TRENTON -- Christopher Wray, a former U.S. assistant attorney general who represented Gov. Chris Christie in the fallout of the Bridgegate scandal, is President Donald Trump's pick to run the FBI.
Wray was the head of the Justice Department's criminal division under President George W. Bush and is now in private practice at the law firm King and Spalding.
Wray opened a twitter account Wednesday morning and wrote: "It is a great honor to be considered for the position of #FBIDirector I look forward to working with the good men and women of the @FBI."
Wray would replace the man Trump fired, James Comey. Trump disapproved of the way Comey was handling the investigation into allegations the Russian government interfered with the 2016 presidential election. Trump also described Comey as "a whack job" to Russian officials in the Oval Office.
Two members of Christie's administration were convicted last fall of conspiring to close the bridge toll lanes in a scheme to punish Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat, for refusing to endorse the Republican governor for re-election.
Another lawyer who represented Christie in Bridgegate matters, Craig Carpenito, is in the running to be New Jersey's next U.S. attorney, a job Christie once held.
Christie, Trump's friend and adviser, lobbied for Wray. At an unrelated press conference last week, Christie said he had "the utmost confidence in Chris. He's an outstanding lawyer. He has absolute integrity and honesty."
The governor worked under Wray at the U.S. Department of Justice when Wray served as assistant U.S. attorney general from 2003 to 2005, heading its criminal division at the same time Christie was U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey.
Wray received both his undergraduate and law degree from Yale University, where he served as executive editor of the Yale Law Journal, according to his biography on his law firm's website.
Working from the firm's Washington, D.C., and Atlanta offices, Wray chairs the Special Matters and Government Investigations Practice Group, specializing in "white-collar criminal and regulatory enforcement matters, parallel civil litigation, and internal corporate investigations," the website said.
Wray did not return a telephone call to his Washington, D.C. office.


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Dillard, Victor
Victor Dillard was a French Jesuit, who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service regime, where he acted as a chaplain to JOC and other Catholic Action groups before being arrested and eventually sent to Dachau where he died.
One of ten siblings, Victor Dillard was born into a bourgeois French family at Blois, not far from Orleans on 24 December, 1897.
During World War I, he served as a second lieutenant with the French army.
After the war, he joined the Jesuits in November 2019, studying theology, law and economics before being ordained in 1931.
In 1937, he was appointed to work with the Jesuit social organisation, Action Populaire, and wrote numerous articles for their journal as well as other Jesuit and Catholic magazines.
When World War II broke out, he became an artillery captain but was captured and made a prisoner in 1940 before escaping.
In 1941, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the subject "The evolution of money in France."
With France now occupied, he began to encourage members of the Resistance and visited political prisoners, activities that drew the attention of the Gestapo.
He considered taking refuge in North Africa. However, the German occupiers imposed Compulsory Labour Service (STO), he decided to join the worker prisoners where he acted as a clandestine chaplain.
After obtaining false papers showing him as a civilian, he was sent to Wuppertal, Germany in October 1943, he worked as an electrician at the Siller und Jamart factory.
Here, he continued to organise apostolic activities, celebrating mass, visiting French workers' camps, organising study circles among the workers and retreats for the priests.
On 22 April, 1944, he was arrested under the Nazi decree of 3 December 1943, which targeted French Catholic Action groups organising among French workers in Nazi Germany, for "carrying out anti-German policies in the camp". He was interrogated at the Gestapo premises in Wuppertal, then by the police in Barmen.
Eventually his religious status was exposed causing him to be sent to the Dachau Concentration Camp on 28 November, 1944 as prisoner No. 134064.
He died there of advanced phlebitis on 12 January, 1945, just days before the deaths of Belgian JOC lay co-founders, Paul Garcet and Fernand Tonnet.
After the war, Fr Dillard was posthumously made a Knight of the Legion of Honour .
In 1949, his name was engraved in the Pantheon on the list of "197", writers who died as a result of World War II or in deportation.
The French government issued a stamp in his honour in 1997.
He is one of 50 French Catholic Action workers and chaplains whose cases for beatification have been sent to Rome.
Compiled by Stefan Gigacz, February 2020.
Victor Dillard (Mémoires et espoirs de la résistance)
Victor Dillard (Wikipedia.de)
Victor Dillard (Wikipedia.fr)
Mgr Philippe Verrier, Homélie pour 60éme anniversaire de la mort du père Victor Dillard (Les archives du Forum Catholique)
Dachau, Germany
Saints in the making

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Business Consultant and Investment Strategist in Teaneck
Now based in Teaneck, Daniel Herman is a proud graduate of Yeshiva University. Located directly in the Big Apple, New York City, Yeshiva prepared Herman for the business realm in a unique way. Balancing academic focuses in Accounting and Philosophy, Herman was able to dive into his business operations foundation with a human and philosophic perspective. Unafraid to dig deep to find out what's what and why, his Accounting/Philosophy foundation offer Daniel Herman valuable insight.
Over the years, Daniel Herman has dabbled and succeeded in strategic investments. By now, his portfolio is demonstrative of an expert in the realm.
Taking your business to the next level can be a tricky task. Without a clear sense of strategy and direction, your efforts can sometimes be in vain. That's why Daniel Herman, a Business Consultant and Investment Strategist, is passionate about the work that he does. By partnering with his clients, Herman brings a wealth of experience-backed expertise from his team to yours. The goal is always to empower your business through his efforts. And with a successful track record under his belt, Herman is confident that his partnership with you can do just that!
Alma Mater: Yeshiva University
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Q: how to merge classification models horizontally I have many models already trained, which each answer a simple yes/no question. Pseudocode:
model_dog = keras.load('is_dog')
model_cat = keras.load('is_cat')
model_rat = keras.load('is_rat')

image = load_photo_as_numpy_array('photo.jpg')

multi_class = [ m.predict(image) for m in (model_dog,model_cat,model_rat) ]

This works fine, but it is a> slow because inference is done sequentially instead of in parallel (I have several hundred such models, not just 3), and b> is much more complex to use than if I had ONE model which does multi-classification.
What I want, is:
model = keras.concat_horizontal([ model_dog, model_cat, model_rat ])
model.save('combined_model')

Then whenever I want to use the combined model, it is as simple as:
model = keras.load('combined_model')
multi_class = m.predict(image)

This way, I can add a new classification to the combined model, by training one simple model, for example, that recognizes a fish.

A: As I suggested in comments, you can merge multiple models in one new model and predict using this new model.
First, I write a function to merge models and return a new combined model. This is what you want:
def concat_horizontal(models, input_shape):
  models_count = len(models)
  hidden = []
  input = tf.keras.layers.Input(shape=input_shape)
  for i in range(models_count):
    hidden.append(models[i](input))
  output = tf.keras.layers.concatenate(hidden)
  model = tf.keras.Model(inputs=input, outputs=output)
  return model

Let's explore an example. Say we want merge two sequential models like this:
def model_1():
  model = tf.keras.models.Sequential([
                      tf.keras.layers.Flatten(input_shape=(28,28,1)),
                      tf.keras.layers.Dense(150, activation='relu'),
                      tf.keras.layers.Dense(200, activation='relu'),
                      tf.keras.layers.Dense(150, activation='relu'),
                      tf.keras.layers.Dense(10, activation='softmax')], name="model1")
  model.compile(optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(), loss=tf.keras.losses.sparse_categorical_crossentropy, metrics=['accuracy'])
  return model

def model_2():
  model = tf.keras.models.Sequential([
                      tf.keras.layers.Flatten(input_shape=(28,28,1)),
                      tf.keras.layers.Dense(150, activation='relu'),
                      tf.keras.layers.Dense(150, activation='relu'),
                      tf.keras.layers.Dense(10, activation='softmax')], name="model2")
  model.compile(optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(), loss=tf.keras.losses.sparse_categorical_crossentropy, metrics=['accuracy'])
  return model

model1 = model_1()
model2 = model_2()

Let's use MNIST as train dataset for both of our models:
import tensorflow_datasets as tfds
ds_1 = tfds.load('mnist', split='train', as_supervised=True)
ds_2 = tfds.load('mnist', split='test', as_supervised=True)

def map_fn(image, label):
  image = image / 255
  return image, label

ds_1 = ds_1.map(map_fn).shuffle(1024).batch(32)
ds_2 = ds_2.map(map_fn).shuffle(1024).batch(32)

Now, we can train models, save them, and then load them like this:
model1.fit(ds_1, epochs=2, validation_data=ds_1)
model2.fit(ds_2, epochs=2, validation_data=ds_2)

model1.save('model1.h5')
model2.save('model2.h5')

model3 = tf.keras.models.load_model('model1.h5')
model4 = tf.keras.models.load_model('model2.h5')

So we have 2 separate models (model3,model4) and want to merge these, to a new one. Pass them along the input shape (in this case it is MNIST data shape) to the function we have written above:
new_model = concat_horizontal([model3,model4],(28,28,1))

Now, if we plot this new model:
tf.keras.utils.plot_model(new_model)

It's time to get predictions of model:
sample = ds_1.unbatch().take(1)
for i,j in sample:
  img = i
  lbl = j
img = tf.expand_dims(img,axis=0)
pred = new_model.predict(img)
pred = np.reshape(pred,(2,10))
results = np.argmax(pred,axis=1)
print(results)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.imshow(np.array(img).squeeze())
plt.show

In my case I get both of predictions classified as 4:
Output:

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July 2013 Bob Boze Bell
As a raging fire engulfs another room, Alexander McSween and his men move into the kitchen, the last standing room of his adobe home in Lincoln, New Mexico.
A large posse under Sheriff George Peppin surrounds the house, with four or five deputies stationed along the back fence that faces the kitchen.
At approximately 9 p.m., five McSween adherents, including Billy the Kid, run toward a gate on the east side of the yard. The first to get there, Harvey Morris, is shot dead; the Kid opens fire, causing Peppin's men to duck. The remaining four jump over Morris's body and miraculously make it to the banks of the Bonito River and cross safely. They keep running to the foothills beyond and fire off their guns in exultation over making it out of the burning hell alive.
The next group, which includes McSween and 15-year-old Yginio Salazar, is not so lucky. At the back gate, Peppin's men are extra alert now and repulse these escapees, who turn back and hide in the corner of the yard amidst the smoke and darkness.
Someone in the McSween group says, "I will surrender."
Robert Beckwith, a Peppin deputy, enters the back yard and replies, "I am a deputy sheriff, and I have a warrant for your arrest."
Beckwith is greeted with an oath, "I shall never surrender!" and a bullet in his eye. The men behind Beckwith unload a volley of lead into the darkness. When the firing stops, six bodies lie crumpled in the rubble: those of Alexander McSween, Franciso Zamora, Vicente Romero, Harvey Morris, Robert Beckwith and Yginio Salazar.
To celebrate their success, Peppin's men procure whiskey and drink as two fiddle players play tunes. Andy Boyle checks the bodies (Beckwith's body is removed to the Dolan store). Boyle kicks Salazar and starts to put another bullet in him when Milo Pierce says, "Don't waste your shot on that greaser, he's long gone and dead as a herring."
Around midnight, the music stops and the victors stagger off to bed.
As the burning embers crackle and pop, one of the bodies begins move. Salazar, shot once in the back and once in the shoulder, inches himself, painfully and slowly, a half mile to his sister-in-law's house.
Aftermath: Odds & Ends
Yginio Salazar's sister-in-law, Nicolasita Pacheco, took him in and managed to get the post surgeon at Fort Stanton, Dr. Dan Appel, to attend to Salazar's serious wounds.
John Kinney and three of his men tracked Salazar by his blood trail, but when they got to Jose Otero's house, Appel told them if they tried to harm his patient, he would see them hanged. Salazar gave a statement on July 20: "Mr. McSween come to me at the Berando and told me if I did not go with him he would fine me $50. That he knew I had a good gun, and he wanted me to go with him." Peppin left him alone.
When Billy the Kid escaped hanging on April 28, 1881, by killing his two guards, local legend claims that he headed straight to Salazar's home, where Salazar cut off the Kid's shackles and fed him.
Salazar lived out his life in Lincoln County as a rancher. He died on January 7, 1936. His descendants still live in Lincoln.
Recommended: The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History by Frederick Nolan, published by Sunstone Press.
The McSween fighters leave the house in two groups, with Billy the Kid in the first group (second from the front). The leader, Harvey Morris, is shot dead as he opens the side gate.
– Illustrations by Bob Boze Bell –
Salazar and McSween, along with two others, hide in the shadows of a fire in the small corner outside the kitchen (see below floor plan of the McSween house, showing the kitchen at upper right). Standing along a rear wall, about 10 feet north of the kitchen entrance, Peppin's men poke a hole in the adobe with a log and shoot two of the outlaws when they crawl into a chicken house.
Salazar on his doorstep.
– Courtesy Frederick Nolan –
The youngest fighter in the McSween house is Yginio Salazar, 15 (second from left). He goes out in the second group and suffers shots in the back and the shoulder.
Yginio (pronounced Ee-gin-ee-o) lived a long life as a rancher and family man in Lincoln County.
– True West Archives –
In November 1864, Medicine Woman Later and her husband, Southern Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle,…
In the opening sequence of the classic Western One Upon A Time In The West…
It may have been the name of a TV Western, but few officials actually used…
In 1999, Bob Boze Bell and partners bought True West magazine (published since 1953) and moved the editorial offices to Cave Creek, Arizona. Bell has published and illustrated books on Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, as well as Classic Gunfights, an Old West gunfight book series. His latest books are The 66 Kid and True West Moments.
Billy the Kid's New Mexico
Custer's Little Bighorn Battlefield
Quanah Parker's Comanche Country
Tombstone's O.K. Corral
Stalwart Army Sweethearts
Was Bass Reeves the Real Lone Ranger?
Tom Mix's Wild West
Gold Rush Country
Great Road Reads
A Poor Man's Search for Charlie Russell
Bloody Siege at Milk Creek
Searching for The Searchers
A Mandan Circle Unbroken
Lee Marvin: Point Blank
Death by Rolling Pin?
What do you know about a bank holdup in Hatch, New Mexico?
Mysterious Dave
Power on the Plains
This is a Hold Up
Who actually shot the coin tossed in the air in the movie Winchester '73?
Not a Pipe Dream
Following an American Patriot
Bloody Sunday Riot
I've read that Sheriff John Behan was a scoundrel in Tombstone during the trouble years. Is that the case?
Cheyenne / The Boy From Oklahoma
The Mysterious Journey of Billy the Kid's Trigger Finger
July 2013 Events
Casey Tefertiller
When were photos first put on wanted posters?
The Missing Lincoln
Billy the Kid is best known for his time in New Mexico, but did he also spend time in Arizona?
New Releases-Historical Fiction
New Releases-Historical Non-Fiction
Hot Summer Reads


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SoulPhiction: The Ransom Note Mix
Michel Baumann grew up in a time by which the dj was king and crate digging was essential, as such he has always drawn upon influences from the golden age of boogie, hip hop, soul and funk.
SERIESMIXES
Krysko: The 'Rans...
The WHP resident and self-proclaimed Rave Dad takes the reins...
Ribeka: The 'Wedn...
A club ready set with ominous undertones.
Barbara Boeing: T...
A mellow mix of zouk, reggae, Axé and soul from the Alter Disco co-founder.
SoulPhiction: The...
Club Tularosa: Th...
The LA duo explore the psychedelic and cosmic corners of dance music...
Floating Spectrum...
The Taiwanese composer eases you into a new decade with a soothing mix of soundscapes...
So, here we are... Kicking off the new year with a mix from perhaps one of the most important German producers and DJ's of the last twenty years. Soulphiction has been a stalwart of electronic music having released definitive material on the likes of Perlon, Pampa and Playhouse amongst others. He is also the co-founder of Philpot, a record label which he launched in the year 2000 alongside his friend Blacktrane.
Michel Baumann grew up in a time by which the dj was king and crate digging was essential, as such he has always drawn upon influences from the golden age of boogie, hip hop, soul and funk. Much of his own music draws upon a deep rooted love and respect for that which came before, it's partly why his own resulting take on deep house is as special and unique as it is.
Last year saw perhaps the best representation of his own musical identity through the release of a new album, a three part LP for Local Talk, which allowed him to showcase the breadth of his own progression through sound.
Not one to often record mixes, we are delighted and humbled to be able to feature a mix from a much loved talent.
Listen and read the interview below:
Please introduce yourself…
Who are you, where are you and what are you?
I'm the guy behind these beats that make people forget their problems and have a good time...
Where was the mix recorded?
In my crib with some CDJs and two Technics 1200s, a couple of friends and some beverages..
What would be the ideal setting to listen to the mix?
While working heavy machinery, having sex or on the way to the club..
What should we be wearing?
Whatever makes you feel good
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What would be your dream setting to record a mix: Location/system/format?
My cellar on Quadral or Apogee speakers which are more hi-fi than club .. All formats except for MP3's or mobile phones, as a proper quality of sound is very important. Or simply recording somewhere like Heideglühen club in Berlin.
Which track in the mix is your current favourite?
That's a hard one as I like them all… some old, some new, but they're all favourites. But there is a Theo track is in there which I've been loving for quite some time as one of the standouts cuts from 2019.
What's your favourite recorded mix of all time?
I love mixtapes still, so I might pick one of these DJ Premier/Kid Capri mixtapes from the 90s... there are also some mixes by Larry Levan that really made me dig.
If you could go back to back with any DJ from throughout history, who would it be and why?
Back to back is a delicate situation, but I'd go with Kenny Dope or Zip :)
What was your first DJ set up at home and what is it now?
Two belt driven dual players in the 80s, since the 90s it's been Technics 1200s. I started DJing in 1983/84 with a peavey mixer incl. machine gun fx... Vestax PMC 27mkII is my all-time favourite mixer, but for this mix I also used two Pioneer XDJs that I've borrowed off a friend.
What's more important, the track you start on or the track you end on?
In the club it's the first track to set up things... If that works, almost anything can be played at the end. In a mix or podcast I like intros and clever programming, so often do changes in tempo that make for good dynamics.
What were the first and last records you bought?
First, I honestly can't remember, something like a fairy-tale or maybe the Boney M. album Nightflight to Venus...
the last was "The Return" by Sampa.
If this mix was an edible thing, what would it taste like?
Chocolate and cherries :)
If it was an animal what would it be?
Morphing like an Octopus lol
One record in your collection that is impossible to mix into anything?
Everything can be mixed, beat matching is secondary... if something truly is impossible to mix, then it's also going to be undanceable, so I just wouldn't play it. A lot of these mid 70s Funk /Disco Records go mad on the Tempo, because they weren't recorded to a click track or have any sequenced elements... but that's just makes them more exciting to play!
Upcoming in the world of…
There's actually a 12 inch vinyl VA I'm a part of that's being released by the guys from the Heideglühen club, plus there will be another Soulphiction 12" on Local Talk following my recent album, and then some Remixes for JT Donaldson and Session Victim coming soon after that. My album "24/7 Love Affair" is out now via Local Talk, and along with the full digital version there is also a three-part vinyl release that I've been really excited about. I've put some links below for people who want to check it out…
Part 1 of the LP HERE, Part 2 HERE, Part 3 HERE.
Krysko: The 'Ransom Note' Mix
Ribeka: The 'Wednesday Alternative' Mix
Barbara Boeing: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix
Club Tularosa: The 'Wednesday Alternative' Mix
Floating Spectrum: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix


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Moskvitch () (projects 515, 544, 554) is a series of Soviet local passenger river ships.

The first Moskvich ships were built in 1948 in the Moscow factory of shipbuilding. Moskvich ships did not receive names, only numbers. They were identified by the letter M followed by the ship's number, for example M-270. Later though, some ships owned by private operators have received their own names. Moskvichs were built in Moscow until the 1960s.

Moskvich ships were used for short sightseeing trips, but also as a type of public transport, called "water tramway" (concept similar to water taxi). As of 2007, many Moskvichs are still in service. Most of them are used for sightseeing, some are used as sailing restaurants.

Technical specifications

Length:
Beam:
Draft:
Height from water to deck:
Maximum height:
Speed:
Engine: diesel engine
Passenger capacity: 150 maximum

Modifications

Type Moskvich ships were also built in Kherson, Ukraine. These ships were almost completely the same as Moscow-build Moskvich, as they were built according to the same project (544), but they were identified as type PT ships.

Similar ships were built in Leningrad also. Leningrad-build ships were almost the same as Moscow-build ships, but their superstructure was little bit lower than on Moscow-build ships. The reason was that Leningrad had many low bridges. Leningrad-built ships are known as Leningradets-type ships, project 564K.

Accidents

 On October 6, 1968 in Cheboksary, the M–176 collided with a reefer on the Volga River and sank. 51 passengers were killed, 10 injured.
 On May 29, 2019 in Budapest, the Hableány collided with the cruise ship Viking Sigyn on the Danube, and sank. 26 passengers and 2 crewmen were killed, 7 survived.

Sources

 Russian river ships – local sail ships
 Technical specifications
 Technical drawing
 Technical specifications

References

Boat types
Ships of Russia
Ships of the Soviet Union
Ship classes

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Plague Diaries – Week#22
SurLaJante	in Club Runs, Road Cycling	 August 21, 2020 1,753 Words
What a mizzly, horrible start to the day. The cloud was low over the hills, weeping fine drizzle in enough volume that I kicked a rooster tail of spray off my rear wheel descending the Heinous Hill and received a most unwelcome and unpleasant, early morning douche for my troubles.
Eech.
I'd gone for the lightest jacket I own, reasoning I'd be able to to ditch it fairly early on in the ride, if the weather forecast was to be believed. It served its purpose and I was grateful for the extra layer of protection for what turned out to be a fairly miserable start to proceedings.
I arrived at the meeting point to find the long AWOL Taffy Steve, not fully recovered from his rotator cuff injury, but keen to start riding again. As he said, the power data didn't lie and he now had all the strength of an anorexic, pre-pubescent at the end of a long fast. (And with none of the accompanying weight advantages either.) The Red Max and Mrs. Max have started running a well-received starters group parallel to our standard runs and Taffy Steve had been persuaded this would be the perfect re-introduction to group rides.
Various complaints about the weather in August led someone to claim that it was actually the wettest month in the North East of England, an assertion that failed to win much support. Post-ride research suggests the wettest month is actually November which has 10mm, more precipitation than August. To be fair though, with 60mm of rain on average, an amount shared with several other months, August is not that far behind. If that wasn't depressing enough, it seems we also enjoy a rather paltry 1,445 sunshine hours per year. The inference seems to be to make the most of it.
I carefully avoided he front group this week and, when they couldn't make their numbers add up to the magical, mystical six, it was G-Dawg who bravely stepped forward to take one for the team. I'm sure he made a better fist of it than I did last week.
I looked to be heading out in the third group when, for unknown reasons, the Big Yin pulled out and returned. Careful of another trap, I checked the composition of the second group, Crazy Legs, Aether, Ahlambra, Richard of Flanders and the Ticker. Yeah, I could probably live with that. I pushed up and joined them, filling out the full complement of six and away we went.
Just past Dinnington and pelted by a sudden shower of rain, we stopped to make some adjustments to gear, pulling on jackets arm warmers and gilets. I'd only just ditched the jacket so stood pat.
Moments later, having crested Berwick Hill and heading downhill at pace, the Ticker and Richard of Flanders pulled to a sudden stop and the rest of us whipped past wondering why we were stopping yet again.
We eventually reformed and pressed on, following Aether's plan that took our standard run home from Belsay and reversed it. On the front with Crazy Legs, passing through Walton, we both stuck out an arm and called "left" before swinging through the turn. Ahlambra and Aether followed, the Ticker tried and found Richard of Flanders in a world of his own and intent on heading straight on. Collision narrowly averted, we amused ourselves (we're easily amused) for the next few miles calling out directions and then pedantically repeating them several times for our daydreaming colleague.
"Left here. Richard, we're going left."
"Right here. Which way are we going Richard?"
"That's right. Right."
Riding with Crazy Legs behind the Ticker, we spent time speculating about his pale blue Rapha jersey, proudly emblazoned with Push Cartel, trying to work out if there was some sort of Columbian connection and what it was exactly that they were pushing.
Curiosity became to much for Crazy Legs, so he eventually asked and we learned that Push Cartel was probably the poshest bike shop in the whole of Ambleside (I suspect the claim is justified, as I can't imagine there's a lot of competition.)
In fact, it's probably incorrect to call Push Cartel a bike shop at all. According to their own website it's actually, "the bespoke cycle atelier of the Lake District" who, if I understand correctly, don't have stock to sell, but a "carefully curated portfolio of class leading brands." Yer what?
Mind you, their "curated brands" include Cinelli, Cipollini, Parlee and Look and it was obviously these shiny bling-bikes that had drawn the Ticker, like a moth to the flame, to visit the store. That I could understand, we all like a bit of bike porn, such as the Cipollini RB1K – modestly branded as "The One" and representing as fine an example of bike porn as you're likely to find:
Still, I really couldn't say why the Ticker felt the need to buy the Push jersey and be associated with such pretentious marketing claptrap, perhaps it was the price of entry, or maybe exit?
Mention of Cipollini prompted Crazy Legs to ponder turning up at the club time trial in one of the Lion King's (in)famous skinsuits. I suggested it was more likely someone turned up in a Lion King onesie than a Lion KIng skinsuit and we left it there.
The Lion King in … err. .. tiger stripes?
I pushed onto the front alongside the Ticker as we dropped down "Curlicue Hill" and pushed out along the Font Valley heading toward Mitford. Here I learned our unexpected stop earlier had been caused by a pesky wasp infiltrating the Ticker's helmet and stinging him on the napper.
Still smarting from the infernal blow, he hadn't dared look at the damage although Richard of Flander had offered to inspect the wound.
"He probably just wanted to cut a big cross in your head and suck the venom out," I suggested. "Anyway, if you take your helmet off and your head swells, you'll never get it back on."
The aforementioned Richard of Flanders then took over at the front to lead us carefully down the Mur de Mitford, but obviously not carefully enough, as he locked his wheels up on a patch of diesel at the bottom and slid sideways to the bottom of the hill, where he came to a juddering stop just before the junction.
"Which way?" he queried, having regained at least some form of composure and he started to edge toward the left. "Right, Richard, right!" Surely, I thought, we'd done this routine to death already?
We climbed to and through Mitford and up to the Gubeon, which presented us with a straight run through to the cafe rendezvous at Kirkley. With the imagined scent of cake and coffee in the wind, I worked with Crazy Legs and the Ticker, swapping turns on the front to build our pace. Our group of six quickly became five … then four … then there was just the three of us in an exhilarating, long blast to the cafe.
Yee-hah!
There we found Captain Black and Goose, who hadn't managed to form a group and had ended up riding as a pair, which is fitting as we often project them as an old, married couple. As Captain Black dryly noted, it was also the perfect opportunity for him to ride around and be talked at for a couple of hours.
The Ticker appeared, his head still "knacking" and told us Aether had just pulled the stinger out of his scalp, which suggests he was done-in by a bee rather than a wasp. He may also have been riding around with the stinger continuously dosing him with venom just to keep the the edge on his pain.
Crazy Legs suggested what he needed was a helmet with a bug mesh, marveling how well such a feature can trap a wasp in place, in the perfect position to sting you repeatedly.
We then had one of those entertaining, surreal conversations that started with Crazy Legs listing all the things he stuffs in his jersey pockets, up to, but not excluding an elephant, if he's to be believed. This led to a discussion about the film Hannibal Brookes, which included a scene where it was claimed elephants couldn't walk backwards, which reminded Crazy Legs of his claim that horses can only swim in a straight line and that, if you chased them into the North Sea, they'd just have to keep going "until they hit Norway."
The Hannibal Brookes name check brought recollections of Oliver Reed's (too numerous to mention) drunken appearances on talk shows, which led in turn to a discussion about George Best, which ended when G-Dawg joined our table and predicted Man City were going to win the Champions League. He must have taken over duff prognostication duties in the absence of the Garrulous Kid as, mere hours after this pronouncement, Man City were duly dumped out of the competition.
With the back of our new jersey's adorned with twin parallel white stripes, Crazy Legs had us adapt Seven Nation Army as a club anthem. A somewhat bemused Goose recognised the riff we bellowed and banged out on the table, but didn't know what it was called, or who the artist was.
"Turn around," Crazy Legs instructed me, then, channeling his inner Roy "Cathphrase" Walker, pointed at my back and urged Goose to "Say what you see, just say what you see"
"Err … skinny ass ugly fecker?" I supplied helpfully.
But Goose was unmoved and sure he could live perfectly happily without knowing who sang Seven Nation Army.
On departing most went left, but I turned right, planning to head through Ponteland and home, but I caught the back of our starters group and tagged along for the ride, up and down Berwick Hill and through Dinnington.
I had a brief chat with the Red Max who declared I was going to have the most leisurely and enjoyable ascent of Berwick Hill ever. And he wasn't wrong.
Approaching Dinnington a lone cyclist buzzed past the group and I watched and waited for the inevitable. The Red Max's homing radar whirred a little, then locked on and he kicked off a mad-ass pursuit. Anticipating the inevitable, I dropped onto his wheel and let him tow me across the gap to the lone cyclist, then, as the Red Max sat up to drop back to the group, I just kept going and started my solo ride home.
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Whatever you're working on, ask someone for some constructive criticism. At the very least, a little critique will get you to articulate your ideas more clearly as you communicate, at best you'll have a major breakthrough. Some outside positivity can go a long way. If one person likes it or at least thinks it has potential and can give you some direction, just think: who knows how many other people will like it.


An Bille Um An Dóú Leasú Déag ar an mBunreacht, 1992: An Coiste agus na Céimeanna Deiridh. Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1992: Committee and Final Stages.
Death of Former Member. - An Bille um an Dóú Leasú Deag ar an mBunreacht, 1992: An Dara Céim (atógáil). Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1992: Second Stage (resumed).
Death of Former Member. - An Bille um an Dóú Leasú Déag ar an mBunreacht, 1992: An Dara Céim (Atógáil). Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1992: Second Stage (Resumed).
An Bille um an Dóú Leasú Déag ar an mBunreacht, 1992: An Dara Céim (Atógáil). Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1992: Second Stage (Resumed).
An Bille um an Dóú Leasú Déag ar an mBunreacht, 1992: An Dara Céim. Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1992: Second Stage.
An Bille um an Dóu Leasú Déag ar an mBunreacht, 1992: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna Deiridh. Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1992: Committee and Final Stages.
Private Members' Business. - An Bille um an Dóú Leasú Déag ar an mBunreacht, 1992: An Dara Céim (Atógáil). Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1992: Second Stage (Resumed).
An Bille um an Dóú Leasú ar an mBunreacht, 1992: An Dara Céim (Atógáil). Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1992: Second Stage (Resumed).


Have you ever walked into a room and everything just felt right? Like you immediately felt at peace with the world because all of your surroundings were balanced and the room had nothing but good vibes? With how hectic modern life is, don't feel bad if you haven't. We're not exactly taught how to be at one with our surroundings.
We can still learn to value and balance our surroundings. The ancient art of Feng Shui can teach us how to arrange our surroundings in ways that promote peace, relaxation and balance. The art can get a bit complex, but there are simple contemporary ways for anyone to get the best of this practice.
One of the main components of Feng Shui is getting rid of clutter. Traditionally in Feng Shui, clutter means stuck energy and being tied down into the past. Clutter is thought to prevent new opportunities, since you live with unproductive and outdated reminders of the past junking up your space in the form of old papers and expired food on the counter.
In the modern home, it's an excellent reason to get your space in order. Mercilessly clear out anything you don't use or even like. Dump that old box of a new fiber bar brand you barely touched, get rid of those gifts where "it's the thought that counts," shred old direct deposit forms and purge anything else that is cluttering your life. With less reminders of the past, you may see new opportunities.
Another huge cornerstone of traditional Feng Shui is the Bagua Map, pictured above. It's a map you mentally place over your home. The map shows which parts of a home correspond to certain lifestyle attributes.
For instance, the center of the space, as the map shows, is devoted to health. The north part of the house is devoted to career, and all the way around the compass different parts of the home relate to different attributes.
Now unless you are building a brand new home from scratch, you may not be able to align the attributes perfectly with the cardinal directions. To get a mental image of this map over your home, align the bottom of the map with the main entryway you use, so you're entering through career, helpful people or wisdom. What this does is tell you which parts of your space correlate with different aspects of your life.
For a more simple approach, you can also do the same with a single room, putting the doorway at the bottom of the map. You can even apply it to your desktop, placing the bottom of the map where you sit.
What this means in terms of a modern and practical approach is that you can use those spaces to align your home and psyche with certain goals. For instance, getting the upper righthand corner of your home or room organized and appropriately decorated will remind you to value relationships or leave you more open to them. But what does it mean to get those areas "appropriately decorated"? That's where Feng Shui colors and décor pieces come into play.
Green: Development, healing, harmony and vigor.
Dark blue/black: Truth, attention and contemplation.
Orange: Happiness, openness and completion.
Red: Motivation, action, accomplishment and passion.
Pink: Love, relationships and emotional fulfillment.
White: Clarity, focus and purposeful activity.
Purple: Thankfulness, plenty and leadership.
Today, that translates into being mindful of what colors you paint your rooms and what colors you bring into the home in terms of fabric and décor. For instance, you may paint your dining room a shade of purple to represent thankfulness. Or your home office may be red to help you get in touch with your motivated, action-oriented side. Your sofa may have a pink throw over it to foster positive relationships. As such, all of these colors help orient your surroundings with the sort of life you'd like to lead.
Colors can also be used in relation to the Bagua Map. Going back to relationships, if you'd like to get that area in your life more aligned, you might paint a room at the upper righthand corner of your home pink or hang a pink painting in the upper righthand corner of a room.
One of the easiest ways to achieve great Feng Shui is to bring items that have what practitioners call good "energy" or "chi" into the home. In a modern sense, that translates into items of great personal value and beauty, like art or houseplants.
There are a lot of complicated and ancient rules about how to arrange a home to attract love and money, balance a home and align a space with certain goals. From a modern, beginner's standpoint, it'll help to go off of intuition and personal preference.
In a corresponding Bagua area, place what personally represents the approriate goals you wish to achieve. For instance, in that relationship corner you could have gifts from a significant other or art depicting relationships.
The overall key to Feng Shui is to create a flowing living space that helps you live life to your fullest potential. At the end of the day, you should make your space meaningful for you.


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Best Way To Get Cialis Pills - Buy Tadalafil Online! Would it help if you gave her anecdotes of other patients who have done well with the vaccine? Obviously, that's not how you all make decisions (for very good reasons) but a lot of lay people rely on that sort of thing. I don't have GB, but a neurological condition often initially misdiagnosed as GB. I know dozens of people with neuro disease, myself included who got vaccinated and boosted with no worse symptoms than a sore arm and feeling crummy for one day.
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Guillain-Barré syndrome is an exceedingly rare side effect of vaccinations and infections. She's more likely to get an MI, stroke or die from Covid-19 than ever getting Guillain-Barré syndrome. One of the things this pandemic has exposed is the fact that people are really bad at abstract thinking and risk assessment. Just because an extremely small risk of getting Guillain-Barré after vaccination exists that doesn't mean that it's something people should concern themselves with unless they work with vaccine safety or public health issues. If you can't convince her of that then it doesn't matter how many numbers and statistics you throw at her.
Tlide
Yeah, that's tough. I would explain it using the risks of covid as the baseline, and then explain that via vaccination, you are lowering your risk overall. Covid is so contagious now that it's incredibly difficult to avoid it forever, and so the only option is to decide whether it would be healthier to get sick with covid, or prevent that through vaccination (which should be a no-brainer)
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GBS shouldn't from a pure risk benefit perspective be her primary concern. If she has had GBS before she may or may not have a higher chance of getting it again. But even if her risk is increased 100x then her odds with vaccination would be 100-500/100,000 or 1-5/1000. Lets use 5/1000. Then she is adding a 5/1000 excess risk by getting vaccinated and sparing herslf from the excess COVID risk - OP has said she is older so it may be higher than this but lets use 1% infection fatality rate for her being unvaccinated (10/1000) and underestimate the benefit of vaccination at 90% reduction in infection fatality rate. (And assume a 100% chance of gettig COVID)
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And lets also assume that GBS recurence is an equal severity outcome to death. So even with these numbers that are almost certainly less favorable to vaccination than reality she should get vaccinated, she is taking on a 5/1000 risk of GBS to spare herself 9/1000 risk of death from COVID.
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Anecdotal, but there was a 20s ish person at my hospital on ecmo for covid. Didn't get vaccinated bc of previous GBS from flu shot. Also I have a coworker who was very concerned to get the covid shot bc she also had GBS (she's medically exempted from annual flu shots) - ended up getting x2 Pfizer and did just fine.
corby10
There are still some PCPs who are telling patients with a history of GBS not to get vaccinated. My coworker has a family member who is not antivax at all and extremely careful about COVID, but genuinely believes that she "can't get vaccinated" because she had a severe case of GBS after a flu shot as a toddler, and her trusted family doctor apparently advised against it. The rest of the family believes the doctor.
Chaoticmass
I am a neurologist with fellowship training in neuromuscular disease. This comes up all the time. Most of my post-GBS patients do not like my advice which is to go ahead and get the shot. As others have said, GBS is sometimes seen after COVID-19, but so far we have not seen increased rates of GBS after vaccination against COVID-19.
Where I work many of us have access to multiple local hospital EMRs (we do shifts in essentially a service that supports patient care at multiple hospitals). However we have been told that when we are on regular shift (eg. at the bedside), we are not allowed to use OSH EMRs to access the patient record.
The most relevant example, is if the patient is for instance transferring from one of those local hospitals to ours - we are not allowed to use our access to the local hospital EMR, to read about the patient before they arrive. No, we have to go by the (sometimes) Skeletal Signout, or, by the paper records that come with the patient.
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Nashville's Top Songwriters to Perform in South Walton to Raise Money for Children's Charities
(Miramar Beach, Fla.) – The Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association is proud to highlight nationally renowned songwriters at the South Walton Beaches Wine and Food Festival. As a founding partner, FRLA is thrilled to participate in the fourth annual charity event scheduled for Thursday, April 28 through Sunday, May 1 in Grand Boulevard at Sandestin. During the four days of lively tastings, seminars, winemaker dinners and musical performances, the festival will showcase more than 800 wines. The FRLA will sponsor the songwriters in conjunction with BMI, a leader in music rights management, as part of its Great Florida Events program which is designed to boost local tourism across the state.
"A combination of fantastic tunes and tastes, this must-attend event showcases Florida hospitality at its finest," said Carol Dover, President and CEO of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association. "This year's set list of songwriters features industry all-stars and we are proud to partner with them to reel in more visitors who can help us raise money for children in Northwest Florida."
Last year, 4,000 wine and food lovers participated in the event, and contributed to raising more than $2.3 million for the Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation (DCWAF) at an auction held during the festival. Proceeds from this year's event will be donated to DCWAF, which has affected the lives of over 60,000 youth, including those afflicted by health issues and abuse.
Throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday, the songwriters will perform and tell stories about their biggest hits written for the stars of the music business, including Jake Owen, George Strait, Luke Bryan, Miley Cyrus, Tim McGraw and many others. The featured songwriters include nationally renowned BMI artists: Dylan Altman, Marshall Altman, Aaron Barker, Brent Cobb, Jon Mabe, Kendell Marvel, Billy Montana and Matt Warren. The songs written by the songwriters include "Baby Blue" made popular by George Strait, "The Climb" written for Miley Cyrus and Garth Brooks' "More Than A Memory" to name a few.
Please go to www.sowalwine.com for the festival schedule and a full list of songwriters who will be performing.
FRLA is Florida's premier non-profit hospitality industry trade association. Our mission is to 'Protect, Educate and Promote' Florida's $82 billion hospitality industry which represents 23% of Florida's economy and more than 1.1 million employees – making it the state's number one industry. We offer regulatory compliance and food safety training needs (RCS and SafeStaff®); industry developed career-building high school programs (FRLAEF); sponsor the only event in Florida exclusively serving the restaurant and foodservice industry (FR&L Show, September 27-29, 2016 in Orlando); and we safeguard the needs of the hospitality industry by providing legislative advocacy. We represent and serve more than 10,000 independent and household name members, suppliers, and theme parks. For more information, go to www.FRLA.org and find us on Twitter @FRLAnews, Facebook and YouTube.
About South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival
South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival is an annual charity event held the last weekend of April. The festival features a stunning showcase of the best wines the world has to offer. Celebrity wine producers and chefs present fine wine and food pairings from the world's most famous appellations. The Savor South Walton Culinary Village offers a sumptuous array of foods to taste, wines to pair, as well as wine and food tasting seminars and live entertainment. The event is a major fundraiser for Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation, which benefits children in need in Northwest Florida. For more information, including a list of attending winemakers and to purchase tickets, visit www.SoWalWine.com.


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Delias felis werd in 2000 beschreven door Lachlan.

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Q: When publishing a VS2012 project, how do I build a second project before publishing the primary one? I have a Visual Studio 2012 solution that has a second dependent project that contains our Telerik reports. The main project is published to our intranet server via a network path (//servername/folder) and includes a reference to the second project. The first time I tried to publish the project, I was told the report project's DLL was missing. Once I compiled the project as "Release", it published properly. So now I manually compile the report project before publishing the main project.
I am sure VS can do this all for me, but I can't figure out how to set it up, nor can I find any documentation explaining how to do this. Can anyone send me in the right direction?

A: Are they part of the same solution? Did you reference the other project using the "Solution" tab of Add Reference or by using Browse?
If they're part of the same solution, right click the solution and go to Properties -- not completely sure but I'd imagine setting up "Common Properties-->Project Dependencies" would affect build order.


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WNC Foundations Collaborate On Emergency COVID-19 Fund For Nonprofits
BPR News | By Lilly Knoepp
Published March 19, 2020 at 4:05 PM EDT
Lilly Knoepp
This fund will be open to nonprofits across the 18-county region that are in health services, those impacted by COVID-19 and those offering emergency relief.
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina(CFWNC) has announced an Emergency and Disaster Response Fund to help nonprofit's addressing issues impacted by COVID-19, as well as, relief efforts across the 18-county region.
"While this fund is hosted at CFWHC, it is a collaborative effort by several funders to quickly provide flexible resources to nonprofits on the front lines," says CFWNC President Elizabeth Brazas in a press release. "We are working together to expand regional capacity to address the immediate effects of the pandemic and to raise funds to address needs as they change over time."
This fund is a collaboration of more than seven other organizations such as Dogwood Health Trust and legacy foundations like the AMY Wellness Foundation and Pisgah Health Foundation. This is the first crisis since these foundations were created by the sale of Mission Health to HCA Healthcare last year.
"It's certainly good for the response that there are other funders in the region that can help muster the resources that are going to be needed," says CRWNC spokesperson Lindsay Hearn, adding the organization is excited to be able to collaborate with the other foundations.
CRWNC was founded in 1978 and has given out more than more than $254 million during that time. Hearn says that the foundation hopes to distribute funds weekly.
"This is the role that community foundations play for the regions that they serve. We were able to respond when Western North Carolina had floods, we were able to step in during the recession and now we are able to help with the pandemic as we can," says Hearn.
AMY Wellness Foundation, the legacy foundation that serves Avery, Mitchell, Yancey county, gave $50,000 to the fund.
"The best thing we can do right now is to provide support to those who need it. By partnering with other funders who have capacity and experience in emergency response funding we know we are making the best collective impact possible,"says Dr. Randy Ellis, Board Chair, AMY Wellness Foundation in a press release.
Nonprofits can find the application online at the foundation website.
Here's the full list of organizations involved: CFWNC, Dogwood Health Trust, WNC Bridge Foundation, AMY Wellness Foundation, Pisgah Health Foundation, Biltmore Lake Charitable Fund, Ramble Charitable Fund and Wells Fargo Foundation contributed to the Fund. Donations have also been received from individuals and CFWNC fundholders.
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December 7, 2022 report
Astronomers observe outburst of the young magnetar Swift J1818.0–1607
by Tomasz Nowakowski , Phys.org
3 GHz VLA radio image of Swift J1818.0–1607 and the surrounding diffuse emission. Credit: Ibrahim et al., 2022.
Using various space telescopes, European astronomers have performed deep X-ray and radio observations of a young magnetar known as Swift J1818.0–1607 during its outburst. Results of the observational campaign, published November 22 on arXiv.org, could help us better understand the nature of this source.
Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields, more than quadrillion times stronger than the magnetic field of our planet. Decay of magnetic fields in magnetars powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, for instance, in the form of X-rays or radio waves.
Swift J1818.0–1607 was detected on March 12, 2020 during an outburst as a new X-ray source. Further observations found that this source is a fast-spinning magnetar with a spin period of approximately 1.36 seconds. Swift J1818.0–1607 has a characteristic age of about 265 years, dipolar surface magnetic field at the equator at a level of 340 trillion Gauss, and exhibits radio pulsations, hence the source was classified as a young radio-loud magnetar.
Recently, a team of astronomers led by Abubakr Ibrahim of the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain, has analyzed the data from the Swift, NuSTAR, XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL space telescopes, which started to monitor Swift J1818.0–1607 shortly after its outburst started.
"We report here on the long-term X-ray monitoring campaign of this young magnetar using XMM–Newton, NuSTAR, and Swift from the activation of its first outburst in March 2020 until October 2021, as well as INTEGRAL upper limits on its hard X-ray emission," the researchers wrote in the paper.
All in all, the X-ray monitoring campaign covered about 19 months of the outburst decay of Swift J1818.0–1607. This allowed the team to accurately characterize the behavior of the magnetar over a long time span.
The data show that the 0.3–10 keV luminosity of Swift J1818.0–1607 reached a peak value of approximately 90 decillion erg/s only a few minutes after the detection of the short burst on March 12, 2020 and decreased to about 3 decillion erg/s after 575 days. The total energy released in the outburst was estimated to be about one tredecillion ergs.
In general, the decay timescale and the released energy of the outburst of Swift J1818.0–1607 are in agreement with those derived by previous studies for magnetars showing major outbursts. The astronomers concluded that the decay pattern of this outburst is therefore similar to that observed for other magnetar outbursts.
The study detected the bright diffuse X-ray emission around the source extending between 50 and 110 arcseconds. Moreover, the researchers discovered the radio counterpart to Swift J1818.0–1607 and identified a half ring-like structure of bright diffuse radio emission, approximately 90 arcseconds to the west of the magnetar.
The authors of the paper assume that the diffuse X-ray emission is caused by a dust scattering halo and that the radio structure may be associated with a supernova remnant (SNR). However, further radio observations are planned to unveil the spectrum of this diffuse radio emission, and to confirm its SNR nature.
More information: A. Y. Ibrahim et al, Deep X-ray and radio observations of the first outburst of the young magnetar Swift J1818.0-1607, arXiv (2022). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.12391
Journal information: arXiv
© 2022 Science X Network
Citation: Astronomers observe outburst of the young magnetar Swift J1818.0–1607 (2022, December 7) retrieved 27 January 2023 from https://phys.org/news/2022-12-astronomers-outburst-young-magnetar-swift.html
Observations shed more light on the properties and evolution of a recently discovered young magnetar
Observations unveil dynamic magnetosphere of the magnetar Swift J1818.0−1607
Mysterious spinning neutron star detected in the Milky Way proves to be an extremely rare discovery
Outbursts of magnetar SGR J1935+2154 investigated in detail
Chandra observations reveal extraordinary magnetar
Properties of magnetar SGR 1830−0645 inspected with NICER
Nine new and exotic creatures for the pulsar zoo
NASA's Fermi detects first gamma-ray eclipses from 'spider' star systems
Researchers measure boron flux in high-energy cosmic rays with the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET)
Astronomers confirm age of most distant galaxy using oxygen


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Whenever someone attempts to excavate his or her land by himself or herself, they might not know all about what exactly they are doing. When you excavate land, you have to take a lot of things into consideration. And since not everyone, only professionals, know about all the things that need to be taken into consideration when excavation, someone who attempts to excavate his or her land by himself or herself can do a very bad job at it. And your new excavation might actually lead to a lot of erosion in your property. That is why if you want to be sure that the excavation is done properly, then you should definitely get excavating services for your land.
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Q: Hash test failed because input string is not in a correct format I am testing some code I found on this article to hash passwords, but when trying to validate a password with the following method:
    /// <summary>
    /// Validates a password given a hash of the correct one.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="password">The password to check.</param>
    /// <param name="correctHash">A hash of the correct password.</param>
    /// <returns>True if the password is correct. False otherwise.</returns>
    public static bool ValidatePassword(string password, string correctHash)
    {
        // Extract the parameters from the hash
        char[] delimiter = { ':' };
        string[] split = correctHash.Split(delimiter);
        int iterations = Int32.Parse(split[ITERATION_INDEX]);
        byte[] salt = Convert.FromBase64String(split[SALT_INDEX]);
        byte[] hash = Convert.FromBase64String(split[PBKDF2_INDEX]);

        byte[] testHash = PBKDF2(password, salt, iterations, hash.Length);
        return SlowEquals(hash, testHash);
    }

I get the following error:

Result Message:
  Test method UT.UnitTestUsuario.TestMethodValidatePassword threw exception:
  System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
Result StackTrace:
  at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
     at System.Int32.Parse(String s)
     at Entities.PasswordHash.ValidatePassword(String password, String correctHash)

The test I am trying to pass is this:
        [TestMethod]
    public void TestMethodValidatePassword()
    {

        string password = PasswordHash.CreateHash("12345");

        User user = gestor.validateUser("somemail@mail.com", password);

        bool match = PasswordHash.ValidatePassword("12345", user.Password);

        Assert.IsTrue(match);

    }

Removing user.Password property and replacing it with the correct hash taken from the DB doesn't work either. In User the Password is of type String, and as far that I know it shouldn't have issues that the method expects a string instead.
Also the test does pass when I send "12345" and the just hashed password variable.
Can anyone see somehting I may be missing?
EDIT:
I double checked using other user with the same password, and the hash keeps changing each time, for example:

Test 1 hashes "12345" into 1000:XV9IJ3tPys3B6PR
Test 2 hashes "12345" into 1000:gqry9xl8HKavXvu
User1 and 2 has a database entry for a password that corresponds to the first and second tests. A simple console print shows that data is being pulled whole and correctly.

Does that mean that is not possible to actually use the method to compare passwords?

A: Your problem is that your user.Password is not returning the same value that you receive from PasswordHash.CreateHash in the first place. No wonder it can't be validated - it is invalid. You need to find out why it is not returning the right value and fix it.
Also do not worry about hashes being different every time. If you take the time to actually read and understand the article you are linking, this is the whole point.


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NEVs include plug-in hybrids, full-electric vehicles and those powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
Chen Shihua, assistant secretary general at China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), made the comment on Monday after the association reported that sales of NEVs fell 45.6 percent in October from year-ago levels, following a 33 percent decline in September.
"There is a gap between sales to date and where they were last year, so according to the development trend, we may see negative growth for new energy vehicles this year," he said.
China has been a keen supporter of NEVs and has implemented sales quota requirements for automakers. But it cut subsidies for NEVs this year as part of an overall plan to reduce subsidies, making the vehicles costlier.
Prior to the subsidy cut, the market for NEVs had been a bright spot, having jumped 62 percent last year.
While NEVs sales rose last year, the world's largest auto market suffered its first contraction since the 1990s in 2018.
The trend has remained discouraging with auto sales falling for a 16th consecutive month in October, declining 4 percent from the same month a year earlier, and followed declines of 5.2 percent in September and 6.9 percent in August, CAAM said.
September and October, known as "Golden September, Silver October" by China's auto insiders, are regarded as the high season for sales, with customers traditionally returning to make purchases after the summer.
The decline in sales during the high season has dealt a blow to industry executives' hopes for a turnaround in the second half of this year.
As recently as three years ago, automakers had enjoyed double-digit annual growth in China. But the prolonged sales decline has made domestic automakers from Geely to Great Wall lower their expectations for sales and profit.


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Lake Michigan
Many of the Wisconsin's islands in Lake Michigan are around the Door Peninsula. Islands in Green Bay include those in and around the Green Bay Breakwater. Washington Island is Wisconsin's largest in Lake Michigan and also has a year-round population of 708 as of the 2010 census. The island has a ferry service and operates Washington Island Airport for air travel. Rock Island is a state park that can only be accessed by ferry from Washington Island. Plum Island is home to a former Coast Guard Life-Saving Station and historic range lights. The islands surrounding the northern part of the peninsula are outcroppings of the Niagara Escarpment.

Texas Rock is officially classified as an island, but is only above the surface of the water with very low water levels.

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Inland Lake and River Islands
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See also
Geography of Wisconsin
Great Lakes
Islands of the Midwest

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Coronavirus pandemic creates 9 new Big Pharma billionaires
Monday, May 31, 2021 by: Nolan Barton
Tags: bad medicine, Big Pharma, coronavirus, covid-19, covid-19 pandemic, Global Justice Now, Oxfam, pandemic, patent protection, People's Vaccine Alliance, Pharmaceutical industry, profit, UNAIDS, vaccine supply, vaccine wars, vaccines
(Natural News) The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created nine new billionaires from the pharmaceutical industry.
Campaigners from the People's Vaccine Alliance, whose members include Global Justice Now, Oxfam and UNAIDS, have analyzed Forbes Rich List data to highlight the massive wealth being generated for a handful of people from vaccines which were largely publicly funded.
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel topped the list and is now worth $4.3 billion after his company became the second to be granted emergency use authorization in the U.S. for its COVID-19 vaccine in December last year. (Related: Move aside, Big Pharma: BIG COVID is a trillion-dollar industry and those who profit from it will make sure covid never goes away.)
CEO and co-founder of BioNTech Ugur Sahin is not far behind with a wealth of $4 billion, following its collaboration on a vaccine with Pfizer.
Other Moderna executives have also profited, with immunologist and early investor Timothy Springer now worth $2.2 billion, Chairman Noubar Afeyan $1.9 billion and scientist and founding investor Robert Langer $1.6 billion.
Senior executives from CanSino Biologics have also become billionaires over the last year with the Chinese firm's co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Zhu Tao now worth $1.3 billion, co-founder and Senior Vice President Qiu Dongxu worth $1.2 billion and co-founder and Senior Vice President Mao Huinhoa $1 billion.
CanSino has developed a one-shot vaccine that was approved for use in China this February.
ROVI Chairman Juan Lopez-Belmonte also made the list with $1.8 billion. Spanish contract drugmaker Rovi makes bottles for Moderna's vaccine and last month reached a new deal to start making its active ingredients.
Combined worth of new Big Pharma billionaires enough to vaccinate all people in low-income countries
The industry's nine new billionaires have a combined worth of $19.3 billion.
With the average vaccine costing $19 and 775,710,612 people living in low-income countries, according to UN data, that amount of money would be enough to vaccinate every person 1.3 times.
Eight existing billionaires with big stakes in Big Pharma companies have also seen their combined wealth increase by a staggering $32.2 billion, the alliance found.
Zhifei Biological Chairman Jiang Rensheng and family raised their worth to $24.4 billion this year from $7.6 billion last year; Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of Serum Institute of India, is now worth $12.7 billion from $8.2 billion; Tse Ping of Sinopharm is now worth $8.9 billion from $7.3 billion; Wu Guanjiang, co-founder of Zhifei Biological, is now worth $5.1 billion from $1.80 billion; Thomas and Andreas Struengmann and their respective families, who have stakes with Germany's BioNTech and Uruguay's Mega Pharma, are now worth $11 billion each from similar $9.6 billion last year; Pankaj Patel of Cadila Healthcare is now worth $5 billion from $2.9 billion; and Patrick Soon-Shiong of ImmunityBio is now worth $7.5 billion from $6.4 billion last year.
Anne Marriott, Oxfam's health policy manager, said Big Pharma companies and the executives behind them have taken the monopoly on the COVID-19 vaccine.
"These billionaires are the human face of the huge profits many pharmaceutical corporations are making from the monopoly they hold on these vaccines," she said. "These vaccines were funded by public money and should be first and foremost a global public good, not a private profit opportunity."
Shares in Big Pharma companies responsible for developing the vaccines skyrocketed as they gained authorization for use in nations across the world.
Moderna has seen its share price surge more than 700 percent since last February when COVID shuttered much of the world. During the same timeframe, BioNTech has increased by 600 percent and CanSino Biologics by 440 percent.
Patent protections allow Big Pharma total control of vaccine supply
The research comes ahead of the G20 Global Health Summit where world leaders are expected to discuss whether to waive patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines. (Related: Harvard study: U.S. government actively props up Big Pharma's profiteering monopoly.)
The alliance warned that these protections allow Big Pharma companies total control over the supply and price of vaccines, pushing up their profits while making it harder for poor countries to secure the stocks they need.
"While the companies making massive profits from COVID vaccines are refusing to share their science and technology with others in order to increase the global vaccine supply, the world continues to face the very real risk of mutations that could render the vaccines we have ineffective and put everyone at risk all over again," said UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima.
Earlier this month, the U.S. backed proposals by South Africa and India at the World Trade Organization to temporarily break up these monopolies and lift the patents on COVID-19 vaccines.
However, rich nations like the United Kingdom and Germany are still blocking the proposal, putting the interest of pharmaceutical companies over what's best for the world.
"As thousands of people die each day in India, it is utterly repugnant that the UK, Germany and others want to put the interests of the billionaire owners of Big Pharma ahead of the desperate needs of millions," said Heidi Chow, senior policy and campaigns manager at Global Justice Now.
There's also been pushback from some top names in Big Pharma as such a move would likely slash their profits.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla blasted the idea as "so wrong," saying it would punish the firm for its progress and discourage biotech companies from creating treatments and inoculations for future pandemics.
He also claimed it would spark a race for raw materials that would threaten the safe and efficient production of the vaccines. Instead, he said the company will provide two billion vaccine doses to low- and middle-income countries over the next 18 months.
Bourla's own pay surged to a staggering $21 million last year, a rise of 17 percent and he has scored a deal with Harper Business to write a book on the story behind the vaccine development.
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