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India reaches 100 million vaccines as Covid-19 cases increase
By Wren Rogers	 Last updated Apr 15, 2021
The country recorded a daily record total of around 153,000 coronavirus cases on Sunday with 839 new deaths, according to Health Ministry figures. The total number of cases in India is more than 13.5 million – second only to the United States and Brazil – including nearly 170,000 deaths.
in the same day, Vaccinations The Ministry of Health said that India has exceeded 100 million people, as India was the fastest country in the world in reaching this achievement, reaching this number in just 85 days.
Territory of the Delhi Union, including The capital is New Delhi It is a badly affected part of the new wave of the epidemic. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwa announced a record high of cases in one day, Sunday, with more than 10,000 new infections.
Kejriwal warned that "Delhi is witnessing the fourth wave of the Coronavirus pandemic." "The situation is worrying and the government is working to improve it."
At least 57 doctors in New Delhi have tested positive for Covid-19 this week.
About 37 doctors working at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the city have tested positive – after receiving two doses of the vaccine in the past. A hospital spokesman told CNN that the doctors had mild symptoms, but 32 of them were undergoing home isolation, while five had been transferred to the hospital to avoid the risk of transmitting the infection to their families. The official added that hospital authorities are investigating the source of the infection, which was discovered on Thursday, and more contacts are being traced.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi confirmed on Friday that at least 20 doctors have been found to have Covid-19. AIIMS told CNN that two resident doctors who tested positive for the virus had received two doses of the coronavirus vaccine. Officials said all of the injured were showing mild symptoms and were in home isolation.
Western Maharashtra is also a major concern. Officials said last week that eight of the 10 worst-hit districts across India were in Maharashtra, including its capital, Mumbai. Public places such as parks, shopping malls, cinemas, and religious centers are closed in the state until further notice, and all restaurants can only place outside orders.
Thousands of migrant workers tried to leave big cities like Mumbai last year after the lockdowns left them without jobs or salaries, and locals fear a repeat of this scenario.
"Some sectors of course are more affected, which could lead to labor migration," Hariharan Kumar, a lawyer in Mumbai, told CNN on Sunday. "They are afraid of losing their jobs and their wages."
"People are getting somewhat tired, but I think other people are also realizing that this is the best scenario," he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi On Thursday, he announced a four-day vaccination campaign, starting on Sunday.
India now regularly administers more than 3 million vaccines per day, outpacing the daily spread of the United States and gaining access to China, according to the Oxford University research group Our World in Data.
The state health minister said Thursday that states such as Maharashtra, Odisha and Punjab have complained of vaccine shortages, and several provinces in Maharashtra have had to suspend vaccination campaigns.
According to a senior management official in Mumbai, more than 70 centers in the city said they do not have vaccines. The central government said it is doing everything it can to help the states, according to a statement from the health minister earlier this week.
The serum institute of India, the largest vaccine maker in the world, is Covid-19 vaccine production For countries participating in the COVAX initiative, deliveries will be delayed in April as India grapples with the new wave of infections.
Raghav Shahddah, the official spokesman for the Grand General Party. Moody wrote to Saturday They are calling for the adoption of a "national vaccine" policy.
"Do not miss the vaccination center [sic] It was closed while the doses were flown out of the country. "
On Saturday, Kejriwal announced a slew of new restrictions in Delhi to fight the spike of coronavirus there.
This includes prohibiting all gatherings (social, political, or religious), and limiting attendance to weddings and funerals at 50 and 20 people respectively, and restaurants, cinemas and public transport must operate at half-occupancy.
Delhi authorities announced on Friday that all educational institutions will remain closed until further notice.
The rise in cases comes with leading researchers in India It was announced last month There are approximately 800 different types of anxiety present in the country.
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If I every change anything in the software, I want this change to be consistent in both of the above variants of the code.
In Git(Hub), should I:

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*Build a separate repository (how am I going to easily merge changes ?),

*Build a different branch (but branching seems to be best for when all code is to merge),

*Build a fork (but this seems to be for people that can't push to the main branch) ?

Here are some questions that are related, but not what I want. I've written why I haven't swallowed their answers:

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*maintain different versions of the code simultaneously using git: Tobu's answer says "git cherry-pick may not work in many cases"

*managing multiple versions of a web application using git: suggests git submodules but there's reasons not to.

*Keeping track of source code variants: suggests using #define , but is there a FORTRAN equivalent ?

*How to track two version of a project in one GIT repository?: suggests a 3rd branch for "common" code, but I don't see the benefit of having more than 2. And would I not need to use git cherry-pick here ?

A: Long time since I did any Fortran but if you can have parametrised macros based like you can in C you best bet would be to have a conditional macro something like
#define DECLARE_HIGH_PRECISION(Name, Val, Exp) \
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I can't remember being so happy to be so wrong in my life. Of course my position that Alabama will decide for itself what it deserves was 100% accurate- but that point is always accurate. I would have put down some serious money that Judge Roy Moore- the most disgusting and disturbing major party candidate for high office this side of Donald Trump- would be the next senator from Alabama. And I would have lost that money. So glad I couldn't find anybody taking bets. Lucky for me NOBODY else saw this coming either.
And because we didn't, on behalf of all political commentators, bloggers, activists and progressive citizens everywhere outside the state of Alabama, I want to apologize to the voters of Alabama for underestimating you. In our defense, it has been a pretty dis-spiriting 13 months since America committed its greatest electoral sin ever in rewarding Donald Trump with our greatest prize. We had a little post-traumatic-stress-disorder going on and it made us gun shy about this race.
But you folks stood up and put the country and the world on notice that America can recover from our sins and emerge better than ever. We need to keep reminding ourselves of that as we fight for survival in a Trump Presidency. We are encouraged now because of you.
Women who step forward to hold abusers accountable for their misdeeds- no matter how old those misdeeds may be- won today when Roy Moore was denied the ascension to which he so clearly believed he was entitled. He rode up on that horse on the morning of election day with the cameras rolling and he was really feeling himself- drunk on the fumes from Steve Bannon's bourbon breath and still high on the hysteria of Donald Trump's full throated endorsement rally last weekend. He had gotten away with being a reprobate pervert by calling all of those women liars and now the voters of Alabama were going to wash the entire record clean for him by electing him to the Senate- or so he thought. Those ladies who spoke out got the vindication of voters, the last laugh and the big win.
Black folks were big winners too because they showed up and showed out for the man that stood for them to bring justice and closure for the murders of the 4 Little Girls who died in that infamous Birmingham church bombing five decades ago. It was not a popular thing that Doug Jones did at the time but he did it anyway and black Alabamians were a big key to his defeating a racist who thinks America was great during slavery. That kind of poetic justice happens too rarely in politics so when it does we have to take notice and applaud.
Evidently suburban white women won big, too. Exit polls and voter narratives reflect that they ditched party loyalty in favor of character, values and truth and decided that their husbands and fathers may have been willing to vote for a damned child molester if they wanted to, but they refused to have any part of it.
But Doug Jones' win was even bigger than that. His victory saved America from continuing her downward spiral into darkness and despair. America will never be "great" in this millennium with white supremacy as a mainstream ideal and political movement. Roy Moore's victory would have signaled exactly that. Ironically, Doug Jones revived the Obama coalition and is actually the one helping to lead the march to make America great again- because it never can be while Trump is in charge and Trumpism is on the rise. Since Trump won the Presidency, America has been in crisis but Alabama has stopped the bleeding and has cleared the way for take-off on our flight to redemption.
So thank you, Alabama. I'm sorry I doubted you. I hope you won't hold it against me because we've got to keep this momentum going for at least another two election cycles to make this progress stick. Evil dies hard so we'll need each other to finish the job of REALLY making America great again- like it was under Barack Obama, not Andrew Jackson or Donald Trump. Just remember: "great" does not mean perfect so keep the faith when the skies get stormy. But now we all know that thanks to you, we are undeniably in flight and on our way back.


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SWIMMING WITH SHARKS: Fantasy Draft Lessons Learned at the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Gary Davenport August 21, 2019
This past weekend has rapidly become my favorite of the year. I was again honored to represent Fantasy Sharks at the second King's Classic fantasy drafts at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Ohio. Organized by Bob Lung of Big Guy Fantasy Sports, the King's Classic is a 28-team brouhaha of epic proportions—two 14-team divisions (Jim Brown and George Blanda) drafting both an auction and snake team on the same day.
It's a gathering of fantasy football's best and brightest. And me.
I know. I'm surprised, too.
It's the kind of draft where just about everyone leaves hating their team. An exercise in glorious brutality. In 2018 the top-heavy auction team I drafted (hated it) finished third. The snake team I thought was OK finished 11th because the entire team was devoured by bionic crocodiles—starting with Minnesota Vikings tailback Dalvin Cook.
I'm not bitter. Not at all.
It's also one of my absolute favorite drafts of the year—because no quarter is given. None.
There is no mercy in that dojo.
As maddeningly frustrating an experience as it is every year, it's also a valuable one—a lesson in player valuation and draft strategy taught by the best in the business.
And despite my best efforts, I continue to learn lessons from it.
LESSON NO. 1: Backs to the Future
In the Jim Brown division of these drafts, the first round featured a pretty equal distribution of running backs and wide receivers—a willingness from some teams to gamble on upside backs a bit later in favor of a loaded WR corps.
The Blanda division did…not. I'm legitimately going to need therapy after what happened there. It started with eight straight running backs to kick things off and 10 of the first 14—and got worse from there.
Devonta Freeman went 17th overall, and I seriously considered him at No. 15.
This was an extreme example, but it's also more rule than exception. The reality is running backs are being hit hard early in drafts in 2019.
This isn't to say DeAndre Hopkins is a bad pick after the elite RB are gone. Or that "Zero RB" is dead. I took Davante Adams on the turn because he was there and it's a better pick than Freeman. Just don't count on any running back you'd have any confidence starting every week as things stand right now dropping even a little. They won't.
LESSON No.2: The "Experts" are Gambling ON Ezekiel Elliott
Full disclosure—these drafts happened before Jerry Jones decided to try to be funny and the Cowboys inked outside linebacker Jaylon Smith to a fat extension. The latter, in the opinion of the guy who dropped 25% of his auction budget on Elliott (sigh), is a bigger problem than the former.
But I'd still do it. He also went for the exact same amount in the Brown division and went fourth overall in both snake drafts.
Tony Pollard was a hot topic of discussion Saturday, and the chatter's only increased since. But among the crowd in Canton, prevailing wisdom seemed to be that even Jerruh has enough sense to not flush a season. Without Ezekiel Elliott, the Cowboys have no shot at Miami.
Elliott anywhere outside the top-five is theft.
Shut up, Jerry.
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About Gary Davenport
A member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association and Pro Football Writers of America who resides in Columbus, Ohio, Gary has been featured on a number of fantasy websites and in nationally circulated publications. These publications include the USA Today Fantasy Football Preview and the magazines distributed by Fantasy Sports Publications Inc., for whom Gary is a both a contributing author and associate editor. Gary is an nine-time FSWA Award finalist and three-time winner who has been a finalist for that organization's Fantasy Football Writer of the Year award each of the last four years. He won the honor in 2017 and 2019. Gary also appears regularly on Sirius XM Radio (including live from Radio Row at Super Bowl XLIX) and over-the-air stations across the country. Gary was one of the co-founders of, and Head Writer at, Fantasy Football Oasis before joining Fantasy Sharks as an IDP Senior Staff Writer in 2011. He knows football. Or so he's heard.
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Lava Beds National Monument is located in northeastern California, in Siskiyou and Modoc counties. The monument lies on the northeastern flank of Medicine Lake Volcano and has the largest total area covered by a volcano in the Cascade Range.

The region in and around Lava Beds National Monument lies at the junction of the Sierra-Klamath, Cascade, and Great Basin physiographic provinces. The monument was established as a national monument on November 21, 1925, and includes more than .

Lava Beds National Monument has numerous lava tubes, with 27 having marked entrances and developed trails for public access and exploration. The monument also offers trails through the high Great Basin xeric shrubland desert landscape and the volcanic field. In 1872 and 1873, the area was the site of the Modoc War, involving a band led by Kintpuash (also known as Captain Jack). The area of Captain Jack's Stronghold was named in his honor.

Geologic formations
Lava Beds National Monument is geologically significant because of its wide variety of volcanic formations, including lava tubes, fumaroles, cinder cones, spatter cones,  pit craters, hornitos, maars, lava flows, and volcanic fields.

Volcanic eruptions on the Medicine Lake shield volcano have created a rugged landscape punctuated by these many landforms of volcanism.

Cones

Cinder cones are formed when magma is under great pressure. It is released in a fountain of lava, blown into the air from a central vent. The lava cools as it falls, forming cinders that pile up around the vent. When the pressure has been relieved, the rest of the lava flows from the base of the cone. Cinder cones are typically monogenetic.

The cinder cones of Hippo Butte, Three Sisters, Juniper Butte, and Crescent Butte are all older than the Mammoth and Modoc Crater flows, more than 30,000–40,000 years old. Eagle Nest Butte and Bearpaw Butte are 114,000 years old. Schonchin Butte cinder cone and the andesitic flow from its base were formed around 62,000 years ago. The flow that formed Valentine Cave erupted 10,850 years ago. An eruption that formed The Castles is younger than the Mammoth Crater flows. Even younger were eruptions from Fleener Chimneys, such as the Devil's Homestead flow, 10,500 years ago, and Black Crater 3,025 years ago. About 1,110 years ago, plus or minus 60 years, the Callahan flow was produced by an eruption from Cinder Butte. Though Cinder Butte is just outside the boundary of the monument, the Callahan flow is in Lava Beds and is the youngest flow in the monument.

Spatter cones are built out of thicker lava. The lava is thrown out of the vent and builds, layer by layer, a chimney surrounding the vent. Fleener Chimneys and Black Crater are examples of spatter cones.

Lava flows

Roughly ninety percent of the lava in the Lava Beds Monument is basaltic. There are primarily two kinds of basaltic lava flows: pahoehoe and ʻaʻā. Pahoehoe is smooth, often ropy and is the most common type of lava in Lava Beds. ʻAʻā is formed when pahoehoe cools and loses some of its gases. ʻAʻā is rough, sharp, and jagged; an excellent example is the Devil's Homestead lava flow, which originated at Fleener Chimneys. Most of the rest of the lava in the monument is andesitic. Pumice, a type of rhyolitic lava, also is found covering the monument; this rained down around 900 years ago during the eruption of Glass Mountain.

The flows from Mammoth and Modoc Craters comprise about two-thirds of the lava in the monument. Over 30 separate lava flows located in the park range in age from 2,000,000 years BP to 1,110 years BP. Some of the major lava flows within Lava Beds National Monument include the Callahan Flow; Schonchin Flow; Mammoth Crater Flow; Modoc Crater Flow; and Devil's Homestead Flow.

Lava fields
Gillem Bluff, a fault scarp, was created as the region stretched and a block of earth dropped down along this fault (see Basin and Range Province). The tuff layer on top of Gillem Bluff is 2,000,000 years old, indicating the rock layers beneath are even older. The oldest lava flow from the Medicine Lake Volcano within the monument is the Basalt of Hovey Point, near Captain Jack's Stronghold, which is 450,000 years old. Petroglyph Point was created about 275,000 years ago when cinders erupted through the shallow water of Tule Lake; violent explosions of ash and steam formed layers upon layers of tuff.

The caldera is thought to have formed by subsidence, during which basalt and andesite were erupted up on the slopes.

Lava tubes

Lava flows dated to about 30,000–40,000 years ago formed most of the lava tubes in the monument. As the hot basaltic lava flowed downhill, the top cooled and crusted over, insulating the rest of the lava and forming lava tubes. Lavacicles on the ceiling of a lava tube were produced as the level of lava in the tube retreated and the viscous lava on the ceiling dripped as it cooled.

Dripstone was created when lava splashed on the inside walls of the tubes. The leaching of minerals from pumice gravel, soils, and overlying rock provides for deposition of secondary speleothems in lava tubes.

Lava Beds National Monument has the largest concentration of lava tubes in North America. One has electrical lighting; the others are illuminated by ceiling collapse portals or require flashlights, available on loan.

Recent activity
A series of small earthquakes in late 1988 has been attributed to subsidence in the caldera.  North-northeast trending ground cracks, as well as north-northeast trending vent series show relationships between tectonism and volcanism. One notable ground crack, the Big Crack, extends along the northeastern boundary of the monument.

Climate
The high elevation, semi-arid desert environment of Lava Beds National Monument receives an average of  of annual precipitation, including  of snowfall. The climate is characterized by warm, dry summers and cold, moderately snowy winters. The monthly daily average temperature ranges from  in December to ; there are 21 days with + highs annually, and 10 days where the high does not rise above freezing. The average window for freezing temperatures is September 23 thru June 7.

Flora and fauna

Flora

The lava tube collapse systems and lava outcrops support a great diversity of plant life, from an impressive variety of lichens and mosses to plants such as desert sweet (Chamaebatiaria millefolium), the aromatic purple desert sage (Salvia dorrii carnosa) and yellow blazing star (Mentzelia laevicaulis).
An impressive variety of fern species are present in cave entrances including the spreading wood fern (Dryopteris expansa) and the western swordfern (Polystichum munitum). These species are well outside of their normal range, which is  west on the northern California coastline.

Fauna
Despite harsh, semi-arid conditions, native wildlife has adapted to the environmental constraints present in the region. There are no terrestrial water resources in Lava Beds National Monument. Some animals obtain water from caves, while others fly about twenty km (12 miles) north to Tule Lake. Federal and state animal species of special concern in the Monument include the Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii), fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes), long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis), long-legged myotis (Myotis volans), pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus), silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivigans), Townsends big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii), western small-footed myotis (Myotis ciliolabrum), and American badger (Taxidea taxus).

Because of a lack of surface water, amphibian presence in the monument is limited. The most common species found in the monument is the Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla). This species is also found in the biologically rich cave entrances in the monument. Reptile species found in the monument include the northern sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus graciosus graciosus), Great Basin fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis biseriatus), western skink (Eumeces skiltonianus skiltonianus), Rocky Mountain rubber boa (Charina bottae utahensis), gopher snake (Pituophis melanoleucus), desert night snake (Hypsiglena torquata deserticola), and western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis).

Key animal species by habitat:
 Bunch grass-sagebrush grasslands: mule deer, gopher snake, coyote, prairie falcon, western meadowlark, Anderson's larkspur, yellow-bellied marmot, kangaroo rat
 Ponderosa-juniper brushlands: pronghorn, bobcat, scrub jay, jackrabbit, mountain bluebird,
 Pine forest: mountain lion, bald eagle (winter resident), golden-mantled ground squirrel
 Rocky lava flows: western fence lizard, western rattlesnake
 Cave mouths and interior passages: violet-green swallow, Brazilian free-tailed bat, Townsend's big-eared bat, Pacific tree frog, pika, bushy-tailed woodrat
 Lake shore areas: skunk, raccoon, great horned owl, short-eared owl.

History

Archeological site
Lava Beds National Monument includes Petroglyph Point, one of the largest panels of Native American rock art in the United States. The region was historically occupied by the Modoc people. The Lava Beds National Monument Archeological District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March 1991.

Modoc War

During the Modoc War of 1872–1873, warriors of a band led by Kintpuash (Captain Jack) used the lava beds as a defensive stronghold to resist being captured and returned to the Klamath Reservation in Oregon, to which they had been removed, as European Americans wanted their lands. The Modoc took refuge in a natural lava fortress that was later named Captain Jack's Stronghold. From this defensive base, a group of 53 fighting men and their families held off US Army forces, amounting to ten times the Modocs' population, for five months.

In April 1873, at a peace commission meeting, Captain Jack killed General Edward Canby while associates killed Reverend Eleazer Smith and wounded two other commissioners. Canby was the only casualty of the Indian Wars who had the rank of general at the time of his death. The Modoc mistakenly thought the Americans would leave if their leaders were killed. Instead Army reinforcements were brought in and the Modoc were eventually forced to surrender. Kintpuash and his associates were convicted of war crimes for the murders, and executed by hanging at Fort Klamath.

Lava Beds Wilderness

The Lava Beds National Wilderness is a  wilderness area within the Lava Beds National Monument.  It was designated by the US Congress on October 13, 1972, with passage of Public Law 92-493.
The wilderness protects more than half of the national monument in two separate eastern and western units. The larger eastern unit contains the extensive Schonchin lava flow on the east side of the monument. The western unit covers the monument's area within the transition zone of the Cascade Range's montane southern end and the arid Modoc Plateau ecosystems.

The different soil types creates plant community diversity in the wilderness area, providing various habitats for a wide range of wildlife. The numerous coyotes and foxes, as well as raptors, feed on rodents such as the jackrabbit and kangaroo rat. The kangaroo rat is especially adapted to waterless environments because it does not need to drink. It obtains water as a byproduct of the oxidation of nutrients in the seeds it eats.

Many raptors are seen in the wilderness area, with 24 species of hawks identified. The monument is located on the Pacific Flyway, and the bald eagle winters in the northern portion of the wilderness area.

The National Park Service manages the Lava Beds wilderness area and has several restrictions in place. Camping is prohibited near cave entrances or trails. Open campfires may be prohibited during very hot and dry weather.

Lava Beds trails
The Lava Beds National Monument has 13 hiking trails, all of which cross or enter the backcountry. The most popular trails are short, but lead to a number of historic sites as to several geological areas within the Lava Beds Wilderness. The long trails are mostly in designated wilderness areas.

These trails are primarily associated with park attractions, especially the Lava Beds geological wilderness, and are sometimes out-and-back day hikes, and in many cases are improved boardwalks and supported with interpretive signs and exhibits.

Monument expansion
The only expansion in the modern era occurred in 2011 when the monument expanded by roughly . An administrative transfer brought two parcels of land which were previously managed by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management into National Park Service management. These two parcels adjoin the Petroglyph Point Unit of the monument.

See also
 List of national monuments of the United States
 Medicine Lake Volcano
 Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway
 List of Klamath Basin birds

References

External links

  of the National Park Service (NPS)
 Park map (NPS)
 "The Life of Lava Beds" (NPS)

Modoc Plateau
National Park Service National Monuments in California
Parks in Siskiyou County, California
Protected areas of Modoc County, California
Volcanic fields of California
Lava fields
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m1 overrides a method m3 (m3 distinct from m1, m3 distinct from m2), such that m3 overrides m2.
Having two methods with the same arguments type and name, but different implementations. One of them would exist in the parent class, while another will be in the derived, or child class.
In above code move is overridden in SlowPoint class.
If a class declares a static method m, then the declaration m is said to hide any method m', where the signature of m is a subsignature of the signature of m', in the superclasses and superinterfaces of the class that would otherwise be accessible to code in the class.
Having two static methods with the same arguments and name, but different implementations. In that case then declaration method in Child Class is hidden by Super Class method.
Invocation of greeting uses the type of s, namely Super, to figure out, at compile time, which class method to invoke.
Invocation of name uses the class of s, namely Sub, to figure out, at run time, which instance method to invoke.
If two methods of a class (whether both declared in the same class, or both inherited by a class, or one declared and one inherited) have the same name but signatures that are not override-equivalent, then the method name is said to be overloaded.
In above example in Class Point we are overloading methodSlowPoint with different argument.
In 2nd example while obj.foo is called foo method from Base and Derived class based on arg type.


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Q: call a function on an element with jQuery I need to call a function on a DOM element automatically. The following code works, but I wonder if there's a better way.
$('#toc > ul > li').first().find('a').each(loadTopic);

My selectors will return exactly one element, so running "each" seems hackish. Is there a better way to call 'loadTopic' on my anchor element?

A: Create simple jquery plugin and call $('#toc > ul > li').first().find('a').myPlugin();

A: Using .each is about as good as it gets here, not least because it automatically passes the native DOM elements from within the jQuery object, and not wrapped up as jQuery objects themselves.  Heck, it even sets this to be that element for you.
You could implement a .call() plugin that only works on the first element in a jQuery object, but it would be kinda pointless...


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In Fahrenheit 451 and beyond, the acclaimed young actor is ready to burn it all down
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byAndy Crump
Some men, as the saying goes, just want to watch the world burn. Michael B. Jordan may not be one of these men — but he sure seems to enjoy playing them.
In a three-month span, Jordan has portrayed two characters with literal and figurative penchants for fire. In February, he brought Erik "Killmonger" Stevens to life in Ryan Coogler's blockbuster Black Panther, while his turn as Guy Montag in Ramin Bahrani's Fahrenheit 451 will premiere Saturday. Both characters are prone to incineration. But while Montag begins as an agent of the system, using literal flames to solidify the government's stranglehold on its citizens, Killmonger is out to burn it all down.
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Montag genuinely loves fire. It's the tool of his trade and an outlet for his natural showmanship. "Damn, it's a pleasure to burn!" he proclaims, as he and his fellow firemen light up a cache of "graffiti." And burn he does. He's a walking incinerator — and a flashy one, playing to his peers as well as to folks watching live via state-run internet.
Meanwhile, deep into Black Panther, Killmonger claims the throne of Wakanda, the sovereign African nation serving as the film's main setting. After he consumes the Heart-Shaped Herb, a mystical plant that imbues him with enhanced physical prowess, he adopts the mantle of the Black Panther, chief and protector of Wakanda and its tribes. But Killmonger isn't a protector — he's a conqueror. And so he has his attendants torch the rest of the crop. "Burn it all!" he commands. He's talking about the herb, but he might as well be talking about the Wakandan world order, too.
Killmonger seeks to upset the establishment. Montag maintains it. But both use flames as the apparatus of their office.
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Pyromania is a wonderful bridge for Jordan's select filmography (recall when he played Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, in Josh Trank's ill-fated Fantastic Four reboot in 2015) — but on a larger scale, it's the fight for social change that defines Jordan's career.
To date, Jordan has served as Coogler's go-to leading man in a loosely connected trilogy of films about lost boys: first, 2013's Fruitvale Station, then 2015's Creed, and most recently Black Panther. Killmonger's arc is considerably more radical than that of Fruitvale Station's Oscar Grant, who was murdered by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer on New Year's Day 2009, and much larger in scale than that of Creed's Adonis "Donnie" Johnson, who wants to prove himself not only as a boxer, but as a man.
All the same, there's kinship between them — three young black men neglected, disregarded, or flat-out executed by American authority. When Killmonger excoriates Wakanda's governors for their failure to stand up for black people in America, he might as well be talking about Grant and Johnson.
Neither Grant nor Johnson set the world on fire, but they did supply the kindling for Killmonger and Montag's rebellions against oppressive power structures. And Jordan, it seems, is no longer content with sparks. With Black Panther and Fahrenheit 451, he has his heart set on infernos.


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Q: Android Scroll view Image and text I am solving a problem with image and text in one scroll view. The main problem is, that I get different image height from server side . But the place with image should be all the time same.
Now the height of image place is dynamic. The text should be scrollable with the image.
Is there any possibility how to make the image height static?
Thank you!

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<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<FrameLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <RelativeLayout
            android:id="@+id/article_gallery"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dip"
            android:layout_weight="4" >

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="horizontal" >

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/article_image_back"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
                    android:src="@drawable/sipka_l" />

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/article_image"
                    android:layout_width="0dip"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
                    android:layout_weight="1" />

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/article_image_next"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
                    android:src="@drawable/sipka_p" />
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            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/image_desc"
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                android:gravity="center"
                android:padding="@dimen/size_8"
                android:textAppearance="@style/xsmallLight" />
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                android:orientation="vertical"
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                <TextView
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                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
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                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/article_body"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:textAppearance="@style/xsmall" />
            </LinearLayout>
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A: If you declare the ImageView with a fixed width and height it will remain static all the time.
Try something like:
 <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView1"
        android:layout_width="50dp"
        android:layout_height="50dp"
/>

Put this ImageView inside a ScrollView and ofcourse put your TextView inside the same ScrollView.

A: you can use layout weights for your linearlayout.  Set the width to 0 and let the weight determine actual size.  Setting weight to 0.33 each gives each images 1/3 of the screen.
Or you could set one to 0.5 and the others to 0.25 each or whatever makes sense for your app.
Set the  3 images as:
      <ImageView
           android:id="@+id/article_image_back"
           android:layout_width="0dp"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:layout_weight="0.33"
           android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
           android:src="@drawable/sipka_l" />


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by Tom Krisher And Dee-Ann Durbin	 | June 5, 2014
GM CEO Mary Barra will be among the executives who will testify in the ignition switch lawsuits faced by the American automaker.Pablo Martinez Monsivais
GM CEO Mary Barra said 15 employees have been fired and five others have been disciplined over the company's failure to disclose a defect with ignition switches that is now linked to at least 13 deaths.
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Barra made the announcement Thursday as she released an internal investigation into the recall of 2.6 million older small cars for defective ignition switches. She didn't immediately name the employees who were dismissed.
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"I hate sharing this with you just as much as you hate hearing it," Barra told employees in a town hall meeting at GM's suburban Detroit technical centre. "But I want you to hear it. I want you to remember it. I want you to never forget it." Barra promised to "fix the failures in our system."
Barra says attorney Anton Valukas interviewed 230 employees and reviewed 41 million documents to produce the report, which also makes recommendations to avoid future safety problems.
GM's ignition switch recall affects nearly 2.6 million vehicles, including the Chevrolet Cobalt. Approximately 235,000 of the affected vehicles are in Canada.
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Depicting the Western Interior Seaway
By Mike| 2020-05-13T10:17:45+00:00	May 13th, 2020|Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal Drawings, Dinosaur Fans, Main Page|0 Comments
Feeding Time for a Tylosaurus
Our thanks to Mark for emailing Everything Dinosaur an illustration depicting life in the Western Interior Seaway around 75 million years ago. Lots of Everything Dinosaur customers all over the world are in lockdown and we have been receiving more prehistoric animal drawings and other artworks than we usually do over the last few weeks. Mark's illustration depicts one of the apex predators of marine environments in the Late Cretaceous, a Tylosaurus (T. proriger) grabbing a marine turtle. The turtle is described as a protostegid turtle (Protostegidae), a representative of an extinct family of marine turtles whose taxonomic position within the Order Testudines remains uncertain. One thing known about this group, which seem to be confined to the Cretaceous, is that some of these protostegids evolved into giants! For example, the largest turtle known to science Archelon (A. ischyros), has been assigned to the Protostegidae. At nearly five metres in length with a flipper span of four metres, Archelon inhabited the northern sector of the Western Interior Seaway during the Late Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Tylosaurus Attacks a Protostegid Turtle (Western Interior Seaway – Late Cretaceous)
An illustration of the Western Interior Seaway in the Late Cretaceous. Surrounded by invertebrates and small fish, the Tylosaurus lunges and grabs the unfortunate turtle, whilst hesperornithiform seabirds go about their business catching squid.
Picture Credit: Mark Massion
In Mark's email he explained:
"Please find enclosed a drawing of the mosasaur, Tylosaurus proriger, attacking a protostegid turtle. This incident is taking place in the Late Cretaceous, Western Interior Sea, in what we now identify as the State of Kansas. Kansas is located in America's Midwest."
The artwork shows a dorsal view (top down) of the scene. The powerful jaws of the mosasaur have grabbed the turtle whilst hesperornithiform seabirds go about their business of catching squid. Our thanks to Mark for sending us this illustration.
Inspired by the "Oceans of Kansas"
Mark went onto explain the inspiration behind his artwork:
"An illustration in Michael J. Everhart's Oceans of Kansas, caught my attention and became the impetus for this drawing. I would like to acknowledge his help and suggestions on how to correctly depict Tylosaurus. In addition, Russell Hawley's superb drawings in Oceans of Kansas also need to be recognised."
Many Artists Have Been Inspired by the Fossil Discoveries from the Marine Sediments of North America
A dramatic scene from the Western Interior Seaway painted by Zdeněk Burian (1905-1981), the Czech artist and illustrator who is credited for playing a pivotal role in the development of prehistoric animal illustration.
Picture Credit: Zdeněk Burian
A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur stated:
"We are always delighted to receive drawings, illustrations and other artworks from fans of prehistory and prehistoric animals. In these uncertain times, with many of our customers in lockdown, doing something creative such as drawing or model making can be very therapeutic and helpful. We have seen a rise in the number of emails we have received which contain the results of these endeavours, we hope that indulging in these creative activities helps to keep people safe and well."
Our thanks once again to Mark for sending in his illustration.


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Our goats eat well. They have grass, bushes, trees and hay available to them all day long. In addition, at around 5 pm each day, we feed them some prepared goat food made largely from grain. They love it! They eat it like it is candy and they squabble and push each other for it. Usually they are waiting for me when I come with their pans with food but today I got everything ready quietly before they noticed. The chickens noticed and were delighted with the unexpected bounty and crowded around to help themselves.
The chickens could not believe their good fortune of getting to the goat food first and they crowded around it eagerly.
I have one food pan out for each nanny plus a pan with special food for the kids in a "creep," which only the little ones can reach. But the nannies aren't content to stick with one pan but rush from one to the other. You might notice the brown nanny, who quickly asserted herself as the dominant one in our little herd, brushing the others aside when she decided to change pans. The others also push each other around, trying not to be the one at the bottom of the heap. Their constant competition to establish themselves in the "pecking order" is apparently very normal among goats but it does bother me some. I always keep a little grain back and offer some by hand to the one or two who get pushed away from their pans. Occasionally I will grab the dominant one by the horns to slow her down when she begins butting the others away too vigorously. She behaves well with me but goes back to her domineering ways as soon as I let go.
Oh well….I'll just have to keep trying to encourage more 'lady-like' behaviour.


The coming of the New Year always brings with it the potential for change and opportunity. I'm not one to make resolutions, more like intentions; because I know my history of follow through, and it's not good. But that mindset is likely a part of my problem. I'm always quick to concede that a battle is over rather than seeing it as an opportunity for a new or revised plan. I grow weary in the waiting and the wanting and wonder if it was merely wishful thinking. Wow… that's a lot of "w" words. But they're not my points. My point of today's blog came to me courtesy of the book and story of Ruth, the Moabite. A Gentile gal chosen by God to be in the lineage of Jesus, a woman with purpose because she just kept going.
She lost her husband… and kept going.
Times were bleak… but she kept going.
She didn't know how or if it would work out… but she kept going.
She didn't know the people in her future… but she kept going.
I have a Ruth personality, but I often times get a Naomi mindset. Naomi was Ruth's mother-in-law who had lost her husband and two sons, she was depressed and frustrated and decided to head back home to Bethlehem. She tried to make Ruth stay with her own family, but Ruth had adopted Naomi as new family and she was going where Naomi was going.
The book of Ruth is just four short chapters. I recommend you read it and not take my word for it, but while you're here with me, let me tell you the impact this story has for me and the coming New Year. I don't talk a lot about the frustrations of life because I don't want to be a discourager. But trust me when I say that I have more than a few. When my jobs quit me… I didn't quit working, God told me to and I didn't listen, so my jobs quit me. Funny thing about your jobs quitting you… so does the income. Huh… who knew! And living on one income isn't fun. But God has done amazing things with nothing. He is the only One who can. I have been provided for in amazing ways. And yet… there's always room for a few woe is me stories. Naomi had a reason to be sad. Her husband had taken her into a land that ended up being a land of famine and then had the nerve to die on her. How rude! Followed by the death of her only other providers, her sons.
So let the rubber meet the road when I say that sometimes things happen because we're not where we're supposed to be. Naomi and her family should have been relying and serving God all along, but they'd chosen another path and so did I. When I finally set into the fact that God wasn't going to allow me to work in the secular world I hit road block after road block and a few stumbling blocks of my own that haven't allowed me to be "The Jesus Chick" to full extent that I desire. But as I approach 2017, the third year in service to the Lord, I approach it with a new mindset.
The plan was a step of faith.
She leapt without the net appearing. That's what faith is. And I need that faith for 2017 as I live bolder and braver for Christ and believe that God's plan is going to come to fruition. I need places to speak, I need place to sing… God knows that. I believe He'll provide. I need to provide an income for my family, not for wants but because a ministry costs money. That's the reality of it. So the net that I'm counting on appearing is a net worth that will allow me to serve God unencumbered by the woes of the mighty dollar.
Ruth's story is one of great purpose. She didn't know it then, it was just life. But look at the impact her life has had. We're still reading of her thousands of years later. She's a grandma to Jesus! She shouldn't have been there, she was a Gentile from a heathen nation of idol worshippers. But she stepped into her purpose in faith and God rewarded her.
When Boaz proposed to Ruth, she had taken some pretty bold moves in the place of the threshing floor. She came in the night and laid down at his feet and ask him to cover her. She didn't want anything that He didn't want for her. She laid her life down, and Boaz bought her from the kinsman who was entitled to her by the culture she was in.
I'm very much living in a world that would have me for dinner and cast me aside if it had its druthers. A ministry for me is the unknown. It's just laying myself at the feet of Jesus and saying Lord, if You don't cover me, the world's going to bury me. It takes a strength that I don't personally have to step out and say, I'm the Jesus Chick. I believe that Ruth was saying "I'm Boaz's chick" if he'll have me. And he did. And the rest as they say is written in the book.
Are you living in God's plan and purpose? Has He made a proposal for you, and have you accepted. That proposal starts with salvation… but then it continues with the plan of action. What potential lies before you in 2017?
I read that headline and thought… "Wow Shari, that ain't very Christmassy!" And it's not, but it is real. And I like being real so long as it doesn't take me to a dark place that leaves me and everyone else feeling worse than when we began. I love encouraging people. But I also feel that there are times when we need to take a look within and 'clean the house before company comes,' just like we do during the Holidays.
Holidays are a time that many families put aside petty differences for the sake of the season and bury the hatchet in the holiday ham rather than their brother in law's head. But what about the church? Believe me when I tell you that I had to do a little holiday cleaning there myself this week. So it brought me to this blog to perhaps help myself and hopefully a few others understanding the spiritual impact of judges, grudges and smudges in the church.
These three culprits undermine the work of the Lord every day in churches across the land.
But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Judging is so easy and it sneaks up on you before you even know it!
I wonder if you didn't have an image of someone's face run through your mind as you read the bullet points. I did. Doggone it, why is that? Because we're human and the flesh will rise again and again. But it's our job to put it back in it's place. And that place is yielded to the Holy Spirit. The scriptures says that we're to give an "account of himself to God." Not tattle to God and every one else in the congregation about what little sister seatsaver did that you thought was offensive. What is it that you've done that you need the mercy of God for.
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. Let not then your good be evil spoken of: For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
So what if they eat pork. That comment goes a lot deeper. It says so what if they're opinion differs from yours. So they didn't vote like you do. Dress like you do. Eat like you do. If you're vocal about your Christianity then you better know what the word says about it. God had said that eating the meats that had once been forbidden for the Jews was now okay. But some couldn't get past the traditions of the law. And Paul said if it causes them to stumble and have evil thoughts, I just won't eat it in front of them. Better that than cause an argument. For me this brought to mind a political ideal that when it comes to Christmas dinner, it might be better just to eat the fish than cause someone to eat crow. Leave the election out of holiday conversation.
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Paul's asking the Romans. Are you a Christian only before God, and not before others? If in tearing someone apart for what they believe in you destroy your relationship with them and your impact for Christ, what have you gotten accomplished for the good of the Kingdom? Everyone sins. Everyone has need of mercy and grace. It shouldn't just be at Christmas but it sure wouldn't hurt to keep that in mind at Christmas dinners.
It's a rare day when I have silence in the house. I'm not complaining… just stating a fact. I have a happy, busy home with a revolving door of guests. But the busyness at Christmas shoots to a mock ninety decibel (meaning it's both fast and loud). There's not enough time in the day to accomplish the tasks at hand, or there not enough mind in my head, that may be a more accurate description. It just gets crazy! But this morning I'm enjoying one of those rare moments of time where it's just me and Jesus, and we got our own thing goin' this morning. While I'm here I'm searching for Christmas in the chaos.
I want a "Mary" Christmas. And no, spellcheck didn't fail me. There are three notable Mary's in scripture that have my mind affixed on how I'd like my Christmas to be.
The chosen mother to the Christ child who had obedience without question. Wouldn't that be a wonderful gift to give God in celebration of His birth. I struggle. I heard a statement from Steven Furtick (Pastor of Elevation Church) this morning who said "How many know that every time your heart tries to have faith, your mind tries to makes sense?" There would have been no sense to make of Mary's decision. It was a done deal with God and with her. She had been dealt that lot and had taken it on as a factual gift in obedience.
It' likely did not stop her mind from going places it shouldn't go. Like… "how on earth am I going to explain this to Joseph, my parents, my friends. During those days of others questioning her purity her mind had to have wondered why obedience had gotten her into such a trying place. But there's no word of that in the scripture, only speculation on my heart. God just mentions her goodness, as if to say… leave her alone. She did as she was ask… you could learn.
Mary Magdalene whom Jesus had healed of evil spirits had a wonderful Christmas Spirit about her. She loved to be around Jesus, she was found in service to Jesus and it was she who was found at His tomb to anoint His body. She told the disciples that she had seen the Lord after His resurrection. She was a busy woman! Not just during the holiday season but every day of the week because she was so thankful for having been healed of that terrible feeling inside. I should be so thankful. My busyness it's just often that… busyness. Without purpose. Just a point "A" to point "B" kind of days. Every day of my life should be lived with the purpose of glorifying and serving Christ for taking that evil spirit that caused me such heartache and misery away.
Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, who was also the same who anointed Jesus feet with the oil of the Alabaster box and wiped His feet with her hair. She who knew the power of worship and the worthiness of sacrifice. She aggravated the religious who seen her worship as a waste of money. What greater spirit of Christmas could there be than one who is willing to spare no expense for her Lord and Savior. It wasn't about the money, it was about the sacrificial gift. Religious people try to make sense of faith, and it can't be done.
So this morning while I went search for Christmas in the chaos I found my Mary Christmas, having a heart's desire to live obedient, willing to not ask why… with a servants heart, willing to not ask how… and heart of sacrificial worship, willing to not ask when or where, just willing to be ready. The beautiful gift of Christmas came at the expense of the cross. Help me to keep that in view.


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Reviews favourable for 2nd Hobbit film
11:30am Dec 8, 2013
International critics are praising Sir Peter Jackson's second instalment of the Hobbit trilogy.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug premiered in Los Angeles on Monday and will be released at Australian cinemas on Boxing Day.
The first Hobbit movie was widely criticised for its slow pace.
The Hollywood Reporter writer Todd McCarthy said nearly everything about the second movie was an improvement over the first.
"Jackson gets the drama in gear here from the outset with a sense of storytelling that possesses palpable energy and purpose."
However, he said towards the end of the 161 minute film the director's "tendency to let bloat creep in reasserts itself ... he has a hard time knowing when enough is enough even as the three-hour goalpost looms dead ahead."
Empire magazine gave the film five stars.
"A huge improvement on the previous instalment, this takes our adventurers into uncharted territory and delivers spectacle by the ton," Nick de Semlyen wrote.
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave the film four out of five stars describing it as a "cheerfully entertaining and exhilarating adventure tale".
Variety's Justin Chang said: "After a bumpy beginning with An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy finds its footing in this much more exciting and purposeful second chapter."
Time Magazine said the movie was one of the top ten films of the year describing it as a "vigorous and thrilling middle episode".
However, not all reviews were favourable.
Robbie Collins of the Telegraph gave the film two out of five stars and described it as a "weary take on J R R Tolkien's playful children's book".
Though, he said Jackson's recreation of Middle Earth was "unimpeachable".
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