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Doesn't quite roll off the tongue, does it? Thanksblogging. I suppose we could call it Blogsgiving, except that I'm thanking blogs rather than giving them, or even Thanksblogsgiving, but that's rather a mouthful.
Then again, isn't Thanksgiving all about mouthfuls? Big, delicious mouthfuls of glazed turkey, hot stuffing, cranberry sauce, salads, mashed potatoes with gravy, and pumpkin pie, and all the other sides and toppings your family likes to add on. Exactly what Abraham Lincoln intended for the holiday when he made it official, right?
Okay, perhaps that's not actually what it's about. Thanksgiving is about giving thanks to God for all the blessings He has given us.
And since this is a blog, I'm going to single out one post (or a series, if they are inextricably linked) from each of the blogs I read often that I am particularly thankful for. Note, of course, that each blog has many more posts of great worth and interest.
From Darren at them0vieblog, his series on James Bond. His in-depth analyses of every movie and Bond-actor has greatly increased my enjoyment of the Bond franchise, and has influenced me to accept the theory that the legendary name is an alias passed down to each new generation with the 007 status.
From the great wealth of good advice that Stephanie gives at BeKindRewrite, I find her discussions of an author's narrative voice in a given story to be more helpful than much else I've read on the topic.
From Jamie Helton at FilmVerse, his defense of 3D as a filmmaking tool is both optimistic and practical.
From M.Q. Allen, this informative post on the Middle Ages and what aspiring fantasy writers should know about it.
From jrlookingbill at Try-ing—to-be—mis-under-stood, the posts on George MacDonald's Lilithare especially good, although there are many that summarize and discuss the works of some of the great philosophers.
From the Episcopal priest at Dover Beach, I appreciate the insightful quotes he posts from insightful Christians throughout the ages, from Thomas á Kempis, to Professor Tolkien.
From aquisha at the Ridiculously Awesome Movie Adventure Blog, his review of Steven Spielberg's 1991 movie Hook.
From El Santo of The Webcomic Overlook, especially his review of Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, which introduced me to one of the prettiest and most entertaining webcomics I've found yet.
From my friend Jubilare, I'm thankful for so many of her posts, but the beginning of her upcoming series on the Free Peoples of Middle Earth is very good and thought-provoking.
From the sadly retired collaboration at the Picture Book Report, the illustrations for The Neverending Storyare particularly haunting and beautiful.
From authoress Nicola Slade at Nicola Slade's Winchester Mysteries, I found her recollection of The Eagle of the Ninthto be charming.
From Grimmella, I'm thankful for her thoughtful participation in The Hobbit Read-Along.
From Brenton Dickieson at A Pilgrim in Narnia, I'm grateful for many of his thoughts, such as his rundown of a collection of important and lesser-known essays by C.S. Lewis.
From Rob, The Old Book Junkie, there are some neat posts on G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. I particularly like his concise run-through of Chapter 4: The Ethics of Elfland.
Michael of Like Something More Than Mortal has a series examining superheroes that is well worth the time of anyone so interested.
From Novareylin at MySeryniti, her lists of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books in order of recommended reading and dates published will provide a useful guide once I finally dig into that series.
From Steve Betz of Stevil, this drabble, a hundred-word story, which challenges the way we look at those beggars on the street.
From David Mitchell at Morning at the Brown Brink, his contribution to Pages Unbound's Tolkien Week celebration on The Children of Húrin is a great summary of a series of posts he did for While We're Paused.
From Pages Unbound, I appreciate the comments on Tolkien's "Smith of Wooton Major," a story which shockingly I still haven't yet read.
From Mere Inkling, Rob's neat reflection on the power of Boromir's death in Fellowship of the Ring.
From Theologians, Inc., his comparison of Greek and Northern mythologies.
From Invisible Kingdoms, Karl Beech's exploration of the literary and poetic uses of the legend of Lyonesse, that ancient kingdom on a lost English peninsula that supposedly sank beneath the sea.
From Jenny's Sketchbook, her gorgeous drawing of my favorite couple from Tolkien's legendarium, Beren and Luthien.
From The King of Elfland's Second Cousin, Chris's recent ruminations on Structure and Perspective in Children's Stories and Films.
From Steven E. Golden, his discussion of the book From Homer to Harry Potter, which sounds like a fascinating discussion of what myth means, especially in relation to religious faith.
From The Egotist's Club, there is so much to make me thankful, but I remember now with fondness the gentle poem written by Melpomene's kid sister.
From The Bookwyrm's Lair, her examination of why she hated the death of a certain character in Harry Potter.
From With Eager Feet, this rumination on how Christ's humility completes and perfects what was missing in Aristotelian magnanimity.
From Humane Pursuits, this rumination on the individual's responsibilities to those in need.
From Aftran's YA Book Reviews, this review of Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet which has some good insights.
From Things My Children Said, this hilarious story of a 6 year-old painstakingly writing his letter to Santa. And also these photos of Doctor Who figurines, because they're hilarious.
From Emily at WanderLust, this rumination on Michael Phelps, humility, and the Olympics is quite good.
From Brian Melton at Passing Through the Shadowlands, this explanation of the dangers of moral debunkery.
From Ellipsis Omnibus, the review of Spurgeon's All of Graceis also a fine reflection on the beautiful heart of Christ's gospel of grace.
From Eric William Barnum: TragicHero, this spotlight on three creation stories by Tolkien, Lewis, and Richard Adams.
From Literary Legends Quests & Odysseys, this summary of the key ideas presented in each of The Chronicles of Narnia.
From Lantern Hollow Press, SO MUCH, but especially their very own Thanksgiving post from today! It cheerily celebrates the goodness of fellowship through feasting by way of Brian Jacques' Redwall books.
Speaking of Brian Jacques, you can't go wrong with the reviews of the entire Redwall series by Rose Red Prince.
From Jamie at The Tousled Apostle, her thoughts on how God can speak to us through music.
From Malcom Wilson at badonicus — a fantastic blog on the historical King Arthur which I should read far more than I actually do – I like his informative overview of the strong likelihood that an historical King Arthur was indeed Christian.
From CHILDREN OF ARTHUR, his list of legendary figures whom royals have sometimes claimed descendence from is quite interesting.
From The Fourth Person, his insightful reviews of Rosemary Sutcliff and his love for my own favorite book of hers, The Lantern Bearers.
You've all given so generously to me, that I do hope not only that I can give back in good kind, but that you may all benefit from each other. Happy reading, and God bless!
Previous Post Happy Hobbit Thanksgiving!
Brilliant idea. And I got you nothing! (of course, Thanksgiving was 5 weeks ago up here…) I hope you don't mind I stole some of your thanked-blogs.
Thanks again for including me! I'm thankful to be welcome in such a company of intelligent, thoughtful writers. May the year ahead include many interesting conversations!
I've no doubt they will, should we all continue to write about what we love.
Wow… so… much to look at!
I am thankful for you and your blog as well, David!
Thanks for the thanks-reminder. I'm happy to be numbered amongst such and pray that we are all the better for having engaged in writing. Blessed be He!
I believe we are, and also the better for reading good stuff and engaging with it.
Great post, and I appreciate my blog being included. I always enjoy reading your blog and finding great new books to read from it.
Glad to hear! Keep up the good work.
No problem! I appreciated it.
Wow, what an honor to be included in your list. And thank you for your blog. I couldn't even single out a post for which I am most thankful because I love so many of them.
Haha, or perhaps none of mine are distinctive enough to be recalled! +) Thanks for the compliment, though. I believe there's a great community here, and it'd only be enhanced if all the bloggers I listed interacted with each other.
Thanks for including me in this! These all look really interesting and such a wide variety. I'll have to check some of them out!
Do so! They're all good bloggers.
Oh dear oh dear. Look what you've done. Now I want to go around and read all of these and you know I don't have time for that. You did this just to torture me, didn't you?
I've already had a little pilgrimage through Brenton's blog and he alone has enough fascinating material to keep me occupied for hours. Garrr!
So I must grudgingly thank you for this list – quite ungrudgingly thank you for including me in it – and thank you in general for the reviews you write here. Even though I get touchy sometimes and call you too strict, I'm inclined to think you're right more often than I am. There's no where else I find reviews as good as yours.
I feel quite honored to be included here!
Thanks for having a good blog!
Also, it'll take me quite a while to read through all those other links. Woof.
You're welcome, of course, and thank you! For all your posts I've commented on, there are at least that many again that I read, was impressed by, but just couldn't find the time or the sufficient words to comment with.
I prefer to put the focus on other bloggers, but it's nice when I get feedback about what exactly people like in my posts, and which posts are really worth your time. And having such an excellent community here inspires me to improve my own writing at every opportunity.


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Hasbro GameLand – Springfield, Massachusetts
BY Todd Coopee November 21, 2021 Filed to: Places to Visit
Hasbro GameLand pays homage to local entrepreneur, Milton Bradley, from the first floor of the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts. Bradley moved to the "City of Firsts" in 1856, formed Milton Bradley company, and began producing games and puzzles shortly thereafter.
The GameLand exhibit encompasses roughly 1,700 square feet of space and has the look and feel of an oversized board game. The layout incorporates several iconic Milton Bradley and Hasbro games in a series of interactive activities for children in grades 2 through 5.
Some of the featured attractions include:
The Memory Station, inspired by the electronic game, Simon, has children watch a series of lights illuminate then use their hands to try to match the sequence they just viewed
A Strategy section allows visitors to play a giant, light-up game of Connect Four
The Racing Station offers a Mouse Trap-style competition where children sit in seats with bicycle and attempt to use the pedals to be the fastest to raise five billiard balls to the top of a large ramp then race down the track's various twists and turns to the bottom
The Chance section includes an operable spinner from The Game of Life and a series of poppable Trouble bubbles that contain dice
Interspersed throughout the exhibit is information about Milton Bradley, including details of his relationship with the city, his accomplishments, and a timeline of various game releases.
Plan your next vacation to include a visit to a play-related store, museum, or private collection.
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Durchmesser incl. Handhaben: 39,5 cm.
An verschiedenen Stellen punziert: Große Garantiemarke für 950er Silber, Meistermarke BF.
Diameter incl. handles: 39.5 cm.
Hallmarked in various places: large guarantee mark for 950 silver, maker's mark "BF".
Paris, 19th / 20th century.
Silver; wrought, cast and chased. Baroque-style compressed, curved and noded tureen with volute handles and cover. Handle in the shape of sea creatures and salad decoration.


A physiological assessment system comprises a sensor and first and second processors. The sensor is adapted to generate a signal responsive to a living organism. The first processor is configured to derive a measured parameter from the sensor signal. The second processor is configured to analyze nonlinear dynamics of the measured parameter so as to provide a physiological assessment of the living organism.
This application relates to and claims the benefit of prior U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/558,426 entitled Chaotic Analysis of Pulse Oximetry Signals in the Assessment of Neonatal Illness Severity, filed Mar. 31, 2004 and incorporated by reference herein.
Pulse oximetry is a noninvasive, easy to use, inexpensive procedure for measuring the oxygen saturation level of arterial blood. Pulse oximeters perform a spectral analysis of the pulsatile component of arterial blood in order to determine the relative concentration of oxygenated hemoglobin, the major oxygen carrying constituent of blood. By providing early detection of decreases in the arterial oxygen supply, pulse oximetry reduces the risk of accidental death and injury. As a result, pulse oximeters have gained rapid acceptance in a wide variety of medical applications, including surgical wards, intensive care units, general wards and home care.
A typical pulse oximeter comprises a sensor and a monitor. The sensor has emitters and a detector and is attached to a patient at a selected tissue site, such as a fingertip or ear lobe. The emitters project light at red and infrared (IR) wavelengths through the blood vessels and capillaries of the tissue site. The detector is positioned so as to detect the emitted light as it emerges from the tissue site. The signal generated by the detector is proportional to the intensity of the detected light. The detector signal has a variable (AC) component due to light absorption by the pulsatile volume of arterial blood. The detector signal also has a constant (DC) component due to light absorption by the non-pulsatile volume of arterial blood, venous blood, bone and other tissue. A signal processor inputs the detector signal and determines oxygen saturation and pulse rate, which are typically shown as a numerical readout on a display. In addition to oxygen saturation and pulse rate (PR), some pulse oximeters measure perfusion index (PI), which is a relative indication of pulse strength at a monitoring site. In particular, PI is the ratio of the IR AC signal to the IR DC signal. A pulse oximetry sensor and monitor are described, respectively, in U.S. Pat. No. 6,088,607 entitled Low Noise Optical Probe and U.S. Pat. No. 5,482,036 entitled Signal Processing Apparatus and Method, both of which are assigned to Masimo Corporation, Irvine, Calif. and incorporated by reference herein.
Nonlinear dynamics is the study of systems governed by equations in which a small change in one variable can induce a large systematic change. Chaos theory is one aspect of nonlinear dynamics, which attempts to construct deterministic, nonlinear dynamic models that elucidate irregular, unpredictable behavior. Chaos theory teaches that complex non-linear systems may not reach steady state, but will behave chaotically depending on minute changes in environmental conditions. Nonlinear dynamics can be advantageously applied to analyze the variability of physiological parameters for illness assessment. For example, chaos data analysis is applied to real-time pulse oximetry signals, including perfusion index or pulse rate or both, so as to determine or predict the severity of patient illness or, in contrast, the degree of patient wellness.
A healthy individual has a physiological system with a complex dynamic that enables it to adapt to a constantly changing environment. Many serious diseases have pathologies that reduce the dynamic complexity of the human physiological system. This translates into reduced variability of measurable physiological parameters, such as those derived by pulse oximetry. As such, the variability of measured physiological parameters can be used to assess illness severity. Use of non-invasively-obtained physiological parameters, for example, parameters obtained through the use of pulse-oximetry, has the advantage that system variability may be monitored continuously and the onset of serious disease may therefore be detected sooner than would otherwise be possible. The early detection of serious disease can be especially important with patients that are highly susceptible and for whom the time interval between disease onset and mortality can be very short, such as neonatal patients.
One aspect of a physiological assessment system is a sensor and first processor and a second processor. The sensor is adapted to generate a signal responsive to a living organism. The first processor is configured to derive a measured parameter from the sensor signal. The second processor is configured to analyze nonlinear dynamics of the measured parameter so as to provide a physiological assessment of the living organism. In one embodiment, the sensor is adapted to transmit optical radiation of at least two wavelengths into a tissue site and generate a detector signal responsive to the optical radiation after absorption by pulsatile blood flow within the tissue site, the first processor is a pulse oximeter and the measured parameter is a perfusion index. The second processor may calculate a statistic responsive to the variability of the perfusion index and the physiological assessment may correspond to illness severity. Further, the statistic may be determined by chaos data analysis, which may be compared to a predetermined normality range. In a particular embodiment, the pulse oximeter derives a second measured parameter and the second processor calculates a second statistic responsive to the variability of the second measured parameter, wherein the second measured parameter may be pulse rate.
Another aspect of a physiological assessment system is a pulse oximeter, a variability analyzer and a statistics interpreter. The pulse oximeter is adapted to measure a perfusion index. The variability analyzer is configured to provide a statistic or statistics responsive to variability of the perfusion index. The statistics interpreter is configured to indicate illness severity based upon the statistic or statistics. The physiological assessment system may further comprise a data storage for compiling time series data for the perfusion index. The system may also comprise a visual indication perfusion index variability or illness severity or both. In addition, the system may comprise an aural indication perfusion index variability or illness severity or both. In one embodiment, the analyzer is a chaos data analyzer. A predetermined range may be input to the interpreter, wherein the interpreter is capable of comparing statistic or statistics to the range so as to indicate illness severity.
A further aspect of a physiological assessment system comprises time series data derived for at least one physiological parameter and a nonlinear dynamics measure calculated based upon the time series data. The nonlinear dynamics measure is evaluated with respect to a predetermined criterion, and a physiological assessment is provided based upon the evaluation. The time series data may be a perfusion index measured with a pulse oximeter. The nonlinear dynamics measure may be a variability measure obtained for the perfusion index. The variability measure may be compared to a predetermined cutoff value, and an illness severity indication may be outputted. In a particular embodiment, a pulse rate is also measured and a variability measure is calculated for the combination of perfusion index and pulse rate. A chaos data analysis may be performed on the time series data.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a physiological assessment process.
FIG. 1 illustrates a physiological assessment system 100 that advantageously monitors the nonlinear dynamics of one or more physiological parameters 122 so as to provide a health assessment 132 of a living organism. The physiological assessment system 100 has one or more sensors 110 capable of responding to a living organism so as to provide sensor signals 112 to one or more physiological parameter processors 120. The physiological parameter processors 120 provide measured parameters 122 derived from the sensor signals 112. A nonlinear dynamics processor 130 analyzes the dynamics of the measured parameters 122 so as to provide a physiological assessment 132 of the living organism. A sensor(s) 110 may be a pulse oximetry sensor, a blood pressure transducer, ECG or EEG electrodes or a capnometer, or a combination of these, to name a few. The physiological parameter processor(s) 120, accordingly, may be a pulse oximeter, a blood pressure monitor, an ECG monitor, an EEG monitor, a CO2 monitor or a multi-parameter patient monitor, or a combination of these, to name a few. Likewise, the measured parameters 122 may be, as examples, oxygen saturation, pulse rate, perfusion index, blood glucose, blood pressure and ETCO2 among others. The nonlinear dynamics processor 130 can be hardware, software or a combination that analyzes, for example, the variability of the measured parameters 122. The physiological assessment 132 may be a numerical readout, message or other visual display or an alarm or other audible indication, or a combination of these. The physiological assessment 132 may assist in the determination of illness severity, wellness, or depth of sedation, to name a few; may provide information helpful for triage in emergency, hospital or surgical environments, for example; or may help in the prediction of, for instance, recovery time, length of hospitalization or medical costs.
FIG. 2 illustrates one embodiment of a physiological assessment system 200 having a pulse oximeter 210, a data storage 220, a variability analyzer 230 and a statistics interpreter 240. The pulse oximeter 210 measures parameters 212 such as perfusion index (PI) or pulse rate (PR) or a combination of PI and PR. The data storage 212 compiles a trend of the parameters 212 so as to create a data record 224. The data record length (T) is set by a predetermined storage interval input 222. The variability analyzer 230 processes the data record 224 so as to provide data statistics 232. In a particular embodiment, the variability analyzer 230 is a Chaos Data Analyzer (CDA-Pro) available from The Academic Software Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. The CDA-Pro performs various tests for detecting hidden determinism in a seemingly random time series, such as the probability distribution, power spectrum, Lyapunov exponent, and various measures of the fractal dimension. The statistics interpreter 240 evaluate the data statistics 232 to determine if variability is in a normal or abnormal range and provides an illness severity indicator 244 accordingly. A predetermined normality range input 242 sets this range. The illness severity indicator 244 may be displayed 250 or may trigger an alarm 260 or both. In an alternative embodiment, the range input 242 may specify multiple ranges, which may include one or more of variability above a normal level indicating illness, variability within a normal range indicating, variability within an indeterminate range, and variability below a normal range indicating illness. The range input 242 may also be a threshold or cutoff between normal and abnormal variability. In another embodiment, PR variability may be used as an early predictor of a return to health, and PI variability may be used as an early predictor of the onset of illness.
In a particular embodiment, the pulse oximeter 210 incorporates the data storage 220, variability analyzer 230 and statistics interpreter 240. The display 250 is a scaled readout on a pulse oximeter 210 showing PI variance on a relative scale having a gauge of maximum and minimum ranges. An alarm 260 is configured to sound when PI variance drops below a predetermined level.
FIG. 3 illustrates a physiological assessment method 300 wherein physiological parameters are iteratively measured 310 and recorded as a time series 320. The physiological parameters may be, for example, perfusion index or pulse rate or both. Nonlinear linear dynamics of the time series are calculated 330. These calculations may be based upon chaos data analysis. The nonlinear dynamics are evaluated with respect to predetermined criteria 340 so as to provide a physiological assessment 350. In one embodiment, the nonlinear dynamics may provide a measure of variability of the physiological parameter or parameters, which may be compared to a range of normal or abnormal variability or, alternatively, a threshold or cutoff value of variability so as to assess illness severity or depth of sedation, for example.
A physiological assessment system has been disclosed in detail in connection with various embodiments. These embodiments are disclosed by way of examples only and are not to limit the scope of the claims that follow. One of ordinary skill in art will appreciate many variations and modifications.
a second processor configured to analyze nonlinear dynamics of said measured parameter so as to provide a physiological assessment of said living organism.
said measured parameter is a perfusion index.
4. The physiological assessment system according to claim 3 wherein said statistic is determined by chaos data analysis.
5. The physiological assessment system according to claim 4 wherein said compared to a predetermined normality range.
said second processor calculates a second statistic responsive to the variability of said second measured parameter.
7. The physiological assessment system according to claim 6 wherein said second measured parameter is pulse rate.
an interpreter configured to indicate illness severity based upon said at least one statistic.
9. The physiological assessment system according to claim 8 further comprising a data storage for compiling time series data for said perfusion index.
10. The physiological assessment system according to claim 9 further comprising a visual indication of at least one of perfusion index variability and illness severity.
11. The physiological assessment system according to claim 9 further comprising an aural indication of at least one of perfusion index variability and illness severity.
12. The physiological assessment system according to claim 10 wherein said analyzer is a chaos data analyzer.
said interpreter capable of comparing said at least one statistic to said range so as to indicate illness severity.
providing a physiological assessment based upon said evaluation.
15. The physiological assessment method according to claim 14 wherein said deriving step comprises the substep of measuring perfusion index with a pulse oximeter.
16. The physiological assessment method according to claim 15 wherein said calculating step comprises the substep of obtaining a variability measure for said perfusion index.
17. A physiological assessment method according to claim 16 wherein said evaluating step comprises the substep of comparing said variability measure to a predetermined cutoff value.
18. A physiological assessment method according to claim 17 wherein said providing step comprises the substep of outputting an illness severity indication.
said calculating step comprises the substep of obtaining a variability measure for the combination of said perfusion index and said pulse rate.
20. The physiological assessment method according to claim 19 wherein said evaluating step comprises the substep of performing a chaos data analysis on said time series data.


Charlie Poole est un bon exemple de volonté pour ceux qui souffre de leur poids. Comme beaucoup de jeunes il avait trop de rondeur, un seul moyen pour lui de s'en débarrasser le sport et il a commencer la musculation avec un régime adapté pour lui. Depuis il est devenu celui que vous voyez en photo, beaucoup de volonté et voici le résultat pour Charlie né le 30 avril 1980 qui vit à Gainesville en Floride USA. How Did You Get Started ? In starting my 12-week transition, first I had to find some kind of motivation. I felt the best way to motivate myself was to enter a before and after contest. I chose the EAS Body for Life challenge. Making this commitment gave me the motivation I needed to get the ball rolling. After the first four weeks it was not the contest or the cash prizes that kept me motivated, it was the fact that I was feeling so much better about myself, and had the support of my friends and family who I didn't want to let down.
EVOLUTION EN 12 SEMAINES POUR CHARLIE POOLE, LE SUIVI PAR UN MEDECIN EST FORTEMENT RECOMMANDE.


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   print "Looking for %s" % pattern
   while True:
      line = (yield)
      if pattern in line:
         print line,

Generators can be used to multiplex data from multiple sources, using threads.

Generators can be used to broadcast data to multiple consumers.

Generators are equally powerful in Concurrent programming

Question:
Why do we need couroutine using send()(for ex: python)? When to use coroutine over generator?

A: Coroutines are generators - they just have the extra ability to receive arguments after invocation.
Data pipelines (ETL stuff) are a bad example to show off their strengths. Pipelines rarely need the full power of coroutines - the data is static and unchanging, and does not need dynamic modification outside the context of your data and the encapsulating function.
However, there are certainly good reasons to use a coroutine. Two examples:

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*Dynamic injection of new contexts: You have multiple incoming server requests to handle, and want to avoid a process-per-request model a la Apache. Interleaving coroutines on top of each other and passing in the context of the request (cookies, sessions, etc.) at arbitrary points allow you to get the benefit of an N:M process-per-request model and dynamically evaluate requests using the new configuration that can be supplied at ad-hoc intervals.

*Inter-generator communication: You've organised your architecture to be peer-driven, where each generator must talk to the other in some way. Maybe you're trying to coordinate across coroutines to save on resources, for example, or perhaps you want to use Lamport vector clocks rather than a call to time.time(). A pure generator could only return values, but not accept new configurations or input values - a coroutine can.
Whenever you need this ability, coroutines are useful!

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Our approach achieves better scalability than t-SNE significantly, which is in the verge to be impractical for datasets with an increase of when compared to a million cells
Sep 21, 2021 Amelia BurtonAurora Kinase
Our approach achieves better scalability than t-SNE significantly, which is in the verge to be impractical for datasets with an increase of when compared to a million cells. net-SNE, which trains a neural Noscapine network to embed one cells in 2D or 3D. Unlike prior approaches, our technique allows brand-new cells to become mapped onto existing visualizations, facilitating understanding transfer across different datasets. Our technique also vastly decreases the runtime of visualizing huge datasets containing an incredible number of cells. Launch Organic natural systems occur from different functionally, heterogeneous populations of cells. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) (Gawad et al., 2016), which profiles transcriptomes of person cells than mass examples rather, is a essential device in dissecting the intercellular variant in an array of domains, including tumor biology (Wang et al., 2014), immunology PPP1R53 (Stubbington et al., 2017), and metagenomics (Yoon et al., 2011). scRNA-seq also enables the id of cell types with specific appearance patterns (Grn et al., 2015; Jaitin et al., 2014). A typical evaluation for scRNA-seq data is certainly to imagine single-cell gene-expression patterns of examples within a low-dimensional (2D or 3D) space via strategies such as for example t-stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) (Maaten and Hinton, 2008) or, in previously studies, principal element evaluation (Jackson, 2005), whereby each cell is certainly represented being a dot and cells with equivalent appearance profiles can be found close to one another. Such visualization reveals the salient framework of the info in an application that is possible for researchers to understand and additional manipulate. For example, researchers can easily identify specific subpopulations of cells through visible inspection from the picture, or utilize the picture being a common zoom lens through which different facets from the cells are likened. The last mentioned is certainly attained by overlaying extra data together with the visualization typically, such as for example known labels from the cells or the appearance degrees of a gene appealing (Zheng et al., 2017). Even though many of these techniques have primarily been explored for visualizing mass RNA-seq (Palmer et al., 2012; Simmons et al., 2015), strategies that look at the idiosyncrasies of scRNA-seq (e.g., dropout occasions where nonzero appearance levels are skipped as zero) are also suggested (Pierson and Yau, 2015; Wang et Noscapine al., 2017). Lately, more advanced techniques that visualize the cells while recording important global buildings such as mobile hierarchy or trajectory have already been suggested (Anchang et al., 2016; Hutchison et al., 2017; Moon et al., 2017; Qiu et al., 2017), which constitute a very important complementary method of general-purpose strategies such as for example t-SNE. Comprehensively characterizing the surroundings of one cells takes a large numbers of cells to become sequenced. Fortunately, advancements in automated cell isolation and multiplex sequencing possess resulted in an exponential development in the amount of cells sequenced for specific research (Svensson et al., 2018) (Body 1A). For instance, 10x Genomics recently offered a dataset containing the expression profiles of just one 1 publicly.3 million brain cells from mice (https://support.10xgenomics.com/single-cell-gene-expression/datasets). Nevertheless, the introduction of such mega-scale datasets poses brand-new computational problems before they could be broadly adopted. Lots of the existing computational options for examining scRNA-seq data need prohibitive runtimes or computational assets; specifically, the state-of-the-art execution of t-SNE (Truck Der Maaten, 2014) requires 1.5 times to perform on 1.3 million cells predicated on our quotes. Open in another window Body 1. The Raising Size and Redundancy of Single-Cell RNA-Seq Datasets(A) The exponential upsurge in the amount of one cells sequenced by specific studies (modified from Svensson et al., 2018). Remember that the y axis scales exponentially. (B) Retrospective evaluation of redundancy in the Human brain1m dataset (Superstar Strategies) with 2,000 preliminary cells and repeated doubling of the info size. For every batch added, we computed the distribution from the cells least Euclidean length to cells currently observed predicated on their gene appearance. Each curve corresponds to a specific length threshold for deeming the brand new cell redundant. The thresholds are selected as the deciles of the entire distribution Noscapine of minimal Euclidean distances. Right here, we bring in neural t-SNE (net-SNE), a generalizable and scalable way for visualizing one cells for scRNA-seq analysis. Taking motivation from compressive genomics (Loh et al., 2012), we exploit the intuition that whenever a lot of cells are sequenced, a substantial part of the cells are redundant (we.e., highly just like other cells). Benefiting from the expressive power of neural systems (NNs), which includes been demonstrated in various applications (LeCun et al., 2015), net-SNE trains an NN to understand a top quality mapping function that needs a manifestation profile as.


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Barclays Confirms the Quarterly Composition of the CIBC Atlas Select MLP Index
Barclays Bank PLC announced today that during the next quarterly CIBC Atlas Select MLP Index (the "Index") rebalancing period, which will commence following the close of business on Friday, July 12, 2019 (the "Rebalancing Date"), there will be no changes to the constituents in the Index. The Barclays ETN+ Select MLP ETNs (the "ETNs") are linked to the performance of the Volume-Weighted Average Price ("VWAP") level of the Index.
Barclays Announces the Transfer of Primary Listing for Sixteen iPath® Exchange Traded Notes
Barclays Bank PLC announced today that it plans to transfer the primary listing venue for 16 iPath® Exchange Traded Notes to the Cboe Global Markets. The affected ETNs
Barclays Announces Changes to the CIBC Atlas Select MLP Index
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Q: significance of int position in getView What is the significance of position attribute in the getView function of array adapter?I am stuck with an example where getView is called again and again with the value 0 whereas the list passed to it has multiple elements.
Please help
private ArrayAdapter<Connection> buildConnectionAdapter(final ArrayList<Connection> connectionList) {
        ArrayAdapter<Connection> attachmentadapter = new ArrayAdapter<Connection>(this, R.layout.text_view, R.id.dummy, connectionList) {
            @Override
            public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                final String value;
                Connection obj = connectionList.get(position);
                value = obj.getValue();
                TextView tv = new TextView(UserGlobalAppSettings.this);
                SpannableString str = makeLinkSpan(value, new OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onClick(View v) {
                    }
                });
                str.setSpan(new URLSpan(""), 0, value.length(), Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
                tv.setText(str);
                tv.setTag(obj);
                return tv;
            }
        };
        return attachmentadapter;

    }

The Layout is like this
  <ListView
                        android:id="@+id/im_services_list"
                        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                        android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
                    </ListView>

A: The position attribute defines the position of item clicked in the list/spinner, If your list shows 0 items even if a list of multiple items is being correctly passed i would suggest checking getcount method of the adapter, whether it returns the count of the list being passed or not.

A: Got the answer...We are not suppose to use two scrollable items within each other according to google philosophy!!!!...but had alrteady written a lot of code annd time so did this!!...
public static void setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(ListView listView) {
    ListAdapter listAdapter = listView.getAdapter();
    if (listAdapter == null) {
        // pre-condition
        return;
    }
    int totalHeight = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < listAdapter.getCount(); i++) {
        View listItem = listAdapter.getView(i, null, listView);
        listItem.measure(0, 0);
        totalHeight += listItem.getMeasuredHeight();
    }
    ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = listView.getLayoutParams();
    params.height = totalHeight + (listView.getDividerHeight() * (listAdapter.getCount() - 1));
    listView.setLayoutParams(params);
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Historical Review of Franchise Fees: Litigating the Franchise Fee Element in 2008
And the saga continues . . .
In Boeve v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., No. 08-CV-12213, 2008 WL 3915011, at *1 (E.D. Mich. Aug. 20, 2008), plaintiff entered into an Independent Contractor Agent's Agreement ("ICAA") with defendant in 2003 to sell defendant's financial products and insurance. In order to secure her bonus, plaintiff alleged she was "encouraged" to take out loans to open new offices and hire additional staff. After plaintiff's ICAA was terminated in 2007, however, plaintiff owed defendant approximately $65,000 on the defaulted loans. Plaintiff filed suit shortly thereafter alleging violations of the Michigan Franchise Investment Law ("MFIL"), and defendant moved for dismissal or summary judgment.
The MFIL defines a "franchise fee" as "a fee or charge that a franchisee or subfranchisor is required to pay or agrees to pay for the right to enter a business under a franchise agreement, including but not limited to payments for goods or services." In support of her argument that she paid a franchise fee, plaintiff contended that her payment of interest on the loans she took out under the ICAA, in addition to her payments for training, represented an indirect franchise fee.
First, the court stated that the repayment of a loan cannot be a franchise fee unless the loan was a "condition of entering into the business." Similarly, interest payments "might arguably" be an indirect franchise fee "if the interest rate exceeded a fair market loan rate."
Second, the court stated that the payment of ordinary business expenses cannot be an indirect franchise fee. Accordingly, plaintiff's training costs could only be a franchise fee if they were "substantial and unrecoverable, locking the franchise[e] into the franchisor."
Third, because the complaint did not specify any payment which could constitute a franchise fee, the court rendered plaintiff's allegations insufficient to raise a right to relief under the MFIL "above a speculative level." As such, plaintiff failed to state a claim on which relief may be granted, and the court dismissed plaintiff's MFIL claim. The court did, however, dismiss this claim without prejudice as there was still the possibility of uncovering facts during discovery to support a MFIL claim.
Takeaway: Although both of plaintiff's franchise fee arguments fell short, the court gave helpful hints for future plaintiffs as to the type of arguments that could satisfy the franchise fee requirement under the MFIL.
*NOTICE: This blog is intended solely for informational purposes and should not be construed as providing legal advice. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have regarding this blog post.
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Assist with all aspects of preparation of food service areas and presentation of food to the notified standard.
To prepare all food with due care and attention, particularly in regard to customers' special dietary requirements: for example, nut, dairy or wheat allergies.
Serve food; provide advice and guidance to customers and guests on menu choices and promote food offers.
Replenishment of all food and equipment to ensure service periods do not stop.
Assist with and abide by cleaning schedules to agreed standards.
To assist with the setup, service, clearing and cleaning of function catering as requested.
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Lewis: "It's a circuit where you have to be aggressive, so it's always suited my style"
"Monaco was another great weekend for the team and I'm so proud of all the hard work the guys put in to make it happen. Of course, from a personal perspective it wasn't what I was aiming for. I race to win every time and unfortunately it just wasn't my weekend. But I drove with all my heart and gave it all I could, so I head to the next race with even more energy and determination. Montreal is one of my favourite weekends of the year. It's where I won my first Grand Prix back in 2007 and I've had another two victories there since, so it holds some special memories for me. The city itself is incredible. It's one I always love to go to and there's always a great crowd, so I'm hoping for them that the weather is good and we can put on a great show!"
It's a circuit where you have to be aggressive, so it's always suited my style. Finding the braking point into the left-hander of Turn One is really important, as you then switch straight back into a very tight right-hander at Turn Two. Running too deep through the first will ruin your line into the second, which will lose you a lot of time. You have to be mindful of the kerbs through here as they can throw the car off balance quite easily, while the exit of Turn Two also has very low grip. It's a tricky section of track to start the lap and one which quite often sees incidents: particularly on the first lap.
The first of many chicanes around the circuit comes at Turns Three and Four. You have to take plenty of kerb through the corner and then run wide, right up against the wall, on the way out. It's so very to get that wrong. The next chicane at Turns Six and Seven is a bit tighter and slower, but good exit speed is crucial for the straight which comes up afterwards. This leads you down into another chicane at Turns Eight and Nine, where you quite often see overtaking.
It's so important to carry good speed once again to give you a good run down into the stadium complex at Turn 10, where you find the biggest crowds of fans during the weekend. It's a really tight right-hander and you want to brake as late as possible: running deep into the corner and making a 'V' shape to get the best exit possible down the crucial back straight.
The straight itself seems to go on forever and you also have DRS available for the second time around the lap. Looking into the distance it's so hard to pinpoint your braking point before you clip the kerbs, do your best to avoid the infamous 'Wall of Champions and put the power down across the start / finish line.


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Dallas Austin, Jermaine Dupri to be honored during OMF Honors ceremony at ONE MusicFest
by Marshall A. Latimore September 4, 2019
Organizers of ONE Musicfest have announced that it will honor iconic super-producers Jermaine Dupri and Dallas Austin for their vast contributions to urban culture during a special on-stage ceremony at the 10th annual festival taking place Sept. 7-8 at Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta.
As architects of the sounds that catapulted artists such as TLC, Mariah Carey and Usher to become household names, Dupri and Austin are not only musical visionaries but were early pioneers in putting Atlanta on the map as a creative epicenter, according to Jason Carter, founder of ONE Musicfest.
The recognition of these two superproducers will mark the inaugural OMF Honors, a new platform to highlight the influence and innovation of culture creators. Dupri and Austin will receive the OMF Honors presentation on Sunday, Sept. 8 in the 7 p.m. hour on the main stage.
"As we celebrate 10 years of bringing the culture together on one stage, it was a no-brainer to honor two monumental figures who have been musical disruptors for decades," Carter said. "JD and Dallas represent the excellence, originality and authenticity that make urban culture so powerful."
Hailed as one of the nation's "Can't-Miss Festivals," ONE Musicfest returns for its tenth year with an all-star lineup of performers, including Gucci Mane, Rae Sremmurd, Tory Lanez, Rick Ross, DMX, Wu-Tang Clan, Three 6 Mafia, Teyana Taylor, Raphael Saadiq, KP The Great featuring Pharrell Williams and Usher, Florida All-Stars featuring Uncle Luke, T-Pain, Trina, Trick Daddy and more.
The festival has also released a full schedule of performances, which you can view below:
Dallas Austin, alongside Jermaine Dupri, will be the first recipients of the OMF Honors at the 10th annual ONE MusicFest on Sunday, Sept. 8. (Photo: CultureMix)
Back for its 10th anniversary, ONE Musicfest returns with a change in venue and tons of surprises
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US Air Force's Mysterious Spy Plane Is Landing After Two Years In Space
For nearly two years, the US Air Force's X-37B autonomous space plane has been circling around the Earth doing who knows what. Now it's finally coming back to Earth, carrying all its secrets with it.
The X-37B has been the subject of intense speculation ever since it was launched on its very first mission in April 2010 with very little explanation from the Air Force. A second plane followed in March 2012, In December 2012, that first plane was launched back into space, where it has been presumably spying on Earth ever since. It will land at an Air Force base in California on Tuesday, as long as the weather holds up.
The Daily Beast reports that the X-37B most likely carries a bevy of radars, cameras and other sensors that you might find on your regular spy satellite. But a plane that can go to space and back has a leg-up over a dumb old satellite:
The idea is that the X-37B carries "specialised" sensors packages that can be reconfigured as needed for each mission when the aircraft returns to Earth. That ability to reconfigure the robotic spacecraft makes the X-37B cheaper and more flexible than a satellite — which goes up once with one package of sensors and is eventually discarded. Satellites can often cost billions of dollars and cannot reconfigured or reused, unlike the X-37B.
That seems like a perfectly reasonable explanation, but that hasn't stopped the fevered speculation over what the X-37B was really doing up in space. Rumours abound that the X-37B is supposed to snatch foreign satellites or strike our enemies as an orbital bomber. Whatever it is, the Air Force is still keeping mum. [The Daily Beast, US Air Force]
Picture: The X-37B being launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in December 2012. (US Air Force)


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I will give them a few more days.
So I should let the below tasks run or abort them, going on a week running now?
Seems a lot of waste of power for such a Long time for this.
My Cost is now what I am looking at because the two computer are really doing nothing.
99.99% 3 seconds left reset to 99.98% back to 3 seconds left and this has been going on for 3 days now.
The progress indicator and remaining time is some kind of artificial intelligence of the BOINC client. The yafu application itself deosn't has any progress indication.
You will get credits up to 10 days after the deadline.
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Microsoft Opens the Door on SenderID
by Andy Patrizio
With a more relaxed set of terms, Microsoft hopes to speed adoption of its anti-spam tech.
Microsoft has released its Sender ID framework for email under the Open Specification Promise (OSP), thereby making it freely available to anyone who wants to use it to improve their email security.
Sender ID is an anti-spam technology born out of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which Microsoft participated in and holds a number of patents. Up until the OSP release, those patents made the Microsoft (Quote) implementation of Sender ID incompatible with more relaxed, open licenses, such as the GNU General Public License.
Microsoft's Open Specification Promise is essentially its own GPL. It's an irrevocable promise to every individual in the world that they can make use of the technology easily and for free.
The company introduced its implementation of Sender ID two years ago and now says 36 percent of all legitimate email sent worldwide is using Sender ID, with an estimated five million domains worldwide protected by Sender ID.
There are three basic features to Microsoft's Sender ID framework, according to John Scarrow, general manager of the Technology Care and Safety Group at Microsoft.
First is the ability to assign senders to IP addresses. For example, a bank can identify its official email servers by IP address, and receiving email servers can validate against that list. Therefore, someone attempting to spoof (define) a bank would be rejected because the mail servers don't recognize their IP address as legitimate.
Building on this, it reduces spam considerably since so much spam is spoofed. Scarrow said spoofing legitimate brand names improves the chances people will actually read the spam letter.
Lastly, it allows for a reputation to be associated with a sending domain. An ISP can decide to allow all emails from a domain because of its excellent record and reputation and it can block a domain from sending any emails if it gets a reputation for producing lots of spam.
With 36 percent penetration, Microsoft's Sender ID has a way to go, and Scarrow thinks the OSP promise will do the trick. "The big holdouts aren't so big," he said. "The email tail on sending domains is very large, and often the holdup is just a matter of education."
OSP removes legal concerns, which should help it penetrate the "tail" of email providers and servers quite a bit quicker as well, he said.
The biggest challenge for organizations to set up Sender ID is identifying all of the IP addresses that are sending email today. Once that's done, publishing the list takes five minutes, said Scarrow.
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News United States News | Pres. Trump Stops Automatic Citizenship For People Born Abroad
News | Pres. Trump Stops Automatic Citizenship For People Born Abroad
The president of the United States of America, Donald Trump has cancelled the issuance of automatic citizenship status for the children of U.S citizens who were born abroad.
By the new development, United States citizen parents who are residing outside the country would have to apply for their children's citizenship after birth.
The new policy was announced in a statement on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) official website.
According to the statement, it will take effect from the 29th of October, 2019. The USCIS said such parents have the option of completing their children's naturalisation processes before they turn 8 years, or they might not be considered.
The policy doesn't exempt children of the United States government employees and military personnel stationed outside the country.
"Effective October 29, 2019, children residing abroad with their U.S. citizen parents who are U.S. government employees or members of the U.S. armed forces stationed abroad are not considered to be residing in the United States for acquisition of citizenship.
"Similarly, leave taken in the United States while stationed abroad is not considered residing in the United States even if the person is staying in property he or she owns.
"Therefore, U.S. citizen parents who are residing outside the United States with children who are not U.S. citizens should apply for U.S. citizenship on behalf of their children under INA 322 8, and must complete the process before the child's 18th birthday.
"The child of a member of the U.S. armed forces accompanying his or her parent abroad on official orders may be eligible to complete all aspects of the naturalization proceedings abroad. This includes interviews, filings, oaths, ceremonies, or other proceedings relating to naturalization.
"Applications filed on or after October 29, 2019 are subject to this policy. The policy in place before October 29, 2019 applies to applications filed before that date. Children who have already been recognized through the issuance of a Certificate of Citizenship as having acquired U.S. citizenship under INA 320 are not affected by this policy change", the statement read.
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Share this Story: Dead at 38: 'Rocket Man' leaps from a helicopter and hits a ridge at 173 km/h
Dead at 38: 'Rocket Man' leaps from a helicopter and hits a ridge at 173 km/h
Angelo Grubisic called his world-record preparations 'the Icarus Project,' after the Greek mythological figure who died after flying too close to the sun
Phil Davison
Sep 04, 2019 • September 4, 2019 • 4 minute read
British NASA scientist Angelo Grubisic, 38, has been killed dies while performing a wingsuit jump in Saudi Arabia. Photo by WENN.com
As an extreme sportsman, Englishman Angelo Grubisic's goal was to break the world records for flying as far, as fast, for as long and from as high an altitude as possible — not in a plane, but in a wingsuit, an aerodynamic overall with fabric wings at the arms. He leaped from mountains or aircraft to glide toward the ground before deploying his parachute.
While training for those world records, he leaped from a helicopter over the Asir mountains of southwestern Saudi Arabia on Aug. 21 and, according to three fellow fliers, performed a 360-degree barrel-roll. He was known as a "proximity flier" — one who stays close to the landscape — and hit a ridge at 108 mph, dying instantly, according to the fliers.
Dead at 38: 'Rocket Man' leaps from a helicopter and hits a ridge at 173 km/h Back to video
Angelo Grubisic photographed at the Bournemouth Air Festival in the U.K. on Sept. 5, 2018. Photo by WENN.com
Grubisic called his world-record preparations "the Icarus Project," after the Greek mythological figure who carried himself aloft on homemade wings of feathers and wax but died after flying too close to the sun.
The University of Southampton, in southern England, where Grubisic was a lecturer in aeronautics and advanced propulsion and had enlisted 10 students to help design the ideal wingsuit, confirmed his death at age 38.
The current world record for wingsuit flight duration was set by Colombian skydiver Jhonathan Florez in 2012 with a time of nine minutes and six seconds. Florez was killed during a wingsuit flight when he crashed into a mountainside in Switzerland in 2015.
The highest-altitude wingsuit jump, from a plane at 37,426 feet, was achieved on Veterans Day 2015 by retired U.S. Air Force Pararescueman Jimmy Petrolia over Davis, California, to raise funds for Special Operations forces killed in the line of duty.
Angelo Grubisic preparing for a jump at the Bournemouth Air Festival. Photo by WENN.com
The highest speed so far was reached by Japanese wingsuit pilot Shinichi Ito in 2011, when he hit 226 mph. The "greatest absolute distance" record of 19.94 miles was set by American Kyle Lobpries, also over Davis, in 2016.
The goal of Grubisic's Icarus Project was to jump from 45,000 feet and fly as far as possible for around 15 minutes, reaching 280 mph.
Wingsuit-flying and BASE jumping – the acronym refers to free-falling from bridges, antennae, spans or Earth features — were Grubisic's hobbies, but he was far more than a hobbyist. He was also described in Britain as "Rocket Man" or "Jet Man" for his stunts in which he took off and flew James Bond-style in a suit powered by jet engines on his arms and back.
He and the jet suit's inventor, Richard "Iron Man" Browning, stunned tourists last year at the Bournemouth Air Festival in southern England when they took off from a pier and buzzed over sea bathers at low level before one of Grubisic's arm engines exploded. He cartwheeled and crashed in shallow surf.
Angelo Grubisic hovers over the shore at the Bournemouth Air Festival. Photo by WENN.com
Unlike some extreme athletes, Grubisic was after more than an adrenaline rush. At the University of Southampton, he specialized in the development and testing of advanced propulsion systems for spacecraft in support of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. He was a consulting engineer for the ESA during its BepiColombo mission to Mercury last year, a joint project with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency using two satellites that are due to reach Mercury's orbit in 2025.
Grubisic was also a consultant to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, California which is involved in exploration research on Mars, including probing the possibility of life on the Red Planet.
Angelo Niko Grubisic was born in Walsall, north of Birmingham, on June 24, 1981, and grew up in nearby Willenhall. His father, a Serb immigrant, worked in a ball-bearing factory and married an English barmaid.
Angelo was three when his parents divorced, and he and a sister were brought up by their mother.
"Being a one-parent family was tough financially and although poor in monetary terms, both Angelo and I always considered ourselves rich in love," Karina Grubisic told The Washington Post.
"My mom would put us before everything else. She didn't have a great education. She's dyslexic, but she's certainly intelligent and became a private accountant. She was driven to get us both to university, which she did, but most of all, she poured all the love she had into us." Angelo Grubisic was also diagnosed as dyslexic only a few years ago.
Angelo Grubisic hovers over a beach at the Bournemouth Air Festival. Photo by WENN.com
He was deeply influenced by his maternal grandfather, Tom Richardson, a daredevil who enjoyed skydiving and attending air shows. "I'm certain this is where Angelo inherited his fearless streak," Karina Grubisic said. "Our granddad made his last skydive on his 80th birthday."
In addition to his sister, Angelo Grubisic's survivors include his parents, a half brother and a half sister.
Grubisic studied aerospace technology at Coventry University, obtaining a bachelor's of engineering degree in 2003. At the International Space University in France, dedicated to the development of space exploration for peaceful purposes, he received a master's degree in space studies in 2005. He completed a doctorate in advanced propulsion at Southampton in 2009.
He attended a joint post-doctorate fellowship program with Southampton and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Using his experience gained at NASA, Grubisic worked with the Paris-based ESA. He was instrumental in developing the Solar Electric Propulsion System for the BepiColombo mission.
On July 4, Grubisic, jumping from a helicopter, was crowned British national wingsuit champion in the advanced category at Dunkeswell Aerodrome in southwest England.
"My brother grew up on classic war films like 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket,' " Karina Grubisic said. "At first he wanted to be an Apache helicopter pilot in the Royal Marines but then realized he would make more of a contribution to mankind if he helped push it forward instead of destroying it."


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Thunder's Al Horford to sit out rest of season
Thunder center Al Horford will sit out for the team's final 28 games as the Thunder focuses on developing its younger players while also ensuring the 34-year-old Horford stays healthy leading up to a potential trade this offseason.
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski was first to report the news Saturday night, and the Thunder confirmed it by releasing statements from Horford and general manager Sam Presti.
Horford, under contract for two more seasons, will remain a member of the Thunder and will continue to train at the team's facility. Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said Horford is unlikely to travel for away games.
"When I arrived, I understood the direction of the team, we had a great individual plan in place for me, and I feel like as a result I've played really good basketball for the Thunder," Horford said in a statement. "At the same time, I know what it's like to be a young, aspiring player, and at this point in the season I understand how important playing meaningful minutes is for their careers and their development."
Horford's minutes at center will be filled by Moses Brown, Isaiah Roby and Tony Bradley — all of whom are 23 and younger. Bradley was acquired at the trade deadline and is in Oklahoma City, Daigneault confirmed. Bradley won't be available to play Saturday night against the Celtics.
"We've talked with Al from the time he became a member of the Thunder this offseason about the many ways in which he would be able to help us as we entered the early stages of the necessary transition of our team," Presti said in a statement. "From day one Al has been a consummate professional and has had a tremendous influence on the team on and off the floor with his work ethic and total commitment to his teammates.
"Our conversations have been open and ongoing about how to maximize this season for him personally as well as the development of our team. Al has been nothing short of spectacular and will remain a part of the team as we build on an approach and mentality that we have taken for some time."
The Thunder acquired Horford from the 76ers last draft night in exchange for Terrance Ferguson and Danny Green. For taking on Horford's contract, the Thunder also received the pick that became Theo Maledon and a top-six protected first-round pick in 2025.
Horford averaged 14.2 points, 6.7 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 28 games with the Thunder. He shot 45% from the floor and 37% from 3-point range.
Horford is owed $27 million next season and $26.5 million in 2022-23. The final year is partially guaranteed for $14.5 million.
Wojnarowski reported that Presti has "pledged to work with Horford and his agent" on finding a trade with a team that better fits Horford, who's in the latter stages of his career.
Horford remained with the Thunder through the trade deadline Thursday, but finding a trade for him was always more likely in the offseason.
Daigneault said the decision to sideline Horford was influenced by the injury Shai Gilgeous-Alexander suffered. The Thunder's star guard will miss a significant chunk of time due to plantar fasciitis in his right foot.
The Thunder has been resting key players, including Horford, due to the condensed season and the Thunder's non chances of contending.
"We probably were gonna get to this point with Al eventually anyway, where we went to him and discussed this plan," Daigneault said. "With Shai's injury, it probably just expedited that a little bit to where we then went to him and said, 'Hey, what do we think about this?' That was a collaborative discussion obviously.
"But it probably happened a little sooner than we would've anticipated. But the Shai injury, we're a different team, there's no secret about that, we're a different team without Shai."
The Thunder entered Saturday at 19-25. Without Horford for the rest of the season and Gilgeous-Alexander for at least a sizable stretch, it's likely the Thunder's lottery odds will improve.
Daigneault said Horford has expressed an interest in continuing to mentor players like Brown and Roby.
"Balancing where the team's at and also what's best for Al was something that was a high priority for us coming into the season, and I think it's something that we've done really well," Daigneault said. "And sometimes that can create a lot of tension when you have a player that may not be on the exact same timeline as the team. Not only was it not a tension, but Al enhanced the development of the team."


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Šlomo Benizri ( שלמה בניזרי,  * 7. února 1961 Haifa) je izraelský rabín, bývalý politik a bývalý poslanec Knesetu za stranu Šas.

Biografie
Narodil se 7. února 1961 ve městě Haifa. Studoval na střední škole Nešer a pak byl prohlášen za rabína na talmudské škole při synagoze Or ha-Chajim. Sloužil v izraelské armádě, kde dosáhl hodnosti First Sergeant (Rav Samal). Hovoří hebrejsky, anglicky a marockou arabštinou. Působí jako duchovní.

Politická dráha
V izraelském parlamentu zasedl po volbách do Knesetu v roce 1992, ve kterých kandidoval za Šas. Byl pak členem parlamentního výboru pro drogové závislosti, finančního výboru a výboru House Committee. Mandát obhájil ve volbách do Knesetu v roce 1996. Ve funkčním období 1996–1999 zastával funkci náměstka ministra zdravotnictví. Opětovně byl zvolen do Knesetu ve volbách do Knesetu v roce 1999. V letech 1999–2000 potom zastával post ministra zdravotnictví. V letech 2001–2002 byl ve vládě Ariela Šarona ministrem práce a sociální péče. S malou přestávkou několika týdnů pak tento post zastával znovu v letech 2002–2003.

Ve volbách do Knesetu v roce 2003 byl opět zvolen. V letech 2003–2006 byl členem parlamentního výboru pro zahraniční záležitosti a obranu. Zvolen byl i ve volbách do Knesetu v roce 2006. Znovu usedl jako člen do výboru pro zahraniční záležitosti a obranu. Mandát ale ukončil předčasně v dubnu 2008, protože byl odsouzen za braní úplatků a poslán do vězení. V Knesetu jej nahradil Mazor Bahajna.

K výkonu trestu nastoupil 1. září 2009 ve věznici Ma'ašijahu. Od prosince 2011 byl jeho spoluvězněm bývalý izraelský prezident Moše Kacav. Díky dobrému chování byl Benizri z vězení propuštěn 1. března 2012 po výkonu dvou třetin trestu.

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Q: How to extend default React Native webpack config? I would like to add aliases to my React Native project started from the scratch with default react-native cli tools.
I created a webpack.config.js in the app root folder hoping that this will be enough for webpack to catch in on the fly. But its never happened.
Are any workarounds available?
Currently my webpack.config.js  looks like that:
var path = require('path');

const alias = {
  '~': __dirname,
  'assets': path.resolve('./app/assets/'),
  'native-styles': path.resolve('./app/native/styles')
}

module.exports = {
  resolve: {
    alias: alias,
  }
}


What Label Are You Wearing? Is it Really You?
As women, there are seasons when we might wear the label of wife, mom, business woman, caretaker,or volunteer, etc. All noteworthy and honorable, but what happens if there is a failed marriage, loss of a job, a child is lost or never born, our health begins to fail? Have we lost our identity?


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import codecs
import os
from setuptools import setup
from setuptools.command.test import test as TestCommand

class PyTest(TestCommand):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        TestCommand.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        self.test_suite = True

    def finalize_options(self):
        TestCommand.finalize_options(self)
        self.test_args = []

    def run_tests(self):
        # import here, cause outside the eggs aren't loaded
        import pytest
        errno = pytest.main(self.test_args)
        raise SystemExit(errno)

with codecs.open('README.rst', encoding='utf8') as readme_file:
    README = readme_file.read()

with codecs.open('HISTORY.rst', encoding='utf8') as history_file:
    HISTORY = history_file.read().replace('.. :changelog:', '')

LONG_DESCRIPTION = README + '\n\n' + HISTORY

INSTALL_REQUIRES_REPLACEMENTS = {
    'https://github.com/ethereum/ethash/tarball/master#egg=pyethash': 'pyethash',
}

INSTALL_REQUIRES = list()
with open('requirements.txt') as requirements_file:
    for requirement in requirements_file:
        dependency = INSTALL_REQUIRES_REPLACEMENTS.get(
            requirement.strip(),
            requirement.strip(),
        )

        INSTALL_REQUIRES.append(dependency)

INSTALL_REQUIRES = list(set(INSTALL_REQUIRES))

DEPENDENCY_LINKS = []
if os.environ.get("USE_PYETHEREUM_DEVELOP"):
    # Force installation of specific commits of devp2p and pyethereum.
    devp2p_ref='525e15a9967da3174ec9e4e367b5adfb76138bb4'
    pyethereum_ref='8edc5954fb8b6697cb7c9d7d85ed71e5f6d74e0f'
    DEPENDENCY_LINKS = [
        'http://github.com/ethereum/pydevp2p/tarball/%s#egg=devp2p-9.99.9' % devp2p_ref,
        'http://github.com/ethereum/pyethereum/tarball/%s#egg=ethereum-9.99.9' % pyethereum_ref,
        ]

# *IMPORTANT*: Don't manually change the version here. Use the 'bump2version' utility.
# see: https://github.com/ethereum/pyethapp/wiki/Development:-Versions-and-Releases
version = '1.5.0'

setup(
    name='pyethapp',
    version=version,
    description='Python Ethereum Client',
    long_description=LONG_DESCRIPTION,
    author='HeikoHeiko',
    author_email='heiko@ethdev.com',
    url='https://github.com/ethereum/pyethapp',
    packages=[
        'pyethapp',
    ],
    package_data={
        'pyethapp': ['genesisdata/*.json']
    },
    license='MIT',
    zip_safe=False,
    keywords='pyethapp',
    classifiers=[
        'Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha',
        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
        'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
        'Natural Language :: English',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
    ],
    cmdclass={'test': PyTest},
    install_requires=INSTALL_REQUIRES,
    dependency_links=DEPENDENCY_LINKS,
    tests_require=[
        'ethereum-serpent>=1.8.1',
        'mock==2.0.0',
        'pytest-mock==1.6.0',
    ],
    entry_points='''
    [console_scripts]
    pyethapp=pyethapp.app:app
    '''
)

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senso-, sens-, sensi-, sensori-, sent-
(Latin: feeling, perception through physical awareness; to discern or detect by touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing, etc.)
The words in this list refer either to physical or mental perceptions, or a combination of both of them.
insensitiveness (s) (noun) (no plural)
An action or behavior that is unkind, lacking in consideration, and careless: The candidate for mayor demonstrated an insensitiveness towards the transportation needs of people who were living in the suburbs.
insensitivity (s) (noun), insensitivities (pl)
A lack of concern for the feelings or circumstances of other people: The newspaper has been reporting on what it considers the insensitivity of the federal government to the plight of refugees.
insensuous (adjective), more insensuous, most insensuous
Descriptive of that which does not effect the way one sees, hears, tastes, etc.: The taste of the soup was so bland Harrison described it as the most insensuous item on the menu of the restaurant.
insentience (s) (noun), insentiences (pl)
1. Anything which does not have physical perceptions: A rock may be described as being an insentience as it has no way of perceiving its environment; however, it is ridiculous to say that animals are creatures of insentience!
2. Without consciousness or being inanimate and so without life: After her fall, Carol lay on the ground, apparently in a state of insentience, until she started to move her legs and arm.
insentient (adjective), more insentient, most insentient
A reference to being unable to feel or resembling a lifeless condition: The therapist was distracted during the interview with her client and seemed to have an insentient reaction to the underlying concerns that were being discussed.
meteorosensitive (adjective), more meteorosensitive, most meteorosensitive
Pertaining to being abnormally affected by weather conditions: The farmer's crops were very meteorosensitive to the drought conditions that have been existing and he was afraid of going bankrupt.
microsensor (s) (noun). microsensors (pl)
A very small device used for medical purposes to record such information as temperature changes, movements, etc.: The doctor installed a microsensor in Mr. McLean's injured arm in order to detect his motions during his recovery process.
multisense (adjective), more multisense, most multisense
Having many different meanings: Too many dictionaries present multisense definitions for word entries which cab be confusing for users.
multisensory (adjective), more multisensory, most multisensory
Relating to or involving two or more physical concepts, procedures, or methods: Watching a ballet is a multisensory experience because Cassandra enjoys both the music and the dances that are being performed.
nanosensor (s) (noun), nanosensors (pl)
A chemical, biological, or medical surgical point which is used to obtain information about tiny particles or objects that respond as a unit in its transportation from one place to another one: The use of nanosensors primarily includes various medicinal purposes and serve as doorways to building other nanoproducts; such as, computer chips that work at the nanoscale and even nanorobots.
nonsense (s) (noun), nonsenses (pl)
1. Ideas or words which are used when speaking or writing that do not have any rational meanings: Some reporters write a lot of nonsense which seems to appeal to many people.
Many of the words that are presented in some dictionaries are nonsense because they often use another form of the word that is being defined to present it; for example, photosensitization: "The process of photosensitizing."
2. Behavior which is annoying, silly, unkind, or ridiculous: The teacher, Mrs. Jims, was not in the mood to put up with any nonsense from the students who were listening to music from their cell phones instead of doing their assignment.
nonsensical (adjective), more nonsensical, most nonsensical
Descriptive of being very foolish, absurd, or ludicrous: Jerry's wife told her husband that it would be nonsensical to choose another job that paid much lower wages. © ALL rights are reserved.
nonsensically (adverb), more nonsensically, most nonsensically
A reference to being irrational, unreasonable, or preposterous: Bob made a nonsensically ridiculous agreement to bicycle for hundreds of miles across the country to prove that it is less expensive to travel that way instead of by a motor driven vehicle.
nonsensicalness (s) (noun) (no plural)
Something that presents an extreme lack of reasoning or which presents no proper concepts or ideas: The nonsensicalness of the national budget proposal by the President was sufficient reason for the House of Representatives and the Senate to overwhelmingly vote against it.
Omnis cognitio fit a sensibus. (a Latin proverb)
"All knowledge comes through the senses." -Lucretius
If you would like to take self-scoring quizzes over many of the words in this section, then click on these Sensory Quizzes so you can see how much you know about the following "senso-, sensi-" words or learn more about them.
Related-word units meaning feeling: aesth-; pass-, pati-; patho-.


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A whistle-stop tour of some highlights on display
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Short of time? Here's a whistle stop tour around some highlights on display at the National Maritime Museum.
This tour takes you through most of the major exhibitions at the museum. All the objects included can be seen for free.
Grab a selfie at Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Whip out your camera and grab a selfie at Yinka Shonibare's replica of Nelson's HMS Victory in a bottle - one of the most photographed artworks in London! #ExploreGreenwich.
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From the heroic to the bizarre (with a few animals thrown in for good measure). A selection of our 230+ strong collection of figureheads.
Miss Britain III
A search for speed dominated the 1920s and 1930s.
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The Displaced - World Oceans Day 2020 film screening
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De sferen van de macht is het zestiende stripalbum uit de Ravian-reeks. Het album is getekend door Jean-Claude Mézières met scenario van Pierre Christin.  Het album werd op de Nederlandstalige markt voor het eerst uitgebracht door uitgeverij Dargaud in 1994. Van het album verscheen toen gelijktijdig een hardcover en een softcover editie, een herdruk volgde in 2022 bij uitgeverij Sherpa.  Het album is ook opgenomen in deel vijf van de integrale reeks van Dargaud uit 2018.

De verhalen

Om de noodzakelijke reparaties aan de Astronef te kunnen bekostigen aanvaarden Ravian en Laureline een opdracht van de louche kolonel Tloc, de politiechef van het door corruptie en intriges geplaagde Rubanis. De geheimzinnige heersers van de planeet, die hun contacten met de lagere kopstukken onderhouden met een virusverspreidend communicatiesysteem lijken te zijn verdwenen waardoor er een bloedige machtsstrijd dreigt te ontstaan. Ravian en Laureline gaan op onderzoek uit, maar ze zijn niet de enige.

De sferen van de macht


Accommodation costs when away from normal place of business (although must not exceed 24 months at a 'temporary workplace').
Travel and parking costs, mileage allowance if using own vehicle of 45p/mile for the first 10,000 miles, and 25p/mile thereafter. 20p/mile rate for bicycles. See our guide to travel expenses.
Stationary, postage, and printing costs.
Business insurance, such a professional indemnity insurance. See ourguide to insurances you can claim against your company.
Company formation and ongoing costs (e.g. Annual Return fee), although the company formation fee is a 'capital cost', and cannot be set off against Corporation Tax.
Apart from this there are Accounts Assistants who are also very much dedicated and well trained in the related field and also Part qualified as an Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
Our principal meets the prospective client(s) for about an hour (free of charge) at our office and then mutually agrees a fee and work programme. You do not have to pay an arm and a leg to get sound accountancy and taxation services.
Our fees are based on what work needs doing and the level of skills and experience required to perform a task.


Breakwater Resources Ltd. (TSX: BWR) has signed options to acquire 50 per cent stakes in two prospective mining properties in Quebec.
The Toronto-based company said Tuesday it will obtain an interest in the Coulon JV property for $7.5 million in exploration expenditures over nine years and payments totalling $180,000 over four years. Virginia Mines Inc. (TSX: VGQ) will remain the operator until completion of a pre-feasibility study.
After the recent staking of 1,981 new claims and the addition of the Fontanges Sud and Coulon Pitaval properties, the new Coulon JV property consists of more than 3,250 claims and covers the Coulon volcanic belt over more than 90 kilometres.
Breakwater also signed deal to acquire half of the Weedon property in Quebec's Eastern Townships from Midland Exploration Inc. (TSXV:MD).
Breakwater can acquire 50 per cent of Midland's interest during a three-year period by paying: $40,000 upfront plus $160,000; exploration expenditures of $500,000 in the first year plus $2.5 million over three years. The property consists of 242 claims totalling 132 square kilometres and covers more than 30 kilometres of the Ascot-Weedon volcano-sedimentary belt.
Breakwater has four producing zinc mines: the Myra Falls mine in British Columbia; the Langlois mine in northwestern Quebec; the El Mochito mine in Honduras; and the El Toqui mine in Chile.
On the Toronto stock market Tuesday afternoon, Breakwater Resources stock was up eight cents, or 3.3 per cent, at $2.49 on 4.8 million shares traded.
Virginia Mines shares were up 17 cents at $6.38. On the TSX Venture Exchange, Midland Exploration shares were up one cent at 60 cents.