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High end gaming developers have produced fluent offline table games which run on a fair randomized basis, allowing you to play the game as if it were physically at a table. This unique style of gameplay is fantastic for those who are in love with all the classic table games, Blackjack, Poker and Roulette are all available to play here on Slots Monster with a variation in type for all of them, so you don't need to worry about playing the same game over again. You can expect something different with each unique table game, whether that be the general rules or setting of the game, there's always something to satisfy your needs. If you're a first timer with our card games and want to know more about the games, please read below as we have outlined each of our table games for you.
Now saving the best for last...well not exactly because to be honest we aren't sure who or what is responsible for the emergence of Poker. There are many theories and I suppose it's just up to what sounds more believable and accurate. Some claim that the French once again had a say in it, on the other hand you have America, America without a doubt established the games rules as they are now. Or, you can believe the word from a man who goes by the name of R. F. Foster who claims the Poker descended from As-Nas, an ancient Persian game. Wherever it came from, it is a fantastic casino game and we thank whoever may have played their part in its creation.
The iconic Roulette wheel is recognised worldwide, so where exactly did it come from? Well, it sure beats the life span of Blackjack, as it first came to recognition back in 1655 and the person responsible for this being Blaise Pascal. But, the wheel wasn't created by Blaise Pascal in hope for it to some day be one of the worlds greatest gambling related creations, no. Pascal was planning to invent a perpetual motion machine, to create a type of wheel that would spin constantly without real consistent force. Yet, Pascal could never imagine just what he had started and as a fan of roulette, we sincerely thank you.
It's also worth mentioning that the roulette wheel famous for it's black, red and number populated appearance, is that the rewarding green zero wasn't included on the wheel itself until the 1800s, in request of King Charle4s the third of Monaco. Into the 19th and 20th century the wheel has stayed true to its historic display and they are recognisable all over the world. The United States did end up adding another 0 just to maintain the excitement of the possible return for players, I mean, come on everyone loves to take a chance on the 0.
Blackjack, originally known as Vingt-et-Un and now sometimes referred to as 21 has been on the block since the 1700s. The game itself came about in France, where the nation was at it's peak, blackjack was taken on by colonialists and used to relax and enjoy with colleagues and friends. The Spanish empire would also argue that they had an influence on the development of the game as they were doing the exact same as the French, only difference being that they had produced their own unique game where there was a minimum of three 3 cards, the closest hand to the number 31 would be the winner.
So, the French and Spanish were enjoying the game for themselves for a while and it wasn't too long until North America got a hold of it and it became known as 21 across the entire country and world. By the end of 1931 casinos branded the game blackjack as it started to immerse itself in the casino industry, Blackjack became more and more popular as the years progressed and fitted right into the casino environment with the likes of slots.


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Vandy rallies for 11-10 win over Ole Miss in SEC title game
By John ZenorAssociated Press
HOOVER, Ala. — The Vanderbilt Commodores mostly breezed into the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship game.
That one was anything but a breeze.
Philip Clarke's two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth gave Vanderbilt an 11-10 comeback victory over Mississippi on Sunday and the team's first SEC Tournament title since 2007.
The Commodores (49-10) surged into the NCAA regionals as a potential No. 1 overall seed, having won nine straight and 22 of 23. They came into the title game with three wins by a combined 25-5 but had to rally from an early 9-1 deficit.
The only other close one was a 1-0 win over Mississippi State.
"We've had a lot of games where we score early this year and to be in that situation was something new for us," Clarke said. "To see us come back from that, that gives us a ton of confidence. It's really good to have moving forward."
The Rebels (37-25) were seeking their second straight tournament championship and appeared well on their way with a six-run first.
They had to play six games in six days after failing to get a bye from Tuesday's opening round, losing six straight before winning the regular season finale.
"It's been an incredible week for us and man, did they play well all week — including today," Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. "One of the challenges is to go through this gauntlet of the tournament and get to this point and be able to really compete in the championship, and they did. They gave it everything they had."
Added Thomas Dillard: "Nobody really expected us to be here. We kind of skidded at the end of the year."
Vandy surged back with five runs in the fourth, including Pat DeMarco's three-run homer. That inning made it 9-8 and the Commodores would tie it in the sixth on Harrison Ray's RBI double.
"Packing it in was never a thought for anybody," said Ray, who doubled three times. "I think the biggest thought was we were just going to chip away at this lead and we're going to stay together."
Ole Miss reliever Austin Miller (5-3) struck out six consecutive batters but was pulled after walking the bases loaded with two outs in the ninth. Clarke delivered Ryan Olenek's first pitch into right-center field for the game-winning run, scoring Austin Martin.
It more than made up for striking out to end the seventh with runners on the corners.
"I didn't come through in the bottom of the seventh so I felt like I needed to in the bottom of the ninth," Clarke said.
SEC player of the year JJ Bleday of Vandy was named Most Valuable Player. He singled, drove in a run and walked twice in the finale, including in the ninth.
Tyler Brown (3-1) pitched three scoreless innings for Vandy, allowing two hits. Clarke went 3-for-6 with three RBIs.
Vandy coach Tim Corbin said the biggest challenge after winning a regular-season title is to find out how much the team appreciates "the value of competition".
"You can see by the actions of the guys that they value competition," Corbin said. "They did things well and they put themselves in opportunities that they could enjoy."
Thomas Dillard and Grae Kessinger drove in a pair of runs each for Ole Miss, while Cooper Johnson had three hits and scored twice.
Johnson hit a one-out double to left-center field for Ole Miss in the ninth. But Brown struck out Anthony Servideo and got Jacob Adams to flyout to right field to end the threat.
The Commodores wore olive green uniforms honoring service members on Memorial Day weekend, something they've done Sundays at home throughout the season.


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Tom Holland Updates from Uncharted Movie Set: 'It's Been Going So Well'
Playing Nathan Drake gives the star "biggest bruise of all time."
byMatt Fowler
Posted Sept. 13, 2020, 11:27 p.m.
On Sunday morning, a restless Tom Holland took to Instagram Live to talk to his fans after not posting for a long while.
"Filming is going so well," Holland shared, giving a brief updated on the Uncharted movie production, which was prepping to start up back in July after being put on pause last March due to the pandemic.
"The film is like, everything I dreamed it would be," Holland added. "I mean, I don't know if you guys played the games, but I was such a huge fan of the game, and it's been going so well."
Hinting at the physicality required for the role of Nathan Drake, Holland said "I do have the biggest bruise of all time though, on my leg. That's in a bit of a revealing area for Instagram Live."
The Uncharted film is finally headed our way after a turbulent series of setbacks that have stretched well over the course of a decade, with a number of directors and stars coming and going throughout the movie's cursed development history. In March of this year, Venom's Ruben Fleischer became the seventh director to be attached to the project.
Previously, Holland shared some pre-production teasers on his Instagram stories, tagging co-star Mark Wahlberg, who is playing Drake's treasure-hunting mentor, Victor "Sully" Sullivan.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
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Maple 2019 includes hundreds of enhancements to the core mathematics you use every day (whether you realize it or not!).
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Maple is the clear leader in finding symbolic solutions to partial differential equations, and with Maple 2019, the gap just got bigger!
Tensor Analysis
As a result of the efforts to further strengthen Maple's world leading tools for physics, Maple 2019 is now unmatched when it comes to tensor computations.
Make Groups Less Work
Substantial enhancements in group theory mean you can construct, compute with, and visualize even more groups, in more ways, more efficiently.
Find Meaning in Your Signals
Whether you're removing echo from audio, analyzing the orbital periodicity of exoplanets, or any of the other myriad applications of signal processing, Maple 2019 will help you extract more meaning, faster.
Understand your Data
From better previews of your raw data to new analysis tools, Maple 2019 helps you learn from your data.
Compute with Molecules
The Quantum Chemistry Toolbox from RDMChem, a new Maple add-on toolbox, provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use environment for the parallel computation of the electronic energies and properties of molecules.
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The latest interactive Math Apps help convey important concepts in computer science and more.
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Maple 2019 includes many enhancements to Maple's language, data structure manipulation utilities, and debugging tools that help you write more efficient code, more efficiently.
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A completely redesigned Start Page, together with an expanded set of user resources, provides a more useful environment for everyone when you open Maple (and you can turn it off more easily if it's not for you).
Introducing Maple 2019
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Maple 2019 includes a very large number of improvements that strengthen the math engine, increasing the number and type of problems that Maple can solve. In addition to the advancements in PDEs, limits, group theory, tensors, computational geometry, and other topics that are detailed elsewhere, there are also enhancements to fundamental routines that are commonly called on both by customers and by other Maple commands. These include:
The simplify command has undergone several improvements, in particular with regard to expressions containing piecewise functions.
Improvements to integration mean Maple 2019 can solve more integrals than previously.
The solve command in Maple 2019 has been improved, including enhancements when solving inequalities.
A new command, FindODE, in the DEtools package, tries to find a linear ordinary differential equation with polynomial coefficients for the given expression
The commands for performing Laplace, inverse Laplace, Fourier, and inverse Fourier transforms can handle a larger class of problems, and some classes of problems are handled faster than before.
A new algorithm for univariate polynomials has been added to the RootFinding:-Isolate command, which is particularly efficient for ill-conditioned problems and for finding high-accuracy solutions, and provides certified real root isolation for polynomials with irrational coefficients.
The residue command has a new optional argument that allows the user to specify the maximal order of the underlying series computations.
Rationalize works better on certain examples of nested radicals.
Expressions with nested calls to Re and Im now give improved results.
Expand, floor, and ceiling have more support for assumptions.
Maple 2019 includes significant improvements that further strengths Maple's world-leading ability in finding exact solutions to partial differential equations, including additional methods for solving new classes of problems, more flexibility in choosing the methods to try, and improved simplification of the results. Improvements have been made in the following areas:
PDE and boundary condition problems solved using linear change of variables
Specifying or excluding methods for solving
Series solutions for linear PDE and BC problems solved via product separation with eigenvalues that are the roots of algebraic expressions which cannot be inverted
Superposition method for linear PDE with more than one non-homogeneous BC
Polynomial solutions method
Solving more problems using the Laplace transform or the Fourier transform
Improvements to solving heat and wave PDEs, with or without a source
Improvements in series methods for Laplace PDE problems
Better simplification of answers
Linear differential operator: more solutions are now successfully computed
More problems in three variables are now solved
The limit command in Maple 2019 has been enhanced for the case of limits of quotients of multivariate functions. Many such limits that could not be determined previously are now computable. Improvements include handling functions that contain absolute values or radicals, support for functions in more than two variables, and returning ranges in the bivariate case.
Root Finding
The Root Finding package is a suite of advanced commands for finding roots numerically. The routines in this package augment the root-finding functionality provided by fsolve, especially with respect to finding several roots concurrently, so all improvements to the Root Finding package automatically result in improvements to fsolve.
The RootFinding:-Isolate command has been expanded so that it can isolate the roots of univariate polynomials with arbitrary real coefficients, not just rationals or floats. In particular, Isolate can now be used to find roots of polynomials with algebraic coefficients.
The new default algorithm of Isolate also features vastly improved performance for ill-conditioned polynomials with clustered roots. The root finding method eventually converges quadratically to regions containing roots, rather than just linearly. The same technique allows even more dramatic improvements for root finding requests with high accuracy even on well-conditioned problems.
Tensors and Physics
Maple provides a state-of-the-art environment for algebraic computations in physics, with emphasis on ensuring that the computational experience is as natural as possible. Maple 2019 both consolidates the functionality introduced in previous releases, and provides significant enhancements that further strengthen its functionality, especially in quantum mechanics, tensor computations, and documentation.
Highlights from quantum mechanics include coherent states, tensor products of states, Taylor series of expressions involving anti-commutative variables and functions, and several improvements involving the normalization and simplification of expressions taking into account commutator and anti-commutator algebra rules.
Significant work was done in Maple 2019 to further strengthen, consolidate, and polish Maple's support for tensor computations, making Maple unmatched in the field, covering classical and quantum mechanics, and special and general relativity. In addition, Maple supports natural tensor notation on both input and output, tight integration with the full Maple computation system, and extensive supporting documentation. In particular, A Complete Guide for Performing Tensor Computations using Physics is a new e-book included in Maple 2019. This guide covers tensors and their use in Euclidean spaces, special relativity, quantum mechanics, and classical field theory, as well as general relativity and transformations of coordinates on tensorial expressions.
In addition to the new tensor guide, Maple 2019 also includes a mini-course, Computer Algebra for Physicists, as well as a new Physics Updates page that consolidates and augments examples, presentations, relevant blog posts, and information from previous updates into a more convenient single page.
The Group Theory package includes an extensive collection of routines for constructing, computing with, and visualizing finitely generated groups, including permutation groups, finitely presented groups, Cayley table groups, "black-box" user defined groups, and abstract groups depending on symbolic parameters. The Group Theory package in Maple 2019 contains more than sixty new or updated commands, new and enhanced databases of groups, and significant performance improvements. New additions include commands for recognizing groups with many interesting properties, new commands for constructing groups of various kinds, new commands to compute subgroups and subgroup series, as well as a suite of commands for recognizing numbers for which every group of a given order has specified group-theoretic properties. Improvements include:
The new FindDessins command computes all dessins d'enfants corresponding to a specified branching pattern, and the DecomposeDessin command finds all decompositions of the corresponding Belyi map.
Maple is now able to recognize finite Frobenius groups, either as abstract groups, or as permutation groups, and to compute Frobenius kernels and complements.
Several new commands allow you to work with finite Hamiltonian groups.
New commands enable you to compute various subgroup series and study their properties, including composition series, ordered Sylow towers, and Frattini series.
The new DirectFactors command produces a Remak decomposition of a finite group.
You can now test whether a finite group has various properties, such as Hamiltonian, Frobenius, directly indecomposable, metacyclic, or if a finite group belongs to various other classes of soluable groups.
The SmallGroup constructor can now construct groups of order p^k for arbitrary primes p and positive integers k <= 4.
New number-theoretic commands allow you to determine whether every group of a given order has a specific property, such as cyclic, abelian, soluable, and more.
Maple 2019 includes a new database of Frobenius groups, along with commands for constructing, identifying, and manipulating them.
You can now search the database of perfect groups for groups satisfying various combinations of properties, including the order, center, socle, Fitting subgroup, class number and others.
Many new properties have been added to the databases of small groups and transitive groups.
Operations on permutation groups are significantly faster and use much less memory.
The Graph Theory package is a collection of routines for creating, drawing, and manipulating graphs, and for testing graphs for particular properties. New abilities in Maple 2019 include more constructions and properties tests, new special graphs, and many more options for customizing visualizations.
New in Maple 2019, you can find vertex covers, minimum vertex covers, Hamiltonian cycles, and Hamiltonian paths. You can also use greedy algorithms for finding large cliques and independent sets, perform tests to determine if a graph is strongly regular or triangle free, construct the transitive reduction of a graph, and create Barabási-Albert and Watts-Strogatz random graphs.
Eleven new special graphs or families of special graphs are now supported: Brinkman, Cameron, Circulant, Dürer, Friendship, Hall-Janko, Johnson, Livingstone, Suzuki, Sylvester, and Tietze.
Maple 2019 includes even more ways to customize graph display. For example, graphs look better at non-default sizes, arrows on directed edges use a solid triangle shape and their size and position can be customized, new vertex shapes are available, vertex borders will not overlap, the tree style can be used even if the graph is not a tree, and labels are replaced with pop-up annotations when the graph has many vertices so they are easier to read.
Computational geometry problems occur in many applications involving points in two- or higher-dimensional spaces, such as feature recognition, predicting vapor-liquid phase diagrams, delineating closely related regions for scattered data, and more. Maple's Computational Geometry package, which applies computational methods to polygons and clouds of points, has been expanded in Maple 2019, with new tests of properties and computations abilities.
In particular, Maple 2019 includes efficient tests for determining point orientation, if a point lies in a circle or on a line segment defined by other points, if two line segments intersect, or if collections of line segments have intersections. You can also find the closest pair of points in a collection, and the DelaunayTriangulation command now supports computing triangularizations in dimensions up to 10.
For many commands, you have the option of displaying a graphical representation of the steps of the algorithm.
Maple 2019 offers a variety of improvements for handing, analyzing, and visualizing your data.
Maple 2019 can now compute least trimmed squares regressions.
The Correlogram command computes autocorrelations of a data set and displays the result as a column plot with dashed lines indicating the lower and upper 95% confidence bands.
The Detrend command removes any trend from a set of data.
The Difference command computes lagged differences between elements in a data set.
The display of data from large objects, including matrices, data frames, and data series, has been improved so that you can easily view the first few rows and columns of the data.
Several commands have been updated to support DataFrames and DataSeries, including remove, select and selectremove.
The Biplot command has a new option that enables you to select the principal components used in the biplot.
The DataSummary, FivePointSummary, and FrequencyTable commands have a new option to control the relative column widths in the resulting table.
Whether you're removing echo from audio, analyzing the orbital periodicity of exoplanets, or any of the other myriad applications of signal processing, Maple 2019 will help you extract more meaning, faster. In Maple 2019, you can now:
Generate periodograms of data sampled at irregular time intervals.
Find the peaks and valleys of 1-D data sets, including filtering out peaks or valleys that are too close, specifying what defines a peak or valley, and more.
Specify the overlap when generating a spectrogram.
Calculate the real cepstrum, complex cepstrum and inverse complex cepstrum of a signal.
Swap data in a matrix or a vector into a different position using the new FFTShift command, such as moving the lowest frequencies to the center and the highest frequencies to the corners to produce more meaningful visualizations and simplified manipulations of data.
Apply an edge detection convolution mask to an image, including Sobel, Robert, Prewitt 3x3, and Prewitt 4x4.
Calculate the magnitude of the Fourier transform of an image, which can then be embedded as an image to visualize the spatial frequencies of the image.
Maple can perform calculations involving dates and times, such as analyzing time-dependent data, computing the day of the week of a given date, and taking into account time zones. In Maple 2019, you can easily convert dates and times to strings using a wide variety of formats, and convert date and time strings into their corresponding Maple representation.
Maple 2019 enables you to include a wide variety of shapes in your plots, such as circles, squares, triangles, kites, darts, stars, super ellipses, and much more, simply by using the name of the polygon. In addition to the usual plotting options, such as colour and transparency, it also provides many shape-specific options for customization, including rounded corners, rotation, and irregularity. The ability to draw these shapes is very useful for adding annotations to other plots or building more complex 2-D visualizations. For example, it is used by Maple when drawing graphs to render custom vertex shapes.
An important addition to Maple's interactive plotting tools is the extension of the Plot Builder to support animations. In Maple 2019, you can easily create and customize animations using a point-and-click interface, as well as commands.
Other visualization improvements include the introduction of an option for plotting super ellipses and generalized super ellipses, many improvements to the rendering of graphs (described in more detail in the Graph Theory section), the ability to export plots to the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, and a new correlogram command in the statistic package that displays the autocorrelation of a data set.
Experience on Start-Up
A completely redesigned Start Page, as well as an expanded set of user resources, provides a more helpful environment for everyone when you open Maple
The Start Page includes new and improved resources designed to help new users get started quickly, including a short introductory video.
For more experienced users, the Start Page has been simplified to focus on the most helpful, frequently used resources.
The Maple Portal, a comprehensive resource for any user, has been expanded to present both in-product and web-based resources, organized by preferred learning style.
For those who would prefer to start from a blank document, it is now significantly easier to turn the Start Page off.
Maple contains many tools designed explicitly to help students learn new ideas, explore concepts, and solve problems, all in an easy-to-use environment. Maple 2019 includes several additions to student-specific resources, including:
Many more operations from Numerical Analysis can now be performed at the click of a button using menus in the context panel, such as computing the rate of convergence of a sequence or function, finding Taylor polynomial approximations, computing the limit of a vector, calculating the relative error, and more.
A new assistant makes it easier to create randomly generated and automatically graded practice sheets, for drilling problems in arithmetic, algebra, calculus, factorization and more.
New interactive Math Apps help students understand important concepts from computer science, such as sorting algorithms and big O notation, as well as topics from other fields.
Performance improvements in Maple 2019 include both broad-based and targeted enhancements. The following operations are all faster in Maple 2019:
Maple 2019 includes significant performance improvements for factoring sparse multivariate polynomials with integer coefficients, an operation that is often performed by commonly used higher level routines.
The MaximumClique function of the Graph Theory package has new algorithms for computing the maximum clique of a graph, and an option to choose the algorithm that you want to use, giving a huge performance boost on certain kinds of graphs.
In the Group Theory package, arithmetic and other low-level operations for permutations have been completely re-written in compiled kernel code to make them significantly faster, and the memory overhead of permutations has been considerably reduced.
The RootFinding:-Isolate command has a new algorithm for univariate polynomials that is dramatically faster for certain classes of ill-conditioned problems, and when requesting solutions with a high number of digits of accuracy.
Maple 2019 includes a variety of improvements to the interface to improve your workflow.
Maple 2019 makes it much easier to get a sense of the content of large matrices, vectors, arrays, data frames, and data series, by displaying the first 10 rows and 10 columns of the data, as well as the size of the structure.
The new Units by Dimensionality palette expands the number of available unit templates and makes it easier to find units associated with physical dimensions.
The entries in the Favorites palette can be easily rearranged by clicking and dragging, and in addition, you can now create custom entries.
New options to the interface command give more control over the display of procedures, colors of output when using the command-line interface, and more.
Various menus and toolbars have been simplified.
More operations from the Student Numerical Analysis package can be performed using the context panel.
Maple Language and Programming
Maple 2019 includes many enhancements to the Maple language, data structure manipulation utilities, and debugging tools.
The Maple language now supports:
Two variables in a for-loop, allowing, for example, the ability to iterate over a matrix's values while also keeping track of the indices of the entry
Using assignments, if- statements, try- statements, and loops in expressions
C-style increment, decrement, and assignment operators
More flexibility in the location of the declarations of local, global, and exported variables in procedures and modules
Local variable declarations in operator procedures, which are defined using arrow notation
Efficient mutable strings
An expended set of valid characters for symbolic neutral operators
Other improvements to programming include:
The Download command now makes it possible to download data from a URL to a local file.
ArrayTools has new commands for partitioning, removing and reversing entries.
The tablereverse function takes a table and returns a new table that is a reversal of the initial table.
The convert/english command now allows for round-tripping of integer to English conversions.
New kernel options provide more detailed feedback on assignments when tracing.
New interface options offer color syntax highlighting of output, customizing printed procedures, more feedback on errors when running scripts, and session logging.
The command-line interface adds several new facilities for interactively manipulating, replaying, saving, and restoring the history of commands entered into Maple.
The mint utility now has an option to generate a "ctags" format file, which can be used by many text editors to quickly bring you to the implementation of a given procedure, as well as the ability to produce color-coded output.
Enhancements to the debugger include improved output from showstat, with respect to the display of long lines, the ability to open the source file at the line where the error occurred, and easier access to help on debugger commands.
Math Apps, Applications, and Examples
Maple 2019 includes many new interactive Math Apps, examples, and applications, which you can use to explore concepts, learn about new features, discover different ways of applying Maple, and as a starting point for your own work.
New Math Apps include interactive explorations for important ideas from computer science, such as sorting algorithms, big O notation, binary search trees, and stacks and queues. Other new MathApps cover the law of cosines, triangular functions, night and day terminators, and more.
New applications include visualizing knots, a tutorial on important tabular data, and a detailed example explaining how to create context menus for your own Maple packages.
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The Maple Quantum Chemistry Toolbox from RDMChem, a new add-on toolbox for Maple 2019, provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use environment for the parallel computation of the electronic energies and properties of molecules. With this toolbox, you can:
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1 - The shooting phase uses the archaic system of 'to hit' modifiers based on cover, speed of target etc. There are also restrictions based on model facing and closest target. This turns every shooting phase into a sort of gentleman's agreement.
Me: I'll let you shoot my Termagants if you take a hard cover modifier.
Gentleman Opponent: Very sporting of you old bean. Of course I will expect your Termagants to endure the same hardship upon returning fire.
Me: Damn you Gentleman Opponent!! Ok, we'll say soft cover.
GO: Splendid! Fresh horses and Sarsaparilla for all my men!!
2 - You can cast psychic powers in your opponent's turn as well as your own. This is particularly good fun if he/she doesn't have any psykers.
3 - The colours are brighter, the templates are bigger and everything is 400% more awesome.
Ugly models, garish colours and dice with funny symbols on them. - AWESOME!!!
As Keith was playing the role of gentleman opponent; he was kind enough to let me use the old Armorcast rules for my Haruspex. He then proceeded to immobilize it and destroy half of it's ranged weapons on turn 1. And before anybody asks; yes it counts as a vehicle. In spite of these setbacks it still went on to kill both the Squat Warlord and Engineer Guildmaster before the end of the game.
Always does me proud - no matter the edition.
Other stars of the Tyranid horde were the Hive Tyrant who reaped a steady tally of Squats with his Venom Cannon. The Zoanthrope, who ran riot in every Psychic phase and my warriors, who spent the entire game stubbornly refusing to fail their armour saves. I should probably mention at this point that Keith's army included five mole mortars. FIVE!! That's really the reason why my infantry didn't achieve much. They were either dead or stuck in exploding mole mortar craters.
At any rate, the game ended in yet another victory for the Tyranids. I for one can't wait for the re-match; especially if I can use my Lictor.


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I've tried a number of different things, but to no avail! Starting to tear my hair out a bit with it, so any advice would be massively appreciated
EDIT - Here is what I am seeing: jameshenry.info/test/BottomExamples.png I'm seeing this in chrome, safari and also safari iOS. I want it to always sit on the bottom of the page, underneath the page content.

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Roger Goodell Defends Suspending Tom Brady Over Deflategate
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell defended his four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady during his annual Super Bowl press conference. The NFL's suspension of Brady is viewed by some as the result of a witch hunt conducted by Commissioner Goodell at the behest of other NFL franchises, in an attempt to handicap the […]
By NTK Staff | 02.01.2017 @3:52pm
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell defended his four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady during his annual Super Bowl press conference.
The NFL's suspension of Brady is viewed by some as the result of a witch hunt conducted by Commissioner Goodell at the behest of other NFL franchises, in an attempt to handicap the New England Patriots. The Patriots will be appearing in their seventh Super Bowl in the past two decades this Sunday.
Goodell cited the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals' decision, which didn't uphold the investigation conducted by the NFL but rather upheld Goodell's ability to hand out punishments to players.
Goodell said he would go back to Foxbourgh if invited, but there's a better chance of Johnny Manziel making the Pro Bowl next season than Goodell ever being invited back to Foxbourgh.
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The Huajia Drainage and Irrigation Station in Hangzhou's Binjiang District was listed amongst the best nationwide hydraulic engineering projects from 2019 and 2020.
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The Huajia Drainage and Irrigation Station in Hangzhou's Binjiang District was listed amongst the best nationwide hydraulic engineering projects from 2019 and 2020. It was rewarded the Dayu Award following a rigorous debate among professionals, experts and project leaders last week.
The award is named after Da Yu who was known for controlling floods in ancient times. As a hero who tamed the rivers of central and eastern China, he is worshipped today by Chinese, especially in the eastern regions.
The award is the top-flight prize for China's hydraulic engineering. As the organizing committee, the China Water Engineering Association gives priority to a project's quality during the evaluation phase and values its construction management level, project benefits and social influence.
Huajia Station is located at the confluence of the Qiantang, Fuchun and Puyang rivers. The local government has invested about 340 million yuan (US$53.3 million). It started construction in August 2016 and completed the project in June 2020.
The station is designed with a flow of 40 cubic meters per second, and the sluice gate was designed with a flow of 264 cubic meters per second.
Water conservancy office / Ti Gong
The Huajia Drainage and Irrigation Station
The Qiantang River features the world's largest tidal bore with waves that travel up to 40 kilometers per hour and up to 9 meters high. The huge waves challenged engineers during construction.
In efforts to effectively reduce the direct impact of tidal bores on the gate, the station is set up with exhaust facilities and circular, outward-tilting walls. The anti-seepage wall is arranged around the bottom plate of the station, and the contact surface of the plate wall is filled with high-tech flexible materials, which solves the seepage problem of the silty sand layer. A fully closed structure has been constructed to prevent possible water pollution from nearby factories.
The station withstood typhoon Lekima in 2019, which proved its solid structure and scientific design.
By far, it has drained and distributed 390 million cubic meters of water, greatly lowering the risk of flooding in Binjiang District.
The station has been included in Binjiang's "Five Water Shared Governance" project, which refers to sewage, floods, waterlogging, water supply and water conservation. Since then, the district has launched a series of measures to improve its water governance.
Binjiang is considered to be at the forefront of the Five Water Shared Governance concept with measures brimming with high-tech solutions.
All water resources are under the umbrella of big data technology. A network of water disposal and hydrological systems helps government prevent floods and waterlogging and deal with urban sewage.
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On Bloomington's south side, you can have over 3200 square feet and over an acre of land. This house has four bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths. Here's what the listing agent has to say: "Over 2600 feet living area w/640 sq. ft. finished in full poured basement with walkout. Lots of living and storage areas in this lovely Cape Cod! 2 car attached garage, beautiful wooded views off back deck. Fireplace in living room.There is plumbing stubbed in for the rec room downstairs for a wet bar."


Over the weekend, the late Lou Reed was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame alongside Green Day, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bill Withers, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Patti Smith introduced Reed, and his widow, the experimental musician Laurie Anderson, made an emotional speech in his honor. As a tribute to Reed, Beck and fun.'s Nate Ruess performed the "Satellite Of Love," while the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner and Karen O (who is pregnant) took on "Vicious." Both songs were released on Reed's seminal 1972 solo album Transformer. Watch both performances below.


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Home Industry News EY: Biopharma M&A Rush Will Continue in 2016
EY: Biopharma M&A Rush Will Continue in 2016
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Biopharmas will continue scrambling to carry out mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in 2016 since the same challenges that drove such activity to a record high last year will persist, EY has concluded in a report released today.
EY's Firepower Index and Growth Gap Report 2016 identified such challenges as the growing debate over drug pricing, the arrival of biosimilars in the U.S., competition across key therapeutic specialties, and consolidation by payers.
All may dampen biopharmas' growth projections, worsening the "growth gap" or difference in the sales growth of a company or sub-sector (such as big pharma) relative to overall drug market sales—and thus drive more M&A deals, EY observed.
Last year's M&A deals set a record with more than $300 billion in deals announced, up from 2014's record-high of $200 billion.
The challenges faced by biopharmas persist despite the industry moving past the peak of "patent cliff" exclusivity expirations, and developing new breakthrough therapies in indications that include cancer and infectious disease.
"But internal R&D successes won't be enough for many of the industry's biggest players who will still need to turn to M&A to reach growth goals," the report stated.
Since few biopharmas have the resources for blockbuster deals—such as Pfizer's planned $160 billion acquisition of Allergan, announced in November—companies are instead likelier to pursue smaller deals designed to target narrower therapeutic specialties, emerging scientific areas, geographic areas, and strategic pipeline gaps, EY said.
"While we can't predict more large transformational deals over $100 billion in 2016, we do expect a continued brisk pace for acquisitions and a continuation of the robust divestiture environment, as companies seek to focus on and gain scale in their chosen therapeutic areas," Glen Giovannetti, EY's Global Life Sciences Leader, said in a statement.
The pressures that will continue to drive M&A deals "may make the lofty heights of $200 billion in annual M&A the new normal for the foreseeable future," added Jeffrey Greene, EY's Global Life Sciences Transaction Advisory Services Leader.
The industry's fastest-growing players, biotech giants, have the financial means to pursue M&A, and are likely to do so as a strategic growth tool, EY said.
According to the report, big biotech has more money than ever available for deals, which the report calls "firepower"—more than $300 billion, compared with $25 billion worth of deals carried out in 2015. But the largest share of firepower, nearly 70%, is still held by big pharma at about $800 billion.
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Naples, 1957.
The Naples of the Coffee, the Naples of the Vesuvius, The Naples of Sartorial tradition... The Naples where Vanacore - the Shirt, the one with a capital S - is born.
The shirts are made with up to nine hand passages, which represent the moment when the human hand replaces the machine; the armholes, the neck, the fourth shoulder, the mouche, the joist, the buttonhole, the button, the "cannoncino" and the cuff. All without ever forgetting the special attention to style, classic and modern at the same time; Vanacore also stands out for this; for its natural ability to reconcile, within the same wardrobe, the finest of the poplin with a denim, a jacquard with a chambrai or with a linen.
Vanacore loves traditions, Italian style and a balanced lifestyle. Our collections are the synthesis between all this and a careful study of the most current and refined trends. The focus is on research and production of a top quality garment at a price that maximizes its value. Vanacore represents the elegant man's shirt, which can be worn at all times of the day, with a classic and formal style.
The top of the range for those who do not accept compromises in terms of class and trend. Vanacore, while referring to the best Italian sartorial tradition, has an eye always attentive to fashion news and trends.
Innovation, quality, service: these are the fundamental values of the Vanacore philosophy, strengthened by its history and all-Italian tradition. Vanacore has maintained and enhanced over time a unique style, an expression of Italian excellence, which translates into the accuracy of production and continuous research into details.
We offer a limited selection of our collections online at the moment.
The story of the Shirts
The shirt, the basic garment for both male and female clothing, has existed, in various forms, for thousands of years, in all cultures. In its simplest and most primitive form it is formed by two rectangular fabric sheets sewn together laterally and on the shoulders. Often lacking sleeves and collar, it served as a petticoat, like the interior tunic, in natural linen or cotton, which appeared in Rome in the early years of the third century AD.
In Europe it is documented until year 1000 as a "below" garment, therefore normally hidden, having an essential T-shaped structure, with the sleeves cut in a single piece with the shirt, up to half of the forearm.
The Crusaders subsequently imported the camis from the East, used by the Persians, which suggested the definitive structure of the shirt with the sleeves cut separately, sewn to the body along the sides and with a round neckline open to the chest.


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Home 2019 Colorado legislature Stripping politics from Capitol's sexual harassment policy proves to be tall task
2019 Colorado legislature
Stripping politics from Capitol's sexual harassment policy proves to be tall task
Bill to overhaul the statehouse harassment policy would make most credible allegations of sexual harassment public
John Herrick
A Colorado representative's desk on Feb 28, 2018. (Photo by John Herrick)
Lawmakers are struggling to come up with a new sexual harassment policy at the Capitol that takes the politics out of the process of holding themselves accountable.
Just how much say legislators should have in punishing colleagues and whether to keep some information confidential as a safeguard against false accusations has slowed progress on the new policy.
What's on the table now is a legislative package that victims' advocates say makes incremental progress but does not go far enough to turn around a culture inside the state Capitol where harassment often goes unreported because people fear political repercussions.
Overhauling the harassment policy was a top priority at the close of the 2018 legislative session. Last year, at least five lawmakers faced accusations of buttocks slapping, sexual advances or lewd comments. In the Democratic-controlled House, lawmakers responded with the historic expulsion of a state representative. In the Republican-controlled Senate, three senators facing allegations kept their seats until one resigned.
As currently drafted, a key provision in SB-244, sets up a non-partisan office to receive and oversee investigations into sexual harassment. Under the current policy, party leadership handles those complaints, which can politicize the process and discourage people from speaking up, lawmakers say.
But lawmakers would still have a role in deciding what becomes of those investigations. Under a separate proposed policy change, a committee of lawmakers — divided evenly among Republicans and Democrats — would then review the investigations and decide whether to recommend punishment.
Some lawmakers wanted to see several outside experts sitting on this committee. This, they said, would help break partisan gridlock and decision-making. That effort failed.
Lawmakers also are grappling with how much information should become publicly available following a complaint of sexual misconduct. Currently, the media is denied access to sexual harassment complaints against lawmakers.
The bill would require reports on the total number of complaints received by the proposed Office of Legislative Workplace Relations to be released annually. These reports would not include the names of the complainant, respondent, or witnesses.
Complaints that an investigator determines to be credible — or "more likely than not" to have occurred — would be summarized in a report and released to the public. Lawmakers on the committee, however, could block the release with a two-thirds vote.
Releasing all this information, even when a lawmaker is not at fault, could still harm reputations, some lawmakers argue. Others say there should be privacy protections for the people bringing forward a complaint.
"It is a set of considerations that are conflicting by their nature: privacy vs transparency," said Sen. Bob Gardner, a Republican from Colorado Springs who is co-sponsoring the bill.
Lawmakers are also working out whether to provide the names of the people who file complaints against lawmakers to the committee. Gardner argues that this information is common in court and college sexual harassment cases and should be released to lawmakers. But others argue it can deter people from speaking up.
Holly Tarry is a former animal welfare lobbyist who joined four other women is accusing former Rep. Steve Lebsock of making unwanted sexual advances before his ouster. She said releasing the names of people filing complaints could prompt lawmakers to retaliate by blocking complainants from attending stakeholder meetings or other high-level conversations. Being sidelined from those discussions, she said, could stifle someone's ability to do his or her job.
"There are a bunch of different ways where a power-holder at the Capitol can hurt you," Tarry said. She added, "There are absolutely ripples all across the Capitol when you are known to be willing to confront bad behavior."
Sen. Faith Winter, a Democrat from Westminster who also accused Lebsock of unwanted sexual advances, said she will be introducing a joint resolution that would keep the names of the people who file complaints confidential.
Despite the sticking points, backers of the bill say it's an important step toward setting up a new process for handling sexual harassment following last year's session rattled by scandals. Following the tumultuous session, lawmakers convened a summer committee to hash out a new Capitol policy on harassment, running into a number of partisan roadblocks on several critical policy questions.
Democrats, who control the Capitol, are attempting to move ahead with the overhaul with bipartisan support. All session, they have faced accusations of Democratic overreach. And GOP stall tactics could run out the clock and prevent lawmakers from passing dozens of bills before they gavel out on May 3.
Those efforts have brought the harassment policy bill down to the wire, leaving some victims' advocates disappointed.
Erin Hottenstein, founder of Colorado 50-50, a group that works to elect women to office, said she wishes it was a higher priority this year.
"I think it is critical to get your own house in order," she said.
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Q: AWS Beanstalk / load balancer doesnt distribute load I have two instances of EC2 running with Tomcat servers. I deployed my war using beanstalk. My load balancer has both the EC2 machines listed under the Instances tab.
I'm trying to do some load testing. When I generate the load and hit using the load balancer URL, requests are sent only to a single instance(not the same one during all runs). The other instance is completely idle.
Even in my beanstalk autoscaling settings, I've set the max and min instance count to 2 which ensures that both the machines are up all the time.
Could someone suggest what might be issue.
Thanks a lot.

A: Elastic load balancers spread the load by giving different IP addresses to different clients. How many machines do you have generating the load? If it's only one, then the load is only ever going to go to one machine at a time.


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Mons. Charles Jude Scicluna (* 15. května 1959 Toronto, Kanada) je maltský katolický teolog a biskup, metropolitní arcibiskup maltský. Od roku 2015 je členem Kongregace pro nauku víry, v niž vykonává funkci předsedy sboru pro přezkoumávání odvolání k řádnému zasedán í kongregace. Je znám pro své postoje v boji proti sexuálnímu obtěžování nezletilých v katolické církvi.

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Bruce Harris: Beginnings
By DAVID A. ORTHMANN
Beginnings sounds as if it's guided by an old hand instead of someone relatively new to the demanding art of leading a band. The debut recording of trumpeter Bruce Harris captures a coherent, homogeneous group sound, while utilizing several different combinations of instruments. Harris ties together material ranging from Harold Arlen, to Bud Powell, to Prince, as well as his own originals, and judiciously employs the assorted voices of several soloists who effectively express themselves in only a chorus or two.
Harris' "Ask Questions," Horace Silver's "Mr. Blakey," and Powell's "Una Noche Con Francis" contain gorgeous voicings for three or four horns. The band handles the charts with precision and a sense of purpose that's exhilarating. During the head of Arlen's "Ill Wind," Harris and tenor saxophonist Jerry Weldon move around one another like ballroom dancers, as do the trumpeter and tenor saxophonist Andy Farber on Harris' "So Near, So Far." The leader's muted trumpet (which he often employs in a manner as impressive as his work with the open horn) and the rhythm section are all that's needed to animate Russell Faith's and Clarence Kehner's "Snowbound," and Prince's "Do U Lie?"
Pianist Michael Weiss, bassist Clovis Nicolas, and drummer Pete Van Nostrand make for an exemplary rhythm section, one that handles the heads and interacts with the soloists in a knowing, relaxed, utterly supportive manner. Weiss' comping often sounds like it's a part of the solo he's accompanying. There's a particularly impressive chemistry between the pianist and Harris on "Ill Wind" and "Snowbound." Van Nostrand possesses an uncanny ability to place accents and concise fills in exactly the right places and with the appropriate degree of emphasis. In his support of the head of "Una Noche Con Francis," for example, pauses are as important as the strokes.
As a soloist Harris holds his own in the company of players who are, by and large, his senior. He's a raconteur who tells a lucid tale while leaving sufficient open space for the rhythm section to fill in the details. "Una Noche Con Francis" contains Harris' most compelling work with the open horn; "Ill Wind" is the gem of the muted improvisations. On "Ask Questions" and "Una Noche Con Francis," baritone saxophonist Frank Basile's burly, punctilious bebop styling makes for an interesting contrast to alto saxophonist Dmitry Baevsky's somewhat shadowy, bop-based fare. Weiss' sixteen-bar introduction to Harris' "So Near, So Far" is an exemplar of wisdom, economy and refined swing. Wistful one moment and gruff the next, Farber's "So Near, So Far" solo deftly joins a variety of phrases and covers a lot of ground before reaching a climax.
It's rare that a debut recording succeeds on as many levels as Beginnings. I look forward to hearing more of Bruce Harris' efforts as a leader in the future.
Ask Questions; Ill Wind; Mr. Blakey; Snowbound; The Step; Do U Lie?; Una Noche Con Francis; So Near, So Far.
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The signs of a toenail fungal infection are fairly easy to spot. Your nail, often the big toe, will look discoloured under the nail. If you have left it to develop, you may also notice the nail thickening and your nail will lose its normal shine. You could even notice the nail becoming more brittle and, in some circumstances, it can be painful when you are wearing shoes.
The first thing you need to do is pay a visit to your podiatrist or doctor. They'll be able to assess your condition and recommend the appropriate treatment to restore your nail. Podiatrists such as those at Beauchamp Foot Care are trained to diagnose and treat problems such as toenail fungal infections and have experience in using specialist equipment and medications.
Nail fungus may not only discolour your nail but can also make it become misshapen. This can look very unsightly, especially if you want to go barefoot on the beach or love to wear open toed sandals. Treatment success can depend on how serious the infection is and how long it's been left to develop. You can get oral treatments that may be effective as well as topical treatments which typically involve applying daily. The trouble is that these can take a long time to work and often have limited effect. In addition, oral treatments can be very powerful medications that may even cause liver damage if not carefully administered and supervised.
At the Beauchamp Foot Care Clinic, we use Lunula laser treatments which have proved effective for many of our patients with fungal infections. This combines two laser lights at set wavelengths which help to destroy the fungus under the nail. It is a completely pain free process as the laser uses a low power and takes just 10 to 12 minutes for each foot. How quickly the laser treatment begins to take effect can depend on the severity but it's usual for the process to be repeated weekly until the fungal infection is eradicated.
If your nail has hardened and become thickened by the infection, your podiatrist will first thin down the area to give the laser better access to the fungus underneath. Once you have completed the initial laser session, you will be given an anti-fungal spray and cream to put on the nail to help reduce the fungal infection.
You won't see immediate changes in the nail after the laser treatment but you could notice it beginning to reduce over the coming weeks. Much, as we've mentioned, will depend on the severity of the condition and your general health and physiology. We always recommend you to make an appointment when you first notice something is wrong with your nail as usually the quicker a fungal infection is tackled, the easier it is to treat.
If you have a nail condition such as a fungal infection, contact Beauchamp Foot Care today for a consultation and to review your treatment options by our professional team of podiatrists.
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How the international press has reacted to Sipilä's coalition?
– nobody knows what ideas of the True Finns will be in the programme (limit immigration? Leave the euro? No more help for Greece? Renegociate the presence of Finland in the EU?) and how long their leader will be able to keep the others MP under control.
– there has been an agreement between the 3 parties to cut 6 billions of public spending on the 6 years period.
– the Greens are not in the government in particular because they do not want to be in a coalition with a xenophobic and antieuropean parties (the True Finns), which is a quite general attitude in o, ther countries except Greece and Belgium.
Except that, nothing seems yet clarified, but the most interesting is the reaction of the international press to this unusual coalition, because it may give indications of Finland's international position and reputation in the future.
Russia today and other Russian newspapers, who have been commenting on the election that the anti-EU parties have won the lection, is not following this line with the coalition, probably because the main pro-NATO party, the National Coalition Party, has been chosen by Sipilä.
However, there has been more analysis and reactions in the press of other european partners.
In France, Le Monde indicates that it will be difficult to lead a country in the international arena with The True Finns who want to leave the eurozone and limit the powers of the EU, and the National Coalition Party who is totally pro-EU. Le Monde notes also that the True Finns are very reluctant about the budget cuts, when the National Coalition Party would want more. Le Monde stresses the attitude of the main Finnish parties who accept in the government the True Finns, a party known to have xenophobic elements.
In Sweden, Svenska Dagbladet report on the new coalition by focusing on the presence of the True Finns in the government. Stressing that neither Swedish nor Danish parties have accepted to include their populist parties in the government. It reminds that the other leader of the True Finns, Jussi Halla-Aho, has been condemned for racist speech in Finland, and that other representatives of the True Fiins have a xenophobic position. Dagens Nyheter was more neutral when announcing the coalitionn, but after that editorials, blogs and readers' reactions were quite critical of Sipilä's move.
The Greek newspaper Ekathimerini was mainly repoting on Timo Soini' declaration that it would make sense for Greece to leave the euro zone. But noted that "In the preliminary talks, all the three parties said they would not rule out a possible third bailout for Greece from the EU rescue fund within its current capacity and capital structure".
In Italy and Spain, there has not been either strong reactions to the announcement of the coalition.
Euronews has made a specific report on the True Finns, whose presentation was: ''Nationalist, anti-immigration and strongly euro-sceptic. The True Finn party made an historic breakthrough in Finland's recent elections. What are the reasons for this small populist party's success, in a country which is relatively prosperous and traditionally pro-European? " Since then, there has been no specific reaction to the coalition on Euronews.
This rapid and limited survey of some media of the international press shows that there are some reactions to the presence of the True Finns in the future government, but nothing similar to what happened when Jorg Haider was elected in Austria. It is true that Timo Soini is not the Prime Minister or the President, and also that he is not Haider. In all cases, the other EU countries are going to judge Timo Soini as a minister of Foreign Affairs or Minister of Finance with curiosity and some scepticism, with the fear that he willl hamper the functioning of the EU, as promised in his party's programme.


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Q: How to return plain text in spring controller? I want to return a simple plain text string as follows:
@RestController
@RequestMapping("/test")
public class TestController {
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.OK)
    @RequestMapping(value = "/my", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces="text/plain")
    public String test() {
        return "OK";
    }

Problem: I also have a global ContentNegotiation filter as follows:
@Configuration
public class ContentNegotiationAdapter extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
    @Override
    public void configureContentNegotiation(ContentNegotiationConfigurer configurer) {
        configurer.favorPathExtension(false)
                .favorParameter(true)
                .ignoreAcceptHeader(true)
                .useJaf(false)
                .defaultContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML);
    }

    @Override
    public void configureMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
        super.configureMessageConverters(converters);
    }
}

Result: whenever I access the spring controller, I'm getting the error:
Could not find acceptable representation
Question: how can I force the controller to return plain text, even though only XML was configured within content negotation (which I have to keep)?

A: If you remove  produces="text/plain" from the mapping, it returns plain text but the header is set to "application/xml". This is probably not desirable.
I tested with the latest version of Spring Boot.
If you are using the version of Spring >= 4.1.2, you can try to use defaultContentTypeStrategy instead of defaultContentType, to set the correct content type in the header:
   configurer.favorPathExtension(false)
            .favorParameter(true)
            .ignoreAcceptHeader(true)
            .useJaf(false)
            .defaultContentTypeStrategy(new ContentNegotiationStrategy() {
                @Override
                public List<MediaType> resolveMediaTypes(NativeWebRequest nativeWebRequest) throws
                        HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException {
                    System.out.println("Description:"+nativeWebRequest.getDescription(false));
                    if (nativeWebRequest.getDescription(false).endsWith("/test/my")) {
                        return Collections.singletonList(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN);
                    }
                    else {
                        return Collections.singletonList(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML);
                    }
                }
            })
            //.defaultContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
;

A: First Way
@GetMapping(value = "/", produces = MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_VALUE)
public @ResponseBody
String getResponseAsText() {

    return "Text Message Here";
}

Second Way
@GetMapping(value = "/")
public ResponseEntity<String> getResponseAsText() {

    var httpHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
    httpHeaders.setContentType(new MediaType("text", "plain", StandardCharsets.UTF_8));

    return new ResponseEntity<>("Text Message here", httpHeaders, HttpStatus.OK);
}

A: You need to specify  @ResponseBody annotation for your test method like:
public @ResponseBody String test(){}

A: If I recall well, you can annotate the method with @ResponseBody and it will return plain text.
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In his latest series of paintings he tries and succeeds beautifully in bringing attention to the importance and magnitude of the natural world and how every individual of any given species, large or small, has it's own distinct personality. He also continues to work utilizing graphite on paper in producing fantasy, stream of consciousness landscapes that address modern concerns and ideal worlds.
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Q: How to start a Powershell session with all my modules imported? I have many modules to make my life easier stored in a particular folder.
QUESTION:
What is the best practice to start a Powerhsell session that has all those modules imported and the functions ready to be used?
Thanks!

A: you can create a profile on a network share \\server\share\commonProfile.ps1
in that profile you define your module path to the shared folder
if($env:PSModulePath -match "\\\\server\\share\\modules" -eq $false){
    $env:PSModulePath = $env:PSModulePath + ";\\server\share\Modules"
}

Copy your modules to \\server\share\Modules,
now you should be able to do
$rs=new-pssession $computername
icm -Session $rs -ScriptBlock{. \\server\share\commonProfile.ps1} #dot source the profile
etsn $rs #enter remote session

#your modules should now be availables in the remote session :
get-module -listavailable


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in Bulletproof
…two spiritual masters continue discovering new layers of and models for human experience. This combined episode covers aspects of consciousness, conscious agents, biodynamics, emotional body energy, the Enneagram, homeopathy and much more.
Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. TIME magazine described him as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century." He's been exploring the intersection of science and spirituality for decades.
Deepak's 90th book: "Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential," gets into what it means to be "beyond human." You'll learn how to question reality, move past limitations constructed by your mind, and enter a new state of awareness. And when you realize a "reality without limits," you'll be able to realize your full human potential.
"The experience and the awareness of experience are related, but independent," Deepak says. "Consciousness gives continuity to perceptual snapshots. Humans have language to express that, and they use different languages with the same meaning. So, once you imbue an experience with the meaning, it becomes the word. It becomes an object."
Abdul Hayy Lammert Holdijk has followed a Sufi path for the past 40 years, studying religion and consciousness with a hefty dose of pragmatism. He lectures on topics such as Epigenetics, Neurobiology, the Enneagram, Shadow Work, Voice Dialogue, Love, Dream interpretation, Jekyll and Hyde, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, and a wide range of other topics related to consciousness and personality development.
"The energy body, and this is traditional for almost all alternative medicine, is a regulator," Abdul says. It regulates the emotional, mental, and physical body. This is what we call the self-healing capacity of a human being."
Abdul taught at the American University in Beirut for several years, and then at the American University in Cairo for 35. His profound life story includes adventure, spirituality seeking, questioning tradition and teaching others. He also leads spiritual retreats in Lebanon, Egypt, Oman, and the surrounding region.
If you liked this special episode with Deepak and Abdul, you'll learn even more from listening to their full podcasts, directly below.
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Q: Magento 2.2.0 Custom Shipping module - Not Working as expected I have created a custom shipping module which calculate the rate according to ordered products weight and selected location(postcode).
There are 3 weights:

*

*1: small

*2: medium

*3: large

Locations:
for locations : 'V' and 'W', The shipping rate is as follow:

*

*1: small weight: 5

*2: medium weight: 10

*3: large weight: 12

for locations : 'X' and 'Y', The shipping rate is as follow:

*

*1: small weight: 15

*2: medium weight: 40

*3: large weight: 50

The modules gets all order items then it gets the largest weight. After that it gets the corresponding rate.
The postcode is dropdown on checkout page, When user changes postcode, magento recalculates shipping rate and print the rate in two places:

*

*under shipping method

*In Order Review
The logic is working fine in order review, however the rate is not updated as expected under shipping address. If user chooses location V for medium weight item, Both rates updated successfully on checkout to 10, but if he changes the location to location Y, the rate in order review changes to 40 but in shipping method remains the same.
Here is the logic
 public function collectRates(RateRequest $request)
{
    /**
     * Make sure that Shipping method is enabled
     */
    if (!$this->isActive()) {
        return false;
    }

    /** @var \Magento\Shipping\Model\Rate\Result $result */
    $result = $this->_rateResultFactory->create();
    $method = $this->_rateMethodFactory->create();
    /**
     * Set carrier's method data
     */
    $method->setCarrier($this->_code);
    $method->setCarrierTitle($this->getConfigData('title'));
    /**
     * Displayed as shipping method under Carrier
     */

     /**
     * Get Order Items
     */
    $items = $request->getAllItems();
    $postcode = $request->getDestPostcode();

    $method->setMethod($this->_code);
    $method->setMethodTitle($this->getConfigData('name'));

    $weight = 1;

    /**
     * set Weight to the largest item weight
     * 1:small, 2:medium, 3:large
     */
    foreach ($items as $_item) {
        if ($weight < $_item->getWeight()) {
            $weight = $_item->getWeight();
        }
    }

    $cityCharges = [
        [
            'city' => [
                'V',
                'W'
            ],
            'charge' => [
                'price_small' => 5,
                'price_medium' => 10,
                'price_large' => 12,
            ]
        ],
        [
            'city' => [
                'X',
                'Y',
            ],
            'charge' => [
                'price_small' => 15,
                'price_medium' => 40,
                'price_large' => 50,
            ]
        ],
        [
            'city' => [
                'Z'
            ],
            'charge' => [
                'price_small' => 5,
                'price_medium' => 10,
                'price_large' => 50,
            ]
        ],
    ];

    $selectedChargesList = null;

    foreach ($cityCharges as $cityCharge) {
        if (in_array($postcode, $cityCharge['city'])) {
            $selectedChargesList = $cityCharge['charge'];
        }
    }

    switch ($weight) {
        case 1:
            $price = $selectedChargesList['price_small'];
            break;
        case 2:
            $price = $selectedChargesList['price_medium'];
            break;
        case 3:
            $price = $selectedChargesList['price_large'];
            break;
    }

    $method->setPrice($price);
    $method->setCost($price);
    $result->append($method);

    return $result;
}

protected function getCurrentQuote($quoteId)
{
    $objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
    $quoteFactory = $objectManager->get('\Magento\Quote\Model\QuoteFactory');
    return $quoteFactory->create()->load($quoteId);
}

I think the problem is with this :
https://www.example.com/rest/default/V1/guest-carts/xxxxxxxxx/estimate-shipping-methods
however https://www.example.com/rest/default/V1/guest-carts/xxxxxxxxx/shipping-information is getting the correct rate.

A: Finally found it.
This Ajax was returning an error:
https://www.example.com/rest/default/V1/guest-carts/xxxxxxxxx/estimate-shipping-methods
Unable to save address. Please check input data

After Search, I have added the following to .htaccess and then flushed magento cache:
php_value include_path "."

As mentioned here
http://prntscr.com/k6lo2q
Now estimate-shipping-methods ajax call is getting the values and is updating them on checkout form.


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