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Q: How to keep FULL_TRANSITIVE compatibility while adding new types to nested map in avro schema? I have an existing avro schema that contains a field with a nested map of map of a record type (let's call it RecordA for now). I'm wondering if it's possible to add a new record type, RecordB, to this nested map of maps while maintaining FULL_TRANSIENT compatibility?
My thinking was that as long as the inner maps gets defaulted to an empty map it still adheres to the schema so it's backwards/forward compatible.
I've tried to redefine the type map<map<RecordA>> maps to map<map<union{RecordA, RecordB}>> maps in an .avdl file, but the schema registry is telling me this is not compatible.
I've also tried to default each map individually to an empty  map ({ }) in a generated .avsc file, but schema registry says that's incompatible as well.
I do want to acknowledge that I know map<map<..>> is a bad practice, but what's been done has been done.
Registered Schema (original) .avdl:
record Outer {
    map<map<RecordA>> maps;
}

record RecordA {
    string value;
    string updateTime;
}

Attempt with .avdl:
record Outer {
    map<map<union{RecordA, RecordB}>> maps = {};
}

record RecordA {
    string value;
    string updateTime;
}

record RecordB {
    union{null, array<string>} values = null;
    union{null, string} updateTime = null;
}

Attempt with .avsc:
{
            "name" : "maps",
            "type" : {
              "type" : "map",
              "values" : {
                "type" : "map",
                "values" : [ {
                  "type" : "record",
                  "name" : "RecordA",
                  "fields" : [ {
                    "name" : "value",
                    "type" : "string"
                  }, {
                    "name" : "updateTime",
                    "type" : "string"
                  } ],
                  "default": { }
                }, {
                  "type" : "record",
                  "name" : "RecordB",
                  "fields" : [ {
                    "name" : "value",
                    "type" : [ "null", "string" ],
                    "default" : null
                  }, {
                    "name" : "values",
                    "type" : [ "null", "string" ],
                    "default" : null
                  }, {
                    "name" : "updateTime",
                    "type" : [ "null", "string" ],
                    "default" : null
                  } ],
                  "default": { }
                } ]
              }
            },
            "default" : { }
}

The end goal is to have a map of maps to a record who has a field that can either be a string or array<string>. The original schema was registered to a schema-registry where the field has type string with no union {} with null or a default, so I believe the map needs to be map to a union of types with either version of the field.
Each try has returned the following from the schema-registry compatibility API
{
    "is_compatible": false
}

Any insight would be very much appreciated!

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January 26, 2015 By InTheBite Editor
2014 Tagging Award Winners
The 2014 dolphinfish tagging activity was surprisingly strong. Anglers tagged an amazing 2,096 fish during 2014. This is the second-highest number tagged in a single year and comes just two years after the Dolphinfish Research Program (DRP) experienced its lowest tagging activity, in 2012. The increase in the number of fish tagged is a good indicator of an increased availability of dolphin to recreational fishermen in 2014. Such a fast rebound in the abundance of dolphinfish should not come as a surprise, since these fish are almost an annual crop. Studies have shown that only a small fraction of each year's spawn will live more than 12 months, but the fish can obtain weights of 40 pounds within that time.
The DRP is very fortunate to have leading recreational fishing tackle businesses supporting this important research effort and allowing the program to offer year-end awards for the top taggers each year. Haddrell's Point Tackle of Mt. Pleasant and Charleston, South Carolina, provides Shimano TLD reels to go on Star Hand Crafted standup rods donated by Big Rock Sports of Graham, North Carolina, for the first-place finishers in each category. Costa Del Mar of Daytona Beach, Florida, sends the second-place finishers a gift package of their products, including the winner's choice of their world-famous sunglasses. Costa Del Mar also provides additional gift cards for the recipients choice of a free pair of sunglasses. These are used for special recognition and incentive awards. These incentive awards have motivated boat crews to put forth extra effort in tagging dolphin as shown by the fact that this year's award recipients tagged a total of 1,015 fish — 48.4 percent of the fish tagged in 2014.
In the overall category, the boat crew of Don Gates' boat Killin Time II, based in Cudjoe Key, Florida, easily captured the Top Private Boat award, tagging 300 dolphin in the Florida Straits. Top Charter Boat award went to Capt. Jimbo Thomas's vessel Thomas Flyer, which fishes out of Miami, Florida, for tagging 196 fish. These fishermen will receive a Star Hand Crafted standup trolling rod with a TLD 50 reel. These two boat crews have been among the top five contributors of tagged fish since 2005. Don Gates' crew is the only boat crew who have tagged dolphin in every year since the program started in 2002. Capt. Thomas and his brother Rick were the first to reach the milestone of 2,000 fish tagged. Together, these two crews have tagged and released an amazing 4,035 dolphin over the course of the study. Even if you discount the value of their recaptures, just putting that many fish back into the system to fulfill their role in the life cycle of the species is a phenomenal contribution to the conservation of the species and the health of the recreational dolphin fishery along the U.S. East Coast.
The heaviest competition for the awards was in the South Atlantic Bight Division with 14 sports fishing vessels qualifying for the awards. These qualifying boats tagged a total of 1,332 fish, 63.5 percent of the total tagged. It was the crew aboard Dr. William Pomenti's boat Scungilli based in Islamorada, Florida, that took first-place award, tagging 186 fish. The Second-place award was earned by Capt. Jack Conroy and crew aboard It's a Keeper based in Islamorada, Florida, for tagging 122 fish. These two boat crews have a good competition going. Last year their finishes in the year-end awards were reversed.
Only two boats tagged fish in the Gulf of Mexico during 2014, but these two were serious. The crew aboard the Texas-based boat Latitude Adjustment owned by Capt. Bob Felinski of Richmond, Texas, eased ahead of their competitor by tagging just two more fish, 47total, to win first place and a rod and reel. Second-place went to Capt. Matt Parramore of Lynn Haven, Florida, and his crew aboard his boat Weedline Fever for tagging 45 fish. It is unfortunate that we cannot get more anglers involved in the Gulf. There have only been 394 dolphin tagged in the Gulf. The GOM current patterns suggest that dolphin in the western half have a different movement pattern than those in the eastern Gulf but we need more fish tagged to determine their route.
The anglers in the tropical waters of the western north Atlantic had a good year in their efforts to aid the Dolphinfish Research Program. Six boats qualified to win the year-end awards. Participating anglers in the Caribbean Sea had their second-best year of tagging with 113 fish marked. The tropical western north Atlantic off Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands had a productive year with 89 fish tagged. Tagging in the Bahamas was fair, with 68 fish marked, mostly in Exuma Sound. It was Manuel Botello and his crew aboard his boat Missing Angel out of San Juan, Puerto Rico, that put forth the extra effort to handily win the first-place in the division having tagged 71 fish. It was Mark Mitchell of Stuart, Florida, and the crew aboard Mr. L.T.D. that finished in second-place, having tagged 48 dolphin in Exuma Sound, Bahamas.
The DRP is very fortunate to have the support of Haddrell's Point Tackle, Star Rods of Big Rock Sports, and Costa Del Mar to provide these fantastic incentive awards. These prizes have worked very well to inspire more tagging, as shown by the fact that just ten boats tagged 60 percent of the fish. The next chance you have to speak to representatives of these companies please thank them for supporting the DRP.
For more information on the 2014 tagging activity please visit our Web site Dolphintagging.com (link not active in PDF) and click the Study Results page, scrolling down to the 2014 results. The winners along with all of the boats tagging fish are listed with the number of fish they tagged.
Ups and Downs of Fishing
To say that dolphin fishing is erratic, would be an understatement. Every fisherman has experienced good and bad days of dolphin fishing. If you do your Intel work prior to leaving the dock, you have a good idea of where you need to go and what to expect in the way of fish. Even when you are armed with the latest information, you can still get skunked.
With such high variability in the week-to-week and even day-to-day fishing, it is hard to get an overall view of the season. The DRP conducted a study in 2014 to record the number of dolphin caught each day by individual boats operating out of one marina. The weather conditions, quality of fishing, and the day of the week affected the number of boats fishing each day. These boats almost wholly engaged in trolling to catch their fish. This fishing technique tended to result in larger but fewer fish than other fishing methods.
In this study 142 boat trips successful in catching dolphin on 40 days from April 25 to August 4 were intercepted. It was rare for a boat not to catch at least one dolphin during the peak season from late April to mid-June. Surveyed boats brought in a total of 1,071 fish. The number of successful boat trips interviewed on a given day ranged from 1 to 9 and averaged 3.5 trips per day.
The following graph depicts how successful boats were over time that were fishing for dolphin as demonstrated by the catch of one or more dolphin. The decline in the catch rate in late July and August was not from an absence of fishing effort. There were many days where multiple boats went fishing but did not catch a dolphin and very few, if any of other fish. This sharp decline in fish being caught, was a major factor stated by anglers that kept them from going fishing.
The blue line in the following graph denotes the average number of dolphin caught per boat trip each day. Just looking at this line, it is hard to describe the overall fishing during this period. When you inject a polynomial trend line, the green line, it provides an understandable progression of the fishery catch rate for dolphin.
This graph indicates that the best dolphin catches occurred in late May and early June but the probability of a good fishing trip remained about the same from late April to mid-June. During this time the daily catch rates swung from a low of 2.5 to a high of 15.7 fish and averaged 9.25 fish per day. What this does not show is how the size of the fish being caught changed over time, but that is a subject for another issue of the newsletter.
Don Hammond
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961 Anchor Rd., Charleston, SC 29412
Telephone – FAX (843) 795-7524
Email CSSLLC@bellsouth.net
Web site www.dolphintagging.com
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Discourse Theory and Practice is much more than a collection of key classic articles and papers in the field of discourse analysis. The aim of the book is to introduce students to the major figures in the field, and to some of their writings which, combined with the interspersed editorial commentaries, should allow students to understand the key epistemological and methodological issues of discourse theory and practice. The Reader is organized into four coherent Parts, namely: Foundations and Building Blocks; Social Interaction; Minds, Selves and Sense-Making; and Culture and Social Relations. Key readings include works by Stuart Hall, Jonathan Potter, David Silverman, Erving Goffman, Teun van Dijk, Derek Edwards and Michael Billig. Chapters introduce the student to each individual and their reading, contextualizing each in terms of their contribution to the field, theoretical standpoint and individual method of doing discourse analysis. The many didactic elements of the book make it ideal as an introduction to the study of discourse for all students of psychology, sociology, linguistics or cultural studies.
This book aims to introduce students to the area of social science theory and research that has come to be known as social constructionism.
Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice provides the student/reader with the basic theoretical knowledge and the empirical tools of some of the most relevant approaches to the analysis of discourse. It has been mainly conceived of as a general (university) course on Discourse Analysis, but it can also be useful for any person or group whose main concern is to acquire the basic necessary knowledge and skills for analyzing any type of discourse. The subject matter of the book could not only be of use for linguists or prospective linguists: given its interdisciplinary character, its findings can be (and in fact are) used and applied by practitioners and scholars from different fields, such as sociology, psychology, medical science, computer science, and so on. Thus the book can be used by any person who, having certain linguistic knowledge, is interested in exploring the fascinating world of discourse. All the chapters contain both a theoretical and an empirical section, the latter containing examples of analysis, as well as exercises (Practice) and self-evaluation questions, whose answers can be found at the end of the book (in the Practice key and Key to self-evaluation questions sections). The book is divided into 12 chapters. The first two introduce basic information about discourse analysis and text linguistics, as well as the necessary techniques for gathering data, including a very brief introduction to corpus linguistics. Chapters 3-11 present and discuss some of the most prominent and well-known approaches to discourse analysis, namely Pragmatics, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Conversation Analysis, The Ethnography of Communication, Variation Analysis and Narrative Analysis, Functional Sentence Perspective, Post-Structuralist Theory and Social Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis and Positive Discourse Analysis, and Mediated Discourse Analysis. Finally, Chapter 12 deals with crucial and further issues, such as the type of discourse chosen for the analysis, the strategies and functions of discourse, or the problem of choosing an appropriate unit of analysis which will suit the aims of research. Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice may prove of value to all those who are professionally involved in the area of discourse and pragmatic studies, or simply to those who wish to acquire the necessary basic knowledge and techniques for analyzing any type of discourse, from medical, journalistic or political discourse to computer-mediated, humoristic, or hegemonic discourse (where the use and abuse of power is an important issue), just to name a few of the innumerable possibilities. A desirable and intended effect of this book is also the development of an open and tolerant mind, which will eventually lead to a better understanding of the different and varied manifestations of language, culture and communication in human society.
Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context. Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse; Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations; and Identity, Sociology and History, this book invites readers to compare and contrast cultural studies approaches with psychoanalytic and historical and sociological accounts of identity formation.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.Mvc;

using CompareAttribute = System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.CompareAttribute;

namespace Kentico.Web.Mvc
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Provides an adapter for the <see cref="CompareAttribute"/> attribute that localizes error messages in validation errors and client validation rules.
    /// </summary>
    internal class LocalizedCompareAttributeAdapter : DataAnnotationsModelValidator<CompareAttribute>
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="LocalizedCompareAttributeAdapter"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="metadata">The model metadata.</param>
        /// <param name="context">The controller context.</param>
        /// <param name="attribute">The <see cref="CompareAttribute"/> attribute.</param>
        public LocalizedCompareAttributeAdapter(ModelMetadata metadata, ControllerContext context, CompareAttribute attribute)
            : base(metadata, context, attribute)
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieves a collection of localized validation errors for the model and returns it.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="container">The container for the model.</param>
        /// <returns>A collection of localized validation errors for the model, or an empty collection if no errors have occurred.</returns>
        public override IEnumerable<ModelValidationResult> Validate(object container)
        {
            return LocalizationHelper.LocalizeValidationResults(base.Validate(container), Metadata.GetDisplayName(), Attribute.OtherPropertyDisplayName);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieves a collection of localized client validation rules for the model and returns it.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>A collection of localized client validation rules for the model.</returns>
        public override IEnumerable<ModelClientValidationRule> GetClientValidationRules()
        {
            var rules = new[]
            {
                new ModelClientValidationEqualToRule(ErrorMessage, FormatPropertyForClientValidation(Attribute.OtherProperty))
            };

            return LocalizationHelper.LocalizeValidationRules(rules, Metadata.GetDisplayName(), Attribute.OtherPropertyDisplayName);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Formats the property for client validation by prepending an asterisk (*) and a dot.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The string "*." is prepended to the property.</returns>
        private static string FormatPropertyForClientValidation(string property)
        {
            return "*." + property;
        }
    }
}

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+project – and benchmarks for which we found PyPy to be slow (and improved).
+0.2s the JIT has no chance, but it depends a lot on the program in question.
+by the runtime of PyPy that do a significant amount of work.
+functions to take somewhere between the same time as CPython to twice as long.
+This includes, for example, computing with longs, or sorting large lists.
+
Building very large dicts: At present, this is an issue with our GCs.
+extension modules solely to provide basic functionality.
-  but not always (``heapq``, ``json``).
+  than cPython, with the notable exception of ``json`` and ``heapq``.


Obedience and submission, compliance to God's orders without arguing.
women display their charms, to primp.
the Tahajjud prayer is an optional prayer that is supposed to be performed in the middle of the night. It is required that a person sleep a little before he gets up for the Tahajjud prayer. It can be performed anytime between Isha and Fajr.
the love and fear that a Muslim feels for Allah. A person with taqwa desires to be in the good pleasures of Allah and to stay away from those things that would displease Allah. He is careful not to go beyond the bouds and limits set by Allah.
legislation, law making. What God had permitted and what is forbidden.
confirming the Oneness of Allah. It is the basis of Islam.
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LISTEN: Audio of Trump & Cohen talking Playboy model payoff
Xeni Jardin 6:45 pm Tue Jul 24, 2018
Donald Trump can be heard on an audiotape released by CNN tonight talking with his former fixer/attorney Michael Cohen about how to purchase the rights to a Playboy model's story about an affair she says she had with Trump years earlier.
The audio of the conversation was obtained by CNN and played first on the CNN program "Cuomo Prime Time."
The recording offers the public a glimpse at the confidential discussions between Trump and Cohen, and it confirms the man who now occupies the Oval Office had contemporaneous knowledge of a proposal to buy the rights to the story of Karen McDougal, a woman who has alleged she had an extramarital affair with Trump about a decade ago.
Cohen told Trump about his plans to set up a company and finance the purchase of the rights from American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer.
"I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David," Cohen said in the recording, likely a reference to American Media head David Pecker.
Trump interrupts Cohen asking, "What financing?" according to the recording.
When Cohen tells Trump, "We'll have to pay." Trump is heard saying "pay with cash" but the audio is muddled and it's unclear whether he suggests paying with cash or not paying.
Cohen says, "no, no" but it is not clear what is said next.
No payment was ever made from Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the President's attorney, has said. Giuliani has previously acknowledged that the recorded discussion related to the buying the story rights.
The recording, which was provided to CNN by Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis, was made in September 2016.
'GET ME A COKE,' Trump bellows at one point.
Within an hour of the tape's broadcast, attorney Michael Avenatti said on MSNBC, when asked by host Lawrence O'Donnell what he hears, said: "I'm hearing two criminal co-conspirators conspire on making a payment and I'm hearing Michael Cohen be a sycophant for Trump."
"There's no doubt that Michael Cohen has the goods on the president," Avenatti said.
BREAKING: President Trump recorded by longtime personal lawyer discussing paying for Playboy model's story.
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 25, 2018
lol. His face. pic.twitter.com/joHIOLLOdm
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) July 25, 2018
No payment was ever made by Trump, said Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for Trump known for lying.
Giuliani has previously acknowledged that a recorded discussion between Trump and Cohen existed, and was related to the buying the story rights.
Federal prosecutors in New York. https://t.co/CApKt4LDGf
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) July 25, 2018
"Pay with cash." – Donald Trump
Why? To hide the transaction from the IRS? The Federal Election Commission?
This is the tape Giuliani claimed was helpful to Trump. It's not. https://t.co/3AeMoXgo7a
"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is." https://t.co/1ZKf7N5mxM pic.twitter.com/DJ30tSAS0t
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) July 25, 2018
Reminder what Giuliani said this wknd (now seemingly contradicted): "That payment was never made, Mr Giuliani said, adding that Mr. Trump had told Mr. Cohen that if he were to make a payment related to Ms. McDougal, to write a check rather than send cash." https://t.co/SVWAUkZrFC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 25, 2018
BREAKING: My Cohen-Trump tape notes @msnbc @Lawrence @maddow. As a guy who listened to a lot of audio fm wiretaps I can tell you 1) it was Recorded in Trumps Office 2) Audio device was on when he arrived in room. 3) Cohen took it out of his pocket to get clear recording.#SneakyAF
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) July 25, 2018
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We regret to inform you that Peter Navarro and Maria Bartiromo are both at it again. Peter Navarro: "The Democratic Party did violence to this country by attacking a president who I believe was legally elected on November 3," "74 million Americans out there" are "pissed off" like him. Maria Bartiromo: "We know that there… READ THE REST
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These 10 apps can help you make 2021 the year you learn a new language
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This grooming vacuum will help reduce dog and cat fur around your home
You love your family and friends. You love your spouse. You love your kids. But, even among those things you treasure most in this world, there's still a special kind of love you hold only for your pet. For as much as we shower our love and affection over these furry family members, there isn't… READ THE REST


Antony waited with all guests in the lovely Rebate church, this has recently been restored and they have done a great job!
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Click-Through Rate (CTR) is an essential concept in search engine marketing, pay-per-click ad campaigns or email marketing campaigns that is the percentage of people who upon seeing an ad or viewing an email click on the ad or link.
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How is Clickthrough Rate Measured?
CTR (Click-Through Rate) is a metric of performance that is expressed as a percentage measuring the number of times an email, organic search result, or ad gets clicked relative to the number of impressions or times it's been viewed. Most often it is used to gauge the effectiveness of paid search, email and display marketing campaigns. It can also show the performance of meta titles and meta descriptions, subject lines, and ad copy. Typical examples of where CTR gets measured include:
An element on a website such as a headline, image, button, etc.
A link in an email or call-to-action button
A Facebook display ad
An organic result on a search engine results page (SERP)
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Please GOD unite me back with my love and bless me with my marriage to him ,with our parents blessings and happiness . Please help me GOD ,you are my last hope . Please don't let me down .
Hail Mary, thank you for your many blessings. I implore you today to please help my loved one, Orlando Garcia, keep his current position. he is in danger of loosing his current job, and i ask you to please bless him, and help keep him employed. he is needing your help more than ever, so please place your blessing hand upon him. in your loving name, Amen.
Oh Mary, mother of our lord Jesus, show me how to rebuild this life that now lays in ruins. You know my physical, spiritual, emotional and financial plight. Guide and help me, your unworthy servant.
Hail Mary, please find me a way out from my debts and financial problems.
our lady of the rosary i would like to help me have a stress free pregnancy and a healthy baby. give me through this pregnancy because i believe that you have given me this child for a reason. please help Micheal get a good job that will see him grow and also build our own house and home. i ask for your protection over my children and good and loving caretaker. I also pray for the souls in purgatory and ask all this through our lady of the rosary amen.
Tomorrow after communion I'm going to do something that I know I must do, but which I am also dreading.
I'm going to give my Archdeacon a letter, which will tell him that I believe God is calling me into his service as a minister in the Church of Ireland.
I truly believe it and want to serve God in all I do, but I'm new to Anglicanism, and I'm worried the Archdeacon won't agree with my vocation because I'm new.
I know that I'm probably the only Anglican here, but please pray that my vocation will be realised and that the Archdeacon will help me realise God's calling in my life, please pray that he will receive my letter well and that he will place his trust in me and support me in my vocation.
I stay in Delhi in India & have been married since last two years. I stay in a close knit family.I stay with my two young employed brothers and my parents keep visiting us. My family had always been very caring to my wife. But my wife had always insisted me to stay alone with her.Suddenly this year I had left my job and my brothers had supported me while the unemployment. My parent in laws were unhappy about it. They had always been interrupting in my married life and wanted me to stay alone with my wife which I refused to do as I was unemployed. In the meanwhile my wife went to her parent's house & had filed a court case of dowry, adultery etc against me & my family which I/family never did.
Please pray for my wife to get humble and accept her wrongful deeds. I request for our lord's forgiveness for all those situations where I was wrong. Our lord Jesus Christ will make things better for us one day and I wait for his judgement.
Maa Mariam please pray for me and my family to your son so that our God-Jesus saves all of us from going to jail or any mishap. Navneet.
I have sinned and 1st and foremost, I seek God's forgiveness. I have found out I am pregnant. I am still single and my boyfriend did not take it very well when I first told him I am pregnant. Initially he wanted me to end the pregnancy but I refuse to. Through prayers and God's grace, he has accepted this pregnancy but at times I can see he is still troubled. Please pray for God's forgiveness for us and that we could both be brave and the Lord give us the strength and joy in our heart to take responsibility of the sin we have committed. Please pray for our Lord's intervention that my baby's father and his family would open up their hearts and accept this baby and our relationship with love, joy and serenity in their heart especially my baby's father. I pray that he will always stay by my side to bring this baby up together in a happy marriage. I'm in the 10th week of my pregnancy now and please also pray for a healthy, full term pregnancy and healthy baby for us.


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Slime Mold Controls Robot's Freaky Facial Expressions In New Experiment (VIDEO)
By Jacqueline Howard
It's always a bit creepy to watch a human-like robot run through its facial expressions, from a vacant smile to an odd frown. And the experimental robot seen in the video above is especially creepy because its expressions are controlled by -- get this -- mold.
As New Scientist reported, researchers at the University of the West of England in Bristol programmed the robotic face to respond to electrical signals produced by slime mold, fungus-like organisms that look like spongy yellow blobs.
When the mold moves toward food, the bot registers a positive expression. When the mold recoils from light, the bot suddenly looks downcast-- just look at the video above.
"The robot aspect was incorporated as a technology showcase, essentially to show that we can take data from biology and link it to robots," the university's Dr. Ella Gale, a research associate in unconventional computing, told The Huffington Post in an email. "We found that we could pick up and differentiate what the slime mold was doing in response to stimuli, such as light."
To create the robot-mold interface, Dr. Gale placed the mold in a small dish, on a bed of 64 tiny electrodes. The electrodes pick up tiny electrical signals from the mold and route them to the robot. At the same time, the signals are used to produce sounds -- creating an eerie soundtrack that accompanies the bot's face-shifting performance.
"This is so creepy," YouTube user Ryan Luis commented on the video.
Dr. Gale noted that the robot is really another way of interpreting the data to learn more about slime mold organisms.
"The electronic data was listened to because the human ear is well attuned to pick up patterns in sound and was in fact more useful than the eye (I was also looking at graphs of the data) in terms of getting an appreciation of what was going on during the experiment," she said in the email
This robotic experiment was demonstrated during the recent Living Machines conference at the Natural History Museum in London, which was held from July 29 to Aug. 2.
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Rain has never looked so good.
Okay, so last week I found a really cool weather app on the App Store. It was simple, straight to the point and mostly brutal. If it was raining, it would tell you with profanity. If you wanted to find out more, it would tell you to look outside, because, lets face it, that's the best way to find out.
Well, the Weather App given to us by Apple doesn't tell you that honestly. Instead it tells us through beauty. The whole screen is consumed by what's happening outside, in real time, if it's snowing, you will see snow falling on your screen. Everything else is there, like the weekly forecast, your current location and the temperature outside.
It's not what just meets the eye, if you tap the temperature some additional information appears in it's place, humidity, chance of rain and wind speed. Knowing which way your fringe will blow is always a good idea. We've all been there.
The temperature is now displayed in the Notification Center for your convenience. Nothing else to talk about, the weather is always a good place to start.
This one is mainly for Final Fantasy fans. As you will know, we all have deep, emotional connections with the ones we have played, countless hours sat staring at the TV falling in love with your favourite character. Mine being Tidus from Final Fantasy X, still my second most favourite video game EVER!
The Final Fantasy Series has been around for years, setting the standards for every other RPG game out there. Countless times they have pushed the bench mark, visually and with their story telling. Capturing imaginations all across the globe. This little app they released last Christmas lets you jam along to your favourite songs from the Final Fantasy games, it's a free app, however the songs are available through purchases that are made inside their store. It comes packed with two songs, one from FFX and another from FFVII.
If you're a devoted fan to the series I suggest you download this now, it's available for both the iPhone and the iPad!
Thank you for the nostalgia SQUARE ENIX!
Final Fantasy is my jam and this game is completely up my street. I love playing Guitar Hero and anything like it so to be able to listen to some of the best scored music for games and tap along to them is a dream come true, really – it is!
The game has 3 different difficulties including expert for those of you who think you're pretty great at anything. The 2 free levels you can play are a nice length and you get some decent playing time, I'd only wish since last Christmas they'd of maybe added at least a few more free levels or even better switched them round once in a while.
Well, it's a dull, rainy day here today, I have a few spare hours at my disposal, a few hours I thought I'd spend with you. At the beginning, I promised myself that I would fully commit myself to this blog, a way for me to showcase some creativity or skill whilst the holidays surrounded me and London was 300 miles away. It pains me to say that i failed myself, and you guys on that promise. A lot has happened since then, both personally and professionally and I feel right now at this moment, a new wave of determination to make this blog a real life thing for me has taken over, a want, a need, to make it maybe one day, a job.
Writing has always been an interest for me, I am passionate about technology and design and was luckily blessed with good taste for both, so the only natural thing for me to do is this. A blog. For you to take in my opinion, maybe argue with it, challenge it or even influence your own. Whatever it does, just reading it will make my day, the other 3 are all bonuses.
Whilst it may seem that my attention has been focused entirely on everything but this blog and the lack of posts are there to back that up yes, but, you have always been there in the back of my mind, time my friend, it's what's been against us. Over the last couple of weeks I have been downloading new apps, paid and free, and some old apps that have been updated with new features and even complete redesigns. With that in mind, I will be bringing to you my reviews and thoughts on all that Tap This App has to say about them. Here are just a few of the apps you will be reading about real soon.
Stay tuned, I pinky promise you that you have not been forgotten about. My time is now in your hands.
What Apple should do with the future of the iPhone, at least before Samsung creates their own.
Apple have always talked about buttons, and how they will one day be history. However, to this day nothing has changed on any of the iOS devices when it comes to the buttons, maybe a few dimension changes or a tweak in where they are located, but still they remain, on the side of the iPhone and iPad waiting for their impending death.
I want to help Apple here and show them that they too can move forward and make me happy, who wouldn't want to make me happy? I thought so. Without Steve Jobs around, and the current board members worried about innovation within the company whether it's the lack of innovation or they have too much i don't know, but this is one they need to get to grips with, pronto.
One aspect which really took my interest was the screen at the side of the phone, it's unlikely that it will ever happen but heres hoping the execs over at 1 Infinite Loop are looking into making this happen ;).
Here is another image showing how Apple could advance in their effort to make buttons obsolete, the touch screen at the side of the device could be used in replacement of the hardware buttons we currently find on our devices, it would be interesting to see what Apple have in mind for the volume/vibrate buttons, the ones above look elegant, simple and much more ahead of the competition out there. Below are a few more images of showing how the side screen could potentially be used.
Doesn't it look stunning, iOS7 has never looked so beautiful.


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Q: How do I quit being a moderator? Due to life, etc, I don't feel that I can be an effective moderator anymore.   I don't see any obvious method within the system of quitting, though (barring just not responding to moderator flags, etc.).   What's the correct procedure to resign?

A: Please email the Community team (community[at]stackoverflow.com) and let them know (cc your co mods as well if you wish).
I have already let a community team member know (though I think that you still may have to send the email) in the Teacher's Lounge.
Note that it may be better to just go on a mod holiday (again, email the comm team for this) if you feel that you may be able to resume contributing in the future.
I'll be sad to see you go, you seem to have been a good mod.

A: The correct procedure is to email us at community@stackexchange.com. Or one of us, but that email  goes to the entire team and is therefore more reliable.

We got your request already. I'm sorry we didn't get back to you right away.
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What does Focusing mean?
Definitions for Focusing
Fo·cus·ing
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Focusing.
focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centering(noun)
the concentration of attention or energy on something
"the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life"
focalization, focalisation, focusing(noun)
the act of bringing into focus
focusing(Noun)
See British alternative spelling focussing
focusing(Verb)
focusing(Adjective)
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Focusing is a psychotherapeutic process developed by psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin. It can be used in any kind of therapeutic situation, including peer-to-peer sessions. It involves holding a kind of open, non-judging attention to an internal knowing which is directly experienced but is not yet in words. Focusing can, among other things, be used to become clear on what one feels or wants, to obtain new insights about one's situation, and to stimulate change or healing of the situation. Focusing is set apart from other methods of inner awareness by three qualities: something called the "felt sense", a quality of engaged accepting attention, and a researched-based technique that facilitates change.
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The numerical value of Focusing in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
The numerical value of Focusing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of Focusing in a Sentence
Erwin Pearl:
Everybody's focusing on the Pope.
Vice President Biden:
I would stop tweeting and start focusing.
Marty Adams:
We'll be focusing our effort where it makes the most sense.
Boston Market:
We're always focusing on what Americans like to eat at home.
Dawn Coughlin:
Now that that's over, they're going to be focusing on us, we're next.
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the same criticisms people make of AC/DC and Van Halen could be made of Chuck Berry and Little Richard, but no one has the balls to do that.
I was mainly kidding, but come on, chuck berry has one song. Live he would be fantastic, but on record he can't sustain my interest.
I'm not a Berry or Little Richard fan, or a fan of 50s rock n roll at all, but I have respect for the guys and their music. I'm not too into them, but I wouldn't call their music boring either, not at all.
I do however think Berry and Richard are extremely overrated when people praise them and diss Zeppelin, AC/DC and Van Halen, when it's all the same kind of music when you get down to it.
At least you are consistant, I'll give you that, if you hate Zeppelin, AC/DC and Van Halen then goddammit you should hate Berry and Richard too, I hate it when people pretend they don't just because so many people think every old black guy in the music industry has to be put on a pedestal, immune to any criticism.
Yeah, there, I said it.
I'll admit I'm quite the Elvis Costello fanboy, so it must sound a bit rich coming from me, but I agree that fanboyism in general is pretty damn annoying. This is why I never go back to a certain fan forum I used to moderate on - countless posts just elevating the singer-songwriter in question to some godlike, be-all end-all status and any views top contrary being beaten down. I'm not necessarily saying it's like that here, I'm just saying that that kind of thing pisses me off and I agree with the thread (so far).
I find people who bash Radiohead to bits almost as annoying as those who praise the band to death, and the same goes for other bands who seem to polarize their potential audiences.
^I agree. Mindless bashing a band is just as bad as mindlessly obsessing over a band.
It's interesting to me that you managed to pick three examples that are all bands that have actually significantly changed their sound over the course of their careers.
I'm fairly new here and my musical tastes are surprisingly unique. I like hair metal. There I said it. I love Poison and Crue and all that stuff.
I'd put it up against emo and pop and anything else anyday. It's the people HERE that just roll their eyes. My guitarists can really really play. The drummers can play and the singers get waaay up there. The musicianship is so good that I believe people roll their eyes out of "I can't do that" rather than scoffing.
Hair metal is just as valid as anything else. Hey, at least I enjoy my music rather than always trying to get something out of it. I'll sing along to songs about booze and cars and babes. You people can moan along to your inner turmoil or whatever the hell else you want.


XML is a great way for enabling data interchange. PDF offers a great way for presenting data.
That brings us to the point of how to take data from XML and present it in PDF. PDFOne .NET provides a very simple method to read XML data and render it in PDF files.
In this article, you will see a project that converts XML data to PDF.
Specifically, PDFOne .NET supports place holders in text strings that are written to PDF documents. Users can define their own place holders and then supply the values from XML through an event.
This project supplies data stored in XML nodes through place holders. The main method Button1_Click renders the PDF document. The GetXmlData method supplies the value for the place holders.
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Our project consists of a series of activities, including experiments and exhibitions all about the power of plants. We will show the capacity they have to grow and move in response to stimuli such as light, water, gravity and touch: tropic and nastic movements. We will also demonstrate how they can prevent erosion. We will explain the medicinal uses of some plants. Finally, we will describe the Fibonacci sequence and how it can be seen in the number of flower petals and the spirals in fruits and flowers.
With this project we aim to plan, test, apply and produce a complete Learning Project, using Inquiry Methodology, aimed at Pre School and Primary School Students, about the Earth's Oceans features. From the book "20.000 Leagues Under the Sea", Students will be lead to research, formulate and test hypothesis and share knowledge with their classmates in their local communities, as well as exchanging ideas with other students from a different country. Thereby, they would be able to learn another language, share each other's culture and discover the local environment. In this way we would expect to widen our students knowledge opening new horizons and motivating them to protect our planet's natural marine resources. This project also aims to improve the use of STEAM methodologies both in Pre School and Primary School, by encouraging the students to use ICT and Robotic resources, to recreate scenes, test hypothesis and share conclusions from the story read. Students will also be expected to investigate, learn and discuss about Aquatic Transportation. By stimulating students natural curiosity, we would try to produce a wide range of resources to teach them and others about Earth's Ocean's features and needs. Last but not least…this project will produce new material available for everybody to see created by the children themselves, sharing a valuable multilingual resources bank (Spanish, Portuguese, English) about the oceans, their animals and plants, at the same time.


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Pebble PEA makes a big splash (March 07, 2011)
A drill rig at Northern Dynasty Minerals and Anglo American's Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in Alaska. Photo by Northern Dynasty Minerals
By: Matthew Allan March 7, 2011
February was a busy month for Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-T, NAK-X) and Anglo American (AAL-L) at their gigantic Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in southwest Alaska, said by many to be one of the largest undeveloped copper-gold porphyry projects in the world.
On Feb. 7, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will review the potential consequences of the partners' proposed open-pit mine at Pebble on the Bristol Bay watershed, a worrying sign for proponents of the mine, given the companies have yet to even apply for mining permits.
Nevertheless, on Feb. 23, Northern Dynasty released its first update to the project's preliminary economic assessment (PEA) since 2004, showing Pebble's economics to be more robust than ever. The partners now plan to push ahead with a prefeasibility study for Pebble, expected in early 2012, and then begin the permitting process.
The PEA update, completed by Wardrop Engineering, outlines a base-case scenario of a 45-year mine life, which could be extended to 78 years or more. At a 0.3% copper-equivalent cutoff, Pebble's current resource stands at 5.94 billion tonnes measured and indicated grading 0.78% copper-equivalent, containing 55 billion lbs. copper, 67 million oz. gold and 3.3 billion lbs. moly. It also has inferred resources totaling 4.84 billion tonnes of 0.53% copper-equivalent, containing 25.6 billion lbs. copper, 40 million oz. gold and 2.3 billion lbs. moly.
The mine plan in the PEA employs a conventional processing plant using crush-grind-float technology at a nominal throughput of 200,000 tonnes per day. Average annual production is estimated at a remarkable 678 million lbs. copper, 673,000 oz. gold and 32 million lbs. moly, at an average cash operating cost, after byproduct credits, of negative US11¢ per lb. copper (assuming prices of US$1,050 per oz. gold, US$15 per oz. silver, and US$13.50 per lb. moly). The 45-year average strip ratio was calculated to be 2.1-to-1, with grades averaging 0.46% copper, 0.4 gram gold per tonne and 214 parts per million moly. Metallurgical recoveries are expected to average 87.9% for copper, 71.3% for gold and 87.9% for moly. Importantly, the 45-year case considers only 32% of the total Pebble resource.
The project comes with a hefty price tag, however, at US$4.69 billion. The large initial capital cost also excludes certain expenses associated with a 378-megawatt natural-gas-fired turbine plant at the mine site, an 138-km transportation corridor to Cook Inlet for road and pipeline rights-of-way, and a new deepwater port on Cook Inlet, all of which the companies expect to find partners to help share the costs of construction.
Copper-gold concentrate produced at Pebble would be transported by a slurry pipeline to the new Cook Inlet port, while gold doré would be flown to market from an existing airport at Iliamna. Molybdenum concentrate would be bagged and trucked to the port for shipment.
The partners say the almost US$5-billion capital injection into the Alaskan economy will create some 2,000 jobs over the four years of mine construction, after which the mine's labour force will drop to around 1,120. Among other things, the company says the mine will result in: significant annual payments to state and local governments; benefits for local communities as a result of supply and service contracts; and new social and economic infrastructure for southwest Alaska.
Dahlman Rose analyst Adam Graf praised the updated PEA news as Northern Dynasty's "first step into a larger world." He has a buy recommendation on the stock with a price target of $51.07 per share, arguing it is a solid takeover target. Raymond James analyst Tom Meyer likewise commended Northern Dynasty's progress, calling Pebble a "mega project with optionality." He has a strong buy recommendation and a six- to 12-month price target of $25 per share.
Not everyone is a Pebble convert, however. Earlier this year, special interest groups ranging from local native communities to a coalition of 360 hunting and fishing associations asked federal environmental officials to protect Bristol Bay from development, leading the EPA to recently announce it will undertake a comprehensive study of the proposed mine's effects on local streams, rivers and wetlands.
Environmental activists, such as Trout Unlimited president Chris Wood, say Bristol Bay is an "international hunting and fishing Mecca" with more than 100,000 sq. km of wetlands and nine major rivers. It is also home to one of the world's largest sockeye salmon runs. (In 2008, the run was estimated at about 42 million fish.)
Wood says that between commercial fishing and tourism-related industries, the salmon run generates roughly US$450 million a year in revenues and sustains roughly 12,000 jobs. He notes around 65,000 people visit the remote region each year to fish, hunt and view wildlife.
Of the environmentalists' many concerns, the biggest is toxic waste. They claim up to 10 billion tonnes of perpetually toxic waste could be dumped into the heart of the Bristol Bay water system over the life of the mine, in an area known for frequent earthquakes.
"Storing toxic waste behind earth and dams in a very active seismic area is not a risk we are willing to accept," says Jim Klug, chairman of the American Fly Fishing Trade Association.
For its part, Northern Dynasty says "extensive baseline studies have been undertaken to characterize the physical, chemical, biological and social environment of the project area. These studies have resulted in a superior database, which – in characterizing the climate, surface and groundwater hydrology, wetlands, terrestrial wildlife habitat, fish and aquatic habitat, and marine habitat – has guided all aspects of project planning."
The company plans to publicly release the environmental baseline study in early 2011.
As a Hunter Dickinson Group company, Northern Dynasty's management is all too familiar with how difficult the permitting process can be when fish are involved. In November 2010, the Canadian federal government axed a mine proposal of a different Hunter Dickinson company, Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-N), mainly over the destruction of one tiny but important lake. Taseko had received provincial approval to build its Prosperity copper mine near Williams Lake, B.C., but the federal government overruled the decision, arguing the fish-filled lake was regarded as a sacred place by local First Nation communities, who have ardently opposed for almost two decades now the lake's draining and conversion into a tailings dump.
The Hunter Dickinson Group optioned the Pebble project from Teck Cominco (now Teck Resources [TCK.B-T, TCK-N]) in 2001 for $10 million. Later that year, it flipped the option to Northern Dynasty in exchange for a 20% carried interest in the project, which was exchanged for 14 million shares in 2006 (those shares are now worth $244 million given Northern Dynasty's current share price).
In 2007, Anglo American optioned a 50% interest in Pebble after agreeing to spend about US$1.5 billion to advance the project. It has spent roughly US$325 million to date.
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Tesla Motors' Gigafactory will produce a mountain of rechargable batteries, driving down the cost of future electric cars. Battery researchers are going even further.
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) is working on a $5 billion factory -- the so-called Gigafactory -- which could be a game changer that will let the company produce 500,000 electric cars in 2020 -- up from the 22,450 the company made in 2013.
But the Gigafactory won't exactly build cars. The plan for the project is to remove the biggest bottleneck in Tesla's manufacturing process by pumping out enormous volumes of lithium-ion batteries. By 2020, the Gigafactory's production should match the lithium-ion battery manufacturing level of the entire world's 2013 output.
Argonne National Laboratory's Jeff Chamberlain, who leads the lab's advanced battery research programs, is a big fan of Tesla cars. But none of the current electric vehicle boom would be happening if the Department of Energy hadn't seen the long-term value of lithium-ion research 20 years ago.
"The advent of lithium ion has truly enabled transportation uses," Chamberlain said in a phone interview with the Fool. "Because if you remember your freshman chemistry, you think of the periodic table -- lithium is in the upper left-hand corner of the periodic table. Only hydrogen and helium are lighter on an atomic basis."
This makes lithium-ion batteries incredibly light, compared to the much heavier elements used in older setups. Alkaline batteries depend on the electron storage capacities of zinc and manganese, which are many times heavier than lithium. The lead acid chemistry in standard car batteries may be efficient, but lead is also incredibly heavy.
Despite the obvious advantages of low weight and efficient energy storage, lithium wasn't always a popular battery material. The element also happens to be highly reactive, making it difficult to take advantage of its unique properties.
In the late 1980s, researchers at Argonne, the University of Texas, and Japanese chemicals giant Asahi Kasei figured out how to make lithium batteries both effective and safe. The trick was to combine the pure lithium with various host materials, creating the lithium-ion platform we use today.
Over the next 20 years, the technology was commercialized and refined. Today's lithium-ion cells are about twice as efficient as the first commercial products in the early 1990s, and they cost 50% less.
It's the combination of light weight, high efficiency, and reasonable costs that makes electric vehicles feasible today. Building a Tesla Model S simply wouldn't be possible (or economically reasonable) if you doubled the cost and the weight of its batteries.
"I have to give the Department of Energy credit," Chamberlain said. "In the early 90s, they saw that suddenly there was a battery technology with the potential and likelihood of fueling vehicles because the element being used was so light."
This Tesla Model S packs 8,000 lithium-ion battery cells. Source: Tesla.
Chamberlain highly recommends taking a Tesla for a test drive. "It's an unbelievable vehicle," he gushed. "It's an amazing car."
But it comes as a steep price. A stripped-down Model S without any extras will start at $71,000. Spring for a 40% larger battery, and you'll add $7,000 to the sticker price.
With the upgraded battery, which extends the Tesla Model S's driving range from 208 miles to 265 miles, the battery accounts for over half of the vehicle's total cost.
Granted, these are the street prices for the consumer, and not Tesla's manufacturing costs, but the company's gross margin was just 23% in 2013. In other words, the hardware is sold at a not totally outrageous markup on the manufacturing cost.
Chamberlain still drives an electric car -- what else would you expect from a prominent battery researcher? -- but he settled for a Chevrolet Volt. General Motors' (NYSE:GM) first plug-in hybrid can go 40 miles on a single charge without engaging the gas engine, and Chamberlain lives 18 miles from work. "I'm GM's dream customer," he says, saving about $180 a month compared to his old gasoline-powered car.
In the future, electric cars won't necessarily come at a hugely premium price. In 2017, Tesla plans to introduce a Model 3 with a starting price in the low $30,000 range. There, it would compete head to head with popular premium cars from Mercedes, Lexus, and Audi -- not their top-shelf luxury wagons, which is what the Model S faces off against, but their high-volume bread-and-butter cars.
Not coincidentally at all, 2017 is also when Tesla hopes to get its first batteries off the Gigafactory production lines.
Yes, Tesla will also enjoy economies of scale as its design and manufacturing processes ramp up. But having an in-house, high-volume, battery source will account for most of the price drops. Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that battery costs should drop by at least 30% per kilowatt hour when the Gigafactory ramps up, and that's a "conservative" estimate.
With any luck, researchers at institutions like Argonne will help Tesla do even better.
The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, where Argonne sits next to four other federal research labs, five major universities, and five industrial corporations, aims to make lithium-ion batteries five times more efficient in five years, starting from a 2013 baseline.
To get there, the JCESR is looking at novel materials. Many of these may be impractical in small format battery cells like the ones you'll find in smartphones and tablets. But electric vehicles can add things like cooling systems and more advanced safety measures, opening the door to entirely new research avenues.
Electric-car batteries don't have to be small, like a smartphone battery pack must. Instead, it's all about packing huge amounts of energy storage into a lightweight package.
But they can't go all-out on maximum efficiency, either. For example, consumers expect to charge their cars from a standard wall socket (or a higher-power socket like the ones used for washers and dryers, at most).
To accommodate reasonable quick recharges from a low-powered household plug, Tesla didn't order up some outlandish single-cell monstrosity. Instead, the Model S entry level battery pack uses about 6,000 industry standard Panasonic (NASDAQOTH:PCRFY) 18650 cells, manufactured to Tesla's custom specifications and wrapped in a bundle of safety, cooling, and power management systems. The larger pack simply adds another 2,000 cells to the package.
This collection of small cells can charge the thousands of component batteries in parallel, and it can also deliver a higher-powered discharge than a single megacell could.
The next generation of Tesla batteries is not likely to be dramatically different from this design, but Tesla has the option of exploring some exotic chemistry models that simply wouldn't work in a phone.
Jeff Chamberlain, Argonne National Laboratory. Source: Argonne.
Jeff Chamberlain told me about battery chemistry going beyond the long-term goals for lithium-ion cells. One of these projects would replace the lithium-ion anode with pure lithium metal, but only when the inefficient recharge cycle has been taken to the next level.
According to recent research, a pure lithium anode electrode could deliver four times the energy storage in the same space, and at even lighter weights. Perfect for an electric car, except the state of the art can only recharge to 99% of the original power in every cycle.
"This sounds really great, and it is... but when you look at a battery like lithium ion, there's 99.99% efficiency," Chamberlain said. "What I mean by that is, 99% efficiency, in 100 cycles you'll be roughly left with 37% of the original capacity. That 1% kills you."
And so it does. The 99% battery would drop down to less than 1% of the original capacity in less than 500 charge cycles, assuming you even bothered trying after the first few dozen charges.
A 99.99% efficient battery, like modern lithium-ion cells, would still hold 95% of the original charge after 500 full drain-and-charge cycles. That cell would still be worth 83% of the first-day power after five years of daily drains and full recharges. That's more like what you'd expect from a vehicle you might own for many years. By that point, the 99% battery would be down to a minuscule 0.00001% (that's 10 one-billionths) of the starting power.
So, there's research to be done, and carmakers like Tesla will benefit as Argonne and friends figure it all out. In Chamberlain's words, it would "dramatically change the world" if the quadruple-efficiency pure lithium electrode could replace the best lithium-ion chemistry of today.
"We're still some years away from using this technique in a commercial way," Chamberlain cautioned, but then the Gigafactory is "some years away" from full-scale production. I wouldn't be surprised to see the costs of Tesla's batteries dropping dramatically on the back of next-generation research, even as the power packs themselves start packing an unheard-of punch.


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Q: Is there a way to obtain index in array in more concise way? Curiosity only sponsors this question, as it's always fun to hack in languages.
Assume that there is an array holding objects of some kind. Objects have an id property. Id cannot be empty string, false, null or any falsey value. Array can be of zero length. I want to obtain index of this value (if present) and exit the loop as soon as it's found.
var id = /some value to check/;
var index;
for (var i = 0, item; item = arr[i],
     item===undefined?false:item.id==id?(index=i,false):true; i++);

What do you think?

A: Meanwhile I did jsperf with posted above suggestions. Please play around if you want.
jsperf mentioned
Fastest are my initial example above under FF and my while loop posted in comments under Chrome. find solution with arrow functions is slowest in both cases. Cannot test in IE as I use no Win.
I'm aware this jsperf is badly written - please play around.


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Call for Registration: Youth Co: Lab Springboard PLUS Programme 2023
The Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) in partnership with UNDP Bhutan and Loden Foundation would like to call for registration of start-ups in the early stage for Youth Co: Lab Springboard PLUS Programme 2023, an Accelerator program co-led by UNDP Asia-Pacific and Citi Foundation that integrates investment readiness with SDG thematic expertise through virtual workshops with impact investors, entrepreneurs, and SDG mentors. Over 500 youth-led social enterprises have accelerated from the programme, mobilizing over US$15m and enhancing the lives of 9.8 million users, we would love for you to join this community to amplify your impact.
The 2023 cohort will run from February to June 2023 and registration is open now, participation is FREE with 1-2 hours of weekly time commitment to connect and learn.
Click HERE (https://tinyurl.com/SpringboardPlus) to apply. It will take you only 15 minutes to complete the form.
Who would be eligible to join the programme?
Individuals who have undergone the Basic Entrepreneurship Course (BEC), Skills Development Program (SDP), De-suung Skilling Program (De-suung Business Incubation Program), Digital Job Challenge and other startup events organized by the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources can apply.
Businesses contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
At least one founder/s is aged 18 – 29 years old (or within their respective national definition of Youth)
At least one founder/s is a citizen of the countries and territories where Youth Co: Lab operates in Asia Pacific*
Entities incorporated and operating in the countries and territories where Youth Co: Lab operates*
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Elizabeth is coming to the end of her first year in school and she has developed a real love of reading during her time in reception. As well as enjoying the vast and varied library of children's books we have collected over the last few years, she loves being able to choose a magazine as a treat when we go to the supermarket, and I love that she no longer makes her choice purely based on the plastic toy that is taped to the front!
Today another fabulous Cbeebies show has it's own magazine out in the shops an I can already tell it's going to be a firm favourite!
In the magazine you can meet the Go Jetters gang an find out all about Xuli, the pilot, Kyan, the gymnast, Lars who can fix anything, Foz, the problem solver and of course Ubercorn who guides the Go Jetters and shares lots of interesting facts! There is even a Blippar app that parents can download to their phone so little ones can get even more fun out of the magazine!
The magazine, like the show, is aimed at both boys and girls aged three to five, and is an ideal way for little ones to learn about geography and famous landmarks as it introduces children to places they may not have experienced before.
Issue one is out today (Wednesay 28th June) priced at just £2.99 and is packed full of fun, including an exciting free Vroomster launcher toy plus Xuli figurine, a funky Ubercorn workbook, a colourful Go Jetters poster and sticker reward chart and much more!
famous landmarks all over the world.
imaginations so they can learn about geography in a way that is gripping and meaningful to them.
The editorial sparks children's curiosity and encourages them to ask questions and have conversations about places. It provides opportunities for them to discover more about where they live as well as places far away.
There's plenty of humour with Grandmaster Glitch, plus incredible facts to learn from disco-dancing Ubercorn along with thrilling Go Jetter adventures for our readers to enjoy. The gifts include the most amazing vehicles, awesome gadgets as well as fun toy figurines to play with!
Go Jetters magazine really is a global adventure for little learners!
Elizabeth enjoyed colouring, stickering, spotting the difference, reading, problem solving and of course leaning lots of interesting facts about landmarks around the world, but her favourite part was definitely making her very own Eiffel Tower to fly her Vroomster around! It was a simple but engaging craft activity that kept her focus for at least fifteen minutes, she then used the free Vroomster and Xuli toys along with her paper cut outs to become involved in imaginative play, chatting to herself all about Niagara Falls and the Eiffel Tower! I'd love to know all about the adventures she was having!
As if that isn't enough value packed in to one magazine, there is a final treat in store! Inside the magazine is an exclusive voucher for one free child admission to Alton Towers, Sealife, Madame Tussauds, Coca Cola London eye and other Merlin attractions. See voucher on page 16 for more details and full terms and conditions!
We were sent the magazine for the purposes of this review.


Hi Martin, This issue may occur if Windows Installer package (.msi) file is damaged or corrupted. Is the issue specific while installing Java and Adobe products?
Here is how to fix an Internal Error 2203 which we ran into during one installation of OneNote 2010. … I got this error and could only get office to install by installing it on a pc with windows xp pro on so I could change the temp folder permission.