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DEAD ON ARRIVAL - BOOK 1 OF THE LAURA & GERRY MYSTERY SERIES BY KAREN VAUGHAN - WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU WAKE UP TO A DEAD BODY ON YOUR LIVING ROOM FLOOR?
Laura Hamilton wakes up one morning only to find out a dead body inside her apartment. It was, after all, her ex-coworker, "Velcro" Hodges, a debt collector who was known to leech on his prey until the debt is already paid in full. But why was he dropped insider Laura's room?
Now someone wants Laura to be dead. As the plot thickens, Laura tries to find out on who could possibly want her next to be in cold blood. Lead Detective Inspector Jeff Gibbons helps her, tracking any leads he gets, but that doesn't seem to help solve the puzzle.
5.0 out of 5 stars Meet Laura in this fun first book in the series
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2017
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Great first book in this fun series that I read out of sequence and still enjoyed very much. Corpse magnet, Laura, is on her own in this first book written before Gerry joins her on her misadventures. She's a funny, sarcastic, unpredictable character who takes up sleuthing when a dead body turns up in her apartment. More than a little motivation, that's for sure! Several secondary characters add interest along with more than a little sleaze as Laura sets out alongside Detective Inspector Jeff Gibbons to find out whodunit. I'm not going to tell you that, of course, or reveal how Laura figures it out. You need to read this book and have the fun doing that for yourself
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THE OWL AND THE SIPAN LORD - A NOVEL SEEPED IN MYSTERY AND THE PARANORMAL BY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR VIV DREWA
Martin and Clare Montgomery worked together as an archaeological team until Martin mysteriously died. Fearing the rumors of a curse Clare vowed to never return that was until a rare blue eyes owl began to haunt her dreams. Was this a sign from her beloved Martin or something more sinister?
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Adventure Story Steeped in Mystery and Danger
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2014
Having read and loved THE ANGLER AND THE OWL by Viv Drewa, I was drawn to read THE OWL OF THE SIPAN LORD, an adventure story steeped in mystery and danger. The heroine, Clare Montgomery is cut from the Indiana Jones/Allan Quatermain cloth and takes us to Peru on an archaeological dig to find answers to paranormal questions and the death of her husband. The tightly woven tale with multi-faceted, likable characters is fast paced and a perfect balance of demons and sorcery and authentic ancient Peruvian culture and love. This one made me get up in the middle of the night to cover my red-eyed clock. Another outstanding adventure form Viv Drewa.
THE GOLDEN RULE SAYS BE KIND - AN AWARD-WINNING CHILDREN'S BOOK BY SHERRILL S CANNON
Winner of 9 Awards, The Golden Rule- What if you treated others the way you'd like to be treated? What if everyone did that? What kind of world could there be? Please join in the children's quest to discover how to follow The Golden Rule. The book has won a Book Excellence Award Gold Medal, eLit Gold, Reviewers Choice Silver, Children's Literary Classics Silver plus Seal of Approval, Mom's Choice Silver, Readers Favorite Finalist Award, IAN Book of the Year Finalist and Pinnacle Achievement Award.
This is the eighth rhyming children's book by award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon, whose other bestselling books include My Little Angel, Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift. Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won sixty-three awards for her rhyming books and is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Rhyming Read for Kids
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2016
I was looking for a new book for my great-nephew and happened upon this one. I love children's books written in a singsong rhyming style reminiscent of Dr. Seuss and this book was just what I was looking for.
The cadence of the rhyme along with the skillful illustrations rapidly engages the youngster's attention as they follow the characters on their search for the 'golden ruler,' A fun and enjoyable read, this book also imparts an important lesson for youngsters without being preachy.
My great-nephew thoroughly enjoyed it and, I hope, took away with him a valuable concept.
I can recommend this book without reservation to any who have young children in their lives
M. M. Bishop Award-winning author and poet
5.0 out of 5 stars A Story For More Than Children
Format: Kindle Edition
Once again Sherrill Cannon has written a wonderful story with a very special message.
The Golden Rule, penned for the young, but is much more than a brilliantly written rhyming tale. It teaches how great it would be if everyone to gave to each other what they would like to receive.
The illustrations are charming and go wonderfully with the story. Ms. Cannon's clever and intelligent gift for telling a story in rhyme that does not talk down to a child, but instead is consistently at their level is unsurpassed in today's children's books.
Kudos to Ms. Cannon for another fabulous book. I highly recommend it.
NEW TO THIS WITCHY THING CAN EMLYN GOODE USE HER POWERS TO FIND THE KILLER? THE MAGIC OF MURDER BY SUSAN LYNN SOLOMON.
When his partner is discovered in a frozen alley with eight bullets in his chest, Niagara Falls Police Detective Roger Frey swears vengeance. But Detective Chief Woodward has forbidden him or anyone else on the detective squad to work the case. Emlyn Goode knows Roger will disobey his boss, which will cost him his job and his freedom. Because she cares for him more than she'll admit, she needs to stop him. Desperate, she can think of but one way.
Emlyn recently learned she's a direct descendant of a woman hanged as a witch in 1692. She has a book filled with arcane recipes and chants passed down through her family. Possessed of, or perhaps by a vivid imagination, she intends to use these to solve Jimmy's murder before Roger takes revenge on the killer. But she's new to this "witch thing," and needs help from her friend Rebecca Nurse, whose ancestor also took a short drop from a Salem tree. Rebecca's not much better at deciphering the ancient directions, and while the women stumble over spell after spell, the number possible killers grows. When Chief Woodward's wife is shot and a bottle bomb bursts through Emlyn's window, it becomes clear she's next on the killer's list.
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Twist of a Mystery!
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2016
I fell in love with The Magic of Murder! It is a charming, funny, and very interesting twist of a mystery!
I enjoyed following Emlyn Goode in the discovery of her family heritage and her unique abilities as well as finding out who did it! I admit it was quite a surprise to find out who it actually was!!!
Emlyn is a delightful character, I loved her humor. Even Elvira made me laugh many times. It was easy to slip into the minds of each character and see through their own eyes the events which were unfolding and taking place around them. Being a resident of the Niagara area it was wonderful to be able to picture in my mind all the places mentioned throughout the book. Sue has written an awesome story, definitely worth 5 stars and more. Cant wait to read the next one, hope there will be many more to come!
CAN SEBASTIAN'S SON'S DEADLY GIFT BE TREATED? - BRUTAL HEARTS BY PAUL NOSACH
Sebastian Masters now has a son, naming him child after him and needs the help of his roommate, Jaysen Stripe. Work has gotten in the way, and Sebastian has barely any time to see his beloved boy, unless he's sleeping or at the breakfast table.Soon both Dr. Masters and Jaysen discover something that Sebastian II is capable of doing and is very frightening. But how will they determine what it is? And furthermore, how can this child's deadly gift be treated?Sebastian Masters is forced to stop everything due to a job opportunity, which would uproot everything Dr. Sebastian Masters' father had ever built, and put him back in California. But will Sebastian Masters' choices lead him deeper into trouble? Or could this decision benefit him in unremarkable ways at the sacrifice of his son?
A Dime is a Sign: Poems of Love and Loss (Feelings Into Words) by Award-winning author Sherrill S Cannon.
A psychic medium once said that if you find a random dime, it is a sign that someone that you have loved and lost is thinking of you.
A Dime is a Sign Through Time
If you find a dime,
You will know that I'm
Sending thoughts of love
Through the veil of time.
Ten cents with a silver shine,
A sense sent you to help remind
That someone who left you behind
Is always living in your mind.
Sending love and vibes,
Felt as psychic sighs …
The ones that you miss,
Send you a kiss …
Sherrill S. Cannon's second book of poetry contains messages written through the years in poetic form that put feelings into words. As a teacher, many of her poems helped counsel troubled teens and friends.
There are three sections in the book: Heads, Spinning, and Tails … (Love & Loss: Coin Toss?). The variety of lyrical poetry forms include free verse, blank verse, haiku, and sonnets, while some are just playing with words!
Hopefully, this is also a book of healing.
Sherrill S. Cannon, a former teacher and grandmother of ten, is the author of nine acclaimed rhymed children's books, plus a recent award-winning book of poetry (A Penny for Your Thoughts), which together have received 63 national and international book awards since 2011. She also wrote seven published plays for elementary school children that have been performed in over 25 countries. Most of her children's books emphasize consideration for others. Married for 58 years, she and her spouse are now retired, live in Pennsylvania, and travel in their RV from coast to coast, spending time with their children and grandchildren, and sharing her books along the way!
"A Dime is a Sign – Poems of Love and Loss" is the second collection of published poems by Sherrill S. Cannon. The book is divided into three sections: Heads (Love and Friendship), Spinning (Related Emotions), and Tails (Heartache and Anguish), that deal with emotions, plus a few poems sprinkled among them that are nature themed. Ms. Cannon's poems are written in a way that even non-poets can easily understand and relate to. Whether dealing with issues pertaining to friendship, new love, lost love, enduring love, broken relationships, or death, there are poems in this book that will speak to you and possibly help you. Ms. Cannon's verse is lively and upbeat reading, making the poems easy for readers to absorb and apply to what they are feeling in their own lives.
A Dime is a Sign: Poems of Love and Loss (Feelings Into Words) by Sherrill S. Cannon walks us through emotions that we all feel.
It is a glorious collection of some of the most beautiful poems of our generation.
There wasn't one that didn't strike some cord in my heart and soul, to lie there and make me weep for loss or fill my heart with the glory of love.
Some of those that struck me the deepest were 'Wall of Apprehension,' a poem of fear to allow another in. Perhaps, the other will reject what you are, or you will feel by their response that you were a bother. 'You, Friendship – I Love,' helped me to realize that my shutting others out, for fear that my gestures would be mistaken for something else and I would find despair in the trying. And 'Premature Goodbye,' hit a chord deep in me for all those that I walked away from or that walked away from me, without the chance of explanation or renewal.
Ms. Cannon, outdid herself 'A Dime is a Sign' for she speaks directly to our hearts and souls. Whether it be a love poem or a poem of loss and sadness, this book holds something that will touch everyone.
It is a book to be cherished, reread, and savored time and again, for, in it, we will find our common humanity, our dreams of love, fear of loss and rejection, the joy of being, and we will grow more fully as humans.
VOICES IN MY HEAD BY SUSAN LYNN SOLOMON IS A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES THAT WILL KEEP YOU WANTING MORE
In The Magic of Murder, Susan Lynn Solomon let readers laugh at the antics of an albino cat and a witch. Now, in nine short tales she takes a serious look at relationships and their impact on characters who confront their pasts.
A young soldier returns, changed by his war. A young British girl faces the people of her town after parental abuse. An older man who as a teenager fled his hometown, returns when his childhood girlfriend begs a favor. A radical of the '70s leaves the cemetery after her mother's funeral, searching for where her life will lead.
In these stories and five others, Solomon explores the persistence of memory and the promise of hope.
GRIPPING TALE THAT COULD COME OUT OF REAL LIFE - BLAZING HEARTS BY PAUL NOSACH
Dr. Sebastian Masters has lost his job from Eastbridge hospital, due to insubordination. But now he has come across the perfect woman, Dawn Turlo, who would give him another opportunity - another job offer and his own building with staff. The only catch is marriage. But the problem lies deeper with Sebastian. He doesn't know how to love someone, and turns to his long-time friend, Jaysen Stripe for help.
Meanwhile, Adam Ludsgarden, Sebastian's nephew, has sunk deeper into depression due to the loss of his best friend Curtis Brown. Adam has secluded himself in his room and only comes out when necessary, and where Sebastian fails to try with him, Jaysen finds the proper words to sooth his pain.
But as Dawn starts to show her true colours and the way she feels, everything starts to spiral downward under the same roof. Can Sebastian hold everything together? Can he keep the peace? Can he keep his feelings in check after everything that had happened before with Jaysen? The suspicions grow intense, and finally Dawn Turlo is exposed to the truth. What Sebastian and Jaysen find out is astonishing.
Paul has written a book that will kepp you wondering whats gonna happen next. Sebastian and Dawn were ment to be, right? Read on
A RIVETING ADVENTURE BY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR VIV DREWA - THE ANGLER AND THE OWL
For 25 years France Hunter has been studying owls, and has discovered five new species around the world. Her work has kept her busy and she never had time for a relationship. She travels with Jason "Doc" Bradley, a former paramedic, and his cousins Tony and Andy Bradley. Now, on her last outing she is joined by a magazine writer, Cathy Birch, and a world famous angler, John Sinclair, who has also dedicated his life to his field. As the small caravan travels to the Amazon river France falls and severely injures her left arm. Against Doc's recommendation to turn back, she pushes on. This is her last trip and she wants to go to the place where she found her first new owl. While fishing a blue-ringed owl lands on John's canoe and looks down the river to where France's group is, and then looks back at him. This alerts John. He gets the satellite phone and tries to reach her to no avail. He decides the fishing can wait and, with Mark in another canoe, begin the journey back to France. At France's camp two jaguars attack one of the boatmen severing his left leg. The other two boatmen, they all have rifles, shoot at the jaguars killing one. The other escapes with the boatman's leg. Doc and the others wake to the noise and he and Tony go to where the boatmen are camping. In the ruckus the canoes become untied and go eastward down the shore and the sat phone is destroyed. Now they have no way to get help and will have to wait for John's team to come back, which could take three or four more days. Will help get there in enough time?
This book was one riveting Adventure. When France Hunter and her crew head down the Amazon River with a well-known Angler and a magazine Crew looking to do an interview with her is when the adventure really starts. Stranded in the jungle after their canoes float away and their emergency phone is destroyed the crew struggles to survive after an attack by wild animals. Every good story needs to crisis to keep up the momentum and this book does not disappoint! Ms. Drewa has hit a home-run in her first foray in fiction! I give this 5 stars for being the rousing romantic adventure it is.
A MAGICAL, MYSTICAL, ROMANTIC, FANTASY, MURDER MYSTERY BY KAREN VAUGHAN
On the surface to think and watch the world go by, Mikayla a mermaid witnesses an violent act and is injured. Found by a tourist, Mikayla can't remember the event and who or even what she is. Can Damien and the police keep her safe while the bad guys try to find her? Get ready for mystery, fantasy and romance in one book!!!!
I received this book as a gift from my sister and absolutely adored this story. Mikayla a mermaid is a bit bored with her life under the sea and unsure if she wants to marry, so she goes up to sit on her favorite rock on the surface. She witnesses a horrific blast and is injured, and found by a handsome stranger.
Unfortunately, she doesn't know who or what she is. Will she figure it out, and will the cops find a way to help her before the bad guys find her?
This future isn't just plausible. It's lurking just beneath the surface of our real-world present. The Divide by award-winning author Marta Moran Bishop
Marta Moran Bishop's Darkness Descends is powerful, gripping work! It's a compelling, sometimes scathing prequel to her first series title, The Between Times. Set in a dystopian city-state, Bishop indicts a patriarchal oligarchy that feeds a rape culture at the same time as it plots the overthrow of the rule of law with the anarchic rule of a well-managed mob psyche. The Roman people were given bread and circuses. The crowds in Darkness Descends are handed Rebecca, Jewell's mother, and a crucial charter character of the series, who faces public torture, humiliation, assault, and finally, auto-da-fé, burning at the stake, which she accepts as her fate as the ultimate sacrifice for a greater good. Bishop pulls no punches. The blows land all the harder when one realizes she is not working solely from imagination. She has incorporated into her literary tapestry the warp of today's culture, with the weft of actual history, including a chilling early Twentieth Century plot by brutal American financial moguls to overthrow the United States government. Who knew?! This book is devastating. I'm praying for an uplifting third installment to arrive in my Kindle soon, but given Bishop's dim view of humanity and history, I'm not holding out too much hope for a Pixar ending. Every win in Bishop's world comes at a great price, and the brilliant Darkness Descends is no exception. Of course, I absolutely can't wait to see what Bishop will come up with next!
Robert Blake Whitehill, Author/Screenwriter - The Ben Blackshaw Series
What if...for the first time in the history of the United States we took a social and economic nose dive into oblivion? THE BETWEEN TIMES is just such a scenario. A story that reads like a folk tale from the past, but in reality is a fantastic possibility based on the choices available to us today.
The premise is nothing short of an incredible imagination as modern day Chicago fades into an evil darkness separated by a wall. A separateness ruled by the upper society that isolates and mistreats the poor. These less fortunate people, in a short amount of time find themselves forced to live in the lower communities suffering from mistreatment comparable only to the concentration camps during WWII. Women are no longer human beings, but are nothing more than breeding animals kept only to prevent extinction of the race. The conditions are bleak and seemingly hopeless.
It is the belief in a Legend that becomes the driving force behind the survival. A young girl named Jewel, living in the captivity of this devastating socioeconomic environment, is the dream. She manifests hope and magic from within this beautiful tale.
Fantastical, Magical, & Mystical in a story that will make you believe it is about a long forgotten past, but in reality is a possible future! I wholeheartedly recommend this remarkable highly imaginative novel!
The author weaves a deeply disturbing cautionary tale that serves as a warning for us all. In some ways, The Divide is like other books in the genre such as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, in that it is dark and portrays one potential outcome if our country continues on its current path. This book is different, however, in one important way. Bishop craftily reminds us that the horrific future she describes isn't really much of a departure from the darker chapters of our own history. That fact alone chilled me to the core. Her future isn't just plausible. It's lurking just beneath the surface of our real-world present.
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Today is the day I've reintroduced myself to Dr Who. I watched the originals long ago when I lived in Saudi Arabia; BBC was the only TV we could get, and so it was I was introduced to The Saint, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers and a myriad of half-hour British sitcoms.
Now, so many years later, I find myself revisiting the past and becoming reacquainted with the 'newer' Dr Who. Some touchstones are familiar and comfortable; I think this is the beginning of another beautiful relationship.


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Q: How to have an action to support form-data and as JSON in the body? I have a controller action:
[HttpPost]
[AllowAnonymous]
public async Task<IActionResult> Register(RegisterViewModel model, string returnUrl = null) { }

I need to be able to call this endpoint either through a razor page or using the HttpClient's PostAsJsonAsync.
I got this working for the razor page. But when I do:
var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync($"{api}Account/Register", new { email, password });

I get a 415 Unsupported Media Type.
How can I support both ways of submitting the data?

A: The new behavior of model binding designed in asp.net core is a bit inconvenient in some cases (for some developers) but I personally think it's necessary to reduce some complexity in the binding code (which can improve the performance a bit). The new behavior of model binding reflects clearly the purpose of the endpoints (MVC vs Web API). So usually your web browsers don't consume Web API directly (in case you use it, you must follow its rule, e.g: post the request body with application/json content-type).
If you look into the source code of asp.net core, you may have the best work-around or solution to customize it to support the multi-source model binding again. I did not look into any source code but I've come up with a simple solution to support model binding from either form or request body like this. Note that it will bind data from either the form or request body, not combined from both.
The idea is just based on implementing a custom IModelBinder and IModelBinderProvider. You can wrap the default one (following the decorator pattern) and add custom logic around. Otherwise you need to re-implement the whole logic.
Here is the code
//the custom IModelBinder, this supports binding data from either form or request body
public class FormBodyModelBinder : IModelBinder
{
    readonly IModelBinder _overriddenModelBinder;
    public FormBodyModelBinder(IModelBinder overriddenModelBinder)
    {
        _overriddenModelBinder = overriddenModelBinder;
    }
    public async Task BindModelAsync(ModelBindingContext bindingContext)
    {
        var httpContext = bindingContext.HttpContext;
        var contentType = httpContext.Request.ContentType;
        var hasFormData = httpContext.Request.HasFormContentType;
        var hasJsonData = contentType?.Contains("application/json") ?? false;
        var bindFromBothBodyAndForm = bindingContext.ModelMetadata is DefaultModelMetadata mmd &&
                                     (mmd.Attributes.Attributes?.Any(e => e is FromBodyAttribute) ?? false) &&
                                     (mmd.Attributes.Attributes?.Any(e => e is FromFormAttribute) ?? false);
        if (hasFormData || !hasJsonData || !bindFromBothBodyAndForm)
        {
            await _overriddenModelBinder.BindModelAsync(bindingContext);
        }
        else //try binding model from the request body (deserialize)
        {
            try
            {
                //save the request body in HttpContext.Items to support binding multiple times
                //for multiple arguments
                const string BODY_KEY = "___request_body";
                if (!httpContext.Items.TryGetValue(BODY_KEY, out var body) || !(body is string jsonPayload))
                {
                    using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpContext.Request.Body))
                    {
                        jsonPayload = await streamReader.ReadToEndAsync();
                    }
                    httpContext.Items[BODY_KEY] = jsonPayload;
                }
                bindingContext.Result = ModelBindingResult.Success(JsonSerializer.Deserialize(jsonPayload, bindingContext.ModelType));

            }
            catch
            {
                bindingContext.Result = ModelBindingResult.Success(Activator.CreateInstance(bindingContext.ModelType));
            }
        }
    }
}

//the corresponding model binder provider
public class FormBodyModelBinderProvider : IModelBinderProvider
{
    readonly IModelBinderProvider _overriddenModelBinderProvider;
    public FormBodyModelBinderProvider(IModelBinderProvider overriddenModelBinderProvider)
    {
        _overriddenModelBinderProvider = overriddenModelBinderProvider;
    }
    public IModelBinder GetBinder(ModelBinderProviderContext context)
    {
        var modelBinder = _overriddenModelBinderProvider.GetBinder(context);
        if (modelBinder == null) return null;
        return new FormBodyModelBinder(modelBinder);
    }
}

We write a simple extension method on MvcOptions to help configure it to override an IModelBinderProvider with the custom one to support multisource model binding.
public static class MvcOptionsExtensions
{
    public static void UseFormBodyModelBinderProviderInsteadOf<T>(this MvcOptions mvcOptions) where T : IModelBinderProvider
    {
        var replacedModelBinderProvider = mvcOptions.ModelBinderProviders.OfType<T>().FirstOrDefault();
        if (replacedModelBinderProvider != null)
        {
            var customProvider = new FormBodyModelBinderProvider(replacedModelBinderProvider);
            mvcOptions.ModelBinderProviders.Remove(replacedModelBinderProvider);
            mvcOptions.ModelBinderProviders.Add(customProvider);
        }
    }
}

To support binding complex model from either form or request body, we can override the ComplexTypeModelBinderProvider like this:
//in the ConfigureServices method
services.AddMvc(o => {
            o.UseFormBodyModelBinderProviderInsteadOf<ComplexTypeModelBinderProvider>();
        };

That should suit most of the cases in which your action's argument is of a complex type.
Note that the code in the FormBodyModelBinder requires the action arguments to be decorated with both FromFormAttribute and FromBodyAttribute. You can read the code and see where they're fit in. So you can write your own attribute to use instead. I prefer to using existing classes. However in this case, there is an important note about the order of FromFormAttribute and FromBodyAttribute. The FromFormAttribute should be placed before FromBodyAttribute. Per my test, looks like the ASP.NET Core model binding takes the first attribute as effective (seemingly ignores the others), so if FromBodyAttribute is placed first, it will take effect and may prevent all the model binders (including our custom one) from running when the content-type is not supported (returning 415 response).
The final note about this solution, it's not perfect. Once you accept to bind model from multi-sources like this, it will not handle the case of not supporting media type nicely as when using FromBodyAttribute explicitly. Because when we support multi-source model binding, the FromBodyAttribute is not used and the default check is not kicked in. We must implement that ourselves. Because of multiple binders joining in the binding process, we cannot easily decide when the request becomes not supported (so even you add a check in the FormBodyModelBinder, you can successfully set the response's status code to 415 but it may not be right and the request is still being processed in the selected action method). With this note, in case of media type not supported, you should ensure that your code in the action method is not broken by handling empty (or null) model argument.
Here is how you use the custom model binder:
[HttpPost]
[AllowAnonymous]
public async Task<IActionResult> Register([FromForm] [FromBody] RegisterViewModel model, string returnUrl = null) { }

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How Do You Find Your Max Heart Rate?
I am quite new to running and have decided to try another set of race training in 2 weeks. I went online the other to look for ways to identify the Max heart rate and have found nothing. Would anyone have advice on how to find your max heart rate?
WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF MAXIMUM HEART RATE?
Training based upon heart rate allows a runner to perform at a personal level of intensity for the purpose of achieving training aims.
This means that you train at your bodies personal performance levels "smartly" rather than constantly training at a level which might be overly hard for you.
Identifying ( HR-Maximum ) means identifying the highest number at which your heart beats during each minute when you are subjected to your own personal level of performance stress.
There is the option of going to a private health clinic and paying them to run a series of test/physical activities, often on a running machine while hooked up to heart rate monitoring equipment.
Do this field test and bring a training partner with you. Use a good trusted brand heart rate monitor and " note your own highest personal heart rate you can reach". This is going to be your maximum heart rate.
Heart Rate Zones what you need to know.
Heart Rate Monitors For you, all you need to know.
1. Do a set of warm-up routines on a flat surface, use a gym mat for more secure comfort. Be near to where you will do your run.
2. Select a hill which will take over twenty minutes for you to run up it, run up the ascent and push yourself up to the best running pace you can achieve and maintain, you need to keep that pace for 20 minutes.
3. Afterwards, return to the start of your run at the base of the hill/slope.
4. Repeat the run again, get your heart working and maintain the momentum for 3km, keep your eyes on your heart rate monitor, you will see that your heart beats are around ten beats higher than the value you noted.
5. Next, run down the hill/slope while allowing your heart rate to reduce the level of beats per minute where it was to a lower rate of 30--40 beats each minute.
6. Next, again start a run up the hill/slope for one minute at a high pace for which you know you can only maintain for one minute. Keep observing your heart rate performance on your monitor, now try to run half the full distance up the slope/hill while observing your heart rate. This will bring you close/to your maximum heart rate and you use this value to establish your maximum heart rate to set your personal sports zones.
7. After this self-test ensure that you cool down for a good amount of time 15-20 minutes.
You will now be able to train at a personal level of intensity which will benefit you the most for your personal training aims.


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Online payments company moves further into traditional retail banking territory
PayPal has struck a deal with Visa that enables it to issue debit cards in Europe, as the online payments service company moves further into traditional retail banking territory.
The two companies have signed an agreement to collaborate in offering payments services across the continent, easing a long-standing competitive tension.
Card companies have come under pressure from the rise of PayPal, whose users are able to make payments directly from bank accounts, bypassing the card network.
As part of the deal, PayPal, which already has a banking licence in Europe, will be able to offer PayPal-branded Visa debit cards.
The move is expected to appeal in particular to small businesses that carry balances in their PayPal account for buying supplies, or for people who do not have a bank account but use PayPal.
Until now, PayPal has used its banking licence largely for treasury functions. The deal with Visa opens up a broader customer base as the company shifts towards retail banking.
Jim Magats, head of payments, product and engineering at PayPal, said that although there was no immediate goal to launch a debit card, planning was under way.
PayPal already offers pre-paid cards with MasterCard in some countries, such as Italy. It also offers debit cards in the US. The move would mark a first in Europe.
Mr Magats said that PayPal had several merchant customers that would prefer to use PayPal rather than a bank account for day-to-day spending, and customers who conducted all their online transactions via PayPal who wanted to extend this to card spending.
The deal with Visa will give PayPal users access to Visa's contactless payment points in retailers and shops across Europe, providing PayPal with access to in-store retail transactions. It also means that customers would be able to use their phone to "tap and pay" in a shop, for example, through their PayPal account.
The development is a boost for PayPal, which has traditionally operated online as a payments service, by deepening its foothold in the world of in-store commerce.
For Visa, the deal makes it easier for PayPal customers to pay with their Visa card online or in a mobile app.
Mr Magats said that PayPal had "historically created friction for a customer to get to their Visa card if they had a balance or a bank account . . . we will create an equal environment for someone to get to their Visa account".
The move should mean that Visa sees more card transactions going through PayPal. In return, Visa will pay "economic incentives".
News source: The Irish Times
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What to expect of the 2017 WTCC season?
The 2017 FIA World Touring Cars Championship season starts next weekend and the first impression is that we can't expect fireworks of the declining series.
The FIA WTCC is desperately trying to become more interesting and from year to year tries to turn bigger attention making a numerous changes. Despite all the efforts, it seems like the WTCC going backward and the assumption is that this trend will continue in 2017.
What to expect from the series which has only two manufacturer entries? Citroen, who dominated WTCC in the last three years, left the competition, just as Lada which finally made some steps forward in the previous campaign. Honda and Volvo are the only manufacturers with factory teams, while Citroen, Lada, and Chevrolet are represented by independent entries.
The number of rounds is reduced to 10 after the races in France, Russia and Slovakia were dropped from the calendar and replaced with the races in Italy and Macau. For the first time, the Race of China will be held at the new venue.
Another thing to worry about is that there are no star drivers in the WTCC. Yes, there are many quality and experienced drivers but there are no stars. Yvan Muller, the most successful driver in the WTCC history, ended his career. Three-time champion Jose Maria Lopez also left the series while the long servant, Italian veteran Gabriele Tarquini, was unable to find a drive. However, the battle for the title is likely to be uncertain but the quality of the series is quite doubtful, mainly because of the lack of proper competitiveness.
Sadly, there won't be many new faces, teams, nor cars. Some drivers for the first time will drive full WTCC season for the first time but many of them already have the experience in this championship. Some teams decided to switch to another manufacturer, some expanded their operations but that certainly won't contribute to greater excitement.
Most important rules changes are that the length of race meetings will be reduced from three to two days and more points will be awarded to the winners of MAC3 team time trials. The points scoring structure will be revised with more points awarded in the main race which will be two laps longer than the opening race. Another change is the introduction of 'joker laps' similar to the ones in rallycross, where it is possible.


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Q: How to import a scheduled task automatically from an XML file? I have created a scheduled task in Windows 7. The task is running perfectly well on my computer.
I have also exported the task to an XML file and want to create the same task on another computer automatically. How can I import the XML file pragmatically  in Task Scheduler on the second computer?

A: You can use the schtasks command:
schtasks /Create [/S <system> [/U <username> [/P [<password>]]]] /XML <xmlfile> /TN <taskname>

For more help type schtasks /Create /? at the command prompt.


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Update your app profile, change your rewards and view important customer insights that help improve your reward scheme, all from your personal dashboard.
Onify is a loyalty scheme designed to help your business turn a one time sale into a customer for life. Customers are connected with you from the moment they collect their first point, meaning you'll never lose track of them even after they've left your store.
It's free to get started, with our basic plan allowing you to create your profile and setting your first point & welcome rewards. Additional features, such as being able to send push notifications and set multiple reward offers come as part of a premium plan. You you can decide to join this at any time without ever signing any long-term contracts.
Why not start with a free account now and sign up later?
Once registered, you can create your app profile and be ready to reward customers straight away.
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A ground-breaking new way to test the strength of sprayed concrete has been successfully tested at the London Bond Street Station underground upgrade project.
The technique under test is Strength Monitoring using Thermal Imaging (SMUTI), a patent-protected invention created by Dr Benoit Jones from Cambridge University.
It uses a thermal imaging camera to track the temperature of concrete as it is sprayed to form the tunnel lining. Knowing this temperature history enables the engineers to calculate the amount of hydration that has taken place in the concrete, and hence its strength.
SMUTI allows us to directly monitor the compressive strength development of sprayed concrete whilst remaining at a safe distance. This is a substantial improvement over the current method, which relies upon a small test panel being representative of the entire sprayed concrete advance to prevent personnel being at risk from sprayed concrete lining falls.
In March, following extensive laboratory testing, production trials began on-site. First, the concrete in twelve sprayed concrete panels was tested simultaneously using the established in-situ tests and SMUTI.
This provided sufficient data to carry out trials in an actual production environment and in March, the project implemented the SMUTI system alongside existing test methods for the first time.
In controlling traffic movement and the quality of the air, local authorities are setting ever stricter limits on what is admissible in highway trucks.
One company, the UK based Premier Carriers, invested in what is believed to be the first flat-bed Mercedes-Benz Econic, designed to go above and beyond current safety regulations.
Originally configured as a waste handling vehicle, the 26 t truck was supplied and specially adapted in just eight weeks by S&B Commercials at Welham Green.
The truck underwent work to reinforce the load-bed to create the flat-bed body. The dealership then made changes to the original specifications and mapping of the vehicle, including re-configuring both gearbox and air suspension as well as undertaking a full inspection of the electronics within the chassis.
After a complete repainting and updating of the cab, the final act was the fitting and connection of the external safety cameras. Within days of delivery, the Econic started work delivering blockwork for use in the construction of two new Ticket Halls at Crossrail's Farringdon Station.
The entire Premier Carriers fleet and driver team is now fully compliant with all the requirements of major construction sites across the capital. The rear-steer gives a tight turning circle for making deliveries in restricted operational environments.


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Mojácar´s National Parador celebrates the Hotel group´s 90th anniversary
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Mojácar's National Parador, unique in Almería province and one of only 16 in Andalucía, recently marked the chain's 90th birthday with a commemorative open day.
The first Parador, the Sierra de Gredos, opened in 1928, although Mojácar did not have its own until 1966, when the determination of the then mayor, Jacinto Alarcón, miraculously brought about the event. It was then one of a handful of hotel establishments in the province and was inaugurated by Minister Fraga Iribarne, who was famously photographed in the sea at Palomares, showing to the world that the local waters were safe despite the bombs that had been dropped there.
Since the first building opened and welcomed Spanish Royalty along with leading intellectuals and stars from the cinema and art world, much has been done and today's Parador, after a remodelling in the 80s and other refurbishments, has grown continuously. Present facilities include conference halls and meeting rooms for companies, salons for weddings, family and social events, to name but a few, yet all work within the same spirit in which the original hotel was founded.
A high standard of customer service, luxury and comfort is paramount, as in all Paradors and, the Mojácar hotel is a particularly unique place, located right by the sea with Mediterranean views from all rooms. In 2017 it welcomed 45,000 guests with 70% occupancy, of which 60% were Spanish and there is every indication that bookings, which have been steadily increasing in recent years, will be even higher this year.
The presence of a Parador in Mojácar is a very important mainstay for local tourism and promotion, whilst also providing employment to the 46 employees charged with its smooth running.
On the open day, a number of residents and guests were guided by Parador staff from noon onwards and, were shown around the facilities and given some of the history behind this emblematic establishment. Of special interest was the original painting by César Manrique that hangs in the lounge by the original fireplace and a decorated 8th century apothecary cabinet.
The tour ended in the gardens of the Parador with an aperitif followed by the showing of a commemorative anniversary film made by the National Parador Group.
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Vector graphics are resolution-independent—that is, they can be scaled to any size and printed at any resolution without losing detail or clarity. As a result, vector graphics are the best choice for representing bold graphics that must retain crisp lines when scaled to various sizes—for example, logos.
Because computer monitors represent images by displaying them on a grid, both vector and bitmap data is displayed as pixels on-screen.


Göteborg : Chalmers tekniska högskola, 2017. Diploma work - Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, ISSN 1652-8557; 2017:10, 2017.
After the great earthquake in 2011, the number of bicycles owners in Japan increased significantly and the use of bicycles is getting popular to go to work and school. Although bicycles are non-motorized vehicles and there are several advantages in using bikes (for example, health and environmental benefits), in 2015, cyclists faced 109,269 accidents and 542 fatalities. Several crashes occurred in rural areas where there was no bicycle path and the collisions happened when a motorized vehicle overtook a slower bike. A number of studies were carried out on this topic, but more research is needed to assess the comfort zone boundaries during drivers' overtaking of cyclists in order to support the design of autonomous vehicles. A driving simulator study was conducted with 37 participants at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The participants were divided into two groups of age (standard drivers: 25-40 years old; elderly drivers: 65-75 years old) and two groups of gender (22 males and 15 females). The results show statistically significant differences between standard and elderly drivers only for comfort zone boundaries (CZB)1 in overtaking maneuver 2 (small effect size) and statistically significant differences between male and female drivers. However the significant differences between naturalistic versus driving simulator study was only in CZB1 (large effect size) and CZB4 (small effect size).
Nejad, S. (2017) Drivers' comfort zone boundaries during overtaking of bicycles in Japan without oncoming traffic. Göteborg : Chalmers University of Technology (Diploma work - Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, nr: 2017:10).
AB After the great earthquake in 2011, the number of bicycles owners in Japan increased significantly and the use of bicycles is getting popular to go to work and school. Although bicycles are non-motorized vehicles and there are several advantages in using bikes (for example, health and environmental benefits), in 2015, cyclists faced 109,269 accidents and 542 fatalities. Several crashes occurred in rural areas where there was no bicycle path and the collisions happened when a motorized vehicle overtook a slower bike. A number of studies were carried out on this topic, but more research is needed to assess the comfort zone boundaries during drivers' overtaking of cyclists in order to support the design of autonomous vehicles. A driving simulator study was conducted with 37 participants at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The participants were divided into two groups of age (standard drivers: 25-40 years old; elderly drivers: 65-75 years old) and two groups of gender (22 males and 15 females). The results show statistically significant differences between standard and elderly drivers only for comfort zone boundaries (CZB)1 in overtaking maneuver 2 (small effect size) and statistically significant differences between male and female drivers. However the significant differences between naturalistic versus driving simulator study was only in CZB1 (large effect size) and CZB4 (small effect size).


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Will You Be Happy if Obamacare Goes Poof?
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While CFOs haven't generally felt all warm and fuzzy about the Affordable Care Act, the associated compliance demands and administrative costs that they dislike pale in comparison with the law's impact on the individual insurance market.
Indeed, the Supreme Court ruling expected in late June that could spell doom for the ACA will turn on an issue relating almost exclusively to the nongroup market: whether users of healthcare.gov, the federally operated insurance exchange that's available in states that didn't set up their own exchanges, are eligible for federal subsidies.
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That doesn't, of course, mean finance chiefs should have no interest in the case. If the challenge to the law is upheld, after a short while they may not have to worry about complying with it anymore.
But nobody should go floating off on a cloud of dreamy happiness at the thought of the ACA going poof. Gutting it could very well crash the insurance markets in the three dozen states that didn't set up exchanges — not a happy prospect for an economy that, regardless of the booming stock markets, is hardly scoring robust growth as it is.
Some views on the ACA are, of course, extreme. Since the law is so often bashed, allow me to even the scales just a bit.
Just the other day, the new Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson was on TV saying that Obamacare is "the worst thing to happen in this nation since slavery." It was actually a clip from 2013, but let's assume his feelings haven't changed. Indeed, last year he specified that the ACA is worse than 9/11, calling the latter "an isolated incident."
An editorial shortly after that in Outside the Beltway captured my feeling about that: "Regardless of what one's opinion about the Affordable Care Act might be, anyone asserting that it is worse than a terrorist attack that killed 3,000 people and set the nation on a course toward more than a decade of war, new restrictions on civil liberties, torture, drone attacks, and NSA spying all authorized by sitting Presidents, and all the security restrictions we must now deal with on a daily basis, is quite simply a fool."
Heavyweight Fight
In April I attended a half-day health-care conference in New York City called the Sun Life Wake Up Summit, hosted by Sun Life Financial. Sun Life scored a coup with one session's speakers. On the left was Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Jonathan Gruber, who was heavily involved in creating the ACA (and also in writing the look-alike Massachusetts Health Connector health-care reform law launched when Mitt Romney was governor of the commonwealth). On the right was Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and arguably the most ardent Obamacare opponent walking the Earth.
Actually they were on the left and right only figuratively. They were interviewed separately by Bloomberg reporter Shannon Pettypiece, and they appeared on stage together for a brief Q&A session, but they did not debate face to face. What a shame, but also a good thing, I suppose. We might have witnessed some actual spontaneous combustion.
Gruber, up first, was asked how the ACA is doing so far. "It's still early, but it's doing pretty well," he said. He noted that 14 million previously uninsured Americans, about 30% of the total uninsured, are now covered; that there's no evidence of major disruption to the insurance market; and that there's also no evidence of large companies dropping employer-sponsored coverage.
"Most importantly," he said, "we fixed a broken nongroup insurance market. America was the only nation in the developed world where you could be denied insurance or have your insurance dropped because you became sick. That's sort of not the idea of insurance."
For 2014, Gruber said, non-group premiums in the federal exchange came in about 15% below what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had projected; and this year grew only 2% to 4%, compared with a 10% to 12% growth trend before the law. He added that over the five years since the law was passed the government's price tag for the law is about 20% below what the CBO had initially estimated.
Then he was asked about the case before the Supreme Court, called King v. Burwell. At the heart of the case are several passages in the law mentioning subsidies being available in states that established an exchange, versus language elsewhere in the law stating that the government would establish an exchange for use in states that did not do so. The government contends that the latter was intended to make subsidies available in every state to people who met income tests.
"It's not like asking the framers of the Constitution [what they were thinking]," Gruber said. "All the framers of this law are alive. No one who ever worked on this law has said it means what the plaintiffs in this case say it means."
Asked what would happen if the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiffs, he suggested that it would be far-fetched to think that Congress would intervene to salvage the ACA, given how many people in the two chambers were elected while opposing it, or that states would then set up their own exchanges.
Gruber said, "I do know that there are now consensus estimates from two independent sources, the Urban Institute and the Rand Corporation, which suggest that if this case goes in the plaintiffs' favor, 8 to 10 million Americans will lose health insurance … and as a result premiums in the non-group market will go up by 35 to 50%."
He referred to the ACA as a three-legged stool, with the insurance-market reforms made possible by the individual mandate, which in turn is made possible by the subsidies. "Why would Congress write a law which sets up all this mechanism, and deny a leg of the stool which would cause it to collapse?" he said.
Perhaps, the Bloomberg reporter offered, it was to encourage states to set up their own exchanges?
"You would have thought if that was the case," Gruber replied, "that there would be something in the record to indicate that and that states would have known it. If this was set up that way, it was very poorly designed, because no states knew it was part of the plan."
Then it was Cannon's turn. Gruber had said that a fair evaluation of the ACA should rest not on anecdotes but rather on aggregate results. Not to be deterred, Cannon began by illustrating Obamacare's ills via an anecdote about Kevin Pace, a teacher at a community college in Virginia that cut employees' hours so that it would not be subject to the ACA's employer mandate to provide affordable health insurance to everyone working 30 or more hours a week. In the process, $8,000 was sliced out of Pace's income, according to Cannon.
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"That's an unintended consequence that occurs with mandates like this," said Cannon. "It's bad enough when those unintended consequences are awful. But what happened here is that the IRS did not have the authority to impose those penalties" (i.e., the tax penalties collected under the employer mandate and the individual mandate).
In the Supreme Court case, he said, "The facts and the law are 100% on the plaintiffs' side. The government doesn't have a leg to stand on." He then got in a good line: "Which means that the challengers' odds of winning in court are about 20%."
He explained that "because the courts are so deferential to the government in cases like this, when you take on the government you're betting against the casino. The case wouldn't have gotten this far if there were anything on the government's side that supported the IRS's interpretation of the statute."
Congress, he insisted, cannot command states to implement federal programs. "The Supreme Court has said it can only create incentives for states to do so," he said. "This is an incentive: you create an exchange, and your residents get these subsidies."
The interviewer asked Cannon about the millions of people who will lose health insurance if the court challenge succeeds, and about a projection by the George Washington University School of Public Health that one result could be 10,000 preventable deaths per year.
"I don't think we have the evidence to show that there is some sort of clear connection between giving people health insurance subsidies and saving lives," he stated.
And, he said, "If there's anything awful that happens after a ruling for the challengers in King v. Burwell, it's because that is the ACA. The court will be saying, anything bad that happens is the fault of the ACA itself."
Cannon further said that "subsidies don't reduce the cost of anything — they shift it, in this case from the premium payer to the taxpayer. For the average federal exchange enrollee who's receiving a subsidy, it covers 72% of the premium cost. So if those subsidies disappear, people won't just see 28% of the cost of their ACA coverage, they'll see 100% — and that's a good thing, because it means we're making the costs of this law more transparent to people."
Whatever you think about the Affordable Care Act, you can hitch your wagon to a brilliant expert as your standard bearer. But while the Supreme Court justices may be political creatures, they must be somewhat happy they don't have to arbitrate between the likes of Gruber and Cannon. All they have to do is interpret the wording of the statute and decide whether the IRS exceeded its authority.
For my part, I hope the challenge to the ACA fails. My apologies to the CFOs lined up on the other side. As a society we have a moral obligation to make sure, to the extent possible, that good health is a function of more than personal wealth. That's more important than a tiny morsel of profit margin.
Can you accept Cannon's take that subsidies allowing low-income folks to buy health insurance don't prevent deaths? Or the notion that it's great for 8 million Americans' insurance to be sacrificed so that he can score a rhetorical point?
Case closed — in six or seven weeks.
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Everything is just about as hard to do as Nothing. Together they form a daunting dialectic, a binary of either total presence or total absence, total immersion or total negation, the one essentially necessitating its opposite. It seems a reasonable starting point for the alternate filling/emptying of a museum with images, sounds, light and action. With an emphasis on exploration and process, on film programs for each artist screened for one week, dance companies in residence for two weeks, itinerant musical and fashion performers, a polymorphous pursuit of recombinant activity, the 2012 Biennial exists on the heady continuum of Be Here Now/Be Here Never/Be Here Always. It's the Baba Ram Dass of exhibitions and would happily Catalog the Whole Earth if you let it. With artwork that generously bleeds into realms of the organic, the scientific and the encyclopedic, this Biennial is also the closest in recent memory to connote a contemporary Wunderkammer.
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package io.airlift.compress.lz4;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.CompressionInputStream;

import java.io.EOFException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import static io.airlift.compress.lz4.Lz4Constants.SIZE_OF_LONG;

class HadoopLz4InputStream
        extends CompressionInputStream
{
    private final Lz4Decompressor decompressor = new Lz4Decompressor();
    private final InputStream in;
    private final byte[] uncompressedChunk;

    private int uncompressedBlockLength;
    private int uncompressedChunkOffset;
    private int uncompressedChunkLength;

    private byte[] compressed = new byte[0];

    public HadoopLz4InputStream(InputStream in, int maxUncompressedLength)
            throws IOException
    {
        super(in);
        this.in = in;
        // over allocate buffer which makes decompression easier
        uncompressedChunk = new byte[maxUncompressedLength + SIZE_OF_LONG];
    }

    @Override
    public int read()
            throws IOException
    {
        while (uncompressedChunkOffset >= uncompressedChunkLength) {
            int compressedChunkLength = bufferCompressedData();
            if (compressedChunkLength < 0) {
                return -1;
            }
            uncompressedChunkLength = decompressor.decompress(compressed, 0, compressedChunkLength, uncompressedChunk, 0, uncompressedChunk.length);
        }
        return uncompressedChunk[uncompressedChunkOffset++] & 0xFF;
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    @Override
    public int read(byte[] output, int offset, int length)
            throws IOException
    {
        while (uncompressedChunkOffset >= uncompressedChunkLength) {
            int compressedChunkLength = bufferCompressedData();
            if (compressedChunkLength < 0) {
                return -1;
            }

            // favor writing directly to user buffer to avoid extra copy
            if (length >= uncompressedBlockLength) {
                uncompressedChunkLength = decompressor.decompress(compressed, 0, compressedChunkLength, output, offset, length);
                uncompressedChunkOffset = uncompressedChunkLength;
                return uncompressedChunkLength;
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            uncompressedChunkLength = decompressor.decompress(compressed, 0, compressedChunkLength, uncompressedChunk, 0, uncompressedChunk.length);
        }
        int size = Math.min(length, uncompressedChunkLength - uncompressedChunkOffset);
        System.arraycopy(uncompressedChunk, uncompressedChunkOffset, output, offset, size);
        uncompressedChunkOffset += size;
        return size;
    }

    @Override
    public void resetState()
            throws IOException
    {
        uncompressedBlockLength = 0;
        uncompressedChunkOffset = 0;
        uncompressedChunkLength = 0;
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            throws IOException
    {
        uncompressedBlockLength -= uncompressedChunkOffset;
        uncompressedChunkOffset = 0;
        uncompressedChunkLength = 0;
        while (uncompressedBlockLength == 0) {
            uncompressedBlockLength = readBigEndianInt();
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                uncompressedBlockLength = 0;
                return -1;
            }
        }

        int compressedChunkLength = readBigEndianInt();
        if (compressedChunkLength == -1) {
            return -1;
        }

        if (compressed.length < compressedChunkLength) {
            // over allocate buffer which makes decompression easier
            compressed = new byte[compressedChunkLength + SIZE_OF_LONG];
        }
        readInput(compressedChunkLength, compressed);
        return compressedChunkLength;
    }

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            throws IOException
    {
        int offset = 0;
        while (offset < length) {
            int size = in.read(buffer, offset, length - offset);
            if (size == -1) {
                throw new EOFException("encountered EOF while reading block data");
            }
            offset += size;
        }
    }

    private int readBigEndianInt()
            throws IOException
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        int b2 = in.read();
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        int b4 = in.read();

        // If any of the other bits are negative, the stream it truncated
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            throw new IOException("Stream is truncated");
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        return ((b1 << 24) + (b2 << 16) + (b3 << 8) + (b4));
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Research results from Professor Heckman's newest analysis of the Perry Preschool participants reveal groundbreaking indications that targeted, high-quality investments have the power to lift multiple generations out of poverty. View a presentation of the Perry Preschool: Intergenerational Effects research from May 13, 2019, below, and access the presentation slides by clicking "Download". Access Q &…
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Q: ng-include and ngRoute: how to make them work together? (i.e. route to a view wihin a ng-include) [EDITED] My app has the following structure:
index.html

    <ng-view></ng-view>

mainView.html (loaded into ng-view through routeProvider in app.js)

subview1 and subview2 are set within mainController (mainView's controller) as scope variables:
$scope.subview1= "templates/subview1.html";
$scope.subview2= "templates/subview2.html";

controller1 and controller2 are subview1 and subview2's controllers.
subview1.html (loaded in first div of mainView)

    <button ng-click="loadNewView()"></button>

controller1.js
.controller('controller1', function($scope){
     $scope.loadNewView = function(){
            $scope.$parent.subview1 = "templates/view3.html";
     }
}

scope.loadNewView should load a different view (and relative controller) within the div with src="subview1" in mainView.html). Basically it's about refreshing the view itself by raplacing it with another view (and related controller).
I use $parent to update the view in subview1's parent view (i.e. mainView).
however nothing happens and if I try to use $scope.$apply() I get error (digest already in progress).
Any clue?

A: you can try something like this...
In your stateProvider or in your routeProvider if you using.
var mod = angular.module('example.states', ['ui.router']);

    mod.config(['$stateProvider', '$urlRouterProvider',
        function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
            $stateProvider
                .state('exampleState', {
                    url: '/main',
                    templateUrl: 'mainView.html',
                    controller: mainController
                });
        }
    ]);
    return mod;

So here you have associated your parent controller(let's say the mainController which will be the parent of all others) with its template mainView.html.
Then in your mainView.html,Load all the subview templates.

                <ng-include src="template.url"></ng-include>

templates is an array in your mainController which has the url or path of all your subtemplates.When you use ng-include inside the main template then all subTemplates will automaticlly become the child of the mainTemplate and its Controllers too.In a way it will inherit from the parent Controller.
So suppose if subView1.html is one of the template url you had given in ng-include.Then it will look like

//Here your code

And subview2 as

    //Here your code

This way you will have multiple views on the same page with one url and different controllers with its associated templates and each will inherit from the parent controller which is mainController here.
There, might be better approach than this.
This is what i had used in my project,and its simple to keep your code simple manage.

A: Okay,so using routeProvider,you can use it like this
var app = angular.module("app",[]);
  app.config(function($routeProvider){
      $routeProvider
      .when('/main',{
         templateUrl:"mainView.html",
         controller:mainController
       })
  });
  app.controller("mainController",function($scope){
  });
  app.controller("subView1Controller",function($scope){
  });
  app.controller("subView1Controller",function($scope){
  });

Then in your mainView.html,Load all the subview templates.
     <ng-include src="yoursubtemplate1path"></ng-include>
 <ng-include src="yoursubtemplate2path"></ng-include>

And then in yoursubtemplate1 use

//Here your code

Same for the other templates.
You can set the template src of the subtemplates from your mainController.
 app.controller("mainController",function($scope){
$scope.templatesrc="/app/template1.html";
  });

And then use it in your template,where you are using ng-include directive.
<ng-include src="templatesrc"></ng-include>

Its better to store template url's in an array and use ng-repeat directive like i had stated before,if you are loading more templates.
And if you want to show the div on some button click lets say in parent controller then use ng-if in the sub-view main  and make it true on button click.

A: This answer is regarding your updated question.
The solution which you had used before,will load all temlplate and once in ng-include and its associated controller making the mainController as parent.
But if you want to load a different view with its newController then you can try something like this.
Just add one more route and call on your event click,but remember this newView's Controller will have no parent-child relation with the mainView's controller.
var app = angular.module("app",[]);
  app.config(function($routeProvider){
      $routeProvider
      .when('/main',{
         templateUrl:"mainView.html",
         controller:mainController
       })
       .when('/anyName',{
         templateUrl:"templates/view3.html",
         controller:temp3Controller
       })
  });

And in your controller1.js
.controller('controller1', function($scope){
     $scope.loadNewView = function(){
            $location.path('/anyName');
     }
}

Inject location service in controller1.

A: I finally found the solution.
The tricks is using
$scope.$parent.$parent.subview1 = "templates/view3.html";

instead of
$scope.$parent.subview1 = "templates/view3.html";

since, basically:

*

*ng-include is the child of mainView

*subview1 is the child of ng-include


The strongest of Dan Tobaccos many English blends, London Blend No. 1000 is a little Oriental and Virginia with a big dose of Latakia. Smoke this one after a meal and smoke it slow. It's an ideal blend for enjoying the mysterious wonders of Latakia.
Amount: 100 g. / 3.5 oz.


Sorry for the long hiatus. I wish I could say that I was doing something exciting but I spent most of my time studying :( and then imaging all the yummy things I was going to make over winter break. I can't wait!
And now for the long awaited oatmeal recipe!
Mmmm...chocolate, banana, and peanut butter. These are possibly the best foods in existence! I'm not sure about you guys but I need to eat peanut butter and chocolate every day. What's not to love about this great combination?
If you thought that putting juice in oatmeal was a great idea just wait until you try hot cocoa mix powder!
This recipe is sweet and smooth like pudding. You can add more or less peanut butter and hot cocoa to your own taste preferences.
Combine oats, water, and milk in a saucepan over medium high heat.
Thinly slice banana and add to the mix.
Allow mixture to cook until it starts to bubble and then stir the banana in.


If a tree falls in the forest and no union is there to harass the family-run logging company that cut it down, does the injustice of it all still make a sound? That's one of the questions animating Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey's brilliant 1964 novel. On a more intimate level, there are also the family dynamics of two half-brothers, a dozen years apart, who haven't seen each other in a dozen years. Can they get beyond past hurts and ongoing miscommunications?
Using a sometimes rapidly shifting point of view, Kesey provides glimpses of many of the colourful characters that people the fictional Oregon town where the action takes place: the bartender, the owner of the failing movie house, the local whore, the doctor, the union leader. At other times, we are treated to scenes involving the two Stamper half-brothers in which point of view alternates from one to the other, challenging us to sympathize with both men as they persist in misunderstanding each other. The story shifts seamlessly not just from character to character, but between past and present, fleshing out the backstory for the Stamper family and other main players.
And always in the background, there is the verdant Pacific forest, lush and moist, supporting all manner of wildlife and providing the raw material for human industry. There is the powerful river that carries fallen trees to the mill and also eats away at the shore, threatening to swallow up any houses built too close to water's edge. There are the Canada geese honking overhead, fleeing the approach of winter by heading south for warmer climes.
If you want to lose yourself in a rich, engaging, multidimensional story, you could do a lot worse than Sometimes a Great Notion, Kesey's epic second novel. Reading it has made me want to revisit his first and more famous work, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which I read a long time ago, and check out his later work as well.


Creativity is one of my favorite subjects, yet one that I struggle to communicate well. When people ask what I want to do, usually the best I can come up with is "Make stuff". Which doesn't sound very professional, or legitimate. I've begun attempting to refer to myself as a fiber & textile artist, because almost everything I make is with fabric, yarn, string, ribbon, or thread. But it's hard to really define it or put into words what I want to do - except be creative. So speaking of creativity, I started to clean out my bedroom/studio in earnest like I do every year, and hoping THIS is the year when I can stay minimal and only work on the projects I want to work on, and keep everything else tidy. Could this be that year? I hope so.
In addition to cleaning and organizing, I've made a little list of June goals to refer to as the month goes on.


UCD 2017. Photo: Michela Massimi.
My research concerns human representational behavior, especially in cognitive science. In a slogan, I work to expand the conceptual analyst's toolkit. I develop tools to model the ways that we use concepts, and the ways our concept-use varies according to differences in our aims or background commitments. I focus mainly on human representations in science (generally) and cognitive science (in particular), but my work draws from and impinges on topics in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.
I am currently developing analytical techniques that provide means for modeling embattled concepts in an analytically rigorous way. Ecumenical explication uses non-classical extensions to model embattled terms (i.e. when people disagree about how to use a word or concept). Modular explication provides a framework for reimagining conceptual analyses as a basis for negotiating meaning rather than attempting to settle verbal disputes outright. In coming years, I would like to extend my work on cognition to other scientific concepts like disease, gene, and natural selection, and to embattled social concepts like gender and disability.


Don or Tom; I'll be at Ossipee. I'll be coming a different way then I normally would. Could one of you call me at my office and give me your cell number in case I get off track on Sunday morning. Then I'll give you a call to direct me in. Thanks; Warren 673-9311.
I'll be there as a non boater. See you sunday.
I will not be able to be there tomorrow.
I plan to fish the 2 day though.
Hey its Chad Bishop i plan on fishing as a boater tomorrow.