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Penny Dredfell (Technical Analyst) and Fundamental Fred (Fundamental Analyst) discuss the top 8 teams chances for a flag.
Fred: Let's go from least chance to greatest, Penny.
The Swans have to travel to Melbourne four weeks in a row to win the flag. It is beyond them, even with Mumford in great form.
Penny: No technical data on them, but I agree. One win maximum and even that is unlikely.
Similarly for the Bombers. I don't have any graphs on them, but they would struggle to beat Collingwood or the Eagles (in Perth) in the second week.
Fred: They probably won't survive week one but, if they do, their only hope is for the Pies to have all their "doubtfuls" break down. Even so, they are likely to be playing the second week on a 6 day break.
While on the subject of 6 day breaks, the Blues will face the same 6 day break should they win in round 1. I like them against the Bombers, without being certs, by any means. But they need their big guys contributing. Count Waite out for the finals; and Jamison, Kreuzer, Hampson plus back-up tall defender Watson have all had their share of injury worries. This bit of news is the reason Essendon have a show in week one.
But the Blues won't make it past the second week. Like Essendon, their best chance is to play a battered and bruised Pie team in the second week.
Penny: I'm not too excited about the Blues, nor any team finishing 5 – 8. The last one to do anything of note was Collingwood in 2007 and they beat the Eagles courtesy of Eagle injuries. Having said that, they went within a kick of making the Grand Final. The team in the bottom half of the eight that really interests me is the Saints.
There is a lot of technical data on teams losing a grand final one year and then finishing 5 – 8 the next (which is the Saints fate this year).
The teams to have done it and their results are as follows:
Swans runners-up 2006; 2007 7th and lost an elimination final to Collingwood
Essendon runners-up 2001; 2002 5th and beat the Eagles in an elimination final; then lost week 2 to Port
St Kilda runners-up 1997; 1998 6th and lost both finals (in the old system where 1 plays 8, 2 plays 7 etc and the 2 lowest losers drop out for week 2)
Swans 1996 runners-up; 1997 6th and eliminated in week1
So the record isn't great. But I do like they way they are finishing off their games and this is a positive. They are the best chance of the 5 to 8 teams, but no hope for the flag.
Fred: I do agree that they are the best chance of the "bottom 4". Lenny Hayes (and maybe Gwilt) aside, their injuries have tended to be fringe players – like Mcqualter, Eddy, Ledger. They can cover those blokes and they have found improvement from Dempster and Peake. And Polo has become so popular that they named a top after him! The return of Gardiner is an interesting move. Given Leigh Mathews' article about the importance of big men in the finals, he will be watched with interest.
They are the most settled side, with 16 players playing every game since their round 15 bye, while a further 2 only missed due to suspension. They are my smoky for the flag. Their best pathway through would be a round 2 clash with Hawthorn followed by a prelim final against a somewhat inexperienced Eagles outfit in Perth.
Now let's look at the big four. I like the Eagles to get to a prelim one way or the other. Of course, the ideal result would be a win this week over the Magpies. But I reckon the more likely result would be a loss to the Magpies followed by an easy home ground win over Carlton or Essendon in week 2. Their last 9 matches since the bye have resulted in 8 wins (including over the Cats) and one loss to the Saints in Melbourne.
Cox is fit again and Naitanui has taken the next step. Their tall forward line and good execution of the press holds them in good stead. They only have 9 of their premiership team on the list and two of those (Butler and B Jones) aren't walk-up starts. I'll go for a prelim final loss in Melbourne for the Eagles – which is about 12 spots better than most predicted in March.
Penny: This year, two teams from the bottom four the previous year (Essendon 14 and Eagles 16) have risen to the finals. Such teams tend to get eliminated in week 1 from the 5 – 8 spots and go out in the prelim if they make top 4. The last team to go from bottom 4 to a grand final is Melbourne 1999 / 2000 and they lost the grand final to the Dons by 60 points
2009 Freo 14th 2010 6th won first home final; lost week 2
2007 Dogs 13th; 2008 3rd and lost the prelim
2006 North; 2007 4th and lost a prelim
2005 Pies 15th; 2006 5th and lost first final
2003 Dees 14th; 2004 5th lost week 1
2002 Freo 13th; 2003 5th lost home elimination final
So I favour a loss on week 1, followed by a win in week 2 and a prelim final loss in Melbourne.
The Hawks interest me. They won a flag "before time" in 2008. The last team to do this was the Baby Bomber sin 1993. They followed a similar trend to the Hawks thereafter. Those Baby Bombers spent a couple of years in the humilicrib as they finished 10th in 1994 and then 5th in 1995 where they were eliminated in week 2 of the finals. They then progressed to 6th in 1996 but they made the prelim – only to be beaten after the siren by a Plugger point.
Meanwhile the Hawks bombed to 9th in 2009 in the year after their flag and then 7th in 2010, when they were eliminated in week 1.
The technical charts suggest that the Hawks should make it to a prelim and no further. But the data is a sample of one only. So I don't want to be too dogmatic about this. It's just that the two trends are virtually identical.
Fred: The Hawks retain 16 of their 2008 premiership team. That is the good news. The bad news is that Gilham and Roughead are out for the year while Renouf is extremely doubtful. Then Ladson, Ellis and Young are fringe players. So the team that fronts up on Friday will have approx around a dozen premiership players in it.
The Hawks are a dangerous team and have a chance to go a long way in the finals. Their first challenge is to overcome the Cats in week one. While the Cats have won their past 6 games against the Hawks, Hawthorn have a long finals winning run over Geelong (4 wins, and more if you count the night series, going back to 1989). Their last finals loss to Geelong was in 1963.
Their 6 day break back from Brisbane is not ideal, but 8 players were rested. An underrated player is Bailey. He has played every game from round 9 onwards except for 12 and 24. They lost R12 to Geelong and almost lost R24 to the Suns. Their only loss while Bailey has played was to the Pies; and this coincided with the club's longest injury list for the year.
They tend to fancy themselves against Collingwood and, to a lesser extent, Geelong (some of those 6 losses have been very close games). But I reckon that the best is to come in the 2012 – 2014 period.
This brings me to the Cats. They are the least favoured 19 and 3 team with 157% of all time. Many were prepared to write them off totally after their home loss to the Swans in R23. But then a whopping win over the Pies made everyone wonder: were the Pies trying? Are the Cats hitting form at the right time?
One favour that Mark Thompson did for the 2011 Cats was to give them a long break after the 2009 season. This caused them to run out of puff in 2010, but has refreshed them for the 2011 season. I still favour the Pies as a superior team, but they are in there with a big chance, given some concerns about Magpie players' fitness. I will discuss percentage in the Pies' comments.
I am not convinced that they will win in week 1, but they deserve to be favourites. And a win in week 1 should see them through to a prelim final – most likely vs the Eagles. From there, they would be favoured to win and be a big chance in the grand final. They will be ready to pounce if anything goes wrong for Collingwood.
Penny: I need to discuss the Magpies and Cats together. Late last year, I reviewed the teams that had had big grand final wins over the past 50 years
http://longggey.com/footy-analysis-wisdom/grand-final-big-win-a-sin
The précis of the article was that 19 teams had won the flag by over 6 goals in this time frame. Only 7 of the 19 made the grand final the following year. And each team lost the second half of that grand final. The Hawks in 1989 were barely able to hold on, while the other 6 all lost.
The Pies, on that basis, are heading for a grand final loss. One thing that is consistent with last year is a Magpie loss in the last round. They did it last year when they lost to the Hawks, before hitting top form for the finals. So I expect them to be on top of their game for week 1 of the finals against the Eagles. The only concern here is that they had a healthy list last year apart from Presti and Dick. This year there are a number of players with injury worries or who may be underdone due to a lack of continuity of match play.
Many Collingwood fans thought that they should have been undefeated for the first 23 rounds (with a close loss to the Cats in round 8 the subject of much discussion). Had they won that match, then their season would have been virtually identical to that of the Cats in 2008. IE only one loss in home and away, and it was a big one. This is another technical pointer to a grand final loss.
But someone has to beat them. The Cats are in the best position to do this. So it's the Cats for the flag for my tip.
Fred: In terms of percentage, the Pies are the most dominant team ever to play the game. The figures are slightly skewed due to the arrival of the Suns and the performance of Port plus a few other teams.
Their percentage is 167.7 which beats the previous best of 162.2 by the Eagles in 1991 (lost grand final) and 161.84 by Geelong in 2008 (lost grand final). The Dons won the flag in 200 with 159.1
Percentage tends to be good indicator of overall ability and is a good guide to premiership success.
But a better indicator (while not perfect) is percentage differential. Examples of this are 2007 where the Cats were 33% ahead of the next best percentage. In 2000, the Dons were 25% ahead of Carlton (who blew their chances in round 1 of the finals). This is by no means foolproof. The Cats in 2008 and Saints in 2009 had huge percentage breaks on the competition, but lost the grand final.
Looking through this filter, the Pies are still clearly the best team for the year, but the percentage gap tells us that 20 wins and 167.7 doesn't translate to invincibility. Had the other top 4 teams had percentages of 110 to 120, then we could virtually hand the flag to Collingwood now.
A further important consideration is looking at the players' availability and match fitness.
They are missing the following:
N Brown in best 22 2010
Dick exciting fringe player with potential.
Those with not the ideal preparation
Didak (injury interrupted year but can he hit top form in the finals)
Wellingham
Those who suffered minor injuries in round 24
Cloke
Goldsack
And, finally, Dale Thomas is out suspended for week 1 of the finals.
It is likely that everyone except N Brown and Dick will be available at some stage during the finals' campaign.
They are possibly the most vulnerable in week one vs West Coast Eagles, but the home state advantage should see them over the line.
Then they would face one of Cats, Hawks, Saints or Pies in the prelim. By then, Heath Shaw will have had a run under his belt. Maxwell should be 99% right and Dale Thomas can return.
There is some small chance that their long campaign (having played a 5 week finals' series last year and begun their pre season much earlier than the Saints) is taking its toll and that other teams may have gone past them. But it is more likely that the recent poorer than normal form is due to loading in preparation for a big finals' campaign.
Pies to win the flag, for mine. The Cats and Hawks are next best, but don't totally write off the Saints.
Fred's final word – Pies to win. Cats to pounce if Pie injuries compound. Hawks and Saints are also chances.
Penny: It's the Cats for me. They win it in the odd years. I'm not totally writing off the other top 4 teams, but the technical charts favour the Cats. Teams 5 – 8 are no hope.
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Watch Syrian Villagers and Troops Intercept & Turn Back Two US Convoys
Syrian villagers and army units regularly engage US forces and their Kurdish militia allies in deadly cat-and-mouse games in Syria's northeast, intercepting... 17.12.2021, Sputnik International
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Syrian villagers and troops successfully blocked two US convoys from passing through areas of northeastern Syria on Thursday, local media have reported.Sources told the Syrian Arab News Agency that the first incident took place in the village of Damkhiya in the Hasakah province countryside on Thursday afternoon, with residents from four villages gathering to intercept a convoy of five US armoured vehicles and one Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia vehicle as they tried to cross a local army checkpoint. The convoy was reportedly turned back and forced to retreat.The second incident, which also took place Thursday, saw troops and civilians at the Syrian army checkpoint at al-Baylona near Hamo intercepting a convoy of four US armoured vehicles and one SDF militia car, forcing them to turn back and preventing them from reaching a major highway. According to SANA's sources, villagers from Hamo and al-Qusayr gathered in the area and threw stones at the convoy.SANA released amateur footage of the incidents, showing villagers and troops standing on the road near a Syrian army checkpoint as a convoy of US Mine Resistant Armoured Vehicles, or MRAPs, stands idle on in the background flying large American flags.On Friday, local media reported on yet another incident, indicating that villagers in the village of Tal al-Dahab intercepted a convoy of several US armoured vehicles and one SDF vehicle near the village and forced them to retreat. That incident followed a separate incident in Tal al-Dahab on Wednesday, in which a convoy of five US armoured vehicles and several SDF militia trucks were halted as they attempted to pass through.US forces and their Syrian Kurdish allies seized control over wide swathes of territory in Syria's northeast, including up to 90 percent of the Arab Republic's oil and gas producing regions, in 2017. Syrian President Bashar Assad and other officials have repeatedly demanded that US and all other foreign forces not explicitly invited to the country by Damascus evacuate the country immediately. The US has ignored these demands.Efforts to block the passage of US convoys don't always end peacefully. In August 2020, a firefight ensued between a heavily armed US convoy and lightly armed Syrian forces, leaving one Syrian soldier dead and two others injured. The Pentagon originally claimed that the Syrian army was responsible for the deadly incident. However, in September 2021, Task & Purpose magazine published excerpts from a redacted report revealing that a US Army platoon sergeant involved in the firefight was facing a court-martial for his alleged misconduct before and after the battle, including making unlawful threats against Syrian soldiers, violating orders, and attempting to hide evidence of malfeasance.
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Syrian villagers and army units regularly engage US forces and their Kurdish militia allies in deadly cat-and-mouse games in Syria's northeast, intercepting convoys trying to move troops and materiel through areas loyal to Damascus. The tension-filled incidents are occasionally reported on by the media.
Syrian villagers and troops successfully blocked two US convoys from passing through areas of northeastern Syria on Thursday, local media have reported.
Sources told the Syrian Arab News Agency that the first incident took place in the village of Damkhiya in the Hasakah province countryside on Thursday afternoon, with residents from four villages gathering to intercept a convoy of five US armoured vehicles and one Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia vehicle as they tried to cross a local army checkpoint. The convoy was reportedly turned back and forced to retreat.
Villagers were said to have thrown stones at the vechiles and chanted slogans condemning the US and the SDF. Damkhiya residents were reinforced by residents of the nearby villages of Abu Dhail, Hamo and al-Qusayr, with Syrian army troops backing them up.
The second incident, which also took place Thursday, saw troops and civilians at the Syrian army checkpoint at al-Baylona near Hamo intercepting a convoy of four US armoured vehicles and one SDF militia car, forcing them to turn back and preventing them from reaching a major highway. According to SANA's sources, villagers from Hamo and al-Qusayr gathered in the area and threw stones at the convoy.
SANA released amateur footage of the incidents, showing villagers and troops standing on the road near a Syrian army checkpoint as a convoy of US Mine Resistant Armoured Vehicles, or MRAPs, stands idle on in the background flying large American flags.
On Friday, local media reported on yet another incident, indicating that villagers in the village of Tal al-Dahab intercepted a convoy of several US armoured vehicles and one SDF vehicle near the village and forced them to retreat. That incident followed a separate incident in Tal al-Dahab on Wednesday, in which a convoy of five US armoured vehicles and several SDF militia trucks were halted as they attempted to pass through.
US forces and their Syrian Kurdish allies seized control over wide swathes of territory in Syria's northeast, including up to 90 percent of the Arab Republic's oil and gas producing regions, in 2017. Syrian President Bashar Assad and other officials have repeatedly demanded that US and all other foreign forces not explicitly invited to the country by Damascus evacuate the country immediately. The US has ignored these demands.
Efforts to block the passage of US convoys don't always end peacefully. In August 2020, a firefight ensued between a heavily armed US convoy and lightly armed Syrian forces, leaving one Syrian soldier dead and two others injured. The Pentagon originally claimed that the Syrian army was responsible for the deadly incident. However, in September 2021, Task & Purpose magazine published excerpts from a redacted report revealing that a US Army platoon sergeant involved in the firefight was facing a court-martial for his alleged misconduct before and after the battle, including making unlawful threats against Syrian soldiers, violating orders, and attempting to hide evidence of malfeasance.

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A report by Business Insider has revealed that Facebook has moved hundreds of employee from its research team, Facebook Reality Labs, to a team that focuses specifically on augmented reality hardware.
The findings have led to speculation that Facebook could release its long awaited augmented reality glasses sometime soon - although we aren't holding our breath for a 2019 release. Or even a release this side of 2025 for that matter.


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080219PRESIDENT MOMIS CALLS ON MEDIA NOT TO SPECULATE REFERENDUM DATE.
The ABG President Grand Chief DR. JOHN MOMIS today made some comments regarding media reporting regarding the upcoming referendum on Bougainville's political future particularly with regard to the referendum date.
President Momis said that the Bougainville Peace Agreement is clear that the referendum must take place before 15 June 2020.
And the target date of 15 June 2019 was agreed to by the National Government and the Autonomous Bougainville Government as a basis of something to work towards.
The target date was always going to be dependent on operational readiness and the capacity of the Bougainville Referendum Commission to conduct the poll.
He said that him and the Prime Minister remain committed to ensure that the referendum takes place within the window provided by the Bougainville Peace Agreement.
President Momis said that a meeting of the Joint Supervisory Body (JSB) is scheduled to take place in Port Moresby on the 1st of March and a critical issue for consideration will be determining the actual date for the referendum to take place.
He said that the meeting will be attended by the Bougainville Referendum Commission Chairman Mr Bertie Ahern, and it is appropriate that the JSB take into account Mr Ahern's advice in determining the timetable moving forward.
"In the interim, he called on the media and others not to speculate further. The two Governments will meet and a decision will be made, after which, a formal announcement will be made." said President Momis.


Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS). All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.
To obtain a copy of the Editorial Preface, click on the link below.
The goal of this theoretical study is to conceptually revise the flow theory formulated originally by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Concept of flow is one of the most frequently used terms that describe an optimal experience while performing activity and this does not apply only for video game industry. In this article we discuss the varieties of flow experience with respect to video games. Further, the authors emphasize relativity of the original concept of flow, understood as a universal experience of independent nature in terms of activity or personality of the participant. Following detailed analysis of existing literature and our previous empirical study, they define the concept of flow as a genre triad that portrays experience of climax, ilinx, and ludic trance. A further revision and extension of the original concept of flow is deemed necessary in order to map the variety of user experiences while playing video games with sufficient precision.
Engagement is a worthwhile psychological construct to examine in the context of video games and online training. In this context, previous research suggests that the more engaged a person is, the more likely they are to experience overall positive affect while performing at a high level. This research builds on theories of engagement, Flow Theory, and Cognitive Load Theory, to operationalize engagement in terms of cognitive load, affect, and performance. An adaptive algorithm was then developed to test the proposed operationalization of engagement. Using a puzzle-based video game, player performance and engagement was compared across three conditions: adaptive gameplay, a traditional linear gameplay, and choice-based gameplay. Results show that those in the adaptive gameplay condition performed higher compared to those in the other two conditions without any degradation of overall affect or self-report of engagement.
Considerable resources have been invested in examining the game design principles that best foster learning. One way to understand what constitutes a well-designed instructional game is to examine the relationship between gaming characteristics and actual learning. This report discusses the lessons learned from the design and development process of instructional simulations that are enhanced by competition and storyline gaming characteristics and developed as instructional interventions for a study on the effects of gaming characteristics on learning effectiveness and engagement. The goal of the instructional simulations was to engage college students in learning the statistics concepts of standard deviation and the empirical rule. A pilot study followed by a small-scale experimental study were conducted to improve the value and effectiveness of these designed simulations. Based on these findings, specific practical implications are offered for designing actual learning environments that are enhanced by competition and storyline gaming elements.
Every week an estimated 20 million people collectively spend hundreds of millions of hours playing massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). Here the authors investigate whether avatars in one such game, the World of Warcraft (WoW), convey accurate information about their players' personalities. They assessed consensus and accuracy of avatar-based impressions for 299 WoW players. The authors examined impressions based on avatars alone, and images of avatars presented along with usernames. The personality impressions yielded moderate consensus (avatar-only mean ICC = .32; avatar plus username mean ICC = .66), but no accuracy (avatar only mean r = .03; avatar plus username mean r = .01). A lens-model analysis suggests that observers made use of avatar features when forming impressions, but the features had little validity. Discussion focuses on what factors might explain the pattern of consensus but no accuracy, and on why the results might differ from those based on other virtual domains and virtual worlds.
For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: www.igi-global.com/isj.
The International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS) publishes research articles, theoretical critiques, and book reviews related to the development and evaluation of games and computer-mediated simulations. One main goal of this peer-reviewed, international journal is to promote a deep conceptual and empirical understanding of the roles of electronic games and computer-mediated simulations across multiple disciplines. A second goal is to help build a significant bridge between research and practice on electronic gaming and simulations, supporting the work of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.


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from helper import CompatTestCase
from validator.compat import TB6_DEFINITION

class TestTB6Compat(CompatTestCase):
    """Test that compatibility tests for Thunderbird 6 are properly executed."""

    VERSION = TB6_DEFINITION

    def test_nsIImapMailFolderSink(self):
        for method in self.run_xpcom_for_compat(
                "nsIImapMailFolderSink", ["setUrlState()"]):
            self.assert_silent()
            self.assert_compat_error(type_="notice")

    def test_nsIImapProtocol(self):
        for method in self.run_xpcom_for_compat(
                "nsIImapProtocol", ["NotifyHdrsToDownload()"]):
            self.assert_silent()
            self.assert_compat_error(type_="notice")

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The exciting time of the baseball season has arrived as we find out who are the top players as they receive their deserving awards.
On Monday, the Players Choice Awards were revealed with Blue Jays Josh Donaldson winning the Player of the Year award, Astros Jose Altuve taking home the Majestic Athletic Always Game Award and the Orioles Adam Jones winning the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award.
Major Leaguers recognize the on-field and off-field achievements of their peers through the Players Trust's Players Choice Awards program. The players annually honor the outstanding player, rookie, pitcher and comeback player in each league. Two additional awards which bestow top honors without regard to league are the Player of the Year and the Marvin Miller Man of the Year, named for the founding executive director of the MLBPA and given to the player whose excellence on and off the field most inspire others to higher levels of achievement. Players Choice Award winners designate charities to receive grants totaling $260,000 from the Players Trust. To date, the Players Trust has recognized the outstanding on-field and off-field performances of Players Choice Awards winners by contributing more than $3.8 million to charities around the world.


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Q: Concatenate 2000 lines into 1 line in Emacs I have 2000 lines of code that I need to concatenate, hopefully into
one.
I know that in Emacs, with the replace-string command, I can add the
+ for concatenation at the back of each line all in one go. But I
when I do this I constantly get a syntax error when I'm using the file
on SAGE. So I started experimenting and found that if I move them all
together on the same line and add the + symbol, it then works.
What's the best solution to put them all together on one line?
It might be because I have brackets within brackets in each line. Here
are three example lines from my output:
[[['37a1', 1], 153, 160, [[13, 2], [53, -1], [67, 2], [127, -1], [443, -1], [547, 2], [599, -1]]], [['43a1', 1], 159, 163, [[5, -1], [103, -1], [127, -1], [541, -1]]], [['53a1', 1], 159, 161, [[71, -1], [97, -1]]], [['57a1', 1], 155, 157, [[5, 2], [11, -1]]], [['58a1', 1], 152, 157, [[31, 2], [53, -1], [109, -1], [673, -1], [739, -1]]], [['61a1', 1], 157, 161, [[7, -1], [13, -1], [71, 2], [113, -1]]], [['65a1', 1], 159, 160, [[43, 2]]], [['77a1', 1], 155, 160, [[5, 2], [31, -1], [71, -1], [179, -1], [223, -1]]], [['79a1', 1], 156, 159, [[41, 2], [83, 2], [131, 2]]], [['82a1', 1], 150, 154, [[5, 2], [229, 2], [283, 2], [499, 2]]]]
[[['112a1', 1], 155, 156, [[5, -1]]], [['117a1', 1], 155, 157, [[11, 2], [523, 2]]], [['118a1', 1], 158, 161, [[127, -1], [251, -1], [277, -1]]], [['121b1', 1], 82, 82, []], [['122a1', 1], 151, 158, [[5, -1], [43, 2], [79, -1], [113, -1], [191, -1], [241, 2], [523, -1]]], [['123a1', 1], 157, 159, [[5, 0], [7, 2]]], [['123b1', 1], 156, 159, [[17, 2], [29, -1], [811, -1]]], [['124a1', 1], 155, 155, []], [['128a1', 1], 161, 162, [[13, 2]]], [['129a1', 1], 160, 163, [[283, -1], [563, -1], [659, -1]]]]
[[['130a1', 1], 158, 159, [[43, 2]]], [['131a1', 1], 161, 163, [[59, 0], [271, -1]]], [['135a1', 1], 151, 158, [[19, -1], [53, 2], [151, -1], [241, -1], [421, -1], [607, -1], [613, -1]]], [['136a1', 1], 160, 161, [[5, 2]]], [['138a1', 1], 155, 157, [[11, 2], [313, 2]]], [['141a1', 1], 154, 159, [[7, 0], [29, -1], [37, -1], [97, -1], [557, -1]]], [['141d1', 1], 159, 161, [[37, -1], [619, -1]]], [['142a1', 1], 152, 157, [[5, -1], [13, -1], [131, -1], [233, 2], [907, 2]]], [['142b1', 1], 158, 160, [[31, 0], [911, -1]]], [['143a1', 1], 155, 159, [[7, 2], [29, 2], [113, -1], [509, 2]]]]

So what I want is something like
A = B + C + D + ... = [a, b, c, ...] + [d, e, f, ...] + ...

where
[['37a1', 1], 153, 160, [[13, 2], [53, -1], [67, 2], [127, -1], [443, -1], [547, 2], [599, -1]]]

is one example of such an entry a and B, C, D are the set of
entries of lines 1, 2 and 3 (and I have 2000 of such lines).

A: To go from
A
B
C

to
A+B+C

You could replace line endings with +'s:
M-x replace-stringRETC-q C-jRET+RET
...and then manually fix-up the start and end of the resulting single line as necessary to meet the needs of a proper SAGE statement.

A: There are lots of ways to do this but a simple one is keyboard macros.
Move to the first line.  Use C-x ( to start a keyboard macro.
Then C-e C-k to join the next line to the current line.
Now C-x ) to end the keyboard macro.
Now you can run it as much as you want: M-1000 C-x e.
If you want to more easily limit it you can narrow the buffer to the area you want to operate on.

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Q: What is the best way to change an API Im currently changing a set of kernel APIs that are used in about 40 different files. How do I go about refactoring them? Is it a good practice to have the old API call the new one thus eliminating my going through every file and making changes? By doing this I'm essentially saying that all old code using this API is fine but newer code should not(Although there would be no way of enforcing this via code). #baddesign

A: It is a good practice(as you have rightly mentioned) to gradually "retire" an existing API in favor of a new one; in the meantime continuing to provide the older API for backward compatibility.
Currently you need to mark the function(s) part of the existing older API as deprecated. This can be done by specifying the "deprecated" compiler function-attribute during the function definition as follows.
int old_fn () __attribute__ ((deprecated (<optional-msg>)));

Now during compilation, a warning is generated if any part of the code attempts to call the deprecated function. The warning contains the file and line from where the deprecated function is being called. Also if the optional msg parameter is specified, it will be logged to the screen along-with the warning.
To guide the developers using your framework towards the new API, you can add additional info to the msg string. For example, the name of the new function that is recommended henceforth in lieu of the deprecated function.


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She also wanted to visit her old flat for a week, to decide which furniture she wanted to bring. Again, time constrictions and her health needs meant that this wasn't possible. As well as the mobility problems, diabetes, and suspected dementia, she is doubly incontinent and needs someone to change her pads at various times of the day and night. The care staff at the flat only come in up to 4 times a day and do not make night calls. They also do not do very personal care such as this. As a compromise, I took pictures of all the furniture she'd be able to choose from to take to her new home. Together, we decided what would be practical as well as nice and homely.
Because of certain decisions that have had to be made for her, my Nan believes that we are deciding things without her input and basically trying to control her life. This has made her very distressed, angry, and upset at times, alongside other signs and symptoms of Dementia. We have been doing our best to compromise, involve her where possible, comfort her, and do things to make her happy, but it has been extremely difficult.
We were contacted by the bed management person earlier today, to say that health authority funding for the temporary nursing home placement, will end in a week's time, so it would be best to move her into a permanent placement around the same time. This is of course quite a rush, and at the moment, we are shortlisting the homes we like best, and contacting our favourites to see if a room will be available next week. I will probably blog further, once Nan is in a permanent home, to tell you (my readers) how she is settling in.
Things have improved quite vastly with my cousin. Her general health is much better, but she is still unable to move her legs. She has been working with physios, swimming every day (she is a very strong swimmer) and is now having further tests in London, to establish what exactly happened and what the situation is now. To say this is a relief is an understatement. I know she may be reading this so I don't want to go into too much detail, but long story short, it's looking promising.
My mental health has been up and down, to be honest. I've felt the weight of the world on my shoulders, I've been having some very low days, some very emotional days with bad mood swings, some very anxious/panicky days, and today I've had a very agitated and hyper day. I don't have hypomanic episodes strongly/frequently enough for a Bipolar diagnosis, so I think these episodes are part of the BPD mood swings. I'm still waiting on counselling and desperately needing to talk to someone face to face. I think if things get too bad, I'll call out of hours team. I've spoken on the phone to them before and they were very helpful and kind. I've not had to take Diazepam more than a couple of times in the space of a couple of months, so luckily I still have some left. My GP is very very reluctant to prescribe even a small amount because of risk of addiction and/or overdose.
Tomorrow, I will be having an appointment with a Cardiologist. This is because I have been very dizzy and having near-fainting spells for many years. I can only recall properly fainting once, 5 years ago, but I mentioned this to the GP before referral, just in case it was relevant. These dizzy and faintness spells are at their worst and usually are triggered by standing up or sitting up for a while. I find overheating, eating carbs, not having enough fluids, or being stressed make my symptoms worse. I find lying down, eating salty food, and hydrating all help, even if just slightly. I will speak about all of this in much more detail in my next post, as well as documenting how my Cardiology appointment went.


WOODSTOCK – A request by McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan to reclassify two election-related positions – one of which is now held by her husband – was not well-received by the County Board Human Resources Committee.
Committee members voted last Thursday, 6-1, to table the proposal to reclassify the positions from hourly to salaried, which McClellan said would help save taxpayers at least $11,500 a year by cutting overtime incurred during elections. But the fact that McClellan hired her spouse for a position outweighed thoughts of cost savings, committee members said after the meeting.
Under McClellan's proposal, the existing positions of election administrative supervisor – now held by husband Edward Gil – and election administrative analyst would become salaried positions of chief deputy and chief of operations. However, McClellan stressed on Monday afternoon that her husband would not be receiving that management position, and would continue in his current position of maintaining optical-scan and touch-screen voting machines.
McClellan, a Republican from Holiday Hills, said she did not run for the office so she could give her husband a job, but said he had a unique skill set that she did not find among other applicants. Until now, the office employed an outside vendor to maintain the machines at a much higher cost.
McClellan, a former County Board member who had chaired the Human Resources Committee, won the March primary and ran unopposed in November to replace longtime clerk Kathie Schultz, who did not seek re-election.
"I didn't hire him because he's my husband. I hired him because he's a qualified person to do that job," McClellan said.
That argument did not persuade retired Crystal Lake businessman Joe Alger, who started the debate at Thursday's meeting by questioning the hiring choice during public comment. He said he was angry enough to attend the meeting when he heard about the hire.
Countywide elected officials have autonomy when it comes to hiring, but only the County Board that approves their budgets has the authority to change how much department employees get paid, create new positions or alter existing ones.
Evertsen's arguments were along similar lines.
"There is no doubt in my mind as to why people have such a dim view of elected officials," Evertsen said.
McClellan called the debate a distraction, and said her proposal should not have come to any of the committee members as a surprise because she contacted all of them before the meeting. Only Don Kopsell, R-Crystal Lake, voted against tabling the measure.
"I was trying to save the county some money. Obviously, [the committee] is not interested in saving money," McClellan said.
McClellan's resolution also sought to lower the pay for two vacant positions as a cost-cutting measure.
The McHenry County Board Human Resources Committee voted Thursday, 6-1, to indefinitely table a request by County Clerk Mary McClellan to reclassify two election-related positions, one of which is now held by her husband.
Committee member Don Kopsell, R-Crystal Lake, cast the sole opposing vote.


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Q: Class of directed graph for which there is only one path to a given parent? From a nomenclature standpoint, I am wondering if there is a name for a class of directed graph that has only one path to any given parent.
I can visualize this shape as an upside down tree that may or may not have a root, kind of like this:

In looking at this, I can see it is not really an upside down tree.
Is there a name for this type of graph? Again the rules are:

*

*graph is directed

*there are no cycles

*nodes can share children

*no node can have multiple paths to the same parent
Note that these rules work the same in both directions. For example, if we take the graph shown above and reverse the direction of all the arrows, then the rules are still satisfied. What is the name of this thing?

A: Your diagram is a directed, acyclic graph and there is only a single path between any two connected nodes. I believe the graph you are referring to here is a polytree.

A: An orientation such that for every $u-v$ path there exists a $v-u$ path is called a strong orientation. Conversely, an orientation that only has either a $u-v$ or a $v-u$ path is a weak orientation.


Here is the structure we have been discussing.
The two terminal structure with a bias VGB.
It charged on the QG.
And reverse under the charge QI.
And depletion region charge on QB.
And the total the potential drop here is the surface potential, CS.
versus V G B looks like this.
And that it flattens out over here for the following reason.
the electrons start piling up here next to the surface.
So when you increase v g b you depend a larger inversely charged QI.
But a slight increase in CS is enough to give you that QI.
south for that values of VGB.
This is characteristic of what we call strong inversion.
region, and this here is the strong inversion region.
We are going to concentrate on this part now.
what is the most important characteristic as far as the service potential goes?
It is that the surface potential, it's almost flat, almost constant.
It is not t 2 pi F as you very often see in some books.
It is 2 pi F plus a certain amount delta phi.
Actually this is a realistic plot.
So if 2 pi F is, let's say 7x10 of 1 volt, delta pi here can be 2 or 3x10 of 1 volt.
so you cannot be ignoring things like that.
that delta phi is not exactly constant, because this curve is not exactly flat.
But more or less, it is constant.
the total value of surface potential in strong inversion, will be phi 0.
So this is the pinned surface potential value.
delta phi is not mentioned at all in some treatments of strong inversion.
But I advise you to take it into account.
inside the simple equation we had developed for the inversion region.
equation which is valid throughout inversion, weak, moderate, and strong.
Well, in strong inversion, we can replace psi s by pi 0.
And we end up with this.
Now this, if you lump all of these terms into one, and you call the result VT0.
called threshold voltage, then this equation can be written simply.
So now we have our first very simple equation.
and is proportional to the oxide capacitance.
And the difference between the gate back voltage and VT0, the threshold voltage.
And VTO from here is given by this expression.
So these equations are very commonly used in strong inversion.
That QI is a first degree polynomial in strong inversion.
This is of QI because QI itself is negative versus VGB.
And in strong inversion, which is over here, you see this behavior.
A straight line that goes first to this equation.
Now this straight line, if you extend it, it goes like this.
It goes as the broken line over here and QI becomes 0 when VGB is equal to VT0.
but you don't care because we said that this is the equation for strong inversion.
And strong inversion is from this point on.
So the equation is accurate in strong inverse.
The slope of this is C'ox.
Remember, I'm plotting the magnitude here.
which is a parameter that appears in this strong inversion equation.
It, itself, is below the values that correspond to strong inversion.
In other words, the equation here is valid from this point on.
But in the equation, there is a parameter, VT0, which is outside strong inversion.
You need a couple of 10th of a vault before you get to strong inversion.
dopants for now, so everything I'm telling you applies to uniform substrates.
inversion equations to get the really simple equations In strong inversion.


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The Token GOP Minority: The Emerging Dem Majority Stumps GOP Politics
By Big Tent Democrat, Section Other Politics
Posted on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 08:58:00 AM EST
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"Better to be a troublemaker than to pursue excellence." - Black Republican Shelby Steele describing his view of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who finished at the top of her high school, college and law school classes and is the most experienced nominee to the Supreme Court in a century.
The Emerging Democratic Majority really has Republicans stumped (see also Brian Tamanaha.) The token designated African American Republican (yes, the irony of an "identity" commentator decrying "identity" politics is not lost on me) Shelby Steele writes:
President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court points to a dilemma that will likely plague his presidency: How does a "post-racialist" president play identity politics? . . . Somehow we all simply know -- like it or not -- that Hispanics are now overdue for the gravitas of high office. . . . [Y]et it was precisely the American longing for post-racialism -- relief from this sort of racial calculating -- that lifted Mr. Obama into office.
The Sotomayor nomination commits the cardinal sin of identity politics: It seeks to elevate people more for the political currency of their gender and ethnicity than for their individual merit. (Here, too, is the ugly faithlessness in minority merit that always underlies such maneuverings.) Mr. Obama is promising one thing and practicing another, using his interracial background to suggest an America delivered from racial corruption even as he practices a crude form of racial patronage.
(Emphasis supplied.) Steele's essay is many things at once - offensive (Sotomayor is meritless? Because she is Latino?), wrong (Obama won not because of the promise of "post racialism," whites did not vote for Obama more than any other Dem candidate, A-As and LATINOS did).
Shelby's essay is also deeply ironic - if Shelby Steele were NOT black, no one would even know who he is - he is a circus show - a black Republican. He is identity politics - an African American who makes a living at decrying identity politics for Republicans.
First, the offensive. Objectively speaking - Sonia Sotomayor is the most experienced judge nominated for the Supreme Court in a century. In what possible way does Sotomayor have less merit in Steele's eyes than Samuel Alito? It's very simple - Alito is a white man and Sotomayor is a Latino woman. That is how Steele thinks. He is a sexist and a racist.
Read this passage from Steele:
Judge Sotomayor is the archetypal challenger. Challengers see the moral authority that comes from their group's historic grievance as an entitlement to immediate parity with whites -- whether or not their group has actually earned this parity through development. If their group is not yet competitive with whites, the moral authority that comes from their grievance should be allowed to compensate for what they lack in development. This creates a terrible corruption in which the group's historic grievance is allowed to count as individual merit. And so a perverse incentive is created: Weakness and victimization are rewarded over development. Better to be a troublemaker than to pursue excellence.
Forget for a moment the inherent racism in the passage. Consider his description of a person who finished at the top of her high school, college and law school classes -- "Better to be a troublemaker than to pursue excellence." It is as if Steele was describing himself. Is Steele racist in way that Rush Limbaugh can emulate? Or is he merely playing a role for his white Republican overlords? Only he knows.
However, Republican may not understand that folks like Steele are headed for the ashbin of history. Steele writes:
I have called Mr. Obama a bound man because he cannot win white support without bargaining and he cannot maintain minority support without playing the very identity politics that injure him with whites. The latter form of politics is grounded in being what I call a challenger -- i.e., someone who presumes that whites are racist until they prove otherwise by granting preferences of some kind to minorities. Whites quietly seethe at challengers like Jesse Jackson who use the moral authority of their race's historic grievance to muscle for preferential treatment. Mr. Obama has been loved precisely because he was an anti-Jackson, a bargainer who grants them innocence before asking for their support.
What is amazing about this passage is Steele's own inherent assumption about white racism in voting. Steele asserts that Obama made a "bargain" with white people and that allowed him to win the Presidency. If Obama made such a "bargain," then he got cheated. As has been written by me and others - White votes did not deliver Obama to the White House - the Emerging Democratic Majority did:
The thesis forwarded by Judis and Texeira has been confirmed in this election. Women (56%), African Americans (95%), Latinos (66%), young voters (66% (among whites (54%)) and college graduates (53%) form the new Democratic majority. Older white voters remain Republican voters. And, as Texeira and Judis noted this has policy ramifications:
[T]he 2006 election represented a shift in American politics, away from the right and toward the center-left, on a range of issues that go well beyond the Iraq war, corruption, and competence. Voters in 2006 returned to viewpoints on the economy and society that inclined them, even leaving aside the war, to favor Democrats over conservative Republicans.
The 2008 exit polls show that the Emerged Democratic Majority is progressive and Democratic in its views on issues. 54% of the country agrees with Obama on the issues (50%) or think he is too conservative (4%). 63% disapprove of the Iraq War. Barack Obama won a majority vote on the issues of energy, Iraq, the economy, and health care.
Steele has a mindset where people who look like him must perform in a certain way to "earn" their keep with their white Republican overlords. But their need for him is fast ending. Republicans no longer need token anti-minority commentators. They need genuine outreach, ESPECIALLY to Latinos.
In short, the Shelby Steele/Rush Limbaugh/ Glenn Beck anti-Latino/African American/Asian/ "Other" Era must end for the Republican Party.
The Southern Strategy had its day - it is over. The interesting thing to me is Karl Rove at one time tried to usher in this new period for the Republican Party. George W. Bush was going to be the figure that led to the New Emerging Republican Majority - that included Latinos, Asians and yes, more African Americans.
But that dream died. And the Shelby Steeles, Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks are insuring there will be no resurrection. I am not sure if this is due to actual beliefs or merely driven by personal financial considerations -- but the effects will be the same - irreparable damage to the Republican Party.
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Wow (5.00 / 1) (#1)
by lilburro on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 08:00:31 AM EST
I am taken aback by this racist garbage:
Challengers see the moral authority that comes from their group's historic grievance as an entitlement to immediate parity with whites -- whether or not their group has actually earned this parity through development. If their group is not yet competitive with whites, the moral authority that comes from their grievance should be allowed to compensate for what they lack in development.
Go back to the 2nd Circuit, Sotomayor. Though you are the most experienced SCOTUS nominee in years and have yourself earned many accolades, unfortunately your "group" has not developed enough. Jesus...it's practically out of a eugenics textbook.
Ah yes (5.00 / 2) (#5)
by Steve M on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 08:25:42 AM EST
Imagine if Sotomayor had actually tried to succeed, how much she could have accomplished!
Steele is dangerous (5.00 / 0) (#11)
by samtaylor2 on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 11:10:13 AM EST
Steele unfortunately is an amazing writer. His book "A Dream Deferred"- which obnoxiously uses Langston Hughes poem in a way it was never meant to be used, is AMAZINGLY well written. It creeps up on you, and uses simple logic and his mastery of words he hides the pitfalls in his arguements well.
But he can never hide the fact his audience is conservative white people. Bill Cosby is saying the exact same stuff with a different ending and a completely different goal to Black people, thus showing who actually wants to help and change the "community".
The problem with Black conservatives is not their notion of self reliance and that racism has been overcome, it is that they use these arguements to attack their own race.
Steele's 'audience' is, I would say, (5.00 / 2) (#12)
by oldpro on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 12:26:17 PM EST
men...predominately white men, yes...but men. They have the power in both minority and majority communities and they want to keep it for themselves. Steele speaks to and for them...and gets his 'power' from them, academically, financially, socially...
Keep in mind that affirmative action (which is what Steele is describing by talking about 'challengers') benefitted women more than any other group.
It's not only racism. It's sexism as well...but hardly surprising.
All of this is true (none / 0) (#2)
by andgarden on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 08:18:50 AM EST
but just reflecting on Steele for a minute, it's his real shtick that he can say things as racist as most Republicans really think?
Apparently (none / 0) (#3)
by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 08:19:33 AM EST
Well, the Republicans are never going to get (none / 0) (#4)
any real share of minority votes if their attitude is that white male overrepresentation is the natural state of the world, and that they have absolutely no plans of taking any steps to change that.
Where can I find the full statement? (none / 0) (#6)
by cawaltz on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 10:01:54 AM EST
I would like to read the statement in its entirety.
I disliked that the GOP when discussing some of Sotomayors statements didn't bother to provide context and I'd be interested in viewing this statement in its entirety to understand its full context.
What statement are you talking about? (none / 0) (#7)
Can't speak for cwaltz, but: (none / 0) (#9)
by oculus on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 10:47:39 AM EST
is there a link for your first paragraph?
Yes (none / 0) (#10)
My essay.
The indent is confusing. (none / 0) (#13)
by oculus on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 01:55:31 PM EST
Do you mean (none / 0) (#8)
by eric on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 10:47:21 AM EST
Steele's essay?
It's linked in the post, too.
Yep, That's what I meant. Thank you (2.00 / 0) (#14)
by cawaltz on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 02:44:43 PM EST
It's an interesting essay. I can't say that I don't agree with his assessment that alot of why she was selected was because she's latina and female. I don't really have a problem with that though. She's clearly qualified so her being a latina and female are bonuses. Then again, I agree with affirmative action.
It is a racist and sexist essay (5.00 / 0) (#15)
by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 03:31:46 PM EST
I guess you can call it "interesting" if you want. I found it despicable.
Yes, but Steele didn't say (none / 0) (#16)
by dk on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 04:44:38 PM EST
that a lot of why she was selected was because she's a clearly qualified latina and female. Instead, he said this:
The Sotomayor nomination commits the cardinal sin of identity politics: It seeks to elevate people more for the political currency of their gender and ethnicity than for their individual merit.
Big difference. Also, to accuse her of having demonstrated "a Hispanic chauvinism so extreme that it sometimes crosses into outright claims of racial supremacy" based upon one or two lines from a speech taken out of context? Oy.
It's so annoying we have the likes of Michael Steele dominating the discussion. Still waiting for the Democrats and others on the left to start getting answers with regard to her positions on issues important to liberals. That's what we should be doing, right?
if she were a white male? (none / 0) (#17)
by diogenes on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 10:03:58 PM EST
A lot of people do well in high school and then get high GPA's in Ivy league schools in the humanities. There are legions of people who make law review in the Ivy league law schools. There are many experienced judges and professors (e.g. Obama) around. If Sonia Sotomayor were a white male, would she have been number one on anyone's list for a SCOTUS appointment?


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The 2017 NFL season is rapidly approaching and, across the league, the hype train is already running. That was previously true of the Indianapolis Colts, as the team deploys one of the best quarterbacks in the league and that always levels the playing field, even when a team's roster isn't quite up to snuff elsewhere.
However, the suspicions and fears of Colts fans (and those who follow the league) were confirmed on Monday, as the team announced that stud signal-caller Andrew Luck would miss the season opener.
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Luck's shoulder ailment is perhaps the biggest concern of the entire franchise and it makes a ton of sense to be exceedingly careful with the organizational centerpiece. With that said, the Colts must travel to Los Angeles to take on the Rams and, as of early in the week, Indianapolis is a solid underdog on the road with Scott Tolzien manning the quarterback position.
On the bright side for the Colts, Luck is not on the "physically unable to perform" list, providing some optimism of a swifter return to action. Still, we now know that Indianapolis will be operating without Andrew Luck in the opener and that outlines a difficult task when it comes to starting the season with a 1-0 record.
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Q: C# Random.Next - never returns the upper bound? random.Next(0,5)

It never returns the 5 (but sometimes returns the 0.) Why? I thought these are just boundary values that can be returned. Thanks

A: Straight from the documentation:
 Summary:
   Returns a random number within a specified range.

 Parameters:
   minValue:
     The inclusive lower bound of the random number returned.

   maxValue:
     The exclusive upper bound of the random number returned. maxValue must be
     greater than or equal to minValue.

 Returns:
     A 32-bit signed integer greater than or equal to minValue and less than maxValue;
     that is, the range of return values includes minValue but not maxValue. If
     minValue equals maxValue, minValue is returned.

If you look at the parameters, you will see that minValue is inclusive (which is why your 0 occurs) and maxValue is exclusive (your 5 never occurs).

A: Good way to remember it is to consider max as amount of numbers from which it takes random number.
So random.Next(0,2) means that it takes random out of 2 numbers starting from 0: 0 and 1.

A: The maxValue for the upper-bound in the Next() method is exclusive—the range includes minValue, maxValue-1, and all numbers in between.

A: The documentation says the upper bound is exclusive. Exclusive means that it is not included in the possible return set. In a more mathematical notation 0 <= x < 5 in this case.

A: This has been written a long time ago but I will comment anyway. I think the main reason for that design decision is that most if not all random number generator at their core generate numbers from 0 to 2^32-1. So if you specify Int32.MaxValue you will never get that number. Having an exception for one number must have been not acceptable to the designers so they decided to have the bracket exclusive. Problem solved!

A: When you just look in Google for "c# random" and follow the first links to the method of desire you get here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa329893(v=vs.71).aspx
And there is no hint about the exclusiveness of the upper bound. They must have found the mistake in the code and corrected it with documentation.
So it is important to always check the version of the framework when looking at the documentation. Even when working with old versions of the framework, it is worth to have a look at the newer documentation.


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Q: Trying to understand Precedence Rule 4 in Scala In Depth Book I am trying to understand the 4th rule on Precedence on Bindings on page 93 in Joshua Suareth's book Scala in depth.
According to this rule:

definitions made available by a package clause not in the source file where the definition occurs have lowest precedence.

It is this rule that I intend to test.
So off I went and tried to follow Josh's train of thought on Page 94. He creates a source file called externalbindings.scala and I did the same, with some changes to it as below
package com.att.scala

class extbindings {
  def showX(x: Int): Int = {
    x
  }

  object x1 {
    override def toString = "Externally bound obj object in com.att.scala"
  }
}

Next he asks us to create another file that will allow us to test the above rule. I created a file called precedence.scala:
package com.att.scala

class PrecedenceTest { //Josh has an object here instead of a class

  def testPrecedence(): Unit = { //Josh has main method instead of this
    testSamePackage()
    //testWildCardImport()
    //testExplicitImport()
    //testInlineDefinition()
  }

  println("First statement of Constructor")
  testPrecedence
  println("Last statement of Constructor")

  def testSamePackage() {
    val ext1 = new extbindings()
    val x = ext1.showX(100)
    println("x is "+x)
    println(obj1) // Eclipse complains here
  }
}

Now, Josh is able to print out the value of the object in his example by simply doing the <package-name>.<object-name>.testSamePackage method on the REPL.
His output is:

Externally bound x object in package test

In my versions, the files are in Eclipse and I have my embedded Scala interpreter.
Eclipse complains right here: println(obj), it says: not found value obj1
Am I doing something obviously wrong in setting up the test files?
I would like to be able to test the rule I mentioned above and get the output:

Externally bound obj object in package com.att.scala

A: I haven't read the book, thus I'm not really sure if your code shows what the book wants to tell you.
Nevertheless, the error message is correct. obj1 is not found because it doesn't exist. In your code it is called x1. Because it is a member of extbindings you have to access it as a member of this class:
println(ext1.x1)

If x1 is defined outside of class extbinding, in scope of package com.att.scala, you can access it directly:
println(x1)

If it is defined in another package you have to put the package name before:
println(com.att.scala2.x1)

To simplify some things you can import x1:
import ext1.x1
println(x1)

Finally a tip to improve your code: name types in UpperCamelCase: extbindings -> Extbindings, x1 -> X1

A: If you replace a singleton object with a class, you will need to create an instance of that class.


An album dedicated to the alchemical fire: ELECTRICITY, pulser in the space between life and physics; embodiment of the spirit of modernity, whose energy we gratefully sucked from the electrical grid to record our songs, while it simultaneously and effortlessly lit the neon cities of earth, fuelled the consensual hallucination of cyberspace, and manipulated stellar nebulae at the farthest reaches of the cosmos.
they never called me up - they never came around"
"Crusaders, pagan ravers, what do you say?
Holy ways are motorways, covered in clay ..."
You can build motorways over the ley lines, you can build coffee bars over holy ground, but you won't stop the gods appearing - they'll just start emerging in your computer. Take away the stone circles and people will use whatever else there is - like techno music - to reach those shamanic states. There are mystical impulses behind people's obsession with information technology - indeed a religious/mystical fervour greets each new high tech advance, from the Victorian telegraph to our own internet. The boundaries between the synthetic, the physical and the mystical continue to blur.
who longs for a life like in Terry and June ... "
This is our anthemic glam rock stomper. The lyrics are the story of Paul and I's odyssey through the music business over the years, but are very heavily coded. See if you can work them out, by all means.
can cure your small town blues ..."
Every group would like their own theme song - just like The Monkees had. We have one and this is it. If we get a TV series, this will play over the opening credits. It's about how you need us in your life, with Paul's guitar playing at its jangliest.
noting it down like a diarist - with a tired wrist ..."
In this song about the rising Post-Thatcher generations, often ethically barren and geared to succeed in a hyper-competitive market place, Paul plays like Earl Slick on Bowie's Station To Station, creating the mother of all guitar solos, and sings a harmony in Punjabi over the chorus, just because he can.
everything is cut and paste - every thing pastiche ... a second shot at yesterday ..."
For those who live in films, books and records, the world outside can seem somewhat grey in comparison. What real world? Our friends are in that celluloid, within those pages, pristine and unchanging, as they always were, just waiting for us to revisit.
taught his little daughter, to move in for the kill ..."
You get more paranoid about people the less you know about them - but you keep on putting the boundaries up to keep those neighbours away. This jaunty hillbilly-spiked-with-brass style song is about survivalists - and all of us. How well do you know your neighbours?
"Ape to angel, this is our call - the rise to glory and spectacular fall - and are the answers in our genes or the stars; in my computer or the sand dunes of Mars?"
Who would the ideal group be? I'd say the latter period Tomorrow People deciding to become a garage band - Andrew, John, Mike and Soo Tai on guitars and Tim the computer on electronics. I'm sure this what they'd sound like. This is the most unusual song on the album, its music all based around one note, like Indian music. It's about office work and reaching a transcendent state through sheer boredom.
lurking underneath the skin; we're the ones who pull the veil and hide within."
Grant Morrison's Invisibles comics, collected as graphic novels, assume that pretty much all paranoid conspiracy theories are true. I imagined it being made into a big film and us writing the title theme. Morrison knows his Situationism, and employs the idea that you can always live in a palace of dreams if the palace of dreams is inside your head. Every city is magical if you look at it through new eyes. Get lost in your own environment. Walk for ten minutes without knowing where you're going. Weave down some strange passageways and unfamiliar alleys. The real trick in your life is to decondition yourself; to see how much of your life is traced to delusional projections and cultural programming; to greed and emotional fixation - to make yourself less susceptible to programming and mechanical habits. Shed those snakeskins and see what's left. Dare you try?
and we are lost because Eden has closed its doors ..."
A lament for lost childhood.
we'd rule the waves like Poseidon, if we'd just find the right one - everything's the same ..."
no more magic, no prophecy - they're burning all the sisters on the aspen tree ... "
The internet is propelling us back to medieval theology with its notion of cyberspace - a real space but immaterial, where people can commune in a non-bodily fashion; a space bringing intangible souls together. They may try to replace the mystical with the high tech, but is the internet an electronic version of heaven? You can't keep that magic down. This song takes us back to the Middle Ages when perception was haunted by magical forces and miraculous events- everything turns full circle.
(Above) Front cover shows Paul and I and the Psychodelicates dalmation on our flying carpet travelling through the fluctuating multiplicity of reality, off to solve another case.


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The program moves wolves around 33 centers for mating. Museum spokeswoman Leslie Pepple said a survival program team will hold a meeting in July to determine the futures of the museum's wolves, but the wolves will most likely be there for the next year.
The museum's pups possibly escaped their enclosure through a small opening in a fence. Staff members caught three of the four pups early Tuesday morning, and the final female pup was caught around noon.
Museum officials are reinforcing the area, and walking the perimeter daily to prevent a similar incident.
Pepple said the museum has not had an incident like before. But she said the animal care team has trained for such situations to make sure the pups stay healthy and safe.
While the pups were out of their enclosure, the staff left food and water on the site. The museum's observation team spotted the father wolf feeding the pups regurgitated food through the chain-link fence. The pups are still nursing, but the museum said they were healthy when recaptured.
All the pups received health checks before being reintroduced to their habitat. The animal care team noted no injuries or dehydration but they administered fluids as a precaution.
The Red Wolf Coalition filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission in 2014. The coalition was represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center. Derb Carter, director of the law center's Chapel Hill office, said the North Carolina agency pressured the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service into stopping its recovery efforts in the state.
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Q: angular-calendar create event for only working-days with https://mattlewis92.github.io/angular-calendar/#/kitchen-sink I am creating events for the calendar using https://mattlewis92.github.io/angular-calendar/#/kitchen-sink.
As per the documentation events are created like below :
events: CalendarEvent[] = [
    {
      start: subDays(startOfDay(new Date()), 1),
      end: addDays(new Date(), 1),
      title: 'A 3 day event',
      color: colors.red,
      actions: this.actions,
      allDay: true,
      resizable: {
        beforeStart: true,
        afterEnd: true
      },
      draggable: true
    },
    {
      start: startOfDay(new Date()),
      title: 'An event with no end date',
      color: colors.yellow,
      actions: this.actions
    },
    {
      start: subDays(endOfMonth(new Date()), 3),
      end: addDays(endOfMonth(new Date()), 3),
      title: 'A long event that spans 2 months',
      color: colors.blue,
      allDay: true
    },

Here how to create events only for weekdays? (example Mon to Friday).In the CalendarEvent[], I don't have the option to exclude the weekends.

A:

<ng-template #customCellTemplate let-day="day" let-locale="locale">

     0"
      >{{ day.badgeTotal }}
    {{ day.date | calendarDate:'monthViewDayNumber':locale }}

  **There are {{ day.events.length }} events on this day**
</ng-template>

this custom template day property has a  values  0,1,2,3,4,5,6 for all 7 days of the week. Using this we can control the event for the weekend.
code :


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Young people can have their say on initial plans for a pump track in Kidsgrove.
The Council is carrying out a short consultation exercise to gauge opinions on a proposed design for the new facility at Newchapel recreation ground.
A pump track is a looped sequence of rollers and banked turns and is designed to maximise momentum with minimal pedalling using BMX bikes, rollerblades, scooters, skateboards and wheelchairs.
The Council is earmarking almost £100,000 of the £750,000 advanced Town Deal funding it has received to improve residents' health and well-being in the town – for capital projects delivered by the end of March – on the upgrade.
Clark and Kent Contractors, a specialist cycle track design and construction firm based in Ashley, has put together a proposal suitable for all abilities and types of track riding. It features three elevated starting platforms and a host of jumps and obstacles.
More information is available here https://bit.ly/2NX3sOw. Comments and ideas can be submitted via this link until Friday, 19 February. Officers are also contacting local schools to communicate with their pupils.
Newchapel Rec Pump Track Proposal
Cllr. Jill Waring, Cabinet member for leisure, culture and heritage, said: "The advanced Town Deal funding for Kidsgrove is absolutely fantastic news. It's allowing us to deliver a number of exciting projects in the town very quickly – ahead of a potentially significant amount of further funding.
"The new pump track replaces old and informal ramps at the recreation ground and will provide young people with something fun, healthy and challenging to enjoy for years to come. Due to the nature of the funding, timescales are very tight and work is set to start very soon but the consultation gives youngsters in particular a chance to influence the design early on."
The remaining advanced Town Deal funding is being spent on the early works associated with the refurbishment of Kidsgrove Sports Centre; filling a gap in match funding to guarantee the delivery of modern leisure facilities for the King's School and the community; and a series of upgrades at Clough Hall Park. Meanwhile, the Council has received £1 million for projects in Newcastle town centre.
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I have been reading your book and blog. Thank you so much for the information!!! I have been to 3 doctors in the last month (2 orthopedic surgeons and 1 podiatrist). I have xrays from September 2018 and an MRI from December 2018. 2 of the 3 doctors believe that I have a fractured fibular sesamoid and their recommendation is to have it removed. The third doctor, an orthopedic surgeon, says that the xrays look like the sesamoid is multipartite and that the MRI just shows inflammation in the bone and surrounding tissue. I am waiting for approval from insurance to get a CT Fusion. I am a healthy, active 47 year old female and had some blood work to check Vitamin D, magnesium, calcium, etc. Everything was normal.
Dr. Blake's comment: The CT scan is a better test for fracture vs bipartite (2 or more pieces congenital) so I am glad you are having it. The bipartite sesamoids I think are weaker bones since they are not completely united, so they can more easily fracture along the junction. The junction of these multi-piece sesamoids are fibrosis (syndesmosis) like ligaments, cartilaginous or partial bone bridges. The cartilage (synchondrosis) or boney (synostosis) can fracture and should be treated like a fracture. So, at the end of the day, if the MRI is positive for bone inflammation, treating the sesamoid as a stress fracture is the safest way to go.
I am not sure when I first noticed some pain in the ball of my foot. I believe it was around November 2017. I am a pilates instructor and I do recall coming home one evening and noticed the ball of my foot felt sore. I went from teaching bare foot to wearing my normal minimal shoes (LEMS) and things settled down. Over time, I would occasionally have a flare up (mild inflammation after doing loaded exercises/stretches in dorsiflexion of the big toe), but it would quickly go away.
Dr. Blake's comment: This is definitely the symptoms of sesamoiditis where you are bruising the bone and not enough passes to let it totally heal. It is not the history of something who has broken the bone.
In June 2018, my husband and I started swing dancing. I don't remember it bothering me too much until August when we started a style called "Charleston" swing dance. It is a lot of bouncing on the ball of the foot and turning on the ball of the foot. Our fourth week into it, last week of August 2018, I was having a flare up and remember thinking I shouldn't go to the last class. I went anyway and after that evening, it was uncomfortable to walk for a few days. The week after that we were in Santa Barbara and I had a hard time walking there as well. When I got home, I got xrays because I was concerned.
The radiology report indicated "1. Mild osteophytes first MTPJ. 2. Multipartite or fractured lateral hallux sesamoid." By the time I got the xray, it wasn't really bothering me anymore, so I had a hard time believing that it was fractured. I changed to Altra running shoes and started building up to wearing correct toes and using a metatarsal pad. Things calmed down and in December, I did some jumpboard work on the reformer (jumping while lying down with springs attached to the carriage) and I had started pushing it a bit with stretching the big toe/metatarsal area. I had another mild flare up (no more than a 2 or 3 pain) and my acupuncturist insisted that I go to a specialist to get it checked.
Dr. Blake's comment: The xrays indicate some wear and tear in the big toe joint. The MRI typically tells us how bad. But your symptoms are not bad, mainly very short lived, and not consistent with a stress fracture or full fracture. As of now, I would side with the bone bruise people. You will have to figure out if Dr. Jill's 1/8 th inch or 1/4 inch gel dancer's pads can help when you are barefoot (usually needs some tape to hold in place). If you have a prominent ball of the foot, you may need 1/4 inch. Has anyone commented on your foot structure? Do you have a high arched foot which definitely will put more pressure on the big toe joint/sesamoid?
"TECHNIQUE: Sagittal T1, sagittal and coronal fat-suppressed T2, axial T1 and T2 fat-suppressed, coronal PD, T2, T2 fat-suppressed.
FINDINGS: Linear decreased signal intensity extends across the midportion of the fibular sesamoid on axial image 15. There is diffuse bone marrow edema within the sesamoid. There is also linear decreased signal intensity extending across the medial margin of the tibial sesamoid on axial image 15 and there is mild edema in the tibial sesamoid. 3 mm focus of chondromalacia with underlying subchondral edema at the plantar margin of the first metatarsal head. No effusion at the first MTP joint.
Flexor tendons and extensor tendons are normal in signal intensity and caliber. Musculature is normal in appearance.
Dr. Blake's comment: The linear decreased signal intensity is typically normal from the ligaments and tendons wrapping around the sesamoid and distorting the image. The chondromalacia part is wear and tear on the first metatarsal or mild arthritis. This may be the only reason you hurt and means that the joint has been beat up for a long time, even much before you started having symptoms. The symptoms you are having is of mechanical bruising and then inflammation that collects. Work real hard at protecting with dancer's padding and orthotics and changes in some routines that really pick on the big toe joints (like some Pilates routines with the weight on your arch and not the ball of the foot). These restrictions hopefully will be temporary, but I am talking about the next year.
Dr. Blake's comment: When there is chondromalacia, basically softening of the underlying cartilage, I think it is imperative to try to reverse with an Exogen bone stimulator for 9 months, and it will also help if you do have a stress fracture.
Approximately 3 weeks ago, I started wearing the carbon fiber insert and sesamoid pad. I also started following the advice in your book/blog and have been doing contrast baths 2x/day (4 hot/1 cold for 20 minutes), icing 1-2x per day, and spica taping. I am also getting acupuncture 1x/week. Before all of this, my pain levels were typically 0-2. I feel like where I messed up is that I didn't keep that 0-2 pain level long enough. The icing and contrast baths feel great. The carbon fiber insert made things feel worse.
Dr. Blake's comment: Yes, the carbon fiber inserts are the opposite of off weighting that dancer's padding does.
I tried the Hoka shoes with the sesamoid pad and metatarsal pad, but could feel sensation in the sesamoid when I walk.
Dr. Blake's comment: Hoka shoes are wonderful, but each shoe has a slightly different place for the rocker. If the rocker is in the wrong place, it may put too much weight on the sesamoid. Try on 3 different types of Hoka and see if there is any difference to how you feel before giving up on this shoe.
Now, after 3 weeks of this, my foot feels worse. Now things are stiff and I start to feel more discomfort later in the day. At night when I wake up, I feel a warm sensation in my foot and mild discomfort (around a 2 level pain). It does not hurt at all to press on the sesamoids. Dr. Blake's comment: You need to use a removable boot with the same off weighting inside to rest the foot. Hopefully it will only be for a few weeks, but we have to put you in the Immobilization Phase to calm things back to 0-2 pain levels. I know you can get there.
The second doctor does not believe that it is fractured based on his review of the imaging, his exam, and my story. Again, palpation did not cause any pain and ROM was normal. He said to "let pain be my guide", to use the sesamoid pad/metatarsal pad, and stiff shoes, icing, contrast baths, and to remember that I need to be patient for a long time (he said 3-6 months and then slowly start to introduce activities that have previously irritated it).
Dr. Blake's comment: He sounds smart and wise.
Today I went to a third doctor and he said that it is broken and that it needs to be removed because lack of blood flow to bone, fracture, etc. He did his exam and again no pain. He didn't have me immobilize my foot. He said to wait until we get the CT done.
I am feeling very frustrated and scared. If you have the time, would you be willing to review the imaging.
Dr. Blake's comment: I would be happy to. Please mail to Dr. Rich Blake, 900 Hyde Street, San Francisco, Ca, 94109.
Should I be immobilizing in a boot (until I get the CT and results) just in case even though my pain levels stay in the 0-2 range with my current setup? Dr. Blake's comment: You should have in your possession a removable boot to put on and minimize the days of your flare ups.
Thank you so much for reviewing!!!
Thank you so much for your reply! I am scheduled to get a "CT Fusion" (a combination of a CT scan and bone scan in one) on 2/5. I will wait to send any imaging. If you are interested in these CT Fusion images, let me know.
So far, the 3 doctors I have been to have not recommended a boot. I did order one, but am trying to figure out how to make it comfortable (i.e., off load the sesamoid). Hope to get the felt tomorrow. I was noticing that there is still minor movement (dorsiflexion of toe) in the air cast boot that I got. In order to minimize the movement, I have to make it really tight and that makes my foot numb. So frustrating. I feel like things continue to get worse instead of better. Before I saw the first doctor, I generally maintained 0-2 pain levels in a flexible, cushiony shoe. Now, I find that my foot is inflamed at the end of the day in the stiffer shoes and rocker shoes that I have tried. The pain has been in my left foot. Now, I'm getting concerned because the right foot is starting to hurt.
I ordered a pre-owned Exogen bone stimulator. I should get it today. Is this something that is done 1x/day. Is there a specific placement for sesamoid injury?
I have modified my pilates routine. There are so many possibilities without loading the big toe/ball.
I do suspect long term issues with mechanics. I do need to pursue orthotics. Should I wait until I have my CT Fusion imaging results or go ahead and move forward with a PT or someone who specializes in orthotics. I am in the Seattle area (~40 minutes east) if you have any recommendation.