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UN lab in Gurugram digitising Afghan land records
The technology, according to officials, will be ready for use by the Government of Afghanistan for state rebuilding by December this year.
gurgaon Updated: Jul 10, 2019 08:09 IST
Sonali Verma
Hindustan Times, Gururgram
Decades-long conflict in Afghanistan has resulted in widespread displacement of the local population, making land-grabbing a threat to their resettlement. Image used for representational purpose only.(Reuters)
To digitise land records in the war-torn cities of Afghanistan, a team of experts in the city is currently designing blockchain-based software at the Technology Innovation Lab set up by the United Nations(UN) and the government of Haryana in Udyog Vihar.
Blockchain refers to a link of records created by written or generated codes that allow information to be kept a secret.
Currently, land records in Afghanistan are maintained on paper, making them prone to errors, duplication and vulnerable to disasters. By digitising these records through blockchain, the land registration system will become more transparent, reliable and easy to access, said officials working on the technology.
"Traditional paper-based land transaction records will be replaced by a distributed ledger protected by cryptography. This will increase data security and ensure authenticity of land records," Chand Kaushil of the UN's Office of Information and Communication Technology said, adding that the first phase of the project will be implemented in Kabul, in collaboration with the municipality.
An agreement was signed between the UN and the Government of Afghanistan for the same last week.
According to officials, Gurugram was chosen as the site for software development because of easy access to technology here and the lab's proximity to Afghanistan. Gurugram has India's only UN Technology Innovation Lab, which has four other labs in New York, Helsinki, Cairo and Kuala Lumpur.
After the software has been fully designed, the team of coders and developers will start producing the software and the pilot will then be tested. "Our team has collected inputs from Afghanistan on how to best develop the technology to suit the country's needs. On-ground needs are being simulated in the lab and will help in fine tuning the technology," said Rajive Gulati, head of the state government's Hartron Innovation and Start-up Hub in Udyog Vihar.
Officials said that apart from maintaining land records, the blockchain technology will also be used to digitise civic services for citizens such as payment of municipal tax. "The larger aim is to rebuild the cities there and blockchain solution will improve governance and citizen representation," Kaushil said.
The Government of Afghanistan will be briefed on how to start the process on ground as soon as the technology is developed here.
Decades-long conflict in Afghanistan had resulted in widespread displacement of the local population, making land-grabbing by disruptive forces a threat to their resettlement. More than 1.5 million Afghans are deemed to be displaced inside the country in 2017, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
Over the year, several agencies and countries, including India, have helped rebuild Afghanistan through humanitarian assistance and by facilitating economic and infrastructure development.
India has contributed towards the reconstruction of the country since 2001 by rebuilding schools, manning hospitals, beefing up transportation networks and helping its central bank stabilise the economy.
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Business 5 Vietnamese companies on Nikkei's Asian watch list
5 Vietnamese companies on Nikkei's Asian watch list
Thanh Nien News
HO CHI MINH CITY - Wednesday, December 02, 2015 10:32 Email Print
Vingroup execs expected to dominate Vietnam's rich list again
Vietnam's FPT eyes US to increase global presence: report
Top lender Vietcombank reports sharp increase in long overdue loans
Vietnam's Vinamilk shares jump on $4 bln stake offer report
With their big market capitalization and growth potential, five Vietnamese companies have made it to Nikkei Asian Review's Asia300, an annual list of must-watch companies across the region.
PetroVietnam Gas Joint-stock Company, a subsidiary of the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group, has a market cap of around US$9 billion -- among the highest in Vietnam.
The government owns a 97 percent stake in the company, which controls nearly 70 percent of the domestic market for liquefied petroleum gas. But it reportedly plans to reduce its ownership to 77 percent.
PetroVietnam Gas has been actively entering into tie-ups with foreign companies, according to Nikkei, which named Royal Dutch Shell and Tokyo Gas as the company's recent partners.
Dairy giant Vinamilk, which recently grabbed international headlines after the government announced plans to sell 45 percent of its stake in the company, is also among the region's must-watch firms.
Its market cap is the second highest in Vietnam at around $5.5 billion. Foreign investors own 49 percent of Vinamilk.
The company, which has made a considerable contribution to the 20-fold increase in Vietnam's dairy consumption over the past 20 years, has kept expanding, moving into dairy farming and products for seniors.
Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, better known as Vietcombank, has a market cap of about $3 billion and is one of the country's four big state-owned banks.
The government now owns a 77 percent stake in the highly profitable bank, while the rest is held by foreign investors.
A major player in international trade payment, Vietcombank has tie-ups with foreign businesses like Japan's Fukui Bank and Toho Bank.
It aims to become one of the world's 300 largest banks by profitability and deposits by 2020, according to the report.
The fourth listed company is Vingroup, a real estate conglomerate valued at around $3 billion -- the biggest in the private sector.
Its founder Pham Nhat Vuong has been on Forbes' world billionaire list since 2013.
Vingroup has been aggressively expanding into other sectors, especially retail where it has made notable acquisitions including Vietnam's oldest supermarket chain Maximark. It has also established shopping malls, convenience stores and supermarkets.
Information technology group FPT is the last one on the list with a market cap of about $800 million. The government owns a 6 percent stake in the company and foreign investors, 49 percent.
FPT has been expanding overseas with operations in 16 countries and regions as of June 2014, and develops software for clients in Japan.
business FPT Vingroup PetroVietnam Vietcombank Vinamilk

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Johannes Albert Neuhuys (10 June 1844 – 6 February 1914) was one of the best-known painters of the Laren School and a friend of many of the Hague School painters.

Biography
Neuhuys was born in Utrecht. He went to the Municipal Drawing School in Utrecht from 1858 to 1860 and then worked for the lithographer Van de Weyer in Utrecht, who  went bankrupt two years later. From that time on, Neuhuys devoted himself to drawing and painting.  From 1868 to 1872, he took lessons at the Antwerp Academy, where he was supported by a royal stipend. Here he painted interiors, specializing in the shine of satin clothes, after the example of the 17th-century artist Pieter de Hooch.

In 1872, Neuhuys moved to Amsterdam, where he met Jozef Israëls, Anton Mauve and the brothers Jacob Maris and Matthijs Maris.  In 1876, he moved to The Hague. Much like the other Hague School painters, his detailed manner of painting changed to a much looser stroke.  His use of color was also inspired by Jacob Maris and his watercolors became known for their sparkling transparency and the use of light.

The increasing urbanization around The Hague forced the painters of the Hague School to look further afield for their subjects. When Israëls told Neuhuys how picturesque Laren was, he moved, in 1883; two years later, Anton Mauve also moved there and, together with him, Neuhuys was regarded as the founder of the Laren School.  He painted the farmers and weavers in their homes and rented a flax barn where he drew and painted spinners.

In 1885, he moved to Hilversum. From 1900 to 1910 he lived in Amsterdam, where he was known to many for his colorful Laren rural interiors work. He moved to Zurich in 1910 but continued to visit Laren in the spring and autumn. He died on 6 February 1914 in Orselina near Locarno, and was buried in Oud Eik en Duinen, a cemetery in The Hague.

Sources
Sillevis, John and Tabak, Anne, The Hague School Book, Waanders Uitgegevers, Zwolle, 2004  (pp 323–330)

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1844 births
1914 deaths
19th-century Dutch painters
Dutch male painters
Hague School
Artists from Utrecht
20th-century Dutch painters
19th-century Dutch male artists
20th-century Dutch male artists

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Composition for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Electronic soundtrack. 15 min.
Waves of energy interchange on four dimensions; Within each of the players, between the ensemble members and the conductor, between the ensemble and soundtrack, between the six simultaneously generated sound waves and the audience. The group creates a new entity which may be considered organic, biological or mechanistic. Like any organic system or machine, at some point it ceases to exist.
The musicians are invited to be lead by their own body movement, thus creating the music as a side effect of their bodily movements. The music happens inside one note, between two neighboring notes, and through the relationship between the musicians of the ensemble. A deep concentration and sense of responsibility is demanded from the players, who need to make compositional choices throughout the piece, based on the elements of the moment - the space and its resonance, the people in the room, their own mood on that day. The music is alive and re-created, re-composed and de-composed on every implementation/instance of the piece.


Labour Omnia Vincit is the motto of the West Coast's Mount Lyell railway: we find a way or we make it. And on 5 January 2013 the railway chugged to life again with a limited service following its closure in April 2013 when its operator pulled out of its lease with the State Government.
The State Government have provided funds for the railway's current operation, but will be seeking external funding to ensure its future.
The Tasmanian Minerals Council's Communications Officer, Natalie Johnston, enjoyed a trip on the railway prior to its closure in 2013.
It is not easy to digest the involved history of the Mount Lyell Mining Company and railway. There are feuding Irishmen, bitter corporate rivalry and takeovers and the rise and fall of mining towns, just to name a few things. The West Coast Wilderness Railway, formerly known as the Mt Lyell railway, provides some insight and glimpses into its volatile past.
The locals are fond of telling you that it rains at least 300 days a year on the West Coast. So it seems fitting that it is bucketing down in Queenstown on a cold day in August for the start of my trip on the railway. The mining town of Queenstown seems like the rough diamond sister compared to its charming and more sanitised counterpart, the tourist hub of Strahan and the destination of today's train trip. Queenstown is a survivor like the Mt Lyell mine, now called Copper Mines of Tasmania. In its prime Queenstown had a population of 5,000 people and the mine employed 2,500 and was regarded as the biggest copper mine in the British empire. These days Queenstown has a population of around 2,000 and in 2014 the mine went into care and maintenance.
The population of the West Coast in its heyday reached 25,000 in 1901 compared to its current population of around 5,000. These days about sixty to seventy per cent of mining families now live on Tasmania's North West coast, basing themselves temporarily in towns such as Queenstown and Zeehan for work and moving back to the North West Coast to be with their families on their days off. This shift is a result of greater mobility with working shifts and new highways opening up.
The barren Queenstown hills are a legacy of its mining past. The hills were cleared for its timber leaving the fragile top soil exposed so it washed away with the heavy rainfall. It was then further damaged with the advent of smelters. Perhaps it is something of a miracle then that the green, lush trees and vegetation have determinedly been growing back on Queenstown's hills for the past 20 years or so, leaving traces of the lunar landscape instead of totally dominating it. By way of interest, the grass has still not grown back on Queenstown's gravel sporting oval.
Some of the older locals tell you that it is shame that the trees are growing back on the hills as they believe that Queenstown loses its uniqueness and one of its major tourist drawcards. They are not kidding. In 1996 for instance 3,000 locals signed a petition banning revegetation of the barren hills. But as it sometimes the case, there is no holding back nature.
Sitting snugly in my train carriage, a duplicate of the original and fitted out in a range of Tasmanian timbers, I am lulled by sound of the heavy rain hitting the roof as the train slowly chugs up and down gullies, gorges and rivers, giving a sense of this wet and rugged landscape on the 34.5 kilometre journey. The original railway was a 48 kilometre line.
Some have claimed that parts of the soggy soil never see the sun. It gives some insight into concerns that the weather and terrain were deemed too challenging for the railway's completion. Though sitting warm and dry in the carriage listening to our guide unravelling the involved history of the making of the Mt Lyell railway it is somewhat hard to relate to the hardship that went into building it.
The West Coast people are renowned as hardy, independent people, as recognised in the Lyell railway's motto, Labor Omnia Vincit: we find a way or we make it. This was certainly the case with the completion of the railway against great odds on two occasions.
The West Coast Wilderness Railway website states that the original railway took 19 months to construct from Teepookana to Queenstown and a further 11 months from Teepookana to Regatta Point at Strahan, a total of two and a half years. There were 48 bridges required between Teepookana and Queenstown alone, validating claims that the completion of the original railway was an engineering masterpiece.
"The Mt Lyell railway was Tasmania's largest construction job in this time of the depression and it became a Mecca for the unemployed from all over the island," renowned Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey wrote in his book, The Peaks of Lyell. "Many landed at Strahan without a penny to their names … Axeman, labourers, butchers, clerks, caters – they built the Mt Lyell railway." Blainey writes of bush settlements that housed 500 men for this purpose.
It was first completed in 1897 and launched with much fanfare. Geoffrey Blainey tells of an exclusive event in Strahan attended by 70, including the Governor of Tasmania, Lord Gormanston. The guests listened to an orchestra while feasting on a French menu served by waiters and cooks from Melbourne. It could not have been more of a contrast than the agony that went into building the railway by a lot of poor men battling to make a living.
The original steam engine is used on the current trains and was major part of the restoration process. The railway is the only tourist one in Australia using an Abt rack system. The Abt system was a Swiss invention that was revolutionary technology at the time of the initial Mt Lyell development and it was selected due to the steep sections.
We learn that in 1892 two Adelaide financiers, Bowes Kelly and William Orr, bought the floundering Mount Lyell mine and formed the Mount Lyell Mining Company. The irrepressible Kelly in particular was confident that there was a fortune to make from copper and recognised the need to transport the copper via rail. The Mt Lyell Mining Company became Australia's largest mine over the decade following the railway's completion in 1897.
The train became peoples' links to other communities. There are vivid reminders of this at train stops such as Rinabeena and Dubbil Barrill, with appealing photographs of the rowdy sing-alongs on the annual Mount Lyell Picnic Days between 1897 and 1963, and of three picnic trains that ran at 45 minute intervals, including the last train of the day, the 'drinker's special.' Mt Lyell arranged picnic grounds near the King River Gorge.
The historical significance of the Mt Lyell railway was captured at the Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival in October 2012, held in conjunction with the centenary of the North Lyell mining disaster that killed 42 people, marked in the history books as the biggest hard rock mining accident in Australia. The remarkable bravery following the disaster was regarded as one of Australia's most heroic peacetime episodes and there were more medals for bravery handed out after the rescue than for any previous event in the nation's history. The train played a crucial part in the rescue effort which was marked at the festival with a shuttle train commemorative service and a rescue run re-enactment.
Today's journey involves a number of stops geared at fun and education. Our first stop includes gold mine sampling at Lynchford for example.
At Rinabeena there is the opportunity for a short walk along the King River after lunch. The meandering river and rainforest look like pristine environment from the train windows, but are anything but. It is sobering to hear that the King and Queen River remain dead, tainted from past mining practices where mine water and tailings were discharged from the Mt Lyell mine. The PH levels are still too low for any growth, although there has been no dumping in the rivers since 1994.
A tailings dam was built then near Queenstown, our guide explains. Vedanta Copper Mines of Tasmania contributed money towards a remediation project with CSIRO and Forestry Tasmania. As a result there's some regrowth at the side of the river.
The King River runs into Macquarie Harbour and we chug beside the harbour as we near our final destination, Regatta Point in Strahan. We are told Macquarie Harbour is the second largest harbour in Australia (Port Phillip Bay is the largest) and it is six and a half times bigger than Sydney Harbour.
Dubbill Barrill is the final stop before Strahan. We are told that there was a young man from the area years ago who ordered a double barrel shotgun from the mainland, forgetting to put his address on the paperwork. Each day the excited young man would come out to meet the train, hoping for the delivery of his gun. As the months went by he kept checking, but became increasingly dejected. Finally, a guard recognised a package at the Strahan Post Office with 'Dubbill Barrill' written on it and he was able to deliver it. After this the railway stop was christened Dubbill Barrill.
The train pauses on the 65 metre bridge overlooking the King River Gorge, to give us a moment to savour the view. As we chug through Teepookana we learn at one time it had a population of 200, had its own school, stores and hotel. The bridge at Teepookana is one of only two pieces of the original railway track, Ingrid says. The rock wall after Teepookana was the other original part.
Teepookana is one of a number of West Coast towns that never survived beyond the railway and mining boom. Another one was Crotty. Geoffrey Blainey writes that with the merge of the North Lyell and Lyell mines in 1903, Crotty went from a town of 900 to almost being deserted within three weeks. Blainey also noted that the Mt Lyell co. eventually absorbed the 40 smaller mining companies which either had no ore to mine, or had ore that only the Mt Lyell co. could smelt at a profit.
After 66 years in operation, the Mt Lyell railway made its final trip in 1963. It was deemed too expensive to upkeep and there were also other options with a road opening in 1932 that linked the West Coast to Hobart, and the opening of the Murchison Highway in 1963 linking the West Coast to Burnie.
The preparation on the reconstructed Mt Lyell railway began in the mid 1990s. The West Coast Wilderness Railway website states that a local businessman, Viv Crocker, and fellow railway enthusiasts established the Mount Lyell Abt Railway Society and began a campaign of fund-raising. The restoration work revved up in 2000 with the assistance of $20.45 million from a Federation Fund. It was launched by the then Premier and Prime Minister in 2002.
The six hour railway adventure comes to an end. I am now considerably more knowledgeable, but full of burning questions, wanting to know more about this part of the world.


Preventative screenings are important to maintaining good health, especially when it comes to screening for cancer. Your physician can recommend screenings that you should have based on your age and risk factors.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month which serves as an important reminder that mammograms play a vital role in maintaining good breast health. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 230,000 cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed and about 40,000 women will die from the disease in the United States this year alone.
The American College of Radiology reports that screening mammography has helped to reduce breast cancer deaths in the United States by 1/3 since 1990. The goal of screening mammography is to detect breast cancer at an early stage when it is most treatable. In fact, cancers that are confined to the breast have survival rates greater than 98 percent.
PIH Health radiologist, Kimberly Bickell MD, says that women who are in good health should have yearly mammograms beginning at age 40. Women who have a high risk of developing breast cancer— particularly those with a family history of the disease—should talk with their doctor about the best approach for preventative care. This might mean starting mammograms at a younger age or having extra tests done in addition to annual screenings. If a woman has any doubt of her risk factor for breast cancer, she should consult with a healthcare professional as soon as possible.


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Mobile Application Testing course at Trishana Technologies, is always one-step ahead of all other training institutes' courses. Our mobile app testing course is an umbrella-package which includes training for testing any mobile application in all the available mobile operating systems such as Android, Apple iOS, Samsung-backed Tizen, Blackberry RIM, Windows 10 mobile OS, OPPO's ColorOS and Xiaomi's MIUI. Our trainers are working software professionals with vast experience in mobile application development and testing. And we aptly provide them with smart classroom and state-of-the-art lab to train you in all the available testing techniques and testing tools (including simulators). We provide all the tools required to test mobile applications to our students only to help them practice testing at home. We also provide placement support and ensure that all our students are well placed at the end of our training.


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Charity auction during dinner for project 'JANSDAG' of the Johanniter Order and Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Dutch Association.


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Home Magazine Jug presentation 2020: The official Oktoberfest jug and the "Koa Wiesn" jug
Jug presentation 2020: The official Oktoberfest jug and the "Koa Wiesn" jug
The Wiesnkrug is here! And there is another!
Though everything is different in 2020, there is one constant - the presentation of the official Oktoberfest jug. At the beginning of September, the City of Munich jug was presented. You can buy it on the official oktoberfest.de online store. For more on why the Oktoberfest jug is available even without the Wiesn, and what the second one is all about, read here!
A special collector's item: The Wiesnkrug 2020
Usually the "jug show" holds on the first official date of the Wiesn, but not so this year! Due to the Corona pandemic, the Oktoberfest was cancelled. "Even if the Wiesn cannot take place this year, the collector's pitcher is a reminder of a memorable year and at the same time gives hope and anticipation for the next Oktoberfest", Wiesn boss, Clemens Baumgärtner, explained proudly at the presentation in early September. "There it is!" In a limited special edition, the pitcher has continued the series since 1978. This pleased the Wiesn boss, who himself is a passionate collector of Wiesn jugs.
Pure nostalgia: A jug with traditional Oktoberfest symbols
The pitcher was not presented in a big round shape as usual, but still with just as much enthusiasm. "What do you actually need for a real Oktoberfest?" asks Clemens Baumgärtner. Quite clearly: "You need a snack, a pretzel and beer! All these symbols can be found, among many others, in the nostalgic Wiesnplakat, which was presented after a competition in January. . This year's winner was the graphic designer, Ulrich Peter from Kaufbeuren with his pink-turquoise-golden design full of Oktoberfest symbols. This also now adorns the popular stoneware jug.
You can buy the 2020 Oktoberfest jug here!
Video: This is the official Oktoberfest Maßkrug 2020
The "Koa Wiesn" jug: fundraising campaign for showmen and market traders
Special times require special actions! Therefore, in 2020 there will be a "Koa Wiesn" jug for the first time, which stands for "no Oktoberfest". The cancellation of the Wiesn gave singer-songwriter and Munich city councilman, Roland Hefter, the idea for an alternative Wiesn collector's jug. The Wiesn with its market traders and showmen is very dear to his heart, thus it was immediately clear to him that he would like to support them, because "they've been hit hard. Wiesn boss, Clemens Baumgärtner is also enthusiastic about the idea: "A special year, a special Wiesn", so a special jug was needed.
Video: All information about the "Koa Wiesn" jug 2020 - idea, design, price


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Q: ORA-01008: not all variables bound after database upgrade I've got an Oracle Error (ORA-01008): the thing is that this error appears for the first time, with no modification of table/Schema (but there was a database upgrade).
I tried execute immediate, but I still get the same error.
SET serveroutput ON;
set define off;
--alter session set "_subquery_pruning_enabled"=false;
DECLARE
  z_value NUMBER      := -1;
  CURSOR listedocument
  IS
  select to_number(2310458) as coco from dual;
BEGIN
  FOR l IN listedocument
  LOOP
    BEGIN
          dbms_output.put_line (' l.coco= ' ||  l.coco );
         SELECT oa.myvalue
           INTO z_value
           FROM    schema2.table2 oa
                INNER JOIN
                   schema1.table1 ed
                ON ed.coco = oa.coco
          WHERE ed.coco =  l.coco
         ;
    EXCEPTION
    WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
      dbms_output.put_line ('NO_DATA_FOUND');
    WHEN OTHERS THEN
      dbms_output.put_line ('Exception de traitement ' || SQLERRM);
    END;
  END LOOP;
END;

The problem seems to be here WHERE ed.coco =  l.coco
I get the error : Exception de traitement ORA-01008: not all variables bound [==>modification post message]
I get the error : ORA-01008: not all variables bound
When I use alter session set "_subquery_pruning_enabled"=false; everything works, but performance is bad.
I'm using Oracle database 11g (11.2.0.4.0).

A: It looks like you might have hit a bug.
Take a look:
https://community.oracle.com/thread/3894065?start=30&tstart=0

There are cases where the optimizer calls kkpap to do partition
  pruning at compile-time. Sometimes partition pruning is done by
  running subqueries against the table. If bind variable values are
  required to run these subqueries then we cannot do the pruning at
  compile-time.
      The fix for  bug 14458214  fixed this issue for the case where the   subquery was used to prune at the partition-level. However, it is
  possible that we use some other method at the partition level then use
  subquery pruning at the subpartition level; this case was not
  addressed by the fix for 14458214.

A: DECLARE

  z_value NUMBER      := -1;

coco number;
BEGIN
    BEGIN
coco:=2310458;
          dbms_output.put_line (' coco= ' ||  coco );
         SELECT oa.myvalue
           INTO z_value
           FROM    schema2.table2 oa
                INNER JOIN
                   schema1.table1 ed
                ON ed.coco = oa.coco
          WHERE ed.coco =  coco
         ;
    EXCEPTION
    WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
      dbms_output.put_line ('NO_DATA_FOUND');
    WHEN OTHERS THEN
      dbms_output.put_line ('Exception de traitement ' || SQLERRM);
    END;

Using LOOP when You have 1 variable in cursor... not a good idea.

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			AssociarAssinatura...........: numeroSessao, EEEEE, mensagem, cod, mensagemSEFAZ
			AtualizarSoftwareSAT.........: numeroSessao, EEEEE, mensagem, cod, mensagemSEFAZ
			ExtrairLogs..................: numeroSessao, EEEEE, mensagem, cod, mensagemSEFAZ, base64
			BloquearSAT..................: numeroSessao, EEEEE, mensagem, cod, mensagemSEFAZ
			DesbloquearSAT...............: numeroSessao, EEEEE, mensagem, cod, mensagemSEFAZ
			TrocarCodigoDeAtivacao.......: numeroSessao, EEEEE, mensagem, cod, mensagemSEFAZ
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            RetornoStr = resposta;

            RetornoLst = new List<string>();
            RetornoLst.AddRange(resposta.Split('|'));

            if (RetornoLst.Count > 1)
            {
                NumeroSessao = RetornoLst[0].ToInt32();
                CodigoDeRetorno = RetornoLst[1].ToInt32();
            }

            var idx = 2;
            if (RetornoLst.Count <= idx) return;

            //Enviar e Cancelar venda tem um campo a mais no inicio da resposta(CCCC)
            var value = RetornoLst[idx].Trim();
            if (value.Length == 4 && value.IsNumeric())
            {
                CodigoDeErro = RetornoLst[idx].ToInt32();
                idx = 3;
            }

            if (RetornoLst.Count > idx + 2)
            {
                MensagemRetorno = RetornoLst[idx];
                CodigoSEFAZ = RetornoLst[idx + 1].ToInt32();
                MensagemSEFAZ = RetornoLst[idx + 2];
            }
            else
            {
                MensagemRetorno = resposta;
            }
        }

        #endregion Constructors

        #region Propriedades

        public int NumeroSessao { get; private set; }

        public int CodigoDeRetorno { get; private set; }

        public int CodigoDeErro { get; private set; }

        public string MensagemRetorno { get; private set; }

        public int CodigoSEFAZ { get; private set; }

        public string MensagemSEFAZ { get; private set; }

        public List<string> RetornoLst { get; private set; }

        public string RetornoStr { get; private set; }

        #endregion Propriedades
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Q: Exposing Objects (DataContracts) that may not be directly used by a WCF service? I have some object classes that use inheritance. It seems that I can only get access to the objects that are directly used by a service. Let me show you what I am trying to accomplish:
[DataContract]
public class Object1
{
   [DataMember]
   int Id {get; set;}
}

[DataContract]
public class object2: Object1
{
   [DataMember]
   string Name {get; set;}
}

[DataContract]
public class object3
{
    [DataMember]
    int SomeNumber {get; set;}
}

The Service:
public int GetId(object2 obj)
{
    return GetTheId(object2.Name);
}

Now since I am using object2 in the service, object1 gets serialized too. Howerver, I may want to have object3 exposed for some reason. It may be a derived class that I have to pass so that its type can be determined later for another process. I do not see this object getting serialized. I assumed that whenever you set the DataContract / DataMember those objects would get serialized. It does make sense not to expose something that is not begin used, becuase I can see an issue with exposing items you may not need. What is the best way to expose objects that are not directly used by a service? Thanks
Daniel

A: You should decorate object2 (peculiar name for a class :)) with the KnownType attribute:
[DataContract]
[KnownType(typeof(object3))]
public class object2
{
}

Assuming you mean object3 is a subclass of object2:
public class object3: object2
{
}

A: I believe you answered your own question.  If the members are not being used by the service, then you shouldn't be exposing them.  It is always better to expose the minimal set of data required by the service, as it will generally increase maintainability of the service.


Ireland's economy grew by 7.8 per cent last year, displaying the country's rapid recovery from a 2010-2013 international bailout.
Unemloyment in Ireland has dropped to 8.6 per cent - the lowest since 2009 - with nation set to go to the polls for a general election on February 26.
Ireland has repaid IMF loans early and refinanced other debt on favourable terms as its credit rating strengthens to pre-crisis levels.
Ireland is on course to be the fastest-growing in Europe for the second year running.
Ireland's GDP increased by 4.8 per cent in 2014, the country's statistics office says.
Ratings agency Standard and Poor's has raised Ireland's credit rating from A- to A, citing the country's improved economic growth forecast.
Ireland's economy expanded 1.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2014, official data shows.
Ireland has had its credit rating upgraded by financial institution Moody's.
Ireland's trade surplus of 2.436 billion euros in March was down 23 per cent from the slightly revised figure of 3.168 billion euros in February.
Ireland's annual gross domestic product (GDP) has dropped after a 2.3 per cent contraction to output in the final quarter of last year.
The number of people claiming benefits in Ireland in February fell by 2500 to 398,300 - the lowest level since May 2009.
New data shows Ireland's rate of inflation remains under the eurozone average for January which was 0.7 per cent.
Economists say CPI figures have sparked renewed speculation that Ireland could be heading back into a period of deflation.
Official data suggest the Irish economy expanded by 1.5 per cent in the July-September period compared with the previous three months.
Ireland is the first eurozone nation to formally leave its bailout program but celebrations were muted as the country faces more austerity.


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Prada Catwalk
The Complete Collections
Susannah Frankel
'The perfect printed tool for Prada fans everywhere, vying to decode the designer's famed aesthetic, her obsessions and eccentricities and the brand's boundary-breaking sensibility' Wallpaper*
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Founded as a luxury leather goods house in 1913 in Milan, Prada entered the field of fashion when Miuccia Prada took the helm of the family company in 1979. After initially focusing exclusively on accessories, she presented the house's first fashion collection in 1988. She would soon transform Prada into one of the world's most influential luxury brands with a deeply personal, sophisticated and subtly subversive approach.
This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by a brief biographical profile of Miuccia Prada, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images that showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs – and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway, from Naomi Campbell and Gisele to Kate Moss and Kaia Gerber. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.
'[Shows how Prada] became one of the world's most influential designer brands, with a quietly subversive attitude all its own'
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Illustrations: 1300
Susannah Frankel is editor-in-chief of Another magazine. Previously fashion director of Grazia magazine, she was fashion editor of the Independent from 1999 to 2012. She is the author of Visionaries – Interviews With Fashion Designers and has contributed to many books and exhibition catalogues, including Dries Van Noten 1–100, Stephen Jones: Souvenirs, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty and The House of Viktor & Rolf.
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Q: Navigation between pages like in IE10 I'm developing metro-style app for Windows 8. Currently I use buttons with arrows for navigation in my app but I want to handle gestures (just like in IE for changing pages, from left to right). How I can achieve this?

A: If your application is not too complicated, is FlipView an option for you?
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Winston-Salem 14, Down East 4
W: Dylan Cease (2-1)
L: Edgar Arredondo (1-1)
S: None
KINSTON, N.C. (April 18, 2018) – Winston-Salem cranked out a season-high 18 hits against Down East on Wednesday, taking the final game of its three-game set against the Wood Ducks 14-4 at Grainger Stadium.
The Dash's (8-6) 14 runs were also the most scored by the team this season. Each starter had a hit in the series finale, while three players – Micker Adolfo, Mitch Roman and Blake Rutherford – registered three-hit performances. Meanwhile, Alex Call, Zach Remillard and Yeyson Yrizarri each posted two hits, and Nate Nolan set a career-high with five RBIs.
Winston-Salem got the offense rolling in the second against Wood Ducks starter Edgar Arredondo (1-1). Yrizarri doubled to start the inning, and Remillard followed with a bunt single to put runners on the corners with nobody out. Nolan brought home the game's first run on an RBI groundout, and Roman stroked his first hit of the day, an RBI double to right-center, to make it a 2-0 contest.
In the fourth, Call lined a two-run single to center to push the Dash's lead to four. Arredondo picked up the loss in Wednesday's effort, giving up 10 hits and four runs in four innings of work.
Dash right-hander Dylan Cease (2-1) held the Wood Ducks (7-7) without a hit through the first 3.2 innings, but he proceeded to give up a Charles Leblanc single and a Josh Altmann RBI double in the fourth to make it a three-run game.
Nolan increased the Dash's lead in the fifth with his first High-A homer, a three-run shot to center against right-hander Cole Wiper, to give Winston-Salem a 7-1 advantage. However, Anderson Tejeda stroked a three-run homer of his own in the bottom of the fifth to bring the deficit back down to three.
Cease, who is the White Sox fifth-best prospect per MLB Pipeline, finished his third High-A outing by going five innings, allowing five hits and four runs while striking out six and walking two. Through three starts with the Dash, Cease is 2-1 with a 3.45 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 15.2 innings pitched.
Winston-Salem's lead would be safe, though, as the ballclub added two runs in the sixth. The Dash would add on two more runs in the eighth thanks to Roman's two-run shot, and they scored three in the ninth via an Adolfo two-run double and a Yrizarri sacrifice fly.
The Dash now travel back to Winston-Salem to kick off a four-game homestand against the Salem Red Sox on Thursday at 7 p.m. Winston-Salem will send right-hander Ricardo Pinto (0-0, 11.12 ERA) to the bump against Salem righty Tanner Houck (0-1, 5.00 ERA). Pregame coverage begins at 6:45 p.m., and fans can catch all of the action on wsdash.com/broadcast, MiLB.tv and the TuneIn Radio App.
The homestand opener will be a Lowes Foods Thirsty Thursday, with select beers available for $1 through the seventh inning. Thursday's home opener will also be a Pups in the Park outing, with lawn seats available for $8. Meanwhile, pooch passes are $5, and proceeds will benefit an animal-related charity.
The rest of the four-game set features a postgame fireworks show on Friday and a Lowes Foods Family Sunday. On top of that, kids can run the bases after each weekend game, presented by New Balance Winston-Salem. For tickets and more information, call the Dash at (336) 714-2287 or visit wsdash.com.
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When learning to cook barbecue, the one thing that everyone seems to learn quickly is to use wood, such as wood chips or wood chunks, or wood pellets, to give your barbecue a smoky flavor. What is not learned quickly enough is how much to use and most use too much, creating an over smoked, bitter piece of meat that is not very pleasant to eat.
Wood flavoring has to be considered similarly to a spice.
If you put salt on something, you are careful to add small amounts and taste, until you come up with just the right amount. The same thing applies to smoke flavor, start with a small amount of wood chips, or a wood chunk, and work your way up. You will find out real quick that people have much different opinions to yours, on how much smoke flavor should be there, so starting with a small amount is the best advice to give.
I was looking through some old papers today and came across some notes I had taken in 2002 while talking to a restaurant consultant from Texas who claimed to have been in the bbq business for the past 10-years.
As I recall it, the gentleman and his wife opened a 30-seat restaurant in a portable building in a town of 7,000 people. He explained that he had an electric smoker that used wood chips for smoke generation/flavor, a couple of steam tables and a soda fountain. The business was basically a two person operation with a drive-thru window and consisted largely of carry-out orders from working families on their way home from work in a larger community nearby.
He said that the bbq restaurant generated gross revenues of $100,000+ per year and a 70% profit margin. I am guessing that he owned the land previously or at least wasn't paying much rent for the land, although he did not clarify that point.
As a part of his services, he would offer bbq consulting in starting a restaurant for anyone willing to enter into a consulting agreement with him in return for $25,000. The $25,000 purchased three weeks of on-site start-up consulting and 12-months of telephone consultation.
I did not take him up on the offer, but I often wished I lived a little closer to Texas so that I could visit his restaurant and check it out. It sounds like a barbecuer's "dream" situation.
The cynic in me though, wonders if this story is true or not. Funny thing…I wasn't willing to risk $25,000 to find out.


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Thirteen Republicans Voted for Ending Trump's National Emergency to Build the Wall
Sean Moran
Thirteen House Republicans joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Democrats to pass a resolution that would terminate President Donald J. Trump's national emergency to build a wall along the southern border.Thirteen House Republicans joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Democrats to pass a resolution that would terminate President Donald J. Trump's national emergency to build a wall along the southern border.
The House passed a resolution Tuesday to end President Donald Trump's national emergency to build a wall along the southern border. The bill passed; however, it did not receive enough votes to potentially override a presidential veto....
he thirteen Republicans who voted with Democrats to end the national emergency include:
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI)
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI)
Rep. Jamie Herrera Butler (R-WA)
Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX)
Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD)
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL)
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI)
Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR)


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Olivier Kaisen (born 30 April 1983) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2014. He currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI ProTeam  and its junior team, UCI Continental team .

Career
After riding for R.A.G.T Semences in 2005, Kaisen joined  in 2006 and rode for the team for the remainder of his career. On 10 February 2014, it was announced that Kaisen was medically compelled to retire from the sport because of cardiac rhythm problems.

Major results

2001
1st National Junior Time Trial Championships
2002
3rd National Under-23 Time Trial Championships
2003
1st National Under-23 Time Trial Championships
2004
1st Chrono des Herbiers – U23 version
3rd National Under-23 Time Trial Championships
2005
2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie
5th Chrono des Herbiers
10th Chrono Champenois
2006
3rd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
2007
1st Grote Prijs Gerrie Knetemann
8th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
10th Chrono des Nations
2009
1st Stage 5 Tour of Turkey
2011
5th Overall Tour of Beijing

References

External links

Profile at Predictor-Lotto official website

Belgian male cyclists
1983 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Namur (city)
Cyclists from Namur (province)
Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey stage winners


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Egypt's president will inaugurate the country's biggest cathedral on Coptic Christmas Eve Sunday, a day after a deadly bomb blast near a church in a country where jihadists have repeatedly targeted Christians.
Police officer killed defusing bomb at church
A policeman was killed while trying to dismantle an explosive device outside a Coptic church in Egypt on Saturday, a security source said.
Court jails 65 suspected IS jihadists
The alleged cell had members in various parts of impoverished upper Egypt and was led by an "emir" Mostafa Ahmed Abdelaal.
Pope Francis expresses 'pain' over attack on Coptic Christians
Pope Francis said he was pained Sunday over an attack, claimed by Islamic State, on Coptic Christians in Egypt which left seven dead.
Egypt police kill 19 jihadist suspects linked to Copt attack
Nineteen suspected jihadists linked to a deadly attack on Coptic Christians in central Egypt have been killed in a shootout with police, the interior ministry said Sunday.
Major attacks against Egypt's Christians
Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's population, have repeatedly come under attack by Islamic extremists.
Seven dead in attack on bus carrying Christians
Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt, killing seven in the latest assault on a religious minority repeatedly targeted by jihadists.
Egyptian court sentences 3 men to death for 2013 violence
An Egyptian court has sentenced three men to death and another 41 to life imprisonment for their part in a 2013 attack on a police station south of Cairo.
Archaeologists find ancient necropolis in Egypt
Egypt's Antiquities Ministry has announced the discovery of an ancient necropolis near the Nile Valley city of Minya, south of Cairo.
Egypt struggles against population 'catastrophe'
Ali Abdelaziz sees children as a "gift from God", so much so that he has 10 of his own, even as Egypt's government struggles to stem a "catastrophic" population boom.


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In the late 1990s, International Truck and Engine Corporation implemented an optimization project on the compressed air system that serves its foundry, Indianapolis Casting Corporation (ICC) in Indianapolis, Indiana. Due to the project's implementation, the system's efficiency was greatly improved, allowing the foundry to operate with less compressor capacity and reduce its energy consumption. The project's implementation also resulted in significant maintenance savings and more reliable production. The total cost of the project's implementation was $800,000; the annual compressed air energy and maintenance savings were $395,000, resulting in a payback of just over two years.


When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.
With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust: Bond. 007 takes to the shadows – aided only by field agent, Eve – following a trail to the mysterious Silva, whose lethal and hidden motives have yet to reveal themselves.


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Our People - Robert Holmes
#9983 Guardsman Robert Holmes
1st Battalion, Scots Guards
1st (Guards) Brigade, 1st Division
Killed in action 25 January 1915 age 19
Canadian Cemetery No.2, Neuville-St.Vaast, Pas de Calais, France.
Son of John and Jane Holmes, of "Hambledene", Windsor Ave., Leyland, Lancashire.
INSCRIPTION: "THE COUNTRY CALLED HE ANSWERED"
Robert Holmes was born 9 September 1895 to John and Jane Holmes and baptised the following month 13 October 1895 at St.Andrews, Leyland. His father was a fruiterer on Towngate at 5 Garden Terrace (now 105 Towngate). He enlisted at age 19 in Preston at the outbreak of the war and went out to France 4 January 1915. He was a member of Leyland Congregational Church (now Leyland United Reformed Church).
Robert joined up 2 September 1914 and arrived in France 5 January 1915. He was one of three local men who were killed in action at the same time., dying alongside Guardsmen Harold Southworth and William Collinge who were occupying the same stretch of trench.
According to local newspaper reports, they were blown up by a mine on 25 January 1915. However, it appears that these reports may be incorrect and they were most probably killed by gun shot wounds. See below for the War Diary excerpt. Robert's nephew, David Sumner has in his possession, a letter from one George Charnley dated 1 June 1915 written from a German POW camp Merseburg which in part says - "Harold Southworth was shot through the head (as he was next to him) also two more Leyland boys in R Holmes and W Collinge". Robert was 19 years of age.
On that day the British Expeditionary Force fought what became known as 'The First Action at Givenchy' – Givenchy is 3.5 km west of La Bassée. The War diary of the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards, records the following:
At 6.30am a German deserter reported that an attack was going to be made in half an hour, bombardment first, and then our trenches were to be blown in by previously laid mines. After an hour all happened as deserter had said. 5 Right Flank and 40 Left Flank got away - their story is as follows - The Germans first shelled them, then got out of their trench, and attacked half right, then they threw bombs in, got to the tip of the parapet and shot down into the trenches. The Germans afterwards swarmed up to the 'Keep', where Major Romilly was. There they were checked and held. Reinforcements came up and a counter attack was delivered at 1pm but did not retake much ground. Battalion was relieved at 4pm by Sussex Regiment.
Robert's death was reported in the local newspapers.
Pte Robert Holmes, son of Mr Holmes, Fruiterer, Towngate, Leyland was reported missing in January: nothing more has been heard. He was 19 years of age and enlisted in September in the Scots Guards going to the Front in January. CHORLEY GUARDIAN AND LEYLAND HUNDRED ADVERTISER, Saturday 10 July, 1915.
In the account of the death of the three Leyland guardsmen on 25th January 1915, information is given on Robert Holmes, but nothing different to that already known from the 'Guardian' report below. CHORLEY WEEKLY NEWS, 22 January, 1916.
A Memorial Service was held at Leyland Congregational Church on Sunday last for Pte Robert Holmes, Scots Guards; Mr Rew officiated. At the close of the service the organist, Mr Rose, played the 'Dead March'. PRESTON GUARDIAN, Saurday 5 February, 1916.
Mr and Mrs J. Holmes of Garden Terrace, Leyland have received information of the death of their eldest son, Pte Robert Holmes, aged 20 years, of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards. Pte Holmes enlisted at the outbreak of the war, and went out to France on Jan. 4th, 1915 and was killed on January the 25th. He was a member of the Congregational Church. Not very long after going to the front he was reported missing. It is believed that Holmes, along with two other Leyland men, Privates H Southworth and W. Collinge, occupying the same trench, were blown up by a mine. CHORLEY GUARDIAN AND LEYLAND HUNDRED ADVERTISER, Saturday 19 February, 1916.
A memorial service was held at Leyland Congregational Church on Sunday 30 January 1916. The register of soldiers' effects shows that Robert left £3 6s. 4d. and a War Gratuity of £3. 0s. 0d. to his father John.
Robert and William are buried side by side at Canadian Cemetery No.2, Neuville-St.Vaast, Pas de Calais – Robert in plot 12. F. 2. and William in plot 12. F. 3. Harold is remembered on Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France on panels 3 and 4. Locally, Robert appears on the civic war memorial on Church road, the United Reformed Church memorial lamp on Hough lane and also on the gravestone over the family plot in St.Andrews churchyard. He appears on the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle. Note that Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives his age as 20, he was actually 19 when he died. Robert appears on the Leyland - Church Road Civic Memorial and the Leyland - United Reformed Church Lamp.
CWGC Robert Holmes
Guardsman Robert Holmes. This image has been altered to show his posthumously awarded1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal ribbons. Image courtesy of David Sumner
The gravestone memorial to Robert in St.Andrew's Churchyard in Leyland. Note that the inscription says he died in 1916. All official records say he died in 1915
Robert's grave alongside that of his comrade William Collinge at Canadian Cemetery No.2, Neuville-St.Vaast


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The seventh university-wide seminar on Symbolic Capital in the 21st Century: Managing Status, Reputation and Influence in a Changing World, was convened by CEU's Provost/Pro-Rector Liviu Matei aiming to reflect on symbolic hierarchies in an age of radical transformation—of unregulated capitalism, of welfare state decline, of multi-polar international relations, and of global communication networks.
"Our mantra is that the role of universities is to build human capital. But what can universities do to help students build social capital," Matei asked in his opening remarks.
Discussing how the importance of cultural goods have changed by the 21st century, Alexandra Kowalski, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, examined the relations of the cultural and economical value certain cultural goods have for a community, the growth of the market for illegally obtained cultural goods, the political bargaining for world heritage site designation, and the branding and incorporation of cultural identities. The boundaries between culture and the economy are blurring, cultural production is becoming increasingly dependent on individual economic actors, she observed.
"We're not in a radically new phase. High concentration of wealth has influenced research for hundreds of years," opined Karl Hall, associate professor in the Department of History. We need to acknowledge billionaires funding favorite fundamental research, in lieu of public funding of basic research, and the fact that science in the 21st century is influenced less by national needs and more by wealthy individuals. However, this trend is nothing new, "the world of science has always been "polluted" by external influences," he added.


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2019 Week 13 game-by-game recap: Matchup of giants doesn't disappoint
Dalton Del Don
December 2, 2019, 5:15 a.m. UTC
San Francisco 49ers @ Baltimore Ravens
In a game featuring the two teams averaging the most PPG this season, the Ravens and 49ers produced a 3-3 second half. Weather was also a factor, but a stingy 49ers defense held Lamar Jackson to a career-low 4.6 YPA and also forced the QB to lose the first fumble of his career. San Francisco entered allowing the fewest passing yards per game (136.9) since 1980, but Jackson overcame that historically tough pass defense to still help fantasy managers with another big performance running, becoming the first quarterback ever to record four 100-yard rushing games in a season.
The Ravens came in on pace to punt the fewest times in NFL history, possessing an offense in a league of its own this year and outscoring their opponents (including @Sea, NE, Hou, @LAR) by 28.0 points over their last five games, but they pulled out this thriller thanks to an incredibly difficult field goal by Justin Tucker at the buzzer … Raheem Mostert was a monster, but with Matt Breida returning soon, San Francisco's backfield is going to be tough to trust during the first week of the fantasy playoffs in New Orleans (George Kittle was quiet in the box score, but he made a significant impact on San Francisco's rushing attack). The 49ers somehow have the NFL's second-best rushing offense but not a top-20 rusher, as it's hard to be so productive without helping fantasy managers more.
Jimmy Garoppolo lost a crucial fumble but otherwise continued to play well, and it will be nice to see what he can do with a healthy Emmanuel Sanders and George Kittle down the stretch, especially with Deebo Samuel continuing to emerge (the rookie scored again Sunday one week after he recorded the second-fastest time of any ballcarrier this season).
After turning the ball over on downs in a tied game with 6:33 left in the fourth quarter, the 49ers wouldn't get another chance on offense, and the 10-2 team could very well be the No. 5 seed after Monday night (meanwhile, the Cowboys lead the NFC East at 6-6). If this was a Super Bowl preview, a rematch would certainly be intriguing.
Lamar Jackson was still able to deliver for his fantasy managers despite a seriously tough matchup. Mandatory Credit: Evan Habeeb-USA TODAY Sports
Green Bay Packers @ New York Giants
Aaron Rodgers threw four touchdowns in tough weather conditions, while Daniel Jones tossed three picks, although he at least didn't lose a fumble for the sixth straight game … Davante Adams scored twice in a highly favorable matchup, but Aaron Jones got just 1.6 YPC and has been held out of the end zone in back-to-back games for the first time all season … Saquon Barkley secured a 27-yard dump-off at the end to help his stats, but he was mostly quiet yet again Sunday versus a GB run defense that entered ranked 28th in DVOA. Barkley hasn't scored a touchdown since October, and he gets a tough matchup in Philadelphia to open the fantasy playoffs in Week 14.
Washington Redskins @ Carolina Panthers
Dwayne Haskins didn't turn the ball over, while Adrian Peterson and Derrius Guice combined to run for 238 yards and three scores on just 23 carries against a Panthers rush defense that entered ranked 31st in DVOA. Guice is tough to trust in fantasy right now as a committee back (which includes Chris Thompson now back to help out on passing downs) on a team that came in with the league's last-ranked offense, but he's certainly had some eye-popping plays during his NFL debut this season. Now he just needs to stay healthy … Greg Olsen left after a horrific hit from Ryan Anderson, while the Panthers (and Eagles) ended some Survivor pools … Christian McCaffrey turned in his second-worst performance of the season despite Carolina coming in as double-digit home favorites. Pay up for him in DFS in Week 14.
Tennessee Titans @ Indianapolis Colts
Ryan Tannehill continues to impress, getting 8.3 YPA while tossing two TDs somehow without targeting anyone more than four times. Derrick Henry lost a fumble for the second straight week but has now run for 496 yards (7.3 YPC) over the last three games (with seven TDs over the last four). He'll be a top-five RB in Week 14 with a matchup in Oakland … Jack Doyle predictably benefitted from Eric Ebron's absence while seeing a season-high 11 targets and will be a borderline top-five TE down the stretch ... Jonathan Williams took a backseat to Jordan Wilkins, lost a goal-line score to Nyheim Hines, and Marlon Mack is now expected to return in Week 14, so his fantasy value didn't exactly go up Sunday … It could be argued Adam Vinatieri has cost the Colts at least four games this season (he has to lead the league in the category).
Philadelphia Eagles @ Miami Dolphins
Carson Wentz tossed three touchdowns but got just 6.7 YPA against arguably the league's worst defense and was badly outplayed by Ryan Fitzpatrick (9.4 YPA) despite getting a healthy Alshon Jeffery back and having a huge advantage up front … Miles Sanders continues to dominate work in Philadelphia's backfield with Jordan Howard out and recorded his second receiving touchdown on the year. Sanders is second among all backs in air yards during his rookie campaign … DeVante Parker put up 159 yards with two scores and continues to look like one of the best receivers in the league — just remember, Adam Gase didn't like him … Miami opened the second half with an onside kick and also attempted one of the best fake field goals of all time, culminating in a punter throwing a TD to a placekicker. Matt Haack has now attempted two passes during his career — he has a pick and a touchdown, so he makes them count.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Jacksonville Jaguars
Nick Foles committed three turnovers in the first 20 minutes and was replaced by Gardner Minshew, who deserves to start over the rest of the season and becomes a huge FAAB add in Superflex leagues with Jacksonville's favorable schedule in the fantasy playoffs … Dede Westbrook scored versus the league's worst defense against the slot, while DJ Chark disappointed mightily in such a favorable setup … Breshad Perriman and O.J. Howard both had more receiving yards than Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, while Peyton Barber scored twice on fantasy benches/waiver wires while Ronald Jones and Leonard Fournette were held out of the end zone.
New York Jets @ Cincinnati Bengals
Sam Darnold crashed back to earth against a Bengals defense that's played much better lately, while Andy Dalton returned with a solid game that would've been better had C.J. Uzomah and Tyler Eifert not each dropped balls in the end zone on two separate drives (Uzomah's was especially egregious) ... Le'Veon Bell is up to 183 carries on the season without a single one going for 20 yards. He gets a prime home matchup against the Dolphins in Week 14, but Bell is going to be awfully tough to trust during fantasy's championship weeks (@Bal, Pit).
The big game we were expecting from Sam Darnold never materialized against the Bengals. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
Cleveland Browns @ Pittsburgh Steelers
Baker Mayfield predictably struggled in a tough matchup against a Pittsburgh defense that's played among the best in the league since Week 4, although a hurt finger didn't help. Meanwhile, Devlin Hodges (10.1 YPA) was a big upgrade over Mason Rudolph and is making James Washington an intriguing fantasy asset … Odell Beckham Jr. failed to reach 30 yards for the third game this season and continues to take a backseat to Jarvis Landry, and to think, his numbers would likely be even worse had David Njoku not been out since essentially Week 1 … The Steelers have committed a turnover an NFL-high 19 straight games, and Benny Snell played with a spinner in his mouthguard Sunday.
Los Angeles Rams @ Arizona Cardinals
Jared Goff bounced back with a huge game, throwing for 400+ yards and two touchdowns with nine minutes still remaining in the third quarter (he had seven 20+ yard passes by halftime). Unfortunately, a Rams blowout (and defensive score) meant not much else for the final 1.5 quarters from Goff, who helped Robert Woods (19-13-172) and Tyler Higbee (8-7-107-1) produce big games. Woods has the most receiving yards (835) by someone without a touchdown this season, and the Higbee/Cardinals matchup combined with Gerald Everett's injury and a minimum DFS price that seemed almost too good to be true wasn't … Christian Kirk went missing like Jimmy Hoffa (The Irishman is really good!) for long stretches in this game, and Kyler Murray's hamstring injury was partially to blame … Kenyan Drake continues to act as Arizona's clear lead back (Chase Edmonds returned but didn't see a touch, and David Johnson looks comically slower whenever he replaces him), and he has a bunch of PPR upside down the stretch, but Week 14 brings a tough Steelers defense.
Oakland Raiders @ Kansas City Chiefs
After ripping off four TD passes in one quarter when these teams met earlier this season, Patrick Mahomes managed just 6.0 YPA with one touchdown despite a prime home matchup against a vulnerable Raiders secondary and with a healthy Tyreek Hill back. Weather played a role, but Mahomes was supposed to be closer to full strength after KC's bye, and the reigning MVP has now produced fewer than 7.0 YPA with just one TD pass in three of his last four games. Of course, Mahomes wasn't needed much in the second half with KC up 31-0 midway through the third quarter (the Raiders would laughably later kick a FG to bring them to within 28), and he ran in his first TD of the year Sunday, so maybe that ankle is feeling better and a big finish is coming, but it won't be easy with KC's upcoming schedule (@NE, Den, @Chi) … Kansas City entered leading the NFL in 20+ yard pass plays while Oakland had allowed the most, so naturally, they didn't have one Sunday.
The Chiefs continue to sneakily be one of the worst matchups for fantasy wide receivers, while Derek Carr now has more interceptions against KC (six) than he does the rest of the league (five) over his last 23 games … LeSean McCoy was worthless outside of a goal-line touchdown, Darrel Williams left injured after scoring, and Darwin Thompson entered the mix with a team-high 11 carries and a TD run of his own. The preseason star (Thompson) needs to be added in fantasy leagues, but Damien Williams could return soon too, so Kansas City's backfield remains a total mess for fantasy purposes despite its massive upside.
Los Angeles Chargers @ Denver Broncos
The Broncos had been outscored 40-0 during the fourth quarter over their last five games but won Sunday thanks to a 53-yard field goal at the buzzer during Drew Lock's debut. Lock managed just 4.8 YPA but connected with Courtland Sutton for two scores (including this incredible catch) despite Casey Hayward (and a returning Derwin James) in coverage … Philip Rivers played well enough and wasn't benched as rumored, but he threw another head-scratching interception, as the Chargers have lost all eight of their games this season by seven points or fewer.
New England Patriots @ Houston Texans
Deshaun Watson came in owning the highest QBR in primetime games since entering the league and got 9.4 YPA with a 3:0 TD:INT ratio against the league's best defense. In fact, Houston threw as many touchdown passes Sunday night (four) as New England had previously allowed all season, including this perfectly normal one by wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins ... The Patriots have been dealing with a major illness throughout the week, but the offense still doesn't have a 100-yard rusher in any game this year, and Tom Brady's decline is real (although two TD drives in the final four minutes completely turned his fantasy day around) … James White went from posting negative yards from scrimmage last week to totaling 177 YFS with two TD catches during the game of his life Sunday night.
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Idaho eyed as potential site for small nuclear reactors
By: The Associated Press	February 19, 2016	Comments Off on Idaho eyed as potential site for small nuclear reactors
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced an agreement with an energy cooperative that could lead to the building of small commercial nuclear reactors at an eastern Idaho federal nuclear site.
The agency granted a site-use permit to Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, or UAMPS, to access the 890-square-mile area containing the Idaho National Laboratory to find a spot to build what are called small modular reactors.
"UAMPS will seriously be traveling across the INL and looking at specific locations," company spokesman LaVarr Webb said Feb. 18.
A site will likely be picked out within two months, Webb said. However, additional steps in the process, such as an environmental analysis if the company decides to move forward, mean the small modular reactors likely won't be operational before 2023.
The Energy Department said the agreement advances President Barack Obama's plan for non-carbon producing energy. "Today's announcement is a part of the Department of Energy's ongoing commitment to strengthening nuclear energy's role in America's low carbon future," Lynn Orr, under secretary for science and energy at the agency, said in a statement.
Oregon-based NuScale Power would build the reactors that can individually produce 50 megawatts. Additional reactors could be built as power demands grow, with up to 12 reactors producing 600 megawatts.
Experts say the small reactors are designed to be safer than conventional nuclear plants because they can shut down without human involvement in the event of a disaster.
The cost for 12 small modular reactors is about $3 billion, NuScale has said, compared with about $15 billion for a conventional nuclear plant. Part of the cost savings comes from building the modular reactors at a factory and then trucking them to their locations.
There's a lot of interest from members of the energy cooperative as well as other energy providers in building the small reactors, Webb said. The city of Idaho Falls, just east of the Idaho National Laboratory, is one of its 45 members in eight Western states.
"Anecdotally, there appears to be enough interest that all 12 would be built," Webb said.
Nuclear waste from the small reactors would be stored at the site in protective casings that could withstand earthquakes, he said.
Some of the factors for site selection include access to a workforce, access to transmission lines and the availability of water. "UAMPS is currently working with a water attorney to determine water possibilities," he said.
The Energy Department would have to agree to any selected site, and the agency could reject a site if it determines it conflicts with work being done at the laboratory.
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World-leading brands that maintain the highest level of customer experience satisfaction are more than twice as likely than others to employ comprehensive, leading-edge technology solutions, a new global study found.
The latest report, Getting to Iconic: How world-leading brands balance talent and technology for CX excellence, said these 'iconic firms' are now leveraging technology to boost customer experience more than ever before across areas like next-generation self-service, loyalty program management and 'voice of the customer' survey analytics.
The survey, which interviewed more than 550 senior executives across 30 markets iconic firms, revealed 'iconic firms' also understand the limitations of a technology-centric approach in managing customer experience, and value human capital investment. These firms are 20 per cent more likely to have a customer experience strategy driven by customer satisfaction objectives rather than efficiency, particularly during delivery and customer service, or the later stages of the customer journey.
Iconic firms are also far ahead in the deployment of AI in their CX operations: with 91 per cent saying they currently deploy AI solutions to increase customer satisfaction, as compared to 42 per cent per cent overall.
In Australia and New Zealand, the report revealed firms occupied a unique place in the trajectory of customer experience, especially in their approach to technology adoption, omnichannel experience and ecosystem management which differs significantly from their regional and global peers.
A/NZ respondents, even more so than those from 'iconic firms', feel customer satisfaction is the key driver of their operational strategies across the entirety of their customer experience. 'Iconic firms' in the region are most driven by customer satisfaction in the latter stages of the customer journey such as delivery and customer service.
But while customer satisfaction is top of mind for A/NZ respondents, the report said this showed a relatively mature level of customer centricity - but it may also be tied to a lack of technology maturity. Despite operating in markets with relatively internet-and smartphone-savvy consumers, A/NZ respondents are far less likely to have employed technology across all categories than their global peers, with the exception of privacy management tools.
The report also found A/NZ respondents are acutely aware they are behind the technology adoption curve, the report found, with nearly a quarter believing themselves to be slower than average to employ a technology in the customer experience process. This extends itself into omnichannel and ecosystem management, where A/NZ respondents also generally report much lower solution adoption levels than the average of responses.
"The leaders of iconic companies know that they also have to be leaders in customer experience technology investment," MIT Technology Review CEO and publisher, Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, said. "But they also know that over-reliance on technology in search for efficiency gains can reduce, rather than increase, the levels of customer intimacy required for success.
"Iconic firms, realising the limitations of a technology centric approach to maintaining desired customer management levels, place a high value on human capital investment, and are keen to strike the right balance between human and automated customer channels."


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Grovsnus Black – new snus with robust taste
Starting this week, Sweden's tobacconists will be offered a masculine, rich-tasting and full-bodied alternative – Grovsnus Black. As the name implies, the portions are black.
Although the portion paper is black, production takes place using Swedish Match's patented White Portion technology, meaning that each portion lasts longer and is less runny than traditional portion snus. Each portion contains 12 milligrams of nicotine, which means that the nicotine content is somewhat stronger than in other products produced with this technology.
"The taste is strong and full-bodied. Like other brand varieties, Grovsnus is characterized by a pure tobacco taste but it also has elements of vanilla and aniseed," says Mikael Arnebert, Director Media Relations & PR North Europe at Swedish Match.
Grovsnus, which is now available in four varieties, had a total market share of 12.5 percent in Sweden in 2007, when some 22.3 million cans of Grovsnus were sold at a value of about SEK 700 million at the consumer level.
According to Swedish Match's consumer surveys, most of the users who choose Grovsnus are men between the ages of 20 and 40 who are interested in sports and handcrafts and are very active in their leisure time.
"Grovsnus Black is aimed at existing snus users who want a rich-tasting and masculine snus alternative in a modern version," says Mikael Arnebert. "As always, however, we also appeal to smokers who want to quit with the help of snus, which dramatically reduces health risks. From a health standpoint, the use of snus should more appropriately be compared with drinking coffee than with smoking."
The brand is well established to say the least. Grovsnus has been sold in the Swedish market since the mid-1800s!
"Grovsnus has a long tradition with loyal customers and an extremely strong brand. I'm convinced that Grovsnus Black will soon take its place in snus coolers all over the country," says Mikael Arnebert.
Grovsnus Black will be available in stores from the first week of November. Although pricing is unrestricted, the probable consumer price will be about SEK 35 per can.
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Elon Muskhas a prediction about the cause of World War III, and it's not PresidentDonald Trumpand may not even involve humans at all.
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The Supreme Court upheld Texas redistricting; looks like voter ID could be next
The Legislature showed bad faith in 2011 when it passed the most restrictive voter ID law in the nation.
The Supreme Court upheld Texas redistricting; looks like voter ID could be next The Legislature showed bad faith in 2011 when it passed the most restrictive voter ID law in the nation. Check out this story on caller.com: https://callertim.es/2tONtEs
Corpus Christi Caller-Times Published 3:34 p.m. CT June 28, 2018 | Updated 3:42 p.m. CT June 28, 2018
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton(Photo: John C. Moritz/USA Today Network)
Earlier this week we pointed out the perverseness of the U.S. Supreme Court's new doctrine that "the good faith of the Legislature must be presumed." Examples of bad faith fall like leaves off trees from the Texas Legislature. We cited enough of those to establish that our Legislature's good faith can't really be presumed this side of Alice's Wonderland.
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The court had a specific purpose for using its authority to turn this ridiculous, provably false notion into a real thing. Its endgame was to uphold Texas' congressional and state legislative districts. And to do that, the court needed a justification for finding that the Legislature's discriminatory intent wasn't intentional.
Texas won its redistricting fight at the Supreme Court. Now it hopes to use that win to wrap up its voter ID suit.
That was Monday. On Wednesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion asking U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of Corpus Christi to reconsider her finding that Texas' voter ID law was intentionally discriminatory. Paxton asserts that the "presumption of legislative good faith" established by the Supreme Court in the redistricting case should apply to the voter ID law.
We have to give Paxton credit in a deplorable way. He saw an opening to turn the court's good-faith-of-the-Legislature doctrine into a general-purpose rubber stamp for upholding intentionally discriminatory legislation. Paxton's intentions are, like the intent of the ID law itself, bad. But it's a good strategy for an attorney general who clearly has decided that he is the Legislature's lawyer, not the people's.
All nine Supreme Court Justices pose in 2017 for a group photo in the Supreme Court Building. (Photo: Jasper Colt, USAT)
The Legislature showed nothing but bad faith in 2011 when it passed the most restrictive voter ID law in the nation. The demonstrably false pretense for the law is to prevent in-person vote fraud. Its real intent is to block low-income Hispanic and black voters who tend to vote Democratic from voting.
Before the majority-Republican Legislature passed the law, it was confronted with overwhelming evidence that hundreds of thousands of voters didn't have and were unlikely to be able to obtain one of the forms of ID specified in the deliberately restrictive law. For example, it's easy for those who have a driver's license to assume that it's easy for anyone to get one, but that's not true. And the Legislature knew it.
The Legislature also was unable to back up its assumption that a zombie apocalypse of dead people shows up in person to vote every time there's an election. That's not exaggerating the majority mindset of the Legislature by much. Proponents of the ID law cling to the notion that in-person vote fraud is a real problem, absent evidence. They like to cite the infamous Box 13 incident in Texas' 1948 U.S. Senate election. But that was just a case of ballot-stuffing. The instigators didn't need actual people to show up and vote fraudulently. They just needed to write down fraudulent vote totals, then make Box 13 disappear.
So there it is. The Legislature willfully ignored real evidence of the ID law's detriment to real people, while continuing to insist upon the existence of a nonexistent problem. That should fit most people's definition of bad faith.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court showed Monday that it has the power to turn bad faith into good faith simply by decree. That decision took away people's incentive to vote. It's not much of a leap to think that the court will use the same doctrine to take the next step and make voting insurmountably difficult for hundreds of thousands of Texas voters.
More: Appeals court uphold's Texas Voter ID law
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Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jasper Colt, USA TODAY
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Jasper Colt, USA TODAY
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas Jasper Colt, USA TODAY
Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch Jasper Colt, USA TODAY
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor Jasper Colt, USA TODAY
Associate Justice Elena Kagan Jasper Colt, USA TODAY
Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr. Jasper Colt, USA TODAY
Associate Justice Stephen Breyer Jasper Colt, USA TODAY
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., administers the Constitutional Oath to Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as his wife Ashley Kavanaugh holds the Bible while joined by their daughters Margaret and Liza, in the Justices Conference Room at the Supreme Court Building on Oct. 6, 2018 Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via USA TODAY NETWORK
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