They offer blazing transmission speeds at a fraction of today's prices. They're coming to hundreds of neighborhoods, hospitals and universities. But if your place of work has the wrong address, don't expect to be taking advantage of cable modems anytime soon.
These devices, which permit the transmission of digital signals over standard coaxial television cables, are in use in nearly 100 communities. There are plans to deploy many more of them. For commercial applications, their appeal is obvious: Cable modems approach T3 speed at less than half of today's typical T1 price.
For businesses, there are three potential uses for cable modems: accelerated Internet access; telecommuting and other types of remote access; and as an alternative to T1 lines in the corporate network. T1 lines carry transmissions at 1.544 megabits per second, while T3 lines transmit at 45 Mbps.
"We probably experience a much faster connection with a cable modem than our T1," says Ross Skinner, senior network administrator at Phoenix-based Del Webb Corp., a $1 billion builder of retirement communities."It basically gives us the ability to plug into our system as if we were in the office."
Although cable modems in one form or another have been around for the better part of a decade, the confluence of two watershed events has spurred their deployment within the past year: the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the surge in popularity of the World Wide Web.
"With the Internet, here's an opportunity that's suddenly been born and fallen into the lap of the cable operators," says David Wood, group manager for marketing at Microsoft's Consumer Platforms division, which is developing software for cable modems.
Leading the way in adapting the nation's cable infrastructure for digital transmission are the cable and local telephone companies, but the overwhelming majority of their efforts is focused solely on residential services. To the phone and cable companies, telecommuting is not as much a useful business tool as it is another means of deriving additional revenue out of their installed cable plants.
The cable companies have wires running to approximately 60 percent of U.S. homes, but their commercial installations are few.
The phone companies, on the other hand, have extensive relationships with most businesses and are well-positioned to push the commercial use of cable modems. But why should they? They have their own products to hawk- including ISDN and up-and-coming Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Lines technology, in addition to T1. BellSouth's Karen Roughton, national media relations manager, puts it bluntly: "We're not looking at cable-modem technology for our large customers in any way."
A few commercial concerns have started to explore making use of cable modems, but they are generally smaller businesses for which T1 service or the equivalent is too expensive.
The handful of larger companies seriously investigating cable modems as a data-transmission option are involved in unusual business situations for which the technology is particularly well-suited. Those businesses are also using the technology for small remote sites.
Most businesses haven't even been wired for cable. "Traditionally, a company doesn't want its employees watching CNN all day," says Dan Torbet, network operations manager at Jones Internet Channel, a cable company based in Englewood, Colo.
And, compared to consumers, corporate users tend to be much less forgiving about outages and service disruptions. A residential customer who loses Internet access for a few hours late one night may be unhappy, but if service is restored the next morning, the person is likely to forget about it quickly. If the same thing happened to a large corporation as it was downloading direct-deposit paycheck payroll data, however... well, that's the stuff lawsuits are made of.
"Digging holes and laying cable is an expensive venture," Microsoft's Wood says. "The cable operators want to prove the technology on the residential customers first."
The cost of extending cable drops to a corporate site varies widely-from $5,000 to $100,000, with a median cost of about $13,000 to $24,000-according to Marty Weiss, director of multimedia networks at Cox Cable Communications Inc., Atlanta. "We cannot pass those capital costs to the commercial customer," he says, adding that the cable companies can only recoup their investment through long-term commitments.
That has pretty much limited cable-modem deployment to businesses that already have cable television. Hospitals, for example, have been wired for cable for years so that patients could view television. The same is true for some military bases and many universities.
The other exception is businesses located in areas already wired for residential service, or that relocate to such areas. That's what has happened in Fairfax County in Virginia, where government buildings were wired by Media General Cable for cable-modem access, according to Michael Nelson, an IBM market-segment manager specializing in cable modems. He worked for Media General at the time.
When some of those government agencies abandoned those buildings, it cleared the way for local businesses to move in-several Fortune 500 companies among them. Now Mobil Oil Corp., Boeing Corp., Sprint and Electronic Data Systems Corp. are using cable services for LAN and multimedia efforts.
For businesses with offices located near residential areas, such as restaurant chains, real estate offices or retail outlets, digital cable service can be attractive. These include a number of large companies with regional offices that are too small to justify their own T1 connections. Jerry Bennington, an executive officer at Tele-Communications Inc., notes that small offices can be a major corporate headache in terms of network support.
Cable modems "are going to save a lot on your feeder network, if you have offices that can't afford their own networks but find themselves smack dab in the middle of our network," he says. "The winner is the extremely decentralized corporation."
The main technological issue surrounding cable modems concerns the transmission speed that will ultimately be available to the client machine on the end user's desk.
First of all, with commercial deployment of cable modems so limited, performance claims are hard to verify. Industry estimates vary, but most agree that throughput of as much as 30 Mbps over hybrid fiber coaxial cable should be possible. "This will change the way people do business," says Doug Robertson, director of marketing and business development at Motorola Inc., Schaumberg, Ill. "A two-minute video, for example, with a 28.8 modem, takes five hours to download. With ISDN, it takes one hour. With a cable modem, it takes 50 seconds."
But such estimates don't take into account that cable lines are shared and performance will degrade in direct proportion to the volume of traffic. Given that most businesses need guaranteed access speeds for at least some of their applications, cable companies are preparing to offer business packages that would let commercial accounts pay a premium in exchange for a dedicated piece of pipe.
Microsoft's Wood says the software leader is supporting a bandwidth reservation protocol-called RSVP-that should help the cable carriers offer performance guarantees. With RSVP, he says, applications can call in to request priority confirmations from the server.
Another constraint for cable modems is the limited reach of the cable service providers. There are no international cable companies nor is there any cable company in the United States that delivers to the entire country. This limits cable-modem access to the region served by a given cable company, and means digital cable service is viable as a LAN or a closely situated metropolitan-area network option, but not for a national or international WAN.
Introducing the Internet into the equation changes that-and changes performance levels as well. Using cable modems, data can be dumped onto the Net at tremendous speed, and it can be transported anywhere-regardless of the original service provider's sphere of operation. But once on the Net, performance levels become impossible to predict.
For some businesses, that isn't an issue.
For example, Group Infotech, a graphics company based in East Lansing, Mich., is conducting a cable-modem trial over the Internet. The company says it hopes to reduce greatly the amount of time its designers waste sending and receiving large graphic files.
For Group Infotech employees, it doesn't matter whether it takes two seconds or five minutes to transmit a file, just as long as the image is quickly moved off or deposited onto the client machine.
Another attractive aspect of the Net, when used in conjunction with cable modems, is that it is relatively quick and easy. Motorola's Robertson refers to it as "bandwidth on demand for small business."
"In a sense, you can cut through so many bureaucratic layers with the Internet and cable modems," Robertson says, adding that together they support such high speeds that the PC will soon become the bottleneck, rather than the network connection.
But not every business seeking to take advantage of cable modems and the Internet is a small one. Microsoft, for instance, wants to use the devices as its ramps on and off the Internet.
"If you take a look at Microsoft, we have offices worldwide and a communications bill of more than $10 million a year for our corporate wide-area network," says Paul Maritz, a Microsoft group vice president. "In the future, that entire network should be able to run over the Internet. We should be able to get rid of the bulk of our infrastructure and use the Internet as our corporate public-area or wide-area network."
At the moment, however, companies looking to take advantage of cable modems at both ends of their network will find it rough going. That's because the pockets of support for cable modems around the country are small and isolated-and likely to remain that way for many years, according to Chris Noll, a development director at BellSouth.
For network managers attempting to divine what role-if any-cable modems will play in their organizations, the other key issue is price. But comparing the cost of cable modems to various alternatives is tricky, because prices will most likely vary from region to region. For companies with multiple locations, that means cable modems could indeed be the most cost-effective solution in some places and not in others.
Although cable executives are leaving themselves plenty of latitude to change prices until the last minute, they consistently indicate that their services will be priced substantially lower than T1 service in just about every market. In cities where a single T1 line runs $1,000 a month, the cable companies are looking to charge about $500.
And in what could be good news for commercial users, some cable insiders are predicting a price war.
"The cable-modem price advantage will not materialize," BellSouth's Noll predicts. "With competition, I believe that prices for comparable private- line and fast-packet technology is going to come down for business use."
Casey Sheldon, Hewlett-Packard's brand manager for interactive broadband products, disagrees, arguing that traditional data carriers won't be able to make up the difference. With cable modems, "you can approach speeds of a T3 at much less than the cost of an ISDN line, let alone a T1," she says.
Many of the field tests and initial implementations of cable modems have been limited. More comprehensive trials that incorporate routing and switching and attempt to manage the cable technology as part of an overall corporate network are planned, but have yet to take place.
Cable modems are in their infancy, technologically speaking. Still, business network managers involved in various cable trials have concerns about the modems' reliability.
Sharon Klocek, manager of Internet development at a graphics company called Visual Inseitz Inc., was telecommuting in a TCI test program from East Lansing, Mich., to her company's headquarters in Rochester, N.Y. "The first time, I lost connections to the net multiple times and had speed problems," she says, attributing the problem to the steadily increasing number of users testing the modems and to the fact that TCI had tried placing too many users on the same node.
"They wanted to have 10 users per node and had worked themselves up to 30 or 40," she says, adding that TCI eventually tried isolating Michigan State University from the other test sites. "Under TCI's implementation, there is no doubt that a T1 is better."
At Del Webb, which is still conducting a telecommuting trial with Cox that began in September, the initial tests indicate a reliability rate of 50 percent to 60 percent. "We're not in a position yet to say that the reliability is there. The service runs very intermittently," Skinner says. "It's still in a test phase. The cable company's changing its equipment and the system on its end almost everyday."
More recently, though, Skinner says, the success rate of the modems has been closer to 98 percent. And when it works, he says, it works well.
In Raleigh, N.C., the city government has been utilizing cable modem technology for the last one-and-a-half years, using Zenith Data Systems Corp. cable modems. Frank Seiber, IS manager for the city, estimates that the modems have been running at about 97 percent reliability with no cable problems, other than a few modem issues and some squirrels who had developed a taste for hybrid fiber coaxial cable. "We've had some problems with the modems. I think the Zenith people have realized that the buffers need to be larger," he says.
Many of these reliability issues could be little more than the growing pains of any new technology, with some of these trials akin to early alpha product tests. But the anecdotes speak to a user's perception that cable companies generally are unreliable and have weak customer support, a perception rooted in consumer experiences.
"People will be nervous about cable operators for some time. The comfort level just isn't there in corporate America," Jones' Torbet says. "Traditionally, cable services haven't been fully staffed and that's caused some problems on the customer service side."
Cable companies' reputation for reliability problems is well deserved, says Roger Magoon, marketing vice president for West End Systems Corp., another cable company in Ontario. "In the early days, the phone companies had no choice [but to give good service] because they were providing a lifeline service and the cable companies weren't," Magoon says.
Other than reliability issues, many corporate sites also have expressed concerns about cable- modem security. Even when the connections are limited to one corporation's offices, the concern is how well transmissions are protected.
Allied-Signal Inc. completed some cable-modem testing at its Phoenix operation, but had limited the testing to exclude much network access, effectively minimizing what the project could actually test. "Security was the main issue. Our IS people didn't like our internal documents going out over anything they didn't control," says Tom Tourville, an Allied-Signal engineering administrator. "It was the old guard. They didn't want anyone hooking up to our corporate network."
IBM's Nelson, the former Media General employee, put the security concerns of some of the larger federal contractors in Fairfax, Va., a suburb of Washington, into context. "There were security concerns, so they only sent around Secret stuff, not Top Secret or Top Top Secret," he says.
Raleigh's Seiber says city officials limited the information transmitted via the cable system to publicly available documents, minimizing, but not eliminating, security concerns. "All of the information is public information, but you don't want people to go in there and change the data," he says, adding that "the controls to our data are in place through our operating systems."
For businesses lucky enough to find themselves in an area that supports cable modems, the potential for faster and cheaper connections definitely exists. The trend for small, distributed sites is going to make the multi-media-friendly connections even more attractive.
For the company that's literally in the right place at the right time, cable-modem technology promises some incredibly attractive capabilities.
Next week, we will profile three users of cable-modem technology.
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Lyft is a ride-sharing service that allows riders to request a car to pick them up and take them to their destination. Lyft offers different levels of service, including a shared ride option called Lyft Line. In some cities, Lyft also offers a service called Lyft Premier, which is an upgrade from the standard Lyft service and includes a higher-end car option. To use Lyft, riders must download the app and create an account. They can then enter their pickup location and drop-off
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Q: file not found error when setting the environment variable in docker compose yml file I am setting the  GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable from within my docker-compose.yml file. This is the structure of my docker-compose.yml file:
version: "2"

services:

  server:
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    environment:
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My JSON file is present in the above directory. From my python code, which is also run as part of Docker container, I am using Google Speech API like this:
import io
from google.cloud import speech
from google.cloud.speech import enums
from google.cloud.speech import types

#take speech wav file and turn it into text. return text
def transcribe_file(speech_file):
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    client = speech.SpeechClient()

When I execute above it throws error that google.auth.exceptions.DefaultCredentialsError: File /dir1/dir2/file1.json was not found.
I am unable to understand why it is not able to find the JSON when it is present in the correct directory.

A: Make sure that you're adding /dir1/dir2/file1.json to your Docker image or mounting it as a volume. Having the file present at that location on the host isn't sufficient.

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Stuffed Peppers are a classic favorite that are perfect for the fall and winter months ahead. They are an easy meal to prepare that provides great leftover meals during the week and can also be made ahead of time or frozen. Stuffed peppers are even better the next day. You can vary the ingredients to bring variety to your menu, too. Use ground beef, turkey or chicken or cauliflower rice instead of zucchini. You can omit the mushrooms if you're not a fan and add more zucchini or cauliflower rice or mix both. This recipe makes 4 servings. One serving covers your protein, vegetable and ½ a serving of fat for one meal.
Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the ground beef and onion, cooking until browned. Add the mushrooms, garlic and zucchini or cauliflower rice. Sauté 6-8 minutes or until tender. Season with salt & pepper. Stir in one cup of marinara sauce and mix well.
Place Bell peppers cut side up in a medium-sized baking dish. Evenly divide the beef mixture and spoon it into the peppers. Spoon additional marinara over each pepper.
Pour a small amount of water into the bottom of the baking dish. Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake until the peppers are soft – approximately 15-20 minutes.


If you have ornithophobia (fear of birds) you should probably stay away from the carpark near Block 125 Toa Payoh Lorong 1.
Stomper Wicky alerted Stomp to a certain bird that has been "attacking" residents in the area.
"This bird at the roundabout has been attacking people," said the Stomper.
He also shared a video of the bird in action that he recorded on Sunday afternoon (Mar 31).
In the video, the black bird, which appears to be a crow, swoops in on a man wearing a white singlet and blue shorts causing him to duck and run for shelter.
It then targets an elderly woman who seems unfazed the first time and just rubs the back of her head as she continues to walk.
Seemingly unsatisfied, the bird flies a second time at her head before taking off in the other direction.
"I've seen this happen two to three times already," said Wicky.
In February last year, it was reported that at least 30 residents at Toa Payoh North had come under attack by a flock of crows within two hours.
Birds may attack people during the fledgeling season when their chicks are learning to fly.
Crows are intelligent creatures and the adults are fiercely protective of their young so they may attack if people get too close, viewing it as an invasion of territory or a threat.
They are also known to be grudge-holding birds and people may be attacked if they have accidentally offended one of their kind.
During a crow attack, one should flee quickly and look for a sheltered area, or use an umbrella to hold off the angry birds.


Located along Interstate 75, Acworth, Ga., has been given the nickname "Lake City" due to its close proximity to two area lakes. Thirty-three miles northwest of Atlanta, Acworth has a population of approximately 20,700, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The city's crime index of 129 compared to the United States' 319 makes Acworth apartments for rent a safe bet and a nice complement to the city's median household income that is higher than the state of Georgia.
Acworth was officially incorporated in December 1860. The city gained notoriety during the Civil War when army general, William Sherman, stationed himself in Acworth for a number of days. The city was eventually torched in 1864 when many homes and buildings were burned during the Civil War. Because of Acworth's close proximity to Marietta and Atlanta, many residents are near top employers like Pardot, Capitol Media Solutions and VDart. The Art Institute of Atlanta and Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw provide residents with nearby education opportunities.
Thanks to the vast amount of Civil War history surrounding the Acworth area, residents and visitors can enjoy history lessons and Civil War reenactments at Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park. The Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, a Smithsonian affiliate located just five miles from Acworth, gives history buffs their perfect fill of the past. Thirteen miles south of Acworth are the Etowah Mounds, giving visitors insight into the Native American culture, the former Victorian mansion of Samuel Porter Jones, Rose Lawn Museum and the fossil dig site at the Weinman Mineral Museum. The city of Acworth also has thirteen parks in the city and is near Lake Allatoona and Lake Acworth where residents of Acworth rentals can enjoy swimming, boating, fishing, hiking or camping.
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Lyda advocates ride-share programs to state committee
by SYDNEY CROMWELL
John Lyda
Uber, Lyft and other ride-share programs are growing in popularity around the country, but they remain scarce in Alabama. Hoover council member John Lyda went to Montgomery on Wednesday, April 29, to share his support for a bill making it easier for these companies to operate in the state.
State House Bill 509, sponsored by Vestavia Hills state representative Jack Williams, would allow transportation network companies (TNCs) like Uber to operate throughout the state under the supervision of the state's Public Service Commission. Currently, taxis and other paid travel services are regulated by their cities.
Lyda said cities like Hoover could pass their own ordinances about TNCs, but it would be difficult to coordinate these ordinances so that these companies could operate across city lines. He pointed out that there are 37 distinct municipalities in Jefferson County alone.
"I think it's something that the Birmingham metro area is starving for," Lyda said.
This was Lyda's first time speaking in front of a state legislative committee and he noted there were passionate speakers on both sides of the issue. One of his main points to the committee was Birmingham's relative lack of sidewalks and public transit connecting the city and surrounding areas.
"I tried to communicate that the Birmingham metro area will never top the list of America's most walkable cities," Lyda said. "We rely heavily on for-hire transportation."
Lyda described himself as a "dedicated Uber user" when he travels outside the state. He hopes the bill will be brought back before the state committee at its session next Wednesday, May 6. If it receives a favorable vote, the bill will be brought before the Alabama House of Representatives, and Lyda said he would like to see the bill passed during the current legislative session.
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American fashion model and actor, Chad Michael Murray has an estimated net worth of $12 million in 2012. He is best recognized for his appearance on One Tree Hill, a young adult drama series where he played the role of Lucas Scott. He also appeared on other films like Freaky Friday, House of Wax and A Cinderella Story. As a fashion model, he was featured in several magazines which include Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, People and Rolling Stone. He has also modeled for clients such as Gucci, Tommy Hilfiger and Skechers.
His most recent TV projects include Fruitvale Station, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, Caveman, and A Madea Christmas. In 2014, he is expected to appear in Left Behind. He also appeared on TV shows like Undressed, Diagnosis: Murder, Gilmore Girls, Dawson's Creek, and Southland.
Chad Michael Murray was born on August 24, 1981 in Buffalo, New York, United States. He is a graduate of Clarence High School. From 2005 through 2006, he was married to Sophia Bush. Since 2006, he has been engaged to Kenzie Dalton.


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Make Your Home Look More Stately By Installing Gas Lanterns
One of the biggest draws of living in the Charleston area is the city's historical sites. The amazing architecture is second only to the preservation of things like cobblestone streets and wrap-around porches. Whether you live in a historic home or a newer one that you want to look more elegant, a gas lantern is a perfect touch to make your home look more traditional. But Charleston gas lanterns do have to be maintained, which can be a hassle.
What are Gas Lanterns?
Gas lighting looks like a lantern that has a flame but it is really a light that uses fuel – typically using propane, butane, or natural gas to produce an artificial lit-flame appearance. In the days before electricity, people used lanterns outdoors to light streets and houses after dark. Gas lanterns were very popular in large cities like Charleston. Early on, lanterns had to be lit manually, but nowadays most are self-igniting. In areas like Charleston, they are a great way to enhance the nostalgia of tradition and old-world Southern charm.
Who Uses Gas Lanterns?
Historically, larger cities and municipalities used gas lanterns to light up streets and sidewalks, but with the introduction of electricity, most of the gas lanterns were quickly replaced due to maintenance and economics. Today in some markets, like Charleston, they are an upgrade that many choose to give their home a more traditional and historic look, and they are usually maintained by either the homeowner or a service.
What Do They Require?
The reason that gas lanterns are a luxury in many places is that they require a gas line installation to feed the lantern automatically. That involves drilling a hole, fishing a gas line, and ensuring it is done properly. A leaking gas line is incredibly dangerous, and since most of the line is underground, it is essential for everyone's safety to check periodically to ensure that the line is intact and not leaking. Gas is highly combustible and if it leaks, it can lead to an explosion.
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At First Choice, we specialize in Charleston gas lanterns. Our team of professionals understands the importance of making sure that the gas line is run properly and that there are no issues or leaks. We also specialize in maintenance to keep your gas lantern burning bright all year long. Not only do you need to make sure that your gas line is working properly; you also want to ensure that your lantern self-ignites as it should, which requires regular maintenance to keep it in good working order.
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How to get started with Skype video calls on Facebook
by ben patterson | Jul 6, 2011 | how-tos, news, privacy, social networks
It'll take a few weeks before all of Facebook's 750 million-plus users get Skype-powered video chat installed on their accounts, but if you're feeling impatient, relax—there's a shortcut. Also: Learn how to disable Facebook video chat if you're not feeling particularly … well, chatty.
Announced Wednesday morning at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, Skype video chat through Facebook will work after a "small and easy" software download for your browser. To get started, visit this page to enable Facebook video calling on your account.
Just click "Call" on a friend's profile page to start video chatting, or click the video camera icon from the Chat window.
Once you've clicked the green "Get Started" button, a column of available Facebook friends will appear; just click a name, then click the little video camera icon to place a video call. You can also make a call by visiting a friend's Facebook profile and clicking the "Call" button in the upper-right corner of the screen.
The first time you try placing a video call, you'll be prompted to download and install a small plug-in for your browser. The process should take less than 30 seconds, according to Facebook engineers, and it should all happen within your browser—no need to go hunting around on your hard drive for a setup file.
The plug-in "works best" with the most recent versions of Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome, Facebook says. Both Windows and Mac systems are supported; Linux computers are not, however.
So, hold on a minute—will your Facebook friends be able to turn on your system's webcam without your permission and start chatting away?
Not so, Facebook promises. Instead, you'll see a pop-up window appear in your browser whenever a Facebook pal wants to video chat. To accept the call, you click the "Accept" button—and only then will your webcam (assuming you have one installed, of course) turn on. Done chatting? Close the video chat window, and your video camera will turn back off.
Facebook has posted a detailed Q&A about video calling in its Help Center, but among the most salient points:
Only "confirmed" Facebook friends can call you;
No, video chats aren't recorded, although the date and time of your video chats are logged in your Facebook Messages history for a given friend;
You can temporarily disable video calling by clicking the "Chat" module in the bottom-right corner of any Facebook page; once the column of available friends appears, click the Options tab at the top, then select "Go offline." Once you're feeling more sociable, click the Chat module again.
Even if you don't have a webcam, you can still have an audio-only chat with a Facebook friend using your computer's microphone and speakers.
Have more questions about Facebook video calling? Let me know!
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With the Spring 2019 release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, Projects+ is coming up with lot of exciting features and enhancements. Continue reading this article for more information on new features and enhancements coming your way.
These features are currently in the preview stage. If you would like to try out some of these features please reach out to us here or email us.
Communicating with right person is seamless now with embedded Microsoft Teams chat buttons. An user can immediately communicate with the right person form the form they are already in.
Timesheet Entry – Chat button on this form will allow resources to chat with the project manager. The project manager in this case is the person assigned on the project as project manager for the selected record.
Project invoice proposal – Chat button on this form will allow project accountants to chat with the billing approver. The billing approver in this case the is person assigned on the contract as billing approver for the selected invoice proposal.
Personal Time Off – On this form, resources can chat with the time approver. The time approver in question here is person assigned to the resource as time approver.
Manage Pending time – Chat button on this form will allow resources to chat with the project manager. The project manager in this case is the person assigned as project manager on project for the record.
All missing timesheets – On this form, Project manager/ Accountant can chat with the timesheet user and time approver. The time approver in this case is the person assigned to the resource as time approver.
My Employee Missing timesheets – On this form, time approver can have chat with timesheet user. The time approver in this case is the person assigned to the resource as time approver.
My Project missing timesheets – On this form, project manager can chat with timesheet user as well as Time approver. The time approver in this case is the person assigned to the resource as time approver.
My Project activities – On this form, employee can chat with project manager related to project tasks.
Timesheet line level approval – Chat button on this form will facilitate the project manager to initiate chat with the resource.
Reviewing the project invoice documents and taking desired action on them is now hassle free with new feature from Projects+. This new feature provides the ability to write electronic notes on Invoice proposals as part of the Invoice workflow. Also, comment section is available on this form to convey the right\specific information to the concerned person.
The version history of proposal documents and comments is saved and available for future reference. This new functionality is controlled through a parameter.
Managing subprojects with current design in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operation is difficult. Projects+ introduces a new feature to ease this process. With this feature, projects and subprojects can be managed on a single window. Projects and subprojects are represented in hierarchical structure, makes it easier to interpret details.
This feature also allows you to number the projects according to your needs. Values on the subprojects defaults from the parent projects, however these values are editable.
This feature also allows you to import and export the data into the project and sub projects.
As an employee you might want to have a place where you can look for all the project activities assigned to you. Projects+ brings out a new feature, which will give you that exact details. This new form displays all the tasks (across projects) for the logged in resource which are assigned to them.
The new form will be available on the Project tasks workspace and will accessible to project timesheet user and employee roles.
The functionality introduced here will allow the implementation teams to manage the licensing information in a better way, which in turn reduces the implementation timelines for box implementations.
This new feature in Projects+ provides the ability to activate or deactivate certain Dynamics 365 Finance and operations features or modules out of the box. To achieve this we have created certain predefined keys containing the combination of modules which service industry often uses.
Project view have an updated user interface. This form now has tree control for better representation of projects and sub-projects. This form is revamped keeping in mind the ease of use for the project managers to manage sub-projects.
Updated form has three sections to it. Tree section displays the projects and sub-projects. Project summary section shows the hard booked and soft booked hours for the selected project. The third grid i.e. Project hour entry, shows details of the selected projects.
Project status button allows project managers to switch from project management workspace to project status workspace seamlessly. The Project status workspace opens with details of the project selected on the project management workspace..
The functionality is introduced to submit the timesheet automatically when the user transfers the time from Manage pending time.This new functionality is controlled through a parameter.


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Use the Hydrate static function method to create the object from its dehydrated form. The dehydrated form consists of a hash containing the object's properties and values. The Hydrate and Dehydrate methods let you store the object state in memory and restore it later.
Representing an object as a hash is necessary for running ENVI analytics with the ENVI Task Engine and the ENVI Services Engine. Refer to the ENVI Task Engine and ENVI Services Engine topics in ENVI Help.
See the ENVIHydrate topic in ENVI Help if you are creating a general IDL routine that will restore multiple object types.
This method is part of ENVI Crop Science, which requires a separate license and installation.
This example counts the crops in an image of emerging cotton plants. It creates an ENVIAgCrops object named outCrops.
The result is a reference to a new object instance.
Required. A string value of ENVIAgCrops indicating what object type the hash represents.


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The "Best of Both Worlds"? - There's No Such Thing!
Every once in awhile I come across a personal finance article that offers up shockingly bad advice which, if followed, would do much greater harm to an investor's situation than it would to help them. A recent Forbes article does just that in claiming that there is a way to have "the best of both worlds" between actively and passively managed investment strategies.
As a passionate indexing advocate, my interest was piqued. The strategy is presented as follows: rather than invest in international stock funds, simply buy 10-30 foreign stocks according to the weightings of your favorite international mutual fund. The writer sums up the strategy's "benefits" - "by avoiding the high fees of an actively managed fund, investors who buy a diversified portfolio of individual stocks are getting much of the same low cost advantage as index fund investors." In reading that, I was speechless. Why recommend a much more difficult and costly strategy when it's already been stated that your goal is to replicate the low-cost strategy of the index fund? Why not just buy an index fund?
Not only is this bad advice for obvious reasons – assets are being spread too thin and high transaction costs eat away at returns (the strategy is by no means low cost), it goes completely against the tenet that investors should keep investing simple. How is this strategy "the best of both worlds" when it so obviously involves actively managing your portfolio? After all, the investor is picking both the fund to replicate and the stocks to own when managing their money.
The writer even notes "owners of individual stocks also get the added advantage of being able to reduce their taxes by controlling when and how they sell individual shares. They can sell shares that have dropped in value, buy them back after 30 days, and then use the losses to offset other taxes." Most of the individual investors I know have neither the time nor the patience to pull off such a bad strategy. Besides, indexing is inherently tax efficient which would negate any positive effect the above tax loss selling strategy would have over the low costs of indexing. Here's a better idea then the one offered up in the article: buy an index fund and forget about everything else!
Since you have no way of knowing which lucky manager will outperform, you're better off just buying the whole market and minimizing your fees with passive index funds. The evidence seems to largely bear this out as studies show that up to 80% of actively managed mutual funds underperform the market and that those that did outperform didn't tend to continue doing so over subsequent periods of time.
The facts are all laid out for the reader. I'm at a loss for why people still try to justify owning actively managed funds – or an investor's replication of an actively managed fund - provided there's a passively managed fund that is considered an equal or greater representation of a specific area of the market as compared to the actively managed fund.
Dictionary.com defines a soothsayer as "a person who professes to foretell events." Another name for this type of person is a prognosticator or clairvoyant, and I can't help but think that Wall Street is becoming populated more and more with these types of people and less and less with people who actually know something. In short, Wall Street is trying to sell you something that they shouldn't: their predictive power.
The problem with Wall Street analysts and strategists making predictions and claims is that they're never held accountable. They are free to predict Dow 36,000, economic malaise, food lines and the like without any system of checks and balances. After all, why should they have one? The people making these predictions get paid to make them and for the most part, get to keep their jobs even if they're wrong. Just like your local weatherman may think but never openly admit, "we have met the enemy and he is us".
All of this leads me to the question - what would a world without market soothsayers be like? If Wall Street's hype and prediction machine collectively ceased to exist, would things run more efficiently? For one, dissemination of facts and true information could be acted upon without the potential for personal judgment to be clouded by the opinions of others. It may sound like a perfect world, one in which Wall Street and the media have no ability to impact your investments. Indeed, it is a perfect world for all investors - it is the world in which we simply ignore what Wall Street's prognosticators are saying and enjoy our lives.
An old adage goes, "the more things change, the more they stay the same" and nowhere is this more applicable than on Wall Street. Many readers, especially those who came of age during the Internet era and subsequent dot com bubble, will remember vividly the days of dot com IPOs skyrocketing 1,000% or more in their public debut and frenzied day traders trying to get their hands on said shares. It's been over 10 years since we emerged from the dot com bubble and it appears as if a fresh bubble may be brewing...in Internet names. On May 18, LinkedIn, the business networking site, debuted and skyrocketed more than 80% during the trading day. Fresh on the heels of LinkedIn's debut, other Internet names like Groupon, Twitter, Facebook and Zynga are filing or expected to file for IPOs in the coming months. Some estimates peg Facebook's value upwards of $65 billion, larger than many major American companies.
Is the Internet bubble back? Time will tell. The only constant is that the more things change on Wall Street, the more they stay the same.


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Teen Patti Movie
Indian movies have been gaining popularity over time and have collected quite a big audience throughout the past several years. The main reason for that stands on the story plot and the creativity producers put in their movies. The movie we will be talking about today is Teen Patti, which has gained a lot of attention and has become a topic of discussion for many critics and movie lovers.
Teen Patti is about gambling and teenagers, which is one of the most discussed topics and always has an audience. The movie has also encouraged many discussions and set certain new standards in gambling themed movies. The acting skills were quite outstanding and overall, the plot was exciting, making everyone glued to the screen for the whole length of the movie.
The story revolves around a genius mathematician, who wants to test his theories and strategies. He finds out that gambling is a perfect fit. We see this occur in real life as well. Usually, people with some extraordinary and exceptional skills are ignored by their community. In this case, the genius mathematician, Professor Venkat Subramaniam was ignored by society. His best attempt to gain some attention and get engaged in the community was to take a risky step and enter a very addictive and exciting lifestyle such as gambling. The decision is the reason for the whole fun and excitement as well.
Teen Patti is definitely not the only movie about gambling and about people trying their luck and skills in the gambling industry. Yet, this movie is an excellent example. A number of movie plots have real stories behind them, as gambling is always perceived differently wherever we see it. Teen Patti is an online casino game, which is very popular among Norwegian players. You can learn more about the gambling rules and strategies here. Different casino games carry different stories and vibes so you can easily draw the parallel between the movie plot, action, and the reality, which is not far from the screens as we see it.
The plot for Teen Patti is about one single decision and the outcome it has brought. The professor who has been mentioned above tries to play on both sides to prove his experiments with math, by the real-life evidence from the world of gambling and uses a bunch of students to get through the tough rules and borders of the gambling industry. They all sneak into the underworld of the card rooms. Yet, no one was expecting the amount of crime that they saw.
The film is a taut thriller, which uses many styles throughout the whole movie and showcases the reality of teenage lives. It also presents the life of the underworld and its "inhabitants". The portrayal of an edgy lifestyle and of modern youth is also very vivid in the movie. If this was not enough for you to watch the full movie, there's more to uncover.
All are present including the enticement in the character and currently in-form status of Amitabh Bachchan, who is hell-bent on a second, third and fourth coming. After mesmerizing Auro in Paa, Amitabh's eccentric mathematical wizard who talks to Albert Einstein, when he's alone, is one of the most watchable moments in Teen Patti. Of course, there are his musings with Ben Kingsley too. But one would have wished the filmmakers had made more substantial use of the tumultuous talent of Mr. Kingsley than reducing him to a mere listener.
What the movie tells us
What is also important to remember is the unfolding process of young life as well as the gambling industry and the cohabitation of gambling and youth. The outcome it brings and the possibilities it might open simultaneously. The movie represents the very odd assortment of the new players, who are four students and one genius professor, who all together test the theory of possibility through a game of cards. This could actually be a very good idea, if not for greed.
The movie also shows everyone that gambling is actually very addictive. This once again reminds us that it doesn't really matter how well the theory of probability works and the excitement it brings, players still have to be careful with their wishes and desires.
The Teen Patti movie represents a regular day in the life of a gambler, shows the desires, and is clear about both sides of the issue. Someone was threatening to harm the professor if he did not stop his experiments and count odds in his favor. But more than all the external threats, it's the insidious changes that are occurring within the group that is a greater cause of alarm. While a young couple aspires to become the next Bonnie and Clyde, greed's corroding some others. Will the days of innocence return? Is crime reversible?
While the movie is definitely one of the best recent Indian produced movies, and it can keep you on the edge of your seat for the whole period of time, there are almost no of the aspects which are missed by the producers of the movie to show. There is fun, there is action and there is interest. Despite the fact that the second half of the movie is a little bit repetitive and could have been done a bit differently, there is still a lot to pay attention to.


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Q: numpy.testing - TypeError: The DTypes  and  do not have a common DType I'm trying to run a test on two datetime arrays using the following:
numpy.testing.assert_allclose(
    np.array(['2022-01-01T00:00:00.000000000', '2022-01-02T00:00:00.000000000'], dtype='datetime64[ns]'),
    np.array(['2022-01-01T00:00:00.000000000', '2022-01-02T00:00:00.000000000'], dtype='datetime64[ns]')
)

As the arrays are identical then I was expecting it to pass but instead I get the error:
TypeError: The DTypes <class 'numpy.dtype[float16]'> and <class 'numpy.dtype[datetime64]'> do not have a common DType. For example they cannot be stored in a single array unless the dtype is `object`.

This confused me as both the arrays are datetime64?


Plants make their own food using photosynthesis. The food is important for the plants and for organisms that feed on the plants. Optimum rates of photosynthesis produce maximum plant yields.
and water – using light.
reaction. This means it cannot occur without energy (from the Sun).
, but other parts of the plant exposed to the light can develop chlorophyll and photosynthesise.
Oxygen is formed as the waste product. Some is used for respiration by the plant. The excess is released from the leaves, making it available for respiration to animals and many microorganisms. During the light, provided the rate of photosynthesis is sufficiently high, plants, give out oxygen.
The overall reaction for photosynthesis as given above is a simplification. Photosynthesis involves several different chemical reactions, but these can be summarised in two main stages. In the first reaction, energy is used to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is needed for the second stage of reactions and the oxygen is released by the plant as a waste product. In the reactions of the second stage, the hydrogen is combined with carbon dioxide to make glucose.
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Beyond the initial impulse that causes the observer of a painting to look intently at it, there are some characteristics that enhance satisfaction. These characteristics lie in the structure of the piece and apply particularly to paintings that are not of a purely abstract nature.. One of these relates to the position of the artist in creating the composition.
Can you tell if the artist is looking up at the subject, or down or straight into the work? Identifying the location of the artist in relation to the images within the composition places the viewer in the space of the artist. It is gratifying to be able to connect with the artist's intent in this way.
The artist may also choose to exclude effects of light and shadow if she / he concludes that doing so will make the creative work more harmonious, more representative of his / her vision or enhance it in some other way. When examining a painting, can you tell where light strikes the objects in the piece? Are all the elements reflecting the light represented in the natural state as perceived in nature or not? If there are shadows, are these falling in the expected direction and length in relation to the light source? Many inclusions, exclusions and distortions are often conscious choices of the artist. Such a determination by the viewer sets up a conversation with the artist who is not present but speaks through the art.
The focal point represents a specific area that can be defined either by a deliberate attempt of the artist to draw the viewer into the piece, or it may simply be a non-deliberate effect that is intuitive to the artist and is automatically built into the composition. Where is the focal point in the piece? What is that area and where is it located that causes the eye to converge at first glance? How is that area represented? Is it with light or dark, something present in the space or simply pure space?
Color in the composition is used in numerous ways to create interest and beauty. These include, but are not limited to, juxtaposition of colors that enhance each color. The use of density, translucency and size of a color are used to have an object hold its place in the space it occupies in the painting.
Repeated shapes, not necessarily of the same size or color, also have a subliminal effect of keeping the viewer engaged and act to pull the composition together in harmony. Are there shapes repeated in the painting you are watching and if so, can you identify them all? Lines that converge, either by pointing to or touching a single point on the frame, especially at its corners, also have the effect of containing the image most harmoniously.
The Golden Mean divides the painting into uneven but mathematically proportionate parts. In a painting, the distance between two edges that represents the Golden Mean approximates a proportion of slightly less than two thirds of the distance between the edges of the frame. The Golden Mean may appear as a hard line that runs completely or partially across the length or width of a painting.
"In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency…To the Greek mentality, it was an attribute of beauty… Both ancients and moderns believed that there is a close association in mathematics between beauty and truth". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty.
Nothing beats the initial sensation you feel when you first see a painting that you just Love! Enjoyed your additional perspectives to look for. Never knew about the Golden Mean. I will look for it and hopefully I learn to identify it.


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Аллотро́пия (от  «другой» +  «поворот, свойство») — существование двух и более простых веществ одного и того же химического элемента.

Явление аллотропии обусловлено либо различным состоянием молекул простого вещества (аллотропия состава), либо способом размещения атомов или молекул в кристаллической решётке (аллотропия формы).

История
Понятие аллотропии введено в науку Й. Берцелиусом в 1841 году для обозначения разных форм существования элементов; одновременно он предполагал, по-видимому, применить его и к изомерии соединений. После принятия гипотезы А. Авогадро в 1860 году стало понятно, что элементы могут существовать в виде многоатомных молекул, например, О2 — кислород и О3 — озон.

В начале XX века было признано, что различия в кристаллической структуре простых веществ (например, углерода или фосфора) также являются причиной аллотропии. В 1912 году В. Оствальд отметил, что аллотропия элементов является просто частным случаем полиморфизма кристаллов, и предложил отказаться от этого термина. Однако по настоящее время эти термины используются параллельно. Аллотропия относится только к простым веществам, независимо от их агрегатного состояния; полиморфизм — только к твёрдому состоянию независимо от того, простое это вещество или сложное. Таким образом, эти термины совпадают для простых твёрдых веществ (кристаллическая сера, фосфор, железо и др.).

Примеры аллотропии

В настоящее время известно более 400 разновидностей простых веществ. Способность элемента к образованию аллотропных форм обусловлена строением атома, которое определяет тип химической связи, строение молекул и кристаллов.

Как правило, большее число аллотропных форм образуют элементы, имеющие переменные значения координационного числа или степени окисления (олово, фосфор). Другим важным фактором является катенация — способность атомов элемента образовывать гомоцепные структуры (например, сера).
Склонность к аллотропии более выражена у неметаллов, за исключением галогенов, благородных газов, и полуметаллов.

Принято обозначать различные аллотропические формы одного и того же элемента строчными буквами греческого алфавита; причём форму, существующую при самых низких температурах, обозначают буквой α, следующую — β и т. д.

Неметаллы

Полуметаллы

Металлы

Среди металлов, которые встречаются в природе в больших количествах (до U, без Tc и Pm), 28 имеют аллотропные формы при атмосферном давлении: Li, Be, Na, Ca, Sc, Ti, Mn, Fe, Co, Sr, Y, Zr, Sn, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Yb, Hf, Tl, Th, Pa, U.
Также важны аллотропные формы ряда металлов, образующиеся при их технологической обработке: Ti при 882˚C, Fe при 912˚C и 1394˚C, Co при 422˚C, Zr при 863˚C, Sn при 13˚C и U при 668˚C и 776˚C.

Энантиотропные и монотропные переходы

Переход одной аллотропной модификации в другую происходит при изменении температуры или давления (или одновременном воздействии обоих факторов) и связан со скачкообразным изменением свойств вещества. Этот процесс бывает обратимым (энантиотропным) и необратимым (монотропным).

Примером энантиотропного перехода может служить превращение ромбической серы в моноклинную α-S (ромб.) ↔ β-S (монокл.) при 95,6 °C. При обычной температуре стабильной является ромбическая модификация серы, которая при нагревании до 95,6 °С при нормальном давлении переходит в моноклинную форму. Последняя при охлаждении ниже 95,6 °С вновь переходит в ромбическую форму. Таким образом, переход одной формы серы в другую происходит при одной и той же температуре, и сами формы называются энантиотропными.

К монотропному переходу относится превращение белого фосфора P4 под давлением 1,25 ГПа и температуре 200 °C в более стабильную модификацию — чёрный фосфор. При возвращении к обычным условиям обратный переход не происходит. Переход из нестабильной формы в стабильную в принципе возможен при любой температуре, а обратный — нет, то есть определенная точка перехода отсутствует. Ещё один пример — превращение графита в алмаз при давлении 6 ГПа и температуре 1500 °C в присутствии катализатора (никель, хром, железо и другие металлы), то есть при условиях термодинамической устойчивости алмаза. Тогда как алмаз легко и быстро переходит в графит при температурах выше 1000 °С. В обоих случаях давление способствует превращению, поскольку образуется вещества с более высокой плотностью, чем исходные.

Три известные модификации олова переходят друг в друга различным образом. При обычных условиях устойчиво β-Sn (пластичное белое олово) с тетрагональной кристаллической решеткой. Выше 173 °С β-Sn энантиотропно превращается в хрупкую модификацию γ-Sn, а ниже 13,2 °C β-Sn переходит монотропно в порошкообразное α-Sn (серое олово) с кубической решёткой типа алмаза. Этот полиморфный переход происходит с малой скоростью, но резко ускоряется в контакте с серым оловом — плотные куски белого олова рассыпаются в пыль («оловянная чума»). Обратный процесс возможен только путём переплавки.

Примечания

См. также

 Изомерия
 Полиморфизм кристаллов
 Кристаллическая решётка

Литература
 Эддисон У. Аллотропия химических элементов. — М.: Мир, 1966. — 207 с.

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After a successful one-year run, the Museum of International Folk Art's exhibit "Sacred Realm: Blessings & Good Fortune Across Asia" closes on March 19.
To mark the conclusion of the exhibition, which explores ways in which people across Asia seek and secure blessings and good fortune, artist and writer Piers Watson presents a lecture about luted crucible casting, a low-tech method of casting done primarily in India and West Africa, and demonstrates how it's done in the museum's outdoor fire pit.
At the end of Watson's presentation, paper flowers that were made by the public as altar offerings throughout the run of the exhibit, will be burned in the pit.
An exhibition that was close to four years in the making and incorporates information gathered from Islamic scholars, Jewish rabbis, Buddhist monks and distinguished academics and artists from New Mexico and around the country, "Sacred Realm" looks at various rituals and objects through which people engage with sacred ideas and concepts.
With only a few exceptions, all the pieces in the exhibit-amulets, scrolls, masks, paintings, musical instruments and metal sculptures among others-are from the Museum of International Folk Art's (MIFA) vast collection of approximately 17,000 Asian folk art objects. iPad stations located throughout the exhibit offer additional information about the items on display.


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John Dennis looks to challenge Nancy Pelosi with a more fiscally conservative, anti-war agenda
by Susannah Kopecky, published Apr 30, 2010
Could a Republican soon claim the seat long held by Speaker Nancy Pelosi? If John Dennis has his druthers, such a thing will happen in the November 2010 election.
Dennis, who paints himself as a "pro-liberty Republican," is gunning for the very same seat which Pelosi has continuously held for over 20 years. Dennis is working hard to unseat the polarizing Pelosi, and it is fascinating that a Republican has been gaining as much steam as Dennis has, in a notoriously liberal region.
Dennis comes to the arena with at least one distinct advantage. He does not bring an exceptional amount of national political baggage. Pelosi has received widespread criticism for her role in advocating government-run healthcare. She has also been noted for her highly partisan criticism of the Tea Party Movement (remember Astoturf and the inevitable Nazi comparisons?) and her finger-wagging at the CIA.
Dennis, the longtime businessman and Republican candidate is no stranger to politics, standing as a founder of the Republican Liberty Caucus of San Francisco. He explains on his campaign site that the choice to run came rather dramatically: "The deciding factor for me came down to this: When things get dark, which they will if we don't change our present course, I know that I will regret not having spoken out on this stage when I had the chance."
Dennis has expressed concern for the direction of the country, noting that his background in economics informed his understanding that "our current political behavior cannot be sustained much longer. The country needs to elect people who will stop the suicidal policies that pose an existential threat to the American experiment in liberty… The time has passed to pretend that 'some else will do it.'"
He has expressed support for a "strong national defense", calling national defense "one of the essential functions of the Federal government." Dennis supports border security, a well-trained and well-cared for army, and believes that American troops should not "be forced to be policemen of the world."
Dennis has been supported in his bid by such recognizable individuals and organizations as Barry Goldwater Jr., the Republican Liberty Caucus, and the San Francisco Young Republicans. While it may seem like a Republican running for office in San Francisco could make for comedy, Dennis may have picked the right dog for this fight.
What could potentially propel Dennis to an upset victory is his alignment with the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC). The RLC feels that at every level, government is "too big, too intrusive, and too expensive." The organization further supports the promotion of "individual liberty, limited government, and free enterprise" all within the broader confines of the Republican Party.
The RLC has officially endorsed a handful of 2010 California candidates, including Linda "Ellie" Black for the 27th District (encompassing notoriously liberal areas such as Santa Cruz) and Gary Clift for the 10th District (encompassing such regions as Stockton and Sacramento).
The RLC is a nearly-20-year-old organization which counts Texas representative Ron Paul as one of its best known members. Dennis himself supported Paul's failed 2008 bid for the presidency.
A strong alignment with the Libertarian-esque movement may make this race a very interesting one to watch. On many issues, the RLC looks more to the right than moderate Republicans. It seeks to curb the strong power of the federal government, allow for more personal freedom, and cut down on taxes.
In contrast, many liberal voters tend to prefer more leeway for government and do not express a distaste for taxes as vocally as more conservative speakers tend to. However, Ron Paul was also a darling of the left for his anti-war stance back in 2007-2008, so depending on the angle which Dennis plays himself, he may be able achieve the seemingly impossible, by securing otherwise typically liberal votes, in his effort to oust Pelosi.
If he does upset Pelosi, Dennis can expect to quickly rise within the ranks of the Republican Party.
Susannah Kopecky
Susannah Kopecky is a news maven and interested in politics, history, language, law, and information organization. She has contributed news and opinion articles to numerous publications and has served as copy editor and editor-in-chief for several news publications.


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Q: Make select tag required if quantity is selected What I wan't to achieve is when you have selected how many windows you have, but not have chosen what option you wan't, it should either give a error message or just set Option 1 as the default when you submit the form.
I didn't post all of the code, because there is 31 windows that you can choose from, so it would be a very long question, so I just posted code for one window.
What I have tried so far:

*

*I have given the Option 1 the selected attribute, but then it's applied all the time, when you submit the form and that's not how it supposed to be.

*I have tried to give the <input type="number" name="quantity1" min="0" max="100" placeholder="STK."> the same php code as the Option 1 so it would be like this:
<input type="number" name="quantity1" min="0" max="100" placeholder="STK." value="60|Vindue 1" <?php if(isset($_POST[ 'quantity1']) && $_POST[ 'window1']=='60' ){ echo 'selected'; } else { echo ''; } ?>> but then again it will always display the value of Option 1 even if you didn't chose it
HTML and PHP for where you choose option, quantity and submit the form:
    <form action="" method="post">

        <select id="select" name="window1" value="window1">
            <option>Choose Option</option>
            <option value="60|Window 1" <?php if(isset($_POST[ 'window1']) && $_POST[ 'window1']=='60' ){ echo 'selected'; } else { echo ''; } ?>>Option 1</option>
            <option value="40|Window 1" <?php if(isset($_POST[ 'window1']) && $_POST[ 'window1']=='40' ){ echo 'selected'; } else { echo ''; } ?>>Option 2</option>
            <option value="40|Window 1" <?php if(isset($_POST[ 'window1']) && $_POST[ 'window1']=='40' ){ echo 'selected'; } else { echo ''; } ?>>Option 3</option>
            <option value="85|Window 1" <?php if(isset($_POST[ 'window1']) && $_POST[ 'window1']=='85' ){ echo 'selected'; } else { echo ''; } ?>>Option 4</option>
        </select>

        <input type="number" name="quantity1" min="0" max="100" placeholder="STK.">

Indtast dine oplysninger og modtag dit uforpligtende tilbud!

            Fornavn *
            <input class="" name="first_name" id="first_name" type="text" required />

            Efternavn *
            <input class="" name="last_name" id="last_name" type="text" required />

            Adresse *
            <input class="" name="address_street" id="address_street" type="text" required />

            Postnummer *
            <input class="" name="zip_code" id="zip_code" type="number" required />

            By *
            <input class="" name="city" id="city" type="text" required />

            Email *
            <input class="" name="email_address" id="email_address" type="email" required />

            Telefon *
            <input class="" name="mobile_no" id="mobile_no" type="tel" maxlength="8" required />

            Besked
            <textarea name="textarea" id="" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea>

            <input type="submit" name="submit" style="font-family: 'Dosis' !important;" value="Recieve and offer" class="submit-pris">

</form>

Is PHP the right way or can this be done with jQuery?
I hope that someone can help me with this issue, thanks in advance! :)

A: Make a jquery event for the control of your required attribute. Use the onchange event for this.
HTML:
<select id="select" name="window1" value="window1" >
  <option>Choose Option</option>
  <option value="60|Window 1" >Option 1</option>
  <option value="40|Window 1" >Option 2</option>
  <option value="40|Window 1" >Option 3</option>
  <option value="85|Window 1" >Option 4</option>
</select>

<input type="number" name="quantity1" min="0" max="100" placeholder="STK." class="quantity">

jQuery:
$(function(){
    $(".quantity").on("change", function(){
    var val = $(this).val();
    if(val!="")
        $("#select").attr("required", "required");
    else
        $("#select").removeAttr("required");
  })
})

Example: jsfiddle
If you need any further help then knock me.


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