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Yesterday marked the release of the long-awaited, long-anticipated fourth chapter in the "Indiana Jones" saga. I probably won't see it. Not that I have anything against the movie – it's just that I haven't been to a movie in months, and haven't really had the desire.
Have movies lost their magic for me? Maybe so.
But since we're speaking of Indiana Jones, I bring to you another Annie the Nanny story from the archives of my life.
I forgot about Puff Boy! Oh how I love Puff Boy!
ok – that may be my favorite nanny story ever! Sounds like a conversation between Travis and Clark.
I think movies, at the theatre, have lost their magic for me… $10 a pop will do that to a person. Especially, when, in just a few short months, you can rent the same movie for $1.00 and 10 of your best friends can watch it with you for free.
We went to see it with the school yesterday and it wasn't even close to as good as the other ones. there were a few good parts but that was it.
I love that story. Sooo great.
Ok. Saw it last night. Entertaining? Yes. Worth $10? No.
i dunno. i kind of enjoyed it. well, 80% of it or so.
movies are a lowest common denominator crowd pleasing business now. blame it on spielberg and jaws. i dont mind the $10, but i do mind people talking, crying babies, and cel phones. but at the same time, the home theatre thing cant replicate the experience of watching something really funny or scary on a 50ft screen with 500 people.


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Proforma Owner Freiberg Helps Keep Local Red Cross Afloat
Susan Freiberg, owner of Proforma ABF Direct, based in Turnersville, N.J., is helping the Gloucester County Red Cross's executive director Laura Steinmetz "bag" the local branch's financial troubles. Freiberg, with Proforma ABF Direct resources at hand, is donating 500 beach tote bags to the Gloucester County Red Cross. The bags will be given out in return for a $10 donation. After all the bags are given away, the local Red Cross branch will be $5,000 closer to its mandatory goal of raising $70,000 in order to stay open.
One of the oldest chapters in New Jersey, the Gloucester County Red Cross collects more than 11,000 units each year for local use and certifies more than 8,000 residents in CPR, first-aid and AED use. Every year, the chapter delivers 200 important messages to deployed military personnel from Gloucester County and is currently gearing up to support National Guard units from Woodbury, N.J. which leave for Iraq in June.
"This is a great way for area residents to support this vital organization and get a useful product in return," said Freiberg. "I'm very excited that my donation will multiply into thousands of dollars. That's the power of promotional products."
"Our chapter is currently facing a financial emergency due to the unparalleled cumulative financial response to national and international disasters we have experienced within the past four years," explained Steinmetz. "American Red Cross provided the much needed services and programs for the 2004 Tsunami, 2005 Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma and Rita and ensured locally that every penny designated toward those disasters were delivered without even an administrative percentage retained by our county chapter."
Steinmetz continued, "This created an unforeseen financial deficit to Gloucester County's local Red Cross Chapter from which we have not yet recovered. The tote bag donation from Susan and Proforma ABF Direct will directly help keep the Gloucester County branch open, allowing us to continue our service at a local level."
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A TRAGIC Wigan man who took his own life lay dead in his home for days before being discovered, an inquest heard.
Bolton Coroner's Court heard the sad tale of John Liptrot of Booths Brow Road, Ashton, who lived alone and hadn't spoken to family for months.
The 41-year-old was found in the bathroom of his home on October 25 last year and died due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
He was found clutching a picture of his mother to his chest.
Notes addressed to friends were also found in the property.
Good friend Sarah Sunners described Mr Liptrot as a kind man who had been beset by family problems for a number of years.
The court was told Mr Liptrot was deeply affected when his mother died from cancer in 2008.
And due to domestic problems, he also hadn't spoken to his father, Eric Liptrot, in four years, a matter Ms Sunners said severely troubled him.
Despite this, Mr Liptrot remained close with his friends, confiding in Ms Sunners and her partner Mark Atherton and regularly visiting their house for tea each evening.
But this communication stopped around six weeks before his death.
Although unemployed, the court heard that Mr Liptrot enjoyed carrying out odd jobs and tasks for neighbours and would also regularly cut their grass.
Becoming concerned for his welfare, neighbours alerted police after he hadn't been seen for more than two weeks.
An investigation by Greater Manchester Police ruled out any suspicious circumstances or third party involvement in Mr Liptrot's death.
The court also heard that he had previously been diagnosed with schizophrenic thought disorder and had previously self-harmed.
More than 10 years ago Mr Liptrot had also attempted to take his own life but contacted emergency services who saved him.
Recording a verdict that he took his own life, Deputy Coroner Alan Walsh said: "This was a man who had domestic problems. Clearly he was very close to his mother although there had been a breakdown in the relationship with his father.
"I am very saddened by this death of a 41-year-old man who had problems with the death of his mum and problems with communication in general.


"Pelle Buys continues Sweatlodging treatment -- this time he rolls out a high quality musical carpet as Error Error together with Denis Karimani. Denis and Pelle Buys are a mixture of explosive and highly inflammable materials -- but they really take care of not losing control over their creatures -- in fact, they reached a stage of ultra-precise architecture that sounds as sharp as warm and gentle. 'Planet 16 in the system Tau Ceti. Air density 0.051. Cool weather with the possibility of stormy precipitation. Analysis of the atmosphere: terrestrial with a mild excess of oxygen. I count 600324 molecules per cubic millimeter' -- the explanation of the Planet Lythion points towards another science fiction release with really unexpected swayings. Chaim and Patrick Zigon show their status as most sought-after remixers and add their personal flavor to a magnificent tune!"


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Q: Xpath replace function, processing matches I'm writing a function to "title case" strings e.g. "this is a title" to "This is a Title." The following line doesn't work because the regex group reference is lost (or so I assume). Is there an easy way to uppercase my matching letter in the replace function?
replace( $input, '\b[a-z]' , upper-case('$0'))

A: the \b expression is not part of XML Schema regular expressions.  It is treated as just the character b, and so you are matching b followed by another character.
Your replacement string here upper-case('$0') is just $0 and so you are replacing the character(s) with themselves.
You can't do this using the replace function - you need something more like xsl:analyze-string from XSLT, but this is not available in XQuery 1.0.
As far as I can tell the only way to solve this is with a recursive function.  A simpler solution using tokenize could be used if you do not need to preserve your seperators.
declare function local:title-case($arg as xs:string) as xs:string
{
  if (string-length($arg) = 0)
  then
    ""
  else
    let $first-word := tokenize($arg, "\s")[1]
    let $first := substring($arg, 1, 1)
    return
      if (string-length($first-word) = 0)
      then
        concat($first, local:title-case(substring($arg, 2)))
      else
        if ($first-word = "a" (: or any other word that should not be capitalized :))
        then
          concat($first-word,
                 local:title-case(substring($arg, string-length($first-word) + 1)))
        else
          concat(upper-case($first),
                 substring($first-word, 2),
                 local:title-case(substring($arg, string-length($first-word) + 1)))
};

You will also need to ensure that the first word of every title is capitalized even when it is a short word like "a", but I leave that as an exercise to the reader.

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Space Exploration on Public Broadcasting
August 22, 2019 August 22, 2019 ~ rynaapb
We accept or marvel at the revolutionary products of science while giving little thought to the basic ideas, concepts, techniques and logic that have gone into exploring, understanding and explaining our universe or in building our technical civilization.
Description from WGBH's series Of Science and Scientists (1957)
Image of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon. Image courtesy NASA
Fifty years ago the Apollo 11 spaceflight was the first to land humans on the Moon. Commercial broadcasting was the first to broadcast historic moments from the moon's surface and journalists like Walter Cronkite (CPB) and Jules Bergman (ABC) became household names, however, public broadcasting was closing the gap between scientists and non-scientists by leading the way in educational programming.
On the afternoon of July 21, 1969, civilization transitioned into a new chapter of human history. Public radio and television programs attempted to give analogy or demonstration to the scientific concepts behind this new frontier and evidence of this history can be traced through the collections of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between the Library of Congress and WGBH to digitally preserve and make accessible over 100,000 programs of public media that document the 20th and 21st century.
Below is a selection of public programs that highlight the impact of space exploration on local media, and vice versa. And to provide background and context, we welcome Dr. Ingrid Ockert as guest commentator. Dr. Ockert is currently a NASA History Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Science History Institute.
The year 1957 was an incredible year for science communicators and educators. On October 4th, 1957, the Soviet satellite Sputnik launched into Earth's orbit. Commercial broadcasters like CBS scrambled to cover the event on television. Meanwhile, newspapers ran articles fretting that American schools had fallen behind the Soviet classrooms. Following these discussions, commercial and educational broadcasters created a new generation of science television shows, many focused on space sciences.
Dr. Ingrid Ockert
Image fromThe Size of the Universe, WGBH (1957)
– Of Science and Scientists Series (1957) produced by WGBH Educational Foundation
Of Science and Scientists was a collaborative project between MIT and WGBH. The opening episodes were hosted by Gerald Holton, a Harvard physicist, who was later known for his seminal work in the history of science. The series allowed eminent university professors an opportunity to present their standard lectures to a larger audience.
Contributed by: WGBH and Library of Congress
Is the Earth a Planet?
The Distance to the Sun
The Large and the Small
The Size of the Universe
Of Science and Scientists, university professors teach a class to their television audience. One of the most interesting lectures comes from Dr. Cecillia Payne-Gapochkin, a rare example of a woman scientist lecturing on science on television from the 1960s. Using models and drawings, Dr. Payne-Gapochkin walks us through a lesson about measuring space on Earth and between planets.
Doctors in Space Series (1958) produced by National Educational Television and KUHT-TV
The Doctors in Space series aims to inform the public about the advances made in space flight, the problems encountered there, and the medical research going on to enable man to fly in space. In an age of "dog-bearing satellites," National Educational Television viewers would be interested to learn about the possibilities of trips by human beings into outer space. Produced by KUHT, Houston in co-operation with the US Armed Forces, Doctors in Space has been cleared by the Department of Defense.
This six part series takes a comprehensive look at the history of space medicine, a sub-discipline of space studies. The episodes feature frank discussion with top physicists and medical researchers about the ways that humans could survive a trip to outer space and live on other worlds. Produced at the Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, the series was hosted by Dr. John Rider, a professor of physics at the University of Houston. Leading experts used models of planets, diagrams, and filmstrips to think through future space flight. Notably, it featured interviews with Heinz Haber, a German engineer who was featured in Disney's 1957 production "Our Friend the Atom." Haber became a popular science communicator in Germany.
Image from Here & There In Maryland: Field Trips; Nasa-Goddard Space Flight Center (1979)
– Here & There In Maryland: Field Trips; Nasa-Goddard Space Flight Center (1979) produced by Maryland Public Television
There in Maryland: Field Trip takes students to places that are significant to the development of the state of Maryland. This episode is split into six segments. While the episode was filmed in 1979, such The segments as "Nasa-Goddard Space Flight Center," address historic topics such as Dr. Robert Goddard, the history of the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Center's various attractions.
Notably, this episode of "Here and There" takes us to Goddard's Visitor Center and walks through the activities available to visitors. For historians, this offers us a valuable opportunity to see how curators utilized basic 1970s technologies (video screens, telephones) to create an interactive atmosphere.
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– Muni; Radio Moscow; Man in Space (1961) contributed by WNYC
This program produced by Radio Moscow recounts the first manned spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin on April 12th, 1961 aboard the Vostok 1. The recording includes audio from his first transmission, reflections and tributes from Nikita Khrushchev and other scientists and a short history of the Soviet space program.
– A Word on Words; Alan Shepard (1994) produced by Nashville Public Television
Image from A Word on Words (1994)
The A Word on Words Collection contains features thoughtful and surprising discussions about literature and the lives of authors. This interview is conducted with Alan Shepard about his book titled Moon Shot.
– 50 Years After John Glenn Orbited the Earth (2012) produced by NewsHour Productions
Image from 50 Years After John Glenn Orbited the Earth (2012)
In this episode, PBS NewsHour reflects on the space race before and after astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
– NASA Moon Documentary (1960s) produced by KUHT
Contributed by: University of Houston
Image from NASA Moon Documentary, KUHT (1960s)
This NASA documentary describes the technology used to map the moon's surface and the equipment utilized to house men on moon missions. Footage includes a detailed description of travel to the moon, and the lunar module.
This documentary provides a short, comprehensive look at the plans for the moon landing. It has it all – a brief interview with controversial NASA scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, hand-drawn animations of the docking procedure of the Apollo 11 mission, and even a jazzy soundtrack. There's even a tour of the 'lunar receiving laboratory,' with glimpse of the non-white, male and female scientists conducting research. This documentary showcases the public relations arm of NASA – by the 1960s, polished films like this stoked public enthusiasm for the Apollo 11 mission.
– Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (1962) contributed by: University of Maryland
The National Association of Educational Broadcasters in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration presents the peaceful uses of space. In the spring of 1960 to the Seattle World's Fair in 1964 was the scene of a conference on space research. This is program number two in a series of 13 reports of highlights from that conference.
Image from PBS NewsHour (2016)
– Hidden Figures: Motion picture about the black women computers for NASA: PBS NewsHour
From 2016, this segment of PBS NewsHour covers the film "Hidden Figures", which tells the history of early space flight and the crucial role African-American women played behind the scenes as mathematicians and engineers. The interview includes actresses Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer.
Image from The Challenge of the Space Age, Mayer-Skylar Productions (1963)
– Exploring the Universe Series (1963) produced by Mayer-Skylar Productions
Contributed by: Thirteen WNET
The Challenge of the Space Age
How Did the Universe Begin?
Is There Other Life?
Exploring the Universe is a series that looks at the (then) modern theories and advances of science from the possibilities of life on other planets to the creation of our universe. Host for the series is Dave Garroway (known for as the founding host of the "Today" show) and his guests include prominent scientists who convey their own awe and the wonder at the universe to the television audience.
Like Of Science and Scientists (WGBH), Exploring the Universe (WNET) helps us explore the culture of science in the 1960s. Each episode takes a slightly different format. Sometimes host David Garroway interviews the scientists involved, other times he lets them talk amongst themselves. It's the latter conversations that prove to be the most interesting. Take, for instance, "The Challenge of the Space Age," where guests Dr. Robert Jastrow and Dr. Philip Abelson debate the merits of scientists involved in public engagement. In the 1960s, more and more research scientists felt compelled to give public lectures and publish popular books, hoping that their efforts would result in a more educated public. Jastrow urges his colleague to take to the stage and encourage others to conduct public outreach. Abelson decries this, arguing that scientists barely have enough time to conduct basic research, let alone public outreach! This short clip gives historians great insight into the tensions that existed within the scientific community at the time.
– About Science; About Surveyor (1966) produced by the California Institute of Technology KPCC-FM
Contributed by: University of Maryland
This program focuses on the science behind the Surveyor program that sent the spacecraft to the moon. The guest for this program is Dr. Leonard Jaffe, Surveyor Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
About life on Mars? (1966)
About Surveyor
About the space program
About the early universe (1967)
About radio telescopes
About space exploration
About the Moon (1968)
"What do poets and physicists have in common?," quipped Dr. Peter Lissamen in 1968, "If your answer is, a touch of lunacy, you're right." That was the beginning of his segment on the CalTech series, About Science, a radio series, which examined a variety of topics in the late 1960s. Lest we forget, scientists on the west coast were just as active as their east coast contemporaries in conducting public outreach. The California Institute of Technology was a particularly active force of popularization. In this episode, Dr. Lissamen and Dr. Hibbs talked about lunar geology. Hibbs explains that, until the late 1960s, planetary geologists weren't certain that the moon wasn't made of 'fluffy dust.' The segment reminds historians just how little was known about the Moon and how the first missions focused on geologic goals.
– The Moon Race: Facts, Fiction, and Dividends (1967) contributed by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
A few months after the Apollo 1 fire, Werner Von Braun argues that the space program has numerous benefits. Among these is it raises the prestige of the country, it stimulates the national economy, and that much new knowledge and technology from the U.S. space program has been transferred to everyday use.
Apollo 8 Astronauts. Image courtesy NASA.
– Space and the Nation (1968) contributed by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
In this lecture, American electrical engineer, George Edwin Mueller, discusses the (then) upcoming Apollo 8 mission and the goal of circumlunar flight. His discussion is within the context of advocating the importance of the space program to the future viability of the United States.
NASA Administrator George Mueller delivers a thoughtful lecture about how the Space Race has positively changed the economic landscape of the American aerospace industry. Mueller was an engineer who developed the testing procedures that ensured safe flights for manned missions like Apollo 8 and Apollo 11. The hour-long talk gives an unusual perspective on 'space investment' from one NASA's leading figures. He talks about the new products developed for NASA's missions, such as a special type of foam, that have the properties of foam, but with the lightness of balsa wood. Additionally, this lecture recovers an unusual sonic landscape: the dinner lecture – the light clinking of silverware and plates can be heard throughout the presentation. The last twenty minutes of the lecture are dedicated to questions from the audience – giving historians a perspective of what's on the minds of non-scientists about the space race in 1968.
Image from Essay: Moonstruck (1999)
– Essay: Moonstruck (1999) produced by NewsHour Productions
In this episode, essayist Paul Hoffman, then the editor of "Discover Magazine," marks the US' lunar anniversary of Apollo 11.
Image from Aeronautics and Space Report: Skylab III, (1973)
– Aeronautics and Space Report: Skylab III produced by KUHT (1973)
This program includes a NASA film describing the problems that occurred during the launch of Skylab 1, and the efforts made to remedy the problems for Skylab 3 mission. Includes interviews with program director William C. Schneider, and astronaut Rusty Schweickart demonstrating tools underwater.
In this NASA report, the viewer learns about how Sky Lab III studies will contribute to greater scientific knowledge. This short feature has the hallmarks of NASA's mid-70s public relations approach: it highlights the ways that NASA's scientific studies contribute to a better understanding of the ecosystem. Starting in the 1970s, NASA refocused their public relations material to emphasize NASA's ecological goals. For instance, astronaut Alan Bean suggests that experiments conducted aboard Sky Lab III will allow scientists to learn how to better manage Earth's resources. Pilot Jack Lousma describes how space missions help scientists visualize fresh and polluted waters.
– Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0100; Was It Worth It? produced by Southern Educational Communications Association, South Carolina Educational Television Network (1973)
Contributed by: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. In this interview, Admiral Shepard has thought deeply and speaks engagingly on matters such as what, apart from the human spirit, space exploration is good for.
Image courtesy NASA
– Sally K. Ride: Medallion Speaker Address (2005) contributed by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
In this radio broadcast, Sally K. Ride gives a lecture about her career.
Image from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (2005)
Segment on Kathryn Sullivan (2005) produced by The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
In this segment of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan gives perspective on space walking.
Image from North Carolina Now: 10th anniversary of the Challenger explosion (1996)
North Carolina Now: 10th anniversary of the Challenger explosion (1996) contributed by UNC-TV
Image from North Carolina Now (1996)
In this episode, North Carolina Now reflects on the tenth anniversary of the Challenger explosion, and the legacy of North Carolina native and Challenger astronaut Dr. Ronald E. McNair that lives on in North Carolina.
Image from the NewsHour Productions (1989)
20th anniversary of man's first walk on the moon (1989) contributed by NewsHour Productions
In this episode, NewsHour reflects on the past, present, and future of the 20th anniversary marking man's first walk on the moon. The news segment revisits the very first moments of contact, including commentary with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, followed by writers Maya Angelou, Isaac Asimov, Daniel Boorstin, and James Michener, followed by lunar reflections from essayist Roger Rosenblatt.
August – The Space Shuttle Discovery deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.
– Focus; The Hubble Telescope and The Space Telescope Program (2004) produced by WILL Illinois Public Media
This program includes an interview with Mario Livo, head of the Science Division, Space Telescope Science Institute and John Baheall, Richard Black Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Image from North Carolina Now; Mae Jemison (1995)
North Carolina Now; Mae Jemison (1995) contributed by UNC-TV
In this news segment, Dr. Mae Jemison, the nation's first female African-American astronaut, visits North Carolina to promote a new hands on science program and to find out more about her historic spaceflight.
Image from PBS NewsHour Eileen Collins coverage 1999
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (1999)
In this 1999 episode of PBS NewsHour, Air Force Colonel Eileen Collins, the first female commander of a space mission, spoke to reporters at a news conference.
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: Dennis Tito (2001)
This news segment covers American Dennis Tito's spaceflight as a tourist.
Assignment The World; The Role of NASA and Space Exploration in Young People's Future (2002) contributed by WXXI Public Broadcasting
This episode of Assignment the World discusses the role of NASA and space exploration in young people's future. Through interviews and projections, we learn about past space programs, and how children can get involved and what subjects to focus on to become a part of NASA when they grow up.
The Future of Space Exploration: a Roadmap for the Practical Visionary (2004) contributed by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Hubbard speaks on the future, philosophy, goals, and means of space exploration. Framing it as humanity has "no choice but to explore," he recalls the history of both land and space exploration in order to explain the trajectory of space exploration. He sees humans going back to the moon, eventually going on to Mars and then on to the moons of Jupiter.
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by Priya Bhardwaj
Natasja Kunde crowned Miss World Denmark 2019
11 Nov 2019 | Priya Bhardwaj
Miss World Denmark Natasja Kunde Finals Denmark Europe
With the official announcement by the Miss Danmark announcement, Natasja Kunde has been crowned Miss World Denmark 2019 just hours ago as she has become the official representative of Denmark at Miss World 2019. Natasja succeeds Miss World Denmark 2018 Tara Jensen. The National Director of Miss Danmark Organization Lisa Lents was also present at the coronation ceremony.
Natasja is 18 years of age and stands 175 cm tall. She grew up in a little suburb to Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. She is a student of Math and economics who also teaches Classical Ballet, is a Model and a Volunteer. Natasja is a fluent speaker of Danish, English and German and follows the motto, "There is always a positive way of viewing things."
Not new to the pageant world, Natasja participated in Miss World Denmark 2018 and won Miss Talent 2018. Since her participation in 2018, Natasja was also appointed as a Mentor by the Miss Denmark Organization and has been a big part of the preparations of many other Miss Denmark contestants. She has been involved with tons of different activities and has been delighted to promote the values of Miss Denmark, Miss World and the Beauty with a Purpose programme. Natasja has been focusing on using her platform to inspire and inform others about the changes we can and should make in this world.
Natasja is supporting and helping the Association of Cancer Affected Children. Natasja is very passionate about making the world a better place for everyone – also the future generations. The feeling of helping others and to see other people smile is the adrenaline in her blood. She is ready to be an outgoing and well-spoken ambassador as the kind and hardworking woman she is. Natasja is very excited and grateful to represent her beautiful country in London for Miss World 2019.
Congratulations to the newly crowned queen.


Magers & Quinn Booksellers presents "Saturday Signings." Every Saturday in December, great local authors will be available to make your book a unique present–at Magers & Quinn Booksellers. Signed books are one-of-a-kind gifts. No one else can give your dad a copy of Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn dedicated to him by the author. Or a copy of Drink This with a personal recommendation from Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl.
Magers & Quinn Booksellers makes it easy for you to get personalized gifts for everyone on your list. Every Saturday in December, authors will be in the store signing copies of their books. The events are free and open to the public.
Meet Bink and Gollie, two precocious little girls–one tiny, one tall, and both utterly irrepressible. Setting out from their super-deluxe tree house and powered by plenty of peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes (for Gollie), they share three comical adventures involving painfully bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion. No matter where their roller skates take them, at the end of the day they will always be the very best of friends. Full of quick-witted repartee, Bink and Gollie, the brainchild of Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and award-winning author Alison McGhee, is a hilarious ode to exuberance and camaraderie, imagination and adventure, brought to life through the delightfully kinetic images of Tony Fucile. For ages 4 to 104.
Noah, Lily, and Simon have been a trio forever. But as they enter high school, their relationships shift and their world starts to fall apart. Privately, each is dealing with a family crisis–divorce, abuse, and a parent's illness. Yet as they try to escape the pain and reach out for the connections they once counted on, they slip–like soap in a shower. Noah's got it bad for Lily, but he knows too well Lily sees only Simon. Simon is indifferent, suddenly inscrutable to his friends. All stand alone in their heartache and grief. In his luminous YA novel The Absolute Value of -1, Steve Brezenoff explores the changing value of relationships as the characters realize that the distances between them are far greater than they knew.


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 Парнелл, Томас — англо-ирландский поэт, эссеист.
 Парнелл, Чарльз Стюарт — ирландский землевладелец, политический лидер националистов, лидер сторонников гомруля в парламенте Соединённого королевства Великобритании и Ирландии, основатель и лидер Ирландской Парламентской партии. Одна из наиболее важных фигур Соединённого королевства конца 19-го века.
 Парнелл, Шон — губернатор Аляски с конца июля 2009 года.
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Future Family Fitness run weekly MumMe Fitness classes in Craven Arms.
The classes take place indoors at Craven Arms Community Centre every Wednesday during term-time, from 9.30am to 10.20am.
All ladies are welcome, including postnatal mums with babes in buggies / toddlers (toys provided).


The future of Star Wars games may have just had a new development. Disney is reportedly planning to revive Lucasfilm Games 28 years after the release of their last title, according to Engadget.
Disney Careers posted several job listings for positions under the Lucasfilm Games banner.
According to engadget, Disney may be bringing back the Lucasfilm Games name, as opposed to the much more recently used LucasArts, in order to avoid stepping on any toes as it returns to in-house game development.
The move comes just a couple of months after EA Games cancelled their open-world Star Wars game.
EA does however still have an exclusive deal to create Star Wars games through 2023, and this move does not appear to be overriding that.
The revival of Lucasfilm Games could be a sign that Disney is unhappy with relying on outside companies to create titles based on their brands.
The event will also feature panels on Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series and Star Wars animation.
A Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge panel has also been announced where fans will learn even more about the new lands coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World later this year.
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Q: Clearing all data and canvas to redraw Basemap I'm plotting user selected data using Basemap on a Qt form made with Designer. The map displays correctly the first time but does not clear and plot a second data set. I'm using plt.close("all"), figure.clear(), and map_canvas.draw() to clear all objects but it is not refreshing the map. What am I missing?
Here is the code:
from PyQt5 import uic, QtWidgets
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QVBoxLayout

from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg import NavigationToolbar2QT as NavigationToolbar
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt, numpy as np
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
import sys

qtCreatorFile = ('map_debug_form.ui')

LandingPageUI, LandingPageBase = uic.loadUiType(qtCreatorFile)

class searchApp(LandingPageBase, LandingPageUI):

    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QtWidgets.QMainWindow.__init__(self)
        LandingPageBase.__init__(self)
        self.setupUi(self)

        def plotMap(latlongs):
            plt.close("all")

            try:
                self.map_figure.clear()
            except Exception as e:
                print("map figure doesn't exist")

            self.map_figure = plt.figure(figsize=(20,20))
            self.map_canvas = FigureCanvas(self.map_figure)
            self.map_toolbar = NavigationToolbar(self.map_canvas, self)

            layout = QVBoxLayout()
            layout.addWidget(self.map_toolbar)
            layout.addWidget(self.map_canvas)
            layout.setSpacing(0)
            self.mapWindow.setLayout(layout)

            lons=[]
            lats=[]

            for item in latlongs:
                if item[0] < 0:
                    tempLon = 360+item[0]
                else:
                    tempLon = item[0]

                lons.append(tempLon)
                lats.append(item[1])

            m =Basemap(llcrnrlon=(min(lons)-15),llcrnrlat=(min(lats)-15),urcrnrlon=(max(lons)+15),urcrnrlat=(max(lats)+15),projection='mill',resolution = 'l')

            x, y = m(lons, lats)
            m.drawcoastlines(linewidth=.75)
            m.fillcontinents(color='0.8')
            m.drawparallels(np.arange(-80,81,5),labels=[1,1,0,0])
            m.drawmeridians(np.arange(0,360,10),labels=[0,0,0,1])

            m.scatter(x,y,10,marker='o',color='r', zorder=10,  alpha=0.7,  picker=True)
            self.map_figure.subplots_adjust(left=0, right=1, top=1, bottom=0.04)
            self.map_canvas.draw()         # refresh canvas
            self.map_canvas.flush_events() # flush the GUI events

        self.btnMap1.clicked.connect(lambda: plotMap([[-167.7742, 54.20214], [-167.7742, 54.20214], [-164.24091, 54.9311], [-163.9388, 54.4394], [-160.59821, 54.86025]]))
        self.btnMap2.clicked.connect(lambda: plotMap([[-172.7829, 50.55793], [-172.7829, 50.55793], [-172.7829, 50.55793], [-169.78149, 50.6384], [-169.78149, 50.6384]]))

if __name__ == "__main__":

    app=QtWidgets.QApplication.instance()
    if not app:
         app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)

    window = searchApp()
    window.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

A: You don't have to create a new plot every time, instead pass it the AxesSubplot as the ax parameter of the Basemap.
import sys

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets

from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg import NavigationToolbar2QT as NavigationToolbar
from matplotlib.figure import Figure

import numpy as np

from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap

class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super().__init__(parent)

        button1 = QtWidgets.QPushButton("button1")
        button2 = QtWidgets.QPushButton("button2")

        self.map_canvas = FigureCanvas(Figure(figsize=(20, 20)))
        self.map_toolbar = NavigationToolbar(self.map_canvas, self)

        central_widget = QtWidgets.QWidget()
        self.setCentralWidget(central_widget)
        lay = QtWidgets.QGridLayout(central_widget)
        lay.addWidget(button1, 0, 0)
        lay.addWidget(button2, 0, 1)
        lay.addWidget(self.map_canvas, 1, 0, 1, 2)

        self.addToolBar(self.map_toolbar)

        button1.clicked.connect(self.handle_clicked_1)
        button2.clicked.connect(self.handle_clicked_2)

        self.ax = self.map_canvas.figure.subplots()
        self.ax.set_axis_off()

    def handle_clicked_1(self):

        self.update_plot(
            [
                [-167.7742, 54.20214],
                [-167.7742, 54.20214],
                [-164.24091, 54.9311],
                [-163.9388, 54.4394],
                [-160.59821, 54.86025],
            ]
        )

    def handle_clicked_2(self):

        self.update_plot(
            [
                [-172.7829, 50.55793],
                [-172.7829, 50.55793],
                [-172.7829, 50.55793],
                [-169.78149, 50.6384],
                [-169.78149, 50.6384],
            ]
        )

    def update_plot(self, latlongs):
        self.ax.clear()

        lons = []
        lats = []

        for item in latlongs:
            longitude, latitude = item
            lons.append(360 + longitude if longitude < 0 else longitude)
            lats.append(latitude)

        m = Basemap(
            llcrnrlon=(min(lons) - 15),
            llcrnrlat=(min(lats) - 15),
            urcrnrlon=(max(lons) + 15),
            urcrnrlat=(max(lats) + 15),
            projection="mill",
            resolution="l",
            ax=self.ax,
        )
        x, y = m(lons, lats)
        m.drawcoastlines(linewidth=0.75)
        m.fillcontinents(color="0.8")
        m.drawparallels(np.arange(-80, 81, 5), labels=[1, 1, 0, 0])
        m.drawmeridians(np.arange(0, 360, 10), labels=[0, 0, 0, 1])
        m.scatter(x, y, 10, marker="o", color="r", zorder=10, alpha=0.7, picker=True)

        self.map_canvas.draw()

if __name__ == "__main__":

    app = QtWidgets.QApplication.instance()
    if app is None:
        app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)

    window = MainWindow()
    window.show()

    sys.exit(app.exec_())


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Why do I always end up wth bad relationships?
Why do I always end up with bad relationships?
You have seen a gorgeous person on your evening and there has been an instant attraction from both sides (10 on a scale fron 1-10). You start a passionate relationship and you can´t think about anything else. A big problem though that you try not to think about is that your partner is married and she/he is only available in an unpredictable way. You can get a call anytime and a suggestion about where to meet and this makes it hard for you plan your life. But since you feel madly in love you cancel other things that you have planned when your partner calls and after a while you start making less plans with people so that you can be available whenever your partner calls. You feel helplessly in love and even though you might know somewhere in the back of your head that this isn´t good for you, you feel helpless and you can also get angry at people who try to tell you that this person isn´t good for your needs and that he/she will probably not leave his/her wife/husband.
If you continue to keep on like this for a while you´ll probably feel anxiety, anger, despair most of the time and the longer this keeps on going while you´re hoping for your partner to divorce, the the worse you´ll feel. If you have an abandonment schema you´ll probalby have a hard time pulling back from a relationship like this. Feeling that you partner is available sometimes but never knowing when is probably a situation something that you in some way are used to from your childhood. You feel great sometimes but if you analyze how often it will probably be around 5-10 percent of the time. The rest of the time will be filled with negative feelings. You feel like you don´t know if you´ll be abandoned or not but you think that if you endure some more time you´ll finally be together with your partner.
In the end (if your partner doesn´t live his/her h usband/wife, there is a risk that you´ll continue like this until you feel so that you are so overfilled with anxiety so that you can hardly function. When you are out from a relationship like described above it is not unusual to think "relationships are not for me and I´m better off alone". This can go on until you feel you are strong again and then it´s not unusual to repeat the whole procedure with someone else.
This was an example of how the abandonment schema can put you in a viscious circle, there are more ways to react in a relationship out of having this schema. If you recognize yourself in what I have described above, the good news is that there is a way to get out of the vicious circle. I will write more about that soon.
Why do I get attracted to people who are not good for me?
Sometimes, all of us can meet someone we fall in love with and after a while we realize that this person isn´t good for us. The reasons might be for example that the person isn´t totally available beause he/she is married (with a person, work, or some other addiction), live abroad, change moods often etc. The point is that the person in unavailbale and give us a feeling that we are on the verge on being left. We move between feeling hope and happiness to feeling grief and hopelessness. Since the psyche hates feeling out of control this situation is extremely draining. Now, if we comes from a background where we have had parents with whom we have formed a secure attachment (I will talk more abou attachment later), we probably won´t put up with this situation for too long, simply because we have learned to take care of our needs and be nice to ourselves.
But if we have had a background where we have felt some kind of abandonment (a parent died, the primary caretaker (often the mother), was hospitalized often, the parent had some kind of addiction and changed moods often or simply had big mood swings that were unpredictable , the parent divorced or had big fights, etc.), in some cases we form an abandonmnet schema which makes us either choose relationships that are destructive for us or we take the roll as being the "leavers" in relationships and we are haunted by the feeling that we will always be lonely.
If wyou find ourselves in a destructive relationship once, it might be a coincidence, but if you look back and realize that there is a pattern, yu might check if you have a abandnoment schema. A schema means your unconscious innermost thoughts you have about yourself. If those thoughts are (I will be abandoned and I will always be lonely), you often create a self fulfilling prophesy. Remember that I have earlier sais that the psyche acts on what feels least painful at the moment and those stategies often form a vicious circle which can leads to a selffulfilling prophesy.
Jeffrey Young, the founder of Schema focused therapy ( it is like cognitive behavior therapy with more focus on the background and how the destructive patterns that affect our lives here and now) were formed, have found different schemas that we form depending on our background and our temeperament. He describes them with Janet Klosko in their fantastic book "Reinventing your life", which I warmly recommend you to read. I think it is one of the best psychology books that have been written.
Young means that the abandnoment schema is preverbal (you got it it before you could talk, which psychologically means that you had even less control over the situation) and that is the reason why this is one of the schemas that leads to paralyzing anxiety. To understand what kind of anxiety you can think of how a child react in a crowd when it loses sight of its parents.
Meeting patients every day makes me reflect on many things. The past days, I have been thinking about that sometimes in life, when we meet people, we perceive it as unfair if we see that everything in their life tends to move forward in a smooth way. They make a fast carreer or they have met a partner who is attentive of their needs etc.
My thoughts about this is this is a very common thought error to take out part of a cake in someone´s life and compare it to something in our own life that we are not satisfied with. But it´s also important to get conscious about that it is a thought error and that it makes us feel miserable. First of all we can save a lot of energy we put on the comparison to see if we can find something in our own life where we can put energy in order to feel better about ourselves. Sometimes we try to do this but we think that it impossible to stop the thoughts about the comparisons. Often that is true; the more we try to stop to think about a certain thing, the more we think about it. My suggestion here is to try and fill your life with behaviors that make you feel good in the long run. If you don´t know what those behaviors might be, try different things, for example, take a class in Japanese, learn tango, learn more about chocolate or wine etc. After when the behaviors are done, register your feelings and in this way you will become more satisfied in the long run and think less about others.
Moreover if despite the strategies above you can´t help comparing yourself, then at least take the whole cake in someone´s life and compare to your life. May be someone has a great carreer but bad contact with their child, may be the other person has money but he or she has a bad family situation etc. Thinking in this way you will get a more objective view of how things are and you will often feel less miserable.


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Choosing Your Trust Model: Policy and Other Public and Private Trust Considerations, Part 2
By Sandra Carielli
You know that you want to bring PKI into your organization. You've got approval from the leadership team, and you're starting to work out your budget and requirements. An early question to answer: what trust model do you go with? Public trust, private trust, or a combination of the two? What do the different options mean, and what are the considerations around each?
In Part 1, we reviewed the concept of policy authorities and did a deep dive on public trust, talking about the benefits and drawbacks of that model. In Part 2, we conduct a similar deep dive on private trust and discuss public/private hybrid approaches that might benefit your organization.
Private Trust
By contrast, "private trust" describes the situation where the operator of the public-key authentication system owns and operates its own root certification authority, and takes on the tasks of defining its own operating procedures (which may be more or less stringent than the browser regime) and distributing its root CA public key to its endpoints.
The complexity of the distribution process depends upon your use case. For a corporate CA focused on certificates for internal use only, distributing the root CA public key should be pretty simple; after all, you are in control of all of those systems. You might also set up a private trust CA that interacts with a small, well defined set of partners. While you will need your partners' cooperation to distribute your root CA certificate, this should be easy to manage. If you are trying to establish trust with tens of thousands of customers, private trust requires that each of them install your root certificate; at that scale, be prepared for an influx of support calls.
Private trust also requires the expertise to develop and maintain your own set of policy requirements. That expertise may either be in-house, or you may leverage your PKI vendor (Entrust Datacard has guided many a customer in developing trust policies). Other costs and expertise requirements will vary, depending on whether you manage your CA in house or pay your PKI vendor to manage it for you.
A major benefit of private trust is that it gives you back your autonomy, as you can define the trust policy that works for your organization. An organization using the private-trust model that has SHA-1 embedded in its systems has considerably more flexibility around the timing to remove it, because they are not subject to the CAB Forum's guidelines (to be clear, they should still remove it).
Let's not underestimate the importance of that flexibility. The browsers' requirements change over time, and deadlines for achieving compliance are unforgiving and sometimes quite challenging. Complex ecosystems often include bespoke components, and these are seldom designed with algorithm-agility in mind. Furthermore, the expertise required to update such components may have been lost or be temporarily unavailable when needed. As a result, it may not be possible to maintain compliance, causing public trust to be withdrawn, with costly consequences.
Finally, a word on cost. While public trust is a lower cost option if you just need to purchase a few dozen certificates, the model gets turned on its head if you're looking for thousands of certificates on internal systems. If public trust is not required, it may be less expensive to purchase your own CA, come up with flexible policy, and issue all of the certificates that you need.
The Hybrid Approach
Which is right for you? The answer is "it depends" and possibly "both."
At Entrust Datacard, we have seen customers successfully deploy both public trust and private trust models. Oftentimes, they have gone with a hybrid approach, deploying private trust for their internal systems and public trust for their customer facing sites. Some customers have taken advantage of shared private trust offerings to leverage a private policy that they do not have to define or manage (more on this in a future post). The considerations boil down to the need for public trust, flexibility and cost.
When making a decision, consider your organization's requirements and think about whether more than one model might apply. It's possible that your business or industry might require public trust in some areas, but maybe not all of them. Segmenting your infrastructures and requirements can help you reach maximum flexibility and minimum cost.
Sandra Carielli
Sandy Carielli has spent over a dozen years in the cyber security industry, with particular focus on identity, PKI, key management, cryptography and security management. As Director of Security Technologies for Entrust Datacard, Sandy guides the organization's next generation security and technology strategy. Prior to Entrust Datacard, Sandy was Director of Product Management at RSA, where she was responsible for SecurID and data protection. She has also held positions at @stake and BBN. Sandy has been a speaker at RSA Conference, SOURCE Boston, the NYSE Cyber Risk Board Forum and BSides Boston. She has a Sc.B. in Mathematics from Brown University and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.


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The device weighs 5.27 lbs and measures .49 inches thick, and a two hour battery life. It has a front-facing camera with a 1280×720 resolution, a smart card reader, a USB 3.0 port, and more. Panasonic also states that the device is ruggedized to withstand up to a 12-inch drop at 26 different angles, while turned off, and a 30-inch drop on its back when it is turned on.
Between the tablet\'s size and and projected battery life, it isn\'t as portable as the average tablet, but it is more portable than say, a desktop set up. For these reasons, and because of its $5,999 price tag, Panasonic is targeting the device at those working in design, video production, architecture, photography, and healthcare fields.


Guitar Blog: Should your child enjoy their guitar lessons?
Some parents believe that first and foremost learning guitar should be enjoyable for their children. While enjoyment of music and practice are certainly important I think there is a common misunderstanding. So I want to pointed out a slightly different angle on the importance of enjoyment when it comes to learning guitar.
Leading psychologist Martin Seligman (and others) believe there are potential long term consequences to the idea of focusing too much on enjoyment. When we are led to believe everything must be enjoyable we stop trying anything that is even slightly uncomfortable but here is the problem. Almost anything that is worth achieving takes effort. No pain no gain as they say. Children need to understand that success comes from hard work and persistence and that they should not give up just because something is not enjoyable in the moment. We all know this instinctively but for some reason we want to protect our children from this important lesson. I know when I took up guitar as a child I was often frustrated and felt like giving up. I did not enjoy much of the practice. I would happily have bypassed the practice if I could have but I really wanted to play guitar. I think there were definitely some critical points where without the support of certain people I would have given up.
My message to parents is to not get too hung up on whether your child enjoys every practice session. Instead talk to them about the reality. Explain that we achieve through persistence in giving up is not a good option. In fact it's rarely good option. The best time to give up is before you even start that way you won't have wasted any time. The bottom line is not whether or not you or your child enjoys the practice, it's whether or not you want to be the play guitar.
How do I get my child to practice guitar without forcing them?


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Guest access is one of the ways in Office365 of collaborating between different organizations which allows you to give certain people who are outside of your company access to a limited subset of the resources you have in the Cloud. This can be an Office365 unified Group or Microsoft Team but also other workloads like SharePoint and OneDrive can utilize this.
When it comes to scripting there are a number of value add things you can do to automate tasks for different people who have guest accounts in another tenant. The first step to automating with Guest Access is to Authenticate and generate an access token in the Guest tenant.
this will return a JSON result that contains the Authorization endpoint for the guest tenant along with other information useful when authenticating.
In the above example I've used the preapproved Office appId otherwise if you where to use your own AppId that would need to be authorized in the Guest tenant (which is a always a degree of difficulty when dealing with another companie's IT departments).
Invoke-RestMethod -Headers $Header -Uri "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me" -Method Get -ContentType "application/json"
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Jenkins users - is there a variable that show the SVN branch(es) used in the build just like CVS_BRANCH?
is there a variable that show the SVN branch(es) used in the build just like CVS_BRANCH?
I noticed there is a variable CVS_BRANCH. Is there one for Subversion as well?
Re : is there a variable that show the SVN branch(es) used in the build just like CVS_BRANCH?
There is the SVN_REVISION variable which contains the revision number from SVN that has been used for the build.
Objet : is there a variable that show the SVN branch(es) used in the build just like CVS_BRANCH?
Re: Re : is there a variable that show the SVN branch(es) used in the build just like CVS_BRANCH?
Yes, but I am trying to get the information about the branch(es) that are using for the build.
RE: Re: Re : is there a variable that show the SVN branch(es) used in the build just like CVS_BRANCH?
Subversion does not have a concept of branches. In subversion, branching is purely a matter of naming conventions.
Subject: Re: Re : is there a variable that show the SVN branch(es) used in the build just like CVS_BRANCH?
Re : Re: Re : is there a variable that show the SVN branch(es) used in the build just like CVS_BRANCH?
Maybe are you trying to get then the Subversion URL you are building from? I don't know if this is accessible or not through environment variables.
Look at http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Building+a+software+project#Buildingasoftwareproject-below for a list of all environment variables created by Hudson for a build.
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Q: How come variables are initialized to their default values even if we have a constructor i have a question regarding default constructors in java.
as much as i have read about constructors in java, a default constructor initializes all instance variables to their default values. but what if we define a constructor for a class, then how come variables are initialized to their default values if we want them to ?
suppose i have 2 files
a.java
public class a
{
    int x;

    public a(int z)
    {
        if(z > 0)
        {
            x = z;
        }
    }

    public  void get()
    {
        System.out.println(x);
    }
}

and b.java
public class b
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        a obj = new a(-4);

        obj.get();
    }
}

now here condition (z>0) fails, so x is initialized to zero. but what exactly does this as their is no default constructor in class a.

A: In your a class (renamed A below to follow conventions) as you have written it, there is no default constructor. A default constructor for a class is a constructor which is public and has no arguments.
With the code you have written, this will fail:
A a = new A();

As soon as you declare another constructor in a class, there is no default constructor anymore.
As to instance variables, if you do not initialize them explicitly, they are set to default values. That is:
public class A
{
    private int x;

    public int getX()
    {
        return x;
    }
}

if you do:
final A a = new A();
System.out.println(a.getX());

this will print out 0. The class above is exactly equivalent to:
public class A
{
    private int x /* = 0 -- default value for uninitialized int instance variables */;

    // redundant
    public A()
    {
    }

    public int getX()
    {
        return x;
    }
}

A:
Fields that are declared but not initialized will be set to a reasonable default by the compiler. Generally speaking, this default will be zero or null, depending on the data type.

Source
That means that the compiler will do that for you when you build the program.

A: When you declare a variable in java, it's by default initialized as it's default value.
For the primitive types is that 0 (or it's equivalent), for Objects is that null
So in your example has x initialy the value 0 and you never overwrite it.

A: In java if we dont define any constructor, it takes its self a default constructor which will have default values.while we creating object we intialize values to the constructor.
public class Car{
  int numOfWheels;

public Car(int numOfWheels){                     //created constructor//

    this.numOfWheels=numOfwheels;
    }
    }
    public static void main(string[]args){

Car skoda = new Car(4);
}                           *//initialized value to the object using constructor in  parenthesis//*

A: public class a
{
    int x;

    public a(int z)
    {
    //as we know that every class base class is Object class this constructor first statement is super(); means compiler automatically add this statement that call object class default constructor and initialize default values
        if(z > 0)
        {
            x = z;
        }
    }

    public  void get()
    {
        System.out.println(x);
    }
}

A: public class a
{
int x;
public a(int z)
{
/*As we know that every class base class is Object.....
compiler automatically add super(); that call Object class default constructor
that initialize the value of instance variable */
if(z > 0)
{
x = z;
}
}
public  void get()
{
System.out.println(x);
}
}
public class b
{
public static void main(String[] args)

{

    a obj = new a(-4);

    obj.get();

}

}
//other example is below
/*class A
{
public A()
{
System.out.println("Arjun Singh Rawat and Ashish Chinaliya");
}
}
class B extends A
{
public B()
{
//compiler automatically add super();
}
}
class calling
{
public static void main(String arg[])
{
B bb=new B();
}
}*/
thanks...

A: public class Demo {
    static int a;
    Demo(int b )
{
System.out.println(" Constructor");
}
 public static int  func()
 {
     System.out.println(a);
     return 1;
 }
 public static void main( String args[])
 {

     new Demo(func());
 }
}

Output
0
Constructor

It's not the default constructor that initializes our fields to their default values ,
In this program,  the static field a is being initialized to 0 even though there is no default constructor
added by the compiler. Also it's being initialized to 0 before a constructor being called .


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The UK's progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions slowed last year, Ofgem has said.
The UK continues to be a global leader but greenhouse gases fell by 2.5% last year, down from 3% the previous year and the smallest reduction since 2012, according to the regulator's annual state of the market report.
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"As well as protecting consumers in the future, our duty is also to protect those today.
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