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Weekly Briefing - Postseason Preparations
The Generals wrapped up the regular season home schedule this past weekend and now prepare for one final roadtrip before the postseason begins in the Northwest.
Friday, February 26th: Generals - 1, Wolves - 3
With only four games remaining in the regular season, all against the first place Wenatchee Wolves, the Generals faced a stiff test heading into this past weekend as they prepared to hopefully round into playoff form.
For the third time in as many meetings in Eugene this season, the Generals struck first on the scoreboard and took a 1-0 lead vs. the Wolves as Cole Bloemer followed up a two-on-one opportunity and pounced on a juicy rebound in the slot to open the scoring.
That 1-0 advantage would hold through 20 mintues as goaltender Zealand Walterscheid stopped all 15 shots faced in the first period, but the Wolves high-powered offense would break through after seven minutes in the second period as Richie Stickle would finish off a give-and-go with a beautiful wrist shot to level the score at 1-1.
Walterscheid was able to keep the young Wolverines at bay through the second period as the score remained tied at 1-1 after forty minutes, but the Wolves took their first lead of the game less than four minutes into the third period as go-to scorer Hunter Alden, who started the season with the BCHL's Wenatchee Wild, gave the Wolves the lead as he dropped to one knee and snuck the puck past a diving Walterscheid in net.
Two mintues later, Coleton Booth would tap home the Wolves' third and final goal of the evening as Wenatchee would pick up a come-from-behind 3-1 win over the Generals in the series opener despite a stellar 54-save performance from Walterscheid in net.
Saturday, February 27th: Generals - 2, Wolves - 6
After Friday night's frutrating and penalty-filled loss, the Generals looked to bounce back and earn a series split as they once again faced off against the Wolves.
For the first time in Eugene this season, the Wolves scored first and took the early 1-0 lead with less than 120 seconds off of the clock as captain Griffin Wiencek tapped home a lose rebound in front of the net after Generals goaltender Christopher Pritchard made the inital save off of a three-on-two opportunity.
Just over two minutes later, the Wolves doubled their advantage as Raymond Fleming would rip a slapshot past Pritchard, and it would then move to 3-0 late in the period as Hayden Givens would find some room in the slot and rifle a wrist shot top-shelf to put the Wolverines up by a field goal after twenty minutes of play.
The Wolves kept rolling right out of the gates in the second period as they would extend their lead to 4-0 after Tom Ignatovich ripped home a slapsotof his own, but the Generals would get a goal back after a beautifully executed two-on-one that was capped off by a stellar one-time finish by Eugene native Jack Thornton, just his third goal of the season but perhaps one of the best the Generals have scored in the 2015-16 campaign.
However, the Wolves would later regain their four-goal cusihon as Jonathan Banovetz would rip one from the near point and sneak it just past Pritch, pushing their lead to 5-1 with jus twenty minutes to go.
Wenatchee would tack on another to make it a 6-1 game in the third period as Will Connors would drop to one knee just like Alden the night before and finish beautifully, but Cole Bloemer would add a consolation goal for the Generals, and a beautiful goal at that, as the Alaskan finished nicely past Wolves goaltender Max Flynn on a short-handed breakaway to cap off the scoring for the evening.
In net, Pritchard finished the night with 53 saves as the Wolves completed the two-game weekend sweep of the Generals, their first ever sweep of the Generals in Eugene.
Coach Kern's Three Stars of the Week
First Star: Cole Bloemer
Second Star: Zealand Walterscheid
Third Star: Joe Thornton
NPHL Roundup
Once again, every team in the Northwest was in action this past weekend as the regular season rapidly wraps up in the NPHL.
On Friday, the Tri-City Outlaws hosted the Seattle Ravens to kick off a two-game home-and-home series, and the fans in attendance were treated to a nonstop goal-fest in Kennewick. It took seven minutes for the scoring to start when Seattle's Johnny Scherer silenced the Outlaws faithful and give the visitors the early 1-0 lead, and that opened up the flood gates in a game that would see a total of 16 (!!) goals scored.
The Ravens carried a 3-2 lead into the first intermission, and after the two teams traded goals early in the second period, the Outlaws turned on the jets and never looked back as they lit the goal lamp seven times in the second period to take a commanding 9-4 lead.
Seattle would tack on two goals in the final period and the Outlaws would add one more to cap off a crazy 10-6 win for the Outlaws.
After the offensive explosion on Friday night, both sides made the reutrn trip to Kent, Washington on Saturday to wrap up the two-game series on the Ravens' home ice.
The Outlaws offense picked up right where they left off as they opened the scoring just 89 seconds into the game, and they would never trail after that moment. Team-leading scorer Aaron Questad would score twice and Jimmy Grosklaus would stop 26 shots in net as the Outlaws finished off the sweep with a 6-2 win, their third consecutive weekend sweep and sixth win in a row overall.
Meanwhile, the Bellingham Blazers and West Sound Warriors held off their own home-and-home series this past weekend, with the two sides playing in Bellingham on Friday before wrapping up the series on Saturday in Bremerton.
The Blazers flexed their offensive muscles on Friday as they scored early and often, taking a 4-0 lead into the first intermission thanks in part to two goals by Reese Fegen. Mark Collins's squad would score another five goals in the second period to take a commanding 9-0 lead, and they would score three more in the final twenty minutes to finsih off a commanding 12-0 win over their old rivals.
Reese Fegen finish with a hat trick on the evening as Warriors goaltender Austin McCain tallied an eye-popping 65 saves in the lopsided loss.
On Saturday's rematch in Bremerton, the Warriors played like a brand new team as they surprisingly held the Blazers offense at bay through the first twenty minutes. However, Bellingham would break through for the opening goal early in the second period as Von Mullin would open the scoring with his sixth goal of the season.
With seven minutes left in the period, Simeon Smith would double the Blazers lead as they would carry a 2-0 lead into the final period of play, and Sean Meetsma would later finish the scoring in the third period as he scored the Blazers third and final goal of the night to wrap up a the shutout win and the two-game sweep over the Warriors.
Lastly, Sunday's lone NPHL game featured the Wenatchee Wolves playing host to the Seattle Ravens, and it quickly proved to be no contenst.
The Ravens' 2016 struggles continued as Hayden Givens' hat trick and Hunter Alden's four assist night helped pace the Wovlerines to a commanding 12-0 win in the NPHL's weekend finale.
Cascade Cup Playoff Picture
With only one week left of NPHL regular season action, the potential playoff matchups are now officially locked in as the postseason approaches in the Northwest.
In a matchup that had long been expected, it is now official that the Generals and Blazers will meet in the first round of the upcoming Cascade Cup Playoffs. On the other side of the bracket, the only question that had remained was figuring out who Wenatchee would host in their first round matchup. After a third consecutive four-point weekend for the Outlaws, they have cruised into the fourth and final playoff spot and thus have secured a first round date with the Wolves.
Video coverage for every NPHL game is available on FASTHockey.com while live stats can be found on Poinstreak.com.
Extra Ref Sighted on Saturday
Things took an interesting turn before the third period on Saturday as the NPHL's referee crew was surprised by an unknown, uninvited fourth crewmember that attempted to join them on the ice for the final twenty minutes.
The mystery referee was quickly revealed to be Jason Falls, a Generals billet and an active member of The Rink Exchange's adult hockey community. Falls, who kept his plans to hit the ice close to the vest, was showered with cheers from the stands but received mixed reviews from the referee crew on the ice.
After a quick discussion, it was deemed that Falls' referee services were not needed, and he was kindly asked to depart the ice.
Fan Appreciation Night Recap
For the eleventh consecutive season, the Generals wrapped up their regular season home schedule by celebrating the most important people in our #GensFam... the fans! The team's 11th Annual Fan Appreciation Night served as a celebration of the best hockey fans in the Northwest as the evening was filled with events, games, giveaways, autographs, and a postgame skate with Generals players.
As always, it was a special evening for everyone involved as new and familiar faces packed The Rink Exchange for one of the season's biggest (and rowdiest) crowds, and both fans and players left with memories that will last a lifetime.
Find a full photo album from the Eugene Generals' 11th Annual Fan Appreciation Night on the Eugene Generals' Facebook.
Generals Alums Face Off At ACHA Regionals
Former Generals Christofer Videto (2010-12) and Mario Retana (2009-11) faced off this past weekend at the ACHA Division II Western Regional Tournament, with Videto skating for the Utah State Aggies while Retana played between the pipes for the San Jose State Spartans.
The matchup did not disappoint as both Gens alumni put up notable performances, with Videto scoring a power play goal in the second period while Retana made a whopping 63 saves in net. The game was a seesaw affair that saw the Spartans lead 1-0 after the first period while the Aggies lead 2-1 after the second period. After a SJS goal midway through the final period tied the score at 2-2, both sides went into overtime where the Aggies were able to keep their season alive and pick up the dramatic 3-2 win.
AND THE AGGIES WIN. Game winning goal scored by Alex Herman assisted by Gary Higgs. The Aggies will take on UNLV tomorrow at 1 pm.
Posted by Utah State Hockey Club on Saturday, February 27, 2016
The following day, Videto and Utah State faced off against the UNLV Rebels with the final spot to the ACHA DII National Tournament on the line. After the nail-biter vs. San Jose State the night before, Sunday's matchup proved to be a breeze as the Aggies coasted to a 4-1 win behind yet another goal by Videto, who finished with a team-high three points during the regional tournament.
Nice goal today Chris Videto
Posted by Steve Videto on Sunday, February 28, 2016
The Aggies now head to West Chester, Pennsylvania for the ACHA Division II National Tournament where they will first be playing against Grand Valley State, New York University, and Penn State. You can follow Utah State's run at the ACHA Division II National Tournament on Pointstreak.
Playoff Tickets On Sale Now
The Eugene Generals are headed back to the postseason for the tenth time in eleven seasons.
After missing postseason play last year for the first time in franchise history, the Generals re-tooled under Head Coach Justin Kern and now are preparing for a run towards the Cascade Cup. To find out more about how the Generals were able to re-define the culture in Eugene, check out the latest story from the NPHL on NPHLonline.com.
As for the postseason, here is the Generals' potential playoff dates/times for the first round:
Game 1: Friday, March 11th @ BEL @ 7:35pm
Game 2: Saturday, March 12th @ BEL @ 7:35pm
Game 3: Friday, March 18th @ EUG @ 7:35pm - BUY TICKETS
Game 4: Saturday, March 19th @ EUG @ 7:35pm (if necessary) - BUY TICKETS
Game 5: Sunday, Match 20th @ BEL @ TBA (if necessary)
Click here to get your tickets now for the opening round of the 2016 NPHL Cascade Cup Playoffs.
Remember to follow the Generals on Facebook and Twitter for behind-the-scenes content, highlights, and more!


Detached from history and fueled by fear, his convention speech was utterly unlike anything we've heard in American politics.
It was a speech perfectly suited to the nominee. It was a speech utterly unconnected to anything we have ever heard from any previous nominee. It was, then, exactly what we should have expected from this most unexpected of candidates.
Most American presidential nominees—indeed, most convention speakers—pay homage to outsized figures of the nation's past, even some from the other side of the spectrum. House Speaker Paul Ryan, as did countless others in Cleveland, paid homage to Ronald Reagan. Vice Presidential nominee Mike Pence told the assembled Republicans that "the heroes of my youth were President John F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." Ronald Reagan himself, back in 1980, quoted Franklin D. Roosevelt. In past conventions, the Founding Fathers were invoked, or inspirational party leaders of the past, or some link to the heritage of party or country.
In so many other ways, Trump presented himself as a man alone, imbued with the power to do what no other person or institution can do. Consider how he described his visits to "the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country. People who work hard but no longer have a voice.
In his speech, Trump defined himself as a bedrock figure in American culture: the figure who faces danger alone, who follows his own code of conduct.
In this declaration—repeated at the end of the speech—Trump defined himself as a bedrock figure in American culture: the figure who faces danger alone, who follows his own code of conduct. He is Gary Cooper, standing alone against the Miller Gang in Hadleyville. To be more precise, and more contemporary, he is the man who uses his great wealth to protect the powerless from evil: He's Bruce Wayne as Batman, Tony Stark as Ironman.
In this speech, we have finally seen the answer to the perplexing question of just what political philosophy Donald Trump embraces. It is Caesarism: belief in a leader of great strength who, by force of personality, imposes order on a land plagued by danger. If you want to know why Trump laid such emphasis on "law and order"—using Richard Nixon's 1968 rhetoric in a country where violent crime is at a 40-year low—it is because nations fall under the sway of a Caesar only when they are engulfed by fear. And the subtext of this acceptance speech was: be afraid; be very afraid.
It is impossible to imagine anyone else giving an acceptance speech so disconnected from anything in the American political tradition. Whether voters see that departure as a cause for celebration or worry may help decide what happens in November.
Is Donald Trump Really a 'Fascist'?
The Trump campaign doesn't seem so funny anymore.
From Newsweek to Salon to the Daily Caller, commentators of various colorations have found ample reason to apply that often-discredited label to him. While these observers hesitate to lump Trump in with totalitarian dictatorships and historic crimes against humanity, they are clearly concerned over his strongman appeal, his populist rhetoric, and his rejection of GOP free-market orthodoxy.
Genuine conservatives aren't wrong to fret, but they seem unwilling or unable to grasp the clearest evidence that Trump is channeling toxic currents from the past — namely, his appeals to racial bigotry, his truculent attitude toward other nations, and his extremist "solution" to illegal immigration.
At a big rally in Mobile, Alabama, Trump welcomed Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, R-Ala., the only prominent politician singled out for praise. Sessions is a dubious figure whose federal judicial nomination was once rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee over his record of racially inflammatory behavior and remarks — which included calling a white civil rights lawyer "a disgrace to his race" and opposing the Voting Rights Act. Today, he is the chief Senate opponent of legal immigration to the United States.
Asked about the Boston beating, Lewandowski acknowledged that violence is "unacceptable," continuing: "However, we should not be ashamed to be Americans. We should be proud of our country, proud of our heritage, and continue to be the greatest country in the world." Like his boss, Lewandowski isn't subtle. His dog-whistle about "heritage" and being "proud" was heard loud and clear by the white supremacist underworld, which is rallying behind Trump.
The troubling tone in Trump's language can be detected when he talks about foreign policy, too. As David Cay Johnston recently reported, the draft-dodging billionaire boasts that he is the "most militaristic" candidate, and has blatantly advocated attacking other countries to "take" their oil. Imperial warmongering is a classic hallmark of fascism — indeed, it was military aggression by Nazi Germany that led to World War II.
Finally there is Trump's "solution" to illegal immigration. He promises to deport an estimated 11-12 million people, a plan that would be ruinously expensive and grossly inhumane to even attempt. The only analogous projects on that scale were atrocities carried out by the Turks against Armenians and, later, by the Nazis against European Jews.
Imagine a country that seeks to round up millions of brown-skinned people by force, transforming itself into a police state, while mobs of vigilantes in militias scourge frightened families out of hiding. It is not hard to predict scenes of bloodshed and horror.
No Donald, that isn't the way to "make America great again." For most of us — the majority of citizens who have no use for Trump and Trumpism — that isn't America at all.


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package pt.se_ulusofona.tarefeiros.controller;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.Toolbar;

import com.google.firebase.database.DataSnapshot;
import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseError;
import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseReference;
import com.google.firebase.database.FirebaseDatabase;
import com.google.firebase.database.ValueEventListener;
import com.google.firebase.storage.FirebaseStorage;
import com.google.firebase.storage.StorageReference;
import com.miguelcatalan.materialsearchview.MaterialSearchView;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import pt.se_ulusofona.tarefeiros.R;
import pt.se_ulusofona.tarefeiros.model.Tarefa;
import pt.se_ulusofona.tarefeiros.utils.MyTarefasAdapter;

public class SecondFragment extends Fragment {

    private View view;

    private ListView listaTarefas;

    private FirebaseDatabase database;
    private DatabaseReference tarefasRef;

    private ArrayList<Tarefa> tarefasAll;
    private ArrayList<String> dbRefs;

    private EditText editText;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    }
    @Nullable
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.second_layout, container, false);

        listaTarefas = (ListView) view.findViewById(R.id.lista_tarefas);

        editText = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.motor_pesquisa);
        editText.setSelected(false);

        database = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance();
        tarefasRef = database.getReference("Tarefas");
        tarefasRef.keepSynced(true);

        //Search View
        //Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) view.findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        /*setSupportView(toolbar);*/
        //getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Material Search");
        /*toolbar.setTitleTextColor();

        MaterialSearchView searchView = (MaterialSearchView) view.findViewById(R.id.search_view);
        searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new MaterialSearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
                return false;
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
                return false;
            }
        });
*/

        tarefasAll = new ArrayList<>();
        dbRefs = new ArrayList<>();
        MyTarefasAdapter myTarefasAdapter = new MyTarefasAdapter(getContext(), tarefasAll);
        listaTarefas.setAdapter(myTarefasAdapter);
        //Simplicação de código acima
        //listaTarefas.setAdapter(new MyTarefasAdapter(getContext(), tarefasAll));
        tarefasRef.addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener() {
            @Override
            public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                for (DataSnapshot child : dataSnapshot.getChildren()) {
                    Tarefa tarefa = child.getValue(Tarefa.class);
                    if(dbRefs.contains(child.getKey())) {
                        tarefasAll.set(dbRefs.indexOf(child.getKey()), tarefa);
                        ((MyTarefasAdapter) listaTarefas.getAdapter()).notifyDataSetChanged();
                    } else {
                        ((MyTarefasAdapter) listaTarefas.getAdapter()).add(tarefa);
                        dbRefs.add(child.getKey());
                    }
                }

            }
            @Override
            public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {

            }
        });

                listaTarefas.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                        Tarefa tarefaEscolhida = tarefasAll.get(position);
                        Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), VerTarefa.class);
                        Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
                        bundle.putSerializable("tarefa", tarefaEscolhida);
                        intent.putExtras(bundle);
                        startActivity(intent);
            }
        });

        //Motor de pesquisa
        editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

            }
        });

        return view;
    }

    /*public boolean onCreateOptionMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_item, menu);
        MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
        searchView.setMenuItem(item);
        return true;
    }

    //Fechar a procura quando der backPress
    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        if (searchView.isSearchOpen()) {
            searchView.closeSearch();
        } else {
            super.onBackPressed();
        }
    }*/
}

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This past weekend was the Wheels on Willy Crit put on by Chronometro near downtown Madison. Nice weather, good neighborhood, and friendly people. The women's race was dominated by two women who broke away very early and destroyed the rest of the field.


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Q: Pandas, read_sql() - reading from SQL Server I am reading data into pandas from a SQL Server database.
I am using Python 2.7.
I want to output the resulting query data into dataframe.
import pyodbc
cnxn = pyodbc.connect(r'Driver={SQL Server};Server=.\my_server;Database=my_db;Trusted_Connection=yes;')
sql = "select * from my_table"
df = pd.read_sql(sql, cnxn)

However, this fails with the error message :

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What do I need to do to successfully export it into a dataframe?

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Jack loves swimming, he likes to swim under the water and can hold his breath for a long time, more recently he has really enjoyed rough terrain walking and adventure areas.
A knowledge of working with someone with a brain injury and Epilepsy would be an advantage.
Jack is a young man with an endearing personality looking for inspiring and enthusiastic support workers to join his team. He loves the outdoors and enjoys trips out in his car to watch people, animals and trains. He likes to have fun and he has a great sense of humour, he wants people in his team who are similar. He loves slapstick comedy and finds it really funny when someone in his team falls over or trips up. Jack lives in his own home and he is very close to his family who are very caring and who play a vital role in his life. As part of his team you will support Jack in his own home, he isn't keen on too much noise or being over loaded with too much information and he needs people who are patient, people who have empathy for his situation and who will take time to understand him. You should be supportive of his emotional well-being and be willing to explore fresh opportunities for Jack so that he can participate fully in society, building new friendships and being a part of his community.
A DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check will be requested in the event of the individual being offered a position with Beyond Limits, the cost of which will be to the employee, however, this will be returned after successful completion of probation period (6 months).
For an informal conversation about this position or to contact us by email please see contact details at the bottom of this page.
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You are therefore not entitled to withhold information when asked about criminal convictions and you must declare any criminal convictions, cautions, warnings or reprimands. Any such information provided will be treated in the strictest confidence, Beyond Limits aims to promote equality of opportunity and is committed to treating all applicants for positions fairly and on merit.
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The Fujikura Group's concept of social contribution activities is based on the Fujikura Group Corporate Philosophy MVCV (Mission, Vision, Core Values), which is to help customers create value and contribute to society through its "Tsunagu" technologies, as well as based on a statement in our CSR Basic Principles, which says, "each and every employees will become aware of his or her own role as a member of society, and act according to good social sense." We are carrying out social contribution activities in accordance with our CSR Basic Principles, setting forth the concept that "we make social contribution actively, respecting the cultures and customs of the various countries and regions we operate in."
Our social contribution activities began in 1919 when Harukichi Nakauchi, a former auditor of the Company, established an institution for the mentally disabled, Fujikura Gakuen, with his own funds. Since then, we, both as a company and as individuals, have supported the institution. In the same regard, as times change, we as a company have considered how we should become involved with society and have taken actions accordingly up until the present day. We have contributed to society for over 90 years since Fujikura Gakuen's founding. Recognizing that our support for Fujikura Gakuen is the starting point of our Group's social contribution activities, we are committed to continuing our support of the institution.
The Fujikura CSR Committee established the "Fujikura Group Basic Social Responsibility Principles" to enable easier, active promotion of social contributions by employees in conjunction with local communities.
In line with its corporate philosophy and in response to the needs and expectations of society, the Fujikura Group will proactively conduct social contribution activities for the creation of a better society where people can lead more fulfilling lives.
It was in 1919 that our predecessors made the sound of a factory construction hammer on the ground of Kiba in Tokyo. Since then, we have carved a history of about 100 years with everyone in the Kiba area.
From the foundation in 1885 to today, we have nurtured and protected the corporate culture that "we value our customers and live with society," and to the heart of each and every employee to this day. The activities of social contribution that people have done as individuals and corporations are still unchanged, and we are breathing as a corporate culture.
1916 Kenzo Okada (former managing director) began providing financial support to education as an individual benefactor.
1919 Harukichi Nakauchi (younger brother of the founder and former auditor) established Fujikura Gakuen in Oshima.
1929 Tomekichi Matsumoto (the first president) donated a building for the new clinic opened by St. Barbana Mission at Kusatsu for people suffering Hansen's disease.
1935 Tomekichi Matsumoto (the first president) donated all 530 volumes of Gunsho Ruijyu written by Hokiichi Hanawa for the launch of Ninomiya Bunko (present Tochigi Prefectural Library).
1936 Tomekichi Matsumoto (the first president) made a monetary donation to RIKEN to support its research activities.
1938 Tomekichi Matsumoto (the first president) donated a meteorological station to Izu Oshima.
1939 Tomekichi Matsumoto and Fujikura Group companies established the research foundation named "Fujikura Kenkyusho" (present Fujikura Foundation) to conduct and support R&D.
1965 Restarted the education support activity launched before the Second World War via Fujikura Ikueikai.
Fujikura Gakuen was founded on June 7, 1919 by Harukichi Nakauchi, younger brother of the founder of Fujikura and former auditor of the Company. He donated 230,000 yen (equivalent to about two billion yen today) from his own funds to construct this school for the mentally disabled on land extending over about 132,000 m2 in Izu Oshima. He also donated this land and the facilities necessary for the foundation of the school.
Currently, there are facilities in Izu Oshima and Tama (Hachioji city), about 100 staff members are doing education and welfare on a 24-hour system for about 130 students. Since its founding, the presidents and executive officers have supported the management as directors, and donations from employees have been continued to date as well as company donations. We hope to continue to support "Fujikura Gakuen" as the origin of social contribution activities in the future.
Founding Bio Garden "Fujikura Kiba Millennium Woods"
In the redevelopment of the headquarters site, the Fujikura Group received a request from the local schools and local residents for planting and attention to biodiversity, and in November 2010, the Fujikura Group announced the pre-space bio Garden "Fujikura Kiba Millennium Woods" founded in the headquarters premises.
"Fujikura Kiba Millennium Woods" contains the wish that together with local residents in Koto area Koto ward "rich nature will continue until the future of one thousand years ahead."
There are 2,200 m² in size, two ponds and streams connecting it, a floating island, a promenade, etc. In order to reproduce the rich forests and forests of Musashino earth hundreds of years ago as living creatures have priority, We stuck to the native species specially.
For details of "Fujikura Kiba Millennium Woods"
In the Fujikura Group, we will continue to support the people of Fukushima suffering from the fight against the rebuilding of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the damage caused by the rumors of nuclear accidents, and even during the course of time the experiences of the Great East Japan Great Earthquake deeply carved into our hearts We will continue "campaign" to go to Fukushima! "From the mind that it prepares for a huge earthquake that comes with the determination of "not forgetting "absolutely not weathering."
Following last year, the Fujikura Group volunteered for reconstruction assistance in Minami Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, from 15th to 16th December 2017. Thirteen employees participated and improved the bamboo bus.
In the Fujikura group, we visit events such as stores dealing with products in Fukushima prefecture in Tokyo and Tohoku reconstruction goods exhibitions, purchasing local specialties from Fukushima, eating and supporting them.
The Fujikura Group supports the activities of the Fujikura Foundation, which gives financial assistance to researchers in the field of science and technology. This public interest incorporated association was initially launched as a research foundation (Fujikura Kenkyusho) by the second president Arata Matsumoto, being funded by the first president Tomekichi Matsumoto (100,000 yen) and by Fujikura Insulated Wire &Cable Ltd. (present Fujikura Ltd.) and Fujikura Kogyo (present Fujikura Rubber Ltd. and Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd.) (1.1 million yen in total). The research foundation was opened in Yono City, Saitama Prefecture and then relocated to Sendagaya and then to Samezu. At the facility, research was conducted focusing on polymers.
Subsequently the name of the foundation was changed to "Shinsei Shigen Kyokai" in 1946 and the main activity of the foundation was changed to give financial assistance to researchers and engineers. Since then Fujikura has been contributing to society by supporting the activities of this foundation. The foundation became a public interest incorporated association on April 1, 2011 and changed its name from Shinsei Shigen Kyokai to the Fujikura Foundation on November 1, 2012.
The Fujikura group holds volunteer "Pro Bono" activities using the expert knowledge and techniques employees gain in their work. Below is a list of those efforts.
Collaboration with NPO / NGO etc.
Our company group supports participation in local communities and the development of local communities and participates in various activities. As one of these activities, we are also collaborating with NPO/NGOs and others. The main NPOs / NGOs are as follows.
Fujikura has started selling TFT healthy lunch at the head office cafeteria since January 2014. TFT is a social contribution activity tackled by NPO Table for International, which tries to simultaneously resolve social problems of developing countries suffering from starvation and malnutrition and developed countries suffering from obesity and lifestyle diseases at the same time. When employees purchase TFT healthy lunch, 20 yen per serving will be donated from our company and will be used for school lunch fees for children in developing countries. 20 yen is equivalent to the amount of one serving school meal in developing countries.
Fujikura sponsored the "Koto Cinema Festival" held in Koto wards Kobuishiwa Cultural Center near the headquarters in 2017 as well. This cinema festival is intended to nurture new culture, and is planned and executed with the combined efforts of citizen groups and local government on the theme "Let's make Fukagawa a movie town." The town lives up to the example of locally born movie director, Yasujiro Ozu.
Fujikura participated in the local Furuishiba Children's Festival, held on July 9 of 2017, and hosted an event to go see the kingfishers in the "Fujikura Kiba Millennium Woods" bio-garden. 20 elementary students and their parents saw the Millennium Woods' kingfishers.
Our company invited about 30 kindergarten children and their guardians to the Biotope "Fujikura-Kiba Millennium Woods" for a potato digging event. The children were able to learn about the wonder of "living things" as well as the role of the "Millennium Woods" Biotope.
As in the previous fiscal year, we cooperated in the blood donation activity conducted by the Japan Red Cross Society with the participation of 86 employees in the Fukagawa district, where the head office is located.
Fujikura holds the "Fire Plaza in Fukagawa" by the Shenzhen Fire Department during the "Spring Fire Prevention Campaign" in March every year in "Fukagawa Gazzaria," and from FY 2017 three times a month (8th, 18th Day, 28th) We are carrying out disaster prevention drills "Disaster prevention deli" that customers will participate.
Such a cooperative activity was appreciated, and as a part of the Tokyo Fire Department's 70th anniversary event, we received a letter of appreciation from the Fire Department general.
Fujikura is a "Fukagawa Gatharia" that was born as a result of the redevelopment of the former Fukagawa Factory, and held various events and events in Fukagawa Gatharia for many office workers and local communities who work in the vicinity, actively I participated in local community activities.
May: GW event "Spring Gazza Fes (Music and Outdoor Event)"
Implemented BBQ and Potato Experiencing Event at "Fujikura Sakura Millennium Woods"
At the Fujikura Sakura Works we invited employees and their families on November 3, 2017, and held a BBQ and Totoro experience event at "Fujikura Sakura Millennium Forest." "Fujikura Sakura Millennium Forest" is a green space in the workplace for the purpose of protecting the natural environment, building employee health, community with neighboring residents, etc. The children were very pleased by touching nature at the workplace where their father and mother are working.
At the Fujikura Suzuka works, we pick up garbage around the establishment and weed out weeds once a month at lunchtime, and many employees are actively participating.
The Fujikura Suzuka Works participates in corporate briefing sessions of neighboring high schools every year. We also accepted internship from local high school.
The Fujikura Numazu Works also cleaned the Numazu city Senbon Beach coast of Fujikura, Meidensha, Ricoh this year and collected plastic products scattered on the coast, wood scraps, bottles and cans. This activity drains the water discharged from each company to the adjacent Shinkanchawa, and from the fact that it flows to the final Senbonohama coast, we conduct clean-up activities jointly by three companies during the environmental month.
The Ishioka works provides a place for intellectually challenged students to sell breads made by them at a bread making facility operated by "Heartful Village" which is a local disabled support facility. The bread is sold twice a week during lunch time at the employee cafeteria.
DDK conducts visit sales of sweets shop "Piquet" operated by the Challenge Center (Kobushi Association), a disabled support facility located in Tochigi Prefecture, twice a week at lunch break.
Since this disabled support facility "Challenge Center (Kobushi no Kai)" has been cooperating with people with disabilities in DDK for some time now, we also started selling bread. A lot of employees gathered at lunch break and it is very popular.
We will continue this activity that supports the working environment of people with disabilities and employees can eat delicious bread.
Nishi Nippon Electric Wire & Cable implemented a summer vacation trip to the plant titled "Bring Your Child to Work Day," once again. The event was for children of employees. 18 elementary-school-aged children from 14 families participated on the day.
Nishi Nippon Electric Wire & Cable registered for the "Keep it Clean Oita Promotion Project" promoted by Oita city, and participate in cleaning around our plant. The plant formed The Nishiden Volunteer Group for the cleaning, and they work to clean during lunch breaks.
Every year, the employees of Fujikura Automotive Asia use the money from sales of empty cans and plastic bottles to recycling companies to give presents to the residents of the "Sakuranbo House" facility for the learning disabled. This year, 6 employees visited to deliver the presents once again.
Held the "Fujikura Automotive Cup Little League Baseball Tournament"
Fujikura Automotive Asia Ltd. holds the "Fujikura Automotive Cup Little League Baseball Tournament" every year at the baseball field on the Hachimanbara plant grounds with the goal of supporting sports for local boys.
Once again, 20 employees participated as umpires and administrative support this year.
Fujikura electrical equipment participated in the Uesugi snow lantern festival held by Yonezawa City. We also participated in the event to make customers snow lanterns and greet customers with warm lights and raised the local festival.
Tohoku Fujikura is the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare at the 53rd National Conference on Blood Donation Promotion Movement, which was held at Akita Prefectural Budokuban in Akita City under the presence of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, Honorary Vice President of the Japanese Red Cross Society, I was awarded the award.
We have continued blood donation activities twice each year for a long time, and it was recognized that many employees cooperated so far. We will continue to proactively donate blood as part of our community contribution.
Fujikura Precision was accredited as one of the brightest companies in the Kumamoto ken Bright enterprise promotion project.
"Bright enterprise" is a coined word by Kumamoto Prefecture, has a high degree of satisfaction of employees and their families, is valued in local employment, has a high degree of contribution to local society and regional economies, is performing stable management Etc. are the basic requirements as "bright company."
Fujikura Precision donated an optical fiber fusion splicer to the prefectural Kamoto commerce and high school in Yamaga City, Kumamoto Prefecture. This is a new graduate recruitment interview exam conducted last October, because the student of the school talked that "There is practical training to connect optical fibers at our school."
If there is such practical training, we decided to give a donation promptly because of fusion splicer made by Fujikura.
Kyoei High OPT regularly holds beautification activities of the footpaths around the plant. The usual main focus is picking up garbage, but they also take safety into consideration, destroying and flattening mole tunnels made in grass areas near sidewalks.
Fujikura Cube sells wood chips that effectively utilize the demolition waste of drums for gardening. We purchase waste materials from group companies, manufacture and bag them on chip machines, named them "Magical Wood Chips" and sell them at three places at around half the market price. This "Monogami wood chip" is also popular among local people.
Field trips are held for job seekers and their families from special needs education senior high schools and from the local job-seeking and lifestyle support center, and for staff of the job-seeking support center. Workplace training for job-seekers is also accepted.
AFL in the United States participates in activities as a member of Habitat For Humanity, an international support group. Employees built the house together. This group solves the problems of poverty and poor housing mainly in developing countries and is working on housing construction and independence support activities.
AFL in the United States has a 4-year scholarship to excellent students entering the university. This was named "Naruse Academic Scholarship" with the thought of Mr. Toshihide Naruse (Former Managing Director of Fujikura) who worked hard at establishing AFL.
America 's AFL Company donated $ 2,000 to Pemi Youth Center to support young people' s education.
The FAI company in the United States participated in a project that NPO called Habitat for Humanity is doing and made a play house where children play. I painted the play house, assembled it, and donated what I made.
The FAI company in the United States recruited canned donations, warm clothing and toys from employees, gave each gathering to the three NPOs, and gave them to the disadvantaged people during Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Participation in "San Antonio Threads"
American FAA participated in "San Antonio Threads" to donate clothes and personal care products to disadvantaged teenagers.
American FAA participated in the painting activity of the house of the poor area sponsored by Martin Luther King Jr. commission.
Participation in "Cnadles for Life"
In the US FAA company, employees and their families participated in "Cnadles for Life" to support cancer patients and donated.
Fujikura Automotive Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V.
FAXX in Mexico donated money gained through waste recycling to the "Herat to little herat program" to recruit children for cardiac surgery and was awarded by the state government.
FAAXS in Mexico was recognized and awarded as a company with social and labor responsibility.
In October 2017, FAP awarded the National Award for Quality and Excellence in Management (international company National Quality Award) from Cheong Wa Dae of the Republic of Paraguay. This is due to the goodness of FAP's products / services leading Paraguay's automotive industry, and the government's recognition of FAP's contribution to society through education and social programs.
FAE in Spain made a plan for a paddle tournament to promote employee health promotion and internal revitalization. FAE of Ukraine also supports employee's football team.
The FAE company in Morocco has offered donated goods that the association wishes to the association of the area that manufactures organic products on women's day to support women.
At FAE in Ukraine, we participated and celebrated on the occasion of Ukrainian folk costumes to succeed traditional culture.
FETL company in Thailand planted mangrove trees to promote activities for environmental preservation. Many factories of FETL companies such as Nawanacon and Ayutaya are participating in this activity in cooperation with the government's environmental department.
FETL company in Thailand carries out blood donation every year at each factory. Many employees also participated this year.
FETL company in Thailand participated in events of children's day for employees and organized events for children to enjoy. Also, I donated sports equipment and stationery etc.
FETL company in Thailand received a "Zero Accident Campain 2017 Award" as a safe factory from Ministry of Labor (MOL), and was awarded.
FCH Corporation in China cooperated with FESL (Fujikura Electronics Shanghai Ltd.) located in the same China and visited an orphanage in Shanghai Children's Medical Center (Shanghai Baishanoya). We volunteered and donated at an orphanage.
Fujikura Hengtong Aerial Cable System Ltd.
KFH in China carries out blood donation activities every year. Many employees also participated this year.
KFH gathered donations from employees in August 2017 and donated to Qinghai Hainan Province Autonomous Region Kyowa Province as support for poor areas.
Korea's FKA Company carries out an in-house sports festival every year to promote employee health support and internal revitalization.


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Q: Hard reboot corrupted/removed my Qt library. Couldn't run GUI apps A little over a week ago I had an issue. My monitor didn't detect my system (Ubuntu 22.04), so I did a hard restart. Unfortunately this caused a problem:
Konsole terminal closes immediately because it cannot locate system icons
I think the hard restart corrupted my Qt5 library, meaning I couldn't run Konsole, or P4Merge etc. Not knowing what else could be wrong, I ended-up manually re-installing the OS.
Is this a known issue with Ubuntu/Linux? It freaked me out to the point I'm now looking at UPS devices. I've hard-restarted Windows (7) for many years and never had a problem. Is Ubuntu/Linux that fragile?
If this did happen again, are there better ways of "repairing" Ubuntu?


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Q: How to efficiently fetch managed objects & index as dictionary by a key attribute? So, I have an app where I'm importing some data from a web service and updating my local model to match. Entities from the web service have a uniquely identifying attribute, and I'm using that to figure out whether to create a new local object or fetch and update an existing one.
I know I don't want to loop through the input and run an NSFetchRequest searching for a match to each item's uniqueID, because fetch requests are expensive. Instead, I aggregate all the uniqueIDs from the input (easily done with -[NSArray valueForKey:]) and fetch all potentially existing objects using an IN predicate.
Then, I loop through the input -- for each item, I check to see whether the fetch I just did contains an object with matching unique ID. If it does, I update that object with new values from the input; otherwise I create a new object.
It's that matching which I'm not sure how to do efficiently. The fetch request gets me an array, so I need to search it to find the object matching the current input item's uniqueID. Right now I'm using -[NSArray filteredArrayUsingPredicate:]... so I search the array again (for an object I know is in it) for each imported item.
It seems like the more concise and efficient way to do this would be to get the fetch request results as a dictionary, with unique IDs (that is, the attribute searched on in the predicate) as keys and the corresponding NSManagedObjects as values. I could set up such a dictionary from the result array, but that too would require searching the result array repeatedly.
If the kit provides something like this, I've not had much luck finding it. Anyone come across a good way?

A: Okay, I feel dumb now. I was so focused on using the array of uniqueIDs I already had (and used in my fetch request) that I forgot I could work backwards.
So, here's the general outline:

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*Read in remote objects (array of dictionaries).

*Extract from that an array of uniqueIDs (using valueForKey: as shorthand for looping through and filling an array from each dictionary's objectForKey:)

*Use said array and an IN predicate to fetch potentially existing local objects.

*Get an array of uniqueIDs corresponding to the fetch results by using valueForKey: on the result array.

*Use +[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:forKeys:] to get a dictionary mapping uniqueIDs to local NSManagedObjects.

*Loop through remote objects, querying that dictionary to determine whether each has a corresponding local object that needs updating or something we need to make a new local object for.
In (simplified) code:
NSArray *remoteObjects; // array of dictionaries read in from server
NSArray *remoteIDs = [remoteObjects valueForKey:@"uniqueID"];
NSFetchRequest *request = [NSFetchRequest fetchRequestWithEntityName:myEntityName];
request.predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"uniqueID IN %@", remoteIDs];
NSArray *results = [context executeFetchRequest:request error:NULL];
NSArray *existingIDs = [results valueForKey:@"uniqueID"];
NSDictionary *existingObjects = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:results forKeys:existingIDs];
for (NSDictionary *remoteObject in remoteObjects) {
    MyManagedObject *existingObject = [existingObjects objectForKey:[remoteObject valueForKey:@"uniqueID"]];
    if (existingObject) {
        // have matching local object already, update it
    } else {
        // create new local object
    }
}

A: Well instead of using arrays, you can use NSDictionary instead using the uniqueID as the key value.

A: A bare bones starting point might look like:
NSArray *remoteObjects = // Array of dictionaries sorted by remotePrimarKey
NSArray *localObjects  = // Sorted by remotePrimaryKey using [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"%@", remoteKeys];

NSInteger localIndex  = 0;
NSInteger localCount  = [localObjects count];

MyManagedObject *localObject;

for (NSDictionary *remoteObject in remoteObjects) {

  localObject = nil;

  if (localIndex < localCount) {
    localObject = [localObjects objectAtIndex:localIndex];
  }

  if (<# localObject.primaryKey == remoteObject.primaryKey #>) {
    localIndex++;
  } else {
    localObject = // create new instance of MyManagedObject
  }

  // Configure localObject here
}

There a load of things you can change around and optimize but this is the clearest I could write it in the browser
In plain English
Set up

*

*Fetch the local objects sorted by the remotePrimaryKey and limited to the keys in the remote array

*Make sure the remote array is sorted by the same remotePrimaryKey

Process

*

*Step through the remote array one object at a time

*

*If there is a local object then

*

*Increment the index variable for the local array

*Configure this locally returned object

*If no local object found

*

*Create a new object

*Configure this new local object


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Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 | $ 37,000
Price: $37,000 Top Speed:93 mph
On Porsche Carrera's 20th anniversary in 1984, the Super Car 3.0 was replaced by a brand new Carrera with a 3.2 engine. Even though the bodywork, suspension, and the majority of the interiors were taken from 3.0, but in spite of the scrounges, the newer Carrera scored more than in most of the areas since it had better brakes, more power and superior comfort than its predecessor. It was widely anticipated that after twenty years of producing the 911, Porsche would come up with a new model to replace the iconic 911. But Porsche went a step short, and introduced the all new Carrera 3.2 with six different styles to choose from. Also available along with the new Carrera were the Targa or coupé variants, which ushered in a new era in the iconic Marquee's history.
The interiors of the Carrera 3.2 consisted of a sunroof, air conditioning, rear seats and radio, insulated sound proof undercoating, rear wipers, fog lamps, and front hood locking systems, luggage and engine compartment lights, bolted wheel nuts and rear lid "Carrera" insignia. With the exception of the limited edition Porsche Carrera Club Sports launched in the UK, all other models were distinguishable by their "Club Sport" decal on the front left fender and were available in a variety of special colors. Although the CS was well received by the club racers, but since it had fewer "couture comforts", it was not well received by the public in general.
A unique feature of the new Carrera 3.2 was its wide body and Turbo spoilers. This 'turbo-look' was a real hit as it was equally sensational in looks and was equipped with the same chassis and breaks in addition to be a lot cheaper than the original Turbo. Due to the amplified wind-resistance and wider tires, the 'turbo-look' wasn't as sprightly as the regular Carrera, which was not of much bother for the customers. In 1986 the turbo-look also became available for the Targa and cabriolet. The Carrera 3.2 Speedster had a lower and horizontal windscreen and a straightforward manual top that folded underneath a fiberglass cover. The year 1987 saw the launch of a 'Silver Anniversary' model that featured diamond-blue metallic paint, in addition to the fuch wheels available in black, white, or platinum-metallic.
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Ready to have some fun? We've got a game for you, and the rules are simple: You guess the celebrity based on her famous flowing locks. Click "next" to find out if you're right. We've even included some hints to help you out.


Standing at the crossroads. Coins or pentacles are of the Earth, Virgo/Taurus/Capricorn. Nothing emotional here, no hearts or flowers. This is a card of practical, earthly investment of time and physical labor. Work. The number 7, however, is quite the unstable number, and a powerful one. Every cell in our body is said to renew itself every 7 years, which means you're literally not the same person you were when you were born.
Pictured on the Rider – Waite traditional card is a man leaning on a hoe as in a long handled gardening tool taking a minute to reflect and assess his work which has been to tend and grow a lovely money tree that is a bushy green growth hung with big gold coins. On the Morgan-Greer card, a man in a blue work shirt and leather apron is at a workbench chiseling and engraving the large gold discs, and we can see rows of completed coins behind him, but it seems he hasn't even looked up from his work since he started and just keeps slaving away.
We get it, you're very good at what you do. We admire your work. You've accomplished quite a lot, and at this stage feel the need to 'stand back' and re-assess your big picture. This card is asking us to stop rushing around, take a break and re-examine where we are, why we're where we are, and where we're going in our lives.
Why am I even doing this? It's possible that our man or woman has been working for free, or is having second thoughts about what he's being paid. "Is this worth it?" is always the feeling I get from this card. You may have invested a lot of time, effort and money and yes, it's starting to 'bear fruit', but is the yield worth the investment? You're starting to wonder.
This is a very good card for those in the arts. Artists are pretty grateful to be paid for what they do at all, so as long as he's working, the artist is content to see realized what he'd imagined.
From time to time we need to stand back and assess, but this can also be a procrastinator. If you're committed to whatever it is you're doing, have your coffee and get back to it. If you're not, consider carefully why this isn't satisfying you, especially on a material level. Time is money, labor is money, and we need money to live.
Who and where will you be in 7 years?


Does your best friend need to burn off some energy? Planet Dog Planet Ball is perfect for bouncing, tossing and fetching. Your pup might hold onto the ball a little longer to enjoy the minty flavor, giving your throwing arm a rest.


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Q: How to search for links without the https protocol in JavaScript I need to write some JavaScript which identifies any links within that page that aren't using the https protocol and only have http. Once it has found them it needs to change the font of the link to yellow, or if the link is an image, give it a yellow border.
I've written some code which searches through the page and collects the a tags, but I'm not sure how to get it to specify only the links which do NOT use https. I've tried using the .protocol on the href but I can tell this is wrong (I'm still learning!) I'm guessing regex would be a good place to start but I don't have the faintest idea how to search for it. Would anyone be able to advise?
Here is the link to my jsfiddle:
https://jsfiddle.net/rebeccasmith1301/k87oujgy/

function find_link_by_href(){
    var articleName; // Create variable articleName
    links = document.getElementsByTagName("a"); // Collect all of the a tags on the page
    alert(links.length);
    var counter = 0; // Create a counter and set it to 0
    for(var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) { // Crawl through all all links
     alert(links[i].href.protocol);
     if( links[i].href.protocol != "https:") {
      counter = counter + 1;
      links[i].style.color = "yellow";
      links[i].style.border = "solid";
      links[i].style.border = "2px";
      links[i].style.border = "yellow";
     }
    }
    alert("There is " + counter + " amount of http links on this page.")
   }
      find_link_by_href();

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A: There is no need to use a reg exp, just check to see if the protocol of the link is http. Also you can just add a class to make it cleaner.

var anchors = document.querySelectorAll("a");
for (var i=0; i<anchors.length; i++) {
    var anchor = anchors[i];
    anchor.classList.toggle("warn", anchors[i].protocol!=="https:");
}
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A: Try replacing
links[i].href.protocol

with
links[i].protocol

Here's an updated Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/0kc2qxug/ and some additional information regarding protocol:  http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_anchor_protocol.asp

A: Why use JavaScript? CSS can do it for you:
img[src^='http://'] {border:1px solid yellow}
a[href^='http://'] {color:yellow}

A: You can do that with css
a[href^='http://'] {
  color: yellow;
}

a[href^='http://'] > img {
  border: 1px solid yellow;
}

Example : http://jsbin.com/vinayuvaru/edit?html,css,output

A: Just parse the href:
function find_link_by_href(){
            var articleName; // Create variable articleName
            links = document.getElementsByTagName("a"); // Collect all of the a tags on the page
            var counter = 0; // Create a counter and set it to 0
            for(var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) { // Crawl through all all links
            var href = links[i].href;
    var host = links[i].host;
    var protocol = href.replace(host, '');
    protocol = protocol.replace('///', '');

      if( protocol !== "https:") {
                    counter = counter + 1;
                    links[i].style.color = "yellow";
                    links[i].style.border = "solid";
                    links[i].style.border = "2px";
                    links[i].style.border = "yellow";
                }
            }
            alert("There is " + counter + " amount of http links on this page.")
        }
  find_link_by_href();

https://jsfiddle.net/k87oujgy/1/


Within the near future major investments will be made to ensure easy access to the port by road and rail.
The Port Line is the 10 km railway that links the Port of Gothenburg to the rest of the Swedish rail network. The Port Line is one of the most important rail links in Sweden and allows freight from all over Scandinavia to reach the port in Gothenburg. Some 60-70 freight trains use the line every day.
The current single-track line is being expanded into a double-track system, including an extra bridge across the Göta Älv river. The track comprises five stages and it has been decided to expand four of these with completion scheduled for 2019. The double Marieholm Bridge will be completed in 2016.
Road 155 will be further enhanced, as well as the Hinging Road.
The routes leading to the port have been improved considerably in recent years thanks to new and more suitable approach roads and two new junctions – Vädermotet and Ytterhamnsmotet.
Also under construction is a junction leading into the Arendal area, which will be coordinated with the new Sörredsmotet junction. Read more about how road 155 is expanding on the website of Trafikverket.


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Voters in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C. have voted to approve sweeping pro-marijuana legalization, according to a CNN projection.
The three wins have pro-legalization activists enthused and many are already looking towards 2016, when ballot initiatives in states such as California, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada and Arizona are likely to be put to voters.
In Oregon, the law legalizes personal possession, manufacture and sale of marijuana for people 21 years of age and older. Mimicking similar plans in Washington State and Colorado, the Oregon law will also create a commercial regulatory system for the production, distribution and sale of marijuana.
Alaska's law is similar to Oregon and would tax and regulate the production, sale and use of marijuana, making the use legal for people over 21 years old
Washington, D.C.'s proposal, while scaled back compared to the others, allows for a person over 21 years old to posses up to two ounces of marijuana for personal use and grow up to six cannabis plants in their home. It also allows people to transfer up to one ounce of marijuana to another person, but not sell it.
The issue is not fully resolved for the District of Columbia, however. Because of its unique status as a district, not a state, Congress has the authority to overrule D.C. laws and some lawmakers have signaled that they would likely work to overrule the popular vote.
Pro-marijuana activists heralded the victories as "huge" on Tuesday.
"It's always an uphill battle to win a marijuana legalization initiative in a year like this, when young people are so much less likely to vote, which makes today's victory all the sweeter," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance said about Oregon. "The pace of reform is accelerating, other states are sure to follow, and even Congress is poised to wake from its slumber."
Wins in Washington, D.C. also have activists hoping for federal recognition.
"With marijuana legal in the federal government's backyard," said Tom Angell, chairman of Marijuana Majority, "it's going to be increasingly difficult for national politicians to continue ignoring the growing majority of voters who want to end prohibition."
Not all news was positive, however, for marijuana activists on Tuesday, however.
Voters in Florida gave the thumbs down to medical marijuana in the the Sunshine State earlier in the night, according to a CNN projection.
The measure – which is one of many on ballots in 2014 – would have legalized the use of medical marijuana in Florida and would have tasked the state's Department of Health with regulating it.
Marijuana has been a surging issue of late.
In 2013, according to Gallup, more Americans supported legalization than those who opposed it. Just 14 years earlier, those who opposed it had over a 2-to-1 advantage. A 2014 Pew Research poll found that 54% of Americans supported making marijuana legal.
Ever since voters in Colorado and Washington allowed the sale of legalized marijuana in 2014 (after voters decided to legalize years before), the push for more marijuana legalization has become a popular nationwide effort.
The laws in Oregon and Alaska are similar to what Colorado and Washington State passed and would allow recreational sale and taxation of the drug. Both votes are expected to be close, with polls mixed on the results.
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Emma Martin
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Chief Scientist, UNEP-WCMC (UN Environment Program – World Conservation Monitoring Center)
Lake Chad Flooded Savanna
The ecoregion's land area is provided in units of 1,000 hectares. The protection goal is the Global Safety Net (GSN1) area for the given ecoregion. The protection level indicates the percentage of the GSN goal that is currently protected on a scale of 0-10.
Bioregion: Sahel Acacia Savannas (AT23)
Realm: Afrotropics
States: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria
Lake Chad's volume decreased dramatically by 95 percent between 1963 and 2008. The lake is a vital refuge to migrating birds, especially ducks and waders that spend the northern European winter period in Africa. Additionally, more than 30 million inhabitants are dependent on the lake's resources. Despite the high rates of evaporation at 2,300 mm per year, Lake Chad has low levels of salinity because the more saline waters sink and exit the lake through subterranean conduits in the north.
The flagship species of the Lake Chad Flooded Savanna ecoregion is the secretary bird. Image credit: Courtesy of Wildscreen Exchange
The ecoregion includes Lake Chad and the nearby Hadejia-Nguru wetlands. Lake Chad straddles the borders between four African countries: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. The lakes surface area fluctuates greatly by season and by year with changing rainfall patterns associated with oscillations in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The lake shrunk from 25,000 km2 in the 1960s, to one-tenth of that size by the mid-1980s. Since then the lake has seen some recovery and the average total monthly surface water area for the dry season from 1989 to 2017 was 12,700 km2.
An outlier of the ecoregion is found at the Hadejia-Nguru floodplain in northern Nigeria which is connected to Lake Chad by the Yobe River. The climate is dry, with an annual average rainfall of 320 mm, with most occurring between June and October. Most water input comes from rivers, with the majority of input originating as precipitation and brought to Lake Chad via the Chari and Logone Rivers. During wetter periods of the Pleistocene the lake expanded to cover 2.5 million km2.
Black crowned crane. Image credit: Olaf Olivero Riemer, Creative Commons
Vegetation in the south basin of Lake Chat consists of Cyperus papyrus, Phragmites mauritianus, Vossia cuspidata, and other wetland plants. Phragmites australis and Typha australis grow in the more saline north basin. Occasionally, the floating plant Nile lettuce covers large areas of open water. Seasonal yaére grassland grow on the southern lakeshore, where annual flooding is prolonged and water depth reaches 2 m. Vegetation consists of Echinochloa pyramidalis, Vetiveria nigritana, Oryza longistaminata, and Hyparrhenia rufa.
Dendrocygna viduata. Image credit: Richard Bartz, Creative Commons
This ecoregion is important for large numbers of migrant birds. Seventeen species of waterfowl and 49 other wetland bird species are recorded, with abundance varying from year to year. More than one million ruff have been recorded at Lake Chad. In the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands the most common waterbirds are white-faced whistling duck, garganey, northern pintail, and ruff. Lake Chad supports two near-endemic bird species, the river prinia, and the more widespread rusty lark.
The lakeshore is also important for large concentrations of Palearctic birds of prey, such as the steppe eagle and booted eagle. Two near-endemic rodent species are found, Mastomys verheyeni and the Lake Chad gerbil. The wetlands of Lake Chad and Hadejia-Nguru formerly supported herds of large mammals. Savanna species included red-fronted gazelle, dama gazelle, patas monkey, striped hyena, cheetah, and caracal.
Species more adapted to the wetland habitats included African elephant, two species of otter, hippopotamus, sitatunga, and kob. Most of the large mammals have been hunted out, and replaced by large numbers of cattle. Nile crocodiles are also now extremely rare and may have been wiped out. Large numbers of fish, corresponding with seasonal inflows, migrate to the rich floodplains to feed and breed. Many of these species also occur in the Nile, Niger, and Zaire Rivers.
Hippo. Image credit: Diego Delso, Creative Commons
Local communities occupy most of the land for settlements, farms, cattle grazing, and as bases for fishing. Part of the area is found within the Chad Basin National Park. In Nigeria and Cameroon, the Lake Chad Ramsar Site was established (covering a total area of 8,225 km2). The outlier in Nigeria is partly protected by Rurum Forest Reserve and Falgore Game Reserve. The Lake Chad Basin Commission was formed in 1964 to regulate and plan uses of the water and natural resources within the Lake Chad Basin.
Caracal. Image credit: Creative Commons
Severe drought through the 1970s devastated the Sahelian region, and led to decreased water inflows into Lake Chad and a decrease in the lakes volume by 95% from 1963 to 2008. During the drought, increased human pressure on the dwindling lake and surrounding habitats put intense pressure on the entire area. In recent years the rains have been better and the lake has increased in area, however, the variability of the hydrological regime and availability of freshwater is still a major threat. The extent of local irrigation also increased after the introduction of small gasoline-powered pumps.
The fish populations in the lake have suffered declines recently from drought, overfishing, diversion or blockage of instream flows, and increased juvenile catch due to the use of smaller mesh. The most economically important fish in Lake Chad are the characin and the Nile perch. Characin populations have decreased drastically while Nile perch catch-sizes have decreased substantially. Additionally, leaching of agro-chemicals is polluting the wetland system.
The priority conservation actions for the next decade will be to: 1) support the implementation of good fishing practices and fish stock conservation; 2) implement afforestation and reforestation schemes within the basin; and 3) support and strengthen the capacity of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the ecoregion to better manage the water resources of the basin.
1. Burgess, N., Hales, J.A., Underwood, E., Dinerstein, E., Olson, D., Itoua, I., Schipper, J., Ricketts, T. and Newman, K. 2004. Terrestrial ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: a conservation assessment. Island Press.
2. Lake Chad Basin Commission. 2016. The Lake Chad Development and Climate Resilience Action Plan. Washington DC, USA: World Bank.
3. FAO. 2008. The Lake Chad Basin: a system under threat. [Online]. [Accessed 6 February 2018]. Available from: http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i2345e/i2345e06.pdf
4. Policelli, F., Hubbard, A., Jung, H.C., Zaitchik, B. and Ichoku, C. 2018. Lake Chad Total Surface Water Area as Derived from Land Surface Temperature and Radar Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sensing. 10(2), p.252.


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McDonald's employee hides in freezer during restaurant shooting
McDonald's on Lomb Avenue (Source: WBRC)
By Catherine Patterson | October 28, 2018 at 9:27 PM CDT - Updated October 29 at 2:42 PM
BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - A terrified fast food employee is now thanking an armed customer who shot and killed a masked gunman Saturday night in Birmingham.
The shooting happened at the McDonald's across from Princeton Hospital.
Markus Washington had to hide in the freezer as this all went down. He said he heard more than 15 shots fired.
Markus Washington (Source: WBRC)
Now, he's owing his life to that armed customer.
"I'm feeling grateful," he said. "Wrapping my head around it all, I was just wishing someone would come wake me up from this nightmare."
[ Man with kids shoots, kids masked man who opened fire at B'ham McDonald's ]
It's a nightmare that could have ended a lot worse for Washington and his coworkers.
"I was making two quarter-pounders and heard three shots ring, and then exchange of gunfire two more," said Washington.
That exchange was between a masked gunman and an armed customer, who was leaving the restaurant with his sons at the time.
Birmingham police said the masked man started shooting inside the restaurant. That's when the father began shooting at him.
Meanwhile, Washington and one other employee hid in a freezer.
"All we hear is like different gunfire, so in my mind, I'm imagining everybody is dead. He's looking for us," said Washington.
Police said both the father and the masked man were hit, along with one of the children. The gunman later died from his injuries.
Washington and other workers are now thankful the customer was there at that exact moment.
"He's my hero," he said. "Because I can only imagine how it would've went if he wasn't armed. We might not be here having this interview."
Police tell us the father will not be facing charges at this time.
The father has life-threatening injuries, while one of the kids hit has non-life-threatening injuries.
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Sol 3558: Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm, on August 9, 2022, Sol 3558 of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission, at 23:27:45 UTC.
When this image was obtained, the focus motor count position was 14106. This number indicates the internal position of the MAHLI lens at the time the image was acquired. This count also tells whether the dust cover was open or closed. Values between 0 and 6000 mean the dust cover was closed; values between 12500 and 16000 occur when the cover is open. For close-up images, the motor count can in some cases be used to estimate the distance between the MAHLI lens and target. For example, in-focus images obtained with the dust cover open for which the lens was 2.5 cm from the target have a motor count near 15270. If the lens is 5 cm from the target, the motor count is near 14360; if 7 cm, 13980; 10 cm, 13635; 15 cm, 13325; 20 cm, 13155; 25 cm, 13050; 30 cm, 12970. These correspond to image scales, in micrometers per pixel, of about 16, 25, 32, 42, 60, 77, 95, and 113.
Most images acquired by MAHLI in daylight use the sun as an illumination source. However, in some cases, MAHLI's two groups of white light LEDs and one group of longwave ultraviolet (UV) LEDs might be used to illuminate targets. When Curiosity acquired this image, the group 1 white light LEDs were off, the group 2 white light LEDs were off, and the ultraviolet (UV) LEDS were off.
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Image from MAHLI taken on Wednesday, Jul 17 2019
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Lapid, Bennett's Vice Premier titles stall coalition
Bayit Yehudi, Yesh Atid say PM must learn to keep his word; Netanyahu: Upcoming term to be one of the most difficult ever.
Lapid and Bennett at Knesset swear in 370
As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that coalition talks were almost over, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett delayed signing final agreements Thursday.
Likud asked to meet with the two parties' negotiating teams to notify them that, contrary to agreements reached in previous talks, Netanyahu no longer wants to appoint any deputies. The negotiators refused to meet on the issue.
Bayit Yehudi and Yesh Atid sources said that their party leaders had been promised Vice Premier positions, and that it is important to them that Netanyahu keep his word so they can trust him.
"We won't play this game of last-minute tricks," a source close to Bennett said, adding that the party heard about the prime minister's change of heart on the radio before anyone from the Likud notified the Bayit Yehudi.
Still, Likud Beytenu negotiator Moshe Leon told Channel 2 News Thursday night that he's confident that an agreement will be signed Friday.
"We've been talking about the issues for six weeks, and this topic [of Vice Premiers] only came up once. When it's time to sign, they can't just complain about this," he said.
Earlier Thursday, at a Likud Beytenu faction meeting, Netanyahu said the job of building a coalition was nearly complete, and that the party got the most important portfolios – the Foreign and Defense Ministries.
"These are the most important ministries, the areas of responsibility that let us manage the country," he stated.
Netanyahu also pointed to his party's majority in the government, without which, he said, its ministers could not promote its policies.
"The upcoming term will be one of the most difficult ever," he explained. "There are a number of challenges that are not getting enough public attention."
The prime minister also called on Lapid to pass a responsible budget that will protect the economy in the face of international turmoil, and said he will give the new Finance Minister all the support he needs.
"I am sure we will do all we need with in security, diplomatic and economic areas to bring good news to the State of Israel," he concluded.
Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman added a bit of humor to the meeting, joking about "white smoke not only in the Vatican, but in Jerusalem, too."
"There has been a lot of commentary in the media about political dealings. I hope we're finished with this chapter, and next week the commentary will be about our work, not that," he said.


As I mentioned a little while ago, the Digital Stream Freeview HD recorders are being updated to enable iPlayer, via the Red button on BBC channels. The firmware update has been released today, and you'll find it available for download from their support site at MIT London.
There are two versions, depending on whether or not you want a Dolby Digital output from the box, so do make sure you download the right one – 4.14r8683 for Dolby Digital, and 4.14r8684 for the PCM audio output.
Download the appropriate file, which is a ZIP. Unpack it and you'll have a folder containing eight items; copy these to a USB memory stick; mine is formatted as FAT-16 and works fine with the Digital Stream. Turn on the recorder, then pull down the flap on the right hand side of the front panel, and plug in your USB stick.
Press the Menu key on the remote, select 'Others' and on the next screen, scroll down to Maintenance, press OK, and select Software Update, and press OK again, then enter your PIN.
Next, a pop-up will ask if you want Over Air Download or USB; choose USB and press OK. The display may briefly return to the menu and then show a message that things are being updated; don't turn off your box during this process. Wait for it to restart on its own, which may take a few minutes.
Eventually the box will restart; when the TV picture appears, you'll see a message explaining how to remove the USB memory. First, though, select Others from the main menu, press OK on Diagnostics, then select System Information and press OK again. About half way down the screen, the Application version should reflect the update you've just installed – 4.14r8683 for Dolby Digital or r8684 for PCM.
You'll also see your net connection details below that; if all the numbers say 0.0.0.0, make sure you have the box connected to your home network. From the 'Others' menu, select Peripheral Devices, then Network. For most home networks, ensure that the option at the top of the screen says DHCP, then select Apply; you may need to turn off and on again after changing this setting.
When the connection's up and running, you'll be able to get BBC iPlayer by pressing the red button on a BBC channel, like BBC One – but not until the 2nd of March.
Incidentally, I updated without any problems, and my scheduled recordings weren't affected, but it's probably worth checking just in case; you can also save settings using the Backup/Restore DB option under 'Others' / 'Maintenance', which will store your channel and schedule information to the USB stick.
When you're sure you've finished, go to the Media list, press Func+ and choose 'Remove USB' from the bottom of the menu before removing the USB stick from the front panel.
Next FreeviewHD's leap year problem – check your timers!
just retuned and updated but still no HD channels showing ?
You have just had the first stage of switchover; there is another stage in two weeks time, and it's then that you'll get the HD channels, I believe.
Are you tuned to a BBC mux? Best to try BBC One SD on channel 1. And also, have you checked in the System Information menu to see if your box has been assigned an IP address. You won't get anywhere until that's done, which means connecting the Digital Stream to your router via an Ethernet cable, either directly or using something like a powerline adaptor.
had to reboot my modem thanks. Will itv player and 40d be coming to freeview anytime soon do you know?
Hi, does this mean you will be accessing iplayer using a data connection rather than the freeview connection?
Yes. The box fetches all the content via your broadband, but uses Freeview to grab the iPlayer app, essentially.
Hi, tried to get on MITLONDON site for update files, but just get a domain site. are these files still available for download??
Also Im not a technophile, so if I have access to them which one do I download, just bought a Finalux 4k tv, and just want to use the Digitalstream to record. At the moment its playing up. voice is out of sync with picture etc. Any info please. Best regards Ash.
I'm afraid I don't have a definite update – you could try the Digital Stream site at http://www.dstreamtech.com/english/ and see if the file is lurking there somewhere.
I've looked back through my old emails, and discovered that I have contact details for Digital Stream, from when we were beta testing back in 2011/2012. I'll see if those still work. I can also still, amazingly, access the ftp server they gave us a password for back then, but I have no idea which files on it might be current ones.
My Digital Stream DHR8205 – 500GB HD PVR has also developed problems. The MIT site is a "Domain for sale" so is no good for updates. Can you help, please?


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Byrsonima crassifolia
(L.) Kunth
Byrsonima coriacea (Sw.) DC.
Byrsonima cotinifolia Kunth
Byrsonima cubensis A.Juss.
Byrsonima cumingiana A.Juss.
Byrsonima fagifolia Nied.
Byrsonima fendleri Turcz.
Byrsonima ferruginea Kunth
Byrsonima jamaicensis Urb. & Nied.
Byrsonima karwinskiana A.Juss.
Byrsonima lanceolata DC.
Byrsonima laurifolia Kunth
Byrsonima montana Kunth
Byrsonima moritziana Turcz.
Byrsonima moureila (Aubl.) Loudon
Byrsonima panamensis Beurl.
Byrsonima pulchra DC.
Byrsonima rhopalifolia Kunth
Byrsonima spruceane Nied.
Malpighia coriacea Sw.
Malpighia cotinifolia Spreng.
Malpighia crassifolia L.
Malpighia laurifolia Spreng.
Malpighia montana Spreng.
Malpighia moureila Aubl.
Malpighia pulchra Sessé & Moc.
Malpighia rhopalifolia Spreng.
Malpighia rufa Poir.
Common Name: Golden Spoon
Photograph by: Hermann Luyken
Fruits, with one split open to reveal the flesh
Photograph by: Not known
Photograph by: Franz Xaver
Cultivated tree
Photograph by: Reinaldo Aguilar
Close-up of the flowers
Photograph by: Katja Schulz
Golden spoon is a slow-growing, very ornamental, semi-deciduous shrub or small tree with a rounded, generally sparse crown; it can grow up to 10 metres tall. In poor and sandy soils it is more likely to grow as a shrub 2 - 3 metres tall. The short bole can be 15 - 25cm in diameter[
Tropical and Subtropical Trees - A Worldwide Encyclopaedic Guide.
Barwick. M.
Thames & Hudson, London
A superb book, very concise and well written, giving a wealth of information on 400 or more species including descriptions, habitat, cultivation details and plant uses. A wealth of colour photographs bring each plant vividly to life.
A multipurpose tree, it is commonly harvested from the wild for its edible fruit, which is greatly appreciated locally. The tree is also a local source of medicines and various commodities. The plant is occasionally cultivated for its fruit in Mexico and parts of central America[
]. The fruit is sold in local markets in Mexico[
The leaves and stems, if put in water, can stupefy fish[
]. This possibly means they contain saponins[
Although poisonous, saponins are poorly absorbed by the human body and so most pass through without harm. Saponins are quite bitter and can be found in many common foods such as some beans. They can be removed by carefully leaching in running water. Thorough cooking, and perhaps changing the cooking water once, will also normally remove most of them. However, it is not advisable to eat large quantities of food that contain saponins. Saponins are much more toxic to some creatures, such as fish, and hunting tribes have traditionally put large quantities of them in streams, lakes etc in order to stupefy or kill the fish[
Northern S. America - Brazil and Peru, north to Mexico.
Open pine forests and grassy savannahs, sometimes in extensive stands[
]. Lowland moist or dry thickets and woodland[
Growth Rate Slow
Pollinators Bees
Cultivation Status Cultivated, Ornamental, Wild
Trees succeed in tropical and subtropical climates up to elevations of 1,000 metres[
]. They are tolerant of a wide range of environments, from humid tropical lowlands to semi-desert regions[
The tree is often found on rocky ground. It grows well on sandy and alkaline-sandy soils[
]. Although it succeeds in poor soils, better yields are achieved when a good supply of organic matter is added. Grows best in a fertile, well-drained soil[
]. Established plants are highly drought tolerant[
]. Plants are very tolerant of salt laden winds[
Very often, when the forest is cleared this tree is left and allowed to grow in a state of semi-wild cultivation[
A fire-resistant tree[
A very variable species with a wide distribution in tropical America[
]. It has sometimes been recognised as more than one species[
Fruit - raw or cooked. Thin-skinned and peculiarly odorous, with a white, juicy, oily pulp that varies in flavour from insipid to sweet, acid or cheese-like[
]. A very popular fruit, it is usually eaten out of hand, and is also cooked as a dessert, used in jams, soups, sherbets etc[
]. A refreshing drink, known as 'chicha', is obtained from the fermented fruits - it is very much relished by most Panamanians[
A Century of Trees of Panama.
Pittier H. Mell C.D.
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
A work that was very difficult to get published according to the correspondence contained at the start!. A treatment of 100 different species with descriptions and details of uses. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
The orange-yellow round fruit is up to 5cm in diameter with a single, fairly large stone, containing 1-3 white seeds[
An edible fat is extracted from the fruit with boiling water[
The bark (probably the inner bark[
] is rich in tannins and has been used medicinally by many local peoples[
]. It is antidote, antiinflammatory, astringent, emmenagogue, febrifuge and purgative[
Medicinal Plants of the Guianas
DeFilipps, R. A.; Maina, S. L.; & Crepin, J.
http://botany.si.edu/bdg/medicinal/index.html
Smithsonian Museum
A down-loadable PDF document of a book in pre-publication awaiting illustration. An excellent, if rather terse, guide to the traditional medicinal uses of the plants of the region
]. It has been used to treat gastrointestinal disorders, including indigestion, diarrhoea and dysentery; pulmonary complaints; snakebites; fevers; cases of leucorrhoea; and to promote menstruation[
The bark has been used externally as a wash or poultice to treat wounds, skin infections, ulcers etc[
]. As a mouthwash it has been used to tighten the teeth where gums are diseased[
An infusion of the leaves is used to treat high blood pressure[
The leaves are used as a wash to clean and soothe ulcers[
]. The brown powder from the under surface of the leaf is applied onto the cut end of the umbilical cord to prevent infection[
The sap from the bark and leaves is inserted into the orifice of the penis as a treatment for gonorrhoea[
The leaves contain various flavonoids, saponins and terpenes[
The tree is well suited for the restoration of infertile and burned-over land[
]. It has a heavy leaf fall which helps to restore soil fertility[
The bark contains 17-28 % tannin and 3 % oxalic acid. It is employed in tanning[
The fruit is high in tannin, especially when unripe and is sometimes used in dyeing. The fruit skin imparts a light-brown hue to cotton cloth[
An ink can be made from the bitter green fruit[
The bark yields a strong fibre[
The heartwood is a reddish or pinkish-brown; the thin band of sapwood is greyish. It is coarse-textured; close and cross-grained. The wood is heavy, hard, tough, strong, brittle, and only moderately durable. It takes a good polish. The wood is usually available only in small sizes; it is highly prized for boat ribs, and is used for tool handles, turnery, cabinetwork, furniture and small-scale construction[
In Brazil, the wood is chosen for the hot fire over which people smoke the stimulant paste of guaraná (Paullinia cupana) because the burning wood has a pleasant odour.
In some areas the wood is used for making a good quality charcoal[
Seed - best sown as soon as it is ripe in a partially shaded position in a nursery seedbed. A germination rate of less than 30% can be expected, with the seed sprouting within 25 - 35 days[
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