The east portion of the AMA Monster Energy Supercross made another stop in St. Louis, MO this past weekend at the Dome at America's Centre before it heads west for a couple rounds. We will have one more east round in New Jersey the end of April before we circle back to Vegas for the big East/West shoot out. There were plenty of FXR athletes on the roster in St. Louis (14 to be exact) and BrownDog and Krystyn were there for the action. Let's take a look at St. Louis from track side and the cheap seats.


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Q: How can I multiply matrix and vector element wise like Numpy? I have an $M \times K$ matrix $C$ and a length $K$ vector $v$.  I want to form the $M \times K$ matrix $S$ where $s_{ij} = C_{ij}/v_j$.  To do this in numpy I simply divide the two objects like this
  S = C/v

but that fails in Mathematica.
What is the most efficient way to do this?

A: You can get results roughly equally fast to sblom's double-Transpose approach using the generalised version of Inner.
Inner[Divide, matrix, vector, List]

Timing tests
Set up some example data:
ci = RandomInteger[{0, 100}, {20, 3}];
cr = RandomReal[{0., 100.}, {20, 3}];
vi = {3, 2, 1};
vr = {3., 2., 1.};

Division
In[38]:= Do[Transpose[Transpose[ci]/vi];, {1000}] // Timing (*sblom*)

Out[38]= {0.047, Null}

In[39]:= Do[#/vi & /@ ci;, {1000}] // Timing (* faleichik/Heike in comments*)

Out[39]= {0.172, Null}

In[56]:= Do[Inner[Divide, ci, vi, List];, {1000}] // Timing (* me *)

Out[56]= {0.047, Null}

In[40]:= Do[ScalingTransform[1/vi][ci];, {1000}] // Timing (* Brett *)

Out[40]= {0.39, Null}

(* as before but for real numbers *)

In[41]:= Do[Transpose[Transpose[cr]/vr];, {1000}] // Timing

Out[41]= {0.016, Null}

In[42]:= Do[#/vr & /@ cr;, {1000}] // Timing

Out[42]= {0.109, Null}

In[57]:= Do[Inner[Divide, cr, vr, List];, {1000}] // Timing

Out[57]= {0.031, Null}

In[43]:= Do[ScalingTransform[1/vr][cr];, {1000}] // Timing

Out[43]= {0.36, Null}

Multiplication
As an aside, because of the way Divide works internally, if you are dividing through by the same vector a lot, it makes some sense to create a vector that is 1./thefirstvector and multiply through with that. The effect is more noticeable if you have integer data.
ivi = 1/vi;
ivr = 1./vr;

In[82]:= Do[Transpose[Transpose[ci]*ivi];, {1000}] // Timing
Out[82]= {0.031, Null}

In[83]:= Do[#*ivi & /@ ci;, {1000}] // Timing
Out[83]= {0.125, Null}

In[84]:= Do[Inner[Times, ci, ivi, List];, {1000}] // Timing

Out[84]= {0.031, Null}

In[85]:= Do[ScalingTransform[ivi][ci];, {1000}] // Timing

Out[85]= {0.375, Null}

In[86]:= Do[Transpose[Transpose[cr]*ivr];, {1000}] // Timing

Out[86]= {0.016, Null}

In[87]:= Do[#*ivr & /@ cr;, {1000}] // Timing

Out[87]= {0.063, Null}

In[88]:= Do[Inner[Times, cr, ivr, List];, {1000}] // Timing

Out[88]= {0.031, Null}

In[89]:= Do[ScalingTransform[ivr][cr];, {1000}] // Timing

Out[89]= {0.343, Null}

A: The problem is that Mathematica wants to match up $v$ with the rows of $C$. In order to get what you want, you can do:
S=Transpose[Transpose[C]/v]

A: I'll construct a $5\times3$ matrix of ones to use for illustration purposes:
m = ConstantArray[1,{5, 3}]

We can multiply each row by the corresponding element from a vector using simple multiplication:
m*{1,2,3,4,5}

Multiplying each column by the corresponding element from a vector is a bit more complicated.  There are several possibilities, some of which are already covered by others, but here's one I like for being conceptually simple in that it doesn't use Transpose or explicit iteration (Table, Map, etc...)
ScalingTransform[{1,2,3}][m]

This could also be written using postfix notation m // ScalingTransform[{1,2,3}] if desired.

After looking at Artes's timing comparison, the ScalingTransform approach is quite slow, since it's constructing a large dense matrix.  We can use the same underlying idea using a specially constructed SparseArray, however, which is much faster:
m.SparseArray[Band[{1, 1}] -> {1,2,3,4,5}]

Cc = RandomReal[{100}, {700, 900}];
v = RandomReal[{100}, {900}];

ScalingTransform[1/v][Cc]; // AbsoluteTiming

(* ==> {16.333062, Null} *)

Cc.SparseArray[Band[{1, 1}] -> 1/v]; // AbsoluteTiming

(* ==> {0.021044, Null} *)

A: Not the most efficient way but sufficiently instructive can be  for example this:
Cc = RandomInteger[{1, 10}, {3, 4}]
v = RandomInteger[{1, 10}, {4}]
S = Table[Cc[[i, j]]/v[[j]], {i, 1, 3}, {j, 1, 4}]

  {{7, 9, 6, 4}, {2, 3, 5, 8}, {6, 1, 7, 4}}
  {2, 2, 4, 3}
  {{7/2, 9/2, 3/2, 4/3}, {1, 3/2, 5/4, 8/3}, {3, 1/2, 7/4, 4/3}}

This hasn't been mentioned, it's nice but not very efficient :
Inner[Divide, Cc, v, List]

Let's compare performances of various methods :
Cc = RandomReal[{100}, {700, 900}];
v  = RandomReal[{100}, {900}];

S1 = Table[ Cc[[i, j]] / v[[j]], {i, 1, 700}, {j, 1, 900}]; // AbsoluteTiming
S2 = Inner[Divide, Cc, v, List]; // AbsoluteTiming
S3 = #/v & /@ Cc; // AbsoluteTiming
S4 = Transpose[Transpose[Cc]/v]; // AbsoluteTiming

{0.1080000, Null}
{0.4310000, Null}
{0.0180000, Null}
{0.0260000, Null}

S1 == S2 == S3 == S4

True

It appears the method based on Map is the best with respect to performance issues.

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Кабарите или каварите (от тюркски: бунтовници, на гръцки: καβαροι) са племе, влизало в племенния съюз на маджарите в 9-10 век.

История
Както разказва Константин Багренородни, кабарите се отделили от хазарите. През първата половина на IX век, според някои автори около 810-820 година, в Хазарския хаганат избухнала гражданска война, в която кабарите били подкрепени от маджарите, а хазарското правителство - от печенегите и узите. Кабарите били победени, като голяма част от тях били избити, а други - принудени да търсят убежище при своите съюзници маджарите в областта, наречена Леведия (вероятно между Дон и Днепър).

Кабарите се проявили като най-храбри и войнствени от племената, влизащи в маджарския племенен съюз. Предполага се, че първите маджарски върховни военноначалници и съдници (джила или дюла) са били кабарски вождове. Кабарите били начело в походите на маджарите срещу народите на Източна Европа, включително и в успешното унгарско нападение срещу България през 895 година. След завлядяването на Панония от маджарите, кабарите се настанили в Алфьолд и били в основата на походите, превърнали унгарците в "бича на Европа" през Х век.

Кабарите, които се деляли на три рода (племена), говорели език, различен от маджарския. През IX-Х век сред маджарите съществувало двуезичие - те говорели както своя език, така и хазарския (кабарския). Повечето учени са на мнение, че езикът на кабарите е тюркски, макар че съществува и теза, че част от кабарите са предци на днешните кабардинци. Обикновено се смята, че кабарите произхождат от етническата общност на хазарите. Някои автори свързват кабарите с подчинените от хазарите прабългари и със секеите.

След Х век кабарите са асимилирани от унгарците. С кабарите се свързва част от тюркското влияние в унгарския език.

Религия
Макар че някои историци смятат, че въстанието на кабарите е реакция на юдаизацията на Хазария, други на основание на археологически и писмени данни твърдят, че в Хазария сред част от кабарите е бил разпространен юдаизмът, който те изповядват и в Унгария до официалното приемане на християнството при крал Ищван I (997-1038) . Смята се, че сред кабарите едновременно са били разпространени както юдаизмът, така и християнството, ислямът и традиционният шаманизъм.

Бележки

Литература
 Macartney, C. A. The Magyars in the Ninth Century, Cambridge, 1930
 Шушарин В.П. Ранний этап этнической истории венгров, Москва, 1997

Външни препратки
  Константин Багренородни. За управлението на империята, гл.38-39

Тюркски народи
История на Унгария

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Швейцарская экспедиция на Джомолунгму 1952 — экспедиция группы альпинистов из Швейцарии в Гималаи с целью максимального продвижения к вершине — Джомолунгме. Организована «Швейцарским фондом для альпинистских исследований».

Предпосылки
Открытие Непалом возможности путешествий по стране европейцам прекратило 30-летнюю монополию британцев по возможности достижения высочайшего пика мира. Этим воспользовались альпинисты из Швейцарии под руководством доктора медицины Эдуарда Висс-Дюнана.

В 1951 году британско-новозеландская экспедиция Эрика Шиптона поднялась на ледопад Кхумбу и достигла Западного цирка, доказав, что на Эверест можно подняться из Непала.

Экспедиция
В состав экспедиции входили:
 врач экспедиции Габриель Шевалье из Бекса.
 руководитель альпинистской группы — женевец Рене Диттер.
альпинисты:
 Раймон Ламбер
 Жан Жако Аспер
 Рене Оберт
 Леон Флори
 Эрнст Хофштеттер
 Андрэ Рош
научная группа:
 геолог, профессор, доктор Альберт Ломбард
 ботаник Альберт Циммерман
 этнограф госпожа Маргарита Лобзигер-Делленбах
Большинство из членов экспедиции принадлежали к эксклюзивному альпинистскому клубу «L'Androsace» и хорошо знали друг друга. Город и кантон Женева оказали моральную и финансовую поддержку экспедиции, а Женевский университет предоставил научный контингент.

29 марта экспедиция со 165 местными носильщиками, нёсшими более 5 тонн груза, и 20 шерпами, возглавляемая сардаром Тенцингом, покинула Катманду. Позже носильщики из Катманду были заменены
в Намче-Базаре высотными носильщиками.

23 апреля на правом (западном) берегу ледника Кхумбу на высоте 5050 метров был установлен базовый лагерь.

25 апреля участники восхождения разбили первый высотный лагерь на высоте около 5300 метров. Второй лагерь был установлен на маленькой площадке между трещинами на леднике Кхумбу (5600 м). Добравшись до большой поперечной трещины, на которой потерпела неудачу экспедиция Шиптона в 1951 году, Жан Жако Аспер методом маятника попытался перебраться через неё. Потерпев неудачу он спустился на 15 метров вниз, перешёл к противоположной стороне, сделал ступени и поднялся на противоположную сторону. Сделав верёвочную переправу можно было начать переносить груз, и на высоте 5900 метров был установлен лагерь 3. Челночным ходом был перенесён груз из первого лагеря во второй, и из второго в третий.

Четвертый лагерь был установлен на Западном цирке на высоте 6400, а четырестами метрами выше, у подножия склона Лхоцзе, и пятый лагерь.

Далее, двигаясь по правому (южному) кулуару относительно «Женевского» скального ребра на высоте около 7400 метров был оборудован материальный склад. Это произошло 21 мая, но плохая погода задержала экспедицию, и к Южному седлу выход состоялся только 25 числа. Группа состояла из Обера, Флори, Ламбера и Тенцинга с шестью шерпами. В 19:30 было принято решение остановиться на высоте 7800, в спрессованном снеге было установлено 2 палатки с целью ночлега, но спальные мешки были не у всех.

26 мая было достигнуто Южное седло, где разбили лагерь 6.

27 мая две связки из двух человек перешли через Южное седло к подножию юго-восточного гребня Эвереста и поднялись слева, по южному склону, через широкий кулуар и ступенчатые скалы к гребню. На высоте 8230 метров было найдено удобное место для штурмового лагеря 7, где разместили только одну палатку — без спальных мешков и без примуса. Тенцинг предложил одной связке остаться для выхода на следующий день на вершину. Обер и Флори спустились в лагерь 6, а Ламбер и Тенцинг остались. Ночь прошла в жажде — приходилось добывать воду из снега, растапливая его на свече.

На рассвете 28 мая Ламбер и Тенцинг выдвинулись в сторону вершины. Подъем через юго-восточный гребень в средней его части достаточно технически прост, однако несовершенство кислородных баллонов, туман и усталость делали передвижение альпинистов медленным. Иногда передвигаясь на четвереньках к 13:30 они достигли высоты 8595 метров. Не имея ни времени, ни сил, пара развернулась, и пройдя мимо 7 лагеря, Ламбер и Тенцинг дошли до Южного седла, где их встретили Обер и Флори, и все дошли до лагеря 6.

29 мая вся группа начала спуск к пятому лагерю, и на высоте 7600 им на встречу попались Диттер, Шевалье, Аспер, Хофшеттер и Рош с пятью шерпами. Вторая группа добравшись до 6 лагеря отправила трёх шерпов обратно вниз, и в течение 30 и 31 мая пережидала бурю. Непогода и высота истощили альпинистов, и они с трудом начали спуск. 5 июня все собрались в базовом лагере, и начавшийся сезон мусонов положил конец этой части экспедиции.

Результаты
Основным достижением экспедиции было взятие рекордной высоты 8595 метров. Если предположить, что Джордж Мэллори и Эндрю Ирвин не достигли более высокой точки во время своей экспедиции в 1924 году, то это был самый высокий подъём человека того времени.

Не менее важным было то, что с первой попытки был открыт новый маршрут к вершине и дано название Женевскому ребру.

Опыт Тенцинга был полезен при его участии в британской экспедиции в 1953 году, во время которой он достиг вершины с Эдмундом Хиллари. Кроме того, Хиллари и Тенцинг видели остатки седьмого лагеря, и Хиллари вспоминал, что «невероятно одинокое зрелище, потрепанный каркас палатки, которую Тенцинг и Ламберт из Швейцарской экспедиции в 1952 году разбили более года назад и где они провели чрезвычайно неудобную ночь без еды, без питья и без спальных мешков. Какой же крепкой парой они были, но, возможно, не очень хорошо организованной».

Осенняя экспедиция
Осенью 1952 года, после сезона муссонов, была проведена вторая швейцарская экспедиция. Осенняя экспедиция была назначена только в июне, так что вторая группа прибыла на место слишком поздно, когда в горах бушевали зимние ветры. Находясь в ужасных условиях дискомфорта и напряжения, группа на смогла приблизиться к вершине на расстояние подъёма (Хант решил, что если британская экспедиция 1953 года потерпит неудачу, они также сделают еще одну попытку после муссонов).

Тем не менее результатами осеннего похода стали: восхождение на Юго-западный гребень Эвереста до высоты 8100 метров, исследование ледника Лхоцзе и получение важных метеорологических результатов, фото и видеосъемка.

Примечания

Экспедиции на Джомолунгму
1952 год в Швейцарии
XX век в Непале


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Tumblr's Meme Librarian Knows Where to Find the Best Cat Pictures
And tarot advice. And pop-punk communities. And seltzer discussion.
Jan 16, 20186:02 AM
Photo illustration by Slate. Images by Emoji and Amanda Brennan.
At its best, the internet is a never-ending cocktail party, to which we each bring our own special libations. (Its worst is some other column's problem.) This is How I Internet, where the web's most interesting personalities share what's in their punch bowl.
This installment's subject: Amanda Brennan, meme librarian, officially a senior content insights manager at Tumblr, the social network and blogging platform popular with teenagers and superfans.
Location: At work, the Tumblr offices in New York, and at home, "way deep in the Jersey suburbs"
Hardware: MacBook Pro, iPhone 6S Plus, Apple Watch
Representative tweet:
MY HOUSE C A N N O T HAVE POOR INTERNET CONNECTION
I need to blog in the attic.
— 𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕒 𝕓𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕟𝕒𝕟 💖 (@continuants) January 7, 2018
Slate: How did you wind up at Tumblr?
Amanda Brennan: I got my master's in library and information science from Rutgers University. I realized I loved the information science side of things but not so much books. I love books, I love reading, but I didn't want that to be my career. I took a course that was an independent project where you could take any aspect of social media work and analyze it. I ended up doing Tumblr tagging. If you're familiar with Tumblr, people will use tags as more than just metadata. So it's not just a normal "cat," "tuxedo cat," "meow," "purr"; they'll also tag something like "this is the best cat I've ever seen I want to hug it," a whole sentence as a tag. I had this hypothesis that if people used these tags as a kind of a show of community, solidarity, kind of speaking the language of Tumblr, they would have more followers.
"I was like, 'Cool, so I'm saying I'm a dragon, and clearly I'm not a dragon.' My mom was not having it." — Amanda Brennan
After I graduated, I worked at the website Know Your Meme. There, I really focused on fandom and community and Tumblr. I had been an active Tumblr user since 2008. I was already really embedded in the community. In 2013, a position opened at Tumblr, and I was like, "Yes, this is my dream." I've been there ever since.
What do you actually do all day in your job?
Oh man. I run Fandometrics, which is Tumblr's ranking of fandoms, and we monitor what people are talking about, what trends are up and coming. We have a series, called In Depth, where we'll take one fandom and dive deep and pull data on it. Mostly, my hands are in the data, and I'm trying to learn something about what Tumblr is doing. There's a really good one on shipping. Shipping is one of my favorite things to talk about, and we did a year-over-year analysis from 2013 to 2017.
Do you remember your first experience on a computer or the internet?
I, like, grew up at my computer. I remember some time in grammar school I got in trouble for being on the internet because I was role-playing. I had my profile set up that I was a dragon, and my mom found it, and she yelled at me. I remember a lot where she was like, "You can never tell anyone on the internet who you are," and I was like, "Cool, so I'm saying I'm a dragon, and clearly I'm not a dragon." My mom was not having it.
I used a thing called the Palace, which was this pixel-editing system that made those cartoon dolls. I met my very first internet friend on there that I still keep in touch with, two of them actually. One of them, when out to California a few years ago, we met up and ate doughnuts together. Wild memories!
I joined a message board for the band Ozma in maybe my freshman year of high school. They kind of blew up when they opened for Weezer on a tour. I spent so much of my teenage years on that forum. I still am friends with a lot of those people. We have a private Facebook group where we keep each other updated. So many of them have babies now. I was also really into the website Audiogalaxy, which is basically a giant catalog of music and that's where I found a lot of the bands I was interested and still am, a lot of niche emo. A lot of message boards here and there—the Pop Punk Message Bored was one that I was on for a long time. I think the Ozma board, definitely because so many of my friendships were forged there, and I grew up with them, I still talk to a lot of them pretty regularly online. I feel like I learned a lot of how to be myself there.
Is there a part of the early internet, or the past internet, that you miss?
In some ways, I miss being able to turn it off. There's a lot of FOMO and a lot of "I do this for my job and my personal enjoyment, and when do I have time to step away and not have to be online?" Over the past year or so, I've really been learning how to mitigate that. I took up CrossFit because I just needed something that would get me away from a device, and I ended up really loving it and falling in love with lifting heavy things. Something that I never had interest in, but I knew someone who owned a gym, and she was like, "Come try it out," and I was like, "Cool. This is not a phone. This is not a computer. I will go do it."
oh hi internet i forgot to tell you i pr'ed my clean and jerk at 100 pounds today thanks 2017 for being a very good weightlifting year
I miss smaller communities. The Ozma forum was kind of like a high school, in that everyone knew each other, and it was very small and very niche, and now the thing that brings me the most joy on the internet is private Facebook groups that are very small, where everyone knows each other. It's a lot more casual and no one cares that I'm a professional internet [person] there. My favorite group is called Now Fizzing, and it's for seltzer enthusiasts, but everyone's kind of equal. … There's barely any trolls. It feels good to go online and see what seltzers people are drinking.
why yes I did join a seltzer drinking contest of course https://t.co/HNfz2TdZMN
— 𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕒 𝕓𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕟𝕒𝕟 💖 (@continuants) January 10, 2018
What other Facebook groups are you in?
I'm in Catspotting, but Catspotting is too intense because there are so many people and so many posts. I have a librarian fashion group called Buttery Soft Librarians. So the Pop Punk Message Bored, I was on that for a long time, and a lot of bad things happened, and I quit the board completely, and then a few years ago, all of the girls from the board formed a private Facebook group, and I love that group. It's just the Pop Punk girls, and there's way less drama, there's no dudes being awful, and it's just this very nice space with all these girls that I've known for years and years from being on that board. Also, local Facebook groups are very good in suburban New Jersey.
Did you use any regular handles online or screen names?
The one that stuck was IHeartMittensss. I do not like mittens. But that was just the handle that stuck with me, and that was what I was all through high school. Then in college I thought I was going to go into linguistics because I was really into language. I had this whole plan to go to grad school, and I thought, "Well, I want to have this linguistics persona, so I'll use the handle Continuants," which is fancy word for vowels. Then I ended up breaking my leg in half my senior year of college. I went to Drew University, which is very much like a forest, and I was walking through campus one night, and I just fell, and freak-accident broke my leg in half. It was my fall of my senior year. So I had to drop my honor's thesis, I had to not apply to grad school because I spent the whole semester trying to relearn how to walk, and it just kind of threw this wrench into this big plan that I had to become a linguist.
I couldn't even have imagined the work that I've gotten to do and how much I would love it at that time. So cool, world, for course-correcting me. I'm now stuck with these linguist handles, but I'm definitely not a linguist.
I want to ask you to do Fuck, Marry, Kill with—I guess I won't include Tumblr—so just with Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
I would probably kill Facebook because even though I love Facebook groups, I can find those people at other places. Fuck Twitter, because there's different iterations of that sentence. It's good for watching TV, and I can put it away. And marry Instagram because I really love looking at cats.
Do you have a favorite person you follow?
I really love Jeffrey Marsh, and I follow them everywhere. They're nonbinary. They make these amazing videos that are just based on telling you, "You are worthy of love. You will get through this." They are the most positive person I follow online, and every time I see their videos, or their posts in my feed, it's just exactly what I need to hear at that moment.
Guilty-pleasure follow?
I love Food Network, and I unabashedly love Guy Fieri. I follow him everywhere. Give me that gross Guy Fieri content.
What about listservs or newsletters? Are you on any of those that you like?
I'm really into tarot and stuff. There's this person, Lindsay Mack. She has a podcast called Tarot for the Wild Soul, and she just launched a paid newsletter that's twice a month and that gives you deeper study into the tarot and things to really learn and deepen your practice. I will always read anything she sends.
Also, Lil Bub makes incredible newsletters. Mike Bridavsky, her owner, I've never met another human that has loved anything as much he loves that cat. He'll always include bonus Bub pictures at the end.
And Adam JK. His newsletters are not as frequent, but when they come, they're always full of beautiful pictures, and he's just another one of those must-follow people for me. I've done his journal every year since maybe 2014. It's very grounding because he understands internet culture, and he understands what it's like to feel that fear of missing out on the internet but also gets that you have to be present in your life, you have to be here, and everything we do should honor what you need to do to be a happy person.
You said you're engaged. How did you meet your fiancé?
Originally on OkCupid. We talked very shortly, and I ended up getting mono that summer, and I deleted my OkCupid. Then about a year later—we had followed each other on Tumblr that whole time—I finally messaged him and was like, "Hi. Remember me? What are you up to? I like your blog!" We talked for hours that first night, and we've been together … it'll be six years in March.
What would you consider your biggest time suck online?
I will always have one phone game that is the thing that I am doing for a few months. So right now, it's Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. I can't get enough of Pocket Camp right now.
Like everyone, I had a Candy Crush phase. As I commute, I always look for games that don't require internet connection, because trains suck. So I got really into Gardenscapes for a while. Cooking Craze I recently had to break up with. I'm like, "I can't deal with this rapid-fire game anymore."
What was the last rabbit hole you went down on the internet?
A few days ago it was Furbies. Furbies are still really big on Tumblr, and I was just reading all these Furby blogs for an hour.
Do you have your phone handy? What is the last screenshot you took?
Oh! So I was reading Instagram Stories, and someone said to keep your gas tank above half-full before the snowstorm, so I screenshotted it and sent it to my fiancé.
That's a good one. What is your most frequently used emoji?
It's the sparkle heart, the pink one with the sparkles.
Do you have a favorite meme?
Oh man. I have a favorite instance of a favorite meme that someone has called me out on Twitter for saying it too much, but my favorite meme, it's old now, but it's "the signs as." The user's name is celestialonlooker on Tumblr, and she put together "the signs as fat chefs in my mom's kitchen," and it's just so absurd. It just brings me so much joy every time I see it, that I don't think anything could top it. It only has 7,000 notes. What the hell? I'm Aquarius. So I am the chef who holds the towels.
I'm into [astrology] for real, but I'm also into it for the signs as kitchen utensils, or the signs as really silly things, because it's all about figuring out your identity. People are just trying to find their identities through these arbitrary things, and it's just fun. In a world where there's so much stress on the internet, yes, I want to know what my sign is "as winter aesthetic." It's so silly. You're like, "yes, I do identify with this weird thing." I do identify with the chef that holds the towels. It's useful, and I want to feel useful in my life.
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Top 5 Best Kevin Hart Movies You Shouldn't Miss
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Last Modified date: June 7, 2020
Kevin Hart is a popular American standup comedian, actor, and producer. He has been winning the hearts of many all over the globe due to his exceptional talent and comic timing. He was born and brought up in Philadelphia and has done many shows and movies till now. Kevin got a breakthrough in the entertainment industry in 2001 and since then there is no looking back. The TV series Undeclared got him name and recognition and after a great performance, he started getting offers from other big movies. Paper Soldiers (2002), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Soul Plane (2004), In the Mix (2005) are some of these famous movies. Today we will be discussing Kevin Hart's biography and the top 15 movies you shouldn't miss.
2 Best Kevin Hart Movies to Watch
Kevin Hart was born on 6th July 1979 and he was born in Philadelphia. His mother brought him up as a single mother and that is why he is very close to her. His mother's name is Nancy Hart and you will be surprised to know that he has an active career for 20 years. He completed his education from George Washington High school. As he was from middle-class background money was also an issue so with the help of his friends he started working at a shoe shop. His heart was also set in the entertainment industry and his comic timing was the most incredible talent. He got a breakthrough as a standup comedian and started getting fame.
The themes of his comedy shows are focused on the life of African Americans. Their lifestyle, marriage, parenting, pop culture, racism and all should interesting topics were the basic theme. As the themes and concepts were so natural they immediately got love and attention from the audience. He is a rich actor and has earned $32 million and his net worth just keeps on increasing.
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Top Five is an American comedy film that was released in 2014 and the film was directed by Chris Rock. The story of the film revolves around a comedian who resides in New York. The film gained a lot of success and did great business at the box office too.
This is the end is an American comedy horror film that was released in 2013. The film was produced by Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg. You will be surprised to know that the film is based on Apocalyptic and people have loved it totally.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is an American fantasy adventure with a touch of comedy in it. The film was released in 2017 and it is the third installment of Jumanji and all the parts have done incredible business all over the world.
Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence is an American comedy film that was released in 2016. The film wasn't liked by the critics much but the audience loved the way the movie was made. The film is directed by Rawson Marshall. If you haven't watched the movie yet you should give it a try and if we talk about Kevin's performance he was great as usual.
About Last Night is an American romantic comedy that was released in 2014 and is directed by Steve Pink. The film received positive reviews from both critics and fans and Kevin was named as the highlight of the movie.
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QPVHEC is a student project launched in 2018 by students on campus, its purpose is to conduct surveys of Grande Ecole students, analyse and publish the results. The polls cover a wide range of topics namely campus life and current affairs. QPVHEC is the acronym for 'what do you think HEC?' reflecting the association's will to know and understand internal trends at HEC Paris and how these can be influenced.
QPVHEC aims to gather information from students on campus to create infographics, statistics and publications. This way, HEC Paris life can be seen from a more analytical perspective.
Every two weeks, a quick survey is sent to all students at HEC. The results of this survey are then published on the QPVHEC website.
This society values polls, statistics and sociology. For students who want to know HEC Paris better, understand it, and help to detect its internal trends. This way the society can highlight sources of dissatisfaction on the campus and allow everyone to improve, as well as gain a logical overview of internal current matters here on campus.
The current president is Mike Upévé.
There are approximately 10 members but the society welcomes more students to join this exciting project.
The end of March 2018 saw the start of this exciting new association. The first survey conducted was a huge success, providing results on the sociology at HEC Paris. Over the course of this year, there will be many more new surveys conducted and the project hopes to expand its horizons. Students can always contribute their ideas for a survey on the website.


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import com.github.zhangkaitao.shiro.chapter6.BaseTest;
import com.github.zhangkaitao.shiro.chapter6.entity.User;
import junit.framework.Assert;
import org.apache.shiro.subject.PrincipalCollection;
import org.apache.shiro.subject.Subject;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Set;

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Date: 14-1-29
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Version: 1.0
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public class PrincialCollectionTest extends BaseTest {

    @Test
    public void test() {

        //因为Realm里没有进行验证,所以相当于每个Realm都身份验证成功了
        login("classpath:shiro-multirealm.ini", "zhang", "123");
        Subject subject = subject();
        //获取Primary Principal(即第一个)
        Object primaryPrincipal1 = subject.getPrincipal();
        PrincipalCollection princialCollection = subject.getPrincipals();
        Object primaryPrincipal2 = princialCollection.getPrimaryPrincipal();

        //但是因为多个Realm都返回了Principal,所以此处到底是哪个是不确定的
        Assert.assertEquals(primaryPrincipal1, primaryPrincipal2);

        //返回 a b c
        Set<String> realmNames = princialCollection.getRealmNames();
        System.out.println(realmNames);

        //因为MyRealm1和MyRealm2返回的凭据都是zhang,所以排重了
        Set<Object> principals = princialCollection.asSet(); //asList和asSet的结果一样
        System.out.println(principals);

        //根据Realm名字获取
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        System.out.println(users);
    }
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How to Make a Non-Alcoholic Bellini. Hailing from Italy, the Bellini combines peach puree with sparkling wine to create a refreshing cocktail. When you make a non-alcoholic Bellini, you replace the sparkling whine with sparkling grape juice. Best of all, you don't need to measure any ingredients.
Chill the peach juice and the sparkling juice before beginning to make a non-alcoholic Bellini. The Bellini is meant to be a cool, refreshing drink.
Ready a champagne flute. A champagne flute is like a wine glass, but the bowl is much narrower.
Pour peach juice into the champagne flute, filling it halfway.
Fill the rest of the way with non-alcoholic sparkling grape juice.
Mix the juices with a swizzle stick. Be careful not to slop the non-alcoholic Bellini over the sides of the champagne flute.
Serve the non-alcoholic Bellini immediately. The drink has no traditional garnish, but you can add one if you like.
If you would rather use actual peach puree to make a non-alcoholic Bellini, the proportion of peach to sparkling white grape juice will change from 1 part peach juice to 1 part sparkling grape to 1 part peach puree to 5 parts sparkling grape juice.
You can substitute sparkling cider or club soda for sparkling grape juice.
Add the sparkling grape juice carefully. Although not as bubbly as champagne, the grape juice still produces plenty of fizz.


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Kashmir Inc welcomes industrial package, asks government to assess losses of unitholders
Srinagar: Kashmir Inc welcomed Rs 28400 package for uplifting the industrial sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday announced Rs 28400 crore mega "Industrial Development Package-2021" for industrial growth, investments, and job creations.
Kashmir Inc welcomed the package and hoped that the government will come to the rescue of the ailing sector.
"We support the government in its efforts to help and expand the industrial sector, whether through joint ventures or collaborations," said Sheikh Ashiq Ahmad, officiating president, Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries.
He said the valley's industrial sector has suffered huge losses during the last two years. "It will be premature to discuss any government policy till we go through its nitty-gritty. Now if the government has decided to help the industries, we too will extend our support," Ahmad said.
President Industrial Association, Sopore, Javed Ahmad Bhat said the government should focus on boosting the existing industries in Kashmir.
"The announcement is really a good step, but its implementation would matter. We have heard about such packages before, but their implementation was not good. So, the government should develop the infrastructure and accordingly implement the policies to uplift the industrial sector," he said.
Bhat appealed to the government to assess the condition of the industries in Kashmir and accordingly provide assistance.
"Moreover, there are various hurdles which industrialists face at government level. The administration should provide every possible support to a unitholder," he added.
Federation Chamber of Industries of Kashmir said they will go through the pros and cons of the package before reacting.
As per a preliminary assessment by Kashmir Economic Alliance, the industrial sector suffered losses of Rs 1,248 crore losses due to the two spontaneous shutdowns in the last two years.


The Double Shift is an independently produced, reported and narrated podcast. The show is the first to treat the experience and identity of working moms with journalistic seriousness and curiosity. It's part of the Critical Frequency Podcast Network, a women-owned company that seeks to elevate underrepresented voices in podcasting.
The show is created and hosted by 2017 Harvard Nieman Fellow and independent journalist Katherine Goldstein, whose reporting, commentary and opinion pieces have established her as a leading voice in challenging the status quo of working motherhood in America.
The Double Shift is funded in part through the generous support of the Ford Foundation and is a proud member of The Southern Documentary Fund.
Goldstein's literary agent is Leigh Eisenman at Mackenzie Wolf. And she runs Double Shift Productions as an independent journalism company out of Durham, N.C., where she lives with her husband and her three-year-old son.
Sarah Ventre is the Executive Producer of The Double Shift and a founder of Prickly Ear Productions, an audio production and education company.
Previously she was Senior Producer at Phoenix's NPR station KJZZ, and a producer and editor at NPR headquarters in Washington. Ventre won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for her reporting on the remote community that is home to the FLDS church, and is one of the founders of Girls Rock! Phoenix — a nonprofit organization that works to empower girls, trans, and gender nonconforming kids through music.
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Dropbox Drags Its Expensive, Forgotten Photo App Carousel To Web And Tablets
Josh Constine	@JoshConstine / 6 years
Early this year, Dropbox threw a glitzy launch event for its new photo storage and viewing app Carousel, and people went right on using the dozen other ways to keep and comb through memories. Despite Dropbox's 300 million users, it saw less than a half million downloads on Android, and has hovered around #350 on the iOS photo app chart, falling out of the top 1500 apps overall less than two weeks after launch.
But Dropbox needs photos. They're one of the most common file types people store in its cloud, and have the emotional value that people will pay to keep safe. Dropbox can ill afford Carousel's failure. So today it hopes a repolished and newly multi-platform Carousel front-end will help it fight iCloud, Google+/Drive, Flickr, 500 Pixels, and the rest for photo storage on the backend.
Carousel is all about combining photos on your device with all the ones you store up in Dropbox. The auto-saved cloud photos are supposed to load just as quick as the local ones, and they can all be rapidly browsed through using a "carousel" style wheel that lets you whip back to a specific point in time. A messaging feature lets you instantly send big sets of photos or videos to friends that would have taken ages to email or SMS.
Carousel For iPad
Now the dusty iOS and Android Carousel apps are getting a cleaner interface that highlights photos with faces over your boring, endless shots of food and sunsets you'll probably never look at again. The app launches on iPad today and Android tablets soon to let you look at photos on a bigger screen. And most importantly, Carousel is now viewable from the web.
I say "viewable" because you can't actually upload photos to Carousel from your computer, which seems like a fatal flaw. It also lacks the scroll wheel interface that made Carousel fun to whip around on mobile, leaving the web version feeling half-baked. None of the interfaces allow any sort of photo editing, which puts it far behind the flexibility of some competitors. Carousel will need a more compelling product to be a serious deciding factor in where people store their photos.
Dropbox is willing to wait until Carousel is more complete to see it pay dividends. Product Manager on Carousel Chris Lee refused to own up to the soggy download rates on Carousel, instead telling me "We think of this very much as a long-term bet. People have photos and videos scattered across their devices. There still isn't one solution." Without web uploads, Carousel isn't that solution either, but hopefully it will get there with a few more iterations.
Unfortunately, nothing's been done to solve one of the original criticism of Carousel: the price. Dropbox users start with a free 2GB of storage, and they get 3 more if they sign up for Carousel. But most people who would care about a photo storage app have way more than 5GB of memories, which means they'll likely need to cough up $10 a month for a terabyte of space.
Lee admits that there are lots of people with more than 5GB of media to store, and that Carousel is a big up sell for Dropbox storage space. The initial free space is "a great way to experience the product. Our job is to make it so convenient for people that Carousel and Dropbox are worth paying for" Lees says.
But with no middle-tier between 5GB and 1000GB, Carousel can seem expensive. On iCloud, $1 a month gets you 20GB and $4 gets you 200GB. $2 a month gets you 100GB on Google Drive. A terrabyte comes free with ads on Flickr. A $99 annual Amazon Prime subscription gives you unlimited photo storage plus a whole lot else.
"We're in a different place than services that can throw away storage because they make money elsewhere" revealing a growing competitive problem for Dropbox.
Lee grits his teeth into smile and spins the issue, saying "There's a really high bar. We have to build products people are willing to pay for. At the end of the day, I think that motivates us to build even better products."
Apple makes money on hardware, Google and Yahoo on ads, and Amazon on ecommerce. Storage is becoming commoditized because they can give it away as a loss leader. That means Dropbox will have to win with convenience, which it does well with, and added-value. To deliver the latter, its product will have to move faster. Taking seven months to launch an incomplete web version with no editing won't cut it. Carousel needs more before it's ready to ride.


Recommend me a wheel builder?
Discussion in 'Bicycle Mechanics and Repairs' started by bobbyp, 15 Oct 2007.
After somebody stole my bieks a few weeks ago I'm left needing a pair of nice but not racing wheels for the summer bike. I've always favoured handbuilts and am thinking along the lines of plain Ultegra/Open Pro 32 spoke jobs.
Anybody recommend me a decent builder or want to tell me to look at something else?
It might help if we knew what part of the country you were in!
Paul Hewitt does mail order and from personal experience with wheels he has built for mtb, road race and touring, I have found them extremely realiable.
I think the combination you have in mind makes for a really decent wheel, which is only bettered by some of the factory built offerings, once you spend in excess of £450 or so. I have several Open Pro / Chorus wheels from Paul that have never required attention for the entire life of the rim, despite fairly heavy audax , training use and events like Paris Roubaix.
I'm in Reading. Obvious local choices would be AW cycles or Condor but I was looking for other recommendations. Paul Hewitt looks good, think I'll give them a call.
Depends where you are. I know a chap in the Peak District - builds superb wheels and has done for many years.
Ah sorry - didn't see that u were in Reading !
Who would that be please?
I will be needing a pair of wheels before Christmas.
Does Dave Hind still make wheels?
I found Merlin cycles to be competitive too.
I bought myself a pair of Deore hub/Mavic XM117 rims with stainless spokes handbuilt for £50...perfect for my commuter slick tyres to go onto.
Merlin, on the other hand, have always given me excellent service and good wheel builds at low prices.
Harry Rowland and Spa Cycles are both good.
Thanks folks. Think I'll call harry rowland and paul hewitt and see what they each say.
Was almost tempted by the Dave hinde advert in last weeks comic so thanks for the warning alfablue!
I am after a new real wheel. Would be interested to hear how you get on with Harry Rowland and Paul Hewitt.
It would be worth trying Rikki (Ricky, Ricki....can't remember how he spells it) at AW Cycles. Built me a pair of wheels, Open Pro on Veloce hubs, about 2 years ago. Perfectly true ever since despite being treated relatively badly (sh1te roads, panniers for commuting etc).
I wouldn't hesitate to use him again.


With so many oils popping up on shelves these days, it's hard to keep track of which ones are best for salad dressings or cooking. And what in the world is a smoke point anyway? Here's a quick guide to help you navigate some of our favorite oils.
Simply put, when it comes to oils, a smoke point is the temperature at which an oil begins to break down and smoke. You can cook with an oil and heat it up until it reaches its smoke point. At the smoke point, the fat in the oil starts to break down and releases the chemical acrolein, which gives burnt food its bitter flavor. If you reach this point, you'll want to start again or consider takeout for dinner!
These are labels for oil that has been extracted from nuts or seeds (or olives) through mechanical crushing or pressing (think expeller pressed). These oils are bottled immediately after this process and therefore are unhindered by processing or any heat treatment. They therefore better retain their nutrients and original flavor. These oils are particularly wonderful for dressings.
Refined oils are heat extracted. This process may involve chemical solvents. The end result is oil with a higher smoke point, shelf life, and often a more neutral flavor.
More commonly used in personal care products, sweet almond oil can be used for cooking.
It is available refined and unrefined.
Refined almond oil has a smoke point of 420 degrees.
Light, nutty and slightly sweet in flavor, its high smoke point means it can be used for stir fries and roasting as well as for salad dressings and drizzling on rice or grain dishes.
It's many health benefits include helping to manage our cholesterol and supporting the immune system.
Avocado oil can be compared to olive oil in its mild flavor and versatility.
Like avocados themselves, avocado oil has a creamy, rich, yet mild, almost buttery flavor, which makes it an ideal partner for cooking.
It has a very high smoke point of 520 degrees.
Use for roasting, grilling or sautéing veggies, or even making French fries or zucchini fritters. It's also a good choice for salad dressings and even pesto, or dishes using a variety of herbs.
It contains the monounsaturated fat, oleic acid, which helps to lower cholesterol.
It's also found in personal care products, such as shampoos and body lotions.
One of the most commonly used cooking oils, canola oil derives from rapeseed, which is part of the mustard plant family.
Canola oil can be unrefined and expeller-pressed. Typically it is refined and chemically extracted, which involves the use of solvents.
It has a smoke point of 400 degrees, which makes it versatile in the kitchen.
It's best used as a staple for cooking, roasting and baking. Use it if a neutral-flavored oil is needed in a salad dressing, but for true yumminess, there are many tastier oils to choose from for dressings.
It contributes to managing cholesterol and insulin regulation.
Even if you're not a coconut fan, it's hard not to like the many benefits coconut oil has to offer.
Coconut oil is relatively mild in flavor, offering just a hint of its coconut roots. It's nothing like the stronger taste of the dried coconut found in baked goods and cereals.
Unrefined coconut oil has a smoke point of roughly 350 degrees Fahrenheit, while refined oil has a smoke point of 400 degrees F.
It's suitable for both cooking and baking. Or, add a scoop straight from the jar to a smoothie.
Full of healthy saturated fats, coconut oil's health benefits include helping to balance cholesterol, and boosting our immunity and metabolism.
Coconut oil can be stored for years without spoiling.
It too is found in many personal care products. Use it as a moisturizer or it's an excellent make-up remover.
The neutral flavor of this light oil makes it a worthy staple for any kitchen.
Grapeseed oil is typically extracted from the grape seeds of wine grapes. This can be done with the aid of chemical solvents. To avoid solvents, look for expeller-pressed grapeseed oil.
Grapeseed oil's mild flavor and aroma make it the right choice when a neutral flavor is needed.Notably, it doesn't cloud when refrigerated.
It has a smoke point of 390 degrees Fahrenheit.
It's smoke point is good for frying and roasting foods. Its neutral flavor is suitable for baking and salad dressings. The fact it doesn't cloud when refrigerated often makes it the oil of choice for mayonnaise.
Not your everyday household oil, macadamia nut oil's light flavor makes it a suitable substitute for butter or vegetable oil.
It has a smoke point of 413 degrees Fahrenheit.
Use it for high-heat cooking, such as sautéing, roasting and grilling, but it also works well for baking.
It doesn't go rancid easily and can keep on your shelf for up to two years.
It's high in monounsaturated fats (the good fats).
One of the most versatile and trusty oils on the marketplace, there's not much olive oil can't do.
Extra-virgin olive oil is cold-pressed and is bottled after the first pressing. It is unrefined and it contains more of the nutrients from the olives. It tends to be a bit darker in color, and even a bit more peppery or earthy in flavor.
The less common virgin olive oil is also unrefined, but the production standards are not as stringent as extra-virgin olive oil and it doesn't tend to be as flavorful as extra-virgin.
Refined olive oil is heat extracted and has a higher smoke point.
Olive oil has a smoke point of 420 degrees Fahrenheit.
Its high smoke point makes it suitable for cooking, grilling, roasting and sautéing. The mild, yet earthy flavor of extra-virgin olive oil makes it a flavorful choice for salad dressings, drizzles and to use for dipping bread.
Like, avocado oil, it contains the monounsaturated fat, oleic acid, which is thought to help lower cholesterol. It's also rich in Vitamin K.
This oil is similar to grapeseed oil in its light, neutral flavor.
Rice bran oil derives from the germ and inner husk of rice grains.
The oil is typically refined and extracted through a chemical process.
Cold-pressed unrefined rice bran oil does exit.
Refined rice bran oil has a smoke point of 490 degrees.
The high smoke point makes it another good choice for roasting, sautéing, and high-heat cooking. It also works well in salad dressings and condiments such as mayonnaise, which require no-flavor oils such as rice bran oil or grapeseed oil.
It's health benefits include helping to lower bad cholesterol and fending off inflammation.
Often used for Asian-influenced dishes, sesame oil is a handy cooking partner to keep in your cupboard for when you want to mix up your flavor palette.
Sesame oil is extracted from sesame seeds. This can be done through chemical extraction or by expeller pressing.
It's available refined and unrefined.
Refined sesame oil has a smoke point of 410 degrees Fahrenheit.
Sesame oil has a slightly nutty flavor. Toasted sesame oil has an even smokier, nutty flavor.
The unique flavor of unrefined sesame oil is best for salad dressings, marinades and drizzling over dishes with grains such as rice or quinoa.
Refined sesame oil has a higher smoke point and can be used for sautéing, grilling, roasting and cooking.
Sesame oil is thought to be rich in antioxidants.


A day in a French ranch away from the city buzz can be refreshing. Roman architecture, awe-inspiring paintings, exceptional museums, colourful markets and wonderful nature – this is what Arles is made of. Rich in ancient, medieval and contemporary history, a lot of people tend to forget how Arles is rustically rich too. For those, and ofcourse all others, the ranch of Manade Blanc is the place to visit.
You can either visit for a whole day or rent one of the four apartments that the ranch offers.
Engage in day tours where you can approach the bulls, attend a race in the Bouvau or a livestock sorting demonstration by the herdsmen, which is followed by a delicious meal of local delicacies prepared by the hostess, made with quality regional products.
Organise seminars, business meals, output associations or family celebrations in the wild and beautiful setting.
The Manade Blanc becomes an experience of a lifetime with the great knowledge and hospitality imparted by the Blanc family. The lovely country air and the natural ambience gets to the heart and soul and bring to you peace and calm.
How popular is Manade Blanc?
People normally club together Camargue Nature Park and La Tete Dans Les Nuages while planning their visit to Manade Blanc.
Nous comme venu en famille faire la visite en matinée. Nous avons pu découvrir le travail à cheval pour le rassemblement des taureaux et comment se faisait la culture du riz. Par le suite on nous a invité à un apéro, pour goutter les produits de Camargue. Les personnes qui nous on fait la visite et fait la dégustation était charmant, plein de passion pour leur culture et leur élevage. Un bon moment de partage. Notre seul regret, avoir choisi la visite en après midi et pas en soirée.
Lieu très agréable, propriétaires accueillants et disponibles, habitation très jolie et fonctionnelle. Rien à redire, je conseils ce lieu.
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The Appeal Court in Timisoara, Romania, is set to rule on a graft case involving a former police chief and a former judge who failed to declare that they were Freemasons.
A court in the western Romanian city of Timisoara is set to rule in an unusual and unprecedented corruption case involving a former chief of police and a former judge who did not declare their membership of local masonic lodges and allegedly used their connections for their own gain and to cover up crimes.
Judges in the Appeal Court should decide whether a former chief of Oradea police, Liviu Popa, 49, and suspended judge Ovidiu Galea, 49, are guilty of several counts of bribery. But anti-graft prosecutors also say the two defendants concealed the fact that they belonged to Romania's Great National Lodge – and used their connections with the organization to gain advantages, protect friends and cover up small crimes.
While countries such as Britain have already put the issue of possible conflicts of interests of freemasons in the police on the agenda, this is the first such case in Romania. Under Romanian law, magistrates, policemen, as well as dignitaries and public workers may not join political parties but may belong to an NGO as long as it is not politically connected; they must, however, declare such affiliations in an official statement of interests.
The indictment says former Oradea police chief Popa joined a local masonic lodge in 2008 and helped initiate several other members, including judge Galea, who joined in 2015. The indictment says they used their masonic connections to bribe others, request bribes and cover up crimes. Both defendants have said they did not declare their masonic membership because they are just freemasons of the local lodge, not of Romania's Great National Lodge, which is registered as an NGO. The National Lodge did not respond to BIRN's questions about the case on Monday.
One of the leaders of the local lodge that the two defendants belonged to testified in court on February 12 that all members must abide by the law. Dacian Salvador Palladi, a former prosecutor and leader of the Oradea-based freemasons, said none of the local lodges are registered as NGOs and only the national organization stands as an association. Palladi also said that other members of the National Lodge are now concerned about not declaring their Freemasonry membership. "I have never heard and have no knowledge of anyone in the leadership of the association telling freemasons that they are banned from declaring their membership of Freemasonry in their statements of interests," he told the court.


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Traditional Latin Mass Returns to Lithuania
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CHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 19, 2007 - Fr. Scott Haynes, S.J.C. offered the Tridentine Latin High Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Siluva on 8-11-07. This was the first time the Traditional Latin Mass was offered at there since the Communist Occupation of Lithuania. Participants of Ad Fontes (http://adfontes.archangelus.lt/), a study-week of Gregorian Chant for young people, sang Gregorian Chant and rededicated themselves to their Catholic faith.
After attending the High Mass, all received the blessing of Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevicius SJ, the Archbishop of Kaunas, Lithuania. As His Excellency confirmed our commitment to the implementation of Summorum Pontificum, he encouraged us to have devotion to Our Lady of Siluva, and fidelity to Our Holy Father. He asked us to continue our study of the Sacred Liturgy.
This shrine has an interesting history. The Protestant Reformation swept over Europe in 1532, the local governor became a zealous Calvinist as did many nobility. The Catholics of Siluva were weak and did not resist the repression of their Catholic Faith by the powerful gentry. Church property was confiscated and the land turned over to the Calvinists.
With these terrible developments, a parish priest of Siluva found a large rock on his parish property and buried there a chest containing a painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Child, the vestments for Mass, and church documents. He had hope that these again might be used when the persecution ended.
Eighty years later, in 1608, with no active Catholic faith left, Our Lady appeared to a number of children standing on that same rock. She was holding the baby Jesus in her arms. She wept bitterly. Later the Blessed Mother appeared in front of the Calvinist pastor and a large group of people weeping in the same way. The Calvinist pastor asked, "Why are you weeping?" She replied, "There was a time when my beloved Son was worshipped by my people on this very spot. But now they have given this sacred soil over to the plowman and the tiller and to the animals for grazing."
The eldest man in the community was now about 100 years old and he remembered that it was on that spot under the rock that the Catholic priest had buried the Icon, the vestments and the documents. When the old man, who was blind, opened the chest to see the beautiful image of Mary, he at once regained his sight. This would prove to be the first of many miracles.
The people understood. The Mother of God had appeared in person to chide them for their neglect of the Catholic Faith. The people heeded Mary's message and began to return to the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church founded by her Divine Son, Jesus Christ.
Like that wise elder who opened the treasure chest, Our Holy Father Pope Benedict, in his wisdom and charity, has re-opened the ancient treasure chest of the Traditional Roman Rite.
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Being present to a person in the final stages of their life is a sacred trust. As physical life draws to a close, a different kind of life begins. It may be a time of solitude or a period of great intimacy with family, friends, and of course, with God.
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Correctional officers rescue inmate from hanging attempt
Correctional services officers rescued an inmate who attempted to hang himself in Stanley Prison shortly before midnight last night (January 7).
During the night patrol, an officer noticed the 36-year-old male inmate standing on the toilet bowl inside his cell and tying a looped piece of bed sheet onto the window guard bar. The officer immediately ordered him to stop and called for reinforcements. He also tried to persuade the inmate to come down, but the inmate continued with his attempt.
The inmate then put his head into the loop and tried to hang himself. On arrival the reinforcement staff immediately entered the cell and released him from the sheet. He was conscious at the time.
After examination by a medical officer, the inmate was conveyed to a public hospital for further observation and treatment.
A spokesman for the department said, "The department uses all possible measures to prevent people in its custody from attempting suicide or self-harm. These measures include administrative arrangements, the improvement of institution facilities, staff training and first aid services."
The inmate was admitted to the prison for the offence of trafficking in dangerous drugs.
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More than 9 out of 10 new-build homes in the UK have snags and defects and almost 40% of new build homes fail to meet their original deadline, a survey by the New Homes Review (NHR) has revealed. On a more positive note, 65% of new-build homebuyers are satisfied with the condition of the property.
While the independent survey, conducted between 1 November 2017 and 31 October 2018, shows that the sector needs to improve, other measures of customer satisfaction are more positive.
Download the NHR 2018 survey here.
Kate Hughes at New Homes Review said: "House building is such an important part of our society. With an increasing population and house building on course for its lowest levels since the second world war, the country needs more new homes to avert a housing crisis. But not all developers deliver what the homebuyer expects and more needs to be done to improve the sector.
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For 2018, the survey shows that the majority of new-build purchasers were satisfied with their home with most feeling that the quality of the build and the finish was high.
There were mixed reviews when new-build homeowners were asked about the service provided after they moved in. It was split down the middle with 49% unsatisfied, but 33% said they were completely satisfied. This shows that builders and developers need to continue to work on the after sales service, which is often handled by the developer or builder's head office rather than the on-site team.
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Paula Higgins, Chief Executive of HomeOwners Alliance, said: "It is a great shame that the vast majority of buyers have experienced defects in their new home and delays in completion. Everyone expects some snagging issues as properties settle and dry out but for almost all buyers to identify problems, it is clear action needs to be taken.
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Q: Styling JavaScript made elements I created a div element with JavaScript enclosed inside a function. Now how can I call the div element and give it some styling outside of that particular function. Need some suggestion.
function output(str, level) {
    var obj = document.getElementById("dvList1");
    var div = document.createElement("div");
    var node = document.createTextNode(str);
    div.style.marginLeft = (level * 20) + "px";
    div.appendChild(node);
    obj.appendChild(div);
    div.style.display = "none";
}

A: either return the div element from the function like this
function output(str, level) {
    var obj = document.getElementById("dvList1");
    var div = document.createElement("div");
    var node = document.createTextNode(str);
    div.style.marginLeft = (level * 20) + "px";
    div.appendChild(node);
    obj.appendChild(div);
    div.style.display = "none";
    return div;
}

and call it like
var div = output('test',11);
div.style.display = 'block';

or make the div element global like
var div = null;
function output(str, level) {
    var obj = document.getElementById("dvList1");
    div = document.createElement("div");
    var node = document.createTextNode(str);
    div.style.marginLeft = (level * 20) + "px";
    div.appendChild(node);
    obj.appendChild(div);
    div.style.display = "none";
}

output('test',11);
div.style.display = 'block';

A: You can add a className to the created div and style it in CSS.
See last line of function:
function output(str, level, cssClass)
{
  var obj = document.getElementById("dvList1");
  var div = document.createElement("div");
  var node = document.createTextNode(str);
  div.style.marginLeft = (level * 20) + "px";
  div.appendChild(node);
  obj.appendChild(div);
  div.style.display = "none";

  if(cssClass)
    div.className = cssClass;

  return div;
}

var div = output('test', 3, 'red-border');

or mulitple class like:
var div = output('test', 3, 'red-border bold');

or adding after created:
var div = output('test', 3);
div.style.display = 'block';
div.className = 'red-border bold';

And the CSS:
.red-border { border: 1px solid red; }
.bold { font-weight: bold; }

A: you can create the div element inside a function and style it in a different function.
but I will suggest assigning a class to div while creating and then use css to style the div element.


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Q: kohana: a file containing strings? I am new to kohana and not an expert with php
excuse me if this is a duplicate but I don't even know the correct terms to perform a search for this.
I want to have a file where I can have a list of key-value thing and I want these to be accessible from templates and/or controllers.
in order to do this:
1) what do I need to do to create such a file? which folder do I put it in? what will make it accessible by template files and controllers?
2) shall I declare each key as a $string and assign a value i.e. $example = "example value"; or is there a better way?
thank you

A: Sounds like you want to store some data in a config file. You can learn how to use config files here: http://kohanaframework.org/3.2/guide/kohana/files/config
Config data can be read mostly anywhere in your application using the global Kohana class, eg: Kohana::$config->load('myconf'); but generally you don't want to access globals in your views, but rather pass in data to your views, eg:
class Controller_Contact extends Controller {

        public function action_index()
        {
                $names = Kohana::$config->load('names');

                $view = View::factory('people')
                        ->set('names', $names);

                $this->response->body($view);
        }
}


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William Harry Rubin
September 16, 1935 March 1, 2019
Celebrating the life of William Harry Rubin
Obituary for William Harry Rubin
Our loving husband, father and grandfather left his home on earth to enter into his heavenly home on March 1, 2019 at age 83. He was being well cared for at Good Samaritan Society in Spokane Valley at the time of his passing. Bill was born on September 16, 1935 in Colfax, Washington to parents Alvin and Jeanette Rubin.
Bill grew up in the farming community of Onecho near Colfax, Washington. His first four years of schooling were in a one-room school house at Onecho and the following years of education in Colfax. During his formative years, Bill learned from his parents the discipline of hard work that benefited him well throughout his lifetime.
In the year of 1954, Bill joined the U.S. Air Force and served until 1957, at which time he was given a hardship discharge to return to his family farm.
As the 60's rolled around, Bill met his wife to be, Carol Field, at his brother's wedding, both of which were attendants. After a whirlwind courtship, a wedding was planned and then performed at Onecho Mennonite Church on March 10, 1961. The marriage was blessed with four wonderful children, Dori, Cindy, Craig and Rick.
Bill had an adventurous spirit that brought us many experiences, but it was always with a heart to provide and care for his family. Over a period of years, he owned and managed two businesses, one of which was AAMCO Transmission in the Spokane Valley, and the other a western wear and shoe repair business in Colville, WA, which came with the name "B-Bar-C", a perfect fit. Bill could adapt to whatever a job demanded whether it be driving a truck, being in sales or operating a business. When it came time for retirement, he took it pretty seriously, and his favorite place was "home sweet home".
Bill's solid foundation of faith from childhood brought strength into the marriage and in raising the family. He was also known for his quick wit amongst friends and family even into the last days of life.
Survivors include his wife, Carol, daughters Dori Roberts, Spokane, WA, and Cindy Enos, Coeur d'Alene, ID, and sons Craig Rubin and Rick Rubin, Spokane, WA; five grandchildren and one great-granddaughter (born four days after Bill's passing). Surviving siblings are Barbara Steinbeck, Tempe, AZ, Janice Mitchell, and Mark Rubin both of Colfax, WA.
Bill was preceded in death by his parents Alvin and Jeanette Rubin.
A memorial service will be held Friday, March 22 at 2:00 p.m. at the Onecho Bible Church with reception following.
Memorials may be made to Onecho Bible Church, 11361 Almota Rd, Colfax, WA 99111, Good Samaritan Society, 17121 E. 8th Ave., Spokane Valley, WA 99016 or to charity of choice in Bill's honor.
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