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using namespace Microsoft::WRL;

Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::RenderBatch_2D(IDWriteFactory3 * writeFactory,
	ID2D1Factory3 * factory_2D, ID2D1DeviceContext * deviceContext_2D, IWICImagingFactory2* wicFactory)
{
	m_writeFactory = writeFactory;
	m_2DFactory = factory_2D;
	m_2DDeviceContext = deviceContext_2D;
	m_wicFactory = wicFactory;
}

Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::~RenderBatch_2D()
{

}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::Initialize()
{
	ThrowIfFailed(
		m_2DFactory->CreateDrawingStateBlock(&m_stateBlock)
	);

	CreateDeviceDependentResources();
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::CreateDeviceDependentResources()
{
	BrushManager::Initialize(m_2DFactory, m_2DDeviceContext, m_wicFactory);
	ThrowIfFailed(
		m_2DDeviceContext->CreateSolidColorBrush(
			D2D1::ColorF(D2D1::ColorF::White),
			&m_defualtBrush)
	);

}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::ReleaseDeviceDependentResources()
{
	m_defualtBrush.Reset();
	m_bitmapRenderTarget.Reset();
	m_textRenderTarget.Reset();
	BrushManager::Reset();
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::SetDimensions(float width, float height)
{
	m_windowWidth = width;
	m_windowHeight = height;
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::BeginScene()
{
	// Set tranform on window orientation change
	//m_2DDeviceContext->SetTransform(m_deviceResources->GetOrientationTransform2D());
	m_2DDeviceContext->SaveDrawingState(m_stateBlock.Get());
	m_2DDeviceContext->CreateCompatibleRenderTarget(&m_bitmapRenderTarget);
	m_2DDeviceContext->CreateCompatibleRenderTarget(&m_textRenderTarget);
	m_2DDeviceContext->CreateCompatibleRenderTarget(&m_backgroundRenderTarget);

	m_backgroundRenderTarget->BeginDraw();
	m_textRenderTarget->BeginDraw();
	m_bitmapRenderTarget->BeginDraw();
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::ClearScreen(float r, float g, float b, float a)
{
	m_backgroundRenderTarget->Clear(D2D1::ColorF(r, g, b, a));
	m_bitmapRenderTarget->Clear(D2D1::ColorF(r, g, b, 0.0f));
	m_textRenderTarget->Clear(D2D1::ColorF(r, g, b, 0.0f));
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::EndScene()
{
	// Ignore D2DERR_RECREATE_TARGET here. This error indicates that the device
	// is lost. It will be handled during the next call to Present.
	m_backgroundRenderTarget->EndDraw();
	m_textRenderTarget->EndDraw();
	m_bitmapRenderTarget->EndDraw();

	//Begin writing compilation
	m_2DDeviceContext->BeginDraw();
	CreateEffects();
	HRESULT hr = m_2DDeviceContext->EndDraw();
	if (hr != D2DERR_RECREATE_TARGET)
	{
		ThrowIfFailed(hr);
	}

	m_2DDeviceContext->RestoreDrawingState(m_stateBlock.Get());
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::CreateEffects()
{
	ComPtr<ID2D1Bitmap> spriteMap;
	ComPtr<ID2D1Bitmap> text;
	ComPtr<ID2D1Bitmap> background;
	auto size = m_2DDeviceContext->GetSize();
	m_bitmapRenderTarget->GetBitmap(&spriteMap);
	m_textRenderTarget->GetBitmap(&text);
	m_backgroundRenderTarget->GetBitmap(&background);

	//Draw Background
	m_2DDeviceContext->DrawBitmap(background.Get(), D2D1::RectF(0.0f, 0.0f, size.width, size.height));

	//Draw sprites
	auto effect = BrushManager::GetEffect();
	if (effect)
	{
		effect->Create(m_2DDeviceContext);
		if (effect->GetBeginEffect() && effect->GetFinalEffect())
		{
			ComPtr<ID2D1Effect> arithmeticCompositeEffect;
			m_2DDeviceContext->CreateEffect(CLSID_D2D1ArithmeticComposite, &arithmeticCompositeEffect);

			effect->GetBeginEffect()->SetInput(0, spriteMap.Get());
			arithmeticCompositeEffect->SetInput(0, background.Get());
			arithmeticCompositeEffect->SetInputEffect(1, effect->GetFinalEffect().Get());

			m_2DDeviceContext->DrawImage(arithmeticCompositeEffect.Get());
		}
	}
	else
	{
		//Failsafe
		m_2DDeviceContext->DrawBitmap(spriteMap.Get(), D2D1::RectF(0.0f, 0.0f, size.width, size.height));
	}

	//Draw out layer
	m_2DDeviceContext->DrawBitmap(text.Get(), D2D1::RectF(0.0f, 0.0f, size.width, size.height));
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::Draw(const Text & t)
{
	auto format = TextStyleLib::GetFormat(t.GetFormatName());
	if (format)
	{
		auto bounds = t.GetBounds();
		ComPtr<IDWriteTextLayout> textLayout;
		ThrowIfFailed(
			m_writeFactory->CreateTextLayout(
				t.c_str(),
				(uint32_t)t.length(),
				format.Get(),
				bounds.x, // Max width of the input text.
				bounds.y, // Max height of the input text.
				&textLayout
			)
		);
		DWRITE_TEXT_METRICS metrics;
		textLayout->GetMetrics(&metrics);

		auto brush = BrushManager::GetBrush(t.GetBrush());
		if (brush == nullptr)
			brush = m_defualtBrush;

		m_textRenderTarget->DrawTextLayout(
			t.GetPosition(),
			textLayout.Get(),
			brush.Get()
		);
	}
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::Draw(const Square & s, bool background)
{
	BRUSH_TEXTURE_TYPE type = s.GetBrushType();

	switch (type)
	{
	case Graphics::BRUSH_TEXTURE_TYPE::BRUSH_TEXTURE_DEFAULT:
		DrawRect(s, background);
		break;
	case Graphics::BRUSH_TEXTURE_TYPE::BRUSH_TEXTURE_IMAGE_BRUSH:
		DrawBitmapBrush(s, background);
		break;
	case Graphics::BRUSH_TEXTURE_TYPE::BRUSH_TEXTURE_IMAGE:
		DrawBitmap(s, background);
		break;
	default:
		break;
	}
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::Draw(const Line & l)
{
	auto brush = BrushManager::GetBrush(l.GetBrush());
	if (brush == nullptr)
		brush = m_defualtBrush;

	m_bitmapRenderTarget->DrawLine(
		l.GetPointOne(),
		l.GetPointTwo(),
		brush.Get(),
		l.GetStrokeWidth()
	);
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::DrawBitmap(const Square & s, bool background)
{
	int ID = s.GetBrush();
	auto bmp = BrushManager::GetImage(ID);
	if (bmp != nullptr)
	{
		auto rect = s.GetRect();
		auto source = s.GetSourceRect();
		float opacity = s.GetColor().w;
		if (!background)
			m_bitmapRenderTarget->DrawBitmap(bmp.Get(), rect, opacity,
				D2D1_BITMAP_INTERPOLATION_MODE_NEAREST_NEIGHBOR, source);

		m_backgroundRenderTarget->DrawBitmap(bmp.Get(), rect, opacity,
			D2D1_BITMAP_INTERPOLATION_MODE_NEAREST_NEIGHBOR, source);
	}
	else
		DrawRect(s, background, true);
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::DrawBitmapBrush(const Square & s, bool background)
{
	int ID = s.GetBrush();
	auto brush = BrushManager::GetImageBrush(ID);

	if (brush != nullptr)
	{
		if (!background)
			m_bitmapRenderTarget->FillRectangle(s.GetRect(), brush.Get());

		m_backgroundRenderTarget->FillRectangle(s.GetRect(), brush.Get());

	}
	else
		DrawRect(s, background, true);
}

void Graphics::RenderBatch_2D::DrawRect(const Square & s, bool background, bool defaultBrush)
{
	ComPtr<ID2D1SolidColorBrush> brush = nullptr;
	if (!defaultBrush)
	{
		int ID = s.GetBrush();
		brush = BrushManager::GetBrush(ID);
	}
	if (brush == nullptr)
		brush = m_defualtBrush;

	if(!background)
		m_bitmapRenderTarget->FillRectangle(s.GetRect(), brush.Get());

	m_backgroundRenderTarget->FillRectangle(s.GetRect(), brush.Get());

}

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Best Led Zeppelin Songs, Album by Album – Readers Poll
Eduardo Rivadavia
If any band can be credited with single-handedly shaping rock 'n' roll during the '70s, it's Led Zeppelin.
Originally coming together under the name the New Yardbirds in the late '60s, guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham blazed a dizzying path to world-conquering stardom and held on to their championship belt throughout the '70s.
The British quartet released nine, mostly irreproachable, albums during its lifetime, qualified by remarkable daring and vision, seemingly bottomless stores of imagination and the occasional blast of devastating bombast. All of which bound Zeppelin's career with an aesthetic thread that – in tandem with the band's incomparably intense concerts – made them the defining hard-rock band of the '70s, if not all time.
So with that in mind, let's dig into Led Zeppelin's catalog and choose our favorite songs from each of their hit studio albums. Ready? Let's do this.
Next: Pick the Best Song From the First Led Zeppelin Album
Filed Under: Led Zeppelin
Categories: Readers Poll

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Indian Wells Ficus Hedge Could Cost $10 Million
September 30, 2013 /in Arborist, Expert Witness Arborist/by Ruben Green
Indian Wells, California–It is hard to believe the lowly ficus could stir such controversy, but a hedge in Indian Wells may wind up with a $10 million pricetag, payable by the city.
The hedge has already cost the city a great deal of money, and now the litigants are fighting over attorney's fees. A civil rights suit has been filed in U.S. District Court that may wind up costing the city $10 million to settle. All of this for a simple ficus hedge? Yes–according to partners Doug Lawellin and Steve Rohlin, owners of a kitchenware store in Palm Desert.
How Did A Hedge Become The Center of Controversy?
The 26 feet tall, 83 feet long and 11 feet wide hedge was the "reason we bought" the home, according to Lawellin. However, a neighbor, Susan Aldridge, filed a complaint in 2011 stating that the hedge blocked her view of the mountains and wanted the top five feet taken off. The city had failed to enforce older hedge ordinances, but adopted a new ordinance to take care of the hedge issue. The protracted, lengthy legal battle that resulted has left everyone exhausted and resulted in the new battle for attorney's fees.
The controversy stemmed from the allegation that when the new ordinances were put in someone filed a new complaint on the neighbor's behalf against the rules requiring the neighbor to do it herself. When the city sent Lawellin a letter asking for the hedge to be cut down to 9 feet, he argued that the code was being selectively enforced.
Enter The Arborists . . .
In this case, a landscaper was also called in to testify. He said that the hedge had only a 15 percent chance of survival if it was cut so drastically. The city's arborist apparently agreed with this assessment, although the city denies that the arborist made such a statement. Eventually, the couple hired their own arborist who measured the height of the hedge at 26 feet and recommended that no more than one-third be removed annually to give the tree the best chance for survival. A horticultural journalist also noted that the adjacent property owners may need to make adjustments for their own plants due to sudden lack of shade, and birds may need to find new shelter.
A professional arborist may testify as an expert witness in such cases. The testimony of an arborist is often the defining factor that leads to a settlement or judgment in such a case. In this case, once the attorney's fees issue is worked out, it is to be hoped that the advice of the experts will be implemented to save the hedge and the habitat.
Source: My Desert, "Ficus Fracas: Indian Wells focus of $10M lawsuit," August 28, 2013.
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On Friday, I head out to Boston, not to the ALA Midwinter conference, but to Lesley University, where I will be a new faculty member in the Writing for Young People MFA program. I began my career teaching, and other than writing, it's the thing I feel most comfortable doing.
I have not talked about this new career move much. Not for lack of enthusiasm, but for an overabundance of feeling overwhelmed. 2015 was a stellar year. THE JUMBIES re-launched my writing career in ways I had not imagined one book could. I spent a lot of the spring through fall traveling to conferences, book events, and to schools (my favorite), talking to readers, teachers, and other writers. I met and befriended many authors who I admire and respect. I was asked to judge a Caribbean children's literature award, did several blog posts and videos for other sites, saw my novel selected for Scholastic Reading Club, and now I'm gearing up for conference proposals for 2016. There hasn't been a lot of time to talk or even think about residency at Lesley, other than preparing for my students.
But today, I'm packing. So I'm slightly panicked about being away from my family for a week and a half. My family is not so thrilled about me being away either, which makes it harder.
As I contemplate how little I can take for a 10-day trip (I am determined that everything fit in my usual carry-on), I'm going over what I have prepared for the next few days…meeting students, other faculty, teaching a seminar on how to begin a story, doing readings, working with students on their stories…and I realize I'm not worried about that part at all. I know how to do this. I know how to read a group and switch up a presentation if I have to. I know how to pull things out of students that they aren't sure they have in them.
What I am worried about is overdoing it, getting totally drained, and not having my family to re-energize me at the end of the day. So perhaps a small talisman would help.
When I return home, I go back to finishing up my next novel, working on freelance projects with publishers and individual clients through my Fairy Godauthor editing services, and doing school visits. (I still have plenty of spring slots open, btw.) But I will be more mindful of my personal time, which means I may refer some Fairy Godauthor clients to other editors or even to writing classes if I think that's what they need. And there are lots of good ones, like "Mothering as a Creative Act" offered at The Loft and taught by one of the loveliest and smartest people I know–Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich.
There's one more big project I have in mind for 2016–working on a novel writing workshop aimed at late elementary-middle school students. This is where my MA in Education and years of working for educational publishers will come to bear. I hope it will be something I can do as a writer in residence, or provide to teachers to use on their own. Either way, I'm excited at the prospect of teaching again, and digging into more education work–this time on my own terms.
The jumbie's out of the bag!
sounds like a wonderful year ahead. sending good thoughts and lots of creative energy your way! safe travels!
This is amazing! So happy for you and proud to know you!!
That's wonderful news! Keep up the great work. It will be a rewarding experience. I enjoyed talking to you briefly at the SCBWI-NJ spring conference last year.
Thanks Brenda! Maybe I'll see you again this year.


A colleague of mine often asks, "What's new with food?" The answer, at least for now, is quite a lot.
FDA is expected to finalize at least three significant rulemakings that affect food during 2003: the trans fat labeling rule; the food processing facility registration rule; and a rule requiring prior notification of food imported into the U.S. All three rulemakings are resource-intensive for FDA. Two of the rules, facility registration and import notification, were mandated by the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002. The trans fat labeling rule can be attributed, at least in part, to a petition filed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). In other words, the three rules are significant, but none originated with FDA.
Their origins reflect growing consumer and government interest in a range of issues, including food pathogens, food allergens, modified DNA, and acrylamide.
At the top of the regulatory trends list is a heightened interest in food safety, the result of several food scares that occurred in the past decade. These include an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in Western states in 1993, as well as many similar, albeit smaller, incidents since. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has famously estimated that 76 million cases of foodborne illness occur each year in the U.S., 5000 of them fatal.
What's being done about it? Generally, the response has been to give regulatory agencies greater control over food safety. This is happening both domestically and abroad. In Europe, where consumer confidence was rattled by Mad Cow Disease, France and the United Kingdom overhauled their food regulatory agencies. In the U.S., the President's Council on Food Safety was established by executive order in 1998 to better coordinate food safety among various federal agencies. There was talk about merging the Agriculture Department (USDA) with parts of FDA to create a single food agency, but the idea seems to have died down, at least for now.
In terms of concrete legal authority, some very significant changes were contained in the Bioterrorism Act. For the first time, FDA has authority to detain food suspected of being contaminated. More specifically, the Act states that an officer or qualified employee of FDA may order the detention of any food that is found or believed to present a serious health consequences, whether related to bioterrorism or not. Previously, FDA did not have the authority to detain food (other than food offered for import) short of a seizure action undertaken in cooperation with the Department of Justice.
What does this mean for food processors? Among other things, it means FDA inspectors might be poking around a little more closely for evidence of microbiological contamination or conditions that could lead to it. For instance, don't be surprised to see inspectors taking more environmental samples.
What are food processors doing in response? Many are increasingly adopting Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans to control food pathogens. Certain types of food processing facilities are required by regulation to follow HACCP plans, specifically those that process seafood, juice, meat, and poultry. Other segments are turning to HACCP voluntarily. In a nutshell, HACCP involves analyzing potential contamination hazards, identifying critical control points, and establishing preventive measures and a monitoring program.
If there's some good news in this, it may be that the incidence of foodborne illness is on the decline. The CDC recently announced a reduction in the incidence of foodborne bacterial illness since 1996.
Food manufacturers are also dealing with a heightened interest the potential presence of allergens in food. Undeclared allergens continue to result in the greatest number of food recalls. This situation occurs when an allergenic ingredient is accidentally added to a food or when a food is improperly labeled, so that the food doesn't accurately reflect the presence of a given allergenic substance.
These issues notwithstanding, some consumers feel that food labels could be improved to provide better information to individuals who suffer from food allergies. In 2002, legislation was introduced in Congress to amend the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act with regard to allergen labeling. The Act currently requires food labels to provide an accurate list of ingredients. The new provisions would mandate a listing of ingredients derived from defined allergenic sources, and in plain language that identifies the source, even when the ingredient or substance might otherwise be exempt from the ingredient listing requirement (e.g., as a processing aid or flavor). This bill was not adopted in the 107th Congress, and does not appear to be a high priority in the 108th Congress. The food industry, however, has taken note of consumer concerns regarding allergen labeling.
The investigation into acrylamide will continue in 2003 and probably beyond. It was discovered in 2002 that acrylamide, which is believed to be carcinogenic, apparently forms naturally in certain starchy foods when they are cooked at high temperatures. Thus far, FDA has not recommended that consumers change their diets to avoid acrylamide. FDA's action plan includes further research about the safety of acrylamide in the diet. Ultimately, one of two things will happen: (1) acrylamide won't be found to be as dangerous as previously thought, or (2) acrylamide will be reduced or eliminated from the diet.
If acrylamide is not exonerated, we can probably expect to see a greater focus on toxic substances that may occur naturally at low levels in food.
These recent moves seem to point toward more regulatory oversight and more interest in potentially harmful substances that may be present at low levels in food. This interest is likely to be fueled by developments in analytical testing. Testing laboratories are promoting their ability to test food for ingredients derived from genetically modified sources, pathogens, and pesticide residues. The bioterrorism legislation calls for the development of new test methods aimed at easily detecting dangerous contaminants intentionally added to food. In the not too distant future, don't be surprised to see the promotion of test kits that consumers can use at home to check food for allergens, GMOs, and pathogens.
For the past several decades, FDA and the food industry have enjoyed a cooperative relationship which has produced good results in terms of food safety. Hopefully, this will continue long into the future. It requires a significant amount of self-policing by the industry, and it also requires consumer confidence in the safety of the food supply. If we experience confidence-rattling food scares, Congress and FDA will be quick to announce responsive new measures to protect food safety. This would likely include a revival of the single food agency idea and a proposed new Food Safety Act that would serve as the authorizing legislation, complete with a wish- list of regulatory authority. All of this points to self-policing as the best way to avoid food scares and the best way to avoid excessive regulatory oversight.


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Asus ROG Azoth review: better than my custom gaming keyboard | Digital Trends
Asus ROG Azoth Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
"The Asus ROG Azoth ticks all the boxes of an enthusiast mechanical keyboard, and it still manages to impress."
Multipurpose OLED display
Sublime typing experience
Gasket mount design
Switch stabilizers
Switch lubing station included
North-facing PCB can present keycap issues
Stock NX switches aren't the best
I never thought I would prefer an off-the-shelf gaming keyboard over the custom mechanical keyboard I built last year. But here we are.
When Asus announced its ROG Azoth, I knew immediately it was one of my most anticipated products of the year. Based on the spec sheet, it's a piece of kit that sits among the best gaming keyboards you can buy. I didn't expect it to be better than a custom, enthusiast-grade mechanical keyboard, though, and it is. Still, there are a couple of minors areas I'd like to see Asus improve with a version two.
Enthusiast design, mainstream features
The look of the ROG Azoth is immediately recognizable to anyone in the world of enthusiast mechanical keyboards. It's a 75% design, following in the footsteps of the Glorious GMMK Pro and Drop Sense75. There are some critical changes, though.
The top is an aluminum frame, but there isn't aluminum all around the body like the GMMK Pro or Sense75. The Azoth is a hefty keyboard, but it's not nearly as heavy as these other enthusiast models due to its plastic bottom.
There's a good reason for plastic here. The defining feature of the Azoth is that it supports 2.4GHz low-latency wireless and Bluetooth in addition to a wired connection. There isn't another keyboard of the caliber of the Azoth that supports wireless, and that's mainly because it's hard to transmit a wireless signal through aluminum. Asus compromised, and I'm glad it did.
Battery life is exceptional too, even with the feature-rich OLED screen on the board. I started using the Azoth out of the box without charging (it arrived at about half battery). After a week of daily use, I only needed to charge it once, and I still have half the battery left as I'm typing this review.
Dream-like typing
The 75% form factor doesn't automatically make the Azoth an enthusiast keyboard, and Asus has a lot of justifying to do for the $250 list price. I'm not comparing the Azoth to keyboards like the Razer Huntman V2 — which is similarly as expensive — because it comes with the features and typing experience worthy of an enthusiast badge.
It uses a gasket mount, which was previously reserved for obscenely expensive keyboards like the Angry Miao Cyberboard R2. The plate is offset on silicon gaskets, which provide a soft cushion for your keystrokes and the satisfying thunk of a high-end mechanical keyboard.
Asus combines the gasket mount with stabilizers that make large keys like the space bar feel smooth no matter where you strike them, as well as plate foam to cut down on the metallic ping that's undesirable for mechanical keyboards. The result? A sublime typing experience that even high-end enthusiast keyboards can't rival.
The only exception are the switches. Asus includes its own NX switches, either in a red (linear), blue (clicky), or brown (tactile) variety. I used the brown switches, and they're better than the garden variety Cherry switches you find in keyboards like the Corsair K70 RGB Pro. The switches come pre-lubed, and they feel worthy of the price tag. But this a keyboard that demands upgrades, and those upgrades are where it shines.
The Azoth is fully customizable, and its real value lies in picking up some other switches and keycaps and making the keyboard your own. You can change out the switches with an included tool, similar to last year's Asus ROG Strix Flare II Animate.
I reached for some Akko Wine Red switches and a cheap set of keycaps I found on Amazon — overall, around a $50 upgrade — and it completely changed the typing experience. I still preferred my custom GMMK Pro with the stock configuration, but with a couple minor upgrades? It's hard ditching the Azoth.
I have a couple of minor issues here, though. For starters, the included keycaps aren't great. They're double-shot PBT and plenty durable, but Asus includes some weird additions. For example, you normally find a raised edge on the F and J keys to signal where your home row is, but Asus moves this to the W key instead. I understand that this is a gaming keyboard, but while playing games, the raised edge becomes an annoyance more than a helpful guide.
Another problem is that the Azoth uses a north-facing PCB. The RGB LEDs are at the top of the switch housing instead of the bottom. This is to allow the light to shine through translucent legends on the keycaps, but north-facing PCBs can interfere with certain keycaps and lead to a less-desirable sound and typing feel.
Even with those issues, there's no denying that Asus is pushing mainstream mechanical keyboards to a place they've never gone before, and I'm on board.
A functional OLED display
I'm not much for gimmicks on keyboards, but the OLED display on the ROG Azoth isn't a gimmick. It's a highly functional multipurpose hub that makes it a breeze to cycle through settings, change your brightness, and add a bit of flair to your desk.
On the side, there's a switch that you can toggle up and down to change volume, adjust brightness, etc. You can also press down on it for another function and use a button on the side for yet another. Combined, you can cycle through media controls, brightness settings, and lighting effects with a few clicks.
You can customize these functions in Asus' Armoury Crate, too. The OLED display goes much further and can display custom animations, text, and even some limited system information like your CPU and temperature. All these settings are stored in a profile, and you can store up to six profiles on board, too.
This is the kind of mainstream functionality you just don't find on an enthusiast keyboard. Asus is bringing the best of both worlds together here.
The gaming keyboard to beat
Even with everything I covered in this review, the Azoth brings even more features, including MacOS support and a lubing station for your key switches. Asus is beating enthusiast keyboards on the feature front and mainstream keyboards on the quality front.
What's shocking is that Asus isn't charging much of a premium, as $250 isn't cheap for a gaming keyboard. That's the same price as the Corsair K100 and $50 more than the SteelSeries Apex Pro. You're getting a far higher-quality keyboard with the Asus ROG Azoth for that price.
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Q: How do I include related model fields using Django Rest Framework? Let's say that we have the following model:
class Classroom(models.Model):
    room_number = [...]

class Teacher(models.Model):
    name = [...]
    tenure = [...]
    classroom = models.ForeignKey(Classroom)

Let's say that instead of getting a result like this per the ManyRelatedPrimaryKeyField function:
{
    "room_number": "42",
    "teachers": [
        27,
        24,
        7
    ]
},

have it return something that includes the full related model representation like:
{
    "room_number": "42",
    "teachers": [
        {
           'id': 27,
           'name': 'John',
           'tenure': True
        },
        {
           'id': 24,
           'name': 'Sally',
           'tenure': False
        },
    ]
},

Is this possible? If so, how? And is this a bad idea?

A: This can also be accomplished by using a pretty handy dandy django packaged called drf-flex-fields.  We use it and it's pretty awesome. You just install it pip install drf-flex-fields, pass it through your serializer, add expandable_fields and bingo (example below). It also allows you to specify deep nested relationships by using dot notation.
from rest_flex_fields import FlexFieldsModelSerializer

class ClassroomSerializer(FlexFieldsModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Model
        fields = ("teacher_set",)
        expandable_fields = {"teacher_set": (TeacherSerializer, {"source": "teacher_set"})}

Then you add ?expand=teacher_set to your URL and it returns an expanded response.
Hope this helps someone, someday. Cheers!

A: Thank you @TomChristie!!!
You helped me a lot!
I would like to update that a little (because of a mistake I ran into)
class TeacherSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Teacher
        fields = ('id', 'name', 'tenure')

class ClassroomSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    teachers = TeacherSerializer(source='teacher_set', many=True)

    class Meta:
        model = Classroom
        field = ("teachers",)

A: The simplest way is to use the depth argument
class ClassroomSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Classroom
        depth = 1

However, that will only include relationships for forward relationships, which in this case isn't quite what you need, since the teachers field is a reverse relationship.
If you've got more complex requirements (eg. include reverse relationships, nest some fields, but not others, or nest only a specific subset of fields) you can nest serializers, eg...
class TeacherSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Teacher
        fields = ('id', 'name', 'tenure')

class ClassroomSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    teachers = TeacherSerializer(source='teacher_set')

    class Meta:
        model = Classroom

Note that we use the source argument on the serializer field to specify the attribute to use as the source of the field.  We could drop the source argument by instead making sure the teachers attribute exists by using the related_name option on your Teacher model, ie. classroom = models.ForeignKey(Classroom, related_name='teachers')
One thing to keep in mind is that nested serializers do not currently support write operations.  For writable representations, you should use regular flat representations, such as pk or hyperlinking.

A: Thanks to @TomChristie and @Paolo

I would just like to add a clarification, the below code works fine but the person has to remember to add the related_name="teacher_set" attribute to the Model Teacher. In this case here is the complete code :

models.py
class Classroom(models.Model):
    room_number = [...]

class Teacher(models.Model):
    name = [...]
    tenure = [...]
    classroom = models.ForeignKey(Classroom, related_name='teacher_set')

Note: related_name='teacher_set' to the classroom field.
serializers.py
class TeacherSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Teacher
        fields = ('id', 'name', 'tenure')

class ClassroomSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    teachers = TeacherSerializer(source='teacher_set', many=True)

    class Meta:
        model = Classroom
        field = ("teachers",)

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Vassili Pavlovitch Michine (en ), né en 1917 à Byvalino près de Moscou et mort le  à Moscou, est un ingénieur russe qui a participé au développement des premières fusées soviétiques. Bras droit de Sergueï Korolev à compter de 1946, il participe dans les années 1950 et 1960 à la conception des premières fusées soviétiques, d'abord pour des applications militaires, puis dans le cadre du programme spatial habité. Lorsque Korolev décède en 1966, il prend sa succession. Il se retrouve à la tête de plusieurs projets de grande taille alors que l'astronautique soviétique entame son déclin, victime de sa désorganisation et de son manque de moyens. Le  développement de la capsule spatiale Soyouz comme celui du lanceur géant N-1 sont marqués par des défaillances à répétition. Le Programme lunaire habité soviétique n'obtient pas le succès escompté face au programme Apollo. Il n'a pas plus de chance avec la mise au point de la station spatiale Saliout. À la suite des échecs du lanceur N-1, il est contraint de quitter son poste en 1974 tandis que le programme lunaire habité soviétique est arrêté. Il abandonne toute activité spatiale et consacre les 15 années suivantes de sa vie à l'enseignement. Son rôle dans le programme spatial est tenu secret par les autorités de même que l'existence du programme lunaire. Son nom et l'histoire de cette période ne sont portés à la connaissance du public soviétique et des occidentaux qu'en 1989 au moment de la glasnost.

Formation
Michine nait le  à Byualino non loin de Moscou. Il a un frère et une sœur qui décèdent dans leur enfance et il est élevé par son grand-père lorsque son père est envoyé en prison pour ne pas avoir dénoncé l'auteur d'une plaisanterie sur Staline. Après la libération de son père, il déménage à Moscou. En 1935 il a la chance de pouvoir entrer à l'âge de 18 ans  à l'Institut aérospatial de Moscou. Il est considéré comme un étudiant particulièrement brillant. Il effectue le stage validant son parcours universitaire au bureau d'études de V.F. Bolkhovitinov qui comme le  NII-3 travaille sur les fusées. Michine est également connu à l'époque pour avoir été un des premiers pilotes d'avions d'Union Soviétique à maitriser la technique permettant de démarrer un avion sans assistance extérieure. En 1941 il intègre le bureau de Bolkhovitinov et travaille sur l'avion-fusée BI-1 qui effectue son premier vol en 1942. Michine, spécialiste des systèmes de pilotage, est l'un des ingénieurs chargé d'évaluer le programme de fusées allemand après la défaite du régime nazi en 1945. Il se fait remarquer par sa capacité à déduire le fonctionnement d'un système complexe à partir de quelques débris. Le passé de son père constitue toutefois un handicap et ses déplacements sont systématiquement contrôlés.

Adjoint de Sergueï Korolev (1946-1966)
Lorsque Sergueï Korolev crée en 1946 son célèbre bureau d'études OKB-1, il choisit comme adjoint Michine qui devient son homme de confiance. Celui-ci va constituer un soutien efficace dans la difficile lutte que Korolev va mener pour imposer ses idées visionnaires. En 1959 il est chargé par Korolev de développer le missile balistique R-9 Desna qui bien qu'utilisant des ergols cryogéniques peut être lancé en moins de 15 minutes. Le projet est un succès technique mais du fait de son cout il ne sera construit qu'à un petit nombre d'exemplaires.

Responsable du programme spatial habité (1966-1974)

Quand Korolev meurt en 1966, son poste est proposé à plusieurs de ses adjoints qui déclinent tous l'offre. Michine accepte de prendre la place de son mentor à la tête de l'ensemble du programme spatial habité soviétique. Si Michine connait parfaitement tous les rouages du programme et est reconnu pour ses connaissances techniques, son intelligence et sa capacité à identifier les solutions, son caractère abrupt le rend peu populaire auprès de ses pairs. Contrairement à Korolev, il n'a pas le sens politique et préfère laisser pourrir les situations de blocage plutôt que de tenter de convaincre ou de trouver un compromis.

Michine se retrouve chargé de poursuivre le travail sur le lanceur N-1 développé en secret par les soviétiques, en réponse projet Apollo des États-Unis. Mais il a également sous sa responsabilité le développement du vaisseau spatial Soyouz dans deux versions complètement différentes, de l'atterrisseur lunaire L3 et de la station spatiale Saliout. L'astronautique soviétique entame à l'époque une phase de déclin. La mise au point du vaisseau Soyouz se passe mal. Mis sous pression par les dirigeants soviétiques Michine décide de lancer une capsule Soyouz qui n'est pas au point avec un cosmonaute à bord qui périra au retour sur Terre victime d'une défaillance du parachute. Le premier équipage qui occupe la première station spatiale soviétique périt également lors du voyage de retour, victime d'une dépressurisation de la cabine. Michine fait face à des objectifs impossibles à tenir. Il boit et est parfois absent lors de réunions importantes.  La fusée N-1, développée dans la hâte en utilisant des solutions techniques non optimales, est lancée à quatre reprises entre 1969 et 1972 mais tous les lancements sont des échecs. Entre-temps la NASA a atteint son objectif et a réussi à poser le premier  homme sur la Lune en 1969. Le  Michine est remplacé à la tête du programme spatial habité soviétique par Valentin Glouchko, le vieil ennemi de son mentor Korolev. Glouchko, avec le soutien du  ministre de tutelle Dimitri Oustinov, décide l'abandon du développement du lanceur et l'arrêt du programme lunaire.

Reconversion dans l'enseignement

En quittant son poste Michine a du jurer, comme tous ses collaborateurs, de ne rien révéler du programme lunaire habité soviétique. Après avoir refusé l'aide de Léonid Brejnev, qui proposait de lui trouver un emploi, il devient professeur en techniques spatiales à l'Institut aérospatial de Moscou. Il ne joue plus aucun rôle dans le programme spatial même s'il conçoit deux satellites pour radio-amateurs dans le cadre de sa fonction d'enseignant. Son rôle dans le programme spatial est officiellement complètement passé sous silence : Valentin Glouchko qui contrôle à l'époque l'ensemble des publications historiques sur l'ère spatiale a fait en sorte qu'il ne soit jamais mentionné. Les spécialistes occidentaux dans les années 1970/1980 supposent généralement que Korolev a été remplacé après son décès par  Mikhail Yangel ou Vladimir Tchelomeï. Ce n'est qu'avec la glasnost que la vérité apparait. Le programme lunaire est révélé par une obscure revue soviétique en  qui publie quelques extraits du journal que tenait Nicolaï Kamanine responsable de l'entrainement des cosmonautes. Peu après de nombreuses publications et articles rendent compte du programme et le rôle de Michine est dévoilé au grand public et aux occidentaux. Michine accorde alors de nombreux interviews dans lesquels il a des mots durs pour ceux qui l'ont réduit au silence et est très critique sur l'état du programme spatial russe contemporain. En 1993 il met en vente le journal qu'il tenait ; celui-ci est acheté pour  $ par la fondation Perot ; certains extraits sont désormais visibles au Musée National de l'Air et de l'Espace à Washington.  Michine décède à Moscou le  à l'âge de 84 ans.

Jugement porté par la postérité

Beaucoup d'historiens estiment que Michine porte une part de responsabilité personnelle dans l'échec du programme lunaire et le déclin du programme spatial soviétique. Michine avait un caractère impulsif et n'avait pas la capacité à convaincre les décideurs et à mobiliser ses équipes qui constituait une des forces majeures de Korolev. Il a poursuivi la politique de Korolev en bataillant pour conserver le monopole sur le programme spatial habité : il a fait en sorte de récupérer le programme de station spatiale militaire Almaz ainsi que le projet de mission circumlunaire (programme Zond) alors qu'il avait du mal à faire face aux échéances des projets qui lui étaient déjà confiés.  Mais Michine, à la mort de Korolev, s'est retrouvé face à des échéances difficiles voire impossibles à tenir. Le lanceur N-1 n'était pas capable de lancer le train lunaire et il a fallu mettre au point de nombreux artifices pour augmenter suffisamment sa charge utile afin qu'il puisse remplir son rôle. Le programme lunaire habité soviétique a démarré trois ans après celui de la NASA. Alors que celle-ci s'appuyait sur une demi-douzaine de grandes entreprises pour développer les composants de ce programme, l'OKB-1 dirigé par Michine a du prendre en charge l'ensemble des taches de conception.

Œuvres
Michine a publié en 1993 un ouvrage intitulé Pourquoi nous ne sommes pas allés sur la Lune dans lequel il décrit le programme lunaire russe et le rôle qu'il a joué dans son développement.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Sergueï Korolev
 N-1
 Soyouz
 Saliout
 Programme lunaire habité soviétique

Liens externes

Personnalité du programme spatial de l'Union soviétique
Ingénieur soviétique
Ingénieur aéronautique
Ingénieur astronautique
Exploration de l'espace
Naissance en janvier 1917
Décès en octobre 2001
Décès à 84 ans
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière Troïekourovskoïe

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Federal Reserve last month saw a declining risk of recession
FILE – In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell arrives to speak at a news conference after the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington. On Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, the Federal Reserve releases minutes from its December meeting when it kept its key interest rate unchanged. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve's policymaking committee saw much less risk of recession at its meeting last month, when it kept interest rates steady after three straight cuts and signaled that it expected to keep low rates unchanged through this year.
Minutes of the December meeting, released Friday, showed that Fed officials favored keeping rates in a low range of 1.5% to 1.75% to cushion the U.S. economy from slow global growth and the Trump administration's trade conflicts. Officials were also concerned that inflation still hadn't reached the Fed's target level of 2%.
Still, many Fed policymakers at the Dec. 10-11 meeting expressed the view that the risks of a U.S.-China trade war had diminished along with the probability of a disruptive Brexit. The meeting occurred two days before the Trump administration and Beijing reached a preliminary trade deal, though press reports had already suggested that an initial agreement was near.
At their meeting last month, Fed officials noted that the U.S. economy was "showing resilience" despite the trade fights and a weak global economy, the minutes said. A rise in long-term rates also "suggested that the likelihood of a recession occurring over the medium term had fallen noticeably in recent months."
Since last month's meeting, though, tensions have escalated in the Middle East as the Trump administration has confronted Iranian-backed forces in Iraq. On Friday, stocks sank on Wall Street and oil prices jumped after U.S. forces in Iraq killed a top Iranian general.
Yet many analysts say higher oil prices could potentially benefit the U.S. economy because of the sharp increase in the past decade in U.S. oil production. Higher oil prices encourage energy companies to invest in drilling wells, which boosts demand for steel pipe and other equipment from U.S. factories and creates jobs. Those trends increasingly offset the drag on consumer spending exerted by higher gas prices.
Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at the tax advisory firm RSM, suggested that the risks to the U.S. economy "are, for now, contained."
"As a result, we do not expect any action by the Federal Reserve," Brusuelas said. "There would need to be a much greater disruption to oil supply from the Persian Gulf to warrant a rate cut by the Fed in the near term."
But should Iran respond to the attack and military action escalates, the danger to the U.S. economy could increase, economists said.
"The wild card is whether turmoil in the Middle East triggers a sustained sell-off in equities, depressing business and consumer confidence to the point where labor market and inflation concerns become secondary," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Though the Fed's policymaking committee voted unanimously last month in favor of keeping rates unchanged, several members voiced concerns about the long-term consequences of very low rates.
Keeping rates ultra-low could fuel excessive risk-taking on Wall Street, a few participants warned, which could lead to dangerous asset bubbles. If those bubbles were to burst, it "could make the next recession more severe than otherwise."
But a greater number of Fed officials felt that the job market could still strengthen and draw more people off the sidelines into jobs, without sending inflation up too much. That sentiment would favor keeping rates low to further reduce unemployment and stimulate economic growth.
Chairman Jerome Powell echoed that view in the post-meeting news conference, signaling that the Fed was comfortable with keeping rates low for the foreseeable future.
"We have learned that unemployment can remain at quite low levels for an extended period of time without unwanted upward pressure on inflation," Powell said at the news conference.
Fed officials also expressed concern that Americans' expectation for future inflation "was too low."
Inflation expectations, some argue, can become self-fulfilling: If workers expect low inflation, they're less likely to demand higher pay, which, in turn, allows companies to keep a lid on prices.
Low inflation expectations are another reason for the Fed to keep rates down, in hopes that they will eventually boost inflation.
In comments since the December meeting, Fed officials have remained upbeat about the economy's prospects.
In remarks titled "Is a Recession Around the Corner," Thomas Barkin, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, said he was concerned about the weakness in business investment, which he attributed to uncertainty caused by factors ranging from rising Middle East tensions to the outcome of trade talks with China. But he said there were reasons to be optimistic, including the benefits of the Fed's three rate cuts last year.
"While there is always the risk of a shock, the Fed has done a lot to support the economy's continued expansion and to provide buffers against the downside," Barkin said in comments to a bankers' association meeting in Baltimore.
AP Economics Writer Martin Crutsinger contributed to this report.
by DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press / Jan 21, 2021
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bankis looking at a darkening picture for the economy as infections and deaths surge. With more than a trillion euros of pandemic stimulus still in the pipeline, President Christine Lagarde is expected to underline Thursday that the bank has the means keep credit affordable and support the hoped-for recovery.
Spiking virus totals have led Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, to extend restrictions on many businesses involving contact with the public until Feb. 14, while Portugal hit a record for new COVID-19 infections and France imposed a 6 p.m. curfew. Vaccination rollouts have been slower than many would like.
by YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press / Jan 21, 2021
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Thursday on optimism over the new U.S. administration that earlier set off a rally on Wall Street.
Hopes are high that President Joe Biden's administration will mean more support for the struggling U.S. economy, starting a recovery that's crucial for the export-driven Asian region.
by MARTIN CRUTINGER, Associated Press / Jan 20, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that Didem Nisanci will serve as Janet Yellen's chief of staff once Yellen is confirmed by the Senate.
Nisanci, who most recently served as global head of public policy at Bloomberg L.P., was previously the chief of staff for the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Obama-Biden administration.


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package com.heliosapm.metrichub.speedment.tsdb.public_.tsd_knownservers.generated;

import com.heliosapm.metrichub.speedment.tsdb.public_.tsd_knownservers.TsdKnownservers;
import com.heliosapm.metrichub.speedment.tsdb.public_.tsd_knownservers.TsdKnownserversImpl;
import com.speedment.common.injector.annotation.ExecuteBefore;
import com.speedment.runtime.config.identifier.TableIdentifier;
import com.speedment.runtime.core.component.sql.SqlPersistenceComponent;
import com.speedment.runtime.core.component.sql.SqlStreamSupplierComponent;
import com.speedment.runtime.core.exception.SpeedmentException;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import javax.annotation.Generated;
import static com.speedment.common.injector.State.RESOLVED;
import static com.speedment.runtime.core.internal.util.sql.ResultSetUtil.*;

/**
 * The generated Sql Adapter for a {@link
 * com.heliosapm.metrichub.speedment.tsdb.public_.tsd_knownservers.TsdKnownservers}
 * entity.
 * <p>
 * This file has been automatically generated by Speedment. Any changes made to
 * it will be overwritten.
 *
 * @author Speedment
 */
@Generated("Speedment")
public abstract class GeneratedTsdKnownserversSqlAdapter {

    private final TableIdentifier<TsdKnownservers> tableIdentifier;

    protected GeneratedTsdKnownserversSqlAdapter() {
        this.tableIdentifier = TableIdentifier.of("tsdb", "public", "tsd_knownservers");
    }

    @ExecuteBefore(RESOLVED)
    void installMethodName(SqlStreamSupplierComponent streamSupplierComponent, SqlPersistenceComponent persistenceComponent) {
        streamSupplierComponent.install(tableIdentifier, this::apply);
        persistenceComponent.install(tableIdentifier);
    }

    protected TsdKnownservers apply(ResultSet resultSet) throws SpeedmentException{
        final TsdKnownservers entity = createEntity();
        try {
            entity.setHost(resultSet.getString(1));
            entity.setPort(resultSet.getInt(2));
            entity.setUp(resultSet.getString(3));
            entity.setUri(resultSet.getString(4));
            entity.setCreated(resultSet.getTimestamp(5));
            entity.setLastUpdate(getTimestamp(resultSet, 6));
        } catch (final SQLException sqle) {
            throw new SpeedmentException(sqle);
        }
        return entity;
    }

    protected TsdKnownserversImpl createEntity() {
        return new TsdKnownserversImpl();
    }
}


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02 August, 2018 — By Steve Barnett
Nevaeh Thomas and Jack Gentili-Walsh with sensei Raphael Veras at the World Youth Karate Championships
KARATE kids Nevaeh Thomas and Jack Gentili-Walsh couldn't hide their smiles after striking success at the World Youth Karate Championships in Croatia.
The duo, who train at the Veras Academy, were part of an eight-strong squad who travelled to Umag to take part in the prestigious competition-
After a series of nail-biting fights, Jack was crowned champion in the Under-12s age group in his weight category, while Nevaeh scooped silver in her Under-12s event. "These kids have worked extremely hard for this and it is with great pride that I watched them take gold and silver," said their sensei, Raphael Veras.
"They faced some incredible karatekas but this is what they have worked for, and their hard work has paid off."


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Q: (react-native realm) undefined is not an object (evaluating '_realm.Realm.schemaVersion') I use realm(0.13.2) before with nothing wrong.
But when I update the plugin to realm(1.2.0),It happend:
undefined is not an object (evaluating '_realm.Realm.schemaVersion')

configureRealm
configure.js:14:19

and configure.js,line 14:
var next = Realm.schemaVersion(Realm.defaultPath);

What's wrong?

A: I find that realm has default export.
so,I just should change my import code
from
import {Realm} from 'realm'; to
import Realm from 'realm';


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Top cities between San Francisco and Sedona
Best stops along San Francisco to Sedona drive
40 Best Stops Between San Francisco and Sedona
How long is the drive from San Francisco to Sedona?
The direct drive from San Francisco to Sedona is 787 mi (1267 km), and should have a drive time of 12 hrs 5 mins in normal traffic.
If you're going on a road trip from San Francisco to Sedona, we did the research for you and compiled some great stops along the way — with Los Angeles, Monterey, Greater Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Williams, Palm Springs, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and Boulder City and top places to visit like Winchester Mystery House and Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, or the ever-popular Stanford University.
The top cities between San Francisco and Sedona are Los Angeles, Monterey, Greater Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Williams, Palm Springs, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and Boulder City. Los Angeles is the most popular city on the route — it's 6 hours from San Francisco and 7 hours from Sedona.
San Jose is a large city surrounded by rolling hills in Silicon Valley, a major technology hub in California's Bay Area. Architectural landmarks, from the 1883 Italianate-style Oddfellows building to Spanish Colonial Revival structures, make up the downtown historic district. The downtown area is also home to the Tech Museum of Innovation, devoted to the exploration of science and technology.
4% as popular as Los Angeles
14 minutes off the main route, 6% of way to Sedona
Santa Cruz is a city on central California's coast. Its long wharf, with eateries and shops, stretches into Monterey Bay. Nearby, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's vintage rides include the 1911 Looff Carousel and the Giant Dipper roller coaster. Downtown, Pacific Avenue has vintage clothing stores, cafes and galleries. Along West Cliff Drive, Natural Bridges State Beach is known for its bridge-shaped rock formation.
35 minutes off the main route, 10% of way to Sedona
Sacramento, capital of the U.S. state of California, lies at the confluence of the Sacramento River and American River. The district of Old Sacramento harkens back to the city's Gold Rush era, with wooden sidewalks and wagon rides. One of several museums in Old Sacramento, the California State Railroad Museum depicts the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, one of the country's earliest technological feats.
Monterey is a city on California's rugged central coast. Its Cannery Row, one-time center of the sardine-packing industry, was immortalized by novelist John Steinbeck. Today, it's a popular strip of gift shops, seafood restaurants and bars in converted factories. Also famous is Monterey Bay Aquarium, with thousands of marine animals and plants on display in underwater and interactive exhibits.
15% as popular as Los Angeles
Santa Barbara is a city on the central California coast, with the Santa Ynez Mountains as dramatic backdrop. Downtown, Mediterranean-style white stucco buildings with red-tile roofs reflect the city's Spanish colonial heritage. Upscale boutiques and restaurants offering local wines and seasonal fare line State Street. On a nearby hill, Mission Santa Barbara, founded in 1786, houses Franciscan friars and a museum.
1 hour off the main route, 39% of way to Sedona
On 11 lists
Los Angeles is a sprawling Southern California city and the center of the nation's film and television industry. Near its iconic Hollywood sign, studios such as Paramount Pictures, Universal and Warner Brothers offer behind-the-scenes tours. On Hollywood Boulevard, TCL Chinese Theatre displays celebrities' hand- and footprints, the Walk of Fame honors thousands of luminaries and vendors sell maps to stars' homes.
Greater Palm Springs Film Office
Palm Springs, a city in the Sonoran Desert of southern California, is known for its hot springs, stylish hotels, golf courses and spas. It's also noted for its many fine examples of midcentury-modern architecture. Its core shopping district along Palm Canyon Drive features vintage boutiques, interior design shops and restaurants. The surrounding Coachella Valley offers hiking, biking and horseback riding trails.
Boulder City is a city in Clark County, Nevada. It is approximately 26 miles southeast of Las Vegas. As of the 2010 census, the population of Boulder City was 15,023.
The community took its name from Boulder Canyon. Boulder City is one of only two cities in Nevada that prohibits gambling.
Williams is a city in northern Arizona. It's known as a gateway to Grand Canyon National Park via the Grand Canyon Railway. Historic Route 66 has Americana-style shops and restaurants dating back to the early 1900s. It's home to the Route 66 Zipline and Pete's Route 66 Gas Station Museum, featuring highway memorabilia. To the east, Bearizona Wildlife Park has bears, mountain goats, bison and birds of prey.
2 minutes off the main route, 89% of way to Sedona
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Iowa: Young People Just Made History /
Iowa: Young People Just Made History
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) just compiled the youth turnout numbers in Iowa from three sources -- CNN.com, Washington Post and The New York Times - and they are astounding.
The Iowa youth turnout rate has almost tripled since 2000. Participation of youth under 30 rose from 3 percent in 2000 to 11 percent in 2008. The turnout rate for those 30 and above was 15 percent. Among 17- to 29-year-old Democrats, 57 percent supported the winner, Barack Obama, and among 17- to 29-year-old Republicans, 40 percent supported the winner, Mike Huckabee, according to CNN's entrance poll.
Young Iowans and young activists working in Iowa made history today. National commentators have consistently ignored increases in youth voting since 2000. Like a broken record, the often repeated sentiments about youth apathy are both tiresome and woefully inaccurate. Today's vote will have profound implications on public perceptions about youth engagement.
While Iowa is just the beginning of a long race in which youth turnout will continue to be interrogated more skeptically than that of other demographics, the monumental change is that youth participation will be on the national agenda. The youth vote will no longer be dismissed and ignored - and that's a historic victory for all youth organizers.
"Tonight showed that candidates who court young voters will win elections," said Heather Smith, executive director of Rock the Vote in a press release. "This is the first year the leading Democratic candidates all have a Youth Director and young voter outreach programs," noted Jane Fleming Kleeb, Executive Director of the Young Voter PAC. "The turnout numbers of young people prove if you target young people they vote."


Far Out There is so far in the future that even a machine that runs on a giant glowing brain in a jar can somehow look really vintage.
At some point (I think it was a previous Christmas series?) I mentioned in the comments that I thought Megaweapon probably has a really heavenly singing voice, but he's usually too much of a brat to actually put it to good use. Looks like that's actually canon now! ...assuming these comics actually count. I mean, this series has been WAAAAY less continuity-shattering than the Christmas stuff usually is, so I guess there's not much reason not to assume that.
Also, YAY! A comic that's done before noon! Let's see if we can keep this trend alive a little longer than last time!
Is that Vashti? If so, then excluding TV screens and album covers, is this the first time she's ever actually appeared in the comic?
It is, and Vashti HAS appeared in the flesh before... but they were all other Christmas pages like this one. She's hasn't made a non-media-related appearance in a regular comic... YET.
Somehow Megawapon gets a lot of mention at Xmas?
I don't think it matters what season you film Megaweapon in, Ms. Vashti, he doesn't have a good season. It's like asking which is the best season to have shingles. Ugh.


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Q: Checkding and de-registering document.ready() callbacks In JQuery, it is possible to register a document.ready() listener by doing?
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*Is there anyway to deregister that callback?

*Is there anyway to check what callbacks are configured for the document.ready() event?

A: You cannot deregister $(document).ready(func)
But you can use a trick like this,
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May 23, 2016 1:05pm by David Farrar
Isn't this what the left call dirty politics
NBR reports:
The commercial fishing industry has accused a German activist-academic of waging a "determined anti-fishing agenda" in events surrounding the release of a research paper this week.
The University of Auckland research paper,Reconstruction of Marine Fisheries Catches for New Zealand (1950-2010), also known as the Simmons report after its lead author, was embargoed for release at 9.30am on Monday.
(NBR did not receive a copy of the report but was alerted to it after a flurry of media statements supporting it from the Greens, etc.)
All the opposition parties had their statements ready to go, indicating that the academics involved had been working with them on it by giving them advance copies.
Seafood NZ chief executive Tim Pankhurst says the report was widely circulated among opposition parties and Greenpeace at the weekend. He issued a detailed response soon after the embargo was lifted.
I don't have a problem with this, but when others do it, some on the left call it dirty politics.
Mr Pankhurst says the German environmental organisation NABU was aware of the Simmons report's contents a month before its release and told Seafood NZ as much.
Its spokeswoman, Dr Barbara Maas, visited Seafood NZ on April 14 and warned she also had evidence of alleged collusion between the MPI and the fishing industry; that she had a copy of an internal MPI document allegedly confirming that there was reference to it in the Simmons report; and she would make her claims public when the report was released.
"She further claimed she had 105 international conservation organisations ready to back a call for a boycott of New Zealand seafood if dolphin protection was not increased," Mr Pankhurst says.
"Dr Maas first called for such a boycott in 2012 and again in 2014 but gained no traction, given the extensive protections in place and no Maui [dolphin] captures.
Dr Maas has been trying to get a boycott against the NZ fishing industry for years and years – at least seven. And the media report this as something new, as we see in the Herald:
Fast food giant McDonald's has been being urged to stop sourcing its fish from New Zealand waters following the leak of a confidential report which revealed the unreported capture of a rare dolphin.
The leaked report of an investigation in 2013 by the Ministry for Primary Industries, titled Operation Achilles, also revealed New Zealand fishing boats had illegally dumped large amounts of healthy fish — a finding which prompted the ministry to launch an inquiry this week.
McDonald's sources some of its fish for the Filet'O'Fish burger from New Zealand waters, and environmental campaigners are now urging it to drop New Zealand fish from its menus.
"We are not attacking McDonald's," Nabu International spokeswoman Barbara Maas said. "They have a huge opportunity here to do the right thing and bring about some real change in the New Zealand fishing industry — they could say they saved the Maui's dolphins, and how good would that be for their brand?"
The group will soon launch a campaign which includes billboards with the message: "Buy New Zealand Fish Get Dead Maui's Dolphin Free."
All part of the co-ordinated campaign against the NZ fishing industry.
NBR continue:
"The Seafood NZ response to Dr Maas' latest claims was that it was beholden on her to produce evidence of such serious allegations. Her threats amounted to economic sabotage, if not blackmail."
Egged on by opposition parties.
Opposition parties may look silly over Police complaints
NBR v SFO
Government by decree
Adolf Fiinkensein
The job killer Greens at it again.
Commentor
I'm not usually a McD consumer but "Dr" Maas has inspired me to trot up the road to get a couple of of Fillet'O'Fish burgers for lunch.
and next week as well.
blazeoflight
I would have thought a compliment is in order for 'the left' (aka evidence based policy advisors) finally picking up on one of the dirty politics crowd's (mainly lying scumbags) most successful strategies, albeit with a brickbat for being so slow on the uptake!
Don the Kiwi
Sue the bastards for defamation if they can't produce evidence.
No dpf, dirty politics is when blogs run PR pieces by lobbyists (sometimes for money) as if they were their own work. That's why it's dirty – the blogs weren't being honest about who their masters were. I don't see that in the situation you describe.
As per usual this is Dirty Media as well as Dirty Politics.
It's different when the left do it !
Caine9
Let me guess. If the fishing industry goes pear-shaped and lots of people lose their jobs, it will be the National party's fault? These jokers really are stupid.
Look what happen with the power company shares,Labour and the Greens have no morals when it comes down to wanting Power and they say they want to help lift the standard of living for NZers
wikiriwhis business
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National Party president is definitely dirty politics and probably very criminal
Ex Nat Rotorua MP Max Bradford is profiting hugely over his strategy of privatising power companies after the treason laws were taken away in 1989.
You think people don't know anything
For a moment, set aside concern about the big fishing vessels, sometimes manned with slave labour.
The Greenies with their nets ban and restrictions have already decimated the country's inshore fishing industry. This has hit the small-boat industry that supplied fish and chip shops in Australia as well as New Zealand.
The Greenies don't seem to mind about, partly in place of our inshore harvest, farmed fish coming in from Vietnam. There are doubts about Vietnam water-farm purity and with the use of chemicals and fish-food that probably are banned from NZ aquatic farms.
NZ families that for generations have fished inshore have been hard hit.
stephen2d
wikiriwhis: I hope you can afford a good lawyer for that statement.
Pretty hard to do . Politicians, esp govts stay out of court as much as humanly possible to avoid tricky questions
Maui's dolphins are prone to getting caught by set nets, and there are substantial bans on set netting in areas of the dolphins' territory as a consequence. No Maui dolphin has ever been caught in a trawl net.
Furthermore their whole "critically endangered" status is dependent upon the belief that they are actually a separate species than the Hector's dolphin (and not just a northern based tribe of the Hector's dolphin….)
What is it with Krauts wanting to have their say on how everything should be done in New Zealand? Who won the bloody war anyway?
Yoza
This isn't 'dirty politics', it's whistle blowing. These private corporations are decimating our fishing stocks with the collusion of government departments, this is state sanctioned environmental vandalism on an industrial scale.
'Dirty politics', …pfft.
peterwn
So presumably they think calling on suburban fish and chip shops to stop selling NZ fish will cost *real* jobs and create a public backlash. Far easier to pick in McDonalds etc.
Won't need one as I quoted above. No politician goes to court and his corrupt story has been all over the media.
There aer bigger fish than me who would like to get him in court if it was possible
Yoza (2,852 comments) says:
This isn't 'dirty politics', it's whistle blowing.
Noted.
Dirty Politics when the right does it.
Whistle Blowing when the left does it.
The left see plots and conspiracies everywhere because that is how they operate.
Try harder RRM, what exactly is the parallel between this and Nicky Hager's book, Dirty Politics?
Is this one of those situations where we eventually find out that the substance of the Greenies complaints is completely made up?
Who wants to be against there having been no rare dolphins hurt at all, let alone killed?
iPredict used to have markets on "the Greens are lying about X", but it shut down as no-one was willing to take the other side.
" These private corporations are decimating our fishing stocks with the collusion of government departments, this is state sanctioned environmental vandalism on an industrial scale."
What an absolute load of rubbish Yoza. You haven't got a clue what you are talking about.
The Government via MPI ( and it's predecessor Departments) and NIWA have always worked very closely with the Seafood Industry –that is the only way the Quota system can work at a practical level. There is NO collusion. There disagreements at times but they are worked through and agreements reached. Like any system it is not always 100% perfect but they are always working to improve things because it is everyone's interest to do so.
(I worked in the industry for a couple of decades , so I know the history and how it works)
Co-ordinated behind-the-scenes information sharing and conspiracy between activist groups, political parties and media organisations, all aiming to blacken some mutual enemy's name for their own advantage.
Quelle Horreur if those on the wrong side of politics do anything like this, it's bad enough that certain crusading rodent-faced crapweasels will feel moved write whole books about how bad it is.
Heroic whistle-blowing when the other side does it.
But of course you can't see anything in common.
ztev
Tipping off opposition partys isnt dirty politics. Ppeople working in the PMs office who are supplying dirt on the opposition while hiding where it came from is dirty politics
Even DPF said that he would change his previous policy of calling pieces he received form Ministers offices for publication as "Readers" and would identify them more directly. Plus he seems to be more selective about the more directly political hits and prefers the reason based written pieces.
The Fillet'O'Fish was not too bad.
Worse than that Stephen2d, people like wikiriwhi expose DPF to potential legal action by making defamatory statements under the cover of pseudonyms.
We shouldn't expect any more of wikiriwhi though, given he is an acolyte of Winston Peters, who regularly makes attacks on people whilst protected by parliamentary privilege, but lacks the intestinal fortitude to repeat what he says outside the House.
Tipping off opposition partys isnt dirty politics.
I don't have a problem with this, but when others do it, some on the left call it dirty politics. ~ DPF
Flip the story around and the Left would be losing their collectivist shit; demanding resignations all the way up to Key, trying to find some flimsy connection between the "transgressors" and everyone the Left hates.
"Buy New Zealand Fish Get Dead Maui's Dolphin Free."
When loathsome greenists employ emotive nonsense like this, the result is me going into McDonalds and buying a Filet O Fish on a regular basis, whereas usually, I would not.
Support McDonalds against greenists.
howitis
Jack5 (8,884 comments) says:
This sounds like the campaign seven years ago to destroy the NZ pork industry.
Prior to this about 40% of pig meat was imported. Now more than 50% is imported after farmers here came under sustained attack by the media and other troublemakers (read greens and fringe nutters) . The nutter Mike King who thinks he is funny was quite happy to bank years of promotion money but then turned on the people who had paid him and went on the attack. He kept his blood money. The media of course gave him plenty of free publicity. Anything to destroy NZ business.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/67829069/new-zealand-farmed-pork-loses-ground-to-imports
The blueprint is already there from that campaign for economic saboteurs. NZers get psyched into this stuff by these saboteurs. The Greens and Greenpeace (what an ironic name) are front and centre of economic sabotage.
And from a bloody Kraut. It is never easy to like a kraut: WW1; WW2 ; Schindlers list; Fraulein Merkel; Volkswagen Dodgy Diesels etc. They are happy to destroy Europe again and again. Don't think they give a crap about NZ.
They don't even like to pay their way:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/78548189/German-shoplifters-hide-food-in-pants-at-Pak-n-Save
Or check out German duck farms!
I find it fascinating that zoologists are able to gaze out at the vast Tasman Sea and confidently proclaim that there are 55 Maui's dolphins out there.
Not 53… not 57… not 67… not "between 40 and 200″… FIFTY-FIVE.
Did they meet the Dolphins' chief and ask him?
marleybob
Ross12, maybe you should read some of these post,
https://www.facebook.com/LegaSea
A quick look at that page suggests it is from the recreation fishing sector. There has always been some tension between the commercial sector and the recreation guys –possibly more so now with the growth of the Auckland population.
I've been out of the industry for a few years but one of the issues that always came up in my time was that charter fishing vessels did not have to have quota but over a year they caught large amounts of fish — hopefully all within the daily bag limits.
The other comment I would make is the "fish dumping report" that has come out lately comes a time period from 1950 to I think 2015 —this is a nonsense. The data available for prior to about 1970 would be useless for most species and in fact many commercial species were hardly caught before then –certainly hoki , orange roughy, oreo dory etc. (most of the deep water species) were not.
I have a genuine question, can someone explain to me the difference between a Hectors dolphin and a Maui's dolphin please?
Ross12 (2,301 comments) says:
[Yoza]" These private corporations are decimating our fishing stocks with the collusion of government departments, this is state sanctioned environmental vandalism on an industrial scale."
I would suggest you spend a little more time keeping up with the news.
Greenpeace and Labour call for MPI to be investigated over fisheries failure
For the first time a report in collaboration with Auckland University provides a reconstructed picture of New Zealand's marine catches dating back to 1950 – it reveals while 15.3 million tonnes of catch was recorded up until 2013, an estimated 24.7 million tonnes had fallen through the cracks.
Greenpeace says government officials were aware of the recording botch-up but instead of fixing it, the Ministry for Primary Industries "deliberately covered it up".
Exclusive: MPI reports reveal widespread illegal dumping of fish
Newshub has information that some fishing boats have been illegally dumping their entire haul, and the evidence comes from a surprising source — the Ministry for Primary Industry's (MPI) own investigators.
The information is contained in two reports, which MPI is accused of trying to keep covered up.
One of the preliminary reports is called Operation Achilles. It was written by a senior MPI investigator and details what it describes as "serious", widespread offending in the South Island.
The operation was part of a trial of CCTV cameras onboard the boats, and it found four of the five vessels equipped with the technology "openly discarded substantial quantities of quota fish" without reporting it.
What is of particular concern, though, is that the report states that between 20 percent and 100 percent of some quota fish were being discarded every time the net was pulled up.
MPI has always maintained that it doesn't think dumping is a major problem — but that seems to be completely at odds with its own report.
MPI's own officials think fish dumping high
A leaked Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) report shows its own officials believe that between 20 to 100 percent of some quota fish are being discarded during every haul.
It follows a study released earlier this week by the Fisheries Centre at British Columbia University, in collaboration with Oxford and Auckland universities, that showed deliberate and systematic fish dumping, high levels of wastage and institutionally embedded misreporting over six decades – all of which was questioned by the ministry.
The leaked MPI preliminary report, written by a ministry investigator, looked at video footage on six vessels operating in the Timaru and Ōāmaru ports between November 2012 and March 2013.
The report said MPI's own failure to prosecute skippers is contributing to over-fishing and illegal dumping.
An investigation began following the capture of two Hector's dolphins – one of which was unreported – by one commercial fisher on December 2012.
While reviewing the footage, installed as part of a pilot programme, the investigator saw numerous quota species fish, including substantial quantities of elephant fish and gurnard, being discarded.
As a result, the investigator began reviewing the footage of the other five vessels, and found four of those were also openly dumping or not reporting fish required under the Fisheries Act.
mikenmild
from Wikiopedia
In 2002, Maui's dolphins were classified as a subspecies of Hector's dolphin. Previously, they had been known as the North Island Hector's dolphin. Dr Alan Baker found genetic and skeletal differences in the Maui's dolphins which made them distinct from others in the Hector's species.[11] These significant differences over a small geographical distance have not been found in any other studies of marine mammals.[12] So far, 26 different mitochondrial DNA identification haplotypes have been found in the Hector's species, the Maui's 'G' haplotype being one of them.
RRM (12,256 comments) says:
[Yoza]
Who the hell is 'the other side'? This is about a report revealing illegal activity by industrial scale fishing operations.
On one side you have the illegal fishers decimating fishing stocks for their own personal profit. This activity has been allowed to continue thanks to the likes of MPI, despite having ample evidence such practice was common place, refusing to lift a finger to prosecute the offenders.
On the other side you have the New Zealand public who are being ripped off by this criminal activity.
There is no comparison with Nicky Hager's book, Dirty Politics, and political parties, environmental groups, public universities and media organisations collaborating to draw the public's attention to the criminal activities of private corporations and the effect that offending has on New Zealand's fish stocks.
It is weird pretending there is even a remote parallel
Rachael Membery
What happens to the discarded fish? It gets eaten by other fish, so what is the problem?
"can someone explain to me the difference between a Hectors dolphin and a Maui's dolphin please?
Have you never heard of the internet Lofty? have you heard of the African lion and the difference to the Indian lion?
Fish Lives Matter.
I'm well aware of what has been in the news. But I stick by my comment about the quote I highlighted from you, it is garbage.
There are rogues in any industry and there is probably some dumping of fish occurring ( small sized fish etc. ) but I don't believe the sensationalised media reports. The quantity as a percentage of the total quota would be minimal.
I note the Newshub report says the boats in question were fishing out of Timaru and Oamaru –these are likely to be small inshore vessels which don't catch great quantities of fish. Why they weren't prosecuted does warrant investigation and those involved need to be held to account ( both fisherman and MPI officials).
As I said in my response to Marlybob the report taking it back to 1950 is ridiculous –data from about 1970 back would be non existent or not worth the paper it is written on. I suspect there has been some extrapolation going on to get some more sensational higher figures.
If the activists think it will be easy to make major alterations to the Quota system they better get out the printing presses. Quota has the legal standing of a property right –if wholesale changes are to occur compensation will be demanded. The value of quota is measured in the many hundreds of millions.
Is 'this' a 'this is not a pipe' 'this'?
If the quota system is being abused, which appears to be the case, those property rights could be revoked as easily as they were granted. The holders won't be receiving much in the way of compensation if the state is looking for compensation to cover the loss occurring from the illegal activity taking place.
GlennSimmons
It is simply wrong to suggest that the research team worked with opposition parties or any environmental group in an orchestrated campaign. We have consistently sought to make our research findings available to any interested parties. Thus, for example, MPI officials and the Dept. of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) were first briefed about our preliminary findings in early 2015. Hence, we were not surprised when Minister Nathan Guy, in August 2015, announced a review of New Zealand's fisheries management system. We also note that the draft report has been widely available and freely circulating for over a year.
More recently, Seafood New Zealand and DPMC were among the first to be sent the final version of the report prior to its release. They were sent copies on the afternoon of Thursday 12th May. Others (academics, selected media, NGOs, and all opposition parties) received copies after that. In this we followed an established tradition of ensuring all interested parties were given notice of the report's release. We have been meticulously even-handed in the circulation of our research.
The conflation in this blog of our research and NABU is again simply wrong. There is no relationship, formal or informal, between this research project and NABU. To assert the existence of a relationship is deliberately misleading.
Sadly what is lost in the misleading attacks on our project is its core intention, which has been to assist the industry to create, deliver and capture more value from their activities. For example, in 2012 we led a group of key industry people to Iceland so they could see for themselves what a technologically advanced highly profitable fishing industry looks like. They were very surprised to see that the fillet had become the by-product. New Zealand's industry could do so much better for our economy, jobs and company performance, but our research suggests that it is held back by a flawed industry structure, tired business models and vested interests unable or unwilling to see beyond the current limitations. New Zealand deserves so much more.
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