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Kacanik, KOSOVO – A plume of smoke hangs over our table in the corner of a dark, shabby café in this rugged town in southern Kosovo. The lanky 19-year-old sitting next to me is chain-smoking through half a pack of L&Ms, his hands trembling as he recalls how he joined one of the world's most brutal militant Islamist groups.
Through his neatly trimmed beard, Adem, who asks me not to use his real name for fear of arrest, says he had never even left Kosovo. But two years ago, he found himself on the perilous and far-off Turkey-Syria border — a major entry point for foreigners seeking to join the ranks of Islamic State (IS).
He was taken by IS recruiters to a Turkish village, where he waited to be smuggled into a war zone. After a two-week training camp in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Syrian and Iraqi territory that the group calls its "caliphate," he would be assigned to a fighting unit.
Hours before the recruiters were to sneak him across the border, however, Adem turned back and made his way home.
"I realized that what was going on in Syria had nothing to do with Islam," says Adem, who keeps looking over his shoulder as if he might be found out at any moment by Kosovar authorities. He looks like any other teenager, in skinny jeans and a silver chain hanging over his T-shirt.
The government estimates that more than 300 Kosovars have traveled to the Middle East to wage jihad, or Islamic holy war. That makes this predominately Muslim country of under 2 million people, which unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, Europe's biggest contributor per capita of IS foot soldiers.
Kacanik in particular has gained a reputation as the jihadist capital of the Balkans. In the past three years, at least 24 men from its population of 30,000 have left to fight for extremist groups like IS or Al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq.
Adem's own path toward radicalization began when he received a Facebook invitation to attend a sermon hosted by an imam from a nearby town. He says he was "curious" about Islam. For the next five months, Adem attended sermons and Koran classes at a makeshift mosque where he and other young men lived.
The sermons were organized by Rinia Islame (Islamic Youth in Albanian), an Islamic charity operating in Kacanik. It is one among dozens of secretive organizations funded by Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states that promote an extreme version of Islam. The groups are accused of brainwashing youth and recruiting them for extremist causes abroad.
Adem says the sermons he attended were "very strict and harsh." "They told us not to shake hands with women and don't go to cafes or bars," he says.
There are indeed mounting outward signs of Islamic fundamentalism in Kacanik, where it is no longer uncommon to see women in Islamic veils or men with untrimmed beards and calf-length trousers, none of which has much real tradition in the country.
As Adem tells it, the sermons worked their way up from Koran lessons, to the meaning of jihad, to the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
The sermons attended by Adem were given by Zeqirja Qazimi, a notorious imam who was jailed for 10 years on May 20 after he and six associates were convicted for fighting for IS militants in Syria from 2012 to 2014 and for trying to gather IS recruits.
Qazimi also posted a video on YouTube in which he said that the "blood of infidels is the best drink for us." Local media reported that Qazimi was responsible for recruiting 11 Kosovar fighters to IS; three were said to have been killed in Syria.
The Middle Eastern-funded charities have penetrated poor, rural communities like Kacanik that have been neglected by the government and where unemployment is around 40 percent, making young men easy targets for indoctrination.
The Islamic charities often run schools, dormitories, and welfare programs. But they also push a hard-line agenda that appears to have gained at least a minor foothold in Kacanik.
Adem believes the Arab-funded charities targeted poor families, and often single mothers. He says in exchange for attending the sermons, the charity would give students accommodations, expense money, and new clothes and shoes.
"These charities were not registered and they worked with certain radical individuals and they have manipulated the poor," says Kacanik Mayor Besim Ilazi.
Locals also point to the town's proximity to Macedonia as one of the reasons Kacanik has become such a hotbed for radicalism. Macedonia is a short 30-minute drive away, and locals say hard-line ethnic Albanian preachers often visit Kosovar communities to deliver sermons.
In late 2014, Kosovar officials closed 14 charities — including the one that provided religious classes to Adem — when they were suspected of having ties to Islamic extremist groups. Under a new law, Kosovo can jail citizens for up to 15 years if they participate in foreign wars.
Kosovo authorities say around 50 homegrown jihadists have been killed in fighting in Syria and Iraq, and around 120 have returned to Kosovo. More than 100 people in Kosovo have been arrested or are under investigation for recruiting or fighting abroad on behalf of IS.
Adem, sipping Turkish coffee from a tiny cup, says that several months after attending religious classes some of the young men "left and never came back," referring to locals who went to Syria to fight.
Florim Neziraj is the head of the local branch of the Islamic Community of Kosovo, the main officially sanctioned Islamic organization in the country. The young, ginger-haired imam has been leading efforts to prevent young men from joining radical Islamic groups.
Neziraj argues that blame must be apportioned to the government, which he says "neglected the problem" of radicalization. "The radicals were allowed to operate freely for too long," he adds.
Kosovo has traditionally been a secular state with a liberal Muslim population, with bars on the same street as mosques. But less tolerant voices have flourished, including among the radical Islamic charities, which have thrived since arriving after the war ended in Kosovo in 1999.
He fears it might be too late to tackle spreading radicalism.
One product of the radicalization in Kacanik is Lavdrim Muhaxheri, a 25-year-old IS recruiter who fights in Syria. He has been described as one of IS's top leaders.
Last year, Muhaxheri sent shockwaves around Kosovo when he posted photos on Facebook of himself beheading a prisoner in Syria. Another post purportedly showed him executing a Syrian man with a rocket-propelled grenade.
He says Muhaxheri's path is a lesson for young men in Kacanik thinking of fighting in Syria.
About the author: Frud Bezhan is a Prague-based correspondent for RFE/RL.
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drag2share: How Social Media Is Driving Online Video-Viewing And Determining What Videos Go Viral
source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/businessinsider/~3/h1KM1W–8II/social-media-is-the-key-to-online-video-2013-9
Television is no longer the only game in town for distributing and watching video. The Internet and the social Web have provided content creators and advertisers with a cost-effective way to distribute video.
Social video is video that is influenced — in any part of the pipeline, from production to distribution — by social media. For audiences, discovery is no longer about flipping through channels or a TV guide, it's about listening to friends' recommendations and glancing at social media feeds.
Just how big is social media-influenced video? It's big, having eclipsed non-social video on the Web in audience size (see chart, top right). And it's only getting bigger.
In a new report from BI Intelligence,! &nbs p;we look at the general state of social video, examine social video audiences and their demographics, analyze how marketers and advertisers are getting into the mix, compare the major social video platforms, and detail how social is influencing video as a content medium.
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drag2share: Why Social Media Is Driving Massive Online Video Growth
source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/businessinsider/~3/I48QOc3ve-8/social-media-driving-online-video-2013-8
Tags: advertisers, audiences, content creators, discovery, game, google, pipeline, social web, tv guide
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drag2share: Brand Videos Hit Their Viral Peak On Day Two After Launch
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In a recent report from BI Intelligence, we look at the general state of social video, examine social video audiences and their demographics, analyze how marketers and advertisers are getting into the mix, compare the major social video platforms, and detail how social is influencing video as a content medium.
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The first few days following launch are key to a video's viral success. Unruly Media studied the top 200 viral ! brand vi deos launched 2012, and shared some of their results exclusively with BI Intelligence.
Take a look at these charts:
Here is a look at the same chart, but over a longer period of time:
According to Unruly's data, 10% of shares occurred on day two (the viral peak), and 25% of shares occurred within the first three days. However, marketers shouldn't forget that brand videos also have a shelf-life and somewhat of a long-tail: 50% of shares came after the first three weeks. Shares are defined as Facebook shares, Facebook likes, Facebook comments, Twitter mentions, retweets, and blog post mentions .
A separate Unruly study of 1,000 brand videos analyzed how the different days of the week stacked up for video shares, whether they saw more or fewer shares than the daily average. The resu! lt was c lear: video shares increase late in the work week — Fridays saw 16% more shares than the daily average — and then drop precipitously over the weekend.
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Monday, July 15th, 2013 news No Comments
Tumblr Blows Past 15 Billion Pageviews Per Month, Thumbing Nose At Old Media Thinking As It Goes
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/tumblr-blows-past-15-billion-pageviews-per-month-2012-1
The latest social-media phenomenon, Tumblr, continues to post astounding traffic metrics.
Founder and CEO David Karp spoke at the DLD conference in Munich this morning, where he reiterated some of the company's recent milestones:
100+ million uniques per month
15+ billion pageviews per month
Tumblr, which is basically halfway between a blogging platform and Twitter, allows users to post photos, videos, and text. Critically, it also allows users to "follow" each other and "re-blog" the posts of others.
The latter concepts, which Twitter has also capitalized on with amazing success (through "following" and "re-tweets"), inserts reblogged posts into each user's timeline stream. Thus, anyone who "follows" a user, also sees the re-blogged posts.
This turns Tumblr users into editors and curators in addition to content creators. The sharing functionality allows posts to spread rapidly, just as links and headlines do on Facebook and Twitter. In Tumblr's case, though, the whole post is shared, not just the headline and link.
It's worth noting that this whole concept makes a mockery of the idea of traditional content "theft." If someone "re-blogged" a traditional newspaper story, inserting it into their own site, the newspaper would probably scream bloody murder and sic lawyers on them. And yet, on Tumblr, those whose posts are "re-blogged" feel nothing but gratitude and pride (thanks for sharing my work!).
Some other stats from David Karp's talk this morning (as tweeted by idealab founder Bill Gross and digital journalism guru Jeff Jarvis):
The average post is "re-blogged" 9 times
90% of the posts on Tumblr are reblogs or groups (curation). 10% are original content creation.
In another DLD panel, Glam Media CEO Samir Arora remarked that the "old version of media was that you needed editors that work for you. In new era they don't."
Nowhere is that more clear than at Tumblr.
SEE ALSO: Check Out Tumblr's Amazing New York Headquarters, Where All Those Pageviews Are Made
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What Is SOPA? [Sopa]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5877000/what-is-sopa
If you hadn't heard of SOPA before, you probably have by now: Some of the internet's most influential sites—Reddit and Wikipedia among them—are going dark to protest the much-maligned anti-piracy bill. But other than being a very bad thing, what is SOPA? And what will it mean for you if it passes?
SOPA is an anti-piracy bill working its way through Congress…
House Judiciary Committee Chair and Texas Republican Lamar Smith, along with 12 co-sponsors, introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act on October 26th of last year. Debate on H.R. 3261, as it's formally known, has consisted of one hearing on November 16th and a "mark-up period" on December 15th, which was designed to make the bill more agreeable to both parties. Its counterpart in the Senate is the Protect IP Act (S. 968). Also known by it's cuter-but-still-deadly name: PIPA. There will likely be a vote on PIPA next Wednesday; SOPA discussions had been placed on hold but will resume in February of this year.
…that would grant content creators extraordinary power over the internet…
The beating heart of SOPA is the ability of intellectual property owners (read: movie studios and record labels) to effectively pull the plug on foreign sites against whom they have a copyright claim. If Warner Bros., for example, says that a site in Italy is torrenting a copy of The Dark Knight, the studio could demand that Google remove that site from its search results, that PayPal no longer accept payments to or from that site, that ad services pull all ads and finances from it, and—most dangerously—that the site's ISP prevent people from even going there.
…which would go almost comedically unchecked…
Perhaps the most galling thing about SOPA in its original construction is that it let IP owners take these actions without a single court appearance or judicial sign-off. All it required was a single letter claiming a "good faith belief" that the target site has infringed on its content. Once Google or PayPal or whoever received the quarantine notice, they would have five days to either abide or to challenge the claim in court. Rights holders still have the power to request that kind of blockade, but in the most recent version of the bill the five day window has softened, and companies now would need the court's permission.
The language in SOPA implies that it's aimed squarely at foreign offenders; that's why it focuses on cutting off sources of funding and traffic (generally US-based) rather than directly attacking a targeted site (which is outside of US legal jurisdiction) directly. But that's just part of it.
…to the point of potentially creating an "Internet Blacklist"…
Here's the other thing: Payment processors or content providers like Visa or YouTube don't even need a letter shut off a site's resources. The bill's "vigilante" provision gives broad immunity to any provider who proactively shutters sites it considers to be infringers. Which means the MPAA just needs to publicize one list of infringing sites to get those sites blacklisted from the internet.
Potential for abuse is rampant. As Public Knowledge points out, Google could easily take it upon itself to delist every viral video site on the internet with a "good faith belief" that they're hosting copyrighted material. Leaving YouTube as the only major video portal. Comcast (an ISP) owns NBC (a content provider). Think they might have an interest in shuttering some rival domains? Under SOPA, they can do it without even asking for permission.
…while exacting a huge cost from nearly every site you use daily…
SOPA also includes an "anti-circumvention" clause, which holds that telling people how to work around SOPA is nearly as bad as violating its main provisions. In other words: if your status update links to The Pirate Bay, Facebook would be legally obligated to remove it. Ditto tweets, YouTube videos, Tumblr or WordPress posts, or sites indexed by Google. And if Google, Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, etc. let it stand? They face a government "enjoinment." They could and would be shut down.
The resources it would take to self-police are monumental for established companies, and unattainable for start-ups. SOPA would censor every online social outlet you have, and prevent new ones from emerging.
…and potentially disappearing your entire digital life…
The party line on SOPA is that it only affects seedy off-shore torrent sites. That's false. As the big legal brains at Bricoleur point out, the potential collateral damage is huge. And it's you. Because while Facebook and Twitter have the financial wherewithal to stave off anti-circumvention shut down notices, the smaller sites you use to store your photos, your videos, and your thoughts may not. If the government decides any part of that site infringes on copyright and proves it in court? Poof. Your digital life is gone, and you can't get it back.
…while still managing to be both unnecessary and ineffective…
What's saddest about SOPA is that it's pointless on two fronts. In the US, the MPAA, and RIAA already have the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to request that infringing material be taken down. We've all seen enough "video removed" messages to know that it works just fine.
As for the foreign operators, you might as well be throwing darts at a tse-tse fly. The poster child of overseas torrenting, Pirate Bay, has made it perfectly clear that they're not frightened in the least. And why should they be? Its proprietors have successfully evaded any technological attempt to shut them down so far. Its advertising partners aren't US-based, so they can't be choked out. But more important than Pirate Bay itself is the idea of Pirate Bay, and the hundreds or thousands of sites like it, as populous and resilient as mushrooms in a marsh. Forget the question of should SOPA succeed. It's incredibly unlikely that it could. At least at its stated goals.
…but stands a shockingly good chance of passing…
SOPA is, objectively, an unfeasible trainwreck of a bill, one that willfully misunderstands the nature of the internet and portends huge financial and cultural losses. The White House has come out strongly against it. As have hundreds of venture capitalists and dozens of the men and women who helped build the internet in the first place. In spite of all this, it remains popular in the House of Representatives.
That mark-up period on December 15th, the one that was supposed to transform the bill into something more manageable? Useless. Twenty sanity-fueled amendments were flat-out rejected. And while the bill's most controversial provision—mandatory DNS filtering—was thankfully taken off the table recently, in practice internet providers would almost certainly still use DNS as a tool to shut an accused site down.
…unless we do something about it.
The momentum behind the anti-SOPA movement has been slow to build, but we're finally at a saturation point. Wikipedia, BoingBoing, WordPress, TwitPic: they'll all be dark on January 18th. An anti-SOPA rally has been planned for tomorrow afternoon in New York. The list of companies supporting SOPA is long but shrinking, thanks in no small part to the emails and phone calls they've received in the last few months.
So keep calling. Keep emailing. Most of all, keep making it known that the internet was built on the same principles of freedom that this country was. It should be afforded to the same rights.
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 news No Comments
Affiliates Pining for Pinterest
Source: http://blog.compete.com/2012/01/05/affiliates-pining-for-pinterest/
AUTHOR: Lindsey Mark, Compete.com — January 5, 2012 at 3:33 pm
Image from: akva / ShutterstockPinterest is the new popular kid on the Internet, getting featured in media outlets like celebrity gossip does on tabloids. What people aren't talking about however is the opportunity that exists for more 'behind the scenes businesses.' Those amazing symbiotic or parasitic relationships where third parties benefit from Pinterest's new hype, sort of like Entourage™ with a cast of publishers, affiliates, and merchants.
There are a few smart blogs out there talking about these trends, some are funny, like Regretsy.com's compare and save section that features sellers that are ripping off buyers by reselling manufactured products for higher prices. Classic and often humorous examples of parasitic relationships.
Laughs aside, let's take a look at one affiliate that's been seeing some positive lift from Pinterest's new-found fame. SkimLinks, an affiliate marketing technology with a "sweet twist" helps content creators and curators automate. Most publishers spend a majority of their time working on content and selling ad space. With SkimLinks, connecting affiliate links to content seems* like a snap and appears to be popular amongst monetized 'pinners' as a good option outside of the Amazon Affiliate Network. If November is any indication, the Pinterest & SkimLinks relationship is budding with Pinterest beating out Twitter as their number one inbound traffic referrer with a 9.47% Share of inbound traffic to the site. On the converse, SkimResources.com (a SkimLinks url) is ranked number 10 with 0.94% of outgoing traffic from Pinterest.com, just behind large networks like Etsy.com, Bing.com, YouTube.com, and Live.com. I anticipate that merchants that work with SkimLinks will have good things happen for them if Pinterest continues on the upswing, particularly as it's often been framed in the context of wishlists & gifting.
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Q: При сохранении в csv python выдает ошибку кодирования Пытаюсь распарсить html страничку, потом все данные переложить в Dataframe и его уже сохранить в CSV, все операции отрабатывали нормально, но как только начинаю сохранять в csv, то система выдает ошибку:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x98 in position 49: character maps to

Не так давно сталкивался, что такая ошибка может возникать не напрямую от кодека, например у меня она выскакивала, когда попадал сторонний файл в папку с html файлами.
Уже перепробовал все варианты, не могу найти в чем ошибка.
Код программы:
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import os
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({
    'Column':['test']
})

path = 'C:\\Users\\Desktop\\folder'
os.chdir(path)

def main(x):
    html = open(x)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
    div = soup.find_all('a', class_='title-link')
    for i in div:
        b = i.get_text()
        df.loc[len(df)]=[b]
        print(df)
    return df

for filename in os.listdir(path):
    main(filename)

df.to_csv('C:\\Users\\Desktop\\out.csv', sep='\t', encoding='utf-8')

Полная ошибка:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/PycharmProjects/dataset/parser.py", line 23, in
main(filename)
File "C:/Users/PycharmProjects/dataset/parser.py", line 14, in main
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
File "C:\Users\PycharmProjects\dataset\venv\lib\site-packages\bs4\__init__.py", line 244, in __init__
markup = markup.read()
File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\encodings\cp1251.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x98 in position 49: character maps to <undefined>

A: Судя по ошибке, BeautifulSoup попытался файл открыть и считать не в той кодировке, что должна была.
В стеке трассы видно, что файл был считан как cp1251 (...lib\encodings\cp1251.py). Это случилось потому-что в функции open если не указывать кодировку будет использоваться системная.
Решение будет через указание кодировки:
html = open(x, encoding='utf-8')

Дело в том, что когда в BeautifulSoup передается файловый объект, тот сам считывает его и после парсит.
Поэтому, можно самостоятельно считать из файла, например в строку в нужной кодировке:
with open(x, encoding='utf-8') as f:
    html = f.read()

Либо, считать байтами и доверить парсеру самостоятельно их кодировать:
with open(x, 'rb') as f:
    html = f.read()


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Mia Kelso
Mia Orosco, is a recognized classical violinist in addition to a multiple state and national fiddle champion. Mia grew up in Lorena, Texas and began studying classical violin at age six when she began her Suzuki journey at the Central Texas String Academy under Dr. Julia Hardie, director of CTSA and renowned Suzuki pedagogue.
In her high school years, Mia was accepted to the Texas All-State Symphony three times and won the Waco Youth Symphony Concerto Competition. In 2011, Mia was featured on the classical radio show "From the Top" which features the top young classical musicians in the nation.
Also during high school, Mia won the Texas State Junior Fiddle Championship, the Colorado State Junior Fiddle Championship, the Western Open Fiddle Championship, the National Junior Fiddle Championship, and at age nineteen, won the Grand National Fiddle Championship, becoming the youngest female to ever do so. In 2017, Mia won the Grand Master Fiddle Championship and made her Grand Ole Opry debut in September of 2018.
At age nineteen, Mia was awarded a full scholarship to Baylor University and began studying violin with Dr. Eka Gogichashvili.
Mia has performed and soloed with many ensembles around the country including the National Repertory Orchestra as a section player and soloist, the American Institute of Musical Studies Orchestra, the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra, and the Round Top Festival Institute Orchestra as concertmaster. Mia is also a substitute violinist with America's Orchestral Academy, the New World Symphony.
In 2016, Mia graduated with a bachelor's degree from Baylor University's music program, retired as the three-year concertmaster of the Baylor Symphony Orchestra, and was awarded the Presser Undergraduate Award, an award given by music faculty to the top music student guided solely by consideration of excellence and merit. She also won the Baylor University's school-wide solo competition, Pro Semper Musica, and performed on the winner's recital on the SMU campus in Dallas.
In addition, Mia retired as the Baylor Symphony Orchestra Representative/Graphic Designer and the Baylor Violin Studio Representative, where she worked to advertise and promote the classical music available to the public at the university.
Mia served on the faculty of the Central Texas String Academy, a Suzuki-based program, under Dr. Julia Hardie from 2012-2016 and served as an assistant instructor for both the IU String Academy, under Mimi Zweig, and the Fairview Violin Project, under Brenda Brenner, from 2016-2017. She has taught and conducted masterclasses at numerous Suzuki workshops.
Mia graduated with a master's degree in May of 2018 from Indiana University where she studied with Mimi Zweig, director of the IU String Academy, and Kevork Mardirossian.


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require "assert"
require "undies/root_node"

require 'undies/io'
require 'undies/element'
require 'undies/element_node'

class Undies::RootNode

  class UnitTests < Assert::Context
    desc 'a root node'
    before do
      @io = Undies::IO.new(@out = "", :pp => 1)
      @rn = Undies::RootNode.new(@io)

      @e  = Undies::Element::Closed.new(:br)
      @en = Undies::ElementNode.new(@io, @e)
    end
    subject { @rn }

    should have_readers :io, :cached
    should have_instance_methods :attrs, :text, :element_node
    should have_instance_methods :partial, :flush, :push, :pop

    should "know its IO" do
      assert_equal @io, subject.io
    end

    should "have nothing cached by default" do
      assert_nil subject.cached
    end

    should "complain if trying to specify attrs" do
      assert_raises Undies::RootAPIError do
        subject.attrs({:blah => 'whatever'})
      end
    end

    should "cache any raw text given" do
      subject.text "some raw markup"
      assert_equal "some raw markup#{@io.newline}", subject.cached
    end

    should "write out any cached value when new markup is given" do
      subject.text "some raw markup"
      assert_empty @out

      subject.text "more raw markup"
      assert_equal "some raw markup\n", @out
    end

    should "cache any element node given" do
      subject.element_node(@en)
      assert_equal @en, subject.cached
    end

    should "return the element when given" do
      assert_equal @en, subject.element_node(@en)
    end

    should "write out any cached value when a new element is given" do
      subject.element_node(@en)
      assert_empty @out

      subject.element_node(@en)
      assert_equal "<br />#{@io.newline}", @out
    end

    should "cache any partial markup given" do
      subject.partial "some partial markup"
      assert_equal "some partial markup#{@io.newline}", subject.cached
    end

    should "write out any cached value when new partial markup is given" do
      subject.partial "some partial markup"
      assert_empty @out

      subject.partial "more partial markup"
      assert_equal "some partial markup\n", @out
    end

    should "write out any cached value when flushed" do
      subject.flush
      assert_empty @out

      subject.text "some raw markup"
      subject.flush
      assert_equal "some raw markup\n", @out
    end

    should "only flush if popped" do
      io_level = @io.level
      subject.text "some raw markup"
      subject.pop
      assert_equal "some raw markup\n", @out
      assert_equal io_level, @io.level
    end

    should "push the cached content to the IO handler" do
      io_level = @io.level
      subject.text "some raw markup"
      subject.push
      assert_equal io_level+1, @io.level
      assert_equal "some raw markup#{@io.newline}", @io.current
    end

  end

end

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package com.endava.jpa.service;

import com.endava.jpa.model.Department;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created by tvasile on 7/26/2016.
 */
public interface JPAService<T> {

    public void save(T toBeSaved);

    public void update(T toBeUpdated);

    public void remove(T toBeRemoved);

}


The contributions that workers pay for Social Security have been temporarily reduced under legislation designed to get money quickly into the hands of workers so they could spend it to help the nation out of the Great Recession. This "payroll tax holiday" is scheduled to end on December 31. This fact sheet describes an 'exit strategy' that could attract broad public support and help strengthen Social Security for the long term.
The fact sheet notes that Social Security now has four dedicated sources of income, including reimbursement funds from general revenues that replace dollar-for-dollar the revenue not collected during the temporary tax reduction. Therefore, Social Security's trust funds are unaffected by the payroll tax holiday.


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The Loomers
The Loomers are a band of friends who have been passionate about making music an integral part of our hectic, full-time lives for almost 25 years. Our songbook is a trip through the American musical landscape –– infused with the classic sounds of driving rock, heartland folk, rock & soul, and retro-1980s pop –– filled with the joy, hope, sorrow and wonder of growing older.
Our musical family has expanded over the years. These days it's comprised of JON SVETKEY (acoustic guitar, lead vocals, songs), EVERETT PENDLETON (electric guitar, harmony vocals), JACK CAVALIER (bass guitar, harmony vocals), MICHAEL CAHILL (drums), ROB LAURENS (keyboards), HEATHER QUAY (harmony vocals), and TOM SIMONS (electric guitar). Occasionally some of our incredible friends — like Jeff Isen (guitar, mandolin, trombone), Jakub Trasak (violin), Josh Kantor (keyboards) or Jim Wooster (electric guitar) — will sit in with us.
Some cool things we've been lucky enough to do over the years: we backed John Mellencamp at a party at the 2004 Democratic National Convention; performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Fenway Park, The House of Blues, Club Passim, The Somerville Theatre, and CBGBs, among many venues; and, we won the Berklee College Of Music "Battle Of The Executive Bands" twice. We've released five albums — Reeling Down A Road (2010), Tomorrow Today (2006), SHINE (2004), Simple As That (1998) and escalation(1997) — and our songs have been played on CBS, Cinemax, MTV, NBC, & PBS, as well as internationally online and on cable. We have been immensely honored to have performed at events that have raised tens of thousands of dollars for charities big and small.
Jon Svetkey
Back in the 1990s, before his current job as stay-at-home dad to two beautiful children, Jon headlined at dozens of folk clubs, colleges and coffeehouses throughout the Northeast and Midwest. Club Passim, The Bluebird Cafe, Eddie's Attic, Caffe Lena, Canal Street Tavern, Cafe Carpe, The Blue Moon Coffeehouse at Illinois Wesleyan, Skidmore College, WPI, Brandeis University and Indiana University is just a partial list.
He shared co-bills and "writers-in-the-round" nights with the likes of Kristian Bush, Shawn Mullins, Peirce Pettis, Dar Williams, Jonatha Brooke, Martin Sexton and Carrie Newcomer. He was privileged to open for legendary songwriters like Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III, John Wesley Harding, Peter Case, John Gorka, Cheryl Wheeler and David Mallett.
With Ellis Paul, Jim Infantino and Brian Doser, he founded End Construction Productions, the seminal songwriter's collective that is widely regarded as the catalyst for the resurgence of the New England folk scene in the early 1990s. Jon's first two solo albums, this is NOW and yeahyeahyeah, received tons of airplay on folk radio stations, as well as excellent reviews from critics and fans alike. His last solo album, Take A Breath, — a live-in-one-take, career-up-to-that-moment retrospective of sorts — was released in 2004.
Jon has also sung, or played guitar, on albums by Ellis Paul, Don Conoscenti, and Jim Infantino to drop just a few names. He has written a bunch of songs with folksinger Don White. He also sings in a folk duo called THE YELLOW ROOM with his wife, Heather Quay.
Other Performances You Might Like
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Sat Jan 25th at 8PM
Les SampouJay Psaros opens
Our KitchenDinner at PassimOffering a variety of burgers, salads, and dessertsSee Dinner MenuThe Listening RoomExperience PassimLearn what makes Passim unlike any venue in the countryExperience Passim
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Yager: Why renewable energy needs affordable fossil fuels
A worker climbs down the stairs to a wind turbine in Van, Turkiye on February 24, 2022. Getty Images photo
With energy costs rising globally and the western world trying to stop buying fossil fuels from Russia, accelerating the switch to renewables continues to be pitched by some as the best solution.
Prior to 2021, there was great excitement about the falling costs of renewable energy. Much was written about how solar power was now the cheapest electricity available, and how this would ensure continued decarbonization of the global energy complex.
But this was based on current, not future input costs. With 85 per cent of the world's primary energy still derived from fossil fuels, this affects the cost of everything. Including its replacements.
While the output of renewables may be low carbon, its input costs are not.
Energy cost of energy
The term is the "energy cost of energy." The world must start paying attention.
Energy consultancy Goehring & Rozencwajg released its 2021 Q4 Natural Resource Commentary the day before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Titled "The Distortions of Cheap Energy," it focused on how energy decisions made in the pre-COVID era were becoming impossible to replicate under current market conditions.
One of the long-standing arguments for replacing fossil fuels is that the future cost of climate damage caused by not decarbonizing is so huge that what appears to be expensive today is an investment in the future.
But money matters, and the cost of energy and capital is going up. Interest rates are rising because of inflation. Massive public debt is capping government's ability to support the economy. Few people can afford to pay more for anything.
That includes energy.
Record drop in energy prices
The authors wrote, "The past decade has seen a material acceleration in renewable adoption. At the same time, from 2010 to 2020, [the cost of] every form of primary energy (oil, natural gas, coal, uranium) fell by nearly 90% from peak to trough. We have gone back for 150 years and cannot find a similar ten-year drop. According to Sydney Homer, the 2010s also witnessed the lowest interest rates in at least 4,000 years. The 2010s were characterized by cheap, abundant energy and cheap, abundant capital."
Which is great. The costs of renewables plunged. The levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for solar (80%) and wind (40%) showed promising declines.
But extremely attractive input costs were overlooked. "Amazingly, no one has connected declining energy costs and cheap capital with the proliferation over the last decade of energy-hungry, capital-intensive projects such as wind, solar, and lithium-ion battery manufacturing. We think the two are fundamentally linked…Between 2010 and 2020, energy prices fell from approximately $14 per GJ ($80 per oil-equivalent barrel) to $2.80 per GJ ($20 per oil-equivalent barrel)."
For solar, this meant, "The total direct cost of energy fell by over $1,000 per installed kw—from $1,400 to less than $300, representing more than 10 cents of the 33-cent total LCOE drop. The assumed cost of capital fell by one-third from 7.5% to 5.0%, resulting in another 5 cent drop."
Lower renewables costs tied to oil and gas
While suppliers took credit for technological advances and efficiency gains, the report disagrees, stating that "20-25 cents of the 33-cent total reduction in solar costs are directly attributable to lower energy prices, lower costs of capital, and one-time distortions in the polysilicon markets. Between 60-75% of the cost saving attributed to the so-called learning curve can be explained away by these three factors."
Wind was similar. "Between 2010 and 2020, the LCOE fell by 9 cents to 4.5 cents per kwh. We estimate that lower energy costs and capital costs represented 50%-70% of the cost savings. We suspect our analysis could be too conservative."
The report also compared the energy equivalency of wind turbines to oil.
"Consider the materials needed for a 1.5 MW windmill. The foundation alone requires 40 tonnes of steel and 600 tonnes of concrete. The tower requires another 150 tonnes of steel while the generator requires 9 tonnes of copper, the nacelle requires 45 tonnes of steel, and the rotors require 15 tonnes of carbon fiber. Since wind power is intermittent, a 1.5 MW windmill is expected to operate at a load factor of only 30%. That means a 1.5 MW windmill will produce 4 GWH of power per year over its 20-year assumed life."
On an oil equivalent basis, this windmill would produce the same energy as 116,000 barrels of oil, about 10% of the best wells in the U.S. Permian Basin. Put another way, it would take 10, 100-metre-tall windmills to produce the same amount of energy as a single oil well that yielded one million recoverable barrels.
And the oil's energy would be continuous. As the world has learned the hard way, the windmill would require backup power. Which increases the cost.
Rising costs for renewables
Goehring & Rozencwajg warn about rising costs for renewables. "If our models are correct and both energy prices and capital costs rise going forward, the impact on renewable energy will be dramatic. We calculate that solar costs could easily rise from 7 cents to 20 cents per kwh while wind costs could rise from 4.5 cents to 6.0 cents per kwh. In both cases, nearly a decade of cost savings would be wiped out."
They could be wrong. Nobody wants to read this. I don't want to write it.
But the extraordinarily good times that ended with the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and made worse by war in Eastern Europe have changed everything, including the energy transition.
More than ever, the world must replace energy politics with energy science and economics.
David Yager is an oilfield service executive, oil and gas writer, and energy policy analyst. He is author of From Miracle to Menace – Alberta, A Carbon Story.


Thinking about my upcoming trip to FFA National Convention has me reminiscing about previous convention trips; one in 2003 to Louisville, KY to see my middle sister receive her American Degree, and a few more back in high school, when National Convention was held in Kansas City, MO. I find myself "flashing back" to the countless ways FFA and Ag Education helped make me who I am today.
Erin back in her FFA blues.
I loved growing up on a farm and had been active in 4-H as a young kid, so joining FFA in high school made perfect sense. My first interaction with FFA competitions was as an eager Freshman. Mr. Pedersen, our Ag Instructor, had a contest for all Freshman students. The first student to memorize and recite the FFA Creed, got their FFA jacket for FREE. I was competitive, I was frugal, and I could memorize (three traits I still prize to this day)! I memorized the creed, won the FFA jacket that still hangs in my closet today, and later that year, competed in the Creed Speaking contest. Looking back, those experiences helped me build my confidence in public speaking.
My FFA career was filled with different competitions, from Livestock Judging, to Conduct of Meetings to Ag Sales. I always did well at sub-districts. Sometimes I advanced to districts and sometimes I did not. Each time I practiced, I got better, and even though I wished I would have gone farther and won more awards, I was proud of the personal gains that I made and the experiences it provided. Great life lessons in that you aren't going to get every job or opportunity you apply for and you aren't always going to be #1 – but I knew that I worked hard and was proud of the finished product.
I gained valuable leadership experience as Osceola Big Chief FFA Chapter Vice President, then President and participated in nearly all of our Chapter's activities. I carry those leadership, project management, and time management skills with me every day. I also learned about balance. Through high school I balanced cheer, band, FFA, coursework, and farm chores – no different than I balance everything in my life today.
My SAE (Supervised Agricultural Experience) was sheep production and that led me to my Iowa Degree in 1999. I learned about entrepreneurship, record keeping, and ag production. My SAE serves as the building blocks for Matthew and I starting our full-service automotive repair business, our farm operation, and my side-hustle crafting habit, not to mention my role in Farm and Ranch Insurance at Nationwide.
Last, but definitely not least, I met my husband through FFA and while we cuss it on a daily basis, we have built one heck of a life together all founded on our shared experiences in FFA. He brags that he was Conduct of Meeting Sentinel, the hardest officer part possible on the 4th place Gold team at the Iowa FFA State competition in 1995. We may argue about who can still recite the Creed or Opening Ceremonies, but we wouldn't have it any other way.
Earlier this year, we crossed a major milestone, working with a group of parents in our community to convince the School Board that we needed an Ag and FFA program at our school. Fast forward 12 months and the program is up and running and I couldn't be more excited that with a little luck and a lot of hard work, our daughter will be able to have the same Ag Education and FFA opportunities that Matthew and I had. Through that work, we also became ♪♬ lifetime members of the FFA, hey ♪♬ and founding members of our local FFA and Ag Supporters group to ensure that our chapter has everything it needs.
Looking back, my involvement in the Osceola FFA, Big Chief Chapter laid the ground work for public speaking, resilience, leadership, entrepreneurship, record keeping, and ag production skills that I use every day as a Mom, Ag Professional, and FarmHer. I would not be where I am today without FFA.
I can't wait to be surrounded once again by the sea of blue corduroy in Indianapolis. – I hope to see you there!
Now it all makes sense to me. I watch Erin do her job at Nationwide almost every day. I could never understand how she juggled all her responsibilities at work, and then went home to her family and farm to juggle even MORE. And, always maintains an even keel and a smile on her face. I always recognized FFA was an outstanding organization with exemplary members that is building our agriculture leaders of tomorrow. But this blog connected a lot of dots for me, including Erin's competitive and frugal foundation. The memorization piece is a surprise! Thanks for sharing, Erin. Hope everyone has a great time … and wins awards! … at this year's FFA Convention!


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Review on Realme GT Master Edition 5g
Realme GT is one of the premier brands in the Indian mobile phones segment. It has come up with some really great features that have made it stand out amongst its competitors. These phones are a perfect combination of entertainment and communication. These handsets have a high resolution camera with functional imaging, a music player with phase separation audio mixing, a decent LCD panel and some truly impressive sounding hardware to boot. All this and more make it a hot favourite in the market and have made it one of the most sought after mobiles in India.
The Realme GT Master Edition 5g is priced from India at Rs 25,500 for the basic version with 6.43-inch diagonal and a width of 9.5-inch. The rear camera is an eight megapixel unit, though the front camera is only a four megapixel unit. The Realme GT has Android operating software installed in it, which is also lager than the other models. The Realme GT has a dual touch screen feature where it can be used as a mobile phone and also as a laptop. You get a better display as compared to the other models in the market with a thickness of just 2.5 mm. realme gt 5g master edition
The realme gt master edition 5g comes with a quad core processor and a Samsung-made Exynona Intel CPU along with a generous amount of memory for storing videos and images. The RAM of this mobile phone is enhanced by the presence of two gigabytes of LPDDR3 SODIMMs in it. This gives it enough power to run the suite of applications that come with the handset along with a large number of softwares. There are a virtual memory card and an expandable memory card in the Realme GT. It also has a built in camera, which is called as the Selfie camera and has an 8 mega pixels resolution.
The phone comes with a nice video quality camera with a five megapixel resolution and also features a nice wide angle lens. The battery of the Realme GT is a li-lion cell and has a fast charging capability and has a vapor chamber cooling system. It has two modes – one with the standard temperature control and the other being equipped with the climate control feature. The text messaging facility of the Realme GT is very good and comes out pretty fast even if it is a touch screen. The device also includes the Realme Ui 2.0 which is a high definition video chat program with voice recording facility. You can also connect the phone to a computer using USB cable and play your favorite videos or music with the help of the web browser.
Realme GT has a unique user interface which has the latest technology inside it. This makes it an ultimate entertainment gadget for those who love to do things on the move. The Realme GT also has some unique features like vibrating notification system and auto-answer feature which make it all the more popular among all those people who are crazy about messaging and using all kinds of multimedia gadgets. The user interface of the Realme GT master edition 5g is really great and is comparable to that of the iPhone and the Blackberry, which make it a preferred choice among all age groups.
In the category of the cameras, the Realme GT series has four models with different specifications like the High definition cam, the Silver tube cam, the Professional model and the Ultimate model. The camera has a complete package including a memory card, charger, earphone jacks, USB cable and the Realme GT Master Edition 5g wall mounting bracket. All the four Realme gt models have got the high definition camcorder lens, a high density lens cell, fast charging system, the front and rear cameras have got an inbuilt image stabilization system. The Realme GT models are really good value for money.
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'Firefly' Universe Mapped
by Robert Greenberger · November 22, 2008
Browncoats are Firefly fans and some fans seem to go to extremes to show their appreciation for the Joss Whedon series which lasted a mere season on Fox.
One group of fans has named themselves the Firefly Ship Works and have devoted countless hours to studying the series in minute detail. They've done schematics for the Firefly-class ship that the cast traveled aboard and now they have unveiled their map of the universe, including all the planets visited and mentioned on the series and the film Serenity.
According to their website, "our goal is to create reliable, flexible and affordable transport for you and yours, as you endeavor to reach vistas unseen and wilderness yet to be tamed. As such, we have put together this Cortex Wave Server (CWS) to keep you informed of our efforts to create the 'Verse's first and only screen-accurate Firefly Series 3, the Serenity Artisan Replica."
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Robert Greenberger
Robert Greenberger is best known to comics fans as the editor of Who's Who In The DC Universe, Suicide Squad, and Doom Patrol. He's written and edited several Star Trek novels and is the author of The Essential Batman Encyclopedia. He's known for his work as an editor for Comics Scene, Starlog, and Weekly World News, as well as holding executive positions at both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
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Undercover Kitten Catches a Fake Vet
A nice, lighthearted story to break up the hard news you always find on The Dark Stuff...
NEW YORK - He came from the streets of Brooklyn, a cool customer on four legs, the perfect bait for a sting on a fake veterinarian.
Meet Fred, undercover kitten.
Authorities on Wednesday introduced the 8-month-old former stray cat that posed as a would-be patient while police investigated a college student accused of treating pets without a license.
At a news conference, Fred sported a tiny badge on his collar as he posed for photos with owner Carol Moran, a prosecutor.
"He's pretty easygoing, a real Brooklyn guy," Moran said.
Fred shared the spotlight with Burt the Boston terrier, an alleged victim of Steven Vassall, 28, who was arrested last week and released on $2,500 bail.
Burt's owner, Raymond Reid, contacted authorities after the dog survived a botched operation. In hindsight, he said, he should have been suspicious of a veterinarian who only made house calls and treated animals at an undisclosed location.
Vassall "seemed like a genuinely nice guy," Reid said. "I'm glad they caught him, but at the same time I feel sorry for him."
Last week, an investigator posing as Fred's owner summoned Vassall to an apartment rigged with a hidden camera. Authorities played a videotape at the news conference showing the defendant saying the kitten could be neutered for $135.
Vassall was arrested as he left the apartment carrying Fred in a box and cash for the operation. Investigators later recovered a price list for vaccinations and other procedures, including surgeries.
It was unclear how long Vassall — a college student who once worked as a laboratory assistant in a vet's office — allegedly scammed pet owners before Fred helped put him out of business.
Joyce Clemmons of the nonprofit Animal Care and Control, which rescued Fred, predicted the kitten had a future in law enforcement.
"He's going to be the detective for the animal world," she said.


When the UNIQUE option is used, the file is created with a unique name. These are usually temporary work or holding files for listings, etc. The temporary files by default are located in the Windows temporary folder for the current user. If you specify your own path for the file name, then that path will be used instead when creating the temporary file.
The following example illustrates how to create uniquely named files based on file_spec.
Running the following example will create a file called 'test_file.txt' in your Sheerpower folder.
CLOSE #chnl_num closes a file. CLOSE ALL closes all files. Files should be closed before the program ends.
CLOSE closes a file from further access. Once a file is closed, data cannot be stored in it or read from it. chnl_num is the channel number associated with the file. (The channel number is assigned in the OPEN statement.) The channel number can be given as any numeric expression.
The PRINT #chnl_num statement writes data to a file so the data can be referenced at a later time.
PRINT writes data to a file. The file must be open and have a channel number associated with it. chnl_num is the channel number and it can be any numeric expression. expr is the expression being stored in the file. When Sheerpower executes a PRINT statement, it evaluates the expression and stores its value in the file. The expression is optional. A PRINT statement without an expression writes a blank line to the file.
See Section 6.7, File and Structure Access Functions for more on working with files in Sheerpower.
chnl_num is the channel number associated with the file. The channel number can be any integer expression. var is the variable the data is assigned to. Each time data is input from a file, it must be assigned to a variable. The data input must match the variable's data type. Sheerpower inputs data sequentially starting at the beginning of the file.
One INPUT statement can be used to input data into a number of variables. The variables in the INPUT list must be separated by commas.
Sheerpower inputs data sequentially, starting from the beginning of the file. Sheerpower continues inputting data until all the variables in the list have values.
If the variable and data types do not match, an exception will be generated.
If an attempt is made to input more data than the file contains, an exception is generated.
This is the first line of text.         This is the second line of text.
LINE INPUT #chnl_num reads a line of text from a file. Everything on the line including commas, quotation marks, semicolons, etc., is accepted as part of the input line.
chnl_num is the channel number associated with the file. The channel number can be any integer expression. str_var is the variable to which data is being assigned. When Sheerpower executes the LINE INPUT statement, it reads a line from the file and assigns it to the string variable specified.
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Discussion in 'PowerPC Macs' started by IxD3ViiLx, Jun 22, 2011.
Hey Guys, I'm buying an iMac 27" this weekend and need to buy a suitable desk. I have read the other threads, please don't direct me to them. I am looking for personal opinions on two IKEA Computer desks. The JONAS and The MICKE. ( Search them on IKEA if you dont own one) What would be the better desk to have for the iMac? If you have pictures of either, please, post them - Thanks, Devil. Please give as much detail as possible when replying.
Why not just buy the one that you think is better?
I found a few images of the desks with iMacs on Google Images. I think the Micke is more of an aesthetic compliment to the iMac than the Jonas.
I have the black Micke on wooden floors and the white drawers seem off.
Why is this in the PowerPC Macs forum?
Hunt down a used Jerker. Best Ikea desk (and maybe best by anyone other than anthrocart) ever made but they stopped about 3 years ago. I have the black/brown with 2 shelves and a keyboard tray. Because people are still after these a lot you can often find them on craigslist for 75-150 depending on exact setup. It was a very customizable desk and could be expanded almost into infinity. Love mine.
Good question. When I responded I was of the mindset it was a PowerPC iMac because it was posted here.
I remember seeing those at IKEA and admiring how customizable they are/were. I think you could also get them in black or white finishes.
They still make the Fredrik desk series, which is similar to the Jerker, and has a few options that can be added. I think I saw more options in store than their website shows.


I mean, so far I've only heard Lisa call her that.
No. Marge called her Snowball in "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" and Bart called her by name in "The seven-Beer Snitch". That's just 2 examples. Probably a lot more.


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Q: Bit field manipulation In the following code
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;
struct field
{
   unsigned first : 5;
   unsigned second : 9;
};
int main()
{
   union
   {
      field word;
      int i;
   };
   i = 0;
   cout<<"First is : "<<word.first<<" Second is : "<<word.second<<" I is "<<i<<"\n";
   word.first = 2;
   cout<<"First is : "<<word.first<<" Second is : "<<word.second<<" I is "<<i<<"\n";
   return 0;
}

when I initialize word.first = 2, as expected it updates 5-bits of the word, and gives the desired output. It is the output of 'i' that is a bit confusing. With word.first = 2, i gives output as 2, and when I do word.second = 2, output for i is 64. Since, they share the same memory block, shouldnt the output (for i) in the latter case be 2?

A: This particular result is platform-specific; you should read up on endianness.
But to answer your question, no, word.first and word.second don't share memory; they occupy separate bits.  Evidently, the underlying representation on your platform is thus:
bit   15 14 13 12 11 10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1  0
     +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
     |     |         second           |    first     |
     +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
     |<------------------- i ----------------------->|

So setting word.second = 2 sets bit #6 of i, and 26 = 64.

A: While this depends on both your platform and your specific compiler, this is what happens in your case:
The union overlays both the int and the struct onto the same memory. Let us assume, for now, that your int has a size of 32 bits. Again, this depends on multiple factors. Your memory layout will look something like this:

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
                  SSSSSSSSSFFFFF

Where I stands for the integer, S for the second field and F for the first field of your struct. Note that I have represented the most significant bit on the left.
When you initialize the integer to zero, all the bits are set as zero, so first and second are also zero.
When you set word.first to two, the memory layout becomes:

00000000000000000000000000000010
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
                  SSSSSSSSSFFFFF

Whichs leads to a value of 2 for the integer. However, by setting the value of word.second to 2, the memory layout becomes:

00000000000000000000000001000000
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
                  SSSSSSSSSFFFFF

Which gives you a value of 64 for the integer.


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Hands On: Will Fight For Food
Melissa K. April 26th, 2015 - 8:20 PM
India-based indie game developer Pyrodactyl, maker of offbeat RPGs like Unrest and A. Typical RPG, released Will Fight for Food on April 22. Will Fight for Food, also known as Will Fight for Food: Super Actual Sellout: Game of the Hour, is a self-described comedic role-playing brawler where you can either use fists of fury to "punch people into submission" or words of wisdom to "talk them through a ridiculously complex conversation system." I opted for the punch now, talk later approach.
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Every RPG has NPCs you find annoying. In this one, you can beat them up.
The game is equipped with a detailed conversation system that I didn't care much for in terms of wasting my time with pointless back-and-forth banter. I understand dialogue in games, especially RPGs or choose-your-own-adventure games, but if the game advertises a nonlinear plot to begin with, what's the point? I spammed "Enter" and didn't bother reading most of it so I could waste more time throwing a dozen punches and kicks to down individual NPCs.
The mechanics of the game are that of a basic side-scroller, beat-em-up, button masher with simple controls and equally simple animations. The fighting animations are about as dynamic as an early-2000s Flash game, and in my opinion, the lack of variety or ability to chain combos exponentially detracts from the initial allure to beat up NPCs.
The writing and humor were also a bit lackluster. See the developer-provided screenshots below for a glimpse of both. Part of me thinks the dialogue merely exists for the pure gratification of beating NPCs up in lieu of sitting through lengthy conversations that are often not even necessary to incite in the first place. The highlighted "ridiculously complicated conversation system" is what turned me off from wanting to complete this game.
In the end, Will Fight for Food is the type of game meant for quick doses of mindlessly simple gameplay and flat, offbeat humor. Although to be honest, this game wouldn't be my first choice for either; I'd rather play a better-executed free mobile game than pay money for and sit at my computer to play this. I was afforded a key from the developer and couldn't play more than 5 minutes at a time before getting bored or irritated.
Don't take my word for it, though. Agree or disagree? Share your thoughts on Will Fight for Food in the comments.
If this type of indie game piques your interest, it's available on Steam for the -17 % reduced price of $4.97 USD. Below is the game's announcement trailer, courtesy of Pyrodactyl.
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Side Scroller
Will Fight for Food
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Kilburn vicar says 'no surrender' after LGBT flags torn down from church in 'targeted attack'
Anna Behrmann
Fr Andrew Foreshew-Cain with husband Stephen
A Kilburn vicar has vowed to put up new LGBT and transgender flags after two young men cut them down in what he believes to be a "targeted attack"
The LGBT and trans flags once flew proudly on St James' church
Father Andrew Foreshew-Cain, vicar of St Mary's with All Souls in Abbey Road, said he is determined not to be intimidated after the flags were cut down from St James' in West Hampstead, his other church, on Sunday night.
CCTV images show two young men walking round the side of the church, where they disappear out of sight, and then appearing with the flags a while later.
Fr Foreshew-Cain believes it is a premeditated attack as the flags are high up, near the roof of the church, and the men must have climbed up.
He said he will invite the community to a small ceremony where he will replace the flags soon, with the date to be confirmed next week.
"I decided that they weren't going to stop us – no, we're not going to give in to that.
"We have the flags up proudly because it's a statement of who we are.
"The flags show that this is a place of safety and everybody is welcome."
The morning after the theft, Fr Foreshaw-Cain wrote on Facebook: "To those who cut down our Rainbow and Trans flags from our Church overnight.
"You cannot silence us and we will not give in to your bullying and threats.
"No surrender."
Fr Foreshew-Cain, who was the second gay priest in the country to marry his partner at a ceremony in June 2014, has received "lovely" messages from the community after the theft.
One reads: "I walk past your church every day and seeing your flag just gives me a boost."
The vicar recently put up posters advertising that the church will be taking part in Open Table which provides a "safe space" for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual Christians to meet and pray together, as part of a new London network.
He is concerned the theft of the flags could be a reaction to that, as the posters are prominent to anyone who pops into the church to use the Post Office which is based there.
In spite of this, Fr Foreshew-Cain will continue with his outreach work and fly the flags proudly.
St James' is one of two churches in the country which flies an LGBT flag, with the other church in Birmingham.
Other churches, such as St Martin in the Fields in Trafalgar Square fly the rainbow flag for specific events such as Gay Pride.
Fr Foreshew-Cain put the LGBT flag up 18 months ago, and the transgender one nine months ago.


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Q: Nearly Consistent, is the following true? Continuing my previous question:

Let A be a set of axioms, we say that A is nearly consistent is there
is a finite sub set of A (A') for which A\A' is consistent.

Is it true to say that:
A is nearly consistent iff each finite sub set of A is  nearly consistent?
Which side is correct and which one isn't?

A: The answer is essentially contained in the answers/comments to your previous question:

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*Using the fact that a subset of a consistent set is consistent, we can easily prove that any subset of a nearly consistent set is nearly consistent. (This is basically the content of J.G.'s answer.) So the left-to-right direction holds.

*In the other direction, in the comments below my answer I mentioned that every finite set of sentences is nearly consistent (do you see why?). So no matter what $A$ is, every finite subset of $A$ is nearly consistent. From this it's easy to get a counterexample to the right-to-left direction:

 Just take $A$ to be any set which is not nearly consistent.

(Note that the fact that every finite set is nearly consistent makes my argument in the first bulletpoint unnecessary, but it's still worth understanding.)


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Stéphanie Baechler
Stéphanie Baechler (°1983, Meyriez, CH)
Lives & works in Amsterdam
Medium: textile, sculpture
Photo: Ladina Bischof
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Stéphanie Baechler (°1983, Meyriez, Switzerland, lives and works in Amsterdam) is an artist with focus on textile, fashion and ceramics. Trained at HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Arts with a Fashion Masters degree from the ArtEZ Arnhem Netherlands. She worked as a Textile Developer/Design Assistant for Hussein Chalayan in London and was the head of print design for renowned Swiss textile company Jakob Schlaepfer. Her work has developed towards sculpture and installation, addressing the concept of the personal. She is moving between what she terms Hardware (ceramic) and Software (textile). Baechler investigates fashion's formal and structural vocabulary, its production process and its complex relationship to the body, the self and society. Currently her work intends to question and research the motivations leaning under people's perpetual need for approval in today's ubiquitous social media landscape. Through her work with textiles, embroidery and ceramics Baechler investigates the sensual experience that has become increasingly rare through today technologies. The tactile dimension and the interaction between body, movement and space are at the heart of her research, and confront people with the otherwise intangible and mostly invisible digital world of data.
After training and working as a textile and fashion designer, Stéphanie Baechler began to question the way the fashion industry operates. Primarily engaged with sculpture and installation, she experiments with ceramics in combination with other materials in order to create an abstraction between two and three dimensional objects. With the architecture of clothing as a foundation, Baechler petrifies the various stages of dress construction in clay. By doing so, she investigates fashion's formal and structural vocabulary, its production process, and its underlying codes. At the heart of her artistic research lies her interest in the interaction between objects, their movement, and the spaces they inhabit. With this, she closely examines the inherent binaries media such as ceramics and textile present – their susceptibility to being light, heavy, soft, and hard.
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