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package org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;

import org.jdbi.v3.core.Handle;
import org.jdbi.v3.core.Something;
import org.jdbi.v3.core.mapper.SomethingMapper;
import org.jdbi.v3.core.transaction.TransactionException;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.config.RegisterBeanMapper;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.config.RegisterRowMapper;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.customizer.Bind;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.customizer.BindBean;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.customizer.Define;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.customizer.MaxRows;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.locator.UseClasspathSqlLocator;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.statement.SqlBatch;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.statement.SqlQuery;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.statement.SqlUpdate;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.subpackage.BrokenDao;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.subpackage.SomethingDao;
import org.jdbi.v3.sqlobject.transaction.Transaction;
import org.jdbi.v3.testing.junit5.JdbiExtension;
import org.jdbi.v3.testing.junit5.internal.TestingInitializers;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.RegisterExtension;
import org.mockito.Mockito;

import static java.util.Collections.emptyList;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
import static org.jdbi.v3.core.transaction.TransactionIsolationLevel.READ_COMMITTED;
import static org.jdbi.v3.core.transaction.TransactionIsolationLevel.READ_UNCOMMITTED;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.never;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.times;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;

public class TestSqlObject {

    @RegisterExtension
    public JdbiExtension h2Extension = JdbiExtension.h2().withInitializer(TestingInitializers.something()).withPlugin(new SqlObjectPlugin());

    private Handle handle;

    @BeforeEach
    public void setUp() {
        handle = h2Extension.getSharedHandle();
    }

    @Test
    public void testPassThroughMethod() {
        Dao dao = handle.attach(Dao.class);
        dao.insert(3, "Cora");

        Something c = dao.findByIdHeeHee(3);
        assertThat(c).isEqualTo(new Something(3, "Cora"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testUnimplementedMethod() {
        assertThatThrownBy(() -> handle.attach(UnimplementedDao.class))
                .isInstanceOf(IllegalStateException.class)
                .hasMessageContaining("Method UnimplementedDao.totallyBroken must have an implementation or be annotated with a SQL method annotation.");
    }

    @Test
    public void testRedundantMethodHasDefaultImplementAndAlsoSqlMethodAnnotation() {
        assertThatThrownBy(() -> handle.attach(RedundantDao.class))
                .isInstanceOf(IllegalStateException.class)
                .hasMessageContaining("Default method RedundantDao.list has @SqlQuery annotation. SQL object methods may be default, or have a SQL method annotation, but not both.");
    }

    @Test
    public void testPassThroughMethodWithDaoInAnotherPackage() {
        SomethingDao dao = handle.attach(SomethingDao.class);
        dao.insert(3, "Cora");

        Something c = dao.findByIdHeeHee(3);
        assertThat(c).isEqualTo(new Something(3, "Cora"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testUnimplementedMethodWithDaoInAnotherPackage() {
        assertThatThrownBy(() -> handle.attach(BrokenDao.class)).isInstanceOf(IllegalStateException.class);
    }

    @Test
    public void testSimpleTransactionsSucceed() {
        SomethingDao dao = h2Extension.getJdbi().onDemand(SomethingDao.class);

        assertThat(dao.insertInSingleTransaction(10, "Linda")).isOne();
    }

    @Test
    public void testTransactionAnnotationWorksOnInterfaceDefaultMethod() {
        Dao dao = h2Extension.getSharedHandle().attach(Dao.class);
        assertThat(dao.doesTransactionAnnotationWork()).isTrue();
    }

    @Test
    public void testNestedTransactionsCollapseIntoSingleTransaction() {
        Handle spyHandle = Mockito.spy(h2Extension.getSharedHandle());
        Dao dao = spyHandle.attach(Dao.class);

        dao.threeNestedTransactions();
        verify(spyHandle, times(1)).begin();
        verify(spyHandle, times(1)).commit();

        dao.twoNestedTransactions();
        verify(spyHandle, times(2)).begin();
        verify(spyHandle, times(2)).commit();
    }

    @Test
    public void testNestedTransactionWithSameIsolation() {
        Handle spyHandle = Mockito.spy(h2Extension.getSharedHandle());
        Dao dao = spyHandle.attach(Dao.class);

        dao.nestedTransactionWithSameIsolation();
        verify(spyHandle, times(1)).begin();
        verify(spyHandle, times(1)).commit();
    }

    @Test
    public void testNestedTransactionWithDifferentIsoltion() {
        Handle spyHandle = Mockito.spy(h2Extension.getSharedHandle());
        Dao dao = spyHandle.attach(Dao.class);

        assertThatThrownBy(dao::nestedTransactionWithDifferentIsolation).isInstanceOf(TransactionException.class);
    }

    @Test
    public void testSqlUpdateWithTransaction() {
        Handle spyHandle = Mockito.spy(h2Extension.getSharedHandle());
        Dao dao = spyHandle.attach(Dao.class);

        dao.insert(1, "foo");
        verify(spyHandle, never()).begin();
        assertThat(dao.findById(1)).isEqualTo(new Something(1, "foo"));

        assertThat(dao.insertTransactional(2, "bar")).isOne();
        verify(spyHandle, times(1)).begin();
        assertThat(dao.findById(2)).isEqualTo(new Something(2, "bar"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testRedundantMethodCustomizingAnnotation() {
        assertThatThrownBy(() -> handle.attach(RedundantMethodStatementCustomizingAnnotation.class))
                .isInstanceOf(IllegalStateException.class)
                .hasMessageContaining("Statement customizing annotations don't work on default methods.");
    }

    @Test
    public void testRedundantParameterCustomizingAnnotation() {
        assertThatThrownBy(() -> handle.attach(RedundantParameterStatementCustomizingAnnotation.class))
                .isInstanceOf(IllegalStateException.class)
                .hasMessageContaining("Statement customizing annotations don't work on default methods.");
    }

    @Test
    public void testRedundantParameterBindingAnnotation() {
        assertThatThrownBy(() -> handle.attach(RedundantParameterBindingAnnotation.class))
                .isInstanceOf(IllegalStateException.class)
                .hasMessageContaining("Statement customizing annotations don't work on default methods.");
    }

    @Test
    public void testBooleanReturn() {
        Dao dao = handle.attach(Dao.class);
        assertThat(dao.insert(1, "a")).isTrue();
        assertThat(dao.update(2, "b")).isFalse();
    }

    @Test
    public void testSubInterfaceOverridesSuperMethods() {
        SubclassDao dao = handle.attach(SubclassDao.class);
        dao.insert(new Something(1, "foo"));
        assertThat(dao.get(1)).isEqualTo(new Something(1, "foo"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testStaticMethod() {
        handle.attach(StaticDao.class);
        assertThat(StaticDao.staticMethod()).isEqualTo(42);
    }

    @RegisterRowMapper(SomethingMapper.class)
    public interface Dao extends SqlObject {
        @SqlUpdate("insert into something (id, name) values (:id, :name)")
        boolean insert(@Bind("id") int id, @Bind("name") String name);

        @SqlUpdate("update something set name=:name where id=:id")
        boolean update(int id, String name);

        @SqlQuery("select id, name from something where id = :id")
        Something findById(@Bind("id") int id);

        @Transaction
        @SqlUpdate("insert into something (id, name) values (:id, :name)")
        Integer insertTransactional(@Bind("id") int id, @Bind("name") String name);

        default Something findByIdHeeHee(int id) {
            return findById(id);
        }

        @Transaction
        default void threeNestedTransactions() {
            twoNestedTransactions();
        }

        @Transaction
        default void twoNestedTransactions() {
            assertThat(doesTransactionAnnotationWork()).isTrue();
        }

        @Transaction
        default boolean doesTransactionAnnotationWork() {
            return getHandle().isInTransaction();
        }

        @Transaction(READ_UNCOMMITTED)
        default boolean transactionWithIsolation() {
            return getHandle().isInTransaction();
        }

        @Transaction(READ_UNCOMMITTED)
        default void nestedTransactionWithSameIsolation() {
            assertThat(transactionWithIsolation()).isTrue();
        }

        @Transaction(READ_COMMITTED)
        default void nestedTransactionWithDifferentIsolation() {
            transactionWithIsolation();
        }
    }

    public interface UnimplementedDao extends SqlObject {
        void totallyBroken();
    }

    public interface RedundantDao extends SqlObject {
        @SqlQuery("select * from something")
        @RegisterRowMapper(SomethingMapper.class)
        default List<Something> list() {
            return getHandle().createQuery("select * from something")
                    .map(new SomethingMapper())
                    .list();
        }
    }

    public interface RedundantMethodStatementCustomizingAnnotation extends SqlObject {
        @MaxRows(10)
        default List<String> broken() {
            return emptyList();
        }
    }

    public interface RedundantParameterStatementCustomizingAnnotation extends SqlObject {
        default List<String> broken(@Define int wut) {
            return emptyList();
        }
    }

    public interface RedundantParameterBindingAnnotation extends SqlObject {
        default String broken(@Bind int wat) {
            return "foo";
        }
    }

    public interface BaseDao<T> {
        void insert(T obj);
        T get(long id);
    }

    public interface SubclassDao extends BaseDao<Something> {
        @Override
        @SqlUpdate("insert into something (id, name) values (:id, :name)")
        void insert(@BindBean Something something);

        @Override
        @SqlQuery("select * from something where id = :id")
        @RegisterBeanMapper(Something.class)
        Something get(long id);
    }

    public interface StaticDao extends SqlObject {
        static int staticMethod() {
            return 42;
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void genericSuperclassExtendedByExplicitTypedSubclass() {
        ExtendGenericDaoWithExplicitParameter dao = handle.attach(ExtendGenericDaoWithExplicitParameter.class);

        Something alice = new Something(1, "Alice");
        Something bob = new Something(2, "Bob");
        dao.batchInsert(Arrays.asList(alice, bob));

        assertThat(dao.list()).containsExactly(alice, bob);
    }

    @UseClasspathSqlLocator
    public interface GenericDao<T> {
        @SqlBatch
        void batchInsert(@BindBean Collection<T> entities);

        @SqlQuery
        List<T> list();
    }

    @RegisterBeanMapper(Something.class)
    public interface ExtendGenericDaoWithExplicitParameter extends GenericDao<Something> {}
}

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This page is about the hero. For the goddess in Dota 2 lore, see Nyx.
Nyx Assassin is a melee agility hero who is feared as one of the most effective gankers and solo-killers in the game. With his powerful burst damage nukes, Nyx Assassin specializes in disabling and killing lone and fragile enemies with little to no warning. He possesses an area nuke and stun ability in Impale, allowing him to disable enemies in a straight line in front of him while dealing damage. His Mana Burn ability can destroy a significant fraction of a target hero's mana pool while dealing the same amount as damage, making him the bane of weak intelligence heroes with lots of mana but very little health. Should the enemy attempt to attack him, Nyx Assassin can dissuade them with Spiked Carapace, stunning any heroes that attack him while reflecting their damage back at them. His ultimate, Vendetta, turns Nyx invisible, allowing him to deal tremendous physical damage to the next target that he strikes out of invisibility. Stalking from the shadows, Nyx Assassin can strike without warning and lay low his foes before they realize that their death is upon them.
Play "The blessing of Nyx gives me all the purpose I require."
Deep in the Archive of Ultimyr, shelved between scholarly treatises on dragon cladistics and books of untranslatable spells, there is an ancient tome of entomological curiosities. Compiled by scholars, the book describes the telepathic talents of the zealot scarab, a strange species of social insect with abilities unique to all the seven planes. Unlike most grubs of his colony, Nyx Assassin did not arise from metamorphosis with the plodding thoughts and blunted appendages common to the worker caste of his kind. For his was a special transformation, guided by the grace of Nyx. He was the chosen one, selected from the many and anointed with an extract of the queen goddess herself. Not all survive the dark blessing of the queen's chamber, but he emerged with a penetrating mind, and dagger-like claws–his razor sharp mandibles raking the air while his thoughts projected directly into the minds of those around him. Of all zealot scarabs, he alone was selected for the highest calling. After his metamorphosis, he was reborn, by grace of Nyx, with abilities which shaped him for one thing and one thing only: to kill in the name of his goddess.
While Burrowed, the cast range and travel distance increase to 1225, and the cooldown decreases to 7 seconds.
Impale can hit units up to 825 ( 1350) range away (travel distance + radius).
When Impale hits invisible units, the visual effects below the hit unit are still visible.
The tome in Ultimyr describes one scarab with the ability to eat away at the minds of lesser beings.
Effectively burns 29%/33%/38%/42% of the target's maximum mana pool if it has no flat mana bonus.
Despite dealing the damage first, the damage is based on how much mana the target actually lost from Mana Burn.
This means, when cast on an enemy who has for example 5 mana left, it also deals only 5 damage (before reductions).
Can be cast on creep-heroes, but has no effect on them, since they have no intelligence, wasting mana and cooldown.
While Burrowed, the cast range increases to 1050.
When activated while above ground, Spiked Carapace reflects and negates damage dealt to Nyx Assassin (max once from each source), as well as stunning the source of the damage. Activating Spiked Carapace will not break Vendetta invisibility.
While Burrowed, Spiked Carapace instantly stuns nearby enemies when cast.
While their carapaces are relatively thin, they're guarded by a retractable field of razor-sharp spikes.
Spiked Carapace interrupts Nyx Assassin's channeling spells upon cast.
Can be cast during Vendetta, without breaking the invisibility. Breaks the invisibility of other sources.
Only reflects player based damage directly towards the damage dealer. A unit can only be affected once per buff.
The buff from multiple casts of Spiked Carapace does not stack but gets refreshed instead.
Reflects the same damage type as received.
Reflects incoming damage before all manipulations. However, damage manipulation on the enemy still affects the damage normally.
Reflected damage has the no-reflection flag, preventing its damage from interacting with other sources of damage with the same flag.
Spiked Carapace has a global range and affects units through the Fog of War or invisibility.
Reflected damage cannot be amplified with spell damage amplification and cannot spell lifesteal.
Spiked Carapace first applies the debuff, then the reflected damage.
Spiked Carapace fully negates and reflects after all reductions, causing several on-damage effects to not trigger.
Has a higher priority than Aphotic Shield and Living Armor, but lower than False Promise. However, it still reflects and stuns when combined with False Promise.
Although the damage dealt to enemies is equal to the amount of damage blocked, the effects work independently from each other.
This means Spiked Carapace always blocks one damage instance, even when the source is spell immune or invulnerable.
When cast while Burrowed, the spell immediately applies its stun to all enemies within a radius.
Since Spiked Carapace has no base damage, hit units are not damaged upon cast.
Nyx Assassin still receives the cast buff normally, which can still reflect damage and stun enemies.
However, the buff does not affect enemy units which have been hit by the stun upon cast. They can normally damage Nyx.
Allows Nyx Assassin to become invisible and gain a speed bonus. If Nyx Assassin attacks to break the invisibility, massive bonus damage is dealt with the attack. Applies a break status on the enemy for 4 seconds.
Vendetta Break: Dispellable with any dispel.
Vendetta does not interrupt Nyx Assassin's channeling spells upon cast.
The attack out of Vendetta cannot miss.
The attack out of Vendetta first applies the Vendetta damage, then the debuff, then the attack damage.
The invisibility is broken upon reaching the cast point of spells or items, or upon landing an attack.
The damage and debuff are not applied when attacking wards or buildings.
Vendetta allows Nyx to pass through other units, including wards, but not through buildings.
Nyx can pick up, drop or attack items and runes without breaking the invisibility.
The level 25 talent allows Nyx Assassin to path freely through cliffs and trees, on top of the phased movement.
Nyx Assassin buries himself beneath the battlefield over a short duration. Once burrowed, Spiked Carapace instantly stuns nearby enemies when cast, the range of Mana Burn and Impale is increased, and Impale's cooldown is decreased. While burrowed, Nyx Assassin is stationary, unable to attack and invisible. His health and mana regeneration are also increased, and he gains damage reduction from all damage sources.
Some castes of Zealot scarab are known to create small burrows to lie in wait, ready to ambush their prey.
Turns Nyx Assassin invisible and disarms as well as roots him, preventing him from moving, attacking and using Blink Dagger.
Can regenerate up to 90% of Nyx Assassin's max health and max mana in one minute.
Can fully regenerate Nyx Assassin's health and mana within 66.67 seconds.
Burrow lasts until unburrowing or using Vendetta.
Nyx Assassin can still be moved by spells while burrowed, without getting unburrowed.
While burrowed, Impale and Mana Mana Burn can be cast without having to face the targeted point or unit, but other targeted spells and items still require facing.
Losing Aghanim's Scepter instantly unburrows Nyx.
Replaces Burrow until used or death.
Interrupts Nyx Assassin's channeling spells upon cast.
Instantly reverts all bonuses provided by Burrow.
Uses a different sound when unburrowing inside the river.
The agility talent effectively grants Nyx Assassin 16 armor, 100 attack speed, 5% movement speed and 100 attack damage.
Tango gives Nyx Assassin basic health sustain, allowing him to continue laning despite enemy harass.
Clarity allows Nyx Assassin to replenish his mana pool in-lane, crucial since most of his spells will consume almost half his base mana pool with a single cast. Having the mana to continue casting gives Nyx Assassin more chances to use his disables to score kills.
Iron Branch gives some attributes that increase health, mana, and damage.
Enchanted Mango is a strong laning item, as it provides a small boost to HP regeneration, augmenting his innate base HP regen to greatly increase his survivability in the off-lane. It can also be consumed for instant mana replenishment to be able to cast one more disable or nuke to secure a kill.
Observer Ward can be useful to purchase on Nyx Assassin, as he is a very heavy roamer who can place wards before or after ganks to spot out enemy movement to strike again.
Boots of Speed allows Nyx Assassin to chase or flee enemies more easily, and is important for getting within range to cast Impale on a gank target.
Urn of Shadows is important to get early on Nyx Assassin, as he can easily get charges from successful ganks. It provides some cheap stats and armor, as well as mana regen for sustaining his mana pool. The charges can be used to restore any HP lost during a gank, or can be used to add more damage to a future gank to increase the odds of success.
Magic Stick gives burst health and mana, useful for Nyx Assassin to cast spells continually.
Arcane Boots are crucial to obtain in order to allow Nyx Assassin to roam for ganks. It increases the size of Nyx Assassin's mana pool, allowing him to more easily cast his full combo of spells, and boosts his movement speed slightly to provide extra mobility. Most importantly, the active allows Nyx Assassin to replenish his own mana pool in order to ensure that he is able to continue roaming without needing to return to base as often.
Magic Wand gives more burst health and mana than Magic Stick, as well as some attributes.
Blink Dagger greatly increases Nyx Assassin's mobility, allowing him to jump on top of enemies and initiate without relying on Vendetta. In particular, being able to quickly re-position to cast Impale can allow Nyx Assassin to stun multiple enemy heroes at the start of a fight, and in a pinch Spiked Carapace can be used to prevent enemy initiating nukes from putting it on cooldown.
Force Staff is a handy utility item that grants Nyx Assassin many strong bonuses. It provides more intelligence for increasing the size of his mana pool, as well as health regeneration for sustaining his health pool. The active greatly improves Nyx Assassin's mobility, allowing him to re-position for casting his spells, or chasing and escaping more easily. In a pinch, it can also be used as a cheap way to break an enemy Linken's Sphere prior to landing other disables and nukes, and can even be used to re-position Nyx Assassin during Burrow.
Eul's Scepter of Divinity is a strong casting item that boosts Nyx Assassin's ability to roam and gank. The increased intelligence and mana regen help to sustain his spell casting, ensuring that he doesn't have to return to base to replenish mana, and the increased movement speed gives him more mobility for hunting down enemies. The cyclone can be used to dispel debuffs from Nyx Assassin while providing temporary invulnerability, or can be cast on an enemy as a further disable.
Meteor Hammer is a situational pickup which grants Nyx Assassin additional stun duration, as well as a moderate amount of damage to enemy buildings. Cast the meteor hammer after impale. Although you cannot "stun lock" enemy heros with this combo, the 0.2s between the two spells leaves little time for the enemy to get away.
Aghanim's Scepter unlocks Burrow, which can give Nyx Assassin a strong tactical advantage against certain enemies. It also improves his overall attributes, aiding in his survivability and buffing up his mana pool.
Aether Lens will increase Impale and Mana Burn's cast range, which is good to offset their terrible cast animation. It can be built by recycling the Energy Booster you got from Arcane Boots.
Dagon greatly boosts Nyx Assassin's burst damage, giving him much more kill potential. The item boosts his intelligence, allowing him to more easily cast his spells, while the active can be added on top of Impale and Mana Burn to deal tremendous burst damage to a single target to secure a kill.
Ethereal Blade is a strong nuke booster that improves Nyx Assassin's ability to burst down enemies. As his primary attribute is agility, the bonus agility will increase the damage that Ether Blast deals, which will also greatly slow its target's movement speed while weakening their magic resistance, leaving them wide open for Impale, Mana Burn and Dagon.
Bottle is a very strong self-sustain item that allows Nyx Assassin to replenish his HP and mana, increasing his autonomy. As he constantly roams, Nyx is able to easily pick up runes to refill his Bottle, and utilize the runes during ganks as needed.
Scythe of Vyse gives Nyx Assassin an instant ranged hard disable, useful in many situations. Also, it gives him stats across the board, particularly improving his intelligence for more mana and providing powerful scaling mana regeneration to allow him to roam independently.
Lotus Orb allows Nyx Assassin to further use the enemy's spells against them on top of Spiked Carapace. Echo Shell gives Nyx Assassin a tool to reflect enemy spells, and even though it doesn't block the damage done by these spells it can reflect debuffs and stuns rather than just the damage. It also provides armor, increasing Nyx Assassin's survivability, and HP and mana regen for self-sustain.
Orchid Malevolence provides Nyx Assassin with a soft disable that can greatly improve his ability to gank and kill enemies. By silencing an enemy during a gank, Nyx Assassin can prevent them from casting retaliatory disables to get away; as well, his high burst damage can take advantage of the burn damage at the end of the silence to increase the odds of getting a kill during a gank. The item also provides increased intelligence and mana regen, further improving Nyx Assassin's ability to roam independently.
Drum of Endurance is a useful stat booster that is easy to build. It gives Nyx Assassin all-around attributes, improving his HP, attack damage and mana. The active can be very useful, as it boosts Nyx Assassin's movement speed, allowing him to chase down enemies quickly.
Linken's Sphere greatly improves Nyx Assassin's survivability, and allows him to engage and gank enemies through single-target disables. The Spellblock allows Nyx Assassin to ignore any targeted disables that enemies may try to hit him with, allowing him to continue pursuit and kill the enemy.
Within the colony of zealot scarabs, the queen goddess Nyx selected a single grub to answer her highest calling. And so, through designed metamorphosis, the Nyx Assassin came into being. The telepathic scarab devours his prey's minds through Mana Burn, while sending out rows of subterranean spikes to Impale them from below. Armored with a Spiked Carapace, he stuns attackers and reflects damage back to their source. But the goddess' servant is deadliest when unseen. A distracted target has no chance to react as the Nyx Assassin pierces its body with massive mandibles, thereby fulfilling an unspoken Vendetta in the name of his queen.
Nyx Assassin's original name was Anub'arak, and he was titled "Nerubian Assassin". Both were changed in the transition to Dota 2 due to copyright reasons.
Anub'arak is a character of Blizzard's franchise "Warcraft", who first appeared in the campaign of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. He was the king of the Nerubians, a race of malevolent arachnids who were slain and raised as undead.
Nyx Assassin's fun name in DotA was Anoob'arak.


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US navy chief does not want China tensions to escalate.
Singapore, May 15 The US navy chief said Wednesday he did not want maritime tensions with China to "boil over", a week after Washington's latest challenge to Beijing's territorial claims in contested waters.
Beijing said last week two American warships sailed near disputed islands in the South China Sea without permission, prompting the Chinese Navy to ask them to leave.
The ships entered waters adjacent to Gaven and Chigua reefs in the Spratly Islands, which Beijing calls Nansha, on May 6, China's foreign ministry said.
Speaking on the sidelines of a maritime security conference in Singapore, Admiral John Richardson said Washington will continue such operations which are aimed at ensuring freedom of navigation.
The US will however ensure that communications with Beijing remain open to prevent any untoward incidents, he added.
"I really value the channel of communication that I have with Shen Jinlong," he told reporters, referring to his Chinese counterpart.
"We just recently visited China, we had a chance to get to know each other, understand each other more thoroughly.
"We can continue to advocate that while we may not see things the same in all parts of the world, we've got to work through those differences in a way that doesn't boil over into conflict." The US Navy regularly conducts freedom of navigation operations to challenge Beijing's vast claims in the sea, often angering China.
Non-NDA non-BJP govt will be formed at the Centre after elections: Ghulam Nabi Azad
No one can match Hardik's talent in Indian team: Sehwag


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ID Archive2013November/DecemberPublic Displays
Public Displays in Europe (and elsewhere)
Public displays have been slow to make inroads in many European markets, although there have been pockets of progress. It is difficult to generalize about the digital-signage market in Europe, let alone the Middle East and Africa because every country is a market unto itself, with unique economic, cultural, and regulatory requirements.
by Bob Raikes
PUBLIC DISPLAYS are a fascinating topic for those of us who love to see how markets work. These displays can be broadly divided into two groups. There are those that "inform," such as flight or train displays. These "inform" displays have a cost for a purpose. "Promote" displays are those that may be partly or wholly funded by advertisers – the kind of display that might be seen in an airport terminal or a shopping mall displaying products or services for sale rather than time tables.
The European market is something of an enigma. At one level, it is considered a single market. However, the region has some of the countries with the highest incomes per capita, but also big countries with incomes that would be normal for a developing region. From Norway at $47,545 per capita, the region goes down to Albania at $4,090 per capita for 2012. This means a huge difference in the way that economies and advertising work.
Europe also has a wide range of cultures, which makes it much harder to develop advertising campaigns that are effective across the whole region. As soon as you put a person into a scene in an advertisement, it can evoke a wide variety of different reactions in different countries. In some regions, for example, showing computers being used in an office can lead to a surprising range of views on, for example, how and whether women are included in the scene. Of course, the sheer number of languages makes pan-European advertising and media more challenging as well.
Retailers are also broadly national. Although there are companies that have some success in a number of markets (e.g., Carrefour in grocery and Media Markt/Saturn in electronics), even those companies tend to work a bit differently in the different regions, as buying behaviors vary. Retail is the biggest market for digital signage, so the decisions in this segment have a big influence on the rest of the industry. Some of the electrical retailers such as MediaMarkt simply make use of the low-cost TVs that they sell as digital signs in their stores to draw attention to promotions and offers. High-end fashion retailers in London, Paris, Germany, or Milan often invest heavily in digital signage of different kinds to make their stores more dynamic and more easily changeable according to the season.
Projects and display networks in other markets for digital signage, such as banking/ financial services and transport, are also usually based on national boundaries. Digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising is also a very national market because of different views on how out-of-home advertising should be used and because of different local planning restrictions and local and national government regulations. For example, the UK has a good number of large light-emitting-diode (LED) displays and video walls that are deliberately placed next to the busiest roads to catch attention, while in Sweden temporary licences for roadside signs were withdrawn as a result of research on driver distraction.
In sum total, the public-display market for Europe, whether digital signage or DOOH, is fundamentally a collection of national markets rather than one regional market.
Scale, Scale, Scale
The market, then, is very fragmented and this means that digital-signage projects are more difficult to develop. This is not connected to displays or display-related technology, but because in any application like this, the development of content is one of the most significant cost elements. When that content needs to be delivered in multiple languages, or with different visuals because of varied cultural norms, the costs and complications go up. And as costs go up, the viability of networks, especially those funded by advertising, come under pressure. Although infrastructure costs are a factor in roll-outs, it is the cost of creating and maintaining high-quality content that is the biggest challenge.
When the content costs are divided over smaller populations than those of China, the U.S., or Japan, the cost may simply be too much to support digital-signage projects. There are many that go through a "pilot" stage, but do not get to a full roll-out. A proportion of projects get as far as roll-out, but some commercial networks, hoping to raise revenue by selling advertising, have already been closed and removed because of the difficulty of making a profit. At this stage of the market, that's a pity. In Germany alone, the networks PosterTV, Cityboomer, and CityUp have closed down. Cityboomer was a network that was set up to provide digital-signage space funded by advertising, but went from IPO to bankruptcy in less than 2 years.
At the 7th OVAB Digital Signage Conference in Munich, in September 2013, it was pointed out that a number of global multinationals that have tried to establish businesses in the region have failed to obtain scale and growth in their businesses. Part of the reason is that so much of the installation and support needs to be tailored to the local geography and that means a lot of input from partners in each country. (Interestingly, although billed as a European event, the audience was dominated by players from the German-speaking countries of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).
NEC is developing its Vukunet platform, which it calls a "Universal Digital Place-Based Ad Server," to try to make it easier for European advertisers to identify networks that they can use for messaging, and as a way to deliver the content for play-out quickly and easily. Vukunet, which launched in the U.S. a couple of years ago, is an automated ad delivery platform for digital out-of-home media that is designed to allow owners of screen networks located in public venues to earn revenue by showing advertisements. Vukunet claims that its web-based platform is the first universal inventory management, ad delivery, billing and payment, and reporting system to work across hundreds of operating networks. The displays themselves are primarily large liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) used singly or in groups as video walls.
The digital-signage market in Europe is strongly centered on Western Europe. Although the UK was the earliest market to develop, with a strong position in the largest market 7 or 8 years ago, the growth in that country has been somewhat more limited in recent years (although there was a good boost to installations and investment around the very successful Olympics in 2012). CBS Outdoor and Clear Channel are two of the major players.
Germany became the largest market at the end of 2008 and has kept that position, although very close to the UK in volume when it comes to displays. The transport industry in Germany has been very strong in adopting and investing in digital signage. Ströer is a large media company that has been influential in developing the German market.
France has grown steadily year on year as a market for digital signage and saw only a slight slow-down after the financial crisis in 2008. The European Soccer Championships in 2016, which will take place in 10 stadiums throughout France, should help with investments in preparation for the tournament. JC Decaux, based in France, is a strong global player in the conventional-signage business and has also been heavily involved in digital signage.
The Nordics have been developing well over recent years, and Russia, after a number of years of limited development, has seen very good growth in the last few years and most recently with the build up to the Sochi Winter Olympics. Outside the West, the Nordics, and Russia, the digital-signage market has been much slower to develop. The countries along the Mediterranean have been slow for the last several years, although there are interesting projects here and there, such as a kiosk-type display in Milan's transport system that was developed by M-Cube with software supplier Scala using Samsung displays (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1: This interactive kiosk-type LCD is connected to Milan's transport system and offers a touch interface for users to find information on train schedules, weather, and events.
Most of the display brands that are active in digital signage in Europe are the major global brands such as Samsung, NEC, and LG. Samsung has a very dominant position currently and both that company and LG, which is the third largest supplier, have subsidiaries in all the major countries as well as regional companies to allow a lot of local contact and management. NEC is the second largest brand and has a strong history of working closely with its resellers on projects and integration.
There are a number of small vendors locally, with most of them concentrating on national markets. However, the region also has specialist suppliers such as Conrac, which is a significant global brand in the Flight Information Display (FID) market.
All of the brands supply global digital-signage products, as, unlike TV, there is no need to deal with regional tuner and broadcast issues. Europe was an early adopter of LCDs, and plasma-display panels (PDPs) have been much less important than in some markets, such as the U.S. LCD volume surpassed that of PDP volume in the middle of 2006, and PDP volume dropped to less than 5% of the market by 2011. Smaller stores still like to use 32-in. sets, which maintain a share of 15% or so, but 40–47-in. sets make up 60–65% of the market. 55-in. sets are the ones that have the best growth at the moment. In Eastern and Southern Europe, commercial TVs are quite regularly used for digital signage where professional-quality displays might be used in the main economies.
Hard-to-Grow Public-Display Sales
One of the frustrating factors for the major display brands is that within a project the cost of the hardware, including the display itself, is often only a relatively small portion of the total cost. Even within the hardware budget, only a portion of this goes to the display, with costs associated with installation, mounting, cabling, networks, media players, and warranty and service. This makes it quite difficult for companies that are used to driving volume by reducing prices, as has been the practice in the TV and monitor markets.
The major multinational distributors such as Ingram Micro and TechData have interests in this market; Ingram has a specialist group at the European level and TechData owns TDMaverick, a specialist subsidiary for audio-visual products. However, most A/V distributors are organized on a national basis. That means that brands need to support the distributors with national representation and support.
Software and Architectures
The Out-of-Home Video Advertising Bureau (OVAB) Europe is a trade association that is working to develop standards and has published standards for audience measurement and service levels. These standards should help the development of commercial networks that can deliver advertisements to consumers, which should drive revenue growth from advertising, a major challenge for the market. One of the challenges on a global level is that the digital-signage market has too many software packages. Although there are larger companies such as Scala, it has been suggested that there may be as many as 700 different packages available in Europe! That causes real problems in support and development and leads to complications in developing multi-national content. Software developers that want to supply products through the full area of the region have to make decisions not only about the languages that their software will support on the displays, but how many languages can be used within the software to develop the content.
This year, Samsung was the first to launch new digital-signage products based on adding "Smart TV" systems-on-chips (SoCs) to its digital-signage products. These are relatively light clients, but can be used in conjunction with software from Scala, Signagelive, and others. The company has been developing tools to help smaller resellers sell simple solutions to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). At present, it is not clear that this strategy will gain traction, but it's an innovative and positive approach to expanding the market for digital signage, especially in SMEs.
There are a number of extra pressures on the market in Europe, especially in the countries in the European Union. One of the simple ones is the EU Directive 90/269/EEC – which covers the manual handling of loads and effectively limits the maximum weight that can be lifted by a single individual. Environmental issues are very important in every part of the European market. The French government, among others, has environmental regulations (the Grenelle II law which came into force in July 2012) that limit advertising using digital signs.
The Middle East and Africa have many of the challenges that beset the market in Europe in culture, language, and content. In addition, the region has some particular current problems. In the Middle East, one of the most important economies is Egypt and the political situation in that area is causing a lot of multinational consumer companies to cut their advertising budgets. The effect of this drop in advertising revenue is having a "knock-on" effect on the entire region and impacting digital signage and DOOH revenues. Nevertheless, the market in EMEA is on a steady rise. Meko divides the EMEA geography into 10 regions. In Q2 2013, the MEA market represented 8% of the total market (compared to 7% for the small countries of Benelux) (Fig. 2).
Fig. 2: Digital-signage sales volumes by relative percentages show that German-speaking countries, the UK and Ireland, and the Nordics are currently the heaviest users. Source: Meko, Ltd.
An interesting project in Africa is Solar Powered Advanced Rural Communication (Sparc). In much of rural Africa, there is little TV because of the lack of electrical power. However, phones and smartphones have very high penetration.
In the Sparc project, digital-signage kiosks are being set up using solar power (Fig. 3). They communicate with the "cloud" by using mobile-phone technology, which is widely available (it's just GPRS, but that, combined with satellite-sourced video, provides enough data for simple advertising). The terminals were developed with Amscreen, which claims to be Europe's largest DOOH network (and has display networks in the UK, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, UAE, Oman, Kenya, Angola, and South Africa, totaling around 6,000 displays).
Fig. 3: Solar-powered digital-signage kiosks such as these are providing Internet connectivity (and digital advertising) to areas of rural Africa that are largely without electricity.
The Sparc system allows advertisers to create simple local advertising at very low cost and with detailed control of where the content plays (down to individual kiosk level). Few individual consumers can afford news-papers, and with little TV advertising this kind of advertising can have a significant impact on small businesses and local economies as well as for national brands that cannot use TV.
A Challenging Market
There are opportunities in the EMEA digital-signage market, with steady growth. However, entering the market with an aim of getting a significant share needs a commitment to developing business in multiple regions over a period of time. Products need to be built to professional standards and for long life as buyers are very demanding. It's critical to develop relationships with the channel partners and key integrators in multiple countries to support the scale needed to be an active player over the long term. •
Bob Raikes is an experienced manager and analyst and a specialist in the European display market. Since 1994, he has published the weekly Display Monitor newsletter, the journal of record for the display industry. His company, Meko, researches and publishes data on the European display market. He can be reached at bobr@meko.co.uk.


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Q: Updating a field dependent on a date range in Access with VisualBasic and SQL A friend and I have been trying for hours with little progress to a get a piece of code right for an invoicing system we're designing as a project.
We are trying to update the field InvoiceNo to a value (worked out earlier in the VisualBasic code), where the CustomerNo is the is a specific value and the FinishDate is between two dates. At first I was trying to use TO_DATE but then we realized that wasn't the same in the SQL that Access uses (after much searching).
This has been the simple statement I've been using to just test and try to get something working to then translate into VisualBasic and put in our variables. It's a little easier to read so I thought I'd provide it.
UPDATE tblJob SET tblJob.InvoiceNo = '8' WHERE tblJob.CustomerNo = '1' AND (tblJob.FinishDate BETWEEN cdate(format('08/09/2013', '##/##/####')) AND cdate(format('03/10/2013', '##/##/####')));

I have a feeling after looking at a few examples that our date is meant to be without an forward slashes. So I tried that and it wasn't working either.
Here's the VisualBasic code that has come out of all of this, it's exactly the same but using some variables rather than our set values that I've been using for testing.
DoCmd.RunSQL ("UPDATE tblJob SET tblJob.InvoiceNo = '" & newInvoiceNo & "' WHERE tblJob.CustomerNo = '" & VbCustNo & "' AND (tblJob.FinishDate BETWEEN cdate(format('" & Forms![frmMainMenu][txtFirstDate] & "', '##/##/####')) AND cdate(format('" & Forms![frmMainmenu][txtEndDate] & "', '##/##/####')));")

We had a look at: Convert a string to a date in Access and it helped us realize that it was cdate(format()) rather than TO_DATE as it is in Oracle. But we just can't seem to get it to run properly, any help would be much appreciated.

A: If you will be running the query from within an Access application session, you can let the db engine use the Access expression service to grab the values from the text boxes on your form.
Dim db As DAO.Database
Dim strUpdate As String
strUpdate = "UPDATE tblJob" & vbCrLf & _
    "SET InvoiceNo = '" & newInvoiceNo & "'" & vbCrLf & _
    "WHERE CustomerNo = '" & VbCustNo & "'" & vbCrLf & _
    "AND FinishDate BETWEEN Forms!frmMainMenu!txtFirstDate AND Forms!frmMainmenu!txtEndDate;"
Debug.Print strUpdate
Set db = CurrentDb
db.Execute strUpdate, dbFailOnError
Set db = Nothing

However, if you prefer to build the literal date values from those text boxes into your UPDATE statement, you can use Format().
"AND FinishDate BETWEEN " & _
Format(Forms!frmMainmenu!txtFirstDate, "\#yyyy-m-d\#") & _
" AND " & Format(Forms!frmMainmenu!txtEndDate, "\#yyyy-m-d\#") & ";"

Either way, using a string variable to hold your UPDATE statement gives you an opportunity to examine the completed statement you're asking the db engine to execute.
You can view the output from Debug.Print in the Immediate window (go there with Ctl+g).  For troubleshooting, you can copy the statement text from there and then paste it into SQL View of a new Access query.

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Tātarāmoa you have held a fascination for me from the very first time I heard of you. I hold fond memories of the times I have found you in many out of the way places and managed to gather some of your prickly leaves to bring home as a tonic/rongoā for my people. Your ability to calm an overactive or anxious mind and bring sweet sleep has converted many to the gifts that our plant medicines can bring. As I was pruning and clearing my hydrangea hedge this past weekend I came across a seedling, one of your tamariki and it got me thinking about whakapapa. As I build deeper relationships with particular plants I've noticed that they will then naturalize here at home. This is whakapapa, a primal inter-connectedness that goes deep. It's a long line that goes way back through many generations of tūpuna. We are of the same tribe. Papatūānuku is our mother Rangi-nui our father.
Tātarāmoa (rubus cissoides) is in the same family as the blackberry and the raspberry sharing many common traits. Tātarāmoa has been used historically as a treatment for vomiting, stomach ache, abdominal pains, diarrhoea and dysentery.
It has an affinity with the female hormonal system being useful for dysmenorrhoea (painful menstruation), to bring on the menses and help dispel the whenua (placenta). Used in this way it is often combined with flax root and raūpo or karamū. Traditionally vapour baths and hot stones from fires made with tātarāmoa vines were used after delivery.
I most commonly use tātarāmoa these days to calm an agitated nervous system. It can bring calm and relaxation to someone coming off drugs or alcohol. As part of a self-care regime making a nightly brew taken just before bed will often bring much-needed sleep, and for those who suffer from anticipation anxiety preventing sleep. For teething babies it's a very palatable brew. For littlies a teaspoon or two before bed can help to bring about a peaceful sleep. In my experience it helps to take it just as you are laying down to sleep as it brings a wonderful sense of relaxation and calm to the mind and the body soon follows suit.
So happy to spot this seedling under my hydrangea hedge.
Go along and have a chat to your local rongoā Māori practioner for more information or help with plant identification. Here at Te Herenga Waka o Orewa Marae we make up fresh teas and tonics on request.


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Shredder Upgrade Calls For An Upgrade To SENNEBOGEN At Lakeside Auto Recyclers
The reach on the 840 allows the operator to position himself and work the pile while feeding the shredder.
Carter Lake, IA – Mike Levell says he and his family business have been easing their way into the auto shredding business. With their latest move up to a 4,000 HP, 6085 auto shredder last April, Lakeside Auto Recyclers has picked up the pace, and there's no time for time off!
"It's a full-throttle lifestyle," Levell says. With the new shredder, he found that his previous material handler couldn't keep up with the challenge. "It didn't have the best balance, and it needed a lot of maintenance and downtime. I wanted something more suitable for this kind of production – a more reliable machine."
Levell had spent some time traveling to other recycling yards to see their shredder operations. What he saw convinced him that Lakeside needed a new SENNEBOGEN machine to feed his 6085. "I got down to two possible material handler lines. I really gravitated to the way the SENNEBOGENs are designed, and I learned that their service and support is really great," he concluded.
In April, after the 6085 was commissioned, Lakeside took delivery of a new SENNEBOGEN 840 M. This model is a rubber-tired 117,000 lb. (53,000 kg) purpose-built machine powered by a 305 HP (227 kW) Cummins engine. Levell had it fitted with SENNEBOGEN's orange peel grapple.
The SENNEBOGEN 840 is the key to keeping the shredder fed.
Feeding the hunger!
After almost a year in production, the 6085 is churning out shred as advertised and is running smoothly. The shredder sets the pace for every other aspect of the operation. "It's a hungry machine! Yesterday I watched it eat a 1-ton Chevrolet pickup in about 25 seconds," says Levell. "It can normally process two or three cars in a minute." As long as it's getting fed, the 6085 will produce of 55 tons/hr. Any problem with other equipment just gets in the way of Lakeside's mission to "Shred The World!"
Lakeside is now receiving trailer-loads of cars to process from up to 100 miles away and uses the old machine to move cars into the staging area by the shredder. A wheel loader hauls away the outbound shred and fluff. "The 840's main job is to feed the shredder and keep everything going, without any downtime," Levell explains. "If you can't feed the shredder, you're pretty well out of business and SENNEBOGEN helps keep my operation going."
From the operator's perspective, when the cab is raised it makes the unloading process go that much faster.
Safe, quiet, comfortable
Along with managing the business at Lakeside, Levell is often at work in the cab of the new SENNEBOGEN. "It's an amazing machine – it's really safe, really quiet, really comfortable. It has a good feel for the operator; smooth, strong and efficient. The cab is nice and quiet; you can't even hear the shredder. I love the two cameras (rear & right side), so you can see out the back and see through the blind spot next to you. And it's comfortable. When you're spending 10 hours a day in here, it's the place you want to be."
Levell credits SENNEBOGEN's hydraulic design for much of its reliability. "There's no electronics. So there's less to go wrong." To date, the SENNEBOGEN has also met Lakeside's expectation for dealer support. "Murphy Tractor has been really good; right on the spot. Once we have a few more SENNEBOGENs in the yard, I'll send a couple of my guys down to the Training Center in Charlotte. For now, Murphy has been on top of all the service."
Recycling Specialist OZO Is "Thinking Green" In Every Way With Electric Drive SENNEBOGEN 818
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BRENNAN'S Mace, Rathvilly has only gone and done it again.
This is the tenth occasion on which a Mace Excellence Award has gone to the popular supermarket, a testament to the commitment of proprietor Edward Brennan and his hard-working staff.
"Yes, we are delighted," said Edward.
"It's a great achievement for us. It's good to get it because a lot of hard work goes into it and the standard is very high," he added.
The presentation took place at the recent Mace Excellence Awards for achieving exceptional standards in retailing, which was held at the Heritage Hotel and Spa in Killenard, Co Laois.
The event was hosted by BWG Foods, owners and operators of the Mace brand.
The awards, held in association with the Excellence Ireland Quality Association, are only awarded to Mace stores that pass an intensive year-long inspection, including unannounced audits and visits from mystery shoppers.


Keeper of the Grove 3 is the third installment of the tower defense series.
Keeper of the Grove 3 is a tower defense game. Unlike similar games such as Ant Buster that test how long you can last on one map, Keeper of the Grove 3 has a progression through multiple levels. Like other tower defense games, your goal here is to protect your gems from being stolen. Multiple waves of monsters (which change in appearance and ability from level to level) will attempt to make that difficult to you. You build up lines of defense along the route, trying to defeat the monsters before they ever get to your supply. If you're a fan of tower defense games, Keeper of the Grove 3 is one of the most well-designed and fun to play versions. Give it a shot here.


Eleven months ago, Capt. Thomas Conlan of the Wilton Police Department lost his home in a devastating house fire. Thankfully, his family–wife Ashley, and their three children–all got out in time, but the home and everything in it was a total loss. Today, they are back in their home, moving in just two weeks ago after it was completely rebuilt. He spoke to GOOD Morning Wilton editor Heather Borden Herve about what it's like to be back home.
We kind of tried to keep the house the way it was, and just changed it a little bit. One of the biggest changes, we gave the two girls their own bathroom–we figured that would be a plus when they start to get older, but other than that it's really similar to what it was. It made it a lot easier to come back because it really feels like you never left.
The girls sleep together now, they didn't sleep together before, but now they sleep together. The rental house had four bedrooms, but we only used three of the rooms–there was a master bedroom downstairs, but the kids would never let us be on different floors than them. The two girls had a room, my son had a room, and we had a room. So now Kaitlyn (9) and Bryn (7) sleep together, which we don't really mind–they both have their own rooms now, but they still sleep together.
GOOD Morning Wilton: The whole experience must have been really hard for them.
They handled it really, really well. But yeah, there's still some things. They like to be together and if there's ever a fire alarm that goes off they get really, really scared. I don't think there's going to be any lasting effect from it, but still to this day they're a little skittish about stuff like that.
Kaitlyn didn't want to come in the house until it was done. She wanted to surprised. She didn't want to go up to her room until the bedding was there and her pillows were there and everything was up. They were happy to see the progress and see furniture and see a TV and that kind of stuff. They were happy.
Jake is 4 years old. He's easy going. He sleeps by himself, where the girls are really scared about him because they're older than him. But he didn't miss a step, he came back and into his room. He goes to bed and he doesn't get scared. He goes to school with my wife–she teaches in Bridgeport; he's still in preschool and they have a preschool program there, so it makes it easy. He goes to school with her, he comes home with her, so he's been really good and easy going.
They were all really happy when the cat came back, it was kind of a big thing. We have a cat [Cooper] and a dog [Callie]. We haven't brought the dog back yet, but we have a cat and they both survived the fire. We hadn't seen the cat for two days after the fire and it was an indoor/outdoor cat, so we weren't really sure if it made it out. My neighbor called me and sent a picture, 'Is this your cat?' It was our cat. We've been keeping the cat inside now because we want the cat to make sure it knows where it lives before we let it out again. I think the cat's going to realize just because the cat lived there for seven years before the fire.
My wife and I are just trying to get a little settled in before we bring the monster dog back. The dog will get into everything. She's a year and a half old. But we've got the canine fence all repaired, so I think this Saturday we'll go get the dog. That will be a big deal. The cat's not going to like it, Cooper thought she was free of her, but the kids will love it when the dog comes back.
The day after the fire, it was a Sunday and I had called the insurance company that morning. You knew you had insurance, but you want to make that call just to make sure for someone to tell you had insurance. But the adjuster came out that day and he was like, 'It could be a year before you get back in here.' And I said, "No, no way, six months at the most.' But it took 11 months.
We've got most of the furniture, but there are still some things, like my wife hasn't been able to pick out all the vanity mirrors and stuff like that. There's not a lot of decorating yet. It feels like the same house to me, but there's definitely some homey stuff that's not here yet. We just haven't found everything where we want it. And then you go in the garage and there's tons of stuff in the garage that we need to go through. We have to create areas for storage, and situate stuff. But other than that, aside from being a brand new house, it definitely feels like home again.
Thanksgiving's usually at my mothers, but my mother is in her 80's now so she's trying to pass it off. I'm trying to talk my wife into having Thanksgiving here, but I don't think she's ready to go through all the work of it. Christmas will be the big deal when that comes around. The kids will be excited about that–last year they were kind of displaced. We got really lucky with the rental house, it was a nice place, but it will be nice when the holidays come around here again.
We probably could have waited another month to move in here–there's still not a backyard yet really. I mean it's just a disaster back there, the outside is, but we wanted to get back in before the kids went back to school. Their school started last Wednesday and we got in here Thursday before that. Although it's probably 90% done in the house, there's still a couple things, especially outside that need to be done. But we really, the deadline was, at least we wanted to be in before school started, it ended up being like a week before. We thought that was important.
People in Wilton couldn't have been nicer after the fire. People at work…it was just great to see how everybody came to our aid and really let you know that so many people cared, which was kind of humbling. Even to this day.
It was kind of crazy, but it feels like we've turned a corner now. We're back in and life's back to normal–11 months later, but it was a crazy journey.
GMW: Was there anything you did to mark that first day back? Or was it more about getting back to normal?
Moving back in, we were mostly trying to watch the kids–how they were reacting to it all. There was not a lot of time for me and Ashley, to tell you the truth. It was more making sure the kids were happy and that they were comfortable. They seemed really happy when they came in. That was great.
Laying down or sitting on the couch and being like whew, oh man, finally home. This was one of the reasons we kept the house kind of similar. We just wanted to come back home again. We didn't want to come back to a different house. The kids, I think they felt like that too, I think that made it easier for them. It was like we never skipped a beat, it's like we never left.


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Historically, bannimus (Latin: "we banish") was the form of expulsion of any individual from the University of Oxford, by putting the proctorial edict up in some public place, as a denunciation or promulgation of it. It also served to prevent the individual from claiming the cause of expulsion was unknown.

Individuals can still be expelled today, as well as rusticated, that is, when a student is sent down or banished from the University for a period of time before being allowed to return and further their education.

The term bannimus is related to bannition, which is the general expulsion of an individual from a university.

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Ecohousers : IR thermometer at Lidl - about £12 !
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:47 pm Post subject: Ecohousers : IR thermometer at Lidl - about £12 !
Lidl special : decent hi tech hand held IR thermometer currently on offer at about £12.
Check the temp of walls, windows, ceilings simply by pointing the laser dot and reading the display. Measures continuously.
Can be setup to beep if temp is outside a certain range : to locate draughts.
Note : Turn on and off every 10 munutes to force a recal. It's reference drifts a bit over time. Maybe unit warming up?
Or this for £10. There's even one for £5.29.
I got a FLIR camera mail order from the good ole USofA for the equivalent of around 350 pounds here in Australia. Excellent for telling where the wall insulation is deficient on a roaring hot summers day. It just glows red. I even get the taxman to reduce my taxes by $45 a year to help pay for it.
I calibrate the 'old' IR thermometers by pointing at the back of my hand. If it is not 30 or 31degC then either it is not working or I am not working and have the flu.
You may have a temperature above normal, it may be symptoms of "a flu like illness" but it is unlikely to be flu.
As an aside, I can't remember the name of the medic in Australia who is known as something like "Dr Swine Flu" as he manufactures the data to make people think there is an epidemic, when there isn't.
A note on infrared thermometers. Those that I have worked with are color sensitive. so if pointed to something colored black could tell you exactly how much the black object was changing temperature but if then pointed at something white would have a considerable margin of error until re calibrated for that color. Not a problem to say? Try reading pavement temperatures in the winter when at the critical time snow cover changes the road color from dark grey to white.
I think you are correct there. I do recall my 'old' IR thermometer having something written on the bottom about that it was calibrated for an emissivity (greek letter 'epsilon' - looks like a rounded E) of 0.95 at a certain frequency, So therefore it will read temperature correctly under those circumstances. The 'color' of the object may of course be in infrared wavelengths and so what the human eye perceives as colour may not be the same as what the thermometer perceives.
I was unable, in the two minutes of my life I devoted to searching this on Google, to find an Australian medic so described. I could however find a Dutch medic who 'supposedly' (or in the best language of Have I Got News For You - allegedly) exaggerated the swine flu danger and was later revealed to own ca. 10% of the shares in a flu vaccine producing company.
"Flu" is usually a misnomer. Like most people I've had lots of colds but had flu twice and wouldn't wish it on my worst enemies - it's easy to see how it could kill. Horrendous episodes in my life.


how would one say Death solves all problems, no man no problem in Russian?
You simply could not be more wrong. Stalin killed many, but his problems continued and destroyed the USSR, which now lies on the rubbish heap of history like a dead fish, stinking and reminding all that killing solves nothing, it only makes things worse and proves the killer is in fact weak and helpless, unable to deal with problems in any way but with brute force.
Wow, you guys have no respect to Russia. If you americains think your so cool, why don't you guys help Russia?
Please reply, I would like to hear what you americains think.
разве сша не помогало/помогает россии?


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Il Chicago Sun-Times è un quotidiano statunitense fondato nel 1948 a Chicago.

Nato originariamente come Chicago Evening Journal nel 1884, continuò la sua pubblicazione fino al 1929, quando venne rilanciato in formato di tabloid con il titolo di Daily Illustrated Times. Nel 1948 venne fuso con il Chicago Sun fondato da Marshall Field III nel 1941, e appartenne alla Field Enterprises fino al 1984, quando venne venduto alla News Corporation di Rupert Murdoch. Il Sun-Times cambiò stile e formato, più simile a quello del New York Post. Nel 1986 venne ceduto da NewsCorp, mentre nel 1994 venne acquisito da Hollinger International, controllata dall'imprenditore Conrad Black. In seguito la società cambiò nome Sun-Times Media Group. Nel 2009 il giornale rischiò la bancarotta.

Tra le firme del giornale vi è il critico cinematografico Roger Ebert, e per anni vi ha scritto Mike Royko, vincitore del Premio Pulitzer nel 1972.

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Nel telefilm Ultime dal cielo, Gary Hobson, il protagonista della serie, riceve il giornale del giorno dopo, appunto il Chicago Sun-Times, le cui copie utilizzate per le riprese della serie venivano fatte stampare dal quotidiano stesso.

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Walter Benjamin's Journalistic Networks
Oxford in Berlin
Walter Benjamin was not only a leading modernist thinker but also a versatile and prolific journalist. This podcast discusses his journalism as a creative laboratory for his cultural theory and as part of a wider network of people and ideas.
The German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. But Benjamin was also a prolific journalist, someone who used his articles and radio work to try out new ideas, write in new formats and reach new audiences. Although Benjamin was forced into a journalistic career by circumstances he couldn't control, he quickly embraced this challenge and used his journalism as a creative laboratory. This side of Benjamin is less well-known and has been largely neglected. In this podcast, Benjamin experts Carolin Duttlinger and Daniel Weidner discuss their new research project on Benjamin's journalism and the challenges and opportunities presented by this rich body of work. As they argue, Benjamin the journalist must not be seen as an author working in splendid isolation but as someone who is part of a tight-knit but diverse network of people, media, and institutions. As they highlight, the environment in which Benjamin worked a century ago was very different from today's digital media landscape, and yet many of the challenges he faced in his journalism remain immensely relevant today.
Walter Benjamin's Diagram of Personal connections as referenced in the podcast is reproduced in Blind Spots: Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth-century Germany by Frederic J. Schwartz, p. 43, available here [link to https://books.google.de/books?id=Bnj8_EJiokoC&lpg=PA42&dq=Frederic%20Schwartz%20Blind%20spots%20family%20tree&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false]
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Daniel Weidner
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Wary of public transport, coronavirus-hit Americans turn to bikes
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked a surge in bike sales across the United States, according to a major manufacturer and a half dozen retailers interviewed by Reuters.
The government has declared bicycles an essential transportation item, so many bike shops remain open despite the widespread business shutdown.
"I'm 51 and healthy, but I don't want to get on the subway," said John Donohue, a Brooklyn-based artist who bought a bike two weeks ago. Donohue, who doesn't own a car, says he's not sure when he'll be comfortable on mass transit again.
Many of the purchases are by people looking for a way to get outside at a time of sweeping shutdowns and stay-at-home orders aimed at containing the virus: Even the worst affected states are allowing people out to exercise.
Still, a portion of the sales, especially in urban areas, are to people like Donohue who also want to avoid the risk of contagion on buses or subways.
He plans to use his new 24-gear hybrid for journeys such as regular visits to a printing shop across town that he normally travels to by subway. A key feature, he said, was the bright red panniers he added to carry his artwork.
To be sure, bikes remain well down the list of U.S. commuting preferences.
About 870,000 Americans, on average, commuted to work by bicycle in the five years through 2017, or about 0.6% of all workers, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The rate was higher in urban areas, at about 1.1%, and about 20 cities with at least 60,000 residents had rates of about 5% or more.
A more recent survey, though, showed a higher percentage of U.S. workers using a bike to get to work. Private research firm Statista Inc.'s 2019 survey showed 5% rode their own bike, while another 1% used a bike share service, an increasingly common option in larger cities.
Running Out Of Stock
The government has declared bicycles an essential transportation item, so many bike shops remain open despite the widespread business shutdown. Many, though, have modified how they operate, no longer letting buyers test bikes and handing them over on the curb rather than inside the store.
According to the National Bicycle Dealers Association, roughly three-quarters of U.S. bike sales are through big box stores. While many of the outlets of large specialty sporting goods chains are closed, general merchandisers like WalMart Stores Inc, the largest seller of bikes, remain open. Walmart did not respond to a request for comment.
Kent International Inc., which imports bikes from China and also makes them at a plant in South Carolina, said sales of its low-priced bikes had surged over the past month.
Kent is already out of stock on five of its top 20 models and expects that to rise to 10 by the end of the month, chief executive and chairman Arnold Kamler said. He noted supplies were flowing in from China, which has reopened much of its manufacturing base over the past month.
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Kamler said sales at most of the major retailers he supplies were up 30% last month and are up over 50% so far in April, with the surge in demand forcing him to change shipping arrangements.
He normally imports bikes to ports on both the East and West Coasts. But with many retailers asking for more bikes, he's now directing all shipments into West Coast ports, then transporting them across the country. That adds to freight costs, he said, but can cut weeks off delivery times.
Mark Vautour, who manages a bike store near the Boston University campus, said he had sold bikes to anxious commuters - including at least one medical worker who wanted an alternative to using the subway.
"We've joked for years that trains are like a petri dish," Vautour said.
Mostly, though, his sales have been children's bikes, "because parents don't know what to do with their kids."
One indication that people are buying bikes for more utilitarian uses like commuting is that many of the purchases are low-priced bikes, several bike retailers said.
Joe Nocella, owner of 718 Cyclery & Outdoors in Brooklyn, said his normal "sweet spot" was bikes that sell for $1,500 to $2,000, used by city dwellers for touring.
"Now the average bike has turned to $500 to $800," he said.
Those lower prices are one reason many bike retailers are struggling, despite strong sales.
Andrew Crooks, chief executive of NYC Velo, a three-store chain in the New York area, said the drop in average selling prices meant revenues had fallen at a time when he was still paying rents, salaries and other costs.
"So we could keep our doors open and still end up with a business that's not viable," he said.
Still, some new buyers say they are switching to bikes for the long term.
Having been stuck at home in Baltimore, Kaitlyn Lee bought a $550 bike this weekend so she could get outdoors safely and avoid public transport when she gets a job.
Lee will finish a graduate degree in public health at the University of Maryland this spring and has applied for jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and the Health Resources and Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Her plan is to commute by bike to a future job, if possible.
"I mean, it'll never completely vanish," she said of the coronavirus. "Rather we will learn how to live alongside of it, just like with other viruses."
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During an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Hillary Clinton said President Donald Trump's behavior during the confirmation process was emblematic of a disrespect for women that he's demonstrated for years. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
Kavanaugh Confirmation
Hillary Clinton calls Kavanaugh's ceremonial swearing-in a 'political rally'
By MATTHEW CHOI
Hillary Clinton labeled Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's ceremonial swearing-in at the White House on Monday a "political rally" that "undermined the image and integrity" of the Supreme Court.
"It saddens me because our judicial system has been viewed as one of the main pillars of our constitutional government," Clinton said during an interview over the weekend with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
President Donald Trump ceremonially swore in Kavanaugh at the White House on Monday, days after the Senate confirmed his nomination with a 50-48 vote Saturday afternoon, concluding one of the most dramatic and partisan confirmation processes in the court's history. Kavanaugh was officially sworn in Saturday by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Though the court has traditionally endeavored to float above partisan politics, Kavanaugh's confirmation process was mired with accusations from both parties of manipulation. Kavanaugh was accused during the confirmation process of having sexually assaulted multiple women, allegations he adamantly denied. Trump and other Kavanaugh allies have accused Democrats of orchestrating a smear campaign to derail the justice's confirmation.
The confirmation process was also a reckoning moment for the Me Too movement, as the Senate's approval of Kavanaugh was characterized by many on the left as a dismissal of sexual assault allegations. Opponents of Kavanaugh's confirmation complained that the FBI's inquiry into allegations against him was inadequate, while protesters confronted senators with stories of sexual assault and demands that the nomination be rejected. Many Republicans disregarded the protesters as an orchestrated liberal intimidation effort.
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Trump also earned severe criticism after he mocked Christine Blasey Ford, who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school, at a rally in Mississippi last week. Drawing cheers from the crowd of rallygoers, Trump imitated Ford attempting to recount the details of a party she said occurred more than 30 years ago.
During her interview with Amanpour, Clinton said Trump's behavior during the confirmation process was emblematic of a disrespect for women that he's demonstrated for years.
"The president has been true to form," Clinton said. "He has insulted, attacked, demeaned women throughout the campaign, really for many years leading up to the campaign, and he's continued to do that inside the White House."
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect that the interview with Clinton was conducted on Tuesday.
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