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namespace task_manager {

class FakeTask : public Task {
 public:
  FakeTask(base::ProcessId process_id, Type type, const std::string& title)
      : Task(base::ASCIIToUTF16(title),
             nullptr,
             base::kNullProcessHandle,
             process_id),
        type_(type) {}

  FakeTask(const FakeTask&) = delete;
  FakeTask& operator=(const FakeTask&) = delete;

  Type GetType() const override { return type_; }

  int GetChildProcessUniqueID() const override { return 0; }

  const Task* GetParentTask() const override { return nullptr; }

  SessionID GetTabId() const override { return SessionID::InvalidValue(); }

 private:
  Type type_;
};

class FakeTaskProvider : public TaskProvider {
 public:
  FakeTaskProvider() = default;
  FakeTaskProvider(const FakeTaskProvider&) = delete;
  FakeTaskProvider& operator=(const FakeTaskProvider&) = delete;
  ~FakeTaskProvider() override = default;

  Task* GetTaskOfUrlRequest(int child_id, int route_id) override {
    return nullptr;
  }

  void TaskAdded(Task* task) {
    NotifyObserverTaskAdded(task);
    task_provider_tasks_.emplace_back(task);
  }

  void TaskRemoved(Task* task) {
    NotifyObserverTaskRemoved(task);
    base::Erase(task_provider_tasks_, task);
  }

 private:
  void StartUpdating() override {
    for (Task* task : task_provider_tasks_) {
      NotifyObserverTaskAdded(task);
    }
  }

  void StopUpdating() override {}

  std::vector<Task*> task_provider_tasks_;
};

// Defines a test for the child process task provider and the child process
// tasks themselves.
class FallbackTaskProviderTest : public testing::Test,
                                 public TaskProviderObserver {
 public:
  FallbackTaskProviderTest() {
    std::vector<std::unique_ptr<TaskProvider>> primary_subproviders;
    primary_subproviders.push_back(std::make_unique<FakeTaskProvider>());
    primary_subproviders.push_back(std::make_unique<FakeTaskProvider>());

    task_provider_ = std::make_unique<FallbackTaskProvider>(
        std::move(primary_subproviders), std::make_unique<FakeTaskProvider>());

    task_provider_->allow_fallback_for_testing_ = true;
  }

  FallbackTaskProviderTest(const FallbackTaskProviderTest&) = delete;
  FallbackTaskProviderTest& operator=(const FallbackTaskProviderTest&) = delete;
  ~FallbackTaskProviderTest() override = default;

  // task_manager::TaskProviderObserver:
  void TaskAdded(Task* task) override {
    EXPECT_FALSE(base::Contains(seen_tasks_, task));
    seen_tasks_.emplace_back(task);
  }

  void TaskRemoved(Task* task) override {
    EXPECT_TRUE(base::Contains(seen_tasks_, task));
    base::Erase(seen_tasks_, task);
  }

  // This adds tasks to the first primary subprovider.
  void FirstPrimaryTaskAdded(Task* task) {
    DCHECK(task);
    static_cast<FakeTaskProvider*>(
        task_provider_->primary_sources_[0]->subprovider())
        ->TaskAdded(task);
  }

  // This removes tasks from the first primary subprovider.
  void FirstPrimaryTaskRemoved(Task* task) {
    DCHECK(task);
    static_cast<FakeTaskProvider*>(
        task_provider_->primary_sources_[0]->subprovider())
        ->TaskRemoved(task);
  }

  // This adds tasks to the second primary subprovider.
  void SecondPrimaryTaskAdded(Task* task) {
    DCHECK(task);
    static_cast<FakeTaskProvider*>(
        task_provider_->primary_sources_[1]->subprovider())
        ->TaskAdded(task);
  }

  // This removes tasks from the second primary subprovider.
  void SecondPrimaryTaskRemoved(Task* task) {
    DCHECK(task);
    static_cast<FakeTaskProvider*>(
        task_provider_->primary_sources_[1]->subprovider())
        ->TaskRemoved(task);
  }

  // This adds tasks to the secondary subprovider.
  void SecondaryTaskAdded(Task* task) {
    DCHECK(task);
    static_cast<FakeTaskProvider*>(
        task_provider_->secondary_source_->subprovider())
        ->TaskAdded(task);
  }

  // This removes tasks from the secondary subprovider.
  void SecondaryTaskRemoved(Task* task) {
    DCHECK(task);
    static_cast<FakeTaskProvider*>(
        task_provider_->secondary_source_->subprovider())
        ->TaskRemoved(task);
  }

  std::string DumpSeenTasks() {
    std::string result;
    for (Task* task : seen_tasks_) {
      result += base::UTF16ToUTF8(task->title());
      result += "\n";
    }
    return result;
  }

  void StartUpdating() { task_provider_->SetObserver(this); }

  void StopUpdating() {
    task_provider_->ClearObserver();
    seen_tasks_.clear();
  }

  // This is the vector of tasks the FallbackTaskProvider has told us about.
  std::vector<Task*> seen_tasks() { return seen_tasks_; }

 private:
  content::BrowserTaskEnvironment task_environment_;
  std::unique_ptr<FallbackTaskProvider> task_provider_;
  std::vector<Task*> seen_tasks_;
};

TEST_F(FallbackTaskProviderTest, BasicTest) {
  // The delay for showing a secondary source is 750ms; delay 1000ms to ensure
  // we see them.
  base::TimeDelta delay = base::Milliseconds(1000);
  base::ScopedMockTimeMessageLoopTaskRunner mock_main_runner;
  StartUpdating();

  // There are two primary task providers and one secondary task provider. The
  // naming convention here is "P_x_y". P is either P or Q for the two primary
  // providers, and S for the secondary provider. The x is the PID of the
  // process, and the y is the task index hosted within the process. For
  // example, the first secondary task with process PID of 1 will be named
  // "S_1_1". Similarly, the third primary task from the first primary provider
  // with process PID of 7 would be "P_7_3".

  FakeTask fake_secondary_task_1_1(1, Task::RENDERER, "S_1_1");
  SecondaryTaskAdded(&fake_secondary_task_1_1);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ("S_1_1\n", DumpSeenTasks());

  FakeTask fake_secondary_task_1_2(1, Task::RENDERER, "S_1_2");
  SecondaryTaskAdded(&fake_secondary_task_1_2);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "S_1_1\n"
      "S_1_2\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  FakeTask fake_primary_task_1_1(1, Task::RENDERER, "P_1_1");
  FirstPrimaryTaskAdded(&fake_primary_task_1_1);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ("P_1_1\n", DumpSeenTasks());

  FakeTask fake_secondary_task_1_3(1, Task::RENDERER, "S_1_3");
  SecondaryTaskAdded(&fake_secondary_task_1_3);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ("P_1_1\n", DumpSeenTasks());

  FakeTask fake_secondary_task_2_1(2, Task::RENDERER, "S_2_1");
  SecondaryTaskAdded(&fake_secondary_task_2_1);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "P_1_1\n"
      "S_2_1\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  FakeTask fake_primary_task_3_1(3, Task::RENDERER, "Q_3_1");
  SecondPrimaryTaskAdded(&fake_primary_task_3_1);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "P_1_1\n"
      "S_2_1\n"
      "Q_3_1\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  FirstPrimaryTaskRemoved(&fake_primary_task_1_1);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "S_2_1\n"
      "Q_3_1\n"
      "S_1_1\n"
      "S_1_2\n"
      "S_1_3\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  StopUpdating();
  EXPECT_EQ("", DumpSeenTasks());

  // After updating the primary tasks (Ps) will be added before the secondary
  // tasks (Ss) so it is reordered.
  StartUpdating();
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "Q_3_1\n"
      "S_1_1\n"
      "S_1_2\n"
      "S_1_3\n"
      "S_2_1\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  FirstPrimaryTaskAdded(&fake_primary_task_1_1);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "Q_3_1\n"
      "S_2_1\n"
      "P_1_1\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  FakeTask fake_primary_task_1_2(1, Task::RENDERER, "P_1_2");
  FirstPrimaryTaskAdded(&fake_primary_task_1_2);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "Q_3_1\n"
      "S_2_1\n"
      "P_1_1\n"
      "P_1_2\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  FirstPrimaryTaskRemoved(&fake_primary_task_1_1);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "Q_3_1\n"
      "S_2_1\n"
      "P_1_2\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  SecondaryTaskRemoved(&fake_secondary_task_2_1);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "Q_3_1\n"
      "P_1_2\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  SecondaryTaskRemoved(&fake_secondary_task_1_1);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "Q_3_1\n"
      "P_1_2\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  FirstPrimaryTaskRemoved(&fake_primary_task_1_2);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "Q_3_1\n"
      "S_1_2\n"
      "S_1_3\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());

  SecondPrimaryTaskRemoved(&fake_primary_task_3_1);
  mock_main_runner->FastForwardBy(delay);
  EXPECT_EQ(
      "S_1_2\n"
      "S_1_3\n",
      DumpSeenTasks());
}

}  // namespace task_manager

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Arsenal injury CRISIS: Unai Emery delivers updates as makeshift team fails at Southampton
UNAI EMERY has delivered an update on Arsenal's injury crisis that left them with one recognised centre-half in their matchday squad at Southampton.
Jack StaplehurstAssistant Sports Editor
Laurent Koscielny made his first first-team start of the season after long-term injury.
And the captain endured a difficult afternoon at St Mary's as he was seen to be at fault for two goals in the Gunners' 3-2 defeat.
Shkodran Mustafi and Sokratis Papastapopoulos were both missing.
And discussing the array of injuries to his squad at present over the Christmas period, Emery said: "We are going to wait.
"Bellerin has a small [calf] injury, I think he will have some weeks off.
"We will look at how Mustafi and Kolasinac improve."
Arsenal played with a makeshift three-man defence of Koscielny, full-back Stephan Lichsteiner and midfielder Granit Xhaka.
While Arsenal struggled and lost for the first time in all competitions since August, Emery defended his players.
Arsenal are having to deal with a mountain of injuries (Image: GETTY)
He added: "I think they worked well. Good news for Koscielny, good performance in 90 minutes.
"Xhaka played well, Lichtsteiner played well.
"We conceded not a lot of chances but their efficiency today was good. We had chances to score more than two goals but didn't score.
"The control of the game in 90 minutes was more for us than them."

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Q: Investigation results of Dec 12 2012 outage https://stackstatus.tumblr.com/post/37789095378/outage-dec-12th-2012

Even though the primary load balancer appears to be fine after the
  kick, we're not trusting it just yet and have shifted it back in
  rotation while we fully investigate.

What was the result of this investigation about the primary load balancer?

A: In our Oregon datacenter, our load balancers were also serving as the VPN endpoints for our site-to-site network.  The IPSec stack has some oddities in it that would cause certain kernel buckets to be overwhelmed when there is high traffic activity (See this blog post for some more background.)  We found some ways to improve the situation, but we ultimately realized we needed to move the VPN off of the load balancers.
We were intending to put Cisco ASA's in place anyway, so we accelerated that project and swapped the VPN over.  The problem hasn't recurred since.

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Background on trade secret law in the United States
Posted on May 3, 2017 July 4, 2017 by Mathew Emmanuel Pineda
A trade secret is a category of intellectual property specifically defined as any confidential proprietary information used by a business or individual to gain a unique economic and competitive advantage over competitors and its customers.
Some of the examples of trade secret include research and development information, software algorithms and source codes, formula, ingredient or recipe for a particular food product, list of customers, strategic business strategies, practices and processes, as well as instruments and devices, among others.
In the United States, some real world examples of trade secrets are the algorithm used in Google search engine, the recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken, and the formula for Coca-Cola, among others.
Legal foundation of trade secret law in the United States
Constitutional and federal and state statutory laws, as well as court precedents are the basic legal sources or foundations of trade dress law in the United States. Take note of the following:
United States Constitution: Under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 and Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution give the U.S. Congress the power to regulate commerce, as well as to give individuals to entities exclusive rights to their writings and discoveries,
U.S. Common Law: Trademark law in the U.S. evolved from 19th century common law torts or court rulings and precedents related to breach of confidence and confidential relationship, common law misappropriation, unfair competition, unjust enrichment, and unauthorized access to property.
Uniform Trade Secrets Act: The Uniform Law Commission published the Uniform Trade Secret Act or UTSA in 1979 to provide a legal framework for protecting trade secrets of American companies operating in multiple states. Amended in 1985, UTSA is a state law that has been enacted by 47 states. It allows trade secret owner to sue in a particular state court individuals or organization suspected of stealing confidential information.
Economic Espionage Act: The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 is a federal statutory law that forms part of the trade secret law in the U.S. It specifically criminalizes economic espionage or theft of trade secret by individuals who want to steal confidential information from U.S. companies to benefit a foreign government or organization.
Defend Trade Secret Act: The Defend Trade Secret Act of 2016 or DTSA is a federal statutory law that allows an owner of a trade secret owner to sue in a federal court individuals or organization suspected of stealing confidential information. It essential extends the Economic Espionage Act.
Differences between trade secret and other intellectual property rights
One of the differences between trade secret and other categories of intellectual property is legal origins. Note that patent law and copyright law in the U.S. trace their origins from several hundreds of years ago. On the other hand, trade secret law primarily emerged from state court opinions in the middle of the nineteenth century.
There is also a difference between trade secret and patent as far as preference and convenience are concerned. Note that trade secret law can be a more viable alternative to the patent system. An individual or entity can have intellectual property rights over a particular information or invention that may not be able to satisfy the rigours standards of patent law.
Rights over a trade secret are easier and cheaper to obtain as compared to the expensive and rigorous process of acquiring a patent. There is no need for a formal registration to acquire trade secret rights. An individual or entity must only satisfy the legal requirements for an information to be classified as a trade secret.
Another difference between trade secret and patent is that the rights over the former are not restricted to a limited number of years. Note that patent rights last less than 20 years and beyond this duration, the involved invention becomes available and usable to the public.
Note that some companies oft to maintain a trade secret than to attempt to patent their invention. A patent provides a monopoly over an invention in exchange for public disclosure after a certain period. However, attempting to a patent an invention runs the risk of premature public disclosure. The risk becomes more consequential if the U.S. patent and Trade Office or courts denied the patentability of an invention.
With regard to the difference between copyright and a written trade secret, the latter involves a nature of confidentiality or in other words, its owner must give it reasonable protection from disclosure. However, note that a patented invention or a copyrighted proprietary information can also function as a trade secret.
Specific legal scope and definition of trade secret under U.S. laws
Under the Uniform Trade Secret Act, a trade secret is an information that (1) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and (2) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.
For an information to be considered as a trade secret thereby, the trade secret law of the U.S. mandates that it should provide the owner economic and competitive advantage. This means that the information should possess an economic or monetary value. In addition, there is an obvious and conscious effort to protect the information from disclosure. This does not mean that it must be kept absolutely and exclusively secret, but the owner must exercise due care in its protection.
The term "misappropriation" has been used in both the Uniform Trade Secret Acts and the Defend Trade Secret Act to pertain to the acquisition of a trade secret by a person who knows or has a reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means. Within the U.S. trade secret law, the phrase "improper means" pertains to theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach of confidentiality, and espionage, among others.
In addition, both the UTSA and DTSA use the word "misappropriation" to pertain to disclosure of a trade secret by a person who violates a confidentiality agreement. The word also corresponds to the use or disclosure with knowledge that the trade secret had been acquired improperly or through mistake.
There are instances that are outside the violation of trade secret law however. For example, according to the Restatement of the Law of Unfair Competition published by the American Law Institute, a party that independently develops the subject matter of a trade secret or that analyses publicly available information in order to discover confidential information is not violating trade secret law in the U.S.
Furthermore, in Kewanee Oil Company v. Bicron Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court said that reverse engineering is not considered an improper means of acquiring a trade secret. The court defined reverse engineering as a process of "starting with the known product and working backward to divine the process which aided in its development or manufacture."
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is part of a series about intellectual property rights in the United States. (1) An introduction to intellectual property rights in the United States; (2) Understanding copyright law in the United States; (3) Facts about patent law in the United States; (4) The basics of trademark law in the United States; (5) An overview of trade dress law in the United States; (6) Background on trade secret law in the United States


Are There Discounts For Roundtrip Travel By Private Jet, And How Do I Qualify?
When buying a jet card we always say it pays to do some homework upfront from a multitude of reasons. Some of it involves kicking the tires of the providers, comparing their standards for sourcing airplanes and flight crew, assessing who they are, how long they've been around and so forth. However, in making the best decision it really helps if you can as best possible map out the trips you expect to be taking, and yes, how many people are traveling, but also how long each trip is and if it includes multiple stops, the time between each flight segment.
It may take you five or 10 minutes to do a thorough job, but the payoff can be big. While less than half of the more than 100 programs analyzed by Private Jet Card Comparisons offer roundtrip discounts, those that do offer anywhere from 5% to 40% off. Even a program with a 10% discount means that you are essentially getting an 11th trip free.
Of course, you have to qualify, and if you think roundtrip, that's pretty straightforward, I have to tell you it isn't. While commercial airlines now pretty much sell one-way fares at the same price as roundtrips, many of us remember when roundtrip fares were cheaper than one-way fares. The roundtrip fares often had a Saturday night stay over and they were designed to attract leisure travelers but fence out business travelers. The idea was the business traveler had to make the trip, so extract maximum amounts of money from that person, whereas the leisure traveler would only go if the price was right, so offer an enticingly low fare, and there you go, Airline Pricing 101.
In analyzing Jet Card membership programs, you may find that pricing works almost in reverse, however, in the case of private aviation, it is less of a strategy and more of a reflection on the direct costs of flying you around on a private jet. In some cases, there are what is called floating fleets. XOJET and JetSuite come to mind as two of the major players that also sell jet cards. Their aircraft don't have a single home base but based on demand fly from Point A to Point B, then may do an empty leg to Point C to bring a different revenue customer to Point D, and then again. The floating fleet operators are trying to minimize the number of empty legs or at least minimize the distance and typically offer one-way pricing, meaning they have built in some type of average of all empty let ferry expenses into the price.
On the other hand, you have fixed based operators. If that name sounds familiar the acronym FBO is what is known as the private jet terminals. But the fixed based operator, in this case, refers to the management company that has aircraft based at that airport. While some charter operators own their own aircraft, much of the Part 135 charter fleet is managed by a third party management company on behalf of the owner. You can think of Jet Aviation, Jet Linx Aviation and Delta Private Jets as just three of many examples.
In the case of these companies, the aircraft are based where the owner wants, so generally where he or she has their primary residence. I was once told by a management company that if they had 50 aircraft under management, they had 50 different contracts. Each owner puts in various stipulations about when and for what type of flights their aircraft can be used for charters.
If they want to maximize their income from having their management company charter their airplane, they can be fairly liberal. In other cases, they want to make sure their plane is available when they need it, so they are less flexible. In some cases, particularly with Large Cabin jets, the owner may be happy to see charter flights of four, five or six hours, but not want a bunch of 40-minute segments. That's because expensive maintenance is often driven by the number of cycles, the number landings and takeoffs.
For a fixed base operator, there is a lot of efficiency in being having a customer use the aircraft for a roundtrip. However, in this case, a roundtrip doesn't mean just starting and returning from the same place, it means either returning the same day, the next day, or putting together a trip over consecutive days where you are flying each day, generally a rule of thumb is two to three hours of billable flight time, and that the schedule is such that one flight crew can handle the entire trip for you. For the operator, it means that it doesn't have to ferry the plane empty back from where it dropped you off and then several days ferry an empty plane to pick you up.
While commercial airplanes may log 10 to 12 hours per day 365 days a year, believe it or not, getting two to three flight hours per day on a private jet is considered very good. What it also means is your round trip from Charlotte to Vail where you leave Sunday and come back the following Sunday is not a roundtrip in the sense you are going to get a discount from your jet card provider.
While some jet card programs don't provide any roundtrip discounts, you can find discounts of typically 10% to 20% and as high as 40%. Of course, you will have to factor in the hourly rate the discount is based on, if that includes the 7.5% Federal Excise Tax (FET), fuel surcharges and anything else that goes into figuring your final price.
The structure of earning roundtrip discounts in the private aviation sense means that it more likely fits business trips than vacation travel, although if you wanted to do a golf trip with some buddies, you might be able to save some money hopping around to play several courses over several days and get the roundtrip discount.
Some programs enable you to actually pay for extra flight hours to qualify, so if the minimum daily flying was two hours and you only had a one-hour flight scheduled on a day, you could pay for the missing hour. You will also need to figure in crew overnights and per diems which some programs charge.
Either way, when mapping out your expected flying, remember to think not only about how many people and from where to where but the duration of each trip and if you have the ability to cluster your flights on single or consecutive days.
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May/June 2014 Charles McCracken
The Sea of Galilee Part Two
On one of my early trips to Israel, I stood one blustery evening on the pier of Kibbutz Nof Ginosar on the northwest coast of the Sea of Galilee and watched as whitecaps crashed against the shore. Bracing myself from being blown into the water, I realized the impact climate and geography have on this unique body of water.
Because the Sea of Galilee is almost 700 feet below sea level yet is surrounded by hills almost 2,000 feet above sea level, it is susceptible to extreme temperature and pressure changes. As cold, dry air funnels through the Galilean highlands and plunges into the warm, semitropical lake environment, it often generates high winds.
Because the Sea of Galilee is relatively shallow, it is especially susceptible to the strength of these winds, which cause dangerous climatic conditions to develop quickly and without warning. Winds from the east can whip up waves that, in extreme cases, can grow up to 10 feet high. In 1992, winds off the Golan Heights sent 10-foot waves crashing into the city of Tiberias, causing serious damage.
As I stood in the howling wind with my then-teenage son, we recalled an incident in the life of the apostle Peter that became especially vivid to us that night.
Jesus had just fed the 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes. It was a spectacular miracle. People were amazed, and the disciples were doubtless ecstatic as they distributed the food to the seated crowd. The Gospel of Matthew says that after the people were fed, Jesus sent them away and compelled the disciples to get into a boat to cross to the other side of the lake. He went up to a mountain alone to pray.
The Gospel account provides two important facts: (1) When evening came, Jesus was alone on the mountain; and (2) the disciples' boat was "in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary" (Mt. 14:24). It also indicates it was the fourth watch, or between 3 A.M. and 6 A.M.
Six-foot waves powered by strong winds could instill fear in the hearts of even the most seasoned fishermen. The disciples no doubt rowed feverishly to keep the bow into the waves so the boat wouldn't capsize. They probably were bailing water frantically to keep it from being swamped. As morning approached, they must have been exhausted.
Suddenly, they saw someone striding toward them through the wind, walking on top of the foaming waves. They could not believe their eyes. As the figure got closer, He hailed them: "Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid" (v. 27).
Peter challenged, "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water" (v. 28). Some people criticize Peter for his comment; but a moment later, he was walking on the water toward Jesus, experiencing something no other human being ever had.
Things were fine until Peter started looking around. Seeing "that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, 'Lord save me!'" (v. 30).
We might have expected Jesus to say, "Hey, at least you tried. You were doing all right there for a few seconds. I actually saw you walking on top of the water. That's something to tell your grandchildren! You'll do better next time." But instead, He said, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?" (v. 31).
Jesus' question is profound: "Why did you doubt?" In faith, Peter responded to Jesus' invitation, and actually walked on the water. He alone had the faith to get out of the boat and trust Jesus to help him do the impossible—until he began to doubt.
There's a simple lesson in the narrative. Whatever we are called to do as we live for Christ, we do not do alone. He is there to provide everything we need. We are without excuse. We have no reason to say, "I can't do that; it's impossible," "I can't do that; it's never been done before," "I can't do that; I'm not qualified," or "I can't do that; I'm scared."
With Jesus' help, Peter could walk on water. And with Jesus' help, we can likewise do whatever our Lord asks of us.
Charles E. McCracken is a former pastor and current Bible teacher, conference speaker, and Israel advocate.
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Q: Javascript canvas collision detection I'm building a game in Javascript using canvas which requires collision detection, in this case if the player sprite hits a box, the player must not be allowed through the box.
I have a global array called blockList that holds all the boxes being drawn to the canvas. It looks like this:
var blockList = [[50, 400, 100, 100]];

And they're being drawn to the canvas like this:
c.fillRect(blockList[0][0], blockList[0][1], blockList[0][2], blockList[0][3]);

I also have a player object, which has an update method and a draw method. Update sets the position of the player based on keyboard input etc, and draw is used by the main game loop to draw the player to the canvas. The player is being drawn like this:
this.draw = function(timestamp) {
        if(this.state == "idle") {
            c.drawImage(this.idleSprite, this.idleSprite.frameWidth * this.idleSprite.frameCount, 0, this.idleSprite.frameWidth, this.idleSprite.frameHeight, this.xpos, this.ypos, this.idleSprite.frameWidth, this.idleSprite.frameHeight);
            if(timestamp - this.lastDraw > this.idleSprite.updateInterval) {
                this.lastDraw = timestamp;
                if(this.idleSprite.frameCount < this.idleSprite.frames - 1) { this.idleSprite.frameCount++; } else { this.idleSprite.frameCount = 0; }
            }
        } else if(this.state == "running") {
            var height = 0;
            if(this.facing == "left") { height = 37; }
            c.drawImage(this.runningSprite, this.runningSprite.frameWidth * this.runningSprite.frameCount, height, this.runningSprite.frameWidth, this.runningSprite.frameHeight, this.xpos, this.ypos, this.runningSprite.frameWidth, this.runningSprite.frameHeight);
            if(timestamp - this.lastDraw > this.runningSprite.updateInterval) {
                this.lastDraw = timestamp;
                if(this.runningSprite.frameCount < this.runningSprite.frames - 1) { this.runningSprite.frameCount++; } else { this.runningSprite.frameCount = 0; }
            }
        }
    }

Now, the player has certain properties being player.xpos, player.ypos, player.width, player.height. The same properties exist for the blocks. So I have everything I need to impliment collision detection, I just have no idea how to do it. I've tried doing things like:
if(player.x > blockList[0][0] && player.y > blockList[0][1])

but it's far from perfect or playable.
Does anyone know of a simple method or function to be able to return true or false based on if two objects are colliding?

A: I use the following function for collision detection between two rectangles:
rect_collision = function(x1, y1, size1, x2, y2, size2) {
  var bottom1, bottom2, left1, left2, right1, right2, top1, top2;
  left1 = x1 - size1;
  right1 = x1 + size1;
  top1 = y1 - size1;
  bottom1 = y1 + size1;
  left2 = x2 - size2;
  right2 = x2 + size2;
  top2 = y2 - size2;
  bottom2 = y2 + size2;
  return !(left1 > right2 || left2 > right1 || top1 > bottom2 || top2 > bottom1);
};

This determines whether two squares, centered at (x1, y1) and (x2, y2), with side lengths 2*size1 and 2*size2, respectively, are overlapping.  It should be easy enough to alter the definitions of left1, right1, etc. to deal with general rectangles rather than just squares and to use a different data format.
Specifically, left1 is the left side of the the first square, right1 the right side, etc.  Note that, in my coordinate system, the y-axis is inverted (top1 < bottom1).

A: You just want to know if two rectangles overlap?
Here is a bulletproof function for you:
// returns true if there is any overlap
// params: x,y,w,h of two rectangles
function intersects(x1, y1, w1, h1, x2, y2, w2, h2) {
  if (w2 !== Infinity && w1 !== Infinity) {
    w2 += x2;
    w1 += x1;
    if (isNaN(w1) || isNaN(w2) || x2 > w1 || x1 > w2) return false;
  }
  if (y2 !== Infinity && h1 !== Infinity) {
    h2 += y2;
    h1 += y1;
    if (isNaN(h1) || isNaN(y2) || y2 > h1 || y1 > h2) return false;
  }
  return true;
}

If your program can be certain that the numbers will always be finite you can use a simpler version:
// returns true if there is any overlap
// params: x,y,w,h of two rectangles
function intersects(x1, y1, w1, h1, x2, y2, w2, h2) {
    w2 += x2;
    w1 += x1;
    if (x2 > w1 || x1 > w2) return false;
    h2 += y2;
    h1 += y1;
    if (y2 > h1 || y1 > h2) return false;
  return true;
}

What its doing is finding the where the right side and bottom side of the two rectangles are, then it sees if the second one starts outside of the first one or if the first one starts outside of the second one.
If either rectangle begins after the other one has ended, then there is no collision. Otherwise there must be a collision.

A: In my opinion, I'm not a fan of functions that require many parameters.
Here's how I would do it :
function collisionCheckRectRect(rectOne, rectTwo){

    var x1=rectOne.x, y1 = rectOne.y, height1 = rectOne.height, width1 = rectOne.width;
    var x2=rectTwo.x, y2 = rectTwo.y, height2 = rectTwo.height, width2 = rectTwo.width;

    return x1 < x2+width2 && x2 < x1+width1 && y1 < y2+height2 && y2 < y1+height1;
}


One among by far the most widespread electrical wiring thoughts is on how to wire a change. Whilst working with switches at your house is very uncomplicated, wiring one may not be that straightforward for everybody. An ON-OFF switch is actually quite simple to wire. You can find several types of switches, but for this example, let us say you will be setting up a single-pole toggle switch, an incredibly popular change (plus the most straightforward).
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From that day forward, I have been fascinated by weather.. Since I also had a dream to play professional baseball, I was able to combine the two. After all, you can't play if it going to rain. So, why not learn more about the patterns about when it will rain? While the pro scouts hopefully saw the dream, they also saw the (lack of) talent. Thus, my professional career is in meteorology and not as a catcher with the Texas Rangers.
Why bring all of this up? I've also been amazed at the similarities between weather forecasting and the game of baseball. Leo Durocher was quoted as saying "Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand." Substitute the word weather for baseball, and the quote remains just as profound.
I remember our tornado delayed makeup game a week or so later. For whatever reason, I was playing right field that day. No big deal, except I wanted to be Johnny Bench, and if I wasn't catching, I didn't pay attention. The ball got hit my way, and as the runner went from first to third, I had no idea what to do with the ball. Throw it? Where? Hold it? That doesn't seem right. All of these things were going through my mind as the game induced panic set in, and the runner scored.
The more I think about baseball and weather, the more I am convinced that we meteorologists are either the coaches or the crowd, while the people who need to make quick decisions based on weather are the ballplayers. In baseball, the coach or managers have a strategy, but it comes down to the players to make decisions which control the game. Meteorologists have a strategy with the expected weather and have the most control on the message about how people should perform if they are affected by the weather. Ball players at a high level know how to remove the crowd noise from their performance. Players that are not experienced, look for any clue to know what to do, whether that be from a coach, or from Mom and Dad in the crowd.
Allow me to take the analogy one step farther: some meteorologists are the coach, some are the crowd. The players are the various public: some know exactly what to do, and some are looking elsewhere for actionable advice once in a warning and/or perceive themselves to be in danger from the weather. Meteorologists are providing the advice and the information, yet the players control whether or not they take protective action. Most people in my area of North Texas know what to do when severe weather hits in theory, but are trying to listen to all of the crowd noise: some telling them to take cover, some telling information that just doesn't make sense to them.
When I watch a game, I am pretty quick to notice when the players or managers do something "wrong." I have been told by Mrs. Fox that there have been occasions when I have loudly yelled advice to the TV, in the hopes the message would somehow get through. This is human nature, to a point. From a distance, the game is pretty simple. You know what to do, you know what should be done, but you are not actually in the game. It looks so easy.
While we are at it, I'll admit, I have seen radar signatures from various parts of the country and wondered "why is there no warning on (storm x)." I'd argue that most of us do this, not only at sporting events, but while watching along with weather. I know I am watching the radar closely when a supercell or tropical system is moving close to a city. The question then becomes when do we add our voice to the crowd?
Each of us must make the decision to add to the conversation either during the weather event, after the weather event, or to keep quiet. From the crowd, giving advice is easy. As a player, especially one in a potentially life or death situation (a far cry from a young right fielder not knowing where to throw a baseball), clear, actionable advice is needed. As the weather community, what are we yelling at the players? Is it clear information about what the threats are? Is it crowd noise that will get lost? Is it better to be technically correct in what we say, or is it better that the players get the information they need to protect their life?
With weather, meteorologists have the information and the advice for the public to play the "game." The game is being played by the various publics, sometimes by people who have no idea that they are the players. Not convinced the weather community is the crowd and not the player? Check out a twitter feed the next time your local weather forecast office issues a tornado warning. (As I'm writing this, there are at least 3 different tweets about tropical development in the Gulf in 384 hours, complete with pictures of the model output. This was not the motivation of this post, however.) What about the social media posts that say "(community x) take cover!" Take cover? Where? At this point, several studies suggest that the human response is to seek additional information, especially those from trusted sources: What does my family say? Did the TV met just say my city? Is that video now, or earlier today? All I hear now is noise.
In my opinion at least, this is us yelling advice to an outfielder who doesn't know what to do with the ball. In a baseball game, the run scores. In life, the stakes are much higher.
Nobody in the weather enterprise has ever purposely been wrong with a forecast. Nobody. At the same time, nobody in the weather enterprise has had a sinister motive in questioning decision making. Everyone who makes a forecast is doing so to the best of their ability. Every warning is issued with good intentions as well. Similarly, everyone who is adding their voice to the conversation is doing so intending to help. I'm convinced that all of us who provide weather information is doing so to help someone, somewhere to make a good decision. What would happen if the entire crowd yelled to the outfielder "throw it to second base" What everyone would want to happen, would most likely happen.
Meteorologists will have opinions, and some opinions will vary. During an event, does it help someone make an effective decision, or does the opinion become noise? How does it look to someone that is in a tornado warning, when their social media feed is mixed with messages of "take cover now"…"big tornado possible'…and/or "I can't believe they warned on this storm #hype"?
We can use the opinions to make it easier for someone to make a decision, or we can use the opinions to make it more difficult. If it is as easy as it looks: why are we all not on the same page? This article won't, and isn't intended to, solve anything. Hopefully, we can discuss and find ways to help the players improve their game. Our collective voice should be the strongest during times when folks must make decisions quickly based on weather information.
Thanks for the interesting and certainly true article in many respects. With all the technology advances in the world of weather forecasting and reporting it seem there are more and more so-called weather experts now then ever before.. I do see it as a time to bring some of the various forecasting and reporting resources together. Hopefully to rebuild the publics confidence about the severe weather condition reports they are receiving and for them to understand being the reports are valid and not just one persons opinion.
From personal experience I understand the "We" and "They" in this equation will need to be determined and it will take some work to bring all of the resources together and reading off of the same page or computer screen, if you wish. Perhaps it could reduced the number of false, although well intended, "take cover now" statements and also help reduce the number of wannabe tourist picture takers chasing tornados and clogging the roads when the dedicated volunteers are doing their reporting.
Certainly a need and unfortunately not an easy answer or solution. But, not impossible!
Not an easy answer, or solution for sure. Even any possible "solution" is difficult because everyone who is commenting is doing so to try to help. The "we" and "they" are ever changing as well.
DARN! You outed me :). LOL. In defense of whatever TV media will read your post (because I know there are times I've privately questioned a quick warning when the storm died 3 minutes later ) you also have to know the dangers of OVERWARNING considering that we are the ones who pass it on to literally hundreds of thousands… and stay on air ad-nauseum at the first crack of lightning. Too many warnings deaden people to the true meaning of a warning. What did a siren used to mean? I know too many people that do nothing now when they hear one. Truth be told, we'd be lost without you guys at the NWS…but as you said, weather forecasting is like coaching sports or like trading stocks. It's just educated gambling. We all get same info… its how we interpret it that counts!
Just curious… When you privately question a warning, do you talk with the WFO afterwards to see what they were thinking? And why do you go on-air through a warning that you don't feel is a danger to the public?
No, I don't question them in a chat session. Sometimes it's just a judgement call…as Mark mentioned, do you pass on 4th and one or run it? We are all human. And in today's judge first and re-think it second society…I understand from their standpoint that it's probably better to warn on a borderline cell than NOT to warn, because if heaven forbid someone gets hurt…we get to hear the dreaded line "it came without warning"!
As for your second question, maybe I'm old school but I always believe in passing on public watches, warnings, and advisories from the NWS whether I'm a believer or not. I may temper one of those with my personal comments if I truly disagree (which is rare). There is just ONE National Weather Service (sorry TWC, there are no winter storm names or TORCON indexes!) that names storms and issues warnings. I believe we (as media partners) must respect that and be unified in the name of public safety.
Trust me, Rob: If Evan has an issue, he lets us know, after the fact. It's one of many things I respect about our media partners. Good, bad, ugly…they will work with us.
HA! I never even had you in mind while writing this.
There are times when you should question a warning, with that time being after the event. And yes, over warning can be an issue, here and just about anywhere. When warnings are issued, we do want people to do something different with their lives for the next 20 minutes.
Good post — I see where you're going, I'm just not sure I'm on the same page with who you define "we" as ("why are we all not on the same page")… "We" consists of an expert in radar interpretation and warning processes (you), a TV meteorologist that remembered that class on Doppler radar (not interpretation) he took in college in 1985, the 13 year old who sees a triangle on GR2AE, and all parts in between.


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I am trying to format the scores so that the monthly cells (Columns I through T) will be red if the number for the month is less than the minimum required (column B), however, nothing I have tried seems to work from other similar questions I have looked at.
I tried a simple =I2<B2 but that ignored the 0 cells, which could be because they are results of a function which returns 0 if vlookup returns an error?
I'm learning as I go so any advice would be appreciated!


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Q: Javascript pause loop till event I have javascript question,this is part of my code:
for(var a = 0; a < videos.length; a++) {
    source.setAttribute('src', videos[a]);
    video.load();
    video.play();

    for(var b = 0; b < times[a].length; b++) {
            video.addEventListener("timeupdate", function() {
            if (this.currentTime >= times[a][b]) {
                    this.pause();
                    var answer = prompt("Please answer the question", "Answer");
                }
            }, false);
    }
}

In the array videos I have links to video and in the array times I have times when to pause video for every video differently.
My aim is to start one video then pause video at certain times and resume after the question is answered,then when the video ends start another video and ask questions again. My for loops does everything instantly and it doesn't work as I want. I came up with 2 solutions:

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*Pause loops till event is reached.

*Do it with event listeners.

I have no idea how to do it any way, so I am asking for your help.

A: You should drop the for loops and work only with events. Something like this should clear out at least a few problems:
    var a = 0;
    video.src = videos[a];
    video.load();
    video.play();
    check_time();

    //instead of looping through your video, you wait until one is finished
    //to play the next one.
    video.addEventListener("ended", function(){
        a++;
        if(a<videos.length){
            video.src = videos[a];
            check_time();

    }
   //this will add event listener each time video is changed.
   function check_time(){
        var b = 0;
        video.removeEventListener("timeupdate")
        video.addEventListener("timeupdate", function() {
             if (this.currentTime >= times[a][b]) {
                 this.pause();
                 var answer = prompt("Please answer the question", "Answer");
                 b++;
                }
            }, false);
      }


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Professor Nasreen Ahmed's mother Begum Badrunessa was an MLA of the Jukta Front in 1954. Since then, she had good relations with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. "My mother highly praised Bangabandhu her entire life and would often tell me about him," she said.
Nasreen Ahmed was then just a little girl aged around 10. Her family lived in the Bailey Road area where Bangabandhu would go frequently for political programmes.
"One day when Mujib mama came and sat on a chair, I sat under the chair tickling his feet. Bangabandhu took me out and patted me on the head," Nasreen Ahmed fondly recalled at a commemorative programme titled "Bangabandhuke Kache Theke Dekha: Remembrance by His Contemporaries".
The Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) organised the event at its conference room in the capital on Wednesday afternoon. BIDS' Director General Binayak Sen moderated the programme.
Bangabandhu loved children, said Nasreen Ahmed, a former pro-vice chancellor of Dhaka University.
Prof Nasreen's memories of Bangabandhu were only a few of many shared at the event by other participants – Prime minister's Economic Affairs Adviser Mashiur Rahman, retired joint secretary of Prime Minister's Secretariat (1972-1975) Monwarul Islam, retired Superintendent of Police in Dhaka, Mahbub Uddin Ahmed, Bir Bikram, and writer and researcher Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir, Bir Protik.
Nasreen Ahmed said later their family moved to Dhanmondi 32, and the new home was next to Bangabandhu's house. In the beginning, there was no wall between their houses; as a result, they would come and go to his house. Later, a wall was erected but there was a small gate between the houses.
Once Nasreen's mother went to the USA and brought an autograph book. Nasreen Ahmed said she first took the autograph of her mother and the next autograph was Bangabandhu's.
She said most of the time Bangabandhu did not stay at home. But when he was at home, he used to spend most of his time with his family.
Bangabandhu also frequented Nasreen Ahmed's house.
"At noon of 25 March, Bangabandhu came to our house and wanted to take a rest there. I was standing by Mujib mama when he softly told me that Pakistan is breaking," said Nasreen Ahmed.
While she mainly portrayed the family life of Bangabandhu, the other discussants, who worked with Bangabandhu, portrayed his political life and administrative affairs.
Mashiur Rahman, who had the opportunity of working with Bangabandhu for three years as his private secretary, recalled the instances of his great leadership.
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EPA denies extension for Ameren to stop dumping coal ash, gypsum at two power plants
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Ameren
Sioux Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant operated by Ameren Missouri, sits on the Mississippi River in St. Charles County. The EPA denied Ameren an extension to close a pit where it deposits byproducts from the coal scrubbers on the plant.
Ameren Missouri must stop dumping waste from two of its coal-fired power plants into nearby pits following a federal crackdown on coal ash that denied the electric utility an extension to comply with new regulations.
The move could force the utility to retire at least one of the facilities years ahead of schedule.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced several steps to "hold facilities accountable for controlling and cleaning up the contamination created by decades of coal ash disposal." Coal ash is created by the burning of coal at power plants and can contain toxic chemicals, including arsenic and mercury.
For decades, coal ash has been stored by many utilities in pits near the plant, where it can leach into the groundwater and pollute waterways or even drinking water. Ameren has one remaining coal ash pit that has yet to be converted under new regulations.
"I've seen firsthand how coal ash contamination can hurt people and communities," EPA administrator Michael Regan said in a press release. "…For too long, communities already disproportionately impacted by high levels of pollution have been burdened by improper coal ash disposal."
In the release, the EPA announced it would act on utilities' requests for deadline extensions to stop dumping coal ash at their facilities and then close them. It found four of the more than 50 deadline extension requests it received incomplete. Two of them were from Ameren Missouri — one for the Meramec Energy Center in St. Louis County and the other for the Sioux Energy Center in St. Charles County.
The EPA also plans to notify several facilities that it believes may be posing a risk to the public health and environment. It did not list the facilities. And the agency announced it would finalize a permitting program for coal ash disposal and existing ponds.
The Sierra Club, a national environmental group, said in a release it was encouraged by EPA's decision to enforce safeguards against coal ash contamination.
"Ameren's own monitoring has shown that the ash ponds at the Sioux plant have been leaking boron and sulfate into the groundwater at levels far exceeding state standards for years," said Andy Knott, interim central region director for the organization's Beyond Coal Campaign. "Ameren must do a better job taking care of our region's air and water quality because that translates to a better quality of life."
The EPA issued a rule in 2020 requiring that utilities stop disposing of coal ash in unlined ponds by April 11, 2021.
Ameren requested an extension to continue disposing of coal waste in its one remaining pond at Meramec until the end of this year and close the ponds by Oct. 17, 2023. Meramec itself is slated to close this year.
It asked to keep open a lined pit for depositing gypsum, the byproduct of scrubbers meant to limit emissions at coal plants, at Sioux until October 2023.
In the case of Meramec, the EPA found Ameren failed to include a risk mitigation plan and enough groundwater sampling information. At Sioux, Ameren failed to convince EPA that it couldn't feasibly close the gypsum stack any faster than it proposed. That proposal also lacked sufficient groundwater monitoring information.
Brad Brown, a spokesperson for Ameren, said the company was reviewing the EPA proposal documents.
EPA will take public comment and has proposed requiring that Ameren stop dumping disposing of waste at the Meramec ash pond and the Sioux gypsum stack within 135 days after the agency's final determination.
At Sioux, EPA noted it was likely the hastened deadline would force a temporary outage. Ameren, however, is required to meet certain energy generation standards to ensure the electrical grid remains reliable.
The EPA said Ameren stated the coal-fired boiler at Sioux is needed for reliability purposes but the company "provided no information or evidence to support this statement."
The EPA proposed that if the regional grid Ameren belongs to — Midcontinent Independent System Operator — approves the temporary outage, environmental regulators will not grant Ameren an extension to close its coal ash pits. But if MISO does not, the EPA could grant a further extension.
Environmentalists have also pushed Missouri regulators to require Ameren to get a permit for shuttered ash ponds at its Labadie Energy Center in Franklin County following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling governing groundwater pollution.
That ruling, which came from a dispute in Hawaii, decided that entities discharging potential pollutants into groundwater must get a permit if the discharge is the "functional equivalent of a direct discharge from the point source into navigable waters."
In Ameren's case, environmentalists argue, that means it needs permits to govern its coal ash ponds because the groundwater near the plant flows toward the Missouri River and could carry toxins like arsenic and boron from the old coal waste to the water. The ash ponds have been leaching for decades.
Instead, Missouri regulators required Ameren to test for chemicals and study the groundwater flows near the plant. Ameren has moved to compact its coal ash and cover old coal ponds, a controversial move some environmentalists have said is not enough, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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I have decided to put a bit more effort into my melon photos, well all my produce photos really. I am a bit ashamed of mine after reading Amy Goldmans books so I have decided that I might not be able to do as well, but they will be interesting nontheless.
Here are a couple of melons I picked yesterday - Noir de carmes from France and Krynychanka from Russia (The two at the back).
I am going to work on finding a better background for my photos though.
This is Noir de carmes sliced open. This melon is a very old variety that is productive but has its problems. It is probably not for the new melon grower. Its fruit get badly sunburnt and ruined at the slightest hint of a warm, sunny day, and the fruit ripen in hours and get over-ripe so quickly that you have to be aware of any minute changes and pick them at the exact right time. - But is is very sweet and juicy, yum.
Many of the melons are about to ripen in the next week and my fridge is already full of cut melons from my tasting, assessing and saving seeds.


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The -SURGERY NEWS- page is EXPLODING!
If you haven't taken a look recently, the number of surgically related news articles & resources is growing very quickly.
You know, when I wrote last week's newsletter, I never thought about continuing it into a Part 2.
But due to a large respose from my subscribers, I thought this article is necessary.
OK, after last week's "Education" newsletter, I started receiving e-mails from individuals asking, basically - what's the point of going to a Surgical Tech School when any of the professions mentioned in last week's article can be attained through specific programs and college degrees.
For example, some of the response was about becoming a First Assistant.
Many of the readers out there think it would be wise to just skip surgical tech school and go straight into a first assistant program.
I also got the same type of feedback about becoming an O.R. RN.
Well, not becoming a surgical tech and going straight into a First Assistant or RN program is certainly an option.
But, I must say, if you want to work in the operating room, becoming a surgical tech is a DEFINITE way to get into surgery.
You see, going to RN school does not guarantee that you will be able to work in an operating room.
Very often, once an RN graduates, they have to apply to a surgical training program at a hospital willing to train a new RN in the operating room. It is possible but not always very easy.
On the other hand, becoming a surgical tech almost guarantees that you'll be working in or around a surgical envirnoment.
Also, if you want to become a First Assistant, very often you need some type of medical background or college science background to get into a FA program.
Now, the requirements for FA school varies and there are probably some out there that don't require a surgical or medical background.
But think about this, if you are trained as a surgical tech, you start working in the O.R., and then you can build on your experience and career with the solid foundation a surgical background helps to build.
With an education in Surgical Technology and the experience you will get as a Surgical Tech in the O.R., you will have the opportunity to move into practically any career field in and around the surgical world.
My education, training, and experience in Surgical Technology has opened more doors than you can possibly imagine.
The skills and knowledge you acquire as a Surgical Tech are so specialized, once you start moving up the career ladder in the surgical world, you will be in high demand.
If you think about it, do you think a surgeon would rather hire a new FA right out of school with no previous experience or a new FA right out of school with a couple of years as a Surgical Tech on their resume...??..
Or the RN, do you think an O.R. would rather train a new RN right out of school with no prior hospital experience, or a new RN right out of school who worked as a Surgical Tech while going to RN school..??..
Now, I'm not saying that one shouldn't pursue a higher educational degree in a different medical specialty college or program.
Rather, I'm saying that if you want to work in the O.R., starting as a surgical tech will build the most solid foundation possible.
The Surgical Tech Success Handbook has a couple of different sections that go into more detail of positions and career opportunities in surgery. If you haven't taken a look at it yet, now is the time to start moving forward.
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"No, I did not say that. I do not believe that. It is a fundamental belief of mine that all people are created in the image of God. They should all be treated with dignity and respect, senator," he responded.
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One of President Donald Trump's nominees for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals broke down in tears during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, as he disputed baseless suggestions that he would not be fair to members of the LGBTQ community.
Lawrence VanDyke broke down as he responded to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. about a harsh letter sent to committee leadership on the eve of the hearing from the American Bar Association.
The letter asserted that VanDyke "would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably members of the LGBTQ community."
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Conservatives have adamantly defended the nominee, and when asked about this at Wednesday's hearing, VanDyke strongly disputed the ABA's account.
"I did not say that," VanDyke told Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., tears welling up in his eyes.
"No, I did not say that. I do not believe that. It is a fundamental belief of mine that all people are created in the image of God. They should all be treated with dignity and respect, senator," he responded.
VanDyke also said that he was not given a fair opportunity to respond to the allegations during his ABA interview. He said when he was confronted with the concerns about his views, he began to answer but was told they were running out of time.
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Aviation: SAHCO seeks fresh incentives to grow ground-handling industry
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Skyway Aviation Handling Company (Sahco) Plc is demanding a new fiscal regime that exempts investors in the ground handling and warehousing sub-sector of the aviation industry from paying VAT as well as Custom duties on imported technology, machines and spare parts as part of new incentives to grow the sector and create more jobs for Nigerians.
Managing Director of Sahco, Mr. Basil Agboarumi, who stated this yesterday while conducting aviation journalists on a facility tour of the company, said the tour was necessary to showcase the potential within the company following the announcement of the Initial Public Offer (IPO) for the sale of 406,074,000 shares, which took effect on Monday, November 12, 2018.
He, however, lamented the exorbitant cost (in foreign exchange) invested on imported equipment used in the ground handling industry, saying while cost of operation had gone up astronomically in the last two to three years, ground handling firms were, however, constrained in increasing their charges or fares on customers to reflect the economic realities of the time as the majority of the customers (especially local airlines and exporters) lacked the capacity to pay what the industry considers as appropriate pricing for services rendered by ground handling and warehousing firms in the aviation sector.
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"We need fresh incentives from the Federal Government to grow this sector and create jobs for our citizens. If the local airlines are granted incentives or waivers by the Federal Government on VAT and on Custom duties on imported machinery and parts, then ground handling firms who handle the most critical job for the airlines deserve to be also considered for such waivers.
Honestly, the safety of an airline starts from what happens on the ground – on what we do, on the machines and services that we render.
The recession came and all the hard times and we were making investments on equipment yet we couldn't increase our fares. Something is wrong with the industry because ground handling firms must survive. So government should look our own way and treat us the same way it is treating the airlines," Agboarumi said.
He said in the last couple of years, Sahco had recorded tremendous growth, remarkable improvements and added value to the development of Nigeria's aviation industry.
He said Sahco's market share grew from 21 per cent in 2009 to over 40 per cent at present, while revenue had grown by over 100 per cent. According to him, the company has maintained a stable operating performance with a compound annual revenue growth rate of 4.43 per cent.
He said by December 2017, the company had recorded improved profitability with a five-year average operating profit margin of 12.1 per cent and 11.6 per cent respectively
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Jawaria, this video is about the seismic records for a Japanese earthquake, which occurred near the end of World War II on December 7, 1944. Those records were made secret by the Japanese government.
The 7.9 earthquake was so strong the needles got stuck and even skipped, showing the force of the quake. However, what the records showed was the strikingly high pitch and sudden jolt at the start of the quake, not normal for naturally occurring quakes previously recorded.
In November 1944, the Shinto, Japanese government murdered the most important man in Japan, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and held in prison the second most important person, Josei Toda. It had long been foretold that if the Japanese government did not show Mr. Makiguchi the respect he deserved that significant devastation would befall Japan in the form of earthquakes and other phenomena.
Until today, I did not know about the Earthquake of December 1944, but it is harmonious with the prophecy. Further, the prophecy stated that if the Shinto continued to harm Mr. Toda and not repent for the death of Mr. Makiguchi, even greater disaster would occur, followed by the invasion of the nation. They didn't and, of course, they received the destruction of two atomic bombs, followed by the invasion of American forces.
The prophecy didn't stop there. Japan has been the repository for the most important relic on the planet, housed in a special-purpose built, architectural wonder of the world. Despite prophecy not to harm the building, nor to disturb its contents, a segment of Japanese society, in defiance of admonitions to refrain, given by the Japanese government through the entity of its dominant political Party, Komeito, tore down the building. It didn't surprise me that they received the brunt of massive bachi karma, in the form of earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown of Fukushima Dai-ichi.
Now, a successor to Komeito Party, NKP, is left to attempt to solve the issue of runaway radiation. That they as the dominant Party, with a set of principles proven repeatedly, dramatically over 800 years and immediately over sixty-eight years, indulge in policies, that they permit within Japan alien philosophies, that fly in the face of what they know has preserved Japan, can only mean more destruction and an invasion by China, eventually, if the current policies do not change.


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Agrarian Societies About live to six thousand years ago. agrarian (or agricultural) societies emerged. first in Mesopotamia and Egypt and slightly later in China. Agar URL societies use the terminology of large-scale funding including animal-drawn or energy-powered plows and equipment. to produce their food supply. Farming made it possible for people to spend their entire lives in the same location, and…
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Horticultural and Pastoral Societies The period between 13.000 and 7.000 R.C.E. marks the beginning of horticultural and pastoral societies. During this period. there was a gradual shift.from collecting food to producing food, a change that has been attributed to three factors: (I) the depletion of the supply of large game animals as a source of food. (2) an increase in…
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Hunting and Gathering Societies At present. fewer than 250.000 people support themes dissolve through hunting. fishing. and gathering WIld plant foods (Haviland. 1999). However (rom the origins of human existence (several million years ago) until about 10.000 years ago. hunting and gathering societies were the only type of human society that existed. Hunting and gathering societies use simple technology for hunting animals…
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Societies, Technology and Sociocultural Change As we think about homeless people today. it is difficult to realize that for people in some societies. being without a place of residence is a way of life. Where people live and the mode(s) of production they use to generate a food supply are related to subsistence technology the methods and tools that are…
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Between 6 and 12, many things will change inside your children's mouths. By the age of 12, almost all of the permanent teeth will have erupted.
This time period actually encompasses more or less the whole eruption process of the adult teeth!
While in some kids, permanent teeth begin to come in a bit earlier than this, and the wisdom teeth usually only erupt in the late teens or early 20s, this is the time period during which the most of the permanent tooth eruption occurs.
This time period is one that many parents find particularly cute in their children, because throughout it, their mouths are typically in various states of toothlessness that can be quite endearing. And this is also the exciting time when the tooth fairy starts making regular visits!
By the age of 6, most children are able to brush and floss independently, with some supervision. By 12, children should have a comprehensive understanding of the importance of regular oral hygiene, and can be trusted to brush and floss carefully by themselves, provided they've had lots of guidance growing up.
On the other hand, 12 year olds are also at a point when they're just about to enter into their teens. This means they can be little more independent and also a little more rebellious, meaning that parents may have to reassert the importance of proper oral hygiene.
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We Want Action: Dredd (2012)
Posted on March 7, 2013 September 27, 2019 by TJDietsch
I'm turning into an old man or rather an even older man, depending on your perspective, I guess. I used to be able to stay up all hours of the night and then get up and do what I needed to do, but since our daughter has started getting up between 6:30 and 7:00AM every morning, those are days of the past. I only say all this because it wound up taking me three or four nights to actually watch Dredd. That's in no way a commentary on the movie itself, just my inability to stay awake past midnight most nights.
Anyway, Dredd is one of those movies that didn't seem to have much of a PR push behind it, snuck into movie theaters and did almost no business (it only made $36 million worldwide with a $50 million budget). But, the people that did see it all seemed to love it. I've got to agree with the folks that dug this movie because it's pretty fantastic and requires absolutely no knowledge of the longstanding title character whose been starring in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine over in the UK for decades.
The basic concept here is that, basically, the entire eastern coast of the United States has morphed into one giant city called Mega-City One. It's an overcrowded corrupt place filled with degenerates, criminals and people just trying to get by. The only ones standing between the good and the bad are the Judges, a group of law officers who not only enforce the law, but also mete out punishment according to the law. The film follows Judge Dredd (played by Star Trek's Karl Urban) as he trains rookie officer Cassandra Anderson (the bewitching Olivia Thirbly) who also happens to be a mutant with psychic abilities. While out on patrol they're called to a massive building that's essentially a project house that's run by a drug running gangster called Ma-Ma (Lena Headey). Dredd and Anderson wind up getting trapped inside the building with Ma-Ma's goons gunning for them and things play out from there.
Yes, it sounds like a futuristic version of The Raid, but stylistically, there are completely different approaches to the basic idea of fighting mobsters in a high-rise. While The Raid gets so real and intense that it's almost disturbing, Dredd kept a kind of hyperkinetic-but-still-real tone that featured futuristic, voice-activated weaponry, a bit less hand-to-hand combat and more explosions and giant guns.
I haven't seen any of Pete Travis' other movies, but I thought he did a really killer job with Dredd. The movie keeps itself in a fairly limited locale that doesn't require a gigantic budget but does that one location really, really well. You can tell from watching that this film was basically a test of concept for the viability of Judge Dredd in film. While it might not have been a financial success, I'd say it was a successful proof of concept. I really felt the intensity of Dredd as an upholder of the wall ans I thought Thirbly was just mesmerizing to watch and the world felt real and raw and like the kind of place that needs these kinds of protectors. I would love to see a more sprawling story set in this world, but that's probably not happening any time soon. To feed the Dredd jones I now have, I'm trying to get my hands on the first volume of the Judge Dredd Complete Case Files, but the person I tried to buy it from on Amazon bailed on the transaction (I'm guessing because they realized the $14 book they were selling was much lower in cost than the $30 versions other people are trying to sell) and have since placed a bid on an ebay auction. We'll see. There's a lot there to get through, but it's a journey I'm willing to take…if I can get the books relatively cheap.
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We Want Action: RED (2010)
Posted on November 3, 2010 December 4, 2019 by TJDietsch
With all the election nonsense clogging up the airwaves last night, the missus and I decided to have ourselves a little dinner and a movie date and saw RED and The Destinta, an awesome independent theater near our place that does discount tickets on Tuesdays. We decided on this flick because the missus liked the cast and we both figured this would be better to watch on the big screen than a drama or comedy. And, boy, did we both have a lot of fun with the flick.
The idea is that Bruce Willis, a retired CIA agent has been marked for death. Since he's been flirting with customer service rep Mary-Louise Parker has been targeted to, so he grabs her and goes on a cross-country chase trying to figure out why Karl Urban's after him, enlisting the help of fellow older killers Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Brian Cox. With the exception of a few stiff line delivers, I think this might be Willis' best movie in a while (Cop Out was okay, Surrogates was interesting, but didn't really take up much rent space in my brain) because the action is solid (though I wish they hadn't shown that scene of him getting out of the spinning car in the previews because it takes away a little bit of the awesomeness having seen it a billion times in the commercials). I was worried that Freeman and Mirren might have just signed up for this flick for a paycheck, but it seemed like they had a good time, or at least took it remotely seriously. I liked Parker more in this one movie than almost all of Weeds. Urban really proved himself to me in this flick. He was great in Star Trek, but he was basically interpreting someone else's performance in that movie and really got to show what he can do in this one from both an acting and action perspective. And, damn, Malkovich as the paranoid-but-right dudes was just so damn perfect.
For whatever it's worth, I didn't read the comic the movie is loosely based on written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Cully Hamner. It came out while I was in college and working solely off of my established pull list. I don't think I'd read any Ellis books at that point and it doesn't sound like I've missed a whole lot. RED sounds very violent and pretty basic, kind of like Ellis' later team-up with Hamner for Top Cow Down, which I read and dug, but don't even think I'll need to revisit. The movie, on the other hand, I think I'll watch a few more times, especially if it comes on on a Saturday afternoon or I come across it on Instant. It's fun and funny and has a nice, but not too gooey, romantic plot that doesn't diminish any of the characters.
I had three random thoughts while watching this movie. First off, I think they filmed the rocket launcher scene in this movie (which was awesome all around, by the way) in the same place they filmed the finale of The Losers, which is kind of funny because they're both movies based on obscure comic properties owned by DC. I don't know what they call those giant, rectangular metal shipping boxes, but that's what tipped me off. Second, related to the first, actually, is that the trailer was randomly spoilery. So, SPOILER WARNING if you care. One major and one minor plot point can be figured out just by watching the trailer. The major one is that Freeman isn't really dead after the attack in the nursing home, which you know because you see him with Mirren in the preview. The minor one is that the red headed woman is actually following them. Malkovich hassles the lady, but you're supposed to just think he's paranoid. Of course, if you've seen the commercial for the movie, you know she's the one that fires the rocket at him. And finally, I wonder if Kevin Smith had problems with Willis on the set of Cop Out. On the most recent Smodcast (#143), Smith mentioned that the main different between filming Cop Out and Red State is that on the former there was someone who clearly didn't want to be there and on the latter everyone was excited to make the movie. You'd think it would be between the two leads–Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis–if it caused a certain amount of problems or headaches, but Smith defended Morgan on Twitter the other day, so I'm wondering if he was referring to Willis. For what it's worth, Smith has also praised Adam Brody and Kevin Pollack in various podcasts, which seems to leave Willis. Knowing Smith, I wouldn't be surprised if he eventually came out and told that tale. I'd definitely be curious to hear it and also figure out if I was right.
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