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Q: UIView animation flickering with autoreverse I'm trying to animate an indicator to an empty form field so I'm using the method below to animate to a position, reverse the animation, and repeat.  In the simulator this works fine, on my 3GS it looks like there is a flicker right when the completion block is called.  The indicator is briefly shown at the middle position rather than back at it's origin.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?  Thanks.
- (void)bounceFormIndicator {
    if (formIndicator.superview == nil) {
        return;
    }

    int bounceDistance = 24;

    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.6
                          delay:0
                        options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut | UIViewAnimationOptionAutoreverse | UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction
                     animations:^{
                        CGRect indicatorFrame = formIndicator.frame;
                        indicatorFrame.origin.x += bounceDistance;
                        formIndicator.frame = indicatorFrame;
                     }completion:^(BOOL finished){
                        CGRect indicatorFrame = formIndicator.frame;
                        indicatorFrame.origin.x -= bounceDistance;
                        formIndicator.frame = indicatorFrame;
                        [self bounceFormIndicator];
                     }];
}

A: I had the same problem, and went to Apple DTS to help with a workaround.
As per DTS, this 'flickering' effect, or snap-back effect is the expected behaviour... I thought that I was doing something wrong with my project for a long time.
In particular it is this way because the documentation states, for

UIViewAnimationOptionAutoreverse Run the animation backwards and
  forwards.
Must be combined with the UIViewAnimationOptionRepeat option.

In order to get the flicker to go away, I had to do 2 things.
My implementation was dynamic, so you might not have to implement the first step, but I'll keep it in here just for reference.
First, I checked to see if UIViewAnimationOptionAutoreverse was part of the options I was going to pass into my animation, and UIViewAnimationOptionRepeat was not... If so, I stripped it from the options by adding a line like:
animationOptions &= ~UIViewAnimationOptionAutoreverse;

To create the reversing animation without repeating, I added an opposite UIView animation as my completion block. I also inverted the easing if it was either UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseIn or UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut...
The code from my project follows:
The statement that strips the autoreverse option from an object's animationOptions:
if ((animationOptions & AUTOREVERSE) == AUTOREVERSE) {
    self.shouldAutoreverse = YES;
    animationOptions &= ~AUTOREVERSE;
}

An example of an overridden property setter that handles an animation:
-(void)setCenter:(CGPoint)center {
    CGPoint oldCenter = CGPointMake(self.center.x, self.center.y);

    void (^animationBlock) (void) = ^ { super.center = center; };
    void (^completionBlock) (BOOL) = nil;

    BOOL animationShouldNotRepeat = (self.animationOptions & REPEAT) !=  REPEAT;
    if(self.shouldAutoreverse && animationShouldNotRepeat) {
        completionBlock = ^ (BOOL animationIsComplete) {
            [self autoreverseAnimation:^ { super.center = oldCenter;}];
        };
    }
    [self animateWithBlock:animationBlock completion:completionBlock];
}

The completion method called for in the case of reversing without repeating:
-(void)autoreverseAnimation:(void (^)(void))animationBlock {
        C4AnimationOptions autoreverseOptions = BEGINCURRENT;
        if((self.animationOptions & LINEAR) == LINEAR) autoreverseOptions |= LINEAR;
        else if((self.animationOptions & EASEIN) == EASEIN) autoreverseOptions |= EASEOUT;
        else if((self.animationOptions & EASEOUT) == EASEOUT) autoreverseOptions |= EASEIN;

        [UIView animateWithDuration:self.animationDuration
                              delay:0
                            options:autoreverseOptions
                         animations:animationBlock
                         completion:nil];
}


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"For most Finnish people the word leuku brings immediately a large Lappish knife to mind. That's correct, as that is what a leuku is, a large knife originally from northern parts of Scandinavia. Clear characteristics of a leuku are full pommel, straight handle, relatively high blade which is not really pointed and not tapering lower in height towards the tip. Spine can be straight or bit curved/drop point.
Some people are really strict on what is a leuku and what's not. For me it's clear, if I see a knife I can tell immediately if it's a leuku or not in my opinion. There are not any exact standards on that. For example I've seen a picture of full-tang leuku made by Pekka Tuominen, and for me that clearly can be called a leuku, even if there's no historical example found like that. Tradition itself is an on-going thing, it doesn't stop on some certain age, even leukus and their design can still get some new winds in the design. Without forgetting the tradition of course.
Of leukus size and style you can see that it's clearly meant for hitting. Also it served as a kind of all-rounder, tasks varying from splitting and batoning wood to skinning and gutting animals, all-round camp knife. Saami people also had a smaller knife, "unna niibas", the size of a common puukko, for smaller tasks like whittling etc. So a leuku clearly hasn't been a whittler or a carver, which can be seen already by the size of it.
Traditionally materials used on leukus were wood (birch or sallow), reindeer antler/bone and reindeer hide. Blades were made out of any suitable carbon steel that could be found. Brass was used on bolsters and rivets if available. Blade length could vary from 15 up to 24cm. Usually blades have been relatively thin, less than 4 mm. A thin blade was enough for cutting timber of tundra area. Grind types varied too, depending what maker thought was useful.
Decorations and amount of them varied among the makers. Some preferred more of them, and some were even specialized in bone carvings. But the same goes with leukus as with all types of knives; there are really decorated collectors items, simple everyman users, and everything between.
Nowadays handmade leukus and blades vary a lot from each other. Thickness can be from 3 up to 6mm. Grinds can be almost any types, from convex to scandi, with possibly secondary bevels. And as well as in history, some makers do really beautifully carved ones, and some make simple style users. All materials can be used, from reindeer antler to kydex, a leuku is still a leuku.
In northern Lapland, where I live, leukus can be seen in use still. But most likely on the waist of a woodsman you'll see a smaller puukko, with 10cm or shorter blade, accompanied with an axe in a backpack. But anyway it's pretty common to see people carrying leukus still here, especially in winter time.
I personally use leuku in several tasks. In willow grouse trapping in winter time, you need to cut lot's of birch twigs when setting traps, and that's where a leuku is really useful. In cleaning large fresh or dried hides a larger blade is useful too. Also in pruning and barking poles etc.
My ideal leuku is pretty basic user; curly birch handle with brass bolsters, about 5mm thick blade in 20-23cm lenght. 26-28 degree scandi grind with small secondary bevel, basic high leather sheath with traditional type choking belt hanger. 5mm thick blade gives bit more power, which is needed in batoning and splitting. Adding of course the weight a bit, but like in many things: to gain something is to lose something. All compromises.
After all a leuku has something what every good item must have; a soul. For me it gives an image of old times, wilderness, living in nature, Lappish scenery etc…. which all have a meaning for me too in one way or another.
The first leuku was made for me by Pasi and shows his very high degree of skill and craftsmanship. This is a beautiful leuku that rises above just being a knife or a tool and definitely has the "soul" that Pasi speaks of.
This blog post is about a road trip that Federico Buldrini made this past summer driving for something like 3660 km, that is 2270 miles. He left his home in Modena in Northern Italy and flew to Stockholm, then traveled on through Sweden and Norway before reaching his destination in the far north of Finland at the smithy of Pasi Hurttila, in Lappland north of the Arctic Circle.
I enjoyed Federico's account of the trip and the pictures he took so much that I asked him if he would post them here. He graciously agreed and what follows is his account of a visit to Finland. Thank you Federico!
After a good night sleep we leave the hostel in Riksgränsen and drive east towards Karesuando, on a part of the E45 still to be completed, with dirt road without asphalt for around 20 kms. All the morning goes in driving, but after lunch we pass the border with Finland that cuts Karesuando right in two. Here we meet warmer and autumnal colours than in Sweden and Norway. We go in the direction toward Inari on a dirt road, in the company of reindeer, birches and pines.
Inari, the lake. Green islands on deep blue water. Near a pier is moored a red and white float plane. We take off for Ivalo, 30 km south from Inari.
It's already evening when we arrive at Pasi's place. We take a look at his smithy. Belt sander and canvas wheel on the left, charcoal forge and anvil straight ahead, hammers, screwdrivers, files and drill to the right, antlers on the ceiling.
We enter his house and I see that his working table is inside, no workshop, just house and smithy. Everything else is in his hands and skills.
After breakfast I watch Pasi while he sews a puukko sheath. A few holes at a time with a awl mounted on a moose antler piece, two needles and double stitching. All the leather forming and decorations are made with a moose shin bone shaped on purpose for the job.
After lunch we go for a trip in the wilderness area dominated by the Sarmitunturi fell. We're about 10 km from Russian border, it's a bear area and so Pasi takes his Sako 75, you never know. We walk on a carpet of moss, lichens and blueberries, pines around us.
We're near the top and we stop at a camp site for a tea. When we arrive on the top of the fell we have tundra all around us and few small lakes in front of us. On the top of the fell is a shabby Russian watch tower.
While we made our way back home the sun kept us company playing through the trees.
In the morning we visit the Guesthouse Husky http://www.guesthousehusky.fi/ where Lea, Pasi's girlfriend, works.
In the winter the farm organizes sleds trip for tourists and Pasi sometimes works as a guide, as he did full time, when he was still a hobbyist blacksmith.
The apartments were built a couple of years ago, but the farm has existed for 20 years.
The farm is a junction between an hostel and camping, since it has rooms, but you're right over the forest. You have all together a house room with moss and pine scent right outside, just a glass between.
In the guesthouse there are few very nice rooms with bathroom, a common kitchen, a sauna, free wi-fi, bike and ski rental. All the interior is permeated by pine tar smell.
The owners are really cheerful and helping people. In front of the guesthouse there is the hut to store sledges.
The dogs are kept in single clearings, with their own bed and place where they can move around. Rasmus is one of the usual pack leaders.
Even if kept on the chain for obvious reasons I don't see a dog with sad eyes, on the contrary all very spry.
In the afternoon we take the canoes and go to lake Inari for a paddle. The plan is to arrive at one island with campsite and then go to the top of the island to take a look around. After about 2,5 hours we take land and set up camp.
Pasi chops firewood, batons kindling and we carve spoons and spatulas while tea is warming up. A hot tea in excellent company, what else to desire?
After the tea we climb up and take a look over the placid lake. Lake Inari is actually frozen for almost 8 months a year and you can normally ski on it, rather than canoeing.
On the way back the wind rises and pushes our breath down the throat. We put more effort on the row and slowly conquer the meters. The paddle bounds you to your work, even if you're tired and want to rest, you keep on pushing the oar as you know that THAT is your duty. The canoe won't proceed if only the helmsman conducts and to get out of the wind you have to do your part.
I feel bit tired, the shoulders muscles start to ache but, as I tell Pasi, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. We finally get out of the wind and we can take a quick rest on a small island. The sun has started his set when we finally reach the pier, bit tired but happy. A good dinner, a night sleep and everything is fine again.
Today I have the opportunity to see Pasi at work. After having forged 40 nails, for an order of 200, he shows me the forging of a flat puukko blade. All the forging is done with a 1,5 kg hammer on a 85 kg anvil.
then kneels down to finish bevels forging and have a better sight of steel reaction.
After 20 minutes, from heating the bar to stop, the blade is forged and ready for quick sanding before heat treatment.
Pasi takes off the gloves, starts the belt sander at low speed and polishes a bit the bevels, marks bit more the shoulders and cleans the spine, cooling the blade in the water a few times during process. It doesn't take more than 2-3 minutes, anyway.
At this point Pasi tells me to close the door of the smithy to create more shadow, so steel colours can be seen better. He put the blade into the forge again, took it out when it was cherry red and left it finally to cool at room temperature. Annealing is done.
Then he extinguishes the forge fire and we go to drink something. The rest of heat treatment will be done on the forge in the following days. Pasi usually quenches in oil and gives two or three temperings to the blade. He doesn't use ovens for treatments and doesn't have will to. He doesn't have interest to use ovens, rather to keep traditional ways.
The evening is the last of our time together and we pass it talking and drinking. The next day we would have to start our way back to Italy.
A leuku by Pasi Hurttila.


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China arrests 96 over tainted milk
Chinese police have arrested 96 people for lacing milk powder with the toxic additive melamine, state news agency Xinhua said.
Chinese police have arrested 96 people for lacing milk powder with the toxic additive melamine, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday, the same chemical that killed several babies in a milk powder scandal in 2008.
Last July, samples of milk powder found in northwest China's Gansu and Qinghai provinces had levels of melamine up to 500 times the permitted limit, underscoring the lax enforcement of food safety in the country.
Among those arrested, 17 had been convicted, including two people sentenced to life in prison, Xinhua said, citing a statement from the State Council's Food Safety Commission.
Thirty-eight people were awaiting trial, the report said, adding that Chinese authorities had seized 2,132 tonnes of melamine-tainted milk powder. The remaining 41 were "under investigation in police custody". It did not elaborate further.
The latest crackdown identified "loopholes in the quality control system of dairy products", Xinhua said, citing the statement.
The exposure of tainted milk products in poor and remote parts of China's northwest has underscored the persistence of food safety problems that have alarmed consumers and sparked criminal scandals that led to executions and official sackings.
In 2008, at least six children died and nearly 300,000 children fell ill from drinking powdered milk laced with melamine, an industrial compound added to fool inspectors by giving misleadingly high results in protein tests.
China executed two people in November 2009 for their role in the scandal, but has also kept a tight lid on public discontent over the case, jailing a man who organised a website for parents of childen who became ill.
Melamine, used to make plastics, fertilisers and concrete, can cause kidney stones. Its high nitrogen content allows protein levels to appear higher when added to milk or animal feed, allowing traders to disguise substandard products.
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I have laid several amendments in her name to the Planning Bill at the Scottish Parliament. These amendments are designed to ensure that planning legislations looks at repopulation. Many parts of the Highlands and Islands have become depopulated and this trend looks likely to continue. These include amendments to facilitate repopulation and resettlement objectives are taken into account by Ministers. Subsequent amendments require the mapping of 'no longer inhabited human settlements.
In the past, some of the planning legislation and land use policies have actually had a negative effect on rural parts of the country, often leading to depopulation making it harder for areas to sustain themselves. It is vitally important that this new Bill is amended to ensure they offer solutions towards the profound challenges we face in the Highlands and Islands.
Our rural areas provide huge benefits for Scotland, places the people of Scotland love to visit because it is beautiful. That is to be celebrated and visitors are very welcome. But as well as having countryside and 'wild' places for people to visit, we also want people to visit living places, vibrant communities with distinct culture and traditions. We must ensure those communities are protected, to retain and restore population – it is people that are the lifeblood of the Highlands and Islands.
My amendments hopefully go some way to ensure that the new Planning Bill facilitates rural repopulation with sustainable economic and environmental development. Hopefully, we can work towards protecting our rural areas for the future.


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Exclusive: Air India closes in on historic order for up to 500 jets
PARIS/NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Air India is close to placing landmark orders for as many as 500 jets worth tens of billions of dollars from both Airbus and Boeing as it mounts an ambitious renaissance under the Tata Group conglomerate, industry sources said Sunday.
The orders include as many as 400 narrow-body and 1[ads1]00 or more wide-body jets, including dozens of Airbus A350s and Boeing 787s and 777s, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity as the final touches are put on the huge deal in the coming months the days. .
Such a deal could top $100 billion at list prices, including any options, and rank among the largest by a single airline by volume, eclipsing a combined order for 460 Airbus and Boeing jets from American Airlines more than a decade ago.
Even after significant expected discounts, the deal would be worth tens of billions of dollars and cap a volatile year for an industry whose jets are back in demand after the pandemic but faces mounting industrial and environmental pressures.
Airbus ( AIR.PA ) and Boeing declined to comment. Tata Group-owned Air India did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The potential order comes days after Tata announced the merger of Air India with Vistara, a joint venture with Singapore Airlines, to create a larger full-service carrier and strengthen its presence in domestic and international skies.
This deal gives Tata a fleet of 218 aircraft, cementing Air India as the country's largest international airline and second largest domestically after leader IndiGo ( INGL.NS )
Air India, with its maharajah mascot, was once known for its lavishly decorated planes and outstanding service, but its reputation declined in the mid-2000s as financial problems mounted.
Founded by JRD Tata in 1932, Air India was nationalized in 1953. Tata took back control in January and has since worked to revive its reputation as a world-class airline.
The planned order reflects a deliberate strategy to win back a solid share of traffic flows to and from India, which are currently dominated by foreign carriers such as Emirates.
Air India also wants to win a larger share of regional international traffic and the domestic market, setting up a battle on both fronts with IndiGo.
Delivered over at least a decade, the 500 jets would both replace and expand fleets in the world's fastest-growing aviation market, while contributing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal of expanding the economy to $5 trillion.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District has very few Arts programs and the ones it does have are in dire circumstances. The Budget for the 2010-2011school year calls for a 50% cut to dance, music, theater and visual arts in all LA elementary schools.
I know California has a lot of problems when it comes to our state budget, but this one particularly breaks my heart. I think it's crucial to expose young minds to the arts; it spurs creativity and gives meaning to why we learn, why we live and all the amazing things we can do if we let our creativity grow. If you feel the same sign the petition and help the fight to save the arts in LA schools.
On a lighter note, check out how adorable the branding is for this cause. Such a clever and cute design….that takes creativity and heART.


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Saw these this past evening. I couldn't get a good shot of them because I was in the car. They were awesomely close at one point, just a couple hundred feet overhead. They were some kind of large wading bird (my favorite kind).


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How to Interpret Variations in Meaning and Tone for the GED RLA
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Being able to interpret variations in meaning and tone is part of doing well on the GED Reasoning Through Language Arts test. Using a thesaurus, you can look up most words and find words with similar meanings. However, these similar words typically differ to some degree in meaning and tone. For example, "afraid" and "cowardly" convey a similar meaning, but the latter has a more judgmental feel; you wouldn't think of calling a child who's afraid of the dark "cowardly."
In your own writing, choose your words carefully and according to the following guidelines:
Use words deliberately and carefully for effect.
Use words that come naturally to the way you speak. Don't make a forced effort to impress readers with sophisticated words.
As you practice writing outside of the testing environment, use a thesaurus and dictionary in tandem to find the word that most precisely expresses the desired meaning and tone.
Word choice for overall effect
Choosing the right words can have an amazing impact on the effectiveness of any writing. Read Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. It is a great example of using just the right words.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, to stand here, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
One rule of good writing is to keep the writing simple, but Lincoln ignores that rule. He uses the phrase "four score and seven years ago" when he could just have said "87 years ago." It works because it sounds much deeper. The choice of wording is almost poetic, giving a rhythm to the reading of this speech.
Lincoln also uses contrast to make his points. Look how he writes that few will remember this speech but that what the soldiers did will be remembered forever. He repeats that when he writes that the audience can't hallow (honor as holy) the ground of the battlefield; those who fought and died have done that. These contrasts create a powerful, emotional image.
Meaning and tone
Words have specific meanings, but authors often use words in a way that alters their meaning. This tendency is especially true in humorous, satirical writings and persuasive writings. Authors can use exaggeration or overuse words to create a different meaning or tone (overall point of view) in a written passage. To determine the tone and meaning of a passage, you need to read it carefully because meaning is often implied rather than stated. Here's an example:
I just knew it was a great idea. Plunging head first into a canyon with a rubber band tied to my ankles had to be one of the greatest ideas I ever had. What could be more reasonable and logical than to trust my life to that silly little rubber band as the boulder-strewn bottom of the canyon approached and the wind ripped the screams from my throat?
Suddenly the rubber band grabbed tight. I felt a delicious feeling of security as those oh-so-lovely thick and reliable flexible steel cables brought me to a safe halt, and I gently bounced around, blissfully enjoying the magnificent canyon scenery.
Did the subject really think that it was reasonable and logical to trust a life to a "silly little rubber band"? Of course not. But note how the author uses words that have a specific meaning to convey a meaning opposite of the dictionary definition of the chosen words. Without specifically saying it, the author implies how the subject feels about his or her actions.
Tone isn't the same as mood. Tone is the character of or attitude toward the subject or situation. Mood is how the passage makes the reader feel about the subject or situation.
How does tone of the passage change?
(A) from enthusiasm to terror
(B) from sarcasm to terror
(C) from sarcasm to contentment
(D) from enthusiasm to boredom
The subject is certainly not feeling any enthusiasm as the passage starts. The wording in fact creates the exact opposite feeling. That means Choices (A) and (D) are wrong. You can eliminate Choice (B) because nothing suggests the subject is still feeling terror at the end. That leaves Choice (C). The passage begins with sarcasm (ridiculing the narrator's decision to bungee jump into a canyon) and ends with bliss and feelings of security (contentment). Choice (C) is your best option.


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In the days leading up to NSW's 'Freedom Day' earlier this month, there was an aura of hope and happiness in the air. It was something to celebrate - and it seemed like the rest of the country was cheering (or watching warily) alongside New South Welsh folk. Well, Victoria's long-awaited 'Freedom Day' is tomorrow and the vibes are distinctly different. Given this is the state's sixth lockdown, maybe some people think celebrating it might jinx it? Maybe some Victorians aren't convinced that this lockdown will be their last. And after more than 240 days in lockdown over the past two years, who could blame them? There are also very valid concerns of growing COVID-19 cases and deaths as the state recorded another 2232 cases and 12 deaths today. It certainly doesn't help that Victoria's acting Chief Health Officer Ben Cowie said "thousands more cases" would emerge as the city reopens. Victoria already holds the record for the highest case numbers in the country. But now that 70 per cent of its residents aged 16 and over are fully vaccinated, the state will reopen at midnight tonight. Come thousands of more cases, or high water. Then there's the issue of constantly changing rules for Victorian business owners. The state's COVID Commander Jeroen Weimar initially stated that there was "no wriggle room" for staff who won't be fully vaccinated by tomorrow - despite only bringing forward the jab deadline earlier this week. "We would expect the people that are now being asked to please come back into work are the first ones to have got themselves organised to get themselves fully vaccinated so that they can serve their customers," he said. However, the state government "scrambled" to clarify the vaccination mandate for hospitality, retail and hair and beauty staff after business owners flagged concerns that many of their staff would not be able to be fully vaccinated before tomorrow. The shortened timeline left business owners reeling after spending the past week taking bookings and ordering stock - thankfully, they'll be able to open as planned, with some conditions in place. Phew! Victoria's 'vaccinated economy' is also locked in place for the foreseeable future, with Premier Dan Andrews saying that unvaccinated people would not receive the same freedoms until "well" into 2022. Despite all of this, the reopening of the state means that people can get back to work, families can reunite and the recovery process can begin. And I am sure there will be more than a few Victorians who are ready and raring to celebrate the end of yet another long lockdown. In NSW, former Premier Gladys Berejiklian will be called before ICAC next week along with former Wagga MP Daryl Maguire, with whom she shared a secret relationship. The corruption inquiry has already been told a project being pushed by Mr Maguire was determined to be not worth funding. Still, public servants revised their assessment at the former premier's request. So no doubt all eyes will be on ICAC this time next week. Did you know you can receive this daily digest by email? Sign up here THE NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW:
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Informer: When caution outweighs excitement
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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews. Picture: Morgan Hancock
In the days leading up to NSW's 'Freedom Day' earlier this month, there was an aura of hope and happiness in the air.
It was something to celebrate - and it seemed like the rest of the country was cheering (or watching warily) alongside New South Welsh folk.
Well, Victoria's long-awaited 'Freedom Day' is tomorrow and the vibes are distinctly different.
Given this is the state's sixth lockdown, maybe some people think celebrating it might jinx it?
Maybe some Victorians aren't convinced that this lockdown will be their last. And after more than 240 days in lockdown over the past two years, who could blame them?
There are also very valid concerns of growing COVID-19 cases and deaths as the state recorded another 2232 cases and 12 deaths today.
It certainly doesn't help that Victoria's acting Chief Health Officer Ben Cowie said "thousands more cases" would emerge as the city reopens.
Victoria already holds the record for the highest case numbers in the country. But now that 70 per cent of its residents aged 16 and over are fully vaccinated, the state will reopen at midnight tonight.
Come thousands of more cases, or high water.
Then there's the issue of constantly changing rules for Victorian business owners.
The state's COVID Commander Jeroen Weimar initially stated that there was "no wriggle room" for staff who won't be fully vaccinated by tomorrow - despite only bringing forward the jab deadline earlier this week.
"We would expect the people that are now being asked to please come back into work are the first ones to have got themselves organised to get themselves fully vaccinated so that they can serve their customers," he said.
However, the state government "scrambled" to clarify the vaccination mandate for hospitality, retail and hair and beauty staff after business owners flagged concerns that many of their staff would not be able to be fully vaccinated before tomorrow.
The shortened timeline left business owners reeling after spending the past week taking bookings and ordering stock - thankfully, they'll be able to open as planned, with some conditions in place.
Victoria's 'vaccinated economy' is also locked in place for the foreseeable future, with Premier Dan Andrews saying that unvaccinated people would not receive the same freedoms until "well" into 2022.
Despite all of this, the reopening of the state means that people can get back to work, families can reunite and the recovery process can begin.
And I am sure there will be more than a few Victorians who are ready and raring to celebrate the end of yet another long lockdown.
In NSW, former Premier Gladys Berejiklian will be called before ICAC next week along with former Wagga MP Daryl Maguire, with whom she shared a secret relationship.
The corruption inquiry has already been told a project being pushed by Mr Maguire was determined to be not worth funding. Still, public servants revised their assessment at the former premier's request.
So no doubt all eyes will be on ICAC this time next week.
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Egmont has signed a two-book deal with Sarah Driver for a middle-grade fantasy series.
Once We Were Witches is the story of two sisters, Spel and Egg, "in a version of our own world that has magic bubbling under the surface. It is guaranteed to capture the imagination of fans of Philip Pullman, Jessica Townsend and Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books," said the publisher.
Liz Bankes, commissioning editor, signed the deal for world rights in all languages with Jodie Hodges at United Agents. Once We Were Witches will publish in March 2020.


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Home Health Security
Bioterrorism Preparedness – The Forgotten Patient Population
by Saskia Popescu, PhD
Bioterrorism and preparedness have been highlighted topics since the 2001 "Amerithrax" attacks. The reality that the United States is particularly vulnerable to these attacks, while not a new notion, has become increasingly sensationalized in the media.
The forefront to these initiatives, apart from prevention, is patient care and first responders. Hospital preparedness is being considered a source for vulnerability, which has ignited agencies like CDC's National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program and the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) on a national level.
Federal funds are trickling down via FEMA, DHS, and state health departments, aiding hospitals in their efforts to become better prepared for emergency situations. While these efforts are appreciated, there is a residual effect being seen across hospitals. The general issues identifying bioterrorism agents, communication, and pediatric care is slowly being realized.
Bioterrorism preparedness is by no means, a novel concept, but the involvement of hospitals has started to reveal a great deal of vulnerability within the public health system. Since hospitals are most likely to see the first wave of cases, their ability to detect, respond, and communicate this information is crucial.
The unfortunate reality is that detecting these cases of Category A agents is extremely difficult. Aside from the diagnostic hurdles, most of the medical guidelines and emergency response protocols for disaster situations are adult specific.
The Arizona Department of Health Services recently hosted a hospital preparedness workshop. While informational and extremely beneficial, it became obvious that the protocols in place are directed at the adult patient, not the pediatric. Firstly, pediatric patients require specific medical attention, they are simply not "little adults". Stankovic et al. emphasize that children are particularly vulnerable to biological agents, as they have higher respiratory minute volume, larger surface area to body mass, smaller blood volume, and are unable to fully communicate their symptoms given limited cognitive and motor skills.1
The difficulty communicating symptomology is highlighted by Place et al., stating that this may greatly impact screening and triage capabilities for physicians. 2
A 2004 study performed in Washington D.C. assessed the ability for physicians to correctly diagnosis category "A" agents in patient cases. The investigators found that 50.7% were able to correctly diagnose smallpox, 70.5% anthrax, 49.6% botulism, and 16.3% plague.3 Interestingly, after the first testing, a training module was given, which led to an increase in correct diagnosis by about 70%.
While this was not aimed at pediatric patients, it highlights several things; recent bioterrorism attacks emphasize knowledge regarding pertinent pathogens, educational workshops are beneficial, and communicable diseases appear to have lower diagnoses. From an epidemiological standpoint, each pathogen presents and is transmitted in such a diverse manner, any delay in identification would be detrimental to care and isolation.
The range of patients in a pediatric hospital is extremely diverse. A neonate in an intensive care unit may be on ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), which requires constant supervision and during transport, up to 6 specific health professionals. Secondly, pediatric patient have the "family component".
Adult patients may have a spouse or children with them, but in pediatric cases, it is very common to have an entire family present. Pediatric patients have larger groups accompanying them for support and medical decisions, thus making their transport and movement more time consuming and burdensome. A large visitor population poses concern for exposures, as well as supplies. Lastly, the current supplies and protocols in place are for an adult population. During the aforementioned training, it was noted that for every 100 beds/stretchers available, only 1-2 were pediatric capable.
Pediatric care is uniquely complex, in that this is an entirely separate population of patients that need to be treated with specialized care. Given the complexities that have been demonstrated with identifying bioterrorism agents in children, the vulnerabilities and lack of specialized support for pediatric hospitals in emergency situations particularly biosecurity threats, are astounding. Hospitals seek to prevent exposures and outbreaks, but like most things in public health, it is very downstream. Active surveillance depends upon physician diagnosis and lab detection, all of which take time, especially with a patient population that may not be able to communicate their symptoms.
Hospitals are uniquely vulnerable in emergency situations, especially bioterrorism events. Given their role as first responders for the initial wave of patients, their ability to identify and respond to these events is crucial. Pediatric hospitals are especially vulnerable to these disasters, as children are a highly susceptible patient population during bioterrorism events.
The current protocols and initiatives in place, while aiming to close the gaps of communication, fail to focus on the unique needs of a patient population that has limited diagnostic guidelines in place, as well as difficultly communicating their symptomology.
Epidemiological and preparedness groups focus on either material management, disease characteristics, whereas a combination of the two, with focus on the uniqueness of certain patient populations, would provide a strong foundational response and prevention system.
Current emergency response and preparedness methodologies are generally lacking in the pediatric capabilities. It is crucial to incorporate hospital pediatric patients and their unique needs into preparedness protocols, especially in biosecurity plans.
1 Stankovic C, Mahajan P, Hong Y, Dunne R, Knazik S. Evaluating the Preparedness of Pediatricians in Michigan. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2009. 25(2).
2 Place R, Hanfling D, Howell J, Mayer T. Bioterrorism-Related Inhalational Anthrax: Can Extrapolated Adult Guidelines Be Applied to A Pediatric Population? Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. 2007. 5(1).
3 Cosgrove S, Perl T, Song X, Sisson S. Ability of Physicians to Diagnose and Manage Illness Due to Category A Bioterrorism Agents. Arch Intern Med. 2005;265:2002-2006.
4 Veltri K, Yaghijian V, Morgan-Joseph T, Prlesi L, Rudnick E. Hospital emergency preparedness: Push-POD operation and pharmacists as immunizers. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2012; 52:81-85.
5 Bravat, et al. Pediatric Anthrax. Evidence Reports/Technology Assessments. 2006. 141.
6 Centers for Bioterrorism Preparedness Planning Pediatric Task Force Initiative. Hospital Guidelines for Pediatric Preparedness. 2008. 3rd edition.
Saskia Popescu, PhD, MPH, MA, CIC, is an infection prevention epidemiologist and biodefense researcher whose work primarily focuses on the role of infection prevention in global health security and biodefense efforts. She holds a PhD in Biodefense from George Mason University, a Master's in Public Health in Epidemiology, a Masters of Arts in International Security Studies, and a Bachelor's Degree in Classical History, with a specialization on disease in ancient Rome, from the University of Arizona. She is a certified infection preventionist and fellow of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative. She can be reached at spopesc2@gmu.edu
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Ferdinand Vaněk (18. prosince 1849 Velvary – 29. března 1939 Klatovy) byl český malíř, středoškolský profesor a vlastivědný pracovník.

Život

Ferdinand Vaněk se narodil v rodině velvarského kancelisty Josefa Vaňka a jeho manželky Marie, rozené Šturmové. V Praze studoval Akademii výtvarných umění, jeho spolužáky byly například František Ženíšek či Josef Václav Myslbek. Okolo roku 1889 nastoupil v Klatovech jako učitel kreslení na reálném gymnáziu. Spolupracoval při soupisu historických památek kraje a budování klatovského muzea. Byl též konzervátorem domažlického okresu.

Spisy
V rámci edice Soupis památek historických a uměleckých v království Českém provedl soupisy okresů:
 1899 Klatovy (spolu s Karlem Hostašem a Františkem Adolfem Borovským)
 1900 Sušice (spolu s Karlem Hostašem)
 1902 Domažlice (spolu s Karlem Hostašem)
 1907 Přeštice (spolu s Karlem Hostašem)

Ocenění
 V roce 1925 se Ferdinand Vaněk stal čestným občanem Klatov.
 V Klatovech je po něm pojmenována Vaňkova ulice.

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Čeští malíři 19. století
Čeští středoškolští pedagogové
Čeští regionální historikové
Čeští výtvarní pedagogové
Autoři Soupisů památek
Absolventi Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze
Čestní občané města Klatovy
Pedagogové z Prahy
Pedagogové z Teplic
Pedagogové z Jičína
Pedagogové z Kolína
Pedagogové z Klatov
Umělci z Klatov
Narození v roce 1849
Narození 18. prosince
Narození ve Velvarech
Úmrtí v roce 1939
Úmrtí 29. března
Úmrtí v Klatovech
Muži
Čeští malíři 20. století

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Green Prince wrote: The SPY 15 min chart tells the story behind the bearish wedge and false breakout, orange indicator "if" in confirmation should be hitting new highs on this important time frame, instead it is leading negative to new lows.
Is the orange line Brandt's 3C or your own equation?
A good friend of mine told me that if all of this bad news and poor earnings couldn't break the market down nothing could. Always a good sign of buyer exhaustion.
FWIW, if the opening gap is filled it's retracing AH sessions, not just one.
I think that may make the action a little more bearish. We shall see.
TA note: 128.33-128.51 is given tomorrow the latest.
57chevy wrote: FWIW, if the opening gap is filled it's retracing AH sessions, not just one.
AAPL failed retest, reversal bar. 3 gaps since the Dec move up. MSFT shooting star.
One last one for the road. I am sending this to TImmey and uncle Ben, really fast speed.
glad everyone is keeping up the good energy today.
been here lurking...and trying to recover from a pretty bad cold.
i've had pretty much only one chart up on my large screen for me to glance at throughout the day while i laid out on the couch...and that's the AUD/JPY.
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Can't believe it. Held spxu all day since early morning. Did nothing. Sold it 5 mins before it started UP. Ahh!
BullBear52x wrote: One last one for the road. I am sending this to TImmey and uncle Ben, really fast speed.
I assume today's bar is a sign of top as well?


On Saturday April 27th 2019 elite athletes will gather and compete in scenic downtown St. Pete in the 36 year event.
This year there will be 3 USA Triathlon races during the weeknd- St Anthony's Triathlon- Swim 1.5K, Bike 40K, Run 10K. Egads! I am tired just writing this.
There will also be a Meek and Mighty Triathlon for kids ages 7-14.
There will be an awards party with live music, food and beer after the event.


Since I was young I was dreaming about the most beautiful flat in my favourite New York City where I would have a view on the Central Park… I was always watching american movies or TV series which were showing life of rich people living close to the 5th avenue. That is why when I came to NYC I wanted to visit the most luxurious places close to the park and the most famous street in the world.
I came to the Ritz Carlton to visit this hotel, but I was never expecting that I will have an opportunity to see more than hotel's restaurant and lobby.
I was lucky enough to meet an amazing manager who took me and my sister to the most prestigious room they have – The Royal Suite! Located on the 22nd floor, this 1980 SQ FT room has a view from my dreams. Since I entered the room I just seen trees and beautiful green colour coming from Central Park.
Is there anything better than have this view every morning ??
Room I have visited has an amazing atmosphere and you can feel the space. There are a lot of sitting areas where you can accommodate your friends or a business meeting.
This room has also a big desk where you can work in your free time.
If you have to accommodate bigger party or prepare a dinner, this room has a big dinning area for 8 guests.
In the Royal Suite you will find two full baths and small bathroom by the living room.
Luxurious bath amenities for every guest.
And now its a time for the most beautiful place in this room – Bedroom with King size bed.
Im sure that every guest who is enjoying luxurious life and would love to spend amazing time in New York should definitely think about this room. Soundproof windows and the highest conditions will make your stay at Ritz Carlton relaxing and memorable. The Royal Suite can accommodate up to 4 adults (Cribs or Rollaway Bed upon request).
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Conceptually, the point of the event cannot be to provide a comprehensive overview of current cultural production in the various countries of an extremely contrast-rich and multifarious region. Rather, the aim is to trace several levels of reflection, taking the artists' works as a starting point, with an eye to the discourses of the recent and more distant past.
The dramatic current situation (with the Iraq War and the unsolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict) must not mislead us into grasping for the simplifying explanations (Islamism, Terrorism) to which the media like to take recourse. On the contrary, we must demand more precision and accuracy in information and analysis.
Speaking at our forum will be experts on the societies, cultures, and political problems of this region who will engage in dialog with filmmakers and photographers who document the developments and ruptures in the region forthrightly and exactly, moreover, with other cultural producers who deliver a realistic, present-oriented, and powerful driving force for critical, high-level reflections. Other discussants and actors are the "culture smugglers" and activists who work to make contemporary productions from the region better known and distributed.


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Q: How to use Spring Social Twitter in a desktop application? I'm currently experimenting with Spring Social Twitter and wonder how I could use it for a desktop application because you cannot provide a callback url.
Is there any possibility to use username and password for the authorization or a way to retreive the OAuth token without a callback url?

A: An alternative way to retrieving the OAuth token is to run your own webservice which performs the OAuth dance on behalf of your application.
If you can run a web service which has a (public and fixed) callback url which you can tell twitter, then your desktop application can direct new users to this website to authenticate. Once the oauth dance is complete your desktop application can download the OAuth token from your webservice and use that from then on.

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High school 'too late' to start teaching cyber
Experts warn unis are failing overwhelmed teachers.
By David Braue on Dec 14 2021 11:22 AM
It's too late to get high schooler students interested in cyber. Photo: Shutterstock
Introducing cyber and digital technologies to high school students is "too late" to shape their future career choices, academic experts have warned, even as new teachers report leaving university with inadequate training to teach the subjects at primary level.
"As a beginning teacher, there's barely anything at university to help us," Samantha Warren, a new Year 5/6 teacher at ACT's Evatt Primary School, said during a session at the recent Australian Cyber Conference.
"It's not new things they teach you at uni, or 'here's how to teach this'," she explained, recalling that assessments such as making a Google Site website "weren't helpful to teach [technology]."
"There's not much teaching at uni about it, and there's not really much time for us to teach it properly at schools," she said. "My confidence level is based on the fact that I understand technology and can comprehend how to do it."
Shortcomings in teacher training perpetuate an education gap that, experts warn, needs to change so students learn to see digital technologies not just as tools for content consumption, but as vehicles for content creation.
"We need primary teachers to build those skills right from the early years," said Toni Falusi, – an Australian Catholic University academic, president of Information Technology Educators ACT and a Digital Technologies curriculum writer – who emphasised the importance of teaching primary students cyber-safety concepts such as identifying and managing risks to their data.
An early introduction to cyber concepts is also crucial to normalising cyber and digital technologies as potential career choices further down the track: by year four, Falusi warned, students "haven't really decided what they want to do when they grow up – but they rule out things they don't want to do."
"That's why a lot of the focus [around cyber, digital and STEM education] needs to be in primary school, rather than waiting until Years 11 and 12 for students to make that decision. It's too late by then."
Curriculum blues
Despite their warnings, a broad range of new cyber security education programs continue to target students during the high-school years.
South Australian students, for example, have just been given access to IBM's SkillsBuild for Students and Educators online cyber education program through a partnership with the state government and AustCyber's SA Cyber Security Innovation Node.
SA high school students "will have the opportunity to begin skilling themselves for a future career in cyber," SA Minister for Innovation and Skills David Pisoni said in announcing the partnership, which echoes a similar program IBM launched in NSW last year.
Although the well-intentioned programs are designed to help address ongoing cyber security and digital technologies skills gap by shaping students' university choices, many students have already elected for other career choices by that time.
Stephen Robey, programs manager with science and technology centre Questacon, has seen the effect of this challenge in his work as a science teacher.
"For a lot of my high school students it was too late to engage them in this sort of field," he explained, noting that "those are real challenges for teachers."
As well as struggling with inadequate training, very real time pressures limit teachers' ability to embed digital technologies across the formal curriculum.
"I'd say there is a maximum of 10 hours of the whole school year that we can have that are specific to digital technologies without trying to embed it in other programs as well," said Evatt teacher Aaron Foy, adding that the "wordy" Digital Technologies curriculum was hard to engage with – and left many teachers struggling to transition students from being eager users of technology to embracing higher-level skills like coding.
Most teaching of such topics is "incidental teaching," he explained, noting that "for most people as soon as they hear 'coding' they have that instant clamp-up and say, 'I don't understand that and I'm not going to actually try and develop that because it's a completely foreign concept to me'.
"Teachers are leaving it in the too-hard basket."
Despite an "overwhelming" curriculum that pushes teachers to meet achievement standards, Robey said, "often teachers aren't aware that they're already employing certain pedagogies or teaching strategies in their classroom; I guarantee that each of those teachers are using and embedding thinking processes in their other subjects."
Yet clearer instruction will be crucial if primary teachers are to feel comfortable enough to bring cyber and digital technologies teaching to the students that need it most.
Conceding that the formal curriculum can be "hard to understand" and that curriculum reviews had worked to make it more accessible, Falusi noted that "there is so much technical content in the learning area that you can't simplify it too far – otherwise you're going to lose the intent of what we want students to actually learn."
Increasing familiarity with the curriculum had taken time given that "the majority of our teachers didn't learn this at university," she added, "so it is new content for them. But once they are familiar with it, I think it will be much easier to embed and integrate into other learning areas – and not have to fit it into 10 hours across the year."
David Braue
David Braue is an award-winning technology journalist who has covered Australia's technology industry since 1995. A lifelong technophile, he has written and edited content for a broad range of audiences across myriad topics, with a particular focus on the intersection of technological innovation and business transformation.
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Shree Kadva Patidar Kanya Kelavani Mandal – Morbi was established in 1977, bearing the registration no F-193. The Main aims and Objects of the Mandal were and remained to import quality education at low-cost to the girls from Morbi City and surrounding rural areas with that aim the trust stated its education activities in 1978 in rented building with only 35 girls students.
Till March-2001, The trust has established two girl's high-schools, two higher secondary schools, college, hostel for high-school, a separate hostel for college girls, gausala, a well equipped computer center, a modern agriculture farm. From July-2001 Shree Kadva Patidar Kanya Kelavani Mandal – Morbi has started Smt. Rewaben O. Patel Women's College with huge and generous donation of Rs. 55 lack from the sons late Rewaben Odhavjibhai Patel.
Today we express our gratitude towards Shree Jayrajbhai A. Patel – a Founder Father, Who fought until the last breathe for the fulfillment of the aims and objects of our trust. The people of Morbi and surrounding rural areas are really indebted to late Shri Jayrahbhai Saheb.
The Owner of ORPAT (Ajanta Clock) Group, Shri. Odhavjibhai R. Patel's wife Smt. Rewaben expired on 4th Dec, 2000. Smt. Rewaben had Cherished a desire to improve girl's education. She had greatly contributed her best to support such activities. So in the remembrance of late Rewaben O. Patel, the sons of Shri Odhavjibhai. R. Patel, Shri Pravinbhai O. Bhalodiya, Shri Jaysukhbhai O. Bhalodiya and Shri Ashokbhai O. Bhalodiya decided to donate an ample amount of Rs. 1,11,11,111. They have donated a commendable, generous amount of 55 lacs to Shri Kadva Patidar Kanya Kelvani Mandal, Morbi to establish Smt. Rewaben O. Patel Women's College. The Smt. Rewaben O. Patel Women's College has started from 20th July,2000.


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WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram face global outage: What you need to know
Picture Courtesy: The Independent
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage. The three apps which are owned by Facebook and share the same infrastructure went down globally just before 5pm UTC.
More than 46,397 WhatsApp users reported issues using the global instant messaging service from about 4.40pm UTC time. Facebook users saw an error page or a message saying their browser could not connect. WhatsApp and Instagram users could access the apps but were unable to see any new content, including any sent or received messages.
When users try to access Facebook, they are getting a message, "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and will fix it as soon as we can."
Thousands of WhatsApp users have flooded social media to complain about the ongoing outage, which started around 4.55pm BST. There are multiple trolls and meme going on Twitter about the outage.
The root cause of this outage is still not clear and according to company reports, Facebook is trying to fix the problem as soon as possible.


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package org.bitbucket.mlopatkin.android.liblogcat.ddmlib;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import com.android.ddmlib.AdbCommandRejectedException;
import com.android.ddmlib.IDevice;
import com.android.ddmlib.IShellOutputReceiver;
import com.android.ddmlib.ShellCommandUnresponsiveException;
import com.android.ddmlib.TimeoutException;

/**
 * This class is a wrapper around the
 * {@link IDevice#executeShellCommand(String, IShellOutputReceiver)} method.
 * It allows to detect when the command is finished or failed.
 *

 * Note that the {@link #run()} method will block until the command finishes.
 * Objects of this class are intended to be used in background threads.
 * Alternatively you can use {@link #start()} to run the command in background.
 *

 * This class is immutable.
 *
 * @param <T>
 *            Subclass of {@link IShellOutputReceiver} to be passed into
 *            template methods to avoid unnecessary casts.
 */
class AdbShellCommand<T extends IShellOutputReceiver> implements Runnable {

    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(AdbShellCommand.class);

    private final String command;
    private final T receiver;
    private final int timeOut = 0;
    private final IDevice device;

    AdbShellCommand(IDevice device, String commandLine, T outputReceiver) {
        this.device = device;
        this.command = commandLine;
        this.receiver = outputReceiver;
    }

    /**
     * Starts the execution of the command on the device. This method will block
     * until the command finishes.
     */
    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            device.executeShellCommand(command, receiver, timeOut);
        } catch (TimeoutException e) {
            logger.warn("Connection to adb failed due to timeout", e);
            onException(e, receiver);
        } catch (AdbCommandRejectedException e) {
            logger.warn("Adb rejected command", e);
            onException(e, receiver);
        } catch (ShellCommandUnresponsiveException e) {
            logger.warn("Shell command unresponsive", e);
            onException(e, receiver);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            logger.warn("IO exception", e);
            onException(e, receiver);
        }
        onCommandFinished(receiver);
        logger.debug("The command '" + command + "' sucessfully terminated");
    }

    private static final Executor backgroundShellCommandExecutor = Executors
            .newSingleThreadExecutor();

    /**
     * Executes the command in the background using internal thread pool.
     */
    public void start() {
        backgroundShellCommandExecutor.execute(this);
    }

    /**
     * Called when one of exceptions occured during shell command's execution.
     *
     * @param e
     *            exception (one of {@link TimeoutException},
     *            {@link AdbCommandRejectedException},
     *            {@link ShellCommandUnresponsiveException}, {@link IOException}
     *            )
     * @param outputReceiver
     *            {@link IShellOutputReceiver} previously passed to constructor
     */
    protected void onException(Exception e, T outputReceiver) {
    }

    /**
     * Called when execution of the command finishes.
     *
     * @param outputReceiver
     *            {@link IShellOutputReceiver} previously passed to constructor
     */
    protected void onCommandFinished(T outputReceiver) {
    }
}

/**
 * This subclass closes its outputReceiver on errors. Closing will cause
 * {@link IOException} in a {@link ShellInputStream}'s client.
 */
class AutoClosingAdbShellCommand extends AdbShellCommand<ShellInputStream> {

    AutoClosingAdbShellCommand(IDevice device, String commandLine, ShellInputStream outputReceiver) {
        super(device, commandLine, outputReceiver);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onException(Exception e, ShellInputStream outputReceiver) {
        super.onException(e, outputReceiver);
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France says to strike alleged Daesh positions in Syria
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Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:22AM
France's defense minister says the country is to start carrying out aerial attacks against what he called Daesh targets in Syria.
Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday that the strikes are to take place 'in the coming weeks, as soon as we have clearly identified targets,' AFP reported.
The country has so far carried out two reconnaissance missions in the Syrian airspace.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad complained back in May that the so-called coalition against Daesh does not aim to "do away" with the terror group, saying, "They want to use this terrorist structure for threatening and blackmailing other countries."
The US-led coalition has been pounding purported Daesh targets inside Syria since last September without any authorization from Damascus or a United Nations mandate.
Earlier in September, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi strongly spoke against the US-led coalition as "nothing but a huge lie," saying that, "Facts prove that this alliance is a failure, and that it's selective in choosing its targets."
Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since 2011 with reports saying more than 240,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
France is among the Western countries that have been rendering support to the militants fighting the Syrian government troops.
The US and its regional allies - especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - have been supporting the militants operating inside Syria for more than three years.
The French Air Force has also been staging airstrikes in Iraq, where Washington and some of its allies have likewise been reportedly carrying out air raids against what they say are Daesh positions since August 2014.


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Virus and vaccine misinformation: Facebook defends itself
Facebook pushed back on Saturday against the Biden administration's denouncing of the social media giant for spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines, escalating tensions between the Silicon Valley company and the White House.
In a blog post, Facebook called for the administration to stop "finger-pointing" and laid out what it had done to encourage users to get vaccinated. The social network also detailed how it had clamped down on lies about the vaccines, which officials have said led people to refuse to be vaccinated.
"The Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies," Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of integrity, said in the post. "The fact is that vaccine acceptance among Facebook users in the U.S. has increased."
Mr. Rosen added that the company's data showed that 85 percent of its users in the United States had been or wanted to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. While President Biden had set a goal of getting 70 percent of Americans vaccinated by July 4, which the White House fell short of, "Facebook is not the reason this goal was missed," Mr. Rosen said.
Facebook's response follows a forceful condemnation of the company by Mr. Biden. When asked on Friday about the role of social media in influencing vaccinations, Mr. Biden declared in unusually strong language that the platforms were "killing people."
"Look," he added, "the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and that and they're killing people."
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Welcome to the Future of Sex Community, where inspired people share their insights on where sex and relationships are headed. Join the community to become a contributor and let your views be known!
Will the trend to openness in sexuality continue indefinitely?
By Ross Dawson
If we look at the last few decades, arguably one of the biggest trends has been one towards openness on just about every front.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991 and its aftermath opened up a divide between societies. The creation of Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Linux in the same year and the first graphic web browser in 1993 opened the way for an unprecedented flow of information and an opening out of old concepts of intellectual property.
The ability for open flows of information shaped attitudes, with open data a basic social expectation resulting in the rapid rise of open government, open educational resources such as Open Courseware, open scientific research such as Arxiv, and of course increased involuntary transparency and openness through platforms such as Wikileaks.
The shift to open information was accompanied by dramatic social shifts. Netherlands was the first country to adopt marriage equality in 2000. In the relatively brief time since then there are now 32 countries that recognize same-sex marriage and there have been major shifts in attitudes in most countries.
Since 2000 dozens of countries or states have decriminalized or legalized marijuana usage, with the trend clearly set to continue, indicating greater social openness to personal choices.
While there is less data available on attitudes and behaviors on kink and BDSM, mainstream magazines have been frequently covering these topics in an often-friendly fashion over the last decade, of course helped by the massive success of the book and film Fifty Shades of Grey, demonstrating far greater openness to varied sexual practices.
Bisexuality, both female and male, has become mainstream through what is effectively celebrity endorsement, augmented by plenty of media coverage.
The shift to greater openness in every aspect of our sexuality is real, even though it hasn't been as public or obvious as some of the other shifts to openness.
The question is, will this trend to openness in sexuality continue indefinitely?
Or will it reverse, with social cycles meaning we become prudish again?
Or perhaps there's a natural limit to how open we will be about our sex and sexuality, because many people want to be private about their sexuality or find hidden activities sexy?
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In an aritcle by San Francisco Business Times, "Women Who Lead in Life Sciences: Leaders in Their Field," the editors recognized UCSF Urology and Gladstone Institute scientist, Nadia Roan, PhD. Her work, focuses on studying how cells and secretions of the mucosa, particularly the genital mucosa, can affect immunity, infection by HIV, and reproductive health in general.
Explains Roan, "Our approaches include ex vivo tissue infection models, multi-parameter single-cell phenotyping (including both flow cytometry and mass cytometry), and global gene expression analysis. Our research is relevant for efforts to prevent HIV transmission and pathogenesis, and for efforts to obtain a better understanding of the molecular pathways in mucosal tissues that affect immunity and pathology."
The article briefly mentions her start in the sciences: "An undergraduate opportunity to work in a lab at UC Berkeley allowed Nadia Roan to discover her love of science and setting up experiments. This led her to biomedical research at Harvard Medical School and a fascination with how the immune system recognizes, responds to, and fights off infectious agents."
Since the beginning of his role as UCSF's Chair of the Department of Urology, Peter R. Carroll, MD, MPH, has committed to supporting leading roles for women in the fields of health and science. "Giving opportunities for all to succeed is a key driver for ensuring the most important questions are explored. Supporting this vital engine of new ideas is essential for our future innovations in science."
Click here to learn more about the Roan Lab.


In engineering, flood routing is an important technique necessary for the solution of a floodcontrol problem and for the satisfactory operation of a flood-prediction service. A simple conceptual model like the Muskingum model is very effective for the flood routing process. One challenge in application of the Muskingum model is that its parameters cannot be measured physically. In this article we proposed imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) for optimal parameter estimation of the linear Muskingum model. This algorithm uses imperialism and imperialistic competition process as a source of inspiration. Optimization to identify Muskingum model parameters can be considered as a suitable field to investigate the efficiency of this algorithm.
The main aim of the present study is to propose a modified harmony search (MHS) algorithm for size and shape optimization of structures. The standard harmony search (HS) algorithm is conceptualized using the musical process of searching for a perfect state of the harmony. It uses a stochastic random search instead of a gradient search. The proposed MHS algorithm is designed based on elitism. In fact the MHS is a multi-staged version of the HS and in each stage a new harmony memory is created using the information of the previous stages. Numerical results reveal that the proposed algorithm is a powerful optimization technique with improved exploitation characteristics compared with the standard HS.
The Big Bang-Big Crunch (BB–BC) method is a relatively new meta-heuristic algorithm which inspired by one of the theories of the evolution of universe. In the BB–BC optimization algorithm, firstly random points are produced in the Big Bang phase then these points are shrunk to a single representative point via a center of mass or minimal cost approach in the Big Crunch phase. In this paper, the BB–BC algorithm is presented for optimal cost design of water distribution systems and employed to optimize different types of hydraulic networks with discrete variables. The results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method compared to other algorithms.
General Authority for Educational Buildings (GAEB) in Egypt is responsible for new construction and maintenance of the educational building . According to the Sixth Five- Years Plan in Egypt, the program of educational structures includes new construction of about 2915 schools, with 39.8 thousand classes. Also, maintenance works for buildings about 1250 schools. These works needs a high budget but the available budget is less than the required budget. Therefore, GAEB should apply optimization techniqes to save cost and optimize the benefit from the avaliable budget with the same quality level or more. This paper aims to apply value engineering technique on educational building to maximuize the utiltization of the available constructuion and maintenace budget. In this paper value engineering technique, is applied on a model of primary school. The paper suggested that GAEB should construct a value engineering department included in its organization structure. Finally it draws overall conclusions about the application of value engineering (VE) in the GAEB in Egypt. Also, to get the optimum set of activities, alternatives for cost saving and maximize the utilization of the available funds for new construction and maintenance works. The value engineering technique application is based on data collected from GAEB.
In damage detection the number of elements is generally more than the number of measured frequencies. Consequently, the corresponding damage detection equation is undetermined and thus has infinite solutions. Since in the damaged structures most of their elements remain healthy, the sparsest solution for the damage detection equation is mostly the actual damage. In the proposed method, the damage equation is first linearized in various ways using random finite difference increments. The sparsest solutions for created linear system of equations are derived using basis pursuit. These solutions are considered as the first population for a continuous genetic algorithm to obtain the damage solution. For investigation of the proposed method three case studies are considered. Simulation results confirm the efficiency of the proposed method compared to those found in the literature.
A novel two-stage algorithm for detection of damages in large-scale structures under static loads is presented. The technique utilizes the vector of response change (VRC) and sensitivities of responses with respect to the elemental damage parameters (RSEs). It is shown that VRC approximately lies in the subspace spanned by RSEs corresponding to the damaged elements. The property is leveraged in the first stage of the proposed method by seeking RSEs whose spanned subspace best contains the VRC. Consequently, the corresponding elements are regarded as damage candidates. To alleviate the exploration among RSEs, they are first partitioned into several clusters. Subsequently, discrete ant colony optimization (ACO) is utilized to find the clusters containing the RSEs of damaged elements. In the second stage of the algorithm, damage amounts for the restricted elements are determined using a continuous version of ACO. Two numerical examples are studied. The results illustrate that the method is both robust and efficient for detection of damages in large-scale structures.
High tall buildings are more susceptible to dynamic excitations such as wind and seismic excitations. In this paper, design procedure and some current applications of tuned mass damper (TMD) were studied. TMD was proposed to study response of 20 storey height building to seismic excitations using time history analysis with and without the TMD. The study indicates that the response of structures such as storey displacements and shear force of columns can be dramatically reduced by using TMD groups with specific arrangement in the model. The study illustrates the group of four TMDs distributed on the plane can be effective as reinforced concrete core shear wall.


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Did Gloria Estefan Discover Ariana Grande?
By Jackie Willis 8:20 AM PDT, October 2, 2014
Gloria Estefan isn't paying attention to the Ariana Grande diva rumors. In fact, Estefan is such a longtime fan of the "Problems" singer that she thinks it'd be "wonderful" to have Grande portray her.
"Ariana Grande would be somebody wonderful," she said of having the 21-year-old star in the stage production of On Your Feet.
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Estefan admits to the New York Daily News that she's been following Grande's career for a long time -- even longer than you may think. "I saw her when she was eight years old on a cruise ship and she had sung this song," Estefan recalled. "And I literally went up to her and told her and her mom, 'I don't know if you plan on doing this, but this is what you need to be doing because you are an amazing singer.'''
She added, "She was doing karaoke and we were listening because I love to go watch that stuff and it was amazing!"
NEWS: Jagged Little Pill Is Becoming a Musical!
Set to hit Broadway in the summer of 2015, On Your Feet -- named after the 57-year-old singer's 1989 hit "Get On Your Feet" -- is based on the life of Estefan and her musician husband Emilio Estefan, who she married in 1978. Estefan's hits "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You," "Conga," "1-2-3" and "Live For Loving You" will also be included in the performance.
Do you think Grande could play a good Estefan?
Grande slammed those pesky diva rumors while chatting with ET in Las Vegas this past month. Here's what she had to say: