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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace SCPNetTopologySubmitter
{
    /// <summary>
    /// A SCPNet topology submission client
    /// </summary>
    public class Program
    {
        const string SCPAPI_Format_String = "/scpapi/api/SCPAPI/{0}";

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            if(args.Length < 5)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("SCPNetTopologySubmitter usage:");
                Console.WriteLine("SCPNetTopologySubmitter.exe <cluster_url> <cluster_username> <cluster_password> <spec_file_path> <package_file_path>");
                Console.WriteLine();
                Environment.Exit(1);
            }

            var clusterUrl = args[0];
            var clusterUsername = args[1];
            var clusterPassword = args[2];
            var specFile = args[3];
            var packageFile = args[4];

            bool error = false;
            try
            {
                Console.WriteLine("SCPNetTopologySubmitter: Submitting topology");
                Console.WriteLine("ClusterUrl: ".PadRight(20) + clusterUrl);
                Console.WriteLine("ClusterUsername: ".PadRight(20) + clusterUsername);
                Console.WriteLine("ClusterPassword: ".PadRight(20) + clusterPassword);
                Console.WriteLine("SpecFile: ".PadRight(20) + specFile);
                Console.WriteLine("PackageFile: ".PadRight(20) + packageFile);
                Console.WriteLine();

                var task = TopologySubmit(clusterUrl, clusterUsername, clusterPassword, specFile, packageFile);
                var result = task.Wait(120000);
                if (!result)
                {
                    error = true;
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(task.Result);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                error = true;
                Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
            }

            var prevForeColor = Console.ForegroundColor;
            var prevBackColor = Console.BackgroundColor;
            Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;

            if (error)
            {
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
                Console.WriteLine("SCPNetTopologySubmitter: ERROR - Failed to submit topology!");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
                Console.WriteLine("SCPNetTopologySubmitter: SUCCESS - Topology submitted successfully!");
            }

            Console.ForegroundColor = prevForeColor;
            Console.BackgroundColor = prevBackColor;

            if (error)
            {
                Environment.Exit(1);
            }
        }

        public static async Task<string> TopologySubmit(string clusterUrl, string clusterUsername, string clusterPassword, string specFile, string packageFile)
        {
            if (!File.Exists(specFile) || !File.Exists(packageFile))
            {
                throw new FileNotFoundException("Could not find the spec file or package file. Make sure you have published the SCPNet topology project.");
            }

            var specFileInfo = new FileInfo(specFile);
            var resourceFileInfo = new FileInfo(packageFile);

            string action = string.Format("{0}", "TopologySubmit");
            HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler()
            {
                Credentials = new NetworkCredential()
                {
                    UserName = clusterUsername,
                    Password = clusterPassword
                }
            };

            var sb = new StringBuilder();

            using (var client = new HttpClient(handler))
            {
                client.BaseAddress = new Uri(clusterUrl);
                var wc = new WebClient();

                string url = string.Format(SCPAPI_Format_String, action);
                var multipart = new MultipartFormDataContent();

                var specFileContent = new FileContent(specFileInfo.FullName);
                specFileContent.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment")
                {
                    FileName = specFileInfo.Name
                };
                var resourceFileContent = new FileContent(resourceFileInfo.FullName);
                resourceFileContent.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment")
                {
                    FileName = resourceFileInfo.Name
                };

                multipart.Add(specFileContent);
                multipart.Add(resourceFileContent);

                HttpResponseMessage response = client.PostAsync(url, multipart).Result;

                sb.AppendLine("Response StatusCode: " + response.StatusCode);
                string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                sb.AppendLine("Response Content: ");
                var unescapedResponseBody = Regex.Unescape(responseBody);
                sb.AppendLine(unescapedResponseBody);

                if (response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.Created)
                {
                    sb.AppendLine(
                        String.Format(
                        "Topology submission did return 'Created' status code. " +
                        "SpecFile: {0}, StatusCode: {1}",
                        specFile,
                        response.StatusCode));
                    throw new ApplicationException(sb.ToString());
                }
            }
            return sb.ToString();
        }
    }
}


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Virtual Talk Nov. 6: The Making of Stars and Stripes Over the Rhine
By Erin Hart
Director of Communications and Development, Germanic-American Institute
The Germanic-American Institute (GAI) in St. Paul, MN presents a free virtual talk with historian Dr. Kai-Michael Sprenger on Friday, November 6, at 6:00 pm CST.
Dr. Kai-Michael SprengerDr. Kai Sprenger is the leader of a project of the Institute for Regional History (IGL) at the University of Mainz researching the American occupation of the Rhineland following the end of the First World War. In cooperation with the government of Rhineland-Palatinate and the German Foreign Ministry's "Wunderbar Together" Program, the IGL has researched the long-term social and cultural impacts of this occupation on the region and on German-American relations.
The historical background of this relationship and of the post-World War I period have been all but forgotten among the people of both nations. The occupation began after the end of World War I and lasted until 1923, covering an area from Trier to Koblenz referred to as the American Zone of Occupation. These four years were politically and economically formative, and spurred a social and cultural exchange that introduced everything from jazz and baseball to donuts and Chinese cuisine.
Throughout the five years of occupation, many of the 250,000 American soldiers stationed in the Rhineland were forcibly quartered in the homes of private citizens, leading to the birth of several thousand "American children" - creating an entire generation with (often unknown) familial roots on both shores of the Atlantic. Dr. Sprenger and the IGL have curated a traveling exhibition, "Stars and Stripes Over the Rhine," covering these and many other aspects of the American occupation, which has visited institutions and museums in both the U.S. and Germany.
In addition, the IGL is engaged in an ongoing project to identify the descendants of many of these "Amerikanerkinder" and hopes to reconnect families who have been separated for close to a hundred years. Through its work, the IGL is uncovering and presenting this widely forgotten period in the shared historical experience of the U.S. and Germany, during which former enemies of war quickly grew to become close friends.
Registration and further information for Dr. Sprenger's talk can be found here: https://gai-mn.org/Making-of-Stars-and-Stripes

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package com.example.glass.gallerysample;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import com.example.glass.ui.GlassGestureDetector;
import com.example.glass.ui.GlassGestureDetector.Gesture;
import com.example.glass.ui.GlassGestureDetector.OnGestureListener;

/**
 * Base activity which provides:
 *

 *
gestures detection by {@link GlassGestureDetector}

 *
reaction for {@link Gesture#SWIPE_DOWN} gesture as finishing current activity

 *
hiding system UI

 *

 */
public abstract class BaseActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements OnGestureListener {

  private View decorView;
  private GlassGestureDetector glassGestureDetector;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    if (getSupportActionBar() != null) {
      getSupportActionBar().hide();
    }
    decorView = getWindow().getDecorView();
    decorView
        .setOnSystemUiVisibilityChangeListener(new View.OnSystemUiVisibilityChangeListener() {
          @Override
          public void onSystemUiVisibilityChange(int visibility) {
            if ((visibility & View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN) == 0) {
              hideSystemUI();
            }
          }
        });
    glassGestureDetector = new GlassGestureDetector(this, this);
  }

  /**
   * Sets new {@link OnGestureListener} on the {@link GlassGestureDetector} object.
   */
  public void setOnGestureListener(OnGestureListener onGestureListener) {
    glassGestureDetector = new GlassGestureDetector(this, onGestureListener);
  }

  @Override
  protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    hideSystemUI();
  }

  @Override
  public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    if (glassGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(ev)) {
      return true;
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean onGesture(Gesture gesture) {
    switch (gesture) {
      case SWIPE_DOWN:
        finish();
        return true;
      default:
        return false;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Helper method for the {@link Fragment} replacement in the container. Depends on the given flag,
   * fragment can be added to the back stack.
   */
  public void replaceFragment(Fragment fragment, boolean addToBackStack) {
    final FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
    fragmentTransaction.replace(R.id.container, fragment);
    if (addToBackStack) {
      fragmentTransaction.addToBackStack(fragment.toString());
    }
    fragmentTransaction.commit();
  }

  /**
   * Pops the back stack on the fragment manager.
   */
  public void popBackStack() {
    getSupportFragmentManager().popBackStack();
  }

  private void hideSystemUI() {
    decorView.setSystemUiVisibility(
        View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
  }
}

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Most African Americans are descendants of captive Africans held in the United States from 1619 to 1865.


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BHP doubles down on oil and gas
Angela Macdonald-SmithSenior resources writer
Nov 11, 2019 – 7.25pm
BHP has laid out its plans to capitalise on the last few decades of the petroleum economy and lift spending in oil and gas, promising to deliver returns that have consistently outperformed the rest of the diversified mining portfolio.
Petroleum boss Geraldine Slattery said oil would remain "attractive for decades" even as the transport sector moved to electrify, while "advantaged gas" assets could also offer robust returns throughout the commodity cycle.
Ms Slattery said BHP's oil and gas production, which has dived sharply with the sale of the ill-fated US shale investment, would grow from an average of about 110 million barrels of oil equivalent over the next few years towards 170 million boe by 2026-27, depending on new projects that have not yet got the go-ahead.
BHP has outlined ambitious targets for its oil and gas division. James Davies
New projects such as the Wildling oil project in the Gulf of Mexico, the promising Trion oil venture in Mexico and the large Trinidad & Tobago North gas project would replace declining legacy production at the Bass Strait and North West Shelf in Australia.
"In a decarbonising world, deepwater oil and advantaged gas close to established infrastructure can offer competitive returns for decades to come," Ms Slattery told investors at a briefing in Sydney.
BHP said that while in the low-case scenario global oil demand could peak in 2025, that peak came 10 years later in its base case, and up to 20 years later in the highest case. LNG, meanwhile, is likely to be the fastest growing fossil fuel type, with demand doubling by 2035.
But the project line-up will require heavier investment, with Ms Slattery signalling that exploration and capital expenditure in the business could rise to about $US2.5 billion a year in the three years to fiscal 2022, then to about $US4 billion a year for the following three years as several projects near fruition.
The outlook caused JPMorgan analyst Lyndon Fagan to openly question whether the business is "living within its means" and whether perhaps BHP was at risk of falling into the same trap as with US shale, making heavy investments for positive cash flow that he said looked likely only several years into the future.
But RBC Capital Markets, which last month upgraded its call on BHP shares to ''outperform'' from ''sector perform'', was encouraged by the briefing, describing the long-term outlook for growth in petroleum as "robust".
"As the mining sector struggles with peak iron ore as a longer term theme, which reduces growth opportunities in what is the largest sector revenue driver, we think increased expectations of high-quality growth coming in Petroleum should help to differentiate BHP vs peers," the analysts said.
Ms Slattery said the business could generate robust margins on EBITDA of more than 60 per cent, and an average return on capital employed (ROCE) of more than 15 per cent over the next decade. While the average ROCE is put at 12 per cent out to 2023-24, it is expected to rise to about 20 per cent in the latter half of the decade.
EBITDA margins from the business have averaged over 65 per cent over the past five years, the highest in the group, with average ROCE of about 15 per cent over that period.
Ms Slattery was also grilled over BHP's inclusion of the Woodside Petroleum-led $16 billion Scarborough gas project as one of its key growth opportunities amid doubts among investors that the development can meet returns she cited for new oil and gas projects of 20 to 45 per cent.
Several analysts including UBS's Glyn Lawcock and MST Marquee's Mark Samter quizzed her on how the project, which many in the market calculate have marginal returns of little over 12 per cent, can stack up.
BHP is still hammering out a deal with Woodside on the charges that the Scarborough partners would pay for having their gas processed through an expansion of Woodside's Pluto LNG plant near Karratha and considering increasing its stake in the field to 35 per cent from 25 per cent.
"It comes back to getting the most out of our overall resource base," Ms Slattery said of the plans for Scarborough, confirming the newly enlarged field could also supply the North West Shelf LNG venture, where BHP also has a stake.
"Rest assured that the tolling that we are currently negotiating through Pluto is commensurate with risks and value proposition from Scarborough," she said adding that a final investment would be "fully tested" at a group level.
Ms Slattery also pointed to the potential for first production from the Trion project in 2024-25, targeting breakeven at below $US50 a barrel, and said BHP was on the hunt for other investments in Mexico.
In Australia, BHP said it would "manage the portfolio for value" and "recognise optimal exit windows", apparently confirming it could follow partner ExxonMobil and look to sell out of its Bass Strait operations.
Ms Slattery pointed to "limited material upside potential" at the Bass Strait operations beyond the mid to late 2020s.
BHP also noted that its exploration work has added about 800 million boe of resources since fiscal 2017 and put the unrisked value of its exploration at $US14 billion ($20.4 billion).
Growth projects and exploration have the potential to increase the value of the portfolio by 80 per cent, it said.
Angela Macdonald-Smith writes on the resources industry with a focus on energy, including gas, oil, electricity and renewables. Connect with Angela on Twitter. Email Angela at amacdonald-smith@afr.com
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Population Genetics of Vibrio Cholerae from Nepal in 2010: Evidence on the Origin of the Haitian Outbreak
Rene S. Hendriksen, Lance B. Price, James M. Schupp, et al.
Cholera continues to be an important cause of human infections, and outbreaks are often observed after natural disasters, such as the one following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Once the cholera outbreak was confirmed, rumors spread that the disease was brought to Haiti by a battalion of Nepalese soldiers serving as United Nations peacekeepers. This possible connection has never been confirmed. We used whole-genome sequence typing (WGST), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and antimicrobial susceptibility testing to characterize 24 recent Vibrio cholerae isolates from Nepal and evaluate the suggested epidemiological link with the Haitian outbreak. The isolates were obtained from 30 July to 1 November 2010 from five different districts in Nepal. We compared the 24 genomes to 10 previously sequenced V. cholerae isolates, including 3 from the Haitian outbreak (began July 2010). Antimicrobial susceptibility and PFGE patterns were consistent with an epidemiological link between the isolates from Nepal and Haiti. WGST showed that all 24 V. cholerae isolates from Nepal belonged to a single monophyletic group that also contained isolates from Bangladesh and Haiti. The Nepalese isolates were divided into four closely related clusters. One cluster contained three Nepalese isolates and three Haitian isolates that were almost identical, with only 1- or 2-bp differences. Results in this study are consistent with Nepal as the origin of the Haitian outbreak. This highlights how rapidly infectious diseases might be transmitted globally through international travel and how public health officials need advanced molecular tools along with standard epidemiological analyses to quickly determine the sources of outbreaks.
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China's Rover Finds Layer of Dust Almost 12 Metres Deep on The Far Side of The Moon
MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN, BUSINESS INSIDER
The first rover ever to visit the far side of the Moon has discovered a layer of lunar dust up to 12 meters (39 feet) deep.
The rover and its lander, which sits in the Moon's Von Kármán crater, are part of China's Chang'e 4 mission. Their landing there on 3 January 2019 marked the first time any spacecraft had ever visited the far side of the Moon without crashing.
The rover measured the Moon's surface dust with radar for the first time, and researchers from China and Italy described the results in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
Lunar dust, also called regolith, is a talc-like substance of pulverised rock and dust that settled after asteroids bombarded the moon's surface billions of years ago. The Chang'e 4 findings confirm that this dust also coats the far side of the Moon, in a layer that the scientists described as "quite thick".
"This work shows that the extensive use of the [Chang'e 4 radar] could greatly improve our understanding of the history of lunar impact and volcanism and could shed new light on the comprehension of the geological evolution of the moon's far side," the study authors wrote.
That understanding will be key for future missions to the Moon. Lunar dust can cloud a spacecraft's instruments as it approaches the Moon's surface, raising the risk of failure.
Regolith has caused problems before
Peggy Whitson, an astronaut who lived in space for a total of 665 days, previously told Business Insider that the Apollo missions "had a lot of problems with dust."
"If we're going to spend long durations and build permanent habitats, we have to figure out how to handle that," Whitson said.
Brian O'Brien, a physicist who designed the regolith-measuring device that accompanied the Apollo 11 astronauts, told Wired that he suspects dust interfered with a seismometer and blocked solar cells on that mission.
Regolith measurements across the moon's surface could help future spacecraft avoid those problems.
"Some of the new engine types and the thrust levels that we will have – we really don't understand how it will stir up the different kinds of regolith in different locations on the moon," Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo, an aerospace engineer working on NASA's robotic moon missions, told The Atlantic in September.
Below the 12 metres (39 feet) of fine dust, the Chang'e 4 rover also found a layer of coarse material full of rocks, followed by alternating layers of coarse and fine substances up to 40 meters (131 feet) deep.
Though China has not shared a specific timeline for the rest of the mission, the robots' goals on the moon's far side are to take photos of the barren landscape, study lunar geology, look for water ice, and scan the night sky for radio bursts.
This article was originally published by Business Insider.
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Q: Memory leak in TensorFlow upon starting new epoch I'm working on a training script in TensorFlow to classify two different types of images. Here is the class that creates a data set object, which is used to generate batches and increment epochs. It works fine until the first epoch is completed. It then fails at the line self._images = self._images[perm] within the next_batch method. This doesn't make sense to me, since Python shouldn't be duplicating self._images--only reshuffling the data.
class DataSet(object):
  def __init__(self, images, labels, norm=True):
    assert images.shape[0] == labels.shape[0], (
      "images.shape: %s labels.shape: %s" % (images.shape,
                                         labels.shape))
    self._num_examples = images.shape[0]
    self._images = images
    self._labels = labels
    self._epochs_completed = 0
    self._index_in_epoch = 0
    self._norm = norm
    # Shuffle the data right away
    perm = np.arange(self._num_examples)
    np.random.shuffle(perm)
    self._images = self._images[perm]
    self._labels = self._labels[perm]
  @property
  def images(self):
    return self._images
  @property
  def labels(self):
    return self._labels
  @property
  def num_examples(self):
    return self._num_examples
  @property
  def epochs_completed(self):
    return self._epochs_completed
  def next_batch(self, batch_size):
    """Return the next `batch_size` examples from this data set."""
    start = self._index_in_epoch
    self._index_in_epoch += batch_size
    if self._index_in_epoch > self._num_examples:
      # Finished epoch
      self._epochs_completed += 1
      print("Completed epoch %d.\n"%self._epochs_completed)
      # Shuffle the data
      perm = np.arange(self._num_examples)
      np.random.shuffle(perm)
      self._images = self._images[perm] # this is where OOM happens
      self._labels = self._labels[perm]
      # Start next epoch

Memory usage does not increase during ordinary training cycles. Here is the portion of training code. data_train_norm is a DataSet object.
batch_size = 300
csv_plot = open("csvs/train_plot.csv","a")
for i in range(3000):
    batch = data_train_norm.next_batch(batch_size)
    if i%50 == 0:
            tce = cross_entropy.eval(feed_dict={x:batch[0],y_:batch[1],keep_prob:1.0},session=sess)
            print("\nstep %d, train ce %g"%(i,tce))
            print datetime.datetime.now()
            csv_plot.write("%d, %g\n"%(i,tce))

    train_step.run(feed_dict={x:batch[0],y_:batch[1],keep_prob:0.8},session=sess)

version = 1
saver.save(sess,'nets/cnn0nu_batch_gpu_roi_v%02d'%version)
csv_plot.close()

A: This is likely to be because of this piece of code where you add a new next_batch operation to the graph
for i in range(3000):
    batch = data_train_norm.next_batch(batch_size)

The method data_train_norm.next_batch create a new TensorFlow operation, so you should call it only once and use the operation created (hold in batch). Have a look to the examples in the doc, e.g.:
dataset = tf.contrib.data.Dataset.range(100)
iterator = dataset.make_one_shot_iterator()
next_element = iterator.get_next()

for i in range(100):
  value = sess.run(next_element)
  assert i == value

Also, when debugging TensorFlow memory leak, you can use sess.graph.finalize()

A: Are you using : dataset = dataset.shuffle(buffer_size)?
Try reducing the buffer_size. This worked for me

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Noble Car Models List
Noble Automotive Limited, or more popularly known as Noble, is a sports car manufacturer from Great Britain. It was founded by Lee Noble in 1999 in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The company is made to produce high-speed sports cars with a rear-wheel drive layout and a rear-mid-engine. The owner and the chief designer of the company is also Lee Noble.
Although, he sold the company in the August of 2006 and eventually resigned in 2008, announcing a new company he went in, the Fenix Automotive just a year after. By then, the company moved to a larger plant in the Meridian Business Park.
Related Other UK Car Brand Rolls Royce
Since then, Noble has lessened its production and introduced only a handful of vehicles under their marquee, the M12 GTO-3, M12 GTO-3R, M12 GTO, and the Noble M400. THE M400 and the M12 GTO-3R both have the same body and chassis and only a very slight different on their suspensions and their engines.
The chassis and body that Noble uses are created by Hi-Tech Automotive based in Port Elizabeth in South Africa together with Superperformance cars. Once the body cover is already crafted, they are being transferred to the manufacturing plant of Noble, where all the transmissions and engines are installed in.
Noble introduced the M600 in 2009. The M600 is a car that took the company into the hyper-car category. This Ferrari/Porsche killer fires a whopping 650BHP from its 4.4-litre Yamaha twin turbocharged engine, all wrapped up by a light-weight carbon fiber body and chassis. The M600 was delivered to its buyers in 2010 with the price of 200,000 Great Britain Pounds or 300,000 Euros.
Image source: wikipedia.org
When it comes to its other cars, the Noble GTO-3R and the M400 were imported to the United States of America in only 220 units. They are also the only Noble vehicles available to the US markets.
The M600 was first tested in public and was then compared to the Ferrari Enzo and the Porsche Carrera GT. The said car was also featured in Top Gear, a famous vehicle media, to where Jeremy Clarkson gave his complaints about the lacking of several features but expressed his amazement on the speed and power of the killing machine.
Full List of Noble Car Models
Noble M15
By robad0b (Flickr User) – https://www.flickr.com/photos/robadob/196001746/in/photostream/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8812196
Get that amazing supercar experience in the Noble M15. An English creation, this sports car was made for a different sort of market – for the common people!
Looking like a supercar but driven by the masses. Such a concept! But don't let that idea fool you. The Noble M15, compared to previous models from the manufacturer, offers enhanced comfort and control, with the additional benefit of still retaining the speed and power that the brand is known for!
Additionally, safety is prioritized in this car. With a lightweight but tough body, this is one fast and strong vehicle that is a delight to drive!
More About Noble M15 on Wikipedia
The Noble M14 is a concept car designed and created by Noble Automotive, a British automaker. It was first introduced at the British Motorshow in 2004. This prototype has a 400 bhp engine with tin turbochargers and six-speed manual transmissions. It was not released in the market and was only a feature on Noble's lineup.
Noble M400
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This one day course is packed with tips and advice on how to correctly operate a digital camera and shoot a good-looking video. You will learn the principles of videography and how to explore and control the basic tenets of video exposure: aperture, shutter speed and sensitivity.
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Hi Peeps..hope you are having a good weekend. We have a long weekend here coinciding with hubby's bday..
I chose the easiest category - kids recipes. Though the category is easy but it is no easy task to feed a fussy eater..I am the witness to that..sometimes feel so sad and sometimes at my nerve's end. Sometimes when the little one displays a clean plate..then I feel like I have won an Olympic gold medal! I am sure this would be the case for most mum's out there.
In one such pursuit of happiness, this is my humble attempt to entice my princess to gobble the beautiful Hawaiian lady!
I made the face with the green moong sprout batter. The hair using lettuce. It has a big flower bow made of chilla. The eyes using carrot and cherry. Mouth made of carrot. The little one was excited to see what mumma was doing, had a go at the chilla..but there is a long way to go before I sleep!
Grind sprouts, green chilli, curry leaves, ginger, garlic and coriander leaves into smooth paste.
Add besan and mix well.Add salt, turmeric and water to make smooth batter.
Heat nonstick pan and grease with some oil. Take a portion of the batter (abt 1/2 cup).
Put in the pan making a round chilla. Put some oil around the chilla.When one side is almost brown and gets easily removed from the pan, turn over the other side.
Welcome to the BM..that's so creative and I hope your lil one liked it..I wish my kids would eat these veggies too..or maybe I got to be creative as you are..:)..very nice snack..
Thanks srivalli..I have always looked up to stalwarts like you for my cooking experiments. .getting such a lovely compliment from you feels great ! I little one loves to eat veggies. .no fruits. ..
Welcome to the BM. This is a great creative start! Looking forward to the rest of this series.
welcome to Bm dear :) thats a cute hawaiian beauty :) and very healthy chilla there :) You are very creative !!
Wow, this chilla is damn cute, will definitely attracts the kids..Wat a wonderful way to feed healthy stuffs.
Welcome to the BM.Lavina this food craft is awesome. .very very creative. If I remember correctly you used to participate in ICR too..
Cute Chilla ... Looks yummy..
welcome to the group lavina!
Lovely presentation for first day.
Welcome to the BM family, Lavina. Very creative, attractive and healthy cheela! Thanks for sending it to the Kid's delight event.
This sounds good and healthy. Definitely going to try it.
What cute looking chilas. Awesome presentation.


With Valentine's Day right around the corner, there have been loads of cute DIYs popping up all over the blogosphere, but these six were my favorites from the past week, full of color and sweetness. I hope they inspire you toward a crafty weekend!
I love them all... Brillant/charming ideas!


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Official: Puma Announces Long-Term Olympique Marseille Kit Deal
Confirming the earlier rumors, Puma today announced that it will succeed Adidas at the Stade Velodrome and will kit out Olympique Marseille starting in the 2018-19 season.
Puma Confirms Olympique Marseille Kit Deal
Puma will release its first Olympique Marseille jerseys in July 2018.
Adidas will leave the Southern French club after what seems like an eternity due to disagreements over the value of a future deal and especially the merchandising and management of club stores. With the Puma deal, these stores will go back to being managed by Olympique Marseille.
No further details on the duration or financial value of the Olympique Marseille Puma kit deal have been announced, but it was rumored to be worth around €15 million per season prior to the announcement.
Bjoern Gulden, Chief Executive Officer for Puma said : "We are very proud to become the partner of Olympique de Marseille. The club has a great tradition, great attitude, they play a fast and fun style of football, they have the best fans and the new owners have great ambitions and plans for the future. We think this is a great fit for PUMA and are really looking forward to this partnership."
Jacques-Henri Eyraud, President at Olympique Marseille said: "OM will be the most important sports club for Puma in France and we have been very impressed by the will of its managers to actively support us on an international scale. It is a tremendous show of confidence for our 'OM Champion Project'. This contract will provide us significant annual incomes required to allow us to achieve our sports objectives. It is the most important commercial contract in the history of the club."
Are you happy to see OM join forces with Puma? Drop us a line below, and check out the Kit Overview for all leaked jerseys for the 17-18 season.


With reviews as bad as they were, I'm surprised the film did so well at the box office during opening weekend (though right now it's down to third place and dropping fast). I wonder if audiences were just looking for pure escapism rather than anything intelligent or meaningful. Perhaps these are the same audiences who enjoyed Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.


Some details and our best guesses on the upcoming Force Awakens Power Discs in Disney Infinity 3.0 Star Wars.
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According to Padampurana, Gautam Rishi's wife Ahilya was very beautiful. Once the Dev Indra was roaming around nearby the place she lived with her husband. He then saw Ahilya and got attracted. One day in the absence of Gautam Rishi, Indra came at their place pretending him as Gautam Rishi through magic. Ahilya loved his husband a lot. Indra who was turned into Gautam Rishi through magic took the benefit of his absence and made physical relations with Ahilya. When they were getting intimate, the real Gautam Rishi stepped in and after seeing his wife in an objectionable position with another person, Gautam Rishi irked. He gave a curse to Ahilya and converted her into a rock. Ahilya was very loyal to her husband but as Indra betrayed her she had to face the severe punishment for the thing she never committed. This is the reason she is considered as a virgin.
In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Tara is the Queen of Kishkindha and wife of the monkey (vanara) King Vali. After being widowed, she becomes the Queen of Sugriva, Vali's brother. She was a nymph who rises from the churning of the milky ocean. After Vali is presumed dead in a battle with a demon, his brother Sugriva becomes king and appropriates Tara; however, Vali returns and regains Tara and exiles his brother, accusing him of treachery. When Sugriva challenges Vali to a duel, Tara wisely advises Vali not to accept because of the former's alliance with Rama. Vali thought that Tara is supporting Sugriv so he abandoned her. He fought with Sugriv and killed by Sri Rama. His last words Sugriv were to follow what Tara says. She always wanted good for his husband even after he abandoned her.
Mandodri was beautiful as well as intelligent. After getting attracted by her beauty, Ravana married her. The Ramayana describes Mandodari as beautiful, pious, and righteous. She is extolled as one of the Panchakanya("Five Girls"), the recital of whose names is believed to dispel sin.
In Mahabharata, she was very beautiful and intelligent. She is often regarded as one of the protagonists of the Mahabharata. Kunti had 6 sons – 5 Pandavas including Karan. None of these sons were her biological sons. Kunti used the boons given to her by Sage Durvasa to bear 4 sons— Karana (by Sun), Yudhishthira (by Yama), Bhima (by Vayu), and Arjuna (by Indra). Nakula and Sahadeva (by Ashvins – through Madri).
Draupadi is considered as one of the Panch-Kanyas or Five Virgins. is one of the most important female characters in the Hindu epic, Mahabharata. Draupadi symbolizes binding of the five chakras in a human body? She is thus referred as Kula kundalini, which resides in the spinal cord of the humans. She has five husbands. She was actually married to Arjuna but due to a misunderstanding of words said by Kunti, she became a wife of 5 brothers. She sacrificed her own desires in order to keep the bond strong between 5 brothers. Draupadi was born from fire.


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package armautomation_test

import (
	"context"
	"log"

	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity"
	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/automation/armautomation"
)

// Generated from example definition: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/automation/resource-manager/Microsoft.Automation/preview/2020-01-13-preview/examples/listFieldsByModuleAndType.json
func ExampleFieldsClient_NewListByTypePager() {
	cred, err := azidentity.NewDefaultAzureCredential(nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to obtain a credential: %v", err)
	}
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := armautomation.NewFieldsClient("subid", cred, nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to create client: %v", err)
	}
	pager := client.NewListByTypePager("rg",
		"MyAutomationAccount",
		"MyModule",
		"MyCustomType",
		nil)
	for pager.More() {
		nextResult, err := pager.NextPage(ctx)
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatalf("failed to advance page: %v", err)
		}
		for _, v := range nextResult.Value {
			// TODO: use page item
			_ = v
		}
	}
}


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Q: TeamCity's git checkout different from local git checkout I'm having a problem with TeamCity (8.1) running on a Windows box and one of our git repositories.
Few files (2 out of 1000s - *.bytes extension, binary) have larger sizes on TeamCity checkout then on developer machines. If I turn off "Convert line-endings to CRLF" sizes for those files are the same, but then rest of the project does not build properly + developer machines do have core.autocrlf=true.
I have also tried setting *.bytes as binary in .gitattributes but this looks like it is being ignored by TeamCity (?).
Does anyone know of a way to get this to work?
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Enemy's Enemy
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Peter Haber (Beck) stars as Swedish super-spy Carl Hamilton in this eight-part series based on the novel by international best-selling author Jan Guillou.
Season 1 Sort by… Alphabetical Release date
Enemy's Enemy: Episode 01 (Sn1 Ep 1)
Two Russian agents are discovered inside Sweden's intelligence services, and Commander Carl Hamilton is suspected of being a mole. Directed by Mats Arehn, 1990.
Enemy's Enemy: Episode 02 (Sn 1 Ep 2)
Hamilton is put under house arrest, but the Foreign Ministry may unwittingly provide him a means of escape. Directed by Mats Arehn, 1990.
Hamilton travels from Syria to Lebanon in his quest to find and rescue two kidnapped Swedish doctors. Directed by Jon Lindström, 1990.
Taken into custody upon his return to Sweden, Hamilton must find a way to disprove Tristan's claims. Directed by Mats Arehn, 1990.
Hamilton is sent to Moscow on a deadly mission. Directed by Jon Lindström, 1990.
Hamilton races to find Sandström before his cover is blown. Directed by Jon Lindström, 1990.
Hamilton returns to Sweden, but a greater enemy lurks in the shadows. Directed by Mats Arehn, 1990.
Hamilton and Chivartsev hatch a plan to defeat their common enemy. Directed by Jon Lindström, 1990.


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We are selecting 3 students per domain who want to pursue their career in respective domains (Fashion Designing, Interior Designing, Jewellery Designing, Event Management, Animation and Finance & Account).
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Students need to fill up the form then student will get the detailed information from our end in their email id provided by them in the filled up form and the rules for the scholarship will also be provided in the same email. Then they need to visit our campus for the "Meri Pehchaan Test" organized by Times and Trends Academy. The shortlisted students will receive 30%-100% on their tuition fees no matter in which institute they are taking admission in.


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NephMadness 2014: Kidney Stones Bracket
Posted on March 16, 2014 by AJKDblog in NephMadness // 0 Comments
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Trying to choose the winner of this bracket is like finding yourself between a rock and a hard place! So many strong teams that precipitate intense emotions from the fans. This bracket sports the sensational matchup in the first round of two stone legends: Pak vs Coe, the Bird vs Magic rivals of nephrolithiasis. In addition, the controversial role of internists vs surgeons in treating stone disease will crystallize in an exciting first round game. Fans will find that it is going to be a painful, colicky passage through each round eliminating quality opponents until the champion is either passed spontaneously, dissolved or basketed.
Selection committee member for the Kidney Stones Bracket:
David S. Goldfarb, MD
Professor, Chief of Nephrology at NY Harbor VA Medical Center
Clinical Chief of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and Neuroscience and Physiology,
New York University Langone Medical Center
Dr. Goldfarb is the Chief of Nephrology at the New York Harbor VA Medical Center and the Clinical Chief of Nephrology at the New York University Langone Medical Center. He has a long-standing interest in kidney stone pathophysiology. His group established a registry of patients with cystinuria. The goal of this registry is to follow patients with cystinuria and learn more about the course of this disorder. He also is involved in new drug development for the treatment of cystinuria. The consortium also studies Dent disease, primary hyperoxaluria and APRT deficiency (a cause of dihydroxyadenine stones). Dr. Goldfarb is the associate editor of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) and the founding editor of CJASN's eJournal Club.
Meet the competitors for the Kidney Stones Bracket!
(8) Medical Care versus (1) Surgical Care of Acute Stones
(8) Medical Care of Acute Stones
This may or may not be Preminger's research team
Photo by Adam Glanzman (CC2.0)
Medical therapy for acute kidney stones is Tommy Amaker's Harvard basketball team, a group of scrappy players that just may be giant slayers. Patients with acute nephrolithiasis often are referred to the ER or urology. Some would argue that the nephrologist really has no role in the management of acute stones but should just stay on the sidelines until the acute process has run its course and then focus on preventing the next stone. Medical expulsive therapy run 180 degrees from that view. MET allows nephrologists to stay in the game with an acute stone and provide evidence-based and compassionate care to patients during an acute stone episode.
One of the foundations for medical therapy has been inducing a brisk diuresis with IVF fluids. However in 2006 Preminger's crew at Duke randomized patients with acute nephrolithiasis to maintenance fluids or 2 liters of normal saline. The result? No difference in pain, need for surgical removal, or AKI. Their results were confirmed by a subsequent Cochrane review.
One of the primary concerns of MET is pain control. Opioids and NSAIDs both can be used. In a single center RCT, the combination of ketorolac and morphine was better than either drug alone. NSAIDs may have an additional benefit by reducing ureteral edema than can impede stone expulsion.
Additional agents include alpha blockers (tamulosin, doxazosin) and calcium channel blockers (typically nifedipine) which are both effective at increasing the success and reducing the time until the stone is cleared. In a meta-analysis of 9 studies (693 patients) use of these drugs had a number-needed-to-treat of only 4 to get an additional stone expulsive. In addition, steroids may have a role, either alone, or more commonly in conjunction with one of the above agents. The steroids, may have act just like to NSAIDs to reduce the edema and ease stone passage.
(1) Surgical Care for Acute Stones
Surgical care rides in to the Tournament with a Number 1 seed because when it comes to stones they can handle all comers. While medical expulsive therapy (MET) has the potential to reduce costs and avoid instrumentation it has many cases where it is contraindicated. No MET with hydronephrosis. Any hint of pyelonephritis? No MET for you. No MET with stones greater than 10 mm. ARF? Skip the MET. Pain unable to be controlled with elephantine-dose of morphine? Call the surgeons. Stone not moving weeks after diagnosis let introduce you to my little friend:
All of those contraindications to medical therapy melt away when the surgeon comes to play.
Two procedures are generally used for acute stone management: extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) and endoscopic retrieval with ureteroscopy. A meta analysis of 1200 patients showed superior stone free rate with the scope and a second meta analysis looking at cost effectiveness concurred that ureteroscopy was more effective and tended to be cheaper than SWL. What is shocking was just how expensive these therapies. The price from the three American studies:
Data from Matlaga et al.
One of the factors that drove the price of SWL up was the relatively high rate of retreatment due to failure, 21% in SWL versus 3% with a ureteroscope. In addition to price, ureteroscopy is better in obese patients where SWL is less effective and in patients with bleeding risk due to the risk of liver or spleen bleeding with SWL.
(6) Xanthine oxidase inhibitors versus (3) The CT Scan
(6) Xanthine oxidase inhibitors
The xanthine oxidase inhibitors (XOI) have had an up-and-down season. They have had some big wins and then they stumble against some unranked basement dweller, think UNC (beat Duke, Louisville, Kentucky, lost to Belmont, Miami and Wake Forest). It'll be interesting if they can pull it all together in the tournament and make a run.
XOIs won the big dance in 1986 when Bruce Ettinger showed that if patients with a history of calcium stones and hyperuricosuria received 300 mg of allopurinol daily, they had less stone recurrence than with placebo.
One of the concerns with allopurinol is interstitial nephritis and some have reported increased risk with concurrent use of thiazide diuretics. Given the common role of thiazides in stone disease, this may hold back use of allopurinol. Additionally many patients get under dosed. The maximum dose of allopurinol is 800 mg daily; however, many patients with CKD never get over the starting dose of 100 mg daily.
Another setback to xanthine oxidase inhibitors was Curhan's epidemiologic work that showed that, contrary to expectations, increased urinary uric acid decreased stone risk rather than increase it. This result opens the door to the possibility that the reduction in stone recurrence seen with allopurinol in Ettinger's study was due not to allopuriniol's xanthine oxidase inhibition but some other pleiotropic effect.
That becomes more important now that there is a second xanthine oxidase inhibitor, febuxostat. Febuxostat is metabolized in the liver so it may be safer in renal failure. In a 2013 study, febuxostat was more effective at lowering urine uric acid than placebo or allopurinol (though allopurinol was hobbled at only 300 mg daily versus febuxostat, which was turned to eleven, at 80 mg per day). The study was only 6 months long and was unable to show a change in stone recurrence or existing stone size. Longer follow up is needed to show that drops in urine uric acid translates to stone recurrence.
(3) CT Scans
The CT Scan is rolling into the tournament like Syracuse. After a near perfect year they are stumbling, and stumbling hard at the finish. CT scans are the gold standard for assessing patients with renal colic. It is a near-perfect test with exemplary sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. This has resulted in an explosion of CT scans with 68 million CT scans a year done in the US (for a country of 320 million people that is 1 in 5 Americans getting a CT scan every year!). The hunt for kidney stones employ two of the most used CT scans, both an abdominal and a pelvic scan. Some feel that we are seeing a bump in national cancer rates from our love of radiology.
Ferrandino et al looked at radiation exposure in patients with an acute stone presentation at two academic centers. Patients received on average 4 radiologic examinations in the year following diagnosis:
1.2 kidney, ureter bladder x-ray (KUB)
1.7 abdominopelvic CT scans
1 intravenous pyelogram
This resulted in a mean of 29.7 mSv of radiation exposure. Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki received an average of 40 mSv. The International Commission on Radiation Protection has set recommendations indicating that occupational exposure should not exceed 20 mSv per year during a 5-year period or 50 mSv in any single year. In Ferrandino's cohort, 20% of the patients exceeded the 50 mSv threshold. Fahmy et al got similar results. It is possible we are doing more harm than good with CT imaging of kidney stones.
We need to empower our patients to opt out of routine imaging of kidney stones. An important part of the care of recurrent stone formers is teaching them to refuse a CT scan when everyone knows the diagnosis. Combining ultrasound with a KUB, while not as sensitive or specific as a CT scan, does do a pretty good job of picking up clinically significant stones.
The most important advance is the development of low dose CT scan options for the diagnosis and characterization of kidney stones. Because calcium stones are high contrast targets, decreased radiation can be used without intolerable loss of quality. Ciaschini was able to reduce radiation by 50-75%, Poletti was able to use a low dose CT scanner with great success, but in patients with a BMI over 30 sensitivity, fell to 50% for the detection of ureteral stones.
Radiology is allowing us to reliably and quickly diagnose kidney stones; however, this comes at a price that may be too high for our patients. Thoughtful consideration can dramatically lower radiation exposure.
(5) Dr. Charlie Pak versus (4) Dr. Fred Coe
Bob Knight with, then player, Mike Krzyzewski. Photo credit: Wikipedia.
Charlie Pak and Fred Coe are the Bob Knight and Dean Smith of kidney stones. Not only did they dominate the field and do the pioneering work establishing the fundamental discoveries of the field, but they also trained the next generation of stone scientists that are currently leading the field.
To this day the centers where Pak and Coe worked are world leaders in the field. In a plot twist, that would most likely happen in a comic book origin story, they were classmates at the University of Chicago Medical School, class of '61, and then were residents together at U of C.
Dr. Coe remained at University of Chicago but Pak went elsewhere to established the Clinical Research Center and a new Division in Mineral Metabolism at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
They even jointly won the Belding Scribner Award from the ASN in 2000.
The Belding H. Scriber Award is presented annually to one or more individuals who have made outstanding contributions that have a direct impact on the care of patients with renal disorders or have substantially changed the clinical practice of nephrology. Established in 1995, this award honors the physician who developed the arteriovenous shunt that first made long term hemodialysis for chronic renal failure possible.
Intellectually they have staked out differing areas of excellence, Dr. Coe has focused on the the importance of the earliest stones to be anchored to the kidney. The location for these tiny early stones is Randall's Plaques. The theory is that these tiny crystals form in the interstitium adjacent to the thin limb of the loop of Henle, they grow and eventually erode into the renal papilla. There, they are in contact with supersaturated urine which can deposit calcium oxalate (or other other types of stones?). The plaques can be seen on cystoscopy and their presence predicts stone formers. Stone formation correlates with the degree of plaque coverage.
Dr. Pak has performed much of the groundbreaking work on the classification of kidney stones and using that classification in defining the specific diagnosis and using that to provide specific therapy.
His work on the treatment of kidney stones established potassium citrate as the cornerstone of calcium stone treatment.
He established the categorization of hypercalciuria:
increased intestinal absorption
increased bone resorption
increased renal losses
However this classification of hypercalciuria is not in clinical use because:
treatment based on classification was never shown to lead to better outcomes
patients on low calcium intake continued to have negative calcium balance
patients with hyperabsorption had low BMD
thiazides appear to work regardless of the classification.
His classification may have applicability to research but it has not found a validated clinical role.
Following his success with potassium citrate, he was asked by the FDA to lead the team that established Thiola for cystine stones.
He also did pioneering work on the use of the 24-hour urine to categorize and track the treatment of kidney stones.
(2) Oxalobacter vs (7) Bariatric Surgery and the Risk of Stones
(2) Oxalobacter
Oxalobacter is Kentucky. It is a fresh new face in the world of stones and has the potential to rewrite our understanding of the field, but so far the results have been inconsistent leaving you with the feeling that this is more hype than revolution.
Oxalobacter formigenes are anaerobic gut bacteria that metabolize oxalate, the critical urinary metabolite in calcium oxalate stones. If you are colonized with these bacteria, you absorb less oxalate than someone with a similar diet who is not colonized with oxalobacter. People colonized with oxalobacter can plow through cans of spinach like Popeye on a bender and their urinary oxalate doesn't budge. Siener et al found a tight dose response, such that patients with stone recurrence are much less likely to be colonized with Oxalobacter and the relationship becomes tighter and tighter as the number of stone episodes rises. Unfortunately, attempts to seed stone formers with oxalobacter have not shown consistent benefit.
Regardless, if oxalobacter probiotics become the new Uro-citK, the appreciation of oxalobacter's role in nephrolithiasis opens up microbiome as an important player in the physiology of kidney stones. That is a game changer.
(7) Bariatric surgery
Bariatric surgery has been riding high since it destroyed Medical Therapy in 2012's unforgetable EndoMadness Finals. Both Roux-en-Y and gastric sleeve were way more effective at reducing glycated hemoglobin below 6% (42% Roux-en-Y, 37% gastric sleeve, 12% medical therapy). But the bariatric surgery team may be a bit out of place in NephMadness. Bariatric surgery finds itself in the stone region because it doubles the risk of kidney stones.
This is due to multiple factors such as decreased water intake, hypocitraturia and increased oxalate absorption. Interestingly, some believe that decreased oxalobacter colonization may be the cause of the increased oxalate in the urine. Not all weight loss surgeries are created equal and the Roux-en-Y is the primary culprit here. In one series of non stone formers who underwent Roux-en-Y, urinary oxalate went up by 50% while protective urinary citrate fell by more than half (358 mg v 767 mg/24 hours). Interestingly urinary calcium also fell after Roux-en-Y, negating some of the stone forming effects of the citrate and oxalate. In a study comparing Roux-en-Y to gastric banding, both procedures resulted in low urine volumes, but the gastric band did not have the decrease in citrate or increase in oxalate. Unfortunately, Roux-en-Y remains the most popular procedure, though it is falling in popularity at the expense of sleeve gastrectomy.
One of the most concerning aspects of this problem is the shadow of the jejunoileal bypass procedure. This procedure also has a high rate of kidney stones, upwards of 30%, but more concerning was the high rate that patients developed CKD following the bypass. Some cases of oxalate nephropathy resulting in ESRD have been reported after Roux-en-Y for weight loss.
– Written and Edited by Joel Topf and David Goldfarb
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Q: Monitor informix database change I'd like to generate test data for a web application we're developing. One approach I am thinking about is that if there is a way to monitor the database (we're using informix) when I add something via our web application and do a batch of operations, so that I can see what data are inserted during the operation time and thus can export these data as test data.
Any idea ?
Thanks.

A: There are various options, with varying degrees of plausibility.  One issue you'll have to worry about is deletes vs updates vs inserts; tracking inserts is easy, deletes hard.

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*CDC - Change Data Capture: this API allows you to track the changed data.

*ER - Enterprise Replication: you could set up a second server which tracks the changes made in the first.

*Log mining - extracting data from backups of the logical logs.

*Trigger-based change tracking - creating triggers on tables of interest to track changes.

*Audit-based change tracking - doesn't include the data that was changed, so probably least relevant.

Of these, CDC is probably the most comprehensive and best, but it has overhead to get it working (setup process - not runtime overhead; the latter is not significant).
The trigger-based tracking requires least intervention from programmers and system administrators; it is fiddly (rather than truly difficult) to set up.  Once you have a template for the first table, the other tables follow systematically; you just need to script something to create the correct triggers for each table you need to track.


Jan Peeck's Vine was inspired by the natural beauty surrounding Peekskill Station, recreating local indigenous bindweed plants as imaginative structures that morph from rigid girders into flowing, soaring leaves and flowers.
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The vines proceed from each side in a roughly symmetrical pattern, meeting over the stairs like a huge arbor welcoming visitors to a vast local garden. Elements of this sculpture are repeated in the two Peekskill monograms atop the elevator entrances and in railing inserts on the northbound platform. The vivid colors and repeating shapes provide a modern, stylized take on historic elements of the station and surrounding architecture. Symbolizing the flowering of the contemporary arts in this historic city, Jan Peeck's Vine welcomes commuters to their historic station. Joy Taylor's artwork was fabricated by KC Fabrications.


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Holiday crazies freeze butts around the world
JAKE ELLISON
Jan. 5, 2014 Updated: Oct. 12, 2020 12:07 p.m.
Craig Ruttle/APSwimmers jump into frigid waters at Coney Island beach in New York Wednesday, Jan. 1 2014, as they take part in the 111th Annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Plunge.
Christopher Gregory/getty ImagesPeople run into the water just off the Boardwalk January 1, 2014 at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Hundreds of people gathered for the annual New Year's Day Polar Bear swim in the ocean.
Jordan Stead/APGirls react to the frigid waters of Pontiac Bay during the 12th Annual Polar Bear Plunge Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, at Matthews Beach Park in Seattle, Wash. About 300 people participated in the first Polar Bear Plunge in 2003; since then, attendance has nearly reached 1,000 attendees.
Jordan Stead/AP Hundreds of brave souls charged into the frigid waters of Pontiac Bay during the 12th Annual Polar Bear Plunge Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, at Matthews Beach Park in Seattle, Wash. About 300 people participated in the first Polar Bear Plunge in 2003; since then, attendance has nearly reached 1,000 attendees.
Jeff J Mitchell/getty ImagesMembers of the public wearing fancy dress enter the water as they join around 1,000 New Year swimmers, many in costume, in front of the Forth Rail Bridge during the annual Loony Dook Swim in the River Forth on January 1, 2014 in South Queensferry, Scotland. An estimated eighty thousand people gathered last night in Edinburgh to see in the New Year at Hogmanay celebrations.


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Q: Column Extent1.Id does not exist in Mono with Entity Framework 6 and PostgreSQL I am trying to map to a PostgreSQL database with Entity Framework using the packages Npsql and Npsql.EntityFramework. I have a database with the following table:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Crops (
  Id            INT PRIMARY KEY     NOT NULL,
  Name          TEXT                NOT NULL,
  SowingMonths  INT
);

The Crop model looks as follows:
public class Crop
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public Month SowingMonths { get; set;} //Month is an enum
}

In the database context I map the schema to public since all tables are in the schema public by default in PostgreSQL.
protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
    modelBuilder.HasDefaultSchema("public");
}

Now when I open the view that tries to access Crops of the DbContext I get this message:

Npgsql.NpgsqlExceptionERROR: 42703: column Extent1.Id does not existDescription: HTTP 500.Error processing request.Details: Non-web exception. Exception origin (name of application or object): Npgsql.Exception stack trace:at Npgsql.NpgsqlState+d__0.MoveNext () [0x00000] in :0 at Npgsql.ForwardsOnlyDataReader.GetNextResponseObject (Boolean cleanup) [0x00000] in :0

The good news is the database can find the table now (it could not at first, but it can with the mapping to the public schema in the OnModelCreating method). However, it cannot find the column name Extend.Id.
Why it tries to look for Extend.Id is beyond me. We have defined the property on the Crops model as Id, why then does it look for Extend.Id? But considering this is the case, how can I get this to work? Can I just create a database table with a property Extend1.Id instead of Id? And if so, how do I do it?
Thank you!

A: I'm convinced that there is a typographical error somewhere in your code. The table "Id" simply does not exist. Capital letters maybe?


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Q: Does HTTPS also prevent middle man from tracking my browsing history apart from which domains I visited? I read this article which says github is being blocked in Russia because a single controversial page hosted on it can't be blocked because of HTTPS.
So I'm trying to determine if that implies that my local sys-admin can't keep track of my browsing history....
Though domains name would be visible to anyone in the middle, are the other parts of the requested URI encrypted, or can the ISP (or whomever is in the middle) see which folders/files on the domain I've requested (or are they encrypted)?

A: Your local sys-admin can track your browsing history if they can get you to install a certificate on your (or their machine) - in which case they can man-in-the-middle your connection.
If you have your own device and are sure they don't have a certificate, the best they can do is get a feel for what sites you are going to by looking at the IP address of the sites and the traffic profile (ie lots of traffic could imply downloading of videos), and IP addresses of big sites normally have reverse lookup.  They can also use DNS records to find the DNS you requested if you are using their DNS servers which is likely.
If the sysadmin does not have access to your machine to install the cert or local software, they can't use the network to see what page(ie folder) you are going to in the site as this is encrypted (This information is sent in the header of your request, which happens after SSL is negotiated).
Source:  I am a system administrator who handles sites with HTTPS and from time-to-time manually do HTTP / HTTPS requests to check corner cases.

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So my does it imply that even my local sys-admin can't keep track of
  my browsing history too?

No, not necessarily. A sysadmin can perform a man in the middle attack if they put a custom certificate on the client computer.
If you click on the lock icon in the address bar of a secure site at home, it will say who the certificate issuer is and what the private key is. If you perform the same action at work and it says the same information - you are probably safe. If it does not, that's a huge red flag that someone may be intercepting your traffic.
As you said, they do know what websites you are visiting because of DNS - just not what is being transferred.
EDIT: To clarify, because of dns they know what SERVERS you are visiting, but not the entire URI.


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Escape The Stresses Of City Life With The Off-Grid "Into The Wild" Cabin
by ÜBERWELL™ August 20, 2018
Slovakian architecture studio Ark Shelter has recently unveiled the latest iteration of its beautiful Ark Shelter—a tiny, self-sufficient unit that can be placed almost anywhere you please. Dubbed the "Into the Wild" cabin, their newest off-grid shelter typology embraces the outdoors from all sides with large walls of glass. Developed from three years of research and development, the Into the Wild cabin offers modern comforts with minimal landscape impact.
Prefabricated in a factory offsite, the Into the Wild cabin encompasses nearly 431 square feet of living space. To recede the tiny cabin into the landscape, the architects used black-stained spruce for the exterior cladding. In contrast, the interior is lined in light-colored spruce and fitted out with lacquered oak furnishings and surfaces with a beige finish. Ark Shelter custom-designed the table, dining table, couch and lamp while the drawing and conference table was sourced from Croatian manufacturer Prostoria.
Punctuated with glazing on all sides, the light-filled cabin features an open-plan living area, dining space and kitchen, as well as a bathroom, storage space and bedroom space with a concealed Jacuzzi beneath the bed. An extra module added to the top of the cabin creates space for an upper loft that can be used as a second bedroom. The cabin is equipped with solar panels, batteries and rainwater collection systems for off-grid living.
"The Shelter, with its low-tech outlook facade, is created so that it attempts to blend with nature, while refining its complex and sophisticated system that automatically works with space and light," wrote the architects. "Thanks to an automatic system the heating, cooling and shadings can be pre-programmed. The double bed goes up automatically in the ceiling and beneath the bed there is a hidden jacuzzi, creating a new relaxing area."
Source: inhabitat
by ÜBERWELL™ - Aug 20, 2018
ÜBERWELL™
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