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Q: Function arguments are negative offsets with respect to rbp (as far as i understand, they should be at positive offset) Consider the following program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int func(int arg1)
{
    int arg2;
    arg2 = 0;
    return 1;
}

int main()
{
    func(2);
    return 0;
}

Running gcc with -g and starting gdb and then viewing the addresses of rbp, arg1 and arg2 gives me this:
Breakpoint 1, func (arg1=2) at test.c:8
8           return 1;
(gdb) p &arg1
$1 = (int *) 0x7ffffffedc6c
(gdb) p &arg2
$2 = (int *) 0x7ffffffedc7c
(gdb) i r rbp
rbp            0x7ffffffedc80   0x7ffffffedc80

Expectation: The address of arg1 shoud've been more than rbp and address of arg2 should've been less than rbp. (I used this for understanding about stack frames: Link
What's happening: Both the addresses are less than rbp.
What have I understood wrong?
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The critically acclaimed First Reformed is getting an exclusive Sydney release at Golden Age
Michelle Contarino
Sydneysiders can look forward to Australian Exclusive season of the searing, suspenseful new release First Reformed, from the director of the iconic Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader.
Set to hit Golden Age Cinema from 8th November, the film stars Ethan Hawke (Dead Poets Society, Predestination, The Purge), and Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls, Mamma Mia!, In Time), and since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year has enjoyed a healthy run on the festival circuit.
The film focuses on Ernst Troll (Ethan Hawke), a middle-aged Reverend in a remote upstate New York community. Troll preaches to a to a dwindling congregation where his stoic sermons are mostly overlooked in favour of a nearby mega-church. His quiet life changes, however, when he begins to counsel new parishioners Michael and Mary (Phillip Ettinger & Amanda Seyfried), a young couple whose marriage is breaking down. Michael is a radical environmental activist, consumed by the idea that humans have brought on an apocalypse and, when he starts asking questions that can't be answered, Toller's own tormented path is irrevocably changed.
First Reformed is has been described as "one of the most searing releases of the year" (The Guardian) and an "epiphany" (The New York Times).
The film's limited season at The Golden Age Cinema in Sydney starts Thursday 8 November, with the full session schedule below. For tickets and more details head HERE.
Dates: Thurs 8 Nov 7pm / Sat 10 Nov 5.45pm / Sun 18 Nov 8pm / Wed 21 Nov 6pm / Sun 25 Nov 5.30pm
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«Lash Out» () — третій сингл дебютного мініальбому німецько-канадсько-англійської співачки Еліс Мертон — No Roots.  Сингл вийшов 30 травня 2018.

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#pragma once

#ifndef COLUMNFAN_INCLUDED
#define COLUMNFAN_INCLUDED

#include "tcommon.h"

#undef DVAPI
#undef DVVAR
#ifdef TOONZLIB_EXPORTS
#define DVAPI DV_EXPORT_API
#define DVVAR DV_EXPORT_VAR
#else
#define DVAPI DV_IMPORT_API
#define DVVAR DV_IMPORT_VAR
#endif

class TOStream;
class TIStream;

//=============================================================================
//!The ColumnFan class is used to menage display columns.
/*!The class allows to fold a column by column index, deactivate(), to
   open folded columns, activate() and to know if column is folded or not, isActive().

   Class provides column x-axis coordinate too.
   It's possible to know column index by column x-axis coordinate, colToX()
   and vice versa, xToCol().
*/
//=============================================================================

class DVAPI ColumnFan
{
	class Column
	{
	public:
		bool m_active;
		int m_pos;
		Column() : m_active(true), m_pos(0) {}
	};
	std::vector<Column> m_columns;
	std::map<int, int> m_table;
	int m_firstFreePos;

	/*!
    Called by activate() and deactivate() to update columns coordinates.
  */
	void update();

public:
	/*!
    Constructs a ColumnFan with default value.
  */
	ColumnFan();

	/*!
    Set column \b col not folded.
    \sa deactivate() and isActive()
  */
	void activate(int col);
	/*!
    Fold column \b col.
    \sa activate() and isActive()
  */
	void deactivate(int col);
	/*!
    Return true if column \b col is active, column is not folded, else return false.
    \sa activate() and deactivate()
  */
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	/*!
    Return column index of column in x-axis coordinate \b x.
    \sa colToX()
  */
	int xToCol(int x) const;
	/*!
    Return column x-axis coordinate of column identify with \b col.
    \sa xToCol()
  */
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	bool isEmpty() const;

	void saveData(TOStream &os);
	void loadData(TIStream &is);
};

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Excerpt from Flute of Pan by Claude Debussy.
(1862–1918). As a child the French composer Claude Debussy was already a rebel. Instead of practicing his scales and technical exercises, the boy would sit at the piano and experiment with different chord combinations. In later years Debussy's unusual chords, based on the whole-tone scale, laid the groundwork for an unconventional style of music called impressionism. He used rich harmonies and a wide array of tone colors to evoke moods, impressions, and images of great subtlety.
Achille-Claude Debussy was born in St-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, on Aug. 22, 1862. When he was 7 years old, he began taking piano lessons. When he was 9, his playing attracted Madame Mauté de Fleurville, a former pupil of Frédéric Chopin. Under her tutoring he was able to enter the Paris Conservatory two years later. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1884.
Among Debussy's friends were many artists who painted in the impressionist style and poets who wrote in the symbolist style (see painting). They too had broken with tradition. Debussy was particularly friendly with the poet Stéphane Mallarmé. It was Mallarmé's poem that inspired Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun).
In 1892 Debussy began one of his most notable works, the opera Pelléas et Mélisande. It was based on a play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Debussy also composed a number of other works in the 1890s. Best known of these was his cycle of Nocturnes for orchestra. They are Nuages (Clouds), Fêtes (Festivals), and Sirènes (Sirens). Clair de lune (Moonlight), for solo piano, is one of his most popular compositions. His famous La Mer (The Sea), for orchestra, was first heard in 1905.
Debussy was married twice. For his daughter, Chou-Chou, he wrote the piano work The Children's Corner. In it is the amusing "Golliwog's Cakewalk." In his last years Debussy was a semi-invalid. Many of his best piano pieces, however, were composed during this period, including his Préludes and Études (Studies). He died in Paris on March 25, 1918.


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Franz Friedrich Szeliga von Zychlinski (né le  à  et mort le  à Berlin) est un général d'infanterie prussien.

Biographie
Franz est le fils du Rittmeister Heinrich Wilhelm von Zychlinski (1755-1838) et son épouse Wilhelmine, née von Lietzen (1777-1829).

Zychlinski fait ses études dans les maisons des cadets de Culm et de Berlin, puis est transféré au  de l'armée prussienne en tant que sous-lieutenant le 5 août 1833. Du  octobre 1842 au 30 septembre 1843, il est adjudant de bataillon et du  mars 1847 au  juillet 1852 adjudant de régiment, et entre-temps, il est promu premier lieutenant en janvier 1849. En tant que tel, Zychlinski a pris part aux combats de rue à Iserlohn et à la campagne dans le  et le Bade la même année pendant les troubles révolutionnaires. Pour cela, il reçoit l'Ordre de l'Aigle rouge de  classe avec épées. Le 2 juin 1852, Zychlinski est promu capitaine et le 20 juillet 1855, il est nommé commandant de compagnie. Dans la même fonction, il est transféré au  de fusiliers le  février 1858. En même temps que sa promotion au grade de major le 18 janvier 1859, Zychlinski devient commandant du  bataillon du  régiment de la Landwehr de la Garde à Breslau. Du 10 mai au 30 juin 1860, il est ensuite responsable du  bataillon du  de grenadiers de la Garde, avant que Zychlinski n'en soit ensuite nommé commandant. Dans cette fonction, il est promu lieutenant-colonel le 17 mars 1863 et vers la fin de l'année, le 17 décembre, il est nommé commandant du bataillon de fusiliers. Il dirige ensuite le bataillon pendant la guerre des Duchés, notamment lors  de la bataille de Horsens et du bombardement de Fredericia. Pour son travail, il est décoré de l'Ordre de la Couronne de  classe avec épées et de l'Ordre de la Couronne de Fer de  classe avec décoration de guerre.

Le 3 avril 1866, il est nommé commandant du  d'infanterie et promu colonel deux mois plus tard. Pendant la guerre austro-prussienne, il combat avec son régiment, d'abord à la bataille de Münchengrätz. Il y reçoit l'ordre de conquérir la Montagne Musquée, au sud-est de Münchengrätz avec ses falaises abruptes, sur lesquelles se trouvent d'importantes positions des Autrichiens. Après avoir terminé avec succès la tâche, il est ensuite utilisé dans la bataille de Sadowa. Il mène l'avant-garde et doit avancer de Cerekwitz via Benatek contre Cistowes. Ce faisant, Zychlinski et ses troupes subordonnées réussissent à prendre la forêt entre Cerewitz et Benatek, qui est occupée par des forces très supérieures, et après plus de six heures de combat. Pendant les combats, Zychlinski est grièvement blessé à la cuisse et n'abandonne le commandement de son régiment que sur ordre urgent du prince héritier. En raison de sa bravoure personnelle, il est décoré du Pour le Mérite le 18 septembre 1866.

Après avoir recouvré la santé, Zychlinski reste à la tête de son régiment pendant quatre années supplémentaires et est nommé commandant de la  d'infanterie le 14 juillet 1870, peu avant le début de la guerre contre la France, sous la position à la suite. Pendant la bataille de Beaumont, ses troupes s'emparent de 22 canons. Lors de la bataille de Sedan, la brigade subit de lourdes pertes de quatorze officiers et 382 hommes dans l'assaut des hauteurs au nord-est de Yoncq et du Mont de Brune. Dans la suite de la guerre, il participe au siège de Paris, au bombardement de Toul et aux batailles de Mouzon et d'Epinay. En plus des deux classes de la Croix de fer, Zychlinski est fait commandeur de  classe de l'Ordre du Mérite grand-ducal de Hesse, commandeur de  classe de l'Ordre d'Albert et commandeur de 1re classe de l'Ordre de la Maison d'Albert l'Ours avec épées.

Le 26 janvier 1875, Zychlinski est promu lieutenant général et en même temps commandant de la 15e division d'infanterie stationnée à Cologne, qu'il commande jusqu'à sa retraite. Avec le caractère de général de l'infanterie, Zychlinski est mis à disposition avec pension à sa propre demande le 18 octobre 1880.

Il s'installe à Berlin et travaille les années suivantes en tant qu'auteur de divers livres sur l'histoire militaire et auteur d'articles dans l'hebdomadaire militaire. À partir du 14 juillet 1891 Zychlinski est également président du comité de la Viktoria-National-Invalidenstiftung. À l'occasion du 100e anniversaire de Guillaume Ier, l'empereur Guillaume II lui décerne le 22 mars 1897 la Grand-Croix de l'Ordre de l'Aigle Rouge avec feuilles de chêne et épées. Zychlinski meurt à Berlin et est enterré avec les honneurs militaires dans le cimetière des Invalides.

Il épouse Auguste Wilhelmine Ernestine Johanna Scherz (1815-1899), une sœur de Hermann Scherz (1818-1888), ami d'enfance de Theodor Fontane, le 15 novembre 1836. Franz von Zychlinski a ensuite fait partie du cercle de connaissances de Fontane à Berlin. En 1897, Fontane organise un contact entre John Henry Mackay, cherche de Max Stirner, et Zychlinski.

Jeune officier et intellectuel hégélien de gauche, Zychlinski est proche du cercle berlinois de Bruno Bauer dans les années 1840. Il publie sous le pseudonyme "Franz Szeliga" dans l' Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung de Bauer (1843/44) et dans les journaux d'Allemagne du Nord pour la critique, la littérature et le divertissement (1844/45) et les articles sur la campagne de critique . La critique par Zychlinski des Secrets de Paris d'Eugène Sue soumet Marx et Engels à un examen critique et polémique dans leur Sainte Famille en 1845. Zychlinski discute également L'Unique et sa propriété de Max Stirner (in : Norddeutsche Blätter. 1845, Vol. 2, 9. Numéro, p. 1-34).

Sa fille Anna (née le 3 juillet 1853) est mariée avec le major Arnold  (né le 6 février 1843).

Sa sœur Fatime (1816-1873) est mariée à Hermann  (1809-1886), fidéicommis sur Dahlen près de Görzke.

Bibliographie
 Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Band 8, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, o. O. [Hamburg], o. J. [1941], DNB 367632837, S. 89–92, Nr. 2496.

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Général prussien d'infanterie
Personnalité prussienne de la guerre des Duchés
Personnalité de la guerre austro-prussienne
Militaire allemand de la guerre franco-allemande de 1870-1871
Grand-croix de l'ordre de l'Aigle rouge
Commandeur de 1re classe de l'ordre d'Albert l'Ours
Commandeur de 2e classe de l'ordre royal d'Albert le Valeureux Roi de Saxonie
Commandeur de 2e classe de l'ordre de Philippe le Magnanime
Chevalier de 3e classe de l'ordre autrichien de la Couronne de fer
Chevalier de 3e classe de l'ordre de la Couronne (Prusse)
Récipiendaire de 1re classe de la croix de fer
Récipiendaire de la croix Pour le Mérite (ordre militaire)
Récipiendaire de l'ordre de Dannebrog
Naissance en mars 1816
Naissance dans l'oblast de Kaliningrad
Naissance dans la province de Prusse-Orientale
Décès en mars 1900
Décès à Berlin
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Dolphins LB Chase Allen placed on injured reserve; LB Mike Hull returns to practice
By Safid Deen
Oct 17, 2018 | 12:00 PM
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Sun Sentinel's Omar Kelly and Dave Hyde discuss whether head coach Adam Gase's New Age approach is working on the Miami Dolphins.
Miami Dolphins reserve linebacker Chase Allen on Wednesday became the sixth player to have his season end because of an injury.
But the Dolphins did receive some encouraging news on the injury front, with linebacker Mike Hull practicing on Wednesday for the first time since suffering a knee injury during the preseason.
Allen, who has played in 21 career games with five starts, had been trying to return from a foot injury he suffered in Week 3 against the Oakland Raiders. But the injury has not improved, ending his second season with the Dolphins, according to a league source.
Allen joins five other Dolphins players ruled out for the season: defensive end William Hayes (ACL), left guard Josh Sitton (shoulder), center Daniel Kilgore (tricep), tight end MarQueis Gray (Achilles) and quarterback Luke Falk (left wrist).
However, Hull and center Jake Brendel (calf) could possibly return, with NFL teams permitted to have two players return to action after eight weeks on injured reserve.
Allen's move to IR made room for the Dolphins to re-sign safety Maurice Smith, who was waived on Monday to make room for the re-signing of offensive tackle Sam Young.
Smith, in his second season as an undrafted prospect out of Georgia, has played in four games with three solo tackles and one pass deflection this season after he was promoted from the practice squad on Sept. 18. He has appeared in 10 career games, all with the Dolphins.
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The biggest entertainment news story of the year is still not coming.
In fact, it is going to take at least a week to tell you what it is.
I know this is a long time ago, and I apologize for not being up to speed as of yet.
But there are a couple of things worth noting about the industry in 2017.
The first is the emergence of Netflix, and the new company's ability to transform the industry.
The Netflix deal is the biggest deal in entertainment history.
Netflix will be able to offer movies and TV shows from all the major studios in a single place.
This will help make streaming cheaper and easier for people who don't want to pay for their movies and shows in multiple places.
In other words, people will be less likely to buy their movies online, and will have more flexibility when it comes to getting the movies they want to see.
On top of that, Netflix has created its own streaming platform called OnLive.
It allows consumers to access their own content on a device that runs the Netflix app.
For Netflix, this has allowed them to focus on delivering more content, instead of just delivering movies and other television shows to consumers.
And it has allowed Netflix to be more agile about the quality of its original content.
It is a win-win.
Secondly, Netflix is a lot more powerful now than it was a year ago.
We are now talking about streaming services that are actually able to deliver movies and television shows that were previously only available on a cable channel.
These streaming services are being built in-house.
And, of course, Netflix and Amazon are now part of a partnership that will allow them to produce content for each other's platforms.
What this means is that the biggest streaming companies are now able to do things that had been impossible before.
When Netflix launched the original Netflix service in 2016, it was hard to imagine the company ever getting anywhere close to the kind of quality that was being delivered through traditional cable channels.
Now that Netflix is on board, the company has become much more agile, and its creators are doing some really creative things.
They are making more original content, for instance.
A lot of it is being produced by people that have been working on the original shows, like Stephen Merchant and Alan Tudyk.
Others are working with a new kind of talent called the "Hollywood Insiders," who have created some really interesting and exciting work.
Even more exciting is the company's growing creative and editorial presence in the media.
While Netflix has always been known for its movies and entertainment content, its creative team is now focused on new creative ways to produce films, television shows, and other kinds of entertainment content.
Netflix is also starting to build a new business model that has many of the benefits of an established company, but also the potential drawbacks of an emerging competitor.
Last year, Netflix had more than $1 billion in revenue.
This year, it will have less than $300 million in revenue and will likely lose more than a third of that.
This is a huge deal.
If Netflix is going, it's going to need to get its head around a lot of new things.
But the company is doing it, and that's something that is going be interesting to watch as it begins to get into the business of creating content and bringing it to consumers and viewers.
So, if you are interested in what the big new news is in the entertainment world this year, I recommend checking out this post by The Hollywood Reporter.
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Vermont Legislature Makes Little Progress on Clean Water in 2018
by Rebekah Weber
Water was a hot topic of the 2018 Vermont legislative session, with many bills that touched on clean water challenges. We made some progress, but we're still too far behind when it comes to the long-term funding we need to make true progress on cleaning up Lake Champlain and other ailing waters across the state.
Lake Champlain Report Card: State Gets a D+ for Its Clean-up Efforts
Vermont's rivers and lakes are not healthy. Toxic cyanobacteria plague our waters year after year threatening the health of people, wildlife, and our economy. Too often throughout the summer, signs are posted at public beaches warning families to stay out of the water. This is an annoyance for the parents who heed the warnings, scary…
A Rallying Cry for Clean Water
by Chris Kilian
We are faced with a federal administration that wants not only to halt decades of hard-fought progress on clean water but reverse them altogether. But today, the impacts on our public health from blue-green algae outbreaks and chemical pollution are as serious and urgent as ever. We cannot and will not stop fighting for clean water as a fundamental right for all Americans.
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Restoring Lake Champlain
by Laurie O'Reilly
When it comes to the future of Vermont's Lake Champlain, Crea Lintilhac is optimistic. "We're going to clean up our waters," declares the long-time CLF Vermont Board member (and now chair), who has lived on the shores of the iconic lake for nearly 30 years.
What's Next for Clean Water in Vermont
This past year was big for clean water in Vermont. The pollution limits for Lake Champlain were finalized, and a slew of new rules for agriculture, development and wastewater were established. CLF fought hard to shape these new policies to protect the environment and to ensure we have regular check-ins and honest accounting on how…
Blue-Green Algae in the Forecast
So far this summer, we've seen an unusually high number of beach closures in Vermont. Our waters are plagued with toxic blue-green algae blooms that can cause skin irritation, liver damage, and perhaps even neurological disease. Beyond health concerns, parents report kids and pets are on the brink of mutiny from being denied access to…
Environmental Activists Mourn Lake Champlain
… At first glance, it may have looked like a rally or a protest, but those part of Thursday night's event said the demonstration serves as a vigil for Lake Champlain. "A lot of people are very frustrated and they're concerned," said Rebekah Weber, Lake Keeper, Conservation Law Foundation. Read more here…
Warning – Our Lake is Toxic
"Mixed condition. Watch and avoid cyanobacteria blooms." This is the warning posted on the Vermont Department of Health's website for Lake Champlain. When I read about beach closures, such as the one last Thursday at one of Burlington's most popular beaches, I feel outraged, dumbfounded, horrified. How could we have let it get so far…
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Army embeds active-duty PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations
The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, The Upshot has learned. Since at least 2001, both WRAL, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., and WTOC, a CBS affiliate in Savannah, Ga., have regularly hosted active-duty soldiers from the Army's 4th Psychological Operations group as part of the Army's Training With Industry program. Training With Industry is designed to offer career soldiers a chance to pick up skills through internships and fellowships with private businesses. The PSYOPS soldiers used WRAL and WTOC to learn broadcasting and communications expertise that they could apply in their mission, as the Army describes it, of "influenc[ing] the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign audiences."
WRAL and WTOC were on a list of participants in the Army's Training With Industry program provided to The Upshot in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, and a spokeswoman with the Army's Human Resources Command confirmed that PSYOPS soldiers worked at the stations.
"Both of those stations are very supportive of the military, and think very highly of the program," said Lt. Col. Stacy Bathrick. "Our officers are there to learn best practices in terms of programming and production side that they can use when they deploy. To be able to get hands-on interaction with a news station — there's nothing like that." Bathrick said the soldiers were never involved in newsgathering.
The relationship between PSYOPS, Training With Industry, and television news operations has stirred controversy in the past. In 2000, after a Dutch newspaper reported that PSYOPS troops had been placed in CNN's newsroom under the program, CNN discontinued the internships and admitted that they had been a mistake. "It was inappropriate for PSYOPS personnel to be at CNN, they are not here now, and they never again will be at CNN," a spokesperson said at the time.
WRAL's news director, Rick Gall, feels differently. "My sense was, this was an educational opportunity to see how the broadcasting industry operates," said Gall. "They'd spend time in the various departments of the station, including the newsroom. I wasn't concerned about having someone learn what we do, and there was no influence on newsgathering. It was like shadowing." WRAL is owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company, which owns a variety of media outlets in North Carolina. Gall said WRAL hasn't hosted a soldier — which he described as an "embed" — since 2007. According to Bathrick, the Army's relationship with WTOC in Savannah is ongoing — a PSYOPS officer is currently embedded there. Bill Cathcart, WTOC's vice president and general manager, did not return phone calls or an e-mail seeking comment. WTOC is owned by Raycom Media, a television chain based in Alabama.
WRAL and WTOC are not alone among media outlets that the U.S. military has sought to learn from through Training With Industry. The Upshot has previously reported that the Marine Corps placed public affairs officers with the Chicago Tribune for several years in order to better understand how to influence and work with the news media, and CNNMoney.com hosted an officer in 2007 and 2008, despite the network's embarrassment over the program in 2000.
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Energy Networks Australia has announced the finalists for the 2018 Industry Innovation Award.
Energy Networks Australia CEO, Andrew Dillon, congratulated the four finalists, Essential Energy, Evoenergy, Jemena and TasNetworks.
"The award recognises leadership in the design, development and application of a ground-breaking Australian energy network initiative, technology, service or solution," Mr Dillon said.
The judges reviewed 12 applications that demonstrated how networks are finding new and exciting ways to solve some of the complex challenges the energy industry is facing.
"The feedback from the judging panel was that the standard of applications had improved across the board, with businesses pushing what is possible and embracing new approaches," Mr Dillon said.
Getting prices down is a focus for all networks and Essential Energy are doing this with a trailblazing testing laboratory for electricity network equipment.
"Field teams identified a need to test materials more thoroughly than manufacturing compliance standards to ensure they can stand up to the environmental conditions they were exposed to," Mr Dillon said.
Developed in partnership with Reposit Power and SolarHub, the Canberra Virtual Power Plant is the first and largest of its kind in the world.
"Made up of more than 400 residential battery storage systems, the virtual power plant involves a number of technology providers and can remotely control the VPP to dispatch stored electricity back into the network when required," Mr Dillon said.
More than 600 households signed up to the Jemena trial that saw average peak electricity consumption on hot days reduced by between 23 and 35 per cent.
"The rich behavioural insights from the trial will help inform future demand response programs," Mr Dillon said.
The trial helped 34 customers install solar generation and a battery on their homes to test the ability of distributed generation to be an alternative to a diesel generator during periods of peak holiday demand.
"The trial has shown how a modest number of residential PV and battery systems are able to provide a disproportionately large benefit to the grid," Mr Dillon said.
The Industry Innovation Awards will be announced at the Energy Networks Australia Annual Dinner on Tuesday 27 November and presented by the Minister for Energy, Angus Taylor.


From the mayor's mansion to the iconic Rainbow Room, DeGroff shares some of his favorite bartending memories.
July 31, 2017, 5:11 p.m.
Dale DeGroff presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Charles Schumann at the 2017 Spirited Awards. Photo by Jennifer Mitchell Photography.
On the road with Dad, a Navy Pilot. Born at the Naval Air Station in Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
What attracted you to becoming a bartender in the first place?
Life in the New York City bars ... I wanted to be part of it.
Was it planned, or was it a temporary gig that evolved into a career?
I'll quote John Lennon here: "Life is what happens when we are making plans."
What and where was your first bartending job?
Gracie Mansion (the Mayor's residence in NYC) ... no sh*t, it's a great story but there isn't space here to tell it.
Was there a moment when you decided that bartending would be your career?
When the piano player at the Hotel Bel-Air named Bud Herrmann said to me at closing one night: "I know you're really into this acting thing, Dale, but I think you are pretty good at this bartending stuff." I couldn't get it outta my mind after that comment.
Was your family supportive of your decision to pursue bartending?
When I was 18, my father took me aside and said, "I think you have learned how to be a human being and from here on out, your mother and I will step back and you can make your own decisions."
For someone who wants to pursue bartending as a career, what top 3 tips would you offer?
If you don't look forward to your next shift (most of the time), then you need to find something [else] you like doing. In the first couple years, just assume that everything you think you know is wrong and you need to look deeper. The team you work with can elevate the experience and you can do the same for them.
How did you first learn about Tales of the Cocktail?
Ann Tuennerman called me and invited me to the very first one.
Dale DeGroff and Audrey Saunders as the 2017 Tales Ambassadors. Photo by Jennifer Mitchell Photography.
Where there any challenges you had to overcome to attend Tales the first time (financial, logistical, etc.)?
How to make Southern Comfort the center of my universe for two days.
Kindly describe your first Tales experience and what it meant to you.
We were just a dozen presenters and the ones who weren't already friends became friends. Those of us who were old friends became even better friends. We could all sit around the bar at the Hotel Monteleone — and there were still stools left. We tortured poor Marvin, the night bartender, with our extraordinarily esoteric cocktail orders.
What was it like to be immersed in the community of bartenders and cocktail luminaries from all over the world? Did it confirm bartending as your calling?
That happened a long time ago ... way before Tales. The most fun was sharing our New Orleans favorites with our pals who were experiencing the city for the first time. It feels funny to refer to New Orleans as "the city." It's really not. It is a culture that simply doesn't exist anywhere else in these United States. New Orleans requires everyone to make an adjustment, to make a conscious effort to step out of the state of mind that you arrived with and open a new room up there. It's a big room that will fill slowly with the delights and sounds and foods and smells, but most of all, it's the individuals you meet who seem to move through life with an alternate compass that doesn't point to true north but across the table to you.
Kindly describe your top 3 favorite moments from Tales.
Impossible. My memory doesn't work so well ... not like that anyway! Not in snapshots, but in a movie that just keeps looking forward. Reflection on the past is good, I suppose, for those of us who can bring it back with some sense of clarity or accuracy. I'm a storyteller and I tend to enhance the story to fit the occasion.
Kindly describe any awards or recognition you received at Tales.
Kindly describe your top behind the bar experience where you impacted or inspired a guest?
I was asked by a guest at the Hotel Bel-Air if I could make a fresh margarita ... I couldn't at the time and the ganglia and synapses just started multiplying and it took several years to untangle the whole mess and process how to get it right.
How has it energized your career overall and what opportunities have flowed as a result of your winning?
I can't think of a direct cause-and-effect relationship between awards and my life ... I do know that it was a wonderful feeling to be celebrated by the people with whom, and in some case for whom, I worked all these years.
Ever the consummate host, Dale brings a drink to award winner Charles Schumann at the 2017 Spirited Awards. Photo by Jennifer Mitchell Photography.
Kindly describe any key professional relationships that were forged at Tales through networking with fellow bartenders, spirits luminaries and brand managers.
How would you sum up Tales to an aspiring bartender who is new to the profession?
Many came and were so affected by the experience that they came back and never left. It is a life-changing experience ... but you have to make some careful choices about what kind of changes.
What is your go-to cocktail when you go out?
What is your favorite cocktail to make for friends and family?
Ann Tuennerman Founder of Tales of the Cocktail, Ann Tuennerman is a serial entrepreneur focused on hospitality.


Learner drivers across the nation could soon have an easier and safer way to get their license, thanks to a new smartphone app.
A pilot of the innovative AAMI SmartPlates app is underway with more than 100 learner drivers, allowing them to log learner driver hours digitally and block out unnecessary distractions while driving.
AAMI spokesperson Jake Krausmann said the new app uses GPS technology to digitally log the hours and distance driven by a learner driver as well as routes, time of day, traffic and weather conditions.
"The app has a 'Road Block' feature which on Android phones will block calls from mobiles and send an SMS to the caller to let them know the learner is behind the wheel. iPhone users will be encouraged to use a 'Do Not Disturb' function to silence calls and texts," Mr Krausmann said.
Mr Krausmann said the new technology would also save learner drivers and their supervisors from manually filling out a log book. The AAMI Smartplates App pilot program will run from until January 2017.


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Union: Air Traffic Controller Not to Blame in Hudson River Crash
WASHINGTON – Union leaders said Monday that U.S. government safety officials made a mistake in a report that implied an air traffic controller could have prevented a mid-air collision over New York's Hudson River and demanded a retraction.
National Air Traffic Controllers Association officials said in a statement that the National Transportation Safety Board was wrong when it said that a controller at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey who was handling a small plane involved in the Aug. 8 accident failed to warn the single-engine Piper's pilot that there were other aircraft in his path, including the air tour helicopter. Minutes later the plane and helicopter collided, sending both aircraft plunging into the Hudson. Nine people died in the accident, including five Italian tourists.
Union officials said the NTSB's report later notes that the helicopter, which was just beginning to lift off, didn't appear on the Teterboro controller's radar screen until seven seconds after the controller handed off responsibility for the plane to nearby Newark Liberty International Airport and told the pilot to contact Newark.
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The report infers that the helicopter was among the aircraft visible on radar in the plane's path, which was not the case, the union said.
Union officials tried unsuccessfully over the weekend to persuade the safety board to change its report.
"We don't have any comment at this time," NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said in response to the union.
The Teterboro controller made a personal phone call shortly after clearing the plane for takeoff at 11:48 a.m. EDT and remained on the phone until the collision five minutes later, even while he was directing traffic, according to the report and a Federal Aviation Administration statement.
The Piper pilot never contacted Newark, but just before the collision he acknowledged the Teterboro controller's instruction to change radio frequencies. The sequence of events raises the possibility the pilot's attention may have been focused on the radio so that he didn't see the helicopter.
After the helicopter appeared on radar screens, a Newark controller called the Teterboro controller to alert him to the possible collision, the NTSB report said. The Teterboro controller twice tried unsuccessfully to contact the pilot before the crash.
"The aircraft never made radio contact with Newark, as Teterboro had requested. Nobody was talking to him. You cannot issue traffic warnings to a pilot who is not communicating with you," said Ray Adams, NATCA facility representative at Newark, who is representing the Teterboro controller in the NTSB crash investigation.
The FAA said last week that it does not appear the controller could have prevented the accident.
The NTSB took apparent exception to that, stating in its report that it would decide what role the controller played in the accident and that other opinions at this time are speculative and premature.
The public spat between the board and the union and FAA is unusual. Typically, the union and FAA steer clear of any public statement regarding an ongoing investigation so as not to jeopardize their status as parties to the investigation. As parties to the investigation, they have access to information uncovered by the NTSB long before it becomes public.


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Chelsea youngster says "I'm enjoying playing my football under Antonio Conte"
By Siddhant Lazar
The Italian
Chelsea center-back Andreas Christensen has admitted that he is loving his football at Stamford Bridge after replacing David Luiz.
The 21-year-old year has just returned from a two-year loan spell with Borussia Mönchengladbach and has finally entered Antonio Conte sight. With both David Luiz and Antonio Conte reportedly getting into a row, Andreas Christensen has benefited largely from that and has been at his very best in the Chelsea back three.
The Demark international has made ten appearances for the Blues this season in the Premier League and has played the full 90 minutes in Chelsea last four Premier League fixtures. However, while the season still has a long way to go, Christensen intends to keep his place in the side and hopes Chelsea maintain their improved form.
In an interview, the 21-year-old spoke about the Swansea game "We felt like we had quite a lot of opportunities in the first half so we just had to keep doing what we were doing and hope for that scrappy goal, which we got in the end, we had to be patient.
I'm happy with the way I'm performing and the team are performing,' he further said. 'We're getting the points that are necessary and I'm enjoying playing my football. For me the loan was perfect timing. I got a lot of experience and played in the Champions League for two seasons.
Andreas Christensen (21) has completed 100% of his passes over 90 minutes twice in the Premier League this season.
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During Chelsea's 1-0 win over Swansea City, Andreas Christensen was the only player on the pitch to boast a 100% pass completion and the Denmark international believes that his time on loan with Borussia Mönchengladbach helped improve his skills. "The Bundesliga is a high level and that was what I needed to help me come back. It's going to be difficult but we're just concentrating on getting the points we can, right now we're in a good place and hopefully we can build on that,' explained the defender.
We don't look at who we're playing, we just look at a tight schedule, prepare ourselves for a tough month and make sure we rest the right way."
Author's take:
With one solid performance after another, Andreas Christensen somehow managed to displace David Luiz from Antonio Conte's starting eleven. However, it's his future performances as a part of Chelsea's back-three that could potentially help the Blues catch up with Manchester City.
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Q: How to escape special characters in Python? I pulled a report from a crm system that came with some special characters like:
Belgium (Dutch)
Saint Lucia
Trinidad and Tobago
Sierra Leone
Mali
Svalbard and Jan Mayen

This is a drop down menu from the web interface that contains all the countries and regions. Per what I read this is an xml formatting issue. I am processing this in Python Pandas. From this post I got an idea but I'd like to write a regex to escape any string with similar sequence of characters.
By the way, I imported the csv file like this:
df = pd.read_csv('report.csv', encoding='utf-8')

And use this to try to escape the characters (which worked for that case only):
df['Country/Region'] = df['Country/Region'].replace(to_replace='(', value= ' ', regex=False)

This is to a specific character. But I could not figure out with a regex.

A: You can use the built-in function html.unescape:
import html
df['Country/Region'] = df['Country/Region'].astype(str).map(html.unescape)

Output:
>>> df
           Country/Region
0         Belgium (Dutch)
1             Saint Lucia
2     Trinidad and Tobago
3            Sierra Leone
4                    Mali
5  Svalbard and Jan Mayen

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After the sugar water has cooled, float the piece of toast on top of the water. Now, empty the tablespoon of yeast over the toast. After a few days, the yeast will take over the toast and start making bubbles (CO2) in the bucket. After a week, the amount of bubbling (CO2) will increase.
Keep the lid airtight on the bucket. CO2 travels up the dispersion tubing, and due to it being heavier than air, falls directly onto your plants. Timing your exhaust, is essential in maintaining an effective level of CO2.
Editors Note: Unfortunately the author of this contribution has not been able to test the CO2 levels produced using his method. Personally, I would use a CO2 analysis kit to help manage (exhaust timing etc), and maintain, an optimum level of around 1500PPM.


It was a typical "June Gloom" morning here in Southern California yesterday, and I decided to bake some muffins for breakfast to help brighten my day.
I served the muffins on a small plate I recently purchased when I was in Portugal, and I used a placemat that I brought back from Singapore.
I love using items from my travels at home – it reminds me of my trip to a different part of the world, the people I met, the food I ate, and then shop or market where I purchased the item.
The plate I purchased in a gift shop in Fatima, Portugal, outside of the town center. We stopped there before visiting Fatima and the site of the apparitions of three local children in 1917. I love the blue and white colors of this small plate. It is the perfect size for small snacks, a sandwich, or in this case, muffins.
The placemats I purchased along with other printed fabrics in the Little India section of Singapore. I do not remember much other than I bought different sets of placemats and napkins for friends and family.
This morning, the sun was shining, and I used a bowl from Sorrento, Italy, and a ceramic juice glass from Vietnam for my breakfast.
The bowl I found in a ceramic shop run by the artist, on one of the streets in Sorrento. His work had a pale blue color to it, and most of the items had an ocean theme. You can see some of the fish swimming at the top of the bowl.
The ceramic juice cup I purchased in Can Tho, Vietnam, at the Victoria Can Tho resort. When our group arrived to check-in, we were greeted with hand towels and fruit juice in these ceramic cups. I have bowls at home in a similar style – a matte brown glaze on the outside, and the inside muted colors. The cups are the perfect size for a small juice, and they are dishwasher safe. When I have juice for breakfast, I fondly remember my time at this lovely colonial hotel.
What are your favorite treasures from your travels? Do you bring back dishware to use at home?
Two weeks ago, as everyone on the east coast was suffering from record low temperatures, snow and ice, the theme for #FriFotos was WARM.
It was fun to look through my photos and see which ones depicted a warm-feel. The first photo above is from Trinidad, Cuba. This colonial town is bathed in beautiful light early in the morning, which is when two of the travelers in our group and I took a taxi into town ahead of our guided tour so we could wander the streets and take photos. The lighting was just right, and the colors of the town popped everywhere we turned.
When I visited Rome in May of 2013, it was a bit cooler than I expected. I ended up wearing several of my t-shirts at once to keep warm. But the warmth of the sun on this bright day, showcased the beauty of the city. We were at the top of the Vittorio Emanuele II monument when I took this photo.
One of my favorite places in the world is the island of Kauai in the state of Hawaii. We always stay on the North Shore, where there is beautiful scenery and lush vegetation. This photo is of the Hanalei Valley lookout – there are always cars here stopped to take photos of this scene overlooking the taro fields.
The Hanalei Valley on Kauai's North Shore.
We were in Buenos Aires in May of 2014, and as it is the start of winter in the part of the world, the weather was cool. But the lighting at the end of the day warmed up the luxurious Hotel Alvear.
Hotel Alvear in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In December, I flew to Honolulu to meet up with my friend Rosemary who had traveled to Hawaii for the very first time in order to attend the opening ceremony of, "The Eddie." This annual invitational big-wave surf competition was celebrating it's 30th year, although the event has only been held nine times. Waves need to reach a certain height for a sustained period in Waimea Bay on Oahu's North Shore in order for the competition to run. At the beginning of the holding period each year (usually from early December through late February when the North Shore waves are the biggest), there is an opening ceremony with the Aikau Ohana and the invited surfers and alternates for the competition. After the opening ceremony, the surfers paddle out to the ocean for a ceremony. You can see more photos from the opening ceremony, which was on December 4, 2014, here.
Paddle-out for the opening ceremony of The Eddie in Waimea Bay, Oahu.
The sunsets in Hawaii are always spectacular, and on my last night there in December, the sunset in Waikiki did not disappoint. It was a warm aloha before my flight home that night.
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The theme for #FriFotos a few weeks ago was cars. It was hard choosing which pictures to share from the myriad car shows and races I have attended, in addition to the photos of cars spotted while traveling around the world.
Every August, we head to the Monterey peninsula in northern California for a weekend full of car shows, auctions, viewing and races. We attend the annual Concorso Italiano celebration of Italian-made cars, watch the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, marvel at the cars up for auction at the many car auctions taking place throughout the weekend, and walk the greens at Pebble Beach for the highlight of the weekend, the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
No matter where you are that weekend, you'll see exotic cars, vintage cars, and expensive cars driving the local roads or parked in Pebble Beach, Carmel, Monterey and all the neighboring towns.
Here's one car that we happened to pass by while taking a bike ride on 17-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach – the Bugatti Veyron. It seemed to be a professional shoot for this Hermes edition of the car, but as you can see, everyone stopped to take some photos of their own.
The Bugatti Veyron was posed for a professional photo shoot.
Beautiful interior of the Bugatti Veyron Hermes edition.
The paparazzi were out in full force to photograph the Bugatti Veyron.
For more views from the professional shoot, click here.
A few years ago, we traveled to France in June in order to watch the 24 Hours of Le Mans (24 Heures du Mans), the most-famous and most-respected endurance car race in the world.
A few days before the race, there is a driver's parade through the streets of Le Mans. The drivers for each race car (three drivers share driving duties during the 24 hours of the race) sit on the back of an open-air vehicle to parade through the town for the gathered crowd of car racing fans.
We were lucky to see Audi Team Joest drivers Tom Kristensen (aka "Mr. Le Mans"), Rinaldo Capello and Allan McNish in the driver's parade. During the race, I managed to capture one picture of McNish driving – the cars are so fast, it's hard to capture them without blurring the photo!
Audi drivers Tom Kristensen, Rinaldo Capello and Allan McNish in the driver's parade for Le Mans, 2010.
Allan McNish driving the Audie Team Joest car at Le Mans, 2010.
In 2007, we traveled to Italy for a group trip to Lake Como. Luckily, the weekend before the trip began was the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Italy at Monza.
I think this Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG is beautiful, and during the race, it is the slowest car on the track as it serves as the official safety car.
F1 Safety Car at Monza.
As you might imagine, the Italian GP is the home race for Ferrari, and Ferrari fans, the tifosi, are always in attendance.
When I traveled to Cuba in 2011, it was fascinating to see the many 1950's era cars driving around on the roads. It made it seem like I was in a time warp to another era.
The lavender shade of this car was perfect for the hot sunny days.
Cars in Havanna – not all of them were old.
Last week's #FriFotos theme was adrenaline (July 25, 2014). At first, I thought, I don't have anything to share because I don't sky dive, mountain climb or ski (or ski that often). Then my memory turned to one of my favorite trips, to South Africa, and to a safari I took during that trip.
Riding in the bush looking for animals was at times monotonous, but then we'd see a beautiful bird or a delicate spider web and be in awe. All of that riding around paid off though, when we encountered large animals.
We briefly crossed into Botswana while we were stationed at the Royal Livingstone Hotel in Zambia, and took a boat ride down the Chobe River and loaded into safari vehicles to see elephants in Chobe National Park. We saw lots of elephants milling about, many bathing themselves in water.
Our group got a real adrenaline rush when we were watching a baby elephant. The momma noticed us, and thought we were a bit too close for comfort. As she approached our vehicle in a not so friendly manner, it was scary.
Momma elephant guarding her baby from our vehicle in Chobe National Park, Botswana.
Later during our trip, we stayed at Shishangeni Lodge just outside of Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Although this crocodile was heading away from us, it was still pretty scary to be that close.
Crocodile – even when they're heading the other way, you get a bit of adrenaline!
On one of our first drives during our stay, we were lucky enough to encounter some lions. They were just waking as it was early morning, but seeing them watch us was still nerve-wracking!
Lions waking up but watching us as we stopped to watch them.
After our morning safari drives, we returned to the lodge for breakfast and leisure time. There were safari guides that offered to take us on bush walks. They seemed to think it was a perfectly normal thing to do, so I decided to go along. But, when you have guides with rifles and large bullets, you quickly realize walking alone in the bush can be dangerous.
Here our bush walk guides survey the landscape.
At one point, there was a rhino very near us, and they could tell that he could smell our group. It was frightening hearing this very large animal sniffing and breathing so close to us. They quickly gathered our group, and told us if we were being charged to stand behind a tree, because the rhino wouldn't be able to turn that quickly and get to us.
During an afternoon game drive, we happened upon this momma rhinoceros and her baby. While they didn't seem to notice us, or at least care much that we were snapping lots of pictures of them, it was still a rush to see them up close.
I thought of other times I've had adrenaline rushes, and one of them was of a very different sort. Dave and I have been to the Italian Formula 1 Grand Prix in Monza, Italy, twice. Both were very memorable and exciting – our first trip there in 2007 was the first time I had been to a Formula 1 race, and it was amazing to see how fast the cars zoomed around the track.
For our second visit, we went early for a fan day, where holders of three day tickets can visit the track on Thursday for a pit walk. Being a Ferrari fan, I made my way down to the Ferrari pits, and wiggled my way up to the front – and was able to get 2007 F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen's autograph before snapping a few pictures of him. Quite an adrenaline rush to be so close to the Ice Man!
Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen signs autographs at Monza, 2009.
Ferrari driver Giancarlo Fisichella races around the Monza track.
It was fun remembering both my trip to South Africa and to the F1 race in Monza with an "adrenaline" perspective.
I'm looking forward to this week's #FriFotos – the theme is HEAT.


My problem is this: I have a set of MP4 files; all of them play with vlc on my Ubuntu box. But when copy them to USB; and want to play them from my TV ... some work; others do not. The TV set is a Grundig, 28 VLE 5500WG. There is no specific error message; just something like "unknown file format".
Creates an MP4 that is a bit larger (probably minimally worse in terms of quality) ... and that works on my TV set.
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Update on Satron VC Optical Transmitter Success!
Worldwide sales for the 3 year old Satron Transmitter have now reached over 350 units. The Satron Transmitter was introduced to N.A. in 2015 and sales have now passed the 100 mark. Many repeat orders, some with more than 6 installations in a mill.
So why this great acceptance from the customers? Simply put, it's the performance of the sensor. Accuracy, maintenance free, simple start-up and calibration, easy installation and can be removed and reinstalled without a shutdown. OR maybe it's because you can get 2 simultaneous measurements from this small 13" probe. The 2 measurements are consistency and your choice of either Kappa, Brightness, Fiber Length, Freeness or Ash Content. AND maybe it is because the sensor sells for less than $10,000 US.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you are even a little curious about this product. There are many applications where the sensor can be applied in your mill, including replacing old costly rotary consistency transmitters.


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Robby was the love of her life. Twenty-two years older, he was her mentor, her protector, and the source of a family mystery she had been helping him solve. Then he died. And with him went her lust for life. Now Anne wants to solve that mystery as one last gift for Robby before she joins him. But life is full of surprises. In Ottawa, French Canadian researcher René does more than help Anne with her work – he awakens feelings she thought gone. When the clues they find lead Anne north to the land of the Inuit, she finds not just the answer she seeks but the embrace of a family, the will to move forward, and unexpected love.
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Join Anne as she travels from San Diego to far northern Ungavaq, and then into the past – to World War I Germany – as she realizes she must face the same decision her husband's father did: to live life to the fullest or give up.
A story of courage and rebirth, of love lost and found, and of the power of family, Quest for the Ivory Caribou reminds readers that it is in the confluence of past and present that we often find the most meaning in our lives.
The actual Ivory Caribou. For scale, it's 1 3/8 inches to the top of the antlers.
This Inuit man is my model for Jack. He was a broad-shouldered Inuk. He stood only three inches or so taller than my five foot five, but his big work-hardened hands dwarfed mine. His thick black hair, touched with gray at the temples, was combed straight back almost to his collar. The lines on his clean-shaven face showed he spent a lot of time outdoors. I wouldn't call him handsome, but his strong, pleasant face had a ready smile.
You may recognize that the model for Rene is violinist Pinchas Zuckerman. Tall and lanky, René was one of those men who seemed to be all knees and elbows and yet managed to move with surprising grace. He made me think of Fred Astaire. His ash-blond hair shaded into gray. He had a blond's light coloration, brown eyes flecked with gold, and a charming smile. I found out later that morning that he wore wire-rim half-glasses on his angular face when he read. They made him look dry and academic. In reality, he had a lively sense of humor and a hearty laugh, and he loved to talk.
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The American Trivia Quiz Book brims with fascinating facts about the people, places, and events that make our nation great, with a series of fun and informative quizzes on subjects ranging from Columbus to baseball. There are questions about presidents and first ladies, explorers and inventors, heroes and poets. Impress (and stump) your friends with your knowledge of all things American. In the process, you'll find our national gifts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to be even more precious.
Richard Lederer, Ph.D., is the author of more than 40 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and Presidential Trivia and American Trivia. He has been profiled in magazines as diverse as The New Yorker, People, and the National Inquirer, and is founding cohost of A Way with Words on public radio. Dr. Lederer's syndicated column, "Lederer on Language," appears in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. He has been elected International Punster of the Year and Toastmasters International's Golden Gavel winner.
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Dugout – Football Inside Out
Working as Lead UX for over a year for the start up Dugout. I lead the UX of the project and managed to product owners requirements though the the UI designers to ensure the project was delivered to his expectations.
I started on the project very close to the beginning of the formation of the company and have been lucky enough to work on the two major release mile stones the company has had. These were the release of the iOS and Android app and the main Dugout website. I worked closely across both platforms, app and site, to ensure that the experience the user got from each one was as seamless as possible but also to ensure that each one had it's key benefits. I also worked with the content team to define the requirements and best UX practices of the ProCMS and Pro app where clubs and players could upload their content from.
For the website I created a full set of wireframes initially using Axure with another UX designer and then for the app I created the full wireframe set myself using Sketch. This enabled a quick and easy transition over to graphic design. Making development as quick and easy as possible was also one of my key aims for the project due to short and intense time schedules for release. Ensuring that developers had all the assets they needed at their fingertips was paramount for a smooth development process. For this we used invision's beta inspector. This enabled the developers to see sizes of elements, padding, spacing, etc in the designs of the pages that they were created without opening up a photoshop file. It also enabled them to slice out assets keeping the design team free to make continued improvements to the design of the app / site.
I organised and ran a set of user tests alongside the other UX designer. We wanted to test the initial concept of Dugout with our target market 15-24 year olds to gather an opinion on whether or not they thought the app or website would interest them. This was done in two sets. We tested an interactive design prototype of mobile web site on an iPhone 5. These were conducted with evening interviews with 5x football fans aged 19-27 at Sheraton House and then 8x football fans aged 12-17 at St Edmund's College. This would help identify and prioritise key issues to address for the V1 product.
Overall Impressions
Overall it tested extremely well, people loved the mobile experience
All users (bar one edge case) said it would be something they would definitely use, and seemed genuinely very enthusiastic.
Many users commented that they really liked having content from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all in one place, saving them time.
Exclusive content was a big draw for most users, especially the younger ones – they want to be the first to know and are willing to join for that!
Dugout strip worked well and people loved being able to personalise.
Many users liked content from players, celebrities & publishers.
Users had no major navigation issues.
What did people say?
"It's not like a social network, it's more related to clubs, more related to football, more detail, more content, videos, articles."
"I like that there's clubs and players you like and it is focused on what you care about."
"You do not have to change between apps which is annoying."
"Easy access to the whole world of football."
"I like the trending view as I like the overview."
"All news in a single place. Quick access instead of searching."
Limited understanding of Dugout strip prior to onboarding
Exclusive content not clear enough
Gallery UX and single image view
People missed the interaction bar on the content/article view
Star (favourite icon) misinterpreted as being a "like"
Join Bar was not used and most users didn't even notice it
Most users didn't know why they would join, the benefits are not clear
Overall it was an extremely useful exercise that helped massively with the V2 release of the app and website.
For the app release I worked as the sole lead UX designer leading the design project and ensuring that the app was released on time. I had to both create the initial set of wireframes for the UI designers to follow as well as manage the product owners expectations and write the Jira tasks for the development teams to follow. Once implemented I worked closely with QA to ensure that the developed product was inline with what was designed. Shown below are examples of the Sketch wireframes I created and how they translated into final UI designs.After the project was initially delivered I worked closely with the in-house developers to make small tweaks and fixes to enhance the experience of the app. An example of this is pinned video and auto fullscreen. On video articles the video player element pins to the top of the screen to ensure it could be viewed at all times. If the user turns their phone to landscape the video automatically goes full screen to enable immersive viewing. This provides a simple and effective experience to the user.
The initial V1 website was released before the app. For this I worked alongside another UX designer and in a design team of 6 people. The wireframes were created in Axure and the handed over to the UI designers who created the visual mock ups in photoshop. I also worked as a key triage point between the design and development team ensuring that the designs were correctly implemented.For the V2 released I lead the UX and managed the design team for the redesign of the website. This was to bring the visual design and UX inline with the latest app release. Here a significant improvement to the functionality and design was made. A tricky part to this project was managing the product owners expectations and managing the workflow between UX (myself), design, development and QA. This is something I feel went well as the V2 website was delivered on time and with far less bugs than the V1 release.
Shown below are wireframes UI designs from both the V1 and V2 releases.
ProCMS/App
The ProCMS and ProApp were two elements of Dugout that enabled Pro's (Clubs and Players) to directly upload their content on to the site / website. ProCMS was developed in-house using a ready made CMS while the ProApp was developed by an out of house company. For ProCMS I worked closely with the in-house team to help ensure the user journeys for uploading content were as seamless as possible and enable the user quick and easy upload of their content while creating minimal errors. An example of this is image cropping where the user has to select portrait and landscape crops for their image uploaded for elements on the site like content cards. Ensuring that this process was easy while creating the best crop possible was important to the user and to Dugout to make sure the image was displayed in the best way possible on the app and site.For the ProApp I helped create the wireframes that were handed over to the out of house team. I then worked QA to ensure the final app delivered was inline with the requirements the content team and the players using the app had. These two elements ensure that the process of creating content is quick and easy and are both paramount to how Dugout creates and posts it's new content.


I got few questions from our readers about the bit-band feature in ARM Cortex microcontrollers. It may seem to be a prominent topic, still may lead to come confusion while using bit-banding. So let's look at this feature a little bit closer.
Simply speaking Bit banding method allows performing atomic bitwise operations to memory areas. Why use bit banding? The most straightforward answer is because ARM Cortex doesn't have something like BIT CSET or BIT CLEAR commands like most of the 8-bit microcontrollers do. So this is somewhat a workaround solution. Another question may rise – Why not using the read-modify-write method? Again this method is not reliable in some cases. For instance f there is an interrupt during this operation it can cause data corruption. Other situation may occur in embedded OS when different tasks may modify the same memory location. So we want a method that allows setting or clear individual bits with a single instruction. This is where the bit band method helps.
If you open any ARM Cortex documentation or datasheet, you will find that bit-band can be performed in two memory regions – the first 1MB SRAM region (from address 20000000h to 200FFFFFh) and first 1MB peripheral region (from address 40000000h to 400FFFFFh). What does this means? This means that bitwise operations can be performed to RAM and peripherals like ports and other peripheral registers.
Bit band mechanism works by using a separate memory region called bit-band alias. Alias regions are located far from available RAM or actual peripherals.
As you can see for RAM, this region starts at address 22000000h which is from 31MB. This is a safe location as ARM internal SRAM will not likely reach 32MB. The same situation is with peripheral region. It also starts are a 31MB location (at address 42000000h).
Using bit-band alias memory region we can access individual bits of RAM or peripherals. Each bit in memory is addressed using 32-bit bit-band address in alias memory region.
Let's say you want to change 5th bit of RAM contents stored at address 20000000h. Since this is the first memory address from the alias region, we can find alias address pretty quickly. First alias address is 22000000h which is address of first (actually 0) bit in RAM. The second 1st bit in alias has address 22000004h (remember each 32-bit word address is increased by 4), the second bit is addressed with 22000008h and so on. So fifth bit has alias address 22000014h. If you want to write or read a bit from SRAM word, you need to write or read 0-bit from corresponding bit band address. In other words, you need to write 1 to RAM address 22000014h to set 5th bit in RAM location 20000000h. This applies to bit read operation as well.
In C program you can prepare a MACRO to calculate the bit-band location for particular bit location.
Now you see how it' simple. If you used to read modify write operation, you would risk getting data corruption in some cases. Also, read-modify-write takes about twice as long as using bit band based set and clear. If you need to set multiple bits at the time, then you lose performance with bit band operation. So if there is no risk of data corruption (like interrupts won't tend to change the same data), then read-modify-write is better to use when multiple bits are changed. Wise use of this method can boost some performance on a more significant scale.
Also, it is worth to mention that bit band operations can be performed for half word and byte sized memory locations. Then the difference is in the alias address algorithm. Instead, you would use multiplier 2 for half word and 1 for byte.
ARM Cortex bit band, ARM Cortex-M3 tutorial. Bookmark.


Hmmm I'm not sure x.xA comes into it so much more than the fans themselves. Different manufactures fans have completely different properties (and price) so you just have to find the best match for you.
What fans are you looking at?
Well ha these are actually for a laptop, long story short i changed the guts of my laptop to transform it into a i7 and obviously want to make sure i can get a fan that will keep it cool and saw this number and assumed it to play a role in either fan speed or rpm or....something.
Ah in that case you are looking at a more specialized fan and if you are comparing 3x fans from the same manufacturer you will prob find the higher ampage will have a faster (and noiser) fan but really there is no way to tell how they will be unless you can find info on people who already own them.
Is there an option to buy 2/3 and return the unwanted ones?
this sounds daft, but have you googled the model numbers? Even if they're industrial or OEM only fans I'd be surprised if you can't get a datasheet.
If you updated the CPU the total system wattage may stress the cooling enough to require the extra 0.1 amps to be dedicated to it . Just possibly.
more than likely you will be best off going for the higher amperage fan for enhanced cooling for a minimal additional noise for the whole system. And that won't be too much for the system power brick.
Also, some may feel (and it's a strong argument physics wise) that you'll get a little more life from a system with stronger cooling.
more amperage draw at what speed and will the fan actually be at that speed ? ALso how loud are these fans. Keep googling.
Even at the same amp rating you can get a big difference in fan performance based on fan shape/material etc.
Best thing to look for as a rough rule of thumb is the airflow that it can push through.
Or try one for a week, check peek temps.
Then try the other for a week.
Might be the only way to compare them if there are no CFM numbers for them.
Plus my gpu sat at 47c reaching a peak of 86c on heavy load.


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Q: php saving BLOB to database permissions error I'm trying to save some variables, an image and a pdf file to my mysql database. (using longblob for both the image and the pdf file). On doing so I get the following errors:
Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user

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 Warning: mysql_query() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given

I've checked the grant tables
GRANT USAGE ON *.* user....
 GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, LOCK TABLES

To be honest I'm not even sure whether the code will work but I'd like to at least eliminate the errors first.  Does anyone know ho I can fix this and where i'm going wrong? any code examples greatly appreciated.
require_once __DIR__.'/config.php';

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        $conn = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USERNAME, DB_DATABASE, DB_PASSWORD);

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
            $title = $_POST["title"];
            $authors = $_POST["authors"];
            $description = $_POST["description"];
            $price = $_POST["price"];
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            $file2 = $_FILES ['content']['tmp_name'];

            $image = addslashes(file_get_contents($_FILES['image']['tmp_name']));

            $content = addslashes(file_get_contents($_FILES['content']['tmp_name']));

            $sql = "INSERT INTO books2 VALUES ('$title', '$authors', '$description', '$price',
         '$image','$content') ";
          $r = mysql_query($sql, $conn);
          if($r)
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Thank you for entering this book!
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Behind every management school stands a motivated dean. Paul Mathyssens, Dean of Antwerp Management School since 2013, gives us a unique insight into an important aspect of his job. He explains why he spends much time abroad and therefore invests in inward and outward internationalization.
Maintaining international contacts is crucial. There are a lot of international students at Antwerp Management School and the school does a great deal of collaboration with foreign institutions. "I think it's important for AMS to go ahead with internationalization. We're the most international school in Belgium. We are very proud of that. But that also means that as a figurehead of the school you have to maintain these contacts. In a lot of cultures, decisions are made 'among leaders', so eating and talking (and laughing) together is important."
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In January, Paul went to the AACSB Deans Conference in New Orleans. "That's an event you should attend at least once every two years." There are two reasons for that. "First of all, you need all your partner schools, so you can network and look at common projects and so on. This is an event where you can meet all these people. Secondly, I go to conferences like this to be inspired. It's a top-level conference. I thought Salim Ismail's sessions were the most inspiring this year. He is an author and the CEO of the Singularity University of California. When you look at him and listen to what he has to say, you get the feeling that there is still a lot of scope for business schools to change; that we'll have to be more innovative, that we'll have to pace up our innovation and that we'll have to transform our own business model relatively quickly in the next few years."
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"Antwerp Management School is a boutique business school, but we're very international. That means we have international partners who are important to us for several reasons. For starters, they can bring students to us, so-called 'inward internationalization'. Secondly, they can help us do business in those countries, the 'outward internationalization'.
We can work together on executive programs, like we do in China with the 'New Silk Road Summit' that is due to take place at the end of October. Thirdly, we may go abroad to find professors to come over here on an exchange scheme or to find vacancies for our professors to go abroad. With some schools we're already working together on a number of things. For example, the Lingnan University College, Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou (China): the EMBA visit, Executive PhD joint track, Master CEB, etc."
He has some traveling to do outside of conferences as well. "When I go abroad, that is to develop or maintain partnerships, because a 'long time no see' attitude does not benefit those kind of relationships at all. You should visit all of your partners at least once a year and determine whether you can do any further business with them."
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【Notice】"Sato no Akebono Genshu" Wins a Gold Award at the 2021 International Wine and Spirits Competition
At the 2021 International Wine and Spirits Competition (IWSC) held in June, "Sato no Akebono Genshu" won a gold award and "Sato no Akebono Gold" won a bronze award.
Founded in 1969 and held annually in London, England, IWSC is the world's premier international liquor competition, where alcoholic beverages from around the world are evaluated by experts. In the 2021 "Asian Spirits" category, consisting of Baiju, Shochu, and Soju, 240 brands were entered into the competition.
After winning a gold award at the recent "2021 Tokyo Whiskey & Spirits Competition," "Sato no Akebono Genshu" continues its success in becoming a brand well regarded by both domestic and international professionals. All the employees are very pleased that our Amami kokuto shochu was thought of highly during the professional's evaluation. We continue to strive to make kokuto shochu that will be recognized throughout the world.
About the IWSC
IWSC is the worlds premier international alcoholic beverage competition. In the 2021 "Spirits" category, over 4000 entries were submitted from 86 different countries. Information on all the winners can be found at the website link below.
Official Website:https://iwsc.net/results/search
"Sato no Akebono Genshu" has won awards at the following international competitions:
May 2018 - Los Angeles International Spirits Competition - Gold
May 2021 - Tokyo Whisky and Spirits Competition - Gold
June 2021 - International Wine and Spirits Competition - Gold
"Sato no Akebono Genshu's" tasting notes as provided by the 2021 IWSC judges:
Pronounced florals are abundant with fresh cut grass, capsicum, rosemary and sage aromas, creating an enjoyable liveliness. Beautiful on the palate as an underlying chocolate and candy base is embellished with crushed rose petals and melon into a white grape finish.
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It feels like nothing much was really done – wall and a half built, yet it took what it seems a long time to do. Everything takes a long time to do and, there are so many small things that need done, taking time away, sigh.
This is the part I hate doing the most when it comes to wall construction. It's all the dust from drywall and sanding, yuck. And the whole process turns into an ordeal that takes days to complete, because you have to wait a day for the mud to dry before continuing, else it all turns into a mess.
Finally got to put the drywalls up – life got in the way and took my time from railroading, meh.
I thought to take an opportunity of a mild (~10C) and dry weather this afternoon, so after a visit to a local home despot for wood and drywall, I went ahead to frame the diagonal wall on the left side of the layout room. This was an almost 7 ft. opening that had to be closed first if I was to begin (finish?) any benchwork construction in that area.