This is one of those rare (for me) later that same night photos. Returning to Hinesburg from north of the border in Foster, Quebec basking in being content with my two images of the Oxford Express, the car scanner comes to life as a detector on CP over across Lake Champlain from my position on the Interstate signaled the passing of a freight, and in the garbled crew acknowledgment of the detectors broadcast message I was sure I heard............6.....4.....2. That 642 was advertised earlier to be running into Montreal from out west with a trio of SD 40-2s! I check the clock on the dash..........01:00ish, and continue heading for home. There I found messages from several friends attesting to the fact that 642 had a rebuilt ex-SOO LINE SD 60 leading tonight! Knowing 642 to be roughly across the lake from my position at the time, I brewed some tea to refill the thermos and headed out for a favorite spot on Rogers Island in Fort Edward. And never heard another thing on the North End for over an hour until I was getting near Whitehall, where unbeknownst to me a great gift was waiting. The scanner had picked up a crew talking about restarting a trailing engine, and I assumed this to be 642s crew dealing with an elderly SD 40-2. I am driving past Whitehall Yard when a crewmember on 253 rings up the dispatcher, identifying his leader as 6225! He relates to the dispatcher how they have set off the two ACs, have one of the trailing units on line and are ready to head north. Now I remember, this trio of SD 60s came down on 252 yesterday in daylight. Two trailing units had shut down and they needed to add the pair of ACs to get over Richmondville Hill. Last I had read on the railfan grapevine showed the ACs leading back north leading 253 out of Binghamton..........but here they were, setting them off in Whitehall! An inquiry of the night dispatcher by 253s crew about what is coming toward them further north reveals a 930 and 252, no mention was made of that 642! Time to turn the Civic around! lol! I leave from opposite Whitehall Yard just as 253 is getting underway, and I can picture how great those three repainted SD 60s will look from atop the display engine at Port Henry, some forty or more miles away. If, I can get there far enough ahead of these guys to set up. I had done this in the past in this situation, years ago, but the track speed has been improved a great deal in the ensuing years, so this would be interesting. First of all, no night photo is worth risking a speeding ticket over. So I keep to five mph over the limit driving north, and obviously, I was successful! I know where everything as far as the lighting goes here at Port Henry by now, and I test the lights before I climb up top of the RS-18 cab on display here. Being encouraged to "get it right" by the approaching SD 60s, which could be clearly heard coming up Lake Champlain to my south. Normally on quiet nights like tonight, I can hear northbounds south of town blowing for a couple grade crossings, allowing me to make a judgment on how far away they are, I am not granted that luxury tonight however, and I have finished manually focusing the 28mm lens and leveling the 5D when I am alarmed to hear the low roar engines produce crossing a short deck bridge maybe a half mile away......in town. I have time for a couple more test shots then 253 is blowing for the crossing just out of sight, and up around the curve the station is situated in the middle of comes quite a sight! Three newly repainted and rebuilt SD 60s! Out of storage where the entire class of engines had been until recently. Responding to the open camera shutter, the flash units do their thing, leaving me to give the crew a wave as they pass by below. Success! What a night! Watching my step, it's a long way down from up here, I preserve the image from being accidentally erased and slowly collapse the tripod before climbing down via the short hood with its handrails. It's not every night trackside I shoot three "keepers"! lol! Shot on October 26, 2013 at 04:04 in Port Henry, NY. Please enjoy! Comments are welcomed.
We return to Riverside Station alongside the Hudson River tonight on the Saratoga & North Creek for another night photo of BL2 #52. I'll enjoy all the moments universe wants to send my way like this one! In addition to the ever attractive BL2, my friend Greg Klinger has agreed beforehand to pose for me with the BL2 passing by! Mother Nature provides a steady light rain with temps in the low fifties. What could possibly go wrong? Ha,ha,ha! I arrive at the pre-arranged 8 pm, (no small feat in itself) and meet up with Greg, and we go about placing the lights for the scheduled 9:05 pm appearance of train 185. Tonight, keeping in mind how elevation is everything with train photos, no matter day or night, I have planned to go for a higher viewpoint, up atop the caboose. With Gregs help I have camera, tripod and large umbrella in place some twenty minutes before train time. Life is great! Test shots look fine, I ask Greg to move a flash unit for me, otherwise we are ready. We let nine pm arrive before either of us mentions to the other that "hey, we have not heard that 'boat horn' yet, remember last Sat. night we heard it some fifteen minutes before we saw headlight glow?" 9:05 passes, the time we saw 185 a week ago, with no sign of a train. No problem we confidently conclude, they are a little late tonight that's all, maybe the fallen leaves are giving the BL2 problems. 9:30 then 9:45 pass with no boat horn sounds, now we are concerned as this is a scheduled passenger train. All sorts of doubts are manufactured in our heads as to what happened? Ten pm and we hear that most welcome low toned sound! lol! Minutes pass by as we listen to engine exhuast, followed by quiet breaks, then more engine exhaust sounds then finally headlight glow can be detected, then the headlights of 52 come into view below the station, yes! Success is at hand! I direct Greg into position below me............then we both notice..........the train has ah..........stopped! Maybe two thousand feet away, there #185 sits, then the ditch lights go off, never a good sign. We agree that dose'nt imply good things. It becomes a stare down, lol! Nobody moving. Neither Greg or I have our scanners handy to monitor any conversations between crew and dispatcher, so we wait. After several long minutes, happily the ditch lights come back on! Forward! I'm thinking. And the BL2 led 185 struggles up to the station and stops, this time only some fifty feet away from my planned position for the photo! Oh, so close! But no cigar. However, now the conductor appears, walking up the platform past Greg, says a few words with him and continues past the caboose greeting me on the roof underneath the brightly colored golfing umbrella from La Grange, to the grade crossing behind me where he manually shuts off the crossing signals and waves waiting traffic by. Greg hollers up to me............."wet leaves! They are having problems with wheel slip!" Once the road traffic is cleared the conductor resets the crossing signals and walks back down to us to ask Greg..............."the question". "WHERE DO YOU WANT IT?" Greg looks up at me, and I holler instructions to the conductor who relays them to the engineer. I reflect how Greg and I just went from "Rags to Riches", ha,ha,ha! As the crew positions the BL2 for us. I fire off a couple shots, then ask for the ditch lights to be turned back on please, (as I plan for them to be on when setting up the lighting) then fire off several more shots. The engineer emerges from the front door of 52 and I climb down to greet an old friend from long ago, Tom Carver! Amid handshakes, pleasantries and of course the obligatory "chimping", (oohing and ahhhing at the images on the camera lcd monitor) we are told the train is empty of passengers, and they are out of sand for traction on the wet rail and fallen leaves. They have their doubts about climbing the grade out of Riverside and mention how they will back down below the station to get as much of a run at it as they can . And with that disclosure the crew says goodbye and heads back to their duties on board, leaving Greg and I basking in being spoiled! In my case at least........AGAIN! As the BL2 led passenger train backs away from us, I do the only logical thing to do in this case, and climb back up atop the caboose, as you would I'm sure! This time for a photo runby! A totally different experience versus shooting the train stopped! Once they roll past us and out of sight into the darkness, I climb down and collect the equipment with Gregs help. Before long though..............here they come. Back out of the night into view and over the grade crossing comes train 185, unable to climb the grade out of town! The crew ends up tying the train down overnight out of sight, and a crew van picks them up for the ride back to North Creek, while Greg and I bask in our accomplishments. Having Greg in the photo waving makes a huge improvement in my opinion. And hey? Where else in this world of ours, can one see a BL2 built in 1949 working with a B39-8 built in the mid-eighties in 2013? Only here, on the Saratoga & North Creek! Every night is an adventure! Shot on October 19, 2013 at 22:24 in Riverside, NY. Special thanks to Greg Klinger and the S&NC crew on train 185! Please enjoy! Comments are welcomed.
Here are some pics from the October 3rd trip of the NS OCS up CP's A&S. I initially didn't plan of doing anything with the train but with up to the minute texts from "Brian" (Thanks You Again!!!) as I was pulling out of the driveway and really nice weather I said "Ah What The Heck". After a quick stop at Stewarts at 20 and 30 for coffee I followed the ROW from 503 to Gage Road. When I arrived there were a few fellow fans already there who were very well behaved. After about an hours wait the NS OCS came north on its way to Mechanicville. I then left and headed to Colonie. Once I again I was texted around 1:30 that that OCS's power was running around its train so i decided to again head back to Gage Road and do a from the field shot. Around 5:30 the OCS showed up again deadheading south for home. I didn't bother following the train as weather pretty much went to potts again after the train passed. Nice to see some class again on a railroad with not much class left.


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Ph.D., Physics, Ohio State University, 1981
Professor Steve Errede received his Ph. D. in physics from The Ohio State University in 1981. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota, where he also was an electronics engineer in the Space Science Center, building electronics payloads for auroral sounding rockets. After working as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Michigan on the IMB Proton Decay Experiment (1981-1984), he joined the physics faculty at the University of Illinois as an assistant professor. He advanced to associate professor in 1989 and to professor in 1992.
In his experimental particle physics research, Professor Errede gained international recognition for his successful leadership role in the Collider Detector Facility experiment at Fermilab. Although primarily known as the collaboration that "discovered" the top quark, the CDF group also made the first precision measurements of the Z and W boson masses, their decay branching ratios, and the observation of W-photon and Z-photon production in this process.
At the present, Professor Errede is part of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at the l'Organisation Europeanne pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. In June 2012, both ATLAS and CMS LHC experiments announced the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson. Theorists who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson in 1964 - Peter W. Higgs and Francois Englert were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Measurements of the various properties of the Higgs boson are in progress, as well as searches for so-called "beyond-standard-model" physics, such as supersymmetry, dark matter, evidence of higher dimensions. Professor Errede's research group built a major portion the Scintillating Tile Hadronic Calorimeter for ATLAS.
In addition to his reputation as an outstanding researcher, Professor Errede is a truly exceptional teacher. Since coming to Urbana, he has guided over fifty outstanding undergraduate students in independent research projects. He has explained that it was his own "immensely beneficial" research experience as an undergraduate that led him to make a personal commitment to do his best to provide similar experiences for his own students. The range of projects he has guided is remarkable--from table-top axion search experiments, the chaotic motion of a leaking water faucet, experiments investigating the phenomenon of sonoluminescence, to materials physics issues related to elementary particle detection, to the use of laser interferometry to measure the Berry's phase and many more topics over the years.
Elementary Particle Physics - Experiment
The two main thrusts of high energy physics research are to determine the form and strength of the fundamental interactions of nature (EM, weak, strong) and to determine the properties of the matter particles that enter into these interactions. Our HEP research group(s) work on the CDF experiment at Fermilab (since 1984), and the ATLAS experiment at CERN (since 1994).
Collider Detector at the Fermilab Tevatron
The superconducting particle accelerator at Fermilab collides beams of protons and antiprotons at 2 TeV. The CDF collaboration has built a large detector to investigate the nature of the interactions that occur when these beams collide head-on. CDF carried out precision measurements of the properties of the W & Z bosons (mediators of the weak force), the top quark, and other elementary particles, such as mesons and baryons containing bottom and/or charmed quarks. Data-taking on CDF RunII has now ceased, however many physics analyses continue
ATLAS Detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
The LHC at CERN began its commissioning run in late 2009. It is designed to collide two beams of protons at a center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV, seven times that of the Fermilab Tevatron. LHC Run I started out at 7 TeV, then increased to 8 TeV. Currently the LHC is in Long Shutdown I, LHC Run II will commence early in 2015, initially at 13 TeV and hopefully ultimately will be running soon thereafter at its design CM energy of 14 TeV. The LHC physics program is envisaged to run for at least two decades, in which many precision measurements of Standard Model processes will be carried out at this new energy frontier, including detailed measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson, and searches for beyond-the-Standard Model phenomena - supersymmetry, dark matter, higher dimensions, etc. will be carried out. Our UIUC ATLAS HEP group played a major role in R&D, the design, construction, installation and commissioning of the ATLAS Scintillating Tile Hadron Calorimeter. We built nearly 200 TileCal submodules, and production-tested 2000 photomultiplier tubes that are used in the readout of the TileCal (1/5 of 10K total PMT's)
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Many opportunities for undergraduate students interested in acoustical physics and physics of musical instruments, using laboratory equipment I have developed for the Physics 406 and 193 Physics of Music/Musical Instruments courses.
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Fellow, American Physical Society, 1995
UIUC University Scholar, 1991-94
Bruno Rossi Prize, 1989
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1985-89
Teaching Honors
UIUC College of Engineering Outstanding Advisor, 1991
PHYS 406 - Acoustical Physics of Music
Fall 2009 PHYS 212
First images of collisions at 13 TeV: LHC upgrades boost the search for new physics at Illinois and around the globe

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Chrysler LLC Supplier Pentastar Award Recognizes Outstanding Supplier Performance
January 17, 2008 Chrysler LLC recognized its top-performing suppliers in 2007 at the Company's Supplier Pentastar Awards ceremony Wednesday evening at the Detroit Fire Department's historic 1929 Firehouse. Approximately 400 attendees, including top executives from the auto industry's global supply base, were present for the awards ceremony. The event, which recognizes Chrysler and its suppliers' shared vision for collaboration and innovation, is the first for the automaker since becoming a private concern in 2007.
2008 Chrysler LLC Concept Vehicles
January 14, 2008 Three passionate designs combine with three advanced propulsion systems. The result: high-tech, innovative vehicles with alternative fuel choices … and exciting design and brand character. Chrysler LLC's mission to be more environmentally responsible is significantly changing how we envision vehicles in our future portfolio.
ENVI: Environmentally Responsible Electric-drive Vehicle Technology
January 14, 2008 Chrysler's three concept vehicles for the 2008 North American International Auto Show provide a glimpse into how Chrysler envisions surprising and delighting its future customers through seamless integration of advance production technology into its future product portfolio.
Chrysler to Connect with new level of Advanced Wireless Technology
January 14, 2008 Chrysler LLC announced at the North American International Auto Show today that it is working aggressively to develop an advanced, in-vehicle wireless communications system that provides increased security and convenience, and goes well beyond what systems currently available provide.
Dodge Unleashes Game-changer Into Truck Market; All-new 2009 Dodge Ram Breaks From the Herd — Literally
January 13, 2008 Emerging from a herd of 120 long horn cattle driven by 10 cowboys on horseback down Washington Boulevard in downtown Detroit today, the all-new 2009 Dodge Ram made its debut at the 2008 North American International Auto Show.
2008 Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan Take Home 2008 International Car of the Year (ICOTY) Awards
January 12, 2008 Once again, Chrysler LLC's "family rooms on wheels" have been awarded highest honors. For the first time in the award's history, the all-new 2008 Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan captured all of the votes for best minivans as awarded by the 2008 International Car of the Year Awards (ICOTY) jurors, leaving no room for third-place contenders.
Concept Vehicles Highlight Alternative Fuels
Sneak peek at the Chrysler ecoVoyager, Dodge ZEO and Jeep® Renegade concept vehicles, which will be introduced at the 2008 North American International Auto Show. See you on Monday, January 14, 2008, at Cobo Hall in Detroit.
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Over the decades, Canuck filmmakers and producers have continued to impress audiences with innovative and imaginative movies from all range of genres. To celebrate Canadian National Film Day, we've collected 5 Great Films You Might Not Have Known Are Canadian…
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Based on a Canadian novel of the same name, this intense drama was shot in Toronto and co-written by Canadian/Irish author Emma Donoghue. It was a critical smash and earned a nomination for Best Picture at this year's Oscars.
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Mexico
Puebla (staat), een staat van Mexico
Puebla (stad), de hoofdstad van de Mexicaanse staat Puebla

Spanje
Puebla de Alcocer, een gemeente in de provincie Badajoz
Puebla de Don Fadrique, een gemeente in de provincie Granada
Puebla de Don Rodrigo, een gemeente in de provincie Ciudad Real
Puebla de Guzmán, een gemeente in de provincie Huelva
Puebla de Obando, een gemeente in de provincie Badajoz
Puebla de Sanabria, een gemeente in de provincie Zamora
Puebla de Sancho Pérez, een gemeente in de provincie Badajoz
Puebla del Príncipe, een gemeente in de provincie Ciudad Real

Personen
Héctor Puebla (1955), Chileens voetballer

Overig
Puebla (geslacht), een geslacht van nachtvlinders uit de familie van de spanners (Geometridae)

Zie ook
La Puebla, een plaats in de Amerikaanse staat New Mexico

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text: I'm making my way through season two of Legend of Korra right now. I've heard that season three is pretty good, so I'm working towards that. Season one was pretty unenjoyable for the most part, with some interesting stuff in the last two episodes. Season two started off terribly which is why I stopped watching the show altogether. It took about six episodes, but it's getting better. I'm about to watch episode nine now. I absolutely fell in love with Avatar: The Last Airbender when I watched it a few years ago, and it's still one of my favorite shows ever. Legend of Korra may be in the same universe, but the story isn't the same. I don't like the characters as much...any of them, really. Korra is like an insolent child, but she's got a good eight years in age on Aang. I also don't like the time period it's set in...it's like the 1920's. There's even a radio announcer at the start of each episode to give a recap, and it drives me crazy. So I like the music less, the ambiance less...I hate that there's technology like television. I hate that bending is a sport like boxing. (More 1920's tie-ins.) I'm not a huge fan of the art style, either. But I'm trying very hard to like it because season three is supposed to be more like A:TLA, with traveling and such. I loved the journey of A:TLA. I liked all of the characters. LoK seems more shallow in a lot of ways. A:TLA demonstrated philosophical lessons and choices. It was spiritual in a way that I could relate to, and I say that as an atheist. The bending was beautiful, all of it. Even the aggressive, violent bending had a grace to it. It was something to be harnessed, to train. LoK isn't like that. I'm hoping it will become more like that, and less like boxing and love triangles and characters I can't relate to.


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Q: React Relay Modern redirecting to another page when receiving 401 error on network environment I´m using JWT authentication inside my ReactJS RelayJS network environment. All the token retrieval and processing in server and client are fine. I´m using react router v4 for routing.
My problem is when I receive a Unauthorized message from server (status code 401). This happens if the user points to an application page after the token has expired, ie. What I need to do is to redirect to login page. This is the code I wish I could have:
import { Environment, Network, RecordSource, Store } from 'relay-runtime';

const SERVER = 'http://localhost:3000/graphql';

const source = new RecordSource();
const store = new Store(source);

function fetchQuery(operation, variables, cacheConfig, uploadables) {
  const token = localStorage.getItem('jwtToken');

  return fetch(SERVER, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      Authorization: 'Bearer ' + token,
      Accept: 'application/json',
      'Content-type': 'application/json'
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      query: operation.text, // GraphQL text from input
      variables
    })
  })
    .then(response => {
      // If not authorized, then move to default route
      if (response.status === 401)
          this.props.history.push('/login') <<=== THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE AS THERE IS NO this.history.push CONTEXT AT THIS POINT
      else return response.json();
    })
    .catch(error => {
      throw new Error(
        '(environment): Error while fetching server data. Error: ' + error
      );
    });
}

const network = Network.create(fetchQuery);

const handlerProvider = null;

const environment = new Environment({
  handlerProvider, // Can omit.
  network,
  store
});

export default environment;

Naturally calling this.props.history.push is not possible as the network environment is not a ReactJS component and therefore has no properties associated.
I´ve tried to throw an error at this point, like:
      if (response.status === 401)
          throw new Error('Unauthorized');

but I saw the error on the browser console, and this cannot be treated properly in the code.
All I wanna do is to redirect to login page in case of 401 error received, but I can´t find a proper way of doing it.

A: I am not using relay but a render prop. I experienced kind of the same issue. I was able to solve it using the window object.
 if (response.statusText === "Unauthorized") {
     window.location = `${window.location.protocol}//${window.location.host}/login`;
 } else {
   return response.json();
 }

A: You can go with useEnvironment custom hook.
export const useEnvironment = () => {
  const history = useHistory(); // <--- Any hook using context works here

  const fetchQuery = (operation, variables) => {
    return fetch(".../graphql", {...})
      .then(response => {
         //...
         // history.push('/login');
         //...
      })
      .catch(...);
  };

  return new Environment({
    network: Network.create(fetchQuery),
    store: new Store(new RecordSource())
  });
};

// ... later in the code

const environment = useEnvironment();

Or you can create HOC or render-prop component if you are using class-components.
btw: this way you can also avoid usage of the localStorage which is slowing down performance.

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In fact, his living room has enough space for two very expensive vehicles.
HOUSTON — The McLaren Senna is a million-dollar supercar, specifically a hypercar, that can go 0 to 60 mph in less than three seconds.
Only 500 will be made, and even fewer will be imported to the United States. So you know it's a very rare, very fast, very expensive car.
But Houston is home to so many exotic, rare vehicles, you know someone here has one. And that man keeps the car in his living room.
YouTuber 'Supercar Blondie' recently came to Houston to meet Nick, who is the owner of a blue and orange McLaren Senna.
In the interview, he says he bought an older home in Houston and planned to renovate it so he could easily park cars in the living room. In fact, the living room has enough space for two vehicles.
So why park cars in his living room?
He's not the first millionaire to do this. He's among those who enjoy looking at their beautiful, fast, vehicular works of art from the comfort of their couch.
"Growing up in Iraq, he had an uncle that would park his Vauxhall inside his house, right behind the couch. He'd get home from work, open his car door, and plop himself down on the couch to relax. Now, Nick is living the same dream as his uncle," reports Motor1.com.


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Collection of two documentaries by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington. 'Restrepo' (2010) chronicles the year that Junger and Hetherington spent in Afghanistan on assignment for Vanity Fair magazine. Embedded with an army unit in the treacherous Korangal valley, the pair lived in close proximity with the men as they defended an outpost called Restrepo after PFC Juan S. Restrepo, a platoon medic who was an early casualty in the campaign. 'Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington' (2013) shows how Tim travelled the world documenting conflicts in Afghanistan, Liberia and Libya, among other locations, accompanied by his friend and long-term collaborator Sebastian. The two strived to capture the humanity within conflict situations and with their images they focused on the individuals involved and their experiences of the violence surrounding them. Unfortunately, in 2011 Tim was killed by a mortar blast and this film is a tribute and celebration of the legacy he has left behind and includes interviews with those who knew him best.


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Q: Slow plot for integral involving FractionalPart and sine I have defined this function:
f[x_]:=1/(1+Sin[FractionalPart[x]])

Then I tried to plot it using this code
Plot[Integrate[f[t],{t,0,x}],{x,0,2}]

It finally plot it, but it takes about 4-5 minutes to do it. There is a way to speed up similar plots, that involve commands as FractionalPart?

EDIT: I observed that changing Integrate by NIntegrate the plot speed up a lot, but Im not sure how accurate is the numerical integration to trust in the result of the plot.
Anyway I will like to know if there are other approaches to this problem using the symbolic integration. Thank you.

A: You could use DSolve to calculate the symbolic integral over a finite interval.
ClearAll[f];
f[x_] := 1/(1 + Sin[FractionalPart[x]])

F = y /. First@DSolve[{y'[x] == f[x], y[0] == 0}, y, {x, 0, 2}]

Plot[F[x], {x, 0, 2}]

It's reasonably fast:

Addendum: There is a reason I thought to try this. Events were added to DSolve a couple of versions ago, and these are used in discontinuity processing.  What I imagine happens is this.  When you've got an integrand with a standard discontinuous function, DSolve will split up the intervals and feed simple, continuous integrands to Integrate[].  It then adds up the results and pieces them together.  At least that's how it seems when this trick works.  I'm not familiar with the internal implementation.


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SB13-011: Colorado Civil Union Act
The bill creates the "Colorado Civil Union Act" (Act) to authorize any 2 unmarried adults, regardless of gender, to enter into a civil union.
Parties wanting to enter into a civil union apply to a county clerk and recorder for a civil union license. Certain persons may certify a civil union. After the civil union is certified, the officiant files the civil union certificate with the county clerk and recorder. A priest, minister, rabbi, or other official of a religious institution or denomination or an Indian nation or tribe is not required to certify a civil union in violation of his or her right to free exercise of religion. The criteria for a valid civil union are set forth in the bill.
The executive director of the department of public health and environment and the state registrar of vital statistics shall issue forms necessary to implement the Act. Each county clerk and recorder submits records of registered civil unions to the office of vital statistics. A county clerk and recorder collects a fee for a civil union license, which fee is credited to the vital statistics records cash fund. The state registrar of vital statistics is authorized to set and collect an additional fee for verification of civil unions, which fee is credited to the vital statistics records cash fund. A county clerk and recorder collects a $20 fee to be credited to the Colorado domestic abuse program fund.
The rights, benefits, protections, duties, obligations, responsibilities, and other incidents under law that are granted or imposed under the law to spouses apply in like manner to parties to a civil union, including the following:
Responsibility for financial support of a party to a civilunion;
Rights and abilities concerning transfer of real or personalproperty to a party to a civil union;
The ability to file a claim based on wrongful death,emotional distress, loss of consortium, dramshop, or other laws, whether common law or statutory, related to or dependent upon spousal status;
Prohibitions against discrimination based upon spousalstatus;
The probate laws relating to estates, wills, trusts, andintestate succession, including the ability to inherit real and personal property from a party in a civil union under the probate code;
The probate laws relating to guardianship and conservators,including priority for appointment as a conservator, guardian, or personal representative;
Survivor benefits under and inclusion in workers'compensation laws;
The right of a partner in a civil union to be treated as afamily member or as a spouse under the "Colorado Employment Security Act" for purposes of unemployment benefits;
The ability to adopt a child of a party to a civil union;
The ability to insure a party to a civil union under groupbenefit plans for state employees;
The ability to designate a party to a civil union as abeneficiary under the state public employees retirement SB13-01 system;
Survivor benefits under local government firefighter andpolice pensions;
Protections and coverage under domestic abuse anddomestic violence laws;
Rights and protections under victims' compensation lawsand victims and witness protection laws;
Laws, policies, or procedures relating to emergency andnonemergency medical care and treatment and hospital visitation;
Rights to visit a party in a civil union in a correctionalfacility, jail, or private contract prison or in a facility providing mental health treatment;
The ability to file a complaint about the care or treatmentof a party in a civil union in a nursing home;
Rights relating to declarations concerning administering,withholding, or withdrawing medical treatment, proxy decision-makers and surrogate decision-makers, CPR directives, or directives concerning medical orders for scope of treatment forms with respect to a party to a civil union;
Rights concerning the disposition of the last remains of aparty to a civil union;
The right to make decisions regarding anatomical gifts;
Eligibility for family leave benefits;
Eligibility for public assistance benefits;
A privilege from providing compelled testimony against aparty in a civil union and evidentiary privileges for parties to a civil union;
The right to apply for emergency or involuntarycommitment of a party to a civil union;
The right to claim a homestead exemption;
The ability to protect exempt property from attachment,execution, or garnishment;
Dependent coverage under life insurance for plans issued,delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014;
Dependent coverage under health insurance policies forplans issued, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014; and
Other insurance policies that provide coverage relating tojoint ownership of property for plans issued, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014.
The same processes that are provided in law for dissolution, legal separation, and declaration of invalidity of a marriage apply to dissolution, legal separation, and declaration of invalidity of a civil union.
Any person who enters into a civil union in Colorado consents to the jurisdiction of the courts of Colorado for the purpose of any action relating to a civil union even if one or both parties cease to reside in the state. The courts are directed to follow the laws of Colorado in a matter filed in Colorado that is seeking a dissolution, legal separation, or invalidity of a civil union that was entered into in another state. The courts are authorized to collect docket fees for the dissolution of a civil union, legal separation of a civil union, and declaration of invalidity of a civil union.
Parties to a civil union may create agreements modifying the terms and conditions of a civil union in the manner specified in the law for creating marital agreements. The Act states that this Act does not invalidate or affect an otherwise valid domestic partnership agreement or civil contract between 2 individuals who are not married to each other if the agreement or contract was made prior to the effective date of this Act or, if made after the effective date of this Act, the agreement or contract is not made in contemplation of entering into a civil union.
The Act shall not be construed to create a marriage between the parties to a civil union or alter the public policy of this state that recognizes only the union of one man and one woman as a marriage. The Act includes a reciprocity and principle of comity section that states that a relationship between 2 persons that does not comply with section 31 of article II of the state constitution and that is legally entered into in another jurisdiction is deemed in Colorado to be a civil union and that, under principles of comity, a civil union or domestic partnership or a substantially similar legal relationship between 2 persons that is legally created in another jurisdiction is deemed to be a civil union for purposes of Colorado law.
The Act includes a severability clause.
Until a statutory change is enacted to authorize the filing of a joint state tax return by parties to a civil union, the Act shall not be construed to permit the filing of a joint income tax return by the parties to a civil union.
A custodian of records is prohibited from allowing a person, other than the person in interest or an immediate family member of the person in interest, to inspect the application for a civil union license of any person; except that a district court may order the custodian to permit inspection of the license application for a civil union upon a showing of good cause. A record of an application for a civil union license is available for public inspection 50 years after the date that the record was created.
A person who has entered into a designated beneficiary agreement under Colorado's designated beneficiary statute is precluded from entering into a civil union with a different person. If both parties to a designated beneficiary agreement are eligible to enter into a valid civil union and subsequently enter into a civil union, the civil union certificate constitutes a superseding legal document that supersedes and invalidates the prior designated beneficiary agreement. The bill makes other conforming amendments. The bill takes effect May 1, 2013; except that the provisions relating to the inclusion of a partner in a civil union as a dependent on a health or life insurance policy and the provisions relating to insurance policies concerning the ownership of property take effect January 1, 2014.
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Art By Keith Senkowski
Explore My World
Conspiracy of Shadows
The Dragon in Review, Issue Forty-Eight
By Keith Senkowski
On March 14, 2016 Dragon Magazine
While I found a lot of this issue's content to be lacking, it did trigger a lot of thoughts. That is sometimes the case with these things and why I love Dragon so much. It wasn't always the content itself or the art, but where my brain went in reaction to it. In some ways Dragon is at it's best when it is prompting you to write the issue you wanted to see, not the one they presented you.
Cos I'm the Taxman, Yeah, I'm the Taxman
A funny thing happens when I see the great Phil Foglio's artwork. It is always recognizable, which brings a smile to my face. This is always followed by an internal debate in my head because in my brain I mispronounce his name as Foliogo. I have no idea what my problem is.
Anyway, this cover is pleasantly amusing. It isn't by any stretch of the imagination his best work, but it does it's job well. Considering how much of a pain in the ass taxes are for the average freelancer, I am doubly amused by the idea of adventurers getting hit by the tax man.
Phil Foglio's artwork is always amusing to me.
This article on finding the right DM to play with is pretty interesting. Not so much because of the content but because of how I met some of my closest friends through a Burning Wheel game. It basically was a nerd interview.
How it went down, I was pointed in their direction and we met a Cleo's on Chicago Ave. I walked in, found three guys sitting at a table and introduced myself. What followed was something similar to the chemistry test we use when hiring folks at my work. You get a feel for interests, attitudes and personality quirks. All and all, I think a very effective way to find folks you want to spend time playing games with.
None of this is bad advice really.
I just thought this public announcement was interesting because of the ongoing debate when I got into game design way back in 2004. Back then the question was, Is it worth joining GAMA as an independent game designer? Ultimately I along with many of my peers of that day thought no because the cost/benefit of the time. However, back in the day it had to make sense.
It's kinda like when you announce a wedding in the local paper.
Mules are Important
Years ago I used to run AD&D Second Edition all the time for basically anyone who was interested. I had a core group of friends that always played, but we always had folks filter in and out. Because of that and my desire to play with the new toys in Dragon and stuff I picked up at the local Waldenbooks we cycled through campaignspretty quickly.
Despite that cycle of play, because we had the core four players, it almost became really one game. Like the Eternal Champion, names changed but fundamental characters stayed the same. Two of those players were basically Abbot and Costello, always at odds and getting into trouble because of the constant back and forth.
From that interplay I learned the importance of a good donkey or mule, particularly one called Alexi. See, Costello named his donkey after Abbott's character leading to many amusing moments of play. Abbott really wanted to kill his namesake, but because the donkey carried so much gear he never could bring himself to do it.
Mules are so much more valuable than we give them credit.
Real Life?
Ok, I know this is meant to be a fun little joke game thing. I get that. I really do, but damn who the hell wants to play this? It is like a more depressing version of The Stanley Parable.
Just let the income numbers sink in for a minute.
Underwater Rules
Underwater rules for RPGs always seem to suck. They either go deep down the rabbit hole of realism or are entirely unsatisfying in their hand-wavery. This set of rules is a bit more of the former than the latter, but I thought the general approach (outlined in the first paragraph) was a good faith attempt to get it right.
What really caught my eye was the second section. The question it poses is valid and rife with interesting game play options. A few issues ago we got the Temple of Poseidon as an insert. It is a shame this wasn't in that issue along with a wilderness setting surrounding it all with this kind of content exploration.
There is so much interesting meat in these little bits.
What the Crap?
There is this weird 481/2 issue inside of issue 48, but it isn't very well deliniated. I think it is meant to be a humor bit, but the humor is so awful I'm not sure where one ends and the other begins.
Despite that, what is truly criminal is that I can't find who did the art for this cover. The style is really familiar and it is killing me that I can't figure it out. It is a wonderful little piece and the artist deserves the recognition.
Who did this? I couldn't find any information in the issue.
Why? Just Why?
Why would you spend money on this advertisement? You don't have a stock ad you could drop here to ensure there is something useful for folks?
I mean, I understand sometimes things don't get done on time. I work in digital advertising and used to work in print, so I get it. What I don't get is how you have nothing at all to put here except Coming Soon…. I mean even George R.R. Martin (the R.R. stands for really, really long winded) has winter is coming to fill space with.
What a waste of money.
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Express, Inc. is an American fashion retailer that caters mainly to young women and men. The company is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Express operates 641 stores in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Its revenue was US$ 2.165 billion in 2014.HistoryLimited Brands, in 1980, opened the first Express store, as women's clothier "Limited Express" in Chicago's Water Tower Place. Former CEO Michael Weiss joined the brand in 1981 when the test expanded to include eight stores. By 1986, Express had 250 stores strong and began testing the sale of men's merchandise in 16 stores the following year. The men's fashion line was spun off into its own brand, Structure, in 1989.In 2000, Express became a dual gender brand with the reintegration of its Structure stores as "Express Men". Dual gender Express stores began opening the following year. Structure apparel brand was sold to Sears in 2003.Express as a privately held companyOn May 16, 2007, Limited Brands announced its intent to sell a 67% stake in Express to an affiliate of a private equity firm called Golden Gate Capital Partners, based in San Francisco. When the sale was finalized in July 2007, Golden Gate's stake in the company was 75% instead of the announced 67%.On May 13, 2010 the company sold 16 million shares for $17 each, raising about $272 million. Shares had been planned to sell between $18 and $20 each. On May 14, 2010, the shares opened at $17 to $16.50 before recovering slightly to close down 1.5% at $16.75 on the New York Stock Exchange.


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5 Architectural Gems
in Wrocław
After long days at work, nothing helps me relax and clear my mind like my daily walks. I am almost religious about them – I am known to walk close to, if not surpass, 10,000 steps during weekdays and it's not unheard of for me to take long weekend walks doubling that.
Besides being able to enjoy the fresh air and weather, it's always on these long walks that I stumble across some architectural gems in the city. I've collected a few modern and post-modern spots as well as their histories – some of them are quite wacky! – in one post so that you can discover the architecture of Wrocław along with me.
Wrocław's "Manhattan"
Located just north-east of the city center, Wrocław's "Manhattan" pales in comparison to its North American counterpart. The cheeky nickname for this cluster of apartment buildings arose because during the time they were built, from 1970 to 1973, they were the most daring pieces of architecture in the city. Poland in the 1970s was a communist country and its architecture was marked by the trends of the era: apartment buildings were moderately tall (up to 11 floors), plain concrete structures with angular balconies jutting out from their grey facades. "Manhattan", a collection of six high-rise apartment buildings, could be seen from far away, standing tall at 55 meters and 16 floors.
These buildings were designed in the modernist style by the Wrocław architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak, who was inspired by the work of pioneer Swiss-French modernist architect and urban planner Le Corbusier. She wanted her Manhattan buildings to give off a Mediterranean feel, hence the (planned) white facade with brick details as well as exotic trees planted nearby. The rooftop was meant to be a garden oasis but never quite came to fruition. The balconies and patios are curved, and the windows rounded, serving as a direct contrast with the socialist realist style that was the norm at the time.
Recently, Wrocław's Manhattan has gone through a revival. Begun a few years ago, the buildings' facades and foundations have been restored and painted, no longer a dull grey but a bright white as they were intended. The shopping centers below will also be restored. They are now an iconic part of the Wrocław landscape, despite their roots in the socialist realist architecture of Poland's past.
The bright white facades of the Manhattan buildings
The rounded windows and curved balconies of Wrocław's Manhattan
"Serowiec" - Wrocław University of Science and Technology
On a recent walk, I visited a part of the city that I rarely explore but always enjoy: Plac Grunwaldzki. That part of the city boasts the above-mentioned Manhattan buildings as well as the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, one of the best universities of its kind in Poland. The university is quite large, its faculty buildings mostly strewn about this area of the city.
The admissions building on campus is probably the university's most well-known building. Its moniker "Serowiec" is a portmanteau of two Polish words wieżowiec meaning skyscraper and ser meaning cheese. One look at this building and you'll instantly know why it's called that – the 15,000 m2 building looks like a giant block of Swiss cheese, with circular windows all around.
The architect Bogusław Wowrzeczka was apparently inspired by perforated paper tape, historically used for data storage. It's fitting for a building of a technical university, especially one located in the city of Wrocław where, in 1961, one of the first computers in Poland, the Odra 1001 (named after the river flowing through the city), was produced.
Wrocław University of Science and Technology's "Serowiec"
The round windows represent the hole punches of perforated paper tape
Kolorowa Plomba 1996 – Tenement House 36
On the way to the Serowiec mentioned above is a wildly colorful building sitting right in the middle of a row of historical tenement houses on Stanisław Wyspiański Street. The incredibly sharp contrast in architectural style looks out of place, its neon colors and wacky design contrasting the 19th and early 20th century architecture of the rest of the homes in the district.
Known as the Colorful Infil 1996 (Kolorowa Plomba 1996), the building connects the row of homes on Wyspiański Street. In the 1980s and 1990s in Poland, architectural infills were a popular way of creating more housing on open areas around existing homes without having to invest in the time and resources to break ground on a new development. In this way, they satisfied the growing need for housing in cramped cities.
The post-modern architect behind the building's construction is Wojciech Jarząbek, who also graduated from Wrocław University of Science and Technology. His architecture stands out in the city, having designed a fair number of prominent (how could they not be?) buildings in this style. Love it or hate it, the building is a distinctive feature of the Plac Grunwaldzki neighborhood.
The bright neon of Tenement House 36 sharply contrasts with the surrounding homes on the street
Tenement House 36 is a distinct avant-garde building that some love and some hate
SolPol
I can't mention the Colorful Infill 1996, above, without also mentioning one of the most prominent buildings in Wrocław, the SolPol. Another one of Wojciech Jarząbek's designs, the building is just as polarizing as the Colorful Infill. For the past almost two decades, it's been vacant partially or totally, even having a demolition date set in February 2022, in favor of building a hotel in its place.
The post-modern building was completed in 1993 after it was designed in a week at the request of Zygmunt Solorz Żak, the billionaire founder of the TV channel Polsat. It functioned as a shopping center throughout the 90s until the early 2000s, when other, larger shopping centers rendered SolPol obsolete.
Personally, as garish as I think it is, it somehow fits on Świdnicka Street, completing the string of architectural styles all located practically next door to one another. It stands nearby the Church of St. Stanislaus, St. Wenceslas, and St. Dorothea (gothic), the Wrocław Opera (neoclassical), Monopol Hotel (art nouveau), and Renoma shopping center (art deco) – all important and prominent buildings in Wrocław.
Protests have postponed the demolition of the building for now, and it's recently been announced that another Polish billionaire, Sebastian Kulczyk, bought SolPol, possibly with the intention of restoring it to its former glory… or demolishing it to make room for new housing developments.
SolPol in Wrocław is one of the city's most polarizing architectural oddities
The Ship - Building 51, Kiełczowska Street
In the Psie Pole district of Wrocław, to the north of center city, lies an… interesting… bit of architecture: a bright blue and yellow apartment complex in the shape of a steamship.
Built in the 1990s, it was surely a colorful and avant-garde response to the socialist realist architecture of the buildings built during the 1960s and 1970s in communist Poland. It had to have been, otherwise I cannot explain why anyone would deem it necessary. The 10 floor apartment building has two "smokestacks" as well as windows in the shape of portholes. It even has its own wave of water as a design element, in case you were worried it was stranded on land.
So what do you think? Are these weird enough for you? Are you team "love it" or "hate it" when it comes to SolPol and Tenement House 36? Leave me a comment and let me know.


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01/07/2015 11:22 am ET Updated Dec 06, 2017
PlayStation To Introduce All-You-Can-Play Subscription Service
By Damon Beres
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 09: Shawn Layden, Sony Computer Entertainment America President and CEO, talks about PlayStation Now, the company's game streaming service, onstage at PlayStation's E3 2014 Press Conference on Monday June 9, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chris Weeks/Getty Images for Sony Computer Entertainment America)
If anything's more outdated than a physical video game disc, it's a video game rental. But a new effort from Sony might just change that.
Starting Jan. 13, PlayStation 4 owners will be able to pay for a monthly subscription service that will allow them to stream video games to their system via a high-speed Internet connection. Subscriptions can be purchased starting at $19.99 for one month or $44.99 for three months.
The subscription plans are an overhaul to the existing "PlayStation Now" service, which allows PlayStation owners to rent games on an individual basis for varying lengths of time. "Final Fantasy XIII," for example, is available to rent on a PlayStation 4 for $2.99 per 4-hour chunk, though individuals can also opt for a 7-day rental for $5.99, a 30-day rental for $7.99, or 90 days for $14.99.
The new system will streamline the somewhat befuddling price structure and allow customers to enjoy unlimited gaming within their subscription period.
A look at the PlayStation Now menu. (Source)
Over 100 games will be available when the subscription service launches next week, including popular and acclaimed titles like "Batman: Arkham City," "The Last Of Us" and "Bioshock Infinite." None of them are new, though: They're games that were first available on the PlayStation 3 system. The PlayStation 4 offers no other way to play these games, meaning gamers otherwise would have to plunk down the cash on an outdated system to enjoy them.
Peter Jamshidi, director of marketing for PlayStation Now, wrote in a blog post that the subscription service will launch first on the PS4 but will eventually come to other PlayStation Now-compatible devices, like the handheld PlayStation Vita, certain Sony televisions and the PlayStation TV.
Sony recently announced that the PlayStation 4 system had attained over 18.5 million sales worldwide since its November 2013 launch -- meaning plenty of potential customers for the new service. According to Jamshidi, those customers will be able to sample the service via a 7-day free trial when it launches Tuesday.
Damon Beres
Senior Tech Editor, The Huffington Post
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Chorus from abroad on Bhima-Koregaon charge
Outfits from US, UK, Canada, Japan want activists freed
Anand Teltumbde
Our Special Correspondent | New Delhi | Published 04.06.20, 11:47 PM
Twenty-one organisations working for the cause of social justice in the US, the UK, India, Canada and Japan have demanded immediate withdrawal of charges against civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde and 10 others in connection with the 2018 Bhima-Koregaon violence and alleged Maoist links.
These organisations — most of which are US-based, such as the Ambedkar International Centre, Coalition of Seattle Indian-Americans, India Civil Watch, Ambedkar Buddhist Association of Texas and the Begumpura Cultural Society of New York — have demanded the release of the accused.
"The rule of fear by the use and abuse of particular laws and institutions of governance is an attempt to silence all voices that have dared to imagine an India that is based on Babasaheb Ambedkar's vision of liberty, equality and fraternity," the organisation said in a statement.
Teltumbde, a Dalit scholar and grandson-in-law of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, and activist Gautam Navlakha surrendered in court in April after their bail pleas were rejected.
Teltumbde, Navlakha and nine other civil liberties activists have been booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for allegedly having Maoist links and conspiring to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi and overthrow the government.
The activists had initially been booked by Pune police following the Bhima-Koregaon violence. According to the police, the activists had made inflammatory speeches and provocative statements at an Elgar Parishad meet in Pune on December 31, 2017, which triggered violence the next day in which one person died.
The bail plea of Teltumbde will come up for hearing in court on Friday.
In their statement, the 21 organisations have demanded that charges be framed against Hindutva ideologues Milind Ekbote and Sambhaji Bhide, who had been named in FIRs for their alleged role in the Bhima-Koregaon violence.
The organisations also demanded the repeal of the UAPA, saying that the amended law infringes on the fundamental democratic freedoms of Indian citizens, including their right to dissent and fair trial.
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Peace Pole Re-dedication after 1 year in Thuringia, Germany
By May Peace Prevail On Earth | August 24, 2010
June 22, 2010 Mrs Haßkerl-Schilling organized a Peace Pole re-dedication ceremony in her hometown, Bad Langensalza. You see her below with her guest of honor; a Jewish gentleman and concentration camp survivor. The message, May Peace Prevail On Earth was placed along side every personal peace wish and then sent off on balloons. The eldest…
2ND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WALK FOR PEACE-WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK, USA
AUGUST 7TH, 2010 Walkers gathered in the parking lot near the center of town. The walk commenced, with the spectacular parade of colorful flags of all nations through the town, past the village green, and continuing along Route 212 to Comeau Drive, then on to Comeau Field, where the World Peace Prayer and Flag Ceremony…
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August 5th, 2010 A moment of silence was observed throughout Japan, as the Peace Bell rang at precisely 8:15 a.m. This was the time when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. The live broadcast also featured the World Peace Prayer and Flag Ceremony presented by WPPS members in the Hiroshima Peace…
May Peace Prevail On Earth at GATHERING of the VIBES, Connecticut-USA
August 1st, 2010 World Peace Flag Ceremony! The 15th Annual Gathering of the Vibes, July 29th-August 1st was held at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Approximately 18,000 people gathered over the span of the 4 day weekend event. The World Peace Flag Ceremony (WPFC) was organized by Jim Dugan and presented by Jim Dugan and…
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March-2010 Gail Ostrow, Elementary School Teacher at Black Rock School in Bridgeport, Connecticut and WPPS Peace Representative took her students to visit the United Nations. They unfurled the May Peace Prevail On Earth banner there in the hallway. Gail became a Peace Representative this spring. She has been actively planting Peace Poles in the Bridgeport…
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July 4th, 2010 The World Peace Sanctuary is open all year long. People travel from all over to pay tribute to the mission of The World Peace Prayer Society. Visitors are inspired as they meander up the spiral Peace Path, lined on both sides with 192 Peace Poles representing the UN member nations and feel…
Peace Pole — Vancouver, BC – CANADA
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Q: Addition and Increment expression in [ ] - operator According to the standard are the following two expressions undefined behavior ?
int a = 1, b = 1;
int c[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };

// Do the following expressions lead to Undefined Behavior ?
c[a++]; // (1)
c[a+b]; // (2)

A: No, in their present form, they do not lead to undefined behaviour. There's no sequence point violation as you might have feared.

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*In case of c[a++]; the existing value of a is used in indexing, and a is incremented as the side effect (of the post-increment operator).

*c[a+b]; none of the variable values are altered and a+b is a valid index of the array.

A: You may get an undefined behavior if the a or b or the sum of a and b is larger than the size of array:
int a = 1, b = 1;
int c[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };

c[a++]; // (1)  a = 2
c[a+b]; // (2) a + b = 3

cout << c[a] << endl;   // 3
cout << c[a+b] << endl; // 4
cout << a << ", " << b << endl;

As you can see there is not UB because c[a + b] = c[3] which is an element of the array.


Adventures in Anhedonia: Saving the Galaxy...What've You Been Up To?
As much as I like the games I like, I'm unusually particular about the ones I'm interested in, so I can go weeks or months without finding one that captures my imagination. I've never got into any of the massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG's) because I play games to escape real life and my problems, so I don't really want to be surrounded by a bunch of socially maladjusted, emotionally stunted nerds like myself when I'm gaming.
Anyway, lately I've been wasting my time with two Star Wars video games that came out several years ago. Last weekend I finished Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. And now I am working on the sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Both games take place about 4,000 years before the events in the movies so they don't have a lot of bearing on the film canon. In both games you can develop your character as a noble Jedi or a dark Sith. I take the Jedi path because, since video games are a surrogate for the deficiencies in my real life, I want to help people in ways I wish I could help others around me.
Make no mistake, video games can definitely be addictive. Every so often you find a story about a gamer collapsing (or even dying!) after marathon gaming binges, and Amsterdam has opened the first video game addiction clinic. I'm not quite that bad, but as an addict/addictive personality type, I will obsess about anything that stimulates the pleasure centers in my brain. Maturity for me has always been an uphill battle, kicking and screaming. But even in my more responsible middle age I will stay up way too late on a work night or ignore practical matters like laundry when I get caught up in video game fever.


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Knowledge that empowers and changes lives
Amal and Wael run a family farm in a village in Port Saeed in Egypt. They make a living by selling dairy products. Like many other farmers in their area, they used to turn milk into yogurt and make cheese after storing yogurt for 3-4 days. But they were not happy about the final product.
Inspiring a generation of farming entrepreneurs: The story of Mohammad Al Wali from Yemen
I am Mohammad Al Wali. I live in Lahj District in southern Yemen. This area is known to be one of the oldest agricultural areas in the world. But desertification has started recently due to climate change impacts and my land is classified now among marginal areas.
Trust builds confidence – a story of Abu Rafee from Jordan
Recent changes in weather patterns, such as prolonged droughts, and extreme temperatures, as well as increased rainfall irregularity, intensity and distribution, have further negatively impacted on the natural and agro-ecosystems in the region and increased the vulnerability of the people dependent on these resources for their livelihood.
Turning Sinai green
Recent changes in climate pattern, such as prolonged droughts, and extreme temperatures, as well as increased rainfall irregularity, intensity and distribution, have further negatively impacted the natural and agro-ecosystems in the region and increased the vulnerability of the people dependent on these resources for their livelihood. As the populations and economies of the region grow, the demand for food will increase and the water scarcity will worsen, resulting in further competition between the industrial, agricultural and domestic sectors.


Before Chris Evans strapped on the stars and stripes, he appeared in a lot of other films where his acting talent was not fully utilized. We're not just talking about those terrible Fantastic Four movies, either. There are plenty of movies that Evans starred in that people have probably completely forgotten about.
Though he might be one of the biggest stars in the world now, there was a time when Chris Evans was relegated to the most simplistic roles available, probably due to his charm and good looks. However, now that he has proven his chops in the MCU (and some ambitious stage performances), Evans can have his pick of great roles. Still, he had to start somewhere, and these are ten roles Chris Evans plays that everyone forgets.
The Iceman, based on the true crime book by Anthony Bruno, tells the real-life story of Richard Kuklinski (played in the film by Michael Shannon), who was one of the most notorious serial killers in American History. Kuklinski claimed to have murdered hundreds of people over his life and often worked as a contract killer for the Mafia.
In the film, Chris Evans has a small part as Robert "Mr. Freezy" Pronge, another killer that the real Kuklinski knew and learned from. Mr. Freezy (who earned the nickname because he drove an ice cream truck) taught Kuklinski about freezing bodies and how to use cyanide to take out his various targets, before becoming one of Kuklinski's targets himself.
What's Your Number? stars Anna Faris as a woman who wants to settle down and get married after realizing that the number of men she has slept with is far too high. Yeah, this is a pretty regressive film, and it was hated by critics. It does, however, feature Chris Evans as a charming musician, so that's not too bad, right?
Evans is not bad in the role, per se, but the movie itself is so bad that it sort of taints every good thing in it. He and Faris have good comedic chemistry, and they work well as an on-screen pair, but ultimately, this is one role that Evans is probably glad everyone forgot about.
After Fantastic Four, one could assume that Chris Evans would want to steer clear of any other comic book roles. As we all know now, that was not the case, but before he appeared in Scott Pilgrim vs, The World, Snowpiercer, and, of course, Captain America: The First Avenger, Evans took on the role of Jensen in The Losers.
Though the film itself is largely forgettable, it does feature a great cast which also included future MCU alums Zoe Saldana and Idris Elba. Evans's role as Jensen found him playing not the muscle, but rather the brains of the operation. He even gets one of the best scenes, when (with the help of the team's sniper) he appears to take out security guards with finger guns.
Chris Evans clearly had a thing for playing guys with superpowers. Just two years before he would don the stars and stripes for Marvel, Evans appeared in the film Push, where he played Nick Gant, a guy with the power of telekinesis who bands togehter with other superpowered people to take on a shadowy government agency.
That sounds... a little bit familiar, right? Change just a few of the elements in that plot description and you'd have, basically, the X-Men. There's no doubt that screenwriter David Bourla was inspired by that comic book series, but mostly the film just falls flat. It does, however, also feature another MCU star: Djimon Hounsou, who played Korath the Pursuer in Guardians of the Galaxy and most recently in Captain Marvel.
While this particular film doesn't star any of Chris Evans's MCU friends, it is directed by David Ayer, who helmed Suicide Squad for Warner Bros. In this action flick about dirty cops and drug dealers, Evans plays Detective Paul "Disco" Diskant, a cop who helps the main character, played by Keanu Reeves, clear his name after he is framed for murder.
The film was not well-received by critics and was only Ayers's second film that he directed. Evans does just fine in the role, but the whole film is utterly forgettable. It's brimming with cop cliches and a plot that is all too predictable. Luckily, Evans got to play roles that were a lot more fun than this.
Sunshine is a science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle that stars Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, and Chris Evans as members of an astronaut team who are sent on a mission to revive the sun, which has begun to die out, leaving the Earth freezing cold. The film begins as an interesting character study in space, but unfortunately devolves into a pseudo-slasher film in its final third.
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Evans plays Mace, the engineer of the crew. He manages to keep a cool head under pressure, and that appears to be a quality Evans brought into his role as Steve Rogers. Once again, Evans appeared in this film with yet another actor who would be featured in the MCU. This time it was Benedict Wong.
Among all of the parody movies inspired by Scary Movie that were coming out in the early 2000s, Not another Teen Movie might actually be one of the best. It features some pretty hilarious and specific nods to other teen movies, most of them the films of John Hughes, and features a pretty silly performance from Chris Evans, who got the chance to show off his comedy chops.
Evans plays Jake Wyler, aka "the Popular Jock." Jake is the romantic lead of the film and is pulled into essentially the plot of She's All That when his friends bet him that he can't turn the nerdy girl into the prom queen. Though the film might not stand up to repeat viewings, it gave Evans the chance to really have fun in a role.
Did you know that before they were working together in Avengers: Infinity War to save the world from Thanos, Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson were working together to cheat their way into college?! It's true! The pair appeared together in the film The Perfect Score, playing high school students who plan a heist to steal SAT questions in order to cheat their way into better schools.
Evans played Kyle, the main character of the film, who dreams of becoming an architect (the typical movie and television job). Johansson plays Francesca, who joins in on the heist with the group of slackers. The film was absolutely ravaged by critics, but it did mark the beginning of a great friendship between two of its stars.
Evans and Johansson would go on to star in another film together three years later when they appeared in The Nanny Diaries. Johansson played the lead role of Annie, while Evans played her lover interest, Hayden (who is known throughout most of the film just as "Harvard Hottie").
Though Johansson and Evans clearly have great chemistry (which is still put to great use in the MCU), the film itself is a bit of a mess. Luckily, both stars got to move on to bigger and better things, and they are probably thankful that they got to continue working together.
Screenwriter Larry Cohen really had a thing for stories about phones. It all started with his screenplay for the movie Phone Booth, a film whose premise was far better than its actual execution. Next came Cellular, which starred Chris Evans as Ryan, a man who receives a call on his brand new phone from a woman who is being held hostage.
Without any of the fancy bells and whistles that phones have now, Ryan is left to try and figure out how to find the woman while staying on the line with her. Though the film bills itself as a thriller, it is light on excitement and culminates in a finale that isn't entirely earned. At least Evans does pretty well with what he's given.


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'23 Taliban' Killed in Clashes in 3 Provinces: MoD
At least 23 Taliban were killed in clashes in Badghis, Ghazni and Maidan Wardak provinces, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) and other military authorities said on Monday.
At least 17 Taliban were killed in attacks on security checkpoints in Qads district of Badghis province, the statement said, adding that seven others were wounded.
Four other Taliban were killed and one was wounded in Andar district of Ghazni province after the Taliban clashed with security forces, the 203rd Thunder Military Corps said in a statement.
Two other Taliban were killed in clashes with security forces in Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak, the statement added.
However, neither the MoD nor 203rd Thunder Military Corps have provided details about Afghan forces casualties during the clashes.
The Taliban has not commented on the clashes.
Nine other Taliban were wounded in the clashes with security forces in the provinces, the MoD said.
One Civilian Killed in Ghazni Car Bomb Attack: Official
Six Afghan Soldiers Killed in Badghis Attack: Official