"If it ain't raining, you aren't training…." In the fine words of many a MCpl, the 2014 Harrier Race began with glowering clouds broken only by the nervous smiles of first years swarming the parade square. As the first official event mixing FYOP with the rest of the Cadet Wing, there were shows of camaraderie and color from every corner. Especially, of course, the mascots.
It's a tradition in the Harrier Race for first years to be entrusted with their squadron paraphernalia – a wild array of items ranging from gigantic mascot heads to flags, hats, and headbands. Despite the sullen weather, the Wing came together in a show of support for their initiates. The race began at 0830 and the Wing in its entirety thundered across the peninsula and up the familiar Fort Henry course to complete its 5k around the campus, Point Frederick, and the final stretch by the Senior Staff Mess.
It was particularly inspiring to run the race and see the Wing's support for FYOP. Despite rivalries common to Wing events, seniors ran alongside first years of all squadrons to cheer them on to the finish. At the end, the nervousness that dominated the parade square before the race had vanished, and even in the downpour, the FYOP future seems sunnier than ever.
In wild contrast to the Harrier Race of Saturday morning, Regatta Day dawned bright and beautiful on the water. Pumped up from an unexpected afternoon of rest the day before, the first years marshalled themselves by the docks at 1255, eyeing the course that would be determining the next key event of FYOP 2014.
Rain or shine, the Regatta is a traditional event of FYOP that marks an opportunity for first years to truly capitalize on squadron pride. Colors ranged the docks as the squadrons gathered themselves to support their first years, and items acquired during the previous day's race were reacquired with admirable shows of determination. The course requires cadets to gather in fifteen-man boats, rowing their way to a buoy on the far side of Navy Bay and back to their respective docks as quickly as possible. Led by OPI Anna Childerhose, 2 Sqn, the cadets were broken into their divisions for four initial rounds, with the winners (best times) progressing to the semi-finals and then the finals.
Fighter, the first years of 2 Sqn, began strong in the A Div starter round with a time of 2:18, closely followed by the victorious Romeo of 6 Sqn, B Div at 2:37, Tango of C Div and Savage, 10 Sqn, D Div tying for the best time with 2:17 each. The semi-finals placed Fighter, Savage and Grizzly on the line, with Fighter finishing at an astounding 2:12. Tango, Hunter and Victory rounded off the second heat of the semi-finals, with Tango in second place with 2:16 and Hunter bringing up the rear at 2:25. The finals were a nail-biting contest of cheers as the second years hailed in their FYOP flights, at last concluding with Fighter in at 2:16, Hunter at 2:44 and Tango at 2:45.
It was an afternoon full of bragging, competing and joy at the first years' first weekend with the Wing. All of the times were incredibly close, ranging from just over two minutes and not once breaking three. With such a promising start, FYOP 2014 will no doubt continue to amaze and captivate their Wing, and perhaps surprise us when the obstacle course at the end of September joins them at last to the age-old community of RMCC.
Ed Note: We welcome, 26972 OCdt (II) Chantel Fortier – 2 Squadron as part of our e-Veritas team. Time permitting from her other essential commitments, we look forward to Chantel to continue submitting a number of other interesting articles from around the RMCC campus.
Your story about the Harrier's race reminded me of one of the funniest thing that happened while I was at the college, (1956-60).
In 1958 the race started in front of Fort Haldiman. Sgt. Major Coggins made sure the starting shotgun was cleaned and properly loaded and sharply presented it to Cmdr. Debbie Piers. After the prescribed, barked out, "Ready, Get set," the Commandant raised the gun and fired.


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Brady plans to share his 'method' in upcoming book
Publisher says book will be an "athlete's bible"
Updated: 11:19 AM EDT Jul 6, 2017
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Five-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady plans to share nutrition, training and lifestyle tips in an upcoming book that his publisher calls an "athlete's bible."Brady's book will be called "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance." It will be published by Simon & Schuster in September, the company announced Thursday.The book will be Brady's first. In it, he promises to share the principles behind his health, fitness and lifestyle choices. "Oversized, heavily illustrated, revealing yet deeply practical, the TB12 Method is an 'athlete's bible' that reveals Brady's methods and approaches to sustained peak performance for people of all ages," Simon & Schuster said."The fact that Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time gives him the authority to write this book -- but the fact that the principles that he's espousing go well beyond sports is one of the reasons readers are going to pay close attention to his message," said Jonathan Karp, president of the publishing company. The book is already available for pre-orders on Amazon.com.
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Five-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady plans to share nutrition, training and lifestyle tips in an upcoming book that his publisher calls an "athlete's bible."
Brady's book will be called "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance." It will be published by Simon & Schuster in September, the company announced Thursday.
Tom Brady announces his book is a New York Times No. 1 bestseller
The book will be Brady's first. In it, he promises to share the principles behind his health, fitness and lifestyle choices.
"Oversized, heavily illustrated, revealing yet deeply practical, the TB12 Method is an 'athlete's bible' that reveals Brady's methods and approaches to sustained peak performance for people of all ages," Simon & Schuster said.
"The fact that Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time gives him the authority to write this book -- but the fact that the principles that he's espousing go well beyond sports is one of the reasons readers are going to pay close attention to his message," said Jonathan Karp, president of the publishing company.
The book is already available for pre-orders on Amazon.com.
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A number of other research firms have also weighed in on BJ. Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of HAYS PLC/ADR from a sell rating to a hold rating in a research note on Tuesday, June 18th. Morgan Stanley set a $28.00 price objective on shares of BJs Wholesale Club and gave the stock a hold rating in a research note on Friday, May 24th. Citigroup dropped their price target on shares of GrafTech International from $21.00 to $17.00 and set a buy rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, April 1st. Gordon Haskett upgraded shares of Darden Restaurants from an underperform rating to a hold rating in a research report on Thursday, March 21st. Finally, Evercore ISI began coverage on shares of Polarityte in a research report on Wednesday, March 20th. They set an outperform rating and a $26.00 price target on the stock. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating and twelve have issued a buy rating to the stock. The stock currently has an average rating of Buy and an average target price of $30.79.
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NYSE:BJ opened at $24.15 on Thursday. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.36 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.12. BJs Wholesale Club has a 1-year low of $19.31 and a 1-year high of $32.92. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $25.32.
BJs Wholesale Club (NYSE:BJ) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 23rd. The company reported $0.26 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.01. The firm had revenue of $3.07 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.12 billion. BJs Wholesale Club had a net margin of 1.14% and a negative return on equity of 72.36%. The business's revenue was up 2.5% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts predict that BJs Wholesale Club will post 1.48 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
In other news, EVP Robert W. Eddy sold 20,000 shares of BJs Wholesale Club stock in a transaction dated Monday, April 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $29.00, for a total value of $580,000.00. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, major shareholder Cvc European Equity V. Ltd sold 8,750,000 shares of BJs Wholesale Club stock in a transaction dated Friday, June 7th. The shares were sold at an average price of $24.53, for a total transaction of $214,637,500.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last 90 days, insiders have sold 9,219,471 shares of company stock worth $227,240,697. 17.70% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in BJ. FMR LLC lifted its stake in shares of BJs Wholesale Club by 0.7% in the first quarter. FMR LLC now owns 20,674,569 shares of the company's stock worth $566,483,000 after buying an additional 149,164 shares in the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. lifted its stake in shares of BJs Wholesale Club by 50.0% in the fourth quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 4,952,770 shares of the company's stock worth $109,752,000 after buying an additional 1,650,828 shares in the last quarter. Clearbridge Investments LLC lifted its stake in shares of BJs Wholesale Club by 74.9% in the first quarter. Clearbridge Investments LLC now owns 4,107,167 shares of the company's stock worth $112,536,000 after buying an additional 1,759,303 shares in the last quarter. TimesSquare Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of BJs Wholesale Club by 6.1% in the first quarter. TimesSquare Capital Management LLC now owns 3,037,590 shares of the company's stock worth $83,230,000 after buying an additional 174,300 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Norges Bank purchased a new position in shares of BJs Wholesale Club in the fourth quarter worth about $32,581,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 89.01% of the company's stock.
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BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc operates as a warehouse club on the East Coast of the United States. It offers perishable, edible grocery, general merchandise, and non-edible grocery products. The company also sells electronics, computers, office supplies and equipment, home products, health and beauty aids, sporting goods, outdoor living, baby products, toys, and jewelry through Website.
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My guess is that he is close to 1m90 tall, in his early 30s, wearing jeans, a red and white striped shirt and New Balance sneakers. An ordinary, good looking Portuguese guy, except that he never stands tall and his shoes always look new, because he never walks in them: Salvador is in a wheel chair. He is also a national celebrity with his own TV show: Salvador.
'Handicapped people are like normal people; they have jobs, friends and the same dreams as everyone. They want to swim with dolphins, to scuba dive, you name it. In my show we make these dreams come true. In one episode we even went paragliding,' he says.
'Do you participate in all the action?'
'Yes, I like to do what I can.'
A motorcycle accident in 1998, when he was 18, left Salvador almost completely paralysed. All of a sudden he was confronted with issues he'd never had to deal with, and he was surprised to see how ill-adapted his country was to the needs of people in wheelchairs. Schools, restaurants, and houses were all virtually inaccessible.
'Most handicapped people were trapped inside their houses or their institutions. They were left out of society. Thirty years ago most of the handicapped didn't have a proper education, because of their immobility. I was shocked to see this and I wanted to do something about it. So I started to organise small events. I clearly remember the first one, a Christmas show by a Portuguese singer, Mafalda Vega. We still do that, we still organise events.'
We is Associação Salvador, which he founded in 2003. It has four employees, countless volunteers and many sponsors. The organisation does everything it can to improve the quality of life of handicapped people in Portugal. In addition to the events, it supports scientific research, and provides financial support to those who need it, and strives to make the country more accessible for wheelchair users.
'Let me show you something,' he says, 'come.' We're sitting in the big conference room in his office in a modern building in the centre of Lisbon. He runs his Associação from this office, as well as his business: he represents the truck company Iveco in Africa. I walk to his chair and he shows me his iPhone. 'We've developed an app.' On the screen I see a map of Portugal. 'If you click on one of those venues, it will tell you if it's accessible, the width of the entrance, if it has a WC for the handicapped, etcetera. Nice, isn't it?' With some effort he slowly moves his long thin fingers over the screen to operate his app. 'This is my favourite place, it's ours, not far from here. It's a sports centre, with a pool, basketball court, and hand bikes. And there are two physiotherapists on duty all day.'
His secretary sticks her head around the door to say that Salvador's new appointment has arrived.
'You're busy.'
He thinks for a moment, tilting his chair slightly backwards. 'Yes, I am. But my life is in balance now. In the early days I spent so much time on my Associação that I hardly slept. I can't do that anymore, so I divide my time between the foundation, my company, my family, my wife and my friends. And therapy: I train two hours every morning.'
'You're a famous man in Portugal. How does that feel?' He really is: the policeman I had just interviewed wanted to escort me all the way to Salvador's office so he could meet him in person.
'On the street people recognise me,' he says. 'People often come up to me and want to talk, especially if they have disabled people in their families. They congratulate me, and sometimes ask me for autographs, which is a bit foolish since I can't write. It is flattering, I admit, but it can be troublesome if the stories about their problems and how the government doesn't help take too long. You know, I don't see myself as a celebrity. I'm Salavador. But fame has brought me a lot. It's given me the opportunity to help other people and that's my big purpose in life.'
He looks at his watch. 'My secretary will kill me.'
'Last question. What other country would you like to live in?'
'Maybe in Holland! It's very accessible compared to Portugal, and I have heard a lot of good things about the mentality of the people, their attitude towards the handicapped. That's not the case in Spain, Italy or Portugal. But on the other hand: I love the warmth and the passion of us Latins, the sun that gives me strength.'
And he's off. Salvador, saviour in Portuguese.


The International Society for Trenchless Technology (ISTT) is pleased to announce the 2015 series of NO-DIG SUMMIT events, designed to assist the international community with educational and interactive forums that present comprehensive and up to the minute information on the very latest in trenchless techniques.
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The ability to "execute with excellence" in any organization is dependent upon its leaders' abilities to make good decisions and appropriately communicate these across their organization. Unfortunately, most leaders struggle with these skills. Consequently, their companies fail to have transparent, effective decision-making and communication processes. This leads to dysfunction and misunderstanding, instead of the clarity and closure that was intended. And this is inhibiting organization success.
In solving a business challenge or making a decision, creativity and opportunity are born out of debating a range of options and then selecting the best one for the circumstances. The team and organization win when a wide variety of ideas are considered, versus the alternatives of groupthink or leader-mandated solutions.
Possibilities and choices need to be identified, debated and examined through a variety of lenses. Through one lens, perhaps a functional department view, an option may look like a slam-dunk, while through an alternative lens, it might have significant downside risk. The power of a debate fueled by team dynamics and organizational leadership is its ability to examine and determine the overall best path forward for this organization at this time. It is not as simple as just running the numbers. The complexity of business today requires understanding the dynamics around business conditions, life cycles and the competitive landscape, not to mention the possibility of a game-changing, disruptive risk that you may or may not want to take at a particular moment in time.
Selecting one path forward obviously means that there will be options that are not selected, despite them having potential validity as a solution and advocacy from one or more passionate supporters. This is where the challenging nuance of alignment comes in. Alignment is the ability to agree with and fully support the go-forward decision, even when you have expressed an alternative viewpoint and your position has not been selected. Sometimes, this process is referred to as "weighing-in." Having your chance to weigh-in and voice your issues is very important and it is a critical step in achieving organizational or team alignment.
Individuals, teams and organizations run into trouble when they misunderstand alignment. Not being agreed with, being overruled and/or claiming to have "lost" a debate can be hard to take for some leaders and might be even tougher to "appropriately" explain to your team. Your team members might have been counting on you as their team leader to convince the organizational leadership of their preferred choice or outcome. Here is where "leadership skills" come into play. Some leaders mistakenly turn a healthy opportunity to debate options into a personal "win-lose" scenario, where there are disappointments and a lack of willingness to support the ultimate decision.
Coming out of a meeting and appropriately communicating the decision outcomes, most importantly the "why" behind the choice, is a critical role for a leader. Skilled leaders openly express that the decision was thoroughly explored, acknowledging that different perspectives were shared and debated. They credit their teams and colleagues with broadly covering and passionately providing insights and rationale for the range of considerations. Then they share the decision outcome, why it was the one that prevailed and verbalize not only their support for it going forward, but also state the expectation that their teams and direct reports will do the same. During the communication exchange, they may empathize with the potential disappointment their team may feel. However, the key is to not break from the alignment with their leadership team and to use the conversation with their team as a learning opportunity around the dynamics of organizational decision-making and alignment. Taking the time to coach and develop your talent bench around these healthy communication dynamics is your job as a leader.
The challenge with alignment is not only getting your leadership team to have the right understanding of how to move forward but additionally, how to appropriately cascade the communication across the organization. Alignment is fundamentally giving your heart and mind to the "go-forward" plan without second-guessing or undermining the decision. Anything short of this amounts to not being a team player. Without alignment, teams and organizations waste "blue dollars," which are people, time and energy thrown away by having emotionally charged and unproductive conversations about what could have been. Imagine, instead, all that could (and will) be achieved if that time and energy are focused on your go-forward plan.


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Riot Games Reportedly Prevented Global Esports From Merging With Bleed Esports
Abhimannu Das
Updated On: 27 Sep 2022, 06:28 AM
The deal between both teams was reportedly valued at around $6 Million USD.
Riot Games had previously approved a similar deal between OG Esports and LDN UTD.
Global Esports is looking to launch a Series A funding round according to a report.
India-based esports organization Global Esports secured a spot at the Valorant International League's Asia-Pacific (APAC) division. The organization was reportedly in talks with Bleed Esports, which is another organization from the APAC region, and both teams were looking to join forces at the league. But Riot Games has allegedly stopped the deal from going through as there are restrictions in place preventing such deals from taking place.
The Global Esports and Bleed Esports deal was reportedly valued at $6 Million USD
According to a report by Dexerto both organizations would come together to compete under a "GE Bleed" banner. However, Riot Games imposed regulations on the strategic partnership in order to prevent potential conflicts. The publisher will have a final say in such deals and organizations that are looking to create similar partnerships will need to have Riot Games' seal of approval.
Riot Games has approved such deals in the past when we were in the previous Valorant Champions Tour format featuring open competitions only. OG Esports and LDN UTD formed a similar partnership that led to the creation of OG LDN UTD. The team competed in the Stage 2 Challengers events as well as the last-chance qualifier for Valorant Champions 2022.
Global Esports is the only team that has represented India/South Asia at Asia-Pacific events but it has not made it to a global event yet. With the announcement of the new Asia-Pacific league, Global Esports has the opportunity to prove itself and compete at the highest level of play. The team is setting up its base in Korea.
Despite Global Esports making it to APAC events on multiple occasions, it did not secure a spot at Champions 2021 or Champions 2022. With the new APAC international league being created, the team will be looking to prove itself on the global stage. The strategic partnership could have helped the team solidify its team and resources when going up against the best teams in the region but with Riot Games reportedly intervening in the deal, fans will not get to see two of the best teams in the APAC region join forces.
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Published On: 27 Sep 2022, 06:28 AM
Abhimannu is a PC esports writer at AFK Gaming. With over seven years of experience in esports journalism, he has worked on a myriad of games and their ecosystems including Valorant, Overwatch and Apex Legends.
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There is a very real danger of drifting, by neglecting this very righteousness of which we are called (Hebrews 2:1-3). The only solution is to "Listen Up! Pay Attention!"
Poor listening is often the first step to apostasy!
In Matthew 10:14-15 JESUS says, "14 And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. 15 Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for that city!
If we do not listen as we should then we are judging ourselves unworthy of eternal life (Acts 13:44-49). The men of Nineveh repented after hearing just one lesson from Jonah. Will we reject The Gospel of JESUS CHRIST after being given so many opportunities?
Hopefully, we appreciate the wonderful opportunities we have just to be able to listen to GOD'S Word, and the importance of good listening!
How can we improve our ability to listen? The same way speakers need to learn to speak so as to be understood, people need to learn to listen so as to understand!
How you listen to GOD'S Word being read, or preached, is as much an indication of your devotion to GOD as to how you pray or sing to and for HIM.
So when you have opportunities to listen, do it with "a worshipful attitude".
Think of how you would listen if some famous person were speaking. Imagine your focus, or the absorbed attention if you were listening to some famous person speak on a topic you are passionate about.
Now think, doesn't GOD'S Word deserve as much attention as we give to sports games, reality television, court tv, text messages, game shows, parties, our friends, family, even our pets get more attention than GOD'S Word gets on a daily basis. And I am preaching to myself here as well Beloved.
Not only do we need to focus and pay attention when listening to The Word of GOD, but we need to pay attention all the way through, from start to finish.
Do you expect to understand a novel by simply reading a sentence here and there? Do you go to the movies and just watch bits and pieces of it? When you get a text on your phone, do you read the first and last sentence only??
And, so it is with listening... sentences, phrases and words all need to be understood clearly, so they must be heard in the very context in which they are presented.
So listeners must listen to all the parts the speaker presents in order to truly understand what is being said. Try looking directly at the speaker, this greatly helps with your concentration. Looking elsewhere makes it easy for your mind to wander while closing your eyes makes it easy for you to nod off!
Pay Attention! This requires self-discipline, but it is helpful to developing a longer attention span. Try it, and see if it doesn't make a difference! When the speaker is reading from The Bible, follow along and read in your own Bible the very words being spoken. You remember more of what you both see and hear over what you just hear, which is why visual aids are often used in lessons and speeches. But the greatest visual aid, for listening to the Bible, is your own Bible!
Your knowledge of the Scriptures will also greatly improve by doing this. It may be hard at first to keep up, but persevere and it will soon become easier. We encourage children to learn by doing this, shouldn't adults provide an example and do the same? We have to listen with a willingness to accept and believe what is shown in GOD'S Word.
Notice, in Hebrews 4:1-2, that those who died in the wilderness did not listen with Faith! If we don't listen "with Faith," the same sort of thing will happen to us, we will fall short of our Heavenly rest!
We must also listen with a mind to act on what GOD'S Word demands of us. Or are we like the people in Ezekiel's day? They loved to hear him, but for the wrong reason.
Ezekiel 33:30-32 says, 30 "As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, 'Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.' 31 So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. 32 Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.
Do we love to hear lessons because of how well the speaker presents them? Hearing must be accompanied by doing if it is going to be of any profit, to be of any good to us.
As important as good listening may be, the Blessings come only if we are do'ers as well as hearers! To be Blessed in what we do, which is my goal in presenting these thoughts on listening, all begins with listening in the proper way.
How important, then, is listening? When it comes to listening to GOD, it is very important!
Isaiah 55:2-3 ~ 2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. 3 Incline your ear, and come to Me. hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you.
So listening is essential for the good of our soul!
Is there ever a time when GOD does not listen? Yes, there is. When our sins are between us and HIM. Isaiah 59:1-2 ~ 1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.
But we can take care of that problem by receiving GOD'S Mercy. In Isaiah 55:6-7 it says, "6 Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Today, that Mercy is offered through JESUS CHRIST, our GOD that Loved us so much that HE robed HIMSELF in flesh to come to Earth to die for our iniquities.
Have you heeded HIM by obeying HIS Word?
Or does the following cry of JESUS apply to you?


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'Paddleton' finds success in its simplicity
By Cole Fowler @thecolefowler
Assisted suicide is usually a topic that generates harsh, binary responses from politicians, so the issue is usually never discussed past the politically-charged meaning of the term. However, Alexandre Lehmann's latest film, "Paddleton," analyzes assisted suicide within the context of friendship. The film searches for meaning amidst the ambiguity of death, and does so with a surprising amount of success.
The film, which recently made its debut at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, was unfortunately purchased by Netflix and promptly buried under the seemingly endless amount of "Black Mirror" episodes and other monotonous Netflix "Original" television shows and films. The intimacy the film displays between the characters struggling in the face of death is undermined by the streaming environment. The story that Lehmann is painting is a touching one, so it is unfortunate that Netflix robbed the viewing audience of a theatre experience.
Although Lehmann certainly has his influence on the film, the film is hinged on the brilliant performance by lead actor/writer/producer, Mark Duplass. Duplass has an influence over a wide range of the film industry, as he worked with legendary independent-cinema director, Sean Baker as a producer of Baker's film, "Tangerine," and worked with Academy Award winning Hollywood director, Kathryn Bigelow as an actor in her film, "Zero Dark Thirty." His ability is not be limited by if he is behind or in front of the camera, and, in the case of "Paddleton," his influence on both sides leads to the success of the narrative.
The film follows Duplass' character, Michael, in his journey from learning of his terminal illness to coping with the idea of assisted suicide. The complexities of the issue seem to melt away among the dialogue between Michael and his best friend, Andy. Andy, played by Ray Romano, struggles to cope with the idea of losing his only friend and vows to do everything he can for him until the time of Michael's suicide.
The film is certainly reminiscent of Duplass' mumblecore films, and "Paddleton" certainly exhibits many qualities of these films. However, the film never truly commits to the level of naturalism that he previous work, and much of the genre, beautifully illustrates. As the genre hinges on the consistent, fast-paced dialogue, the film does suffer to retain its tone amongst the uncertainty of death.
That said, of the most heartbreaking scenes of the year, and maybe even last year, takes places at the climax of the film. The scene is one of the best acted scenes in recent memory, and the minimalistic directorial style allows for each of the actors to perfectly fit their roles. Such a scene deserves to be recognized, and totally validates some of the film's weaker aspects. If this film had not been purchased by Netflix, this scene would be the current topic of film writers across the country.
The simple, positive nature of the film is certainly a refresher after the dreadful awards season. The authenticity of Lehmann's film is poignant, and it impossible to simply overlook. The film demands your attention throughout its runtime, and rewards you with the concluding performances that Duplass and Romano will certainly be overlooked for this coming year.
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Daily Delta Rebalancing Strategy is designed by an outstanding team of professionals with a cumulative experience of more than 30 years in quantitative data analysis and cryptocurrency trading. The strategy is focused on adjusting the basket of the top 6 coins by market-cap on a percentage of the positively performing cryptocurrency market and reducing the downside risk through keeping the surplus funds in cash. The strategy facilitates the process of investing by providing an opportunity to resolve the technical, liquidity and cost issues while also helping to track the highest market cap coins. The quantitative strategy seeks to generate alpha to ETH regardless of the market conditions.
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<?php

require_once __DIR__.'/../Base.php';

use Kanboard\Event\TaskEvent;
use Kanboard\Model\TaskCreationModel;
use Kanboard\Model\TaskFinderModel;
use Kanboard\Model\ProjectModel;
use Kanboard\Model\TaskModel;
use Kanboard\Action\TaskAssignCurrentUserColumn;

class TaskAssignCurrentUserColumnTest extends Base
{
    public function testChangeUser()
    {
        $_SESSION['user'] = array('id' => 1);

        $projectModel = new ProjectModel($this->container);
        $taskCreationModel = new TaskCreationModel($this->container);
        $taskFinderModel = new TaskFinderModel($this->container);

        $this->assertEquals(1, $projectModel->create(array('name' => 'test1')));
        $this->assertEquals(1, $taskCreationModel->create(array('project_id' => 1, 'title' => 'test')));

        $event = new TaskEvent(array(
            'task_id' => 1,
            'task' => array(
                'project_id' => 1,
                'column_id' => 2,
            )
        ));

        $action = new TaskAssignCurrentUserColumn($this->container);
        $action->setProjectId(1);
        $action->setParam('column_id', 2);

        $this->assertTrue($action->execute($event, TaskModel::EVENT_MOVE_COLUMN));

        $task = $taskFinderModel->getById(1);
        $this->assertNotEmpty($task);
        $this->assertEquals(1, $task['owner_id']);
    }

    public function testWithWrongColumn()
    {
        $_SESSION['user'] = array('id' => 1);

        $projectModel = new ProjectModel($this->container);
        $taskCreationModel = new TaskCreationModel($this->container);

        $this->assertEquals(1, $projectModel->create(array('name' => 'test1')));
        $this->assertEquals(1, $taskCreationModel->create(array('project_id' => 1, 'title' => 'test')));

        $event = new TaskEvent(array(
            'task_id' => 1,
            'task' => array(
                'project_id' => 1,
                'column_id' => 3,
            )
        ));

        $action = new TaskAssignCurrentUserColumn($this->container);
        $action->setProjectId(1);
        $action->setParam('column_id', 2);

        $this->assertFalse($action->execute($event, TaskModel::EVENT_MOVE_COLUMN));
    }

    public function testWithNoUserSession()
    {
        $projectModel = new ProjectModel($this->container);
        $taskCreationModel = new TaskCreationModel($this->container);

        $this->assertEquals(1, $projectModel->create(array('name' => 'test1')));
        $this->assertEquals(1, $taskCreationModel->create(array('project_id' => 1, 'title' => 'test')));

        $event = new TaskEvent(array(
            'task_id' => 1,
            'task' => array(
                'project_id' => 1,
                'column_id' => 2,
            )
        ));

        $action = new TaskAssignCurrentUserColumn($this->container);
        $action->setProjectId(1);
        $action->setParam('column_id', 2);

        $this->assertFalse($action->execute($event, TaskModel::EVENT_MOVE_COLUMN));
    }
}


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RBI Race Peaks During Kansas' Win at Iowa State, 8-0
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Kansas 8, Iowa State (5)
Cyclone Sports Complex // Ames, Iowa
1 2 3 4 5 R H E
KU 0 0 6 2 0 8 11 1
ISU 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
Box Score | Box Score
Leaders – Batting
Kansas AB R H RBI BB HR
M. Montgomery 3 1 2 3 0 0
C. Naudin 2 1 1 3 1 1
B. Gomez 3 0 2 0 0 0
A. Cappaert 2 0 1 0 0 0
Kansas IP H R ER BB SO
Kessler (W, 10-6) 5.0 4 0 0 0 4
Torrescano (L, 11-14) 5.0 11 8 8 3 3
AMES, Iowa – Seniors Mariah Montgomery and Maggie Hull highlighted their season-long race to the Kansas career RBI crown when one tied and the other broke the KU record en route to a convincing 8-0, five-inning victory over Iowa State, Friday afternoon at the Cyclone Sports Complex.
Hull tied the KU record, previously held by Liz Kocon (135, 2008-12), on April 24. During the six-game span since Hull knotted Kocon, Montgomery had moved her way to second place, entering the weekend with 132 career RBIs.
Tied 0-0 with two down and the bases loaded in the top of the third, Montgomery was the first to strike. The double that she drilled to right center scored all three runners and tied both Hull and Kocon for the record.
In the next inning, Hull claimed the record as her own when she drilled a two-run homer to right field to bring her career total to 137 RBIs – the most in KU history.
"We joke about it," Hull said of her and Montgomery. "We knew we were pretty close at the start of the season, then I kind of jumped ahead and then she caught up to me. We were roommates freshman year, we both have started every game together and we've been through a lot together. So we just hugged each other afterward and said congratulations. It means a lot to both of us. I think either one of us could care less who ends up on top, but it is fun to have us both up there."
Thanks to the dueling duo and an offensive showcase by the Jayhawks, Kansas (32-16, 7-8) posted its 32nd win of the year, the most wins in a season since 2008. KU posted 11 hits compared to four from Iowa State (21-32, 4-12) to set the tone for a crucial weekend.
"It's a big series for us," head coach Megan Smith said. "We talked to the girls before the game about finishing strong. We started the season strong and we want to finish the season just as strong. I think today was a good indication that we're ready to do that."
With the win, KU moves closer to a fourth-place finish in the Big 12 standings, which would be the highest since the 2001 season. Additionally, the Jayhawks' seven wins in conference play ties the most Big 12 wins for KU since 2008.
Freshman starter Kelsey Kessler (10-6) threw her second-consecutive shutout and the sixth of the season, moving her to a tie for fifth all-time for shutouts by a KU freshman. It was also her fourth in conference play – passing Oklahoma All-American Keilani Ricketts for the most by a Big 12 pitcher this season.
Kessler allowed four hits over five innings, walked none and struck out four. When Iowa State threatened with runners on second and third with one out in the bottom of the third inning, the Jayhawk rookie collected a strikeout and a groundout to calmly keep the shutout intact.
Opposite Kessler in the circle was ISU senior starter Tori Torrescano (11-14), who also tossed a complete game. She surrendered eight runs on 11 hits, walked three and struck out three.
Through the first two innings, however, both pitchers were in control of a scoreless game until the Jayhawks broke loose for a six-run inning in the top of the third.
Back-to-back infield singles from junior second baseman Ashley Newman and redshirt junior centerfielder Alex Jones kicked off the Jayhawks' big inning. After freshman catcher Alex Hugo drew a one out walk to load the bases, Torrescano got the next Jayhawk to pop-out and looked to have contained the threat.
But the Kansas threat was imminent.
Montgomery's milestone three-run double with two outs and two strikes against her put KU in front, 3-0. Sophomore Cassen Salamone slapped a single to give fellow sophomore Chanin Naudin an opportunity to blow the game open. Naudin responded with a three-run blast to left and Kansas took a commanding 6-0 lead.
Naudin and Montgomery tied for the team lead with three RBIs apiece, while Hull trailed them with two thanks to her two-run homer in the top of the fourth. Hugo, Montgomery and Salamone each chalked up two hits and Jones led the team with two runs scored.
Kansas and Iowa State will square off in game two on Saturday at noon.


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Sept. 14, 2020, 12:45 p.m. EDT
CannabisNewsBreaks - Cannabis Is on the Ballot for Five More States This November
Harvest Health & Recreation Inc. (HARV)
Curaleaf Holdings Inc. (CURA)
Cresco Labs Inc. (CL)
Sep 14, 2020 (NetworkNewsWire via COMTEX) -- A recent CNN Business article by Alicia Wallace covers five additional states, including Arizona, New Jersey, South Dakota, Montana and Mississippi, where residents will vote on cannabis legalization this November. Following the 2016 "green wave," as legalization measures passed in eight out of nine states in the U.S. election, the industry and its supporters are hoping for another big win. Cannabis producers and retailers such as Harvest Health & Recreation Inc. /zigman2/quotes/201825604/delayed CA:HARV -1.76% (otcqx:HRVSF) and firms like Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203485866/delayed CA:CURA -0.78% (otcqx:CURLF) and Cresco Labs Inc. /zigman2/quotes/205276242/delayed CA:CL +2.09% (otcqx:CRLBF) are supportive of further cannabis legalization. The article reads, "This year, voters in five states will decide whether to adopt either new medical or recreational cannabis laws - or, perhaps, both in the case of one state. As it stands now, 33 states have legalized medical cannabis, and of those, 11 states have legalized cannabis for adult recreational use."
To view the full article, visit http://cnw.fm/gLJfM
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Roobina is at the HTC press conference where it announced two new phones - the HTC 10 Evo and the HTC Desire 10 Pro. Will these phones help HTC make a big comeback? Also, catch Rajiv Makhni in a special conversation with actor and brand ambassador of HTC - John Abraham.


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"""
https://leetcode.com/problems/n-ary-tree-level-order-traversal/

https://leetcode.com/submissions/detail/184433348/
"""

"""
# Definition for a Node.
class Node(object):
    def __init__(self, val, children):
        self.val = val
        self.children = children
"""
from common.n_ary_tree_node import Node

class Solution(object):
    def levelOrder(self, root):
        """
        :type root: Node
        :rtype: List[List[int]]
        """
        ans = []

        def traverse(node, depth):
            if not node:
                return
            if len(ans) < depth:
                ans.append([])
            ans[depth - 1].append(node.val)
            for child in node.children:
                traverse(child, depth + 1)
        traverse(root, 1)
        return ans

import unittest

class Test(unittest.TestCase):
    def test(self):
        solution = Solution()
        rootNode1 = Node(1, [
            Node(3, [
                Node(5, []),
                Node(6, [])
            ]),
            Node(2, []),
            Node(4, [])
        ])
        self.assertEqual(solution.levelOrder(rootNode1), [
            [1],
            [3, 2, 4],
            [5, 6]
        ])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()


Former Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro has failed in a final bid to have his convictions overturned for election overspending and filing a false report.
Today, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected his request for an appeal. As usual, the high court did not give reasons for its decision.
Last September, an Ontario Court of Appeal upheld Del Mastro's 2014 convictions on three violations of the Canada Elections Act related to the 2008 vote.
Del Mastro was convicted of overspending, failing to report a personal contribution of $21,000 he made to his own campaign, and knowingly filing a false report during the 2008 election.
He was sentenced to a month in jail and four months of house arrest.
His lawyer, Scott Fenton, told CBC News that Del Mastro has served the in-custody portion of his trial sentence.
The former MP for Peterborough, Ont., and point man for former prime minister Stephen Harper was also ordered to serve another 18 months of probation.
He is also barred from running for office for five years.


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Types of Appraisals
The Four C's
History of Diamonds
Orthoclase
Turquiose
History of Gems
Gemstone Formation
Gemstone Coloration
History of Watches
Among the Egyptians and other cultures in the cradle of western civilization gold was used at least as far back as 4000 B.C. It is used today as the basis of the world's monetary system, for ornamentation and for jewelry. For centuries then it has had a high intrinsic value.
Gold is a very soft metal, and it is usually more useful when alloyed with copper, silver or nickel, which makes it hard enough for normal uses. This is especially so in coinage, ornaments, and other objects that suffer rough use. When absolutely pure, gold is labeled for historical rather than scientific purposes as 24 karat gold. Most jewelry is alloyed with copper to give it strength and hardness. Quality jewelry is of fourteen parts of gold to ten parts of copper (14 karat) or of eighteen parts of gold to six parts of copper (18 karat). Inexpensive jewelry that turns black or green after exposure to weather or human skin contains too much copper and too little gold. Gold is also graded in fineness based on how many parts out of one thousand are gold. Usually used for coinage, an alloy of 99 percent gold and 1 percent copper would be .990 fine gold.
The color of gold depends upon the amount and type of impurities it contains. Native gold is typically golden yellow, but in order to vary its color and increase its hardness for use in jewelry, gold may be alloyed with other metals. Silver, platinum, nickel, or zinc may be added to give a pale or white gold. Copper is added for rose or pink gold, and iron is added for a tinge of blue.
Gold occurs in igneous rocks and in associated quartz veins, often in small quantities invisible to the naked eye. It is also concentrated in secondary deposits in the form of nuggets or grains in river sands and gravels. Gold may still be extracted from placer deposits by the traditional panning method, but modern commercial mining involves large earth-moving machinery and concentrated acids for processing the ore. The main gold bearing rocks occur in Africa, Alaska, California, Canada, Russia, South America, and Australia.
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Alfred "Al" Porto (June 27, 1926 – July 6, 2005), nicknamed "Lefty", was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in 1948 with the Philadelphia Phillies.

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cask :v1 => 'double-commander' do
  version '0.5.8'
  sha256 'a4bf455f028783a4c14d600068d27556984bfc3357a80dc0715f047efbf6dbfe'

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  name 'Double Commander'
  homepage 'http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net/'
  license :oss

  app 'Double Commander.app'
end


As some of my teammates know, I'm one of those annoying types. I pride myself on being prompt to respond (when it's warranted) and try to rarely let things fall through the cracks, even at the busiest of times. To me, email is a tool – like Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, and you can learn how to be better at it.
1.) Always take an action: Do you find yourself opening and closing, or rereading then marking unread over and over again? One of the best tips I ever learned for managing my inbox is that opening an email is a commitment to take one of five actions: delete it, delegate it, reply to it, defer it, or take a more substantial action. If you're not committed to doing this, don't bother opening your emails at that time. Wait until you are ready to process your emails, and then dive in.
2.) Use email tools: Many CIC-ers are big fans of Boomerang (for when you defer) and Gmail's archive and search is a godsend. Use Doodle to cut down on "Are you free on Tuesday at 2pm?"-type notes. Also, use filters and have emails that are more standard notifications skip you inbox. Then set up a calendar reminder to check it once a week.
3.) Get your team to help: Email is not always the best communication cool. For urgent items, the CIC Rotterdam team has a WhatsApp group. For quick questions, we use Gchat or Slack. And for each teammate I manage, I ask that they keep a running list of the non-urgent, bigger picture items to cover during our in-person check ins.


Thomson Airways Limited is the world's largest charter airline, offering scheduled and charter flights from the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland to destinations in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. The airline is a subsidiary of TUI Travel, which was formed by the merger of the travel division of TUI AG and First Choice Holidays plc in September 2007. The two companies' respective airlines, Thomsonfly and First Choice Airways, were merged under the former's Air Operator's Certificate from May 2008, and were rebranded as Thomson Airways on 1 November 2008.
The airline carried 10.5 million passengers in 2013, making it the third-largest UK airline by total passengers, after EasyJet and British Airways. The registered office is at the TUI Travel House in Crawley, West Sussex but its head office is located in Wigmore House in Luton, Bedfordshire.


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Q: Passing arguments from controller to form type __construct in Symfony 3 In Symfony2 we used:
$form = $this->createForm(new MyFormType($mySession));

We can pass $session as an arguments in __construct.
But I'm not able to pass $session argument in Symfony3
I have tried something like this:
$form = $this->createForm(MyFormType::class, array(
        'mySession' => $mySession
    ));

Can anyone please guide me? How to solve this issue.
Thanks in advance!

A: The 2nd argument for createForm method is the $datas you set. You can link the data to an entity using data_class in the FormType configureOptions like this :
public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
{
    $resolver->setDefaults(array(
        'data_class' => MyEntity::class,
    ));
}

Also, Symfony accepts a third parameter for options
Here's the core methods :
/**
     * Creates and returns a Form instance from the type of the form.
     *
     * @param string $type    The fully qualified class name of the form type
     * @param mixed  $data    The initial data for the form
     * @param array  $options Options for the form
     *
     * @return Form
     */
    protected function createForm($type, $data = null, array $options = array())
    {
        return $this->container->get('form.factory')->create($type, $data, $options);
    }

A: I hope this link help you:
public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
    $this->yourVarableName = $options['yourVarableName']; // here you will catch your pass data

    $builder
        ->add('name', TextType::class)
        ...
        ->add('your_field_type', ChoiceType::class, array(
            'label' => 'Label Field',
            'mapped' => false,
            'choices' => $this->traitChoices['figure_type']
        ))
        ...
    ;
}

/**
 * {@inheritdoc}
 */
public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
{
    $resolver->setDefaults(array(
        'data_class' => 'Foo\YouBundle\Entity\Goal',
        'yourVarableName' => null, // here your data
    ));
}

When creating the form your controller:
$goal = new Goal(); //instance of Entity
$form = $this->createForm(GoalType::class, $goal, array(
        'action' => $this->generateUrl('profile_update'),
        'method' => 'PUT',
        'yourVarableName' => $yourVarableName,
    ));

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Validation and Standardization of the Weight Control Perceived Self-Efficacy Inventory in a Mexican College Population
Validación y estandarización del inventario auto-eficacia percibida para el control de peso en población mexicana universitaria
Validação e padronização do inventário autoeficácia percebida para o controle de peso em população mexicana universitária
Recibido: 12 de julio de 2013
Enviado a pares: 4 de agosto de 2013
Aceptado por pares: 18 de mayo de 2014
Aprobado: 18 de diciembre de 2014
10.5294/aqui.2015.15.1.5
Erick Landeros-Olvera1
Bertha Cecilia Salazar-González2
Juan Carlos López-Alvarenga3
1 Nursing Sciences PhD. Graduate Research Coordinator, School of Nursing, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México.
erick_landeross@hotmail.com
2 Ph.D. in Nursing Sciences, Doctorate Program , UANL Nursing School, México.
bceci195@hotmail.com
3 Post-doctorate in Population Genetics . Head of the Clinical Research Division, Hospital General de México, México.
jclalvar@yahoo.com
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Landeros-Olvera E, Salazar-González BC, López-Alvarenga JC. Validation and Standardization of the Weight Control Perceived Self-Efficacy Inventory in a Mexican College Population. Aquichan. 2015;15(1):44-51. DOI: 10.5294/aqui.2015.15.1.5
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to evaluate if the Weight Control Perceived Self-efficacy Inventory (WC-PSE) is reproducible in a Mexican college population. Methods and materials: This is an observational and prolective process study. Sixty subjects from two geographical regions of Mexico were invited to answer the WC-PSE on two separate occasions. Findings: The Content Validity Index was 0.96. The mean difference in the test retest was <4 in all domains; the intra-class correlation coefficient was >0.7; Cronbach's coefficient was α=.95. The inventory was sensitive to detecting differences according to gender and degrees of body mass index. Conclusion: The WC-PSE inventory is reproducible and sensitive for application to a Mexican college population.
Self-efficacy, diet, physical activity, exercise, nursing. (Source: DeCS, Bireme).
Objetivo: evaluar si el inventario auto-eficacia percibida para el control de peso (AP-CP) es reproducible en población universitaria. Material y métodos: estudio de proceso, observacional y prolectivo. Se invitó a 60 sujetos de dos regiones geográficas de México para responder el AP-CP en dos ocasiones por separado. Resultados: el Índice de Validez de Contenido fue de 0.96. En la prueba re-prueba, la diferencia promedio fue < 4 en todos los dominios, coeficiente de correlación intra-clase > 0.7; coeficiente α=0.95. El inventario también fue sensible para detectar diferencias de acuerdo a género y grados de IMC. Conclusión: el inventario AP-CP es reproducible y sensible para aplicarse en población mexicana universitaria.
Auto-eficacia, dieta, actividad física, ejercicio (Fuente: DeCS, Bireme).
Objetivo: Avaliar se o inventário Autoeficácia Percebida para Controle de Peso (AP-CP) pode ser reproduzido em população universitária. Material e métodos: Estudo de processo, observacional e proletivo. Sessenta sujeitos de duas regiões geográficas do México foram convidados para responder ao AP-CP em duas ocasiões separadamente. Resultados: O Índice de Validade de Conteúdo foi de 0,96%. Na prova re-prova, a diferença média foi de < 4 em todos os domínios, coeficiente de correlação intraclasse > 0,7; coeficiente α=0,95. O inventário também foi sensível para detectar diferenças de acordo com o gênero e graus de IMC. Conclusão: O inventário AP-CP pode ser reproduzido e é sensível para ser aplicado na população mexicana universitária.
Autoeficácia, dieta, atividade física, exercício (Fonte: DeCS, Bireme).
Obesity is a worldwide public health problem (1) and is considered a causal factor in the leading causes of death, such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease (2). The etiology of obesity is multifactorial, including mainly genetic and environmental factors related to weight gain. The environmental factors include overeating (impulsive and excessive consumption of large portions of foods rich in carbohydrates and saturated fat) and a sedentary lifestyle (with little or no physical exercise that is planned and performed with specific goals in mind, such as fitness and good health) (3). Evidence shows healthy nutrition and exercise are decisive to preventing and treating obesity (4). However, efforts to treat obesity commonly fail and, if weight is lost, it is regained in most cases (5, 6, 7).
On the other hand, cognitive aspects also exert an influence on the success or failure of weight control. The concept of self-efficacy (SE), rooted in Bandura's social cognitive theory (8, 9), is defined a person's confidence or conviction about being able to succeed in performing a particular task or behaving in a particular way. SE serves as an important mediator in the intention to pursue healthy behavior (10). Bandura recommends the use of specific SE concepts when studying particular behavior such as physical activity or diet, especially when the research interest is on weight control. According to Bandura, SE includes four principles: a) performance accomplishments, defined by an individual's success or failure in personal experiences; b) vicarious experience, meaning the influence of other people's behavior or achievements on one's personal experiences (social comparison); the more an individual resembles the leading model, the stronger the expectations of self-efficacy; c) oral persuasion, which is a suggestion from someone other than the person to generate a positive change in beliefs; and d) emotional activation, which is the intensity or type of emotional experience that informs the person of his or her competence.
Scientific evidence shows there is an association between a high perception of SE, healthy eating, and adherence to exercise (11, 12, 13). Several instruments to measure SE in the Anglo-Saxon population have been developed and applied to college students (14, 15), adolescents (16), adults (17), and senior citizens (18). Other populations that have been studied are patients with chronic degenerative diseases, including obesity (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25).
Spanish speaking groups such as Ruiz et al (26, 27). have validated the Eating Self-Efficacy Scale (ESES) (28) and the Weight Efficacy Life Style Questionnaire (WEL) (29) in the Spanish population. However, instruments developed for the Latin American population are scarce. The conclusions of these same authors point to the need for more research targeted to obtaining new tools to evaluate SE for weight control (24).
Roman et al (30) structured an inventory known as Perceived Self-Efficacy for Weight Control (WC-PSE). It assesses SE in three domains: diet (overeating), exercise (planned physical activity), and physical activity (everyday activity or that performed with no physical fitness goals in mind). Reports on this tool reveal validity and reliability when applied in Venezuela.
Considering these results, it would be interesting to apply the WC-PSE inventory in a culturally different context, such as that of Mexico. Since the WC-PSE inventory has yet to be used in clinical studies and there are no reports of its application to an adult Mexican population, it is important to apply the WC-PSE and validate it in different geographical areas of Latin America. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine if the WC-PSE questionnaire is reliable for use in a Mexican college population. Content validity was established through a panel of experts, leading to adaptations that are culturally appropriate to the Mexican context. Internal consistency was determined using Student's paired t test between the test and re-test means and sensitivity by detecting differences among groups, based on gender and BMI.
Study design and sample. We designed an observational and prolective process study (31). A conveniently-sized sample size of 30 participants was planned to obtain 80% statistical power and less than 5% type I error. However, it was decided to increase data variability to enhance external validity; accordingly, two geographical areas were used, thus doubling the number of participants analyzed and increasing the statistical power (n = 60).
College student subgroups were merged for the statistical analysis, as they showed no differences in gender frequency and BMI figures.
WC-PSE Inventory
The WC-PSE inventory is comprised of 37 items distributed into three domains: diet with 20 assertions, exercise with nine, and physical activity with eight. All 37 items were designed to be answered on a Likert-type format, ranging from 1= "incapable of doing so" to 4= "certain to do so". The maximum score possible is 148 points and the minimum is 37 points. In all three domains, the greater the values, the greater the perceived SE. Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.88, 0.91 and 0.88 for diet, exercise, and physical-activity domains, in that order. Factor analysis showed the diet, exercise and physical-activity domains explained 17.2%, 14.5% and 12.2% of the variance, respectively. To verify these results and validation of the original inventory, please refer to Román et al., (30) since some of the items were adapted for our study.
Procedures. Content validation, item adaptation, application of the inventory and test re-test were included in our investigation.
Content validation. The original (30) inventory was sent to a panel of five experts (with Ph.D degree) to ensure each item corresponded to the concept of SE and to the domain of either diet, exercise or physical activity, and to ensure language clarity according to the social context of the studied population. Each expert judged each item according to a Likert -type scale ranging from zero (definitely not related) to four (extremely related). The following indexes were calculated:
Validity Index by Item (IVE=Σ total items<3/total judges)
Validity Criterion (CV=IVI/total items)
Content Validity Index (IVC=Σ total items≥ 3/total items reviewed by all judges). IVC values near 1.0 are considered acceptable.
Additionally, each expert reported the items he or she considered confusing. It was decided beforehand that if three or more judges considered an item to be confusing, it would be modified.
Inventory application. Participants were selected on a convenience basis from two Mexican universities (México City = subgroup 1 and Monterrey = subgroup 2). They gave their consent in writing. One of the researchers explained the instructions on how to answer the inventory to all participants. The participants completed the inventory in their classrooms, in the presence of their professor and one of the researchers. Since perceived SE is a changing cognitive state, brief time intervals between evaluations (<2 weeks) are recommended (33). A second application or retest of the inventory was conducted with subgroup one (S1) two hours after the first application and without any notification. An academic activity unrelated to the inventory was conducted during the interval between the first and second applications. The retest for subgroup two (S2) was also applied without any notification, but 24 hours after the test. Both subgroups were free to ask questions and to offer suggestions on how to enhance any of the items, if they felt they were confusing.
Statistical analysis. SPSS software, version19, was used to analyze the data. The data from the groups were considered as one group when analyzing reproducibility and sensitivity of the perceived SE inventory in the diet, physical activity and exercise domains. Therefore, the sample size was 60 participants.
Cronbach's alpha coefficients were calculated for each domain and for the SE inventory overall. Reproducibility was evaluated using Student's paired t test between the test and re-test means. It was decided beforehand that, if the difference was more than four points, the instrument would be considered non-reproducible. This was based on the maximum value (32) of the domain with fewer items (physical activity), where 4 points represent 12.5% variability.
Test re-test concordance was calculated with the inter-class correlation coefficient, and complemented with a Bland-Altman graph (34). If the interclass correlation coefficient was greater than 0.7, the questionnaire would be reproducible and concordant, as previously decided.
Ethical considerations. The study was conducted according to the General Health Law on research matters (35). Approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Univesidad Autónoma de Nuevo León School of Nursing, under registration number FAEN-D-648.
Sample description. The data were combined into one group, as no significant differences were found between the two groups of college students in terms of gender, age and BMI (p= 0.11, 0.53 and 0.64, respectively). Women accounted for 71.7% of the total sample (n = 43). The mean age was 22±5.1 years (in a range of 18-49 years) and BMI was 23.9±4.5 (in a range 18-40).
The Content validity index (IVC) obtained in the study was 0.96, which was considered acceptable. The results are presented in Spanish, so this version can be considered for groups of Mexican immigrants residing in Anglo Saxon contexts. The expert validation yielded modifications in five items in the diet domain: "Evitar comer alimentos chatarra (perros calientes, hamburguesas, granjero, etc.)" instead of "Evitar comer alimentos chatarra (hot dogs, hamburguesas, fritos, etc)." "Estar en una panadería y comprar un yogurt en vez de una pizza." instead of "Estar en una tiendita y comprar un yogurt en vez de un Gansito®." "Pensar que realizando las tres comidas diarias bajas en grasa contribuyes a controlar tu peso," instead of "Realizar tres comidas diarias bajas en grasa contribuye a controlar tu peso." "Creer que respetando los horarios de comida contribuyes a controlar tu peso." instead of "Respetar horarios de comida contribuye a controlar tu peso." "Evitar dejar de cenar si te sientes bajo presión." instead of "Cenar aunque estés bajo presión." There were no modifications in the physical activity and exercise domains.
Internal consistency Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the diet, exercise, and physical-activity domains were calculated in the test and the respective results were 0.92, 0.96 and 0.93. The scale, in general, was α= 0.95 with 95% IC (Interval = 0.932 - 0.967).
Reproducibility. The mean time to fill out the WC-PSE questionnaire was 9±4 minutes. Table 1 shows the averages for the difference (Delta Δ) between the test and re-test ranged from zero to four; these dimensions were established previously (see the statistical analysis). Regarding concordance, the interclass correlation coefficient was 0.93 (CI=0.885-0.959, p<.001) for the average of the measures by pairs, which was greater than the previously established 0.7. This indicates the WC-PSE has temporal stability. Bland-Altman's correlation graphs corroborate this finding (Graphs 1 and 2).
Sensitivity. The statistical analysis was able to detect differences between gender (feminine vs. masculine) in the SE overall (114.6±1.2 vs. 125.1±9.7, t= -2.7, p=.007) and in the exercise domain (26.1±5.8 vs. 31.4±4.4, t= -1.3, p=.001). For physical activity, it was at the limit (26.8±4 vs. 29±3, t= -1.9, p=.053), and no differences were observed as to the diet domain (61.5±7.9 vs. 64.5±7.5, t= -1.3, p=.183). Finally, we analyzed the sensitivity of the inventory associated with the BMI spectrum(Graph 3), noting that the larger the BMI, the smaller the SE score.
In this study, we determined the WC-PSE questionnaire possibly is reliable for application to the Mexican college population. The results of the study support this, at least in the selected sample. Content validity and adaptation were done by a panel of SE experts. The inventory also showed some sensitivity in detecting the difference between male-female and according to body mass index.
The content validity performed by experts suggested five items in the original inventory that needed to be modified to adapt them into the Mexican cultural context. With the modifications, we obtained an adequate internal consistency with Cronbach's alphas coefficients greater than 0.9 in each inventory domain, similar to those obtained in the original validation (30). However, the SE results overall must be viewed with caution, since coefficients above 0.95 suggest redundancy in the items in the inventory.
On the other hand, the WC-PSE is reproducible and concordant in the test re-test for all domains, as well as for SE overall. The degree of concordance obtained shows the inventory has temporal stability. This also is supported with the Bland-Altman method, which represents the differences between two measurements compared to their means.
The inventory is sensitive in detecting differences in SE overall and in the exercise domain, according to gender and BMI. These differences could help to conduct future projects where SE is crucial to adherence to weight reduction treatment, as suggested by the work of Nies (11), Olivari (12) and Sánchez (13). Despite SE perception being a cognitive aspect that does not necessarily represent action or performance of a particular behavior, it could be a crucial element as a predictor, and the WC-PSE inventory could be used in experimental designs to measure the response of specific population groups to treatment or intervention aimed at changing habits in the interest of weight control. One of the most important aspects in the WC-PSE inventory is precisely the fact that it includes the dimensions of diet, exercise, and physical activity, which are undoubtedly aspects related to weight control, according to systematic reviews (4).
The main limitations of the study are the following:, a) It was conducted in a college population, so the results cannot necessarily be generalized to other populations in Mexico; b) A convenience sample is adequate to analyze the instrument, but cannot be used to make inferences for a general population, even a college one.
The results of this study contribute to having a reliable instrument for the Mexican adult population, since there are no reports of the WC-PSE questionnaire being applied in the Latin-American population outside of its original design. Use of the inventory could contribute further to its validation in different groups and perhaps its generalizability. In future work, the inventory might be applied to overweight or obese subjects to identify the way SE expectations influence modifying dietary habits and physical activity patterns through time. From an experimental point of view, groups of obese persons could be compared to different types of exercise or diet , and SE could be used as a result variable and to show if scores after and before the intervention increase for the experimental group.
We conclude this study shows the WC-PSE inventory is reproducible and concordant for the Mexican college population in question. Its internal consistency is acceptable and it is sensitive to differences between gender and BMI.
The authors state no source or institution has benefitted in terms of money, assets and hospitality or study grants. Accordingly, there is no conflict of interest.
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These variables are used to prevent dynamic memory allocation during runtime.
Constructor for a KinematicsCache given the number of positions and velocities per body in the vectors num_joint_positions and num_joint_velocities, respectively.
For a RigidBodyTree with nbodies rigid bodies, num_joint_positions and num_joint_velocities are vectors of size nbodies containing in the i-th entry the number of positions and the number of velocities for the i-th RigidBody in the RigidBodyTree.
Note that you will typically not create a KinematicsCache object using this constructor. Instead, you usually obtain a KinematicsCache object by calling RigidBodyTree::CreateKinematicsCache() or RigidBodyTree::CreateKinematicsCacheWithType(). The second option is useful if you need a particular type for your cache like Eigen::AutoDiffScalar.
For examples on how to create and use the KinematicsCache, see rigid_body_tree_dynamics_test.cc and rigid_body_tree_kinematics_test.cc.
num_positions Total number of positions in the RigidBodyTree.
num_velocities Total number of velocities in the RigidBodyTree.
num_joint_positions A std::vector<int> containing in the i-th entry the number of positions for the i-th body in the RigidBodyTree.
num_joint_velocities A std::vector<int> containing in the i-th entry the number of velocities for the i-th body in the RigidBodyTree.
Requests a cache entry for a body mobilized by a joint with num_positions and num_velocities.
Returns constant reference to a cache entry for body body_id.
Returns mutable pointer to a cache entry for body body_id.
Returns q, the generalized position vector of the RigidBodyTree that was used to compute this KinematicsCache.
Returns v, the generalized velocity vector of the RigidBodyTree that was used to compute this KinematicsCache.
Returns x, the state vector of the RigidBodyTree that was used to compute this KinematicsCache.
This is the concatenation of q, the RigidBodyTree's generalized position vector, and v the RigidBodyTree's generalized velocity vector into a single vector. Within x, q precedes v.
Returns true if this KinematicsCache object has a valid v vector.
v is the generalized velocity vector of the RigidBodyTree that was used to compute this KinematicsCache.


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"Not at all," Stein assures him.
Certainly the uproarious success of Jansson's Moomin comics, buttressed by tidal waves of promotional tie-ins, could not have eased their creator's reception as a polymath painter and writer in the more refined air of the art world. Her top-hatted hippoish cartoons seemed to indicate that her artistic sensibilities were insufficiently mature.
But like all the best authors who wrote for children, Jansson drew from an inkwell of very adult themes: loneliness, obsession, the difficulty and the necessity of living with others. The twenty-six stories gathered here, spanning five collections and twenty-six years in Jansson's creative life, demonstrate that Jansson was preoccupied with the same set of concerns since her debut as an "adult" fiction writer—not too surprising, since Jansson was already middle-aged by the time her first collection The Listener was published.
An old blurb in the back of several Moomin collections told you that Jansson's family "kept a pet monkey named Poppolino, whom they dressed in argyle sweaters." Reading these stories, I often thought of that childhood pet: adult concerns are just children's concerns, dolled up in tweed.
Faulkner had Yoknapatawpha County; Jansson had islands. These were physical islands, with a real vitality—the wind-tousled, goose-trampled outposts of Jansson's late adulthood and early youth. Islands form a physical presence, but also supply an appealing metaphorical lexicon for Jansson's recurring themes: the artist as a solitary individual, shaped by the elemental forces of nature and creativity and brought into uneasy concatenation with her fellow islands. Critics can frame this preoccupation, in a condescending minor key, as how to get along with others; regarded with fuller dignity, these are parables of socialization whose concerns date back at least to Rousseau, if not the Tower of Babel.
If Jansson's progression from The Listener (1971) to her final stories in Messages (1997) is any indication, the author's perspective has undergone some alteration over the decades (stories from both of those books and two others are collected here, in The Woman Who Borrowed Memories). The artist-protagonists of The Listener are solitary people, unsure of their relationship to others, who retreat from the world in order to perfect their art. To them, the choice seems to be entirely stark; solitude is a necessary precondition for creating "pure" art, and human warmth threatens as much as it comforts —cf. "Black-White," a disappointingly predictable tribute to Edward Gorey, where an illustrator abandons his beloved wife to toil in darkness.
Perhaps for the first time in my life, I effectively managed to shut off that dreadful compassion that has given both myself and those around me such fearful trouble. I use that word deliberately, fearful. Now perhaps you can understand why I started on my journey? Perhaps you have some idea of the depth of my fatigue, of my exhaustion and nausea in the face of this constant need to feel sorry for people?
A dramatic landscape, enormous and enclosed. What effect did it have on human beings? It was so utterly solitary. She stood still and listened, gradually becoming aware of how the silent was accentuated by never being absolute. Now and then a dog barked, a car passed on the road below the village, church bells rang a long way off. Points of comparison, she thought, like the way the ocean grows larger if there are islands breaking the horizon. We need contrast, she told herself.
Of course, maybe it really is that simple; this is, after all, a writer who titled one of her adult novels Fair Play. Viktoria's inspiration for the reconciliation comes after death of "the lost friend of her youth—Hilda, who never understood how easily she could have stopped being difficult." The sensibility is very Jansson: profoundly optimistic and pessimistic in the same stroke. It's all as easy as child's play, and as difficult.
Monkeys in argyle. It never gets any better.


3.6. Automate deployment tasks with scripting.
Automating the application deployment is something to consider if it is done more than one time. Successful automation will provide an error free and consistent application deployment approach. Most of the application deployment not only involves installing the application itself, but it also needs to create other WebSphere objects, configure the Web servers, file systems and others. These tasks can be automated using shell scripting depending on the operating systems, Java Common Language (JACL) and Jythons.
The WebSphere Application Server wsadmin.sh tool provides the ability to run scripts. The wsadmin tool supports a full range of product administrative activities.
AdminControl: Use to run operational commands.
AdminConfig: Use to run configurational commands to create or modify WebSphere Application Server configurational elements.
AdminApp: Use to administer applications.
AdminTask: Use to run administrative commands.
Help: Use to obtain general help.
The scripts use these objects to communicate with MBeans that run in WebSphere Application Server processes. MBeans are Java objects that represent Java Management Extensions (JMX) resources. JMX is an optional package addition to Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE). JMX is a technology that provides a simple and standard way to manage Java objects.
Run wsadmin scripting with the same user ID as the user that runs the deployment manager or application server. A root user can switch the user ID to complete these actions.
Set the group ID of the user that is running the deployment manager or application server to be the same group ID as the user that is running wsadmin scripting. Also, set the umask value of the user that is running the wsadmin scripting to be at least a umask 027 value so that files that are created by the wsadmin scripting can be read by members of the group.
Run wsadmin scripting from a different machine. This approach forces files to be transferred and bypasses the file copy permission issue.
Note that the wsadmin command also exists in the bin directory of the install_root directory. If you start wsadmin from this location, you must be careful to specify the profile to work with in the command. If you do not specify the profile (or forget to specify it), the default profile will be chosen.
WASX7031I: For help, enter: "print Help.help()"
wsadmin.sh is executed from the profile_root/bin directory, so it is not necessary to specify the profile name, host, and port.
Administrative security is disabled. In reality, you will need to specify the username and password when you invoke wsadmin.
The -f option is used to execute a script file. Example below shows a two-line Jython script named myScript.py. The script has a .py extension to reflect the Jython language syntax of the script. The extension plays no significance in wsadmin; the com.ibm.ws.scripting.defaultLang property or -lang parameter is used to determine the language used. If the property setting is not correct, use the -lang option to identify the scripting language, because the default is Jacl.
print "This is an example Jython script"
End the interactive execution environment by typing quit and pressing the "Enter" key.
3.5. Configure WebSphere messaging (e.g., SIBus bus members and destinations). Home 3.7. Manage the plug-in configuration file (e.g., regenerate, edit, propagate, etc.).