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Q: Clean up chain of dependent calls How to make cleaner such code:
def some_public_method(arg)
  var1 = private_method(arg)
  var2 = private_method1(var1) if var1
  var3 = private_method2(var2) if var2
  var4 = private_method3(var3) if var3
  private_method4(var4) if var4
end

UPDATE: sorry, forgot to change method names

A: This is one way you could do it.
Code
def some_public_method(private_methods, arg)
  private_methods.reduce(arg) { |x,m| x && send(m, x) }
end

private

def pm1(arg); arg+1; end
def pm2(arg); arg+2; end
def pm3(arg); arg+3; end

Examples
private_methods = [:pm1, :pm2, :pm3]

some_public_method(private_methods, 0) #=> 6

def pm2(arg); nil; end
some_public_method(private_methods, 0) #=> nil

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NEWTON, Mass. & PETACH TIKVA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in privileged access management, today announced that it will webcast its presentation at the upcoming virtual conference:
Needham Virtual Security, Networking, and Communications Conference
9:30 a.m. ET
The presentation will be webcast, and an archive of the presentation will be available for a limited time under the "Events & Presentations" section on the company's investor relations website (http://investors.cyberark.com/).
About CyberArk
CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR) is the global leader in privileged access management, a critical layer of IT security to protect data, infrastructure and assets across cloud and hybrid environments, and throughout the DevOps pipeline. CyberArk delivers the industry's most complete solution to reduce risk created by privileged credentials and secrets. The company is trusted by the world's leading organizations, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500, to protect against external attackers and malicious insiders. A global company, CyberArk is headquartered in Petach Tikva, Israel, with U.S. headquarters located in Newton, Mass. The company also has offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Japan. To learn more about CyberArk, visit www.cyberark.com, read the CyberArk blogs or follow on Twitter via @CyberArk, LinkedIn or Facebook.
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Flatbush outscored SAR 24-7 in the second half to notch the Varsity Boys basketball team's first victory of the 2014-15 season. Balanced scoring, solid rebounding and dominant backcourt pressure keyed the Falcons victory on the road Monday night in Riverdale, NY.
On the heels of an opening season loss that showed only that this team could run a stifling press, there was major concern about where points would come from. For the second time, the offense was slow to start, and it began to look again like the lion's share of the scoring would come from Bobby Soffer, who tallied all 7 of the team's 1st quarter points. To compound things, SAR reeled off 13 points to 2 from Flatbush to start the 2nd quarter, building a 20-9 lead that had the Falcons back on their heels and on the verge of getting blown out.
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Then, the defense took over. The press began to take its toll on the Sting players. Frustration and fatigue set in, and SAR could generate only 4 points of offense in the 3rd period. David Dayan, seeing his first action of the season, dominated the defensive paint, blocking 3 shots and hauling in 6 rebounds. Allan Maleh and Ray Braha combined for 9 points at the other end, and the Falcons took a 6 point lead entering the final period.
The Falcon defense was even stingier in period four, yielding a total of 3 points behind the interior play of Senior Mayer Kamkhatchi and the tenacity of Junior Elliot Beyda anchoring the press. The offense continued to flow, with Senior Sam Silverman breaking out for 5 points, leading the Falcons as they coasted the rest of the way to the 14-point victory.
Eli Cattan led the Flatbush scoring attack with 8 points on the night. Allan Maleh and Bobby Soffer finished with 7 points each. Sam Silverman added 5 in the winning effort. David Dayan led all rebounders with 8. Soffer collected 6 steals. Flatbush was 18-27 from the free throw line, a marked improvement from the opening night effort a week ago.
After the Rosh Hashannah break, the Falcons Varsity will return to action on Thursday, 10/2, in the second game of a JV/V doubleheader at JEC in Elizabeth, NJ with the JV scheduled for a 7:15 pm tip-off. The JV Boys open their 2014-15 campaign on Tuesday, 9/30, at DRS in Cedarhurst, LI. Game time is 7:30 pm.
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Demo in solidarity with cleaners
Members of North London SF demonstrated alongside other militants outside the head offices of London & Regional Properties, owners of Berns Salonger, a company that treats the cleaners it employs with intolerable conditions. The background information provided is borrowed from the Commune website.
For months the Swedish Workers Central Organisation (SAC) union in Sweden has been locked in a confrontation with the Nightclub "Berns". Berns have a notorious record for mistreating cleaning staff, which it has avoided responsibility for through subcontractors. Cleaning staff work inhumane hours, sometimes up to 22 hours a day 7 days a week, sleeping on cardboard boxes in the workplace. With the main Swedish union LO, unwilling to organise these paperless workers, SAC have organised the cleaners of the nightclub, campaigned for better conditions, higher pay, less hours, and above all, dignity for the staff. The result of each struggle (won by blockades of the night club) has been that Berns bosses have moved the cleaners form one staffing company to another.
The cleaning staff have worked now for seven years and for three different companies. All the time, conditions have been criminal. The SAC have argued that Berns has a responsibility for these people, from Bolivia, Peru, Mongolia and Chile, since they have moved them from one staffing company to another only to avoid responsibility for their exploitation. Now the employing company NCA (sub-contractor for Berns) has fired all the cleaners at Berns' nightclub due to "economic problems". Berns still needs cleaning. Berns has attempted to look respectable by saying it would hire back some of the staff directly, and offered them continued work, however all the union-organised cleaners have been left out. This is good old fashioned union busting.
After months of blockading, the cracks are starting to show. Booked DJs and Artists have refused to play at Berns, forcing them to cancel events. An outrageous media offensive has labeled the SAC a mafia for having 'pressured' the business.
This demo was called by Cleaners' Defence Committee, established earlier this year to organise solidarity with migrant cleaners at UBS bank in the City of London. For more details, email cleanersdefencecommittee@gmail.com.
The protest is also supported by the Latin American Workers' Association; Colombia Solidarity Campaign; Hands Off My Workmate; Industrial Workers of the World; Solidarity Federation; The Commune, National Shop Stewards Network and 0543 RMT Finsbury Park Branch.
This article was published on 14 September 2010 by the SolFed group in North London. Other recent articles:
Informacion para ciudadanos EEA en el Reino Unido -Information for EU citizens (in Spanish) (posted 9. July)
Informacion para ciudadanos EEA en el Reino Unido -Information for EU citizens (in Spanish) (posted 27. June)
Library occupied by the community in Lambeth, eviction notice served today (posted 5. April)
Solidarity with Abahlali baseMjondolo against killing of their members (posted 18. November)
"London – a migrant's guide" - a new pamphlet by Solidarity Federation (posted 24. October)
Strike in the city from Catalyst
London cleaners strike - and win from Catalyst
Contract cleaners fight poverty pay from Catalyst
Stuff Your Boss! from Brighton


SECCON 2014 took place last weekend and again part of my CTF was able to participate. For this most part I felt this was a well run CTF. The biggest issue I noticed was with the web challenges. There were issues with required DLL's and the like that caused a lot of conversation in the IRC channel. I didnt work on any of those challenges so I cant speak to it first hand. But there was a nice mix of challenges even QR challenges.
Here are the notes for some of the challenges I solved.
Pulled out the extended ASCII chart to decrypt. This was a mix of dec hex and oct.


I first came across blog carnivals back in 2007 doing an 'internship' with controversial internet business builder, James Brausch.
At that stage it was one of the first tasks in his business system. James' business was amazingly run on hard-nosed metrics, and if a task didn't measure up it was quickly scrapped. So I knew this was a worthwhile task.
A blog carnival is where one blog owner asks other bloggers to submit their posts on a particular topic. Different blogs have slightly different rules, but usually the best of the posts are then compiled into a list and published on the blog as a 'carnival'.
It's like a 'best-of' list of the current blog posts on a given topic.
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The best thing about being in a blog carnival is, unlike almost every other traffic or SEO technique, exceptional content is rewarded.
Well-written, unique posts with a good headline are more likely to be accepted into a carnival, and attract more visitors.
So make sure to only submit your best stuff.
Blogs can run their own carnivals, but to make it easier for others to find their carnival most of them end up listing at BlogCarnival dot com.
You can submit your blog posts on the site. It has all the instructions.
Simply select a relevant carnival, put in your post's details, your name and email address (might be worth using a secondary email address), any categories for the carnival, remarks, and then the Captcha for your submission.
It's often worth adding some remarks to make people curious to read your post, and give a bit more content to make your listing stand out in the carnival.
Back in 2007 when I did this task it was very monotonous and time-consuming, and since they have added Captcha for each individual submission, it takes even longer.
On my small business blog I published a review of Robert Kiyosaki's 2009 book Conspiracy of the Rich.
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'House Of Cards' Season 5 Cancelation Update: Beau Willimon Abandons Show; Donald Trump Reason Behind Cancelation Talks?
By Donna Marie Lapena Padua , Dec 17, 2016 01:11 PM EST
"House of Cards" season 5 is an installment that is much anticipated by Netflix subscribers as it features an interesting plot revolving around the U.S. political environment. However, there are rumors swirling around claiming that the series is already canceled as Beau Willimon is reportedly fleeing the show to join an opposition group against President Donald Trump.
The Truth Behind Beau Willimon's Exit
The victory of Trump in the 2016 presidential race is continuously creating madness among the U.S. citizens. Hollywood personalities are not exemptions to this with some even leading opposition groups against the current president. Among the prominent personalities rumored to despise the current administration is "House of Cards" former creator, Willimon.
In November, it can be recalled that Willimon tweeted about his stand against the president saying that the citizens should prevent Trump from destroying the nation. This has caused a lot of fans to worry about the future of his political drama as numerous cancelation rumors then started to surface. Cast updates, however, have debunked the speculations and yet again new talks are saying that Willimon will already leave the show.
Willimon stepped down as creator and showrunner of the "House of Cards" series in January along with the announcement of Netflix about the show's renewal for its fifth season. The creator reportedly will focus on writing an original series which is why he has to give up his post as a showrunner. Willimon had been in the shadow of the fourth season though until it ended in March. Recent reports then about his exit are quite distorted as the former creator has departed the critically acclaimed series for almost a year now.
"House Of Cards" Season 5 Canceled?
Netflix is keeping mum about speculations that the hit political drama is already canceled. The rumors might have started due to the slow progress of the show as 2017 is already about to enter yet there are no clear updates so far about the show.
There are new talks coming out still involving Willimon with "House of Cards." His supposed decision to join an opposition group against Trump is speculated to cause the series to be axed. Yet this might be pure speculation since Netflix has already invested in the fifth season of "House of Cards," even assigning Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese as its new showrunners.
Fans of Frank Underwood may then rest their worries as "House of Cards" season 5 is still far from being canceled.
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'House Of Cards' Season 5 Updates: Patricia Clarkson's Character To Challenge Claire Underwood; New Season To Feature Donald Trump
"House of Cards" season 5 has been more controversial than ever, following President Donald Trump's recent electoral victory. Latest rumors suggest that a new character inspired by Trump will appear in the new season and it is expected that Frank and the former will compete for the presidential seat.
'House Of Cards' Season 5 Updates: Frank's Rumored Death To Lead The Show Into Spinoff; Doug To Save Frank From Death?
The latest "House of Cards" season 5 rumors suggest that the series would end with the upcoming season. Yet there might be a spinoff which will be starred by Robin Wright's Claire Underwood. Also, with the talks saying Frank will meet his demise on the fifth season, reports have it that his loyal servant, Doug Stamper, might be the president's rescue from death.
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Following Donald Trump's electoral victory, rumors are rife that the plotline of Netflix's political drama, "House of Cards," will be affected. Since creator Beau Willimon fiercely reacted on the election results, fans are thinking how the creator will twist the story so he can reflect his disgust through the show.
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Gareth with his "Jewel Net of Indra" installation. Photo: Saglara Kitchikova. 2012.
2011 was a great year! Highlights included my installation "Jewel Net of Indra" for Come Up To My Room at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, and my solo exhibition "Floating World" at Loop Gallery, Toronto and a public library gallery in Montreal. For the whole year I've been working as Festival Curator getting organized for the 2012 World of Threads Festival. In 2011, with Dawne Rudman, I published a total of 45 "Weekly Fibre Artist Interviews".
In May I went on a trip to London, England and had a fabulous time. This year I taught three courses at Central Technical School's night school, Abstract Painting, History of Modern Art and Paint the City. I've also continued my film project from last year "52 Films in 52 Weeks." At the bottom of the newsletter is what's coming in 2012.
Photo: Agata and Lucas Piskunowicz, 2012.
Jan 27 - 29, 2012 I showed my installation at the Gladstone Hotel for Come Up To My Room 2012. The event was really successful. This was my main project for 2011. I'm very proud of this installation because I was able to grow as an artist from a technical point of view and conceptually. The process was very challenging and enjoyable as I painted and listened to "The Great Courses" dvd series at the same time.
Jewel Net of Indra installation is a cosmology representing the interconnectedness of humanity. It is based on a Mahayana Buddhist metaphor of an infinite net of jewels, each representing an individual. Every jewel is a reflection of all others. It was a wall installation with one thousand acrylic mirrored discs. Three hundred and twenty-five mirrors contained hand-painted miniature portraits of iconic individuals. In 2012 I'm expanding the piece to 2000 portraits.
For this work I was interviewed for the Toronto Standard and featured on the CBC, Radio Canada, Toronto Life, View on Canadian Art, Torontoist, Fashion Magazine, Moco loco, and Display Design Magazine. The installation received a Designlines "Love Tag" marking the top 100 from Toronto Design Week.
My "Floating World" painting series was an existential response to the horrors of the Japanese Tsunami. It was exhibited first at Loop Gallery, an artist Co-op in Toronto where I became a member. I showed from June 25 - July 17.
I had the opportunity this January to remount "Floating World" in Montreal.
World of Threads Festival Logo, Gareth Bate Design, 2009.
I'm currently working as the Festival Curator along with Dawne Rudman on the 2012 World of Threads Festival. We are expanding into Toronto and also remaining in Oakville where the festival began. The next festival is Nov 9 - 25, 2012. In 2012 I will be curating five "Common Thread International" exhibitions at various galleries in Oakville.
Every week for the last year, along with Dawne Rudman, I've published a new "Weekly Fibre Artist Interview". For 45 weeks we have been profiling local, national and international fibre artists. The aim is create a comprehensive archive of the most exhiting fibre artists in the world.
Cumulanibus 2011 #1, Gareth Bate, photo.North Lake, Prince Edward Island.
I've been working on this photography series for 5 years now. Every August I stay at North Lake, Prince Edward Island and photograph the shifting skies over the lake in every weather condition. Every photograph is the exact same scene with radically different skies. I'm amazed by how different each year has been.
Pearson International Airport, Airspace Gallery, Terminal 1, "Weather,": I exhibited a triptych from my "Moments" series of paintings.
Gallery 1313, "Courvoisier Collective Gallery Award Winners Exhibition": I exhibited a graphic photomontage piece called "The Factory" a commentary about Toronto's G20 police force which was based on the iconic photo by Richard Avedon called "Any Warhol and The Members of the Factory."
Video: Part 1 of the Up Series: 7 Up.
Video: Trailer for The Tree of Life.
Last year I started a project to watch 52 films in 52 weeks. This year I focused primarily on documentaries. Overall my favourite was The Up Series which follows a group of British seven year olds. It revisits them every seven years for their entire lives. I've also discovered the amazing dvd series The Great Courses university lectures on a huge variety of topics. I loved the films Tree of Life by Terance Mallick and the classic All About Eve.
The Up Series: 7 Up to 49 Up, Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, How Art Made The World, The Power of Art, The Genius of Charles Darwin, Hoop Dreams, Encounters at the End of The World, A History of Britain, The Atheism Tapes, Brother's Keeper, The Thin Blue Line, Spellbound, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Art21 Season 5.
The Great Courses: The Meaning of Life, Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective, Science and Religion, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age.
The Tree of Life, All About Eve, Doubt, Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express, The Tudors: Seasons 1-4.
In May I took my first trip across the Atlantic in nearly 12 years! I loved London and saw a ridiculous amount of art. For much of the trip we rode around on buses all over the city.
Seurat's "Bathers at Asnières" was really striking. I had forgotten how beautiful and impactful the Impressionist work really is. After seeing all the work before that era it was like suddenly being able to breath again.
The Portrait Gallery: The Tudor portraits are truly remarkable. They have all the trappings of royalty yet seem to convey a deep inner psychology of their sitters including Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots and Henry VIII.
The Saatchi Gallery: "The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture." I was impressed with the vitality of this show and how exhiting it was. I especially loved David Altmejd's and Folkert de Jong's pieces.
Richard Nagy Gallery: "Egon Shiele Drawings." Over 60 Egon Shiele drawings in one small commercial gallery! And all for sale!
The Tate Britain: This was probably my favourite museum experience because it was empty! I particularly loved seeing again Mark Wallinger's stunning video piece "Threshold to the Kingdom".
Projects include exploring a neighbourhood you've never visited, the neon lights of the city at night, interiors of bars, cafes and restaurants and creating collages out of urban materials. Students are introduced to prominent historical and contemporary urban painters.
Sharon Barr, Nadia & Co: Art & Pastry.
In process shot of "Jewel Net of Indra." My studio at 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto.
Studio: I'm going to expand "Jewel Net of Indra" into a large-scale installation with 2000 portraits.
52 Films in 52 Weeks: Year 3: I'll continue to watch The Great Courses DVD series of university lectures.
Installation: "Jewel Net of Indra", for Come Up To My Room, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.
Solo Show: "Floating World", Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library, Montreal.
Jury: Hard Twist 7: Touch Me, Feel Me. I'll be helping to choose the work for the Gladstone Hotel's annual fibre exhibition.
Prince Edward Island: I will be returning to North Lake where I go every year for inspiration. I'll be continuing the "Cumulanimbus" photo series.
I will be curating as many as five Oakvile exhibitions including De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) at Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Momento mori at The Gallery at Sheridan Institute, and the Outdoor Environmental Fibre Instatllations.It will be a huge amount of work, but I'm excited.


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Vatten Hus Cottage Holds Rich History and Unique Story
Amy Adamle
Updated: July 19, 2018 08:54 AM
A cottage that's surrounded by a rich history, full of timeless stories of the North Shore, has a story of it's own.
"The history of the property goes back quite a ways," Mike, a co-owner, said.
The land became part of the family and they're carrying on the legacy.
The Vatten Hus cottage is on land that has a rich history.
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"My parents purchased a large parcel of property here in the 1960's from a deceased Norwegian fisherman and it's been in the family ever since," Mike said.
Owners, Rosanne and Mike decided to follow in his parents' footsteps, creating something of their own at the same time.
"They retired here and we wanted to basically do the same thing," Mike said. "We built in 2000 and we have been here for almost 20 years now and it has been wonderful."
They wanted to keep what they were building small and agreed on an Asian-influenced, one story design.
"Small, comfortable, efficient, intimate," were the words they used to describe their place. "And sweet, very sweet," Rosanne and Mike added.
They call their North Shore cottage, Vatten Hus, Swedish for "the water house," paying homage to the great Lake Superior.
"Because of the big blue, it is right outside our window," Rosanne said.
As owners, not only did they open their doors for the tour, but they enjoyed going along and taking in other people's homes as well.
"The interesting thing for us is, every cabin that you go to is different and the relationship every cabin has to do the shore is different, and so it never gets old to visit a new property," Mike said. "Everyone of them is different in its own way."
What gives their home character is something that wasn't planned.
"We have cement floors and there's a big crack in that floor," Rosanne said. "It is not going to go away, if we filled it, it will crack somewhere else, so I decided to turn it into Highway 61."
That's right, the crack is now an iconic roadway, a fitting tribute for a cottage and site hugging the water and the roadway.
"From Duluth all the way to Canada," Rosanne said.
The jagged, slender crack shows all the stops along the way, that we know so well.
"We have little markers for different towns along the crack," Rosanne said. "We have a nice little marker for 'You are here' and its become kind of a joke."
"I think that is pretty creative solution," one tour-goer said.
They took something slightly broken and made it beautiful. Up where the waves crash along the shore, and the wind rustles the leaves, it's easier to take everything in stride.
"We love our cabin, we love being here," Mike said. "We love the shore too, it's a wonderful place for us."
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Do you know if it is possible to remove/hide a menu entry from the main menu bar in RV without having the MinorMode associated deactivated ?
To clarify, and related to my other post, I have a MinorMode that opens a widget, that I'd like to keep activated at all time. And when the widget goes shown, it would put its menu in the main menu bar, but when hidden the menu would be hidden as well from the main menu bar.
I tried the defineModeMenu("myMode", nil) method in my overridden deactivate() method but the custom menu stays in the main menu bar. Same with the setMenu().
I've seen there's a function buildMainMenu() in rvui, that maybe would be a hint to force the redraw of the main menu without my custom one, but to keep the other custom menus, I have to give them as args to this function and I have no idea how to get those.
You could use the defineMenuMode, but like you mention, to override the whole menu; you need the prior items. You can get around some of this by setting or unsetting the strict flag, but you still need to know the prior state.
You can hold on to a reference to your original menu before setting it, which would let you recompose it later.
However, what is the reason you'd like your mode to remain active all the time? If you want your mode to activate/deactivate and hide/show the menus associated with the activation/deactivation then the model you are trying to achieve is the standard model. You can further get some value out of that with a delay load of your package.
If you are wanting to keep your mode active all the time to be able to receive events, is it possible to write this as two minor modes? One to handle the transient state, and one to handle the persistent state?
I did tried the strict flag = true when calling defineModeMenu() but surely I missed something because it had no effect neither.
I will try the 2 minor modes trick, I think that will fix both of my issues. I will let you know the result.
Btw, any idea how to call a MinorMode from another one before I look for it in the doc?
You can make your own events that your other package can respond to. That way you are also not creating a direct dependency on the two code blocks and allowing yourself a way to have multiple plugins respond to a single event.
Thank you for your answer. I had a look at the sendInternalEvent(), that looks cool. I actually already had a working version and I used a singleton on top of that and it's working the way I want.
Anyways, thanks again for pointing the 2 MinorModes trick, it's working perfectly.
If you ever want to show it off, I love seeing what people make. Shared data structures (such as a singleton) or Qt signals are of course other options that should work well.


This GP education webinar is presented by Andrology Australia and Your Fertility. It will address GPs' expressed needs for education on preconception health care for female and male patients, with up-to-date evidence-based presentations on factors affecting male and female fertility, practical strategies for implementation into practice, and opportunities to participate in discussions with the panel, including expert presenters and consumers. The webinar will be facilitated by acclaimed ABC national medical reporter Ms Sophie Scott. This activity has been approved by the RACGP QI&CPD Program in the 2017–19 triennium 3 Category 2 points – (Activity:152843).
Research, including a recent survey conducted by Andrology Australia on male fertility, shows that many GPs do not feel confident broaching the subject of fertility in general consultations if not asked explicitly by the patient, with many perceived barriers to providing preconception care to all patients (female and male) of reproductive age. The GP survey also highlighted a need for evidence-based patient resources and GP education on preconception care.
1.	Develop or draft a system that ensures that all male and female patients of child-bearing age are regularly (ie. yearly or as appropriate) asked the question about reproductive life plan.
2.	Identify and address barriers to implementing preconception care for male and female patients in the GP setting.
3.	Initiate preconception health discussions with male and female patients.
4.	Use appropriate strategies to engage male and female patients of child-bearing age in preconception care in the context of a general GP consultation.
5.	Summarise the key modifiable factors that affect male fertility and female fertility.
This activity has been approved by the RACGP QI&CPD Program in the 2017–19 triennium 3 Category 2 points – (Activity:152843).
To be eligible for CPD points you must attend the live webinar.
Andrology Australia and VARTA are committed to protecting your privacy. Any personal information received from you will be treated as confidential. Your personal contact details will be held and used strictly in accordance with the Information Privacy Principles of the Information Privacy Act 2000 (Victoria). Your email and postal addresses will be used for correspondence related to this Webinar, including follow-up to manage RACGP CPD points and dissemination of fertility resources packs.
If you have a question on preconception care in practice or factors affecting male/female fertility, please list the question below and it will be provided to the panel prior to the webinar.
Ms Sophie Scott is the national medical reporter for the ABC, with her stories appearing on ABC news, 7:30, ABC radio and online. Among her awards is the Australian Museum Eureka prize for medical journalism, and she is a highly respected and sought-after health presenter. Sophie has hosted and spoken at the Research Australia awards dinner, the Mayo Clinic social media conference, Royal Australian College of Physicians conference and many mental health and patient-centred events. She is on the board of the Australian Medical Association Charitable Foundation NSW, is an ambassador for Bowel Cancer and Pain Australia and on the advisory board for the Australian Mental Health Prize. Thousands of her readers regularly respond to her blog on health and happiness: www.sophiescott.com.au and @sophiescott2 on Twitter and Instagram.
Prof Rob McLachlan is a NHMRC Principal Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne and is Deputy Director of Endocrinology at the Monash Medical Centre. He specialises in the area of male reproductive medicine and has made significant contributions to research in endocrinology, infertility and andrology. He combines his academic career with clinical practice as a consultant in these fields.
Dr Shannon Zawada is a Fertility specialist at Genea in Sydney and works as an Obstetrician/Gynaecologist at Canterbury Hospital. Shannon is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney in Perinatal and Women's Health. After obtaining her FRANZCOG she completed subspecialty training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. She has a Masters of Medicine in Reproductive Health and Human Genetics and is researching the accessibility of Fertility treatment and hormone assays in IVF cycles.
Dr Magdalena Simonis is a GP, a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and an honorary research fellow with the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, with expertise in implementation of evidence-based practices in health delivery. She is on the board of Women's Health Victoria, is President of the Victorian Medical Women's Society and the Strategy and Policy Committee for Breast Cancer Network Australia. Her articles are regularly published in Medical Republic and she has been an RACGP representative to senate enquiries. Magdalena believes fertility issues encompass women's health, general health and relationship discussions, hence are a central aspect of the care GPs deliver to the patients over their life cycle.


Construction unions attempt to entice merit shop craft professionals and new construction industry workers and apprentices into joining a union with promises of generous retirement benefits via multiemployer pension plans.
Construction unions lobby elected officials in charge of procuring taxpayer-funded construction projects with arguments on why union contractors and union workers deserve special treatment through various schemes like government-mandated project labor agreements, responsible contractor ordinances and union apprenticeship requirements because of the alleged public good provided to workers who participate in union-affiliated MEPPs, even though less than 13 percent of the U.S. private construction industry belonged to a union in 2018.
Amongst the many reasons why merit shop contractors and construction workers oppose PLA mandates, they typically require merit shop contractors to pay their workers' retirement fringe benefits to union-affiliated MEPPs while working on a PLA project instead of into existing retirement plans. However, data continues to show that hundreds of union-affiliated construction industry MEPPs are in serious financial trouble, calling into question the validity of promises that a PLA will deliver a generous retirement benefit for employee participants.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 requires the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation—an independent agency of the federal government that monitors and privately insures pension benefits in private sector defined benefit plans such as MEPPs—to issue reports on an annual basis about the health of PBGC-backed plans.
In short, the PBGC risks certain future insolvency unless drastic changes are made to the MEPP program.
Since fiscal year 2013, PGBC's financial deficits have more than doubled. At the end of fiscal year 2016, PBGC's net accumulated financial deficit was over $79 billion—an increase of about $44 billion since 2013. At the same time, PBGC estimated that its exposure to future losses for underfunded plans was nearly $243 billion. The single-employer program, composed of about 22,200 plans, accounted for $20.6 billion of PBGC's overall deficit (see figure 21). The multiemployer program, composed of only about 1,400 plans, accounted for about $59 billion. According to PBGC, these dramatic increases were attributable to broad economic factors and financial conditions of the plans PBGC insures.
At the beginning of 2014, PBGC-insured MEPPs had $466 billion in assets vs. $958 billion in liabilities, for an underfunding of $496 billion or a 48 percent funding ratio (see Table M-10).
According to the PBGC's 2015 Pension Insurance Data Tables, which contains the most recent PBGC data on industry MEPPs, construction industry MEPPs are responsible for about $240 billion (or 48.4 percent) of all PBGC-insured MEPP underfunding, which totals $496 billion. (See Table M-14 below: Funding of PBGC-Insured Plans by Industry  Multiemployer Program).
The amount of the construction industry's MEPP underfunding continues to get worse. In comparison, similar 2009 PBGC data found the construction industry was responsible for about $87.8 billion (or 45 percent) of PBGC-insured MEPP underfunding (see Table M-14: Funding of PBGC-Insured Plans by Industry  Multiemployer Program). Table M-14 of the 2010 PBGC report indicates the construction industry's portion of all PBGC-insured MEPP underfunding grew to $167 billion (or 47 percent) in 2009.
Seven hundred and fifty-nine (53 percent) of the 1,425 MEPPs insured by the PBGC are in the construction industry. (See Table M-8 below: PBGC-Insured Plans and Participants by Industry  Multiemployer Program).
The construction industry has a total of $473 billion (49.1 percent) worth of the PBGC's total liabilities. (See Table M-14 below: Funding of PBGC-Insured Plans by Industry  Multiemployer Program).
The largest number of employees from any industry, almost 3.9 million (37.5 percent) of the 10 million PBGC-insured MEPP participants (workers and retirees), is from the construction industry. (See Table M-8 below: PBGC-Insured Plans and Participants by Industry  Multiemployer Program).
Expect the construction industry's MEPP underfunding problem to continue to worsen, which will exacerbate future PBGC insolvency. Unfortunately, the public still doesn't know the real-time financial implications of underfunding in 2019, thanks to a multi-year lag in the public reporting of the financial health of MEPPs.
Why Is the PBGC in Financial Trouble?
The PBGC has publicly raised concerns about the simmering funding crisis because its balance sheet is impacted by the health of MEPPs. Individual MEPP insolvency triggers the PBGC's guarantee, and loans are provided to the MEPP by the PBGC to help it pay benefits to worker participants (up to $12,870 per year per individual beneficiary). PBGC financing comes from insurance premiums paid by companies insured by the PBGC, as well as other sources such as investment income, plan assets and other recoveries. Taxes and other sources of public financing do not fund the PBGC plans.
Should the PBGC insurance program become insolvent before 2025 as predicted, it is unclear what will happen to plan participants backed by the PBGC, but benefit cuts are likely.
As 2018 drew to a close, members of a special Congressional Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans committee failed to deliver a package of reforms to save struggling plans, head off more plans running into trouble and shore up the PBGC multiemployer program. In the 116th Congress, lawmakers are currently offering bills to address the crisis, but many proposals have been accused of being a bailout at the expense of taxpayers and/or failing to address the fundamental structural flaws of MEPPs causing them to fail. Others argue the federal government has bailed out the private sector previously and is better off making a difficult decision now instead of later.
All MEPPs are defined by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 and cover workers from more than one employer. Employer contributions, determined by collective bargaining with a labor union, fund the plan. These plans exist to provide benefits to unionized workers in businesses characterized by frequent job and employer switching, such as union craftspeople in the construction industry. Under a plan, service with multiple employers is treated the same as if the worker had been with the same employer during the life of the employee's career.
Unionized contractors receive craft labor from union hiring halls composed of tradespeople who specialize in a specific craft (e.g., IBEW dispatches electricians and LiUNA dispatches laborers). During their career, union workers may be dispatched by union halls to dozens of union-signatory contractor employers. Designated union bosses and union contractor representatives administer pension plans (plan trustees) that multiple union-signatory employers (contractors) must pay into on behalf of employed trade union members in accordance with their respective collective bargaining agreement(s) with a construction union.
In contrast, merit shop contractors typically hire, train and invest resources in tradespeople who work exclusively for the company in a traditional employee/employer relationship. These contractors typically provide benefits packages including a portable 401(k), paid time off, medical and dental insurance, training and profit sharing to attract and retain skilled, experienced employees in the free market.
As TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has stated many times, one of the reasons merit shop contractors are discouraged from competing for taxpayer-funded contracts on construction projects subject to government-mandated PLAs is because of typical provisions in a PLA that require employers to contribute to union-affiliated MEPPs on behalf of employees for the life of the project.
In rare instances when nonunion employees (and union employees who do not belong to unions that are favored in PLAs) and their employers participate in PLA projects, employers must make hourly benefit contributions to union MEPPs on behalf of their employees. These benefit contributions are forfeited to the MEPP unless employees join a union and meet vesting schedules defined by each plan.
An October 2009 report by Dr. John R. McGowan, "The Discriminatory Impact of Union Fringe Benefit Requirements on Nonunion Workers Under Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements," found nonunion workers' take-home pay is reduced by at least 20 percent when their employers enter into PLA arrangements containing a MEPP requirement. It also found a PLA mandate's controversial double fringe benefit requirements has the potential to increase merit shop contractor labor costs by 25 percent, making it difficult, if not impossible to win contracts.
Besides confiscating benefits rightfully earned by construction employees working on a PLA project, PLA pension provisions are a windfall for unions' MEPPs because the MEPPs don't have to pay future benefits to those employees who have contributed but failed to meet vesting requirements. Though small in comparison to overall funding shortfalls, these contributions prop up insolvent plans and hide the flawed structure and Ponzi-scheme economics of many construction industry MEPPs.
For decades, merit shop firms have offered alternative retirement plans to their workforce that are portable and controlled by individuals because union-affiliated MEPPs simply cannot be financially sustained in the long term. Construction industry stakeholders have only publicly and aggressively addressed MEPP underfunding during the past decade, partially because of scrutiny from the financial industry.
Merit shop contractors should be extremely cautious about contributing to MEPPs, even on a PLA project where MEPP liability appears to be limited, because it can expose contractors to pension withdrawal liability for a share of the future liabilities of plan participants.
During the construction industry recession, many contractors participating in MEPPs went out of business. And when MEPP participants go belly up, the burden on employers remaining in the MEPPs becomes greater. Bankrupt contractors that can't pay their fair share to MEPPs create additional liability for a MEPP's remaining employer participants, which results in all sorts of disastrous consequences, such as forcing more employers out of business, weakening already struggling MEPPs, and compelling the PBGC to step in to provide benefits to MEPP beneficiaries at a reduced rate, which could trigger PBGC and MEPP insolvency.
The recession's peak industry unemployment rate of nearly 25 percent, a decline in construction industry union membership, industry demographic changes driven by retiring baby boomers and a looming construction industry workforce shortage point to future insolvency for many MEPPs.
In response, lobbyists representing union interests tried to exploit its political clout to fix its pension woes by pushing lawmakers, the U.S. Department of Labor and bureaucrats at the National Labor Relations Board to pass rules that will make it easier for unions to organize and add new members to the basement of their MEPP scheme (see the Workplace Democracy Act, Employee Free Choice Act/Card Check, Executive Order 13502, Ambush Elections, Micro Unions and Invasion of Privacy). Similar measures are sure to be reintroduced in a Democrat-controlled House but are unlikely to end up on the president's desk with a GOP majority in the Senate in the 116th Congress.
In addition, unions have ratcheted up rhetoric blaming PBGC insolvency and their pension troubles on Wall Street and the recession, among others. Instead of pushing reasonable solutions identified by the Congressional Budget Office like adjusting benefits, increasing contributions, preventing fraud and waste, executing sound investment and management strategies, and diverting hundreds of millions of dollars of annual discretionary union political spending to shore up pension plans, some labor leaders are playing the blame game and posturing for loan, a bailout and/or a temporary band-aid from Uncle Sam.
The Sheet Metal Workers National Pension fund discloses the plan's annual funding levels for plan participants here. The SMWIA union's own pension fund documents indicate that on Jan. 1, 2008, the fund was just 52.2 percent funded.
So just three months after the Dow closed at a then all-time high of 14,164 on Oct. 9, 2007, the pension fund took such a big loss in the stock market that the plan ended the year at 52.2 percent funded?
Poor management probably deserves a lot of the blame for the decline in MEPPs, but there are many contributing factors. What's troubling to some rank-and-file members and conservative pundits is that unions do a far better job with retirement funds created for their officers and employees than for membership. For example, the SEIU Affiliates, Officers and Employees Pension Plan—which covers the staff and bosses at its locals—was funded in 2007 at 102.2 percent. The plan for the folks at SEIU international headquarters was funded at 84.8 percent.
A September 2009 report on union pension plans by the Hudson Institute, "Comparing Union-Sponsored and Private Pension Plans: How Safe Are Workers' Retirements?" found similar results and highlighted the disparities between union officer pension plans and union member plans. So does this piece.
Almost 10 years later, with the Dow nearly 10,000 greater, MEPPs remain in trouble and many union officer pension plans remain healthier than union member plans.
The U.S. Department of Labor provides a list of all troubled MEPPs here, and ERISA Sec. 101(f) requires MEPPs to provide an annual funding notice to participants.
In 2019, TheTruthAboutPLAs.com sorted through the growing list and identified construction industry MEPPs in this easy-to-search spreadsheet, where industry stakeholders can see if the MEPP they are participating in (or competitors pay into) is in trouble. In 2018, there were 148 plans in critical, endangered or critical and declining status. More than 1900 construction industry MEPPs have fallen into these trouled categories since 2008.
For too long, construction industry employees, contractors and lawmakers have been fooled into thinking union MEPPs deserve special treatment and are a safe retirement strategy. The truth is that many plans are in poor shape and were unhealthy even in the best of economic times. Some construction industry MEPPs have offered limited transparency, accountability or meaningful solutions to fix this problem. Construction workers should not be forced to contribute to MEPPs as a condition of employment on a PLA project. It is clear they might be better off participating in 401(k) plans and other safer retirement strategies. Without proper education, oversight and corrective action, workers, contractors and taxpayers should expect more problems from unsustainable MEPPs.
In the interim, the merit shop contracting community's embrace of portable retirement plans controlled by workers and avoidance of government-mandated PLA requirements forcing contributions to MEPPs, will continue to be a viable strategy benefitting the construction industry workforce its employers and taxpayers.
Learn more about the health of MEPPs here.


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Makagon, D. and M.R. Gould. (2016). "Learning the City through Stories: Audio Documentary as Urban Pedagogy" In: International Journal of Communication. Georgia Aiello and Simone Tosoni, Eds (Special Series Title: Going About the City: Methods and Methodologies for Urban Communication Research), 10. Pp. 1263-1276.
Gould, M.R. and SpearIt (2014). "20 Years After the Education Apocalypse: The Ongoing Fall Out from the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill". In: The 2013 Conference on Prison Higher Education (Eds. Mary Rachel Gould and SpearIt). Saint Louis University Public Law Review, XXXIII. Pp. 283-300.
Gould, M.R. (2014). "Sonic City: Digital Storytelling and the Study of Popular Culture". Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 1 & 2. Pp. 85-109.


The Lady Warriors' varsity squad traveled without its #1 singles player to Jimtown on Saturday for the Jimtown Invite. Wawasee lost to the invitational champs Wabash 0-5 after narrowly dropping 3 of its matches in 3rd set tiebreakers. Wawasee lost its second round match to South Bend Adams 1-4 and 3rd round match to Jimtown 2-3.
Kendra Doerr was a part of two of the match wins, winning at #2 singles against South Bend Adams and at #1 doubles with Peyton Rookstool against Jimtown. Aurelia Stephens turned in the third win at #3 singles against Jimtown.
Wawasee will get a day off before returning to action against Central Noble on Monday.


NC State vs Wake Forest : The NC State Wolfpack can clinch their fifth winning season in a row on Thursday when they host the Wake Forest Demon Deacons at 7:30 p.m. ET. The latest Wake Forest vs. NC State odds show the host Wolfpack as 17-point favorites. The over-under, or total number of points Vegas thinks will be scored, is 69. NC State can clinch its fifth winning season in a row, while Wake needs two victories to attain bowl eligibility. Before you make your Wake Forest vs. NC State picks, you need to hear what SportsLine college football expert Zack Cimini has to say.
Cimini knows the Wolfpack (6-2) bounced back from a two-game losing streak in which they allowed 92 points to Clemson and Syracuse by beating Florida State by 19 last Saturday. Offense is the strong suit of the Deacons, a unit that ranks 10th in the country at 323 yards passing per game. NC State faces a Wake Forest defense that is allowing 273 yards passing and 221 yards rushing per game — the Deacons rank 115th out of 130 FBS teams in each category.
There were high expectations on returning starting QB Ryan Finley, and the senior has reached them. He's completed 67.8 percent of his passes for 16 TDs and six INTs; last year he completed 65 percent with 17 TDs. His offensive line has played lights-out because Finley has been sacked just four times all season.


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Company Type: Privately Held as Midnite Solar, Inc.
MidNite Solar is an innovative manufacturing company that started by making high quality, cost effective AC and DC disconnect boxes for the solar energy industry. Now, MidNite produces a wide range of solar energy products. MidNite's Classic series of Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) charge controllers are the most sophisticated, full featured controllers on the market as well as being the only ETL listed controllers designed to work with Solar, Wind, and Micro Hydro Electric systems.
MidNite Solar offers a full line of pre-wired, battery based systems for standalone off grid, battery based grid tie, as well as AC coupled battery backup installations. MidNite features SMA, Schneider / Xantrex and Magnum Energy Inverters in their pre-wired systems, providing a wide range of solutions for residential and commercial projects. MidNite Solar is the largest manufacturer of combiner boxes in North America. The new line of Disconnecting Combiner boxes are another industry first, meeting all of the new NEC requirements for this class of equipment. MidNite's full range of Surge Protection Devices (SPD) offer the highest levels of protection from lightning and power line surges.
To learn more about MidNite Solar scroll down below the line of products we carry for more information.
Founded in 2005 with headquarters in Arlington, Washington., by Robin Gudgel, Bob Gudgel, and Mary Gudgel. Midnite Solar began their focus with simplicity and reliability, they know off grid living presents a lot of challenges. Figuring out how to wire up your system should not be one of them. MidNite has greatly simplified the assembly and wiring of a battery based RE system. They manufacture E-Panels that work with OutBack, Magnum Energy, Xantrex, Apollo, Samlex, SMA and soon Morningstar inverters.
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Midnite Solar continues to manufacture their quality off grid solar equipment in the US. Their engineers are consistently pushing the envelope to produce products that any system installer or owner can integrate in and know they are confident with their product. Midnite Solar strive to create solar energy equipment that meets or exceeds electrical codes.
The famed Midnite Solar MPPT Charge Controllers are designed with industry leading features and capabilities. The Classic series charge controller includes arc fault protection, making it the safest available charge controller on the solar energy marketplace. They can accept multiple types of DC inputs including solar, wind, hydro and other DC power sources.


With the popularity of the Bristol and Bath Half Marathons increasing each year, it seemed a good idea for TeamBathAC and the Avon Athletics Network to hold a half marathon training day in Bath on Sunday 20th November.
Whilst the Network covered the admin and venue costs, TBAC provided LiRF qualified group leaders for the morning runs and the speakers for the afternoon, which meant their members could attend for half price!
The TBAC sponsors, Lucozade, also provided a products for runners to help them with both training and recovery, which proved very popular on the day.
A broad group of runners registered, with about half from the local club, and they selected one of three paced runs suitable for themselves, followed by some stability and core work back at the King Edward's School Pavilion at Bathampton.
Renee McGregor stripped away some of the myths around nutrition to give some down to earth ideas on using everyday foods to improve both training and recovery.
Feedback from the group has been very positive, and planning for the next day, in the New Year, is already underway. If you would like to read more from a participant, Bo Novak attended and wrote a great blog. Click here to read it.


If thats the case, then youre not running the latest version of app_rpt. That will not happen in the latest versions.
Hi Steve and thanks for the reply.
After much messing about - and learning in the porcess of course - I've fixed it!
The context [radio-secure] in the example given in the instructions at http://app-rpt.qrvc.com/echolink.html where it tells you what to put in your extensions.conf file may be incorrect.
and commented out the reference to [radio-secure] in my Echolink.conf file and added one at the end for [echolink-in] and everything is now working, both in and out!
Clearly I can see the differebetween the two statements but being a real Asterisk newbie, it really means nothing to me so I dont know what the effect of the wrong statement would be!
Sorry to be so vague but I have now got it all working, so thank you for replying.
Now, who can tell me how to get IRLP working?  Please?
to the list so that we can see if it is ok.
so that everyone gets a list with your node in it.
Something else to check: Is your node showing up on echolink.org?
> Echolink working on my node.
> right direction for a fix?
> instantly get the "node connection failed" message.
> and the database show command works fine also.
> enough to not have to do this?
> need IRLP functionality on my node and so is this something I can use too?
> Thanks in advance for any and all help received!


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Amazon customers are loyal. Beyond that, Amazon customers--especially Amazon Prime members--are more than happy to convert. According to a 2015 report, Prime members are said to convert at a rate 22 times greater than customers that shop with other top online retailers. So, if you can tap into that audience and appeal to their willingness to spend money with Amazon, you should see a good return on your decision to join the program.
Feed and take care of your neighbors' pets while they're out of town. Pet sitting is just like babysitting but for animals. If you're comfortable with animals, let your neighbors know that you're available to watch their pets when they go away. Always respect their rules and ask ahead of time if you have any questions about the care instructions.[13]
Is this because WP is now blocking outside adds on free accounts? WP recent advised users that ads may appear on free accounts. I saw that WP has a plugin just for Amazon posts, but any plugin requires a business account. In looking at the pay-to-play WP account details, it looks like one has to buy the second level account in order to "monetize your website".
Being in Australia, I'm not required to do anything by the law (although I hear talk that there may be changes around this). I don't disclose every single Amazon link on my photography blog in a direct way but do I have a disclaimer/disclosure page on the blog. When I'm doing a 'best seller list' always include a disclaimer on those posts as the whole page is filled with affiliate links. I have also written numerous times on DPS about how the links to Amazon earn us money and help the site to keep growing and be free.
Police responded to an intersection near the airport around 10 p.m. Thursday when shots were exchanged with the gunman, Miami FOX affiliate WSVN-TV reported. — Fox News, "Kidnapping suspect shot dead near Miami airport after shootout with police," 21 Sep. 2018 The jury deliberated for around six hours before delivering its guilty verdicts, NBC affiliate WXIA reported. — NBC News, "Man convicted, sentenced to life in 1983 racially motivated killing in Georgia," 27 June 2018 The two-way contract limits Robinson to 45 days of NBA service time next season, with the rest spent at the Heat's G-League affiliate in Sioux Falls, S.D. — Barry Jackson, miamiherald, "Heat signs a sharp-shooter who has impressed everyone this summer," 10 July 2018 In a third change, the Chargers said Mario Solis, a sports reporter and anchor at the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles, will handle Spanish language play-by-play duties. — Jay Posner, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Dan Fouts off Chargers broadcasts; Jeremiah, LT added," 10 July 2018 After 16 starts last year, De Los Santos was 5-4 with a 4.71 ERA for San Diego's double-A affiliate in San Antonio. — Bob Brookover, Philly.com, "Phillies prospect Enyel De Los Santos making his MLB debut | Extra Innings," 10 July 2018 Won a title with the Raptors' G-League affiliate in 2017. — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, "Basketball has taken IU's Christian Watford all over world in quest of pro career," 9 July 2018 His replacement has already been named: Laura Harris, who will be coming in from WFTS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Tampa, Fla. — Robert Philpot, star-telegram, "A weekend anchor is leaving NBC 5. Here's who's replacing him," 9 July 2018 Gunna, the Young Thug affiliate who rubbed elbows with Virgil Abloh at the menswear shows in Paris a few weeks back, put in a valiant showing at the Louis Vuitton show, but Migos might still take the cake. — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, "Who Drips Harder, Gucci Mane or Quavo?," 1 Feb. 2019
1. Commerce: Two parties are affiliates if either party has the power to control the other, or a third party controls or has the power to control the both. Affiliation also exists in (1) in interlocking directorates or ownership, (2) in identity of interests among members of a family and, (3) where employees, equipment, and/or facilities, are shared. Affiliates are subject to greater than normal legal prohibitions and requirements to guard against insider trading. See also subsidiary.


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Some Take Massive Risks To Save Syria's Cultural Heritage
Two pictures show the minaret (top) of Aleppo's ancient Umayyad mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on April 16, 2013, and the rubble (bottom) after it was blown up on April 24, 2013.
More than 250,000 people have been killed and millions more displaced as a result of the conflict in Syria. But the destruction also extends beyond human lives. Significant parts of that country's heritage are now lost. Architecture, art and antiquities dating back more than a thousand years have been wiped out — in what some have called cultural genocide.
Reporter James Harkin has spent time on the ground in Syria. He reports on the race to save Syria's archaeological treasures in the recent issue of Smithsonian Magazine.
The threat to the country's antiquities comes from different places. "Some of the most valuable have been destroyed as collateral damage in the shelling and crossfire between government forces and various rebel factions," Harkin writes. "Others have been sold off, bit by valuable bit, to buy guns or, just as likely, food or a way to escape the chaos."
And the Islamic State has destroyed historical artifacts deliberately in what Harkin calls "a new kind of historical tragedy." ISIS militants, shown in videos, "have attacked priceless artifacts with jackhammers, rampaged through museum galleries housing historically unique collections, and exploded sites in territory they control for scarifying effect."
Harkin spoke with NPR's Eric Westervelt about his experience traveling to Syria and reporting on efforts to save this cultural heritage.
On the historic Aleppo souk, the market
It's a kind of wonderful, natural archaeological maze in which you can get lost in the bustle. And so, it was an amazing thing to behold, along with the famous mosque there, the Umayyad Mosque. And so to go back, five years later and see the pummeling of this place. You know, 1,000 of the market stalls in the souk have been reduced to nothing. One hundred and forty of the historic buildings have been tangled. The only sound you can hear is the sound of metal — the metal corsetry of damaged buildings twisting in the wind like sinister wind chimes. And so it was eerie. Like a scene of a crime.
On the Umayyad Mosque
The Umayyad Mosque is in very very bad shape. It sort of lies there like a sort of agonized soldier crying in no man's land in World War I. The famous minaret is lying there — and I saw it with my own eyes from this military watchtower, it's lying there in pieces. In fact, one whole side of the whole mosque is in stones. It's in very very bad shape. And what was famous about that mosque, or one of the things that was famous about it was its riches of Islamic art. And who knows where they are now.
Joseph Eid / AFP/Getty Images
A photo from 2014 shows ancient ruins of Palmyra that date back 1,800 years. Much of it has now been destroyed by ISIS.
On Palmyra
Palmyra has taken such a hit from all sides in some ways. Hundreds of Islamic State militants converged on the city, they took the city and they began holding not only the archaeology, but the people — including the staff, the archaeological staff — hostage. And famously they gruesomely murdered the head of antiquities in that city, Khalid al-Asaad.
On why ISIS murdered Palmyra's chief of antiquities
There were a number of reasons that were floated at the time. For a start, they simply don't like archaeologists. They see them as secular and idolatrous and part of a civilization that they find offensive. Another reason why they apparently killed Khalid al-Asaad, according to some of his relatives, was that he refused to tell them where the archaeology was hidden. Because his staff had been very courageously involved in concealing some of it.
Louai Beshara / AFP/Getty Images
A portrait of Khaled al-Assad, is displayed during a ceremony in his memory at the National Museum on Aug. 23, 2015 in Damascus.
A different story was told to me by professor Abdulkarim, who's the head of antiquities in Syria, who said that for some reason the Islamic State were convinced that there was tons and tons of gold in the museum in Palmyra, which only needed to be liberated with the help of finding out where it was.
Ma'amoun Abdulkarim, the archaeology professor, said, "You know, these people are crazy. They're stupid. There was no gold."
But it's possible that they might have killed Khalid al-Asaad because he refused to tell them where nonexistent treasures were that they were convinced — for their own paranoid reasons — were there.
On saving antiquities
Some very courageous people were involved in that. One of the curiosities of the Syrian regime is that this regime thrives on the prospect of crisis. When I was in Damascus early in 2012, I was told by a friend of mine, a civilian, that the regime had already begun taking down the statues of Hafez al-Assad, the old dictator and the father of the current president. In other words, very early on, this regime for its own authoritarian slightly paranoid reasons had begun secreting all of its archaeology. And according to professor Abdulkarim, they have saved already 99 percent of the museum collections within Syria.
So much of what you see on the TV where you see statues, you see Nimrud, you see Palmyra being exploded — that's the outdoor archaeology which couldn't be hidden away. And it simply gets blown up by the Islamic State. But there are lots of very courageous people on both sides who are working against the grain to try and save this for better days.


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Q: How do I calculate a field that needs a where statement If I have the following dataset:
pk ind value
1  1   10
2  1   11
3  2   13

I would like to calculate the percentage (of the value) of items that have indicator 1 relative to the total value. So in simple math this would be
(10+11)/(10+11+13)
I do obviously know how to extract only the values with indicator 1, but I'm not sure how to divide that by total in an sql query.

A: Use a case expression to do conditional aggregation:
select sum(case when ind = 1 then value else 0 end) / sum(value)
from tablename

Will raise a division by zero error if there are no rows in the table. (Non-null rows, to be specific.)
I don't know Oracle, perhaps you need to multiply value with 1.0 to avoid integer division, always returning 0 here. I.e. do sum(case when ind = 1 then 1.0 * value else 0 end).

A: Calculate percent for each indicators
SELECT
  t.ind,
  SUM(t.value) amount,
  SUM(t.value)/SUM(SUM(t.value))OVER() percent
FROM Test t
GROUP BY t.ind

SQL Fiddle - http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/f4249/5


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Discussion in 'Digital Photography' started by guzhogi, Sep 4, 2012.
Hello all. I just got a Rokinon 800mm lens for my Sony Alpha 65. Unfortunately, the lens uses a different mount. Anyone know what kind of adaptor I need? I know my Sony camera has an A-mount, not sure what mount the lens has. Also, where can I get an adaptor? Thanks!
You will have to identify the mount. Rokinon manufacture that mirror-lens in a wide variety of mounts.
Also you did know it was a mirror lens before you bought and understand what this means for image quality, especially the out-of-focus areas of your images?
Got it working. It came with a T-mount adaptor that worked great with my camera. I'll have to manually focus, but that's fine with me.
As for being a mirror based lens, I don't mind. I don't plan on using it that much, plus it still looks pretty good in my opinion.
From my understanding, most reflex and telescope lenses are T-mount, and there are T-mount adapters for every and any obscure SLR mount out there.
Pretty cheap, too, considering that it doesn't need any optical correction.