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Prescott: Pet coverage has insurers wagging their tails
By Dr. Stephen Prescott
for The Oklahoman
Published: Sun, January 12, 2020 5:00 AM
According to OMRF Vice President of Technology Ventures Manu Nair, "Animal health is a growing market that will continue to receive more attention." [PROVIDED]
As the 2020 presidential race heats up, the issue of health insurance will play a prominent, even central, role on the campaign trail. Nary a day will pass without mention of "Medicare for all" or ongoing efforts to dismantle Obamacare.
What you won't hear, though, is any discussion of one of the fastest-growing sectors of the health insurance market: pet insurance.
From 2014 to 2018, pet insurance premiums in this country more than doubled. In the U.S., a total of 2.15 million pets — mostly dogs — are insured. Those well-loved animals generate annual premiums of more than $1 billion.
But, for insurers, that's just the tip of a furry iceberg (fur-berg?). A mere 2.3% of U.S. pets are insured. When insurers compare this to the United Kingdom, where nearly one quarter of all pets are insured, their mouths hang open like a pooch awaiting a heaping bowl of Alpo.
If you look around, it's easy to see why insurers are bullish about growth prospects. Two-thirds of U.S. households own pets, according to the American Pet Products Association.
And, increasingly, Americans treat their pets like four-legged family members, lavishing them with gourmet treats and sending them to high-end pet spas. Heck, if you want to buy a set of family pajamas for you and the kids, you can even find a matching pair for Fido.
All told, Americans spend about $70 billion a year on pets.
In this environment, a growing number of Americans are turning to pet insurance as a way to curb rising veterinary costs. For many animal lovers, the policies represent the ultimate protection against what The New York Times recently called "economic euthanasia" — having to put a pet down because the owner can't afford a costly treatment.
The policies bear more than a passing resemblance to those held by bipeds: They pay claims stemming from accidents and illnesses and bear annual premiums, deductibles and copayments. Premiums vary by insurer and policy, and they typically depend on things like the age and breed of pet, as well as the cost of veterinary care in your area. According to the North American Pet Health Insurance Association, the average annual premium for "accident and illness" coverage is a little more than $500.
Unfortunately for pet parents, pet insurance still lives in a pre-Obamacare world, so the policies can exclude pre-existing conditions and come with payment caps. Premiums also rise significantly with the age of the animal, leading many to drop policies at the time their furry friends are most likely to need the coverage.
The insurance industry seems to think pet coverage is as exciting as a trip to the dog park. In December, MetLife — despite the fact that it previously dropped Snoopy as its logo! — purchased PetFirst Healthcare. MetLife is not the first big player to dip its paw into the market; it joins Nationwide Mutual Insurance, which is among the leaders in this area.
The rise of pet insurance comes as part of larger trend.
"Animal health is a growing market that will continue to receive more attention," said Manu Nair, who serves as the vice president of technology ventures at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
At OMRF, Nair leads our scientists' efforts to transform discoveries in the lab into products to improve health. While those initiatives have historically focused on human health, in recent years, animal health companies have voiced a growing interest in the work taking place at OMRF and in other research institutions.
Indeed, many medications that veterinarians commonly utilize or prescribe — antibiotics, pain medications, anesthetics — are slightly modified versions of what we use. With pet owners increasingly willing to spend large sums on medications, research interest is turning to therapies for animals afflicted with conditions like cancer, arthritis and eye disease. "Finding cures for animals could become a significant source of research funding," said Nair.
These projects can come to fruition much faster than those targeted at human health. "The regulatory framework is considerably less burdensome, so drugs can reach the market much more quickly and at considerably lower cost," Nair said.
We've come a long way since the days when parents would "cure" a sick hamster by switching out a new animal for the ailing one. Indeed, I'm told that Nationwide now offers coverage for hamsters (and hedgehogs and tarantulas).
I'm not sure I'm ready to pay an annual premium for a rodent that chews toilet-paper rolls. But they are pretty darned cute. And cuddly. Hmm…
A physician and medical researcher, Prescott is president of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and can be reached at omrf-president@omrf.org.
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Organisation. It is a corporation duly organised under the laws of England with full corporate power, authority and legal right to own its assets and conduct its business as such assets are presently owned and its business is presently conducted and with power to enter into this Agreement and other Relevant Documents and each assignment to be entered into by it in respect of any Receivables assigned or scheduled to be assigned and to exercise its rights and perform its obligations thereunder and all corporate and other action required to authorise its execution of each Relevant Document and each such assignment and its performance of its obligations thereunder has been duly taken or will be taken prior to the execution of such Relevant Document or assignment (as the case may be).
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We install a large range of secondary glazing units, including fixed, hinged, lift out, vertical and horizontal sliding units. The horizontal sliding units that we install allow the secondary glass panel to slide easily and smoothly from side to side.
It slides on brass rollers, which means that you have easy access to your main window or door. This is handy for cleaning, maintenance and for extra ventilation, when required.
As with all of our products here at Sussex Glazing Services, we offer a huge range of choices, to ensure that you end up with the perfect product for your home. We understand that when it comes to your home, you will want to ensure that you are selecting windows that match your decor and all of your needs.
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Лукьяновский сельский округ — упразднённая административно-территориальная единица, существовавшая на территории Серпуховского района Московской области в 1994—2006 годах.

Лукьяновский сельсовет был образован в первые годы советской власти. По данным 1923 года он входил в состав Липицкой волости Каширского уезда Московской губернии.

24 марта 1924 года Липицкая волость была передана в Серпуховского уезда.

В 1926 году Лукьяновский с/с включал 1 населённый пункт — деревню Лукьяново.

В 1929 году Лукьяновский с/с был отнесён к Серпуховскому району Серпуховского округа Московской области.

5 января 1931 года Лукьяновский с/с (селения Волково, Лукьяново и Щеболово) был передан в административное подчинение городу Серпухову, но уже 16 мая 1931 года возвращён в Серпуховский район.

14 июня 1954 года к Лукьяновскому с/с был присоединён Подмокловский сельсовет.

1 февраля 1963 года Серпуховский район был упразднён и Лукьяновский с/с вошёл в Ленинский сельский район. 11 января 1965 года Лукьяновский с/с был возвращён в восстановленный Серпуховский район.

3 февраля 1994 года Лукьяновский с/с был преобразован в Лукьяновский сельский округ.

В ходе муниципальной реформы 2004—2005 годов Лукьяновский сельский округ прекратил своё существование как муниципальная единица. При этом все его населённые пункты были переданы в сельское поселение Липицкое. К началу проведения муниципальной реформы в состав округа входили следующие населённые пункты:

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 Высокие Дворики
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 Ланьшино
 Лукьяново
 Подмоклово
 посёлок станции Ока
 Щеболово

29 ноября 2006 года Лукьяновский сельский округ исключён из учётных данных административно-территориальных и территориальных единиц Московской области.

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Упразднённые сельские округа Серпуховского района

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In the years from 1914 to 1918, hunger was a constant companion. The First World War had to be won not only at the front, but also in civilian life. And so kitchens became the battleground for women. Hunger was not an easy enemy to fight. Wartime cookbooks were written, recipes printed on travel tickets and substitute foodstuffs were made available. Stinging nettles instead of spinach, chicory coffee or dried dandelion roots instead of ground coffee and barley flour instead of wheat flour. Now women were supposed to work wonders with these generally bad quality ingredients.


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Q: CameraX cameraView and previewView What is different between camerax cameraView and previewView? because i can't find resources or articles about comparing 2 view for previewing camerax

A: PreviewView is a custom View you can use to display a camera preview. You can add it to your XML layout, then in your Activity/Fragment, hook it up with a Preview use case to get the preview stream started. So while using PreviewView, you're responsible for setting up the camera, creating the Preview use case (and other use cases you may want to use), and binding them to a lifecycle. You can read more about PreviewView and how it works in this article.
CameraView is a custom View that does many things, it was built to allow users to quickly set up a "camera app" by adding the View in their XML layout. It allows to display a camera preview, take pictures, record videos, zoom in/out on the viewfinder, and provides different APIs to configure the camera (lens facing, flash, scale type, capture mode, etc). It handles setting up the camera, binding and unbinding the use cases and what not. An important thing to note is that for displaying a preview, it internally uses PreviewView. I haven't come across many articles online on CameraView, I'd recommend this one though.
If you need flexibility in setting up the camera and building/configuring the use cases, or if you need to use the ImageAnalysis use case, then CameraView is probably not the right choice to go with. PreviewView was built to offload the burden of setting up and handling the preview surface used by the camera, and handling the hard bits of displaying a preview (scaling, rotating, aspect ratio, etc).

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Q: Are Stripe cookies "strictly necessary" therefore not requiring consent? TLDR: Are Stripe cookies "essential" cookies that do not require consent?
As many of you may know, Stripe is a payment processor and they require that websites using their platform serve the users with their "stripe.js" which applies several cookies.
The cookies are used for tracking, so they sort of come under GDPR, but the tracking is for strictly necessary purposes (fraud prevention) so it sort of also doesn't come under GDPR.
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This week in space: a leaked paper on the EM Drive and a supermoon
By Jessica Hall on November 11, 2016 at 1:15 pm
A recently leaked paper on the controversial and relatively unknown EM Drive led to a lot of articles with titles like "Leaked paper proves EM drive works." The leaked paper hasn't made it through peer review, guys, so it has the same scientific reliability as a pile of Bazooka Joe wrapper comics. (Please do read it and help the community at large understand this.)
First among my problems with the paper are the relative scales at play here. The tabletop rig the researchers tested operated at max 80 watts. Eagleworks is making claims about what happens on the megawatt scale. While I understand that the ability to extrapolate is a happy consequence of the fact that math works, the anomalous 1.2 μN of thrust observed could very well fade into experimental error at megawatt scales, just because of the uncertainty introduced by scaling up without data. Or, it could represent an extremely welcome new scientific advance. To solve this problem, obviously we need more testing: by other groups, at functional scales, in the vacuum of space. To find relationships in the data that lead to observational hypotheses that lead to theories and laws, first you need some data.
Everyone seems to have a bone to pick with this paper, including /r/emdrive, and a lot of commenters on Reddit and elsewhere have awarded themselves the authority to say, "Nobody in the physics community is even interested in this development." That's not true. It's just that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Sure, they have numbers, but the numbers need some context before they start to make sense.
The whole thing is on the obnoxious cusp between, "This represents a branch of physics that we actually didn't have fully articulated, and now we need to re-evaluate our theories," and "What we observed is actually within the experimental error and nobody has been able to nail down the uncertainty until now." Because it's not in its final iteration, we really shouldn't take this leaked paper as proof of anything. Wait until it gets published. See what makes it through peer review.
For your viewing pleasure, take this fly-through at 20% light speed through the Proxima Centauri star system, courtesy of the ESO. Proxima Centauri is home to the recently discovered exoplanet Proxima b, which orbits in the habitable zone around Proxima Centauri B.
It's a bird… it's a plane… it's a supermoon
The full moon early next week will be a supermoon. Supermoons happen when the moon is full as it makes its closest approach to the Earth, its perigee. During a supermoon, the difference in distance between apogee (farthest away) and perigee can be almost 14%, which means the moon casts 30% more light onto the Earth's surface.
There are actually three supermoons this fall — one each month in October, November, and December. But this month's supermoon is the only one where the moon will be completely full. On Monday, November 14, the moon reaches its perigee at 6:22 AM EST and is exactly "opposite" the sun — completely full — at 8:52 AM EST. Sadly, that's after moonset for most of the US. But no worries if you'll be asleep or otherwise engaged; you have options.
"I've been telling people to go out at night on either Sunday or Monday night to see the supermoon," said Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. "The difference in distance from one night to the next will be very subtle, so if it's cloudy on Sunday, go out on Monday. Any time after sunset should be fine."
Now read: Can the 'impossible' space drive survive falsification in orbit?
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The Attempt on Edwin Booth's Life
Posted on April 25, 2013 by Dave Taylor
As I wrote two days ago, Edwin Booth was the target of an assassination attempt on April 23, 1879 while he was performing Richard II at McVicker's Theatre in Chicago. Since two days ago was the anniversary of the attempt, I wanted to put up a quick post highlighting what I considered a mere piece of historical trivia. The more I looked into it however, the more I found myself quickly engulfed in a huge amount of information that is available far beyond what I have read in books. My inspiration for this post was Nora Titone's Edwin/John Wilkes biography, My Thoughts Be Bloody which devotes a paragraph to the incident. While looking for a bit more background I read about the incident in Eleanor Ruggles' Prince of Players and Stanley Kimmel's The Mad Booths of Maryland. These sources gave about a page to the incident. I decided to look at the newspaper sources of the day, and it is from those that I was deluged with information. This attempt on Edwin's life was a national story. The coverage on it all quickly reminded me of how talented and celebrated Edwin Booth truly was. We all know that newspapers take liberties with the truth from time to time and that we cannot trust them with certainly. Nevertheless, what follows is a look at the aftermath of the attempt on Edwin's life and the fate of his assassin.
First allow me to summarize the scene of the assassination ttempt, this time pulling from newspaper sources, rather than the books mentioned above.
In April of 1879, Edwin Booth was at McVicker's Theatre in Chicago for an engagement. McVicker's was owned by James H. McVicker, the step-father of Edwin's second wife, Mary McVicker. She was backstage during that night's performance. As always, the accounts of the day differ somewhat regarding what happened during the final act of Richard II. The last scenes of the act are set in the prison of Pomfret castle where King Richard is shown cut off from the world. The stage is darkened during this scene, with little more than a pale light masquerading as moonlight shining through a small grated window on the prison flat. Booth, as Richard, was sitting on stage soliloquizing of his isolation. Meanwhile, a man who sat in the second balcony about 30 feet from Booth, was removing a pistol he had concealed in his sleeve. In his left hand, he was said to be holding a copy of the play. He followed along with Booth's soliloquy, waiting for the right time to act. While speaking onstage, Booth heard a shot ring out.
Booth and the audience remained unmoved; the audience thinking the anachronistic gunshot was the result of an error backstage and Booth thinking an accident prone cowboy had discharged his gun by mistake. When a second shot rang out about three seconds later, Booth arose (or was in the process of rising when the second shot happened) and proceeded to walk calmly towards the direction of the shots. Before walking off of the stage and into the audience, Booth pointed to the left hand upper gallery and men around the assailant grabbed at the man with the revolver, preventing him from firing again. Booth went into his dressing room to comfort his wife, Mary, who was in a state of great distress after hearing the shots.
Edwin Booth and his wife Mary McVicker
It was written that had it not been for the swift response from police officers the assailant would have been, "rather roughly handled" by the rest of the audience when they became aware of what had occurred. The man was seized by the officer of the theatre and James Morgan, a detective who was in the audience. Morgan put handcuffs on the man who gave him little resistance. As Morgan led the man to Chicago's Central Station, he heard him say, "I don't see how I happened to miss him," and, "I am sorry that I didn't take some lessons in pistol practice before I tried this thing."
When searched at Central Station a .32 caliber "True Blue" revolver with three loaded chambers and two chambers containing exploded shells was found on him. Along with some trivial items (scissors, pawn ticket, pocket knife) the man was found to have a stub for a seat at McVicker's from the night before, April 22nd. In addition, the man had this letter on him:
"Chicago, April 22, 1879.
Dear Katie:
Forgive these brief but horrible lines, I left St. Louis Monday evening. The firm I was with would not increase my salary, so I made up my mind to return to Keokuk, but being a lover of fine acting I came to Chicago to see Booth, but I was sadly mistaken. It would take Booth one year of constant acting to compete with Lawrence Barrett's Richelieu. Tonight he plays Richard II. Katie, if I go tonight he will kill me or I will him. In all Shakespeare's works I find but one man to compete with Booth, and that is Iago. My judgment ought to foretell me that since I call Booth Iago he could no more play Richelieu than the devil could be an angel. I don't know what to do. Every line I write I prance the floor as though I was playing Hamlet. I'm sorry I came here, for I think the hangman has a rope for me. Remember me to your mother and sister."
The man had seen Edwin Booth act before, and seemingly did not believe he was worthy of any of his accolades. The letter was signed, "Yours Truly, Mark Gray". The name of the failed assassin was known.
When asked, he refused to state his reasons for wanting to kill Edwin Booth, but claimed that when they were made known, they would be deemed sufficient to all.
The next morning, April 24th, Edwin Booth was present when Mark Gray was taken before a judge:
It was found that Gray had purchased the revolver used in the shooting only the day before and clearly showed no skill as to its use. Mark Gray was a young man, 26 years of age (though he stated to police he was 23) and was said to bear a striking resemblance to Edwin Booth if not for his mustache.
Theories abounded regarding Gray's motive behind his attempted assassination of Edwin. Gray's own ambiguity when questioned only fueled the fire in the nation's newspapers. Here are a few published theories for the attempt on Booth's life, some serious, others humorous:
While people hypothesized about Gray's motives, more information was being found regarding his background and character:
Finding no answers in the newspaper accounts and the interviews others had with Gray, Edwin Booth decided to meet with Gray himself and ask him what drove his attempt on his life:
Perhaps desiring the attention for a longer period of time, Gray did not reveal his reasons to Booth at this time.
On May 6th, Mark Gray was brought into court for arraignment and gave a surprising plea:
Wanting to make sure Edwin Booth was present for the proceedings of the trial before departing Chicago for his next engagement, the pendulum of justice moved swiftly for Mark Gray. On May 10th his trial began, and it was here that he finally revealed his reasoning for attempting to kill Edwin Booth.
The mere word "mark", recited by Edwin Booth as Richelieu and King Richard was the cause for the actor's misery. The vocalization of this simple English word which is a homograph for a name, and the way in which Booth portrayed his characters, incensed Mark Gray to the point of madness. As stated, Gray was immediately sent to the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Elgin, IL.
Though Gray was locked away, Edwin Booth kept a cautious eye on his would be assassin and wrote the following note to a Chicago attorney a month after Gray was put in the Elgin asylum:
"I trust that our friend Gray may become gray indeed – yea postiviely hoary-headed – in kind but careful confinement, or if earlier released, that his exit may be from this earthly stage of his dramatic exploits to that celestial scene where idiots cease from shooting and actors are at rest. If he be ever again at liberty my own life I shall not value worth a rush. But I hope the Elgin guardians will not be deceived by his seeming helplessness."
Edwin Booth would be able to sleep easy for a little over three years. Then, in October of 1882, Mark Gray's friends made a plea for his release:
On November 6, 1882, Gray was successful in his plea:
Though I have not been able to find an account of Edwin's reaction to the release of his would be assassin, we can surmise that he was not pleased by the relatively short amount of time Mark Gray spent locked up.
In a worrisome sign of mental relapse, Gray jumped into the spotlight again trying to cash in on his infamy:
If Gray ever did play Hamlet, it was just to his neighbors in Keokuk, Iowa. For many years, Mark Gray was forgotten. When Edwin Booth died in 1893, Gray's attempt was mentioned in a sentence on various newspaper biographies on his life. Just a little over 10 years later, in May of 1904, Mark Gray Lyons died at the age of 51. While Booth's obituaries contained mentions of Mark Gray, there was a distinct lack of Booth in Mark Gray's official obituary:
Unsurprisingly a bachelor his whole life, Mark Gray was buried with his sister and her husband in the Catholic section of Keokuk's Oakland Cemetery.
To me Mark Gray Lyons is Edwin Booth's Mark David Chapman. Gray wanted the fame and life of Edwin Booth. He tried to convince others and himself that he was Edwin Booth's son. He wanted to be a star of the stage and resented Edwin for the success he had. After the shooting that night in 1879, Edwin Booth returned to the stage and finished Richard II. James McVicker found one of the bullets behind one of the stage flats it had passed through and he gave it to Edwin Booth. Booth later had it set in a gold cartridge and engraved upon it, "From Mark Gray to Edwin Booth, April 23, 1879." Edwin was above all else, a devoted tragedian and, as history shows, nothing could keep him off that stage for long:
My Thoughts Be Bloody by Nora Titone
Prince of Players by Eleanor Ruggles
The Mad Booths of Maryland by Stanley Kimmel
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Countless newspaper articles garnered from GenealogyBank.com
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12 thoughts on "The Attempt on Edwin Booth's Life"
well done, man.
Carolyn Mitchell
Another great post! However, you mentioned Edwin died of natural causes which is incorrect. His health was in decline for many years due to his tobacco use etc. Referencing another excellent post by you: http://boothiebarn.com/2012/10/18/the-end-of-edwin/
You are correct, Carolyn. Edwin did sort of do himself in with his tobacco use. But I guess that's still more of a natural cause than two bullets would have been.
Thanks for putting it up on Spirits of Tudor Hall!
Rich smyth
Great background story on the newly adjudged lunatic!
Now get out to Iowa, Rich, and get me a picture of his grave.
Steve Dixon
This was all very interesting – thanks for digging it out.
Anthony Classick
Actually the man thought Booth to be his father and he wanted money. Just got back from Ford's this day, it's not like it used to be. I know more than any of their rangers. But there are good ones, you just never know who you will get.
John Winterbauer
I just discovered your blog. What a great job! Fascinating stuff here. Thank you for sharing!
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John Camera
As a member of The Players and a dramaturg, I so much appreciate this blog. You often reveal facts that augments other evidence as well as offering opinions based upon whatever evidence you may find, which I think is a singular mark of a good historian.
Thank you for your compliments, John. Though I don't know you, I am humbled by your words. Give my best to The Players, it's a remarkable organization and some day I hope to see Edwin's masterpiece for myself.
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Q: HighCharts downloaded Legends are overlapping in ie11 Legends in the downloaded chart are overlapping in ie 11.i tried keeping itemDistance:20 in legend area of the chart.
i am able to see the item distance in the chart in the website, but the legends are getting overlapped in the downloaded png image.


So glad you are offering the kale again. I made a favorite recipe -- I quartered the small potatoes and boiled them. I steamed the kale (after cutting out the middle tough section). Then I sauteed both in olive oil and 3 cloves of garlic, salt, pepper, and a little red pepper flakes. Yum!


WEBB, N.Y. (AP) - Police say a snowmobile driver is dead after he got off of his vehicle in upstate New York and another snowmobile driver struck him.
The accident happened at around 9 p.m. Friday in the town of Webb in Herkimer County.
State police say 56-year-old Frank Prendergast was with a group traveling on snowmobiles when he veered off the trail and got stuck in the snow.
Police say Prendergast got off of his snowmobile and walked back to the trail. They say a second snowmobile rider from the group managed to swerve and avoid hitting Prendergast but a third snowmobile rider tried to avoid hitting Prendergast and failed.
Prendergast was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation is continuing.


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The SoulPhone - The proposed smartphone that communicates with the other side.
EVP PSI (Telepathy) Experiments
Water ITC
We have heard rumours in the past of spirit telephones that allowed you to communicate with those who have passed. It seems this is the works again and it is called the SoulPhone. Is it really possible? Dr Gary Schwartz seems to think it is. Let's look at the concept behind the SoulPhone
29th May 2018.
General, Paranormal Equipment.
780 page views.
There was speculation years ago that Thomas Edison had created a spirit telephone in an attempt to communicate with the dead. It is a mystery that was never solved because it was hard to tell if he was joking for the media or if it was the real deal. It perhaps helped inspire things like the spirit box and portal devices as we know them today, but you may be surprised or not surprised to know that people are working on this very technology again. It is called the 'SoulPhone'.
What is the SoulPhone?
It has not yet been developed, but it is said to be on the horizon. It is a series of scientific devices which the founder of the SoulPhone Foundation Dr Gary Schwartz says will allow a person to communicate with loved ones who have passed over. It will also 'allow wise input from 'departed luminaries-scientists, inventors, great teachers, healers and entertainers who want to assist those of us on Earth.'
What are the SoulPhone Devices?
The first device is known as the SoulSwitch which will allow nonphysical beings to answer Yes or No to questions. It is estimated that this project could be completed within a year with the right funding.
Next will be the SoulKeyboard which allows you to SoulText those who have passed. Think of it like a text message to a friend except the friend is no longer with us. This should be ready in around 2 years.
We then have SoulAudio which allows you to have a conversation. They hope that this will then transition into SoulVideo which will be. Like a Skype or FaceTime to the other side.
The ultimate goal of Dr Schwartz is to develop some sort of app which will link all of these devices together that connects to a SoulStudio. It will be able to run on your own smartphone device, but quite obviously, we are a long way away from that.
Can this really happen?
When I first heard about this, of course I was skeptical. The Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health at the University of Arizona seems to think it can and will happen and that is exactly what they are working towards under Dr Gary Schwartz. He first presented what was considered to be proof of concept laboratory discoveries on soul communication technology six years ago in his book "The Sacred Promise: How Science is Discovering Spirits' Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives". He believes that the question is not 'Is spirit communication possible' but 'What will it take to engineer a technology to make spirit communication practical and affordable?'
When it is presented in this way, it makes you I guess think a little differently about the possibility of this project. Quite a lot of us paranormal investigators believe that we have at some point communicated with the spirit world. So if we look at the first question 'is spirit communication possible?' what would your answer be? In a lot of cases it would be yes. With this in mind, the next statement doesn't't seem so out there. 'What will it take to engineer a technology to make spirit communication practical and affordable?'. This is what Dr Schwartz and his team are working towards. They have created the SoulPhone foundation where they accept input and donations to help fund this project.
This is a little bit different to the usual gimmick that paranormal equipment makers are selling. While to me in a way it kind of sounds a little bit out there, maybe it is not impossible. We 'talk' to spirits through EVP, Spirit Boxes and portal devices. We 'See' spirits using ITC exercises such as Video Looping and water. We use EMF or vibration meters where we ask spirits to light up a device one for yes and twice for no. Is Dr Schwartz's concept just a way of streamlining what we are already doing?
Just because we can does it mean we should?
I am skeptical that this will get off the ground as I am sure a lot of people are, but I am keeping an eye out and an open mind. Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds and this is the argument Schwartz gives those who are skeptical. When asked 'Does a SoulPhone seem impossible?' his response starts with him recollecting his memories back in 1963 when his Father worked for a telephone company. Today's technology in 1963 would have been unimaginable. "I would have considered you crazy if you told me about a personal assistant device, a "SmartPhone" that would be introduced in a mere thirty years. But it's true. SmartPhones are old news now. We take it for granted that a hand-sized, lightweight, and wireless device can make phone calls all over the world and allow us to see each other while talking. In addition, it takes wonderful photos, serves as a GPS, allows texting, stores photos, and – at last count – conducts approximately 137, 000,000 other functions."
Aside from that though, I also wonder about the repercussions if in fact something like this did really take off. Would it essentially be proof of the afterlife? I watched a movie recently called 'The Discovery' where in the movie, a scientist was able to prove to the world that the afterlife did exist. It led to mass suicides all around the world as people who were unhappy saw it as a way out because they knew for sure what was waiting for them. It looked at our moral and social responsibilities as human beings. Perhaps the afterlife is supposed to remain a mystery. Even though we are searching for answers, do you ever think you will really one day have 'proof' of the paranormal? In a sense a lot of it is based on our own belief, faith and how we feel. Maybe we are not supposed to know what happens to us after we die and that is why after centuries it still has not been proven by science. Is this technology potentially dangerous when you look at it from this perspective? Just because we are potentially capable of building such technology .... should we?
What do you think? Would you get a SoulPhone?
If you would like more information on the SoulPhone and the foundation and it's research, information can be found at their website: www.thesoulphonefoundation.org which was the main source for this article.
bear Medicinewalker 1 year ago
It is a tricky thing to ask is we should, cause we are humans and of course humans will do this if it is possible. I hear "Spirit" all the time as I am a Psychic Medium and have literally seen Spirit since I was little. Animals that had passed, people that had passed... I thought it was normal.
It is also my belief that all of us are born with the ability to communicate with Spirit and I also feel that they are very active in our lives even when some can not see or hear them. (Just because we can not see something doesn't mean it is not real) But science is always trying to keep up with Faith... and if you notice Faith never tries to keep up with science, it is the cycle of humans.
I feel that all the new devices are fascinating but again as youhave pointed out...they also can become addictive to some and cloud the purpose of us being here in the first place... to experience life and live it...good, bad or indifferent.
~ bear


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February 26, 2013 // Local
Series of talks, Mass, enshrinement honors St. Gianna Beretta Molla
By Ann Carey
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades holds a relic of St. Gianna Beretta Molla during an enshrinement to the saint at Our Lady of Fatima Chapel at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Mishawaka on Feb. 22. Bishop Rhoades blessed the picture and enshrined relics at the hospital chapel, and on Sunday, he celebrated a Mass for couples struggling with infertility at the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Francis in Mishawaka.
MISHAWAKA — Most Catholics can relate to St. Gianna Beretta Molla, for she lived the ordinary kind of life many Catholics live: She had a spouse and children and also held down a job. St. Gianna opted to continue a high-risk pregnancy rather than undergo treatment that would harm her unborn child and died in 1962, one week after giving birth to a healthy daughter. She was survived by her husband and three other children.
Canonized in 2004, the International Year of the Family, St. Gianna was the last saint to be canonized by Pope John Paul II.
During the weekend of Feb. 22-24, St. Gianna also became a special saint for the diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. Her picture and relic were enshrined in a Feb. 22 ceremony at the diocese's only Catholic hospital, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Mishawaka.
Introducing the enshrinement was Tom McKenna, founder and president of the St. Gianna Physician's Guild. The guild was started in 2006 to uphold and promote Catholic values in the lives and practices of medical personnel and help them defend those values in the public square. St. Gianna, a pediatrician, is the guild's patroness.
At the enshrinement ceremony in the hospital's lobby outside the entrance to Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades noted that the St. Gianna shrine was appropriate for the hospital, for her work as a doctor exemplified what Catholic healthcare is about.
"She is a beautiful model — especially in our culture today — of witness to the Gospel of Life," Bishop Rhoades said, adding that St. Gianna saw her profession to treat sick children not just as work, but as a vocation, just like her vocation to marriage and motherhood.
He also praised St. Joseph Regional Medical Center as "an institution and family that stands for life as part of the core of its truly Catholic mission." That mission provides care of the whole person, he said, which includes spiritual and pastoral care for the patient and the families.
"People who come here experience the compassion of Christ," he said, "and that is what distinguishes a place like St. Joseph Regional Medical Center from other places where much, much good takes place as well. But what is the inspiration here is Jesus Himself and His self-giving love for us. So, St. Gianna reflected that like a mirror."
Albert Gutierrez, president and CEO of the hospital, told Today's Catholic that the hospital was "proud" to host the saint's relic.
"Her legacy has united, inspired and encouraged countless mothers, physicians and other healthcare providers," he said. "We invite our community to learn her amazing story and to visit our hospital to see this beautiful display in her honor."
Indeed, the St. Gianna enshrinement came to the diocese because a member of St. Matthew Parish had developed a devotion to the saint after learning more about her. Barb Fralish, a wife, mother and nurse, told Today's Catholic that Gianna's story of an ordinary person doing extraordinary things helps inspire her in the care of her own disabled son.
Fralish said she had attended a pro-life conference in Kansas City in 2011where she heard Gianna's youngest daughter speak and met Tom McKenna. Fralish subsequently wrote Bishop Rhoades a letter suggesting that he consider increasing devotion to St. Gianna in this diocese. Bishop Rhoades approached St. Joseph Regional Medical Center about hosting the St. Gianna shrine, and the hospital responded enthusiastically.
Franciscan Sister Laureen Painter, the hospital's vice president for Mission Integration and Ministry Formation, told Today's Catholic that the sanctity of life is "critical" to the hospital as a faith-based organization. Thus, the enshrinement of St. Gianna is a "manifestation of this founding conviction," she said.
"As we share this relic with those who come through our doors, we invite them to pray for St. Gianna's intercession for expectant mothers here in Michiana who experience difficulties during pregnancy or while giving birth."
Tom McKenna, the founder and president of the St. Gianna Physicians' Guild, who is also a personal friend of St. Gianna's family, speaks on the life of St. Gianna as part of the enshrinement ceremony. McKenna also made presentations on Feb. 23 at St. Therese, Little Flower Church in South Bend and after Mass on Feb. 24 in the chapel of the Sisters of St. Francis in Mishawaka.
McKenna also spoke about St. Gianna at the University of Notre Dame the day of the enshrinement and gave another presentation the evening of Feb. 23 at Little Flower Parish Center in South Bend. On Sunday, Feb. 24, he spoke at the Mishawaka motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration, following a 1 p.m. special Mass for couples struggling with infertility.
In his homily at that Mass, Bishop Rhoades said he had read that many couples struggling with infertility had been aided by the intercession of St. Gianna, who herself had suffered two miscarriages as well as other difficult pregnancies. In both her personal life and in her medical practice caring for children and their mothers, she gave strong pro-life witness, he said.
"St. Gianna is also an example of great faith and courage in the face of adversity and suffering," he continued. "She refused to turn away from her faith in God and would not participate in any medical procedures that were immoral, that did not respect the dignity and sacredness of human life."
This pro-life witness, he said, helps couples struggling with infertility realize that any infertility treatment must respect the right to life of the human embryo and aid the conjugal act, not substitute for it.
"Today we ask for St. Gianna's intercession for couples struggling with infertility, that the Lord may bless them with children," Bishop Rhoades said. "And, we also pray for those who will not be blessed with the gift of children, that they may remain firm in faith and their married lives may be blessed with much spiritual fruitfulness. Their embrace of the cross is a means to great growth in holiness."
Bishop Rhoades also asked the many Sisters of St. Francis who were at the Mass to hold the couples struggling with infertility in their prayers and to ask the other sisters at their motherhouse to do the same. Noting that the Sisters of St. Francis maintain perpetual adoration, he called them a "powerhouse of prayer."


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namespace mlfe{
namespace operators{
namespace {

template <typename T>
void dropout_fwd_impl(Tensor x, Tensor y, T drop_ratio, bool is_training)
{
    auto size = x.size();
    auto mask = create_memory(size * sizeof(T));
    auto x_ptr = x.device_data<T>();
    auto y_ptr = y.mutable_device_data<T>();
    auto mask_ptr = mask->mutable_device_data<T>();
    auto bernouli_fn = math::bernoulli_distribution<T, CUDAContext>;
    x.get_node().add_attr("mask", mask);

    T keep_ratio = T(1) - drop_ratio;
    T keep_ratio_inv = T(1) / keep_ratio;
    if(is_training && drop_ratio != 0){
        bernouli_fn(size, drop_ratio, mask_ptr);
        math::scal<T, CUDAContext>(size, keep_ratio_inv, mask_ptr, y_ptr);
        math::elementwise_mul<T, CUDAContext>(size, x_ptr, y_ptr, y_ptr);
    }
    else{
        copy(x.get_memory(), y.get_memory());
    }
}

template <typename T>
void dropout_bwd_impl(Tensor x, Tensor dy, Tensor dx, T drop_ratio)
{
    auto mask = *x.get_node().get_attr("mask").data<memory_ptr>();
    auto dy_ptr = dy.device_data<T>();
    auto dx_ptr = dx.mutable_device_data<T>();
    auto mask_ptr = mask->device_data<T>();
    auto size = x.size();
    T keep_ratio = T(1) - drop_ratio;
    T keep_ratio_inv = T(1) / keep_ratio;
    math::scal<T, CUDAContext>(size, keep_ratio_inv, mask_ptr, dx_ptr);
    math::elementwise_mul<T, CUDAContext>(size, dy_ptr, dx_ptr, dx_ptr);
}

} // namespace anonymous

REGIST_OP_KERNEL(dropout_fwd, dropout_fwd_fn_t, dropout_fwd_impl<float>);
REGIST_OP_KERNEL(dropout_bwd, dropout_bwd_fn_t, dropout_bwd_impl<float>);

} // namespace operators
} // namespace mlfe

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As you've seen in the news, BITCOIN and other virtual currencies (as they are called) are big news these days. If you are into bitcoins, mining them, owning them or just keeping an eye on them, the first essential need is being updated about the price and exchange rates.
This 1x1 widget lets you choose your desired exchange center (Including the Mt Gox, Camp BX, Bitstamp, BTC-e, Coinbase, Bitpay, BitKonan and few others) in addition to your "to" and "from" currencies and keep yourself updated about the price.
You can choose main virtual currencies (Bitcoin and Litecoin aka BTC and LTC) and select the desired real world currency (USD, CAD, EURO, .. based on the exchange server you select) and have as much as 1x1 widgets you want, showing different exchanges.
Good thing about this widget is its simplicity and straight forward approach toward the goal of "showing the exchange rate" plus simple 24hours or 1Week charts it shows when the widgets are tapped.
In my case the drawback was the fact that it lacks less expensive crypto currencies like Dogecoin. Not having access to supercomputers and huge proccessing power, I myself mine Dogecoin and would be very glad if this straightforward widget was supporting it.


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Q: Swapping JPanel, 2nd JPanel doesn't display I have a JFrame and 2 JPanels.  One panel is the start screen with buttons.  The other panel is the game screen.  When I remove the start screen and display the game screen nothing happens to the JFrame.  The start screen is persistent but not usable and the game runs in the background without updating the screen.  When the game completes the start screen is usable again.  I've searched everywhere online for a solution.  They all say removeAll, revalidate, repaint, pack, or getContentPane.removeAll.  I've not been able to get any of these solutions to work.  Here is the driver class:
public class BallDriver extends JFrame {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    int width = 500;
    int height = 500;

    Container cont;
    StartScreen start;
    BallGame ballGame;

    public BallDriver() {
        cont = getContentPane();
        startScreen();
    }

    private void startScreen() {

        setTitle("BallGame");
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(new Dimension(width, height));
        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500,500));

        start = new StartScreen();
        JButton[] startButtons = start.getButtons();
        setupButtons(startButtons);
        add(start, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    }

    private void startGame(String difficulty) throws InterruptedException {
        removeAll();
        setSize(new Dimension(width, height));
        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(width, height));

        ballGame = new BallGame(width, height);
        ballGame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(width, height));
        add(ballGame, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        revalidate();
        repaint();

        while(!ballGame.endGame()) {
            ballGame.moveBall();
            ballGame.repaint();
            try {
                Thread.sleep(2);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
        }

        removeAll();
        add(start, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        revalidate();
        repaint();
    }

    private void setupButtons(final JButton[] buttons) {
        for (JButton button : buttons) {
            button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

                @Override
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    Object object = e.getSource();
                    try {
                        if (object == buttons[0])
                            startGame(StartScreen.MODE_EASY);
                        if (object == buttons[1])
                            startGame(StartScreen.MODE_NORMAL);
                        if (object == buttons[2])
                            startGame(StartScreen.MODE_HARD);
                    } catch (InterruptedException e1) {
                        e1.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args){
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                  BallDriver ballDriver = new BallDriver();
                  ballDriver.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}

EDIT:
I've updated the class to use cardlayout, but the same thing occurs.
public class BallDriver extends JFrame {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    int width = 500;
    int height = 500;

    JPanel cardPanel = new JPanel();
    Container cont;
    StartScreen start;
    BallGame ballGame;
    CardLayout cardLayout = new CardLayout();

    public BallDriver() {
        setTitle("BallGame");
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(new Dimension(width, height));
        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(width, height));

        cardPanel.setLayout(cardLayout);
        cont = getContentPane();
        add(cardPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        startScreen();

    }

    private void startScreen() {
        start = new StartScreen();
        JButton[] startButtons = start.getButtons();
        setupButtons(startButtons);
        cardPanel.add(start, "start");
        cardLayout.show(cardPanel, "start");
    }

    private void startGame(String difficulty) throws InterruptedException {

        ballGame = new BallGame(width, height);
        cardPanel.add(ballGame, "game");
        cardLayout.show(cardPanel, "game");
        cardPanel.revalidate();
        cardPanel.repaint();

        while(!ballGame.endGame()) {
            System.out.println("Running");
            ballGame.moveBall();
            ballGame.repaint();
            try {
                Thread.sleep(2);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
        }
    }

    private void setupButtons(final JButton[] buttons) {
        for (JButton button : buttons) {
            button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

                @Override
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    Object object = e.getSource();
                    try {
                        if (object == buttons[0])
                            startGame(StartScreen.MODE_EASY);
                        if (object == buttons[1])
                            startGame(StartScreen.MODE_NORMAL);
                        if (object == buttons[2])
                            startGame(StartScreen.MODE_HARD);
                    } catch (InterruptedException e1) {
                        e1.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args){
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                  BallDriver ballDriver = new BallDriver();
                  ballDriver.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}

A: CardLayout allows you to add multiple panels to a Container, displaying only 1 panel at a time, with the ability to switch between panels. You set the parent's layout to CardLayout, add panels to your frame specifying a name as the constraints:
 CardLayout layout = new CardLayout();
 JFrame frame = new JFrame();
 frame.setLayout(layout);

 JPanel panel1 = new JPanel();
 JPanel panel2 = new JPanel();

 frame.add(panel1, "first");
 frame.add(panel2, "second");

The first panel added is the first tk be displayed. To switch between panels, call CardLayout#show(Container, String), passing in the parent of the panels (considered the "deck") and the name of the specific panel you want (considered the "card").
 layout.show(frame, "second");

A common problem people have with CardLayout is having the parent resize to the current panel's size. This can be achieved by extending upon CardLayout


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Dion Drena Beljo (born 1 March 2002) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a forward for German  club FC Augsburg.

Club career
Born in Zagreb, Beljo started his career with Cibalia, playing for the club's youth teams. In the 2018−19 season, he started playing for the Cibalia first team in the Druga NL, the third tier of the Croatian football league system. In his debut season, he amassed ten goals and nine assists, while his team finished in first place and secured promotion to the Prva NL. In 2019 he moved to first division club NK Osijek, and in June 2020, he signed a professional contract with the club. In July 2021, he was loaned out to Istra 1961 for the 2021–22 season. Beljo was a starter for Istra, appearing in 34 league matches, in which he scored 15 goals. After the end of his loan spell, he returned to Osijek, where he scored eight goals in 15 appearances during the first half of the 2022–23 season.

On 13 January 2023, Beljo joined FC Augsburg on a four-and-a-half year contract for €3 million fee. He made his Bundesliga debut on 22 January in a 3–4 loss against Borussia Dortmund. On 4 March 2023, he scored his first goal in a 2-1 win over SV Werder Bremen.

Personal life
Beljo is named Dion after Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, while Drena was his grandfather's nickname.

Career statistics

Club

Honours
Individual
Croatian Cup Top goalscorer: 2021–22

References

External links

2002 births
Footballers from Zagreb
Living people
Croatian footballers
Association football forwards
Croatia youth international footballers
Croatia under-21 international footballers
HNK Cibalia players
NK Osijek players
NK Istra 1961 players
FC Augsburg players
First Football League (Croatia) players
Second Football League (Croatia) players
Croatian Football League players
Bundesliga players
Croatian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Germany
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Germany


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Миколай Нападиевич (также Миколай Нападиевич, эдлер фон Венцковский — ; Миколай Нападиевич-Вєнцковский; 9 марта 1779, Увисла — 11 апреля 1845, Львов) — польский юрист, декан и ректор Львовского университета, почётный гражданин Львова.

Биография
Происходил из простой крестьянской семьи. Среднее образование получил в Збараже. Изучал право во Львовском университете, а в 1807 году получил степень доктора права в Ягеллонском университете. В 1810-1828 годах работал адвокатом в благородном суде во Львове. С 1813 года связал свою деятельность со Львовским университетом, где получил степень доктора философии (1817). Преподавал на двух факультетах: права (естественное, народов и уголовное) и философии, где трижды был деканом. В 1828-1829 годах был ректором Львовского университета. В 1811 году женился на Францишке из Холецких, с которой имел двух сыновей: Эдварда (умер в 1881, советник Высшего Трибунала в Вене) и Александра (доктор права). Купил себе земельную собственность, а император Фердинанд предоставил ему диплом шляхетства.

Умер во Львове, похоронен в родовом имении в с. Венцковичи (ныне Вербовка, Самборский район, Львовской области).

Награды
 Почетный гражданин Львова (1823)
 Дворянский титул первой степени (1834)

Примечания

Источники
 "Макарий Каровец". Ректоры Львовского университета. — Жовква 1936. — С. 6.
 "Ludwik Finkel". Historya Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego. — Lwów 1894.
 "S. Górzyński". Nobilitacje w Galicji w latach 1772-1918. — Warszawa 1997.

Педагоги Польши
Доктора философии
Доктора права
Ректоры Львовского университета
Почётные граждане Львова
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Q: Testing symfony commands not working I'd like to test a symfony command using CommandTester as explained here http://symfony.com/doc/2.3/components/console/introduction.html#testing-commands.
The command I want to test removes records having the column decision set to true. (More detail in the code below)
public function testMyCommand()
{
    // .....
    // Updating the database
    $res = $this->client->getContainer()->get('doctrine.orm.entity_manager')->createQueryBuilder()
        ->update('MyBundle:MyEntity', 'me')
        ->set('me.decision', true)
        ->where('me.id = :id')
        ->setParameter('id', 4);

    // The command is meant to seek for all entities having *decision* set to true and delete them
    $application = new Application($this->client->getKernel());
    $application->add(new CronQuotidienCommand());

    $command = $application->find('myproject:mycmd');
    $commandTester = new CommandTester($command);
    $commandTester->execute(array('command' => $command->getName()));

    $this->assertEmpty($this->client->getContainer()->get('doctrine')->getRepository('MyBundle:MyEntity')->findBy(array('decision' => true));
}

Although the test fails, there is one MyEntity, whose id equals to 4, with the column decision set to true, which means that $commandTester->execute(array('command' => $command->getName())); didn't find any MyEntity with decision set to true (referesh matter?).
The surprise is when I replace

    $application = new Application($this->client->getKernel());
    $application->add(new CronQuotidienCommand());

    $command = $application->find('myproject:mycmd');
    $commandTester = new CommandTester($command);
    $commandTester->execute(array('command' => $command->getName()));

with
    shell_exec('php ' . $this->container->get('kernel')->getRootDir() . '/console myproject:mycmd');

it does work.
Any ideas? thx

A: Did you try:
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArrayInput;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput;

$arguments = array(
    // ...
);
$input = new ArrayInput($arguments);
$output = new ConsoleOutput();
$returnCode = $command->run($input, $output);

instead of:
$commandTester = new CommandTester($command);
$commandTester->execute(array('command' => $command->getName()));


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