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Q: UNUserNotificationCenter did receive response with completion handler is never called iOS11, objective-C Occasionally one of my users reports that he does not receive a sound or banner that should be posted when

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*(void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center didReceiveNotificationResponse:(UNNotificationResponse *)response withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(void))completionHandler
is called by the system. I have an internal trace that runs on devices that have received my app from the App Store and confirm that this method is not called.  The trace also shows that multiple (64) notification requests have been posted to the system. I have done extensive searching for this issue and all suggested answers reflect what I am doing in the code.  Here is the code in appDelegate that sets up the notification center and the delegate methods (non-relevant code omitted is indicated by three dots). I would appreciate any help in trying to solve this problem.
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
        // Override point for customization after application launch.
        NSUserDefaults *storage = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
        UNUserNotificationCenter* center = [UNUserNotificationCenter currentNotificationCenter];

        UILocalNotification *notification = [launchOptions objectForKey:UIApplicationLaunchOptionsLocalNotificationKey];
        if (notification) {

            NSLog(@"application didFinishLaunching with UIApplicationLaunchOptionsLocalNotificationKey");
            [self applicationDidBecomeActive:application];
        }

        UILocalNotification *notification = [launchOptions objectForKey:UIApplicationLaunchOptionsLocalNotificationKey];
        if (notification) {
            // run after a delay so that the cordova/kendo app has time to get ready
            //  [self performSelector:@selector(postNotification:) withObject:notification afterDelay:4.0];
            NSLog(@"application didFinishLaunching with UIApplicationLaunchOptionsLocalNotificationKey");
            [self applicationDidBecomeActive:application];
        }

…
  center.delegate = self;
    [center requestAuthorizationWithOptions:(UNAuthorizationOptionAlert + UNAuthorizationOptionSound)
                          completionHandler:^(BOOL granted, NSError * _Nullable error) {
                              // Enable or disable features based on authorization.
                              NSUserDefaults *storage = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
                              if(granted == YES){
                                  [storage setBool:YES forKey:@"permission granted"];
                                  [storage setBool:YES forKey:@"alert permission granted"];
                                  [storage setBool:YES forKey:@"sound permission granted"];
                              }else{
                                  NSLog(@"No permission granted");
                                  [storage setBool:NO forKey:@"permission granted"];
                              };
                          }];

…
 #pragma mark UNNotificationCenter setup

    UNNotificationAction *acceptAction = [UNNotificationAction actionWithIdentifier:@"ACCEPT_IDENTIFIER" title:NSLocalizedString(@"Continue notifications", nil) options:UNNotificationActionOptionAuthenticationRequired];
    UNNotificationAction *declineAction = [UNNotificationAction actionWithIdentifier:@"DECLINE_IDENTIFIER" title:NSLocalizedString(@"Stop notifications", nil) options:UNNotificationActionOptionAuthenticationRequired];
    UNNotificationAction *doNotDisturbAction = [UNNotificationAction actionWithIdentifier:@"DO_NOT_DISTURB_IDENTIFIER" title:NSLocalizedString(@"Start Do Not Disturb", nil) options:UNNotificationActionOptionAuthenticationRequired];
    NSArray *actions = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:acceptAction, declineAction, doNotDisturbAction, nil];
    // NSArray *intentIdentifiers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"none", nil];
    UNNotificationCategory *invite = [UNNotificationCategory categoryWithIdentifier:@"com.nelsoncapes.localNotification" actions:actions intentIdentifiers: @[] options:UNNotificationCategoryOptionNone];
    NSSet *categories = [NSSet setWithObjects:invite, nil];
    [center setNotificationCategories:categories];
    [center requestAuthorizationWithOptions:(UNAuthorizationOptionAlert + UNAuthorizationOptionSound)
                          completionHandler:^(BOOL granted, NSError * _Nullable error) {
                              // Enable or disable features based on authorization.
                          }];

    [self setupWatchConnectivity];
    return YES

…
    #pragma mark UNNotification received in background
- (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center didReceiveNotificationResponse:(UNNotificationResponse *)response withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(void))completionHandler{
    [center getNotificationSettingsWithCompletionHandler:^(UNNotificationSettings * _Nonnull settings) {
        NSLog(@"notification settings were changed");
        NSUserDefaults *storage = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
        [storage setBool:YES forKey:KEventLoggerEventNotificationSettingsChanged];
        [storage synchronize];

        if (settings.authorizationStatus != UNAuthorizationStatusAuthorized) {
            // Notifications not allowed
            NSLog(@"notification settings were changed");
            item.eventDescription = KEventLoggerEventNotificationsNotAllowed;

            // check settings for alert and sound
        }
       // UNNotificationSetting alertSetting = settings.alertSetting;
            if(settings.alertSetting == UNNotificationSettingEnabled){
                [storage setBool:YES forKey:@"alert permission granted"];
                item.eventDescription = KEventLoggerEventAlertsAreAllowed;
            }else{[storage setBool:NO forKey:@"alert permission granted"];
                item.eventDescription = KEventLoggerEventAlertsAreNotAllowed;
            }
            if (settings.soundSetting == UNNotificationSettingEnabled){
                [storage setBool:YES forKey:@"sound permission granted"];
                item.eventDescription = KEventLoggerEventSoundsAreAllowed;
            }else {[storage setBool:NO forKey:@"sound permission granted"];
                item.eventDescription = KEventLoggerEventSoundsAreNotAllowed;
            }

    }];
    NSLog(@"appdelegate - center didReceiveNotificationResponse");
    NSString *actionIdentifier = response.actionIdentifier;

    UNNotification *notification = response.notification;
    if([actionIdentifier isEqual:@"com.apple.UNNotificationDefaultActionIdentifier"] || [actionIdentifier isEqual:@"com.apple.UNNotificationDismissActionIdentifier"]){
    }else{

        BOOL accept = [actionIdentifier isEqual:@"ACCEPT_IDENTIFIER"];
        BOOL stop = [actionIdentifier isEqual:@"DECLINE_IDENTIFIER"];
        BOOL doNotDisturb = [actionIdentifier isEqual:@"DO_NOT_DISTURB_IDENTIFIER"];

        if (accept){NSLog(@"accept");
            [self handleAcceptActionWithNotification:notification];
        }
        else if (stop){NSLog(@"stop");
            [self handleDeclineActionWithNotification:notification];
        }
        else if(doNotDisturb) {NSLog(@"do not disturb");
            [self handleDoNotDisturbActionWithNotification:notification];
        };
    }

    completionHandler();
}

…
*#pragma mark UNNotification received in foreground
- (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center willPresentNotification:(UNNotification *)notification withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(UNNotificationPresentationOptions options))completionHandler{
    NSLog(@"appdelegate willPresentNotification");
    [center getNotificationSettingsWithCompletionHandler:^(UNNotificationSettings * _Nonnull settings) {
        NSLog(@"notification settings were changed");
        NRCEventItem *item = [[NRCEventStore sharedStore]createItem];
        item.eventDateTime = [NSDate date];
        item.timeZone = [NSTimeZone localTimeZone];
        item.eventSender = [self description];

        NSUserDefaults *storage = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];

        if (settings.authorizationStatus != UNAuthorizationStatusAuthorized) {
            // Notifications not allowed
            NSLog(@"notification settings were changed");
            item.eventDescription = KEventLoggerEventNotificationsNotAllowed;
            // check settings for alert and sound
        }
        if(settings.alertSetting == UNNotificationSettingEnabled){
            [storage setBool:YES forKey:@"alert permission granted"];
            item.eventDescription = KEventLoggerEventAlertsAreAllowed;
        }else{[storage setBool:NO forKey:@"alert permission granted"];
            item.eventDescription = KEventLoggerEventAlertsAreNotAllowed;
        }
        if (settings.soundSetting == UNNotificationSettingEnabled){
            [storage setBool:YES forKey:@"sound permission granted"];
            item.eventDescription = KEventLoggerEventSoundsAreAllowed;
        }else {[storage setBool:NO forKey:@"sound permission granted"];
            item.eventDescription = KEventLoggerEventSoundsAreNotAllowed;
        }

    }];
    UNNotificationRequest * request = notification.request;
    NSString * actionIdentifier = request.identifier;
    if([actionIdentifier isEqualToString:UNNotificationDismissActionIdentifier] || [actionIdentifier isEqualToString:UNNotificationDefaultActionIdentifier]){
    }else{
            NSLog(@"app delegate notification received while in foreground");

            // remind the user
            UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"notification", nil) message:@"Timer expired!" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles: nil];
            [alert show];
            NSLog(@"app delegate willPresentNotificationWithCompletionHandler: dnd is not started");
        }else{
            NSLog(@"app delegate willPresentNotificationWithCompletionHandler: dnd has started");
            [center removeAllPendingNotificationRequests];
            [center removeAllDeliveredNotifications];
        }
    }

    completionHandler(UNNotificationPresentationOptionAlert + UNNotificationPresentationOptionSound);

}*

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All right, yes, date and shop and hang out and go to school and save the world from unspeakable demons. You know, I wanna do girlie stuff!
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
P.M. Marc - Apr 12, 2003 1:38:13 pm PDT #1 of 10001
"Man, i'm covered in pony blood."
I thought the whole idea of the Buffistas is that we're all cool kids! Okay, cool kids who post for hours on a Friday night, and then turn off the computer and read a comic book before going to bed by 11:30, but, you know, somebody out there's definition of cool.
Nutty - Apr 12, 2003 1:37:50 pm PDT #2 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Chex:
ita, do you think it's an ambiguity of the formal Stompy duties that makes you feel vacuous? Like, how many posts do you need, or whether you need unanimity, or some kind of minimum complainant turnout for you to feel empowered to act Stompily?
That's sort of a side issue from what we've been talking about, but I've had it in the back of my mind for a while to bring up. At some future date, when other things weren't all happening at once.
msbelle - Sep 17, 2002 7:37:43 pm PDT #3 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Angus G - Sep 17, 2002 7:53:01 pm PDT #4 of 10001
Roguish Laird
msbelle: No natter in the bureaucracy thread!!!
§ ita § - Sep 17, 2002 8:35:44 pm PDT #5 of 10001
Victor -- we need to move the users to the read-only box.
Except WX is being a bitch again.
victor infante - Sep 17, 2002 8:40:07 pm PDT #6 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Yeah, that was basically my conclusion.
jengod - Sep 17, 2002 9:33:23 pm PDT #7 of 10001
Phoenix's first FAQ addition suggestion:
From Press, now deleted, from Vortex (the artist formerly known as Stephanie Johnson), Rebecca Lizard and me:
Q. What's the difference between Sunnydale Press and Beep Me, the two announcement threads?
A. Sunnydale is for general announcements that everybody needs to read--what would have made its rounds through every thread in the past. Beep Me is personal life announcements- cheat sheet, in a way, for those who don't keep up with Natter and still want to know what's going on in Buffistas' lives.
(Press is for when you're having a book signing and when you want everybody to come. Apocalypse is for when you get the book contract and you want to crow about your good fortune.)
Phoenix's second FAQ addition suggestion, from folks I forgot to make note of:
Q. Everybody's talking about their user ID numbers. How do I find mine?
A. Click on your username, and look at the number at the end of the URL it brings up. Or just do a mouse-over.
Beverly - Sep 18, 2002 7:55:10 am PDT #8 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Since it's unfinished from WX, just thought I'd mention that Bugaloo still has the lights on. ita's "check it out" post isn't at the end. FYI.
§ ita § - Sep 18, 2002 8:04:50 am PDT #9 of 10001
Got it, Beverly, thanks.
You didn't see a posting box, did you?
Sophia Brooks - Sep 18, 2002 8:04:55 am PDT #10 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Also a FAQ change for the email address for donatations:
donations@buffistas.org.

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One of our first major design decisions on Couch Heroes vs The Dungeon was to generate each level procedurally. This was partly because we wanted the experience to be highly replayable, but also because creating levels by hand can take a lot of time—we didn't know how much time we had before Apple would tell us to submit our game for the tvOS launch. We had done some previous work on procedural map generation in a different project, so we applied what we had learned to this new scenario.
In Couch Heroes we have a grid layout where each point on the grid is a single, small square that can contain one environmental item—for instance, an enemy spawner or loot pickup.
However, our previous work was kind of a different beast; those efforts involved generating a grid where each "point" was a actually large town square. Each of these large squares contained an inner courtyard area surrounded by buildings and paths, where each courtyard, path, and building was randomly chosen from a pool of handmade objects. On the one hand, the town square method guaranteed that we would have wide-open spaces, which are excellent for handling the chaotic swarms you get in a top-down shooter, and allowed for each space to be at least a bit different from the one adjacent to it. But on the other hand, this approach was very limiting when it came to level variation because each town square had an identical layout and creating each portion of the square required a lot of work from artists. Plus, paths needed to be lined up with those in adjacent squares in order to prevent them from running into the back of a building in the other square, so generating a random border layout proved to be surprisingly obnoxious.
It was pretty clear that things had to be done differently this time, and so we used a more generalized method. This method created a grid system where each grid point was truly a single small point rather than a large area, which allowed for far more variation in each generated layout.
We start with a "drunken walk", which begins at a starting position and randomly moves around the environment. The algorithm is constrained by the grid's boundaries and chooses to turn or move forward based on a given "straightness factor", which pretty much equates to whether the algorithm is more sober (straighter line) or drunk (lots of turning). The result is a single path weaving throughout the grid.
A "drunken walk" through a less sober path.
At this point, the world is still pretty empty and so the next step fills the voids untouched by the path by placing rooms of semi-random size in several of the untouched areas. The rooms then need to be connected to the path, so we look outward from each room in order to find the nearest adjacent room or path and then create a new path from the current room to that point. The catch here is that one unconnected room can connect itself to another unconnected room and vice versa, meaning that even though both rooms are technically connected to something else, they are only connected to each other and neither is connected to the main path.
Then, we have to make sure that each room is reachable by the player, which we do by using an A* search to walk from each room back to the level's starting position and adding a new connection whenever a valid path can not be found.
Now that the floors are generated, we fill the spaces with other environmental objects. Doors are placed in points that stand between a large area and a small one, like where a hallway meets a room. Destructible objects are placed on points that lie within a room and border a wall. The exit point and resurrection tower are placed in different semi-randomly chosen rooms; in the case of the exit's room, preference is given to a room that is furthest from the entrance. Enemy spawners are semi-randomly placed in various rooms and loot pickups are sprinkled around the environment.
There you have it: a map generator capable of creating levels with enough variety to provide players with a unique experience whenever they play. Happy dungeon crawling!
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Q: What is the the correct way to call a recursive function while using axios? Will this allow me to recursively call an API without running indefinitely?
*** Do I have to return the function or can I just call it within the function?
const apiUrl = "https://api.website.com/products";
let productArray = [];
let lowPrice = 0;
let highPrice = 100000;

const countProduct = async (lowPrice, highPrice) => {
  const response = await axios.get(apiUrl, {`enter code here`
    params: {
      minPrice: lowPrice,
      maxPrice: highPrice
    }
  });

  let lowerLimit = minPrice;
  let upperLimit = maxPrice;

  while (upperLimit > lowerLimit || response.data.count === 0) {
    if (response.data.count >= 1000) {
        countProduct(lowerLimit, (lowerLimit + upperLimit / 2));  // ***<---  Can I just call the function or do I have to return it
    } else {
      response.data.products.forEach(product => {
        if (product.price > lowerLimit) {
          lowerLimit = product.price;
        }
        productArray.push(product);
      })
      lowerLimit = parseInt(lowerLimit + 0.01);
      upperLimit = parseInt(100000);
    }
  }
};


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, and styles. The main thing to consider when selecting a floor lamp fixture is where you want to place it, the sort of light it'll provide, and the quantity of space it will require up.
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I would be cautious using tabulators without some proper testing.
Just as a quick test, I created a small text file containing what I wanted in a table with a tab between the items.
Then I created a text frame and imported the text file.
Then I changed the tabulator settings.
Most of it worked but I couldn't get the first "column" to be anything other than left-justified.
Not a major problem, but then I re-imported the text and most of the tabulator settings had gone.
The "columns" were still there but the centre/right-justifications had been changed to left-justified and the tab stops had gone missing from the tabulator dialog altogether.
This was with 1.4.6. I don't know if 1.5.x has more solid functionality.
If 1.5.x does things better then I would be tempted to use the tabulator in that (as a.l.e suggests), but not with 1.4.6.
Just make sure it does what you want before using it "in the field".
I am using 1.5.3 (I think it's .3. I am at work.) I will give the tabulator method a try, as well as just trying to use the included table function. I'll report back.
I have been working on "cheat cards" for 5e (instead of a DM screen), and I have been using TABs for almost all tables I think.
Ok, they were done in MS Word and not in Scribus, but since I used a 2 cell table for each card (back and front), it became difficult to use "real" tables.
I enclose a PDF of the current draft (some text in Swedish since I am Swedish and have been doing these for myself).
That looks pretty good, Nermander. Thanks for sharing.
I use a postscript virtual printer for my biggest tables that I am just no way going to draw up again!
Select print area>print; rename .prn file created to .ps; import vector graphic into Scribus.
Sometimes the area of table selected goes wonky-haven't worked out why-been using it with Excel & Word docs with 100% success (eventually).
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The book contents file will not upload to WV and they say it 'appears to be corrupted'. Versions prior to adding my vector files DO upload.


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New mothers and over 60s 'most likely to miss out on self-employed support'
New mothers and the over 60s are amongst the groups most likely to miss out on the government's Self-employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS), according to the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE).
Research conducted by the IPSE revealed a 156,000 increase in the number of self-employed people over the last year. This total includes 83,000 over 60s, 25,000 new mums and 38,000 50-59-year-olds. The SEISS is unlikely to help most of these people because it is only open to self-employed people who filed a tax return for the year 2018/19.
Commenting on the figures, Chloé Jepps, Head of Research at the IPSE, said: 'In 2019, more and more people were going into self-employment for the freedom and flexibility this way of working provides – the freedom to fit your work around your life rather than the other way round. Now, however, these people's incomes are drying up and, because of a flaw in the government's support scheme, most are not getting the help they need to keep their businesses afloat.
'The government must get the newly self-employed – as well as limited company contractors and others who are missing out – the help and support they need. We urge the government to extend the SEISS to people who became self-employed in 2019/20 – and use this year's tax returns to get them the financial assistance they need.'
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The plant has been used by South African pastoralists and hunter-gatherers as a mood-altering substance from prehistoric times. The first known written account of the plant's use was in 1662 by Jan van Riebeeck. The traditionally prepared dried Sceletium was often chewed and thesaliva swallowed, but it has also been made into gel caps, teas and tinctures. It has also been used as a snuff and smoked.
Kanna, in itself the plant causes elevated mood. This can be a very smooth natural stimulant based on dosage and the quality of the plant matter.
The plant is used to alleviate depression.
Some pharmaceutical companies are researching Kanna and trying to isolate the chemicals in Kanna to use them in their anti-depressants.


It was just shared with me that the photo was taken at the Exhibition COSMOS in Bratislava (October 2016). I am very interested in what the inside labels read. Will do more research and share with the community. Be well.


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package com.afollestad.appthemeengine.views;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.TypedArray;
import android.util.AttributeSet;

import androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatEditText;

import com.afollestad.appthemeengine.ATE;
import com.afollestad.appthemeengine.R;

/**
 * @author Aidan Follestad (afollestad)
 */
@PreMadeView
public class ATEEditText extends AppCompatEditText {

    public ATEEditText(Context context) {
        super(context);
        init(context, null);
    }

    public ATEEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init(context, attrs);
    }

    public ATEEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        init(context, attrs);
    }

    private void init(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        setTag("tint_accent_color,text_primary");
        String key = null;
        if (attrs != null) {
            TypedArray a = context.getTheme().obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.ATEEditText, 0, 0);
            try {
                key = a.getString(R.styleable.ATEEditText_ateKey_editText);
            } finally {
                a.recycle();
            }
        }
        ATE.apply(context, this, key);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe Api::V1::SkateGeoController, :type => :controller do
    shared_examples 'success response header' do
        it { expect(response).to be_success }
        it { expect(response).to have_http_status(200) }
        it { expect(response.content_type).to eql('application/json') }
    end

    shared_examples 'update boolean' do |attribute, allows_nil = true|
        describe "set #{attribute.to_s}" do
            describe 'to valid value' do
                context 'true' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, attribute => 'true' }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).send(attribute)).to be_truthy }
                end

                context 'false' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, attribute => 'false' }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).send(attribute)).to be_falsey }
                end

                if allows_nil
                    context 'nil' do
                        before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, attribute => nil }

                        it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                        it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                        it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).send(attribute)).to be_nil }
                    end
                end
            end

            context 'to invalid value' do
                let(:original_value) { @spot.send(attribute) }
                before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, attribute => 'invalid' }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
                it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).send(attribute)).to eql(original_value) }
            end
        end
    end

    let(:failure) { { 'status' => 'unprocessable_entity' }.to_json }
    let(:success) { { 'status' => 'success' }.to_json }
    before { @spot = FactoryGirl.create(:skate_spot) }

    describe 'GET #index' do
        context 'missing query' do
            before { xhr :get, :index }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
        end

        context 'query spots in area' do
            before { xhr :get, :index, :longitude => 0, :latitude => 0, :area => 0 }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to_not eql(failure) }
        end
    end

    describe 'POST #create' do
        context 'minimum initialized' do
            let(:value) { [[0,0],[0,1],[1,1],[0,0]].to_s }
            before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => value }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.all.count).to eql(2) }

            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.geometry).to eql(value) }

            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.name).to be_nil }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.alt_names).to be_empty }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.park).to be_nil }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.style).to be_nil }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.undercover).to be_nil }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.cost).to be_nil }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.currency).to be_nil }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.lights).to be_nil }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.private_property).to be_nil }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.obstacles).to be_empty }
        end

        context 'completely initialized' do
            let(:geometry) { [[0,0],[0,1],[1,1],[0,0]].to_s }
            let(:name) { 'example' }
            let(:alt_names) { ['sample', 'template'] }
            let(:park) { true }
            let(:style) { SkateSpot::Style[:street] }
            let(:undercover) { true }
            let(:cost) { 100 }
            let(:currency) { 'AUD' }
            let(:lights) { true }
            let(:private_property) { true }
            let(:obstacles) {
                FactoryGirl.create(:obstacle_type, :name => 'obstacle')
                { :type => 'obstacle', :geometry => geometry }
            }
            before {
                xhr :post, :create, {
                    :geometry => geometry,
                    :name => name,
                    :alt_names => alt_names,
                    :park => park,
                    :style => style,
                    :undercover => undercover,
                    :cost => cost,
                    :currency => currency,
                    :lights => lights,
                    :private_property => private_property,
                    :obstacles => obstacles
                }
            }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.all.count).to eql(2) }

            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.geometry).to eql(geometry) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.name.name).to eql(name) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.alt_names.count).to eql(3) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.alt_names.all? { |n| alt_names.include?(n.name) or n.name == name }).to be_truthy }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.park).to eql(park) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.style).to eql(style) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.undercover).to eql(undercover) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.cost).to eql(cost) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.currency).to eql(currency) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.lights).to eql(lights) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.private_property).to eql(private_property) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.obstacles.count).to eql(1) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.last.obstacles.all? { |o| o.type.name == obstacles[:type] and o.geometry == obstacles[:geometry] }).to be_truthy }
        end

        context 'nothing initialized' do
            before { xhr :post, :create }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
        end

        describe 'invalid' do
            let(:geometry) { [[0,0],[0,1],[1,1],[0,0]].to_s }

            context 'geometry' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => 'invalid' }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end

            context 'name' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => geometry, :name => [] }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end

            context 'alt_names' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => geometry, :alt_names => {} }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end

            context 'park' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => geometry, :park => 'invalid' }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end

            context 'style' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => geometry, :style => 'invalid' }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end

            context 'undercover' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => geometry, :undercover => 'invalid' }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end

            context 'cost' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => geometry, :cost => 'invalid' }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end

            context 'currency' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => geometry, :currency => 'invalid' }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end

            context 'lights' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => geometry, :lights => 'invalid' }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end

            context 'private_property' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => geometry, :private_property => 'invalid' }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end

            context 'obstacles' do
                before { xhr :post, :create, :geometry => geometry, :obstacles => 'invalid' }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            end
        end
    end

    describe 'GET #show' do
        context 'invalid spot' do
            before { xhr :get, :show, :id => 0 }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
        end

        context 'valid spot' do
            before { xhr :get, :show, :id => @spot.id }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to_not eql(failure) }
        end
    end

    describe 'PUT #update' do
        context 'invalid spot' do
            before { xhr :put, :update, :id => 0 }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
        end

        context 'no field' do
            before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
        end

        context 'invalid field' do
            before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :non_existent_field => 'test' }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
        end

        describe 'set geometry' do
            describe 'to valid value' do
                context 'string' do
                    let(:value) { [[0,0],[0,1],[1,1],[0,0]].to_s }
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :geometry => value }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).geometry).to eql(value) }
                end
            end

            describe 'to invalid value' do
                context 'nil' do
                    let(:original_value) { @spot.geometry }
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :geometry => nil }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).geometry).to eql(original_value) }
                end
            end
        end

        describe 'set name' do
            describe 'to valid value' do
                context 'string' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :name => 'test_string' }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).name.name).to eql('test_string') }
                end

                context 'nil' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :name => nil }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).name).to be_nil }
                end
            end

            describe 'through alt_names' do
                before {
                    xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :name => 'test_string'
                    xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :alt_names => []
                }

                it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).name).to be_nil }
            end
        end

        describe 'set alt_names' do
            describe 'to valid value' do
                context 'multiple strings' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :alt_names => ['one', 'two'] }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).alt_names.count).to eql(2) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).alt_names[0].name).to eql('one') }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).alt_names[1].name).to eql('two') }
                end

                context 'string' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :alt_names => 'test_string' }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).alt_names.count).to eql(1) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).alt_names[0].name).to eql('test_string') }
                end

                context 'nil' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :alt_names => nil }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).alt_names.count).to eql(0) }
                end
            end
        end

        it_behaves_like 'update boolean', :park

        describe 'set style' do
            describe 'to valid value' do
                context 'number' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :style => SkateSpot::Style[:street] }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).style).to eql(SkateSpot::Style[:street]) }
                end

                context 'nil' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :style => nil }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).style).to be_nil }
                end
            end
        end

        it_behaves_like 'update boolean', :undercover

        describe 'set cost' do
            describe 'to valid value' do
                context 'number' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :cost => 100 }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).cost).to eql(100) }
                end

                context 'nil' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :cost => nil }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).cost).to be_nil }
                end
            end
        end

        describe 'set currency' do
            describe 'to valid value' do
                context 'string' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :currency => 'ZZZ' }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).currency).to eql('ZZZ') }
                end

                context 'nil' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :currency => nil }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).currency).to be_nil }
                end
            end
        end

        it_behaves_like 'update boolean', :lights
        it_behaves_like 'update boolean', :private_property

        describe 'set obstacles' do
            describe 'to valid value' do
                before {
                    FactoryGirl.create(:obstacle_type, :name => 'one')
                    FactoryGirl.create(:obstacle_type, :name => 'two')
                }

                context 'multiple obstacles' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :obstacles => [{ :type => 'one', :geometry => [[0,0],[0,1],[1,1],[0,0]].to_s }, { :type => 'two', :geometry => [[2,0],[2,1],[1,1.5],[1.5,2],[2,0]].to_s }] }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).obstacles.count).to eql(2) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).obstacles[0].type.name).to eql('one') }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).obstacles[1].type.name).to eql('two') }
                end

                context 'obstacle' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :obstacles => { :type => 'one', :geometry => [[0,0],[0,1],[1,1],[0,0]].to_s } }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).obstacles.count).to eql(1) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).obstacles[0].type.name).to eql('one') }
                end

                context 'nil' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :obstacles => nil }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
                    it { expect(SkateSpot.find(@spot).obstacles.count).to eql(0) }
                end
            end

            describe 'to invalid value' do
                context 'non-existent type' do
                    before { xhr :put, :update, :id => @spot.id, :obstacles => { :type => 'missing' } }

                    it_behaves_like 'success response header'
                    it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
                end
            end
        end
    end

    describe 'DELETE #destroy' do
        context 'invalid spot' do
            before { xhr :delete, :destroy, :id => 0 }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to eql(failure) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.all.count).to eql(1) }
        end

        context 'valid spot' do
            before { xhr :delete, :destroy, :id => @spot.id }

            it_behaves_like 'success response header'
            it { expect(response.body).to eql(success) }
            it { expect(SkateSpot.all.count).to eql(0) }
        end
    end
end


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Hall County je název tří okresů ve Spojených státech amerických:
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 Hall County (Nebraska) – okres státu Nebraska
 Hall County (Texas) – okres státu Texas

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I decided to bake this cute bread also because I have plenty of free times since my kids was on holiday. I have more time to prepare bakes that need full concentration and more laborious recipes..
Hmmm, I am not going to eat the bread… Hold on.. Not the bread is not edible, it is because I want to sun dry it and show it to my kids when they are back from Holidays after Christmas.. This is not a recipe sharing but a shaping sharing. It will definitely be a centrepiece on your Christmas table .. Again, the bread is edible if you are using an edible recipes.
For edible bread dough please refer Basic Bread Dough Recipe . The shaping shall be done after the first proofing of double in size.
For non edible bread dough, mixed 250 grams of plain flour, 1 teaspoon of yeast and 120 grams of lukewarm water. Knead until it form a pliable dough. Let it rest for 10 minutes before shaping.
Divide the dough into 4 portions. Portion 1 for face, portion 2 for beard, portion 3 for hat and portion 4 for all the other smaller items such as nose, hat collar, moustache, etc.. Additional left over dough will be used for the shaping of moustache.
Take one dough, shape round, and roll it thin in the shape of a face.
Take the second portion, roll it like a semi circle, use a knife or scissor to cut into 1 cm broad strips resembling the beard. Do not cut too near the straight edges and stop the cutting at about 1cm from the edge. Slightly twist it to make curly beard. Attach the beard portion to the chin of the face.
Take the 3rd portion, leave about 20%, use the remaining 80% of the dough to make it into triangular shape. Attached to the head. Use the remaining 20% of the 3rd portion to make a collar for the hat. Slightly fold the top of the hat towards the hat collar.
For the fourth portion, pinch a small dough, shape round and attached to the tip of the hat. Pinch another slightly bigger dough, shape round and make the nose. Pinch another 2 small dough, roll like shape of leaves to make the moustaches. For all the remaining dough, if any, make it into thin strips, slightly twisted and attached to the beard portion.
Use a small scissors to cut two small cavities for the eyes. Put 2 dark currants or raisins as eyes.
Use a brush to brush some some red colouring gel on the hat.. Dilute the gel with a bit of water and brush on the nose and cheeks resembling rosy cheeks.
Egg wash the bread thoroughly before baking in the pre-heated oven of 180 degree Celsius for 15-20 minutes depending on the thickness of the bread. If it brown too soon, off the the top heat of the oven..
It is fun and a self achievement to prepare this bread for me to share with readers. I do hope readers can try preparing this too..
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Tickets for this event are $20 dollars in advance or $25 the night of the event. Purchasing a ticket does automatically enroll you in a chance to win one of the amazing gift baskets available! There is also fun other way to get extra chances to win by visiting the other outlying businesses throughout Cocoa Village! You don't want to miss this! Wine samplings and snacks will be available. You'll also get a commemorative wine or beer glass, bag, and map. Check out the merchant's special deals! See you there.


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Sidney Powell
You can push back on mandatory Covid-CCP vaccines.
5/25/2021 Update
Dear Patriots,
Are you being bullied, harassed or mandated by an employer or a university to get a vaccine for Covid-CCP (Chinese Communist Party) Virus?
We will be presenting tips on how to deal with this situation. While we understand this is a controversial issue, we believe strongly that NO ONE should be forced, against their will, to be vaccinated. There should be no repercussions from refusing the vaccine for a virus that has a 99% cure rate.
Here are a few points. We especially wish to point out that the vaccine makers have been totally released from any liability if there is a negative side effect or death from the vaccine. BUT, note that if your employer or your university is forcing this on you, THEY have the potential of being held liable. It might be worth telling them about that!
Here are things to consider before you make an decision:
1) There are NO licensed COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S.
2) Emergency Use Authorized (EUA) only - don't believe "approval" means "licensed."
3) Your Option to Refuse is based on Federal law over EUAs.
4) Your Right to Informed Consent based on Federal law over EUAs.
5) There are NO long term studies of side effects.
6) Side effects unknown because there are no PRIOR approved mRNA vaccines in the U.S.
7) Short term evidence of severe side effects and death.
8) If you have had Covid-CCP you have immunity.
9) All vaccine makers have been totally released from ALL liability for any side effects or death.
10) There is liability potential on employers who mandate the vaccine if there are side effects or death.
Here are links to pdf forms to print out and give to your employer or to a university where your children may be attending. It makes sure that they are on record as providing the answers to questions surrounding the vaccine and potential after effects.
Form_Employees_Whose_Employers_Are_Requiring_Covid-19_Injections.pdf
Form_Students_Attending_College_Or-Universities_Requiring_Covid-19_Injections(1).pdf
These forms come from Solari.com, Catherine Austin Fitts website and were compiled by Corey Lynn www.coreysdigs.com
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1-The official "experts' claim this reaction is rare, and it may be. But that does not matter when it is you or someone you love hospitalized with heart issues due to the Covid vaccine! Remember, if you have had the Covid-CCP Virus you have immunity and most likely do not need to be vaccinated. In fact, there is scientific evidence that your own immunity is better than the vaccine.
These heart issues are short term side effects. There is absolutely NO infomation anywhere on the long term effects.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/18-cases-of-heart-inflammation-after-covid-19-vaccination-reported-in-connecticut_3829797.html
18 Cases of Heart Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccination Reported in Connecticut
QUOTE: A single state has recorded 18 cases of myocarditis in people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. All of the cases in Connecticut required hospitalization.
Acting Health Commissioner Dr. Deirdre Gifford told reporters during a virtual press briefing on Monday that the cases have been "rare" and "mild."
But she added later when asked how many of the patients were hospitalized, "All of the cases that were reported to us were individuals that were hospitalized, the vast majority for a couple of days."
2- On Monday, Sidney and Team Kraken filed a Motion to Dismiss
On Monday, May 24, 2021, Sidney Powell, Sidney Powell, P.C. and Defending the Republic, Inc. filed a joint Reply Memorandum in Support of their Motion to Dismiss Dominion's Case against them in DC.
This filing reiterates to the Court that there is no jurisdiction over any of these defendants, that venue is improper, and that the case should be dismissed for failure to state a defamation or deceptive practices claim. Dominion cannot prove the essential elements of its claims as a matter of law. Actual malice is a legal impossibility here.
As Sidney Powell said:
"Today's filing is yet another opportunity to demonstrate to the DC Court why there is no jurisdiction over me, my law firm, or Defending the Republic, Inc, and why Dominion fails to state any claim against any of the defendants. This case is meritless and should be dismissed in its entirety. We had and have evidence supporting all our statements about Dominion."
A copy of Monday's filing can be found here:
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Sydney Powell, General Flynn's his powered attorney, claims she will 'release the Kraken' in reference to overwhelming evidence of voter fraud associated with the glitchy software that was widely used in swing states. Known as "Dominion," apparently servers with US votes on them were seized in Germany. Why are our votes subject to change in foreign countries? Because Dominion is easy to hack.
Besides multiple ballots on pallets that magically showed up during the wee hours--all for Biden--and the votes changed outright from Trump to Biden, and dead people voting for Biden weren't enough, the Deep State Swamp also made sure the software was easily hacked to make Biden the victor.
Even the name "Dominion" is sinister. Do we want China and other foreign countries having dominion over our election? Of course not. We must go back to the old analogue way of voting. Paper ballots filled out by qualified people showing up at polls in person to cast their votes. Instead, we have illegal aliens voting and mailed in ballots that missed the deadline being approved by election officials—as long as those ballots were for Biden, of course.
Enough talk. C'mon, Sydney. Release that beast of evidence. NOW. I'm tired of hoping 17 is right and patriots really are in charge. Right now it seems like the Deep State remains in charge. Let's see some results. Trump started draining the Swamp during his first term. But Hillary was not locked up. The coup perpetrators have not been punished. Instead they're all on CNN and MSNBC and viciously attacking our president. They all need to be locked up, but first…let's make sure Trump wins the second term that he has earned and deserves.
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Journal of Pharmaceutics & Drug Delivery Research ISSN: 2325-9604
Editorial, J Pharm Drug Deliv Res Vol: 9 Issue: 4
Prodrug in Pharmaceutics
Bivash M*
Sr. Research Specialist, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
*Corresponding Author : Bivash M
Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India, E-Mail: [email protected]
Received date: July 10, 2020; Accepted date: July 17, 2020; Published date: July 31, 2020
Citation: Bivash M (2020) Prodrug in Pharmaceutics. J Pharm Drug Deliv Res 9:4.
Keywords: Prodrug
A prodrug is a medicine or intensify that, after organization, is used (i.e., changed over inside the body) into a pharmacologically dynamic drug. Instead of controlling a medication legitimately, a comparing prodrug can be utilized to improve how the medication is assimilated, dispersed, processed, and discharged (ADME).
Prodrugs are frequently intended to improve bioavailability when a medication itself is ineffectively consumed from the gastrointestinal tract. A prodrug might be utilized to improve how specifically the medication collaborates with cells or procedures that are not its planned objective. This diminishes unfriendly or unintended impacts of a medication, particularly significant in medicines like chemotherapy, which can have serious unintended and bothersome symptoms.
Numerous home grown concentrates verifiably utilized in medication contain glycosides (sugar subsidiaries) of the dynamic specialist, which are hydrolyzed in the digestive organs to discharge the dynamic and progressively bioavailable aglycone. For instance, salicin is a β-D-glucopyranoside that is separated by esterases to discharge salicylic corrosive. Anti-inflamatory medicine, acetylsalicylic corrosive, first made by Felix Hoffmann at Bayer in 1897, is a manufactured prodrug of salicylic acid. However, in different cases, for example, codeine and morphine, the directed medication is enzymatically enacted to frame sugar subordinates (morphine-glucuronides) that are more dynamic than the parent compound.
Numerous restorative specialists are produced and controlled in prodrug structures. In this paper, another characterization framework for prodrugs is proposed to give helpful data about where in the body a prodrug is changed over to the dynamic medication. In this framework, prodrugs are ordered into Type I or Type II and the individual Subtypes IA, IB, IIA, IIB or IIC dependent on their destinations of transformation into the last dynamic medication structure. For Type I prodrugs, transformation happens intracellularly (e.g., antiviral nucleoside analogs, lipid-bringing down statins), while change of Type II prodrugs happens extracellularly, for models in stomach related liquids, foundational dissemination or other extracellular body liquids (e.g., etoposide phosphate, valganciclovir, fosamprenavir).
Type IA prodrugs allude to those that are changed over at the cell focuses of remedial activities, though Type IB prodrugs' transformation happens in the essential metabolic tissues, for example, liver, gut, or lung. For Type II prodrugs, the transformation procedure could either happen extracellularly in the milieu of gastrointestinal liquids (Type IIA), in the fundamental flow as well as other foundational extracellular liquid compartments (Type IIB), or close to helpful objective cells (Type IIC). A prodrug may have a place with various classes and be perceived as a Mixed-Type prodrug.
The principal engineered antimicrobial medication, arsphenamine, found in 1909 by Sahachiro Hata in the lab of Paul Ehrlich, isn't poisonous to microbes until it has been changed over to a functioning structure by the body. Similarly, prontosil, the main sulfa medicate (found by Gerhard Domagk in 1932), must be cut in the body to discharge the dynamic particle, sulfanilamide. Since that time, numerous different models have been distinguished.
The utilization of prodrugs of the antimetabolites cytosine arabinoside (Ara C), 5-fluoruracil (5-FU) and methotrexate (MTX) conveyed in liposome transporters has been investigated during the most recent decade by various specialists. The overall methodology was to artificially couple the specialists to a phospholipid atom and to utilize the perplexing as a liposome segment, or to connect through an ester bond an unsaturated fat chain that can go about as a synthetic stay to the liposome layer. Once inside the cell or available for use, the liposomes are pulverized and vague esterases can cut the ester bond and the dynamic medication is gradually discharged. This methodology works best for antimetabolites since they are S stage explicit and, consequently, progressively successful when cells are constantly presented to them. We have utilized this methodology for the anthracyclines and the platinum mixes, which are non S-stage explicit specialists. Regardless of the promising outcomes, none of the definitions depicted underneath has been produced for clinical assessment.
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25 September 2017 By Lisa Jucca Follow @LJucca
The protest movement, doing well in opinion polls, has named a 31-year-old lawmaker as its leader. Luigi Di Maio's cool appeal contrasts with founder Beppe Grillo's vitriolic style and may win over moderate voters in 2018. But going mainstream could undermine its basic appeal.
5-Star new leader Luigi Di Maio smiles during an interview with journalists in Rimini, Italy September 24, 2017. REUTERS/Max Rossi - RC1618F74280
Reuters: Italy's 5-Star names youthful new leader as election nears
Reuters: I'm no populist, says new leader of Italy's 5-Star
Opinion poll (in Italian - see bottom of linked web page)
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Italy's 5-Star Movement chose lawmaker Luigi Di Maio to be its new leader and candidate for prime minister through an online contest on Sept. 23. Di Maio, who is 31, was elected to parliament in 2013 and is deputy speaker in the Lower House.
Di Maio said that, in case of victory in next year's general election, he would try to negotiate changes to European Union rules that cap national deficits at 3 percent of gross domestic product. He told Reuters his priorities would be cutting wasteful spending and reducing government debt, forecast to fall below 132 percent of GDP this year.
5-Star is backed by 26.7 percent of voters, giving it a narrow lead over the governing Democratic Party's 26 percent, according to an opinion poll by Euromedia Research published on Sept. 25. Around 57 percent of those polled consider Di Maio unfit to rule the country.
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SBCMS History
Ruth Breytspraak, Founder of SBCMS in 1963
Ruth Breytspraak Bio
by Naomi Urban & Sidney Stafford
A word about our founder, Ruth Breytspraak, a native of Chicago. With both father and maternal grandfather professional musicians, she grew up in the world of music. Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony, became aware of her talent and advised that she be sent abroad for further study of the violin.
She was accepted as a pupil of Henri Marteau, the noted French violinist who replaced the renowned Joseph Joachim as the head of the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. While in Berlin, she played on the annual Bach programs at the Dom and played solos under the direction of Professor Irrgang, the Imperial Music Director. She also played at concerts arranged by the Crown Princess Cecile at the homes of the Imperial Music Director and the Imperial Chancellor. After four years of advanced training from Marteau, Ruth was invited to be a member of the Von Paszthory String Quartet. But all engagements were canceled at the outbreak of the First World War, and she had to return home. After her return, Ruth continued her studies with Franz Kneisel and Leon Sametini. Ruth concertized throughout the Midwest in recitals and appearances with orchestras, including the St. Louis and Milwaukee Symphonies. In the mid-1920s she was again in Europe for study with Carl Flesch. She made a tour of the important music centers of France, playing recitals in Paris (program), Nice, and Strasbourg. Subsequently, Ruth taught in Chicago for many years on the faculty of the American Conservatory of Music and at De Paul University.
Ruth's home in Chicago was a mecca for local and visiting artists, including Jacque Gordon and his fellow quartet members, the London String Quartet, and Jascha Heifetz, to name a few. Here, a young and gifted pianist, Sidney Stafford was introduced to the wonderful world of chamber music while playing with these world-class musicians.
In 1943 Ruth moved to the Los Angeles area and established a studio in North Hollywood. In 1950, she moved to Redondo Beach, where she lived at 601 S. Gertruda Avenue. Ruth soon had a large class of violin students, and in 1963, she founded the South Bay Chamber Music Society. Her friend Jascha Heifetz made a $100 contribution in our early years. Ruth attended concerts well into her nineties. She died on Saturday, July 12, 1986 at the age of 93. Her influence as a teacher and as a warm human being touched many lives, and she will live forever in the memories of her friends and former students.
Sidney Stafford in his North Hollywood home, about 1958
Sidney Stafford Bio
by Erwin Fishman
Ruth got us started, but it has been Sidney Stafford who has kept us going. He has been moving ahead since, at age 15, he moved from his birthplace of Joliet, Illinois, to Kenilworth on Chicago's North Shore. After high school graduation, Sidney attended Sherwood Music School in Chicago, where he had some wonderful piano and music instruction. Then he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1941 and served as an infantryman until 1945. Sidney saw action on New Guinea at the Nassau Bay-Salamaua campaign (for which his unit received a Presidential Citation) and Hollandia followed by Biak Island, Dutch New Guinea, and then in the south and central Philippine Islands.
Sidney's brother Ernie also served in the South Pacific and the two brothers managed to visit each other on three occasions: once in Lae, New Guinea, once in Zamboanga, Mindanao, and once on the island of Leyte.
When Sidney's military career ended, he returned to Chicago and attended the Chicago Musical College, with the blessings of the GI Bill. He was a student of the great Swiss pianist, Rudolph Ganz and, for chamber music, of violinist Paul Stassevitch. It was at the Chicago Musical College that he began his associations with Sidney Weiss and with the famous violinist Aaron Rosand, who had graduated from Curtis and was living in his hometown of Chicago.
Sidney's professional career actually started back in 1937 when he accompanied a group of opera singers on tour. However, he went "big time" in 1948, leaving school and joining national tours. That year he accompanied Aaron Rosand and cellist Raya Garbousova.
During this period of major assignments, Sidney toured with Mishel Piastro's Longines Symphonette (1953 through 1959). Also he was Michael Rabin's accompanist in 1959. He toured with David Abel from 1959 to 1966.
Sidney moved to California in 1950, as did his parents, sisters and brother. His headquarters between tours at that time were in North Hollywood, near Ruth Breytspraak's studio. Then he moved to the South Bay in 1960, on Avenue B in Redondo Beach. He set up a teaching studio in the Malaga Cove Plaza and continued concertizing and playing chamber music with many of Hollywood's greats, including Louis Kaufman and Joseph Schuster.
The inauguration of the South Bay Chamber Music Society in 1963 in collaboration with Ruth Breytspraak, continued the main line of his career, as did a chamber music series he directed at the Long Beach Library. He also played for opera rehearsals at Long Beach State under the direction of his friend Hans Lampl. The two had met on a troop ship en route Australia in 1942!
In 1968 Ernie and Sidney bought a house at 603 Sapphire in Redondo Beach, which they shared until Ernie's passing in 1986. At that time, Sidney moved to his present condominium on Herondo Street in Hermosa Beach. His vocal coaching, piano teaching, and performances have gradually tapered off in recent years, though his travels and many friendships have not.
Sidney's devotion to the South Bay Chamber Music Society remains at the highest level. It all started, as shown in this history, with his own performances in ensembles with many of the greatest musicians in the studios and orchestras. Now, as a well-known and supremely knowledgeable musician, he engages players who can meet his standards and rejects those who cannot, he cajoles occasionally reluctant performers into joining forces to present a particular work, he helps the ensembles to fill out their programs (occasionally suggesting worthy compositions they may not have heard of), he soothes ruffled egos, he adjusts performance dates against a maze of other commitments with the agility of a circus juggler–all this with a friendly smile and warm humanity.
We love him!
Collette Nance, Founding Member of SBCMS
Collette Nance Bio
Colette Nance was a founding member of the South Bay Chamber Music Society and remained an active board member for twenty-five years. Attributes she brought to the society included her career as a performing pianist and teacher, her sense of humor, and her warmth. The South Bay Chamber Music Society concert on May 5, 1995 was dedicated to her memory.
Colette was born in New York in 1898 and attended the Juilliard School. She studied piano with Olga Steeb, Carl Leimer, Alex Lambert, and Victor Aller. She gave concerts in New York (1917), Boston (1918), with the Glendale Orchestra (1927), and at the Los Angeles Biltmore (1933). The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Colette is an artist of unusual sensibility whose talent places her among the leading pianists of today." In 1959, Colette gave a recital (program) in La Cartuja de Valldemosa, Mallorca, the place of Chopin's sojourn with female novelist George Sand.
Colette moved to the South Bay where she lived with her husband at 121 via Los Miradores in Redondo Beach for many years .
Photo by Man Ray
Louis Kaufman Bio
Louis Kaufman (1905 – 1994) whom the New York Times has called "A violinist's violinist and a musician's musician" has gained a unique place among the great violinists of our time. His successful tours of North and South America and Europe, plus his extraordinary recording achievements in recording more than 100 major works of the violin repertoire, have created musical history. Kaufman's records range from works of Vivaldi, Bach and Telemann to Milhaud, Khachaturian, Poulenc and Copland. It is a rare tribute that Milhaud, Bennett, Toch and Copland have recorded their own works with this artist. Kaufman's presentation, to capacity audiences in New York, London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and his recordings of the complete cycles of concertos of Vivaldi's Opus VIII and IX and Torelli's Opus VIII (in all 36 concertos) have won international esteem, including the "Grand Prix du Disque" in France, for his recording of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons."
The South Bay Chamber Music Society was honored to present Louis Kaufman in four of its first five concerts, which ensured a strong start and a bright future for the organization.


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Year: 2000; Ordered: alphabetically; Region: 100 Largest MSAs
Alphabetical by Metro Area Numerical by Value
1: Akron, OH 7.5%
2: Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 6.3%
3: Albuquerque, NM 8.9%
4: Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ 6.1%
5: Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 5.8%
6: Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC 8.7%
7: Austin-Round Rock, TX 4.3%
8: Bakersfield, CA 16.7%
9: Baltimore-Towson, MD 7.5%
10: Baton Rouge, LA 7.8%
11: Birmingham-Hoover, AL 7.6%
12: Boise City-Nampa, ID 6.1%
13: Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH 7.2%
14: Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT 6.2%
15: Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Tonawanda, NY 9.9%
16: Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL 6.4%
17: Charleston-North Charleston, SC 7.0%
18: Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC 5.3%
19: Chattanooga, TN-GA 8.1%
20: Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI 8.9%
21: Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN 6.6%
22: Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH 9.5%
23: Colorado Springs, CO 4.9%
24: Columbia, SC 5.9%
25: Columbus, OH 6.7%
26: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 5.3%
27: Dayton, OH 6.8%
28: Denver-Aurora, CO 5.0%
29: Des Moines, IA 5.5%
30: Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI 10.0%
31: El Paso, TX 12.9%
32: Fresno, CA 19.5%
33: Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI 6.5%
34: Greensboro-High Point, NC 6.3%
35: Greenville, SC 5.6%
36: Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA 5.4%
37: Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT 8.1%
38: Honolulu, HI 12.1%
39: Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land, TX 6.1%
40: Indianapolis, IN 5.3%
41: Jackson, MS 10.1%
42: Jacksonville, FL 6.4%
43: Kansas City, MO-KS 5.8%
44: Knoxville, TN 8.0%
45: Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL 8.9%
46: Lancaster, PA 5.1%
47: Las Vegas-Paradise, NV 5.8%
48: Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR 6.7%
49: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 13.1%
50: Louisville, KY-IN 7.6%
51: Madison, WI 3.8%
52: McAllen-Edinburg-Pharr, TX 20.2%
53: Memphis, TN-MS-AR 10.5%
54: Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach, FL 9.6%
55: Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 8.0%
56: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 6.2%
57: Modesto, CA 15.2%
58: Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro, TN 7.0%
59: New Haven-Milford, CT 9.6%
60: New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA 10.7%
61: New York-Newark-Edison, NY-NJ-PA 11.8%
62: Ogden-Clearfield, UT 5.5%
63: Oklahoma City, OK 8.3%
64: Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 5.7%
65: Orlando, FL 6.1%
66: Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA 7.6%
67: Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL 5.9%
68: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 9.5%
69: Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 6.4%
70: Pittsburgh, PA 7.5%
71: Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA 6.4%
72: Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY 6.5%
73: Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA 10.5%
74: Provo-Orem, UT 4.7%
75: Raleigh-Cary, NC 4.6%
76: Richmond, VA 6.3%
77: Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 11.9%
78: Rochester, NY 10.2%
79: Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville, CA 12.8%
80: Salt Lake City, UT 5.5%
81: San Antonio, TX 9.0%
82: San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA 9.8%
83: San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 9.1%
84: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 8.1%
85: Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice, FL 5.6%
86: Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA 7.0%
87: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA 6.6%
88: Springfield, MA 12.4%
89: St. Louis, MO-IL 7.6%
90: Stockton, CA 15.9%
91: Syracuse, NY 8.2%
92: Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 7.3%
93: Toledo, OH 8.7%
94: Tucson, AZ 8.3%
95: Tulsa, OK 7.9%
96: Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 6.8%
97: Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 4.6%
98: Wichita, KS 5.7%
99: Worcester, MA 8.2%
100: Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA 9.3%
Definition: This indicator provides the share of households that receive public assistance income in the neighborhood where the average child lives. For instance, if the value is 10%, this statistic is interpreted as "The average child in this metro area lives in a neighborhood where 10% of households receive public assistance income."
Notes: Children defined as under 18.


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Nicolai Tikhonovich Berezowsky (May 17, 1900August 27, 1953) was a Russian-born American violinist and composer.

He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 17, 1900, graduating from the Imperial Capella with honors when he was sixteen. As a young boy singer in the chapel choir, he performed for the Tsar's family and Rasputin. In the book Duet with Nicky, he recalled how the choirboys would tear pages from their hymnals to make spit-balls which they would aim at Rasputin. He later served as musical director of the School of Modern Art in Moscow and as first violinist at the Moscow Grand Opera. In 1922, he made a harrowing escape from the Soviet Union in disguise, only to be arrested in Poland, but was released by an official who remembered hearing him play. Once settled in New York, Berezowsky attended the Juilliard School of Music, studying under Paul Kochanski and Rubin Goldmark. He was first violinist with the New York Philharmonic for the first seven years of his U.S. residence. He played in the Coolidge String Quartet from 1935 to 1940. He was a protégé of Serge Koussevitzky, who premiered his symphonies to great acclaim.

He married Alice Newman, a notable pianist, who later published a memoir, "Duet with Nicky", about their early years together (Lippincott). Alice was the sister of chemist Melvin Spencer Newman and the granddaughter of New Orleans investment banker and philanthropist Isidore Newman). They had two children.
His second wife was Judith Berezowsky.  He died on August 27, 1953, in New York.

Among Berezowsky's works are an opera, Prince Batrak, four symphonies, concertos for harp, violin and 'cello, and many diverse works of chamber music. His recordings include an LP set of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, which he conducted. He enjoyed a great success with his children's opera Babar and his oratorio Gilgamesh.  His Concerto for Harp was commissioned by Edna Phillips, who gave the premiere with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and was performed by Carlos Salzedo with the National Orchestra Association under Léon Barzin with an original cadenza by Salzedo, included in the edition published by Theodore Presser. It was not performed again until performances by Saul Davis Zlatkovski in recital and with the St. Paul J.C.C. Symphony Orchestra under James Riccardo in 1990.

Selected works
Symphony No. 1, Op. 12
Symphony No. 2, Op. 18
Symphony No. 3, Op. 21
Symphony No. 4, Op. 29
Sinfonietta for orchestra, Op. 17
Christmas Festival Overture (Ukrainian Noel) (1943)
Soldiers on the Town (1943)
Fantasy (piano duo and orchestra)(1944)
Suite Hebraïque, Op. 3, orchestra
Introduction and Allegro for small orchestra, Op. 8
Sextet Concerto (1951)
Concerto for clarinet or viola and orchestra, Op. 28
Concerto Lirico for cello and orchestra, Op. 19
Violin Concerto, Op. 14
Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, Op. 31
Suite No. 2 (woodwind quintet)
Toccata, Variations, and Finale, Op. 23
Duo for clarinet and viola, Op. 15
Gilgamesh, Cantata for narrator, solo voices, mixed chorus and orchestra

Sources
New York Times obituary, published August 28, 1953
Note from the published edition of his Brass Suite for Seven Instruments, Op. 24

References

External links
 Nicolai Berezowsky scores (the composer's manuscripts, including unpublished works) in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
 Finding aid to Nicolai Berezowsky papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Composers from the Russian Empire
Violinists from the Russian Empire
White Russian emigrants to the United States
Juilliard School alumni
American male composers
American male violinists
1900 births
1953 deaths
Musicians from Saint Petersburg
20th-century American violinists
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians