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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using BrightstarDB.Caching;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace BrightstarDB.Tests
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class CachingTests
    {
        [Test]
        public void TestMemoryCacheBasicOperations()
        {
            ICache cache = new MemoryCache(2000, new LruCacheEvictionPolicy());
            RunCacheTests(cache);
        }

        private static void RunCacheTests(ICache cache)
        {
            cache.Insert("ByteArray", new byte[] {0, 1, 2, 3}, CachePriority.Normal);
            cache.Insert("Object", new byte[] {3,2,1,0}, CachePriority.Normal);

            var byteArray = cache.Lookup("ByteArray");
            Assert.IsNotNull(byteArray);
            Assert.AreEqual(4, byteArray.Length);
            for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) Assert.AreEqual(i, byteArray[i]);

            cache.Remove("Object");
            Assert.IsNull(cache.Lookup("Object"));
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Object"));
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("ByteArray"));
        }

#if !SILVERLIGHT && !PORTABLE
        [Test]
        public void TestDirectoryCacheBasicOperations()
        {
            string cacheDirPath = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "cachetest_" + DateTime.Now.Ticks);
            ICache cache = new DirectoryCache(cacheDirPath, 2000, new LruCacheEvictionPolicy());
            RunCacheTests(cache);
            ICache reopenedCache = new DirectoryCache(cacheDirPath, 2000, new LruCacheEvictionPolicy());
            var byteArray = cache.Lookup("ByteArray");
            Assert.IsNotNull(byteArray);
            Assert.AreEqual(4, byteArray.Length);
            for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) Assert.AreEqual(i, byteArray[i]);

            Assert.IsFalse(reopenedCache.ContainsKey("Object"));
            Assert.IsNull(reopenedCache.Lookup("Object"));
            Assert.IsFalse(reopenedCache.ContainsKey("NeverInserted"));
            Assert.IsNull(reopenedCache.Lookup("NeverInserted"));
        }
#endif

#if !PORTABLE
        [Test]
        public void TestLruPolicy()
        {
            var hundredBytes = new byte[100];
            ICache cache = new MemoryCache(1000, new LruCacheEvictionPolicy(), 900, 700);
            for(int i = 0; i < 9;i++)
            {
                cache.Insert("Entry " + i, hundredBytes, CachePriority.Normal);
                Thread.Sleep(20);
            }
            // Cache size is now 900 bytes

            cache.Insert("Entry 10", hundredBytes, CachePriority.Normal);
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 0"));
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 1"));
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 2"));
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 10"));

            // Cache size should now be 800 bytes
            cache.Lookup("Entry 2");
            cache.Insert("Entry 11", hundredBytes, CachePriority.Normal);
            cache.Insert("Entry 12", hundredBytes, CachePriority.Normal); // This insert should force eviction
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 0")); // was previously evicted
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 1")); // was previously evicted
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 2"), "Expected Entry2 to remain in cache after second eviction"); // Won't be evicted due to recent access
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 3")); // newly evicted
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 4")); // newly evicted
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 5"), "Expected Entry 5 to remain in cache after second eviction"); // shouldn't be evicted
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 11"), "Expected Entry 11 to remain in cache after second eviction"); // should have been added before eviction
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 12"), "Expected Entry 12 to be added to cache after second eviction"); // should have been added after eviction

        }

        [Test]
        public void TestLruPriority()
        {
            var hundredBytes = new byte[100];
            ICache cache = new MemoryCache(1000, new LruCacheEvictionPolicy(), 900, 700);
            for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++)
            {
                cache.Insert("Entry " + i, hundredBytes, i%2 == 0 ? CachePriority.High : CachePriority.Normal);
                Thread.Sleep(20);
            }
            // Cache size is now 900 bytes

            cache.Insert("Entry 10", hundredBytes, CachePriority.High);
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 0"), "Expected Entry 0 to remain after first eviction");
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 1"), "Expected Entry 1 to be removed after first eviction");
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 2"), "Expected Entry 2 to remain after first eviction");
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 3"), "Expected Entry 3 to be removed after first eviction");
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 4"));
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 5"));
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 10"));

            cache.Insert("Entry 11", hundredBytes, CachePriority.High);
            cache.Insert("Entry 12", hundredBytes, CachePriority.High);
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 5"), "Expected Entry 5 to be removed after second eviction");
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 7"), "Expected Entry 7 to be removed after second eviction");

            Assert.IsNotNull(cache.Lookup("Entry 2"));
            cache.Insert("Entry 13", hundredBytes, CachePriority.High);
            cache.Insert("Entry 14", hundredBytes, CachePriority.High);
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 0")); // Should now start evicting high priority items
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 2"), "Expected Entry 2 to remain after third eviction due to recent access");
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 4"), "Expected Entry 4 to be removed after third eviction");
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestTwoLevelCache()
        {
            var hundredBytes = new byte[100];
            ICache primary = new MemoryCache(500, new LruCacheEvictionPolicy(), 400, 300);
            ICache secondary = new MemoryCache(1000, new LruCacheEvictionPolicy(), 900, 700);
            ICache cache = new TwoLevelCache(primary, secondary);

            for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++)
            {
                cache.Insert("Entry " + i, hundredBytes, CachePriority.Normal);
                Thread.Sleep(20);
            }

            for(int i = 0; i < 9; i++)
            {
                Assert.IsTrue(secondary.ContainsKey("Entry " + i), "Expected secondary cache to contain Entry {0} after initialization");
                if (i < 5) Assert.IsFalse(primary.ContainsKey("Entry " + i), "Expected primary cache to NOT contain Entry {0} after initialization", i);
                else Assert.IsTrue(primary.ContainsKey("Entry " + i), "Expected primary cache to contain Entry {0} after initialization", i);
            }

            cache.Insert("Entry 10", hundredBytes, CachePriority.Normal);
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 0"));
            Assert.IsFalse(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 1"));
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 2"));
            Assert.IsTrue(cache.ContainsKey("Entry 10"));
            Assert.IsTrue(primary.ContainsKey("Entry 10"));
            Assert.IsTrue(secondary.ContainsKey("Entry 10"));
        }
#endif
    }

#if !SILVERLIGHT && !NETFX_CORE && !PORTABLE
    [Serializable]
#endif
    public class TestObject
    {
        public string StringValue { get; set; }
        public long LongValue { get; set; }
        public TestObject() {}
        public TestObject(string stringValue, long longValue)
        {
            StringValue = stringValue;
            LongValue = longValue;
        }
    }
}


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Delta High School » News » Current News Stories » Everyone Has a Story (by Eleni Bow)
By Eleni Bow
From 1998 until 2004, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman would throw a dart at a map of America, and find a city. Then he would randomly select a name from that city's phonebook, and get a story out of the selected person. The stories he generated were ones that wouldn't be aired normally. An example is the 87-year-old woman who still does her son's laundry. Hartman's philosophy was simple: "Everyone has a story". The same idea was found at Delta.
When it comes to publicity, some kids can be overshadowed by all-star athletes, musicians, and intellectuals. I chose to experiment with Hartman's technique, and uncovered some compelling stories in the cave system of students.
Jayanna Pounds
Jayanna considers herself a "sneaker head," meaning the freshman collects different shoes. She collected some in fourth grade, but got more into it in sixth grade. Her favorite brand to collect is Air Jordans. "The reason I started doing it was because, with Jordans, they'll make a release date, and that's the only time they'll come out," she explains. "It's rare if they release them again, but it would be years from now."
Not only does she buy and collect brand names, Jayanna also scouts out custom pairs. To maintain them in mint condition, she will usually keep shoes in their original boxes. While she does not trade with other sneaker heads, she's interested in selling some online one day.
Geocaching is a hobby Jayanna wants to look into. The basic objective is to find a hidden treasure through clues and posted GPS coordinates. "It seems so interesting to learn and seems so fun to do," she says.
At home, she enjoys baking. Her favorite is brownies, but she also enjoys baking cookies. Jayanna never fails to eat her brownies without a side of vanilla ice cream. When she has the time, she'll bake from scratch, but she often uses a box mix because "it's easier and much faster."
Outside of school and home, she volunteers at her grandfather's church, Greater Mount Calvary Church of God In Christ in Muncie. She helps pack to-go boxes for the dinners the church hosts in the spring and summer. Jayanna plans to volunteer more in the future.
If she could choose any animal to have as a pet, she would pick two dogs- a Golden Retriever and a Dalmatian. Jayanna is captivated by the retriever due to its golden fur. "It seems so soft to the touch," she says. Watching movies with Dalmatians in them made her feel like they seemed to be "the best dog to ever have." She also likes their spots and overall uniqueness.
Concerning her own uniqueness, Jayanna tries to be her best self. She strives to be a leader and a good example for others; for example, showing classmates how to behave when there is a substitute teacher. "I try not to do what others want me to do. I try to be a leader for some of my classmates," she explains. "I just try to be the best I can around others and see the good things about me."
Dathan Watson
"I love him to pieces!' says the sophomore about his chocolate lab, Sampson.
Dathan likes to take him on walks and sometimes even on car rides.
Currently, Dathan doesn't volunteer anywhere. "I've thought about it though," he says. He would be interested in volunteer work involving animals, or even yard work and construction.
At home, Dathan can be found doing yard work, like mowing and trimming bushes. When he's not outside he likes to play video games. Currently, his favorite to play is Monster Hunter, a multiplayer role-play action game. Dathan is also playing other things, like Minecraft, a sandbox single and multiplayer game. When he has time, he likes to bake cookies, with peanut butter and chocolate chip being his two favorites to make.
"My friends think I'm really funny," Dathan says. He also sees himself as creative.
Levi Shelley
"I tend to be very computer and technology oriented," the junior says about himself. Over the course of his high school years, Levi has taken multiple engineering courses. He's a member of the National Honors Society, and when possible, he would tutor on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This school year, he was one of the founders of the Smash Bros Club.
Even at home, he enjoys fiddling around with computers. "I like to mess around with software development," he says. Specifically, Levi does coding and game development. When not creating, he can be found playing games and reading. His favorite reading materials are manga and books about interesting topics that go in depth about them. "I could read them for a long time," Levi says.
Since he was five years old, Levi has been a part of Boy Scouts. He started out as a Cub Scout, and is now a Life Scout, working his way to being an Eagle Scout, the highest rank. With the program, he has done volunteer work, like clean-ups. Aside from that, he has done service projects for NHS and soup kitchens. ¨I don't really volunteer in a single area, I more go from place to place whenever help is needed," he explains.
When he cooks for his family, Levi likes to make fiesta rice, and other "carb heavy meals meant to fill you up." Sometimes he bakes, with his favorite dessert to make being banana bread. "I do like to do baking when I get the chance. There's a lot of cool stuff that can be made with it," he says. Instead of cooking a certain cuisine, he makes what appeals to him most. "I just tend to make what tastes good. My appetite is everything," Levi says.
Along with his younger brother and sister, Levi also lives with seven animals. "My family is a bit of a pet family," he says. Included are a dog named Mya, cats named Parker and Chaz, and his sister's four guinea pigs. He isn't quite sure what kind they all are, saying, "I don't quite know their breeds, I more just like to love on them more than anything."
Levi sees himself as a computer whiz. His problem solving skills have helped him in catching on and understanding topics at school. "I've also been told that I'm very good at explaining concepts and lessons to other people," he says, proving helpful when tutoring at school. "Well, when I still could," he adds.
Kaylee Kemp
"It was the hardest thing I've ever done after being out of it for so long, but I'm really glad I did it." For the first time since middle school, Kaylee joined the girls' swim team for her senior year. This isn't the only sport Kaylee's participated in, though. For the last seven years, she's practiced cheerleading and tumbling.
"I broke my hand sophomore year while I was tumbling at cheer practice," she says. Kaylee was practicing her standing backhandspring tuck. "Whenever you come out of the backhandspring you're supposed to set up really high so you get enough height for your tuck," she explains, "but one specific time, I didn't set at all." Instead, Kaylee went straight back and landed on her hand, resulting in her middle finger dislocating and breaking two metacarpals in her left hand. Now she has a plate with nine screws holding it all together. "I didn't have the greatest luck that season of cheer," she says. Not long before injuring her hand, Kaylee dislocated her index finger on her right hand while practicing. "But I healed, finally got the skill, and was able to compete with it this season," she adds.
During the summer, Kaylee loves to go to the Brookville Reservoir near Connersville with her friends and family to do water sports. "I'd say tubing is my favorite because it doesn't take much effort and I can do it with my friends," she says, "but I like them all." Besides tubing, she likes waterskiing, boating, camping and wakeboarding.
Kaylee considers herself "obsessed" with coffee, drinking it every day. She likes her coffee either hot or iced, but tends to go with ice most of the time, always drinking it with creamer. "I can get coffee from anywhere. I don't have a preference, but I always find myself at Starbucks even though it's way overpriced," she says. Kaylee is looking forward to getting her coffee at Dunkin when the construction is complete.
At home, she has three pets. Since she was really young, she's had a little brown shih tzu named Cocoa. For the last few years, Kaylee has had a turtle named Sheldon. She also has a goldfish. If she could, Kaylee would want another dog, like a goldendoodle.
Kaylee has been a part of Secret Families since it was created. "I started out wrapping presents but over the years I've done all the jobs from shopping to wrapping to delivering the presents to families," she says, "You can do whatever job you want as long as there are spots available. It brings the community together, and everyone benefits from the experience."
Kaylee likes to help out whenever she can, and enjoys helping people. She's going to Ball State University for a major in nursing and a minor in Spanish, and then wants to work in a children's hospital.

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I just want to say I hope the lord watches over those who are caring for those infected. pray for there strength and there wisdom. God set there sights on you.
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Writing Tip: "Seeing As How"
Posted on: 05-7-2013 by: Brian Wasko
Yesterday I wrote about my preference for since or because over as in sentences where these words are synonymous. I have since been reminded of an even worse option: seeing as how.
"Seeing as how I have a headache, I won't be going to work today."
How I'd love to say that "seeing as how" is incorrect. I can't because I have no authority to point to, and it is, unfortunately, an expression in increasingly common use (See the graph below on its use in print publications). Who am I to say that the many who use it are wrong about it?
What I can say is it's an ugly, awkward expression with several preferable alternatives. It's not wrong; I just don't like it.
Seeing As Or Seeing That
You could drop the how and stick to seeing as:
Seeing as I have a headache, I won't be going to work today.
I still don't like this, but it's better than seeing as how and is somewhat less colloquial
Seeing that is slightly better and has some literary precedence. Shakespeare himself used it in Julius Caesar (2:2) "Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."
Seeing that I have a headache, I wont' be going to work today.
Since or Because
Either since or because would be, in my opinion, a strong improvement — perfectly clear and more concise.
Since I have a headache, I won't be going to work today.
Because I have a headache, I won't be going to work today.
Inasmuch As Or Insofar As
For this sentence, however, I prefer either of these options: inasmuch as or insofar as. Both carry the the same meaning as "since" but can also mean "to the extent or degree that" — a slight variation that works in this case.
Inasmuch as I have a headache, I won't be going to work today.
Insofar as I have a headache, I won't be going to work today.
Words and Preference
The variety and flexibility of English is both a curse and a blessing for the writer. We have listed here seven alternatives to what I consider a hideous construction — seeing as how. Each is a synonym of the other and could be used acceptably in this sentence. And there are other options, though none preferable: due to the fact that, because of the fact that, for the reason that, even considering that or in light of the fact that. All of these are unnecessarily wordy phrases, but all common in print and daily speech.
When it comes to synonymous words and phrases, the writer's duty is to know the options, consider them carefully, and make a selection. Definition, including both denotation and connotation, should play the primary role in the decision, but aesthetic considerations like rhythm or fluency — the sound of the words — should be considered as well. The composition's purpose and audience matter as well, of course. Words like inasmuch might not be appropriate in an informal context, for example. In the end, however, it comes down to subjective personal preference.We choose the expressions we like best.
Real writers care about word choices like this, even though it seems rather insignificant in the long run.
I'd appreciate your input. Feel free to leave any comments or questions in the space below.
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Mary Wells 08-13-2016
"I have a headache and am taking a PTO day" does it for me.
Joris van den Outenaar 11-17-2015
So, what about 'seeing how'? This sounds like a reasonable alternative to me, but I'm no native speaker.
This would have to be in reference to something that's 'doable', I guess. "Seeing how you can edit such in such, it's strange that such."
Brian Wasko 11-17-2015
It's fairly common. People use it. I just don't prefer it. There are other options that sound nicer and clearer to me. It's purely subjective, however.
Patrick 09-15-2015
"Given that I have a headache…"? Sounds a bit like a mathematical assumption.
I think Shakespeare was using "Seeing" literally as the present participle of the verb "To see", i.e. when men will see that death will come when it will come, i.e. when men will when their death will come… and not as a compound preposition.
i can't edit??? I meant "when men will SEE when their death will come" or even simpler "when men will see their death coming".
Chris J. Strolin 04-03-2015
I was referred to this column by a friend after I wrote the following:
The three-day battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) is considered by most historians to have been the turning point of the American Civil War seeing as how this was the farthest north that Confederate troops ever reached.
I have read your column twice, studied your arguments thoroughly, and have come to the belief that, sorry, you badly miss the mark on this point. None of your suggested alternatives carry the same feeling as "seeing as how." "Since" and "because" are too abrupt and both "insofar" and "inasmuch" strike me as laughably, not to mention offensively, pedantic. The substitute you offer that I find comes closest to being acceptable is the simpler "seeing as," but even that lacks the friendly feeling that "seeing as how" conveys.
I should point out that my Gettysburg segment above is not part of, say, a formal paper written for a university. Maybe "seeing as how" is a regionalism and, as such, is pleasing to my ear while nails on the chalkboard to yours. You say you just don't like it. I'm fine with that. I simply happen to like it a lot. This is how I speak.
May I also mention that I can almost see you looking down your nose at me when you say "Real writers care about word choices like this." I can't help but feel some sense of resentment there and assure you that I do care very deeply about how I use our language. I only use "decimate" when something is reduced by one tenth. Similarly, I reserve "dilemma" for only those situations in which a problem presents two possible solutions, no more and no less. (There is also "trilemma" for problems with three possible solutions, but even I am not so pedantic as to try to foist that one off on my readers.)
Thanks for allowing me to vent. Seeing as how I have nothing more to add at the moment, I'll close with
Respects,
To each his own. Thanks for sharing your perspective, Chris.
Andrew 01-29-2015
I appreciate your exploration of the phrase, Brian, but I have to agree with Pablo, at least half way. I think that "seeing as how" certainly has a place, albeit colloquially, in many situations, but "since" is not at all a good alternative. I would argue that when one says "seeing as how", one is actually meaning to say "in consideration of", or maybe "because of the fact". In this case simply saying because is most straight forward, but I think "seeing as how" conveys that the author has truly given consideration to the topic. In this case "since" is clearly incorrect because, well, since and because are often used incorrectly, as is clearly documented just about everywhere.
"In the end, however, it comes down to subjective personal preference.We choose the expressions we like best."
I haven't noticed that "since" and "because" are often used incorrectly. I'll have to look into that.
It's a matter of opinion, of course, but I much prefer the latter of your examples.
Pablo 08-10-2013
I agree with your use of "since" instead of "seeing as how" in the examples you gave, but what about when "since" is used in the middle of a sentence? For example, "I would hope not, seeing as how you're always late" versus "I would hope not, since you're always late". There's something about the first one that just sounds better to me. I can't figure out why, though. Is it just me?
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Catch Up on Ukraine Through Pictures: March 23, 2022
Kristine Bellino
Kristine Bellino Published: March 23, 2022
Ukraine and Its Neighbors Graphic Credit: Google Maps (March 2022)
The situation in Ukraine is ever-changing and complex. For many it is stressful and difficult to digest.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The reader is cautioned that the photo gallery located at the end of this post contains images that readers might find disturbing, including images that show offensive language, injuries, and death. The reader is advised and cautioned to use discretion as the content may not be suitable for all.]
A March 23, 2022 article by Anton Troianovski and Michael Schwirtz in the "New York Times" includes the following regarding the sentiment of some in Russia toward the war:
"In January, the head of a group of serving and retired Russian military officers declared that invading Ukraine would be 'pointless and extremely dangerous.' It would kill thousands, he said, make Russians and Ukrainians enemies for life, risk a war with NATO and threaten 'the existence of Russia itself as a state.'"
According to the authors Ivashov, cognizant of Russia's wartime censorship, says that he continues to stand by that assessment.
Today U.S. President Biden is in Europe talking with European leaders. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is addressing French President Emmanuel Macron and France's Parliament.
Here are some basics about the country on everyone's mind.
Ukraine is almost as big as the U.S. State of Texas. Ukraine's capital is Kyiv (sometimes written as "Kiev") and, prior to Russia's invasion, the World Bank estimated that Ukraine's population was approximately 44 million people.
Ukraine shares borders with the following countries:
Russia (east)
Belarus (north, northwest)
Poland (northwest)
Slovakia (west)
Hungary (west)
Romania (southwest)
Moldova (south, southwest)
Map of Ukraine via Google Maps (March 2022)
Arguably among the most significant cities in terms of Russia's invasion are:
Ukraine and the World's Response to Russia's Attack - February 24, 2022 to Present
The following images help document Russia's invasion of Urkaine, and the world's response. The reader is STRONGLY CAUTIONED that this gallery CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES, some of which include IMAGES OF DEATH. As of March 5, 2022 the gallery includes images that are not suitable for all readers. The reader is cautioned not to view this gallery without discretion.
Source: Catch Up on Ukraine Through Pictures: March 23, 2022
Filed Under: emmanuel macron, joe biden, joseph biden, Ukraine Invasion 2022, Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Categories: National News, World News
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Q: C++ compiler error regarding initialization of a non-const reference of type 'std::ostream&' from a temporary of type 'std::ostream" I've been attempting to create a program that implements a real-time scheduling algorithm for a defined set of processes. While compiling with g++ I get an error, which states:
RTSprocess.h: in function 'std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream&, const rtsProcess&)':
RTSprocess.h84: error: invalid initialization of non-const reference of type 'std::ostream&' from a temporary of type 'std::ostream*'
#ifndef RTSPROCESS_H
#define RTSPROCESS_H
//defining the rts process

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
//include the necessary parts

using namespace std;

//create the rts process class itself, declare all necessary variables
class rtsProcess {
protected:
public:
    int pid;
    int burst;
    int arrival;
    int timeRemaining;
    int doneWaiting;
    int finishTime;
    int deadline;
    bool failed;

    //assign base values to all necessary variables
    rtsProcess() {
        this->failed = false;
        this->pid = 0;
        this->burst = 0;
        this->arrival = 0;
        this->timeRemaining =0;
        this->doneWaiting = 0;
        this->finishTime = 0;
        this->deadline = 0;
    };

    //set case where variables assigned by user
    rtsProcess (int pid, int burst, int arrival, int deadline) {
        this->pid = pid;
        this->burst = burst;
        this->arrival = arrival;
        this->timeRemaining = burst;
        this->deadline = deadline;
        this->doneWaiting = 0;
        this->finishTime = 0;
        this->failed = false;
    };
    ~rtsProcess() {

    };
    //set case where input from file
    rtsProcess( const rtsProcess &p) {
        pid = p.pid;
        burst = p.burst;
        arrival = p.arrival;
        timeRemaining = p.timeRemaining;
        deadline = p.deadline;
        doneWaiting = p.doneWaiting;
        finishTime = p.finishTime;
        failed = p.failed;
    };
    // set with return
    rtsProcess& operator = (const rtsProcess &p) {
        pid = p.pid;
        burst = p.burst;
        arrival = p.arrival;
        timeRemaining = p.timeRemaining;
        deadline = p.deadline;
        doneWaiting = p.doneWaiting;
        finishTime = p.finishTime;
        failed = p.failed;
        return *this;
    };
    //set the operators
    bool operator== (const rtsProcess &p) {
        return (this->pid == p.pid && this->arrival == p.arrival && this->burst == p.burst);
    }
    bool operator!= (const rtsProcess &p){
        return !(this->pid == p.pid && this->arrival == p.arrival && this->burst == p.burst);
    }
    friend ostream& operator << (ostream &os, const rtsProcess &p) {
        p.display(os);
        return &os;
    };
    //set the display to the console
    void display(ostream &os) const {
        os << "\t" << pid;
        os << "\t" << burst;
        os << "\t" << arrival;
        os << "\t" << deadline;
        os << "\t\t" << timeRemaining;
    };
};
#endif

From what I can tell it seems as though the error lies in this block of code(also the error message explicitly mentions it):
friend ostream& operator << (ostream &os, const rtsProcess &p) {
    p.display(os);
    return &os;
};

I have attempted every way that I can think of to correct the error, changing the type passed to p.display doesn't work, changing the return type doesn't seem to work, and I'm kind of at my wit's end. I've found answers here that reference similar things, but none whose solutions seem to fix my issue. Any help in solving my error would be greatly appreciated.

A: change
friend ostream& operator << (ostream &os, const rtsProcess &p) {
    p.display(os);
    return &os;
};

to
friend ostream& operator << (ostream &os, const rtsProcess &p) {
    p.display(os);
    return os;
};

Operator & is called address of. Returning a reference is different from returning an address yielding to your compiler error.

A: As has been pointed out in the first comment to your post, don't do
return &os; // this creates a temporary pointer to os

Just do
return os;

Whenever you do
&x

where x is some variable you get a temporary pointer to that variable. Hence the error message

RTSprocess.h84: error: invalid initialization of non-const reference of type 'std::ostream&' from a temporary of type 'std::ostream*'

The compiler therefore realized that you are trying to return a pointer when the function returns a reference and it throws you an error.

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Sometimes, the best solution for someone with a felony is to join the Army. But the question is, does the army accept felons? The Army maintains stringent moral requirements for army recruits. However, that does not mean that a conviction for a felony will preclude the Army from taking your application. Waivers for felonies have increased among military recruits in recent years.
With that being said, a waiver is not automatic. A waiver is only considered and sanctioned if it can be shown that an applicant has successfully adjusted to a civilian lifestyle after being released from the control of the judicial system and prison life. Obviously a good way to do that is to write a resume and find a job.
In the current day and age, more recruits who are felons are considered for waivers simply because the number of volunteers has waned. Military waivers therefore may be granted to individuals with a criminal history or to applicants who have a medical condition that would have precluded them from signing up for service in the past. The age for new recruits has been extended as well. The age range for new enlistees has now been increased from the maximum age of 35 to 42 years of age.
Moral waivers that are issued are segregated into six main categories. These six classifications include felonies along with minor non-traffic offenses, serious non-traffic offenses, minor traffic offenses, serious traffic offenses and crimes related to drugs.
In a statement to CNN, the officer of Army Public Affairs, John P. Boyce, Jr., said ". . . [M]en and women in today's world have a hard time meeting the . . . moral, medical, administrative and aptitude requirements . . . [set by the Army]. . . ." Boyce indicated that ". . . . [only three] in 10 Americans of military age can meet the standards." Though this sounds like a bad thing, it really works to the advantage of those with a felony that are seeking to join the Army.
The Army has found that the wavier system is necessary in order to respond to a mainstream that has changed. . . ." [Today,] younger people are apt to suffer from medical problems, such as asthma and obesity, or have a criminal history." He added that moral waivers are not issued for crimes that are associated with sexually violent behavior, alcoholism or drug trafficking.
Information that was collected by the Department of Defense shows that over half of the men and women recruited into the Army during 2007 had felony convictions that ran from such activities as writing bad checks and stealing credit cards to burglarizing residences and businesses and committing drug-related crimes. The data also showed that two of the reported enlistees were permitted to join the Army following convictions for manslaughter and 3 recruits had been charged and found to be guilty of vehicular or negligent homicide.
Minor traffic offenses – If you have had six or more traffic offenses, which were considered minor and whose fines were at least $100 per each offense, then a waiver is required. The Army is a separate society than the mainstream. Therefore, local or state laws will not apply as to what the Army defines as minor traffic infringements.
Minor non-traffic offenses – If you have had three convictions for minor non-traffic offenses, you will need a waiver. Once more, the Army has its own definition with respect to these kinds of infractions.
Misdemeanor crimes– If you have had two to four civil convictions or other negative dispositions that constitute misdemeanor offenses in the Army, a waiver is required. If you have four or more civil convictions, a waiver will not be issued.
Should you have a combination of three or more negative dispositions or civil convictions that make up a combination of minor non-traffic offenses and misdemeanors, then a waiver must be obtained.
Two or more convictions for DWI/DUI – A waiting time of 12 months from the date of the conviction must pass to receive the issued waiver.
Again, a felony conviction needs a waiver. However, it is up to the Army as to what it deems is a felony that can be waived.
Offenses cannot be waived if they include convictions of intoxication, drug use, or possession during the enlistment process.
If you have any pending charges against you at the time of enrolment, you cannot be processed or admitted either. In addition,if you are currently under civil restraint – on parole, probation or in confinement, you cannot sign up for enlistment.
A civil felony conviction of three or more non-traffic offenses cannot be approved for any kind of waiver as well. If you are subject to a court conviction for the sale, distribution or trafficking of a controlled substances or marijuana, you cannot be considered for a spot in the Army.
If you have already served in the military and received an RE code of 4 (Re-enlistment Code), then you won't be able to re-enlist. Prior service people with a dishonourable discharge or bad conduct also do not receive waivers in the Army.
Three or more convictions for driving under the influence within a five-year span will prevent acceptance. You also won't obtain clearance for 5 or more misdemeanor convictions preceding the enlistment process.
Truth be told, sometimes the rules and regulations around joining the army with a felony can be a little confusing. Your best bet is to speak with an army recruiter directly, explain your situation, and go from there. As always, we advocate that you be as honest as possible and let them know every last detail of your felony conviction and current status.
Do you feel like it's okay for the Army to accept felons? Do you feel like it will help them become more disciplined?


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Q: log4j timezones How can i change log4j timezone in log filename?
My log4j.xml file:
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
    <appender name="daily" class="org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender">
    <param name="File" value="logs/cimlib.log" />
    <param name="TimeZone" value="Local" />

    <param name="DatePattern" value=".yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss" />
        <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
            <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z} %p %c: %m%n"/>
        </layout>
    </appender>

    <root>
        <priority value ="info" />
        <appender-ref ref="daily" />
   </root>
</log4j:configuration>

How can i set appender timezone to local?

A: This is not a settable variable.  It uses your machine's date/time/zone.


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Q: What is the "+01:00" in "2006-04-03 08:00:00+01:00" datetime timestamp object? I printed out a <class 'pandas._libs.tslibs.timestamps.Timestamp'> time variable, and it displays as
2006-04-03 08:00:00+01:00

I am wondering what is the +01:00 at the end? Seems this is related to daylight savings?
When I did
print(time.timestamp())

I am seeing
1144047600.0

which is off by 3600 (an hour).

A: +01:00 specifies an offset from UTC. Positive means ahead of UTC, so 8 am +01:00 would be 7 am UTC. Negative means behind UTC, so 8 am -01:00 would be 9 am UTC.
In that context, "timezone" is often mentioned. However it is important to note that many time zones in a geographical sense / as you can find them in the IANA database can share the same UTC offset at a given point in time.
Also, a UTC offset alone doesn't tell you anything about DST. For that you need to know the timezone. The combination of date/time, timezone and the rules associated with that timezone allow you to determine if DST is active or not.
For your example date try the following:
from datetime import datetime
import zoneinfo

dt = datetime.fromisoformat("2006-04-03")

# let's assume a time zone and see if DST is active:
dt = dt.replace(tzinfo=zoneinfo.ZoneInfo("Europe/London"))
print(dt, dt.dst())
# 2006-04-03 00:00:00+01:00 1:00:00
#--> so yes, DST is active, offset of one hour

# let's see which time zones share UTC+1 on that date:
for z in zoneinfo.available_timezones():
    if dt.replace(tzinfo=zoneinfo.ZoneInfo(z)).strftime("%z") == "+0100":
        print(z)

>>>
Europe/Guernsey
Europe/Jersey
GB
Africa/Ndjamena
GB-Eire
Europe/London
Europe/Belfast
Eire
Europe/Dublin
Africa/Algiers
Atlantic/Canary
Atlantic/Faroe
Europe/Lisbon
Atlantic/Faeroe
Etc/GMT-1
Africa/Bangui
Africa/Porto-Novo
Africa/Libreville
Africa/Malabo
Africa/Kinshasa
Africa/Lagos
Africa/Luanda
Atlantic/Madeira
Africa/Windhoek
Europe/Isle_of_Man
Africa/Niamey
Portugal
WET
Africa/Douala
Africa/Brazzaville

A:
What is the "+01:00" in "2006-04-03 08:00:00+01:00" ...?

This is the timezone offset in the format specified by ISO 8601 standard. In this example, it tells that 2006-04-03 08:00:00+01:00 is offset by one hour from UTC i.e. the equivalent date-time at UTC will be 2006-04-03T07:00Z where Z is the abbreviation for Zulu and represents the timezone offset of 00:00.
As you can see, the calculation is simple: To get the UTC date-time from a date-time with a different offset, subtract the excess offset or add the less offset, as applicable.
My area of expertise is Java and therefore, I am presenting a demo using Java language.
import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        DateTimeFormatter parser = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ssXXX");

        OffsetDateTime odt = OffsetDateTime.parse("2006-04-03 08:00:00+01:00", parser);
        System.out.println(odt);
        System.out.println(odt.withOffsetSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC));

        odt = OffsetDateTime.parse("2006-04-03 08:00:00-01:00", parser);
        System.out.println(odt);
        System.out.println(odt.withOffsetSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC));
    }
}

Output:
2006-04-03T08:00+01:00
2006-04-03T07:00Z
2006-04-03T08:00-01:00
2006-04-03T09:00Z

Online Demo
You may be interested to know the difference between timezone and timezone offset. A timezone ID is typically specified as Region/City e.g. America/New_York, Europe/London etc. You can check the tz database here. A timezone can have one or more timezone offsets e.g. Asia/Kolkata has a single timezone offset of +05:30. In comparison Europe/London has two timezone offsets: +01:00 in summer while +00:00 in winter as per its DST schedules. Because of this reason, an object representing a date-time with timezone is designed to adjust its timezone offset automatically. On the other hand, an object representing a date-time with timezone offset contains a fixed offset value. The following demo shows how a ZonedDateTime in Java automatically adjusts its offset.
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of("Europe/London");

        ZonedDateTime zdtSummer = LocalDate.of(2022, 5, 20).atStartOfDay(zoneId);
        System.out.println(zdtSummer);

        ZonedDateTime zdtWinter = LocalDate.of(2022, 11, 20).atStartOfDay(zoneId);
        System.out.println(zdtWinter);
    }
}

Output:
2022-05-20T00:00+01:00[Europe/London]
2022-11-20T00:00Z[Europe/London]

Learn more about the modern Date-Time API from Trail: Date Time.


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Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework, as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set of devices and form factors. At I/O, we're releasing our first technical preview of Flutter for web, announcing that Flutter is powering Google's smart display platform including the Google Home Hub, and delivering our first steps towards supporting desktop-class apps with Chrome OS.
From Mobile to Multi-Platform
For a long time, the Flutter team mission has been to build the best framework for developing mobile apps for iOS and Android. We believe that mobile development is ripe for improvement, with developers today forced to choose between building the same app twice for two platforms, or making compromises to use cross-platform frameworks. Flutter hits the sweet spot of enabling a single codebase to deliver beautiful, fast, tailored experiences with high developer productivity for both platforms, and we've been excited to see how our early efforts have flourished into one of the most popular open source projects.
As we started to home in on our 1.0 release last year, we began experimenting with broadening the scope of Flutter to other platforms. This was triggered both by internal teams within Google who are increasingly relying on Flutter, as well as the latent potential of the Dart platform for delivering portable experiences. In particular, a small team who were already building a web framework for Dart for internal usage started an exploratory project (codename "Hummingbird") to evaluate the technical merits of porting the Flutter engine to support the standards-based web.
The results of this project were startling, thanks in large part to the rapid progress in web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, which have pervasively delivered hardware-accelerated graphics, animation, and text as well as fast JavaScript execution. Within a few months of beginning the project, we had the core Flutter framework primitives working, and soon after we had demos running on mobile and desktop browsers. Along with Dart's long pedigree of compiling for the web, this proved that we could also bring the Flutter framework and apps to run on the web.
In parallel, the core Flutter project has been making progress to enable desktop-class apps, with input paradigms such as keyboard and mouse, window resizing, and tooling for Chrome OS app development. The exploratory work that we did for embedding Flutter into desktop-class apps running on Windows, Mac and Linux has also graduated into the core Flutter engine.
A Portable UI Framework for All Screens
It's worth pausing for a moment to acknowledge the business potential of a high-performance, portable UI framework that can deliver beautiful, tailored experiences to such a broad variety of form factors from a single codebase.
For startups, the ability to reach users on mobile, web, or desktop through the same app lets them reach their full audience from day one, rather than having limits due to technical considerations. Especially for larger organizations, the ability to deliver the same experience to all users with one codebase reduces complexity and development cost, and lets them focus on improving the quality of that experience.
With support for mobile, desktop, and web apps, our mission expands: we want to build the best framework for developing beautiful experiences for any screen.
This week, we are releasing the first technical preview of Flutter for the web. While this technology is still in development, we are ready for early adopters to try it out and give us feedback. Our initial vision for Flutter on the web is not as a general purpose replacement for the document experiences that HTML is optimized for; instead we intend it as a great way to build highly interactive, graphically rich content, where the benefits of a sophisticated UI framework are keenly felt.
To showcase Flutter for the web, we worked with the New York Times to build a demo. In addition to world-class news coverage, the New York Times is famous for its crossword and other puzzle games. Since avid puzzlers want to play on whatever device they're using at the time, their development team was attracted to Flutter as a potential solution for their needs. Discovering that they could reach the web with the same code was a huge boon. At Google I/O this week, you can get a sneak peek of their newly refreshed KENKEN puzzle game, which runs with the same code on Android, iOS, web, Mac, and Chrome OS.
Here's what Eric von Coelln, Executive Director of Puzzles at the New York Times has to say about their experiences with Flutter:
"The New York Times Crossword has more than 400,000 stand-alone subscriptions and is a daily ritual for puzzle solvers. Along with the Crossword, we've grown our portfolio of digital puzzles that reaches more than two million solvers each month.
We were already beginning to explore Flutter as a potential solution to the challenge of quickly developing engaging, high-quality mobile experiences. Now the addition of being able to publish to web makes Flutter an even more appealing option to quickly deploy across all of our user platforms. This update of our old Flash-based KenKen game into a multi-platform playable experience is something we're excited to bring to our solvers this year."
There's lots more to say about Flutter for web than we have space for here, so check out the dedicated article about Flutter for web on the Flutter blog.
At this early stage, we're eager to get your feedback on how you'd like to use Flutter for web. We expect to rapidly evolve the code, with a particular focus on performance, and harmonizing the codebase with the rest of the Flutter project.
Flutter for Mobile Devices
The core Flutter framework also receives an upgrade this week, with the immediate availability of Flutter 1.5 in our stable channel. Flutter 1.5 includes hundreds of changes in response to developer feedback, including updates for new App Store iOS SDK requirements, updates to the iOS and Material widgets, engine support for new device types, and Dart 2.3 featuring new UI-as-code language features.
As the framework itself matures, we're investing in building out the supporting ecosystem. The architectural model of Flutter has always prioritized a small core framework, supplemented by a rich package community. In the last few months, Google has contributed production-quality packages for web views, Google Maps, and Firebase ML Vision, and this week, we're adding initial support for in-app payments. And with over 2,000 open source packages available for Flutter, there are options available for most scenarios.
One particularly exciting project that we're announcing this week at I/O is the ML Kit Custom Image Classifier. Built using Flutter and Firebase, it offers an easy-to-use app-based workflow for creating custom image classification models. You can collect training data using the phone's camera, invite others to contribute to your datasets, trigger model training, and use trained models, all from the same app.
Flutter continues to grow in popularity and adoption. A growing roster of demanding customers including eBay, Sonos, Square, Capital One, Alibaba and Tencent are developing apps with Flutter. And they're having fun! Here's what Larry McKenzie, a senior developer at eBay had to say about Flutter:
"Flutter is fast! Features that once took us multiple days to implement can be finished in a single day. Many problems we used to spend a lot of time on, simply no longer occur. Our team can now focus on creating more polished user experiences and delivering functionality. Flutter is enabling us to exceed expectations!"
More broadly, LinkedIn recently conducted a study that showed Flutter is the single fastest-growing skill among software engineers, based on site members claiming it on their profile over the last 12 months. And in the recent 2019 StackOverflow developer survey, Flutter was listed as one of the most-loved developer frameworks.
Flutter is also being used on the desktop. For some months, we've been working on the desktop as an experimental project. But now we're graduating this into Flutter engine, integrating this work directly into the mainline repo. While these targets are not production-ready yet, we have published early instructions for developing Flutter apps to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Another quickly growing Flutter platform is Chrome OS, with millions of Chromebooks being sold every year, particularly in education. Chrome OS is a perfect environment for Flutter, both for running Flutter apps, and as a developer platform, since it supports execution of both Android and Linux apps. With Chrome OS, you can use Visual Studio Code or Android Studio to develop a Flutter app that you can test and run locally on the same device without an emulator. You can also publish Flutter apps for Chrome OS to the Play Store, where millions of others can benefit from your creation.
Flutter for Embedded Devices
As the final example of Flutter's portability, we offer Flutter embedded on other devices. We recently published samples that demonstrate Flutter running directly on smaller-scale devices like Raspberry Pi, and we offer an embedding API for Flutter that allows it to be used in scenarios including home, automotive and beyond.
Perhaps one of the most pervasive embedded platforms where Flutter is already running is on the smart display operating system that powers the likes of Google Home Hub.
Within Google, some Google-built features for the Smart Display platform are powered by Flutter today. And the Assistant team is excited to continue to expand the portfolio of features built with Flutter for the Smart Display in the coming months; the goal this year is to use Flutter to drive the overall system UI.
We often get asked by developers how they can get started with Flutter. We are pleased today to announce a comprehensive new training course for Flutter, built by The App Brewery, authors of the highest-rated iOS training course on Udemy. Their new course has over thirty hours of content for Flutter, including videos, demos and labs, and with Google's sponsorship, they are announcing today a time-limited discount of this course from the retail price of $199 to just $10.
Many developers are creating inspiring apps with Flutter. In the run-up to Google I/O, we ran a contest called Flutter Create to encourage developers to see what they could build with Flutter in 5KB or less of Dart code. We had over 750 unique entries from around the world, with some amazing examples that pushed what we imagine would be possible in such a small size.
Today, we're announcing the winners, which can be found on flutter.dev/create. Congratulations to the overall winner, Zebiao Hu, who wins a fully-loaded iMac Pro worth over $10,000!
Flutter is no longer a mobile framework, but a multi-platform framework that can help you reach your users wherever they are. We can't wait to see what you'll build with Flutter on the web, desktop, mobile, and beyond!
Posted by the Flutter Team
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A Fall Hiking Perspective on the Oregon Desert Trail
The Oregon Desert Trail's first fall thru-hiker, Bob "Huck Finn" Jessee, completed the route in 2015. Read about his adventure and tips for getting out in the shoulder season.
Bob Jessee
The Oregon Desert Trail (ODT) may have been Bob "Huck Finn" Jessee's second thru-hike, but following his successful 2013 completion of the 3,000-mile Continental Divide Trail, the newer and shorter trail offered a lot of the same challenges: navigation, distances between water sources and difficult terrain.
"I like hiking in the off-season," Bob explained, "and fall was the timeframe it worked out for me to hike the trail." No matter that he didn't find any resources outlining what he could expect on a shoulder season hike in eastern Oregon; being the first to tackle a route like the Oregon Desert Trail has its challenges, and Bob was up for the task. On top of issues like unreliable water sources and the possibility of inclement weather, he upped the ante by using only map and compass to hike the new route.
"I think the adventure is more of a reward on a route like the Oregon Desert Trail," Bob explained. "I don't use a gps or any technology, so to be able to do it with a map and compass is really rewarding when you find you are on track … but I was quick to discover that it didn't really matter if you were on the track or not. You can hike it as you want, as long as you [stay on public land]. Unlike other trails [like the Pacific Crest Trail or Appalachian Trail] I wasn't bound by trail markers because there are none."
As the route was envisioned as a primitive and remote backcountry experience, of the 750-miles, over 30 percent consists of cross-country terrain and over 50 percent can be found on old two-track roads. Instead of building trail, the idea was to connect into the existing infrastructure already on the ground, and since a lot of the desert consists of sagebrush seas, hikers can easily take a bearing and cross distances that would be challenging in a forested landscape.
Because 2015 was a dry year in the desert, Bob found he needed to carry lots of water at times, and by lots, he means almost 20 pounds! "In the first section I cached water in pretty standard spots [based off where previous ODT hikers cached]," he explained, "but north of Paisley I carried 9 liters because I didn't have a car to cache in the middle … my base weight was about 13 pounds, so food and water made up most of the weight."
Another challenge came in the form of difficult tread. "The terrain is far more rugged than people would expect it to be," he commented. "I joked that this can't be a scenic trail because you can't look up … at times there is lots of lava rock under your feet, and you need to pay attention to your steps. It's not a grassy knoll as it might look like from afar."
The rewards, though, were many. "The highlights of the hike were discovering things not in the trail materials," he explained. "When I was walking on Abert Rim I saw a note on the map near a lake that said 'petroglyphs.' I found a whole wall of cool petroglyphs that weren't mentioned in the guidebook; it seemed in the most natural spot on the lake for them."
"I wouldn't suggest hiking from east to west to just end in Bend," Bob commented, "because hiking east means you end in the Owyhee Canyonlands. I tried not to look at pictures too much before the hike; if you don't have an idea of what the Owyhee will be like, it's just mindboggling. The rock is so interesting, and I really enjoyed the deeper section [in the Little West Owyhee] where you have to take your pack off and swim. Even in fall you have to swim. I was wet for 2 ½ days straight … it's hard: There's boulder hopping, and it's cold, but it's an awesome adventure. I would go do that just for a weekend!"
When asked what advice he would give to hikers wanting to get out in the fall he suggested:
1) Really consider your water: I feel comfortable carrying up to 9 liters, maybe because I'm bullheaded, but I probably would have been more comfortable if I had cached more water.
2) If you want to see a lot of wildlife, spring may be a better season to hike: I think I missed out on a good portion of the wildlife because it was so dry.
3) Be ready for cooler weather: The weather was cool; my hottest day was in the beginning of September (95 degrees) on the Diablo Rim, and I had only one day of rain.
3) It's more rugged than you think it's going to be.
4) Hunting season considerations: Once you get to Plush many of the places to stay will be full because of hunting season, or they will have closed for the season. Steens Mountain and the Pueblos were inundated with hunters; you didn't see them on the trail or in a cross-country section, but any time you hit a dirt road there were ATVs nonstop.
5) Carry hunting maps: I carried hunting maps in a few sections, and they are really good at showing the private property lines, and more dirt roads that the USGS map didn't have. (Note: the smartphone app onXROAM is a gps-enabled program that shows private property too.)
"The Oregon Desert Trail is a pretty intense, and it's not for your average hiker," Bob explained. "I would definitely do this trail again because it's super unique, it's accessible, and you would have a totally different experience depending on the time of year."
Note: Bob's hike in 2015 was a much dryer season than this 2016 fall has proved to be. Many of the water sources Bob noted as dry in our water report were in fact running.


For starters, despite being something akin to a bleeding-heart liberal, I've always found John Steinbeck's fiction dreadful — didactic, hollow, flat, and almost devoid of any lasting value as storytelling or social comment. His work to me sounds like the cantankerous rantings of a most disagreeable man (which, perhaps not coincidentally, is what I fear people would think of this blog if I ever made it public — eep). I can back away from that opinion somewhat, at least far enough to admit that it was formed when I was quite young; my mom is a great fan of the novel The Grapes of Wrath and I read most of what my mom loved when I was a teenager. This was one of the few things outside of sci-fi (which she loves) that we parted ways on. There are, being fair, things I love in Of Mice and Men and The Red Pony and hell, the guy wrote Lifeboat (ostensibly), so I'm not irreversibly dour about him, but: the book didn't seem nearly so incisive or revealing to me as I expected given its reputation, and I suppose what irked me most about it was its odd flatness — I would say "simplicity" but that seems too favorable a term. Steinbeck seemed to begin his work with a central thesis and instead of setting out to disprove it, simply stacked everything in his favor.
I don't question his documentation of squalor in the Depression — I'm actually quite sure things were worse than the book implies. But in storytelling terms, this is lethal, not least because it seems to me to translate to a very simple and privileged viewpoint cast upon the people in it, who become Steinbeck's mouthpieces. I can't speak to whether I'd still consider this criticism valid, but on viewing the film for the first time in over a decade, I found that if the novel commits such a crime, John Ford's film version amplifies it to startling and uncomfortable degree. Far from being the humanist or even socialist screed that was likely designed, the film seems wholly dedicated to paring its human occupants down to a simple monolith of the working poor (and in the background, the monolith of the rich). I have no problem whatsoever with the Joads, the farming family on a forced trek to California for labor, shown having an awful time of making do. My problem is that they are only illustrations, and an opportunity to actually cast a revealing light on purportedly "down home" poor "folks" is missed completely by a director like Ford who should damn well have known better (though he'd repeat the error with How Green Was My Valley one year afterward).
The chief virtue I did carry away from the 400-odd pages of Grapes was its unflinching sense of life, its lack of compromise in depicting the objective reality of American life among the disenfranchised. Then and now, that makes a viewing of Ford's film more heartbreaking because — inevitably, for a film from the studio era — it's nearly unrecognizably whitewashed, shoehorned into a cubbyhole of cutesy Oakie stereotyping and pandering condescension toward what it all but directly terms "the little people." This might be most damaging at the conclusion: whereas the novel closes with the powerful image of Rose of Sharon offering her breast milk to the starving man, the film ends with a blandly ideological series of speeches; though it leaves the fate of Tom Joad (a sympathetic Henry Fonda, whose performance is far beyond the material he's given) up in the air, its ambiguities are trite compared to the real issues facing the world and the country at this crucial time. Censorship neuters the film before it even starts.
We're left strictly with the technical virtues of The Grapes of Wrath, which admittedly are considerable; Ford's sense of cinema is as overpowering with beauty as ever, and here he's assisted by cinematographer Gregg Toland, surely the major reason to see this film. I didn't know who Toland even was the first time I saw Grapes; I'd now consider him likely my all-time favorite cinematographer if pressed to choose one. This is a more than worthy if seldom acknowledged feature in his canon; though it toys with deep focus like Citizen Kane and The Best Years of Our Lives, it opens up a much broader world than either, with eerily desolate landscapes and achingly gorgeous scenery anchoring the bleakness of the photoplay being acted out in front of them. Of course, its visual sumptuousness might count for more if there were more time to enjoy it; the action and dialogue scenes are sadly too heavy on closeups for Toland's best work not to remain a rare treat in the body of the movie.
Our other pleasure here stems primarily from the presence of the great Fonda, whose stoic variation on a traditional movie machismo is agreeably multilayered even if the actual varieties of expression in his character are not; the script calls for him to look constantly baffled and sorrowful, and he compensates by thinking of about two hundred ways to look baffled and sorrowful. The only performance remotely worthy of his is that of Jane Darwell as his mother, a lovely-to-the-core woman unfortunately saddled with far too many mouthfuls of silly dialogue and a dull emptiness in emotional range. Fonda carries the film nearly on his own; when he's gone from the frame, we suffer mightily.
He provides as well the only relief from all the talking-down Ford, Steinbeck, and screenwriter Nunnally Johnson are guilty of here; again, there's no issue with presenting an oppressively bleak portrait of the Joads' lives, but to render the Joads themselves so docile and one-dimensional and saddle them with the ugly, toothless rubric of the purportedly simple-minded is to fall victim to the same sort of prejudice that the characters are meant to encounter in the novel and film. Of course it means well — oh lord, how it means well — but as we see so often even with modern white privilege, meaning well is often nearly as lethal and dishonest as the alternative. If the film's tsk-tsking attitude weren't uncomfortably Hollywood enough, we have as well the constant urge to make everyone speak in speeches, to stuff mannered writerly nonsense into the mouths of characters we're otherwise expected to believe are dumb as posts and don't we gosh darn love 'em for it. Alfred Newman's treacly score adds to the sense that what we're really seeing is staunch conservative Darryl Zanuck's idea of what good-hearted pinkos wanted to see at the movies. And the money, of bloody course, rolled right on in.


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Cable Companies, Electronics Makers Reach Digital TV Accord
by Paul Gough , December 19, 2002
Manufacturers and cable operators announced a deal Thursday they say will smooth the way for cable consumers to have digital TV.
When fully implemented and if approved by the Federal Communications Commission, the deal could set a "plug-and-play" standard that will make every new digital TV compatible with major cable systems nationwide. Proponents hope it will ease the transition from analog to digital TV and help the cable industry fight satellite's encroachment in market share and retail space.
"For the first time, the cable industry will enjoy a substantial retail presence," said Robert Sachs, president/CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association. This will mean that the cable industry will soon have something to sell to customers who are swayed by satellite commercials or in-store displays: The ability to connect to digital TVs without more equipment. About 2 million digital televisions have been sold nationwide.
"Consumers will not need a set-top box in order to receive our services. This is very consumer-friendly and we expect it will be very well received in the marketplace," Sachs said.
Mark Coblitz, SVP of strategic planning at Comcast Corp., said it's crucial that cable has parity with competitors in consumer electronics.
"There are literally billions of dollars that are spent on developing of consumer electronics equipment, and none of those dollars have been focused on products that would interoperate with the cable TV industry … This is a place where we just have to be," Coblitz said.
While this agreement will make digital TVs compatible with 90% of cable systems, it's not without potentially controversial aspects. One involves encoding that could thwart or limit personal video recorders, although sources said current capabilities would not be affected and recording within the home environment would continue to be done.
As for some of the more gee-whiz interactive TV, the long-awaited next step, Coblitz said Thursday's agreement is an important first step.
"Advanced interactive devices, they're more sophisticated and they'll take a lot of work. We're going to get to work on that right away," he said.
Executives from the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau declined comment until they had a further look at the agreement.


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Округ  Джонсон () — округ (графство) у штаті  Теннессі, США. Ідентифікатор округу 47091.

Історія
Округ утворений 1836 року.

Демографія

За даними перепису 2000 року загальне населення округу становило 17499 осіб, зокрема міського населення було 2934, а сільського — 14565. Серед мешканців округу чоловіків було 9344, а жінок — 8155. В окрузі було 6827 домогосподарств, 4754 родин, які мешкали в 7879 будинках. Середній розмір родини становив 2,81.

Віковий розподіл населення поданий у таблиці:

Суміжні округи
 Вашингтон, Вірджинія — північ
 Грейсон, Вірджинія — північний схід
 Еш, Північна Кароліна — схід
 Вотоґа, Північна Кароліна — південний схід
 Ейвері, Північна Кароліна — південь
 Картер — південний захід
 Салліван — захід

Див. також
 Список округів штату Теннессі

Виноски


Block Shop's first line of hand-tufted wool rugs includes this wild fuchsia-and-banana-hued gem.
How does Block Shop, the frustratingly cool L.A. textile studio cofounded by siblings Hopie and Lily Stockman, come up with its patterns? Hopie described their design process to the Los Angeles Times last year as a "weird, 'sister brain'" method of passing ideas back and forth between them until they decide it's done. The subtly trippy results—marked by snakelike squiggles, half-circles, and dots—grace quilts, scarves, dhurries, and other surfaces dyed the dazzling hues of a Joshua Tree sunset. Each pattern is first sketched and drawn in watercolor by the women, then translated to textiles by master artisans using hand-carved wood blocks in a town just outside of Jaipur.
Earlier this month, the Stockman sisters made their NYCxDesign debut at Sight Unseen Offsite, where they presented a line of hand-tufted wool rugs in a makeshift reading room (peony-pink bookmarks were offered as souvenirs). This wild Comb rug hung on the wall, which, like all Block Shop floor coverings, was handmade over the course of several months by master weavers in Jodhpur (all its pieces are made in India) and channels the sisters' pared-down version of Southern California style. Every object has its own narrative, too: According to a press release, Hopie and Lily see Comb's design as a "pink stucco art deco co-op enveloped in bougainvillea." To the casual admirer, it may simply look like a really awesome shag rug. Both assessments are valid.


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Q: Why does mysqli still escape quotes? I'm using prepare statements in mysqli and if I put a " into one of my params values then it escapes it and adds a backslash before it. I though mysqli didn't have to do this?? Thanks. Example:
$comment = $members->prepare("insert into comments(comment) values(?)");
$comment->bind_param('s', $_POST['comment']);
$comment->execute();

puts \"\" into the database assuming that the comment field is equal to ""

A: Your server may have magic quotes on.  Check it out here http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php  It's happened to me before, very annoying.
quick check to see
if(get_magic_quotes_gpc())
        echo "Magic quotes are enabled";
    else
        echo "Magic quotes are disabled";


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CTN PEER MENTOR, NAZARIO, ON PARADE MAGAZINE'S LIST OF MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
CTN peer mentor, Sonia Nazario, was selected by Parade Magazine as one of the 52 most influential Latina women in history. She was joined on the list by 51 other "revolutionaries that have shattered barriers and proven time and time again that "si, se puede"—a term coined by Latina civil rights activist Dolores Huerta."
The article continues, "these women have made strides in civil rights, politics, entertainment, and even gone to space. We've included the woman who wrote the original lyrics to Puerto Rico's national anthem, the Latina who fought to desegregate the school system, and the Latina author who was the first person from Latin America to win a Nobel Prize. Furthermore, it was a Latina who helped farmworkers receive U.S. labor rights, a Latina was the first female Surgeon General, and a Latina is one of the all-time greatest female golfers."
"We are in the middle of Hispanic Heritage Month, and there's no better salve for impostor syndrome than making Parade Magazine's list of 52 influential Latin-American women. I love this list of women who have brought Latinx stories to music, media, politics, and more, like journalist María Elena Salinas and Maria Hinojosa, actress and activist America Ferrera, and author and philanthropist Isabel Allende," commented Nazario.


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Pat McFadden MP reacts to the announcement about police funding
Last week, the Government announced the new police funding settlement for the next year. This is an issue that I've taken great interest in and a few weeks ago, I had special debate in the House of Commons. I discussed the difficulties that our local police forces are facing and worryingly, a potential further round of cuts if the Government didn't fund police pensions properly.
The announcement is not a 'turning the corner moment' for police funding, we've lost 2000 officers in last eight years and now the Government is loading more and more police costs on to the public through the Council tax precept.
What this announcement really means is a continuation of asking the public to pay more for a much smaller force than we've had in the past.
It doesn't meet the challenge of funding the police properly, I hope my debate put pressure on the Government but there is a long way to go before we have a properly funded and resourced police force to tackle rising crime.


All of us are law professors, except David Kopel, John Elwood, and Stewart Baker, who are lawyers. Naturally, we speak only for ourselves, and not for the institutions that employ us.
Sam Bray, University of Notre Dame.
David Bernstein, George Mason University.
David Post, Temple University (ret.).
Eugene Kontorovich, George Mason University.
Gail Heriot, University of San Diego.
Ilya Somin, George Mason University.
John Elwood, Vinson & Elkins.
Jonathan H. Adler, Case Western Reserve University.
Paul Cassell, University of Utah.
Sasha (Alexander) Volokh, Emory University.
Stewart Baker, Steptoe & Johnson.
Todd Zywicki, George Mason University.
Will Baude, University of Chicago.


Living in Vancouver, Washington is something special this week. Why? Because Spring Break, gorgeous weather and Masters Week have all converged.
Under normal circumstances, I find myself devouring Masters news online at the office. I think about golf and wish I was out playing instead of working. This year, I find myself in Central Oregon with the family, surrounded by golf opportunities.
Sunday was a short game day with my son. We played the par three hole outside our condo several times and worked on chipping and putting. Old dad still has better touch around the greens.
Monday was our chance to work the irons at the Eagle Crest Challenge Course. If you've never played it, the Challenge Course is a marvelous short course for the entire family. Tuesday, we're planning to all go out and play a round on the Resort Course and likely hit balls on the range. Can't wait.
By the time the world's best tee of Thursday at Augusta National, I'll have taken care of that golf bug and be ready to watch a great tournament.
What are you doing to celebrate Masters Week?