Is the NFC ring compatible with the fido u2f standard?
No, the NFC Ring is not a FIDO U2F device. If you are looking for one, I recommend the YubiKey Neo. Beware! Full support is not available as of right now.
Are there any plans for a future version of the NFC Ring with fido u2f compatibility?
@johnyma22 Their source is still on github. What do you mean they dropped open source?
If you want to try an inexpensive u2f device this one is $6 and has been working for me (except under Linux, but I think I can fix that). Some of the Amazon comments suggest fragility if kept on a key chain, but I keep it tucked down in a corner of my wallet and it has been working since Christmas.
That's very sad. I remember when I got my first YubiKey several years ago and was able to play with the tools, since they were open source.
Anyways, things come, things go.
@johnyma22 Thanks for the reply!


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Q: Using HATEOAS and Backbone.js I've started experimenting with Backbone.js, and was struck by the documentation for the documentation for the url property on Backbone.Model.
In particular, I'm building out a REST API that uses HATEOAS/hypermedia to drive the client(s).
I can see the usefulness of Backbone's default behaviour of building up URLs itself for items in a collection, but for my case, would prefer to have the model URLs built out of the data that is parsed.
Has anyone extended/built on Backbone to make it do this? Maybe building upon a "standard" like HAL?
EDIT:
For clarification, let's say I have the following:
GET /orders >>
[
  {
     "_links": {
       "self": "/orders/123"
     }
     "name": "Order #123",
     "date": "2012/02/23"
  },
  {
     "_links": {
       "self": "/orders/6666"
     }
     "name": "Order #666",
     "date": "2012/03/01"
  },
]

and I have an Order model like:
var Order = Backbone.Model.extend({
});

I would like the url property to be automatically pulled out of the "self" reference in the HAL. I think creating a new base model something like (not tested):
var HalModel = Backbone.Model.extend({
  url: function() {
    return get("_links").self;
  },
});

Thoughts?

A: Thanks for the clarification @Pete.
I think I see what your proposing and I suppose it could work.  However, in your example, you first had to know the /Orders url before you were able to get the orders.  And if you reworked your json to have an id property, you'd be pretty close to the default implementation of backbone.
Now if you just want to use a generic model or base model (e.g. HALModel) and just bootstrap it with data, your approach could be useful and definitely could work.  However, I would look at overriding parse to pull the url out and set it on the model:
parse: function(response) {
    this.url = response._links.self;
    delete response._links;
    return response;
}

A: I complement here the response of Simon to explain how to easily do it using gomoob/backbone.hateoas.
// Instanciation of an Hal.Model object is done the same way as you're
// used to with a standard Backbone model
var user = new Hal.Model({
    firstName: "John",
    lastName: "Doe",
    _links: {
        avatar: {
            href: "http://localhost/api/users/1/avatar.png"
        },
        self: {
            href: "http://localhost/api/users/1"
        }
    },
    _embedded: {
        address: {
            "city" : "Paris",
            "country" : "France",
            "street" : "142 Rue de Rivoli",
            "zip" : "75001",
            "_links" : {
                "self" : {
                    "href" : "http://localhost/api/addresses/1"
                }
            }
        }
    }
});

// Now we you can easily get links, those lines are equivalent
var link1 = user.getLink('avatar');
var link2 = user.getLinks().get('avatar');

// So getting self link is simple too
var self = user.getLink('self');

// All the Hal.Link objects returned by backbone.hateoas are in fact
// standard Backbone models so its standard Backbone
link1.get('href');
link1.getHref();

// You can do more with shortcut methods if your HAL links
// have more properties
link1.get('deprecation');
link1.getDeprecation();
link1.get('name');
link1.getName();
link1.get('hreflang');
link1.getHreflang();
link1.get('profile');
link1.getProfile();
link1.get('title');
link1.getTitle();
link1.get('type');
link1.getType();
linke1.get('templated');
link1.isTemplated();

// You can also manipulate embedded resources if you need
user.getEmbedded('address').get('city');
user.getEmbedded('address').getLink('self');
...

Finally we provide an Hal.Model.url() implementation which is more powerful than standard Backbone url() and which is very useful if you use HAL.
// By default url() returns the href of the self link if this self
// link is present
user.url();

// If the self link is not defined then url() has the same behavior
// as standard Backbone url() method
// My user is link to a user collection having a URL equal to
// 'http://localhost/user1'
user.url(); // http://localhost/users/1

// My user is not link to a user collection in this case the URL is
// generate using the model urlRoot property by default
user.urlRoot = 'http://myserver/users';
user.url(); // http://localhost/users/1

// backbone.hateoas also allows you to define an application wide root
// URL which prevent to use absolute URLs everywhere in your code
Hal.urlRoot = 'http://localhost/api';  // HAL root API URL

var user = new Hal.Model({ id : 1});
user.urlMiddle = 'users';
user.url(); // http://localhost/api/users/1

Hope this helps, don't hesitate to post issues on our github if you need help on this.

A: I've extended backbone to do exactly this, the library is available here:
https://github.com/mikekelly/backbone.hal

A: You can override the url function on the model to calculate the URL however you want; it's completely extensible.

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The Friends of UWA Rugby Club holds an annual Long Lunch with proceeds from the lunch to contribute to The Friends of UWA Rugby Foundation which helps fund bursaries for student players of the club. So what better way of aiding such a good cause than to get together with a table of like-minded rugby supporters or colleagues to while away the afternoon?
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Congratulate these 2012 CALS Outstanding Senior Award recipients
CALS Outstanding Senior Awards recognize students for their scholastic performance, leadership, and service. Students who are nominated by their department or have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher can apply. Applications are reviewed faculty and staff on the CALS Recruitment and Scholarships Committee.
CALS Recruitment and Scholarship Committee Members: Tom Browne, Ted Halbach, Janine Jensen, Allen Laughon, Karen Martin, Bernie O'Rourke, Jessie Potterton, Dave Stoltenberg, LeAnn Tigges, Monica Theis, and Anita Thompson
This year, each CALS Outstanding Senior Award winner maintains at least a 3.8 grade point average.
In addition to their outstanding academic performance, these students demonstrate remarkable records in both leadership and service.
2012 Outstanding Senior Award Winners
Andrew Lang (Biochemistry and Spanish) — Andrew had a very impressive undergraduate career. While maintaining a 4.0 grade point average, he participated in two mentored research opportunities. In his current lab Andrew developed HIV-1 RNA mutant constructs to investigate frameshifting and hopes to publish the work. Andrew also participated in a study abroad experience and regularly volunteered as a middle school tutor and for an English as a Second Language class. Andrew's outstanding academic performance and engagement in professional pursuits provides an excellent model for future students.
Zeeshan Haq (Biochemistry and Middle Eastern Studies) — Zeeshan will complete an Honors Degree while pursuing majors in the life sciences and social sciences. During his time at UW-Madison, Zeeshan participated in many research and volunteer activities. He not only participated in mentored research on campus, but also completed a clinical research internship with the Minneapolis Heart Institutes and co-chaired the American Medical Student Association's research committee. Zeeshan's scholarly pursuits also included participating in the Lubar Institute's Undergraduate Forum. Zeeshan regularly volunteered in medical settings and tutored fellow students in organic chemistry and biochemistry. Zeeshan's high level of achievement is deserving of Outstanding Senior Award recognition.
Kasandra Brown (Community and Environmental Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies) — Kasandra made a tremendous contribution to UW-Madison through leadership on social issues. In FH King Students for Sustainable Agriculture, Kasandra organized events for other students to learn about sustainable agriculture. She was also a leader on LGBT issues on campus organizing a Day of Silence and the LGBT Leadership Institute. Kasandra also worked hard to promote student academic success. She served as a Study Skills Outreach Coordinator and volunteered as a Conversational English Partner for Greater University Tutoring Service. Kasandra's academic performance and record of service are remarkable.
Kristi Freitag (Biological Systems Engineering and Technical Japanese) — Kristi's academic performance and commitment to service are inspiring. In addition to completing a rigorous academic program in Biological Systems Engineering, Kristi completed a certificate in Technical Japanese. Kristi enhanced her classroom experience with three research experiences. In the Madison community Kristi volunteered her time with the Schools of Hope program where she tutored middle school youth. She also volunteered with the Nehemiah Foundation LIGHT Program where she tutored and mentored high school students. Kristi's academic achievement and contribution to the community are deserving of Outstanding Senior Award recognition.
Amelia Van Handel (Biology) — Amelia's scholastic accomplishments and participation in professional development activities are admirable. She has maintained a 4.0 grade point average, while being extremely active on campus and in the community. Her interest in becoming a surgeon led her to shadow general, internal, and cardiovascular surgeons; volunteer with the Red Cross, UW-Hospital Wig Salon, and VA Hospital Emergency Department; and be an active member in the Health Professionals Society. As a House Fellow, Amelia helped shape the UW-Madison experience for the men and women in her residence hall. Somehow she found time to be an officer in the UW-Madison Ballroom Dance Association, coach and judge the Madison West High School forensics team, and tutor other students in chemistry, physics, and writing. Her broad interests and abilities make her an outstanding CALS student.
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The ICAC deals with all matters in a professional, objective, unbiased and fair manner.
Initial processing
Following a report or complaint about suspected corrupt conduct, the ICAC will:
register the matter on a database
acknowledge receipt of the matter
ask the complainant for more information if necessary
if the matter is within the ICAC's jurisdiction, compile a report to the ICAC Assessment Panel ("the Panel") for consideration and decision on a course of action.
Deciding on further action
The Panel decides the course of action that will be taken on matters, reports and complaints within the ICAC's jurisdiction. Depending on the nature, the Panel may decide to:
refer the matter to another agency if it is outside the authority of the ICAC. For example, the ICAC would refer a complaint about corrupt conduct by a NSW police officer to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, depending on the level of seriousness
decide to take no action because the matter complained about does not constitute corrupt conduct under the Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988 ("the ICAC Act")
direct either the agency that is the subject of the complaint, or an appropriate supervisory agency, to investigate and report back to the ICAC (the Panel makes this decision only where the agency has the capacity to conduct an investigation and would not be compromised)
conduct assessment enquiries; for example, to establish whether the agency involved has already dealt with the matter. Depending on these enquiries, the ICAC may decide to take no further action, refer it to another agency or undertake an investigation
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Lonnie Johnson recalls sitting in his machine shop 30 years ago, wondering if it was time to give up on his quest to bring a powerful new water gun to the toy market. By that time, he had written letters to more than 75 toy manufacturers and retailers. He had visited countless offices, worked with a sea of executives, built numerous prototypes, and repeatedly explained and re-explained the manufacturing process. And he hadn't made a dollar off it.
Johnson, the recipient of the 2019 Golden Mousetrap Lifetime Achievement Award, fortunately overcame that temptation to quit. In 1989, he found a manufacturer. A year after that, his Super Soaker toy hit the market. By 1992, it had become the number-one-selling toy in the world.
For Johnson, however, the 10-year period leading up to that amazing success was a rocky one. It was an introduction to the tough, unpredictable, maddeningly illogical life of the independent inventor. It was a life full of closed doors — a life for which Johnson had not been completely prepared.
A design engineer by trade, Johnson had worked for the US Air Force and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory prior to his invention of the Super Soaker. He had developed electrical devices and nuclear power energy systems for the Galileo spacecraft. He had participated in the design of the Stealth Bomber.
But in 1982, everything changed. While working on a new kind of heat pump design for refrigerators, he tested out a valve in his bathroom sink. Water trickled into the valve, then spurted across the room, splattering against the wall. Watching the water drip down the tub wall, Johnson immediately thought water gun. He built a prototype gun for his daughter, who showed it to her friends, who loved it.
Johnson considered manufacturing the toy himself, but soon learned that he would need $200,000 for production tooling. As a captain in the US Air Force, however, he didn't have ready access to that much disposable cash. So Johnson drove to the library and began combing through trade journals, in search of toy manufacturers and retailers. He identified between 75 and 100, then started writing letters.
In his mind, the squirt gun's concepts were simple and unique, but nonetheless unexplored by others. All were grounded in everyday physics. Inside the gun, he used tubing with a large cross-sectional area to reduce head loss. He employed a small-diameter pump to minimize the required force, so a small child could operate it. He applied pressurized air to force the water from the gun in a powerful, high-velocity stream. And he made sure that the water flowed directly from the gun's pressurized reservoir to its nozzle, minimizing potential pressure losses along the way.
Still, toymakers didn't beat a path to his door. Most didn't respond to his letters. A few, including Hasbro Inc. (the company that ultimately made almost $1 billion from the Super Soaker), rejected his pitch. Eventually, a BB gun manufacturer expressed interest. Its engineers examined the prototype, dismantled it, and then fell out of touch. When Johnson asked for the gun back, they said they didn't know how to reassemble it. Another toy manufacturer showed interest, but only on the condition that Johnson license another of his ideas for a water-powered model airplane. The airplane, called Jammin' Jet, reached the commercial market, but ultimately failed, causing the company to balk at the water gun.
In retrospect, Johnson's life as an independent inventor had always seemed predestined. Growing up in Mobile, Ala., he'd been a latchkey kid, spending prodigious amounts of time alone at his grandmother's house, figuring out how things worked. Once, he reverse-engineered his sister's baby doll to understand how the eyes opened and closed. Another time, he nearly burned down his family's house while trying to make rocket fuel. He loved the 1940 Mickey Rooney film, Young Tom Edison.
"I related to Thomas Edison in a big way, because I was always doing kooky stuff, getting into trouble, and not having people understand what I was doing or why I was doing it," he said.
Still, his talent was eventually recognized. In high school, he built a compressed-air-powered robot called "Linex" that took first prize in an Alabama state science fair. It was a remarkable achievement at a time when African-Americans were seriously underrepresented in the sciences. He went on to receive a math scholarship from Tuskegee University, a historically black college. There, he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's in nuclear engineering.
Those factors, however, didn't ensure his success in the fickle, frantic toy industry. They only reinforced his resolve. In 1989, seven years after dreaming up the idea for the squirt gun, he attended the American International Toy Fair in New York City. There, he met an engineer from Larami Corp. who invited him to bring his toy gun to the company's Philadelphia headquarters.
In preparation for the meeting, Johnson went back to his workshop and built a new prototype. Using a plastic soda bottle, PVC pipe, and plexiglass, he fashioned a gun on a Unimat SL hobby lathe. He even machined his own check valves, using spare O-rings and little pieces of rubber from an inner tube.
Within a couple of years, the squirt gun, known by the commercial name of Super Soaker, was an enormous seller. Sales soared to two million units in 1991, then to $200 million in '92, making the Super Soaker the top-selling toy in the world. Tonight Show host Johnny Carson even used one on the air to douse co-host Ed McMahon. Super Soaker was now a globally recognized product name, even among people who had never laid eyes on one.
By '95, Johnson's story had even added an "I-told-you-so" twist. Hasbro Inc., the company that had initially rejected his idea, acquired Larami. Johnson subsequently designed a Nerf version of the gun, boosting the toy's already extraordinary sales … for Hasbro. Johnson earned millions of dollars in the process, and later added to that sum after he was awarded more cash in a royalty settlement with the toymaker.
Johnson, however, didn't see his success as an end, but rather a means to an end. Today, he uses the resources from the Super Soaker to fund technical projects at his company, Johnson Research & Development.
His current projects include a solid-state lithium battery for the transportation industry, which places him toe-to-toe with giant lithium battery manufacturers, such as Panasonic Corp. Being the little guy in the scrap, however, doesn't intimidate Johnson. He's making a solid-state electrolyte using ceramic processing techniques — casting and sintering in ovens — to create a more manufacturable battery. In essence, it's like making pottery, he said.
He's also tapping into his NASA JPL experience to develop an engine that converts heat to electricity, as well as a battery with a lithium-air chemistry. The lithium-air unit, he hopes, will solve the problems that have made other companies, such as IBM, balk at going further.
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Q: How to remove some blocks from a sparse file on a ext2/ext3 filesystem The ext2/ext3 filesystem automatically allocate blocks when you write a sparse file, but when I no longer want some blocks of them, I found no ways to do it. It feels like using malloc() without free().
Is it possible to "free" some blocks of a sparse file? If it is, how?
Don't tell me to copy it to a new file. It's too boring and needs a lot of disk space.

A: Since Linux 2.6.38, there is a flag to fallocate called FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE which should do what you want, i.e. deallocate file space at arbitrary locations.
fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE|FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, offset, len);

will punch a hole into the file indicated by descriptor fd. The hole will start at offset and have length len, both measured in bytes. Only whole blocks will actually be removed, partial blocks will be zeroed out instead.

A: The only thing you can do is call ftruncate(), to remove blocks at the end of the file.

A: Filesystems only allocate blocks for those parts of the sparse file that do in fact have any content. Removing those blocks would be pretty stupid because that's your data. The other blocks can not be removed because they do not exist.

A: Write zeroes to the portions you don't want.


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Q: React native: Cannot add a child that doesn't have a YogaNode or parent without a measure function I checked all of my code for any syntax errors and I can't find anything. I tried everything I found online and similar questions asked here and nothing worked, which is why I'm posting a new question.
This is the exact error I'm getting:
Cannot add a child that doesn't have a YogaNode to a parent without a measure function! (Trying to add a 'RCTRawText [text: 0]' to a 'RCTView')
I read somewhere that [text: someything] can be used as a hint to figure out what's wrong.

A: Placing Text elements on same incline row might also trigger such error e.g like
<View><Text>My Text</Text></View><View><Text>Another Text</Text></View>

instead of
<View>
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It will be battered if you place the code here too

A: My error was this
<View>
  <Text>Hello World</Text>s
</View>

Having text outside of Text gives an error on Android but not on iOS. I find it weird that it's picked up only on one platform when it should give a warning or an error on both.


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Recent Polling Data Shows Why Nearly 2/3 Of Americans Oppose Cash Reparations
Jonaki Mehta, Lee Hale
Published June 18, 2021 at 4:30 PM EDT
Almost every year, in his class about race and politics, Professor Tatishe Nteta likes to introduce the debate over reparations with a certain comedy show sketch from the early 2000s.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "CHAPPELLE'S SHOW")
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) And now a News Center 3 special report with Frank Dobson and Chuck Taylor.
DAVE CHAPPELLE: (As Chuck Taylor) Good afternoon.
CORNISH: It's comedian Dave Chappelle. He's in a gray suit dressed as a news anchor named Chuck Taylor.
CHAPPELLE: (As Chuck Taylor) Our top story - as we all know, Congress recently approved paying over a trillion dollars to African Americans as reparations for slavery. Well, today the first checks were sent out.
CORNISH: The sketch is a satire about what would happen if descendants of enslaved people actually got cash reparations.
CHAPPELLE: (As Chuck Taylor) Wendy?
KATIE MCGEE: (As Wendy) Thanks, Chuck. We're standing here in front of the Olympic liquor store in Queens, where scores of African Americans have been lined up for hours.
CORNISH: The sketch depicts African Americans buying expensive cars and jewelry, which Professor Nteta says...
TATISHE NTETA: Connects with the widespread stereotype regarding ways in which African Americans are frivolous with their money.
CORNISH: Even though public support for cash reparations has seen an uptick in the past year, almost two-thirds of Americans oppose the idea. Professor Nteta, who teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, polled Americans to find out why. And what he found?
NTETA: The most frequent explanation for why it is people oppose reparations are that African Americans and the descendants of slaves are undeserving of these cash payments. So it's not about cost; it's about perceptions of deservedness. And if you sort of dig deeper into this explanation, it's really about the notion that the reparation should go to actual slaves - right? - based upon their experience. And there's a belief that the descendants of slaves have no real standing; they're not deserving of receiving these cash payments, these various benefits that we've seen associated with reparations.
CORNISH: Can I ask what the second-most popular reason was?
NTETA: Yeah, so the second-most popular reason is that it's impossible to place a monetary value on the impact of slavery. And when we look at the breakdown of those who opposed reparations and then selected this explanation, it tended to be progressives, young people, Democrats and Biden voters. So in explaining the popularity of this explanation for opposing reparations, in some ways it's individuals who may be allies of those who support reparations but recognize that any payment that is provided for the legacy of slavery would not be enough.
CORNISH: I want to think about this also in the context of just U.S. policy when it comes to giving cash payments in general. In a way, we're in the middle of that experiment with, like, COVID payments, right?
NTETA: We are in this really interesting experiment as to what happens when the federal government in this case provides to a widespread population of individuals cash payments, right? So we have that from the stimulus payments. And the interesting thing that's happening, if you look at what people are using this money for, they tend to be using the money to pay their rent, to pay down their debt - at some points in time, to buy new things, but those purchases are fueling the economy. And so we are in a moment here. And I think if proponents of reparations are really focused on trying to spread this policy across the country, to use this moment in time to demonstrate that African Americans and Americans more generally, when they receive cash payments, tend to act in the ways in which most people would not assume - right? - that would counter our stereotypes.
CORNISH: But you do hear some backlash in the form of, let's say, a Republican argument that is saying, look; people aren't motivated to find work because they're getting cash from the government. I mean, there is still this idea that this doesn't work the way the proponents of it say it will.
NTETA: Yeah, you're right. Of course, there's going to be backlash against the provision of cash payments, likely by conservatives and Republicans given their ideological attachments. But the evidence demonstrates that individuals, when they receive these cash payments, particularly individuals at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, are using this money to address some of the financial issues that they have faced over the course of this year. But at the same time, you know, this argument regarding the lack of motivation, the lack of work of individuals when they receive cash payments - I mean, there's another way to look at this issue. It may not necessarily be that the provision of cash payments leads these folks to not work; it may be that the jobs that are not being filled are not paying enough. And as a country, we should start, potentially, looking at the level of payment for these jobs, these blue-collar jobs, that are not being filled.
CORNISH: So where does that leave the U.S. in terms of this discussion? I mean, now that you've looked at these numbers, do you see a path forward where this movement continues or not?
NTETA: Yeah, I think we're seeing the beginnings of this reparations movement. It's just not occurring at the national level. So we live in a federalist system, and one of the benefits of a federalist system is that each locality, each city, each state, is an experiment in democracy. And we're finding that in places like Evanston and Iowa City and Asheville, N.C., and here in my backyard of Amherst, Mass., that local communities are beginning to not only discuss reparations for their African American neighbors and constituents but are actually passing policies, innovative policies, policies which take the revenue from the sale of marijuana and create these housing reparations programs that we see in Evanston.
We're seeing in places like San Francisco real discussions about the legacy of discrimination, the legacy of racism that has shaped the contours and the demographics of that city and a real discussion about how that community is going to deal with this legacy and, again, make the African American community there whole. So I think we're seeing it at the local level. The question is whether or not that will spread to more conservative cities and then, potentially, to the nation as a whole.
CORNISH: That's Tatishe Nteta, political science professor at UMass Amherst. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
NTETA: Thank you for having me.
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Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member station KPCC and director/associate producer at Marketplace Morning Report, where she helped shape the morning's business news.
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Smoke coming from the cockpit of the plane was reported when it was on the tarmac of Christchurch International Airport. The Fire Service spokesman said that emergency assistance was called to the airport during the early morning of November 8 by air traffic control.
According to reports byStuff, firefighters together with the three flight crew were detecting where the smoke emanated by using the thermal cameras. A Fire Service spokeswoman said that the firefighters since left the scene with the engineers working on the case to know the cause.
"There definitely was smoke in the cockpit, they haven't told us the cause. The plane was actually taxiing at the time and they noticed a bit of smoke so they took it back to the airport," the spokeswoman said as per Stuff. Meanwhile, an Air New Zealand spokeswoman attests that the passengers on board the Flight NZ5349 were disembarked after the purported "haze was detected on board". The aircraft was at a standstill during that time.
The Stuff also reported that Air New Zealand expressed their apologies for the inconvenience caused and advised that the passengers of the said flight will be accommodated on alternative services. The aircraft will now be inspected by engineers. Accordingly, one of the passengers of the plane, Julian Lee, is a reporter in Newshub.
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Hannah Kearney Cruises Through Moguls Qualifying
By Associated Press | Feb. 06, 2014, 2:45 p.m. (ET)
Hannah Kearney competes in the women's moguls qualification during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park on Feb. 6, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia -- The flashback hit Hannah Kearney out of nowhere.
That's when the defending gold medalist in women's moguls decided she needed to turn her brain off and just do her thing.
It worked.
The American's quest for an Olympic repeat started flawlessly Thursday as she easily topped qualifying. The 27-year-old from New Hampshire posted a score of 23.05 to move into Saturday's finals and move one step closer to bookending the gold she won in Vancouver four years ago.
Canadian Chloe Dufour-Lapointe finished second in qualifying, just ahead of younger sister Justine and older sister Maxime, who came in eighth. The trio declined interview requests to focus on the next step.
Kearney initially hoped to grab gold in Turin in 2006, when she was a 19-year-old world champion entering her prime. Instead she crashed during qualifying, tumbling over one of the early bumps in the course.
It nearly happened again during training earlier in the week, providing Kearney with a haunting reminder of Turin.
"I thought, `Oh, boy, we don't need this problem again,'" Kearney said.
She needn't have worried. Knees seemingly magnetized together as she navigated the moguls, Kearney posted the second-fastest time down the hill and highlighted it with a pair of well executed if not quite perfect jumps that allayed any concerns about the course's safety.
"I think that everywhere we go, every World Cup venue, we show up and say, `Oh, my god. How are we going to make it down this course? This is impossible,'" Kearney said.
After some tweaking by officials, the slopes of the Caucasus Mountains looked no different than most other moguls events over the last four years, with the top-ranked Kearney looking down at the rest of the field.
"The course is great," she said. "It's challenging but in a very positive way. It's going to separate the weak skiers from the strong skiers, hopefully."
The top 10 skiers earned an automatic berth into the finals, with the remaining competitors returning for a second qualifying run on Saturday. The top 20 qualifiers make the finals, which will be held in three stages as the field is whittled down to 12 then six before a champion is crowned.
American Eliza Outtrim came in fourth, though teammates Heather McPhie and Heidi Kloser have work to do. McPhie slipped to 14th while Kloser didn't even get to the starting gate. The 21-year-old injured her leg during warm-ups and needed to be helped down the mountain. Her status for the second qualifier remains uncertain.
Jung-Hwa Seo of South Korea lost an edge in training and took an ugly fall that saw her leave on a stretcher. Japan's Miki Ito veered into a wall after landing a jump during practice and also did not compete.
It was a painful reminder how just how narrow the margin is in a sport that Kearney can make look easy at times. Though she would not have been eliminated even if she crashed on Thursday, the memory of 2006 keeps her sharp as she tries to become the first moguls skier to win consecutive gold medals.
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#define M2(...) \
if constexpr (std::is_void_v<decltype(__VA_ARGS__)>)\
{ __VA_ARGS__; }\
else\
{ auto tmp = __VA_ARGS__; }

int main()
{
    M1(f()); // OK! output "is_void"

    M2(f());
    // compiler error:
    // variable has incomplete type 'void' at line: auto tmp = __VA_ARGS__;
}

My compiler is Clang 7.0.
In M2, I know auto tmp = __VA_ARGS__; is illegal because decltype(__VA_ARGS__) is void. However, I have used if constexpr, so to me, the compiler should ignore the illegal branch.
Is this comforming to the C++17?


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Q: How to achieve stationarity for this type of time series using R? This looks to me to have an exponential trend but I'm not completely sure how to approach this.

A: Using the forecast package:
library(forecast)
no_diffs_to_stationary = ndiffs(df$px)
df$stationary_series <- c(rep(NA, no_diffs_to_stationary),
                          diff(df$px, no_diffs_to_stationary))
mean(df$stationary_series, na.rm = TRUE)
sd(df$stationary_series, na.rm = TRUE)

Data:
x <- seq(0, 20, length.out=1000)
df <- data.frame(x = x, px = dexp(x, rate=0.65))


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The following public bus routes stop in close proximity to Whitehead Road and are just a short walk away from the Academy. Please click on the links below to view the timetables and the full list of stops en route to and from the Academy. The stop nearest to the Academy is on Prestbury Road.
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TO RHYME OR NOT TO RHYME..
Let come out whatever may.
Could written words be much worse?
Try tic-tac-toe and chewing gum.
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I especially like "dumb marshmallows" and how "Quietus" and "impetus" rhyme 🙂 What fun, Nan!
Thanks so much for the comment, Lynn!


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Exploring local resources such as libraries, beaches and museums.
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Make a house a home: help set up and furnish an apartment for a newly arriving refugee family.
Accompany Survivor Services or Project Rescue clients on medical appointments.
Present a topic to the Survivor Services Beauty School program.
Assist a refugee in preparing a resume.
Help a family plant vegetable seeds in their community garden plot.
Share your expertise as a guest speaker at a Jobs Club.
Tutor English or lead Citizenship classes.
Help plan an event such as World Refugee Day or CIRI's annual benefit event.


Be forewarned—These Sugar Cookies made with Brown Sugar are addictive.
If you love the flavor of butterscotch, this sugar cookie recipe is one you will want to put at the top of your "must try" list.
It creates a rich and chewy cookie with bold butterscotch flavor!
This recipe for Brown Sugar Cookies comes from one of my favorite baking books - The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book . If you are familiar with Cooks Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen, you know that they are all about searching to find the best recipes and testing them thoroughly so we can be confident they will work for us at home.
Don't use old, hard, dry brown sugar—Make sure your brown sugar is nice and fresh.
Use dark brown sugar—It has richer flavor.
If you only have light brown sugar, add 1 tablespoon of molasses to each cup of light brown sugar and stir it around to create dark brown sugar.
This brown sugar cookie dough can be wrapped tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerated for up to two days.
Position an oven rack in the middle of your oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone liners.
In a small shallow bowl, whisk together the sugar and 1/4 cup of the brown sugar and set this aside for rolling the balls of cookie dough.
In a medium-size bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and baking powder.
In a 10-inch skillet, melt 10 tablespoons of the butter over medium-high heat, moving the pan over the burner constantly, until the butter is dark golden brown with a nutty aroma, 3 to 5 minutes.
Transfer the browned butter to large heatproof bowl and stir in the the remaining 4 tablespoons of butter until it is melted. Set aside to cool for 15 minutes.
Stir the remaining 1 3/4 cups brown sugar and salt into the cooled browned butter until well combined. Stir in the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla until thoroughly blended.
With wet hands, roll 2 tablespoonfuls of dough at a time into a ball. Roll balls in the sugar mixture, coating thoroughly.
Place the balls of sugar coated cookie dough on the lined baking sheets, about 2 inches apart.
Bake the cookies, one baking sheet at a time, until the edges are set and beginning to brown and the centers are still soft and puffy, about 12 to 14 minutes. The cookies should look undone between the cracks when removed from the oven. For best results rotate the cookie sheet from front to back halfway through baking.
Remove baking sheet from the oven and place it on a wire rack. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for about 10 minutes and then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely or enjoy the cookies while still warm.
This recipe makes about 2 dozen Brown Sugar Cookies.