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Name: Jason Mauser | Position: VP of Sales
With Blackhawk Since: 2015 | Drink: Stella Artois
Music: "Everything" | Hobby: Golf
Jason Mauser, VP of Sales at Blackhawk Network, loves being in sales. Jason is an engaging and charismatic presence in the Pittsburgh office, where he leads the partner reseller sales division. For Jason, landing new business for partners is all about helping them understand the incentives all around them.
"When you think of incentives, we're all incented from birth," says Mauser. "Our parents would give us two dollars if we get all As on our report card—though now with inflation it's probably ten or twenty dollars. That's just human nature. People and society are interested in asking, 'What have you done for me lately? Why should I do this? What's in it for me?' Our clients can relate to that idea, and they see that they can incorporate incentives to stimulate behavior."
He's getting a little philosophical, but Jason and the partner sales division have been extremely successful in building partnerships. He and his team have helped support more than 250 companies in their efforts to land new business and use incentives to drive growth.
"My favorite thing about Blackhawk is getting to work with so many intelligent and inspirational people." Jason came to Blackhawk Network from the Giftcards.com acquisition, and in 2017 he added the partner reseller sales division to his responsibilities. "I enjoy working side-by-side with my team in their pursuit of new business opportunities with their partners. We work very hard to help our partners develop sales strategies around incentives and rewards."
When he's not in the office, Mauser is usually found coaching his kids' basketball teams or shepherding kids to their various events, games and practices. Sunday mornings, meanwhile, are when he gets to go golfing.
Mauser was born and raised in the Pittsburgh area, where he now lives with his wife of 13 years, two of his three children, and Zeke, the family's boxer. "I like that Pittsburgh has a little bit of that blue-collar mentality where people help each other out, roll up our sleeves and get things done. And it's a nice place to raise a family. The weather kind of sucks in January and February," Mauser says with a laugh, "but other than that it's a great city to raise a family."
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Apple introduced its 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro models with upgraded processors, including one where you could configure the machine to tout the beastly Core i9 chip. However, the GPU side didn't command much horsepower, until now. If you visit Apple's official website at this moment, you'll find that you can configure the 15-inch variants to sport more powerful graphics processors.
Previously, if you wanted to purchase the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, you'd only get the Radeon Pro 560X with 4GB of GDDR5 video memory. Now, both the Radeon Pro Vega 16 and Vega 20 offer 4GB of HBM2 memory. Apple states that the new GPU options will result in up to 60 percent faster graphics compared to the Radeon Pro 560X. Those who want to install Windows 10 on these machines will also be able to experience a serious bump in gaming performance.
Unfortunately, it is the video memory that will hold the performance back once users attempt to increase the resolution or crank up the graphics. Still, these options will be a welcome addition for content creators and creative professionals. The 6-core CPU for the $2,799 model is also a nice touch when you want increased computing performance. However, all of these options are going to come at a price.
For example, selecting the Radeon Pro Vega 16 with 4GB of HBM2 memory will start at $3,049, while the Vega 20 variant will come at a price of $3,149. That is very steep for a notebook but those that want to experience a blend of performance exuding from a portable machine while also getting a feel of the macOS ecosystem, they will need to pay for it.
If you want to know more about the 15-inch and 13-inch MacBook Pro models, you can check out previous coverage given below.


Dental implants are an option for replacing missing or badly diseased teeth. A dental implant offers comfort and stability and, by virtue of the artificial tooth it supports, is a restoration that is the closest thing to a natural tooth.
Implants are manufactured "anchors" that look like cylinders or screws. They are artificial replacements for natural tooth roots. Implants are used in upper and lower jaws. They are made of titanium and other materials that are well-suited to the human body. They attach to the jawbone and gum tissue to become a stable base for one or more custom artificial replacement teeth, called dental crowns.
Treatment generally is a three-part process that takes several months.
In the second step, the implant is uncovered and the dentist attaches an extension, called a post, to the implant. The gum tissue is allowed to heal around the post. Some implants require a second surgical procedure in which a post is attached to connect the replacement teeth. With other implants, the implant and post are a single unit placed in the mouth during the initial surgery.
In the third and final step, the dentist makes a crown, which has a size, shape, color and fit that will blend with your other teeth. Once completed, the crown is attached to the implant post.
Who is a good candidate for implant treatment? You are, if you're in good health and have healthy gums and adequate bone to support an implant. You must be committed to thorough oral hygiene to keep your mouth healthy and to scheduling regular dental visits. Ask your dentist if implants are an option for you.


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In keeping with the style of my Lydia Ko coverage over the past two years, there's no need to get dramatic about Ko's win at LPGA Mediheal Championship. Part of me, most of me, nearly all of me saviours this moment as I've followed the lead from Ko and stayed positive about her 'struggles' over the past 18 months; this is the moment we have all been waiting for in following Lydia Ko.
Every time I think about Ko, I always take a splash on inspiration from how determined and positive Ko has been. It's not that I knew this moment would come and I was quite happy to keep plowing through the journey with Ko as she continued to work hard to figure out her game as a young woman, on an LPGA Tour that is only getting more competitive. Ko's victory at Lake Merced was the 10th tournament of the year and there have been 10 different winners, meaning that the days of Ko or another golfer dominating the tour are well and truly over.
You will see a lot about how this is Ko's first win in however many days and stuff like that, but as this is the April Mixtape, I want to offer some context around this result for Ko and keep things grounded. Like Ko, positivity is the focus and I am merely trying to provide reason why kiwis should not expect Ko to suddenly explode into winning multiple tournaments from this point on.
This context is important because Ko's win is an anomaly. It's not an anomaly for Ko to win at Lake Merced as this is her third career win there, but leading up to this tournament Ko had results of tied-19th and 31T in April. Going back further to the start of March and just one result in the top-10 (10T) in the five tournaments prior to her win and in February Ko had to finishes outside the top-10 (19T, 31T).
All up, Ko has played nine tournaments and had two top-10 finishes. That's what catches my eye and why I feel I have to offer this context because there are no trends of improvement here, there's not even a steady patch of performances with Ko stacking up top-10 finishes. I mean; in the nine events, Ko has had top-20 finishes in four of them.
So while the mainstream kiwi media will pump Ko up, hailing the return of Ko and all that dramatic stuff, I'm here to say chill. Ko caught fire and won a tournament, yet this is very much the out-lier in 2018 and what has me excited, full of positive vibe, is whether Ko can turn this win into consistent top-20, top-15 or top-10 results.
Please do not think that Ko will steamroll the LPGA Tour, because of this win. That's unfair to Ko and you're building up your expectations without context, irrationally.
If you need further context, peep Ko's major stats. Despite Ko struggling in 2017, she is performing worse in 2018 so far.
Other than slight improvement in her putting, there is little to suggest in Ko's stats that she is back to her best. Combine the stats with her results and there is little reason to hype yourselves up that Ko's win will flip the switch, especially not in the 2018 version of the LPGA Tour which is very different from when Ko burst on to the scene.
Of course, confidence is crucial in sport and that's why I'm eager to see how Ko follows up this win. Ko knew all along that the changes she made would work out as she never once showed doubt and has always been extremely positive in making those changes, now she has tangible evidence that winning LPGA Tour tournaments is still possible. However, I'm hoping that Ko can stack up consistently solid performances, instead of expecting Ko to go on a winning streak.
As always, take a slice of Ko inspiration. She has stayed on track despite appearing to have many reasons to lose the plot and not only has she persevered, Ko has done so with a smile. This win is testament to that and now it's all about how Ko backs that win up, because we'll know if Ko is genuinely back to being the world's best female golfer when she's stacking up top-10 finishes.
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Best Western CIO offers 'Tech Reality Check'
Abigail A. Lorden, Editor-in-Chief
With IT budgets under tight control and the need for efficiency stronger than ever, hotel technologists must ensure that any IT investment can show ROI, but is that easier said than done? In this Q&A exclusive, Hospitality Technology sits down with Scott Gibson, CIO and SVP of Distribution for Best Western International, for a candid perspective on when, where and how hotels can invest for greatest returns on guest satisfaction and on their bottom-line.
HT: What lessons can the lodging industry learn from the recession about how to be
better hotel companies?
SG: The thing that most organizations should have learned is the need to stay very focused on what is actually important in terms of meeting guest expectations, but also what's important organizationally from the standpoint of ensuring your business stays successful. If you look at what the hotel industry has done in the last few decades, we tend to overestimate the pace of adoption of technology. A great example would be going back to the first rush of hotel companies to the Internet. The expectations were that there would be a very fast pace of adoption and a fast transition of the buying public from call centers to the Internet. Today, for most of us, the Internet is the number one source of revenue for our businesses, but certainly it took much longer to get there than people predicted back in the beginning.
I think you see that phenomenon again, if you look at the current attention that mobile phone technology is getting. Mobile technology is going to be huge, but it's helpful to stop and consider that today it's 2 percent of online booking volumes. If it's helpful from a customer satisfaction standpoint to deliver a solution for mobile booking and you can do it at a relatively low cost, that makes a lot of sense. If it's your expectation that you're going to generate a lot of incremental revenue from that in the very near future, that's probably the wrong reason to do it.
HT: Talking about mobility, Best Western has an iPhone app, and in fact was second to
market with its app. What was the philosophy there, and how is your iPhone app performing?
SG: It's a thing that we did because we do think it's important. Two percent of the market is a big piece of the market. We were able to do it with relative low cost and relatively quickly. If it had been a big expensive undertaking, you'd have to scratch your head and ask, not, "is this something we should do?" but rather, "is this a good time to do it?"
So far in 2010, the iPhone business is about 70 percent of all of our mobile business. The pace of adoption on the iPhone is very fast. From a revenue standpoint, it's probably well below 1 percent of total online revenue in 2010. It's not a big piece of revenue yet, but as to shopping activity, the iPhone has the biggest piece of it. Since we launched [in late December 2009] we've had about 8,000 people download it. I think we need to give it some time and see how people use it and what they make of it.
HT: What can you offer as a "tech reality check" from the standpoint of where hotels have been focusing that perhaps they shouldn't be?
SG: There is a sense that in-room entertainment technology has the potential to become a significant revenue generator for hoteliers. While I wouldn't rule that out, I think that, again, in some cases the pace of adoption isn't going to be nearly as fast as hotels would like it to be because the cost of deploying in-room entertainment technology is going to be very high on a per-room basis. But I also think that very quickly it will become the cost of doing business. People generally don't pay extra for premium channels in hotel rooms. They expect to get premium channels. In the mid-scale market, they don't pay extra for Internet access in hotel rooms, they expect to get it. I think that with some of this other technology it will quickly become commoditized in that people have the expectation that it will be there.
HT: Does that mean hotels shouldn't be focused on some of these in-room technologies? Or that they should be seeing it as the cost of doing business as opposed to a revenue stream?
SG: Beyond saying "the cost of doing business," it will become necessary to meet guest expectations. That's a revenue generator in the sense that if you don't meet guest expectations, you shouldn't expect to generate very much revenue. We tend to approach these things with the expectation that there is incremental revenue we can generate from every hotel stay from these things. I think that all too often, when there is, it's relatively short-lived and then for most customers it becomes part of their basic set of expectations.
However, while you can't generally charge incremental fees for these improvements, it is a mistake to think they don't bring value to the bottom-line. If you don't keep up with guest expectations about what kind of innovation they find in the room, you won't be satisfying your guests and those guests won't return. There's a real bottom-line impact to that! As a brand you have to remain relevant. It's more about what is the pace at which hotels companies should be moving to adopt.
HT: If it's a question of pace, what insight can you offer for timing your in-room investments, and how to go about it?
SG: They have to fit it to their market. You're already seeing a great many consumer electronic product innovations in the upscale sector and over time it will trickle down into the midscale and eventually even into budget and economy at some level.
Any hotelier who wants to raise their game on in-room technology should examine their rooms with an eye towards how the guests will use them. Consider your own family, and look around the room. Are there enough power outlets? Given the number of personal devices, laptops, game consoles, or personal DVD players that travel with families these days, chances are there aren't enough power outlets free to go around.
I looked at a survey recently where consumers were responding to the question, "What were their top technology needs in hotel rooms?" The number one technology need in the hotel rooms is, "a power outlet I can plug into." Whenever you talk about technology innovation in hotel rooms, you have to remember where we're starting from. If there's no place to plug in the technology you brought with you, it speaks to the fact that that particular hotel room is not well-prepared to deal with your technology needs.
HT: Good point! How is it still the case that hotel rooms are not adequately equipped with enough power outlets to satisfy guests' needs?
SG: It's a great question. I think it speaks to how relatively quickly guests' needs in a hotel room have evolved. There are a lot of hotel rooms out there that were not originally built with the idea in mind that guests would arrive with a great many things they needed to plug in. Then you add in that hotels themselves are offering more products and services for guests in the rooms that need to be plugged in. Outlets get placed where they'll be used by the services that the room itself is providing, so quite often you can't get to those outlets even if they're there.
One of the things you see more often are power strips in rooms that have been done very well. From the standpoint of appeal, I'd hate to see your standard home power strip dangling from a wall for someone to plug into, but there are lots of ways to do it. You see the ones that are in lamps, you see the ones that are mounted in the desks; there are lots of ways to do it that are effective.
HT: Let's talk about an area that does make sense for IT investments. The Best Western web site did particularly well in 2009, outpacing the industry average, despite the recession. To what do you attribute this?
SG: Over the last three-to-four years we've been very focused on delivering a high-quality consumer experience on the web site (www.bestwestern.com). A big part of that has been a focus on the reliability and usability of the site, and on response time.
Between the end of 2006 and now, we've improved the web site average response time by 50 percent; we've reduced system down time from about 300 hours per year, down to about 30 hours per year and we've substantially redesigned the site based on customer input. As a result, we've seen the web site grow from 31 percent of our business in 2006, to more than 50 percent of our business today. And, in 2006 we generated $315 million in revenue through our web site versus more than $450 million in 2009.
HT: Those results are impressive. How did you do it?
SG: The old fashioned way. We invested a lot of capital, a lot of time and energy in identifying the places in the process where the code and databases were inefficient, where the architecture wasn't right. We spent nine months on an effort of re-architecting the site and re-writing a lot of the code, and redesigning a lot of the processes. We're getting ready to do that again. When we first did it, we were really happy with the results. As in all things, I'm not nearly as happy today as I was when we first did it. I think it can be faster, and we're going to take another run at it and see if it can be improved even further. We did comparable things on the reliability side. We're consistently ranked among the top travel sites in terms of transaction success rate and again it was focusing on the things that didn't work well and fixing them.
Now we're in the middle of a lot of performance and reliability-related improvements for the website for the GDS connections. We see that shopping behavior (the number of transactions that we get through our own website, through GDS connections, through our direct-connect with many partners) goes up 50 percent per year, even if the number of resulting reservations doesn't go up. As everyone improves their technology in a way that's meaningful to the consumer, the consumer is being presented with more information. To get that more information, those sites are doing many more transactions. Every year you have to handle more and more transactions to get the same number of reservations. We're on a pretty aggressive cycle of constantly improving the technology and the throughput for all of our electronic distribution to ensure that we can handle the volumes.
HT: Are there other major technology priorities for Best Western in 2010?
SG: There are a couple of things we've been focused on: the first one is very much around information and credit card security. One of the things we're doing in that area now is really trying to facilitate a better solution for online booking and advanced purchase and payment. Most of the time when people book a hotel room, they guarantee the hotel room to a credit card. What that means is that the hotel will hold onto your credit card until you either show up or don't show up. Nine times out of ten, they're never going to use that information because when you actually come to the hotel you're going to present a credit card. There's an awful lot of added risk in that process because they have to keep the card on file, but most of they time they don't actually need it.
We're trying to look at if there's a different model that works for consumers that is similar to the models that the airlines and online travel agencies use. Are consumers interested in getting a discount in return for paying for their stay up-front? If they pay for their stay up front, we don't have to retain a credit card and the associated risk goes away. The consumer gets a discount on their stay, which they want, and the hotel company and the consumer all benefit from the higher security model.
What we're trying to do today, and it's a relatively complicated undertaking, is to set up the ability, from our website, in our call center, through our GDS connections, to process a credit card settlement for an advanced purchase and deliver it to a merchant account that belongs to the hotel where the stay is being made. In that case, we're not even collecting the money, the hotel is collecting the money; they're just doing it through our web site. That may sound like a simple thing, but when you have 4,000 hotels in 70 countries and you want to have individual merchant accounts for card processing for every one of those hotels in all of those countries it's a pretty big undertaking.
Advance payment reservations are our fastest growing plan in North America, and already in Europe more than 30 percent of all brand business is booked this way. It is another way to meet the customer's needs, keep the customer loyal to your hotel or your brand, and reap the long-term revenue benefits, all powered by technology and integration.
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The Kwara State Police Command on Tuesday said it had arrested seven suspects in connection with the crisis between Odo-Owa and Kajola communities in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State.
The Spokesperson for the command, Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the arrest of the suspects in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday.
Okasanmi also confirmed that one person was killed and several persons injured during the crisis.
NAN gathered that violence erupted between the communities on Sunday following disagreements during a masquerade festival in the area.
NAN also gathered that the two-week long annual masquerade festival began on March 31.
He said that the situation had been put under control with the dispatch of mobile policemen from Offa and Omu-Aran to the affected communities.
Okasanmi said that investigation to unravel the remote cause of the crisis had already commenced.
According to him, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, has directed that anybody found culpable in the crisis should be arrested and prosecuted.
Also, speaking to NAN on the crisis, a traditional ruler, the Olota of Odo-Owa, Oba Joshua Adimula, described the development as barbaric and unwarranted.
"The Olota-in-Council immediately swung into action to ensure that the situation did not escalate.
"I personally made contacts with both the local and state governments. We are very grateful to them, especially the governor, for the timely response," he said.
The traditional ruler was worried that tension still hung in the air.
"I am urging the government to include the military to support the police," he said.
Adimula advised the people of the affected communities, especially the youth to embrace peace and shun acts capable of causing crisis.
"No development can take place in an atmosphere of acrimony and no investor will invest in a crisis-ridden environment.
"I am pleading with the aggrieved parties to sheath their swords and give due respect to our forefathers who laid the foundation upon which we are enjoying today," he said.
NAN reports that men of the Mobile Police Unit and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps were seen patrolling the communities on Tuesday to forestall the escalation of the crisis.


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Italian Red Cross meets with the UN regarding migrants in Libyan waters
Saturday, August 19, 2017 - 12:37
The head of the Italian Red Cross, Francesco Rocca, has called on the United Nations to stop the Libyan Navy from preventing non-governmental organizations from rescuing migrants off the coast of Libya.
NGO's expelled from Libyan territorial waters
The spokesman for the Libyan Navy, Brigadier Ayoub Qasem, accused NGOs working to rescue illegal immigrants of infiltrating the sovereignty of the Libyan state.
Save the Children suspends operations off Libya coast
Save the Children has become the third NGO to suspend its migrant ferrying operations in the Mediterranean after Tripoli confirmed it would be blocking its waters to foreign 'Search and Rescue' (SAR) boats.
Frontex: Number of migrants arriving in Italy dropped
The number of African migrants arriving in Italy after crossing the Mediterranean from Libya dropped by more than half in July from June, the European Union's border agency Frontex said on Monday.
Italy backs up Libyan ban on foreign vessels
Italy welcomed Libya's decision to ban foreign vessels from the search and rescue zone off its coast.
Libya releases 80 Tunisian detainees
Monday, August 14, 2017 - 16:38
The Libyan authorities has released 80 Tunisian citizens who had been held in a prison in the city of Al-Zawia on attempting illegal migration from the Libyan coast towards Italy.
MSF calls off rescue operations in Mediterranean
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an independent, medical humanitarian organization, has announced a freeze on its rescue operations for migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
Man dies as two hospitals refuse to treat him
Social networking sites reported that citizens found three illegal immigrants on the side of the road near Nesma, 150 kilometers south-west of Tripoli.


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Q: ¿Cómo imprimir el valor de un input tipo time al hacer click a un checkbox? No encuentro como imprimir el valor tipo time que seleccioné, en todos los td que se generan con la lista, cuando le doy a seleccionar, se seleccionan todo los checkbox como quiero pero sólo en el primer input se me imprime la fecha que seleccioné, la función que uso es:
function toggle(source) {
  var fecha = document.getElementById("desde_fijo").value;
  checkboxes = document.getElementsByName("myCheck");

  for (var i = 0, n = checkboxes.length; i < n; i++) {
    checkboxes[i].checked = source.checked;
    console.log(fecha);
    if (("checked", true)) {
      document.getElementById(
        "input_control_hora_inicio"
      ).value = document.getElementById("desde_fijo").value;
    }
  }
}

Y los input son los siguientes primero el que selecciono la hora y luego donde requiero se imprima:

  <input type="checkbox" id="myCheck" name="myCheck" onchange="toggle(this)" />

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  <input class="text-center" type="time" style="width:100%;  color:#00b388" id="desde_fijo" name="desde_fijo">

  <input class="text-center" type="time" style="width:100%" id="input_control_hora_inicio" name="input_control_hora_inicio">

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A: Se supone que las identificaciones son únicas. Entonces se espera que solo cambie la primera instancia con la identificación.
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Conference Article| September 18 2014
Plasticity of the actin cytoskeleton in response to extracellular matrix nanostructure and dimensionality
Josefine Starke;
Josefine Starke 1
*Department of Dermatology, University of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Strasse 2, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
Bernhard Wehrle-Haller;
Bernhard Wehrle-Haller
†Institute of Pathology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Peter Friedl 2
‡Department of Cell Biology, Radboudumc, Radboud University Nijmegen, Geert Grooteplein 26, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
§Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A.
∥Cancer Genomics Centre Netherlands (CGC.nl), Utrecht, The Netherlands
2To whom correspondence should be addressed (emailP.Friedl@ncmls.ru.nl).
Biochem Soc Trans (2014) 42 (5): 1356–1366.
https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20140139
Josefine Starke, Bernhard Wehrle-Haller, Peter Friedl; Plasticity of the actin cytoskeleton in response to extracellular matrix nanostructure and dimensionality. Biochem Soc Trans 1 October 2014; 42 (5): 1356–1366. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20140139
Mobile cells discriminate and adapt to mechanosensory input from extracellular matrix (ECM) topographies to undergo actin-based polarization, shape change and migration. We tested 'cell-intrinsic' and adaptive components of actin-based cell migration in response to widely used in vitro collagen-based substrates, including a continuous 2D surface, discontinuous fibril-based surfaces (2.5D) and fibril-based 3D geometries. Migrating B16F1 mouse melanoma cells expressing GFP–actin developed striking diversity and adaptation of cytoskeletal organization and migration efficacy in response to collagen organization. 2D geometry enabled keratinocyte-like cell spreading and lamellipod-driven motility, with barrier-free movement averaging the directional vectors from one or several leading edges. 3D fibrillar collagen imposed spindle-shaped polarity with a single cylindrical actin-rich leading edge and terminal filopod-like protrusions generating a single force vector. As a mixed phenotype, 2.5D environments prompted a broad but fractalized leading lamella, with multiple terminal filopod-like protrusions engaged with collagen fibrils to generate an average directional vector from multiple, often divergent, interactions. The migratory population reached >90% of the cells with high speeds for 2D, but only 10–30% of the cells and a 3-fold lower speed range for 2.5D and 3D substrates, suggesting substrate continuity as a major determinant of efficient induction and maintenance of migration. These findings implicate substrate geometry as an important input for plasticity and adaptation of the actin cytoskeleton to cope with varying ECM topography and highlight striking preference of moving cells for 2D continuous-shaped over more complex-shaped discontinuous 2.5 and 3D substrate geometries.
actin, cell migration, cell plasticity, collagen, melanoma


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The reconstruction of the administrative-industrial building in the city of Náchod fulfils the idea of a modern approach to new commercial sites in the city centre.
The project supposed a reconstruction of the existing building and construction of a new, modern part which would represent the company, based in the building.
Modern technologies are the central concern of the LEVEL company, and therefore are reflected in the construction.
The new part of the building is covered by a frameless facade system which combines glass panels and Baumit facade material.
Matt surface of the material and reflective glass give the building a technological expression, while reflecting events happening in the immediate surroundings.
The contrast of the constructional imperfections of the existing building with a well-made perimeter topcoat, is a dialogue between eras when the individual parts of the building were built.


Today's guest post comes to you by way of Jessica O'Neal. A self-professed 'lover of the written word', Jess is in the process of finishing her first novel. You can follow her progress on her blog here (as well as read some great book reviews and thoughts on life in general), and you can cheer her on via Twitter, here.
Today Jess is talking about the power of a good story – the way it draws us in, turning the black and white of the page into something vivid, tangible, magical.
The other night I was reading a book and as I became more immersed in the story I could feel my body physically responding to the emotions the story was drawing out of me. This is not an uncommon occurrence for me, but it got me thinking and I realized that there are not many people I know who would understand what I was going through. In my limited circle of family and friends there are very few who truly "get" what it is about books that creates such passion in me. Most of the people I know find that emotional connection through music, some find it in movies, but very few find it through books.
Whenever I try to explain exactly what it is a book does to me I am usually looked at as though I have grown a second head, which is admittedly better than the people who think they know exactly what I am talking about but as they expound upon it I realize they have no idea. For me, the power of a book (or movie or television show for that matter) is in the characters and the story they are telling, and it is one of the most powerful forces I have ever encountered. It goes so much deeper than simply feeling a generic sense of happiness or sadness that you forget about an hour later as you go about your daily life; it is something that is felt deep within you and lingers with you for days or weeks, and even after you have moved on to new things you can pause to think back on that story and instantly feel those same emotions awakened within you once more.
I often wonder what I would look like to someone observing me as I read. I am not someone who just gets into a comfortable position and reads with a blank expression. I laugh out loud, I smile, I scowl, I gasp, I cheer, I exclaim and talk back, I cry (sometimes to the point where I can no longer see the words on the page), I make hand gestures, and occasionally I find the action so intense I have to sit on my knees so that I can move in motion with my anxiety. My poor husband has gotten so used to this that he hardly notices my strange behavior anymore and no longer takes offense when he comes to tell me something and I hastily wave him away without even looking at him because I am in the midst of some crucial scene. While most people find all this external display from a book odd, they can at least somewhat understand what I am talking about since it is tangible, quantifiable. It is when I attempt to explain the things going on underneath, the things that are causing this strange display, that I lose people.
I have been sitting at my computer wracking my brain for adequate words to describe what happens inside of me and nothing I come up with seems to do it justice. Whenever I am reading a great story there is a veritable storm of emotion brewing on the inside of me that I don't know how to explain. How do you explain the feeling created in your chest and gut when tragedy strikes? How do you explain the happiness that bubbles inside of you so strongly that it causes you to cry when you watch a character who has struggled for so long finally overcome? How do you explain the wrenching feeling of frustration that makes you want to pull your hair out or reach through the pages and shake the character for being so stupid? How do you explain that nothing more than words on a page can be so intense they cause your heart rate and breathing to grow more rapid? How do you explain the feeling of emptiness and pain that will not leave you because of the way things ended? Sure you can use the words and phrases authors use to help create those emotions in the first place, but unless you have experienced these things personally those words are not going to help explain it any more than they helped create it.
It can be very lonely sometimes having such intimate and important encounters – even if is through "just a book" – and not having very many people, if any, you can share it with. This is one of the many reasons I am so grateful for the online communities created through blogs, fansites, and social networking sites. These things have allowed me to find and connect with some of my kindred spirits. I may personally only know a few people who "get" it, but all I have to do is go online to find a host of friends who understand the power held within a good story.
Lovely guest post! I adore loaning books to friends because then we can talk about the reading experience and have that sense of community.
Oooh, we read books the same way. I get very involved in my books. I especially love humor and will not hesitate to laugh out loud. It feels SO good!! I always get lost in the Harry Potter books. I've read them all numerous times. In fact, I'm listening to HP3 in the car right now and I'm sure people are wondering what the heck I'm laughing at driving alone in my car.
The Harry Potter books are definitely some that I get the most involved in. I still, even after having read it at least 10 times, cry through pretty much the entire second half of Deathly Hallows. So amazing!
Like you, I am a book person. I love music and movies but they don't give me the same connection.
Fortunately, I do have a few close friends and family who love books the way I do. My daughters are both avid book readers, as are the folks in my writers' group.
I completely agree with you. That was a big part of why I started this crazy idea of writing. Only certain types of music do this to me – mostly musical theater.
I think you and I are kindred spirits Jessica. I experience those exact same emotions when reading. And I always hate the end of the book. I want it to go on and I carry the story into my dreams and create the story anew.
It's what makes me write and challenges me to write a good story.
You're a great team you two!
Yes! This is it exactly. There is truly nothing else like it.
I once put it like this: In that moment, I knew I had just experienced the sublime alchemy that occurs when words resonate with you so deeply that they reorder the cells in your body, and BAM — you are no longer the same person.
It still doesn't capture the feeling totally, but I wanted you to know that I DO know EXACTLY what you mean.
Oh, wow. I LOVE that description. It is an experience that is so difficult to put into words, but you did a pretty darn good job. You certainly do know what I mean.
I'm with ya Jessica! I love when books cause you to cry or swoon or spit! LOL. The Thorn Birds was the book I ever threw across the room, I was so mad at Luke O'Neil for treating Meggie the way he did!
Sign of a good book if you ask me! Good luck with yours!
I had the EXACT same reaction to Thornbirds. I still find myself daydreaming about those characters…that book definitely stays with a person!!
I love it Jessica! Thanks for hosting her Myndi. To use an example from one of your favorites Jessica – I soooo hated Dolores Umbridge that I actually had a hard time reading through The Order of the Phoenix. I just wanted to drop kick her so had it made every muscle in my body hurt. I would shake the book with fury at that darn woman.
But I can also connect and feel extremely inspired by music and movies. So I get it from all sides. I don't discriminate.
Oh my goodness, you know me so well! She seriously made my blood pressure skyrocket. Oh, that woman! Such a perfect example.
I connect with movies and, sometimes, music, too. But never quite to the same level as a book.
There is nothing like being immersed in a wonderful book and forgetting about the hours drifting away unnoticed. I've been like this since I was a kid, Jessica, and I totally GET you! Thank you for a wonderful post and thanks to Myndi for hosting you!
Yep, it started in childhood for me as well. My mother is the same way and she totally passed it on to me at the earliest possible age. I will forever be grateful to her for that.
I feel strong connections to characters in books that I love. I know it is a good book when I can't wait to read and it's hard to turn off the light and go to sleep because I say, "Just one more chapter." The book that did that for me the most recently was Diana Abu-Jaber's Birds of Paradise. I did not want to put it down! And even now I find myself wondering what Felice might be doing now. They seem so real.
That is one of the best feelings in the world. The characters are what make or break a book for me.
Great post, Jessica! In fact, I think this is one of the best posts I've ever read. I think you did a wonderful job in explaining how you feel when you're so intensely connected with a book you're reading. I'm the same way. Some of the characters remain with me forever. It's amazing.
Myndi, thanks for hosting Jessica!
Oh wow! Thank you so much for the compliment. It means so much to me.
I get involved in books like that- sometimes I put off reading books that I know are sad or upsetting because of how involved I get in them.


Here is the proof: Real Estate is picking up in the Keys!
I have been in Real Estate long enough to appreciate all the great tools that are available to us Realtors thanks to the internet. When I started in Real Estate we had MLS (Multipe listing) books that came out once a month. Each property had one black and white picture and very limtied info about the property.
If you have been following my blog for a while and check what is selling and going under contract, you already know that properties are moving! The Real Estate market has picked up tremendously over the past couple of months and if you are in the market to buy this is the time to get serious about it. There are still many great deals out there and sellers are aware that this is a buyers market; but the great deals are going .... rather quickly.
Don't take my word for it check out the following facts. Here is what is currently under contract in the uper Keys (This is only for the upper Keys).
What I would buy if I could.
If you have been following my blog you know that my featured best deals usually go under contract rather quickly (I think that's a pretty good indicator that the properties indeed were good deals). "What would you buy if you were in the market?"
I am asked fairly often by buyers.
Here are the properties I'd buy if I could.
There are some other properties which are great deals but the listing price does not reflect that fact. Call me and tell me what you are looking for and I'll tell you what properties are the best deal. Also: Make an offer on the property you love .... you never know how much a seller will take.
Have a happy Easter and please call me at 305-393-0923 or e-mail me at Wiebkewestedt@aol.com if you are looking to buy or sell Real estate in the Keys.
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The CEO of Siemens has defended the company's decision to enter the U.S. shale oil space last year, as the group reported a 25 percent drop in net income in the first quarter of 2015.
Speaking to CNBC Europe's "Squawk Box" on Tuesday, Joe Kaeser, president and chief executive officer of Siemens, said the decline in oil prices did not worry him. The German electronics and engineering group acquired American oilfield equipment maker Dresser-Rand in a $7.6 billion deal in September.
"We are not in here for a quarter, we are not in for short-term aspects of the oil price, we do believe this is a good space to be because we can bring the expertise from automation and electrification into the oil and gas space so we feel very comfortable in what we see," Kaeser said.
His comments came as the company reported net income of 1.095 billion euros ($1.22 billion) in the first quarter, down from 1.457 billion euros in 2014, as its power and gas unit was hit by a weaker global economy and oil price. Profit at the unit fell 39 percent in the first three months of the year.
Shares of Siemens were 2.4 percent Tuesday morning.
But Kaeser told CNBC that he was optimistic that a lower oil price would provide additional opportunities.
"If the oil price is down that certainly will boost sentiment with lower gas prices at the pump so this will give a positive impact into the automotive industry," he said.
"We also believe that oil importing countries, such as emerging markets will massively benefit from a lower oil price bill and that will go into the infrastructure build-up in those countries. So we think there's a lot of opportunity coming from a lower oil price."
Siemens reported a 5 percent rise in first quarter revenue, to 17.4 billion euros ($19.5 billion)—slightly above analyst expectations in a Reuters poll.
"The performance of most of our businesses was within our expectations," Kaeser said in a statement. "While some divisions provided excellent performance, healthcare needs to step up its efforts to quickly resume to its outstanding performance and power and gas will need a more comprehensive concept to return to historical margins longer turn."
The company confirmed its outlook for 2015, but warned that geo-political tensions "among other things" would add to a "complex" business environment.
Kaeser also noted that there were "pockets of weakness" in China, but stressed that in the long-term, the country presented a "very attractive market to be in."
Siemens announced a major reshuffle of its board on Monday, appointing a new team to run its healthcare business. It also said the chief of its struggling power and gas unit would leave this week.


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I'm fascinated how nostalgia changes people's view of old technology. Or how old technology takes on a new meaning as it ages. For example, most programs use a floppy disk on their save button, but when was the last time anyone held a floppy disk?
Then there are things that were commonplace, but now are nearly unseen - like this.


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Aslet on classicism's future →
Tour Boothden next Sunday
Posted on September 3, 2018	by David Brussat
Boothden back in the olden days. (Photo by Clarence Stanhope/Newport Historical Society)
Remember Edwin Booth, the actor? Perhaps not. Not the Booth who shot Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, but his brother, who had a summer home in Middletown, R.I., designed for him by Calvert Vaux, best known as the designer, with Frederick Law Olmsted, of Central Park. The house was completed in 1884 and, as the page on Booth from the Newport Historical Society suggests, a lot of history went into and came out of its front door.
A tour of the cottage and a church, St. Columba's Chapel steps away from Boothden, will be held on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 1:30 p.m., sponsored by the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. The tour begins in the chapel, at 55 Vaucluse Ave., on the Middletown shore facing east from Aquidneck. Attendees will stroll afterward to Boothden.
Here is the Newport Historical Society's squib on Booth:
In the late 1800s, the Indian Avenue section of Middletown was marketed to wealthy New York and Philadelphia families by the Sturtevant family for summer cottage sites. One investor was the actor Edwin Booth (1833-1893), who was introduced to the area by the Bispham family of Philadelphia, who were friends and partners in the development. Booth, brother of Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, purchased lots there in 1879 and commenced building his summer cottage in 1883. "Boothden" was originally designed by noted architect Calvert Vaux, whose son Downing Vaux was engaged to Booth's daughter Edwina. The scandalous break up of Downing and Edwina hampered the building process and Booth waited out the summer in hotels and guest houses as builder Truman Peckham completed the house in 1884.
Edwin Booth only spent four years at Boothden. Money problems, Edwina's later bad marriage and his brother's legacy took a toll on him. The house (which would not sell) was willed to Edwina in 1893 and ultimately sold in 1903. Ironically, located one half a mile away off Vaucluse Avenue, lies the remains of Baptist minister Obadiah Holmes (1606-1682) Abraham Lincoln's fourth great grandfather.
Boothden's history did not end when it left the hands of the Booth family. The cottage went through a cycle of owners in the 20th century, high and low (a Time magazine publisher among the latter). Finally, earlier in this decade, an enlightened owner decided to bring it back to its former beauty (with modern lifestyle interventions, of course). The work is by Barrington designers Andreozzi Architects (of Bristol, president of our ICAA chapter), landscape designers Le Blanc Jones, and builders Kirby-Perkins. An in-depth article on the place from its origins to its recent restoration ran in Period Homes in 2016, by architectural historian (and ICAA chapter board member) John Tschirch. "The Stunning Boothden Restoration" tells the full story of Boothden's rise, its decline and how it stands today, "revitalized" in Tschirch's word. "Paradise," he adds, "never looked so tempting."
So check it out!
David Andreozzi and John Tschirch will be guiding the tour.
Reservations are required at $55 for the general public and $40 for ICAA members.
Boothden as restored. (Photo by Aaron Usher)
This entry was posted in Architecture and tagged Boothden, Calvert Vaux, David Andreozzi, Edwin Booth, ICAA, John Wilkes Booth, Middletown RI, Newport Historical Society, St. Columba's Chapel. Bookmark the permalink.


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Q: Can I get intellisense in powershell? Edit: Anyone coming to the question now. Please look at the dates. This is a very, very, old question from the first version of PowerShell. Everything is now different
Just starting out with PowerShell, I would love to have intellisense support for writing PowerShell scripts.  Tab-completion works great so you would think it would exist somewhere, but the only thing I can find an article from 2007 - hardly up to date.
Is there an extension somewhere that gives you this ability?
How about an editor?

A: The Windows PowerShell ISE which is installed with later versions of PowerShell has got built-in intellisense.
Also Visual Studio Code with the PowerShell extension is another option
And ISE Steroids if you want to stay with ISE
But seems direction is VS Code, especially with Core

A: Have a look on PowerTab.

A: Also PowerShell Plus (commercial). Or you can wait for PowerShell 2.0 and hopefully get Graphical Windows PowerShell.

A: PowerSE is a free PowerShell Editor that includes Intellisense (PowerShell, WMI, and .NET)
Features:

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*Includes Auto-Script creation feature - execute a cmdlet, look at the results in a grid view, select and sort columns, then tell it to generate the PowerShell for you.

*Community button to search TechNet and PoshCode for samples.

*Debug features such as breakpoints and stepping through code.

*Watch window to drill into PowerShell variables.

*Context sensitive help.

*Imbedded console window with command recorder.

A: Try visual studio code with powershell extension. It works better than Windows PowerShell ISE for me.

A: Try this -
http://powergui.org/index.jspa
This is a good editor with intellisense

A: PSReadline now has intellisense right in the console based on the command history.    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/announcing-psreadline-2-1-with-predictive-intellisense/
To enable in powershell 7:
Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionSource History

You can also get that version of psreadline in powershell 5.1.
Install-Module PSReadLine -RequiredVersion 2.1.0

A: I think it is the best way that you write TabExpansion.
There are no Autocomplteion tools for posh, like C#'s IntelliSence.
They can't get even $_'s properties even if you use just a standard Cmdlet.

A: PowerShell ISE v3 has Intellisense
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27548


Mee-you littul Binky mee iss berry impressed that you are such an advanced Yogie!!! Pawtastick!!!!
wieder sehr schön, danke, sei ganz herzlich gegrüßt.
Very good for the health ! I do it in the morning and my cats watch, lol !
Kiss kiss Binky boo. Rub, rub, rubbing your tum tum.
Ah, the Tribe loves their yoga stretches. Gets you in the best mood for your nap!
You are a yoga master, Binky.
Are you quite sure Binky isn't dreaming of riding a bicycle?
Such a cute tummy sweet Binky!
Awww, you're so cute Little Binky. You sure know how to do yoga too.
cats are so very good at yoga!
I love a good ol' stretch!


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Топики по английскому языку с переводом
A murder is announced by agatha christie
Chapter 1 A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED
Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on his bicycle, whistling vociferously through his teeth, and alighting at each house or cottage to shove through the letter-box such morning papers as had been ordered by the occupants of the house in question from Mr. Totman, stationer, of the High Street. Thus, at Colonel and Mrs. Easterbrook's he delivered The Times and the Daily Graphic; at Mrs. Swettenham's he left The Times and the Daily Worker; at Miss Hinchliffe and Miss Murgatroyd's he left the Daily Telegraph and the News Chronicle; at Miss Blacklog's he left the Telegraph, The Times and the Daily Mail.
At all these houses, and indeed at practically every house in Chipping Cleghorn, he delivered every Friday a copy of the North Benham News and Chipping Cleghorn Gazette, known locally simply as "the Gazette."
Thus, on Friday
mornings, after a hurried glance at the headlines in the daily paper (International situation critical! U. N. O. meets today! Bloodhounds seek blonde typist's killer! Three collieries idle. Twenty-three die of food poisoning in Seaside Hotel, etc. most of the inhabitants of Chipping Cleghorn eagerly opened the Gazette and plunged into the local news. After a cursory glance at Correspondence (in which the passionate hates and feuds of rural life found full play) nine out of ten subscribers then turned to the personal column. Here were grouped together higgledy piggledy articles, for Sale or Wanted, frenzied appeals for Domestic Help, innumerable insertions regarding dogs, announcements concerning poultry and garden equipment; and various other items of an interesting nature to those living in the small community of Chipping Cleghorn.
This particular Friday – October 29th – was no exception to the rule…
Mrs. Swettenham, pushing back the pretty little grey curls from her forehead, opened The Times, looked with a lack lustre eye at the left hand centre page, decided that, as usual, if there was any exciting news The Times had succeeded in camouflaging it in an impeccable manner; took a look at the Births, Marriages and Deaths, particularly the latter; then, her duty done, she put aside The Times and eagerly seized the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette.
When her son Edmund entered the room a moment later, she was already deep in the Personal Column.
"Good morning, dear," said Mrs. Swettenham. "The Smedleys are selling their Daimler. 1935 – that's rather a long time ago, isn't it?"
Her son grunted, poured himself out a cup of coffee, helped himself to a couple of kippers, sat down at the table and opened the Daily Worker which he propped up against the toast rack.
"Bull mastiff puppies," read out Mrs. Swettenham. "I really don't know how people manage to feed big dogs nowadays – I really don't… H'm, Selina Lawrence is advertising for a cook again. I could tell her it's just a waste of time advertising in these days. She hasn't put her address, only a box number – that's quite fatal – I could have told her so – servants simply insist on knowing where they are going. They like a good address… False teeth – I can't think why false teeth are so popular. Best prices paid… Beautiful bulbs. Our special selection. They sound rather cheap… Here's a girl wants an 'Interesting post – Would travel.' I dare say! Who wouldn't?… Dachshunds…
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Q: How to cancel a Task executing a non managed C++ external routine I'm trying to fix C# async code launching a cancelable operation performed in an external dll written in unmanaged C++ routine.
Is there a way to cancel a Task using a Cancellation Token passed to the Task at creation, if the user delegate calls an external non managed C++ routine ?
As far I know, Task cancellation involves cooperation between the user delegate and the code that requested the cancellation. A successful cancellation involves the requesting code calling the CancellationTokenSource.Cancel method, and the user delegate terminating the operation in a timely manner either by simply returning from the delegate when he notices that the a cancellation request has been raised (by polling the CancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested method) or by throwing an OperationCanceledException using CancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested method. (cf http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997396%28v=vs.110%29.aspx)
These two ways involve that the non managed C++ routine executed by the user delegate cooperates by receiving the CancellationToken as a parameter and by calling at regular intervals its IsCancellationRequested and/or ThrowIfCancellationRequested methods.
Is that possible to do that from a non managed external C++ routine ?
If not, is there a way to force the termination of the task executing the user delegate (executing the non managed c++ routine) when the cancellation is requested by the requesting code ?
Here is an example (extract) of the mixed C# / C++Cli / Unmanaged C++ code I'm trying to fix in order to be able to cancel the operation performed by the user delegate in the C++ unmanaged code part:
FrmDemo.cs:-------------------------------------------------------------------------
public class FrmDemo : Form
{
    private CliClass m_CliObject;
    private System.Threading.CancellationTokenSource m_Cts;
    private System.Threading.CancellationToken m_Ct;

    private void FrmDemo_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // Creating the external CliObject:
        this.m_CliObject = new NSDemo.CliClass();
        ...
    }

    // Event handler of the button starting the cancelable asynchrone operation:
    private async void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        m_Cts = new System.Threading.CancellationTokenSource();
        m_Ct = m_Cts.Token;
        await Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
        {
              // Launching a cancelable operation performed by a managed C++Cli Object :
              this.m_CliObject.DoSomething();   // How to eventually pass the CancellationToken m_ct to the m_CliObject ?
        }, m_ct);
        ...
    }

    //Event handler of the cancel button:
    private void btnCancel_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // Requesting cancellation:
        m_Cts.Cancel();
        // (Or alternatively, how to eventually force the termination of the async Task without collaboration from it ?)
    }

CliClass.h:-----------------------------------------------------
#include "DemoCore.h"

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Runtime::InteropServices;
using namespace cli;

namespace NSDemo
{
    public ref class CliClass
    {

    public:

        CliClass();

        ~CliClass();

        void DoSomething()
        {
            // Performing the operation in the unmanaged coreObject:
            _coreObject->DoSomething();
        }

    private:
        UNSDemo::CoreClass *_coreObject;
        bool _disposed;

    };
}

CliClass.cpp:------------------------------------------
namespace NSDemo
{
    CliClass::CliClass()
    {
         _coreObject = new UNSDemo::CoreClass(...);
        ....
    }

    CliClass::~CliClass()
    {
        if (_disposed)
            return;
        if (_coreObject != nullptr) {
            delete _coreObject;
            _coreObject = nullptr;
        }
        _disposed = true;
        GC::SuppressFinalize(this);
    }

CoreClass.h-----------------------------------------------------------------

namespace UNSDemo {

    class __declspec(dllexport) CoreClass {
    public:
        ScanningCore();

        ~ScanningCore();

        void DoSomething();

    private:

    ...

    };

}

CoreClass.cpp:----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include "CoreClass.h"

namespace UNSDemo {

    CoreClass::CoreClass()
    {
        ...
    }

    CoreClass::~CoreClass()
    {
        ...
    }

    // Method actually performing the cancelable operation:
    void CoreClass::DoSomething()
    {
        // Main loop of the unmanaged cancelable operation:
        while (...) {
            ...
            // How to check the cancellation request from here ? (How to access the CancellationToken ?)
            // and if cancellation is requested, how to eventually throw the OperationCanceledException ?

        }
    }
}

Thank you for any help.

A: If you're dealing with purely unmanaged code, it doesn't know about the CancellationToken class, so you can't pass it around like you would with managed code.
What I would do is declare your unmanaged method to take a pointer to a Boolean, and have the unmanaged code abort itself if the boolean is set true. In your wrapper, use CancellationToken.Register to register a callback that will set the Boolean to true when the CancellationToken is cancelled.
This sounds easy on the surface, but it's a bit complex because you need a managed event handler that can access a Boolean value that you're allowed to take the address of.
public ref class CancelableTaskWrapper
{
private:
    bool* isCanceled;
    void (*unmanagedFunctionPointer)(bool*);

    void Canceled() { if (isCanceled != nullptr) *isCanceled = true; }

public:
    CancelableTaskWrapper(void (*unmanagedFunctionPointer)(bool*))
    {
        this->unmanagedFunctionPointer = unmanagedFunctionPointer;

        isCanceled = new bool;
    }

    ~CancelableTaskWrapper() { if (isCanceled != nullptr) delete isCanceled; isCanceled = nullptr; }
    !CancelableTaskWrapper() { if (isCanceled != nullptr) delete isCanceled; isCanceled = nullptr; }

    void RunTask(CancellationToken cancelToken)
    {
        *isCanceled = false;
        CancellationTokenRegistration reg = cancelToken.Register(
            gcnew Action(this, &CancelableTaskWrapper::Canceled));
        unmanagedFunctionPointer(isCanceled);
    }
};

void someUnmanagedFunction(bool* isCanceled)
{
    doSomethingLongRunning();
    if(*isCanceled) return;
    doSomethingLongRunning();
}

*

*Because isCanceled is a pointer to a bool, it's on the heap. Therefore, we're allowed to pass a pointer to it without needing to do anything special (e.g, pinning the managed object).

*CancellationTokenRegistration implements IDisposable, it will automatically unregister itself when reg goes out of scope. (You'd do this with a using statement in C#.)

Disclaimer: I'm not at a compiler right now; there may be syntax errors.


As a rule, accent walls are done incorrectly. Many a homeowner, driven half-batty by seas of white walls, splashes the last wall with puce, and no one can figure out why the wall never truly works.
Disclaimer: Accent walls divide interior designers like Social Security divides Democrats and Republicans. This article will attempt to remain bipartisan.
The truth is, an accent wall is not chosen; it is found. Not any wall can be an accent wall, nor can any color be an accent color.
How Do You Choose the Wall?
•It highlights interesting architecture, such as soffits, built-ins, fireplaces, bump-outs or large windows.
•It showcases important artifacts, such as a trophy case, guitar rack or family photograph collage.
•It remedies a room's visual imbalances, such as a dining room otherwise too deep to feel intimate.
An accent wall must have a clearly defined focal point. If its architecture does not supply one, then you must. An accent wall in a bedroom, for instance, could serve as a headboard for a bed.
What Do You Put on the Wall?
The color of your accent wall depends on your personality. If you're a colorphile, then you can make red and white stripes, cover the wall with geometric stenciling, or indulge your inner Jackson Pollack. If you're a colorphobe, then you can paint the accent wall a slightly darker or lighter shade as the rest of the room for a soft tonal difference.
•The other hues in the room. Unless you are decorating the room of a 16-year-old boy, don't pair colors warm-warm or cool-cool.
•The orientation of the windows. Warm colors belong on walls that receive northern or eastern sunlight. Cool colors belong on southern and western-facing walls.
•The proportions of the room. Whereas a warm color foreshortens your perception of distance, a cool color lengthens it. If you were to paint the end of a hallway, yellow would make it look shorter, and blue would make it look longer.
Think beyond drywall. You can slather paint on just about anything: reclaimed barn wood siding, corkboard, etched glass, porcelain tile, plywood, etc.
•An accent wall in a small room may steal its innate intimacy.
•Two accent walls may never occupy the same room.
•Elongated rooms may benefit from an accent ceiling rather than wall.
You can learn a lot on the Internet: how to fight a shark, backup your hard drive, even the fundamentals of accent walls. But some things work better with practice. That's where we come in. At Brad Stoner Painting, we have over 30 years of experience serving the San Diego Area. Let's paint that wall together. And no, it won't be puce.


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Q: Add class in  tag in select2 after ajax call I have implemented a dropdown and filled the choices by calling ajax using select2. I am fetching the wordpress taxonomies in the dropdown. So I need to add different classes for parent and children.  I want to add classes to my  tag in the dropdown. How can I add those classes?
Here is my code
add_action( 'wp_ajax_rudr_get_posts_ajax_callback', 'rudr_get_posts_ajax_callback' );
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_rudr_get_posts_ajax_callback', 'rudr_get_posts_ajax_callback', 999);
function rudr_get_posts_ajax_callback(){
    $return = array();

    if(!empty($_GET['q']))
    {
        $terms = get_terms( array(
            'taxonomy' => 'featured-development-location',
            'hide_empty' => true,
            'search' => $_GET['q'],
            'hierarchical' => true,

        ) );
    }else{
        $terms = get_terms( array(
            'taxonomy' => 'featured-development-location',
            'hide_empty' => true,
            'hierarchical' => true,
            //'search' => $_GET['q'],
        ) );
    }
    foreach($terms as $term)
    {
        //print_r($term);
        $term_id = $term->term_id;
        $term_slug = $term->slug;
        $title = $term->name;
        $classname = 'parent-category';
        $return[] = array( 'slug' => $term_slug, 'title'=> $title);
    }
    echo json_encode( $return );
    die;
}

JS :
jQuery('.locationselect').select2({
      ajax: {
          url: localdataLO.ajaxurl,
          dataType: 'json',
          delay: 250,
          data: function (params) {
              return {
                q: params.term, // search query
                action: 'rudr_get_posts_ajax_callback'
              };
          },
          processResults: function( data ) {
        var options = [];
        if ( data ) {

          // data is the array of arrays, and each of them contains ID and the Label of the option
          jQuery.each( data, function( index, text ) { // do not forget that "index" is just auto incremented value
            console.log(text);
            options.push( { id: text.slug, text: text.title,  } );
          });

        }
        return {
          results: options
        };
      },
      cache: true
    },
    minimumInputLength: 0 // the minimum of symbols to input before perform a search
  });


The limited-edition scent, to be launched on Wednesday, reportedly features an accord of "exquisitely porky musk."
The "animeau de toilette" (animals in French cf. "animaux") has a face, that of Kirk Norcross from Towie.
The operation is a marketing effort aimed at rewarding fans and attracting attention to the brand. The perfume will not be sold, just distributed gratis to those who will make it to Blue Inc, or participate in social media competitions.
We'll tag this fragrance as another one of those dishevelled and playful "why-not perfumes", which like to show the world that anything odd can be bottled. Also, the movie Sausage Party might be an influence. And by the way, it might just be a matter of choosing the right communication angle, as some leather fragrances can smell like edible, savory meat.


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Lord Admiral Christoffer Tarken
Lord Admiral Christoffer Tarken: A distant cousin to Grand Duke Beckett, Christoffer Tarken has served in the Boir Ducal Navy for nearly forty cycles. A tall, stern man, he has become almost a symbol of the Navy, being highly regarded by both officers and enlisted men.
While a distant relation to Grand Duke Beckett, rumors suggest that he is coldly received at the Citadel, though his daughter resides there since the death of his wife. His eldest son, Gustav, serves as the Captain of the Mircea, one of the newest of the Boir Ducal Navy's ironclads.
Despite the high esteem with which his people hold him, Christoffer seldom gives speeches and does not involve himself in politics at all. Rumors speak of his youngest son and wife, both of whom died under mysterious circumstances, but little is known about that, save that several noblemen in the Grand Duke's confidence have been known to make snide remarks about Christoffer's judgement.
Lord Admiral Tarken has recently been assigned to command of the Northern Fleet. Under the Grand Duke's orders, the Northern Fleet has set sail on a punative expedition whose purpose is the eradication of coastal harbors and villages in Noriel from where the Semat Armen raiders sail. Christoffer has sailed two weeks behind the main fleet aboard the Ubelfurst, the newest ironclad produced by the Iron Wizards of Boir.


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Clarke v Dickson (1858) EB & E 148 is an English contract law case concerning misrepresentation. It stands as an example of the restrictive approach common law courts took to rescission for misrepresentation before the leading case of Erlanger v New Sombrero Phosphate Co held only substantial counter restitution was needed.

Facts
Mr Clarke said he was induced by the three defendants' statements to take shares in The Welsh Potosi Lead and Copper Mining Company, formed for working on a mine on the cost-book principle. Dividends were declared in 1854-6. Then Mr Clarke accepted fresh allotments in lieu of dividends. In 1857 the company's performance was poor and it was liquidated under the Winding-up Act 1855. Then Mr Clarke discovered that the representations about its cost-book practices were false and fraudulent. He sued to recover deposits for the shares.

Judgment
Crompton J held that the contract could not be rescinded, since the shares were now worthless. He said where someone wants to exercise the voidable option,

Erle J and Lord Campbell CJ concurred.

See also
English contract law
Misrepresentation in English law
UK company law

Notes

English misrepresentation case law
1858 in case law
1858 in British law
United Kingdom company case law

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Bill Gates's road map for saving 4 million lives
Health 21 October 2010
By Andy Coghlan
Radical reduction in child deaths is in sight
(Image: One.Org)
Philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates this week unveiled his favourite image, as he launched the "Living Proof" campaign to bolster support for development aid to poor nations.
After rejecting paintings by van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci – and even the Microsoft logo – Gates revealed that he had plumped for a graph showing that between 1960 and 2008, the number of children dying each year fell from 20 million to 9.3 million.
Making the case for aid, Gates and his wife Melinda listed numerous successes through vaccination, education and agricultural programmes over the past decade.
Melinda Gates said that efforts to combat corruption through careful auditing of funds were working. Problems of "aid dependency" are being reduced though "smart aid" that helps recipients to escape poverty through their own efforts, she said. "The overall trend is that the world is getting better and better, although maybe not fast enough."
15-year target
Bill Gates said his aim for the next 15 years is to see child deaths cut to 5 million per year.
This will be achieved by dispensing more bed nets and anti-malarial drugs, deploying more trained birth attendants, and supplying new vaccines to combat lung disease, and diarrhoea caused by rotaviruses. "It's a road map for saving more than 4 million lives a year by 2025," he said.
To ram home the message that aid has rapidly improved lives for the world's poor, the pair said that since its creation in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has supplied anti-retroviral drugs to 2.8 million people with HIV, diagnosed and treated 7 million cases of TB and distributed 122 million bed nets. The nets halved malaria cases in Rwanda, Cambodia and Zambia, and reduced incidence by 76 per cent in the Philippines.
Through the Global Alliance Vaccines Initiative, vaccines have reduced tetanus cases by 85 per cent, and diphtheria and measles by 93 per cent in 10 years.
There is also progress supplying nursing care to help pregnant mothers and their babies safely through childbirth, another unserved need that claims 300,000 lives each year.
Melinda Gates said that since 2003, 15,000 regional health centres have opened in Ethiopia alone, employing 35,000 healthcare workers. "They live out in the communities themselves," she said, adding that this is a pivotal factor that has helped to drive down child mortality in Ethiopia by 25 per cent since 2003.
In agriculture, aid and research are helping to boost productivity through targeted interventions aimed at improving crop yields, capturing water for irrigation and providing advice on selling surplus produce. "We can cut hunger in half in Africa by 2020," said Bill Gates.
Overall, the programme of research, innovation and "smart aid" is helping families to lift themselves out of poverty, said Melinda Gates. "If you protect your children through vaccination, it protects the whole family, as parents don't have to care for sick children and can go to work, so they then have more to spend on their children's education and future."
Vaccination also counters unsustainable population growth, Melinda Gates said. "When they're confident their children will make it past their 5th birthday, parents have fewer children."
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Home Events & Festivals The 38th Bali Arts Festival: "Preserving the Universal Harmony and Synergy"
The 38th Bali Arts Festival: "Preserving the Universal Harmony and Synergy"
The annual festival on the grand arts of the fabled island of Bali will again throw the spotlight on this paradise island as the 38th edition of the annual Bali Arts Festival will be rolled out from 11th June to 9th July 2016, to be centered on Bali's Art Center in Denpasar, capital of Bali Province.
For one full month, the best of Bali's dances, music, and artistic expressions will be on display as Bali showcases its best cultural presentations. There will be daily performances of dance and music alongside countless related cultural and commercial activities during which literally the whole of Bali will converge on the city to present offerings of dance, music and beauty. The month-long festival will commence with a parade of performers from all districts in Bali and other Indonesian provinces.
This year, the festival carries the theme ""Paasuk Wetuning Bhuwana: Preserving the Universal Harmony and Synergy". The philosophy is taken from historic factors, inspiration of folk arts esthetics, and everything else that have formed the Balinese art as it is today. The theme will be illustrated in parades and processions, exhibitions, competitions, seminars, and documentations.
The event itself will be highlighted with fascinating features among which are dance dramas (Sendratari), Bali Modern theatre, Photography Workshops, culinary festivals, and musical performances. There will also be exciting competitions such as documentary movie competitions, handicraft competitions, literary writing, painting, photography competitions, and more. Parades and processions will also be presented including the Gong Kebyar Parade, Topeng Panca Parade, Nglawang Parade, Dramatari ArjaParade, Joged Bumbung Parade, Semara pagulingan Parade, Drama Gong Parade, and many others.
Each year, the Bali Arts Festival features classical dances of the island, such as the legong, gambuh, kecak, barong, baris, mask dances and the like, on which contemporary dance choreographies have been created and old village dances and activities revived. Since most of the art and cultural activities in Bali are motivated by religious devotion, artists will attempt to create their best works. Through its 38 years history, the Bali Arts Festival has been a media to rediscover and preserve the unique and celebrated arts and culture of Bali, at the same time increase its people's welfare. Through this special annual event, it is hoped that the true authentic wisdom and philosophy of the people of Bali will not only be preserved but will also grow and spread to other parts of the world.
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