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How close are we to a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine?
Johns Hopkins vaccine expert Ruth Karron answers important questions about the process for developing a COVID-19 vaccine
/ Published Aug 11, 2020
The COVID-19 vaccine is on track to become the fastest-developed vaccine in history, but that doesn't mean critical steps are being skipped.
Ruth Karron, who leads the Center for Immunization Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is one of the top vaccine experts in the world, serving on vaccine committees for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
She recently spoke with Josh Sharfstein, professor and vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Bloomberg School, about where things stand in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine and how that process will unfold in the months ahead. This conversation is excerpted from the July 31 episode of the Public Health on Call podcast.
How close are we to a vaccine?
There are some very encouraging developments. We have a few vaccines now that will go into Phase 3 clinical trials, also known as efficacy trials. That means that those vaccines have passed certain goalposts in terms of initial evaluations of safety and immune response such that they can be evaluated in larger trials.
We know that these vaccines are promising, but we don't yet know if they are going to work. That's what the purpose of an efficacy trial is—as well as to provide a broader assessment of safety of the vaccine in a large number of people.
What do these efficacy trials entail?
They involve large numbers of people: In these particular trials for COVID vaccines, there are going to be about 30,000 people enrolled per trial. Individuals are given a vaccine, and then they are followed both to make sure that the side effects from the vaccine are acceptable and to see whether they develop a SARS-CoV-2 infection along with some symptoms.
These are placebo-controlled trials, meaning that some individuals will get a COVID vaccine and some will get a placebo. Then the rates of disease will be compared in the people who got placebo and the people who got the vaccine to determine the efficacy of the vaccine.
How successful does a vaccine have to be in one of these studies for it to be considered effective?
The FDA recently issued guidance to vaccine manufacturers about the development of COVID vaccines stating that a vaccine would need to be at least 50% effective. This means that an individual who was vaccinated would be 50% less likely to get COVID disease—or whatever the particular endpoint is that's measured in the trial—than individuals that weren't vaccinated.
This is a reasonable goal for a number of reasons. Typically, the more severe a disease is, the better chance a vaccine has of preventing that disease. So a vaccine that's 50% effective against mild COVID disease—which might be the endpoint that's measured in a clinical trial, or any evidence of COVID infection with any symptom, which is how a lot of trials are designed—might be more effective against severe disease.
When you have a disease that's as prevalent as COVID—and if we think about what the U.S. has experienced in the past several months in terms of severe disease and death—even if we were only able to cut those numbers in half, that would be a major achievement.
How long would a vaccine be effective for? If you get 50% effectiveness or more, that's good news. But if it's only effective for a few months, that's not such good news.
Time will tell—the short answer is that we don't yet know. We haven't yet had the opportunity to follow individuals for very long—the very first people who got the very first vaccine were immunized in March and it's only July. So we don't know very much about the durability of the immune response in people.
Our hope would be [that protection would last] at least a year or more, and then people might need boosters.
It's also possible that a vaccine might not entirely protect against mild disease. So you might actually experience mild disease and then have a boost in your immune response and not suffer severe disease. From a public health perspective, that would be completely acceptable. If we turned a severe disease not into "no disease" but into mild disease, that would be a real victory.
Let's talk about safety. What are they looking for in a 30,000-person study to figure out whether a vaccine is considered safe enough to use?
Every person who is enrolled in the trial will complete information about the kinds of acute symptoms that you might expect following an infection. People will need to provide information about swelling, redness, tenderness around the injection site, fever, and any other symptoms they might experience in the three to seven days following vaccination.
More long term, people will be looking to make sure that when COVID disease is experienced, there's not any evidence of more severe disease with vaccination, which is known as disease enhancement.
There was a lot of discussion as these vaccines were being developed of a concern about disease enhancement. This is based on some animal models—not with SARS-CoV-2, but with other coronaviruses. We haven't seen any evidence of enhanced disease thus far and there are a number of scientific reasons why we don't think it should occur with these vaccines. But, of course, it's something we would still watch for very carefully just as with any other safety signal.
How should we think about the possibility of adverse effects that might come up after the period of the vaccine trial?
There are a couple of things to mention about that, and one is that individuals with these trials will be followed for a year or longer. It may be that a vaccine is either approved for emergency use or licensed before all of that long-term follow up is completed. Nevertheless, companies will be obligated to complete that follow up and report those results back to the FDA.
If you think back to the fact that in January, we barely knew what this virus was, and here we are, seven months later, embarking on efficacy trials, it's really a remarkable accomplishment.
Ruth Karron
Director of the Center for Immunization Research
It's important to enroll older adults in these studies. All of these large efficacy trials will be stratified so there will be some younger adults and some older adults enrolled.
In addition, it's very likely—and this would not just happen with COVID vaccines, but whenever the FDA licenses vaccines—that there is an obligation for post-licensure assessments. If a COVID vaccine is licensed, the companies will work with the FDA to determine exactly what kind of post-licensure safety assessments will need to be done.
COVID affects certain populations more than others—particularly older adults and people with chronic illnesses. What do these studies need [in order] to address the question of whether a vaccine will be protective for them?
I think it will be important to enroll older adults across an age span. A 65-year-old is not the same as an 85-year-old. Also, a healthy older adult is not the same as a frail older adult who might be living in a care facility.
We'll need some information about diverse elderly populations in order to think about how to allocate vaccines. There may also be other alternatives for older adults if they don't respond well to vaccines. There's a lot of work going on on development of monoclonal antibodies as an alternative for groups that don't respond well to vaccines such as elderly, frail adults.
How should we think about the need for racial and ethnic diversity in these clinical trials?
It's critically important that we have racial and ethnic diversity.
We know that COVID causes increased rates of severe disease in Latinx and Black populations and in Native American populations. We will certainly want to be able to offer these COVID vaccines to these high-risk populations and encourage their use. But we need to know how well these vaccines work in these populations—if different vaccines work differently—so that we can offer the most effective vaccines.
It would not be an understatement to say that there can be a measure of distrust from some communities that have experienced discrimination from the health care system. How does that play into vaccine research?
It's really important to engage those communities in a number of ways. One way is to engage local leaders early in the process. Lay leaders and leaders of faith communities can have focus groups to find out what their concerns are and how those can be allayed.
I think a very important issue that has been raised by some people who might potentially volunteer for some of these trials has to do with eventual access. People want to have some sense that if they participate in a trial, not only might they have access to the vaccine at the end of that trial, but their families and their communities would, too. Ensuring access among these high risk and vulnerable communities is really critical.
A clear policy decision to make sure that a vaccine is widely available without charge might actually help with the studies to prove whether or not that vaccine is safe and effective?
That's absolutely the case. It's great that you brought up the "without charge" piece, too, because a vaccine that's made available but costs something to the individual may not be used. Particularly for people who don't have health insurance or people who are undocumented. It has to be broadly and freely available.
Let's talk about other specific populations. One of those is pregnant women. We know that they can certainly get COVID-19 and that there are some signs that they can have a more severe course. How do you think about the issue of pregnant women in vaccine studies?
I've done some work in this area—particularly with Ruth Faden and Carleigh Krubiner in the Berman Institute of Bioethics—specifically related to ensuring that pregnant women are considered and included in vaccine development and implementation for vaccines against epidemic and pandemic diseases.
When thinking about trials, there needs to be a justification for excluding pregnant women from trials rather than a justification for including them. The justification often is—and certainly is the case with these early COVID vaccines—that we don't know enough yet about the vaccine or the vaccine platform or the safety of the vaccine to do a study in pregnant people.
With the mRNA vaccine, for example, [the type of vaccine being considered for COVID-19] we don't currently have a licensed mRNA vaccine. It's a new platform and we're just learning about the safety of that platform so it wouldn't have been appropriate to include pregnant women in the early stage trials.
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But these 30,000-person studies are going to be really big studies. They will certainly enroll people of child-bearing potential. And even though there's what we call an exclusion criterion—women are not supposed to be pregnant at the time they are enrolled, and usually women of child-bearing potential will take a pregnancy test prior to enrollment and immunization—we know from previous experience that it's quite likely that some women will become pregnant in the months immediately following immunization. It happens quite frequently. So, it's important for companies and the government to anticipate that this will be the case and to think about how they will systematically collect data from women who do become pregnant during these trials.
It's not that the data needs to be interpreted cautiously—because pregnant women aren't being formally randomized and we don't have that kind of trial design—but there are things that could be learned and it's important to think now about how to collect those data. It's also important to think about how pregnant women could be directly included in both trials and deployment later down the road.
What about young children who are less likely to get severe disease? Would your approach to clinical trials be different?
Yes. I think we need to learn a bit more about the epidemiology in children. Fortunately, children don't seem to suffer from acute COVID disease at the rates that adults do. But we need to learn more about that and we also need to learn from our trials in adults before we make decisions about how and whether children will be included in vaccine trials.
Once we have a vaccine that has made it through these various stages and we're ready to start immunizing people outside of a pure clinical trial, how close are we to really getting the benefit of the vaccine? How does all the work it takes to develop a vaccine compare to what comes next?
The best vaccine in the world won't work if it isn't used. Use has two parts to it: One is availability and access, and the other part is acceptance.
We need to think about what kind of infrastructure we should be planning now for what we're going to need to deliver this vaccine. We'll set priorities; certainly not everyone is going to get a vaccine all at once. But certainly, over time we will expect that all adults will receive the vaccine and perhaps children. So we'll need to have systems in place that can deliver the vaccine. At the same time, we need to make sure that the vaccine is acceptable. We need to communicate the importance of vaccination to the public and address their concerns so that we can not only be able to deliver vaccines, but have those be accepted by the public.
So there's a lot of work to be done. But this isn't science fiction: We are really on a path to a vaccine for a brand new infectious disease.
Yes. If you think back to the fact that in January, we barely knew what this virus was, and here we are, seven months later, embarking on efficacy trials, it's really a remarkable accomplishment. We have a lot to do yet, but in the time that we're assessing the efficacy of these vaccines and making sure that they can be delivered to the public, people really need to stay safe and do all the things we've been encouraging them to do all along.
But we are well on our way to developing vaccines not only for people in the U.S., but for people all over the world.
This article originally appeared online as part of the Bloomberg School of Public Health's COVID-19 Expert Insights.
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Auto Industry Breaks Recall Record
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Not even halfway into 2014 and automakers just set the U.S. record for most recalls in a single year. The recall that broke the camel's back was for defective air bags in Honda, Nissan, Ford, BMW, Mazda, and Chrysler vehicles. Auto accident attorneys at Pintas & Mullins Law Firm explain this recall and who it may affect in more detail.
The defective air bags were manufactured by Japan's Takata Corp., which supplies car parts to many different automakers, including Toyota, Ford, and Nissan. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently launched an investigation into Takata, headed by its Office of Defects Investigation unit. According to preliminary reports, between 2008 and 2011, Honda alone conducted a series of recalls because of similar airbag issues, pointing to a widespread, long-term problem.
Automakers frequently design their vehicles in similar formats so they can use parts from the same company (airbags from Takata), which is less expensive. Although this practice cuts down on cost, it also leaves these vehicles vulnerable, so a single recall or defective product can affect millions of different types of car.
Below is a list of the recently recalled vehicles, by automaker:
Honda (2 million vehicles)
• 2001-2007 Accord • 2001-2005 Civic • 2002-2006 CRV • 2002-2004 Odyssey van • 2003-2007 Pilot • 2003-2011 Element • Other Honda and Acura models
Mazda (160,000 vehicles)
• 2004-2008 RX-8 • 2003-2007 Mazda6 • 2006-2007 MazdaSpeed6 • 2004 MPV
Nissan (755,000 vehicles)
• 2001-2003 Maxima • Infiniti FX • Pathfinder
Ford (58,669 vehicles)
• 2005-2007 Mustang • 2005-2007 GT • 2004 Ranger Pickup
• 2001-2005 3 Series Sedan • 2001-2006 3 Series Coupe • 2001-2005 3 Series Sports Wagon • 2001-2006 3 Series Convertible
• 2003-2005 Corolla, Matrix, Sequoia, Tundra, Lexus, and Pontiac Vibe
Federal investigations found that the device that propels airbags in the event of a crash can burn too quickly, causing the metal airbag container to explode. Were that to occur in a real accident, metal shards would spray throughout the car, either on the driver or passenger side.
There have been several reports of injuries reported to the NHTSA because of the airbag defects, many of which coming from hot and humid regions such as Florida and Hawaii. Automakers claim that humid climates encourage the airbag propellant to burn more rapidly than other climates, intensifying the problem. Because of this, most automakers (except Honda) are limiting their recalls to these regions for now.
Among the states and regions most affected by this recall include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
It is likely these recalls will later extend nationwide, however. We say this because there have been issues with Takata airbags several times in the past, and according to the Office of Defects Investigation, none of these previous recalls were regional in nature, nor were they attributable to climate conditions. If we were to guess, it seems like the automakers are merely attempting to use the "climate conditions" argument as a red herring, to detract from the large-scale recall and clear problems with industry practices.
Takata also manufactures seat belts, steering wheels and other auto parts. Any type of defect in a vehicle can make it dangerous to drive and lead to collisions, injury and even fatal accidents. Unfortunately, many consumers are unaware that a small defect exists in their vehicles, and never attempt to file a claim against automakers after an accident.
If you or someone close to you was recently involved in a car accident, even if you believe it was your fault, contact our firm today. It's a free phone call, so there is no risk to you by calling. If we believe your case may have merit, or you own a recalled vehicle and were injured because of the defects, we will send our team of investigators out to you to determine the facts and basis of your case. Our auto accident lawyers have over three decades of experience handling these cases, and accept clients from all 50 states.
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If you're new to KML, begin by browsing the KML Tutorial, which presents short samples of KML code that you can view in Google Earth.
The KML Reference provides detailed syntax for all KML elements, with explanations and diagrams of how to specify them.
The Developer's Guide contains in-depth conceptual material and examples.
Many applications display KML, including Google Earth, NASA WorldWind, ESRI ArcGIS Explorer, Adobe PhotoShop, AutoCAD, and Yahoo! Pipes.


KCET 2019 is expected to be held in the 3rd week of April 2019. The exams authority has not released the official notification for KCET Exam 2019. KCET stands for Karnataka Common Entrance Test which is conducted by the Karnataka Examinations Authority for admissions in various undergraduate courses in the colleges across the state.
As soon as the official notifications are out, we will update the exact exam schedule and other details here. Till then, the candidates can find the other details on the exam in the following sections.
Exam Purpose Admission in the first year of engineering, agriculture, pharmacy & various other courses.
Exam Mode Pen and paper-based mode in OMR pattern.
Engineering, Horticulture, Sericulture, Fisheries, Agri Marketing, Food Science and Technology, Dairy Technology, Home Sciences, Forestry, Unani and Ayurvedic Medicine and Pharmacy Courses etc.
The admissions in medical and dental courses will be done on the basis of marks secured in NEET UG.
The admissions in Architecture Courses will be done on the basis of performance in JEE Paper – 2 or NATA.
The Application Forms will be released online. The forms are expected to be released in the last week of January 2019 and the form submission has to be completed by the last week of February 2019. The candidates are advised to first confirm their eligibility for the exam and only then apply for the same. Once the candidate has filled and submitted the application form, despite being ineligible for KCET 2019, he or she will not be entitled to fee refund etc.
The application forms will be released online and all the steps are to be completed online.
There will be no other mode of form submission for Karnataka CET 2019.
To begin the application process, the candidates are required to log in to the official portal.
They will find a link for "New Registration" which will take them to the online form.
The candidates will have to fill the details such as name, gender, date of birth, address, contact information etc.
After submitting the details, the candidates will be asked to create their online account which will be used till the result declaration and admissions via KCET 2019 Exam.
Once the candidates have submitted the personal information, their User ID and Application Number will be sent on the Email ID or Contact Number provided by them in the previous step.
Then the candidates will be asked to submit the details of their academic performance in Class X and XII exams.
The next step in form submission process for KCET 2019 will involve uploading of the scanned images of their signature, photograph, left-hand thumb impression and parent's signature.
The next step will require them to complete the fee remission by the mode of their choice and convenience. Once the transaction is complete, the candidates will be allotted a transaction number which should be saved till the completion of admission process.
The KCET 2019 exam authority has not yet released the exact form fee, hence, the expected fee details have been mentioned in the next section.
The fee for KCET 2019 will be different for the candidates with NRI status which will be intimated as soon as the exam has been announced.
Karnataka CET 2019 Correction window is a final opportunity to make the correction in your application form. This process is conducted through online mode only.
Through this facility, the candidate can only edit limited information present in the application form of KCET 2019.
This correction facility can be used by those candidates who have successfully registered and paid application fees.
There will be no other chance for editing/correcting the Karnataka CET application form will be given to the candidates afterward.
In this section, we have given detail information about the syllabus of KCET 2019 Exam along with their relevant KCET 2019 sample question papers.
The candidates wishing to apply for the exam are advised to first confirm their eligibility for the same and only then fill the forms. The ineligible candidates will NOT be considered for admissions irrespective of their marks in the exam.
The Karnataka state residents, NRI students and the migrants of J&K are eligible for the exam.
The candidates must have attained the age of 17 years by 31st December of the year of admission. The reserved category candidates will be given an age relaxation of 3 to 4 years.
The candidates are required to pass the Class XII exam with a minimum percentage of 50% (GEN) or 40% (OBC, SC and ST).
The candidates that are going to take the Class XII Exam in 2019 will also be considered eligible for KCET 2019.
Now we shall mention the course-wise eligibility criteria for KCET 2019 Exam.
The candidates must have passed Class XII exam with Math as a compulsory subject and must have obtained at least 50% marks in the same. The reserved category candidates must obtain at least 40% marks.
The candidates must have taken and passed the Class XII with subject combination of PCB and English.
The aggregate marks in these 4 subjects must be at least 50% (GEN) and 40% (reserved category) in order to be eligible for KCET 2019.
The candidates must have taken and passed the Class XII exam with English and PCM as the compulsory subjects.
The minimum passing marks are 50% for General Category and 40% for the reserved category as per the eligibility norms for KCET Exam 2019.
The candidate must have taken and passed the Class XII Exam with PCB or PCM.
The minimum pass percentage will be mentioned with the release of official notification.
The candidates must have taken and passed the Class XII exam with the subject combination of PCM or PCB with a minimum pass percentage of 45% (GEN) or 40% (Reserved Category).
Further details on the eligibility norms will be updated once the KCET 2019 exam has been announced.
Exam Section: KCET 2019 will have 4 sections namely – Physics, Math, Chemistry and Kannada Language (if Applicable).
Type of Question: Every paper will have 60 MCQs which are to be answered in 80 minutes.
Marking Scheme: Every right answer will fetch ONE mark and there will be NO penalty or NEGATIVE MARKING for the wrong answers.
Marks: Hence, every section will be of 60 marks which makes the KCET 2019 of 180 marks. The Kannada language test will be of 50 marks and will have 50 MCQs. The exam duration will be 80 minutes.
The exact exam dates and other details such as fee, eligibility, and links for form submission will be updated with the release of official notification.
KCET 2019 will be conducted in offline mode.
There will be no other mode of form submission other than the online mode.
The candidate has successfully registered for KCET 2019 exam would be able to download admit card. They can download Karnataka CET 2019 Admit Card through online mode at the official website.
Step 3: Verify all the details mention in your Admit Card and take print out for future references.


Motion blur is the streak-like effect that happens while shooting a video or still image due to either long camera exposure or rapid movement of moving subjects. This effect can also be seen in human eyes. The image will have a motion blur if your eyes moves past an object. The motion blur should be added to video as it will highlight the movements and direction of subject and add more personality to images in the video. So it will make your video standout from the others who are not using motion blur. You might be thinking that giving a motion blur effect to video with Sony Vegas Pro is a very difficult task but it is not like that as you can achieve it with great ease.
There are many people who cannot use Vegas Pro due to its high cost and incompatibility with Mac. So Wondershare Filmora can help those people by providing video editing tools at affordable price. It supports Mac as well as Windows operating system. It is also easy-to-use thus people who are new to video editing can utilize this software in a convenient manner. So what are you waiting for, start downloading the free trial version of Wondershare Filmora by clicking on the link given below.
The motion blur effect can be used in Vegas Pro by following the steps given below.
The first step begins with importing a video file into Vegas Pro and then dragging it into timeline. It is also necessary that the chosen video must be motional.
You need to follow the steps given below for adding motion blur to your video.
The very first step is to go to View tab and select Video Bus Track. You can also press Shift + Ctrl +B for choosing it. After this, a Video Bus Track will be seen below your original video track. This tool will be used for adding motion blur.
Next step is to right click the Video Bus Track and then select Insert/Remove Envelope. On selecting it, you will see Motion Blur Amount.
Choose it. After that, a pink line will be appeared over the Video Bus Track representing Motion Blur length.
Now drag this line up to 10 and in the video preview box, you will observe that it has become a very shaky looking footage. You will have a more blurry look if you will bring this bar to the top.
Many setting options will be there on the head of Video Bus Track that can help you in adjusting motion blur effect. Now tap on the Animation Settings icon so that Vegas Pro can give you permission to fade the track. After this, drag it down for applying a bottom color fade and up for top color fade. The motion blur length and fade for particular part can also be set if you will double click on that part.
A dynamic RAM preview can be built by the following steps.
Firstly, you have to look for a bar with a little yellow triangle to accentuate the areas (Looping Region).
Now drag that across the video.
After dragging, go and search "Tools" and tap it. Once you are finished with this task, play the footage. It will produce a little bit smoother looking clip.
If you like video preview then save it. The transition effects can also be added to video in Sony Vegas in addition to motion blur.
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Google Maps for Android going indoors in new update
By John Callaham Neowin @JCalmn · Nov 30, 2011 06:10 EST · Hot! with 20 comments
San Francisco International Airport before and after, with 3D tilt.
Google Maps for Android has received a new update that brings the version number up to 6.0. As explained in a new entry on Google's official blog site, the 6.0 update allows Android smartphone and tablet users to take a look inside some large public buildings for the first time.
That includes a number of major international airport terminals such as San Francisco International Airport. As you can see in the above image, the Google Maps version on the left shows the old way of viewing the terminal building while the new 6.0 version of Google Maps shows a number of gate locations as well as other landmarks inside the building. Microsoft previously launched an update for its Bing Maps service in October 2011 that also shows what's inside a number of airport terminals in the US.
Google Maps 6.0 for Android also lets users see what's inside a number of US retail malls such as the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, and the Vallco Shopping Mall in Cupertino, California. A number of retail store locations for Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Ikea and Home Depot are also shown with inside information in the new Google Maps. You can check out a full list of what floor plans for retail locations are supported on Google's web site. The update supports locations only in the US and Japan at the moment.
Google plans to add even more public building floor plans in the coming months to Google Maps for Android. It is inviting businesses to add their own building floor plans for Google Maps at this web site.
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The game follows the adventure of 5 travellers to achieve their goals through the power of sugar, spice, and everything nice. Ghost wishes to enjoy the candies he loves when alive, Witch who wishes to grow up by eating her favourite treat, Zombie with his undying love for his mom's homemade candies, Dragon and his master that crave for sweets, and Monster that will scare away anyone from touching his snack. Who will prevail in this race to get the most candy? Beware that while there are treats out there, tricks are sure to follow.
1. Easy to play, tap to jump up and gobble up treats.
2. The user can select 5 ranges of difficulties.
5. Replay map to earn more candies to unlock achievements and characters.


Carballar was born in Mexico. Lives and works in New York. Her work in video, photography and installation has been exhibited in the US, Mexico, Asia and Europe, including ExTeresa Arte Actual Museum, Mexico; Today Art Museum, China; the Stadsschouwburg Theater, The Netherlands; Aferro Gallery, NJ; Pingyao International Photography Festival, China. She was an Artist in Residence at the Watermill Center in October 2014 with the art-collective Lydian Junction. She holds an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice (DIAP) from City College, CUNY; an MA from New York University, and a BA in Graphic Design and Photography from Universidad Intercontinental in Mexico City. She teaches photography and video art at NYU and Manhattan College.
This workshop will introduce you to the principles of documenting your own artwork in the best possible way with the resources available to you. Through hands-on demonstrations and technical instruction, you will learn the basic photography principles and optimal camera settings.
We will cover lighting, white balance, and camera placement to best represent your work and capture color accurately.
After photographing your work images need to be processed to get the best possible results. From small adjustments such as resizing and cropping to manipulating exposure, balancing color, and combining multiple files, every digital image need work in post-production. In this workshop you will learn how to edit your images using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to improve the documentation of your work. Finally, we will cover how to save and export your files for the proper outlet: print, web, distribution, etc.


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Lunéville is a town in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, in the Grand Est region of eastern France. The Treaty of Lunéville, between France and Austria, was signed there in February 1801.
Lunéville is situated where the Vezouze and Meurthe rivers meet, about 18 miles (29 kilometers) southeast of the city of Nancy. The 18th-century planned town of Lunéville has a church built in a Rococo style and a fine château, inspired by Versailles. The town's main industries include the manufacture of china, electronics, and machinery.
In the 15th century Lunéville was included in the duchy of Lorraine; in 1766 it was joined to France. Austria was forced by Napoleon to sign the Treaty of Lunéville there in 1801. The treaty restored the borders of France to the borders Julius Caesar had given ancient Gaul. Population (2014 estimate), 19,325.


This year the festival will take place from Thursday 22nd August to Sunday 25th August, 2019.
20:00 - 21:30 2nd festival concert - Kostel sv. Antonína / Church of St. Anthony - Sokolovské nám.
end of the festival - Have a safe journey !
The centre of the festival, including registration, is in the entertainment and commerce Centre Babylon. The festival concerts will take place in the Church of St. Antonín Veliký at Sokolovské náměstí (Saturday), and in the House of Culture (Friday, Sunday).
We have chosen the most suitable rehearsal rooms in the centre of the city for the workshops within the walking distance of 20 minutes from the Babylon Centre at the maximum??, or 15 minutes from the House of Culture. The location od the individual workshops will be specified before the beginning of the festival and marked on the map.
The commerce and entertainment Centre Babylon, where participant registration and joint singing will take place, has several halls (the biggest for about 700-800 visitors), ****hotel with 1000 beds and a wide offer of attractions (water park, IQ park, iQLANDIA, amusement park, mirror labyrinth, shopping mall, etc.). For more information, see www.centrumbabylon.cz.
The House of Culture, where the opening and closing concert will take place, has a large modern hall for about 1000 visitors. For more information, see dkliberec.cz.
The students´ hall of residence Zeyerova can accommodate all participants of the festival on one spot in beautiful premises. There are mostly three-bed and four-bed rooms, showers and toilets are in the halls on each floor, dining room is in the basement. The precincts are enclosed, the parking place is big enough for the participants of the festival. It is possible to walk to the centre or to take a bus (no. 13, 24 a 26, the timetables are available at the website DPMLJ).
There is a change in accommodation for those who will stay in the student dormitory. There will be a new one this year, the dormitory at Truhlářská street (Domov mládeže, Truhlářská 360/3), with rooms from double to four-bed rooms. After this dormitory has been fully occupied, we will accommodate the rest of the participants in the dormitory at Zeyerova. The accommodation will be assigned in the order of your submitted registrations.
Those interested in hotel accommodation are recommended to contact the city information centre (www.visitliberec.eu).Undemanding participants are offered to stay in the gym of the Basic School in Barvířská street. It is however necessary for them to take their own sleeping bags, mats and slippers!
Participation fee (basic) is 65 EUR.
Please, pay by bank transfer to the CZK account at Fio bank 2601180499/2010. For payments in Euro you can use our EUR account at Fio bank 2501414032/2010 (IBAN: CZ5620100000002501414032, BIC: FIOBCPPXXX). Please make sure you use the variable symbol = your participant number.
After you have successfully registered to the required workshop and part (voice group), your place will be reserved for 14 days. Unless we receive your payment before the expiration of this reservation period, your application for participation in the festival will be automatically cancelled and the reserved place will be released for other singers interested in taking part in the festival. Please note that due to technical reasons there are no exceptions possible. Please read and fill in the application form carefully following the instructions on the screen.
Note: For foreign participants who will come in groups we recommend mass payment. The bank charge will not be so high. Please, send us the breakdown of the total payment by e-mail, so that we can identify individual participants. Always give the registration numbers. In exceptional cases we can (after previous agreement by e-mail) allow the participants from abroad to pay during the registration in Liberec.
In case of sending the money back to foreign banks the amount will be reduced by the respective bank transfer fees.
Meals - breakfasts, lunches and dinners during the festival will be provided in KNL restaurant in the Liberec Regional Council headquarters (former Eurest).
NOTE!!! Breakfast will not be served in the dormitory Zeyerova, but at the same place as lunch and dinner, i.e. in KNL restaurant in the Liberec Regional Council headquarters, or in the hotels.
The front of the T-shirt bears the festival logo embroidered in contrasting colours. Different colour versions are numbered in the illustrations. The same numbers, together with the respective colours, are given in the application form for ordering.
After you have paid the participant fee, you will be allowed to download the music sheets from our web sites. The location will be specified in NEWS. Please, do not forget to take the printed sheet music with you to the festival. You will get the songbook for joint singing at the registration in Liberec, or it will also be available for download at the festival website.
The festival concerts will be recorded. You can order the 2-CD.


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Artifacts stolen nearly 30 years ago returned to museum
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Jan. 16, 2020 Updated: Jan. 16, 2020 1:54 p.m.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Native American arrowheads have been returned to the Rhode Island museum they were stolen from nearly 30 years ago.
Agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security located the 34 white-quartz arrowheads in an eBay advertisement, WPRI-TV reported Wednesday.
The couple who attempted to sell the arrowheads say they did not know there were stolen, and claim to have traded a case of wine for the collection on Craigslist in 2017.
Jason Langlais, a descendant of the archaeologist who discovered the arrowheads, said they are up to 3,000 years old and were a part of throwing darts.
"These belonged to people who were able to survive our harsh winters using sticks, stones and bones," Langlais said. "This is what fed their families, and kept them from going cold in the wintertime."
This story has been updated to correct that WPRI reported this story Wednesday, not Tuesday.


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Q: Isolating load from both sides with N-channel MOSFETS I am trying to isolate a load both from the +, and the ground side and tried the circuit in the schematic below. I realize that the Q2 MOSFET should be p-channel, rather than n-channel, but I only had n-channel MOSFETs laying around and gave it a shot. The resulting behavior is weird and defies my understanding. Therefore, I am asking for some help to understand what is going on.

Notes on the schematic

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*Vdd is 5V and connected to my benchtop power supply

*Vcc is not really a fixed voltage, but a lead that was connected to three different options (Arduino digital pin, Arduino 5V, Power supply 5V)

*Arduino and power supply grounds are shared, and the Arduino's Vin comes from the power supply's 5V line.

*The load is a large inductor

Behavior description

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*When powering the circuit, about 0.5W are dissipated even if the Vcc line is set to ground.

*If Vcc is set to the Arduino's high digital pin, the current flowing through the circuit increases slightly but does not come even close to what it should be (150 mA, vs the expected 650 mA).

*If Vcc is set to Arduino's 5V line, the current through the circuit jumps to 550 mA, and the load was also dissipating more.

*If Vcc is set directly to the power supply's 5V, the current draw reaches the nominal value.

Does anyone know what is going on?
Thanks

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Drummer John Konrad (born Liverpool, 3rd October 1944) and bassist Keith Karlson (born Keith Alcock in Liverpool, 14th August 1944) formed a group called The Nomads with lead guitarist Roy Woods. However, Woods didn't fit in and he was replaced by Adrian Wilkinson in September 1962.
At one time, Stu almost became a member of The Undertakers. He rehearsed with them for three days, but Geoff Nugent threatened to leave if the group employed Stu. As The Nomads they appeared with The Beatles at the Cavern on Sunday 3rd February 1963 and recorded on the 'This Is Mersey Beat' album.
When they discovered that a London group had registered the name The Nomads, they changed the band's name to The Mojos, due to Muddy Waters and the record 'I've Got My Mojo Working.' The band entered the Lancashire & Cheshire Beat Group Contest at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool and, although the group didn't win, they were awarded a songwriters contract with Carlin Music.
It was ironic that Carlin leased their tapes to Decca because The Escorts, the group who won the competition, failed to be given the promised Decca recording contract.
The Mojos were joined by Terry O' Toole on piano and Stu became lead vocalist. Now managed by Spencer Lloyd Mason, they saw their first record, 'Forever,' released in October 1963 and also gained a residency at the Blue Angel club in Liverpool. Adrian left to join The Mastersounds and was replaced by Nicky Crouch (born Aintree, Liverpool, on 9th February 1943), former member of Faron's Flamingos. They appeared for a five-week season at the Star Club in Hamburg and, while in Germany, they recorded 'Everything's Alright', which became a Top Ten hit.
The group also toured Britain with The Rolling Stones and The Dave Clark Five. Soon after the release of 'Seven Daffodils', Keith Karlson and Terry O' Toole left because the group couldn't agree on musical policy. Lewis Collins (born Bidston, Birkenhead, on 27th May 1946) on bass and Aynsley Dunbar (born 10th January 1946 in Liverpool) on drums became the new members of the quartet in December 1964.
The name was changed to Stu James & The Mojos. This line-up continued until September 1966. Lewis Collins was to join other bands before becoming an actor and starring as Bodie in 'The Professionals' while Dunbar joined John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and The Mojos finally disbanded in January 1967 after a short spell backing singers Paul & Barry Ryan.
'Until My Baby Comes Home' c/w 'Seven Park Avenue' on Liberty LBF15097 in 1968.


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I have experience working with adults and children, assisting them through various difficulties. My areas of focus include children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, behavioural challenges, developing social and communication skills, anxiety, depression, and stress management. I work collaboratively with families to set goals and implement strategies to support their child's challenges.
Working as a psychologist within a school I have learnt how important the counselling space is for children, allowing them to feel comfortable and heard when they otherwise may not have. As well as how to help these children navigate their way through challenging times by providing a positive environment for them to develop emotionally and intellectually, all the while supporting them on their journey of self-growth.


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Nedgroup Investments, DVT partner on SA leading self-investing platform
Software development and testing company DVT teamed up with Nedgroup Investments to assist with the testing of its newly launched online investment platform, 'Extraordinary Life.' DVT's Global Testing Centre played a pivotal role in the success of the platform, which was named Banker Technology project of the year in the Banker Tech projects Awards 2018, backed by Financial Times.
Extraordinary Life is a digital, automated savings platform, one of the first end-to-end digital journeys in the South African market that enables a customer to be able to receive an investment recommendation, detail on the tax savings and returns, on-board himself, invest and see his holdings without submitting any paper in less than 10 minutes. This also includes digitally setting up retirement plans – a South Africa first.
The platform was created via collaboration between technical experts from South Africa, India, Czech Republic and United Kingdom and integrates artificial intelligence, chatbot, investment algorithms, web and API development.
"We're happy to be partnering with DVT. The team was highly committed, energised and professional. The results were real – a 70% reduction in testing time and development to implementation with test automation," says Donna Barnes, Head: Direct Clients at Nedgroup Investments.
"I'm not a fan of front-loading an initiative with resources so when discussing testing, I was adamant to bring the team in later. However, after having met with the DVT team, I realised the important part they could play in ensuring our new digital product was robust and market-worthy," notes Barnes.
Mario Matthee, Head of SQA Architecture and R&D at DVT's Global Testing Solutions says, "This was definitely one of the most exciting and fun projects that I have been part of in a while. The fact that this project won an international award is a great example of what can be achieved when you have the right people in the right positions for a project, working towards a common goal, and along the way challenging how projects are delivered."
DVT included test analysis from the start of the project, and test automation followed soon after Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) was introduced to ensure test automation covered the acceptance criteria as defined by the team. BDD is an extension of Test-Driven Development (TDD) that emphasises developing features based on a user story and writing code that provides a solution to real problems.
"The most complex part of the test automation was not the scripting but rather the architecture and strategy. Test automation played a critical role in the overall test strategy, executing against all environments, even production," says Matthee.
According to Matthee, every project has its challenges, and in this project the biggest one was the re-use of test data, catering for complex investment models, responding to changes to the functionality and chatbot conversational flows.
How does Extraordinary Life work?
Extraordinary Life utilises an intelligent chatbot front end that collects information from the customers in a convenient and conversational way, which helps with trust and simplicity.
It calculates amounts needed for particular goals such as retirement and education, cleverly making use of a cloud-based algorithm that guesses the age of humans based on facial recognition and Google APIs to pinpoint education institutions and their corresponding fees respectively to enrich the engagement
It enables hyper-personalisation that works not only on investment but also tax recommendation algorithms, which allow customers with various needs to invest in the right portfolio at various stages of their life, using intelligent automation.
It has advanced investment algorithms, built using in-house stochastic models from our asset management team (with 1 000 000 data points over 1 000 future scenarios) integrated into a recommendations matrix as opposed to deterministic models used in an average robo-advisor.
"This project had the luxury of working directly with the business product owner, Donna Barnes. Donna was part of the delivery team: answering questions, helping remove impediments, testing as functionality was released, logging defects, retesting fixes, informing project sponsors of the progress and providing motivation to the team to mention a few," says Matthee.
The other positives according to Matthee was a team commitment to deliver and the fact that everyone participated in the quality assurance component of the project. "Everybody did testing, including the scrum master, solution architect and even the IT Executive, George Ambler."
There are no administrative or advice fees and costs are kept especially low by making use of passive investments. Unlike most robo-advice platforms, it doesn't only take into account investment advice but also tax optimisation to allow people across the wealth spectrum in South Africa to maximise their savings and investments.
"We wanted to offer the emerging middle and middle to upper class individual, which has historically been underserved with advice in South Africa, a cutting-edge investment user experience with low fees and high transparency," concludes Barnes. "Thanks to a team effort and technology partners like DVT, end users now have a completely frictionless digital experience when investing, and they have access to a qualified financial advisor at no cost to review the platform's investment recommendations."
DVT named Microsoft Gold Partner for data analytics
DVT sponsors Johannesburg UX South Africa Conference 2019
DVT, Microsoft announce Azure partnership milestone
DVT partners with UiPath to offer customers robotic process automation (RPA) services
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Q: Write to textarea when enter key is pressed? I have a textarea, which will handle output, and a textfield which will handle user input.
Focus will be entirely on the input field.
I can't make it so that the user input field will add text when the form is submitted (enter key is pressed). It will only work if there is a button and this is clicked. How do I solve this issue?
Below is the code i'm trying for the enter key submit.

<textarea id="textarea1"></textarea>

<input type="text" onSubmit="addtxt('textarea1');">

A: This will do the job. Also, you should deal with the value property of the textarea rather than appending text nodes to it: if the user changes the textarea's value at all, changing its child nodes afterwards will have no effect. If you want the textarea to be read-only, add a readonly attribute: <textarea id="textarea1" readonly></textarea>.

<input type="text" onkeydown="return inputKeyDown(event, this);">

A: Instead of submit, try using the keypress event.  Detect when the enter key is pressed, copy the data, and cancel the event (to prevent form submission).  If you allow the form to submit, it will simply replace the existing page with the result of the form post.
Modifying your current code:

<textarea id="textarea1"></textarea>

<input type="text" onkeypress="return addtxt(event,this,'textarea1');">

Note that there may be much better ways to achieve your ultimate goal, but since you don't state what that is, this is really the best I can do.  Also, I'd would definitely look at using a framework like jQuery/Dojo/Prototype and add the handlers unobtrusively.

A: Use the form element
<form onsubmit="addtxt('textarea1')">
    <textarea id="textarea1"></textarea>

<input type="text" />
</form>

A: You can use JQuery
$('textarea#textarea1').keypress(function(e) {
    if (e.keyCode == 13) { // enter
       //do some stuff
    }
});


Dual credit/concurrent enrollment allows high school students to take a college-level course right at their own high school, taught by a certified high school instructor. Students receive technical college credit upon successful completion of their college-level class (with a grade of C or above). The course is identical to the Madison College course taught on our campus.
There is no cost to high school students for dual credit/concurrent enrollment courses. Students participating in dual credit courses must be admitted and register for their class following Madison College procedures.
Students eligible for dual credit/concurrent enrollment include high school juniors and seniors who have maintained a high grade point average and are ready for the challenge of a college-level course. They may not have any significant disciplinary problems on their student record. For more information, be sure to speak to your high school counselor.
Talk to your high school counselor and state your interest in earning early college credit. Learn what classes are available for you to take at your high school.
Create a Madison College student account.
Enroll in your class using the Student Center.
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High school teachers who wish to teach our classes in their high schools must meet the part-time faculty requirements as mandated by the Higher Learning Commision and Madison Area Technical College. These requirements will be posted as soon as the final documentation is completed.
Teachers may submit their application materials at any time during the year; however, applications will only be reviewed in the fall, with anticipated high school implementation the following fall. For example, teachers submit application fall of 2017 and the class, pending approval, will be implemented fall of 2018.
The courses below are approved for area high schools to be taught as a dual credit course. Remember that courses offered for dual credit vary by high school! The classes we offer at individual high schools are the high school's decision based on their curriculum needs and staff expertise. Check with your school counselor to talk over your early college credit opportunities.


Save for a brief period following Earl Richard's attainder, when all the Arundel estates were held by John Holand, duke of Exeter, Reigate belonged to the Fitzalans from 1347 onwards. On the death of Richard's son, Thomas, in 1415, it became part of the dower held by the widowed countess Beatrice who lived on until 1439.7 The family's undoubted influence in the borough does not, however, appear to have been much exercised in the matter of parliamentary representation, since during the 14th and early 15th centuries local men were customarily returned. Because Reigate was a small borough whose residents were almost all connected with the lord in one way or another most of the MPs had some dealings with the Fitzalans or their agents, although this obviously cannot be taken as evidence of electoral management.
Reigate first returned burgesses to Parliament in 1295, although it was not until 1350 that the borough was represented on a fairly regular basis and elections ceased to be sporadic events. Returns have survived for 20 of the 32 Parliaments of our period. We have no information as to who sat for Reigate on any of the other occasions, which makes it impossible to be certain about the parliamentary experience of the 19 men whom we know to have been elected between 1386 and 1421. Allowing for the limitations of the evidence, five of them were apparently returned only once, four were returned at least twice and three at least three times. Seven MPs had rather more impressive records, probably because the size of the borough and the problem of finding suitable candidates obliged the more influential residents to offer themselves repeatedly for election. At all events, three of them sat in four (or more) Parliaments, and two (Roger Chaunce I and John Bavell) in five; John Aubyn attended six, and John Chaunce II seven. Either through necessity or choice the people of Reigate were almost always represented by at least one Member with previous experience of the parliamentary scene. Only in 1402 and 1414 (Nov.) do both Members appear to have been novices, but we cannot be certain because of the gaps in the returns. In no less than ten of the Parliaments under review both men had sat before, and in at least eight one novice was accompanied by an experienced colleague. Reelection was common throughout the late 14th and early 15th centuries. John Aubyn served consecutively in 1385 and 1386 and again, with William Bone, in 1388 (Sept.) and 1390 (Jan.). John Skinner II sat in four consecutive Parliaments between 1395 and 1399, complete representative continuity being assured in 1397 (Jan.) with the re-election of his colleague, John Bavell. John Skinner III was reelected in 1415, John Chaunce II in 1419 and John Pope II in 1420 and 1421 (May). So far as is known, Walter Urry was the only MP to be returned for another constituency during this period, having twice represented his native Horsham before he first sat for Reigate in 1421 (May). He alone possessed the influence and resources to become a shire knight, which he did in 1435 when the electors of Sussex sent him to Parliament.
Urry also stands out among the Reigate MPs because he seems to have been the only outsider to represent the borough between 1386 and 1421. Far more is known about him than his colleagues, since hardly any local records have survived to illuminate their careers. Even the more important burgesses, who were probably quite affluent farmers or tradespeople, remain obscure figures, identifiable only through some long-standing family connexion with the area. This is true of no less than seven of the men considered here, whose private affairs and lives outside Parliament are now completely undocumented. We may assume, for example, that the Chaunces and Skinners played a leading part in the life of later medieval Reigate, for they so often provided it with MPs. Thanks to the existence of a few local deeds, at least five more burgesses are known to have held land in or near the borough, while two others appear as the witnesses to property transactions there and perhaps lived in the area. The remaining five MPs cannot now be identified at all, although their very obscurity would suggest that they spent most of their lives in Reigate and were not active elsewhere. With the exception of Walter Urry, who owned a substantial estate in and around Horsham in Sussex, the individuals considered here seem to have been landowners on a modest scale. John Pope may well have held property in the Sussex village of West Hoathley, but so far as we can tell his colleagues did not acquire land in other counties, nor did they build up holdings at any great distance from the borough. If, as seems possible, John Knight had a farm in Wandsworth, he was the only MP with possessions in north Surrey.
No more than two of the men who sat for Reigate during our period ever played any part in local government at a county level, and both had already sat in Parliament before doing so. Roger Chaunce II was appointed three times as a tax collector for Surrey, and Walter Urry served on five commissions in Surrey and Sussex. Whereas in the later 15th century the borough was commonly represented by retainers or employees of the earls of Arundel, who more often than not enjoyed considerable influence in their own right, the burgesses returned during our period seem to have been relatively humble men, whose election can have owed little, if anything, to the Fitzalans. Some may have been employed as constables or bailiffs; others probably farmed land belonging to the earls; but only Walter Urry has the distinction of being returned while in office as steward of the Arundels' liberties of Lewes and Reigate—a post which he appears to have held for over 24 years. The loss of the borough records and the nature of the returns for Reigate (which form part of a brief schedule either for the whole of Surrey and Sussex or for Surrey alone) mean that hardly anything is known about the election procedure adopted at Reigate or the size of the electorate. The two constables made the return in 1452, although 20 years later their duties were evidently assumed by the bailiff.8 These changes had little practical effect, however, since the presiding constable often acted as bailiff during his term in office. It is unlikely that more than a few burgesses voted at the borough elections; and because of the lack of properly qualified candidates the majority were probably men who had themselves been returned to Parliament.
1. W. Hooper, Reigate, 81; VCH Surr. iii. 230, 234.
2. VCH Surr. ii. 277; Hooper, 103, 105-7.
3. VCH Surr. iii. 234; CChR, iii. 194.
4. Surr. Rec. Soc. xi. 5, 39-40, 140.
5. Eng. Med. Bors. ed. Beresford and Finberg, 169; VCH Surr. iii. 234.
8. VCH Surr. iii. 234.


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GitLab 6.0 is affected by critical security vulnerabilities CVE-2013-4490 and CVE-2013-4489. Please [update to GitLab 6.2 immediately](6.0-to-6.2.md).

### Deprecations

#### Global projects

The root (global) namespace for projects is deprecated.
So you need to move all your global projects under groups or users manually before update or they will be automatically moved to the project owner namespace during the update. When a project is moved all its members will receive an email with instructions how to update their git remote url. Please make sure you disable sending email when you do a test of the upgrade.

#### Teams

We introduce group membership in 6.0 as a replacement for teams.
The old combination of groups and teams was confusing for a lot of people.
And when the members of a team where changed this wasn't reflected in the project permissions.
In GitLab 6.0 you will be able to add members to a group with a permission level for each member.
These group members will have access to the projects in that group.
Any changes to group members will immediately be reflected in the project permissions.
You can even have multiple owners for a group, greatly simplifying administration.

### 0. Backup

It's useful to make a backup just in case things go south:
(With MySQL, this may require granting "LOCK TABLES" privileges to the GitLab user on the database version)

```bash
cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:backup:create RAILS_ENV=production
```

### 1. Stop server

    sudo service gitlab stop

### 2. Get latest code

```bash
cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H git fetch
sudo -u git -H git checkout 6-0-stable
```

### 3. Update gitlab-shell

```bash
cd /home/git/gitlab-shell
sudo -u git -H git fetch
sudo -u git -H git checkout v1.7.9
```

### 4. Install additional packages

```bash
# For reStructuredText markup language support install required package:
sudo apt-get install python-docutils
```

### 5. Install libs, migrations, etc.

```bash
cd /home/git/gitlab

# MySQL
sudo -u git -H bundle install --without development test postgres --deployment

# PostgreSQL
sudo -u git -H bundle install --without development test mysql --deployment

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake migrate_groups RAILS_ENV=production
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake migrate_global_projects RAILS_ENV=production
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake migrate_keys RAILS_ENV=production
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake migrate_inline_notes RAILS_ENV=production
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:satellites:create RAILS_ENV=production

# Clear redis cache
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake cache:clear RAILS_ENV=production

# Clear and precompile assets
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake assets:clean RAILS_ENV=production
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production
```

### 6. Update config files

Note: We switched from Puma in GitLab 5.4 to unicorn in GitLab 6.0.

* Make `/home/git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml` the same as https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/masterconfig/gitlab.yml.example but with your settings.
* Make `/home/git/gitlab/config/unicorn.rb` the same as https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/masterconfig/unicorn.rb.example but with your settings.

### 7. Update Init script

```bash
sudo rm /etc/init.d/gitlab
sudo curl --output /etc/init.d/gitlab https://raw.github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/6-0-stable/lib/support/init.d/gitlab
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/gitlab
```

### 8. Start application

    sudo service gitlab start
    sudo service nginx restart

### 9. Check application status

Check if GitLab and its environment are configured correctly:

    sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production

To make sure you didn't miss anything run a more thorough check with:

    sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production

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### Troubleshooting
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All project owners should have an owner
```
Project.all.select { |project| project.owner.blank? }
```

Every user should have a namespace
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User.all.select { |u| u.namespace.blank? }
```

Projects in the global namespace should not conflict with projects in the owner namespace
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What is the point of a physical showroom in the age of internet shopping? What is the value of an "Australian brand" when we live in a global society with global supply chains?
When Archier set about designing a showroom experience for Caroma the studio attempted to answer some of the bigger questions hitting the industry. Caroma on Collins is a complete showroom experience, which embodies and communicates the feeling of the Australian brand. This unique identity is expressed by bringing together volume, symbol and material into a cohesive spatial offering.
But that was only half of the brief. The other half involved designing the company's head office. This meant the entire space needed to incorporate office spaces, meeting rooms and consultation rooms, all alongside R&D and prototyping areas.
Taking it one step further, the team at Archier considered how the showroom and HQ could bring in a 'third space'. As such, a public café was designed to function as a hot-desking space. This allows visitors, whether client or staff, to come into the café and work from a shared table – blurring the boundaries and barriers between every department in the business. Although a simple device, this concept helps in delivering a more holistic experience while giving visitors the chance to peek behind the scenes and gain a deeper understanding of the process that goes into each product.
Across all of the different zones and areas materiality was used to successfully express the brand identity and history of Caroma. This included things like milled steel and spotted gum, which is raw and honest while alluding to an Australian vernacular that will age gracefully.
Another key consideration for the entire project was sustainability and Archier brought in Openwork on the landscaping and Hip v Hype as a sustainability consultant. As a company Caroma is focusing on making it intuitive for customers to use less water through its products. This environmental consideration was translated into the space through the installation of 40,000 litres of rainwater storage, which can be recycled and reused. The result is an indoor/outdoor atmosphere with plants and landscaping. This landscape was specified through detailed daylight and temperature analysis and means that active heating and cooling is minimised.
Through a thoughtful and considered design approach, Caroma on Collins is telling the story of a much-loved Aussie brand while pushing the envelope in a changing sector.
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The Orange Bowl Committee, particularly president and chairperson Lee Stapleton, thought this was an overdue effort to help female athletes, and they know all-too-well that golf was a good starting point since one-third of all female college golf scholarships go unused.
OBC members will meet with the girls on a regular basis, serving as mentors and role models to latch onto those unused scholarships.
"I am so happy this is happening," Stapleton said. "It means everything to me."
So is Marisa Urrutia, one of the young faces that represent the program.
Urrutia, a junior at Coral Gables High, is one of the best golfers in Miami-Dade, making second team All-Dade as a freshman and sophomore. "This year it will be first team," she said determinedly.
That determined attitude also applies to her studies as she is a member of the National Honor Society and plans to become the first person in her family to graduate from college. And not just any college — she wants to attend Columbia and play golf there.
Part of Marisa's involvement in golf came when her mother, Lena, a single mom, went to work at the Melreese golf course near the airport six years ago, working on the course as the beverage person. That entails hard, constant and long labor under the sun's heat.
And that toiling has helped Lena give her daughter more opportunities than mom ever had.
"It's all so worth it," Lena said. "Every day I wake up, I am happy because of the job. I have been able to give my daughter a good life, and that puts a smile on my face. I tell her that whatever happens, I will always have her back. I worship her."
It's a mutual admiration society.
"Every day, in my small teenage way," Marisa said, "I see what my mom does for me. She means everything to me."
Even Marisa's grandmother, Iria, got into the act.
"She came with me to a tournament," Marisa recalled. "She walked the whole course watching me play. She knows absolutely nothing about golf, but she would just smile and that's exactly what I needed."
The Orange Bowl will not go into its golf endeavor alone.
They have wisely enlisted The First Tee of Miami as a partner, and The First Tee is an experienced organization in terms of working with kids — teaching them the values of education, the value of social and ethical conduct, and finally — and not most importantly, by The First Tee's own admission — they teach golf.
The Orange Bowl could not have chosen a better or more knowledgeable partner in working with young people.
The two organizations will join in other areas in the future, with the Orange Bowl helping with and becoming a main sponsor in the First Tee's renowned Doral-Publix Junior Golf Classic in December, one of the premiere youth golf events in the world that has attracted many players that have gone on to illustrious pro careers, including Rory McIlroy.
In fact, McIlroy — who has won four of golf's majors (two PGAs, one U.S. Open and one Open Championship) — fondly calls the Doral-Publix Classic that he won at age 8, "The first major I ever won."
So, the Orange Bowl not only gets a good and knowledgeable friend in The First Tee, but a bit of history.
"A perfect fit," Stapleton summed up.
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911 call by Krista Glover and her husband, PGA golfer Lucas Glover
British Open at a Glance
BRITISH OPEN '19: Facts and figures for golf's oldest championship.
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In thirteen innings, the Lakeshore Chinooks took game one of the 2014 Northwoods League Summer Collegiate World Series. They defeated the Mankato MoonDogs, 5-4.
Catcher Zack Bowers (Georgia) continued his postseason success at the dish. He went 2-6 with a double and scored a run. Bowers also knocked in two runs.
For the third time in the playoffs, the right-handed hitter was named the Northwoods League Player of the Night.
In the first, the MoonDogs took a 1-0 lead. Second baseman Brett Synek hit a double off Will Headean. He scored on a single by Tanner Rockwell.
Designated-hitter Brent Zimmerman hit a single with one out in the fifth. He came home on a double by Ridge Smith. Mankato led 2-0.
The Chinooks tied the game at two in the sixth. Blake Butler (College of Charleston) hit a leadoff single off Garrett Ring. Brett Siddall (Canisius) and Kyle Wood (Purdue) drew back-to-back walks. The pair scored on a single by Zack Bowers.
Mankato regained the lead in the sixth. Synek hit another double and scored on a Peter Maris single to left-center field.
In the seventh, Lakeshore tied the game again. Ryan Krill (Michigan State) started the inning with a single. He scored on a putout by Blake Butler.
The Chinooks took a 4-3 lead in the eighth. With two outs, Bowers advanced to second on error by first baseman Levi Scott. He scored on a single by Michael Morman (Richmond).
Levi Scott hit a game-tying solo homer in the ninth off lefty Hunter Devall (LSU).
Jake Noll (Florida Gulf Coast) hit a double to left-center field to begin the thirteenth. Noll scored on an error by Ridge Smith, and the Chinooks led 5-4.
After tossing one and two-thirds innings, righty Sterling Koerner (Florida Gulf Coast) got the win. He surrendered no runs off three hits. In the thirteenth, fellow right-hander Mike Letkewicz (Augustana College) struck out two and recorded the save.
Both Koerner and Letkewicz were named the Northwoods League Pitchers of the Night on August 14.
Game two will take place at Kapco Park on Friday, August 15 at 6:35 p.m. If necessary, game three will be played on Saturday, August 16 at 6:35 p.m.


By default, the output is formatted in a friendly format. If you specify any of the --show-... or --file-access options, the output is instead formatted in a machine-readable format.
Query a system-wide installation by NAME among those defined in /etc/flatpak/installations.d/. Using --installation=default is equivalent to using --system.


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<?php

/**
 * A query module to list all langlinks (links to corresponding foreign language pages).
 *
 * @ingroup API
 */
class ApiQueryLangLinks extends ApiQueryBase {

	public function __construct( ApiQuery $query, $moduleName ) {
		parent::__construct( $query, $moduleName, 'll' );
	}

	public function execute() {
		if ( $this->getPageSet()->getGoodTitleCount() == 0 ) {
			return;
		}

		$params = $this->extractRequestParams();
		$prop = array_flip( (array)$params['prop'] );

		if ( isset( $params['title'] ) && !isset( $params['lang'] ) ) {
			$this->dieUsageMsg( [ 'missingparam', 'lang' ] );
		}

		// Handle deprecated param
		$this->requireMaxOneParameter( $params, 'url', 'prop' );
		if ( $params['url'] ) {
			$prop = [ 'url' => 1 ];
		}

		$this->addFields( [
			'll_from',
			'll_lang',
			'll_title'
		] );

		$this->addTables( 'langlinks' );
		$this->addWhereFld( 'll_from', array_keys( $this->getPageSet()->getGoodTitles() ) );
		if ( !is_null( $params['continue'] ) ) {
			$cont = explode( '|', $params['continue'] );
			$this->dieContinueUsageIf( count( $cont ) != 2 );
			$op = $params['dir'] == 'descending' ? '<' : '>';
			$llfrom = intval( $cont[0] );
			$lllang = $this->getDB()->addQuotes( $cont[1] );
			$this->addWhere(
				"ll_from $op $llfrom OR " .
				"(ll_from = $llfrom AND " .
				"ll_lang $op= $lllang)"
			);
		}

		// FIXME: (follow-up) To allow extensions to add to the language links, we need
		//       to load them all, add the extra links, then apply paging.
		//       Should not be terrible, it's not going to be more than a few hundred links.

		// Note that, since (ll_from, ll_lang) is a unique key, we don't need
		// to sort by ll_title to ensure deterministic ordering.
		$sort = ( $params['dir'] == 'descending' ? ' DESC' : '' );
		if ( isset( $params['lang'] ) ) {
			$this->addWhereFld( 'll_lang', $params['lang'] );
			if ( isset( $params['title'] ) ) {
				$this->addWhereFld( 'll_title', $params['title'] );
			}
			$this->addOption( 'ORDER BY', 'll_from' . $sort );
		} else {
			// Don't order by ll_from if it's constant in the WHERE clause
			if ( count( $this->getPageSet()->getGoodTitles() ) == 1 ) {
				$this->addOption( 'ORDER BY', 'll_lang' . $sort );
			} else {
				$this->addOption( 'ORDER BY', [
					'll_from' . $sort,
					'll_lang' . $sort
				] );
			}
		}

		$this->addOption( 'LIMIT', $params['limit'] + 1 );
		$res = $this->select( __METHOD__ );

		$count = 0;
		foreach ( $res as $row ) {
			if ( ++$count > $params['limit'] ) {
				// We've reached the one extra which shows that
				// there are additional pages to be had. Stop here...
				$this->setContinueEnumParameter( 'continue', "{$row->ll_from}|{$row->ll_lang}" );
				break;
			}
			$entry = [ 'lang' => $row->ll_lang ];
			if ( isset( $prop['url'] ) ) {
				$title = Title::newFromText( "{$row->ll_lang}:{$row->ll_title}" );
				if ( $title ) {
					$entry['url'] = wfExpandUrl( $title->getFullURL(), PROTO_CURRENT );
				}
			}
			if ( isset( $prop['langname'] ) ) {
				$entry['langname'] = Language::fetchLanguageName( $row->ll_lang, $params['inlanguagecode'] );
			}
			if ( isset( $prop['autonym'] ) ) {
				$entry['autonym'] = Language::fetchLanguageName( $row->ll_lang );
			}
			ApiResult::setContentValue( $entry, 'title', $row->ll_title );
			$fit = $this->addPageSubItem( $row->ll_from, $entry );
			if ( !$fit ) {
				$this->setContinueEnumParameter( 'continue', "{$row->ll_from}|{$row->ll_lang}" );
				break;
			}
		}
	}

	public function getCacheMode( $params ) {
		return 'public';
	}

	public function getAllowedParams() {
		global $wgContLang;
		return [
			'prop' => [
				ApiBase::PARAM_ISMULTI => true,
				ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => [
					'url',
					'langname',
					'autonym',
				],
				ApiBase::PARAM_HELP_MSG_PER_VALUE => [],
			],
			'lang' => null,
			'title' => null,
			'dir' => [
				ApiBase::PARAM_DFLT => 'ascending',
				ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => [
					'ascending',
					'descending'
				]
			],
			'inlanguagecode' => $wgContLang->getCode(),
			'limit' => [
				ApiBase::PARAM_DFLT => 10,
				ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => 'limit',
				ApiBase::PARAM_MIN => 1,
				ApiBase::PARAM_MAX => ApiBase::LIMIT_BIG1,
				ApiBase::PARAM_MAX2 => ApiBase::LIMIT_BIG2
			],
			'continue' => [
				ApiBase::PARAM_HELP_MSG => 'api-help-param-continue',
			],
			'url' => [
				ApiBase::PARAM_DFLT => false,
				ApiBase::PARAM_DEPRECATED => true,
			],
		];
	}

	protected function getExamplesMessages() {
		return [
			'action=query&prop=langlinks&titles=Main%20Page&redirects='
				=> 'apihelp-query+langlinks-example-simple',
		];
	}

	public function getHelpUrls() {
		return 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Langlinks';
	}
}


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Home / Research in St. Louis / Government / Census / 1850 St. Louis County Mortality Schedule
1850 St. Louis County Mortality Schedule
In some early census years, when the census enumerator visited households, he not only took the census of the living residents but also inquired about the recently deceased. Any person who died in the previous twelve months should be listed on the mortality schedule.
For St. Louis researchers this is very important due to the cholera epidemic of 1849. Those who died between March and June 1849 are not listed on the schedule, since that exceeded the twelve-month period. However, there are approximately 5,000 names in this schedule of people who died after 1 June.
Some information was hard to read or missing. If a question mark is listed in the birthplace, it means that information was not listed. If you locate your ancestor, please check the original document to verify the information.
The original 1850 federal mortality schedule is located at the Missouri History Museum Library and Research Center. A copy of the index is available at St. Louis Genealogical Society, and in the History and Genealogy Department at St. Louis County Library Headquarters. The latter facility has both the index and the census. The Missouri mortality census is also available through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and on Ancestry.com.
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Polebridge, MT and Lake Kintla in Glacier National Park
In: Glacier National Park, Montana
We arrived in Glacier on an overcast Sunday afternoon. We walked around Lake Kintla and explored the booming metropolis that is Polebridge, MT.
Getting to Glacier
Before I left, I knew that Glacier National Park is remote, but I wasn't prepared for just how remote. To drive from Helena takes about 4 hours, most of it spent on two lane highways. Every town we passed was a highway town, centered around a gas station which doubled as a grocery store or restaurant. They charged $6 for a bottle of ranch dressing.
After the first hour, none of our phones worked. My phone never works in Montana because I have T-Mobile, but my family on Verizon was also cut off. We were truly in the wilderness.
For the last half hour of the drive, we left the paved road and drove up a rough gravel road It snaked around curves and occasionally bumped up against a river. In any It all would have been very romantic had we not been in a 15-year-old minivan that damn near shook our teeth out.
Eventually, we arrived at the cabin.
We stayed at a placed called A Little Piece of Heaven. Because of its location, rentals are only available from June to October. After that, the road isn't passable because of snow and weather.
On the premise, there are four small cabins for families or couples that want to get away from it all. On the highest point sits the large main cabin where the host lives.
The front patio overlooks Glacier National Park. I got a few different variants of this panorama, one early in the morning, one at night. But for now, behold this panorama (click on it for a larger image):
Usually, the park isn't that hazy. Unfortunately, in the summer of 2017, there were some pretty awful wildfires. Smoke filled the sky to where it looked foggy some days. On our way home from Glacier, you couldn't see the mountains because the smoke was so bad. I'd really like to go back someday when there isn't the haze lingering in the air.
Anyway, the owner of the cabins fed the deer so they were very people friendly. I was able to get some close-up shots like this one:
Lake Kintla in Glacier National Park
We entered the park on the west side. Our initial plan was to go to Bowman Lake and do a hike there since it was close and a great way to spend half a day. As we entered the park, the park ranger informed us that parking at Bowman was full, but we were welcome to try Lake Kintla about 7 miles up the road.
Driving in the park isn't bad. If I had a recommendation, I'd say to make sure that you have a car with some ground clearance and only go as fast as you feel comfortable. I grew up driving on gravel roads, so I had a hayday. I even jokingly referred to this as the Glacier National Park Rally.
When we reached a clearing, we took these pictures of the northwest side of the park.
We found parking at Lake Kintla and immediately were greeted with this view:
I had to color correct these photos to account for the smoke that was in the air, but the views were still amazing.
We chose a trail that went along the edge of Lake Kintla but was something like 16 miles long. Since we didn't have enough time to go all the way, we only went halfway down then half way back. We still saw some great views, though.
Before heading back to the cabin, we stopped off in the town of Polebridge, MT. The mercantile is on the National Register of Historic Places. It's also famed for its Huckleberry Bear Claws that are supposedly very good.
After all of this, we headed back to the cabin. We wanted to be rested as tomorrow, we'd be walking Logan Pass.
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Artie Shaw | Harry James | Benny
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George Olsen and His Music | Reb Spikes' Majors and Minors — oh, here: My Mammy's Blues and Fight That Thing
Well, now we come to one of the main reasons I pay $40 a year to Namecheap: they host this bathetic blog. I need (okay, I perceive it as a need) to share music with people. And why not? It's fun music, it's music that never takes itself too seriously, and it's innocent as a newborn bluebird. The first recording artist to have his own name on a record was Enrico Caruso, and that was in 1904: a new form of stardom was born. Music changed very little over the next ten years: mostly sappy stuff about mother and country. Then came World War One and the mother and country were shattered illusions. Jazz grew from the wreckage of cultures and nations to be the dominant form of popular music for the next — I would argue — 70 years. (I consider rock to be a form of jazz: the improvisational solos are dominant in both traditional jazz and in rock. Where once was heard a clarinet was now a guitar.) Electric recording came in 1925, first with Victor records, from which these songs come; Paul Whiteman (white man: it was a pseudonym for obvious purposes) developed a more family-friendly sort of jazz, and the die was cast. The 30s saw jazz evolve into Swing, and then — the damned Second World War. Music has never been the same since. After the war, jazz musicians who, in the 1930s, were millionaires, suddenly found themselves unemployable. Rogers and Hart were kings, and musicals were the name of the game. Oklahoma indeed.
Well, here's a good helping of Artie Shaw.
I Surrender, Dear
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Oh Lady Be Good
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Rockin' Chair
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This Is Romance
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