RAM Ratings has reaffirmed the C2/Stable rating of Lebuhraya Kajang-Seremban Sdn Bhd's (LEKAS or the Company) RM633 million Junior Sukuk Istisna' (Junior Sukuk) (2007/2025). The rating takes into consideration the low likelihood of repayment of the Junior Sukuk as well as its deep subordination to the Company's other debt obligations, i.e. its Redeemable Convertible Secured Islamic Debt Securities (RCSIDS) and Syndicated Term Loan (STL). Following LEKAS's debt-restructuring exercise in October 2013, repayments on its Junior Sukuk are not permissible until the STL and RCSIDS have been fully repaid. Given the mismatch between LEKAS's annual cash-generating capacity and the lumpy one-off repayment on the RCSIDS in April 2023, we maintain our view that the Company will have to refinance its RCSIDS upon maturity. LEKAS holds the concession for the 44-km Kajang-Seremban Highway (LEKAS Highway or the Highway) until May 2039.
After two years of declines, LEKAS's revenue hit a record high of RM79.8 million in FY Mar 2018, driven by a turnaround in its long-haul traffic volume (+1.07% y-o-y) and the solid growth of its short-haul traffic (+9.47% y-o-y). As the LEKAS Highway is a closed-toll expressway where long-distance commuters have a significant impact on its revenue, the marginal improvement in long-haul traffic had accordingly improved its revenue and earnings.
Any risk of delays of compensation without any revision in scheduled tariff hikes could potentially lead to a default on its STL. We note that compensation from the Government of Malaysia (GoM) has been paid despite some delays, i.e. the advance payment for each year is usually only received in the third or fourth quarter. We believe the GoM will continue to honour the compensation arrangement in the event of non-revision, as observed to date.
Similar to most concession-related projects, LEKAS is also exposed to regulatory and single-project risks.


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What is bioeconomy, and why develop one?
Global trends such as increasing population, scarcity of resources and materials, and climate change are putting more and more pressure on our fossil resources. To alleviate this pressure, many leading countries and regions such as the European Union, the United States, Japan, India, Brazil, and China are strongly committed to the development of a more sustainable economy: the bioeconomy.
Although the exact definition of the concept of the bioeconomy is under discussion, this green economy is based on a number of basic aspects.
Firstly, the bioeconomy will rely on renewable biomass rather than fossil input to produce a wide range of products, including food, animal feed, pharmaceuticals, plastics, bioenergy, ...
Two, these bio-based products will be produced, as much as possible, according to the cascade principle. This cascade principle implies that biomass is first used for applications with the highest possible value, after which the residual flows are used as input for a subsequent application.
Three, the bioeconomy therefore produces no waste. The final residual flow from a bio-refinery process can be processed in soil-improving applications, which makes the bioeconomy as circular as possible.
The bioeconomy can therefore be seen as a collection of sectors and sub-sectors such as food, feed, chemicals, energy and fuels, and pharmaceuticals that all work together to produce products derived from renewable sources. As an applied research institute for agriculture, fisheries and food, ILVO wants to play an important role in creating and building knowledge that will facilitate the transition of the Flemish economy towards the bioeconomy.
Applied research to inspire new paths towards a Flemish bioeconomy
In the transition towards the bioeconomy, Flanders is confronted with a number of specific challenges and opportunities, within which the agri-business complex plays an important role. As an applied research institute with a focus on agriculture, fisheries and food in Flanders, ILVO wants to play an important role in building knowledge that can help facilitate the transition to a Flemish bioeconomy.
We focus on the sustainable valorisation of both medium and large local biomass streams. The medium-sized streams are of great relevance for Flanders, given the small and medium-sized farms and food and feed companies.
An integrated chain approach is essential to strengthen the inter-relationship between primary production and biobased industries.
Through a systemic perspective, the aim is to close cycles better, both locally and globally. Economic, social and ecological trade-offs are analysed and potential win-win scenarios are identified.
ILVO believes in the power of a multi-actor approach and is well-placed to tackle the bioeconomy challenges with more than 600 well-trained, multidisciplinary staff working in local, national and international projects.
Given the multidisciplinarity of our institute, research is conducted in an integrated manner and coordinated at various levels. Our focus in bioeconomy research is in 4 clusters:
System innovation - facilitating the transition from agrifood to bioeconomy
Sustainable use of natural resources
Primary production of biomass
Optimal valorisation of locally processed biomass
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The Sharing Economy: Think Like Uber, Act Like Apple, Move Like Google
Published: Mar 15, 2016 Last Updated: Feb 14, 2022 by Ramon Ray In Startup Advice 1
There's a lot to be learned from the sharing economy as people have dubbed this era of crowdsourcing everything from cars to vacation rentals to pet walkers. We as a society are shifting away from owning, and moving toward having access to things we need.
But is trying to become the Uber of video rentals, the Airbnb of yurts, or the TaskRabbit of politicians as easy as all that? Or do you (and yes, I'm throwing you a softball here) need other elements to succeed?
In my mind, this would be the perfect formula for a successful business in the sharing economy:
Nimble thinking like Uber + good design like Apple + agility like Google = sharing economy
Let's walk through that formula, shall we?
Take Uber's Ability to Rock an Industry …
Every day, taxi drivers in yet another country are raising their fists against Uber. It's the demise of the taxi industry, many think. Or is it? Airbnb had the same issue, upsetting the hotel apple cart. And yet, the two companies persist. Thrive even. Neither company likely has the goal of destroying the industry it competes with, but the impact is impossible to ignore.
I, like many Uber customers, am drawn to its efficient use of technology (in New York City we don't have to telephone the taxi company, but it's annoying everywhere else). What industry frustrates you with its inefficiencies? How could you disrupt that industry with improved user experience?
Throw in a Dash of Apple's Solid Design …
Uber wouldn't be so popular if its app weren't so easy to use. Set your address. Tell the app where you want to go. Request an Uber. But wait, it gets better. You can view on a map where your driver is, and get notified when he's approaching. You even see a photo of him so you don't end up getting into the wrong car.
Apple is the leader when it comes to smart design. The iPhone was a game-changer when it came out. Who thought technology could be sexy and functional? Apply the same concept to your business. Even if you're not building hardware, you can use clever design on your website, in your products, or even in your processes. Make whatever you sell appealing and easy to use.
Float Like a Feather Like Google …
Google is the infrastructure most of us build our businesses on. If the new algorithm tells us to jump, we ask how high. But those algorithms are based on Google's in-depth research, which is quick to keep up with how people are trying to game search results. In other words: Google thrives by not resting on its laurels.
It's inspiration for any business to see how Google's speed helps it stay ahead of other search engines. How every year it seems that the brand is coming out with new innovation. It's moving so quickly and pivoting ever so slightly, that no competitor stands a chance of keeping up. Can your brand do that?
Succeed In The Sharing Economy
To succeed in the sharing economy — or in any industry, for that matter — you should take the best of these three inspiring companies and make the mix your own. Results may vary, but I'm willing to bet in your success.
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Even on the official reckoning of the Department of Environment (DoE), one in three of the country's brick kilns is in operation without licence. But a top official of the DoE informally claims that 60 per cent of the kilns have been operating illegally and that too after the brick law came into force on July 01, 2014. The Paribesh Bachao Andolan (POBA) holds that no less than 50 per cent of the brick kilns have no approval and do not apply the advanced technology for brick-making. However, the number of kilns also varies. The DoE estimates those at 6,843 while the POBA and other sources put the number at 8,000 to 9,000. Although, the traditional chimneys of brick kilns have been mostly replaced and the improved version of burning bricks employed, kiln owners often resort to devious ploys for using banned wood or logs as fuel. In remote areas, the traditional ones operate clandestinely in violation of the 2013 brick law.
In case of operation of brick kilns, therefore, the violation of the law takes mainly on two fronts. First, there are those who do not feel the need for renewal of their kilns' licence and environmental certificate and others who have never sought approval for their kilns. The other type of violation is breaching the regulations by pretending that those are not violated. This concerns the surreptitious use of wood or logs in the kiln instead of coal. How this can happen is explained by the officials of the DoE. Understaffed, the department cannot monitor the brick kilns located all across the country. The claim is not totally unfounded but given the will, it could launch a campaign for making people aware of the enormous damage done to the environment.
A World Bank-aided project has introduced Hybrid Hoffman Kiln (HHK) technology after its improvement in China and still some readjustments to suit local condition. It has the advantage of bringing down the pollution by half. The other advantages are the improvement in working condition for labourers. They enjoy many facilities including fixed wages for less labour irrespective of men and women. Such kilns have even earned carbon credit and the extra money received is spent on medical needs of workers.
The HHK technology may comparatively look better, but a country of Bangladesh's size with such a large population should look for the best option open to it. It is intriguing why bricks should not be totally rejected as a construction material. Concrete blocks are far better an alternative to bricks. But those have not been promoted as such. Why? In terms of stress resistance, load-taking, durability, thermal insulation and ease of construction, the hollow concrete blocks are miles ahead of burnt bricks which even are affected by weather. Due to the hollow space, the blocks are lighter and need less material. Thus these keep the interior of a building cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Above everything else, they are competitive in price and environmentally friendly. This country cannot afford any further loss of its lands to brick kilns and pollution to environment. Brick kilns should be phased out and bricks rejected as construction materials in favour of concrete blocks.


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The UW Organ Program Needs Our Support
A message from Chapter Dean Sr. Jo Baim and
Dr. Carole Terry, Professor Emerita of Organ
at the University of Washington
The University of Washington's Organ Program is in
Danger of Closing
The Pacific Northwest is in danger of losing one of its indispensable cultural assets: The University of Washington School of Music's Organ Department.
Recently, the University has been favoring "STEM" programs, and, in the wake of the retirement of Carole Terry (UW Professor of Organ), the decision was made to no longer fund the organ program. We believe this decision ignores the important and significant artistic, cultural, and outreach value of the organ program, and that this decision should not go unchallenged.
The UW's organ program enjoys an international reputation and has attracted students from three continents. Its graduates fill posts at Stanford University, Korea National University, and
Rikkyo University, Tokyo, to name only a few. Closer to home, the Director of Music at St. James Cathedral, Seattle, the resident organist of the Seattle Symphony, and over 30 church positions are held by program alumni. The program is one of only two West Coast organ programs that offered advanced degrees in organ performance and scholarship.
Support the UW organ program. Pledges will be matched by the Seattle AGO!
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Since her appointment to the School of Music's organ post in 1979, Carole Terry has performed, taught, lectured and adjudicated in Europe, Great Britain, and the Far East as well as in many of the United States. She consulted in the design of Benaroya Hall's Watjen Concert Organ, was the first Seattle Symphony organist, and made the first recording of solo works on the instrument. She raised the private funds necessary to build the University's own
Littlefield Organ, in Kane Hall, and the Hollingsworth-Bagdi practice organ at the School of Music.
Over the past five decades, the Pacific Northwest has become a major center for arts related to the organ. Several renowned organ builders live and work here. Our region is home to a number of spectacular instruments, which draw performers from all over the world—instruments which are also available to the University's organ students for practice and performance.
The organ program at the University of Washington is at the core of the Northwest's outstanding resources of professionally trained musicians—organists who serve over 100 community choirs and choruses, numerous symphony and chamber orchestras, in addition to churches and synagogues. If there is no organ position at the School of Music, there will be no organ students. Not only will the reputation of UW Music be diminished, but the local well-spring of future generations of talented, dedicated organists who remain in the Northwest and
build their careers here will dry up. This will have a community-wide negative impact on the arts in our area.
We believe this requires a united response from our Chapter membership.
In order to secure funding for an organ position, money must be raised and given to the School of Music as restricted gifts for an organ position. The cost of an endowment for an Artist-in-Residence position is $2.5 million. For a full faculty position, the cost is $4 million. The University Development office will not accept gifts of under $250,000.
Recently the Board of our local AGO Chapter met with Dr. Terry to discuss what might be done on our end. Our support for the UW's organ program is absolute and enthusiastic; there is no question that we must do all we can to ensure its survival.
We are asking you—our Chapter membership—to join us in leading the way in a fund-raising effort to save the organ program at the UW School of Music.
Dr. Terry has identified a number of potential major donors in the area, and an appeal will also be made to program alumni around the country. But we, the local chapter, need to show our support quickly and decisively.
The Board has been looking for a major project in which to invest some of our surplus funds, and by unanimous vote, we feel that we could make no better choice than to invest in the outstanding and important cultural and educational resource of the organ program at UW.
Thus, the Board has approved Chapter matching funds of up to $125,000, to match gifts from members and supporters and reach at least the $250,000 threshold of the University's Development Office.
Below you will find more financial details, and a pledge form at the top of the page. We don't ask for money at the moment – just a pledge of what you would like to contribute. We plan to collect all money toward the end of March, 2020, in order to make our combined donation in timely fashion by April 1.
Thank you for considering a gift to this important cause. Your gift will be doubled and have a lasting impact on not only our own specialty of organ playing, but on the arts in the Puget Sound region in general.
Sr. Jo Baim, PhD, A/OblOSB
Dean, AGO Seattle
Dr. Carole Terry
Professor of Organ
"When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping"
– W.P. Gerberding, former president of UW
"The recent decisions to defund the instruction of organ and harpsichord at the University of Washington School of Music should be troubling to all who have an active interest in the cause of fine music as part of the liturgy of the Church.
For many decades, churches through Western Washington been well-served by musicians who have received their organ and choral training at the University of Washington School of Music. The Archdiocese of Seattle has been especially blessed by the service of countless organists and choir directors in its parishes and in particular, St. James Cathedral. These superb musicians have brought what they have learned from the UW and enriched the liturgical life of their parishes and the parishioners they serve. Their time at the UW has been a particularly important part of their formation as liturgical musicians; the disruption of this instruction casts a dark shadow upon the future vitality of music in the church.
Efforts are underway to establish a foundation of support to ensure that this vital instruction is not discontinued. I invite all who are in a position to do so, to support these efforts generously with your prayers and financial resources."
–The Very Rev. Michael G. Ryan, Pastor, St. James Cathedral (Roman Catholic)
"The central role of the organ as an instrument used to gather the community at Saint Mark's Cathedral cannot be overstated. It is the means by which we come to understand our place in a rich tradition centuries old, and the resonant beauty of organ music speaks to our souls in ways that lend meaning and connection.
We celebrate the long partnership we have with the UW Music Department's Organ Instruction program, and we rely on this auspicious program to raise up future generations of organists who will ensure the legacy of this special instrument of music will be preserved."
–The Very Rev. Steven L. Thomason, Dean and Rector, St. Mark's Cathedral (Episcopal)
"The UW's organ program has ramifications throughout the Northwest musical community because of the ubiquity of the concert organ, which serves so many communities. It is vital, of course, to religious observance in the multitude of cathedrals and churches in this region. But the organ is not merely a religious instrument: it is a concert instrument, too, and a significantly important one that the Seattle Symphony's Benaroya Hall supporters knew they could not build the new hall without a first-rate organ (the Watjen Concert Organ).
The UW School of Music has already lost so many significant faculty positions. The more positions are lost, the fewer music students will come, resulting in still fewer faculty members … a vicious circle on which the School of Music has already embarked. There is still time to reverse this downward slide, but it must happen on a case-by-case basis. Restoring the Organ Faculty position is a good place to start."
–Melinda Bargreen, Music Critic and Composer
Recent unprecedented gains in the stock market have resulted in our Chapter having more money in our investments than a non-profit can justifiably retain. In the past few months, the Board has been discussing the best way to draw down what is really a surplus of funds.
We feel that doing our part to help the situation at the UW is the best use of this abundance.
As stated above, the goal is to create a position funded by restricted, designated money for a faculty organist at the University of Washington School of Music.
$2.5 million would fund an Artist in Residence position
$4 million would create the endowment for a full faculty position
The Board has voted to use Chapter funds to match donations up to $125,000, for a total amount of at least $250,000.
Right now, we ask only that you make a pledge. If our campaign is successful, we will collect money and make one combined donation from the Chapter by April 1, 2020. $250,000 is the smallest amount the UW Development Office will accept, so if we are not successful, we will not collect any donations. If the overall campaign is not successful, UW will return pledges.
Please note that if you itemize your tax deductions and meet all necessary criteria, your donation to this campaign will be tax deductible.
We hope that you will consider making a donation to this worthy cause, knowing that the impact of your gift will be doubled by Chapter funds.
Please use the from above to make your pledge. Your pledge will be tracked by only one person at this point and will always remain confidential.
Thank you for joining us in securing professional organ instruction at the University of Washington
for years to come!


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Episode 3 - Mansa Musa's Massive Sack (Journeys Week)
Sam's Episode Notes: The Hajj of Mansa Musa: The long walk that destroyed an economy.
King Mansa Musa the first of Mali was LOADED. One of the richest men to ever live, he actually became king by accident. See, he was originally the advisor to his predecessor, who went off on an ocean trip to explore new worlds, and vanished. So you have to kind of question the motives of the guy who advised him to do that. Anyway, Musa became the 10th king of Mali in 1312. And Musa became RICH. The empire of Mali was huge, it had Been growing rapidly for around a century before he came along, and under Musa, it grew even richer, capturing most of Mauritania Mali had ridiculous gold and salt reserves, as well as being on the sub-saharan trade routes and a major source of slave trading. His kingdom produced most of the world's gold, so being the Mansa, which means king or literally conqueror, was basically a ticket to print money. There is no way to really assess how wealthy he was, because quite simply there was nothing to compare it to. But I've seen estimates of a personal wealth of $400 billion banded around. So, a lot. His personal wealth eclipsed most European nations' treasuries.
Put it this way, along his 1324 pilrimage to Mecca, he ruined the economies of every place he travelled through just by being there. And by trying to be generous. So, as you can tell by the fact he was going on pilgrimage, Musa was a devout Muslim, and so wanted to perform the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca. It was a long trip, a journey of about 9,000 kilometres or 5,500 miles. He would travel across central Africa, and then up through Egypt. So, quite the backpacking trip. Better pack light, eh? Not if you're richest man in the world. Mansa's overnight bag contained the following: 60,000 of his closest companions and their friends, 12,000 slaves, each carrying a little under two kilograms of gold, 80 camels with up to 135kg of gold. And 500 servants to march in front of the procession, each carrying a 5kg golden staff. So, in all, about 32 tonnes of gold. And a change of pants. To give you some idea of just how much that is, today, all the gold mines in the world produce around 3,000 tonnes a year. So he took 1% of the world's current gold production with him for holiday spending Money. And this was in a time before machinery – all dug by hand, All incredibly rare. I did some maths based on historical gold prices, and in 2018 money, he took 283 million quid on holiday with him. And he single handedly ruined the economies of everywhere he went along the way. The problem is that gold is rare, which is why its used as money. By giving away more gold to everyone he met than they would have earned in their lifetime, it caused the price of goods and food to skyrocket. Money became worthless and hyperinflation threatened Governments along his path. His donations caused a decade-long recession in Cairo, Medina and Mecca. He ruined. Ruined. The countries he travelled through. But, you know, he was a generous sort. And so, on his way back and learning that he'd accidentally caused a recession by partying too hard, he tried to fix it by borrowing back as much gold as he could from the locals at high interest rates. Did it fix it? No. But in the process he managed to inadvertently control the price of gold for the entire Mediterranean and north Africa. In fact, if you look at the historical price of gold, at around the time Musa went on his little trip, world prices dropped by 50%. Gold wouldn't be as cheap for another 700 years, until world war one mucked up the world economy.
Most historians believe his intentions were good, although there are a couple who suggest that he actually went out to economically ruin his neighbours. But given that gold was Mali's biggest export and he crashed the price of, er, gold, that may be unlikely. It's estimated Musa wiped the equivalent of £1.5 billion off the Islamic world's economy – and like all the great bearers of financial disaster, he got off scot free and slunk off into obscurity. After returning from his little trip in 1325, we don't really know much more about what happened to history's richest man. Some believe he died shortly after returning home and his son became the Mansa, but other historical records suggest he was still in charge for another ten years or so, or retired at some point during that time. The Mali Empire carried on being ridiculously rich for another could of hundred years before collapsing through infighting and then being swallowed up by its neighbours. And that's the story of how one man's holiday ruined several economies.
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Viking Sagas
Greenland and Newfoundland and Labrador
Saga of Eric the Red and Greenland Saga
13th Century documents, event around 1000AD
3 good journeys described
· Early settler of Iceland
· Banished to an Island off Iceland
o Landslip
o Eyjolf the Foul
o Fight and deaths
· Beads/pillars to Thorgest
· Discover new land
o Gunnbjorn – 100 years earlier
o Greenland
o Return to Iceland; settlers ('Greenland').
Thorbjorn
· Join Eric
· Terrible journey
o Fevers and gails
o Half of crew survive
· Tough times in Greenland too!
· Thorbjorg
o Prophetess
§ Dress
§ Food
§ Prophecy
§ Weird Song
· Finally joins Eric
Leif Erikson
· Son of Eric
· Sails to Norway
o Olaf Tryggvason
o Christianity
· Blown of course
· QUOTE
· Reaches home
· Christianity = no sex
Karselfni, Snorri, Bjarni, Thorhall +160 men
· Thorhall QUOTE
o 160 men
· Keel of ship
· 2 Scots; fleet footed
· Clothing QUOTE
o Onesie
· 3 days
· Wheat and grapes
· Difficult winter
o Praying to god
o Thorhall sings to Thor - whale
o Gloats
o No more whale!
· Summer, party splits
o Thorhall blown of course to Ireland and dies
· Find great spot
o Nine canoes
o QUOTE
· Later
o More Skraelings
o Trade
· Later still
o Bull escapes
o Scares Skraelings
o 3 weeks later fight
o Catapults and missiles
· Continue journeying
o 3 Skraeling chest full of blood and marrow
o Family; kidnap the kids
o Land beyond QUOTE
· One legged men
o Monopods
o Mappa mundi
o Pliny the Elder
o Isidore of Seville
· Headed to Iceland
o Bjarni's ship; sea worm


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Sepp Blatter back at work at FIFA HQ, due to address staff
By Rob Harris - Associated Press - Monday, September 28, 2015
ZURICH — Sepp Blatter is back at work at FIFA headquarters, three days after being interrogated there by Swiss investigators, and is due to address staff at the scandal-battered governing body later on Monday.
The FIFA president is scheduled to speak at a staff meeting, which is being characterized as a regular gathering that takes place at least once a month rather than the stage for a sudden announcement.
Blatter is awaiting a possible announcement from the FIFA ethics committee on whether he will be suspended as a result of the Swiss investigation into possible criminal mismanagement and misappropriation of FIFA money.
Blatter adviser Klaus Stoehlker made public the time of the staff meeting, which is planned for 4 p.m. local time. Blatter is due to hand over power after February's election.


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Q: use genfromtxt() to load the file and then check the number of missing values in each column using the numpy isnan() function with sum() I am trying to load this file using genfromtxt and count missing values in each column

below is my code:
import numpy as np

data = np.genfromtxt(datafile, delimiter=",", names=["col1","col2","col3","col4","col5","col6"], dtype=None, encoding='ascii')

missing_values = np.isnan(data)

but it gives me below error:
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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-120-a4d778701252> in <module>
----> 1 missing_values = np.isnan(data)

TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''

A: The problem is that np.isnan works only with float; but when you use names in genfromtxt, you complicate the dtype:

If names is a sequence or a single-string of comma-separated names,
the names will be used to define the field names in a structured
dtype. If names is None, the names of the dtype fields will be used,
if any.

The easiest way is to use genfromtxt without column names (as dtype float), and then count the nan values:
data = np.genfromtxt(datafile, delimiter=",", encoding='ascii')
np.count_nonzero(np.isnan(data))

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import java.time.LocalDateTime;

import de.bund.bva.isyfact.datetime.util.DateTimeUtil;
import de.bund.bva.isyfact.exception.BaseException;
import org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.ManagedAttribute;
import org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.ManagedOperation;
import org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.ManagedResource;

/**
 * Monitor-Klasse zur Überwachung von Tasks mit JMX.
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@ManagedResource(description = "Überwacht eine zur wiederholten Ausführung geplante Aufgabe")
public class TaskMonitor {

    private volatile LocalDateTime letzteAusfuehrungAbgeschlossen;

    private volatile boolean letzteAusfuehrungErfolgreich;

    private volatile Exception letzterFehler;

    private volatile Task task;

    void setTask(Task task) {
        this.task = task;
    }

    public void zeichneErfolgreicheAusfuehrungAuf() {
        letzteAusfuehrungAbgeschlossen = DateTimeUtil.localDateTimeNow();
        letzteAusfuehrungErfolgreich = true;
        letzterFehler = null;
    }

    public void zeichneFehlgeschlageneAusfuehrungAuf(Exception letzterFehler) {
        letzteAusfuehrungAbgeschlossen = DateTimeUtil.localDateTimeNow();
        letzteAusfuehrungErfolgreich = false;
        this.letzterFehler = letzterFehler;
    }

    @ManagedAttribute(description = "Manuelle Deaktivierung des Tasks")
    public boolean isDeaktiviert() {
        return this.task.isDeaktiviert();
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    @ManagedOperation(description = "Deaktiviert den Task")
    public void deaktivieren() {
        this.task.deaktivieren();
    }

    @ManagedOperation(description = "Aktiviert den Task")
    public void aktivieren() {
        this.task.aktivieren();
    }

    @ManagedAttribute(description = "Ende der letzten Ausführung")
    public LocalDateTime getLetzteAusfuehrungAbgeschlossen() {
        return letzteAusfuehrungAbgeschlossen;
    }

    @ManagedAttribute(description = "Erfolg der letzten Ausführung")
    public boolean isLetzteAusfuehrungErfolgreich() {
        return letzteAusfuehrungErfolgreich;
    }

    @ManagedAttribute(description = "Bei Misserfolg: Ausnahme-ID des letzten Fehlers")
    public String getLetzterFehlerAusnahmeId() {
        if (letzterFehler instanceof BaseException) {
            return ((BaseException) letzterFehler).getAusnahmeId();
        } else {
            return null;
        }
    }

    @ManagedAttribute(description = "Bei Misserfolg: Nachricht des letzten Fehlers")
    public String getLetzterFehlerNachricht() {
        return letzterFehler != null ? letzterFehler.getMessage() : null;
    }

}

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Biografia

Stagioni 1997-2002
Velocista in grado di competere anche in slalom gigante attiva in gare FIS dal dicembre del 1996, Fränzi Aufdenblatten esordì in Coppa Europa il 22 gennaio 1998 a Schönried in slalom speciale, senza completare la prova. Nel 2000 ai Mondiali juniores del Québec vinse la medaglia d'oro nella discesa libera e quella d'argento nella combinata; nella stessa stagione esordì in Coppa del Mondo, l'11 marzo 2000 nello slalom gigante di Sestriere, senza completare la prova.

Ai Mondiali juniores di Verbier 2001 vinse una seconda medaglia d'oro, questa volta nello slalom gigante, e bissò l'argento nella combinata; il 5 dicembre dello stesso anno a Ål ottenne la sua prima vittoria, nonché primo podio, in Coppa Europa, in slalom gigante. Nella stessa stagione nel circuito continentale vinse anche la sua seconda e ultima gara, lo slalom gigante di Arosa del 15 gennaio, e debuttò quindi ai Giochi olimpici invernali: a  tuttavia non concluse lo slalom gigante.

Stagioni 2003-2006
Esordì ai Campionati mondiali a Sankt Moritz 2003, dove fu 15ª sia nel supergigante sia nella combinata e non completò lo slalom gigante. In Coppa del Mondo ottenne il primo podio (3ª in discesa libera) il 31 gennaio 2004 sulle nevi di Haus, giungendo alla spalle dell'italiana Isolde Kostner e dell'austriaca Renate Götschl.

Nella stagione seguente partecipò ai Mondiali di Bormio/Santa Caterina Valfurva 2005, piazzandosi 15ª nella discesa libera, 18ª nel supergigante, 26ª nello slalom gigante e 18ª nella combinata, mentre l'anno dopo fu al via ai XXII Giochi olimpici invernali di , dove si classificò 12ª nella discesa libera, 17ª nel supergigante, 16ª nello slalom gigante e non concluse la combinata.

Stagioni 2007-2014
Ai Mondiali di Åre 2007 ottenne il suo miglior piazzamento in una rassegna iridata, 14ª nella discesa libera, e fu 19ª sia nel supergigante sia nello slalom gigante; due anni dopo, ai Mondiali di Val-d'Isère 2009, non concluse la prova di slalom gigante. Il 20 dicembre 2009 nella medesima località francese ottenne la sua unica vittoria in Coppa del Mondo, superando in supergigante la connazionale Nadia Styger e la statunitense Lindsey Vonn. Sempre in supergigante ottenne, l'11 febbraio 2011 a Ginevra Lélex, il suo ultimo podio in Coppa Europa (2ª).

19ª nel supergigante dei Mondiali di Schladming 2013, l'anno dopo ai XXII Giochi olimpici invernali di  fu 6ª nel supergigante, suo miglior risultato olimpico in carriera. Si ritirò al termine della stagione 2013-2014; si congedò dalla Coppa del Mondo con il suo ultimo podio in carriera, il 3º posto nel supergigante di Lenzerheide del 12 marzo, e dal Circo bianco in occasione di una gara FIS disputata a Zinal il 3 aprile successivo.

Palmarès

Mondiali juniores
 4 medaglie:
 2 ori (discesa libera a Québec 2000; slalom gigante a Verbier 2001)
 2 argenti (combinata a Québec 2000; combinata a Verbier 2001)

Coppa del Mondo
 Miglior piazzamento in classifica generale: 18ª nel 2004
 4 podi (3 in discesa libera, 1 in supergigante):
 1 vittoria
 3 terzi posti

Coppa del Mondo - vittorie

Legenda:
SG = supergigante

Coppa Europa
 Miglior piazzamento in classifica generale: 15ª nel 2004
 3 podi:
 2 vittorie
 1 secondo posto

Coppa Europa - vittorie

Legenda:
GS = slalom gigante

Campionati svizzeri
 15 medaglie:
 6 ori ( nel 2003; supergigante nel 2004; supergigante, slalom gigante nel 2008; discesa libera, supergigante nel 2012)
 4 argenti (supergigante nel 2000; supergigante nel 2005; discesa libera, supergigante nel 2006)
 5 bronzi (discesa libera nel 1999; discesa libera nel 2000; supergigante nel 2009; discesa libera nel 2011; slalom gigante nel 2012)

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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By Charlotte Iggulden
Since the arrival of the first automobiles, automotive design has become an art form and an indelible part of culture and history. Through the decades, visual artists and art collectors across the world have been inspired by their pleasing lines and curvature, as both machines and works of art.
Nowadays, automotive art is everywhere. Think of those nameless engineers in the mid-twentieth century who designed and drew car shapes by hand, using rulers and compasses on translucent paper. Or the people who sketched the Mustang or Cobra badges for the first time before submitting them for approval.
Now, cast your mind back to the last car advert you saw. Was that real film footage, or CGI? Is paintwork naturally that glossy? Who built the vector for the car's blueprints, a computer or someone with a vision?
Art takes all shapes. Like cars, really.
Types of Automotive Art in History
Car art is created primarily for beauty or aesthetics, rather than utility. Traditional fine art methods such as oil painting, watercolour, pencil drawings, and bronze sculpture have expanded to include innovative creations in acrylic, pen, digital, metal, wire, wood, resin, and even ice.
Like other art forms, automotive art has seen changes in style and forms since people started seeing the beauty and potential that lay beyond the gears and the powerful engines. Art tells stories, of course, and as car models changed so did our perception of them.
One of the most mesmerising forms of modern automotive art lies in the BMW museum, where a kinetic car sculpture, comprised of 714 metallic balls in motion, continuously synchronizes into the shape of a historic motor vehicle before evolving into contemporary cars. Machine and art effortlessly coalesce, with each piece in its perfect place. A few YouTube videos have captured its movement to classical music, making it a meditative, relaxing experience:
Art Cars
Art cars are vehicles that have been customised by artists since the 1960s, as a form of artistic expression or political statement. As part of the BMW Art Car project, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jenny Holzer created canvases for automobiles, with Warhol's creation currently on display at the BMW museum.
To make a comment on the establishment, John Lennon commissioned JP Fallon to paint his 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V in the style of a Romany caravan; his psychedelic creation is now in the Royal British Columbia Museum in Canada. As a way to immortalise American road travel, ten graffiti-spattered classic cars lie half-buried in a line at Cadillac ranch near Route 66. Created in 1974 by a group of artists, visitors are encouraged to bring spray paint and make their own mark on the vehicles.
Unintentionally, car manufacturers have even created a new art form by camouflaging prototypes with elaborate motifs to distract attention from their identity.
In 2020, Instagram is an ideal platform for visual graphic artists like Tim Layzell and professional automotive designers like Camilo Pardo to share their creations, followed even by Facebook itseld. You can find a myriad of unique automotive art, such as miniature model dioramas created by Michael Paul Smith and Eddie Putera. Automobile components like engines have even been repurposed as coffee tables. Not all established artists have social media, so fans have created accounts to share their work.
So, without further ado, here is a selection of the best automotive and classic car artists trending in 2020:
Noémie Marmorat/Gasoline M.A.A.B – Hyperrealist Drawings
Noémie, also known as Gasoline M.A.A.B., is a French artist, raised in a family of motorcyclists. She produces realistic commissioned drawings of motorcycles, and classic or competition cars in pencil and touchmark pens, taking between 10 and 20 hours to complete each one. Her work is so popular on Instagram that her hobby has become a profession.
As a perfectionist, she pays great attention to mechanics and sees their details as an enjoyable challenge. She recently drew a Shelby AC Cobra, alongside the pictured 1968 Ford Mustang.
Instagram @gasoline_maab.
Dexter Brown – Poster and Impressionist Art
Established British artist Dexter Brown, is regarded as one of the leading automotive painters alive today. Although he also paints wildlife and portraits, he is most known for his illustrated period race posters in the 1960s and '70s. In a combination of impressionist, abstract, and almost photographic styles, he captured the speed and dynamic motion of race cars. His distinctive designs have since influenced many contemporary automotive artists.
A selection of his paintings and vintage posters are available to buy online.
Benedict Radcliffe – Wireframe Cars
With an interest in bikes and cars from the age of four, Ben Radcliffe uses his background in architecture, engineering, and metalworking to create life size wire replicas of iconic automobiles like the Lambourghini Countach, Ferrari F40, Subaru Impreza and Plymouth Superbird. He brings their blueprints to life by carefully selecting their fundamental lines before constructing 3D transparent sculptures from steel bars.
His neon structures are reminiscent of the Tron films, with the boundaries of a computer program and physical world collapsing. He recently produced fifteen limited-edition, 1:15 scale models of the Porsche 930 Turbo Slantnose in composite resin.
Ben's geometric structures have been collected by Comme des Garcons, Puma, and Paul Smith, in addition to being displayed at the V&A. In 2012, he was involved in Honda's Dream Factory and was named as one of its twelve 'Cultural engineers.'
Instagram: @benedictradcliffe.
Syd Mead – Film Artist, Visual Futurist, and Automotive Designer
Syd Mead (1933-2019) was considered one of the first concept designers, known for his visionary work on science-fiction films such as Blade Runner and Tron, where he showed his unique skill at combining humanity and technology. His artwork for Blade Runner was initially produced as context for his vehicle designs, but they became the basis for the film's overall look. He also heavily influenced the aesthetic of Blade Runner 2049. His retro-futuristic artworks are predominantly optimistic and contributed towards the term 'Visual Futurist'.
Mead began his career as a car designer; his Sentinel 280 concept car influenced the wedge-shaped supercars of the late '60s and early '70s. At least two generations of artists and designers have been inspired by him, with fans regularly sharing their favourite seminal artworks.
Ernest Tsarukyan – Automotive Designer and Artist
After graduating with a Chemistry degree at the University of Moscow, Ernest studied Automotive Design, doing freelance work illustrating articles on the history of cars for several car magazines.
During an internship at Audi in 2003, he worked on the development of the Audi A1 and his most significant project: the Lamborghini Aventador; his 1:4 scale clay model was chosen out of twelve competitors and forms the design roots of today's Lamborghinis. As a Senior Designer, he was involved in the Audi Quattro concept in 2010, shown in Paris. Following this, he worked at VW on commercial vehicles before moving to BMW, where he works now.
Tsarukyan admires automobiles from different time periods and regularly visits classic car shows. In his spare time, he shares his hand-drawn sketches and drawings for fun on his Instagram and Facebook accounts.
Tsarukyan is partly self-taught, having drawn cars since he was two years old. His style has a soft, energetic yet nostalgic quality. He is inspired by the world around him, from people to cars, sci-fi films, anime, manga, and visual futurists. His favourite aspect of his drawings is the 'Future which never happened,' where he explores his childhood dreams.
"Many designers and artists believe that to be creative you have to experience many different things in life, and sometimes not good things. I'm completely opposite. I believe that a strong family is the biggest part of your success and achievements."
Ernest's drawings are not available for sale, but you can enjoy his creations via social media:
Instagram @ernest.tsarukyan
Facebook @Ernest Tsarukyan
Woodworking Art – Sculpture Youtuber
The classic 1967 Shelby GT500 is recreated in wood by Youtuber Woodworking Art on their DIY YouTube channel. The viewer watches three weeks of work condensed into a few minutes, as the artist expertly sculpts, and chisels different blocks of wood into a finished Mustang. Both sides of the car are carved separately, alongside all its components, including a steering wheel which operates turning wheels.
Watch on YouTube @WoodworkingArt
Charlotte Iggulden – Automotive Paintings and Drawings
Aside from enjoying writing articles and reviews for Muscle Car UK, I am also a professional fine artist and art blogger. I have been selling my paintings and producing commissions since I was fifteen, when my teachers began buying my artwork. I have since exhibited across the UK and internationally, including at The National Trust and Kensington Palace.
I specialise in realistic art, mostly in oils, pencil, or charcoal. I paint a wide range of subjects, including portraits, wildlife, and landscapes, and I love discovering new ones. I have been raised in a family of classic car enthusiasts and have recently begun drawing and painting classic and race cars, muscle cars, and bikes.
My family are mostly designers, so I am naturally inspired by design and engineering, both in nature and manmade. The cover image is my drawing of a 1959 Cadillac Coupé de Ville and the inset picture here is based on a 1958 Lister-Chevrolet 'Knobbly' that featured in the Goodwood Revival races in September 2019.
Find out more on my social media and website:
Instagram @charlotte_iggulden_art
Facebook @Charlotte Iggulden Art
Turning a Work of Art Into a Work of Art
To paint, draw, or even sculpt an automobile an artist needs great observational skill to interpret its key design. In paintings or drawings, the artist is faced by many challenges, including reflections and shiny metal. Whether monochromatic or colourful, the vehicle should always be recognisable. As explained, not all car art has to be wall-mounted; sculptures, model diorama and even items of furniture have their place in automotive art.
Art is subjective, but in general, the best automotive art is a homage to the beauty of the classic car design, whilst creating a new way to perceive it.
Author: Charlotte Iggulden
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The daughters of Asia Bibi, a Catholic accused of blasphemy, pose in 2010 with an image of their mother while standing outside their residence in Sheikhupura, Pakistan. Catholic News Service
Asia Bibi's acquittal of blasphemy challenged in Pakistan Supreme Court
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic News Service
The acquittal of a Pakistani Catholic woman sentenced to hang for blasphemy is to be challenged in the country's Supreme Court, according to her husband.
Three judges of the court ordered Oct. 31 that the death sentence against Asia Bibi, a mother of five, was to be set aside and she was to be released from prison, where she has spent eight years in solitary confinement.
But her husband, Ashiq Masih, confirmed in a Nov. 4 telephone interview with BBC World Service that the court had since agreed to accept a review petition questioning the legitimacy of her acquittal.
The British Pakistani Christian Association said in a Nov. 5 press release that the review was to begin that same day. The source was Joseph Nadeem, a close family friend, according to spokesman Wilson Chowdharay.
The challenge to Bibi's freedom has been made by Tehreek-e-Labbaaik, an extremist group which is also putting pressure on the government to try to stop Bibi from leaving Pakistan, even if her acquittal is upheld.
In his interview, Ashiq told the BBC that he was "hopeful" and "confident" that the Supreme Court in Lahore would dismiss the appeal.
"I really hope it will not take very much time — two to four days — and this matter could be disposed of by the government and the Supreme Court," he said.
Ashiq said neither he nor his family have seen Bibi, 55, who has remained in protective custody since she acquitted.
"I haven't been able to see her, I haven't been able to meet her yet," said Ashiq, adding that the family was "really worried" about her safety.
He said the family was desperate to find asylum in Europe or North America as soon as possible because they believed their lives were in danger.
He said: "We are so restricted our mobility is virtually zero. We cannot go out anywhere. Even for basic things, we have to rely on other people.
"I have never been so afraid as I am now for my family," he added. "My life and the life of my family is really under threat. Since the verdict has come out, we haven't been provided with any security."
The ordeal of Bibi, who worked as a farmhand, began in June 2009 when she was accused of insulting Muhammad, the founder of Islam, after Muslim co-workers objected to her drinking from a common water supply because she is a Christian.
Bibi was rescued from a mob by police, only to be sentenced to death in 2010 for violating Section 295C of the Pakistan Penal Code, which makes insulting Muhammad a capital offense.
No one has been executed under the law so far, but Christians who are falsely accused often are lynched or spend many years in prison.
Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer was assassinated in January 2011 after he said he would fight for Bibi's freedom and, two months later, Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian, was gunned down after he said he would seek the reform of the blasphemy laws to stop them being abused to persecute innocent Christians.
Following Bibi's acquittal, Saiful Malook, her lawyer, fled Pakistan amid death threats to his family.
Salman Akram Raja, an advocate of the Supreme Court, said Bibi and her family were "quite right to fear for their lives."
He said he was confident, however, that the review petition would be dismissed and there would be no legal obstacles to Bibi and her family leaving Pakistan.
"Asia is an acquitted person, she has no charges pending against her," he told the BBC in a Nov. 4 telephone interview. "There is no law under which the state could restrain her from leaving the country if she has a valid passport and a travel visa.
"There is no grounds for restraining her, so to say that she is being detained on account of some agreement with a religious group (and the government) is to go completely outside the ambit of the law," he continued.
Raja said that review petitions were seldom sustainable and were particularly weak if made by "busybodies off the streets" rather than by the state or by an original complainant. "Review petitions, legally speaking, are not sustainable," he said
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Q: Strange autoclicking of qpushbutton I've been trying to learn c++ and qt framework by doing a point of sale software project.my main window has couple of tabs and with in one tab i have a qpushbutton which open a newpurchase dialog which takes input from user to record a new purchase from supplier.this newpurchase dialog has a lineedit which, when recieves product barcode from a barcode reader ,triggers another quanity dialog which, user can use to enter the quantity of the product. but when i click ok on the button box of the quantity dialog instead of closing just the quantity dialog ,it closes the newpurchase dialog as well.i debugged the qt application and it shows that a qpushbutton (which saves and closes the newpurchase dialog)on the newpuchase dialog gets triggered automatically.additionally this behaviour is only spotted when quantity dialog is triggered through the barcode lineedit,i have another lineedit which accepts description of the product and triggers the same quantity dialog ,but clicking ok button when quantity dialog is triggered through description lineedit does not closes the newpurchase dialog or trigger the qpushbutton which saves and closes the newpurchase dialog.im attaching the screen shots of the dialog and code for the dialogs
on mainwindow.cpp
   void MainWindow::on_pushButton_clicked()
{
    newpurchase mypurchase;
    connect(&mypurchase,SIGNAL(purchase_added()),this,SLOT(update_view()));
    mypurchase.exec();
}

newpurchase dialog
newpurchase.cpp
#include "newpurchase.h"
#include "ui_newpurchase.h"
#include <QtDebug>
#include <qtablewidget.h>
#include <QSqlQuery>
#include <QSqlError>
#include <QSqlRecord>
#include <QCompleter>
#include <QObject>
#include <QWidget>
#include <QDate>

newpurchase::newpurchase(QWidget *parent) :
    QDialog(parent),
    ui(new Ui::newpurchase)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);
    QSqlQuery qry;
    qry.prepare("select description from product");
    if(!qry.exec())
    {
        qDebug() << "error getting description from product";
    }
    QStringList items;
    while(qry.next())
    {
        items <<qry.value(0).toString();
    }
    QCompleter *completer =new QCompleter(items,this);
    completer->setCaseSensitivity(Qt::CaseInsensitive);
    ui->lineEdit_descripion->setCompleter(completer);
  connect(completer,static_cast<void (QCompleter::*)(const QString&)>(&QCompleter::activated),
               [&](const QString &text)->void

    {
        newpurchase::clear(text);
    });

    QSqlQuery supqry;
    supqry.prepare("select supplier_name from supplier");
    if(!supqry.exec())
    {
        qDebug() << "error getting suppliername from supplier";
    }
    QStringList supitems;
    while(supqry.next())
    {
        supitems <<supqry.value(0).toString();
    }
    QCompleter *supcompleter =new QCompleter(supitems,this);
    supcompleter->setCaseSensitivity(Qt::CaseInsensitive);
    ui->lineEdit_sup->setCompleter(supcompleter);
}

newpurchase::~newpurchase()
{
    delete ui;
}

void newpurchase::on_lineEdit_barcode_returnPressed()
{
    if(!ui->lineEdit_sale->text().isEmpty() && !ui->lineEdit_sup->text().isEmpty() && !ui->lineEdit_inv->text().isEmpty())
    {
        quantity_dialog quandialog;
        connect(&quandialog,SIGNAL(purdetails(QString)),this,SLOT(code(QString)));
       quandialog.exec();
    }
    else
    {

        Errdialog myerror("please provide supplier and invoice" );
        myerror.exec();
    }
}
void newpurchase::saveDataIntoTable(QString item,double price,int quantity,QString code,QString date)
{
    double rupee =price*quantity*1.00;
    //qDebug() <<date;

    QString mrp= QString::number(rupee,'f',2);
    QString qty= QString::number(quantity);
    QString prc= QString::number(price);
    // QString kod= QString::number(code);

    if (!ui->tableWidget)
        return;

    const int currentRow = ui->tableWidget->rowCount();
    ui->tableWidget->setRowCount(currentRow + 1);

    ui->tableWidget->setItem(currentRow, 0, new QTableWidgetItem(item));
    ui->tableWidget->setItem(currentRow, 1, new QTableWidgetItem(prc));
    ui->tableWidget->setItem(currentRow, 2, new QTableWidgetItem(qty));
    ui->tableWidget->setItem(currentRow, 3, new QTableWidgetItem(mrp));
    ui->tableWidget->setItem(currentRow, 4, new QTableWidgetItem(code));
    ui->tableWidget->setItem(currentRow, 5, new QTableWidgetItem(date));

    double total=ui->label_3->text().toDouble();
    total = total+rupee;
    ui->label_3->setText(QString::number(total,'f',2));

}
void newpurchase::clear(QString item)
{
    if(!item.isEmpty())
    {
        if(!ui->lineEdit_des->text().isEmpty() && !ui->lineEdit_sup->text().isEmpty() && !ui->lineEdit_inv->text().isEmpty())
        {
            quantity_dialog quandialog;
            connect(&quandialog,SIGNAL(purdetails(QString)),this,SLOT(descr(QString)));
            quandialog.exec();

        }
        else
        {

            Errdialog myerror("please provide supplier and invoice" );
            myerror.exec();
        }
    }
}

void newpurchase::descr(QString q)
{
    QStringList elements = q.split(':');
    QSqlQuery qry;
    qry.prepare("select * from product where description='"+ui->lineEdit_des->text()+"'");
    if(!qry.exec())
    {
        qDebug() << "error getting table product";
    }
    if (qry.next())
    {
        QString result=qry.value(1).toString();
        double cost= elements[1].toDouble();
        QString itemco=qry.value(2).toString();
        int quan=elements[0].toInt();
        QString mfd=elements[2];
        saveDataIntoTable(result,cost,quan,itemco,mfd);
        ui->lineEdit_des->clear();
    }
}
void newpurchase::on_pushButton_clicked()
{

    QItemSelectionModel *select =ui->tableWidget->selectionModel();
    int row = select->selectedRows().takeFirst().row();
    double rupee=ui->tableWidget->item(row,3)->text().toDouble();
    ui->tableWidget->removeRow(row);
    double total=ui->label_3->text().toDouble();
    total = total-rupee;
    ui->label_3->setText(QString::number(total,'f',2));

}

void newpurchase::on_lineEdit_des_returnPressed()
{
}
void newpurchase::code(QString q)
{

    QStringList elements = q.split(':');

    QSqlQuery qry;
    qry.prepare("select * from product where code="+ui->lineEdit_sale->text());
    if(!qry.exec())
    {
        qDebug() << "error getting table product";
    }
    if (qry.next())
    {
        QString result=qry.value(1).toString();
        double cost= elements[2].toDouble();
        QString itemco=qry.value(2).toString();
        int quan=elements[0].toInt();
        QString mfd=elements[1];

        saveDataIntoTable(result,cost,quan,itemco,mfd);

    }

    ui->lineEdit_sale->clear();
}

void newpurchase::on_pushButton_2_clicked()
{

    QString datetime= QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
    QString supplier=ui->lineEdit_sup->text();
    QString invoice=ui->lineEdit_inv->text();
    int numrow=ui->tableWidget->rowCount();
   // qDebug() << numrow;

    for (int i = 0; i < numrow; i++)
    {

        QSqlQuery query;
        query.prepare("SELECT MAX(Id) FROM stock_transaction");
        if(!query.exec())
        {
            qDebug() << "error getting id";
        }
        int id=0 ;
        if (query.next())
        {
            id=query.value(0).toInt()+1;
        }

        QString coder=ui->tableWidget->item(i,4)->text();
        QString qua=ui->tableWidget->item(i,2)->text();
        double rate=ui->tableWidget->item(i,1)->text().toDouble();
        QString date= ui->tableWidget->item(i,5)->text();
        QString d=QString::number(id);
        QString batch=supplier+"_"+invoice+"_"+d;

        QSqlQuery querysale;

        querysale.prepare("INSERT INTO stock_transaction(id,code,stock,mfd,supplier,invoice,cost,date_time) VALUES(:id,:code,:stock,:mfd,:supplier,:invoice,:cost,:date_time)");

        querysale.bindValue(":id", id);
        querysale.bindValue(":code",coder);
        querysale.bindValue(":stock", qua.toInt());
        querysale.bindValue(":mfd",date);
        querysale.bindValue(":supplier", supplier);
        querysale.bindValue(":invoice", invoice);
        querysale.bindValue(":cost", rate*1.00);
        querysale.bindValue(":date_time", datetime);

        if(!querysale.exec())
        {
            qDebug() << "error recording sale";
        }

    }
    emit this->purchase_added();
    close();

}

quantity dialog
quantity.cpp
#include "quantity_dialog.h"
    #include "ui_quantity_dialog.h"

     quantity_dialog::quantity_dialog(QWidget *parent) :
                                QDialog(parent),
                                ui(new Ui::quantity_dialog)
                            {
                                ui->setupUi(this);
                                ui->lineEdit_quan->setFocus();
                                ui->buttonBox->setEnabled(false);
                                connect(ui->lineEdit_quan, SIGNAL(textChanged(QString)), this, SLOT(checkLineEdits()));
                                connect(ui->dateEdit, SIGNAL(dateChanged(QDate)), this, SLOT(checkLineEdits()));
                                connect(ui->lineEdit_3, SIGNAL(textChanged(QString)), this, SLOT(checkLineEdits()));
                            }

                            quantity_dialog::~quantity_dialog()
                            {
                                delete ui;
                            }

                            void quantity_dialog::on_buttonBox_accepted()
                            {
                                emit purdetails(ui->lineEdit_quan->text()+":"+ui->dateEdit->text()+":"+ui->lineEdit_3->text());

                                ui->lineEdit_quan->clear();

                            }

Please let me know if i can provide any other details

A: the auto default property of the autoclicking qpushbutton was set.changing this property solved my issue


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Anthony Whiteman sets world M45 indoor mile record – weekly round-up
Posted by Athletics Weekly | Feb 6, 2017 | 0
A look at some of the top performances by British athletes over the past week
There was plenty of major action overseas at the weekend including top performances from British athletes in Germany, Japan, Portugal and the USA, as well as the BUCS Cross Country Championships and the Nitro Athletics meeting in Australia (click here for coverage), but there was plenty of other domestic action of note.
Soar Open, Lee Valley, February 1
Anthony Whiteman set a world masters M45 indoor mile record when he finished third in 4:12.94 behind winner Dale King-Clutterbuck's 4:05.75.
Whiteman's mark bettered the listed world record for that age category, although there is a faster unratified American mark of 4:12.33 which was run by John Trautmann in 2015.
Lucy Elliott set a world masters W50 mile record of 5:03.60 in a race won by Faye Fullerton's 4:50.42.
Guy Bracken set a UK M55 3000m record of 9:03.34, and that also bettered the outdoor mark.
A report of the event plus photographs will appear in this week's AW magazine.
Ashford & District 10km, February 5
Robert Latala won the men's race in 32:37, while Maria Heslop won the women's race in 37:01.
Chichester Priory 10km, February 5
On a new course that took in the famous racing circuit, Finn McNally won the men's race in 30:46. Izzy Coomber was first woman in 35:14.
Martin Duff's report will appear in this week's issue.
New Balance Alsager 5, February 5
Jack Martin won the men's race in 23:44 from Jonny Mellor's 23:57.
The women's race was even closer with Lauren Howarth's 27:24 bettering Sonia Samuels' 27:26.
Dewsbury 10km, February 5
Mohammed Abu-Rezeq won the men's race in 30:43, while Alyson Dixon, just back from training in Kenya, won the women's race in 34:37.
Watford Half Marathon, February 5
Jonathan Cornish was first man in 68:43.
Sarah Stradllng was first woman in 81:11.
Sydney, Australia, February 4
Britain's Jade Lally set an early world lead and London World Championships standard in the discus with a throw of 62.15m.
South East Schools Cross Country Championships, Brands Hatch, February 4
Lachlan Wellington gained revenge after his narrow loss in the South of England Championships with a clear win over Zak Mahamed, winning the intermediate event in 17:25 to 17:41.
Daniel Stidder won the senior race in 20:49, while 2016 Inter Counties champion Harley Norman won the junior race with the younger South of England under-13 champion Felix Vaughan in third.
Another South of England champion Amelia Quirk won the senior girls race in 15:18.
Jessica Mitchell won the intermediate race while Saffron Moor took the junior title.
South West Schools Cross Country Championships, Truro, February 4
The winner of the boys event was senior Hugh Sadler, intermediate Finn Birnie, junior Henrik Wendin and minor Finn Pardy.
The respective girls winners were Katie-Jayne Hughes, Grace Brock, Alex Scrivenor and Maisy Luke.
Mondeville, France February 4
Eilidh Doyle was among the winners as she clocked 53.36 over the 400m flat.
Kyle de Escofet ran another 60m PB with 6.59 and followed that up with 6.61 to finish fourth in the final. David King set a 60m hurdles PB of 7.65 for a European Indoors qualifying time.
Winston-Salem, USA, February 3
Lee Emmanuel achieved a European Indoor Championships qualifying mark with 7.49.29 for second over 3000m to go second on the UK 2017 rankings.
Champions Lake time trial, Australia, February 5
Hannah Cockroft achieved a sub-one-hour time on her first attempt at the half-marathon distance.
Richard Chiassaro clocked 45:34.
AAI Games, Dublin, February 5
Heather Paton clocked 8.34 to equal the Scottish 60m hurdles record mark held by Gemma Werrett, which was set back in 2011.
Ben Reynolds clocked a European Indoors standard in the event with 7.77.
Rocky Racoon 100, Texas, February 4-5
Scotland international James Stewart won the men's race in 13:39:13 ahead of Ronnie Delzer who became the USATF 100 mile trail champion. USA's Sabrina Little won the women's race in 16:50.
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Miscalculated terms for parole violators bedevil Nebraska prison system
Sentencing errors
By Matt Wynn / World-Herald staff writer
Early-release inmate that state couldn't find popped up on Google for Chicago arrest
At least 500 more Nebraska felons were set to be released from state custody too soon, in addition to hundreds released early due to previously discovered sentence miscalculations, prison officials disclosed Saturday afternoon.
And that may be the tip of the iceberg; an additional 800 sentences will be reviewed in the coming weeks to see if they, too, have to be adjusted.
It's too soon to say if any additional former prisoners will have to be returned to state custody, prison spokesman James Foster said Saturday. But because the amount of time being added for the latest group is relatively small — a day to six months, so far — chances are slim.
"I don't want to say that they couldn't come back, but since we're dealing with a lesser amount of time, it's less likely," Foster said Saturday.
The new type of miscalculation was discovered during a state review of all sentences and release dates conducted in the wake of a scandal disclosed in June by The World-Herald.
The problem came about because of the way good time was awarded to parolees who had parole revoked, and were returned to prison.
Under state guidelines, well-behaved parolees' sentences are reduced by 10 days for every month they successfully serve on parole. But parole violators should forfeit the 10 days extra credit, Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning concluded after questions were raised by Corrections staff.
That had not been the practice in the Department of Corrections.
In the wake of Bruning's ruling, though, Corrections officials have adjusted the sentences of about 425 incarcerated inmates and 80 more inmates who were on parole.
The department issued a press release Saturday explaining the discovery after The World-Herald had inquired earlier last week about parole miscalculations.
Two prisoners who had time added as a result of Bruning's ruling had been placed in Corrections Director Mike Kenney's Temporary Alternative Placement program in September.
The program, which some lawmakers have said was illegal, allowed prisoners to stay at home, rather than return to prison.
Kenney admitted to a legislative committee this month that he went ahead with the program after three attorneys told him it was illegal.
Bruning has since said he's not sure whether the program is legal or illegal.
The new type of miscalculation comes on top of 750 miscalculated sentences disclosed earlier. Those sentences all included mandatory minimum terms, which are applied to the worst crimes. Gun criminals, repeat offenders, sex offenders and drug dealers are all unable to earn good time on the mandatory minimum portion of their sentences.
As a result of those recalculations, about 15 felons were returned to prison. Several more had their parole extended or were placed in the re-entry furlough program.
The furlough program is a kind of pre-parole parole that lets prisoners remain officially in prison custody while living outside prison walls.
But Kenney could not get approval from the Parole Board or county attorneys to place a handful of the felons on furlough. These were inmates who had six months or less to serve, under the state's interpretation of the law.
Rather than seek to round up those prisoners, Kenney created TAP. The program required prisoners to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet and report to a parole officer twice a week, he said.
Three prisoners, whose release dates were incorrectly calculated because of mandatory minimum issues, were placed in TAP on July 31 and Aug. 1.
On Sept. 23, Kenney turned to the program again for two prisoners affected by the parole miscalculations. The state considered their sentences complete as of Oct. 5 and Oct. 22.
Kenney has said TAP was a one-time program.
"As of October 22, 2014, there are no inmates remaining on TAP nor will there be in the future," he wrote in a letter to the Legislature's prison investigative committee.
Foster could not say Saturday why only two of the hundreds of inmates affected by the new problem were placed in TAP.
Contact the writer: 402-444-3144, matt.wynn@owh.com
Mike Kenney
Mandatory Minimum
Five prisoners wound up being part of the makeshift program that Corrections Department Director Mike Kenney created in late July to allow should-be inmates to remain at home.
World-Herald special investigation: Nebraska prison doors opened too soon
A World-Herald investigation showed that Nebraska prison officials — using a flawed formula to calculate sentences — had wrongly released or w…
Nebraska State Patrol wasn't told about one inmate freed early
A prison official didn't hand over the name of a felon who was later arrested in Illinois.
'Of course' crowding factored into freeing felons early, former Corrections chief says
Former Corrections Director Bob Houston acknowledged in an interview with The World-Herald last week that overcrowding was one reason the department decided to start letting inmates keep their parole good time credit even after violating parole.
Nebraska Corrections chief: Prison officials dropped the ball in 2014 on fixing sentencing errors for 15 inmates
State Corrections Director Scott Frakes disclosed the oversight Thursday, one day after one of the 15 was picked up on a warrant to serve his remaining time.
prisonsplash
Scathing federal review targets prisons records chief
Gov. Dave Heineman says the job status of the records administrator at the center of scandal at the Nebraska Corrections Department is under further review, following a highly critical Justice Department review of Kyle Poppert's job performance.
In letter, Corrections chief says program allowing wrongly discharged inmates to remain free complied with state law
The Temporary Alternative Placement program was criticized by a special legislative committee during a hearing Oct. 10 as possibly illegal because it wasn't approved by the State Parole Board.


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Death toll rises to 61 as searchers enter capsized ferry
Posted Apr 21, 2014	by Nathan Salant
Divers recovered more than a dozen bodies Sunday from a sunken ferry believed to still contain more than 250 passengers, mostly South Korean high school students on vacation who died Wednesday when the boat they were riding in capsized in the Yellow Sea.
A U.S. Navy helicopter lands on the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard after helping with search and recovery operations at the scene of the sunken ferry Sewol near Jindo island.
Adam D. Wainwright-U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons
The official death toll now stands at 61, pending the recovery of more bodies, according to the Reuters news service.
Sunday marked the first time divers were able to get inside the sunken Sewol, that witnesses said listed severely before it began sinking off the country's southern coast near Jindo.
"At 11:48 p.m. (Saturday), the joint rescue team broke a glass window and succeeded in getting inside the vessel," South Korea's government said in a written statement, according to Reuters news service.
The ship was carrying 476 passengers, of which 339 were students or teachers at Danwon High School in Ansan, near Seoul, South Korea's capital, on a routine trip to the resort island of Jeju.
One hundred and seventy-four passengers were rescued.
Grief-stricken relatives of the passengers have been staying in a gymnasium in Jindo for the past four days, waiting for news.
But there has been no good news since the ship went down.
The high school's vice principal, Kang Min-gyu, who had been on the ferry but was rescued, committed suicide outside the gymnasium on Friday.
Officials investigating the disaster have theorized that the Sewol made a sharp turn before starting to list and then capsizing, but are not clear as to why.
Investigators are looking into how cargo on board the vessel was stowed, the ship operator's safety record and the actions of the crew, Reuters said.
Three crewmembers, including the captain, Lee Joon-seok, were arrested Saturday and charged with negligence.
Witnesses said the crewmembers left the vessel before most of the passengers and failed to order an evacuation.
Lee told investigators that he feared passengers would drown in the area's strong water currents if they abandoned ship, but did not explain why he left the vessel, Reuters said.