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BAD DEBT: Amazing how times change. Just six years ago House Republicans threatened to impeach Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin for using accounting gimmicks—such as borrowing funds from federal employees' retirement funds—to stay under the federal debt ceiling, which the GOP was loathe to raise. Fast forward to the present, when House Republicans are demanding that Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill do ... exactly the same thing. Usually the debt ceiling—the limit on how much the government can borrow—is raised by an act of Congress, which is what President Bush has asked for this year. But Democrats have seized upon a debt-ceiling vote as an election-year opportunity to attack Bush and the Republicans for squandering the surplus and dipping into once-sacrosanct Social Security revenues. Thus, the GOP is trying to avoid a vote by asking O'Neill to work the same kind of economic wizardry that was considered a fireable offense when Rubin did it. But don't worry. If this fails Republicans have a backup plan to spare themselves a debate over surpluses and Social Security: They'll sneak an amendment raising the debt ceiling into a popular piece of legislation- -most likely an emergency appropriations bill to pay for the war in Afghanistan. Of course, the last time congressional Republicans tried something like this was in 1997, when they added an initiative on census sampling to a flood-relief bill, a move that backfired spectacularly when incredulous flood victims found out what was holding up relief funds. We're sure our troops in Afghanistan will be more understanding.
HERE WE GO AGAIN: The handwringers are at it again. Pope John Paul II has announced gravely that he is "saddened" by the violence in the Holy Land, and has pledged the Roman Catholic Church's help in bringing peace. But what standing does he have among Yasir Arafat and his fellow terrorists—who have presided over the exodus of Palestine's Christian population from an increasingly fanatical society. (In their current frame of mind, it is highly unlikely that most Palestinians would take advice seriously from an infidel.) And the pope's credentials among Israelis are rather compromised as well—given that in May of last year he stood utterly silent while Syria's ophthalmologist-dictator, Bashar al-Assad, lectured him about the eternal guilt of the Jews for the death of Jesus. Kofi Annan has also weighed in—denouncing Israel for retaliating against the relentless terrorist attacks on its civilian population in every corner of the country and demanding that it withdraw from its "illegal occupation" of Palestinian lands. At least he had the good taste not to accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing—given that as head of the U.N. blue helmets (the organization's "peacekeepers" in Bosnia) in the mid-1990s, Annan helped prevent international intervention against the worst ethnic cleansing in Europe since the Holocaust. In fact, the U.N. secretary-general is almost surely responsible for the destruction of more Muslim homes and the breaking apart of more Muslim families than is Prime Minister Sharon. Annan, not surprisingly, has endorsed the recent peace proposal by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah (fed to The New York Times' Tom Friedman in a desperate effort to change the subject from Saudi Arabia's role in September 11). That proposal—which would require Israel to give up all of East Jerusalem, not to mention the Golan Heights—goes far beyond what former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Arafat at Taba and Camp David. But the bloody events of the last 17 months, which constitute Arafat's most concrete response to the most pliant Israeli government in history, have proven to just about every reasonable Israeli that even Barak's proposals were dangerously generous. In fact, the rump Palestinian state that exists today testifies powerfully enough to the dangers of insufficient Israeli vigilance. Under the Oslo agreements, emerging Palestine was allowed a police force of 30,000, equipped with 15,000 rifles and pistols and a few hundred heavy machine guns. In other words, only enough arms to police itself. But by now, partly as a result of Israel's withdrawal, the Palestinians have smuggled and built sufficient war materiel to equip a significant military force. It does not take an especially lurid imagination to grasp that any government of Israel will find this intolerable. This means that Palestine—when its borders are finally defined—must not be permitted to abut any other Arab country, and that its ports and airports will have to be secured against the deadly contraband with which the Palestinians have so deftly destroyed their most recent opportunity for independence. Dozens of Palestinians have committed suicide in this latest round of terrorist warfare. But no matter what Annan, the pope, or anyone else in the "international community" says, Israel will not itself adopt this macabre model of politics as self-immolation.
UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED: "Women love their SUVs and minivans ... because of their safety," declared Maryland's Barbara Mikulski, one of the senators who this week helped kill the John Kerry-John McCain proposal to raise fuel-economy standards for new U.S. vehicles 50 percent by 2015. Maybe women (and even men) do love SUVs because they think they're safe. Problem is, it's not true. A vehicle's size is a less important predictor of its safety than its overall engineering—which is why, in crash tests staged by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the private Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, cars and SUVs of the same weight often receive vastly different safety ratings. In general, SUV occupants fare better than those in cars in front-to-front and side-to-front collisions but worse in rollovers—making them about as safe overall. (It's worth noting, however, that while SUVs don't make their occupants notably more safe, they do imperil others; someone driving an SUV is much more likely to kill someone else than is someone driving a regular car.) But even if Mikulski were right and we really did need SUVs for safety, that's still no reason not to improve fuel efficiency. Over the last 25 years Detroit has built ever more efficient engines and drivetrains. It's just that most of the new efficiency has gone into more horsepower rather than improved mileage. Today's new vehicles on average accelerate about 20 percent faster than those in 1975, even though average vehicle weight has grown. We could still have our SUVs, but with much better gas mileage, by channeling the engineering improvements of modern auto engines away from acceleration and into efficiency. Unless, that is, Senator Mikulski wants to argue that driving faster will make women safer.
SPEAKING OF WEASEL WORDS:
"Those are weasel words... Compassionate conservative is just like Al Gore talking about 'practical idealism.' They're designed to mean nothing. I think we need to say in plain words, 'I am a conservative.'" —presidential candidate Lamar Alexander, January 7, 1999
"I have come to admire and respect the term 'compassionate conservatism' because it defeated me badly in the Republican primaries in 1999.... So I think President Bush has given a good, clear definition of that and has done a real good job." —Tennessee Senate candidate Lamar Alexander, March 11, 2002
This article originally ran in the March 25, 2002 issue of the magazine.
Politics, Barbara Mikulski, Afghanistan, John Kerry-John McCain, Bush, Kofi Annan, Robert Rubin, Yasir Arafat, Congress, Republican Party, Roman Catholic Church


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Analysis: A-Level Results Day 2018
With today marking the release of A-level results, students throughout the country will receive their grades and begin to feel their effect upon access to work and further study. This analysis will explore the policy background, before examining what 2018 tells us about entries and grades, student demographics, and access to higher education.
Policy Background
A-level qualifications have been the focus of significant reform, with the implementation ongoing over the last few years. There are four key areas of reform: restructuring qualifications, assessment structures, subject content, and the number of qualifications.[1] These A-levels correspond to the second cohort taking some courses and the first cohort for others (we will see the first cohorts in a further range of subjects next year).
In terms of subject content, reforms attempted to increase the amount of quantitative work in relevant subjects and increase the breadth of knowledges for arts and humanities. Assessment structure reforms saw coursework reduced to only assess non-examinable skills – examples include in-depth studies in history and fieldwork in geography. It also saw the creation of stand-alone pass/fail qualifications for practical work in science subjects which sit alongside the exam-tested A-levels. A-levels are also being made linear, so the whole A-level is assessed at the end of the course, with the AS solely a standalone qualification which contributes less in terms of UCAS tariffs and do not count towards the A-level result.
In addition to the specific reforms of qualifications, students receiving A-level results today are likely to be leaving a school landscape with an increasingly diverse number of education providers. New forms of education provision join well-established academic-focused 16-18 providers: sixth form colleges and comprehensive, selective & faith schools. Around half of providers are academies, including free schools, many of which will be part of a multi-academy trust (MAT).
The cohort of students receiving their grades today were in secondary education during a time of reforms to school accountability such as the introduction of the EBacc and Progress 8. Indeed, this was the first cohort in which all schools were judged by Progress 8. These are likely to have shaped subject choices at Key Stage 4 with implications for choices post-16.
Overall, results have remained stable, possibly reflecting that for many courses this is the second cohort of students who have studied under the new system but also the application of 'comparable outcomes' which means that students are not unfairly penalised for being the first cohort taking a qualification. The percentage of A-levels at grades A*-C is 76.8 per cent, down 0.5 percentage points from the previous year, with a decrease of 0.2 percentage points for grades A*-B. The proportion achieving A*/A has remained flat.
In terms of grades, the percentage of A-levels at A* level is 8.5 per cent among male students vs 7.6 per cent among female students. This may partially reflect the relative levels of male students studying mathematics and further mathematics, both subjects with high rates of A*s. Female students, however, are more likely to achieve qualifications at levels A*/B. As the majority of university places have tariffs which do not require A* grades (especially outside of science subjects), this may link to the underrepresentation of males taking undergraduate degrees.
The proportion of students achieving the highest grades varies quite significantly by regions – 29.3 per cent of A-level results are at A/A* in the South East, compared with 22.6 per cent in West Midlands. In terms of grades A/A*, the gap between the highest and lowest achieving English regions has increased by 0.8 percentage points.
There has been a net fall of 1.8 per cent in the number of entries into A-levels, 745,500 compared to 759,000 in 2017. There are potentially a number of reasons for the fall. The simplest is that this cohort has fewer students in it overall than last year's. We may also see some impact from the linearisation of A-levels and a possible increase the workload of individual A-levels, leading to students taking fewer options, to maximise their grades.
Alternatively, changes to funding for post-16 education may mean that providers are no longer able to offer students the opportunities to study as many subjects as they would have done before. This is concerning as the UK already has a uniquely narrow post-16 education system compared to other countries, as discussed in a recent EPI report.
In terms of individual subjects, the greatest percentage increase in terms of entries is computing, increasing by 25.4 per cent from approximately 7,600 to approximately 9,500. There was also an 8.9 per cent increase for entry rates in business studies.
Subjects with significant drops in entry rates include ICT, 26.5 per cent down to 4,000 and religious studies down 23 per cent to 17,000. It is interesting to note the increasingly popularity of computer science coincides with falling entry rates for ICT. The most popular subjects are mathematics, biology and psychology, representing 12.1 per cent, 7.8 per cent and 7.7 per cent of entries into A-levels – the first two of which are facilitating subjects.
Entries in mathematics and physics remain disproportionate male, with men representing 78 per cent and 61 per cent of the entries respectively. This is a slight decrease in the levels seen in previous years, a reduction of 0.9 and 0.4 percentage points respectively. This is likely to be disappointing reading for those who working on initiatives to increase the gender balance within STEM subjects. Subjects with disproportionately female cohorts include biology, art & design subjects, and English language and/or literature.
Entrance to University
The headline result of 170,030 English students aged 18 being placed represents a modest decrease from the previous years – the number dropped 0.76 per cent from the previous year's 171,330.[2]
There is a moderate increase in the number of English students placed to study medicine and dentistry (6,200 compared to last year's 5,540). This may partially represent a decision, influenced by complaints from some areas of understaffing within the NHS, to increase the number of medical students, a decision which led to the approval this year for five new medical schools alongside plans to increase capacity at existing medical schools.
Attempts to raise the number of students qualified in certain subjects has seen mixed results. Year-on-year increases in students taking places on computer sciences courses has stalled, the number of places taken is a decrease from 2017 of 80 to 14,330 from 14,410. Similarly, the number of students placed on courses on European and non-European languages have both seen small decreases.
Just as with A-level entry, there remains significant gender differentials in terms of entry to degrees. The overall gender difference has remained mostly stable, with female students still making up 57 per cent of students placed.
On a day with significant focus on students studying A-levels, it is important to consider that in 2017, only 52 per cent of students take A-level qualifications, with remaining students taking level 3 vocational or other academic qualifications, studying at lower levels or NEET. This means that to consider educational attainment as a whole we need to look at broader metrics of pupil outcome, and recognise that increased support needs to be available to those who don't wish to pursue continued academic study.
[1] https://www.aoc.co.uk/sites/default/files/A%20Level%20Reform%20Guidance%20Document.pdf
[2] https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/statistical-releases-daily-clearing-analysis-2018
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Tall Boyfriend Jeans, How to Look Good When Wearing Jeans – Jeans, jeans, jeans, everywhere and regrettable majority who do not know how to use the latest fashion can be devastating for many of us. Whether you have narrow jeans, jeans or jeans with roots, there are a few universal techniques that you can use on jeans, and here are the most important techniques that meet them.
First of all, do not let your name block you. You do not have to be thin wearing jeans, as the roots look clothed with cartoon jeans, or you can be paired with jeans! Use only to understand the name of the look so you do not know who can handle a particular style or not.
The most important thing to remember is to get closer to the adjustments, these curves will be revealed. Blurred jeans highlight the curves if you do not want to show curves, choose your right foot to fit. Wide trousers bring too much volume to make them look bigger than you. If you are overweight, avoid boys' jeans. Coarse jeans are perfect for women with curved and curved women because they are in shape, but with the exception of the thin leg it shrinks, marks the curves and jumps to the foot.
What can you wear with different jeans?
You usually have to keep the clothes in balance. If the shirt is sturdy, you must wear wool trousers. If the trousers are tight, use a larger tip. On the contrary, when the upper part he liked, personalized pants are the best because they are not loose or too tight. Very tight jeans, yes. B. Rivets with rivets must be long and heavy feet, at least to the tip of the head – they must be long or long. With carrot jeans and carrots you must use a handbag that can not reach the pelvic floor. In the style of friends, other peaks make you shorter and stronger than you, jeans in the form of roots; Long tops cover jeans, the middle of the garment.
If you wear tight jeans, you should wear shoes, one shoulder (if not very large, then go directly with the shoe). If you want to use very flat shoes, make sure you find the meat so that the gladiator's sandals are ideal. It is best to choose straight shoes from roots or jeans. Cowboy Boots, Military Boots, UGG Style Boots and Allow It All That Fit.
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Move towards the back of the house. If they approach the front, try to leave through the back.
Do Equestrian soldiers wear boots? If so then we can rule them out.
You listened for a while, trying to gain information about strangers by sound they were emitting.
>You memorized the image of few Equestrian soldiers you've seen on the streets and in your block.
>Medical Service and Anti-Aircraft Defence didn't wear any shoes, and docs hadn't even their hooves hobnailed.
>But first line soldiers actually wore some light leg armour, you wasn't sure about the boots because your memory is blurred.
>You were ready to escape swiftly in case of intrusion, but it looks like nopony tried to get in your shelter.
>By retreating into deeps of cottage you used as a shelter you neglected possibility of checking who were they by your own eyes.
>Steps move towards gunfire, quieter and quieter. Finally, they have faded away.


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Q: R user-defined function called but not running I am new to R, and I am trying to create a user-defined function and run it inside a for loop. The function is defined in the same script before it is called. However, when the function is called, the code inside the function doesn't run. No syntax errors occur.
Here is the function definition:
placeInVector <- function(subjectID, morpho) {
  if (morpho == "Alg") {
    algVec <- c(algVec, subjectID)
  }
  else if (morpho == "Anem") {
    anemVec <- c(anemVec, subjectID)
  }
  else if (morpho == "Barn") {
    barnVec <- c(barnVec, subjectID)
  }
  else if (morpho == "Biv") {
    bivVec <- c(bivVec, subjectID)
  }
  else if (morpho == "BrBryo") {
    brbryoVec <- c(brbryoVec, subjectID)
  }
  else if (morpho == "ColTuni") {
    coltuniVec <- c(coltuniVec, subjectID)
  }
  else if (morpho == "EnBryo") {
    enbryoVec <- c(enbryoVec, subjectID)
  }
  else if (morpho == "Nothing") {
    nothingVec <- c(nothingVec, subjectID)
  }
  else if (morpho == "SolTuni") {
    soltuniVec <- c(soltuniVec, subjectID)
  }
  else if (morpho == "Spng") {
    spngVec <- c(spngVec, subjectID)
  }
  else if (morpho == "TubeWm") {
    tubewmVec <- c(tubewmVec, subjectID)
  }
}

Here is where the function is called later on in the script:
for (subject in subjects$SubjectID) {
  currentRow <- finalIDs %>%
    filter(SubjectID == subject)
    morphoID <- as.character(currentRow$FinalIDs1)
  if (morphoID != "NONE") {
    placeInVector(subject, morphoID)
  }
}

Note: all of the vectors referenced in the function definition (algVec, anemVec, etc.) are defined as empty vectors.

A: As far as I understand, you are trying to add elements to vectors. Because I don't have a reproducible example, I will use my own. Here, add_to_vector adds elements to a and b:
a <- c(1,2)
b <- c("a","b")

add_to_vector <- function(vec, to_add){
  vec <- c(vec, to_add)
  return(vec)
}

a <- add_to_vector(a, 3)
b <- add_to_vector(b, "c")

Hopefully, this gives you an idea of how R works.
Output
> a
[1] 1 2 3
> b
[1] "a" "b" "c"

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I love cloudy days. I especially love cloudy days during summer. The breeze is still warm, the sun is not burning directly on my face, and there are still green trees and flowers around (not like during winter.) There is a romantic and melancholic feeling about cloudy days that I like. I don't know if I could actually explain it with words, unless you like them too, then you will understand what I am talking about.
When I look at these pictures from my extremely talented friend, Neela Uriostegui, I get these thoughts: Slow motion walk, old-classic romantic movie, and a collection of my favorite life memories with a indie song playing in the background. I know this post is getting too deep and maybe weird ha!
But in all honesty those are the thoughts and feelings that I got when she sent me the pictures. I know very well that I am not a super model, BUT I like these pictures and since this is my blog *cough-cough* I can brag about them! Seriously, that is what a good photographer does: it creates feelings through the images.
-Now, moving onto a more usual outfit post- The dress I chose for these pictures, was a perfect option to mix with the grey skies we had that day. It is a dress that I borrowed from my sister. She bought it thinking it was a dress, and it actually was a swim cover-up. Since the sewing bug runs in the family, she was able to fix it and made it into a beautiful summer maxi- dress.
Oh! By the way, these photo shoot happened because Neela needed help for a personal project, and I could not miss the change of working with her! Seriously, you need you check out her work. You will be impressed! I went to college with her, and it is amazing to see how much she has learned and how far she has come. If you know Neela, you know she is a #girlboss and she will fly high!
I hope the rest of your week goes great!


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Matthew "Matt" Rao (* 3. Mai 1994) ist ein britischer Automobilrennfahrer. Er startete 2015 in der europäischen Formel-3-Meisterschaft.

Karriere
Rao begann seine Motorsportkarriere 2009 im Kartsport, in dem er bis 2010 aktiv blieb. 2011 wechselte Rao zu Fluid Motorsport in den Formelsport und startete zu einigen Rennen der britischen Formel Ford. Er wurde Zweiter in der Scholarship Class. 2012 blieb Rao bei Fluid Motorsport in der britischen Formel Ford. Er belegte den zehnten Gesamtrang. Darüber hinaus trat er für den Rennstall zu einigen Rennen der niederländischen Formel Ford an und wurde dort 21. in der Fahrerwertung. Für Hillspeed nahm Rao außerdem an je zwei Rennen der BARC Formel Renault und deren Winterserie teil.

2013 ging Rao für Hillspeed in der BARC Formel Renault an den Start. Mit einem dritten Platz als bestem Ergebnis beendete er die Saison auf dem 15. Platz. Anfang 2014 nahm Rao für Giles Motorsport an der Toyota Racing Series in Neuseeland teil. Dort wurde er 14. in der Fahrerwertung. Anschließend trat er für Fortec Motorsports in der britischen Formel-3-Meisterschaft an. Rao entschied fünf Rennen für sich. Mit 283 zu 285 Punkten unterlag er am Saisonende seinem Teamkollegen Martin Cao und wurde Gesamtzweiter.

2015 erhielt Rao bei Fortec Motorsports ein Cockpit in der europäischen Formel-3-Meisterschaft. Zwei 14. Plätze waren seine besten Ergebnisse.

Statistik

Karrierestationen

Einzelergebnisse in der europäischen Formel-3-Meisterschaft

Le-Mans-Ergebnisse

Weblinks

 Karrierestatistik von Matthew Rao (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Rennfahrer (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Brite
Geboren 1994
Mann
Rennfahrer der 24 Stunden von Le Mans
Langstrecken-WM-Rennfahrer

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package im.vector.view;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.widget.ExpandableListView;

/**
 * Defines a custom Expandable listview.
 * It only tracks the touch move and up.
 */
public class RecentsExpandableListView extends ExpandableListView {

    public interface DragAndDropEventsListener {
        /**
         * Provides the new y touch position and the related child view.
         * @param y the touch y position.
         * @param groupPosition the child view group position
         * @param childPosition the child view child position
         */
        void onTouchMove(int y, int groupPosition, int childPosition);

        /**
         * The user ends the move
         */
        void onDrop();

        /**
         * Called the list view is over scrolled
         * @param isTop set to true when the list is top over scrolled.
         */
        void onOverScrolled(boolean isTop);
    }

    // the touched child view
    private int mTouchedGroupPosition = -1;
    private int mTouchedChildPosition = -1;

    // the current Y position
    private int mCurrentY = -1;

    // the drag events listener
    public DragAndDropEventsListener mDragAndDropEventsListener = null;

    // default constructor
    public RecentsExpandableListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onOverScrolled(int scrollX, int scrollY, boolean clampedX, boolean clampedY) {
        if (clampedY && (null != mDragAndDropEventsListener)) {
            mDragAndDropEventsListener.onOverScrolled(0 == getFirstVisiblePosition());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        final int action = event.getAction();
        final int x = (int) event.getX();
        final int y = (int) event.getY();

        mCurrentY = y;

        long packagedPosition = getExpandableListPosition(pointToPosition(x, y));

        int groupPosition = ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionGroup(packagedPosition);
        int childPosition = ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionChild(packagedPosition);

        // store values
        mTouchedGroupPosition = Math.max(groupPosition, 0);
        // childPosition can be negative if the touch is done on the header
        mTouchedChildPosition = Math.max(childPosition, 0);

        switch (action) {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                if (null != mDragAndDropEventsListener) {
                    mDragAndDropEventsListener.onTouchMove(mCurrentY, mTouchedGroupPosition, mTouchedChildPosition);
                }
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                if (null != mDragAndDropEventsListener) {
                    mDragAndDropEventsListener.onDrop();
                }
            default:
                break;
        }

        return super.onTouchEvent(event);
    }

    /**
     * @return the touch Y position
     */
    public int getTouchedY() {
        return mCurrentY;
    }

    /**
     * return the touched cell group position
     */
    public int getTouchedGroupPosition() {
        return mTouchedGroupPosition;
    }

    /**
     * @return the touched cell child group position.
     */
    public int getTouchedChildPosition() {
        return mTouchedChildPosition;
    }
}

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Many people have a lot of myths about what being an entrepreneur is and how it will shape/affect their life that are simply not true. article about successful businessman in Easy and these are the seven biggest myths that I continuously hear.
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As we review our IT security profile for campus, one of the recommendations from auditors and analysts is to not have accounts running in administrator mode on local Windows PCs (meaning offices, labs, notebooks, and tablets – this does not affect mobile devices. Currently all of our WSC computers run in administrator mode all the time. That means if your machine happens to pick up a piece of malware through a malicious webpage or e-mail attachment, that malware is ALSO running as administrator and can easily install in the background without you knowing.
Best practice is to run as a 'normal' user and only become an administrator when needed to install software. We found a solution that gives all of you the ability to install software in Admin mode temporarily and lets you run as a 'normal' user the rest of the time.


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When you see poverty and homelessness among so many people in our community, do you struggle to understand or feel helpless about how to respond? Does your faith or spirituality urge you to explore these realities more deeply? We invite you to spend a day in service and discussion about the poverty in our community and in our own lives and hearts. The Red Doors Retreat is an opportunity to become more mindful about poverty in its many forms, begin to break down barriers which often separate us from "the other," and to learn more about ways to serve our neighbors in downtown Portland.
Gather with other retreatants for an overview of the day and to share any hopes or questions you might have.
Volunteer in St. André Bessette Parish's hospitality center welcoming guests, working in the kitchen, serving a meal, providing clothing and hygiene kits, or assisting in the foot care program.
Take a walking tour of other service agencies in the neighborhood, including the Macdonald Center and Bud Clark Commons.


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Anne Main MP has said that compensation to victims ought to be considered following the government's announcement of an inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal.
The St Albans MP, who previously raised a constituent's experience in the House of Commons, spoke in yesterday's emergency debate in which the public inquiry was announced.
'My constituent, who does not wish to be named, wants us to include the remit of the Skipton Fund in this review.' Mrs Main added, 'She, and many others, feel that the remit was wrongly drawn up, and that she and others have been denied the justice they should have had.'
The contaminated blood scandal which led to 'many people being infected with HIV and/or hepatitis C through NHS-supplied blood or blood products' will now be looked into following 'new evidence' and 'allegations of potential criminality,' health minister, Philip Dunne, announced.
After the debate, Anne said that 'in light of the claims made in the media last week about potential criminality, I called for a public inquiry, so I'm pleased the government has taken this step.
'We ought not to forget about the real damage here that's been done to people's lives. There have been real problems with the Skipton Fund and the very narrow criteria that it has applied. This inquiry should seek to look at these matters in detail.'
Mrs Main previously said that 'This tragedy has affected multiple members of many families. It has affected the quality of people's lives and their aspirations over many years,' and that 'justice delayed is justice denied. Justice that has been delayed for such a long time is really no justice at all.'
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A Professor's Fish, The Winner Takes It All Myth, and 4 Acts of SaaS Brilliance
Akash Sharma
~ 13 min read | September 11
Again, and again, and again. An instruction was uttered in a laboratory at Harvard University. It had but two sets of recipients. Students who had enrolled to learn natural history, and animal specimens preserved in huge glass bottles.
The source of the instruction was a Swiss-born man with a typical European physiognomy. Who was, in a particular order, a biologist, a physician, a geologist, and a professor known as Louis Agassiz. Professor Agassiz would present his students with a fish, instruct them to "look at it" and describe what they'd seen.
"look at it"
Professor Agassiz would say
They were locked in a room without any optical instruments except for their eyes. All they had was time, and an instruction that had began to whirr. They would ponder for hours, come up with nothing, and eventually succumb to mute astonishment.
But things would change with time. Scales will exhibit patterns that didn't exist at the outset. Commonalities with other species will become apparent. As a student went on to describe, when asked if he saw anything but a fish, "I am certain I do not, but I see how little I saw before."
What we see at first, isn't all there is. Important connections cannot be made if we just rely on the information sprawling at the surface.
This lesson transcends that laboratory. Prolific author and historian, David McCullough has conferred "look at your fish." as a motto for his desk, and his work. It acts as a reminder for times when he isn't looking hard enough, as he described in an interview:
Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what's been on the table all along, in front of everybody, rather than from discovering something new.
The lesson is as true for businesses.
The din of headlines seldom fails to grasp our attention, and it seldom succeeds at expanding our understanding. Our grasp of a subject must spring from our own research.
The task might appear a tad Sisyphean in nature. But it isn't so.
As SaaS pervades the enterprise world; needs, both old and new, will develop segments that can be solved better. Each department will thrive with a set of tools, that'll collectively help them tend to the fringe tasks, and the routine ones.
Thus, Horizontal SaaS categories will birth untold opportunities. As Tom Tunguz wrote, there's a possible downside to this advantage, "Startups may find it increasingly challenging to win a disproportionate share of the market." But he also noted that "these are tractable challenges in the market that values piecing together an optimal software stack."
For those of us who've come to decry market saturation, there's hope. No winner has taken it all. If we are willing to look hard enough, a category, dear friend, is never dead.
This post is neither an analysis, nor a comparison. It's a brief account of how 4 different SaaS companies were built by different people, with different approaches, in the same space, over the span of the last two decades.
Act I – Eloqua
Mark Organ sets out on his first entrepreneurial venture, peddles drugs from his parents' cabinet. In his next outing, distributes censored cinema of a certain kind.
Nears his adolescence, sells door to door custom software and paints walls in Toronto. One day, receives a copy of 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' from his grandfather.
His Parents think he'd make a good doctor. So, he joins Northwestern University to get a PhD in Neuroscience. Responds to a Keats-esque urge, settles at masters, instead.
Does management consulting at Bain and Company and ends up talking to hundreds of sales reps. This experience leaves him hyper aware of the huge gap between good leads and sales reps. He decides to bridge the gap.
Keeps his consulting job. Raises funds from an internal network of investors to build Eloqua with two co-founders, Steven Woods and Abe Wagner. Mark becomes the President, CEO, and the first sales rep.
Those early door-to-door sales and cold-calling experiences were extremely valuable. They made me really tough and willing to accept rejection.
Mark Organ
They ship the first version of the product. A way for website visitors to connect with sales reps through a simple chat box. That's all. The chat box fizzles. Soon, they add an email engine, and also start tracking the prospects' behaviour on websites. These changes get them to a "moderately" viable product.
Rough times follow. Bankruptcy presents itself as an option four times. They hustle, and clinch unimaginable deals. In one of them, a client pays for the software with their stationary budget. Eloqua continues to grow at 75% year over year.
In 2004, a request from a customer leads to a new feature, and marketing automation is built into the product. A category is carved and their growth takes off. Next year arrives. They raise their first venture capital round. Another year passes. Mark leaves the company. Joe Payne joins as CEO.
Five years later. They go public. Soon, Oracle acquires them for $871m.
Act II – Hubspot
It's the early nineties. Dharmesh Shah, a twenty something programmer works for a large technology company. Finds his work uninteresting, decides to continue.
Then, one day, he proposes an idea to the management. A better way of moving data between two financial systems. They say no.
Leaves the large technology company to pursue his idea full time, and starts Pyramid Digital Solutions in April 1994. Next month, Ziff-Davis Press publishes How to Use the Internet. Goes on to build a business with a $15m annual run rate. In 2005, sells it to the same large technology company that he had worked for.
Returns to MIT to get his masters, thinks being a Professor would be a fine career choice. Works on a thesis, calls it On Startups. Launches a blog, OnStartups.com, in a quest for real feedback on his thesis. Interviews Jason Fried and other founders he admires.
Meets a college senior named Brian Halligan. A veteran at old-school marketing, Brian advises startups on sales and distribution. Both of them bounce around business ideas. One idea sticks for some time. A lightweight CRM for small businesses. They ditch it to go after another idea.
As Onstartups.com's traffic soars, they begin to think, why can't businesses use the same approach as Dharmesh's blog to spur interesting conversations and generate leads. In a mental bonfire of the old ways of marketing, a new thesis arises –
Outbound marketing kind of sucks. Outbound marketing kills kittens. And inbound marketing, pulling people in organically, is the path to truth and justice.
Dharmesh Shah
In June 2006, this thesis gets limbs. Dharmesh and Brian launch Hubspot
Two months later. The Hubspot blog goes live, Dharmesh lays out the motif behind the blog which is to help businesses in "Surviving and Succeeding In A Web 2.0 World."
Mark Roberge, Hubspot's first hire, the guy who plays inbound marketing in Dude, Cold Calling Is For Losers, builds a structure to scale their sales prowess
The blog doesn't pull their inbound efforts alone. They build a free tool. A website grader that lets people see how their sites are performing. It's a hit. 4 million websites get graded over the course of the next five years.
In October 2014, few members of the team are seen sporting orange sunglasses, Dharmesh wears pants, rings a bell, and Hubspot goes public.
Act III – Marketo
A young Phil Fernandez receives a gift from his father, a 2 volume set of How Things Work. It temporarily satiates his curiosity, leaves him wanting more. He learns to sculpt and paint, artistry really gets his synaptic proteins going.
It's the seventies. Floppy disks are the new new thing. Phil gets a job as a computer programmer at his high school.
Heads to California. Surfs a bit, and then a little more. Attends Stanford in 1978, writes to college folks, to request them to consider his penchant for programming languages instead of foreign languages, required for taking up History. They agree.
Joins his first startup at 21, witnesses their IPO in the next two years. Later, he gets an offer from a two year old, fast growing startup, co-founded by a husband and wife team, called Cisco Systems. Thinks the market for routers isn't big enough. Declines the offer.
Stays at the heart of growth in different enterprise companies over the next decade. It's 1999, when he joins as employee no. 30 at Epiphany, a company that builds marketing software for big companies. The dot com bubble gets punctured. And he notices an underserved market.
There was a new point of view that there was a whole new software company being built in the enterprise space where success was the race to 100,000 customers, not the race to 1,000 customers. You can build a velocity business in that environment.
Phil Fernandez
In October 2006, he gets together with two of his colleagues from Epiphany, Jon Miller and David Morandi, to start Marketo.
They raise funds. Jon starts blogging. Writes about trends, budgets, branding, and all things B2B marketing. As the product gets built, Jon develops a following of educated prospects. They launch Marketo's beta in late 2007, wind up with 70 paying customers by next year. Aggressive growth ensues.
In May 2013, they do an $80m IPO, trade as MKTO on NASDAQ. A great finish. But Phil thinks otherwise –
If this were a baseball game, we wouldn't just be in the first inning. We're just packing our bags to go to spring training.
Act IV – Pardot
It's 1986. Somewhere in Tallahassee, Florida. A 6 year old, David Cummings, comes up with his first business idea. A massage therapy service with a niche audience, his family members, charges them 5 cents a minute. Gets a tad older, identifies the next potential market, this time, kids in the neighbourhood. A new venture? You bet. A miniature golf course.
Goes on to start more companies. The first one is called Mascon Enterprises, where he builds shareware software, borrows its name from an abbreviation of a term used in astrophysics. Next, he starts Hannon Hill, a content management software, names it after the street where his childhood was spent.
Then, he recruits Adam Blitzer, a classmate of his from Duke, as co-founder. To work on a new company. They name it, Pardot. A latvian word. Translates: to market or to sell.
The idea "was taking all of the headaches that [he] had personally running sales and marketing for [his] software company…" and making processes "much more efficient using technology."
They start building a pay-per-click bidding platform for B2B companies to buy leads. They pivot within the first two months. As they realize that the core of the product, the technology that helped them nurture the leads, could be a great product in itself. A tough market to get into, of course.
Markets aren't what they appear on the outside. On the outside, it looks like there are 10 different competitors all doing the same thing, speaking the same language, and targeting the same group of businesses. In reality, each competitor has their own strengths and weaknesses and targets a slightly different segment of the market.
David Cummings
They launch in late 2007, and take the Salesforce route, with a per user pricing model. Shift to an account based pricing after a few months. Variations in price levels follow but the model remains the same.
They drink their own šampanietis, and perfect the product by being power users themselves.
A customer extols this fact in her Quora answer –
Pardot team had BY FAR the best marketing/sales execution using their own product. They ate their own dog food and made it look very tasty to customers who were paying attention.
It's 2010. Growth rate attains a modest 42,000%. Yes. That's a comma. 30 VC pitches later, bootstrapped growth makes even more sense to them.
After receiving a phone call, David kickstarts Project Duke in stealth mode. Feels the usual tug of negotiation discussions. Eventually agrees. ExactTarget acquires Pardot for $100m.
Notable. Aren't they? Same damn market.
But this market must be done, now, for good. We're probably well past the glorious days of yore. But we aren't. There are 1876 companies in the marketing technology space.
Maybe, it's something about this particular market, then?
Okay. Let's consider the help desk space. There's Zendesk that went public last year. Then, there's Freshdesk. They recently crossed 50,000 customers. Then, there are Help Scout and Groove. They're growing in the same market with their solutions.
Here's another SaaS category.
Ever heard of Edgar? It's a social media scheduling tool. But that's what Buffer does. And Sprout Social. And Hootsuite. And others.
Edgar went from zero to $100,000 in MRR in 11 months. Here's Edgar's co-founder and social media maverick, Laura Roeder, on competitive SaaS markets –
It's not a winner take all. It really isn't. When your market is small businesses, there will always be customers for you if you're solving a problem. I always look at MailChimp.They get 6000 new signups every day. And there's so much competition for MailChimp. They're not getting everyone. That's a really competitive market, and there are tons of other profitable companies in it. It's a great example that there's plenty of room for all different businesses.
That right there is the penultimate word on the subject, straight from a founder who is in the trenches. Her MailChimp reference calls to mind what Nathan Barry has built at ConvertKit, an email marketing product for professional bloggers. He believes that it's the hardest thing he has ever done. But he's running with it.
Have you spotted a problem in a market, you're vexing about? Can you see how a new product could solve it better? And you find out that there're all these companies already doing what you want to do. Look again. Is that really the case? Are you looking hard enough?
A category with multiple players doesn't exactly seem to possess the air of an uncharted wilderness that entrepreneurs so often crave for. But as above examples illustrate, sometimes it's worth bucking conventional circuitry to realize that isn't the case.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
llustrations by Praveen Francis – Between his micron pen, and a sheet of paper, reside beautiful sketches practicing soliloquy, until they're called on stage.
http://growtheverywhere.com/growth-everywhere-interview/mark-organ/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bsy0f9RPHY
http://www.forbes.com/sites/forrester/2012/12/20/oracle-acquires-eloqua-a-do-over-for-the-era-of-digital-disruption/
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/56/Small-Business-Hub-Internet-Marketing-Blog-Surviving-and-Succeeding-In-A-Web-2-0-World.aspx
http://mixergy.com/interviews/dharmesh-shah/
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/54/Blue-Ocean-Strategy-A-Small-Business-Case-Study.aspx
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2014/10/08/how-marketo-built-a-billion-dollar-saas-company/
http://www.marketingautomationsoftware.com/blog/executive-interview-series-marketo-1121510/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2013/06/20/marketo-ceo-phil-fernandez-knows-whats-important-to-cmos/
http://growtheverywhere.com/growth-everywhere-interview/jon-miller-marketo-content-funnel/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5LTQVkZXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_szM7wyiqrU
http://davidcummings.org/2014/10/17/the-market-opportunity-for-marketing-automation-in-2009/
http://davidcummings.org/2013/07/19/pardots-pricing-progression-through-the-years/
http://davidcummings.org/2012/11/17/key-moments-in-the-life-of-pardot/
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from abusehelper.core import events
import time
import re

from vsroom.common import sanitizer
from vsroom.common import timeconversion

# sanitizer.Sanitizer is the base class for a simple sanitizer bot.
class EmhiEESanitizer(sanitizer.Sanitizer):
    # .sanitize(event) is the hook method for sanitizing events. This
    # is the only method you have to implement to create a basic
    # normalizer, sanitizer, modifier or filter.

    def _convert(self,timestr):
        if timestr.find('day') > -1:
            time_tuple = time.strptime(timestr, "%Y-%m-%d day")
            start = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d 12:00",time_tuple)
            end = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d 18:00",time_tuple)

        if timestr.find('night') > -1:
            time_tuple = time.strptime(timestr, "%Y-%m-%d night")
            start = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d 00:00",time_tuple)
            end = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d 06:00",time_tuple)

        return start,end
    def _temperature_problem(self,temp):
        try:
            temp = int(temp)
        except ValueError:
            raise ValueError, 'Could not convert %s to int.' % (temp)
        problem = 0
        if temp < -15: problem = 30
        if temp < -30: problem = 60
        if temp < -35: problem = 100
        # lower threshold for low-problem for testing
        if temp > 18: problem = 30
        if temp > 25: problem = 60
        if temp > 30: problem = 100
        return problem

    def _wind_problem(self,speed):
        try:
            speed = int(speed)
        except ValueError:
            raise ValueError, 'Could not convert %s to int.' % (speed)
        problem = 0
        # lower threshold for low-problem for testing
        if speed > 10: problem = 30
        if speed > 20: problem = 60
        if speed > 30: problem = 100
        return problem

    def sanitize(self, event):
        # if only one key (id) -> clearing event. No use to
        # add sanitized stuff
        if len(event.keys()) < 2:
            return [event]

        event.add('service','weather')
        # Return a list of events here. The list can contain 0-n events.
        absolute_time = event.value('time', False)
        if absolute_time:

            start,end = self._convert(absolute_time)
            event.add('start', str(start))
            event.add('end',str(end))

        if event.contains('tempmin') or event.contains('tempmax'):
            event.add('type','temperature')

        tempmin = event.value('tempmin', False)

        if tempmin:
            try:
                problem = self._temperature_problem(tempmin)
            except ValueError,e:
                self.log.info('%s' % (e))
                problem = 0
            if problem > 0:
                event.add('problem', str(problem))
                event.add('status', str(problem))
            else:
                event.add('status', '0')

        if event.contains('speedmin') or event.contains('speedmax'):
            event.add('type','wind')

        speedmax = event.value('speedmax',False)
        if speedmax:
            try:
                problem = self._wind_problem(speedmax)
            except ValueError,e:
                self.log.info('%s' % (e))
                problem = 0
            if problem > 0:
                event.add('problem', str(problem))
                event.add('status', str(problem))
            else:
                event.add('status','0')

        start = event.value('start', None)
        if start == None:
            print 'start was none'
            delta = 0
        else:
            delta = timedelta(start)
            print 'delta', delta
        if delta > -1 and delta < 2:
            event.add('timing', 'within 1 day')
        elif delta < 4:
            event.add('timing', 'within 3 days')
        elif delta >3:
            event.add('timing', 'within more than 3 days')
        else:
            self.log.info('%s is not an expected delta value in event#id %s' % (str(delta),event.value('id','None')))

        wtype = event.value('type', None)

        range = ''
        if wtype == 'temperature':
            range = "%s-%sC" % (event.value('tempmin',''), event.value('tempmax'))
        if wtype == 'wind':
            range = "%s-%s m/s" % (event.value('speedmin',''), event.value('speedmax',''))

        event.add('organization', 'EMHI')
        event.add('description', '%s - %s - %s - %s - %s' % (event.value('time',''),
                                                           event.value('organization',''),
                                                           event.value('area',''),
                                                           event.value('type',''),
                                                           range
                                                           ))
        return [event]

def timedelta(str):
    from datetime import date
    seconds = timeconversion.datetime2seconds(str)
    dstdate = date.fromtimestamp(seconds)
    today = date.today()
    delta = abs(dstdate-today)
    return delta.days

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Execute the sanitizer bot based on the command line options.
    EmhiEESanitizer.from_command_line().execute()


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S, Gopikrishnan, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi India (India)
Sadeghfar, M., School of Architecture, Fine Arts Faculty, University of Tehran, Tehran, IRAN. (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
Sahebzadeh, S., School of Architecture, Fine Arts Faculty, University of Tehran, IRAN. (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
Saka, N., Federal University of Technology, Akure Nigeria
Salim, Siti Aisyah, UTHM (Malaysia)
Salim, Siti Hajar, UTM (Malaysia)
salim, siti hajar, MJIT, UTM
Salleh, H., University Malaya (Malaysia)
Salleh, N.M., University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Samad, Z.A., University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Samanta, A., Indian institute of social welfare and business management (India)
Saruwono, M.
Sasaki, R.
Sazandeh, Masoumeh, Iran University of Science and Technology (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
Shahruddin, O., University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Shamsul Harumain, Y. A., Center for Sustainable Urban Planning & Real Estate (SUPRE), Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Malaysia)
Shittu, A. A., School of Environmental Technology, Federal University of Technology, P.M.B. 65, Minna, Nigeria. (Nigeria)
Shittu, A.A., Federal University of Technology, Minna (Nigeria)
Shuaib, S.I., Department of Urban and Regional Planning FUT Minna (Nigeria)
Sin, T.K., Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Soyingbe, A.A., University of Lagos (Nigeria)
Sulaiman, R., University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Sulaiman, S., Centre for Building, Construction & Tropical Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, University Malaya (Malaysia)
Surat, M., Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment National University of Malaysia (Malaysia)
Surat, M., Fakulti Kejuruteraan dan Alam Bina Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Malaysia)
Surat, M.
Surat, Mastor, Fakulti Kejuruteraan dan Alam Bina Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Malaysia)
Syed Yahya, S.N.N., Department of Architecture , Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya (Malaysia)


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Holy Cross mourns Jackson's death
By Laura Amato
Former Holy Cross star Brandon Jackson was killed in automobile accident Sunday.
Photo by Yinghao Luo
The Holy Cross football community was stunned and deeply saddened Sunday after learning that former Knights standout Brandon Jackson died following a single-car crash in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.
The news shook the Knights' tight-knit group as former and current players came together to honor Jackson's memory. He was 20 years old.
"He was a special young man. He was an honor student here at Holy Cross," said former Knights coach Tom Pugh, who coached Jackson for four years during high school. "I just feel for his family and the guys all from the team. They're all out in college playing ball now, and these guys are all calling me and they're all upset."
Jackson, a 2014 Holy Cross graduate, died just hours after starting for Army in its victory over Rice on Saturday. According to Croton-on-Hudson police, officials received a call at 1:50 a.m. Sunday about a motor vehicle crash.
When responders arrived on the scene, a single car had crashed into the guardrail—the driver was still in the car at the time and pronounced dead at the scene.
"Words cannot describe the grief that our team is feeling over the loss of our brother and friend, Brandon," Army coach Jeff Monken said in a statement. "He was a beloved teammate and our hearts are with his family at this time of tragedy."
Jackson appeared in every game as a freshman last season and led Army with three interceptions as well 62 tackles. He had six tackles and two pass breakups this season.
Jackson was a standout defender at Holy Cross as well, a defensive dynamo whose speed off the ball almost always caught opponents by surprise. The Knights star didn't talk much on the field—or, according to Pugh, off it—instead, he let his game do the talking.
"He was really quiet and shy, but through football he became this great playmaker," Pugh said. "He was one of the best in the city, an all-star."
Pugh remained close to Jackson over the last few years. The former coach visited West Point earlier this year to take in Army's annual spring game and spent time with Jackson and his family on campus. He said it was memories like those that will help ease the pain of this tragedy.
"He was introducing me to everybody in the locker room and I said, 'When did you learn to talk?'" Pugh said. "He was such a good, quiet young man. But he was really coming into own."
Croton-on-Hudson police said that the preliminary investigation into the accident was still ongoing. Croton-on-Hudson is about 19 miles south of the U.S. Military Academy on the opposite side of the Hudson River. While they wait for answers, Jackson's football families—both at Army and in Queens—are determined to remember the star for the standout player and person he was.
"There's just not a lot to say," Pugh said. "He was a great kid, he really was. When you look at a guy who goes to the military academy like that, they're pretty special. It's sad, it's real sad."
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FDNY battles early morning apartment fire in Flushing


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Q: OAuth2 flow for Desktop Applications Which oauth 2.0 flow should I use if I'm developing a C# Desktop Application?
Generally, I'm using this diagram in order to take a decision:

However, I don't quite figure out what's a Desktop App...

A: Desktop apps fall under the category "Native Apps" together with mobile apps; they're "rich" apps that are specifically built to run on a particular operating system, as opposed to web applications that run in a generic web browser on any platform.


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import { rlFakeAsync, rlTick, flushMicrotasks } from 'rl-async-testing';
import { TimeoutService, ITimeout } from './timeout.service';

describe('TimeoutService', (): void => {
	let timeoutService: TimeoutService;

	beforeEach(() => {
		timeoutService = new TimeoutService();
	});

	it('should resolve the promise and call the callback when the timeout finishes', rlFakeAsync((): void => {
		const promiseSpy: sinon.SinonSpy = sinon.spy();
		const callback: sinon.SinonSpy = sinon.spy();

		timeoutService.setTimeout(callback, 2000).then(promiseSpy);

		rlTick(2000);
		flushMicrotasks();

		sinon.assert.calledOnce(promiseSpy);
		sinon.assert.calledOnce(callback);
	}));

	it('should reject the promise without calling the callback if the timeout is canceled', rlFakeAsync((): void => {
		const rejectSpy: sinon.SinonSpy = sinon.spy();
		const callback: sinon.SinonSpy = sinon.spy();

		const timeout: ITimeout = timeoutService.setTimeout(callback, 2000)
												.then(assert.fail)
												.catch(rejectSpy);

		timeout.cancel();
		rlTick(2000);
		flushMicrotasks();

		sinon.assert.calledOnce(rejectSpy);
		sinon.assert.notCalled(callback);
	}));

	it('should allow for specifying just a duration for chaining as a promise', rlFakeAsync((): void => {
		const promiseSpy: sinon.SinonSpy = sinon.spy();

		timeoutService.setTimeout(2000).then(promiseSpy);

		flushMicrotasks();
		sinon.assert.notCalled(promiseSpy);

		rlTick(2000);
		flushMicrotasks();

		sinon.assert.calledOnce(promiseSpy);
	}));
});


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Q: Displaying posts on website (phpBB) Okay so I'm a very beginner at making website and I only know hmtl and ccs coding so far. I got a website (interqueo.hu) and a phpBB forum. On my website I would like to have place on the right side where the visitors can see the latest 5 posts on the forum. I found a tutorial but as I said I'm a beginner and not familiar to php coding.
Link for the tutorial: https://wiki.phpbb.com/Practical.Displaying_posts_and_topics_on_external_pages
I did this so far but I don't know where to put the rest of the codes from the tutorial.
<!DOCTYPE>
<?php
/*
* home.php
* Description: example file for displaying latest posts and topics
* by battye (for phpBB.com MOD Team)
* September 29, 2009
*/

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './forum/';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/bbcode.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup('viewforum');
<html>
<head>
    <title>Test Page</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

A: Append example of your choice to the home.php file. As far as I understand, the fourth example do your job.
Optionnaly, the function could be append to a new function file (function_XXXX.php)in the includes directory.
Then you could included this new file with this code :
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_XXXX.' . $phpEx);

But I don't think this is really useful, only your script will call it. Thus, the function could remain at the beginning of your home.php file.

A: As you are a beginner, I would recommend looking at the database you are going to be using first.  Use PHPMyAdmin, or other UI to check the data existing there, and create a dummy database to display your posts.  Take a note of your DB tables, and fields, and practice querying the data there first.  After it, you will understand better the calls made from PHP to MYSQL database.  I have never used phpBB, but I am sure you can read their documentation on how to manage the database.


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Luna Kafé interview
Centro-matic vs.
South San Gabriel
an interview with Will Johnson
Between a rock and a folk place
Austin, Texas-based singer/songwriter Will Johnson definitely is a busy man. Not only did he just finish an European tour (the next is already booked for October/November), he also released two albums within just a few months. The first, Welcome, Convalenscence, was the stripped down sophomore effort by his side-project South San Gabriel, the other is the soon-to-be-released Love You Just The Same by his main band, Centro-matic. We recently had the chance to talk to Will, who explained why the two bands are pretty much made ofthe same band members, though they are very much seperate entities.
Luna Kafé: I guess a lot of people start side projects because they don't want to play with the same musicians all the time. That doesn't seem to apply in your case. So what was the motivation behind SSG?
Will Johnson: "A few years back I had a certain surplus of songs floating around that didn't quite fit the more guitar-intensive stuff that Centro-matic often does. We started to become attracted to the idea of forming an entirely different outlet to fit those types of sounds, in hopes of including other friends that we've known and played with - something a little less formal and collective-like. This is not to suggest that Centro-matic is an overtly formal affair, but it took pressure off of us having to release all these songs under the Centro-matic moniker and created a new forum to write music in. We were inspired in several different directions."
LK: I guess not only the sound, also the SSG songs itself are different than in Centro-matic - was that change in songwriting prompted just by life in general or was there a specific turning point, where you realized to wanted/needed to do something different?
Will: "Both, really. We've always enjoyed making music together, but we've also tried to explore as many ways as we can to deliver a song. To me that's where a lot of the magic is in writing and recording - that feeling where nothing's impossible. We weren't bored with Centro-matic. We just had the fortune of having a lot of songs on hand that we liked, and decided to form a whole other band to accommodate them."
LK: Is there a potential (for lack of a better word) "risk" that you wouldn't want to continue to write any more "rock" (whatever that means) songs and SSG will become your main focus instead of Centro-matic?
Will: "Not presently, but I guess anything's possible. It's a long life and I enjoy the idea of us making records together for years to come in whatever form inspires us. There's certainly no plan to abandon Centro-matic because I think playing in that band is extremely fulfilling for us. It's loud, fairly loose, and very fun. It's entirely possible that South San Gabriel could become the main focus at some point, but I don't really worry about that. I'm concerned that everyone involved is enjoying themselves. The rest will take care of itself."
LK: Do you consider SSG to be a completely separate entity or could the band be described as a reaction of sorts to what you do with Centro-matic as well?
Will: "We try to keep them pretty separate, which was part of the point of forming South San Gabriel. Of course there's going to be inevitable kinship when the songs are coming from the same songwriter and four of the same musicians, but we work to keep the two bands fairly distanced from one another. If a song doesn't feel removed enough from its counterpart band, we'll hold off on it."
LK: Unfortunately I don't have the first SSG album, Songs/Music - how would you describe the differences between the first two records?
Will: "To me the first one's a little peppier and stripped down than Welcome, Convalescence. There's not quite as many soundscapes or atmospheric-ness on Songs/Music. Less syrup-y, more raw."
LK: One review over here said something along the lines of: "While Centro-matic focus on the guitars, SSG focus on the silence between the notes." Is that a fitting description in your eyes?
Will: "That's not too far off base. Centro-matic has more songs with football metaphors."
LK: How democratic is SSG (compared to Centro-matic) and how much input do the guest musicians have?
Will: "Both bands have always been wide open. I've tried to encourage that. I'll bring the bare bones songs to the camp, and then everyone will pile it on after that. We've played together for quite a long while now to where our communication and instincts feel pretty locked in. There's a lot of trust and respect, which inevitably breeds freedom."
LK: Would you be able to name five records that have played a role in writing and recording this album (as far as the sound and the mood is concerned)?
Will: "It might sound untrue, but not readily or quickly. In the case of this group of songs, it's easier for me to name books than records. I was reading a good deal of William Faulkner ("Light in August", "Sanctuary", "As I Lay Dying") and some of Breece D' J Pancake's short stories around that time, and was, frankly, going through a pretty fucked up period emotionally and marriage-wise. I think some of the books I'd chosen subconsciously inspired me to create some of my own characters and tell their stories. I isolated myself at my folks' house out in the country and wrote all the songs, with the exception of one, in the span of about four days. Isolation, books, and personal fucked up-ness played as big a role as anything."
LK: Silly last question - Is there anything you would like to see in print that's really important and that should be mentioned?
Will: "Not silly at all, though it's become very late into the night and I'm pretty tired. I think we've covered a pretty good deal here. Thanks for doing the interview, Carsten!"
Copyright © 2003 Carsten Wohlfeld
Nils & Prepple: Brent & Resirkulert (LP+CD+7 Box 2011 LTD 70)
Backstreet Girls: Mental Shakedown (LP 1989)
Clash: The Singles (19x7 Box 2006)
DumDum Boys: Blodig Alvor (LP+7" 1988/Re 2015 LTD 500)
Guided By Voices: Propeller (LP 1992/Re 2005)
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same (4xLP Box 2008)
Pearls Before Swine: One Nation Underground (LP 1967/Re 2009 LTD 1000)
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Live At The Fonda Theatre (3xLP+DVD 2017)
Sister Rain: Promo Box (LP-CD Box 1988 LTD 99)
Sky Sunlight Saxon / Vibravoid: A Poetry Of Love (LP 2010 LTD 200)
Daniel Johnston: Fear Yourself


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Gotham 1.05: "Viper"
By Corrina Lawson
Take down Carmine Falcone (John Doman)!
The full scope of the corruption in Gotham and the impossible task that Jim Gordon has taken on himself becomes clear in this fifth episode, where the series finally coalesces into full coherence.
Instead of unrelated quick cuts between the ever-growing cast, Viper pulls them all into one over-reaching plotline: take down Carmine Falcone.
Falcone controls the police, the courts, the mayor and the underworld. Fish and her bondage-loving new boyfriend want to replace Falcone, as does Maroni. Fish's new weapon is her baby doll, a lethal lady trained to pull at Falcone's heartstrings and something below belt as well. Maroni's new weapon is the newly-dubbed Penguin, our old friend Oswald. (Oswald doesn't kill anyone this episode. That's a first. Still, I need to give the writers full credit for finding another fun but gruseome way for Gotham denizens to die: crushed by ATM.)
Benny, you might want to avoid picking that ATM up.
Caught in the middle of all this is Jim Gordon on his self-appointed and seemingly impossible task of cleaning up the city. Maroni knows his secret, that he let Oswald live and why, so now both Falcone and Maroni believe they own our hero.
Meanwhile, Bullock, in one of the funniest lines of the series, just wants to know what altruism is. That's a question everyone in this show needs to ask.
Charity. It means charity.
Even young Bruce Wayne has a role now and it's a better one than becoming addicted to pain. He morphs into Encyclopedia Brown, combing through all Wayne Enterprises paperwork to uncover the corruption in his own company. Alfred is just happy to see Bruce stop burning himself with candles. I'm sure the Wayne Enterprises corruption will tie into Falcone at some point.
The biggest Batman mythos call-out in "Viper" is, of course, the drug itself. I immediately pegged it as a precursor to Venom, the drug used by Batman's arch-enemy, Bane, and that was later confirmed in the episode. It appears on the Gotham-verse that the man who nearly defeats Batman was created by Wayne Enterprises. There's a certain symmetry to that. I wonder if Chuck Dixon, Graham Nolan and Doug Moench, creators of Bane, will get any residuals from this mention?
Edward Nigma sure seemed interested in Viper.
There was another, more hidden, call-out when the first viper-drugged guy says "Do not vex me, mortal" and the storekeeper replies, "Suit yourself, Zeus." That's the second reference to Maxie Zeus, created by legendary Batman writer Denny O'Neil, the first being the Trident Corporation that was exporting kids.
And the quickest call out? Young Bruce watching Zorro, just before the channel switches to a news report. In the comics, the Wayne family goes to see Zorro together on that tragic night.
What happens now that all these plotlines are in full motion? The season finale ending in bloodshed and a small sliver of light for the city, at least, so I hope.
In the meantime, though Jim needs allies. Maroni and Oswald are the only ones who know the truth about his secrets. Maroni thinks he owns Jim, Falcone thinks he owns Jim, and Oswald is…grateful? (Hard to tell with Oswald.) I wonder what will happen when Jim realizes Oswald's body count, well into the double digits now.
Fish is playing the long con with Falcone.
Jim needs to come clean with someone honest, someone who won't use him as a weapon. Let's hope the lack of Allen, Montoya and Barbara from this episode isn't a trend.
Maybe Barbara was busy learning how to leave her clocktower. Or maybe Selina's been hanging around with her, having tea parties. (Okay, probably not.)
What will next week hold?
Jim will get beaten up (again), Bullock will eat a sandwich, Selina will steal something, the mobsters will hit someone, and young Bruce will read the Hardy Boys and watch lots of Law & Order to see how it's done.
Oh, and someone will die horribly. Because it's Gotham.
Corrina Lawson is a writer, mom, geek and superhero, though not always all four on the same day. She is a senior editor of the GeekMom blog at Wired and the author of a superhero romance series and an alternate history series featuring Romans and Vikings in ancient North America. She has been a comic book geek all her life and often dreamed of growing up to be Lois Lane.
Read all posts by Corrina Lawson for Criminal Element.
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This might've been my favorite episode so far. We FINALLY have enough characters at cross-purposes to make their collisions unpredictable and interesting. The emergence of several yet-to-be-baddies is getting cool, too. I agree with you that they've kept the characterizations simplified, and maybe if you know eventually the game board will be jammed with players, that's a smart choice. More factions and agenda complications is helping my enjoyment. (But do you buy that Falcone is sitting all alone, with none of his people around to protect him, and that he'd be THAT easy and obvious to honey trap? I hope not.)
I also laughed at the "altruism" line and appreciate Bullock's gallery of sandwiches.
Oh, yeah, the last bit with Falcone had me rolling my eyes. I guess I could believe he has his guys out of sight or something. I couldn't buy that he fell so hard, though, so fast.
I'm still on the fence on Fish. Sometimes, she amuses me, sometimes I roll my eyes.
Q&A with Louise Doughty, Writer of the Crossfire Mini-Series on Britbox
By Crime HQ and Louise Doughty
Thanks so much for joining us! First, can you tell us a little about your new series, Crossfire, on Britbox? Crossfire is a series about three families who are staying in a holiday resort on a Spanish island when gunmen come into the premises and begin to shoot. All the families are separated in different…
House of the Dragon: "Driftmark" Episode Review
By Joe Brosnan
Nothing brings people together like a funeral, so special shout-out to Laena Velaryon for giving us the spectacle that was "Driftmark." With every major player in attendance, we were treated to an episode filled with everything from subtle power dynamics to full-blown attempted murder. Normally we have to wait for weddings for this type of…
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Remember last week when I praised House of the Dragon for not holding our hands while it zoomed through the story? Well, I'm afraid we've discovered the other side of that coin, as this week's 10-year jump felt a bit too jarring. I want to be clear: this doesn't have anything to do with the…
House of the Dragon: "We Light the Way" Episode Review
"We Light the Way", the fifth episode of HBO's House of the Dragon, feels like the end of Part 1. Thus far, we've been treated to a relatively small cast, just a few major players, and only a few important families. But that is about to change, and change drastically. First, I'd like to raise…


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Карлос Охене ()  е ганайски футболист, който играе на поста полузащитник. Състезател на ЦСКА 1948.

Кариера
На 27 август 2021 г. Охене е обявен за ново попълнение на Царско село. Прави дебюта си на 17 септември при загубата с 0:2 като домакин на Локомотив (Пловдив).

ЦСКА 1948
На 12 януари 2022 г. Карлос подписва с ЦСКА 1948. Дебютира на 9 юли при победата с 1:0 като домакин на Левски (София).

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Target's Black Friday ad has made its way onto the internet with around two weeks to go before the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season. Now you might expect that there's plenty of Android to consider for your friends, family, or yourself. Considering how big the retailer is and how many different electronics devices they offer, we'd hope there's a few Android goodies, right? Wrong. We could only find two products in the entire ad, both prepaid phones.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using WMPLib;

namespace PhotoResizer
{
    public partial class frmVideoTrim : Form
    {
        private double startPoint = -1;
        private double endPoint = -1;
        private string wmpURL = "";

        public frmVideoTrim()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
        public frmVideoTrim(string filename)
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            wmpURL = filename;
        }

        public Tuple<double, double> GetTimeRange()
        {
            return new Tuple<double, double>(this.startPoint, this.endPoint);
        }

        private void frmVideoTrim_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // this.DialogResult = DialogResult.Cancel; // Set default return
            Console.WriteLine("Form load happening");
            wmp1.URL = this.wmpURL;

            startPoint = 0;
            endPoint = -1;
            lblStartPoint.Text = SecondsToString(startPoint);
            lblEndPoint.Text = "End point not set";

            this.btnSetStartPoint.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnSetStartPoint_Click);
            this.btnSetEndPoint.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnSetEndPoint_Click);
        }

        private void btnStepLeft_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            IWMPControls2 Ctlcontrols2 = (IWMPControls2)wmp1.Ctlcontrols;
            Ctlcontrols2.step(-1);
        }

        private void btnStepRight_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            IWMPControls2 Ctlcontrols2 = (IWMPControls2)wmp1.Ctlcontrols;
            Ctlcontrols2.step(1);
        }

        private void btnSetStartPoint_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            wmp1.Ctlcontrols.pause();
            if (endPoint >= 0 && wmp1.Ctlcontrols.currentPosition >= endPoint)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("Start point must be before end point.", "Invalid start point", MessageBoxButtons.OK);
                return;
            }
            startPoint = wmp1.Ctlcontrols.currentPosition;
            lblStartPoint.Text = SecondsToString(startPoint);
        }

        private void btnSetEndPoint_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            wmp1.Ctlcontrols.pause();
            if (startPoint >= 0 && wmp1.Ctlcontrols.currentPosition <= startPoint)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("End point must be after start point.", "Invalid end point", MessageBoxButtons.OK);
                return;
            }
            endPoint = wmp1.Ctlcontrols.currentPosition;
            lblEndPoint.Text = SecondsToString(endPoint);
            btnDone.Enabled = true;
        }
        private string SecondsToString(double seconds)
        {
            TimeSpan t = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(seconds);
            return string.Format("{0:D2}:{1:D2}:{2:D2}:{3:D3}",
                        t.Hours,
                        t.Minutes,
                        t.Seconds,
                        t.Milliseconds);
        }

        private void btnDone_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void btnSetEndPoint_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            btnSetEndPoint_Click(sender, e);
        }
    }
}


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Video: Watch a Self-driving Vehicle Navigate a City in Singapore
NuTonomy's self-driving vehicles will be used in research and development in conjunction with Lyft. (Source: NuTonomy)NuTonomy has been working with partners to develop self-driving vehicle technology and just signed an agreement with Lyft, the ride hailing service, to gain research and insight into how the technology interacts and communicates with riders.
NuTonomy has also released a video of a trial in Singapore during a typical day in one of the cities, showing the autonomous vehicle navigating streets, stopping at lights, yielding to pedestrians and more. While the passenger isn't sure about the self-driving technology and keeps his hands right at the wheel at all times, it shows the potential of what a self-driving car is capable of and why the technology is being billed as the next great thing in the automotive market.
Under the partnership with Lyft, the R&D efforts will take place in Boston, where NuTonomy has been testing its self-driving electric cars since the beginning of 2017. A NuTonomy engineer rides in the vehicles during testing to observe system performance and assume control if needed. NuTonomy has also been conducting road tests and public trials in Singapore where it plans to launch a self-driving mobility-on-demand service starting in 2018.
The partnership will also look into aspects of ensuring a passenger's comfort and safety during an autonomous vehicle ride from the routing and booking to the performance of the driving system.
Following the initial phase of the partnership with Lyft, the companies will consider expanding the deal to see if additional learning and data is needed for performance and features of self-driving on-demand service as well as how the service could be deployed in cities to tackle urban driving.
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Iran's Zarif Warns US of 'Consequences' Over Oil Sanctions, Strait of Hormuz
April 25: The United States must be prepared for consequences if it tries to stop Iran from selling oil and using the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned on Wednesday, while also offering to negotiate prisoner swaps with Washington.
The United States on Monday demanded buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May or face sanctions, ending six months of waivers which allowed Iran's eight biggest buyers, most of them in Asia, to continue importing limited volumes.
"We believe that Iran will continue to sell its oil. We will continue to find buyers for our oil and we will continue to use the Strait of Hormuz as a safe transit passage for the sale of our oil," Zarif told an event at the Asia Society in New York.
Reinforcing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's stance, Zarif warned: "If the United States takes the crazy measure of trying to prevent us from doing that, then it should be prepared for the consequences." He did not give specifics.
When asked if the US pressure campaign on Tehran was aimed at sparking further negotiations or regime change, Zarif said: "The B team wants regime change at the very least." He described the B Team as including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump's national security adviser John Bolton.
"It is not a crisis yet, but it is a dangerous situation. Accidents … are possible. I wouldn't discount the B team plotting an accident anywhere in the region, particularly as we get closer to the election. We are not there yet."
Zarif suggested possible cooperation with the United States to bring stability to Iraq and Afghanistan, a priority for both Tehran and Washington.
He also said he was willing to swap British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained in Iran since 2016, for an Iranian woman detained in Australia for the past three years on a US extradition request.
"I feel sorry for them, and I have done my best to help," Zarif said of Zaghari-Ratcliffe. "But nobody talks about this lady in Australia who gave birth to a child in prison. … I put this offering on the table publicly now – exchange them."
Zarif then went on to say that Iran had told the US administration six months ago that it was open to a prisoner swap deal, but had not yet received a response.
"All these people that are in prison inside the United States, on extradition requests from the United States, we believe their charges are phony. The United States believes the charges against these people in Iran are phony. Let's not discuss that," he said.
"Let's have an exchange. I'm ready to do it and I have authority to do it," Zarif said.
Source: Reuters via Al Arabiya
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