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Once-homeless veteran's family thankful for new home in Queens, just in time to host Thanksgiving
by: Marvin Scott
FAR ROCKAWAY, Queens — Thanksgiving is where the heart is.
DeAngelo Armwood and his family have hearts are filled with gratitude this holiday as they celebrate their first Thanksgiving in three years in their own home — their own furnished home.
They had been in and out of homeless facilities until two months ago, when they moved into a small apartment in Far Rockaway, Queens.
And this Thanksgiving, they are having the whole family over for dinner — because they can. They not only have a large dining table and chairs, but sofas, end tables and lamps, and more. The Armwoods are the beneficiaries of a big-hearted veterans advocacy group that distributes free furniture to veterans coming out of homeless shelters.
"We're not going to hear the echo in the house anymore," Armwood tells PIX11 News as he watches volunteers placing furniture in his barren living room, and replacing air mattresses with full-sized beds in the bedrooms.
"Oh my goodness," sighs Lakira Armwood as she directs a worker where to place a table. She chokes with emotion. "Two years ago, we were in a motel making microwave chicken from a local supermarket, and it was horrible." And she marvels, "We have a table now, a real table. It's been long overdue for us to actually have a Thanksgiving together."
An Army veteran, DeAngelo Armwood was fortunate to catch the attention of the non-profit veterans help group "My Brother Vinny." It was founded eight years ago by Paula Miritello to honor her special needs brother who succumbed to a serious illness. She bubbles with enthusiasm as she proclaims "I need to do this. I feel a responsibility to help our veterans."
Through private donations, Miritello has now furnished the homes of almost 1,500 former homeless veterans. She directs her team of volunteers schlepping furniture and crates up four narrow flights of stairs, slowly transforming a once empty apartment into a livable home.
DeAngelo Armwood's son and daughter watch from a window as workers unload a chest of drawers.
"Wow, this is nice," bellows their mother who tearfully drops her head into her husband's chest.
In less than three hours the transformation is complete. The once empty living room has become a room to be lived in. And in the bedrooms, comfortable beds replace the air mattresses.
DeAngelo Armwood joyously declares, "No complete silence and echoes anymore," adding, "I feel like it's the twilight zone in a way, but I feel very good at heart. It's a house now, it's an actual house."
An ebullient Lakira Armwood, picks up: "It feels good. It feels like the heart is beating again."
With his arms outstretched, the patriarch of the family embraces his wife and children, and declares "I got you guys, that's all I need," as they all curl into an emotional hug.
This is the heartwarming story of just one family out of the depths of homelessness with good reason to offer prayers of thanks this Thanksgiving.
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Q: need help reading a file and displaying contents on a jpanel using setText() on netbeans, im trying to read a file and display its contents on a swing graphics tab. This is how im reading the file
    FileReader reader;
    ArrayList<String> file = new ArrayList<String>();
    Scanner scan = null;
    try
    {
        reader = new FileReader(filename);
        scan = new Scanner(reader);

        while(scan.hasNext())
        {
            file.add(scan.nextLine());
        }

        return file;
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    finally {
        scan.close();
    }

    return null;

This is how I'm writing the file
public String writeFile(ArrayList<String> data)
{
    String writer = "";
    for (String line : data)
    {
        writer += (line + lineSeparator);
    }
    return writer;
    }

This is how I'm trying to display it
FileIO file = new FileIO();
    String filePath="squeeze.txt";
    ArrayList<String> data = file.readFile(filePath);
    jTextField1.setText(file.writeFile(data));

And I getting an error on
scan.close();

A: Your problem here is that scan has not been initialized prior to the try block.  Anything in the try block might throw an exception, so therefore you have to write your code assuming that all code in the try block will never be run.  Luckily, Java has a syntax just for this situation called try-with-resources.  Try-with-resources handles your resources for you, and automatically closes them at the end of the try block.  Here is your code, modified to use try-with-resources:
try (FileReader reader = new FileReader(filename);
        Scanner scan = new Scanner(reader)) {
    while(scan.hasNext()) {
        file.add(scan.nextLine());
    }

    return file;
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

return null;

I also notice that in your catch block, you simply print the stack trace.  This is perfectly fine as far as syntax goes, and the compiler will accept it, but I wouldn't recommend swallowing errors like this.  If you don't want to do anything special, the best all-purpose line you can use is throw new RuntimeException();.  This just throws a generic runtime exception, which will print the stack trace and then terminate the program.  This also has the added benefit that you don't need the return null; line at the bottom, since the runtime exception will exit the program anyway, and then any method that calls this method can safely assume that this method returns a non-null value.

A: jTextField1.setText(file.writeFile(data));

A JTextField is for single lines of text. For multiple lines, use a JTextArea.
As to the problem at hand, the easiest solution is to use methods available to any JTextComponent (which includes both of the above).
Namely JTextComponent.read(Reader,Object) & JTextComponent.write(Writer).

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Virginia builds for future with significant steps forward
By By Norm Wood and nwood@dailypress.com | 757-247-4642
In the Georgia Dome locker room immediately after Virginia's 43-24 loss to Auburn in the Chick-fil-A Bowl, U.Va. running back Perry Jones spent a few moments with as many fifth-year seniors as he could find.
It was his personal tribute for a group of players that never got to experience a bowl victory, but still helped U.Va. put together an 8-5 record after enduring three consecutive losing seasons. Now, the hard work of actually building off that momentum has just begun.
"Those guys turned this program around," said Jones of fifth-year players including wide receivers Kris Burd and Matt Snyder, linebacker Aaron Taliaferro, center Anthony Mihota, free safety Corey Mosley, cornerbacks Chase Minnifield and Dom Joseph and defensive tackles Matt Conrath and Nick Jenkins.
In coach Mike London's second season in Charlottesville, U.Va. went from Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division doormat after going 4-8 overall and 1-7 in the ACC last season to surprising division title contender this season with a 5-3 conference record.
Five of U.Va.'s wins came by seven points or fewer. U.Va., which went to a bowl for the first time since the 2007 season, became the first team ever to beat Miami and Florida State on the road in the same season.
U.Va. snapped a seven-game ACC road losing streak with a win in October at Miami, then broke a 13-game losing streak for games played in November by winning at Maryland. Four straight wins in October and November, including three on the road, put U.Va. in position to play for the division title against Virginia Tech, but the Hokies crushed the Cavaliers 38-0 in the regular-season finale.
"I have a lot of memories with my teammates," said Burd, who led the team with 66 catches for 913 yards and three touchdowns, and finished his career with 162 catches (second in U.Va. history). "The fifth-year seniors have a lot to look back on. We kind of started a movement, and got U.Va. football back to where it needed to be."
The big turnaround this season started with a significant improvement on the defensive side, where coordinator Jim Reid's unit went from 78th in the nation in total defense last season (396.1 yards per game) to 39th this season (351.7 yards per game).
U.Va.'s most dramatic steps forward came against the run. The Cavaliers were 106th in the nation last season (203.7 yards per game) and improved to 50th this season (139.5 yards per game). Conrath, who led the team with 12 tackles for losses, and Minnifield, who had three interceptions and 11 passes defended, both earned first team All-ACC honors.
On the offensive side, coordinator Bill Lazor orchestrated a group that posted 400-plus yards in games seven times, and finished 46th in total offense (399.8 yards per game). The last time U.Va. had more games with 400-plus yards was '04, when it had eight.
Quarterback Michael Rocco started all season, but he had to split many reps in the first seven games with freshman David Watford, a Hampton High graduate. In those first seven games, Rocco threw four touchdowns and eight interceptions. In the final six games, he threw nine touchdowns and four interceptions.
He was bolstered by Jones, who contributed 915 rushing yards and five touchdowns, and 48 catches for 506 yards and three touchdowns. Redshirt freshman Kevin Parks also ran for 709 yards and scored nine touchdowns, while freshman Clifton Richardson, a Menchville High graduate, added 366 rushing yards.
Left guard Austin Pasztor, who earned Associated Press second team All-American honors, led an offensive line that contributed to U.Va. only giving up 16 sacks.
U.Va. gets Rocco, Jones, linebacker Steve Greer (team-high 103 tackles), cornerback Demetrious Nicholson, receivers Tim Smith, Darius Jennings and Dominique Terrell and three offensive line starters back next season.
Yet, the Cavaliers must replace 11 starters, including three defensive linemen (Conrath, Jenkins and defensive end Cam Johnson, who led the with four sacks) and three defensive backs (Mosley, Minnifield and strong safety Rodney McLeod). Also, punter Jimmy Howell and kicker Robert Randolph must be replaced.
Defensive tackle Will Hill, a Lafayette High graduate, defensive ends Brent Urban and Thompson Brown, free safety Rijo Walker, a Bethel High graduate, cornerback Drequan Hoskey and strong safety Anthony Harris all will be expected to assume larger roles.
U.Va. will take on a schedule that will include road games against Texas Christian, Virginia Tech, Duke, N.C. State and Georgia Tech, and home meetings against Penn State, Richmond, Louisiana Tech, Miami, Maryland, Wake Forest and North Carolina.
"This program is up and coming," London said. "This program is going to be a very good program. We're going to attract the type of student-athletes and young men that this program and this university can be proud of."
U.Va.'s 2011 season
Overall record: 8-5. ACC: 5-3.
Sept. 3: William and Mary (W, 40-3)
Sept. 10: at Indiana (W, 34-31)
Sept. 17: at North Carolina (L, 17-28)
Sept. 24: Southern Miss (L, 24-30)
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Oct. 15: Georgia Tech (W, 24-21)
Oct. 22: N.C. State (L, 14-28)
Oct. 27: at Miami (W, 28-21)
Nov. 5: at Maryland (W, 31-13)
Nov. 12: Duke (W, 31-21)
Nov. 19: at Florida State (W, 14-13)
Nov. 26: Virginia Tech (L, 0-38)
Dec. 31: Chick-fil-A Bowl vs. Auburn (L, 24-43)
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FTC wary of Apple and Google "squeezing developers"
Commissioner concerned over the "vast power" they wield, suggests it drives developers to manipulative monetisation
The Federal Trade Commission has warned against the power of Apple and Google hold over mobile developers, suggesting this is partly responsible for the rise of harmful monetisation practices.
In a statement regarding the recent order for mobile ad platform Tapjoy to better police fraudulent campaigns, FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra commented on the market in general, noting that Tapjoy was "not the only platform squeezing developers" and dubbing it a "minnow" next to Apple and Google.
"By controlling the dominant app stores, these firms enjoy vast power to impose taxes and regulations on the mobile gaming industry," he wrote.
"We should all be concerned that gatekeepers can harm developers and squelch innovation."
Chopra said the clearest example is the "rent extraction" seen in Apple and Google's 30% commission fee on all sales and in-game purchases, as well as their power to ban developers for "trying to avoid this tax through offering alternative payment systems."
His comments, along with a note that larger gaming companies are pursuing legal action around this issue, almost certainly refer to the ongoing legal battle both Apple and Google face against Epic Games.
The latter added direct payment options to Fortnite, prompting both platform holders to remove it from their app stores, to which Epic has retaliated with anti-trust lawsuits.
However, while Epic can afford this course of action, Chopra notes that "developers and small businesses risk severe retaliation for speaking up, including outright suspension from app stores -- an effective death sentence."
The commissioner also suggests this "heavy taxation" by Apple and Google means developers are forced to use monetisation models that "rely on surveillance, manipulation and other harmful practices."
The most obvious example is loot boxes, which have come under increased scrutiny in recent years -- Chopra even observes that a recent FTC report showed this "addictive phenomenon" stems from changes to monetisation models in the mobile industry.
He also cited the different types of advertising models, including that of Tapjoy's service which has been "[creating] opportunities for fraud."
While not specifying new action, Chopra does imply the FTC will be keeping a closer eye on the mobile games market, including Apple and Google's role in it.
"When it comes to addressing the deeper structural problems in this marketplace that threaten both gamers and developers, the Commission will need to use all of its tools - competition, consumer protection, and data protection - to combat middlemen mischief, including by the largest gaming gatekeepers," he said.
Last year, an extensive investigation by a US House of Representative antitrust committee found that Apple and Google, as well as Amazon and Facebook, have engaged in monopolistic practices.
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Dems jockey to take on three PA Superior Court Judges
Six Superior Court candidates are running for three slots in tomorrow's Democratic primary.
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Anne Lazarus says she's presided over more than five thousand trials during her eighteen years as a Philadelphia judge, and would draw on that experience if elected.
Lezarus: I think I'm really in a unique position to be able to evaluate what should have happened at a trial at the Superior Court level.
Robert Colville, an Allegheny County judge since 2000, says he'd bring integrity to the post.
Colville: We have to be able to trust that the people in whose hands we lay decisions that will affect the lives of citizens are going to be fair, and honest, and straightforward.
Kevin McCarthy is also from Allegheny County, where he's worked as a prosecutor for nearly two decades. He says that would give him unique perspective on the court.
McCarthy: 60 percent of the court's docket is criminal. And I'm the only prosecutor running on either ticket.
Tom Munley has spent decades on the bench in Lackawanna County.
Munley: I spent my whole life around common people and regular people and veterans. I spent my career trying to help veterans. And I think I'd be fair and honest when I sit on the Superior Court, if I win.
And Philadelphia Judge John Younge says voters need to make their decisions based on the candidates' reputations.
Younge: Do they have a reputation for being honest? Do they have integrity? Do they have a reputation for being impartial?
Judge Paula Patrick didn't respond to an interview request. The three Republican Superior Court candidates are running unopposed.


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Tuvo municipio propio hasta 1970.

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Shreya Singhal v. Union Of India's Blindspot: Website Blocking
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Shreya Singhal v. Union of India is perhaps best known for striking down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 ('IT Act') as unconstitutional. In Part one of this three part series commemorating five years of the judgement, we focused on the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Section 66A as unconstitutional. However, in the same judgement, the Supreme Court also upheld...
Shreya Singhal v. Union of India is perhaps best known for striking down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 ('IT Act') as unconstitutional. In Part one of this three part series commemorating five years of the judgement, we focused on the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Section 66A as unconstitutional. However, in the same judgement, the Supreme Court also upheld the constitutionality of another tool of web censorship under the IT Act: Section 69A and the accompanying Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009 ('IT Blocking Rules 2009'). In Part 2, we inspect the relevance of the case with respect to this aspect.
Much like Section 66A, Section 69A of the IT Act was also inserted through an amendment in 2009. Section 69A empowers the Central Government to direct any Central Government agency or intermediary to block public access to any information which is stored or disseminated over any computer resource. Such directions must only be issued in the interest of sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States or public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any cognizable offence relating to above. Therefore, Section 69A and the IT Blocking Rules 2009 empower the State to block public access to websites, web applications and other computer resources.
The constitutionality of Section 69A was challenged by the petitioners in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India on two main grounds. First, Section 69A lacked procedural safeguards present under Section 95 and 96 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 which empower the government to ban books. Second, the confidentiality requirement present under Rule 16 of the IT Blocking Rules 2009 allowed violation of fundamental rights in secrecy.
The Court summarily dismissed these arguments and held that sufficient safeguards were present under Section 69A and IT Blocking Rules 2009 to prevent arbitrary censorship. According to the Court, since the IT Blocking Rules 2009 provided for pre-decisional hearing and required issuance of reasoned orders in writing, the website blocking power under Section 69A was not susceptible to misuse like Section 66A. The Court further held that since reasons had to be recorded in writing, people could challenge website blocking orders under Article 226 of the Constitution by filing a writ.
Secret Censorship by Executive Fiat
Unfortunately, in its analysis of Section 69A and IT Blocking Rules 2009, the Court failed to appreciate that these provisions allowed censorship by executive fiat and the confidentiality requirement shielded the executive from any scrutiny of its actions. The Committee for Examination of Requests which recommends blocking of websites under the IT Blocking Rules 2009 consists entirely of bureaucrats and it does not have any independent members from the judiciary and civil society. Even the Review Committee which is supposed to be the final line of defence in the website process consists entirely of senior bureaucrats. The lack of independent members in these Committees has raised serious concerns about them effectively operating as a rubber stamp.
International human rights standards also caution against this kind of online censorship without any meaningful oversight. For instance, the UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Mr David Kaye has repeatedly stressed on the need for any determination on what content is blocked must be undertaken with appropriate judicial oversight or overseen by a body independent of political, commercial, or other influences.
Moreover, the confidentiality requirement present under the IT Blocking Rules 2009 prevents individuals from accessing website blocking orders, and without access to these orders, it is very difficult to approach constitutional courts for relief. In this context the judgement is particularly disappointing when juxtaposed against the landmark 2011 Report of the former UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Mr Frank La Rue. Among other things, the 2011 Report recognized arbitrary blocking or filtering of content as a threat to people's human rights and noted that blocking lists are often kept secret which makes it difficult to assess whether content is being restricted for a legitimate purpose. It also specifically expressed concern about regulatory mechanisms which censor online information through sophisticated multi-layered technical controls which are hidden from the public.
The secrecy in the website blocking process in India is further compounded by lack of compliance with principles of natural justice. While the IT Blocking Rules 2009 mandate notice and pre-decisional hearing prior to blocking of a website, this requirement is frequently ignored with government officials claiming they could not reach the website owner despite making reasonable efforts. Take for instance the blocking of a satirical website called Dowry Calculator in 2018, which has been challenged before the Delhi High Court. The website owner, Tanul Thakur, was never provided any notice or hearing prior to blocking of the website. Despite his name and Twitter handle being prominently visible on the website, government officials claim they were unable to serve him a notice because they could not find any information about his whereabouts. Even his RTI applications seeking a copy of the website blocking order were rejected by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology citing the confidentiality requirement under Rule 16 of the IT Blocking Rules 2009.
Such practices are in complete contravention of international human rights standards. For instance, the 2011 UN Special Rapporteur requires States to provide full lists of blocked websites along with details regarding the necessity and justification for blocking of each individual website. Moreover, affected parties should be apprised about why their content has been blocked by the State.
Reforming India's Website Blocking Process
The original intent of Rule 16 was to preserve the anonymity of complainants whose safety may be jeopardized if their identity was revealed but it has created an opaque and unaccountable system of website blocking. The same principles of overbreadth and narrow tailoring which were applied by the Supreme Court to strike down Section 66A should be applied to Rule 16. In its present form, Rule 16 states that "Strict confidentiality shall be maintained regarding all the requests and complaints received and actions taken thereof." While it may be necessary to keep personally identifiable information of complainants confidential, there is no justification for denying access to website blocking orders issued by government officials. If these orders contain any personally identifiable information of complainants, such information may be redacted but copies of website blocking orders must be made available. Therefore, there is a need for courts to step in to either strike down or at least read down the confidentiality requirement under Rule 16.
In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Section 69A and the IT Blocking Rules 2009 after a surface level examination of its provisions. However, if the Court had analysed Section 69A with the same depth and perispacity it demonstrated in the context of Section 66A, it may have arrived at a different conclusion. For future legal challenges against Section 69A and IT Blocking Rules 2009 to succeed, the petitioners and lawyers will now have to creatively work their way around the judgement in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India. However, the judgement does provide some pegs to hinge our hopes on. For instance, its recognition that a website blocking order may be challenged by filing a writ under Article 226 means that aggrieved individuals must be provided access to website blocking orders in the first place.
Before concluding, it is worth noting that Section 69A is not the only provision being used by the government to ban websites and mobile apps. For instance, in March 2019, the Gujarat Police issued orders under Section 144, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 banning a popular video game called PUBG and arrested 21 individuals for playing PUBG. The Temporary Telecom Suspension Rules 2017 have also been used by the governments of Bihar and Jammu and Kashmir to block websites. Regardless of the legal instrument being used, arbitrary website blocking violates the website owner's freedom of speech and expression and the public's right to receive information. However, the use of Section 144 and the Temporary Telecom Suspension Rules 2017 is worrying because they contain even fewer safeguards and limitations than Section 69A and the IT Blocking Rules 2009.
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Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60 after suffering a cardiac arrest.
The football legend had a heart attack at his home just two weeks after leaving hospital where he underwent surgery on a blot clot in his brain.
Maradona, regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, helped Argentina win the World Cup in 1986, the pinnacle of an illustrious career.
He played club football for Boca Juniors, Napoli and Barcelona among others and was adored by millions all over the world for his brilliant skills.
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The Argentine news outlet Clarin broke the news on Wednesday afternoon UK time, describing the news of Maradona's passing as having a 'worldwide impact'.
The sad news was confirmed by Maradona's lawyer. Soon, tributes were pouring in from all over the world of football.
Maradona left hospital on November 11 just eight days after being admitted for emergency brain surgery.
The iconic former Argentinian footballer was driven away from the private Olivos Clinic just before 6pm on November 11 as hundreds of fans of photographers tried to get a glimpse of him.
Maradona was hospitalised the previous week and had to have an emergency operation to remove a blood clot from his brain.
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Argentinian TV reporters travelling on motorbikes filmed the ambulance carrying him leaving before following the vehicle to transmit every inch of his journey.
His lawyer, Matias Morlahas said that the 60-year-old would continue to receive treatment for alcohol dependency.
Maradona, who was the coach of Gimnasia y Esgrima in his home country, had been admitted to hospital on several occasions since his retirement. He almost died of cocaine-induced heart failure in 2000 and underwent years of rehabilitation.
Maradona, who was well known for having a wild lifestyle during and after his playing days, had a gastric bypass operation to lose weight in 2005 and was once more hospitalised two years later for alcohol-induced hepatitis.
He also fell ill at the last World Cup in Russia, where he was filmed passing out in an executive box when Argentina took on and beat Nigeria in Group D.
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Atrial fibrillation is defined by an anarchic atrial electrical activity with a frequency of 350-600 beats / minute, with the cancellation of atrial mechanical function. Ventricular rhythm is completely irregular, usually with a frequency between 100 and 150 beats / minute. Irregular ventricular rhythm is due to a hidden driving trough atrioventricular junction.
Permanent atrial fibrillation (chronic), which can not be remitted with treatment.
In other situations: acute hypoxia, hypercapnia, electrolyte disturbances, hypotension, cardiogenic shock, etc.
In 15% of cases, permanent atrial fibrillation is idiopathic, especially in men.
The occurrence of angina pectoris, in cases of atrial fibrillation with increased ventricular rate by increasing the myocardial oxygen consumption and by the shortening of diastole, will appear the reduction of coronary perfusion.
Atrium thrombus formation, with the risk of systemic embolism and of pulmonary embolism.
Symptoms of atrial fibrillation are polymorphic. The patient may feel palpitations, anginal pain, the worsening of heart failure symptoms, syncope (if ventricular rate is very high or very low). Atrial fibrillation with ventricular rate close to normal may be asymptomatic.
Peripheral arterial pulse is irregular and unequal in amplitude. At accelerated ventricular rates is present a pulse deficit, due to excessive shortening of diastole, with reduction of the end diastolic volume and therefore will appear a reduce in systolic flow, so that aortic valve does not open. So, not all cases of atrial fibrillation have pulse deficit, but only the forms with marked tachycardia. The effort accentuates the symptoms and signs of atrial fibrillation.
ECG shows the following: absence of P waves, atrial electrical activity is replaced by "f" waves, with small amplitude, irregular and with a frequency between 350-600 beats / minute. Ventricular rhythm is irregular, with a rate between 100 and 150 beats / minute. QRS complex has a shorter duration than normal.
Sino-carotid massage may cause a transient reduction in heart rate and is useful in the differentiation of atrial fibrillation form atrial flutter.
Ventricular myocardium state, which is dependent on the underlying disease, will dictate the degree of hemodynamic deterioration.
The presence of atrial thrombus, which is leading to an increased incidence of thromboembolic accidents, of which 75% are cerebrovascular accidents (strokes).
Control of ventricular function when converting and maintaining of sinus rhythm are not possible.
The choice of therapeutic methods, in the treatment of atrial fibrillation is individualized and should consider the etiologic substrate of atrial fibrillation.
Treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with hemodynamic deterioration associated with myocardial ischemia or Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, is electric conversion to sinus rhythm.
Rate control is the main therapeutic target that can be achieved rapidly by intravenous administration of beta-blockers (metoprolol, bisoprolol) or calcium channel blockers (diltiazem).
Pharmacological conversion to sinus rhythm can be achieved by administration of antiarrhythmic agents from class III (amiodarone, sotalol), class IA (disopyramide) or class IC (propafenone, flecainide).
Electric conversion is performed if pharmacological conversion attempt failed for 24 hours.
In patients with atrial fibrillation which was installed in less than 48 hours and the patients will be subjected to conversion to sinus rhythm, anticoagulation therapy management is optional, depending primarily on the associate risk of embolism.
If the occurrence of atrial fibrillation happened in more than 48 hours, and the patient has a higher risk for embolism, then the treatment with oral anticoagulants is required at least with 2 weeks before conversion and must be continued 2 weeks after conversion to sinus rhythm.
Emergency defibrillation involves anticoagulation with intravenous heparin, initially in bolus and then in continuous infusion in a dose that prolongs the APTT with 1.5-2 times compared to its reference value. After defibrillation, oral anticoagulation therapy should be continued for a period of 2 weeks.
Prevention of atrial fibrillation recurrence is performed by administering antiarrhythmic drugs from class IA, class IC and class III. An alternative therapy to prevent relapse of atrial fibrillation, is represented by atrial pacemaker implant, with the anti-tachycardia function.
This type of atrial fibrillation has low chances of conversion to sinus rhythm, especially if left atrial diameter exceeds 5 cm.
Heart rate control in permanent atrial fibrillation is performed, electively, with digoxin, which may be associate with low-dose of beta-blocker, verapamil or amiodarone. Optimal therapeutic effect is considered to be obtained when heart rate reaches 60 to 80 beats / minute.
In the case of bad tolerated chronic atrial fibrillation, is practice atrio-ventricular node ablation or ablation of His fascicle by radiofrequency current, followed by permanent pacemaker implantation.


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The best interests assessor role could be axed, and independent oversight of deprivation of liberty cases scrapped, under proposals being developed by the Law Commission.
In a statement published today, the commission has rolled back on a previous commitment that the BIA role would "be central" to a proposed replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) that is being developed for ministers.
The commission's draft scheme, published last year, recommended developing a strengthened version of the BIA role, provisionally named the 'approved mental capacity professional' (AMCP).
But today's update opens the door for the BIA role, which provides independent scrutiny of care placements considered to be potential deprivations of liberty, to be radically pared back or even scrapped entirely.
The only commitment the commission makes is to "considering whether" a limited group of people should receive additional independent oversight of their care from an AMCP. At present every care placement within the DoLS receives independent oversight. This is coordinated by BIAs.
The move would leave it for local authority and NHS commissioners to determine whether a person had been deprived of their liberty in care that those commissioners had arranged. The commissioners would have to produce evidence, including a capacity assessment and arrange advocacy.
The proposals would give anyone deprived of their liberty the right to seek reviews or bring a legal challenge against the deprivation. However, the prospect of losing BIAs will spark concerns that key human rights protections for vulnerable groups will be weakened given the role currently provides independent scrutiny of care arrangements amounting to deprivation of liberty.
The news also comes months after the AMCP proposals received high-profile backing from the chief social worker for adults, Lyn Romeo. She said the position represented an opportunity for social workers to further their "vital work" in this area of care and "be properly recognised for this contribution".
Ministers ordered the Law Commission to draft a replacement for DoLS after the March 2014 landmark 'Cheshire West' ruling triggered a ten-fold rise in cases. The flood of referrals has led to widespread breaches of statutory duties, with councils unable to keep up with demand and racking up huge case backlogs.
A Law Commission impact assessment found that fully funding the DoLS so that services could comply with the Supreme Court ruling would cost £1.5bn a year, compared to the £117m currently spent on the system. The commission said its original draft proposals would cost an average of £533m per year to run.
The government issued strong criticism of the commission's draft proposals and raised concerns they were overly bureaucratic and costly.
The scale of changes to the commission's scheme signalled in today's update suggest the government's pressure to cut costs has had an impact.
In its interim conclusions the commission said it rejected the notion "that safeguards should be reduced to the bare minimum or that we should not consider any reforms that may generate additional costs". However, it acknowledged "financial pressures weighed heavily on the minds of consultees" and set out a "more streamlined" scheme that marks a significantly stripped back version of the original proposals.
A scaling back of the original scheme from one that focused on wider human rights safeguards to one solely focused on deprivation of liberty.
Restricting additional oversight from AMCP or BIA to a defined group, rather than all people who met the deprivation of liberty threshold, or scrapping this altogether.
If the AMCP or BIA role is maintained, restricting it to agreeing or not agreeing to a proposed deprivation of liberty. The role would not extend to ongoing reviews and the monitoring of cases.
The removal of a baseline tier of safeguards, known as 'supportive care', that were designed to protect Article 8 rights (the right to a private and family life).
A shift in the responsibility for establishing the case for a deprivation of liberty from care providers to commissioners (local authority or the NHS).
Provisions for local authorities to rely on existing assessments (where appropriate) when considering a deprivation of liberty.
Scrapping an original proposal for a separate scheme for authorising deprivation of liberty in hospitals.
Dropping a proposal to create new mechanism in the Mental Health Act to cater for people lacking capacity who are compliant with their treatment.
Considering whether an original proposal to offer people first-tier tribunal rights should be dropped.
The commission said it would look to recommend amendments to the Mental Capacity Act so that it could maintain, "as much as possible", the article 8 protections removed from the scheme proposals. Amending the MCA would be aimed at ensuring there is proper consideration, in advance of decisions to remove any individual from their home and place them in institutional care.


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Meryl Streep was honored for her career achievements at the Golden Globes ceremony and was attacked by Donald Trump for calling out his mockery of a New York Times reporter. (Photo: Getty)
Donald Trump is almost guaranteed to be the butt of numerous jokes and some sharp political remarks at the 2017 Academy Awards ceremony. After all, he's the guy who called Meryl Streep a second-rate actress. Payback is expected to be hell.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer has already been asked about the event and claimed Trump won't be watching the show.
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But tens of millions of others will around the world.
If past practice is any guide, Trump will be fulminating about the ceremony on Twitter, he's preferred medium for character assassination.
Streep kicked off Trump's tinseltown feud at the 2017 Golden Globes ceremony during her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award honoring her career achievements.
"Disrespect invites disrespect; Violence incites violence," she said. "When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose."
Streep singled out Trump for mocking disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski during a campaign speech.
"There was one performance this year that stunned me. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disable reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back," she said.
"It kind of broke my heart when I saw it and I still can't get it out of my head, because it wasn't in a movie it was real life," she added.
"And, this instinct to humiliate when it's modeled by someone in the public… someone powerful, it filters down into everyone's life because it kind of gives permission for others to do the same thing."
The next day Trump was all over Twitter.
"Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes…" he wrote.
"She is a Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time I never "mocked" a disabled reporter…" he continued.
Trump said he was only trying to portray the reporter "groveling" for changing a "16-year-old" story just to make him look bad. "Dishonest media," he added.
Trump was already on the outs with much of the entertainment industry because of his misogyny and racist support. Not one major artist would perform at his inauguration.
But attacking Streep as a "second-rate actress" was beyond the pale.
If hostility to Trump was high before that, it's likely to be off the charts now for lying repeatedly on the campaign trail about gender equality.
Trump said more than once he supported the right of a transgender to use the public school bathroom that corresponded with their gender identity.
But earlier this week, he supported the repeal of an Obama administration guideline reinforcing that right nationwide.
Instead, he and newly appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the issue should be left up to individual states. The move will result in a patchwork of policies that essentially will condone discrimination in some states.
If Hollywood is about anything, it's about diversity and human rights not only for transgenders, but also the entire LGBT community.
Trump's continuing denigration of news media outlets and his harping about "fake news" also is unlikely to endear him to many in Hollywood.
Some in the film industry have even speculated that anti-Trump sentiment may influence Oscar selections.
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel said he would ease up on political jokes during the three-hour broadcast but added that award winners were free to speak out.
"You hear people say, 'I'm sick and tired of people talking politics at awards shows,'" he told the Los Angeles Times.
"Well, I'm sick and tired of people talking about how sick and tired they are of people talking about politics at awards shows," he added.
George Clooney set the tone earlier this week, blasting Trump for being part of the Hollywood elite and calling his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, "a failed film writer and director."
ABC will broadcast the ceremony This Sunday.
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Of course, while we had him in our clutches, we wanted to talk with him about other directions in which AngelList might move over time. What we gleaned: the platform, which is famous for continuously iterating on its approach and offerings, may eventually use its late December acquisition of the popular product platform Product Hunt to create a paid offering for companies looking to buy specific technologies or products. It sounds like AngelList may also eventually dive into the brisk secondaries business, wherein investors buy up earlier investors stakes in certain companies.
TC: Recently, a crowdfunding marketplace, Seedrs, announced that it's going to launch a secondary marketplace. It could be interesting to see AngelList get into this business.
NR: We are obviously always looking at secondary marketplaces. The problem is how much liquidity can you have for these things. Generally, if you have a really well-known company, like a Facebook or a Snapchat, before their IPO, there's demand from later-stage investors for a secondary marketplace. But it's usually concentrated in a very few names.
We work at the very early stage where, frankly, people don't know the companies. If someone wants to sell, it's such a negative signal; it's not clear that there's a buyer on the other side. But 1,500 companies on the platform have already raised half a billion dollars and they've gone on to raise over $5 billion [in subsequent fundraising rounds], so they're getting larger and larger and larger, and there will be a point where some of those names become so hot that there will be secondary demand. And then if those companies are open to it, we'll work with them to fill that secondary demand.
TC: We're also wondering what you're doing with Product Hunt, which you acquired in December.
NR: There's so much innovation going on, and there's lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies. So what do tech companies need? They need money, they need talent, and they need customers. So AngelList started out with helping them raise money, now we're the largest startup recruiting marketplace in the world, with 25,000 startups recruiting and about one million candidates. But the missing piece is helping companies find their early customers. And Product Hunt did an amazing job of that. They've now launched 90,000 products; they do millions of product discoveries every single month; and it's kind of the place where teams from Uber and Facebook and Google and lots of startups go to launch their latest apps. So we were always in awe of Product Hunt and we brought them in to kind of complete the third leg of that triad.
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TC: It sounds like that could be a revenue-generating product, showing companies [needing products] who they should be talking to, what the various tech stacks are of different startups . . .
NR: Yeah, I think long term it can generate revenue. In the short term, we've left the team completely independent. They're still executing on the same plans as before we merged up. And all the team and the management is still there.
TC: You also spun off a crowdfunding platform for non-accredited investors called Republic last year. Can you tell us a bit more about that and how involved you are?
NR: Crowdfunding is going to happen — it's happening in the U.S. — it's just happening a little bit slower than in the U.K. as [the U.S. government] works out the final [regulations]. And Republic is a spin-out that we did with some of our best people to go and start doing that. It's still very early; Republic has done a couple of deals, but I think we're still in the first inning of crowdfunding.


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Fox News' Tucker Carlson found himself placed in the uncomfortable position of defending white nationalist Rep. Steve King (R-IA) during a segment on Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's blackface/KKK yearbook photo, stating that King isn't that bad because he hasn't called for an ethnostate and that he never actually said he was a white nationalist.
Bringing on progressive radio host Christopher Hahn to talk about the Northam scandal, Carlson wanted to know why Democrats weren't also up in arms over Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison since he was a member of the Nation and Islam and that organization has promoted the concept of a "black ethnostate and worshiped Louis Farrakhan as a god-like figure."
"He was a member of the Nation of Islam and called for a black ethnostate and vice chairman of your party," Carlson stated after Hahn said he wasn't that familiar with the details. "Nobody said anything. I mentioned it 30 times on the show. Nobody cared. What is the standard?"
Getting back to Northam, Hahn said the standard was the governor "had to go immediately" before highlighting King, saying that "too many people play around with racism and get to stay."
A bit flustered, Carlson went back to Ellison, once again pointing out how he's covered the Nation of Islam "calling for a black ethnostate" before brushing off King's history of overt racism.
"Maybe there's an argument in favor of that," he noted. "I don't know what it would be. But why is that okay? I mean Steve King, whatever he said, he didn't call for an ethnostate, and Keith Ellison did."
Hahn shot back that King has called himself a white nationalist, causing Tucker to say he's "not here to defend Steve King" but that King "didn't say that" and Ellison did. "Why is that alright?" Carlson asked.
This is pretty much the first time that Tucker has discussed King following the backlash over King's defense of white nationalism and white supremacy during a January New York Times interview. King's comments were met with condemnation from his own party, resulting in the Iowa Republican being stripped of his House committee assignments by GOP leadership. Prior to those remarks, King had appeared on Carlson's program several times, including a 2017 interview in which the Fox News host defended King's "you cannot rebuild your civilization with somebody else's babies" remarks.
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Ohio-class Replacement Will Carry "Re-packaged and Re-hosted" Weapons System
By Edward H. Lundquist	- February 4, 2011
The Ohio-class fleet ballistic missile submarine USS Alaska (SSBN 732) transits to her new homeport at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga. The first Ohio-class replacement will begin construction in 2019. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Kimberly Clifford.
America's next generation of ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) achieved an important program milestone, known as "Milestone A," which gives the Ohio-class replacement program the green light to move forward with the Technology Development Phase of the Department of Defense life cycle management system.
The U.S. Navy's Ohio Replacement Submarine program will be a class of 12 submarines to replace the 14 SSBNs in the current fleet. The Ohio-class originally included 18 SSBNs, known as "Trident" submarines because of their Trident missiles. Four of those – the first four of the class, including the lead ship, USS Ohio – were converted to cruise missile submarines, carrying conventional weapons instead of the Trident nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The Navy plans to begin construction of the first Ohio-class replacement in 2019, with the second hull beginning in 2022, and then building one per year beginning in 2024, each with a hull diameter of 43 feet and 16 missile tubes that are 87 inches in diameter.
Sources tell Defense Media Network that the price is estimated to be $5 billion per ship.
"The Navy is committed to ensuring that an affordable replacement ballistic missile submarine is designed, built, and delivered on time with the right capabilities to sustain the most survivable leg of our triad for many decades to come," said Program Executive Officer for Submarines Rear Adm. Dave Johnson.
According to Alan Baribeau, a spokesman for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the Navy projects that the average ship end cost (hulls 2-12, Navy inflation/deflation indices, excludes outfitting and post delivery will be $4.9 billion (base year 2010 dollars).
Artist concept of an Ohio-class SSGN launching Tomahawk cruise missiles. U.S. Navy rendering.
The fire control system and missiles for the new submarines will essentially be the same as on the Ohio SSBNs. "The Strategic Weapon System shipboard subsystems [Navigation & Fire Control] will be re-packaged and re-hosted on the new platform using the latest technology from the in-service Ohio-class fleet," Baribeau says. "The initial outload of missiles for new construction Ohio replacement SSBNs will be taken from the mingled inventory pool of Trident II (D5) missiles deployed on the Ohio-class and Royal Navy's Vanguard-class submarines."
A life-of-ship core is being pursued for the Ohio replacement, so that the boats will not have to be taken out of service to be refueled. Modern naval nuclear propulsion plants have been designed for reduced acquisition cost, reduced total ownership and lifecycle costs, reduced manpower and maintenance requirements. "While the details of the reactor design are classified, advances in metallurgy, design and manufacturing have made life-of-ship reactors and components possible. While USS Nautilus had to be refueled after two years of operation, significant research and development efforts have given the USS Virginia a 30+ year life-of-ship core. A longer life core results in less time in the shipyard, more time to perform critical missions, and an overall reduction in number of ships required to execute the mission," Baribeau says.
Baribeau says that the Ohio replacement must have improved stealth capabilities and performance to meet survivability requirements against projected threats for service through the 2080s. Further, they will fully leverage the Virginia-class' design build methods, be designed to be built using modern modular construction techniques and maximize the use of open architecture, and incorporate a life of ship core that removes the need to refuel the ships.
The program achieved Milestone A on Jan. 10, 2011, following the endorsement of the Defense Acquisition Board, chaired by Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Dr. Ashton Carter, on Dec. 9, 2010, together which validates the program's technology development strategy and allows entry into the technology development phase during which warfighting requirements will be refined to meet operational and affordability goals.
According to a Navy statement, the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review revalidated the recapitalization of the nation's sea-based strategic deterrent. This study followed the May 2009 Final Report of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States that recognized submarine-launched ballistic missiles as the most survivable, and therefore most capable, of the three strategic deterrence legs of the U.S. nuclear triad. The Ohio replacement will leverage the successful Virginia-class acquisition program and carry the Trident II (D5) Life Extension missile, the nation's most accurate and reliable strategic missile system with 134 consecutive successful flight tests.
Design, prototyping, and technology development efforts for the Ohio replacement are intended to ensure sufficient technological maturity for lead ship procurement in 2019.
By Edward H. Lundquist
Capt. Edward H. Lundquist, U.S. Navy (Ret.) is a senior-level communications professional with more than...


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Q: Web scraping with BeautifulSoup  I'm trying to  print the information inside a  tag.
But I have an empty print.
There is the website: https://mubi.com/it/films/25-watts/cast?type=cast
I'm trying to print all actors name.
Here is my code:
import random
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url ='https://mubi.com/it/films/25-watts/cast?type=cast' #vincitori

def main():
    response = requests.get(url)
    html =  response.text

    soup1 = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
    cast = soup1.find_all('span', {'class' : 'css-1marmfu e1a7pc1u9'})
    for tag in cast:
            print(tag)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Thank you for supporting ;)

A: The data you see on the page is loaded from an external URL via JavaScript (so beautifulsoup doesn't see it). You can use the requests module to simulate the Ajax request:
import json
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "https://mubi.com/it/films/25-watts/cast?type=cast"

soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).content, "html.parser")
data = json.loads(soup.select_one("#__NEXT_DATA__").contents[0])

# uncomment this to print all data:
# print(json.dumps(data, indent=4))

film = data["props"]["initialProps"]["pageProps"]["film"]

cast_url = "https://api.mubi.com/v3/films/{}/cast_members?sort=relevance&type=cast&page=1"
cast = requests.get(
    cast_url.format(film["id"]),
    headers={"CLIENT": "web", "Client-Country": "US"},
).json()

# print(json.dumps(cast, indent=4))

for m in cast["cast_members"]:
    print("{:<30} {:<30}".format(m["name"], m["primary_type"] or "-"))

Prints:
Daniel Hendler                 Actor
Jorge Temponi                  Actor
Alfonso Tort                   Actor
Valentín Rivero                -
Federico Veiroj                Director
Valeria Mendieta               -
Roberto Suárez                 Actor
Gonzalo Eyherabide             -
Robert Moré                    Actor
Ignacio Mendy                  -


a). Instance Variable: If the value of a variable is varied from object to object such type of variable is nothing but instance variable. For every object, a separate copy of instance variable is created.
Note: The instance variable should be declared within a class directly but outside of any method, any constructor and any block.
(i). The scope of the instance variable is exactly the same as the scope of the object because instance variables are created at the time of object creation and destroyed at the time of object destruction.
(ii). Objects are stored in heap area so that instance variables are also stored in the same memory area or in heap area.
b). Static Variable: If the value of a variable is not varied from object to object such type of variable is called a Static variable. That is, only one copy of the variable is created at the class level and shared by every object of that class.
Note: Static variable should be declared within a class directly but outside of any method, any block and any constructor.
(i). The scope of a static variable is exactly the same as the scope of the class because static variables are created at the time of class loading and destroyed at the time of class unloading.
(ii). Classes are stored in method area so that static variables are also stored in the same memory area or method area.
c). Local Variable: Sometimes to meet a temporary requirement we can declare a variable inside a method, block or constructor such type of variable is called a local variable.
System.out.println("i = "+i); //Here the initial value of i will be 1 and than incremented by 1 upto 10.
(i). Local variable will be created while executing the block in which we declared it. Once the block execution is completed, automatically the local variable will be destroyed. so, the scope of the local variable is the block in which it is declared.


Hoboken lies within the New York Metropolitan area and has a population of over 50,000. It was incorporated in 1855 as a resort area and later evolved into what was once a blue collar residential area but has evolved into a more upscale, prominent location which is part of the New Jersey Gold Coast. Formalwear needs in Hoboken can be found at Tuxedo By Sarno's in neighboring Secaucus which is only 4.67 miles away via Secaucus Road or 6.64 miles away via NJ-3 E.


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Relentless street walker, Yannig Hedel has been tracking the race of time on the urban architecture for 50 years, day after day, season after seasons, and offers us an extensive and coherent lifetime body of work. Yannig Hedel plays with scales and with classic photography codes. The viewer no longer knows how far away the photographed object really is. The play of light and shadow confuses the spectator and envelops him in a prodigiously silent and dreamlike feeling.
PR Info _ Relentless street walker, Yannig Hedel has been tracking the race of time on the urban architecture for 50 years, day after day, season after seasons, and offers us an extensive and coherent lifetime body of work.
While everything around him is accelerating, Yannig Hedel takes his time. And more precisely, he takes photographs of time itself! Street walker, he has rigorously captured the shadows, these ephemeral shapes made of light and time, to illustrate the passage of time. In all modesty, he has invented a new street photography, turning it into something formal, poetic and definitely silent.
Born in Brittany in 1948, Yannig Hedel took up residence in Lyon at the age of 22. He then began a photographic journey that led him over time to collect in the city various geometric shapes, metamorphosing simple gables into pyramids, banal chimneys into monumental hourglasses.
Yannig Hedel plays with scales and with classic photography codes. The viewer no longer knows how far away the photographed object really is. The play of light and shadow confuses the spectator and envelops him in a prodigiously silent and dreamlike feeling.
Flirting with abstraction, his grayscale images are nevertheless very real! Whether he walks the street of his home town or as he stares at the city from his apartment window, Yannig Hedel pursues his relentless quest and offers us a never-ending enchantement.
Since the 1980s, Yannig Hedel has done about thirty solo exhibitions and took part in more than forty festivals and group exhibits not only throughout Europe, but also in Mexico and Japan. The retrospectives which took place in Lyon (France), at the 'Musée de l'Elysée' in Lausanne (Switzerland), and at the 'Musée Réattu' in Arles, gave us the opportunity to fully understand his singular lifetime work, it being both obsessive and evolutive. His work is part of several private and public collections in France and abroad.


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Q: SQL Server 2012, LEFT JOIN becomes INNER JOIN I have a fact and budget table, the budget table doesn't have values for each category
Category   Budget
A           100
B            50

C has no record in budget
The query seems to turn into a inner join on SQL Server 2012. At my current location I used the same syntax on SQL Server 2005 and there it still returns all records.
Can't check SQL Server 2008 right now.
SELECT distinct Category
FROM FactRide
LEFT OUTER JOIN
   Budget ON FactRide.Category = Budget.Category
WHERE
   (Budget.BudgetType = 'Ride' OR Budget.BudgetType IS NULL)

Did I miss out on a change in SQL Server 2012 ?
The problem is the result doesn't return category C as it should.
When i add a row in Budget with Category C and Budget value 'Null the problem is 'solved'.
But i would like to know if i should ask the supplier to generate different SQL or watch for a SQL 2012 servicepack....

A: Yes, the SQL Server join syntax did change as of SQL Server 2012 and this has caught me unawares. You can find the full details at: https://straightpathsql.com/archives/2012/11/sql-server-join-syntax-its/


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Q: has type unicode but expected one of :bytes tf.train.example When I make tfrecords file , say unicode string is written, there will be an error:TypeError: u'\u634f' has type unicode but expected one of :bytes

writer = tf.python_io.TFRecordWriter(tfrecords_output_filename)
text=u'地离开对方'
example = tf.train.Example(features=tf.train.Features(feature={'text':_bytes_feature([text])}))
writer.write(example.SerializeToString())
writer.close()

But the English and the digital form is fine : text='abcd123'
How should I solve this problem?

A: You have to encode text in utf-8 instead of unicode for it to be byte compatible :
text=u'地离开对方'
text = text.encode("utf8")
example = tf.train.Example(features=tf.train.Features(feature={'text':_bytes_feature([text])}))


Over at the UAAP Season 81 women's volleyball tournament, the NU Lady Bulldogs come out on top of their five-set face-off against the UP Lady Maroons. The NU Bulldogs and the ADMU Blue Eagles enjoy a continuation of their respective winning streaks over at the men's volleyball tournament. The MPBL Datu Cup playoffs begin with victories for the Manila Stars and the Bataan Risers. In UAAP football, the FEU Tamaraw Booters and the AdU Soaring Falcons end their face-off in a 1-1 draw. Finally, the Philippine Women's National Volleyball Team unveil their training pool for the 2019 SEA Games.


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Q: Showing how this infinite sum diverges $\displaystyle{\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}
\left[\left( 1 + {1 \over n}\right)^{n} - {\rm e}\right]}$
I tried both root and ratio tests
(for the root test, the expression became way too complex to handle)
but both didn't really work out.
Would there be an easy way of showing that this diverges?


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Monday High 5: Valley Football Fans Break Even
Matthew JohnsonSeptember 20, 2021
Football fans in the Valley had to suffer through really bad college games (ASU and UA) Saturday night, but were rewarded with the best NFL game of the weekend on Sunday (Cardinals vs. Vikings) with a fortunate ending. Here are our five big takeaways from the break even weekend in sports.
1. Make no apologies for winning.
A win is a win and there's no need to apologize for it. That's the mentality Arizona Cardinals fans need to have after escaping with a 34-33 win over Minnesota. Vikings kicker Greg Joseph missed a 37-yard field goal attempt wide right as time expired to seize defeat from the jaws of victory. With the win, the Cardinals improve to 2-0 and are riding the hot hand of their third year quarterback. Kyler Murray once again looked like an MVP-caliber player, passing for 400 yards and three touchdowns. Murray also ran for a score, setting an NFL record along the way.
With his 3rd TD pass today, @AZCardinals QB Kyler Murray (@K1) is the 1st player in @NFL history with 3+ TD passes and a rushing TD in each of his team's first two games of a season. pic.twitter.com/berkUxdUhg
— NFL345 (@NFL345) September 19, 2021
Big Takeaway: Kyler Murray looks to be a complete quarterback and this football team is finally fun to watch for the first time since 2015. The Cardinals are back on the road in Week 3 at Jacksonville (0-2). The Jaguars were the worst team in the league a year ago and appear to still hold that dubious rank this season. It would be an incredibly epic failure if the Cardinals don't come home 3-0 next Sunday afternoon before a Week 4 showdown with the Rams.
2. Steve Keim got a draft pick right.
The Arizona Cardinals general manager has taken a lot of fair criticism over the years for his poor record in the NFL Draft (Josh Rosen, Andy Isabella, Robert Nkemdiche just to name a few). However, it appears he got one pick very right: wide receiver Rondale Moore. The speedy second-round pick out of Purdue has flashed in his first two games with the Cardinals. On Sunday, Moore led the team with 7 catches for 114 yards and one stunning 77-yard touchdown, the first of his career.
RONDALE MOORE UNTOUCHED FOR THE #AZCardinals TD #NFLSunday
(via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/zH4WgQgaos
— Pro Football Digital (@ProFootballDig) September 19, 2021
Big Takeaway: Rondale Moore is the guy the Cardinals wanted when they picked Andy Isabella in the second round of the 2019 draft. Isabella has never worked and Cardinals fans will never forget it because D.K. Metcalf was drafted by Seattle two picks later. Moore's addition to the roster might make Keim's previous failures stink a little less. His production also means there's not a spot on the roster if Larry Fitzgerald ever wants to rejoin the team.
3. Sun Devils are not a championship caliber team.
Saturday night's game between the No. 19 Arizona State Sun Devils and No. 23 BYU Cougars at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Utah had a beautiful backdrop of the Wasatch Range. ASU added to the landscape with its own mountain of penalties, turnovers and self-inflicted wounds resulting in a 27-17 loss.
16 penalties (the most by an ASU team since 2006), four turnovers and miscommunication all night on offense (quarterback and running back couldn't figure out the handoff on several plays) are leading many to question whether or not the Sun Devils are a good team.
Talking through the Q1 fourth-and-1 false start that best exemplifies the operational issues ASU had throughout the BYU game due to crowd noise. Watch the convo between Daniels and West after the play and then Edwards and Hodges on the sideline. pic.twitter.com/vaDNCHDsy0
— Chris Karpman (@ChrisKarpman) September 20, 2021
Big Takeaway: On the bright side, it's a non-conference loss on the road. ASU has a clean slate as it begins the Pac-12 part of the schedule next Saturday at home against a miserable Colorado Buffaloes team that lost 30-0 to Minnesota this week. The Devils have begun the season with two lackluster games against bad opponents and one miserable game against a good opponent. Perhaps this team really isn't all that good like we thought it would be.
4. What the sports world got right…
Friday night's miracle comeback win for Hamilton High School was one for the history books. Trailing by 17 points with 70 seconds to play – and on national television — the Huskies mounted one of the most improbable come from behind wins we've ever seen. This video recaps it perfectly in case you missed it or turned the TV off early.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT! One of the most incredible comebacks you'll ever see!!! Hamilton HS (AZ) was down 24-7 to Bishop Gorman (NV) with 1:10 left in the 4th quarter and came all the way back to win 25-24!!!!!! INSANE!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/Pz24bsbywc
— ✯✯✯✯✯ (@FTBVids_YT) September 18, 2021
5. …and what sports got wrong.
The NFL's new emphasis on the taunting rule is perhaps the only universally agreed on topic right now anywhere. Everyone hates it. Fans, media, players and coaches got a taste of it this weekend, with at least 10 penalties called for actions such as clapping in an opponent's face, spinning the ball on the ground and giving the incompletion sign after defending against a pass. Football is as emotional a sport as any (perhaps the most emotional considering how much violence there is) and players will react with excitement when they make a play. I'm guessing tweets like these will soon get the league's attention and the emphasis on the rule will quietly go away.
Here are some of the taunting penalties called on Sunday. This stuff is a disaster. It has to stop. pic.twitter.com/DFC1VtZHe6
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) September 20, 2021
There's virtually nothing we can all agree on on this app except that the NFL's new taunting rule STINKS.
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) September 19, 2021
The NFL taunting rules are even worse than the college targeting rule and that's difficult
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) September 20, 2021
PLEASE NFL. THESE TAUNTING PENALTIES ARE RUINING THE GAME. NOT A SINGLE FAN OR PLAYER WANTED THIS CHANGE. IT HAS TO STOP. PLEASE.
— Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) September 19, 2021
zero nfl fans want these taunting rules
— Danny Kelly (@DannyBKelly) September 19, 2021
The NFL has established a new level of arrogance today with its application of this taunting infraction. It's both obsessive and stupid…
— Michael Wilbon (@RealMikeWilbon) September 19, 2021
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