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While many parents are quick to dismiss video games as something for the kids, you might be surprised to learn there are plenty of fun video games that are perfect to play with the whole family. Even if you're on a mission to curb your child's tech time and find other ways to have fun, it's hard to ignore the fact that technology, computers, and by association, video games are becoming an increasing presence in our lives. Instead of rejecting your child's love of video games, try to view them as a fun new way to have fun and bond together.
Mario Party 10
Available for the Nintendo Wii U, Mario Party 10 is a great game for families to enjoy together. Similar to the previous games in the Mario Party series, players move around a game board together, completing challenges and mini-games as they go. While you can definitely deploy a bit of strategy to get ahead, the game is easy for beginners to understand and pick up. This short learning curve, combined with Mario's nostalgia factor, make this game fun for parents and children alike.
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Minecraft was originally released for PC, but you can now play this popular game on virtually any platform. First launched in 2011, it's been around for a little while, but it's still an incredibly popular game for kids to play – and a fun one for parents to play as well. Multiplayer modes allow you to navigate the Minecraft universe as a family, building houses and exploring uncharted territory together. The concepts are easy to pick up, so you won't spend too much time struggling over this one. You might even be surprised to see just how much fun you have mining for gold and building towers.
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You Don't Know Jack Vol. 3
The You Don't Know Jack series of games is a hilarious trivia-based game the whole family will love! Challenge your family to see who has the most random knowledge, and you're sure to have a few laughs along the way! One great thing about this game is that you can use your cell phones as controllers, keeping everyone off of social media and focused on the game instead. Note: some of the humor in this game can be a little risque, so if you're playing with little ones, you'll want to activate the family-friendly filter available in the settings!
You can download the game from Amazon HERE.
Released in early 2018, Sea of Thieves is an action-adventure multiplayer game well-suited for old and young players alike. In this game, you'll sail the high seas with your crew (of up to four players). Each person plays a critical role on the ship – someone needs to steer, while someone else has to hoist the sails – and you'll work together to explore the world, uncovering hidden loot and completing quests as you go. You'll have tons of fun conquering one swashbuckling challenge after the next with your crew!
Learn more about Sea of Thieves HERE.
From seafaring adventures and underground exploration to trivia challenges and throwbacks to classic favorites, there are lots of video games on the market well-suited for families to play together. Read reviews and do your research to understand what each game entails and determine what's appropriate – and what's not – for your family to play together.
Tell me, what fun video games does your family like to play together? Leave a comment and let me know your family's favorite game below!
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Hewlett-Packard's Nick Vanderzweep on Virtualization
By Alison Diana
December 16, 2004 5:00 AM PT
When it comes to investing in virtualization solutions, the hurdles might have to do more with organizational policies than technology. Since these solutions frequently meld disparate entities within an enterprise — human resources, sales and marketing, manufacturing — each of which often have their own infrastructure, policies and personnel, a virtualization program could turn ugly.
However, corporations eager to take advantage of virtualization's speedy hard-dollar return on investment and its ability to improve business agility have some tried-and-true tools available. Hewlett-Packard, for example, gives virtualization clients access to its IT Service Management unit to help them standardize operations and infrastructure. In addition, enterprises can — and often do — start small, implementing a virtualization solution in one department before expanding it companywide.
PC virtualization gives enterprises the opportunity to overcome the challenges of deployment and culture in one effort, according to Brian Gammage, vice president at Gartner. "PC virtualization will achieve broad appeal over the next five years," he said, noting that heavyweights such as Microsoft and Intel now support this approach.
Visualization steps alone, such as consolidation and standardization, save companies money and time, even before they have completed a virtualization solution, said Nick Vanderzweep, director of virtualization and utility computing at HP. Vanderzweep spoke with the E-Commerce Times:
E-Commerce Times: When it comes to describing any type of technology, it seems companies have their own interpretations of what a particular term means. Could you describe how HP views virtualization?
Vanderzweep: I have to set up some context in that HP's enterprise strategy revolves around something we call the Adaptive Enterprise, synchronizing business and IT to capitalize on change. One of the fundamental pieces, in order for us to accomplish that, is we have to make the IT layers changeable, and changeable in real time, so when there's demand for resources in one application or one piece of business, we can shift resources dynamically from other areas of the company when they need it. Virtualization is all about making IT resources changeable in real time. That oversimplifies virtualization.
When I sit down with [analysts] or customers, they say, "That's cool, but how the heck do you do that?" Every time the CEO says, "We're going to focus on X now as a big thrust in the marketplace," the CIO just starts sweating bullets. It's very, very manual, and whenever somebody makes a mistake, they could blow another system out of the water. So the way of approaching IT over the past tens of years has been very static, you put things in and don't change them.
Our more detailed definition — the next level down — revolves around: Here's a tagline, an approach to IT that pools and shares resources so that supply automatically meets demand. I kind of read that one backwards when I talk to a CIO; I first talk about supply of resources automatically meeting demand. "Automatically" is one of the key words. That's where you get that real-time movement of resources, be they computer systems, storage, networking, software, even services themselves, and being able to automatically reallocate those resources where the need is in the business.
We do that through pooling and sharing. In most cases, the typical computer system is bigger than what it needs to run on. What we need to do is share them between multiple applications by slicing it up into smaller computer systems. You might divide a storage device into smaller bits or a server device into smaller bits or a networking device into smaller bits, and then share it between multiple applications.
My background prior to HP was running data centers in the financial world — some computer systems are really, really big, and one computer system or one storage device isn't enough, and then you've got to pool multiple devices together to make a logical, bigger set of IT resources.
It's not just about technology. We can talk about one bit of technology here and one bit of technology there that helps you pool and share resources, but one of the big things people have to get themselves through is [that] this is actually a pretty significant cultural change for CIOs and IT departments.
ECT: Why is that — because it's territorial?
Vanderzweep: Yeah, there's a lot of that. Typically, if I looked at a manufacturing company, someone on the Web, let's say, the VP of sales would own all the IT infrastructure and the processes to do with the Web retail systems or retail systems. The VP of manufacturing would own the ERP [enterprise resource planning] system and all the infrastructure and people that manage that environment. Various different VPs have budgets, have bought infrastructure and have hired people to manage that infrastructure. What we're proposing here as part of virtualization is that these various different people in the organization shake hands and say, "Absolutely, we're going to work together: Buy infrastructure, share it and, when manufacturing needs infrastructure, they'll get it, and when sales needs infrastructure, they'll get it."
Now there are ways to actually move resources around electronically. You don't have to have someone come in and move wires around. You can actually reallocate resources. What happened in the past as well was over-provisioning: I would put enough resources into the retail system to handle peak, Christmas, say. For the ERP system, I'd put in enough resources to handle quarter-end because, typically, your sales force closes a lot of orders at the end of a quarter because they get pressure from management, and then manufacturing has to go crazy.
There's a huge amount of over-provisioning that happened for applications which was OK because you couldn't move resources from HR to ERP or Web retailing. With virtualization, the idea is you don't have to put in enough resources; you drive utilization rates up because when you're not using it for HR, you can use it for Web retail, but when HR needs it, you can give it back almost instantaneously.
ECT: So it sounds as though part of the ROI revolves around actual dollars and cents that companies won't have to invest in hardware, infrastructure and personnel?
Vanderzweep: That's part of it. A piece of the puzzle that people get as benefits here is cost in actual amount of infrastructure. Typically, we see with [our virtualization] customers we can double their utilization rate, which means they get twice as much bang for the buck for the infrastructure they have or they have bought. That's a pretty good cost reduction.
We also increase their agility, which seems to be more and more and more important these days. It keeps coming up and down with the economy: Is it coming up? Is it coming down? Is it staying flat? Well, I've dealt with a few different companies where things are increasing so there are a lot of companies out there that are saying, "OK, we've gone through three years of consolidation, cost reductions. Can we now put something in place so we can be agile so that when the economy does come back, we can react fast to it, because I need to be there faster than my competitors?" So speed and agility are becoming more and more important.
Virtualization allows for speed and agility. It allows for cost reductions. It allows for simplification.
Typically, you see one administrator for every seven to 15 servers in a company. It actually gets worse if you have hundreds of servers in a company: The ratio of servers to administrators gets worse, rather than getting better, because things get more and more complex. By implementing virtualization with built-in automation, you can actually have one employee manage a lot more storage, a lot more servers, a lot more infrastructure and services because of all these automation tools that come into play.
ECT: Cultural changes can be a lot harder to deal with than technological changes.
Vanderzweep: We have an IT Service Management practice within HP's consulting organization. The first thing [companies] have to do is standardize how they manage and operate their infrastructure across the datacenter or multiple datacenters. If you think about the VP of sales who hired a bunch of people and bought a bunch of infrastructure, the VP of engineering hired a bunch of people and bought a bunch of infrastructure — the job descriptions for the administrators of those two groups could be completely different.
First step is you get them to shake hands and say, "We'll work together." The next step is there are people who actually have to do it. We help companies standardize that kind of thing across their organization. There's actually a consortium and set of standards on how to operate datacenters based on ITIL, and that's part of our practice. We come in, assess where that company is, we show them the ITIL standards, we help rewrite job descriptions, train people and get them all so they can actually talk to each other. That's the first step.
Consolidation is a prerequisite to virtualization because if you've got 400 servers under 400 people's desks in 400 locations across the country, it's pretty hard to share resources and manage those resources. Consolidation to a single or a few datacenters where they're all co-located is important, then we can implement some of this technology.
There are cost savings by standardizing processes — you get 5 percent, 10 percent cost savings just by standardizing your processes. By consolidating infrastructure, you can get some pretty good bang for the buck. And then by virtualizing, you get even more bang for the buck. It's not like you have to do all these things, then you get benefits; you get benefits all along the way.
ECT: So how long, then, is the typical sales process?
Vanderzweep: It can be fairly short or fairly long, depending on how big a company gets into it. I could go to the VP of sales, and say, "Let's consolidate and virtualize all the retail systems you have," and just work within that organization. Typically, we'll start within one organization, show how well it works, then help them move and share across different organizations. A project may last 30, 60, 120 days. Ultimately, to take on an entire good-size company, it's a multi-year project, but the first project might be very, very quick.
One client, Belkin, is a company that is one of the lucky ones. They have been growing at 35 percent over the past three years. They try different ideas, and those different ideas have turned into pretty good growth for them. They had a set of infrastructure for their human resource system, for their ERP system, for their Web retail system that was dedicated to each of those areas. Because of their growth, they were dealing with performance problems, because they were pushing the limits of those infrastructures. They had more employees, so their HR system was getting pushed; they were selling that much more, so their retail systems were getting pushed, and they were shipping more, so their ERP systems were getting pushed. They were also getting high availability problems because their vendor at the time was probably not using best-in-breed products.
We came in and showed them our Virtual Server Environment, which has a whole set of capabilities, such as being able to share resources, being able to automatically move resources where they're needed, when they're needed.
Their current vendor couldn't deliver the same capabilities that we have at HP with the Virtual Server Environment, so they elected to switch away from their previous vendor, implement the Virtual Server Environment using HP Superdome systems and layering this Virtual Server Environment software on top of it, and now they automatically have resources flowing from payroll to ERP to Web retail and back and forth again, as peaks and valleys happen to their business.
From a cost perspective, they actually pay a little bit less per month to HP than they did to their previous infrastructure vendor. And they're experiencing 250 percent performance benefit, and their availability is much, much better than they had before because we incorporated high availability clustering.
ECT: Where would you say, then, the adoption is today in corporate America?
Vanderzweep: This is a fairly typical adoption. We sold several thousand Virtual Server Environments into the industry already, so those are taking off pretty well. Virtual Server Environment today revolves around our PA RISC and our Itanium systems, so it's higher-end [systems] running mission-critical applications within a company. This kind of thing is getting to be very, very, very popular. A couple of years ago, I'd have said we were in early adoption stage. Now we're in the early mainstream stage.
We sell bundles of servers into the industry. If I look at how many licenses I have for this, it's about 50,000 CPU licenses out there. Obviously, we sell a heck of a lot more than 50,000 CPUs in a year, so it's not everybody that's getting it, but a good portion of our customer base gets it — at least 60 percent of our high-end customers get this kind of capability, for sure. With our low-end customers, the penetration rates are not quite as high.
ECT: So looking ahead — and tying it into your title, which includes both virtualization and utility computing — where is HP going? How about the industry?
Vanderzweep: If you look at our virtualization strategy and think about a graph with an X-Y axis, in the bottom right-hand corner, I'd label that element virtualization, that is the first step in virtualization. The middle box would be integrated virtualization, and up in the top corner — nirvanah — would be something we call the complete IT utility.
Element virtualization is absolutely mainstream. It's hard not to find a customer who hasn't, on an Intel server, used DM ware to partition that server into two machines. It's hard not to find a customer who hasn't put in a storage array instead of dedicated storage on a server-by-server basis. What element virtualization is all about, though, is virtualizing only one thing, cutting a server in half into two logical servers.
The next step on that graph, integrated virtualization, is where the innovation in the industry is now and certainly where our focus is. That's where Virtual Server Environment [fits]. It uses those virtualization pieces, but instead of saying, "I need to divide this server into two," it gets a lot of that automation that's required. You simply say, "I need sub-second response time for my Web retail system, and I need two-second average response time for my ERP system and I need 30 minute turnaround for batch jobs for my HR system for payroll run."
You tell the control software, the Virtual Server Environment software, the service levels that you need, and then it will keep moving resources around, changing the size of partitions on the fly to meet those service levels. You can see the difference where we were in the past with element virtualization: [There] we cut a 10 CPU server into two CPUs for Oracle, four CPUs for PDA, for instance. With integrated virtualization, you don't specify CPUs.
When you get to the Complete IT Utility, that's where all your data centers, all its resources, are automatically flowed to the right application, at the right time; all the server resources, network resources, storage resources and the software is automatically reprovisioned and moved around in a heterogeneous environment — Windows, Linux, HP/UX, whatever kind of operating system. That's a little bit more complex to do.
We start them with the basic elements of virtualization, move them towards integrated in some projects and get multiple projects together and then finally move them toward Complete IT Utility.
ECT: And this is something HP already is doing for some clients — moving them to Complete IT Utility?
Vanderzweep: Yes. Primarily where we do the Complete IT Utility for a customer that looks at our portfolio of element, integrated and complete, they usually say, "You know HP, I want to go straight to the top right-hand corner — to the Complete IT Utility," They will also say, "Ed, HP, since you're already doing this in your datacenter, why don't you manage my datacenter or outsource my datacenter and give me all those benefits?"
We've done things like that and been public about things like that for many customers — DreamWorks, for example, where we manage their infrastructure and, as they produce a film like "Shrek" or "Shrek 2," they need to render a film, we do that for them and we charge them based on the number of frames rendered in the film. We've really connected up to their business.
Amadeus — you're probably familiar with Sabre in North America, the booking system — does the same kind of thing in Europe. They came to HP and fell in love with the Complete IT Utility. They said, "Ok, we're in the airline booking industry. We write software to do that. You, HP, are good at infrastructure. We get paid by the likes of Lufthansa — say, 25 cents — every time we book a seat and a customer actually sits in it. HP, you provide us with infrastructure that grows and shrinks based on supply and demand, and we'll pay you 5 cents every time a customer sits on an airline seat."
The more business they get, the more we have to scale that infrastructure up. The less business they get, the more we have to scale it down. Predominantly, if people want to go straight to the upper right corner, we do that through our managed service offering. We have huge amounts of customers who are doing element virtualization. I'd be surprised if I could find an enterprise HP customer that isn't using some kind of virtualization. It's the integrated stuff that probably 10 percent of our customer base is kicking the tires with. The Complete IT Utility is a smaller amount, but we do have a tremendous amount of business with our managed services group — companies like DreamWorks, Amadeus, Procter & Gamble, Ericsson — where we implement these capabilities for customers using the 400 datacenters that we've implemented.
ECT: Who do you generally encounter in competitive situations?
Vanderzweep: We definitely see IBM in there. Especially when you're looking at heading off into integrated and the Complete IT Utility, it really requires you to coordinate and automate the provisioning of these resources — server, networking, storage, software — so the likes of HP and IBM are very well diversified in the IT industry, selling servers, storage, networking, etc. At HP, we have the ability to build things like the Virtual Server Environment, coordinate resources or go all the way up to the Complete IT Utility and manage a company's environment.
We were out there talking about our vision for utility computing some years ago and we've brought a whole set of these products to market in the last two or three years, so we've got references after references after references. Execution is our biggest differentiator.
ECT: How about some smaller companies? Or companies like Sun?
Vanderzweep: Because this is a highly innovative space you'll see lots of start-up companies out there that are making some big inroads. One start-up company was acquired by EMC a while ago — VMware — and they're a good partner of ours versus a competitor. They provide the ability to virtualize an x86 Intel Opteron-type system and slice that up into smaller systems. They're an interesting company.
We see a lot of other start-ups out there. I went to a venture capitalist conference a little ways back — this is a popular area for venture capitalists to invest in and for start-ups to design software and hardware around this area. If you look out, there are 50, 100 start-ups that have a unique piece of the puzzle here. Some of them, over the past few years have been bought up. We, ourselves, have acquired Talking Blocks, Consera, Novadigm and a few others to round out our portfolio of capabilities.
ECT: And I guess that underscores the growing mainstream nature of the market?
Vanderzweep: Oh yes, definitely. You've got a few other major players in the marketplace that are not as strong as HP or IBM because they're not as diversified. You hear Sun talking a little bit, but they have a small portfolio of capabilities compared with the likes of HP. I don't run into those guys very much. I go more head-to-head with IBM.
ECT: You mentioned heterogeneous environments and standardizing procedures and administration, but are there any technology standards issues that CIOs should be aware of when considering moving into or expanding their use of virtualization?
Vanderzweep: There are things like working groups like W3C and Oasis are working on, and we're heavily invested into those standards organizations. Web services plays a big role in this because they make it much easier for applications to be compatible in this world, to move resources around. So we've been key to developing some of the Web services standards.
Grid services are now being built on top of Web services, and we're very active in standardization of grid services as well. In fact, HP now holds the chair position in the Global Grid Forum. Standards are expensive initiatives, but they're very fruitful as well, because HP likes to be able to build on top of standards, then add value to provide differentiation to the market place.
It's the 80/20 rule: 80 percent of what the customer gets is standards-based infrastructure, then 20 percent is value-add on top of that, which really can differentiate them in the industry so they're better than the company down the street. The more we standardize, the more we put into the 80 percent, allows us to innovate on top of that, and once it's standardized, it reduces our cost and we can take our engineering efforts, our innovation efforts, and put them on top of that standard. It accelerates the industry. It differentiates us in the marketplace: It's good for customers. It's good for us.
ECT: I think every IT executive has a horror story about lack of standardization.
Vanderzweep: That's always the case. The Virtual Server Environment; nobody else has got that kind of capability in the industry, but it's built on top of standards. Where we've actually built it, we are working with other companies, standards organizations, etc., to try to take a chunk of our innovation and push it into standards organizations as well, so we can say, "Ok, we can now exit out of that area and move on to the next level of capability on top of the Virtual Server Environment."
For us, our key areas in this space are storage — our storage grid innovations we've been talking about, in servers — our Virtual Server Environment, and we did some announcements just last month with virtualization and automation around our blade servers. We've worked with our own networking organization, with Cisco and others, on management of virtual networks, and then, of course, driving standards with Web services and grid services, especially through managing that through our OpenView software.
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MO SALAH is back on social media and the reason behind his disappearance has now been revealed.
The Liverpool star posted a cryptic tweet this week which read: "2019 Resolution: Time to get in touch, for real."
Salah then deleted his Twitter account before removing Facebook and Instagram shortly after.
But the frontman is now back - and it appears all to be a part of a stunt with courier company DHL.
Salah then returned today where he posted a picture of himself opening a DHL box.
And it appears it's all part of a company marketing scheme to connect fans from across the Middle East and North Africa region as part of their global 50-year anniversary celebrations.
Supporters will be able to send gifts and letters for Salah after submitting photos of their gifts through a dedicated website. They are then delivered directly to him.
Some fans had speculated Salah deleted the accounts to focus on his football, lauding him for his "winners mentality".
"More like can't handle all the diving accusations sent to him on a hourly basis," tweeted @TAKTIKT0E. "4 days after the Palace game, coincidentally."


The living room is the setting which will blend the people in your life into the occasions of your home. It is the hardest room to decorate because it has to be versatile, comfortable, and entertaining. Guests, relatives, friends; this room will be the showcase of your home for all of them. This makes the decoration of the living room especially important. The colors and designs you choose will have subtle effects on the psychology of the occupants in the setting, resulting in slight changes to the interactions held there. In a social center such as this, you do not want that influence to be a negative one. A way to help control this is to understand the psychological effects of color on the people in a room.
Color is what surrounds us, it makes up our environment. Everywhere we look there is color, and this affects our minds. Certain colors have positive effects. Yellow is a happy color, while grey is considered dismal. These effects change as the shading changes, and of course other factors can alter them as well. Too much yellow is actually an eye irritant. Color and its effects have been studied by psychologists for many years and they have found many generalities that affect most Americans in a similar manner. However, it is important to note that these ideas are not universal, and you should always follow your own taste when designing a room.
Before you begin you should decide what you want to evoke. Are you looking to make this a quiet peaceful room or a place for wild parties? Would you like the room to feel elated or are you looking for a place of serenity. Once you know what you want, you can simply paint by the numbers, being careful to always pick the shade that evokes the desired effect most in you.
The most popular color in America is blue. This color produces a sense of calm, and is often associated with the ocean. The color blue can make a room look larger, and it stimulates elated emotional responses. Lighter blue is more popular and will make a room seem more open then darker navies.
The next most popular color in America is Green. This is the color of nature, and is almost always associated with growth. Using green is slightly more invigorating then blue, but still produces a sense of mental calm. Green is the easiest color on the eye, and is actually good for eyesight. Avoid sickly greens and use nature as your guide to mix and match colors into a green themed room.
Earth tones give a room a close grounded feeling, and can promote a sense of intimacy. They are rustic natural colors that seam simple and warm. Soft tans and browns are the colors of family, and will give your living room that feeling of home. Besides, they don't show dirt. Greens can be matched in with browns, to create a feeling of nature and the outdoors in.
Colors to avoid in large doses are reds and yellows. Too much yellow can cause eye irritation and uncomfortable feelings. Red, while highly invigorating, is also a very aggressive color. Use of too much red could easily lead to fighting. To avoid conflict, use reds and yellows only as accessories, and only when they match the room's main color.
It is almost impossible to get angry in a pink room. In light tones and small doses this color gentles people's personalities. However if you paint the whole room a wild pink you may find yourself irritated by the brightness. Instead use pink in an understated manner. Throw in pink accessories, or a few pink decorations. If you want to theme a room pink, then choose a light color that will match earth tones. However you should be cautious; the more pink that gets used the more people tend to get lazy and unmotivated.
Make a decision about what kind of setting you want to invoke, and then decide on the colors that will help get you there. Make sure the colors you use will match one another. Maintain balance between different extremes, and refer to yourself often. Only you know if the harmony of the room is helping to bring balance into your home. You are your own best resource.


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Q: Как узнать, что невозможно преобразовать int в enum? Дано:
enum LANGUAGES{
    EN,
    RU,
    FR
}
int res = 7;

Как узнать правильно, что (LANGUAGES)res выдаст неверный результат (результат не принадлежит LANGUAGES)?

A: Используйте Enum.IsDefined как указано в документации (раз, два).
if (Enum.IsDefined(typeof(LANGUAGES), res))
    Console.WriteLine("{0} is into language enumeration.", res);
else
    Console.WriteLine("{0} is not into language enumeration.", res);

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Prisoners exiled to Gaza
February 20, 2014 at 3:34 pm | Published in: Middle East, News
EXCLUSIVE PICTURES
On almost every street in Gaza, tents have been erected to host welcome home ceremonies and receptions for the Palestinian prisoners freed in the recent prisoner exchange deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
However, among the conditions to the deal stipulated by the Israeli side, was for more than 160 of the prisoners released to be deported to the Gaza Strip rather than returned to their homes in the West Bank or Jerusalem.
As such, a tent was also set up to welcome the deportees to the Strip where large numbers of Gazans alongside well-known personalities gathered to welcome and congratulate them. The government in Gaza has also expressed keen readiness to receive the exiled prisoners, a number of whom have spent more than twenty years in Israeli prisons. They are currently being put up by the government in hotels along the coast until they adjust to their new lives.
The exiles have expressed their respect and appreciation to the people and families of Gaza, but also their longing for the day when they will be able to return to their homes and sit down with their own families.
The Palestinian government has undertaken to grant $2000 to every prisoner exiled to the Strip to enable them to live in the coming period. The government has also promised to rent out apartments for them shortly and the possibility for them to get married if they so wish.
MEMO Photographer: Mohammed Asad
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She opened her book and as she did pages began flying out into the sky as if lifted by magic. The pages began forming shapes and then melted into colors. They twisted, twirled and circled around her. Finally they stopped and she realized she was no longer in the world from which she came. She was now within the story of the book . . .


The human brain can process a picture in just 13 milliseconds. The cellular functions underlying this incredible processing speed involve not just neurons, but also a supporting cast of other types of brain cells. Among these, oligodendrocytes are one of the key players.
Oligodendrocytes support neuronal firing by wrapping the axons in a protein known as myelin, creating an insulating sheath that speeds up the rate of firing. The importance of myelination is underscored by diseases where it is disrupted — in particular multiple sclerosis (MS) — that leads to an array of symptoms including sensory and movement problems.
During development, oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) develop in a particular zone and migrate out to cover and myelinate the central nervous system. However, until recently, it was unclear exactly what guides OPCs used to migrate.
A recent report in Science from the Fancy lab begins to answer this fundamental question of development.
The authors began by observing where OPCs were located in developing mouse and human brains. They found that these cells were strongly associated with brain blood vessels. In fact, 58% of OPCs had their cell bodies directly associated with blood vessels. Of the remaining third, 67% had at least one process, or cell extension, that touched a vessel.
To more closely observe the behavior of OPCs during development, the authors took slices of developing mouse brains where OPCs were labeled by a fluorescent marker.
They observed two key behaviors. The cells either crawled along blood vessels, or jumped from one blood vessel to another. In order to jump, an OPC extends a process from one blood vessel to another, and then the cell body follows the process to the new blood vessel.
In order to determine whether the presence of blood vessels was necessary for OPC migration, the authors took advantage of mouse models where a deletion of a specific gene disrupts vessel development.
When vessels were disrupted, OPCs failed to populate the surrounding grey matter. OPC death was not increased, suggesting that this failure was due specifically to migration defects.
Next, the paper addressed what cellular signals cause OPCs to associate with blood vessels.
The authors hypothesized that once OPC migration stopped, they begin to differentiate into oligodendrocytes. Wnt signaling is an important cellular pathway that inhibits OPC differentiation, and therefore possibly promotes OPC association with vessels and migration.
To test this hypothesis, the authors used a mouse model where Wnt signaling is always on. This constant Wnt signaling led to a higher number of OPCs associated with vessels, and fewer differentiated OPCs. In a complementary experiment, inhibition of Wnt signaling in brain slices led to reduced OPC-vessel association and decreased migration.
This work underscores the importance of blood vessel association and Wnt signaling in the migration of OPCs and the development of a mature brain.
These same developmental mechanisms may also occur during injury or diseases, providing potential mechanisms for speeding up the healing process or combating diseases like MS, and maintaining the powerful firing speed of the human brain.


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Caratteristiche tecniche
È un terzino sinistro

Carriera
Cresciuto nel settore giovanile del , ha esordito in prima squadra il 18 gennaio 2018 disputando l'incontro del Campionato Carioca vinto 2-0 contro il . Il 6 ottobre 2020 ha rinnovato il proprio contratto fino al 2025 ed è stato definitivamente promosso in prima squadra. Il 10 settembre seguente ha debuttato nel Brasileirão in occasione del derby contro il  vinto 2-1.

Statistiche
Statistiche aggiornate al 21 ottobre 2020.

Presenze e reti nei club

Palmarès

Competizioni statali

Flamengo: 2021

Competizioni nazionali

Flamengo: 2020

Note

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Blood, Sweat Could Power New Paper Battery Blood and sweat could power a battery that looks just like a piece of paper, scientists say. That means it might ultimately be used for medical devices like hearing aids or pacemakers.
Blood, Sweat Could Power New Paper Battery
August 27, 200712:01 AM ET
A researcher holds a sample of the new nanocomposite paper. Infused with carbon nanotubes, the paper can be used to create ultra-thin, flexible batteries and energy-storage devices. Victor Pushparaj/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hide caption
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A researcher holds a sample of the new nanocomposite paper. Infused with carbon nanotubes, the paper can be used to create ultra-thin, flexible batteries and energy-storage devices.
About the Battery
It can function in temperatures as low as 100 below zero and as high as 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
More than 90 percent of the device is made up of cellulose, the same plant cells used in newsprint and other types of paper.
Aligned carbon nanotubes, which give the device its black color, act as electrodes and allow the battery to conduct energy.
Ionic liquid, essentially a liquid salt, is used as the battery's electrolyte. The battery contains no water, so it won't freeze, allowing the device to withstand extreme temperatures.
The device can be rolled, twisted, folded or cut into various shapes.
The batteries can be stacked, like a ream of printer paper, to boost power output.
Source: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Researchers on the battery project include Victor Pushparaj (from left), Shaijumon M. Manikoth, Robert Linhardt, and Ashavani Kumar. Steve Morris/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hide caption
Steve Morris/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Researchers on the battery project include Victor Pushparaj (from left), Shaijumon M. Manikoth, Robert Linhardt, and Ashavani Kumar.
Blood and sweat could power a battery that looks just like a piece of paper, scientists say.
"It's flexible, it can be shaped or folded, you can poke a hole in it and it still works," says chemist Robert Linhardt, a member of the research team that developed the new battery, which is made from paper and carbon nanotubes. He works at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.
Regular AA batteries, like the ones in your camera, use battery acid to produce a current. But the new paper battery can run on blood or sweat. That means it might ultimately be used to power medical devices like hearing aids or pacemakers.
"It could be easily implanted directly under the skin," unlike metal batteries, which are less flexible, Linhardt says.
One of these paper batteries, which are the size of a postage stamp, can produce enough current to power a small, green LED, like the one that lights up when you turn on a computer screen. Stack them and, Lindhart says, the power adds up.
Lindhart predicts it will take years to perfect the paper battery. But he says there may be a clever way to manufacture it.
"We'd like to be able to ultimately print these batteries like a newspaper is printed, from roll to roll, on a printing press," he says.
With reporting by Marina Giovannelli
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"All our lives depend on how we choose to live," I wrote on this blog in the page titled WHY? I haven't reread that page in several months. I don't think many readers look beyond the main posting page, so I decided I'd cut and paste it here, because I like what I have to say!
Then the animals come spilling through, their eyes peering out of the rainforest, watching us, wondering if we will choose with their well-being in mind as well as our own. A huge heart rises in the midst of the circle of dancers. I see its wounds and also that it is healing itself. A river of green slashes through the heart, carrying compassion and love energy and spilling green all over the earth. I see that the green river has opened the heart so I can see the texture of its interior. I am shocked to see it is the same texture as that of the molten "hole-y" rocks I saw yesterday in the Jemez Mountains. I wonder if our heart's interior simply mirrors the earth outside our bodies, if all our bodies' parts and functions reflect the earth outside us.
That refrain: "You choose, you choose, you choose," has echoed in me ever since. I'm glad to have lived long enough now to know that admonishment is heard by many all around the globe. It is in our human hands to influence the course of history. And if we choose to believe that "the earth is ourselves turned inside out," we will recognize more readily how our well-being, personally and collectively, is inextricably intertwined with the earth's well-being.
I long for my grandchildren and their children to have a sensuous, complex and life-sustaining world in which to live.
If your answer is,"Yes," then you can contribute to these great and auspicious turning times: the grand awakening of humans to the fact that we are all indigenous to this planet. We are embedded in a living world, an eairth from which we are inextricable. Maybe we can help each remember a greater gladness than acquisition of limited resources – the birth of camaraderie and communal playfulness, cooperative, creative challenges and ecstatic experiences, soul-filled communion and the spirit of laughter shared, loving and relating, . ."the rapture of being alive" as Joseph Campbell said. We have an opportunity to tell new stories. Stories that are fun-damental, perma-cultural guides to living on this globe, finding the grace in suffering, the humor in pathos and the joy in grief, revering the miracle of living and nourishing the sentient eairth for generations to come.
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thank you – and we reflect each other.
I cannot put it anywhere near as eloquently as your post did BUT yes, I agree, we make our own futures by our actions, be it through Mother Earth, Human Interaction or simple everyday just plain being nice to every living thing.
Ahhhh your words are rich! Being just plain nice to every living thing…wouldn't the whole planet revel in comfort if that behavior and thinking were the norm rather than the exception? Thank you for putting that new/old ethic into straight forward, grounded language!


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Driver sexually abused student on way to school
Mother noticed redness on girl's neck after she had been bitten by defendant
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Dubai: A family's driver went on trial accused of sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl by kissing her on the neck before dropping her off to school, the Dubai Court of First Instance heard Thursday.
On March 2019, an Emirati mother noticed redness on her daughter's neck when she returned from her school.
"She told me that the defendant bit her on the neck and touched her improperly," said the 33-year-old mum. "I alerted my husband and informed police. The defendant used to work as a driver to drop my children off to school."
The girl told prosecutors that she was sitting on the passenger's side beside the defendant when he bit her on the neck and touched her body.
The defendant confessed to a charge of sexual abuse.
A verdict is expected on May 20.
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So there you are. Living behind a fence with others who haven't succumbed to the virus. Fast food on every street corner is a bedtime story told to the very young. The little older, say above the age of 10, are already scroungers and scouts. They scrounge for anything usable while trying not to get killed. They scout the areas around them looking for lone stragglers or those groups which might be friendly and open to trade.
A virus has reanimated the dead. The moving corpses that only stop moving when their heads get detached from their bodies, then have their brains burned so that the virus can't spread. They can also die off from natural attrition, decaying and rotting, but not before turning some of the living into walking corpses. As well as guarding against zombies, the human survivors have to keep themselves safe from groups of militia and hostile survivalists. Not a brave new world, but one where people are determined to live.
Meat and his four friends, Window, Einstein and Billie-Bob set out to rescue four children who have been kidnapped from their compound by an unknown group. They are not much older than the children who were kidnapped. Meat was named by his mother who said he was meat for the new reality. Window is a very private person. Einstein is the thinker of the group and Billie-Bob is one half of a set of twins. He's the group's marksman.
Following the children's trail eastward, they encounter a 10-year-old dressed in a loincloth and whose yellow teeth have been filed down to points. He speaks of the master who will kill them all. Keep him a prisoner or kill him? The majority decides not to kill, but one of the group dissents. Meat feels his leadership slipping away from him.
On the trail, they also pick up Gregory, a grown-up, who had to bury his wife and daughter.
The place that Meat and his friends live, Bremo Bluffs, is in what used to be called Virginia. It could be a sanctuary or a prison. The outside world is dangerous and every resident has to be protected and accounted for. Or it could be because no one is allowed to leave without permission. It all depends on one's point of view.
The boys have to survive, fulfill their task and cope with their burgeoning feelings for girls. Death and decay side by side with hope and renewal.
It may be a coming of age story and each character's background is given, but still, all in all, it's just another zombie apocalypse story. There's only so much death and destruction we can picture in our minds before even that becomes boring. So, even though it's well written, I couldn't give it more than a 4 rating.
Thank you Matt, I appreciate your thoughts on my work.
Sorry about that, meant to include Myra.


The worth of Google+ has been a popular discussion topic, and one business owners should want to listen in on. I'd argue, if you're not on Google+, you're missing out.
It's fantastic to be active on Facebook and Twitter, they're two popular social media sites with huge communities and both are fantastic ways to engage your customers. Adding Google+ can only help you and your business however. Now, this isn't to say there aren't hurdles but the benefits are definitely worth the work.
For one, perhaps you've been active on Facebook and Twitter for several years, have worked hard to build up a tight-knit community of brand advocates and the idea of starting over on a new social media network intimidates you. This is a valid concern and shows you care about how you spend your time and energy as a business. On the flip side, have you noticed the organic reach of your Facebook posts isn't what it quite used to be?
Google+ gives business owners blended search results. Wherein, Google+ content (content you post) can actually rank in search results in instances where your website may not! As Google and Google+ become ever more entwined, even hashtag searches on Google are yielding recent Google+ posts that utilize that hashtag.
Integration with Google+ also yields your business a Google listing. If you're properly setup on Google+, potential and existing customers looking up your business or services may be shown a snippet of your company information the right side of their screen known as a Google listing.
Another benefit comes in the form of authorship. Google+ authorship syncs up a Google+ profile to an individual webpage, blog post, or article. It's a fantastic was to gain exposure and build a brand. As my colleague Kalyn mentioned in her blog post earlier this week, having a blog adds fresh content to your website every time you post. Highlight that fresh content via your Google+ page to build the reputation of a knowledgeable business, in-touch with what's going on around you.


Poppy is such a beautiful coral color. I wish I would have bought this when summer first started because this is such a beautiful shade for the summer time. The color is extremely pigmented, and a little goes a long way so all you need is a tiny drop of product for your cheeks. You can find these tints at Target.
You can only find this at Target, or online.
Yeah, the only cream blushes I have used before were the NYX ones, so it was fun to play with this one!
wow this is an amazing post! I'm so glad I dropped past your blog ☺!!!
such an informative post! because I'm on the lookout for a good cream blush!
awe thank you so much Michelle! You're so sweet!
Sonia makeup goes on clearance at Target at the end of each season along with Set by Napoleon Perdis and Pixi. If you love sparkly eyeshadow Sonia usually puts out gorgeous colors and there is a 12 pan jewel tone set on clearance right now too. I should swatch the pretty 2012 SK holiday set I got in February that I've been saving for fall on Instagram. NP Set has some really great neutral lipsticks on clearance too - I think Peking and Hong Kong were the names of the ones I grabbed - I'll put those up too!
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Cell Phone Banking Offers Financial Hope to Millions
Imagine your life if you had no access to banks, ATMs, credit cards, or savings and checking accounts — just cash that you needed to hide or carry around. It would be hard to save, plan, get ahead, take chances, or feel secure.
For billions of poor people in the developing world, that's how life has always been — and it's a big reason why many have remained poor. And because they're poor, banks steer clear of them.
Enter the cell phone.
In recent years some mobile operators in emerging markets — most notably Safaricom in Kenya with its profitable M-Pesa service — have made a splash by allowing customers to send remittances and pay bills via SMS.
So far so good: millions of lives are much better for it. But what about savings? For telecommunications companies, that part is trickier.
"Regulators see savings as belonging to banks," notes Samee Zafar, director at the consultancy Edgar Dunn & Company in London.
"Where they're willing to give way as far as pure payments and money transfers are concerned, I think savings is going to be a much bigger battle against the regulators."
As a result, what might become increasingly common in the developing world is close tie-ups between mobile operators and banks. Such an approach requires open minds.
Source: CNN (link opens in a new window)


Arla Foods, the fifth-largest dairy company in the world, launched its fresh-tasting four-ingredient cream cheese in the U.S. market at a time when consumers were demanding healthier, less processed foods with no artificial ingredients. But cream cheese buyers remained nostalgic about the only brand they'd ever known or seen in the dairy aisle: Kraft's Philadelphia.
Our challenge: Showcase Arla's benefits, get consumers to taste it, and move product.
We discovered something striking in our product-testing research. When consumers tried Philly versus Arla, with the packages in front of them, they almost always chose Philly. When we eliminated the branding in blind tasting, they overwhelmingly picked Arla on flavor alone.
We set up an "unblind" taste test in a local grocery store, asking consumers to choose between two cream cheese samples. No packages or brand names were shown, only the ingredient lists. Hidden cameras captured their reactions, showing their horror at 12 unrecognizable ingredients versus four simple ones.
We then took our taste test bet even further by giving away free Arla Cream Cheese. Thanks to earned media and a ton of social chatter, Arla gave away nearly 2 million full-sized samples of product.


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Q: JavaCC - Simple expression What should my void decleration() if possible string input is parsed based on the image.
SKIP :
{
< " " | "\t" | "\r" | "\n" | "\r\n" >
| <"//" (~["\n","\r"])* ("\n"|"\r"|"\r\n") >
| <"/*"(~["/"])*  "*""/" >
}
TOKEN : { < VAR: "VAR" > }
TOKEN : { < AS: "AS" >}
TOKEN : /* KEYWORDS */
{
    < TYPE: "INT"| "BOOL"|"FLOAT" >
}

TOKEN :
{
  < EQUALS: "=" >
}
TOKEN:
{
  < PLUS : "+" >|< MINUS :"-" >|< MUL: "*" >|< DIV: "/" >|< COMM: ",">
}
TOKEN:
{
    < VARIABLE: (["a"-"z", "A"-"Z", "0"-"9"])+ >
}

void decleration(): {} { <VAR> (<VARIABLE>|< COMM >|<EQUALS>)+ <AS> <TYPE>}

I'm still new to JavaCC, so please forgive my code it its bad, Where can I find some sources on making custom compiler using JavaCC.
Thank you.

A: There is a tutorial here.
To parse the example you've given in your question, you will need:

*

*to add "CHAR" in token TYPE,

*to add "_" in token VARIABLE. Actually i would rewrite it because it also accepts integers. I would do something like this:

TOKEN:
{
    < VARIABLE: <LETTER>(<LETTER>|<DIGIT>)* >
    | < #LETTER: ["a"-"z", "A"-"Z", "_"] >
    | < #DIGIT: ["0"-"9"] >
}

*

*to add a non-terminal production method for a declaration list:

void input(): {} { (declaration())* }

*

*to add the tokens for the initial value. This could be a complex expression, but you will need at least the literal values for INT, CHAR, FLOAT and strings (like "TRUE" in your example):

TOKEN:
{
    < INT_VALUE: (<DIGIT>)+ >
    | < FLOAT_VALUE: <INT_VALUE> "." (<DIGIT>)* | "." (<DIGIT>)+ >
    | < CHAR_VALUE: "\'" (~["\'","\\"]|<ESCAPE>) "\'" >
    | < STRING_VALUE: "\"" (~["\'","\\"]|<ESCAPE>)* "\"" >
    | < #ESCAPE: "\\" ["n","t","b","r","f","\\","\"","\'"] >
}

*

*add the production rules for the variable initial values:

void varDeclaration(): {} { <VARIABLE> (<EQUALS> literalValue())? }
void literalValue(): {} { <INT_VALUE> | <FLOAT_VALUE> | <CHAR_VALUE> | <STRING_VALUE> }

the declaration rule becomes:

void declaration(): {} { <VAR> varDeclaration() (< COMM > varDeclaration())* <AS> <TYPE>}

Note that, as you skip the the end of line characters, nothing prevents the presence of several declarations on the same line.
The resulting file looks like this:

options {
    STATIC = false;
    OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = "src/parser";
}
PARSER_BEGIN(Parser)
package parser;
public class Parser {
    public void parse() throws ParseException {
        input();
    }
}
PARSER_END(Parser)

SKIP :
{
< " " | "\t" | "\r" | "\n" | "\r\n" >
| <"//" (~["\n","\r"])* ("\n"|"\r"|"\r\n") >
| <"/*"(~["/"])*  "*""/" >
}
TOKEN : { < VAR: "VAR" > }
TOKEN : { < AS: "AS" >}
TOKEN : /* KEYWORDS */
{
    < TYPE: "INT" | "BOOL" | "FLOAT" | "CHAR" >
}

TOKEN :
{
  < EQUALS: "=" >
}
TOKEN:
{
  < PLUS : "+" >|< MINUS :"-" >|< MUL: "*" >|< DIV: "/" >|< COMM: ",">
}
TOKEN:
{
    < VARIABLE: <LETTER>(<LETTER>|<DIGIT>)* >
    | < #LETTER: ["a"-"z", "A"-"Z", "_"] >
    | < #DIGIT: ["0"-"9"] >
}
TOKEN:
{
    < INT_VALUE: (<DIGIT>)+ >
    | < FLOAT_VALUE: <INT_VALUE> "." (<DIGIT>)* | "." (<DIGIT>)+ >
    | < CHAR_VALUE: "\'" (~["\'","\\"]|<ESCAPE>) "\'" >
    | < STRING_VALUE: "\"" (~["\'","\\"]|<ESCAPE>)* "\"" >
    | < #ESCAPE: "\\" ["n","t","b","r","f","\\","\"","\'"] >
}

void input(): {} { (declaration())* }
void varDeclaration(): {} { <VARIABLE> (<EQUALS> literalValue())? }
void literalValue(): {} { <INT_VALUE> | <FLOAT_VALUE> | <CHAR_VALUE> | <STRING_VALUE> }
void declaration(): {} { <VAR> varDeclaration() (< COMM > varDeclaration())* <AS> <TYPE>}

UPDATE
To add the body part; from what i see, the input is a list of declarations followed by a body:

void input(): {} { (declaration())*  body() }

and the body rule would be something like:
void body(): {} { <START> (statement())* <STOP> }

You need a few more tokens: keywords "START", "STOP", "OUTPUT", "AND", "OR", "NOT", operators ":", "&", "(", ")", etc...
I see two types of statements: assignments and output statements:
void statement(): {} { assignment() | output() }
void assignment(): {} { <VARIABLE> <EQUALS> expression() }
void output(): {} { <OUTPUT> <COLON> expression() }

They both require the rules for an expression. It could look like this:
void expression(): {} { comparison() (logicalOp() comparison())* }
void logicalOp(): {} { <AND> | <OR> }
void comparison(): {} { simpleExpression() ( comparisonOp() simpleExpression() )? }
void comparisonOp(): {} { <LT> | <GT> | <LE> | <GE> | <EQ> | <NE> }
void simpleExpression(): {} { term() ( addOp() term() )* }
void addOp(): {} { <PLUS> | <MINUS> | <CAT> }
void term(): {} { factor() ( mulOp() factor() )* }
void mulOp(): {} { <MUL> | <DIV> | <MOD> }
void factor(): {} {
    (<PLUS>|<MINUS>) factor()
    | <LPAR> expression() <RPAR>
    | <NOT> expression()
    | <VARIABLE>
    | literalValue()
}

Putting it all together:
options {
    STATIC = false;
    OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = "src/parser";
}
PARSER_BEGIN(Parser)
package parser;
public class Parser {
    public void parse() throws ParseException {
        input();
    }
}
PARSER_END(Parser)

SKIP :
{
< " " | "\t" | "\r" | "\n" | "\r\n" >
| <"//" (~["\n","\r"])* ("\n"|"\r"|"\r\n") >
| <"/*"(~["/"])*  "*""/" >
}
TOKEN : { < VAR: "VAR" > }
TOKEN : { < AS: "AS" >}
TOKEN : { < START: "START" > | < STOP: "STOP" > | < OUTPUT: "OUTPUT" > }
TOKEN : /* KEYWORDS */
{
    <INT: "INT">|<BOOL:"BOOL">|<FLOAT:"FLOAT">|<CHAR:"CHAR">
    |<AND: "AND"> | <OR: "OR"> | <NOT: "NOT">
}

TOKEN :
{
  < EQUALS: "=" > | < COLON: ":" > | <LPAR: "(">|<RPAR: ")">
}
TOKEN:
{
  < PLUS : "+" >|< MINUS :"-" >|< MUL: "*" >|< DIV: "/" >|< MOD: "%" >|< COMM: ",">
  |<LT: "<">|<GT: ">">|<LE: "<=">|<GE: ">=">|<EQ: "==">|<NE: "<>">
  |<CAT: "&">
}
TOKEN:
{
    < VARIABLE: <LETTER>(<LETTER>|<DIGIT>)* >
    | < #LETTER: ["a"-"z", "A"-"Z", "_"] >
    | < #DIGIT: ["0"-"9"] >
}
TOKEN:
{
    < INT_VALUE: (<DIGIT>)+ >
    | < FLOAT_VALUE: <INT_VALUE> "." (<DIGIT>)* | "." (<DIGIT>)+ >
    | < CHAR_VALUE: "\'" (~["\'","\\"]|<ESCAPE>) "\'" >
    | < STRING_VALUE: "\"" (~["\"","\\"]|<ESCAPE>)* "\"" >
    | < #ESCAPE: "\\" ["n","t","b","r","f","\\","\"","\'"] >
}

void input(): {} { (declaration())*  body() }
void varDeclaration(): {} { <VARIABLE> (<EQUALS> literalValue())?  }
void literalValue(): {} { <INT_VALUE> | <FLOAT_VALUE> | <CHAR_VALUE> | <STRING_VALUE> }
void declaration(): {} { <VAR> varDeclaration() (<COMM> varDeclaration())* <AS> type()}
void type(): {} {<INT>|<FLOAT>|<BOOL>|<CHAR>}
void body(): {} { <START> (statement())* <STOP> }
void statement(): {} { assignment() | output() }
void assignment(): {} { <VARIABLE> <EQUALS> expression() }
void output(): {} { <OUTPUT> <COLON> expression() }
void expression(): {} { comparison() (logicalOp() comparison())* }
void logicalOp(): {} { <AND> | <OR> }
void comparison(): {} { simpleExpression() ( comparisonOp() simpleExpression() )? }
void comparisonOp(): {} { <LT> | <GT> | <LE> | <GE> | <EQ> | <NE> }
void simpleExpression(): {} { term() ( addOp() term() )* }
void addOp(): {} { <PLUS> | <MINUS> | <CAT> }
void term(): {} { factor() ( mulOp() factor() )* }
void mulOp(): {} { <MUL> | <DIV> | <MOD> }
void factor(): {} {
    (<PLUS>|<MINUS>) factor()
    | <LPAR> expression() <RPAR>
    | <NOT> expression()
    | <VARIABLE>
    | literalValue()
}


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Q: "ellipsisable" navbar centered title I'm trying to build a top navbar where there is a centered title that should be automatically "ellipsed" when the title is very long or the screen width is narrow. For that I want to use the text-overflow: ellipsis property but it seems text-overflow: ellipsis requires the element to have a width, which is an issue because I had to make my title element an inline element.
Currently my HTML is

item1

item2

          My Title

item3

item4

And my CSS:
body {
  width: 100%
}
.navbar {
  position: fixed;
  text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;
  width: inherit;
}
.navbar-container {
  height: 20px;
  padding: 20px 18px;
}
ul {
  display:block;
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
li {
  display: block;
  float: left;
  margin-right: 18px;
  position: relative;
}
h1.title {
  width: 200px;
  display: inline;
  font-size: 17px;
}
.pull-left {
  float: left;
}
.pull-right {
  float: right;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/4CvRH/
Is there any approach (changing the HTML or the CSS) that can achieve what I need?

A: Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/4CvRH/2/
You can use inline-block instead of inline if you don't want your h1 to be a block level element.
h1.title {
    width: 200px;
    display: inline-block;
    font-size: 17px;
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
}


Could anyone kindly give some test case?
For each combination of obstacle(along x-axis), I consider a "tunnel" that is formed by "ceiling" and "floor", which are both series of segment.
Say ceiling is "(1,3) (2, 5) (3, 5) (4, 4) ..." and floor is "(1, 0) (2, 1) (3, 2) (4, 0)...." Then I output the minimum pairwise of the vertex forming the tunnel.
The first case is a zigzag maze where the man must go right, down, left, down, right. The second case is a passage with two "walls" close to each other, with wide openings. Your algorithm would return 1 and 4 for these tests, while the correct answer is 2.
I need to find a new algorithm, thanks a lot.
Anybody have any test cases. Everything I have checks out with the solution by hand including mazes and L=0, W=0 cases. I'm failing around the 1 second mark, did anyone have an issue with rounding here???


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More retail space to do up Kolkata skyline
Close to 10 lakh sq ft of retail space is being added to the city's existing inventory to accommodate more brands in its list of firstsTasmayee Laha Roy | ET Bureau | October 02, 2015, 19:30 IST
Close to 10 lakh sq ft of retail space is being added to the city's existing inventory to accommodate more brands in its list of firsts
KOLKATA: Close to 10 lakh sq ft of retail space is being added to the city's existing inventory to accommodate more brands in its list of firsts. A lot of well-known brands like Cinepolis, Being Human and TGIF are crowding Kolkata market this year.
However there has been a change of trend in terms of location of retail space. "All these years, retail was existing in high street formats. But with new projects the sites of development have shifted from City Centre to places like Rajarhat, Howrah and Belur," said Sushil Mohta managing director at the Merlin Group and president with Credai Bengal.
While Merlin Group's Acropolis Mall spread over 275,000 sq ft on EM Bypass threw open its doors earlier this week bringing in brands like Being Human, Hoppipola, Asia Kitchen, Auntie Annes and Cinnabon to the city , there are similar launches due in the next two years.
The largest among the upcoming launches being Shristi Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd's unnamed project in the Westin premises covering a little over 4,00000 sq ft, that is expected to launch by the end of 2017 in New Town. With Shristi, not just brands like Zara and H&M are expected to foray into the east but there would be at least a dozen international brands from the F&B and retail category that would be entering the Indian market.
There would be others like Tata Housing's Centrus and Bharti Astra's retail space at New Town Action Area II and Forum Group's 3.5 lakh sq ft mall Forum Rangoli adjoining their residential project Forum Pravesh in Belur.
"The total operational retail space of large format malls in the city is around 3.5 million sq ft. So, the trend is to cover unmapped micromarkets with small format or mid-size malls and the retail rental variance is quite large and varies between Rs 50 per sq ft per month to Rs 700 per sq ft per month," said Abhijit Das, director (east) ,Cushman & Wakefield.
Newer formats of retail space are also being experimented with. For instance, the one being developed by Shristi is grabbing attention of global fashion and F&B brands because of its new format. "This will be a mix of entertainment and lifestyle space. We'd be getting in Disney related activities for kids and lots of digital entertainment for adults in absolutely new formats," said Atul Bhalla, CEO, lifestyle and hospitality business at Shristi.
The Westin Project, a combination of residential, hospitality and retail, is being developed in three phases with the retail space expected to launch by the end of 2017.With new format, newer revenue sharing models too are being experimented with.
"The retailers in modern malls are now offering revenue shares to the landlord with minimum guarantee. There are different percentages of revenue share, for different kinds of product services. While hyper market will offer around 5%, the departmental store may offer around 8%. The normal stores offer 12 to 18%. Again F&B outlets offer 15 to 20% of their sale revenue," added Mohta.
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Nevada mom's story about why public records must be open, accessible
We often imagine news organizations requesting documents that uncover corruption or abuse. But that's not the end of the story.
Nevada mom's story about why public records must be open, accessible We often imagine news organizations requesting documents that uncover corruption or abuse. But that's not the end of the story. Check out this story on rgj.com: https://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/05/14/those-developmental-disabilities-need-help-public-records-too-says-professor/3673191002/
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This opinion column was written by Sondra Cosgrove, a professor of history at the College of Southern Nevada; she also began a term as president of the League of Women Voters of Nevada in July 2017.
My son David has bipolar disorder and is learning disabled. When he was 23, I brought him to a Clark County School District administrative office to get a document he needed to apply for services available to those with developmental disabilities. The document would prove he had attended school but didn't graduate.
When he got to the counter, David asked for "a paper showing he attended school." That's the way someone who is learning disabled speaks. But for the school district clerk he was talking to, it wasn't good enough. She said CCSD didn't have such a document, and she rudely and dismissively turned him away.
More: Here's why the RGJ backs a major reform to make Nevada's public records more accessible
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I intervened, explaining that David has an illness that limits his communication skills and that he needed a certificate of attendance for his Social Security disability application. She looked at me like I was wasting her time.
"We don't maintain those records," she said.
I asked to speak to her supervisor. Within a few minutes, we had the document we needed.
This was not an isolated incident. I repeatedly have been forced to serve as an advocate for my son so he can get the public records he needs to survive.
Under a bill now being considered in the Nevada Legislature, the Clark County School District clerk would have been required by law to help. Senate Bill 287, sponsored by Sen. David Parks, also would establish penalties against agencies that willfully refuse to release public documents and would limit the fees they can charge the public to provide copies of the records taxpayers rightfully own.
More: This public records bill could help your right to know in Nevada. Some agencies are fighting it
Parents of children with mental illnesses or developmental disabilities face many obstacles caring for their loved ones. Accessing public records should not be one of those obstacles. But when my son asked for a simple document that would provide him with access to food and shelter, the CCSD clerk he spoke with couldn't be bothered to help.
If David was on his own or had a parent who was unable to challenge a decision made in a public office, he probably would be living on the streets or in a jail cell. Access to public records has allowed David to live independently, not struggle to provide for his basic needs.
In addition to being David's mom, I am a history professor and the president of the League of Women Voters of Nevada. We are a proud member of Right to Know Nevada, a large coalition of organizations supporting SB 287. The league has always championed government transparency as a vital component of civic engagement, so our support of Sen. Parks' legislation is a no-brainer.
As a history professor, I can attest to the necessity of reviewing original records. If we can't evaluate our public agencies by reviewing the records that document their actions and processes, we will be unable to hold them accountable.
But I also agreed to support SB 287 because of my personal experiences with my own son. When we think of public records laws, we often imagine news organizations requesting documents that uncover corruption or abuse. But how often do we think about the people who suffer from mental illness and developmental disabilities who need public records, but can't get them because they are unable to "appropriately" communicate their needs? Without help from government employees who can navigate the system, they are left to fend for themselves.
It would be nice if every public official in Nevada were endowed with the empathy that makes that kind of help routine. But that isn't the case. SB 287 would provide the enforcement mechanism necessary to remind recalcitrant bureaucrats that public records belong to all of us, and that they must help requestors get the documents they need. In some cases, it can mean the difference between access to food and shelter or a life on the streets.
Please consider calling 1-800-992-0973 or 702-486-2626 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to let your state representatives know that you believe government records belong to all Nevada citizens and that you support Senate Bill 287.
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Lloyd's of London 2010 profit down 43 pct
Lloyd's of London said on Wednesday that its profit dropped by 43 per cent last year as the insurance market took big losses from earthquakes in Chile and New Zealand and from BP's oil rig spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lloyd's said its full year pretax profit was STG2.2 billion ($A3.42 billion), down from STG3.9 billion ($A6.07 billion) in 2009. Gross premium income rose 3 per cent to STG22.6 billion ($A35.16 billion).
The market's combined ratio - the measure of premiums against claims - was 93.3 per cent, compared with 86.1 per cent for 2009. Any measure below 100 per cent indicates an underwriting profit, and a lower number indicates higher profitability.
Peter Levene, chairman of Lloyd's, said 2011 looks like another difficult year because of unrest in the Middle East, floods in Australia, another earthquake in New Zealand and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
While it is too early to accurately gauge losses in Japan, Levene said, "it is, of course, nothing compared to the human cost of the tragedy."
Chief Executive Richard Ward said he was confident that Lloyds could cover its losses in Japan.
Lloyd's said it expected to pay out between $300 million and $600 million in claims from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster.
It estimates that claims from the Chilean earthquake in February will be 857 million pounds, and it expects to pay 428 million pounds for claims from the September quake in New Zealand.
The market benefited from a benign year of Atlantic windstorms. Although there were 19 named tropical cyclones, the third-highest number in a century, the storms missed landing in the United States or hitting Gulf of Mexico energy fields.
However, the financial crisis may yet cost the insurance market. "We have not yet seen the full anticipated claims impact of the worldwide recession," largely through claims on bad loans and losses on investments, Lloyd's noted.
One of the high points of the past year, Levene said, was gaining a licence to operate in China.
Unlike most insurers, Lloyd's operates as a society of members, which may be insurance companies, specialist investors or individuals. Members underwrite insurance through 85 syndicates which compete for business in many specialty areas including marine, aviation, professional indemnity, catastrophe and motor insurance.
Lloyd's does not report a net result, because the tax impact varies among its corporate and individual members. As an association, Lloyd's is not publicly traded, though some of its members are listed companies.
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This is as close as you'll get to seeing the finished product until the Hendo 2.0 is fully revealed later this month.Arx Pax
Brian Barrett
The New Hendo Hoverboard Is a Warm-Up for Elon's Hyperloop
Hoverboard today, Hyperloop tomorrow.
Last fall, a company called Arx Pax raised over $500,000 Kickstarter dollars on its way to building Hendo, a hulking hoverboard that really did lift its riders a few inches above the ground. This year's update, Hendo 2.0, will offer a smoother design and better controls. It also, though, points to a company whose ambitions are as future-forward as the Hyperloop itself.
First, the hoverboard. Its official unveiling will be October 21, a date familiar to Back to the Future fans as the exact future Marty McFly travels to in the acclaimed first sequel. That's mostly for show, though; Arx Pax is sharing plenty of details about the Hendo 2.0's enhancements in advance of unveiling the finished product. In fact, many of its improvements are design-related.
"One of the things we realized was that with our first generation hoverboard we made a large deck," explains Arx Pax co-founder and CEO Greg Henderson. "That gave people the opportunity to put their feet in the wrong place," which in turn resulted in several hoverboard rides that felt quite a bit more wobbly than the sci-fi future many imagined.
One internal critic of the previous board's design? Tony Hawk, whom the company had enlisted to help promote last year's Hendo effort. Perhaps it's unsurprising, then, that this new hoverboard draws quite a bit more inspiration from a skateboard than last year's Tron-like foot-zeppelin.
The Hendo 2.0 hoverboard is mostly just a sideshow. It's a proof of concept for where Arx Pax's hover engines really belong: the Hyperloop.
"We're using visual cues to make it operate as much like a skateboard as we can," says Henderson of Hendo 2.0. "We have a slightly longer version, a 36-inch board that's about 10-inches wide, and it's got the front and rear kick tails. You're able to use those to more efficiently shift your weight around," similarly to how you might on an analog deck. The Hendo 2.0 also employs traditional skateboard trucks—the part that connects the wheels and bearings to the deck, although in this case instead of wheels you've got electromagnetic repulsion—to let riders customize the experience to their liking.
"If you want to turn right on a skateboard, you lean to your right, and the trucks rotate slightly. And that little bit of rotation changes our force vectors," Henderson explains. "Skateboarders understand how trucks work, so essentially our Kickstarter backers will be able to modify them and change the trucks to their liking for harder or softer turning radiuses." Those trucks also, importantly, provide traction, to keep riders from sliding all over the place.
That certainly sounds, at least, like a major improvement over the original Hendo, which tended fly around like, in one reviewer's words, "a giant air hockey puck." The battery life is better, too, though it's a low bar; last year's Hendo only lasted a few minutes before petering out.
Henderson envisions hoverboards someday occupying the same strata of American Pastimes as, say an electric GoKart course. Or better still, a multi-use, X-Games style set-up. "A hoverboard park franchiser would install a park," he says of one potential business model. "You'd have a layer of conductive material, but it'd still be functional for BMX bikes and skateboards."
If you're wondering what that might look like, Lexus was kind enough to provide an example this summer. Its Slide hoverboard demonstration took place at a specially built park almost exactly in the manner Henderson describes. The Slide and Hendo take slightly different approaches, but a similar set-up would work just fine. In fact, Henderson says he's already registered commercial interest from a team in New Zealand.
What may be most interesting about Hendo 2.0, though, is that like its predecessor, it's mostly just a sideshow. It's a proof of concept for where Henderson thinks Arx Pax's hover engines really belong: the Hyperloop.
Hoverloop
Last year, Henderson used Hendo to draw attention to his company's underlying technology, patents that could enable everything from earthquake-resistant building foundations to, say, super-villain weapons.
This year, that list expands to one very specific—though still far-flung—target. Henderson's a strong believer in the Hyperloop, and an even stronger believer that Arx Pax has the technology to make it work.
"When you consider the ideal showcase for the capabilities of our hover engines, it's the Hyperloop," Henderson says. "We're able to provide propulsion, control, levitation, braking, and guidance in one system, as opposed to other systems of either mag lev or air bearings, which require different systems for all those different components."
Henderson points out that Japan's mag lev trains, while fast and reliable, are also terrifically expensive to build, in part because it's too difficult to bank them around mountains. Instead, you need to dig tunnels through them. Hypothetically, Arx Pax's hover engines would experience no such limitations.
That hasn't been proven out yet on a large scale. And even if it had been, there's no guarantee that Elon Musk's Hoverloop dreams will ever actually manifest. There's reason enough not to be dismissive out of hand, though, either of hover engines or the Hoverloop itself. The latter recently entered into an agreement with a leading global engineering design firm, and an open competition to produce viable, half-scale Hyperloop pods remains on schedule for next summer.
Arx Pax, meanwhile, this week successfully demonstrated its technology in a Hyperloop environment, albeit on a 1/12 scale:
SpaceX has also approved Arx Pax's Magnetic Field Architecture for use in the competition, meaning it could potentially show up in any number of proofs-of-concept. Henderson, not surprisingly, is convinced it will also be what powers the final design.
That's all years away, though, if it even happens at all. There are plenty of capable technologies competing for Hyperloop glory alongside hover engines, and plenty of technological issues that could sideline the whole project. For now, there's just a hoverboard. A sentence that may be the best indication of all of just how far in the future we're living.
Brian Barrett is Executive Editor, News at WIRED, overseeing day to day coverage across the site. Prior to WIRED he was the editor in chief of the tech and culture site Gizmodo and was a business reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest daily newspaper.
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What to watch while we debate UFOs
Hence, the "unidentified" part.
While all of us argument if there is smart life kind out there (and in some cases we need to discuss just how much of that is in fact here in the world), here are a couple of sci-fi choices to stream:
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Unique Representatives Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were so great that the initial 1990s series stimulated a franchise that included 2 motion pictures and a reboot of the initial tv series. The initial series ran for 9 seasons from 1993 to 2002 and the revival aired for 2 seasons from 2016-2018. In movie theaters, "The X-Files" was launched in 1998 and followed ten years later on by "The X-Files: I Want to Believe."
You can see the initial series on Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TELEVISION and YouTube.
The initial "Star Trek" is a timeless, however do not sleep on this 3rd series in the franchise.
It provided the complete collection of sci-fi, action, experience, secret and some periodic uncomfortable love. The syndicated series aired for 7 seasons from 1987 to 1994.
Capture it streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TELEVISION, Hulu and YouTube.
The Golden Zone
If you wish to go old-fashioned, there's constantly the initial "Twilight Zone" series from the 1960s hosted by the godfather of sci-fi TELEVISION, Rod Serling.
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TELEVISION, Hulu and YouTube have it streaming.
If there are aliens hanging out in our planetary system we may need to understand how to fight them, right?
That's where "Stargate SG-1" can be found in. Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and his team reveal us a thing or more after they discover a Stargates map that lets them fight alien maneuvers all throughout the galaxy. Starting in 1997, the series aired for 10 seasons on Showtime and the Sci-Fi Channel.
You can discover it on Netflix, Apply TELEVISION, Hulu and YouTube.
Jobber Wiki author Frank Long contributed to this report.
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