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Indian films need innovative storytelling ideas: Irrfan Khan
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Internationally acclaimed actor Irrfan Khan feels Indian filmmakers should not just stick to the basics while making a film, but should rather try on to get in more innovative approach to make Indian films known globally.
"If there is any field which becomes stagnant, it will pound to come down. Indian films need to reach the world audience and for that it needs to find a new language," Irrfan said here at the NDTV Indian of the Year 2015 awards on Tuesday.
"It (Indian filmmakers) needs to find a new way of storytelling. It's very necessary to find the bigger audience. We can't keep on making similar kind of films all the time. We need to find something innovative, like the way audience gaze is evolving and is changing our storytelling ideas," he added.
"It is bringing new actors and encouraging them," Irrfan, best known for is roles in Oscar-winning films like "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Life of Pi", said.
The actor, who had a wonderful last year with all his films – "Piku", "Talvar", "Jazbaa" and Hollywood film "Jurassic World" – doing well both commercially as well as critically, was given the Actor of the Year award by former Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly.
Asked about his acting style, Irrfan said: "I'm bored with things very easily. I can't repeat things. For me acting is a way of exploring things."
"Sometimes when an actor do a comment or pass his opinion, I have heard people saying that 'he is an actor so he should do only acting'. I feel very strange because for actors everything and anything is their subject matter," he added.
Asked to share his views on the on-going 'intolerance' debate, Irrfan said: "Everybody should have the right to speak their mind and concerns. If you are told to shut up, then these are not good signs for a growing society."
"Once ('Life of Pi' director) Ang Lee was asked why you don't speak about your country's politics when he was here? He said, 'We don't speak about politics. We should feel safe to say whatever we want to say. We should be free to express ourselves'."
Irrfan will next be seen in Hollywood film "Inferno" alongside Tom Hanks.
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The scariest ghost stories I know take place when the history of data — how it's collected, how it's used, and what it's meant to represent — becomes an oral history, passed down as campfire stories from one generation of analysts to another like a spooky game of telephone.
These stories include eerie phrases like "I'm not sure where that comes from", "I think that broke a few years ago and I'm not sure if it was fixed", and the ever-ominous "the guy who did that left". When hearing these stories, one can imagine that a written history of the data has never existed — or if it has, it's overgrown with ivy and tech-debt in an isolated statuary, never to be used again.
The best defense I've found against relying on an oral history is creating a written one.
Enter the data dictionary. A data dictionary is a "centralized repository of information about data such as meaning, relationships to other data, origin, usage, and format", and provides us with a framework to store and share all of the institutional knowledge we have about our data.
As part of my role as a lead data scientist at a start-up, building a data dictionary was one of the first tasks I took on (started during my first week on the job). Learning about our data is a crucial part of onboarding for data-focused roles, and documenting that journey in the form of a data dictionary provides a useful data asset for the company (which helps to preserve institutional knowledge) and simultaneously provides a good resource for analyzing the data.
Yours doesn't have to look like this, and I've seen data dictionaries with other fields and structures, but feel free to borrow mine if you're looking for a format to start with and riff on — it's worked well for me so far.
A couple of times while building a data dictionary, I tried to document every piece of data I found while spelunking around my company's database, which was very painful and not a great use of time. Don't do this.
Focus on starting with the data that's important and useful to you and documenting those fields or tables. Then, as you incorporate more data from other tables or databases, focus on documenting those incrementally. Avoid shaving the yak.
The structure, content, and location of your data dictionary should be very different if your context is for analyst use in the trenches vs. for business stakeholder understanding. It could also look different depending on the people or groups who will be using it as a reference.
For example, my data dictionaries tend to contain notes pertaining to analyzing the data that others might not need — things I might edit or remove if I were creating a shared cross-functional resource. I've also created versions of data dictionaries that are structured as documents rather than spreadsheets, a format that lends itself well to going very in-depth about fields (if you can't fit that info in a spreadsheet cell) or sharing with less-technical folks alongside a deliverable (like an analysis). These also make a great first draft to be turned into a more shareable version later.
For a data dictionary to be useful, it has to be kept up-to-date. This is a challenge that straddles both technical and cultural realms.
Technically, to keep a data dictionary up-to-date, it should to be straightforward for collaborators to access and update. It's also helpful to be able to see when these updates are made to track important changes. Culturally, the importance of a data dictionary should be acknowledged, and upkeep should be incentivized. It's easy to skip documentation if it's not required or seen as important, and this is how documentation grows stale (and eventually dies when deemed worthless).
I'll freely admit that I have yet to implement a data dictionary that perfectly addresses both of these challenges, but I'm working on it, and others have made good suggestions on the "how" below that I plan to incorporate in my own work.
There are a few things about my own data dictionaries that could be improved. Namely, I plan to make my data dictionary more "internally public" (as something like a Github wiki or a Confluence page), and add it to source / version control (git) to track changes.
Some of my biggest concerns are making sure that others know about, have access to, and can use and update any data dictionaries I'm building. Some of this is cultural and some of this is technical, so I'm doing by best to tackle these concerns as I'm building, and asking others for advice along the way.
For more ideas and best practices around data dictionaries, check out these two Twitter threads which are full of great suggestions. If you've built a data dictionary and have some best practices to share, or if you have questions about how to get started, please feel free to chime in on Twitter or as a comment here.
These are questions I get asked a lot both by aspiring data scientists and the folks who want to hire them. My answer, in true data scientist fashion, is usually something along the lines of "it depends" — and it's true! Most of my work involves juggling multiple projects that might have different stakeholders or touch different parts of the company, and the lifecycles of these projects can vary greatly depending on the complexity involved. In the eight years I've been doing applied analytics, no two weeks have looked the same. Furthermore, data science is such a growing and varied field that it's rare two data scientists would give the same answer (even at the same company!).
For context, my startup installed hardware into retail stores in order to track cardboard displays (the ones you see in CVS, for example, that are stocked with sunscreen or allergy medication) that go in and out of each store. We used sales data from those stores to calculate the incremental sales gained as a result of having these displays up, in addition to tracking other things like the supply chain process, and reported all of this back to the stores and brands whose products were on the displays. Lots of fun data to play with!
Testing of IoT device updates: as an IoT company, we periodically rolled out firmware updates to our hardware, and August was a big update month. We used data to decide which units to update, how to space out the updates, and to monitor updates as they were being rolled out. After the updates, we performed more analysis to see whether the updates were making our RSSI signals stronger than they were before.
Improving our data pipeline: as a startup, we were constantly working to improve our data pipeline — this meant incorporating new data, QA-ing our data inputs and pipeline outputs, chasing down bugs, updating to account for new logical cases and products, and building better documentation to describe what various pieces of the data pipeline were doing. As you can see, I used lots of data visualizations along the way to help us diagnose and improve the pipeline.
Professional development: I was fortunate enough to attend the JupyterCon tutorials and conference in August in NYC (check out my recap here). For me, conferences serve as a place to learn, meet great people, and get inspired by all of the cool things that folks are doing. Also, it's a lot of fun to do a local R-Ladies dinner, and I had a great time hanging out with NYC R-Ladies.
It's hard to distill the variance of a data scientist's job into a single video (or set of videos), but I hope this helps to give some insight into the types of projects a data scientist might be tasked with. If you're interested in reading more about what data scientists really do, I highly recommend Hugo Bowne-Anderson's HBR article, which is the result of his conversations with 35+ data scientists on the excellent DataFramed podcast (which I also recommend!). One of the coolest things about being a data scientist right now is how much can vary day-to-day and week-to-week (even at the same job!) — there's always more to learn and something new to try.
Reviewing a design for a test of our hardware to be run in stores.
Working through my daily to-do list. This one includes incorporating and QA-ing a new set of data into our workflow.
Getting the word out about a panel that a few fellow data scientists and I are pitching for SXSW.
Visualizing test results with violin plots(!). A great way to combine and display data from a test on the distribution of signal strength.
Updating SQL case statements in our data ETL pipeline to account for a new case.
Writing pseudo-code documentation for a classifier so that others can understand the data that goes into it, the logic behind it, and are able to explain it in more simple terms to customers.
A quick shot of a "lab" we use to test equipment before it goes in the field. This was a test-heavy month.
This is the face I make approximately a dozen times per day when I'm questioning something I see in the data. I'm getting wrinkles from making this face.
This was a SQL-heavy month, since we were spending lots of time QA-ing our data.
Using Jupyter to spin up some quick exploratory data visualizations to present to answer a question my team had.
Playing with a cool way to visualize the impact of missing data at JupyterCon.
Dinner with R-Ladies NYC! I've had a lot of fun meeting R-Ladies when visiting various cities, and this was no exception — it's nice to have a built-in group of people to hang out with in cities all around the world.
Swag from the Netflix booth at JupyterCon — read about all of the cool things they're doing in my Jupytercon recap.
Building and visualizing an ad-hoc analysis request from a client.
After making some changes to our data pipeline, monitoring the DAGs in Apache Airflow to make sure everything updates smoothly.
More data visualization while bug-hunting to spot the source of an error in our data pipeline.
During my 7+ years in tech, I've encountered sexism, but I've also had the good fortune to work with some really great guys. These guys cared about me and my work, and lots of the small things they did to help me (sometimes without realizing they were doing anything!) added up to big things for my career over time.
Over the years, some of my consulting clients made an effort to praise my work *in front of my boss*, which directly helped me to get promoted.
Each promotion has meant more experience, more skills, and higher compensation — in addition to helping to set me up for the next step(s) in my career.
I got my last job because a guy on my future team recommended that his boss take a look at my resume. My resume got screened out through their recruiting process, so I know that I literally would not have gotten the interview if it weren't for his recommendation. It's hard to understate how important that recommendation was for my career.
Similarly, many former coworkers and clients have also written formal recommendations for me on LinkedIn, which helps to build trust in my work and establish credibility beyond a single job or boss.
I had a male coworker who started in the same position as me, was promoted to a manager role, then switched to a new company. Before he left, he shared his salary in my position, after being promoted, and at his new company.
This helped me to navigate salary negotiations (both internally and externally), ensure that I was being paid fairly, and to evaluate new job offers. Knowledge is power when it comes to salaries and a little bit of "extra" information can go along way.
My last company had a highly selective quarterly awards program. My boss put time and effort into my nomination, then went to his boss to ask that he throw his weight behind the nomination as well to give me a better shot at getting the award. I got the award, and I'm positive that having the extra backing had an impact.
This is the difference between mentorship and sponsorship — a mentor might help you gain the skills to earn an award, but a sponsor will nominate you, then go to bat to personally advocate for you. A sponsor has skin in the game. Women are over-mentored and under-sponsored, and we need people with social and political capital to promote us and help us to advance.
During an HR / benefits session, a male coworker asked about parental leave so that I wouldn't have to. It can be quite awkward to have people assume that you're pregnant (or soon to be) if you're talking about parental leave policies, and this saved me from having those uncomfortable conversations.
The same guy also wrote a letter to the CEO citing his experiences and how a flexible schedule helped him and his family during pregnancy and beyond. Parental leave helps everyone!
When someone references things I've written or retweets the things I'm working on, it helps to amplify my message and build my network.
Before launching R-Ladies Austin, we had several men reach out to see how they could help us grow. They offered time, training materials, books for raffles, advice, meeting places, sponsorships, speaking opportunities, and more. This helped a lot as we were getting established.
Similarly, our local Austin R User Group goes out of their way to promote R-Ladies events without me even asking. This helps us to expand, reach new members, and makes us feel supported and welcome in the tech community.
I've been lucky to have male coworkers who at least try to "get it" when it comes to gender in tech, and who have had my back during tough moments. Some of my favorite coworkers have made laugh out loud after being frustrated by something casually sexist that a client said. That stuff is the worst, and a little bit of empathy and humor can go a long way.
Quarterly, our R-Ladies group teams up with the larger user group for a joint meetup, and recently we asked for volunteers to give lightning talks and ended up with more speakers than slots (a great problem to have for an organizer).
I was prepared to step down to give my slot to another woman in our group. Instead, the male organizer chose to give up his slot so that the event would have a higher women-to-men gender balance. To me, this small action speaks volumes about the type of inclusive tech community we're working to build here in Austin.
My husband has picked up domestic "slack" while I study, organize meetups, attend workshops, and travel to conferences (among other personal pursuits). I'm all about being a hashtag-independent-woman, but the dogs still need to go out even if I'm doing back to back events after work.
The balance of responsibilities shifts from week to week, but in the end, we're partners and teamwork is what makes it all work. The fact that my husband supports my career and is happy to help out at home makes more things possible.
A former boss tries his hardest to promote women in tech, and one of the things he's done best is ask for specific ways that he can be most helpful. This has lead to lots of productive conversations around things like hiring and mentoring.
The act of asking also lets me know that he's open to feedback and questions. This list started in large part because he's constantly asking for concrete, actionable ways that he can help women in tech, and I appreciate that.
Ladies, if there's a concrete action that someone has taken to help your career, I'd love to hear about it in the comments or on Twitter [I'll update this post with any new suggestions].
Also, it's worth mentioning that none of the above actions are gender specific — plenty of women have helped my career as well (in similar and different ways) — or specific to tech. Anyone can make a big difference on someone's career — these are just a few ways that some good guys have helped mine, and I hope they help illustrate small, concrete ways that we can all be better allies to one another.


When I am hungry, and I mean really hungry, and want to go out for a nice dinner, I go to Bei Oma Kleinmanns, one of my absolute favorites!
It is an traditional restaurant with a long history but now with a modern concept. At Bei Oma Kleinmann (which means 'at Grandma Kleinmann') they serve delicious meals based on a large menu of all varieties of 'Schnitzel' – even some vegetarian. But they also have a weekly changing menu with seasonal food like chanterelles, asparagus and roast goose, for example.
The homely interior is composed of old wooden tables and an old beer bar, and because it is always very busy, you have to make a reservation one or some days before (also online), BUT you can also always go there without a reservation, give your name at the counter and they'll put you on a waiting list. You'll have some delicious 'Kölsch' (Cologne) beer, stand at the bar, and get a table after 20-40 minutes (though not with big groups – better come early then. Kitchen closes at 23:00).
It is worth the wait, which is proof that everything tastes good!
The staff are always quick and in a contagiously good mood. In summertime they also have seats outside.
Oh, are you still asking yourself "what if I am not that hungry"? Don't be shy to ask for a doggybag… everybody does it… because the Schnitzel is huge!
So start your evening at Oma Kleinmanns and then dive into the nightlife around.


A dangerously warming planet is not just an environmental disaster. Fundamentally, it is also an economic and social challenge. Putting a value or price on carbon emissions tackles climate change at its source.
Carbon pricing has the potential to radically decarbonize global economic activity by changing the behavior of consumers, businesses, and investors while unleashing technological innovation and generating revenues that can be put to productive use. In short, well-designed carbon prices offer triple benefits: they protect the environment, drive investments in clean technologies, and raise revenue. For businesses, carbon pricing enables them to manage risks, plan their low-carbon investments, and drive innovation.
Momentum behind pricing carbon is growing. Implementation of carbon pricing initiatives has tripled in the past decade. To date, 70 jurisdictions (46 national and 24 sub-national) have implemented, or are scheduled to implement, carbon pricing initiatives. These carbon pricing initiatives cover around 20 percent of global GHGs up from 15 percent in 2017.
According to the World Bank's State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2018, governments generated roughly US$33 billion in revenues from carbon pricing in 2017, an $11 billion bump from the $22 billion raised in 2016. The report also finds that carbon prices are rising, with about half of emissions now covered by carbon pricing initiatives priced at over US$10/tCO2e, compared to one-quarter of emissions covered in 2017.
The World Bank's Partnership for Market Readiness helps countries prepare and implement climate change mitigation policies, including carbon-pricing instruments, by leveraging partners' experiences to share knowledge and best practices. The result involves sharing highly technical and complex details of designing carbon-pricing schemes such as allocation, the development of legislation, emissions registries, and systems to monitor, report and verify (MRV) emissions.
The private sector is also stepping up. In 2017 nearly 1,400 companies disclosed the use of an internal carbon price, including over 100 Fortune Global 500 companies with collective annual revenues of $7 trillion. Also, in 2017, CDP and the We Mean Business Coalition launched the Carbon Pricing Corridors initiative, aiming to support key large market players to define the carbon prices required for industry to achieve the ambitions of the Paris Agreement.
However, despite promising progress, 80 percent of emissions are still not covered by carbon pricing. And half of current emissions covered by carbon pricing initiatives are priced at less than $10 per ton CO2e. This is far short of the level needed to drive transformational change: estimated at $40-80 per ton by 2020 and $50-100 per ton by 2030 according to the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices, co-chaired by Joseph Stiglitz and Lord Nicholas Stern and supported by the World Bank.
Building a repository of the most up-to-date global experiences on carbon pricing policy design and implementation, including through knowledge products such as the Report from the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices, tools such as the Carbon Pricing Dashboard, or hosting webinars with business leaders..
Convening public and private sectors through global events.
Collaborating with partners to deepen engagement in key sectors, particularly, the construction value chain, banking, and maritime.
As of 2018, the CPLC has over 33 national and sub-national government partners, over 160 private sector partners, and over 70 strategic partners representing NGOs, business organizations, and universities. CPLCs work includes building the case for carbon pricing in Côte d'Ivoire; supporting peer to peer engagement among businesses in Brazil and India to strengthen their efforts to apply an internal carbon price; fostering leading voices in support of carbon pricing in institutions of higher learning; and, stakeholder engagement that led to the adoption of the Carbon Pricing in the Americas Declaration in support of carbon pricing as a key policy to tackle climate change.
The CPLC long-term objective is a carbon price applied throughout the global economy, with targets to double the percentage of global emissions covered by explicit carbon prices to 25 percent by 2020, and to double it again to 50 percent within a decade.
46 national and 24 sub-national governments are pricing carbon.
Carbon pricing revenues raised more than $20 billion for the second consecutive year.
Almost 1,400 companies factor an internal carbon price into business plans, including more than 100 Fortune Global 500 companies with collective annual revenues of $7 trillion.


Where can I find good breastfeeding information?
La Leche League International (LLLI) is a great source for just about anything you want to know about breastfeeding. As the oldest breastfeeding organization around they have decades of experience and information. They are mothers helping other mothers — carrying on the tradition that has been happening informally for all of history. They have on-line help forms, on-line forums , and information about breastfeeding research. Another general resource is Diane Weissinger. She is a LLL leader and lactation consultant that writes about breastfeeding in ways that provide new perspectives on breastfeeding problems and the social aspects of breastfeeding.
Lactation consulting is a fairly new profession. Ruth and Adria are International Board Certified Lactation Consultants. This credential requires background education (in biology, physiology, nutrition, sociology, psychology, and medical terminology), lactation-specific education, hands-on breastfeeding counselling experience, and a passing score on a board exam. You can learn more about the IBCLC credential at IBLCE. Our professional organization is the International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA). The ILCA website lists IBCLC's around the world so families can find a local lactation consultant.
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I'm wrapping up the spring issue and next year's curriculum, in that order!
I love this so much: Reimagining history, one whitewashed diorama at a time. We really can do better as we know better, just like this.
I love my job, but I don't want my job to be the most important thing in my life.
I thought this was great — I love getting to review books as part of my day job, but sometimes I just want to talk about books, and that's not the same thing.
One of the most celebrated women authors of the 19th century got erased from literary history.
What the best-selling book was the year I was born!
Fantasy birding is a thing, and it is GLORIOUS.
These amazing illustrations for Howl's Moving Castle.


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Q: how can i check array length in a function? In my file I have created function length that must return length of auto type array, but instead of right answer it everytime returns 1.
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int length(auto arr){
    return sizeof(arr) / sizeof(*arr);
}

int main(){
    int arr[] = {1,2,3,4,5,0};
    // Test
    cout << length(arr); // it returns 1 but the right answer is 6
    return 0;
}

A: You are using a C-style array, and this type cannot be copied.
If we assume that your compiler has a version that supports
auto parameters, it's like if it had a template parameter
that would be deduced to int * here, because instead
of being copied, a C-style array decays to int *.
In this case, sizeof(arr) is sizeof(int *) which is probably
4 on a 32-bit system or 8 on a 64-bit system.
sizeof(*arr) is sizeof(int) and is probably 4 on most systems.
Thus sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]) in length() will probably
always give 1 or 2.
If you want such a function returning the number of elements
of an array, you could use the std::array() type as many
comments suggest.
An alternative is to provide a template function
that is aware of the constant (known at compile time) size of the array.
/**
  g++ -std=c++17 -o prog_cpp prog_cpp.cpp \
      -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -Wno-sign-conversion \
      -g -O0 -UNDEBUG -fsanitize=address,undefined
**/

#include <iostream>

template<typename T,
         int N>
int
length([[maybe_unused]] const T(&arr)[N])
{
  return N;
}

int
main()
{
  int arr[] = {1,2,3,4,5,0};
  std::cout << length(arr) << '\n';
  return 0;
}

A: Ah yes, you've fallen victim to the classic array decay problem.
When have a function that takes in an array, C passes it as a pointer, because "array" isn't a passable data type. You get 1 because sizeof(arr) == sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(*arr) == sizeof(int), so sizeof(arr) / sizeof(*arr) == 1.
Unfortunately, there is no way to find the length of C-style arrays in a subfunction. However, some things you can do:

*

*You can pass the length into the function as well. Unfortunately, this is pretty self-defeating if you want a length function. However, it's used for many C-style applications which need to support null bytes.

*You can use the C++ style std::array, which allows you to find the size of the array with size(). This allows you to create an array without having to play with C shenanigans. You can also use std::vector, which is variable-size instead of fixed-size.

A: It's impossible to pass an array to a function directly (by value, that is), attempting to do so passes a pointer to its first element instead. Other answers have already explained this.
What you can do is pass a reference:
int length(const auto &arr)
{
    return sizeof(arr) / sizeof(*arr);
}

This works for arrays, but gives wrong results for pointers, standard containers, etc.
To make it more bullet-proof, you can rewrite it to make it accept references to arrays only:
template <typename T, std::size_t N>
std::size_t length(const T (&)[N])
{
    return N;
}

But we already have a standard function that does exactly this, it's called std::size. And it's also overloaded to work with containers.

A: The fact your code compiles at all is because your compiler (gcc?) supports a non-standard extension.
You would be better off using standard containers (e.g. std::vector<int> if the size is determined at run time, or std::array<int, 6> if the size is fixed at compile time).
But, for a function that takes a raw array and gives its size, you can simply pass a reference;
 int length(const auto &arg) {return sizeof(arr)/sizeof(*arr);}

or
 template<int N> int length(const int (&arr)[N])
 {
     return N;
 }

Depending on your needs, the function can also be made constexpr and noexcept.
In C++17 and later, simply use the helper function std::size()  (supplied in various standard headers, such as <iterator>, and works with a raw array as well as standard containers)
int main(){
    int arr[] = {1,2,3,4,5,0};
    cout << std::size(arr);
    return 0;
}

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Pelstar LLC/Health o meter® Professional Scales announces a new white paper, "Weighing the Risks: Hospital Scales, Accuracy and Safety", which explores the challenges, risks and costs of hospital scales—along with the safe use and proper selection of scales for Acute Care systems.
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Pelstar LLC/Health o meter® Professional Scales introduces its new Digital Wet Diaper/Lap Sponge/Organ Scale (Model 3400KL). Designed for use in sterile environments such as Neonatal ICUs and surgical suites, the scale offers hygienic features such as an easy to clean stainless steel base and removable, stainless steel weighing pan. The weighing pan effectively retains fluids and can be autoclaved. Powered by a rechargeable battery, the heavy duty scale is portable and easy to hold using its built in handles.
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Health o meter® Professional Scales announces two new members to the company's Executive Team. Brian Skinner was named Vice President of Engineering and Roz Ben-Chitrit as Vice President of Business Development and Product Management.
Health o meter® Professional Scales announces their new TAA Compliant heavy duty digital floor scale, model number 880KL. The scale is manufactured in Hungary, a TAA compliant country in the Trade Agreements Act and also qualifies for GSA Schedule Contracts.
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Century-old crime fiction is made fresh again
by Glen Seeber
Published: Sun, June 9, 2019 2:01 AM
"Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s" annotated with a foreword by Leslie S. Klinger, introduction by Otto Penzler (Pegasus Crime, 1,126 pages, in stores)
If you're looking for a gift for Dad on Father's Day, and he's a reader, you can't go wrong with a good tale of crime. And if he's needing a little exercise, too, I have a great idea for a gift!
Leslie S. Klinger, a noted attorney and author, is also a literary editor and annotator of classic genre fiction, and you don't have to take Wikipedia's word for that (although it's what I stole this description from). I have a shelf-full of books Klinger has assembled, from ghost stories to Sherlock Holmes and on to Holmes's rivals.
And then there is this one, "Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s." If you've ever picked up a ream of typing paper — of good, quality paper, that is — you know it's heavy. This book has good quality paper, good enough it can carry color photos without the inks bleeding together, and it's thicker than a ream of paper. In other words, carrying this book around, lifting it off a table and into reading position, may just build muscle.
The effort is worth it.
"Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s" collects five novels that helped make the careers of their authors:
• "The House Without a Key" by Earl Derr Biggers, introducing what may be crime fiction's first positive Asian character in print (not necessarily in film), Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police.
• "The Roman Hat Mystery" by Ellery Queen (a pseudonym adopted by the writing team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and later used by other authors), introducing the character Ellery Queen, an amateur sleuth in New York City.
• "The Benson Murder Case" by S.S. Van Dine, introducing the erudite know-it-all Philo Vance.
• "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett, introducing the Continental Op, a man with no name whose story was loosely adapted in film by Akira Kurosawa in "Yojimbo" and repeated by Sergio Leone in "A Fistful of Dollars."
• "Little Caesar" by W.R. Burnett, describing the rise and fall of Chicago gangster Rico Bandello. (The classic 1931 movie of the same name made Edward G. Robinson a major film star.)
Because each of these crime novels came out a century ago, Klinger provides notes and photographs explaining references and places that the modern reader might not otherwise recognize or understand. And even if the reader does recognize and understand them, the notes also offer clarification and context for what is taking place. It just makes the stories all the more enjoyable.
"Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s" is a hefty tome that will not be easy to read in bed except by, perhaps, a bodybuilder, and bathtub reading should probably be ruled out as well.
But it is still worth the effort, because the stories are so darned good, and the annotations are so on the spot. It's a good gift: for Dad, for yourself, for anyone who loves a good book and would be thrilled to have five such books in one place.
— Glen Seeber, The Oklahoman
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Yesterday, the great American poet, Mary Oliver died, at age 83. Her poetry grew out of a love for nature, that served as a refuge from a turbulent childhood. In the woods and ponds around her rural Ohio home, she found beauty, healing and hope. Throughout her adult life, she found wisdom and renewal on daily walks along the beaches and forests of Provincetown, Cape Cod. Nature fed and expanded her soul.
Her poem Red Bird, invites the reader to look for the gift of color that breaks into the often grey and cold days of a New England winter.
Red Bird reminds us that beauty however fleeting, comes into even the darkest of times.
May Red Bird speak to you.
So hungry and so many.
Not all of them bold in spirit.


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June 8, 2021By Angela Dresselhaus0 comment
Written by Helen Bui and medically reviewed by Chris Sayed, MD and Tara Jaleel, MD
Hidradenitis Suppurativa is not a rare disease
The prevalence of HS ranges from 0.1 to 2% of the US population.1 Since HS is often out of sight and not talked about it may seem like it is uncommon, but you've almost certainly met other people with HS even if you don't realize it. HS can make some people feel isolated, but you're not alone and there is an active community of people with HS raising awareness and providing support.
Hidradenitis Suppurativa is not caused by something you have done
HS is very complex and its cause is unclear.2 While we understand that HS involves inflammation of the hair follicles, there are many possible factors that contribute. Just like with other inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, HS can often run in families and there is not always a trigger that can be identified.3 Just like you wouldn't blame yourself if you had rheumatoid arthritis, you shouldn't blame yourself for HS!
Hidradenitis Suppurativa is not an infection
Infections are caused by harmful organisms that should not typically be on your body and can spread from person to person. In HS there is likely an imbalance of one's skin microbiome where there's an abnormal combination of normal skin bacteria.4 Although the presence of these bacteria may play a role in triggering more inflammation, it does not necessarily indicate an infection.
Hidradenitis Suppurativa is not curable at this time, but there are treatments available
Treating HS can be difficult and therapeutic guidelines cannot guarantee success, but can often lead to major improvements. However, it is important to have a dermatologist or other providers familiar with HS to provide an individualized treatment plan involving topical and systemic medical treatment, antibiotics, lasers, surgical procedures, and/or inclusion into clinical trials. While it is not curable, treatment can offer significant benefit in decreasing flares and disease progression. In most cases, a multimodal treatment approach may be needed and should be individualized to each person based on specific risk factors.
Hidradenitis Suppurativa is not contagious
There is an almost 7-year delay in obtaining the diagnosis of HS on average based on several studies. Initially, the lesions of HS may be misdiagnosed by health care providers as an infection such as staph or sexually transmitted infections. It is often challenging to differentiate the presentation from an infection in an acute setting such as emergency room/urgent care. The chronicity and distribution of disease are good clues to making the diagnosis. However, HS is not transmitted through skin, airborne, or sexual contact. For these reasons, it is important to spread HS awareness among healthcare providers to help accurately diagnose and treat HS symptoms.
Hidradenitis Suppurativa is not caused by poor hygiene
While the cause of HS is still unclear, it's clear that hygiene is not the culprit. There are many possible genetic and environmental factors such as an over-active immune system, hormonal imbalance, genetics and smoking that play a role in the disease.5 For these reasons, it's important to spread HS awareness and dismantle stigmas accompanying the disease.
Alikhan A, Sayed C, Alavi A, et al. North American clinical management guidelines for hidradenitis suppurativa: A publication from the United States and Canadian Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundations: Part I: Diagnosis, evaluation, and the use of complementary and procedural management. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2019;81(1):76-90.
Cartron A, Driscoll MS. Comorbidities of hidradenitis suppurativa: A review of the literature. Int J Womens Dermatol. 2019;5(5):330-4.
Vekic DA, Frew JW, Woods J, et al. Adopting the orphan: The importance of recognising hidradenitis suppurativa as a systemic auto-inflammatory disease. Australas J Dermatol. 2016;57(1):69-70.
Prens E, Deckers I. Pathophysiology of hidradenitis suppurativa: An update. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2015;73(5 Suppl 1):S8-11.
Ring HC, Thorsen J, Saunte DM, et al. The Follicular Skin Microbiome in Patients With Hidradenitis Suppurativa and Healthy Controls. JAMA Dermatol. 2017;153(9):897-905.
About the Author: Helen Bui, born and raised in Charlotte, NC, is a 4th year medical student at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She is completing her year-long research fellowship in hidradenitis suppurativa with Dr. Christopher Sayed and plans on applying for dermatology residency during the Fall of 2021.
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Kobarid (; , , ) is a settlement in Slovenia, the administrative centre of the Municipality of Kobarid.

Kobarid is known for the 1917 Battle of Caporetto, where the Italian retreat was documented by Ernest Hemingway in his novel A Farewell to Arms. The battle is well documented in the museum in the centre of Kobarid. The museum won a Council of Europe award in 1993.

Name
Kobarid was attested in written sources as Kauoretum in 1184 (and as de Cavoreto in 1258, Caboret in 1291, and de Chiavoretto in 1343). The Slovenian name is derived from *Koboridъ, borrowed from Old Friulian *Kaborệdu. The original Romance form of the name, *Cap(o)rētum, is probably derived from Latin caper 'goat' and refers to a place where there are goats. The town is known as Cjaurêt in Friulian, Karfreit in German, and Caporetto in Italian.

Geography

The municipality is the westernmost in Slovenia, situated in the Julian Alps in the Upper Soča (Isonzo) Valley, at the confluence with the Nadiža (Natisone) River, close to the border with Italy. In the southwest, the road leads to the neighbouring Italian comune of Pulfero. The area is located in the north of the historic Goriška region, itself part of the larger Slovene Littoral.

History
Kobarid has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Archaeological remains from the Hallstatt period have been found in the area. The nearby Tonocov Grad archaeological site has remains of 5th-century Roman buildings, when the area was located in the forefront of the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum defense system. The settlement was an important base on the Roman road from Forum Iulii (present-day Cividale del Friuli) up to the Predil Pass and the Noricum province.

Middle Ages
In the 6th century, the area was settled by Slavic tribes, ancestors of the modern Slovenes. When Kobarid was first mentioned in 1184, it was part of the Patria del Friuli ruled by the Patriarchs of Aquileia.

While the estates in the west were gradually conquered by the Republic of Venice until 1420, Kobarid together with Tolmin County and the possessions of the Counts of Gorizia was incorporated in the Inner Austrian territories of the Habsburg monarchy, like the Slovene-speaking territories of Carniola and Lower Styria.

Modern time
From 1754 Kobarid belonged to the newly established Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca, a Habsburg crown land which later formed the Austrian Littoral together with the March of Istria and the Imperial Free City of Trieste.

With the exception of a brief period between 1809 and 1813, when it was included under the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, Kobarid remained under Austrian rule until 1918. In the mid-19th century, the town became an important centre of the Slovene national revival.

World wars

At the outset of World War I, the area saw one of the first victims of the conflict: Countess Lucy Christalnigg, killed by Landsturmer guards during a mission for the Red Cross. During the war, the whole area was the theatre of the Battles of the Isonzo, fought between the Kingdom of Italy and Austria-Hungary. The town was almost completely destroyed between 1915 and 1917.

After the end of the war in 1918, Kobarid was occupied by the Italian Army, and upon the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye it was officially annexed to Italy and incorporated into the Julian March region. Kobarid was a comune of the Province of Gorizia (as Caporetto), except during the period between 1924 and 1927, when the Province of Gorizia was abolished and annexed to the Province of Udine. Between 1922 and 1943, Kobarid was submitted to a policy of violent Fascist Italianization and many locals emigrated to the neighbouring Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The town became one of the crucial centres of recruitment and activity of the militant anti-fascist organization TIGR, which carried out an underground fight against the Italian Fascist regime. During the Italian administration, Kobarid also became an important symbolic place for the Fascist authorities because of its role in World War I. An Italian military ossuary was built on the hill above the town, and Benito Mussolini visited Kobarid in 1938.

Immediately after the Italian armistice in September 1943, Kobarid was liberated by a Partisan uprising, and became the center of large liberated area of around 2,500 square kilometers, known as the Kobarid Republic, administered by the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. During this period, almost all Italian families that settled in Kobarid during the 25 years of Italian administration left the town. In early November 1943, Nazi German forces took over the town and established their rule until May 1945, when the town was finally liberated by the Yugoslav People's Army.

In early June 1945, Kobarid came under joint British–U.S. occupation and placed under Allied temporary military administration until the establishment of a final border between Italy and Yugoslavia. The Morgan Line, which divided the Allied military occupation zone from the Yugoslav one, ran just east of the town, along the Soča River.

In September 1947, the Paris Peace Treaties gave the town to Yugoslavia. Several hundred inhabitants, especially from the Breginj area, chose emigration to Italy rather than becoming citizens of a Communist state.

Mass grave
Kobarid was the site of a mass grave from the Second World War. The Cemetery Mass Grave () was in the town cemetery, right of the entrance, between the first and second rows of graves. It contained the remains of 11 German soldiers that fell at Kolovrat in April 1945. Unlike most mass graves in Slovenia, the graves were well maintained during the communist era. The remains were exhumed in 2000 and re-interred in a common grave at Žale Cemetery in Ljubljana.

Kobarid today
In the 1960s and 1970s, Kobarid emerged as an important tourist center. In addition to the Kobarid Museum, the Napoleon Bridge has also become an important symbol of Kobarid. The bridge is a popular tourist destination that offers views of the mountains around Kobarid and the Soča River.

With the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, Kobarid became part of independent Slovenia.

Notable people

Andrej Manfreda (1908–1943), anti-Fascist resistance fighter, member of TIGR
Izidor Pagliaruzzi (a.k.a. "Pinč," 1820–1884), beekeeper
Josip Pagliaruzzi (1859–1885), poet
Andrej Uršič (1908–?), journalist, political activist
Ana Roš, chef at Hiša Franko

References

External links

 Kobarid on Geopedia
 Kobarid municipal site
 Museum of World War I, Kobarid
 LTO Sotočje, local tourist board - tourist info about the area: lodgings, natural features
 The Walks of Peace in the Soča Region Foundation. The Foundation preserves, restores, and presents the historical and cultural heritage of the First World War in the area of the Isonzo Front for research, tourism, and educational purposes.
 World War I Museum, Kobarid

Populated places in the Municipality of Kobarid
Populated places in the Soča Valley

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Gelatin is a kind of protein obtained by the partial hydrolysis of collagen derived from bone, skin and scale of animals such as porcine, bovine, and fish. It has been widely used as gelling agent in many fields such as food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and medical because of its multifunctional continent: biological origin, non-antigenicity, biocompatibility and biodegradability. In recent years, there are many researches that improve the heat-resistant at 37 °C and gel strength of porcine and bovine gelatin through the crosslinking by irradiation method without toxic chemicals as crosslinker, their elastic modulus were insufficient for the practical use of biomedical device (10 - 100 kPa). However, products made of mammalian gelatins have concern with ethic problem or religious issue for clinical medicine and tissue engineering. From this necessary demand, fish gelatin can replace and resolve this disadvantage of porcine and bovine ones. Although melting point of fish gelatin gel was lower than mammalian one, recently, it have been reported successfully obtained gelatin having high melting point of 24 °C from Tilapia fish scale by pre-treatment. In this work, hydrogels derived from fish gelatin with different molecular weights were produced by quantum beam in order to improve their heat-resistant, production yields and mechanical property.


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What do you understand by Web 2.0 ?
Web 2.0 is an advanced technology that has made sharing of Information, Collaboration, Interoperability and user-centered design easier and faster on the Internet. Interaction among the users is more on Web 2.0 sites.
How Web 2.0 has changed Web Ecommerce?
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Customer Reviews :- It is a known fact that customer reviews play an imperative role in the success of a business especially ecommerce. Knowing the needs as well as complaints of the customers an ecommerce business can bring in changes. Having customer reviews on your ecommerce site enhances the trust of the customers. Also, rating of the products help customers in choosing the right product. The display of customer reviews on the ecommerce sites is possible only because web 2.0 facility.
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Besides, the above mentioned facilities there are various other facilities provided by the Web 2.0 like Shopping Widgets, Facebook Pages, etc. Thus our write up provides you the benefits that Web 2.0 has provided the ecommerce.


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On average, analysts expect that TTM Technologies will report full-year sales of $2.63 billion for the current fiscal year, with estimates ranging from $2.63 billion to $2.64 billion. For the next financial year, analysts anticipate that the company will post sales of $2.72 billion, with estimates ranging from $2.69 billion to $2.76 billion. Zacks Investment Research's sales calculations are an average based on a survey of sell-side research firms that that provide coverage for TTM Technologies.
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TTM Technologies (NASDAQ:TTMI) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, October 30th. The technology company reported $0.37 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.38 by ($0.01). The business had revenue of $716.80 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $709.49 million. TTM Technologies had a return on equity of 5.56% and a net margin of 2.56%. TTM Technologies's revenue for the quarter was down 5.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.50 EPS.
TTMI has been the topic of a number of analyst reports. ValuEngine cut shares of TTM Technologies from a "strong-buy" rating to a "buy" rating in a report on Tuesday, November 12th. B. Riley initiated coverage on TTM Technologies in a research report on Thursday, September 5th. They issued a "buy" rating and a $17.75 price target for the company. BidaskClub upgraded TTM Technologies from a "buy" rating to a "strong-buy" rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 6th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research cut TTM Technologies from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Sunday, November 3rd. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, three have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. The stock currently has an average rating of "Buy" and a consensus price target of $14.69.
TTMI traded up $0.30 on Friday, hitting $13.72. The company's stock had a trading volume of 120,608 shares, compared to its average volume of 641,676. TTM Technologies has a 12 month low of $8.49 and a 12 month high of $13.92. The firm has a market cap of $1.41 billion, a P/E ratio of 9.96 and a beta of 2.56. The company has a quick ratio of 1.73, a current ratio of 1.92 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.19. The company's 50 day simple moving average is $12.76 and its 200-day simple moving average is $11.05.
Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. CWM Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in TTM Technologies by 30.4% in the 2nd quarter. CWM Advisors LLC now owns 17,290 shares of the technology company's stock valued at $176,000 after purchasing an additional 4,030 shares during the period. Eqis Capital Management Inc. boosted its stake in TTM Technologies by 43.3% during the second quarter. Eqis Capital Management Inc. now owns 23,770 shares of the technology company's stock valued at $242,000 after buying an additional 7,185 shares during the period. Arizona State Retirement System grew its position in TTM Technologies by 1.6% during the second quarter. Arizona State Retirement System now owns 145,597 shares of the technology company's stock worth $1,485,000 after buying an additional 2,285 shares in the last quarter. Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL grew its position in TTM Technologies by 17.0% during the second quarter. Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL now owns 44,100 shares of the technology company's stock worth $450,000 after buying an additional 6,400 shares in the last quarter. Finally, First Trust Advisors LP grew its position in TTM Technologies by 422.1% during the second quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 206,084 shares of the technology company's stock worth $2,102,000 after buying an additional 166,615 shares in the last quarter.
TTM Technologies Company Profile
TTM Technologies, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures printed circuit boards (PCBs) worldwide. It operates through two segments, PCB and E-M Solutions. The company offers a range of PCBs and electro-mechanical solutions, including conventional PCBs, high density interconnect PCBs, flexible PCBs, rigid-flex PCBs, custom assemblies and system integration products, and IC substrates.
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Arthur: We've had some real tough lessons
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Blue and Gold Head Coach Brad Arthur gave his final thoughts at the end of Parramatta's 2018 NRL season to the media, a 44-10 loss to the minor premiership winning Sydney Roosters on Saturday night.
Having just completed a season with his side stuck in last place, Arthur was keen to look ahead for a bright future.
"We can't be too quick to dismiss it and move on," Arthur said.
"(But) I'm glad it's over and looking forward to a fresh start.
"We've had some real tough lessons, I've had some tough lessons."
Co-captain Tim Mannah reflected on a year that was difficult to play in.
"It's probably one of the toughest seasons I've been through," Mannah said.
"In the past we've had tough seasons, but I think what made this year tougher was the expectation.
"The frustrating thing was we knew what we were capable of doing."
Arthur identified some positives out of this season that he'll look to build on in the coming months.
"We've got the emergence of some of our young blokes that we've been able to put a bit of time into," Arthur said.
"I thought Oregon Kaufusi tonight was really good. It was his second game and he hadn't done a pre-season with us, so we've got some hope there.
"We've got some good young fellas coming through and also a couple of new recruits.
"Hopefully, the feeling we've got right now is more than enough motivation and drive to make sure it doesn't happen again."
Arthur acknowledged the Eels have to turn around their performances next season and backed the club to get it right.
"We've got to work hard. Everyone's got to come together, stick together, work together to make sure it doesn't happen again, because it's a horrible feeling.
"I know I've got the right staff and we know we've got the right playing group and the young fellas to come forward."
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The spirit of Christmas comes to Nashville at Gaylord Opryland Resort& Convention Center. Festive events, twinkling lights and ICE! await at A Country Christmas. Ballymascanlon Hotel, Dundalk, Ireland. 12, 789 likes · 89 talking about this · 18, 246 were here. Welcome to Ballymascanlon House Hotel.
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If you are out for a wee spin during the Christmas holidays, treat the family to a visit. Ballymascanlon House Hotel. 2018 TripAdvisor LLC All rights reserved. Cabra Castle Hotel is officially a building of intrinsically significant, historical and architectural interest and, as such, is open to the public between the hours of 11am and 4pm daily for viewing, year round (closed December 24, 25, and 26).
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Fatal New Jersey dump truck accident
On Behalf of Ginsberg & O'Connor, P.C. | Aug 3, 2015 | Truck Accidents |
According to reports, a woman was killed when she was struck by a dump truck on July 28. The woman was a pedestrian at the time of the incident and the dump truck was reportedly making a right turn.
Reports indicate that the incident occurred around 7:30 in the morning as the dump truck was turning into a service road. Early news reports only identified the victim as a woman with an age range of late 20s to early 30s. According to reports, the woman was treated by paramedics on the scene and transported to a local hospital. The woman was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The dump truck was being driven by a 40-year-old driver at the time of the incident. According to reports, the pedestrian had a cross signal, but the driver also had the green light at the time of the accident. Investigators are still working on the incident. They are inspecting and weighing the truck to see if an overload or mechanical issue was involved.
Investigators have said that cellphone use or vehicle speed do not appear to be factors in the accident. The driver also had an appropriate license to operate the dump truck. Witnesses are being interviewed and investigators are reviewing video that was taken by cameras in the area. Reports are that no charges have been filed against the driver of the dump truck at this time.
Accidents happen daily on New Jersey roads, and sometimes, the impact of those accidents can be terrible. When families lose a loved one to such accidents, they have a right to seek answers and compensation for their loss.
Source: WABC Eyewitness News, "Woman dies after hit by dump truck in Union City, NJ," July 28, 2015


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/*global describe, it, beforeEach, expect, module, inject*/
describe('avValPattern', function () {
  'use strict';

  var patternTest;
  var zipRule;
  var icd9Rule;
  var ssnRule;
  var taxidRule;
  var taxidRuleArray;

  beforeEach(module('availity'));

  beforeEach(inject(function (avValPattern) {
    patternTest = avValPattern;
    zipRule = {value: /^\d{5}$/};
    icd9Rule = {value: /^(V\d{2}(\.\d{1,2})?|\d{3}(\.\d{1,2})?|E\d{3}(\.\d)?)$/};
    ssnRule = {value: /^\d{3}-?\d{2}-?\d{4}$/};
    taxidRule = {value: /^(\d{3}-?\d{2}-?\d{4}|[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{7}|9\d{2}-[7,8]\d-\d{4}|[Pp]?-?\d{8})$/};
    taxidRuleArray = {
      value: [
        /^\d{3}-?\d{2}-?\d{4}$/,
        /^[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{7}$/,
        /^9\d{2}-[7,8]\d-\d{4}$/,
        /^[Pp]?-?\d{8}$/
      ]
    };
  }));

  it('should be a valid ZIP', function() {
    expect(patternTest.validate('12345', zipRule)).toBe(true);
  });

  it('should NOT be a valid ZIP', function() {
    expect(patternTest.validate('123453', zipRule)).toBe(false);
  });

  it('should be a valid ICD-9 code', function() {
    expect(patternTest.validate('V10.12', icd9Rule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('V12', icd9Rule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('E000.0', icd9Rule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('E002', icd9Rule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('730.12', icd9Rule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('730', icd9Rule)).toBe(true);
  });

  it('should NOT be a valid ICD-9 code', function() {
    expect(patternTest.validate('V103.12', icd9Rule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('V123', icd9Rule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('E0003.0', icd9Rule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('E0021', icd9Rule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('7301.12', icd9Rule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('7301', icd9Rule)).toBe(false);

  });

  it('should be a valid SSN', function() {
    expect(patternTest.validate('123-45-6789', ssnRule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('123456789', ssnRule)).toBe(true);
  });

  it('should NOT be a valid SSN', function() {
    expect(patternTest.validate('123-45-67890', ssnRule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('1234567890', ssnRule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('123', ssnRule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('1234-567-890', ssnRule)).toBe(false);
  });

  it('should be a valid TAX ID', function() {
    expect(patternTest.validate('123-45-6789', taxidRule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('123456789', taxidRule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('12-3456789', taxidRule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('923-45-6789', taxidRule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('P-12345678', taxidRule)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('P12345678', taxidRule)).toBe(true);

    expect(patternTest.validate('123-45-6789', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('123456789', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('12-3456789', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('923-45-6789', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('P-12345678', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(true);
    expect(patternTest.validate('P12345678', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(true);
  });

  it('should NOT be a valid TAX ID', function() {
    expect(patternTest.validate('123-45-67890', taxidRule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('1234567890', taxidRule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('12-34567890', taxidRule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('923-45-67890', taxidRule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('P-123456780', taxidRule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('P123456780', taxidRule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('P12345', taxidRule)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('123456', taxidRule)).toBe(false);

    expect(patternTest.validate('123-45-67890', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('1234567890', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('12-34567890', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('923-45-67890', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('P-123456780', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('P123456780', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('P12345', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(false);
    expect(patternTest.validate('123456', taxidRuleArray)).toBe(false);
  });

});

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Lake in the Hills board raises age to buy tobacco to 21; similar measure headed to governor for approval
LITH raises sale age of tobacco; Illinois Senate passes similar measure
By DREW ZIMMERMANEmailFollow
Devices, including e-cigarettes, juuls, liquid vapor pens, marijuana grinders and pipes, and more are on display for people to see and handle during a State of Addiction presentation by the McHenry County Substance Abuse Coalition on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019 at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake.
Larry Goldstein, a Lake in the Hills resident who operates three vape shops in McHenry County, said during Thursday's Lake in the Hills Village Board meeting that ordinance changes raising the age to buy tobacco and electronic cigarette products to 21 in the village makes no sense.
Not only would the ordinance hurt sales in the local businesses that sell such products, but there also are concerns about the regulation of this ordinance, Goldstein said. The ordinance also has the potential to be challenged in court, as it has been in other municipalities that have approved similar measures, he added.
However, the board voted, 4-2, to approve the ordinance amendments, making Lake in the Hills the first municipality in McHenry County to adopt a local "Tobacco 21" initiative.
Trustees Bill Dustin, who felt the amendments were overreaching, and Stephen Harlfinger voted against the measure.
In addition to raising the purchasing age, the ordinance also expands definitions of "tobacco products" to include e-cigarettes, alternative nicotine products and liquid nicotine.
After hearing from Goldstein, Harlfinger questioned some of the loopholes such a simple definition could leave the village open to, such as the sale of vape products using liquids without nicotine. He also questioned the amount of outreach toward local tobacco and vape distributors.
A motion made to continue discussion of the ordinance to the board's next set of meetings was defeated by a 2-4 vote, with Dustin and Harlfinger voting in favor of the motion. After continued discussion, a motion was made to reconsider continuing the agenda item, but that motion also was defeated.
The measure was to allow time for continued outreach to area tobacco and e-cigarette retailers and to allow Village Attorney Brad Stewart to look into potential legal disputes other municipalities with Tobacco 21 initiatives have experienced.
After the vote, Harlfinger said he would look into an ordinance change that would prohibit smoking on school grounds.
Although Lake in the Hills joined more than 30 Illinois municipalities, including Chicago, that have adopted their own Tobacco 21 initiatives, a four-year effort by lawmakers and advocates to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products in Illinois appears nearly complete now that legislation approved by both chambers of the General Assembly is heading to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's desk.
The Senate successfully passed the bill Thursday by a mostly party-line vote. It received the backing of only one Republican.
Pritzker has not said definitively whether he will sign "Tobacco 21," which changes the age to buy products containing nicotine – including cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vapes and chewing tobacco, among others – from 18 to 21.
In an emailed statement, his spokeswoman said Pritzker "looks forward to reviewing the legislation."
But supporters of the initiative are optimistic that the Democratic governor will sign the bill into law, unlike former Gov. Bruce Rauner, who vetoed a similar measure last year.
"Thankfully, we've got a new governor and a new chance to right past wrongs and make Illinois a healthier state," Senate President John Cullerton, a Chicago Democrat and ardent supporter of the legislation, said in a news release.
If Pritzker signs the bill, Illinois would become the eighth state in the nation, and the first state in the Midwest, to have such a law on the books.
Cullerton was on the floor of the House when that chamber approved the Tobacco 21 legislation with bipartisan support Tuesday. The final vote in the House was 82 to 31.
Sens. Don DeWitte, Dan McConchie and Craig Wilcox all voted against the bill.
Reps. Steven Reick, Allen Skillicorn, Dan Ugaste and Tom Weber all voted no on the bill. Rep. David McSweeney, R-Barrington Hills, voted yes.
Opponents made the same two arguments they have in committee hearings and in the House. First, that if 18 is old enough to get married, vote in a political election, open a bank account and join the military, it should be old enough to buy and smoke a cigarette.
State Sen. Julie Morrison pointed out the U.S. Department of Defense is going tobacco-free by 2020 and a national group of hundreds of retired senior military officers, called Mission: Readiness, supports the Tobacco 21 bill out of concern for the readiness of new recruits for the armed forces.
"I think this speaks volumes about what the military would, in fact, want for its members," Morrison said.
The legislation is House Bill 345. The final vote in the Senate on Thursday was 39 to 16.
• Capitol News Illinois contributed to this report.


It looks like we will be seeing a new Droid later this year when the new Star Wars The Last Jedi is released, he is called BB-9E and he can be seen in the video below.
The new BB-9E droid belongs to the First Order and he will be available as a toy from Sphero just like BB-8, you can see this new droid in the video below.
You can find out more details about the new Sphero BB-9E Droid at the link below. The new Star Wars The Last Jedi Movie hits the theaters on the 15th of December 2017.


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Leroy George est un footballeur néerlandais, né le  à Paramaribo au Suriname. Il évolue au poste d'attaquant.

Biographie

Palmarès
 Championnat d'Azerbaïdjan : 2014 et 2015
 Coupe d'Azerbaïdjan : 2015
 Championnat d'Australie : 2018

Liens externes

Footballeur néerlandais
Footballeur surinamien
Joueur du FC Utrecht
Joueur de NEC Nimègue
Joueur du Qarabağ FK
Joueur du Göztepe SK
Joueur du Melbourne Victory
Joueur du Baniyas SC
Joueur du Fortuna Sittard
Naissance en avril 1987
Naissance à Paramaribo


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Sumo Logic secures $110 million in series G round to focus on DevSecOps use cases
08 May 2019, 15:03 p.m.
Applications, DevOps, Economy, Platform
Sumo Logic, a California-based big data and analytics platform provider, has announced an $110 million (£84.5m) funding round – and secured a more than $1 billion valuation in the process.
The funding round, which was led by Battery Ventures and also featured contributions from Tiger Global Management and Franklin Templeton, will aim to in the company's own words continue to keep its position 'as the SaaS machine data analytics leader of choice for the cloud era.'
"Sumo Logic's growth is driven by the shift to digital business and cloud adoption across all industries and companies of all sizes," said Ramin Sayar, president and CEO at Sumo Logic. "We have proven that we are the platform of choice for not only cloud-native companies, but also enterprise companies and their cloud migration initiatives.
"It's great to have such a powerful set of leading investors and ecosystem partners as we accelerate our category leadership," added Sayar.
While Sumo Logic's log management and analytics toolset has a variety of use cases, one of its primary focuses right now is as an enabler for DevSecOps which, as the name suggests, introduces security at an early stage of the application development and deployment process. Writing for this publication last April, Aruna Ravichandran, vice president of DevOps marketing at CA Technologies, explored how leading businesses were seeing significant uplift by not architecting in security flaws.
"The business case for DevSecOps couldn't be clearer," wrote Ravichandran. "It drives business performance because security cannot be an afterthought."
The funding round, a series G which takes Sumo Logic's total funding to $325m, comes off the back of a stellar year for the company. The past 12 months have seen more than $100m raised in revenue according to the firm, with more than 2,000 customers and 100,000 users globally leveraging its service.
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These floaters have been made with increased levels of water soluble ingredients, this means that when they are in the water they ooze off their smell, colour and flavour into the water and surrounding area enticing the carp to feed. You can actually see the Oozing Floaters pumping their ingredients out into the water. There is a multitude of ways to use them, they can either simply be hair rigged, tied on using a lasso, attached using a bait band or glued to the shank of a hook.


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package com.pdsl.runners.junit;

/**
 * A key that exists to allow instantiation of default classes used in com.pdsl.runners.PDslConfiguration which
 * are not available for end users to instantiate.
 *
 * Certain classes like EmptyRecognizerLexer, EmptyRecognizerParser, etc are not intended for end users and
 * are for the PDSL framework to use internally.
 */
public class JUnitConfigurationAccessor {
    //Using the default constructor allows the use of this class to be restricted to internal use of the PDSL framework.
    JUnitConfigurationAccessor(){}
}