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Otpadna toplina je neiskorištena toplina koja nastaje pri pretvorbi energije ili proizvodnji. Otpadna toplina je nužan produkt strojeva koji prozvode rad i drugih procesa koji koriste energiju. Npr.hladnjak grije okolišni zrak ili motor s unutarnjim izgaranjem otpušta toplinu u okoliš. Potreba da sustav otpušta dio topline kao nusprodukt leži u osnovnim zakonima termodinamike. Otpadna topina ima nižu eksergiju i veću entropiju nego izvor energije.
Drugi zakon termodinamike kaže da otpadna toplina mora postojati kao produkt pri pretvorbi promjene temperature u mehanički rad (koji se dalje može pretvoriti u električnu energiju u elektranama npr.)
Otpadna energija (toplina) je neizbježna za bilo kakav toplinski stroj te je omjer proizvedene energije i dovedene energije tzv. Energetska učinkovitost.

Q = Qok+W

Q = ulazna toplina dobivena iz određenog goriva

Qok = otpadna toplina, najčešće se ispušta u okoliš

W = koristan mehanički rad koji je dobiven iz sustava

η=1-

η = energetska učinkovitost

Otpadna toplina se najčešće rasipa u atmosferu, ili velike toplinske spremnike kao što su rijeke, jezera ili čak oceani. Kako je ona nužan produkt toplinskog stroja, efikasnost elektrana je ograničena (pogledat Carnotovu efikasnost) te zbog toga se mora puno više goriva iskoristiti da bi se postigla željena količina energije. Sagorijevanje goriva uzrukuje emisiju stakleničkih plinova te doprinosi globalnom zatopljenju.

Izvori
Izvori otpadne topline uključuju sve vrste ljudskih aktivnosti, prirodnih sustava i svih organizama.
Najveći izvori otpadne topline su elektrane i rafinerije nafte te metalurške tvornice(tvornice čelika).

Proizvodnja električne energije
Električna efikasnost termalne elektrane određena je omjerom dobivene i uložene energije. Ona je otprilike oko 30%. fotografije prikazuju rashladne tornjeve koji omogućavaju elektrani da održava male temperaturne promjene koje su bitne u pretvorbi topline u druge oblike energije. Otpadna toplina se gubi u okolišu umjesto da se ponovo iskoristi.

Industrijski procesi
Industrijski procesi, kao što su rafiniranje nafte, izrada čelika ili proizvodnja stakla, glavni su izvori otpadne topline.

Automobili
Automobili proizvode dva puta više otpadne topline nego korisnog rada. Otpadna toplina se mora zatim odvoditi iz motora kak se ne bi postigla prevelika temperatura koja bi oštetila motor. To ne znači da je konstrukcija motora loša, nego je to jednostavno limitacija drugog zakona termodinamike. Većina vozila koristi sustav hlađenja pomoću rashladnih tekućina koje prolaze kroz motor te tako sakupljaju toplinu. Jednom kada se ona zagrije, teće prema radijatoru koji je smješten na prednjem dijelu automobila. Topla rashladna tekućina tamo se hladi pomoću okolišnog zraka koji struji, i ohlađena se natrag vraća u motor gdje se proces opet ponavlja.

Umjesto da bude "otpad" otpuštanjem u okoliš, ponekad se otpadna toplina može iskoristiti u drugom procesu (npr. Rashladna tekućina u motoru automobilu grije samo vozilo) ili dio topline može biti iskorištene u istom procesu kao npr Klima uređaj s regenerativnim sustavom za povrat topline.

Elektronika

Iako je mala u smislu moći, zbrinjavanje otpadne topline iz mikročipova i drugih elektroničkih komponenti, predstavlja značajan inženjerski izazov. To zahtijeva korištenje ventilatora, hladnjaka, itd. za odlaganje topline.

Biološki izvori
Životinje, uključujući ljude, stvaraju toplinu kao rezultat metabolizma. U toplim uvjetima, ova toplina prelazi razinu potrebnu za homeostazu kod toplokrvnih životinja, a višak se izbacuje različitim metodama termoregulacije kao što je znojenje i zadihanost.

Korištenje otpadne topline

Kogeneracija i trigeneracija
Kogeneracija (engl. Combined Heat and Power ili CHP) je postupak istovremene proizvodnje električne i korisne toplinske energije u jedinstvenom procesu. Kogeneracija koristi otpadnu toplinu koja nastaje uobičajenom proizvodnjom električne energije u termoenergetskim postrojenjima te se najčešće koristi za grijanje građevina ili čak cijelih naselja, a rjeđe u drugim proizvodnim procesima.

Toplinska energija može se koristiti za proizvodnju pare, zagrijavanje vode ili zraka. Također se može koristiti u procesu trigeneracije, gdje se dio energije koristi i za hlađenje. Kogeneracija je termodinamički učinkovito korištenje goriva. Prilikom klasične proizvodnje električne energije, dio energije odbacuje se u okoliš kao otpadna toplina, a u kogeneraciji ta toplinska energija postaje korisna. Dakle, osnovna prednost kogeneracije je povećana učinkovitost energenta u odnosu na konvencionalne elektrane koje služe samo za proizvodnju električne energije te industrijske sustave koji služe samo za proizvodnju pare ili vruće vode za tehničke procese.

Kogeneracija se koristila u nekim od najranijih uređaja za proizvodnju električne energije. Prije nastanka središnjih stanica koje distribuiraju energiju, industrije su proizvodile vlastitu energiju koristeći ispušne pare za proces grijanja. Velike poslovne i stambene zgrade, hoteli i trgovine su istovremeno proizvodile vlastitu električnu energiju i koristili otpadnu paru za grijanje. Zbog visokih cijena javne električne energije, ovakva kogeneracijska djelovanja su se nastavila dugi niz godina nakon što je javna električna energija postala dostupna.

Komercijalno dostupne kogeneracijske tehnologije su parne i plinske turbine, mikroturbine, motori s unutarnjim izgaranjem, Stirlingov stroj i gorive ćelije, u širokom rasponu snage od 1 kW za Stirlingov stroj do 250 MW za plinske turbine.

Trigeneracija (engl. trigeneration ili trigen) je proces istovremene proizvodnje električne, toplinske i rashladne energije iz primarnog izvora energije kao što je kemijska energija, fosilno gorivo, ili solarna energija. Kao i kod kogeneracije otpadna toplina je nusprodukt koji je rezultat proizvodnje električne energije te se na najbolji način želi iskoristiti takav "otpadni"oblik energije u svrhu povećanja efikasnosti sustava.

Konvencionalne termoelektrane pretvaraju samo 1/3 kemijske u električnu energiju.  Ostatak se izgubi na toplinu. Termoelektrani zbog takvog prosipanja topline koji ima nepovoljan utjecaj na okoliš mora se povećati iskoristivost proizvodnje električne energije ili nekog drugog oblika energije.

Jedinice za povrat topline

Otpadna toplina koja se nalazi u ispušnim plinovima različitih procesa ili čak iz ispušnih plinova jedinice za klimatizaciju može se koristiti za predgrijavanje dolaznog plina. To je jedna od osnovnih metoda za uporabu otpadne topline. Mnoga postrojenja za proizvodnju čelika koriste ovaj proces kao ekonomsku metodu za povećanje proizvodnje postrojenja s nižom potrošnjom goriva.

Postoji mnogo različitih komercijalnih jedinica iskorištavanje otpadne topline.
 Rekuperatori se sve se češće koriste za ventiliranje prostora, jer postižu bolju kvalitetu zraka uz  velike energetske uštede. U usporedbi s običnom ventilacijom, putem odsisnih i dobavnih ventilatora, instalacija s rekuperatorima ima veliku prednost jer se u kompaktnim rekuperacijskim jedinicama nalaze odsisni i dobavni ventilator, pločasti rekuperator i filtar zraka. U usporebi s običnim ventilacijskim sistemima, ugradnjom rekuperatora štedi se 50-60 % topline jer se zrak predgrijava ili hladi prije ubacivanja u prostor.
 Regeneratori- u regenerativnom izmjenjivaču topline, na bilo kojoj strani izmjenjivača, fluid je gotovo uvijek isti. Fluid koji struji kroz izmjenjivač često postiže visoke temperature, te pritom može strujati kroz vanjski dio procesa i tada se uvijek vraća u suprotnom smjeru kroz izmjenjivač kako bi se upotrijebio u daljnjem procesu. Obično se u praksi taj proces koristi ciklički ili repetitivno, stoga se u regenerativnim izmjenjivačima topline fluid koji ulazi zagrijava toplinskom energijom (otpadnom toplinom) koja se oslobađa iz fluida koji izlazi iz procesa.

 Izmjenjivač topline, uređaj koji služi za prijenos topline s jednoga fluida (plin, para, kapljevina) na drugi. Kako se tim uređajem prijenos topline (s fluida više na fluid niže temp.) ostvaruje u prvome redu konvekcijom, njegova je učinkovitost razmjerna brzini strujanja fluida i površini dodirnih ploha. Najčešće se primjenjuje za grijanje ili hlađenje radnoga medija u rashladnoj i procesnoj tehnici, termoenergetskim i nuklearnim postrojenjima, centralnome grijanju, pripravi potrošne tople vode i sl. Izmjenjivač topline može biti različitih konstrukcijskih rješenja i tipova izvedbe, a prema namjeni se naziva grijač, hladnjak, isparivač, kondenzator, predgrijač, radijator, konvektor itd. Izmjenjivač topline s neizravnom izmjenom može biti izveden kao rekuperator i regenerator.
 Ekonomizator je izmjenjivač topline koji povećava temperaturu vode koja napušta grijač vodeće vode s najvećim pritiskom na temperaturu zasićenja koja odgovara tlaku kotla, što je učinjeno od plinova koji napuštaju posljednji super-grijač ili reheater koji još uvijek Ima dovoljno topline da se prije nego što napusti stack, to je razlog zašto se zove economizer.
 Toplinske pumpe su sustavi jeftinog i ekološki čistog načina grijanja, one mogu crpiti toplinu iz vode, zemlje ili zraka. Rade na principu sličnom kao i rashladni uređaji. Osnovni proces koji objašnjava njihov rad je lijevokretni Carnotov kružni proces. Toplinske pumpe najčešće koriste freone kao rashladni medij, ali mogu koristiti i neke druge plinove (npr. amonijak). Najjednostavniji oblici toplinskih pumpi su klima uređaji koji griju i hlade, tzv. inverteri. Oni crpe toplinu iz zraka, najlakši su za montažu i najjeftiniji. Složeniji oblici koji daju i više energije su sustavi koji se ukapaju pod zemlju gdje se koristi unutarnja toplina zemlje koja podiže temperaturu rashladnog medija (najčešće nekog od plinova freona). Toplinske pumpe danas još nisu stekle široku primjenu iako su bolji izvor grijanja od fosilnih goriva koja polako nestaju, zagađuju okoliš i imaju stalan porast cijena.

Elektrifikacija otpadne topline
Postoji mnogo različitih pristupa prenošenju toplinske energije na električnu energiju, a tehnologije za to su postoje već nekoliko desetljeća. Organski Rankineov ciklus, vrlo je poznat pristup, pri čemu se organska tvar koristi kao radni medij umjesto vode. Prednost je u tome što taj proces može odbaciti toplinu pri nižim temperaturama za proizvodnju električne energije nego u redovitom ciklusu vodene pare. Još jedan uspostavljeni pristup je korištenjem termoelektričnih ćelija, gdje promjena temperature preko poluvodičkog materijala stvara napon kroz fenomen poznat kao Seebeckov efekt. Sličan je pristup upotreba termogalvanskih ćelija, pri čemu razlika temperature uzrokuje električnu struju u elektrokemijskoj ćeliji.

Vidi članke
 Organski Rankineov ciklus
 Kogeneracija
 Trigeneracija
 Izmjenjivači topline
 Izmjenjivač topline cijev u cijevi

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Q: Windows equivalent of inb(), outb(), low level i/o I have some Linux code that monitors our hardware by collecting temperatures, voltages, and fan speeds, from the motherboard using inb(), outb(), inl(), etc. low level i/o functions.
My challenge is to port that code over to run under Windows as a simple console app.  But am puzzled in what functions Win32 (or .NET) provide that allow me permission to access direct memory mapped ports.
I don't want to code a system driver either.
My Windows tool preference is VS2008.  (fyi)
Is this possible?

A: The default protection level for I/O ports in Windows prevents a user-mode program from using inp and out instructions on any port.  Your program will die with a GPF.  There are several freely available drivers around that change that protection level so that ring 3 code can access the ports.  Which is okay if you're interested in killer pokes.
The canonical one is inpout32.

A: Most hardware locations are mapped in areas not accesible from userspace, so you are going to need a device driver that provides the desired API.
You can also check the UNIX Application Migration Guide ad MSDN.

A: Well, after much searching with some trial and error, the two most useful bits I found to be helpful are:
WinRing0 and IO.DLL .
They pretty much do the same thing, the difference is the samples of code you will find to help you get started using them.
Hope this helps for others.

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Musical favorites will be featured in the Broadway Voices concert performed by Southeastern Illinois College's Concert Choir on Tuesday, March 8 at 7 p.m. in the Harry L. Crisp Conference Center Lecture Hall B126 at the college's main campus located east of Harrisburg.
This concert will consist of selections from Stephen Schwartz's Children of Eden and Wicked, Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, and Stephen Flaherty's Ragtime.
Southeastern's Concert Choir currently has 10 members and is seeking more SIC students for the fall semester. The choir rehearses on Thursday's from 3-4:50 p.m.
For further information on the Broadway Voices concert, or becoming a choir member contact Cory Garmane at 618-252-5400 ext. 2235 or cory.garmane@sic.edu.


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Q: 'train' and 'class' have different lengths knn Getting the good ol' " 'train' and 'class' have different lengths " error. Please advise. I also probably shouldn't be getting a perfectly classified test set using one variable as a classifier. Now note that it is my intention to use one variable. So please address the " 'train' and 'class' have different lengths " error.
install.packages("class")
library("class")

mydata <- read.table("http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/iris/iris.data", sep=",", header=FALSE)

index <- 1:nrow(mydata)
testindex <- sample(index, trunc(length(index)/4))
testset <-mydata[testindex,]
trainset <- mydata[-testindex,]

#Iris type classifed by sepal length

kblah <- knn(train = trainset['V1'],
         test=testset['V1'],
         cl=as.factor(testset[['V5']]) ,
         k=1, l=0, prob=F, use.all=T)

#Iris type classified by sepal width

kblah2 <- knn(train = trainset['V2'],
         test=testset['V2'],
         cl=as.factor(testset[['V5']]) ,
         k=1, l=0, prob=F, use.all=T)

#Iris type classified by petal length

kblah3 <- knn(train = trainset['V3'],
         test=testset['V3'],
         cl=as.factor(testset[['V5']]) ,
         k=1, l=0, prob=F, use.all=T)

#Iris type classified by petal width

kblah4 <- knn(train = trainset['V4'],
         test=testset['V4'],
         cl=as.factor(testset[['V5']]) ,
         k=1, l=0, prob=F, use.all=T)

plot(kblah)
plot(kblah2)
plot(kblah3)
plot(kblah4)

table(kblah)
table(kblah2)
table(kblah3)
table(kblah4)

A: The error tells you exactly what's wrong. In the ?knn help page, it describes the cl= parameter as "factor of true classifications of training set" and yet you are passing in values from the testset. That's just wrong. It should be cl=as.factor(trainset[['V5']])


Hello, happy new year! I want to know whether is plan to release an update of the Opera browser for Linux. Many interesting extensions require version 16+, when today only is 12-th version. Thank you.
Shall this be the first **ix/***ux edition of OPR-Opera (ChomeOpera or BlinkOpera)?
Strictly speaking I am a QA (and team leader) not a developer.
Turning off the address popup? How to do this in Opera for Linux. Wheneeve I hover over a link with my cursor, about a second passes and the complete address appears in a popup that obscures the information on the screen below it. I find this very disconcerting and want to turn it off. Does anyone know how to do this? I have used Opera for Linux on my desktop and that did not happen, so it seems that some setting is different, but I could locate it.
You are actually hijacking this topic, as your question/problem has nothing to do with this topics subject, other than the fact that Linux is mentioned. You should really have posted your own topic.
But seeing as you are already here, go to 'O Menu / Settings / Preferences... / Advanced / Browsing' and remove the tick from 'Show tooltips' on the right had side and click 'Ok'.
Things should be back to normal when hovering links with your mouse pointer now.


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Camp Gorham is the name of a YMCA summer camp located just north of Eagle Bay, New York in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. The camp is made up of over  with a  private lake.

Background
The camp originated as a camp which trapper Bill Dart built for himself in 1879. His original cottage is still on the property. As his business grew, more cottages were built and by 1927 Bill's daughter Emma ran it as a boys' camp. In 1961 the property was donated to the YMCA of Greater Rochester, by Jack and Irene Gorham who purchased the property. It was then renamed Camp Gorham in their honor.  The minimum age for attendance is seven and the maximum age is seventeen. There are leadership programs for campers 14 - 17 years old. Counselers are mostly college students.

At the end of each summer Camp Gorham has a family camp. During family camp programs are run by camp staff and family campers themselves help to run events.

Camp Gorham serves 1,000 campers each summer.

References

External links

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How To Disable Netflix Trailers Autoplaying
Netflix is a paid service. It has a one month free trial but once it expires, you have to pay to use the service. There are different plans available depending on how you watch Netflix but there is no getting around paying for it. With online streaming services like this, users expect no ads. If you watch Netflix in your browser, you know that it will play a trailer, with sound, automatically. It is beyond annoying and there doesn't seem to be an option to disable it. That said, you can disable Netflix trailers autoplaying with a little extension.
Disable Netflix Trailers
You've no doubt heard of the many add-ons and extensions available for modifying Netflix's interface and making it better. Some allow you to skip intros though that is now supported by default, and others give you better access to a list of available content. Netflix Tweaker does this but it also block the trailer from playing. It's available for both Firefox and Chrome.
All you have to do is install the add-on or extension and visit Netflix after that. If you already have Netflix open, reload it. When you visit Netflix, the trailer will no longer play. You won't see any animation or even the speaker icon. The Play button on the trailer will not be disabled. If you click it, you will be taken to the title screen where you can watch the movie or series.
This will not impact the auto-play you see between episodes of a series. You will still see those. Netflix is also beta testing ads that play between episodes. It hasn't been implemented worldwide just yet but you can probably expect it to by the end of this year, or the middle of the next. If the feature does eventually roll out, there's no telling if this add-on will be able to block it or not.
If you want to disable other features on Netflix, or add them, you will need to install other add-ons and extensions. Netflix has, for example, retired reviews so if you want reviews from IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes to be added to the interface, you will need to install an extension that can add them. If you use Windows 10 though, a much easier way to be rid of the auto-playing trailer is to just use the official Netflix app in the Microsoft Store. It simply doesn't have them, and so they're never played. It's possible that Netflix will add trailers to the app in the future but it is very rarely updated so you don't have anything immediate to worry about.
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Jeff Koons And Louis Vuitton Bags – A Perfect Match?
Zuzanna Stańska 21 April 2017 min Read
Jeff Koons was always an enfant terrible of contemporary art. This time, by working on the new collection "Masters" with Louis Vuitton he became also an enfant terrible of fashion. Koons is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. Like this one, which in orange version was sold for $58m. [caption id="attachment_4503" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog (Blue), 1994-2000, private collection[/caption] This time Jeff Koons went further. What do you think about Louis Vuitton rucksack with RUBENS written on it in big gold letters over a reproduction of that gorgeous work Tiger, Lion and the Leopard Hunt, from the collection of Royal Academy of Arts? OK, Rubens is not a pop icon. But the next bag we see definitely use a masterpiece that was quited many many times in the course of art history: Koons is famous for turning kitsch images, objects and people into art, and with this cooperation with Louis Vuitton he comes back into his favorite subject. He clearly has an erudite and passionate love of oil painting, for while his bags touting the Mona Lisa and Van Gogh's Wheat Field With Cypresses may be easy on our brains, he is also bravely educating us by insisting on the glamour of Rubens, Titian and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Fragonard, who was famous for his late Rococo manner which was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. Sounds like another favorite subject of Koons. The elements from the collection called "Masters" costs from $500 for a keyring to $4000 for a bag. The artist took inspiration from his "Gazing Ball" series which was initially developed in 2013 and culls the work of 35 masterpieces such as Monet's Water Lilies and Klimt's The Kiss. [caption id="attachment_4502" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball, 2015[/caption] Check out our gallery of Jeff Koons' Louis Vuitton bags and find other colorways by visiting Louis Vuitton's official website. Would you wear it?
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The 2018 Free Movement Conference is over!
Working Narratives would like to thank all the conference-goers and presenters who gathered in Wilmington to fight for healthy communities and a strong democracy.
We tweeted, streamed, blogged and snapped pics throughout our amazing three-day event, so take some time to check out our conference coverage. You can visit the full archive of photos here. And you can read a report out of the conference here.


Four tiny parathyroid glands located behind the thyroid regulate the calcium in our body by producing the parathyroid hormone (PTH).
The most common parathyroid disorder is called Primary Hyperparathyroidism, which is when the parathyroid hormone level is above the normal range and results in an increase of calcium in the body.
The excess hormone production (hyperparathyroidism) is usually caused by a benign (non-cancerous) tumor called an adenoma that has formed in one or more of the pea-sized parathyroid glands.
Blood tests that measure the amount of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and calcium are used to diagnose primary hyperparathyroidism. Surgical removal of the affected parathyroid gland is the recommended treatment to cure primary hyperparathyroidism.
In order to minimize the risks and time of surgery, doctors at the Thyroid Institute of Utah consider two types of studies to localize the parathyroid adenoma(s). The first study is an ultrasound of the neck. When a parathyroid adenoma is localized on ultrasound, this allows for a biopsy to provide proof that it is really there. The second study is a parathyroid sestamibi scan, which is preferably done with SPECT. A sestamibi scan can aid in identifying parathyroid adenomas in areas that cannot be viewed by ultrasound, such as deep in the chest or behind the trachea (windpipe).
Surgeons at the Thyroid Institute of Utah perform Minimally Invasive Parathyroid Surgery. The surgeon makes a small incision in the neck through which a radiation-detecting probe is used to identify the problematic parathyroid gland(s). After the parathyroid gland(s) are removed, a combination of PTH hormone blood tests and the probe are used to verify that the condition has resolved and no other parathyroid glands need to be removed.


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The Amateur Cracksman
Raffles The Amateur Cracksman was written as a series of short stories by E.W. Hornung, and made its first appearance in Cassell's and The Strand before being collected into novel form in 1899. Other Raffles stories by Hornung appeared over the years, culminating in the full length novel Mr. Justice Raffles in 1909.
Various film and TV programs followed, including a filmed version with Ronald Colman in the title role in the thirties, David Niven in the forties, and a TV production was made by Yorkshire Television in 1976, starring Anthony Valentine as A.J. Raffles and Christopher Strauli as Harry (Bunny) Manders.
Hornung's Raffles stories comprise the following:
The Amateur Cracksman (1899)
The Black Mask (1901)
A Thief In The Night (1905)
Mr. Justice Raffles (1909)
'A man's reach must exceed his grasp, dear boy, or what the dickens is a heaven for?' (Raffles: A Costume Piece)
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E.W. Hornung
Gallery - The Ladies
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About Enugu State
Deputy Governor's office
Secretary to the State Government
Tax & Levy
COALCITY
GERMAN AMBASSADOR HAILS GOV. UGWUANYI ON ROAD CONSTRUCTION; PROMPT PAYMENT OF WORKERS' SALARIES; PARIS CLUB REFUND…
by	Enugu State	/ Tuesday, 25 July 2017	/ Published in News
German Ambassador hails Gov. Ugwuanyi on Road Construction; prompt payment of Workers' Salaries; Paris Club Refund Disbursement; successful hosting of the meeting of South East/South South Governors, among others.
The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Nigeria, His Excellency, Dr. Bernhard Schlagheck today applauded Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for his administration's remarkable achievements across all sector of the economy, especially in the areas of roads construction and prompt payment of workers' salaries, which he said was "not common in Nigeria".
Amb. Schlagheck also hailed Gov. Ugwuanyi for the transparent manner his administration handled the disbursement of the first tranche of the Paris Club Refund. He equally commended the Governor for the successful hosting of the recent meeting of the governors of South East and South South in Enugu under the present dispensation, "with the intention of strengthening regional cooperation", describing the meeting as "the first of its kind".
The German Ambassador who made the commendations during a courtesy visit to the governor at the Government House, Enugu on his first official visit to the state, disclosed that he was in Enugu on a tour of the South East region of Nigeria to have a firsthand information of the development in the zone as well as the recent achievements in Enugu State. He expressed delight at the warm reception accorded him, saying that the gesture confirms the relationship between the South East and the Federal Republic of Germany.
In his address, Gov. Ugwuanyi thanked the Ambassador for deeming it fit to visit the South East region at this time, especially the visit to Enugu "as the administrative, political and cultural headquarters of the region having served as the capital of former Eastern Region, East Central State, old Anambra State, old Enugu State and remains the capital of the current Enugu State."
The governor who expressed profound gratitude to the German Ambassador for recognizing some of the numerous salient achievements his administration has recorded so far, despite the severe economic challenges, said that the government was "fully committed to the sustenance of an environment that is conducive for businesses and other developmental initiatives in the state especially through our continuous investments in such critical areas as security, infrastructural development, environmental improvement, expansion and regularisation of social services etc".
The governor added that the state has undeniably enjoyed a long history of interaction and cooperation with the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany through her diplomatic mission in Nigeria and some of her aid agencies, adding the visit "certainly offers us an ample opportunity to build a stronger and mutually beneficial working relationship with your Country".
"Accordingly, we will be very eager to share ideas and partner with your office on issues of development especially those that pertain to German engagement in Enugu State. This is even more imperative in the light of our current efforts to engage new development partners and attract direct foreign investments to our state.
"We have also put in place, necessary legislations, institutional frameworks, favourable tax regime and special incentives that would make it easier and more convenient for the operation of businesses in Enugu. Currently, we have on the block for commercialisation or privatization, over 17 potentially lucrative State -owned companies and industries dealing in diverse areas of business and production.
"As your Excellency may know, Enugu State is also richly endowed with natural and human resources that offer copious investment opportunities in Agriculture and Agro-Allied Enterprises and in the extraction and processing of such minerals as Coal, limestone, clay, oil, gas etc all of which are found in very abundant quantities in the state.
"The presence of an international (passenger and cargo) airport and the establishment of a Free Trade Zone in Enugu as well as the urbanisation initiatives of the government, provide a further boost to the economic potentials and profile of the state.
"We therefore seek the assistance of your Embassy to enlighten and sensitize genuine business organisations in Germany as to these opportunities and to also, facilitate their entry into Enugu State as investors.
"Beside this, we solicit the direct assistance of your Country, in the development of some areas of the state's economy such as education, healthcare, agriculture and security (through training and provision of modern communication equipment and other gadgets).
"We want to assure you of the safety, viability and sustainability of any commitment or investment that the Federal Republic of Germany or organisations from the country, may choose to make in Enugu State", Gov. Ugwuanyi stated.
The name of the state derives from its capital city, Enugu. The word "Enugu" (from Enu Ugwu) means "the top of the hill". The first European settlers arrived in the area in 1909, led by a British mining engineer named Albert Kitson. In his quest for silver, he discovered coal in the Udi Ridge. The Colonial Governor of Nigeria Frederick Lugard took a keen interest in the discovery, and by 1914 the first shipment of coal was made to Britain.
ENUGU GOVT. AWARDS CONTRACTS FOR MORE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS TO OPEN UP RURAL AREAS
JUBILATION AS GOV. UGWUANYI EMPOWERS MORE TRADERS THROUGH RAFFLE SCHEME
FG PLEASED WITH UGWUAYI'S BIPARTISAN APPROACH TO GOVERNANCE, SAYS VON DG
Gov. Ugwuanyi presents N169.85 billion 2021 budget estimates
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LDAP, or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an open industry-standard
protocol for accessing and maintaining directory services.
When we say directory services,
we're referring to something similar to a phone or email directory.
It's most commonly used as a backend for authentication of accounts.
The LDAP specification describes the data structure of the directory itself.
And defines functions for interacting with the service, like performing look ups and
modifying data.
You can think of a directory like a database, but with more details or
attributes, describing entities within the database.
The structure of an LDAP directory is a sort of tree layout and is optimized for
retrieval of data more so than writing.
Think of it as being similar to a phone book being used for
looking up data far more often than making modifications to that data.
Directories can be hosted across lots of different LDAP servers to facilitate more
rapid look ups, and are kept in sync through replication of the directory.
So what kind of data gets stored in directory entry, exactly?
Similar to an address book, an entry for a particular user will contain
information pertaining to that user account, like their first and last name,
phone number, desk location, email address, login shell, and other such data.
Along with object attributes the location of an entry within the overall data
structure will represent information pertaining to the objects as relationships
between objects.
Because LDAP uses a tree structure called a Data Information Tree, objects will
have one parent and can have one or more children that belong to the parent object.
You can also think about this like a file system
with a root file system in folders under that.
The folder an object belongs to will provide information about that object
because of its relationship to the parent object.
In LDAP language, we call these folders Organizational Units, or OUs.
They let us group related objects into units like people or groups to distinguish
between individual user accounts and groups that accounts can belong to.
This tree structure also allows for inheritance and
nesting of objects, where attributes or properties of a parent object
can be inherited by children further down the tree.
Now, since it is possible for entries in the directory to share attributes,
there must be a unique identifier for each entry.
We call this, Distinguished Name, or DN.
Coming back to our file system analogy,
you can think of a DN as a full path to a file as opposed to a file name.
This is because you can have multiple files with the same file name across
a file system.
But the fully qualified path to the file would describe one unique file.
Some of the more common operations that can be called by a client to interact
with an LDAP server are bind, which is how clients authenticate to the server.
StartTLS, which permits a client to communicate using LDAP v3 over TLS.
Search, for performing look ups and retrieval of records.
Add/delete/modify which are various operations to write data to the directory,
and Unbind, which closes the connection to the LDAP server.
Now, there are many implementations of LDAP servers,
like Active Directory from Microsoft and OpenLDAP for open source implementations.


Just a warning, this is a motivational post on composting. Motivational hopefully for you, but also for me to keep going on it this weekend! A two or three months ago we ordered a whole truckload of compost and have slowly been spreading it out here and there. The front lawn got a layer raked in and some flower beds got an inch laid down too and oh what a difference it has made. So much so that I had to share. Above is the front lawn that we got the compost down on, below is the back lawn which we haven't gotten to yet. What difference!
These two pictures are of one flower area, above is to the left side of the path, where I got the compost in, below is the right side, which hasn't been touched yet. A major difference! I utilize compost similar to a mulch, just layer an inch on the dirt and water it in well and leave it. Look how large and lush the plants are above compared to how spindly and little they are below!
We of course make our own compost, but every few years we order a few yards to really give the garden a good boost. In the past we'd always gotten mushroom compost from Sonoma Materials in the past, but we got a tip from our favorite nursery, Sonoma Mission Gardens, to order from Sonoma Compost (and yes, if you own a business in Sonoma, you seemingly must start your business name with 'Sonoma'!). And so we did, we got 10 yards of the Organic High-Test Compost and we are thrilled with it. The compost is cheaper, though the delivery fee higher, so that is why we ordered as much as we did. If you live in Sonoma County, I highly recommend giving Sonoma Compost a try.
And after you've ordered your compost, head over to the plant sale tomorrow (Saturday, April 28th) at the Sonoma Garden Park from 9am to 3pm. We'll be there picking out our peppers and other goodies!
Saturday afternoon I arrived at this welcoming place, above, Beekind in Sebastapol, to pick up the bees. I have had this date on the calendar for months now. Beekeeping is something I've wanted to do for years now but between city ordinances (which have since been relaxed), and having a baby and knowing we were going to move, I had to wait. Now that we are on this property and I have a few beekeeping friends I knew this was as good a time as any. Last August I picked up a copy of Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees to give me a good introduction into what I was getting into.
When we first moved in our generous neighbor gave us an incredible basket of edible goodies and one of them was a canning jar full of honey. When we finally met in person we asked her if she kept bees and she casually replied that she caught a wild swarm in her backyard and this was their honey. Holy Cow! Incredible! Turns out she wanted to learn a little more and start a traditional hive this year too, so together we ventured out to Beekind a few weeks ago to take on of their hands on hive installation and inspection classes. Taking that class, for me, was invaluable. And knowing that there was someone over the fence with whom I could shout out to for moral bee support is also invaluable.
Now, despite that I've read a book and taken a class, I am still a bumbling newbie in all of this, so when it came time to install the packages all sorts of little stumbling blocks came up such as. 'Oh wait, the boxes are nailed together, what do we do about that?' After finding that a hammer wasn't going to pull out those tack strips easily we resort to a saw.
A lot of deliberation, debating and worry went into the location of the hives. We finally decided upon a part of the yard that gets little foot traffic, has a high hedge to protect from the wind and is slightly overhung by a tree to give a little afternoon shade.
What's been great about the process is seeing how excited the boys are about it all. Our youngest son is well known to be a bee petter and the first question he had for the lady when we picked up the bees was, 'can I hold one?' But our oldest, as you can see above, wants to be right into it, picking things up, moving things around. He told me the other day, 'Let's go check on them, I just can't resist the bees!' I'm looking forward to them learning along with me.
Installing the bees was a little heart racing but I didn't get stung and all in all, it went smoothly. Inside those larger boxes of bees is a small box that the queen comes in. You can see me above brushing bees off of her with some grass. There is a cork in that box that you take out and replace with a mini-marshmallow. You then rubberband her to a frame and the workers eat their way into her.
At the end of the day I got them all buttoned up and was quite proud and excited about our new venture. Yesterday I had to go back in and take out the bee boxes and reduce the hive down to one box (I had to start with two boxes since I'm using shallows), which went mostly easily, except when I came back a little later and found that one hive was swarming the removed bee package box…apparently the queen was attached to that. Sigh. So back the package box went into the hive. Then I also found that the ants (I really do hate ants!) had broken through my cinammon border and had infested the syrup of the other hive. Sigh. So more cinammon was applied and today I need to create little oil moat around the bases.
The good news is that when I went into the hives to rearrange things yesterday I saw that one hive was already drawing out it's honeycomb and filling it with the syrup, so with any luck and if I can keep the queen in the hives, we'll have honey this summer!
…and watch a pair of mocking birds build a nest below our kitchen window. I've never watched a bird make a nest so closely before. They spent all day Saturday and Sunday bringing sticks and Monday and Tuesday bringing fluffy things. Wednesday it was finished and the pair were nowhere to be found. Maybe on a honeymoon. Can't wait to spy on their eggs and babies in the coming months!
The boys returned with four fresh caught crabs! Two red crabs and two dungeness! A surprising success!
Ever since I tried my hand at dying yarn with our walnut hulls last autumn, I've had the bug to try other natural dying. I bought a couple of inspiring books (Harvesting Color & The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes ) that I'd frequently browse through, but I could never quite find the time to experiment. After giving a fellow knitting friend those two books to borrow and casually suggesting that the wild fennel was starting to sprout up the street, she emailed me saying, 'let's try it!' I made a quick trip down to Dharma Trading Company for undyed yarn and invited her over after we dropped the kids off at school. It was a fun morning, stewing up wild fennel and dried daffodils in large pots while drinking tea and chatting about all sorts of things.
Natural dying is great fun, as long as you go into it without any expectations. In one of my books, one of the authors got a pale green from her fennel dying, so we were both ready to see green appear on our yarn and cotton tablecloth, we got pale yellow instead and barely any color on the cotton when we used alum as a mordant. We divided the fennel dye water into two parts, one for adding alum as a mordant (we combined mordant with dye to save time) and in the next we put a copper pot into the dye pot to weigh down the yarn. If you dye in an unlined copper pot you don't need a mordant. Since our copper pots are lined, I did the reverse and put the pot inside the dye bath. We got a much different color, as seen above.
After she left I bravely strained out the second batch of walnut hulls I had been soaking since…oh last November. It was fragrant, let me tell you that, but what a much richer dye color it made this time, in comparison with the last batch! The pink/mauve came from avocado skins! Can you believe that? Who would have though avocado skins would turn wool pink!
I have a romantic notion of making an entire fair isle sweater made from yarn dyed from plants grown on my street (update: I DID make the sweater!). I don't know if that can really happen, but a girl can dream. It certainly has been a fun experiment. You can really delve deep into the chemistry of dying and change colors by adding washing soda or vinegar or all sorts of different things to change the pH. But for now I'm sticking with the basics. I'm now impatiently waiting for the purple iris' to bloom and then dye to see what they will do!
Things are starting to shape up around here. If you can change your mindset to overlook the vast amount of weeding and yard work we still have yet to do, and focus on things that fit into a small camera view, things look quite beautiful.
Have a good weekend! I'll be back next week, we have a lot to catch up on!
It's been a nice mix of rainy days and sunny days around here. I've heard a few times this winter that this is the driest winter we've had since the Gold Rush! That was a very long time ago! So any rain we get is very welcome around these parts.
We've noticed that the lady bugs are out in profusion the past two weeks. They are everywhere and we're very happy they are here.
Iris' among a carpet of Love in a Mist.
We have a whole smattering of seedlings coming up….and then getting immediately eaten. Though we moved about three short miles away, I feel in some ways that we have to relearn gardening all over again. The soil here is completely different and the garden pests too are different. We've never had such a problem with seedlings being eaten as we have had here. We'll learn soon enough what we need to do to grow successfully here. It's just a matter of not giving up before we find the right answers.
In the meantime the lilacs are starting to bloom and there is promise of new apples to press later in summer.
What's happening in your garden lately?


23 Acres with some of the best views in Queen Creek. Lots are for sale individually or buy the whole parcel. This listing is for the entire top of the mountain. Roads and 14 pads have been cut it. Gated community, utilities are close. This is a unique lot an opportunity like this may never come again.


Heavenly Father, you are gracious and full of love. Lord I have failed you today, and I will will fail tomorrow. I have the heart of a sinner, I am just a man. Lord know that I am a man of faith, a man that fears the Lord. Father so often I turn from you when I win against you. Thank you for always bringing me back, accepting my prayers and offering me forgiveness. Be with me Lord, help to always remember you have a plan for me and it was created with your love and wisdom. I pray for you stay with me Father, please always be there for me. I ask you to be there for all who call on you and know your word, you promise.


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package com.seanchenxi.gwt.storage.rebind;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

import com.google.gwt.core.ext.CachedGeneratorResult;
import com.google.gwt.core.ext.GeneratorContext;
import com.google.gwt.core.ext.IncrementalGenerator;
import com.google.gwt.core.ext.RebindMode;
import com.google.gwt.core.ext.RebindResult;
import com.google.gwt.core.ext.TreeLogger;
import com.google.gwt.core.ext.UnableToCompleteException;
import com.google.gwt.core.ext.typeinfo.JClassType;
import com.google.gwt.core.ext.typeinfo.JType;
import com.google.gwt.core.ext.typeinfo.TypeOracle;
import com.google.gwt.user.rebind.rpc.CachedRpcTypeInformation;
import com.google.gwt.user.rebind.rpc.ProxyCreator;
import com.google.gwt.user.rebind.rpc.SerializableTypeOracle;
import com.google.gwt.user.rebind.rpc.SerializableTypeOracleBuilder;
import com.google.gwt.user.rebind.rpc.TypeSerializerCreator;

/**
 * Generator for {@link com.seanchenxi.gwt.storage.client.serializer.StorageSerializer}
 */
public class StorageTypeSerializerGenerator extends IncrementalGenerator {

  private static final long GENERATOR_VERSION_ID = 1L;

  private static final String TYPE_SERIALIZER_SUFFIX = "Impl";

  @Override
  public RebindResult generateIncrementally(TreeLogger logger, GeneratorContext context, String typeName) throws UnableToCompleteException {
    TypeOracle typeOracle = context.getTypeOracle();

    JClassType serializerType = typeOracle.findType(typeName);
    if (serializerType == null || serializerType.isInterface() == null)
      throw new UnableToCompleteException();

    final Set<JType> serializables = StorageTypeFinder.getInstance(context, logger).findStorageTypes();

    String typeSerializerClassName = serializerType.getQualifiedSourceName() + TYPE_SERIALIZER_SUFFIX;
    String typeSerializerSimpleName = serializerType.getSimpleSourceName() + TYPE_SERIALIZER_SUFFIX;
    JClassType typeSerializer = typeOracle.findType(typeSerializerClassName);

    SerializableTypeOracle serializationOracle = buildSerializableTypeOracle(logger, context, serializables);

    if (typeSerializer != null && typeSerializer.isClass() != null
        && isNothingChanged(logger, context, serializables, serializationOracle)) {
      return new RebindResult(RebindMode.USE_EXISTING, typeSerializerClassName);
    }

    TypeSerializerCreator tsc =
        new TypeSerializerCreator(logger, serializationOracle, serializationOracle, context,
            typeSerializerClassName, typeSerializerSimpleName);
    tsc.realize(logger);

    if (context.isGeneratorResultCachingEnabled()) {
      RebindResult result = new RebindResult(RebindMode.USE_PARTIAL_CACHED, typeSerializerClassName);
      CachedRpcTypeInformation cti = new CachedRpcTypeInformation(serializationOracle, serializationOracle, serializables, new HashSet<JType>());
      result.putClientData(ProxyCreator.CACHED_TYPE_INFO_KEY, cti);
      return result;
    } else {
      return new RebindResult(RebindMode.USE_ALL_NEW_WITH_NO_CACHING, typeSerializerClassName);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public long getVersionId() {
    return GENERATOR_VERSION_ID;
  }

  private SerializableTypeOracle buildSerializableTypeOracle(TreeLogger logger, GeneratorContext context, Set<JType> serializables) throws UnableToCompleteException {
    SerializableTypeOracleBuilder builder = new SerializableTypeOracleBuilder(logger, context.getPropertyOracle(), context);
    for (JType type : serializables) {
      builder.addRootType(logger, type);
    }
    return builder.build(logger);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  private boolean isNothingChanged(TreeLogger logger, GeneratorContext context, Set<JType> serializables, SerializableTypeOracle serializationOracle) {// caching use
    CachedGeneratorResult cachedResult = context.getCachedGeneratorResult();
    if (cachedResult == null || !context.isGeneratorResultCachingEnabled()){
      return false;
    }
    Object obj = context.getCachedGeneratorResult().getClientData(ProxyCreator.CACHED_TYPE_INFO_KEY);
    return obj != null && ((CachedRpcTypeInformation) obj).checkTypeInformation(logger, context.getTypeOracle(),
      serializationOracle, serializationOracle);
  }

}

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"It was The Great Purge of the 90s. "Religion faced the greatest threat from three groups: feminists, homosexuals and intellectuals," said Boyd K. Packer, a General Authority, in a speech in 1993. In the fall of 1993, six Mormon writers were rebuked for their feminist intellectual leanings. They became the "September Six." We felt the ripple. We were reading and thinking people. We read Sunstone, a Mormon intellectual magazine, and thought about our heavenly mother. You are not supposed to think about heavenly mother, only heavenly father. Heavenly mother is sacred. You cannot talk about her."
"I don't wear the sacred garments, shake the secret handshakes, whisper my secret name. I carry a slew of identities. I do not believe any of it. The still small voice. The tingles and bosom burning, but I still search for it, through the altered states of art and language. A spirituality. I leave one country for another and another and another and another and another and another. Where do you come from is a question I receive in every new country."
Mormonism, small town Utah, baptism for the dead, Prague, Katowice, hippy days in the Northwest of America.
My lyric essay, "Chums," just published at The Art of Everyone.


Welcome back, I really didn't realise it had been so long since I last posted!
My creation for you this week? CHICKEN CURRY! Curry is a real favourite in my house (to adults and children alike) - not the jar, supermarket cook-chill or take-away kind but good, honest, home made using only the freshest and finest ingredients.
I don't use curry sauces or even curry paste from jars but blend my own spices then mix them with vinegar before cooking them off in vegetable oil. At some point in the future, I'll share the curry paste recipe with you, but for now, here's the recipe for my chicken curry. It feeds 4 in our household and there's always a leftover portion for tomorrow.


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10 Popular Anime Villains Fans Grew To Hate
By: Derek DeSantis Sep 13, 2022
Whether for their uncomfortable morality, or cruel intentions, some villains are so utterly detested that fans hate seeing them take screen time.
The world of anime is filled to the brim with fantastical characters and bombastic personalities. It's a medium where the extravagant thrives, leading to a plethora of iconic villains that fans grow to love. Some anime villains boast charisma so powerful that they become more popular than the anime's own main character. But not every villain is as beloved by fans as others.
Whether for their uncomfortable morality, displeasing designs, or cruel intentions, some villains are so utterly detested that fans hate seeing them take screen time. These characters become objects of disgust, though sometimes that is their exact purpose.
10 Tower Of God: Fans Learned To Despise Rachel
In Tower Of God's first episode, fans were introduced to the characters Bam and Rachel. While not much was explained about these two or where they came from, viewers were told that Bam was a good kid who just wanted to be reunited with his friend.
At first, many fans wanted Bam to succeed. But as the series progressed and it became clear just how toxic and manipulative Rachel was, fans started to see her in a different light. This culminated in an ultimate betrayal where Rachel attempts to kill Bam, garnering fans' hatred in the process.
9 Naruto: Danzo Shimura Is The Source Of All Tragedy
Throughout Naruto, many of the anime's cast underwent extremely tragic events that shaped their lives forever. These moments of tragedy defined their motivations and, in some cases, made them monsters.
One of the most iconic examples of this is Sasuke Uchiha, whose entire clan was massacred when he was a child. Behind this massacre was Danzo Shimura, who manipulated events and forced Itachi into committing such an unspeakable crime. Fans couldn't help but hate Danzo after learning about his involvement in the tragedy.
8 The Rising Of The Shield Hero: Malty Melromarc Ruined The Main Character
The Rising Of The Shield Hero is one of the most popular isekai of the new generation. The anime has become wildly successful following its first season, garnering a massive fanbase and critical acclaim. The story follows Naofumi Iwatani as he's transported to protect a new world.
The beginning of the anime introduces a potential ally named Malty who swiftly betrays Naofumi and turns the Kingdom against him. Fans went from loving Malty to despising her for the lies she spread about Naofumi and the dark path she set the main character down.
7 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood: Shou Tucker Betrayed His Daughter
One of the most iconic memes in anime fandom stems from a tragic storyline in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The character Nina Tucker is ubiquitous in anime discussion boards for her unfortunate demise.
Fans were torn apart when viewing these episodes for the first time as they witnessed a compassionate scientist turn into a deranged alchemist responsible for experimentation on his own daughter. Shou Tucker was a beloved character before he went utterly insane and became the most hated man in all of modern anime.
6 Berserk: Griffith Sacrificed His Best Friends
Berserk is one of the most celebrated, influential, and critically acclaimed manga of all time. It's a dark fantasy that stuns fans with its gorgeous displays of the most horrific acts of violence ever put to the page. In addition to its amazing art, Berserk also has some of the most complex character arcs in all of fiction.
The character Griffith was once beloved for his charming personality and captivating motivation. But when Griffith turned on his own men and sacrificed them to become Femto, fans felt Guts' rage and grew an intense hatred for the character.
5 Naruto: Kabuto Was Once Team Seven's Ally
When fans first met Kabuto during the events of the Chunin Exams arc, he appeared as a helpful, slightly mysterious ally who could lead Team 7 with a sense of experience and wisdom that they severely lacked.
On more than one occasion, Kabuto directly saved Team 7 from being disqualified from the exams, which made it all the more heartbreaking when he revealed himself as Orochimaru's spy. Kabuto was a beloved character at the time for how helpful he was to the team, but that quickly turned to hatred from the villainous twist.
4 One Piece: Akainu Went From Intriguing To Detestable
The world of One Piece is both fascinating and still quite mysterious. There are so many things fans don't know about its history and power structure. Many figures in positions of leadership became really intriguing to fans for that very reason, such as the original three Admirals.
These characters boasted immense power that fans couldn't even fathom yet. But that sense of intrigue quickly disappeared when Admiral Akainu killed off One Piece's most beloved brother, Portgas D. Ace. Akainu became a dishonorable man that day and earned himself the vitriol of One Piece fans everywhere.
3 Naruto: Obito Uchiha Represented Naruto's Worst Story Tendencies
Obito Uchiha is a unique case in the Naruto fandom. Many viewers felt Obito was a sympathetic villain who led to some of Naruto's most interesting arcs and story beats. By many metrics, Obito is a fantastic and beloved character.
But Obito also represents some of the worst elements of Naruto's writing, such as the infamous talk-no-jutsu. Naruto arcs have a tendency to end with Naruto himself monologuing at a villain about why they should reform his ways. While this works sometimes, many fans felt it was pushed too far in the case of Obito.
2 Death Note: Light Yagami's Motivations Became Less Honorable
Death Note is one of Shonen Jump's most challenging and unique stories of the last twenty years. It's an anime about justice, criminal reform, and the legal system with compelling arguments for many different, contrasting perspectives.
Death Note relies on its audience at least partially believing in Light's drastic mission to save the world. But as the story goes on and Light becomes more and more maniacal, fans begin to turn on the character and realize he's nothing more than a serial killer. While some find truth in his message, Light is ultimately unhinged by the end of the series.
1 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood: King Bradley Was A Villain In Disguise
At the start of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, King Bradley surprised fans by being a calm person who seemed to support the main characters in their eclectic behavior. Viewers were delighted to see a leader figure who wasn't a jerk or out to get the protagonists.
Unfortunately, it wasn't long before fans realized King Bradley was a facade and that the real monster underneath became one of the story's greatest villains. While fans don't think King Bradley is a bad character, it's hard to find such a despicable villain likable.
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Q: Creating multiple events in office365 rest api I have below code which posts one calendar event to the events on office 365 REST API. I need to enter about 100 events to my calendar. Is there any way to place multiple events in the json data or should I use for loop?
import urllib2
import getpass
import os
import json
import sys
import base64

# Set the request parameters
url = 'https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/me/events?$Select=Start,End'
user = 'emailuser@email.com'

pwd = getpass.getpass('Please enter your AD password: ')

# Create JSON payload
data = {
  "Subject": "My Subject",
  "Body": {
    "ContentType": "HTML",
    "Content": ""
  },
  "Start": "2015-08-11T07:00:00-05:00",
  "StartTimeZone": "Central Standard Time",
  "End": "2015-08-11T15:00:00-05:00",
  "EndTimeZone": "Central Standard Time",
}

json_payload = json.dumps(data)

# Build the HTTP request
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler)
request = urllib2.Request(url, data=json_payload)
auth = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (user, pwd)).replace('\n', '')
request.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % auth)
request.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
request.add_header('Accept', 'application/json')
request.get_method = lambda: 'POST'
# Perform the request
result = opener.open(request)

A: Batch processing is on our road map, but it isn't there today.

A: I ended up making function to create one event at a time and call the function on each iteration:
def create_event(date1, date2):
    # Create JSON payload
    data = {
      "Subject": admin.longname,
      "Body": {
        "ContentType": "HTML",
        "Content": ""
      },
      "Start": date1,
      "StartTimeZone": "Central Standard Time",
      "End": date2,
      "EndTimeZone": "Central Standard Time",
    }

    json_payload = json.dumps(data)

    # Build the HTTP request
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler)
    request = urllib2.Request(url, data=json_payload)
    auth = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (user, pwd)).replace('\n', '')
    request.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % auth)
    request.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
    request.add_header('Accept', 'application/json')
    request.get_method = lambda: 'POST'
    # Perform the request
    result = opener.open(request)

def A( weeka, weekb ):
    today = datetime.date.today()
    firstday = today + relativedelta(weekday=SU(+ weeka))
    for i in range(5):
        firstday += datetime.timedelta(days=1)
        date1 = '%sT07:00:00-05:00' % firstday
        date2 = '%sT16:00:00-05:00' % firstday
        create_event(date1, date2)

A(1,2)


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Mark Your Calendars — The New American Horror Story Season Is Coming Soon
by Allie Gemmill
Jun 24, 2019 at 4:21 pm EDT
Image: FX.
It's been a hot minute since we've had any news about FX's hit horror anthology series, American Horror Story. So, when the news arrived on Monday that the American Horror Story: 1984 premiere date had been announced, we knew it was officially time to get excited. Here's what we know about the premiere date and all the other exciting season nine details that have been confirmed or teased in recent months.
First things first: Per E! News, AHS season nine will premiere on FX Wednesday, September 18 at 10/9c. The season nine premiere arrives almost a year after season eight, Apocalypse, wrapped in mid-November 2018. That's a heck of a long time to go without seeing any new AHS scenes from series favorites Sarah Paulson or Evan Peters. And surely it can't be healthy to be deprived of the terrifying, nightmarish visions cooked up by AHS creator Ryan Murphy… can it? Thank goodness we don't have to wait too much longer until we get both of these things (and so much more) back in our lives with AHS season nine.
AHS SEASON 9 is called…
A post shared by Ryan Murphy (@mrrpmurphy) on Apr 10, 2019 at 6:38am PDT
Previous to the news of AHS season nine's premiere date, Murphy confirmed the new season would be titled American Horror Story: 1984 in April. Murphy made the announcement on his Instagram, sharing a teaser clip (hopefully it's been pulled from the new season so it can give us a better taste of what's to come) that featured the familiar horror movie set-up of a teenage girl running through the dark words from an unknown assailant. The girl takes refuge in a cabin in the woods — another location horror movies love to use — and believes she's safe until her attacker plunges a knife through the door. Sounds like a good time, right?
Although Peters will not be returning for season nine, AHS alum Emma Roberts will be back and she's bringing Olympian Gus Kenworthy with her. Roberts and Kenworthy will be playing a couple in the new season, but it's still unclear how they figure into the plot. Speaking of which, Murphy's also been very tight-lipped about the season nine plot in general. Sure, "1984" stirs up dystopian visions courtesy of author George Orwell's famous novel of the same title, but it could also refer to the season's setting; the '80s are big again now that Stranger Things is dominating television, and AHS could be following suit.
For now, all that matters is knowing when AHS will return. It's time to mark those calendars and clear your schedules for the rest of September 18; your plans are already set.
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Resident sworn in as Shepherdstown officer
(Chronicle photos by Jennifer Wabnitz) Mayor Auxer, at left, swears in new Shepherdstown Police Officer Mike King.
Mayor Jim Auxer swore in Mike King on Jan.3 as a Shepherdstown police officer.
Mike King comes from Hagerstown and has been an officer for almost 30 years. He has worked in a variety of capacities – patrol man, SWAT team, sergeant, detective and lieutenant.
"I have held different positions on a larger force and bring lots of experience," he said.
For the last six years he has been the head of the Criminal Investigation Division and Narcotics team at the Hagerstown Police Department. He said he was looking for a change.
"That work and those hours are gruelling," King said.
Chief Johnson, at left, is glad to have King as the newest member of his five-man team.
King had heard what a pleasant community Shepherdstown was and that encouraged him to contact Chief Tim Johnson.
Shepherdstown Police Department has now hired the fourth officer to complete its team.
Johnson and King both look forward to working together. Following the swearing in ceremony, Johnson oriented King to the town.


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Roar of the crowd: Telegenic on running a sound operation for UEFA at Euro 2020
By Heather McLean
Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 15:41
Telegenic's London sound team at Wembley for UEFA Euro 2020
With the final of Euro 2020 now concluded at Wembley, Telegenic, which is providing unilateral and match services for UEFA via HBS for Rome and Italy, worked at maximum capacity to bring both the sights and sounds of this thrilling event to screens across the globe.
In Rome and London, Telegenic provided UEFA with a multilateral truck, a unilateral truck that is also the emergency truck working with the rights-holding broadcasters, including managing audio for eight stand up positions throughout the venue that broadcasters can book, plus a fully equipped dedicated unilateral service (FEDUS) of two additional OB vans.
Also, as there were two back-to-back semi-finals at Wembley on 6 and 7 July, Telegenic provided an additional OB van for the match day minus-one (MD-1) operations.
"There's so much resilience built into this [production] from the talkback to the microphones, to having two trucks in terms of UEFA requirements, and then we build our additional layers and protocols on top of that. In the event of an equipment or truck failure scenarios, the audio team know what to do and why in order to keep the show going"
Richard Williams, Telegenic deputy head of sound, says: "For a normal game this is covered from the multilateral truck but the day before England versus Denmark, we covered the training and press conferences from this van so as to allow the main trucks to concentrate on the Spain versus Italy game."
Parent company EMG provided a fan truck in all Euro 2020 venues to create the pre-match entertainment output for the big screens in-stadium as well as corporate boxes. As part of that contract, Telegenic was also asked to provide fan facilities plus crew in three venues – Dublin (subsequently cancelled and staff reallocated), Rome, and Glasgow, where a smaller OB which is normally used for Premier League Productions coverage was used.
Telegenic match supervisor, Scott Camlin, at the Calrec Apollo desk at Wembley for Euro 2020
Evolving plans
In January 2020 the Telegenic audio team had started to pull together their plans for Euro 2020 on spreadsheets. When the pandemic hit and the Euros were cancelled, "everything for this tournament got pushed onto a back burner while we dealt with other contracts last year," says David Latham, Telegenic senior sound guarantee.
Adds Williams: "So it feels like this has been like 18 months in the making!"
Speaking to SVG Europe, Latham notes: "In terms of the technical side of things, we were virtually there in planning this and as we got to March last year we were just ramping up everything. For HBS, it's roughly the same plan [this year] as the 2018 World Cup; the feeds that leave the truck are the same. It's a big audio template that they just kind of shift on from event to event. So in terms of planning, we kind of took what we did in 2018, and took a little bit of what we did in 2019 at the Women's World Cup.
"But coming back [to it in 2021] there's been a lot of logistics we've had to sort out, like hundreds and hundreds of ear pieces and other things to make the event COVID-safe, and other things that took up a disproportionate amount of our time with the planning. Otherwise, the main plan didn't change an awful lot from March 2020."
Telegenic's David (Frank) Latham and Richard Williams, seen here at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
Keeping video and audio tight
Williams tells SVG Europe about the challenges for the host broadcast audio set up in London and Rome: "Some of the biggest changes have actually been on the video side of the production as the feeds are now produced in a variety of formats including UHD and HDR. This has meant a closer integration between the multilateral and unilateral/emergency trucks in terms of intercom. We connect the two intercom frames to make one integrated frame, which is a regular occurrence for us during the regular season, but a first on the Euros. This means (as cameras are split across the two trucks,) that camera switching between the match director, tactical director and ceremonies director is seamless."
He goes on: "The number of video formats has increased considerably [at this year's Euros]. A few years ago everything was 1080i25 and now the vision mixer runs in three levels: 1080p50 SDR, 1080p50 HDR and UHD HDR (HLG). In addition we distribute a number of feeds in 1080i25. It's a different format of HDR to what we do on a weekly basis for BT Sport and for UEFA Champions League and Europa Leagues.
"We capture in UHD HDR SLOG and broadcast in UHD HDR PQ for BT Sport; Richard Delaney our deputy head of vision at Wembley, and Patrick Harvey, one of our senior video engineers in Rome, have masterminded this multi-layered video operation on our behalf."
UEFA is capturing the audio on site via the Telegenic truck in 5.1.4. Says Williams: "We mix it on site in 5.1, then we send a lot of these mics and submixes to the IBC [where an] immersive mix is made, which goes with the UHD HDR pictures.
"There are five match feeds, four team or player-specific feeds, and lots of individual cameras, most of which have individual mixes or discrete audio on them," Williams continues. "We create TVIS – TV International Sound – in Stereo and 5.1, RIS – Radio International Sound in Stereo – a commentary mix on the Calrec Apollo and the tactical mix on the Calrec Brio, in addition to a number of other mixes. Everything leaves discrete and embedded apart from the satellite world feed, which is the only circuit to contain Dolby E."
Telegenic A2, Dominic Guest, using percussion to measure delays between mics at Wembley in the run up to Euro 2020
Getting immersive
Williams explains the microphone set up at Wembley: "In terms of audio, the immersive microphone set up has gone up a level with height elements to all of the crowd microphones. The main central crowd microphones is a Schoeps ORTF 3D containing eight capsules, four lower and four for height, which at Wembley we've hung high up above the crowd on the walkway under the roof. The left, right and reverse crowd microphones used to be ORTF Pairs; now they're double ORTF Pairs, in one basket. One pair faces the crowd and the second pair points higher and is used for the height in the immersive mix which is done at IBC.
"The immersive mix is then distributed on the UHD offerings with additional objects including commentary, close ball FX, audio follow video FX. In total I counted 78 capsules capturing the audio for TV and multichannel international sound and we're adding some more for the final," he notes.
Williams continues: "We're using RTS Telex IP talkback panels this time as our trucks all now have an IP audio layer now. We've got the EVS cabins on the IP talkback network, which makes that a lot easier, rather than having 20 or 30 individual Cat5 Cables in there; now we've just got a switch in there with two fibres and we distribute the panels from there."
Mad for MADI
Williams continues: "There's a lot more MADI involved this year; one of the cool things is UEFA have contracted Riedel to provide stageboxes around the venue for us which form a resilient, redundant network. We put the mics into them in pre-allocated order and have control of the mic gains. All the mics then go to the OB trucks on main and backup MADI streams and also to IBC [in Amsterdam] on the IP pipe.
"If there's a problem with MADI I can switch between the main and redundant MADI inputs using one button on the Calrec Apollo with linked gain, so it's pretty seamless [in the multilateral truck] . It's the same on the emergency truck, where the desk is identical in every way. If the multilateral match truck has an issue or the Calrec gets switched off, the technical operating centre (TOC) just switches circuits from the multi truck to the emergency truck to the IBC," says Williams.
Telegenic was on site at Wembley 10 days before the tournament began, facing the challenge of setting up the hugely resilient audio network. Explains Latham: "The 10 days of rigging when we got on site is building this stuff, and a lot of the head-scratching was trying to make it all work; essentially it's just a football match with a handful of cameras and the few mics, but the kind of the resilience [it required meant] a lot of time doing late nights to make it run smoothly when things go wrong but hopefully things don't go wrong."
Adds Williams: "There's so much resilience built into this [production] from the talkback to the microphones, to having two trucks in terms of UEFA requirements, and then we build our additional layers and protocols on top of that. In the event of an equipment or truck failure scenarios, the audio team know what to do and why in order to keep the show going."
The Telegenic multilateral truck sound area in London's Wembley for Euro 2020
Taking control of tactical
Latham comments on another new development for audio at this year's Euros. "One new aspect of our audio plan that we've not done at previous events but we have done this year for the Euros involved the Calrec consoles at both venues (we did two in Rome but one was for FEDUS and one was for tactical). I networked some Calrec Brio consoles into the main Calrec Apollo consoles, which is something that hadn't been done by us in previous events.
"At the Euros we have an outgoing vision circuit called the tactical feed," Latham explains. "This, amongst other things, takes things like multilateral post-match interviews and press conferences away from the main multi sound supervisor to allow him to concentrate on the main live stadium feed."
Continues Williams: "Basically all interviews pre and post go through this desk. It really deals with all spoken word content whilst the match desk deals with crowd, close ball sounds, etc. It can be very busy post-match as there may be three interviews going on simultaneously, so the supervisor needs to be well prepared and calm. In London we have the cool hands of Matt Gilbert who would normally be found mixing presentation on the BT Sport Football.
"In previous years the tactical had an audio mixing console that we just fed with MADI," Williams goes on. "This year we've been able to network the smaller Calrec Brio console into the core of the Calrec Apollo that's doing the main coverage. Using Calrec Hydra Patch Bays we could use any of the Apollo's resources, which is obviously a much more powerful console, so it allows us to get things like external Hydra stage boxes, MADI, or de-embedders or even our entire analogue jackfield; anything that's connected to the main Apollo but can be used without having to patch."
He continues: "It also means that the tactical outputs left via the main Apollo outputs busses, which was convenient in terms of populating our tactical transmission embedders but also offered a layer of redundancy that we didnt have with the dumb MADI tactical desk."
In previous years the host broadcaster would have sent amplified prefade outputs of the stageboxes to the tactical desk on MADI. Using the networked Brio, however, the operator can change the gain in the stage box mic amps themselves, and not just use make up gain.
Notes Williams: "It really allowed us to take advantage of the much more powerful console and put aspects of the production such as gain control into the hands of the operator who's actually looking after it and took a bit of the workload off of the multi senior audio engineer and supervisor as well. If you do that on MADI it's a dumb audio stream; you don't have any of that control, but this [new set up] helps us make the most of the resources that we had on site via the main Apollo desk."
No flip-flopping hardships
One last-minute change to UEFA's Euro 2020 plans – taking European crews moving between two venues each, to the final plan where each crew was tied to a single venue – has been a positive amendment in the long run, says Latham.
He explains: "To be honest with you, flip-flopping [between venues] can be quite arduous for some of the guys as there's some long days involved. I think it worked out ok having a stationary crew. I did the opening ceremony and the first game, so for the crew to go from that, finishing really late, to the next venue would have been difficult.
"So from that respect, that was quite good and didn't add any hardship for us," Latham continues. "Although it probably did for Richard, who sourced the staff and freelance crew we had, and you had to double the amount [when plans changed]; you really want your best guys on events of this level, so Richard had to really work very hard to ensure we had the best guys possible across two venues [London and Rome], which he did, because all the guys we had have been fantastic."
Williams comments on the crewing process: "Because I have to see the guys on a daily basis, I wanted to pick people who have done this before, know the drill, and also as we have to live together for six or seven weeks, trying to pick a team that will knit well together, and also having a good mix of guys as well, so bringing people through that wouldn't necessarily have been in a venue this size before to get this great experience."
Adding one further complication in staffing for Williams has been the Olympics, which due to further pandemic issues has required staff to fly out to Japan earlier than expected, creating an overlap in commitments for some key crew members which needed to be managed.
Yet with meticulous planning, as used throughout Euro 2020, this and every other challenge – and there have been many – have been firmly and efficiently dealt with.
Now, onto the final!
Watch the UEFA Euro 2020 Final between England and Italy on Sunday 11 July at 8pm (UK time) on all rights-holding broadcaster channels


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The temperatures are hitting record figures throughout the U.S. and many homes are utilizing some type of air conditioner to battle the seasonal heat. While we are all grateful that your air conditioner works, the experts at All Weather Heating & Air Conditioning Inc in Huntsville wants to give you a glimpse at just how an AC system works.
There's plenty of science behind keeping your home cool. Your air conditioner operates in a similar way to your refrigerator, of course your air conditioner has a more difficult task to handle. Both your fridge and AC cool with a consistent loop of refrigerant, however with the air conditioner this refrigerant loops from inside to the outdoors. This refrigerant effortlessly alters from a liquid to gas and back to a liquid again. It goes into your residence as a sub-cooled liquid and as it evaporates it soaks in heat from the indoors and reverts back into vapor. This vapor then transfers back to your outdoor unit where the heat is released and is then condensed back into a sub-cooled liquid.
There are 4 central components to your AC system: a compressor, an evaporator coil, the condensing coil and an expansion valve.
The evaporator coil is the place your refrigerant evaporates from a sub-cooled liquid into a super-heated vapor. This component can be established indoors, in your garage or even in your attic. Warm air moves throughout the cold evaporator coil and the heat is taken from the air. This cooled air is then sent throughout your indoor space.
Your compressor is located in your outdoor condensing unit. The super-heated vapor from your evaporator coil enters into the compressor which surges the pressure of the vapor until it is converted into hot, high pressure vapor. The hot vapor then moves back into the condenser coil where less hot outdoor air moves across the coil, heat is moved outdoors and the refrigerant is changed back into a sub-cooled liquid. The sub-cooled liquid then goes back to the indoor evaporator coil via an expansion valve or metering device. The process is then repeated.
That concludes your physics lesson today…your air conditioner functions on an endless loop of science. We realize that it's not as top-priority to you how it works, but that it's working. If you'd like to discuss staying cool and comfortable in Huntsville you can reach us at 256-801-4701. You'll be able to get through this hot weather thanks to science and the support from our experts.