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Homeless worker 'who spent nights at bus station' rescued in UAE
Ashwani Kumar /Abu Dhabi
ashwani@khaleejtimes.com Filed on July 7, 2020
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Sahani found hope when a community of expats learnt about his plight.
Expats have come to the rescue of an Indian worker who had reportedly slept for weeks at a bus station in Abu Dhabi.
Gobari Sahani, from the small town of Mau in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, was supposed to earn Dh1,100 monthly as he worked at construction sites. However, he had not received any salary since November. And when the Covid-19 pandemic struck, he was told his pay would be slashed to Dh700 from April. He was also put on double shift but none of his wages for seven months were paid, he told Khaleej Times.
He understood it was all work without pay, so he quit the job in the first week of May.
"I worked from 7am to 8pm at a villa construction site. I was asked to work again from 2am. My salary was reduced to Dh700. I had salary dues pending from November. But in this Covid-19 situation, I know all that money is lost," said Sahani, who landed in the country on a visit visa in April last year.
"I couldn't find a new job or a place to stay. Since May, I used to spend the day at a park and at night at the Abu Dhabi Central Bus Station for close to two months. A cafeteria owner and a number of locals used to provide food and passers-by offered money."
Sahani found hope when a community of expats learnt about his plight. Socially active resident V.T.V. Damodaran tried to drum up support for him and, soon, Tushar Patni, managing director of Ajanta Jewellers, stepped in.
Patni said: "Sahani was in bad shape. I bought him new clothes, food and took him to a salon. Now, he looks and feels normal. I have arranged temporary accommodation and food until he gets a ticket on a special flight to Lucknow."
Patni, along with other community members, also raised Rs100,000 (Dh4,900) so that Sahani doesn't return home empty-handed. The cheque was presented to him on Tuesday afternoon.
"I will never forget all these people who helped me. If not for them, I would not have been alive now," added Sahani, who now looks forward to returning home.
ashwani@khaleejtimes.com
I am a newspaperman from the emirate of Abu Dhabi. A journalist at heart. I get my stories from the streets. A south Indian born in the Hindi heartland, I easily connect with people from different nationalities and cultures. I am calm like a monk, sensitive and very patient reporter. On the ground, I cover a range of topics related to community, health, embassy, tourism, transport, business and sports. I will go out on a leg to do what's right and stand by what I believe in.
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Do you play adventure games? Do you enjoy pinball? Dutch based Paladin Studios blended the pinball flipping mechanic with an adventure game to create Momonga Pinball Adventures.
Streamline Studios and Coke Zero released a really cool iOS arcade game called Axon Runners for $3.99 as a universal iOS game for the IPhone, IPad and IPod Touch. Streamline Studios describes "Axon Runners as a futuristic 3D hoverboard action game for mobile".
Persepolis where the main character named Julio searches for two friends who have disappeared while trying to discover the secrets of the mysterious energy tunnels, called the Nightstream. You must join Julio in his dangerous mission to unravel the trail of corporate espionage that will lead them through the city of Persepolis to save the two missing Axon Runners and eventually themselves.
We think the game controls really make Axon Runners unique. Then screen displays the character floating in the air on an elevated skateboard. You swipe the screen slowly to move him forward. You swipe quickly to get him to jump. You tap the screen with two fingers to blast your enemies. Jumping higher accelerates your flight through the air testing your eye hand coordination. In other words it gets harder to prevent a crash.


In case you haven't noticed, Polaris' snowmobile marketers have taken dead-aim at Ski-Doo's Number 1 sales status and are making a good case for improving the Polaris marketshare. With overwhelming sales success earned by the 2011 Polaris Pro RMK powder sleds and a seriously revamped Switchback line up for 2012, Polaris is letting the snow world know that this pioneer sled company is very serious about its snowmobile segment.
It's obvious that consumers and aftermarket vendors alike are paying attention to the Minnesota-based sled maker as we are seeing some excellent new aftermarket add-ons designed and engineered expressly for late model Polaris sleds. We offer a brief view of what's available for you to add onto your Polaris before the snow returns.
Aftermarket performance companies are offering more add-ons for the latest Polaris models.
Polaris scored big with sales of its all-new, deep snow RMK models. But you can still find some products that will dress up that favorite powder ride and give yourself some personalized ergonomics. You'll find Rox Speed FX offers patented handlebar risers and other ergonomic solutions for active powder players.
This northern Minnesota based aftermarket firm offers unique handlebar risers that can be universally adapted to a variety of sleds. The company has designed and manufactured its innovative line of products since 1999. For this season, Rox adds a new height adjustable riser that adds 4-to-6-inches of rise.
The Rox Height Adjustable Handlebar Risers adapt to any "T-stem" width allowing them to fit a variety of different brands and models of snowmobiles. The design is said to "…Take the guess work out of deciding how high you want your handlebars." This product also lets you fit one sled to multiple riders as the handlebar height can be adjusted quickly for different conditions and riding techniques. Simply lower the product to accommodate "laid back" trail riding or kick them up a notch to better suit stand-up ditch banging and backcountry exploration. Plus, Rox' new handlebars are easily lowered to fit your sled cover when trailering.
The two adjustable heights range from 4-6 inches to 6 to 8-1/4-inches. The Rox Elite Series risers feature a location locking adapter that allow you to clamp standard 7/8-in. or 1-1/8-in. taper bars. Starting at a suggested retail price of US$144.95, the handlebar accessory offers a premium anodized finish.
Rox warns that you always check that you have adequate throttle and brake cable length before installing the add-on risers and especially before operating your sled.
For more information about this product and other Rox Speed FX products, check out http://www.roxspeedfx.com/.
Select snowmobile aftermarket shops offer the Dynojet Power Commander V PC5, a fuel injection adjustment unit that plugs "inline" with the stock ECU (electronic control unit). Because the Power Commander is engineered to use original equipment style connectors, no splicing or cutting of the harness is required. Changes are made to the engine's fuel and, in some cases, ignition curves via the Power Commander's on-board microprocessor. This technology is said to offer a large area of adjustment without making any permanent changes to the ECU. Removing the Power Commander returns the engine to its previous stock condition. Each unit comes complete with software and cable link that allows you to change between different maps or make adjustments to a map file. However, Dynojet Research does not offer a supported Map Database for Snowmobile Power Commanders.
Power Commanders for snowmobile applications give you the ability to fine-tune your fuel curve to coincide with your engine/exhaust setup. The Power Commander allows you to increase or decrease the amount of fuel up to +/- 100% from the stock fuel curve. Dynojet recommends using its Wide Band Commander to gather RPM, throttle position, and air/fuel ratio data. With this data you will be able to adjust the Power Commander accordingly to achieve the optimal settings for your snowmobile.
The Power Commander is shipped from Dynojet with a "zero map" loaded into the unit. Installing the Power Commander in this form will not change the way your snowmobile runs. In order to achieve an increase in performance you will need to adjust the settings based on your Air/Fuel ratio data or by trial and error. Therefore, it is recommended that only advanced tuners use the product.
There are various Power Commander units available including one for Polaris' Cleanfire Injection system. Retail pricing starts around US$370. You can find information about this product at http://www.powercommander.com/ or also at Hot Seat Performance based in Forest Lake, MN (hotseatperformance.com).
This Lynden, Washington-based aftermarket manufacturer has been building high quality products for off-road riders for 12 years including its own proprietary Holz Racing Products suspension and chassis components.
You'll find a variety of Holz Racing Products parts and accessories to fit your Polaris. You boondocking type riders might want to consider the HRP IQ gas rack that is designed to fit the new Polaris RMK tunnel and accommodate a 2.5-gallon auxiliary fuel can. The lightweight rack is specially engineered as a seamless add-on for the 2011 Polaris Pro RMK and 2011 Switchback Assault.
You'll find more HRP products as you explore Holz Racing Products' online catalog at http://www.holzracingproducts.com/.
Goodwin Performance has been around the performance snowmobile industry for more than a quarter century and has spent the past 14 seasons developing products for the snowmobile market.
In addition to offering a performance gain over stock, Goodwin Performance seeks to make its kits easy to install. The kit is said to provide improved acceleration as well as improved throttle response and backshifting.
Depending on the specific model and year, each Polaris kit includes: balanced weights, Goodwin Performance primary and secondary spring, helix and belt deflection shims (some kits), a hardcoat progressive angle helix or Team helix, instructions and tuning information. Check the goodwinperformance.com website for specific kit pricing and other information. Suggested pricing starts around US$260.


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Some of the images in here aren't great, I know, but have been included as they're not possible to get now for various reasons
In it's final months of service, a train of 1967 stock arrives at Oxford Circus on the 9th February 2011
3003 stands at Oxford Circus on the 9th February 2011
3003 follows it's sister unit out of Oxford Circus on the 9th February 2011
A pair of 1972 mk2 sets await time at Harrow & Wealdstone on the 19th April 2005
a pair of Waterloo & City Line 1992 sets stand at Waterloo on the 9th February 2004
1996 set 96092 pauses with it's partner set at Finchley Road on the 9th February 2004
11025 pulls into Oxford Circus on the 9th February 2011
5048 scurries away from Moor Park on the 20th April 2004
5058 brakes for Wapping on the 18th December 2007
5058 rests at Wapping on the 18th December 2007
5058 rushes out of Surrey Docks (Quays) on the 18th December 2007
5060 leaves Wapping on the 18th December 2007
5060 arrives at Surrey Docks (Quays) on the 18th December 2007
5094 is reflected in the East London Line platform mirror at New Cross Gate on the 18th December 2007
5094 awaits time at New Cross Gate on the 18th December 2007
5095 leaving New Cross Gate on the 18th December 2007
5095 rounds the curve at the London end of New Cross Gate on the 18th December 2007
5101 hurries away from Moor Park on the 20th April 2004
5101 leaves Great Portland Street on the 9th February 2011
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BOSTON -- Top Democrats on Beacon Hill are eyeing a legislative solution that would keep as many as three initiative petitions -- a $15 minimum wage, paid family leave and a sales tax cut -- off the 2018 ballot, but activists and stakeholders involved in those efforts say it could be a tricky needle to thread.
Both House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Acting Senate President Harriette Chandler have indicated their interest in addressing the minimum wage and paid leave this year -- proponents of those measures have long been prodding lawmakers to act. And DeLeo went even further this week, throwing the third issue, a sales tax cut, into the mix of potential bargaining to avoid letting the major issues go before voters 10 months from now.
"I'd like to see us, as best as we can, address these issues, keep them off the ballot. But that remains to be seen," DeLeo told the Boston Globe in an interview Wednesday.
An official familiar with the speaker's thinking confirmed the Democratic leader would like to avoid those three questions reaching the ballot, but could not elaborate on what that framework might look like. The House referred all of the proposed ballot questions to committees for review Thursday, and the upcoming hearings on the proposals will shed additional light on the issues and whether stakeholders are open to compromises.
"He has to see what compromise they come up with," the source said.
DeLeo in 2009 led the push to raise the sales tax from 5 percent to 6.
25 percent and is among the Democrats who have advanced to the 2018 ballot a proposed constitutional amendment imposing a 4 percent income surtax on households with incomes above $1 million, an idea that could generate $2 billion a year.
The source close to the speaker also said, with regard to cutting the sales tax, that it might be possible to avoid a ballot campaign without DeLeo agreeing to a tax cut. "I think the expectation is that that could be resolved without that happening," the person said.
Lawmakers sometimes prefer to have control over major policy initiatives if they sense support in the electorate, rather than let laws be written by activists, but initiative petitions are often proposed in part because lawmakers have been unable or unwilling to reach agreement on policy topics.
Frustrated proponents of all three ballot questions in the mix gathered tens of thousands of signatures from voters last year in support of their measures.
Complicating matters is the fact all three questions are intertwined with the same interest groups having a stake in the outcome of each proposal.
The Retailers Association of Massachusetts has proposed rolling the state's sales tax rate back to 5 percent, and making an annual summer sales tax holiday weekend permanent. RAM President Jon Hurst said he is unaware of any option on the table at this point that would convince retailers to settle for no change to the sales tax, but he did not rule out getting there.
"The year's just starting. I think there's a long way to go, a lot of moving parts. We have just one ballot initiative when the big health care union out of New York City has three questions," Hurst said.
Hurst was referring to 1199 SEIU United Health Care Workers East, a major player in the Raise Up Coalition, which is behind the paid family and medical leave initiative, the push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and the 4 percent surtax on incomes over $1 million.
So far, negotiations have been most active over whether a deal can be reached on paid family and medical leave. Officials with the Raise Up Coalition and business groups on both sides of the issue have met at least a handful of times with Rep. Paul Brodeur and Sen. Jason Lewis, the co-chairs of the Committee on Labor and Workforce Development, according to people involved in those talks.
The same type of direct talks have not happened with respect to the sales tax, Hurst said, and an official with Raise Up said that despite Brodeur's recent comments that he and Lewis have convened negotiations between the coalition and the business community over the minimum wage, those talks have not occurred.
"We are working diligently to strike the right balance between fair compensation for workers and ensuring that Massachusetts businesses can remain competitive. I'm confident that these parties have engaged in a good faith effort, and I am eager to find a legislative compromise which works for everyone," Brodeur said in a late December statement to the News Service.
Hearings will take place before legislative committees on all three topics this year, and the Senate has created a task force focused on strengthening local retail that could come up with some ideas that would ameliorate retailers and convince them to drop the tax cut proposal.
"We do see a nexus between our question and the three others that are out there. I think there's a real tough road to hoe here with our friends in the Legislature to try to get the big public health care union to negotiate and do things the right way," Hurst said.


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Cast Your Anchor is an upscale hobby environment, focusing on quality kits, woods, tools, and finished products for the nautical enthusiast. In order to widen the appeal of the hobby, the owner of Cast Your Anchor believes that a reference library dedicated to building the handcrafted ship replicas sold in the store will serve to entice additional individuals to consider taking up the hobby.
The collection will be aimed at nautical hobbyists although there is some room for crossover to other hobbies. The subject focus will be model sailing ships, static or remote control, from kits (wood and plastics) and scratch. There will also be information on the tools required, types and uses of wood, historic ships, modern ships, sailing instruction, and books of building plans.
The works will cover materials for both novice and expert model-makers. Once modellers have mastered the techniques of kit building they enjoy variety in their building. For this reason, CyARL will have a good selection of works dedicated to specific ships. Another frequent interest of the modeller is to complete more than one selected ship of a particular era. Therefore, the collection will also include a number of works dedicated to a specific era in sailing ship history.
A growing area of interest to model builders is the ability to sail their completed models. There are racing clubs throughout the metropolitan Toronto area. Racing clubs are usually dedicated to a specific class of sailing vessel (i.e. Soling class, Victoria class). In order to sail their models, builders must rig them and use radio controls (sometimes referred to as remote controls) to sail them. There will be a section of the collection dedicated to this specialized concentration for model-makers.
Another area of concentration for the collection will be the tools that experienced modellers need to properly complete their ships. These tools range from standard handheld woodworking tools to specialized miniature electric lathes. CyARL will endeavour to provide a selection of works for each of these areas.
Selection Criteria: Each of the books in this section was chosen as representative of a particular audience. The sections are divided into Novice and Experienced builders. There is no Mid-level section because the difference between a novice and experienced model-maker is the number and type of models they have chosen to build. Novice works often contain clear descriptions and illustrations of the basics of modelling, while works aimed at the experienced modeller include more finely detailed descriptions of the more complex intricacies of producing exact replicas. There is an almost complete collection of the works of Charles G. Davis, a scale modeller recognized world-wide for his attention to detail and expertise in the hobby.
The library purchases, maintains and makes available a collection of print, audiovisual, and electronic format reference materials for the staff and customers of Cast Your Anchor Inc. Cast Your Anchor is a nautical hobby store dedicated to the education of modellers and their appreciation for the hobby.
o 1.1 The collection will contain materials related to modelling methods – historical and current, watercraft and their histories, small engines – building and repair, equipment and tools required by hobbyists.
o 1.2 Cast Your Anchor staff and library patrons are encouraged to make recommendations regarding desired materials. CYA Reference Library (CyARL) retains the sole responsibility for the final selection, purchase and weeding of all materials housed in the facility.
o 1.3 CyARL collects materials that contribute to the educational requirements of the staff and customers of Cast Your Anchor. In addition, CyARL collects materials related to the job functions of the staff, management and owners of Cast Your Anchor Inc.
o 2.1 CyARL endeavours to maintain a collection containing recent reference materials where applicable. Historical materials will be collected, maintained or weeded when appropriate and in accordance with section 1.2 of the General Collection Policy.
o 2.2 CyARL receives serial publications, catalogues and other new editions of significant reference materials when available. They will be reviewed for continuation at this point in time. Back issues will be retained as physical limitations permit.
o 3.1 CyARL usually selects English language materials. Foreign language materials are not expected to be collected. Specific foreign language works will be considered on an individual basis.
o 5.1 A regular system program of collection assessment is undertaken. CyARL attempts to provide material of ongoing interest to the staff and users of Cast Your Anchor Inc. In support of this goal, the collection may be weeded at the discretion of the librarian.
o 5.2 Factors considered in the weeding of the collection include: the receipt of new additions of annual publications, physical condition of the material, format no longer compatible with available equipment, the number of editions and copies held and frequency of use.
Reviews – they will be culled from the library profession, modelling and hobbyist literature, trade and publishers reviews.
o 7.1 Donations are encouraged and will be accepted at the discretion of the librarian. We reserve the right to refuse any donation that does not meet our General Collection Development Policy.


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Josh Groban Reveals He Was Diagnosed With ADHD as an Adult
Musician Josh Groban recently learned that the reason he struggled in school was because of undiagnosed ADHD.
Groban shared this revelation on actor Justin Long's Life is Short with Justin Long podcast. Like many children who go undiagnosed, Groban shared that school was not a friendly place for him. He had trouble keeping up with studies and his teachers admonished him for falling behind.
Young Opera Singer Josh Groban from the USA is in New Zealand on a promotion trip| Dean Purcell/Getty Images
Last year, writer Yashar Ali tweeted about having an attention deficit disorder. "I want to talk about ADHD. I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 13-years-old. To say it's misunderstood (both by people who have ADHD and people who don't have it) is an understatement. What people need to understand about those of us who have ADHD is we are not homogeneous," he wrote in a multi-series post. Groban responded, "Thank you for this thread." While Groban appreciated the post he hadn't really discussed dealing with ADHD until Long's podcast.
Josh Groban says schools have more awareness of kids with ADHD
The number of students diagnosed with ADHD has increased over the years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But when Groban was in school, an ADHD diagnosis wasn't as prevalent.
"I was just a really overthinking kid," Groban reflects. "I was late to be diagnosed with ADD so I didn't know, during my school years, why I was falling behind and so, whereas I was just getting kind of scolded all the time and I was getting told by the teachers like, well, he better keep up. He may not be smart enough."
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Groban says it wasn't until later in life he realized his inattention had nothing to do with his intellect. "It wasn't until later on that I realized that it had nothing to do with IQ or smarts or anything like that," he says. "It was just a different way of learning, and now the school systems are adjusting and allowing for kids to learn in different ways and it is getting better. It's a huge reason why I think arts education is so pivotal in our schools because it opens up different ways for kids to transform and digest information in other subjects."
Groban says the arts changed his life
Groban told Long his mother was an art teacher and his dad played trumpet. Having parents rooted in the arts helped to create an environment for him to tap into his talents.
"Yeah, [his mother] understood and thank God for my parents who were so wonderful and understanding with all that, but having arts in the school changed my life," Groban remarks. "As soon as I was able to express myself and use the arts as a tool in my academic life, and as soon as I had those hours a day where I could sing or play drums or play piano, or be part of a show, everything else just seemed to go into hyper-focus and it clicked it into place."
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Groban likened music to the effects some kids get from taking ADHD medications like Adderall. "Yeah, because I tried those meds and they giveth and they taketh away," he says. "They give you a huge boost of energy and focus and they are vital for so many people. I've been off and on them my whole life, but then they also have their side effects, which can sometimes chip away at the nuances of who you are."


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I'm new to using vim and would like to work on making my documents easily readable at the same time.
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Business|The Safest Place in a Car Crash Isn't the Back Seat Anymore
The Safest Place in a Car Crash Isn't the Back Seat Anymore
A test on back-seat safety run by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The institute hopes to have a back-seat crash test by 2022, allowing buyers to compare new models.CreditCreditInsurance Institute for Highway Safety
By Christopher Jensen
For decades it was a given that the back seat of a car is the safest place in a crash. But that's no longer certain, as advances in seatbelt technology up front have been slow to jump to the back seat.
Safety researchers now have new recommendations about what to buy and where to sit, highlighting vehicles whose rear seats have the kind of sophisticated seatbelts that have protected front-seat riders for roughly a decade.
Those belts tighten up when sensors detect a crash is imminent. They also can loosen a bit if the occupant is pressing against the belt so hard that the belt itself might cause an injury.
If belts with this better technology aren't available in the back seat, people 55 and older should sit in the front of newer vehicles with those more sophisticated belts, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Researchers say seatbelts in most rear seats lack these so-called load limiters, which means they can't loosen up. So, in a frontal crash, the belt itself can cause chest, abdominal or spinal injuries, according to a new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Researchers investigated frontal crashes that killed or seriously injured 117 rear-seat occupants between 6 and 92 years old.
"There was evidence of significant seatbelt forces on the chest of occupants of all ages," said Jessica Jermakian, a researcher at the institute, which is funded by the insurance industry.
Nevertheless, those rear seatbelts — without load limiters or the "pre-tensioners" that tighten for a crash — meet federal safety standards, which are considered a minimum level of protection.
Researchers say improvements are needed because the back is likely to be occupied more often, with people such as older adults who have given up driving or passengers using ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft. The safety of the back seat could become a bigger focus with autonomous vehicles.
And within a few years it may be possible for consumers to learn which models best protect back-seat occupants. By 2022, the insurance institute hopes to have a back-seat crash test, allowing buyers to compare new models.
[See below for a list of the vehicles with such seatbelts.]
That may prompt automakers to make improvements absent federal regulations. The insurance institute has no regulatory authority, but automakers have proved sensitive to the publicity generated by bad ratings and eager to advertise good ratings.
The federal highway safety agency said in December 2015 that it was considering such a crash test, but it has yet to offer one.
Technically, the back seat did not get more dangerous. The front seats just kept getting safer.
Making front-seat safety a priority made sense, said Aditya Belwadi, a researcher at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Front-seat occupants experience most of the force of a frontal crash. Those in the back have the advantage of distance.
"You have a substantial amount of space that we call a crush space, between you and the other vehicle," Mr. Belwadi said. "A lot of crash energy is dissipated between the front seat and back seat."
Automakers also didn't focus on the back seat because it was often unoccupied, and upgrading the safety equipment would cost more, said Jingwen Hu, a research associate professor at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Center who has studied back-seat safety.
Other studies have noted that adults 55 and older — who tend to have more fragile bones — can be injured by the belts. But the institute's study points to risks for children, Ms. Jermakian said.
"This was really the first time we got a clear understanding of how children are also getting those injuries," she said.
A seatbelt that inflates like an airbag, spreading the force over a wider area, was introduced as an option on the 2011 Ford Explorer.CreditFord Motor
Researchers and the highway safety agency agree that children under 13 should still sit in the back because crashes are complex events and that while improvements are needed, the back seat is still safest for them over all.
"We have a lot of data to support that," said Mr. Belwadi of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "It is still very safe in the back seat."
Why should older adults sit up front and not children?
"Kids are complicated," Mr. Hu of the University of Michigan said. "They are very different from older folks in terms of injury patterns and mechanisms."
And while the institute study found that seatbelts can cause serious injuries, a 2014 institute study showed there is a far greater danger in not wearing one, Ms. Jermakian said. That hazard includes being thrown into the occupants up front, injuring them.
It is possible to put seatbelts like those up front in the back seat, and a few automakers are doing that. It's not as simple as using the exact same technology, however. When the belt loosens, for example, it may allow the head to move too far forward and hit the back of the front seats, Mr. Hu said. In the front seat there's an airbag to protect the head as the force limiter eases its grip. There's no airbag in the back seat, and putting one there is tricky because the front seats aren't stationary.
That's why Ford developed a seatbelt that inflates like an airbag, so it holds the occupant securely but spreads the force over a wider area, said Srinivasan Sundararajan, a safety researcher at Ford. Introduced as an option on the 2011 Explorer, it is now available on several models.
Early research indicates that the inflatable belt should be "highly effective," Mr. Hu said.
But it hasn't been a hit with customers, Ford acknowledged. One issue was that the larger-than-normal belt buckle was hard to use for children or people with dexterity issues. And customers may not have understood the benefit of paying extra.
So Ford is changing its strategy and will offer belts with pre-tensioners and load limiters in the back seat as standard equipment on many models, said Desi Ujkashevic, Ford's global director for its Automotive Safety Office.
"Safety continues to evolve," she said.
Here are the current models that automakers say have load limiters and pre-tensioners for the second-row back seats adjacent to windows.
■ Audi A3 sedan, S3 sedan, RS3 Sedan, A3 Cabriolet, A3 Sportback, A4 allroad, A4, S4, A5 Cabriolet, S5 Cabriolet, A5 Coupe, S5 Coupe, RS5 Coupe, A5 Sportback, S5 Sportback, RS5 Sportback, A6, S6, A7, S7, A8, Q3, Q5, SQ5, Q7, Q8, TT Coupe, TTS Coupe, TT RS Coupe, TT Roadster.
■ BMW Model Year 2019: 3 Series, 5 Series, 6 Series Gran Turismo, 7 Series, 8 Series, X5 and X7
Model Year 2020: 3 Series, 5 Series, 6 Series Gran Turimso, 7 Series, 8 Series, X3, X4, X5, X6 and X7
■ Ford 2020 Explorer, 2020 Explorer ST, 2019 Edge, 2020 Escape
■ Jaguar 2019 E-PACE, 2019 F-PACE, 2019 I-PACE, 2019 XE, 2019 XF
■ Land Rover 2019 Discovery Sport, 2019 Discovery, 2019 Range Rover Evoque, Range Rover Velar, Range Rover Sport
■ Lexus 2019 LS 500 and 500h, 2020 LC 500 and LC 500h, 2019 ES 350, 2019 ES 300h, 2019 GS 300 and 350, 2019 GS F, 2019 IS 300 and 350, 2019 RC F, 2019 RC 300 and 350, 2019 RX 350 and 350L, 2019 RX 450h and 450hL, 2019 GX 460, 2019 LX 570, 2019 UX 200 and 250h
■ Lincoln 2020 Aviator, 2019 Nautilus, 2020 Corsair
■ Mercedes-Benz "Belt Bags" available on S-Class and E-Class. Did not provide information on pre-tensioners and load limiters.
■ Nissan 2019 Nissan Altima and Nissan Murano
■ Toyota 2019 Avalon and Avalon Hybrid, 2019 Camry and Camry Hybrid, 2019 Land Cruiser, 2019 Mirai, 2019 C-HR
■ Volkswagen 2019 Passat
■ Volvo (2019 and 2020 models) XC90, S90, V90, V90 Cross Country, XC60, S60, V60, V60 Cross Country, XC40
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While serving as the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush was the recipient of thousands of gifts of recognition and appreciation. From Lego replicas of the White House to t-shirts, from silver belt buckles to Christmas ornaments, President Bush, as well as all other U.S. Presidents, receive an astounding array of gifts (approximately 50,000 per four-year term) from both U.S. citizens and from citizens abroad. Thank You Mr. President highlights a sample of these presidential gifts from the George H.W. Bush administration, and also provides an overview of the many steps a gift takes from the moment it is actually given to the President to when it finally arrives in the collection of a President Library and Museum.


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iPhone 5 Photos: Chinese Pop Star Delivers Hype
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So, you are a marketing manager at Apple responsible for China where sales are tanking and Android isn't just dominant, it's eating the Cupertino kids' lunch. What do you do? Whether this story is the result of an Apple plant or not, iPhone 5 photos show up in the hands of a top Chinese pop star is a stroke of hype building genius.
Sina Weibo is, if you haven't heard, the Chinese government's answer to Twitter and, to a degree, Facebook in a single masterstroke. Even though it's owned by, in essence, the Chinese Communist Party, its 350 million users are the real power as taste and scandal makers, capable bringing down high officials not to mention anointing culture, business and product winners.
So, when popstar, actor and race car driver DreamerJimmy, a native of Taiwan but huge in China, posts a collage of photos (full-size below) of himself on Sina Weibo holding an iPhone 5, it is bound to get people talking.
How does dude rate? You might also ask how he rated an iPad mini back in 2010.
And, that's where this story likely founders. Pop star, actor and race car driving DreamerJimmy is an inveterate self promoter and, with the tech world's chattering class talking incessantly about the iPhone 5, what else would he show up on Sina Weibo holding?
Do you think the iPhone 5 photos DreamerJimmy posted to Sina Weibo are the real deal? In some ways it's easy to believe that Apple marketing has outdone itself again…
What's your take?
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Once has been touted the musical that "breaks the rules, challenges expectations and delights audiences with something they didn't realize they were longing for." The eight-time Tony Award winner for Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album will play the Lutcher Theater in Orange for one performance only — Saturday, April 15, at 6 p.m.
Classic Movie Night goes "classic" with one of the most iconic films in movie history — The Wizard of Oz — on Friday, April 7, at the historic Jefferson Theatre in downtown Beaumont. Based of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, the movie was released in 1939 and stars Judy Garland as Dorothy, who gets swept away from her farm in Kansas by a tornado to the fantasy land of Oz. While there, she meets new friends the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow as she makes her way to see the Wizard to find a way back home.


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Q: python (django) database returned result (u'string') I am trying to access another database (another application) in django, and make a query to get some data within my django project with the following:
cursor = connections['another_db'].cursor()
cursor.execute("query here to fetch data")
retVal = cursor.fetchone()

The retVal is a text-type value in amysql database. After it's returned, I try to concat it with another string:
newString = "%s: %s" % (retVal, anotherString)
logging.debug("newString: %s" % newString)

I got the following output:
DEBUG:root:newString value: (u'RetValString',): anotherStringValue

Is there any way to remove the (u' .. ') wrapper, so that only RetValString: anotherStringValue shows?

A: Your return value is a single item sequence (a tuple), not a string. This is standard from the Python DB-API:

.fetchone()
        Fetch the next row of a query result set, returning a
        single sequence, or None when no more data is
        available. [6]

        An Error (or subclass) exception is raised if the previous
        call to .execute*() did not produce any result set or no
        call was issued yet.

So the immediate fix would be:
newString = "%s: %s" % (retVal[0], anotherString)

But, its always better to check for any return values:
cursor = connections['another_db'].cursor()
cursor.execute("query here to fetch data")
retVal = cursor.fetchone()
if retVal:
   newString = "%s: %s" % (retVal[0], anotherString)

As a bonus, you should wrap it in a try/catch block since fetchone will raise and exception if there are any problems.

A: The u' indicates that retVal is in fact unicode. (Try printing type(retVal) )So to answer your question you can convert it to a 'regular' string by calling retVal = str(retVal)

A: If the text is for presentation to a user, you should probably do nothing with it. Converting it to a string (using str()) would only be beneficial if you were passing it to something (like subprocess.Popen) that required a string.


These Bourbon Baked Beans are a summer staple. Loaded with bourbon, brown sugar & bacon & the ease of a slow cooker makes these the best side dish to go with all your summer grilling.
What is your favorite side dish when it comes to grilling & backyard bbq's? For us it's Bourbon Baked Beans. We make them all the time. They are truly one of my family's favorite things to pair with dinner. When it comes to Easy Family Dinner Ideas this recipe is one we make again & again & again.
This recipe is as easy as just tossing it all in the slow cooker & letting it heat. Give it a little stir every 30 minutes or so just to keep pockets of heat from forming. Oh & don't worry about the bourbon- it has all day to cook out most of the alcohol. So all you are left with is some GREAT flavor.
You can't beat it. No soaking. Just prep in the morning after breakfast & they will be ready to enjoy when the rest of your meal is done. I'm telling you – make these for your next summer bbq – people won't believe how good they are. You don't have to get baked beans out of a can.
I so love this time of year. We grill almost daily & these are the perfect side dish.
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NOTE - if they start getting a little dry or pasty you can add a little more water to thin them out. But this is a sign that they have cooked for too long & you want to serve soon.
Your Bourbon Baked Beans will be delicious! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with us at Full Plate Thursday!
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For the last week at CIID, our goal was to rethink the future of radio. Our group wanted to combine several ideas that we seem to gravitate to in real life: vinyls, nostalgia for 90's toys, and making interactions more complicated for no good reason. And so Recio was born! Instead of being able to turn a knob or press a button to choose a station, Recio is a radio that plays vinyl disks that each encode an FM frequency. As the record spins, a sensor picks up its particular pattern of light and dark and plays the radio station.
The name "Recio" is Spanish for "robust" or "sturdy". It obviously sounds a little like "record", but we also thought it fit the absurdity of the mixed technologies of the project.


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Pritikin ICR Growing Rapidly as Additional Hospitals Sign On
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As part of their commitment to provide cardiac patients with the best care, hospital facilities across the United States are adopting the Pritikin Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation (ICR) program. Pritikin ICR is a Medicare-approved, comprehensive lifestyle change program that teaches patients how to maximize recovery from a cardiovascular disease-related event. The Pritikin Program has been taught at the Pritikin Longevity Center, a health and wellness facility in Miami, Florida, for nearly four decades. It is licensed in over 30 hospital facilities nationwide and is growing rapidly.
"Pritikin ICR has been a game-changer," said Dr. Bruce Murphy, President and CEO at Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock. "We've not only seen improved outcomes in patients who have undergone a cardiac procedure, patients have systematically walked away with lives forever changed. The feedback from our patients has been incredible. They feel healthier, stronger and able to achieve what they once thought was impossible. Now we're expanding to additional locations."
Pritikin ICR licensed facilities enjoy significantly greater benefits over ordinary Cardiac Rehab (CR). CR programs offer patients 36 sessions primarily focused on exercise. The Pritikin ICR program, by contrast, offers 36 exercise sessions plus an additional 36 sessions that focus on nutrition, healthy eating, lifestyle, and a healthy mindset. The objective of the Pritikin ICR program is to educate patients and provide them with the tools needed to be successful upon completion — for example, cooking classes, label reading, stress management and exercise routines.
"In the few years we have been offering Pritikin ICR, we've seen remarkable improvements in revenue and program sustainability, but for me it's all about the patients," said Craig Reiss, MD, FACC, Division Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at the St. Luke's Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute in St. Louis, which is affiliated with Cleveland Clinic. "Pritikin ICR teaches patients practical skills for maintaining a healthy lifestyle long after they have graduated from the program."
These results are not surprising. More than 100 peer-reviewed published studies have documented the Pritikin program's success in reducing risk factors for heart disease and other conditions. As a result, Medicare will pay for up to 72 sessions of the Pritikin ICR program covering both comprehensive exercise and lifestyle-change education.
Pritikin ICR President, Bob Franceschelli, stated, "Pritikin ICR is a user-friendly program for hospitals and patients with no upfront fees and low operating costs. Our hospitals enjoy the ability to offer the program to their patients at their facility using their staff."
To learn more about offering the Pritikin ICR program contact Jenny Ray at jray@pritikin.com or call 314-932-7990.
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Tuesday, 20 January 2015	/ Energy Storage
UK capacity auctions a 'missed opportunity' for energy storage
The UK capacity auctions, held in December last year, have drawn criticism from energy storage developers as a missed opportunity to support new storage technologies. The government secured 49.26 GW of capacity at a clearing price of £19.40/kW but despite initial promises many energy storage plants were unable to bid.
Friday, 9 January 2015	/ Energy Storage
South Africa approves molten salt energy storage plant
South African authorities have approved plans by Saudi power plant developer ACWA Power and renewable consortium SolarReserve to develop a 100 MW solar thermal project in the country along with cutting edge molten salt energy storage technology.
Monday, 22 December 2014	/ Energy Storage
SCE backs energy storage over gas peaking power
Energy storage is out competing backup gas power to provide peaking power in some markets within California. A total of 264 MW was selected by utility Southern California Edison (SCE) in recent tenders as strict air-pollution controls make gas peaking plants more expensive than batteries in some cases.
Monday, 10 November 2014	/ Energy Storage
US gas storage levels see record injections
Nov 11 – After an increase of 2,734 Bcf during the April 1 to October 31 injection season, U.S. working natural gas in storage ended October at 3,571 billion cubic feet (Bcf), according to EIA figures.
"Higher gas production means that even if this winter were as cold as last year, EIA expects that natural gas storage at the end of March 2015 will be above its March 2014 level," analysts said.
Friday, 24 October 2014	/ Energy Storage
Toshiba to supply 10,000 energy storage devices to Eneres
Japanese technology developer Toshiba has won a contract to supply service provider Eneres a total of 10,000 energy storage systems, each with a maximum output of 10 kW and a capacity of 9.9 kWh. The systems will be used to bolster output from independent power producers.
Wednesday, 8 October 2014	/ Energy Storage
Duke adds power storage to wind farm
Oct 8 – Seeking to combine poweOct 8 – Seeking to combine power storage with rising renewable energy supply, U.S. power producer Duke Energy has added battery storage to a large wind farm in Texas. Duke's 36 MW Notrees battery storage project is America's largest battery storage project at a wind farm.r storage with rising renewable energy supply, U.S. power producer Duke Energy has added battery storage to a large wind farm in west Texas.
Tuesday, 7 October 2014	/ Energy Storage
Fossil fuel plants to be hardest hit by energy storage
Conventional gas- and coal-fired power generators are seen to be the biggest losers from an upcoming energy storage boom, as both consumers and grid operators look to employ battery and other storage technologies to preserve intermittent renewable energy supply, a new HSBC report finds.
Monday, 8 September 2014	/ Energy Storage
ABB, BYD join forces on energy storage
Sept 8 – ABB and China's BYD have entered a strategic collaboration to develop new solutions for energy storage, used to backstop the fast ramp up of renewables with energy storage in off-grid and on-grid solutions.
ABB's products and technology for grid storage, electric vehicle charging and integrated marine systems, combined with BYD's knowledge in battery technology, "can broadly address worldwide energy storage requirements," the companies said.
Friday, 29 August 2014	/ Energy Storage
New models suggest TW-scale gas power storage in 3 years
Modelling from the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) suggests that large scale power storage systems utilising gas may be a reality in the next 3 years. "First prototypes for new products will be 12 months from now with industrial implementation in 24 to 26 months," Pasi Vainikka, principal scientists at VTT told Gas to Power Journal.
Tuesday, 15 April 2014	/ Energy Storage
Germany: 5-MW energy storage set to start-up in the autumn
Operator WEMAG plans to start operations of a 5-megawatt battery-based energy storage in Schwerin, northeast Germany, this autumn with a view to earning money with the balancing of grid fluctuations.
Tuesday, 26 May 2015	/ Energy Storage
Hydrogen gas conversion for energy storage hits 85% per MW
New electrolysis stack technology from Canadian developer Hydrogenics offers a megawatt conversion capacity of 85%, paving the way for advanced gas power energy storage. "Creating a highly efficient link between the electrical grid and the natural gas system power to gas unlocks the massive energy storage capacity which we have already built and paid for," Daryl Wilson, chief executive at Hydrogenics told Gas to Power Journal.
Wednesday, 19 March 2014	/ Energy Storage
Highview and GE team up to develop liquid air energy storage
UK-based research firm Highview Power Storage and GE Oil & Gas have announced a licencing and technology collaboration agreement to develop large-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) systems. The technology is "ideally suited" for gas-fired peaker power plants, according to GE who struck the partnership to explore opportunities to improve operations of existing plants through the addition of energy storage.
Wednesday, 19 February 2014	/ Energy Storage
Germany grants €6.5bn for energy storage
Feb 19 – The German government has awarded €6.5 billion for E.ON's 5-megawatt energy storage project, named M5BAT (modular multi-megawatt multi-technology medium-voltage battery storage).
Works on the power storage will start in the autumn and E.ON said it expects the facility to start operation in 2015.
The project is a unique battery storage system, E.ON said and will focus on "renewables integration, testing of distributed regulating energy provision to promote grid stability, and power price arbitrage."
Friday, 7 February 2014	/ Energy Storage
Denmark redefines gas pipelines as energy storage
Renewable gas – in the form of biogas, syngas or hydrogen – is intended to cover a 5% of Denmark's gas demand by 2020. To achieve this goal, the character of the gas pipelines transmission system needs to change from being a carrier of natural gas to becoming an energy storage system.
Wednesday, 30 October 2013	/ Energy Storage
GE storage system tackles peak load in California
A 500 kilowatt-hour peak load shifting unit is to be installed at the Discovery Science Center in Southern California by GE as part of efforts to reduce peak demand on the grid. The GE storage and Princeton Power Systems (PPS) inverter control system is expected to shift 10-20% of daily electrical load to off-peak time periods, freeing up peakload power supply for other users.


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Second, i'll try to inspire you every now and then with some cool stuff i find, and obviously share work done by others that might inspire you to do even better things. So at least once a week i'll try to share stuff that could inspire your work. Could be a video, could be an image, or even some work from a guy on the other end of the world that could change the way things are done or work.
And the least but not the last, i'm a movie and tvshow freak, so probably if cross paths with something awesome that could change your life, i'll probably share it here to!
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Episode 350: You Have Ten Seconds to Comply
Dan shares his feelings about the loss of a friend and coworker, then brings on Ed Neumeier – writer of genre defining movies like RoboCop and Starship Troopers to dive deep into their history and trivia. Featuring Dan Harmon, Jeff Bryan Davis, Rob Schrab and Ed Neumeier.
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just thinking tonight at losing a Spencer's he never think of it as a genie gay robbed robbed everybody
we are sounds Kristen tonight but tribe is up more than up to the task tonight we going to have a strawberry plant
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all right jack it off knock it off. Quit screwing around start the show Friends in the green room when we don't want to send the wrong going totally free right now I didn't bring my iPad I'm just going off the phone with guy that I never behave I want to walk out of here with a high opinion of me is like I'm nervous. Who I guess was and I thought that you two are going to be here with that guess I got excited just to watch you guys talk to this dress together
yeah are you nervous I'm looking to do it we were all kicking it back stage and then like we should I said we should have brought the audience back into the Green Room just to hear that conversation but anyways so it's tragic news that just makes no sense at all line producer producer on Rick and Morty Mike Mendel it was the the the nervous system it's too easy to say heart I mean he he was held the show together is still holding the show together I do he he's gone he died it's I don't think I've ever experienced this kind of this particular flavor of grief it it it
I like it it's still I don't know no matter how aggressive we get no matter how sensitive and gentle we become underneath it all the all of the men and women are I think we pride ourselves in and almost militaristic mindset like oh we're doing something so important here that requires so much discipline and hierarchy and collaboration and intuitiveness and that ate it simultaneously dehumanizes the people you work with while making the most important people in the world that's like I suppose it's some kind of like
just the case it's j a i just I don't know if it's just my narcissism or if this is a common thing that people experience with with grief but like I just you hear that someone is gone and then I I'm immediately parsing it is what is wrong with me what's what's wrong with me what have I done like what why why am I like this because
why do I not understand that every single human being on earth like the ones you know the ones you don't know but especially the ones that you rely on it every day the people that you just in the truest sense of the phrase take for granted like white why don't why don't we why don't we go to a two-day understanding that it's very unlikely but perfectly possible that that someone will be gone tomorrow and why can't we treat everybody you know and ourselves I don't just being like I was mean to this guy I just I wasn't what I was was completely just
I just didn't regard him as anything other than a load-bearing pillar of what we were doing that there would one day be some silly vacation to celebrate retirement or something some opportunity maybe even the funeral of a person that that was supposed to go on some schedule that I apparently think death Works eyewear where we would finally sit down and interact as human beings and it's just that that that's that's my narcissism parsing another person's death II it's all about me I guess but I just feel like I see I see I feel like I'm made of straw tonight like I feel like if I move too quickly my handle fly off I just feel like everything is so delicate and
and how long have you known him for what he's been there since the beginning I mean since the moment that it became not a little pilot a little idea to get off the moment that it needed to start pulling up its big boy pants and being on the air he was there
and and he was the he was unmistakably the reason why were able to create you to take something so childish where there's people having me sign a corporate like manufactured thing where the name of the characters Mr poopybutthole the reason why you can be that stupid and childish and yet be so lucrative compatible with mainstream Society is because the guy is making the trains run on time you know it's coming to us from The Simpsons in the world is like getting the job done like if everybody was like me and Justin we'd be watching two episodes of Rick and Morty every 8 years
and it was out of the blue I don't think I never met him but he said he was with him yesterday and there's no game so he was the upside is that he got to it he was surrounded by co-workers and they were all having a great time and had a great time we went home and his wife and he just put a daughter in college and I just think it's it's it's a rollercoaster ride all of these things I guess that's the go to the bargaining phase of great for your kind of like well doesn't have a kid that's like six of them in my car are you kidding me any is a young adults have to spend the phrase it like they're crossing the threshold into the rest of their life and like you get this it's the it has a little hatch here I die I do two things I go numb and I get mad and I think that comes from upbringing in like there's a hatch here
where if I were to open it which I won't do because it's bad podcasting but it's it does have to do with thinking about his his his wife who robbed and I was one of the first people that we worked with she was the casting director and keep visiting Jack and and I and I'm just I don't know who the lovely people they were just like great wonderful people it's it's it's the top because then that connects to the idea of my God like what what if something happens Cody what if something happened to me and I would lick lick lick it it's it's just that I can't go there my my deepest sympathies and condolences to his family and yeah I guess I guess that's what you know I felt like saying that this happened but at the same time like we would
I could have said nothing I don't I don't consider it our job to stop the world and that doesn't do anybody any favors and it just very confused I think it was one more thing that I would say about it
which is like the continual frustration throughout the day of like
wanting someone to say something that finally makes it makes sense which I finally atoned with by around 3 p.m. today where I suddenly realized that wait a minute you know
I hope I don't I hate my big pet peeve with with the deaths that we encounter is people making too much sense of them I talked about daddy here before I was a telling Dino today like you know Dino and I no matter what we do until the day we finally died if and no matter how we die if do you know where I
like walk under a piano and it falls on us people are going to make sense of that debt they're going to go well he had a problematic life and he was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time. His name on it you know the way at the choices he made that's my big pet peeve is like this the way we getting it in spite of the fact that as we all know Dave Foley drinks 50 cups of coffee a day like like okay so where there's an instinct in us that no matter what happens to Dave if he lives do a hundred and ten great if Dave something terrible happens tomorrow there's that we wanted to make sense because we are afraid of death so we want to let go of this happened because of that okay I got that figured out and I think the subtext of that is this really really arrogant idea that were all of us left the longest some club that made the right decisions and that is it really offensive and so I at least I got you to because it was so it was like I was getting angry about both the the
nonsense of it I this is a healthy man he played hockey he was he was he was he was ripped man he was like visceral and he and and and and I'm like what someone tell me something and then and then I finally came around to know nobody tell me anything and please dear God give me a senseless death give me a confusing one let me go quickly and let me let let people be puzzled by it I think that may be the equivalent of leaving a little pencil Splash in the pool and Olympic. I feel you know just like no turbulence to the point where people are like how'd that work
so godspeed you money can a
what did you just make it about me one more time I I just I can't believe that guy left this world
the world where his story ends with Trump being president and me still working on a fucking draft of a of a of a I hope it was not I hope it's the last like moments weren't fucking have a good deal with my horrible bottleneck effect on production when I like working on this fucking draft and he's the guy that has two
he's he's he's got to be the hero he's got a he's got to just get it with just water bottle that energy and no I just
I just I just
I hate myself for not for not turning that thing ends that I bet it's this stupid cuz it getting to go to a baseball game is more important than he wasn't going to get joy out of me finishing a draft but some all right so I talked enough about that I had one item on my list but it was kind of like I think maybe maybe Spencer that's probably for a Spencer night but I I don't want to I don't want you to feel left out I don't see a Spencer
I just think it's a lie like you get it you get a drive like a little thing that Leo this reads these kind of cards or these these distant it's hot swappable and the implication there is a no so I can like poke a stick into my computer I can write some stuff on it I can pop it out throw it in the other thing that I wanted thing in the computer won't go hey what are you doing
it does do that no matter what there is no such thing as a hot swappable drive thank you how I really feel all be all dispenser for you during this is just so you know I think I was just going to do what you really want to do is get yourself a network card oh man oh man you got real blazing speed is there real blazing speeds where is he looking at these down here
Ranch maybe Spencer's hot swappable who he's just he's just wait at a different podcast.
That's where you poop on somebody's chest by the concept is just the idea of being able to
that's an option when Spencer took the night off
weird poor beleaguered salt mine worker robbed robbed for a guy that's an option what do you Fred Flintstone I missed your slates I got the author of The RoboCop screenplay those awkward way to introduce I guess
Dan don't screw this up this is really important to me tonight
I'm sorry about those awful chairs yet picture to give him the you know the introduction of his stature deserves to be one of my like rambling things were Jeff would cut me off and say please welcome at do my hair in the middle of me trying introduce you cuz it be like look we've had some Legends up here I get I get nervous they say I'm a bad interview or a bite but there's a there's a difference here where it's just like genuinely you are a hero to me your your your your person that exemplifies like Natalie the the to me that's what we'll talk about whether you think this is true but demonstrates the highest kind of like Coda of of of of of The Craft of writing movies and and also like demonstrates that bat pays off that you let you pick your shoe
lots and whatever but let's let's let's let's get to know you a little bit cuz we kind of a bad interviewer but I think that you feel like you are you a California and the way you were born here I was actually born in Vienna Austria by by chance and I grew up in the Marin County in San Francisco Bay Area Martin County San Anselmo and you were a journalism major at my parents were both journalists and so I should have it was that that followed me through high school I was I was the editor of my high school newspaper and Jax are but I always want to do movies for it being from Wisconsin I couldn't possibly
make the leap to I'm going to major in writing I'm going to I'm going to be your writer I'm going to be creative for a living I had to find a Midwestern compatible version of being a person that sits at a typewriter that's also felt enough like welding to it was there anything to that but it was the first time I ever had a little thing where you could do something and I immediately started turning it into a place to do I used to do violence at tires of like my friend who was the school President we shot him in the in the Wii shop in front of the school sort of we did Zapruder films and things like that from my RoboCop Starship Troopers like both really interesting thing to talk about him but both of them have The Shakespearean Harold's that are the media
so I imagine like I think I was always interested in that stuff and I was literally all my a lot of my some of my friends now where might you know people who were in like Woodward and Bernstein were big guys and so I like know the guys who knew them and stuff like that and a lot of people a lot of journalists in that kind of thing in those that was an exciting idea you could do a lot of things without spending any money you have and everything like that guy the world is a character Detroit is a character in Robocop it's so important to understand the relationship between people and media what's going on in the world that even though the whole story takes place in a really greedy local part of this new Earth your it's so it's so effective to have a to be able to zoom in
I'm a Global Perspective right into other little parts of that world and imply a bigger world and and that was always there and it was something that I think they're hoping and I had a big fight about that at one point because I always wanted to be completely separate from the story that it was different he he would say it one time he said well we should maybe we'll be in a TV studio and you'll see the news and you and I and I was like I don't know why I was just way I was 27 years old I know you can't do that with a huge fight about it he came around and then we see an idea I don't think he said Wrecking but that's what it is about you and idea that your first screen credit it's your first project I came to the business and my girlfriend broke up with me and I couldn't finish UCLA Film School
I got a job on taxi and they paid me $175 a month or something to be a runner and I did that for a little while and intersection between you and Sam Simon and the answer is no but no no but I did I did I used I was a guy who used to sit outside the door in and wait for the script pages and I had to drive them to a place called Barbara's place and they type them up and then I had to pick them up at 6 in the morning to type it is that a copy place it was like they were just type of money do they would literally there were a bunch of people who stand up mostly women who set up all night Andre types of scripts and then they were delivered cuz I'd like to live like a notes on them and stuff like that and a clean copy of that process thing so it's a writer's assistant
in like how they're so there were so many roadblocks back then you know Ed and people still got stuff done today it's like I can't connect with the wife I'm just back at you. It's like we were talking today about you know as well as people tend to in the loss of a colleague we're having drinks and we're suddenly going through our whole lives spend yeah we were we were we were briefly marveling at how we had a radio show in Milwaukee and how we would I would get up at 5 a.m. drink two pots of coffee right V scripts get in a car drive them down icy roads to a Kinkos because they had a printer and pay them the money that they wanted to to print up the scripts and then drive is like a never yeah I would never do that these days anyways but you are a job it says I'm got your Wikipedia page like his so joyfully Spartan
get you you go you or your proofreader at Paramount know I was a a script reader I was a reader in the story analyst Guild and they pay people you probably in coverage to do coverage for executives and you read everything that comes in and you do a report on it yeah they call it a proofreader I don't know I did I remember reading my red war games and I said you should make this movie and they said nobody wants to see a movie about nuclear war and then and then I can get you Dabney Coleman
and then and then I read a script which I really I made my reputation at Columbia pictures on the I rather risky business I wrote a coverage for him it was 18 pages long which is not working or not what you want when you an executive at the morning meeting I said this is the greatest movie in the world you have to make it and there was a memo came around and said from Frankfurt at the chairman said that they would no longer be any coverage longer than two pages and and then they then when the movie came out they were interested in me suddenly and when the movie came out I bet somebody a hundred bucks the vice president that it was going to be a hit and it was and then suddenly they offered me a job and I for a moment I was an executive who had his finger on the pulse of use and that lasted for about a year at Universal and I wasn't really suited for it I read that you were offered to be the vice president at Universal
call them see he's now there wasn't where I was a junior Executive Inn and that's sort of how I learned all the business stuff but if you will and I was I was under a VP and yes if I had stayed there I would have been a VP which I later was it another production company Martin ransohoff I was a VP of development and and stuff like that where I start to worship you the story of your past because in the Underworld where the werewolves of suits in the vampires of writers like are in constant War like you can root for one or the other and there's all kinds of hybrids that are exciting and heroic but
there's a warrant on the license that there is like something really romantic about a guy that does what you did which you could just imagine the biopic like T up of this moment where you have this easier when you do your on this path and then for whatever reason you decide now I'd like to go behind door number to I'm going to I'm going to abandon this career of being liked being on the side that calls the shots makes the money at because I'm really passionate about this idea I had called RoboCop it's true during this guy I don't want to have I wasn't returning a hundred phone calls a day and there were people who were who I really admire who really good at that some of them are good
Waldron shout out to him who he was he was kind of an add new Meyer at starburns my my my little studio is it where it was like you you hire young people and you you make them do the stuff you're too busy to do some of it is reading other people's stop taking it you know some of it is like he is very handsome like kid from Georgia and like people like talking to him and he doesn't like talking on the phone and I remember him saying to me you know just just so you remember like I did come out here to be a writer and I'm like I was like too bad you're a daywalker like I had more plans for you but I will return the favor to you if you do this shity neurotypical stuff so I will help you as much as I can and it amazes me that some people are just good at both that there are Charming people who networking ability
what was that I was never I never felt cool enough for the job and when I meet Executives overtime they all seem much cooler than I ever was he thinking you buy into the the dichotomy of the introvert is recharging their batteries while there alone while they're operating individually and they don't they don't mind interacting with other people but that's a discharge and then there are some people who are actually receiving a energy charge from of all things interacting with other people and then get them through having to play Minecraft which blows my fucking my like they're just like sitting there wait till I hope the phone ring that you
when she when you're sitting at home you're like God damn it I get I get answer my pants I got to go out and be around the people V night between the sticks calling you and having you come out to her concert
my teacher was sticks and deaf replaced Tommy shot now I don't know I think it's like it's if it's both ways like I need to be alone but I also need to be around people and then in both of those are
recharge and discharging him in a way you don't have to choose one I've always wanted when I was when I can play many years ago when I wrote RoboCop in that when it was successful there were times that I would entertain myself thinking while I did this and I did that I did that I did that and then now more and more I think well know I did that because Paul was there and we talked about this and we did this because John Davidson said why you can have $0.25 and they were a lot of people involved in that process that made it what it was eight sweetens the recognition of of the permit is in October like you said you did you start to like open up to so Vera Lynn and I get together we've been getting together for 35 years and we often and we've done most of our work over breakfast and we get together now still we just did recently
wasn't we got to go to all we did was talk about what a great producer John Davidson was and how the movie never would have happened without John Davis I mean a million different ways now they couldn't even talk to each other in the room I was the the middle child who would try to get the parents to come in and back and then they would run out after cursing at each other in but now they realize that it was when you wrote it was good you always while you're writing this cuz this is going to be in this is going to be called RoboCop I did actually there I was I was working as a reader at then Columbia Pictures was out not in Culver City but it was in in Burbank on a lot called TBS then which is now known as the Warner Brothers lot and I have an office right next to the one of those was a trailer office and it was right next to one of the big back lots and suddenly they were making this giant picture this giant science fiction picture which had no one would tell you what it was and I would get out of my
leave my office and I would go out onto the set when I really want to do in those days was make a movie and there were so many people on this movie that they didn't know who was working on it who wasn't there were shooting all night and so I would go and work on the art department and stay there till about 3 or 4 in the morning and I I said so what's the first night I what's this movie about and it's about a robot and they pointed a girl with a in a tutu and said that's a robot and Blade Runner
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Q: Query to print all the nodes from the root to the given node in a binary tree stored in database in self referencing table This was asked to me in a recent interview.
Binary tree is stored in database in the following schema
Table tree ( int nodeId, int parentId, int data)
This is a self referencing table.
I was asked to write query to print the data of all nodes in the path from the root to the given node.
Is it possible to do it in one query?
The solution I gave was loading all the rows to a hashMap with key as nodeId and value as parentId and print the path to the root from the given node using the map.
I can write nested queries to print this if I know the depth of the node in the binary tree.
Sample query to print all the nodes from root to a node with nodeId='4' which is at depth 2 is as follows:
"select n.data, n1.data, n2.data from Tree n where nodeId in (select parentId from Tree n1 where nodeId in (select pId from Tree n2 where nodeId='4')); "
Is it possible to do this without using nested queries? If so what query I can use to do this?


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