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Best Car Insurance Rates in Los Angeles, California
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Tuesday, January 8 2019 By QuoteWizard
Los Angeles, California is notorious for having the most traffic congestion in America. That means LA drivers spend a lot of time in traffic. So, they wouldn't want to spend more of their precious time contacting individual insurers looking for cheap car insurance.
Average Los Angeles Car Insurance Rates
How much is car insurance in Los Angeles, CA? Depending on what part of the city you live in, car insurance in LA can be expensive. The large number of accidents and a high crime rate are raising premiums here far above the national average. The average cost of auto insurance in California is $841.45 a year. The national average cost is $889.01.
Prices may vary depending on your driving history and the number of claims filed in your zip code. Whether you have liability or comprehensive coverage also affects how much you pay for coverage.
Los Angeles, CA Average Annual Car Insurance Rates
Liability $1,325 $1,184
Collision $573 $541
Comprehensive $92 $85
Total Cost Per Year $1,989 $1,811
Price Per Month $165.75 $150.92
These average rates are based on our sample quote data. 1
The graph below shows the most recent year California's rate data is available. According to the III, California car insurance rates increased from $740 in 2011 to $841 in 2015, a jump of $101, or 13.66 percent.
QuoteWizard helps consumers compare quotes from both national insurance companies and local agents. QuoteWizard can help you find cheap car insurance rates near Los Angeles, California and save up to 40% on your premium.
Last year, 39,112 people used QuoteWizard to compare auto insurance quotes in Los Angeles, CA from multiple companies to find the cheapest rates.
Best Car Insurance Companies in Los Angeles, CA
These are the most common car insurance companies reported by QuoteWizard users in Los Angeles, California last year. Of these 39,112 users, 5,969 were uninsured.
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Other popular Los Angeles car insurance companies: Liberty Mutual, Nationwide, 21st Century, MetLife, Safeco, American Family, Country Financial, and USAA.
Top 10 Vehicles
These are the most common vehicles owned by Los Angeles, CA drivers requesting quotes through QuoteWizard last year.
Honda Accord EX/LX
Honda Civic EX/LX
Toyota Camry LE/XLE/SE
Nissan Altima 2.5 S
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Minimum Car Insurance Requirements in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, California, has a minimum liability coverage requirement known as the 15/30/5 rule. This means each policy must include at least:
Individual Bodily Injury Liability (BIL): $15,000.
The maximum amount your insurer pays for a person injured in a car accident.
Total Bodily Injury Liability: $30,000.
The total your insurance company pays for every person injured in a car accident.
Property Damage Liability (PDL): $5,000.
The most your insurance carrier pays for property damage caused by a car accident.
Recommended Coverage Levels
It's not a great idea to buy only legal minimum coverage. While it costs less, minimum coverage becomes more expensive if you file a claim. Why? Minimum coverage does not include comprehensive or collision coverage. Plus, it's easy to exceed minimum coverage levels after an accident.
Collision coverage pays for damages to your car after an accident. Comprehensive coverage pays for damages that don't involve another car. That includes natural disasters, falling tree branches, theft, and vandalism.
With that in mind, we recommend that Los Angeles drivers buy the following coverage:
Individual Body Injury Liability: $100,000
Total Bodily Injury Liability: $300,000
Property Damage Liability: $100,000
Los Angeles Drivers
Allstate Insurance publishes an annual report ranking of the best and worst cities in America for drivers. Motorists in Los Angeles get into so many crashes that the city ranks 193rd out of 200 cities. Most US drivers go ten years between accidents. Drivers here, however, are involved in car accidents every 7.7 years. That's 23% higher than the national average. Of the 39,112 city residents that used QuoteWizard last year, 3,867 reported an incident on their driving records.
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The weather, driving, and road conditions strongly influence insurance rates. Areas with bad driving conditions often report more accidents, leading to rising insurance rates.
Los Angeles is world famous for its pleasant, sunny weather, although summer days can be very hot. It doesn't rain much here. Only 35 days a year, on average, have any measurable rain. But, when it rains, be very careful. The roads can be slick and Los Angeles drivers are not used to driving in the rain.
The road situation in Los Angeles is a chronic problem. TRIP reports that 57 percent of the roads are in poor condition. Another 22 percent of LA's roads are in mediocre condition. These pothole-riddled streets are in part responsible for the $921 a year Los Angles drivers pay for extra vehicle operating costs. These costs are a direct result of driving on rough roads that damage cars. They waste time and gas because of delays due to congestion. Bad roads are also a factor in car accidents.
Traffic Congestion
If you commute in Los Angeles during rush hour, you probably already know this--driving here can be a challenge. TomTom ranks Los Angles 12th for worst traffic congestion in the world. An average commuter spends an extra 44 minutes per day stuck in traffic during rush hour commutes lasting 60 minutes. And 170 hours per year. For commutes longer than 60 minutes even more time is wasted in traffic.
Moving violations like speeding tickets and accidents will add points to your driver's license. And that will give you a bad driving record. If this happens, you may need to get high-risk car insurance.
The Los Angeles Superior Court website allows you to pay traffic citations and tells drivers how to contest tickets.
DUI Arrests and Alcohol-Related Accidents
Los Angeles Police arrested 4,635 drivers for driving under the influence (DUI) in 2016.
SR-22 DUI Insurance
Drivers with DUI convictions need to obtain an SR-22 form as proof of insurance. To get the lowest rates, get a quote from companies that specialize in Los Angeles DUI insurance.
Car Accident Statistics
Los Angeles officials reported 57,715 car crashes in 2017.
Vehicle Theft Rates
Los Angeles police reported 19,546 vehicle thefts in 2017. A rate of 4.89 per 1,000 residents. This rate is more than double the national average of 2.37 auto thefts per 1,000 people.
Are you looking for affordable car insurance in Los Angeles, CA? Discounts are one of the best ways to lower your rates. Below are some of the many auto insurance discounts available to drivers in Los Angeles.
Active duty and retired members of the Military, National Guard, or Reserves are entitled to discounts for their service. So make sure you inquire about these savings if you're one of the 93,188 veterans living in Los Angeles
Are you a safe driver? Too many moving violations and at-fault accidents will increase your rates. Keep your driving record clean and you might qualify for a safe driving discount
Are you one of the 11.5 percent of Los Angeles residents over the age of 65? If the answer to that question is yes, you may qualify for the senior or 55 and retired discount
Bundle your auto insurance with your homeowners, renters, or life policy. Bundling your policies under one company can save you as much as 25 percent on your insurance premium
Taking a defensive driving class can save you a few bucks on your premium. In addition, 15.2 percent of California drivers are uninsured. So a defensive driving course could help keep your car out of the shop and you out of the hospital
Rate Methodology
1 We compared rates from three different insurance companies for 30-year-old male and female drivers with a 2010 Honda Accord. Our rate profiles have a clean driving record and drive less than 10,000 annual miles. Coverage includes state liability minimum of 25/50/10 and 25/50/10 underinsured motorist coverage. Policies also include $10,000 personal injury protection and a $500 comprehensive and collision deductible.
County of Los Angeles Superior Court - Traffic Division
United States Census Bureau - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles California Crime Rates
TRIP Urban Roads Report Appendices
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Of all the places on earth you could be dreaming of visiting at least once in a lifetime, it's a good bet that Costa Rica never made it to your bucket list. Why this is would be anyone's guess because this amazingly beautiful and bio-diverse Central American country is truly one of the loveliest places imaginable. In fact, if you are planning a wedding, Costa Rica would make a perfect backdrop for the ceremony, the celebration and those wedding pictures you will treasure forever. Want to know what makes this nation so attractive as a travel destination? Then read on!
Ever Heard of a Neon Blue River?
Now, as far as secrets go, this must be one of the best kept of all times. Have you ever heard of a neon blue river? Actually, Costa Rica is home to just such a curiosity by the name of Rio Celeste. Travelers coming to Costa Rica for the first time are literally flabbergasted by the sight of a river that seems to glow in a greenish-bluish neon color. Of course there is a scientific explanation for this phenomenon, the combination of volcanic minerals and bacteria, but that doesn't lessen the impact it has on anyone viewing it for the first time.
Then there are those 'almost' secret luxury hotels that seem to be so secluded that no one could ever find them. Not only would these make the perfect venue for an intimate wedding but they are among the best places to take wedding photos in Costa Rica. Why? Consider stepping out onto a balcony like those you can see here on www.villapuntodevista.com for a wedding photo shoot with some of the world's loveliest and most majestic scenery in the background. As the winner of the Condé Nast Johansens 2016 Luxury Hotels, Spas and Venues Award, it's simply beyond comprehension how this resort isn't on the front page of every travel magazine on earth.
No, Costa Ricans are not lazy do-nothings who while away the hours napping in paradise. A sloth is a fuzzy, cute little creature native to the jungles of Costa Rica. It's actually a matter of which came first, the chicken or the egg? Were sloths named so because they sleep up to 20 of the 24 hours in a day or are lazy people called sloths after these sleepy (but oh-so-cute) little three-toed mammals? That's one for the trivia minded on a quest for knowledge but the truth is, these endangered animals have captured the hearts of people from around the world who come here primarily to see the sloths in their native habitat and to volunteer at the Aviarios del Caribe, the Sloth Sanctuary.
So whether you are looking for a 'secret' idyllic spot for an intimate and romantic wedding or a vacation retreat in paradise, Costa Rica is one country that has exactly what you want. From luxury hotels to lush tropical jungles, you have the best of both worlds in one small land of Costa Rica. Truly one of the world's best kept vacation secrets.


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Q: Send email when certain Data is being inserted in MS SQL Server I realize that there is an integrated email notification system in SQLServer, where I can configure it to send an email using my organization's Exchange server.
I want to use that to send email on the event that certain data is added, for example if I have a table with a column called 'error no' in it; I want to be notified via email when a certain error no. is being added.
e.g. if error no is 5, I want to be sent an email via the notification system. If the error no is 4, then insert it to table with no notification.
I would love to be able to do it without writing any stored procedure or T-SQL, but if I have to, then I have no problem doing it.
Thank you guys.

A: The quickest solution I can think of would be to create on your specific table an after insert trigger where, based on your conditions (the error no..etc), you'd call the system procedure msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail to send a custom email.
You'd have first to configure the mail (create a profile and test it). I don't really think there's a simpler way.
I think that you could create an alert based on a custom error number. But this means that you'll have to modify your current code that inserts data in that table to throw this custom error no, to be able to see the alert.

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Coming Together for a Talent Development Strategy
September 28, 2016 2:38 PM | Laura Chartier (Administrator)
Written by SEWI-ATD Guest Blogger, Amy Krenzke
Talent Development -- what is it, does your organization have it, and how does collaboration drive it? This blog will take a look into the importance of Talent Development and a need for Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, and Learning professionals to all come together in taking action on a Talent Development Strategy.
First, let's take a look at Talent Development (TD). It is a fairly new term in our modern work world. The Association for Talent Development (ATD) made the big name change back in 2014 from American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) to what it is now.
What was the significance of this change? Well, take it from Tony Bingham, President and CEO of ATD. He announced the need for the change at a special session of the ASTD 2014 International Conference & Exposition:
"You know better than most, your work is so much broader than training alone," Bingham told the crowd. "Those outside of the profession see it too." He cited the growing business references to the term "talent development" that describes the breadth of work done by professionals who develop the talent in organizations: their knowledge, skills, and capabilities. (https://www.td.org/Publications/Blogs/ATD-Blog/2014/05/ASTD-Announces-Name-Change)
Speaking to the attendees, Bingham noted, "You take the talents and capabilities of others and develop them to their full potential. As a result, organizations can prosper, and the world does indeed work better."
As a learning professional, do you agree our role is larger than just training, it is about how to develop people to their full potential?
Let's consider how to take Talent Development from a buzzword into an actionable strategy.
Talent Development is more than just training!
The name change of the Association for Talent Development (ATD) was definitely a welcome change for me and hopefully for all of you. It was an expansion of thinking; a change that focused more importance on strengthening talent and the realization that talent development is not simply "training." Talent Development is a fusion of training, self-driven learning experiences, succession planning, career management, professional development, performance management, and organizational development.
What does this mean to us as learning professionals?
It means that the combination of these efforts becomes a Talent Development Strategy. Learning & Development professionals are becoming Talent Development professionals, but we can't do it alone. Nope! It's a coming together. It can no longer be everyone on their own island; there needs to be serious collaboration between Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition and Human Resource teams. Between these teams, the ultimate goal should be creating a Talent Development Strategy to ensure continual engagement of staff through learning, career (and agile performance) management, cultural alignment, and calibration of talent development goals that meet business needs.
A Talent Development Strategy – What does it look like?
Great, but what does a Talent Development Strategy really look like for the TD, TA, & HR Professional? Well, as with most things these days we'll take a look at this through the eyes of the Millennials. As Millennials enter our workforce at the rate of one per minute (or so it seems) priorities are changing on what it takes to engage them. Millennials are more interested in work that has meaning, they want a manager that's less a boss – more a coach, and they're more likely to rank learning in their top reasons to join an organization. Let's think, though, it's not only Millennials, it's Gen X and Y, and even Boomers returning to the workforce as contractors. People want more from their work. They want to improve themselves, learn how to do a job better, or share their expertise. In developing a Talent Development Strategy, understanding candidate and employee motivations needs to be considered.
It all starts with attracting the right talent in this first place. This is why we include Talent Acquisition in Talent Development strategic planning. They need to understand how to communicate to candidates the vision of employee development. Human Resources needs to collaborate with Learning & Development to design an engaging on-boarding program to immediately start new hires out on the right foot. Learning & Development needs to create learning experiences, not just training, that drives results, reports metrics and demonstrates ROI for the business. Talent Acquisition can only capture the best talent when they have a conviction behind what they're selling to candidates. Therefore, there needs to be a collaboration from L&D on how to communicate the why behind their "top-notch learning program", how it's put into action and followed-up on with managers throughout an employee's career. It is a responsibility of all development professions (TA, L&D, and HR) to develop and continually communicate the Talent Development Strategy and tie it back to their people development or talent attraction strategies.
Having a defined Talent Development Strategy will shift your team's mindset to collaboration and convert actions to results more quickly. For example, it can lead to quicker turnaround on recognizing needs. L&D can more easily identify and develop learning for a new skill set, then communicate that back to TA to source for talent with those skills, and HR can develop performance management on that new skill set. Collaboration is key for a Talent Development Strategy to truly deliver for candidates, new hires, employees, and management.
Driving Forward – What's the Benefit?
The collaboration involved in developing a Talent Development Strategy might be a little messy to start, but once it comes together and teams collaborate, there will be business rewards to reap. There are many metrics that can be improved, so tracking turnover is crucial. From Officevibe Blog, http://bit.ly/OfficevibeBlog -
Just think, Statistic #1 above could be next to eliminated if your organization has a Talent Development Strategy that gives clear definition to employees and that cultivates a culture of honest, holistic people development, allowing employees to easily see their career advancement path.
Is it time your organization considered a Talent Development Strategy? Invest in one that encourages collaboration among your TA, TD, and HR teams. This will allow a true focus on learning experiences, career (& agile performance) management, cultural alignment, and calibration of talent development goals and business needs.
Where will your organization go next?
Think about how you can start bringing your people development teams together to strategically plan a strong Talent Development Strategy guaranteeing your organization meets business needs and goals. Define and communicate a strategy that benefits you - as Talent Development professionals, employees and prospective candidates alike. Remember what ATD President Tony Bingham's said, "You take the talents and capabilities of others and develop them to their full potential. As a result, organizations can prosper, and the world does indeed work better." Let's work better, be more human in the workplace, and bring talent development to its full potential.
About Amy Krenzke
Amy is a SEWI-ATD member volunteer who chairs the bi-monthly Instructional Design PDN. She evangelizes all things talent development - people, culture, learning, performance, and agility in the modern workplace. She is a curator of learning, a strategist of developing people for the next level, and brings engagement to every moment of her virtual or in-person learning sessions. Amy has an MA degree in Educating Adults from DePaul University, Chicago. She has done significant academic research on using appreciation in the workplace, developing a model, The Appreciation Space Method. Connect with Amy; she can help you brainstorm a path forward to a Talent Development Strategy @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/becreatelearn or http://akrenzke.wixsite.com/amylkrenzke.
Want More? Here's what Amy is Reading...
"Recruiters Must Learn Talent Development (and vice versa)" from HR Bartender Blog, http://bit.ly/RecruitMustLearmTD
"Why Leadership Training Fails and What to Do About It" from HBR Blog, http://bit.ly/LeadershipTrainingFails
"Ten Things Employees Want Most" from Inc. Blog, http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/08/10-things-employees-want.html
"Want Exponentially Better Production? Focus on People Instead" from Inc. Blog, http://bit.ly/IncBetterProduction
September 29, 2016 12:22 PM | Anonymous member
Excellent post! Collaboration really is key to realizing our full potential - individually and collectively - no matter what level we are at in an organization. Thanks, Amy!

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Q: No reference to textbox in codebehind for ASP.NET MVC view I created an MVC3 project and use aspx as view engine.
I have Index.aspx which inherits from a partial Index class in codebehind Index.aspx.cs which inherits from System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<Models.MyModel>
In codebehind IntelliSense doesn't show off any control that exists in front aspx.
Why?

A: MVC works differently to the WebForms aspx pages that map asp controls to objects in the code behind. In MVC there is no mapping of front end controls to to back end classes.
Here is some overview on the difference between ASP.NET MVC and WebForms.
Unless I don't understand the question?
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The Model, populated in the Controller, basically populates the data that can be used directly in the View. There are Model binding techniques that do bind Model properties to form elements. You will need to have a look at a few examples to get your head around this.
Have a look at this tutorial: http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/Understanding-ASP-NET-MVC-Model-Binding.aspx


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Welcome to USCIRF
About USCIRF
Employment and Internship Opportunities
Authorizing Legislation & Amendments
Annual Report - Chapters and Summaries
Policy Briefs and Focuses
Tier 1 Countries of Particular Concern
Other Countries and Regions Monitored
Defamation of Religions
Muslim Constitutions
Advising Government
Government Correspondence
Religious Prisoners of Conscience
Current RPOCs
Patriarch Abune Antonios
Dilshat Perhat Ataman
Raif Badawi
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima – The Panchen Lama
Gulmira Imin
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani
Dennis Christensen
Ivan Matsitsky
Hu Shigen
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee
Robert Levinson
Pastor David Lin
Hamid Kamal Mohammad bin Haydara
Released RPOCs
Pastor Andrew Brunson (RELEASED)
Abdul Shakoor (RELEASED)
Bagir Kazikhanov (RELEASED)
Fariba Kamalabadi - The Baha'i Seven (RELEASED)
Mahvash Sabet - The Baha'i Seven (RELEASED)
Maryam Naghash Zargaran (RELEASED)
Mohammad Ali Taheri (RELEASED)
Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh and Tran Thi Hong (RELEASED)
Pwint Phyu Latt and Zaw Zaw Latt (RELEASED)
Thich Quang Do (UNDER SURVEILLANCE)
Hearings and Briefings
Summer Seminars
As Nigeria Assumes Presidency of UN Security Council, USCIRF Seeks End...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - As Nigeria assumes the presidency of the UN Security Council today, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) expresses its continuing concern about the horrific sectarian violence that has wracked Nigeria for over a decade and the Nigerian government"s culture of impunity, which, significantly, includes a longstanding failure to prosecute and convict the perpetrators of that violence.
"The UN Security Council has the critical task of addressing issues of international peace and security, and we congratulate Nigeria, one of our most important allies in Africa, for assuming the important role of Security Council President for the month of July," said Chairman Leonard Leo. "Unfortunately, Nigeria"s own security and stability is put at risk by a culture of unchecked and unpunished sectarian violence that gives rise to divisiveness along religious lines and repeated reprisal attacks. Nigeria has the ability to prosecute perpetrators of sectarian violence, but so far lacks political will and determination to actually do so."
USCIRF urges the Obama Administration, and other governments serving on the UN Security Council, to use all available diplomatic tools to address these issues more effectively bilaterally and multilaterally. This should include the U.S. State Department making issues of sectarian violence a key feature of the discussions to take place within the recently formed U.S.-Nigeria Binational Commission.
USCIRF delegations have visited Nigeria three times since March 2009 to assess conditions on the ground and determine whether to continue to recommend to the Administration and Congress that Nigeria be designated as a "Country of Particular Concern" (CPC).
In and around the northern community of Jos at least 500 people have been killed in sectarian violence since the start of this year. More than 13,000 Nigerians have been murdered since 1999 and not a single person has been held accountable.
"Nigerian officials are quick to argue that this violence and extremism is not about religion but instead the by-product of tribal or ethnic tensions as well as economic disparities. This sort of denial is making matters only worse. The Nigerian government has the capacity but not the will to protect its citizens," said Chairman Leo.
USCIRF has recommended in its most recent annual report that Nigeria be designated a "Country of Particular Concern" under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, which was passed to promote religious freedom as a U.S. foreign policy. USCIRF has strongly supported more effective law enforcement, conflict mitigation, and prosecutorial activity within Nigeria that comports with international human rights standards.
USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission. USCIRF Commissioners are appointed by the President and the leadership of both political parties in the Senate and the House of Representatives. USCIRF"s principal responsibilities are to review the facts and circumstances of violations of religious freedom internationally and to make policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State and Congress.
To interview a USCIRF Commissioner, contact Tom Carter, Communications Director at tcarter@uscirf.gov, or (202) 523-3257
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
732 N. Capitol Street, N.W., Suite A714 Washington, D.C. 20401
Phone: (202) 523-3240 Fax: (202) 523-5020 Email: media@uscirf.gov
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Q: jquery - ajaxForm plugin and only using part of the response I know with jquery and ajax, you can specify what for example, an id of the element to get back (so you don't have to parse the whole document yourself).
I'm wondering where to do this in the ajaxForm plugin, or if I have to do that myself.
For the simplest example I can think of, here's this:
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What if rather than alerting the whole result (which is an entire page), I'd like to alert only what's in a certain element of the result (say,

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Best way to accomplish this?

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Feral Boys
STORY: The Feral Boys were a group of a little over a dozen young gay men in San Francisco who formed a sort of fraternity in the early 2010s. We were all recent transplants to the city, and had moved there for school, or to be a part of the tech gold rush, or to leave small-town homes and start a gay life in a gay metropolis. We came to be students, models, artists, DJs, and gogo boys. What we had in common was a love for unbridled hedonism: art, sex, music, parties, and living like we would be 22 forever.
The name "Feral" happened when a club promoter noticed that we arrived everywhere as a pack, on the hunt. The name stuck because, while we felt we had been "tame" in our prior lives, we threw ourselves passionately into the wildness that life in a big city could facilitate. Our status as students and creatives meant that we were mostly free and independent to do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted. Like Peter Pan's Lost Boys, untethered from responsibility or consequences, we wandered the city every night looking for adventures and trouble.
Our clubhouse was the apartment of one member, Elliott Nathan, who was (and is) an incredibly talented multimedia visual artist. He lived above a boxing studio in a gritty part of the Mission. Every wall was covered in interactive art projects; the ceiling featured projections of bubbles; a menagerie including jellyfish and chameleons watched us drink, smoke, and laugh, from the safety of their tanks.
We threw parties every other weekend, all of which were themed and required creative costumes. Space, Mythology, Animals, Fairy Tales. The parties usually served as pregames for events later in the night, which included raves in an abandoned office building, neon body paint sex parties in run-down Victorians, and leather bar discos. In the summer, we hiked down cliffs to the nude beach carrying speakers, a DJ table, and a generator so that we could throw naked dance parties on the sand.
Threaded into the fabric of that hedonistic existence was the surge of optimism that San Francisco was experiencing at that time. During the tech boom, anything was possible. Our group discussions frequently had a transhumanist edge. Our friends were all getting on PrEP. Our neighborhoods were radically transforming with huge influxes of insane wealth. New skyscrapers rose up one after the other. We felt like we were at the center of it all, ground zero for a future filled with drones, AI, self-driving cars, Google Glass, and gene therapy. The "singularity" was right around the corner.
The ephemeral magic of the Feral Boys was only possible in that crazy, pie-in-the-sky environment. As soon as we tried to pin it down, it evaporated. Within a few years, we had graduated from school, moved away for jobs, and felt the weight of adulthood pressing us into more rigid forms. But for a brief moment, we really were feral, and that wild spirit will always be my fondest memory of San Francisco.
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Masai (Maasai) su narod istočno-sudanske porodice naroda (Nilsko-saharska), ogranak Nilota, danas nastanjen u području Kenije i Tanzanije.

Masai su izvorno pravi polunomadski pastirski narod, koji se za ispašom pokreće za svojim stadima stoke. Tek su se u Tanzaniji neke grupe Masaja počele baviti agrarnim poslovima. Godine 1959., prema Haileyu (navodi Marlene M. Martin), posjedovali su nekih 700,000 grla stoke, i uz nju velima stada ovaca, koza i kokoši.

Temeljna socijalna jedinica je kraal sastavjen od poliginijskih obitelji, 20-50 kraalova čini selo, također zvano kraal (boma, enk-ang). Među Masajima postoji sistem dobnih razreda, u kojima su muškarci podijeljeni u 3 grupe: mladiće, ratnike (moran) i starce. Postankom ratnika, mladić mijenja boravište, i odlazi u posebno selo zvano manyatta. U manyatti žive ratnici njihove majke, sestre i neinicirane djevojke-ljubavnice. Nasuprot manyatti kraal se sastoji od oženjenih 'staraca' (muškarci koji više nisu ratnici) i njihovih obitelji. Ratnik kojemu je dužnost štititi selo (pleme) nikada nije ženjen. Tek isluženi ratnik smije se oženiti, nakon čega napušta manyattu i odlazi u kraal.

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Q: Increasing the speed of a ball in a brick breaker game just starting a tuto and I'd like to constantly increase the speed of my ball, but damn I'm so bad at maths I can't even figure how to do, here's what I do at the moment :
 // I'm giving the first force (random x) when you engage the ball, in the Start method
 System.Random xForce = new System.Random();
 rigidBody.AddForce(new Vector2(xForce.Next((int)-speed, (int)speed), speed);

 // Later, in the Update code, I use this
 rigidBody.AddForce(rigidBody.velocity* speedUp);

speed and speedUp are public variables.
What is bothering me is when I add my first force, I guess that a Vector2(speed, speed) will make a faster ball than (0, speed) right ? So I'd like a way to change the direction of my force, but with the same speed resulting for the eye of the player.
Also, when I increase my speed, I do velocity* speedUp, which means (I still guess) that a Vector2(speed, speed) will increase more than a (0, speed) right ? So I'd like to increase it in the same way no matter the direction of my ball.
I don't know if I'm being clear, I read about normalized vectors on a thread but I don't understand it that's why I'm asking your help guys, thanks in advance !

A: This line has unbalanced parenthesis:
rigidBody.AddForce(new Vector2(xForce.Next((int)-speed, (int)speed), speed);

Also, you probably want to use floating point numbers instead of integers.
Try this instead:
System.Random xForce = new System.Random();
rigidBody.AddForce(new Vector2(xForce.NextDouble()*speed,
                               xForce.NextDouble()*speed));

The last line looks fine though:
rigidBody.AddForce(rigidBody.velocity* speedUp);

A: Okay after a lot of research what I needed was to cap the length of the velocity vector, I got it using the Vector2.ClampMagnitude function :
System.Random xForce = new System.Random();
Vector2 direction = new Vector2(xForce.Next((int)-speed, (int)speed), speed);
Vector2 cappedDirection = (Vector2.ClampMagnitude(direction, speed));
rigidBody.AddForce(cappedDirection, ForceMode2D.Impulse);

Then in my update code, it seems that I just have to use the normalized vector. From what I read a normalized version of your vector keeps the direction with a magnitude of 1 :
rigidBody.AddForce(rigidBody.velocity.normalized * speedUp, ForceMode2D.Impulse);

From what I tested it's working, sorry guys it seems that I wasn't clear about what I asked, I just did want the same speed no matter the direction.


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Jessica Vaughan on Caravan 'Stunt': 'Mexico Is Letting This Happen'
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Robert Kraychik
Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, discussed immigration with Sirius XM's Breitbart News Tonight co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Tuesday and described the Mexican government as enabling an approaching caravan of 1,500 families from Central America seeking entry into the U.S.
Vaughan described exploitation of American asylum and immigration policies as an ongoing and years-long problem.
"It has been going on since about 2012, when it really started to pick up with the numbers," said Vaughan. "It really reached a head in about 2014 when we saw a huge influx, and that's when Breitbart broke the story of what was going on by publishing the photographs of these kids crammed into the overwhelmed border patrol holding facilities and also families just kind of walking across–mostly women with children walking right up to border patrol agents asking to be apprehended. It has been going for a long time."
"There have been something like well over 130,000 kids who have arrived since 2012 and probably about an equal number of families coming … over that same period of time who have been resettled by policy under the Obama administration," continued Vaughan. "That policy had to be continued under the Trump administration for a variety of reasons. [They are] resettled in communities all across the country at enormous cost, with problems being caused by this, [including] schools not being able to handle 18-year-olds with a fourth-grade education that they're told to educate. Some of them are gang members, and it's been a huge problem that we have not been successful in stopping."
Vaughan repeated a description of the "caravan" as a "walk-a-thon for open borders" she had made on Monday's episode of Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight.
"This is a unique event, though, as it is an organized group that's really issuing a challenge and saying that they intended to arrive in a huge number at the port of entry and demand access to the United States, fulfilling what they believe to be their human right to live wherever they want to, and where they want to live is in the United States, and that the United States has to let them in," remarked Vaughan.
"So this is kind of a protest march for open borders. I've been calling it the walk-a-thon because it reminds me of this event I used to do for the March of Dimes … when I was younger, and you'd walk 25 miles to raise money against birth defects. That's what they look like, a bunch of bedraggled people, walking and walking and walking, and this time, they say it's for open borders."
Vaughan described the caravan as a "stunt" whose participants are being used as "props" for "open borders" advocates while enjoying the complicity of the Mexican state.
"The organizers are doing a stunt," Vaughan stated. "I believe that they want to show up with all these people at the border and challenge the Trump administration to say no and create a media event. I'm sure there will be plenty of TV cameras and reporters in tow to watch what happens when they get to the border, but the people who are on this march believe that they're going to be allowed to stay in the United States if they claim asylum. They're being told that. So they're kind of props for this open borders statement, and the government of Mexico is letting this happen. They look the other way when these people enter Mexico illegally without visas, and they know that their destination is the United States. So they see no reason to stop them. It has the potential to create this scene at the border."
"Luckily, the Trump administration is saying it's time for some rain on this parade because in the past, we have allowed people claiming asylum to enter because there's not enough detention space for them," Vaughan explained. "Congress has not given ICE more money to keep people in custody while their asylum claims are heard, so they end up being let go, and they don't show up for their hearings. Their hearings are scheduled years from now anyway because the immigration courts have basically slow-walked these immigration cases through, allowing people to have continuances to just put off deciding their case because most of them are not going to be qualifying for asylum. Half of them don't even show up for their hearings at all if they're released. In fact, the percentage is almost 80 percent for the family units, the women who show up with their kids, and they end up just adding to the illegal population here. Some of them get visas."
Vaughan pointed to the Mexican government as partly facilitating the caravan's mission of challenging U.S. sovereignty.
"Mexico doesn't appear to really be breaking this so-called caravan up as much as trying to help them do this a little bit more stealthily [and] discreetly," claimed Vaughan. "It's clear that they're in Mexico illegally and they're going to try to launder their status by issuing them these transit visits so they can make their way to the United States, so they're basically trying to scoot them along and advising them to not come in a big group but try to take advantage of our broken asylum system, to say the magic word at the border, and get released."
Mansour asked Vaughan if Mexico's dysfunction related to criminal cartels offers validity to the anticipated asylum claims of the caravan's participants.
"Anyone seeking asylum based on persecution based on their race, political views, religion, or other criteria, none of which apply to this group, pretty much," responded Vaughan. "They're supposed to apply in the first phase country that they come to, which would be Mexico in this case, perhaps even Guatemala. … So Mexico accepts asylum seekers. We can say, 'You should go back to Mexico and apply.' We don't even really owe them a hearing. They don't have a visa to enter the United States. If they show up at the legal point of entry, we don't have to let them in, by law."
Vaughan highlighted the difference between America's relationships with Canada and Mexico on the matter of asylum seekers and repatriation of foreigners.
"The agreement we have with Canada, it's called the Safe Third Country Agreement," Vaughan said. "People can't asylum shop. We'll return people that are trying to gain asylum and were turned down in another country. People can't come through Canada to get to the United States. We're allowed to send them back to Canada. If somebody from Pakistan tries to come to the United States via Canada, claiming asylum, we can return them to Canada and vice versa. We do need that kind of arrangement with Mexico. … If they come to the legal port of entry, we do not have to grant them admission. We can give them a fair hearing, but if we determine that their claim is not credible, then we're under no obligation to let them into the country."
"The majority of them are simply coming here because they are hopeful that they can get into the country and be home free," remarked Vaughan. "They've been told that if they make it to the United States, that they'll be allowed to stay. That's why they're coming. They also hear talk of an amnesty. They know that if they come with kids, that's like a deportation shield. The organizers know exactly what the policies have been up to this point, and they're hoping to take advantage of it. They're quite clear about that."
Mansour framed publicity around the caravan as potentially incentivizing more illegal immigration to the U.S. "I think that the scare here is that because of the publicity around this caravan, and because of the revelation of how easy it is, word keeps getting out, this is just going to be like inviting a mass wave of these things, and it's just going to keep increasing unless we do something."
"People have heard that they can game our asylum system, they keep trying it," Vaughan concurred. "We've got to break that cycle. I think we took the first step toward doing that today when the president said the National Guard is going to be used at the border. The other thing that happens when these big groups come, that distracts the border patrol, they go off to arrest the big group and the cartels smuggle in their loads of drugs and criminals and whatever else they're bringing over while the border patrol is busy rounding up women and children. We can't let that happen. They need backup. There's not enough manpower there."
Pollak asked Vaughan about if the caravan's organizer and participants sought to politically damage President Donald Trump. "
"They were looking to make a scene at the border and kind of dare the president not to let them in," Vaughan speculated. "I think they want to make the president look bad for denying people their international right to live in the United States or seek refuge or asylum or something. But I don't think it's going to work. … I think this is a real test of the administration's resolve, and they're going to have to pass it for the sake of our communities. Now is the time to enforce the border, if we want to keep enforcing our immigration laws, now is the time to do it."
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Alexis del Palazzo is a flutist turned DPT student, marathoner, and "Musician with a passion for physical therapy." Naturally, I thought she'd be a great fit for our this community of readers and bodynerds, and I'm happy to have her contributions here!
Alexis: I began playing the flute in 6th grade band when I was 11 years old. Exhibiting innate musical talent, I sang all the time but the only real music education opportunity available to me in my rural school was band. My older brother had been in band, and I was so excited to join when I was old enough.
K: Tell us a bit about you got interested in physical therapy.
A: I never knew any physical therapists growing up, and my impression was that most of them were former athletes. A DMA student at OU who attended the school while I was an undergraduate had a previous background in physical therapy but that was the extent of my exposure to the field. As I worked towards a MM program, one of my mentors and teachers during that time reawakened my interest in the body and movement. I reacquainted myself with my copy of Lea Pearson's What Every Flutist Needs to Know about the Body and I attended the 2011 Andover Educator conference in New Jersey. At the conference, I met an Andover Educator who was also a hand therapist. During this time, I was having problems with my right arm. I was battling severe performance anxiety with huge adrenaline rushes that would make it difficult for me to play. In response, I would grip the flute incredibly hard and post-performance, I would have pain in my right forearm for hours afterwards. In spite of being prepared, my audition for grad school didn't go very well - I was not only trying to play through extreme performance anxiety, but I was also playing through pain in my arm. The inflammation and pain was becoming more persistent.
I had a similar problem as an undergraduate but the doctor only prescribed me a hefty dose of ibuprofen and told me to rest. That advice was totally useless to me as a musician, and I was hesitant to see another medical professional. Meeting and talking with this person at the conference helped me decide to see a doctor again and ask for a referral to physical therapy. Because I was wary of being treated by a PT unfamiliar with the demands of being a musician, I first drove from Central Pennsylvania to the D.C. area for an evaluation with a physical therapist there (also a musician). She shared my evaluation results with my local PT, and we got to work. As I watched the clinic staff work with other patients during my treatment, my interest level increased and I began researching everything I could about physical therapy and what was involved with becoming a PT.
I was hooked. It took a month from the AE conference to receiving my own PT treatment to make a decision that this was what I wanted to do. In addition to educating musicians about moving better, I also wanted to be able to treat them as a medical professional.
K: Amazing! How has your understanding of the body changed in your studies? How has your own relationship with your body evolved?
Alexis' book, The Practice Matrix. Definitely worth checking out!
A: Life never happens the way you want it to. It took 2 years for me to arrive at a place where I was able to begin the huge list of pre-requisite courses needed to even apply to a program. In those 2 years, I became an Andover Educator trainee to train to teach the course What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body™. I revamped my practice routine, and incorporated all the bodywork lessons and time management techniques I was learning during this time. Via Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique, I discovered what habits were hurting my playing and through intensive, patient work, I began making changes to my body map and I made huge strides in my playing. I even wrote a book to help other musicians incorporate the same kinds of changes into their practice routines.
Prior to starting work with Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique, my mind and body weren't very well connected. As an introvert, I spend a lot of time in my mind and my thoughts tended to control me. I believed that I had no control over how I moved. The musculoskeletal system was also a huge mystery to me as well, and I had many mismappings to address. I began practicing mindfulness, and I learned that I did have a choice. I could choose to simply notice my thoughts but let them go. I could choose to stop a movement and replace in its stead a healthier, more efficient movement. And learning this with my flute helped me become a better human being, a better musician, and a better teacher.
In retrospect, I am so happy to have had that 2 year period to spend so much time on somatic bodywork. It helped me learn about my own body and help me develop my own self-awareness. These are all skills I can transfer into my own practice as a future physical therapist.
K: What's one thing you wish musicians knew about health, wellness, and body!
A: I wish that musicians would learn about health and wellness prior to being injured! I didn't learn about the resources available to musicians until I was injured, and I regret not learning more sooner. Knowledge is power.
Learning the structures of the body and how it works, and learning how to keep your body healthy will prolong your musical life. Make time to learn now, and you will avoid having to take time off later for pain or injury. Unfortunately, because these topics are only slowly becoming integrated into our music education system, most musicians don't recognize the need for this kind of information.
We have a long path ahead of us but it is encouraging to see increasing numbers of musicians become involved with somatics, medicine, and other modalities to improve the quality of musicians' lives everywhere.
A: This question is a work in progress. In addition to orthopedic physical therapy which is the most relevant type of PT for musicians, I am also nurturing a strong interest in neurologic PT and would like to possibly work with patients with traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries. Ideally, I would like to be able to spend my days coaching and treating musicians, but also be engaged in patient care across all demographics. Physical therapy fits my wide range of interests from music, movement, fitness, education, and helping people and I want to cast my net wide. As I progress through school, this evolution will become more clear. I wish that I had discovered this path sooner, but I wouldn't be the same caliber of musician I am, and I certainly wouldn't have the understanding I do of musicians and the unique health challenges they face.
K: How can people find you on the internet or contact you?
A: I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband, 3 dogs, and 5 cats. As of May 2015, I am a first year Doctor of Physical Therapy student at Neumann University. My current homes on the net are my Facebook page, twitter @sensibleflutist, and on my tumblr where I'm blogging about my DPT journey adelpalazzo.tumblr.com.


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The Friends of the Rye, Winchelsea and District Memorial Hospital have always played an important part in the life of the hospital. The present charity was established in 1950 to provide equipment and facilities for the benefit of patients and staff. Since then, the Friends have raised many thousands of pounds, providing money to build the physiotherapy unit, day room and provide a variety of items of equipment, including special beds, baths, chairs, the coffee machine and televisions. The Friends have also paid for the bus shelter outside the hospital. Recently, funds have been provided towards the renovation of the reception area and equipment for the kitchen.
The Friends Committee hold regular meetings with staff members, the Board , the fund raisers the hospital volunteer group and Here to Help, to ensure that they are up to date with all requests for funding.
In the 1990's the community joined together to help raise the three million pounds needed to erect the current building. At present, we are actively seeking new members of the Friends to support our ambitious plans to develop more services closer to home for our community. These include the provision of MRI, diagnostics and ultrasound services, and in the long term, the re -establishment of a minor injury and illness unit. Money will also be needed for furnishings and equipment for our new Hub on Rye Hill centre, being built on the former ambulance site, which will also house a café. Members are kept up to date with hospital news and events with a bi-annual newsletter..
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The last chapter of the "Guide to Best Practices in Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting" is available for open review
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The Guide to Best Practices in Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting is intended as a reference to provide guidance for research in the rapidly growing field of ocean acidification. Its preparation was initiated by the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) and the International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and sponsored by EPOCA, IOC, the Scientific Council on Oceanic Research (SCOR), the U.S. Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Project (OCB), and the Kiel Excellence Cluster "The Future Ocean".
A new article by Balch and Fabry is available for open review ("Direct measurements of calcification rates in planktonic organisms") and can be downloaded from http://www.epoca-project.eu/index.php/Home/Guide-to-OA-Research/. All scientists are invited to provide comments and suggestions to the lead author and cc to the editors (see below). Lead authors may decide to include the names of experts who have provided substantial input to their section to the list of contributing authors. After completion of the review by the marine science community, the guide will be made available electronically and in printed form via EPOCA, IOC and OCB.
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In the United States we have an obsession with bacon. What started out with a few slices on a Sunday morning has now become bacon on our sandwiches, bacon in our salad, we even have put bacon in our chocolate. So what is behind all of the concern that has recently been spotlighted by doctors and nutritionist alike? It is not that over consumption of foods like these can lead to high cholesterol, obesity, indigestion, and heart problems. We have known that for years. The new concern is the antibiotics used in pork. In 2014, studies shed light on the fact that roughly two thirds of all antibiotics manufactured in the US were used in the agriculture industry. This was a national wake up call and caused huge concern as the overuse of antibiotics on farms means that bacteria adapt, become resistant, and can breed superbugs that pose a global threat to human health. The CDC called antibiotic resistance "one of the world's most pressing health concerns." Here is a short clip from a recent interview with Dr. Temple about the issues with antibiotic overuse.
The poultry industry was quick to react with many of the leading poultry producers and restaurants that serve poultry have vowed not serve poultry raised with antibiotics. The pork industry is a different story.
Why, you may ask, are pork farmers so far behind chicken farmers in reducing their use of antibiotics? The reason is that pigs are much more complicated to raise. Chickens are hatched and then shipped to a farm where they stay and live out their life, which is roughly 48 days. Pigs, on the other hand, are born on a farm where they live with their mother for two-three weeks as they nurse. They are then shipped to another farm where they live for another 6-8 weeks until they are shipped to yet another farm called a "finishing farm," where they are fattened up for 8 weeks. The longer life span as well as all of the moving from farm to farm makes the pigs more susceptible to disease.
What to do about it? Don't worry, I am not going to tell you to stop eating bacon as I know I'd lose about half of my readers. What I would suggest is to, first, monitor how much bacon you are eating and save it for the occasional Sunday rather than every day on your sandwich. Second, know where your bacon comes from. China has about half of the world's pig population and uses the most antibiotics in their meat. Niman Ranch is a brand to look for that doesn't use antibiotics in their meat. Check out stores like Whole Foods, as well, who are knowledgeable as to which of their producers use antibiotics and which do not. In the meantime, try skipping the bacon at next Sunday's brunch.


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Q: syntax to add setTimeout to function with callback I am trying to make the following 'where will I get in x miles driving towards these target places' asynchronous function (which works well) also wait between executions.  The google maps process has a limit on speed, and I have a few more than the 10 routes that can be plotted before 'Over_Query_limit' kicks in to plot on a map.
I know the terms of service (2500/day), I'm not breaking them.
It sits in a loop with the array of desired destinations(endPoints) from a central point(pt)
What is the syntax to make this happen please?
I have read a lot on this and other sites and can see that the function should be put in quotes but with an asynchronous call I cant see how.
you can see my poor attempt (commented out)
var delay=100;
for (var i = 0; i < endPoints.length; i++) {
    //setTimeout(function() {
        howfar(pt,endPoints[i],i,function(i,status,endPoint) {
            //process results
        });
    //},delay;
}

function howfar(from,to,i,callback) {
    //get the endpoint from the directions service
    callback.call({},i,status,endPoint);
}

as Always thank you for looking and helping

A: The exact syntax looks like this:
var delay = 100; // in milliseconds, 100 is a tenth of a second
setTimeout(function() {
    howfar(pt,endPoints[i],i, function(i,status,endPoint) {
        //process results
    });
}, delay);

A quick Google would have turned this up, though.

A: If I understood your question correctly, you need to wait until the howfar function returns plus a fixed delay, and only then process the next endPoint in the array?
I typically setup an iterator function which schedules itself until there are no more items to be processed. Something like:
var delay = 100;
var i = 0;
//define a helper function
var measureNext = function() {

   howfar(pt, endPoints[i], i, function(i,status,endPoint) {
     //process results

     //if there are still unprocessed items in the array, schedule
     //the next after {delay} milliseconds
     if(i++ < endPoints.length) {
       setTimeout(measureNext, delay);
     }
   });

};

//start with the first argument
measureNext();


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Q: Electron desktopCapturer window capture lag and high latency When I try to capture a window in Electron I get a very laggy (around 15fps) and high latency result, but when I capture the entire screen it works just fine.
Maybe it is because I'm running getSource() under createWindow(), but again screen capture works just fine.
I'm using basically the same code in
https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/desktop-capturer
function createWindow() {

...

  function getSource() {
    desktopCapturer.getSources({ types: ["window", "screen"] }).then(async (sources) => {
      for (const source of sources) {
        if (source.name.toLowerCase().includes("screen 1")) {
          // if (source.name === "Screen 1") {
          mainWindow.webContents.send("SET_SOURCE", source.id);
          return;
        }
        console.log(source.name);
      }
    });
  }
  getSource();
}

I already tried adding frame rate limitations:

...

      video: {
        mandatory: {
          chromeMediaSource: "desktop",
          chromeMediaSourceId: sourceId,
          minFrameRate: 30, // here
          maxFrameRate: 60,
          minWidth: 1280,
          maxWidth: 1280,
          minHeight: 720,
          maxHeight: 720,
        },

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Q: Stackoverflow error in this recursion What's wrong with this recursion in Java?
public class findPyt
{
    public static int sum = 0;
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        findP(3, 4, 5);
    }

    public static void findP(int a, int b, int c)
    {
        sum = a+b+c;

        if (sum == 1000)
        {
            System.out.println("The Triplets are: "+ a +","+ b +","+ c);
        }
        else
        {
            findP(a*2, b*2, c*2);
        }
    }
}

I get this exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
    at hello.findP(hello.java:12)
    at hello.findP(hello.java:19)

When I try to do the same in Ruby, I get this:
SystemStackError: stack level too deep

def pythagoreanTriples(a=3, b=4, c=5)

    if (a+b+c) == 1000
      puts "The Triplets are: "+ a +","+ b +","+ c
    else
    pythagoreanTriples(a*2, b*2, c*2)
    end
end

A: Well, if you look at your method that performs the recursion, the only exit condition is when sum == 1000. Your current input values are 3, 4, and 5. That sum is 12. The condition doesn't hold true, so it tries the next set, where sum = 24. Then 48, 96 and so forth. The sum will never be 1000, so the recursion will never end.

A: 3+4+5 is 12.
a*2 + b*2 + c*2 = (a+b+c)*2
12*2*2 = 12*4
Now, let's see: Your program will stop when the sum equals 1000.
That will never happen, the sequence will be:
12 24 48 96 192 384 768 1536 ...
Unless some sort of integer overflow rescues you, you will never reach 1000.
And, since you are using recursion, eventually a stack overflow happens(if you managed to solve the problem without recursion, it'd be an infinite loop)

A: Try changing sum == 1000 to sum >= 1000. There is no triple that sums to exactly 1000, so it's skipping over the terminating condition.
Also, your Ruby code doesn't match your Java code (you're missing else). Even if it did find a sum of 1000, it would print the message, and keep recursing until it crashed.

A: Well, you construct infinite recursion here, without anything to stop it. Sure it breaks with an error of stack being full.

A: Beyond the bug in your code which other answers have described, using recursion in Java in this way is problematic anyway. You are using tail recursion, so the compiler or the JVM could convert the call to a jump to the beginning of the procedure and consume no stack space; however, this is not done (to preserve accurate stack traces).
E.g., processing a list in such a way in Java would cause your code to be limited to processing only lists of limited length before a stack overflow, and even when it works you would get slower performance and higher memory consumption. But the possibility of a crash (for say more than 1-10 million elements, since the stack is by default 8MiB) is more important.
If you were to program in Scala you, or other functional languages, that style would be appropriate and efficiently supported.

A: By the way, you are multiplying by two. You need to raise to the power two, so a^2 or a**2.
I'm basing this on the word "pythagoreanTriples" in the code.


Osaka, Japan, March 7, 2014 –Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited ("Takeda") announced today that it has submitted a New Drug Application ("NDA") to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare fortrelagliptin succinate (development code: SYR-472), a treatment for type 2 diabetes.
Trelagliptin succinate, discovered by Takeda California, Inc., Takeda's wholly-owned subsidiary located in San Diego, California, is a once-weekly dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPP-4) inhibitor. It controls blood glucose levels by selectively and continually inhibiting DPP-4, an enzyme that causes the inactivation of glucagon-like peptide-1 and glucagon-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, incretin hormones* that play an important role in blood glucose regulation. The inhibition of DPP-4 increases insulin secretion depending on blood glucose concentration, thereby controlling blood glucose levels.
This application is based on the safety and efficacy results of multiple clinical phase III studies in patients with type 2 diabetes in Japan. The efficacy of once-weekly trelagliptin succinate was confirmed in all studies, in addition to a good safety and tolerability profile. Trelagliptin succinate controls blood glucose levels effectively with single weekly dosing, and is expected to contribute to improvement in drug adherence of patients.
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Here's another fun online game. But this one has a purpose: To help end world hunger.
FreeRice has a custom database containing thousands of words at varying degrees of difficulty … FreeRice automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary. It starts by giving you words at different levels of difficulty and then, based on how you do, assigns you an approximate starting level. You then determine a more exact level for yourself as you play. When you get a word wrong, you go to an easier level. When you get three words in a row right, you go to a harder level. This one-to-three ratio is best for keeping you at the 'outer fringe' of your vocabulary, where learning can take place.
There are 50 different levels, but it's supposedly quite rare for anyone to make it past level 48.
Try to guess the definition of the word listed, using the handful of choices below.
Yep, you can see exactly how many grains of rice were donated each day!
…This sure would've come in handy when I was studying for the GRE to get into grad school!


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Beginning where Hamlet ends, with a mess of dead bodies and the court of Denmark in shock, 'Puzzle the Will' then reassembles Shakespeare's tale like a puzzle, strategically jumping between sections, juxtaposing some scenes and deconstructing others. This familiar story is now an opportunity to experience Hamlet as if you were the first audience to do so. And to further this idea of the familiar-become-unfamiliar, the show gender-bends selected roles, searching for a greater truth about these classic characters when the clothing of gender is stripped away.
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Two Sisters: Two Views
After the April announcement that the Vatican was taking the Leadership Conference of Women Religious into a form of ecclesiastical receivership, appointing Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain to oversee the LCWR until its statutes and program are reformed, Tom Fox, a major figure at the National Catholic Reporter for decades, had this to say:
"Some of our bishops are acting like bullies, abusing the authority of their offices in the name of enforcing orthodoxy.
"Dealing with U.S. women religious, these bishops' actions appear governed more by a desire to enforce obedience than to develop fidelity in our sisters…
"What the bully bishops claim to be matters of orthodoxy are really matters of pastoral style. They are the results of an unwillingness among our bishops to enter into sincere and mutually respectful dialogue with the women. None of the issues at hand has anything to do with the Creed. They stem from the actions of a small group of misdirected and fearful men determined to take 'catholic' out of 'Catholic' while judging, silencing and demeaning those who stand in their way…"
Shortly after a correspondent sent me the link to this rather intemperate comment, another interlocutor passed along an interview with the late Walker Percy, one of American Catholicism's greatest 20th century literary talents. Percy was asked what would have most surprised another major Catholic literary figure, Flannery O'Connor, about the post-conciliar Church she did not live to see:
"I think probably the disunity, the near-sundering of the American Church. I think she would be horrified, and probably most of all by the nuns, by what happened to the Georgia nuns, to the Louisiana nuns, and I guess to most of the others. They completely fell apart. They were seduced, not by feminism–which the pope approves of, in the sense of the right of women not to be discriminated against–but by radical feminism. Many of the nuns I know were completely seduced by it, to the point of rebelling against any sort of discipline. They began to mix up the magisterium with macho masculinism, as if the pope were Hemingway. I think that would horrify O'Connor more than anything."
There's not a whole lot of "common ground" to be found between these two readings of the post-conciliar history of women's religious life in these United States. Either Tom Fox is right in his general view of the situation, or Walker Percy is right in his. Yet while Percy would almost certainly have agreed that there are many holy and devoted women doing great service to Church and society within the LCWR orders, Fox seems unlikely to make any such concession about the bishops who have, over three decades, raised concern about the spiritual life of those orders. If inflexibility and intellectual bullying are at work here, they're far more prevalent on the port side of the Barque of Peter than on the starboard side.
There is also a question of demographics to be considered, in assessing these two views. Ann Carey's 1997 book, Sisters in Crisis, reported a hard fact, thoroughly supported by the data: progressive orders of religious women don't generate new vocations. LCWR-affiliated sisters responded that their job was "not to grow but to be." How one could "be" without new recruits was not explained–a reflection, perhaps, of the same cast of mind that led a recent LCWR annual assembly speaker to praise the "post-Christian" stance of some religious orders. In any case, there can be no denying that the "renewal" of women's religious life led by the LCWR and its affiliated orders has utterly failed to attract new vocations. The LCWR orders are dying, while several religious orders that disaffiliated from the LCWR are growing.
And this is the question that neither the LCWR nor its defenders, like Tom Fox, ever engage: If what you've been doing for about 40 years is so right, why do young women not find it attractive?
Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor, however, would understand.


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By Reggie's Take on May 13, 2017
We've seen the character of Judge Dredd twice on the big screen and now it looks as if fans will get another chance to see the character live once again.
The 1995 movie "Judge Dredd" that featured Sylvester Stallone was a financial flop. In 2012 the character was given a second chance, this time with Karl Urban taking over the character in the movie "Dredd" and though the film was well-received by critics it too had issues when it came to box office returns.
When "Dredd" hit home video it found an audience that it couldn't find when at theaters and over the last several years the Karl Urban incarnation has become a cult classic. Since 2012 there have been many, including Karl Urban himself who have been campaigning to see more of Judge Dredd and it seems fans may get there wish.
If your reading this and hoping for another movie with Karl Urban, don't get your hopes up as IM Global Television in a press release announced that Judge Dredd will instead be coming to the small screen for a live action adaptation entitled "Judge Dredd Mega-City One".
The new television series will be an ensemble following a group of judges as they try and retain their grip as judge, jury, and executioners in the face of escalating violence. No one knows for sure if this new series will be in the same universe as Karl Urban's "Dredd", but I'm sure fans would love it if it the series was and would be huge if he would return and make it a true continuation.
There has been no date set as to when "Judge Dredd Mega-City One" will begin production and no one has officially been cast. Also no word where the series will broadcast exactly, but one would hope for a streaming service so they are not as restricted.
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100 MILLION SPECIES
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Mankind is only one SPECIES of life on Earth. According the leading "scientific authorities": ...the "estimated total number of species on Earth is 6.5 million species found on land, and 2.2 million (about 25 percent of the total) dwelling in the ocean depths. However, a study, published by PLoS Biology, says a staggering 86% of all species on land and 91% of those in the seas have yet to be discovered, described and cataloged."
If we do the math, we learn that 8.7 million is roughly 80% – 90% of ONE HUNDRED MILLION species on this planet. That's a LOT of life! How many even MORE bizarre life forms are as yet undiscovered? And how many more might there be living throughout the rest of our own galaxy? (I won't mention the whole universe….).
Many more imagined creatures are described in science fiction stories on other planets and galaxies. But, very few of these fictional "monstrosities" are as strange and bizarre at the real creatures that inhabit the microcosm on our own planet. Here are pictures of a few common insects viewed with the aid of an electron microscope. It is a challenge to imagine creatures more bizarre than these!
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10 QUINTILLION ALIENS ON EARTH!
Here is photographic PROOF that aliens have invaded Earth! It has long been recognized and documented that insects are the most diverse group of organisms, meaning that the numbers of species of insects are more than any other group. In the world, some 900 thousand different kinds of living insects are known. This representation approximates 80 percent of the world's species. The true figure of living species of insects can only be estimated from present and past studies. Most authorities agree that there are more insect species that have not been described (named by science) than there are insect species that have been previously named. Conservative estimates suggest that this figure is 2 million, but estimates extend to 30 million. In the last decade, much attention has been given to the entomofauna that exists in the canopies of tropical forests of the world. From studies conducted by Terry Erwin of the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Entomology in Latin American forest canopies, the number of living species of insects has been estimated to be 30 million. Insects also probably have the largest biomass of the terrestrial animals. At any time, it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive.
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An actual example from nature of a parasitic insect that uses "mind-control" to cause the host insect to change its normal behavior to the benefit of the parasite, is described in the PDF article below.
ABSTRACT: On the evening that it will kill its host, the orb-weaving spider Plesiometa argyra, the larva of the Ichneumonid wasp induces the spider to perform highly stereotyped construction behavior and build a ''cocoon web'' that is particularly well designed to support the wasp larva's cocoon.
Here is a PDF file of a recent article written by William G. Eberhard which describes this phenomenon in detail: PARASITES CONTROL MIND
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INSECTS CAN SAVE OUR WORLD
Are humans the "center of the universe"? Do you believe that the species "homo sapiens" is the dominant life form on Earth? Are humans created "in the image of god"? Factually, if god looked like the most numerous species on Earth, god would be an insect!
There are more than 200 million insects for each human on the planet. The world holds 300 pounds of insects for every pound of humans. At any time, it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive.
It has long been recognized and documented that insects are the most diverse group of organisms (on Earth), meaning that the numbers of species of insects are more than any other group. In the world, some 900 thousand different kinds of living insects are known. This representation approximates 80 percent of the world's species. Most authorities agree that there are more insect species that have not been described (named by science) than there are insect species that have been previously named. Conservative estimates suggest that this figure is 2 million, but estimates extend to 30 million."
However, as far as human survival is concerned, all of humanity could easily be fed using insects as food. Insects have more nutritional value for humans and livestock than most foods and are abundant and inexpensive to produce!
LEARN MORE: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-insects-food-future.html
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Insects outnumber the human population on this planet by 100,000 to one…or more. If this video doesn't give all of us some perspective on our stupid, egocentric lives, nothing will…..
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Well, we're less than 2 weeks away from the release date (April 16!) of my new book, Waiting in Wonder: Growing in Faith While You're Expecting and I'm one busy mama trying to keep up with it all.
Saturday, April 20th, 10:30 am to 1 pm, PFM Hospitality House, 44180 Riverside Parkway, Lansdowne, VA 20176. All are welcome! Expectant moms who attend are eligible for some great door prizes including a Baby Jogger stroller as well as giveaways from local area toy-store, Go Bananas, Veggie Tale's Creator Phil Visher's What's In the Bible, Thomas Nelson Books and more!
And finally, I'll also be signing books on May 4th at the Northern Virginia Natural Birthing Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Looking forward to meeting some wonderful expecting mothers there!


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