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Q: Why doesn't the voltage source ever supply current in my circuit? I'm trying to make a protection circuit for a battery. The PMOS is intended to prevent reverse current. The diode is intended to prevent the output voltage from exceeding 10V. When I simulate the circuit however, the voltage source doesn't supply any significant current until after the output voltage leaves the intended operating range of ~10 V. What am I missing?

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab

A: IRF9530 datasheet here
Rdson is about 0.2 Ohm.
Not stunningly good but OK at the sort of load resistance (50k) shown.
Rgsth = FET turn on voltage is around 4 to 5 volts typically.
AT battery voltages below about 4V the FET will be off and only the body diode provides a forward current path.
From 4V+ FET will start to conduct
but say 6V + Vbattery is needed tor turn FET on well.
Correct battery polarity:
There are 3 modes:

*

*Vbattery > Vd1. MOSFET body diode conducts, FET is enhanced (turned on), zener clamps Vload at Vzener.

*Vbattery < Vgsth of FET.
Body diode conducts to supply load
but FET is off
and body diode drop is typically 1V -
so at low Vbat the current may be less than expected.

*Vz > Vbat > (Vgsth + a few volts).
FET is turned on.
Iload ~= Vbat/(R1+R2)
If current is less than expected check that there is enough Vbat to turn FET on AND that FET is indeed connected as shown.
Reverse battery polarity
Body diode blocks.
FET is turned off.
Iload ~~= 0.
You knew that.

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Capital Region Housing provides rent supplements through two programs: the Direct Rent Supplement and Private Landlord Rent Supplement. In both cases, these supplements are provided to recipients who have their own tenancy agreements outside of CRH-managed buildings, but cannot afford the total cost of rent. These subsidies are governed by the Rent Supplement Regulation and the Social Housing Accommodation Regulation.


DART, Sensor Kit - AndyMark Inc.
The Sensor Kit for the DART Linear Actuator includes two hall effect sensors (am-3313), an aluminum mounting bracket, and associated hardware. The hall effect sensors are intended to be used for end of travel sensing.
This kit is designed to be used with the 12" DART (am-3072a) or 6" DART (am-3076a) linear actuator. Both bracket lengths are included.
Be sure to position the sensors at a location so that the DART lead screw does not travel as far to bottom out the brass nut at the end of stroke.
It is recommended to run this actuator with hall effect and/or current protection as it is possible to stall or "stick" the lead screws when stalled against a hard stop at both ends of travel. It's recommended to use the the hall effect switches to limit travel of the actuator from the end stops. When using faster ratios it may be possible to overrun the limits slightly and programming methods may require ease into stroke ends. If you are not able to program these functions we recommend using a Talon SRX (am-2854) which has on-board switch monitoring and current protection.
Be sure to assemble the DART so that the magnet on the Back Bearing is located under the location that the hall effect sensor is mounted.
Delivery time has been excellent. But considering it's build season, it's really been incredible. Almost on par with McMaster, but with much better and more robo-centric parts! Keep it up, Andy!


Necrozma is the star of Pokémon Ultra Sun & Moon, and the Necrozma-ified versions of legendary Pokémon adorn the covers — Dusk Mane and Dawn Wings. If you want to actually capture Necrozma this time around, you'll have to find him. When you find him, then you can fuse the big bad Ultra Beast with one of the Sun & Moon legendaries. We won't delve into spoilers too hard here, so if you want the story preserved but still want to learn how to catch Necrozma, here's exactly what you need to do.
In the original Sun & Moon, Necrozma was the wily final Ultra Beast your trainer could capture at the end of a lengthy post-game Ultra Beast quest, sending your trainer to various locations to (hopefully) find and defeat a variety of Ultra Beasts let loose in the Alola Region. Things are very, very different in Ultra Sun & Moon. There is no long quest to capture Necrozma, but you will have to wait until the post-game.
Necrozma, Pokémon #800 in the Pokedex, and a Legendary Ultra Beast (sort of) in his own right, can be captured only during the post-game of Ultra Sun & Moon. You won't be able to capture the various other forms of Necrozma during your story encounters, but you can capture him and earn his Z-Move all at the same time after finishing the story.
You can only capture Necrozma during the post-game / while climbing the Mount Lanakila toward Pokémon League.
On the path to the Pokémon League, find Necrozma in a crater in a weakened state.
Interact with the crater, and choose to share your Z-Ring with Necrozma to restore Necrozma's health.
Now you can fight and capture Necrozma.
For defeating / capturing Necrozma, you'll also get Ultranecrozium-Z and unlock Necrozma's Z-Move. Not a bad reward, especially right before the Pokémon League!
That isn't the end. You can fuse Necrozma with Solgaleo or Lunala to create Necrozma (Dusk Mane) or Necrosma (Dawn Wing) variants. Here's how it works.
After capturing Necrozma, Colress will appear and give you the N-Lunarizer and the N-Solarizer, key items that are required to fuse Necrozma with Solgaleo / Lunala.
Next, go to Mahalo Trail and talk to Lillie on the trail. She'll give you a legendary Pokémon.
Solgaleo is exclusive to Ultra Sun.
Lunala is exclusive to Ultra Moon.
Now enter your inventory and select N-Lunarizer / N-Solarizer, then select Lunala / Solgaleo to create the ultimate form of Necrozma.
Not only will the Lunala / Solgaleo get a Necrozma update, they'll also gain a Mega Evolution with a super Z-Move attack that's completely devastating.


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Internships are valuable educational experiences that enhance your academic program by providing an opportunity to gain hands-on professional experience and valuable skills to further your career development. Internships play a major role in determine employment and employers value internship experience in candidates they recruit.
The LAS Internship Program offers students individual advising, exploratory workshops, employer connections, and an opportunity to gain academic credit for participating in an internship by enrolling in LAS 289 Internship Course.
Among full time employed graduates surveyed in the UIC First Destination Initiative, over 60% completed one or more internships.
Nearly all employers participating in the NACE Job Outlook 2017 Survey prefer to hire candidates with work experience. Additionally, 56% of employers prefer work experience gained through an internship experience.
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As part of our month-long series of top tech gadgets to inspire many to revisit decades-past photos, ScanMyPhotos scoured many tech products to provide the best of the best. Our favorite is Picture Keeper to protect all your data and free up vital storage space on your devices. And, it's super affordable and simple to use. The best part is we think you'll enjoy how fun it is to use.
Picture Keeper isn't the cloud, it isn't a hard drive, it isn't just a flash drive. Picture Keeper is a solution. They embed intuitively brilliant and easy to navigate software onto their custom flash drives. Picture Keeper gets you started protecting your photo files quickly and offers a wide variety of drive sizes to fit whatever your photo needs may be.
Initial backup finds all of your pictures. Just click "Start Backup".
With the Picture Keeper Connect App, you can back up your photos videos and contacts. Download your password protected backup onto your computer at your convenience. Perfect for backing up those photos from your weekend getaway, or simply creating a backup of your device just in case!
Before delving into the 300 vs 600 DPI photo resolution myth, from the 600 million pictures digitized at ScanMyPhotos. We have an important insight. Most people scanning pictures are primarily just uploading to social media photo-sharing apps, where 150 DPI is ideal. That is what we launched ONE CENT PHOTO SCANNING.
When discussing the resolution of digital images, far too often people get hung up focusing on DPI (or PPI) as a way to measure the size and quality of a digital image. This may sound completely wrong to you, but the DPI of an image has nothing to do with digital image quality. The reason? A digital image's resolution is expressed as it's pixel dimensions, either as pixels by pixels or the often heard keyword, megapixels. So why do people get hung up on DPI? The simple reason is that when it comes to printing, DPI actually IS the measure of quality. Confusing, right?
Click on each image below. Can you tell the difference?
You should be saying to yourself, "They look exactly the same." Both are 600 x 900 pixels, both saved at the exact same 20% compression rate but they have vastly different DPI values. So why isn't there a visual difference? As noted above, digital image quality is measured by the number of pixels in an image, either by the pixel dimensions or the megapixel value. In this case, they are both 0.5-megapixel images since they have the exact same pixels dimensions (600 x 900 pixels).
For standard uploading to social media photo-sharing sites, standard 150 DPI is ideal.
Now, if you want to discuss the DPI of a digital image, YOU MUST ALSO assign a physical size to it. You can't simply say, "This image is 200 dpi." You have to say something like "This image is 200 dpi at 4 inches by 6 inches." It is important to remember that a digital image has no absolute size or resolution. Think about this, when do you typically discuss DPI? The answer you should be thinking about is "When I want to print the image." This is where DPI comes into play because a printer may output at 150 dpi, 200 dpi or 300 dpi and each would require a different file size to print the optimum print. You may also be thinking that you discuss DPI when you scan a photo, but we will get to that later. For uploading to social media, 150 dpi is adequate.
The issue that causes all this confusion is that many users interpret a photo editing program's reference to DPI as a measure of "resolution" but this is actually the displaying the OUTPUT or printing resolution, not the resolution of the digital image. Has this happened to you: You had your photos scanned by ScanMyPhotos but when you open the file in Photoshop, it says that it is 72 dpi and you clearly paid for 600 dpi? Before you start writing a strongly worded letter to ScanMyPhotos, look at the width and height? Does it show that the photo is 50″ by 33″? We all know you did not send a 3 foot by 4-foot photo for scanning so what happened? Nearly all monitors can only display 72 dpi so most programs default to showing 72 dpi.
So, when working in Photoshop, for example, the first thing you want to do when looking at File->Image Size is to TURN RESAMPLE IMAGE OFF. If you then turn your attention to the rest of the dialog box, you can see it connects Resolution, Height, and Width together while Pixel Dimensions is separate and uneditable from the Document Size. As long as you have Resample Image turned off if you change any one of the values for Width, Height or Resolution you simultaneously change the other two, but the Pixel Dimensions will always remain the same. As the resolution goes up, the width and height go down, and vice versa, because a digital image has no absolute size or resolution. All it has is a certain number of pixels in each dimension that will be displayed on a monitor or screen. Click on the image below for a detailed look at the relationship between size and DPI and how it doesn't affect the actual pixels in the image.
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Amy Slenker-Smith, the organizer and unclutter expert who publishes Simply Enough, shares here project to digitize pictures and details how she handled it by using ScanMyPhotos.com.
Excerpt: Perhaps you have a pile that looks like this? Fear not, you can turn this into organized digital photo albums to share with friends and family.
Several years ago, I owned 12+ photo boxes. By sorting and purging, the very best photos went to a few archival quality albums. Thousands of pictures were thrown away….yes, in the trash. Even baby pictures and wedding photos!
Do you have a box of black and white family photos tucked away somewhere? Are you unsure of the people in them? Unfortunately, passed down photographs rarely include important details.
My Grandma Alice was a rare exception. She detailed information on photos and sorted them into envelopes for her kids. My cousins and I spent hours looking through them. What a gift she left us years later. Inspired by her efforts, I scanned the photos including this info and her handwriting as well.
If you prefer, use a Scanning Service such as ScanMyPhotos. I love this service. With my box of 1,800 photos, I had a great experience! I opted for "Scan in Order" which was well worth the additional cost to maintain the labels I created.
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In every relationship, no matter how lovey-dovey you are, problems can and will arise that will have to be dealt with. There could be money problems, a scheduling mishap, a disagreement about household responsibilities, or someone could accidentally erase your PVR – when you're living in close quarters, there are lots of opportunities to grow closer, but also to be driven crazy by issues, whether they are big issues or small issues. Fights happen! The size of the issues don't really matter; what matters is how you choose to deal with them.
A lot of how you deal with your problems depends on the personalities of you and your partner. One of you might be a let's-hash-it-all-out kind of person, where the other might be a leave-me-alone-to-think-about-it type. Obviously, such different approaches could spell trouble for the two of you, if you don't find a way to resolve the problem in a way that is healthy for you both, and your relationship.
Let's look at the first type, the ones who want to talk about everything, all the time, even it means staying up all night yelling at each other. There are pros and cons to this approach to problem-solving. A pro-side to this approach is that everything gets out in the open; nothing is bottled up or "saved for later," it all comes barrelling out. This type of arguing is in-your-face kind of honest, which is both a good thing (who wants hidden feelings?) and a bad thing (can get a little intense) On the con-side: This type tends to be a little more high-strung (bad-tempered?) and stubborn, so get ready for loud arguments and lots and lots of questions. They will make you stay up all night if necessary, because going to bed angry doesn't solve any problems, it just makes things worse.
Now the second type: This is the type that prefers to sit quietly, mull things over, even "sulk" (to outsiders) over issues. Talking about problems isn't always necessary, and attempts to get them to open up will likely just make the situation worse. When asked "What's wrong?" they'll likely say "nothing," even though it isn't the case. Unlike the first type, they'd rather think about things before saying anything; they'd rather avoid the fireworks of conflict. On the pro-side: they are more likely to think about things in a rational way, rather than just burst out with all of their emotions all over the place. They are likely to make logical arguments instead of go with their feelings, and stick to the issue at hand. On the con-side: They can leave their partner feeling shut out if they don't talk about their problems; it's supposed to be a partnership, and partnerships need honesty. Also, their tendencies to be ultra-"logical" can come across as cold or belittling when talking about their partner's emotions.
What did we do? Well to be really honest, I'm more of the first type, and dear BF is more of the second type, so we've had our share of crazy arguments (pre-and post-move, 5.5 years remember?) that cater to both of our styles. Over the years, I've learned to trust that he will talk about what is bothering him when he's ready, and that his need for space when upset has nothing to do with our relationship; it's just his way. On his side, he's learned to deal with my emotional outbursts without patronizing me (is there anything worse than being told to "calm down" when you're good and angry?), that I just need to get everything off my chest, even if it seems over the top. We are honest with each other, try to listen to what the other is saying, and respect that we don't always see things, or deal with things, the same way. What matters is that we've managed to blend together our problem-solving in a way that leaves us both feeling respected and listened to, and ready to move on from the issue. Remember: once something has been argued about and resolved, leave it in the past where it belongs. Learn from it and move on; don't bring it up every time you have a fight.
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Q: stripping of some tags of xml document I have a xml doc as below.
<data>
     <employee>
       <moretag> may or may not contain inner tag and attributes</moretag>
       <somemore>  may contain inner tags</somemore>
     </employee>
</data>

i want op as below
 <employee>
       <moretag> may or may not contain inner tag and attributes</moretag>
       <somemore>  may contain inner tags</somemore>
  </employee>

That is i want to strip off data tags.How can i do it?

A: You can use jdom for this:
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(xmlFileName);
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");
Document doc = new SAXBuilder().build(isr);

Element data = doc.getRootElement();
Element employee = data.getChild("employee");

XMLOutputter xmlOut = new XMLOutputter(Format.getPrettyFormat());
xmlOut.output(employee, System.out);

A: Do it with XSLT
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
  <xsl:template match="data">
    <xsl:copy-of select="child::node()" />
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

A: You cannot simply strip off some node like that.
The simple logic of what you tend to achieve is that you make a copy of firstChild of root node i.e.  and replace the root node with it.
P.S. that you have only one child under the root node.


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The Iola Old Car Show began when a group of local collectors decided to meet at the Iola Lions Club's annual chicken barbecue.
Last summer, more than 110,000 people attended the show.
Iola Old Car Show is a production of the Iola Old Car Show, Inc. a non-profit corporation established for the betterment of our area communities and to advance the specific charities of the member organizations. Approximately 3,000 volunteers provide 29,000 volunteer hours for their civic groups and organizations.
The Iola Lions Club are celebrating its 70th Anniversary in 2019!!!.
Since the club's chartering on Feburary 17,1949 its members have worked on a variety of projects in the local community, such as their Spring and Fall Community Work Nights, Cans for Camp, eyeglass and hearing aid recycling and Lions Health Fair. Proceeds from past fundraising events have gone to scholarships, local wheel chair ramps, Food Pantry donations as well as numerous others.
The club is getting ready for their Diabetes Awareness Day in March, Spring Community Work Night in May and the Old Car Show in July.
We are proud of our club's 70 years of community service.
The Iola Lions Club have over 70 members and meet on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month at 6:00pm at The Iron Grille at Glacier Woods Golf Club. Lions are a group of men and women who identify needs within the community and work together to fulfill those needs.
For more information or to get involved with the Iola Lions Club, please contact us at 715-445-2226.
Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.3 million members in approximately 45,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world. Since 1917, Lions clubs have aided the blind and visually impaired and made a strong commitment to community service and serving youth throughout the world. For more information about Lions Clubs International, visit the Web site at www.lionsclubs.org.


"The hardest steps you'll take are through the front door." Well, Dennis walked through the doors at the request of his daughter to attend our 30-Day Weight-Loss Challenge orientation on Sept 23, 2017. "No big deal," he thought. "What's one hour of my life gonna hurt?" He agreed to come and just hear what Shawn and Travis had to say. Little did he know that hour would be an answer to prayer.
Remember your first few days at FITCAMP and be sure to introduce yourself and encourage Dennis when you see him in class. His goal is to lose 15 pounds in the #30daychallenge. We have a lot of people, like Dennis, who are on fire to lose weight and improve their health and fitness. We can't wait to see the transformations that are coming in the next month.
These challenges are designed to give people a blueprint and a jumpstart to a healthy LIFESTYLE. Your journey won't be over in 30 days. But like SO many who have participated in our challenges, your weight-loss journey will be given the boost it needs to make you want to keep going until you reach your goals.
To Dennis and ALL of our challenge participants … we are here to help you every step of the way and we know you CAN DO IT!


The Boston Police Department is seeking the public's help in identifying and locating a vehicle which was involved in an incident early this morning in Boston's Back Bay. At about 3:19 AM on Sunday April 30, 2017, officers assigned to District D-4 (South End) responded to a radio call for a cyclist struck in the area of Commonwealth Avenue and Clarendon Street. On arrival, officers located a male victim, approximately 30 years old, who was immediately transported to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries. Investigators believe the silver sedan in the pictures above struck the victim and fled the area. The vehicle should have damage on the roof near the windshield area on the driver's side.


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Q: Updating the view after changes to the model classes When I rename a property in a class of my model (CS file), I usually go to the view and update the it (CSHTML file), since VS doesn't propagate that change into view classes.
Is there a simpler way? I'd like to have a go get them, boy button that recreates the view. Of course, it needs to be smart enough to only update the relevant changes and not recreate the whole shabang (in which case all my fronend magic would go poof and I'd go insane).

A: You can use refactor => rename from visual studio. Or you can use a tool like resharper to do the renaming. It's smart enough to change all the references.


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Juuling at M-A and side effects that students ignore
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Co-founded by Adam Bowen and James Monsees in San Francisco, the e-cigarette company JUUL has become widespread among high school students in the past couple years.
JUUL's website says, "JUUL is an alternative for adult smokers" yet so many M-A students Juul regularly; 40.6 percent of respondents to our survey said they juul every day. It is seen as more socially acceptable than cigarettes among teenagers. Although the long-term effects of juuling are still unknown, many researchers believe that the most dangerous aspect is the addicting nature of nicotine.
A JUUL cartridge has as much nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes. Its appearance mirrors that of a USB drive, allowing students to easily hide and charge it without suspicion. Many students juul during class when teachers are not aware due to their inconspicuous nature.
An anonymous M-A student who juuls said, "I think it's unfortunate that so many kids juul so much. I think it's important to know how it affects you and the side effects of it, which not a lot of kids know. But, I don't think it matters too much, kids are just having fun."
The nonchalant attitude that many students have towards juuling reflects the fact that many people who use JUULs do not care about possible side effects. In a survey of 71 M-A students, 42.3 percent said they had used a JUUL at some point, yet 57.7 percent said they do know the possible side effects. This willful ignorance has led to an exponential growth in the use of e-cigarettes, specifically JUUL.
Some could argue that at least juuling is less harmful than cigarettes because of the lack of tar and carcinogens inhaled. This is true, but in many cases, juuling serves as something that may lead more teens into using other nicotine products in the long run instead of reducing cigarette use. Pediatrician Dr. Harold Farber from Texas Children's Hospital and chair of the Tobacco Action Committee for the American Thoracic Society said for National Public Radio, "It's a short jump from there to combustible cigarettes."
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Q: Llive clock function in AngularJs controller I want display Hours,Minutes ans seconds(live), I written function using $interval in controller but $scope not updating my view.
here is my view :
<div ng-controller="clockCtrl">
{{hour}}:{{min}}:{{sec}}
</div>

here is my Controller :
angular.module('myApp').controller('clockCtrl',function($scope,$interval){

 $interval(callAtInterval, 1000);
});

    function callAtInterval(){
          console.log("this text is getting printed after each second");
          var today = new Date();
          h=today.getHours();
          var m = today.getMinutes();
          var s = today.getSeconds();
          $scope.hour=h;
          $scope.min=m;
          $scope.sec=s;

    }

The function is getting call but view is not getting updated.

A: Your callAtInterval function is declared outside of the controller, thus it doesn't have access to $scope. You should declare it like this:
angular.module('myApp').controller('clockCtrl',function($scope,$interval){

    function callAtInterval(){
        console.log("this text is getting printed after each second");
        var today = new Date();
        h=today.getHours();
        var m = today.getMinutes();
        var s = today.getSeconds();
        $scope.hour=h;
        $scope.minutes=m;
        $scope.sec=s;
    }

    $interval(callAtInterval, 1000);
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Last week, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) gave a keynote speech before a crowd of Internet regulation supporters and stated some amusing falsehoods about the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) attempt to take over the Internet. At a summit held by the organization Free Press, Sen. Dorgan claimed that the government developed the Internet, established the rules underpinning net neutrality when it created the Internet, and that the attempt by the FCC to takeover the management of networks is not a government takeover.
Sen. Dorgan is correct that the very first data networks were developed with the Department of Defense and various universities, but the Internet as we know it was not developed by the government. Private businesses and individuals build the data networks, write the software, own the servers and computers, and develop the content and websites. All of these components make up the Internet ecosystem and none of them (sans some websites and military networks) were created or are owned by the government.
Sen. Dorgan dismissed the argument by the free-market community that this is a government takeover, claiming "nothing could be further from the truth." But that's like saying the government isn't taking over the auto industry, just telling car companies what models they can and can't make. That they aren't taking over health care, just telling insurance companies what plans they can and can't offer.
Net neutrality is a government takeover. The free-market community isn't arguing that under these specific regulations the government will now own the industry—though that is the end goal of many net neutrality proponents like Free Press. Opponents argue that under the FCC's net neutrality regulations the industry becomes the near absolute pawn of the government. When management practices are approved or denied by a government bureaucrat, it is a certainly a government takeover. And when the first of such regulatory steps tap into the very spine of the Internet—the networks on which everything else depends—that opens the door for further regulation and government intrusion.
It also does not assuage concerns that the FCC, Sen. Dorgan, and Free Press want to completely reclassify Internet access under a different section of the 1934 Communications Act called Title II, only to simply use "forbearance"—or voluntarily restraint—from applying every single regulation in that section to the Internet. The FCC's forbearance could be temporary and subject to electoral tides and politics, not the consumer-driven free-market. This should be a concern for people on all sides of the political spectrum, who can easily envision specific regulations they oppose suddenly popping up on the FCC's agenda.
During the speech, Sen. Dorgan also repeated an aft-made claim by pro-Internet regulation groups that the legal underpinning for net neutrality—what he calls the "discrimination rules"—have existed since the dawn of the Internet. This again is false. Such rules were merely proposed in the FCC's initial net neutrality push. Further, if anything they are only thinly and precariously justified under the Title II regulations that proponents want and have yet to apply to the Internet. In fact, the Internet has never been subject to such regulation, a precedent established by the U.S. Congress, the FCC under both Democratic and Republican administrations, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sen. Dorgan and groups like Free Press can't rewrite history or the law, but so long as they continue their push for onerous Internet regulation, free-market opponents can point out just how much of a government takeover their plan really is.
Kelly William Cobb serves as executive director of Americans for Tax Reform's Digital Liberty Project, an organization dedicated to promoting free-market tech and telecommunications policy. Mr. Cobb also manages www.StopETaxes.com, a campaign to fight Internet taxation.


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Q: MOQ returning dynamic types as object issue pologise if this questions has been asked but I couldn't find the answer anywhere.
My problem is when mocking a return method using MOQ where that method returns a dynamic type.  I'm using a third part library which uses dynamic times.  MOQ seems to cast the dynamic type as object.
Mock<IFacebookHelper> mockFbHelp = new Mock<IFacebookHelper>();
mockFbHelp.Setup(x => x.Get("me")).Returns(new { email = "test@test.com", id="9999" });

Method in the mocked helper.
public dynamic Get(string p)
{
    var client = new FacebookClient(AccessToken);
    return client.Get("me");
}

Code from controller using mocked results.
_facebookHelper.AccessToken = accessToken;
dynamic result = _facebookHelper.Get("me");
int facebookId = int.Parse(result.id);  //This errors as id doesn't exist.

Basically MOQ has returned a dynamic type of object that would require casting as something.
Does anyone know how to get around this problem?  I'm assuming it may be because MOQ is not coded in .NET 4 therefore does not support dynamic types?
Edit
Actually I don't think this is a MOQ issue as I created my own mock class and still had the same problem.  I'm new to dynamic types though so not sure what's going on.
Edit 2 - Part answered.. Problem nothing to do with MOQ after all
Actually the problem seems to be due to the dynamic type being created in a different assembly.  Although I got round my initial problem using a JObject type I still want to figure this out.
namespace MyLib.Tools
{
    public interface IDynTest
    {
        dynamic GetData();
    }
}

namespace MyLib.Tools
{
    public class DynTest : Effect.Tools.IDynTest
    {
        public dynamic GetData() {
            return new { DynamicProperty = "hello" };
        }
    }
}

namespace Warrior.WebUI.Infrastructure
{
    public class UseDynTest
    {
        private readonly IDynTest dynTest;

        public UseDynTest(IDynTest dynTest)
        {
            this.dynTest = dynTest;
        }

        public string RetTest()
        {
            return dynTest.GetData().DynamicProperty;
        }
    }
}

namespace Warrior.Tests
{
    [TestClass]
    public class TestDynTest
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public void TestMethod1()
        {
            //Mock<IDynTest> mockDynTest = new Mock<IDynTest>();
            //mockDynTest.Setup(x => x.GetData()).Returns(new { DynamicProperty = "From Unit Test" });

            DynTestProxy dynTestProxy = new DynTestProxy();

            UseDynTest useTest = new UseDynTest(dynTestProxy);

            string results = useTest.RetTest();

            Assert.AreEqual("From Unit Test", results);
        }
    }
}

namespace Warrior.Tests
{
    public class DynTestProxy:IDynTest
    {
        public dynamic GetData()
        {
            return (dynamic) new { DynamicProperty = "From Unit Test" };
        }
    }
}

There are 3 project indicated by the Namespace MyLib, Warrior.WebUI and Warrior.Tests.
As it is the test fails with an error..
'object' does not contain a definition for 'DynamicProperty'
which occurs on RetTest()
However if I simply move the DynTestProxy class into the Warrior.WebUI project everything works fine.  I'm guessing there are problems when sending dynamic types accross different assemblies or something.

A: I did a quick test:
namespace ConsoleApplication5
{
    public interface IFacebookHelper { dynamic Get(string p); }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Mock<IFacebookHelper> mockFbHelp = new Mock<IFacebookHelper>();
            mockFbHelp.Setup(x => x.Get("me")).Returns(new { email = "test@test.com", id = "9999" });

            dynamic result = mockFbHelp.Object.Get("me");
            int facebookId = int.Parse(result.id);
            string email = result.email;
        }
    }
}

This is working fine. I don't see a problem here.
Are you sure you didn't mix some things up?
Look at the method you posted:
public dynamic Get(string p)
{
    var client = new FacebookClient(AccessToken);
    return client.Get("me");
}

Maybe it should be:
...
return client.Get(p);
...

Is _facebookHelper really using the Mock object? It should be of type IFacebookHelperProxy or something like that during your test.
EDIT:
The problem is your attempt to expose an anonymous type across assembly boundaries, since you can use anonymous type only within the assembly you created them.
So instead of
public class DynTestProxy:IDynTest
{
    public dynamic GetData()
    {
        return (dynamic) new { DynamicProperty = "From Unit Test" };
    }
}

you should use an ExpandoObject:
public class DynTestProxy:IDynTest
{
    public dynamic GetData()
    {
        dynamic r = new ExpandoObject();
        r.DynamicProperty = "From Unit Test";
        return r;
    }
}

or use the InternalsVisibleTo attribute. See here for more information. Also this question may be interesting for you.


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    public interface ILanguageService
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}


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When two-year-old Yog from Kerala was taken to a local eye clinic with a shiny white patch in his retina, swollen and red eyes, little did his parents think it could be more severe than just an infection.TNN | Updated: May 22, 2016, 13:06 IST
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Bengaluru: When two-year-old Yog from Kerala was taken to a local eye clinic with a shiny white patch in his retina, swollen and red eyes, little did his parents think it could be more severe than just an infection. Doctors too thought it was an infection and treated him accordingly. However, with no improvement in his condition, Yog's parents brought him to a hospital in Bengaluru where he was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, the most common form of eye cancer that affects children below 5 years.
Yog, who is now being treated for advanced stage cancer with minimal chance of complete cure, could have been wholly cured with early diagnosis. With 1,400 reported cases of retinoblastoma in India every year, eye cancer specialists in the city have raised an alarm over delayed detection that costs vision and life.
Dr Fairooz P Manjandavida, ophthalmic plastic surgery, orbit and ocular oncology consultant at Narayana Nethralaya Superspecialty Eye Hospitals, said: "Out of 1,400 retinoblastoma patients, only 800 can reach the right doctor at the right time. The rest lose their lives without medical intervention. About 70% of the total patients we receive come at an advanced stage. Inability to detect it at an early stage by both parents and doctors is a challenge ."
According to her, screening babies for early detection is very important. "There are situations where the diagnosis is not made despite a paediatrician or physician seeing the child. Eye examination has never been a part of routine check-up for paediatric age group. Merely shining a torch into a child's eye, the cancer can be detected. Parents can detect the white reflex through a photoflash as well. There are mobile-friendly applications also," she added.
Lack of specialists: Eye cancer specialists blame acute dearth of trained ophthalmologists to conduct screening for cancer and ocular oncology specialization centres in the country for late detection of eye cancer, along with lack of awareness among people.
"Most often the tumour is not diagnosed because ophthalmologists are not adequately trained. Also, out of the 60-odd ocular oncology specialization centres in the country, only six are equipped with diagnosis facilities. Among these, only four have the full capacity for cancer treatment," said Dr Rajesh R, senior consultant at ocular oncology department in Sankara Eye Hospital.
Lack of proper integration of ocular oncology in the ophthalmology curriculum makes specialization in the field difficult. Timely referral to a specialized treatment centre can ensure that the patient is provided the best care possible, he added.
Pointing to a lack of awareness, he said: "Parents of affected children go through various stages of psychological development. They tend to begin with denial. Once they receive positive diagnosis from multiple doctors, it's possible that they enter into depression. This is due to the belief that tumours are synonymous to death. Though retinal cancers can be fatal, it's important to know that it's curable if detected early."
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Students line up hours before game time just to be a part of the nation's rowdiest fans in Arizona Stadium, to sing "Bear Down" at the top of their lungs in McKale Memorial Center and bring the noise to all of the other nineteen sports that ZonaZoo supports. Hillary Davidson, ZonaZoo executive director says, "Being a part of ZonaZoo is being a part of something bigger than yourself. The energy is a unique experience and it really sets us apart from other schools."
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Portland food is changing as fast as the city itself. Fresh thinkers and young chefs are ditching Stumptown staples—pork gutbombs, wood-fired DIY, the shabbiest of chic—for global flavors, lighter dishes, and vivacious, polished rooms. No single "restaurant of the year" captured 2016. So we didn't name one. Instead, the year is defined by two brand-new rising stars and 10 dynamic destinations changing the way we eat (oh, and one life-altering tube of fried dough). Your mission: enjoy—and explore.


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Another method to fix the connectivity issue in Bluetooth is also a temporary one. You can get rid of the error message when you logged out of iCloud with forgetting the Bluetooth connected device. This solution is also temporary and does not last for a very long time.
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As one of the most rapidly-growing BioPharma ecosystems in the United States, Boston is home to more than 550 active companies and 74,000 people employed in the life sciences industry.
With that continual growth comes an incredibly tight real estate market. Cambridge—specifically Kendall Square—is ground zero for life science companies, and where the market is the most competitive. Small startups, growth-mode companies, and some of the largest BioPharma companies in the world compete for space with other large firms, like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Because the market has gotten so tight, companies often make reactionary decisions. They'll take space just because it's available—even if it hasn't been properly vetted, or it can't be built out to accommodate their science.
T3 recently partnered with The Bowdoin Group, an executive search firm, to publish an in-depth report on the current state of Boston real estate for BioPharma companies. The report details how Boston's real estate market has responded to rapid BioPharma growth and how BioPharma leaders can plan and execute effective real estate strategies to enable growth in a highly competitive market.


I love having things in my fridge that I can make into a delightful and easy meal. I almost always have black beans and roasted red pepper tapenade ready to go. It's a simple way to add flavor and color to any meal, especially tacos! Put a splash of cholulah on it, and you're set.
add all ingredients to cuisinart and pulse til combined.
Combine ingredients and place on sheet pan with silpat, roast at 350 degrees F. for 20 min until some peppers have blackened color on them. Cool and store in a glass jar, great for tacos, crackers, crostinis, or salads.
Heat up a few tortillas on the flame of your stove, layer black beans, pulled roasted chicken, onion, feta, mint and cilantro. Garnish with roasted red pepper tapenade, and enjoy. The flavors will keep you coming back for more.


Lithium ion (li-ion) batteries may have been to blame for setting 300 tonnes of refuse on fire last month, according to Viridor.
It took over 40 hours and, at its height, forty firefighters and six fire trucks to tackle the fire in Dunbar on 22 January.
The Dunbar fire was in a building where waste arriving on site is stored before it is landfilled.
While no one was injured and there was no risk to public health, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) and Viridor, has now issued a stark warning highlighting the risks if these batteries are not disposed of correctly.
Li-ion batteries, which Viridor believes are the likely cause of the fire at Dunbar, can be found in anything from children's toys, alarms, electric toothbrushes and e-cigarettes and are increasing in use across Scotland. When these types of batteries are damaged, it can project a shaft of flame for several minutes and can ignite surrounding waste material.
The Environmental Services Association (ESA), the trade body representing the UK's resource and waste management industry, reports that of the 510 fires reported by ESA members across the UK in 2017-18, a quarter (25%) were attributed to li-ion batteries, up from 20% in the previous year.
Speaking at a fire prevention briefing at Viridor's Dunbar site, which is rated as excellent by SEPA, Barry Falgate, Scottish Landfill Manager at Viridor, said: "With the increasing use of lithium ion batteries in everyday household items, fire risks are growing day-by-day and we're urging everyone to ensure they put the Right Stuff in the Right Bin and they dispose of batteries safely. This not only keeps our sites safe and helps boost recycling rates, but also prevents the SFRS being called out to potentially avoidable fires.
"Due to the nature of fighting waste site fires, where waste is shifted to gain access to the fire, it is difficult to definitively isolate the cause. Our experience of observing, and extinguishing, fires developing on waste sites leads us to believe this may have been a lithium ion battery. If this had been disposed of correctly, the fire would not have occurred and would have saved the valuable time and resources of the Fire and Rescue Service.
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Whilst lithium-ion batteries are a growing concern for starting fires and increased efforts should be made to raise awareness amongst waste producers, I think your heading "Landfill Site Fire" is misleading as the fire was in a storage building and not the landfill site itself, which would have been even more serious!.


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I can recall the exact moment when I decided I wanted a keyless lock on my front door. It was the last time I had locked myself out and had to call someone to let me in my own home.
I never liked the idea of leaving a spare key hidden somewhere outside. Nor was I enthusiastic about passing out keys to friends, pet sitters, cleaning services and the like. A keypad lock with programmable codes was the obvious solution. The onmly thing holding me back was the expectation that electronic locks were expensive and that I would need professional help to get it installed.
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Once that problem was solved, I had the complete lock installed in about 20 minutes. Programming was also fast and easy. Just push one button, enter between four and eight digits and press the Lock button. The system also has a switch that will automatically relock the door 30 seconds after it's been unlocked.
The SmartCode lock has a handsome metal keypad and lock on the outside that comes in three finishes: satin nickel, dark bronze or polished brass. The inside housing has a plastic cover that's colored to match. The system runs on four AA batteries that power the lock motor and also light the keypad buttons, a feature you'll appreciate when you arrive home after dark.
The lock sells for less than $100 at home improvement stores and at amazon.com. Kwikset also has a version that has a hand lever and a step-up version that communicates with the Z-Wave home control system.
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Contributed photoGeorge Thorogood & The Destroyers are set to perform at The Big E in West Springfield, Mass., Saturday, Oct. 1.
George Thorogood & The Destroyers are set to perform an evening show at The Big E, West Springfield, Massachusetts on Saturday, Oct. 1.
Touring and recording for more than 40 years, Thorogood and his longtime band The Destroyers – Jeff Simon (drums, percussion), Bill Blough (bass guitar), Buddy Leach (saxophone) and Jim Suhler (rhythm guitar) – continue touring with their powerhouse rock with bar band roots, unchained attitude, and a fierce love of their country and blues origins. The band has released 16 studio albums, the last four decades. George and his legendary band have dominated the charts with six Gold and two Platinum selling albums.


I personally was quite impressed with how crowd accommodating this group was!! From the get-go where he converses with the fans, to the end where they stayed to sign old "albums" and whatnot! These types of concerts are hard to forget, and having seen them a year ago….I think they've only gotten better! I also agree with your statement about the song "If You Ever Get Lonely" – they should be playing that on the airwaves!
John Waite is the greatest singer/song writer of our time. If you go to a show expecting cart wheels and props hitting him in the head …tht wont happen. His voice has only gotten better with age and his interaction with the crowd is humerous and down to earth. Do yourself a favor and ck him out if he comes to a town nearby…you'll have no regrets, and an experience tht will live a lifetime.
Jeff – well said. Waite has a tremendous catalog of great songs, and you are spot on that his voice is only getting better. As I mentioned in the review, the real treat was listening to his newer stuff, so he has clearly spanned generations with his stuff! Not sure he is the greatest of our time, but great is certainly an accurate description. Thanks for checking out our site and the comment!


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Home	Staff Biographies
David Sanderson
Dave Sanderson was born in Regina but please, don't hold that against him.
Dave studied journalism at Red River College. After completing that school's Creative Communications course, he helped launch the late, great entertainment rag, Winnipeg Music Notes. He also covered the local music scene for Winnipeg Alive, a mid-80s tabloid that paid its writers precisely zilch.
In 2003, Dave submitted a story to the Free Press, back when the paper had an open column titled The View From Here. He was shocked when former Free Press editor Margo Goodhand called to say she enjoyed his piece and that he could expect to see it in print the following day.
Almost overnight, Dave became a regular contributor to The View From Here - to the degree other people hoping to get published complained to Goodhand, saying her "open" column wasn't so open, after all. In February 2004, Goodhand told Dave one of her regular freelance writers was holidaying in Mexico for a month. She asked him if he would like to take that person's place, while she was away. He has been writing for the Free Press on a weekly basis, ever since.
As a general feature writer for the 49.8 section - and the person responsible for the Sunday Free Press's This City column - Dave is afforded the opportunity to write about anything under the sun. Check that: anything under a Canadian Prairie sun.
Since 2005, he has also handled the Free Press's collectibles "beat," an assignment that has allowed him to sit down with folks who collect everything from moustache cups to player pianos to airplane barf bags (unused).
If you want to reach Dave, you'll have to knock on his door. He has never owned a cell phone in his life and his next text message will be his first. Worse still, the married father of one has yet to see an episode of The Simpsons, a personality quirk his long-time editor and chum, Jill Wilson, finds almost unforgivable.


In a recent case, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal ordered an employer and one of its male employees to jointly pay $130,000 for pain and suffering to a female employee as result of the male employee's sexual harassment.
The employer company, Parker Manufactured Products Pty Ltd (Parker), was also ordered to pay a further $20,000 in aggravated damages for causing significant additional harm through its woeful and unbalanced response to the complainant's allegations.
finally – after she collapsed at work due to illness – driving her home, assisting her inside, climbing into her bed, hugging her from behind, attempting to undo her bra and making sexual comments.
The complainant never returned to work following the incident in her home, which occurred only 12 days after she commenced employment with Parker, but she made formal allegations in writing. Parker responded with an internal investigation, concluding that the allegations were not substantiated.
"did its best to actively support the [male employee] and blacken the character of the [complainant]".
Conduct an external legally privileged investigation to handle serious allegations of inappropriate workplace behaviour. This approach is more likely to safeguard the mental health of those involved, remove perceptions of bias and – if investigators are engaged through lawyers under privilege – provide a greater opportunity for carefully considered remedial action.
Ensure that your business has up-to-date policies and procedures on expected workplace conduct, covering topics such as discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment.
Arrange for regular "refresher" training on workplace rights and responsibilities for all employees. Make sure that managers are aware of their special obligations and receive whatever additional targeted training is necessary. This will reduce the risk of vicarious liability for employee misconduct.
If you would like assistance in relation to workplace policies and training, please contact the Macpherson Kelley Employment, Safety and Migration team.


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Grandview Heights Roundup: Cate Stanley's hard work lands her at first singles
Scott Hennen
Grandview Heights' Cate Stanley had been a soccer player, but when she entered high school she knew it was time for a change.
Stanley decided to give tennis a try, and she has worked her way up through the Bobcats' girls program to reach the No. 1 singles court as a senior. Facing some of central Ohio's top players in the MSL-Ohio Division, she had a 6-10 record before a match against Westland on Oct. 5.
"I was going to play soccer but I realized that wasn't my thing," Stanley said. "I heard there were some open courts (in tennis) so I decided to join. I ended up loving it so much.
"I love the team. The girls are my favorite people ever, and I really love the sport. It's one of the first sports that I tried that I felt confident in and I excelled in."
Coach Kathy Kinnard said Stanley is a hard-working player who bided her time at the j.v. level through much of her first three seasons, but has made a smooth transition to varsity.
"Cate is always battling, and she never gives up," said Kinnard, whose team was 7-9 overall after defeating Canal Winchester 3-2 on Sept. 30. "She doesn't have a power shot, but she plays a lot of balls and forces her opponents into making mistakes. She makes (her opponents) use all of their skills against her.
"She's in a tough position at No. 1 singles and plays everyone's best player in our tough league. I'm always concerned that (our No. 1 singles players) will get down on themselves, but Cate doesn't get discouraged and has been able to maintain herself."
Stanley finished 1-6 in the MSL-Ohio, leaving her with the same record as the Bobcats in league play. Columbus Academy went 7-0 to win the title.
"It's kind of scary (at first singles)," Stanley said. "On varsity, you're playing higher levels of people. It requires a really strong commitment to the team, and it's tough knowing you're going up against really tough people. You're playing the best.
"I just go into some matches thinking that even though I might not win this, I might as well work on other things. Things like winning a game or a point, or seeing how I can hit her serves or hit her shots, or can I get a close shot off of her. I've learned that winning isn't always the most important thing."
Stanley's transition to the varsity lineup was aided by the time she spent on the court this summer. With limited options during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, she was a mainstay on the McKinley Park courts.
"As soon as they opened up the courts, I was down here all of the time," she said. "I really think that helped my game. I was coming down to the courts and playing every other day with a friend or a member of my family."
Stanley enters the postseason playing singles along with teammates Dylan Dobbs-Euans and Lydia Robertson in a Division II sectional Thursday, Oct. 8, and Saturday, Oct. 10, at Academy.
The doubles teams feature Juliana Bongiorno and Kate Kukura, and Audra Naile and Marit Swanson.
The top four finishers in singles and doubles advance to district Oct. 15 and 17 at Academy.
"I like singles because I like having control of the court," Stanley said. "In doubles, I'm always watching the ball and I like to always be the first one there. It involves a lot of trust in your partner, which is good, but when I play I like being the one making all of the decisions."
One decision Stanley has made is that she only will play intramural tennis or against friends in college. She has a 4.3 GPA and plans to major in "a math field or something to do with conservation."
"(Kinnard) has taught me to play hard and have fun," Stanley said. "That means even if I feel miserable after a match, I need to remember that I did the best that I could do. Any time you play tennis, it's about the passion and fighting for every point and to keep battling throughout the match."
Boys golf team
advances to district
The boys golf team finished sixth in a Division III sectional Sept. 29 at Darby Creek to advance to the district tournament Thursday, Oct. 8, at Denison Golf Club.
The top six teams qualified for district, from which the championship team and the top golfer not on that team will advance to state Oct. 16 and 17 at NorthStar.
Grandview sophomore Colin Cleary shot 79 at sectional to finish as runner-up to medalist Carsten Judge (73) of Wellington.
"Colin was 1-over (par) on the back nine, going 42-37 for us," coach Kevin Richards said. "I think he could have shot a 75 or 76. He was playing that well. He four-putted the second hole and then played incredibly well after that."
The Bobcats totaled 370. The other district qualifiers were Worthington Christian (330), Centerburg (340), Fairbanks (340), Newark Catholic (348) and Wellington (368).
Senior Brendan Cleary (89) was next for Grandview, followed by junior Jack Greer (92) and sophomores Jacob Larson (110) and Nick Hayes (113).
"Brendan is our only senior, and it's great that he gets a chance to play at district," Richards said. "It's a really cool thing for these kids to make it to district, and they're excited for that chance."
The Bobcats last reached district in 2016 when they finished second (347) at Apple Valley behind Newark Catholic (334).
Amicon, Palmisciano
take second at Jerome
Senior Derek Amicon and freshman Madeline Palmisciano led the boys and girls cross country teams by finishing second in the group A varsity race in the Celtic Clash on Sept. 26 at Dublin Jerome.
Amicon, the defending Division III state champion, was second in 15 minutes, 47.02 seconds, behind Fredericktown's Thomas Caputo (15:34.05). The Bobcats finished sixth (163 points) of 11 teams behind champion Fredericktown (42).
Freshman Denison Murphy (fourth, 16:19.92), freshman Noah Curfman (21st, 17:36.5), senior P.J. Tingler (77th, 20:43.5) and freshman Nathan Reese (81st, 20:57.55) also scored.
Palmisciano (18:55.95) was second behind Jonathan Alder's Morgan Hicks (18:36.42) as the Bobcats were third (136) of 12 teams behind Jonathan Alder (54) and Buckeye Valley (55).
Sophomore Greta Tew (19th, 21:05.84), junior Nina Brown (29th, 22:10.24), freshman Jillian Curfman (32nd, 22:30.61) and junior Sosi Mahdasian (55th, 24:11.78) also scored.
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La plaça del Pi està situada al barri del Pi al districte de Ciutat Vella de Barcelona, davant de la porta principal de la basílica de Santa Maria del Pi. És un espai pla comprès entre dues rieres i el vell camí romà, l'actual carrer de la Boqueria, que sortia de la ciutat pel costat de ponent, caracteritzat per un pi singular.

Descripció
Segons la tradició popular, en temps de la invasió sarraïna el mar arribava fins aquestes alçades, i precisament en aquests contorns hi havia un barri de pescadors que van posar una forta resistència a la invasió. Quan va haver passat el flagell de la guerra i els temps van ser més tranquils, un d'aquells mariners, supervivent de la lluita, va trobar a la copa d'un pi una imatge de la Mare de Déu a la qual va ser dedicada, al mateix lloc del descobriment, una capella que amb el temps ha esdevingut l'actual temple. El pi va haver de ser substituït per un altre que perpetués el record, el qual va arribar a tenir tanta ufanor que la seva copa es veia per sobre dels edificis. Aquest gran pi romania fins que va tenir lloc la invasió francesa quan un soldat napoleònic va travessar-li el tronc amb una baioneta i va morir. Més tard va ser plantat un altre pi i un altre fins a arribar a l'actual, com a mostra de la tenacitat amb què s'intenta salvar el valor espiritual de la llegenda.

A més de l'església del Pi, en aquesta plaça s'aixeca la casa de l'antic gremi de revenedors, la façana de la qual va ser decorada amb esgrafiats, ja gairebé esvaïts. Té a més una fornícula que, fins a l'any 1936, va contenir una imatge de l'arcàngel sant Miquel, patró del gremi. Els revenedors van tenir a la seva capella de l'església del Pi un retaule amb magnífiques pintures del segle XV, de Jaume Huguet, del qual es conserven cinc retaules al Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Tenien també un pas de la processó de Setmana Santa, obra de l'escultor Damià Campeny, del segle XIX.

Al costat de la plaça del Pi, a la de Sant Josep Oriol, es troba una estàtua sedent de bronze d'Àngel Guimerà, rèplica fidel de la que hi ha situada davant del Teatre Guimerà de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Referències

Bibliografia
 Agustí Duran i Sanpere. Barcelona i la seva Història, Volum I, pàg. 477-480. Curial Editors, ISBN 84-7256-013-9.

Pi
Barri del Pi

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Q: Does global layer 7 http(s) load balancer has option to rate limiting? I use global http(s) load balancer for backend services running on Kubernetes cluster. I didn't find any information on how to limit number of requests in a time window from one IP. There is Cloud Armor, but there also simple IP, region, and header based access can be performed. Could you please share how can I perform IP based rate limitation on global http load balancer on google cloud to provide defence against DoS attacks.
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The backend service on running on Kubernetes cluster is a symfony server with web interface. I want to use Cloud CDN for the server therefore I had to use gce ingress instead of ingress-nginx. On google cloud, gce ingress creates a global HTTP(s) load balancer and ingress-nginx creates TCP load balancer.
In the nginx-ingress, I could simply use nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/limit-rps annotation, which helps in limiting flood of http requests. I want to do the similar configuration on my global HTTP(s) load balancer. In the current setting, I observed that flood of http requests are sent to the load balancer which are forwarded to the symfony server and at one point latency of request increases. Which makes the liveness probe fail for the pod.

A: Cloud Armor is a WAF that you can configure to protect your service against DoS attacks, especially by blocking specific IPs.
Rate limiting isn't to protect your service against DDoS. Indeed, if the attack flood your rate limiting service, your valid IPs and the bad IPs won't be served, because your service is flooded: it's a denial of service
Rate limiting helps to preserve resource for legit users. But some can try to overcome some constraint by using in a different (wrong/bad) manner your APIs.
For example, you have a paid API to export all the customer. You have a free API to request 1 customer. A user can say "Hey I don't want to pay, I will request in a loop the single customer API to create my daily report like that!". It's a misuse of the single customer API and you can protect it against this misuse with rate limiting
You can use Cloud Endpoint and ESP (Extensible Service Proxy). I wrote an article with an ESP deployed on  Cloud Run, but you can deploy it on K8S also.
You can also use API gateway which is the managed service of ESP, that will be soon plugable on HTTPS load balancer (to use it in addition to WAF protection).


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The main core of Venice is considered an island due to the Venice Waterway canal separating it from the mainland. The southern portion of Venice Island is occupied by the Venice Municipal Airport, as well as various parks and golf courses. There are also numerous businesses, restaurants, and services located around the intersection of Venice Avenue and Tamiami Trail (Venice's historic downtown area), and extending southward past Venice High School to the east.
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The Power of Oneback
By Geri Stengelon Feb 17, 2011 - 5:11am
After he retired, Burt Freeman set up a nonprofit program that he envisioned as a personal project in which he'd do all the work, "Something to keep me out of the pool halls."
In this last school year, the 11-year-old program gave 4,400 children the opportunity to choose and own books � in most cases, for the first time in their lives. Freeman hasn't counted how many children have been served overall.
His venture, My Own Book, is notable for two things: Recognizing that bigger may not be better, and seeing what's there instead of what you want to be there.
My Own Book has more than 60 volunteers and a steering committee of three retirees, also volunteers. It is funded by Freeman's family foundation as well as other foundations and individual donations. All money goes to program. It has no paid staff and no fundraising expenses. It is run entirely by volunteers.
The volunteers visit third-grade classrooms in all five boroughs of New York City, classrooms in schools that have at least 90 percent participation in the federal food program and no nearby bookstore. They discuss books, take the children to the nearest Barnes & Noble bookstore where each gets $50 (and a deep discount from BN) to buy their own books. The volunteers come back another day to discuss those books with the students.
Bigger may not be better
This school year, Freeman predicts the program will reach it's goal of 5,000 children in 50 schools.
And that, he says, is enough. Not because the need's been satisfied but because he's reached the limit of his organization's capacity. Expanding the program could risk it's integrity and effectiveness. Right now, the program has no expenses: All staff and management are volunteers. Other than Freeman's own occasional discussions with foundations, there's no fundraising. And volunteers are trained by other volunteers, including Freeman himself. The money goes to buying books.
The emphasis in the nonprofit world these days is on scaling, getting bigger or replicating. But Freeman has a different view. "I'm not comfortable doing more," he says. " I don't want to bite off more than I can chew."
The only way to expand, he says, is if another organization took over My Own Book completely, providing management, volunteer training, and all the paperwork, fundraising and staff that a larger project would entail.
He'd stay on as a volunteer because that's what he likes most: sitting on the floor with the children, talking about books, which he does with third graders in seven of the schools served by My Own Book.
Seeing What's There
In 1999, Freeman planned to start a computer-literacy program in East Harlem. To that end, he visited the East Harlem Tutorial Program, where he chatted with some of the students. He asked them about books they liked and realized that they didn't have books at home. The nearest bookstore with a children's section was more than 30 blocks away and books cost more than most families could afford.
Computer literacy was put aside in favor of teaching a love of reading and giving children their own books.
Another project began the same way. As he worked out in his gym, thinking about this and that, he noticed that the children in the summer camp outside his window were all white. That didn't seem right to him. Now his foundation provides scholarships to that summer camp for 125 children of color.
"Foundation people have to keep their eyes open, they have to be receptive and perceptive to see needs that exist all around them," Freeman advises.
Not just foundation people. Everyone.
As the saying goes, "I thought someone ought to do something about it; then I realized that I am someone.
What unmet needs do you see in your community? Should successful nonprofits always try to scale? Has your agency changed its focus to better meet community needs?


Is my two front teeth to get straightened, on someone else's credit card. Actually no. I'd settle for a few nice fellas who are cute in their headwear. I know you're shy, boys, but don't be. There's nothing wrong with having a nice helmet on. I won't make you do nothing crazy for the camera's, just stand there and smile a bit for the ladies at home. Otherwise, I'm suffering a serious gender imbalance. Honestly, for every girl I spy riding home looking "super sweet" I see another five fellows looking like their helmet has been rotting away in the back of the garage with rats and 'roaches eating it before they decided to put it on their head. Gross. Do like this fellow does. Get a nice plain helmet that matches your glasses and don't be afraid of clean clothes.


Isn't it about time? I'm really over the drab colours (no offence, but how long has it been?).
I offer to help if I can be of any assistance.
The forum isn't run with WordPress, it is powered by vBulletin. Look at the bottom left of any page, there is a dropdown with some styling choices.
I realise that, but can't we custom "skin" it? There are other skins available (free even), or we could customise (hack) the current skin...? Just a bit of a change at least, swap a few colours, font style...? No?
vBulletin only allows the admin to setup up some 'skins' and then users can select them thru the drop down.
I have often wondered why one of the wordpress forum plugins wasn't used?
this forum is not using WordPress...look at the very bottom of the screen.