this one.
at first i made an activity with a class thread which handles an ethernet socket. but i discovered when i leave the activity and switch to another the thread is destroyed. to preserve the thread i included the thread inside an service. but now i cant use the functions inside the thread (like sending/getting status). how can i get the instance of my ethernet class back to all of my activities. below i clipped my code.
the code works and run. but when i want to call my send() function or getConStatus() it crashed.
working on a client server communication for home domotics.
// my main activity
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    //UI declerations
    Button button1, button2;
    EditText text1,text2;
    ProgressBar waiter;
    Ethernets eth;
    house house;
    Toast message;
    ProgressTask Task;

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        button1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
        button2 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button2);
        text1 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
        text2 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText2);
        waiter = (ProgressBar)findViewById(R.id.Waiter);

    }

    protected void onStop()
    {
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, Ethernet_Service.class);
        stopService(intent);
    }

    public void start(View view)
    {
        eth.send("Turn ON");    // i cant USE this !!
    }

    public void connect(View view) throws UnknownHostException, IOException
    {
        String ip = null;
        int port = 0;

        ip = text1.getText().toString();
        port = Integer.parseInt(text2.getText().toString());

        Intent intent = new Intent(this, Ethernet_Service.class);
        startService(intent);

    }

}

// my service
package com.example.homeapp;

import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.IBinder;

public class Ethernet_Service extends Service{

    public Ethernet_Service() {

    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startid)
    {

        Ethernets eth = new Ethernets("I9001", "192.168.1.101", 4000);
        eth.start();
        return startid;
    }

    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
        return null;
    }

}

// my ethernet thread class
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.net.Socket;

import android.util.Log;

public class Ethernets extends Thread {

    Thread ethernetThread, recieveThread;
    Socket ethernetSocket;
    PrintStream PW;
    String IP;
    int PORT;
    boolean connect_status = false;

    String Client_Name;

    public Ethernets(String name, String ip, int port)
    {
        Client_Name = name;
        PORT = port;
        IP = ip;
    }

    public void run()
    {
        try
        {
            ethernetSocket = new Socket(IP,PORT);
            if(ethernetSocket.isConnected() == true)
            {
                connect_status = true;
            }
            else{connect_status = false;}

            PW = new PrintStream(ethernetSocket.getOutputStream(),true);

        }catch(Exception ex){}

        recieveThread = new Thread(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {

                String message;
                try
                {
                    BufferedReader BR = new  BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(ethernetSocket.getInputStream()));
                    while((message = BR.readLine()) != null)
                    {
                        System.out.println("message: "+message);
                    }
                } catch (IOException e) {e.printStackTrace();}

            }
        });
        recieveThread.start();
    }

    public void send(String msg)
    {
        //protocol description
        byte[] buffer = {(byte) 0x02, (byte) 0x04, (byte) 'B', (byte) 0x02, 0x00, 0x00, (byte) 0x46 };

        try
        {
            Log.i("hi","hi");
            PW.write(buffer);
            PW.flush();
        } catch (IOException e) {e.printStackTrace();}
    }

    public boolean getconStatus()
    {
        return connect_status;
    }

}


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Q: Need help formatting output C++ My function to display a division table is working, but I want to format the output to allow any number of character preceding the decimal, but limiting the after decimal places to 2. Here is the code I am working with. Once I added the line cout.setf(std::ios::fixed, std::ios::floatfield) my data appears to be formatted correctly, but I am getting extra numbers appended to the front of the actual number.
so instead of printing 1.00, the program prints 40981.00, and it does this for all the results. (the preceding number does change to 4102x.xx) x being the desired output.
void print_div_values(mult_div_values ** table, float x, float y){

cout << endl << "Here is the division table: " << endl;

for (int i = 1; i <= y; i++)
{
    cout << endl;

    for (int j = 1; j <= x; j++)
    {
        cout << std::setw(5) << cout.setf(std::ios::fixed, std::ios::floatfield) << std::setprecision(2) << table[i][j].div;
    }
    cout << endl;
}

A: std::ostream::setf returns the old flags, which are then formatted as an integer by cout. Use
cout.setf(std::ios::fixed, std::ios::floatfield);
cout << std::setw(5) << std::setprecision(2) << table[i][j].div;


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Q: ID from list that is not in a table I have a table with a primary key id let's call it staff table and it contains the following ids: 1,2,3,5,7
And I also have a list of staff ids separated by comma, e.g. 1,2,3,4,5,6
How do I write an SQL (mysql) that can check which ids from the list that are not in the table (e.g. 4 and 6)
I tried to search around and most of the results always around NOT IN but this is not what I want as
select * from staffs where id not in (1,2,3,4,5,6)

will return me 7 which is NOT what I want, I want 4 and 6
Also I'm not in favor of creating any temporary tables
Thanks

A: Would this work?
SELECT
   listOfIds.id
FROM
    (      SELECT 1 AS id
     UNION SELECT 2
     UNION SELECT 3
     UNION SELECT 4
     UNION SELECT 5
     UNION SELECT 6) listOfIds
LEFT OUTER JOIN staff
ON listOfIds.id = staff.id
WHERE staff.id IS NULL

Try this example in SQL Fiddle.


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Section 109 of GST – Constitution of Appellate Tribunal and Benches thereof
By Raju Choudhary Last updated Jul 5, 2020
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Section 109 of GST – Constitution of Appellate Tribunal and Benches thereof. In this GST Section you may find Complete details for Constitution of Appellate Tribunal and Benches thereof as per GST Act 2017. Detailed Analysis of GST Section 109 of GST Act 2017.
Must Read – List of all sections of GST
1 Section 109 of GST – Constitution of Appellate Tribunal and Benches thereof
2 Analysis and Updates
Statutory Provisions
(1) The Government shall, on the recommendations of the Council, by notification, constitute with effect from such date as may be specified therein, an Appellate Tribunal known as the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal for hearing appeals against the orders passed by the Appellate Authority or the Revisional Authority.
(2) The powers of the Appellate Tribunal shall be exercisable by the National Bench and Benches thereof (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to as "Regional Benches"), State Bench and Benches thereof (hereafter in this Chapter referred to as "Area Benches").
(3) The National Bench of the Appellate Tribunal shall be situated at New Delhi which shall be presided over by the President and shall consist of one Technical Member (Centre) and one Technical Member (State).
(4) The Government shall, on the recommendations of the Council, by notification, constitute such number of Regional Benches as may be required and such Regional Benches shall consist of a Judicial Member, one Technical Member (Centre) and one Technical Member (State).
(5) The National Bench or Regional Benches of the Appellate Tribunal shall have jurisdiction to hear appeals against the orders passed by the Appellate Authority or the Revisional Authority in the cases where one of the issues involved relates to the place of supply..
(6) The Government shall, by notification, specify for each State or Union territory, a Bench of the Appellate Tribunal (hereafter in this Chapter, referred to as "State Bench") for exercising the powers of the Appellate Tribunal within the concerned State or Union territory:
Provided that the Government shall, on receipt of a request from any State Government, constitute such number of Area Benches in that State, as may be recommended by the Council:
Provided further that the Government may, on receipt of a request from any State, or on its own motion for a Union territory, notify the Appellate Tribunal in a State to act as the Appellate Tribunal for any other State or Union territory, as may be recommended by the Council, subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed.
(7) The State Bench or Area Benches shall have jurisdiction to hear appeals against the orders passed by the Appellate Authority or the Revisional Authority in the cases involving matters other than those referred to in sub-section (5).
(8) The President and the State President shall, by general or special order, distribute the business or transfer cases among Regional Benches or, as the case may be, Area Benches in a State.
(9) Each State Bench and Area Benches of the Appellate Tribunal shall consist of a Judicial Member, one Technical Member (Centre) and one Technical Member (State) and the State Government may designate the senior most Judicial Member in a State as the State President.
(10) In the absence of a Member in any Bench due to vacancy or otherwise, any appeal may, with the approval of the President or, as the case may be, the State President, be heard by a Bench of two Members:
Provided that any appeal where the tax or input tax credit involved or the difference in tax or input tax credit involved or the amount of fine, fee or penalty determined in any order appealed against, does not exceed five lakh rupees and which does not involve any question of law may, with the approval of the President and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed on the recommendations of the Council, be heard by a Bench consisting of a single Member.
(11) If the Members of the National Bench, Regional Benches, State Bench or Area Benches differ in opinion on any point or points, it shall be decided according to the opinion of the majority, if there is a majority, but if the Members are equally divided, they shall state the point or points on which they differ, and the case shall be referred by the President or, as the case may be, State President for hearing on such point or points to one or more of the other Members of the National Bench, Regional Benches, State Bench or Area Benches and such point or points shall be decided according to the opinion of the majority of Members who have heard the case, including those who first heard it.
(12) The Government, in consultation with the President may, for the administrative convenience, transfer—
(a) any Judicial Member or a Member Technical (State) from one Bench to another Bench, whether National or Regional; or
(b) any Member Technical (Centre) from one Bench to another Bench, whether National, Regional, State or Area.
(13) The State Government, in consultation with the State President may, for the administrative convenience, transfer a Judicial Member or a Member Technical (State) from one Bench to another Bench within the State.
(14) No act or proceedings of the Appellate Tribunal shall be questioned or shall be invalid merely on the ground of the existence of any vacancy or defect in the constitution of the Appellate Tribunal.
Analysis and Updates
(a) This section pertains to constitution of GST Appellate Tribunal
(a) Based on the recommendation of the Council and by Notification, the Central Government shall constitute Goods & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) for hearing appeals against the orders passed by the Appellate Authority or Revisional Authority.
(b) The powers of the Appellate Tribunal shall be exercisable by the National Bench or Regional Benches, State Bench and Area Benches.
(c) The National Bench shall be situated at New Delhi which shall be presided over by the President, one Technical Member (Centre) and one Technical Member (State).
(d) The Regional Benches shall consist of a Judicial Member, one Technical Member (Centre) and one Technical Member (State).
(e) The National Bench or Regional Benches shall hear the appeals only where one of the issues involved relates to the place of supply.
(f) The State Bench or Area Benches shall hear the appeals involving matters other than matters covering place of supply.
(g) The President and the State President shall by general or special order distribute the business or transfer cases among Regional Benches or Area Benches in a State.
(h) The State Bench and Area Branch of the Appellate Tribunal shall consist of a judicial member, one technical member (centre) and one technical member (state) and the state government may designate the senior most judicial member in a state as the State president.
(i) In the absence of a member of any bench due to vacancy or otherwise, any appeal with the approval of President or State President be heard by a bench of two members.
(j) Any matter (other than matter involving question of law) involving tax, input tax credit, fine, fee or penalty determined in any order appealed against, not exceeding `5 Lakhs may be heard by single member bench.
(k) No act or proceedings of the Appellate Tribunal shall be questioned or shall be invalid merely only on the ground of the existence of any vacancy or defect in the constitution of Appellate Tribunal.
Related provisions
(i) Section 2(9) defines "Appellate Tribunal"
(ii) Section 2(36) defines "Council"
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This Flash Fiction Friday story is my submission to the Writer's Digest Your Story competition. The prompt was the featured image, the challenge to write less than 650 words based on the image provided.
Kaysee squinted into the dark tunnel that spiraled beneath the mountain. Cold air breathed into her face between the rusted iron cage that seemed meant to deter people from entering.
"What do you think?" she asked her boyfriend, Jordan, who stood slightly behind her, peering over her shoulder.
"Why not?" he shrugged, grinning. He was excited. He'd already turned on his headlamp, prepared for spelunking.
"Yeah, let's do some exploring," Jordan's best friend, Matthew, agreed.
Kaysee eyed the opening dubiously. Somebody had placed the grate there to block the entrance, maybe to keep people from falling in. Or maybe for another reason.
The grate was heavy and moved grudgingly. Jordan and Matthew grunted as they lifted in tandem, barely raising it an inch from the ground. But it was enough to shift from the bulk of the cave's entrance.
Jordan went down first, feeling with his feet for footholds as he lowered. Kaysee turned on her headlamp, trying to push down the feeling in her stomach that they should not explore this particular place. As she dropped down behind Matthew, she peered around. The entrance was short, and they all had to crouch, but with the lamp, she could see the ceiling of the cave rose several feet just beyond the light of the entrance. They crawled to the cavern and stood, allowing themselves a minute to adjust to the darkness within.
Puddles reflected in their headlamps and Kaysee could hear the water dripping from the ceiling several feet above.
Jordan and Matthew made weak attempts at echoing yodels as they splashed over the cavern floor, heading toward the openings that branched from the opposite side.
There were two; one seemed to slant upwards, seemingly back to another surface exit. Was that exit blocked as well, Kaysee thought. The other dropped steeply, leading further underground. Jordan and Matthew made a beeline for that opening, pulling rope from their packs. Jordan peeked down and whistled. The shrill sound bounced all around them, and Kaysee winced.
"This cave is a gem," Jordan said, his smile broad and dimpled.
They made their way slowly into the hole, grasping crumbling hand and footholds. Rocks clattered far below, much farther than Kaysee cared. But her boyfriend seemed excited. She breathed deeply, bracing herself for his sake. He owed her a date night though, she thought.
Distracting herself with thoughts of cheese plates and rosé, Kaysee reached the bottom of the tunnel, stumbling a little at the sudden feel of flat earth beneath her feet. Matthew and Jordan were already moving on, lights flickering over the walls erratically as they chattered.
Their voices seemed unnaturally loud, and Kaysee wondered if they could dislodge any of the ceiling with the noise they were making.
A thunderous groan from within the darkness quieted the men. Kaysee felt her blood run cold and the sweat turn clammy on her brow.
"It's probably just the earth settling." Matthew finally said, though his voice was much quieter than it had been.
They walked on, slower, warily eyeing the walls and roof.
They walked until they came to another large cavern. A pit plunged into the most profound black Kaysee had ever seen in the middle of the room. They sidled up to the ledge, testing each step for weakness.
Jordan turned his headlamp up a notch, studying the pit.
"How far down do you think this goes?" he asked Matthew.
"We could find out?" Matthew replied, slapping his palm with a rope and lanyard.
Another deep noise filled the cavern. Kaysee, Jordan, and Matthew stared into the pit. The sound had emanated from its depth. Kaysee took a step back.
"I think we should leave," she started to say.
A gust of hot wind erupted from the crater.
Red eyes blazed in the darkness. Then faded back to black.
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Q: Serialize Python class using AvroProducer confluent-kafka I am pretty new to the confluent-kafka and python, just would like to know if there a way in python we could serialize the python class to an kafka message using avro schema.
I am currently using AvroProducer provided by confluent-kafka, however, i am only able tot serialize a json string. And the downstream application is using Java, and downstream would like to deserialize the message back to an Java Object.
producer = AvroProducer(self.producer_config, default_key_schema=key_schema, default_value_schema=value_schema)

value = ast.literal_eval(str(message))

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I believe this is the part that is causing issue:
  value = ast.literal_eval(str(message))

The message is originally a dictionary. I have to convert it to a json string in order to serialize it. It just looks really weird.
Could you help advise how to serialie a python class, instead of serialize a json string using AvroProducer? Thanks!


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Communicating conservation: how do the Nepalese print media portray caterpillar fungus? An analysis of newspaper coverage from 2008–2021
Sanjeev Poudel, Uttam Babu Shrestha, Ram Pandit, Krishna Ram Dhital
UWA School of Agriculture and Environment
Caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) makes an economically important contribution to livelihoods of the local people in the Himalaya. Its extraordinarily high market price as an aphrodisiac, and pressure in the natural habitats due to overharvesting and climate change, have attracted local and global media attentions. Despite the wide media coverage on various social and environmental aspects of the caterpillar fungus, a consolidated analysis of the news and featured articles about the different dimensions of the caterpillar fungus is lacking. In this paper, we assess how the Nepalese print media have portrayed the social, economic, governance, and biological dimensions of caterpillar fungus conservation and management. We conducted a thematic analysis of newspaper articles published for fourteen years from 2008–2021 in seven national daily newspapers in Nepal. We used an inductive method to extract the keywords from the printed newspapers, resulting in 3,777 keywords from 681 news items belonging to eight thematic areas. Based on the similarities and differences in the keywords, the news items were categorized into eight themes: impacts of caterpillar fungus harvesting (28% news coverage), trade of caterpillar fungus (16%), general information about the fungus (15%), harvesting of the fungus (14%), governance mechanisms (14%), challenges to the harvesters (6%), policy gaps (4%), and institutional and policy responses (3%). We found that Nepalese media highlighted the socio-economic and environmental impacts of caterpillar fungus harvesting but presented less information about the government response to its conservation, gaps in knowledge and governance mechanisms necessary to conserve the fungus. The thematic analysis of media reporting can help in devising long term conservation and management policies of the caterpillar fungus, particularly focussing on the issues frequently reported by the national media.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10439
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Poudel, S., Shrestha, U. B., Pandit, R., & Dhital, K. R. (2022). Communicating conservation: how do the Nepalese print media portray caterpillar fungus? An analysis of newspaper coverage from 2008–2021. Heliyon, 8(9), [e10439]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10439
Poudel, Sanjeev ; Shrestha, Uttam Babu ; Pandit, Ram et al. / Communicating conservation : how do the Nepalese print media portray caterpillar fungus? An analysis of newspaper coverage from 2008–2021. In: Heliyon. 2022 ; Vol. 8, No. 9.
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American - Businessman Born: 1959
The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.
Nick Hanauer
Good Mother Day You
Prosperity in human society is misunderstood. The difference between a rich and poor society is the number of problems that society solves for its citizens. That means technological innovation is the source of all prosperity, but with every tech innovation, you also get disruption - ultimately, social and civic disruption.
You Innovation Society Rich
I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity when you know what you know about 15-year-old boy behavior. But in 2018, we'll have self-driving cars, and it will be so much better. My son may be the last generation of kids who learns to drive.
Car Son You Drive
The higher the unemployment rate, the more leverage I have to 'encourage' you to 'do what it takes' to keep your job. And so you work even more hours, pushing unemployment up and wages down. And that, my friends, is one of the little tricks that keeps you poor and me rich.
Work Me You Friends
A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.
People Think Political New
Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.
Time Business You People
One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.
Me Mind Great Think
You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.
Me You Society Police
The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.
Rich Better Bad Economics
If low taxes were the way that people like me created wealth, then we'd be starting our companies in the Congo or Somalia or Afghanistan, but we're not. We come to places where there are lots and lots of customers.
Me People Way Like
Like most plutocrats, I, too, am a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, cofounded or funded over 30 companies across a range of industries. I was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. I cofounded a company called aQuantive that we sold to Microsoft for 6.4 billion dollars. My friends and I, we own a bank.
Friends Proud Own Company
We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us: this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do. It's not true. How could it be? I earn 1,000 times the median wage, but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff, do I?
Better True Economics Will
No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.
Drive Great Matter Never
I'm not the smartest guy you've ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all - I can't write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship.
Me Future You Think
Middle-out economics rejects the old misconception that an economy is a perfectly efficient, mechanistic system and embraces the much more accurate idea of an economy as a complex ecosystem made up of real people who are dependent on one another.
People Economics Real More
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
People Rich Way Class
When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.
You Rich Job Name
There is no earthly reason why Walmart and McDonald's and Walgreens and these other giant, profitable institutions should have one worker in need of public assistance. It's ridiculous.
Need McDonald Reason Why
I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left-wing? How did that become 'leftie?' That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.
Me Food Think Enough
People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.
Science People Think Economics
The theory that if wages go up, employment goes down isn't a physical law like F=MA. It's a moral law, like 'Bedtime is 9:00 P.M.'
Down Law Go Moral
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
Power Economics Why How
The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.
Change Rich Facts Economics
We rich people have been falsely persuaded by our schooling and the affirmation of society, and have convinced ourselves, that we are the main job creators. It's simply not true.
People Society Rich Job
Prosperity isn't something that squirts out of rich people.
People Rich Prosperity Something
I come from generations of progressive, atheist Jews.
Atheist Come Progressive Generations
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Algebra teacher also an officer in the army reserve
Ella Kitchings, Reporter|December 7, 2017
A-West math teacher Emily Wu is also an officer in the Army Reserves. Image courtesy of Emily Wu.
Emily Wu is an Arvada West math teacher who teaches Algebra I and II. What some students do not know about her, may surprise the students. Once every month, Wu trains at a building between Peterson Air Force Base and the Colorado Springs Airport. She is a part of the Army Reserves as an officer.
Wu became an officer through Army ROTC at the University of Colorado Boulder, a four-year program where people to become an Army Officer while concurrently earning their bachelor's degree. This helps to develop many skills, such as time management, public speaking, and the ability to think under pressure, and traits such as confidence, charisma, and physical fitness.
¨Army ROTC also offers full-ride scholarships, where you can get 100% of your college tuition paid for, on top of stipends, book pay, and other monetary incentives,¨ says Wu. ¨In the Army Reserves, you get to choose your branch and duty station, as opposed to Active Duty where the Army chooses for you, so that was nice for me because I got to stay in Colorado!¨
Wu has been part of the Army Reserves for 2 years. She was influenced by her brother to join and they both have completely different jobs. Her brother is in the National Guard as a field artillery officer.
Wu says that, ¨I work for a space battalion, which consists of Army Space Support Teams. Army Space Support Teams are teams of 6-8 individuals, both soldiers and officers, who deploy in support of space and satellite missions around the globe. Their missions are mostly GPS, navigation warfare, satellite imagery, and missile defense. They train on systems to deploy in support of space missions around the globe. As an AG officer, I work for the battalion staff on the personnel side, meaning I manage soldiers' records and files. This means processing awards, evaluations, packets, and other documents. For special events, I am tasked with distributing invitations and writing scripts."
During a typical drill weekend, she checks into the building around 7 am. She might get some computer work done. Every Saturday morning they have command and staff meetings. In this meeting, the company and battalion command teams get together and discuss the deployment readiness of American soldiers. She works on the personnel side, so she is responsible for making sure that soldiers' records are updated, their packets are processed, and their awards are distributed. She spends the rest of the weekend processing awards and updating records for soldiers on the computer. They also practice shooting by going to the field, or to the shooting range to qualify on rifles and pistols.
She has a contract with the Reserves that lasts eight years total–one year of service for each semester of college paid for. She joined a Reserve unit as a cadet while she was still in college, as a part of her switch to a Guaranteed-Reserve scholarship, so she had a little bit of experience coming in as far as what a drill weekend looks like. Wu said,¨Eight years isn't too bad, but I also have a lot of other plans for my life so I don't think I'll go beyond those eight years." She thinks she will continue her service until the end of her contract in 2023.
Ella Kitchings, Business and Marketing Editor
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Hello all! I know, it's been a while. As I tweeted last night, "October is kicking my a**!" It's been a rough start to the month and I've been insanely busy. I'm thinking it may be one of those things again where I have too much on my plate. I'm hoping to take the weekend to "organize my life." My parents will be out of town, which means I won't be leaving town and I'll be at my own apartment. I'm looking forward to some quiet time so that I can get a couple things done. I'm usually much more productive by myself. What are your plans this weekend?
What are Five ways you find writing inspiration?
Often, I'm inspired by reading a book. For me, an idea can spark from a single word in the dialogue or a phrase the character might use.
Like reading, I get a lot of ideas and inspiration from TV. Seriously. A scene will trigger something in my head and then I'll usually make a note of it and come back to it later.
Same concept as #1 and #2. Song are like short versions of a stories and they can make us feel emotions. It's no surprise that we can be inspired to write simply by listening to music. And most of my editing time is spent with my iTunes running on shuffle in the background.
Other writers, whether they are famous or not, inspire me. When I hear about writers going through the same things as me (writer's block, editing, re-writes, trouble with scenes) I'm always inspired to keep going because they keep going. When I hear about writers getting agents or getting book deals, I'm inspired. I keep going. I keep thinking that one day that will be me.
Life inspires me. I'm truly thankful for being alive in this "advanced age." We have so much technology and information at our fingertips. Living life and all the ups and downs inspires me everyday.
The picture I used above also inspires me! I found it after I finished this blog post. Obviously, I need to stop complaining about having too much on my plate, and just eat what's there already! What inspires you to write? Have a great weekend everyone!
Love these- I definitely need to chew what I've bitten off.
We have many of the same inspirations :) I love the wolf pic at the top. Awesome!
Good list. TV can be pretty inspiring. Also other writers are great sources of inspiration.
Great list. All of the above are the same things that give me inspiration as well. Also, yes, life is very, very, very chaotic right now.
Great list. Thank you for posting it.