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Bio Tricks
by Mark Jenkins November 17th, 2006 August 29th, 2020
Montages of scribbling pens, tumbling pages, and wet canvases just don't do it—the rush of artistic creation usually looks stultifyingly mechanical in biopics about writers, painters, composers, and the like. So director Steven Shainberg, who certainly altered the office-comedy schema with his B&D-themed Secretary, decided to eliminate entirely the mechanics of making art from his study of a longtime obsession, New York photographer Diane Arbus. The results are mixed but certifiably different, which is more than can be said for Agnieszka Holland's Copying Beethoven. The latter rises to the challenge of getting the composer's inspiration on screen, but only during one sequence of an otherwise formulaic movie.
As if you couldn't guess, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus is not a true story. In fact, it both opens and closes with cautionary notes that underscore the movie's subtitle. Scripted by Secretary's Erin Cressida Wilson, the film begins with Arbus (Nicole Kidman) on an early shoot at a nudist camp, then hops back to just before she became a working photographer. The setup is historically accurate: In 1958, Arbus is living in Manhattan, the mother of two young daughters. She works as an assistant to husband Allan (Ty Burrell), a commercial photographer who shoots fashion spreads for the department store owned by Diane's uptight, controlling parents (Harris Yulin and Jane Alexander). The store is known for its furs, but that's just a departure point for a fable that owes more to Alice in Wonderland and Jean Cocteau's film of Beauty and the Beast than its ostensible source, Patricia Bosworth's Diane Arbus: A Biography.
Diane is dissatisfied with her life but has no inspiration to change it. That changes abruptly when retired sideshow attraction Lionel (Robert Downey Jr.), moves in upstairs, at first wearing a mask. He's covered with hair, and soon a clump of his pelt has blocked the Arbus' drain. When Diane cleans out the clog, she finds a key inside. This implied invitation leads into Lionel's world, which is populated by the sort of people the real Arbus became (in)famous for photographing: Among his pals are a dwarf, an armless woman, and a dominatrix. Diane's interest in the fur-faced Lionel is immediately and unabashedly erotic, and he purringly cultivates her interest. The first time they talk, he gets her partially disrobed and interrogates her about her sex life, which at that point is not nearly so interesting as it's going to get.
A suave and grown-up, if bizarre, version of the many youthful seducers Downey has played in his career, Lionel has a quietly authoritative manner and lots of interesting props. His penthouse apartment, reached impossibly via a spiral staircase or a trap door, is crammed with arcane photos and fetish objects, the perfect place for a mad hatter's tea party. (At their initial meeting, Diane sips tea while Lionel pets a white rabbit.) Yet, as the embodiment of the "freak" muse that will liberate Diane, Lionel can't linger. Finally, she shaves his entire body, and he then departs into a symbolic sea. Diane Arbus the artist—who has just taken her first real photograph—is born.
Beautifully photographed (by Bill Pope) and impeccably staged, Fur tantalizes and fascinates—for a while. Gradually, however, its limitations come into focus. Shainberg and Wilson don't really expand on the motifs that are introduced in the first half hour, and the film ultimately doesn't have anything to say about the process of creating either art or an artistic career. Kidman is wide-eyed, whispery, and weirdly passive, an altered state she's entered before in such films as Birth and Dogville. The idea seems to be that, in order to photograph freaks, you must first become one. Yet while the actual Arbus was clearly a distressed soul—she committed suicide in 1971—it's not at all clear that she ever experienced such an epiphany. Indeed, it could be argued that her photographs take their power from a fascination that has nothing to do with empathy.
Just because Arbus' photographs inspired Fur doesn't mean the movie had to be the story, however fanciful, of her life. Untethered as it is to reality, the film still stumbles over issues of the photographer's identity. Ultimately, Shainberg reaches the same point as many a "based on a true story" filmmaker and doesn't seem to realize it: His real-life subject becomes a distraction from the themes he wants to develop. Having used Arbus' work as a springboard, Fur should have taken a definitive leap into pure fiction and left the biopic to more literal-minded storytellers.
Agnieszka Holland began her career as a screenwriter, but since becoming a director she's frequently worked from other people's scripts. Usually it's apparent what attracted her to the project, but sometimes it is decidedly not. In the case of Copying Beethoven, which was written by Nixon and Ali authors Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele, Holland's likely motivation eventually becomes clear: She wanted to stage the film's 10-minute abridgement of the 1824 Vienna premiere of Beethoven's Ninth, conducted by the deaf composer (Ed Harris) while he's prompted by his pretty and feisty new score copyist, Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger). It's a dazzling sequence that justifies the price of admission for Beethoven fans—or at least the ones who aren't sticklers for historical accuracy. Too bad about the rest of the movie.
Trying to make a biopic that embodies the delicacy and grandeur of Beethoven's music is not a fresh idea; director Bernard Rose attempted it with 1994's Immortal Beloved. But where that film was a sort of mystery, turning on the identity of the never-identified "immortal beloved" to whom the composer left his estate, Copying Beethoven has very little story at all. It's essentially Amadeus without the latter's bitter rivalry. Beethoven, like that film's Mozart, is revealed as a vulgar, dislikable man whose music has a sublimity that's undiscernible in his character. And then he dies.
Technically, Beethoven expires at the beginning of the movie, as faithful Anna rushes to his deathbed. Then the story flashes back three years, to the moment when she's recruited by a music publisher driven to distraction by the composer's demands. Supposedly, Anna is the most promising music student in Vienna, and she soon proves herself by "correcting" a passage in his symphony—and thus improving it. Both the publisher and the composer are shocked that Anna is a woman, as their real-life counterparts also would have been. She's actually a composite character constructed from the two male copyists Beethoven employed near the end of his life.
Since romance never develops between Beethoven and Anna, it was hardly necessary to make the copyist female. Reportedly, potential backers thought it made the film more marketable, but there's another reason as well. Wilkinson and Rivele modeled their central characters' relationship on those sweet-tart old Hollywood romances that invariably begin with mutual disdain. Harris, who played a faith-challenged priest in Holland's 1999 film The Third Miracle, is the crusty middle-aged man set in his ways and challenged by a young woman who's both attractive and competent. His is the Spencer Tracy role, telegraphed by such affectations as the condescending way he always refers to Anna by her full name. (The role is less than ideal for Harris, who's more persuasive in the tragic moments than the comic ones.) Kruger, who has somewhat overcome the stigma of playing an utterly blank Helen in Wolfgang Petersen's drably epic Troy, is Katharine Hepburn, of course: She knows better, and doesn't need the old coot anyway, yet gradually she's won over by the better side of his nature.
Patterning the movie on mid-century romantic comedies is preferable to emulating those drowsy old Hollywood dramas about great artists and composers. And Holland and cinematographer Ashley Rowe do give the film a contemporary look, relying heavily on handheld camera, natural light, and deep shadows. The film's centerpiece—which features Hungary's Kecskemet Symphony Orchestra on stage but Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on the soundtrack—is a delirious montage of quick cuts and fast pans that's more recent European art film (the Warsaw-born director's home turf) than old-school biopic. After that flight of imagination, however, Copying Beethoven returns to its musty battle-of-the-sexes scenario, which now seems even more feeble than before. The film's conclusion, a brief lyrical moment that resembles the controversial ending of the Holland-scripted Holocaust drama Korczak, gently recalls the rapture of the film's concert-hall sequence. All the rest, though, is a trudge through narrative readymades that would seem tired even if they weren't regularly upstaged by Beethoven's music.CP


Russell Westwood, A student in the Royal Academy Schools., March 1953.
Watched by George White, the School's Porter, a student signs in at the beginning of the day. In the background is an honours board listing the students who obtained gold medals and travelling studentships. Photographed by Russell Westwood for a feature on the Royal Academy of Arts, published in Illustrated May 2nd and May 9th 1953.
A student in the Royal Academy Schools.


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Q: Can we use "not" without helping verb?
We form negative declarative clauses with not after be (she is not talking), after modal verbs (they must not go) and after auxiliary verbs do and have (we did not like it; they have not eaten). Cambridge Dictionary

And I found the following sentence in Oxford Dictionary:

perhaps not surprisingly, he was cautious about committing himself.

But perhaps is not a helping verb. So, Can we use "not" without helping verb?

Update:

The Negation Rule: In English, in order to claim that something is not true, you form a negative sentence by adding the word not after the first auxiliary verb in the positive sentence. If there is no auxiliary verb in the positive sentence, as in the Present Simple and Past Simple tenses, then you add one (in both these cases, the auxiliary verb do). White Smoke

We make negatives by putting not after the first part of the verb. British Council

Another example of using not without an auxiliary verb:

I can think of a hundred reasons not to come.

is the above negative clauses? if yes, What is the rule to use not without auxiliary verb?  if no, what is the part of speech of not in the above sentence?

A: If not is negating a finite verb, i.e. one that is connected to and inflected by a subject, then not should come after a helping verb, meaning verb to be, modals and auxiliary verbs be, do and have, for example:

I am not well today.
I have not finished my assignment yet.
Don't you have better things to do?
She was not paying attention.

This is what is normally called negative clause
However, if the verb being negated is nonfinite, which means infinitives with and without to, participles, except for perfect tenses, and -ing gerunds, except for progressive tenses, then not normally comes before the verb it negates:

It is common not to tip severs in some parts of Europe.
The problem was solved by not using the defective part in further projects.
"The Road Not Taken" is a poem by Robert Frost.
I can think of a hundred reasons not to come.

Likewise, it is possible to negate words and phrases other than verbs, normally by placing not right before the word or phrase one wishes to negate. Your first example falls into this category.

Perhaps not surprisingly, he was cautious about committing himself.
He won not only the championship, but also the hearts of thousands of fans.

A: The short answer to your question is yes, you can do this. It is grammatically correct although normally in this situation you would use "unsurprisingly" instead of "not surprisingly".

A: The primary definition of a word in the dictionary provides with its unique meaning, which granted it its entry.
Using words in their primary definition will construct a sentence in plain English, and eliminate any outlets of interpretation from its intended meaning.
Nonetheless, the amount of words to choose from can be puzzling, and there are so many words with multiple meanings, to easily leave the reader puzzled, if we don't pay attention.
Yet, there are not so many sentences which will tell exactly what we mean, or mean exactly what we wish to tell.
Although the primary usage of ' not ' is to form a negation, the meaning of a sentence using 'not' is not always in the negative sense.
Plain text is rather monotonous, but ensures it to be understood.
Whereas, on one hand, using 'not' in a positive sense or other embellishing metaphors to make reading more exciting is entirely exploitable, on the other hand, making sense, when we speak, is still a requisite.
It depends on how much we need to get our point across. Sometimes, writings are just meant to be confusing.
However we do it, we pick the words we need, as what counts, at the end, is not only what we mean but also to be understood.

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At least the summer wasn't too brutal. Other than a merely somewhat-above-average summer, 2017 proved to be another record-breaking year of weather extremes in Texas. We hardly had a winter, with the warmest February on record. That month, 42 weather stations in the state broke records, and temperatures in Houston didn't drop to the 30s the entire month for the first time since 1950. In the first quarter of the year, wildfires scorched about 500,000 acres and killed five people in the Panhandle. In late March, communities in North Texas were pelted with softball-sized hail. While the summer had close to average temperatures, the coast was hit in August by Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm that dumped 60 inches of rain over Houston.
As global temperatures rise, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense. According to an analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2017 was the second-warmest year on record for Texas — 2.8 degrees Fahrenheit above the historical average. The warmest year on record for Texas was 2012, with temperatures 3.2 degrees above average. Nationally, six of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred in this century.
The rise in temperatures exacerbates extreme weather, and Texas experienced this firsthand with Harvey.
El Niño and La Niña, the alternating oceanic weather cycle, combined with climate change are the dominant factors in determining global temperatures as well as Texas weather. In 2017, both La Niña and climate change worked hand-in-hand, according to John Nielsen-Gammon, the state climatologist and a professor at Texas A&M University's department of atmospheric sciences. La Niña typically brings warmer and drier conditions to Texas. Overlaying climate change on the effects of La Niña led to Texas experiencing its second-warmest year on record, he said.
Though the year started off warmer than usual in Texas, the summer wasn't much warmer than average, partly because of the cooling effect of Harvey, according to Nielsen-Gammon. Despite Harvey, Texas didn't break any annual statewide precipitation records last year — in part the effect of drier conditions brought by La Niña. On average, the state received 3.23 inches more rainfall than normal, ranking 35th in the historical record.
The rise in temperatures exacerbates extreme weather, and Texas experienced this firsthand with Harvey. The hurricane, which landed on the Texas coast as a Category 4 storm and stalled for several days over Houston, dumped about 60 inches of rainfall. While Nielsen-Gammon said that it is rare for storms to stall, the amount of rainfall produced by any given storm is increasing because of climate change.
"The combination of storms stalling and being right along the coast and being very intense is a bad combination," he said. Only two other storms that stalled in the Atlantic — Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and Hurricane Flora in 1963 — were more intense than Harvey, he said.
Extreme weather events are costly. For one, more intense storms, longer droughts, wildfires and heavier rainfall can destroy property and wreak havoc on the agricultural industry. According to NOAA, there were 16 weather and climate disasters nationally, which cost more than $300 billion and resulted in the deaths of 362 people. Hurricane Harvey alone cost $125 billion and resulted in 89 deaths. Similarly, about 9,300 wildfires in Texas damaged more than 700,000 acres and destroyed 49 homes.


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Biografia
Di origini irlandesi (i suoi nonni paterni sono nativi di Belfast e della contea di Clare, proveniente dalle giovanili del Warringah, in cui esordì nel 2007, McCabe ebbe la sua prima esperienza di rugby professionistico nel corso dell'effimero Australian Rugby Championship, che si tenne in un'unica edizione nel 2007 e che si concluse con la vittoria della squadra per la quale McCabe era stato ingaggiato, i Central Coast Rays.

Nel 2009 entrò nelle giovanili dei Brumbies e un anno più tardi gli fu offerto un contratto biennale per giocare in prima squadra in Super Rugby.
Nel 2010 esordì anche negli Wallabies, a Firenze contro l'; l'anno seguente vinse il Tri Nations 2011 e fu convocato per la , nel corso della quale fu schierato nella fase a gironi contro l'.
Al termine della competizione si aggiudicò il terzo posto assoluto con la sua squadra.

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Q: WebAssembly launchSettings.json file in deployed/hosted asp.net core How to deal with ./Client/Properties/launchSettings.json in deployed/hosted asp.net core  WebAssembly in Azure?
I read on another post that in deployment launchSettings.json does not get read.
Is it just a matter of converting all these settings to Environment Variables?
If it doesn't get read? Is there any point to having a 'Deployment' profile defined in here?
I am using GitHub actions to deploy. (generated automatically during the Azure App creation process)
launchSettings.json contents
{
  "iisSettings": {
    "windowsAuthentication": false,
    "anonymousAuthentication": true,
    "iisExpress": {
      "applicationUrl": "http://localhost:29616",
      "sslPort": 44304
    }
  },
  "profiles": {
    "IIS Express": {
      "commandName": "IISExpress",
      "launchBrowser": true,
      "inspectUri": "{wsProtocol}://{url.hostname}:{url.port}/_framework/debug/ws-proxy?browser={browserInspectUri}",
      "environmentVariables": {
        "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development"
      }
    },
    "ST_reports": {
      "commandName": "Project",
      "dotnetRunMessages": "true",
      "launchBrowser": true,
      "inspectUri": "{wsProtocol}://{url.hostname}:{url.port}/_framework/debug/ws-proxy?browser={browserInspectUri}",
      "applicationUrl": "https://localhost:5001;http://localhost:5000",
      "environmentVariables": {
        "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development"
      }
    }
  }
}

A:
Is it just a matter of converting all these settings to Environment Variables?

No, declaring all, at per environment, the application will choose appropriate configuration.

If it doesn't get read? Is there any point to having a 'Deployment' profile defined in here?

It is your mistake.

A: To clarify.
The launchsettings.json file DOES get read.
If you are deploying with dotnet via github action workflow for instance the --configuration or -c in your yml workflow will take care of that for you. (same goes for ./Client/wwwroot/appsettings.json file)
If you choose a github repo to build from during the Azure App creation process, a workflow like this one will be generated automatically.

# Docs for the Azure Web Apps Deploy action: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2134798
# More GitHub Actions for Azure: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2135048

name: Azure App Service - STR(Production), Build and deploy DotnetCore app

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - live_branch

jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: windows-latest

    steps:
    # checkout the repo
    - name: 'Checkout Github Action'
      uses: actions/checkout@master

    - name: Set up .NET Core
      uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
      with:
        dotnet-version: '5.0.x'

    - name: Build with dotnet
      run: dotnet build --configuration Release

    - name: dotnet publish
      run: dotnet publish -c Release -o ${{env.DOTNET_ROOT}}/myapp

    - name: Run Azure webapp deploy action using publish profile credentials
      uses: azure/webapps-deploy@v2
      with:
        app-name: ShowTexReports
        slot-name: Production
        publish-profile: ${{ secrets.AZUREAPPSERVICE_PUBLISHPROFILE_59C84BEF40F14C2CB32AF63670038D8F }}
        package: ${{env.DOTNET_ROOT}}/myapp

So don't do what I did and have .gitignore exlude that file for you.
Because your build will not function propperly.
My Webassembly app would be stuck on Authorizing.. after partially rendering with the error message in console.
blazor.webassembly.js:1 crit: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Rendering.WebAssemblyRenderer[100] Unhandled exception rendering component: Failed to construct 'URL': Invalid URL TypeError: Failed to construct 'URL': Invalid URL


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Daily and Sunday national newspapers continued to see circulation fall year-on-year in July, with only the i bucking the trend, according to the latest figures from ABC.
But a month which saw newspaper enthusiastically welcome the birth of a royal baby saw most titles increase sales compared with June.
Of the dailies, The Independent suffered the biggest relative fall, seeing its circulation decline by 13.57 per cent year on year. The Daily Star, The Sun and the Financial Times all experienced drops of more than 10 per cent.
The Times performed considerably better than its peers year-on-year, seeing a decline of just 0.95 per cent.
All Sunday papers were down, with the biggest fall suffered by the Daily Star Sunday which lost 25.13 per cent of its circulation.
The Daily Mirror kept its head above the 1m circulation figure, recording a circulation of 1,038,417. But the paper was aided by 30,023 bulk sales not recorded last year.
Despite the expected annual falls in circulation, several papers saw month-on-month circulation figures improve, possibly boosted by the arrival of the Royal baby.
Among daily papers, all except the Daily Mail, The Independent and the FT added circulation compared to June. The biggest winners were The Times (up 2.38 per cent), The Guardian (up 2.24 per cent) and The Daily Telegraph (up 2.14 per cent).
The Daily Express was subjected to some online ribbing this week in Press Gazette as blogger Subscribe took issue with its seemingly formulaic choice of front pages.
But sales-wise it out-performed its mid-market rival the Daily Mail in relative terms last month.
While sales of the Daily Express rose 2.06 per cent month on month, the Daily Mail dropped 1.36 per cent.
The FT's circulation fell by 5.31 per cent month-on-month, marking the biggest loss among the dailes.
Among the Sunday papers, the Sunday Express (up 4.38 per cent) and The Observer (up 3.74 per cent) had the biggest month-on-month circulation boosts.


Saw it this morning at groody roundabout neil, class looking tezz, really needs a front lip thou! The elegance bumper with no lip is letting the rest of the car down big time!
03 as well, a rare enough sight!
was there a woman driving it by any chance ??
hahahah do you know what they say about baldy women ??


Executable UML is getting increasingly popular (again) in part thanks to the push of the new Executable UML standards (fuml and Alf) now available. Executable UML aims at defining UML models with a behavioral specification precise enough to be effectively executed. In its purest state, Executable UML eliminates the need to program at all the software system.
Ready to give Executable UML a try? Here we collected all the executable tools we are aware of (thanks Ed for doubling the length of the lists with your suggestions!, others please jump in as well). For each tool we provide the name and URL, whether the tool is free, commercial or whatever and if the tool supports the recent Executable UML standards or its own kind of executable UML.
fUML Ref. Implementation (execution engine) Open source Reference implementation that can assist in evaluating vendor implementations conformance with the specification.
Tools based on the fUML/Alf standards (in a broad sense, also including tools that derive from the initial action languages available in older UML specifications).
IBM Rational Rhapsody Commercial Offers state machine and activity diagram execution in UML and SysML models through automatic generation of Java/C++/C/C#/Add code.
Abstract Solutions xUML Commercial Abstract Solutions is a new incarnation of the company previously known as Kennedy-Carter, also deriving from the original proposals for Executable UML.
Sinelabore Commercial Command line tool for code-generation from UML state machines, especially targeting resource limited embedded real-time and high-availability systems. It has simulation, tracing and test-case generation capabilities.
TOPCASED Model Simulation EPL This tool has been merged into Papyrus (see above).
UML Almighty Open source UML tool capable of execute behavior and generate a Web prototype to execute that behavior.
Pathfinder Solutions PathMATE Commercial PathMATE transforms (executable) platform independent models to "efficient, high-performance" code.
Thanks for including AlphaSimple. You may also want to include the TextUML Toolkit. The TextUML Toolkit is an Eclipse-based tool for creating executable UML models.
Love your list! Here are some more entries you can add.
– Offers both state machine and activity model execution.
– Offers state machine, interaction model and activity model execution through automatic generation of Java code.
– Part of the Blu Age "Agile Legacy Modernization" Suite.
– This was the tool that Shlear and Mellor's company Project Technology was using when the company was bought by Mentor Graphics.
– Abstract Solutions is a new incarnation of the company previously known as Kennedy-Carter.
Oops, for RSA I should have said that they are moving their action language to _Alf_ conformance.
Please consider adding the free, cross platform QM modeling tool from Quantum Leaps (http://www.state-machine.com/qm). QM is capable of generating complete code for real-time embedded systems based on the open source QP frameworks (http://www.state-machine.com/qp). The tool is specifically designed for UML state machines and is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
-Comments: Lightweight UML modeling tool for designing and implementing real-time embedded applications based on the QP state machine frameworks. Generates very compact and efficient C or C++ code suitable for single-chip microcontrollers.
Sorry for the sales pitch :), but you may want to add IBM Rational Rhapsody. It is one of the oldest tools in this space (since 1995 I think), and certainly one of the most successful. Mostly geared towards the embedded and systems engineering domains, it is used extensively in the Consumer Electronics, Aerospace & Defense and Automotive markets.
– Offers state machine and activity diagram execution in UML and SysML models through automatic generation of Java/C++/C/C#/Add code.
You should also add the TOPCASED Model Simulation facilities which currently allows to animate graphically State machine and Activity diagrams, including OCL, Class diagrams and Object creation. It relies on TOPCASED/MDT for the graphical animation and is developed by ATOS based on work and prototypes by IRIT (Benoit Combemale PhD thesis).
You may also add our CASSANDRA/xUML toolset to your list. Although it doesn't support the Alf syntax, it supports almost complete OCL and UML Action Semantics, and more: simulation of use case models, GUI modelling, behaviour inheritance, temporal operations, rule sets as well as persistence and (nested) transactions. It is now almost 10 years old and has been used in large projects (with hundreds of state machines) in the domains of safety-critical systems and finance.
UML Almighty is an UML tool capable of execute behavior and generate a Web prototype to execute that behavior.
Is not based on any standard but is very usefull.
AlphaSimple is no longer available, but if you replace it with Cloudfier the description still fits. And it is free for prototyping.
will suggest few whn i find something.
You already have Papyrus in your list and you may want to add its newly created sibling: "Papyrus for Real Time" (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.papyrus-rt).
Are there any executable UML tool migrating to android app?
Do you mean if there is an executable UML tool that allows you to model and execute UML diagrams in Android?
Yes. It's hard to coding on Android. But I think OOD with executable UML on Android can let software design different.
Please consider adding OOSMOS, the Object-Oriented State Machine Operating System, to your list. It generates C code from UML state charts and supports a unique feature called 'state threads', providing a lightweight thread of execution for each active state in the system.


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The country's financial services sector consists of the capital markets, insurance sector and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs). India's gross national savings (GDS) as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stood at 30.50 per cent in 2019. The total amount of Initial Public Offerings increased to Rs 84,357 crore (US$ 13,089 million) by the end of FY18. IPO's reached to US$ 1.94 billion in FY19 (up to Feb 2019). Ultra High Net Worth Individual (UHNWI) increased to 2,697 in 2018 and the population of UHNWI has grew by 118 per cent from 2013 to 2018.
The asset management industry in India is among the fastest growing in the world. In March 2019, corporate investors Assets Under Management AUM stood at US$ 136.59 billion, while HNWIs and retail investors reached US$ 107.55 billion and US$ 90.12 billion, respectively. In the Asia-Pacific, India is among the top five countries in terms of HNWIs.
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) attained permission from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), to launch commodity derivatives trading from October 1, 2018.
In FY19, equity mutual funds have registered a record net inflow of Rs 990.87 billion (US$ 14.18 billion). Total equity funding's of microfinance sector grew at the rate of 39.88 to Rs 96.31 billion (Rs 4.49 billion) in 2017-18 from Rs 68.85 billion (US$ 1.03 billion) in 2016-17.^The public deposit of NBFCs increased from US$ 293.78 million in FY09 to Rs 319.05 billion (US$ 4.95 billion) in FY18, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.86 per cent.
In November 2018, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has enabled offering live status of applications filed by listed companies on its online portal and also introduced weekly futures and options contracts on Sensex 50 index from October 26, 2018. The Government of India is planning to launch a global exchange traded fund (ETF) in FY20 to raise long term investments from overseas pension funds.
The Government of India has taken various steps to deepen the reforms in the capital markets, including simplification of the Initial Public Offer (IPO) process which allows qualified foreign investors (QFIs) to access the Indian bond markets.
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Chongqing Changan Motors
Automotive & Transportation Simcenter
Changan Motors uses Siemens' solution to optimize engine lubrication system for variable valve lift system
Chinese auto manufacturer enlists Simcenter Flomaster for optimal engine design
과제
Meet industry regulations for emissions and fuel consumption
Space limitations for oil passage of the cylinder head
Optimize engine lubrication system
성공 비결
Reduce throttle pump loss
Improve airflow volume efficiency
Use Simcenter Flomaster to optimize in-cylinder gas flow
Accelerate combustion rate
Performed three studies with changes in lubrication system's original design
Discovered optimal design with minimal changes
Learned that slotted design of intake and exhaust camshafts causes excessive leakage through the bearing clearance
Changan Automobile produces passenger cars, microvans, commercial vans and light trucks.
http://www.globalchangan.com/
Engine lubrication system optimization
Regulations are driving the automotive industry to reduce emissions and fuel consumption. As a result, new technologies such as gasoline direct injection, turbocharging and variable valve lift (VVL) are attractive options for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and tier suppliers. The VVL meets the requirements to control the airflow at different engine revolution speeds and torques by reducing throttle pump loss, improving volume efficiency, optimizing in-cylinder gas flow, speeding up the combustion rate and many more advantageous behaviors.
Wu Lifen and Yang Kun from the Chongqing Changan Motors Powertrain Development Center (Changan Motors) worked on optimizing the engine lubrication system with Siemens Digital Industries Software's Simcenter™ Flomaster™ software. They performed three studies with changes in the lubrication system's original design. The project was conducted on a 1.6-liter, 4-cylinder engine with a VVL system upgrade. The VVL technology was introduced to not affect the engine's lubrication to ensure adequate oil pressure for normal operation of the hydraulic VVL mechanism, as well as delivering sufficient lubricating oil to the bearing surface and enabling functions such as the hydraulic lash adjuster (HLA) and variable valve timing (VVT). This made the requirements of the engine lubrication system more stringent and optimization essential to meet the requirements for lubrication and hydraulic driving.
Wu and Yang discovered the space limitations for the oil passage of the cylinder head represented a major challenge. It was also difficult to maintain the lubrication of the bearing and the chain tensioner, as well as the normal operation of the VVT, HLA and VVL. As a result, multiple optimizations were made, including the addition of a throttle valve, change to the external circuit's layout, adjustment to the oil provision for the camshaft bearing, adjustment for the piston cooling jet (PCJ) opening pressure, adoption of the electronic VVT and optimization of the VVL control.
These optimizations allowed the lubrication system to meet various requirements using the existing oil pump. The original layout of the simulation model in figure 1 included a range of technologies such as the dual VVT intake and exhaust system, the VVL intake system and the HLA. The system has to provide a certain pressure and flow rate through the oil passages from the oil sump (oil pan) and the oil pump to the oil filter, bearings, PCJ, VVT system, HLA, chain tensioner and VVL system. The simulation model considered simultaneous operation of the hydraulic system of the HLA, VVT and VVL with help of a 1D Simcenter Flomaster model.
The two-stage VVL system uses a hydraulic drive to switch between high and low lift by changing the locking pin's status. The default status of the system's locking pin is the unlocked stage, which is the high-lift stage. To open the locking pin, a relative pressure of 1.75 converting bars (bar) is needed. In the initial VVL control strategy, the high-lift stage is from idling to 1,000 revolutions per minute (RPM) and maintaining the high-lift stage from 1,000 RPM to 3,500 RPM. The dual VVT intake and exhaust system requires the phase locking pin to be turned on at a certain revolution speed to withstand the internal friction torque of the VVT and the camshaft torque resistance, while adjusting the speed to meet the requirements. Once the engine is in hot idling mode, the internal check valve opening pressure of the HLA is reached.
The simulation was conducted with SL 5W-30 oil at 130 degrees Celsius (°C) and each bearing clearance was set to the maximum clearance size. The initial evaluation of the original lubrication system in figure 2 shows the HLA oil pressure requirement (yellow) and the minimum VVL oil pressure requirement (red) as dashed lines. The original system does not meet the required pressures for the HLA at 750 RPM and also the oil control valve (OCV) inlet pressure at 1,000 RPM is not sufficient to drive the VVT into operation. The VVL inlet pressure is far below the 1.75 bar required.
The maximum pressure difference between the main oil passage and the VVL is approximately 2.5 bar. The overall VVL flow rate reaches 9 liters per minute (L/min) when the pressure reaches 3 bar. This causes significant leakage and is also the cause of excessive low pressure at the VVL inlet end. The analysis showed that optimizations are required to reduce the flow rate through the VVL and reducing the pressure loss between VVL and the main oil passage.
The Optimization Design 1 was achieved by introducing a 4-way pipe to the VVL for direct oil provision from the main oil passage, an optimized layout of the camshaft bearing feed to provide oil to the intake camshaft by the exhaust camshaft cover, the individual VVL test performance was updated and a 2.5 millimeter (mm) diameter hole (10 mm in length) was introduced into the exhaust camshaft inlet manifold to reduce the exhaust camshaft flow rate. In the evaluation of the new design (figure 4), the pressure at the HLA at 750 RPM meets the nominal operating conditions but the OCV pressure at 1,000 RPM is still not sufficient to drive the VVT into operation.
The VVL pressure is also far below the 1.75 bar minimum to drive the VVL system into operation. The maximum flow rate through the external pipe reaches 9 L/min which is equal to a pressure drop of 1.5 bar from the main oil passage to the VVL solenoid valve. The analysis also shows that the slotted design of the intake exhaust camshaft causes excessive camshaft leakage through the bearing clearance. Moreover, the oil fed through the exhaust camshaft journal slot to the intake camshaft leaves room for hysteresis risk. The simulation clearly indicates room for more optimization of the lubrication system.
In the Optimized Design 2, an integrated cylinder head cover was implemented to supply oil directly to the intake camshaft based on Optimized Design 1. The slot bearings were changed to bore bearings and the 4-way pipe was changed to a bolt hole oil passage as shown in figure 5 The evaluation of the simulation for the second optimization shows in figure 6 that the HLA inlet pressure does not meet the operating requirements and the OCV inlet pressure is not sufficient to drive the VVT into operation. The VVL inlet pressure reaches 1 bar at 1,000 RPM, which is still below the 1.75 bar baseline and therefore unable to drive the VVL system into operation.
Since the optimization of the lubrication system piping was unable to meet the pressure requirements of the VVL system in the first two design optimizations, a new strategy was introduced. For the new strategy the initial PCJ spray pressure was adjusted to 2 bar, the VVT system was upgraded to an electronic controlled system and the oil pressure setting of 1.75 bar was increased to 1,500 RPM to meet the requirements of the VVL control strategy.
The simulation results in figure 7 show that the HLA inlet pressure is sufficient to drive the HLA into operation and the VVL pressure reaches 1.9 bar at 1,500 RPM, which surpasses the 1.75 bar requirement and is therefore able to drive the VVL system into operation.
The simulation with Simcenter Flomaster and its ability to quickly implement design changes enabled Wu and Yang to find the optimum design with only minimal changes.
It was found that the slotted design of the intake and exhaust camshafts causes excessive leakage through the bearing clearance and that changing the slot to a bore bearing reduced the reliance on an oil pump. It also showed that an external oil passage with an elongated design causes a high-pressure loss for high flow rates. With some adjustments of the system such as the PCJ spray pressure, the adoption of an electronically controlled VVT and the VVL control strategy, the new design will significantly impact the performance.
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Unfortunately, JMP can't write the XLSB format. It's a binary format that Microsoft doesn't document well.
I'm missing capability of JMP to read xlsb files, many colleagues of mine are using this format.
Is it still true, that JMP does not support reading and writing of xlsb (because there is no documentation)?
I also use XLSB a lot, save, open quickly, and can store VBA.
It is easy to convert XLSX into XLSB using VBA batch.
I have a suggestion. It sure would be nice if you or some other VBA user to develop a JMP Addin that probably uses the "Run Program()" function in JSL to take an XLSX and converts it into an XSLB. And then to add the JMP Addin to the JMP File Exchange.


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Jones, MLBPA celebrate Mosher Little League
Current, former O's stars join union president Clark to support Baltimore institution
By Jacob Emert MLB.com
BALTIMORE -- The helmets, gloves and cleats donated by the MLB Player's Association to James Mosher Little League was the tangible representation of the deeper support that Adam Jones, Frank Robinson, Tony Clark and others were there to offer.
"We have an impact, and we can make impacts, so I think what we're going to do is use our abilities and try and impact where we can," Jones said Saturday morning.
Jones, Delmon Young and several former players spent part of their morning at the James Mosher Fields, the home of one of the country's longest continuously operating African-American Little Leagues. The day signified the beginning of what all parties hope is a long relationship between both organizations.
"I think at the end of the day, Baltimore is one of the spots where you look to try make an impact in the near-term and the long-term, and you're looking for where that impact has already been made and how you can support it," said Clark, the president of the Players Association. "Obviously, all of us are aware of the challenges that have been here for a while now, and baseball often times is … the one thing that can bring communities together and affords kids, and parents, adults, to distract themselves from what may have happened during the week."
For those in inner-city Baltimore, the recent culmination of those challenges was the riots in late April following the death of Freddie Gray, which didn't enter the immediate West Baltimore community but coincided with the James Mosher Little League's opening day.
While notable figures, including mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, were unable to make an appearance, the celebration of the league that started in 1959 went right along.
"It was one of the better opening days we've ever had," said Walter Douglass, the league's executive secretary. "When there were protests in the heart of the city, our kids and players and parents came out to celebrate the game and what we have here."
Unlike opening day, Rawlings-Blake was able to make an appearance Saturday. She spoke to the crowd before throwing out the first pitch.
"James Mosher has been a steadfast part of this community for decades, and to see this tradition not just continue, but flourish, gives me a lot of pride," Rawlings-Blake said. "These kids out here, they're learning the important skills of teamwork, integrity and hard work, and they're learning it from men in the community who are really some of our top business leaders, top community and civic leaders."
Before Jones and Young arrived to answer questions and sign autographs, three games were held across the fields. Fittingly, in the 10-12 year old division, the Orioles walked off against the Twins. Both the celebration and disappointment were short-lived, however. After all, the kids' idols were walking in.
"I don't just think I'm the face of the franchise, it's sports here," said Jones. " It's [Joe] Flacco with the Ravens and me with the Orioles. And the city so happens to be predominantly African-American, so I think it's just where I fit in. I didn't shy away and I'm not going to shy away from the issues that need to be tackled."
Jacob Emert is an associate reporter for MLB.com.
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Travel, Uncategorized, Wisconsin
Freistadt and its proud Pomeranians
September 12, 2018 by Another Slice
Pomerania doesn't exist as a free standing country anymore, but, thanks to the multi-generational tenacity of its descendants, its culture still thrives.
Amazingly, you'll find it right here in Wisconsin, perfectly preserved and just a couple of miles up the road from Milwaukee.
Freistadt stands as a testament to a faithful community who has balanced loyalty to their homeland with patriotism for their new one since 1839. Founded by 20 families who fled Pomerania, Germany, to escape religious persecution, the little town looks almost exactly like it did when those immigrants first purchased their 40 acres of land.
Just as they meticulously maintained many of the original buildings, so too have they preserved the food, fashion and music their great-great-great-grandparents brought over from Europe. For 179 years, the town has supported the Pommersche Tanzdeel Freistadt, a troupe of dancers and musicians from ages 5 to adulthood that performs songs and dances from the Pomeranian regions. The lederhosen-wearing Freistadt Alte Kameraden Band plays authentic polka music in town and all around the state.
The town loves its festivals and hosts and/or participates in Pommerntag in June, Germanfest in July, Erntedankfest in October, and Weihnachtsfest in December. You can find more information about all of these events on the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt (Pomeranian Society of Freistadt) official website.
One of the biggest parties in Freistadt (which means "free city" in German), is their Fourth of July celebration. It begins, just like it has every year since the founders decreed, with an outdoor church service, followed by lunch, then a big parade and flag raising. Nineteenth century Freistadt residents understood the sweet opportunity this country offers to celebrate cultural heritage and still honor America.
This quote, from a letter written last year by Lyne, a woman living in the Pomeranian region of Germany, caught my eye. She laments the lack of Pomeranian culture in her homeland, which was stripped during four decades of Communist rule.
"To meet Pomeranians, enjoy Pomeranian folklore, and taste real Pomeranian cuisine, one should maybe to go to Wisconsin and experience Pommerntag in Mequon. There the old traditions have survived the changing times, they have been kept alive by the descendants of those brave and hardy Pomeranians that made the hazardous journey over to America at a time before the name Deutschland even existed."
I toured Freidstadt on a rainy Sunday morning and I found it enchanting. I'm hoping to return soon, perhaps for Weihnachtsfest. I don't speak Pomeranian (or German or Polish either, for that matter). But, I do salute the people of Freistadt. Wir sehen uns!
At the heart of Freistadt stands Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, the oldest Lutheran Church in Wisconsin.
This church cemetery honors founding members and their families, who built a tiny town with a lasting impact on this country and the one they fled.
Freistadt takes that proverb seriously.
This view might have taken place on September 3 in 2018…or 1839.
Pomeranians love their proverbs. All of the old buildings have them…
…including the smokehouse.
The whole display gives the impression of a faithful, hardworking group of people.
Chicken coop.
Cemetery Outhouse.
My tour guide and travel companion (AKA the fabulous Biskupic brothers).
Again, I could have shot this view last weekend, or 100 years ago.
Apparently, 158 years of good luck and counting.
Freistadt Pomerania Travel photography Wisconsin culture wisconsin travel
Can I get a woo hoo? (And that game was pretty great too)
Goin' to Carolina in my mind


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package org.flowable.editor.language;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.util.List;

import org.flowable.bpmn.model.BpmnModel;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.FlowElement;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.ParallelGateway;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.SequenceFlow;
import org.junit.Test;

public class FlowNodeMultipleOutgoingFlowsConverterTest extends AbstractConverterTest {

    @Test
    public void doubleConversionValidation() throws Exception {
        BpmnModel bpmnModel = readJsonFile();
        validateModel(bpmnModel);
        bpmnModel = convertToJsonAndBack(bpmnModel);
        // System.out.println("xml " + new String(new
        // BpmnXMLConverter().convertToXML(bpmnModel), "utf-8"));
        validateModel(bpmnModel);
    }

    private void validateModel(BpmnModel model) {
        FlowElement flowElement = model.getMainProcess().getFlowElement("parallel1", true);
        assertNotNull(flowElement);
        assertTrue(flowElement instanceof ParallelGateway);
        ParallelGateway gateway = (ParallelGateway) flowElement;
        List<SequenceFlow> sequenceFlows = gateway.getOutgoingFlows();
        assertEquals(3, sequenceFlows.size());
        assertTrue(sequenceFlows.get(0).getId().equals("sid-B9EE4ECE-BF72-4C25-B768-8295906E5CF8") || sequenceFlows.get(0).getId().equals("sid-D2491B73-0382-4EC2-AAAC-C8FD129E4CBE")
                || sequenceFlows.get(0).getId().equals("sid-7036D56C-E8EF-493B-ADEC-57EED4C6CE1F"));
        assertTrue(sequenceFlows.get(1).getId().equals("sid-B9EE4ECE-BF72-4C25-B768-8295906E5CF8") || sequenceFlows.get(1).getId().equals("sid-D2491B73-0382-4EC2-AAAC-C8FD129E4CBE")
                || sequenceFlows.get(1).getId().equals("sid-7036D56C-E8EF-493B-ADEC-57EED4C6CE1F"));
        assertTrue(sequenceFlows.get(2).getId().equals("sid-B9EE4ECE-BF72-4C25-B768-8295906E5CF8") || sequenceFlows.get(2).getId().equals("sid-D2491B73-0382-4EC2-AAAC-C8FD129E4CBE")
                || sequenceFlows.get(2).getId().equals("sid-7036D56C-E8EF-493B-ADEC-57EED4C6CE1F"));
        assertEquals("parallel1", sequenceFlows.get(0).getSourceRef());
        assertEquals("parallel1", sequenceFlows.get(1).getSourceRef());
        assertEquals("parallel1", sequenceFlows.get(2).getSourceRef());
        flowElement = model.getMainProcess().getFlowElement("parallel2", true);
        assertNotNull(flowElement);
        assertTrue(flowElement instanceof ParallelGateway);
        gateway = (ParallelGateway) flowElement;
        sequenceFlows = gateway.getIncomingFlows();
        assertEquals(3, sequenceFlows.size());
        assertTrue(sequenceFlows.get(0).getId().equals("sid-4C19E041-42FA-485D-9D09-D47CCD9DB270") || sequenceFlows.get(0).getId().equals("sid-05A991A6-0296-4867-ACBA-EF9EEC68FB8A")
                || sequenceFlows.get(0).getId().equals("sid-C546AC84-379D-4094-9DC3-548593F2EA0D"));
        assertTrue(sequenceFlows.get(1).getId().equals("sid-4C19E041-42FA-485D-9D09-D47CCD9DB270") || sequenceFlows.get(1).getId().equals("sid-05A991A6-0296-4867-ACBA-EF9EEC68FB8A")
                || sequenceFlows.get(1).getId().equals("sid-C546AC84-379D-4094-9DC3-548593F2EA0D"));
        assertTrue(sequenceFlows.get(2).getId().equals("sid-4C19E041-42FA-485D-9D09-D47CCD9DB270") || sequenceFlows.get(2).getId().equals("sid-05A991A6-0296-4867-ACBA-EF9EEC68FB8A")
                || sequenceFlows.get(2).getId().equals("sid-C546AC84-379D-4094-9DC3-548593F2EA0D"));
        assertEquals("parallel2", sequenceFlows.get(0).getTargetRef());
        assertEquals("parallel2", sequenceFlows.get(1).getTargetRef());
        assertEquals("parallel2", sequenceFlows.get(2).getTargetRef());
    }

    @Override
    protected String getResource() {
        return "test.flownodemultipleoutgoingflowsmodel.json";
    }

}

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Ballot Initiative Would Repeal RomneyCare's Individual Mandate
By Thomas P. Miller
About Thomas P. Miller
This week, a grassroots organization in Massachusetts announced plans to launch a ballot initiative to repeal the state's individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Massachusetts Citizens for Life is primarily concerned about how the growing cost of health care in the state will lead to rationing and denial of care. But it sees repeal of the individual mandate as the key ingredient for an eventual dismantling of the state's landmark 2006 health-care law.
The law's defenders point to its role in increasing insurance coverage in the state to record levels (though it is still not universal). But the other side of the balance sheet reveals that an overwhelming number of these newly insured are heavily subsidized through an expanded Medicaid program and a highly regulated "Connector" to coverage for individuals in households earning up to three times the federal poverty level. Meanwhile, other private insurance premiums (particularly for small businesses) continue to rise, in part due to the new law, and Massachusetts remains the "leader" among states in its high overall health-care costs. Unsubsidized Connector coverage for small businesses and other middle-income individuals has found few takers.
Political promises that the new law would reduce use of overcrowded hospital emergency rooms were overstated. Emergency room visits actually increased over 7 percent from 2006 to 2009. Timely access to primary care remains difficult as a subsidized surge in demand outstrips supply.
Although the higher costs have put some pressure on the state's own budget, most of them are hidden because they were shifted to federal taxpayers as part of a Medicaid waiver, according to a recent study by the Beacon Hill Institute.
All of the above reflects the calculated political strategy behind the 2006 law: to rapidly increase coverage first and only worry about higher costs years later. Some belated efforts to impose top-down price controls on insurers and providers in the state have mostly floundered thus far.
Apart from touting the initial coverage gains under the new law and recycling anecdotes of how it provided life-saving access to care, the program's advocates insist that it remains highly popular. Indeed, a Harvard School of Public Health poll earlier this spring reported 63 percent support for the 2006 law (up 10 percent over the last two years). However, support for the individual mandate remains more shaky, with 44 percent opposed (up from 35 percent in a similar2008 poll). And 47 percent of state residents say that the Massachusetts health law should not have been used as a national model (versus 43 percent who like telling the rest of the country what to do).
Will the new effort to roll back the state's landmark law succeed? Massachusetts voters admittedly have a greater taste for high taxes, more government spending, and overregulated health-care markets than voters in other states (see McGovern 1972; Dukakis 1988; and Kerry 2004). But the proposed ballot initiative would be the people's first chance to vote on what their politicians and closely linked interest groups delivered five years ago. By targeting the more vulnerable individual mandate, it could unravel the larger ball of yarn.
There is recent precedent for the threat of ballot initiatives to drive political change in Massachusetts. Strong grassroots efforts led to tentative approval of a different one in 2004 to add a right to "comprehensive, affordable, and equitably financed health insurance coverage" to the state constitution, and the possibility that a similar measure to impose a payroll tax on employers in 2006 might succeed added to the political pressure to finally enact the current Massachusetts health law instead.
The actual wording of the proposed ballot initiative first must be certified by state attorney general Martha Coakley before Massachusetts Citizens for Life can begin to gather the almost-60,000 signatures needed to get it on the 2012 ballot. Funny that it should be Martha Coakley — she has some first-hand experience with unexpected grassroots opposition to a new health-care law upending the plans of the state's political establishment.
— Tom Miller is a coauthor of Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America (HarperCollins 2011).