ATLANTA (AP) Andrew Suarez is fitting in San Francisco's rotation just fine, especially after his first career road start was added to the Giants' ledger of impressive results away from home.
Suarez outpitched Mike Soroka in a rookie matchup, and San Francisco survived Atlanta's ninth-inning rally for a 4-3 win on Sunday and the Giants' first series sweep of the Braves in four years.
Giants starters have a 2.55 ERA in 17 road games after Suarez (1-1) allowed only one unearned run and seven hits and one walk in 5 1/3 innings for his first win.
Suarez, a left-hander, shut down Braves hitters that began the day leading the majors with a .274 average and leading the National League in several categories, including runs.
"It's something I'm never going to forget, for sure," Suarez said. "I'm just happy we got the win and especially the sweep."
Suarez has allowed two earned runs in two starts since he was recalled from Triple-A Sacramento on May 1 to replace the injured Johnny Cueto in the rotation.
"That's huge and that's what has to happen," said manager Bruce Bochy. "When you have injuries, hopefully you have depth and you have somebody come up and do a nice job for you."
The Braves rallied with two runs off closer Hunter Strickland in the ninth. Pinch-hitter Kurt Suzuki's double drove in Jose Bautista, who singled. Ender Inciarte's groundout drove in Johan Camargo, before Ozzie Alibies popped out to end the game. Strickland earned his eighth save.
Bochy acknowledged the inning was "a little scary."
"That's what your closer has to do, though," he said. "He has to keep his composure out there and make pitches."
Nick Hundley and Pablo Sandoval had run-scoring singles to give the Giants a 2-1 lead in the third.
San Francisco added two more runs in the fourth. Alen Hanson, who had an infield single, scored from third on a head-first slide home, beating first baseman Freddie Freeman's throw after fielding Gregor Blanco's grounder.
Hanson added a fifth-inning double for his third straight two-hit game of the series, but he committed two fielding errors.
Soroka (1-1) lasted only four innings in his first home start, allowing four runs and seven hits and three walks.
"He wasn't as sharp, obviously," said Braves manager Brian Snitker. "You're going to have games like that."
The Giants' previous sweep of the Braves came on May 2-4, 2014 at Turner Field.
Giants: Bochy said OF Mac Williamson, who was eligible to be reinstated from the seven-day concussion DL on Saturday, will remain on the DL for "a couple days" and likely will need a minor league rehab stint. ... Bochy said RHP Reyes Moronta, who left Saturday night's game with a tight back after throwing eight straight balls to open the ninth, "seems to be doing better."
Braves: RHP Lucas Sims, who allowed two runs in 3 2/3 innings on Saturday night, was sent back to Triple-A Gwinnett. The Braves recalled RHP Luke Jackson.
Ronald Acuna Jr., the top prospect who made his debut on April 25, singled to left field in the first inning for his first hit at SunTrust Park. Acuna scored on Tyler Flowers' single.
Acuna showed his speed when he beat out an infield single in the third. Sandoval fielded Acuna's grounder cleanly at third base, took a step, threw to first and then appeared shocked Acuna beat the throw.
Catcher Ryan Hanigan, who was released by the Indians before the season, signed a minor league deal with the Giants. Hanigan, 37, hit .267 with two homers in 101 at-bats with Colorado in 2017 following two seasons with Boston. He has hit .251 in 11 seasons, including his first seven with Cincinnati.
With Soroka, 20, Acuna, 20, and Ozzie Albies, 21, the Braves had the three youngest players in the majors on the field together.
Soroka's highlight of the day was a second-inning single up the middle for his first hit. He said his sinker "was a little flatter than I would have liked out of the gate." He said patient approaches by Giants hitters left him behind in too many counts.
Giants: RHP Jeff Samardzija (1-1, 5.27) will try to improve on his 8.18 career ERA against the Phillies when San Francisco opens a four-game series at Philadelphia on Monday.
Braves: Following a day off on Monday, LHP Sean Newcomb will take a 3.38 ERA into Tuesday night's start at Tampa Bay.


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Ever since moving to the East Coast, I've developed quite the habit of American city hopping. This summer, I finally made the trek down to America's capital, Washington, DC. From Toronto, it's barely an hour's flight either on Air Canada or Porter, and well worth the trip.
While I mostly went for the budding food scene, I was also really excited for all the touristy things that make DC such a unique place to visit. It's got a sense of grandeur and majesty that you just can't find anywhere else.
Seeing Abe Lincoln and the Lincoln Memorial was kind of incredible, and the Washington Monument, and the Capitol Building (which has a great tour) up close too.There are about a million museums (maybe only a slight exaggeration) and most are free. You could spend about a month visiting museums all day and not have fully seen them all. And of course, I had to make a visit to 1600 Penn Ave (aka, the White House).
Since I had just taken US Constitutional Law in my last semester of law school, it was extra surreal to be sitting on the same steps that so many important decisions were announced to the public. The Supreme Court is definitely worth a visit, and when the courts are not in session, there are talks inside the chamber every hour on the hour. Other than nerding out at the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress is also a great place to do the same.
All in all, I had an amazing trip. I met some great people, ate some great food, and learned more about the United States of America than I ever thought possible. Another trip will be scheduled soon, rest assured!
Please note: this post was originally written in November 2014, but has been slightly modified to fit the new blog.


Home » ENTERTAINMENT » COMICS » Krypton Not Destroyed!?
We all know Superman's origin story or do we? Writer Marc Guggenheim delivers earth-shattering news in "Tears for Krypton," a 3-part story beginning in Adventures of Superman #22 . A STAR Labs scientist tells the supposedly last Kryptonian that they've found his home planet intact! Superman admits his Kryptonian is rusty so he replays the recording from his father, Jor-El, who confirms that the destruction of Krypton is a scientific certainty. The message continues to play as Superman flies home to see firsthand.
The last part proves true, at least. Superman finds lit cities on the planet but don't expect a happy reunion given the story title and cover, which shows his deadbeat dad in manacles for causing panic with his predictions. The heart breaking conclusion reveals it's a trap!


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Q: Can I use scalable pixels for layout dimensions? Is anyone aware of any problems with using sp units for layout dimensions? So, say I have a 16sp text, is there any problem with setting TextView height to 20sp for example, so it scales with the text?
<TextView
    android:textSize="16sp"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="20sp"
    ...

This way the padding around the text stays proportional to text size after scaling. Also, this is useful with auto sizing, where using wrap_content is not recommended.
However, the official docs state that sp should never be used for text size (without any explanation though):

When defining text sizes, however, you should instead use scalable
pixels (sp) as your units (but never use sp for layout sizes).

What is the reasoning behind this? Both dps and sps are converted to a certain device-specific pixel amount in the end, are they not? What's the core difference then?

A: From the documentation: https://developer.android.com/training/multiscreen/screendensities

To preserve the visible size of your UI on screens with different densities, you must design your UI using density-independent pixels (dp) as your unit of measurement. One dp is a virtual pixel unit that's roughly equal to one pixel on a medium-density screen (160dpi; the "baseline" density).

So, the whole idea of dp is to specify a measure that is independent from the screen density.

When defining text sizes, however, you should instead use scalable pixels (sp) as your units (but never use sp for layout sizes). The sp unit is the same size as dp, by default, but it resizes based on the user's preferred text size.

Here the idea is that if the user is visually impaired, he could change the size of the text changing a system setting. Note also the The sp unit is the same size as dp: with a system setting of default size for text, there is no difference between dp and sp. So you should not see any difference in changing your layout size between sp and dp. both will translate to the same amount of pixels.
The reason of but never use sp for layout sizes is merely the fact that you don't want images, buttons or any other layout dimension to scale based on the system preference of the text size. This seems pretty obvious to me.
Accessibility settings: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6006972
the code on Android OS that makes the conversion from different units to pixels is: (from https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.git/+/master/core/java/android/util/TypedValue.java )
    public static float applyDimension(int unit, float value,
                                       DisplayMetrics metrics)
    {
        switch (unit) {
        case COMPLEX_UNIT_PX:
            return value;
        case COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP:
            return value * metrics.density;
        case COMPLEX_UNIT_SP:
            return value * metrics.scaledDensity;
        case COMPLEX_UNIT_PT:
            return value * metrics.xdpi * (1.0f/72);
        case COMPLEX_UNIT_IN:
            return value * metrics.xdpi;
        case COMPLEX_UNIT_MM:
            return value * metrics.xdpi * (1.0f/25.4f);
        }
        return 0;
    }

And the comment that explains what is scaledDensity: (from https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/master/core/java/android/util/DisplayMetrics.java )
    /**
     * A scaling factor for fonts displayed on the display.  This is the same
     * as {@link #density}, except that it may be adjusted in smaller
     * increments at runtime based on a user preference for the font size.
     */
    public float scaledDensity;

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Q: Preorder and Reverse Preorder Binary Tree Traversals I'm trying to recursively call  my Preorder and Reverse Preorder methods.  The methods work over a array-based binary tree, they are supposed to return the length of all the elements of a subtree.  But they do is return the length of the first element of the subtree.  If anyone can help it'd be appreciated.
int left_width(vector<string>& vec, int i, int ret) {
    int left = i * 2 + 1;
    int right = i * 2 + 2;
    ret = ret + vec[i].length();
    if (left < (int)vec.size() && right <= (int)vec.size()) {
            left_width(vec, left, ret);
            left_width(vec, right, ret);
    }
    return ret;

}
int right_width(vector<string>& vec, int i, int ret) {
    int right = i * 2 + 2;
    int left = i * 2 + 1;
    ret = ret + vec[i].length();
    if (left < (int)vec.size() && right <= (int)vec.size()) {
            right_width(vec, right, ret);
            right_width(vec, left, ret);
    }
    return ret;

}

A: If I understood what you're doing correctly, you need to capture the return values from your calls to left_width or right_width to pass along, so you accumulate across all calls.  For example:
int right_width(vector<string>& vec, int i, int ret) {
    int right = i * 2 + 2;
    int left = i * 2 + 1;
    ret = ret + vec[i].length();
    if (left < (int)vec.size() && right <= (int)vec.size()) {
        ret = right_width(vec, right, ret);
        ret = right_width(vec, left, ret);
    }
    return ret;
}

Of course, passing a "continuing return value" in as an argument to thread it through the computation really isn't idiomatic recursion.  Usually you do something more like this:
int right_width(vector<string>& vec, int i) {
    int right = i * 2 + 2;
    int left = i * 2 + 1;
    int ret = vec[i].length();
    if (left < (int)vec.size() && right <= (int)vec.size()) {
        ret += right_width(vec, right);
        ret += right_width(vec, left);
    }
    return ret;
}

Here, you just sum up all the return values from the recursive calls, along with your own local value, and return it back to the caller.  No need to pass the work-in-progress counts down to the callees.


A high quality implantation depends on the doctor's qualifications, the quality of materials and the technology used.
In a special program the doctor chooses the size and type of implant and analyzes the bone structure to guarantee the safety of the operation.
Thanks to thorough preparation the operation takes from 30 to 50 minutes.
On the lower jaw implants are engrafted for 3-4 months, on the upper jaw – up to 6 months.
The abutment acts as a propon which a crown is later mounted.
The surgeon chooses the method of mounting the implant (in one visit or several visits) depending on our physiological parameters.
In connection with the fact that over years the gums can grow around the implant we plant it simultaneously with the mounting. This allows to protect the implant from bacteria.
Before starting the procedure the doctor goes through all stages on a virtual model. This is the safest way of conducting all manipulation.
Our surgeons work in accordance with the protocol of the International Team for Implantology (ITI), which allows them to use the operating time of the best surgeons in the world in their practice.
In cases when the fixation of a bone implant is insufficient, we use bone material, which with time becomes one's own bone.
We work with extra-class systems, which allow to prepare implant details suitable for each client.


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You realize the more people you get to sign up on a specific pool, the less you will make right? You may get more consistent payouts but at a lower rate of return because you have to share that return. More total hash rate on a specific network/coin the less you get paid as difficulty is raised to slow the increased amount of blocks found as to keep pace with the payout scheme, too much hash rate on a specific pool and that promotes a 51% attack and everyone potentially loses everything, and with Genesis Mining already increasing the nethash 25-50%... let the noobs figure it out for themselves. You are shooting yourself and others in the foot.


On Wednesday, The Union Cabinet ministers affirmed the administration's eager national social insurance arrange for that objective almost eleven crore poor families and will be a convenient plan which can be profited from anyplace in India. There will be no top on family size and age while installments will be on bundle rates.
Under the midway supported plan, touted to be the world's biggest government-subsidized medicinal services program, it is proposed to set up the AB-HPMC (Ayushman Bharat – National Health Protection Mission Council), led by the Health Minister of union, aside from building up the Ayushman Bharat – National Health Protection Mission Council Governing Board.
The officer elaborated that the advantages cover will likewise incorporate hospitalization costs in the pre- and post-condition. All prior conditions will be secured from the very first moment of the arrangement. Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads The Union Bureau, endorsed the dispatch of the Ayushman Bharat – National Health Protection Mission with a focal part segment under the Ayushman Bharat Mission.
"Initial Healthcare will be given through NHPM along HWC (Health and Wellness Centers) for giving an all-inclusive wellbeing scope and making wellbeing administrations impartial, reasonable and available. It will profit the poorest and the destitute. "NHPM will cover more than ten crore poor families individuals), giving a scope of up to Rs five lakh. There is no restriction on the family estimate. This will be the world's biggest government-subsidized social insurance program as explained by J P Nadda, Union Health Minister.
One of the center standards of Ayushman Bharat Mission was co-operative federalism and adaptability to states, the announcement stated, including that there was an arrangement to accomplice the states through co-cooperation. This will guarantee proper incorporation with the current medical coverage or security plans of different focal services/offices and state governments (at their own particular cost). The state governments will be permitted to extend Ayushman Bharat Mission both evenly and vertically.


I teach Christian Studies to all the middle students and have used your prayer ideas with the Year 9 students. They were discussing how the Australian Government was debating about the Lord's Prayer being in Parliament. The students were really engaged and created wonderful versions of the Lord's Prayer that some of them have been used in Chapel.


Keith Flint takes to Facebook to defend himself after hacking group Anonymous get involved in criticising him over his supposed involvement in fox hunt.
Keith Flint has taken to Facebook to defend allegations that he has taken part in a fox hunt. Criticism has been coming in from social media with Anonymous even getting involved by sending out a warning to Flint.
In reply to all the social media criticism and the warning by Anonymous Flint has come out and defended his actions by posting a response on Facebook stating; "In regards to a story going around about me right now - yes I live in Essex and have a couple of horses. I went riding with the local trail hunt, it was a ride out and NO ANIMALS WERE HUNTED OR KILLED, so my conscience is clear, it wasn't my thing and I won't be going again."
A user named AnonIntelGroup who is supposedly associated with the hacking group Anonymous posted a video on Youtube. The video which last's just under three minutes warns Flint to give up fox hunting and told him he has one year or there will be consequences to his actions. In the video Anonymous state that they "once had a great deal of respect for you, we admired your art, your rage, your vision and your haircut ".
Flint enjoyed a very successful 2015 with The Prodigy; the release of new album The Day Is My Enemy saw them embark on a world tour. Speaking to the NME in April 2015 the three piece suggested that the recent album could be the final chapter in The Prodigy story suggesting that they could call an end to the band after what has been a very successful 25 years.


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Distance between Watergrasshill and Tyrrellspass. How many miles from Watergrasshill to Tyrrellspass.
The straight distance between Watergrasshill (Cork) and Tyrrellspass (Westmeath) is 122.61 mi, but the driving distance is 153.41 mi.
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I just went to Hell and back again. Well, kind of. I went to Hell for Sure Canyon in the San Gorgonio Wilderness – which is about as wild and inaccessible of a place as you'll find in Southern California.
Hell For Sure Falls, Hell For Sure Canyon, San Gorgonio Wilderness, Southern California.
But let me back up a bit and explain what I'm doing. You see, there's this balloon, a weather balloon. A friend of a friend has a grandson, Adrian, who put together a weather balloon as a school project. The balloon went up and then came down into, you guessed it, some of the harshest and most inaccessible terrain in all of Southern California, the Hell For Sure Canyon area. The balloon had a transponder. The transponder sent out GPS coordinates as the balloon descended. The signal was lost shortly before landing, but interpolating the direction of travel and speed of descent places the balloon's landing point at about 34.07031, -116.71899, i.e. in the drainages just east of Hell For Sure Canyon. For further information on the balloon and searching, see "Notes for Potential Searchers" in the Appendix, below.
Access to the canyon is blocked near the mouth by a high waterfall, Hell For Sure Falls. Maybe a technical climber could ascend the falls, but most can't, so a lengthy detour is required to access the drainages behind the falls.
The falls are the end of the line in terms of going up Hell For Canyon.
Photo credit: Jim D.
Hell For Sure Canyon is part of the San Gorgonio Wilderness. The San Gorgonio Wilderness was a favorite place of my dad's and my grandfather's before him. I've been visiting since the 1960's and have spent a fair amount of time over the years there. I like maps and have put together things like an Interactive Map of the San Gorgonio Wilderness (which was cited by the founder of Caltopo, Matt Jacobs, in his interview with Andrew Skurka as an example of what could be done with Caltopo. Hey, why, I'm almost famous, lol.). I'm also an off trail hiker, not intimidated by a lack of established routes.
Yours truly, on a recent trip in the San Gorgonio Wilderness.
Photo credit: Barbie
Anyway, I guess somebody figured I might have some insight, and word of the lost weather balloon made its way to me. I decided to go and look for the danged thing. Never strong in the brains department, I'm always up for a long-shot, harsh terrain challenge I suppose.
Now, the first challenge is to get back in there. The mouth of Hell For Sure Canyon is about 18 miles round trip from the nearest place accessible by a vehicle. One reaches the mouth of Hell For Sure Canyon by ascending the Middle Fork of the Whitewater River. The river bed is rough and boulder strewn and can be pretty slow going.
The Middle Fork of the Whitewater River.
The low spot that the river more or less points to is Hell For Sure Canyon.
But I had a plan. There was an old road from years ago that went into the Middle Fork. I had traveled this road before and knew that it was more or less passable for a person on foot. The road bypasses much of the boulder strewn wash.
Walking the old road to the Middle Fork of the Whitewater River
The old road is waterless and exposed, but with proper planning (i.e. start early and bring lots of water) is very doable and would be a far better way to get up the Whitewater than simply walking the riverbed.
Naturally, I didn't want to do this alone. But who on earth would be dumb enough, er, such a great friend, that they'd join me on a fool's errand like this? I mean I knew from the get go that this was going to be a real suffer fest. I immediately thought of my friend, Jim. Great name. How can you go wrong with a guy with such a great name. right?
My buddy Jim who graciously puts up with my off trail antics
So, the two of us set out.
Day One – The Journey In
Now, yes, this was once a road, but now it's hardly a superhighway into the interior. And even though it cuts off part of the slog up the river bed, it's still a good bit of doing to get to the Hell For Sure drainage. I figured it would take us the better part of a day to get to the mouth of Hell For Sure Canyon. I then would have to figure out how to get up around the falls into the drainages behind – and conduct my search. For this effort, I allocated three days: One day to hike in, visit the falls (which are a worthy destination in their own right), and set up a base camp; one day to conduct a search; and then one day to hike back out.
Sometimes the desert is thought of as a more or less lifeless place, but it's not that at all. While I definitely prefer cool pine forests, the desert has a beauty all its own for those willing to see.
Beavertail cactus in bloom
One sees things in the desert that one would otherwise miss, things worthwhile indeed.
Cholla cactus flowers
We arrived at the confluence of the Middle Fork of the Whitewater River and Hell For Sure Creek around 2:00 PM. We then proceeded up the creek to visit the falls.
Rounding a bend in the canyon, one gets one's first view of Hell For Sure Falls.
Hell For Sure Falls is barely a trickle many times, but this year, we'd had a decent rain year, and the falls were flowing.
Hell For Sure Falls.
We stopped for a late lunch at the base of the falls. I pulled out my MSR Windburner, which is the latest stove that I'm evaluating on my Adventures In Stoving blog. Nice stove. The Windburner is astoundingly windproof, which makes it the perfect stove for the desert. On any desert trip I've ever been on, it's always been windy.
An MSR Windburner with a 1.8 L pot.
After lunch, we went back to the confluence and set up camp for our first night out.
Bivy camping in the desert.
Day Two – The Search
Now the fun really starts, ha ha. We had to get in behind the falls – but how? Our best reckoning, based on the track of the balloon, was that the most probable point of impact was in some drainages east of the main Hell For Sure drainage. "Map scouting" in the weeks leading up to the trip had lead me to consider some ridges to the SE of the falls as possible bypass routes. At least on paper, these ridges looked doable – but I knew they'd be tough. The Whitewater River near the base of these ridges is at an elevation of about 4100' above sea level. The top of the ridge is at just over 6500'. That's a gain of some 2400', but, oh, that's not all. There's no trail, there's a good bit of brush, and one gains 1500' in just a little over a mile in the first portion of the ascent.
Now, maps are a fine thing, but one never knows until one sees things first hand. After a visual study of the terrain, we picked out a particular ridge, a ridge we dubbed "Stairmaster Ridge."
Two Snake Peak is the peak slightly left of center.
Stairmaster Ridge is just slightly right of center.
The gain is 1500' in just over a mile.
Stairmaster Ridge leads to the top of Peak 6511 which is part of Hell For Sure Ridge, the major ridge east of Hell For Sure Canyon. In and around Peak 6511, we both just about stepped on rattlesnakes in two separate incidents. I don't mind snakes when I can see them, but there were plenty of places where I could barely see my feet due to the brush. Rattlesnakes sounding off unseen just underfoot makes me one nervous hiker! Based on these incidents, we dubbed Peak 6511, "Two Snake Peak."
As it happens, our map scouting and visual assessment bore out: The route was doable. It was steep, it was brushy, but it was doable. One simply had to bear with the steepness. There were no sections so steep that the use of hands were required.
From Two Snake Peak, we dropped down to a saddle to the NW and from there descended towards a point I had identified as potentially having a commanding view of our search area. The weather balloon had been equipped with a bright red and orange parachute. Our hope was that we might be able to glimpse the brightly colored chute and thereby find the object of our search, the electronic payload that the balloon had originally carried aloft.
The author atop Surveyor's Point with its commanding view of the landscape.
We made our way down the ridge down to our panoramic viewpoint, but there was a problem. Even though it was a scant 2.5 miles from the river to our viewpoint, it had taken us until mid-afternoon to get there! Given the difficulty of the terrain and brush, we knew we had to leave soon or we'd be caught out after dark on Stairmaster Ridge on the return. A descent in the dark on a brushy, steep ridge would not be a good situation to find oneself in. So, with what time we had, we split up and did what searching we could.
The ravines were so rugged that we couldn't always see into the bottom of them.
The terrain was so steep and precipitous that we could not see into the bottom of many of the ravines surrounding the point. Interestingly, we did find one thing, a survey marker from the 1927 survey of the area.
Survey marker from 1927.
This marks the boundary of, among other things, the San Bernardino National Forest and the San Gorgonio Wilderness.
More specifically, this is an "Angle Point" on the section line for Township 1 South, Range 2 East, Section 24, San Bernardino Baseline and Meridian.
Late in the day, we beat a hasty retreat back up the ridges to Two Snake Peak and then down Stairmaster Ridge. We got to our camp with about 10 minutes of fading twilight to spare. That, in retrospect, probably wasn't the best decision, to continue to search as long as we did, but we really wanted to find that darned weather balloon. Alas, it was not to be.
We cooked dinner in the dark and reflected on our day.
Firing up my MSR Windburner for a dinner in the dark.
We overstayed our time on the ridges east of Hell For Sure Canyon.
After Action Review
Despite not finding our objective, I don't consider our "mission" a failure. Heck, any time spent in the backcountry is time well spent, but we did do several things:
We established a very doable route for any future searchers. Hopefully others will follow after our initial scouting foray. However, see "Notes for Potential Searchers," below if you plan to look for the balloon yourself.
We established a sense of the effort necessary. It took us about 5 hours to go 2.5 miles from the Whitewater River, up over Two Snake Peak, and down into the search zone.
We got to visit and get some good photos of Hell For Sure Falls in a good rain year.
We got some great views of the Middle Fork Jumpoff, Kitching Peak, San Jacinto Peak, etc. and did some highly valuable scouting for future trips into the area.
A spectacular view of San Jacinto Peak and the surrounding territory can be had from Hell For Sure Ridge.
Had I to do it over again, I might have gotten an earlier start on day two, perhaps starting at first light. For a future trip, I might try to find a camp site above the falls to serve as my base camp so that I might spend more time searching.
This trip, as do many trips, only whetted my appetite for more trips into this area. The intriguing geological formation known as the Middle Fork Jump Off, essentially a giant cliff-like headwall at the top of the Middle Fork of the Whitewater River, certainly deserves a visit.
Middle Fork Jumpoff lies at the head of the Middle Fork of the Whitewater River.
The snow capped peak to the right of the Jumpoff is San Gorgonio Mountain.
To the right of San Gorgonio Mountain is Ten Thousand Foot Ridge.
The somewhat flat topped peak far to the left of the Jump Off is Snow Peak.
While I did not achieve my primary objective, that of finding the balloon, I did have a great adventure in the wild, trail-less backcountry of the San Gorgonio Wilderness, an area little touched by the hand of man even in this, the Twenty-First Century. I also gained valuable intel on the region for future trips and plan to visit again soon.
NOTE: This is hot, exposed country with rugged, brushy terrain. Examine weather reports and plan carefully before setting out on a trip here.
I thank you for joining me on the Journey,
P.S. If you're interested in joining the challenge of searching for the lost weather balloon, please see the "Notes for Potential Searchers" in the Appendix, below.
San Jacinto Peak and the desert from near the summit of Two Snake Mountain
Appendix – Notes for Potential Searchers
Up for a challenge? By all means please join me in helping Adrian out. Let's get the poor guy his instrumentation package back. And it's not just that. This is sort of a challenge. Can you devise a search strategy and execute it in the rugged backcountry? Let's see if we can't find that thing – and in the process have an excuse for challenge and adventure, not to mention one heck of a set of bragging rights for the person who finds it.
Here are some thoughts for potential searchers:
Heat stroke. Heat stroke is a very real possibility. Pick a cool day. If the predicted high in Whitewater, CA during your trip is over 90 degrees Fahrenheit, think seriously about not going.
Water. Water is reliably available – as long as your near the Whitewater River. Once you're away from the river, water could be pretty scarce. If you're near Hell For Sure Creek, it will probably have water most years although in some spots it may run underground. If you're away from the river and the creek, in all likelihood, the only water you'll have is the water you carry. Water was available at the Stone House and Whitewater Preserve as of April 2017. Note: The water at the Stone House has high fluoride content and should not be frequently consumed.
Parking. Parking is available on Wildlands Conservancy land at either the Whitewater Preserve or the Mission Creek Preserve. The closest approach, one that lets you take advantage of the old road into the area, is to park at the Stone House. The lot at the Stone House is well inside the locked gate of the preserve. You need to contact the conservancy well ahead of time to get permission to park there.
If getting permission seems like a drag, you can park outside the gate in the main Mission Creek Parking Lot, but that does add 1.6 miles each way to your trip.
Parking is also available at the Whitewater Preserve.
You could just follow my route into the search area. It's a known and proven route. It's also a real bun kicker, and it requires you to climb to 6500' when the balloon most likely landed around 5500'. In other words, you're climbing 1000' unnecessarily. I chose the route because I was being conservative. The contour lines are never so close together that I was worried about impassible terrain. An on site visual inspection also did not turn up anything that might have caused a problem. In addition, I wanted to get to Surveyor's Point from which I hoped I might be able to simply search with binoculars. No such luck. The ravines are too deep and twisting to be effectively searched from the point. While my route was a reasonable first scouting route, it is not optimal.
From my vantage point on Surveyor's Point, I got a good look at the ridge that runs immediately to the west of Hell For Sure Falls. It looked doable. Whereas my first scouting route topped out at 6500', the route around the falls to the west tops out at a far more reasonable 5400'. Now, I said "doable," not "easy". It looks rough and rocky, and the rock is loose. I found a canyoneer's trip report that said that a party went up the west ridge successfully, so it can be done. The report mentioned that one of the party was injured when a rock shifted and cut his leg. so be careful if you use this route. Despite the danger, I think this is the way to go. My initial scouting route just takes too long and gains unnecessary elevation. Please see the topo map, below.
VISUAL CLUES
The balloon itself is of a sort of semi-translucent whitish material but would be shredded. The balloon was designed to burst when it reached a very high altitude, and then a parachute would lower the payload, an instrumentation package, back to earth.
The balloon. From a video capture
The parachute is made of nylon and is red and orange. It is approximately six feet (two meters) in diameter.
The parachute. From a video capture.
The payload is an instrumentation package inside a protective box. The box is yellow and measures approximately 10" x 14" x 4". Gray nylon straps and yellow riser cords attach the box to the parachute.
The instrumentation package of the weather balloon is yellow and measures approximately 10" x 14" x 4".
For reference, here is a person standing with the instrumentation package in his hands.
A person holding the instrumentation package. Shown for scale.
The balloon sent out a series of "pings" containing data like elevation above sea level and GPS coordinates. Based on the data, we can calculate the speed of descent and direction of travel. Based on the speed of descent and direction of travel, the most probable landing point of the balloon is lat/lon 34.07031, -116.71899. However, of course, this is only an estimate. It should be a pretty good estimate, but wind gusts, downdrafts, etc. could have altered the point of landing. I would assume that the coordinates 34.07031, -116.71899 constitute the center of a search area and the immediate surroundings would be need to be searched extending outward from that center.
The end track of the balloon plotted on Google Earth.
The last ping is shown by the orange and red parachute icon.
The landing point is interpolated based on the spend of descent and direction.
Below is a hand drawn map based on my search of April 26 - 28, 2017. This is NOT from a GPS unit, but it will definitely give you the sense of things. My map is more about illustrating how things fit together and what the critical landmarks and junctures are than it is about GPS-like precision. If you really want to take a close look at the map, it's probably best to open it in a separate window.
The most probable landing point of the balloon is plotted on the map using exact (but interpolated) lat/lon coordinates of 34.07031, -116.71899.
You could just use a GPS unit while you're out there, but if your batteries die or the unit malfunctions, you could be in trouble. Personally, I'd bring paper maps and a compass to back up a GPS. Up to you.
Here is a Google Earth screen capture with the last ping from the balloon shown along with my initial scouting route to Surveyors Point, sketched in with a red line. The approximate location of Surveyors Point is indicated by the black "X". Personally, I would use the ridge immediately west of Hell For Sure Falls were I to return to the area. See above topo map for a sketch of this alternate route.
The last GPS position of the balloon is indicated by the red and orange parachute icon.
The landing point of the balloon is estimated based on the speed of descent and direction.
My initial scouting route is sketched in with red line.
Surveyors Point is shown with a black "X".
Good luck and happy searching. Even if you don't find it, it's a heck of an adventure.
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N-JOY (произнася се Енджой) е българска музикално-политематична радиостанция, част от bTV Radio Group, собственост на Central European Media Enterprises. Започва излъчване на 1 юни 2006 г. на честотите на Jazz FM, а за София, на честотата на Радио НЕТ.

Радио N-JOY e една от най-големите музикални радиовериги в България и често заема челни позиции в националния радиоефир, в най-широк спектър от слушателски аудитории, според проучванията на ГАРБ. Програмата на радиото покрива над 50 града, сред които София, Пловдив, Варна, Бургас, Стара Загора, Русе, Благоевград, Хасково, Разград, Велико Търново, Монтана, Габрово, Пазарджик, Карнобат, Ябланица, Тетевен, Търговище, Разлог, Карлово, Балчик, Априлци, Троян, Перник, Ямбол, Разлог, Банско, Троян, Велинград, Айтос, Бяла, Левски, Ловеч, Несебър, Обзор, Приморско, Трявна.

Програмата на радио N-JOY включва само хитове, свежи, водещи, с много настроение, любопитни новини за любимите звезди и теми от шоубизнеса, игри с награди.

Радио N-JOY се предава чрез сателит на територията на Европа. Към края на април 2017 г. радиото преустановява излъчването в Троян и Ябланица, а седмици по-късно и в Обзор, Тетевен, Несебър, Трявна, Приморско, Карлово, Априлци, Левски и Бяла (Русенско), където стартира Радио Фреш. През 2017 N-JOY спечели конкурса за Троян и се очаква скоро да тръгне отново, след като на неговата честота стартира излъчване Радио Фреш.

През м. ноември 2018 г. стартира и излъчването на радио програма N-JOY в град Априлци и в гр. Приморско. От май 2019 г. радиото възобнови излъчване на сигнала си в гр. Троян. През ноември същата година N-JOY спечели нова честота в гр. Ихтиман. През октомври 2022 г. се очаква да стартира излъчване в Златица на 90,4 MHz.

Предавания
 Шоуто на Инспектор N-JOY – от 7 до 10 ч. всеки делничен ден;
 От 10 до 14 с Нейа – от 10 до 14 ч. всеки делничен ден;
 Приятно разсеяни с Деси – от 14 до 18 ч. всеки делничен ден;
 Party Time по радио N-JOY – от 18 до 21 ч. всеки делничен ден;
 N-JOY TOP 40 с Ники – събота от 12 до 15 ч.

Кампании
Радио N-JOY е известно с разнообразните алтернативни кампании, които реализира. През годините радиото се е утвърдило като един от лидерите в измислянето и реализирането на множество мултиплатформени кампании. Комбинирайки радиоефира, outdoor реклама, online присъствие и физическо позициониране в различни точки на страната, радиото работи в посока подобряване ежедневно живота на слушателите си и развиване на българския радиоефир.

N-JOY Summer
Първото издание на кампанията N-JOY Summer беше проведено през 2018 г. Тогава радиото реализира най-мащабното лятно турне в 12-годишната си история. В рамките на шест седмици хиляди посетиха мобилното студио на N-JOY в шест различни града из цялата страна и участваха в играта N-JOY Summer.

Зеленото приключение на Инспектор N-JOY
През 2018 г. радио N-JOY и Столична община обединиха усилията си в кампания, наречена "Зеленото приключение на Инспектор N-JOY" за популяризиране на успешни еко практики в страната. В рамките на пет седмици емблематичното лице на радиото – Инспектор N-JOY, информираше аудиторията и показа как да намалим хранителния си отпадък, къде да изхвърляме разделно ненужните си вещи и с какво може да помогнем за изграждането на един по-чист и зелен град. По време на кампанията Инспектора проведе поредица от интервюта, придружени от снимки и видеа от актуални инициативи на Столична община, в които феновете можеха да се включат.

Кампанията даде възможност за позициониране на инициативата в национален мащаб през радиоефира и онлайн, но също и чрез посещения в различни краища на страната на лицето на кампанията – Инспектор N-JOY. Зеленото приключение на Инспектор N-JOY пътува на борда на електромобил – за здравословен живот без въглеродни емисии.

Една от успешните активности, част от Зеленото приключение, бе мобилният пункт за събиране на електрическо и електронно оборудване. В рамките на 4 дни само за по 2 часа на ден мобилният пункт успя да събере 720 кг. техника, като по този начин спести близо 3,5 тона вредни емисии. Освен това, в рамките на тези 4 дни бяха получени над 100 заявки за извозване на такова оборудване от място, което е ясен знак за ефективността на кампанията

Източници
2. Официален Facebook профил на радио N-JOY

3. Официален Instagram профил на радио N-JOY

4. Официален YouTube профил на радио N-JOY

Радиостанции в България
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The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights condemned the attack, which occurred on the Egyptian journalists in the United States during the visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the United States for participating in the meetings of the seventieth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations at the level of leaders.
Since the arrival of the delegation to the United States and they being subjected to harassment, Where some opponents of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi "Members of the Muslims Brotherhood" assaulted on Youssef al-Husseini, Mohamed Mustafa Sherdy and Wael El-Ibrashi in New York.
EOHR considers that what happened as a threat to the rights of journalists while on duty in a follow-up to the Egyptian president visit to the United Nations in the United States which represents an assault on their rights, especially in the state well known as its respect to the rights of journalists and freedom of opinion and expression, as well as the authorities did not deal with the event.
EOHR calls for an urgent actions to arrest the Brotherhood elements who assaulted on the members of the Egyptian media delegation accompanying President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi during his visit to New York, and who they were attacked by elements of the Brotherhood while participating in a demonstration in front of the residence of the President in New York.
For his part, Hafez Abu Saada, The head of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights confirmed that what happened is an attack on journalists rights which representing a threat to journalists during their work, in order to force them to abandon the Egyptian case and defend it in the international forums.
Abu Saada demanded the US authorities to deal with the event and the arrest of the accused perpetrators of assault on the Egyptian media delegation and the need to provide the appropriate protection for journalists and media during the performance of their work in the follow-up activities of presidential tours.
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Two policemen, woman killed as gunmen ambush convoy carrying "VIPs" in Delta
Two police officers and wife of a popular business mogul were killed by daredevil armed robbers, who ambushed them at Okuokoko area of Okpe local government area of the state.
The policemen, an Inspector, and a Sergeant, were said to have been escorting the couple who were conveying an undisclosed amount of money to their residence when the gunmen struck.
The VIPs, a husband and wife, also sustained various degrees of injuries leading to the death of the wife who passed on in the early hours of Sunday at an undisclosed hospital.
It was gathered that the hoodlums also carted away a huge amount of money from the victims alongside the AK47 rifle of one of the slain policemen.
Spokesperson of the Delta State Police Command, DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, confirmed the death of the officers but did not give details.
However, a security source privy to the incident who spoke to Vanguard, gave the names of the slain officers as Inspector Otency Anebi and Sergeant Ikenna Emeka while the female victim was identified as Mrs Chinonye Okekeocha.
The source, who is a senior police officer at the Orerokpe police division, disclosed that the AK47 rifle of the slain Police Inspector was taken away by the hoodlums, who also snatched undisclosed amount of money from the civilians.
"The incident happened at about 8 pm on Saturday along Caroline Street, Okuokoko. The policemen were VIP duties as they were attached to one Mr Nnamdi Okekeocha and his wife, Mrs Chinonye Okekeocha. They were on their way back to the residence of the Okekeochas when they ran into an ambush by a gang of suspected armed robbers which was followed by heavy gunfire by the hoodlums who had laid siege at the scene of the incident in two cars," the source said.
"Unfortunately, the two policemen paid the supreme price while Mrs Chinonye Okekeocha also gave up the ghost as a result of gunshot injuries sustained during the incident with her husband rushed to a private hospital in Warri where he is currently receiving treatment from injuries sustained during the incident. However, upon receipt of the incident, men from the division were immediately drafted to the scene and recovered one AK47 rifle, one live ammunition, and 17 empty shells. The bodies of the slain policemen have also been deposited in the mortuary."
Meanwhile a friend of one of the slain officers took to Facebook to mourn his death.


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Techdirt Sues ICE for Records Relating to Seizures of Website Domains
Washington, D.C. (May 23, 2019) – Cause of Action Institute (CoA Institute) today, on behalf of Floor64 and Techdirt, a media outlet that reports on technology, filed a complaint against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seeking records responsive to a FOIA request regarding ICE's "Operation In Our Sites." The government failed to provide any responsive records to Techdirt's FOIA request – leaving them with no recourse but to sue the government.
Techdirt requested information about "Operation In Our Sites," after the agency issued a press release touting its efforts to work with "high-profile industry representatives and anti-counterfeiting associations" to seize 1 million website domains. There are general concerns the sites, while allegedly offered counterfeit or copyrighted material, were seized without due process, and that federal law enforcement agents relied on industry representatives to identify the alleged website domains – raising the concern of actual or the appearance of cronyism.
James Valvo, counsel and senior policy advisor at CoA Institute, issued the following statement:
"This lawsuit and its underlying issues are why transparency and FOIA are so important. One million website domains were seized in partnership with corporate industry representatives, and the public deserves to know which sites were seized, the process by which they were taken to ensure due process, and the level of involvement corporate interests had on targeting sites to ensure the process was free of cronyism. These answers could be cleared up quickly if the government had responded properly to our client's FOIA and produced responsive records."
Techdirt is a news site, operated by Michael Masnick and Floor64, that relies on a proven economic framework to analyze and offer insight into news stories about changes in government policy, technology, and legal issues that affect companies' ability to innovate and grow.
Michael Masnick, founder of Floor64 and editor of Techdirt, issued the following statement:
"At Techdirt, we've been following ICE's questionable website seizures, based solely on input from a few corporations, for years — including the fact that it has had to quietly return many of the domains it improperly seized. It is quite worrisome that after those past mistakes, ICE has now chosen to completely hide the ball and ignore lawful FOIA requests to avoid scrutiny of its process for censoring websites."
In November 2018, ICE issued a press release touting its enforcement efforts in "Operation In Our Sites," a global operation aiming to combat copyright-infringement, announcing the seizure of more than one million website domains through "combined efforts of law-enforcement agencies across the world, high-profile industry representatives and anti-counterfeiting associations."
In response, Mr. Masnick of Techdirt submitted a FOIA request to the agency seeking access to the information ICE advertised in their release: a list of the domains seized, court filings relating to the seized domains, and email communications with the high-profile industry representatives and anti-counterfeiting associations mentioned.
ICE issued a determination in February 2019, stating that it had found no responsive records to Techdirt's request. After a successful appeal, the FOIA request was remanded to the ICE FOIA Office, but the agency has failed to produce responsive records.
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S.I. No. 107 of 1981.
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Telex (Amendment) Regulations, 1981.
(2) The Telex Regulations, 1980 ( S.I. No. 197 of 1980 ), and these Regulations may be cited together as the Telex Regulations, 1980 and 1981.
2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1981.
The charge for a subscriber keyed call shall be the sum of 8.69p in respect of each period or part of a period of time specified in the Table to this part of this Schedule which is appropriate to the call and during which the call continues.
GIVEN under my Official Seal this 27th day of March, 1981.
( a ) to provide for a connection fee of £150 for new telex subscribers.
( b ) to reduce the period of notice of increased charges to be given to subscribers from 1 calendar month to 28 days.
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Sadia Ahmad - Aug 14
Fans found a photo of Meghan holding a Kate tabloid cover, and it's kind of awkward
How much do you think she's cringing right now?
Oh, the internet never lets you forget… and when it has receipts, well, it's sure to bring them sooner or later. And if you're royalty, there are some things you probably prefer remain buried in the archives – like posing with tabloids featuring your now-sister-in-law.
Fans of the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle couldn't help but chuckle (or cringe, you choose) when a now-deleted photo emerged on Instagram showing her posing with a tabloid featuring Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton on its cover. And just to make matters even more awkward, it featured the splashy, and now evidently false, headline 'Twins!'. The photo, which has surfaced on Twitter, is from circa 2014, with the headline possibly referencing the Duchess of Cambridge's second pregnancy (Princess Charlotte, as far as we know, is definitely one of a kind).
Surprisingly, it's not the first time Meghan's pre-royal life has made reference to her future in-laws. On her now defunct lifestyle blog, The Tig (RIP), Markle posted about the female propensity to fixate on royalty. "Little girls dream of being princesses…," she said, adding that "Grown women seem to retain this childhood fantasy." She went on to name Kate directly, commenting on the hype around what was to be only the second most buzzed-about wedding in recent times, saying "Just look at the pomp and circumstance surrounding the royal wedding and endless conversation about Princess Kate." Oh, little did she know…
At the time, Meghan, who was then living and working in Toronto as an actress and lifestyle influencer, was worlds away from the British monarchy. Who on earth would have guessed that merely two years later, she'd be dating Prince Harry of England, engaged by the following year, and then in 2018 would find herself front and centre of one of the most highly-anticipated royal celebrations? Not us. But she's since become one of the most recognisable and popular royals. In fact, these days she's more likely to find her own image on the front cover of a trashy tabloid than her sister-in-law's, such has her royal persona eclipsed the rest of the clan.
The Royals have a notoriously antagonistic relationship with the media, dating all the way back to the days of Princess Diana. Before Meghan was officially part of The Firm, Prince Harry took the unprecedented step of releasing a personal, and direct statement asking the press to respect the safety and privacy of his then-girlfriend. And in the time since, the media has wasted no time playing up rumours of a Meghan and Kate feud. So, if Kate does see this, we hope she'll forgive her fellow Duchess – she really had no idea. But we're guessing it's all water under the bridge by now.
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The week after an exploit that takes advantage of the way that iOS devices handle PDF files was announced, Apple has released a patch designed to fix the problem. The patch is included in iOS 4.3.4 for iPads and later-generation GSM iPhones and iPod touch devices; CDMA iPhone 4 users can install iOS 4.2.9. In either instance, the software update must be downloaded through iTunes; the download is a complete system image.
Apple's patched the latest vulnerability in iOS, releasing iOS 4.3.4 for iPads, GSM iPhone, and iPod touch players while CDMA iPhones are fixed in iOS 4.2.9; the updates can be downloaded through iTunes.
Last week, the Dev-Team hacking group released an update to its JailbreakMe.com site that used a flaw in the way that the Core Graphics functions of iOS handle PDF files; specifically, the FreeType subsystem was allowing buffer overflows when rendering TrueType fonts, and a signedness issue affected FreeType's rendering of Type 1 fonts. Although the JailbreakMe.com site was not installing a malicious payload, its method of subverting iOS was seen as a disturbing proof of concept.The iOS updates also include a fix for the queuing primitives of the IOMobileFrameBuffer, which were allowing code to execute when an invalid type conversion was triggered.
Apple required as much time to release this patch as it did last year, when addressing a related JailbreakMe.com exploit. It's unclear if that window between Day 0 of the exploit and its resolution is simply as small as one can expect, or if Apple's development resources are so committed to the forthcoming iOS 5 that security issues are taking a back seat for now.
In any event, I'm looking forward to iOS 5, if only for the promise of incremental updates to the mobile OS, rather than the current practice of requiring users to download the complete system image every time a new vulnerability is found.
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God wants us to be on Fire for Him. God wants us to have such a burning desire on the inside of our heart for Him like never before. God wants us to be on Fire so He can demonstrate His Power through you and I here in the Earth. You have to have a hunger for God. You have to have a hunger for the things of God. God wants that Fire to be in you and I just like it was with Jeremiah. Take back your zeal!


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Move Fast & Break Things
Paul Yock, Stanford University October 31, 2018 March 21, 2019
Mobile Health
A decade ago, a wave of companies promised to transform people's health by allowing them to track data about their eating, sleep, exercise, and other habits. One hot startup of that moment, Zeo, raised more than $30 million from investors to develop a headband that tracked users' sleep patterns and an accompanying app to serve as their personal "sleep coach." Despite devoted users and buzz about its product in publications like Wired and Popular Science, Zeo quietly went out of business a few years later.
Zeo is just one of many digital health startups whose early promise failed to materialize into lasting impact. Money continues to pour into the space–to the tune of nearly $12 billion in investment in 2017–but few companies have cracked the code for delivering technologies that truly transform healthcare. Why?
Many digital health companies fall short because they apply a strategy to healthcare that was developed and refined in the tech sector, an entirely different industry with its own set of rules.
Consumer technology startups often push quickly to get a minimum viable product to market and then iterate to improve that product based on what most resonates with consumers. Entrepreneurs and investors from the tech world mistakenly assume that this "lean startup" approach, which works well for products like photo-sharing tools and meal-delivery apps, should be equally successful for tackling any kind of problem. However, this strategy is ill-suited to healthcare, a much more complex and regulated industry…
Read the full article online at Fast Company.
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Founder & Director, Byers Center for Biodesign
Paul Yock is a cardiologist, health technology innovator, and professor of medicine and bioengineering at Stanford University. He is the Founder and Director of Stanford's Byers Center for Biodesign, a pioneering innovation training program dedicated to the design and development of medical technologies. He is also the Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine and Mechanical Engineering and Founding Co-Chair of Stanford's Department of Bioengineering. Paul is internationally known for his work in inventing, developing, and testing new devices and has co-founded several medical technology companies. In his academic career, he has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications, chapters and editorials, textbooks, and over 45 U.S. patents. Paul received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.


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I think you are referring to the Env Bert strat I have linked. Basically I agree. But you might have noticed that I already had added min power to pet #2, in order to exclude some of the substitutes. Though, I didn't wan't to do the same with the Blazehaound (pet #1), because I think the strat is doable also with a suboptimal breed. But maybe you are right and I should just exclude any non-P/P breeds.
"To fill our pool of beta and stress test participants, we'll be choosing dedicated players who meet select criteria from both the WoW Classic beta opt-in and the standard Warcraft beta opt-in. Participants will also need to have an active subscription or active game time on their Battle.net Account. While opting-in to the beta is the primary way to make sure you're in the running to join the test it doesn't guarantee an invitation to the closed beta test. We may also consider additional factors such as how long a player has been subscribed to the game so that we have the right mix of players to ensure great feedback toward making WoW Classic the very best experience for the community."
There are two parts of the quest chain for each continent. The first part involves defeating numerous Master Pet Tamers, and the second requires you to triumph over the Grand Master Tamer. After you've bested the Grand Master Tamer, dailies from each Tamer will unlock for that continent. All the dailies continue to reward experience for your companions, however only the Grand Master daily quest will reward the Sack of Pet Supplies.
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Zygor was the home planet of the Zygons. (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers) It was known to be warmer than Earth and covered in water, which was in the form of lakes with a different mineral composition than those of Earth. There were also no icecaps on the planet. Native lifeforms of Zygor included the unaltered Skarasen and the Zygons. (TV: Terror of the Zygons)
The Horde 12-20 (Barrens + Stonetalon Mountains) guide has been rewritten and revamped. In addition, there has been numerous tweaks to the speedrun route to make things faster and easier to follow. Also, in case you haven't noticed I am now adding about 40% more info per step and redoing all the images. Unlike with my previous vanilla guides, I am now giving a brief explanation of where to go and what to do with each step along with any other helpful tips.
Other methods have been discussed. For example, mods could be crippled. DBM didn't exist back then, and the other boss that did that I don't remember the name of, didn't do as much back then as DBM does now. If our goal is to recreate the experience as it was, then obviously not having DBM would be a reasonable way to accomplish that. DBM simply existing, makes the game today easier than it was. So disallow it. Again, this is completely consistent with the spirit of vanilla. Remember one-button-decursing? That was nerfed. They crippled the capabilities of the modding API to disallow that because it made the game too easy. So what if they cripple it a little bit more to once again make the game less easy?
":" - Any time a step ends in a ":" instead of a "." means that the next step is part of the current step you are on. This generally means the next step should be done while working on the current step. This means every "start working on" or "continue working on" will end in a ":". But this is used with other occasions as well, so keep this in mind.
In the Duelist Kingdom tournament, Bonz, Sid and Zygor met Bandit Keith, who agreed to coach them through the tournament, so all four of them would advance to Pegasus Castle. Keith wanted revenge against Maximillion Pegasus for humiliating him in the final match of the Intercontinental Championship. While helping them win Duels the first day of the tournament, Keith secretly intends to use them for their Star Chips. When Keith finds out about Yugi Muto, Joey Wheeler, and the rest of the gang, he plans to get in their way and eliminate them.
Swim Speed Potions (used especially at lvl 37 for Faldir's Cove in Arathi Highlands and lvl 57 in WPL). Try to get multiple stacks of these. I also recommend keeping a stack of these always in your bags. You will frequently pass rivers and lakes and can use these potions to pass them faster through out the guide. Please note that these potions do not stack with Druid's Aquatic Form and Glyph of Aquatic Form.
WoW: Classic is scheduled for August 27 (technically August 26 if you're in the Americas). The soonest that you can play it is starting in May, during Blizzard's scheduled stress tests. To opt-in you must have an active subscription on your Battle.net account. If you do, go to Account Management and select the Wow Classic beta. Keep in mind, there will be level caps during the test. The schedule is as follows:
Within the context of Classic, the method most frequently proposed is to re-tune bosses to make them harder. Rather than copying the numbers, re-create the relative difficulty. Kind of like, when you first start working out, you use small weights. When you get stronger, you lift bigger weights. The WoW community is more knowledgeable, more experienced, has better hardware, etc. We're "stronger." So give us tougher bosses. There are a lot of forms that could take. Bosses were constantly re-tuned during vanilla anyway, so if Ragnaros does 10% more damage or something, is that really a problem? I don't think it is. What about resistance gear? back in the day, collecting resist gear was a thing people did. But the numbers and strategies are so well known today that only the tank really needs it anymore. Bosses could be re-tuned with more resistible elemental damage so that's important for entire raids to gear appropriately. That would be entirely keeping with the spirit of vanilla even if the actually numbers sitting in a database somewhere were different than they were ~13 years ago. If you want to go a little farther, a few people have proposed adding new abilities to old bosses, adjusting their timing, etc.
Along with revealing the WoW Classic release date, Blizzard also listed plans for both a beta and stress test of the game. Players who opt-in for the testing on their account manager page and have an active subscription will be randomly selected for the beta starting May 15. Then the developer will have three stress tests where players can log in to play the game for a short period of time on the following dates:
Most people come here not to read walls of text, they look for the better-rated strategies that match their pet collections, copy&paste stuff they need to import into their addons and only come back if something goes horribly wrong and then mostly to find help in other peoples' comments who also struggled or to find a different team/strategy: I don't think many people wanna read about stuff that already happened to them, they mostly want to see solutions and it's the best way to have them in a well-optimized strategy&team already.
Who is Joana? Joana, (AKA Mancow, or FuriousPaul) speedran 1-60 vanilla WoW from 2005 - 2007. I have been server first to level 60 seven times in a row, along with winning Blizzard's "First to level 50" contest they held back in 2006. I also have the fastest time through original vanilla 1-60 WoW in 4 days 20 hours. I have produced a very useful 1-60 horde speed leveling guide along with a 1-60 speedrun video.
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Blizzard has given us a pile of new information on World of Warcraft Classic, including the fact that it'll finally release this August. But you won't have to wait quite that long to start playing for yourself – the WoW Classic beta goes live tomorrow, May 15. This is a closed beta, and Blizzard says it's pretty limited in scope, but there will be more chances to play heading into the WoW Classic release date.
Workaround as a player is simply to skip forward past that step in the guide, at which point it has steps for the other quests. I'm still on Bleakrock as that character, so I don't know if a duplicate "begin the evacuation" step exists after you've found all the missing people. In either case, just don't talk to Captain Rana about evacuating until you've completed all the other main/sidequests on Bleakrock, which are listed at the UESP link above.
Combat is turn-based and there is no time limit on each round in a PVE Pet Battle. You can take your time to determine which spell to use next. Some pet abilities have multiple round cooldowns, while others can do extra damage if certain conditions are met. Be creative and have fun testing which combination of attacks works best against different wild pets!
Earlier this week, Blizzard finally announced a release date for World of Warcraft Classic, a barebones re-release of World of Warcraft long before it was filled with countless expansions. WoW Classic promises a pure, vanilla experience, one that a portion of the World of Warcraft playerbase has been chasing through unsanctioned vanilla servers stripped of various expansions. The game releases on August 27, which, while still a few months away, is still somewhat exciting, seeing as now most fans have an actual date to look forward to.


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Scarlet Diva, Scarlet Empress: Catherine Breillat's "The Last Mistress"
July 17, 2008 at 8:28 pm by Cheryluce
by Cheryluce
July 17, 2008 August 26, 2008 Filed under:
A sulfurous, sexual period piece, Catherine Breillat's "The Last Mistress" (Une vieille maîtresse) is, at first glance, both her most accessible and most carnal movie. An explicit, tempestuous variation on common costume drama, this adaptation of a nineteenth–century novel plays out as a luscious melodramatic essay. A ten-year obsession for Breillat becomes an enveloping melodramatic essay on yearning. Unfolding during the reign of "citizen king" Louis Phillppe, the story details the marriage of aristocrat Ryno de Marigny (an angelic Fu-ad Aît Aattou) to Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida, from "Fat Girl"), a virginal young woman of the same class. Yet Ryno is still in thrall to his older lover of a decade, the flamenca La Vellini (Asia Argento). The temperature is substantially more humid than in "Dangerous Liaisons" or its variants like "Cruel Intentions." Argento's feral presence is a lively embodiment of one of Breillat's fixations: how women struggle against the place they are offered in society, as well as battle for the status they desire, with diversions into jealousy, lust, hate, passion. Her increasingly familiar force of perverse nature is well suited to Breillat's idées fixe about the weft and warpage of obsession, creating an atmosphere that despite the setting and the eye-filling plumage proceeds with contemporary force. The result is daring, delirious and ultimately affecting: the psychosexual battleground is eternal. People had sex then, and have sex now, and talk about it, dressed and dishabille.
"The story could only take place in an aristocratic environment," Breillat wrote in a director's note in a Rohmeresque vein. "When struggling to survive, feeding a family and finding a room for shelter, there is no time for the leisure of romance. Not enough time to experience the pureness. Sentiment can only be expressed in a certain level of comfort where it is not tainted by the harsh realities of life. The way many great authors of that era expressed strong feeling in such idealistic settings has always fascinated me. Aristocracy simply lends itself to the refinery of sentiments."
Several years ago, while preparing "The Last Mistress," her twelfth feature, Breillat, at 55, suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. She's doing better four years later, preparing a new movie starring Naomi Campbell. We get rid of the notion of the "period piece" straightaway. "As you know, Shakespeare is modern, the classical dramas, and Racine and Corneille and all these antiques, they all deal with contemporary issues, they're all extremely contemporary," she explains methodically. "There's no such thing, really, as a costume drama, nothing is ever a costume drama. Or, rather, everything is a costume drama. If we watch a film from the 1950s, we can have the feeling that in terms of emotions, at least, it's utterly contemporary. The sentiments are contemporary. There's no question. I've always tried to make films [that are] are timeless."
Like the Coen brothers with their "near-period pieces," where "today" can't accidentally slip in. "I agree with them completely. I've always said that things that are fashionable will go out of fashion quickly. And I deal with things that are timeless. Emotions, elements that date back to years ago, already have a classical character. Look at the example, the film noir American. In 'The Last Mistress,' the characters' costumes are such where the sort you would have seen in the 1940s and 1950s, those dresses would not have been out of place in a detective film. But in terms of vamps, the model that inspired me most specifically was Marlene Dietrich."
An inauthentic figure who's utterly timeless, completely constructed yet a figure outside of time. "Utterly modern! You're absolutely right about Marlene Dietrich being completely timeless. Here I was making a film in flamenco fashion inspired by a Spanish woman, and to me the most beautiful Spanish woman you'll ever see on screen is Marlene Dietrich in 'The Devil is a Woman.' There she is, a platinum blonde German, and she's just fantastic. But it just goes to show that fantasy remains fantasy, that a phantasm is powerful, and in the film, she is a projection of your fantasy."
"I'm not going to say I'm despotic on set, but I would say people enter a state of hypnosis," Breillat tells me a little later. "I possess them as a director. I possess them body and soul in such a way that they apply their talents, they devote their talents for the good of the film. I'm an artisan, I observe everything on the film, setting the framing, citing the set design, choosing the actors, of course, and the costumes. In the same way, I appropriate the actors. In fact, the actors aren't actors. They haven't been actors before my films. It's I who make them into actors. I see myself like a painter, who mixes, who crushes their own paints, rather than buying paints that are already in a tube. To me a professional actor is a tube that's already been used. [My cinematographer] Yorgos Arvanitis is my paintbrush and the canvas is my film."
"The Last Mistress" opens Friday at Landmark Century.
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Левицька Олександра Миколаївна (в заміж. Амфітеатрова; 2 [14] січня 1858 — 24 квітня 1947 Москва] — артистка опери (меццо-сопрано) і педагог, мемуарист.

Народилася в сім'ї майора. У 1874—1880 рр. навчалася співу в Московській консерваторії (клас О. Александрової-Кочетової).

Виступала на оперних сценах в 1880—1883 і 1884—1885 рр. в Києві, в 1883—1884 рр. в Харкові, в 1886—1887 рр. в Тифлісі.

Була першою виконавицею партій Ольги («Євгеній Онєгін», в учнівському спектаклі Московської консерваторії) і Одарки («Ніч перед Різдвом»). Кращі партії: Ваня («Життя за царя» М. Глінки), Ратмір («Руслан і Людмила»), Княгиня («Русалка» А. Даргомижського), Ізяслав, Зибель. Партнерами її були: В. Зарудна, М. Медведєв, Е. Ряднов, Й. Тартаков. Мистецтво співачки високо цінували П. Чайковський, М. Іпполітов-Іванов, М. Кашкін, М. Лисенко.

З 1885 року вела педагогічну діяльність.
Перша дружина О. В. Амфітеатрова.

З 1897 року викладала в Музичному училищі в Одесі, брала участь в організації «Народної аудиторії». З 1901 року викладала в Москві, де разом з Софією Рубінштейн брала участь у створенні «Народної консерваторії», що існувала в 1906—1916 рр.

Після 1917 року викладала спів і дикцію в ряді московських шкіл і студій; з 1923 року викладала в Державних експериментальних театральних майстернях.

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Q&A's are the perfect opportunity for welcoming observations and clarifying people's confusion about a certain idea. This opens the floor for deeper audience involvement, although a tough question could sneak through and ruin a stellar performance.
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The main part of the speech is not the right time to field questions. If audience members attempt to sidetrack you while speaking, inform them politely that there will be time allotted at the end to address their concerns.
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Levassor Type X14 20CV Torpedo by Vanvooren
Panhard Levassor Type X14 20CV Torpedo by Vanvooren
Panhard is a French manufacturer of light tactical and military vehicles. Its current incarnation, now owned by Renault Trucks Defense, was formed by the acquisition of Panhard by Auverland in 2005. Panhard had been under Citroën ownership, then PSA (Peugeot société anonyme) after the 1974 takeover of Citroën by Peugeot, for 40 years. The combined company now uses the Panhard name; this was decided based on studies indicating that the Panhard name had better brand recognition worldwide than the Auverland name. Panhard once built innovative civilian cars but ceased production of those in 1968. Many of its military products however end up on the civilian market via third sources and as military/government surplus vehicles. Panhard also built railbuses between the wars.
Panhard was originally called Panhard et Levassor, and was established as a car manufacturing concern by René Panhard and Émile Levassor in 1887.
Panhard et Levassor sold their first automobile in 1890, based on a Daimler engine license. Levassor obtained his licence from Paris lawyer Edouard Sarazin, a friend and representative of Gottlieb Daimler's interests in France. Following Sarazin's 1887 death, Daimler commissioned Sarazin's widow Louise to carry on her late husband's agency. The Panhard et Levassor license was finalised by Louise, who married Levassor in 1890. Daimler and Levassor became fast friends, and shared improvements with one another.
These first vehicles set many modern standards, but each was a one-off design. They used a clutch pedal to operate a chain-driven gearbox. The vehicle also featured a front-mounted radiator. An 1895 Panhard et Levassor is credited with the first modern transmission. For the 1894 Paris–Rouen Rally, Alfred Vacheron equipped his 4 horsepower (3.0 kW; 4.1 PS) with a steering wheel, believed to be one of the earliest employments of the principle.
In 1891, the company built its first all-Levassor design, a "state of the art" model: the Système Panhard consisted of four wheels, a front-mounted engine with rear wheel drive, and a crude sliding-gear transmission, sold at 3500 francs. This was to become the standard layout for automobiles for most of the next century. The same year, Panhard et Levassor shared their Daimler engine license with bicycle maker Armand Peugeot, who formed his own car company.
In 1895, 1,205 cc Panhard et Levassor vehicles finished first and second in the Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race, one piloted solo by Levassor, for 48¾hr. However, during the 1896 Paris–Marseille–Paris race, Levassor was fatally injured due to a crash while trying to avoid hitting a dog, and died in Paris the following year. Arthur Krebs succeeded Levassor as General Manager in 1897, and held the job until 1916. He turned the Panhard et Levassor Company into one of the largest and most profitable manufacturers of automobiles before World War I.
After Emile Levassor's death in 1897, René Panhard re-organised his company as a joint stock corporation to attract wealthy investors, while Commandant Arthur Constantin Krebs succeeded Levassor as technical and production manager. Krebs began work by designing a series of four-cylinder engines with nominal power outputs ranging from 8CV to 20CV. His Paris-Amsterdam racer of 1898 featured a tilted (as opposed to vertical) steering column and this innovation was soon carried over to the production cars. Racing developments continued to influence the production Panhards, which soon featured front-mounted radiators, first seen on the Paris-Bordeaux racer of 1899. Battery/coil ignition and Krebs' own diaphragm carburettor were features of Panhard et Levassor engines by the end of 1901, and during that year he introduced the first power units, known as the Centaure family, to depart from the original Daimler design.
Krebs pressed ahead with developing his new Centaure engines, and in 1902 adopted individual cylinders instead of the previous cast-in-pairs arrangement. A five-bearing crankshaft and three valves per cylinder were advanced features of the Centaure Leger (Lightweight) unit. The Centaure range soon expanded to incorporate three-cylinder engines alongside the existing parallel twins and fours, an early example of modular construction. For 1903 Krebs introduced the Centaure S family of T-head fours with magneto ignition, which ranged in size from a 2.4-litre 10CV up to a 5.3-litre 23CV.
Panhards won numerous races from 1895 to 1903. Panhard et Levassor developed the Panhard rod, which came to be used in many other types of automobiles as well.
Panhard held a special place amongst the earliest makes of cars. It was at the forefront of designing a " modern " car, with a layout of mechanical components that went on to become the norm. The marque was always on the look out for the latest innovations, and in 1909 Panhard became interested in Charles Knight's development of an engine where the conventional valves had been replaced with sleeve valves. Impressed by the silent and smooth running of this system, Panhard bought the licence and started to develop its own " valveless " engines. The first chassis to benefit was the Type X7, presented at the 1910 Motor Show, and from that date on, this engine was fitted to the marque's high-end models for many years. The Type 14 was one such model, equipped in 1911 with a four-cylinder 4 398cc valveless engine that also had a better braking system than the X7.
From 1910 Panhard worked to develop engines without conventional valves, using under license the sleeve valve technology that had been patented by the American Charles Yale Knight. Between 1910 and 1924 the Panhard & Levassor catalogue listed plenty of models with conventional valve engines, but these were offered alongside cars powered by sleeve valve power units. Following various detailed improvements to the sleeve valve technology by Panhard's own engineering department, from 1924 till 1940 all Panhard cars used sleeve valve engines.
Under the presidency of Raymond Poincaré, which ran from 1913 till 1920, Panhard & Levassor's 18CV and 20CV models were the official presidential cars.
Following the outbreak of peace in 1918, Panhard resumed passenger car production in March 1919 with the 10HP Panhard Type X19 which used a 4-cylinder 2,140cc engine.[7] This was followed three months later by three more 4-cylinder models which will have been familiar to any customers whose memories pre-dated the war, but they now incorporated ungraded electrics and a number of other modifications.[7] For the 15th Paris Motor Show, in October 1919, Panhard were displaying four models, all with four cylinder engines, as follows:[7]
By 1925, all Panhard's cars were powered by Knight sleeve valve engines that used steel sleeves. The steel sleeves were thinner and lighter than the cast iron ones that had been fitted in Panhard sleeve valve engines since 1910, and this already gave rise to an improved friction coefficient permitting engines to run at higher speeds. To reduce further the risk of engines jamming, the outer sleeves, which are less thermally stressed than the inner sleeves, were coated on their inner sides with an anti-friction material, employing a patented technique with which Panhard engineers had been working since 1923. This was one of several improvements applied by Panhard engineers to the basic Knight sleeve-valve engine concept.
In 1925 a 4.8 litre (292ci) model set the world record for the fastest hour run, an average of 185.51 km/h (115.26 mph).
A surprise appeared on the Panhard stand at the 20th Paris Motor Show in October 1926, in the shape of the manufacturer's first six-cylinder model since before the war. The new Panhard 16CV "Six" came with a 3445cc engine and sat on a 3540 mm wheelbase. At the show it was priced, in bare chassis form, at 58,000 francs. Of the nine models displayed for the 1927 model year, seven featured four cylinder engines, ranging in capacity from 1480cc (10CV) to 4845cc (20CV), and in price from 31,000 francs to 75,000 francs (all in bare chassis form). Also on show was an example of the 8-cylinder 6350cc (35CV) "Huit" model which Panhard had offered since 1921 and which at the 1926 show was priced by the manufacturer in bare chassis form at 99,000 francs.
When Panhard presented their 1931 line-up at the Paris Motor Show in October 1930, their last two four cylinder models had been withdrawn, along with the 10CV 6-cylider Type X59. Instead they concentrated on their "S-series" cars, designated "Panhard CS" and "Panhard DS" according to engine size, and introduced a year earlier. Publicity of the time indicated the "S" stood for "Voitures surbaissées" (cars having an "underslung" chassis,) but, clearly captivated by the power of alliteration, added that "S" also indicated cars that were "...souples, supérieures, stables, spacieuses, silencieuses, sans soupapes (ie using valveless cylinders)...". Four of the five Panhards exhibited featured increasingly lavish and pricey 6-cylinder engined cars, their engine sizes ranging from 2.35-litres to 3.5-litres. There was also an 8-cylinder 5.1-litre Panhard Type X67 on display, with a generous 3,590 mm (141.3 in) wheelbase and listed, even in bare chassis form, at 85,000 francs.
Panhard et Levassor's last pre-war car was the unusually styled monocoque Dynamic series, first introduced in 1936.
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Q: Why cant I call the method in protocol which uses swift Generics? I know the title of the question is not correct for the question. But I could not come up with better title, Ill modify if somebody suggests a better title.
Here is the question:
I have a protocol,
import Foundation

protocol MyFilter {
    var currentlySelected : Bool { get set }
    func configure<T> (filterInfo : T) where T: MyGenericDataModel
}

This asks all the confirming classes to declare a variable named currentlySelected and also expects to write a method that takes a single parameter that confirms to MyGenericDataModel protocol.
MyGenericDataModel looks like,
import Foundation

protocol MyGenericDataModel {
    init(data : JSON)
}

There are multiple classes that confirms to MyGenericDataModel. Like,
struct MyDataModel1 : MyGenericDataModel {
    var id : String? = nil
    //other properties

    init(data : JSON) {
    }
}

struct MyDataModel2 : MyGenericDataModel {
    var id : String? = nil
    //other properties

    init(data : JSON) {
    }
}

and so on.
Now I get the array of data which can be any of the custom data model. So I declared a array of objects which confirms to MyGenericDataModel protocol.
var passedDataSource: Array< MyGenericDataModel>? = nil

Now I need to call the method of MyFilter,
let filterInfo = passedDataSource![indexPath.row]
abcd.configure(filterInfo: filterInfoToPass)

Where abcd obviously confirms to MyFilter thats why I can call configure on it.
Issue
Xcode gives compilation error saying,

Can not invoke 'configure' with an argument list of type '(filterInfo:
  MyGenericDataModel)

EDIT:
As per luk2302's comment, I am posting the implementation details of class of abcd :)
class MyCellClass: UICollectionViewCell, MyFilter{
    var currentlySelected : Bool = false
    func configure<T>(filterInfo: T) where T : MyGenericDataModel {
       //use filter info
       //perform some UI operations to update cell UI
    }
}

Please help. Thanks in advance.