Optimizing and testing a wildcard algorithm to get 5x performance improvement.
Wildcard matching routines are easy to describe and convenient to use, but deceptively challenging to implement. In 2008, when Dr. Dobb's published my first wildcard-matching algorithm, the Internet didn't provide very many alternatives that were both understandable and totally correct, let alone suitable for high-performance programs that need to compare numerous text strings quickly. For example, many of the best-tested varieties were recursive. That made them not only relatively slow compared with similar code that doesn't have the overhead of growing and shrinking stack space as it runs, but also vulnerable to overflowing the stack given certain pathological input.
Times have changed. In these days of myriad fancy hacks, a quick search turns up a broad range of non-recursive wildcard matching algorithms, coded in C, Java, and other languages. Most of them are crash-proof. But do all of them do the job as expected? Do some of them perform better than others? How can you tell?
To be correct, they need to handle repeating text patterns in the input strings. Repeating patterns can confound pattern matching, either when the pattern almost seems like a match but isn't, or when more than one instance of the pattern, in a single string, could match.
They may encounter situations in which the character that designates a wildcard (typically *) appears in the "tame" input string (a string without wildcards) as well as in the "wild" input string. A routine that compares characters from each string and upon finding a match just looks for further character matches, without taking note of the wildcard, is again susceptible to false negatives. When you're comparing the "tame" string "x*yy" with the "wild" string "x*y", you most likely want your wildcard character to be recognized as a wildcard, just as usual.
They also need to handle situations in which a wildcard character might appear one or more times at the beginning or end of a string, as well as in the middle. Because a * wildcard can match any number of characters, including none; the string "xy" can match "***x*****y***". Failure to address all the possibilities can cause misbehavior. Even a careful code review can miss inconsistencies that make a routine handle certain wildcard arrangements differently from others.
If you want to test your choice of wildcard-matching code in a way that covers all of these possibilities and more, is it enough to create test cases that invoke it by way of other routines in your code? Your safest bet may instead be to create a batch of tests that target just the standalone wildcard-matching routine.
If you run that set of tests and don't like the results, you have the option either to change out the routine for one of the many that are available, or to tweak what you've got. Whichever path you choose, Listing One provides a set of tests intended to cover the bases I've just outlined.
When a wildcard matching routine needs to handle thousands, or millions, of text strings while a user waits, you'd like to do more than just get the job done. You want it done fast. The wide range of wildcard-matching algorithms available today is associated with an equally wide a range of performance. Analyzing and tuning your algorithm of choice for performance can be done in many ways. I've come up with an approach that combines test-driven development with performance profiling. This combination delivers measurable benefits.
Listing Two lays out my latest wildcard matching code in C. With it, a question mark (?) matches a single character, and an asterisk (*) can match any number of characters; you can easily substitute the ? and * with other single wildcard characters that may fit your needs. I arrived at this code using the tests of Listing One and studying performance profiler outcomes.
// Walk the text strings one character at a time.
// How do you match a unique text string?
// Easy: unique up on it!
}                          // "xy" matches "x**y"
return true;           // "x" matches "*"
// Fast-forward to next possible match.
return false;  // "x" doesn't match "*y*"
// or both of them and retry.
// Don't go this far back again.
continue;      // "xy" matches "*y"
continue;          // "mississippi" matches "*sip*"
return false;              // "xy" doesn't match "x"
// How do you match a tame text string?
// The tame way: unique up on it!
pWildText++;           // "x" matches "x*"
return true;           // "x" matches "x"
return false;              // "x" doesn't match "xy"
As I tweaked and refactored this code, I looked for ways to either postpone or altogether leave out conditional checks and references to variables, even those that could consume just a few clock cycles at a time. Because I had my set of tests ready to let me know when my code was mistakenly skipping a crucial step or three, I was able to aggressively try out any changes that looked as if they might speed things along.
Among my experiments, I tried relocating the checks that determine whether both input strings have more characters to compare as we're walking through them. These checks made their way down into logic that could decide to either continue or leave the main loop. In other words, the checks happen only when they must. I also removed the bMatch return variable prominent in my 2008 routine. Like growing and shrinking the stack in recursive code, setting and checking variables in any code involves clock cycles and cache misses. Eliminating a variable is a sure way to reduce costs.
Most routines of mine don't include more than one return statement, and that one's normally placed at the end, right before the closing bracket. But for this code, once the bMatch variable was gone, I found that the strategic placement of return statements, often near my checks for the ends of input strings, shaved significant time off runs that made large numbers of calls to the routine. As it turns out, there's no reason to insist on having a return at the very end of this code.
As with my 2008 routine, it's curious to watch this routine in the debugger as it walks through the two input strings in parallel. It relies on two bookmarks that are set, one for each of the input strings, when a * wildcard is encountered. If we find a matching pattern after the wildcard, we continue walking through the strings as before. But if that matching pattern ends with a non-match, while there are yet more characters to be compared, then we fall back to the bookmarks, bump the bookmark in the tame string ahead, and retry. From there, we look for the beginning of a matching pattern again. This fallback logic may repeat if we find another non-match.
The loop coded after the "Fast-forward" comment, around line 34 is based on a suggestion from Dr. Dobb's reader Christian Hammer. The idea is that when the routine encounters a * wildcard character, we can skip ahead until we find a match on the character after the wildcard. Only after that, we set new bookmarks as in my 2008 routine.
You might imagine that an optimizing compiler can do just as good a job as I've done. But a compiler is a general-purpose tool, and its optimizations are only as good as what someone has worked out for general-purpose code. Moving things around in pattern-matching logic isn't very general. Advanced tools such as mature optimizing compilers aren't available for some of the new platforms, such as embedded and mobile systems, that have been coming out recently.
I use a profiler that can show me how much time a test run has spent on each line of source code, along with percentages of the overall function time per line. Using that annotated source view, I can see where to focus as I consider performance improvements to try: I look for the lines consuming the most time. When the profiler runs in this "line" mode, it assumes that each instruction always takes a predicted amount of time. I can view actual timings if I set the profiler to report measurements per function, rather than per line, and rerun. The result may be closer to the reality that will play out when the code is deployed in the field. Nevertheless, I've found that for this code, the reported function timings have been fairly similar going from the one profiling mode to the other, at least with the profiler I use.
Figure 1: Original performance of the 2008 code.
Figures 1 and 2 depict profiler output revealing this code's roughly 5x improved performance over the code in Listing Two from my 2008 article (given a million repetitions of the tests in my little suite, profiled in line mode).
That article's Listing Two code, in turn, has been tested to be as much as an order of magnitude faster than the code shown in Listing One of that same article (for typical input). Admittedly, the 2008 code takes some extra cycles because, unlike the new routine, it offers a choice of case-insensitive text comparison and alternate string termination characters. Yet I found that the extra setup step and comparison step fail to account for even half the performance difference in the cases I've observed.
Which wildcard matching algorithm is the best? You can apply some test cases and tools to select one for yourself — or code your own. I doubt that any single algorithm is the best for every application. For instance, there may be some situations where you know with certainty some limits on the input. That might give your code fewer requirements to meet. You might find ways to optimize an existing algorithm for your specific purpose, whether it be case-insensitive matching, internationalized text, the broader world of regular expressions…you name it. Ask yourself just what range of jobs you expect wildcard matching to do for you, and whether it's a big enough bottleneck that you want to tweak it to fit just those jobs. If it is, then happy tweaking.
Kirk Krauss is an intellectual property specialist at IBM.
// of two (or more) different wildcard matching routines.
#define COMPARE_PERFORMANCE 1  // Remove this line for correctness testing.
bool bResult = true;   // We'll do "&=" cumulative checking.
bool bPassed = false;  // Assume the worst.
// Call a wildcard matching routine.
// of the two routines.
// For performance profiling, no need to worry about pass/fail outcomes.
// outcomes are at least consistent.
// This main() routine passes a bunch of test strings into the above code.
// it does it just once.  Either way, it outputs a passed/failed result.
// Can choose as many repetitions as you're expecting in the real world.
// Cases with repeating character sequences.
// Additional cases where the '*' char appears in the tame string.
// More double wildcard scenarios.
// Completely tame (no wildcards) cases.
// Simple mixed wildcard tests suggested by IBMer Marlin Deckert.
// More mixed wildcard tests including coverage for false positives.
// A case-insensitive algorithm test.


I compiled and flashed the lastest OpenWRT trunk revision and encountered a problem with the LEDs on my WRTSL54GS.
bcm47xx:*:wps dont affect any LED.
wrtsl54gs-led-fix.patch (942 bytes) - added by anonymous 4 years ago.
Do you think we can follow anonymous's patch (just put it in a correct file)?
anonymous: what color are power and DMZ LEDs?
They are both green. All LEDs are green except SES orange and SES white.
So, whoever wrote this code section confused the WRTSL54GS with a WRT54GS, or just assumed they both use the same GPIO layout (which is not the case).
WRT54(G/GL/GS) actually have the GPIO layout of WRTSL54GS, so comment 4 is indeed true.
So, my suspicion from comment 4 was true - they both were accidentally switched.


An experimental and theoretical study of inlet flow was carried out on a Ford V6 Zephyr four-stroke cycle spark ignition engine. Details of measurements of individual cylinder flows were made on one bank of three cylinders (Nos. 4, 5, and 6) over a range of engine speeds from 1500 to 3500 rpm and throttle positions, full (WOT) down to 1/4 position. The object of the investigation was, first, to determine experimentally the extent of the variation of flow rate from cylinder to cylinder with changes in throttle position and engine speed and, secondly, to determine whether the computer simulation could confirm the trend. The main results of the tests showed that the outer two cylinders, No. 4 and No. 6, had the same flow rate within a variation of about 1/2 percent and that the middle cylinder, No. 5, had about 3 percent more flow at low speeds and 1 percent more at high speeds. In the main these were confirmed by the computer calculations. The volumetric efficiencies were also determined; these produced fairly smooth curves decreasing about 4 to 6 percentage points over the speed range and decreasing progressively as the throttle was reduced. There was evidence of recovery in the magnitude of volumetric efficiency at higher speeds and smaller throttle openings. The computer results also produced these trends.
Woods WA, Sag OK. A Study of Cylinder-to-Cylinder Distribution of Charge in a Six Cylinder Spark Ignition Engine. ASME. J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. 1988;110(3):470-474. doi:10.1115/1.3240144.


Photo Credit: Mike Lucibella Dorota Porazinska uses a large pipette to sample the liquid water frozen inside of a drilled out cryoconite hole.
Diverse ecosystems that teem with life thrive just below the surface of many Antarctic glaciers.
Dorota Porazinska (front) Jack Darcy (center) and Pacifica Sommers hike up to their research site on the Canada Glacier.
Small, frozen holes full of liquid water and microorganisms entombed by ice dot the surfaces of glaciers. Researchers in Antarctica are studying them to glean new insights into how these habitats form, and learn what they might be able to reveal about ecosystems around the world.
"These holes that we're working with, they're completely isolated at least for several years from the surrounding environment, so they have a chance to develop very specific signatures of their own little ecosystem," said Dorota Porazinska, a researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
She and her team are studying how the microorganisms first form communities within them, and how the biodiversity within evolves over time under different starting conditions. Their research is funded by the National Science Foundation, which manages the U.S. Antarctic Program.
These natural water wells are formed when various kinds of debris collect on an icy surface, deposits scientists call cryoconite.
A frozen over cryoconite hole looks like a discolored patch of ice on the surface of the Canada Glacier.
"It's basically a fancy word for dirt on a glacier," said Pacifica Sommers, a research associate at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
These patches of dust and grime warm up as they absorb the sun's rays. The warmed debris melt into the ice they're resting on and form subsurface pools of water. The surface remains frozen because the cold air keeps ice on the topside from melting. Inside the glacier, the ice under the cryoconite continues to melt lowering the debris deeper into the glacier. Even when it's completely embedded in ice, the dirt is still creating these miniature wells of melted water.
Microbes within the dirt from the surrounding environment are part of the cryoconite and establish themselves in the holes. Though they're trapped, these creatures continue to thrive, creating their own hermetic ecosystem.
Dorota Porazinska (left) takes a sample of the material embedded in a fully frozen cryoconite hole while Jack Darcy uses an ice drill to dig out the dirt and microbes embedded within.
The results from this work will test theories about ecosystem formation. The cryoconite holes host creatures that range from simple organisms including bacteria, archaea and single-celled eukaryotes like algae and ciliates, to more complex organisms like fungi and even microscopic animals like rotifers and tardigrades. The scientists are working to better understand how the creatures that colonize the cryoconite holes form their communities and what are the important factors that structure the entombed ecosystems.
Complex ecosystems like forests and grasslands are so big and composed of such a diversity of life that it's impossible for scientists to track all the different variables at play as the habitat gets established. Even if it was possible to track everything, it would take many decades and numerous generations of researchers to wait for everything to take root.
The researchers hope that this work can take their understanding the next level. It builds on established experiments with microbes in small controlled environments like petri dishes that are so simple, they can only reveal a limited amount about ecosystems in the real world.
"The cryoconites are a kind of a bridge systems between these super complicated, many-variable systems and just a very very simple experiment," Sommers said.
The team is hoping that by studying these cryoconite systems, the next step up in complexity, they can start to extrapolate what they learn towards even more complex ecosystems.


Nebraska Standards. The Incas. NE.SS.6.(WLD). Grades 6-8 (World: Beginnings to 1000 CE).
SS 8.4.(WLD) History: Students will develop and apply historical knowledge and skills to research, analyze, and understand key concepts of past, current, and potential issues and events at the local, state, national, and international levels.
SS 8.4.1.(WLD) Students will analyze how major past and current world events are chronologically connected, and evaluate their impact(s) upon one another.
SS 8.4.4.(WLD) Students will identify causes of past and current events, issues, and problems.
SS 8.4.2.(WLD) Students will analyze the impact of people, events, ideas, and symbols upon world history using multiple types of sources.
SS 8.4.3.(WLD) Students will analyze and interpret historical and current events from multiple perspectives.


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Jimmy Spencer
Peter Green murder accused in court
THIS is the man accused of the Skelmanthorpe murder.
Andrew Hirst
james spencer,
James Spencer, 24, appeared before Dewsbury magistrates accused of murdering 65-year-old Peter Green.
Spencer, who used to play tuba in Honley Band, was accused of killing the pensioner when he appeared before the court yesterday morning.
Mr Green was found dead at a house on Lidgett Lane in Skelmanthorpe at 5.20am on Sunday.
He had died from multiple injuries.
Spencer did not enter a plea during the short hearing which lasted just 10 minutes.
Spencer looked dishevelled as he stood in the dock, flanked by two security guards.
He wore a bright red jumper, dark trousers and listened intently throughout the hearing.
He spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth.
His defence solicitor, Bob Carr, asked for the case to be transferred to Bradford Crown Court. The magistrates agreed to that request.
Neither the defendant's family nor friends were in court for the brief hearing yesterday morning.
Spencer was remanded in custody and will appear before Bradford Crown Court next Wednesday.
Honley
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Constraint Theory
Multidimensional Mathematical Model Management
George J. Friedman
Phan Phan (Autor)
Springer (Verlag)
XXIV, 220 Seiten
Packed with new material and research, this second edition of George Friedman's bestselling Constraint Theory remains an invaluable reference for all engineers, mathematicians, and managers concerned with modeling. As in the first edition, this text analyzes the way Constraint Theory employs bipartite graphs and presents the process of locating the "kernel of constraint" trillions of times faster than brute-force approaches, determining model consistency and computational allowability. Unique in its abundance of topological pictures of the material, this book balances left- and right-brain perceptions to provide a thorough explanation of multidimensional mathematical models. Much of the extended material in this new edition also comes from Phan Phan's PhD dissertation in 2011, titled "Expanding Constraint Theory to Determine Well-Posedness of Large Mathematical Models."
Praise for the first edition:
"Dr. George Friedman is indisputably the father of the very powerful methods of constraint theory." --Cornelius T. Leondes, UCLA
"Groundbreaking work. ... Friedman's accomplishment represents engineering at its finest. ... The credibility of the theory rests upon the formal proofs which are interspersed among the illuminating hypothetical dialog sequences between manager and analyst, which bring out distinctions that the organization must face, en route to accepting Friedman's work as essential to achieve quality control in developing and applying large models." --John N. Warfield
IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering
Auflage: 2nd ed. 2017
Verlagsgruppe: Springer International Publishing
9 farbige Abbildungen, 117 s/w Abbildungen
117 schwarz-weiße und 9 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie
EDV / Theorie / Programmieren / Allgemeines
Mathematik / Technik, Ingenieurwissenschaften, Handwerk
Mathematik / Informatik, Computer
Intelligenz / Künstliche Intelligenz
Künstliche Intelligenz - AI
George Friedman is a Professor of Practice in the Astronautical Engineering Department of the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California. He has developed and taught graduate courses in systems engineering with emphasis on the management of complexity and decision science. This book is the product of one of these courses. He has had over 45 years of experience in industry, retiring from the Northrop Corporation as their Corporate Vice President of Engineering and Technology. He worked on a wide variety of aerospace programs and served as a consultant to all branches of the Department of Defense, NASA, the National Science Foundation, and Department of Energy as well as to the NATO industrial advisory group. He was a founder of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), served as its third president, was elected a fellow and is on the editorial board of INCOSE's journal, Systems Engineering. He has also been a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) since its formation from the IRE and AIEE, was elected a fellow and was the vice president for publications of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems. He received the Baker Prize for the best paper published by all societies of the IEEE in 1970 -- the subject of the paper was Constraint Theory.
Phan Phan is a Lecturer in the Astronautical Engineering Department of the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California (USC). He has assisted and taught graduate courses in systems engineering, systems management, lean operations and economic analysis. He has had over 36 years of technical and managerial experience in government, military and various industries, including oil & gas exploration, commercial and military aircraft, unmanned sensors, and major weapon systems. His industry assignments included Mobil Research & Development, General Dynamics, Lockheed Aeronautical Systems, McDonnell Douglas and Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. As a registered Professional Engineer in California, he currently works as a reliability analyst with the Naval Surface Warfare Center -- Corona Division. He has also served in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an Engineering Duty Officer, attaining the rank of Captain, and currently assigned to Naval Sea Systems Command. His previous Navy assignments included Office of Naval Research/Naval Research Laboratory, Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems, Naval Space & Warfare Systems Command, Mobile Mine Assembly Group, Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach and Naval Shipyard Long Beach. He received his B.S. in Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Master of Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, MBA from California State University - Fullerton, M.S. in Systems Architecture & Engineering from USC, Master of Engineering Acoustics from the Naval Postgraduate School, and Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from USC. The topic of his doctoral dissertation was "Expanding Constraint Theory to Determine Well-Posedness of Large Mathematical Models," the main contribution to the second edition of this book.
Motivations: What is Constraint Theory and why is it important?- The Four-fold way: How to Perceive Complex Mathematical Models and Well-Posed Problems.- General Results: From Protomath to Math to Metamath.- Regular Relations: Searching for the Kernels of Constraint.- Discrete and Interval Relations: The Diminished Utility of Metamodels.- The Logical Structure of Constraint: Theory A Compact Summary.- Examples of Constraint Theory Applied to Real-World Problems.- Manager and Analyst Meet Again: Gists and Schizophrenia.
Mathematische Modellierung
EDV und Informationstechnologie
Theoretische Informatik
Mathematik für Informatiker
Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften
Technologie, Ingenieurswissenschaft, Landwirtschaft, Industrieprozesse
Technologie, allgemein
Mathematik für Ingenieure
Mathematik | Informatik
EDV | Informatik
Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
Mathematical theory of computation
Intelligence (AI) & Semantics


The Lehigh women's basketball team opened its season with a strong 73-39 win against the Kutztown Golden Bears at Stabler Arena on Tuesday, Nov. 6.
The starting lineup included returners junior forward Gena Grundhoffer and junior guard Camryn Buhr, who were the highest scoring players last season.
This season, the Mountain Hawks welcomed freshman forward Emma Grothaus. Playing in her first game, Grothaus tallied a total of 13 points. She hopes her performance will set the tone for the rest of the season.
Buhr and Grothaus led the team with 13 points each. Despite missing last season due to injury, senior guard Hailey Pascoe followed closely behind with 12.
The Mountain Hawks started with possession and remained in control throughout the game.
"We were determined to make a statement in this first game, and I think we did just that," Pascoe said.
Coach Sue Troyan said she couldn't be more impressed.
In the beginning of the first half, Kutztown tied the Mountain Hawks. However, the score never remained this close again.
"We set the tone both offensively and defensively by shutting out the opposing team but also staying strong on our offensive and letting nothing slip," Pascoe said.
The Mountain Hawks ended the first half leading 42-12. In addition to the Mountain Hawks' offense success, their defense also capitalized. Troyan said the defense players' hard work in practice showed through in the performance in Tuesday's game.
Buhr said that while it was a good first game, they still have a lot of work to do. Troyan said it was a great win for the team, and they know what to work on in the future.
This season opener sets the bar high for the Mountain Hawks as they prepare for their next game against Central Connecticut State at William H. Detrick Gymnasium on Saturday, Nov. 10.


So the app would still work if only people were able to get it. But Apple doesn't allow iOS users to download and install apps directly; you have to go through the App Store.
I don't think Apple had any choice here, other than pulling out of China.
And given that The Times's website has been blocked in China since 2012, the closed, proprietary App Store has given Chinese readers four years of access to The Times that they couldn't get over the open web.
Update (2017-01-11): See also: The Talk Show.
In the last few weeks, the Chinese government compelled Apple to remove New York Times apps from the Chinese version of the App Store. Then the Russian government had Apple and Google pull the app for LinkedIn, the professional social network, after the network declined to relocate its data on Russian citizens to servers in that country. Finally, last week, a Chinese regulator asked app stores operating in the country to register with the government, an apparent precursor to wider restrictions on app marketplaces.
But that's not the end of this story. The banning of apps highlights a deeper flaw in our modern communications architecture: It's the centralization of information, stupid.


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Queenie Jenkins can't cut a break. Well, apart from the one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Then there's her boss who doesn't seem to see her and her Caribbean family who don't seem to listen (if it's not Jesus or water rates, they're not interested). She's trying to fit in two worlds that don't really understand her. It's no wonder she's struggling.
She was named to be queen of everything. So why is she finding it so hard to rule her own life?
A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, QUEENIE will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity, and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way.
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Cat's Review of Bad to Be Good by Andrew Grey @andrewgreybooks@TTCBooksandmore
Longboat Key, Florida, is about as far from the streets of Detroit as a group of gay former mobsters can get, but threats from within their own organization forced them into witness protection—and a new life.
Richard Marsden is making the best of his second chance, tending bar and learning who he is outside of organized crime… and flirting with the cute single dad, Daniel, who comes in every Wednesday. But much like Richard, Daniel hides dark secrets that could get him killed. When Daniel's past as a hacker catches up to him, Richard has the skills to help Daniel out, but not without raising some serious questions and risking his own new identity and the friends who went into hiding with him.
Solving problems like Daniel's is what Richard does best—and what he's trying to escape. But finding a way to keep Daniel and his son safe without sacrificing the person he's becoming will take some imagination, and the stakes have never been higher. This time it's not just lives on the line—it's his heart…
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This book was so good. I am a huge Andrew Grey fan but this one surprised me. It is a little different in a way with his Main character and his two best friends being ex-mobsters in Wit-Sec. They have been moved from Detroit to Iowa to a tiny little island in the Florida Keys. Richard is a bartender and all three men are having it tough adjusting to their new jobs and life in the simple, quiet little town… until it's not so quiet anymore. It seems chaos follows them everywhere.
Daniel has a very quiet life almost a hermit working from home raising his young son. His sister comes on Wednesdays to give him a break. He goes to a local bar for a beer or two and a plate of fish and chips. But that isn't the real reason he goes. The new bartender is gorgeous. He swore he wouldn't get involved with a man because if things don't work out it isn't just him that gets hurt. Coby will too. Then his past catches up to him and he gets very confused about things. Is Richard really trying to help or is he involved?
I think this is one of my favorite books by Andrew Grey if I had to choose. (they are all amazing) It's just the different characters, the touch of mystery and danger, and the story lines and plots. Of course, there is a cute kid that steals your heart (and the book lol)
If you like mobsters (ex in this case) Wit-Sec, hackers, single dads, cute kids, and some hot sex you will love this book.
Andrew Grey is the author of over 100 works of Contemporary Gay Romantic fiction. After twenty-seven years in corporate America, he has now settled down in Central Pennsylvania with his husband, Dominic, and his laptop. An interesting ménage. Andrew grew up in western Michigan with a father who loved to tell stories and a mother who loved to read them. Since then he has lived throughout the country and traveled throughout the world.
He is a recipient of the RWA Centennial Award, has a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and now writes full-time. Andrew's hobbies include collecting antiques, gardening, and leaving his dirty dishes anywhere but in the sink (particularly when writing). He considers himself blessed with an accepting family, fantastic friends, and the world's most supportive and loving partner. Andrew currently lives in beautiful, historic Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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Broken Little Robots: an uplifting play about depression
Three Drama graduates from the University of Hull are bringing fear, anxiety, and depression to the Hull Truck Theatre with their show 'Broken Little Robots'… but they are also bringing optimism, celebration, and hope for the future.
Rachael Abbey, Lizi Perry, and Jess Morley, collectively known as The Roaring Girls are set to perform their 'positive play about mental health' on the studio stage from Wednesday the 13th to Friday the 15th of July – also starring musician and composer James Frewer, who provides witty and poignant musical numbers as well as adding a male perspective to the conversation. The girls kindly invited a HYMS Student Blog representative to attend one of their rehearsals and interview them about their project. As both a medical student and theatre enthusiast, I was eager to learn more about this unique show and the motivation behind it.
The concept for the play began – like many good things – over tea and cake! Rachael explained: "We came up with this idea about mental health and what it feels like to be broken. All the work we do is autobiographical. When we first started, Jess and I were just sat in a room together with a cup of tea and some cake, and we talked about anything and everything. We've both suffered with depression. So we compared experiences and then did a lot of automatic writing where you go straight into writing what's in your head – and we actually use some of that verbatim in the play."
Jess described her experience writing and performing the show: "It was very therapeutic for me, the whole process. Because up until Rachel saying 'do you want to do this show with us?' I hadn't really talked to anyone about my mental health apart from my family. My friends didn't really know much about it. So it felt like a big step for me to talk about our brains and mental health in front of an audience of strangers! But [during the writing process] once I started talking, I couldn't stop – it was great to know I wasn't alone. The way it started was conversational and that's the style of the show. We do talk to the audience, though they don't have to talk back! Like the Let's Talk campaign, we wanted to talk openly about mental health and try to help break down that stigma. We hoped that if we shared our experiences they might resonate with someone. Or if someone doesn't have any experience of mental illness they can get a better understanding."
The Roaring Girls debuted a prototype of the play in 2015 at Assemble Fest, a local arts festival on Newland Avenue in Hull. They created a 25-minute piece for the festival and were astonished by the overwhelmingly positive response they received, a reaction none of them had been expecting. Rachel said: "We had people come up to us at the end and say 'I really needed to see this today' or asking for advice. You end up having really intense conversations." Representatives from the Hull and East Yorkshire branch of the mental health charity MIND were also in attendance at the Assemble Fest performance and enjoyed the show so much they invited the girls to perform a snippet of it at their 40th anniversary ball.
'Broken Little Robots' is now much more evolved than the piece they premiered last year at Assemble Fest. Lizi explained: "After Assemble Fest we found there was so much more we wanted to go into that we just didn't have time for. So now we've had the time to go deeper into it, do some more research, and be able to build it into something bigger! We have all new music, all new sections, it's been totally reworked and developed in lot of ways."
The girls are now looking forward to sharing their show with more people at the Hull Truck Theatre and emphasised their willingness to speak to anyone who wanted to talk about their own experience with mental health or wanted to know where they could go to get help. Jess said: "We have a card that we give out at the end of the show with places people can go for help like Samaritans and MIND. We're not pretending to be experts and we wouldn't want to try and tell people what will work for them – it's so individual, we've seen the differences between the three of us. We are more than happy to stick around and have drinks with people at the end and have a chat!"
Summing up the nature and aims of the show, Lizi noted: "We didn't want it to be depressing just because it's a show about depression. And we didn't want to just say, 'let's talk about it'. We wanted to actually have that conversation on stage. We wanted to foster further conversations by starting with an invitation to join our personal conversation."
It was a pleasure meeting and speaking to Rachael, Lizi, and Jess. Their passion for performing and the show's subject matter was very apparent and inspiring. After watching the girls and James rehearse, I could not recommend the show more highly. If you see one thing in Hull this week, make it 'Broken Little Robots'.
Broken Little Robots runs at Hull Truck Theatre from the 13th to the 15th of July. For tickets, click here.
Thank you to The Roaring Girls and James Frewer for their time and words. Thank you to Vicki Taylor, Communications Officer at Hull Truck Theatre, for arranging the meeting and guiding me through the corridor maze. All photos used with permission from Hull Truck Theatre and credited to Facet Photography (www.facetphotography.co.uk)
The Roaring Girls (@theroaringgirls) were interviewed by Alexandra Abel.
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Vaultbank plans to become one of the first companies to issue a security token, which is expected to generate a steady stream of quarterly dividend payments generated from proceeds from a diversified and insured portfolio of loan assets that the company plans to manage in partnership with a hedge fund Random Forest Capital. It is assumed that the distinguishing feature of this token will be, firstly, the volatility lowered relative to other tokens due to the VB-token's security provided with stable cash flows from the growing portfolio of ABS, and secondly, increased liquidity, since the listing will be held on the Exchange Orderbook - a joint Vaultbank project and Ambisafe. The company plans to diversify its business by providing customers with solutions in the field of payments and currency conversion - their distinctive feature will be the binding to the client's cryptic help client's Vaultbank debit card, which will allow it to pay both tokens and crypto-currencies belonging to it.
Stage of product development (complete) Most solutions are only conceptually developed, i.e. there is no MVP - this refers to the token as a financial instrument and a debit lifestyle card, as well as all related payment solutions - it is noteworthy that the timing of an exemplary implementation of all this is not voiced by the company. To the number of functioning, services can be attributed only Orderbook.
Functions of the Token The Vaultbank Token represents for investors a non-voting share in the Vaultbank, in proportion to which the company will pay quarterly dividends from the cash flows generated by the portfolio of insured credit assets managed by the company and its partners. It is also assumed that it will serve as one of the possible settlement currencies in the multi-currency debit card from Vaultbank.
High level of competition in the market for electronic payments from both traditional banks and IT-start-ups / finteh-companies. Orientation in connection with getting into the regulatory field of the United States and Singapore to an accredited investor narrows the circle of potential clients of the fund. The prejudice of investors regarding ABS and especially MBS - market acceptance of this financial instrument is also under question because of the possibility to get access to these same securities through ETF-funds, which can also experiment with leverage and portfolio composition. Risk of a decline in activity in the ICO market: financing instruments like IPOs or ventures have historically evolved through the "pay for the idea - give for development - finance the scaling of the project." Naturally, each step in this chain is accompanied by a decrease in the number of potential candidates (however, and the growth in the volume of the average transaction, too). As for ICO as a tool for crowdfunding, it is still at the starting point, which confirms the hypothesis about the transient nature of investors' hype around the market.
Due to the two-level structure of the token as a structural financial product and the Vaultbank leverage used, the real level of risk to which investors will be exposed is not obvious, since it will be necessary to rely on the objectivity of the rating of ABS tranches, and obviously will not match the declared reliability level of instruments with fixed yield. The positioning of Vaultbank's investment product as an opportunity to diversify investors' portfolios - in particular, to protect a part of the proceeds from interest rate risk, is also not particularly relevant because of the opportunity to participate in ABS insensitivity to interest rate dynamics through ETF - a much more traditional and liquid instrument, than potentially VB. Vaultbank's payment solutions even conceptually lose to the market products and concepts of competitors, both in terms of product economics and functionality, even conceptually. To date, the company is not ready to provide any of the services/products / services described to its potential retail customers, nor does it provide a coherent product development roadmap with prescribed time frames.
The owners of the token do not have the opportunity to vote, i.e. influence decisions made by management, could potentially affect the stability of dividend policy. Soft cap at the level of 10 million USD and a hard cap of 100 million USD seem excessive in comparison with the pre-money valuation of the company, which was received at the stage of work with venture investors, in the amount of 7 million USD. The amount of token distribution to the team - 32.5% of the total offer of tokens - seems excessive.
The absence of specialists from the team with experience in trust management in collective investment funds. The unbalanced structure of the team is an obvious bias towards financial market specialists and, as a result, a shortage (in the official documents of the company there is only one person with a suitable background) for successful development of payment and retail solutions of Vaultbank. Parallel employment of members of the management core in other companies / projects is a risk of a spread of attention, which may affect the quality of management decisions. The team and its individual members lack the experience of deploying a project of this scale.
In general, Vaultbank with its solution enters 3 markets: the payment market, structured financial products (it is in this area that the VB-token should be considered, and not positioned as a high-yield low-risk instrument) and, to some extent, the intermediary services market ICO, because among the plans Vaultbank - building in the Orderbook - crypto-exchange, a joint project Vaultbank and Ambisafe - a full-fledged marketplace, specializing in trading of digital assets. Considering the segment of payments and debit card products, we can not fail to note the high level of competition from both traditional banking and IT-startups / filter companies, as well as "intermediate" non-bank market participants like payment crypto institutions like Worldcore, in the future Kevin and others, as well as more "traditional" services in the face of the same PayPal. As for the structure and dynamics of the market of non-monetary payments, it is not homogeneous in terms of maturity and, accordingly, dynamics - CAGR for 2015-2020. promises to be 5.8% for developed countries, and about 20% for developing countries. In turn, the ICO market is experiencing rapid growth, called by many experts a "bubble" - so, by June 2017, the total amount of funds raised during the ICO exceeded the amount of venture capital investments in block-startups over the past 12 months, with the entire 2Q17 the ICO market doubled its volumes on a monthly basis - at the current time in just 2017 within the ICO was collected about 1.95 billion USD. At the same time, other intermediaries interested in the market make their personal projections - for example, according to COMSA calculations, in 2018 the ICO market volume may reach 5.3 billion USD, but there is certainly a risk of correction as investors realize the insolvency of the majority from projects. As for the structured products market, despite its colossal volumes (about 9.2 trillion USD), among the non-institutional groups on which Vaultbank is counting, stigmatization in relation to ABS, which is associated with the crisis of the mortgage market in 2007-2008.
The investment product offered by the clients, represented by the VB-token, combines features that are rarely found in one tool in the financial markets, being thus a structured product - first, it has the features of fixed income instruments, because it is designed to provide quarterly dividend payments, and a more or less acceptable level of risk to customers, in addition to diversifying the portfolio of ABS, provides cooperation with PFSC (Portfolio Financial Servicing Corporation), which will take over BOJ obligation to collect credit receipts and the direction of their desired company (Vaultbank) in case the primary lenders (originators) can not cope with this task; secondly, having stability, theoretically (!) comparable to fixed-income, due to the statistical techniques used by the partner Vaultbank (Random Forest Capital) for the compilation and management of the investment portfolio, based on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI ), this portfolio is able to show the superannuation at 8-11% per annum on a non-armbase basis relative to its risk category, The quantitative approach allows to optimally balance the low-risk and high-risk ABS in the portfolio; Thirdly, the credit line (leverage credit line), which plays the role of the shoulder, provides an even greater ROE of investments, which, combined with the reinvestment strategy of portfolio returns, allows the portfolio to be expanded at an accelerated pace, thereby allowing for a fixed token offering, growth of its internal and actual cost. Thus, the token gives its owners the opportunity to win not only from dividends, but also from the upside in the face of capital growth. An additional advantage here is also the fact that Vaultbank will always reserve a certain number of funds for maintaining the token rate. In addition, given the listing of VB on its own site called Orderbook, the company will also monitor the liquidity of the instrument - in particular, due to the weakened regime of handling the token, it is possible to organize the marketing of the instrument in the media, which could potentially affect its recognition and, liquidity. In addition, the divisibility of the tool resulting from the block-based nature of the token also automatically makes it accessible to a wider range of investors, unlike the traditional securities market with its lots. However, if Vaultbank's investment products represent at least some interest for potential customers, although there are a lot of traditional analogues in the face of the same ETFs on MBS, then with retail products (debit cards) and payment solutions, things are somewhat worse - they are interesting conceptually: free opening and maintenance of cards, dumping commissions for transactions, multicurrency, support for crypto-currency purses, i.e. the ability to pay tokens and crypto-currencies for standard purchases, various bonuses, albeit shifted towards high-end services like hotels and restaurants - however, the sphere of payments and retail products are currently very competitive, characterized by low barriers to entry to the market: in addition, This market contains solutions whose authors went much further - for example, they abolished not only the service fee, but also for transactions, and also allowed to integrate accounts from different banks in one card (Kevin).
Vaultbank is building a business model of a crypto-bank with the signs of a "universal" from the point of view of the services rendered by a financial institution - among the proposed solutions are present as retail products like the lifestyle of a debit card and its various variations aimed at different categories of customers , and the tool for indirect access to capital markets in the face of the VB-token, there are also a number of payment solutions - mainly in the sphere of linking crypto-currency wallets with traditional payment instruments such as debit the card. The company implements a commission model of monetizing its services, ensuring its competitiveness through the establishment of dumping rates, which is possible due to cooperation with organizations such as Volopa. The maintenance and opening of Vaultbank accounts are free of charge. The token emitted by the company is given the role of an alternative means of payment in everyday transactions due to the system of its automatic conversion into Fiat. It is noteworthy that the token is simultaneously an instrument of participation in the returns generated by the portfolio of loan assets (ABS), in fact, representing a kind of ABS of the second order, i.e. being secured by acquired Vaultbank ABS: MBS (mortgage-backed security), RMBS (residential mortgage-backed security), assets secured by automobile and student loans, factoring contracts, etc. In the future, Vaultbank plans to turn into a marketplace for digital assets of other companies: this is possible thanks to a joint project of Vaultbank and Ambisafe - Ethereum based Exchange Orderbook, which offers a platform for primary and secondary tokens markets for various projects.
Vaultbank organizes the ICO mainly to obtain sufficient capital to form a diversified portfolio of insured credit assets with a shoulder in the proportion of 4-10: 1 (depending on the results of the ICO) -such as the company gives the following structure of spending of collected funds: 80% will go to the fund, 17% - for business development, and the remaining 3% - for operational activities. Since Vaultbank decided to integrate a revenue-generating mechanism into its own token (however, still depriving shareholders of the right to vote, in effect, giving their tokens the status of peculiar privileged shares) in the form of quarterly dividend payments to owners approved by the board of directors, it was decided to follow the requirements in the sphere of circulation Securities approved by the regulators in the United States and Singapore, however, in a slightly facilitated form - thus, Vaultbank will both disclose detailed information on the results of the activity the ability to publish data on the financial results of the organization - all this will be done in the form of publication of quarterly and annual reports to external users. In addition, Vaultbank implements a scenario approach to planning the development of its project, depending on the amount collected in the main sales funds: for example, soft cap is set at $ 10 million (otherwise, money will be returned to investors). The company sets three key fundraising plans for itself: in the event of achieving 20-25 million levies the company will be able to leverage 4-6: 1 and, accordingly, a 150 million credit line and a 175 million-dollar (USD) portfolio credit assets; at USD 50 million - leverage 6-8: 1, at least 300 million credit line and investment portfolio of USD 350 million +; at 100 million USD - leverage 8-10: 1, 900 million credit line and a portfolio of assets under the management of a volume of 1 billion USD. Key risks and uncertainties: 1. The owners of the token do not have the opportunity to vote, i.e. to influence decisions made by management, could potentially affect the stability of dividend policy; 2. Soft cap at the level of 10 million USD and hard cap in the amount of 100 million USD seem excessive in comparison with the pre-money valuation of the company received at the stage of work with venture investors, in the amount of 7 million USD; 3. The volume of distribution of tokens to the team - 32.5% of the total offer of tokens - seems excessive.
Although the company only provides data about its company at the level of the management core, without affecting junior positions like the analyst, however, given the conventionality of the role of the latter in the team, one can safely make meaningful conclusions about the entire team on the information that is. So, we have a well-staffed team for a hedge fund that uses quantitative methods of trading - for example, a specialist in the field of debt and structured products and shares with more than thirty years of experience, working in such large financial institutions as BofA, BMo, and KPMG, the role of CTO is performed by Austin Trombley - data-scientist and data engineer, however, with ten years of management and consulting experience in 7 Fortune 500 companies, however, who headed the data strategy in Prosper (lending-marketplace) and co-founded Random Forest Capital is a quantitative credit hedge fund. There is also a blocking specialist (however, in this project the role of the block is not obvious and indirect) - Patrick Baron, CBO, head of sales and business development in Ambisafe, a partner of Vaultbank. One of the features of the team of this project is traced here - many of its members are working in partner companies in parallel, which is a negative signal from the point of view of focusing on business processes of Vaultbank (for example, Christopher Cummock is also a principal in Cummock Asset Management). At the same time, the team is seriously skewed towards financial market professionals, while only one member of the team - John Castaldo, MD - has the necessary background in the sphere of payments. Moreover, in the list of employees to be hired in the near future, such specialists are also absent. For investors, this can serve as a signal about which of the branches of the business is risking process. In general, at the level of entrepreneurial experience, none of the members of the team had previously developed projects of this level. At the same time, despite the compliance with competencies in the financial markets, none of the members of the team had previously engaged in trust management in collective investment funds - only Christopher Cummock has almost six years of experience in portfolio management in the field of wealth management, which, incidentally, does not quite fit, since in trading different amounts mean fundamentally different approaches to trading and risk management, even if it is a question of quantitative trading.


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Tom Brady Set NFL Record In Patriots Vs. Bengals, Passed Peyton Manning
by Marcus Kwesi O'Mard on Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 12:00PM
Tom Brady hasn't stopped erasing Peyton Manning's name from certain pages in the NFL record book.
The New England Patriots quarterback set the NFL record for most seasons with at least 20 touchdown passes Sunday during his team's win over the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 15, according to the NFL. Manning and Brady were tied for the record coming into the season, but Brady snatched it for himself Sunday in the first quarter when James White ran 23 yards out of the backfield for the game's opening score.
With @TomBrady's 23-yard pass TD to James White, Brady now has 17 seasons with 20+ pass TD, surpassing Peyton Manning (16 such seasons) for the most in NFL history.#NEvsCIN | #Patriots
— NFL Research (@NFLResearch) December 15, 2019
Later in the game, Brady later threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to N'Keal Harry. That play was the 538th TD pass of Brady's career, moving him one behind Manning for the NFL record. Although Brady might pass Manning for that more hallowed mark in the near future, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees will compete fiercely with Brady for as long they continue to play.
Heading into tonight's Colts-Saints game in New Orleans, here's a look at the NFL's all-time leaders in TD passes:
🏈Peyton Manning, 539
🏈Tom Brady, 538
🏈Drew Brees, 537
Imagine leapfrogging Manning and Brady on the same night to become the NFL's all-time leading TD passer…
Don't feel too badly for Manning, as he's used to stepping aside for Brady.
Thumbnail photo via David Kohl/USA TODAY Sports Images
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2018 Year of Adventure or maybe just a year of ACTION!!!!
bananas slice in them. I can tell you that since that day my year has been filled with adventures of all kinds but mostly the type that most people would find as boring as watching grass grow. Not everyone has that same sense of adventure that I do.
This led me to thinking of another "A" word...ACTION!!!! Now let me tell you...this year has been FILLED with action. Again things that most people would have no interest in but I am here to tell you that there is no rest for the weary.
Every day brings a new "to-do" list, things that must be dealt with NOW and more to attend to than I can say grace over. I am not complaining at all but I could handle it if things settled down a little bit. You know, just a smidge.
I am taking care of the house and dog mostly alone, except for some assistance by Zyoh on the weekend, but a lot of our time is spent on things that are part of the "new normal" rather than the once customary. At the ripe age of 60 I am a better, if much slower, housekeeper than I have ever been before, my daddy would tell you that is not saying much, but I do work hard to try to keep things clean, mostly organized(in a way that works for me) and as uncluttered as I can considering that I am a clutter magnet. Trust me, there is a LOT of action involved in all of this. Sometimes I wonder where I get the energy to get the things done that I do, mostly because I would like to go back and tap another keg so I could get even more done.
I am trying to take better care of myself. I guess "better late than never" truly is a good motto. If I don't take care of me, nobody will and if I don't take care of me, I can't take care of Steffie and the little dog. Steffie may not be at home right now but there are still many things to take care of on her behalf. As for the little dog well, she is the Queen of the Castle and she never lets you forget it for a moment, so there is a great deal to do in order to meet the demands of Her Majesty.
I go to meetings, doctor appointments, take care of business, visit Miss Teffers and meet myself coming and going. This in the midst of never knowing what little surprise is going to gobsmack me next.


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require 'json'
module PPC
  module API
    class Qihu
      class Bulk < Qihu
        Service = 'account'

        def self.get_all_object( auth, ids )
          #文档上面写的输入类型是String?
          body = { 'idList' =>  ids.map(&:to_s) }
          response = request( auth, Service, 'getAllObjects', body )
          process( response, 'fileId' ){ |x| x }
        end

        def self.get_file_state( auth, id )
          body = { 'fileId' => id }
          response = request( auth, Service, 'getFileState' , body )
          process( response, '' ){ |x| x }
        end

        def self.download( auth, ids = nil)
          result = get_all_object(auth, ids)
          field_id = result[:result]
          loop do
            status = get_file_state(auth, field_id)
            return status if status[:result]['isGenerated'] == 'success'
            sleep 15
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Giertrud Johnsdatter Botterud
1. Giertrud Johnsdatter Botterud was born 12 Dec 1809, Botterud, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 17 Dec 1809, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO (daughter of John Clemetsen Stahlsberg and Anne Samuelsdatter Kleve).
Giertrud married Michel Olsen Mageli. Michel (son of Ole Torgersen Mageli and Lisbet Jensdatter Wedum) was born 19 Mar 1794, Hjelmstad, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 30 Mar 1794, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO. [Group Sheet]
John Michelsen Botterud was born 30 Apr 1837, Botterud, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 25 Jun 1837, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Ingeborg Michelsdatter Botterud was born 30 Jul 1841, Botterud, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 08 Aug 1841, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
2. John Clemetsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 23 Oct 1763, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 23 Oct 1763, Øyer, Oppland, NO (son of Clemet Johnsen Stahlsberg and Giertrud Olsdatter Lunke).
John married Anne Samuelsdatter Kleve 29 May 1805, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO. Anne (daughter of Samuel Erichsen Kleve and Goro Frandsdatter Nedremoe) was born 08 Feb 1780, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 13 Feb 1780, Øyer, Oppland, NO. [Group Sheet]
3. Anne Samuelsdatter Kleve was born 08 Feb 1780, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 13 Feb 1780, Øyer, Oppland, NO (daughter of Samuel Erichsen Kleve and Goro Frandsdatter Nedremoe).
Samuel Johnsen Botterud was born 05 Feb 1806, Botterud, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 16 Feb 1806, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Clemet Johnsen Botterud was born 05 Feb 1806, Botterud, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 16 Feb 1806, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Johannes Johnsen Botterud was born 12 Dec 1809, Botterud, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 17 Dec 1809, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
1. Giertrud Johnsdatter Botterud was born 12 Dec 1809, Botterud, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 17 Dec 1809, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Anne Johnsdatter Botterud was born 06 Dec 1813, Botterud, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 12 Dec 1813, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
4. Clemet Johnsen Stahlsberg was born Abt 1731, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO (son of John Clemetsen Stahlsberg and Ingeborg Larsdatter Wedum); died Bef 11 Oct 1809, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 11 Oct 1809, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Clemet married Giertrud Olsdatter Lunke 24 Oct 1755, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO. Giertrud (daughter of Ole Johannessen Lunke and Marie Monsdatter Skiønsberg) was born Abt 1731, Lunke, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 29 Sep 1815, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 29 Sep 1815, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO. [Group Sheet]
5. Giertrud Olsdatter Lunke was born Abt 1731, Lunke, Øyer, Oppland, NO (daughter of Ole Johannessen Lunke and Marie Monsdatter Skiønsberg); died Bef 29 Sep 1815, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 29 Sep 1815, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
John Clemetsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 30 Oct 1757, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 30 Oct 1757, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 24 Oct 1762, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 24 Oct 1762, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Ømbiør Clemetsdatter Stahlsberg was born Bef 25 Feb 1759, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 25 Feb 1759, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 22 Aug 1812, Solberg, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 22 Aug 1812, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Ole Clemetsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 04 Mar 1761, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 04 Mar 1761, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
2. John Clemetsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 23 Oct 1763, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 23 Oct 1763, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Marie Clemetsdatter Stalsberg was born Bef 26 Jul 1767, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 26 Jul 1767, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 26 Jul 1767, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Johannes Clemetsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 17 Jul 1768, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 17 Jul 1768, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 15 Feb 1799, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 15 Feb 1799, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Clemet Clemetsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 17 Nov 1771, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 17 Nov 1771, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Samuel Clemetsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 16 Jan 1774, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 16 Jan 1774, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Ole Clemetsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 29 Oct 1775, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 29 Oct 1775, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
6. Samuel Erichsen Kleve was born Bef 14 Jan 1748, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 14 Jan 1748, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO (son of Erich Samuelsen Kleve and Anne Østensdatter Enge); died 15 Mar 1830, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 26 Mar 1830, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Samuel married Goro Frandsdatter Nedremoe 16 Jun 1779, Øyer, Oppland, NO. Goro (daughter of Frands Pedersen Nermo and Anne Tostensdatter Lie) was born Bef 24 Jan 1762, Nermoe, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 24 Jan 1762, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 02 Oct 1782, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 02 Oct 1782, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO. [Group Sheet]
7. Goro Frandsdatter Nedremoe was born Bef 24 Jan 1762, Nermoe, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 24 Jan 1762, Øyer, Oppland, NO (daughter of Frands Pedersen Nermo and Anne Tostensdatter Lie); died Bef 02 Oct 1782, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 02 Oct 1782, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
3. Anne Samuelsdatter Kleve was born 08 Feb 1780, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 13 Feb 1780, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Erich Samuelsen Kleve was born 14 Mar 1782, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 17 Mar 1782, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
8. John Clemetsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 27 Dec 1706, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 27 Dec 1706, Øyer, Oppland, NO (son of Clemet Johnsen Stahlsberg and Anne Knudsdatter Hov); died Bef 27 Jan 1784, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 27 Jan 1784, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
John married Ingeborg Larsdatter Wedum. Ingeborg (daughter of Lars Evindsen Wedum and Anne Guttormsdatter Kaldor) was born Bef 16 Feb 1704, Vedum, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 16 Feb 1704, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 13 Jul 1774, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 13 Jul 1774, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO. [Group Sheet]
9. Ingeborg Larsdatter Wedum was born Bef 16 Feb 1704, Vedum, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 16 Feb 1704, Øyer, Oppland, NO (daughter of Lars Evindsen Wedum and Anne Guttormsdatter Kaldor); died Bef 13 Jul 1774, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 13 Jul 1774, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
4. Clemet Johnsen Stahlsberg was born Abt 1731, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 11 Oct 1809, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 11 Oct 1809, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Anne Johnsdatter Stahlsberg was born Abt 1735; died Bef 13 Sep 1805, Skjønsberg, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 13 Sep 1805, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Johannes Johnsen Stahlsberg was born Abt 1737, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 04 Oct 1789, Glømmehagen, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 04 Oct 1789, Glømmehagen, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Ranne Johnsdatter Stahlsberg was born Bef 15 Apr 1740, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 15 Apr 1740, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Peder Johnsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 01 Jan 1742, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 01 Jan 1742, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 26 Feb 1807, Prestegardshaugen, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 26 Feb 1807, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Samuel Johnsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 09 Feb 1744, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 09 Feb 1744, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Ole Johnsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 22 May 1746, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 22 May 1746, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Lars Johnsen Stahlsberg was born Bef 09 Feb 1749, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 09 Feb 1749, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died 13 Nov 1829, Strangstad, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 27 Nov 1829, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
10. Ole Johannessen Lunke was born Bef 11 Apr 1706, Lunke, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 11 Apr 1706, Øyer, Oppland, NO (son of Johannes Nilssen Lunke and Giertrud Biørnsdatter Moe); died Bef 08 Feb 1762, Lunke, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 08 Feb 1762, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Ole married Marie Monsdatter Skiønsberg Bef 1731. Marie (daughter of Mons Gudbrandsen Skiønsberg and Ragnhild Halvorsdatter Høffren) was born Bef 24 Sep 1702, Skjønsberg, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 24 Sep 1702, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 23 Jan 1789, Lunke, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 23 Jan 1789, Øyer, Oppland, NO. [Group Sheet]
11. Marie Monsdatter Skiønsberg was born Bef 24 Sep 1702, Skjønsberg, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 24 Sep 1702, Øyer, Oppland, NO (daughter of Mons Gudbrandsen Skiønsberg and Ragnhild Halvorsdatter Høffren); died Bef 23 Jan 1789, Lunke, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 23 Jan 1789, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
5. Giertrud Olsdatter Lunke was born Abt 1731, Lunke, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 29 Sep 1815, Stalsberg, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 29 Sep 1815, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Halvor Olsen Lunke was born Bef 16 Aug 1739, Lunke, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 16 Aug 1739, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 30 Dec 1801, Lunke, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 30 Dec 1801, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Ragnhild Olsdatter Lunke was born Bef 23 Jun 1743, Lunke, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 23 Jun 1743, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 16 Jan 1770, Gillebo, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 16 Jan 1770, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
12. Erich Samuelsen Kleve was born Bef 17 May 1712, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 17 May 1712, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO (son of Samuel Olsen Tande and Beret Olsdatter Glømme); died Bef 13 Feb 1771, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 13 Feb 1771, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Erich married Anne Østensdatter Enge 20 Jun 1747, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO. Anne (daughter of Østen Amundsen Enge and Lisbet Clemetsdatter Stahlsberg) was born Bef 04 May 1727, Enge, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 04 May 1727, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 01 Nov 1787, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 01 Nov 1787, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO. [Group Sheet]
13. Anne Østensdatter Enge was born Bef 04 May 1727, Enge, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 04 May 1727, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO (daughter of Østen Amundsen Enge and Lisbet Clemetsdatter Stahlsberg); died Bef 01 Nov 1787, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 01 Nov 1787, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
6. Samuel Erichsen Kleve was born Bef 14 Jan 1748, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 14 Jan 1748, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died 15 Mar 1830, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 26 Mar 1830, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Lisbet Erichsdatter Kleve was born Bef 21 Sep 1749, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 21 Sep 1749, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Anne Ericsdatter Kleve was born Bef 25 Jul 1751, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 25 Jul 1751, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 08 Nov 1802, Kaldor, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 08 Nov 1802, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Østen Erichsen Kleve was born Bef 15 Sep 1753, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 15 Sep 1753, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died 04 Apr 1830, v. Torstad, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 16 Apr 1830, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Siver Erichsen Kleve was born Bef 29 Sep 1755, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 29 Sep 1755, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Ole Erichsen Kleve was born Bef 14 Nov 1756, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 14 Nov 1756, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Johannes Erichsen Kleve was born Bef 04 Mar 1759, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 04 Mar 1759, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Amund Erichsen Kleve was born Bef 12 Apr 1761, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 12 Apr 1761, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Berit Ericsdatter Kleve was born Bef 10 Oct 1762, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 10 Oct 1762, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died 12 Sep 1846, Torstad, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 25 Sep 1846, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
14. Frands Pedersen Nermo was born Abt 1732 (son of Peder Frandsen Nærmoe and Goro Amundsdatter Moshuus); died Bef 15 Jun 1791, Nermoe, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 15 Jun 1791, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Frands married Anne Tostensdatter Lie 04 Jun 1755, Øyer, Oppland, NO. Anne (daughter of Tosten Johannessen Hong and Marit Olsdatter Rindal) was born Abt 1734; died Bef 02 Jul 1771, Nermoe, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 02 Jul 1771, Øyer, Oppland, NO. [Group Sheet]
15. Anne Tostensdatter Lie was born Abt 1734 (daughter of Tosten Johannessen Hong and Marit Olsdatter Rindal); died Bef 02 Jul 1771, Nermoe, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 02 Jul 1771, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Peder Frandsen Nedremoe was born Bef 06 Mar 1757, Nermoe, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 06 Mar 1757, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 18 Jun 1822, Nermoe, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 18 Jun 1822, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Tosten Frandsen Nedremoe was born Bef 22 Jul 1759, Nermoe, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 22 Jul 1759, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 1785.
7. Goro Frandsdatter Nedremoe was born Bef 24 Jan 1762, Nermoe, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 24 Jan 1762, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 02 Oct 1782, Kleve, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was buried 02 Oct 1782, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO.
Christoffer Frandsen Nedremoe was born Bef 27 Jan 1765, Nermoe, Øyer, Oppland, NO; was christened 27 Jan 1765, Tretten, Øyer, Oppland, NO; died Bef 1785.


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Q: Setting Auto Layout constraints of IBOutlet in code If I have a UILabel that is an IBOutlet, why can't I just set its Auto Layout constraints in code without also having to set at least one constraint in Storyboard?
For example, say I have an IBOutlet UILabel that has no constraints set in storyboard, and I try to center it in superview:
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.label.setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints(false)
    self.label.centerInSuperview()
}

Then I have a UIView extension for handling the auto layout code as follows:
extension UIView {

    func centerInSuperview() {
        self.centerVerticallyInSuperview()
        self.centerHorizontallyInSuperview()
    }

    func centerVerticallyInSuperview() {
        self.superview?.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(
            item: self,
            attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.CenterY,
            relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.Equal,
            toItem: self.superview,
            attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.CenterY,
            multiplier: 1,
            constant: 0))
    }

    func centerHorizontallyInSuperview() {
        self.superview?.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(
            item: self,
            attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.CenterX,
            relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.Equal,
            toItem: self.superview,
            attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.CenterX,
            multiplier: 1,
            constant: 0))
    }

}

The above code works fine if the UILabel is created from code:
var label = UILabel()
label.text = "Label"
self.view.addSubview(label)
label.setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints(false)
label.centerInSuperview()

But if the UILabel is an outlet with no constraints set in storyboard it doesn't work. Curiously if the outlet has one random constraint set in storyboard (like top space to superview), then it also works.

A: If a storyboard or NIB has auto layout enabled for it, Xcode will not allow a view to lack constraints. Select the view and bring up the Size inspector. You will see a note to the effect that "The selected views have no constraints. At build time, explicit left, top, width, and height constraints will be generated for the view."
In general, Xcode will provide constraints to eliminate ambiguity in the layout.
You can work around this by adding sufficient constraints to the view but marking them as placeholders (remove at build time). This will leave the view without constraints.
You could also add constraints, set up outlets to the constraints, and remove them programmatically before adding other constraints.

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Playbetr to Host Brazil's Top Influencers MC Kekel and Natalia G at Paris Saint-Germain Match
Mar 11, 2022 10:00 EST
PARIS, March 11, 2022 (Newswire.com)
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The two influencers will share their experience of the very best of Paris, including the ultimate VIP experience at Parc de Princes stadium with a players' pitchside warm-up experience and a VIP box to observe the game. Additionally, the influencers will be gifted an official Paris Saint-Germain game day jersey from the team and Playbetr.
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Asia > Central Asia > Afghanistan > Northwest Afghanistan > Balkh
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Tomb of Khoja Abu Nasar Parsa in the center of town
Balkh is a town in Afghanistan.
Balkh was the capital of the historic region of Bactria, even before the arrival of Alexander the Great, and of a Greco-Bactrian Kingdom afterward. It was destroyed many times over by the likes of Ghengis Khan and Timur-i-lang.
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Compared to the rest of the country, almost all citizens of Balkh can speak English. There are English schools/lessons and computer courses are also taught (such as Microsoft Office programs). A traveller will be hard pressed not to run into one of the teachers and invited into their home. The young students are shy about using their English.
Balkh is easily reachable from Mazar-e Sharif by shared taxi for about 20 afghani. Look for the passengers sitting in the open boot of some cars. The road passes through a fort with destroyed tanks and APCs; the fort was probably a road block during the Warlord and Taliban period. The landscape before and around the town is fields. South of the town at the turnoff is a large mound that was probably a watchtower.
The town is completely enclosed by its ancient fortifications; brick and mud walls at least 30 feet high and in good condition. They can be climbed, giving views of the countryside and the town. At the north end is another larger mound that was the fortress. The walls slope on the outside and are vertical on the inside, giving an impression from the inside of being very tall. Turrets along the walls are in varying states of decay, providing glimpses of building techniques.
The town has a central park, where children play soccer or volleyball. At one end are the ruins of a tiled mosque; at the other, the gate of a madrassa. Again the construction technique of the madrassa can be seen. As the park is full of trees and small shops surround the park, it is difficult to take photos of the madrassa. Full shots of the mosque are easy.
36.767866.9011 Bala Hissar (on the northern edge of the city). A huge fortress built by the Timurid in the 15th century on the site of an Achaemenid fort where Alexander the Great married the beautiful Roxanne. (updated Feb 2016)
36.757566.896982 Shrine of Khoja Abu Nasar Parsa. Also known as Bala Hasar, this shrine dominates the park in the centre of the town. It was built in the 15th century in the Timurid style. (updated Feb 2016)
36.7580366.898133 Dargah of Rabia Balkhi. Adjacent to the Parsa shrine is this small tomb of the famous female Persian poet. She was sealed in a basement by her brother after having an affair, and wrote her most famous poem in her own blood on the wall as she died. (updated Feb 2016)
36.7357766.895784 Noh Gonbad (Haji Piyada) Mosque (2km south of city center). Well worth a visit. Its history is unclear but it is certainly one of Afghanistan's most important historical buildings. Possibly dating from Zoroastrian times, the remains are now under a protective roof, and are worth the bumpy 2-km drive from the main Balkh - Mazar road. Head south from the centre of Balkh, cross the main east-west road and keep going. After 500 metres you'll see a sign (in English) telling you to turn right. (updated Feb 2016)
36.746766.89745 Tepe-i Rustam (near the bus stand). Remains of a Buddhist stupa. Accounts of Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler Xuanzang, who visited Balkh in 630 AD, indicate the existence of a significant number of Buddhist monasteries in the city. (updated Feb 2016)
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Northwest Afghanistan
This travel guide page was last edited at 13:01, on 14 January 2019 by Wikivoyage user Traveler100bot. Based on work by Wikivoyage users Ikan Kekek, Gobbler, Pashley, Texugo, Addbot, Ymblanter, The Anomebot2 and Stefan2bot, Wikivoyage anonymous user 203.163.103.14 and others.


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Q: SSIS_Get count of rows from source and load to destination I have two OLEDB sources such as
 DB Source1= select count(*) from A
 DB Source2= select count(*) from B

Now, I need to get the count of Records uploaded
DB Source1 -DB Source2

for eg,
DBSource1 = 9 ;DBSource2=  1

then record uploaded will be 9-1=8

Finally I need them to be loaded to a flat file destination with following columns
RecordsReceived    ErrorRecords   RecordsUploaded
 9                    1                 8

How do I achieve this?
TIA :)

A: You should look into the Row Count Transformation task. This one will count your selected records that flow through it and store it in a variable you declared. You can use those variables later in your script to store them in a flat file.


You can make this salad ahead of time. Just cover and refrigerate up to one day; bring to room temperature before serving.
1. In a large bowl, combine corn, scallions, vinegar, oil, and tarragon. Season with salt and pepper, and toss to combine.
One of my favorites - this salad is simple and delicious. I would recommend eating it within 24 hours of making it for optimaly freshness!
Very nice salad to make for dinner - something different. I did not have fresh tarragon so used dry. Next time I will add the red peppers - that would be a nice addition.
This was a great dish to make for a pot-luck I went to over the summer, and it tasted even better after a day in the fridge. Red bell peppers give it a nice look and add a bit of an extra crunch.


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Stamos posted the photo on Sunday (Feb. 2). He sort of looks like a Conehead from the classic 'SNL' skit and the film, right?
Despite covering up his thick (and familiar) head of black hair with the cap, Stamos' face is as handsome and boyish as ever.
So if you ever wondered what Stamos would like sans any hair, now you know!
Oh, and we're not going to pretend that we didn't notice that Stamos is showing some of his chest and chest hair with his half-open maroon robe. Don't pretend you didn't notice, too.


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Q: Algorithm for finding contradictions in a directed graph that represents implications I need an algorithm that does this:

For a directed graph where nodes represent boolean values and edges represent implication (implies TRUE and implies FALSE):
        If (arc exists between any node $A$ and any node $B$ such that ($A\to B$ AND $A\to !B$) OR ($!A\to B$ AND $!A\to !B$) )
              then return FALSE, else return TRUE

Does such an algorithm already exist?

A: In such general terms, the only algorithm is exhaustion. Walk through all possible paths of your graph and check for consistency. It is possible that there is a much better way depending on your assumptions about the graph.


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Q: How to access and set n-dimensional list elements using a list of dimension indices I am trying to access and set the value of elements in multidimensional lists using a list of indices for each dimension, and I am having some difficulty. Please see a simplified version of the problem I am encountering below.
While torch, numpy, and other tensor/array representations can easily be used to do this, the objects residing the multidimensional lists I am using are of different data types, so I would like to find a way to do this without the use of numpy or related libraries, including torch.
reduce(operator.getitem, index, lst) can be used to access elements accordingly, however, it cannot be used to set the value of elements, i.e., reduce(operator.getitem, index, lst) = val will raise an error.
As far as I am aware, getattr() and setattr() cannot be used to index lists. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
import torch

tensor = torch.zeros(3, 5, 3)
tensor[2][1][0] = 1

lst = []
for i in range(3):
    lst.append([])
    for j in range(5):
        lst[i].append([])
        for k in range(3):
            lst[i][j].append([])

lst[2][1][0] = 1
index = [2, 1, 0]
tensor[[[i] for i in index]] = 2
print(tensor[2][1][0])

lst[[[i] for i in index]] = 2 # This raises an error.
print(lst[2][1][0])

A: Well, you would like a solution without eval, right? In that case it's easy using an object-like array library, such as NumPy.
Here's my functional example of getting and setting with the help of NumPy, with my own class:
import numpy as np

class Recursive:
    @staticmethod
    def set_item(obj, indices, new):
        if not type(obj).__module__ == 'numpy':
            raise "Not a NumPy Array"

        index = 0
        last = obj
        while index < len(indices) - 1:
            last = last[indices[index]]
            index += 1
        last[indices[-1]] = new
    @staticmethod
    def get_item(obj, indices):
        if not type(obj).__module__ == 'numpy':
            raise "Not a NumPy Array"

        index = 0
        last = obj
        while index < len(indices):
            last = last[indices[index]]
            index += 1
        return last
arr = np.eye(3,3)
Recursive.set_item(arr,[1,1],3)
print(arr)
print(Recursive.get_item(arr, [1,1]))

By the way, you'll need your list in numpy.ndarray type