March 11 — The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has announced internship opportunities for its 2015 Research Experience for High School Students (REHS) summer program, which places students into multidisciplinary research teams to help them gain experience in selected areas of computational research.
The eight-week program will be held from June 22 through August 14 at SDSC, concluding with a poster session. Internship hours, which typically range from 15 to 25 hours a week, will be coordinated with SDSC principal investigators and staff who will serve as mentors in the program. This will be the sixth year for the program, which has grown in popularity among students.
REHS, now in its sixth year, is intended to serve as a stepping stone for students who are considering pursuing a computational science curriculum as a major or minor when they enter college.
A broad range of student internships are being offered this summer. Subject areas include working with multi-scale simulation software and GPU architectures in the areas of biomolecular catalyst research, or furthering research of molecules associated with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Other opportunities focus on developing web pages, content development, and validating neuronal models on supercomputers as part of SDSC's Neuroscience Gateways (NSG) project that gives neuroscientists access to high-performance computers via a Web-based portal, and developing reliable network and information technology infrastructures.
Internships will also be offered in the areas of learning how to effectively communicate and publicize research projects and their results, and assisting in building SDSC's social media presence.
Students may apply for up to two opportunities, which are listed in full here in addition to an application form and registration details. All applications must be submitted via U.S. mail no later than March 13, 2015. Selected applicants will be contacted by SDSC personnel to arrange a personal interview no later than April 13, 2015.


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Youth Homelessness Matters Day 2017
2018 Ozanam Conversation Bishop Vincent Long Geraldine Doogue homeless homelessness housing St Vincent de Paul Society Sue Cattermole tax; inequality; low income Vinnies
Vinnies supports Youth Homelessness Matters Day
Youth Homelessness Matters Day (YHMD) on Wednesday, April 5 is a timely reminder of the shameful fact that 42 per cent of people experiencing homelessness in Australia are under 25 years of age.
Vinnies is marking #YHMD2017 by highlighting the devastating effect homelessness can have on young people. We are also calling for greater action to prevent young people from becoming homeless in the first place and, for those who do become homeless, better-funded services and supports to help them exit homelessness as quickly as possible.
Homelessness among young people can arise for a variety of reasons, with family conflict or violence among the most common contributing factors.
Sadly, couch surfing and sleeping in cars with other family members are common ways young people are likely to experience homelessness. And whilst they may be so-called invisible forms of homelessness, for the children and teenagers who live it, it is very real.
Poor policy contributes to youth homelessness
During #YHMD 2017 we are also voicing our deep concerns that recent government policy decisions on employment and social security measures will further harm at risk youths.
Vinnies CEO Dr John Falzon said: "We have seen worrying attacks on young people in 2017 in the form of a one-week wait for income support payments and the proposal to cut penalty rates. We know that young people and women will be the main groups affected by cuts to penalty rates and that in and of itself is a reason to denounce the cuts.
"The future of various youth outreach, early intervention and accommodation services also hangs in the balance, with the Federal Government signalling their intention to abandon the National Housing Affordability Agreement (NAHA) in the upcoming Federal Budget.
"We need to reconfigure the policy settings so that youth employment, education and keeping young people out of prison are given the highest priority. A good place to start would be by increasing the pitifully low Youth Allowance and Newstart payments, plus strengthening education, training and employment pathways to prevent further marginalisation of vulnerable young people," Dr Falzon said.
Preventing youth homelessness
Australia can turn-around the shocking statistics that show more than 26,000 young Australians between 12-25 years of age do not have a home. We can ensure all young people have a place to live, a place to learn and a place to heal.
In our Ache for Home report, Vinnies urged the Federal Government to establish a national plan for housing that includes a $10 billion Social and Affordable Housing Fund and for Commonwealth Rent Assistance to be increased and indexed properly, among many other practical recommendations.
There are currently 217,000 people around the country on waiting lists for social housing, which is a measure of the housing crisis in Australia.
What you can do this #YHMD 2017
Click here to find out more about #YHMD 2017, an awareness week that is held during National Youth Week (March 31 to April 9). You can promote awareness of youth homelessness by sharing this page.
Twitter: #YHMD2017
Where to find help?
If you or someone you know is experiencing housing or financial distress please contact us or alternatively, you can visit the Find Help section of this website.
Nationally, the St Vincent de Paul Society offers in excess of two hundred programs and services. Click here to find out more if you are interested in volunteering with one of our services.

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The Romance Cover: Guest Reviewer Competition Winners Announced! Do You Want More Reviewer Competitions?
Guest Reviewer Competition Winners Announced! Do You Want More Reviewer Competitions?
Last Month we ran a competition for the chance of one of our followers to be a guest reviewer on the blog. All you had to do was leave a comment on the blog of who your favourite book boyfriend was and what was your favourite line of theirs. Since there was only two people that left comments, we would like both of them to be a guest reviewer.
So thank you Saunders and Linda Sims for entering!
If you two would like to email us on theromancecover@gmail.com and tell us which book you are going to review.
The plan was to run this competition monthly, but as not many people entered last month we are assuming there is no interest in this type of competition so will not continue. However some of you may not have been following us back then so if enough of you still think it's a good idea we will give it another go this month.
So the question is shall we run another guest reviewer competition or not? Please leave a comment below!
I wasn't a follower back when you had this contest. I love talking to people about books and telling them YAY or Nay, but unfortunately I do not have good grammar. You would think that with as much reading as I do I would, but nope. I end sentences in prepositions, correct comma placement, is more like where ever I feel like they should go, and spelling (only if there is spell check). So I think the contest is great idea but I don't think people would care for my rambling reviews so I wouldn't enter them.


20 May 2008, at 10:35a.m.
INDIA - PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have linked the filth of factory farms in India to the recent bird flu outbreak in Darjeeling in their latest claims.
The animal rights group says that in the midst of avian flu outbreak in Darjeeling, they released undercover video footage of crowded and filthy conditions on chicken and egg factory farms, which leading health experts believe causes the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
"[a]ntibiotics are routinely fed to healthy livestock and poultry to make them gain weight faster and to compensate for unsanitary living conditions"
The findings were sent to the West Bengal government last year, and the government was warned about how unsanitary conditions on factory farms could lead to an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus.
Because of the conditions that many chickens raised for meat and eggs are forced to endure, disease is rampant. On its website, the Environmental Defense Fund explains that "[a]ntibiotics are routinely fed to healthy livestock and poultry to make them gain weight faster and to compensate for unsanitary living conditions", reports PETA.
According to researcher Malati Puranik, who conducted a study of chickens sold in Mumbai, "[W]e realised that poultry sold under such unhygienic conditions is a serious health hazard. Pathogens such as campylobacter and salmonella proliferate, causing severe bacterial contamination". During the evisceration process, chicken carcasses easily become contaminated with faecal material when the intestines are cut or torn and the contents leak out during extraction.
According to a PETA report, unhygienic conditions on factory farms lead to outbreaks of bird flu. In 2007, Indian health officials confirmed a bird flu outbreak among poultry in the north-eastern state of Manipur. According to the World Health Organisation, out of the 342 registered cases of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, 211 people have died in 13 countries. Factory farms provide the perfect environment for the virus to strike. Because of the intense confinement of the animals, the deadly virus could spread like wildfire. Bird flu can be caught by humans who handle infected birds, and experts fear that the virus will eventually mutate into a form that is transmissible from human to human, setting off a catastrophic worldwide pandemic. Five people have been found to have bird flu symptoms in India. Recurrent outbreak of bird flu is a waste of public money. According to Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, the Indian government paid more than $19, 47,619 as compensation for poultry and feed in 2006, and more than $2, 23,810 was paid for birds culled in the 2007 outbreak.
In its report, PETA suggests that the welfare standards recommended by the UK's Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) should be used as the basic guidelines for the treatment of chickens in the poultry industry. Chickens die to provide the industry with huge profits, and PETA suggests that the industry owes the animals at least basic humane treatment in return.


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Q: Using full text search with geospatial index on Mongodb Let's say I want to develop an android app that allows a user to search a hotel that is closest to where you are located. This is very common on apps nowadays, like AirBnb for example.
This is the dataset I'm using:
{
    "name" : "The Most Amazing Hotel",
    "city" : "India",
    "type": "Point"
    "coord": [
        -56.16082,
        61.15392
      ]
}

{
    "name" : "The Most Incredible Hotel",
    "city" : "India",
    "type": "Point"
    "coord": [
        -56.56285,
        61.34590
      ]
}

{
    "name" : "The Fantastic GuestHouse",
    "city" : "India",
    "type": "Point"
    "coord": [
        -56.47085,
        61.11357
      ]
}

Now, I want to create a text index on the name field so that it searches by name and then sort by a geospatial index based on the coordinates.
So if I search for the words "The Most", it will search by the name for the words "The Most" and return the closest hotels with the words "The Most in them.
Does mongodb even support this type of search?
I'm reading the guidance for mongodb here: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/index-text/

A compound text index cannot include any other special index types,
  such as multi-key or geospatial index fields.

As far as I understand, I'm not creating a compound text index. This is a simple text index which means I'm only indexing the text for the name field and not for the city AND name fields.

A: There is a fair case that you really do not need this at all, as it is very hard to justify a use case for such an operation, and I would argue that "Searching for a Hotel" is not something where a combination of "text" and "geoSpatial" search really apply.
In reality "most people" would be looking for something close to a location, or even more likely close to various locations they want to visit, as part of their primary criteria, and then other "winners" would likely be greater weighted to "cost", "rating", "brand", "facilities", and likely even proximity to eateries etc.
Adding "Text search" to that list is a very different thing and likely not of much real use in this particular application.
Still, this probably deserves some explanation, and there are a few concepts to understand here as to why the two concepts don't really "mesh" for this use case at least.
Fixing Schema
Firstly, I'd like to make a suggestion to "tweak" your data schema a little:
{
    "name" : "The Most Amazing Hotel",
    "city" : "India",
    "location": {
        "type": "Point",
        "coordinates": [
               72.867804,
               19.076033
        ]
    }
}

That at least provies "location" as a valid GeoJSON Object for indexing, and you generally want GeoJSON rather than legacy co-ordinate pairs, as it does open up more options for query and storage in general, plus distances are standardized to meters rather than the equated "radians" around the globe.
Why they don't work together
So your reading is basically correct in that you cannot use more than one special index at once. First look at the compound index definition:
db.hotels.createIndex({ "name": "text", "location": "2dsphere" })

{
          "ok" : 0,
          "errmsg" : "bad index key pattern { name: \"text\", location: \"2dsphere\" }: Can't use more than one index plugin for a single index.",
          "code" : 67 }

So that cannot be done. Even considering seperately:
db.hotels.createIndex({ "name": "text" })
db.hotels.createIndex({ "location": "2dsphere" })

Then try doing a query:
db.hotels.find({
    "location": {
        "$nearSphere": {
            "$geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                   72.867804,
                   19.076033
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "$text": { "$search": "Amazing" }
})

Error: command failed: {
          "waitedMS" : NumberLong(0),
          "ok" : 0,
          "errmsg" : "text and geoNear not allowed in same query",
          "code" : 2
  } : undefined

Which actually backs up the reasons why this could not be defined in a compound index in three ways:

*

*As the initial error indicates, the way these "special" indexes are handled in MongoDB requires essentially "branching off" to the "special" handler for the selected index type, and the two handlers do not live in the same place.

*Even with separate indexes, since the logic is basically an "and" condition, MongoDB cannot acutally select more than one index anyway, and since both query clauses require "special" handling it would in fact be required to do so. And it cannot.

*Even if this were logically an $or condition, you basically end back at point 1, where even applying "index intersection" there is another property of such "special" indexes that they must be applied at the "top level" of the query operations in order to allow index selection. Wrapping these in an $or means MongoDB cannot do that and therefore it is not allowed.
But you can "Cheat"
So each basically has to be exclusive, and you cannot use them together. But of course you can always "cheat", depending on which order of search is more important to you.
Either by "location" first:
db.hotels.aggregate([
    { "$geoNear": {
        "near": {
            "type": "Point",
            "coordinates": [
               72.867804,
               19.076033
            ]
        },
        "spherical": true,
        "maxDistance": 5000,
        "distanceField": "distance",
        "query": {
           "name": /Amazing/
        }
    }}
])

Or even:
db.hotels.find({
    "location": {
        "$nearSphere": {
            "$geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                   72.867804,
                   19.076033
                ]
            },
            "$maxDistance": 5000
        }
    },
    "name": /Amazing/
})

Or by text search first:
db.hotels.find({
    "$text": { "$search": "Amazing" },
    "location": {
        "$geoWithin": {
            "$centerSphere": [[
               72.867804,
               19.076033
            ], 5000 ]
        }
    }
})

Now you can take a close look at the selection options in each approach with .explain() to see what is happening, but the basic case is that each selects only one of the special indexes to use respectively.
In the first case it will be the geoSpatial index on the collection that is used for the primary and will find results based on their proximity to the location given first and then filter by the Regular Expression argument given for the name field.
In the second case it will use the "text" index to do the primary selection ( therefore find things "Amazing" first ) and from those results apply a geoSpatial filter ( not using an index ) with $geoWithin, which in this case is performing what is basically the equivalent of of what a $near is doing, by searching within a circle around a point within the supplied distance to filter results there.
Not "all" Queries are Equal
The key thing to consider though is that it is very possible for each approach to return different results. By narrowing down on location first, the only data that can be inspected are those locations within the specified distance, so anything that is "Amazing" outside of the distance would never be considered by the additional filter.
In the second case, since the text term is the primary search, then all results of "Amazing" are put into consideration, and the only items that can be returned by the secondary filter are those that were allowed to be returned from the initial text filter.
This is very important in the overall consideration as the two query operations ( both "text" and "geoSpatial" ) strive to achieve very different things. In the "text" case it is looking for "top results" to the term given, and will by nature only return a limitted number of results matching the term in ranked order. This means that when applying any other filter condition, there is a strong possibility that many of the items that met that first condition do not meet the additional criteria.
In short, 'Not all things "Amazing" are necessarily anywhere near the queried point', which means with a realistic limit like 100 results, and by best match, those 100 do likely not contain all of the "near" items as well.
Also, the $text operator does not actually really "sort" the results in any way by itself. It's primary purpose is in fact not only to "match" on a phrase but to "score" the result in order to float the "best" match to the top. This is typically done "after" the query itself with the projected value being "sorted" and most likely "limited" as mentioned above. Possible in aggregation pipelines to do that an then apply the second filter(s), but as stated this likely excludes things that are otherwise "near" in the other purpose.
The reverse is also likely true ( 'There are many "Amazing" things further away from the point' ), but with realistic distance limits this becomes less likely. But the other consideration given is this is not a true text search, but just using a regular expression to match the given term.
As a final note, I'm always using "Amazing" as the example phrase here and not "Most" as suggested in the question. This is because of how "stemming" works in text indexes here ( as well as in most dedicated text search products ) in that the particular term would be ignored, much like "and", "or", "the", even "in" would be as well, as they are not really considered valuable to a Phrase, which is what text search does.
So it in fact remains that a Regular expression, would actually be better at matching such terms, if indeed that were required at all.
Concluding
Which really brings us back full circle to the original point, in that a "text" query really does not belong here anyway. The other useful filters usally work in tandem with the true "geoSpatial" search criteria the better, and true "text search" is really low on the list of what would be important.
More likely is that people want a location that lies within a *"Set Intersection" of distances from desired destinations they wish to visit, or at least near enough to some, or most. Then of course other factors ( *"price", "service" etc ) as mentioned earlier are things people want in general consideration.
It's not really a "good fit" to look for the results this way. If you think you really must, then apply one of the "cheat" approaches, or in fact use different queries and then some other logic to merge each set of results. But it really does not make sense for the server to do this alone, which is why it does not try.
So I would focus on getting your geoSpatial matches right first, then apply other critieria that should be important to results. But I don't really believe that "text search" is really valid to be one of them anyway. "Cheat" instead, but only if you really must.

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Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics will sell a very limited number of single-game football tickets for the Nittany Lions' 2009 season on Friday, July 31. The online ticket sale, open to alumni and the general public, will begin at 10:00 a.m. at www.gopsusports.com.
This one-day sale offered by Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics ends when all tickets have been sold, which last year took just minutes. All orders must be placed online at www.gopsusports.com. Phone and counter orders are not available.
The ticket sale is for home games only. For away-game ticketing information, visit www.gopsusports.com. For questions, fans should call 800-NITTANY, e-mail golions@psu.edu, or visit the athletics Web site at www.gopsusports.com.


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American DiBernardo immediately finds glory
Surely no player has enjoyed an introduction to the Westfield W-League like Vanessa DiBernardo, but then again Perth Glory's new American midfielder comes with rare pedigree.
The new Glory signing scored with a sweet strike just eight minutes into her debut at Brisbane Roar last Sunday, only to outdo that effort with a remarkable long-range lobbed shot on the turn late in the game. It is a goal that is likely to feature heavily on any Westfield W-League highlights reel for a long time to come.
DiBernardo has yet to make her full debut with the USA national team though she has been called into camp under former Stars and Stripes and Westfield Matildas coach Tom Sermanni. Should that special day come DiBernardo would be the first US player to have a father who also represented the country at senior level. DiBernardo's dad Angelo featured at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and also turned out for the famed New York Cosmos.
Vanessa, meanwhile, was a key member of the USA team which won the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan. There her captain was Julie Johnston, while her centre midfield partner was Morgan Brian who DiBernardo lists as a "really good friend", with the two having featured heavily as the States won the 2015 World Cup in Canada a few months ago.
"It was great to see them play at the World Cup and succeed," says DiBernardo about Brian and Johnston. "When you have played with players for a long time, it is exciting to see them play at a high level and reach that level. It is inspirational to watch them."
Equally inspirational was DiBernardo's debut last weekend. "That was something I have definitely never done before," says DiBernardo with a laugh about her long-range goal. "The ball was bouncing and I just volleyed it toward the goal and hoped for the best," she says with more than a little modesty.
"I'm still trying to get to the next level in terms of being dangerous from that position (as a goalscoring midfielder). It is a process for me, but I'm starting to figure it out a little bit more.
"It was relief and excitement," DiBernardo says of her early first goal. "Just being able to help the team in any way was nice. I'm a possession orientated kind of player, so hopefully I can help keep the ball. Also help in attack, which might be more difficult for us after losing Sam (Kerr)"
A native of Naperville, outside Chicago, DiBernardo finished a degree in Sports Management last year, making this her first opportunity to play overseas, with Australia the preferred destination.
"I talked with (former Sydney FC defender) Sam Johnson and others and they told me good things. They advised me to come here and I did."
And, aside from the Queensland heat, what were DiBernardo's first impressions of the Westfield W-League?
"I was surprised how physical it was, it was a very physical game. Every league is different. But some of the girls were like 'that wasn't bad', and I was like 'ok'!
"But it is a good level here, and the games are good for us players so I'm sure it will be a great experience."


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India tests Nirbhay missile's Manik Turbofan Engine for short range – Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile
2021-08-11 Posted by Frontier India News Network Military
India today tested its indigenous Manik Turbofan engine meant for the Nirbhay subsonic cruise missile under the project name Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM). Manik is a 450 kgf thrust class Small Turbo Fan engine by Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) meant to power the Indian cruise missiles and UAVs. Manik, the Small Turbo Fan Engine (STFE) is a generic twin spool engine without an afterburner. It is an expendable, single use, short life turbofan engine.
The Manik engine tested today was for a range of 150 km. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which is developing the Nirbhay missile and the engine, is planning to replace the foreign engine used by the missile and this is the first step towards the aim.
This test is one of the many tests being conducted for the Nirbhay Missile, which has been plagued with technical failures.
As per open sources, the two-stage ICTM has a length of six meters, a diameter of 0.52 m, a wing span of 2.7 m, and a launch weight of about 1.5 tonne, which corresponds to the dimension of the Nirbhay Cruise Missile. The 150 km test should validate the vertical climb of the engine. The subsequent dive and horizontal flight may not have been tested.
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Jerjes Enrique Justiniano Atalá (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; 17 de abril de 1971) es un abogado y político boliviano. Fue el Ministro de la Presidencia de Bolivia entre el 13 de noviembre y el 3 de diciembre de 2019, durante el gobierno de la presidenta Jeanine Añez Chávez. Durante su breve gestión, fue uno de los impulsores de las reuniones y acuerdos tendientes a lograr la pacificación del país.

Biografía
Jerjes Justiniano Atalá nació el 17 de abril de 1971 en la ciudad de Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Es hijo del reconocido político cruceño Jerjes Justiniano Talavera (1940), quien fuera embajador de Bolivia en Brasil.

Comenzó sus estudios escolares en 1976. En 1988 egresó como bachiller del Colegio Adventista de Santa Cruz.

En 1989 Jerjes Justiniano se trasladó a vivir a la ciudad de Paraná, en Provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina para estudiar teología en la Universidad Adventista del Plata. En 1991 se trasladó a la ciudad de Chillán, en Chile, para continuar con sus estudios de teología en la Universidad Adventista de Chile.

En 1994, Jerjes Justiniano decidió retornar a Bolivia y ese mismo año ingresa a estudiar la carrera de derecho en la Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno (UAGRM) titulándose como abogado de profesión el año 1998 en la especialidad de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal, obteniendo también una maestría en Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal.

Durante su vida laboral, Jerjes Justiniano se desempeñó como docente universitario de varias universidades estatales y privadas, entre ellas la Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno (UAGRM), la  Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (UPSA) y la Universidad Nacional Ecológica (UNE), tanto en el nivel pregrado como también en postgrado.

En el desarrollo de su profesión, estuvo vinculado con varios casos judiciales de gran repercusión, como "Ostreicher", "Sejas Rosales", "LaMia", y "La manada".

Ministro de la Presidencia de Bolivia (2019)

El 13 de noviembre de 2019, Jerjes Justiniano Atalá fue posesionado como ministro de la Presidencia de Bolivia por la entonces Presidenta de Bolivia Jeanine Añez Chávez, formando así parte de su primer gabinete.

Al inicio de su gestión en el ministerio, Jerjes Justiniano impulsó encuentros con distintos sectores a fin de lograr acuerdos que permitieran la pacificación del país, y llamó al diálogo ante la escalada de violencia que desembocó en las masacres de Sacaba y Senkata.
En ese marco, avaló el Decreto Supremo 4078, —por el cual se eximía de responsabilidad penal a las Fuerzas Armadas y de seguridad en las acciones que ejecutaran—, y señaló "Este decreto simplemente autoriza a las Fuerzas Armadas, para que de manera conjunta con la Policía Nacional, puedan actuar en cumplimiento y en resguardo de la seguridad de todos los bolivianos".

Formó parte de las discusiones del proyecto denominado «Ley para la Pacificación del País y para Reafirmar el Ejercicio de los Derechos y Garantías del Pueblo Boliviano», por el cual se intentaba recuperar la paz social.

El 3 de diciembre, la Presidente de Bolivia Jeanine Añez Chávez destituyó a Jerjes Justiniano Atalá, reemplazándolo por el agrónomo beniano Yerko Núñez Negrette. Los motivos de su destitución no fueron aclarados oficialmente. Algunas versiones extra oficiales señalaron que esta se debió a la acusación de coacción que realizara el entonces viceministro de políticas comunicacionales Danilo Jorge Romano, a la denuncia de una fiscal que lo acusó por una supuesta injerencia política en un caso de violación denominado "La Manada", que Jerjes Justiniano patrocinaba, y a su cercanía con Luis Fernando Camacho, presidente del Comité Cívico Pro Santa Cruz y futuro postulante a la Presidencia de Bolivia.

A diferencia de los otros ministros que ingresaron al gabinete junto con él, Jerjes Justiniano solamente permaneció poco más de dos semanas en su cargo.

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China has proposed to build three ocean-based "blue economic passages" connecting Asia with Africa, Oceania, Europe and beyond in a bid to advance maritime cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative.
The proposal is highlighted in a document titled Vision for Maritime Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, which was jointly released on Tuesday by the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Oceanic Administration, reports Xinhua news agency.
The China-Indian Ocean-Africa-Mediterranean Sea blue economic passage will run westward via the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean and link with the China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor and connect with the China-Pakistan and Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar economic corridors.
The document called on countries along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road to focus on "sharing blue space and developing the blue economy", which will target issues such as marine environment protection, marine interconnectivity, maritime security and common oceanic governance.
China will adhere to the Silk Road Spirit of peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefits, shelving differences and building consensus, said the document.
China also promised to abide by market rules and international norms, giving play to the primary role of enterprises.
The document stressed joint development and benefits sharing among participating countries. "We will plan together, develop together and share the fruits of cooperation," it added.


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Grappling Rappler
'The question then is: Will they let their names be dragged into a pit of shame by illegally operating or by cheating the Filipino public? Will they directly sell their integrity to foreign influence? Is it worth the risk after their years of "bar none" services?'
IT'S FRIDAY and the company where I was working was on dress down. I chose to wear a pair of jeans and a black shirt. But as I was riding the northbound MRT-3 train, I looked around and wondered if there were other passengers wearing the same colour of shirt as I do. There were few of them and I sensed that they were also curious. Yes, curious if my wearing black is a form of support on the Black Friday Protest for Freedom action organised by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP). The NUJP earlier severely criticized the Securites and Exchange Commission's (SEC) decision revoking the registration of the leading news website Rappler.
In their website, it's indicated that Rappler comes from the root words "rap" (to discuss) and "ripple" (to make waves). Without a doubt, they are making waves these days not of stories of various personalities they cover, or of news reports about other entities, but the legality of their existence. When the SEC and Rappler issue broke, I sulked. I couldn't believe that such incident can happen to one of the media organisations I look up to. Some of the most respected, prominent, and award-winning journalists and writers I know work for or are connected with Rappler. Maria Ressa. Marites Vitug. Chay Hofileña. Glenda Gloria. Patricia Evangelista.
The question then is: Will they let their names be dragged into a pit of shame by illegally operating or by cheating the Filipino public? Will they directly sell their integrity to foreign influence? Is it worth the risk after their years of "bar none" services?
While the SEC decision was not final and executory, with the political climate the Philippines has, the possibility for the case to reach the halls of the Supreme Court is not startling. But online forums and the comments section have been filled with opinions. For them, Rappler has reached its final destination.
"Maria Ressa is wearing a victim's cloak" a netizen commented. "In need of attention just like the previous president." Some of my Facebook friends also despised Rappler for their alleged violation. Suddenly, constitutional experts rose on the occasion. They are doomed, one added. But did they first read the 21-page decision of the SEC before expressing their thoughts online? Did they examine the facts before judging those who side and believe in Rappler as 'Yellowtards' and fools?
I've seen it before and I am seeing it again. In our attempt to simplify things, we resort to one-liners, labels, and generalizations. These do not accomplish anything but create more divisions.
In his book Blink, renowned journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell wrote: "We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for."
When Rappler published my opinion piece about the subpar MRT-3 train services, some of the commenters were quick to assume that I was a paid writer whose objective was to discredit the actions of the government in addressing the transport system issue. They even judged me as just another Rappler writer who doesn't see the good in the current administration, its achievements. Without conducting a simple Google search or patiently reading the whole piece, they came up with their own conclusions. These are classic examples of false and uninformed accusations online.
Because the truth is I care about my country. We write because we believe that something can be done, that there's still hope, and that those in power didn't fully shut their ears to listen to another point of view, to fresh perspectives. For a democracy to work, there should be checks and balances and the media play a valuable role in guarding and being the platform for people to practice their right to speech and expression. Yes, they put their lives, their principles on the line.
With everything's that's going on, it's easy to be swayed by the popular, the majority opinion. Some choose to stay silent because of fear and inconvenience. If indeed Rappler intentionally committed grave contraventions against the provisions of the constitution and that they should be held liable, let the courts decide about it. If they published malicious articles beyond the ethical standards of journalism, which are meant to degrade or disparage a public official and put him or her in bad light, file cases. Let's recognise the proper forums backed by existing laws and give emphasis on due process.
Opposing opinions can coexist without us losing our humanity in the process with respect. It can be done without grappling the pens and the mouths of our fellowmen who cry for truth, freedom and justice whether we agree with them or not. Because in the end, while we are busy figuring out how others are different from us with all their ideals and perspectives, we forget to listen, to read, to research, and ultimately, to convince ourselves that in times like this, it's best to pause and pray for our country with a black shirt on or whatever colour we believe we represent.
Author Benre J. ZenarosaPosted on January 20, 2018 March 27, 2018 Categories MusingsTags article, book, bullying, column, Constitution, court, Current Events, democracy, essay, Facebook, Freedom, gladwell, Google, humanity, international, Internet, journalism, Justice, law, malcolm gladwell, media, News, online, oped, opinion, Peace, Perspectives, Philippines, principles, process, rappler, reporting, rights, rules, social media, standards, Thoughts, Truth, Twitter, writingLeave a comment on Grappling Rappler
The buried giant embodied in our trains
'Another point to consider is the psychological impact of witnessing a suicide attempt or a gory accident. What if there are children on the scene? What if they become traumatized? There is also the concern that such suicide attempts or accidents would happen too often that they become considered as part of the normal… We've gone through a lot to be deprived of quality services from the government. We have all felt defeated at one point.'
IT WAS a blistering hot afternoon when my northbound Metro Rail Transit (MRT3) train stopped at the Santolan station longer than usual. It's around 2:40 pm. I was on my way to work. The crowd was not that thick.
After 6 minutes, an announcement was made. I did not understand the message because of the static noise coming out of the speaker. Anxious, I closed the book I was reading. It was a holiday because of the ASEAN Summit 2017.
The train doors remained open. I looked outside to know what's going on. Not again, I said. A few seconds later, the train's door closed but I still wondered what had happened.
Later that day, I heard two of my colleagues talk about news on MRT3. After hearing the details, to my horror, I realized that the delay of the train operations earlier that day was not because of another glitch or a technical problem, but because of a serious accident at the MRT3 Ayala station.
Around 2:30 pm. Woman. 24. Fainted. Fell on the railway tracks. Severed right arm. Cut near her armpit.
I was shocked. I couldn't utter a word.
At that moment, I remembered another appalling MRT3 incident that occurred in March this year. I was also on my way to work and about to get into the entrance to buy a ticket when I observed that the train was not moving. It was stuck. The entrance had been blocked. Lines of passengers were nowhere to be found. Confusion and chaos were evident.
Out of curiosity, I asked one of the passengers who was forced to get off the train earlier that afternoon, "Sir, what happened?" He responded, "A man jumped onto the rails."
Why do such incidents keep on happening?
In a 2013 ABS-CBN report, Pinky Webb wrote: "MRT general manager Al Vitangcol said they initially planned to put up screen doors only in 3 MRT stations, namely Taft Avenue, Shaw Boulevard, and North Avenue, by the end of the year…However, because of the recent incident, they will eventually construct the platform screen doors in all 13 stations of the MRT."
Four years later, not a single station has been installed with a protective barrier.
How many lives have to be lost for the MRT management and the government to seriously act on this? How many more limbs or arms should be injured for those in power to act on commuters' safety?
Another point to consider is the psychological impact of witnessing a suicide attempt or a gory accident. What if there are children on the scene? What if they become traumatized? There is also the concern that such suicide attempts or accidents would happen too often that they become considered as part of the normal.
We've gone through a lot to be deprived of quality services from the government. We have all felt defeated at one point.
I understand that there's no shortcut in getting funds for platform screen doors or other security and safety upgrades for our trains. But, isn't it just a matter of prioritization, political will, and accountability?
It has been said that the transport system of a country is a reliable barometer of its advancement, growth, and prosperity. We should aim to be a model of efficient and safe transport systems and services like our other neighbors in Southeast Asia.
But while waiting for that time to come, I hope that we don't forget our frustrations and challenge those in power to make a difference for the future of our country and for the prevention of suicide attempts and accidents involving our trains.
As what Kazuo Ishiguro write in The Buried Giant, which I was holding inside the train at the Santolan station: "For in this community the past was rarely discussed. I do not mean that it was taboo. I mean that it had somehow faded into a mist as dense as that which hung over the marshes. It simply did not occur to these villagers to think about the past – even the recent one."
Let's all recognize and courageously face our society's buried giants one mist at a time.
(This piece has been published on Rappler.com, IMHO, Opinion, on the 16th of November, 2017.)
Author Benre J. ZenarosaPosted on November 16, 2017 November 16, 2017 Categories MusingsTags accident, ASEAN, ASEAN SUMMIT 2017, Buried Giant, Current Events, essay, Ishiguro, Kazuo Ishiguro, MRT, mrt3, News, Nobel Prize, op-ed, opinion, Philippines, problems, rappler, solutions, South East Asia, SUICIDE, thought, thought leader, Thoughts, trains, TRANSPORT SYSTEM, writer, writingLeave a comment on The buried giant embodied in our trains
I rejoice whenever it rains. But everything changed when one night, on my way home from work, I saw how children and women and men sleep next to each other. Their beds? None. They slept on soft drink boxes with no roof to cover them on the sidewalk while public and private vehicles passed by. Headlights exposed their fine details. Stray dogs and cats searched for food on the pile of garbage just few feet away while they're dreaming. I then asked myself: Where are they going to stay if it started to rain? The Catholic church near their neighborhood's closed. It haunted me inside out.
I rejoice whenever it rains until last night.
Author Benre J. ZenarosaPosted on September 25, 2017 August 1, 2018 Categories MusingsTags church, Current Events, haunted, News, night, Philippines, poverty, Realizations, sleepless, squatters, Thoughts, writer, writingLeave a comment on Sleepless
"When you close and seclude your country from international trade, can you expect economic growth? Can you expect your people to think critically in a global scale for them not to depend on what you feed them every day of their lives?"
IF YOU want to start a war and destroy a territory of your adversary, you don't divulge your plans. You just do it. No threats. No clamor for the world's attention. No senseless imaginary epistles to the media.
The North Korea's leadership in its desire to infiltrate the world over the past few years have been doing unspeakable things. Labeled as a rebel to a world where the international police is the United States, they continuously terrorize the psych of those who wanted to keep the current order.
Can you imagine being one of the more than 160,000 people living and working in Guam with a looming threat for you to be vanished on the surface of the Earth? Can you imagine attempting to sleep at night before the deadline thinking that you might no longer see tomorrow with all its beauty and grace? I can't.
I still wonder what's really going on in North Korea. There were reports of starvation, deprivation, and abuse towards its citizens. When you close and seclude your country from international trade, can you expect economic growth? Can you expect your people to think critically in a global scale for them not to depend on what you feed them every day of their lives? I pity those people: brainwashed, ignorant of the outside world, walled literally by the selfishness of those who call themselves leaders of the new world.
The coming days will be interesting. The hype is here.
North Korea succeeded in getting the attention of all of us. The next question is, what now? According to the latest report, they delayed the launch of the missiles to pulverize Guam as an ally, a forward fortress of the United States in Asia-Pacific. But for how long? Is it just a stunt, a publicity, a tiring move of North Korea for it to test its presence in the political arena?
I hope that no war will emerge in the coming decades between countries. We've all seen and read how destructive and pointless wars are to those involved: lost lives, gone dreams, and endless call and cry for help.
We are all different. We are diverse. We all want to move forward, to be in a better position, to be great. But again and again, we have two options on how we can achieve these: to promote life and peace or to be catalysts for destruction.
They say that history dictates who the heroes and villains are; books marvel the real ones and forget the pretenders.
But today, all we can do is to keep believing. To believe that the threat to our lives will no longer be there; that they managed to escape from us.
Author Benre J. ZenarosaPosted on August 16, 2017 August 16, 2017 Categories MusingsTags Current Events, heroes, history, Leadership, life, News, North Korea, opinion, Peace, political, Politics, psych, psychology, starvations, threat, United States, villains, WarLeave a comment on Escape
Concert in a classroom
"Isn't it true that there are some main actors in our education system who engage in practices that kill not just the creativity but also the drive and the spirit of some of their students? Our lives are altered, our outlook changed, and in the end, some of us give up, thinking that we are not good enough."
HAVE YOU ever been made to stand in class for the rest of the period because you were unable to answer a question or gave the wrong one?
"What is the matter?" Prof. X asked. Nobody wanted to answer. Our room, which only a few minutes ago was filled with laughter and stories about Anime, NBA and our classmate's latest smartphone, turned silent, again, just like yesterday, or last week, or even last term. We were thrilled, in a bad way. We were too scared to make a mistake, or to even try.
She looked at me and said: "Mr. Zenarosa, do you know the answer?" Having a surname that starts with the last letter of the alphabet has some advantages. You are called last in a system where "Abel," "Almeda," and "Asuncion" are always at the front line. And yes, Abel stood longer than I did. Again. Everyone was standing, just like when Eraserheads or Bamboo or Adele is on stage, having the time of their lives in a concert. And we? We, too—35 young minds—were having the time of our lives, at the worst.
Have you ever wondered why this is? When one experiences a humiliating situation, will it make one question oneself, pretend that one is a superhero, and ultimately change in a blink with an imaginary cape? Isn't the classroom supposed to be a venue for free thinking, for an exchange of ideas with a teacher, who, after having obtained a doctorate, should know more than anybody else that fear does not always result in learning or knowledge or the evolution of ideas?
Ken Robinson said in a TED talk: "I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life. There's something curious about professors … not all of them, but typically, they live in their heads. They live 'up there,' and slightly to one side. They're disembodied. They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads."
When I heard this, the image of Prof. X popped into my head, and one other. They walk with so much civility. Their minds and their understanding seem way beyond normal, so that the public—in this case, we, their students—cannot even chat with them during break times or when we bump into them in the hallway. They should be respected, no doubt. But is this the best we can have?
Isn't it true that there are some main actors in our education system who engage in practices that kill not just the creativity but also the drive and the spirit of some of their students? Our lives are altered, our outlook changed, and in the end, some of us give up, thinking that we are not good enough. Some of us are shouted at for not finding the "x" and "y" or slope in a math problem in front of everyone else, with a piece of chalk, or a white board marker, in our hands, trembling—the longest minutes of our lives. We feel inferior in an instant. We start to believe that we can go nowhere, even if, in some areas of our lives, we are succeeding.
And the other one?
I was bullied in high school. But it was not your conventional bullying, which is student to student; it was teacher to student. The topic was atoms. The teacher asked: "How many holes … does this sponge have?" She then looked at me from head to toe and told me to rise. "In your case, how many holes does your face have?" she said. Being born to a family that seems to have so much regard for the propagation and safekeeping of pimples from one generation to the next, I looked down.
Last row. Right wing. Seat 45. For a boy whose surname starts with the last letter of the alphabet, and who was made to stand, again—this time, the first one—to answer a question that had no relation in any sense to the topic, it was infuriating.
She laughed. Very hard.
Ten seconds. I was crying. I wanted to teleport from where I was sitting to my bedroom. To hug my favorite pillow. To hide. To forget.
Fifteen seconds. Everybody was laughing. I had an out-of-the-body experience for the nth time.
After an hour, everybody settled down for their lunch break.
I was still at Seat 45. And with all the courage that I could muster from my thin, young, ashamed self, I chose not to leave.
Looking back, did those episodes really make me stronger?
We grew up in a culture that views such episodes as normal. That a kid in every other block should somehow experience these things. That he or she is weak and that someday, he or she will be thankful for the "challenge" put to him or her. That bullying, in different levels, is a part of growth. But is it?
Some of us are good at painting, photography, or the other arts. Some of us are sent outside the four corners of our schools for writing, public speaking, or athletics competitions. We gain confidence for every success story. We are this country's future.
But some of us are silently keeping our pain inside. We are becoming casualties, in certain ways, of the mentors our parents want us to meet in learning institutions.
We are a people with much regard for hard work. We know from childhood that we cannot reap what we did not plant. But I was wrong to apply this principle in those situations. I was not supposed to experience those terrible moments. Nobody is. I was discriminated against and was wronged. We were made to stand for more than an hour inside or outside the classroom, supposedly for us to work harder, to give us more time, so that next time, our mouths will be a fountain of beautiful answers. She wanted us to realize something.
And do you wonder why I still remember those details? It's because I got hurt. And just like the other faces of hurt that this world can offer, those experiences will never be forgotten or deleted as old, ugly files in my personal awareness.
I chose to improve. The education system and the way things are done can flourish over time. But we have to rethink how students should be treated in any classroom, whether they have the answer or not. We can do better than shouting at them or bullying them.
And at any rate, your brain dictated "Matter is anything that has mass and weight" as the answer to Prof. X's tricky question. Be ready to pack your things, confidently stand for an hour, inside or outside the classroom, with a heart.
(This piece has been published in Youngblood, Opinion, Philippine Daily Inquirer on the 4th of February, 2016.)
Author Benre J. ZenarosaPosted on February 4, 2016 July 18, 2017 Categories MusingsTags bullying, classroom, Current Events, Discrimination, Education, Education System, Learning, Philippines, Student, Teachers, TED Talk2 Comments on Concert in a classroom
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Small and Heavy Spheres Turn: Christian Marclay Plays a Calder Mobile at the Whitney Museum
By Andy Battaglia
Andy Battaglia
Executive Editor, ARTnews & Art in America
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Performance by Christian Marclay and Okkyung Lee at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
PAULA COURT/COURTESY WHITNEY MUSEUM
Is a ball going to hit the Dos Equis can? If so, when? Would it be the red one or the white one? Will the trash can scraped with a bow ever stop sounding? Can that tone—shimmering, sustained, somehow cosmically inclined—really be coming from just an empty metal cylinder?
These are some of the questions that could have been mulled Wednesday night at the Whitney Museum, where Christian Marclay and the cellist Okkyung Lee performed in the presence of Alexander Calder's Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere, a mobile sculpture from the early 1930s. Part of ongoing programming related to "Calder: Hypermobility," an endearing and dynamic exhibit on the museum's top floor, the performance took place in the third-floor theater, where an audience of a few dozen assembled in seats in the round. (Another performance followed Thursday and a final one is scheduled for Friday night.) At the center was the hanging artwork and some more or less randomly placed objects on the floor: glass bottles, a wooden box, ceramic vases, a Mrs. Fields cookie tin.
As the lights dimmed, Marclay walked out and, with a tap of one of the two balls—red and white, differently weighted, and suspended in perfect counterpoise—got the sculpture moving. But lo, a mishap! Or at least an unexpected conundrum when the smaller white ball swung around the larger red one and their strings intertwined, twisting more tightly together in a way that was clearly going to take a while for gravity to disentangle. The audience laughed. John Zorn, seated in a corner, let out an enormous cackle. Marclay looked on, quizzically and with apparent appreciation for what had ensued.
It suited the mix of austerity and impishness in Calder's work, so elegant and astute but also playful and pleasing in a pre-analytic way. (The same could be said of Marclay's own work, like his 24-hour film collage The Clock from 2010 and his 1985 album release Record Without a Cover, to name just a couple examples.) After evincing a sort of stone-faced grin, Marclay untwisted the strings by hand and started again. From then on, with gentle prods to get their weight swinging, the two balls slowly encircled the space, knocking into the objects in a manner that made for a freeform percussion piece divined by chance operations. As the performance carried on, Marclay walked to a back room out of sight several times and returned with more objects: a beer can (delicious Dos Equis), plastic cassette cases, a metal colander, a mixing bowl, and so on.
For her part, Lee, who can make a cello sound like a lot of other things (musical and otherwise), walked around the room slowly and responded. Some of her playing tended toward tensile flurries of notes; some toward long, smeary tones; some more still toward low, guttural growls that sounded like a very large and bewildered animal alone on an open plain.
The audience sat rapt, tittering in parts (lots of smiles defined the faces of those so curious to see and hear what would happen next) and otherwise deeply engaged in the thrill of a discrete performance that could not—or certainly in all likelihood would not—happen the same way ever again.


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Claudia Asselin ( à Montréal au Québec (Canada) - ) est une auteure-compositrice-interprète et éditrice  québécoise.

Elle a enregistré quatre albums Disques cœur rouge

Voir aussi

Liens externes
 Site officiel
 Site de Believe Digital.

Auteure-compositrice-interprète québécoise
Naissance en février 1967
Naissance à Montréal


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Q: Scraping html generated by javascript with python My code:
session = HTMLSession()
r = session.get(url)
result = r.html.find('.YD-Header')

I am able to scrape it like this if class name = "YD-Header"
But I would like to scrape HTML element with class name:
 <td>
 class="Fw(500) Ta(end) Pstart(10px) Miw(60px)"
 </td>

My code doesn't find anything if I use:
 result = r.html.find('.Fw(500)')

How can I find this class (class name consists of blanks and parentheses)?

A: CSS requires that characters like ( and ) are escaped with the \ character, so for classes with those names you end up with selectors like .Pstart(20px).
The issue here is that JavaScript strings also treats \ as the escape character. The JS string '.Pstart(20px)' represents the string .Pstart(20px), which is again not a valid CSS selector as the parenthesis aren't escaped.
The solution is to double escape the classes: the JS string '.Pstart\(20px\).Pstart\(40px\)--md' accurately represents the .Pstart(20px).Pstart(40px)--md CSS selector.


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Q: Setting version of ArcMap I am trying to set the version of SDE by using following code :
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON;
declare q varchar2(100);
ver varchar(10);
BEGIN
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('HI');
    ver := 'PQ_358';
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(ver);
    q := 'EXEC sde.version_util.set_current_version('''||ver||''')';
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(q);
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE q;
END;

It gives me output as :
HI
PQ_358
EXEC sde.version_util.set_current_version('PQ_358')

Error starting at line : 2 in command -
declare q varchar2(100);
ver varchar(10);
BEGIN
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('HI');
    ver := 'PQ_358';
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(ver);
    q := 'EXEC sde.version_util.set_current_version('''||ver||''')';
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(q);
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE q;
END;
Error report -
ORA-00900: invalid SQL statement
ORA-06512: at line 9
00900. 00000 -  "invalid SQL statement"
*Cause:
*Action:

Any solution on this. Database: Oracle.
My objective is to run this code using C#.
Note: Cannot use StoredProcedure or function. Need to stick with c# code.

A: EXEC is not a SQL statement. It is a shortcut specific to SQLPLUS that allows you to invoke a stored procedure. To invoke it from PL/SQL just do like this:
BEGIN
  sde.version_util.set_current_version('PQ_358');
END;

There is no need for dynamic SQL here. What is not clear is how you intend to invoke this from C#.


Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, film-maker Ben Byer starts documenting his life. What begins as a video diary grows into an epic and inspirational 3 year journey as Ben scours the globe looking for answers and a cure. A film of towering beauty and deep philosophical insight, Indestructible transcends its dark subject matter to deliver a universal message about the tragic joy of being alive.
"I want to make a movie. That's my goal, man. Like, what's one of the twists of fate in your life that you would have just never imagined?"
A youthful Ben talks animatedly into the camera ten years before his diagnosis. In the bewildering early stages of his illness, Ben can't hide his fear: "I'm having a hard time typing, my hands are not working...I could have any number of things". But when Ben receives the devastating diagnosis he is no less in the dark. "They have more treatment for the flu than they do for ALS", he quips. The most doctors can do is monitor the gradual deterioration of all of his muscles. The only certainty: "patients do not live past six years".
"This is a hard disease to give advice about", says one of the patients Ben reaches out to, "each person must find it for himself". After hours of research he comes across 'BuNaoGao' a Chinese herbal medicine, which is "not a cure, but an oasis in the desert of ALS". Ben's indomitable spirit is spurred when he notices a slight improvement and he heads to China to meet the creator of BuNaoGao. "My body is about 15% dead', Ben says defiantly, "but I'm also 85% alive".
Eastern medicine might have the answer. "Everyone I've talked to with ALS in America, they're not doing too well, they're in wheelchairs", says Todd, a fellow sufferer living in China. Then Ben stumbles across a controversial foetal cell surgery, believed to allow ALS sufferers to run again.
"It will get you a new life", says Danny Vyvey. Before the operation he couldn't take a shower on his own. Ben goes ahead with the surgery and his father begins scheduling many ALS patients for Dr Huang. But the surgery doesn't work. Dr Huang comes under increasing criticism from the Western medical establishment and Ben's options have run out.
"Probably the thought [of suicide] runs through my head once a day", Ben admits. Yet through the twin passions of his son and his film, Ben somehow comes close to that purpose driving us all: "I wish I was a good enough artist to make this movie without having the disease", he grins through tears. By turns amusing and tragic, 'Indestructible' is one of the most intimate and powerful films you'll see on a degenerative illness.
Ben Byer was born in Chicago in 1971. He was diagnosed with ALS in 2002. During the 31 years between these two occasions he has done many things, mostly legal. After graduating from Evanston Township High School he studied Journalism at Indiana University and Film Theory at The University of Paris where he made short films on 8mm. A job as a translator at the Cannes Film Festival led him to Hollywood where he worked for a producer of B-movies. Returning to Chicago he took up acting and has since performed on many of that city's notable stages including Steppenwolf Theatre, Organic Theatre, Trap Door Theatre, European Repertory Company, Circle Theatre, Café Voltaire and the Staddschowburg Theatre in Amsterdam. Like all struggling actors he left for Los Angeles and found himself selling beef out of the back of a truck. This unsavory experience inspired him to write his first play, 'Take it Deep', which was produced to much success shortly before being diagnosed with a fatal neurodegenerative disease. Unable to write or perform, Ben turned his attention towards film directing, a vocation more suited to the disabled. In 2003 he co-founded ALS Film Fund with his sister Rebeccah Rush to produce original works of art, whether film, theatre, sculpture or other intended to create positive change for ALS sufferers around the world. Ben Byer died of ALS on July 3, 2008.
"Travelling by myself and then with a small crew we filmed the isolated world of ALS; interviewing patients and their families, medical professionals, scientists, religious figures and almost anyone we could find. I wanted to know (perhaps naively), 'What does it all mean?' 'Indestructible' is an attempt to understand and accept the reality of a mysterious and deadly disease that has brought science to its knees, an illness that is a paradigm for life's ultimate challenges. My personal story in the film, and that of every ALS patient, follows this frightening path into an uncertain future."


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Q: Как определить угол поворота изображения Есть картинка, которую необходимо повернуть так, чтобы стороны были параллельны осям.
Как определить угол, на который необходимо выполнить поворот?

На киберфоруме был похожий вопрос, и было предложено следующее решение:

var angle = Math.Atan((float)(points[3].Y - points[0].Y) / (points[3].X - points[0].X)) * (180 / Math.PI);

, где
points[0] - левый верхний угол
points[3] - левый нижний угол
Но почему-то он повернул неправильно. Вот что получилось:

A: Можно утащить решение из Unity например. Зачем выдумывать, когда есть готовое и проверенное :)
using System.Numerics;

static float Angle(Vector2 from, Vector2 to)
{
    const float kEpsilonNormalSqrt = 1e-15f;

    // sqrt(a) * sqrt(b) = sqrt(a * b) -- valid for real numbers
    float denominator = MathF.Sqrt(SqrMagnitude(from) * SqrMagnitude(to));
    if (denominator < kEpsilonNormalSqrt)
        return 0f;

    float dot = Math.Clamp(Vector2.Dot(from, to) / denominator, -1f, 1f);
    return MathF.Acos(dot) * 180f / MathF.PI;
}

static float SqrMagnitude(Vector2 v)
{
    return v.X * v.X + v.Y * v.Y;
}

Проверяем
static void Main(string[] args)
{
              // левый нижний             левый верхний
    Vector2 v1 = new Vector2(954, 3206) - new Vector2(84, 1808);
              // вертикальный вектор
    Vector2 v2 = new Vector2(0, 1);

    float angle = Angle(v1, v2);
    Console.WriteLine(angle);
}

Вывод в консоль
31,89473

Беру фотошоп, поворачиваю картинку на этот угол, получаю картинку


It is very important which car you pick, it has to be suitable to your driving style, but be careful that too much power in drift can be a bad thing. Try a few stock cars in quick drift mode. Pick the one that you find the easiest to control. Usually stock cars will drift fine, but if you need more power, upgrade them, but do not go all the way. Smart upgrades would be AERO and RACE, only pick those Stage upgrades you really need. If your car turns out to be too powerful, sell the upgrades. Ideal setup would be to have your car maintain a drift with the accelerator pressed at the middle.
Counter steer to maintain a drift. Also be careful not to counter steer too much, try to find a balance with the accelerator.
Clipping points are very important as a very close drift at the first and second clipping point will instantly add a 2x multiplier meaning an easy accumulation of points. If you're not sure what a clipping point is, it's a set of around 4 red and white sticks with yellow lights on top. They're usually positioned in corner apex. Often the AI scores so low that you can simply aim for the clipping points and do a really short drift around them. Best score for drifting near a clipping point is 100, score is reduced with distance.
Throttle control is important. During drift you have to press is just right not to spin in or lose the drift. That's why it's important not to have a too powerful car as they'll oversteer too quickly.
Know the courses and with what speeds you should take the corners with. Also drive through the corners much like you do when doing regular racing. Take the outer line, brake before the corner, then turn and start slamming the accelerator. Have the car turn inside, the let loose the accelerator just enough so you maintain a drift. Usually the arrows should show you a good drifting line so it's easiest to follow them.
Use the cockpit or the hood camera - the chase cam to be too distant and it not being fixed to the car causes problems as you usually can't react fast enough.
If you spinning inwards, don't restart. You wil get lots of points for having a great drifting angle.


It took me 3 hours to get to work this morning due to a jack-knifed lorry on the M25. Even though it was no where near where I wanted to be the traffic had backed up to the junction I come off at and everyone was trying to find an alternative route around the carnage.
When I did eventually get near to the office there was another traffic jam due to an accident on the roundabout at the end of the industrial estate involving some arse who had rolled his car.
Parking the car and walking the last few hundred yards I arrive at my desk, open a package of gobo's (metal discs for lamps to project logos) and found to my horror that the company who had made them had made a mistake. They're needed for this evening too.
And all this before 11am!!
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Yezid Sayigh | 14 January 2013 | Beirut | Carnegie Middle East Center
Morsi and Egypt's Military
Six months into the presidency of Mohammad Morsi, Egypt's new constitution has granted the Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF) greater autonomy and a more formal political role than they ever enjoyed under his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak. Morsi and the Islamist majority in the Constituent Assembly may have found it expedient to agree to the EAF's terms in order to ensure the forces' neutrality in the current phase of the country's democratic transition, but this will prove costly.
Mammoth tasks lie ahead for Egypt's new, democratically elected civilian authorities. They will need to change how the state-owned commercial sector and public enterprises work in order to unlock the national economy's potential for sustained and equitable growth. The state's massive civilian bureaucracy desperately needs sweeping administrative reform. And the civilian authorities will have to democratize and decentralize the country's local government structure from top to bottom.
Self-perpetuating networks of retired EAF officers extensively permeate virtually all these sectors. If this deeply entrenched "officers' republic" is confronted with a determined reform program, its resistance to Morsi and any cabinet that is appointed under his watch will likely stiffen, potentially bringing the country to a standstill.
Indeed, the cabinet of Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has already run into resistance as it seeks to get Egypt's state apparatus back to work. Civil servants may not be politically or ideologically opposed to Egypt's new authorities, but their initial ambivalence is reportedly turning into go-slow tactics and passive noncooperation with government directives.
The Ministry of Interior in particular has emerged as a principal holdout against Morsi. The police effectively remain on strike nearly two years after the uprising that ousted Mubarak. And various security agencies have adopted an attitude of sullen inaction in performing their normal functions and of passive hostility toward the transition process.
These are slow-moving trends. The EAF has not yet joined the other principal institutional sectors of the Egyptian state apparatus in a broad coalition against Morsi and his government. Nor does the EAF actively seek to block government policies and targets. But the prospect cannot be dismissed. The polarization of Egypt's politics is already impeding the executive and legislative performance of the Qandil cabinet. The challenge of delivering on promises of improved public services and economic growth could become insurmountable if the cabinet is unable to pre-empt or dissipate bureaucratic resistance.
Unlike other parts of the state apparatus, the EAF sees itself as an autonomous institutional actor with a privileged political role. This was made evident on Dec. 11, when Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi invited Morsi, cabinet ministers and a wide spectrum of "political parties and forces" and public figures to what he called a "social dialogue." Although El-Sisi's spokesperson insisted that this was not a "national political dialogue," issuing the invitation was an unmistakably political act, undertaken unilaterally and without prior consultation with either the president or the head of the cabinet of which the defence minister is a part.
Morsi's undisguised dismissal of El-Sisi's invitation prompted the defence minister to cancel the proposed dialogue and to explain, through his deputy, that the EAF had no intention to interfere in politics and had merely sought "a gathering of an Egyptian family."
The episode reveals much about the emerging balance between the EAF and the presidency as well as the nature of the understanding they reached ahead of December's referendum on the draft constitution. The EAF has been allowed to maintain undiminished autonomy and retain long-standing prerogatives — even to increase them in certain respects. This was done to secure the EAF's compliance as the Muslim Brotherhood, to which Morsi belongs, and its Islamist allies consolidate their governance of Egypt and steer the country through the next phases of its democratic transition.
But the price of compliance was high. It is relatively common in transitions to seek to soften the military establishment's resistance to democratization by offering it the Defence Ministry. But the new Egyptian constitution formally requires that the minister of defence is an EAF officer. The defence budget will no longer be submitted to parliament as a one-line item for even nominal approval. Instead it will be approved by the National Defence Council — which will also be the only body to take even a cursory look at what the EAF does with U.S. military assistance worth $1.3 billion annually and at the EAF's formal military economy.
The National Defence Council was originally created in 1971 by a weak new president, Anwar Sadat, as a means of containing the EAF and empowering himself. But it lapsed into almost complete inaction for the next forty years, until Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces revived it in June 2012, only two weeks ahead of the inauguration of Morsi's presidency.
The new constitution incorporated much of the Supreme Council's rulings. It reconfirmed the president as head of the council, but more significantly assigned eight out of its fifteen seats to EAF officers, granting them a permanent majority.
The National Defence Council effectively formalizes and institutionalizes the political role of the EAF. The constitution gives it responsibility for "matters pertaining to the methods of ensuring the safety and security of the country," and it must be consulted before the president and parliament can declare war or deploy the armed forces outside Egypt. A National Security Council headed by the president and composed almost exclusively of civilians is also supposed to adopt "strategies for establishing security in the country." But the National Defence Council clearly precludes full civilian oversight and authority over critical areas of policymaking, which include issues affecting public financial management and administration.
The Muslim Brotherhood's detractors have repeatedly accused it of concluding a secret deal with the EAF to allow it to assume office. But Egypt is nothing like Sudan, for example, where a tight-knit alliance between the National Islamic Front and Gen. Omar al-Bashir reshaped state power as well as the legal and constitutional frameworks, and moreover purged non-Islamists from the military from 1989 onward.
In any case, the deal in Egypt is anything but comfortable. The Brotherhood and Morsi may interpret the constitutional provisions relating to the EAF as demarcating and separating the military and civilian spheres, as a precursor to asserting civilians' political pre-eminence. But the formal autonomy granted to the EAF extends well beyond its own "professional" affairs — such as doctrine and arms procurement, or even the defence budget — and will be very hard to roll back in future.
This is not a challenge for Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood alone, nor is it a problem only of their making. The transfer of power from military rulers to civilians always involves compromises backed by explicit and implicit understandings: whoever won last year's parliamentary and presidential elections was going to have to grapple with the EAF's privileged position. And with the exception of the Tahrir Square revolutionaries and Constitution Party head Mohamed El Baradei, none of the principal political parties or presidential candidates since the ouster of Mubarak proposed curtailing the EAF's prerogatives and immunities any further than Egypt's new rulers have done.
The new constitution has secured the next phase of Egypt's democratic transition by deferring major areas of contention to an indefinite future. The present Egyptian government, and its successors no matter what their political colour, will struggle to deliver effective policies and needed reforms. Failure will erode their standing and legitimacy. Worse, it could undermine Egyptians' belief in democratic transition and prepare the ground for future anti-democratic challenges.
Note: This article is re-published in agreement with Carnegie Middle East Centre, Beirut.Web Link
Dr. Yezid Sayigh, Senior Associate, Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut and a member of the International Advisory Board of MEI@ND. Email


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Aisin AW determined to establish a new plant in the U.S. for transmissions of SUVs and electric vehicles
Aisin AW, a subsidiary of Aisin Seiki, has recently decided to expand its manufacturing site in North Carolina to strengthen its automatic transmission business.
The investment is up to about $400 million. In September 2021, Aisin AW will begin manufacturing automatic transmission (AT) for SUVs and hybrid transmissions for electric vehicles. An annual production capacity is around 200,000 units.
Aisin AW plans to hire about 900 new employees.
Aisin AW established AW North Carolina in North Carolina in 1998 as the first U.S. manufacturing site. A total of approximately 6.7 million rear-wheel drive (RWD) and front-wheel drive (FWD) transmissions have been produced there.
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Compute shortest path from bot to 'goal' via A* algorithm.
A funtion that allows you to alter the path generation. See example below for the default function.
If returns true, path was found to the goal position.
If returns false, path may either be invalid (use IsValid() to check), or valid but doesn't reach all the way to the goal.
The default path generator. You do not have to provide the PathFollower.Compute any generator functions if you want to use the default generator.
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Q: How to set default values for .mode and .headers to control output format in SQLite? Normally I use these settings to have SQLite output pretty structure:
sqlite> .mode column
sqlite> .headers on

But how to make them default settings?

A: From the man page.

If the file ~/.sqliterc exists, it is processed first.  can be found in the user's home directory, it is read and processed.  It should generally only contain meta-commands.

So put them into ~/.sqliterc.