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2007 Printing Industry Hall of Fame — Building a Golden Dome - Tim Poole
By Erik Cagle
FROM THE time he was a young man, Tim Poole wanted to be in the position to make a difference in a printing company. That he loves every aspect of printing—from planning to manufacturing and distribution—and has worked down in the trenches himself makes him an ideal candidate to be a leader.
"Some of my greatest enjoyment comes out of watching people around me succeed," says Poole, 48, president of Dome Printing in Sacramento, CA, and a 2007 inductee into the Printing Impressions/RIT Printing Industry Hall of Fame. "I challenge our people to maximize efficiency and deliver a high-quality product. There's a level of respect on the floor; they know that I've been there in their position. They know I'm going to provide an insight about what I can do or offer to make their job better."
Tim Poole is one of three brothers, along with Bob and Andy, who have helped guide Dome Printing, a general commercial printer that also specializes in direct mail and publications. The Northern California printer boasted sales of more than $33 million in 2006, a 22 percent increase over the previous year, and is also projecting healthy growth for 2007.
Poole almost didn't make it into the family business, as the unpredictabilities of life made the path to printing anything but clear and straight. His parents divorced when he was very young; his father, Ray, stayed in Sacramento, where he would purchase Dome Printing in 1969. His mother set up home much further east, in York, PA. Tim Poole lived with his mother and spent one month each summer with his father.
It was during those month-long visits as a young teen that Poole got his first taste of printing. A pressman at Dome taught him how to operate an ATF Chief Multilith, which began his fascination with the full gamut of the printing process. Though he was just 15, Poole started to envision a future for himself.
"I was enrolled in a vocational school," he says. "My mom had five kids, and my dad married into a large family. College was never really an option and, since I was a hard-working guy, I saw vocational school as my way into the work world."
After the unofficial internship on the ATF Chief, Poole switched his vocational studies from electronics to printing. ("I liked taking components apart and putting them back together.") After graduating from high school, Poole's father asked him to join Dome Printing. Hesitant at first, a series of personal setbacks prompted him to pack up and head West in search of a career in the graphic arts.
When Poole first joined Dome in 1979, the company was generating only about $400,000 in annual revenues. While Ray Poole was comfortable with the size of the company, his son wanted to build an infrastructure that would support much more capacity. Together they bolstered Dome's press arsenal within a five-year period.
"My Father Taught Me..."
Poole credits his father for guiding his print education. "I had aspirations to attend Cal Poly, so I could learn the business side and learn more about printing," Poole says. "His [father's] reaction was, 'I'll teach you everything you need to know.' That was the foundation for my learning. I also had some incredible mentors, like Wallace Stettinius at Cadmus Communications. Along the way, I learned the value of networking. I have met some very good people with whom I've stayed in touch with over the years."
He is also thankful of the opportunity Ray Poole provided in allowing him to assume a critical role at Dome Printing as a young man. It was certainly an investment that paid big dividends.
"He made sure that I had the tools to learn, and the opportunities to go places and do things at a young age," Poole says of his father. "He afforded me the opportunity that other people might not have gotten. I was 21 and already going to trade shows to learn about new equipment. My father did a great job of making sure he had a good succession plan in place."
Poole has enjoyed the challenge of creating a culture within the company, bridging differing talents and philosophies. Though it can be tough at times, leading Dome Printing has essentially been the only full-time position Poole has known in his professional career.
Dan Nelson, president of the Printing Industries of Northern California (PINC), notes that Poole and Dome Printing have always enjoyed high visibility, and not just among the Sacramento business community. He also feels Poole has been critical to the success of PINC over the past 10 years.
"He's a straight shooter and a positive contributor," Nelson says of Poole. "Tim's company is a testament to his way of thinking. They were among the first printers to adopt a computer-to-plate workflow. And he's the first to admit when he makes a mistake. I remember touring Dome's plant when Tim pointed to a machine and said, 'I learned from that mistake.' Not too many printers would say that.
Phenomenal Teamwork
"The way the Poole brothers work together is phenomenal. Each one knows his role in the process, and it really works for them."
Steve Hayes has known Tim Poole for about 10 years, primarily through their association within the Print America peer group. Hayes sees Poole as a grounded person, despite the immense success of Dome Printing. Like Nelson, Hayes is struck by Poole's penchant for being bluntly honest.
"Tim's a very sharp individual who grew in the business from the ground up," Hayes says. "His knowledge of the equipment has been beneficial in managing a very successful company. Tim has a unique ability to analyze new technology and techniques that he'll apply to the customer base to see if there's value for them. He's not only a colleague, but a great friend; that has great value to me."
Poole has been active with PINC; he became the association's new chairman as of August 1 and has held a position with the board of directors since 1998. He's spent four years on the NAPL's board of directors and a number of their advisory committees, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences. Additionally, Poole served as president of the Print America peer group in 2001 and 2002.
Since he's spent the last 30 years in California, it's not surprising that most of Poole's pastime activities include water. He enjoys Abalone diving, as well as scuba diving in hot spots such as Hawaii and Mexico. He particularly enjoys spending time on his horse ranch with his wife of 25 years, Stefanie, and their two Chihuahuas. Poole also enjoys playing host to family and friends.
"I'm very active. I've always believed that you have to play as hard as you work," he says. "I'm not one to just lay on the beach." PI
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.source "TimeoutPreferenceController.java"

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# instance fields
.field private final mScreenTimeoutKey:Ljava/lang/String;

# direct methods
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    .locals 0

    invoke-direct {p0, p1}, Lcom/android/settings/core/PreferenceController;-><init>(Landroid/content/Context;)V

    iput-object p2, p0, Lcom/android/settings/display/TimeoutPreferenceController;->mScreenTimeoutKey:Ljava/lang/String;

    return-void
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    const-wide/16 v4, 0x0

    cmp-long v1, p0, v4

    if-ltz v1, :cond_0

    if-nez p2, :cond_1

    :cond_0
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    array-length v1, p3

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    const/4 v0, 0x0

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    .locals 8

    invoke-virtual {p1}, Lcom/android/settings/TimeoutListPreference;->getEntries()[Ljava/lang/CharSequence;

    move-result-object v0

    invoke-virtual {p1}, Lcom/android/settings/TimeoutListPreference;->getEntryValues()[Ljava/lang/CharSequence;

    move-result-object v3

    invoke-virtual {p1}, Lcom/android/settings/TimeoutListPreference;->isDisabledByAdmin()Z

    move-result v4

    if-eqz v4, :cond_0

    iget-object v4, p0, Lcom/android/settings/display/TimeoutPreferenceController;->mContext:Landroid/content/Context;

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    move-result-object v1

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    invoke-virtual {p1, v1}, Lcom/android/settings/TimeoutListPreference;->setSummary(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)V

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    invoke-virtual {v2}, Landroid/content/Context;->getContentResolver()Landroid/content/ContentResolver;

    move-result-object v2

    const-string/jumbo v3, "screen_off_timeout"

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.method public updateState(Landroid/support/v7/preference/Preference;)V
    .locals 12

    move-object v6, p1

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    iget-object v7, p0, Lcom/android/settings/display/TimeoutPreferenceController;->mContext:Landroid/content/Context;

    invoke-virtual {v7}, Landroid/content/Context;->getContentResolver()Landroid/content/ContentResolver;

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    move-result-wide v2

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    iget-object v7, p0, Lcom/android/settings/display/TimeoutPreferenceController;->mContext:Landroid/content/Context;

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    return-void
.end method

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It's that time of year again! Time to celebrate my wife's birthday. I thought I'd snap some pictures of her blowing out some candles with my Sony Nex 7. I would really love some criticism of this photo because I know how incredibly hard these types of photos can be. I shot this at ISO 1600 at 18mm and f /3.5. What would you have done?
My wife Natali on her birthday.


Heat a small saucepan with the olive oil. Add the onion, garlic and whole chipotle and sauté, stirring now and then until the onions are nicely caramelized.
Deglaze the pan with the bourbon.
Add all other ingredients to the pot. Bring to a boil then simmer over low heat for 15 minutes until the mixture is thickened. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Purée in a blender. Cool and store in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to 4 weeks.
To make BBQ Ribs: Score the ribs. Brush liberally with Balsamic vinegar and rub with the BBQ Spice Rub.
Allow to marinate, uncovered in the fridge for up to 2 days.
To cook, heat an oven to 325°F.
Place a sheet of tin foil down on a cutting board. Place a sheet of oiled parchment paper on top. Place the rubbed ribs on the parchment paper and slather them with BBQ sauce.
Wrap the ribs in the parchment and foil, and place on a baking sheet. Cook at 325°F for 2 ½ hours.
Remove the ribs from the oven and turn the oven to 425°F.
Open the foil and parchment paper package, and slather the ribs with additional BBQ sauce. Return the ribs to the oven, leaving the package open, and continue cooking until they are nicely caramelized.
Cut in the ribs and serve.


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My grandmother, who was my greatest teacher, often repeated the slogan, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."
My grandmother was mistaken. She wasn't often wrong and, to her credit, she was just trying to steel her granddaughters against the onslaught of childhood name-calling. My last name was Dozier and it seemed some classmate was always intent on calling me or one of my sisters "Bull Dozer."
So I will forgive my grandmother, and I'm sure she would forgive me for disagreeing with her, because words do hurt. Admittedly, they are not as obviously painful as physical violence, but they can be just as hurtful. There are the issues of bullying so much in the news these days and there are the personal hurts of verbal abuse.
But the damage I'm thinking about today is more global: the use of certain words that serve only to degrade the human condition and devalue the level of discussion no matter what the topic.
It has become particularly common to use the term "war" to describe any effort to end something egregious or even to represent the two sides in a disagreement. This form of hyperbole is misleading at best and, at worst, damaging even to a noble cause.
In 1964, shortly after Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency, he declared a War on Poverty that led to the enactment of social programs still in existence today. Some have worked, some haven't but, the truth is, poverty still afflicts too many Americans, some 46.2 million, or 15.1 percent of the population as of 2010, according to the Census Bureau. In 1964, the figure was 19 percent, though the actual numbers were smaller. So who won the War on Poverty?
That's the problem with using the term "war." In implies that someone -- or some entity -- is the winner and someone else is the loser.
Since President Johnson's time there have been many other "wars." President Nixon declared a War on Drugs in June 1971 and, though the term has lost much of its luster over the years, it has cost American taxpayers some $1 trillion and caused countless deaths -- estimates say 35,000 in Mexico alone -- and yet little ground has been gained. Some say the War on Drugs has caused far more harm than good in increased prison populations and less emphasis on effective mental health treatment.
Then there was use of the term "Global War on Terror" that arose out of the 9-11 attacks and eventually led to armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thankfully, most of the service men and women are now out of Iraq and the American presence in Afghanistan is waning. In fact, the Obama administration has chosen to avoid use of the term "War on Terror" largely because of its inflammatory connotations in parts of the world, not to mention here at home. But it is clear the "war" has been costly. The Congressional Reporting Service estimated in March that $1.283 trillion has been spent on military and ancillary operations and, much worse, some 6,316 American service members have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, wrote in 2007 that using the term "war on terror" leads to a culture of fear, which he said "obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue."
Now we hear almost daily of the culture wars. The Wall Street occupiers claim to represent the "99 percent" of Americans they believe are being subjugated by the rich top 1 percent. Others have characterized the culture wars as liberal against conservative, traditionalist against progressive.
In 1992, University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter wrote the book, "Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America," in which he chronicled the battle between orthodoxy and progressivism on issues such as abortion, funding for the arts, women's rights, gay rights and more.
Headline writers have contributed to the problem by using phrases like, "War on Christmas," or one I saw online the other day, "Principal wages dress code war on teachers." And in the Seattle area, transportation policy conversations are being characterized as a "war on cars."
War, by its very nature, serves to divide people into camps -- whether armed with bullets or beliefs -- that make compromise and cooperation almost impossible. Thomas Mann wrote, "War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
As the world enters a new year, as nations in the Arab world struggle to find their footing after enduring oppressive regimes, and as Americans face a pivotal election season, this would be a good time to look for new solutions to those problems of peace.


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Service workers fight back
Service workers at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, members of the Teamsters, recently struck fighting for greater wages than the company initially offered. The withdrawal of labour hurt the bottom line over the holiday season and the Teamsters won an enhanced agreement.
4,500 homecare workers walked out earlier in December impacting over 45,000 families. These workers are primarily women from racialized communities and provide needed services to the elderly and others requiring services allowing them to remain in their own homes. They are some of the most vulnerable workers in the province. The highest wage rate is $15 an hour and many of the women have worked years to achieve this. They are compensated for only one third of their travel time going from home to home, working hours more than they are paid for. This is all on behalf of a for-profit company whose CEO makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The Red Cross merged last year and is now in the business of making money for shareholders at the expense of both the workers and those they care for.
These workers are typical of the low wage service industry that is booming as manufacturing jobs are being lost through layoffs and plant closures. Employers are taking advantage of their vulnerability and are trying to pit these workers against the families they serve. Rallies, including one of thousands at Queens park, have been taking place across the province. An event in support of the striking workers took place with the Ontario Health Coalition, the Toronto Health Coalition, the Good Jobs For All Coalition and the Workers Action Centre, which is spearheading the campaign for an increased minimum wage. The strong support from community organizations is very important for the strike to be successful. The company is trying to drive a wedge between the workers and those they provide services to, attempting to bring public opinion against the workers.
The fact that service workers such as these are joining the labour movement is very important and strengthens their ability to fight back against exploitation. Unions also have to develop the flexibility and develop democratic structures that speak to the needs of these workers. The walkouts that we have seen in the US of unorganized fast food and Walmart workers shows that unions are providing support and confidence to this sector even when people are not officially organized. These actions have brought the reality of the growing gap between rich and poor to the fore, and highlight the fact that corporations and governments are trying to create a low age economy in both the US and Canada.
Although workers have suffered setbacks and defeats in recent times, where given a lead many will fight. We have seen this with the library workers in Toronto, at Rio Tinto in Quebec, teachers in British Columbia, workers at Vale Inco and US Steel. All of these battles have not been won, but it is very important that we put pressure on the leadership to fight back against concessions. The more solidarity that takes place, confidence can grow when workers feel that they aren't alone.
In Toronto, 130 Steelworkers at Crown have been on strike for months. The multi-national is trying to put in place a two-tiered situation with new hires and other concession. These workers have struck and have traveled to plants in the US, to the corporate headquarters in Philidelphia, and are connecting with fellow unionists in many other Crown workplaces trying to get support actions taking place across the chain. Workers in a newly organized facility in Turkey demonstated in support of their Canadian fellow-workers. Not one striker has crossed the line, and although there are no scabs at present, non-union Crown workers from Alberta were being flown into keep one line going.
This strike as well as the home care workers walk out demonstrates that workers will fight when they are given the opportunity to do so. The outcome is not clear and the challenges are great but if you don't fight you can't win.
Unions are one of the major obstacles to the austerity agenda. Harper, Hudak and others are very clear that unions can still be an effective tool to support the needs of working people. If they didn't think this Harper wouldn't have enacted federal legislation against postal workers, rail workers and Air Canada workers. Hudak wouldn't be prioritizing anti-union legislation as one of the major planks in his election platform in Ontario.
Trade union activists in Ontario must take advantage of the openings that have been created in our unions to fight back against the anti-worker, anti-union attacks. Almost every union has begun an internal campaign to connect with their membership. We should be at the heart of these campaigns, connecting with the members, listening to their concerns and talking about the need for rank and file organization at the workplace. It gives us an opportunity to rebuild our unions from the bottom up. We can not only fight back against these attacks but hopefully create a new and reinvigorated labour movement with the members at the heart of it.
steelworkers

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Music » Local Music
Folkies on the side
There's nothing special about any particular diner. They all seem to have the same basic elements: counter, cheap food, smoke-stained walls and, inevitably, one gravelly voiced waitress who's been there way too long.
And Steak Hut, the little greasy spoon near the corner of Lafayette and Trumbull, doesn't seem to be any exception. That is, until owner and head cook Gus Kanakis shows you his collection of pictures, mounted on four large black boards in the back room.
The pictures show a restaurant brimming with the long-haired, tattooed and pierced patrons who come only on Sunday mornings. That's when Steak Hut, a weekday quick-stop breakfast joint for nearby workers, is transformed into the place for students, unemployed punks and aging hippies to nurse their hangovers to live folk, bluegrass and jug band music.
The menu says, and Kanakis insists, that Steak Hut is the city's oldest diner. Sure, why not? But the live music, and the scene that took shape around it, started just two years ago, Kanakis says, when patron Amanda Lynn (former fiddler for the Syreens) came by for breakfast and brought her violin along. Kanakis asked her to play a bit.
"So she whips it out and starts playing, and I said, 'Dang, that's good,'" he says. Lynn asked Kanakis if she could start playing inside the diner for tips. She started playing every Sunday, and it just picked up from there.
Lynn and banjo player Steve Christiansen formed the band $2 Breakfast, named after Steak Hut's breakfast special of two eggs, home fries and toast. The duo became a Sunday fixture, playing an eclectic mix of standards like "Waltzing Matilda" and "Stand By Me" using not only the fiddle and banjo, but a mandolin, a ukulele and washtub bass.
Then, last summer, Lynn and Christiansen moved out of town, she to Pittsburgh and he to Atlanta. So, Kanakis, who had grown accustomed to the crowds of twentysomethings ("I like the kids. They're good customers, not fussy at all," he says), asked Ellen Doster to start booking bands. Doster, a member of folk five-piece the Motor City Sidestrokers, themselves Steak Hut regulars, thinks of the shows as a sort of old-timey music showcase for restaurant patrons who may be unfamiliar with folk and bluegrass.
"This is a rock 'n' roll town," she says. "There really aren't a lot of places where string band music is heard and appreciated, and, interestingly enough, what we noticed was that a lot of rock scene folks and club owners and vendors hang out there on Sundays and have their breakfast."
This week, Steak Hut will host the four-piece Moonsqualler String Band. Founded by ubiquitous folkie Jere Stormer, it's a scaled-down version of the Don't Look Now Jug Band, which has been performing in the area since the '70s.
Steak Hut is located at 1551 W. Lafayette Ave., Detroit; open 7 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sundays, with music 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Scheduled for the weeks to come are Moonsqualler (June 24), Ben Luttermosser (July 1), Dave Boutette (July 8), Luttermosser (July 8 and July 15), Jawbone (July 22), Moonsqualler (July 29), Marilyn and Tom (Aug. 5), Nick Schillace (Aug. 12), Motor City Sidestrokers (Aug. 19), Bone Orchard Revival (Aug. 26).
Charles Maldonado is a freelance writer for Metro Times. Send comments to letters@metrotimes.com
Local Music Folk Video


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US Resolution Disappointing - Karunanidhi
Describing the draft resolution on war crimes in Sri Lanka tabled by the US 'disappointing', DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had urged the Union government to move a separate resolution seeking independent, international enquiry into alleged war crimes during the final phase of war in Sri Lanka.
"Giving more time, even after five years, is unjust and it will help the island government to destroy the evidence for its war crimes," Karunanidhi said in a statement here.
He said the draft resolution tabled at the UNHRC had completely ignored critical parts of the report filed by United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navaneetham Pillay, and chose to give Sri Lanka more time to act on the issue. He also noted that the draft resolution had failed to include the term 'genocide' in respect of the Lankan Tamils killed during the final stages of the civil war.
"Two previous resolutions passed in the UNHRC have borne no fruit. The same way, this resolution too will be ignored by the Sri Lankan government and fail to give any benefit to Lankan Tamils. We thus urge the Indian government to introduce a resolution on its own," said Karunanidhi. He added that such a resolution should aim to ensure an independent international enquiry into war crimes and human rights violation. (Outlook India)
Avant Garde Case: Attorney General Instructs Acting IGP To Arrest Damayanthi Jayaratne And Saman Dissanayake Before July 19
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Homeowners polled for the Report" gave their bathroom renovation a Joy Score of 9.3 — a rating based on those who said they were happy or satisfied with their project, with 10 being the highest rating and 1 the lowest. Don't have the contractor relocate any fixtures, like toilets and vanities, unless you need to. Repositioning items in the bathroom takes a good deal of extra time and material.
Fixtures and hardware: Shiny chrome fixtures for faucets, lights, drawer pulls, towel racks and other items catch the eye, but make a bathroom look dated. We just completed our bathroom addition to our single family Victorian home by taking half of a large guest bedroom and converting it into a master bathroom.
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For all of you non-GoT fans, get ready for 6 weeks of torture. Read on to see my theories on the final season of Game of Thrones. It's a ride, so buckle up.
The final season of Game of Thrones is a few weeks away and we thought we'd do a quick little recap before what is sure to be a wild final season starts. There are too many storylines to cover (sorry Clegane Brothers) in any one article so this one will focus on the main players and some speculation on what might happen in the final season.
The Night King is wild for the night. My man kills a bunch of people and then is all "psych, you're alive, but you work for me now!" Now homeboy has a demon dragon to ride around town on. My god! One would think it's looking pretty grim for everyone not on the side of the Night King but the last time we saw him he was riding that demon dragging like a bucking bronco and melting the wall like it was ice cream on a hot summer day. To most people that watched the show that was a moment they had long been waiting for: the dead breaching the wall. To me, that moment shows the Night King has bad judgement. The dude can kill anyone and bring them back as his solider in an instant, yet he wasted time melting a wall while he was on something that can, you know, fly right over the wall. My man could've just flown over the wall, torched some poor souls real quick, and had a whole new army in no time. Dude has bad judgement and it's going to come back to bite him. Game of Thrones is a song of fire and ice and the Night King is the ice. Dany is the fire. Bad judgement is about to meet that fire.
The last time we saw Dany she was having relations with her nephew. Notwithstanding that nastiness we've seen Dany ride hot when pushed too far. She has been cornered before and all of a sudden realizes she can just burn everything down and she's all good. I can see her and the Night King having a battle to the death. Dragons vs Dragons, Fire vs Ice. She is the only character that seems to have any equal footing with the Night King in terms of special powers. We'll see. But first she needs to understand who Nephew is and stay away from Jon. No one wants to see that.
Arya Stark is bout that life. This girl is a killing machine, morphing from one person to the next with the quickness. I could see a storyline play out where she battles Jamie Lannister (both are skilled swordsmen), kills Jamie, morphs into Jamie and then kills Cersei as Jamie and Cersei being all 'oh no Jamie why did you do this what the hell I love you oh my god I can't believe it' and Arya pulling Jamie's face off to reveal herself and DAUUUUUUUUUUUM, I'M HYPE I HOPE THIS HAPPENS!!!!!!!!!!
I was going to go into this long thing about the Lannister's but that last paragraph just happened so we're going to move one (they all die btw).
So, we have Bran, Jon, Arya and Sansa, three of them have something in common and the other one is Sansa. Bran, Arya and Jon all have powers. Bran can warg, Arya is a Ninja and Jon can make you think he's dead for a week then be all "nah, I'm good." Sansa is what exactly? The next thing interesting Sansa does will be the first interesting thing Sansa does. I don't buy it that she's the only one without some special power. No way. I could see some wild turn where all of a sudden, she's flying morphing or something and catching everyone off guard and swooping in to save the day.
Jon Snow is emo. That even rhymes which only proves the point. He's going to be that poetic hero that dies, and everyone is all sad cause we all think he's going to be the one that comes out on top. But nope, in some long drawn out sequence he breathes a final breath, Sansa stands there all sad and doing nothing (cause she's boring) and Jon dies. Our hero gone. PSYCH, it's really Arya and then you're all relieved Jon isn't dead but oh snap, Arya is dead and you don't quite know how to feel about it because, damn, Jon, the King, is still there but his baby sister is gone and OH MY GOD THIS SHOW CANT START SOON ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. The Clegane Bowl is going to be awesome.


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Structural features of the yeast plasma-membrane H(+)-ATPase.
K. P. Padmanabha, V. Petrov, A. Ambesi, Rajini Rao, C. W. Slayman
The yeast plasma-membrane H(+)-ATPase is a member of the P-family of cation transporters, which share a characteristic membrane topology together with consensus sequences for ATP binding and formation of a beta-aspartyl phosphate reaction intermediate. Although direct knowledge of ATPase structure has been difficult to obtain, several indirect approaches have yielded useful information. This chapter describes new results on the physical interaction between domains of the yeast ATPase and on the role of cysteine residues in structure, function, and biogenesis. A model is proposed based upon these and other recent findings.
Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology
Proton-Translocating ATPases
Adenosine Triphosphatases
Consensus Sequence
beta-aspartyl phosphate
Padmanabha, K. P., Petrov, V., Ambesi, A., Rao, R., & Slayman, C. W. (1994). Structural features of the yeast plasma-membrane H(+)-ATPase. Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, 48, 33-42.
Structural features of the yeast plasma-membrane H(+)-ATPase. / Padmanabha, K. P.; Petrov, V.; Ambesi, A.; Rao, Rajini; Slayman, C. W.
In: Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, Vol. 48, 1994, p. 33-42.
Padmanabha, KP, Petrov, V, Ambesi, A, Rao, R & Slayman, CW 1994, 'Structural features of the yeast plasma-membrane H(+)-ATPase.', Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, vol. 48, pp. 33-42.
Padmanabha KP, Petrov V, Ambesi A, Rao R, Slayman CW. Structural features of the yeast plasma-membrane H(+)-ATPase. Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology. 1994;48:33-42.
Padmanabha, K. P. ; Petrov, V. ; Ambesi, A. ; Rao, Rajini ; Slayman, C. W. / Structural features of the yeast plasma-membrane H(+)-ATPase. In: Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology. 1994 ; Vol. 48. pp. 33-42.
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Guz Brennera (ang. Brenner tumor) – rzadki nowotwór nabłonkowo-podścieliskowy jajnika. Występuje zwykle jednostronnie jako lity guz zbudowany z obfitego podścieliska z gniazdami nabłonka przypominającego nabłonek przejściowy dróg moczowych. Guz nie przekracza 20 cm, jest otorebkowany, na przekroju białoszary niekiedy ze śluzowymi torbielami. Histologicznie wywodzi się z nabłonka powierzchniowego jajnika lub nabłonka dróg moczowych nieprawidłowo przemieszczonego w embriogenezie. Najczęściej wykrywany przypadkowo. Bardzo rzadko może wystąpić w innej lokalizacji niż jajniki, np. w jądrze.

Jest to zazwyczaj nowotwór łagodny, postaci złośliwe są rzadkie.

Nazwa pochodzi od nazwiska patologa który jako pierwszy w 1907 roku przedstawił opis nowotworu, Fritza Brennera.

Przypisy

Nowotwory jajnika

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You are so beautiful. As I run my hand down the sides of your body, electricity runs through me. My fingers circle around lightly, tracing every inch of your smooth skin. I notice you are slightly chilled, which is exactly how I like you.
Don't be alarmed. The knife I am using to cut you open is sharp, no jagged edges to mar your sparkling foilage. As I grab you and twist you around and around with the knife to your throat, I get excited. My eyes widen as I slowly peel your top away, exposing the door to your entry.
I'm sorry that I have to force myself on you. It will be fast and relatively painless as I stab and twist deeper over and over again until you pop ever so gracefully beneath my palm.
I bend over and breathe deeply. It's over, you can relax. Your aroma is intoxicating as it penetrates through my every pore. The scent of tobacco and leather blend magically with your peppered, dark cherry skin. Closing my eyes, I inhale you again.
Velvety, creamy red is your color. As I bend you over, you cascade and flow across the glass. The sound you make as you try to escape makes me smile. It's slightly unpleasant, the gurgling, but I know you will be worth it, so I keep going.
Finally, you are almost here with me.
I hold you in my hands and swirl you around in our own private dance. You're flushed and rosy and sparkle in the light. All around you, your long legs stretch out and melt against the glass. I am salivating and breathing harder now. I am ready for you.
I pull you close to me, my lips touching you. The smell of you, your color, it's all too much. I must have you now.
Ahhhh. You are delicious. I drink you in and hold you on my tongue, savoring every last drop of you. I have missed you. I have missed us.
I promise not to stay away so long next time. We belong together. You, me and that dirty old Rib Eye.


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Q: How is mongoose exported? Why don't you need to specify the database when exporting?
Please explain how in this case, creating a model and connecting the DB
User.js
const {Schema, model} = require('mongoose');
const schema = new Schema({
    email : {type: String, required: true, unique: true},
    password: {type: String, required: true}
});
module.exports = model('User', schema);

app.js
const express = require('express');
const config = require('config');
const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const app = express();

app.use('/api/auth',require('./routes/auth.routes'));

const PORT = config.get('port') || 5000 ;

async function start(){
    try{
        await mongoose.connect(config.get('mongoBase'),{
            useNewUrlParser : true,
            useUnifiedTopology : true,
            useCreateIndex : true
        });
        app.listen(PORT,() => console.log(`app has been started on ${PORT} port`));
    } catch (e) {
        console.log('Server Error', e.message);
        process.exit(1);
    }
}
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const bcrypt = require('bcrypt');
const User = require('../models/User');
const router = Router();
router.post('/register',
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       const {email, password} = req.body;

      const candidate =  await User.findOne({ email });
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What is SMSC?
About Young Citizens
What are British values?
According to Ofsted, British values are:
democracy;
the rule of law;
individual liberty;
mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith
Visit the Young Citizens website for British values resources and more...
Visit Young Citizens to learn more...
Every school in England must promote British values in their SMSC development, which is particularly important to Ofsted. The SMSC Quality Mark for Primary and Secondary Schools aims to help schools recognise and review the development of SMSC, which includes British values.
Schools must promote British values, says UK Government
As of November 2014, schools must promote British values.
Advice from the DfE is to do so through SMSC, though Ofsted will assess it through the curriculum too.
In its press release on 27 November 2014, the Department for Education told all schools to promote 'British values' and produced advice for doing so through SMSC.
Ofsted wants to see a school ethos and climate that promotes 'British values' at every level. Inspectors will assess 'British values' through SMSC, the curriculum and school leadership.
And Ofsted now pays a lot of attention to SMSC when deciding whether your school is 'outstanding', 'inadequate' or somewhere in between.
(Although this website is concerned mainly with primary and secondary education, the British values and Prevent agendas affect early years provision too. This page on childcare.co.uk explains how British values and Prevent requirements affect childminders and early years providers.)
According to Ofsted, 'fundamental British values' are:
the rule of law
mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith.
School Inspection Handbook from September 2015
How must we teach it?
Advice from the Department for Education is that British values should be promoted through SMSC.
For maintained schools, this is set out in Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC.
For independent schools, free schools and academies, it is set out in Improving the SMSC development of pupils in independent schools.
(Oddly, the DfE makes no mention of the statutory citizenship curriculum; it's as though ministers have completely forgotten they have a subject purpose-built for making sense of such things already.)
What must be taught?
The advice here is basically the same for maintained schools ('state' schools) and independent schools (private schools, academies and free schools):
Enable students to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence
enable students to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England
encourage students to accept responsibility for their behaviour, show initiative, and to understand how they can contribute positively to the lives of those living and working in the locality of the school and to society more widely
enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England
further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions by enabling students to acquire an appreciation for and respect for their own and other cultures
encourage respect for other people, and
encourage respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes, including respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England.
The only difference for independent schools is in the penultimate paragraph, which now includes them in requirements regarding the Equality Act's protected characteristics:
encourage respect for other people, paying particular regard to the protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010.
How will it be assessed?
In its revised Framework for school inspection, Ofsted is clear that schools will struggle to get a decent rating if they fail to deliver good SMSC, which now includes 'British values'.
Ofsted added 'British values' explicitly to the Social strand of SMSC in its School inspection handbook 2014:
'The social development of pupils is shown by their:
acceptance and engagement with the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs; the pupils develop and demonstrate skills and attitudes that will allow them to participate fully in and contribute positively to life in modern Britain.'
In that incarnation, the Schools Inspection Handbook stated explicitly that school leaders must also demonstrate that they were addressing British values through the curriculum. However, this has changed in the School Inspection Handbook from September 2015:
'Inspectors will consider:
'Inspectors should consider how well leadership and management ensure that the curriculum:
how the school prepares pupils positively for life in modern Britain and promotes the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith.'
actively promotes the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.'
School Inspection Handbook for September 2015, paragraph 138 School Inspection Handbook 2014, paragraph 152
Confusingly, there is a slightly different definition of the last point elsewhere in the current document (at paragraph 135): 'mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs,' which omits 'those without faith'.
Citizenship has it covered
While teaching 'British values' may seem a tall order, never fear: schools have the tools to cover much of it already.
School leaders often overlook the citizenship curriculum, but it's still there for schools (there's even a GCSE and A level in it) and it was purpose-built for exactly this sort of exploration and learning.
Citizenship education underpins much of SMSC. For example, exploring human rights and our political and legal systems through the taught citizenship curriculum goes a long way to learning 'the difference between right and wrong' and 'the consequences of behaviour'.
Resoures for discussing values in the classroom
Many teachers are unsure how to approach values teaching. And many worry about discussing the controversial issues that may arise when exploring values. This is understandable, particularly now the Government's Prevent agenda has put a duty on schools to monitor and report on potential extremism (in force from 1 July 2015).
We have a few resources to help teachers explore values appropriately and fairly, and to develop strategies for responding to controversial events.
Young Citizens offers a British values training package for primary schools.
We don't currently offer similar training for secondary schools, but the Association for Citizenship Teaching does periodically.
The language we hear from government is of 'promoting fundamental British values' and of young people 'accepting', 'respecting' and 'tolerating' – as though we all agree already on what those values are, accept that they are unique to Britain and believe we should follow them unquestionably.
At Young Citizens, we think education is about helping people understand how things work and how to challenge and change them for the better.
Values won't be assumed because schools demand they are, particularly if they're very different from those at home. They have to be arrived at through mutual exploration and understanding.
That is what citizenship education aims to achieve.
British Values Training for Primary Schools
Go-Givers has trained over 15,000 teachers across the UK in the last 10 years. They offer both external training days and on-site teacher training for exploring British values with primary school children.
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Q: Video background not rendering in Mozilla Firefox? I created this webpage (http://www.lovehatecreate.net/Java%20Brewin/index%202.html) and used a video as a background image by using jQuery and fitvids.js
It works in every browser except Firefox. I am somewhat of a beginner, so I have no idea how to tackle this. Any advice on how to fix would be great!
Thank you!
P.S. This is just a SAMPLE, that is why I am using watermarked video and images. I do not claim ownership of the video or images on this site, they belong to their respective authors and can be purchased on fotolia.com.

A: Multiple issues. The first problem is a lot most of your CSS and JavaScript resources are sending 403 Forbidden HTTP headers, which means that your server is denying access to those files. You can fix the file permissions in your server settings, to allow these resources to be accessed by the public.
I also get a JavaScript error:

SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list

which will usually mess up other JavaScript on the page. And upon investigation:

I see strange A characters. I only see these characters in a certain part of your code, which leads me to believe that this is a character encoding issue that arose from copying and pasting code from a certain editor that encoded differently than UTF-8.
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You won't be able to see that the characters are different in certain editors. The only time you will notice is if the characters are incorrectly interpreted by a code editor (or browser). Some editors have a byte-level search and replace. I would recommend you use a Unicode text editor, and save your code and then re-open it, so that you can see character issues. You have some = symbols in your URL that are not in Unicode and are throwing errors. Also, you need to represent your & characters with HTML entities (&)
If you find character encoding for the web confusing, here's a good read.


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A Uighur Disappeared in China After Attending a U.S. Leadership Program. His Sister Is Fighting for His Freedom.
WASHINGTON — When Ekpar Asat saw his older sister for the last time one winter night in Manhattan, he promised her he would return to the United States in a few months with their parents to watch her graduate with a master's degree from Harvard Law School — the first ethnic Uighur to do so.
This winter, his sister, Rayhan Asat, heard that he had been sentenced to 15 years in prison on suspicion of inciting ethnic hatred.
"It's so upsetting," she said. "After he came to the U.S., he had an elevated profile, and then he was labeled an enemy of the state."
Ms. Asat, a lawyer and permanent American resident in Washington, described her 34-year-old brother as a model citizen — an entrepreneur who founded a social media app for Uighurs and took part in state-organized events. Their parents are members of the Communist Party. The mother retired as a chemistry professor and the father as a civil servant in water resources administration.
But Ms. Asat said the State Department project, the International Visitor Leadership Program, which for 80 years has trained many prominent foreign citizens, appears to have tainted her brother in the eyes of Chinese security officers.
Though department officials have raised Mr. Asat's case with Chinese counterparts, Ms. Asat is now calling for the agency to escalate its efforts — especially because he appears to have been detained and convicted of crimes based on his association with the program, she said. She stressed, though, that the weeks he had spent in the United States had been a positive experience.
"I told the State Department this was the very reason that he was in danger," Ms. Asat, 36, said. "When the United States organizes these programs and brings over these people, we have to protect them after the fact so these programs can be successful."
Morgan Ortagus, a State Department spokeswoman, said diplomats would continue to raise Mr. Asat's case with the Chinese government.
"We call on Beijing to immediately release all those arbitrarily detained, and to end its draconian policies which have forcibly indoctrinated and intimidated its own citizens in Xinjiang," she added, referring to China's northwest region, where most Uighurs live.
The State Department mentioned Mr. Asat in its 2019 human rights report on China, which said he apparently had been detained in 2016 "after participating in a program in the United States" and then was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The report, which identifies Mr. Asat by his official Chinese name, Aikebaier Aisaiti, also described the "mass arbitrary detention" of Muslims in Xinjiang.
A State Department official said the agency had no "direct evidence" that the imprisonment of Mr. Asat occurred because of the leadership program.
John Kamm, a human rights advocate in California who has advised Ms. Asat, said the State Department should make public cases of persecution that might be linked to its programs.
"I think it's simply prudent," he said. "I'm not calling for canceling the program."
The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing said it had no information on Mr. Asat, and the Xinjiang regional government did not answer submitted questions.
The fact that Mr. Asat ran a social media app with about 100,000 users might also have made Chinese officials suspicious, since they are wary of online mass communications. But Ms. Asat said her brother was careful to abide by censorship rules.
Ms. Asat said she learned of her brother's fate in January. The Chinese Embassy in Washington sent an email to the office of Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware, telling them about Mr. Asat's 15-year sentence. That was in response to a bipartisan letter that the senator and six other lawmakers, including Senator Todd Young, Republican of Indiana, sent Ambassador Cui Tiankai in December urging China to release Mr. Asat.
Mr. Coons said in a statement that he was "deeply concerned" about the repression in Xinjiang. "China must be held accountable for this gross abuse of human rights against Aikebaier and other innocent people," he added.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, said this week that the Senate would move soon to pass a bipartisan bill, the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act, that would compel President Trump to take tough measures against China on Xinjiang, including imposing sanctions on some officials. Tensions between Washington and Beijing have risen sharply during the pandemic, which began in central China.
Ms. Asat said the accusation of ethnic hatred was absurd. She pointed to state-run news reports that featured her brother's business or his participation in government-sponsored events. "They always said he was a bridge builder between the ethnic minorities and the majority Han," she said.
In 2014, Mr. Asat was among a small group of businesspeople selected to meet with Max Baucus, then the American ambassador to China, who had traveled to Xinjiang.
The United States Embassy in Beijing then encouraged Mr. Asat to apply for the State Department's leadership program, Ms. Asat said. After being accepted, he flew to the United States in February 2016, where he completed a three-week program for journalists that introduced him to institutions and figures across Washington and five states. There were eight other participants.
"He was by far the most curious of the group; he was constantly asking questions," said Sheridan Bell, a former diplomat and senior program manager at Meridian International Center, a nonprofit group that runs the program for the State Department.
"He focused his questions on the line between doing what your bosses want you to do and telling the truth — the narrow line between doing your job as a journalist and propaganda," he added. "He was very cautious. I can't imagine he said things that would have gotten him into trouble."
The State Department's website says the program has trained more than 225,000 people since its inception in 1940. Prominent alumni include Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of Britain, and Jacinda Ardern, the current prime minister of New Zealand. The courses focus on different industries and professions.
Mr. Bell said Chinese participants are often affiliated with the Communist Party or the government. One alumnus of a U.S. foreign policy program is Xie Feng, now the Foreign Ministry's commissioner in Hong Kong. There have been occasional ethnic minority participants, including Tibetans.
Mr. Asat was effusive about the program. While in Washington, he wrote on WeChat, the Chinese social media app: "It's an incredible honor to participate in the I.V.L.P. I hope to gain profound insight into American culture and media!"
He posted photographs of his travels. He posed with Americans to whom he had given traditional Uighur hats and scarves. He sat in a Formula One racecar in Florida, attended an N.B.A. game in Indiana and posed next to the CNN logo at the network's headquarters in Georgia.
Ms. Asat, who was studying for her master of laws at Harvard after having lived outside China since 2009, flew to Washington for a job interview while her brother was there. The two had dinner at Clyde's of Georgetown, then went for a stroll by the shops along M Street.
She saw him once more afterward, for a few hours in New York. He told her that since he now had a visa to enter the United States, he would return in May with their parents for her graduation.
"He was inspired," she said. "He wanted to spend the summer here and learn more English. He liked the tech landscape and wanted to learn more about how to innovate his company."
Ms. Asat said she felt guilty for not having spent more time with her brother. "There is so much regret," she said.
After Mr. Asat returned to their home city of Urumqi, nothing seemed unusual at first. He helped sponsor an international boxing tournament that was covered by China Central Television, the state-run network. He stood in the ring next to a famous Uighur boxer holding up a trophy.
Then Ms. Asat stopped hearing from him. No new messages appeared on his WeChat account after April 7. Someone froze his app, Bagdax, later that month.
Her parents told her they would not attend her graduation.
During what should have been a high point in her life — graduating from Harvard — Ms. Asat was distraught and in tears.
She soon began working in the Washington office of a Wall Street law firm. As public reports have emerged of the mass detentions in Xinjiang, she has tried quietly to get the State Department, the White House National Security Council and congressional offices to press for her brother's freedom.
She sometimes speaks briefly with family members in Xinjiang, but it is all small talk. They avoid discussing her brother.
In early March, two months after finding out about his sentencing, she decided to speak publicly at Harvard Law School about his case and the crisis in Xinjiang.
"I know from trying to help Rayhan Asat over the past four years that she is a person of real courage and integrity," said William P. Alford, the law professor who hosted the talk. "The case of her brother, arrested right after returning from the U.S. and largely shrouded by Chinese authorities, is tragic."
Ms. Asat said she was aware her family might suffer reprisals as a result of her speaking out. That has happened to other Uighurs abroad. But she said her brother's ordeal had made her realize that no matter what she and her family do to conform as model citizens, the Chinese government sees Uighurs "forever as outsiders."
"When you grow up in China, you're not supposed to engage in politics," she said. "But China is pushing me to become political."
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WEN Hair Care Line Settles For $26.3 Million In Hair Loss Suit
The settlement class covers individuals who bought WEN hair care products between Nov. 1, 2007, and Aug. 1, 2016.
June 19, 2017 | Staff | Defective Products, Consumer Goods
A celebrity stylist's hair product company and a class of consumers who claim using the products caused their hair to fall out have agreed to a $26.25 million settlement in a California federal court to end three years of litigation. WEN by Chaz Dean Inc. and the products' manufacturer, Guthy-Renker LLC, both based in the Los Angeles region, and the class of potentially millions of consumers agreed to the settlement after protracted litigation over whether the companies were negligent in failing to warn consumers about the adverse effects of using their products. It was also claimed the Defendants violated unfair competition and false advertising statutes.
The proposed settlement, which also requires WEN to include a warning label on its Cleansing Conditioner, establishes two avenues of relief for class members:
those who simply bought the products and are eligible to receive a flat $25 refund, and
those who used the product and experienced hair loss or scalp pain, who can make injury clams and receive up to a maximum of $20,000.
The basis for the claims in the suit is consumers' complaints that use of the WEN products, particularly the Cleaning Conditioner, was causing substantial hair loss that continued after stoppage of use. It caused some people to lose up to a third of their hair. Sold through such purveyors as Amazon, QVC and Sephora, WEN bears the imprint of celebrity Los Angeles stylist Chaz Dean, and markets its hair care line as "a revolutionary way to cleanse and hydrate the hair."
A related action is pending in California federal court against the same Defendants on similar allegations. That suit accuses the companies of continuing to sell the products while failing to warn consumers of the known risks of use of the products.
The consumers are represented by Neville L. Johnson, Douglas L. Johnson and Jordanna G. Thigpen of Johnson & Johnson LLP; William H. Anderson, Charles J. LaDuca and Michael J. Flannery of Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca LLP; and Brian W. Warwick and Janet R. Varnell of Varnell & Warwick PA. The case is Amy Friedman et al. v. Guthy-Renker LLC et al., (case number 2:14-cv-06009) in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.


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Q: RegEx for replacing the middle letter Invalid regular expression: Invalid group
I tried except ( ) , fixed and changed . to $
but does not work
var name = 'ABC'
var pattern = /(?<=.{1})./
return name.replace(pattern, " * ")

I want to replace like 'A*C'
Invalid regular expression: Invalid group

A: Your pattern uses a lookbehind which has limit browser support.
If the lookbehind is supported, the pattern (which can be shortened to (?<=.). will match any char if what is on the left is any char.
That will match B in ABC but also in ABCD so is does not matches the middle char.
Another option could be to use:
^(.).(?=.$)

In the replacement use (without leading and trailing spaces):
$1*

Note that the dot . matches any char except a newline so it will also match a space. If you don't want to match a space you could use \S instead.

var name = 'ABC';
var pattern = /^(.).(?=.$)/;
console.log(name.replace(pattern, "$1*"));

You might replace the middle char without a regex:

let strings = [
  "A",
  "AB",
  "ABC",
  "ABCD",
  "ABCDE",
  "ABCDEF",
  "ABCDEFG",
  "ABCDEFGH",
  "ABCDEFGHI"
].reduce(function(a, c) {
  if (c.length % 2 === 1) {
    let evenHalf = (c.length - 1) / 2;
    a.push(c.substr(0, evenHalf) + '*' + c.substr(evenHalf + 1));
  }
  return a;
}, []);

console.log(strings);

A: Here we might just want to use start and end anchors and write a simple expression such as:
^([A-Z]).([A-Z])$

make a replacement with:
$1*$2

const regex = /^([A-Z]).([A-Z])$/gm;
const str = `ABC`;
const subst = `$1*$2`;

// The substituted value will be contained in the result variable
const result = str.replace(regex, subst);

console.log(result);

Demo
RegEx
If this expression wasn't desired, it can be modified/changed in regex101.com.
RegEx Circuit
jex.im visualizes regular expressions:

A: For 'ABC' to become A * C or CDE to become C * E, you can just used substr.. :)

function run(){
  var s = "ABC";
  var index = 1;
  s = s.substr(0, index) + ' * ' + s.substr(index + 1);
  alert(s);
}
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
  <title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
  <button onclick="run()">Test</button>
</body>
</html>

A: A regex solution with capturing group:
var name = 'ABC';
var pattern = /(.)./;
return name.replace(pattern, "$1 * ")

What you match with first parentheses is available in the replacement argument through $1.
Quick test:

var name = 'ABC'
var pattern = /(.)./
console.log(name.replace(pattern, "$1 * "))


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Mansfield Town finished 8th last season on 72 points, three point behind Lincoln City who occupied the final play-off spot.
Manager David Flitcroft has made four signing since the summer transfer window opened. Otis Khan has signed from Yeovil Town and Craig Davies from Oldham both for undisclosed fees, while Matt Preston from Swindon and Neal Bishop from Scunthorpe have both signed on free transfers.
Alfie Potter and Jimmy Spencer are amongst the players who have left the club.
Flitcroft will be hoping Craig Davies proves a suitable replacement for striker Kane Hemmings, who has been snapped up by Notts County after a prolific season for the Stags in the last campaign. Hemmings scored 15 goals for Mansfield last season, including a 99th minute equaliser against County in a league match. The Stags will now turn to former Bolton striker Davies to replace Hemmings, as Mansfield look to the places above the play-offs next season.
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Community-building is an important role – and for Keppel Land, that job falls in the hands of Jessica Leong, Marketing & Community Manager of KLOUD at Keppel Bay Tower. She oversees the conceptualisation and planning of all activities and events to promote tenant engagement.
Community-building is not about organising events but delivering engagement programmes that will spark conversations and form lasting social bonds. At Keppel Land, we strive to show that we are not just a landlord, but also add value by creating a joyful workplace culture. Through this, we hope to encourage and foster stronger collaboration among tenants.
So far, Jessica has organised about 60 events for the KLOUD and Keppel Bay Tower community. These include the highly successful Oktoberfest 2018, which was such a hit that all 100 litres of beer was guzzled down in less than an hour! Another successful event was a school holiday activity in March 2019 where tenants were encouraged to bring their children to work. During this half-day programme, children aged seven to twelve were rewarded with "wages" for participating in a role-play activity that taught them skills including money management and creative thinking.
Other milestones include inviting a world-renowned lion dance champion, Kun Seng Keng, to perform a high-pole lion dance performance at Keppel Bay Tower earlier this year during the Chinese New Year celebrations; an Urban Food Fest in July 2018; and even a Foosball Challenge, where tenants played against one another in 16 teams during lunch time.
Jessica is also on the Keppel Volunteers' Main Committee. Last year, she organised a sustainable moss art activity for beneficiaries of the President's Challenge in conjunction with the Keppel 50 Charity Run event, which was graced by President Halimah Yacob as the event's guest-of-honour. She also helps to rally volunteers to become Keppel Green ambassadors, who serve as tour guides and crafts leaders at the Keppel Discovery Wetlands. She also looks forward to her additional role in Keppel's placemaking team, where she will be involved in the Marina Bay Pilot Business Improvement District to enhance vibrancy to the precinct.
While it all sounds like fun and games, perseverance and endurance are required, said Jessica. Creating a vibrant community can sometimes be challenging when unexpected issues crop up.
As for her takeaway after being with Keppel Land for eight years?
There will always be people who will comment and judge you, and no event will be 100% successful or go exactly as planned, said Jessica. Having a positive mindset is very important. But most of all, never be afraid to admit to failures and ask for help. I'm glad to have supportive colleagues at KLOUD who will have my back to make each event a successful one.


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Cavités de la Corrèze (France) de développement supérieur ou égal à

1 cavité est recensée dans cette « classe I » au .

Cavités de la Corrèze (France) de développement compris entre  et

Aucune cavité est recensée dans cette « classe II » au .

Cavités de la Corrèze (France) de développement compris entre  et

1 cavité est recensée dans cette « classe III » au .

Cavités de la Corrèze (France) de développement compris entre  et

9 cavités sont recensées dans cette « classe IV » au .

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

 Bigot Jean-Yves (2004) – « Spéléométrie de la France. Cavités classées par département, par dénivellation et développement (Situation au 31 décembre 2000). » Spelunca Mémoires, FFS édit., , 160 pages, Lire en ligne, page 34.
 Belonie André, Faucher Michel, Muet Philippe & Mouret Claude (1981) – Corrèze. in Claude Chabert « Les grandes cavités françaises – Inventaire raisonné », FFS édit., p. 37-38.

Articles connexes

 Spéléométrie
 Liste des cavités naturelles les plus profondes de la Corrèze

Liens externes

  www.grottocenter.org Grottocenter, base de données wiki de cavités mondiales (« The wiki database made by cavers for cavers »)
 CDS19 .

cavités naturelles les plus longues
Corrèze

Corrèze


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Q: SQL Server Error: "Cannot use empty object or column names" I get the following error:
Cannot use empty object or column names. Use a single space if necessary.
Msg 1038, Level 15, State 3, Line 1

and the query command looks like:
SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT
  [].[cms_page].[pa_id], [].[cms_page].[pa_key],
  [].[cms_page].[pa_title], [].[cms_page].[pa_keywords],
  [].[cms_page].[pa_description], [].[cms_page].[pa_header],
  [].[cms_page].[pa_created], [].[cms_page].[pa_modified],
  [].[cms_page].[pa_language] FROM [cms_page]
WHERE
  [cms_page].[pa_key] = @pa_key0
ORDER BY
  [pa_id] ASC;

Strange indeed. Why does this happen? I'm using SubSonic 2.1.
Connectionstring:
<add name="OCDB" connectionString="Network Library=DBMSSOCN;Data Source=127.0.0.1,1433;Initial Catalog=test_db;User ID=test;Password=testpwd"/>

Edit: Well the solution was just to simply generate and rebuild the Data Access Layer and I was good to go.

A: You seem to be using a 3 part name with part of it empty, i.e. '[].'

A: It looks as though the query text is being constructed with an empty table schema.
Those empty [] square brackets should contain something like "dbo" to make the query syntactically valid. I don't know enough about SubSonic to give you a code sample though.

A: I'm not familiar with SubSonic, but have you tried a simpler query to test if you have your syntax correct?  Does this query even work in SQL Server (Management Studio / Query Analyzer)?
Just looking at this from the perspective of SQL Server, you are using way too many brackets.  If I was writing that query in SQL Server, it would look more like what I wrote below.  I'm not sure about the variable @pa_key0, is this query part of a stored procedure or does SunSonic replace this variable when the query is ran?
SELECT
  pa_id,
  pa_key,
  pa_title,
  pa_keywords,
  pa_description,
  pa_header,
  pa_created,
  pa_modified,
  pa_language

FROM
  cms_page

WHERE
  pa_key = @pa_key0

ORDER BY
  pa_id ASC;

A: I think you need to set the schema for Subsonic to use. This thread seems to have some information:
Subsonic - How to use SQL Schema / Owner name as part of the namespace?


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On July 7, Bayer removed the complaint, originally filed in the St. Louis Circuit Court, to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The drug maker has since moved to dismiss the action, asserting lack of personal jurisdiction, preemption, and failure to state a claim.


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Q: System.Net.WebClient - should I use Async I have a C# web application that makes a web service call, then renders a page for a browser. Following this advice, I chose to use System.Net.WebClient for the request because it had a succint interface and all the control I needed.
WebClient offers me async versions of all the download methods. Should I use them? I don't care if the current user waits. I need the web service result before I can render the page, and I have nothing else to be doing (for her) in the meantime. However I really do care if my server is tied up while one user's web service call completes. If this was javascript, a synchronous web request on the main thread would hold up at least the whole window. Is this the case in asp.net? For reasons outta my control, my web service request is at the bottom of a pile of 15 method calls. Dot I have to convert them all to async to see any advantage?

A: Generally speaking, async IO won't yield faster per-request response, but in theory it can increase throughput.
public async Task<IActionResult> YourWebApiMethod() {
  // at this point thread serving this request is returned back to threadpool and
  // awailable to serve other requests
  var result = await Call3ptyService();
  // once IO is finished we grab new thread from thread pool to finish the job
  return result;
}

// thread serving this request is allocated for duration of whole operation
public IActionResult YourWebApiMethod() {
  return Call3ptyService().Result;
}

You have only so-many threads in thread pool, if every single one is busy waiting for external service; your web server will stop serving requests. As for your particular problem - try it and you'll find out.


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South Carolina turning into a sweet spot for plastics growth
June 20, 2016 Updated 6/20/2016
BMW AG Door assembly at BMW AG's Spartanburg, S.C., plant. The German automaker is part of the surge of manufacturing in the state.
The Palmetto State has become a sweet spot for manufacturing. Several new or expanding injection molding facilities have appeared in South Carolina in recent months, largely feeding into the state's growing automotive industry.
Automotive companies have become a widespread presence in the state, their growth signposted with the arrival of BMW two decades ago. The German automaker's Spartanburg plant has expanded over the years to become its largest worldwide, with its latest $ 1 billion investment completing this year.
Volvo Car USA also picked the state for Volvo Cars' first American factory and Daimler AG announced it will build Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans there.
The supply industry that has sprung up around the influx of automotive manufacturing continues to expand, including Tier 1 suppliers, plastics processors, recyclers and distributors.
Injection molder Engineered Plastic Components, encouraged by strong growth in the Southeastern U.S., is adding new operations in South Carolina along with expanding its Leeds, Ala., facility. Baxter Enterprises and sister company Hi-Tech Mold & Engineering are setting up new operations in the state at a $ 20.7 million investment. China's Jiangnan Mould & Plastic Technology Co. Ltd. is establishing its first U.S. facility in Greer, S.C., and the state also recently attracted two German entrepreneurs, who announced plans to set up an injection molding operation called WG Plastics initially targeting German OEMs and their Tier 1 suppliers. Several other injection molders have announced expanded capacity in the region.
South Carolina's status as a right-to-work state along with its logistics infrastructure of seaports and rail lines make it an attractive location to set up shop. And the state has earnestly courted prospective new business with outreach programs and financial incentives.
"We try to have our suppliers for our OEMs set up as closely as they possibly can to the companies that they are supplying," said a state department of commerce spokeswoman. "Our state is a very small state, but we are also a state that houses three premiere automotive manufacturers."
In 2015 the state attracted $ 3.6 billion in capital investment in the manufacturing sector, according to the department of commerce. There are more than 400 plastics, composites, and rubber manufacturing companies and suppliers across the state.
"Every time you turn around there's another company coming into South Carolina," said Richard Martin, business development manager at mold maker JMMS Inc. of Easley, S.C., which is celebrating its 30th year in the state. "The state has really figured out how to do business here. So it's got a good infrastructure, and the government is empathetic to business. They get it. I think they do a great job."
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Mathematics Faculty and Staff
William S. Zwicker
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Bailey Hall 208B
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Department/Program:
My early research was in combinatorial set theory, especially large cardinals and ideals and filters on Pκλ. Today, I work on applications of mathematics to the social sciences: voting and social choice, fair division, and cooperative game theory. I've enjoyed co-authoring papers with mathematicians, political scientists, economists, and undergraduates from Canada, Catalonia, France, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, Venezuela, and the U.S. I'm on the editorial board of Mathematical Social Sciences and co-author, with Alan D. Taylor, of the monograph Simple Games (Princeton, 1999). I'm most attracted to fundamental issues in the social sciences that lead to questions of independent combinatorial or geometric interest. For a taste, try our online interactive rubber band voting simulator (with Davide Cervone).
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The Chief Economist from Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Fraziali Ismail had a working visit to Suria Capital Holdings Berhad (SCHB) and its subsidiary, Sabah Ports Sdn Bhd (SPSB). The visit was warmly welcomed by the top management of SCHB and SPSB led by Madam Ng Kiat Min, the Group Managing Director.
The meeting took place after quick refreshment at the Executive Lounge, Wisma SabahPorts overlooking the port's operation view. During the meeting, Madam Ng explains the progress of Sapangar Port expansion plan to upgrade the capabilities of its main container port, Sapangar Bay Container Port (SBCP) as well as to inform them the major projects by Suria Capital. She also clarify the challenges faced by the company and anticipated opportunities in 2018.
At the end of the meeting, Mdm Ng Kiat Min presented a group photo taken earlier as a memento to Mr. Fraziali Ismail.
The visit was accompanied by BNM entourage comprises Mr. Zambre Ismail (Head of Bank Negara Malaysia Kota Kinabalu), Mr. Idwan Suhardi Hakim (Deputy Director, Economist Dept., BNM Kuala Lumpur), Mr. Yeam Shin Yau (Sr. Economist, BNM Kota Kinabalu), Ms. Nurul Aisyah Mat (Economist, BNM Kota Kinabalu), Mr. Wan Mohd. Nawawi Mohd Hassan (Manager, Financial Advisory and Sureveillance, BNM Kota Kinabalu), Mr. Mohammed Tonarusli Tonamli (Associate Exec., Financial Advisory and Sureveillance, Kota Kinabalu), Mr. Mohamad Ishaq Hakim bin Mohd. Ariff Krishnan (Associate Economist, Economics Dept., BNM Kuala Lumpur), Ms. Stefanie Joan Almeida (Associate Economist, Economics Dept., BNM Kuala Lumpur), Sarjan Sharani Shukor (Auxiliary Police Officer, BNM Kota Kinabalu), Cons. Khairul Amir bin Mat Arob (Auxiliary Police Officer, BNM Kota Kinabalu).


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