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Q: Using GitLabCI with C# I've been working on a C# application and wanted to try the GitLab CI out. All I can see is Ruby and can't find any information on how to build a C# application using it.
When I run the test settings, I make the commit, but I don't have my build.

How should I make a simple build? Which command could I use for that? I don't mind if I get a failed build (but a build).

A: Here my working .gitlab-ci.yml file for c# application with NUnit as unit test framework and mono as basic image.
Not very fancy but working:
image: mono:latest

stages:
    - build
    - test

variables:
    solution: "Project.sln"
    test: "Project.Test"

before_script:
    - nuget restore

build:
    stage: build
    script:
        - msbuild /p:Configuration=Release $solution

test:
    stage: test
    script:
        - msbuild /p:Configuration=Release $solution
        - mono ./packages/NUnit.ConsoleRunner.3.10.0/tools/nunit3-console.exe ./$test/bin/Release/$test.dll

A: I just wanted to share my .gitlab-ci.yml complete with unit testing. You will have to adjust your nuget and possibly other paths. This is for a single project in a solution of the same name.
variables:
  PROJECT_NAME: "ProjectNameGoesHere"
before_script:
  - echo "starting build for %PROJECT_NAME%"
  - echo "Restoring NuGet Packages..."
  - d:\tools\nuget restore "%PROJECT_NAME%.sln"
stages:
  - build
  - test
build:
  stage: build
  script:
  - echo "Release build..."
  - '"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe" /consoleloggerparameters:ErrorsOnly /maxcpucount /nologo /property:Configuration=Release /verbosity:quiet "%PROJECT_NAME%.sln"'
  artifacts:
    untracked: true
test:
  stage: test
  script:
  - echo "starting tests"
  - cd %PROJECT_NAME%Tests/bin/Release
  - '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe" /testcontainer:%PROJECT_NAME%Tests.dll'
  dependencies:
  - build

A: In order to build a C# application you should have a Windows runner (with shell executor) configured for a project in GitLab CI.
Your .gitlab-ci.yml file should look something like that:
stages:
  - build

job:
  stage: build
  script:
  - echo "Restoring NuGet Packages..."
  - '"c:\nuget\nuget.exe" restore "MySolution.sln"'
  - ''
  - echo "Release build..."
  - C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe /consoleloggerparameters:ErrorsOnly /maxcpucount /nologo /property:Configuration=Release /verbosity:quiet "MySolution.sln"
  tags:
  except:
  - tags

On a Windows machine you need the following tools:

*

*Runner installed

*Git, added to PATH

*Latest nuget.exe at C:\nuget (or somewhere else. Just make sure you got the path right in the .gitlab-ci.yml file)

A: The other answers are good. But I'd like to explain how to install a runner in addition. I use my own local system (Windows), so I chose to run shell. But you could use a Docker image if you'd like.
cd C:\Multi-Runner
gitlab-ci-multi-runner register

Please enter the gitlab-ci coordinator URL (e.g. https://gitlab.com )
https://gitlab.com
Please enter the gitlab-ci token for this runner
xxx
Please enter the gitlab-ci description for this runner
my-runner
INFO[0034] fcf5c619 Registering runner... succeeded
Please enter the executor: shell, docker, docker-ssh, ssh?
shell
INFO[0037] Runner registered successfully. Feel free to start it, but if it's
running already the config should be automatically reloaded!

Source: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/blob/master/docs/install/windows.md
Afterwards, you can use a YAML file a like this:
stages:
    - build
job:
    stage: build
    script: '"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe" "something.sln"'

A: Installing the build runner on a Windows machine helps a lot, and @prasanth-louis has a great example on how to do that.
As for the .gitlab-ci.yml file, you can simplify it even more by using Cake Build:
stages:
    - build
build:
    stage: build
    script:
        - .\build.ps1 -Target Build
    tags:
        - windows

And your build.cake file can look like this (based of the example repository):
#tool nuget:?package=NUnit.ConsoleRunner&version=3.4.0

var target = Argument("target", "Default");
var configuration = Argument("configuration", "Release");

var solution = "./example-project.sln";
var buildDir = Directory("./example-project/bin");

Task("Default")
    .IsDependentOn("Unit-Tests")
    .Does(() =>
{
    Information("Running Default task!");
});

Task("Clean")
    .Does(() =>
{
    CleanDirectory(buildDir);
});

Task("PackageRestore")
    .IsDependentOn("Clean")
    .Does(() =>
{
    Information("Restoring NuGet packages for {0}", solution);
    NuGetRestore(solution);
});

Task("Build")
    .IsDependentOn("PackageRestore")
    .Does(() =>
{
    Information("Restoring NuGet packages for {0}", solution);
    MSBuild(solution, settings => settings.SetConfiguration(configuration));
});

Task("Unit-Tests")
    .IsDependentOn("Build")
    .Does(() =>
{
    NUnit3("./example-project.Tests/**/bin/" + configuration + "/*.Tests.dll");
});

Task("Publish")
    .Does(() =>
{

});

RunTarget(target);

A: The other answers, while informative, miss a few crucial bits of info:

*

*If you are targetting .net core 3.1, .net 5, .net 6 or any newer version then you can build and run your app on linux

*If you are targetting .net framework (4.8 or below) then you have to build and run your code on a windows machine.

Now Gitlab runs build jobs using runners (aka build agents), that in turn use executors to specifiy the environment in which the build process happens. Runners can run on the Gitlab infrastructure (Saas runners), or can be installed on premise. There are several types of executors: docker, shell, custom, ...
Most of the gitlab build scripts that can be found around the internet assume a saas runner with a docker executor running on linux, which is based on a specific docker image. This won't work if you want to build your app on windows. For this, either install your own executor, as several other answers instruct to do, or use a windows saas runner which, although in beta, works fine even for production (we have been doing this for months without trouble). While installing your own runner can be useful, e.g. for debugging purposes, I find this defeats the whole purpose of building your software on a hosted cicd platform (github actions, gitlab ci, ...). For debugging, I prefer to base my build script on shell commands which can be run on your local dev box, which minimizes trial and error and makes installing your own runner superfluous.
To get started with a windows runner, see this exemple script. One or two gotchas that I went through:

*

*You cannot choose the VM image of the build machine, it is managed by Gitlab and its content is not documented. This leaves you vulnerable to breaking changes if they decide to change their image.

*Strangely, at the time of writing, the .net framework 4.8 developer pack is not installed on the windows executor image, but luckily chocolatey is, so if you target net48 you must install it in your before_script section.

*The provisionning of the build machine is somewhat slower than a linux maching running docker, our builds average 15mn which we find acceptable.

That being said, here is a trimmed example based on our build scripts:
variables:
  MSBUILD_EXE: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\bin\msbuild.exe'
  UPDATE_VERSION: '.\path\to\Update-Version.ps1'
  APP_FOLDER: '.\path\to\Artifacts\_PublishedWebsites\MyApp\'

.windows_build_base:
  tags:
    - shared-windows
    - windows
    - windows-1809
  before_script:
    - Set-Variable -Name "time" -Value (date -Format "%H:%m")
    - echo ${time}
    - echo "started by ${GITLAB_USER_NAME}"
    - echo ".NET versions already installed"
    - Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*", "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*"
      | Where {$_.DisplayName -like '*.NET*' -and $_.DisplayVersion -like '4.*'}
      | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion
    - echo "Installing .NET 4.8 Developer Pack"
    - choco install netfx-4.8-devpack -y

stages:
  - build
  - publish

build:
  only:
   - prod
   - test
  extends:
    - .windows_build_base
  stage: build
  script:
    - nuget restore
    - '& "${UPDATE_VERSION}" -srcDir . | Set-Variable -Name VERSION' # capture output of UPDATE_PRODUCTINFO script in variable VERSION
    - echo "VERSION=${VERSION}"
    - Add-Content -Path app_version.env -Value "VERSION=${VERSION}" # store value of VERSION in dotenv file to be passed to dependent stages, as per this workaround https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/212629#note_430278657
    - Get-Content app_version.env
    - '& "${MSBUILD_EXE}" /t:solution_path\to\MyApp /p:Configuration=Release /clp:Summary /verbosity:Minimal /p:OutDir=.\Artifacts'
  artifacts:
    expire_in: 1 day
    paths:
      - '${APP_FOLDER}'
    reports:
      dotenv: app_version.env

publish:
   only:
   - prod
   - test
   image:
     name: octopusdeploy/octo
     entrypoint: [""]
   stage: publish
   dependencies:
    - build
   script:
     - echo "VERSION=$VERSION"
     - octo pack --id="MyApp" --format="zip" --version="$VERSION" --basePath="path/to/Artifacts/_PublishedWebsites/MyApp" --outFolder="/output/"
     - octo push --overwrite-mode="OverwriteExisting" --server="https://mycompany.octopus.app" --space "MyOctoSpace" --package="/output/MyApp.$VERSION.zip"

This script:

*

*Installs .net 4.8 dev pack

*Restores nuget packages

*Manually updates the software version and passes it between the build and publish stages

*Builds the app

*Packs and pushes it to octopus deploy

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Q: Using Images.xcassets in Xcode 6 beta I have a project where I use Images.xcassets to organize my image resources. After update to Xcode 6 beta no image is displayed when the application runs. It looks like Xcode can't find path.
I found a temporary solution – old way:

*

*Add folder with images to the project tree

*Use initialization like [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"]

So, what's wrong with xcassets in Xcode 6?

A: Try removing the .png suffix of the image.
Just the image name is enough

A: That is Xcode6-Beta bug.
I use it normally in Xcode5.
goog luck


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Livelife
About Livelife
Bristol South Gloucestershire
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Livelife replied to istari's topic in Meet & Greet
Hello and welcome to the forum Unfortunately it takes a long time to get a diagnosis but you will be understood by people here as a lot have been in the same position as yourself. Sure you will make contact with others for support
Livelife started following Yet another Aspie-friendly software testing company and Hi July 30, 2015
Aspergers & Relationships
Livelife replied to pola y dobie's topic in Resources
You say your unable to drive have you ever taken any lessons?
That's a good statement how do you manage coping that's something I've never managed to define in any meaningful way. Being unemployed is their fault society's fault because they won't let us work its that simple so we haven't failed in the meaning of the word because we are not given the opportunity to do any work because we are different. It's discrimination the same as any other minority group. Nobody can fail because of how your born that's not our fault so how much can be classed as failure I am not sure how to measure that either. I try to think this way if you won the lottery could you live on your own getting what you needed when you need it. That includes any help with cooking etc so if you could then it's only the lack of money that's stopping us so that's no different to anybody else poverty is the real restriction not ability because things can be adapted with funding. With the government taking what little we have who is really to blame who is at fault us for being born or society not excepting us and taking our money so we can't be independent it's hard to define but in general I think it's what's put upon us rather than personal abilities.
Supported living?
Livelife replied to MiddleEarthNet's topic in Beyond Adolescence
You have a companion who is honest and only needs the basics food warmth and care if they get that they are happy and loyal. Then there are people and most should be ashamed of themselves for what they do you have made the right choice.
That's something that we have to get used to people always treat us that way and think we shouldn't have anything if it means we have a quality of life or something we actually enjoy. People like that should be sacked for mental cruelty and abuse of vulnerable people in their care. But we have no valid opinions because we are autistic, I have always tried to be fair but the abandonment lack of support and general abuse of my condition has proved you can't trust anybody I thought you could but I have been proved wrong.
Just diagnosed. many questions about aspergers and alcoholism
Livelife replied to Mark123's topic in Meet & Greet
Is there anybody local to you that you could get support from, have you spoken to your doctor about this.
Yet another Aspie-friendly software testing company
Livelife replied to Aeolienne's topic in Beyond Adolescence
I have tried to access these services but because I live just outside the Bristol Boundaries I am not allowed to attend the Bristol group. The one I am supposed to attend is in Yate and that is a minimum of two buses and approximately a two hour bus trip so combined that will mean at least four hours travelling on public transport. That with the meeting will be a whole day and I have problems using public transport alone especially in the busy periods so getting there is not feasible. I have spoken to one of the social workers there and they don't visit people so I would have to get there myself which I can't do. I could be given an assessment for an adult social worker but have been told because there is no financial support only the very worst cases are going to get help. He could put me in for an assessment but because I am not one of the worse cases it's very unlikeliest I will be helped. I live with my mother and partner who assist in ways that keep me homed and deal with my finances so that apparently does not make me worthy of help. My partner and mother are both physically disabled and can't travel for such a long time to come with me to the centre. I can take the bus if it's very few people which isn't often but if it gets busy people a Lot around or they sit next to you I have to get off the bus wherever I am and walk to my destination. It's about nine miles to Yate from where I live and it's too great a distance to walk to and home again so I can not get any help, how can having to use two buses and a four hour trip alone be helping somebody with autism.
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Autistic and Bipolar Comorbidity
Livelife replied to Special_talent123's topic in ASD Related Conditions
The link isn't active it defaults to an error message.
Without support why bother testing people, it's false hope if you are autistic looking for support after a diagnosis then to be told sorry there is no support. Where are we supposed to go or do what is beyond the capability of an autistic person, it's no surprise there are so many depressed people turning to alcohol and drugs just to get through the day some even commit suicide who cares for these people.
Pushing for Diagnosis
Livelife replied to Tomar's topic in General Discussion
That's the same as any service these days it's being slowly decimated so eventually it will not be fit for purpose. They say be reasonable but that means waiting endlessly like you say with no communication on progress.
One word association
Livelife replied to amberzak's topic in Off Topic
I don't think you need to feel guilty about receiving the appropriate treatment and diagnosis. It's honourable that your concerned about others in a similar situation and you could write to your MP or local health authority about your concerns and create your own support group if you felt able.
There appears to be a lot of organisations that are testing for autism but very few helping people with their lives after the diagnosis is that because it's cheaper to diagnose it than help people live their lives with it because they may need support and that costs money.
Is bipolar regularly associated with being autistic. How do they define the difference within typical traits of the autistic person.

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Apple announces NTT DoCoMo version of iPad coming to Japan June 10th
Mike Beasley
- May. 27th 2014 11:16 pm PT
@MikeBeas
An Apple press release published today announced the impending availability of the iPad on Japan's NTT DoCoMo carrier. According to the release, both the iPad Air and iPad mini will be available on the largest Japanese carrier on June 10th. The carrier has supported the iPhone since late 2013.
Both tablets will work with the DoCoMo LTE network. The company's iPad LTE plans are already listed on its website, though you won't actually be able to buy the device just yet. Both models will be available for pre-purchase on June 2nd, the same day Apple will be kicking off its Worldwide Developers Conference.
NTT DOCOMO & Apple to Offer iPad in Japan Starting on Tuesday, June 10
TOKYO and CUPERTINO, California—May 28, 2014—NTT DOCOMO and Apple® today announced that iPad Air™ and iPad mini™ with Retina® display will be available on the DOCOMO network beginning on Tuesday, June 10. iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display offer the power and capability of the A7 chip, advanced graphics on a Retina display, and high-speed LTE performance,¹ making everything you do faster and better, all while delivering all-day battery life.²
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Announcing The 44 for 44 Challenge | Fashion. Style. Beauty. | Life is short. Live well.
The photo above was taken when I was home in Charleston over the holidays. It's a set of stairs at a place I've always loved, a place of wonder when I was a child. It's a grand building that used to house a planetarium within its bowels, and I have many amazing memories of sitting in the dark, staring up at the projected stars and planets and dreaming about my future.
I'd tell you where we took the photo, but I'm not exactly sure it's okay that we were there, even though we were only there for three minutes. But it made me think about how many dreams I dreamt for myself in that spot, and as the moss grows up the stairs and the foundation crumbles ever so slightly, how time passes on with and/or without some of those visions coming true.
I will turn 44 years old this year. That number seems slightly crazy to me (I certainly don't feel that old,) but it's made me aware of the fact that it's time to dream some new dreams and set some new goals. At the end of 2015, I'd love to look back at my life and think, "WOW, what a year!" I want to challenge myself, but I also want to make sure the list isn't entirely about me; I'd get sick of myself, as anyone would with 365 days of navel gazing.
And so, here is my list of the things I want to accomplish by December 31, 2015. I'm calling it the 44 for 44 Challenge.
I know, it seems slightly crazy, but it's totally doable if I put myself first. Which is kind of the genius of doing something like this.
I'm also trying to learn how to shoot video, so while they'll be incredibly amateur, I think it might be fun to document some of them in video. I will commit, however, to reporting in once a week on accomplishing at least one of these with at least a photo or three of accomplishing the task.
Outfit Details: James Perse Sweatshirt, Express Mid-Rise Legging Jeans, Topshop "Frilla" oxfords, Ray Ban Aviator Sunglasses. All clothes are my own.
Photographed by Megan Dailey in Charleston, WV, on December 27, 2015. All rights reserved.


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Men's Retreat 2019 is a three day adventure in our local mountains at an epic new location! Cost is reduced this year and all in one weekend you can join friends to do the zipline, climbing wall, play sand volleyball, tennis, indoor basketball, visit the games arcade, go canoeing, mountain biking, or trail running, and new to this year will be the Manly Games! And … BEDS!!! All that combined with the same optional Friday golf, awesome worship, teaching and bro-time makes for a pretty all-time weekend! Our theme this year is "Resolve" taken from Proverbs 1:23.
A yearly retreat is a vital tool to our spiritual lives as men so make sure to join us!
Questions? Contact Pastor Clarke Brogger.
7:00 a.m. Meet at Quail Hill basketball courts.
Contact Steve Whitson with questions, or for additional info.
February 27, March 27, 6:15-7:30 a.m.
For all men in their 20's and 30's. Come for the donuts, stay for the bro-time. Monthly Wednesday mornings in the Fireside Room at Voyagers.
Contact Pastor Clarke with any questions.
These groups are designed to help bring you into a closer, trusting relationship with Jesus and to equip you to fulfill God's plan for your life. To join a group, contact Chuck McCutchan.
It's definitely worth the early-morning effort! You'll find yourself encouraged and challenged to be the man God has called you to be as you're led by Pete McKenzie and the Influencers team. Free coffee and donuts are offered, and optional prayer begins at 6:00am. Contact Pastor Clarke Brogger, or go to the Influencers page.
FAST | Monday, January 21 kick-off! Fathers and Sons Together – for all dads and their sons aged 6th grade and above. Join us for an informational meeting, Sunday, February 10, 12:15 p.m. in the Fireside Room. There will be PIZZA! Meet with others of the same life stage and walk through the responsibility of "dad-ship" together. Questions? Contact Pastor Clarke Brogger.
Great basketball, good, clean, competitive fun – what's not to like? All skill levels are invited. Contact Peter Torrey for details, or just show up ready to play.


ALFRETON Town tried their hardest against high-flying Kidderminster Harriers on Saturday, but ultimately conceded their third Blue Square Bet Premier double of the season.
High winds at the Impact Arena certainly did not help the Reds' cause, particularly in a difficult first half when keeper Dan Lowson's kicks scarcely reached the halfway line, but the turning point of the game was undoubtedly a red card received by Louis Moult on his home debut in first half added time.
It was a rash challenge on Kyle Storer on the half-way line that prompted the referee to interpret the tackle as dangerous, but Alfreton never let their heads drop and they deserved at the very least a draw for their endeavours and did not concede the first goal until stoppage time.
Central defender Adam Quinn returned after recovering from a calf strain but the Reds were without Anton Brown who was suffering with 'flu.
After a slow start to the game a good crossfield pass from Storer in the seventh minute set Kidderminster up for their first attack but James McQuilkin ran the ball out on the right, then in response Josh Law curled a shot over after Reds' pressure from their first corner.
A 14th minute effort from Storer took an awkward deflection but was well held by Lowson, then Lee Hendrie's strong drive was particularly well dealt with again by the Reds' keeper.
Luke Jones was the next Harrier to try and take advantage of the conditions, but his 18th minute shot from 20 yards was diverted behind for a corner, then as Alfreton finally found some space Kidderminster keeper Tony Breeden hacked clear as Nathan Arnold closed in.
Nick Wright fired hopelessly high and wide from a good position, then Hendrie's low drive looped up off Adam Quinn for another corner for the visitors, then on the half hour mark Louis Moult sent Arnold away down the right but the end product was a shot into the side-netting.
Dan Bradley was the next Harriers' player to miss the target by some distance, then Louis Moult drove the ball hard and low through the six-yard box but no-one managed to make contact in the target area.
Another good save by Lowson thwarted Wright in the 35th minute, turning his low drive around the post, then Jamie Mullan won a corner for Alfreton after taking a swift return pass from Arnold and sprinting down the right flank.
Reduced to ten men for the second half the Reds at least had the wind at their backs and were able to make their presence felt, but Jake Moult's 50th minute shot from 16 yards following a Connor Franklin throw was comfortably held by Breeden.
A powerful header by Michael Williams from McQuilkin's 55th minute corner was defiantly tipped over at full stretch by Lowson when the opening goal looked inevitable, then Jamille Matt wasted a good chance by only troubling the side-netting.
Lowson easily saved Bradley's weak 62nd minute header, then Stephen Guinan's lob was only just over the bar from Matt's pull-back.
Nathan Jarman's 67th minute header was cleared from almost on the line by Williams, then three minutes later Mullan jinked inside before seeing his curling shot again cleared by Williams.
Lowson held a deflected shot from Wright on 74 minutes, then a vital tackle back by Theo Streete halted Hendrie's progress from a huge clearance by Breeden.
Bizarrely the game's first off-side decision in the 89th minute prevented Wright from breaking the deadlock, but just as stoppage time began Kidderminster struck a deadly blow when Anthony Malbon swept Bradley's cross past Lowson from 10 yards to open the scoring on his Harriers' debut.
Reds boss Nicky Law threw Paul Clayton and Anthony Wilson into the mix, but with three strikers pushing forward the inevitable counter-attack occurred in the fourth minute of added time with Callum Gittings and Guinan setting up Matt for a simple second goal.
Dan Lowson, Josh Law, Adam Quinn, Greg Young, Connor Franklin, Jamie Mullan, Jake Moult (Anthony Wilson 90+3), Theo Streete, Nathan Arnold (Paul Clayton 90+3), Louis Moult, Nathan Jarman.
Tony Breedon, Thomas Sharpe (Anthony Malbon 76), Michael Williams, Luke Jones, Michael Demetriou, Daniel Bradley, Kyle Storer, Lee Hendrie (Callum Gittings 86), James McQuilkin (Steve Guinan 61), Jamille Matt, Nicholas Wright.
Substitutes not used: Michael Briscoe, Dean Lyness (GK).
Goals: Kidderminster Harriers - Anthony Malbon (90+2), Jamille Matt (90+4).
Alfreton Town - Josh Law, Connor Franklin, Theo Streete, Jamie Mullan.
Kidderminster Harriers - thomas Sharpe, Kyle Storer, Lee Hendrie.


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As eleições estaduais nas Alagoas em 2022 foram realizadas em 2 de outubro, em primeiro turno, e, caso necessário, em 30 de outubro, em segundo turno, como parte das eleições gerais no Brasil. Os eleitores aptos a votar foram eleger o Presidente e Vice-Presidente da República, Governador e Vice-Governador do Estado e um Senador da República com dois suplentes, além de 9 Deputados Federais e 27 Deputados Estaduais. Os eleitos tomaram posse em 1° de janeiro (Presidente, Governador e respectivos vices) ou 1º de fevereiro (senador e deputados) de 2023 para mandatos com duração de 4 anos (salvo no caso do senador, que terá mandato de 8 anos).

O governador e o vice-governadores eleitos nesta eleição exercerão um mandato alguns dias mais longo. Isso ocorre devido a Emenda Constitucional n° 111, que alterou a Constituição e estipulou que o mandato dos governadores dos Estados e do Distrito Federal deverá ser iniciado em 06 de janeiro após a eleição. Entretanto, os candidatos eleitos nesta eleição assumem dia 1º de janeiro de 2023 e entregam o cargo no dia 06 de janeiro de 2027.

O atual governador do estado é Paulo Dantas, eleito de forma indireta pela Assembleia Legislativa para um mandato tampão em 15 de maio de 2022. O cargo ficou vago após a renúncia de Renan Filho para disputar o Senado Federal e o estado não ter vice-governador, já que Luciano Barbosa renunciara para assumir a Prefeitura de Arapiraca em 2021. Além disso, o presidente da Assembleia Legislativa, que deveria assumir pela linha sucessória, se absteve já que assumir o executivo o impediria de se reeleger como deputado nas eleições de 2022. Klever Loureiro, presidente do Tribunal de Justiça de Alagoas, assumiu como governador interino no período entre a renúncia de Renan Filho e a eleição indireta de Paulo Dantas.

Para a eleição ao Senado Federal, esteve em disputa a vaga ocupada por Fernando Collor de Mello, do PTB, reeleito em 2014.

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As convenções partidárias iniciaram-se no dia 20 de julho, se estendendo até 5 de agosto. Os seguintes partidos políticos já confirmaram suas candidaturas. Os partidos políticos tiveram até 15 de agosto de 2022 para registrar formalmente os seus candidatos.

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As convenções partidárias iniciaram-se no dia 20 de julho, se estendendo até 5 de agosto. Os seguintes partidos políticos já confirmaram suas candidaturas. Os partidos políticos tiveram até 15 de agosto de 2022 para registrar formalmente os seus candidatos.

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Go: New works from "Fantastic Five" young Jax artists
Matthew Shaw
What a time to be young person. While novelty is a conventional part of growing up, the world that today's youth are tasked with navigating is truly without precedent. As humanity limps through an open-ended global pandemic and a dire economic fallout, all while reckoning with this country's long history of racial injustice, young people have, largely, been forced to the frontlines, obliged to rectify the mistakes–the negligence, the failures–of previous generations.
Add climate change, unabated income inequality, and the potential collapse of Western Democracy to the laundry list of ailments that they'll need to remedy. Meanwhile, to lead them through this formative period of their lives, the 2020 presidential election offers them a choice between two subtuagenarians.
What's a young person to make of all this?
A group show featuring the works of five emerging local artists provides an aesthetically interesting window into that question. Curated by artist and arts educator Dustin Harewood, the "Fantastic Five"–made up of artists Victor Ali, Alison Fernandez, Katrina Fernandez, Connor Poovey, and Kenny Wilson–will exhibit a diverse and powerful commentary, each through their own unique lens. Broaching a range of issues, both interior (socio-emotional struggles, harmful racial stereotypes) and exterior (environmental degradation, our increasingly fraught relationship with technology), the works on display in the "Fantastic Five"– a collection of drawing, painting, printmaking, assemblage, and mixed media pieces–are a distinctive look at a world turned upside down; or perhaps, in the eyes of these artists, right side up.
Taken as a whole, the show highlights a talented and dedicated group of artists with limitless potential. Harewood–the show's curator–calls the work "new, fresh, and fun."
"These are five talented creatives who in my opinion are flying below the radar here in Jacksonville. They are serious young artists who deserve to be seen," says Harewood, who, aside from being one of the area's most well-known and well-loved artists, is one the Jax's most influential.
"Is going to college necessary for becoming a successful artist? Absolutely not, but there is something to be said for those who dedicate and invest four plus years of money into studying and studio practice–"for those who take their talent seriously, invest and pay the price," he says of the group–all of whom are recent graduates of art programs at Northeast Florida universities.
The "Fantastic Five" opens at the newly renovated Burrito Gallery at 21 W Adams St. (downtown Jax) on Tuesday, Sep. 8. The works, as well as the perspectives of these young creatives, are certainly worth your time.
Tags: art, burrito gallery, Dustin Harewood, Fantastic Five
Matthew Shaw is The Editor-in-Chief of Void Magazine. A former editor of Folio Weekly, he's contributed feature stories to The Surfers Journal and Surfer Magazine and has covered national stories for the New York Times. He lives in Atlantic Beach.
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So, I would like to build something from an Arduino that will work with the sketch that you have provided. I have Arduino Nanos. I understand that I should use capture pin 8. Should I use an OPL-551 for this or something else. If not an OPL-551, what part do you suggest to work with your sketch? Thanks.
Does the "MikeT" Arduino solution actually count the raw pulses? Or is it yet another demod pulse width solution? I don't consider anything that is extracting timing from a demod, particularly accurate.
There are IR protocols, that are carrier-less, that cannot be captured at all using demod timing. On the other hand, the Widget, even though it counts pulses, can't handle carrier-less IR protocols, since it makes some implicit assumptions that are only true if there's a carrier.
Demod schemes also fail with 455 KHz IR carriers unless the demod is specifically designed for that frequency. I believe the Widget pulse counting scheme barely works with 455 KHz carriers.
Perhaps this MikeT Arduino solution is the cat's meow, even if a bit of overkill?
I had no problem purchasing an IR Toy, but maybe I was lucky?
MikeT reported his approach(es) here.
Hi Barf, I tried the receiver and sender sketches yesterday and it worked. I could receive, decode and correctly send codes. No hangs whatsoever. The other sketches I didn't try as they do not seem relevant at the moment: the girs is not yet documened and there seems not even to exist a possibility to select the girs in the GUI; the IrWidget is receiver only.
However, one problem exists: I noticed that it takes very long (1 min) to open the port on configure hardware tabs of the GUI. Apparently the IrScrutinizer waits for a certain string to be returned and which is not sent by the sketches. I could not identify this string by a quick look into the sources of the IrScrutinizer. Would you please clarify on this point? Thanks a lot!
Kewl. Yes it is pit 8 in Nano/Uno (pin 4 on Leonardo/Micro, pin 49 on Mega2560). For sending, uses pin 3 on Nano/Uno, pin 9 on Leonardo/Micro/Mega2560.
Does the "MikeT" Arduino solution actually count the raw pulses? Or is it yet another demod pulse width solution?
See his own words in the thread 3FG linked. Basically, a timer is configured so the all the edges are registered, with high precision. MikeT's software has three modes: In raw mode, it sends all this data to the host. This requires too much space on e.g. an Uno to capure e.g. a NEC1. (Fine on a Mega though.) So there is also an "aggregating mode" which lumps them together into busts, while collecting pertinent parameters. This is what is used in the IrScrutinizer.
I also got mine (two actually) within a day or two from the German firm i linked to. Do not get me wrong: I would love if the 'toy was to be had easily. Nice price, the right sensors and LED, open source and open hardware, possibility to write your own firmware. That is great! Just too bad if it has to be ordered from Asia, and is out of stock "often".
Nice. But what "other sketches"? There should be only GirsLite, Did some unintended junk slip through my packaging?
However, one problem exists: I noticed that it takes very long (1 min) to open the port on configure hardware tabs of the GUI. Apparently the IrScrutinizer waits for a certain string to be returned and which is not sent by the sketches. I could not identify this string by a quick look into the sources of the IrScrutinizer.
Try this: In the device mangager, check if there are "junk" entries under serial connections (COM) etc. Often, Bluetooth, ISDN, cell phone stuff, etc creates their own virtual serial ports there, since they believe that the user needs it. Try to delete all junk virtual ports there. I believe that RXTX (the java communication library) needs a lot of time listing the available serial devices in the presence of more-or-less functional pseudo-devices. (I did this on my windows 7 laptop, and the startup time went down from some 20 seconds just to a few seconds, just like on Linux).
You can also turn on the opion "verbose" in the options menu, that will give you some hint on what is going on, and may help debugging weird delays.
BTW, I should say that I have made quite some changes to MikeT's firmware, in particular refacturing the class structure. These changes have not been blessed (nor criticized) by him. Bugs etc are thus possibly introduced by me.
I could identify the GirsLite and the IrWidget_Atmega328 sketches in the Arduino folder:). For the GirsLite I don't even know how to set it to use in the IrScrutinizer. But don't worry about it. It's not a problem.
You can also turn on the option "verbose" in the options menu, that will give you some hint on what is going on, and may help debugging weird delays.
Nope, the ports real or virtual are not the problem. It is really the IrScrutinizer software which thinks that something needs to be received. I get "zero bytes returned" error after the 1min timeout (probably an exception thrown in your java code). Moreover, I see that the IrScrutinizer sends "\r" and waits for something when I use a Serial Monitor soft. Note that I see "\r" in both receiver and send modes. Could you please have a closer look on the things here?
It is a problem. I just checked the setup-distribution, the binary dirstribution, and the source distributions (for 1.1.0). There is simply not an IrWidget_* there.
At least presenlty, an IrScrutinizer version supports only the sketch that comes with it; for 1.1.0 it is called GirsLite, version ArduinoGirsLite 2014-06-07.
You appear to be using a firmware that I do not even know exactly what it contains. Please flash the supported firmware, as per above, first.
You are right. The other sketches must be from a previous version. I reinstalled the software from the scratch and I don't see the other sketches anymore. However, you can believe me, your 1.1.0 version worked just fine with the send and receive sketches from the previous version. I will try to flash the girslite sketch onto arduino and report then. I assume that I will still have to select arduino in the GUI in order to communicate with the hardware? Thank you!
Thank you very much. That was very helpful. Now to build it!
While I see the basic utility of MikeT's Arduino scheme, I think it has some decided disadvantages. It would seem to be time limited when compared to the Widget, which can capture IR macro sequences of essentially unlimited length. I personally have need to be able to capture very long macro sequences (~20 sec). Additionally, there are air conditioning units that send very long IR sequences that I suspect would not be capturable with MikeT's Arduino scheme.
Given the 3 options, Widget, IR Toy, Arduino, I see pluses and minuses for each. The Widget's overwhelming plus, is that it is a finished product that is ready to use right out of the box. There is no exposed circuit board to scare the crap out of hardware phobes. IR Toy and Arduino both suffer in comparison, as neither one is even slightly friendly to those not comfortable with using unfinished hardware products.
I should point out that the bulk of the people on this forum, would be entirely incapable of dealing with the IR Toy, much less MikeT's Arduino scheme, which is in a whole 'nother galaxy.
The main thing that MikeT's Arduino has going for it, is that given a user that is not afraid of unfinished hardware, it offers many opportunities for modifications. Especially given the widespread availability of Arduinos. I don't see that it is overwhelmingly superior to the Widget in technical capabilities. Neither can deal with carrier-less protocols. The Widget can (barely) work with 455 KHz IR protocols, where the Arduino cannot.
IR Toy on the other hand, isn't quite as readily available. I had difficulty ordering mine from SeedStudio (in China) because my credit card was consistently being refused authorization. Something to do with it being an out of country purchase, but I was eventually able to purchase the IR Toy using PayPal.
I assume that I will still have to select arduino in the GUI in order to communicate with the hardware? Thank you!
IrScrutinizer saves the last selected capturing (and sending) hardware to the preferences. However, it does not try to open it when it starts again, because I think that would have more potential problems than benefits, for example if the hardware is no longer present.
Good luck. Would be nice if you report your progress.
when trying to capture something I fail to do so. I changed the capture pin to port D and input 2 and recompiled the sketch (D2 is my previous hw config which worked with IrRemote routines).
in IrWidget.h. (My stuff, do not blame MikeT.) That are all the things configurable. BTW, I would never hard code anything like that without any good technological reason.
BTW, what hardware are you using?
I will certainly report my progress, maybe with pictures.
One thing I thought of, is both transmit and receive hardware required to work with your sketch? I noticed that you have both and I'm only interested in the receive part of it. Thanks.
The said sketch supports sending and capturing (I prefer to say "capturing" instead of "receiving" to distinguish from demodulating receive). If sending (capturing) hardware fails, only sending (capturing) will be non-functional.
Next time I order parts, I might get the sending parts. But I already have the capturing parts, so I thought I'd try with that. I just wanted to make sure that the lack of sending parts wouldn't cause it to fail. But you're right, I might as well put in the sending parts.


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To gather insights on the state of artificial intelligence (AI), and all of its sub-segments — machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), deep learning (DL), robotic process automation (RPA), regression, et al — we talked to 21 executives who are implementing AI in their own organization and helping others understand how AI can help their business. We began by asking, "What are the technical solutions (languages, tools, frameworks) you or your clients are using for A.I. initiatives?" Here's what they told us:
We pride ourselves on flexibility and try not to pin ourselves to any one technology around A.I. Depending on the problem, we might use Python (pandas, SciKit-learn, Anaconda, TensorFlow, Pytorch), R, WEKA, GoLang, or even Excel to build and analyze models. We focus on the science, not the frameworks to get us there. If a particular technology can help us do something faster, that's what we use. By remaining flexible, we can iterate more quickly and remain agile.
There are no magic bullets other than understanding your world, your business, your data, and getting more of it. The tools people are using are what you'd expect. A data platform is involved to bring data in from across the organization. I don't know anyone just using one tool. Everyone tries a bunch of them to know what works for them. TensorFlow, R, H2O, MxNet, and Café are all widely used for cross-referencing because they scale differently and with different algorithms will do better in the cases of parallel hardware or GPUs. A GPU may be fast enough to take the place of a dozen or several dozen CPUs in a cluster, but not all algorithms are amenable to that. Most people have some GPU, some algorithms can use parallel GPUs. Some algorithms are really cheap to train, and they would use sequential single machine activities. So, you have this panoply of approaches. You want your data stored in a single platform and able to be used by all these tools so you're not having to move data and copy to a laptop or a GPU. You want it to be universally accessible. It should be directly usable by all these tools. A successful platform should blend like a tennis player and their racket. A good platform should be in the front of the action but use without thinking about it.
Our platform is on the operational side. The language we see a lot of is Python, some R, and some Java. The inference side of AI and the training don't have the same language. On the inference side, we see Python. On the training side, we see a mixture of Python, R, Java, and Scala. Last year, R was trending ahead of Python. This year, we see Python taking the lead from R. An online study verifies this. Frameworks Spark, TensorFlow, use TensorFlow in the lab with the intent to move into production. No one is standardizing on a single framework. There are new frameworks for reinforced learning. Inference has a lot of heterogeneity — Spark, containerized Python, streaming in IOT a lot of REST. Much less standardized than training. Training uses Spark and TensorFlow and Pytorch (FB DL framework), SciKit, MATLAB.
Analytics engines: Spark, TensorFlow, and Flink. Cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. Stream brokers: Elastic, Nifi, Flume, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Kinesis. Data lakes: Avro, Cassandra, Hadoop, Apache HBase, JDBC, HDFS, and NFS. We help clients build a composite of models in the context of a reusable business service. Output is containerized and deployed on Spark or TensorFlow run and manage tasks and jobs while picking up statistics and then slice and dice for business reports and compliance.
There is a lot of open source deep learning. TensorFlow ML pipeline to spend more time testing and training the model. Nice to see Microsoft, Google, and Amazon competing for your data. C++ for math libraries and memory allocations and NumPy and Fortran for raw efficiency with data sets. Easy to write by hand. Depending on the dataset size C++, understand pipeline data and how much it costs to train the data. Can use Crystal, then Go, and then C++ eventually to GPU programming to do serious computations. Google is now writing ML kits and are doing ML instructions direct to the GPUs.
Unique in its ability to drive OLAP workloads and running TensorFlow. Talking to customers, we see Python is the language of choice. For some, C or C++ are for cluster analysis. Models while there are specific models for verticals — Deep Chem for pharma built atop TensorFlow. TensorFlow is receiving widespread adoption. It has the ability to be distributed and the ability to run models in a distributed way becomes important. Can distribute UDF or Python code across servers for faster training and inference.
TensorFlow has created a big democratization of ability to use AI. It makes it easier for small teams to do big things.
As the platform for sending every type of email, we handle a myriad of types of transactional and promotional messages for senders large and small. To increase the throughput and efficiency of your email program, we have built intelligent queuing into our infrastructure. Our adoption of ensemble methods such as Random Forest has led to improved prediction. Random Forest helps correct for the problem of overfitting: when a statistical model describes random error or noise instead of the underlying relationship. In addition, our adoption of TensorFlow, an open source Python library, has accelerated our progress through its rapid calculation execution and its robust visualization tools. TensorFlow is now the main system we use to build and train our neural networks to detect and decipher patterns and correlations.
A successful AI solution hinges on tools for the two fundamental building blocks – 1) how efficiently data is collected 2) how data is analyzed via ML and visualization and automation based on the insights. Big Data and ML technologies and underlying languages are extremely critical in order to deliver on these fundamental capabilities. API-based integration using standard REST API is paramount to quickly connect to data sources across a disparate environment and collect data for processing. Python as the core programming language with python as an interactive command line terminal is heavily used by data scientists and developers to build ML algorithms. Elastic ELK stack has proved to be a powerful platform for big data processing along with Spark, a Storm-like framework that augments for data processing, correlation, and insights development. Java is the underlying core language for all of the big data platform technologies.
On the research side of things, we use Python. On the deployment side of things, we are looking at distributed frameworks like Apache Spark, Neo4J, and others that are more problem specific. Jupyter Notebooks — to translate from R&D to E. The math happens at the research layer. At the development level, we have machine learning engineers who will take the research and figure out how to operationalize and scale it. Once understood there, we can then consider it an engineering problem. A critical piece in that puzzle is how to translate from research to development. Jupyter Notebooks lets someone show code, text, and images in one document. If the data changes, you can re-run it, which re-populates the whole report. This makes it much easier for R&D + E teams to operationalize and productize research. A secondary benefit is this also encourages rigorous documentation.
To appeal to developers, open source vendors and cloud vendors are competing with each other. Open source enables a lot of cool research. This is a rapidly evolving field. Be able to take the package that works for you and bind it to a digital twin deployed at a traffic intersection dynamically by pushing into the fabric. Everything you can use in the open source environment Spark ML time scales to embrace; the edge environment does not evolve very fast. Need general abilities to build a useful digital twin and attach latest and greatest algorithm. Data flow pipelines are stream based and need to be able to deploy new algorithms in the streams on the fly.
We are embracing the development community by embracing open source, Apache Spark, Hadoop, ways in which the infrastructure interacted with based on open source Python, Scala, R, and Jupyter are all kind of standards and well known in the data science community. People are less tied to a particular data science technology.
Usable by a working engineer, trained as a mechanical engineer, understand instrumentation, data, not a signal processing or ML expert. Take signal processing and ML so they can use without understanding more than the fundamentals. Very focused on specific uses and use cases, not requiring the user to be an ML expert.
We use a number of libraries when it comes to building the Audioburst technology. Off the shelf, libraries give us the ability to improve our natural language processing (NLP) and voice recognition technology without having to reinvent the wheel. By reusing existing engines, we can incorporate them into our AI platform to streamline the way we analyze and segment audio content.
The way you address and access data is where our solution comes in, adding a level of security. Many companies collect data without looking at it; for us, it is an inherent part of our offering that once the user taps into the data, then we check the access and compliance. SAP believes the platform will bring businesses up to speed with the times of technology. Dependent on what is stored, data has the ability to massively impact business outcomes. In turn, businesses must start being more open-minded when it comes to adopting these new approaches.
Because AI projects are largely greenfield opportunities, organizations start with a clean slate when designing the supporting infrastructure. We see customers deploying GPU-based servers such as the HPE's 6500 or Nvidia's DGX-1, NVMe-based SSDs, and 100Gb/second Ethernet or EDR InfiniBand networks to handle the high data ingest rates and complex analytics of ML and AI. To fully realize the capability of all this specialty hardware, a low-latency, high-performance, shared file system is necessary to ensure fast access to large datasets. We provide the world's fastest file system that provides high performance, low latency, and cloud scale in a single solution deployed on commodity hardware. A single GPU server requires over 4 gigabytes of ingested data per second to be fully utilized. Anything less, and the server is I/O bound waiting for data, wasting valuable time and money. Matrix is optimized for AI workloads and will ensure your GPU servers are fully utilized. It also offers multi-protocol support and seamless access to on-demand resources in the cloud. This ability to burst to the cloud for additional resources means organizations no longer have to buy infrastructure based on peak needs. It also serves as a form of remote backup and disaster recovery without the need for dedicated hardware or software.
The layer of core technologies consists of: 1) Machine learning is a type of A.I. that provides computers with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. 2) Deep Neural Networks are inspired by the human brain and nervous system and can be leveraged to advance speech recognition and natural language understanding as part of the mission to facilitate better communication between people and machines. 3) Deep Learning is a type of ML that applies neural networks with multiple layers of processing and analysis. Based on this, we have developed a range of technologies that help to convert unstructured data into structured data and information: 1) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) allows users to speak to a system as they would to another human. 2) Natural Language Generation/Text-To-Speech (TTS) can vocalize data to consumers in a way that is nearly indistinguishable from human speech. 3) Natural Language Understanding (NLU) allows consumers to speak naturally to a system using their own words, be understood, and achieve their desired outcome. For example, an NLU system can distinguish whether the consumer is talking about a crane (construction equipment) or a crane (the bird). 4) Computer vision or image classification and analysis finds relevant information in images, like finding nodules in CT-scans of the lung or anomalies in X-Rays of the chest.
We are working to solve Wi-Fi assurance issues and ultimately create a self-healing network. There's so much opportunity in AI for IT operations (AIOps), and we're excited about the role we're playing to make IT smarter and faster while ensuring the best experience for wireless users.
Here's who we spoke to:
Assaf Gad, Vice President and Strategic Partnerships, Audioburst
Tyler Foxworthy, Chief Scientist, DemandJump
Patric Palm, CEO, Favro
Sameer Padhye, CEO, FixStream
Matthew Tillman, CEO, Haven
Dipti Borkar, V.P. Product Marketing, Kinetica
Ted Dunning, Chief Application Architect, MapR
Jeff Aaron, VP Marketing and Ebrahim Safavi, Data Scientist, Mist Systems
Dominic Wellington, Global IT Evangelist, Moogsoft
Dr. Nils Lenke, Director, Corporate Research, Nuance Communications
Mark Gamble, Senior Director of Product Marketing, OpenText
Sri Ramanathan, Group Vice President of Mobile, Oracle
Sivan Metzger, CEO and Co-founder, ParallelM
Nisha Talagala, CTO and Co-founder, ParallelM
Stuart Feffer, Co-founder and CEO, Reality AI
Sven Denecken, SVP Head of Product Management, SAP S/4 Hana Cloud
Steve Sloan, Chief Product Officer, SendGrid
Simon Crosby, CTO, Swim
Liran Zvibel, CEO and Co-founder, WekaIO
Daniel DeMillard, A.I. Architect, zvelo
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ATX TV Festival has announced a gaggle of new panels—during its June 6-9 summit in Austin, TX—including a screening and Q&A honoring one of the very best episodes of GREY'S ANATOMY.
There's a whole lot of family drama on the Thursday, April 11 episode of GREY'S ANATOMY, as Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) goes to New York and has a memorable meal with her sisters (Embeth Davidtz returning as Nancy and Amy Acker making her series debut as Kathleen).
Megan (Abigail Spencer) is back on the Thursday, April 4 episode of GREY'S ANATOMY…and she has no idea Owen (Kevin McKidd) is about to have a kid with Teddy (Kim Raver).
The Thursday, March 28 hour of GREY'S ANATOMY sheds more light on Jo's meeting with the woman she thinks could be her mother (played by Michelle Forbes).
GREY'S ANATOMY introduces a new kind of medicine in the Thursday, March 21 episode: mood rooms.
When Teddy (Kim Raver) returned full-time to GREY'S ANATOMY at the start of season 15, the pregnancy she was hiding could have led to stereotypical drama—especially since her longtime friend/baby's father, Owen (Kevin McKidd), was very deeply entrenched with his off-on partner, Amelia (Caterina Scorsone).
GREY'S ANATOMY's Teddy (Kim Raver) and Owen (Kevin McKidd) may find that work is hitting a little close to home when they have to treat a couple who is expecting a child during the Thursday, March 14 episode.


Research published in the journal Global Change Biology revealed that more than 800 synthetic particles, including "microplastics," were found in the digestive systems of 102 sea turtles examined from 3 ocean basins.
Why it matters: The fact that microplastics were found in all of the turtles tested by researchers — in oceans all across the world — highlights the impact of marine plastic waste and its potential effects on animals. The study estimated that between 4.8 and 12.7 million tons of plastic waste could enter the world's waters each year.
The sea turtles were pulled from seven species from across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as well as the Mediterranean Sea. They performed necropsies on the turtles, examining their "gut content."
The samples extracted only provide a look at a portion of the turtles' gut content, indicating that the actual synthetic particle content throughout a turtle's whole gut is likely to be 20 times higher.
What's next: It's unclear how microplastics might actually affect the turtles' digestive systems, since they seem to be able to deal with them without adverse effects, per CNN.
Researchers are worried that the synthetic particles could expose marine life to toxins at the cellular level, perhaps exposing them to bacteria or diseases.


The Fayette County Democratic Committee is asking that Peachtree City leadership publicly disavow the sentiments expressed by Council Member Terry Ernst in a May 5 letter to the editor regarding rioting that occurred in Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, a widely covered national story that was the most recent in a string of incidents that have placed the issue of police use of force on the national stage.
Seeing looters shot dead on television would instill fear and prevent others from looting, the two men argue.
"The word would spread like wildfire the police mean business, you can't get away with this stuff any more while police stand around and watch, and it would stop. Dead looters on TV news would spread mortal fear in the hearts of opportunists causing the trouble, and would likely stop the behavior cold," according to Ernst and Garlock.
Ernst is retired from the United States Army and the Peachtree City Police Department. In the letter, he and Garlock criticize the Mayor of Baltimore, President Barack Obama, and Attorney General Eric Holder for their response to Freddie Gray case and others like it.
"President Obama and now-former Attorney General Eric Holder have been fanning the flames of racial division for a long time while repeatedly throwing police under the bus. Their irresponsible public presumption of police guilt has given encouragement to the criminal element, seemingly granting the aggrieved class an entitlement to disrupt the peace, all while delivering a severe blow to police morale nationwide," they wrote.
A response letter came from the Fayette Democratic Committee this week, asking for "someone from Peachtree City to speak out" about Ernst's "inflammatory commentary." The letter, signed by Fayette County Democratic Committee Chair Leonard Presberg, denounced the idea put forth in Ernst and Garlock's letter as well as its rhetoric.
"While we agree with Mr. Ernst and abhor the actions of rioters and looters, whether prompted by police violence or championship game, we believe that statements that condone violence against American citizens and call for visuals of blood and deaths on national TV have no place in a civilized society. We also find it unfortunate that Mr. Ernst seeks to inflame divisions amongst us with his racial and sexist rhetoric. But ultimately what causes us to ask for this censure is that Mr. Ernst's call for police violence is so profoundly anti-American," the letter from the Democratic Committee stated.
An e-mail exchange happened Monday evening, which was received by all members of city council as well as interim Police Chief Stan Pye and local media.
Council Member Mike King replied as well, causing a heated back and forth with Imker.


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