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It's a simple way to make certain you earn at least 800 2K19 MT every day. If you are concerned about your console being on daily, all you need to do is set it to go into sleep mode after being idle for two hours. The simulation doesn't take that much time to finish.
If you're home, but simply can't get about the sticks at the time, you can potentially sim via many of games earning 400 VC each time. If you finish an entire MyLeague season using this plan, you may earn yourself 24,600 VC.
If you are whining about VC and don't have the FREE MyNBA 2K19 application on your phone, you're just like a thirsty man at a water fountain that won't push the little button to have a drink.
The program practically provides you VC for simply logging on. You will find forecast games based on the real NBA that you can play too, and people carry more VC earning choices. It is possible to earn as much as 1,000 VC per day.
Last year's game featured 38 episodes of 2KTV. Every one of these episodes gives gamers an opportunity to make VC for answering questions and participating in polls. You can generally earn close to 400 VC from the series, and it's pretty enlightening overall.
The series runs after a week. In case you used all three of those strategies in concert, then you can realistically earn 13,000 VC a week without playing one game. That is not even counting everything it is possible to earn from picking up the controller and actually playing any of those VC-earning modes.
NBA 2K19 might play brightly, but its own off-the-court problems get in the way of its own success. The game provides a huge simulation of the game, with dazzling demonstration to match along with also a renewed focus on the inner-city roots that lots of NBA athletes share reddit game discuss. Subsequently developer Visual Concepts takes this otherwise stellar game onto a detour toward microtransactions.
The NBA 2K series was on this route for years, but its emphasis on microtransactions reaches a new peak in NBA 2K19. Often it feels like the better bits of the game -- of which there are lots -- becoming lost in its own obsession with squeezing more money out of its players.


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Dorothy Andersen (1901–1963)
Dorothy Andersen studied cystic fibrosis in the United States during the early 1900s. In 1935, Andersen discovered lesions in the pancreas of an infant during an autopsy, which led her to classify a condition she named cystic fibrosis of the pancreas. In 1938, Andersen became the first to thoroughly describe symptoms of the medical condition cystic fibrosis.
Subject: People
Leon Chesley (1908-2000)
Leon Chesley studied hypertension, or high blood pressure, in pregnant women during the mid-twentieth century. Chesley studied preeclampsia and eclampsia, two hypertensive disorders found in approximately five percent of all US pregnancies. In New Jersey and New York, Chesley devoted over forty years to researching preeclampsia and eclampsia. Chesley conducted several long-term studies using the same group of women beginning from their pregnancies.
Subject: People, Reproduction
"The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology" (1984), by Dante Cicchetti
In 1984, Dante Cicchetti published "The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology," an article in which he argued that the previously amorphous study of developmental psychopathology was emerging as a unified discipline. According to Cicchetti, developmental psychopathology describes an interdisciplinary field that studies abnormalities in psychological function that can arise during human development.
"Of Pregnancy and Progeny" (1980), by Norbert Freinkel
Norbert Freinkel's lecture Of Pregnancy and Progeny was published by the American Diabetes Association's journal Diabetes in December of 1980. In the lecture, Freinkel argued that pregnancy changes the way that the female body breaks down and uses food. Through experiments that involved pregnant women as well as infants, Freinkel established the body's maternal metabolism and how it affects both the mother and the infant. Freinkel's main focus of research in the latter part of his life was diabetes, specifically in pregnant women.
Zhang Lizhu (1921- )
Zhang Lizhu is a Chinese gynecologist and researcher. For most of her career, she worked in the Peking Medical College Third Hospital, renamed in 2000, Peking University Third Hospital. There, she led a team of researchers and physicians in the study of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer (ET) technology. Zhang and her colleagues contributed to the birth of the first test-tube baby in Mainland China in 1988.
Wilhelm Johannsen's Genotype-Phenotype Distinction
Wilhelm Johannsen in Denmark first proposed the distinction between genotype and phenotype in the study of heredity in 1909. This distinction is between the hereditary dispositions of organisms (their genotypes) and the ways in which those dispositions manifest themselves in the physical characteristics of those organisms (their phenotypes). This distinction was an outgrowth of Johannsen's experiments concerning heritable variation in plants, and it influenced his pure line theory of heredity.
Subject: Theories
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen (1857-1927)
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen studied plants and helped found the field of genetics, contributing methods and concepts to the study of heredity around the turn of the twentieth century in Denmark. His experiments on heredity and variation in plants influenced the methods and techniques of geneticists, and his distinction between the genotype of an organism-its hereditary disposition-and its phenotype-its observable characteristics-remains at the core of contemporary biology. Johannsen criticized biological explanations that relied on concepts such as vitalism and teleology.
Golden Rice
Golden Rice was engineered from normal rice by Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer in the 1990s to help improve human health. Golden Rice has an engineered multi-gene biochemical pathway in its genome. This pathway produces beta-carotene, a molecule that becomes vitamin A when metabolized by humans. Ingo Potrykus worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and Peter Beyer worked at University of Freiburg, in Freiburg, Germany. The US Rockefeller Foundation supported their collaboration.
Subject: Organisms, Legal
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004)
Francis Harry Compton Crick, who co-discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953 in Cambridge, England, also developed The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, and further clarified the relationship between nucleotides and protein synthesis. Crick received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine that he shared with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for their discovery of the molecular structure of DNA.
Social Implications of Non-Invasive Blood Tests to Determine the Sex of Fetuses
By 2011, researchers in the US had established that non-invasive blood tests can accurately determine the gender of a human fetus as early as seven weeks after fertilization. Experts predicted that this ability may encourage the use of prenatal sex screening tests by women interested to know the gender of their fetuses. As more people begin to use non-invasive blood tests that accurately determine the sex of the fetus at 7 weeks, many ethical questions pertaining to regulation, the consequences of gender-imbalanced societies, and altered meanings of the parent-child relationship.
Subject: Reproduction, Ethics, Legal
My Father, My Son (1986), by Elmo Zumwalt, Jr., Elmo Zumwalt III, and John Pekkanen
My Father, My Son is a dual autobiography by father and son Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. and Elmo Russell Zumwalt III published by Macmillan Publishing Company in 1986, detailing their experiences during the Vietnam War and particularly with Agent Orange, an herbicide used for defoliation and crop destruction during the war. As a commander in the Navy, Zumwalt Jr. ordered the use of Agent Orange in South Vietnam, where Zumwalt III was stationed.
Estrogen and the Menstrual Cycle in Humans
Estrogen is the primary sex hormone in women and it functions during the reproductive menstrual cycle. Women have three major types of estrogen: estrone, estradiol, and estriol, which bind to and activate receptors within the body. Researchers discovered the three types of estrogen over a period of seven years, contributing to more detailed descriptions of the menstrual cycle. Each type of estrogen molecule contains a slightly different arrangement or number of atoms that in turn causes some of the estrogens to be more active than others.
Subject: Theories, Reproduction
Kass v. Kass (1998)
In Maureen Kass v. Steven Kass (1998), the Court of Appeals of New York in Albany, New York, ruled that the state should generally consider IVF consent forms signed by participants in an in vitro fertilization (IVF) program valid, binding, and enforceable in the event of a dispute. The court indicated that decisions regarding the handling of cryopreserved pre-zygotes, often called preembryos, contained within these consent forms should be upheld.
Subject: Legal
Twice Born–Stories from the Special Delivery Unit (2015), by the Public Broadcasting Service and Trailblazer Studios
In 2015, the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS, released a three-part documentary series, Twice Born–Stories from the Special Delivery Unit, hereafter Twice Born, that follows several pregnant women and their experiences with fetal surgery. Trailblazer Studios produced the film, which predominantly features two women, although it includes the stories of many women. The two main women are pregnant with fetuses diagnosed with physical deformities. One woman's fetus is diagnosed with spina bifida, an incomplete closure of the fetus's spinal column.
Christian Peeters and Bert Hölldobler's Experiments on Reproduction in Indian Jumping Ants (1991–1994)
Between 1991 and 1994, Christian Peeters and Bert Hölldobler studied the reproductive behaviors of the Indian jumping ant (Harpegnathos saltator), a species native to southern India. They conducted experiments as part of a larger investigation into conflict and reproductive behavior among ants. Peeters and Hölldobler discovered that Indian jumping ant colonies contained both sexually reproductive workers and egg-laying queens. In most other species of ant, the queens are the only sexually reproductive individuals.
Subject: Experiments
Edward Charles Dodds (1899-1973)
Edward Charles Dodds researched the function and effects of natural and artificial hormones on the endocrine system in England during the twentieth century. Though he first worked with hormones such as insulin, Dodds focused on the effects of estrogen in the body and how to replicate those effects with artificial substances. In 1938, along with chemist Robert Robinson, Dodds synthesized the first synthetic estrogen called diethylstilbestrol.
Leonard Colebrook (1883–1967)
Leonard Colebrook was a physician who researched bacteria and infections in England during the twentieth century. In 1936, Colebrook deployed the antibiotic Prontosil to treat puerperal fever, a disorder that results from bacterial infections in the uterine tracts of women after childbirth or abortions. Colebrook also advanced care for burn patients by advocating for the creation of burn units in hospitals and by using antisepsis medication for burn wound infections. Colebrook's work on treatments for puerperal fever reduced cases of puerperal fever throughout the world.
Symptoms Associated with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
Polycystic ovarian syndrome or PCOS is one of the most common reproductive conditions in women, and its symptoms include cystic ovaries, menstrual irregularities, and elevated androgen or male sex hormone levels. During the 1930s, Irving Freiler Stein and Michael Leventhal identified the syndrome and its symptoms. Women who experience symptoms of PCOS may also experience secondary symptoms, including infertility and diabetes. Though estimates vary and the causes of the syndrome are not clear as of 2017, PCOS affects approximately ten percent of women of reproductive age.
Subject: Disorders
China's First Baby Conceived through In Vitro Fertilization-Embryonic Transfer, by Zhang Lizhu's Research Team
On 10 March 1988, China's first baby conceived through human in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer (ET), commonly referred to as a test-tube baby, was born at the Peking Hospital (PUTH) in Beijing. This birth was reported in numerous media reports as a huge step forward in China's long march to keep pace with global advances in science and technology. Led by gynecologist Zhang Lizhu, the PUTH research team had devoted more than four years to the human IVF-ET project.
Subject: Experiments, Reproduction
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840)
In eighteenth century Germany, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach studied how individuals within a species vary, and to explain such variations, he proposed that a force operates on organisms as they develop. Blumenbach used metrical methods to study the history of humans, but he was also a natural historian and theorist. Blumenbach argued for theories of the transformation of species, or the claim that new species can develop from existing forms.
US Regulatory Response to Thalidomide (1950-2000)
Thalidomide, a drug capable of causing fetal abnormalities (teratogen), has caused greater than ten thousand birth defects worldwide since its introduction to the market as a pharmaceutical agent. Prior to discovering thalidomide's teratogenic effects in the early 1960s, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not place regulations on drug approval or monitoring as it later did. By 1962, approximately 20,000 patients in the US had taken thalidomide as part of an unregulated clinical trial before any actions were taken to stop thalidomide's distribution.
Subject: Legal, Reproduction
Theodora (Theo) Emily Colborn (1927-2014)
Theodora Colborn studied how chemicals affect organisms as they develop and reproduce during the twentieth and twenty first centuries in the US. By the 1940s, researchers had reported that chemicals from agricultural and industrial processes affected how wild organisms developed, but in 1991, Colborn organized the Wingspread Conference in Racine, Wisconsin, at which a group of scientists classed these chemicals as environmentally harmful substances. Colborn and her colleagues called those chemicals endocrine disruptors, as they mimic or block the body's endocrine system.
Hormone Releasing Intrauterine Devices
Hormone releasing intrauterine devices or hormonal IUDs are contraceptive devices placed in a woman's uterus to prevent pregnancy by continuously releasing a low dose of certain hormones. Jouri Valter Tapani Luukkainen, a medical researcher at the University of Helsinki, introduced the first hormonal IUD in 1976. Luukkainen's IUD was a plastic device shaped like a capital T.
Subject: Technologies
William Thomas Astbury (1898–1961)
William Thomas Astbury studied the structures of fibrous materials, including fabrics, proteins, and deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, in England during the twentieth century. Astbury employed X-ray crystallography, a technique in which scientists use X-rays to learn about the molecular structures of materials. Astbury worked at a time when scientists had not yet identified DNA's structure or function in genes, the genetic components responsible for how organisms develop and reproduce. He was one of the first scientists to use X-ray crystallography to study the structure of DNA.
"A Proposed Structure for the Nucleic Acids" (1953) by Linus Pauling and Robert Brainard Corey
In February 1953, Linus Pauling and Robert Brainard Corey, two scientists working at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, proposed a structure for deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, in their article "A Proposed Structure for the Nucleic Acids," henceforth "Nucleic Acids." In the article, Pauling and Corey suggest a model for nucleic acids, including DNA, that consisted of three nucleic acid strands wound together in a triple helix.

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Ice Cream Man #1 carries a wholesome, friendly scoop of weird and strange wonder that you just can't turn away from. The new series from Image was one of the comics that we at Geek were looking forward to. It was unquestionably worth the wait. Written by W. Maxwell Prince with art by Martin Morazzo, colors by Chris O' Halloran and letters by Good Old Neon, Ice Cream Man #1 is a different format for the publisher, taking on a bizarre yet crafty set of one-shot stories intertwined by one character, The Ice Cream Man.
Ice Cream Man #1 guides us into our first set of stories inside the home of a little boy and his pet spider. Two detectives are called to his home once its discovered his parents are missing, but are in for something they certainly didn't expect. It's tough to describe the first issue without giving away some of the 'what the actual hell' moments. It's safe to say that you should go into this comic with your mind open to the possibilities. You'll come out of it not knowing what just happened and where it'll go next.
W. Maxwell Prince pens a story that reads of X-Files meets Twilight Zone. Again, you don't know what's happening, but you're totally along for the ride. Prince sets up the anthology driven universe of what the comic will become. He sets it up for almost a monster of the week type focus, with the realm and reality of human suffering along the way. I hope that's what it becomes. Prince brings a new and different type of voice in that perspective. We don't stay on characters for too long and linger, but bringing along various conditions, situations and dealings wherever the Ice Cream Man goes and comes across. This brings us to the most compelling and probably the first mystery of the comic, The Ice Cream Man himself.
I swear to you, I thought I wasn't going to focus on The Ice Cream Man as much as I did. He's such a hypnotizing and puzzling mystery. There's obviously something unusual yet extraordinary about him. He knows more than he lets on which makes him all the more spellbinding. His presence in the comic is felt instantly as he weaves you in and out of the story. Prince writes him like Rod Serling (Twilight Zone) or John Newland (One Step Beyond). A host of sorts that takes you by the hand into their world. However, The Ice Cream Man is a narrator who is an unexplainable and bizarre being that clever with what he says, and you're compelled to follow him like the pied piper.
Martin Mazarro has an incredible art style that highlights the absolute oddity that is this world with such delicacy. Mazarro's rich and expressive art brings you into the details, especially when it comes to the small details that carry the story from panel to panel. One thing that's skillfully done and not very noticeable about Mazarro's art is that he's very skilled with action from panel to panel. Mazarro cuts on the movement to show you a different perspective. He uses the panels as a cinematographer.
In the panels above, as we're introduced to Detective Jialeou Hawn (5V). We zoom into her perspective until she's tight in the shot. Wide, medium, close. Mazarro aims his pencils perfectly giving us various angels of shots that introduce you to the character, but also lets us into what she's thinking. I know you didn't come here for Film 101 and I can go all day. Mazarro creates something astonishing in the pages of Ice Cream Man that will only get better.
You'd think a comic as bizarre as this, there would be outlandish and wacky colors, but it's quite the opposite. Chris O'Halloran brings natural lights and shadows to this comic stepping over into fantasy for a minute. He envokes a mood of normalcy on the surface as weird stuff happens when the sunsets and darkness reigns. Good Old Neon's letters help bring out the strange, never once overshadowing Mazarro's art. Good Old Neon enhances the cinematic movements of his pencils as they draw your eyes from panel to panel effortlessly.
Ice Cream Man #1 is going to be out of this world, and you'll want to be apart of it. Not only will we see some abnormal and uncanny characters, but more of The Ice Cream Man to guide us through. You'll want a scoop of this comic because we're in for a treat. Ice Cream Man #1 is available now on Comixology and your local comic shop.
01/17/18 Releases – In addition to Ice Cream Man #1, here's a list of other new titles that came out this week that you should be reading.


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Ballarat Environment Network
The Ballarat Environment Network (BEN) was formed in 1993 as an initiative arising from the 1991 Ballarat Region Conservation Strategy. The strategy identified the need for an umbrella organisation for the many environment and conservation-focused groups that existed in the Ballarat region. At that time, the region was identified as the area covered by the City of Ballarat, the Borough of Sebastopol and the Shires of Ballarat, Creswick, Bungaree, Buninyong and Grenville.
Since that time, the area of influence of BEN has expanded considerably. The region where BEN is active is a broad area of central and southern Victoria that stretches from Ararat in the west to Bacchus Marsh in the east and from Avoca and Daylesford in the north to Bannockburn and Colac in the south. It includes the municipalities of Ballarat City and Ararat Rural City and Hepburn, Pyrenees, Corangamite, Golden Plains, Colac-Otway and Moorabool Shires as well as parts of the areas covered by the North Central, Corangamite, Glenelg Hopkins and Port Phillip Catchment Management Authorities.
BEN manages 50 public reserves covering over 800 hectares for their biodiversity and conservation values, mostly in partnership with local groups.


Currently, the only way that hair stylists can make tresses go from brunette to blonde is with hydrogen peroxide, a destructive chemical that can leave locks lifeless. But to the rescue come scientists from Japan, who have found a natural enzyme that can do the job without collateral damage (www.acs.org).
At a meeting of the American Chemical Society, Kenzo Koike, Ph.D., explained that scientists went on a quest for milder bleaching agents. He found an enzyme from a type of white-rot fungus that naturally degrades melanin in hair in laboratory tests. Melanin is the pigment responsible for making hair dark.
•I think this is the first enzyme found that degrades melanin,• he says, adding that it could be added to traditional hair bleaches to prevent hair damage, leading to hair care products that use less hydrogen peroxide.
Koike is working on integrating it into conventional peroxide hair bleaches. Because the enzyme needs hydrogen peroxide to complete a chemical reaction, a small amount of peroxide is needed for a product to work. So far, researchers are hindered by having access to only small amounts of the enzyme - a setback they expect to resolve and move ahead with further tests, including clinical trials on humans.


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Hunting faces a crisis of its own making
This year more than 2.3 million acres of land have been denied to the hunts to use for their so-called 'sport', animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports has revealed.
Throughout 2020 the League has been lobbying landowners to withdraw permission for 'trail' hunting to take place on their land, as we've long known it's a smokescreen for real hunting.
And thanks to a co-ordinated effort by anti-hunting groups including the League following the leak of two training webinars from the Hunting Office, and a commitment from the police to investigate the webinar contents, landowners have been suspending trail hunting from swathes of England and Wales.
In those webinars members of hunting's top brass echo the League's own words, seeming to describe trail hunting as a "smokescreen" for chasing and killing wild animals with dogs – something that's supposed to have been illegal for 15 years.
Chris Luffingham, the League's campaign director, said: "As we near what should have been the ceremonial centre-piece of the hunting calendar, hunting is facing a crisis almost entirely of its own making.
"Not only do they seem to admit that what we've been saying for years is true, but now the public also knows what a sham trail hunting actually is.
"We have to commend Forestry England, the National Trust, United Utilities, Natural Resources Wales, Stefan Persson of H&M, the Church of England and the Lake District National Park for suspending trail hunting on their land.
"We also have to thank Petersborough Town Council and Cheshire East and Chester Council for following suit. We have written to some 80 other councils in England and Wales in the run-up to Boxing Day to urge them to tell us they will not allow trail hunting on their land."
Polling carried out by Survation and released today by the League shows 69 per cent of respondents who read an excerpt from one of the webinars believe trail hunting should be banned.
And just 25 per cent think hunting should qualify as a 'sport' in order to be exempt from the rule of six in those tier areas where that rule still applies.
Mr Luffingham added: "This polling shows there can be no doubt that trail hunting is not credible as a pastime in the eyes of the general public, and as such we strongly urge landowners to make their bans permanent and for policy makers to strengthen the Hunting Act."
Full polling tables can be found here.
To arrange interviews, or for more information, contact Emma Judd on 07494399074.
The League Against Cruel Sports is Britain's leading charity that works to stop animals being persecuted, abused and killed for sport. The League was instrumental in helping bring about the landmark Hunting Act. We carry out investigations to expose law-breaking and cruelty to animals and campaign for stronger animal protection laws and penalties. We work to change attitudes and behaviour through education and manage sanctuaries to protect wildlife. Find out more about our work at www.league.org.uk. Registered charity in England and Wales (no.1095234) and Scotland (no.SC045533).


Six letters that define so much of our waking lives.
If they are not there on the screen in front of you, chances are they are only a click away. In some ways, these six letters are a triumph of design. They're wired into our brains, replicated on keyboards, phones and tablets across the world – and have changed very little since Milwaukee port official Christopher Sholes used the layout to stop mechanical levers jamming on a 19th-Century typewriter.
In another sense, though, the over 140 years of continuity embodied in keyboards show a strange tension at work behind technology's claims of progress and perfectibility. And it's the same for other interfaces. The mice or mouse attached to almost every desktop system in the world still conforms to the same essential design set out in the 1965 paper on "computer-aided display controller" that coined the term.
Even touchscreens ape established layouts and conventions. Appropriately enough, the name for this inertia is the "qwerty phenomenon. Some things simply seem to be too deeply and universally engrained to be susceptible to change, even if there would be numerous advantages in doing so.
The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, patented in 1936, is the only other option with any global following. Yet, it's not just the physical conventions locked into our devices that matter, but the assumptions bound up with them – and the way these assumptions define as well as serve our purposes. Take the way these six letters encourage us to treat our hands.
The 27 bones, over 60 muscles and tendons, and three nerves of the human hand are sensitive to minute variations in pressure, velocity, position, temperature and texture. They are effortlessly able to execute three-dimensional maneuvers while sensing and responding to all of these. Yet, in computing terms, all this incredible bandwidth is usually funnelled into tapping on keys able to recognize only two information states – on and off. Even the most advanced touchscreen is barely able to register five fingers' worth of contact points on its textures, depthless surface.


One of the ways that we live into our design as human beings is when we give our word and then keep our word – that is when we do what we say we will do when we said we will do it and in the way it was meant to be done. It is easy to see this way of living is workable- our lives and relationships function better when we have this kind of integrity.
We also believe that God calls us to give our word to things that are larger than we can accomplish on our own. Sometimes he asks us to give our word to the transformation of families, neighborhoods, workplaces, communities and nations even when we can't see how we will be able to keep our word and will spend the rest of our lives learning to live into the word we have given. God is calling us to join him in his mission to reconcile the world to himself and to restore it to his design. When we say yes to him, He will take us to places we have never been and will teach us to walk by faith, which happens to be how we were designed.


We have defined a textbox custom field with a maximum length of 512, number of columns of 76, and number of rows of 3. When we change the value of the field on the view screen, it does seem to enforce the maximum length of 512. However, it doesn't on the edit screen. Are we missing something or is this a bug?


VIVOTEK brings its state-of-the-art technology to an even wider circle of users, with the launch of the ND8322P, Embedded Plug & Play NVR, allowing even small-scale operations to enjoy the benefits of VIVOTEK's advanced systems.
Dahua Technology, a manufacturer and supplier of video surveillance products headquartered in Hangzhou, China improves security for Bank Central Asia in Indonesia.
Dahua Technology, one of the world-leading manufacturers and suppliers of video surveillance products headquartered in Hangzhou, China successfully secured Brazil's Presidential Palace.


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Q: How do access a value from Context.Consumer with recompose? Im passing some data with React Context API
and I try to access it from inside a recompose methods
In what way do you access Consumer's data with recompose?
import React from "react";
import { MyContext } from "./index";
import { fromRenderProps, withProps, compose } from "recompose";

const enhance = compose(
    /**
     * @todo add 'Mr.' to each name
     */
    withProps(/** How do I get "names" from Consumer here? */)
);

const GrandChild = props => {
    return (
        <MyContext.Consumer>
            {names => {
                console.log(names)
                return (

GrandChild

                        {names.map((name, index) => (
{name}
))}

                );
            }}
        </MyContext.Consumer>
    );
};

export default enhance(GrandChild);

live code:
https://codesandbox.io/s/k0xm2vlw8r

A: Here is one way to solve this:
GrandChild.js
import React from "react";
import { MyContext } from "./index";
import { withProps, compose } from "recompose";

const enhance = compose(
  withProps(({ names }) => ({ reshapedNames: ["this first", ...names] }))
);

const GrandChild = props => {
  return (

GrandChild

      {props.reshapedNames.map((name, index) => (

{name}

      ))}

  );
};
const EnhancedGrandChild = enhance(GrandChild);
const EnhancedGrandChildWithContext = props => {
  return (
    <MyContext.Consumer>
      {names => <EnhancedGrandChild names={names} {...props} />}
    </MyContext.Consumer>
  );
};
export default EnhancedGrandChildWithContext;

Just adds a separate layer to provide the context.
Here's the CodeSandbox:

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Federal Archives | Page 2 of 2 | Fort Worth Criminal Defense, Personal Injury, and Family Law
Hindering Apprehension for a Sealed Federal Charge
By Brandon Barnett | Criminal Defense
"Run, Baby, Run!" Girlfriend's Warnings, Personal Tattoos, and Attempts to Flee From US Marshals, Do Not Rise to the Level of "Felony Hindering Apprehension" Says the CCA
Keiona Nowlin and her boyfriend, Demarcus Degrate, were riding in a car when a United States Marshal, executing a sealed, federal warrant on the boyfriend, pulled up behind them. After the Marshal activated the siren and lights, the couple pulled over and Degrate fled on foot. The Marshal chased Degrate. Moments later, as two Marshals arrived at the scene, they observed Nowlin screaming, "Run baby run…get away" while she also fled on foot. The Marshals detained Nowlin "to find out why she was running." At that point, Nowlin fled the Marshals' car. Nowlin was placed under arrest for escape.
See the CCA Opinion in Nowlin v. State.
After the arrest, Nowlin said she "knew the cars the Marshals drove…and…did not want Degrate to be arrested…[because] he was out on bond for state charges." The Marshal noted that Nowlin had Degrate's name tattooed near her collarbone; the trial court inferred the tattoo as indicative of an intimate relationship. The trial court found Nowlin guilty of third-degree felony hindering apprehension, sentencing her to four years imprisonment.
Nowlin appealed to the court of appeals, arguing that she was not warning Degrate of impending apprehension because "he was already aware of the [Marshal's] presence." Nowlin contended that because she did not know the contents of the sealed federal warrant, she could not have known Degrate was charged with a felony. The court of appeals disagreed, holding that her statement at the scene, "run baby run…get away," provided sufficient evidence of providing a warning to Degrate. The court of appeals pointed to statements made at the scene that she knew "he was out on bond for state charges…and…she did not want her man to get arrested." The court of appeals added that her tattoo was proof of her close relationship with Degrate, and that she likely knew of the felony-level charges he was facing.
Nowlin appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals, arguing that because the federal indictment was sealed and secret, she could not have known about the indictment itself; that no evidence exists that she knew of the felony-level charges Degrate faced; and, that her tattoo was not proof of a close relationship where she would have had knowledge of the charges. The State argues that the evidence was sufficient: that the tattoo is evidence of a close relationship that implies she knew intimate details of Degrate's life; that she knew Degrate faced serious state-level charges, and that her attempt to flee from the US Marshal is evidence of her knowledge of the "serious nature of Degrate's crimes." In an interesting turn of events, the State offered an alternative to acquittal–that an alternative charge could be misdemeanor-level hindering apprehension, and the sentence could be amended to reflect a lesser charge.
"In order to show that the evidence presented was legally sufficient to support a conviction of felony hindering apprehension, the State must prove:
the defendant warned another person of impending discovery or apprehension;
the defendant had the intent to hinder that individual's arrest; and,
the defendant had knowledge that the individual was under arrest for, charged with, or convicted of a felony.
Tex.Penal Code § 38.05(a), (d).
An individual acts with knowledge when he is aware that the circumstances exist. Tex. Penal Code § 6.03(b). In a nutshell, the State must show Nowlin was aware that her boyfriend was under arrest for, charged with, or convicted of a felony. The Court of Criminal Appeals ("CCA") now decides whether the evidence is sufficient to show that Nowlin knew Degrate was charged with a felony offense.
Here, the CCA does not agree with the trial court and court of appeals. "The state offense that Degrate was on bond for cannot serve as the basis for [Nowlin's] conviction." The CCA notes that there was no evidence at trial that named the type and level of the state offense, therefore, the trial court had no way of knowing if the offense was a felony or not. Also, there was no mention of whether Nowlin knew what type of charge her boyfriend was facing. Therefore, because there was insufficient evidence regarding the state offense, the state offense cannot serve as the basis for Nowlin's conviction.
Further, Degrate's federal indictment was sealed. There was no way for Nowlin and Degrate to know about the charges before their arrests. "With this mandated secrecy and the lack of evidence that he was told about the indictment during the attempt to arrest him, Degrate could not have known that he was under indictment for felon in possession of a firearm." It would have been impossible for Degrate to have told Nowlin about the felony charge because he would not have known about it.
Lastly, the inferences made about Nowlin's close relationship with Degrate—including the tattoo on her collarbone and her attempt to escape the Marshall—do not apply here. "While the inferences that the court of appeals makes would likely be reasonable ones had there been any evidence of Degrate himself having knowledge of the indictment, no such evidence was ever presented."
The CCA found that the evidence was insufficient to support a felony-level hindering apprehension charge. The CCA reforms Nowlin's convictions to a misdemeanor hindering apprehension charge, instructing the trial court to conduct a new punishment hearing to reflect the lesser charge.
Federal Courts No Longer Distinguish Between Pure Meth and Botched Meth When Calculating Weight
By Brandon Barnett | Drug Crimes
Here's a Breaking Bad question for you: If Walt lets Jesse cook a batch of Meth and Jesse screws it up, such that it is unsellable, can they be punished for the amount of bad methamphetamine that they cooked in addition to the amount of good methamphetamine (if there were such a thing)? This 5th Circuit tells us in United States v. Ramirez-Olvera.
Antonio Ramirez-Olvera was convicted of possessing methamphetamine (meth) with the intent to distribute, violating 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B); he received a sentence of 240 months imprisonment, which is ten years below the bottom of the federal sentencing guidelines range for this offense. Arguing that the district court excessively punished him, as the court did not distinguish between d-methamphetamine ("d-meth") and l-methamphetamine ("l-meth") for the sentencing guidelines' equivalency table, Ramirez-Olvera appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth District.
See the opinion in United States v. Ramirez-Olvera (5th Circuit, 2015)
How Should the Court Determine the Weight of Meth in a Possession Case?
The issue before the Court is whether federal courts must distinguish between the types of meth when deciding punishment, or, whether courts can punish based on a "lump sum" of the meth. As you can imagine, higher amounts generally mean a longer prison sentence.
Had the district court used only the d-meth in its calculations, Ramirez-Olvera's prison sentence might have, in theory, been shorter. Relying on DEA lab reports,Ramirez-Olvera's probation officer generated a presentence report that recommended, he "should be held responsible for 7.7 [total] grams," combining both the l-meth and d-meth seized fromRamirez-Olvera's home and car.
The Court discusses types of methamphetamine, highlighting the differences scientifically and practically. "D-meth and l-meth are stereoisomers of meth…consist[ing] of identical molecules [that are] differently arranged." United States v. Acklen, 47 F.3d 739, 742 (5th Cir. 1995). D-meth causes psychological and physical changes in humans. L-meth, on the other hand, "produces little or no physiological effect when ingested." Id. Further, L-meth is a "weak form of [meth], is rarely seen and is not made intentionally, but rather results from a botched attempt to produce d-meth." U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2D1.1(c)(1)(2014). In other words, l-meth is an accidental byproduct when creating d-meth goes awry; L-meth has little to no cash value.
The Court reviews this case anew, focusing on the plain meaning of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for drug crimes; the Guidelines are the authoritative, controlling source of law. United States v. Moore, 733 F.3d 161-63 (5th Cir. 2013). Amendment 518, "a 1995 amendment to § 2D1.1, indicates that courts need not distinguish between d-meth and l-meth when determining the quantity of…meth attributable to a defendant." U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, [Sentencing Commission Dicta], §2D1.1(c)(1)(2004). Under this amendment, "l-meth [is to] be treated the same as d-meth…thereby simplifying guideline application [from this point forward]." Id. Further, the Court "ha[s] relied on Amendment 518 to hold [in an unpublished case] that any distinction between d-meth and l-meth is now immaterial when calculating drug quantity under the guidelines. United States v. Beltran, 91 F. App'x 349 (5th Cir. 2004).
The Court affirms the district court's opinion, holding that under Amendment 518 to the sentencing guidelines, meth no longer is to be categorized for sentencing purposes; l-meth and d-meth are to be added together to render the quantity courts will use in assessing punishment. All meth created, pure and botched, will be added together to determine a defendant's prison sentence.
Parole by Mistake: No Credit Toward Sentence
By Brandon Barnett | Parole
If a person convicted of aggravated rape is paroled by mistake, is that person entitled to street-time credit for the period between his release and the revocation of his release?
The 5th Circuit said NO in Rhodes v. Thaler.
Rhodes v. Thaler, 713 F.3d 264 (5th Cir. 2013): Mandell Rhodes, Jr. was convicted of aggravated rape in 1980. He was paroled in 2004, but returned to prison in 2006 after violating a condition of his release. Rhodes claimed that he was denied street-time credit for the two years that he was on parole which "could have been used to accelerate his automatic release to mandatory supervision."
According to Rhodes, Texas law required that when an inmate is released in error through no fault of his own, he is entitled to be credited with all earned street-time credit upon his return to prison. The denial of such credit, he argued, was a violation of due process.
Rhodes sought habeas relief in federal district court. The district court denied his petition. Through a Certificate of Appealability, the 5th Circuit was granted jurisdiction to decide the appeal and consider Rhodes's argument that his street time should have been restored because he was erroneously released to parole. According to the 5th Circuit, Rhodes's petition could only be granted if one of his constitutional rights had been violated.
In order to prevail under due process, Rhodes must have had a "liberty interest" in his claimed street-time credit. If he did not have a liberty interest in that street-time credit, he was due no more process than he received. In determining whether Rhodes had a liberty interest in the street-time credit he demanded, the 5th Circuit looked to Texas' law of releasees that was in effect when his release was revoked.
At the time Rhodes's parole was revoked, Texas' "street-time credit statute," Tex. Gov't Code §508.283, controlled. According to §508.283, "if the parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon of a person described by §508.149(a) is revoked, the person may be required to serve the remaining portion of the sentence on which the person was released. The remaining portion is computed without credit for the time from the date of the person's release to the date of revocation." According to the Court of Criminal Appeals, §508.149(a) includes persons- like Rhodes- who have been convicted of aggravated rape.
Therefore, because Rhodes was not entitled to street-time credit for that period, he had no protected liberty interest that was subject to due-process protection. Rhodes was only entitled to federal habeas relief if he was deprived of street time credit without due process. Because Rhodes had no protected liberty interest in the street-time credit that he claimed to have accrued, his due-process right was not violated. Therefore, the district court's denial of Rhodes's habeas petition was affirmed.
5th Circuit Update: Evidence Admitted Over Miranda Violation
By Brandon Barnett | Drug Crimes, Miranda
United States v. Gonzalez-Garcia, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 3366 (5th Cir. Tex. Feb. 15, 2013)
A federal agent saw Appellant walk out of a house under surveillance as part of a drug investigation. The agent approached Appellant, handcuffed him and placed him in his police vehicle. Without advising Appellant of his Miranda rights, the agent asked him if he was guarding a drug-house and if there were drugs in the house. Appellant replied, "Yes" to both questions and then requested an attorney. The agent asked Appellant for consent to search the house, which Appellant granted.
The agents found over two thousand kilograms of marijuana in the house. The district court suppressed Appellant's admissions that he was guarding marijuana in the house because they were obtained in violation of Miranda, which the government conceded on appeal. However, the district court refused to suppress the marijuana recovered from the house.
First, Appellant argued the marijuana should have been suppressed because the agent obtained consent to search from Appellant after he requested an attorney. Second, Appellant claimed the agents' use of his admissions, which were later suppressed, automatically rendered his consent to search involuntary. The Court disagreed.
In Edwards v. Arizona the Supreme Court held when an accused invokes his right to counsel, he is not subject to further questioning until counsel has been made available to him. However, a violation of the Edwards rule does not require suppression of physical, non-testimonial evidence. Consequently, even if the agent violated Edwards when he asked Appellant for consent to search the house, that violation would not justify suppression of the marijuana, which is physical, non-testimonial evidence.
Next, the court held Appellant's consent was not automatically rendered involuntary because his Miranda rights were violated. Such a rule is not consistent with the multi-factor approach courts must use when determining voluntariness. Using that approach, and considering the Miranda violation, the district court found Appellant voluntarily consented to the search of the house.
Warrantless Search with GPS Device
By Brandon Barnett | Warrantless Search
New Case from the 5th Circuit (Federal): United States v. Andres, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 143 (5th Cir. Tex. Jan. 3, 2013)
Synopsis: In December 2009, federal agents conducting an investigation into a large drug trafficking operation installed a GPS device underneath a pick-up truck, with a trailer attached to it, while it was parked on a public street after it had been loaded with twenty kilos of cocaine. Federal agents monitored the truck's movements as it drove toward Chicago.
The agents contacted the Illinois State Police, gave them information about the truck, and told them they would like to have the drugs discovered during a traffic stop so they would not have to disclose the existence of a federal investigation. After being provided GPS information on the truck, a police officer saw it on an interstate highway and began to follow it.
The officer conducted a traffic stop on the truck for improper lane usage and improper lighting after he saw the trailer was swaying back and forth within its lane and its taillights were flickering. After the officer wrote a warning ticket, he asked Appellant to get out of the truck so he could talk to him about the taillight problem.
After inspecting the electrical connection between the truck and trailer, the officer handed Appellant his clipboard so he could sign the ticket. While Appellant was signing the ticket, the officer asked him where he was coming from. Appellant told the officer he was coming from Joliet, but the officer knew this could not be possible based on the surveillance the officers had been conducting. The officer also noticed that Appellant had begun to fidget and move his feet and arms around very nervously. When the officer asked Appellant if he had any drugs in the truck, he said, "No" and then consented to a search with a drug dog. The drug dog alerted and the officers found twenty kilos of cocaine hidden in the truck.
Appellant argued the drug evidence should have been suppressed because the initial traffic stop was a pretext and not based on any actual traffic offense. Even if the traffic stop was valid, Appellant claimed the officer's continued questioning and dog search were not reasonably related to the original reasons for the stop.
First, the court held the officer was justified in stopping Appellant based on the traffic violations he saw. Second, the court held the officer's continued seizure of Appellant after the reason for the initial traffic stop ended was supported by reasonable suspicion. It was reasonable for the officer, who had stopped Appellant for a safety violation concerning his trailer, to ask him to get out of his truck to look at the trailer and discuss the problem. In addition, the officer's question, asking Appellant where he was coming from, occurred before the officer had finished dealing with the traffic offenses and did not extend the scope or duration of the stop. Appellant's untruthful answer created reasonable suspicion that justified his continued detention, which ultimately led to the officer receiving consent to search the truck.
Appellant also argued the warrantless placement and use of the GPS device to monitor the movements of his truck violated the Fourth Amendment in light of the United States Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Jones, decided in 2012. The Fifth Circuit Court declined to rule on whether warrantless GPS searches are per se unreasonable. Even assuming a Fourth Amendment violation had occurred, the court held the evidence should not be suppressed in this case because in December 2009, it was objectively reasonable for agents in the Fifth Circuit to believe that warrantless GPS tracking was allowed under circuit precedent.
Conspiring With a Government Informant
By Brandon Barnett | Conspiracy
It Takes Two to Tango | Can a Person be convicted for Conspiring With a Government Informant?
United States v. Delgado, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (Federal)
In this U.S. v. Delgado, the Defendant-Appellant, Maria Aide Delgado, was convicted of
possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and
conspiracy to commit the same offense.
She was sentenced to a concurrent term of 100 months imprisonment for each conviction. Delgado appealed, complaining that she shouldn't be convicted for Conspiracy if she was Conspiring With a Government Informant.
The Federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a conspiracy charge in the indictment because the government failed to introduce sufficient evidence to establish that the Appellant entered into a conspiracy with anyone other than a government informant. While it takes at least two people to form a conspiracy, an agreement must exist among co-conspirators who actually intend to carry out the agreed upon criminal plan. A defendant cannot be criminally liable for conspiring solely with an undercover government agent or a government informant, therefore, evidence of any agreement Delgado had with the government informant cannot support a conspiracy conviction.


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Ford Recognized By Cambridge Who's Who
by Admin 2 • July 15, 2010
William G. Ford, Founder of the Ford Group, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in business management.
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The other day I had the opportunity to interview Péter Szabó. Almost as usual, we met in the Budagyöngye café to talk about the recently released Moór CD. It was also rather usual that talking to the renowned cellist I immediately got into a wide European perspective. Szabó has talked about his plans and achievements; the goals are far above the habitual, the general. As a major part of our lives become real inside us, the work and the growing importance in the international musical world result from the self-explanatory hierarchy of ambitions that Szabó possesses.
When asking about the almost completely forgotten composer, Emanuel Moór, I do not just get an ordinary answer. "He was a frequently performed and popular composer of the time, when his popularity rivalled many internationally composers known now at the our present time." "Why did he disappear then?" "He was a surprisingly intolerant, unaccomodating person." The composer, who was incidentally an excellent pianist as well, played together with world-wide celebrated musicians. It was probably Pablo Casals who had the most significant role in introducing his art to the world. Moreover, Casals acquainted the composer with the famous musicians of the time, which inspired him to write again. The interpretations of the musical history avoid the issue of the gradually deteriorating relationship between Moór and Casals. "What could have been the real reason?" –I ask Péter Szabó. He seduced the cellist's wife. No wonder that he stopped playing Moór pieces – notwithstanding that he appreciated this kind of art all the time. With the worsening relationship with Casals he began turning rather to his inventions; among other things to the two-manual piano, which was a popular instrument of his time.
On the recording we can listen to the early pieces right from the turn of the century. His tutored and conscious structural method and his rich and dense harmony constructions are typical linguistic characters which give special importance to colours and acoustic stresses. The pianist Adrienne Krausz surrounds Szabó's usually deep tone dialect with an almost dance like light elegance. The dynamic peaks are supported by the piano line with great mathematical accuracy. I have been listening to Szabó's performances for years and I find his voice richer and more unique now. The explosive strength remained part of the exposition, but the sound grew more colourful and shifting. Meanwhile the whole acoustic body bears a characteristic inner quality. It would be a great stylistic mistake to talk about the two instruments separately, for they create organically unified system together. Moór is definitely a composer who imagines his works in an acoustic space, the musical events –both micro moments and grand surfaces –gain meaning from performance. Or to be more precise, this music waits from its very conception to occupy space and sound. This kind of art does not have a theoretical moment; during its creation the composer gave so much emphasis to the acousic feature that we can be sure, he must have had a really solid appreciation. From this point of view it is clear that he only composed when true need emerged. At first it was Casals and his connections which inspired him to give serious thought to composing. Later, his awkward nature and deteriorating friendship with the world famous cellist turned him more to inventions. "The two-manual piano in Budapest is a Stainway product; every significant piano manufacture bought its licence from the composer, which shows the quality of his work as an inventor"- Péter Szabó says.
Moór's music is neither avant garde, nor traditional. The sound construction, the functional universe is slightly academic already from the turn of the century's approach, but even more so from our perspective. But it is the autonomy which, as it were, validates the interior and the musical material's hidden message. Behind this highly sensual musical material which exists merely to give body and voice, and cause magical moments, behind this simply beautiful music, there is autonomity. It basically stands apart from time and stylistic conceptions. In this case dialectics will provide an answer to the question, it carries its own opposite. The tangible forms of expression – acoustic balance, functional richness, ornamented melodies and invention – are almost immorally beautiful. It is not the ethical power that holds the music together, rather the expressive intensity, which is an integral part of the aforesaid artistic goal. Emanuel Moór was an awkward and impossible person; the type of person who wants to manipulate and control his environment and build a microcosm that gives a secondary place to the real world. And no matter how nice and valuable the music is, it is something that penetrates. This is the real reason for his subsequent disappearance. Still, Péter Szabó is right, he discovered very rich and valuable musical material, including several unrepeatable moments typical of the era, full of content and expression.
I hear the music, the expressive presentation, and spaces, universes open up. It is a pompuous world of functional decadence, but one of incredible depth. The era was obviously pervaded by decadence. But here, this dos not matter –only there appears too much liveliness, emotion and feeling simultaneously in the language. This kind of art has no time to pay attention to anything else; while every piece of its existence is attached to the auditive world, it is completely independent of anything else. This discrepancy serves as a message from the epoch, a decadence lying deep in the fate of the artist and his process of creation.
Emanuel Moór is given voice again – now he exists.


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Barry Pickering (Christchurch, 1956. december 12. – ) új-zélandi válogatott labdarúgókapus.

Pályafutása

Klubcsapatban
1979-ben Stop Out csapatában játszott. 1981-ben a Christchurch United játékosa volt. 1982 és 1986 között a Miramar Rangers kapuját védte.

A válogatottban
1978 és 1984 között 11 alkalommal szerepelt az új-zélandi válogatottban. 1978. október 1-jén mutatkozott be egy Szingapúr elleni 2–0-ás győzelem alkalmával. Részt vett az 1982-es világbajnokságon, ahol a harmadik számú kapus volt és nem lépett pályára egyik csoportmérkőzésen sem.

Jegyzetek

Források

1956-ban született személyek
Élő személyek
Új-zélandi labdarúgók
Labdarúgókapusok
Az 1982-es világbajnokság labdarúgói

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Black Magic Probe: The Best ARM JTAG Debugger?
We don't always JTAG, but when we do, we use a Black Magic Probe. It's a completely open ARM-chip debugging powerhouse. If you program the small ARM chips and you don't have a BMP, you need a BMP. Right now, one of the main producers of these little gems is running a Kickstarter where you can get your hands on a nicely made one and/or a 1Bitsy STM32F415-based development board.
Why is the BMP so great? First off, it's got a JTAG and a UART serial port in one device. You can flash the target, run your code, use the serial port for printf debugging like you know you want to, and then fall back on full-fledged JTAG-plus-GDB when you need to, all in one dongle. It's just very convenient.
But the BMP's killer feature is that it runs a GDB server on the probe. It opens up a virtual serial port that you can connect to directly through GDB on your host computer. No need to hassle around with OpenOCD configurations, or to open up a second window to run [texane]'s marvelous st-util. Just run GDB, target extended-remote /dev/ttyACM0 and you're debugging. As the links above demonstrate, there are many hardware/software pairs that'll get you up and debugging. But by combining the debug server with the JTAG hardware, the BMP is by far the slickest.
Full disclosure: we use a BMP that we built ourselves, which is to say that we compiled and flashed the firmware into a $4 STLink clone programmer that we had on hand. Breaking the required signals out required a bit of ugly, fiddly soldering, but we enjoy that sort of thing. If you don't, the early-bird Kickstarter (with cables) looks like a good deal to us.


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'Hateship, Loveship' HD screen captures
I have added high-definition screen captures from the latest Wiig-movie to be released - Hateship, Loveship. The drama, based on Nobel Prize-winner Alice Munro's novel, centers around caretaker Johanna Parry, who becomes entangled in a romance with the father of the girl she's...
'Hateship, Loveship' New York Screening
Published on Apr 17, 14
On April 8, Kristen Wiig attended a screening of Hateship, Loveship hosted by The Cinema Society and Montblanc. She rocked a J. Mendel dress and a new, blonde haircolor as she walked the red carpet with some of the...
First trailer from 'Hateship, Loveship'
It's finally here: the very first trailer from the latest Kristen Wiig-starrer Hateship, Loveship! In a very different role for K-Wiig, we see her as Johanna Parry, a profoundly shy, unadorned woman who is hired by Mr. McCauley as a...
Toronto International Film Festival – Portrait sessions
The TIFF updates continue today with three portrait sessions Kristen Wiig did with Hateship, Loveship director Liza Johnson. Next up, clips from interviews the duo did for the film.
Pictures from the TIFF premiere of 'Hateship, Loveship'
As previously mentioned, Kristen Wiig attended the world premiere of Hateship, Loveship at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. She looked gorgeous in a Vena Cava-outfit as she signed autographs, posed on the red carpet and celebrated her 40th birthday...
'Hateship, Loveship' to screen at Toronto Film Festival
The lineup for this year's Toronto International Film Festival is being announced today, with Hateship, Loveship being one of the selected movies! The film - starring our Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld, Guy Pearce and Nick Nolte - tells the story...
Additional pictures from 2012 movie sets
I have added over 150 new pictures of Kristen Wiig filming movies last year. These include scenes from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (May-June), Hateship, Friendship (October-November) and The Skeleton Twins (November-December). As always, simply click on the...
On location for 'Hateship, Friendship' – October 29
Published on Nov 01, 12
New pictures of Kristen Wiig from the set of Hateship, Friendship on October 29 have been added to the photo gallery. Kristen was seen filming scenes with co-star Hailee Steinfeld (not pictured). Click on the previews below to see the pictures...
Kristen Wiig starts filming 'Hateship, Friendship'
Kristen Wiig is currently in New Orleans to film her upcoming movie Hateship, Friendship. She was photographed shooting scenes for the movie on October 23rd and 25th. Hateship, Friendship, directed by Liza Johnson, also stars Hailee Steinfeld, Guy Pierce and Nick Nolte....


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import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Delete;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ImmutableBytesWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableMapReduceUtil;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableMapper;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;

/**
 * Rolls back appended updates.
 * TODO: collect job stats using counters
 */
public final class RollbackUpdatesMrJob {
  private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(RollbackUpdatesMrJob.class);
  public static final String NAME = "RollbackUpdatesMrJob";

  private RollbackUpdatesMrJob() {}

  public static class RollbackUpdatesMapper extends TableMapper<ImmutableBytesWritable, Delete> {
    public static final String HUT_ROLLBACK_UPDATE_MIN_TIME_ATTR = "hut.rollback.mints";
    public static final String HUT_ROLLBACK_UPDATE_MAX_TIME_ATTR = "hut.rollback.maxts";
    private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(RollbackUpdatesMapper.class);

    // min creation time of record to roll back
    private long minCreationTime = 0;
    // max creation time of record to roll back
    private long maxCreationTime = Long.MAX_VALUE;

    /**
     * Pass the key, value to reduce.
     *
     * @param key  The current key.
     * @param value  The current value.
     * @param context  The current context.
     * @throws java.io.IOException When writing the record fails.
     * @throws InterruptedException When the job is aborted.
     */
    public void map(ImmutableBytesWritable key, Result value, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
      if (HutRowKeyUtil.writtenBetween(value.getRow(), minCreationTime, maxCreationTime)) {
        context.write(key, new Delete(value.getRow()));
      }
    }

    @Override
    protected void setup(final Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
      super.setup(context);

      String minCreationTimeParam =  context.getConfiguration().get(HUT_ROLLBACK_UPDATE_MIN_TIME_ATTR);
      if (minCreationTimeParam != null) {
        minCreationTime = Long.valueOf(minCreationTimeParam);
      }
      String maxCreationTimeParam =  context.getConfiguration().get(HUT_ROLLBACK_UPDATE_MAX_TIME_ATTR);
      if (maxCreationTimeParam != null) {
        maxCreationTime = Long.valueOf(maxCreationTimeParam);
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Sets up the actual job.
   *
   * @param conf  The current configuration.
   * @param args  The command line parameters.
   * @return The newly created job.
   * @throws IOException When setting up the job fails.
   */
  public static Job createSubmittableJob(Configuration conf, String[] args)
  throws IOException {
    String tableName = args[0];

    conf.set("mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution", "false");

    Job job = new Job(conf, NAME + "_" + tableName);
    job.setJobName(NAME + "_" + tableName);
    job.setJarByClass(RollbackUpdatesMapper.class);
    // TODO: Allow passing filter and subset of rows/columns.
    Scan s = new Scan();
    // Optional arguments.
    long startTime = args.length > 1? Long.parseLong(args[1]): 0L;
    long endTime = args.length > 2? Long.parseLong(args[2]): Long.MAX_VALUE;

    // TODO: consider using scan.setTimeRange() for limiting scanned data range. It may
    //       not be good way to do if tss are artificial in HutPuts though
//    s.setTimeRange(startTime, endTime);
    job.getConfiguration().set(RollbackUpdatesMapper.HUT_ROLLBACK_UPDATE_MIN_TIME_ATTR, String.valueOf(startTime));
    job.getConfiguration().set(RollbackUpdatesMapper.HUT_ROLLBACK_UPDATE_MAX_TIME_ATTR, String.valueOf(endTime));

    s.setFilter(new HutWriteTimeRowsFilter(endTime, startTime));

    s.setCacheBlocks(false);
    // TODO: allow user change using job params
    s.setCaching(512);
    s.setCacheBlocks(false);

    LOG.info("Using scan: " + s.toString());

    // TODO: allow better limiting of data to be fetched
    if (conf.get(TableInputFormat.SCAN_COLUMN_FAMILY) != null) {
      s.addFamily(Bytes.toBytes(conf.get(TableInputFormat.SCAN_COLUMN_FAMILY)));
    }

    LOG.info("starttime (inclusive): " + startTime + " (" + new Date(startTime) + ")" +
      ", endtime (inclusive): " + endTime + " (" + new Date(endTime) + ")");

    TableMapReduceUtil.initTableMapperJob(tableName, s, RollbackUpdatesMapper.class, null,
      null, job);
    TableMapReduceUtil.initTableReducerJob(tableName, null, job);
    // No reducers.  Just write straight to output files.
    job.setNumReduceTasks(0);
    return job;
  }

  /*
   * @param errorMsg Error message.  Can be null.
   */
  private static void usage(final String errorMsg) {
    if (errorMsg != null && errorMsg.length() > 0) {
      System.err.println("ERROR: " + errorMsg);
    }
    System.err.println("Usage: RollbackUpdatesMrJob [-D <property=value>]* <tablename> " +
      "[<starttime inclusive> [<endtime inclusive>]]\n");
    System.err.println("  Note: -D properties will be applied to the conf used. ");
    System.err.println("  For example: ");
    System.err.println("   -D mapred.output.compress=true");
    System.err.println("   -D mapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec");
    System.err.println("   -D mapred.output.compression.type=BLOCK");
    System.err.println("  Additionally, the following SCAN properties can be specified");
    System.err.println("  to control/limit what is exported..");
    System.err.println("   -D " + TableInputFormat.SCAN_COLUMN_FAMILY + "=<familyName>");
  }

  /**
   * Main entry point.
   *
   * @param args  The command line parameters.
   * @throws Exception When running the job fails.
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Configuration conf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
    String[] otherArgs = new GenericOptionsParser(conf, args).getRemainingArgs();
    if (otherArgs.length < 2) {
      usage("Wrong number of arguments: " + otherArgs.length);
      System.exit(-1);
    }
    Job job = createSubmittableJob(conf, otherArgs);
    System.exit(job.waitForCompletion(true)? 0 : 1);
  }

}

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Academy Students Showcase Talent in Guitar Concert
Russ Ames
Ashley Tong, Writer
Filed under Arts & Leisure
On Jan. 29, some of Albuquerque Academy's best student guitarists showcased their talents to the Academy community at the Guitar Solo and Ensemble Concert. Around 20 guitar players performed, ranging from grades 6-12. The evening began with 10 guitar solos, followed by two duets, and ended with a performance from the Latin American Guitar Ensemble.
Although each performance was stellar, there were a few that stood out to me. The first was from Danny Ross '21, who delivered an enchanting performance of "Andante." Equally delightful was guitarist Justin Kim '21 who stunned the audience by playing his own arrangement with songs from multiple artists.
After the solos were over, a duet took to the stage: the Armaduo. The two performers were Ben Montoya '23 and Nicholas Skarbek-Borowski '23. Instead of playing the traditional guitar that others had played that night, the two were playing a type of instrument called a charango. A chanrango is an Andean stringed instrument with Spanish origins. A traditional charango, which the two boys played, is made out of an armadillo shell. Compared with a guitar, the charango sounds similar to a ukulele, and its notes are higher in pitch than the guitar's.
The night finished with an excellent performance by the Latin American Guitar Ensemble, which included a solo by Alex Thomas '20. The Latin American Guitar Ensemble is a before-school group with 12 dedicated students.
Overall, the night was a huge success. The solos, duets, and Latin American Guitar Ensemble performances showed the Academy community the talent of the guitarists at our school. I am sure that everyone who was there would agree that it was a wonderful performance.
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Charles Gallia is a fifth generation Oregonian whose link with Clackamas County runs deep. He and his siblings were raised by a mom, with help from their forest ranger grandfather. Together, these powerful role models gave them an appreciation of the outdoors, the value of a quality education, so a good sense of humor even when times are tough.
Born in E. Helens and raised in Clackamas County, Gallia attended local public schools. He made to get a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science even a Middle East Studies Specialist Certificate and also PhD in Public Administration and Policy, all at Portland State University.
He is also very active in the local community. Charles is co-founder of automobiles Pediatric Improvement Partnership, working with public and private health clinics. The audience aids clinics to coordinate and share information to provide better patient care.
And Gallia's non-profit isn't allowed to operate in the state of Oregon a consequence of Gallia's failure to file required research.


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Mayhem Take First of Two in Birmingham, 4-3
PELHAM, Ala. – With a disappointing road loss to start March on the road, the Macon Mayhem would start their road weekend in Birmingham to take on the Bulls for their first road series of the month. Standing atop the Southern Professional Hockey League standings to start the new month, the Mayhem would look to continue their separation.
The newest of the Macon Mayhem, Jason Tackett, would score his first goal of the SPHL season in his debut with the team in a penalty-filled first period. The former Ferris Stater's goal, at full-strength, would lead off Macon's first true road-series of March as the first-and-only goal of the opening 20 minutes. With an 11-8 shots advantage for Macon, the Mayhem would lead 1-0 on the score sheet.
Period number two would find itself plenty productive for both sides. In a period plenty-filled with penalties by both the Mayhem and Bulls, the two teams would exchange opportunities on the scoring sheet. Halfway through the frame, Nick Minerva would score his second of the season to give Macon a then 2-0 lead. Just over two minutes later, Logan Nelson would cut the lead in half with his sixth of the season. 4:59 past Nelson's goal, Cole Stallard would knot the game up on his seventh of the season with a little over four minutes to go. This would prove to be more than enough time as Andrew Romano would beat Hayden Stewart for his fifth of the season with under three minutes to go. Macon would double up Birmingham in shots 16-8 in the second period, taking a 3-2 lead to intermission.
Goals would come quick in the third period, as Ryan Smith would score the eventual game-winner just 1:07 into the new frame for his fourth of the year. A quick-response goal from Birmingham's Jacob Smith would make it a one-goal-game just :22 later. Birmingham would take both penalties in the frame, as Macon's defense would put away the game with a 4-3 win for their 15th of the season.
Ryan Smith would come away with the game-winner in Birmingham, as Macon would pick up its first road-win of the month of March, and continue its reign at the top of the SPHL in Pelham. Macon closes out the weekend series with a battle in Pelham on Saturday afternoon, looking to head back to Middle Georgia with a new winning-streak in place.
Game Day Notes: Mayhem @ Birmingham (Game #21, Road Game #11)


text:
13: The Missing Figurine
Emma wiped sticky lime juice off her fingers before she answered the phone. She suppressed a sigh as she heard Cheryl, her oldest daughter, on the line.
"Have you decorated for Christmas, yet?" Cheryl asked after the initial chit-chat.
Emma turned her back on the plate of hot rice and vegetables before her, and leaned wearily against the counter.
"Not yet, dear," she answered.
"Mom it's the middle of December—"
"It won't be the 15th until next Wednesday." Emma said.
"That hardly makes a difference." Cheryl turned off the Christmas music playing in the background. "I know it's going to be hard for you without Dad this year."
"I really need to eat dinner, dear, it's getting cold."
"Mom, Dad loved Christmas. He would want you to celebrate. The kids are going to come over this year and they'll be disappointed because the house isn't decorated. They always love how pretty the house is every year."
Emma wondered if Cheryl realized how much effort it took to get the house in that type of shape every year. Sure, Cheryl had a whole army of children to make her paper chains and cotton snowmen, but she must realize how hard it would be to get the Christmas tree up alone, and to string the lights. It was hard enough this year with Ethan gone.
"I'll talk to you later, dear." Emma said with a touch of motherly firmness that stopped further argument. She put down the phone and returned to squeezing fresh lime-juice over her dinner. It was a trick she had picked up from her daughter-in-law, Maria. She put lime juice on almost everything now.
Late Saturday the doorbell rang when Emma wasn't expecting it. She opened it to find her son William on the doorstep with a Christmas tree in tow.
Emma's fingers fluttered up to her forehead. "What's this?"
"We thought you could use a little Christmas cheer, and some help getting a tree," he said.
Emma peered around him to see her bright brown-eyed grandchildren bouncing to come in and surprise grandma. She laughed and invited them in. Maria came trailing in last with a mug of hot wassail.
"Feliz Navidad," Maria said. As usual her dark hair was beautifully arranged and she had chunky jewelry dancing along her thin wrists.
"Merry Christmas and thank you," Emma answered and gave her a hug. She had a hunch that Cheryl had complained about Mom to her older brother, and they had come up with this little plan.
"The idea was our little Marcus, truly." she said. "He wanted to help his abuela."
William asked her where the Christmas decorations were, and Emma directed him to take out the nativity boxes, the wreath for the door, and a box full of Christmas linens so she could decorate the table. It wouldn't be as elaborate as when Ethan was alive, but it would do.
The little children were so excited to decorate another Christmas tree, especially for grandma that she couldn't help but be touched. They gave her little ornaments they had made themselves: picture frames made out of popsicle sticks. Five grinning faces smiled at her from the branches of real pine-tree.
She stopped them as they tried to get the nativity out. "I'll set that up tomorrow. Leave it be."
Before they went home William insisted on reading the scriptures as a family. They decided on Luke, and Emma listened as William read.
"And there was one Anna, a Prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; and she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, in which departed not from the temple but served God with fastings and prayers night and day."
Could she live without Ethan for eighty years?
Imagining such a thing brought such a sudden rush of grief that she trembled with emotion. She hid it from her grandchildren, but she knew by the way Maria herded the kids out of the house that she had noticed. William left her with a bear hug, and Emma sobbed softly on his shoulder a few moments before he left.
"Will you be alright? I can stay or Maria…" he asked.
Emma shook her head. "I n-need to b-be alone."
He nodded. "I'll call in the morning."
Emma shut the door.
Emma lifted each figurine of her Nativity from their boxes. She unwrapped each piece from its packaging, and then set it on the table. She hesitated to withdraw her fingers from each figure, as she set them upon the table, as much as to insure their steadiness as to caress them with affection.
Each piece brought back a tender memory to her. Ethan had given Mary to her the first year they were married, poor and living in his parent's basement. She thought it rather depressing that she stood alone on their table that Christmas, a symbol of the poverty and simplicity of their situation.
She remembered the warm Christmas the next year, living in a city far from family where Ethan had recently gotten a job. The strong lines of the Joseph figurine curved ever so slightly in a protective stance. He seemed to represent to her the unity of their relationship. The safety and security they had achieved over the last year.
The gift of the little Christ child came as she was pregnant with her first child, her strong William. That Christmas was especially tender, as she often pondered the look of love carved into the gentle Mary's face, and the joy of an innocent and new born babe.
She smiled as she took out a little lamb. Each one represented the births of her other children. The wise men were bestowed in times of wealth along with their camels. A shepherd stood for a new home, an angel for the death of her mother. A stable, a star, and other miscellaneous animals reminded her of a lifetime of Christmases spent together.
This year she was alone.
Tears rolled into her collar as she set the pieces in good order, but she didn't organize them as precisely as she usually did, fingers lingering over precious memories. Each memory only reminded her more fully of her loss. Ethan had died several months earlier from a brain tumor. She'd hoped for one last Christmas together but he had faded too fast. The lack of a figurine this Christmas would be symbolic of her husband's death.
The nativity felt wrong when she looked at it. In previous years, she made a habit of clearing a space, a little hole in the design in preparation for a new figurine, a new memory, a new Christmas. She hadn't made a space this year. It seemed the hole hadn't taken its place upon the table but in her heart. With a heavy sigh she headed off to bed.
That night she dreamed that she was walking down an empty street. Buildings made out of rough off-white stone surrounded her. The road was made of the same stone, but worn smooth from use, and covered with a fine layer of dirt that crunched beneath her sandals.
The morning sun warmed the air, and she walked through the streets until she saw a large structure ahead that looked like the ancient Jerusalem temple. She stood and wondered at it until she saw an older woman pass by her. She wondered why she took her notice when so many other people were wandering by now.
She wore a worn grey dress with a white shall over her head. She was old, very old. Her shoulders hunched over thin legs that hardly seemed strong enough to support her. Yet the old woman moved with a surprising energy. Emma followed her, watching as she approached a couple with a child.
She was close enough now to see the old woman's face. The angle of her cheek bones were sharp, and her blue eyes sunk into sagging folds of skin. Yet, there was something piercing about those eyes, a light that told of a continuing lucidity and intelligence.
"God be praised!" her trembling voice carried across the air. "I've lived to see the child who will bring redemption to those who have waited upon the day of his coming."
A thin, trembling had smoothed the downy infant hair, as she smiled down into the babe's face.
The parents looked surprised, but the mother turned the baby so the woman could see him.
"The day of rejoicing is at hand!" the woman cried.
The old woman's eyes met Emma's over the head of the child, full of joy and hope. A thrill shot through Emma, emotion stirred in her chest, and she reached out to touch the child too. Then she awoke.
Emma glanced at the clock and found that it was 6 am. As her hands worked through her morning routine her mind lingered on the dream. It wasn't until she sat down to read her scriptures after breakfast that it came to her.
She had dreamed about Anna the Prophetess. William had read the story when the children came to decorate the tree. She turned to the story in her bible. Anna had seen the Christ child and rejoiced despite being a widow for many years.
Emma still felt the strength of her voice. "The day of rejoicing is at hand!"
There hadn't been much to rejoice about recently with Ethan gone, but as she read of this woman's example, she felt hope. What kind of redemption did the babe in Mary's arms signify to Anna? Christ redeemed everyone from their sins. Emma had a feeling that a woman who prayed and fasted to God all day in the temple really didn't have any earthshaking sins.
Perhaps Anna would feel happiness for the fact that Christ made it possible for her to be reunited with her beloved again. The grief Emma felt over the last month was still so close, so real, and the emptiness inside her was still there. Yet, she did believe like Anna. She knew she would be with Ethan again. Why didn't she feel more peace? Shouldn't she be more excited to celebrate Christ this year instead of missing Ethan so desperately?
That night Emma made herself a cup of cocoa and curled up in front of the fire. The Nativity scene lay before her. The memories of Ethan were pleasant in the warmth of winter fire. Though, she ached for him to be next to her on the couch.
Her thoughts focused on the little babe in the manger, and the face of Anna in her dream, so full of joy. She wanted to feel the happiness and warmth of the season she had felt in years past. Capture a little bit of the childish excitement she had seen in her grandchildren's faces when they decorated her tree.
She wanted to find comfort in the memories of the past instead of grief. She spoke no words in her mind, but pictured putting her sorrowful heart into the cupped hands of her savior. With only the crackling of the fire filling the silence, the warmth on her skin slowly spread around the heavy places around her heart. The heaviness in her chest was replaced with lightness. She saw Anna's face in her mind again full of joy, but also with the light of love.
Then Emma's heart filled with love as the quiet moment continued, feeling grateful for her savior and life full of happy memories with a wonderful husband. In that moment she could feel Ethan's love surround her like a hug. He would wait patiently until they could be together again.
Their Christmas traditions should continue. The nativity shouldn't go without a new figurine this year or any other year. Tomorrow she would find a statuette of Anna the Prophetess.
Labels: yContest:09 Christmas
Tamara Hart Heiner said...
stunning. beautiful. I am touched.
Christine Thackeray said...
I vote for this one but I think it would be so much better if Emma came over on Christmas morning and gave her a figurine of a woman that her Dad had told her to deliver. When she asks her mother who it is, she says "Anna." Also, the "saints be praised" line needs to be nixed, totally. Also it could use a litte editing to improve pacing. But the concept was the best.
8/17/09, 12:11 PM
This one gets my vote.
Gussie said...
This story is very well written and it has a positive message which is uplifting. I wonder if Emma would be able to find a statuette of the prophetess though.
Casting my vote for this one. 2nd in this category.
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Philosopher Peter Singer talks about animal rights and his new book "Writings on an Ethical Life."
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