1 of 5 Place oven rack in lowest position. Heat oven to 425 degrees F. Coat 12-inch pizza pan with cooking spray.
2 of 5 Cook sausage in nonstick skillet over medium heat 10 minutes. Remove; let cool. Slice in thin rounds.
3 of 5 Place crust on prepared pan. Spread with tomato sauce. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning and Parmesan.
4 of 5 Arrange sausage, onion and sweet peppers over sauce. Sprinkle Jack cheese over pizza, leaving a 1- to 2-inch border around edge.
5 of 5 Bake on lowest rack in 425 degree F oven 10 minutes to heat through. Garnish. Makes 6 servings.
Per Serving: 779 mg sodium, 2 g fiber, 25 g carb., 14 g pro., 245 kcal cal., 10 g Fat, total, 4 g sat. fat, 23 mg chol.


Gamers2's CS:GO team will face GPlay this afternoon, at 17.30 CEST, in their fifth and last group match at the StarSeriers XIII finals, in Kiev.
Gamers2's CS:GO team is already in Kiev for the offline finals of StarSeries XIII. The top six teams from the regular season will go head-to-head at the state-of-the-art Kiev Cybesport Arena for their share of the $50,000 prize pool.
All six teams will face one another in best-of-one matches during the round-robin group stage, which will take place on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, four teams will clash in the single-elimination playoffs, which will use a best-of-three format.
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Williams gets used to new duties in Harrisburg
State Rep. Craig Williams is the incumbent Republican in the 161st District
By Kathleen E. Carey | kcarey@delcotimes.com | delcotimes.com
PUBLISHED: February 24, 2021 at 11:30 p.m. | UPDATED: August 23, 2021 at 10:28 a.m.
State Rep. Craig Williams, R-160, of Upper Chichester, comes to his new position with a decorated past.
During the Persian Gulf War, he flew 56 combat missions in an F/A-18D and was decorated 11 times – twice for Acts of Valor in combat.
Over his 28 years in the Marine Corps, his accomplishments didn't end there. He studied law while serving, became an attorney and became the chief prosecutor on the largest Marine base. He also served as deputy legal counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Williams then served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice and with the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
However, it was his work in the community – the coaching with the Brandywine Youth Club and his work with the Boy Scouts of America, and his teaching a course in the Biology Department at the University of Pennsylvania – that has best prepared him for the role he has now.
"In terms of getting ready to be a state rep, this is truly a local office," the 56-year-old said.
In his coaching arena, he added, "I think I hear more about what people need in those context than in my public service."
It's his teaching, Williams said, that's required him to cultivate skills in dialogue and factual preparation.
"For me," he said of becoming the 160th Legislative District's next representative after former Rep. Stephen Barrar retired, "it's the next chapter of me in my life of service."
As a part of that, Williams said he doesn't want national politics interfering with his role.
"I don't want national politics in my local office," he said, adding that Washington can focus on its own issues. "I truly believe that good people can serve at a local level in a non-hateful way."
And, right now, his focus, as many others, is COVID.
"Obviously the most important thing right now is getting past this pandemic," he said, adding that he wants to see more vaccine directed towards Delaware and Chester counties. The 160th Legislative District includes Bethel, Chadds Ford, Concord and Upper Chichester townships in Delaware County and Kennett Square, Kennett Township, Pennsbury and Pocopson in Chester County.
On Feb. 10, Williams joined some of his Senate colleagues, including state Sen. John Kane, D-9, of Birmingham, in writing a letter to Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam asking for more vaccine to be sent to Chester County.
"While Chester County is ranked 6th in population in the Commonwealth, to date, it ranks 33rd in the amount of vaccine doses received" the senators wrote at the time. "We understand factors other than population impact the quantities of vaccine distributed, however, we respectfully request that the Department of Health review the formula being used to ensure that distribution amounts better reflect county populations."
He also wants to have teachers prioritized for vaccination.
Another critical issue for Williams is unemployment.
"Everybody in my office is trained in helping people getting answers," he said.
Williams spoke to how he is best prepared at this moment to be a state representative.
"This is the best time for leaders to step forward," he said. "I feel that this moment was tailor made for someone like me."
He added he was grateful for legislation like Senate Bill 109, which allocates $145 million for the restaurant and hospitality industry, $570 million in rent and utility assistance and $197 million for schools.
"It's economic concerns, vaccine concerns," Williams said. "People are hurting. I's the number one reason why my staff is thoroughly engaged."
And, when they're busy helping constituents and his office phone rings, he himself picks it up to help.
That leads to the top quality he said prepares him for this public service: empathy.
"I sense, feel and internalize what everyone is going through," he said. "The second is my ability to be calm in a crisis. My third is my ability to put a strong team around me to respond to that crisis."
Williams explained he personally relates to many of his constituents' lives.
His wife is a working attorney. They are raising four children – two are in college and two are in the Garnet Valley Middle School.
"I'm living the issues of the school shutdown along with them," he said. "I know we cant bear this much longer."
Kathleen E. Carey | Reporter
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The New Year is a time for new beginnings. It's a time for families to come together, celebrate the year that was, and commit themselves to a year ahead filled with growth, rewarding time in one another's company and resolutions of other kinds.
Here are 10 resolutions that will help your family have their best year ever in 2018.
With multiple options available for entertainment, endless kid lessons, activities away from home, and time spent with friends, having the whole family together at the same time in the same place can be a rarity. Make it the norm. Whether it is an evening playing a board game at home or family biking expeditions around the neighborhood, a family that plays together stays together.
With smartphones, tablets, and computers, families are in danger of becoming too sedentary. In fact, the country is in the midst of an obesity epidemic that can undermine health and happiness. Go for walks together, take active family holidays, encourage participation in sports, and just keep moving. Physical health and mental wellbeing are intimately connected.
The sooner a family realizes that what they eat can affect their physical, mental, and emotional health, the faster they will be on their way to achieving wellness. Resources are abound online about healthy eating choices; all that it takes is a commitment to doing it. Also, when you eat well, a less-healthy snack such as chips or chocolate is a treat, and not just something to take for granted.
There is a whole world beyond the walls of your home, office, and school. Go camping together as a family, visit parks, walk the dog, and travel for active holidays. Connecting to the larger natural world makes you appreciate your small place in it even more.
Make every arrival and departure of a family member an occasion. Practice saying your hellos and goodbyes. Don't rush in or out without a word, or just a fast one, like a ghost. When you take time to say to goodbye and have fun with a departing child and mean it, both your value in each other's eyes grows.
One of the best ways to appreciate what you have is to help others who don't. Volunteering together enables kids and parents to both learn the joy of helping others in a worthwhile cause. Selflessness beats selfishness any day.
Too much of our lives these days are sucked up by the electronic devices our eyes are glued to. As a family, make it practice to put them down and actually live a real life. Family mealtimes aren't when you should be receiving texts and emails, no matter how good the friend or urgent the need at the office.
Choose a day every week to have a family game night. Sitting around a table, playing a round of Crazy Eights or a board game, is fun and soon you'll be counting off the days to the next game night.
Silliness is serious business. Whether it's the crazy dad, the practical joker mom or the kid on his way to stand up comic fame, a family that learns to laugh together can weather just about any storm.
A lifetime of learning, achievement, and fulfillment starts when kids learn to love reading. One of the best things parents can do with younger children is read to them and with them, so they catch the bug early.
As kids get older, it's important to keep them reading. Perhaps have set times in the evening and on weekends when all screens go off and book covers open. Kids, no matter what their age, will look to the parents as an example. So it is important to model good behavior and read yourself.
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What We can Learn About the Behaviour of Firms from the Average Monthly Frequency of Price‐Changes:An Application to the UK CPI Data
Dixon, Huw David and Tian, Kun (2017) What We can Learn About the Behaviour of Firms from the Average Monthly Frequency of Price‐Changes:An Application to the UK CPI Data. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 79 (6). pp. 907-932. ISSN 0305-9049
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The monthly frequency of price-changes is a prominent feature of many studies of the CPI micro-data. In this paper, we see what the frequency implies for the behaviour of price-setters in terms of the cross-sectional distribution average of price-spell durations across firms. We derive a lower bound for the mean duration of price-spells averaged across firms. We use the UK CPI data at the aggregate and sectoral level and find that the actual mean is about twice the theoretical minimum consistent with the observed frequency. We construct hypothetical Bernoulli-Calvo distributions from the frequency data which we find can result in similar impulse responses to the estimated hazards when used in the Smets-Wouters (2003) model.
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Syria: EU Statement on Chemical Weapons Misleads International Community
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Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that the statement released by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy about chemical weapons goes too far to mislead the international community.
"Some western states and representatives of the European Union go too far in misleading the international community on the use of countries, like Syria and Russia, for chemical weapons, in order to defame the image of the two countries in services of the West's colonial targets," the Syrian Foreign Ministry said Thursday in a statement in response to the EU comments.
The statement added that such weapons have been used in Europe and by some EU states and the US in many places in the world.
"Syria reaffirms that it will not use and has never used such weapons, but they were used by terrorist groups and western intelligence apparatus… Syria also stresses it rejects the use of these weapons in any place or at any time," the Syrian Foreign Ministry concluded.
Source: SANA
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Syrian Foreign Ministry: Washington Funding of Suspicious Media Outlets Reflects Its Insistence to Mislead Public Opinion
11:22 Death toll of Israeli aggression on Jenin rises to 9: Palestinian Health Ministry
11:21 Al-Manar correspondent: Israeli occupation forces withdraw from Jenin
11:20 Islamic Jihad: Israeli aggression on Jenin makes us closer to the explosion of the situatrion


Pretty much explains the scene they find when they arrive down by the water side to see a surprising number of people dead on the shore with varying degree in stages of the creature breaking free from their bodies. Their inspection of the bodies and creatures is both disgusting and humorous, but they manage to find a woman still alive and she is rushed to the hospital. We learn when Olivia and Peter go to interview her at the hospital that she never took a pill given to everyone else for "sea sickness" and also that Peter can speak Cantonese. Walter and Peter later pose that the pill was hosting the larva that later grew into the creatures they have now by using the human body as an incubator.
They manage to get a triad member into custody and make the link that the triad is using immigrants to smuggle in the worm. Back at the lab, Walter and Astrid are doing tests on the worms when one latches onto Walter and Broyles sees it all. His lack of surprise speaks volumes. Olivia and Peter then run off to explore a financial lead to the suburbs to find a single mom to a teenage boy and what seems to be a dead end. Walter makes the leap after testing his own blood after the worms bite that the drug is in fact medicinal and not recreational uses. This leads Walter to want to explore China town to gather a few samples from herbal shops to compare to. Peter tries to persuade Walter into letting him do it, but this only upsets Walter and he is obstinate on going alone. Astrid is easily coaxed by Peter to keep an eye on Walter as he practices his "self actualization" in China town.
While they're off in China town, Peter and Olivia go back to the suburban house to talk to Matt (the teenager) in hopes of getting him to talk. Peter opens up about his past and how he was raised by his mother and knows Matt is just trying to protect his own mother. We learn that it is actually Matt who has an immune deficiency and he's been receiving treatments for awhile now. In China town, Walter catches Astrid following him and instead of being completely offended he invites her to tag along with him as a friend. Unfortunately Astrid loses Walter while they were buying refreshments and after consulting Peter, Astrid decides to head back to the lab to see if he'd headed back already. What she walks in on though is definitely not Walter, but a couple triad gang members who render her unconscious while they steal the worms from the lab. Walter is still in China town and uses all his money to try and call Peter, whose number he's forgotten, when an elderly Chinese woman takes pity on him and takes him home to use her phone to try and get a hold of Peter.
Astrid is later discovered by Peter and Olivia who finally return to the lab and she tells them about the big Asian guys with tattoos that took her out. They deduce that she must've been followed back from China town. Peter then gets a phone call from the Chinese woman who found Walter and he breaks off from the group to pick him up. Walter then tells Peter about bragging to an herbalist about the worms they had back at the lab. Peter calls Olivia to tell her about the herbalist shop while she is already at a raid that is in motion. The raid on the boat is a bust though and they find they are too late. Lucky for team Fringe and the boat load of Chinese people, Peter has spotted them being loaded into the herbalist shop and relays the information to Olivia. Deciding that he can't wait, Peter picks the lock of the shop and goes in without any backup. Meanwhile, Walter is singing his Lion's Den song back in the car, which is the second time in the Fringe series. Not sure if it means anything, but it seems he only sings it when they're in a hostile situation.
Peter, in typical Peter fashion, manages to get himself caught while trying to save a woman from being opened up. The Chinese men, in an attempt to get Peter to spill information forces a larva into his mouth. Olivia is right on time though and shoots Peter's captors. At the risk of sounding like an idiot girl, the way Olivia immediately rushes to Peter in the meelie of people says more than "meh, we're friends". On a side note, I thought it was interesting that they used the exact same location for Henry the second's debut via fauxlivia later on in season three.
The episode finishes up with a touching Walter/Peter scene where Walter informs Peter that he has implanted a tracking chip into his neck and gives the tracker to Peter so that he can always find him even during his moments of independence.
Seeing as he played a VERY large role in this we may just have to break it down into points.
The connection between the sterile suburban house and the drug ring would never have been made which would've seriously delayed the investigation.
Olivia wouldn't have been able to get any answers from Matt about being the immune deficient person in the family and about how it was done.
They never would've found the Chinese immigrants after they were unloaded from the boat since they were spotted by Peter in China town.
-Chinatown. 3.18 Bloodline happens in Chinatown as well.
-This is by far the grossest episode of S2.
-Second time Walter dials the wrong number, the guy speaks German.
-It's the same phone booth Fauxlivia used to call Lincoln in 3.18 Bloodline. It's got a chip on one side.
-I don't think I've seen Walter that lost before.
-Why was he wearing a robe and not his clothes?
-Red and green lights flashing behind Walter as he is sitting at the table.
-Walter's concern for Astrid is really touching. It reflects her reaction in 3.04 DSDOES after Walter gets assaulted by Ray. So different from when he drugged her in 1.04 The Arrival.
-Olivia is very good and patient with kids. Ella, little observer, the little girl here and Christopher Broyles. It's kind of ironic because she's so not patient with herself.
-The shop Peter is standing in front of is the same store Fauxlivia knocked on the window to be let in when she escapes in 3.18 Bloodline.
Walter is singing the same song he sang in the sewer in 1.16 Unleashed.
-who would have told Astrid to follow Walter, or would anyone have followed him?
-who would have discovered Walter in Chinatown?
-would Mei Ling's husband and daughter and the others on the boat have survived?
-Olivia would have had to get the warrant to talk with Matt and his mom and would she have gotten the information she needed?
-would they have known to look in China town for the passengers from the second boat.
-who would have Walter given the receiver for the tracking devise to.
Peter also identified their man in custody as a Triad gang member before he slit his throat.
It is interesting to note Broyles didn't seem to have a clue what that his tattoos signified he was a member of the Triad gang. So if Peter had not existed,that whole industry of smuggling worm-incubating Asians into the US to make immune-boosting, blackmarket drugs might still be going strong. Also, without Peter making the connections, that poor woman may have never found her husband and daughter again.


Time For New Tracking/Profiling Technology Laws Google?
I read they're tracking everyone who downloads this game & are working on laws to continue this *profiling trend*! Download violent games that see VILE crimes as entertainment & you'll be profiled...Those who download ring massive attention to themselves. Not a smart idea to bring attention to yourself from the stats I've read about those involved in real life dog fighting or other vile crimes!
These days you just never know with people. I do not believe that Google condones this game! Google is an extremely powerful company with endless resources...Gotcha as some would say...No? It might be time for new technology laws/guidelines Google?:)?


What canine wouldn't like to sleep under a recliner? It's dark, safe and, as your pup knows, if he can't see something, it can't see him. But his sleeping spot is a pain for you, plus it's dangerous for him if you don't know he's taking a snooze there. A little redirection or a deterrent will have him resting somewhere safer.
Give your pup more enticing places to rest his head.
Keep a bed or two of his in the same room as your recliner so he has more options than just darting under your chair each time he wants a snooze. If he likes the perceived safety and darkness under the recliner, put his bed under a table or somewhere similar. Avoiding placing it next to your chair.
Redirect your dog to his bed each time he goes for the recliner.
Maybe you've unknowingly conditioned your pup to seek the shelter of the recliner each time you sit down and relax, or he just wanders over there occasionally. Regardless, it's time to make him realize there are way better places to be. Each time he tries to fit himself under the recliner, stand up and redirect him to his bed. Hold a treat or one of his favorite toys over the bed, and say a unique command, such as "rest." When he comes over and steps in the bed, toss the treat in and praise him. Say the command each time you redirect him to his new spot. Eventually, that command is all you'll need to say if he tries to sneak under your chair.
String a few aluminum cans together under the recliner.
As soon as your pup throws himself to the ground and tries to army crawl underneath your chair, he'll smack the cans, startle himself and will likely pull himself out of the confined space. If your pup's easily spooked, don't do this. You want him to be wary of crawling underneath the recliner, not so terrified of it that he runs into another room and hides.
Block access to the recliner.
If all else fails, slide a box, crate or something similar in front of your recliner's base. The only downside to this is that you have to bring out the box and move it each time you sit down and stand up.
Look for a specific reason for your dog's behavior.
If he's running under your recliner out of fear, then training him to lie in his own bed probably won't work, and aluminum cans will make him freak out even more. Blocking off the area is your best bet, but if your pup's especially frantic, he may do everything in his power to move the box or crate out of his way. Better to pinpoint his fear and try to desensitize him to it. With any type of desensitization training, start out slow, use positive reinforcement and increase the difficulty gradually. If he's afraid a booming noise, for instance, subject him to a very low volume level of that noise. Feed him treats if he doesn't panic, and slowly increase the volume.
Caution: Don't yank your pup to his bed or scold him for going under the recliner.


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Win or lose, Corbyn has done more than any politician in history to engage young people in politics
Jeremy Corbyn – like him or loathe him - has made politics feel, not only bearable, but exciting to young people.
by Adam Turner
Thousands of young people flock to his rallies like obsessed, politico groupies. He is Westminster's equivalent of The Clash – an anti-establishment, anti-monarchical punk intent on shouting about injustice, inequality and tax avoidance. Whilst championing the working-class and promoting peace – and young people are listening.
Jeremy Corbyn – like him or loathe him – has made politics feel, not only bearable, but exciting to young people. According to data from the electoral register and published by the Independent, since the general election was called over 1.1 million young people (under 35) have registered to vote. Admittedly, this isn't all down to the Corbyn effect, but he's undoubtedly been a major player and the proof is in the pudding. A recent YouGov poll found that 69 percent of 18-24-year-olds would elect him as PM. To put that into perspective, only 12 percent of the same demographic would vote for Theresa May. The same poll also put the Labour party ahead of the Conservatives by 57 points amongst voters under 25. So, regardless of which way you swing politically, you must acknowledge he has done a lot to resuscitate conversations between politicians and the young – who often feel left out in the cold.
His popularity amongst young people is likely due to his willingness to do things differently – like when he gate-crashed a Libertines gig. Or when he awkwardly sang along to Ben E.King's 'Stand by Me' with a young busker in Greater Manchester. Or when he boogied his way through Notting Hill Carnival, long before this election campaign began.
He has also stimulated support from celebrities and musicians across the UK – from Harry Styles and Steve Coogan to Russell Brand and Stormzy. The latter, together with the likes of JME, Novelist and Akala (some of who have not voted before), have been encouraging young people to vote for the bearded socialist in a movement called #grimeforcorbyn.
Now Corbyn might look more like a haggard Greenpeace activist than a grime artist; he might sound more like one too. Nevertheless, wherever he goes he is greeted by thousands of passionate fans who scream his name. When he arrived in Leeds a few weeks ago, people clambered up walls and hung from lampposts to get a view of the Labour leader. That wasn't a one-off either. He got a similar reception in Scarborough, Hebden Bridge, Liverpool, Cardiff, Reading, York, Leamington Spa, Manchester and most recently Cambridge – when his Pringle-eating endeavours went viral. This evening thousands of people were turned away from a rally in Gateshead over capacity issues. Never in my short political lifetime have I seen a politician create such a raucous gig-like atmosphere.
Part of his charm is, when people talk, he listens – age aside. He doesn't talk at people, he talks to them. And whether he's speaking the public on the street, or to the media, he is open, honest and not afraid to apologise for his mistakes – as he did when he forgot childcare figures just the other day. That wasn't his only gaffe and it probably won't be the last.
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However, younger voters, like me, are willing to forgive his mistakes because he's proven to be a genuine bloke. I'm far from a conventional Corbynite. In fact, when he first won the Labour leadership, despite sharing similar views, I found him a smug, impersonal, middle-class careerist. Now here I am singing like a Corbynista canary.
Labour's manifesto is one of the reasons for that. It has been built to better our society with the next generation in mind and that's a tribute to Jeremy Corbyn. Abolishing tuition fees and zero hours contracts, increasing the minimum wage, building more affordable housing, cheaper rail fares and re-introducing grants for nurses and students are policies for the next generation – and rightly so. The youth of today are tomorrow's doctors and nurses, politicians, plumbers, firefighters and policeman. These policies are far from a communist's wet dream; they are largely based on common sense and if you want to see proof that they work take a look at countries like Sweden, Denmark and Germany.
The other day I went out delivering leaflets with a friend who, like me, had previously only signified his political alliances by placing a tick in a box at the polling station – until JC came along. He's now an active member of the Labour party – knocking on doors, engaging in debate and following politics closely. There must be thousands, if not tens of thousands of young people doing the same up and down the country and that's largely because of him.
He won't win this general election outright. He might not even stop the Conservatives getting a majority. He might even lose a few seats. But, irrespective of the result on June the 8th, Jeremy Corbyn has done more to engage young people in politics than any politician in the past century – and that can only be a positive thing.
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Doxil shortage looms as Boehringer announces plant closure
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A troubled US plant operated by Boehringer Ingelheim's Ben Venue subsidiary will close by the end of the year, raising the spectre of shortages of a key cancer drug.
The sterile injectables facility in Bedford, Ohio, cannot be put back on a sustainable footing despite "the ongoing support of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the tremendous dedication of employees, and significant investments in facility upgrades," said the company in a statement.
The facility is currently the only plant approved in the US to make Johnson & Johnson's Doxil (doxorubicin), and compliance problems - including sterility failures - have played havoc with J&J's ability to supply the drug over the last couple of years.
Ahead of the closure announcement, J&J warned that it was likely to experience "outages" in Doxil supply later this month, and was unable to estimate when the drug would become available again. The company has filed a lawsuit alleging breach of contract and trying to force Boehringer into arbitration proceedings.
The decision puts 1,100 workers on notice of a phased reduction in headcount - starting this month - as the activities at the plant are wound down.
In a statement, Boehringer said the "magnitude of continued investment and time required to overcome the systemic manufacturing challenges is not viable," noting that $350 million has been invested in the plant to date with losses of $700 million or more expected if it continues to run Bedford over the next five years.
The closure will have a major impact on J&J's efforts to develop an alternative manufacturing process for Doxil. While the company has been working to transition production to another contract manufacturer, an interim stage has seen it take bulk drug made at Bedford for finishing at another supplier.
The FDA has approved imports of a generic version of doxorubicin from Sun Pharmaceutical called Lipodox in February under a priority review process designed to help alleviate drug shortages.
Meanwhile, the Bedford facility is not the only facility in Boehringer's network to have attracted negative attention from the FDA. An inspection of Boehringer's main site in Ingelheim prompted a letter from the agency earlier this year citing significant violations of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) for the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and for finished drugs.
At the end of June, Wolfram Carius, Boehringer's board member with responsibility for biopharmaceuticals and production, stepped down to be replaced by former development head Wolfgang Baiker.
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Q: How to access the position offsets of movable QGraphicsItems? I recently got started with Python Qt and I'm trying to make a click-and-drag map editor that reads from and writes to a .json file. So far my progress is getting the QGraphicsView to accurately display the entire room layout with rectangles dynamically. But now I have no idea how to access the x and y offsets of each rectangle given that they can all be moved individually with the setFlag(QGraphicsItem.ItemIsMovable) property.
Here is a short version of my code:
import json
import sys
from PySide6.QtCore import *
from PySide6.QtGui import *
from PySide6.QtWidgets import *

TILEWIDTH = 25
TILEHEIGHT = 15
OUTLINE = 3

class Room:
    def __init__(self, name, width, height, offset_x, offset_z):
        self.name = name
        self.width = width
        self.height = height
        self.offset_x = offset_x
        self.offset_z = offset_z

class Main(QMainWindow):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.initUI()

    def initUI(self):
        #Setting up viewport
        self.scene = QGraphicsScene(self)
        self.view = QGraphicsView(self.scene, self)

        self.view.scale(1, -1)
        self.view.setStyleSheet("background:transparent; border: 0px")
        self.setCentralWidget(self.view)

        self.setGeometry(360, 190, 1200, 700)
        self.showMaximized()

        #Reading json and converting entries to rooms
        self.room_list = []
        with open("Data\Content\PB_DT_RoomMaster.json", "r") as file_reader:
            self.content = json.load(file_reader)
        for i in self.content:
            self.room_list.append(self.convert_json_to_room(i))
        self.draw_map()

    def convert_json_to_room(self, json):
        name = json["Key"]
        width = json["Value"]["AreaWidthSize"] * TILEWIDTH
        height = json["Value"]["AreaHeightSize"] * TILEHEIGHT
        offset_x = round(json["Value"]["OffsetX"]/12.6) * TILEWIDTH
        offset_z = round(json["Value"]["OffsetZ"]/7.2) * TILEHEIGHT

        room = Room(name, width, height, offset_x, offset_z)
        return room

    def draw_map(self):
        for i in self.room_list:
            fill = QColor("#000000")
            outline = QPen("#ffffff")
            outline.setWidth(OUTLINE)
            outline.setJoinStyle(Qt.MiterJoin)
            #Drawing rooms
            rect = self.scene.addRect(i.offset_x, i.offset_z, i.width, i.height, outline, fill)
            rect.setFlag(QGraphicsItem.ItemIsMovable)

def main():
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    main = Main()
    main.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

This is the json:
[
  {
    "Key": "m01SIP_000",
    "Value": {
      "LevelName": "m01SIP_000",
      "EnemyPatternSuffix": "",
      "AreaID": "EAreaID::m01SIP",
      "SameRoom": "None",
      "AdjacentRoomName": [
        "m01SIP_001",
        "m01SIP_024",
        "m01SIP_023"
      ],
      "OutOfMap": false,
      "EventFlagNameForShowEventIfNotSeen": "None",
      "EventFlagNameForMarkEventAsSeen": "None",
      "WarpPositionX": 0.0,
      "WarpPositionY": 0.0,
      "WarpPositionZ": 0.0,
      "RoomType": "ERoomType::Normal",
      "RoomPath": "ERoomPath::Both",
      "ConsiderLeft": true,
      "ConsiderRight": true,
      "ConsiderTop": true,
      "ConsiderBottom": true,
      "AreaWidthSize": 2,
      "AreaHeightSize": 1,
      "OffsetX": 25.2,
      "OffsetZ": 0.0,
      "DoorFlag": [
        2,
        32
      ],
      "HiddenFlag": [],
      "RoomCollisionFromSplineOnly": false,
      "RoomCollisionFromGimmick": false,
      "NoRoomOutBlinder": false,
      "Collision2DProjectionDistance": -1.0,
      "FlyMaterialDistance": 10.0,
      "NoTraverse": [],
      "MagCameraFovScale": 0.0,
      "MagCameraVolumeScale": 1.5,
      "DemagCameraFovScale": 0.77,
      "DemagCameraVolumeScale": 0.0,
      "BgmID": "BGM_m01SIP",
      "BgmType": "ERoomBgmType::PlayNormal",
      "Amb1": "AMB_01SIP_Ship_Roll01",
      "AmbVol1": 70,
      "Amb2": "",
      "AmbVol2": 0,
      "Amb3": "",
      "AmbVol3": 0,
      "Amb4": "",
      "AmbVol4": 0,
      "Decay_Near": 1260.0,
      "Decay_Far": 2520.0,
      "Decay_Far_Volume": 0.5,
      "UseLava": false,
      "FrameType": "EFramePlateType::FPT_Full",
      "PerfLevel": 1
    }
  },
  {
    "Key": "m01SIP_001",
    "Value": {
      "LevelName": "m01SIP_001",
      "EnemyPatternSuffix": "",
      "AreaID": "EAreaID::m01SIP",
      "SameRoom": "None",
      "AdjacentRoomName": [
        "m01SIP_000",
        "m01SIP_023",
        "m01SIP_002"
      ],
      "OutOfMap": false,
      "EventFlagNameForShowEventIfNotSeen": "None",
      "EventFlagNameForMarkEventAsSeen": "None",
      "WarpPositionX": 0.0,
      "WarpPositionY": 0.0,
      "WarpPositionZ": 0.0,
      "RoomType": "ERoomType::Normal",
      "RoomPath": "ERoomPath::Both",
      "ConsiderLeft": true,
      "ConsiderRight": true,
      "ConsiderTop": true,
      "ConsiderBottom": true,
      "AreaWidthSize": 3,
      "AreaHeightSize": 1,
      "OffsetX": 50.4,
      "OffsetZ": 0.0,
      "DoorFlag": [
        1,
        24,
        3,
        8
      ],
      "HiddenFlag": [],
      "RoomCollisionFromSplineOnly": false,
      "RoomCollisionFromGimmick": false,
      "NoRoomOutBlinder": false,
      "Collision2DProjectionDistance": -1.0,
      "FlyMaterialDistance": 10.0,
      "NoTraverse": [],
      "MagCameraFovScale": 0.0,
      "MagCameraVolumeScale": 1.5,
      "DemagCameraFovScale": 0.77,
      "DemagCameraVolumeScale": 0.0,
      "BgmID": "BGM_m01SIP",
      "BgmType": "ERoomBgmType::PlayNormal",
      "Amb1": "AMB_01SIP_Ship_Roll01",
      "AmbVol1": 70,
      "Amb2": "AMB_01SIP_Wind02_LP",
      "AmbVol2": 70,
      "Amb3": "",
      "AmbVol3": 0,
      "Amb4": "",
      "AmbVol4": 0,
      "Decay_Near": 1260.0,
      "Decay_Far": 2520.0,
      "Decay_Far_Volume": 0.5,
      "UseLava": false,
      "FrameType": "EFramePlateType::FPT_Full",
      "PerfLevel": 1
    }
  },
...

Basically I need to update the offsets of each room in the json after it's been moved on the map editor. What is the best way to approach this ?

A: You did not set the offset as a parameter of the rectangle since later you will have to do a conversion since it is in local coordinates of the item, instead use the method pos() that is in coordinates of the scene:
rect = self.scene.addRect(0, 0, i.width, i.height, outline, fill)
rect.setPos(i.offset_x, i.offset_z)
rect.setFlag(QGraphicsItem.ItemIsMovable)

Then you can get the position after doing:
i.offset_x = rect.pos().x()
i.offset_z = rect.pos().y()

I don't see the need to separate the information as you can create an item that stores the information so it can be retrieved later.
import json
import sys
from functools import cached_property

from PySide6.QtCore import Qt
from PySide6.QtGui import QColor, QPen
from PySide6.QtWidgets import (
    QApplication,
    QGraphicsRectItem,
    QGraphicsScene,
    QGraphicsView,
    QMainWindow,
    QGraphicsItem,
)

TILEWIDTH = 25
TILEHEIGHT = 15
OUTLINE = 3

KEY_METADATA = 1

class RoomItem(QGraphicsRectItem):
    def __init__(self, x, y, width, height, metadata=None, parent=None):
        super().__init__(0, 0, width, height, parent)
        self.setPos(x, y)
        self.setFlag(QGraphicsItem.ItemIsMovable)
        self.setData(KEY_METADATA, metadata)

        fill = QColor("#000000")
        outline = QPen("#ffffff")
        outline.setWidth(OUTLINE)
        outline.setJoinStyle(Qt.MiterJoin)
        self.setPen(outline)
        self.setBrush(fill)

    @classmethod
    def from_json(cls, d):
        x = d["Value"]["OffsetX"] / 12.6 * TILEWIDTH
        y = d["Value"]["OffsetZ"] / 7.2 * TILEHEIGHT
        width = d["Value"]["AreaWidthSize"] * TILEWIDTH
        height = d["Value"]["AreaHeightSize"] * TILEHEIGHT
        return cls(x, y, width, height, d)

    def to_json(self):
        d = self.data(KEY_METADATA) or dict()
        d["Value"] = dict(
            OffsetX=self.pos().x() * 12.6 / TILEWIDTH,
            OffsetZ=self.pos().y() * 7.2 / TILEHEIGHT,
            AreaWidthSize=self.rect().width() / TILEWIDTH,
            AreaHeightSize=self.rect().height() / TILEHEIGHT,
        )
        return d

class Main(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.initUI()

    @cached_property
    def items(self):
        return list()

    def initUI(self):
        # Setting up viewport
        self.scene = QGraphicsScene(self)
        self.view = QGraphicsView(self.scene, self)

        self.view.scale(1, -1)
        self.view.setStyleSheet("background:transparent; border: 0px")
        self.setCentralWidget(self.view)

        self.setGeometry(360, 190, 1200, 700)
        self.showMaximized()

    def load_from_json(self, filename):
        with open(filename, "r") as f:
            for e in json.load(f):
                item = RoomItem.from_json(e)
                self.scene.addItem(item)
                self.items.append(item)

    def save_to_json(self, filename):
        with open(filename, "w") as f:
            l = []
            for item in self.items:
                l.append(item.to_json())
            json.dump(l, f)

def main():
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    main = Main()
    main.show()
    main.load_from_json("data.json")
    ret = app.exec_()

    main.save_to_json("data.json")

    sys.exit(ret)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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Two-thirds of companies that are active on the Nairobi bourse reported losses or reduced earnings in their last financial year, a review by Nation Newsplex reveals.
Fifteen of the 64 companies that traded on the stock exchange reported losses, two less than in the 2015 financial year, while 25 of the companies, or 39 per cent, recorded falling after-tax profits. Another 23 firms, or a third, declared increased profits.
One company, Stanlib Fahari, declared its first full year of trading on the NSE. Fiscal years end in different months for various companies, which is followed by the release of their audited financial reports.
The analysis also finds that a third of the companies announced reduced revenues including eight firms that were profitable.
The performance of NSE-listed companies is a barometer of national economic performance. "When a large number of companies record reduced revenue and earnings it means the economy is doing less than expected," says Mr Joseph Karogo, a corporate finance specialist with Ventures and Gains Ltd.
The listed companies are well known, most-preferred brands in Kenya that customers are willing to buy, according to Mr Karogo. Reduced spending on these products and services therefore indicates diminished spending power of consumers and clients. He says increased competition can also affects a company's turnover.
Other factors that affect earnings include operational costs including personnel costs, energy costs and prices of other inputs.
Karogo told Newsplex that the poor performance of most listed companies is mainly due to low circulation of money in the economy. "The Jubilee Government has concentrated on a few flagship projects which have taken up the bulk of its expenditure resulting in lower money velocity as opposed to previous governments like the Grand Coalition, which spread out their spending among many projects and contractors which resulted in a multiplier effect.
The listed firms on the NSE are leaders in various sectors, including agriculture, automobiles and accessories, banking, commercial and services, construction and allied, manufacturing and allied, insurance, investment, investment services, exchange traded funds , real estate investment trusts, energy and petroleum, and telecommunications.
The commercial and services sector was the worst hit, and includes seven of the companies that recorded losses or dwindling profits. Five companies in the sector made losses, while two reported reduced profits, finds the Newsplex analysis.
The manufacturing and allied sector also had a rough year with six companies announcing reduced profits and two announcing losses. It was followed by the banking sector in which five of the listed banks announced reduced earnings.
The banking sector had mixed fortunes as six of the banks reported increased profits. All eleven listed banks recorded increased revenues.
Kenya Airways made the largest loss of all the listed companies, followed by Mumias Sugar and Uchumi Supermarkets. In the financial year ended March 31, 2017, the national carrier posted a net loss of Sh10.2 billion, a 61 per cent improvement over the previous year's loss of Sh26.1 billion. Revenues, however, fell by nine per cent to Sh106.3 billion.
The company, which has been struggling to return to profitability in the last few years, attributed the reduced losses to an increase in passenger numbers by more than five per cent, to 4.5 million, and the rationalisation of operations which resulted in a decline in direct operating costs by Sh2.5 billion to Sh65.2 billion.
In the financial year ended March 2016, the airline, which is in the commercial and services sector, reduced its headcount by 132 to 3,870 staff members.
Mumias Sugar, a sugar processing company in the manufacturing and allied sector, reported the second-worst loss of NSE-listed firms despite a noticeable 14 per cent increase in revenue.
It made a turnover of Sh6.3 billion and a loss of Sh4.7 billion in the financial year ended June 2016, compared to Sh4.6 billion the previous fiscal year. Mumias Sugar is yet to announce audited results for the year ended June 2017.
According to the company, which attributed the losses to a shortage of sugar cane, decrease in cane production is caused by farmers abandoning cane for other crops due to low returns from cane farming. Higher volume sales of ethanol and higher sugar prices were responsible for its increased revenues.
Uchumi Supermarkets posted the third-worst loss of Sh2.8 billion in the financial year ending June 30, 2016, over half a billion shillings less than its loss the previous fiscal year. The loss was accompanied by a 50 per cent slump in turnover and a reduction of employee numbers by 747 to 2,317.
Uchumi is in the commercial and services sector. Other companies in the sector that suffered losses include Express Ltd, which recorded a loss of Sh97 million, Atlas Development and Support Services (Sh216 million), and Deacons (East Africa) Plc. (Sh276 million).
Limuru Tea Company reported a seven-fold drop in earnings, the worst percentage decline recorded. The company suffered a net loss of Sh19 million in the financial year ended December 2016, from a net profit of Sh2.5 million the previous year.
According to the company's annual report, the loss was largely as a result of lower tea auction prices and increase in cost of sales due to wage adjustment.
Most banks attributed their falling earnings to the cap on lending rates, which triggered a shift by borrowers to lending to larger SMEs with better security and lesser risks, according to annual audited reports and financial statements. The reports also point to higher staff costs, depressed stock market and retrenching costs.
None of the 11 banks listed on the stock exchange suffered a loss but five recorded reduced profits. HF Group Ltd improved its turnover by one per cent to Sh9.4 billion but saw its profits drop by a quarter, to Sh905 million from Sh1.2 billion in the fiscal year ended December 31 2016. This was the largest percentage drop in the banking sector.
Decline in profit was caused by tight liquidity following the collapse of some banks and the cap on bank lending rates. Other banks that saw their earnings decline include Barclays Bank, CFC Stanbic Holdings, NIC and Equity Bank.
In the financial year ended March 2017, Safaricom, Kenya's largest telecommunications company, recorded the largest net profit of Sh48.4 billion, a 27 per cent increase over the previous year, and a turnover of Sh212.9 billion. Increase in profit was driven by increases in revenue from M-Pesa, fixed service revenue, message revenue and mobile data.
The company also grew its headcount in 2016 by 351 employees, to stand at 4,602.
Britam Holdings recorded the highest percentage increase in net profit. The insurance company more than tripled its profit from a loss of about Sh1 billion to a profit of about Sh2.5 billion in the financial year ended December 2016.
Crown Berger Ltd, a company in the Construction and Allied sector recorded the second highest percentage increase in net profit. The paint maker more than tripled its net profit to Sh131 million from 30 million in the financial year ended December 31, 2016.
According to the company's audited financial statement, good performance was steered by a stable exchange rate and controlled operating expenditure. Other subsidiaries in Tanzania and Rwanda also reported improved performance.
Equity Group Holdings, despite recording a four per cent fall in profits, still reported the second-highest earnings of Sh16.6 billion for the financial year ending December 2016.
During the announcement of the company's performance Equity Bank CEO, James Mwangi said the capping on bank lending rates had triggered a shift by lenders to larger small and mid-sized enterprises with security and lesser risks, leading to a six per cent drop in total loans disbursed by the bank.
Apart from Safaricom, Britam and Crown Berger, among the 23 companies that reported growth in net profits were Standard Media Group that recorded a 169 per cent increase in earnings, the third highest percentage increase.
Insurance company Sanlam Kenya reported a 158 per cent improvement in earnings, the fourth highest percentage increase.
Six of the companies that recorded growth in net income were from the banking sector, the highest of any category. It was followed by the construction and allied sector with four, while the insurance, and energy and petroleum sectors tied in third place with three each.
Two in five, or 26 of the 64 companies currently trading, including Kenya Airways, Mumias and Uchumi did not declare dividends in their last fiscal year, sending away investors empty-handed.
Other popular brands that disappointed shareholders include Sameer Africa, Car and General, KenGen and East African Portland Cement Company.
Although there are 68 companies listed on the stock exchange, only 64 were active during the period under analysis. Rea Vipingo Plantations was delisted from the NSE in 2015 after being acquired by two British brothers in 2015.
On March 12, 2017 the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) promised to delist Hutchings Biemer and A. Baumann in the following six months. The firms had been suspended from trading at the bourse, Hutchings Biemer for 16 years, and investment and trading firm A. Baumann for nearly nine.
The commission said earlier that there were difficulties in conducting independent audits necessary before a delisting, citing a lack of relevant records and proper management.
New Gold issuer, in the exchange traded fund sector, started trading on the NSE in March 2017 and is yet to declare any results.


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@slutmagazine Yes, that's a great example. Those photos don't represent any actual reality. It's an illusion and purely simulation. Baudrillard might say we've lost the ability to decipher the difference.
It makes me laugh when I think of some red-pillers. The ones who are anti-modernity (which is fine in itself), 'extremists', anti-'the blue-pill hordes' etc. Yet in actuality do what the majority of what everyone else is doing, sitting behind digital screens and interacting with strangers. They create little simulacras on the internet and exchange commonalities and remind each other they're outside of the norm.
All whilst nobody actually gives a fuck about them.
@slutmagazine Simulacra is a representation of reality, but not actual reality. Baudrillard has written some great stuff on it. He speaks of the internet and digital world creating simulacra that is so removed from ACTUAL reality that people can no longer tell the difference between the simulation and the real.
Like thinking this forum is a 'stage'. It isn't a stage. It's a dude sitting behind a screen somewhere typing on a keyboard and not actually interacting. That's closer to reality.
@slutmagazine Well, then I correct my reply to 'a stage most have been stuck ON'.
But crazy that someone would attribute an internet forum to a stage. The simulacra is strong.
@destraht
'More of a stage than a conversation'
Bro, a 'stage' the majority have been stuck at. It'll be good when most find their way out of it. Happens that way sometimes. Usually not, though.
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@Zavss Yeah, can't believe I found that ASKtrp post about you losing 5 grand. Did you lose your mind and buy into the Tate love for a second?
@Zavss Hahaha, captures the feeling much more succinctly.
God damn you guys take this internet shit way too seriously.
And why do I care what GLO says? That dude failed to pass the bar, and has been relegated to scoping reddit for impressionable young men to funnel towards his coaching. Dude sent me a tank top that he had imprinted with a Greek guy fighting a lion. Like, how try-hard is that shit?
You're doing the same as almost everyone else here. Living in black and white. Red-pillers here do what any other blue-pill fag on the internet does. Read a few paragraphs and jump to the narrative formed in their own head.
Did anyone ask for nuance in my beliefs? Did anyone attempt to open conversation to find the specifics, or just read a few paragraphs and go off that? You didn't think to yourself 'any guy with a semblance of a brain isn't going to say much more than the standard, because he realises he's on an anonymous internet forum with strange dudes and devoting much time here quickly crosses into diminishing returns'?
Do you comprehend that I wasn't asking Anteloupe for a solution for me? I was asking him to show a solution instead of just looking like an npc posturing 'red-piller'. At least he provided one. Not much of one, but this is a guy who got banned from GLO's forum.
But ambiguity and ability to converse aren't the expected strong points when the guys involved all largely found their way here because they couldn't converse with women.
Brother, GLO is a loser. Most of the guys here a losers. I left and check-in, and everything and everyone are exactly the same as they were 6 or 12 months ago. The same conversations, about the same shit, talking to strangers on the internet. You don't think there are some obvious problems in themselves most of these guys aren't aware of or addressing?
GLO is running the same telegram and private forums, sitting behind a screen somewhere conversing with guys he will probably NEVER meet. You really think I care at all what he says?
Convince me 95% of these guys aren't identical to any fat fuck scrolling reddit.
@Antelope I did address what you said. What are you doing about it? If you think the US isn't going to go down the same path, you're in denial.
So, what's your plan? What's your step by step solution to do something different? What more than sitting on internet forums, getting banned from GLO chat rooms and proposing to read Nietzsche?
Stop talking shit and give us a solution. I've been around red-pill lone enough to recognise the posturing and kids who aren't affecting change in any way whatsoever. So I feel compelled to tell you to DO SOMETHING, BRO. Give us a plan that's more than 'hurr derr you an NPC, maaann'.
@arakouzo Bro, did you miss the part where it's at least a six month old enquiry that went nowhere? Like, nowhere. Dead.
Substitute those words where you wish, haha.


I am a London-based photographer and have been working professionally for ten years, covering all photographic disciplines, specialising in portrait and live music photography.
I work regularly for a number of clients including, NME, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Total Guitar, Guitarist, and Rhythm. I have vast experience in portrait shoots on both a large and small scale, and am confident shooting in a studio environment as well as on location. I have photographed many people from all walks of life including, musicians, writers, comedians and actors, and love the challenge of bringing out someone's personaltiy in a photoshoot.
If you would like to get in touch to discuss an idea for a shoot please use the form on the contact page.


This piece was inspired by a photo I saw of Hokkaido's famous "Blue Pond". My first version of this render kept the tropical blue from the original pond, but I am trying out a more wintry color palette here.
Believe it or not The Dreamer and this scene sprang from the same root, even though they couldn't be more different tonally.
"What we're seeing out our window...."
I LOVE this! Amidst the snowstorm, there is a serenity and stunning silence to this image. The heart of winter, and beautifully so.
Living in Japan, I love seeing these Japan-inspired backgrounds. Keep it up!
The trees look like they're upside down.
The bird (coloration looks like a cardinal, maybe?) is about 2/3 up on a branch, left side of the more prominent tree on the right.
This version is much more convincing! The seemingly technical (not artistic) problems with the water on previous versions are far less with the fog or ground blizzard in this one. Love the little crested bird hunkered down in the storm.
Absolutely love this one Ryan!!!the fog is awesome!!!
I love the added fog. This is better than ever!
Which size did you select and what is the combined screen-res of your setup?
i have a tri monitor setup and switched it to Tile but see multiple display images. thoughts?
But I think it could use something more to attract the eye. I love how it reminds me of our winters here in Mass. Too soon for winter!
Really like the deeper blue coloration in this version; before it was more gray than blue. This gives the piece a "winter at dusk" look and feel. I like the name change as well.
This piece is not readily apparent what the vantage point is, as it appears there are trees going upwards and trees going downwards on the top edge, meaning we're looking out on a scene from within the trees or something with the far treeline isn't right. The trees coming out of the water aren't very distinct either. This piece could use some more contrast to improve clarity.
Ohh, much better. I like it. Makes me want to turn on the fireplace.
I also see it more as an abstract than a nature scene, but it really isn't my thing. That being said, I'm still glad that you made it and looking forward to seeing how it turns out in the end.
I like it. Really puts me in the mood for the cooler temps ahead. Will you also be doing different seasons using the same scene? I always liked those.
I've created a new render with and updated water texture. You might need to refresh your browser (Shift-F5) to see the new image.
The trees and snow looks lovely but the water is a little confusing to the eye. At first look it seems to be more like a fog that just obscures the trees. If it was water I'd expect to see more color in it and more distortion in the reflections. If it was ice I would expect to see snow accumulated on it and no reflections. It almost seems like a strange amalgamation of ice, snow, and water.
To me I see this as more of an abstract than a nature scene. For whatever reason I dont see the water and cant tell what is tree or what is reflection.
I love this render. It really has the winter feel. Amazing Ryan. And Happy Birthday!
I really love this render. The water underneath the trees is much improved from the preview version; the trees' reflections also make it clear that it's water rather than snow. But since I'm familiar with the image that inspired this render, I'll be interested to see what other members think.
The title is borrowed from the words of House Stark in George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire".


I decided to put the batteries of a few (nine or so) uninterruptable power supplies to work doind something more useful than self-discharging in my crawl space.
Just wanted to say that I took the technician and general license tests and have passed. I'll update this post in a couple of weeks once I get my call sign.
Update: My callsign is "KE0FNS".
I'm sitting here in Las Vegas waiting for a friend to finish his booth duty at BlackHat. A number of groups here at DEF CON have radio repeaters setup in the 70 cm and the General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) / Family Radio Service (FRS) bands. While I have little to do, I figured I'd turn my Yaesu VX-3R into an "experimental" radio and unlock the ability to transmit in the GMRS / FRS bands.
I found an old Sun Microsystems SparcServer5 the other day when helping my parent clean out their shed. Connect to this a Wyse30 terminal that I had picked up, install OpenBSD and Python, connect it to the network, and enjoy a shiny old home automation interface.
As an anachronistic hardware junkie, I decided to make the main control panel for my home automation system a curses based interface. I'm writing the interface in Python and running it on OpenBSD so I can use modern interfaces to the rest of the system, but the interface will be displayed on a Wyse30 terminal connected to a SparcServer 5.


A great mix of Single Track and Jeep Trail. The Great Scorpion Trail Run will offer root, rocks and hills to challenge you, while the views through the trees of Bonita Lakes will make you smile. The final leg of single track for the loop is the Mardi Gras Trail complete with Mardi Gras beads and a welcoming downhill. Each loop ends with you passing the RFID antennas to capture your split. The parking area is right on the course, so feel free to setup your own pit stop without having to venture far away from the course.


While I'm lecturing people about disclosure, you can see my updated disclosure page here. The only major change is that my 2010-11 graduate work is being funded by Carl Malamud, who in turn is funded in part by Google. This is a much more indirect relationship to Google than I had this summer, so I'm not going to refrain from writing about Google as I did then. But I'll try to remember to mention the conflict when I do write about Google-related subjects.


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In mathematics, the Mahler polynomials gn(x) are polynomials introduced by  in his work on the zeros of the incomplete gamma function.

Mahler polynomials are given by the generating function

Mahler polynomials can be given as the Sheffer sequence for the functional inverse of 1+t–et .

The first few examples are

References

 Reprinted by Dover, 2005

Polynomials

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text:
package com.taotao.service.impl;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

import com.taotao.common.pojo.easyui.TreeNode;
import com.taotao.mapper.TbItemCatMapper;
import com.taotao.pojo.TbItemCat;
import com.taotao.pojo.TbItemCatExample;
import com.taotao.service.ItemCatService;

@Repository
public class ItemCatServiceImpl implements ItemCatService {
	@Autowired
	private TbItemCatMapper tbItemCatMapper;

	@Override
	public List<TreeNode> getItemCatList(long parentId) {
		TbItemCatExample tbItemCatExample = new TbItemCatExample();
		tbItemCatExample.setOrderByClause(" sort_order");
		TbItemCatExample.Criteria criteria = tbItemCatExample.createCriteria();
		criteria.andParentIdEqualTo(parentId);
		List<TbItemCat> tbItemCats = tbItemCatMapper.selectByExample(tbItemCatExample);

		List<TreeNode> list = new ArrayList<>();

		for (TbItemCat tbItemCat : tbItemCats) {
			list.add(new TreeNode(tbItemCat.getId(), tbItemCat.getName(), tbItemCat.getIsParent() ? "closed" : "open"));
		}
		return list;
	}
}

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In another case, a Muslim American firefighter from Toledo, Ohio, was born in the U.S. and converted to Islam, changing his name from Edward Eugene Reed, Jr., to Zakariya Muhammad Reed. He had also spent 20 years serving in the National Guard. After visiting his wife's family in Ontario, he has been detained at the U.S. border a number of times. He says he has been asked why he changed his name and what his faith is, and alleges that one guard muttered, "You know, we're really too good to these detainees. We should treat them like we do in the desert. We should put a bag over their heads and zip tie their hands together." Another agent asked him about a letter to the editor he had written in 2006 that was critical of Israel's actions toward Lebanon and the Palestinians, as well as the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The agents would not tell him why he had been detained, Mr. Reed said, although one border agent said there was a "problem with his name." He contacted his representative in Congress, Marcy Kaptur, whose aide, Daniel Foote, suggested the trouble may have resulted from his changing his name to a Muslim one. Rep. Kaptur wrote on his behalf to the congressional liaison at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, but despite assurances that his record has been corrected, he continues to be detained and questioned at the border.
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One year ago, in June 2017, we wrote "Why The (Collapsing) Global Credit Impulse Is All That Matters" in which we explained that among the relentless barrage of economic data, the only indicator that truly matters for global macro was how much credit China - which has been responsible for the bulk of global debt creation since the financial crisis - is unleashing upon the world at any given moment: the so-called Chinese credit impulse.
The incredibly tight link between the credit impulse and China's growth cycle, emerging markets (EMs) exports, global growth and commodity prices meant that it would have accurately predicted the direction of almost all other global macro variables that mattered, with about six months' lead time.
China's tightening has not had a material impact on the growth cycle either in China or globally, even though its credit impulse began to weaken about 24 months ago. As deleveraging and adjustment headwinds recede, the recoveries in domestic demand in both DMs and EMs have emerged as additional global growth engines.
1) The pace of tightening is gradual and flexible in this cycle: Over the past 24 months, tightening in China has been slower than in 2013-15, and the pace of future tightening isn't on auto-pilot. Policy flexibility is apparent in the recent cuts to reserve requirement ratios and the extended timeframe for implementing tighter regulations. What's more, the bulk of the tightening cycle may well be behind us.
2) Tightening in China is counter-cyclical this time: As policy-makers in a highly levered economy attempt to tighten and slow credit growth, domestic demand should weaken. In China's case, this usually raises worries of a hard landing, as it did in 2013-15 when policy-makers tightened pro-cyclically against a backdrop of weak growth in exports. However, with strong global demand now buoying exports, today's tightening is counter-cyclical. While policy-makers continue to pare back stimulus in the infrastructure and real estate sectors, net exports, private investment and consumption are providing offsets, helping to support overall growth momentum. Indeed, on Morgan Stanley estimates, from 2016 to 2018, the contribution of net exports to GDP growth has swung by 120bp (from being a drag to a boost), offsetting the decline in contribution from investment.
Rising protectionist risks are an additional investor concern, given the importance of external demand to China's outlook. Our long-standing view has been that the US and China will eventually negotiate a deal that brings about a gradual and non-disruptive adjustment in their trade relationship. This should limit the impact of trade frictions on economic growth. Furthermore, we expect the global trade cycle to stay buoyant, sustained by strong global demand. Also supportive is the prospect of fiscal expansion in the US when the economy is near full employment, which will keep non-oil import growth relatively high and likely widen the non-oil trade deficit.
It should therefore come as no surprise that our chief China economist, Robin Xing, projects only a moderate slowdown in China's growth, to 6.5%Y, in 2018. Hence China will still contribute 1.2 percentage points to global GDP growth in 2018, close to its share in 2017. With growth holding up in DM and accelerating in EM ex China, we expect global growth to remain steady at around 3.8%Y over the next four quarters.
Nonetheless, some risks bear watching. We have been focused on financial stability in the US and tightening in China. As we argue here, we are relatively less concerned about China's tightening. So if you had to pick just one factor to worry about, your choice should probably be US financial stability risks.
While we appreciate Morgan Stanley's attempt at overhauling Austrian economics, we disagree with the conclusions, because when push comes to shove, it's still all about credit creation, and - as we showed recently - China's credit impulse works with a very distinct lag.
As for the best argument why Morgan Stanley is wrong, we will defer to what BofA's Michael Hartnett also just wrote this morning, noting that "global central banks just eased led by the PBoC, reminding everyone that on April 17th China surprised with an easing of monetary policy" which incidentally has been the trigger for the most important move of the past month: the relentless US dollar strength.
In other words, just as the global slowdown from the ongoing Chinese credit impulse is finally being felt, China does what it has done every time global growth hit a brick wall: it has resumed easing in hopes of sending the country's Credit impulse back into positive territory, re-stimulating global growth in the process.
So no, Morgan Stanley, the Chinese credit impulse link is most certainly not broken, and as for your advice to "not fear China's policy tightening", that may have been warranted 6 months ago, however now that China is once again easing, you may want to reassess.


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Women Speak is a 1988 Chinese article written by Beijing-based Xiang Ya (向娅) about sexual revolution in the country as it "opened up". The piece includes supposedly "tape-recorded" interviews of 10 anonymous urban women in their 30s and 40s, who discussed their highly private love/sex lives and thoughts. It was translated to English by Diana B. Kingsbury in her 1994 translated anthology I Wish I Were a Wolf.

Women Speak was adapted into a 1989 film Golden Fingernails directed by Bao Zhifang.

Author
Zhao Shaoling (赵绍玲), who used the pen name Xiang Ya, was born in 1951 in Lingshou County, Hebei. In 1969, as part of the Down to the Countryside Movement she was "sent-down" to Inner Mongolia where she worked for 3 years in a rural army unit. In 1974, she was transferred to an electrical equipment plant in Beijing, after which she found employment with the National Library of China. She attended night school and graduated with a degree in Chinese literature in 1985. She published her first article in 1984.

The interviews
Each interview reads like a long monologue, with the interviewer barely present. No names are mentioned. Like the author, all interviewees in the 30s were "sent-down" to work in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution.

Woman A ("Her husband had a lover, but it worked out in the end"), a 36-year-old physician who graduated from medical school in 1983 along with her husband, with whom she has a loving relationship and great sex life. When she discovered her husband's affair 8 years into the marriage, she was not hurt, instead she felt calm and confident. She gently talked to him, said she understood and asked for only honesty. Her magnanimity greatly relieved him, who gratefully returned her trust. She also talked to and comforted his lover. Three years later, the younger woman married well, and she is very happy for both marriages.
Woman B ("Her husband's rising fame fed her fear"), a 35-year-old factory worker from a peasant background. Before their marriage, she persistently and unabashedly courted his love. The years right after the wedding were blissful, but recently she has become paranoid about his possible infidelity. Afraid of the attention he gets, she doesn't want him to write or dress up. She stalks him, opens his mail, confronts women around him, and visits his boss, but still feels anxious. He no longer makes love to her, but she'd rather have that than discover his affair. She has access to poison and is ready to kill him if he cheats.
Woman C ("She said, 'We are two independent planets, both free to come and go'"), a 39-year-old company assistant manager. Her first marriage fell apart quickly. Her husband cheated on her, so she did the same to him. Two years later, she fell in love with someone and filed for divorce. Her husband refused. Crying and begging, he even surprised her and her lover at night, but she protected her lover from his beating. On the wedding of her second marriage, she pronounced that if one "wants a divorce, the other must not refuse". She believes this made her new hubby value their relationship. They are very happy.
Woman D ("Conventional love for her is not enough"), a 46-year-old department vice-director in a publishing house. She has no problems with her husband—except for sex. As he isn't able to satisfy her, she starts a clandestine affair with a married man who is good in bed. She also has no desire to divorce her husband, a point she made very clear to her lover. Actually, she believes the affair helps her marriage, as she can now vent her sexual frustration periodically without getting angry at her husband. She also believes adulterous lovemaking more exciting and satisfying, another reason she's maintaining the status quo.
Woman E ("She fell in love with a married man"), a 38-year-old middle-school teacher. Her sex life during marriage was terrible, but she took a long time to leave him. After the divorce, she fell in love with a man already separated from his wife for 3 years. Still, she was called a homewrecker and received a disciplinary warning from her job. Without a marriage license, they are also turned away by most hotels. But she believes she did nothing wrong and continues to love him. When he was falsely diagnosed with cancer, she stayed in the hospital with him for 21 days. Eventually, people around her became more understanding.
Woman F ("A woman set on conquering men"), a 34-year-old charity organizer. Extremely ugly, she was abused by her parents and brother growing up. She craves for love, but no man paid her attention. Finally, she swore vengeance. In 1981, she began the first non-governmental charity organization, and quickly achieved fame and success. During a TV interview, she was overcome with emotions and fainted. She began to have handsome suitors, but her "desire for revenge subsumed any sexual feeling". She repeated rejected two charming men. Now she has a stable, plain-looking male partner, but doesn't want to marry.
Woman G ("Love and sex are two different things"), a 38-year-old actress-turned-film director. Because she lost her virginity before marriage, her ex-husband treated her poorly, often beating her up during sex. Initially submissive, she became more confident and developed feminist ideas after working as an actress. After the divorce, her career took off, and she started dating again with the intention of remarrying, but only met frivolous men. Disgusted, she has decided that she will never remarry, but she will not give up sex. She despises men, but still leads an active sex life without any commitment.
Woman H ("Without love, she had to turn him down"), a 43-year-old teacher who lost her husband in a terrible accident 5 years ago. Though she has missed him, she is ready to remarry. Two years ago, a good male friend made advances towards her in his apartment, but she rejected him. Although he was still married, he had been separated for years from his wife, who had gone abroad. So they were both independent, sexually experienced and very lonely, but it still didn't "feel right", as if something was missing. She has come to realize how important love is to her, and she "can't have sex without love".
Woman I ("She wants a child but doesn't want to get married"), a 34-year-old lower-level cadre in an office. She is not interested in men and has no desire to marry, but wants to have a child. The family planning official finds her unbelievable, but she cites the marriage law as granting equal civil rights for children out of wedlock. She is also frustrated that the government has not allocated a large apartment for her, only because she is single. "Why not judge us based on what we've done for society rather than on our marital status?... Why can't I be accorded my proper rights?" She asks angrily.
Woman J ("A woman preoccupied with proving her virginity"), a 37-year-old company section chief. During middle school, she accidentally broke her hymen riding a bike. At age 17, she was "sent-down" to rural Shaanxi, where she witnessed the tradition of new brides holding high blood-stained cloth the morning after their weddings to prove that they had been virgins. Since then, she has been terrified she won't bleed if she has sex, and this anxiety effectively keeps her a virgin. Gradually all men lose interest in her, and she has stubbornly vowed to remain a virgin for the rest of her life, having learned to masturbate.

Reception
Li Xiaojiang wrote that Women Speak "did not incite a whirlwind when it appeared in 1988 because, for most intellectual and career women, a base of social equality and group consciousness had already been laid".

Adaptation
In Golden Fingernails, the experiences of four of these women (A, C, E, and F) are interwoven into one story.

References

sexual revolution
Sexuality in China
Chinese literary works
Marriage, unions and partnerships in China
Feminism in China
Feminist literature
Chinese contemporary short stories


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[01:34:02] jpabq: gigem: If I remember correclty, the main point /against/ on_demand, is USB tunners, which take longer to initialize (slow bus). At least that was the rational several years ago.
[01:35:02] jpabq: gigem: that being said, personally I think that the huge potential improvment in error recovery out-weighs the slower start-up even with USB.
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[02:18:25] gigem: I'm loathe to adding that complexity back in.
[03:19:57] gigem: Upon further review, there might be a simpler option than sharing ChannelBases. We could just share the file descriptor. That would still be somewhat tricky, but not as much so.
[09:57:17] jmcentee: do you mena netstat -an show it not listening, or is it the firewall getting in the way.
[09:58:00] stuarta: not listening at all, logs don't even show it attempting.
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MEGA to sponsor a keynote presentation at IRM Risk Forum
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MEGA, a major enterprise architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA), and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions provider, will participate as a sponsor at IRM Risk Forum 2008, the Institute of Risk Management's annual flagship conference on trends and best practice in risk management. Sub-titled 'Raising the game', the event will take place at the University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, from Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 of September, 2008.
The global software and consultancy services supplier will provide sponsorship for the keynote presentation by Mr Rick Haythornthwaite, chairman of the UK government's initiative formed in January this year, the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council. Mr Haythornthwaite will present a paper on Tuesday, September 16, from 16:00 to 16:45, entitled 'Responding to risk: rights, responsibilities and reaction'. He will talk about the innovative work of the Council in promoting more proportionate responses to risk in policy making across Whitehall and the public sector.
"MEGA is pleased to sponsor both such an eminent speaker and a key topic at the IRM Risk Forum. As risk continues to dominate the news, public attention, and business agendas, we fully support all public and private sector initiatives to improve governance, risk and compliance," said Ludovic Relandeau, vice president of UK operations, MEGA.
The IRM's Chief Executive, Steve Fowler, commented, "We are delighted to have a leading solutions provider such as MEGA supporting risk management education by sponsoring this important presentation."
Aimed at individuals with responsibility for risk management at every level, the IRM conference is an important event and part of the institution's primary aim of providing high quality education and continuous professional development (CPD) for its members.
Besides Rick Haythornthwaite, the event will also feature other keynote speakers such as General Sir Mike Jackson, former Chief of the General Staff for the British Army, and Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty. Many other experts will be presenting topical papers about case studies, issues and trends, and the programme includes a number of practical, interactive workshops.
MEGA (www.mega.com) offers the MEGA Modeling Suite for enterprise architecture and business process analysis, and the MEGA GRC Suite for governance, risk, and compliance. It is a privately-held company, founded in 1991, with 50,000 software licenses worldwide. European customers include Allianz, AXA, British American Tobacco, Direct TV, LCL Le Crédit Lyonnais, Renault Nissan, Société Générale and Unicredit.
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Q: My child's preschool teacher says that singing to her is really important. Why? What should I sing?
A: Your child has a great preschool teacher! We are most likely to think of singing as something that children enjoy and that is fun to do. But your child's teacher is going beyond that and is focusing on an aspect of early childhood development that is sometimes overlooked in its importance to literacy achievement. Singing is simply one of the best ways for developing the sound awareness skills that are critical to learning to read successfully
Let me explain. You may be familiar with the skills called phonics. Phonics instruction involves teaching children that letters have specific sounds, such as the sound of "b" as in "bat". In the English language, there are many sounds to learn and children must also learn that certain letters can make more than one sound, such as the letter c. The sound of "c" as in "cat" is called "hard," while the sound of "c" as in circle is called "soft." And the letter c is also involved in the sound of "ch" as in "cheese". Imagine that! At least three sounds are associated with the letter c alone.
This can be a lot for children to deal with when they are first learning to read. Phonics skills can become nearly impossible tasks in a kindergarten or first grade classroom if children have not previously been exposed to loads and loads of sounds, just for the sake of hearing them without any connection to letters or written words at all.
In other words, children must be able to play with the sounds of language — make up nonsense words, make all kinds of animal sounds, tell you what words have rhyming sounds, tell you what words begin with the same sound, and more. And they have to be able to do this on a purely auditory level. For example, if a child can listen to a set of words such as "bike, hat, and like" and not only tell you which of them rhyme but also add a rhyme of his own (such as "Mike" or even a nonsense word), then we would say that this child has a degree of "phonemic awareness," the ability to hear sounds in spoken words (phonemes).
Back to singing: Songs are both spoken and heard. Children do not have to be able to read in order to learn a song. And because songs are filled with rhymes, alliteration, and different sound patterns, they actually celebrate the sounds of language. Singing favorite songs over and over again helps children become consciously aware of sounds and the way we can manipulate them — break them apart, blend them together, highlight certain ones and minimize others.
So the bottom line is: Sing away! Sing traditional children's songs, teach your children your own favorite rock or pop songs, make up songs together. You will be instilling a life-long love of language as well as giving her the foundation necessary for learning to read.
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