I figured I'd write a blog post to update you all on how Kate is doing. As many of you know, she hasn't been in good shape for the past few weeks. I've been hesitant to post updates because there has been a lot in question, and there still is. I so much appreciate the outpouring of love and care that has come from you all. It's meant so much to know that you are thinking about Kate, and sending us all of your positive wishes.
A few weeks ago she started to become extremely lethargic, show discharge from her eyes, and stopped wanting to eat. It became a huge chore to get her to eat enough each day. After bringing her to the vet, I found out that she had lost a pound in a month. After some blood work was done, it was determined that her protein and globulin levels were high, indicating that she was fighting something. She was also anemic.
She was given a CT scan to check for tumors or any abnormalities. It appeared her kidneys were enlarged, but no tumors were present.
We started her on steroids, which immediately helped her start acting more normal, eating, and drinking voraciously.
The vet said that her symptoms pointed to something called dry FIP, which is an incurable disease. Mind you, at this point I fell swiftly from terrible worry into devastation.
I've done as much reading as I possibly can about FIP. It occurs in only a rare number of cats, who are genetically predisposed to the mutation of a common virus that cats are exposed to, FCoV.
It then came down to testing her DNA for evidence of this predisposition…which came back NEGATIVE! I was a bit relieved, but still dubious. What the heck else could these symptoms point to?
This morning, Kate had what looked like a burst blood vessel in her eye. I took her to the vet. She apparently has gained back half of the weight that she had lost, the elevated proteins and globulin levels have been regulated a bit, and her mild fever that she had had for a while had ended. It was mildly comforting, though the vet said that it's probably the steroids regulating everything.
Where we are right now: There's a test to come back next week, testing her antibodies for the FCoV, which is that initial virus that would have to be present for FIP to happen at all. If it is FIP, there's an experimental medication that in some cats with the virus has extended their lives to an additional year. This would require stopping the steroids.
I'm waiting for that test to come back before making any decisions. The vet still thinks that it is probably FIP, but I'm trying my best to be optimistic. From here, I'll keep you posted.
Whatever the results of this test may be will just be another piece of the puzzle. There's obviously something wrong here, whatever it is.
I brought Kate home last April with her adopted brother Leo. I remember the night before I was supposed to go pick them up, looking at the food bowls all ready on the counter, filling the litter boxes, and going to bed with excitement, knowing that I would be changing two animals' lives, and that they would be changing mine. Both of these cats were living at the shelter for over two years before I adopted them. Kate especially has had a hard time. Her health was not great when she first came home, and I have since been taking the best care of her that I've been able to. She had to have ten teeth extracted over the Summer because of serious cracking and decay, which must have caused her pain for a long time. After the procedure, she was eating more comfortably and acting even sweeter.
I couldn't have asked for sweeter cats. These two have never once hissed at me, scratched, or bit me, no matter how I've had to wrangle them to get them into their crates to go to the vet. Every morning as I have my coffee and check my emails, Kate jumps up onto my lap, I rub my hot mug along her back, and she purrs ferociously.
It's been less than a year and these animals are my family. I can't imagine one without the other. Everything has just been up in the air for weeks, and I'm doing my best to just enjoy every moment I can with her, giving her all of the kisses and snuggles and pets that I can, and making her feel as loved as possible.
You just never know what's around the bend. Thanks for all your love.
Love to you and Kate. I pray for the best news, and at the very least hope you can get the information you need to make the best decisions. Confusion is so hard to bear. I have been there, too. Kate is lucky to have you on her side <3.
Sweet Kate won the lottery when you became her Daddy..and I know you did too. You already know you are both in my prayers and thoughts, this will never change. Take care Nicholas, always here for you both, Leo too!!
You are the best ever cat daddy and Leo and kate feel.your love.everyday.Nicholas u changed their lives with love.So proud of the person u are.i say a prayer for Kate everyday.Best wishes to all WELLS. EVERYDAY.
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. You know Kate and your whole little family is always in our thoughts. Those two shelter animals have been so lucky you came to take them with you and give them a happy home... Even with the worries they cause us (and you know our shelter cat Charly has caused us a quite a few too...) it's a blessing to be caring for them and knowing we do the best we can for those animals.... All the best, much love and light to you all, always!!!
Thanks, Nick, for the beautiful & very touching video of dear Kate. I second what Karen wrote: the 3 of you are the perfect match for each other; and you couldn't be a more loving & caring Dad to these precious animals. Our hearts go out to you and your furry family, and we send our very best wishes for a good outcome for Kate. There's real power in love!
Nicholas, please know that both you and Kate are in my thoughts and prayers. Whatever the outcome of all of this, you have been the BEST Dad to both Kate and Leo! You rescued them from the shelter and gave them a loving home, and I'm sure they both know how much you care for them. Virtual hugs for you, and cuddles and soft pets for Kate and Leo.
Wishing her all the best, and wishing you comfort. It's been a while since I've been in contact with you, but I managed to read about this and wanted to extend my heartfelt good wishes that she will be well. I know how much she means to you. You love these little ones so much, so I know how devastating this will be if you lose her. You do such an amazing job taking care of Kate and Leo. But please take care of yourself, too, Nick.


"Beta3 integrin haplotype influences gene regulation and plasma von Wil" by Katie E. Payne, Paul F. Bray et al.
This article has been peer reviewed. It is the authors' final version prior to publication in Atherosclerosis 198(2):280-286, June 2008, epublished ahead of print Nov. 28, 2007. The published version is available at doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.10.005. Copyright © Elsevier, Inc.
The Leu33Pro polymorphism of the gene encoding beta(3) integrin (ITGB3) is associated with acute coronary syndromes and influences platelet aggregation. Three common promoter polymorphisms have also been identified. The aims of this study were to (1) investigate the influence of the ITGB3 -400C/A, -425A/C and -468G/A promoter polymorphisms on reporter gene expression and nuclear protein binding and (2) determine genotype and haplotype associations with platelet alpha(IIb)beta(3) receptor density. Promoter haplotypes were introduced into an ITGB3 promoter-pGL3 construct by site directed mutagenesis and luciferase reporter gene expression analysed in HEL and HMEC-1 cells. Binding of nuclear proteins was assessed by electrophoretic mobility shift assay. The association of ITGB3 haplotype with platelet alpha(IIb)beta(3) receptor density was determined in 223 subjects. Species conserved motifs were identified in the ITGB3 promoter in the vicinity of the three polymorphisms. The GAA, GCC, AAC, AAA and ACC constructs induced approximately 50% increased luciferase expression relative to the GAC construct in both cell types. Haplotype analysis including Leu33Pro indicated five common haplotypes; no associations between ITGB3 haplotypes and receptor density were found. However, the GCC-Pro33 haplotype was associated with significantly higher vWF activity (128.6 [112.1-145.1]%) compared with all other haplotypes (107.1 [101.2-113.0]%, p=0.02). In conclusion, the GCC-Pro33 haplotype was associated with increased vWF activity but not with platelet alpha(IIb)beta(3) receptor density, which may indicate ITGB3 haplotype influences endothelial function.
Payne, Katie E.; Bray, Paul F.; Grant, Peter J.; and Carter, Angela M., "Beta3 integrin haplotype influences gene regulation and plasma von Willebrand factor activity" (2008). Department of Medicine Faculty Papers. Paper 33.


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Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is similar to ropes courses, only the horses are the ropes. EAL is experiential and all work is done on the ground and no experience is necessary. Equines are prey animals making their sensory faculties highly evolved. Horses can mirror important information about ourselves and our environment. EAL can be used to address a variety of issues such as autism spectrum disorders, anxiety, anger, addictions, attention deficit disorder,bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, grief and loss, phobias and trauma. EAL can also address challenges such as difficulty reading facial expression, communication, problem-solving, observation skills, executive functioning, perspective taking, social skills and conflict resolution. Partnerships such as Social Skills Playhouse are created with individual therapists and treatment programs to create and customize adjunct EAL services for their client(s).


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Q: Redirecionar valor da função time para arquivo Estou tentando usar a função time no terminal.
Quando tento a usar apenas para exibir sempre tenho o retorno esperado.
Comando:
time ./main

Saída:
real    0m0.119s
user    0m0.113s
sys     0m0.006s

Porém quando tento redirecionar isso para um arquivo com o pipe como o exemplo abaixo, o arquivo permanece em branco e a saída é impressa na tela.
Comando:
time ./main >> teste.txt

Alguém sabe o que pode estar errado e/ou como eu obtenho o resultado esperado?

A: De acordo com o manual do time

The  time  command  runs  the  specified program command with the given arguments.  When command finishes, time writes a message to standard error giving timing statistics about this program run.

(grifo meu)
Ou seja, o time não manda a saída para o stdout, e sim para o stderr, portanto o direcionamento tem que ser 2>>:
{ time /.main; } 2>> teste.txt

ou com subshell:
( time ./main ) 2>> teste.txt

Notar os colchetes e/ou parênteses, para redirecionar a saída do time e não a do main. No primeiro caso, estamos agrupando a execução em um codeblock (por isso o ; no final do comando). No segundo, estamos chamando um subshell, para fazer o agrupamento (neste caso é um desperdício de recursos).

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Crying Earth Rise Up
57 min | Documentary Feature | Suree Towfighnia & Debra White Plume
Crying Earth Rise Up tells the story of two Lakota women who work to expose the human cost of uranium mining and its impact on sacred water. Debra White Plume is a grandmother and tireless leader in the fight to protect her people's water and land from corporate polluters. Debra is the lead plaintiff in a case challenging uranium mining on Lakota treaty territory. Elisha Yellow Thunder intimately understands the dangers of contaminated water. A young mother and a geology student, she unknowingly drank water with high levels of radiation while pregnant with her first daughter, whose severe medical anomalies are life-threatening. Crying Earth Rise Up documents the growing movement of Native and non-native people of the Great Plains in their battle to stop the expansion of uranium mining.
Suree Towfighnia
Director/Producer/Camera
Suree Towfighnia is a director, producer, director of photography, and documentary educator originally from Chicago, IL. Her films "Crying Earth Rise Up" and "Standing Silent Nation" were broadcast on PBS and garnered awards in competitions and festivals. Suree produced Haskell Wexler's documentary "Four Days in Chicago" about the 2012 actions against NATO. Suree's current project, "Nurturing Roots", documents specialty coffee growers in southern Mexico and incorporates child-centered narratives and animation.
Debra White Plume (Oglala Lakota)
Consulting Producer/Writer
Debra was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Her adult life was dedicated to Lakota cultural preservation and revitalization, including work to protect treaty rights and human rights. She was an active community organizer working at the grassroots level and internationally with the United Nations where she participated in the drafting of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples and Issues. Debra's activism spanned over 45 years -- from the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973 to the Standing Rock occupation in 2016. Upon her death in November 2020, the New York Times described her as "defender of her tribe."
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TANTOO CARDINAL is a Cree/Metis actor, writer, and activist, and arguably the most widely-recognized Indigenous actress of her time. She has broken barriers for Native representation, combining her prodigious talent and presence with a fierce commitment to honouring Indigenous people. Tantoo is best known for her roles in Falls Around Her, Legends of the Fall, Dances With Wolves, Where The Rivers Flow North, and Smoke Signals.
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Do you ever what the point of this reading, studying, praying, getting close to God stuff is about? Well, for most of my early years following Jesus I thought it was about getting to a certain point of maturity or understanding that translated into perfect living. Avoid all the sin, do all the good, and you would be set, a good Christian, it's just that easy. So in just three payments of $19.99 you can have the perfect Christian lifestyle! Well, that Price is not right and that logic falls flat on its face. There is this sense of guilt when we fail to meet our envisioned destination, a sense of never being able to be right, get right, or act right. Finding myself, often times, walking around with a heavy burden of failure this abundant life lost its flare and become more of an oppressive ideology than liberating life. Instead of enjoying the abundance from life with God we are too busy worrying about arriving at that destination of good or becoming the perfect Christian. Is this really what Jesus was after? Is this what being a disciple of Jesus looks like?
I was reading the gospel according to John yesterday morning and I found that the answer is no. The Biblical answer to wanting to become all knowing and understanding is actually no. This is huge, ground breaking because it flips a lot of modern ideology on its head. "For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind…If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now you claim you can see, your guilt remains (John 9:39-41)." What? How can blind see and those who see be blind? I really try to shed any presumptions I have when reading this stuff, I really want to understand it as it was meant to be understood. Context, it's truly all about context. What is the environment in which these words were spoke and what did they mean to that environment? After answering this one can begin to understand things that a 3 point sermon with rhyming points may miss.
The Pharisees were this Holy Roller type group of cats who stood firm on the Law, the Law being all that was spoken to Moses at Sinai. They were so committed to this law that they over looked everything else. Obsession is probably the best word to describe their infatuation with this law. Their obsession led them to respond to a man who was born blind that could now see like this, "This man is not from God for he does not keep the Sabbath." Warm-hearted is not a word I'd use to describe these guys, they were brutal. Reading through the little scuffle between this man and the Pharisees reveals how crazy it all is. They go back and forth on who Jesus is and how he (the blind man) received his sight. "If this man were not from God, he could do nothing," the man said. To this they replied, "You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!" And they threw him out. That last statement by the Pharisees implies a lot. They are implying that they were not steeped in sin from birth, that they somehow had reached a level of maturity or spirituality that is far greater than any sinner could. They had arrived at a destination. The religious culture of that day ate it up too. The Pharisees were like local celebrities, so holy and upright, in all their ways. Jesus blows through town and ruins all that. I don't believe Jesus was in the optometry business and couldn't have cared so much that He came to only give sight to blind people and cruelly make all people with sight blind. That cannot be taken literally, so what does it mean? If you look at this man in the text, he is not religious, not a scholar, and in no way a Pharisee, he had not arrived, and didn't claim too. In the middle of the Pharisees deep questioning of whether Jesus was a sinner or not the man simply says, I don't know, but I know I can see now. The blind man could now see because of Jesus. The Pharisees were now being told that if they were blind they would not be guilty of sin; if is a big word here. It entails that the Pharisees are not blind, but actually see (or so they say). Jesus is saying that those who do not have it all figured out, have not arrived, are not religiously elite, are the ones who will really see. They are blind by all means and can only see because of Jesus. The ones that can comfortably say, I don't know, but all I do know is that I once was blind, but now I see. Seeing Jesus is life. Those who claim to see, the Pharisees, the religious elite, the ones who have arrived, will actually be blinded, Jesus will shut them off, their arrogant intelligence is actually blinding them from life, from seeing Jesus.
If all that is true then the point of following Jesus cannot be to figure it all out or arrive at the spiritual pinnacle of understanding because it is there that Jesus says, you are just blind. Maybe this entire journey is about seeing Jesus, accepting His healing, His sight, and living our lives as a response to it. Seems to be all about humility to me, staying humble as we follow Christ.
We will mature along the way, but we will never arrive or have it all figured out. Maybe we should be more weary of arriving than trying to pursue it. This is not to say learning is not important. I say that education is the hinge on which humanity swings. Education of what is to be debated, but the principle remains. Education, maturing, learning, they are all means to an end. That end is not to arrive or figure it out though. The end that is justified by the means is to simply follow Jesus, rely on Him, and to never allow your knowledge to glorify yourself, but Him. There are so many kind hearted, Jesus loving people out there who just give up on their faith or maturing because they do not think they can be like the religiously elite around them. To these people I say, Jesus doesn't want you to ever say that you see, that you've got it all figured out, and always look to Him for sight and understanding. May you seek Jesus, follow Him, and learn about Him. May you live in response to Jesus' abundant life and sight offered, and may you see that being blind is actually they best place you can be because Jesus says you will see.


Longtime fans of the anime Ghost in the Shell have been waiting for years to see how a live-action adaptation would turn out, and now that wait is over.
The first Ghost in the Shell trailer was unveiled overnight after a major release event was held in Toyko, Japan, and now you can see just how badass of a sci-fi movie this looks. This has all the right vibes of Blade Runner, but with some absolutely outstanding action carried out by director Rupert Sanders and star Scarlett Johansson.
Honestly, I'm far more impressed by this trailer than I thought I would be. Everything from the art direction to the production design looks astounding. Scarlett Johansson is turning in a reserved performance as the cyborg Major, and the world around her feels so rich with detail (largely thanks to how it was intricately created in the original anime). Plus, fans of the original anime should be happy to see some visuals recreated in live-action here, and they look gorgeous.
Well, Johansson is certainly saying the right things, and this first trailer promises an outstanding sci-fi action movie that just might surprise the hell out of us.
Based on the internationally-acclaimed sci-fi property, "GHOST IN THE SHELL" follows the Major, a special ops, one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid, who leads the elite task force Section 9. Devoted to stopping the most dangerous criminals and extremists, Section 9 is faced with an enemy whose singular goal is to wipe out Hanka Robotic¹s advancements in cyber technology.
Ghost in the Shell opens on March 31, 2017.


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A Studio's Guide To Fighting Superhero Fatigue
By Aaron Young
Last year, studios released eight superhero films. Not only did we get new movies but new superhero TV shows like LUKE CAGE and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW. Plus new seasons of superhero TV shows like DAREDEVIL, THE FLASH, and GOTHAM premiered on a range of networks and premium streaming services.
Since only 2012, there have been at least thirty superhero movies and fifteen superhero television shows with much more on the way. With that being said, there can be no question that we are living in the golden age of superhero adaptations. However, ever since superhero movies began producing box office gold, people have predicted a coming of superhero fatigue.
Director Steven Spielberg predicted in 2015 that interest in superhero movies would fade over time. Now, I worship at the altar of Spielberg and understand his point. Nevertheless, I believe that the last two years have proven that there are ways to maintain audience interest in these movies. Here are some ways movie and television studios can fight superhero fatigue.
Make The Stories Different
2012s THE AVENGERS is perhaps the movie that made superheroes the kings of the blockbuster. The 1.5 billion-dollar-grossing movie depicts six superheroes fighting to save the world from an alien invasion.
The First AVENGERS film made over 1.5 billion dollars at the global box office — Image Courtesy of Marvel Studios
THE AVENGERS is no doubt a great movie, but countless superhero movies have copied its formula since then. For example, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, SUICIDE SQUAD, and AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON all involve plots where the world is at the risk of destruction. Furthermore, several of these movies copy the device from the first AVENGERS where a beam of light shoots into the sky. This plot point, known as "the sky beam" by fans is an example of how movie studios have recycled the same plotline over and over.
It gets repetitive when heroes are constantly fighting to protect the world from massive CGI armies. That is why certain writers have written different stories to make their superhero projects seem fresh. DAREDEVIL, the Netflix series, gained acclaim and popularity for focusing on crime level action instead of going for the usual epic approach done in the MCU's movies. Then there was CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR which cleverly had the Avengers fight each other instead of an exterior threat. Both projects found ways to put heroes in different situations that felt new.
The Need For A Change Of Tone
The greatest juggernaut of superhero movies right now is the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Starting with IRON MAN, the MCU has established a fun and adventurous yet family-friendly tone for its films. This has worked for the MCU since the quality of their movies has remained consistent over its nine-year run.
READ: Meanwhile The DCEU has struggled with its tone for some years. Find out why here!
However, keeping a constant tone is dangerous for any franchise. The darker EMPIRE STRIKES BACK followed the original STAR WARS. The car racing FAST AND FURIOUS franchise changed to an action series beginning in FAST FIVE. On the other hand, many of the MCU's sequels (besides the Captain America ones) were criticized for being too similar in tone to the first in the series. Even GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 was seen as less original than the first installment.
On the other hand, Fox has been releasing superhero movies with completely different tones. Last year, Fox released DEADPOOL, an R-rated comedy. Then they returned to traditional superhero films with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. This year the studio came out with LOGAN, an emotional and dark drama.
Deadpool and Logan were two recent superhero movies by 20th Century Fox. Image Courtesy of 20th Century Fox
Meanwhile, though the DC Extended Universe films have been mixed in reception, they profit from having a distinct tone from Marvels. DC's films have lacked some of the playful and family friendly elements seen in Marvel movies, but that has not influenced their box office receipts.
Every single film in the DCEU, no matter its critical reception, has been a box office hit. I believe this is because certain theater-goers have grown tired of Marvel's consistent tone and DC has had success by providing an alternative tone. In this way, The DCEU functions as counterprogramming to the previously MCU dominated genre.
Put A Spin On Things
Spielberg predicted that the superhero genre would fade much like the western genre. But there are some that argue that genres never fade away but meld with other genres. For example, many people argue that STAR WARS has the traits of a Western despite being a science fiction movie.
Superhero movies have followed this trend by combining genres. The film CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER is in many ways a 70s thriller while LOGAN is a western. There are so many genres within the superhero comic book world to explore, and it seems like studios are just now realizing that.
READ: Fatigue shows no signs of affecting Wonder Woman. Check out our review here!
WONDER WOMAN and SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING both found success this year. This is because they involve elements that people have never seen before. For WONDER WOMAN, we have never seen that character on the big screen nor have we seen a great female-led superhero film. SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING has the curse of being the third iteration of Spider-Man on the big screen.
However, Marvel Studios has cleverly combined a John Hughes high school coming of age movie with a traditional superhero blockbuster. That is a fresh new angle that audiences have never seen in a movie theater.
Final Thoughts On Superhero Fatigue
I do not think that if the studios play it smart that superhero fatigue will be a major problem for studios. All they need to do is continue to release intelligent, interesting, and different new superhero projects. We need fewer X-MEN: APOCALYPSE or AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON and more LEGION or GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY; and I think that studios are learning this.
Marvel Studios recently released their trailer for next year's BLACK PANTHER. I was ecstatic after watching it. Everything about from its lighting, tone, and focus on Afrofuturism seemed so different. It is especially different from what has come before it in the MCU. Projects like this are critical to fighting superhero fatigue.
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John Mann defends himself as details of his expenses are revealed
'None of that has been spent on food or entertaining anyone'
Daniel MorrowTrainee reporter
John Mann MP (Image: BBC)
Retford MP John Mann has defended himself after details of his expenses claims were revealed by a government watchdog.
The Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw claimed £176,236 according to data released from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Agency (IPSA).
IPSA was created by the Parliamentary Standards Act following the expenses scandal in 2009.
The act was amended in 2010 by the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act to regulate MPs business costs and expenses, determine pay and pensions and provide financial support for MPs.
MP expenses scandal 10 years on - which Lincolnshire MP claims the most and how much has your MP claimed?
Money claimed by Mr Mann between January and December 2018 was higher than the average of £158,264 claimed by MPs up and down the country.
The Bassetlaw MPs expenses and costs included venue hire for surgeries, various purchases of other equipment from the Amazon marketplace, security at this office and a £198 payment for his mobile phone one month.
Mr Mann told Lincolnshire Live: "Much of the things I have claimed expenses back on is pretty mundane stuff to be honest, such as paying for my staff, office costs and renting a room for surgeries.
"None of that money has been spent on food or entertaining anyone.
"I spend much of that money on travelling to London in second class. If I lived in London then I wouldn't have to pay that charge – it would work out cheaper.
"But then, I would be based away from my constituents. Having the constituency office in Worksop means that I can be contacted easily by the people I serve.
"People will always complain about MPs and their expenses but that is part of a democracy.
"This system means that it is now transparent, so MPs have to justify what they do and how they do it, which is a huge advance on 10 years ago."
Anna Soubry claimed the most expenses in the county (Image: BBC)
Mr Mann has the fifth highest claims in the county out of 11 MPs in Nottinghamshire.
Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry was found to have spent the most. The MP who recently defected from the Conservative Party to Change UK spent a total of £195,040 – the majority of which went towards staffing and office costs.
She told Nottinghamshire Live : "These are all office and staff costs and my train fare – I have never claimed for a meal or a drink. The office costs are because I have moved offices and next year should be cheaper.
"Someone has to come top and someone has to come bottom."
The document reveals that around £120 million of claims were registered since January 2018 among all MPs in parliament.
However, £91 million of that sum was spent on MPs staff and a further £12 million went towards office costs.
The expenses scandal emerged 10 years ago and saw an intense period of reform in Parliament.
The figures for the latest financial year are yet to be officially published.
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Doesn't that word conjure up the majesty of space exploration? The triumph of human drive and ingenuity?
Or perhaps, it makes you think of an automated laser-guided milking machine?
Seriously. Wrap your mind around that. "Automated laser-guided milking machine".
Cow walks in when it decides it's ready to be milked. Sensors read a tag around the cow's neck to determine if the cow is indeed ready to be milked. If so, the machine launches a veritable Pink Floyd Lasarium around the udder, locating the teats, which are then cleaned and hooked up to the milking units. Sensors then disconnect when the milk flow drops, and the cow goes on its way.
Lasers and cows. Two fine things that I never thought I'd see together.
Laser Cows. Just like real cows.
Yeah, but what about the sharks with frickin' lasers attached to their heads?
This is absolutely hilarious… and amazing! I'm an economics graduate student, and I will certainly save this video for a future introductory course as the best example ever of substituting capital for labour.
…. that is, until Microsoft perfects the MSN Chat Bots and deploys imaginary friends to replace our real ones.
Being of peasant extraction I think this is awesome.
The cows decide for themselves when they want to get milked (some of them love it and go back for more – most likely because they get some goodies to chew on while they wait – that's another reason for the nametag – we don't want them to get overfed). And the farmhands don't have to drag around the machines (they're heavy).
I wonder if it can talk and cuddle with the cows also…. If not. Bad invention.
Yeah, it's all very funny until the first drunk farmhand wanders into the machine and lowers his pants on a bet.
Hey, that's not milk (eewwww!!).
Could you replace that gigantic image by something sized more appropriately for the page? I have to slide the horizontal scroll bar halfway to Chicago to see the whole thing, and it makes vertical scrolling kind of sluggish as well.
Sorry Chris — Looks fine under my browser. I changed the image width from "100%" to a fixed size, so hopefully that will work better for you.
Here's a song by Miriam Makeba that I choose to believe is about cows and lasers.
I've got to admit, as a person who does a lot of computer controlled machinery I think this thing sounds awesome. And yes, I would have loved to have put "developed laser guided teat-finder" on my resume. That's the sort of thing that gets you an interview just so they can ask you a question. Alas, I'll have to wait quite some time for the next opportunity to work on such a project.
I was soooo close too, I make stuff for astronauts. I just made the mistake of thinking the space program was the right place!
Thanks, Julianne. That did the trick. Of course, I guess that just gives Internet Explorer haters another reason to dump on it. (Maybe IE 8 would do better.) Your browser (Firefox or Chrome?) is probably doing the right thing with the width setting.
You missed the facts about how the race timing is done for the sailing regattas off the Isle of Wight (UK) .
It cheers me that the laser-guided milker has a BIG RED BUTTON, just like a telescope, for an emergency shutdown. You know, just in case the milker goes berserk and threatens Cleveland.


Blazing down to Earth's surface from outer space comes Optimus Prime. His Protoform mode is ideal for covering the vast distances between stars, and armored to survive the catastrophic descent through a planetary atmosphere. When he arrives, however, his first task is to find an appropriate disguise in which to conduct his search for the Allspark. As his scanning beam sweeps over nearby objects, he sees the world in the deep red that tells him his targeting and scanning systems are active. Then, his his gaze settles upon the coolest thing he has ever seen. Yes, this will be his disguise on Earth.
Robot Mode: Robovision Optimus Prime is very similar in look to Leader Class Prime, but he is sleeker, slightly more posable, and closer in scale to the other Movie line figures, which is a plus in my opinion. The detailing on this figure is pretty cool and just about the only slight problem he has is that the front of the truck becomes a big rucksack for him, which can cause him to topple over backwards if the legs aren't positioned right. It's not a major issue, though. Optimus carries two weapons that double as smoke stacks for his truck mode. He can store the guns on his backpack pointing up, swivel them over his shoulders (like Classics Prime) or under his arms (like Cybertron Prime), or take them off and hold them in his hands. All in all a very cool, fun robot mode that offers lots and lots of play value.
Vehicle Mode: Like all Movie Primes Robovision Optimus becomes a long-nosed truck. The truck looks pretty realistic and what I really like is that this is the one Optimus from the entire line that features transparent windows. More, he even has a driver figure sitting in his cab (kinda reminds me of the old Diaclone drivers). Another fun gimmick: If you open the door of the truck, the figure vanishes, flipping back and out of sight, making it look as if the driver stepped out. So all in all a great vehicle mode.
Remarks: It was a really close call between this Optimus Prime and Leader Class Prime to figure out which is the best version of the Movie leader. Robo Vision Prime takes the lead in my opinion, though. He has the better scale, slightly better proportions, and the cooler weapons. Add the transparent truck windows and the driver figure and Robo Vision Prime is just a tiny little bit better than his larger cousin. So if you plan to get just one version of the Autobot Leader from the Movie line, take a crack at Robovision Optimus.


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Iran Keeps Calm While US And Britain Continue Their Provocations
Great Britain has joined the US pressure and provocation campaign against Iran. It is creating incidents to put Iran into a defensive position and to provoke into a violent reaction.
Early today 'two US officials' spread a scare story about Iran which lead to this CNN headline: Iranian boats attempted to seize a British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz
Armed Iranian boats unsuccessfully tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf Wednesday, according to two US officials with direct knowledge of the incident.
The British Heritage tanker was sailing out of the Persian Gulf and was crossing into the Strait of Hormuz area when it was approached by boats from the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Iranians ordered the tanker to change course and stop in nearby Iranian territorial waters, according to the officials.
The same 'two US officials' briefed ABCNews:
A British warship prevented an apparent attempt by five Iranian small boats to direct a British oil tanker towards Iranian waters on Wednesday, according to two US officials.
Remarkably the official British report came later than the US officials briefing. It showed significant differences...
Written by Moon of Alabama
On Eve Of 4th Of July Parade US Attempts To Lure Iran Into Shooting Down Another US Plane
Today a manned US reconnaissance plane entered Iranian airspace in a clear attempt to provoke Iran into shooting it down. Such an incident would have created an occasion for Trump to give the American people a special 4th of July fireworks.
Trump Seeks 'Coalition Of The Willing' Against Iran
After a somewhat quiet weekend the Trump administration yesterday engaged in another push against Iran.
Monday the Treasury Department sanctioned the leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It also sanctioned Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and his office! There will be no more Disney Land visits for them.
There is more to come:
Mnuchin: "The president has instructed me that we will be designating [Iran's foreign minister Javad] Zarif later this week." cc: @JZarif
The Treasury Secretary will designate Javad Zarif as what? A terrorist? Zarif is quite effective in communicating the Iranian standpoint on Twitter and other social media. Those accounts will now be shut down.
The Trump administration's special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, said today that Iran should respond to US diplomacy with diplomacy. Sanctioning Iran's chief diplomat is probably not the way to get there.
Trump Administration Withholds Information That Could Debunk Russian Interference Claims
On Tuesday Russia's President Putin again rejected US claims that his country interfered in the 2016 elections in the United States. Additional statements by Foreign Minister Lavrov provide that there is more information available about alleged Russian cyber issue during the election. He pointed to exchanges between the Russian and US governments that Russia wants published but which the US is withholding.
On Tuesday May 14 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flew to Sochi to meet with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrov and with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. It was Pompeo's first official visit to Russia. Pompeo's meeting with Lavrov was followed by a joined news conference. The statements from both sides touched on the election issue.
The State Department published a full transcript and video of the press conference in English language. The Russian Foreign Ministry provided an official English translation of only Lavrov's part. Both translations differ only slightly.
Here are the relevant excerpts from the opening statements with regard to cyber issues.
Venezuela - Guaidó Got Snookered
Yesterday's failed coup attempt in Venezuela significantly hurt the Trump administration's international standing. It delegitimized its Venezuelan clients Juan Guaidó and Leopoldo López. After recognizing that their original 'regime change' plan failed (again) the White House starts to beat the war drums.
That wasn't the plan:
The Trump administration, which has backed Mr. Guaidó since he first challenged Mr. Maduro's authority more than three months ago, clearly thought the day would unfold differently.
There is no official explanation why the Trump administration believed that the comical coup attempt by Juan Guaidó and his master Leopolo López would work.
There are signs though that the government of President Nicolas Maduro set a trap. Several people in the top echelon of the Venezuelan government gave false promises that they would join the US proxy side. They snookered Guaidó into launching his coup to let him fail.
Judge Identifies CIA Related Man Who Led The Raid On North Korea's Embassy In Spain
Wednesday March 27, 2019
A Spanish judge released new information about a raid on the embassy of North Korea in Spain. The leader of the raid was a shady US 'activist' who earlier reports from Spain associated with the CIA.
On March 13 the Spanish newspaper El Pais Spain reported that Spanish authorities identified two CIA related persons who took part in a raid of the North Korean embassy in Madrid. The raid happened on February 22, a few days before the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, and seemed designed to influence that event. We asked Who Ordered The CIA To Assault North Korea's Embassy In Spain?
The embassy raid was no normal thievery. There were eight people in the embassy when it was raided at 3:00 PM local time. They were bound, bags were put over their heads and some were interrogated. The thieves left with computer hardware and the cellphones of the personnel.
The Spanish version of the El Pais piece included this detail (machine translated)...
Netanyahu Asks Arabs to 'Advance The Common Interest Of War With Iran'
The U.S. had called for a high level anti-Iran meeting in Poland. The purpose of the meeting was to bring with its allies and poodles into line with the U.S. agenda on Iran, to press them at least into issuing harsher sanctions. But the European rejected that.
The State Department then changed the agenda:
"The idea was to have a conference, a ministerial, and basically break our diplomatic isolation on Iran," said a person familiar with the planning of the event. "It started out as an Iran conference in disguise but has probably actually been forced to take on more actual broader Middle East content now."
The person added: "They changed some of the focus and were forced to pony up with content on Syria and Yemen particularly."
The meeting took place today but the European powers did not fall for the trick. They want keep the nuclear agreement with Iran...
Venezuela: US Aid Gambit Fails - War Plans Lack Support
A day after the US coup attempt in Venezuela the US game plan was already quite obvious:
The opposition in Venezuela will probably use access to that 'frozen' money to buy weapons and to create an army of mercenaries to fight a 'civil' war against the government and its followers. Like in Syria US special forces or some CIA 'contractors' will be eager to help. The supply line for such a war would most likely run through Colombia. If, like 2011 in Syria, a war on the ground is planned it will likely begin in the cities near that border.
The US is using the pretext of 'delivering humanitarian aid' from Columbia to Venezuela to undermine the government and to establish a supply line for further operations. It is another attempt to pull the military onto the coup plotter's side:
[I]f the trucks do get across, the opposition can present itself as an answer to Venezuela's chronic suffering, while Mr. Maduro will appear to have lost control of the country's borders. That could accelerate defections from the ruling party and the military.
Dimitris Pantoulas, a political scientist in Caracas, called the opposition's aid delivery plan a high-stakes gamble.
"This is 99 percent about the military and one percent about the humanitarian aspects," he said. "The opposition is testing the military's loyalty, raising their cost of supporting Maduro. Are they with Maduro, or no? Will they reject the aid? If the answer is no, then Maduro's hours are numbered."
A New York Times op-ed by a right-wing former foreign minister of Mexico, Jorge G. Castañeda, details the escalation potential:
Venezuela Coup Attempt Part Of A Larger Project - Military Intervention Likely To Fail
The Trump administration has launched a large political project to remake several states in Latin America. The Wall Street Journal headlines: US Push to Oust Venezuela's Maduro Marks First Shot in Plan to Reshape Latin America.
Fallout Of Trump's Syria Withdrawal - Why Erdogan Does Not Want To Invade
President Trump's strategic decision to withdraw US troops from Syria creates some significant fallout. The US and international borg is enraged that Trump ends an occupation that is illegal under international as well as US domestic law. "That's un-American!"
Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog" Mattis resigned from his position effective February 28. He disagreed with the president's decision. It was the second time in five years that an elected commander in chief had a serious conflict with Mattis' hawkishness. President Obama fired him as Central Command chief for urging a more aggressive Iran policy. Mattis is also extremely hawkish towards Russia and China.
President Trump campaigned on lessening US involvement in wars abroad. He wants to get reelected. He does not need a Secretary of Defense that involves him in more wars that have little to none defined purpose.
Mattis is an ingrained imperialist. He always asked for more money for the military and for more meddling abroad. One of Mattis' little notice acts as Defense Secretary was a unannounced change in the mission of the Pentagon...


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ASTM International - ASTM D2187-94(2009)
Standard Test Methods for Physical and Chemical Properties of Particulate Ion-Exchange Resins
Publication Date: 1 May 2009
ICS Code (Surface active agents): 71.100.40
The ionic form of an ion-exchange material affects both its equivalent mass and its equilibrium water content. These in turn influence the numerical values obtained in exchange capacity... View More
The ionic form of an ion-exchange material affects both its equivalent mass and its equilibrium water content. These in turn influence the numerical values obtained in exchange capacity determinations, in density measurements, and in the size of the particles. To provide a uniform basis for comparison, therefore, the sample should be converted to a known ionic form before analysis. This procedure provides for the conversion of cation-exchange materials to the sodium form and anion-exchange materials to the chloride form prior to analysis. These forms are chosen since they permit samples to be weighed and dried without concern for air contamination or decomposition. If other ionic forms are used this fact should be noted in reporting the results.
1.1 These test methods cover the determination of the physical and chemical properties of ion-exchange resins when used for the treatment of water. They are intended for use in testing both new and used materials. The following thirteen test methods are included:
Test Method A-Pretreatment 6-10
Test Method B-Water Retention Capacity 11-17
Test Method C-Backwashed and Settled Density 18-24
Test Method D-Particle Size Distribution 25-32
Test Method E-Salt-Splitting Capacity of Cation-
Exchange Resins 33-41
Test Method F-Total Capacity of Cation-Exchange
Resins 42-50
Test Method G-Percent Regeneration of Hydrogen-
Form Cation-Exchange Resins 51-58
Test Method H-Total and Salt-Splitting Capacity of
Anion-Exchange Resins 59-66
Test Method I-Percent Regeneration of Anion
Test Method J-Ionic Chloride Content of Anion-
Test Method K-Carbonate Content of Anion-
Test Method L-Sulfate Content of Anion Exchange
Test Method M-Total Anion Capacity of Anion-
Exchange Resins 100-108
1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. The inch-pound units given in parentheses are for information only.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. Specific precautionary statements are given in Section 10.8.
6.1 This test method covers the conversion of ion-exchange resins to a known ionic form and is intended for application to both new and used material.
11.1 This test method covers the determination of the amount of water retained by ion-exchange resins and is intended for testing both new and used materials.
18.1 This test method covers the determination of the backwashed and settled density of ion-exchange resin and is intended for testing both new and used material.
25.1 This test method covers the wet sieve analysis of ion-exchange materials.
33.1 This test method covers the determination of the number of milliequivalents of exchangeable hydrogen in a cation-exchange resin sufficiently acidic to split neutral salts.
42.1 This test method covers the determination of the total number of milliequivalents of exchangeable hydrogen in a cation-exchange resin.
51.1 This test method covers the determination of the percentage of ion-exchanging groups in a cation-exchange resin that is in the hydrogen form.
59.1 The test method covers the determination of the total number of milliequivalents of exchangeable chloride in a test method anion-exchange material and also the number of milliequivalents of exchangeable chloride capacity associated with functional groups sufficiently basic to split neutral salts.
67.1 This test method covers the determination of the percentage of anion-exchanging groups regenerated to the hydroxide ion form, and the total percentage of anionic groups regenerated to a form capable of neutralizing free mineral acids.
76.1 This test method covers the determination of the percentage of anion-exchanging groups in the chloride form at levels of 1 % or greater.
84.1 This test method covers the determination of the percentage anion-exchanging groups in the carbonate-form.
92.1 This test method covers the determination of the percentage of anion-exchanging groups in the sulfate-form at levels of 1 % or greater.
100.1 This test method covers the determination of the total number of milliequivalents of exchangeable chloride in an anion-exchange material.
Standard Test Methods and Practices for Evaluating Physical and Chemical Properties of Particulate Ion-Exchange Resins
1.1 These test methods cover the determination of the physical and chemical properties of ion-exchange resins when used for the treatment of water. They are intended for use in testing both new and...
ASTM D2187-94(2009)
ASTM D2187-94(2009)e1
The ionic form of an ion-exchange material affects both its equivalent mass and its equilibrium water content. These in turn influence the numerical values obtained in exchange capacity...


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Q: How to update TextFormField content after onPressed of a prefixIcon with FutureBuilder? I just started a small flutter project. I have a onPressed property inside a suffixIcon and the onPressed itself has a FutureBuilder inside of it. The future function is async (I am using the geolocator package) and it returns the coordinates of the device. I want to refresh the TextFieldForm content with those coordinates when the user presses the suffixIcon but the TextFieldForm is not being updated, although the onPressed is working as I have a print in the function to know if it's working properly. Here is the code of the TextFormBuilder, and below is the complete code. Any help would be apreciated
TextFormField(
              controller: myController,
              decoration: InputDecoration(
                prefixIcon: IconButton(
                  icon: Icon(Icons.location_searching),
                  onPressed:(){
                    FutureBuilder<String>(
                      future: _obtenerUbicacion(),
                      builder: (context, snapshot) {
                        if (snapshot.hasData) {
                          myController.text =  snapshot.data;
                        } else if (snapshot.hasError) {
                          return Text("${snapshot.error}");
                        }
                        // By default, show a loading spinner.
                        return CircularProgressIndicator();
                      },
                    );
                  }
                  ,
                ),
                hintText: 'Ingrese su ubicación',
              ),
              validator: (value) {
                if (value.isEmpty) {
                  return 'Por favor ingrese su ubicación';
                }
                return null;
              },
            ),

Here is the complete code of the App
import 'package:flutter/cupertino.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'dart:async';
import 'dart:convert';
import 'package:geolocator/geolocator.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
        theme: ThemeData(primaryColor: Colors.deepOrangeAccent[100]),
        home: Localizador());
  }
}

class Localizador extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _LocalizadorState createState() => _LocalizadorState();
}

class _LocalizadorState extends State<Localizador> {
  final _formKey = GlobalKey<FormState>();
  Future<Serviciabilidad> futureServiciabilidad;
  final myController = TextEditingController();

  @override
  Widget _coordenadas() {
    return Padding(
      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(15.0),
      child: Form(
        key: _formKey,
        child: Column(
          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
          children: <Widget>[
            TextFormField(
              controller: myController,
              decoration: InputDecoration(
                prefixIcon: IconButton(
                  icon: Icon(Icons.location_searching),
                  onPressed:(){
                    FutureBuilder<String>(
                      future: _obtenerUbicacion(),
                      builder: (context, snapshot) {
                        if (snapshot.hasData) {
                          myController.text =  snapshot.data;
                        } else if (snapshot.hasError) {
                          return Text("${snapshot.error}");
                        }
                        // By default, show a loading spinner.
                        return CircularProgressIndicator();
                      },
                    );
                  }
                  ,
                ),
                hintText: 'Ingrese su ubicación',
              ),
              validator: (value) {
                if (value.isEmpty) {
                  return 'Por favor ingrese su ubicación';
                }
                return null;
              },
            ),
            Padding(
              padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 16.0),
              child: RaisedButton(
                onPressed: () {
                  // Validate will return true if the form is valid, or false if
                  // the form is invalid.
                  if (_formKey.currentState.validate()) {
                    futureServiciabilidad = obtenerServiciabilidad();
                  }
                },
                child: Text('Enviar'),
              ),
            ),
          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }

  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(appBar: AppBar(title: Text('MyAPP')), body: _coordenadas());
  }
}

Future<String> _obtenerUbicacion() async {
  Position position = await Geolocator()
      .getCurrentPosition(desiredAccuracy: LocationAccuracy.high);
  //print(position.toString());
  String pos = (position.latitude.toString())+ " " + (position.longitude.toString());
  print(pos);
  return pos;
}

A: You can copy paste run full code below
The way you use FutureBuilder is incorrect. in your case, you can directly use async await
code snippet
prefixIcon: IconButton(
          icon: Icon(Icons.location_searching),
          onPressed: () async {
            var pos = await _obtenerUbicacion();
            setState(() {
              myController.text = pos;
            });
          },
        ),

working demo

full code
import 'package:flutter/cupertino.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'dart:async';
import 'dart:convert';
import 'package:geolocator/geolocator.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
        theme: ThemeData(primaryColor: Colors.deepOrangeAccent[100]),
        home: Localizador());
  }
}

class Localizador extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _LocalizadorState createState() => _LocalizadorState();
}

class _LocalizadorState extends State<Localizador> {
  final _formKey = GlobalKey<FormState>();
  //Future<Serviciabilidad> futureServiciabilidad;
  final myController = TextEditingController();

  @override
  Widget _coordenadas() {
    return Padding(
      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(15.0),
      child: Form(
        key: _formKey,
        child: Column(
          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
          children: <Widget>[
            TextFormField(
              controller: myController,
              decoration: InputDecoration(
                prefixIcon: IconButton(
                  icon: Icon(Icons.location_searching),
                  onPressed: () async {
                    var pos = await _obtenerUbicacion();
                    setState(() {
                      myController.text = pos;
                    });
                  },
                ),
                hintText: 'Ingrese su ubicación',
              ),
              validator: (value) {
                if (value.isEmpty) {
                  return 'Por favor ingrese su ubicación';
                }
                return null;
              },
            ),
            Padding(
              padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 16.0),
              child: RaisedButton(
                onPressed: () {
                  // Validate will return true if the form is valid, or false if
                  // the form is invalid.
                  if (_formKey.currentState.validate()) {
                    //futureServiciabilidad = obtenerServiciabilidad();
                  }
                },
                child: Text('Enviar'),
              ),
            ),
          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }

  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(appBar: AppBar(title: Text('MyAPP')), body: _coordenadas());
  }
}

Future<String> _obtenerUbicacion() async {
  Position position = await Geolocator()
      .getCurrentPosition(desiredAccuracy: LocationAccuracy.high);
  //print(position.toString());
  String pos =
      (position.latitude.toString()) + " " + (position.longitude.toString());
  print(pos);
  return pos;
}

A: Using setState should do the job
if(snapshot.hasData) {
    setState(() => myController.text =  snapshot.data);
}


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Bank of America's New Choose-Your-Own-Category Card: What to Know
2019 changes to the Bank of America Cash Rewards card affected its earning structure, redemption options, perks and sign-up bonus. Here's a primer.
Assigning Editor | Credit cards, business software, payments
Claire Tsosie is an assigning editor for NerdWallet. Her areas of expertise include research and strategy. She has edited articles on a variety of topics, including business software, Medicare and home improvement. Previously, she was a credit cards writer at NerdWallet for over five years. Her work was featured by Forbes, USA Today and The Associated Press. She's been a speaker at both CardCon (2017, 2018) and FinCon (2019).
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The terms of the Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card have changed, and this article is out of date. See our details page on the Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card for up-to-date details.
The new version of the Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card is finally here, and it offers far more flexibility than its predecessor.
The $0-annual-fee cash-back card, launched on Jan. 14, 2019, now lets you choose your own 3% cash-back bonus category from a list of options. The change will affect both new and existing cardholders.
That's not the only thing about the card that changed, though. The card's redemption options, customer perks and sign-up bonus also changed. That raises the question: Is the new version actually an improvement over the old?
The short answer: Yes — but there are some catches.
» MORE: NerdWallet's full review of the Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card
Positive changes
Ability to choose your own 3% category
By far, the most valuable feature of the Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card is the option to choose your own 3% cash-back category. Both new and existing cardholders can make a selection from a list of six options, and change that selection up to once a month:
Gas.
Online shopping.
Dining.
Drugstores.
Home improvement and furnishings.
If you don't select a category, it will automatically be set to 3% cash back on gas. Once you set a category, it stays the same, until you change it again.
The old version of this card offered 3% cash back on gas and 2% cash back at grocery stores and wholesale clubs, up to a combined $2,500 in gas / grocery store / wholesale club purchases. But gas is a tricky category to maximize, unless you happen to be a super-commuter with an SUV that gets terrible mileage. American households spent less than $2,000 each on gasoline, other fuels and motor oil in 2017 on average, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Now that you can choose your own 3% cash-back option, it's easier to squeeze more value out of the card. You'll still earn 2% cash back at grocery stores and wholesale clubs, and you'll still get bonus rewards on the first $2,500 in quarterly combined purchases on category / grocery store / wholesale club spending. After that, you'll earn 1% cash back on these purchases.
More redemption flexibility
With the old version of the Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card, you always needed to have at least $25 in cash back before redeeming, no matter how you redeemed rewards.
With the new version, that's no longer the case. There's no minimum redemption requirement when doing a one-time redemption of cash rewards into your Bank of America® account or statement credit. There's still a $25 minimum redemption requirement for other redemption options, however. This change makes it easier to access and use every penny of rewards you earn whenever you need it — even if you want to use it sooner than expected.
Negative changes
Lower sign-up bonus
Last year, Bank of America® hiked the sign-up bonus on the Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card to $200 from $150. With the changes, that bonus came back down. While a lower sign-up bonus is definitely a negative change, it's also not exactly a deal-breaker. A $150 sign-up bonus is still a decent offer — especially if you're mainly interested in this card for its ongoing rewards.
But sign-up bonuses can change often. The current bonus on the card: $200 online cash rewards bonus after you make at least $1,000 in purchases in the first 90 days of account opening..
No more 10% customer bonus for new cardholders
The old version of the Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card offered a nice perk for Bank of America® account holders: When you deposited your rewards in an eligible checking or savings account, you'd get 10% more value. For example, if you deposited $30 of cash back into a Bank of America® checking account, you'd get an extra $3, for a total of $33.
That perk is still available for existing cardholders. But for new cardholders, it's no longer offered. That's a bummer, especially for those who are interested in the card specifically because they want to keep their credit card and bank accounts with the same bank.
However, cardholders who qualify for the Bank of America® Preferred Rewards program — that is, those who keep a lot of money with Bank of America® or Merrill — will still be able to earn bonuses of 25% to 75% on their rewards. That could make the card's rewards much more appealing. On this version of the card, you'll also get those bonuses as soon as you earn the rewards; with the old version, you had to wait until redeeming the rewards to receive the bonuses.
Overall, good news for cardholders
Despite some negative tweaks, the new Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card is a big improvement over the old version. To be sure, the card's spending caps on the bonus categories still make it a lackluster choice for big spenders. But for frugal cardholders who value choice, the card offers excellent value.
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The major part of the textual material in this book consists of brief clinical descriptions of a complete assortment of hematologic disorders. Less emphasis is placed on the physiology of the blood-forming organs and the metabolic defects associated with the various diseases discussed. In general, the reference list for each chapter is short and not up-to-date. The volume does not supply the reader with any more information than can be obtained from the hematology section of the two major textbooks of internal medicine, recently published.


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3D Printing Helps to Save Lives Threatened by Landslides
March 29, 2016 by Hannah Rose Mendoza 3D Design3D Printing
It is becoming increasingly challenging to discover areas in which 3D printing is not making a contribution. In yet another demonstration of the technology's capacity to assist in human efforts, Dr. Timothy Whitehead of De Montfort University in Leicester has put it to use in support of a project designed to help reduce loss of life resulting from landslides in Peru.
Heavy annual rains combined with the near vertical topography of the Andes regularly unleashes torrents of mud and rock into the towns and villages in the mountainous areas of Peru. These mudslides not only cause devastation to physical property but lead to multiple deaths each year. However present these dangers are, helping people to avoid being harmed by their occurrence isn't as easy as suggesting that everybody move down to the plains.
However, that doesn't mean that the only alternative is quiet acceptance of death and destruction. Instead, organizations such as Practical Action have been working to understand ways in which technological justice can help both make changes that will reduce the scale of the disaster caused by a landslide and to educate people about the necessary precautions. To this end, they are working with Dr. Whitehead to communicate through 3D printing, as he explained:
"I was expecting to print engineering components, but one of the first things Practical Action wanted me to help with was to print a 3D topographical map of the areas of poverty in Lima. This showed, in clear detail, how landslides were a real danger and what would happen in their inevitable event. We were then able to use this to explain, across a language barrier, to people living there why we needed ot make changes, to have safety measures put in place."
The use of this technology allows for ease in difficult manufacturing scenarios, as this collaborative effort — and similar efforts illustrating the dangers surrounding active volcanic regions — saw. Dr. Whitehead explained further:
"Traditional manufacturing is quite limited: you need clear designs and production lines," explained Dr. Whitehead. "With 3D printing we can be more creative; there's no way traditional manufacturing could so easily have produced that map."
This collaboration between researcher and charitable organization has also been charged with the development of water purification components and weather sensing equipment. Dr. Whitehead used 3D printing to produce testable components that were created in the hopes of increasing survival rates in the affected areas.
Timothy Whitehead, lecturer in design and new product development
What makes this use of 3D printing so interesting is that not only is it a way to create an end product, but is actually part of the creative thinking process allowing people to address problems in an entirely new frame of mind. Chief Executive of Practical Action, Paul Smith Lomas described the changes he sees developing as a result:
"We're really excited to be collaborating with De Montfort University. 3D printing could be a disruptive technology, leap-frogging traditional design and manufacturing processes. It could mean that people in developing countries are able to access new products faster and cheaper than they would in the past, making their lives better. You could call it a sort of democratization of technology. At Practical Action we call it 'Technology Justice' and it is something we want to encourage more of."
In other words, 3D printing doesn't just help us think about different things, it helps us think differently altogether. Discuss in the 3D Printing for Help in Peru forum over at 3DPB.com.
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Srirangam (Thiruvarangam in Tamil) is an island and a part of the city of Tiruchirapalli, in South India. Srirangam is bounded by the Kaveri River on one side, and the Kaveri distributary Kollidam (Coleroon) on the other side. Srirangam is home to a significant population of Srivaishnavites (followers of Lord Vishnu).
Srirangam is famous for its Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, a major pilgrimage destination for Hindus and the largest temple complex in India. As per the literature, it is said that the temple belongs to the Chola, Pandya, Hoysala and the Vijayanagar rulers who ruled the Tiruchirapalli district. Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple constitutes Seven Prakarams (passageway sorrounding with big walls) around the temple which covers next to next each other and the seven great walls are referred as the Seven Worlds.
Srirangam can be considered the biggest functioning Hindu temple in the world, as it covers an area of about 631,000 square metres (6,790,000 sq ft) with a perimeter of 4 km (10,710 ft). The Srirangam temple complex is composed of 7 concentric walled sections and 21 towers gopuram. The southern gopuram of the temple, called the Rajagopuram, is 236 feet (73 m) tall and, as of 2016, is the second tallest in Asia.
Srirangam is the foremost of the eight self-manifested shrines (Swayam Vyakta Kshetras) of Lord Vishnu. It is also considered the first, foremost and the most important of the 108 main Vishnu temples (Divyadesams). This temple is also known as Thiruvaranga Tirupati, Periyakoil, Bhoologa Vaikundam, Bhogamandabam.
Lord Rama performed aradhanam (pooja) to Vishnu's idol (deity in a reclining posture). As a symbol of love he gifted the idol to Vibishana (brother of Ravana of the Hindu epic Ramayana) to take back with him to Lanka. There was a condition that he could not set the idol on earth and if he did it would seat itself permanently. Vibishana took this idol and while travelling towards Lanka, came upon the banks of the river Kaveri. He placed the idol on banks of river Kaveri, while an utsavam was in progress. When the utsavam got over, the Lord refused to move as he loved the place (Srirangam). When Vibhishana requested him to come along with him, the lord refused but promised to bless Vibhishana by always facing South (the direction of Lanka, home to Vibhishana) Hence it is that the deity (in a reclining posture) faces South.
Srirangam is admired as the city of festivals. Though the celebrations are throughout the year, the most important "car festival" (to lead the life peacefully) is celebrated every year in the month of April/May (Tamil Month: Chithirai) and the "vaikunda ekadhesi"(attaining the status of no re-birth by residing at the feet of Lord) festival is celebrated exuberantly from December-January (Tamil Month: Margazhli–Thai).


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Iron & Rye Photography offers three different Senior Collections to fit your needs and budget. Additional images can be added to your collection with each additional image being $10 per photo and maxing out at 10 additional images per collection.
For example: If you choose Collection One for $250.00 and wanted to add 10 more photos on top of the 15 included for that collection, your total would come out to $350.00 for the Session Alone.
So that there is no confusion, the prices listed below for the Collections only reflect the session itself and the amount of images you can choose from for your final products. All FINAL Senior Collection Galleries will be ready by May 1, 2019. This is to ensure that Iron & Rye delivers all Senior Collections at the same time as to not miss a client in the midst of a busy photography season. In addition, this ensures that any purchases made can be done and ready before graduation.
As mentioned above, there is an opportunity to purchase set packages and/or prints of the images. Prices for the packages and prints are listed below.
Purchase of Prints and/or Packages will be done online through the client gallery that will be provided by May 1, 2018.
For each physical print that is purchased, the client will receive a web-size digital file of that image for social media usage only.
To book a session with me fill out the contact form below. I will be in contact with you to set up an initial consult meeting with senior and parent/guardian. Once we've had our consult, I will then send out a contract to be signed. A non-refundable retainer of 50% of your collection fee is due upon signing of the contract. This retainer will book the date of the session. The final 50% is due one (1) week before the session date.
Please list dates and times for the next two weeks in which both the senior and parent/guardian are able to meet up for the initial consultation meeting. In this meeting I will briefly go over the contract. In addition, this meeting is an opportunity for me to get to know the senior a little bit before we go into their session. As far as meeting places go, I do not do meetings in my home or clients homes, but will happily meet at coffee shop of some kind. However, if there is a place that you would like to meet please indicate it along with the times you've listed.
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«Исто́рия всеми́рной литерату́ры» — многотомное издание, подготовленное ИМЛИ им. А. М. Горького и рассматривающее развитие литератур народов мира с эпохи древности до начала XX века.

По первоначальному плану, история должна была состоять из 10 томов. Однако к началу выхода издания 10-й том (литература с 1945 по 1960-е годы) был изъят из плана и заменён «развёрнутым заключением» к 9-му тому. Всего с 1983 по 1994 годы вышло восемь томов, хотя на титульном листе неизменно стояло «в 9 томах»; 9-й том, посвящённый литературе 1917—1945 годов, так и не увидел свет, хотя был подготовлен (как сообщается в предисловии к 8-му тому, в связи с процессом «коренной переоценки» многих явлений литературы советского периода, решено было его не публиковать).

Инициатором издания был И. И. Анисимов. Главным редактором стал член-корр. АН СССР Г. П. Бердников (тт. 1—7), в 8-м томе главным редактором значится его заместитель акад. Ю. Б. Виппер, а Бердников — просто член редколлегии.

В редколлегию входили: акад. А. С. Бушмин, акад. Д. С. Лихачёв, член-корр. РАН Г. И. Ломидзе, акад. Д. Ф. Марков, член-корр. РАН А. Д. Михайлов, д.фил.н. С. В. Никольский, акад. Б. Б. Пиотровский, акад. Г. М. Фридлендер, акад. М. Б. Храпченко, акад. Е. П. Челышев. В 8-м томе к ним прибавились д.фил.н. Л. Г. Андреев, члены-корр. АН СССР П. А. Николаев и В. Р. Щербина. Кроме того отдельная редколлегия во главе с ответственным редактором была у каждого тома.

Несмотря на в целом высокий научный уровень издания, в нём встречаются досадные ошибки. Так, в заключении ко второму тому в список «средневековых писательниц и поэтесс» зачислен Аривара Нарихира.

Примечания

Список томов
 Т. 1 / Ред. коллегия тома: И. С. Брагинский (отв. ред.), Н. И. Балашов, М. Л. Гаспаров, П. А. Гринцер. — 1983. — 584 с. (Литература Древнего мира)
 Т. 2 / Ред. коллегия тома: Х. Г. Короглы, А. Д. Михайлов (ответственные ред.), П. А. Гринцер, Е. М. Мелетинский, А. Н. Робинсон, Л. З. Эйдлин. — 1984. — 672 с.: ил. (Средневековая литература III—XIII вв.)
 Т. 3 / Ред. коллегия тома: Н. И. Балашов (отв. ред.), И. С. Брагинский, П. А. Гринцер, Х. Г. Короглы, Д. С. Лихачёв, Е. М. Мелетинский, А. Д. Михайлов, В. Б. Никитина, Б. Л. Рифтин. — 1985. — 816 с. (Литература эпохи Возрождения: XIV-первой четверти XVII вв.)
 Т. 4 / Ред. коллегия тома: Ю. Б. Виппер (ответственные ред.), П. А. Гринцер, Д. С. Лихачёв, Н. Ф. Ржевская, Б. Л. Рифтин, А. Н. Робинсон. — 1987. — 687 с.: ил. (Литература XVII в.)
 Т. 5 / Ред. коллегия тома: С. В. Тураев (отв. ред.), Н. А. Вишневская, А. Д. Михайлов, К. В. Пигарёв, Б. Л. Рифтин, О. К. Россиянов, В. И. Семанов. — 1988. — 784 с. (Литература XVIII в.)
 Т. 6 / Ред. коллегия тома: И. А. Тертерян (отв. ред.), Д. В. Затонский, А. В. Карельский, В. К. Ламшуков, Ю. В. Манн, Н. С. Надъярных, С. В. Никольский, З. Г. Османова, Б. Л. Рифтин, Е. Ю. Сапрыкина. — 1989. — 880 с. (Литература первой половины XIX в.)
 Т. 7 / Ред. коллегия тома: И. А. Бернштейн (отв. ред.), У. А. Гуральник, А. Б. Куделин, Н. С. Надъярных, З. Г. Османова, Н. С. Павлова, З. М. Потапова, Н. Б. Яковлева. — 1991. — 832 с. (литература второй половины XIX в.)
 Т. 8 / Ред. коллегия тома: И. М. Фрадкин (ответственный ред.), А. М. Зверев, В. А. Келдыш, Н. С. Надъярных, С. В. Никольский, З. Г. Османова, К. Рехо, Н. Ф. Ржевская. — М.: Наука, 1994. — 848 с.: ил. (Литература конца XIX — начала XX вв.)

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Q: How to bind DataGrid to display only 25 records of a table having more than 1000 records ..? I have a datagrid control which is bound to a table which containing more than 1000 records. And i want to show only 25 records once a time. I have used paging in datagrid. But each time the next page index is set, query is fired again. This takes lots of time. So what is the easiest way to bound data in this case to improve performance..??

A: I don't recommend using caching since the whole data will be returned to the server anyway for the first time.
You can improve performance by using custom paging queries to the database.
Assuming you're working with at least SQL Server 2005,
Here's a great article for your purpose with different benchmarking results

A: have you considered caching your data set? then you would only need to query the data if the cache is empty or expired.

A: When you handle your Page Changed event, you need to pull in the new page information. You will need to create a stored procedure that takes CurrentPageNumber and PageSize as arguments.
This is in addition to any other arguments you already supply when bringing down your data.
In the SP, you fill up a temporary table or table variable (or you can use a CTE) with the data that you are returning, but also the RowNumber.
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package dk.gp.gpc

import java.io.File

import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
import org.junit.Test

import breeze.linalg.DenseVector
import breeze.linalg.csvread

/**
 * Classification example from http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/code/matlab/doc/
 */
class gpcPredictTest {

  val x = csvread(new File("src/test/resources/gpml/classification_x.csv"))
  val y = csvread(new File("src/test/resources/gpml/classification_y.csv")).toDenseVector
  val t = csvread(new File("src/test/resources/gpml/classification_test.csv"))

  val covFunc = TestCovFunc()
  val covFuncParams = DenseVector(1.219809, 0.052334, 0.171199) //log sf, logEllx1, logEllx2
  val mean = -2.8499

  @Test def test = {

    val model = GpcModel(x, y, covFunc, covFuncParams, mean)
    val predicted = gpcPredict(t, model)
    assertEquals(0.20625, predicted(6480), 0.0001) // t = [4 -4]
    assertEquals(0.18870, predicted(1255), 0.0001) //t = [-2.5 0]
    assertEquals(0.87060, predicted(1242), 0.0001) //t = [-2.5 -1.3]
  }
}

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Opinion|It's Time to Update Overtime
Op-Ed Contributor
It's Time to Update Overtime
By Ross Eisenbrey
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WASHINGTON — PRESIDENT OBAMA has assured American workers that he won't let Congress keep him from lending a hand during these tough economic times. "I will not allow gridlock, inaction or willful indifference to get in our way," he said in a speech last year. "Whatever executive authority I have to help the middle class, I'll use it."
The problem is that most presidential actions that could help significant numbers of middle-class workers do require congressional participation. But here's one that doesn't: raising the salary threshold for the exemption to the overtime rules of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
The act establishes that most workers, after 40 hours of weekly work, are entitled to be paid 1.5 times their regular wage — a.k.a., overtime. Hourly paid workers fall into this class, as do salaried workers who make less than a specified "threshold" amount. The idea is that employees in higher-status positions (executives, administrators, professionals) ought to be exempt from receiving the overtime premium.
But as with the minimum wage, which is not automatically adjusted for inflation and tends to lose real value unless it is raised, the overtime exemption threshold generally languishes. That means that many people who once would have been paid 1.5 times their wage when working overtime are not, violating the spirit of the law.
For decades, the Department of Labor periodically updated the overtime salary threshold. But today's threshold, at $455 a week, is far below historical levels in real terms. And at just $2 a week more than a poverty-level income for a family of four, it is indefensibly low. I propose that President Obama raise the threshold to $970, equal in today's dollars to the 1975 level of $250.
In keeping with the original purpose of the overtime rules, this increase would make overtime pay more expensive, creating an incentive for employers to spread work among other workers (an important goal in today's low-job-creation environment). It would also more fairly compensate those who do work more than 40 hours.
Why do I suggest an updated 1975 value of $970? Because it would restore the proper relationship between the overtime salary threshold and today's median wage. When the Ford administration raised the threshold in 1975, it was 1.6 times the median wage. Today's median wage for 40 hours of work is about $670. Were we to update that value by the same 1.6 ratio that prevailed in the mid-1970s, we'd end up with a threshold above $1,000, suggesting that $970 is, if anything, on the low side.
At the same time, an updated 1975 value would still leave higher-status positions exempt from the overtime protection. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median weekly earnings for manager-supervisors in various occupations range from $1,520 to $3,995, well above my proposed threshold.
You might worry that raising the overtime salary threshold would dampen hiring by creating higher labor costs. But there are good reasons not to expect this outcome. Research suggests that employers have a rough idea of how much overtime they will need from a given hire and adjust the base wage down accordingly. This means that at least some part of the burden of an increased overtime premium falls on the worker. But more important, if employers want to avoid paying overtime, they have an easy way to do so: Hire new workers to do the extra work at the standard wage. (This, again, was one of the objectives of the original law.)
The overtime provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act is still a vital contributor to the well-being of millions of American workers, but it needs updating to live up to its potential. At the same time, for President Obama to carry out his pledge to help working people with or without Congress's participation, he needs policy reforms that make a difference but don't require legislative approval. Raising the overtime salary threshold would be a simple solution to both problems.
Ross Eisenbrey is the vice president of the Economic Policy Institute.
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