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Content Guru Announced As Finalists For Computing Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2020
Content Guru, leading contact center and customer experience solution provider, has been announced as a finalist for "Digital Service Company of the Year – Large Organizations" at the Computing Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2020.
This category recognizes those companies specializing in providing digital services to large organizations (above 250 employees). Content Guru has been shortlisted for its storm® cloud contact center technology solution, which is used by large organizations across the globe to ensure they deliver a best-in-class experience to their customers, seamlessly.
In particular, Content Guru has been recognized for its work to help large organizations cope with the unpredictable challenges caused by COVID-19. storm enabled NHS 111 London scale to handle an increase in call volumes of up to 500% due to the pandemic, and routed patients with symptoms of COVID-19 to a dedicated group of healthcare advisers. The browser-based nature of storm enabled organizations including hotel chain, Jurys Inn, and railway travel provider, Rail Delivery Group, move employees to homeworking within just days.
The winners of the Computing Digital Technology Leaders Awards will be announced at a special online ceremony on Wednesday 21 October.
Martin Taylor, Deputy CEO and Co-Founder of Content Guru, commented: "We are very happy to be shortlisted for these prestigious awards. Our cloud technology is used by large organizations in both the public and private sector to deliver unmatched customer service. We look forward to continuing to develop our offering to stay at the forefront of cloud communications technology."


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(function() {
  'use strict';

  describe('horizon.framework.util.actions.action-result.service', function() {
    var service;

    beforeEach(module('horizon.framework.util.actions'));

    beforeEach(inject(function($injector) {
      service = $injector.get('horizon.framework.util.actions.action-result.service');
    }));

    describe('getIdsOfType', function() {

      it('returns an empty array if no items', function() {
        expect(service.getIdsOfType([], 'OS::Glance::Image')).toEqual([]);
      });

      it('returns an empty array if items is falsy', function() {
        expect(service.getIdsOfType(false, 'OS::Glance::Image')).toEqual([]);
      });

      it('returns items with matching type', function() {
        var items = [{type: 'No::Match'}, {type: 'OS::Glance::Image', id: 1},
          {type: 'OS::Glance::Image', id: 2}];
        expect(service.getIdsOfType(items, 'OS::Glance::Image')).toEqual([1, 2]);
      });
    });

    it('has getActionResult', function() {
      expect(service.getActionResult).toBeDefined();
    });

    describe('ActionResult', function() {
      var actionResult;
      var type = 'OS::Nova::Server';
      var id = 'the-id-value';

      beforeEach(function() {
        actionResult = service.getActionResult();
      });

      it('.updated() adds updated items', function() {
        actionResult.updated(type, id);
        expect(actionResult.result.updated)
          .toEqual([{type: 'OS::Nova::Server', id: 'the-id-value'}]);
      });

      it('.created() adds created items', function() {
        actionResult.created(type, id);
        expect(actionResult.result.created)
          .toEqual([{type: 'OS::Nova::Server', id: 'the-id-value'}]);
      });

      it('.deleted() adds deleted items', function() {
        actionResult.deleted(type, id);
        expect(actionResult.result.deleted)
          .toEqual([{type: 'OS::Nova::Server', id: 'the-id-value'}]);
      });

      it('.failed() adds failed items', function() {
        actionResult.failed(type, id);
        expect(actionResult.result.failed)
          .toEqual([{type: 'OS::Nova::Server', id: 'the-id-value'}]);
      });

    });

  });

})();

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It's Thanksgiving, you have a house full of relatives and friends, the Turkey's ready to cook, what could possibly go wrong.
Here's the scenario....You have been preparing for weeks, and everyone's coming to enjoy a family Thanksgiving dinner. You've got everything set….and then…..you experience a Thanksgiving Dinner "Fail".
And if your a Deep Fried Fanatic, here's one especially for you.
So remember to be careful this Thanksgiving cause cooking Turkey can be a dangerous job. Hopefully your dinner is a huge success and you don't make next years "Hilarious Thanksgiving Dinner Fails Video".
Does Anyone in Danbury Know Anything About Thanksgiving?


You would definitely watch twice.
Gym Goals...Ohh!!! Not like this one.
Look at the mirror.... Wonder who is she?
I'm already getting envious of these legs.
Best use of dining mirror... isn't it?
This cat is really up to something.
I'm not going to see television this near anymore.
Dude! There is no traffic.
Where does that horse came from?
Please don't watch that mirror on the left.


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Tag Archives: Deobandi
Playing the sectarian card: Britain's Ministry of Justice is unfairly targeting Muslim prison chaplains
February 10, 2016 Current Affairs, Social SciencesBritain, Chaplains, Deobandi, Islam, Michael Gove, Prison, Segregation, UKGingerbeardman
Following story taken from CoolnessofHind which has to be one of favourite blogs out there right now dealing with the PREVENT / anti-Islam agenda facing the Muslims of the UK.
One of the more bizarre aspects of all this to come from the report is that the prison Imams, mostly coming from a Deobandi background preach the virtues of social segregation between genders as is the Orthodox Islamic position but that this is some sort of new evil and one of the most dastardly crimes against the creed of secular-liberalism that is out there.
But where are these prison Imams preaching? Prisons… and prisons are segregated along gender lines for very good reasons.
Source: Playing the sectarian card: Britain's Ministry of Justice is unfairly targeting Muslim prison chaplains
Yesterday, news came of a soon-to-be-released Ministry of Justice (MOJ) report, which will argue that Muslim chaplains are part of the problem of radicalisation in UK prisons. Given that the government has trailed the report in the Sunday Times ("Most jail imams teach anti-western values", 07/02/2016, p.7) and the Mail on Sunday ("Majority of prison imams are 'teaching anti-western' values that promote gender segregation, study claims", 07/02/2016) and played the sectarian card, it is a highly premeditated political intervention. Pointing fingers at chaplains of the Deobandi Sunni persuasion, who are said to make up 140 of 200 Muslim prison chaplains, a senior Whitehall official is quoted as saying that, "It is of great concern that the majority of Muslim chaplains in prisons propagate a fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic scripture which is contrary to British values and human rights. Such imams are unlikely to aid the deradicalisation of Islamists in prisons and could potentially even make them more firm in their beliefs." And in his major speech on prison reform today, the Prime Minister promised that he was prepared to make major changes if necessary on the basis of the recommendations of the MOJ report. The appointment of Peter Clarke as HM Chief Inspector of Prisons this month, Scotland Yard's former head of counter-terrorism whom the government has previously deployed as a counter-extremism troubleshooter in the education and the charity sectors, signals the MOJ's intent to construe prisons in the same light: as a hotbed of "extremist entryism", with the potential to look at Muslim inmates without terrorism offences and Muslim chaplains in the same light as convicted terrorist offenders.
The Quilliam Foundation has stepped in to support the MOJ in identifying Deobandi prison chaplains as a particular problem. Usama Hasan, a senior researcher there, is reported by the Sunday Times as saying that "[t]he Deobandi movement is generally anti-western and anti-integration in its spirit … Imams in the prison system have to be more progressive and open-minded in terms of being supportive of modern, multicultural and cosmopolitan Britain." The Foundation has prior form in this regard: its 2009 report on prisons, Unlocking Al-Qaeda, made essentially the same claims about Deobandi prison chaplains (pp. 33, 42, 101) and recommended a reduction in their numbers (p.108).
Reading between the lines, it seems as if Ahtesham Ali, the current Muslim Advisor to the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), is being set up as the fall guy for appointing many of these Deobandi chaplains. A damage limitation exercise on behalf of Ali is already under way to argue that he is neither an extremist nor of a particular sectarian persuasion by anonymous sources quoted in the Sunday Times. That is all very well, but what about some damage limitation on behalf of these Muslim chaplains who have rendered a great deal of public service in prisons for many years? Who is going to speak up for them?
It is naïve to expect fair play and even-handedness, or a reliance on evidence or the measured conclusions of academic research, especially where the incumbent minister, Michael Gove, is concerned. The news reporting and, one must surmise, the forthcoming MOJ report rely on the fallacious idea that the Deoband school is stuck in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, in the context of its original anti-colonial foundations (ignoring massive transformations since, both in the Subcontinent and the diaspora). It also seems to have discounted the findings of the three-year AHRC/ESRC 'Religion and Society' research study on Muslim chaplaincy in Britain (2008–2011) carried out by the University of Cardiff. That study acknowledged the conservative orientation of Deobandi chaplains but also found that pastoral practice in the challenging prison environment and working within a multi-faith chaplaincy team had a transformative effect:
Muslim chaplains working across most sectors learn new attitudes from their experiences. While they often tend to start with normative, didactic approaches that are directed towards their co-religionists, their experiences of working with all kinds of people in a multi-faith environment seem to inculcate within them attitudes of empathy, person-centredness, equality, broad-mindedness, openness, approachability, supportiveness, tolerance, non-judgementalism, non-directedness, compassion, patience and humility. (Gilliat-Ray, Ali and Pattison,Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy, p.175)
The Cardiff team also found that, when called to do so, Muslim chaplains provided genuine pastoral care for non-Muslim inmates. Furthermore, the study established that Muslim chaplains' pastoral training and experience was having an impact on the mosque imamate in Britain, giving more profile and credence to the pastoral dimension in serving local communities. It also argued that the preponderance of Deobandi seminarians among Muslim prison chaplains was largely due to the huge investment in imam training that this denomination has made in Britain, more so than any other Sunni or Shia group.
Another factor that the Cardiff research team did not mention was that, after 7/7, the government wanted Muslim prison chaplains to have theological training as part of the professionalization of the sector and for them to possess the wherewithal to tackle the arguments of violent extremists. Again, this policy shift favoured Deobandi applicants who already had the necessary qualifications to hand. That said, the main formal role of Muslim chaplains remains pastoral and aimed at the spiritual welfare of the general Muslim prison population, yet they have made informal efforts to tackle extremist ideas within this primary remit, and have facilitated greater cultural awareness and understanding of prison staff about mainstream Muslim beliefs in the context of radicalisation (Gilliat-Ray et al, p.110). Overall, however, they have not been formally involved in theological deradicalisation efforts aimed at inmates with terrorist offences, for which outside specialists have been brought in with the collaboration of the authorities (HM Prison Service, Muslim Prisoners' Experiences, 2010, p.35, Para 7.12).
For all those who agree that Muslim prison chaplaincy in Britain has been a growing and largely successful sector over the last two decades with a solid track record of public service and professional development, now is the time to make your voices heard. There is genuine fear that the government is now going to smear this sector as "extremist Muslim entryism". Is the government going to brush aside all this dedicated public service and experience and start getting rid of people on the basis of lazy and pernicious sectarian labels? Where is the due process? Where is the expectation that professionals should be treated in a meritocratic way on the basis of their individual performances?
From my sources, I am hearing that many Muslim prison chaplains are feeling resigned to losing their jobs, and that, as public servants, they have no right to speak out if Mr Gove — who is ultimately their boss — is going to sack them. How terrible it is that even high-achieving Muslim professionals feel so isolated and demoralised that they cannot defend themselves against such baseless smears? And more importantly where will that leave the pastoral and spiritual care of Muslim inmates who sadly now make up 12% of the prison population? It is hard not to see this as anything other than institutional Islamophobia being sanctioned at the highest level, which could have really damaging and deleterious effects. Now is the time to speak up and set the record straight.
DISCLAIMER: Cross-posting/guestposting is not an endorsement. As this article has not been written by CoolnessofHind, the views expressed therein do not necessarily reflect the views of coolnessofhind.wordpress.com

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His pleasures, as Sir Lucius knew, would soon pall; for he easily perceived that the Duke was not heartless enough for a rou.
Marie Christine de Brignole had married at eighteen a rou of forty, the former lover of her mother.
There stood the rou—the duellist—and, with all his faults, the hero too!
Now which of the two is preferable—the pride of a virtuous youth, or the rou exhausted and worn out by sexual abuses?
For no one doubted but that he was as dangerous a rou as his hero.


Leo Da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa (2018) In the late Middle Age's Italy, Leonardo "Leo" Da Vinci is a young boy lover to invent advanced machines who lives happy with his best friend Lorenzo and beauty Lisa, being secretly fall in love with her. After to test the first dive suit of his creation in a lake, tragedy appears when coming back to home Lisa realizes that her house and lands have been burned by a fire. Owner of the lands threats Lisa's father to marry her with his son if he doesn't give all money he debts as retribution by the fire, causing Lisa's sorrow. Trying to save her, Leo Da Vinci decides travel to Florencia to gain money and pay the debt with help of Lorenzo. Unable to keep the secret, Lorenzo reveals Lisa Leo's plans, and Lisa joins her friends to make the travel to the big city, where they meet a storyteller that explains in a plaza the story of a pirate ship sunken with a great treasure inside it. Believing it as a true event, Leo buys the treasure map to the storyteller, but it's stolen by a rogue and orphan little child called Agnes. Making a deal with her, Leo recovers the map and Agnes joins the group at the same time that Niccoló, a little child lover of science and astronomy who befriends with Lisa. All five arrive to Montecristo Island looking for the treasure, but not knowing that a pirates follow each step they make, waiting the right time to steal the treasure and eliminate Leo and his friends.


AV Minor Soccer is hosting the Mini World Cup from April 30-May 1.
More than 50 teams from all over Vancouver Island will take over soccer pitches in the Alberni Valley this weekend as AV Minor Soccer hosts the Mini World Cup April 30–May 1.
The event kicks off Saturday at 10 a.m. with a Parade of Nations at noon on Echo Minor, organizer Linda Rhodes explained.
Games will wrap up at 5 p.m. Saturday and continue on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"We have six local teams," Rhodes said.
The Mini World Cup tournament rotates between Port Alberni, Campbell River, Nanaimo, Parksville and Ladysmith.
"We did this in 2010 and we had 69 teams," Rhodes said.
Each team will play two games per day. "It's all for fun. There are no trophies at the end of it," she added.
For more information or to volunteer, please go online to avsoccer.com or call Rhodes at 250-723-6593.


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Monica Bellucci on plastic surgery: 'Why not!' /node/1097561/offbeat
Monica Bellucci on plastic surgery: 'Why not!'
Italian actress Monica Bellucci poses during a photocall of the movie "Milky Road" directed by Emir Kusturica, in this May 8, 2017 photo, in Rome. (AFP)
PARIS: Actress Monica Bellucci reopened the heated debate on the airbrushing of stars' photographs on Wednesday by declaring, "Thank heavens for retouching."
The Italian beauty, the oldest Bond girl ever at 50 in "Spectre," told AFP that she had learned to accept "seeing my face change" but she was not adverse to a little help from Photoshop. She said she was glad that magazines were airbrushing less than in the past and that the public was learning to love stars' little "imperfections."
Even so "I say thank heavens for retouching. It's airbrushing that saves us," she declared. The actress, now 52, said when she watched her latest film, Emir Kusturica's "On the Milky Road," she noticed that she had "lines around my eyes and everywhere. Ten years ago I didn't have them. I see how I have changed on screen.
"That said, I look at myself with compassion," she added.
"I didn't say to myself, 'Oh my God, it's monstrous!' No, I think it is charming," said the mother of two.
The former model, whose new book of interviews "Rencontres clandestines" (Secret Meetings) is published Wednesday in France, also said people should not look down on women who have had cosmetic surgery.
"When I see mature women who haven't been redone I don't say, 'She should get her face lifted.' I think to myself, 'She is very lovely like that.'
"However, when you see someone who has had work and who is beautiful with it, I say to myself, 'She did the right thing'," she added.
"You have to do what is good for you," said the actress, who will be master of ceremonies at the Cannes film festival later this month.
"Plastic surgery is there. If it makes you happy, why not do it?"


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Q: How to print out columns instead of rows? alright so im making a program that prints out how many times the numbers 0-9 were input, its supposed to go on forever, until the user types a negative number, then its gonna stop the program and print out the result, heres my code so far:
import java.util.Scanner;

public class opg33 {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        System.out.println(1 + ":" + "\t" + "Integer 0-9");
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

        int[] a = new int[10];
        int counter = 0;
        int input;
        input = keyboard.nextInt();
        boolean exit = true;

        while (exit == true) {
            counter++;
            System.out.println((counter + 1) + ":" + "\t" + "Integer 0-9");
            if (input > -1 && input < 10) {
                a[input]++;
            }

            input = keyboard.nextInt();
            if (input < 0) {
                exit = false;
                for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
                    System.out.print(i + ":");
                    for (int n = 0; n < a[i]; n++)
                        System.out.print("x");
                    System.out.println();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

as you can see this program works perfectly fine, just as I wanted it to! the only question I have, is, how can I make it print out vertically like a bar graph (columns), instead of horizontally? thanks in advance!

A: You mean something like...?
1:    Integer 0-9
1
2:    Integer 0-9
1
3:    Integer 0-9
2
4:    Integer 0-9
2
5:    Integer 0-9
2
6:    Integer 0-9
3
7:    Integer 0-9
3
8:    Integer 0-9
7
9:    Integer 0-9
8
10:    Integer 0-9
-1
       x
    x  x  x
    x  x  x           x  x
 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9

The first thing you need to do is determine the max height of the chart...
// Calculate the required height...
/*
   All this loop does, is loops through the array "a"
   and finds the maximum value contained within,
   this is the largest number of times the user
   entered that value

   The loop itself is just an enhanced "for-next-loop",
   that is, it's a short cutted way of saying...

   for (int index = 0; index < a.length; index++) {
       int value = a[index];
       ...
   }
*/
int maxFrequency = 0;
for (int value : a) {
    // This is a really simply way to calculate the max value within
    // range, it just says, return me the value which is the larger
    // of two...
    maxFrequency = Math.max(value, maxFrequency);
}

Next, you need to print each row of the chart, starting at the top and moving to the bottom.  For each column, you need to determine if it has a value to be displayed within that row...
// This builds each row
for (int row = maxFrequency; row > 0; row--) {
    // This is used instead of String concatenation (String + String)
    // This is the preferred mechanism for doing String concatenation
    // in loops as it uses less memory and will generally be faster...
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(30);

    // We need to inspect each value in the array to determine
    // if we need to display something...
    // The basic idea is, we will only start displaying "x"
    // when the value in the array >= the row number...
    for (int value : a) {
        // This just appends each column value as
        // required, prefixing and suffixing it with spaces
        sb.append(" ");
        if (value >= row) {
            sb.append("x");
        } else {
            sb.append(" ");
        }
        sb.append(" ");
    }
    // Print the row...
    System.out.println(sb.toString());
}

And finally, you need to print the footer...
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(30);
for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
    sb.append(" ").
            append(i).
            append(" ");
}
System.out.println(sb.toString());

The hows and why of StringBuilder
A book could be written on this subject, so the information provided here is just an overview...
StringBuilder should be used, especially, when concatenating Strings in loops,   basically because it reduces the number of temporary, short lived objects that are created and makes the process more efficient.
Normally the Java compiler will convert String concatenation to use StringBuilder internally, but because of the nature of loops, can't do so.  In your case, it's probably not all that important, but in long running programs which might iterate through the loop, hundreds, thousands or even millions of time, it becomes a performance bottleneck, so it is a good habit to form.
Internally, a StringBuilder is a self managed char array, this is not particular important, but it's nice to know.  When you use .append, the StringBuilder is taking the content, making space for it within it's internal buffer and writing out the content to it.  It might sound like that's introducing it's own overheads and to a certain extent it is (you can do things to imittergate these), but it's less then having to run a garbage collection cycle...
toString simply then converts the char array to a String object...
You can find more information at The StringBuilder Class

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Online health research can be helpful, experts say—but it can just as likely send us down the wrong path, preventing us from getting effective treatment, and, more and more, sending us into a spiral of worry that medical pundits call "cyberchondria." A web search might turn up pages of results—out of context and in no particular order when it comes to reliability of information. And human nature being what it is, we're most likely to fixate on the most dire possibility. A patient might spend days worried that a sinus headache is a brain tumor … or that a bout of the flu could be colon cancer … or that a sprained ankle is a serious break. A few years ago, Microsoft even took note of the problem. Their research department reported, "The Web has the potential to increase the anxieties of people who have little or no medical training, especially when the Web is employed as a diagnostic procedure."
Don't rely on random search engine searches. Some searchers begin with a particular website where they know they will find information on the topic they are interested in; others merely enter the name of their symptoms or diagnosis in a search engine box, and click on the results. Remember, search terms may turn up just about anything! The best way to research a health condition or health procedure you're interested in is to begin with the website of an authority on that topic. For example, Suzanne, above, might visit the site of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the U.S. government's National Institutes of Health sites. There she would find an A-Z list of topics, where she could read information about strep throat. Also remember that "symptom checker" apps aren't that good at making a diagnosis. Kaiser Health News recently reported that while they're better than random search engine searches, they miss the mark at least half the time.
Bad products may have great-looking websites. On the Web, just as in the real world, thousands of unscrupulous businesses offer miracle cures, useless medications and treatments, ambulance-chaser attorney services, and elaborate but medically unsound "theories" of disease. These businesses prey on vulnerable consumers and bilk the American public out of billions of dollars a year ... as well as preventing their victims from getting the care they really need. They may spend more on the site than they do producing their product—and they also may spend millions on shady search engine techniques to ensure a symptom search will lure unsuspecting users to their site.
Above all, it's important to remember that online healthcare information cannot take the place of advice from your own doctor. Fortunately, more and more healthcare providers and professional medical associations are realizing that their own Web presence can help support patient education by offering sound consumer advice.


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Q: Wiremock queryParameters regex not working but does match outside wiremock I'm using java -jar wiremock-jre8-standalone-2.32.0.jar --verbose
Here is my mapping
{
   "priority":1,
   "request":{
      "method":"GET",
      "urlPath":"/api/arsys/v1/entry/CHG:Infrastructure%20Change",
      "queryParameters" : {
        "q": {
            "matches": "^.*?(?:\b|_)Infrastructure Change ID(?:\b|_).*?(?:\b|_)CRQ000000030315(?:\b|_).*?$"
        }
      }
   },
   "response":{
      "status":200,
      "headers":{
         "Content-Type":"application/json"
      },
      "bodyFileName": "/api/arsys/v1/entry/chginfrastructurechange/CRQ000000030315.json"
    }
}

I'm trying to match a GET with params ('Infrastructure Change ID' IN ("CRQ000000030315", "CRQ000000030316"))
The regex matches example here: https://regex101.com/r/oswkUE/1
The verbose out is:
[0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1] - GET /api/arsys/v1/entry/CHG:Infrastructure%20Change?q=(%27Infrastructure%20Change%20ID%27%20IN%20(%22CRQ000000030315%22,%20%22CRQ000000030316%22))

Authorization: [AR-JWT]
Accept: [*/*]
User-Agent: [PostmanRuntime/7.29.0]
Connection: [keep-alive]
Postman-Token: [50954490-5a26-4be0-a526-c61a6e409399]
Host: [localhost:8080]
Accept-Encoding: [gzip, deflate, br]
Content-Type: [application/json]

Matched response definition:
(no response definition configured)

Response:
HTTP/1.1 404
(no headers)

I know the issue is the regex matches because if I change it to .*CRQ000000030315.*
it returns the response, confirming everything else is good. However, I need to match on Infrastructure Change ID and then CRQ000000030315 anywhere in the param.
Cheers for your time.


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Entertainment → Music
What factors are causing the record player to make a comeback?
by S Buckilo 3 hours ago
S Buckilo
exup25th
It has been stated a few times that people are going off the manufactured bands and the constant stream of bland music or tracks which are just rereleases of songs by other stars. Another factor could be the new popularity, in the UK at least, of acoustic and rock bands, with 'real' musicians playing instruments rather than a song and dance act which has dominated the charts for so long. A few of these rock bands are not only releasing music on CD like the norm, but also releasing on vinyl records.
pjchik
I think perhaps nostalgia is a factor in record players coming back. People remember playing their records and miss it. Or perhaps they never got rid of their vinyl records and are jumping on the chance to play them again. Or (once again) perhaps they had a huge record collection and don't want to spend X amount of money to convert to CDs.
robleyob
One factor is that record players are an analog sound source. Digital media like CDs and DVDs have many convenient advantages over analog media, but analog enthusiasts believe the sound is inferior. They argue that analog media (records and tapes) have a warmer, more authentic and natural sound.
Devon Campbell
Some people find that the disadvantages of the record (such as degradation over time, large size, etc.) are part of the art. Some artists also reward record buyers with extras not provided with their CDs. Some albums and singles are released only on record.
Jack Scotty
Ease of use is the main thing. As many more people are reaching the age of retirement they tend to have more time on their hands. And being that the record player is something that they are quite familiar with, and that they probably have 100 or more records collection it makes more sense to play records then to buy a CD player that you cant even work because the buttons are too small or too confusing. Also for the nostalga factor, as weird as it may sound, artists that appeal to young adults are looking to add that crackle sound to their music that you typically hear on dirty or scratched records. Engineers spent the better part of the last 25 working to get rid of noises in music and now the artists want to put those undesireable noises back in.
Nick Wilson
The reality is that any music pressed on in analogue format ( vinyl ) simply contains more *information* than that of its digital cousin, the cd. The analogue information in the groove of an lp or single is a continuous flow of information, extracted by the stylus tracking against the groove walls, generating an electrical signal in the cartridge, which is then onpassed to the preamp/amp/speakers. Whilst the cd/digital format is 'convenient' to store/handle, its method uses a series of 'samples' (at 44.1khz frequency) of the original analogue sound, which, by virtue of the digitisation/sampling process 'lose' a certain amount of information. Much thought and invention has certainly gone into the creation of the standard cd, but for a cd to convey a 'nearly analogue' sound, it would have to be either bigger, or contain less information (music) given the greater amount of data that would need to be stored on the disk. Arguably, cd's sound ok, but in contrast to a well set up turntable/cartridge/amp/speakers, the tonal difference CAN be heard..give it a try..!
Three things I can think of are that DJ's - being the most popular form of "entertainment" found in nightclubs nowadays, to the detriment of live bands everywhere - usually have a couple of turntables on which to play the music that all the kids dance to, much of which is "retro" music that was originally released on vinyl and possibly never re-issued on cd. This may be out-of-date by now, but I remember when rap music was becoming popular, one of the things people seemed to like about it was that it featured the "scratching" techinque used by the so-called "mix-masters" in each rap group. Since one must obviously have a turntable in order to properly "scratch" perhaps this is helping to keep the turntable industry afloat as well - if "scratching" is still a popular part of music, that is. And lastly, I can only assume that since there are so many people out there who grew up in a time when there was nothing BUT the record player, and who still have their old vinyl albums, there will always be a demand for some sort of existing technology that can actually PLAY these musical artifacts. At least for the forseeable future, anyway. But just as record players themselves used to commonly feature 3 different speed settings (33 1/3, 45, and 78 rpm) back when some people still had a few of those REALLY old, thick, heavy 78's lying around, and the demand for a 78 rpm setting eventually faded out, so that record players were then gradually only offered which had 2 speed settings (33 1/3 and 45 rpm), the CD player will eventually probably do to the turntable what the turntable did to the 78 rpm setting - that is, phase it out completely.
AaronC
Do you think that they will start cutting records again someday?
peterpam
The same reason as a horse and trap are coming back for weddings, it looks good, sounds good, feels good amd Nostalgia is important. We will soon be asking is the CD making acomeback after we have yearned for the cassette tape.
Man's constant quest to look backwards.
zee-ster
there are things that can be done with vinyl that just don't work with digitally recorded music. plus, there's some good tunez you can only find on vinyl AND the DJ aspect.
Cowboy-Matter of Fact
I did not know they were but I can say I have been considering buying a turntable myself to add to my system. I sold all my old LP's long ago, luckily my wife was smart enough to hang on to hers. We have 2 large boxes of classic Rock LP's, almost all in pristine condition. I'd like to be able to play them.
Larry Rhodes
Superior quality.
I found out that they make records, I bought one of Lee Ann Womack, the instruments are so much better than on the CD, I was amazed
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Do you think it is weird when a record is credited to an instrumentalist and the vocals are sung by someone else?
If you had a old time record player...which record would you play first?
What are the factors which effects the cost of hoarding Ads?
Is there anyway to fix scratches on a Vinyl record? Or at least reduce unwanted noise caused by the scratch?
How hard is it to make a living playing music? What's the best way to go about it?
What old TV game show would you like to see make a comeback?
You are locked in a room with three cute puppies and will not be allowed to leave until you choose one to adopt. What factors will help you make your choice? (Assume they are all purebred, from the same litter.)
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EXO's main rapper Chanyeol is also going to have a significant role on the show. He is the genius, rightfully paranoid brother of Shin-hye's Jung Hee-joo.
Park Shin-hye is starring in one of the most anticipated series on Netflix this month, and that alone was reason enough for most of us to binge on 'Memories of the Alhambra.' But, guess what has EXO fans in a tizzy? EXO's main rapper Chanyeol is also going to have a significant role on the show, but not as Shin-hye's love interest though, since that job is perfectly done by Hyun Bin.
So, what is Chanyeol's role? Well, he is the genius, rightfully paranoid brother of Shin-hye's Jung Hee-joo. From the trailer for the upcoming show, it looks like the two of them have a very complicated relationship, and unlike Chanyeol's persona of "cheerful and bright," it seems like his character is pretty jaded and dark. It sure seems to complement Shin-hye's character Hee-joo.
From the first two episodes that aired last weekend, it is pretty evident that he is a loner, and not many people, including his own family truly understand him. Hee-joo seems to be the only one who even tries to do so. The fact that both Chanyeol and Shin-hye play their parts perfectly is coupled by their sibling-like behavior in real life, which is what makes it so easy for us to root for this show. As it turns out, Shin-hye is the one that got her TV-brother this role.
This had rung true in the initial episodes but hopefully, it will slowly change in the futures episodes. We are all, oh so excited to see this big sis and little bro in action. Don't forget to watch new episodes of 'Memories of the Alhambra' on Saturday and Sundays via Netflix or tvN.


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Rochelle és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat d'Illinois. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 9.424 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Rochelle tenia 9.424 habitants, 3.688 habitatges, i 2.415 famílies. La densitat de població era de 487,1 habitants/km².

Dels 3.688 habitatges en un 33,4% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 49,7% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 11,1% dones solteres, i en un 34,5% no eren unitats familiars. En el 29,3% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 12,1% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,52 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,13.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 27,1% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 10,1% entre 18 i 24, un 28,7% entre 25 i 44, un 19,6% de 45 a 60 i un 14,5% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 34 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 93,1 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 37.984 $ i la renda mediana per família de 46.563 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 35.890 $ mentre que les dones 25.058 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 18.139 $. Aproximadament el 7,6% de les famílies i el 10,4% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Ciutats d'Illinois
Comtat d'Ogle

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In late May 2014, Facebook added a new feature to its mobile app which instantly sparked controversy. The feature is called Identity TV and Music and it uses your mobile's microphone to identify ambient sounds from television, music or movies so that you can show them in your updates.
The feature analyzes audio cues that it picks up from your mobile's microphone and tries to match them with media stored in its database. The database contains millions of songs, movies and television shows from over 160 different stations. Controversy aside, this is pretty remarkable technology.
Identity TV and Music is off by default but you can turn it on through a pop-up screen that asks you if you'd like to use it. You only have to opt-in once and then it automatically includes what you're watching or listening to in your updates. It usually only takes a few seconds to identify the audio and it has a pretty high success rate.
Of course, the feature is controversial. Just reading the above you probably felt like it goes beyond the bounds of reasonable privacy. Facebook hasn't had a great track record when it comes to protecting its users' privacy, and this is why the new feature is setting off alarms everywhere.
Within days of the feature's release, hundreds of thousands of Facebook users signed a petition asking Facebook to pull the feature. This reflects the general distrust people feel about Facebook, social media, online privacy and mobile features that allow third parties access.
There is an article on the Forbes website by Kashmir Hill entitled, 'Facebook Wants To Listen In On What You're Doing.' I think this title alone shows the environment not of caution but of hysteria that surrounds online privacy concerns. Of course, Facebook isn't interested in what you're doing. The feature has a clear purpose, to make sharing easier. The social media site is trying to take advantage of the 'second screen' trend, where users are sharing what they're watching or listening to with their friends.
The petition makes me feel like Facebook users may be a bit too entitled. Notwithstanding the fact that it's an opt-in feature that you can simply not opt in to, people forget that your social media profile doesn't belong to you. None of the content in your profile or updates is actually yours. You're supplying your information of your own free will to strangers. If you opt in to the feature, you're giving Facebook that access.
However, I agree that a smartphone's capability to listen through the microphone is certain creepy. Everyone should be careful about who they give access to.


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Chapter 16: Control System
Some General Comments:
Chapter 16 is the easiest chapter to complete, but I personally think that doing the following things would make it even easier:
It would be easier to install the forward and aft controls (the tubes inside the fuselage) after Chapter 12 while you can still turn the tub onto its side. I would wait to drill the CS121 and CS122 firewall crank tubes until I finished the aileron controls.
I think the steps are presented backwards for installing the aileron controls. I found my process of starting at the ailerons and working my way to the firewall to be much easier. I locked out the ailerons into their neutral positions, set the CS132 aileron crank, built the CS129 push-tubes, set the CS128 bellcrank , built the CS126 push-tubes, then finished with the CS125 tie-rod across the firewall.
I waited until Chapter 16 to drill out the holes in the seatback and landing gear bulkheads. What a mistake. It would certainly be easier to have drilled the holes in Chapter 4, and only tweak the hole clearances in Chapter 16.
I admit it might, might, might be easier to build the forward armrests after the controls are fully functioning. I built my consoles after Chapter 13 and before I built the wings and ailerons. I blindly built them to plans, but still had interference issues with the control sticks. The bottoms of the control sticks were hitting the insides of the forward armrests. I ended up biasing the handles inward a bit and redrilling the CS121 and CS122 tubes. It certainly is easier to shape the forward consoles to conform around the movements of the control stick, but I don't see how I could have anticipated this by doing the Chapter 24 armrests before completing Chapter 16 controls. I thought if I followed the plans for the armrests I'd be okay, but no............
There have been some changes to materials and parts list for Chapter 16:
The chapter materials kits ordered from Wicks (I don't know about Aircraft Spruce) are now supplied with four plastic swivel bearings instead of phenolic material.
All rod end bearings and rod end fittings are now MM-4's and CS1A's instead of MM-3's and CS150's. Remember to request this change when ordering the chapter kits from Wicks (or Aircraft Spruce) and Brock. Nat issued this change after RAF issued the change for the Long EZs. It seems a Long EZ flyer had bent an MM-3 when removing his wing. He simply bent it back straight and went flying. The bearing eventually broke in flight.
All of the Brock-supplied bellcranks for the aileron controls are drilled to accept AN-3 bolts. Because we've changed to MM-4 rod end bearings, we now need to use AN-4 bolts instead of AN-3's. So you'll need to enlarge the holes in the CS122 firewall cranks, the CS128 bellcranks, and the CS132R aileron cranks.
Don't cut your tubes until you've had a chance to measure and verify their lengths. I discovered several issues with the lengths specified in Schedule B on Chapter 16, page 1:
Be aware that the plastic swivel bearings are thicker than the phenolic bearings they are to replace. I had to change the lengths of the forward control tubes and inserts to keep the control stick at the FS location specified in the plans. I figured out the new lengths by studying the large M-drawings.
Two of my tubes -- the CS136 (shorter canard push-tube) and CS129 aileron push-tube in the wing root -- did not match the lengths specified in Schedule B (Chapter 16, page 1). This comes as no surprise since our drawings and our text have never been updated to reflect the new AN-4 rod ends and the CS1A rod end fittings we're now using. The processes I used for the canard and aileron push-tubes include the how-to's for determining the exact lengths.
Be aware that the Chapter 16, page 15 drawing may be a carry-over from the Cozy III drawings and may not have been updated for the longer Cozy IV wing root. So don't use it as a full-sized drawing. (Nat told me that.) Also, the page 16 drawing is not meant to be used full-sized either.
When I finished rigging the control systems, I measured all tubes and recorded their lengths in my plans. I also denoted the M-drawings and Chapter 16 drawings to reflect the final configuration, including the new bearings, rod end fittings, and control stick cant angles.
Some general things to be aware of:
Make sure you use a good drill press and some sharp drill bits. Dull drill bits will gall the aluminum and drag the thin, aluminum wall into the hole you're trying to drill into the steel inserts (or universal joints). The aluminum tube will attach itself permanently to the insert, meaning you won't be able to remove the steel inserts.
Be careful when handling the universal joints. It's easy to dislodge the orange rubber protective boots and it's easy to inadvertently squeeze out the grease that's in there.
The steel inserts will rust in a hurry, and the rust is accelerated after being handled with sweaty, grimy hands. I painted the steel tubes with a light coat of zinc chromate. I wanted to alodine the aluminum tubes, but just never got around to ordering the alodine chemicals. So I just painted them with zinc chromate after I drilled all the holes just to make them look good. :-)
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Q: NPM Pug is not working in my JS application I am trying to use pug in my node application since Jade is now deprecated and my app.js looks like this:
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');

var app = express();

// tells which folder the template files will be in
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'pug');

app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: false}));

app.get('/', function(req, res){
    res.render('index');
});

app.listen(3000);

console.log('Server is running on port 3000');

I created a views folder and inside that folder I have my index.pug file.
When I run the site in the browser, I do not see the hello world.
How can I use pug in my site?

A: your code is correct and perfectly working just give correct path on below line
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'pug');

if your view folder is inside public or in any other folder set path of that folder like this:
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, './public/views'));
app.set('view engine', 'pug');

or remove all dependencies and reinstall them again
Or their might be fault in indentation in index.pug page
if it is not working change the function to this
app.get('/', function(req, res){
    res.send('hello world');
});


At time of writing, Australian-based coal miner New Hope Corporation Ltd [ASX:NHC] is staying afloat at $3.25 a share (up 1.72%) after a cool $1 billion was wiped from their portfolio.
New Hope's overall value has slumped over a quarter since the beginning of the week.
Why have New Hope's share price lost so much ground?
It's widely speculated that the wipeout is a result of panic selling after the Chinese pushback on Australian coal.
Australian miners have felt the heat during the last few months due to China's rapid crackdown on coal imports, citing serious 'environmental grounds' and policy changes.
But New Hope's management team resolutely deny that this is a serious problem for the company.
'Nothing has fundamentally changed at New Hope. It's got to be the negative view the market has of China,' said asset manager Tom Millner.
What's future look like for New Hope?
Although not a complete disaster, the restrictions on Australian coal has simply added more difficulty to an already competitive environment.
And even if the crackdown from China is solely based on environmental concerns, or something more politically underhanded — the company's record revenue results still indicate that they are firmly set against the likes of similar Australian coal miners.
It's loosely expected that coal restrictions will ease later in the year; until then, it might be the ideal time for anxious investors to sit back and watch the market trends a little while longer.
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Need last minute text books?
And if you still haven't got any text books this semester, you might have a little bit of trouble with those things called final exams that are coming up!
The best part of getting your last minute text books with Course Smart is probably the fact that you'll have instant access to any materials you purchase. Then again, getting up to 50% off the normal bookstore prices is pretty sweet, too. Of course: you can find, buy, and even download your books without even getting up from the chair you're already sitting in.
Either way, if there's a cheaper and more convenient way to buy textbooks I sure haven't heard of it yet. Put that digital book reader to good use, and check out the savings that are possible with digital texts today!
I agree that buying textbooks online is the way to go. But there are just so many sites online selling textbooks. That's why I now use http://www.bigwords.com They are a textbook search engine that searches all the online textbook retailers and rental sites to find you the best prices. And at the end of the semester you can use them to search for resellers to sell your book to. All the search results are organized by price so you can buy your books for the lowest prices and sell them back for the highest.
Bigwords is a great site and another one you can try is go Snuffy which is a free textbook buying and selling service website where students can buy and sell textbooks directly to each other, cutting out the middleman. Put ads up on Craigslist and scour Half eBay can also improve your chances of finding cheap textbooks.


Huntingdon County's unique mix of forests, farms and small towns make it a pleasure to visit and an ideal place to live.
Comprised of 48 townships and boroughs, Huntingdon County is largely rural. It is a place where people know their neighbors and families have roots that reach back for generations. But, the community is full of surprises. Juniata College started here in 1876, attracts 1,600 students annually and their influence helps to give the area a younger more vibrant feel. In fact, a few years ago, a poll of readers resulted in Budget Travel naming Huntingdon the 5th Coolest Small Town in the United States. The list attracted national attention and was highly reported.
Huntingdon is the county's seat of government and its largest community. Home to just over 7,000 residents, the borough is situated on the banks of the Juniata River, near the mouth of Standing Stone Creek. Land for the town was originally purchased in 1766 by Rev. Dr. William Smith and later named for Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, England.
Huntingdon County is located in south central Pennsylvania, among ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. Visitors quickly discover why the area is nicknamed "Land of 1,000 Hills," as the area is laced by forested ridges and agricultural valleys. The Huntingdon Area comprises approximately 100 square miles of the county's 895 square miles. Approximately 72% of the county is forested, 22% agricultural and 4% developed according to the Huntingdon County Planning Commission.


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Q: Filter out failed syscalls from strace log I can run strace on a command like sleep 1
and see what files it's accessing like this:
strace -e trace=file -o strace.log sleep 1

However, on my machine, many of the calls have a return value of -1
indicating that the file does not exist. For example:
$ grep '= -1 ENOENT' strace.log | head
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MEASUREMENT", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_TELEPHONE", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_ADDRESS", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_NAME", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_PAPER", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

I'm not really interested in the files that don't exist,
I want to know what files the process actually found and read from.
Aside from grep -v '=-1 ENOENT',
how can I reliably filter out failed calls?
Addendum
I was surprised to learn
that strace has had this feature in the works since 2002
in the form of the -z flag, which is an alias for -e status=successful,
fully functional since version 5.2
(2019-07-12),
also available as --successful-only since version 5.6 (2020-04-07).
Also available since version 5.2 is the complement of -z, the -Z flag,
which is an alias for -e status=failed,
available as --failed-only since version 5.6.
The -z flag was first added in a commit from 2002 and released in version 4.5.18 (2008-08-28),
bit it had never been documented because it was not working properly.
Relevant links:

*

*only seeing successful system calls
Sat Nov 2 23:07:23 UTC 2002

When using strace I  sometimes like to see the system calls
  which work (instead of all the system calls).
I've been porting this patch for years, it seems very useful.
With the -z option, you don't see opens on files which aren't there
  (very useful tracking down what a program actually does, instead of
  trying to do).

https://lists.strace.io/pipermail/strace-devel/2002-November/000232.html

*strace: -z option doesn't work properly
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:33:01 UTC
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=176376

*tracing only failing syscalls
Created: 2004-03-19
https://sourceforge.net/p/strace/feature-requests/3/

*[strace-4.15] Proposal: Output Staging for -z Option (print successful syscalls only) / Patch included
Tue Jan 17 09:35:54 UTC 2017
https://lists.strace.io/pipermail/strace-devel/2017-January/005941.html

*[PATCH v1] Implemented output staging for failed/successful syscalls
Wed Jan 18 16:01:20 UTC 2017
https://lists.strace.io/pipermail/strace-devel/2017-January/005950.html

*Fix -z option
Feb 28, 2018
https://github.com/strace/strace/issues/49

*[PATCH 0/3] Stage output for -z and new -Z options
Mon Apr 1 21:13:02 UTC 2019
https://lists.strace.io/pipermail/strace-devel/2019-April/008706.html

*strace -z flag
Mon Jun 10 05:29:19 UTC 2019
https://lists.strace.io/pipermail/strace-devel/2019-June/008808.html

A: Apart from post-processing the strace output, there isn't anything available to ignore failed system calls in strace. It wouldn't be too hard to add, look at the syscall_exiting_trace function in syscall.c.
If you'd rather pursue the post-processing angle, Ole Tange has already taken care of that for you in a more comprehensive way than you're likely to get here: the tracefile tool will run strace and filter out the information you're after in a nicely readable fashion. See List the files accessed by a program for details. Another answer to that question lists other possible approaches, including LoggedFS which I find very useful.
Another option is to use SystemTap; for example
#!/usr/bin/env stap

global stored_filename, stored_path

probe syscall.open {
  stored_filename = filename
}

probe syscall.open.return {
  if (execname() == "cat" && $return >= 0) {
    printf("opened %s\n", stored_filename)
  }
}

probe syscall.openat {
  stored_filename = filename
  stored_path = dfd_str
}

probe syscall.openat.return {
  if (execname() == "cat" && $return >= 0) {
    printf("opened %s in %s\n", stored_filename, stored_path)
  }
}

will show the name of any file successfully opened by any cat process.

A: Possible solution:
strace -e trace=file sleep 1 2>&1 | grep -v "= -1 ENOENT" > strace.log

strace by default prints to stderr so redirect it to stdout.

A: A slightly more reliable pattern (i.e. slightly less risk of skipping the wrong lines by accident) could be
| grep -v "= -1 ENOENT [(]No such file or directory[)]$"

I.e. copy-paste the end of line, "escaping" the brackets (which might otherwise be treated as special characters), and add the special character $ to the end which "anchors" the pattern to the end of the line.
I can't find any better option in man strace.  Quick and dirty text manipulation hacks are the Unix Way :-P.
It's almost certainly possible to do what you want with a custom gdb script.  However that's more work, and I don't have such a script prepared.
Another question references a tracefile script, which you would run with the -e option.  This is still implemented by parsing the output of strace, and so it does not appear to be entirely reliable either, but I guess it's possible you'd prefer it.  https://gitlab.com/ole.tange/tangetools/blob/master/tracefile/tracefile


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Port Authority Wants You To Weigh In On Bus Rapid Transit Plans
By Virginia Alvino Young • Jun 19, 2017
Margaret Sun / 90.5 WESA
The Port Authority of Allegheny County is seeking public input as it finalizes plans for Pittsburgh's long-awaited bus rapid transit system.
Riders can offer suggestions at upcoming neighborhood meetings about street design, station locations and what amenities they'd like to see at each station, like benches and Connect Card machines. They'll also offer general updates and allow for questions about the planning process, spokesman Adam Brandolph said.
Meeting times and locations will be posted on the authority's website as they're scheduled, he said. The first is from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Oakland Career Center on Semple Street.
"Then we're going to be doing some environmental impact analysis and preliminary engineering before we apply for federal funding," he said.
The proposed bus rapid transit system will connect Downtown to Oakland on dedicated lanes with wings extending to Wilkinsburg, Highland Park, Squirrel Hill and Greenfield. The estimated $233 million project is expected to be submitted for funding this September.
The planning process is continuing despite questions about the availability of federal funding for such projects. President Donald Trump's proposed budget does not provide funding for the Capital Investment Grant program.
Port Authority of Allegheny County
Wilkinsburg
Trump Budget Puts Future Of Bus Rapid Transit In Jeopardy
By Margaret J. Krauss • Jun 13, 2017
A route was selected, preliminary studies were planned and local officials intended to submit grant applications to fund the Bus Rapid Transit corridor in the fall.
Those plans may now be on hold.
President Donald Trump's proposed budget provides no funding for new projects under the federal Capital Investment Grant which was expected to provide about $80 to $100 million for the roughly $233 million project, said Robert Rubinstein, executive director of the Urban Redevelopment Authority.
A Will, A Way, Now Pittsburgh's BRT System Just Needs $233M
By Margaret J. Krauss • Jun 2, 2017
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After years of initial planning and study, a route has been selected for the Port Authority of Allegheny County's proposed Bus Rapid Transit system, or BRT. The route will connect 24 neighborhoods and serve 31,000 people.
4 Rapid Transit Bus Routes Proposed Through Downtown And Oakland
By Katie Blackley • Mar 9, 2017
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald talks with 90.5 WESA's Kevin Gavin about whether a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system would actually get people out of their cars.
Plans are moving forward on the construction of a bus rapid transit system, or BRT, between the city's two largest employment centers: Downtown and Oakland.
Developers proposed four route options based on analysis and public input.


Hibernation Information: Why not sleep through winter?
The longer I live, the more I wish scientists would succeed with induced hibernation, especially for old duffers like me. I hate winter! Well, not really...I do enjoy going out with my family getting in the winter wood, something I've been doing almost all my life. When I was a kid, we had a huge wood-burning furnace in the basement of the New England farm house where I grew up.
Woodcutting started in October in Connecticut, with oak and elm being the dominant species we used for keeping warm in winter, and the old two-man cross-cut misery whip was the saw we used to buck up logs into firewood lengths. I can still hear my Uncle Harry on the other end of the cross-cut: "Catsfur (my nickname), I don't mind you ridin' that thing, but would you quit draggin' your feet!"
If I could have just hibernated, woodcutting wouldn't be necessary, and think of all the money we'd have saved.
Hibernation is a way that many mammals in these latitudes spend winter - and as it turns out, some birds. Poor-wills were discovered hibernating among the roots of willows along the cut banks of streams in the Sacramento area in the '60s. They go into a deep sleep during which breathing and heart rate slow down to a hairline between life and death.
Hibernation, it should be noted, is not to be confused with the torpid state hummingbirds and swifts can drop into for short periods of time to escape a cold snap. Both are dependent on insects for food, so when a cold snap hits, the birds hide in the shelter of deep foliage, turn down their breathing and heart rate and wait it out. If the cold snap goes on for over 72 hours, however, then they're in big trouble.
To hibernate, the animal going into that state must first have a suitable layer of fat beneath its skin. The fat is slowly metabolized to make food and water for the animal's slowly circulating blood.
Almost all of the burrowing rodents we see running around during the spring and summer in Central Oregon sleep through winter. The yellow-bellied marmot, in addition to California, Belding's, Merriam's, Columbia and Washington ground squirrels spend up to seven months sleeping.
They appear above ground in March and are back in bed by late July. During that short five months, they give birth to their young and then: eat, eat, eat and eat some more. While the Belding's ground squirrel's favorite food is dandelions, their cousins aren't that fussy, all that green is fat or their fire of life. That said, if they happen to come across insects, bird's eggs, worms - or even one of their dead brethren on the road - they will consume that as well.
A bear will eat huge amounts of juicy, sugar-laden berries and insect larvae to put on the fat necessary to make it through winter. In some areas of the West, hibernation food for grizzlies is becoming a life-threatening issue as they can't find enough pine seeds and army cutworm moth larva to build up the fat reserves.
Mammals need water to maintain healthy blood and during hibernation that's taken care of with the water metabolized out of the fat. But what about elimination of wastewater afterward: urine? Like most old men, I get up three times in the night and head for the bathroom to do just that, something a hibernating bear can't do.
Amazingly, in bears the urea is recycled and turned back into protein. The same goes for packrats, who do not hibernate, and rarely drink water. They can recycle water they get from plants so many times that it is probably painful for them to pee it out. There is so much urea in the urine that it coats the rocks near the packrat's den almost pure white, instead of the characteristic yellow.
From my experience, bats are the deepest hibernators of all. When I was studying and banding them in the lava caves near Bend, I would often remove them from their head-down perch on the cave ceiling, photograph, weigh and band the bat and it wouldn't wake up. Then, I'd carefully hook the bat's hind feet back into the same crevice it was holding onto and leave.
But you know, I did discover that Townsend's big-eared bats wake up at least three times while hibernating. I would often return to the caves where I had banded them and find them sleeping in a different location than where I left them last.
Turns out, they are so deep in sleep that the oxygen content in their blood drops to such a low level that lactic acid builds up, causing the bat to waken and start breathing faster. They take advantage of that physiological alarm clock and fly around to pump up themselves. After the oxygen content reaches the level necessary to keep the cells alive and healthy, they go back to a new location in the cave and drop back into the hibernation state.
One of the most interesting hibernators are butterflies and moths. While the monarchs (a tropical species) have migrated to Mexico and California, our native swallowtails, and a few moths are wintering over as either eggs, or wrapped in the silk of their chrysalides and cocoons, but mourning cloaks and California torstiseshells winter over as adults. They all posses an antifreeze-like substance in their "blood" that protects them from freezing, even at 31-below zero!


Andrew Laidlaw is a Global Gardens of Peace director and Landscape Architect at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria where he is responsible for the design and implementation of an extensive range of landscape projects. His achievements include the award winning Ian Potter Foundation Children's Garden (2004), Guilfoyle's Volcano Project (2010) and the rejuvenation of the Fern Gully (2013). His design work has won a number of awards including Best New Tourist Attraction for Victoria and Landscape of the Year in 2005.
Andrew has also taught at post-graduate, degree and certificate levels in horticulture and landscape design and currently lectures at Melbourne University in the post-graduate certificate of Landscape design. He was a regular gardening commentator on ABC 774 for ten years and has made numerous television presentations. Andrew is passionate about his role as principal landscape designer for Global Gardens of Peace. Its philosophy is that "gardens are forever" and its belief is that gardens are the centre for which to build a community around.


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Q: Developing Azure .Net 4.0 Applications Presently .Net 4.0 is not supported on Azure.
This thread indicates that you will not be able to use .Net 4.0 with VS 2010 until it is supported in the cloud.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com
I'd like a way to start developing Azure applications locally utilizing the new features of .Net 4.0.  I am fine with not being able to deploy these applications until Azure officially supports it.
From within the VS IDE; I tried replacing .Net 3.5 application references with newer .Net 4.0 references and Visual Studio crashes.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Paul

A: An update to this old thread. .Net 4.0 has been supported since Azure SDK 1.2

A: Some features from .NET 4.0 can be added to your application through other means. For example, the recently-released Reactive Extensions for .NET 3.5 SP1 includes a back ported release of Parallel Extensions. And the Managed Extensibility Framework contains the Lazy class and Tuple struct. As long as you set "Copy Local" to true on any libraries that you add, your application should run (and deploy) successfully.
Obviously, these aren't all the features that are new in .NET 4.0, and not all of them will can be ported back to .NET 3.5 like these can.


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List of House characters
Steve McQueen (album)
Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director.
Crenna starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark,Un Flic, Body Heat,the first three Rambo movies,Hot Shots! Part Deux, the remake of Sabrina and The Flamingo Kid. Crenna played "Walter Denton" in the CBS radio network and CBS-TV network series Our Miss Brooks, and "Luke McCoy" in ABC's TV comedy series, The Real McCoys, (1957–63), which moved to CBS-TV in September 1962.
Crenna was born in Los Angeles, the only child of Edith J. (née Pollette), who was a hotel manager in LA, and Domenick Anthony Crenna, a pharmacist. His parents were both of Italian descent. Crenna attended Virgil Junior High School, followed by Belmont High School in Los Angeles. Following high school, Crenna served in the US Army during World War II, serving in the infantry as a radioman - where he saw combat duty in the European Theater at the Battle of the Bulge. Crenna also served in the Pacific Theater decoding Japanese intercepts. Following World War II, Crenna attended the University of Southern California where he majored in English.
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Terence Steven "Steve" McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor. Called "The King of Cool", his "anti-hero" persona, developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include The Cincinnati Kid, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, and Papillon, as well as the all-star ensemble films The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and The Towering Inferno. In 1974, he became the highest-paid movie star in the world, although he did not act in films again for four years. McQueen was combative with directors and producers, but his popularity placed him in high demand and enabled him to command large salaries.
Terence Steven McQueen was born on March 24, 1930 in Beech Grove, Indiana. His father, William Terence McQueen, a stunt pilot for a barnstorming flying circus, left McQueen's mother, Julia Ann (née Crawford), six months after meeting her. Julia allegedly was an alcoholic and sometime prostitute. Unable to cope with caring for a small child, she left him with her parents (Victor and Lillian) in Slater, Missouri, in 1933. As the Great Depression set in shortly thereafter, McQueen and his grandparents moved in with Lillian's brother Claude at his farm in Slater. McQueen was raised as a Catholic.
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This page is a comprehensive listing and detailing of the various characters who appear, from time to time, in the television series House. The list is divided episode-wise, as well as character-wise, and includes recurring characters, such as Dr. James Wilson, Cuddy, Foreman, Rachel Taub, and Dominika, as well as characters who appear in only a few episodes, such as Steve McQueen (the rat) and House's stalker, Ali.
Senior doctors
Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) – Department Head: Diagnostic Medicine. Dr. Gregory House is a maverick diagnostician with a double specialty in infectious disease and nephrology. Dr. House utterly lacks bedside manner and prefers to avoid direct contact with his patients whenever possible. Due to an infarction in his right thigh, House lost a substantial portion of the muscle in his upper leg and must use a cane to assist with walking. As a result, House is also forced to deal with constant physical pain, which he manages through a dependency on the prescription pain medication Vicodin. Although his behavior can border on antisocial, misanthropic or Sociopathic, House is viewed as a genius physician whose unconventional thinking and excellent instincts have afforded him a great deal of respect and an unusual level of tolerance from his colleagues and the medical world. House is eventually replaced by Chase after he fakes his death in the series finale, "Everybody Dies."
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Steve McQueen is the second studio album by English pop band Prefab Sprout, released in June 1985. The album peaked at number 21 on the UK Albums Chart and number 180 on the US Billboard 200. In the United States, the album was released in the United States as Two Wheels Good due to a legal conflict with the estate of American actor Steve McQueen.
The cover of the album is a reference to Steve McQueen's lifelong passion for Triumph motorcycles and the 1963 film The Great Escape, starring McQueen and featuring prominent motorcycle chase scenes (with stunts performed by himself on a Triumph motorcycle).
On 2 April 2007 it was reissued as a "legacy edition" double CD, featuring a remastered version of the original album and a bonus disc featuring acoustic versions of the songs recorded by the band's frontman Paddy McAloon in 2006.
On an episode of the BBC Radio 1 program Roundtable, noted musician and producer Thomas Dolby, a panelist on the program, spoke favorably of Prefab Sprout's "Don't Sing", a track from their 1984 Swoon. The band subsequently contacted Dolby, who met with their frontman and primary lyricist Paddy McAloon in the latter's County Durham home. McAloon presented Dolby with a number of songs he had written, "probably 40 or 50" by Dolby's estimate, some written as far back as 10–12 years prior. Dolby then picked his favorites and asked McAloon to make demo recordings of them; these recordings served as the basis for Dolby's initial process of planning the album's recording.
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The Cool, Lupe Fiasco
the cool.
uh-huh..
He came back
In the same suit that he was buried in
Similar to the one his grand father was married in
Yes... he was still fresh to death
bling, two ear-rings, a chain laying on his chest
He still had it cuz they couldn't find it
And the bullets from his enemies sat like two inches behind it
smelled the Hennesy from when his niggas got reminded
and poured out liquor in his memory, he didn't mind it, But...
He couldn't sip it fast enough
So the liquor was just filling the casket up
floating down by his feet was the letter from his sister
Second Grade hand-writing simply read "I miss ya"
Suit jacket pocket held his baby daughter's picture
Right next to it one of his man's stuck a swisher
He had a notion as he laid there soaking
Saw that the latch was broken, he kicked his casket open
and he...
This life goes passing you by
It might go fast if you lie
You go and you live then you die...
O-oh-oh-ohh
If life goes passing you by
If you breaking the rules
Making your moves
Paying your dues...
Chasing the cool
Not at all nervous as he dug to the surface
Tarnished gold chain is what he loosened up the earth with
He used his mouth as a shovel to try and hollow it
and when he couldn't dirt spit... swollowed it
Working like a.. hmm.. reverse archaeologist
Except.. his buried treasure was sunshine
So when some shined through a hole that he had drove
it reflected off the gold and almost made son blind
He grabbed on to some grass, he climbed
Pulled himself up out of his own grave and looked at the time
On the watch that had stopped six months after the shots
That had got him in the box wringing Henny out his socks
Figured it was hours because he wasn't older
Used some flowers to brush the dirt up off his shoulders - so..
With a right hand that was all bones and no reason to stay
Decided to walk home
so he..
He begged for some change to get him on a train
"Damn that nigga stank", is what they complained
Tried to light the blunt but it burst into flames
Caught the reflection in the window of what he became
A long look... Wasn't shook, wasn't ashamed
Matter fact only thing on his brain was brains.. yeah
And getting back in his lane, doing his thang
First he had to find something to slang
Next stop was his block
It had the same cops
Walked right past the same spot where he was shot
Shocked that some lil' niggas tried to sell him rocks
It just felt weird being on the opposite
They figured that he wasn't from there
so they pulled out and robbed him
with the same gun they shot him with
Put it to his head and said "You scared ain't ya?"


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Attorney shreds clueless NC GOPer for 'shoving through' a 'uniquely terrible' bathroom law
Sarah Warbelow and Paul "Skip" Stam speak to CNN (screen grab)
Human Rights Campaign Legal Director Sarah Warbelow explained to North Carolina House Speaker Pro Tempore Paul "Skip" Stam (R) that companies were boycotting the state because a recently-passed anti-transgender bathroom law was "uniquely terrible."
Stam argued to CNN on Thursday that the Republican-controlled state legislature passed the law as a reaction to Charlotte's "extreme" and "weird" ordinance that gave transgender people the right to use the bathroom corresponding to their chosen gender.
But Warbelow pointed out that cities around the country had been enacting similar ordinances for over 40 years.
"A couple of things I don't understand," Stam complained. "When PayPal made its announcement that it was coming [with 400 more jobs] three weeks ago, North Carolina had the same law on discrimination that it has today."
"And this is the same with the NBA talking about not bringing an All-Star game to Charlotte," he continued. "The Charlotte action is what the NBA and PayPal said they wanted to see so they're punishing Charlotte? Only Charlotte will suffer from that, not the rest of the state of North Carolina."
"The North Carolina law is uniquely terrible," Warbelow told Stam. "I think maybe some of the legislators would understand it better if they had spent more than 12 hours shoving it through from both houses and signed into law."
Warbelow noted that the law "strips away protections for people of all characteristics: race, sex, disability."
"It stops cities from protecting their residents and visitors, including LGBT people," the HRC attorney added. "And then has outrageous provisions making a subset of women -- transgender women and girls -- enter into men's restrooms in public buildings, from libraries to some of the major airports in the city. It's truly outrageous."
Watch the video below from CNN's New Day, broadcast April 6, 2016.
On Saturday, writing for CNN, fact-checker Daniel Dale — who has reliably covered the Trump falsehood beat for years — compiled what he believed to be the top 15 lies that have defined this presidency.
"There's just so much ugly garbage to sift through before you can make a decision," wrote Dale, a former reporter for the Toronto Star. "But I'm qualified for the dirty job. I fact checked every word uttered by this President from his inauguration day in January 2017 until September 2020 — when the daily number of lies got so unmanageably high that I had to start taking a pass on some of his remarks to preserve my health."

As of October 2020, Trump was averaging 50 lies or false statements a day, according to one estimate — requiring Dale to cut down his list to just the most outrageous or persistent lies.

The lies he chose were: Trump's claim that COVID-19 was under "tremendous control;" his editing of a hurricane map with a Sharpie; his claim that the president of the Boy Scouts called him to thank him for a speech; his suggestion that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) supports al-Qaeda; his claim that the U.S. used to have a $500 billion trade deficit with China; his anecdotes about people crying around him; his claim that he didn't know about the payment to Stormy Daniels; his claim that President Obama started family separation; his suggestion Joe Biden would end protections for pre-existing conditions; his claim that he created the Veterans Choice program; his claim that wind turbines cause cancer; his perpetual promise to have a health care plan in two weeks; his claim to have been Michigan's "Man of the Year"; and his insistence that he won the 2020 election.

"The nation's truth problem, clearly, isn't just a Trump problem," concluded Dale. "With this last blizzard of deception and the Capitol insurrection it fomented, Trump has shown us, once more, just how detached from reality much of his political base has become — or always was."

You can read more here.

Tom Boggioni
According to a report from the New York Times' Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, Republican lawmakers are already at each other's throats over Donald Trump re-election loss -- and the loss of control of the Senate -- with some GOP officials worried the internal war could spill out from behind closed doors and impact the 2022 midterm.
At issue are Republicans who are still loyal to the ousted Trump and those who want to put the past four years behind them after it culminated in the loss of the Senate and the White House to the Democrats.
The report notes that fans of the president who are still in office are working at ousting colleagues they feel were not loyal to Trump both after his election loss and then again after he was accused of inciting a riot at the Capitol that led to five deaths on January 6th.
According to the report, at the president's urging, pro-Trump lawmakers are attempting to undercut leadership Republicans including Sen. John Thune (SC) and Rep. Liz Cheney (WY) and may encourage primaries against the two among others.
"In Washington, Republicans are particularly concerned about a handful of extreme-right House members who could run for Senate in swing states, potentially tarnishing the party in some of the most politically important areas of the country," the report states. "The highest-profile tests of Mr. Trump's clout may come in two sparsely populated Western states, South Dakota and Wyoming, where the president has targeted a pair of G.O.P. leaders: John Thune, the second-ranking Senate Republican, and Liz Cheney, the third-ranking House Republican."
Those seats, along with others held by Republicans in the House who voted for impeachment have some Republican officials worried a bruising primary could leave them with a candidate who is too extreme for the district, allowing the seat to flip to the Democrats.
"If Ms. Cheney is deposed, it could encourage primary challenges against other Republicans who supported impeachment or censure, including more moderate lawmakers like Representatives Peter Meijer and Fred Upton of Michigan and John Katko of New York, whose districts could slip away from Republicans if they nominated hard-line Trump loyalists," the Times reports. "But in a sign that Mr. Trump can't expect to fully dictate party affairs, Mr. McCarthy has indicated that he opposes calls to remove her from leadership"
Additionally, Republicans are worried about overly ambitious newly elected far-right lawmakers who may decide to run for higher office seats held by their Republican colleagues.
"Privately, Republican officials are concerned about possible campaigns for higher office by some of the high-profile backbenchers in the House who have railed against the election results and propagated fringe conspiracy theories. Among those figures are Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Andy Biggs of Arizona. All three states have Senate seats and governorships up for election in 2022," the report states.
According to Scott Reed, the former chief political strategist for the Chamber of Commerce, "In 2022, we'll be faced with the Trump pitchfork crowd, and there will need to be an effort to beat them back," he said before adding, "Hopefully they'll create multicandidate races where their influence will be diluted."
You can read more here.
On Saturday, the Associated Press reported that Senate Republicans are in panic mode as they cannot rely on many of their major campaign funding sources for the upcoming midterm election.
"Eight Republican senators voted to reject Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, even after the ransacking of the Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters who were exhorted by the president to stop Congress from certifying Biden's victory. Five people died in the mayhem, including a Capitol Police officer," reported Brian Slodysko. "Recriminations were swift, with more than a dozen corporate giants — including AT&T, Nike, Comcast, Dow, Marriott, Walmart and Verizon — pledging to withhold donations to Republican lawmakers who voted to reject the outcome of the election in Arizona or Pennsylvania."

Furthermore, noted the report, "One of those lawmakers, Florida Sen. Rick Scott, is the new chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a post that makes him the public face of the Senate Republican fundraising efforts."

But this is not the only problem.

"Adding to the worries, other pillars of GOP fundraising — including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Rifle Association and groups tied to the Koch brothers — can no longer be counted on for robust financial support," said the report. "The NRA announced Friday that it had filed for bankruptcy after years of profligate spending and insider dealing by top leaders. The Chamber of Commerce, which angered some Republicans when it recently started donating to Democrats, announced this week that it will withhold contributions from some Republicans over their actions. And the Koch network, too, announced it will scrutinize whom it gives to following the insurrection, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal."

The 2022 midterms will be a major test of President-elect Biden's popularity and agenda, with both chambers of Congress up for grabs after what will likely be two years of unified Democratic control.

'Done with this guy': Trump's Capitol riot set off a war among Breitbart staffers over support for president
Some in the GOP worry the party will not survive after 4 years of Trump
Who loves America? Inciting a riot to sack the Capitol gives us the answer
Senate Republicans left hanging with no idea how to handle Trump's second impeachment: report
After Biden unveils COVID-19 relief plan, Rashida Tlaib doubles down on demand for $2,000 monthly payments


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Rucha Hasabnis Of 'Saath Nibhaana Saathiya' Shares First Full 'Hello World' Pictures Of Her Daughter
It was on December 12, 2019, when Rucha Hasabnis of 'Saath Nibhana Sathiya' fame and hubby, Rahul Jagdale had welcomed a new family member in their lives. Rucha shared the first pictures of her baby.
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By Karuna Tyagi Last Updated: Jan 14, 2020 | 11:58:12 IST
The journey of a woman from her childhood to having her own child is pure bliss! The joy she gets after she hears the news of her pregnancy is beyond imaginable and she starts to count the number of days left for the arrival of her little bundle of joy. Having a child bring lots of excitement, joy, happiness, responsibilities and seriousness into a couple's lives. But they accept and embrace every change with open arms and fulfil their duties wonderfully. The time when a woman holds her little munchkin in her belly for nine months just seems to pass by in a blink of an eye, when she holds her child in her arms for the first time. The happy tears rolling down her eyes becomes proof of her immense happiness and joy. (Recommended Read: Erica Jennifer Fernandes Breaks Her Silence On Her Engagement Post, Says Small Sneak Peak Is Enough)
The morning sickness, swelling feet, weight gain that she faced throughout her pregnancy takes a back seat for a newbie-mommy, the moment she hears the first cry of her baby. Rucha Hasabnis of Saath Nibhaana Saathiya fame is going through the same emotions as she recently, welcomed her little angel, a sweet baby girl in her life. Rucha rose to fame when she had played the character of Rashi in her first serial, Saath Nibhaana Saathiya. But after her first show, she had left the glamour world and had tied the knot with her longtime beau, Rahul Jagdale on January 26, 2015. On December 12, 2019, Rucha and Rahul had welcomed a new family member in their lives. Rucha had taken to her Instagram handle to share the happy news and shared a glimpse of her child. Sharing the picture, she had written, "0.12.19 Our bundle of joy has arrived...And it's a girl!!"
After welcoming a child, a couple's lives takes a complete 360 turn and they start to change their requirement and needs to accommodate their child's demands. On January 12, 2020, Rucha and her husband, Rahul completed one month of their parent's duty and on the special occasion of their newborn's first month birthday, Rucha shared the first picture of her baby girl. On January 13, 2020, Rucha took to her Instagram handle and had shared cute and adorable pictures of her baby girl and had captioned them as "Hello World. I am 1 month old - Baby R." (Suggested Read: Kareena Kapoor Khan And Saif Ali Khan Look Every Bit Of Regal As They Attend An Event Together)
Rucha Hasabnis loves to keep per personal life private and she had taken everyone by surprise when she had shared the news of her baby's arrival. She had refrained from sharing any of her picture with a baby bump and only on her baby girl's birth did she revealed the good news. Rahul and Rucha had tied the knot in a traditional Maharashtrian ceremony and her pre-wedding and wedding ceremony pictures were just surreal. From her haldi ceremony to her reception, Rucha had looked stunning and had given all the brides major inspiration.
Rucha had tied the knot on the occasion of Republic Day and in an interview with The Times of India, Rucha had admitted that it was a conscious decision to get married on a national holiday. She had shared, "My husband Rahul and I are extremely patriotic at heart, so even when our families suggested other dates for the marriage, we chose January 26. In fact, my husband even kept a small Indian flag on his Jodhpuri wedding suit. She had also opened up on her memorable marriage and had revealed, "A lot of people tell me that when they get married, they are so nervous, that they don't realise when the whole ceremony got over. But I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of the wedding ceremony — from the puja, where the pujari explained the meaning of each and every vow and the pheras, and each ritual in the ceremony. It was a learning experience."
Rucha had left the world of television after getting married and had stated, "I am helping my husband who is a builder and we have come up with a new project on this Gudi Padwa. I was very busy with this project and now as we have launched the project, I would like to share it with all my fan. Frankly speaking, I won't be coming back to TV now as shooting consumes your entire day and after my marriage, I prefer to stay with my family. Also now I am into business with my husband and brother-in-law so would like to continue that ahead." (Must Read: Charu Asopa And Rajeev Sen Celebrate Their First Lohri Together After The Wedding)
Awww, Rucha and Rahul's baby girl is adorable! What do you think?
Images Courtesy: Rucha
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There are just two days left to book a free visit to a local sustainable home and meet its welcoming owner.
On Saturday 10th November five interesting homes plus the Meadow Orchard Community Garden's cob and straw eco-building will be on show.
The homes in Myddleton Road and Brantwood Road are new this year – don't miss this opportunity to check them out.
If you're wondering how best to improve the comfort and energy efficiency of your own home, this is the time to draw inspiration from people who have first hand experience.
Visit homes in Muswell Hill, Alexandra Park (pictured above), Bounds Green, Tottenham and Edmonton, plus the Meadow Orchard Community Garden's cob and straw eco-building in Crouch End.
See details of homes on show on 10th November here. Visits take one hour and numbers are limited on each – please book online here.
NB Bookings close for visits this Saturday, 10th November at midnight on Thursday.


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FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
flags.DEFINE_string('input_dir', default='/home/fede/projects/relco/data/prep/amazon/seccurvs', help='Dir with "outseccurv-*" files')

def main(_):
    files = glob.glob(os.path.join(FLAGS.input_dir, "outseccurv-*"))
    graphs = []
    allrel_curvs, norel_curvs = [], []
    for f in files:
        this_curvs = np.load(f)

        this_graph = f.split("-")[1]
        if not graphs or (graphs and graphs[-1] != this_graph):
            graphs += [this_graph] * len(this_curvs)

        rels = f.split("-")[-1].split(".")[0]
        if rels == "norel":
            norel_curvs.append(this_curvs)
        else:
            allrel_curvs.append(this_curvs)

    df = pd.DataFrame({
        "Graph": graphs,
        "norel": np.concatenate(norel_curvs, axis=0),
        "allrel": np.concatenate(allrel_curvs, axis=0)
    })
    df = df[["Graph", "norel", "allrel"]]
    dd = pd.melt(df, id_vars=['Graph'], value_vars=['norel', 'allrel'], var_name='Variants', value_name="SecCurv")
    plot = sns.boxplot(x='Graph', y='SecCurv', data=dd, hue='Variants')
    plot.get_figure().savefig("seccurv-boxplot.png")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(main)