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Mason Pacific headed to former Lalola space
By Paolo Lucchesi on April 25, 2013 at 9:02 AM
Included in this morning's Inside Scoop print column is news of Mason Pacific, a new neighborhood bistro en route to the corner of Mason and Pacific, where Lalola closed in October.
With big windows on all sides and the Mason cable car rolling by, it's a picturesque setting, though it's not really part of any true neighborhood. A few blocks from the cable car museum, it sits on the edges of Chinatown, Nob Hill and Russian Hill.
The new owners are Jay Thomson and Shannon McTiernan Thomson, a husband-and-wife team. Their chef is Sean McTiernan, and the plan is to offer a New American bistro menu. Eric Railsback, former lead sommelier at Michael Mina's RN74, is putting together the wine program. Copain Wines will also make some wines made specifically for the restaurant that will be offered in carafes. They're aiming to open in May.
Mason Pacific: 1358 Mason Ave., at Pacific; masonpacific.com
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Q: how to delete tenant admins that were not created properly? I am running kaa 0.10.0 on ubuntu 14. Since the outgoing email was not properly configured, I created many tenant admins. Is there a way to delete them?

I do not see the delete button as the doc http://docs.kaaproject.org/display/KAA/Administration+UI+guide
shows.
Thanks for help.
James

A: Looks like there is no option for the Kaa 0.10.0 release to delete a tenant admin. The documentation you referenced is for Kaa 0.9.0 (and prior) only. The Kaa 0.10.0 documenation is available here.
Also, please note the user types defined in Kaa. For example, to add, modify (or delete if that option is available) a tenant admin, you should sign in as Kaa administrator.

A: james800,
I suppose what you're referring to is "deleting tenant" instead of "deleting tenant admin"? If you're referring to deleting tenant admin, you can have a delete button after clicking on one of the tenant.

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import pandas as pd
import piquant.classifiers as classifiers

def _get_test_classifier(
        column_name="dummy", value_extractor=lambda x: x,
        grouped_stats=True, distribution_plot_range=None):
    return classifiers._Classifier(
        column_name, value_extractor, grouped_stats, distribution_plot_range)

def _get_test_levels_classifier(
        column_name="dummy", value_extractor=lambda x: x,
        levels=[10, 20, 30], closed=True):
    return classifiers._LevelsClassifier(
        column_name, value_extractor, levels, closed)

def test_get_classifiers_returns_classifiers_instances():
    clsfrs = classifiers.get_classifiers()
    assert all([isinstance(c, classifiers._Classifier) for c in clsfrs])

def test_classifier_get_column_name_returns_correct_name():
    name = "column name"
    c = _get_test_classifier(column_name=name)
    assert c.get_column_name() == name

def test_classifier_get_value_return_correct_value():
    col_name = "column name"
    col_value = "column value"
    df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict([{col_name: col_value, "dummy": "dummy"}])
    c = _get_test_classifier(value_extractor=lambda x: x[col_name])
    assert c.get_value(df.ix[0]) == col_value

def test_classifier_get_classification_value_returns_correct_value():
    col_name = "column name"
    col_value = "column value"
    df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict([{col_name: col_value, "dummy": "dummy"}])
    c = _get_test_classifier(value_extractor=lambda x: x[col_name])
    assert c.get_classification_value(df.ix[0]) == col_value

def test_classifier_produces_grouped_stats_returns_correct_value():
    gs = False
    c = _get_test_classifier(grouped_stats=gs)
    assert c.produces_grouped_stats() == gs

def test_classifier_produces_distribution_plots_returns_correct_value():
    gs = False
    c = _get_test_classifier(grouped_stats=gs)
    assert c.produces_distribution_plots() != gs

def test_classifier_get_distribution_plot_range_returns_correct_value():
    dpr = (10, 30)
    c = _get_test_classifier(distribution_plot_range=dpr)
    assert c.get_distribution_plot_range() == dpr

def test_classifier_get_value_labels_returns_correct_labels():
    num_labels = 5
    c = _get_test_classifier()
    assert c.get_value_labels(num_labels) == range(1, num_labels + 1)

def test_classifier_get_stats_file_suffix_returns_correct_suffix_for_grouped_stats():
    c = _get_test_classifier(column_name="column name", grouped_stats=True)
    assert c.get_stats_file_suffix() == "_stats_by_column_name"

def test_classifier_get_stats_file_suffix_returns_correct_suffix_for_non_grouped_stats_and_ascending_order():
    c = _get_test_classifier(column_name="column name", grouped_stats=False)
    assert c.get_stats_file_suffix(True) == \
        "_distribution_stats_asc_by_column_name"

def test_classifier_get_stats_file_suffix_returns_correct_suffix_for_non_grouped_stats_and_descending_order():
    c = _get_test_classifier(column_name="column name", grouped_stats=False)
    assert c.get_stats_file_suffix(False) == \
        "_distribution_stats_desc_by_column_name"

def test_levels_classifier_get_classification_value_returns_correct_value():
    col_name = "column name"
    df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict([{col_name: 25, "dummy": "dummy"}])
    c = _get_test_levels_classifier(value_extractor=lambda x: x[col_name])
    assert c.get_classification_value(df.ix[0]) == 2

def test_levels_classifier_get_value_labels_returns_correct_labels_for_closed_classifier():
    levels = [10, 20, 30, 40]
    c = _get_test_levels_classifier(levels=levels)
    assert c.get_value_labels(len(levels)) == \
        ["<= 10", "<= 20", "<= 30", "<= 40"]
    assert c.get_value_labels(len(levels) - 1) == \
        ["<= 10", "<= 20", "<= 30"]

def test_levels_classifier_get_value_labels_returns_correct_labels_for_open_classifier():
    levels = [10, 20, 30, 40]
    c = _get_test_levels_classifier(levels=levels, closed=False)
    assert c.get_value_labels(len(levels) + 1) == \
        ["<= 10", "<= 20", "<= 30", "<= 40", "> 40"]
    assert c.get_value_labels(len(levels)) == \
        ["<= 10", "<= 20", "<= 30", "<= 40"]
    assert c.get_value_labels(len(levels) - 1) == \
        ["<= 10", "<= 20", "<= 30"]

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The Walking Dead Is Back – But Not In Black (And White)!
Published on October 15th, 2020 | Updated on October 15th, 2020 | By FanFest
So, we all know The Walking Dead at this point! It's a huge tv show with multiple spin-offs and was a successful comic book series for many years before the tv series! The Walking Dead may not be at the forefront of pop culture anymore, we've even written several times about its rating decline, but there's no denying the impact that The Walking Dead has had on Zombie pop culture. A lot of people didn't even know it all started with a comic book! Believe it or not, before the show became a huge hit you could find #1 issues of The Walking Dead in $1 bins in local comic shops. That's all changed now, with #1 issues of The Walking Dead able to fetch upwards of $1000! The comic series ended just recently with issue #193, and then featured a one-shot issue featuring Negan. That could have been the end of The Walking Dead in print for a long, long time. Instead, Image Comics has decided to re-release all 193 issues starting from the first one. In addition to this, each issue will now be completely colored, which is actually kind of awesome! The reprint is labeled as The Walking Dead: Deluxe, and even features a segment at the back titled 'The Cutting Room Floor'. This section will feature Kirkman's handwritten plots, commentaries on abandoned storylines, and other additional goodies that hardcore Walking Dead fans will be eager to get ahold of. The first issue just recently came out and it's as gorgeous as promised.
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Though certainly, some fans aren't thrilled at the prospect of collecting every single issue again, there's no denying that the colored version definitely adds something to the comic. I'm reluctant to call it better, just because the black and white aesthetic is ingrained into The Walking Dead's identity. These colors, however, certainly make the whole thing pop and give it a far more vibrant look. Will it work with the darker subject matter of the Walking Dead? Only time will tell! At least you don't need to worry about having the ending spoiled.
The Walking Dead Deluxe #1 is already available for sale and retails for $3.99. You can also purchase it from digital comic retailers if you have no interest in physical editions.
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Not really feeling it in the Philippines
Josh 2nd February 2018 on The Philippines
I'll start off by saying we didn't do much at all in the Philippines. There were two main reasons for this; first, before we even arrived we'd made up our minds that we didn't want to go the Philippines. We'd left Vietnam in the mindset that we only had one more country left in Asia and were keen to get it 'out of the way' and get to Australia [It didn't help that any people we met on our travels who had been to the Philippines (including locals) said how unsafe and expensive it was – Nikki]. The second reason is that Nikki spent most of our time in El Nido ill, not to lay any blame on her for that it's just a fact of travelling that you're likely to get ill.
Unfortunately those two things combined saw us do only one thing of note in the four weeks we spent in the Philippines.
But keep reading anyway, I promise I made it sound interesting…
We spent our first couple of days in Manila, having flown into the airport there. Of Manila we saw; the inside of one of many Robinsons shopping malls and the roads leading to and from it. Any time we spent outside our room was spent in the shopping centre a two minute walk away. Our room was contained within a block of flats, inside which someone had set up a hostel and rented out rooms. It was a very weird set up – they had an office room, a room for guests to sit and make hot drinks and then a handful of rooms for people to stay in. We got used to it but when we first arrived we were like "the fuck is going on?". I must add though that we arrived at about 6am and the security guy asleep in the doorway had to wake up the hostel owners to see to the foreigners who'd just drifted in looking dazed. The staff, despite being half asleep still, were polite and apologised that our room wasn't ready yet (we didn't expect it to be, it was 6am and check in time was 2pm!) but they showed us to the common area upstairs and I promptly fell asleep after our long flight, while Nikki sat as lookout in an unusual role reversal.
That was as much as we got up to in Manila. [We also found a great bakery that we ate at each day we were there, YUM! – Nikki]
Next we flew back out of Manila airport bound for Puerto Princesa on the island of Palawan. We didn't really want to go to Puerto Princesa but it was impractical to get to our desired destination, El Nido, in one step. It also proved difficult and a little stressful to find accommodation anywhere on Palawan around New Year that wasn't prohibitively expensive or completely shit, with most of the realistic options having been booked by other, more forward planning, people a long time ago. [Seriously, if you go to the Philippines make sure you plan way ahead if you want a cheap trip, or turn up to a place and ask around hostels on the day. If you book anywhere in between you get stung with extra costs! – Nikki]
That left us spending an uneventful few days in Puerto Princesa. Our accommodation was thankfully quite nice in the end and the staff were almost too polite. We had a disappointing first meal at an Indian restaurant as it was the only open place within a kilometre. Again we spent more time than adventurous world travellers really should in a shopping mall. New Year's eve involved watching the film "New Year's Eve" on Netflix and Nikki intermittently peeking out the window in an attempt to see some fireworks. If we'd thought about it we might have realised that most places would be closed on New Year's day, but we didn't think about it, largely because it didn't feel like the Christmas/New Year period to us. Cut to us sitting in the only open restaurant we could find in the centre of town (and I'm being generous with the word restaurant here); McDonald's. I promised myself several years ago after a particularly disappointing McDonald's burger that I'd never eat anything but chips in McDonald's again and that even then I'd avoid it.
After that unpleasant burger eating experience we skulked back to our hotel and thought of all the ways we could waste time until we flew to Australia. We decided that we'd keep it simple and try to keep the cost down by staying on Palawan instead of flying to another island as the Philippines was already turning out to be more expensive than we'd bargained for.
We searched for some not completely terrible accommodation and booked a minivan to El Nido. On the 2nd of January we left Puerto Princesa and drove for five hours in a minivan. In which I sat on a folding seat, next to a giant. So I had half my bum on a tiny folding seat and had to sit twisted into the footwell as all my actual legroom was taken up by the BFG next to me.
Nacpan Beach
We arrived in El Nido with weather to match our mood; foreboding grey skies and rain that said "I'm gonna be here a while, deal with it". We bartered a trike driver down from 800 to 600 Pesos (about £10) for a ride to Nacpan beach, about 45 minutes away. The journey, though wet, started off okay but when we turned off the main road we were met with… no road. This level of 'road' beat anything we'd seen so far. Our trike did an impressive impression of a 4×4 and successfully, if a little skittishly, delivered us safely to our accommodation at Nacpan beach.
Our home for the next four nights was essentially a big wooden shed on stilts on the beach. The location was amazing and the view out over the beach was stunning but the accommodation was pretty basic and was the first place we'd stayed without a flushing toilet (also, it was a miniature little toilet bowl and for guys it didn't leave a lot of room for… things when sitting down). Combined with a lurid colour scheme and a background smell of the aforementioned toilet we struggled to really enjoy our time at Nacpan. With the exception of a couple of walks along the beach and brief swims in the sea we didn't go any further that the front deck of the accommodation. And not because we were enjoying it so much we didn't want to go anywhere else as was the case at Twin Bay Resort in Thailand, but because we couldn't be bothered.
None too soon we left Nacpan and got another bumpy trike ride back to El Nido. The plan from this point was to spend the next four nights in El Nido, then get the ferry over to Coron for another nine nights before flying back to Manila. That was the plan I'd managed to force my self to come up with back when we were in Puerto Princesca and struggling to find accommodation that wasn't crap.
The difference between our plan and reality is a perfect example of why we like to keep things flexible and didn't book a round the world flight upfront and why we tend not to book any more than a couple of weeks ahead.
We spent the four nights in El Nido as planned, but then had to book another five nights on the day we were meant to leave because Nikki had spent half our last night going back and forth to the (outdoor) toilet with another bug (while trying to avoid the actual bugs that would wander in, I'm looking at you cockroaches). We asked if we could extend for a few more nights, despite the outdoor toilet but after a confusing exchange the answer was no. So up I went to the roof to get some phone signal because the WiFi was down again (even when it was working it was completely shit, everywhere in El Nido is. Reviews of the hotel had said as much but I didn't realise quite how bad it would be. Each page load took minutes, if it deigned to load at all). After a desperate search for another place that wasn't terrible we went off into town to check into an overpriced room in a small family run hotel.
Thankfully it met my main requirement when looking at places; a nice clean (indoor) bathroom with a flushing toilet. Four days went by while Nikki recovered from whatever she'd got and I went out to dinner alone and picked up lunch from the El Nido bakery (which is crazy cheap and has really good banana bread). In that time we missed the ferry we'd booked to Coron because there was no way Nikki could spend up to eight hours on a small ferry (this turned out to be a very wise call as we eventually found out just how small the ferry was).
We tried to book another ferry crossing to Coron only to find out the ferry didn't run on the day we wanted to leave and had to go back and extend our accommodation by another night and then go back and book the ferry for that day. So by the time we left we'd spent an additional six nights in El Nido and had to cancel one booking in Coron and amend another, all on frustratingly slow and inconsiderate WiFi (yes, I wrote inconsiderate. I meant to write 'inconsistent' but that came up as a suggestion and it fits, the internet is so bad).
A note on ferries from El Nido to Coron. Other blogs cover this in way more detail but I'll just say here that you've got basically two options; bad or worse. Advertised as 'fast' and 'slow'. The 'fast' boat supposedly needs booking a day or two in advance but seemed to always be fully booked and people reacted with a 'hah, you'll be lucky' attitude when we asked. The 'slow' boat isn't really advertised, it's just what people not lucky enough to get on a fast boat have to settle for.
We'd seen a couple of ferries at the harbour and Nikki had read a blog about the slow boat from another couple and found out they served food, how bad could it be? I wasn't expecting too much, I've realised not to in South East Asia, but still when we first got sight of the fine specimen of a vessel that was to carry us safely over the water on our eight hour journey to Coron I laughed. This had to be a joke. I like boats, I'm comfortable on boats, I've not spent a huge amount of time on them but we used to own a small motorboat and I've grown up kayaking with family but looking at the boat in front of us I struggled to believe they expected to fit 80 people on board and have us not sink in the harbour. We wobbled onboard and wedged ourselves into a gap, as Nikki's bag got piled up below deck. I decided I'd rather not have the contents of my bags crushed by the potential three metre pile of bags it would see chucked on top of it.
As the final passengers squeezed on board and the staff moved the garden chairs (yes, plastic garden chairs) into position for them to sit on we started moving off. Before we left the harbour they made everyone get and put on a life jacket, cue plenty of nervous looks between nearly everyone on board.
After I was sufficiently sure we weren't going to sink soon I sat up on the window ledge behind me and got some fresh air. Life jackets came off as the journey progressed, it seemed they only made everyone put them on to appease the harbour staff. I sat on my very uncomfortable window ledge until the spray had got me so wet I had salt water running down my face and I swapped to an equally uncomfortable seat inside. To my surprise
they did serve food and the prawn I received in amongst my vegetables made it back to the sea, though I'm not sure it'll thrive – it was a bit dead.
We made good time to Coron and arrived an hour and a half early, much to my bottom's relief (the bench seat was solid wood). We'd disembarked and set off to find our new home. We both commented on the way to find it that we've got so used to turning up somewhere new that we don't think anything of it any more, we also realised the irony in that thought.
Instead of the 13 nights we'd initially expected to spend in Coron (which was far, far too many anyway) we ended up with 7 nights left before we flew back to Manila. For us that was still too many as we'd both really had enough of Asia.
As it was our final week in the Philippines turned out to be our most active and enjoyable. We booked a boat tour and walked up Mount Tapyas, a hill just outside of town, a couple of times to enjoy the views and read.
We booked the 'Ultimate Coron Tour' with Twin Tour and Travel and got picked up early in the morning on a trike with another couple from our 'pension house' (I never found out what it means but I assume it's the equivalent of B&B). The trike dropped us off at the harbour and we stood around waiting while the staff apparently figured out how this whole thing worked for the first time and we eventually made it to a boat. Our tour guide gave a barely audible run down of the day's plan and we set off for our first stop, whatever that was.
I won't give details of each individual stop as they can all be summarised as; epic scenery, water, boat, quite a few people. A couple that I will highlight is Kayangan lake and Japanese shipwreck. As you pull up to the shore to walk to the lake you can see that a lot of people come here, there's a substantial walkway and equally substantial concrete steps leading inland to the lake. The lake and the cliffs surrounding it are cool, but the crowd that is squeezed into it did somewhat detract from the beauty (yes, I realised I have to include myself in that criticism. Like you're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic).
The shipwreck has almost nothing visible from the surface and unless you're comfortable diving under a big group of people that might block you as you try to surface again you'll probably leave not seeing much.
My highlight of the trip was just being on the boat and at one of the stops, instead of visiting the beach we were there to see we stayed on the boat and I jumped off a few times and generally messed around.
It might sound like I wasn't all that impressed with the boat trip and the things we saw but that isn't the case. It's just that we'd both seen landscapes very similar for the past four months and we've got used to seeing it. If we were on a weeks holiday we'd probably be blown away with what we were seeing and gushing about how amazing the tour was. It's definitely worth the £20 or so we paid each, even though we'd seen similar things before.
Aside from the boat trip, Mount Tapyas and a little exploring of Coron town we didn't do much in Coron and I don't think there is that much to do. Coron also, not unexpectedly, has the same issues with WiFi that El Nido experiences. Our second 'pension house' was the worst example of this; we spent a fruitless ten minutes trying to use the WiFi before giving up and going elsewhere. It often wasn't turned on anyway. More generally we struggled to find anything positive about Lan Bless Pension House and wouldn't recommend it. We had to specifically book a room with a shower, which we didn't get at first. We had to ask for toilet roll, the room was tiny, the shower was cold (fairly standard in the Philippines but still) and though there was air con it let out into the bathroom which meant that became a sauna and smelt less than pleasant. We don't generally have high standards for accommodation and have stayed in objectively worse places but we really didn't like Lan Bless and we've paid much less and got much more before.
As it was we were very happy when it came to fly back to Manila and spend one final night there in much nicer accommodation for much the same price as Lan Bless had been. We ate a second McDonalds and made good use of the WiFi before going to bed for the last time in Asia. Our flight out the next day wasn't until just before 5pm but we left our room before 12 and just camped out in the airport.
As we were standing waiting to get on the plane, in the tunnel thing that goes up to the door it jolted and the floor dropped just enough to make everyone think we were about to die.
The flight left about 40 minutes late which made us nervous about catching our connecting flight from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne. It was the shortest connection time we've had at an hour and a half but in the end we made it with time to spare though it was a bit stressful until we made it to the gate thanks to our late departure. Top tip; pay attention to the time you have between connecting flights! I think three hours is a comfortable time for us, it means your first flight can leave late and you should still have time to calmly make it to your next flight.
As I've probably made quite clear neither of us really wanted to be in the Philippines by the time we got there. That's not a criticism of the Philippines itself and nor is it a criticism of South East Asia when we say we'd had enough of it, it's just that for us, three months was enough. The fourth month spent in the Philippines was too much. If we'd visited the Philippines earlier our experience probably would have been very different.
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Safeco Reports Higher 1st Quarter Net Income
NU Online News Service, April 28, 2003, 1:47 p.m. EDT -- Safeco Corp., Seattle, is reporting $90 million in net income for the first ...
By Staff Writer | April 28, 2003 at 08:00 PM | Originally published on Lifehealthpro
NU Online News Service, April 28, 2003, 1:47 p.m. EDT – Safeco Corp., Seattle, is reporting $90 million in net income for the first quarter on $1.8 billion in revenue, up from $64 million in net income on $1.7 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2002.
Safeco sells life insurance and investment products as well as property-casualty insurance. The life and investments unit generated $72 million in operating income on $527 million in revenue, up from $59 million in operating income on $461 million in revenue.
Revenue growth at the life and investments unit was unusually strong because of the acquisition of a group health stop-loss insurance business, Safeco says.
Anthem's Battle With Doctors Shows Risks for Surprise-Billing Fix
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Medical groups are objecting to the effects of California's new balancing billing rules.
Integrity Marketing Acquires Another Senior Products Distributor
Allison Bell | July 17, 2019
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org.lightsleep.connection

インタフェース ConnectionSupplier

すべてのスーパーインタフェース:

java.util.function.Supplier<ConnectionWrapper>

既知の実装クラスのリスト:

AbstractConnectionSupplier, C3p0, Dbcp, HikariCP, Jdbc, Jndi, TomcatCP

public interface ConnectionSupplier
extends java.util.function.Supplier<ConnectionWrapper>

コネクションのサプライヤのインタフェースです。

導入されたバージョン:

1.0.0

作成者:

Masato Kokubo

メソッドのサマリー

すべてのメソッド staticメソッド インスタンス・メソッド abstractメソッド デフォルト・メソッド

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static ConnectionSupplier
find(java.lang.String... urlWords)

指定されたurlWordsのすべての単語を含むurlに関連するConnectionSupplierオブジェクトを見つけます。

Database
getDatabase()

このオブジェクトに関連するDatabaseオブジェクトを返します。

javax.sql.DataSource
getDataSource()

このオブジェクトに関連するデータソースを返します。

java.lang.String
getUrl()

このオブジェクトに関連するJDBC URLを返します。

static ConnectionSupplier
of(java.lang.String supplierName,
  java.util.Properties properties)

ConnectionSupplierオブジェクトを作成します。

インタフェースから継承されたメソッド java.util.function.Supplier

get

メソッドの詳細

getDatabase

Database getDatabase()

このオブジェクトに関連するDatabaseオブジェクトを返します。

戻り値:

Databaseオブジェクト

導入されたバージョン:

2.1.0

getDataSource

javax.sql.DataSource getDataSource()

このオブジェクトに関連するデータソースを返します。

戻り値:

データソース

導入されたバージョン:

2.1.0

getUrl

java.lang.String getUrl()

このオブジェクトに関連するJDBC URLを返します。

戻り値:

JDBC URL

導入されたバージョン:

2.1.0

of

static ConnectionSupplier of(java.lang.String supplierName,
                             java.util.Properties properties)

ConnectionSupplierオブジェクトを作成します。

パラメータ:

supplierName - クラス名

properties - データベースの接続情報を含むプロパティ

戻り値:

作成されたConnectionSupplierオブジェクト

例外:

java.lang.RuntimeException - クラスが見つからないかオブジェクトが作成できない場合

導入されたバージョン:

2.1.0

find

static ConnectionSupplier find(java.lang.String... urlWords)

指定されたurlWordsのすべての単語を含むurlに関連するConnectionSupplierオブジェクトを見つけます。

パラメータ:

urlWords - url の中の単語の配列

戻り値:

見つかったConnectionSupplierオブジェクト

例外:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - ConnectionSupplierオブジェクトが見つからないか複数見つかった場合

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2.1.0

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Is the Supreme Court Undercutting Congress' Ability to Check Abuses of Presidential Power?
by Daniel Weiner and Martha Kinsella
Article II, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, FCC, FEC, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Removal Protections, Supreme Court, unitary executive
Yesterday's Supreme Court rulings holding that the president is not immune from subpoenas issued by Congress and local law enforcement were a relief to many. But even as the Court yesterday reaffirmed that the president is not above the law, we should not lose sight of another major decision from just last week suggesting a possible trend that could undercut the ability of Congress to check abuses of presidential power over the long-term.
In Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Court ruled that the president has absolute authority to remove the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), striking down a key provision of the law that created the agency in 2010. While narrow, the logic of this troubling decision could undermine the longtime practice of structuring executive branch agencies in ways that insulate certain federal officials from undue political control or pressure from the White House. This type of independence is essential to government integrity and the rule of law, and it has been under constant assault by President Trump.
For more than a century, Congress has created numerous executive branch positions insulated either expressly or by implication from complete presidential control. Protections against removal for members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, for example, help ensure that presidents do not manipulate monetary policy for short-term political gain at the expense of long-term economic health. Other agencies, like the Federal Election Commission (FEC) — the main enforcer of campaign finance laws — are similarly insulated to prevent either party from using control of the FEC to weaponize the agency against political opponents. Congress has also put limits on the president's power to remove officials who conduct internal oversight within the executive branch, such as inspectors general.
Congress created the CFPB in 2010 in the wake of the financial crisis that was triggered by abuses in mortgage lending. It's one of several federal agencies charged with overseeing federal financial laws that protect consumers. Financial regulators are notoriously susceptible to pressure from politically influential corporations and industry; insulating agency leadership to some degree from presidential control has been a well-recognized way of helping them rebuff pressure on behalf of industry from both Republican and Democratic White Houses. In the CFPB's case, its director serves for a fixed term and (until the decision last week) could be removed only for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office."
Seila Law struck down the limits on removal as inconsistent with Article II of the Constitution, which says that "[t]he executive power shall be vested in a President." The Court doubled down on the principle (articulated in past cases but applied flexibly) that this executive power "belongs to the president alone," and that it is unconstitutional to limit the president's ability to fire an executive branch official with authority as broad as the CFPB director's. As a result, the president can now remove the CFPB director without cause.
This logic takes the Court another step closer to a more absolutist vision of the so-called "unitary executive theory," which tolerates no checks on the president's power within the executive branch. In its most extreme form (championed by the late Antonin Scalia and espoused by at least two of the sitting justices), the philosophy would not permit any statutory limits on the president's ability to fire even those officials investigating his own conduct or that of his immediate subordinates.
In an era when so many other constraints on the abuse of presidential power are already buckling, this is an alarming prospect. From White House interference in the Robert Mueller investigation, to the favorable treatment the Department of Justice has accorded to Trump allies like Michael Flynn and Roger Stone, to the recent firing of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York — who was overseeing investigations of the president's associates — we are witnessing unprecedented politicization of law enforcement.
Watchdogs charged with performing independent oversight in the executive branch are also under attack. The former director of the Office of Government Ethics — the executive branch's ethics watchdog — resigned from his post after efforts by the Trump administration to limit his authority, as well as baseless accusations against him of misconduct.
More recently, the president removed several inspectors general, apparently in retaliation for their scrutiny of alleged misconduct by himself and other senior government officials, and to thwart oversight of his administration's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The president has even tried to harness the regulatory authority of independent agencies to pursue political vendettas, as in his recent executive order seeking to have the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reconsider whether Twitter and other online platforms that he deems (without evidence) biased against conservatives should be made liable for statements made by users of their websites.
These actions may be motivated by the president's political and personal whims, but they also serve the long-term ideological aim of aggrandizing presidential power even in the most extreme cases. That, as Brennan Center Senior Fellow Caroline Fredrickson wrote, happens to be one of the most cherished goals of current Attorney General Bill Barr. He has been involved in many of these instances and "has made his legal career in government defending [the unitary executive] theory," she notes.
For now, the Supreme Court's jurisprudence appears to leave significant room for Congress to check such abuses of power by insulating some parts of the executive from the president's absolute control. Among other things, the decision takes pains to preserve two limited "exceptions" from the broad unitary executive theory it articulates. The first, for so-called "expert" agencies led by a group of officeholders "balanced on partisan lines," is plainly intended to cover the many long-standing multi-member commissions to which Congress has given significant power and autonomy over the years, including the FCC, FTC and FEC. The second, for so-called "inferior officers" who need not be subject to Senate confirmation, covers the civil service, plus certain officials with high-profile but "limited" roles like prosecutors.
In fact, the majority's opinion is not even clear on how the Court would approach other independent agencies with a single head. There are several of these, including the Office of Special Counsel (which administers whistleblower protections) and the Social Security Administration. The Court describes their design as "recent and controversial," but also suggests that neither wields the same degree of power as the CFPB.
The problem, as Justice Elena Kagan noted in dissent, is that the various distinctions drawn by the Court — especially between agencies with a single director like the CFPB and powerful multi-member commissions like the FCC — appear utterly contrived relative to the principle of absolute presidential control the majority claims to be vindicating. The dissent would have afforded Congress's choice to limit removal of the CFPB director significantly more deference, consistent with the Court's past precedents.
Whether last week's departure from those precedents is an anomaly or harbinger of the future remains to be seen. At least two justices in the majority, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, would clearly like to go much farther. This is by now a familiar story — from campaign finance, to voting rights, to the role of labor unions — narrow opinions from the Roberts Court are often precursors to much more sweeping ones.
Repeating the pattern here would be a profound mistake. It is not that checks on presidential power are an unalloyed good. The majority is correct that principles of democratic accountability require the president to have significant control over most executive branch operations. But there are other values at stake, including the evenhanded application of the law free from political favoritism and self-dealing and respect for nonpartisan professionalism and expertise. In particular, the requirement that Congress justify its own investigatory efforts in reference to a specific legislative purpose established yesterday in Trump v. Mazars underscores the need to have effective independent regulators within the executive branch who can hold everyone, up to and including the president, accountable for misconduct that violates existing laws.
The Constitution assigns primary responsibility for weighing such competing considerations to Congress, which for all its flaws is far more attuned than the judiciary to the practical realities of governing. Yet all too often, the Roberts Court has been willing to set aside legislative judgments on such matters in service to various long-term goals of the conservative legal movement, of which the unitary executive is one. The case for a more nuanced approach, one that affords much greater deference to congressional efforts to check presidential power, has never been better.
IMAGE: US President Donald Trump speaks during a Students for Trump event at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, June 23, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Daniel Weiner
Daniel I. Weiner (@DanWeiner329) serves as deputy director of the Brennan Center's Election Reform Program, where he helps to lead the Center's work on money in politics, government ethics, election security, and other democracy issues.
Martha Kinsella
Counsel in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program. Follow her on Twitter (@Martha_Kinsella).
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Dad stabbed to death as daughter sits in lap at restaurant
Posted: Apr 21, 2018 / 09:04 AM EDT / Updated: Apr 21, 2018 / 09:04 AM EDT
A homeless man was charged Friday with murder in a random attack on a California father who was stabbed in the neck as his 5-year-old daughter sat in his lap in a crowded beachside steakhouse.
Jamal Jackson, 49, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 35-year-old Anthony Mele. He was being held in Ventura County jail on a $1.5 million bail. It's unclear if he has an attorney to speak on his behalf.
Mele and his wife were eating dinner with their daughter Wednesday at Aloha Steakhouse in Ventura. The girl was sitting in her father's lap when prosecutors say Jackson walked up and stabbed Mele in the neck.
Prosecutor Richard Simon said patrons and a restaurant employee followed Jackson out of the restaurant, even though he still had the knife. They kept track of him until police arrived and arrested him.
Mele was taken to a hospital and died Thursday after being taken off life support.
"It's horrible," Simon said. "You don't think you're going to be killed when you go out to dinner at a nice restaurant with your family and you didn't do anything."
Simon said the two men had not interacted before the attack.
"He was just sitting there with his daughter in his lap," Simon said. "You're not supposed to die that way."
Mele's loved ones started a GoFundMe page to help raise money for a funeral and to support his wife and daughter.
Mele's Facebook page was filled with photos of his daughter and said he was a manager at an AT&T store.
His killing prompted the Ventura City Council to increase police patrols in the area and add staff members to monitor security cameras, among other measures.
"We are extremely disheartened and infuriated by this criminal attack," Mayor Neal Andrews said in a statement. "We will not tolerate this in our community. Nothing is more important than the safety of our visitors, residents and businesses."
If convicted, Jackson faces up to 55 years in prison.
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How does the Catholic Church view Sacred Scripture?
The Church believes in revelation guided by the Holy Spirit through sacred scripture , developed in sacred tradition and entirely rooted in the original deposit of faith . The celebration of the Eucharist, one of seven sacraments, is the center of Catholic worship.
What is the purpose of Sacred Scripture?
The Sacred Scripture is the main source of Revelation and the perennial source for the life of the Church.
What is the meaning of Sacred Scripture?
n any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group. Synonyms: scripture Types: canon. a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired. Type of: religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing.
What are the traditions of Catholicism?
The Roman Catholic tradition , like most strands of Christianity, affirm a belief in life after death for everyone. In the Catholic faith, those who have made peace with God through acceptance and adherence to the teachings of Jesus and participation in the sacraments of the church will live forever in heaven.
What Church teaches the true word of God?
What are some common characteristics of sacred scriptures?
The distinctive features of sacred scripture . Posses sacred power. Transformative effect. Healing power. Power exhibited when studied, read, or recited.
What constitutes the deposit of faith?
The Deposit of Faith (depositum fidei) is the body of revealed truth in the Scriptures and Tradition proposed by the Roman Catholic Church for the belief of the faithful. The phrase has a similar use in the US Episcopal Church.
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devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated. entitled to veneration or religious respect by association with divinity or divine things; holy. pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to secular or profane): sacred music; sacred books.
Why is sacred tradition important in our life of faith?
It is clear, therefore, that Sacred Tradition , Sacred Scripture and the teaching authority of the Church, in accord with God's most wise design, are so linked and joined together that one cannot stand without the others, and that all together and each in its own way under the action of the one Holy Spirit contribute
What's the meaning of Scripture?
Also called Holy Scripture , Holy Scriptures . the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together. (often lowercase) any writing or book, especially when of a sacred or religious nature. (sometimes lowercase) a particular passage from the Bible; text.
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Paradigmatically, it refers to alleged instances of divine speaking or special divine acts in history, although in a more general sense " revelation " can denote any means of divine self-disclosure, for example through nature.
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Re-Presenting Blackness Independent Black Cinema in the United States and South Africa: A Comparative Perspective
Cara Lynn Moyer
Salah Hassan
Thesis DT 3.5 2003 M69
xi, 162 leaves: ill.; 28 cm.
Historically, mainstream narrative film in the United States and South Africa has been produced in order to entertain audiences and produce profit. However, in both the United States and South Africa film has also been used as a form of propaganda in which the representation of Blackness was used to promote Black inferiority and White superiority. Consequently, these representations promote Eurocentric standards and justify social and institutional racism. Although both industries had similar intentions and were marked by some comparable aspects of images Blackness, as well as limited industry access to Blacks, there was also some significant differences.
The nature of film industries and government involvement in regulation of the film industries in the United States and Africa were quite different. Furthermore, differences in political systems, cultural practices, social and political history, and the film industry itself resulted in some different characterization of Blackness, as well as greater access for Blacks to film production in the United States. Despite incredible obstacles, independent Black films that succeed in re-presenting Blackness emerged in both the United States and South Africa.
Considering the United States' and South Africa's shared history of racial oppression, this thesis begins by comparing the mainstream cinematic images of Blackness produced in the United States and South Africa. This is done in order to establish a link between the images produced and the historical use of those images in order to contextualize the significance of independent Black filmmakers re-presenting Blackness. Next, this thesis explores how independent Black cinema has and can be used as a powerful tool for social, political, and psychological liberation. Independent Black cinema in the United States is established as a viable model for South Africa. Because Blacks in the United States made numerous advancements ahead of Blacks in South Africa and an independent Black cinema movement has been able to emerge, independent Black cinema in the United States can be used as a model for South Africa. Using the United States as model is important so as to avoid the pitfalls experienced by independent Black filmmakers in the United States, but also to learn from their tremendous accomplishments.


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Protecting Your Digital Property
By guest writer Laura Lucas of Big Picture Research
I first heard the phrase "digital legacy" a year-and-a-half ago, where it was touted as one of the ten new industries to watch. A digital legacy suggests we need to plan and give direction about digital assets like passwords, financial accounts and social media accounts so they can be easily found and seamlessly handed over to loved ones or an executor upon our death.
Whether you call it "legacy" or "succession", this type of planning is not restricted to estates. It's also important for business owners, especially in planning for emergencies. What if you were incapacitated in some way or travelling and out of reach for a long period of time? What if you were looking to sell or merge your company or take on a partner? How do you share all the intangibles locked in your computer or phone?
Think about how much of our lives now play out online. We communicate through email, social media and video chats. We shop, we bank, we watch and we listen online. There's no paper trail. We used to put everything in a filing cabinet or a box in the closet. If anything happened, someone was likely to find it eventually. Can we still say that now?
Today, valuable data is collecting in the cloud, on our phones, tablets and computers. We need to think about our digital legacy and plan ahead so that it can be accessed in an emergency.
What's a digital asset? The list is growing but here are a few examples: banking, eBay or PayPal accounts, loyalty memberships, crypto currency, domain names, websites, blogs, photos, magazine subscriptions, artwork, logos, client files, invoices and social media accounts like Google+ and Facebook.
Financial assets have a value and a cost to them as debts can accrue if nobody knows about them or can't gain access to them. Websites and blogs are the face of our companies, while social media accounts are an extension of us and our business. Who will carry on managing these properties?
Let's not forget sentimental assets like photos, videos, books and music. Depending on the download agreement, you may be renting or own them, but if you paid for them they may be valuable in an estate.
To date we've been told never to write down passwords or share PIN numbers but until the law catches up with technology, we need to be responsible. So what can you do? Some ideas to protect your information include: create an encrypted spreadsheet of information, draft a paper record, then fold and laminate it shut and place in a safe or safety deposit box. Store your digital inventory in one place with one master key password in another. Protect your identity from theft by directing whether you want social media accounts closed, maintained or to serve as a memorial. But above all, give yourself peace of mind. Create a digital estate plan and tell somebody you trust!
Laura Lucas is a Visual Researcher and Rights Clearance Officer with 20 years of experience in the media market. She's worked extensively with TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, with freelance video producers and with archivists and libraries. Having just launched her own company Big Picture Research, she's driven by the thrill of the hunt to find the perfect image that can help bring a story to life and clearing the underlying permissions for its use. Her archival research work in turn has led her to explore the emerging field of digital estate planning and helping people organize and protect their digital assets. See more and contact Laura here: www.bigpictureresearch.com
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Good article! It is highlighting an important aspect that businesses can be affected by digital legacy as well.
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Employees (33)
Gorgeous Glass (33)
Chance Brothers (32)
T W Camm, The Studio, Smethwick (1)
Sandwell Community History & Archives Service (33)
Showing 1 to 15 of 33 for EMERSON; Robert Jackson (1878 - 1944)
Letter cancelling Joseph Jackson's apprenticeship BS6/3/3/2/4 1866
Letter written by James Jackson, Joseph Jackson's brother and confirmed by John Homer Chance
Sandwell Archives
John Jackson Grover's service agreement BS6/3/3/21/13 1920
Service agreement employing John Jackson Grover as a technical assistant for three years
George Jackson's proposal for the renewal of his service argreement BS6/3/3/3/41 1833 - 1839
W Albert Jackson's service agreements BS6/3/3/25 1899 - 1902
Two service agreements employing W Albert Jackson as a general works engineer from 1899 for five years and then from 1902 to 1903
William Jackson's service agreements BS6/3/3/2/5 1856 - 1858
Two service agreements employing William Jackson in shade cutting and packing from 1856 to 1863, subsequently cancelled and replaced by agreement from 1858 to 1860
Assignment to Chance Brothers & Company of estate and effects belonging to Edward Jackson BS6/3/3/2/3 1866
Address of property is 39 Snow Hill, Birmingham
Applications in reply to an advertisement for a clerk of works BS6/3/4/1/29 1847
Applications from; Charles Hudson James Wilkes Thomas Taylor Joseph Banks R Rippon Timmothy Buntale Joseph Johnson Samuel Jackson William Hopper
Robert Walker's service agreement BS6/3/3/3/28 1847
Employing Robert Walker as journeyman looking glass frame maker
Robert Simpson's service agreements BS6/3/3/2/44 1859 - 1874
Two letter's negotiating Robert Simpson's service agreements as a clerk from 1863 to 1866 and 1870 to 1873. Also includes corrrespondence between Robert Lucas Chance, John Homer Chance and Robert Simpson regarding advances in salary and correspondence bet
Tilden Robert Vanderkiste's service agreement BS6/3/3/2/54 1859
Service agreement employing Tilden Robert Vanderkiste as a foreman glass cutter from 1859 to 1866
Robert Lockhart's letter of application BS6/3/4/1/49 1848
Job Genner's service agreements BS6/3/3/1/35 1860 - 1873
Four letters negotiating the terms of Job Genner's service agreements from 1860 to 1865, 1865 to 1868, 1869 to 1871 and 1873 to 1878
Robert Reed Humphrey's service agreement BS6/3/3/37/10 1925
Service agreement employing Robert Reed Humphrey as an apprentice pot maker for 5 years and 6 months. Includes correspondence regarding changes to hours worked
Robert Charles Harris' service agreement BS6/3/3/36/35 1936
Employing Robert Charles Harris as chief searchlight designer for two years. This record is not fully open for 85 years because some of the information contained is classed as personal data
Robert Sidney Perkin's service agreement BS6/3/3/31/15 1935
Service agreement employing Robert Sidney Perkins as a representative for five years. This record is not fully open for 85 years because some of the information contained is classed as personal data


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Last Collector Standing: Carlos Ruiz Isn't a Pretentious Record Store Guy -- He Just Draws a Comic About One
By Jon Scorfina on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:15 pm
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The "pretentious record store guy" has long been the bane of the record shop. Despite their wealth of archaic knowledge, music lovers were never sure whether these pompous clerks were an asset or a plague to their shopping experience. Local comic artist and graphic designer Carlos Ruiz draws from his real-life experience as a record store clerk and exploits the trivialness of music knowledge with his comic, Pretentious Record Store Guy. We met up at his University City home that he shares with his wife Amy and 15-week-old son, Gabriel, and hung out in his basement art studio where he stores boxes and boxes of records, CDs and comics. There we discussed the nature of the "pretentious record store guy," Matt Groening and Red Rocket 7.
Last Collector Standing: What's your favorite record of all time? Carlos Ruiz: I don't know if I could say just one record. Probably, if I had to pick just one, I would say Radiohead's The Bends because I've listened to the album more than any other album I've ever owned. Also, it would be the Lemonheads' It's A Shame About Ray and Come on Feel The Lemonheads. The reason with those two would be because I listened to those two albums on tape in my parent's car and wore them out.
When did you first start listening to music? I first started listening to music when I was a little kid. My sister bought Michael Jackson's Thriller. I would sit there and look at the album. It had Michael lying down with a tiger next to him. That was pretty fucking awesome! The first album that my parents actually bought for me was Europe's The Final Countdown. I remember (hums opening keyboard line to The Final Countdown) that was pretty awesome. I just loved that song so I made my dad buy it for me. The first CD I ever purchased myself was Milli Vanilli. I'm ashamed to admit it, but at the time I loved it. I wanted to buy the Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right (To Party!)" [Off the album Licensed to Ill] but my parents wouldn't let me because they saw my sister and me watching the video and said no. It was one of the first albums to have the parental warning so that got the ixnay. I was disappointed about that.
When did you start collecting in earnest? I started getting heavily into collecting when I was in high school, and I joined the Columbia House music club and started buying CDs from there. I was also working, so I had my own money. I was refereeing soccer games, calling baseball games, life-guarding. I had some cash, so I could go and pick up a CD or two at the store. There was Disc Jockey at the mall. It was the best record store that we had. It was a small record store where I lived in Vicksburg, Mississippi. It closed down.
Once I went to college and started working at Slackers, it snowballed from high school.
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Jon Scorfina is a freelance writer for the Riverfront Times. Between 2010 and 2011, he wrote the weekly column "Last Collector Standing," which explored collecting physical media in the digital age. He continues to write pop culture related cover stories and features for the Riverfront Times.
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The Titanic: AI and a class of Ethical values
One of the great disasters of history is the sinking of the Titanic. The amazing thing about the history of the Titanic is the fact that this ship was built to be invincible.
The Titanic was by far the largest ship ever built, with a length of 900 feet. The ship was intended to transport a large number of people on it across the Atlantic Ocean. A horrible accident led to the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 while on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. Since it sank, there has been a lot of controversy about what really caused it to sink.
Ethics and AI
Upon entering ethics, we have to talk about whether this ship was really a good idea to build it and what were all the failures that added to the sinking and death of so many passengers.
For this reason we have developed this project to focus not only on who was to blame for this great historical disaster, but also place ourselves in the position of the passengers. In the Titanic a so-called microenvironment was generated where we meet people, with different situations of social class, gender, age and family situation. It is here that Artificial Intelligence can help us to really find out how much it conditioned you to survive these variables.
A fantastic situation to study with our students and thanks to Artificial Intelligence give us the possibility of being able to get a ticket for the Titanic today. Seeing with an 80% effectiveness model whether or not we would have survived based on our current factors.
Real data of the Sinking.
Data studied and analyzed with students of 2º of Baccalaureate.
700 survivors among 2235 passengers.
It can be clearly seen that the third class implies a very high rate of not surviving in the Titanic.
Logically the study of sex in the passengers of the Titanic together with that of the age is fundamental for the creation of the model.
The Titanic had three stops before leaving for New York. Southamptom, Cheriburg and Queenstown. Thanks to the study we have done with my high school students we realized that the place of embarkation was also a variable to take into account for the prediction model.
After the analyzes collected from the public database in which 1300 registered passengers are located, we were able to ascertain that the variables that could give us the highest prediction index were the result.
Age, sex, ticket class, boarding place and if our passenger was traveling alone or accompanied.
Here I share the code and the database of the passengers in case you want to use it. link
Ethical data of the Sinking.
Captain Smith ignored seven warnings from his crew and other icebergs on the route they traced. If he had asked for the ship to slow down then at once the Titanic disaster would not have happened
The first idea was that the captain carelessly drove the ship at speeds too high while crossing the iceberg. Since the ship was supposedly indestructible, this was obviously a plausible reason.
Bruce Ismay
The manager and director of the White Star Line was aboard the Titanic. The competition to cross the Atlantic was fierce between maritime companies and the White Star Line wanted to prove that they could cross the Atlantic in six days.
To comply with this schedule, the Titanic could not afford to reduce speed. For this reason it was believed that Ismay put pressure on Captain Smith to maintain the speed of the ship
Thomas Andrews
The belief that the ship was unsinkable was due, in part, to the fact that the Titanic had sixteen watertight compartments. However, the compartments did not reach as high as they should have. The White Star Line did not want them to go up because this would have reduced the living space in first class. If Mr. Andrews, the ship's architect, had insisted on making them at the right height, then perhaps the Titanic would not have succumbed that night.
The construction of the Titanic
269,1 meters long, 28,2 meters maximum width and 18 meters high from the waterline to the deck of the ship.
A gross weight of 46,000 tons.
The steel plate of the Titanic hull had a nominal thickness of 1.875 cm.
Another theory emerged that the metal that was used to build the ship was too weak for ocean conditions. The last theory was that the screws that held together the steel slabs that formed the Titanic were too short, which caused the steel to tear more easily than it should.
Most second and third class passengers approached the sinking ship when water entered their compartments. Unethical act?
Should the crew have treated all passengers equally?
The Titanic was receiving warnings from other 60 ships hours before the collision
The ship was sailing at full speed (22 knots), on a moonless night. The design speed was 21 knots.
There was space on deck for twice as many lifeboats. Concept supported by the decision of the "unsinkable ship"
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Journey to the planet's most magnificent places and see the world as you've never seen it before through the lenses of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher. Forty years of passion and experience has been poured into this thought-provoking portrait of our beautiful world.
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Journey to the planet's most magnificent places and see the world as you've never seen it before through the lenses of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher. Forty years of passion and experience has been poured into this thought-provoking portrait of our beautiful world. Inspired by our love of travel, this lavishly-produced, landmark pictorial shares more than 300 sublime photographs of the world's most captivating spectacles and will renew your relationship with the place we call home.
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About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
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"These photographs are meant to inspire wanderlust and they are successful in doing just that." The Daily Beast "A friend once said, 'The world is painfully full of beautiful places.' This book is acoffee table-size testament to that idea." Every Day with Rachael Ray "Nature photography at its highest level serves to both overwhelm our senses and deepen our relationship with this planet, our home. To describe this book as anything less thanthe end-all coffee table book would be an injustice." ForeWord Reviews "I found reading the book more of a meditation, seeing our amazing planet, discovering places I'd only heard about, and yet wanting to know more." Alaskan Apple Users Group Blog "In addition to the colorful photos, you can sense the sounds, smells, and feelings that your eyes can't quite experience on their own. Page after page of gorgeous photography will leave you speechless and aching to travel, pick up acamera, or both... Celebrate nature, wildlife, and the masterpieces of Man as you page through this book." GeekDad "From the land to the sea, Lonely Planet's Beautiful World features handpicked photographs that can only bring onesaying to mind: 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' If you have a case of wanderlust, the following destinations have views like you've never seen before." PopSugar "It creates a sense of place through iconic images ofdestinations on every continent." City Style & Living "Lonely Planet's new coffee table book will cure your wanderlust." Refinery29
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Victor Kaj Edvardsen (* 14. Januar 1996 in Göteborg) ist ein schwedischer Fußballspieler.

Sportlicher Werdegang
Edvardsen entstammt aus der Jugend des IFK Göteborg. Nachdem er sich als regelmäßiger Torschütze in der A-Jugend-Mannschaft, mit der er den Meistertitel in der Juniorallsvenskan gewonnen hatte, ausgezeichnet und einige Spiele in der Reservemannschaft absolviert hatte, wechselte er im Sommer 2015 auf Leihbasis zum seinerzeitigen Zweitligisten Utsiktens BK in die Superettan. Für den Zweitliganeuling bestritt er bis zum Saisonende elf Ligaspiele, im Lokalderby gegen GAIS erzielte er mit dem spielentscheidenden Treffer zum 1:0-Erfolg sein erstes Profitor. Am Ende der Zweitliga-Spielzeit 2015 verpasste er mit dem Klub jedoch den Klassenerhalt. Da er in Göteborg ohne Perspektive war, wechselte er im Frühjahr 2016 nach Norwegen zu Elverum Fotball, nach nur einer Halbserie kehrte er jedoch dem Drittligisten den Rücken und wechselte zurück nach Schweden zu Stenungsunds IF in die viertklassige Division 2. Dort blieb er wiederum nur ein halbes Jahr, nach sieben Toren in elf Saisonspielen hatte er den Drittligisten IK Oddevold überzeugt, der ihn mit einem Zwei-Jahres-Kontrakt an sich band.

Nachdem Edvardsen in der Drittklassigkeite der Durchbruch verwehrt blieb, kehrte er 2018 in die Division 2 zurück. Bei Karlstad BK avancierte er zum regelmäßigen Torschützen, mit 25 Saisontoren in 24 Ligaspielen war er maßgeblich am Wiederaufstieg des Klubs in die Drittklassigkeit beteiligt. Auch in der Division 1 blieb er torgefährlich, mit 14 Saisontoren gehörte er zu den torgefährlichsten Spielern der Nordstaffel und rangierte am Saisonende mit dem Klub auf dem fünften Tabellenplatz. Daraufhin lotste ihn Manager Patrik Werner zu Degerfors IF in die Superettan, wo er einen Drei-Jahres-Vertrag unterzeichnete. Bei seinem neuen Klub knüpfte er direkt an seine Erfolge als Torschütze an, mit 16 Saisontoren war er am Ende der Zweitliga-Spielzeit 2020 hinter Torschützenkönig Pontus Engblom, der für GIF Sundsvall 20 Treffer erzielt hatte, und dem ihn um drei Tore übertreffenden Mannschaftskameraden Johan Bertilsson drittbester Torschütze der Liga. Als Tabellenzweiter hinter Halmstads BK stieg er mit der Mannschaft in die Allsvenskan auf. Dort erzielte er am 9. Mai 2021 anlässlich des fünften Spieltags beim 2:0-Erfolg über den Tabellenführer Djurgårdens IF seine ersten beiden Erstligatore, zwei Spieltage später folgte beim 3:0-Sieg über Örebro SK ein Hattrick. Anfang 2022 wechselte er dann weiter zu Djurgårdens IF.

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-- Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVN), a leader in the development of transdermal and transmucosal drug delivery systems, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued to Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation an approvable letter relating to the expanded use of Vivelle-Dot™ (estradiol transdermal system) and the addition of a new low dose strength.
Currently, Vivelle-Dot is approved for the treatment of menopausal symptoms. The expanded use addressed in the approvable letter includes the prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis, which impacts about 40 million women in the U.S. -- one in two women will suffer an osteoporosis-related fracture during her lifetime.
Vivelle-Dot is currently available in four dosage strengths (0.0375, 0.05, 0.075 and 0.1 mg/day). The approvable letter relates to the addition of a new 0.025 mg/day strength for the prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis. Upon approval of this fifth strength, the Vivelle-Dot line will offer among the broadest dosing ranges available for transdermal estrogen replacement therapy. The new low dose strength will not be indicated for the treatment of menopausal symptoms.
At 2.5 cm2, the thin and flexible low dose patch has the same surface area as a dime. The small size is made possible by Noven's patented DOT Matrix™ technology. DOT Matrix is the technology behind a new class of diffusion-based drug-in-adhesive patches that deliver drug therapy through less patch surface area without using irritating enhancers and without compromising adhesion. DOT Matrix patches use precise ratios of silicone, acrylic and drug to regulate the rate of delivery through the skin, providing controlled, sustained release directly into the bloodstream.
Vivelle-Dot is marketed by Novogyne Pharmaceuticals, a women's health products company jointly owned by Noven and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Novogyne also markets CombiPatch® (estradiol/norethindrone acetate transdermal system), making it the only company in the U.S. offering transdermal therapies for both the estrogen-only and combination hormone replacement therapy markets.
"Vivelle-Dot is already among the fastest growing estrogen replacement products in the country," said Neil Jones, Noven's Vice President -- Marketing & Sales. "The new indication and new low dose should help make Vivelle-Dot an even more valuable and flexible therapy for physicians and patients to consider."
An approvable letter usually represents a final step before a product receives FDA clearance for marketing in the U.S. In the Vivelle-Dot letter, the FDA states that it has reviewed the application and that it is approvable, subject to the completion of labeling matters and the submission and review of requested information. The approvable letter was received from the FDA on November 19, 2001.
Vivelle-Dot is available by prescription and delivers estradiol, the primary estrogen produced by the ovaries, through a small, comfortable transdermal patch that is applied twice weekly. Vivelle-Dot is indicated for the treatment of moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause; vulval and vaginal atrophy; and hypoestrogenism due to hypogonadism, castration or primary ovarian failure.
Estrogens should not be used in individuals with known or suspected pregnancy, undiagnosed abnormal genital bleeding, breast cancer, estrogen-dependent neoplasia, active thrombophlebitis or thromboembolic disorders, or a documented history of these conditions. Estrogens have been reported to increase the risk of endometrial carcinoma in postmenopausal women.
Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc., headquartered in Miami, Florida, is a leader in the development of transdermal and transmucosal drug delivery systems and technologies. Noven has developed and manufactures a series of leading-edge products, including the world's smallest estrogen transdermal delivery system, the United States' only combination estrogen/progestin transdermal delivery system, and the first transmucosal patch approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. With a range of additional products in development, Noven is committed to becoming the world's premier developer, manufacturer and marketer of transdermal and transmucosal drug delivery systems. For additional information on Noven, visit www.noven.com. Vivelle-Dot™, Vivelle® and CombiPatch® are trademarks of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; DOT Matrix™ is a trademark of Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the business of Noven that can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as: "will offer", "upon approval", "approvable", "should help" and "usually represents a final step". Such statements are qualified by and subject to the risks and uncertainties specified by Noven in its most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and those specified herein, including the risk that FDA will not issue final marketing clearance for the new Vivelle-Dot indication and the new low dose because, among other reasons, the conditions to approval identified by FDA may not be met and that FDA's review of requested information may result in non-approval. In addition, even if approved, the new dosage strength may not ultimately reach market or may not be accepted by patients or physicians.


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Indonesia passes revisions to law on anti-graft agency
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JAKARTA: Indonesia's parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday (Sep 17) to approve changes to a law governing the country's anti-graft agency, which activists fear could undermine its powers to tackle corruption.
The Corruption Eradication Commission, known by its Indonesian initials, KPK, has prosecuted hundreds of politicians and officials since its formation in 2002, becoming one of the country's most respected agencies.
But there have been repeated efforts by politicians and police to undermine it.
Parliament passed a motion last week to debate amendments to the 2002 law that created the agency, leading to Tuesday's revisions that will place it under the oversight of an external board. The board's main power will be to authorise wiretaps.
Member of parliament Johnny G Plate dismissed criticism of the changes, saying all state agencies needed oversight.
"We want to establish a supervisory board to make the KPK's management more prudent and accountable," Plate told Reuters.
"There is no state institution in the world that does not have supervisory board, without checks and balances."
But the reforms have alarmed anti-corruption activists, who fear they are meant to weaken the agency.
Protesters gathered in front of parliament before Tuesday's vote, some holding signs bemoaning the KPK's "funeral".
Many of the KPK's investigations have involved members of parliament. A former speaker of the house is among those who have been convicted of graft.
President Joko Widodo, who has 30 days to sign the law, has defended the changes and stressed that he would not compromise in the fight against graft.
Widodo declared in a televised address last week that an external board was necessary for "good governance", though he said he would pick the members and they would include researchers and anti-corruption activists, not politicians or bureaucrats.
Under the changes, the agency's independent investigators will become civil servants. Activists fear that could make them more vulnerable to pressure.
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That Time Buffalo Bill Rode for Royalty
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I have been watching "The Crown" nearly every night so far of this cold, frosty February. I can't get
enough of it. I'm fascinated by the slice-of- life stories of a young and dignified Queen of England as she
faces crisis after crisis, standing large and strong against a rotating roster of stodgy parliamentarians –
all men – as they cajole and connive to maintain their powerful positions.
Google that scene where Queen Elizabeth takes Winston Churchill to task for putting his own pride
before the security of the country. Trust me; it's fun.
While I'm certainly happy that we don't have a monarchy here in the U.S., our country's founders having
had the good sense to eschew curtsies, crowns and excessive pageantry in favor of a three-branch
government of laws, I do have a certain fondness for all things royal. So did Buffalo Bill Cody.
In the spring of 1887, Buffalo Bill Cody boarded the "State of Nebraska," a massive steamship, along
with some 200 performers – cowboys, sharpshooters, musicians, American Indians – as well as 180
horses, 18 bison, 10 elk, 10 mules, five steers and a variety of items for set construction including a
stagecoach and materials to build temporary tepees and log cabins. After many days sailing through
stormy waters, the cast of the four-year- old Wild West Show made it to the coast of England in time for
the 50th year Golden Jubilee celebration for Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth's great-great- grandmother.
On May 9, 1887, the Wild West show cast-members rode their hearts out in a London arena for a crowd
of 28,000. Sharpshooter Annie Oakley shot a cigar out of her husband's mouth. American Indians
"attacked" the stagecoach only to be foiled by heroic cowboys led by Buffalo Bill himself. A trick rider
named Mustang Jack jumped over a horse while holding two 10-pound dumbbells.
The queen was especially impressed by the skills of sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
Queen Victoria was not one of the thousands of audience members, however. Still, she read the positive
reviews and heard first-hand reports from members of her court and requested a private audience.
Queen Victoria asked Buffalo Bill Cody for a special performance of the Wild West Show. Buffalo Bill and his cast of 200 poured their hearts into a 90-minute performance for the Queen and her 25-member entourage – in an arena that could seat 40,000 people.
The accommodating showman happily complied with a 90-minute performance on May 11 in a 40,000-
seat arena for Queen Victoria and a small entourage. In a remarkable show of respect for the United
States, Queen Victoria and the others in the royal box stood and bowed when a rider entered the arena
carrying the American flag. It was the first time since the independence of the United States of America
was declared 111 years prior that a British royal had saluted the American flag.
Buffalo Bill Cody approached the royal box, bowed, and stated: "Welcome, Your Majesty, to the Wild
West of America."
Buffalo Bill Cody and company eventually returned to that "Wild West," which Buffalo Bill was in the
process of civilizing, having founded the town of Cody just two years before he left for England.
His quest to build a thriving and authentic Western town continued, and he spearheaded infrastructure
projects like the Buffalo Bill Dam, which provided the water to the town and nearby ranches, and the
establishment of the still-operating Cody Enterprise, to report on those milestones. With the world's
first national park just 52 miles from town, Cody also planned for tourism with the construction in 1902
of the Irma Hotel, a centrally located landmark that Buffalo Bill named for his daughter.
Queen Victoria gifted a massive Cherrywood bar to Buffalo Bill Cody, who installed it in the dining room of the Irma Hotel.
While the hotel was under construction, Queen Victoria sent Buffalo Bill Cody a massive gift in the form
of a room-long Cherrywood bar that is still in use today in the dining room of the hotel.
Whenever I see that intricately carved, stunningly beautiful bar I am reminded how sometimes the
smallest of things – readily complying with a last-minute request, thoughtful gifts and respectful
gestures – can sometimes have an enduring impact.
Until next time, I'm practicing my royal wave and loving life here in Cody Yellowstone Country.
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