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How Harry Met Meghan: From Whirlwind Romance to Stepping Back From Royal Family
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by Polina Strelnikova
Polina Strelnikova. Sputnik International
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202001091077989039-harry-meghan-romance-stepping-back-royal-family/
Although speculation that the Duchess and Duke of Sussex could distance themselves from the UK and royal court has been circulating for a while, news about their resignation came as a shock even for the palace, reports suggest. While Meghan and Prince Harry are getting ready for a "next chapter", the time is right to look back at their love story.
The palace is reportedly processing the announcement by Meghan and Prince Harry, who stated on Wednesday evening that they plan "to step back as 'senior' members" and "work to become financially independent". As a BBC report suggests, the family is said to be "hurt" and the couple made the statement without consulting with any senior royals. According to the broadcaster, Buckingham Palace was "blindsided", as the discussions about their future were at a very early stage and there were "complicated issues" yet to resolve.
However, this is not be the first time that the royal "rule-breakers" have reportedly gone against royal customs, as their romance and subsequent wedding came as a saga of an unprecedented union.
The now 35-year-old prince, who lost his mother at 12, regularly provided tabloids and gossip columns during his turbulent youth, which was marked by numerous scandals, including booze, parties, affairs, and even wearing a Nazi uniform. At the end of 2016, reports emerged that Prince Harry, who is the fifth in line to the British throne, had been dating a US-actress, Suits star Meghan Markle. This was later confirmed by Kensington Palace, representing the two princes, Harry and William. However, details about how their love story began remain blurry.
Mystery Matchmaker
As Meghan later revealed to Vanity Fair, they had been dating for several months before the first reports emerged, but kept it a secret. According to their engagement interview, they were set up by a mutual friend, but her name (and it was a "her", as Meghan let slip out) is still a matter of speculation.
Amid the rumours, Soho House consultant Markus Anderson and Markle's close friend, fashion designer Misha Nonoo, who incidentally married Harry's close friend Alexander Gilkes, popped up. Later, E! News claimed that the daughter of Prince Charles' baron friend, Violet von Westenholz, was the "real heroine of this love story" as a part of "Harry's trusted inner circle of friends for years".
According to its sources, "Harry was having a really hard time finding anyone" (and Tinder or a dating app was not an option) and confided in friends about it. Incidentally, his aristocratic friend became friends with Meghan Markle "through Violet's P.R. work" with Ralph Lauren. According to the outlet, she concluded that Markle, who was active on the British social scene, might be "the perfect girl for him".
Unprecedented Engagement
Unlike his older brother Prince William, who was reportedly friends with or dated his current wife Kate for years before their wedding, a year after it became known that they are dating, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their engagement. At the same time, the future Duchess and her relationship with the royal came under public scrutiny, as Meghan Markle, who is three years older than her husband, is not only a biracial actress, but also divorced.
Wedding Controversies
Meghan's African-American ancestry became the focal point of several racial controversies during the wedding preparations and after the ceremony, which took place in May 2018. The German public broadcaster ZDF found itself mired in a scandal, as journalists and social media condemned the its commentators for describing the bride and her guests as "exotic", as well as bringing up black hair with a connotation that some found inappropriate.
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Meghan and Prince Harry's Private Wedding Photos Hacked, Leaked Online – Reports
The celebration itself and the following party gathered distinguished guests, including not only the British aristocracy, but also A-list celebrities, such as Sir Elton John, actor George Clooney and his wife Amal, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, football icon David Beckham and his classy spouse Victoria, movie star Idris Elba, and singer James Blunt. The ceremony incorporated the traditions of the monarchy, but the bride seems to have brought some sense of modernity, as she did not promise to obey her husband. Instead, the pair vowed to love, comfort, honour, protect, and be faithful to each other.
Welcoming Baby Sussex
In 2019, the two became parents for the first time in their life – and welcomed a new member of the royal family, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, into the world. Prior to his birth, The Sunday Times reported that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were drawing up plans for an international job that would oblige them to relocate, most likely to Africa.
After they became parents, speculation was heard even louder. In October, Us Weekly reported that the Sussexes were considering moving to Canada. Its source claimed that the family, who have been dogged by the constant tabloid press, may opt out of the conventional royal life. Relocating "is an option", says the source, adding that "Meghan and Harry are considering it for the future".
Not So Happily Ever After?
Although Meghan Markle was no stranger to the media attention and even eagerly shared her opinions and daily highlights on her blog when she was an actress, she and her husband ended up in a war with the tabloids, feeding rumours and speculation about their family matters.
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Prince William is 'Worried' About his Brother Harry Amid Rumoured Rift Between the Royals
In October 2019, the Duke of Sussex announced that he and his wife were taking legal action against the Daily Mail newspaper and DMG media for publishing a private letter written by Meghan to her father. In his statement, Prince Harry branded his wife "one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences – a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year, throughout her pregnancy".
Apart from the relations with her father, tabloids competed in digging up stories about Meghan and Harry's alleged feud with the rest of the family, namely Prince William and his wife Kate, her reported uneasy relations with the palace staff, as well as accusations of hypocrisy for flying private jets amid climate activism. For example, one such report suggested that Prince Philip had expressed concern that "one steps out with actresses, one doesn't marry them" in the wake of his grandson's romance, while Prince William worried about the speed of his brother's relationship.
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Best Sipping Tequila for Every Budget
February 18, 2021 by Food For Net
Tequila is a popular spirit, in part due to its versatility. It's a popular one for taking shots, likely due to the (often) sweet taste and cheaper varieties available. Not many people relish the thought of so quickly chugging something back that came from a $200 bottle. That said, tequila doesn't stop at shots.
The thought of tequila doesn't always scream "fancy" to everyone, but the best sipping tequila easily rivals a glass of Scotch or bourbon. A low-quality tequila may indeed be mediocre at best and burn a little going down – hence the use for shots.
Even if it takes a little while, it's time to get that association out of your head because once you diversify your tequila experience, you'll find some incredible flavors. It's like beer or wine, sometimes you need to try a bunch before you find your style.
Tequila comes from distilling the fruit of an agave plant. Agaves are sweet so it makes sense that good tequila is, too. The higher-quality tequilas come from agave plants that are not only home-grown by the estate but have been aged for close to ten years.
While it's worth the wait, it is a long time to wait, hence the higher price for a tequila of such stature. In addition to the age of the plant, the ingredients play a huge role in what you'll use the tequila for.
Tequila must have at least 51 percent agave, but some brands create what's called a mixto tequila by using fermented sugar cane juice for the rest. This produces a much lower-quality tequila and are the ones that usually burn on the way down.
For a sipping tequila, you want to look for labels that say 100 percent agave. This produces a much fuller, sweet, and more complex flavor with no burning sensation. This is also the reason they often cost more. If you're planning a party and need lots of mixed drinks, a mixto tequila is probably fine.
If you want a more defined and involved experience that lasts longer than a second, it's these 100 percent agave tequilas you're after. These are the ones that taste amazing and even though they're all made with the same plant, flavor profiles vary. There's sure to be a sipping tequila out there for you.
Best Sipping Tequila
Bottom Shelf
1. Teremana Tequila Reposado
2. Cazadores Tequila Anejo
3. Cimarron Tequila Blanco
Middle Shelf
1. Casa Dragones Barrel Blend
2. Ocha Plata Tequila
3. Patron Extra Anejo Tequila
1. Casa Dragones Joven Tequila
2. Herradura Seleccion Suprema Extra Anejo Tequila
3. Tears of Llorona No. 3 Extra Anejo Tequila
This reposado tequila was the result of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson becoming interested in tequila. His production company partnered with Teremana Tequila to create this little gem. Teremana Tequila is a family-run distillery located in a small town in Jalisco, where much of Mexico's tequila is made.
Just because tequila isn't what he's "known" for, doesn't mean The Rock doesn't know what he's doing. This affordable tequila is hand-made with care from top-notch blue weber agaves and is bottled at 80-proof.
The taste features bright, citrusy notes with hints of oak and vanilla. This delicious combination has a rich, smooth finish on every sip.
Cazadores is named for the proud stag its founder ran into once while hunting. He felt its spirit embodied the pride he took in his highland tequila. The tequila recipes have been in the family for many generations, with original recipes still being used in the modern equipment of today.
All of their tequila is produced using 100 percent blue weber agaves and the Anejo tequila spends more than a year maturing in small, new American oak casks.
The wood gives the tequila its lovely golden color and enriches the spicy flavor. The aroma is citrusy and floral with sweeter notes of vanilla and caramel while the palate is a mix of peppery and fruity with hints of caramel, chocolate, and cinnamon.
This tequila Blanco is perfect for sipping due to its unusually sweet flavor. The agaves used for this tequila are estate grown and contain almost twice as much sugar as a typical agave used in making tequila. This results in an incredibly sweet taste that makes for easy drinking.
The extra-sweet agaves are left to mature for about ten years and only the ripest and flavorful fruits are used for making the tequila. This Blanco is crystal clear in color with a delightful aroma of herbs, spices, and earthy vegetables. The extra-sweet taste includes notes of bright agave and pineapple with a hint of papaya. The finish is bold and warm.
Made with 100 percent blue agaves, this barrel blend Anejo is aged in new French oak and new American barrels. Once matured, it's carefully blended to produce a crisp and lovely oaky profile. Casa Dragones was founded in 2008 and has always produced its tequila in small batches.
One of the co-founders is a woman named Bertha Nieves, who is the first woman to be certified as "Maestra Tequilera" and recognized by the Tequila Regulatory Council.
The company uses modern and innovative equipment with each step designed to produce the smoothest tequila possible, making it an excellent choice for easy sipping. In addition to its signature oak, the aroma consists of figs, pine, and juniper. The palate is nutty and spicy with its blend of macadamia and nutmeg, finished off with peppery spice and cocoa.
The start of Ocho Tequila can be traced to 1937 when its founding family began making tequila. Carlos Camarena partnered with a local restaurant owner to create a notable brand of pure, high-quality tequila. A third-generation Camarena currently runs the company and they have a great reputation for creating quality spirits.
Each bottle of Ocha Plata Tequila is marked with the year it was produced, making them collectible as the reputation and notoriety of the distillery precedes them.
This particular tequila has an earthy aroma filled with cooked agaves, pepper, and hints of citrus. The palate features much of what you smelled with extra hints of mint and tropical fruit. The finish is long and smooth.
Launched in 1989, Patron has made an incredible name for itself as some of the best tequila around. Theirs was the first ultra-premium tequila and they set the bar high. Their state of the art facility is made for producing top-notch spirits and Patron was the first spirits brand in its class to sell one million cases.
Their extra Anejo tequila is aged three times longer than the average Anejo, in French, American, and Hungarian oak barrels that give it deep and nuanced flavors.
The aroma features dry fruit and vanilla with a hint of banana. It tastes of a fresh fruit medley with light notes of vanilla, agave, and honey. It has an oaky finish with more hints of vanilla and dry fruit.
Casa Dragones is a small-batch producer that's passionate about creating high-quality sipping tequilas. While all of them have exquisite flavor and an experience of their own, the Joven Tequila is on another level.
Casa Dragones tequila is made with a modern technique to eliminate all impurities and harsh flavors, making it that much easier to sip and enjoy. The palate on their Joven Tequila is so smooth it was named the "Best Blanco Tequila" by Epicurious.
It's 100 percent pure blue agave silver tequila, meaning it delivers the essence of pure agave. It smells of citrus with floral notes and sweet roasted agave. It has a soft palate with hints of spice and vanilla and a bright aftertaste.
Aged for four years, this suprema extra Anejo tequila was named the best extra Anejo tequila in the world by the Ultimate Spirits Challenge in 2014. Herradura dates back to 1870 when founder Felix Lopez cultivated his first blue weber agaves in Jalisco, Mexico.
The estate still has agave plants growing each year that are descendants of the originals. Their tequila is made exclusively from agaves grown at the estate.
This extra Anejo tequila has earned multiple awards and is well-loved by many around the world. It features an aroma of rose petals, cinnamon, dark vanilla, and intense citrus.
The palate consists of a complex combination of apples, pineapples, vanilla pods, citrus, and caramel. You'll enjoy a creamy finish with lingers notes of spice.
Men's Journal considers this delicious extra Anejo tequila "a sipping tequila of the highest order." For nearly five years, it's aged in a combination of former sherry, cognac, and Scotch casks. Tears of Llorona is hand-crafted from 100 percent blue agave that's grown in volcanic soil in the highlands of Jalisco.
Originally intended for the founder's private stock, the tequila was just too good not to share. You'll notice a unique combination of black cherries, apples, honeysuckle, and vanilla on the nose.
Its sweet flavor consists of chocolate, creme brulee, and chocolate. The finish is an elegant one with complex notes of cinnamon and clove, balanced out by the sweetness of raisins, caramel, and oak.
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"Sevmorput" has for more than two weeks been sailing zig-zag outside the Angolan port of Luanda. Screenshot from MarineTraffic.com
Mechanical failure leaves Russia's new Antarctica station stranded outside Angola
The 32-year old nuclear-powered container ship "Sevmorput" has an unexplained breakdown causing restricted maneuverability. The ship has sailed zig-zag outside port in Angola for more than two weeks.
Something bad happened with the power transfer, marine shaft or propellers on the 260 meters long ship sailing south in the Atlantic in mid-October.
Speed was reduced on October 16 or 17. Sailing zig-zag for a day, then turned north like she was heading home, before a day later again sailing south at a reduced speed of 6-7 knots. The voyage continued along the coast of Africa, but for the last two weeks, "Sevmorput" has stayed just outside the Angolan port of Luanda. All time sailing zig-zag at the same reduced speed.
Rosatomflot has been unforthcoming about the situation and not replied to any of the questions from The Barents Observer.
A discussion group on the social media channel Vkontakte, though, provides some insight to the critical situation happening with the world's only civilian nuclear-powered cargoship off the Angolan coast. An employee with the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg writes "there is a breakdown on the ship, as I understand it, and divers are trying to fix." It is not clear what exactly is the trouble, but he writes something is badly wrong with the shaft, propellers or associated gear.
Ship tracking site MarineTraffic.com labels the ship's status with "Restricted Maneuverability".
It is also unclear why the huge vessel has been sailing zig-zag for two weeks instead of staying at anchor. It is also unclear if the reactor is shut down or power runs on the diesel engine.
"Sevmorput "at her home base Atomflot in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Last winter, "Sevmorput" was docked at the Kanonerskiy yard in St. Petersburg for shifting propeller shafts. Such job was traditionally done at shipyard No. 82 in Roslyakovo, just a few kilometers north of the home base for the fleet of civilian nuclear-powered icebreakers in Murmansk. The yard's floating dock (SD-50) was the only in the Russian north large enough to hold the huge containership. That dock, however, sank to the seafloor in October 2018.
"Sevmorput" has since then been on voyages from Murmansk to the Arctic with supplies for military bases on the archipelagoes, as well as a tour to the Far East to pick up a load with seafood delivered to St. Petersburg in September. It was after this voyage the modules for the Vostok station was loaded on board. "Sevmourput" sailed out from St. Petersburg on October 5. In total, the containers and modules onboard weight around 5,000 tons.
The icebreaker "Kapitan Dranitsyn". Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Additional to "Sevmorput", the Arctic and Antarctica Research Institute has scheduled three expedition icebreakers for voyages to Antarctica this season; the "Kapitan Dranitsyn", "Akademik Tryshnikov" and "Akademik Fedorov". The two latter were supposed to leave St. Petersburg in October, but are still in port with the crew in COVID-19 quarantine.
"Kapitan Dranitsyn", though, left Murmansk on September 27th and teamed up with "Sevmorput" in the Atlantic the second week of October. The icebreaker waited a few days when "Sevmorput" got troubled, but soon continued lonely on the voyage south. The icebreaker is currently sailing east in King Håkon VII Sea, off the coast of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
The Vostok (восток means East in Russian) research station is located at the geomagnetic South Pole in Princess Elizabeth Land, which is the eastern part of the continent.
Russia's new Vostok-II research station was displayed in St. Petersburg before departure earlier in October. "Sevmorput" in the background. Photo: Roshydromet
The station was founded by the Soviet Union in 1957. The first buildings are long gone under the snow that accumulates by about 7 cm a year in this part of Antarctica. New buildings were later erected, but nothing near the new modern complex now underway on board "Sevmorput". The modules are supposed to be put ashore at the Russian Progress station on the shore of Prydz Bay. The transport to the inland Vostok will be pulled by snow-tractors.
Financially, the new research station and its transportation is carried out on the basis of a public-private partnership with Novatek, Russia's largest private owned natural gas company producing LNG in Sabetta on the Yamal Peninsula and currently constructing the giant Kola Yard in Belokamenka outside Murmansk.
32-year old
"Sevmorput" (Russian abbreviation for Northern Sea Route) is 32-year old and is powered by a single reactor of the KLT-40 type, similar to the the reactor onboard the icebreakers "Taymyr" and "Vaygach".
The vessel is well suited to deliver cargo along the north coast of Siberia, where little harbor infrastructure is developed. Sailing in the ice, lighters and other cargo can be unloaded on the ice outside the coast and towed to shore on the ice by trucks or bulldozers. But that wasn't either a big success in the troubled economic period following the break-up of the Soviet Union. For several periods in the 1990s and 2000s, the ship stayed in port in Murmansk for years without sailing. In 2008, the ship was officially laid-up and in 2012 the plan was to scrap it. In 2013, however, it was decided to do renovation and in autumn 2015, the ship was again test-sailing the Barents Sea. The following year, "Sevmorput" was back in regular service and has in the lastest years delivered cargo to military installations in the Russian Arctic, as well as to the petroleum development along the Siberian coast. Equipment has been delivered to the Pavlovsk lead-zink mine development on Novaya Zemlya, and both in 2019 and in 2020, voyages with seafood cargo have taken place between Petropavlovsk in the Far East and St. Petersburg via the Northern Sea Route and around Scandinavia.
"Sevmorput" can carry 74 lighters or 1324 containers.
After a 2015 upgrade and safety evaluation, the reactor's service life was prolonged with 150,000 hours aimed at keeping the vessel in operation until 2024.
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In joint operation, Murmansk commandos trained anti-terrorism onboard nuclear icebreakers
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Q: creating a view within a custom control to hide parts I'm creating a custom Silverlight control for Silverlight (specifically wp7). My control is mostly a button ,and when someone taps the button , I want to animate a tall rectangle filled with other contents that flys out from behind the button.
The issue is I do not know how to hide or only draw parts of this rectangle as I comes out. For example, when this rectangle is half way out,only the top half is showing while the rest is hidden. How can I do this without having to write some complex code? Presumably I just need to be able to define some sort of 'view' where only things inside this view are rendered to the screen.
Thoughts? Any help is appreciated!

A: You can use VisualStateManager to define possible visual states for your view. In addition, you can define transitions between those states (incuding animations). In your button's Click event handler you'd need to tell the VisualStateManager to transit to a different state - and you're done.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.visualstatemanager.gotostate%28v=vs.95%29.aspx
This would probably look like this in your view's code behind :
void OnClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    VisualStateManager.GoToState(this, "StateName", true);
}

In order to easily define the animations, you can use Expression Blend 4

A: In order to ensure that only the parts of the animating rectangle that are within the parent container are shown and nothing outside of that, you need to be able to clip the parent's children to it's bounds. Unfortunately, there is no ClipToBounds property in Silverlight, but you can use Colin Eberhardt's clipping attached behavior to achieve the same effect.

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Q: Is There a More Efficient Way to Convert Between ArrayList and Array Using Java, I have a class which retrieves a webpage as a byte array. I then need to strip out some content if it exists. (The application monitors web pages for changes, but needs to remove session Ids from the html which are created by php, and would mean changes were detected each visit to the page).
Some of the resulting byte arrays could be 10s of 1000s bytes long. They're not stored like this - a 16 byte MD5 of the page is stored. However, it is the original full size byte array which needs to be processed.
(UPDATE - the code does not work. See comment from A.H. below)
A test showing my code:
public void testSessionIDGetsRemovedFromData() throws IOException
    {

        byte[] forumContent = "
Logout [ barry ]
".getBytes();

        byte[] sidPattern = "&sid=".getBytes();
        int sidIndex = ArrayCleaner.getPatternIndex(forumContent, sidPattern);
        assertEquals(54, sidIndex);

        // start of cleaning code
        ArrayList<Byte> forumContentList = new ArrayList<Byte>();
        forumContentList.addAll(forumContent);
        forumContentList.removeAll(Arrays.asList(sidPattern));

        byte[] forumContentCleaned = new byte[forumContentList.size()];
        for (int i = 0; i < forumContentCleaned.length; i++)
        {
            forumContentCleaned[i] = (byte)forumContentList.get(i);
        }
        //end of cleaning code

        sidIndex = ArrayCleaner.getPatternIndex(forumContentCleaned, sidPattern);
        assertEquals(-1, sidIndex);
    }

This all works fine, but I'm worried about the efficiency of the cleaning section. I had hoped to operate solely on arrays, but the ArrayList has nice built in functions to removed a collection from the ArrayList, etc, which is just what I need. So I have had to create an ArrayList of Byte, as I can't have an ArrayList of the primitive byte (can anyone tell me why?), convert the pattern to remove to another ArrayList (I suppose this could be an ArrayList all along) to pass to removeAll(). I then need to create another byte[] and cast each element of the ArrayList of Bytes to a byte and add it to the byte[].
Is there a more efficient way of doing all this?
Can it be performed using arrays?
UPDATE
This is the same functionality using strings:
    public void testSessionIDGetsRemovedFromDataUsingStrings() throws IOException
{
    String forumContent = "
Logout [ barry ]
";
    String sidPattern = "&sid=";

    int sidIndex = forumContent.indexOf(sidPattern);
    assertEquals(54, sidIndex);

    forumContent = forumContent.replaceAll(sidPattern, "");
    sidIndex = forumContent.indexOf(sidPattern);
    assertEquals(-1, sidIndex);
}

Is this as efficient as the array/arrayList method?
Thanks,
Barry

A: You can use List#toArray() to convert any list to an array.
Things are a bit more complicated in this specific use case because there is no elegant way to auto-unbox (from Byte to byte) when converting the list. Good ol' Java generics. Which is a nice segue into...

So I have had to create an ArrayList of Byte, as I can't have an ArrayList of the primitive byte (can anyone tell me why?)

Because, in Java, generic type parameters cannot be primitives. See Why can Java Collections not directly store Primitives types?

Side note: as a matter of style, you should almost always declare ArrayList types as List:
List<Byte> forumContentList = new ArrayList<Byte>();

See Java - declaring from Interface type instead of Class and Type List vs type ArrayList in Java.

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This all works fine, I'm worried about the efficiency of the cleaning section...

Really? Did you inspect the resulting "string"? On my machine the data in forumContentCleaned still contains the &sid=... data.
That's because
forumContentList.removeAll(Arrays.asList(sidPattern));

tries to remove a List<byte[]> from a List<Byte>. This will do nothing. And even if you replace the argument of removeAll with a real List<Byte> containing the bytes of "&sid=", then you will remove ALL occurences of each a, each m, each p and so forth. The resulting data will look like this:
<l cl"con-logout">< href"./uc.h?oelogout34043284674572e35881e022c68fc8" ttle....

Well, strictly speaking, the &sid= part is gone, but I'm quite sure this is not what you wanted.
Therefore take a step back and think: You are doing string manipulation here, so use a StringBuilder, feed it with the String(forumContent) and do your manipulation there.
Edit
Looking at the given example input string, I guess, that also the value of sid should be removed, not only the key. This code should do it efficiently without regular expresions:
String removeSecrets(String input){
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(input);

    String sidStart = "&sid=";
    String sidEnd = "\"";

    int posStart = 0;
    while ((posStart = sb.indexOf(sidStart, posStart)) >= 0) {
        int posEnd = sb.indexOf(sidEnd, posStart);
        if (posEnd < 0)     // delete as far as possible - YMMV
            posEnd = sb.length();
        sb.delete(posStart, posEnd);
    }

    return sb.toString();
}

Edit 2
Here is a small benchmark between StringBuilder and String.replaceAll:
public class ReplaceAllBenchmark {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {
        final int N = 1000000;
        String input = "
Logout [ barry ]&sid=3a4043284674572e35881e022c68fcd8\"
";

        stringBuilderBench(input, N);
        regularExpressionBench(input, N);
    }

    static void stringBuilderBench(String input, final int N) throws Throwable{
        for(int run=0; run<5; ++run){
            long t1 = System.nanoTime();
            for(int i=0; i<N; ++i)
                removeSecrets(input);
            long t2 = System.nanoTime();
            System.out.println("sb: "+(t2-t1)+"ns, "+(t2-t1)/N+"ns/call");
            Thread.sleep(1000);
        }
    }

    static void regularExpressionBench(String input, final int N) throws Throwable{
        for(int run=0; run<5; ++run){
            long t1 = System.nanoTime();
            for(int i=0; i<N; ++i)
                removeSecrets2(input);
            long t2 = System.nanoTime();
            System.out.println("regexp: "+(t2-t1)+"ns, "+(t2-t1)/N+"ns/call");
            Thread.sleep(1000);
        }
    }

    static String removeSecrets2(String input){
        return input.replaceAll("&sid=[^\"]*\"", "\"");
    }
}

Results:
java version "1.6.0_20"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.9.9) (6b20-1.9.9-0ubuntu1~10.04.2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode)

sb: 538735438ns, 538ns/call
sb: 457107726ns, 457ns/call
sb: 443282145ns, 443ns/call
sb: 453978805ns, 453ns/call
sb: 458895308ns, 458ns/call
regexp: 2404818405ns, 2404ns/call
regexp: 2196834572ns, 2196ns/call
regexp: 2239056178ns, 2239ns/call
regexp: 2164337638ns, 2164ns/call
regexp: 2177091893ns, 2177ns/call

A: I dont think two codes have the same function.
the first code removes all characters in the sidPattern from forumContent.
the second code removes the sidPattern string from forumContnt, maybe not functional, cause replaceAll() accept the argument as regular expression pattern.
are you sure you want to remove "&sid=" rather than "&sid=3a4043284674572e35881e022c68fcd8" ?
anyway, I think String is fine, List is a little bit heavy.


Tigre likes this a lot, it has a dangly feathery bit on one side which Tigre had a great time playing with it. The only problem is that it's not very durable, it was broken off within a week. The rest of it is amazing quality, I much prefer Maizy scratching this then the back of my couch. They both love the "S" shape of it and find it very a very comfortable place to lay.
This toy is perfect for both of them. Tigre loves the toys that you can swing back and forth. He flips out over them. While Maizy has no patience for them she loves the laser part. I love the bright colors. Like all laser pointers DO NOT shine it into anyone's eyes. Again this wasn't quite as durable as I would like and the end had come off. Fortunately with a few knots I was able to fix it up good as new.
I think this toy is super super cute! Unfourtunately my cats don't care much for toys, cotton balls, craft pom poms and hair ties sure but actual cat toys they couldn't be less interested. But I just sprayed a little of the smartykat catnip spray and Tigre was all over it. I do think it's to big for the kind of playing they like.
Over all I like the brand smartykats. I've tried a few of their things and they were all great. Especially the catnip spray! What's your favorite cat products?
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text:
package com.pengrad.telegrambot.request;

import com.pengrad.telegrambot.response.BaseResponse;

/**
 * Stas Parshin
 * 01 July 2017
 */
public class PinChatMessage extends BaseRequest<PinChatMessage, BaseResponse> {

    public PinChatMessage(Object chatId, int messageId) {
        super(BaseResponse.class);
        add("chat_id", chatId).add("message_id", messageId);
    }

    public PinChatMessage disableNotification(boolean disableNotification) {
        return add("disable_notification", disableNotification);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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How to Use the New Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Number 988
Dr. Matthew Wintersteen, a psychologist and Pennsylvania leader in establishing this national lifeline, offers everything you need to know about the new three-digit number.
By Jessica Lopez September 8, 2022
Content Warning: Information presented in this article may be triggering to some people. If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, contact the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 (call or text), for support and assistance from a trained counselor. If you or a loved one require immediate medical attention, call 911.
The Federal Communications Commission formally designated 9-8-8 as a nationwide three-digit number for mental health crisis and suicide prevention services as of July 16, 2022.
"A three-digit lifeline number positions behavioral health crises as just as important as physical health crises for which you would call 911," says Matthew Wintersteen, PhD, psychologist and associate professor in the department of psychiatry and human behavior.
Here is what you need to know about the new number and the effort to streamline access to urgent mental health care.
What was the motivation behind the new 988 national lifeline number?
To clarify, 988 is not a new service. It's a new phone number for an existing service. In fact, people can still call the 1-800-273-8255 number to get to the exact same crisis counselors who are going to respond to them. There is no difference in the service. It is just being promoted more broadly and is a much easier number to remember—in the same way we don't think twice about remembering to call 911 when there's a fire or medical emergency.
The goal of 988 was to establish a faster, more recognizable route to get to what used to be called the National Suicide Prevention Lifelife. It's now called the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You can call or text that number or go to 988lifeline.org to access the chat service.
What are the main differences between calling 988 and calling 911?
The number 988 was developed to serve as the behavioral health equivalent to 911. You call 911 for emergencies that require law enforcement, EMS, fire rescue, etc. The number 988 is the equivalent type of service for the behavioral health field. The goal is that people who are in a behavioral health crisis have an easier time remembering the right number to call if they are alone and need support, or if they are concerned about their own well-being and need a lifeline to help guide them in a moment of distress.
Another important difference is if you call 911 in a behavioral health emergency, the likelihood of law enforcement showing up at your house is incredibly high—nearly 100%. They're going to dispatch somebody to your house because the purpose of 911 is not to counsel, listen or be supportive towards you. Their job is really to dispatch the appropriate level of emergency service to you. Alternatively, if someone calls 988, their primary responsibility is to listen, advise, talk, counsel and assist them through whatever crisis they're having at the moment.
The average 988 call lasts about 20 minutes—many of them are considerably shorter, but there are also quite a few that might take much longer than that. The purpose is to assist that person so that they're no longer in crisis and do not require any sort of dispatch to their home to provide in-person assistance. We know that through data, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline—which is, again, the same service 988 now offers—that about 80% of the time, when somebody calls, their crisis is resolved over the phone, such that no dispatch is needed to their home, whether it be a mobile crisis unit or EMS or law enforcement to assist. This is especially important right now in Philadelphia, as many people would prefer that law enforcement not show up for behavioral health crises. It is also consistent with the state's overall goal to have the appropriate response for the emergency at hand.
Whether or not law enforcement is dispatched comes down to a safety issue. It is never the priority nor the first effort for a 988 counselor to engage local law enforcement for assistance. However, if someone is expressing suicidal thoughts and is in possession of a firearm, it may be necessary for law enforcement to co-respond with a mobile crisis team to ensure that the situation is safe before putting the mobile crisis team in harm's way.
[Image Credit: iStock.com/calvindexter]
Does calling 988 reveal your exact location?
The 988 support line does not have geolocation. Geolocation is the tool that 911 call centers utilize to ping off cell phone towers to get a general sense as to where somebody is calling from. Presently, 988 call centers do not have that technology. If you call 988 and need someone dispatched to your home, like a mobile crisis team or EMS, for example, you're going to need to reveal your location for them to send help to you.
It's important to note that when you call 988, you get routed to the nearest call center associated with the phone number from which you are calling. This is important, particularly in large cities like Philadelphia, where there are a lot of people who move in and out of the city. If you are in Philadelphia but are using a cell phone that you did not get from the Philadelphia area or even within Pennsylvania, your call is probably going to be answered elsewhere and possibly out of state if that is where your cell phone number originated.
Do you see this as an obstacle to getting people care quickly?
There are certainly pros and cons to geolocation. The advantage of geolocation is that as people migrate around the country for school or jobs or to live, you're more likely to get the call center that is most closely associated with where you happen to be at the time of your crisis.
The disadvantage of geolocation really comes down to the question that was asked earlier – which is once geolocation exists, the only way to do that is to use technology that pings cell phone towers, which gives the call centers a general idea as to where you are located. Now, that's actually a very good thing when it comes to rescue help, because sometimes people are in a crisis, and they would like someone to come to them, but either they don't know exactly where they are, or they're hesitant to say exactly where they are. And so, geolocation will allow emergency services to get to that person.
The flip side of that is that there are plenty of people who call this service because it's anonymous and they don't necessarily want to tell people who they are. They want help, but they don't want to discuss who they are or where they are. They don't want anybody coming to them. In fact, in most circumstances, they may not need anybody to come to them.
Can you describe the sort of situation that someone should call 988 for themselves or a loved one?
It's important to recognize that 988 is not designed to be what they call a warm line. Warm lines are numbers that you can call when you're having a bad day and just need someone to talk to. The 988 line is designed to support someone in crisis.
We know that oftentimes when people become suicidal or contemplate engaging in suicidal behavior, they may be alone. It isn't the case that they have somebody near them, to whom they could reach out and get immediate support from a peer. Data from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline shows there are plenty of people who call when there is nowhere else to turn or anyone else to talk to. In moments where somebody is suicidal, they're often alone, they're separating themselves from other people. They're unburdening others, in their mind, from whatever it is that they believe that they're putting on them. This is why an easy-to-recall number is so important. The number for support needs to be easy to remember when you're overwhelmed with feelings like these.
[Editor's Note: Learn more about how to recognize signs of hopelessness from Dr. Wintersteen here.]
What happens when you call on behalf of someone you are concerned about? Can you remain anonymous?
It depends on what you want to happen and the level of support that person needs. If you call for someone and the call center counselor is equally concerned, they'll often want to speak with that individual, or text or chat if that makes them more comfortable.
If you believe the person is at imminent risk and is either in the process of self-harming or will harm themselves, you should call 911. For example, if someone has posted something on social media that suggests they are about to make a suicide attempt, and you don't know where they are and they're not responding to calls or texts, those are times you want to call 911. The reason is that you need someone to immediately show up for this person and EMS will likely also be sent out in case they are injured and need immediate medical attention or need to be taken to a hospital.
It can be confusing for people to know which number to call—988 or 911. My best recommendation is that if you feel someone is at imminent risk of harming themselves, call 911. They have a better chance of finding the person quickly. If you are concerned about somebody who may be suicidal and know they are experiencing a behavioral health crisis, you can certainly call 988 to figure out how to best support that person.
Is there any misinformation about 988 out there since the lifeline launched last month?
One thing I've seen on social media lately is that calling 988 will result in the police being dispatched to your house.
If you call 988 and you are at imminent risk and you live in an area where there is not a mobile crisis team, and this is true in some places like rural Pennsylvania, oftentimes police are then deployed. If you need somebody to come to you because you are at imminent risk for injury or death, and there is no other option, then law enforcement can be deployed. It is not by any stretch the first option. In fact, they've changed the protocol at 988 such that if law enforcement needs to be dispatched, the crisis counselor responding to the call has to go through a supervisor before they can actually do that.
One of the greatest priorities of 988 of the federal government is to divert behavioral health calls away from law enforcement. Not because they are incapable of handling it, but because there are more appropriate services and law enforcement is better suited to respond to other needs in the community.
What motivated you personally to work in the field of suicide prevention?
Many people who are in the suicide prevention field got into the field because they know someone who died by suicide and so it became sort of a passion to find ways to alleviate mental distress and the things that lead to suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Interestingly, that wasn't my path. I started doing work with depressed adolescents and doing family therapy with them. Through that, I started seeing lots of kids who were suicidal and began doing research on how to best support them using family therapy as an intervention. Consequently, I was part of a grant from the CDC to do a family-based intervention for suicidal youth. I quickly became an expert in suicide prevention interventions because the pediatricians needed support when they were trying to identify kids who could be at risk. At the time, this was a niche field of research no one else was exploring. It was an opportunity to provide both clinical and educational support in areas that others weren't focused on at the time.
Then there's the fact I work in a helping profession field, and so of course I was motivated to help other people. There's a misconception that when someone gets to the point of feeling suicidal, there's little hope that they can get better. I know that's not the case. When you work with someone who is truly struggling with suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and then you see them get better, it's rewarding. You know that you've done good work.
[Main photo credit: iStock.com/Delmaine Donson]
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Traditional Shakespearean comedy
Tons of fun with low-brow inuenndo
Talented, seasoned actors
Lavish costumes
2 hours 30 minutes with one intermission
By William Shakespeare; Directed by Judith Jarosz
Off-Off-Broadway, Play
Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue
by Markus Paminger on 5.10.10
Elizabeth Kensek, Annalisa Loeffler, and Josh Powell in Twelfth Night. Photo by David Fuller
BOTTOM LINE: Never a dull moment, this delightfully witty production delivers with its freshness and on-stage talent.
Codpieces, prancing and puns, oh my. Shakespeare has never been as keen and as witty as it is right now at the Theatre Ten Ten, at the Park Avenue Christian Church. Start with some idle hands, add plenty of ale, a good dose of libido, some song and dance, and get ready to watch a world turned upside down in this extremely enjoyable, often hilarious production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by the Theater Ten Ten's (now its 55th year!) artistic director Judith Jarosz.
This head-spinning tale of l'amour and lust, with its spider's web of mistaken identities, is the perfect excuse to watch a wonderfully talented cast make the most of every delightfully dirty, marvelously malicious pun thrown their way. This play is never better then when we watch the fools - yet aren't they all fools - relish in their song and dance and spar with their wine-ridden retorts, and before you know it you can't help but have their energy and playfulness rub off on you, laughing at every wobbled step and uninhibited song.
The cod pieces couldn't get any bigger or more colorful, the hair is as bad as can be, with breath to match, as the actors playfully relish in their over-sexed characters having more fun with each interplay as I thought was possible. No joke is thrown away and no opportunity is wasted to squeeze yet another zinger from the familiar tale of transgendered mistaken identities and misread innuendos.
The production touts itself as a Shakespearean-Moroccan hybrid which had the potential to give this 400-year old play some unique gender-bending modern relevance. The company's mission statement does mention something about unconventional casting, and the pre-show music, an interesting mix of traditional Persian twang with electro-house bass does set the scene for something different, but all that is quickly forgotten without a moment's regret as the play follows a more straightforward take.
The set is vibrantly painted, and the lighting, with its brief flashes of underused dynamic touches (I suppose there can only be one stormy shipwreck sequence), are co-designed by the team of Mexican designers Giles Hogya and Eduardo Mier. But in the end it's the costumes, superbly done by Deborah Wright Houston, that take the cake with multilayered frill and attention to detail that help set the scene of idle decadence.
I urge everyone to help give this deserving production, and its über-talented, seasoned cast, the audience it deserves. For very young to very old, I have no doubt you will enjoy yourself, no matter your tastes.
(Twelfth Night plays at Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue, between 84th & 85th Street, through May 23, 2010. Performances are Mondays at 8pm, Thursdays at 7pm, Fridays through Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 3pm, with an additional performance on Wednesday May 19th at 7pm. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at theatermania.com or by calling 212-288-3246. For more show info visit theater1010.com.)


I am talking about my new sock, in Shibui, colour wasabi. I have been slowly plodding along, miscounting and ripping back. So last night I tried it on! OOPs it doesn't fit. I need a crowbar and some slippery lotion. I did manage to get it over my heel but what a workout for my hands, I won't be doing that again. I always use size 2mm needles, otherwise the socks just swim on my feet and I was worried about the cuff coming down. I managed to ignore the fact that that cuff or band would not stretch. I should have listened to the little voice.
The sock is a little greyed down,it has a yellowish tinge, in this photo. The pattern is nutkin and I was doing this for project spectrum 5.
Michelle Ward continues with her latest series of crusades with evidence of our houses, called Home Sweet Home. I decided to tie it in with project spectrum as well, so I did use the red for May. I decided to work with house numbers, I have quite often kept records of colour schemes, room demensions, garden layouts etc but house numbers seemed the way to go, especially after I found the paper with numbers on it. So I just included numbers of the houses we owned.
After cutting the paper to fit the envelope again, I scraped on a coat of gesso and then got out a stensil. I used an old marker to do the outlines, then red and black crayons to fill in and outline the numbers. I painted in the backgrouns with some craft paint. Then added some dull gold over the yellow, added some blue textile paint over the peridot. The red was looking a little dull, so went over it again with some red fluid acrylic. That made it pop.
I think it needs something else, I just added the details of the crusade challenge to the page.
Once again it was fun to join other artists online. So thanks, Michelle, for putting this out there for us. I haven't read the posts from other artists, for the last 2 crusades, so I'll be visiting the other artists and leaving comments. I can't wait to see what they have done.
Project Spectrum is underway again, and we will be working with a different colour each month. Although, it was started by a knitter, Lauren, it can encompass all aspects. So you can read about the colour and how it is made, or it might feature the colour in a title. Think food, flowers, clothes anything that takes your fancy, then write a post, take photo and put it on flicker. I think this is the third or fourth year that I have played along. So thanks to Lauren for organizing it once again.
I have been knitting, a another pair of socks. I was happily working away, when I realized that I was working with the wrong colour for May. The colour was red, what was I doing with a yarn called Green Envy? Other than loving it, of course! It was a Red Heart yarn called Heart and Sole, Razzle Dazzle. literally, saved by the label.
The usual 2mm, 64 stitches but this time the gusset decreases are along the sole. I was still playing with a mixed up rib pattern. I wore them today, I love the way they feel. That's pair number 5 for this year.


Good news in a way: Merrill Lynch (or Bank of America Merrill Lynch as I suppose we have to get used to calling them) have re-started coverage of EDA with a 20 page report on the industry, much of which is spent on explaining how the industry segments out and who is strong in which segments, stuff that most people reading this site already know.
Their top attraction is Cadence (buy rating, with a price target of $13), followed by Synopsys (buy rating, with a price target of $35) and then Mentor (neutral, with a price target of $15).
My comments: Synopsys is clearly the EDA leader but as the largest company it is hard for them to grow faster than the overal EDA market. Cadence is in year 3 of a transition and the interesting thing to watch will be how much business they have in year 3 because historically these transitions risk doing 3 years of business in 2 years leaving thin pickings for the 3rd year (and so a temptation to do some non-ratable business to make the number).
Mentor, for those of you not following along at home, has Carl Icahn nipping at their heels. He has taken a 15% stake in the company and, last week, on CNBC accused them of being a country-club and that they should be sold or broken up. At the very least it should be a good spectator sport. The Merrill Lynch report doesn't mention Icahn and the potential upside/risk.


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Washington Sundar has now become quite the name in IPL 10, thanks to his bowling.
Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) off-spinner Washington Sundar has suddenly become famous. His rather unique name was not getting much attention before this, but once he started sending down telling spells of bowling for RPS, everyone started taking notice. The 17-year-old Tamil Nadu cricketer helped Pune enter the final of Indian Premier League (IPL) Season 10 with his brilliant bowling performance against Mumbai Indians (MI) in the Qualifier 1 and became an overnight sensation.
Sundar claimed three wickets in the crucial clash to ensure his team claimed a final berth, where they will face the winner of Qualifier 2 between MI and Kolkata Knight Riders.
Apart from his match-winning performance, if the Chennai-born created a buzz, that is due to his unusual name.
Washington's father, M. Sundar, ended the curiosity among fans and told the story behind his son's unusual name.
"I am a Hindu and come from a very humble family. Two streets away from my home in Triplicane lived an ex-army man called P.D. Washington. Washington was extremely fond of cricket and would come to watch us play at the Marina ground. He took a liking for my game," Washington's father was quoted as saying by The Hindu.
"I was poor and he would buy uniform for me, pay my school fee, get me books, take me to the ground in his cycle and constantly encourage me," M. Sundar said.
The bonding was strong between Sundar and P.D Washington and due to this, he decided to name his first child after his benefactor.
He also said if he had another son he would have called him 'Washington Jr'.
After P.D. Washington passed away in 1999, M. Sundar was blessed with a baby boy and he named him 'Washington'.
"My wife had a difficult delivery. But the baby survived. As per the Hindu custom, I whispered a God's name, 'Srinivasan' in his ear. But I decided to name him Washington in memory of the man who had done so much for me," the proud father told the newspaper.


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City council approves 2009 levy
Ed McMenamin
The Pekin City Council Monday night voted to keep this year's property tax levy the same as last year's.
The council voted 6-to-1 to maintain the 2009 levy at $5,668,196. The 2009 levy will be paid by taxpayers in 2010 and will fund the city's fiscal year 2011 budget.
Council member Laurie Barra voiced the lone "no" vote, saying the city needed to increase the levy in order to avoid cutting services in the next year.
Although the levy is the same as last year's, the amount going into the city's general fund will actually decrease because of an approximately 20 percent increase in the cost of funding police and fire pensions — a fact that will likely lead to difficult budgeting sessions and cost-saving decisions in the coming weeks, said City Manager Dennis Kief.
"As bad as the fiscal year 2010 budget was, the fiscal year 2011 budget stands to be worse," he said.
The amount going into the general fund will be $588,197 less than last year, or about 34 percent lower.
About 69 percent of the general fund goes toward the operational budgets of the police and fire departments, Kief said. The levy provides about 10 percent of the money in the general fund, which is also funded by sales taxes and other revenue sources.
"I would like to encourage the staff not to make cuts in our core services," said council member Chad Schmidgall. "We have a lot of ancillary and secondary services that we provide, and those are all wonderful things, but those are the things that I think we need to be looking at when we get into this budget process."
Kief requested that council members make a list of what they considered not to be "core services" offered by the city and therefore the best services to cut in the upcoming budget.
"Keeping this levy the same right now, in this economy, is the right thing to do," said council member Tom Blanchard. "A little good news to the taxpayers is not a bad thing right now."
Blanchard said changes in the city's employee health care plan and early retirement plan should save as much or more money than the $588,197 general fund shortfall created by the levy.
Earlier this year, the city created a 2 percent food and beverage and package liquor tax. Without that new tax, Kief said, the city would be facing close to a $1 million deficit in the upcoming budget.
The levy for the library is also the same as last year at $1,022,756.
The amount dedicated to paying police pensions is $1,341,733, which is $225,038 more or about 20 percent higher than last year. The amount dedicated to paying fire pensions is $2,170,230, which is $363,159 more or about 20 percent higher than last year.
The amounts of the police and fire pensions are set by state actuarial studies.
The levy, once set by the city, is a fixed number. The rate paid by taxpayers will most likely decrease compared to last year if Tazewell County's Equalized Assessed Valuation comes in higher than last year, as estimated. The rate can change depending on the final EAV determined by the county.
Council member Barbara Strand said she "struggled" with her decision before eventually deciding to vote to keep the levy the same.
"I feel we have had some very good times with this city. ... We haven't laid one person off," she said. "But I don't know if we can continue that and expect that people are always going to pay more.
"I just feel that this year it's time to tighten our belts and I know it's not going to be pretty or easy and I'm happy to help. But I really feel we need to keep the tax levy the same."
Also on Monday, Public Works Director Joe Wuellner outlined a plan to cut back on snow removal this winter in an effort to save funds.
Snow removal will begin with the major routes and hills, he said, and side streets may often wait until the next day to avoid paying crews overtime.
Contact Ed McMenamin at emcmenamin@pekintimes.com.


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Wedding "giving" from Larry and Kris Bird
Posted on December 20, 2019 December 20, 2019 by Asia Divers
Last September Larry and Kris Bird had their wedding celebration here at el Galleon and had asked guests not to buy gifts for them, but instead to make a donation to go towards a helping the kids at a local school. Last week it all came together and Rhuby and Alli went to two schools, both in need of help. One school was in Puerto Galera, one a bit further away towards Calapan. The first school was a mix of kids Tagalog, Muslim and Mangyan. They were having their Christmas party on that day and we're excited that we could be there to join them.
We gave the 80 school kids a personal hygiene kit which had toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, and towel. This is something that was requested by their teacher and principal as many of them don't have these. We also had pencils, markers, a few small toys, a world map learning activity toy and some school materials for the kids. There were lots happy faces there that day!
The second school we went to further away was really in need of even more help. This is a school with kids who are Mangyon and Tagalog, but all quite poor. We gave each of the 110 students personal hygiene kits, plus 2 big sacks of rice which will be enough to give them food for one month at the school. Along with that, we donated two big buckets of paint and the rollers, brushes so their classrooms can be painted and also a bunch of pens for older kids.
We explained to them about who was responsible for this donation and they were all so appreciative and said thank you so much. It was really a touching experience and we're happy to have been a part of it. Thank you to Larry and Kris for making this happen
If you're interested in learning more about the Mangyans of Mindoro please see these links:
https://www.jacobimages.com/2012/12/the-mangyan-of-mindoro
http://www.mangyan.org/book/export/html/60
Mindoro Mangyans
Mindoro is the seventh largest island in the Philippines, with an area of 10,224 square kilometers and two provinces – Oriental and Occidental. Of the total population of one million, the indigenous population is estimated at 100,000.
Mangyan is the collective name for the eight indigenous groups living in Mindoro, each with its own name, language, and set of customs:
There are 8 different Mangyan groups (Iraya, Alangan, Tadyawan, Tau-buid, Bangon, Buhid, Hanunoo and Ratagnon) on the island of Mindoro and all are distinctively different including their languages. Mangyan is just the collective term used for the indigenous peoples found on Mindoro.
Something unique to the indigenous Mangyan of Mindoro is how well organized their groups are. All eight groups have active tribal councils and they are very strict about what visitors can enter their communities. Each group also has formal bylaws with penalties for different crimes that are committed.
Most families spend a lot of their time collecting crops in their fields. The Mangyan must have land to plant crops in order to survive. This is their main food source. However, many families are now growing larger tracks of produce that they harvest and sell to lowlanders as well. The Mangyan are very much against mining and any mining activities on their ancestral domain.
Every opening of the school year, the spotlight is focused on the public school system's lack of classrooms, books and toilets. Often though, the spotlight misses the school situation of indigenous children. For children of the Mangyan, an indigenous people's group comprising seven linguistic tribes in Mindoro, school opening is marked by an even more basic set of problem — they do not have schools nearby.
If the lack of classrooms afflicts ordinary Filipino children, Mangyan children who live in far-flung areas frequently do not have formal schools at all, resulting in a far worse illiteracy incidence among the Mangyan. This, in turn, leads to the tribe's further marginalization.
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The market is already flooded with Android tablets. And now, Lenovo has joined the bandwagon. The company will soon launch its first tablet device. Recently, the leaked pics and specs of this device has been emerged. Lenovo's first tablet device will be called "Lenovo ThinkPad" and it will be powered by the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Operating System. Lenovo ThinkPad will have a stylus for hand-drawn notes. Check out the leaked specs below.
One of the unique feature of this tablet is the keyboard booklet, which allows you to switch over to the laptop mode. Lenovo ThinkPad is expected to be announced in June and it will be available for purchase from July. Lenovo ThinkPad will be available from $499 for the 16 GB version.


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Q: How to validate data in WPF and set default value? I'm trying to perform a validation property. We have a nullable property called:
    public int? Number
    {
        get { return _number; }
        set
        {
            if (_number != value)
            {
                _number = value;
                RaisePropertyChanged("Number");
            }
        }
    }

And this property is bound to a textbox. I only want to validate this two escenarios:

*

*Imagine that the user left the textbox empty (textbox.text=""), so Number property must receive null value (instead "" ).

*And if the user inputs "2b", Number property must have a null value (because is an error), but the textbox must still say "2b".

I guess IDataNotifyError and ValidationRules is not working for this. How can I resolve these situations?
EDIT: I'm using also a ValidationRule to show a custom message when the user inputs an incorrect format. But when this happens, does not fire the property to null. And if a put true in that error, it fired, but does not show any error message.
                 <TextBox.Text>
                    <Binding Path="Number" UpdateSourceTrigger="PropertyChanged" ValidatesOnDataErrors="True" ValidatesOnExceptions="True" NotifyOnValidationError="True" Converter="{x:Static c:IntConverter.Default}" >
                        <Binding.ValidationRules>
                                <r:NumericValidation />
                        </Binding.ValidationRules>
                    </Binding>
                </TextBox.Text>

The validation rule
public class NumericValidation : ValidationRule
{
    public override ValidationResult Validate(object value, System.Globalization.CultureInfo cultureInfo)
    {
        int? response;
        bool noIllegalChars = TryParseStruct<int>(value.ToString(), out response);

        if (noIllegalChars == false)
        {
            return new ValidationResult(false, "Input is not in a correct format.");
        }
        else
        {
            return new ValidationResult(true, null);
        }
    }

    ...
}

A: Try following converter:
public class IntConverter : IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value,
                          Type targetType,
                          object parameter,
                          CultureInfo culture)
    {
        if (value is int?)
        {
            int? intValue = (int?)value;
            if (intValue.HasValue)
            {
                return intValue.Value.ToString();
            }
        }

        return Binding.DoNothing;
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value,
                              Type targetType,
                              object parameter,
                              CultureInfo culture)
    {
        if(value is string)
        {
            int number;
            if (Int32.TryParse((string)value, out number))
            {
                return number;
            }
        }

        return null;
    }
}

A: You can use converter and manipulate the values before they are assigned to underlying property.

A: Use @Amit's converter and then to get the error use IDataErrorInfo with the following code:
public string this[string columnName]
{
    get
    {
        if (columnName == "Number")
        {
            if (Number == null) return "Invalid number";
        }

        return null;
    }
}

Or you could do it with your ValidationRule but you would need to change its ValidationStep property. Your validation is currently being fired at the default time RawProposedValue, i.e. before the converter is kicking in.


A friend of a friend quipped the other day that she was preparing to launch her 11 year old as an IPO. What she meant was that she was about to embark on a roadshow to try to secure him a place at one South Africa's top high schools. She was joking of course, but the first world problem of competing for spots at good schools is one that keeps parents up at night. It's playground talk amongst moms in the 12 to 24 month age category at Clamber Club in Dunkeld. The fact is, demand exceeds supply, at present, and kids are competing for a limited number of places. Make no mistake, it's a competitive world out there.
When I think about children and competition, I often think about the scene in the movie Parental Guidance (with Billy Crystal and Marisa Tomei) where the kids play non-competitive baseball – i.e. no-one can be struck out. Ever. So everyone remains equal and no-one wins or loses. It's a spoof on a kind of new-age notion that competition is dangerous for a child's self esteem.
Of course, I do understand that there are well-researched arguments for more collaborative, less competitive child-rearing approaches. I just don't think that sheltering children almost entirely from competition prepares them for the current mainstream reality. I would argue that a more realistic approach for building confidence is to a) try to avoid creating competition where it need not exist and b) to teach children how to cope with losing – a skill even the most gifted must certainly need at times.
I sometimes catch myself doing the exact opposite of avoiding competition where it needn't be present. I believe I do this in the interests of speed and efficiency – or perhaps because I've been hardwired that way since Sub A. For example, if I want to get the kids bathed quickly, I say "who wants to be washed first?" or if I want to get somewhere fast and they're dawdling, my natural instinct is to make it a "race". In contrast, my daughter's neighbour and BFF, Kayla, regularly declares during complex kids' suppers: "It's not a race!" Indeed, the exercise of eating dinner should not be a competition (even though getting small kids to eat is often so laborious that I sometimes wish it were). I try to borrow Kayla's maxim when situations that really needn't be competitive, could turn into a contest.
Perhaps partly because I have vivid and mortifying memories of being a terrible loser as a child, I believe this is a critical coping mechanism that I want to equip my children with from a young age. No-one loves losing but I think some of us inherently mind it more than others. The other day I played "memory game" with my four year old daughter for the first time (jumbled up pairs of cards placed face down that you have to try to match, pair by pair, by recalling where they were lying when previously flipped over). I remember doing well at this game as a young child. Turns out that as an adult, I am rubbish. My daughter was cleaning up. She was on a winner's high. I was deliberately competing as I would against an adult – i.e I was NOT letting her win. But then I got a bit lucky towards the end (when it's much, much easier as they are far fewer cards left) and I began to collect quite a few pairs. Suddenly, my child looked set to lose and the prospect was devastating. She was completely unable to cope and proceeded to have a spectacular tantrum.
That was when I realised it was time I started gently teaching her how to have fun competing, but also, how to cope with losing.
This is such an important skill for kids, thanks for the post.


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MADISON- Today, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi, Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney and Bike Federations Executive Director Dave Cieslewicz urged drivers and cyclists extreme caution as more bicyclists will be on the roads before the upcoming Ironman. Dane County has already had 2 bicycle fatalities this year.
Dane County has been recognized as one of top counties for biking in the nation by the League of American Bicyclists. Over the past several years, the County has invested millions in new off-road trails and efforts to make on-road biking safer. Most recently, the County started construction of the Lower Yahara River Trail, a waterfront path that has the longest bike and pedestrian bridge of any project in the state.
According to the Madison Metropolitan Planning Organization, there are over 645 miles of bike facilities in Dane County. In addition to the Lower Yahara Trail, the County is also funding design work that will get underway this summer for the Glacial Drumlin Trail, and providing dollars in partnership with the Town of Westport and others for a new North Mendota Trail to help provide safer cycling.
1. Look for cyclists. Don't drive distracted.
2. Wait until it's safe to pass the cyclist, slow down and give the cyclist at least three feet of clearance as required by state law.
Be visible. At night the law requires that you have a reflective or blinking rear light and a white front light. Even during the day a blinking rear light is a good idea and bright clothing can help.
Don't assume someone else will do the right thing. It's always a good idea to look out for drivers and even other cyclists and pedestrians.


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Q: Tabulator, vue.js - how to set focus of a cell after table refeshData Using Tablulator (great product!), I am trying to keep the cursor from resetting to the first editable cell in the table after editing a cell. The replaceData function is updating the data element, and while the scroll position does not change, the cursor is reset. I'm not sure how to do this correctly. The documentation, while great, is silent about cursor position beyond the next(), etc methods, which I cannot quite get to work.
In my vue.js table definition component, I have a watch like this:
watch: {
            tableData: {
                handler: function (newData) {
                    this.tabulator.replaceData(newData);
                },
                deep: true,
            }
        },

and a cellEdited method inside mounted like this:
mounted() {
            let self = this;
            //todo Possibly validate that cater tips is less than total tips since cater tips is a portion of total tips
            self.tabulator = new Tabulator(self.$refs.myTable, {
                height: 380, // set height of table (in CSS or here)
                placeholder: 'Click "Load Store Tips" to edit data',
                data: self.tableData, //link data to table
                reactiveData: true, //enable data reactivity
                downloadConfig: {columnCalcs: false},
                addRowPos:"bottom",
                history:true,
                layout: "fitDataFill",
                initialSort:[
                    {column:"storeID", dir:"asc"},
                 ],
                //Define Table Columns
                columns: [
                    {title: "Store ID", field: "storeID", sorter:"number"},
                    {title: "Store Tips", field: "inStore_tips", align: "right", formatter: "money",  editor: "number", bottomCalc: "sum"},
                    {title: "Cater Tips", field: "cater_tips", align: "right", formatter: "money", editor: "number", bottomCalc: "sum"},
                    {title: "Client ID", field: "clientID"},
                ],
                ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
                // When a cell is edited, write the data out to the server to ensure it is
                // always in a saved state.
                ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
                cellEdited: function (e, cell) {
                    //self.colPos = cell.getColumn(); //trying to save the cursor pos, but generating error
                    //self.rowPos = cell.getRow(); // generating error
                    self.PostTipsEventMethod();

                }
            });

Here is what I have tried:

*

*Tried capturing the row and column position, and then setting that after the replaceData table render, and after the cellEdited method

*Tried using the next() method to move the cursor to the next cell inside the cellEdited method, before and after the replaceData function.
Can someone guide me a bit further on this? I've searched through the tabulator element in the debugger trying to find the row and column numbers of the cell I'm editing, but so far, no joy. I guess I don't understand the lifecycle of the table rendering well enough.
Thank you!


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Value Theory and Finance
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This paper offers a framework for understanding the financial system using Marx's theory of value. It examines how to interpret the Marxist concepts of the rate of profit…
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This paper offers a framework for understanding the financial system using Marx's theory of value. It examines how to interpret the Marxist concepts of the rate of profit and fictitious capital when analysing the financial sector, showing how accounting terms such as 'return on equity' and 'leverage' can also be understood in this context. The analysis argues that the capitalist system's rate of profit should be conceptualised in a way that includes finance, but that one should not mix up the accumulation of financial assets with the accumulation of advanced capital. While the costs of finance are negative for the system's average rate of profit, the paper concludes by noting how this is not inconsistent with financial operations being very profitable for imperialist powers that can use the financial system to appropriate surplus value from elsewhere in the global economy.
Contradictions: Finance, Greed, and Labor Unequally Paid
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This paper aims to present the salient features of Smith's argument of the falling rate of profit. This theory has usually been interpreted as a result of the…
This paper aims to present the salient features of Smith's argument of the falling rate of profit. This theory has usually been interpreted as a result of the intensification of competition in the markets of goods and services of the factors of production. This aspect of Adam Smith had been initially posed by Ricardo and subsequently was widely adopted by the major economists of the past as well as from the majority of the modern historians of economic thought.
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This paper reviews the major interpretation of the argument from Ricardo and Marx as well as from major historians of economic thought, and then attempts to reconstruct Smith's argument, which is scattered throughout the Wealth of Nations. The authors present some indirect empirical evidence based on the evolution of interest rates on annuities lending support to Smith's insights of the falling rate of profit.
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Warren J. Samuels's Notes from Martin Bronfenbrenner's Course in Distribution of Income, University of Wisconsin, Fall 1954
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Allyn Young′s lectures, as recorded by the young Nicholas Kaldor,survey the historical roots of the subject from Aristotle through to themodern neo‐classical writers. The…
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Allyn Young′s lectures, as recorded by the young Nicholas Kaldor, survey the historical roots of the subject from Aristotle through to the modern neo‐classical writers. The focus throughout is on the conditions making for economic progress, with stress on the institutional developments that extend and are extended by the size of the market. Organisational changes that promote the division of labour and specialisation within and between firms and industries, and which promote competition and mobility, are seen as the vital factors in growth. In the absence of new markets, inventions as such play only a minor role. The economic system is an inter‐related whole, or a living "organon". It is from this perspective that micro‐economic relations are analysed, and this helps expose certain fallacies of composition associated with the marginal productivity theory of production and distribution. Factors are paid not because they are productive but because they are scarce. Likewise he shows why Marshallian supply and demand schedules, based on the "one thing at a time" approach, cannot adequately describe the dynamic growth properties of the system. Supply and demand cannot be simply integrated to arrive at a picture of the whole economy. These notes are complemented by eleven articles in the Encyclopaedia Britannica which were published shortly after Young′s sudden death in 1929.
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From time to time we have had occasion to refer to earnings per share in terms of the new 'imputation' system of company taxation. This is a somewhat complex system and we…
From time to time we have had occasion to refer to earnings per share in terms of the new 'imputation' system of company taxation. This is a somewhat complex system and we have asked our Financial Correspondent to explain in some detail what is involved. In attempting an explanation, he has found it useful to compare the present system not only, as others have done, with the preceding corporation tax system inaugurated by Mr Callaghan in his 1965 Budget, but also with the earlier profits‐cum‐ income tax system. There are of course many other systems of company taxation, but for purposes of explanation a comparison of the three systems — profits‐plus‐income tax, the Callaghan‐type corporation tax, and the imputation system—is sufficient.
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Democratic Enterprise: A Policy Proposal for the Labour Movement
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International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, vol. 3 no. 1/2
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From 'Pool of Profits' to Surplus and Deficit Industries: Archival Evidence on the Evolution of Piero Sraffa's Thought
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Research in Political Economy
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