Idaho is a rugged Rocky Mountain state known for its stunning natural beauty. Outdoors men and women will always find something to do, from hiking in the summer to skiing in the winter. Life in Idaho is an experience in the great American wilderness that will stay with you for a lifetime. If you are thinking about moving to Idaho, consider a furnished rental. Not only do furnished rentals cut down on moving costs, many are also designed with impeccable Northwest motifs that bring out the natural beauty of the region.
Furnished homes and other rentals such as rooms for rent can be found in Idaho's urban cities like Boise, Nampa, and Pocatello. All of these cities are home to several major colleges in Idaho, and students can appreciate the value of a decent room for rent. Room rentals are often listed by landlords who own the home and are invested in the property. This is a guarantee that they will make sure the property remains in good condition. Renting a furnished room is a great option for a young person looking to live on their own.
Furnished apartments and condos are also available in urban centers. They come with furniture for bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms, as well as all necessary cookware. Young professionals enjoy the extra space of an entire apartment as opposed to a single room. Also, if you don't mind sharing your space with another person, getting a roommate is a very affordable option and a great way to save money. Do keep in mind, however, that most apartments are only available in Idaho's cities. They are few and far between outside of urban centers, and since most of Idaho is rural, finding an apartment away from the city can prove difficult.
Families typically need more space than an apartment or condo can offer. However, families often dread moving because of the high cost of hiring movers and renting a van. Therefore, looking into a furnished house or townhome for rent provides exceptional value. Homes can be found in all regions of Idaho, from urban Boise to tourist-driven Coeur d'Alene and historic Oakley. The savings of renting a furnished home truly add up, especially when you consider large, multiple-bedroom homes. Renting a furnished home is an ideal option for families are new to the area and want the chance to explore Idaho before deciding on where to purchase a home.
Those who enjoy a more rustic lifestyle need a furnished cabin. Found in rural areas, renting a cabin is one of the best ways to experience the wilderness that Idaho has to offer. If you are looking into an extended vacation or just wanting to get away, renting a rustic cabin is the way to go. Since it is already furnished you will already have all the comforts of home without having to drag your belongings across the country. While cabins are found all over Idaho, the tourist destination cities also offer luxury cabins, combining the beauty of nature with modern necessities.


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Who's who in the Royal Family
Does this picture reveal the Queen's true feelings about Meghan Markle?
Why Meghan and Harry didn't attend Royal Ascot with William and Kate
Will and Kate visit Harry and Meghan at Frogmore Cottage
Buckingham Palace has confirmed the NEXT royal wedding
Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Prince William expected to all spend Christmas with the Queen
Why Meghan Markle stood behind Kate Middleton for her balcony debut
Prince William's heartbreaking statement about losing his brother
Torn between his brother & wife: Prince Harry 'BULLIED' into royal resignation
Palace in crisis: Queen calls an emergency meeting to deal with Meghan & Harry announcement
Prince Harry confirms royal rift in TV interview
Meghan and Harry just publicly snubbed Kate and William
It's official: How Kate and Meghan have ended their bitter feud
Why William and Harry have broken the Queen's heart
The British Royal family: Where did they attend school?
Can you recognise them? - by Chadielle Fayad
Princess Charlotte is beginning her first day of school this week - joining her brother, Prince George at Thomas's Battersea school.
The private school is one of the most elite schools in Britain (Cara Delevingne and singer Florence Welch from Florence and The Machine both attended).
Receiving a prestigious education is the standard for a member of the royal family.
Take a look back at where the royal family attended school:
WATCH: Prince William drops off Prince George for his first day of school
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Sophie Monk claps back at bikini haters
Horrifying footage of raging bushfire at Mt Tomah
Volcano erupts in White Island, New Zealand
First clip of Virginia Roberts' explosive interview on Prince Andrew
Angie Kent and Carlin Sterritt get physical on Vietnam holiday
Woman rescues a scorched koala from Australian bushfire
'I didn't sweat because of the war': Prince Andrew denied sweaty dancing with Virginia Roberts
Prince Andrew is challenged over the nature of his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Growing up in the Los Angeles area, Meghan Markle attended Hollywood Little Red School House for elementary school, followed by Immaculate Heart Highschool.
Her father, Thomas Markle, reportedly paid for her education with a California lottery win.
The future Duchess of Sussex also went to Northwestern University in Michigan where she graduated with a double major in international studies and theatre.
Prince Harry reportedly enjoyed sports more than academics while at school.
Prince Harry followed in Prince William's footsteps by attending nursery school at Jane Mynors and pre-preparatory at Wetherby School in London, followed by Ludgrove and Eton College.
The Duke of Sussex took a Gap year in Australia and Lesotho before attending the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst.
In a series of interviews while in Afghanistan, the 34-year-old admitted that he didn't thrive academically.
"Exams were always a nightmare, but anything like kicking a ball around or playing PlayStation - or flying - I do generally find a little bit easier than walking, sometimes," Harry explained.
Prince William and Prince Harry attended Jane Mynors, Wetherby, Ludgrove and Eton.
After leaving Mrs Mynor's nursery school in Notting Hill Gate in 1985, Prince William attended kindergarten at Wetherby School and then Ludgrove Prep School in Wokingham, Berkshire.
For his high school years, the Duke of Cambridge attended Eton College - breaking the royal family tradition of attending Gordonstoun in Scotland.
The now-37-year-old completed his studies at the University of St Andrews, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton.
Prince William met Kate Middleton while studying at the University of St Andrews.
Kate Middleton attended a private school called St Andrew's in Pangbourne, Berkshire before boarding at Marlborough College in Wiltshire.
The future Duchess of Cambridge later attended the University of St Andrews, where she met a handsome British royal who changed her life forever.
Kate Middleton (back row, third from the left) attended a private school called St Andrew's in Pangbourne before boarding at Marlborough College.
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie
Both of Prince Andrew's daughters attended Upton House School in Windsor before attending Coworth Park School and later St George's School in Ascot.
Princess Beatrice graduated with a 2:1 degree in History and History of Ideas from Goldsmiths College in London.
Her sister, Princess Eugenie, completed an English literature and history of art degree at Newcastle University.
Both Princess Beatrice and Prince Eugenie attended Upton House School in Windsor before attending Coworth Park School and later St George's School in Ascot.
The 'People's Princess' was home-schooled by a governess before she was sent to Riddlesworth Hall boarding school at age nine.
Following Princess Diana's time at the boarding school - which she said was a lonely and difficult time - she went to West Heath Girls' School in Kent and later an elite finishing school in Switzerland called Institut Alpin Videmanette.
WATCH: How Prince William REFUSED to speak to Diana after she 'went TOO FAR'
The Prince of Wales followed royal tradition for his educational experience.
After attending Hill House School in West London, Prince Charles attended Cheam (like his father, Prince Philip) where he was school captain.
Continuing to follow in his father's footsteps, the future king went to Gordonstoun in Scotland, where he was allegedly bullied relentlessly.
"I hardly get any sleep in the House because I snore and I get hit on the head all the time. The people in my dormitory are foul. Goodness, they are horrid," he once stated in a letter.
Prince Charles was the first-ever heir apparent to receive a university degree, after studying archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge and the University of Wales.
Prince Charles attended Cheam (like his father, Prince Philip) where he was school captain.
The Queen and Prince Philip
Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, Princess Margaret were homeschooled by tutors in constitutional history, French and maths.
"The Queen's father had disliked school and her mother thought it was more important to have fun," Professor Kate Williams, the author of Young Elizabeth, told Good Housekeeping.
During World War II, her Royal Highness joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, where she trained as a mechanic.
Her husband, Prince Philip attended an American school in Paris before Cheam School in Hampshire, England.
The Duke of Edinburgh was said to be a "know it all smarty person, but always remarkably polite," according to his teachers.
Prince Philip, 98, also went to Gordonstoun boarding school in Scotland before joining the Royal Navy.
Prince Philip was said to be a "know it all smarty person, but always remarkably polite," according to his teachers.
Chadielle Fayad

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"Mad Max: Fury Road" is beyond mad.
Insanely creative. Insanely violent. Insanely satisfying.
The credit goes to George Miller, who invented the "Mad Max" franchise almost 40 years ago. That particular Max was played with surly charisma and matinee-idol good looks by Mel Gibson.
Aside from a car-strewn vision of a post-apocalyptic future, the "Max's" have almost nothing in common — no more, say, than Roger Moore and Daniel Craig as 007. The outline is vaguely the same, but everything else is different.
Within minutes, the smart money is on everyone else. Max runs afoul of a tribe of albino baldies who control the water in this dehydrated dystopia. Their leader is Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne, Toecutter in the original movies) — a brute whose human parts are barely held together by Hieronymus Bosch-like prosthetics.
These War Boys, as they're known, are experts at using other humans as commodities. A dozen or more women are hooked up to giant pumps that continuously extract their breast milk. Max himself is trussed up as a human blood bag attached to Joe's sickly son Nux (Nicholas Hoult).
Having sketched out the bare essentials, Miller then sends us on a non-stop two-hour chase that's made all the more stunning by the filmmaker's decision to eschew CGI effects as much as possible. So yes, those are stuntmen engineering those incredible smash-ups, riding motorbikes down impossible inclines or dangling over their quarry like demented escapees from Cirque de Soleil.
And that quarry is: a onetime loyalist named Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron, still gorgeous despite her shaved head and robotic arm). On a seemingly routine petrol run, she's gone rogue, making off with Joe's most precious possessions. They are a quintet of scantily clad lovelies known as Breeders who apparently survived the Apocalypse by hiding out in a Victoria's Secret store.
Furiosa has vague pre-War Boys memories of a green place where she and her mother lived peacefully before being kidnapped. She intends to bring the Breeders there and Max, who's graduated from blood bag to hood ornament, ends up on her side.
Miller's original Mad Max trilogy laid out the blueprint for countless future-set films that followed. Here, he outdoes himself, ramping up the landscapes as much as the action. A mad dash through a crazy-quilt rock formation suggests "Stagecoach's" Monument Valley re-imagined by a visionary lunatic. A journey through a foggy quagmire, seemingly inhabited by crone/crane mutants, is eerily disturbing.
"Mad Max: Fury Road" has all its teeth, too. And then some. Because amidst all the sound and fury, Miller still made room for a human element.
When's the last time you watched a movie that put your heart in your mouth and a lump in your throat?


This complex of clothing stores is popular with young men and women looking for originality. The complex has East, West, South,and Parco midi buildings, with a movie theater and a club with live music in the East Building, and a hotel in the West Building.
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For the pesto: Put the ingredients in a food processor and blend thoroughly. Blend it more than you would other pestos, you don't want any big carrot leaves as they will get stuck in your throat. When everything is well broken up, add a little more olive oil to loosen it up so you can drape the pesto over your egg.
For the eggs: Cover the eggs with cold water in a sauce pot. Bring to a boil then shut off the heat, cover the pot and wait for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, submerge the eggs in ice water. Wait another 10 minutes then peel the eggs and cut into quarters. Place quartered eggs on a serving dish and drape with the pesto.
I thought this was pretty gross and carrot tops I used (fresh from my garden) were sweet so the addition of honey was not necessary. Maybe 50/50 basil and carrot tops...either way I won't be cooking with carrot tops again.
I'm a Brit living in France and made this Pesto yesterday. Served it with wholewheat pasta. The verdict from both husband and myself: DELICIOUS!
From what I understand, carrot tops contain toxic alkaloid and when consumed in large quantity can make you very sick. Some people cannot tolerate carrot tops even in small quantity, and reactions can include itchy toungue/throat, intestinal pain and even death.
Two years ago, I disregarded the "carrots are toxic" advise and made a salad with carrot top dressing I had seen at Cafe Boulud. I was fine, but my husband became very ill, necessitating a trip to the emergency room.
I don't want to be the doomsday person out there, and chances are you will probably be fine. But that was my experience.
I love carrot tops with herbs and a simple vinaigrette but someone told me they are toxic? I am not dead yet, so perhaps this is a myth? Does anyone know?
Thanks for the idea! I by whole organic carrots with teh tops ALL the time and ALL the time I throw them away not knowing how to use them. Now I can make pesto every week! I just made a vegan pesto like dip for my raw veggies for lunch using pumpkin seeds and lime instead of almonds. Its great and the carrot top flavor is not too intense. Thanks again for the idea!
Moira Hodgson published a recipe for Pureed Carrot Top Condiment in Good Food From a Small Kitchen (1985). Her recipe follows... Puree the tops from a bunch of fresh young carrots in a food processor with a bit of water. Saute the puree in a tablespoon of sesame oil for about 5 minutes, then season with 2 tablespoons of Tamari sauce. I've prepared this many times and served it as a condiment for brown rice. She got the recipe from composer John Cage. I will try the pesto recipe, as we have lots of carrots in the garden now!
I remember Googling wildly last summer to find out if carrot tops were edible and getting no clear yeses. Thanks for answering my question AND coming up with a great way to eat them.


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Q: Searching emoji from varchar column returns different record I'm using MySQL5.6. The DB character set is utf8mb4.
When I search emoji as below, I got unexpected results.
mysql> SELECT id, hex(title) FROM tags WHERE title = 0xF09F9886;
+-----+------------+
| id  | hex(title) |
+-----+------------+
| 165 | F09F9886   |
| 166 | F09F9884   |
+-----+------------+

It should return only id=165. Does anyone know this why?

A: I found how to fix it. It was a problem of collation. I used default collation value, I presume it's utf8mb4_general_ci. When I changed that utf8mb4_bin, MySQL returned right result.
You can change collation as below.
ALTER TABLE tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin;

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Vtech InnoTab Learning Tablet with Case – Pink - 64mb onboard memory and sd card slot for memory expansion. 5″ color touch screen and tilt-sensor for educational gameplay. E-books, educational games, creative activities, learning apps, and more available on cartridge or as downloads from vtech learning lodge navigator website. Learning toy connects to pc/mac with included usb cable. 4 different media players e-book reader, mp3 music player, photo viewer and video player.
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VTech Learning App Download Card - G. It is redeemable on download stories and games from the vtech learning lodge navigator site for the innotab, storio, and mobigo. Additional content may require an sd memory card (sold separately). 'Y' or 'v', and 'g' or '6', etc. With the vtech learning app download card, you can get more content for your child's favorite vtech toys online. Follow the simple instructions to redeem your card and download ebooks, games, music, videos, apps, and more the download card is easy to use and makes a great gift. Please note the unique codes are case-sensitive please take care when entering the code ensuring that you enter the correct letter or number, e.
VTech Learning Laptop - Since 1976, vtech has been developing high-quality, innovative, educational products for children from birth to preteen that deliver "smart play" through the combination of entertaining electronic formats and engaging, age-suitable content that help children learn while having fun. Vtech, the creator of the electronic learning products (elp) category, is a world leader of age-appropriate learning toys. Vtech's v. Vtech's innovative toys for baby, infant, toddler, preschool and grade school ages enrich children's development and help them meet their milestones including products such as bugsby reading system and software. Smile tv learning system is a constant award-winner ensuring your kid will learn through fun and smart play. Vtech is a leader in kid's laptops, learning toys and games. Vtech believes kids have the power.
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VTech Disney Princess Magical Learning Laptop - Early learning center is intended for kids ages 4 to 7 operates on 3 included aa batteries. Learning laptop has eye-catching disney princess design and a handle for on-the-go carry magical key unlocks the laptop and the secret pull-out drawer. Disney princess laptop toy features 4 disney princesses disney's cinderella, snow white, belle and aurora play along in fun interactive learning activities. Educational toy has a black and white lcd screen display and interactive animations that encourage learning qwerty keyboard develops typing skills. Kids laptop has 18 fun learning activities that explore language, basic math, manners, emotions, logic and music.
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VTech Yo Gabba Gabba Learning Laptop - Vtech yo gabba gabba learning laptop. Requires (3) "aa" batteries (try-me batteries included) / ages 3+. Automatic shut-off preserves battery life / lcd screen / volume control for quieter play / durable design for long-lasting play. Teaches letters / phonics / numbers / logic / rythm. Mouse helps improve motor skills and early computer skills / the real voice of dj lance rock, fun sound effects, and cool melodies captivate your child while giving friendly guidance.
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VTech – Letter Sounds Learning Bus - 3 selector rotating dials. Four modes of play teach letter sounds, first letters, blends and sound switching. Flexible keypad with full alphabet and song buttons. Teaches phonics through interactive games. Has 3 black and white lcd windows.
VTech Learning Tunes Karaoke - Your child will learn to sing-along with this kids karaoke machine includes 15 karaoke songs and a working microphone. Karaoke toy has a long cord and small parts, and is only for children ages 3 and up 3 aa batteries are included. Music instrument toy comes with 3 modes of play including letters, numbers and fun songs kids music toy develops counting skills. Musical learning toy features an lcd screen with animations of facial expressions that relate to the lyrics. Karaoke machine for kids comes with 4 voice changing effects to use while singing along adding an extra element of fun.
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/*++

Module Name:

  GraphicsOutputBBTestSupport.c

Abstract:

  The Support Functions Provided for Test Cases of Graphics Output Protocol

References:
  UEFI 2.0 Specification
  Graphics Output Protocol Test Design Specification
  UEFI/Tiano DXE Test Case Writer's Guide

Revision History

--*/

#include "SctLib.h"
#include "GraphicsOutputBBTest.h"

EFI_EVENT TimerEvent;

EFI_STATUS
InitTestEnv (
  IN EFI_HANDLE                         SupportHandle,
  IN EFI_STANDARD_TEST_LIBRARY_PROTOCOL **StandardLib,
  IN EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_PROTOCOL       *GraphicsOutput

  )
/*++

Routine Description:

  find the Standard Test Libray Interface from SupportHandle,
  locate the DevicePath Protocol bound to GraphicsOutput Protocol,
  output the device path string

Arguments:

  SupportHandle     - The handle to find the S.T.L. Interface
  GraphicsOutput    - The protocol to find its corresponse device path
  StandardLib       - The S.T.L. interface instance found with S.T.L. GUID

Returns:

  EFI_SUCCESS      - No error occurs
  EFI_DEVICE_ERROR - Something wrong.

--*/
{
  EFI_STATUS                    Status;

  UINTN                         NoHandles;
  UINTN                         Index;
  EFI_HANDLE                    *HandleBuffer;
  EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_PROTOCOL  *OtherGraphicsOutput;

  EFI_DEVICE_PATH_PROTOCOL      *DevicePath;
  CHAR16                        *DevicePathStr;

  Status = gtBS->HandleProtocol (
                   SupportHandle,
                   &gEfiStandardTestLibraryGuid,
                   (VOID **) StandardLib
                   );

  if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
    (*StandardLib)->RecordAssertion (
                      (*StandardLib),
                      EFI_TEST_ASSERTION_FAILED,
                      gTestGenericFailureGuid,
                      L"BS.HandleProtocol - Handle standard test library",
                      L"%a:%d:Status - %r",
                      __FILE__,
                      (UINTN)__LINE__,
                      Status
                      );
    return Status;
  }
  //
  // Locate the Handle that the GraphicsOutput interface is bound to
  //
  Status = gtBS->LocateHandleBuffer (
                   ByProtocol,
                   &gBlackBoxEfiGraphicsOutputProtocolGuid,
                   NULL,
                   &NoHandles,
                   &HandleBuffer
                   );
  if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
    (*StandardLib)->RecordAssertion (
                      (*StandardLib),
                      EFI_TEST_ASSERTION_FAILED,
                      gTestGenericFailureGuid,
                      L"BS.LocateHandle - LocateHandle",
                      L"%a:%d:Status - %r",
                      __FILE__,
                      (UINTN)__LINE__,
                      Status
                      );
    return Status;
  }

  if (NoHandles <= 0 || HandleBuffer == NULL) {
    (*StandardLib)->RecordAssertion (
                      (*StandardLib),
                      EFI_TEST_ASSERTION_FAILED,
                      gTestGenericFailureGuid,
                      L"BS.LocateHandle - LocateHandle",
                      L"%a:%d:Device Error",
                      __FILE__,
                      (UINTN)__LINE__
                      );
    return EFI_DEVICE_ERROR;
  }
  //
  // Find the exact handle that GraphicsOutput bound to
  //
  for (Index = 0; Index < NoHandles; Index++) {
    Status = gtBS->HandleProtocol (
                     HandleBuffer[Index],
                     &gBlackBoxEfiGraphicsOutputProtocolGuid,
                     (VOID **) &OtherGraphicsOutput
                     );
    if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
      (*StandardLib)->RecordAssertion (
                        (*StandardLib),
                        EFI_TEST_ASSERTION_FAILED,
                        gTestGenericFailureGuid,
                        L"BS.HandleProtocol - HandleProtocol",
                        L"%a:%d:Status - %r",
                        __FILE__,
                        (UINTN)__LINE__,
                        Status
                        );

      gtBS->FreePool (HandleBuffer);
      return Status;
    }

    if (OtherGraphicsOutput == GraphicsOutput) {
      break;
    }
  }
  //
  // Locate the DevicePath Protocol bound to GraphicsOutput Protocol
  //
  if (Index >= NoHandles) {
    //
    // No Handle Found!!
    //
    gtBS->FreePool (HandleBuffer);

    return EFI_DEVICE_ERROR;
  }

  Status = gtBS->HandleProtocol (
                   HandleBuffer[Index],
                   &gEfiDevicePathProtocolGuid,
                   (VOID **) &DevicePath
                   );

  gtBS->FreePool (HandleBuffer);

  if (Status == EFI_SUCCESS) {
    DevicePathStr = SctDevicePathToStr (DevicePath);
    if (DevicePathStr != NULL) {
      (*StandardLib)->RecordMessage (
                        (*StandardLib),
                        EFI_VERBOSE_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
                        L"\r\nCurrent Device: %s",
                        DevicePathStr
                        );
      Status = gtBS->FreePool (DevicePathStr);
      if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
        (*StandardLib)->RecordAssertion (
                          (*StandardLib),
                          EFI_TEST_ASSERTION_FAILED,
                          gTestGenericFailureGuid,
                          L"BS.FreePool - Free pool",
                          L"%a:%d:Status - %r",
                          __FILE__,
                          (UINTN)__LINE__,
                          Status
                          );
        return Status;
      }

      DevicePathStr = NULL;
    }
  } else {
    //
    // Console Splitter/GraphicsOutput, must add to continue run the rest of the test case
    //
    (*StandardLib)->RecordMessage (
                      (*StandardLib),
                      EFI_VERBOSE_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
                      L"\r\nCurrent Device: ConsoleSplitter/GraphicsOutput"
                      );

    return EFI_SUCCESS;
  }

  return Status;
}

EFI_STATUS
GraphicsOutputClearScreen (
  IN  EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_PROTOCOL      *GraphicsOutput,
  IN  UINTN                             HorizontalResolution,
  IN  UINTN                             VerticalResolution
  )
/*++

Routine Description:

  Clear the whole screen

Arguments:

  GraphicsOutput        - GraphicsOutPut protocol interface
  HorizontalResolution  - Horizontal resolution of the screen
  VerticalResolution    - Vertical resolution of the screen

Returns:

  EFI_SUCCESS - No error occurs

--*/
{
  EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_BLT_PIXEL blt;

  blt.Blue = 0;
  blt.Red = 0;
  blt.Green = 0;

  return GraphicsOutput->Blt (
                           GraphicsOutput,
                           &blt,
                           EfiBltVideoFill,
                           0,
                           0,
                           0,
                           0,
                           HorizontalResolution,
                           VerticalResolution,
                           0
                           );
}

VOID
GetTestData (
  IN  UINTN        Index,
  IN  UINTN        *Width,
  IN  UINTN        *Height,
  IN  UINTN        *SourceX,
  IN  UINTN        *SourceY,
  IN  UINTN        *DestinationX,
  IN  UINTN        *DestinationY,
  IN  UINTN        *Delta,
  IN  UINTN        HorizontalResolution,
  IN  UINTN        VerticalResolution
  )
/*++

Routine Description:

  Assistant function for preparing test data

Arguments:

  Index                 - Index of the current test count
  Width                 - Test data for Width to be returned
  Height                - Test data for Height to be returned
  SourceX               - Test data for SourceX to be returned
  SourceY               - Test data for SourceY to be returned
  DestinationX          - Test data for DestinationX to be returned
  DestinationY          - Test data for DestinationY to be returned
  Delta                 - Test data for Delta to be returned
  HorizontalResolution  - Test data for HorizontalResolution to be returned
  VerticalResolution    - Test data for VerticalResolution to be returned

Returns:

  No return status.

--*/
{
  switch (Index / (DEMO_SOURCE_POSITION_ENUM * DEMO_DESTINATION_POSITION_ENUM * DEMO_DELTA_ENUM)) {
  //
  // Width & Height evaluation
  //
  case 0:
    *Width  = 100;
    *Height = 100;
    break;

  case 1:
    *Width  = HorizontalResolution / 2;
    *Height = VerticalResolution / 2;
    break;

  default:
    *Width  = 0;
    *Height = 0;
    break;
  }

  Index = Index % (DEMO_SOURCE_POSITION_ENUM * DEMO_DESTINATION_POSITION_ENUM * DEMO_DELTA_ENUM);

  switch (Index / (DEMO_DESTINATION_POSITION_ENUM * DEMO_DELTA_ENUM)) {
  //
  // Source evaluation
  //
  case 0:
    *SourceX  = 0;
    *SourceY  = 0;
    break;

  case 1:
    *SourceX  = 100;
    *SourceY  = 100;
    break;

  case 2:
    *SourceX  = HorizontalResolution / 2;
    *SourceY  = VerticalResolution / 2;
    break;

  default:
    *SourceX  = HorizontalResolution + 1;
    *SourceY  = VerticalResolution + 1;
    break;
  }

  Index = Index % (DEMO_DESTINATION_POSITION_ENUM * DEMO_DELTA_ENUM);

  switch (Index / DEMO_DELTA_ENUM) {
  //
  // Destination evaluation
  //
  case 0:
    *DestinationX = 0;
    *DestinationY = 0;
    break;

  case 1:
    *DestinationX = 100;
    *DestinationY = 100;
    break;

  case 2:
    *DestinationX = HorizontalResolution / 2;
    *DestinationY = VerticalResolution / 2;
    break;

  default:
    *DestinationX = HorizontalResolution + 1;
    *DestinationY = VerticalResolution + 1;
    break;
  }

  Index = Index % DEMO_DELTA_ENUM;
  switch (Index) {
  //
  // Delta evaluation
  //
  case 0:
    *Delta = 0;
    break;

  case 1:
    *Delta = 100 * sizeof (EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_BLT_PIXEL);
    break;

  case 2:
    *Delta = (*Width / 2) * sizeof (EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_BLT_PIXEL);
    break;

  case 3:
    *Delta = (*Width) * sizeof (EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_BLT_PIXEL);
    break;

  default:
    *Delta = (*Width + 1) * sizeof (EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_BLT_PIXEL);
  }
}

EFI_STATUS
LoadBmp (
  IN EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_BLT_PIXEL  **BltBuffer,
  IN UINTN                          *Width,
  IN UINTN                          *Height
  )
/*++

Routine Description:

  Assistant function for loading a bmp file

Arguments:

  BltBuffer - Buffer for loading a bmp file
  Width     - Width of the bmp file
  Height    - Height of the bmp file

Returns:

  EFI_SUCCESS - No error returns

--*/
{

  EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_BLT_PIXEL *Blt;
  EFI_STATUS                    Status;
  UINTN                         IndexX;
  UINTN                         IndexY;
  UINTN                         m;
  UINTN                         Wx;
  UINTN                         Hy;

  Wx  = 150;
  Hy  = 150;

  Status = gtBS->AllocatePool (
                   EfiBootServicesData,
                   Wx * Hy * sizeof (EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_BLT_PIXEL),
                   (VOID **) &Blt
                   );
  if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
    return Status;
  }

  SctZeroMem (Blt, Wx * Hy * sizeof (EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_BLT_PIXEL));

  for (IndexY = 0; IndexY < Hy / 3; IndexY++) {
    for (IndexX = 0; IndexX < Wx; IndexX++) {
      m               = IndexY * Wx + IndexX;

      Blt[m].Blue     = 0xFF;
      Blt[m].Green    = 0x00;
      Blt[m].Red      = 0x00;
      Blt[m].Reserved = 0x00;
    }
  }

  for (IndexY = Hy / 3; IndexY < (Hy / 3) * 2; IndexY++) {
    for (IndexX = 0; IndexX < Wx; IndexX++) {
      m               = IndexY * Wx + IndexX;

      Blt[m].Blue     = 0x00;
      Blt[m].Green    = 0xFF;
      Blt[m].Red      = 0x00;
      Blt[m].Reserved = 0x00;
    }
  }

  for (IndexY = (Hy / 3) * 2; IndexY < Hy; IndexY++) {
    for (IndexX = 0; IndexX < Wx; IndexX++) {
      m               = IndexY * Wx + IndexX;

      Blt[m].Blue     = 0x00;
      Blt[m].Green    = 0x00;
      Blt[m].Red      = 0xFF;
      Blt[m].Reserved = 0x00;
    }
  }

  *BltBuffer  = Blt;
  *Width      = Wx;
  *Height     = Hy;
  return EFI_SUCCESS;
}

BOOLEAN
AutoJudgeGop (
  IN  UINTN         X,
  IN  UINTN         Y,
  IN  UINTN         Seconds,
  IN  BOOLEAN       Default,
  IN  CHAR16        *Message
  )
/*++

Routine Description:

  Assistant function to auto judge the user's choice, correct or uncorrect?

Arguments:

  X       - The coordination of X
  Y       - The coordination of Y
  Seconds - The time to wait the user for judging
  Default - Default value(True/False) for auto judge(Yes/No)
  Message - The message printed to the serial port to remind the user

Returns:

  TRUE/FALSE standing for correct/uncorrect choice respectively

--*/
{
  EFI_STATUS    Status;
  EFI_EVENT     WaitList[2];
  UINTN         NoWait;
  UINTN         WaitIndex;
  EFI_INPUT_KEY Key;
  BOOLEAN       PressYes;
  CHAR16        *Msg;
  UINTN         AutoJudge;

  Msg       = NULL;
  AutoJudge = 1;

  Status = gtBS->CreateEvent (
                   EVT_TIMER,
                   0,
                   (EFI_EVENT_NOTIFY) NULL,
                   NULL,
                   &TimerEvent
                   );
  if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
    DEBUG ((EFI_D_ERROR, "Create event. %a:%d:%r\n", __FILE__, (UINTN)__LINE__, Status));
    return FALSE;
  }
  //
  // Set 1 second periodic timer
  //
  Status = gtBS->SetTimer (TimerEvent, TimerPeriodic, 10000000);

  //
  // Set up a wait list for a key and the timer
  //
  NoWait              = 0;
  WaitList[NoWait++]  = TimerEvent;
  WaitList[NoWait++]  = gtST->ConIn->WaitForKey;

  PressYes            = Default;
  //
  // Wait for either
  //
  SctPrintAt (Y, X, Message);
  while (AutoJudge && (Seconds > 0)) {
    if (Default == TRUE) {
      Msg = SctPoolPrint (L"Yes/No?(Auto judge as Yes in %d seconds  ", Seconds);
    } else {
      Msg = SctPoolPrint (L"Yes/No?(Auto judge as No in %d seconds   ", Seconds);
    }

    if (Msg == NULL) {
      return FALSE;
    } else {
      SctPrintAt (Y + 40, X, Msg);
      SctFreePool (Msg);
    }

    Status = gtBS->WaitForEvent (NoWait, WaitList, &WaitIndex);

    switch (WaitIndex) {
    case 0:
      Seconds--;
      if (Seconds <= 0) {
        //
        // To stop loop
        //
        AutoJudge = 0;
      }
      break;

    case 1:
      //
      // Read the key
      //
      Status = gtST->ConIn->ReadKeyStroke (gtST->ConIn, &Key);
      SctAPrint ((char *) (&Key.UnicodeChar));
      switch (Key.UnicodeChar) {
      case 'Y':
      case 'y':
        AutoJudge = 0;
        PressYes  = TRUE;
        break;

      case 'N':
      case 'n':
        AutoJudge = 0;
        PressYes  = FALSE;
        break;

      default:
        break;
      }
      break;

    default:
      break;
      //
      // bad WaitIndex response
      //
    }
  }
  //
  // SctPrint (L"\r\n");
  //
  // Done, cancle periodic timer event
  //
  gtBS->CloseEvent (TimerEvent);

  return PressYes;
}

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text:
YOU ARE HERE: Home > Briefings > Healthcare > LPS Update – Care Home Manager role on hold, full implementation of LPS by April 2022
As many providers will recall, Minister for Care, Helen Whately, confirmed in July that it would not be possible to implement the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) by October 2020 and set a new target date for 'full implementation' by April 2022. Some provisions, covering new roles and training, will of course come into force ahead of that date. Minutes of the recent steering group meeting, published today, provide an update.
Six sets of Regulations
The LPS National Steering Group met in October for the first time since February and confirmed that there will be six sets of regulations which set out how the LPS will operate in England. Updates were provided by the Department of Health and Social Care in relation to five of these as follows:
The Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) role under LPS will be set out in regulations.
Eligibility criteria and statutory training needed to be an Approved Mental Capacity Professional (AMCP) under LPS will be set out in regulations.
There will be a conversion course for Best Interests Assessors (BIAs) under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) to become AMCPs under LPS.
Practicing Social workers, nurses; Speech and Language Therapists, psychologists and occupational therapists will be eligible for the AMCP role.
A definition of a prescribed connection to a care home will be set out. Individuals who meet that definition will not be able to act as an AMCP in certain cases.
Transitional regulations will set out the legal framework for LPS and DoLS to run alongside each other for the first year of implementation. This will ensure that people who are subject to a DoLS authorisation or a Court Order, which runs into the first year of LPS implementation, are still able to access the necessary safeguards until their authorisation or Order ends.
Assessments regulations will set out who is able to carry out assessments and determinations under LPS.
Consequential regulations will amend other pieces of legislation requiring an update.
Role of Care Home Manager currently on hold
It was acknowledged that the role of the Care Home Manager as set out within the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 was contentious and that the Government had carefully considered representations from across the sector.
Many were concerned about the increased workload and responsibility this would bring for care home managers and highlighted there may be conflict of interest scenarios in circumstances where managers would be hesitant to flag issues that would lead to increased scrutiny. The training required to enable managers to complete the role was also thought to have been significantly underestimated.
The minutes confirm the Government has decided not to implement this aspect of the MC(A)A in England, for now. The relevant provisions will therefore not be commenced in April 2022. The Steering Group noted that the aim to ensure those who know the person best lead the process remains valid, however now was not the right time to introduce this particular aspect of the regime.
Briefing tags Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)


text:
Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 5 digital music system
By Tim LeFevre
Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 5 digi...
BeoSound 5 controller
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November 23, 2008 As more of us store and access music and media in a digital format and our personal collections grow, the need for fast and convenient access becomes increasingly important. Bang & Olufsen have addressed this with the Beosound 5 digital music system, a product designed to bridge the gap between the company's high-end hi-fi system.
The heart of the system is the BeoSound 5 controller. Sporting a 10.4 inch 1024 x 768 LCD display and aluminium scroll wheel, it weighs in at 2.65kg and can be table top or wall mounted.
A clever combination of graphics and mechanics, the BeoSound 5 controller provides an easy, convenient way to navigate through large amounts of digital music and media. Each selection and move you make is mirrored on the LCD display in an intuitive and stylish fashion. While the BeoSound 5 controller makes one-hand operation slick and simple, the feel is still very tactile.
Providing storage and connection options is the BeoMaster 5. Designed to be hidden away, it provides 500GB of storage and all the electronics to drive the BeoSound 5 system. Music can be stored in lossless WMA format allowing up to 28,000 songs to be stored in all their digital glory. Also supported are (compressed) WMA, MP3, WAV, ASF and AAC (iPod) format. On the video side, there's support for MPEG, MPE, MPG, AVI, WMV and VFW formats.
Connections provided on the BeoMaster 5 include analogue line-out, s/pdif, DVI-I, DVI-D (for the controller,) component, s-video and composite video out, three USB 2.0 ports (one for the controller,) ethernet and IR-in. The BeoSound controller itself also offers USB and HDMI/DVI connections.
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the BeoSound 5 system is Bang & Olufsen's, MOTS (More Of The Same) algorithm. The award winning MOTS concept is an "intelligent" playlist if you will. Playing a song is like planting a seed. Once playing, MOTS will scan your music library and find similar tracks based on parameters like rhythm, syncopation, key tonality and vocal harmonies. As the MOTS algorithm uses the actual music rather than file or tag information, it lets you rediscover those hidden gems in your collection based on your initial song choice.
With the introduction of the BeoSound 5, B&O are introducing a new standard in digital music storage and performance with their usual stamp of quality. The BeoSound 5 system – including the controller and BeoMaster server – will be available from March 2009 and priced around $5,377US.
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Q: How can I match two files based on different columns using awk? I need to match two files for each lines based on $5 and $6 from file 1, and $1 &$2 of file two and to print $3 of  file2 in file 1 when it matches.
File 1
7   81  1   47  13412   2013-09-27      18:39:34
7   82  2   10  27723   2010-08-20      18:46:10
7   83  1   67  27030   2010-05-23      18:51:54
7   84  2   17  13412   2013-09-28      18:54:19

File 2
13412   2013-09-27   565
27723   2010-08-20   582.333
27030   2010-05-23   514
13412   2013-09-28   565
27723   2010-08-21   591.25
27030   2010-05-24   527
13412   2013-09-29   561.5

I have tried the following code but it just print the first file without matching
awk 'NR==FNR {a[$1,$2] = $3; next}   $0 = $0 FS a[$1,$2]' file2 file1

A: This awk one-liner may give you a hand:
awk 'NR==FNR{a[$1 FS $2]=$3;next}
    {k=$5 FS $6}$0 = $0 ((k in a)? FS a[k]:"")' f2 f1

With given inputs, it outputs:
7 81 1 47 13412 2013-09-27 18:39:34 565
7 82 2 10 27723 2010-08-20 18:46:10 582.333
7 83 1 67 27030 2010-05-23 18:51:54 514
7 84 2 17 13412 2013-09-28 18:54:19 565

Your problem

*

*You can use $x,$y to indicate a key, but when you processed file1, you should use $5,$6 instead of $1,$2

*If the corresponding entry was not found in file2, you will anyway concatenate a FS in output. I don't know if it is desired.
Short explanation from @Olivier Dulac (comment below):

{k=...} (defition of k, occuring on each line of f1) on a separate
  line from the $0 = ... (redefinition of $0 by including at its end the
  value of a[k], if it exists) part, that is a "alwayus true" condition
  that then prints the new $0.


text:
Q: how to merge the values of a list of lists and a list into 1 resulting list of lists I have a list of lists (a) and a list (b) which have the same "length" (in this case "4"):
a = [
      [1.0, 2.0],
      [1.1, 2.1],
      [1.2, 2.2],
      [1.3, 2.3]
    ]

b = [3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3]

I would like to merge the values to obtain the following (c):
c = [
      [1.0, 2.0, 3.0],
      [1.1, 2.1, 3.1],
      [1.2, 2.2, 3.2],
      [1.3, 2.3, 3.3]
    ]

currently I'm doing the following to achieve it:
c = []
for index, elem in enumerate(a):
    x = [a[index], [b[index]]]  # x assigned here for better readability
    c.append(sum(x, []))

my feeling is that there is an elegant way to do this...
note: the lists are a lot larger, for simplicity I shortened them. they are always(!) of the same length.

A: In python3.5+ use zip() within a list comprehension and in-place unpacking:
In [7]: [[*j, i] for i, j in zip(b, a)]
Out[7]: [[1.0, 2.0, 3.0], [1.1, 2.1, 3.1], [1.2, 2.2, 3.2], [1.3, 2.3, 3.3]]

In python 2 :
In [8]: [j+[i] for i, j in zip(b, a)]
Out[8]: [[1.0, 2.0, 3.0], [1.1, 2.1, 3.1], [1.2, 2.2, 3.2], [1.3, 2.3, 3.3]]

Or use numpy.column_stack in numpy:
In [16]: import numpy as np
In [17]: np.column_stack((a, b))
Out[17]:
array([[ 1. ,  2. ,  3. ],
       [ 1.1,  2.1,  3.1],
       [ 1.2,  2.2,  3.2],
       [ 1.3,  2.3,  3.3]])


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The owners of Creations In Tile & Marble come from an extensive rock background and a line of fine stone masons. All starting back in 1930 with Carmine "Poppy" Catello, whom is the grandfather of one of the owners. Poppy came to the United States from Italy with his family back in 1909.
Poppy was a banker for the Bank of Italy in San Francisco, California. Poppy used to see the tile masons working outside, and admired their work, and their craftsmanship, and decided that he wanted to be a "Tile Man". With Poppy's ambition and drive to accomplish this, he loaded up his family and moved to San Jose, California and started San Jose Tile Company.
All of Poppy's boys worked for him and learned the trade that Poppy was so passionate about.
When two of Poppy's sons, Charlie and Carmine grew older they wanted to start their own adventure in the trade and went their separate ways. Carmine moved to Eugene, Oregon, and Charlie moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and worked for Perry's Tile.
Charlie Catello had much success in Las Vegas, and decided to start his own family business. Charlie called his brothers, Carmine, Benny, and Joe and started Catello Tile and Marble in the early 70's. This all started after Poppy past away.
All of the Catellos' where in the trade, and if they weren't, they married someone that was. The owners of Creations In Tile and Marble were a part of the Catello Tile and Marble success, and learned everything from their uncles, whom their uncles learned from Poppy.
Creations In Tile & Marble has been established since 1995. These third generation stone masons strive for the best and take initiative, time and pride in their quality of work and superior craftsmanship.
Call today at 303-733-2449 or contact us online to find out how we can serve your stone and tile needs.


text:
Джеймс Стюарт, герцог Ротсей (;  — ) — шотландский принц, старший сын Якова IV и Маргариты Тюдор, наследник престола Шотландии с момента своего рождения и до смерти (носил титул герцог Ротсей). Умер 28 февраля 1508 года в замке Стерлинг.

Литература
 Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy

Стюарты
Наследники, не вступившие на престол (Шотландия)
Члены монархических домов, умершие в детстве (Шотландия)
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South Korean AI chatbot pulled from Facebook after hate speech towards minorities
Namita Singh
Lee Luda, is a South Korea AI chatbot that was pulled down after it engaged in hate speech against sexual and racial minority
(Scatter Lab)
A popular South Korean artificial intelligence-driven chatbot was taken down from Facebook this week, after it was accused of spewing hate speech against minorities.
Lee Luda, a chatbot designed by Korean startup Scatter Lab, had the persona of a 20-year-old woman student at a university. It had attracted more than 750,000 users since its launch in December last year.
The company, while suspending the chatbot, apologised for its discriminatory and hateful remarks.
"We sincerely apologise for the occurrence of discriminatory remarks against certain minority groups in the process. We do not agree with Luda's discriminatory comments, and such comments do not reflect the company's thinking," said the Seoul-based start-up in its statement.
The service spoke to the users by examining old chat records that it obtained from the company's mobile application service Science of Love.
Some of the users took to social media to share the racist slurs used by the AI. The chatbot can be seen calling Black people "heukhyeong," a racist slur in South Korea and responded with "disgusting" when asked about lesbians.
"Luda is a childlike AI who has just started talking with people. There is still a lot to learn. Luda will learn to judge what is an appropriate and better answer," the company said in the statement.
The Scatter Lab is also facing questions over violation of privacy laws.
It is, however, not the first time, that an AI bot has been embroiled in a controversy related to discrimination and bigotry. In 2016, Microsoft was forced to shut down its chatbot Tay within 16 hours of its launch, after the bot was manipulated into saying Islamophobic and white supremacist slurs.
"Tay" went from "humans are super cool" to full nazi in <24 hrs and I'm not at all concerned about the future of AI pic.twitter.com/xuGi1u9S1A
— gerry (@geraldmellor) March 24, 2016
In 2018, Amazon's AI recruitment tool was also suspended after the company found that it made recommendations that were biased against women.
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Local non-profit teams up with British Performers for Florida Charity tour & North American debut.
The Sunshine State is in for a treat this summer. We at NextStep have teamed up with the renowned British improv comedy troupe, the Cambridge Impronauts, for their North American debut tour. This tour will span the entire month of July and will be exclusive to the state of Florida. But, there's a catch: every penny made from the tour will be donated to charity. The tour is title "Laughter is The Best Medicine!" - a fitting title seeing as though the event will be raising funds for National Multiple Sclerosis Society, National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA), and Susan G. Komen.
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Register Data is Every Citizen's Data
If you work with publicly funded register data, you have to balance ethical aspects with the transparency needed to make research results as useful as possible to us all. This says Karina Nilsson, SND domain specialist for register-based research.
Karin Nilsson got her doctorate degree in Human Geography, but is now Senior Researcher and Associate Professor in Sociology at Umeå University. In her own research, Karina has been using register data for a long time. She has researched the composition of families and households, and investigated what significance they have for different welfare aspects of individuals' lives, such as health, income, education, and work. At present, she is part of a large research project that uses data from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and the National Board of Health and Welfare to ascertain how children's school results are affected by various factors, with a particular focus on the individual's and the family's health.
–Register data are data from public authorities and various register holders. The data I'm working on now, for example, are total population data which cover the entire population. But we also have regional register data with information about Umeå and Västerbotten. Then there are quality registers, which contain individualised data about specific diagnoses, such as diabetes. Register data are simply information that you get from public authorities and organisations, and usually about individuals, explains Karina Nilsson.
In her role as an SND domain specialist, Karina Nilsson and her colleague Anders Brändström contribute with expertise on register-based research on a national level. They are both part of the local research data group (DAU) at Umeå University, offering support to researchers in questions relating to research data management.
–When I was a geography researcher, I just happened to end up in a multidisciplinary collaboration with medical researchers and other social science researchers in Umeå, where we applied for funding to build a large infrastructure for register data that combines medical, socioeconomic, and demographic data. As I've been part of creating this infrastructure, and have worked with these data for a long time, it seemed only natural that I would also contribute as a domain specialist in this field.
Transparency and ethics are important when working on tax-funded register data
Karina Nilsson is an SND domain specialist for
register-based research.
Karina Nilsson expresses that when you work with publicly funded register data you have certain obligations. She says that she is more and more aware of questions of openness and transparency in relation to research.
—When you work with this type of public data, which are everyone's data, it's incredibly important to actually look after them in a good way, and protect the faith that the public has for all of us researchers. There has to be openness and transparency, as far as it is possible with this sensitive personal information.
The fact that register data often contain sensitive personal information means that questions about openness are directly linked to research ethics.
—All researchers can order data that are held by public authorities by applying for permission to use them, so in that sense they're already open. But if you work with sensitive information, you're limited by the ethical approval you get. The data I use cannot leave our computer lab, which is protected by special security routines with certain access cards and no Internet connection. In that way, the data cannot be open. But we try to open them up by allowing researchers to come and work on site here.
The importance of the ethical aspects in relation to openness is something that Karina Nilsson talks quite a bit about when she meets doctoral students in her work. She thinks that in general, it is essential to try to reach researchers in the early stages of their careers and talk about questions about open data, and to inform them about the reasons behind things like FAIR and data management plans.
—We have to get better at telling researchers what open science really is. Whenever it comes up, researchers tend to think that it means that they're required to share data, or that they have to publish with Open Access. We need to explain that there is a bigger picture here that we need to take into account. It's about more than demands on individual researchers. The entire research community have to be custodians of the collected data, so that it's possible to use them to their full potential when it comes to the number of studies, methodological development, and even for reviewing one another's research. All for the greatest use to all of us.
The Domain Specialists arrange a webinar on register data and open access
For those who are interested in discussing questions related to register data and open access, there's a golden opportunity on Thursday, 26 November when SND invites you to a webinar arranged by the domain specialists at Umeå University.
—If you're interested in issues of principle in these matters, I want to recommend that you attend the webinar. It will be about the views on who owns data, and how you can share data. I think it'll be really interesting. One of the presenters is the General Counsel for Statistics Sweden, Joachim Angermund, who will talk about how Statistics Sweden view data sharing, and about how you can access data from their MONA system. Björn Halleröd from the Swedish Research Council will present their vision of the future for register data. We will also discuss register data in relation to the FAIR data principles.
You can read more about the Register-based research and open access to research data webinar here.
Note that the webinar is held in Swedish, and the presentations uploaded after the event will also be in Swedish.
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Gen. Andrei Vlasov reviews his troops, Russian soldiers captured by the Germans who then volunteered to serve the Nazis. Some of his men ended up at Fort Dix.
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1945: Prisoners' dilemma
By JON BLACKWELL / The Trentonian
Homemade clubs clenched in their hands, tears of anger in their eyes, 154 Soviet-born prisoners of war rushed their captors at Fort Dix the morning of June 29, 1945 on a mission of mass suicide.
"Shoot us! Shoot us!" they shouted, tearing open their khaki uniforms and pointing at their hearts.
They wanted to die because the alternative was a fate worse than death: to go back to their Russian homeland, there to be condemned as traitors and packed off to a Siberian prison camp.
In the bloody chaos of World War II, these 154 POWs had taken up arms against Communist rule and ended up on the side of Nazi Germany. It was in German uniforms that American GI's had captured them.
Then, the United States government opted to repatriate them, not to Germany, but to the personal care of Josef Stalin.
And so, on June 29, 1945, the Russian POWs of Fort Dix sought to kill themselve before Stalin could. They did not succeed, and the story of their failure is one of the sad, little-told stories of World War II.
Adolf Hitler had invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 with twisted schemes of turning the whole country into a slave-labor colony. Millions of Slavic people, and every last Jewish man, woman and child, would have to be exterminated.
Yet Russia's Stalin yielded nothing to Hitler in sheer brutality. For a whole decade he had been starving peasants, shooting opponents real and imagined, deporting entire ethnic populations to Siberia. By the time of the Nazi invasion, Soviet Russia was a nation ruled by sheer terror.
Most Red Army soldiers defended their soil ferociously. Others saw no reason to fight for a regime that treated them as prisoners, and flocked to the banner of the swastika.
Still others had no choice in the matter, but were forcibly conscripted into German uniforms after becoming POWs -- and then put to heavy labor.
The collaborators had no love for Hitler, who viewed all Slavs as "untermenschen" -- subhumans -- but saw German might as the only way to overturn a despised Communist regime.
By 1943, their general, Andrei Vlasov, had raised a force of nearly 1 million Soviet-born soldiers in German uniforms.
But instead of heading for the Eastern Front, where they would have fought fiercely, Vlasov's army was sent to man the coastal defenses of German-occupied France.
After the D-Day invasion of 1944, thousands of Soviet citizens were suddenly in American hands -- an odd situation for the United States, which was an ally, if an uneasy ally, with the Soviet Union.
The Allies' official policy was to send back all POWs to their country of origin, "irrespective of the question of whether or not they want to be repatriated." This would be accomplished "by force if necessary."
But many U.S. officials had moral qualms about giving in.
By Stalin's paranoid law, any soldier captured by the Germans as a POW -- not simply collaborators, but any POW -- was a potential traitor. And the penalty for treason was death.
"First thing you know," Secretary of War Henry Stimson scrawled on a memo in 1945, "we will be responsible for a big killing by the Russians."
Unaware of these deliberations at the highest level of the U.S. command, the 154 POWs on American soil sweated out the news of Germany's impending defeat.
They had been shipped to Camp Rupert, Idaho, then to Camp Ruston, La., and finally to Fort Dix. At Dix, they were stationed in their own barracks off Range Road, separately from 4,000 German POWs. The Germans eagerly looked forward to going free with war's end.
The Russians dreaded it.
On May 7, upon hearing of V-E Day, their spokesman, Lt. Col Georgi Solowjow, pleaded against returning his men to Russia:
"We are outspoken adversaries of the Bolshevik system. We declare that we are no longer subjects of the Soviet Union."
"The American government, by not delivering us into the hands of the NKVD [Soviet secret police] at the time of the repatriation of the other Russian prisoners of war to Russia, gave evidence of its large-minded and human comprehension of our situation."
"We appeal again to the humanity of the American government ..."
Who were these 154 POWs of Fort Dix? Most of them had been caught in the swirling tides of the World Wars,
which shifted national boundaries to such a degree that they ended up living in several different countries without moving.
Some were career officers in the Red Army but had lost loved ones to Stalinist repression. Others had themselves done time in Siberia. And some were not Russians at all, but Central Asians, Ukrainians, or Caucasians who never considered themselves citizens of the Soviet Union.
Their identities and stories were never made public at the time, and interviews conducted with the prisoners at Dix were kept secret for 54 years. These interviews were recently declassified by request of The Trentonian, and some of them follow:
PETER GONTSCHAROW, Private. Made a brief statement that indicated probably he had volunteered to serve in the German Army. Asked why, he stated with much dramatic force that in Soviet Russia in 1942 he had seen women beaten and choked to death for taking in washing from German soldiers. Ended by saying, 'Let them shoot me here, for I will never surrender into the hands of the Bolsheviks.
ALEXANDER ALEXANDROW, Lieutenant. Stated he was born in Vologda, Russia, Jan. 23, 1919, where both his parents were also born. He last saw them in 1937 ... captured by the Germans early in 1941 and entered the German Army voluntarily because he hated the Soviet regime and saw the Germans as 'fellow travelers' in the fight against Bolshevism.
KARALBI BASCHEW, Lieutenant. Born at Halchik, Caucasus, May 5, 1918 ... entered voluntarily the German army because he comes from a tribe [the Kabardinas] that has always opposed Bolshevism and because his father and brother had been shot by the NKVD.
"WASSILI TARRASUK, Private. Does not know place of birth. Was a Partisan [fighting the Nazis] in the Smolensk area. The Partisans, he said, were a disciplined organization until the Soviet comissars were sent into it, then they rebelled. Asked whether he was afraid to go back [to Russia], replied: 'I am not afraid. I was 13 times a prisoner of the Germans and escaped each time. I am a man with no fear of death.' "
On June 28, the White House told the Soviet ambassador to expect the POWs to be transported the very next morning.
It was supposed to be a secret, silent and swift operation. But the POWs found out about it, and resolved to spoil things, even if it cost them their lives.
They dismantled their cots and wielded the legs as clubs. They sharpened their mess knives and concealed them in their uniforms. At 9 a.m., their executive officer, Richard Riewarts, ordered them in German to fall out. "Nein!" they shouted.
Tear gas canisters were thrown through the barracks window to force the men out. Shouting, crying, they came out -- swinging their homemade weapons and trying to provoke a mass shooting.
"They didn't appear to care for their lives at all," Riewarts later told Army investigators. "They pointed to their hearts and said, 'Shoot at it.' "
Three Dix guards were stabbed or clubbed, none seriously. In the melee, seven Russians were also hit by gunfire, but the Americans fired low so as not to kill anyone.
After the uprising was over, however, MPs discovered three Russian soldiers hanging from the beams above their cots. Fifteen other nooses were strung up but unused.
The riot at Dix made headlines across the country the next day and prompted Harry S. Truman to give the men a presidential reprieve. He asked Army investigators to study whether the men really wanted to go back to Russia, and whether all of them really were Soviet citizens.
The State Department's legal counsel, R.W. Flournoy, insisted that the U.S. had an obligation under the Geneva Convention to shield the POWs. "I find nothing in the Convention which either requires or justifies ... sending the unfortunate Soviet nationals in question to Russia, where they will almost certainly be liquidated," he wrote.
And from Moscow, Ambassador Averell Harriman was reporting that trainloads of Russian POWs returned every day from Europe -- and every deserter was summarily shot.
Still, Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew on July 11 signed the order to send the Russians back. Soviet cooperation, it was believed, would prove necessary to remake the face of postwar Europe.
Besides, the Soviets would shortly invade Manchuria and take possession of American POWs held by the Japanese. Reprisals were best avoided.
The remaining Russian POWs were kept under 24-hour suicide watch at Dix, They lost their shoelaces, knives, forks, bed frames, belts and suspenders. They stayed on through July and August, unaware what their fate might be.
There were 153 of them now, since three had died and nine were added to their ranks from other POW camps. Seven lucky prisoners were able to prove they were not, in fact, Soviet citizens, and avoided repatriation.
The POWs' final departure was kept top secret and never reported in any newspaper. Declassified documents show that they shipped out on Aug, 31, acting "docile," and were turned over to Soviet authorities at Hof in Eastern Germany.
From there, the 153 POWs of Fort Dix disappeared into a void.
Their ultimate fate is unknown. Perhaps the answer still lies somewhere in the archives of the Soviet prison system, along with the names of millions other vanished victims of the Stalin terror.


The first recording of the 1977 North American tour and the band's second proper show in nearly two years begins with a brief soundcheck before the first appearance of The Song Remains the Same as the opening number. Plant's entrance is met with a loud cheer from the crowd. The band plays a few bars of The Rover as an introduction to Sick Again. Page's fingers get stuck in the strings during the guitar solos. As the song ends, shouts of "sit down!" can be heard coming from the crowd, to which someone near the taper responds "hey, let's break out the pea shooter."
Plant greets the crowd, saying "I think we'll just keep playin'" before the first appearance of Nobody's Fault But Mine. In My Time of Dying is a bit disjointed at times. Jones is introduced as "the coy gentleman in the group" before No Quarter. Page and Bonzo join in for an upbeat vamp halfway through the piano solo. There is a slight cut in the tape just before the instrumental section begins. Jones delivers a final dramatic crescendo as the piece comes to a close. Plant announces "before we decided to come stick our necks on the line, we did a bit of rehearsin'... and we thought rather than keep everything totally electric, we'd sort of vary it a little bit" before introducing the first appearance of Ten Years Gone.
Bonzo joins the band at the front of the stage for the first appearance of The Battle of Evermore, which features Jones singing the Sandy Denny part. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp is preceded by an abbreviated rendition of Black Country woman, making its first appearance since 6/19/1972. As the song ends, someone near the taper can be heard saying "I think it's time!... Dazed and Confused." Page's first recorded performance of White Summer/Black Mountainside since 4/28/1970 is linked nonstop with Kashmir in a dramatic reveal. Bonzo's drum solo has been renamed Over the Top and now features an instrumental Out on the Tiles introduction.
The first appearance of Achilles Last Stand is preceded by an experimental guitar solo, which replaces Dazed and Confused as the venue for Page's bow solo. The effect is so convincing that even Bonzo loses track and launches into the frantic rhythm of the former guitar solo/workout section before remembering what year it is. The band is obviously still getting a feel for the new song, frequently losing each other in the arrangement. However, the problems don't effect their enthusiasm as they hammer through at a frenzied pace. Page's fingers become entangled in the strings during the guitar solo in Stairway to Heaven. The crowd erupts as Rock and Roll crashes into motion. Page shreds erratically through a choppy guitar solo during the show-closing Trampled Underfoot. A somewhat rusty welcome to 1977.
The tape is rather distant and muffled with a series of disturbing tape noises throughout.
This show was at the Myriad Gardens with a crowd about 16,000 people. I was only 15 years old and camp out for tickets which cost only 9.50 and that was high compared to the average price of 6.50. I saw them on their last American Tour and it cost me only 9.50 and 8 hours of freezing in the cold for tickets, WOW !! What a deal of a lifetime.
Me and a friend stood in the cold to get tickets to see Zeppelin. I was 23 years old. It was well worth the effort and the tickets sold out soon after we left the fairgrounds box office. Tickets were 9.50. I paid 9.50 to see George Harrison in Tulsa, OK. I paid 5.50 to see The Who with Lynyrd Skynyrd in Dallas, TX in 1973. I saw Queen with Mott the Hoople for 5.50. I've seen Alice Cooper/Flo and Eddie, Steve Miller/Freddie King, Joe Walsh and Barnstorm, Nitzinger/Lee Pickens Group, Jimmie Spheeris, Jo Jo Gunne, and The Firm. The Who were the best concert with Zeppelin a close second.
The reviewer forgot to mention that Plant sings "Going to Oklahoma".
Well, i don't find this concert bad overall. If it isn't an great show (like Cleveland or New York) it's an passable concert, not as bad like Tempe, for example. The No Quarter version i find epic, but Ten Years Gone it's really rusty tonight!


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Today is Columbus Day...a day which has a pretty disturbing past, such that I'm not sure why anyone would "celebrate" it. Mark Anthony Rolo has a piece up about what today really means.
"We should have been wiped out," she says. "It's a miracle Native people still exist. I have never liked the word 'conquered.' We are still here after 500 years. And maybe every time Columbus Day comes around, we should rethink who the real heroes are: the explorer or the survivors?"
...I often ask my students to evaluate a text's ethical stance by asking themselves –"whose story is it?" For example, are people of color acting or being acted upon? Although the film does highlight fantastic on-the-ground activists such as maternal health activist Edna Adan of Somaliland, the point of entry, the people with whom we, the (presumably) Western watchers, are supposed to identify, are Kristof and his actress sidekick-du-jour.
2. Having a fat body is like carrying around a 2o/50/100/whatever lb/kg sack of potatoes/dirt/lard whatever.
Wait, the average adult skeletal structure weighs about 20lbs right? So is having a skeleton like carrying around a 2olb weight?No it's not. Fat bodies are not attached to us, like some kind of extra luggage – they ARE us. Our whole bodies hold ourselves up – bones, muscle, organs, skin, fat, everything – it's all part of a complex machine that propels us around our lives. If you hand me 50lbs, I'm going to feel it's weight, because it is not part of me. But 50lbs of my own body weight (or whatever number you choose) is part of me, and it has it's own function in my body. The only time I've felt like I'm carrying a burden is when I believed I was worthless because I was fat. That wasn't the physical weight of my body, it was the weight of stigma.


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This Interactive Frida Kahlo Exhibition Is An Ideal Post-Work Activity
By Susan Devaney 26 March 2020
First and foremost, Frida Kahlo was an incredible painter. But upon viewing her work, personal objects and photographs, you'd be reminded of her fearless advocation of women's rights, how she defied societal beauty standards and the many ways in which she used her decorative prosthetic leg to bring disabilities into the mainstream. Eight hundred of such pieces now feature in an online exhibition. Better yet, the interactive exploration, entitled Faces of Frida, is the ideal post-work activity right now as we all stay indoors.
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Brought together thanks to 30 collections found across the world – including the English National Ballet – Google Arts & Culture has curated a digital exhibition of Kahlo's work. The Mexican artist may not have achieved the recognition she fully deserved in her lifetime, but her work and rebellious spirit still captivates us today. Through the interactive exploration, you can read her letters, zoom in on her self-portraits and see her personal possessions up-close. The best part? You can enjoy a virtual tour of her home and place of work, too.
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Kahlo's home was a central part of her work. After she died in 1954, her artist husband, Diego Rivera, kept all of her work and possessions inside a room in their home. Located on the outskirts of Mexico City, the Blue House served as a place of inspiration for both of them. Her husband kept her work locked away for a long time as a mark of respect for her legacy. But he needn't have worried as our appetite for her artistry shows no sign of abating. Go on, take a private tour here.
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