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"On 4 August 2020 Beirut the country capital and home to 900,000 of its population was hit by a tragedy as a result of a massive explosion of 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate destroying the port and causing wide damage to residential, government and commercial areas over 20 km from the port area. Results of the explosion included more than 200 deaths and 6,500 injured, over 300,000 homeless, and more than 100,000 children affected. The devastation also hit thousands of homes, small and medium and big enterprises, health centers, education centers and schools as well as other vital sectors in the city. While the port damage also resulted in the destruction of an estimated 120,000 metric tons of food stocks, including wheat. In response to that, the resigned Government of Lebanon has activated its national response plan and called for assistance from the international communities and organizations to save lives, stabilize the situation and start short, medium- and long-term recovery plans." Source: Lebanon's National Operations Room Report 4, Sep 20, 2020.
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Stories from technologists about being on-call.
LET'S GET WEIRD. LET'S GET WEIRD. LET'S GET WEIRD.
This week we talk with Nick Maludy of Encore Technologies on some "weird on-prem" he managed when working as a Defense Contractor. Nick brings unique insight into having to manage critical systems from 10,000 feet above the ground.
After graduating Nick Maludy worked for ~5 years at a Department of Defense contractor called SilverBlock Systems. Here they developed an "integration platform" for performing sensor research for next-gen Navy aircrafts. Nick would routinely be traveling and flying in the aircraft for testing purposes. Several times a year the team were deployed to execute missions with our platform on the aircraft. Nick would fly on the plane and debug, troubleshoot, and implement new features on the fly.
Since leaving SilverBlock Nick has worked at Encore Technologies as the Manager of the DevOps Team and recently was promoted to Director of Engineering.
You know that little box on the lower bottom of the window you see that asks you if you need help on websites? Well Shayon is part of the team that keeps that online for businesses across the planet. We chat a bit about his time on-call and other topics.
Shayon is a System Engineer at Intercom. He is part of the internal infrastructure team that is responsible for Intercom's Availability, Performance, and Scalability. Outside of regular system/infra work, he has played other roles at Intercom, as an engineer on marketing team to doing product development as a Product Engineer. He takes a deep interest into operations and incident management, and attributes operations playing a major role in career growth.
You get opportunities in tech to work with some of the best people in the world. I got that opportunity when I joined Microsoft, that's where I met the Exchange Goddess!
We discuss family, work and how it all comes together when you're on-call.
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Sr Cloud Advocate @ Microsoft, with a background focus on messaging and collaboration, virtualization, and storage. She is a VMware vExpert and co-hosts The Current Status Podcast. In her spare time she blogs for 24x7ITConnection, Exchangegoddess.com. Some her technical articles can also be found on Petri IT Knowledgebase, WeBreakTech.com, and The Register. Considered as one of the Top 50+ Tech Influencers and Thought Leaders You Should Follow , Phoummala aka Exchange Goddess can be followed as @exchangegoddess on Twitter.
Get your playbook and have the stats ready, we're talking with Andy Fleener of SportsEngine this week.
Andy is a Humanist, Systems Thinker, New View Safety Nerd, Sr. Platform Operations Manager at SportsEngine, DevOps Days MSP Co-Organizer.
Ever wonder what it was like to do dial-up support hosting in Hawaii? Well this is the damn episode you've waited for your whole life.
After 16 years working as a systems/network administrator in the Bay Area, Eric relocated to Portland in 2012 to further develop his passion for awesome configuration management tools. As Puppet's product manager, he worked on extending and improving it for modern infrastructure; his current project is Lyra, a cloud-native workflow engine. Outside of work he enjoys riding road bikes on the dirt and performing electronic music with Portland's techno collective Volt Divers.
There are great ways to think of how to attack the on-call situation even if you aren't in an on-call rotation. By being a conscientious developer and taking that extra interest in your software after deployment you're adding incredible valuable. Your co-workers may also really end up appreciating your time a little bit more as well.
Some people are born to on call, and some people have on call thrust up on them. Andrew Clay Shafer stole good ideas from wherever he could and started calling them all devops. Andrew tries to solve more problems than he causes but often fails. If devops ever caused you any problems, Andrew feels bad. If devops ever helped you with anything, he also apologizes.
Welcome back to OCN! I this time I chat with CEO of Raygun, JD Trask. One of the cool parts of this podcast is meeting people from all over the world who have had some experience on-call, JD does his thing in New Zealand!
John-Daniel is the CEO and co-founder of Raygun.com, an application monitoring company that helps teams identify hidden performance bottlenecks and software bugs. With over 25 years of experience in software development, JD is a programmer at heart with unique insights into scaling software businesses and software team leadership, and he has a deep understanding of building healthy software that gives great customer experiences. He is known to enjoy a glass of whiskey now and then.
Welcome back to another podcast about downtime! Once again we meet with another technologist who's building a new product and getting it out to the world. This time we meet Damian of Auth0 who's been working with his team to ensure identity services.
Content Warning: This episode does contain some graphic description of the work done by an EMT - if you find this troubling you may want to check out another episode!
On this episode, I speak with the CTO and founder of VividCortex on his life down on the farm and as an EMT. Baron gives us some insight into how that prepared him for his time on-call in different roles to ensure databases are fast and reliable.
On this edition, Sam shares with me some scary moments from his time at DigitalOcean. Sam tells the tale of a database table that was dropped.
Sam Phippen is a Developer Advocate at Google, and previously an Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean. He's seen his fair share of deep, complex, incidents. He has strong opinions about incident management, postmortem culture, and on call practises. He's sad that he can't hug every cat.
Being on-call in a tech team can lead to some interesting stories. On this podcast we'll talk to a variety of people from the world of technology, discuss their experiences in on-call and find out some nightmares they survived.


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What is Done During a Skin Screening?
Skin screenings are conducted by a dermatologist and is used to identify any areas of concern on the skin, especially those which are potentially cancerous. Normally, the screening will include a careful inspection of the patient's skin and if a region of concern is discovered, a biopsy may be performed. A biopsy is a procedure where a sample of the skin is obtained in order to evaluate it for cancerous cells. Since prompt detection of skin cancer is vital to the effective treatment of the illness, self-exams as well as annual skin cancer screenings are tremendously important.
How Long Will the Cancer Screening Take?
Depending on if the patient is being evaluated for other skin issues such as psoriasis or eczema and what is found by the doctor, the exam generally takes roughly 10 minutes. It is imperative to remember that if the doctor is testing for a specific concern the skin screening can take longer. The goal is to guarantee that a comprehensive screening is achieved and no region is overlooked.
Which Areas of the Body Will Be Tested?
Customarily, the skin cancer screening will be held in a private exam room and only the patient, the dermatologist and medical assistant are present in order to make sure that the whole body is assessed. It is suggested to undergo a full body screening because concerns can be found in numerous areas.
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A person's skin can change a great deal in 12 months and it is essential to regularly examine the skin to ensure that any concerns or issues are identified in their preliminary stages. Executing self-exams is also highly encouraged. If a change is observed, patients should go to the dermatologist as quickly as they can. Additionally, for patients who have a family history of skin cancer, have already had skin cancer, or have several moles, they should have a skin screening performed more frequently.


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Database normalisation
To make the relational model more informative to users. No two rows of data must contain repeating group of information 3. This is called partial dependency, which is not allowed in Second Normal Form.
Neither Zip is a superkey nor is City a prime attribute. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. In my code, I also showed, how to return a normalized value to the value it Database normalisation before normalisation. Here you see Movies Rented column has multiple values.
Each table must have a primary key Step 1: Its use of tables was, in some part, an effort to mirror the type of tables used on paper that acted as the original representation of the mostly accounting data.
Conversely, you post here only code. If university information is stored in the Candidates table, there is no way to list universities with no current candidates. However, we will be discussing next levels of normalizations in brief in the following.
The rise of denormalization as an alternative began in earnest with the advent of data warehousesbeginning in the s. Example[ edit ] Querying and manipulating the data within a data structure that is not normalized, such as the following non-1NF representation of customers, credit card transactions, involves more complexity than is really necessary: Objectives[ edit ] A basic objective of the first normal form defined by Codd in was to permit data to be queried and manipulated using a "universal data sub-language" grounded in first-order logic.
Rule 1 is satisfied in the above step but still it does not satisfy rule 2 and rule 3. Giddens is lost if he or she temporarily ceases to be assigned to any courses.
A primary is a single column value used to identify a database record uniquely. For example, when we try to update one data item having its copies scattered over several places, a few instances get updated properly while a few others are left with old values.
Sometimes is BCNF is also referred as 3. That is a composite key. That is adding attributes in dependencies, does not change the basic dependencies.
This is the "basic" level of database normalization, and it generally corresponds to the definition of any database, namely: A KEY is a value used to identify a record in a table uniquely. Primary key should be always unique, should not hold NULL values and it must uniquely identify each row in a table.
Hence, we require both Full Name and Address to identify a record uniquely.
A different approach to normalization of probability distributions is quantile normalizationwhere the quantiles of the different measures are brought into alignment.
A basic understanding of this terminology is helpful when discussing the design of a relational database. It has following attributes A primary key cannot be NULL A primary key value must be unique The primary key values cannot be changed The primary key must be given a value when a new record is inserted.
Such instances leave the database in an inconsistent state. As a result, applications interacting with the database are minimally affected. 7 rows · In the case of normalization of scores in educational assessment, there may be an intention. Database normalization is process used to organize a database into tables and columns.
The idea is that a table should be about a specific topic and that only those columns which support that topic are included. Database normalization is the process of organizing data into tables in such a way that the results of using the database are always unambiguous and as intended.
Such normalization is. Normalization is a database design technique which organizes tables in a manner that reduces redundancy and dependency of data. It divides larger tables to smaller tables and links them using relationships.
The inventor of the relational model Edgar Codd proposed the theory of normalization.
Normalization is a method to remove all these anomalies and bring the database to a consistent state. First Normal Form This rule defines that all the attributes in a relation must have atomic domains.
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After a decade in development limbo, the construction of a new barn/activity building at Sunset Hill Farm County Park that will be used for educational purposes is finally in the works.
"It's about time we gave birth to this baby," said Maxey, scoring a few chuckles at the Porter County Board of Parks and Recreation meeting from the board and those sitting in the audience.
The "Raise the Barn" campaign started when there was interest to build a new barn or activity center that would have been used to hold banquets. More current plans aim to use the structure for enhancing and developing programs at Sunset Hill Farm, particularly youth summer camps and adult enrichment programs, said Parks Superintendent Walter Lenckos.
Lecknos also mentioned incorporating a children's garden around the barn that could also be used for youth 4-H programs.
Discussions to breathe new life into the project were spurred a few months ago when board member Ruth Jarnecke said if plans weren't in motion by Oct. 1, the Parks Foundation would have to refund the donations given to them-- around $180,000.
Local architect Brent Wagner drew up preliminary plans for the building which is to be a two-story structure. It will be located on the west side of the park where the former Murray dairy barn used to be.
The board voted 6-0 on the location as well as the proposed dimensions, 37" x 81".
The board in the future will decide the builders to construct the project, the material for the building's structure and roof, and final design.
Board member Rebecca Tomerlin offered the suggestion of having a tin or metal surface for the roof. She said she would also like the plans to include more windows on the second floor for cross-ventilation.
Lenckos said the committee will report to the board regularly, much like the current development process for the Brookdale Park.
Board president Rich Hudson asked that the committee keep the board in the know on how much costs will be.
He also suggested the use of public sewer for water utilities instead of having to build a well and septic system for the park.
The board has recently discussed using the Damon Run Conservancy District as its sewer system provider since the district is expanding through the parks' property in order to reach the new hospital on the northwest corner of U.S. 6 and Ind. 49.
Board attorney David Hollenbeck is in talks with Damon Run on putting in an easement for the water and sewer at the park.
Next in the cards is to receive bids from firms interested in the construction.
From the audience, former parks board member Harold Erwin said he hopes that the barn will be built to blend in with the other structures at the park as the original property owner, Col. Robert Murray, would have liked it.
Erwin felt that giving the barn a different style would turn away visitors who like the park as it is.
Maxey expressed his appreciation and said this is the first time the parks board has approved to building a structure of this size from scratch.
The group, along with SEH Inc. representative A. J. Monroe, presented a slideshow on the planned progression of the Master Plan process for Brookdale park, which will be located north of CR 900N and west of Meridian Rd. in Liberty Twp. near the CSX Railroad.
The planners are currently in their two-month "discovery" phase assessing the features on the 65-acre property that will be the county's first active park featuring soccer and softball fields plus a walking/running perimeter trail.
In October, the planners will consider site plan alternatives and determine what options are possible for the park and their costs.
Once that is finished, the process for the Master Plan can begin. Phasing plans will be developed, as well as a five year plan for operation and funding. A preliminary master plan will be drawn up possibly sometime next spring followed shortly by the final master plan.
The fourth step will be site work construction to begin early 2012 if all goes according to plan.
Monroe said apart from the site, the roadways that would be used for entrance into the park would also need to be looked at for traffic safety reasons.
Gregg Kalpino of JJR will serve as project manager.
The planners are also consulting with former Portage Parks Superintendent Carl Fisher and Jim Eaton of TGI Systems, both of whom have achieved either national or international recognition, Monroe said.
Earlier in the meeting, Hollenbeck announced he expects the parks will have completed payment sometime today for the remaining 22.5 acres of land that will be included in the Brookdale park from the Michaels family.
The board also voted unanimously on a proposal presented by Lenckos last month to regularly conduct performance appraisals as a standard operating procedure.
Lenckos said the plan will help staff members understand their role and objectives and allow them to be recognized for good work over the year.
Hudson showed enthusiasm toward the initiative and said he believes this would make the parks department the one department in the county other than the sheriff's to review individual staff performance on a yearly basis. He said the parks department could be setting a good example in county government.
Also Thursday, Lenckos invited those in attendance to join a focus group meeting on the future development of Brincka-Cross Gardens park in Furnessville. Sessions will be held next Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 8 and 9, at the park itself. Anyone interested in attending is asked to call the parks department at (219)465-5192.


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I've never been a big user of coupons as I either haven't had the time to figure it all out, or I just didn't care to bother with it(mostly the latter). I really didn't think I would be saving enough to make it worth my time.
Since then I have had a slight change of heart in that I've come to realize that as long as you're using the coupons on things you might have bought anyway, it really doesn't have to take much time or effort to save 20% or more off of your bill at the grocery store, wholesale club or elsewhere. That can add up to hundreds of dollars every year!
So how can you ensure that you're not wasting your time when you start using coupons?
Here's a discussion we had about using coupons and maximizing your savings on this week's Money Mastermind Show.
Is Using Coupons Worth Your Time?
Coupons are everywhere you look these days. You get them for the grocery store, for oil changes at your local service station or for discounts at your local restaurant.
According to Inmar, a coupons technology company, coupons distributed by consumer packaged goods companies grew 3.6% in 2013 to over 329 billion coupons. Of those, 2.9 billion coupons were redeemed in 2013.
According to Coupons.com: The average grocery shopper can save over $900 per year by using coupons, amounting to about 15% in savings.
Food items represented about 40% of all coupons distributed.
The average face value of coupons distributed was $1.56.
The average face value of redeemed coupons was $1.27.
The most common method of distributing coupons by far remained free-standing inserts, brochures or ads containing coupons inserted into newspapers and magazines. They accounted for 87.3% of coupons offered and 41% of coupons redeemed.
7.5% of coupons or discounts were digital coupons or coupons printed out from the web.
I think most of us have an idea in our heads about couponing that says you have to be like someone on the TLC show Extreme Couponing in order to get any real savings. The fact is, you don't have to go to those types of extremes, or leave your ethics by the wayside in order to save real money.
An hour of smart couponing is estimated to yield about $100 in savings.
What other part time job will pay you $100/hr?
In my own limited test a while ago where I tracked exactly how much I was spending, and how much I was saving by using coupons. I tracked my spending across 4 different grocery shopping trips where I did some limited couponing. I got the coupons for my local grocery store out of the newspaper, as well as signing up for the grocery store's rewards program where they send out a coupon book every couple of weeks. I used the coupons I got from those two sources to help determine my shopping list, and to maximize my savings without doing any extra work finding matching coupons, keeping a price book or any of the other things that people suggest you do. I just used the coupons from that one grocery store.
What were my results? I was able to save my family over $200!
We saved 23% off the total bill on those 4 shopping trips, and I probably only spent a couple of hours total finding coupons and writing up my shopping list. Imagine how much you could save if you spent more time on it!
So yes, I think using coupons is definitely worth your time, don't underestimate how much you could save. The key is to not get carried away and turn it into a full time job – or to buy things you don't need! If you do, you can end up with a house cluttered with coupon bought items that you may have saved on, but you don't necessarily need.
If you really want to maximize the amount you can save, couponing really should only be one part of a multi-pronged saving strategy. Carrie Rocha of Pocket Your Dollars on the video shown up above talked about how really there are other things you should be doing first before considering the coupons because they can save you just as much or even more than coupons.
Know what things you buy regularly, and know what they cost at different stores: You should know what items are staples of your family's food consumption, and then figure out what they cost at your local stores. Figure out which items are more affordable at which store. For example, if you know you can find produce and meat the cheapest at your local Aldi grocery store, shop for those items there. Cereal cheapest at your Costco? Get it there!
Know when the things you buy are on sale: Figure out when certain items go on sale, and buy them when they're on sale. For example, in Minnesota ketchup, mustard and other condiments tend to go on sale in the summer. Watch for the sales and buy multiple of the item while it's on sale. Then do your best to multiply savings by also using coupons on top of the sale.
Figure out what coupons are available for the things you're buying: Finally, after figuring out the prices of the items you buy and knowing when the items go on sale, track down coupons for the items you buy. Find manufacturer and store coupons, along with online rebates and coupon saving apps.
Knowing what you buy, what those things cost (and where they're the cheapest), and then knowing when the items go on sale are all just as important, or even more important, than using coupons. Use all those things as parts of your overall strategy and you'll be coming out far ahead of the average family.
There are plenty of easy things you can do to make sure using coupons is worth your time. Here are a few.
Take advantage of coupons you're already getting: When we started couponing we were already getting a wide variety of coupons in our regular mail through Red Plum mailings and other things. Don't throw them away, use them!
Sign up for store rewards programs and coupon book mailing lists: Most grocery stores, as well as other stores, have rewards programs these days. Many of them will also send out regular coupon books or mailings that can help you to save. Sign up for them!
Check for coupons in-store: Often you can find coupons for items you're buying right in the store. Look for the blinking coupon dispensers!
Sign up for free local papers: We get our local city paper that also includes coupon inserts for our local grocery.
Get the Sunday paper: Get a copy (or even better, several copies) of the Sunday paper if you don't already because some of the best coupon inserts are found there. Don't forget to use a coupon code!. If you have family that gets the paper, ask them to save the inserts for you and double up on the coupons that allow it. Some stores will agree to give you the extra Sunday papers on Monday or Tuesday if they have any left.
Contact manufacturers of your favorite products: Check out the websites of your favorite product manufacturers and check for any rebates or coupons they may have available. Sometimes they'll send you free samples and coupons as well.
Keep your coupons organized: Most people say to organize your coupons either by expiration date, or by category. If you do by expiration date you can just file the entire insert in a folder, and then use a site with a coupon database to figure out which coupons you can use on the items you need that shopping trip.
Plan your shopping list and meal plans around what's on sale or discounted: When making your grocery shopping trip, do your best to plan your week's menu around what's on sale, or what you can find at a discount. It may not always be exactly what you want, but you'll get to try a lot of new things!
You can often use store and manufacturer coupon at the same time: You can often double up on the coupons on certain items. If you get it on sale to boot, it's even better!
Don't get items just because you can, only buy what you need: If you take couponing to the extreme you can end up with a house full of shampoo, toilet paper and other items that you don't need, or you can spend more than you intended just because things were on sale or free. Don't get to the point where your house becomes a cluttered grocery warehouse.
There are a lot of good websites that you can use to learn more about couponing, track what coupons are available, and track what you've saved. Here are a few.
Ibotta: Find cash back and offers on products you're buying anyway. Get cash back. I've earned $120+ since signing up for Ibotta. Read my Ibotta review here.
Checkout 51: Get discounts on products you don't always see coupons for. Free to use.
Favado App: Find the best deals on your groceries at your favorite stores, including coupon matches, coupons for items already on sale and more. Free to use.
Don't buy things you don't really need: It's not really a deal if you don't need it. Have a coupon to get cereal for free, but it's a kind you don't like? Don't use the coupon!
Beware of coupons where you have to spend a certain amount: Sometimes a coupon requires that you spend a certain amount. Don't overspend just to get over the limit – only use the coupon if it makes sense.
Sales that really aren't: Beware of items on the shelf that appear to be on sale, but aren't. For example, a $1 item might have a big sticker saying "2 for $2!" If you didn't check the per unit price, you may not have realized it was already $1 per item.
Be careful of buying too many of items that spoil: You may find a good deal on strawberries, but if they end up spoiling before you can eat them all, it's not really a deal!
Be sure you know coupon rules: When using coupons at a certain store, make sure you know store coupon policies, or else you may be stuck with a bunch of coupons that don't work there.
Don't lose sight of the reason for using coupons: The reason you use coupons is in order to save money. Don't allow the thrill of the hunt to get the better of you and urge you towards spending more than you would have, even with the coupons.
Have your own tips for shopping with coupons, and using it as part of your overall shopping and saving strategy? Tell us your tips, tricks and suggestions for couponing resources in the comments.
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Hunting for coupons is one of those things that had diminishing returns with respect to the effort put in (in my opinion). I can save X amount of money by spending an hour comparing prices and looking for coupons, but for each additional hour I would spend I only save incrementally more. So, I take the "low hanging fruit" coupons from the Sunday paper or any ads I can find, and call it good. Similar to you, I usually save 10-20% this way.
My favorite way to save with coupons is stacking them. At Target you can use Cartwheel and a manufacturers coupon at the same time. I love those! The other day I triple stacked on a toilet paper deal. The toilet paper was on sale plus Target had a Cartwheel coupon and a separate Target text coupon and I also had a manufacturers coupon. Saved over $10 on a huge thing of toilet paper!
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There are lots of lectures going on at Microsoft, both from people working there and researchers in universities. These talks are recorded and available internally. But I just discovered that Microsoft and some of these universities offer many recorded talks online publicly at the Multi-University/Research Lectures project.
I think this is a great project and invite you to check out some of the cool talks.
The videos are available in windows media streaming format only, but in various bitrates and some have time-compressed versions too (they don't sound as good though). Some also have synchronized slides in addition to the video, which is a good thing.
So far, I've watched two: Bruce Schneier on "The Three Truths of Computer Security" and Douglas Crockford on "Innovation and Conformity in a Microsoft World".
There are definitely resources, costs and scalability questions. Getting more content online is certainly not free (recording, editing and serving). But I hope that this project will continue to grow and that lectures will be more commonly recorded and made available.
I would be ready to pay a fee to have access to more talks from researchers. Maybe most lectures could be available for free with some bandwidth limitations (bitrate, number of simultaneous streams) while others would be available for early or priority access for subscribers.
Transcriptions would also be a nice enhancement (see the latest episodes of the .NET show), both to ease the viewing of lectures and enable their indexing by Google.
The University of Washington also has some interesting programs available online (UWTV).
Here are some more related links (which I didn't dig into much yet, since I just found them ;-).
More online CSE lectures pointers, from the University of Washington.
An aggregation of information on streaming and also links to stream archives.
End System Multicast (a system for broadcasting content) hosts some scheduled broadcasts of SIGCOMM03. It was previously mentioned on slashdot.
Here is an entry point at MSDN for creating web-based presentations with windows media, if you need to synchronize audio, video and html. Apparently, the html can be merged into the media stream itself and some authoring tools like the Producer extension for Powerpoint, that let you edit and synchronize your audio, video and slides.
SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has some cool streams from a summer program. Here is the kind of heavy and groovy stuff they cover - Lectures will cover the basic principles of astrophysics and cosmology, including the cosmic microwave background, inflation, dark matter candidates and searches, the structure formation of the universe, and high energy cosmic rays. The school will be followed by a two-and-a-half day topical conference that surveys the latest results in particle astrophysics, cosmology, and high energy physics.


ASI IRA funding recipients were announced for AY2011-2012. In ECE department, four student groups and clubs were selected for funding. The selection was made based on the student proposals and a merit-based review by the ASI policy.
ECE Student-Faculty forum was held at EE120, 11 AM, February 10, 2012. The forum was held for about an hour. In the forum, many student showed an interest to have Engineer's Ring ceremony (for Order of the Engineers) in the department or college. The date of the event will be announced later.
A ceremony for the Order of the Engineers will be held at IT160 from 12PM, March 27, 2012. Senior students in the ECE department are eligible to become a member of the Order of the Engineers. The Order of the Engineer is an association for graduate and engineers with an emphasis on pride and responsibility in the engineering profession.
ECE Industry Advisory Council (IAC) will have a meeting in April. The date and location wll be announced later.
2012 LCOE Projects Day will be held at Satellite Student Union, Thursday, May 3, 2012. The all day event (11AM - 4PM) is open to public. Senior Design teams will present project and show demonstrations. All LCOE students and graduates are welcome to attend.


Why is important to honour Mary and call her "blessed"?
This booklet will lay to rest much of the contemporary confusion concerning Mary, and will provide help for those seeking to understand her role in our lives.
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On the conclusion of peace Ligonier, now 67, succeeded Field Marshal Wade as Member for Bath, for which he sat without opposition till he received an English peerage in 1763. He died 28 Apr. 1770, in his ninetieth year.


Set in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, "In the Heights" is a production that uses musical styles such as hip hop, salsa, Caribbean and rap to tell the story of a close-knit Latin community. It opens at 8 p.m. Oct. 17, with additional performances at 8 p.m. Oct. 18 and 19 as well as at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 20. All performances are in the performing arts center on the KCKCC campus.
An area that used to be referred to as "Spanish Harlem," the musical centers on a neighborhood around 181st Street in New York. The residents have immigrated from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, and the musical focuses on the hopes and dreams of the diverse population.
The cast includes Jameson Donaghy, Francisco Javier Villegas, Lauren Irving, Joseph Serrano, Sarah Montoya, Christopher Miller, Stephanie Marriot, Breanna Danielle, Timisha Rhodes, Jennifer Coville, Esperanza Pavon-Vega and Sylvester Carter. Four of the actors are students at Wyandotte High School and others live in the Wyandotte County community. The band is comprised of professional musicians from throughout the Kansas City area, led by Lenora Remmert. Choreography is being handled by Michael Joy and Paula Lang, both members of the Friends of Alvin Ailey Company.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens. All KCKCC students, faculty and staff will be admitted free with proper identification. For more information on the musical or to make reservations, call 913-288-7106.


Climategate 2: More ado about nothing. Again.
Two years ago, someone hacked into a University of East Anglia server and anonymously posted thousands of emails from climate scientists. Quickly dubbed "Climategate", global warming deniers jumped on this, trying to show that these scientists were engaging in fraudulent activities. However, it was clear to anyone familiar with how research is done that this was complete and utter bilge; the scientists were not trying to hide anything, were not trying to trick anyone, and were not trying to falsely exaggerate the dangers of climate change.
I wrote about this when it happened and then again quickly thereafter, showing this was just noise. Accusations of fraud were leveled at climate scientist Michael Mann, but time and again he was exonerated: like this time, and then this time, and then this time, and of course this time, and then my favorite, this time.
Climategate was widely denounced as a manufactured controversy, except, of course, by denialists. Because they denied it. That's axiomatic.
However, like a bacterium festering away someplace dank and fetid, Climategate is poised to infect reality once again: The Guardian is reporting that a second cache of stolen emails has been released anonymously, and once again the cries of conspiracy are being heard. However, it looks like these emails aren't really new, and were simply from the original stolen batch, but were held back until today. Mind you, the emails from the first Climategate were released right before a big climate conference, in an obvious attempt to derail it in the media. This new batch was released days before a similar conference, in what appears to be a similar propaganda move.
Mann called the new batch of emails "truly pathetic" and said they reflect desperation among climate deniers, who have failed to pick holes in the science. "They have instead turned to smear, innuendo, criminal hacking of websites, and leaking out-of-context snippets of personal emails in their effort to try to confuse the public about the science and thereby forestall any action to combat this critical threat."
It's hard for me to argue against this, given what Dr. Mann has gone through the past few years. Attacked constantly, exonerated repeatedly, he knows the climate change denialist methods probably better than anyone.
This appears to be a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change when that science has been vindicated by three separate independent inquiries and number of studies – including, most recently, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature group.
That last bit about Berkeley is from just a few weeks ago, showing once again that global warming is real, and that Dr. Mann's results show that there has been a sudden, recent, and large increase in global temperatures.
None of this comes as a surprise to any of us who have been covering this for the past few years. I wonder, though, if the mainstream media have learned their lesson? Think Progress wonders the same thing.
Global warming is real. Independent studies confirm it. Vast amounts of evidence support it. 97% of climate scientists who study it agree with this. It's almost certainly caused by human activity.
The evidence is overwhelming, and no amount of noise will stop that. But that's why the noise is made, to distract you. We are long past the time when this was simple skepticism — the open and honest questioning of evidence — and are now well into full-blown denial. This second release of emails is more evidence for that, especially given the timing.


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FL Child Uninsured Rate Stabilizes; Advocates Raise Future Concerns
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This article originally appeared on the Public News Service.
Catalyst Miami and 39+ other organizations recently sent a letter to Gov. Desantis urging action on Medicaid. Read the letter and learn more here.
A group of 40 Florida-based organizations has sent a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis, urging the state to publish its plan for keeping people insured when the federal public health emergency expires. (Pixabay)
While the Sunshine State ranks among the top 10 states with the highest rates of uninsured children, it did see more kids with health coverage during the pandemic, thanks to federal protections set to expire next year.
Florida's uninsured-child rate dropped from 7.6 % to 7.3 % in 2021, according to a new report from Georgetown University.
Erica Li, policy analyst at the Florida Policy Institute, said it is welcome news to see the number of kids without health insurance drop from 343,000 before the pandemic, to 332,000 in 2021, as it leads to longer-term benefits.
"We know that when children are covered for insurance, they have much better outcomes," Li pointed out. "They're more likely to succeed in school, graduate from high school, attend college, earn higher wages and things like that. So, that's all very good data to see."
The Florida Policy Institute, along with 40 other organizations, has asked the DeSantis administration for a statewide plan for how to keep those families and individuals insured after the federal protections expire next year. Florida is among 11 states that have yet to expand Medicaid, which insures many low-income residents.
Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, said the federal protections -- part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act -- are expected to lapse when the public health emergency officially ends next spring. And she predicted the national child uninsured rate could double.
"Three out of every four children that may lose Medicaid coverage will still be eligible," Alker pointed out. "Sometimes children lose coverage at Medicaid renewal, just because the letter gets lost in the mail. Families with limited English proficiency may have more trouble getting through the renewal process successfully."
Florida's rate of uninsured children is among the highest in the nation, coming in at 42nd out of 50 states and Washington, D.C.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also recommends states create a plan for when federal protections end, because it predicts states could take up to 12 months to return to pre-pandemic operations for Medicaid renewals.
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Electric scooters can be annoying, but we need to learn the rules before flipping them "the bird."
Shortly after the scooters hit the streets again, a group of twenty-somethings were riding in the opposite direction of Illinois St - on the sidewalk - and almost became a permanent part of my hood. Like everyday when traffic reporting wraps up at 7pm, I was just easing out of the parking garage, a habit formed by the massive amount of foot traffic on this busy section of Mile Square.
There was the sleepy Monday morning when I almost cleaned up a rider who hot-shotted across the intersection on a green light, and going from sidewalk to sidewalk.
I'm humbly driving in the right lane, and the scooter riders either pass a half dozen cars at the light or weave in and out of traffic. It seemed wreckless, considering a scooter rider is toast if the device collides with a car, even at the slowest of speeds.
And another injury involving a rider not wearing a helmet (warning, rough pic).
Honestly, the people I chat with have encountered an electric scooter rider that wasn't playing by the rules on at least one occasion. Was the rider ignorant or insolent - who knows? But it causes a problem for safe driving folk like you and I, drivers that are fully aware of the damage done if we broadside or rear end a motorized scooter. They have ZERO defense against such a strike.
BUT, before we rally at the Circle and spend an afternoon scooping up electric scooters and throwing them in the White River, let's take the path of civility and learn the rules ourselves, in hopefully lending a hand on education and enforcement.
I WANT TO RIDE LEGALLY, BUT HOW DO I RIDE LEGALLY?
It's pretty simple. Motorized scooters are like bikes - riders must follow the same rules and regulations as cars and trucks. Use a bike lane or even the roadway - make sure you stay to the right side of the road and DON'T weave in and out of traffic - but unlike bikes, you CANNOT ride on trails or greenways like the Cultural Trail, Canal Walk, or Monon Trail.
You have to be (aware) of the actual traffic that's behind you and allow vehicles to pass. Same situation with the bicycles and the mopeds that are out there. They have to stick to the right hand side and allow traffic to pass them.
In other words, riders have to let the vehicles behind them pass. You're riding in the road, great, but it doesn't excuse clogging up traffic.
Helmet-less guy on scooter screaming at traffic "I'm on the f'ing road, I'm on the f'ing road"* making his way on East street.
YES to riding on the street and bike lanes, just stay to the right.
NO riding on the Cultural Trail, Canal Walk, or Monon Trail.
YES to letting traffic behind you pass.
NO parking inside Circle Centre Mall.
NO throwing an electric scooter in the canal.
And legally you don't have to (!!). Wearing a helmet is strongly recommended, but not required by law. But really, can you imagine getting rear ended on a motorized scooter or getting tagged by a car? You better learn to fly.
Even at the slowest of speeds, a collision will cause an injury, and possibly to your head if you aren't wearing a helmet. Then again, if you're riding an electric scooter without a helmet, you might already have a head injury, probably to your brain.
HOW DO I PARK THESE THINGS?
You can also park the scooter in a grassy area that's not landscaped.
This doesn't include your neighbors' lawn. They won't appreciate that.
Also, park the scooter upright. If you just throw it down in the middle of the sidewalk, like you did with your bike on mom's driveway, it'll easily violate the four feet clearance rule.
Finally, there's no clear cut definition on leaning the scooter against the building, but let's just say you won't get docked for doing it. At least it's upright!
Ummmm, actually, they are enforcing the rules. Police have started to crackdown on riding and parking violators, and they have the ticket books to prove it.
Fine? Twenty dollars. Don't want to pay it? It doubles after 28 days.
I'll tell you myself, when they first came back I was seeing them all over the place – on the sidewalks especially, heavy on the cultural trail - as we get more messaging out, I actually see more people riding in the street.
My take? Scooter parking has improved dramatically since they first returned to the streets, but I'm seeing too many riders going against traffic and riding on the Cultural Trail. Then again, baby steps.
In summation, I'm still not comfortable with electric scooters on our roadways. My blood pressure skyrockets when driving anywhere near an electric scooter that's on the move, mainly because of the unpredictability of the operator. However, given the licensing fees the city recently stamped on Bird and Lime - the two operating companies of the scooters - I absolutely believe they're here to stay for the immediate future.
So let's just be cool, and do all that we can to not hurt somebody or get ourselves hurt. Frustration? Sure, at times, but that's nothing compared to the lifetime guilt if we permanently injure or kill somebody.
I love ending my blogs on a high note.


In what's considered the largest mass stranding in decades, over 400 pilot whales have beached themselves on a New Zealand shore. Hundreds of whales died overnight, and rescuers are now frantically working to save the dozens of remaining whales who are clinging to life.
According to New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC), 416 pilot whales had beached themselves at Farewell Spit in Golden Bay, at the northern tip of the country's south island. When the DOC arrived on the scene, around 250 to 300 whales had already perished, and by the time dawn broke this morning, more than 70 percent of the whales were dead. DOC staff and dozens of volunteers are now trying to save the remaining 80 to 90 whales.
For those trying to help, the sight must be truly horrific. Images from the scene show the beach littered with the large black-bodied corpses. The ones still alive are surrounded by rescue workers who are desperately trying to keep them cool, wet and and calm.
"It is one of the saddest things I have seen, that many sentient creatures just wasted on the beach," noted volunteer rescuer Peter Wiles in The Guardian. The DOC has made a plea to the local community to come and help, and to provide towels, buckets, and sheets. Some rescuers have been working in the cold, wet conditions for upwards of nine hours straight. The response was incredible, and the DOC says no more volunteers are needed at this time.
The next opportunity to save the remaining whales is scheduled for noon tomorrow (Saturday) when the tide comes in. Frustratingly, the remaining whales were "refloated" at high tide earlier today (at about 10:30 am local time), but 90 of them came back and re-beached themselves. As social mammals, they were likely trying to stay close to their pod—the majority of which are now lying dead on the beach.
New Zealand has one of the highest rates of whale strandings in the world; about 300 whales and dolphins beach themselves on the nation's shorelines each year. Golden Bay is particularly conducive to strandings because of its shallow topography, which makes it difficult for whales to swim out once they've entered.
On top of that, pilot whales are notorious for stranding themselves. Entire groups of these whales will beach themselves on account of their strong social bonds. It's possible that the whales got stuck when an old, sick, or injured whale got stranded, and its pod-mates swam to its aid. The stranding may also have something to do with the pilot whales' compromised ability to use echo-location in shallow, gently sloping waters. These whales, which are the largest of the oceanic dolphins, prefer steep areas such as continental shelf edges. Farewell Spit, with its shallow waters, is a death trap.
This stranding is now considered the third largest in New Zealand's recorded history. In 1918, over a thousand whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands, and in 1985, 450 stranded themselves at Great Barrier Island off the coast of Auckland. Two years ago, 200 whales were killed in a mass stranding at Farewell Spit.


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Q: Simulation of the braking distance of a train with $n$ elastically coupled wagons I would like to simulate the braking distance of a train with $n$ wagons. At $t_0 = 0$ the train has the velocity $v_0$ without any acceleration $a_0 = 0$. Every wagon has its own mass $m_i$ because the number of passengers per wagon is different. At $t_1$ the the train starts braking until it stops.
I found a very interesting website about the accretion resistance of a train. The empirical formula $F_{rr} = a+bv+cv^2$ describes the resistance of each wagon regarding different factors (a independent to the velocity, b directly proportional to the speed and c directly proportional to the square of the speed).
This formula is also mentioned in the paper Observer Based Traction/Braking Control Design for High Speed Trains Considering Adhesion Nonlinearity. However, I'm unable to transfer the equation in a Python program to simulate the braking distance. I don't understand them.
Aside from the paper, I'm wondering how to simulate the elastic coupling between each wagon with different mass.
Can someone give me a hint please?

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The new science on happy kids becoming happy adults
It's not really true to say, "Ice cream and video games don't bring happiness," because of course they do. Chic new clothing item, fancy car, the latest cell phone, amazing meal at a fancy restaurant. Also, legitimate sources of happiness. But lasting fulfillment? Not so much.
In Patrick A Coleman's great "How to Turn Happy Children Into Happy Adults," for Fatherly.com, he advises parents to avoid placing a lot of emphasis on all of the above, and other material things, as sources of lasting fulfillment. Children who see their parents placing undue importance on such things will have the same values, even as they see authority figures wrestle with disappointment when the "thrill of attainment" wears off.
Coleman writes: "An emerging understanding of happiness, lead by the new field of positive psychology, may offer a path lined with actionable insights. You might have to rethink material comforts, revisit character values, and really pay attention to a kid's strengths. It's not easy, but it's the best way to avoid being the parent of a child who 'has it all' and yet no happiness to show for it."
Number one tip is to look beyond the short term. Take the long view.
Lasting happiness cannot be bought with stuff. Try not to let economics dictate what makes you happy, and teach your child the same. To focus on the acquisition of stuff stresses the need to get ahead, stay ahead, and constantly do better than your peers, financially. Coleman calls it "modern intensive parenting," and he notes it's not only stressful, but also very expensive.
Positive psychology practitioner Robert Zeitlin asserts, "Happiness is a path that people are on, rather than a destination. Research points to ways people lead more gratifying lives rather than pleasurable lives. The differentiation is a short term boost in mood versus a long term character-based gain."
These insights are coming out of the era of internet-based instant gratification, of short-term pleasure bursts that make us briefly feel good but ultimately, like an intoxicant, leave us ultimately even hungrier, lonelier than before. It's no surprise the ancient realization that a gratifying life is achieved by different means than simply a pleasurable life.
Kids learn this stuff from us based on our values, whether we like it or not. The idea that it is paramount that we achieve our defined short-term goals like the unnecessary upgrade or the bigger SUV, will reflect on our kid's decisions as they approach adulthood.
READ MORE: 7 steps to improving your child's self-esteem
All the while, positive psychology shows that true happiness, the long-term personal fulfillment, comes from building on character strengths.
Character strengths, valued and recognized in almost every culture, are independent of politics. According to Coleman, "They range from curiosity and creativity to bravery, kindness, humor, fairness, and forgiveness. [They] are not linked to goals. They are part of the values that parents naturally try to build in their children by encouraging kids to be fair or practice self-control, kindness, and honesty."
According to Coleman, stressing the importance of these character strengths is the key to happiness for children and adults alike. Although the blaring of our culture's acquisitive values may be hard to drown out, it can be done.


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Q: Is there a way to put a CSS file after the App_Theme files Is there a way to put my custom CSS file outside of the App_Themes folder AFTER all the other CSS files get loaded by the Skin/App_Themes folder?
When the application runs, the App_Themes files are always placed last. But I have a custom CSS file I want to load last, that is referenced from an external URL and is not in the App_Themes folder.
Is there a way to do this?

A: You just need to add a HtmlLink control manually to the page in an event that runs after the themes CSS are added. The Page_PreRender event runs last before the page is shown.
protected void Page_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var myCss = new HtmlLink();
    myCss.Href = "http://www.example.com/scripts/myCss.css";
    myCss.Attributes.Add("type", "text/css");
    myCss.Attributes.Add("rel", "stylesheet");

    // Add the css reference at the end of the head after everything else
    Page.Header.Controls.Add(myCss);
}


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Q: how to modify smali code to delete 1 line in java code I want to delete the 580th and 581th line in the java code below. this file is in system/framework/services.jar in android devices, so the steps I did are:

*

*decompile jar to smali

*change the smali file

*recompile the smali file to dex file

*pack it into services.jar.

*push services.jar into android mobile phone
The question is in step2, how to change the smali file, I tried to delete :line580 and the code below it, but it doesn't work, when compiling, a nullPointerExecption was thrown...and I can see /error/ in jd-gui tool
Somebody please give me some advices, I'm totally new to smali, thanks in advance.
The java code is:
568    public void registerUiTestAutomationService(IBinder owner,
569            IAccessibilityServiceClient serviceClient,
570            AccessibilityServiceInfo accessibilityServiceInfo) {
571            mSecurityPolicy.enforceCallingPermission(Manifest.permission.RETRIEVE_WINDOW_CONTENT,
572                FUNCTION_REGISTER_UI_TEST_AUTOMATION_SERVICE);
573
574        accessibilityServiceInfo.setComponentName(sFakeAccessibilityServiceComponentName);
575
576        synchronized (mLock) {
577            UserState userState = getCurrentUserStateLocked();
578
579            if (userState.mUiAutomationService != null) {
580                throw new IllegalStateException("UiAutomationService " + serviceClient
581                        + "already registered!");
582            }
583
584            try {
585                owner.linkToDeath(userState.mUiAutomationSerivceOnwerDeathRecipient, 0);
586            } catch (RemoteException re) {
587                Slog.e(LOG_TAG, "Couldn't register for the death of a"
588                        + " UiTestAutomationService!", re);
589                return;
590            }
591
592            userState.mUiAutomationServiceOwner = owner;
593            userState.mUiAutomationServiceClient = serviceClient;
594
595            // Set the temporary state.
596            userState.mIsAccessibilityEnabled = true;
597            userState.mIsTouchExplorationEnabled = false;
598            userState.mIsEnhancedWebAccessibilityEnabled = false;
599            userState.mIsDisplayMagnificationEnabled = false;
600            userState.mInstalledServices.add(accessibilityServiceInfo);
601            userState.mEnabledServices.clear();
602            userState.mEnabledServices.add(sFakeAccessibilityServiceComponentName);
603            userState.mTouchExplorationGrantedServices.add(sFakeAccessibilityServiceComponentName);
604
605            // Use the new state instead of settings.
606            onUserStateChangedLocked(userState);
607        }
608    }

The smali code after decompiling:
.line 579
.local v1, "userState":Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$UserState;
# getter for: Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$UserState;->mUiAutomationService:Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$Service;
invoke-static {v1}, Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$UserState;->access$300(Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$UserState;)Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$Service;

move-result-object v2

if-eqz v2, :cond_3d

.line 580
new-instance v2, Ljava/lang/IllegalStateException;

new-instance v4, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

invoke-direct {v4}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

const-string v5, "UiAutomationService "

invoke-virtual {v4, v5}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

move-result-object v4

invoke-virtual {v4, p2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

move-result-object v4

const-string v5, "already registered!"

invoke-virtual {v4, v5}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

move-result-object v4

invoke-virtual {v4}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

move-result-object v4

invoke-direct {v2, v4}, Ljava/lang/IllegalStateException;-><init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V

throw v2

.line 607
.end local v1    # "userState":Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$UserState;
:catchall_3a
move-exception v2

monitor-exit v3
:try_end_3c
.catchall {:try_start_11 .. :try_end_3c} :catchall_3a

throw v2

.line 585
.restart local v1    # "userState":Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$UserState;
:cond_3d
:try_start_3d
# getter for: Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$UserState;->mUiAutomationSerivceOnwerDeathRecipient:Landroid/os/IBinder$DeathRecipient;
invoke-static {v1}, Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$UserState;->access$1200(Lcom/android/server/accessibility/AccessibilityManagerService$UserState;)Landroid/os/IBinder$DeathRecipient;

move-result-object v2

const/4 v4, 0x0

invoke-interface {p1, v2, v4}, Landroid/os/IBinder;->linkToDeath(Landroid/os/IBinder$DeathRecipient;I)V
:try_end_45
.catch Landroid/os/RemoteException; {:try_start_3d .. :try_end_45} :catch_74
.catchall {:try_start_3d .. :try_end_45} :catchall_3a

A: Try to Remove
.line 580
new-instance v2, Ljava/lang/IllegalStateException;

new-instance v4, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

invoke-direct {v4}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

const-string v5, "UiAutomationService "

invoke-virtual {v4, v5}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

move-result-object v4

invoke-virtual {v4, p2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

move-result-object v4

const-string v5, "already registered!"

invoke-virtual {v4, v5}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

move-result-object v4

invoke-virtual {v4}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

move-result-object v4

invoke-direct {v2, v4}, Ljava/lang/IllegalStateException;-><init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V

throw v2

I am not sure. But AFAIK this should remove line 580 and 581. Please try it and let me know.


SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON), announced 17 advancements accelerating through its R&D pipeline, including global expansion of the company's research footprint to deliver science-driven, digital agriculture innovations to more farmers around the world.
In January 2017, Climate introduced its innovation pipeline, unveiling more than 35 projects. Climate's pipeline is the first of its kind in the digital agriculture industry. In August 2017, the company advanced seven projects to new phases of the pipeline. Today, Climate is sharing the acceleration of an additional 10 R&D advancements, combining unique field data with state-of-the-art science and powerful analytics to support farmers in the crucial management decisions they make throughout the year.
Employing machine learning and predictive modeling techniques enables Climate to quickly deliver digital solutions to farmers that are customized to their individual operations. These capabilities are central to the advancements moving through Climate's innovation pipeline.
Disease Diagnosis - Today, as much as 40 percent of global crop production is lost to disease, pest and weeds. Advanced disease insights can help farmers protect their crops from plant diseases that can devastate entire fields. Through Climate's disease diagnosis research, the company is using artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose diseases in corn, soybeans and wheat. The machine learning model continues to demonstrate strong performance in categorizing stresses on an individual plant and providing the correct disease diagnosis through a mobile or tablet device. Corn disease diagnosis (U.S.) advancing from development to pre-commercial phase.
movement, historical performance and more, to help farmers select the most ideal seed products for their fields. Advanced seed scripting research in Brazil is advancing from concept to development phase; Europe advancing to concept phase. Regionally-based seed selection for soybeans (U.S.) advancing from concept to development phase.
Fertility Scripting - Through advanced modeling, Climate embraces the complexity of soil fertility cycles, capturing key processes that impact nitrogen levels in the field to help farmers optimize the placement of key inputs. In August 2017, the company introduced manual fertility scripting for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and lime as the next step in building the industry's first comprehensive fertility solution in the Climate FieldView platform. The company is continuing to invest in research efforts globally for the delivery of fertility prescriptions for additional crops, including soybeans, wheat and canola. P&K scripting research in Brazil, Eastern Canada and Western Canada advancing from concept to development phase.
As Climate continues to expand its digital technologies to help more farmers access advanced agronomic insights, it adds new data layers to feed its R&D engine, ultimately enabling the development of valuable new features for farmers. First launched in the United States in 2015, the Climate FieldView platform is on more than 120 million acres with more than 100,000 users across the United States, Canada and Brazil. In October 2017, the company announced the launch of the Climate FieldView platform in Western Canada. Shortly after, the company announced the pre-commercial launch of the Climate FieldView platform into regions of Europe, including Germany, France and Ukraine. It has quickly become the most broadly connected platform in the industry and continues to expand into new global regions, with plans to expand the platform into Australia, Argentina and South Africa over the next few years.
To learn more about the Climate FieldView platform, contact your local Climate dealer or visit climate.com.
collection, advanced agronomic modeling and local weather monitoring into simple mobile and web software solutions, the Climate FieldView platform gives farmers a deeper understanding of their fields so they can make more informed operating decisions to optimize yields, maximize efficiency and reduce risk. For more information, please visit www.climate.com and follow the company on Twitter @climatecorp.
farmers use data to improve farming practices and conserve natural resources, and provide crop protection products to minimize damage from pests and disease. Through programs and partnerships, we collaborate with farmers, researchers, nonprofit organizations, universities and others to help tackle some of the world's biggest challenges. To learn more about Monsanto, our commitments and our more than 20,000 dedicated employees, please visit monsanto.com.


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Educational magazines
MacKinnon, Kenneth 1942–
PERSONAL: Born December 11, 1942, in Inverness, Scotland; son of John (an accountant) and Agnes Frances (a secretary; maiden name, MacKay) MacKinnon. Education: University of Edinburgh, M.A. (classics, with first class honors), 1965; Oxford University, B.Litt., 1969. Hobbies and other interests: Jazz and classical music (playing piano for chamber music and jazz recitals).
ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Humanities, Arts, and Languages, London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Rd., London N7 8DB, England. E-mail—[email protected]
CAREER: London Metropolitan University, London, England, principal lecturer, then professor of film studies, 1972–. Copy editor and proofreader for publishers in London, England, 1969–78.
WRITINGS:
(Translator, with George Valamvanos) Vangelis Katsanis, The Successors, Pella, 1979.
(Translator, with George Valamvanos) An Anthology of Modern Greek One-Act Plays, Pella, 1984.
Hollywood's Small Towns, Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ), 1984.
Greek Tragedy into Film, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison, NJ), 1986.
Misogyny in the Movies: The De Palma Question, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE), 1990.
The Politics of Popular Representation: Reagan, Thatcher, AIDS, and the Movies, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison, NJ), 1992.
Uneasy Pleasures: The Male as Erotic Object, Cygnus Arts (London, England), 1997, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison, NJ), 1998.
Love, Tears, and the Male Spectator, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison, NJ), 2002.
Representing Men: Maleness and Masculinity in the Media, Hodder Arnold (London, England), 2003.
Contributor to books, including Pleasure Principles: Politics, Sexuality, and Ethics, edited by Victoria Harwood and others, Lawrence & Wishart (London, England), 1993; Transferable Skills in Higher Education, edited by Alison Assiter, Kogan Page (Philadelphia, PA), 1995; Dissident Voices: The Politics of Television and Cultural Change, edited by Mike Wayne, Pluto (Sterling, VA), 1998; The Body's Perilous Pleasures: Dangerous Desires and Contemporary Culture, edited by M. Aaron, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1999; and Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond, edited by Bill Marshall and Robynn Stilwell, Intellect (Portland, OR), 2000. Contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Gender Studies, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Film Quarterly, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, and Classical Quarterly.
SIDELIGHTS: Kenneth MacKinnon told CA: "The primary motivations for my writing are an interest in extending my knowledge and that of others, and my impatience with orthodoxies. Certain academic influences recur in my work, the influence of Laura Mulvey and Steve Neale especially. My writing process includes a long period of research, structuring of my argument in skeleton form, then a shorter period for writing and revisions."
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Hannay, Alastair 1932–
McArthur, Colin 1934–
Tapper, Richard (Lionel) 1942–
Simpson, Robert 1921–1997
Rayner, Hugh (Shoo Rayner)
Schoeser, Mary 1950-
Clover, Peter
MacKinnon, Joanna (1878–1966)
MacKinnon, Janice C. 1947-
MacKinnon, J.B. 1970- (James Bernard MacKinnon)
MacKinnon, Colin
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Mackinnon, Catharine Alice
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MacKinnon, Catharine A.
Mackinnon, A(lexander) J(ames) 1963-
MacKinley, Ronald (North RiverRice Point) Leader of the Official Opposition
MacKinlay, Jean Sterling (1882–1958)
MacKinlay, Elizabeth 1940–
Mackinder, Sir Halford John
Mackinder, Halford
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Mackin, Jeanne
Mackin, Catherine (1939–1982)
Mackillop, Mary Helen, Bl.
MacKillop, Mary Helen (1842–1909)
MacKillop, Ian D(uncan) 1939-2004
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MacKinnon, Roderick
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MacKlin, Hon. Paul, B.A., LL.B. (Northumberland—Quinte West)
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Mihri İffet Pektaş (1895 – 4 July 1979), also known as Mihri Bektaş, was a Turkish school teacher and former politician. She is known as one of the first 18 female parliament members of Turkey.

Mihri İffet was born in Bursa, then Ottoman Empire. In 1916, she graduated from Arnavutköy American High School for Girls in İstanbul. After graduation, she taught Turkish in the same institution between 1916 and1918. After 1920, she began teaching English in various schools in İstanbul. She was also a part-time nurse.

She was married to Hüseyin Pektaş, vice principal of Robert College, and interpreter of the Turkish delegation at the Conference of Lausanne during 1922 and 1923. She was mother of two.

Political career
Turkish women achieved voting rights in local elections on 3 April 1930. Four years later, on 5 December 1934, they gained full universal suffrage, earlier than most other countries. Mihri Pektaş joined the Republican People's Party (CHP), and was elected in the general election held on 8 February 1935 from Malatya Province into the 5th Parliament of Turkey. She was among the first 18 women members of the Turkish parliament. She kept her seat in the parliament in the following two terms up to 5 August 1946.

Aftermath
After 1946, Pektaş resumed her teaching career, and between 1947 and 1950, she participated in the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. She died on 4 July 1979.

References

1895 births
People from Bursa
Alumni of Arnavutköy American High School for Girls
Educators from the Ottoman Empire
20th-century Turkish women politicians
Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians
Deputies of Malatya
Women's suffrage in Turkey
Members of the 5th Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 6th Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 7th Parliament of Turkey
Turkish schoolteachers
1979 deaths

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"Springtime, lovetime, May.........."
The title of today's blog is taken from a song written by Sigmund Romberg some 95 years ago. It's title is actually "Will You Remember" but most people know it as "Sweetheart". The first line goes, "Sweetheart, sweetheart, sweetheart, will you love me ever...." The song achieved immortality when sung by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in the 1937 film, "Maytime". It may surprise a lot of people to know that "Maytime" was the number one moneymaking film - worldwide - of 1937.
I bring this up today because when I was growing up there were certain things that you could be sure of. One of those was that any television channel that owned the MGM film library would definitely run "Maytime" on May 1st. Even if they never ran another Jeanette MacDonald film all year (although "San Francisco" generally showed up in April on the anniversary of the Quake), "Maytime" would be on the schedule for May the first.
Even when viewed today, "Maytime" is one of the most romantic films ever committed to celluloid and it is easy to understand, watching it, why is resonated with audiences in the middle of the Depression.
MGM pulled out all of the stops. The production is opulent, rich in detail and lavishly photographed. The costumes by Adrian are second to none and Sydney Guilaroff worked his usual magic in creating hairstyles that fit the period and the stars. Director Robert Z. Leonard proved he was a master of the period film and the cast, headed by Miss MacDonald, Eddy and John Barrymore, bring a depth and drama to the proceedings that belies the typical notions of Operetta.
Miss MacDonald, virtually unrecognizable as an elderly woman in the film's opening and closing, earned kudos from the Screen Actors Guild for her brilliant acting. She plays a former Opera Singer, long retired and living a reclusive life in the kind of small town that could only be created on the MGM lot. She advises a young aspiring singer to not forsake love for a career, sharing her own tragic story in the process.
Filled with a wide-array of glorious music, even those who thumb their noses at the notions of musicals and especially Operetta, will be caught up in the story that unfolds over two plus hours. It is impossible not to be moved.
After viewing "Maytime", it's easy to understand why, for several years, Jeanette MacDonald was the biggest female star on the MGM lot. Bigger than Shearer, Crawford, Garbo and Loy. In fact in 1939, two years after this film was made, Miss MacDonald was crowned "Queen of the Screen" in a nationwide poll of 22 million readers representing 52 leading newspapers.
TCM is screening "Maytime" later this month and in a week or so it's coming out on DVD. Treat yourself to this masterpiece - a wonderful slice of the Golden Age of Hollywood - a film that is sure to bring a tear to even the most jaded moviegoer.
Paul E. Brogan
I'll be back from my hiatus with a brand new blog talking about the Golden Age of Hollywood before the end of September. Please stay tuned, and I am sure it will be worth the wait!!
Consultant, avid researcher, often publicist, and even Hollywood Icon himself, at times, Paul is currently receiving praise for his best selling book, "Was That A Name I Dropped".


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Duval County är ett administrativt område i delstaten Texas, USA, med 11 782 invånare (2010). Den administrativa huvudorten (county seat) är San Diego.

Geografi
Enligt United States Census Bureau har countyt en total area på 4 652 km². 4 644 km² av den arean är land och 8 km² är vatten.

Angränsande countyn
 McMullen County - norr
 Live Oak County - nordost
 Jim Wells County - öster
 Brooks County - sydost
 Jim Hogg County - sydväst
 Webb County - väster

Orter
 Benavides
 Concepcion
 Freer
 Realitos
 San Diego (huvudort, delvis i Jim Wells County)

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