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Q: I am trying to create features that determine time between events based off of conditional variables I am trying to arrange my data set and create a new column in my data set that determines the sequential time between events based off of 2 separate columns.
I have the following code that should help get me there but am having difficulty troubleshooting. Has anyone run into this issue before or can identify the issue with my code?
What I'm trying to use can be found below:
Sample data set can be found below:
UNITNUMBER <- c(1,1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4)
ORDERID <- c(5555,5558,5565,5278,5283,3287,3004,4678,2345,2189,1784,5743,4623,4541)
BREAKDOWN <- c(0,1,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,0)
RO_OPENED <- as.Date(c('2016-11-18','2016-11-28','2016-9-15','2017-4-2','2016-12-22','2017-3-8','2016-4-25','2016-2-3','2017-6-7','2016-7-5','2016-4-9','2017-10-27','2017-4-20','2017-5-10'))

test = data.frame(UNITNUMBER,ORDERID,BREAKDOWN,RO_OPENED)

test <-  test %>% data.table(key = c("UNITNUMBER","RO_OPENED"))

test <-  test[, c("UNITNUMBER", "RO_OPENED",
                             "TDIFF", "UNIQUEGROUP") :=
                           list(UNITNUMBER, RO_OPENED,
                                seq(.N), .GRP),
                         by = list(ORDERID)][, numSeq := seq(min(RO_OPENED), max(RO_OPENED)),
                                             by = list(UNIQUEGROUP)][, runningTotal := ifelse(RO_OPENED == numSeq,
                                                                                seq(.N), 1L),
                                                               by = list(UNITNUMBER, UNIQUEGROUP)]

The error I'm receiving is as follows:
Error in seq.Date(min(RO_OPENED), max(RO_OPENED)) :
  exactly two of 'to', 'by' and 'length.out' / 'along.with' must be specified

I'm hoping the result will be 2 new columns giving me a UNIQUEGROUP identifier and the time difference between BREAKDOWNS for each UNITNUMBER and ORDERID like as follows:
UNIT OrderID BD    Date      TDIFF
1    5565    0    9/15/2016    NA
1    5555    0    11/18/2016   NA
1    5558    1    11/28/2016   0
1    5278    1    4/2/2017     125
2    5283    1    12/22/2016   0
2    3287    1    3/8/2017     76
3    4678    0    2/3/2016     NA
3    3004    1    4/25/2016    0
3    2345    0    6/7/2017     NA
4    1784    0    4/9/2016     NA
4    2189    0    7/5/2016     NA
4    4623    1    4/20/2017    0
4    4541    0    5/10/2017    NA
4    5743    1    10/27/2017   190

A: This should do your job
library(dplyr)
test %>%
  arrange(UNITNUMBER, RO_OPENED) %>%
  group_by(UNITNUMBER, BREAKDOWN) %>%
  mutate(TDIFF = coalesce(RO_OPENED - lag(RO_OPENED), 0),
         TDIFF = ifelse(BREAKDOWN == 0, NA, TDIFF))

A: Here's the data.table approach:
library(data.table)

setDT(test)
setorder(test, UNITNUMBER, RO_OPENED)

test[BREAKDOWN == 1,
     TDIFF := c(0, diff(RO_OPENED)),
     by = UNITNUMBER]

test


Q: I've heard that you can create a stock portfolio in Excel that can be updated automatically via the Internet. Can you please tell me if this true, and, if so, how this is accomplished?
a. In Excel 2007 and 2010, from the Data tab, select Existing Connections from the Get External Data Group to launch the Existing Connections dialog box, then select MSN MoneyCentral Investor Stock Quotes and click Open.
b. In Excel 2003, from the Data menu select Import External Data, Import Data to launch the Select Data Source dialog box, then select MSN MoneyCentral Investor Stock Quotes and click Open.
2. In the Import Data dialog box, select the option for New worksheet as shown below, and click OK to display the Enter Parameter Value dialog box (see below).
In the Enter Parameter Value dialog box, click the Cell Chooser icon and highlight the cells in your portfolio containing the stock ticker symbols as shown below. Check the box labeled Use this value/reference for future refreshes and click OK.
This action will retrieve and display an array of stock quote information from the MSN MoneyCentral Investor database in a new Excel worksheet. This information includes the name of each investment and 20-minute delayed price per share data, among other information. An example of the resulting stock quote query is shown below.
Return to your portfolio worksheet and fill in the missing name and stock price information using simple reference formulas to refer to the investment names and stock price information on the query worksheet. For example, select cell D3 in your portfolio worksheet, and enter the formula =QueryWorksheet!D4 (assuming the worksheet containing your query is named "QueryWorksheet"). Thereafter, each time you click the Refresh All button, Excel will update the query results, which in turn will update your portfolio.
Hint 1: If you plan to print your portfolio report, insert the formula =NOW() in cell A1 (or any blank cell) to ensure that the date and time your portfolio is printed appears on the report.
Hint 2: If you prefer to use the Refresh button (that is, instead of the Refresh All button), you must first select a cell (or cells) within the query results array.
Hint 3: If you later add more line items to your portfolio, you can change the query parameters by right-clicking on the query and selecting Parameters from the dropdown menu.


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Consumers lack knowledge to support farmers
Dawn Renton
A new survey, carried out by LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) ahead of this weekend's Open Farm Sunday, revealed that consumers want to support British farmers, although some may already be doing so without even realising.
Although many think we should produce more food in Britain, the majority are unaware how much our farmers already grow.
Nearly half of consumers (48%) said they thought British farmers should produce more of our own food, but the survey revealed that people vastly underestimate how much is already produced in this country. Although we are currently 60% self-sufficient in the UK, consumers on average believed this to be closer to 35%. The country of origin (42%) was the third most popular purchase driver for fresh food choices, with price (74%) and special offers (51%) the only factors proving more influential. More than a quarter (27%) of those surveyed say they buy more British food than they did five years ago, and the same number said they were happy to pay more for food produced in Britain.
The survey also revealed that over a quarter of those questioned (26%) had never visited a farm. On average, those questioned had not visited a working farm in over nine years.
Michael Sly, 47, farmer, MHS Farms, Thorney who is joining hundreds of farms in opening his gates for this weekend's Open Farm Sunday, said: "It's reassuring that people want to support British farmers and are even willing to pay more to do so. The results highlight the importance of strengthening the public's connection with farming and food. Open Farm Sunday is a fantastic way to do this. We're hoping that by getting people out onto a farm this weekend they can find out more about what, and how much food, we produce in this country."
Worryingly the survey also revealed that many adults still struggle to understand basic food knowledge, such as which food comes from which crop or animal. More than one in four people questioned (26%) were unable to identify that milk came from a dairy cow, one in five (22%) did not know that eggs came from chickens, and just under a quarter (23%) were unaware that bacon comes from pigs. More than half of those questioned (51%) also didn't make the link between a dairy cow and butter, and more than a third (37%) could not connect steak with beef cattle.
Even when it comes to popular products like beer, porridge or mustard, many fail to make the connection to what is grown on a British farm. Only one in five could identify a picture of barley as an ingredient in beer, and only one in seven knew that oats were used in porridge. Meanwhile, sixteen percent didn't know crops used for breakfast cereals are grown in this country and four in ten (42%) were unaware that mustard seed is grown on British farms.
Annabel Shackleton, Open Farm Sunday manager at LEAF added: "Open Farm Sunday is the ideal opportunity for people of all ages to visit a farm and discover more about the world of farming and the story behind their food. By spending time on a farm, talking to farmers and to the many other professionals involved in the industry – from agronomists to vets – the day offers a unique insight into this vital industry and helps people to value the work farmers do and the food they eat."
For more information on Open Farm Sunday and to find participating farms, visit http://www.farmsunday.org.

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Ranking Member Risch Meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today welcomed Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi to the U.S. Capitol for a meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"I was glad to welcome Prime Minister al-Kadhimi to the U.S. Capitol today to discuss our shared strategic interests," said Risch. "Iraq continues to be an important security partner in the fight against ISIS, and I strongly support efforts to expand our cooperation in education and economics to ensure an enduring U.S.-Iraq relationship. I look forward to furthering these efforts in the months ahead."


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Sail loft
Jim Flannery
Photos by Alison Langley
Overlooking the harbor at East Boothbay, Maine, Nathaniel S. Wilson Sailmaker Inc. is in its 37th year of making sails the old-fashioned way, hand-sewing the woven fabric just as Wilson learned to do it at the Coast Guard Academy sail loft in the early 1970s. "In those days the Coast Guard did all its sails in-house," says Wilson, 64.
Eschewing computers, he designs his sails on paper — a "cut sheet" — the way the Herreshoff lofts designed theirs a century ago. His sailmakers — he employs four — finish the sails with hand-stitching using a stout needle, waxed thread and a leather "palm" — a strap that wraps around the hand and has a hole for the thumb and a metal disc at the heel of the hand to push the needle through the cloth.
Wilson says the time-honored practices — "well-proven and well-tested" — that he learned as an enlisted man at the academy and as an apprentice at legendary lofts such as Ratsey & Lapthorn's in City Island, N.Y., still work well today. One of his aims has been to pass those practices to new generations of sailmakers drawn to building classic sails for classic yachts and ships, a niche market that values craftsmanship and authenticity. (His son, Eben, is pictured at left.)
Wilson has made sails for such historic and replica ships as the USS Constitution, the Coast Guard barque Eagle, Sultana, Clearwater, Spirit of Massachusetts, Pride of Baltimore II, American Eagle, Lettie G. Howard, Mayflower II, Godspeed and Discovery. This winter the loft was building sails for the 1926 Frank Paine-designed Q Boat Falcon, four Murray Peterson-designed schooners and the schooner Kalmar Nyckel, Delaware's tall ship.
Wilson makes sails in soft woven fabrics only. He often uses Oceanus, a synthetic polyester cloth closely resembling natural cotton duck, or Egyptian cotton.
His clients, usually owners of lovingly restored yachts and ships, want sails that look, feel and perform like those from the era when the boat was built. Wilson delivers.
"It's an art and a science," he says.
This article originally appeared in the Apri 2012 issue.
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In Memoriam Patricia Monaghan: The Goddess Community Remembers and Mourns by Dawn Work-MaKinne
By Guest Contributor on November 28, 2012 • ( 10 )
Patricia Monaghan, scholar, author, poet, activist, artist, visionary and vice-president of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology died early on November 11, 2012 after a two year journey with cancer. Patricia was one of the Founding Mothers of the Goddess Spirituality community in the United States, and her loss is a profound one for our spiritual and scholarly communities.
I was a very junior scholar when I first met Patricia in the 1990s. I had long admired her work, especially O Mother Sun!, her comprehensive study on sun goddesses. We were at a regional gathering, and Patricia had been deputed to lead a table of discussion devoted to Goddess scholarship. When we introduced ourselves, she simply said that she was Pat, from Chicago. Our discussion was rolling along when recognition hit. As I remember, I broke into the conversation. "You're Patricia! From Chicago! " I enthused. "Your work has been so important to me!" One of Patricia's key characteristics was her generosity, especially with young and emerging scholars. I left that gathering with her email address, and I thought I was the richest young woman in the world. In the ensuing years, she encouraged me all the way through my doctorate. We had a long and joyous journey together.
Patricia was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to Irish-American parents, and maintained dual Irish and American citizenship. She earned her undergraduate and first graduate degree at the University of Minnesota, where she studied English and French literature. She also earned an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from the University of Alaska. She worked as a journalist in both Minnesota and Alaska, writing about culture, nature, and the intersection of the two. Patricia earned her PhD in Science and Literature from The Union Institute in Cincinnati in 1994. In 1995, she joined the faculty of the School for New Learning at DePaul University, where she taught classes in arts and environmental sciences.
Goddess scholars and women's spirituality practitioners, however, will remember Patricia for her groundbreaking contributions to the fields of Goddess Studies and Women's Spirituality. In 1979, she published the first encyclopedia of female divinities, a book which has remained steadily in print since then and was recently republished in a two volume set as The Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines. A long-time scholar of Celtic lore, she also published The Encyclopedia of Celtic Myth and Folklore. She edited a three-volume collection of essays entitled Goddesses in World Culture, published in late 2010. Patricia brought her lifelong interest in Ireland together with her commitment to women's spirituality in The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit. This is a unique travelogue of Irish heritage sites and their relation to goddess figures. Her other books on women's spirituality are The Goddess Path and The Goddess Companion, both introductory books on the subject; O Mother Sun, an analysis of world myths about solar goddesses, Wild Girls: The Path of the Young Goddess, a group of stories for girls about youthful goddesses; and Magical Gardens, a book of garden designs based in mythology that was reissued in early 2012. A revised and expanded edition of Meditation: The Complete Guide was recently published. At the time of her death, Patricia had just finished co-editing with her spouse Dr. Michael McDermott an anthology of writings called Brigit: Sun of Womanhood. She was also revising The Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines for a paperback edition. Both can be expected in 2013.
Patricia's scholarship and immersion into Irish landscape and heritage produced in her a profound appreciation of the writer and artist as oracle and seer, prophet and visionary. The last few years of her life were devoted to the projects she held the most dear: The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology,The Black Earth Institute, and Irish folklore study. The Black Earth Institute is dedicated to inspiring artists to serve the causes of inclusive spirituality, protecting and healing the earth and fighting for social justice. She focused her work and travels increasingly on discovering Irish mythology and folklore. The creation and development of ASWM were high priorities for Patricia. (www.womenandmyth.org) ASWM supports the work of those whose scholarly/creative endeavors explore or elucidate aspects of the sacred feminine, women and mythology. Through conferences, publications and networking, ASWM opens dialogue among disciplines, individuals and spiritual traditions. Scholars and creative artists in all media whose work deals with images of the feminine divinity, as well as those interested in the work of such scholars and artists, participate in ASWM's activities.Patricia was committed to the importance of recognition of new work, to call attention to Goddess scholarship within academia at large. She was devoted to the mentoring of new and emerging scholars. She will be endowing an annual prize for ASWM.
Memorials are being held the weekend of December 1 in the Madison, Wisconsin area, but Patricia's influence reaches far beyond. A goddess-sister of mine in Des Moines, Iowa, has created a memorial celebration here, and vigils and ceremonies have been and will be held in many local communities. ASWM plans a ceremony of remembrance in conjunction with the Symposium in St. Paul, Minnesota in April 2013.
Because of Patricia, I am now writing my first book. I have not written a word since she moved into the spirit world. Her spirit chides me. More than anything, she would wish for our work to go on, for scholarship about the goddesses and the female divine and the women's myths to thrive. She has created a royal road upon which we can travel, and her generosity and inspiration will light the way. I will go to Wisconsin this weekend and say yet another goodbye. Then I will come home, and write.
Dawn Work-MaKinne is a 2010 Ph.D. graduate in Women's Studies in Religion at The Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Her dissertation is titled "Deity in Sisterhood: The Collective Sacred Female in Germanic Europe."
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I, too, met Pat in the early 1990s. It was at the Llewellyn booth at a Book Expo here in Los Angeles. She was enormously generous and creative, and I still have a letter from her (written on paper on a typewriter) tucked into one of her books on my shelves. She's been an inspiration to many of us who love the Goddess, and we already miss her. Dawn, thanks so much for writing such a lovely tribute.
Laura Loomis
I have several of her books on my shelf. The sheer volume of Goddess-related information that she made available was such a gift. She will be missed.
Judith Laura
Nancy Vedder-Shults
Thanks, Dawn. It's wonderful to have ALL of Pat's Goddess work listed in one place. Although I've read most of it, it's still amazing to me how much she wrote as well as creating ASWM and working at the same time. Pfew!
Francis Fischer
Pat was on my Ph.D. committee. She was enormously helpful and supportive. After I was done with my Ph.D I wrote to tell her that I had returned to the religiously conservative plain Quakers. I never heard another word from her though I wrote her several more times. I was very hurt. Yet over the many years since I got my Ph.D. I fell back in love with the Goddess, yet intertwined it with a Christianity of sorts and remained a plain Quaker. I read none of Pat's books because I felt rejected. I was about to buy one of her books since it seemed it answered a search I was finding nothing else might answer. Then I canceled it, still hurt. I thought, I need to write her again. Did a search and found that she had passed on. Wow. I've been reading what many wonderful women, and her husband have said about her. It seems stupid now, so late, to forgive her years of silence. But all the things "you" have written about her, especially her husband's writing, have let me forgive her for her silence. And I thank "you all" for that gift. I'm going to go and order one of her books now. Guess it's long past time.
Dear Francis, thank you for leaving this comment. I'm sad to hear about your rocky experience with Pat, but glad that you have 'found' her again. I hope that reconnecting with her work will be a good and healing experience. Bright blessings to you!
Hiraphi Vinutalina
You people all like the work of Patricia Monaghan, but she has disrespected my tribe, let it be known. I am the last member of the Raeti tribe. There is nobody but me who calls themselves a Raeti. I am a herdsman. I have my mountain and my land and my traditions. I write in the Raetic alphabet and speak the Raetic language. There is nobody left but me who still does these things. When I die, my culture will die. But Patricia tried to hurt my culture while I am still alive. She has written a book called "goddesses in world culture." In this book she said that our main goddess was called Raetia and was also known as Estu. No. Raetia is the land of the Raeti. It is in the alps of Switzerland, Italy, and Austria. Ritu is the name of one of our goddesses. Estu is another of our goddesses. Patricia said that we Raeti had knowledge of what she called "our lady." I will know explain the truth of Raetic god and goddess worship. The Raeti recognized male and female energies in the natural world, and our gods and goddesses represented those energies. The things with male energy were things like mountains and rivers and the sun. These things always remained the same, and would only hurt us if we were foolish or disrespectful. The female energy was in things like the rain and snow and seasons. These things were not constant. The goddesses liked to interfere in everyday life. For them to be friendly, we had to sacrifice people on their altars and write their names on things. If a goddess was angry with us, she might knock down our houses with a storm, or make our cattle get a disease. The mountain, having male energy, would never do that. In our tradition, we write the names of our goddesses on many things and give them many offerings, because they would even be angry with us if we just did nothing and ignored them. Being female energy, they would be jealous and vengeful and the only way to ensure good health or mild seasons was to always write their names and worship them. We feared the goddesses and admired the gods. The gods did not get angry or kill us for going about our business. A god would only kill a person for building their house in an avalanche zone, or going the wrong place on a mountain. They just existed as themselves and didn't do anything else. The main point is that for my tribe, goddesses inhabited anything that could kill for no reason, and gods inhabited constant forces that would only kill for certain reasons. There was a kind of war between sexes in that way. That might be offensive to you, but it's my tribes' culture and if you don't like it, that is fine, but don't try to change it and make it seem like we were your ideal culture when we weren't.
Denese Wong
I just discovered Patricia Monaghan's The Red-Haired Girl From the Bog and think it quite wonderful. I was so hoping to be able to connect with Monaghan on the internet, so was terribly disappointed to find that she has died. I feel like I've been waiting my entire life for this book!
Mouse Rea
Hi Denese, I just wanted to say that it's the same with me. I'm just reading The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog for the first time too and am so enjoying it, so I too feel very sad to discover that Patricia has died. However, it looks as though there is a wonderful body of writing that she has left. I wondered if you might also enjoy a book that I've just finished reading called If Women Rose Rooted – The Power of the Celtic Woman by Sharon Blackie. It's exquisite and contains a lot of beautiful Celtic mythology and interviews with Celtic women on mythological, spiritual and earth-based paths.
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When I use this one in the capabilities, it gives me an error that deriver is not defined.
driver.getContexts().then(function (contexts) { // get list of available views. Returns array: ["NATIVE_APP","WEBVIEW_1"]
return driver.context(contexts[1]); // choose the webview context })
And after adding this under the section I want to open it gives me this error:
TypeError: driver.getContexts(…).then is not a function

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Q: Windows Form delete the drawn ellipse I have created some Ellipses on Windows form
I want that selectable while mouse over and if i select any ellipse it will delete from Window
Here some code for create ellipse in c#
public void DrawCircle_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
    Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Black, 3); Graphics gr = this.CreateGraphics(); gr.DrawEllipse(pen, 40, 45, 20, 20);
    Pen pen2 = new Pen(Color.Black, 3); Graphics gr1 = this.CreateGraphics(); gr.DrawEllipse(pen2, 30, 25, 38, 20);
    Pen pen3 = new Pen(Color.Black, 3); Graphics gr2 = this.CreateGraphics(); gr.DrawEllipse(pen3, 35, 36, 68, 15);
    Pen pen4 = new Pen(Color.Black, 3); Graphics gr3 = this.CreateGraphics(); gr.DrawEllipse(pen4, 50, 60, 67, 35);
}

A: You could use
this.Invalidate();

That should clear them....
Either that, or
Graphics.Clear();

Edit:
Actually, another method be to have a boolean inside of your mouse on hover, and use that to dictate when to draw the elipse/not. As a general note, you should be putting the elipse drawing in an override of onpaint. Right now, currently, if you were to invalidate the screen (either by you, or by Windows), your shapes will disappear. An Example using on paint.
bool paint = false;
protected override void OnPaint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
    if (paint)
    {
          Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Black, 3); Graphics gr = this.CreateGraphics(); gr.DrawEllipse(pen, 40, 45, 20, 20);
          Pen pen2 = new Pen(Color.Black, 3); Graphics gr1 = this.CreateGraphics(); gr.DrawEllipse(pen2, 30, 25, 38, 20);
          Pen pen3 = new Pen(Color.Black, 3); Graphics gr2 = this.CreateGraphics(); gr.DrawEllipse(pen3, 35, 36, 68, 15);
          Pen pen4 = new Pen(Color.Black, 3); Graphics gr3 = this.CreateGraphics(); gr.DrawEllipse(pen4, 50, 60, 67, 35);
    }
}

I don't remember the specific paramters for it, but in your OnMouseHover (where you want to turn off your elipse)
OnMouseHover(){
    ...
    paint = false;
    this.Invalidate();
}


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Краснозаводськ — місто і найбільший населений пункт однойменного міського поселення Краснозаводська у Сергієво-Посадському муніципальному районі Московської області. Населення міста — 13,7 тис. чол. (2010).

Розташований на річці Куньї (притоки Дубни, басейн Волги), за 15 км на північ від міста Сергієв Посад, за 7 км на північний захід від найближчій станції Бужаніново і за 88 км на північний схід від Москви. Площа 19 км².

Історія
Спочатку — робітниче селище при Троїцькому снаряжательному заводі (заснований 15 липня 1915 року, зараз — Краснозаводский хімічний завод). Спочатку не мав ніякої назви, після 1917 р. називався Відродження, Загорський (по близькості до міста Загорський — так називався Сергієв Посад), Червонозаводський. У 1940 р. перетворений у місто Краснозаводськ.

У зв'язку з тим, що у 2000 році зі складу міста було виведено селище Новобудова і на його основі утворено місто Пересвет, населення міста скоротилося майже вдвічі. У 1989 році у місті жило 29,8 тис. чоловік, перепис населення 2002 році виявив 13,5 тис. (-54 %). Зараз число жителів міста, згідно з офіційною статистикою, трохи збільшилося.

Символіка
Міське поселення Краснозаводськ має власну символіку — герб та прапор. Основа міської геральдики — зображення куниці на червоному та зеленому полі. Першу редакцію герба було ухвалено 15 жовтня 2007 року, сучасну — 9 вересня 2010 року

Промисловість
Містоутворююче підприємство — Краснозаводский хімічний завод, провідний російський розробник і виробник патронів для гладкоствольних рушниць 12, 16, 20 і 410 калібрів; також випускає паркові і висотні феєрверки, піротехнічні іграшки, а також деякі промислові товари (термітні патрони і шашки, залізничні петарди та ін.) Патрони Червонозаводського хімічного заводу за результатами випробувань на Льєжській і Бірмінгемській випробувальних станціях отримали сертифікати відповідності вимогам Постійної міжнародної комісії Брюссельської Конвенції з випробувань ручної вогнепальної зброї. Система контролю якості Червонозаводського хімічного заводу сертифікована за стандартом ISO 9000.
У місті також є хлібозавод, виробництво будматеріалів.

Освіта та культура
У місті є Краснозаводский хіміко-механічний коледж (раніше — хіміко-технологічний технікум), дві середні школи (№ 1,7), музична школа, палац культури «Веселка». Є центр дитячої творчості та 5 дитячих садків.
Неподалік від міста — село Богородське, центр народного промислу. У селі розташована церква Різдва Богородиці, датується 1768 р.

З 2007 році у місті діє церква.

Смерч

Увечері 3 червня 2009 року у Краснозаводську склалася надзвичайна ситуація — по території міста пройшов смерч (торнадо).

Смерч виник у результаті проходження холодного фронту 3 червня 2009 року близько 22:15 годин ± 15 хв за московським часом, у Московській області, у Сергієво-Посадському районі, поруч з містом Краснозаводськ.

На початку утворилося кілька воронок смерчу, які потім об'єдналися у одну високої руйнівної сили, яка досягала категорії F3 (за 5-бальною шкалою Фуджити). Довжина сліду становила 1,5 км, його середня ширина — 125 м, його максимальна ширина — 150 м, напрямок руху — SSE-NNW (південно-південно-схід — північно-північно-захід).
Зародження воронки смерчу також спостерігалося і на території Москви, близько 21 години за московським часом.

Наслідки
За даними адміністрації міста Краснозаводська 60 осіб звернулися до місцевих лікарень за медичною допомогою з сильними забіями і переломами. З них 14 жителів були госпіталізовані до лікарні Сергієва Посада, троє опинилися у реанімації.

У місті був частково зруйнований місцевий ринок, з багатоквартирних будинків були зірвані дахи, пошкоджені і зруйновані балкони, вибиті стекла. Смерч піднімав у повітря автомобілі і торгові намети, були повалені і вирвані з корінням дерева. Збиток був нанесений і електромережі. Руйнування викликали замикання і пожежі, у результаті яких згоріло 9 квартир.

У результаті смерчу практично всі торгові павільйони міста були зруйновані, 40 житлових багатоквартирних будинків залишилися без вікон і дахів, 62 людини було поранено Загальний збиток, нанесений Краснозаводську, був оцінений в 170 мільйонів рублів.

Подібний смерч вважається досить рідкісним явищем для підмосковного регіону.

Див. також
 Московська область

Примітки

Література
 Міста Підмосков'я. Кн. 2. — М.: Московський робітник, 1980. — 608 с., Іл. — 35 000 екз.

Посилання
 Сайт адміністрації міста Червонозаводське

Населені пункти Сергієво-Посадського району
Міста Московської області
Краснозаводськ
Міста Росії

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Home » Monitoring
Monitronics to acquire Security Networks
After $487m cash deal, Monitronics will have 600 dealers, 1 million customers
Martha Entwistle
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—Monitronics will have more than 600 dealers and 1 million accounts when it completes the $487 million acquisition, announced today, of super-regional security company Security Networks, the 14th largest residential alarm monitoring company in the United States.
The deal, which is expected to close Aug. 16, includes $487.5 million of cash, and 253,333 newly issued shares of Ascent Series A common stock with an agreed value of $20 million, according to the statement. The purchase price, which is subject to agreement at closing, is based upon Security Networks delivering RMR of $8.8 million. Security Networks had 2012 revenues of $78.5 million and adjusted EBITDA2 of $46.5 million
"We want to take the best of Security Networks and the best of Monitronics and put them together so we have the best dealer program in the country," Monitronics CEO Mike Haislip told Security Systems News.
The combined entity, which will continue to be headquartered in Dallas, "will be a bigger, stronger company that is able to support our dealers and be an even better opportunity for new dealers who want to join the program," he added.
Security Networks, which is based West Palm Beach, Fla., has 225 dealers and 195,000 accounts. Rich Perry, CEO of Security Networks, will not join Monitronics, but the nearly 300 other Security Networks employees will stay with Monitronics.
Haislip said that all employees will stay through a transition period and he hopes that most will stay on long term.
Security Networks has a monitoring center in Kissimmee, Fla. and a customer care center in West Palm Beach, Fla. Haislip said that the two groups will work together in deciding how those facilities will be used in the future.
He said the company will realize operational synergies by combining the two companies. He said Security Networks was very well run by Perry and has "good people in place, the accounts look like our accounts, and we expect them to perform a lot like our accounts."
Importantly, the business models of both companies is the substantially the same. "We understand their operation," Haislip said. Integration of two companies "is never easy, but this will not be as difficult as some companies."
Monitronics is owned by Ascent Media and Security Networks has been owned by Oak Hill Capital since 2010.
The deal will be financed primarily by new debt at the Ascent level and Monitronics level and cash from Ascent's balance sheet, according to a company statement.
Ascent's CEO William Fitzgerald said in a prepared statement that the combined companies will "provide enhanced borrowing capacity that will allow us to substantially fund the acquisition with incremental debt, delivering attractive value for our shareholders over time."
Asked his opinion of the deal, Henry Edmonds, president of The Edmonds Group, (which was not involved in the deal) said that Security Networks "has been a great investment for Oak Hill," [which explains why] the group is exiting on the early side. In addition, market conditions for a sale are favorable and Security Networks is a "very good fit for Monitronics."
He said "Security Networks has been a strong competitor for Monitronics" and this deal allow Monitronics to expand their dealer network and eliminates some competition."
Security Systems News continues to report on this story.
monitronics,
$487 million acquisition,
Security Networks,
Ascent Media,
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I recently had the pleasure of attending the interactive portion of SXSW last week in Austin. To say that it was overwhelming would be an understatement. With an estimated attendance of nearly 25,000 people there to learn, connect and talk about technology, there were so many sessions I wanted to attend that putting a schedule together made my head spin.
However, one of the sessions I attended offered some great advice on today's digital job hunt. If you have no time to read the rest of this post, then just take away this piece of sage advice: Don't bury the lead.
Don't know what that means? "Burying the lead" comes from the old journalism principle that you should start with the most interesting and unique part of the story to grab a reader's attention, versus "burying" it behind less important or secondary information.
You should also apply this principle to your resume. Place your most relevant and interesting experience at the top. If you find yourself struggling to make your career tantalizing for a recruiter, always remember that substantial, quantifiable successes prove your abilities. Don't just list out your day-to-day duties.
Remember, your resume is the first opportunity you have to make an impression on a recruiter or hiring manager and should be strong enough to entice the employer to schedule an interview with you. Consider that the employer likely has a few minutes tops to review the resume, so get to the point of why you are an outstanding candidate right away.
The panel went on to discuss that one of the keys to standing out is by identifying your social identity (via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) and syncing your social persona and passions with your resume to create a stronger, cohesive online identity. When you can tie your passions into your career objectives or show how those passions are related or help you in your career, you are seen as the "whole package." Skills are one thing, but to find a passionate employee who can fuse it all together -- that's a person who truly stands out.


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Report From Iron Mountain
Read on December 11, 2016
1-star, politics, government
GoodReads: 1 star
"Report From Iron Mountain" is a book whose history is much more interesting than the book itself. Originally proclaimed as a "top secret" 1960's report that had been leaked to the public, Leonard Lewin ultimately claimed authorship and revealed the whole thing as a satirical hoax. Or did he...?
Turns out that famous economist/diplomat John Kenneth Galbraith claimed he was on the committee that compiled the top secret report. Writing under his pseudonym Herschel McLandress (the plot thickens!), he penned an editorial in the Washington Post called "News of War and Peace You're Not Ready For" in which he claimed that the document was authentic. He later recanted and stated, "Nothing shakes my conviction that it was written by either Dean Rusk or Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce." Wait what? The full saga is detailed on Wikipedia.
"Report from Iron Mountain" is also heavily referenced in "The Creature From Jekyll Island" - a fact which does not help the latter's credibility.
In the end, this document has to be a hoax. Its grand pronouncements, sloppy argumentation, and lack of evidence clearly mark it as amateur work rather than the stultified product of a government committee. The Kindle edition is also horrifically riddled with typos.
The book itself does make some provocative claims (which it doesn't deign to back up) that are worth thinking about. The most interesting is the anti-Clausewitzian idea that:
It is an incorrect assumption that war, as an institution, is subordinate to the social systems it is believed to serve... Few social cliches are so unquestioningly accepted as the notion that war is an extension of diplomacy (or of politics, or of the pursuit of economic objectives)... War itself is the basic social system
I also found the section on using environmental threats to unify humanity as uncannily relevant to our political situation today.
Nevertheless, an effective political substitute for war would require "alternate enemies," some of which might seem equally farfetched in the context of the current war system. It may be, for instance, that gross pollution of the environment can eventually replace the possibility of mass destruction by nuclear weapons as the principal apparent threat to the survival of the species. Poisoning of the air, and of the principal sources of food and water supply, is already well advanced, and at first glance would seem promising in this respect; it constitutes a threat that can be dealt with only through social organization and political power.
My highlights below.
It is surely no exaggeration to say that a condition of general world peace would lead to changes in the social structures of the nations of the world of unparalleled and revolutionary magnitude. The economic impact of general disarmament, to name only the most obvious consequence of peace, would revise the production and distribution patterns of the globe to a degree that would make changes of the past fifty years seem insignificant.
Granting that a "peaceful" settlement of disputes is within the range of current international relationships, is the abolition of war, in the broad sense, really possible? If so, is it necessarily desirable, in terms of social stability?
SECTION 1 - SCOPE OF THE STUDY
As Herman Kahn, the writer on strategic studies best known to the general public, put it: "Critics frequently object to the icy rationality of the Hudson Institute, the Rand Corporation, and other such organizations. I'm always tempted to ask in reply, `Would you prefer a warm, human error? Do you feel better with a nice emotional mistake.'"
Previous studies have taken the desirability of peace, the importance of human life, the superiority of democratic institutions, the greatest "good" for the greatest number, the "dignity" of the individual, the desirability of maximum health and longevity, and other such wishful premises as axiomatic values necessary for the justification of a study of peace issues. We have not found them so. We have attempted to apply the standards of physical science to our thinking, the principal characteristic of which is not quantification, as is popularly believed, but that, in Whitehead's words, "... it ignores all judgments of value; for instance, all esthetic and moral judgments."
SECTION 2 - DISARMAMENT AND THE ECONOMY
The first factor is that of size. The "world war industry," as one writer has aptly called it, accounts for approximately a tenth of the output of the world's total economy.
SECTION 3 - DISARMAMENT SCENARIOS
No major power can proceed with such a program, however, until it has developed an economic conversion plan fully integrated with each phase of disarmament. No such plan has yet been developed in the United States.
SECTION 4 - WAR AND PEACE AS SOCIAL SYSTEMS
It is the incorrect assumption that war, as an institution, is subordinate to the social systems it is believed to serve.
Few social cliches are so unquestioningly accepted as the notion that war is an extension of diplomacy (or of politics, or of the pursuit of economic objectives).
War itself is the basic social system, within which other secondary modes of social organization conflict or conspire. It is the system which has governed most human societies of record, as it is today. Once this is correctly understood, the true magnitude of the problems entailed in a transition to peace – itself a social system, but without precedent except in a few simple preindustrial societies – becomes apparent.
Economic systems, political philosophies, and corpora jures serve and extend the war system, not vice versa.
Wars are not "caused" by international conflicts of interest. Proper logical sequence would make it more often accurate to say that war-making societies require – and thus bring about – such conflicts. The capacity of a nation to make war expresses the greatest social power it can exercise; war-making, active or contemplated, is a matter of life and death on the greatest scale subject to social control. It should therefore hardly be surprising that the military institutions in each society claim its highest priorities.
SECTION 5 - THE FUNCTIONS OF WAR
As we have indicated, the preeminence of the concept of war as the principal organizing force in most societies has been insufficiently appreciated. This is also true of its extensive effects throughout the many nonmilitary activities of society.
The attacks that have since the time of Samuel's criticism of King Saul been leveled against military expenditures as waste may well have concealed or misunderstood the point that some kinds of waste may have a larger social utility." In the case of military "waste," there is indeed a larger social utility. It derives from the fact that the "wastefulness" of war production is exercised entirely outside the framework of the economy of supply and demand. As such, it provides the only critically large segment of the total economy that is subject to complete and arbitrary central control.
"Why is war so wonderful? Because it creates artificial demand... the only kind of artificial demand, moreover, that does not raise any political issues: war, and only war, solves the problem of inventory."
It is not to be confused with massive government expenditures in social welfare programs; once initiated, such programs normally become integral parts of the general economy and are no longer subject to arbitrary control.
A former Secretary of the Army has carefully phrased it for public consumption thus: "If there is, as I suspect there is, a direct relation between the stimulus of large defense spending and a substantially increased rate of growth of gross national product, it quite simply follows that defense spending per se might be countenanced on economic grounds alone [emphasis added] as a stimulator of the national metabolism."
Although we do not imply that a substitute for war in the economy cannot be devised, no combination of techniques for controlling employment, production, and consumption has yet been tested that can remotely compare to it in effectiveness. It is, and has been, the essential economic stabilizer of modern societies.
But a nation's foreign policy can have no substance if it lacks the means of enforcing its attitude toward other nations. It can do this in a credible manner only if it implies the threat of maximum political organization for this purpose — which is to say that it is organized to some degree for war. War, then, as we have defined it to include all national activities that recognize the possibility of armed conflict, is itself the defining element of any nation's existence vis-a-vis any other nation. Since it is historically axiomatic that the existence of any form of weaponry insures its use, we have used the work "peace" as virtually synonymous with disarmament. By the same token, "war" is virtually synonymous with nationhood. The elimination of war implies the inevitable elimination of national sovereignty and the traditional nation-state.
The possibility of war provides the sense of external necessity without which no government can long remain in power.
The organization of a society for the possibility of war is its principal political stabilizer.
The basic authority of a modern state over its people resides in its war powers.
In some countries, the artificial distinction between police and other military forces does not exist.
As economic productivity increases to a level further and further above that of minimum subsistence, it becomes more and more difficult for a society to maintain distribution patterns insuring the existence of "hewers of wood and drawers of water". The further progress of automation can be expected to differentiate still more sharply between "superior" workers and what Ricardo called "menials," while simultaneously aggravating the problem of maintaining an unskilled labor supply. The arbitrary nature of war expenditures and of other military activities make them ideally suited to control these essential class relationships.
the continuance of the war system must be assured, if for no other reason, among others, than to preserve whatever quality and degree of poverty a society requires as an incentive, as well as to maintain the stability of its internal organization of power.
The current euphemistic cliches — "juvenile delinquency" and "alienation" — have had their counterparts in every age. In earlier days these conditions were dealt with directly by the military without the complications of due process, usually through press gangs or outright enslavement.
The younger, and more dangerous, of these hostile social groupings have been kept under control by the Selective Service System.
Roughly speaking, the presumed power of the "enemy" sufficient to warrant an individual sense of allegiance to a society must be proportionate to the size and complexity of the society. Today, of course, that power must be one of unprecedented magnitude and frightfulness.
A conventional example of this mechanism is the inability of most people to connect, let us say, the starvation of millions in India with their own past conscious political decision-making. Yet the sequential logic linking a decision to restrict grain production in America with an eventual famine in Asia is obvious, unambiguous, and unconcealed.
To take a handy example... "rather than accept speed limits of twenty miles an hour we prefer to let automobiles kill forty thousand people a year."
To forestall the inevitable historical cycles of inadequate food supply, post-Neolithic man destroys surplus members of his own species by organized warfare.
Another secondary ecological trend bearing on projected population growth is the regressive effect of certain medical advances.
CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC
The relationshop of war to scientific research and discovery is more explicit. War is the principal motivational force for the development of science at every level, from the abstractly conceptual to the narrowly technological.
War provides for the periodic necessary readjustment of standards of social behavior (the "moral climate") and for the dissipation of general boredom, one of the most consistently undervalued and unrecognized of social phenomena.
SECTION 6 - SUBSTITUTES FOR THE FUNCTIONS OF WAR
An economy as advanced and complex as our own requires the planned average annual destruction of not less than 10 percent of gross national product if it is effectively to fulfill its stabilizing function.
Space research can be viewed as the nearest modern equivalent yet devised to the pyramid-building, and similar ritualistic enterprises, of ancient societies. It is true that the scientific value of the space program, even of what has already been accomplished, is substantial on its own terms. But current programs are absurdly obviously disproportionate, in the relationship of the knowledge sought to the expenditures committed. All but a small fraction of the space budget, measured by the standards of comparable scientific objectives, must be charged de facto to the military economy.
Credibility, in fact, lies at the heart of the problem of developing a political substitute for war.
Nevertheless, an effective political substitute for war would require "alternate enemies," some of which might seem equally farfetched in the context of the current war system. It may be, for instance, that gross pollution of the environment can eventually replace the possibility of mass destruction by nuclear weapons as the principal apparent threat to the survival of the species. Poisoning of the air, and of the principal sources of food and water supply, is already well advanced, and at first glance would seem promising in this respect; it constitutes a threat that can be dealt with only through social organization and political power. But from present indications it will be a generation to a generation and a half before environmental pollution, however severe, will be sufficiently menacing, on a global scale, to offer a possible basis for a solution.
Another possible surrogate for the control of potential enemies of society is the reintroduction, in some form consistent with modern technology and political processes, of slavery. Up to now, this has been suggested only in fiction, notably in the works of Wells, Huxley, Orwell, and others engaged in the imaginative anticipation of the sociology of the future. But the fantasies projected in Brave New World and 1984 have seemed less and less implausible over the years since their publication. The traditional association of slavery with ancient preindustrial cultures should not blind us to its adaptability to advanced forms of social organization, nor should its equally traditional incompatibility with Western moral and economic values. It is entirely possible that the development of a sophisticated form of slavery may be an absolute prerequisite for social control in a world at peace. As a practical matter, conversion of the code of military discipline to a euphemized form of enslavement would entail surprisingly little revision; the logical first stepmoould be the adoption of some form of "universal" military service.
War has not been genetically progressive. But as a system of gross population control to preserve the species it cannot fairly be faulted.
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San Zeno steht für:

 zahlreiche Kirchen zu Ehren des Heiligen, siehe Zenokirche

San Zeno ist der Name folgender geographischer Objekte:

Gemeinden:
 San Zeno di Montagna, Gemeinde in der Provinz Verona, Italien
 San Zeno Naviglio, Gemeinde in der Provinz Brescia, Italien

Gemeindeteile:
 San Zeno (Verona), Stadtteil von Verona, Italien
 San Zeno (Arezzo), Fraktion von Arezzo, Italien
 San Zeno (VI), Fraktion von Cassola, Provinz Vicenza, Italien
 San Zeno (Treviso), Stadtteil von Treviso, Italien

Siehe auch:

 Sankt Zeno – dort auch zu anderen Sprachen
 San-Zeno-Altar
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West Coast Mission Martial Arts
40085 Mission Boulevard, Fremont
15 or 20 Class Pack and Uniform at West Coast Mission Martial Arts (Up to 84% Off)
15 Class Pack and Uniform
20 Class Pack, Uniform, and Training Gloves
Instructors lead classes in learning the art, basics, fundamentals, stances, and disciplines of martial arts
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Good for adults and kids. I'm an avid martial artist. I'm 49 and this class was perfect for me for now for general fitness and learning skills.
JTtop reviewer helpful reviewer
12 ratings9 reviews
This is a great martial arts studio, and the Groupon is amazingly cheap for what you're getting for the price. The fighting style they teach is not too formal, with a great mix of traditional karate and mixed martial arts, along with practical defense. I signed up for myself as an adult, together with my teenage son, and we have been able to do all our classes together for nearly 6 months, progressing through our first few belts together. As an adult and parent, I don't mind the younger kids together in the classes, and the instructors do an excellent job separating the groups according to rank and size where necessary.
Very well family run facility. My daughter loved it after the first trial class. It is a gem!
Martial Arts Belts: Working Your Way Up the Rainbow
Brand-new martial arts students begin with the blank slate of white belt. Learn where they go from there with Groupon's look at martial arts belts.
There's an old story about the evolution of the system of colored martial-arts belts: donning fresh white belts at first, trainees would let them darken over time with sweat and dirt, until, after years of increasing mastery, they turned almost black. If it sounds like a story that's too good to believe, it almost certainly is. Although the belt system is conceivably an ancient tradition handed down from sensei to sensei, its origins can be readily traced to the early 20th century. That's when Dr. Jigoro Kano was developing a new form of physical education for Japanese public school students: judo, a safer version of the jujitsu fighting style. Facing an influx of new students, he devised a hierarchy of colored belts to illustrate their progress at a glance rather than having to ask each one to fight him every day.
How quickly athletes move up the ladder will depend on the teacher, the dojo, and the style, in addition to their skills. They may advance by taking a formal exam with practical, oral, and written sections; they may be asked to spar with students in the next level to prove their readiness; or they may be awarded a different color belt because the old one clashes with their eyes. And in any discipline, tying on a black belt doesn't mean you've made it. Instead, one might think of it as being inducted into an advanced training program. In karate, for instance, there are 10 grades of black belts, some of which require up to 10 years of study to attain.
Promotional value expires 120 days after purchase. Amount paid never expires. Must sign waiver. Registration required. Subject to availability. Merchant's standard cancellation policy applies (any fees not to exceed voucher price). Limit 2 per person. Valid only for option purchased. All goods or services must be used by the same person. Ages 3.5 and up. New Student Only. May be repurchased every 180 days. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.
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It's really just Bieber and Buehler on the high-end at pitcher on this early slate. You can include Wacha and Leake as well, but Wacha is an underdog and Leake is involved in a 10 O/U game. Between Bieber and Buehler, we're leaning Bieber. Buehler is a probably a better overall pitcher, but he has a tougher match-up and was limited to just 87 pitches in his last outing. We know the Dodgers like to limit their pitchers and you could easily see these two teams battling it out until late, leaving the win for a reliever. Combine that with the Cardinals being the best team Buehler has faced yet and an 8 O/U against a patient lineup. I'll pass. Shane Bieber draws a Tigers team that's living on luck so far (2nd in BABIP) and is one of the absolute worst lineups in all of the league. They struck out 23% of the time last season and are projected to finish last in the Central. The bat of Christin Stewart can only lead them so far. Shane Bieber is one of the more hyped up pitchers coming into this season, and he's delivered this far with an 11:2 K:BB ratio. The hype comes from his disgusting 4.7% walk rate in 2018. He can pinpoint his pitches and will very rarely get himself into trouble. While he has a lot of work to do before getting himself even on the same level as the rest of the Indians staff, he's good enough to get through the Tigers. The Indians are the biggest favorites on this slate and Bieber is your safest cash game option.
If you're looking to pay for some bats and don't think Bieber is all that, there are two affordable options here that deserve legitimate interest. Let's start with Sonny Gray, who's a bit more established. He didn't have a great 2018, but definitely got a bit unlucky. His BABIP allowed was high (.340) and xFIP (3.98) pretty low, so he didn't have as bad of a season as we'd like to think. Gray came back out after a miserable opening start and struck out seven Pirates across 6.2 innings. He didn't walk any and didn't run into issues until the seventh inning. They'll now host a Marlins squad that is going to rank in the bottom two or three in every hitting stat against righties this season. They strikeout almost 25% of the time and don't have any consistent power to lean on. The lineup is flooded with bottom of the order hitters and they rely on putting together single after single. If Gray is hitting his spots again, you're going to get an affordable seven innings and a win. His price is solid across all sites and I can see using him as your starter in cash games if you don't trust Bieber or Buehler.
Turnbull looked very average in his first start against the Blue Jays, but showed what his hype was about last game out. He struck out 10 Royals bats and was actually better than what it looks like on the surface. he was controlling a ton of the at-bats and looked like a dominant starter for most of the game. He did struggle late, but he got out of a few innings and showed he can work out of the stretch. He's a dynamic strikeout pitcher and gets to face off with an Indians lineup that is extremely underwhelming. Jake Bauers is hitting third and Hanley Ramirez fifth. That's about all you need to know. Oh ya, they also lead the league with a 30% strikeout rate. Yes, THIRTY PERCENT. Through two weeks. Spencer Turnbull could have a lot of fun here if he's pitching well, and he shouldn't be very highly owned with Gray cheaper. There is a ton of upside here in tournaments.
There isn't a ton to love with the bats this morning, but there are definitely two or three offenses you can hone in on and take your picks. We'll take a look at the two most obvious of the bunch. If you want to get a little contrarian, Spencer Turnbull and Pablo Lopez are my two candidates to be blown up. The Reds and Indians don't have pretty lineups, but they can rally. I know I recommended Turnbull and I'm hoping this doesn't come true, but any time a guy relies on K's and has struggles with control, it can get ugly fast. Let's get to these two offenses that are far above the rest. The Baltimore Orioles continue to pitch gas cans and it keeps spitting out the same result: runs. Over the last four games, they've allowed 42 runs. Fourty... two... runs. In the beginning of the season. I have no idea how this bullpen is going to survive, but this is already a bloodbath and it's only April 10th. Dylan Bundy has pitched 3.2 innings in each of his first two starts and gave up 3 ER in both. He then hands it over to one of the weakest bullpens in the entire league and the fun ensues. The Athletics have been enjoying themselves the last couple days and you can continue rostering the same bats.
You can dip into the bottom of this order, but this is the top of the lineup stack. Davis and Chapman are musts for me, as either can hit two homers on any given day and control the slate. Davis was actually better against righties than lefties and sported a .374 wOBA with a 44% hard contact rate. Chapman also prefers righties and held a .376 wOBA in 2018 with 20 homers in 120 games. They're both elite bats and have to be considered even if you don't like the entire A's stack. Stephen Piscotty is another expensive bat and he posted a .356 wOBA against righties with 20 homers as well. All of these guys had eerily similar numbers to each other in 2018. Robbie Grossman will likely lead-off and he's affordable across the industry. He's an extremely solid hitter and seems to always get involved when the offense is exploding. He has power upside as well, so it's not just a cash game play. If you're looking to dog a little deeper, Marcus Semien and Ramon Laureano are going to have a ton of RBI opportunities and have dominated the Orioles. The A's will be the most popular team on this early slate and rightfully so.
The Mariners have the highest implied run total on the board and it's not hard to see why. Before we get to the match-up, this offense is just so solid. You don't get a single break from 1-9 and if you make a mistake to one guy, the next can make you pay. Whether it's the speed of Dee Gordon at 9 or the power of Ryon Healy at 8, you can't take any batter off. They're facing off with Jorge Lopez, who is one of the more underwhelming pitchers in the league. He posted a 4.57 xFIP in 2018 and allowed a whopping 3.3 BB/9. The Mariners rank third in baseball against righties with a .384 wOBA and I don't think this is an early-season fluke. They'll continue doing damage and should eclipse that 5.5 expected run total. This ballpark is spacious, but the Mariners do damage in it and use the space to their advantage with all that speed.
I really don't think there are four guys here that stand above the rest. Domingo Santana and Mitch Haniger have been some of the best hitters in baseball and deserve to be played if you have the funds. You then get to first base, where you have three solid options. Edwin Encarnacion and Daniel Vogelbach are both expensive and you can play either. I prefer the solidified Encarnacion against a righty, but Vogelbach has been too hot to ignore and has always raked right-handers. I witnessed this guy rake two homers in an A+ game and his swing was so obviously natural. On the cheaper side, Omar Narvaez gets a ton of RBI opportunities and has been coming through. He doesn't get pinch-hit for and let's you afford some other elite options while still giving you upside. Dee Gordon and Ryon Healy are a very interesting combo in the 8-9 that has as much upside as anyone. You can't go wrong with this lineup. It just depends on your roster construction and who you can fit where.
Leake has been solid in each of his first two starts, but I refuse to believe it. For one, his peripherals tell me not to. He has a 4.14 xFIP on a 2.92 ERA, so regression is more than obvious. He posted a 4+ xFIP against lefties in '18 and should only be getting worse at 31. Alex Gordon has always been solid against righties (.350+ wOBA) and has been spectacular to start this year. He's a great one-off if you're stacking elsewhere. Leake will regress and this Royals lineup will be completely ignored. Gordon is cheaper than he should be and safe in all formats.
We don't have much of a reliable sample size on Aaron Brooks, but he's allowed a .400+ wOBA to righties since 2014. He's only managed 40 innings, but we have nothing else to go off of. It may be tough to fill your lineup with more than a couple of these Orioles, but I wouldn't ignore them or Trey Mancini in any way. He's been keeping this Orioles lineup afloat and is getting plenty of pitches to hit with his team usually out of contention early. He has six early season home runs and has posted an insane .498 wOBA against righties. He's a great hitter and you will be able to use him as a one-off all year long. He's expensive, which makes him a great pivot from an expensive bat in one of the more popular lineups.


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Q: How to load a xml into a webview android I have an xml file and I want to load the xml content to a web view where the web view will be inflated to a gallery. I have parsed and able to get the parsed values, but how do I load the xml content to a web view?
This is the code I am using to load xml:
public class ReadContent extends Activity implements GalleryListener {
private GalleryView myGallery;
Context mContext = null;
private ContentAdapter contentAdapter;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.readcontent);
    myGallery = (GalleryView) findViewById(R.id.myGallery);
    myGallery.setGalleryListener(ReadContent.this);
    myGallery.setVerticalFadingEdgeEnabled(false);
    contentAdapter = new ContentAdapter();
    myGallery.setAdapter(contentAdapter);
}

class ContentAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return Intro.book.getsecretList().size();
    }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int position) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        View view = convertView;
        if (convertView == null) {
            // view = inflater.inflate(resourceid, null);
            view = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.webviewitem, null);
        }
        synchronized (view) {
            TextView txtTopic = (TextView) view
                    .findViewById(R.id.txtChapter);
            TextView txtSubTopic = (TextView) view
                    .findViewById(R.id.txtSubChapter);
            WebView wv = (WebView) view.findViewById(R.id.contentWebView);
            txtTopic.setText(Intro.book.getsecretList().get((int) position)
                    .getId().toString());
            txtSubTopic.setText(Intro.book.getsecretList()
                    .get((int) position).getId().toString());
            // webview content
            WebSettings settings = wv.getSettings();
            settings.setUseWideViewPort(true);
            settings.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
            settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
            settings.setDefaultZoom(ZoomDensity.FAR);
            wv.setBackgroundColor(0);
            wv.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(false);
            wv.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);

            wv.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/xxx.xml");
        }
        return view;
    }
}}

Help me with the code please, I would be grateful.
<prelim>
    <prelimTitle>Managing people is hard but rewarding</prelimTitle>
    <prelimIntro>As you go through life, you will increasingly find that you need to manage people. A parent has to manage their family; a supervisor or team leader has to manage a small team; an entrepreneur may have to manage staff, customers and suppliers.</prelimIntro>
    <prelimInsight>Knowing how to manage people well is one of the most important skills in life.</prelimInsight>
    <prelimContent>

        <![CDATA[

Early in my career I took responsibility for managing people. I managed up to 250 highly trained professionals who worked as a tight-knit team. It didn't matter that I was the youngest person in the team! For over 20 years I've been working with individuals and organizations to help them improve their management of people. This has ranged from military personnel to entrepreneurs, from charities to government departments. I've learned many secrets and tricks over these years. Some I've discovered for myself, but many I've learned from others. Humans are wonderfully inventive!

This book aims to help you improve your skills at managing people – to help you find ways in which everybody benefits. It contains 50 secrets, grouped into seven themed chapters.

        Build on a strong foundation.You must understand what type of leader or manager you want to be. Your employer may give guidelines, but you must exert control over your day-to-day behaviour.

        Create a great team.This shows how to choose the right people and quickly build a functioning team.

        Set goals and targets.By setting people effective targets and goals, you can monitor progress and offer appropriate rewards.

        Motivate yourself and your people.Implementing ways to motivate people is ultimately much easier than having to cajole and constantly monitor unmotivated people.

        Manage good performance.You need to recognize good performance – reward it, develop it, perpetuate it and spread it to others.  Otherwise you will lose your good performers and be left only with the poor ones.

        Manage poor performance.Some managers find ways of managing around poor performance without tackling the poor performance itself. However, this encourages more poor performance, from both the original perpetrator and everyone else. Know how to tackle the problems head on.

        Develop your people.Though often overlooked by managers, another fundamental task is developing people. You need to improve the less able, stretch and reward the able, plan succession for the future and mentor your people's changing needs.

Managing people is a hugely complex area in which you never stop learning. The secrets contained in this book will help you make massive strides towards succeeding in this fascinating role.

        ]]>
    </prelimContent>
</prelim>

A: I think you need to show content in  tag,
then parse your xml, and display webview as:
myWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
myWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, myPreviewContents, mime, encoding, null);

where myPreviewContents are:

Early in my career I took responsibility for managing people. I managed up to 250 highly trained professionals who worked as a tight-knit team. It didn't matter that I was the youngest person in the team! For over 20 years I've been working with individuals and organizations to help them improve their management of people. This has ranged from military personnel to entrepreneurs, from charities to government departments. I've learned many secrets and tricks over these years. Some I've discovered for myself, but many I've learned from others. Humans are wonderfully inventive!

This book aims to help you improve your skills at managing people – to help you find ways in which everybody benefits. It contains 50 secrets, grouped into seven themed chapters.

    Build on a strong foundation.You must understand what type of leader or manager you want to be. Your employer may give guidelines, but you must exert control over your day-to-day behaviour.

    Create a great team.This shows how to choose the right people and quickly build a functioning team.

    Set goals and targets.By setting people effective targets and goals, you can monitor progress and offer appropriate rewards.

    Motivate yourself and your people.Implementing ways to motivate people is ultimately much easier than having to cajole and constantly monitor unmotivated people.

    Manage good performance.You need to recognize good performance – reward it, develop it, perpetuate it and spread it to others.  Otherwise you will lose your good performers and be left only with the poor ones.

    Manage poor performance.Some managers find ways of managing around poor performance without tackling the poor performance itself. However, this encourages more poor performance, from both the original perpetrator and everyone else. Know how to tackle the problems head on.

    Develop your people.Though often overlooked by managers, another fundamental task is developing people. You need to improve the less able, stretch and reward the able, plan succession for the future and mentor your people's changing needs.

Managing people is a hugely complex area in which you never stop learning. The secrets contained in this book will help you make massive strides towards succeeding in this fascinating role.

    ]]>

A: A xml file is not always a webpage. You have to give a valid web page in loadUrl() like
  wv.loadUrl("http://www.bbc.co.uk"");

Or use this is you have raw html :
 String summary = "You scored 192 points.";
 webview.loadData(summary, "text/html", null);

(Yes, Android uses xml files for it's UI. It inflates Views using the xml as a skeleton )

A: You can use xsl to transform your xml, then load the resulting string into the webivew (webview.loaddata, I believe).
See Android: Convert xml using xslt for example transforming xml.

A: Please follow this android developer tutorial on XML parsing, download the sample code and modify it according to your XML file. It starts by parsing an XML, then it goes on creating an HTML code string and at the end it renders this HTML string in a simple webView.


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Home » Everything We Know About the 2024 BMW X5 So Far
Steven Paul
December 11, 2022 / 3 minutes read
The facelift for the 2024 BMW X5 is not far away now, and several changes and improvements are coming to one of the best BMW SUVs (or SAVs, technically). While we're still a few months from seeing the final offerings on the 2024 BMW X5, here's what to expect if you're gearing up to go SUV shopping in 2023. Also, we technically call this a 2024 BMW X5 model since BMW of North America usually has a different roll-out schedule. But in some markets, this will be labeled as a 2023 BMW X5.
Performance and Powertrain Options for the 2024 BMW X5
The 2024 BMW X5 will be available in sDrive (rear-wheel drive) and xDrive (all-wheel drive) configurations, with three different engine choices in the United States. The standard issue X5 will still be the BMW X5 xDrive40i trim, receiving the same turbocharged B58 inline six-cylinder engine. Output increases measurably – expect to see similar figures to the current X7 xDrive40i's 375 horsepower and 398 pound-feet of torque.
The hybrid model of the 2024 BMW X5 xDrive45e will receive a significant power increase. We expect 480 horsepower combined output between the turbocharged six-cylinder engine and an electric motor. We're not sure about range yet but expect an increase from the current model's 31 miles of all-electric range. In addition, it will receive a shiny new badge, the X5 xDrive50e, denoting its more impressive performance.
The range-topping BMW X5 M50i will return as the 2024 BMW X5 M60i, mirroring the changes made to the X7. Expect an honest-to-goodness M engine under the hood, the S68, producing the same 530 horsepower as it does in the X7 M60i. Most owners will not notice much of a change from the current X5 M50i's engine, but might see more favorable fuel economy thanks to the 48-volt mild hybrid system incorporated into the new S68 engine.
Design and Appearance
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It doesn't look like the 2024 BMW X5 will receive drastic style changes. The front bumper will be slightly revised, likely mirroring the changes in the 2023 BMW 3 Series. The grille will be illuminated, like on the X6, but should retain its current proportions. The most recent spy shots show only a slight increase in overall size. Revised lights will also mirror the newer style, bringing an overall modern look to the 2024 BMW X5.
Vehicles equipped with the M Sport Package will also receive mirrors styled after the X5 M, following models like the X3 and 2 Series. We'll probably also see some new colors offered. Largely, the 2024 X5 will not be changing too much.
Interior and Technology (including iDrive 8)
The X5 will steps into the future with the rest of the BMW lineup, receiving iDrive 8 and the impressive curved display. We expect to see the same Sensafin and leather options, with some additions. Expect the same technology you know and love in all current BMW models: Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, an advanced suite of driver assistance technologies, adaptive lighting, and more.
Options will likely range from the ubiquitous, like remote engine start, to the extravagant, like glass controls, massaging seats, and a Bowers & Wilkins stereo system on the X5 M60i.
2024 BMW X5 Pricing
Nothing concrete here, but stay tuned. The X7 jumped by roughly 4% year-over-year, so we can reasonably expect something similar for the 2024 BMW X5. The base MSRP will be around $64,000 for the X5 xDrive40i. Think closer to $68,300 for the X5 xDrive45e hybrid version and roughly $88,000 for the V8-powered 2024 BMW X5 M60i.
The 2024 BMW X5's Place in Its Segment
Similar offerings from Volvo and Lexus undercut pricing but for clear sacrifices in the styling, handling, and quality departments. Higher-end vehicles like the Porsche Cayenne command a healthy premium over the X5 but for some added usability and brand prestige. Supposedly, a PHEV Mercedes-Benz GLE is on the way for the 2024 model year, and that would represent the biggest competitor. It offers similar features and power output, and pricing will likely be in line with the X5. Drive both and decide for yourself.
BMW X5 FAQ
Is the BMW changing in 2023?
The overall design will stay the same, but there will be an update to the headlights and taillights. Inside, the BMW X5 will include iDrive 8 and a curved display. There will also be a new model: BMW X5 M60i
When can you order a 2023 BMW X5?
You can place your orders now at your local dealership
Does the BMW X5 come with a third-row?
In standard form, the BMW X5 has 5 seats. But for some models, you can order a third row for a total of 7 seats
What's the size difference between the BMW X5 and BMW X3?
The BMW X3 is smaller than the BMW X5. The X5 is 8.5 inches longer, around five inches wider, and three inches taller than the BMW X3.
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This weekend I figured it'd be better to make an appeal for those that have lost so much in the Camp and Woolsey wildfires here in California. Digital Anarchy is based in San Francisco, that has sat under a cloud of smoke from the Camp Fire for most of the last two weeks, and I grew up in the Simi Valley/Thousand Oaks area of Southern California that was the epicenter for the Woolsey fire. I have friends and family that were affected by these fires in small and large ways.
We all have a lot to be thankful this weekend for but this is a reminder that we can lose everything, including our lives. Giving some perspective to the true meaning of Thanksgiving, beyond the Black Friday sales, discounts, and fighting for things we don't need at Walmart. Digital Anarchy is not immune to this, we've always done sales around now and, yeah, we'll have a sale Monday. But I thought it more important today to acknowledge the devastation some communities have faced and promote ways to give to those communities.
This might be eye roll inducing. I get it. It's difficult to turn something we usually use for marketing into some sort of feel good appeal for charity. But here it is. We actually give a damn about the communities we live/work in and sell to. Both Northern and Southern California are significant in all those ways. If you've been in media and entertainment for any length of time you probably have friends that either were affected or live perilously close to the affected areas.
So below are ways you can give to those affected. Take a moment to give thanks for the things you have and maybe consider donating money instead of buying that smart toaster, squishy toy or dancing, AI-enabled robot. You can help people rebuild and get back on their feet. If you've ever been in that position you understand how much that means and how much gratitude comes from it.
Financial donations are what's needed most right now. Most of the below organizations have lots of food and clothing. Financial donations make sure they can get what they really need.


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These chef'testants may have survived last week's wrath of the evil queen, but the competition is only getting harder. This week's quickfire challenge is all about speed, with only 30 minutes to prep the meal, some chef'testants may be left without a dish when the clock runs out.
And later, the chef's go head-to-head with an opponent of their choosing. Each pair chooses one dish that they will both make, but whoever's dish the judges like least is at risk of being sent home for good.
Use #BRAVOTopChef when tweeting tonight!
The chefs are paired up and they must race to get their dishes completed in the very short amount of time.
The chefs are definitely frazzled as there is never enough time to execute their dishes.


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Teen accepted to 113 colleges, awarded $4.5 million in scholarships
by: NBC4 Staff
Posted: May 3, 2018 / 01:51 AM EDT / Updated: May 3, 2018 / 01:51 AM EDT
When it comes to going to college, a North Carolina teen has some options, 113 of them to be precise.
Jasmine Harrison, 17, was accepted to 113 colleges and universities and awarded more than $4.5 million in merit scholarships, WFMY reported.
Harrison is on track to graduate from high school with a 4.0 GPA.
Of the 113 schools that accepted her, she was offered full-ride scholarships to three, Ed Waters College, Mississippi Valley State University and Bennett College, all historically black universities.
"When I got the first couple in the mail, I was like, 'Okay, this is really happening.' I didn't really think I'd be able to do that," Harrison said.
Harrison plans to enroll at Bennett College and pursue a major in biology. She tells WFMY she wants to become a NICU nurse.


Cairo-based Nilesat, which with its orbital partner Eutelsat, supplies around 1000 TV and radio channels over the Middle East, has seen its profits tumble for its first quarter-year trading.
In the three months to March 31st its net profit was $13.07 million, compared with $19.72 a year ago.
This is a more dramatic drop than in the whole of last year's trading, when for the complete year Nilesat saw its 2017 net profits fall by some $5 million, from a 2016 position of $73,322,889 to $68,570,487 in the 12 months to December 31st 2017.