Officer Jamie Pietroski, a 15-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, stayed late after work for several nights preparing "Swat Cat's" new home.
Meet the stray cat who — thanks to local policeman — lives in a cozy home for the winter.
"SWAT Cat" (the name will make sense in a bit) used to roam the streets of Boston until something caught its eye in the Boston Police Department's SWAT team's building and it decided to linger around the premises. So it became a constant companion to the officers who named her (you guessed) SWAT Cat, according to their Facebook post. Despite many attempts over the years to draw her inside the department — because as we all know that Boston is not exactly famous with its warm winter weather — SWAT Cat just hung out outside. So, finally, the officers took matters into their own hands and built her a condo. More specifically, a "cat condo."
"Officer Jamie Pietroski, a 15-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, stayed late after work for several nights painstakingly preparing Swat Cat's new home," the department wrote in a blog post. "The condo features a spacious studio interior layout, a large deck for outdoor dining and glass sliding doors offering panoramic city views." We told you, SWAT Cat has it better than all of us.
Apparently, she moved into her new digs right away. And so far, she's loving it.
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autogen.sh works but there are a lot of missing packages. Is there some setup file I am missing?

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Q: Flurry does not report all errors I am using flurry o trace crash and errors in my Android app. I recently discovered a problem where some of my errors (recorded with the onError() method) does  not show on the flurry analitycs.
To test if it wasn't some sort of configuration problem or delay, I fired some errors with the same configuration from differents place of my app. As a result I saw that errors fired from activity are correctly received, but some errors fired from my services are not received.
I enabled the flurry log, and they say that those errors are sent, but the flurry dashboard does not see them.
For example, an error that is never received is one I fire from a custom UncaughtExceptionHandler, since Flurry does not report service crash either. Here is its code :
    final Context context = this;
    final Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler uncaughtExceptionHandler = Thread.getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler();
    Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
        @Override
        public void uncaughtException(Thread thread, Throwable ex) {
            Log.e(TAG, "ERROR DETECTED------------------------------------------", ex);
            //Utils.sendFlurryError(context, "serviceCrash", "Uncaught error in Swiper Sevice",new Exception(ex));
            FlurryAgent.onError("serviceCrash","Uncaught error in Swiper Service",ex );
            NotificationManagerCompat manager = NotificationManagerCompat.from(context);
            NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context)
                    .setContentIntent(PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 42, new Intent(context, AppConstants.LAUNCH_CLASS), 0))
                    .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.icon_notif2)
                            //.setLargeIcon(BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.drawable.logo_rond))
                    .setGroup("swiper")
                    .setAutoCancel(true)
                    .setContentTitle("Swiper")
                    .setContentText("Swiper met an error. Please restart swiper to correct it");
            manager.notify(Notification.SWIPER_NOTIF_ID, builder.build());
           uncaughtExceptionHandler.uncaughtException(thread, ex);
        }

    });

If any of you encountered this kind of bug and know a way around, it would be much appreciated

A: Check this for crash tracking
https://www.crashlytics.com/
This is a good library, made by twitter.

A: onError was built more as an analog to logging events than as an answer for crash reporting.  In fact, the trace you submit will be truncated after 256 characters, which is the max length a value can have in an event.
Flurry does, however, offer a crash reporting solution which should suffice in this instance.
https://developer.yahoo.com/flurry/docs/overview/lexicon/crashanalytics/


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Cardinals, Falcons searching for second win of season
By DAVID BRANDT - Oct. 10, 2019 04:19 PM EDT
Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones (11) runs against the Tennessee Titans during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals and Atlanta Falcons are two football teams with a lot of similarities: productive offense, problems with the defense, and not a lot of wins.
At least the Cardinals have some momentum.
Arizona (1-3-1) is coming off its first win of the season, a 26-23 triumph over the Cincinnati Bengals. The Cardinals had a 23-9 lead midway through the fourth quarter before giving up two quick touchdowns, but salvaged the game thanks to a 31-yard field goal from Zane Gonzalez as time expired.
Now that the initial victory has been achieved for first-year coach Kliff Kingsbury and rookie quarterback Kyler Murray, they'd like to earn their first winning streak.
"We cleaned things up," Murray said. "We played better, but at the same time you, can't really dwell on it because we've got another game this weekend."
Atlanta (1-4) has spent a week in the desert after getting beaten by the Houston Texans 53-32. The Falcons didn't go home after the loss, flying directly from Houston to Phoenix and practicing on Arizona State's campus.
The Falcons are getting a lot of production through the passing game — quarterback Matt Ryan and receiver Julio Jones are on track for big seasons — but the running game has struggled and the defense has had issues, particularly last week.
Atlanta is hoping for a win against the Cardinals before a tough three-game stretch against the Rams, Seahawks and Saints.
"It's all 11 of us doing our job for four quarters," Ryan said. "There's been some good things, too. There's been time when we've moved the ball effectively and we've been able to score points, but we haven't been able to put a complete game together where we've played for four quarters of consistent football."
RED-ZONE WOES
There have been two versions of the Arizona offense this season: The one that looks great in the middle of the field and the one that bogs down in the red zone.
Arizona ranks eighth in the NFL with 22 scoring drives this season. The problem is that 14 of those drives ended with field goals instead of a touchdown.
"I'm open to suggestions if you have any," Kingsbury said with a grin. "I saw improvements. I know it didn't look like it, but I saw improvements in what we're trying to do. We just have to keep getting better, coaches and players, in that area.
GUARDING JULIO
Atlanta's Jones is on track for another big season. He's caught 26 passes for 359 yards and four touchdowns.
The two-time All-Pro will go against an Arizona secondary that includes several rookies such as cornerback Byron Murphy Jr., and safeties Deionte Thompson and Jalen Thompson. Star cornerback Patrick Peterson can't return until next week because of his six-game suspension for violating the NFL's policy on performance enhancers.
Advantage: Atlanta.
"Any time you're trying to stop him, no matter who you have, it's going to be a tall task," Kingsbury said. "He's phenomenal. Watching the tape from this season, I've always watched him from afar, but watching it on tape and really studying him, he's an absolute freak. He plays hard every snap. You can tell he's passionate about the game and does everything right."
BIG-PLAY DEFENSE
Arizona's had its issues on defense this season, but is still getting production from veteran pass rushers Chandler Jones and Terrell Suggs.
The Cardinals are tied for the NFL lead with 11 forced fumbles. Jones has forced three while Suggs and linebacker Jordan Hicks both have two. Jones has four sacks while Suggs has 3 1/2.
"Their edge players are guys who have been productive in this league for a long time and are disruptive in what they do," Ryan said.
KYLER'S PROGRESSION
Murray, the No. 1 overall pick in April's draft, has had a promising start to his career. He's thrown for 1,324 yards, four touchdowns and four interceptions while also running for 206 yards and two touchdowns. He's the first player in NFL history with more than 1,300 yards passing and 200 yards rushing through his first five career games.
Murray and Kingsbury both said they continue to grow in understanding what works for the offense.
"The more that the season goes on, and the more we spend time with each other, that trust and that bond will continue to grow," Murray said.
DEFENSIVE BOUNCE BACK
Atlanta's defense needs to play much than it did last week, when it gave up 53 points and 592 yards to the Texans.
Falcons coach Dan Quinn said making Murray uncomfortable in the pocket is a must for that to happen.
"It's a huge emphasis for us, rush, pressure, the whole thing that we can affect the quarterback," Quinn said. "Sometimes that's with four, sometimes that's with five, six, however it takes, it has to happen and is certainly is our mindset heading into this week.
AP Sports Writer John Marshall contributed to this story.
More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports

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Lawrence, Ann M. Teacher-Educator Identity Work in Doctoral Programs. RTE, Nov. 2017. Posted 01/04/2017.
Lawrence, Ann M. '(Dis)identifying as Writers, Scholars, and Researchers: Former Schoolteachers' Professional Identity Work during Their Teaching-Education Doctoral Studies." Research in the Teaching of English 52.2 (2017): 181-210. Print.
Ann M. Lawrence reports a longitudinal study of the ways in which teacher-education doctoral students specializing in language, literacy, and/or literature education at a Midwestern research university constructed identities as writers, scholars, and researchers. Lawrence's fieldwork over 16 consecutive semesters (185) gathered data from doctoral students who were previously PreK-12 schoolteachers (189) working toward professional positions as "university-based teacher educators" (182; emphasis original). Lawrence's research suggested that these students were reluctant to accept the identities of writer, scholar, or researcher for themselves.
Lawrence investigated the process of identity formation in two contexts, the doctoral program itself and extracurricular writing groups. Her data consisted of narratives on the semester evaluation forms for the writing groups, which she facilitated as "writing coach" (195). She focused particularly on "quick-write[s]," which she defines as "10 minutes of continuous, stream-of-consciousness writing" in response to the terms "writer," "scholar," and "researcher" and the question, "What criteria are you using to evaluate your writing/research?" (190). The prompts were designed to avoid "assuming connections between participation [as writers, scholars, and researchers] and identification" (190). Follow-up interviews and conversations also supplied data.
An important concept to Lawrence's theoretical design was that of "figured worlds," a term drawn from the identity-formation work of D. Holland, W. Lachicotte, D. Skinner, and C. Cain (183-84). In such worlds, participants identify "figuratively in terms of "available cultural associations with the personas" involved in that world, as well as "idealized versions of those characters and familiar plots of their activities" (183; emphasis original). For example, "academia" is a figured world; Lawrence casts the doctoral program and the writing-group environment as "localized figured worlds" in which
particular characters and actors [were] recognized, significance [was] assigned to certain acts, and particular outcomes [were] valued over others. (Holland et al., qtd. in Lawrence 184; emendations in Lawrence)
Both Holland et al. and Lawrence integrate this concept with Bakhtin's theory that "authoritative discourses" can become "internally persuasive" as people develop identities voa the discourses, which direct activities and perceptions within figured worlds (Bakhtin, qtd. in Lawrence 184).
Lawrence notes that in both the doctoral program and the writing groups, participants produced academic research writing, in many cases successfully submitting to conferences, journals, and books—even "compet[ing]" with faculty mentors (189). She reports that in the doctoral-program figured world, the participants were cast as students under the directorship of an authoritative faculty supervisor. In contrast, in the voluntary writing groups, which met both face-to-face and online, participants were considered colleagues and collaborators (184, 187).
Comprehensive tables track the shifting identifications of the participants across semesters as they worked on a variety of scholarly and professional products. Lawrence's analysis of the quick-writes of the 10 woman and single man in the study revealed "a genre of (dis)identification narrative recounted by the women" but not by the man (194).
The narrative, Lawrence writes, developed through three "plot points" (195). The women recognized the "figural" personas associated with the terms writer, scholar, and researcher: "literary authors, discerning individuals, and meticulous investigators" (196). In the second plot move, the women distanced themselves from such figures, whom they saw as hierarchical and elite, characterized by "exclusiveness" and, in the depiction of one student, "superiority" (197). Finally, the women "revised their initial images of writers, scholars, and researchers to evoke more of their own values, practices, and goals," creating
a revised figurative identity that did not require publication, privileged the self as audience, and promoted the aesthetic experience of "spontaneous" composing, rather than adherence to genre "conventions." (quotations from study participant in Lawrence 197)
In Lawrence's view, with these moves, the women recognized "figurative identities" affiliated with the figured world of academia but refused "positional" identifications that would have required them to accept the relations of power, authority, and privilege associated with their perceptions of these figures (196). The women opted to recreate the figures into "amalgams" with limited expertise and authority that they were then willing to claim (197).
In contrast, the male participant aligned himself with the conventional academic identities, displaying little of the conflict evident in the women's narratives (200-01). However, he subsequently revealed to Lawrence that his portrayal of himself concealed responses similar to those of the women that he had felt "inhibited from sharing" because of "sociocultural norms" dictating masculine expressions of weakness or doubt (202).
Lawrence indicates that the voluntary writing groups introduced many of the skills necessary to successful academic research and publication, but that the study participants struggled to accept the role of authoritative colleague that these groups offered, opting more often for the role of "student' encouraged by the doctoral figured world (202-03), thus, in Bakhtin's terms, finding the "schoolishness" (A. E. Whitney, qtd. in Lawrence 206) of the program's "authoritative discourses" more "internally persuasive" (203). For Lawrence, these choices may be related to an "imposter syndrome" derived from the widespread lack of authority granted to schoolteachers and even to teacher-researchers in general, especially to the women who most often occupy these roles (204-05).
Lawrence stresses the importance of teacher-education programs that encourage developing faculty to recognize and act on their authority as researchers and colleagues. She notes that in later correspondence, her participants reported that their tendency to avoid these roles affected their ability to earn promotions and assert their expertise in their later careers (204-05).
In her discussion, Lawrence explores how the figured worlds of the writing groups and the more formal doctoral program might work together more effectively to encourage professional identity formation among students like her participants. Because the groups, as voluntary and extracurricular activities, did not command the "institutional authority" of the program itself, their influence on identities may have been undercut (206).
Lawrence suggests that program faculty might become more proactive as participant-facilitators in these groups by acting as colleagues rather than supervisors and sharing their own experiences as writers and researchers (207). Although faculty might fear "potential risks to faculty authority" (207), Lawrence argues that such roles can lead faculty to explore their own roles as educators and allow group members, including faculty, to analyze their trajectories through different identities, including that of "schoolteacher," which Lawrence sees as an important springboard for the study of writing education (182). Such interaction, Lawrence contends, can make the doctoral program itself more conducive to collegial interaction (206-07). Lawrence urges more research into the development of faculty identity with attention to gender and to the productive intersection of possible figured worlds (205-06).
Categories: Disciplinarity, Expertise, Gender, graduate education programs, Professional Development, RTE, self-efficacy | Tags: authoritative discourses, C. Cain, D. Holland, D. Skinner, doctoral programs, figured worlds, identity formation, imposter syndrome, Mikhail Bakhtin, teacher education, teacher researchers, W. Lachicotte, writing | Permalink.


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Own the original Hue Bridge? Philips is cutting support for it
Maggie Tillman, Contributing editor · 6 March 2020 ·
- Are you annoyed by this decision?
(Pocket-lint) - Philips' original Hue Bridge is a hub used to help Philips Hue bulbs work with smartphones and assistants like Google Assistant and Alexa.
However, starting next month, it is losing support for all internet-connected services, which will severely limit its functionality.
Philips said its customers will notice on 30 April that, while they can still use the first version of the Hue Bridge hub, it'll only work when connected to the same local network as the Philips Hue Bridge v1 app. It also won't get any app software updates or security patches, effectively forcing customers to upgrade to a newer model of the Hue Bridge if they want to use internet-connected services, assistants, new features, etc.
The company first revealed it would cut support for the Hue Bridge last year. Now, it's issuing a date, with the confirmation it doesn't plan to support original devices for years. It began selling the Bridge about seven years ago, and it is the first major Hue device to lose connectivity, support, and patches. The second Hue Bridge is getting old, too, having debuted in 2015. It's still supported, however.
Philips is reassuring customers on Twitter that "there is no planned date when the Bridge v2 will no longer be supported". The company also confirmed to customers it is "not working on a new bridge at the moment either so will continue working with the V2".
If you can't tell which Hue Bridge you own, the original model is circular, while the second model is rectangular.
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Microsoft has announced the launch of the Power BI Enterprise Gateway from preview to now general availability. The Enterprise Gateway replaces the Personal Gateway for scenarios where corporate IT departments want to provide centralized integration with their on premise data sources to Power BI.
The latest version of the gateway supports live query (e.g. not just a scheduled data refresh) against on premise SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services cubes and SAP HANA databases.
There are also some improved governance features such as ability to use security groups to control access to publishing of reports and access to data sources.
The Enterprise Gateway is free and can be downloaded here.


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Q: ASP.NET Impersonation design This is my ASP.NET authentication operation.
    private void LoginButton_Click(Object sender,
                       EventArgs e)
    {
        string userName = txtUserName.Value;
        string password = txtUserPass.Value;

        if (ValidateUser(txtUserName.Value, txtUserPass.Value))
        {
            FormsAuthenticationTicket tkt;
            string cookiestr;
            HttpCookie ck;
            tkt = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(1, txtUserName.Value, DateTime.Now,
                                                DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(3), chkPersistCookie.Checked,
                                                userName + "@ticket");
            cookiestr = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(tkt);
            ck = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, cookiestr);
            if (chkPersistCookie.Checked)
                ck.Expires = tkt.Expiration;
            ck.Path = FormsAuthentication.FormsCookiePath;
            Response.Cookies.Add(ck);

            string strRedirect;
            strRedirect = Request["ReturnUrl"];
            if (strRedirect == null)
                strRedirect = "MyAccount.aspx";
            Response.Redirect(strRedirect, true);
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I have User table in my db where all credentials are saved. Using ValidateUser method I am doing credentials validation. Also I have three type of users: Member, Moderator and Administrator. Each type of members has unique functionality. Lets say I have A, B and C T-SQL stored inside in my db.
What should I to to let for:
Member execute only A query.
Moderator execute A and B.
Administrator execute A,B and C.
Of course, I can manage execution from Web app, but I am not sure how safe it is. Technically I can execute similar query outside of App, which gives access to all db data. I want somehow combine Web App login and Db access as well.
Thanks!

A: If these queries are going to come from the web app, I think you would want to manage the code side that invokes the procedures..  you could maintain a list of urls in your database, assign roles, and give these roles access to specific urls.  These urls would dictate what queries a user could execute...
then in your code you could assign custom attributes to limit access to them....

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In between thunder storms and tornado watches this weekend I went shopping and purchased new reading glasses that I've been needing for some time. It's a revelation to again see all the details that I've been missing. Look at that! This is great! I've been quite happy with my new eyes, that is until this morning when I looked in the mirror.
Where are my old glasses?
This blog is 1 year and 8 days old.
No, this is not a sarcastic rant about President Obama and change you can believe in.
I've had some recent news that is disturbing. Some of it is personal and will remain private. I'm still sad about Gabi, there's changes at work, a relative is ill, etc. One phrase continues to come to mind, which is, the harvest you reap comes from the seeds you sow.
My apologies if I appear enigmatic. I'm OK and will continue to be OK. A bright spot on the horizon is an upcoming vacation. It's been a long time.


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Homily of Bishop Noel Treanor, for the Lost Souls of the Titanic, St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast
Homily of Bishop Noel Treanor on the occasion of performance of Philip Hammond's Requiem for the Lost Souls of the Titanic, St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast, Sunday 15 April 2012
My dear friends, I welcome you all to the celebration of this Requiem for the Lost Souls of the Titanic on the octave of Easter Sunday, sometimes referred to as Low Sunday, now Divine Mercy Sunday in the Catholic tradition.
The liturgical celebration of this Requiem, composed by Philip Hammond with the remarkable support of the artistic, private and public sectors, finds its immediate liturgical backdrop for Christians in the liturgies and rites of the Easter Triduum – Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil – which we have just celebrated in our Churches in the west and which our Orthodox brothers and sisters celebrate this weekend. In 1912 Easter Sunday fell on the 7 April, a week before the maiden voyage.
In the course of the great Easter liturgies the Christian community encounters anew each year the mystery of the God who suffers and dies. In Word, rite and sacrament, those ceremonies engage the believer, the participant, with the death of God, a chilling reality for religious faith and for thought.
From the sombre, silent, awesome memory of the death of God in Jesus of Nazareth, in the liturgy of the Easter Vigil, Christians encounter the memory of the empty tomb and those traces of post-resurrection experiences recounted in the closing chapters of the gospel texts, such as today's extract form the gospel according to St John. The Easter Vigil itself, celebrating Christ as light, with the Easter fire and the Paschal Candle, recapitulates in its liturgy of the Word creation, the dramatic struggle in human experience between religious faith and amnesia of the divine, between chaos, disaster and the promise and hope of salvation.
The Easter rites build in particular on the searing experience of Christ's disciples and friends, on the faith-testing and dramatic swing from their perceived death of God in this Jesus to the trans-sensual, senses-breaking, perplexing, extra-ordinary experiences of the Risen Lord.
On those Paschal days liturgical Word, Rite and Sacrament gather the present experience, aspiration and suffering of the living participants and link them to the Jewish and Christian religious history, to what Christian call salvation history. These rites and liturgies proclaim hope for humanity in the figure and life of Jesus Christ.
Thomas, the human archetype in the gospel extract we have just heard, touching, fingering a wound in that Mystery breathes forth, exclaims a word of faith. His voice may speak for many in liminal instants of human experience – those moments when we feel poised on the limit of our existence – especially that ultimate threshold moment of our passage from chronological time to the eternal, in whatever circumstances in occurs, and experienced in such freezing, frightening and watery horror on that night in the North Atlantic.
This Requiem is a homage and a commemoration for the more than 1500 who perished one hundred years ago last night. A work of creative ingenuity, like the Titanic itself, this composition acknowledges the disaster of the 14/15 April 1912. This Requiem exudes the intimation of limitation within aspiration, ambition, achievement and ingenuity.
As with our acts of commemoration and our prayers for the drowned, the lost, and those who suffered as survivors, this music also has its source in the intimation that human mortality, human ingenuity itself, seek, aspire, hope for completion in the transcendence they intimate.
This work of composer, artists and musicians, inspired by the tragedy of that awful night in the north Atlantic, by the testimony of survivors and by the intractable reality of suffering as an integral part of the human condition, this monumental Requiem pays homage to the lost souls of the drowned, to the heroism of crew, passengers, chaplains, musicians, radio operators and many others, who gave their lives in faithful service to duty and to their fellow passengers in mortal peril.
In so doing this Requiem exhales a prayer, rooted in the depths of the human spirit, a prayer that is an expression in music of eternal human empathy with the lost of the tragic end of the Titanic, a prayer that in this Eucharist is linked with the saving death of God in Jesus Christ.
This work, now executed in time for eternity, last night in St Anne's, represented here today by its Dean, Reverend Canon John Mann, and today in St Peter's Cathedrals here in Belfast, city of the ship's construction, unites our community one hundred years later in naming the tragedy and its painful memories.
For the families of the fated passengers those memories are but two or three generations old. Having named them in music, prayer and worship, the artistic, creative and religious spirit of our city empowers us to carry our pasts with courage, humility and care for a common future free of past divisions and miscalculations.
The art and acumen of musicians, who waked the vessel to the last, now once again in her native city, wafts the memory of the women, men and children of the sinking Titanic to prayerful and living Christian memory. It does so transcending distinction of creed, confession and race and consigns them, and all of us in fine to the domain of eternal light and peace, with the words of Lux aeterna, laced ingeniously in this composition with the words of a Jewish blessing beginning with the words, Adonai Yisa Adonai, as it invokes the archangels Michael to my right, Gabriel to my left, Uriel in front of me, Rafael behind me and, God's presence, over my head.
Lux aeterna, (eternal light) – Requiem aeternam (eternal rest) – Shekihah (the presence of God) – Lux (light) : thus music and prayer will mingle in the closing bars and moments of this Requiem and Mass in commemoration and eternal hope …
On this first Sunday of Easter, as we await in our earthly existence the hope of the Resurrection, we consign the dead of that maiden voyage, indeed human striving and creativity in all its dimensions of ingenuity, failure, disaster and aspiration to God's eternal, creative, enlightening and saving Presence.
Homily of Bishop John Fleming to mark the centenary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
Vocations Sunday 2012


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from raptiformica.distributed.exec import try_machine_command

def try_get_members_list(host_and_port_pairs):
    """
    Iterate over host and port pairs and try to list the members list on each
    of them until one returns a nonzero exit code. At that point return the standard
    out output. If we ran out of host and port pairs to try, log a warning and return None
    :param list[tuple, ..] host_and_port_pairs: A list of tuples containing host and ports
    of remote hosts
    :return str members_list | None: 'consul_members' output or None
    """

    list_members_command = ["consul", "members"]
    attempt_message = "Trying to get members list from {}:{}"
    all_failed_message = "Could not list members in the distributed network. " \
                         "Maybe no meshnet has been established yet. " \
                         "Do you have at least three machines running?"
    output, _, _ = try_machine_command(
        host_and_port_pairs,
        list_members_command,
        attempt_message=attempt_message,
        all_failed_message=all_failed_message
    )
    return output

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We know that Corrine was last seen on her way to a neighborhood park on June 1st, 1992. Her two brothers went to retrieve her and she was nowhere to be found.
She was reportedly seen talking to an unknown male by a child in the park, and petting his dog.
A family friend named Robert Guevara was suspected in her disappearance. A dress similar to that she was last seen wearing was found in the trailer he was living in. It was covered in blood and other fluids, which could have come from him or Corrine. DNA testing wasn`t as sophisticated as it is now, so there was no way to determine this for sure.
Guevara was charged with her kidnapping and murder, but was acquitted in 1992. This was primarily because DNA evidence wasn't admissible in courts.
She was declared deceased in 1994, although her body has yet to be recovered.
It actually makes me kind of sick to know that the person suspected responsible for hurting this beautiful little girl will never get what's coming to him. I have been following missing children's cases for a while now, and this one has stuck with me since I started. This girl deserves to be laid to rest. There has to be someone who knows something. The smallest detail may make a world of difference.


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by Staff October 5, 20178:06 am July 4, 2020
A case of horrendous management: New York Mets 2013-2017
Lack of planning might have doomed the organization
The last five years have seen their ups and down for the New York Mets baseball organization. From a World Series appearance in 2015, to a 90+ lose season in 2017. Even in the good times of the 2015 play off push, mistakes were made by the organization. Mistakes that could impact the Mets team for years to come.
The Mets have been built on the promise of top notch starting pitching. Sandy Alderson acknowledged early on in his tenure as general manager, that home grown, top tier starters would be a priority.
The Mets in turn, made countless mistakes in the development of these pitchers.
The first mistake is the lack of development of Travis d'Arnaud. Now let's be clear. Travis never has to throw another runner out to be an effective catcher. His potential has always been with the bat. If his bat is working, his arm doesn't need to.
There is more to a catcher's defense then throwing runners out. Working with the pitchers and calling a well planned out game is of utmost importance in today's game.
The main mistake the Mets made is not bringing in a veteran catcher to mold and tutor Travis. All due respect to guys like Rene Rivera, Anthony Recker and Kevin Plawecki. But these are players trying to figure out how to catch at the MLB level too.
A veteran like one of the Molinas, or even Matt Weiters this off season, could teach d'Arnaud how to scout opposing hitters, how to formulate a game plan based on that scouting, and finally, how to work with the pitchers to implement that plan.
All of this would have helped the prize starters reach their full potential. A young staff needs a catcher that can lead them. A year or two under the right mentor, and Travis could have been that catcher and he could be leading this staff now.
The next mistake the Mets organization made was giving up defense, particularly on the infield, in exchange for offense.
The Mets starting pitchers, over the last four to five years, have all been young, developing pitchers. They all have been on a pitch count and innings limits. And rightfully so.
If a pitcher is on a pitch count, every pitch is important. If a certain second baseman can't turn a double play, it adds pitches to the starters total. 10 extra pitches could mean the difference between working into the 7th inning, or being taken out after 5 2/3.
Having Murphy, Wilmer Flores and Ruben Tejada up the middle in those first couple of season with the young staff just wasn't good enough defensively. Even things like having Yoenis Cespedes play center cost these young pitchers.
In 2016 the Mets added Asdrubal Cabrera and Neil Walker. While these two improved the infield defense tremendously, they are still considered offensive players first. In 2017, the Mets took a major step back defensively. They had one of the highest averages against balls put in ball, in the majors.
Improved team defense could have saved runs, but also would help to keep pitch counts low, allowing these starters to work deeper into games.
Next. It is entirely possible the Mets ruined Matt Harvey the way the Yankees ruined Joba Chamberlin and Phil Hughes.
Coming off Tommy John surgery, there should have been a plan in place before Harvey even made it to spring training in 2015. If there needed to be a meeting in the off season with Harvey, his parents, his agent, the Mets front office, doctors and Terry Collins, there should have been.
It is incredible no one thought or talked about a set innings limit before August 2015, while the Mets were in the middle of the play off hunt.
Coming off surgery like that, no pitcher can push 200 innings after missing the previous season. Especially true if you care about the long term health of the player.
A plan should have been in place to keep Harvey's innings down, while maximizing his talent. There are plenty of ways to accomplish this.
One simple plan would have been to keep Harvey in extended spring training the first month of the season. He could have worked out in the warm Florida sun, instead of working his way back in cold New York. Time missed in April could be time pitching in September.
The St. Louis Cardinals have at time, with either young pitchers, or those coming back from surgery, have the pitcher start the season in the bullpen.
The pitcher knows what days he's pitching prior; he only pitches an inning an outing, and starts a clean inning. He does not work back to back days. It takes planning, but it could be done. If the Mets had any plan at all.
One solution they tried early on but abandoned was to have a six starter. Dillion Gee would have fit this role perfectly. But again, it seemed like the Mets did not have a real plan, and were piecing this together as they went. They did a poor job implementing it, and communicated the plan poorly to the pitching staff, the media and the fans.
After a week or so of tough, non stop questions, Terry Collins caved and abandoned the entire idea.
If there was an actual plan in place, it could have worked well. It means each of the top 5 starting pitchers all get 5 days off between starts. Not 4, which is the norm, but also not 7 or 8 days off, either.
If the team has an off day, the 6th starter goes to the pen for a couple of days. When the Mets play 7 or 10 or 12 days in a row, the 6 starter slots in, to provide full rest for all of the starters.
This would have kept Harvey's innings down, and benefited the other young pitchers like Noah and deGrom as well. Maybe both of them stay healthy in 2016 and 2017, respectively, if their innings were managed better in 2015.
A plan was needed from the beginning.
When Sandy Alderson took over as General manager, he recognized the need to build from within. And the best way to do this, according to Sandy, was to build a strong starting rotation from within the organization.
Sandy accomplished that, but fell short in developing these young pitchers into the dominate staff Mets fans believe these pitchers could be.
The lack of vision, and long term planning could cost the team dearly, in the years to come.
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#include <thread>
#include <iostream>

#include "alterstack/io/timer.hpp"
using alterstack::Timer;

int main()
{
    Timer timer;
    timer.start( std::chrono::milliseconds(1)
                 ,[&]()
                {
                    static unsigned i = 0;
                    std::cout << "Hello from timer\n";
                    if( i++ >= 7 )
                        timer.stop_from_callback();
                }
                , std::chrono::milliseconds(1) );
    std::this_thread::sleep_for( std::chrono::milliseconds( 8 ) );
    timer.stop();
    std::cout << "Timer restarted\n";
    timer.restart( std::chrono::milliseconds(1) );
    std::this_thread::sleep_for( std::chrono::milliseconds( 2 ) );

    return 0;
}