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Kostel svatého Josefa je římskokatolický kostel v obci Vlčkovice v Podkrkonoší v okrese Trutnov. Je farním kostelem farnosti Vlčkovice v Podkrkonoší. Je chráněn jako kulturní památka České republiky.

Historie
Kostel byl postaven v letech 1849–1850 na místě původní barokní kaple Panny Marie z roku 1703. Zásluhu na vybudování kostela měl rychtář Horních Vlčkovic Josef Nimbsche, který na přestavbu původní kaple věnoval 1000 florinů. Před smrtí v roce 1846 odkázal vlastní selskou usedlost č.p. 72 v hodnotě 9000 florinů na postavení kostela. Je postaven ve stylu pozdního klasicismu.

Architektura
Jednoduchá jednolodní orientovaná venkovská sakrální stavba typická pro polovinu 19. století s věží v průčelí na západní straně, s tříbokým presbytářem. K jeho jižní zdi přiléhá pravoúhlá sakristie, na jejíž západní zeď je přimknut segment točitého schodiště oratoře. Loď je obdélná s předsunutou čtyřhrannou věží navazující na západní strant na osu lodě.
Okna lodi jsou jednořadá, obdélná s půlkruhovým zaklenutím. Ostění je zvýrazněné archivoltou s pilastry. Segment točitého schodiště kůru a věže je přimknut na jižní straně věže. Zdi kostela byly postaveny převážně z bílého pískovce z lomu v Choustníkově Hradišti. Portál je pískovcový, nad portálem je trojúhelná supraporta.

Interiér
Na hlavním oltáři je obraz patrona kostela sv. Josefa s Ježíškem na ruce z roku 1851 od malíře Lorenze z Kuksu. Postranní oltář, na pravé straně při pohledu od hlavního vchodu, znázorňuje Nejsvětější Trojici, na levé straně sv. Kateřinu Alexandrijskou, oba z roku 1851 od malíře Zieglera. Inventář kostela byl pořízen z církevních fondů.

Bohoslužby
Pravidelné bohoslužby se konají druhou neděli v měsíci od 16.00 h.

Reference

Externí odkazy

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 Oficiální stránky obce Vlčkovice v Podkrkonoší
 Trutnovsko.net
 Královéhradecká diecéze

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Ptghni (), andere Umschriften Ptgni, Ptykhni und Ptkhni, ist ein Dorf und eine Landgemeinde (hamaynkner) in der zentralarmenischen Provinz Kotajk mit 1395 Einwohnern im Jahr 2008. In der Ortsmitte steht die Ruine einer wegen ihrer figürlichen und ornamentalen Bauplastik bedeutenden Kirche (Ptghnavank) aus dem 6. oder 7. Jahrhundert, die zum Typus der armenischen Kuppelhallen gezählt wird.

Lage
Ptghni liegt auf 1350 Metern Höhe etwa elf Kilometer nordwestlich des Zentrums von Jerewan am linken (südlichen) Ufer des Hrasdan, der in einer Schlucht am Ortsrand vorbei durch Jerewan dem Aras zufließt. Die Schnellstraße M4 von der Landeshauptstadt zum Sewansee führt durch die Außenbezirke Awan, Arabkir und ein weitläufiges Industriegebiet. Der Abzweig zum Dorf befindet sich auf der Gegenfahrbahn kurz nach der Brücke über die Eisenbahn. Eine Wendemöglichkeit auf der Autobahn besteht etwa ein Kilometer weiter beim Casino Shangri La. Dort ist in Fahrtrichtung Jerewan die Kirchenruine auf der rechten Seite zu sehen. Die Zufahrtsstraße windet sich von der Ausfahrt hinunter ins Tal des Hrasdan und erreicht nach einem Kilometer die Ortsmitte. Im Nachbardorf Arzni, das nördlich an der Autobahn und gegenüber der von Ptghni sieben Kilometer entfernten Stadt Abowjan liegt, blieb eine kleine oktogonale Kuppelkirche aus dem 6. Jahrhundert erhalten. Die umgebenden Hügel sind mit Gras bewachsen und auf den Kuppen steinig, in den Senken wird stellenweise kleinparzelliger Feldbau betrieben.

Ortsbild

Ptghni wird nur in wenigen armenischen Quellen des 7. und 8. Jahrhunderts erwähnt und muss dennoch ein bedeutender Ort gewesen sein. Das heutige Dorf wurde 1831 an der Stelle einer älteren Siedlung gegründet. 1873 war die Kirchenruine von 35 Häusern umgeben. Sie befindet sich im alten Ortskern, der von einfachen Bauernhäusern geprägt wird, die entlang unregelmäßig verlaufender Straßen innerhalb von ummauerten, mit Obstbäumen bestandenen Gärten liegen. Etwas Weintrauben werden angebaut, auf den Feldern gedeihen Melonen und Kürbisse. Die besiedelte Fläche beträgt 35 Hektar. Es gibt eine Schule, einen Kindergarten, eine Bücherei und einen Lebensmittelladen. Nördlich der Ortsmitte erstreckt sich ein neues Wohngebiet mit weit verstreuten, zweigeschossigen Wohnhäusern.

Bei der Volkszählung des Jahres 2001 wurde die offizielle Einwohnerzahl mit 1357 angegeben. Im Januar 2008 lebten laut der amtlichen Statistik 1395 Einwohner in Ptghni.

Kirche

Herkunft
Der Begriff Kuppelhalle geht auf Josef Strzygowski (1918) zurück, der unter diesem armenischen Kirchenbautyp die Kombination aus einschiffigen Saalkirchen und Zentralkuppelbauten zusammenfasste. Bei der weiter verbreiteten Verbindung aus dreischiffiger Basilika und Zentralkuppel ergibt sich die Kuppelbasilika oder längsgerichtete Kreuzkuppelkirche nach dem Vorbild von Tekor (frühestens Ende 5. Jahrhundert). Hier werden der Tambour und die abschließende Kuppel von vier Pfeilern getragen, die ein zentrales Quadrat bilden. An beiden Längsseiten aus dem Baukörper polygonal heraustretende Konchen führten zu einigen bedeutenden Vertretern des armenischen Kirchenbaus (Kathedralen von Dwin und Talin, 7. Jahrhundert). Bei der Kuppelhalle ruhen Tambour und Kuppel stattdessen auf Wandvorlagen an den Seitenwänden. Die Kuppel ist verhältnismäßig größer als bei der Kuppelbasilika und überdeckt beinahe die gesamte Breite des Kirchenschiffs.

Die einzige, nahezu vollständig erhaltene Kuppelhalle aus dem 7. Jahrhundert steht in Ddmaschen am nordwestlichen Ufer des Sewansees. Die größte bekannte Kuppelhalle, die bis auf den fehlenden Tambour weitgehend aufrecht steht, ist die Kathedrale von Arutsch  (dort Näheres zur Herkunft dieses Bautyps). Die Thaddäuskirche von Ddmaschen besitzt keinen bauplastischen Schmuck, während dieser gerade in Ptghni besonders reich vorhanden ist.

Bauform

Die Ruine befindet sich in einem stark zerstörten Zustand. Erhalten blieben im Wesentlichen die nördliche Längswand mit einigen Steinreihen des Apsisnebenraums, der östliche Teil der Südwand und der östliche der beiden Gurtbögen der Vierung zwischen den Wänden. Hieraus konnte der ursprüngliche Grundplan erschlossen werden. Teilweise ist der Stufensockel (Krepis) erkennbar, auf dem die Wände stehen.

Das langrechteckige Gebäude mit den Außenmaßen von 30,4 × 15,7 Metern besaß Portale in der West-,  Nord- und Südwand. Innen maß die Kirche 23,8 × 10,3 Meter. Zu beiden Seiten flankierten rechteckige, zweigeschossige Nebenräume mit halbrunden Apsiden die mittlere hufeisenförmige Altarapsis. Sie waren vom Kirchenschiff durch Eingänge an ihren westlichen Schmalseiten zu betreten. Wie der Zugang zu den oberen Geschossen erfolgte, ist unklar. Vermutlich geschah dies vom unteren Raum über eine Holzleiter durch eine Öffnung im Boden.

Etwa 2,9 Meter nach innen ragende Wandpfeiler gliederten den gesamten Raum längs in drei ungefähr gleich große Teile, wobei die Einbauten das Kirchenschiff im Osten auf knapp die Hälfte gegenüber der Westseite verkürzten. Die an der Nordseite vollständig erhaltenen Pfeilervorlagen sind durch Blendarkaden miteinander verbunden. Niedrigere Bögen verbanden sie auch mit Pfeilern vor der Westwand, wodurch seitliche abgetrennte Nischen entstanden, die im Bereich der zentralen Kuppel den Seitenarmen einer Kreuzkuppelkirche entsprechen. Gurtbögen zwischen den Wandpfeilerpaaren überspannten quer den Raum. Die vier Bögen bildeten im Zentrum die quadratische Unterkonstruktion für Tambour und Kuppel. Der Übergang zum oktogonalen Querschnitt des Tambours erfolgte in den Ecken durch Trompen. Das Kirchenschiff im Westen und der Übergang zur Apsiskalotte im Osten überdeckten Tonnengewölbe. Die östlichen Nebenräume schlossen Kreuzgratgewölbe ab.

Wie die Kathedrale in Arutsch wurde die Ostfassade außen durch zwei tiefe Dreiecksnischen strukturiert. Der Altarraum könnte folglich entsprechend durch drei Fenster Licht erhalten haben oder es gab wie bei den meisten anderen Kirchen mit Dreiecksnischen nur ein zentrales Fenster der Altarapsis. Durch ungewöhnlich viele Fenster in den Längswänden erhielt das Kirchenschiff insgesamt reichlich Licht. Der auch außen oktogonale Tambour trägt in der Rekonstruktion ein Pyramidendach. Das Kirchenschiff war vermutlich mit einem zweistufigen Satteldach gedeckt. Der Vorbau vor dem Südportal bestand aus einem ungewöhnlichen, seitlich bis unter den Türsturz reichenden Bogen, der von Konsolen an den Seitenwänden getragen wurde.

Zur fein gearbeiteten Bauplastik im Innern gehören die Kämpfer am Ansatz der Gurtbögen, die als armenische Abwandlung des antiken ionischen Stils in Voluten mit seitlichen Wabenmustern enden. In der Mitte der Kämpfer kommen noch plastisch hervortretende Kreuzmedaillons, Weinblätter, Weinreben oder Granatäpfel hinzu.

Die Portale wurden durch doppelte Wandsäulen, von denen Reste bei Ausgrabungen 1964 zum Vorschein kamen betont. Die Rundbogenfenster sind an den erhaltenen Wänden von hufeisenförmigen Friesen umgeben, die  vegetabile und figürliche Motiven zieren.

Ein Fensterbogen an der Südfassade trägt in der Mitte ein Christusmedaillon, das nach antiker griechischer Tradition von zwei fliegenden Engeln flankiert wird und die früheste bekannte Himmelfahrtsszene in der armenischen Kunst darstellt. Auf jedem der seitlichen Bogenarme befinden sich drei Medaillons mit Apostelporträts. Solche in schematischer Weise symmetrisch auf eine Christusfigur bezogenen Kompositionen gehören häufig zu frühchristlichen armenischen Türstürzen. Am waagrechten linken Ende des Hufeisenbogens zielt ein Reiter im Galopp mit Pfeil und Bogen auf einen Löwen. Laut der Inschrift ist der Dargestellte ein gewisser Fürst Manuel der seit dem 4. Jahrhundert in Quellen auftauchenden armenischen Amatuni-Dynastie (Manuel Amatuneaz ter, "Manuel, Herr der Amatuni"). In der lebendigen, auf sassanidische Vorbilder zurückgehenden Darstellungsweise läuft das Pferd im fliegenden Galopp. Eine weitere Jagdszene auf der rechten Seite des Fensters zeigt einen Mann, der einen auf ihn zu rennenden Löwen mit der Lanze abwehrt. Das profane Motiv stammt aus der griechisch-römischen Kultur. Ein in Frage kommender Manuel Amatuni starb 389; falls dieser gemeint war, wird er vermutlich nicht als Stifter, sondern zusammen mit seinem auf der rechten Seite abgebildeten Vater Pargev als einer der Vorfahren des Kirchenstifters gezeigt. Auf einem Stein an der linken Kante dieses Fensterfrieses ist ein Löwe vor einer Palme im Hintergrund dargestellt, der über zwei kleine Widder unter seinen Pfoten springt.

Auf den beiden westlichen Fensterfriesen der Nordfassade sind verschiedene Vögel wie Gänse, Enten, Rebhühner und Adler zu sehen, die zu einem Kreuz in der Mitte blicken. Der Name Sahak in einer Inschrift bezieht sich wohl auf den Architekten oder Bildhauer und steht vermutlich für Kohak, den Sohn eines anderen Manuel Amatuni (um 510–590). Zu den vegetabilen Motiven an anderen Friesen gehören Weinranken, Girlanden (Festone), Waben und Palmen, die ein Kreuz umgeben. Das an der Westseite der Nordfassade erhaltene Gesims besteht aus aneinandergereihten Vasen und Krüge. Da keine Tonkrüge aus der frühchristlichen Zeit in Armenien erhalten geblieben sind, lässt sich deren Form nur aus solchen Schmuckmotiven ableiten.  Die Kirchenruine ist die einzige christliche Stätte des Ortes, weshalb der ehemalige nordöstliche Nebenraum als Andachtsnische für den Volksglauben gepflegt wird.

Datierung
Von der kunsthistorischen Forschung Ende des 19. und Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde die Kirche von Ptghni kaum beachtet. Josef Strzygowski erwähnt Ptghni in seinem 1918 erschienenen Hauptwerk zur armenischen Kunst nicht. Die verbliebenen Mauerreste wurden erstmals ab 1940 genauer untersucht und gesichert. Bis in die 1960er Jahre fanden Ausgrabungen auf dem Gelände statt, bei denen eine im 19. Jahrhundert an der Südseite angebaute kleine Kirche abgetragen wurde.

Da eine Gründungsinschrift an der Kirche nicht überliefert ist, orientiert sich die Datierung an Stilmerkmalen und zieht vergleichend historische Quellen heran. Ein von einem Mönch namens Israyel aus Ptghni unterzeichneter Brief ist jedoch für die Datierung nicht brauchbar. Er beinhaltet lediglich, dass Israyel im Jahr 606 an einer vom Katholikos Abraham veranstalteten Synode in Dvin teilnahm. Im 8. Jahrhundert berichtet der Geschichtsschreiber Ghewond, dass die arabischen Eroberer der armenischen Hauptstadt Dvin ein Jahrhundert zuvor mordend und plündernd durch Ptghni ("Ptghunk") und andere Orte gezogen seien. Die Kirche erwähnt er nicht und die bereits erwähnte Manuel-Inschrift ist undatiert.

Die Kirche von Ptghni gilt häufig – wenn auch nicht als die älteste armenische Kuppelhalle, so doch mit ihrer Architektur und der besonderen Verbindung von figürlicher und ornamentaler Bauplastik – als vorbildhaft für andere Kuppelhallen, auch für solche, die in der als Renaissance der armenischen Baukunst bezeichneten Phase ab dem 9. Jahrhundert entstanden. Zu diesen späteren "archaischen" Kuppelhallen gehört die um 1029 datierte Hauptkirche des Klosters Marmaschen.

Der russische Kunsthistoriker Nikolai M. Tokarski ordnete in seinem 1925 erschienenen Reisebericht die Kirche von Ptghni wegen ihrer Ähnlichkeiten mit Arutsch ins 6./7. Jahrhundert ein. Sirarpie Der Nesessian (1977) und andere Forscher wie Mourad Hasratian (1973/74) und Fernanda de Maffei (1968) sind ihm gefolgt und haben sich nach den Untersuchungen der 1960er Jahre auf das 6. Jahrhundert festgelegt, weil sie die an der Nordostecke der Vierung erhaltene Trompe für eine entwicklungsgeschichtliche Vorform der in Arutsch verwendeten und später in Armenien üblich gewordenen Pendentifs halten. Für Paolo Cuneo (1988) und Murad Hasratyan (2000) ist die Wende vom 6. zum 7. Jahrhundert und für Siounie Mnacakanyan (1961) Anfang 7. Jahrhundert die wahrscheinliche Bauzeit. Jean-Michel Thierry vermutete 1988 das 7. Jahrhundert und grenzte 2002 die Bauzeit wie viele heutige Forscher auf die zweite Hälfte des 7. Jahrhunderts ein. Argumente für eine etwas spätere Datierung liefern die Form der Dreiecksnischen an der Ostwand und die zweigeschossigen Nebenräume, die einen gewissen Entwicklungsprozess voraussetzen.

Eine Minderheit argumentiert nach dem georgischen Kunsthistoriker Georgi Tschubinaschwili, der 1928 Strzygowskis frühe Datierungen generell kritisierte und für die Kirchen von Arutsch und Ptghni das 10. Jahrhundert vorschlug. Ihm folgen Edith Neubauer (1970) und Ulrich Bock (1983), der nach kritischer Prüfung der angegebenen Quellen das erste sichere Vergleichsdatum für Kuppelhallen anführt. Demnach wäre die um 1950 zerstörte Kirche von Shirawakan (25 Kilometer nordöstlich von Ani in der Provinz Schirak), die Ende 9. oder Anfang 10. Jahrhundert erbaut wurde, die älteste armenische Kuppelhalle. Bei einer solchen Spätdatierung stellt die im 9. Jahrhundert mit Wandpfeilern erbaute Hauptkirche des georgischen Watschnadsiani-Klosters eine zeitliche Vorwegnahme dar.

Literatur
 Ulrich Bock: Armenische Baukunst. Geschichte und Problematik ihrer Erforschung. (25. Veröffentlichung der Abteilung Architektur des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Universität zu Köln) Köln 1983
 Burchard Brentjes, Stepan Mnazakanjan, Nona Stepanjan: Kunst des Mittelalters in Armenien. Union Verlag (VOB), Berlin 1981
 Paolo Cuneo: Architettura Armena dal quarto al diciannovesimo secolo. Band 1. De Luca Editore, Rom 1988, S. 140f
 Patrick Donabédian: Dokumentation der Kunststätten. In: Jean-Michel Thierry: Armenische Kunst. Herder, Freiburg/B. 1988, S. 572f, ISBN 3-451-21141-6

Weblinks

 Ptlni / Pt'ghni. Armenian Studies Program
 Ptghni Church. armenica.org
 Ptghni Church. Armeniapedia
 Jasmine Dum-Tragut, Annegret Lüning-Plontke: Ptghnavank'. Allgemeine Informationen. kirchen.net

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Kotajk
Kirchengebäude in Armenien
Erbaut im 7. Jahrhundert
Kirchengebäude in Asien

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The 1999 re-issue of "Demons" on videocassette and DVD from Anchor Bay's "Dario Argento Collection" feature the original Dolby Stereo mix for the first time in the U.S.
North American version features different dialogue and voice dubbing for Nina the punk rock girl.
The Canadian video release on the Norstar label is the censored-for-Ontario version and is missing a few minutes of graphic footage.


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CBO: Supreme Court Decision Lowers Obamacare Costs
By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times
The Supreme Court's decision upholding the Affordable Care Act but giving states the right to opt out of the law's Medicaid expansion will save the federal government an additional $84 billion over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Tuesday.
The report said the increased cost of subsidizing people sent to the state-based insurance exchanges because they can't get expanded Medicaid coverage will be more than offset by the decrease in federal subsidies that will no longer be sent to states that opt out of expanding Medicaid coverage.
CBO assumed that some states would opt out of expanding Medicaid and others would delay coverage, leading to about 6 million fewer people qualifying for the program. The original CBO projection estimated about half of the 32 million people would get coverage under the law would get it through an expanded Medicaid. At the same time, only about 3 million more people would opt for subsidized coverage in the exchanges.
Bottom line: CBO estimated about 3 million fewer people will get insurance coverage under the ACA due to the Supreme Court's mixed decision, which upheld the insurance mandate as a tax but gave states the right to forego expanding Medicaid. But virtually all of those people without insurance who previously would have had it will be people living below the poverty line who now fall into what amounts to a "donut hole" in the reform law.
"Only a portion (roughly one-third) of the people who will not be eligible for Medicaid as a result of the Court's decision will be eligible for subsidies through the exchanges," the joint analysis by CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation said. "In addition, those who become eligible for subsidies will have to pay a portion of the exchange premium themselves, which will affect their decisions about whether to enroll in the exchanges."
Every person who might have been eligible for Medicaid and opts not to purchase subsidized insurance through the exchanges will save the government $6,000 a year from the ACA's original cost. Those who enroll for subsidies will cost the government about $9,000 on average. While that's an increased of $3,000 per newly insured person, the fewer number of insured led to the lower overall costs for the legislation.
CBO now projects "Obamacare" will cost taxpayers $1.17 trillion between 2012 and 2022, down from $1.25 trillion before the Supreme Court made its decision.
An advocacy group run by former CBO chief Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who now advises the Romney campaign, projected that health care reform's costs will rise sharply for the federal government due to the Supreme Court decision. In a report released Monday, he claimed that costs would rise $72 to $80 billion between 2014 and 2021 just for the six states that have already publicly stated they will opt out of the Medicaid expansion.
Merrill Goozner
spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent, economics writer and investigative business reporter for the Chicago Tribune and other publications. He is the author of the 2004 book, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs.

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Minister Zwane's new spring
Published by: Ben Rigby at 06/02/2017
South Africa's minister for mineral resources Mosebenzi Joseph Zwane delivered a cautiously upbeat...
South Africa's minister for mineral resources Mosebenzi Joseph Zwane delivered a cautiously upbeat assessment of the future prospects for mining as the 2017 Mining Indaba opened in Cape Town.
The South African minister for mineral resources Mosebenzi Joseph Zwane heralded a "new spring" in his keynote address to delegates at the 2017 Mining Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa.
Praising the industry's "remarkable recovery" in the second half of 2016, thanks to a rise in commodities prices, Zwane's speech was keenly anticipated by the over 6,000 delegates attending the annual event, ranging from junior and senior mining companies, associated industries, investment funds, banks and ancillary professions, including law firms.
Speaking at a briefing ahead of the speech, Peter Leon co-head of Africa at international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills', addressed some of the issues that Zwane would need to consider in reassuring his audience that the state of South African mining was secure.
Leon made it clear that the industry would welcome a "fresh start" on regulation, and that the minister should aim to address uncertainties over mine ownership and industrial action, as one form of reassurance.
He called for "meaningful discussions" with industry on the use of regulatory powers by government, including a potential moratorium on their further use and a clear adherence by the state to principles of good governance and a restriction on the exercise of individual discretion by government officials, so as to aid that certainty, especially with regard to the draft mining charter.
Zwane's speech was carefully pitched. He stressed the economic importance of mining to South Africa as a "pillar of the economy" providing 460,000 jobs, and crucially to his local audience, as well as the international delegates, pointed out that with an estimated USD 2.5 to USD 3 trillion in non-energy mineral reserves still in-situ, South Africa was "looking forward to another 150 years of mining".
In noting what he called a remarkable recovery of prices during the latter part of 2016, Zwane suggested that a new balance was emerging in the demand and supply for mineral resources.
He said: "There has been a remarkable recovery of prices during the latter part of 2016, more particularly with commodities such as coal, iron, ferromanganese and zinc."
Indeed, a survey by Ernst & Young, released the same day as the Indaba opened, showed that African mining had bucked a global trend of falling deal values, increasing at 62% year-on-year and with deal volume increasing three fold to USD 5.818 billion in 2016. In South Africa, deal volume increased 78% year-on-year, while deal value increased fourfold to USD 1.165 billion in 2016.
With the cyclical nature of mining having produced a resurgence of commodity prices, in acknowledging his "new spring", he was careful to identify certain area of importance to the industry in his address.
His was a future in which small to medium sized mining businesses – the so-called junior miners – were as much a target for investment and support as the established, senior miners. Zwane pledged them his support, saying that the government would focus on their needs, seeing them as a lynchpin alongside that of the mining majors like Anglo-American.
Alongside junior miners, Zwane underscored a firm line on social responsibilities, following mining tragedies such as the 2015 Lily Mine disaster, in which three people died, saying that the "incident remains in our hearts and we will continue to toil to ensure that the families get closure".
His ministry remained focused on health and safety, saying that miners "must place greater value on the lives of workers", in ensuring mine safety remains a priority. The fact that there had been no fatalities during 2016 was laudable, said Zwane, and he commended mining companies for their work.
Zwane was also clear in stressing that illegal mining activities should be prevented, as should illicit financial flows from the mining sector, which he called a "menace".
"Financial tools employed to avoid taxes and the fair share of mineral rents to the host governments only act to undermine the trust between stakeholders, and make for long term fragility of investments and the sector in South Africa, on the continent and globally," he noted.
LEGAL CERTAINTY AND REFORM
Leon's remarks before the address cited the importance of legal certainty and greater recognition of the concerns of both senior and junior miners on legislative reform.
Zwane openly acknowledged this in his address, saying that the forthcoming mining charter would be gazetted in March 2017, having taken into account the views of industry, including the South African Chamber of Mines.
"The revised mining charter [is] the regulatory tool governing transformation in the sector," Zwane explained, saying it would be "reflective of the views of stakeholders, in the interests of South Africa and provide for investor certainty".
In making the final version more reflective of the views of stakeholders, he promised that amendments to other legislation would be fast-tracked as a matter of urgency, with other changes concluded by June 2017.
Amendments to the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) will be concluded by then, he said. The government would "ensure that amendments to the act are processed and finalised as a matter of urgency. This process is well underway and public hearings are taking place towards the finalisation of the bill," Zwane explained.
EFFICENCY AND INVESTMENT
There were also other initiatives; Zwane told his audience that the government had established an investment one stop shop, overseen by an inter-ministerial committee on investment, "which aimed to improve regulatory efficiency by providing multiple services from a single point, providing advice and addressing any blockages identified for those interested in conducting business in our country".
Alongside this, the government had published a nine point plan for infrastructure, looking at cross-cutting issues such as infrastructure development, research, as well as economic growth, development, innovation as well as sectoral plans, which included mining and mineral beneficiation, the process by which the economic value of mining ore is improved for commercial use.
Beneficiation, said Zwane, remained a priority in South Africa, inviting investors and mining companies, as well as bulk infrastructure companies to support the growth of mineral beneficiators, noting that the ministry had developed a programme for special economic zones, with an array of tax and investment incentives, to make such support tangible.
Closing his speech, Zwane welcomed the delegates, saying their "annual presence here is confirmation that South Africa remains a key investment destination for mining", one in which his government aimed to do its part to create an environment conducive for that investment.
He said: "We call upon investors to come to South Africa and engage us frankly as we move towards transformation of our economy. We will continue to have an open door policy."
Time will tell if the promised spring bears a better harvest for Africa's miners in 2017.
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Packing light is especially good advice when traveling in Alaska--you may be traveling great distances. The best advice to give is to pack so that you can dress in layers. For women, pack a few good casual outfits that are complimentary and interchangeable. If you're from the southern states, you may be visiting a location 40 degrees cooler than yours. It's important to bring a few casual outfits that can be layered. Visit your outdoor store. Synthetics or polypro's are best, but Casual shirts, a "fleece" sweater, and a lined waterproof and windproof jacket (hoods are a plus!) should go on every trip. If you plan to go hiking bring a good compass, a cell phone and wear bright colors. For thrifty packing, make sure each item goes with another outfit.
A crushable hat, stretch gloves, warm socks, a good book, your favorite " bug dope" and sun glasses for summer travelers are also good.
Finally on the topic of style, Alaska is a different kind of place. Maybe it's the extreme temperatures or maybe it's the extreme people. Alaska, I have been told, looks at "dressing up " a bit differently than those from "Outside." If you have on a clean shirt and your hands are clean at the same time, then you're dressed up! Clean, casual clothes and good manners will get you just about anywhere you want to go in Alaska.


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Q: How to return a value within an if let statement in Swift 4? How can I return a value within an if let statement to be further returned within a function? Here is the code:
func loadUrl(url:String) -> String {
        DispatchQueue.global().async {
            do {
                let appUrl = URL(string:url)!
                let data = try Data(contentsOf:appUrl)
                let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data) as! [String:Any]
                print("Test from do")
                if let results = json["results"] as? [[String:Any]] {
                    print("Test from if let 1")
                    if let first = results[0] as? [String:Any] {

                        print("Test from if let 2")
                        var cityStateLocation = first["formatted_address"]!

                        return cityStateLocation
                        //What needs to be returned
                    }
                }
                DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    print("No Error")
                }
            } catch {
                DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    print("Cannot connect to the server.")
                }
            }
        }
    }

What I would like to be able to do is take cityStateLocation and return it in the func, but because it is a part of an if let statement within an .async method I don't know how to do that. Could someone please explain?
EDIT: I need the return value of cityStateLocation to equal a variable in a separate function. Here is the separate function:
@IBAction func continueButton(_ sender: Any) {
        var cityState:String
        if locationSwitch.isOn == true {
            print(location.latitude)
            print(location.longitude)
            let url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=\(location.latitude),\(location.longitude)&result_type=locality&key=AIzaSyDI-ZacHyPbLchRhkoaUTDokwj--z_a_jk"
            loadUrl(url: url)
            cityState = loadUrl(url: url)
        } else {
            cityState = ""
        }
        CoreDataHandler.saveObject(locationLocality: cityState)
    }

Edit 2: The main reason why the "duplicate answer" is not a duplicate is that my code needs to call the return of this function within a separate function then save it to Core Data. Also, my code is not using an array.

A: You could modify your function to include a closure. For instance:
func loadUrl(url: String, completionHandler: @escaping (_ location: String?) -> (Void)) {

And then, where you want to return it, you'd pass it in as such.
completionHandler(cityStateLocation)

I made it an optional so that, in your fail paths, you could return nil.
Then, where you call the function would change. Using trailing closure syntax, it could look like this:
loadUrl(url: "someurl.com/filepath.txt") { optionalLocation in
    guard let nonOptionalLocation = optionalLocation else {
        // Location was nil; Handle error case here
        return
    }
    // Do something with your location here, like setting UI or something
}

This is a fairly common pattern when dealing with asynchronous activity, such as working with network calls.

A: The simplest (perhaps no the prettiest), way of doing this would simply be to declare and instantiate a variable above the dispatch queue.  Then you can set the variable equal to whatever you want, within the dispatch queue, and return it afterwards.  You can change the type of ret, so that it suits your needs more directly.
func loadUrl(url:String) -> String {
    var ret = NSObject()
    DispatchQueue.global().async {
        do {
            let appUrl = URL(string:url)!
            let data = try Data(contentsOf:appUrl)
            let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data) as! [String:Any]
            print("Test from do")
            if let results = json["results"] as? [[String:Any]] {
                print("Test from if let 1")
                if let first = results[0] as? [String:Any] {

                    print("Test from if let 2")
                    var cityStateLocation = first["formatted_address"]!

                    ret = cityStateLocation
                    //What needs to be returned
                }
            }
            DispatchQueue.main.async {
                print("No Error")
            }
        } catch {
            DispatchQueue.main.async {
                print("Cannot connect to the server.")
            }
        }
    }
return ret
}

A: DispatchQueue.global().async will cause the coded included in the closure to be executed at some point the future, meaning you loadUrl function will return (almost) immediately.
What you need is some kind of callback which can be called when you have a result (AKA closure)
This is just another way to approach the problem, the difference between this and Josh's example is simply, I provide an additional closure to handle the errors
func loadUrl(url:String, complition: @escaping (String?) -> Void, fail: @escaping (Error) -> Void) {
    DispatchQueue.global().async {
        do {
            let appUrl = URL(string:url)!
            let data = try Data(contentsOf:appUrl)
            let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data) as! [String:Any]
            print("Test from do")
            if let results = json["results"] as? [[String:Any]], !results.isEmpty {
                print("Test from if let 1")
                let first = results[0]

                print("Test from if let 2")
                if let cityStateLocation = first["formatted_address"] as? String {
                    complition(cityStateLocation)
                } else {
                    complition(nil)
                }
            } else {
                complition(nil)
            }
        } catch let error {
            fail(error)
        }
    }
}

Which you might call using something like...
loadUrl(url: "your awesome url", complition: { (value) in
    guard let value = value else {
        // No value
        return
    }
    // process value
}) { (error) in
    // Handle error
}

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They still serve chicken nuggets, but Des Moines Schools is working hard to make its lunches more ethnically diverse — adding meals like enchiladas with beef and pinto beans and Asian-inspired chicken with sweet and sour sauce over rice to the menu.
It's a nod to an increasingly diverse district. More than 6,500 Des Moines students speak limited English, roughly 20 percent of the student body, according to the state education department. The district's students come from families that speak more than 100 different languages and dialects — and have a range of culinary traditions.
Students say they appreciate the more diverse food at school.
"The enchiladas are better; they have more flavor than chicken nuggets," said eighth-grader Rocio Cruz, who's of Mexican descent.
Rocio also is a fan of the "flavor bar," a new feature where students may add low- or no-salt spices such as garlic or sriracha seasoning. Some cafeterias have it set up like a salad bar, with traditional ketchup next to jalapenos and hot sauce.
"You can put on as much as you want," she said with a grin.
Des Moines' more diverse menus reflect districts across the nation, which are responding to increasingly multicultural enrollments by incorporating ethnic fare, said Diane Pratt-Heavner, spokeswoman for the School Nutrition Association.
In Miami, for example, schools serve Cuban style pork, which is marinated and roasted, as well as arroz con pollo, a chicken and rice dish traditional to Latin America.
In Minnesota, St. Paul tested ethnic meals this summer, such as Asian noodles and a Hispanic sweet bread called pan dulce.
And in Michigan, Dearborn schools serve meals with halal meats, following Islamic requirements for handling and butchering.
"It's hospitality," said Holly Meagher, who coordinates Meredith Middle Schools's International Baccalaureate program that focuses on education from a global perspective. "We want to make sure students feel comfortable and feel valued. And the food we serve has a lot to do with that."
Des Moines introduced Asian and Latino dishes over the last two or so years, which have proven popular among students.
Helping the shift is the fact that more students are willing to try different food. Des Moines Executive Chef Chad Taylor attributes it the prevalence of cooking shows and celebrity chefs.
"I think our kids' tastes have changed," Meagher said. "Kids like more than just pizza and hamburgers anymore."
At area high schools, for example, some dishes now have more spice, such as General Tso chicken and Sante Fe pork flatbread.
But it's a balancing act, as some students still expect traditional Iowa meals with meat and potatoes.
"We really want to try to accommodate students," Taylor said, adding: "We are still serving the Midwestern palate."
Des Moines is continuing to try new dishes, such as a curry with sweet potatoes and chickpeas at Hoover High School, which serves many students of Middle Eastern descent.
It's not yet ready to roll out: Students are split on whether it's too spicy. Others want a meat-based dish, instead of the vegetarian version that was tested.
"We won't give up on it," Taylor said, explaining it can take time to refine, and for students to adjust.
Another pilot included a sweet potato hash served at breakfast. Staff loved it, but students didn't.
Other pilot projects have focused on serving local food as part of the "School Food Focus" collaboration. For the third year, Des Moines will join Minneapolis, Cleveland and Detroit in preparing a Midwestern meal on the same day it is served at school.
Scheduled for Oct. 6, students will be served chicken drumsticks, plus Iowa apples and sweet corn.
The meal was so popular, it's since been added to the standard menu for elementary school students.
Some schools are taking additional steps to make new immigrants feel welcome.
Last school year, for example, some Burmese students at Meredith Middle School began leaving campus to go home for lunch — and not returning for afternoon class.
Many had just arrived in the United States and were uncomfortable with the hot lunches, still unaccustomed to American staples such as pizza and macaroni and cheese, Taylor said. He was tasked with a special project: Make the fare more welcoming.
The menu now includes a Thai-inspired fish dish with brown rice, catfish fillet and a sauce made of SunButter, which is similar to a traditional peanut sauce. Because of allergy concerns about peanuts, the school substituted sunflower seeds.
It worked; more students now staying on campus.
"Food is comforting to us, it's a security thing," Taylor said.
As Burmese families shared favorite recipes, Taylor and his staff had to modify dishes to make sure they met federal nutrition and purchasing requirements.
For example, Meredith students requested a traditional noodle soup with eggs. But it was ultimately served as a side of noodles, without the soup or eggs. The thought was, it's better to have something familiar on the menu, even if is not an exact match.
Another request, for fruits such as mangoes, has not been filled because it's difficult to purchase them in a way that meets federal regulations, said Amanda Miller, a district food specialist.
That can be confusing and frustrating for immigrant families, who may not understand why dishes are being altered, said Carolyn Colvin, a professor at the University of Iowa who's worked with immigrant families.
Other countries don't have the same limitations on their school menus, she said.
To help, Colvin said schools might invite parents to demonstrate how they prepare traditional meals during an open house, using that time to have conversations about what can and can't be incorporated at school.
"It's amazing how it can be a unifying conversation," she said. "We all like food, and we like to talk about the food we like and why we make it the way we do."
Des Moines Public Schools now uses Nutrislice, a software that allows students, families and staff to rate and provide feedback on school meals. You can view school-specific menus, see nutrition, pictures and descriptions, and rate food on a 5-star scale. Go to dmschools.nutrislice.com.


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package filodb.coordinator.queryplanner

import filodb.core.DatasetRef
import filodb.core.query.{ColumnFilter, Filter}
import filodb.query._
import org.scalatest.funspec.AnyFunSpec
import org.scalatest.matchers.should.Matchers

class FailureProviderSpec extends AnyFunSpec with Matchers {

  import LogicalPlanUtils._

  val f1 = Seq(ColumnFilter("__name__", Filter.Equals("http_request")),
    ColumnFilter("job", Filter.Equals("myService")),
    ColumnFilter("le", Filter.Equals("0.3")))

  val to = 150000
  val from = to - 50000

  val intervalSelector = IntervalSelector(from, to)

  val raw1 = RawSeries(rangeSelector = intervalSelector, filters = f1, columns = Seq("value"))
  val windowed1 = PeriodicSeriesWithWindowing(raw1, from, 1000, to, 5000, RangeFunctionId.Rate)
  val summed1 = Aggregate(AggregationOperator.Sum, windowed1, Nil, AggregateClause.byOpt(Seq("job")))

  val f2 = Seq(ColumnFilter("__name__", Filter.Equals("http_request_duration_seconds_count")),
    ColumnFilter("job", Filter.Equals("myService")))
  val raw2 = RawSeries(rangeSelector = intervalSelector, filters = f2, columns = Seq("value"))
  val windowed2 = PeriodicSeriesWithWindowing(raw2, from + 1000, 1000, to, 5000, RangeFunctionId.Rate)
  val summed2 = Aggregate(AggregationOperator.Sum, windowed2, Nil, AggregateClause.byOpt(Seq("job")))

  val datasetRef = DatasetRef("dataset", Some("cassandra"))

  it("should check for PeriodicSeries plan") {
    summed1.isRoutable shouldEqual (true)
    raw2.isRoutable shouldEqual (true)
  }

  it("should not allow Binary Joins with different time ranges in lhs/rhs") {
    intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      BinaryJoin(summed1, BinaryOperator.DIV, Cardinality.OneToOne, summed2)
    }
  }

  it("should extract time from logical plan") {
    hasSingleTimeRange(summed1) shouldEqual (true)

    val timeRange = getTimeFromLogicalPlan(summed1)

    timeRange.startMs shouldEqual (100000)
    timeRange.endMs shouldEqual (150000)
  }

  it("should update time in logical plan") {

    val expectedRaw = RawSeries(rangeSelector = IntervalSelector(20000, 30000), filters = f1, columns = Seq("value"))
    val updatedTimeLogicalPlan = copyWithUpdatedTimeRange(summed1, TimeRange(20000, 30000))

    getTimeFromLogicalPlan(updatedTimeLogicalPlan).startMs shouldEqual (20000)
    getTimeFromLogicalPlan(updatedTimeLogicalPlan).endMs shouldEqual (30000)

    updatedTimeLogicalPlan.isInstanceOf[Aggregate] shouldEqual (true)
    val aggregate = updatedTimeLogicalPlan.asInstanceOf[Aggregate]
    aggregate.vectors.isInstanceOf[PeriodicSeriesWithWindowing] shouldEqual (true)
    aggregate.asInstanceOf[Aggregate].vectors.asInstanceOf[PeriodicSeriesWithWindowing].series.toString shouldEqual
      (expectedRaw.toString)

  }

  it("should sort and remove smaller overlapping failures and generate local and remote routes correctly") {
    val failureTimeRanges = Seq(FailureTimeRange("local", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(1500, 5000), false), FailureTimeRange("remote", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(100, 200), true), FailureTimeRange("local", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(1000, 2000), false), FailureTimeRange("remote", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(100, 700), true))

    val expectedResult = Seq(LocalRoute(Some(TimeRange(50, 1499))),
      RemoteRoute(Some(TimeRange(1500, 3000))))
    val routes = QueryFailureRoutingStrategy.plan(failureTimeRanges, TimeRange(50, 3000), 0 , 1)

    routes(0).equals(expectedResult(0)) shouldEqual true
    routes(1).equals(expectedResult(1)) shouldEqual true
    routes.sameElements(expectedResult) shouldEqual (true)
  }

  it("should split failures to remote followed by local") {
    val failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping = Seq(FailureTimeRange("local", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(100, 200), false), FailureTimeRange("remote", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(1000, 3000), true))

    val expectedResult = Seq(RemoteRoute(Some(TimeRange(50, 999))),
      LocalRoute(Some(TimeRange(1000, 5000))))
    val routes = QueryFailureRoutingStrategy.plan(failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping, TimeRange(50, 5000), 0 , 1)

    routes(0).equals(expectedResult(0)) shouldEqual true
    routes(1).equals(expectedResult(1)) shouldEqual true
    routes.sameElements(expectedResult) shouldEqual (true)
  }

  it("should generate remote route when there is only one failure which is in local") {
    val failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping = Seq(FailureTimeRange("local", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(100, 200), false))

    val expectedResult = Seq(RemoteRoute(Some(TimeRange(50, 5000))))
    val routes = QueryFailureRoutingStrategy.plan(failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping, TimeRange(50, 5000), 0, 1)

    routes.sameElements(expectedResult) shouldEqual (true)
  }

  it("should generate correct routes for local-remote-local failures ") {
    val failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping = Seq(FailureTimeRange("local", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(100, 200), false), FailureTimeRange("remote", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(1000, 3000), true), FailureTimeRange("local", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(4000, 4500), false))

    val expectedResult = Seq(RemoteRoute(Some(TimeRange(50, 999))),
      LocalRoute(Some(TimeRange(1000, 3999))), RemoteRoute(Some(TimeRange(4000, 5000))))
    val routes = QueryFailureRoutingStrategy.plan(failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping, TimeRange(50, 5000), 0 , 1)

    routes(0).equals(expectedResult(0)) shouldEqual true
    routes(1).equals(expectedResult(1)) shouldEqual true
    routes.sameElements(expectedResult) shouldEqual (true)

  }

  it("should generate correct routes for remote-local-remote failures ") {
    val failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping = Seq(FailureTimeRange("remote", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(100, 200), true), FailureTimeRange("local", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(1000, 3000), false), FailureTimeRange("remote", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(4000, 4500), true))

    val expectedResult = Seq(LocalRoute(Some(TimeRange(50, 999))),
      RemoteRoute(Some(TimeRange(1000, 3999))), LocalRoute(Some(TimeRange(4000, 5000))))

    val routes = QueryFailureRoutingStrategy.plan(failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping, TimeRange(50, 5000), 0 , 1)
    routes(0).equals(expectedResult(0)) shouldEqual true
    routes(1).equals(expectedResult(1)) shouldEqual true
    routes.sameElements(expectedResult) shouldEqual (true)
  }

  it("should generate correct routes for remote-local failures with lookback and step") {
    val failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping = Seq(FailureTimeRange("remote", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(55, 500), true), FailureTimeRange("local", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(1000, 3000), false))

    val expectedResult = Seq(LocalRoute(Some(TimeRange(100, 980))),
      RemoteRoute(Some(TimeRange(1000, 5000))))

    //Query time is 100 to 5000
    val routes = QueryFailureRoutingStrategy.plan(failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping, TimeRange(100, 5000), 50 , 20)
    routes(0).equals(expectedResult(0)) shouldEqual true
    routes(1).equals(expectedResult(1)) shouldEqual true
    routes.sameElements(expectedResult) shouldEqual (true)
  }

  it("should update time in logical plan when lookBack is present") {
    val raw = RawSeries(rangeSelector = intervalSelector, filters = f1, columns = Seq("value"), Some(100))
    val windowed = PeriodicSeriesWithWindowing(raw, from, 1000, to, 5000, RangeFunctionId.Rate)
    val summed = Aggregate(AggregationOperator.Sum, windowed, Nil, AggregateClause.byOpt(Seq("job")))

    val expectedRaw = RawSeries(rangeSelector = IntervalSelector(20000, 30000), filters = f1, columns = Seq("value"),
      Some(100), None)
    val updatedTimeLogicalPlan = copyWithUpdatedTimeRange(summed, TimeRange(20000, 30000))

    getTimeFromLogicalPlan(updatedTimeLogicalPlan).startMs shouldEqual (20000)
    getTimeFromLogicalPlan(updatedTimeLogicalPlan).endMs shouldEqual (30000)

    updatedTimeLogicalPlan.isInstanceOf[Aggregate] shouldEqual (true)
    val aggregate = updatedTimeLogicalPlan.asInstanceOf[Aggregate]
    aggregate.vectors.isInstanceOf[PeriodicSeriesWithWindowing] shouldEqual (true)
    aggregate.asInstanceOf[Aggregate].vectors.asInstanceOf[PeriodicSeriesWithWindowing].series.toString shouldEqual
      (expectedRaw.toString)

  }

  it("should generate correct routes for local-remote failures with lookback and step") {
    val failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping = Seq(FailureTimeRange("local", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(55, 500), false), FailureTimeRange("remote", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(1000, 3000), true))

    val expectedResult = Seq(RemoteRoute(Some(TimeRange(100, 980))),
      LocalRoute(Some(TimeRange(1000, 5000))))

    //Query time is 100 to 5000
    val routes = QueryFailureRoutingStrategy.plan(failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping, TimeRange(100, 5000), 50 , 20)
    routes(0).equals(expectedResult(0)) shouldEqual true
    routes(1).equals(expectedResult(1)) shouldEqual true
    routes.sameElements(expectedResult) shouldEqual (true)
  }

  it("should generate correct routes when failure start time and end time is same ") {
    val failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping = Seq(FailureTimeRange("remote", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(100, 100), true), FailureTimeRange("local", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(1000, 3000), false), FailureTimeRange("remote", datasetRef,
      TimeRange(4000, 4000), true))

    val expectedResult = Seq(LocalRoute(Some(TimeRange(50, 999))),
      RemoteRoute(Some(TimeRange(1000, 3999))), LocalRoute(Some(TimeRange(4000, 5000))))

    val routes = QueryFailureRoutingStrategy.plan(failureTimeRangeNonOverlapping, TimeRange(50, 5000), 0 , 1)
    routes.sameElements(expectedResult) shouldEqual (true)
  }

}

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Q: How to call javascript function only when checkbox is checked i have tried this:
    function stickyheaddsadaer() {
        $("#page-header-inner").addClass("sticky");
    }

    <input type="checkbox" name="TT_sticky_header" id="TT_sticky_header_function"
value="{TT_sticky_header}" onclick="stickyheaddsadaer()"/>

so when i click checkbox, it just nothing happens....
but when i try this:
function stickyheaddsadaer() {
    alert("I am an alert box!");
}

then works...
can you please help me ? I need to activate javasript function by checkbox
and when the js function is actived it add class to the div
Thank you

A: HTML
<input type="checkbox" id="switch" onclick="change()">

JS
function change() {
    var decider = document.getElementById('switch');
    if(decider.checked){
        alert('check');
    } else {
      alert('unchecked');
    }
}

A: Better to use onchange event and check inside function if checked or not

function stickyheaddsadaer(obj) {
  if($(obj).is(":checked")){
    alert("Yes checked"); //when checked
    $("#page-header-inner").addClass("sticky");
  }else{
    alert("Not checked"); //when not checked
  }

}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="checkbox" name="TT_sticky_header" id="TT_sticky_header_function" value="{TT_sticky_header}" onchange="stickyheaddsadaer(this)"/>

A:

function checkFluency(){
    var checkbox = document.getElementById('fluency');
    if (checkbox.checked != false) {
     alert("Checkbox checked")
    }else{
     alert("Not Checked")
    }
}
<input type="checkbox" onclick="checkFluency()"  id="fluency" />


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//
//  HYRecommendUser.h
//  趣味信息分享
//
//  Created by Huanying on 16/4/21.
//  Copyright © 2016年 huanying. All rights reserved.
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface HYRecommendUser : NSObject
/**头像*/
@property(nonatomic,copy)NSString *header;
/**粉丝数(有多少人关注这个用户)*/
@property(nonatomic,assign)NSInteger fans_count;
/**昵称*/
@property(nonatomic,copy)NSString *screen_name;
/**是否被关注*/
@property(nonatomic,assign,getter=isRecommend)BOOL recommend;
@end


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Felon Arrested for Possession of a Handgun
A Patrol Sergeant conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle on East Avenue at Maripose Avenue around 1:15 Saturday. During the stop it was discovered that one of the occupants, 31-year-old Paul Linarez was on Parole with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The Street Crimes Unit arrived and conducted a parole search of the vehicle and Linarez's residence. According to a Chico Police press release, during the search officers reportedly discovered a loaded handgun in the vehicle. Linarez was taken into custody for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon.
That was one of 13 arrests that were made last week by the The Chico Police Department's Street Crimes Unit. During it's seventh week in operation seized more than an ounce and a half of Methamphetamine.
According to Chico Police, there have been 114 arrests total since the unit has been active.
Remains Found in the Feather River Have Been Identified
The Butte County Sheriff's Office confirming Saturday that the remains found July 2nd near the Randy Jenning Memorial Bridge was that of Maria Curtev. She had been reported missing on June 19th.
The CHP is seeking information from the public about the suspicious circumstances surrounding Curtev's disappearance and death. Any with information is asked to call the CHP Investigation Tip Line at (916) 731-6385.
Chico Suicidal Man
Several callers reported to police that a man was seen climbing over the rail of the 20th Street overpass before 1 Thursday afternoon. Officers arrived and made contact with the man and after a brief conversion, he willing came down from the edge of the overpass. Chico Fire personnel assisted with safely lowering the man down. According to Chico Police, the unidentified man was taken to a local mental health facility for an evaluation.
North Chico Prowler Arrest
Officer apprehended a prowler in North Chico Thursday. Chico Police received a report of a man who was chased away from a backyard after allegedly braking through the fence. One of the responding officers spotted a man who matched the description of the alleged prowler walking into the Center for Spiritual Living on Hillary Lane. Several people were inside the center at the time. Officer set a perimeter around the building and gave orders for the suspect to come out. After no response, officers entered the building. A K-9 officer found the suspect, identified as 45-year-old Victor Petkus hiding in the bathroom. According to a Chico Police press release, it was determined that Petkus had an outstanding warrant for violating his parole. He was arrested for that charge and for delaying officers.
AB 430 Latest
Another step forward Wednesday for Assemblyman James Gallagher's housing production bill. Assembly Bill 430 passed the Senate Governance and Finance Committee with bi partisan support Wednesday. It aims to help alleviate the housing crisis in Butte County after the Camp Fire by streamlining the environmental reveiw process for certain housing projects. The bill now goes to the Senate Appropriations Committee and Gallagher told us he's hoping the measure can be before the full Senate and Assembly and on the Governor's desk by August.
Wall Street Journal PG&E Aging Power Line Report
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A report in the Wall Street Journal says Pacific Gas & Electric, which is blamed for some of California's deadliest recent fires, knew for years that its aging power lines posed a wildfire threat but avoided replacing or repairing them.
Wednesday's report , based on company documents, says PG&E reported in 2017 that more than 100 transmission towers on a century-old line needed repair or replacement.
State fire officials blamed that line for a November fire that wiped out the Northern California town of Paradise and killed 85 people.
PG&E says it disagrees with the Journal's conclusions but says it's "taking significant actions to inspect, identify, and fix" safety issues.
PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January out of concern that it might face billions in liability from 2017 and 2018 wildfires.
79 Camp Fire Victims Have Been IDed
One more name has been released of those who died in the Camp Fire. The Sheriff's Office released the name of 67 year old Shriley Haley of Paradise on Wednesday. 79 of the 85 dead have positively identified. 4 have been tentatively identified and 2 remain unknown.
Nord Standoff Suspect ID
Authorities have released more details from the standoff in Nord Wednesday. Butte Sheriff's Deputies were dispatched to a home on the 55 hundred block of California Street. before 2:30 am for a welfare check. 35-year-old Carl Ackerman had reportedly made threats to kill himself and his children, ages two and seven. According to a Butte County Sheriff's Office press release, he allegedly threatened the children's mother via text messages. The SWAT team and negotiators eventually resolved the situation peacefully. Ackerman was arrested for kidnapping, making criminal threats, false imprisonment, and a number of other charges.
The Upper Ridge Community Council Meets Tonight
Officials want to hear from you tonight about how Government Agencies can help in the wake of the Camp Fire. The Upper Ridge Community Council meets tonight, July 11th, from 6 to 8 pm, at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Magalia. Members of both State and Local Agencies will be on hand to hear your concerns. The meeting is primarily for residents in Magalia, Sterling City and Lovelock. Again the meeting begins tonight at 6PM at the 7th Day Adventist Church at 15024 the Skyway in Magalia.
Chico Stabbing
Chico Police respond to a stabbing incident. Officers arrived to the former Graduate Restaurant on West 8th Street around 5:40 Wednesday morning and located a man suffering from a stab wound to the abdomen. The male victim informed officers that an unknown man had approached him and allegedly demanded his bicycle. When the victim refused, the suspect reportedly struck the victim with a metal water bottle. That lead to a struggle in which both men pulled knives and reportedly stabbed each other. The suspect fled on the victim's bike. Officers found the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Anthony McEnespy-Mendoza of Chico who had a stab wound to the hand. He was arrested for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. According to Chico Police, both men were treated at the hospital for non-life threatening wounds.
Nord Standoff
A stand-off in Nord ends with a suspect in custody. Multiple Butte County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a home on California Street in the community of Nord earlier this morning. Authorities say the suspect barricaded himself and two children in the home. According to authorities, the standoff ended around 7 am and the children were reunited with their family. The unidentified suspect was arrested.
Chico Police Capture a Stolen Vehicle Suspect
A man was allegedly seen striking a window of a vehicle parked at the 11 hundred block of Sheridan Avenue before 8 Tuesday morning. Someone confronted the suspect who reportedly become confrontational and the person fled into their apartment. The suspect then reportedly kicked in the door, but fled after the resident threatened to call the police. The suspect allegedly got into a running Nissan pickup truck and took off. Police say the suspect got into a collision and then fled on foot. He reportedly got back into the truck and took off, after briefly breaking into a nearby residence. Officers spotted the vehicle on Manzanita Avenue near Hooker Oak Park, where the suspect got out of the vehicle and hid himself in the dense overgrowth. According to a Chico Police Department press release, Sheriff K-9 arrived and found the suspect, identified as 34-year-old Pawandeep Sekhon of Patterson. He was arrested on a slew of charges.
Chico Police Are Searching for Suspects in a Home Invasion Robbery
Officers responded to the five hundred block of Pomona Avenue after a report of a robbery just before 2 this morning. Officers arrived and found a 31-year-old man suffering from a minor injury. He was treated and released at the scene. According to the Chico Police, the victim told officers that a man dressed in dark clothing and armed with a gun along with a woman allegedly contacted him at his residence. Police say the motive is under investigation but they say the encounter appears to have been initiated via a dating app.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Chico Police Department at 897-4900.
Home and Business Wildfire Smoke Tips
Officials from the Butte County Air Quality Management District and the Public Health Department are asking if your home or business is ready for wildfire smoke.
Both departments recommend residents take the follow steps to reduce your exposure to smoke and particulate matter during the wildfire season:
*Check with your doctor about what you should do during smoke events if you or any family member has heart or lung disease, including asthma. Have a plan to manage your condition.
*Consider keeping several spare high-efficiency filters in storage if you have a central air system. HVAC filters should be rated MERV-13 or equivalent or higher to filter out smoke particles.
*Ask your air conditioning service professional how to close the fresh-air intake of your central air system or room air conditioner.
*Consider purchasing one or more portable HEPA filters if you cannot filter indoor air through a central air system.
*For air quality information you can go to www.butteairquality.com
*For more information on how to protect yourself from wildfire smoke you can go to http://bcaqmd.org/resoures-eduation/wildfires/
PID Water Advisory Lifted for Some Customers in Paradise
Water has been tested at laterals of 27 service locations and has been found to meet all regulatory standards. According to officials, the PID will continue to monitor water mains to confirm that the water being delivered continues to meet those regulatory requirements.
Chico PD Street Crimes Unit Week 6
Chico Police Street Crimes Unit makes multiple arrests last week. The Unit conducted a proactive operation at the Chico Walmart to arrest those caught committing retail theft. Chico police officers with to cooperation of the store's employees were able to take in to custody several people during that operation. According to a Chico P.D. press release, 16 people were arrested in total last week for various theft, drug, and weapons charges.
String of Juvenile Offenses
Multiple juveniles were arrested Friday by Chico Police in Bidwell Park. The incident started after police got reports of a possible assault and a runaway juvenile around noon at the Council Ring area of Bidwell Park. Officers were able to find the missing juvenile and when they attempted to detain her, ten other juveniles attempted to interfere. According to Chico Police, officers ultimately arrested five juveniles for resisting and delaying an officer.
This comes after a string of juvenile related offenses in the last several weeks.
One juvenile was recently arrested for driving under the influence and causing a vehicle collision.
One 18-year-old and three minors were detained Wednesday near Old Humboldt Road. This after the suspects allegedly set off fireworks which lead to a one acre fire.
Three were arrested for theft charges and another three youth were taken into custody for felony level battery.
Chico Police believe the incidents are unrelated to each other.
City of Chico Animal Shelter 4th of July Pet Safety Tips
They say to give your pet a safe haven - it's less stressful and safer to leave your dogs at home rather than bring them to a 4th of July celebration.
Keep cats and dogs indoors where they will be cool and in a familiar environment.
Keep pets away from hazardous items such as alcoholic beverages, lighter fluid, and citronella products.
Animal Services reminds pet owners that if you take your pet someplace during the holiday or any other time do not leave them in your vehicle.
These are just of few of the tips, for more information you can call Animal Control at 897-4960 or visit www.chicoanimalshelter.org
Chico Police Street Crimes Unit Week 5
The Chico Police Department Street Crimes Unit makes 14 arrests last week. Besides those arrests, the team seized illegally possessed firearms and a sizable amount of illegal drugs. Chico Police say that in the five weeks the of operation the team has made a total of 82 arrests.
Felon Found with Multiple Fire Arms Arrest
Officers from the Chico Police Department Street Crimes D Unit conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle at East 20th Street and Highway 99 before 6:30 Friday evening. The driver, identified as 51-year-old David Barnes, was found to have been released from prison three years ago and is currently on supervised parole for an attempted murder conviction. Officers searched Barnes' home where they found four loaded firearms in a closet. He was arrested for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition along with being in violation of Parole. According to a Chico Police Department press release, his wife, 59-year-old was also arrested for similar charges along with being in possession of tear gas.
Butte County District Attorney Warns about Illegal Fireworks
D.A. Mike Ramsey is reminding residents living in unincorporated portions of the county that any possession of fireworks, even those designated as Safe and Sane within unincorporated portions of Butte County is strictly prohibited. Only the cities of Oroville and Gridley allow for the sale of Safe and Sane fireworks within their city limits. Ramsey says the lighting or even possession of any fireworks outside those city limits is illegal and considered a felony. He adds that fire danger is high and that those caught will be subject to fines upwards of a thousand dollars and six months in jail.
Camp Fire Looter Sentenced
40-year-old William Erlbacher of Concow was sentenced Thursday to 48 days in jail and ordered to pay over six thousand dollars in victim restitution.
The charges stem from November 8th incident when Cal Fire crews returned to the Jarbo Gap Fire station after battling the Camp Fire to discover that it had been burglarized and that a personal truck of one of the firefighters had been stolen. That truck was found a few days later in Chico. Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey says Erlbacher admitted to taking the truck after being contacted by law enforcement.
NVCF Donations Report
The North Valley Community Foundation has released a report about donations received and grants awarded in the six months since the Camp Fire. The report, called "Rising From the Ashes" can be viewed and downloaded from the Foundation website at www.nvcf.org
Nearly 14 million dollars have been issued in the six months since the fire and over 55 million dollars has been donated.
Highway 32 Fatal Crash UPDATE
Police have identified the victim of a fatal collision in east Chico Monday afternoon. 61 year old Cathie Lawson of Chico is the woman who died in the crash. Police say Lawson was driving a Subaru that pulled out in front of the path of a GMC Pickup near Highway 32 and Yosemite Drive. That pickup was driven by 68 year old Robert Maxam from the Los Angeles area. According to police, Lawson was trapped in her vehicle and was extricated. She died a short time later at a local hospital. Authorities say drugs or alcohol were not involved and Maxam is reportedly cooperating in the investigation.
One witness reported seeing another dirver stop from another lane of travel, and waive Lawson out into the roadway. If anyone saw this collision and has not already talked to police you are asked to call the Chico Police Traffic Line at 897-4970.
East Chico Fatal Crash
The crash was reported at Highway 32 and Yosemite Drive after 1:30 Monday afternoon. A pick up truck reportedly collided with a car and both vehicles ended up off the road and into a ditch. According to a Chico Police press release, one of the drivers was trapped in their vehicle with serious injuries. The unidentified person was extricated from the vehicle and transported to the hospital where the driver was later pronounced deceased.
Officers say the driver of the other vehicle remained at the scene and has been cooperating with the investigation.
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Dylan Ryche Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar PDF. Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar is the debut release from Toronto based composer/musician Dylan Ryche. It features 11 all original songs that take inspiration from such diverse influences as Dream Theater, Don Ross, KISS, Yes and John Waite . A self-confessed melody junkie, Ryche's compositions are filled with strong, memorable and uplifting themes that celebrate life's simple pleasures and the joy of creating music. This collection is sure to appeal to all lovers of instrumental music, the guitar and a good tune.
This book contains note for note transcriptions of 11 Dylan's songs. Provided in standard music notation and guitar tabs.


Having entertained, challenged and bewildered an Auckland public for almost four decades, the Karlheinz Company is an important institution in the new music scene. It has nurtured generations of talented composers, and it is heartening that it continues to do so after all this time. Saturday night's concert was curated by John Elmsly and Samuel Holloway as part of the CANZ Composers Conference, Composing Now. What could have easily turned into a representative roll-call of known names was instead a refreshingly youthful lineup, punctuated by contributions from older mavericks. The sensitive curation allowed common threads to emerge, and perhaps nudged at a reassessment of the New Zealand canon, such as it is.
Opening the concert, Chris Cree Brown's electroacoustic work No Ordinary Sun was as tactile as it was apocalyptic, immersing its audience in massive creaking torrents. These huge outbursts were set into relief by hyper-crystalline birdsong; everything about this work felt more brilliant, more acute than reality. But Hone Tuwhare's voice was the hero of the piece, poignant in laborious, breathy baritone, giving the tree's last rites: "O tree / in the shadowless mountains / the white plains and / the drab sea floor / your end at last is written." As powerful as the poem is as text, it was the sound of Tuwhare's recitation as it was captured here, intimate and ominous, that lifted us into the transcendental.
After the terrifying surround sound of No Ordinary Sun, Rangitoto, a solo piano work by Helen Bowater, felt relatively conventional in its forces. But the piano was put through a rigorous workout by virtuoso Gemma Lee, who navigated the work's jagged ascents with precision and vigour. At times the relentless, Sisyphean motion was exhausting on the ear, but the residues of that physical toil provided space and allowed the harmonic saturation to dissipate periodically.
Samuel Holloway's Hard Science was not what I expected. Having heard many different accounts of a recent performance of Things by 175 East, I was quite ready to feel uncomfortable, to have my attention stretched, to be confronted with my own tastes. Instead of the flat, neutral, singular objects that were described to me as being component parts of Things, Hard Science was bright, clean, colourful. The timbral combinations were too interesting, the formal skeleton too beautifully adorned, rippling with low piccolo and synthesizer, the voice leading too distinctive. This sensuality was surprising, and a very long way from the ruthless abstraction of Things.
Brought to life with an impressive lightness of touch by flutist Luca Manghi and pianist Dean Sky-Lucas, Orbicularis by Chris Watson explored the explosion of a single melodic line. Occupying a chiefly treble register, the work bent and flurried, both instruments dovetailing and punctuating each other's material with witty interjections and non sequiturs. The title of the work comes from a facial muscle used in playing woodwind instruments, orbicularis oris. Watson has written another woodwind work, Mandible, which shares an interest in facial musculature. I couldn't help but ponder that the incredible complexity of those muscles and the myriad expressions they produce seems in a sense analogous to Chris Watson's music: intimidatingly intricate, but also emotionally rich.
After interval Jason Post's Cataphora hinted at a much longer form: the almost hypnotically repetitive piano chords were gone all too quickly, and the piece ended just as it had begun to demand something of its listener. Although the performance felt rather rushed, there were tantalising glimpses of something more fragmentary and challenging.
As with Hard Science, I had expectations of Mirror & Echo by Celeste Oram: something theatrical, something readjusting our perspective of music performance. Oram has been building a substantial catalogue of music-as-performance-art; her Eye Music featured in a concert the night before, a whimsical setting of a sign-language poem. Mirror & Echo was both more conceptually ambitious and less sonically diverse; two temporarily deafened string players copying each other by sight, with a temporarily blinded percussionist reacting spontaneously to the sounds they produced. I felt that while the conceit was initially very striking, it produced a somewhat predictably periodic musical result. Nevertheless the frame of ostensibly free improvisation provided space for exploration and error from the hearing percussionist: it was Samuel Girling's earnest, haphazard but highly virtuosic attempts at feeling his way round his instruments that gave the work life. While the visual tunnel left violinist Charmian Keay and violist Alex MacDonald somewhat ritualistically hamstrung, the aural tunnel allowed Girling to shine, shadowing and disrupting the foregrounded visual argument with brave sensitivity.
Unlike the other large ensemble works on the programme (Holloway's and Post's), Louise Webster's Grief of a Girl's Heart was a platform for expressive virtuosity. All five performers, conducted by Karlheinz director John Elmsly, fed into an ornately crafted world tinged with nostalgic modal harmonies. Alison Dunlop's lilting oboe was particularly charismatic. The narrative was driven with a dark swagger, cutting right to the heart of the promise and desolation of love. But it was soprano Jennifer Maybee who most compellingly projected the crushing weight of grief, and an underlying pathos that made Webster's composition gleam so brightly in a stellar line-up of New Zealand works.
With so many performers lending their talents here, it is impossible to adequately discuss their offerings, but they all deserve credit for focused and precise realisations of some very difficult works. In some ways it was a shame to have fifteen performers in a concert whose largest works were sextets; the use of performers was uneconomical, even profligate. It is a personal preference, but to me chamber music is at its most intimate and cohesive when it recognises the diversity and synthesis of a small group.
I also felt there was a certain obliqueness to the works in the middle of the programme – Samuel Holloway, Chris Watson, Jason Post, Celeste Oram – that needed its own space. Bookended by works that were more transparent, and more emotionally directive, these harder-edged compositions sat most comfortably in one another's company. Nevertheless, there was something cleansing about Holloway's Hard Science after so much urgent struggle in Rangitoto, and perhaps the former work even cast the latter in a slightly impressionistic light. Conversely, the gestural terseness of Oram's Mirror & Echo was followed up by emotional saturation in Grief of a Girl's Heart – for me at least, this withholding and fulfilling of emotional expectation was adroitly judged in the programme as a whole. The Karlheinz Company can be justifiably proud of their seminal contribution to New Zealand's musical life.


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Dave Bartkowiak Jr., Digital Managing Editor
Published: April 30, 2021, 7:57 AM
Updated: April 30, 2021, 8:08 AM
Tags: Jakub Vrana, Red Wings, Goal, Video, Watch, Carolina Hurricanes, NHL, Hockey, Richard Panik
Watch: Jakub Vrana's dazzling backhand goal for Red Wings
Vrana scores beautiful goal despite Detroit's loss
Published: April 30, 2021, 7:57 AM Updated: April 30, 2021, 8:08 AM
Detroit Red Wings' Jakub Vrana plays against the Dallas Stars in the third period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, April 24, 2021, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) (Paul Sancya, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
Jakub Vrana has 6 goals and an assist for 7 points through seven games since joining the Detroit Red Wings at the trade deadline.
The left winger scored four of those goals in one game and added what might be one of the most exciting goals Red Wings fans have seen their team score in years on Thursday night in Carolina:
That's a creative play to get through the defense, then maneuver to dish it backhand top shelf. It was center Michael Rasmussen who helped create the turnover in Carolina's end. The 22-year-old now has 10 points in 36 games for Detroit this season. He was the team's 1st-round, 9th overall, pick in the 2017 draft.
The struggling Red Wings ended up losing to the Hurricanes, 3-1. Detroit has four games left on the schedule.
Vrana, 25, was acquired through the Anthony Mantha trade along with 1st and 2nd-round picks, and forward Richard Panik from the Washington Capitals. Vrana is an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.
Panik, meanwhile, has a goal and an assist through eight games with the Red Wings. The 30-year-old right wing is under contract through 2023 with a $2.75 million cap hit.