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Plane's 'spinner' filmed bouncing around in engine before emergency landing
Photo: A Delta fight made an emergency landing after an engine part came lose. (Twitter: Logan Webb)
Map: United States
A US passenger plane has made an emergency landing after part of one of its engines came loose in mid-air.
Video shot by a passenger shows a plane part bouncing around in a turbine
An aviation expert says the plane would have been able to fly with one inoperative engine
After an emergency landing, the passengers were put on another aircraft
The Delta Air Lines flight was travelling from Atlanta to Baltimore on Monday (local time) when it was forced to land in Raleigh, North Carolina, roughly halfway through the one-and-a-half hour trip.
In a statement, a Delta spokesperson said the crew decided to divert the plane "after receiving an indication of an issue with one of the aircraft's engines".
Footage posted to social media by passenger Logan Webb shows one of the engine's nose cones, also known as a spinner, being tossed around a jet turbine.
External Link: Tweet from Logan Webb: "Video I took from my seat on my flight from Atlanta to Baltimore yesterday!"
The video was shared by Twitter user @RAREsheis, who said she was also on the flight and heard a loud bang before being told "we lost an engine".
"Although it was a completely terrifying situation to see smoke in the cabin and smelling something burning for the first five mins, the crew did an amazing job in staying and keeping us all calm, while preparing us for an emergency landing," she said in a tweet.
External Link: Tweet from @RAREsheis: "When you hear an loud bang and they tell you over the intercom that "we lost an engine", you'd expect complete chaos on the plane but the crew was so calm and the pilots did an amazing job."
The 148 passengers later boarded another plane bound for Baltimore.
A Delta spokesperson said the aircraft's engine had been replaced and the airline's maintenance team had been tasked with examining the damaged part.
Aviation expert John Cox of Safety Operating Systems told Storyful it was "extraordinarily rare" for an engine to lose its spinner.
"I have been around this type of engine [a Pratt and Whitney JT-8] since 1980," Mr Cox said.
"I have never seen or heard of a spinner coming off."
He said those on the aircraft were not in danger "as all airliners can fly with one engine inoperative".
Pratt and Whitney describes its JT8D and JT8D200 series as the "most popular modern commercial engines ever made", powering nearly one third of the world's commercial planes.
"More than 14,000 of them have been built, amassing more than half a billion hours of reliable service since 1964," the company says.
Topics: air-and-space, united-states
Man who stabbed stepfather more than 80 times found not guilty of murder
'I was terrified': Mother of dead boy lied about husband's violence, court told (photos)


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##Property Location With a stay at CheckVienna – Apartment Quellenstrasse in Vienna (Favoriten), you'll be close to Military History Museum and Vienna State Opera. This apartment is within close proximity of Swiss Garden and St. Marx Cemetery. ##Rooms Make yourself at home in of the guestrooms, featuring kitchens with refrigerators and stovetops. Cable programming and DVD players are provided for your entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Conveniences include microwaves and coffee/tea makers, and you can also request cribs/infant beds.


Relationship advice has changed so many times since the beginning of time that it is nearly impossible to get a good feel for what is right once you start looking for specific answers. We ask our trusted friends, loving family members, pastors or clergy, counselors. We read books, search on the internet, watch for clues in movies, listen to music. The messages about what love is and how to do it well are all over the place. If you have a theory about what it is, you can look and find someone to agree with you…and disagree with you.
As someone who has spent the majority of my years delving into human behavior and mental health, I have seen many ideas, read research, studied different camps of thought and (most importantly) worked personally with nearly 1,000 people on the very subject of emotions and relationships. I come from the therapy camps of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as a foundational framework for my client work. What we feel and what we think shapes our lives, our experience, and every one of our relationships. This I am sure of. Where the thoughts and emotions come from can get complicated.
Human beings are complex. We have the ability to create, to learn, to teach, to dream and hope and build. We have the ability to destroy, manipulate, coerce and injure. We have the ability to choose and to change…to decide what we believe and how we behave. We do not always have the ability to decide how we feel.
We are human beings, whose advancements in creations is great and increasing all the time (technology for instance)…but not every part of us is advancing at this rate. At our core, we are not so different from where we began. Our lives may move at a faster pace than ever before in human history (advanced education, technology, and the busy schedules, high expectations to succeed and stay informed in our over-stimulated information rich world), but research has shown that as our lives get busier with technology and "advancements", people are often feeling more isolated, more lonely, less connected on a deeper level. Ironic, isn't it? We can brush it off, if we like, but the statistics on the increase in bullying, suicides among younger people and the high divorce rate and hate crimes (mass shootings for example) should be plenty of reason for us to stop and consider the questions of "why" and "what are we missing"….followed by a "how do we change this".
There is no easy answer to these questions, and I am sure I don't know how to save the entire world…but I do know quite a bit about how to create, build and save something important that can have a profound effect on many: I know how to create and build healthy, loving, strong relationships. This is the answer to the increasing loneliness and disconnectedness that is growing in our busy world.
The more our lives are filled with things and activity, the more we become human doings instead of human beings. Human doings are more robotic, and relish their ability to perform and succeed and be better than others. We are independent and strong. We don't need love, we choose love, right? Have you bought into the idea that people who need love are needy? People who feel emotions strongly are weak? People who experience great pain and suffering when they lose love need to get stronger and get over it? Have you heard yourself say "I don't NEED anyone, but I would like to have someone in my life"?
I am here to tell you something that may feel uncomfortable at first; you NEED love. You need people who care about you and whom you care about. You need connection. It may help you feel strong and capable to say you don't need someone, but the bottom line is, you DO. We all do. Human beings need love and connection to each other.
This has been researched heavily in children. Babies who live in orphanages where they are fed and given shelter, but not loved and connected to on an emotional level often die. Yes, they die. They don't just turn into psychopaths as adults; many never make it out of childhood simply because we need love in order to thrive on both a mental and physical level. This is the basis of Attachment Theory (John Bowlby, 1952) and has expanded since then from the idea that infants need to attach to one person (mother figure) to including more caregivers and possibilities for attachment for healthy human development. The point is, we need this care, connection and love to thrive.
More recently, the Attachment Theory model has been advancing as well to include human adults instead of just children. That's right – grown ups need love too. We may not like to think we do, but our experience and research tells us differently. People who have loving, stable relationships live longer, have fewer health problems and report greater satisfaction with their lives and even their careers than people who don't. It isn't just that married people live longer, not all of them do. Unhappily married people have an increase in health problems over other happily married couples (this applies to all couples, not just couples consisting of a man and woman). Great Love keeps us healthier. It's truly that simple. Think you don't need love in order to live your best life? Think again.
Needing love doesn't make you weak or needy or emotionally unstable. It makes you an honest and potentially healthier human being.
Welcome, human being, to an honest and open world where you get to stop pretending that love isn't important to your happiness and to your very survival.
Armed with the knowledge that needing love is good, we can give ourselves over to Love and build the kind of relationships we could only secretly dream about before.
Being willing to allow yourself to need each other is a great first step.


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That's an effective way to gain followers and build a community.
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Has a graph or pie chart been created reflecting average hitman prices in different parts of the country? Why is there so much variation episode to episode on Dateline? Does having a one word name make you more likely to get asked about your apparent underworld connections on a regular basis? Would a college degree mean that you are able to do somewhat simple mathematical percentages with ease? (Hint: the answer may surprise you…or not) Is Kimberly going to get over her hurt feelings regarding Katie's blase attitude toward one of her favorite episodes covered a few weeks back? Does anyone out there know a good mediator? Welcome to another new episode of A Date With Dateline.
On Friday's brand new episode of "Dateline," a luxury car salesman receives a visit from a beautiful former client. It turns out that she is not interested in buying a car but in planning a murder. Andrea Canning reports on her twisted scheme, which shocks even the town's most seasoned detectives.


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CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) - The U.S. government is funneling another $4.3 million to a pipeline project designed to one day bring billions of gallons of drinking water annually to communities in eastern New Mexico.
Members of the state's congressional delegation say the money represents the largest single-year award from the agency to the Ute pipeline project, bringing the federal contribution so far to more than $20 million.
Decades in the making, the project aims to ease the strain on the Ogallala aquifer along the Texas-New Mexico border by tapping into Ute Reservoir.
Critics say the cost will outweigh the benefits as runoff that feeds the reservoir could be uncertain as drought persists.


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Publishers report Q1 ad revenue is pacing 10-25% behind forecasts
USA Today Network's Michael Kuntz: In this industry, you're either the consolidator or consolidated
March 6, 2019 | By Aditi Sangal
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In the era of deep connections with passionate audiences, being in the middle is rough. That's why USA Today is focused on scale.
"We are taking a more realistic approach," said the network's COO, Michael Kuntz on the Digiday Podcast. "There are a lot more people who recognize why they need to support their local news organizations. On the national side, I think there is subscription fatigue. Great journalism cannot all exist behind the paywall. A brand like USA Today has more than enough volume for growing our advertising business. If you're somewhere in the middle, you're in a tough spot. You can't charge for content, but you're not niche enough that specific audiences will look to support you."
USA Today makes 75 percent of its advertising revenue from digital advertising and 25 percent from print advertising. On this episode, Kuntz discusses why USA Today won't pivot to paid in the foreseeable future, the reason for mass layoffs a couple weeks ago, the next step forward and more. Edited highlights below.
Local is hurting but national is thriving.
"The layoffs were on the local side of the business [which] is tied to local print advertising business. As that business shifts and evolves, unfortunately, we're going to be forced to make tough decisions. On the national side, we've made investments in the business from a headcount perspective and the product perspective as well as the business side of the division. From an owned and operated perspective, we're investing more on the desktop product. Yes, audiences will continue to shift to mobile but it's not happening as fast as we thought so it's the right time for us to start investing in desktop. Aside from the aesthetics itself, we want to ensure that we rely on data to inform decisions around personalization and trying to understand what people want to see on our website when they come back. It's not just about targeting ads."
Sports content is a big plus.
"News is a tough environment for our advertisers to be in. What's allowed us to thrive is our investment in our other verticals. Sports is the biggest. We have also made investments in life, money, entertainment and tech. But news is still our core business, but harder to monetize. We've stood up various standalone properties like wire sites, for example, the Philadelphia Eagles, and we've got huge audiences that engage with us around these. Sports gives us more opportunity to monetize in different ways. We're exploring membership model opportunities there."
Paywall is not coming.
"We're still one of the few big national brands that employ thousands of journalists that make content accessible to people for free. We do charge in our local markets. We have north of half a million digital subscribers within our local marketplaces. But USA Today will remain free for the foreseeable future and not go behind a paywall."
Consolidate or get consolidated.
"Whether you're Vice or BuzzFeed or Gannett, at some point this industry has consolidated. It's going to be no different. You're either the consolidator or consolidated. There's a strength in numbers. You'll see less independent publishers exist. We all can't stand on our own. The platform effect that we struggle with will continue but platforms will figure out a model that works for publishers."
VR didn't work.
"VR has cooled off a little bit. I would acknowledge that we placed a bet there and charged pretty hard into VR. We were one of the first to bring VR advertising. Now I think the bet did not pan out the way we wanted it to in terms of audience adoption. If we're going to experiment, is it just for the sake of experimentation or for some sort of return on it? It's more so the latter."
https://digiday.com/?p=324747
How The Trade Desk went from media agency BFF to frenemy
Google is increasingly turning to resellers as it conducts the largest round of layoffs in its history
Business of TV
Disney plans to extend Hulu's ad targeting options to Disney+'s ad tier
With TikTok's growing list of issues, should marketers think twice about the platform?
GroupM confirms layoffs of staffers across N. America, EMEA regions
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WTF is cookie stuffing?
Fraud is a well-documented pox on digital advertising, but it's also an issue for publishers and marketers working together on affiliate marketing deals, too. One of the more tried-and-true techniques is cookie stuffing.
Publishers are facing a slow start to Q1 and sales teams have a lot of work to do to regain lost time.
Bloomberg, Axios, Politico, other business publishers rethink subscriber retention during the economic downturn
Premium publishers, like POLITICO, Axios and Bloomberg, have to make sure their fees are still considered a necessity as readers recalculate their spending and companies recalculate their expense budgets.
How ad tech is tackling waste by optimizing supply chains
Sponsored by Bidtellect The programmatic and digital advertising industry is well aware of the inefficiencies in buying and selling — from auction duplication and volume bias to multi-integrations and reselling — but how did it get this out of control? How can we fix it? A redundant, multiple-step process to ad delivery has become the norm, […]
Why Vice, BBC, WaPo, others see new TikTok teams as the next wave of specialist publishing talent
As news publishers craft their TikTok strategies, Digiday spoke with the BBC, Vice, The Washington Post and LADbible to see who's really behind the posts.
Digiday+ Research deep dive: Publishers anticipate a big drop in ad revenue this year
Digiday's survey found that publishers are not feeling great about advertising revenue as 2023 kicks off, with attitudes toward subscriptions and e-commerce shifting as well.

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In a world where beauty thrives and is one of the main sources of fame, success and for the average person happiness, cosmetic surgery and procedures increased dramatically over the years. Men and women have taken the time and effort to maintain a certain self-image that they portray to the world and most importantly to themselves.
Whether in the Middle East or any other region many people have undergone cosmetic procedures and surgery, which to a certain extent has increased or modified the standards of what beauty looks like nowadays. This in some ways is a double edge sword, because if beauty is the only base for a person's self esteem and self worth then the use of cosmetic surgery and procedures might become an addiction that will cause harm more than good physically and emotionally. On the other hand, it will also provide many individuals with the self-esteem and confidence that will impact their life in a more positive way.
Consulting a highly qualified surgeon about going through this life-changing experience is extremely important. This is why Style Scandals decided to approach one of this region's highly esteemed Cosmetic Surgeons Dr. Firas Hamdan, with questions about the world of plastic.
1. In our modern world cosmetic surgery has become more common, has that impacted men's interest in pursuing such cosmetic procedures?
Absolutely! It is no longer a taboo subject to see men walking around proudly showing off the dressing on their nose and making no effort to hide the fact that they have had surgery. For many years I have had men visit for Botox and Fillers but now these trends have changed dramatically and men are more open to invasive body changing procedures. Trends over the past few years have indicated that today's man is more fashion and body conscious and going daily to the gym is now one of the main activities in our society. Therefore, 6 packs (added by my expertise surgery) are highly popular procedures! We do any liposuction procedures on men and due to many obesity issues in the region the male breast reduction surgery has become highly popular.
2. With the increased amount of cosmetic surgeries for individuals nowadays how does that impact people's overall health?
It is of utmost importance both for my reputation and code of ethics to always assess the health of any patient who has a consultation with me. There are many different elements to ascertaining whether surgery is the answer. Some people have issues more deep rooted than looks, so therefore first and foremost, the health of ones mind is of importance. Once I am satisfied that they want to do the surgery for the correct reasons as well as it being the right procedure for them, we discuss in length and decide. Obviously, having a general anesthetic is no walk in the park so I always point out the pros and cons with my patients. Health is paramount and I always ensure my patients live a healthy and balanced life and make them fully aware that invasive surgery is not always the answer.


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70 Years of Imagery
In celebration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, this swipe app highlights how central London has changed over the 70 years of her reign. Historic England provided photographs that were taken during an RAF flyover from 1948, which can be compared to the same area of modern London. Some landmarks, such as Buckingham Palace, have barely changed; in contrast, the area that now contains the Barbican Centre has transformed after being heavily bombed during the war.
The combination of over 300 photos into one easily navigable app is an interesting use of older data, but when combined with modern imagery it becomes a much more engaging map. People can seek out familiar locations and landmarks to see how they've changed or use the bookmarks to be taken on a guided tour. This brings about an appreciation of modern London's legacy throughout the length of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
This project could be carried out entirely using ArcGIS Online and its associated tools; Site Scan for ArcGIS was used to stitch together the photos, whilst ArcGIS Instant Apps was used to produce the swipe app. Historic England provided the 1948 photographs of central London, whereas BlueSky provided the modern imagery.
The 300 photographs were georeferenced using a point layer and stitched together using Site Scan for ArcGIS. Whilst this software is intended for use with drone imagery, we were able to generate a high-quality output using historical aerial photos.
Whilst processing the photographs into one imagery layer took a few hours, the app was created comparatively quickly using ArcGIS Instant Apps. Presenting the data was very easy using this tool.
Explore Instant App templates
Instant Apps have a variety of template options to help present your data as quickly and easily as possible. For this map, we used Imagery Viewer as a starting point.
If you don't think some widgets or pop-ups are useful in your app, remove them! This will help the app feel less cluttered.
Include bookmarks
If you want to give your users direction or highlight areas, use bookmarks to do this. In this map, they highlight landmarks or areas which have changed a lot.
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GeoConnexion Article
Arthur Newton
Arthur is on the Graduate Programme at Esri UK and has a background in Geography. He is a fan of all things tech, but also enjoys cooking and exploring the outdoors.
Rowan Tolfts
Rowan is also on the Graduate Programme, but has previously specialised in Ecology and Conservation. Whilst he loves getting out into nature with an ID guide, on rainy days he can be found indoors playing a board game.
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Mr. Somers works with the Firm's clients on communications and operations projects. Prior to joining the firm, he served 33-years with the Los Angeles Fire Department, attaining the rank of Captain in the Fire Department Communication Command and Control Center. His assignments have included both in-field settings and serving as a tele-communicator and supervisor for the past 19 years.
While with the Communication Command and Control Center, he routinely supervised major incidents and was responsible for developing larger-scale tactical plans including tactical plans for the Michael Jackson Memorial, the Academy Awards, moving the Endeavor Space Shuttle and numerous major sporting events.
Mr. Somers also teaches at Texas Engineering Extension (TEEX) Service at Texas A&M in their Incident Command Courses. He is a graduate of the Communications Center Managers course and a member of the College of Fellows with the International Academy of Emergency Dispatch for the Fire Protocol Dispatch System.


Coming to Prague Summer Nights in 2020!
They will also intensively study all aspects of opera production, have workshops in musical entrepreneurship, and study in depth two operatic masterworks being produced at the Festival, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.
Participants will have daily private and group instruction from a distinguished composer. They will also observe music and staging rehearsals and coaching sessions for the opera productions and other performances. Participants will have their music performed, including short opera scenes and instrumental and nonoperatic vocal works, and will receive feedback on their work from festival faculty and musicians. They will attend performances of the Prague Summer Nights Festival Orchestra at the historic Rudolfinum in Prague, and will experience fully-produced performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro at the historic Estates Theatre, where Mozart himself led the Don Giovanni premiere.
Accommodation includes 6 nights in Tabor and 15 nights in Prague, daily breakfast and a farewell dinner. The cost also includes ground transportation in between cities in the Czech Republic on the company moving day. PSN will provide 1 van to take participants from the Prague airport to Tabor on the company arrival day and 1 van back to the airport on company departure day. The exact time will be provided at a later date.
Applicants are required to submit three scores of their work (PDF). Audio or video recordings are strongly recommended. Operas and opera scenes are welcome, since this program focuses on opera. Nonoperatic vocal music, chamber music, and pieces for orchestra are welcome also.
Composition applicants should include at least one work that would be practical for workshopping and performance during the festival. Practical considerations would include how difficult the work is, its length (around 10 minutes maximum), and the number of performers required. Opera scenes should be performable with accompaniment by just one instrument (most likely piano), and should involve no more than three singers; other compositions should involve no more than five performers, vocal and/or instrumental.
Prague Summer Nights is open to students 18 and above.


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Q: How can I get all SQL entries matching entries in an ArrayList? I have a database containing a table of messages, where each message entry contains a variable for its author. I also have an ArrayList containing a list of authors. What I'd like to do is to create an SQL query that retrieves all entries from the database where the author exists in the ArrayList.
So something along these lines:
List<Message> result = session.createQuery("from Message where author ISIN ARRAYLIST order by id DESC ").list();

Anyone know how I would go about doing this?

A: you can set your authorlist as a named parameter:
String cmd = "from Message where author IN (:authorlist) order by id DESC";
Query q = session.createQuery(cmd);
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List<Message> result = q.list();

A: ArrayList<String> authors=(ArrayList<String>)"<your list>";
String in="(";
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List<Message> result = session.createQuery("from Message where author IS IN "+in+" order by id DESC ").list();

A: You could like this (same thing, different way):
String hql= "SELECT * FROM Message WHERE author IN ( :authors)";
Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
query.setParameterList("authors", <your authors list>);

A: String cmd = "from Message where author IN (:authorlist) order by id DESC";
Query q = session.createQuery(cmd);
q.setParameterList("authorlist", yourAuthorList);
q.setParameterList("authorlist", yourAuthorList);
List<Message> result = q.list();
You can try like this but before doing like that you should aware of no of elements in ArrayList. Because it violates the query.
Please refer this link.
How to put more than 1000 values into an Oracle IN clause

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			throw new Exceptions\MissingReceiverTokenException;
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        if(count($credentials)) {
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                $params['receiver']['credentials']['credential'][] = [
                    'name' => $k,
                    'value' => $v
                ];
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		return $this->client->request('https://core.spreedly.com/v1/receivers/'.$this->receiverToken.'.xml', 'put', $params);
	}

    /**
     * Get details of a receiver on Spreedly.
     *
     * @return \Tuurbo\Spreedly\Client
     */
    public function get()
	{
        if (! $this->receiverToken) {
			throw new Exceptions\MissingReceiverTokenException;
        }

		return $this->client->request('https://core.spreedly.com/v1/receivers/'.$this->receiverToken.'.xml');
	}

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	 * Disable a receiver on Spreedly.
	 *
	 *
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	 *
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		if (! $this->receiverToken) {
			throw new Exceptions\MissingReceiverTokenException;
        }

		return $this->client->request('https://core.spreedly.com/v1/receivers/'.$this->receiverToken.'/redact.xml', 'put');
	}

    /**
     * Delivers a request to an enpoint
     *
     * @return \Tuurbo\Spreedly\Client
     */
    public function deliver($paymentMethod, $endpoint, array $headers, $body = null) {
        if (! $this->receiverToken) {
			throw new Exceptions\MissingReceiverTokenException;
        }

        $params = [
            'delivery'=>[
                'payment_method_token'  => $paymentMethod,
                'url'                   => $endpoint,
            ]
        ];

        if(count($headers)) {
            $headerLines = [];
            foreach($headers as $key => $value) {
                $headerLines[] = "$key: $value";
            }

            $headerString = '<![CDATA['.implode("/n", $headerLines).']]>';
            $params['delivery']['headers'] = $headerString;
        }

        if($body) {
            $params['delivery']['body'] = '<![CDATA['.$body.']]>';
        }

        return $this->client->request('https://core.spreedly.com/v1/receivers/'.$this->receiverToken.'/deliver.xml', 'post', $params);
    }

    /**
	 * Retrieve the receiver token
	 *
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function getToken()
	{
		return $this->receiverToken;
	}

	/**
	 *
	 * @param  string  $method
	 * @param  array   $parameters
	 * @throws Exceptions\InvalidPaymentMethodException
	 */
	public function __call($method, $parameters)
	{
		throw new Exceptions\InvalidPaymentMethodException($method.' is an invalid method.');
	}
}


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July 8, 2013 2:32PM
Immigration Does Not Decrease Economic Freedom
A common criticism of immigration reform (here, here, and here) is that it will decrease economic freedom in the United States, by increasing the voting pool for the Democratic Party. Leaving aside the issue of which party supports economic liberty, if any, it's important to see what the actual impacts of immigration are on economic freedom in the United States and the world. The political effects of immigrants after they arrive are less certain than the economic benefits. Do immigrants decrease economic freedom in their new countries? The bottom line: fears of immigrants decreasing economic freedom seem unfounded.
Since 1980, wealthy countries have seen rises in immigrant populations. Immigrants are drawn to economic prosperity, higher wages, and better standards of living so it's not surprising that wealthier countries have higher percentages of immigrants. I excluded numerous small countries and petro-states like the UAE and Kuwait from the analysis.
I looked at the 25 wealthiest nations in the world in 1980 (by per capita GDP PPP) and considered their economic freedom rating and the percent foreign born. I then tracked those same countries every 5 years until 2010. Here are the averages for all 25 nations:
Economic Freedom Rating
GDP Per Capita (PPP)
Immigrant (%)
Sources: Economic Freedom of the World: 2012 Annual Report, World Bank Development Indicators
From 1980 to 2010, the average economic freedom rating for those 25 nations increased by .88 points and their foreign born populations increased by 4.27 percentage points, while per capita GDP increased by $9,606. The Great Recession makes those numbers appear less remarkable because of the decrease in economic freedom between 2005 and 2010 that accompanied the slowdown in growth.
And when we zoom in on the United States:
From 1980-2010, the United States' economic freedom rating fell by .22 and the foreign-born population increased by 6.64 percentage points. The entire loss in economic freedom occurred post 2005 while the foreign-born population rose by .55 of a percentage point, the smallest increase in any 5-year period. It seems highly unlikely that a .55 percentage point increase crossed a threshold that caused the economic freedom rating to decrease so much.
Remember that the claim made by many opponents of immigration reform is that more immigrants will cause a decrease in economic freedom. A linear regression (OLS) of the economic freedom rating and the percent of immigrants in the United States produced a coefficient of -0.0013908 with a t-value of -.02. The R-squared for that regression is 0.0001. That means that factors other than immigration explain 99.99 percent of the decrease in America's economic freedom rating. On its face, the hypothesis that an increasing percentage of immigrants in the United States will decrease economic freedom does not hold much water.
Excluding small countries, here are the wealthiest nations in the world in 1980:
Richest Excluding Small Countries
GDP per capita, PPP
Income % Immigrant EF Rating
Sources: World Bank, Cato Economic Freedom of the World Index.
In 1980, 9.4 percent of people living in all countries (including small ones like Monaco and the United Arab Emirates) were immigrants, compared to 10.1 percent in the richest countries. The average economic freedom rating in the world was 5.4 compared to 6.27 for the richest. In 1980, the 25 richest countries in the world had more immigrants and more economic freedom than the average nation.
Sources: World Bank Development Indicators, Economic Freedom of the World: 2012 Annual Report.
In 2010, 11 percent of people living in all countries were immigrants. The average economic freedom rating in the world was 6.84, 1.44 points higher than in 1980. The 25 richest countries in 2010 had a greater percentage of immigrants and a higher economic freedom rating than the rest.
These results are not surprising. To the extent that economic freedom produces greater economic prosperity, immigration will likely increase. Given the results from the regression analysis, there is practically zero evidence that immigrants have caused a decline in economic freedom. Other factors, such as an increase in the regulated state, likely explain changes in economic freedom more than the intensity of immigration.
Opposing immigration reform for the reason that new immigrants will decrease economic freedom is a popular excuse in some circles – but there is surprisingly little evidence to support this myth. Moreover, merely pointing out that immigrants are more likely to vote for the Democratic Party is insufficient because actual policy shifts count more than partisan political outcomes. Those who claim immigrants will decrease economic freedom have yet to prove it.
Upcoming: A comparison between economic freedom in American states and immigration.


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Jamie Oliver reveals he has 'teams of cultural appropriation specialists' vet his cookbooks
Ruling that man who killed three Asian men with hammer is 'not responsible' due to mental illness angers victims' widows
Cricket chairman in hot water for citing Black, Asian stereotypes to explain sport's lack of diversity
Chinese father tries to kill himself, because his son was still unmarried at 29
Home News Looters Cause $300K Damage in 2 Minutes at Family-Owned Pharmacy in San Jose
Looters Cause $300K Damage in 2 Minutes at Family-Owned Pharmacy in San Jose
Among those targeted by looters over the weekend was a family-owned drugstore in downtown San Jose, California.
On Sunday night, security footage captured how a group of seven people forcibly entered and robbed Garcia Pharmacy.
The pharmacy, which is situated off East Santa Clara Street, services clinics, mental health and adult residential facilities, among others.
The burglars stole medication meant for hundreds of patients from across the Bay Area, Sacramento County, and south to Salinas. Where these prescription drugs might end up has since become a major concern, reports ABC7.
In the surveillance footage, the suspects were seen running towards the drugstore after throwing a tire iron through its glass storefront before 9 p.m.on Sunday.
James Wong, lead pharmacist and owner of the business, noted that the intruders managed to cause almost $300,000 in damage in the span of just two minutes.
Aside from stealing $50,000 worth of around 150 deliveries intended to be sent out to patients on Monday, the group also damaged equipment and tainted some of the medicines left behind with a fire extinguisher.
"The window was smashed and everything inside was just a mess," Wong was quoted as saying. "They shot off the fire extinguisher all over the medication. So, I have to destroy those medications, it's not sanitary."
Wong says that he is now worried about the patients who will not have their treatment.
"One guy was actually taking the time to read the label and kind of knew what he wanted. The other individuals just seemed to grab everything they could," he explained. "But they definitely came prepared. They threw a tire iron through the window, and they had duffel bags ready to take a lot of stuff. They cleared out all of our deliveries for Monday morning."
He also warned against the potential harm of the medications falling into the wrong hands.
"It's very dangerous. Some of these medications are controlled, some are non-controlled. Depending if they take it incorrectly, they're going to hurt themselves," he said. "They put it in the water supply, the water filtration can only do so much. It's really, really dangerous."
Wong noted that the COVID-19 crisis has already made it a challenge for them to get medications out on time but the protests have also affected shipments.
He further shared that while he hopes things do get better for the community, as he is for the protests, he thinks the looting only "hurts everyone."
"I'm for the protest, but the looting's got to stop," he added.
Wong and his staff are currently busy assessing and documenting their losses. The shop, which remained closed as of Tuesday morning, may re-open on Wednesday, reported KTVU.
While the local authorities have been notified of the incident, investigative work on the case has yet to begin.
Feature Image via KTVU


Dark is a 20-minute fulldome movie that explains and explores the nature of Dark Matter, the missing 80% of the mass of the Universe. The search for Dark Matter is the most pressing astrophysical problem of our time – the solution to which will help us understand why the Universe is as it is, where it came from, and how it has evolved over billions of years – the unimaginable depths of deep time, of which a human life is but a flickering instant.
Solar Quest is an 11-minute planetarium short feature that demonstrates and provides an overview of the Sun – Earth environment. The show also discusses the impacts that space weather may have and how the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field protects all life on Earth. Highlighted in the show is the role of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and how scientists have begun to use it as a way to help identify and predict severe space weather.
What happens when galaxies collide? What becomes of the stars within those galaxies? In 21-minute fulldome program Cosmic Castaways, we explore these questions and ponder the fate of our own Sun and solar system when the Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy collide in the distant future.
Flight Adventures is a 30-minute multi-media show from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis that introduces children and families to the science, technology, and history of flight. The show features NASA's research and the advancements that have made space travel possible, along with the important role that models have played in flight development. NASA resources include images and experts.
In this updated production of Hubble Vision, major themes in current astronomy and cosmology are presented: new views of the planets; peeks into starbirth nurseries; visions of stardeath in its many forms; explorations of star clusters and galaxies; and views of the universe when the earliest galaxies first shone.
Narrated by Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek movies and TV, MarsQuest is a chronicle tracing our centuries-long cultural and scientific fascination with the planet Mars. Set in a theatrical style "three-act" form with an epilogue, it weaves a satisfying narrative of what Mars means to humanity.
The Little Star That Could is a story about Little Star, an average yellow star in search for planets of his own to protect and warm. Along the way, he meets other stars, learns what makes each star special, and discovers that stars combine to form star clusters and galaxies. Eventually, Little Star finds his planets. Each planet is introduced to your audiences with basic information about our Solar System.


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Q: Como encontrrar uma sequencia ordinaria de keys numa Array?
O objetivo é encontrar a próxima sequência ordinaria de 03 keys dentro de uma
  array com índices quebrados, no exemplo seria 4,5,6 ou 7,8,9

CÓDIGO
<?php
        $myArray = array(
        'item_1',
        'item_2',
        'item_3',
        'item_4',
        'item_5',
        'item_6',
        'item_7',
        'item_8',
        'item_9',
        'item_10',
        'item_11',
    );

    $arrOriginal = $myArray;

    unset($myArray[2]);
    unset($myArray[3]);

    print_r(PHP_EOL . "Lista índices Quebrados" . PHP_EOL);
    foreach ($myArray as $keyItem => $itemValue) {
        echo 'Key: ' . $keyItem . ', Valor: ' . $itemValue . PHP_EOL;
    }

    print_r(PHP_EOL . "Lista Original" . PHP_EOL);

    foreach ($arrOriginal as $keyItem => $itemValue) {

        echo 'Key: ' . $keyItem . ', Valor: ' . $itemValue . PHP_EOL;
    }

RETURN
Lista índices Quebrados

Key: 0, Valor: item_1
Key: 1, Valor: item_2
Key: 4, Valor: item_5
Key: 5, Valor: item_6
Key: 6, Valor: item_7
Key: 7, Valor: item_8
Key: 8, Valor: item_9
Key: 9, Valor: item_10
Key: 10, Valor: item_11

Lista Original

Key: 0, Valor: item_1
Key: 1, Valor: item_2
Key: 2, Valor: item_3
Key: 3, Valor: item_4
Key: 4, Valor: item_5
Key: 5, Valor: item_6
Key: 6, Valor: item_7
Key: 7, Valor: item_8
Key: 8, Valor: item_9
Key: 9, Valor: item_10
Key: 10, Valor: item_11

RESULTADO ESPERADO NESSE EXEMPLO
4,5,6 ou 7,8,9

A: <?php
        $myArray = array(
        'item_1',
        'item_2',
        'item_3',
        'item_4',
        'item_5',
        'item_6',
        'item_7',
        'item_8',
        'item_9',
        'item_10',
        'item_11'
    );

    unset($myArray[2]);
    unset($myArray[3]);

    // Cria um array com as chaves de $myArray
    $chaves = array_keys($myArray);

    // Inicializa a array que receberá as arrays de chaves consecutivas
    $consecutivos = [];

    // Pega a quantidade de chaves
    $tamanho = count($chaves);

    // Verifica se há mais de duas chaves
    if($tamanho > 2){
       // Caso haja mais de duas chaves itera por elas menos as duas últimas
       for ($i=0; $i < ($tamanho - 2) ; $i++){
          // Verifica se as 3 chaves, a partir de índice $i, são consecutivas
          if($chaves[$i] === ($chaves[$i+1] - 1) &&
             $chaves[$i] === ($chaves[$i+2] - 2)   ) {
               //Caso sejam consecutivas as coloca no array $consecutivos[]
               $consecutivos[] = [$chaves[$i], $chaves[$i+1] , $chaves[$i+2]];
               //Despreza o dois próximos índices a partir de índice $i
               $i += 2;
          }
       }
    }

    print_r( $consecutivos);

Que retorna:
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => 4
            [1] => 5
            [2] => 6
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => 7
            [1] => 8
            [2] => 9
        )

)

Link para o código: https://repl.it/repls/SquareFruitfulExponents


Similar to extremely popular sim games like Corporation Inc and Theme Hotel, this new inn management simulation takes it in a more personalized direction. You are in control of a small family-owned inn that has to work hard for its expansion.
It takes good service and effective marketing to attract customers. At the same time, customers will react to every little detail of your inn, commenting on stuff like the receptionist's demeanor, or room cleanliness, or missing amenities. This provides the player with cookie crumbs to follow in order to improve the inn.
Above all of these are multiple goals that provides the player with concrete tasks that must be completed. Each goal offers different rewards such as unlocking new room types, providing new floors and recruiting family members.
There's more! Players gain experience points from each customer visit. They can spend these on different upgrades such as new amenities. Rooms have furnishings that may help in improving customer ratings. Amenities are upgradeable. Customers have different wants and needs that the player can discover through time and experimentation.
There's a lot of things to do here but the features are introduced slowly so as not to overwhelm the player.


The Golden Jubilee National Hospital is home to regional and national heart and lung services and a major elective centre for orthopaedics, ophthalmology, diagnostic imaging and other key specialties.
As a national resource for NHSScotland, we pride ourselves on delivering a high quality service for the people of Scotland. Using this approach, we welcome the report on our recent unannounced inspection by the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI).
With a strong track record of preventing and controlling infection within the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, we are pleased that the majority of areas inspected were clean and well maintained. We did, however, have one requirement in relation to equipment in one of our areas and this was immediately rectified.
We are also pleased that the inspectors highlighted our comprehensive education system on healthcare associated infections and our effective surveillance system. They also referenced the variety of ways we encourage staff and visitors to use alcohol based hand rub or wash their hands.
Anne Marie Cavanagh, Nurse Director, commented: "The Golden Jubilee is committed to continuous improvement and providing care in new and innovative ways. Therefore, we welcome the findings of the report.


This image released early Sunday by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets shows a child receiving oxygen through respirators following an alleged poison gas attack in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus, Syria.
Russia and the Syrian military blamed Israel for a pre-dawn missile attack Monday on a major air base in central Syria, saying Israeli fighter jets launched the missiles from Lebanon's air space. A war-monitoring group said the airstrikes killed 14 people, including Iranians active in Syria.
Most recently, Israel hit the same T4 base in February, after it said an Iranian drone that had violated Israeli airspace took off from the base. The base, which was used as a launching pad for counter-offensive attacks against Islamic State militants who were at one point stationed close by, is near the Shayrat air base, which was targeted by U.S. missiles last year in response to a chemical weapons attack.
Monday's missile attack came hours after President Donald Trump warned there would be a "big price to pay" after a suspected poison gas attack Saturday on the last remaining foothold for Syrian rebels in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. At least 40 people were killed in that assault, including families found in their homes and shelters, opposition activists and local rescuers said.
In his tweets Sunday, Trump called Assad an "animal" and delivered a rare personal criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin for supporting him. Trump has declared his intent to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria in the coming months, despite resistance from many of his advisers.
More than 500 people, mostly women, and children, were brought to medical centers complaining of difficulties breathing, foaming at the mouth and burning sensations in the eyes. Some had bluish skin, a sign of oxygen deprivation, according to a statement, symptoms consistent with chemical exposure.
In denying the chemical weapons allegations, a government statement said, "The army, which is advancing rapidly and with determination, does not need to use any kind of chemical agents."


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Interview with BARRY WEINBERG
On April 5, 2018 April 6, 2018 By NickIn progressive rock
Florida-based prog rock lover Barry Weinberg launched his most recent album "Samsarana" back in January, a record, which in the musician's own words, should inspire its listeners. In an interview for Progarchy, Weinberg discusses what it took to come up with this ambitious project.
What made you go to release "Samsarana" under your own name? Does it feel more personal that way?
I was original going to release Samsarana under the name of my production company: DRP: Dream Reality Productions, but under advisement from my co-producer/sound engineer, we decided to call it "Barry Weinberg's Samsarana." Other than the drums (performed by Glenn Welman out of South Africa), I performed everything on the album…and, as the album is semi-autobiographical, it is definitely very personal to me.
How do you usually describe your music?
Eclectic! Crossing the boundaries of Progressive Rock, Blues, Heavy Metal, and Orchestral music, this concept album is a "musical novel" telling a powerful human story of life's challenges, redemption and self-actualization.
I explored many genres of music on this album. The main theme of the album is the polarity/duality of life's experiences, so in many of the songs I combined contrasting sounds and feels to express that duality. In some songs I combined classical acoustic guitar with heavy distorted heavy metal sounds and in one song I transition from a folky, Bob Dylan-esque sound into a 90's grunge groove. It was a lot of fun finding ways to combine different, almost antagonistic musical styles in a way that worked.
What is your writing process like?
It was like simultaneously writing a novel, composing and arranging a film score and painting a picture all at once. When starting this project, much of the music and lyrics were already written, but as I started recording, the music evolved beyond what I originally intended and new songs emerged to fill the gaps in the overall story of Samsarana.
The first thing people wonder when they hear about the album is "what kind of music is it?" Is it rock? Is it metal? Is it folk? The answer is yes. Besides the actual music and lyrics, I put a lot of attention on which style would best convey the message and mood of that song or "Chapter" in the story of Samsarana. In fact, in some songs I combine genres and even transition from one to another. For example, "Endless Sea" starts off as a Bob Dylan-esque folk song evolves into more of a Bob Seger-y rock song and in the middle becomes an all-out Grunge Metal breakout. It was a lot of fun to not be attached to any one genre and just express what needed to be expressed in the way it needed to be expressed.
Recording each song was like painting a picture. I'd first lay down the foundation with the basic tracks of percussion, bass, rhythm guitar and keyboards, if there were any. Then I'd add the lead guitars and vocals. I'd then listen to the song and in the context of the overall story, I'd add textures and effects to enhance the mood of the "scene."
Each song carries the story forward and between each song are sound recordings that bridge one song to the next. Another dynamic of the overall story is the influence of polarity in our lives. Love and Hate. Life and Death. Good and Evil. Therefore, I wanted to express this polarity using counterpoint between tones and genres between songs and sometimes within a song. For example, "Come Out and Play" is a fun, hard rock song about teenage crushes and the confusion we have as kids about what love is. This is followed by "A Passage of Time" which is a song I wrote for my wife when I proposed to her. This song is an acoustic, classical guitar and my voice. No effects, no other tracks. Very different than "Come Out and Play." This play of polarities is expressed throughout the album.
Who or what is your inspiration, if you have any?
What inspires me most are stories of individuals who are small and become Great. Stories like the film, "Rudy" about Rudy Ruetigger who played for Notre Dame… or Frodo in "Lord of the Rings." Also, People who start from nothing and accomplish great things in the world. You read stories of how Metallica or Pink Floyd started with nothing except a vision and passion and they became the biggest stars in the world. There's a quote that always inspired me from motivational speaker, Les Brown, "You don't have to be Great to get started, but you got to get started to be Great!"
The biggest influences to my work are Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Queensryche Ayreon, Rush, Metallica and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
What is your favourite piece on "Samsarana" and why?
My favorite piece on the album is "Endless Sea." It was inspired by my time I spent with the Okeechobee ranchers during the filming of "Florida Crackers," a documentary film I wrote the soundtrack and score for between 2006 and 2011. I love the different elements of the song from the early Pink Floyd-esque intro to the Metallica-like breakout in the middle. It's also the turning point in the Samsarana story when our main character begins to realize who he is in his enlightenment experience.
What makes "Samsarana" different and what should music lovers expect from
"Samsarana"?
I grew up in the 70's, 80's and 90's, and this was a revolutionary time for music. During this time, bands didn't put out songs….they put out albums. Albums that you put headphones on to listen to…and you listened to in their entirety. The albums were not just a collection of songs to sing to… they were experiences. It was my intention to create that kind of musical experience. Samsarana is subtitled, "A Cinematic Rock Experience" and was written as a musical novel with each song a chapter in the story. It explores many genres of music and has a lot of depth of meaning and it is my hope that the listener takes the time to delve into the depths of Samsarana and with each listen they will find something new.
What kind of emotions would you like your audience to feel when they listen to your
It is my intention that my music inspires people to explore their own lives and contemplate how best to live to their full potential and break free of their own "Vicious Circle." I also see this inspiring people who have put off their lifelong dream, deciding to take action to make it happen. This is why I chose to name my production company, Dream Reality Productions. Making this album was a dream I've had since I'm a young boy and now at 50, I made a decision and made it happen!
Are there any plans to promote the album live?
Right now I'm working diligently to spread the word through social media to get the album out to the people. I have no immediate plans to tour or perform the album live, but I do see in the future a big theatrical production of the album. . Since I performed all the vocals and instruments on the album (except for the drums), I have to first get a band together.
I'm also starting to feel the spark of an idea of my next album. Stay tuned!
Pick your three favourite albums that you would take on a desert island with you.
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
For more info about Barry Weinberg and to purchase "Samsarana," visit Dream Reality Productions.
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Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence


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This is a 12-month On Line Membership package that can be purchased by organisations implementing Productive Community Services. It provides access to regular (monthly) Web Based (WebEx) clinics focused upon the Productive Community Service programme. Each clinic will last approximately two hours. Topics will focus on the challenges, successes of implementations and provide a networking opportunity for the organisations.
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LOCATED IN THE HEART OF THE MONMOUTHSHIRE COUNTRYSIDE, Court robert arts exhibit and sell garden sculpture throughout the year. With work exhibited by over a dozen different artists, there's bound to be something to suit your garden. WITH CHARMING GARDENS AND AN ATTRACTIVE COURTYARD, COURT ROBERT ARTS IS LOCATED AMIDST IDYLLIC COUNTRYSIDE - THE PERFECT LOCATION TO VIEW THE WORK ON DISPLAY.
We've also recently developed our court robert arts art gallery, soon to be officially opened. it houses paintings, ceramics, jewellery and so much more. make sure you come see it for yourself!
Join us this summer for a great day out exploring Court Robert Arts.
Plus every bank holiday we'll be providing tea, coffee and homemade cake - yum!
Click the images below to be taken to our indoor, outdoor, buy online and exhibit with us pages.


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30 September 2016 / Arts & Entertainment / Jay Barmann
A Quick And Not-So-Strict Guide To Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Kicking Off At Noon
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the annual celebration of roots music and a lot of other stuff in Golden Gate Park, is happening now, with the first acts taking the stage at noon — and as always, it's all free.
The full day line-ups are here, and that annoying friend of yours who doesn't need to work on Friday is probably already Snapchatting from the park, making your afternoon that much worse.
Here's what you need to know about Friday's headliners: Mavis Staples takes the Banjo Stage (i.e. where the Twin Peaks Stage is for Outside Lands, in Hellman Hollow) at 5:45 p.m. (Boz Skaggs will be on first there, at 4:10 p.m.) Conor Oberst also goes on at 5:45 on the Rooster Stage (near where the WineLands tent was for OSL, in Marx Meadow). See the map here.
There's a Silent Disco this year. See more info on that here, and you pick up your headphones in Shady Grove (between the Banjo and Rooster stages).
If you can, you should just bike there. Also, there's the 5-Fulton bus. Get out around 30th Avenue and follow the crowds.
Things wrap up at 7 p.m. So, if you're not getting out of work until 5:30, it might not be worth it and you should wait for tomorrow.
Saturday's line-up is good. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Steve Earle will be on the Banjo Stage; Yo La Tengo, Chris Isaak, and Cyndi Lauper will be on the Swan Stage; M. Ward will wrap up the day on the smaller Porch Stage; and the Mother Hips are on at 4:15 on the Arrow Stage.
Don't bring glass. You are allowed to bring in beer or wine that comes in cans, and you should try to keep from letting police see if you have hard alcohol. But there's no one checking bags at a gate like OSL.
You can bring a little folding and/or low-backed chair. You could also just bring a blanket, but unless you arrive very early any of the three days, you'll be hard pressed to get anywhere near the main stages.
Sunday's line-up is also good, and more country. Look for Wynonna and The Big Noise on the Banjo Stage, opening for Emmylou Harris; John Hammond, Roseanne Cash, and T Bone Burnett will be on the Rooster Stage; and the California Honeydrops and CAKE will be found on the Swan Stage.
Bring snacks! Also, sunscreen, even though it's going to possibly be rainy for a minute on Sunday.
Previously: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Isn't Actually Endowed Forever — Or Technically At All
Absurd USA Today List Of Best Local Food Scenes Includes Oakland, Ignores SF And LA
The only West Coast city to make the Top 10 in a USA Today readers poll about the best local food scenes in the country is Oakland, and Minneapolis-St. Paul is Number One
Friday Lunchtime Links: SFUSD's Teacher Shortage
For the first time, automakers will be able to test autonomous cars with no steering wheels, brake pedals or human drivers on some public roads in California, under legislation signed Thursday by Gov.
Jay Barmann
Jay C. Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor who's lived in San Francisco for 19 years.


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Q: Rails4: Using Rails Concerns in calling callbacks Using rails4, I am trying to implement notification model. Here I use ActiveSupport::Concern to separate my notification related code from the model.
    create_notification_module.rb
module CreateNotificationModule
   extend ActiveSupport::Concern
   include ActiveModel::Dirty

   included do
     after_update :notify
     after_create :notify
     after_create :notify
   end
   def notify
     record = Notification.new(
                  :ref_table => self.class,
                  :ref_id => self.id,
                  :receiver => ? ,  # owner of the parent model if parent exists
                  :sender => current_user.id,
                  :details => self.changes,
                  :is_read => 0)
     record.save!

   end

Here I need to know from which controller/model this callback is called, so that I can write my switch case. For ex.,
case comment: to get the owner of the message to which user comments
case like: to get the owner of msg/cmt which is liked etc.,  any help is appreciated.

A: I don't know exactly what your needs are but I would recommend you rethink how his is going to work because it seems like you are misusing the idea of a concern and are going to get yourself into a code mess down the line. If you are writing a switch statement and checking types to implement custom behaviour for each class I think that a concern is the wrong tool to use. A concern shared among several classes adds the same behaviour to all of the those classes. Seems like you want to share some code to DRY things out but then want to customize some aspects based on which class sends the message. Perhaps a helper method that builds a Notification or a NotificationBuilder class would be better here. Then each class can get a Notification and set it's attributes according to their needs. That way future programmers won't be surprised when the behaviour of Comment and User are different even though they both include CreateNotificationModule (which implies that the behaviour is the same).
I can highly recommend the book Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer; it explains much more eloquently and convincingly than I can why the switch statement you are going to write is a bad idea.
I realize this isn't actually an answer, but it didn't fit in the comments. Sorry for that.


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Eutrema japonicum (Miq.) Koidz., conosciuta comunemente come  o anche con il nome di ravanello giapponese, è una pianta di origine giapponese appartenente alla famiglia delle Brassicacee (o Crocifere).

La pianta cresce spontaneamente in vicinanza dei fiumi in zone fredde del Giappone, come per esempio in montagna o nelle valli in quota.

Il wasabi
Dal rizoma di Eutrema japonicum si ottiene una pasta di colore verde e dal sapore particolarmente piccante, usata nella cucina giapponese e conosciuta con lo stesso nome della pianta, wasabi (山葵).

Le due cultivar più diffuse sul mercato sono E. japonicum var. Daruma e var. Mazuma ma ne sono coltivate molte altre. Inoltre possono essere usate nella preparazione del wasabi anche i rizomi di altre specie come p.es. Cardamine pseudowasabi.

La pasta wasabi viene spesso usata per accompagnare pesce crudo e, in particolare, il sushi e il sashimi, a volte sciolta nella salsa di soia. Nel sushi ne viene spalmata una piccola quantità tra il pesce e il riso; nel sashimi si scioglie nella salsa di soia, in cui viene poi intinto il pesce crudo.

È anche soprannominato namida, ossia "lacrime", perché se usato in quantità eccessiva può far lacrimare. A differenza del peperoncino, il cui effetto agisce prevalentemente in bocca, il wasabi stimola fortemente la mucosa nasale e un boccone in cui ci sia una dose eccessiva di wasabi può provocare un dolore tale da portare alla lacrimazione. Il dolore è comunque di breve durata e non persiste come quello del peperoncino. Si dice che abbia una funzione antibatterica e digestiva che lo renderebbe indispensabile quando si mangia il pesce crudo.

Il wasabi è reperibile sotto forma di pasta e di polvere. Il wasabi perde il proprio aroma quando essiccato, pertanto le polveri di wasabi non ne conservano l'aroma. Il rafano, insieme ad altre spezie, viene di norma aggiunto al vero wasabi per riprodurne l'odore tipico del prodotto fresco che si perde con l'essiccazione.

Il wasabi, dato il suo alto costo, si presta spesso a falsificazioni. In Giappone il vero wasabi è denominato hon-wasabi () termine che significa "wasabi originale".

Composti chimici
 tra cui:

 6-metiltioesil isotiocianato
 7-metiltioeptil isotiocianato
 8-metiltiottil isotiocianato.

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Altri usi
Le foglie di Eutrema japonicum si utilizzano secche come aroma per insaporire insalate, formaggio o semplicemente pane. Dalla stessa pianta si ottengono anche un vino e un forte liquore venduti in Giappone dai negozi di specialità locali.

Surrogato
Nei ristoranti economici di stile giapponese nonché nei supermercati e mercati si trovano quasi sempre paste simili al wasabi, di fatto un surrogato: le più frequenti sono fatte con polvere di rafano colorato, spesso con la microalga Spirulina.

Riferimenti nella cultura di massa
Wasabi è un film del 2001 diretto da Gérard Krawczyk.
In Cars 2 il wasabi viene scambiato per gelato al pistacchio da Cricchetto.
In Una serie di sfortunati eventi il wasabi è l'antidoto contro il Mycelium Medusoide.

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Voci correlate
 Oroshigane

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Brassicaceae
Cucina giapponese
Ingredienti di cucina
Piante medicinali e officinali

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Workshop and activity by Gunpla Builders Benelux and Red Comet.
Are you a fan of mecha? Or do you like model construction? Gunpla is something for you then! Gundam Fans Benelux provides two days filled with gunpla workshops and model construction.
© 2018 - Atsusacon door Ganbaro VZW.


The 2019 Corvette Nationals are on 29th and 30th June at the same hotel as last year. It'll be great!
We'll be back with the 35th anniversary Corvette and another Belgian Corvette.
I'm sure that will be a nice event, would like to see plenty of photos.
How do we book to attend this event?
If you wish to attend the Gala Evening Dinner on the Saturday night, you will need to do that via the Sharnbrook Hotel.
There are also some details in the Club magazine about the Nationals and where you can stay.
do you have to book for this event (sat and sun days only) ior can you just turn up ???
Provisional information - CCCUK members pay £10 per car for entry to the Nats, irrespective of whether you visit for one day or whole weekend. Other American cars and visitors will pay £5 per person per day - and yes, you can just turn-up on the day - make sure you have your membership card with you. CCCUK cruise-out on Saturday morning will be to Santa Pod where we will have a dedicated parking area, be able to watch some of the RWYB drag racing and members can compete if they wish. More information to follow.
as for the sat cruise to santa pod where does that start from on the day ?
ill get further start/meet up times nearer the date.


We woke up pretty early after a good night's sleep and headed down to Kampung Cina (Chinatown) for breakfast.
Among the things we cannot find in Kuala Lumpur is a simple loaf of 1Roti Paun (pronounced with two syllables, usually Pa-Ong or Pa-Ung).
There's a small quaint little coffee shop (albeit a little rundown) in Kampung Cina that stands right beside the bridge where the Terengganu river used to flow, before all that land reclamation. Its called Sin Phin Siang (we have no idea what it means) and it opens at the crack of dawn.
right proper local celebrities they are!
Brendan (as always) ordered his usual plate of 2Char Kueh Teow; Cat ordered the 3Mee Goreng while I had a bowl of 4Bee Hoon Soup.
Oh, and of course a serving of Roti Paun with its natural accompanying condiment, the inimitable 5Kaya.
Our bellies filled, we're all fired up to go gallivanting!
And in case you're wondering breakfast cost us no more than RM15.


Pumpkin Shaped Florals - I want to do this for my dinner table!
It's IS interesting that we enjoy a holiday that celebrates fear, the one thing that holds us back from our dreams. Keep in mind the thrill a child gets from being frightened on Halloween, and use that thrill to move forward and go after what you want in life!! Have a Happy Halloween, and don't ever let fear hold you back!
Oh! Love those hunter boots!
I've been wanting a pair of Hunter wellies, and those orange ones are cute.
Man, I haven't been over here to see you in forever!! I hate being so busy with work and school and all that boring stuff that I'm missing out on the fun stuff! I love this post. =) And I really love those pumpkin shaped flower arrangements!
thanks for your words!! i definitely wont fear haha and the lace top is pretty!
I love this post. But above all, I love the life lesson. It is so empowering!
Those pumpkin shaped florals are gorgeous!!!!
I like the orange boots.
great picks! I love those high heel boots, so cute!
That line in the office actually stuck in my mind too...such a great observation and of course anything in James Spader's voice just sounds much more intriguing.


When it comes to music everyone is attracted towards those cool beats and want to have a good time hearing those type of music. There are DJs who can make a simple song, way more attractive by adding catchy beats and even mix them with other songs. Sometimes also may get this thought if you can do the same and impress your friends and family by editing their favorite song.
When it comes to try making same type of songs then you must have some DJs software or Beat making software which can help you create an awesome song anytime you want.
If you are a windows user then this software is for you, Mixcraft is capable of creating and editing songs, or you can even create your own songs and produce them. With its advanced features you have the ability to do anything with any type of songs. Its easier to compose your own beats, patterns, and musical scores as well. You can add dozens of cool effects for free as well.
Mixcraft is more than just a DAW program. It is also a feature-packed pro video editing and scoring environment, load and edit video files and still images with ease. You can easily add a professional touch with fantastic video effects, Crossfade video clips, create transitions as well. So, it could be the best Dj software when it comes to finding one for Windows Operating System.
Unlike Mixcraft where you were limited when it comes to the OS of PC, here you can use it on Windows, Mac and Linux. LMMS is an Open source and Muti-platform software which means its free as well and you don't have to pay a single penny for using it. Using this software you can make any boring song more catchy and crazy quality by adding more awesome beats and effects to it. Since it is a free software to there are no limitations on using this software and you can use it as much as you want.
You can also create Mixup music if you are a pro Dj and use it for your shows as well. It can be a free Dj software for all three OS Windows, Mac and Linux.
It has a Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song, also multiple patterns playing at once.
It gives you unlimited instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
It has multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
It comes with a sample Editor, with basic cut and loop functions.
Easily Export/Import single patterns into song projects.
Gives you the ability to import/export song files. Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions as well.
So, there are the three must use Free Dj software which you can use to create coolest Dj songs of all time.


The Save Image service handles image storage and naming. When a save is initiated by the user this service checks the current domain the node is in, and names the saved image file based on domain name, user name, domain name and time stamp. It stores these files in a central repository and manages file permissions so that users can't clobber each others image.


Any institutionally-created, operated, or controlled environment in which participants are lured in either by mimicking pre-existing open or naturally formed environments, or by force, through a system of punishments or rewards. Such institutional environments are often seen as more artificial in their construction and usage, and typically compete with pre-existing systems, environments, or applications. Creepy treehouses also have an aspect of closed-ness, where activity within is hidden from the outside world, and may not be easily transferred from the environment by the participants.
Signing off Twitter for the next couple of days – anything I say on there could easily be misinterpreted, even rants about UKIP-supporting badgers destroying my entire parsnip crop. Ditto Facebook; too many academic 'friends', some of whom I've forgotten I ever befriended. I *think* Spotify is safe; even if I didn't manage to disable all the settings that wanted to share my listening with the rest of the world, the fact that 58% of the songs I listened to last year were in the post rock genre means that only ardent Mogwai fans will have any hope of deciphering my mood from the specific choice of feedback-laden drone.
One of the interesting side-effects of spending a reasonable amount of time on Twitter is the sense it gives you of the rhythms of global activity. Of course one gets an inkling of this from the way that the internet gets unmistakably slower from mid-afternoon in the UK, when the bulk of the US East Coast has woken up, and almost unusable by the time California logs on, but it's far more noticeable when you follow a decent number of people and can get a sense of the timing of their bursts of activity. I'm sure there must be exciting ways of rendering my Twitter feed in graphical form (albeit well beyond my technical capabilities), so I could see shifting colours and patterns as the twittering line follows the dawn westwards, with new voices waking up and then fading away fourteen hours or so later – until the dead hours, around 5 am, when most of the US people I follow have gone to bed and the Europeans haven't got started yet. Which is really a sign that I need to start following more people in Australasia and Asia, to keep the feed ticking over and give me something to read once I've finished catching up on the Yanks – any recommendations?


The MRMCD are now over, and they went even better than we could have asked, hoped for, imagined. We have y'all to thank for that. Your hacking, helping, playing, talking, listening, and just being there made the event what it was. You're the best and we're already looking forward to the next MRMCD.
If you miss us as much as we miss you, you can watch the talk recordings on our schedule page (thanks to the magnificent VOC), and leave feedback for the speakers.
If you want to tell us anything, be it good or bad, we've got an open ear and mailbox for you at feedback@. Please use it – we want next time to be even more awesome, and we can only do that with your feedback.
Goodbye, and until next time!
This year we have a special treat for you – a CTF that's great both for experienced folks aswell as beginners!
We'll give you some more details in the Opening event on Friday, and then you're off – from Friday, 6pm till Sunday, 3pm you can weed through all kinds of data to find the much-sought flags.
For those of you who are interested but completely inexperienced, there will be a workshop by the organizers on Saturday to help you find your footing.
As always, the success of an event depends on many helping hands. If you attended any Chaosevent before, you probably know, how important angels are. But it's not just work, it's actually a lot of fun and a great opportunity to meet new people and make new friends.
Herold Angels, to introduce the next speaker and help with the Q&A after the talk.
Video-Angels, to help with recording talks, checking streams and switching between speaker and slides.
Helpdesk-Angels, to assist other participants with any questions they may have and help coordinate angel-shifts.
Bar- and Tschunk-Angels, to keep our participants well hydrated.
Cash Desk-Angels, to scan tickets of new arrivals and handle distribution of goodies and pre-ordered t-shirts and hoodies.
Breakfast-Angels, to check, restock and clean-up the buffet.
And last, but not least Build Up- and (most importantly) Teardown-Angels to help us make the building look like an university again. You can drop by on Friday starting at 11 am to help with build up or stay on Sunday after the closing until we are done. No matter how much time you have, every help counts.
To coordinate your shifts, please register at mrmcd.net/engel/. There you can book any available shifts. For build up and teardown you can simply drop by and lend a hand.
This year, as always, there will be Lightning Talks at MRMCD!
According to our current schedule, Lightning Talks are planned for Saturday night and Sunday (right before the closing event). We're looking forward to your ideas!
Your presentations should be about five to ten minutes long, and you should send them to psy@darmstadt.ccc.de (there is no deadline). Try not to have more than 10 slides to prevent the Lightning Talks from turning into Thunder Storms instead, and above all … have fun!
Please be patient with us: Our schedule still is a young plant that needs to grow. Not all speakers have already confirmed their appearance yet and some talks will still shift their exact times.
If you did not do so already, you can buy one of the very last tickets in our ticket shop. We assume that the presale will be sold out very soon. There will be a handful of tickets for sale on site, but since the capacity of the building is limited we cannot promise you to get in without a ticket from the presale.
If you have any questions, you can reach us at parkaufsicht()mrmcd.net.
Please note that you will be only able to buy MRMCD 2017 t-shirts and hoodies in our ticket shop until the 8th of August. We expect tickets to be available until mid-August.
Calling upon all shrubbery connoisseurs!
The Call for Participation for our humble little data exhibition is nearly over. You have only four days left to kickstart your carreer in data gardening by submitting a talk or workshop.
Our focus lies on private and public data this year: How do you protect private data – and from whom? How do you use public data? To what purposes? – But apart from that, we're also interested in our usual topics, such as IT security, open source software, embedded systems, networks, anonymity and whatever really cool projects you're currently working on.
If you're not sure if you really should submit a talk (spoiler: yes) or if your talk title is catchy enough, just ask us (at parkaufsicht()mrmcd.net)!
Tickets are now available for MRMCD 2017: Bundesdatenschau. You can reserve your spot at presale.mrmcd.net. We expect there to be tickets available for sale on site, but note that all merchandise such as the unique MRMCD 2017 conference mug as well as other surprise gadges and t-shirts are only available for presale tickets.
Despite some organizational challenges imposed by this year's switch of locations, we can keep ticket prices at the same rates as in the last years. This year's MRMCD take place at their traditional date (first weekend of September) but at a different spot in Darmstadt: The Piloty building of TU Darmstadt. Regular visitors might remember this building from mrmcd101b through to mrmcd1001b.
We are still in search of talks and workshops about both making public data useful and protecting private data, as well as about our regular topics like IT security, software, open source, embedded systems, networks, anonymity and everything related. We are looking forward to your submittions at cfp.mrmcd.net.
The MetaRheinMainChaosDays (MRMCD) are proud to announce that they will host the first Bundesdatenschau (federal data show) - we're looking forward to all kinds of data accompanied by their owners!
We are looking for talks und workshops taking an in-depth look at the usage of public data and the protection of private data. We're asking – How are public data resources (ab)used? Where and how has data been made public that shouldn't have been? Who's grabbing private data, and what are you doing against it? We're interested in both social and technical answers. You can submit your talks or workshops at https://cfp.mrmcd.net/2017/ until July 23rd.
The MRMCD are an annual IT conference of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It is organized by the MRMCD e.V. in cooperation with local hackerspaces, CCC groups, and nearby universities. The conference takes place on the first weekend of September, as per usual. This year's conference location is the Piloty building of TU Darmstadt, where the MRMCD have taken place previously in 2010.
If you're interested in submitting a talk, but you aren't quite sure about the suitability or wording - please reach out to us at parkaufsicht@mrmcd.net. If you're a first-time speaker, we're happy to help you, too. If you have ideas for great talks or speakers, we'd be excited to hear those.


Stare at it long enough and the classic two-tone fishing bobber will play tricks on the human brain, especially one navigating the rigors of adolescence.
Suffice it to say, I never much cared for the sport. The ritual of waking up incredibly early on a day you didn't have school, spending interminable hours on an overturned bucket and envying insects as they feasted on fish guts—at least they had a good breakfast—ruined fishing for me. As I got older, and was allowed to dictate my own free time, I told my father I had better things to do than watch a bobber bob.
Fifteen years went by before I even thought about sniffing a night crawler again. What changed? I'm a father now. My daughter can't even crawl yet, and I'm already feeling that paternal urge to force her into bonding experiences. In my family, that means fishing. It's what my father did with me and his father with him. But if I was going to put my daughter through this, I thought, perhaps first I ought to learn to enjoy the sport myself.
I'd heard about the San Juan Islands off the northwestern coast of Washington. When the calendar's right, there's no surer thing than the salmon run in this pocket of the Pacific. Late summer in odd-numbered years is the time to strike, and forecasts for August of last year called for more than 6 million salmon to pass through these waters. Fishing is so easy there, it could in fact be called catching, and that's what I was after. I thought that, if I could just eliminate the waiting, the bobbers and the jaw-busting yawns, I could learn to love this sport and pass it on to my daughter.
So it was I met up with Jay Field, the owner and captain of a deep-sea-fishing outfit called Dash One, at 6:15 in the morning on a dock at Roche Harbor on the northwest side of San Juan Island. Though the wake-up call and my captain's inadvisable facial hair hadn't changed since I last went fishing with my father, the equipment had. In place of the dinghy of my childhood was a 26-foot Osprey with a remote-control motor. And instead of my old tackle box and bag of night crawlers, I had the latest in state-of-the-art fishing equipment, which included a Cannon Digi-Troll 10—a digitally operated, push-button contraption with an LCD screen that looked more like a military-issued crane than a fishing rod.
After finding our way through Mosquito Pass and out into open ocean, Field pointed to his "fish finder"—another LCD screen that showed a red pixelated mass on top of blue and green pixelated masses. "We're putting the puzzle together," he told me, indicating that there was something below.
Five minutes after the lines touched the water, Field saw a rod bounce. He snatched it, started reeling and then handed it to one of my boatmates, who won the honor of landing the day's first salmon. Not three minutes later, we hooked another. I grabbed the rod, and Field immediately started shouting instructions: "Keep it tight! Don't let him get to the engine!" I pulled up on the rod, reeled as I let it down and pulled everything toward my side of the boat. The fish was fighting, as anything with a hook in its mouth would. I reeled, I pulled, I shouted, "It's a leviathan!" When it reached the boat, I saw that I had overestimated. But it was the first fish I'd caught in 15 years. That should have been cause for celebration. Instead, I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd cheated.
Here's why: The fishing I knew as a boy called for you to bait a hook, cast a line, wait and reel in, usually without a fish. This was different. An expert did all the hard work for me, and I took over only once the fish was hooked. I felt like I had put the candles on a cake and called myself a baker. Then there was the technology. Sure, the Digi-Trolls, fish finder, remote control motor and depth monitor made everything easier, but the whole high-tech process was so far removed from the cast-and-wait fishing I knew as a child that it felt like a different sport.
Keith Ammons, the resident fishing expert for Discover Boating magazine, has a different take. "I think the actual catching of the fish is not the end goal. Spending that quality time is the goal. That conversation I can have with my spouse or my father is the most important part," he told me.
I had sought out Ammons to talk about what I call "slow fishing"—the fishing I did as a kid. He encouraged me to give the slow version another shot now that I'm no longer 12. "It's no cell phones. No TV. No video games. I don't want to say there's no rules, but it's just about being able to get away and relax," he said.
Adam K. Raymond is a writer based in Oakland, California. He prefers worms of the gummy variety.