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Portugal rushes aid to Madeira after deadly floods
Filed under: Latest, Politics News — Tags: African, British, death, emergency, holidaymaker, Madeira island, Medical, mountains, Mudslides, phones, Portugal, Portuguese, power, supplies, teams, television, torrents, water — expressyoureself @ 4:52 am
Portugal's armed forces are sending two ships with helicopters and medical supplies to Madeira island, where floods have killed at least 32 people.
Extra search and rescue teams were expected to arrive on Sunday to help clean up after mudslides and raging floods tore through towns on Saturday.
Officials fear the death toll could rise. Water, power and phones were cut in some areas.
PM Jose Socrates, who is in Madeira, said he would "do everything to help".
The storms were the worst there since October 1993, when eight people died.
"So far we have confirmed 32 deaths but eventually the number may increase," regional official Francisco Ramos was quoted as saying by Portuguese newspaper Publico.
Madeira is located about 900km (560miles) from the Portuguese mainland and is popular with foreign tourists.
Officials say the extra emergency teams being sent include 56 military rescuers with search dogs and 36 firefighters.
Portuguese Interior Minister Rui Pereira, who has also flown to the island, said forensic experts would conduct post-mortem examinations to allow funerals to take place soon.
He added: "We are studying the possibility of declaring a state of emergency and then seeking help from the European Union."
The regional capital, Funchal, among the worst affected areas by Saturday's floods and mudslides.
Television pictures showed muddy torrents coursing down narrow channels and spilling over the sides, roads awash with water and streets littered with debris.
'Ghost town'
Trees have been brought down and cars swept away, blocking roads and hampering relief teams. Some bridges and roads have been washed away.
MADEIRA FACTS
Autonomous region of Portugal with population of around 250,000
Lies just over 480km (300 miles) from West African coast
The European continent is more than 900km away
British holidaymaker Cathy Sayers told the news Funchal was like a ghost town. She said the infrastructure had been wrecked.
"The drains just cannot cope with the water that's coming down from the mountains – they are just overfilled with sludge."
There had not really been any warning that it would be quite so bad, she said.
"I think everyone is extremely shocked that this has happened at this time of year," she said.
The president of the regional government, Joao Jardim, said outdoor markets would be encouraged to reopen.
"We don't know how much it will affect the tourism, but there is no point in dramatising the situation too much," he said.
Local media say the authorities' main concern now is for residents of Nuns valley – an isolated mountainous region that rescue workers have been unable to reach.
The Weather Center says the severe weather was due a low pressure system, and that while Madeira can expect further rain with heavy downpours on Sunday, there is no danger of a repeat of the flash floods.
Do you live in the area? Have you been affected by the floods and mudslides? Are you visiting the island?
Poles first in Euro dance contest
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The Poles beat 13 other couples to win the Eurovision title
Poland claimed first place in the Eurovision Dance Contest, which was held in Scotland on Saturday.
Actor Marcin Mroczek and dancer Edyta Herbus won the votes of watchers throughout the continent with a routine set to Michael Jackson's music.
Russia finished second and Ukraine were third, while hosts UK finished ninth out of 14 competitors.
A television audience of millions watched the 135 minute program, which came from Glasgow's SECC.
Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman hosted the show, which featured 14 couples from Austria, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Each couple – one celebrity and one professional dancer – performed a freestyle dance with a national flavor which could have elements of Latin and Ballroom.
The show was fronted by Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman
A panel of expert judges as well as the TV audience voting from home then decided on the winner.
The UK was represented by Vincent Simone and Eastenders actress Louisa Lytton.
It is the second time the contest has been run. Finland won last year's vote.
"With this competition, we created a fantastic new Eurovision tradition, which we are confident will last for many years to come," said Bjorn Erichsen, Director of Eurovision TV.


The victorious schemes will be 'developed and delivered' in a key location on the Isle of Dogs, in London's docklands as a 'showcase of innovation in waterspace development'.
The Barge:Breathing new life into the Docklands contest was launched by British Waterways, in partnership with H20 Urban Ltd, to remodel five, 38m-long historic spits barges - brought over from the Netherlands - as part of a larger mixed-use development.
The winning proposals are currently on show in a New London Architecture exhibtion at the Building Centre, in Store Street, central London.
This is a perfect example of a proposal put forward by someone who has no experience or empathy with what a barge is.
These barges, anyway, are probably Belgium and have no connection whatever with London.
Tin Tin could have done better.
Oh! that's a new idea ... converting a barge to live in, I wonder why nobody had thought of that idea before?
Mixed-use development great; until those on the land, attracted there by the convivial waterside environment, start to complain about the boat dwellers.
Academia meets humans and fails again!
Project Architect with revit for leading name.


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On our way to Loreto we just met Bob Barker
We enjoy staying at the Alaska Board Room every time we stop in Los Angeles on our way to Loreto.
Bob Barker with his Wikipedia page in the foreground
A few minutes ago, my Mom and I were sitting at the Board Room, surfin' the Net and drinking our coffees. My Mom turned to me and said "I think I know that man". I got up to get myself a bagel and when I returned my Mom said: "I think it's the man from the 'Price is right'". I quickly Googled "Bob Barker" and to my surprise she was right! The Google images matched the man that was standing three feet from us!
As he was ready to leave I asked Mr. Barker if it was ok to take his picture. He said no problem and even asked us if we'd like a picture with him. I sure did! My Mom took the picture and we thanked Mr. Barker as he left. I hope he enjoys his retirement - he not only fights for animal rights (see below) but is also very courteous with the general public.
See below for more pictures and more information on Mr. Barker.
Funny anecdote
In 1981, when I was 13, my parents sent me to the San Francisco Bay Area so I could improve my English. I was born in Brazil and had lived in Sao Paulo all my life. My Mom and my step dad, David, were getting ready to move to the U.S. and they thought it would be a good idea if I learned English during summer (summer vacation in Brazil is in December/January).
Me, Bob Barker at LAX; click on image for higher resolution
I stayed with friends of my step father, and it was great. There were some mornings where the parents would leave for work and the kids had to go to school. So I was left alone in the house where I enjoyed watching American TV.
The funny thing: one of my favorite shows, which I discovered during that trip, was the "Price Is Right". One of the first sentences I learned was "Come on down!", which I repeated with a heavy Brazilian accent, to get a laugh from my hosts.
Bob Barker with his Wikipedia page in the foreground; click on image for higher resolution
Today I am an American citizen and I live in California. Over 25 years after first seeing him on TV, I briefly met Bob Barker, the man who spoke the first words of English I've ever really paid attention to.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Link
Robert William Barker (born December 12, 1923) is a nineteen-time Emmy Award-winning former American television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right since September 4, 1972, making it the longest-running daytime game show in television history. After holding the job for nearly 35 years and having been in television for 50 years, Barker's last episode of The Price Is Right aired on June 15, 2007.
Barker was born in Darrington, Washington and spent most of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. His mother, Matilda ("Tillie") Valandra, was a school teacher; his father, Byron John Barker, was an electrical power foreman, who died in a fall from a utility pole in 1929. Barker has a half-brother, Kent Valandra, from Matilda's subsequent re-marriage. In the 1940s the family moved to Springfield, Missouri where Barker graduated from Central High School. He also was in a three-piece jazz band called "The Scatters" in the mid-1940s.
Barker attended Drury College (now Drury University) in Springfield, on a basketball scholarship. He was a member of the Epsilon Beta Chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity at Drury. His education was interrupted by World War II. Barker served in the Navy as a fighter pilot. However, the war ended before he was assigned to a seagoing squadron. After the war, he returned to Drury to finish his education, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in economics. While attending Drury, Barker worked his first "media job", at KTTS-FM Radio, in Springfield.
Barker left Springfield and worked at a radio station in Florida before landing another radio job in California. He was hosting an audience-participation radio show on KNX (AM) in Los Angeles when game show producer Ralph Edwards happened to be listening and liked Barker's voice and style. On December 31, 1956 Barker took over hosting of the game show Truth or Consequences. The show made him a star--he clearly was a natural whose charisma and charm connected with contestants and viewers. Bob would host the show for eighteen years.
Bob Barker and his wife, the former Dorothy Jo Gideon, were high-school sweethearts who married in 1945. Years later, it would be Dorothy Jo (as well as Barker's mother Tillie) who inspired Bob to become an advocate of animals. D.J. died of lung cancer on October 19, 1981. The couple had no children.
In October 2006, it was announced that Barker had accepted Drury University's invitation to receive an honorary degree recognizing his life achievements and to speak at its commencement exercises on May 12, 2007.[1]
Bob Barker is well known for his work in animal rights. He became a vegetarian in 1979. That same year, he began promoting animal rights. Barker began ending each episode of The Price Is Right with the phrase: "Help control the pet population; have your pet spayed or neutered" in 1985, and was named national spokesman for "Be Kind to Animals Week" in May of that year. On A&E's Biography program, Bob credited his wife, Dorothy Jo, with him becoming more aware of animal rights and becoming a vegetarian because she had done so. Bob took up animal rights in order to keep doing something that his recently deceased wife had done. Fellow game show hosts Jack Barry and Bert Convy eventually followed Barker's lead in promoting animal rights on the air.
During the first ten years of The Price Is Right, fur coats were often featured as prizes. After Barker became involved in animal rights, he insisted that the show not offer prizes that harmed animals, a demand to which CBS agreed; animals and fur coats have not since been offered on the program. Barker also forbids the re-airing of older episodes in which fur coats and live animals are offered. [citation needed]
Barker hosted the Miss USA/Universe Pageants from 1967 to 1987. In 1987, he requested the removal of fur prizes and stepped down as host when those in charge of the pageant refused.
Bob Barker's DJ&T Foundation has contributed millions of dollars to fund animal rescue and park facilities all over the country. He works closely with Betty White as an advocate for animal rights.
Game show career
Barker started hosting on December 31, 1956, and would continue with the program until 1975. The idea was to mix the original quiz element of game shows with wacky stunts. On the show, people had to answer a trivia question correctly (usually an off-the-wall question that no one would be able to answer correctly) before "Beulah the Buzzer" was sounded. If the contestant could not complete the "Truth" portion, there would be "Consequences," usually a zany and embarrassing stunt. In addition, during Barker's run as host, "Barker's Box" was played. Barker's Box was a box with four drawers in it. If a contestant was able to pick all three drawers with money inside before picking the empty drawer, he or she won a bonus prize.
In many broadcasts, the stunts on Truth or Consequences included a popular, but emotional, heart-rending surprise for a contestant, that being the reunion with a long-lost relative or with an enlisted son or daughter returning from military duty overseas, particularly Vietnam.
The Family Game
In 1967, Barker hosted the short-lived game show The Family Game for Chuck Barris, where he would ask children contestants questions about their families' lives, and the parents had to guess how they answered in a Newlywed Game-esque fashion.
On September 4, 1972, Barker began his most famous assignment hosting the CBS revival of The Price Is Right. In the four decades of the CBS version, he has become far more strongly associated with the show than first host Bill Cullen was with the 1950s�1960s original.
On October 15, 1987, Barker did what other MCs almost never did: he renounced hair dye and allowed his hair to go gray. It was a shock to the studio audience because it hadn't been publicized in advance; it was a shock to the home audience because the change came in the middle of the week at that time. Fellow hosts Monty Hall and Alex Trebek would follow Barker's decision to go to gray hair in the late 1980s.
In 2006 The Price Is Right celebrated 35 consecutive years on the air. It is the longest-running game show of all time in North America. Overall, in daytime programming (excluding Saturday and Sunday), The Price Is Right is ranked sixth among the longest-continuing television programs (NBC's Today ranks the longest, followed by four daytime soap operas: Guiding Light, As the World Turns, General Hospital, and Days of our Lives). It has won its time slot (11:00 a.m. Eastern) for the past 25 years with its closest competitor (currently ABC's The View) normally getting about half of TPIR's ratings.
On October 31, 2006, after 35 years as M.C. of U.S. television's longest-running game show, Bob made his announcement that he would retire from The Price Is Right in June 2007. He taped his final episode on June 6, 2007, with the show airing on June 15, 2007. [2]
Barker has revealed that Fremantle Media, the company that owns the show, has been looking for a successor in the last two to three years, and also that he had considered retirement for a while, but he had so much fun that he continued to do the show. On July 23, 2007, it was announced that comedian Drew Carey would take Bob's place as the new host for the show
Longevity records
Barker has set a longevity record as holding a weekday T.V. job continuously for 50 years as of 2006, which includes his years on Truth or Consequences. Only sportscaster Vin Scully, who is four years younger than Barker, has held a job longer than Barker in the entertainment industry, albeit a seasonal job and not a daily one.
At age 83, Barker holds the record of being the oldest man ever to host a game show and the oldest man ever to host a weekday television program since the inception of network television. Barker is now in his fiftieth consecutive year on television (network or syndication). Barker also has hosted/appeared on a five-days-a-week television program longer than anyone else in the history of television.
In 1996, Barker played himself in the Adam Sandler comedy movie Happy Gilmore. In one scene, Barker beats up Gilmore after an altercation arising from their teaming up in a Pro-Am Golf Tournament. Gilmore fights back and briefly gets the upper hand, declaring, "The price is wrong, bitch!" Bob then gets up, holds Gilmore in a strangle hold and continues to punch him before delivering a high kick to Gilmore's chin that knocks him down a grassy hill declaring "Now you've had enough...bitch!" Barker reportedly accepted the role when he learned he would get to win the fight with Sandler.[3] He and Sandler won the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight for Happy Gilmore,[4] making Barker the oldest winner of any MTV award at 73.
Barker's appearance in this movie is often credited with the increased popularity of The Price Is Right among college students.
In 2007, during a CBS prime-time special commemorating Barker's career, Sandler made a surprise appearance to thank Barker and read a poem in his honor.
In the late 1990s, Barker played the father of Mel Harris' character on a few episodes of the NBC sitcom Something So Right. He appeared in two animated television series as himself: in the Futurama episode "The Lesser of Two Evils" in 2000, followed by the Family Guy episodes "Screwed the Pooch" in 2001, and "The Fat Guy Strangler" in 2005.
Bob appears briefly in the Canadian documentary Come on Down: Searching for the American Dream (2004), directed and written by Adamm Liley and produced by Steven James May of Manifestation Television. Mr. Barker gives a special in-studio message pertaining to Liley's search for the elusive American Dream. The documentary also features Hunter S. Thompson and Chris Gardner.
Barker was a semi-regular panelist on the game shows Tattletales (with wife Dorothy Jo) and Match Game. Barker sat in Richard Dawson's former place during the first week of Dawson's permanent absence from Match Game.
Barker co-hosted CBS' coverage of the Rose Parade from Pasadena, Calif., for several years during the 1970s and '80s.
He appeared as a sub-host on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1966.
Created and hosted "The Bob Barker Fun and Games Show" from 1978 to 1986 which was a combination of stunt participation in the style of Truth or Consequences and pricing games such as the Price Is Right in which Bob traveled throughout the United States and Canada in various arenas and venues.
In the 1970s, he was the host of the annual/biennial Pillsbury Bake-Off (the bake-off occurred every two years starting in 1976). In the 1978 Bake-Off, he was the first host to have a male category champ.
He appeared on Bonanza, playing a character named Mort in the 1960 episode "Denver McKee."
Has appeared on various talk shows such as: Dinah!, Larry King Live, The Arsenio Hall Show, Crook & Chase, Donny & Marie, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Wayne Brady Show, The Late Show With David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Barker also made cameo appearances on The Bold and the Beautiful in 2002 and Yes, Dear and How I Met Your Mother in 2007
Barker has won 19 Emmy Awards in total. Fourteen were for Outstanding Game Show Host, more than any other performer. He has also won twice for Executive Producer of The Price Is Right and received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Daytime Television in 1999.
On March 11, 1998, on the occasion of the ceremonial five thousandth episode of The Price Is Right, CBS dedicated the sound stage where the show has been produced since 1972 in honor of Barker.
In 2004, Barker was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame
Barker's health problems started in 1991 after he complained of having vision problems while exercising. After a visit to the doctors, they sent him to see a neurologist, where the doctors told Barker he had a mild stroke. He soon recovered and went back to work.
On September 16, 1999, Barker was in Washington, D.C., to speak about HR 2929, the proposed legislation that would ban elephants from traveling shows. While preparing for the presentation, Barker experienced what he called "clumsiness" in his right hand. He was admitted to George Washington University Hospital and diagnosed with a partially blocked left carotid artery. Barker underwent carotid endarterectomy to remove the blockage, and the procedure went well enough that he was able to return to work within the month.
Three years later, Barker also had two health crises after taping the season finale on The Price Is Right. While lying out on the sun, he was hospitalized again with a stroke on May 31, 2002; and six weeks later, on July 11, 2002, he underwent prostate surgery, both at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Both surgeries were successful.
In July 2006, Barker suffered a minor injury to his right hand. On the July 15, 2006 episode of The Late Late Show, he jokingly stated that he broke it by karate chopping "countless desks" (something he later proceeded to do to host Craig Ferguson's desk).
Baja Nomad Forums are great
A few months ago, I had mentioned "Baja Nomad" an online message board very useful for anyone who visits or lives in Baja California (click here for the original article).
A couple of days ago, I posted a thread requesting recommendations for architects and builders in Loreto (I am "bajameerkat"):
Architect / General Contractor in Loreto
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=26392&page=1
I was amazed at the number of responses - I received emails, U2U (private messages on the message board), and responses on the original thread. It's great to be able to communicate with folks who have the experience and are willing to share it.

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Hurricane Thermodynamics Engine causes Explanation Vapor Pressure Synergy Bernoulli Coriolis
To understand the forces that drive a hurricane, we must first understand the forces that drive a heat engine. An engine can be abstracted as a heat source, a conversion mechanism and a heat sink. For example, if we consider a steam locomotive, the heat source is the fuel and the firebox, the conversion mechanism is the piston and cylinder, and the heat sink is the environment into which the exhaust steam escapes. Likewise, a power generation plant has a heat source such as a gas or oil burner, converter such as a steam turbine, and a heat sink such as a cooling tower. In fact, the characteristic tower shape associated with the cooling process of a nuclear power plant is the "heat" sink associated with this type of power generation process.
To apply our "engine" abstraction to the process of a hurricane, we must first identify the heat sources and sinks. To do this, we consider the now familiar satellite view of the hurricane. We will notice that at the center of the hurricane, we see the white of the clouds as viewed from space. This implies that at the core of the hurricane, the storm is reflecting the sun's energy back into space. ( and thus the clouds appear white, the color of all the wavelengths in the color spectrum.
But outside the body of the storm, we see the blue of the ocean. This implies that the sun's energy is entering the sea water, it is being absorbed, and consequently heating the ocean, and only a small amount of blue light is being reflected back into space. Thus, the blue water, absorbing the suns energy will be considered as our heat source, much like the firebox on our previously considered steam engine. And just as a firebox causes water in the liquid state to change into water in the gaseous state in an engine's boiler, the heating of the sea water by the sun causes water vapor to leave the ocean and go into the atmosphere. This causes a rather familiar process we all know as cloud formation, and equally familiar is the process of condensation and rain. Thus, we know have identified and hopefully understand the heat source of our engine and the heat sink, or condensation phase of our heat engine.
Lets turn our attention to the actual mechanism of the hurricane's engine. As water vapor cools and causes cloud and rain formation, it causes a drop in pressure. As we know from our high school physics class, pressure is dependent upon temperature. ( remember pv=nrt ? ) As temperature drops, air pressure drops. But as a more sophisticated principle, one we learn in thermodynamics states, as pressure and temperature drop, so does the airs ability to hold water in the vapor form, so in fact the process of condensation is accelerated.
We know that air flows from high pressure to low pressure, so we can easily see why air flows from the perimeter of the storm to the center, but why does it go around in circles, instead of going in a straight line? To answer this question, we must go to a branch of geophysics that deals with geocentric forces known a Coriolis forces. The study of Coriolis forces has to do with how the nature of forces are changed if they are on a scale where we must consider the rotation of the earth. If we consider the earth to be like a merry-go-round, and consider a moving object to be like a ball thrown from one person to another on a merry-go-round, it is easy to see that the motion of the merry-go-round must be taken into consideration in order to compete our pass. Likewise, as our hurricane model, the rotation of the earth causes the hurricane to turn in a counter-clockwise motion, as the molecules in the atmosphere are affected just like a ball that is thrown from a merry-go-round.
At this point we have created a model where water evaporates from the ocean, driven by the Sun's energy, moves into a rotating cloud, and condenses due to the cooling affects that the cloud imparts by reflecting the Sun's energy back into space. But there are a few more forces that act synergisticly that we must consider. The pressure measured in a gas, such as the atmosphere is also a function of the velocity that it is moving. This is known as Bernoulli's principle. It is Bernoulli's principle that allows an airplane to fly by having a more curved surface on the top of the wing than on the bottom. In this example, the longer path the air must travel over the top of a planes wing, increases it's velocity with respect to the wing, and as a result drops it's pressure. Thus there is a low pressure region on the top of the wing compared to the bottom of the wing and as a result the airplane wing generates lift. In our hurricane model the increase in velocity due to the storm's rotation further drops the air pressure, and causes the storm to further increase in strength.
The multiple forces acting in synergy to drop the air pressure at the center of the storm causes the density of the air, or weight per volume to decrease. As we know, light fluids float on top of heavy fluids like oil floats on water, so the low density, low pressure air in the center of the storm begins to rise. A column of low pressure forms at the center of the storm and rises rapidly, further decompressing due to altitude change, and dropping further amounts of water vapor as it does so.
As the air "spouts" from the eye of the hurricane it then spreads back out, but this time it is heading in the opposite direction, that is from the center out, so that the Coriolis force we mentioned before acts to spin this high altitude air in the opposite direction. Thus, if you look carefully at the satellite image of a hurricane, you will notice that it is spinning counter clockwise at low altitudes, but spinning clockwise at high altitudes. This is actually something that we would not ordinarily expect, at lease from our traditional view of earth processes, and demonstrates the importance of the Coriolis affect when viewing and understanding large scale atmospheric and oceanographic processes like a hurricane.
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Q: Can't link/include GMP when installing Crypt::PBC on Cygwin I have been trying to install Crypt::PBC for a couple of weeks but failing to do so. I used cpan install Crypt::PBC first and this was the result:
Going to read '/home/Mounica/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Wed, 23 Apr 2014 23:06:17 GMT
Running install for module 'Crypt::PBC'
Running make for J/JE/JETTERO/Crypt-PBC-0.9000.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JE/JETTERO/Crypt-PBC-0.9000.tar.gz
Checksum for /home/Mounica/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JE/JETTERO/Crypt-PBC-0.9000.tar.gz ok

  CPAN.pm: Going to build J/JE/JETTERO/Crypt-PBC-0.9000.tar.gz

Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at inc/Devel/CheckLib.pm line 164.
Error locating libpbc version 0.5.1: Can't link/include 'pbc.h', 'pbc'

You can get the latest debian binaries from https://voltar.org/pbcfiles

Would you like to download and build libpbc from tarball automatically? [y/N] [n]

and then when I said yes, I realized that the voltar.org link is broken. This was the message generated:
Would you like to download and build libpbc from tarball automatically? [y/N]     [y]
downloading libpbc from http://voltar.org/pbcfiles/pbc-0.5.1.tar.gz...
--2014-04-24 06:33:50--  http://voltar.org/pbcfiles/pbc-0.5.1.tar.gz
Resolving voltar.org (voltar.org)... 69.174.176.168
Connecting to voltar.org (voltar.org)|69.174.176.168|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 File not found
2014-04-24 06:33:51 ERROR 404: File not found.

couldn't fetch with wget...
couldn't fetch with curl ...
unpacking libpbc from pbc-0.5.1.tar.gz...
No files found for pbc-0.5.1.tar.gz at Makefile.PL line 112

gzip: pbc-0.5.1.tar.gz: unexpected end of file
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
failed to unpack pbc
No 'Makefile' created  JETTERO/Crypt-PBC-0.9000.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install
Could not read metadata file. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites

So I unpacked the Crypt-PBC-0.9000.tar.gz that was downloaded using tar -xvzf Crypt-PBC-0.9000.tar.gz. The contents were successfully unpacked. After that, as there was a Makefile.PL in it, I used perl Makefile.pl. In the makefile I changed the web request to http://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/files as a source to pbc files and then used perl Makefile.pl again. The following was generated:
Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at inc/Devel/CheckLib.pm line 164.
Error locating libpbc version 0.5.14: Can't link/include 'pbc.h', 'pbc'

You can get the latest debian binaries from http://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/files/

Would you like to download and build libpbc from tarball automatically?[y/N] [y]
(You do need libgmp installed in order for this PBC.so to function...)
Can't link/include 'gmp'

I tried including various GMP files in the incpath and libpath but nothing helped. Could you please tell me what are the specific GMP files that are required by this makefile so that i can include those in the INC path?

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Engel, William
Sensible Dieting, and the Engel Vital Calorie Diets.
New York: Knopf, 1939.
Octavo, 408 pages. First edition. A surprisingly sensible approach to weight loss in this early diet book, with the foreword titled, "Accidentally, I Become the Father of a Hornets Nest of Fads," in which the author relates the story of Hollywood starlet desiring to lose 40 pounds in four weeks. He asked her what she liked to eat and recommend that she eat it every meal, for four weeks. Her favorites happened to be pineapple and lamb chops, so when she lost the weight, she told other starlets that the secret was lamb chops and pineapple, thus starting a fad. Without the lamb chops, this might have been the forerunner of the Beverly Hills Diet. About half the book is dedicated to seasonal, daily menus, with calorie counts. Like many other Knopf books of this era, this one is designed by W.A. Dwiggins, and is handsome. A bit of foxing to the text block edges, otherwise near fine in publisher's black cloth with silver and blind stamped decoration. Lacking the dust jacket, but inscribed by the author to Dr. Leo Edelman of Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Boston and London, February 1st, 2016– As part of its continuing strategy to provide a reliable and robust security master platform as a service (PaaS) to asset managers, Kuberre Systems today announced that it has integrated and is now offering EDI's equity security reference, pricing and corporate actions data sets on its consolidated Security Master platform.
With more than 20 years of experience, Exchange Data International (EDI) offers comprehensive and complete securities reference data for equities and fixed income instruments around the globe, with special emphasis on emerging and frontier markets.
Kuberre's Global Security Master solution offers clients a consolidated, cloud hosted and managed platform with extensible API's and interfaces to easily integrate into client's environments. Consisting of over 33 million tradable securities across 700+ investment types with over 1600+ normalized data items from established market data vendors, Kuberre addresses and eliminates the daily challenges of data normalization, data taxonomies, data integrity, and data maintenance associated with multiple vendor feeds that every asset manager faces. With its extensible API's, entitlements and processes supported through a robust orchestration engine, the platform is designed to be available 24x7x365 and serves some of the largest investment management enterprises in the world. The underlying data model is designed to support not only exchange listed securities, but also supports client specific OTC instruments and structured products, thus facilitating 100% coverage of instruments and their integration with clients accounting and trading system infrastructures.
"With its established reach in many of the asset managers that we already work with, we are excited about the partnership as it enables our clients to receive EDI specific content as part of a consolidated data pipe" said Kumar Metlapalli, founder and CEO of Kuberre Systems. "Our Security Master is designed to help our clients offload mundane, yet mission critical, tasks of maintaining a security master and free them up to focus on their core business activities" he added.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Wilmington, MA, Kuberre Systems, Inc. is a Data Management & Analytics company, and provides fully managed solutions such as Security Master, Independent Price Verification, Event Fusion, and custom solutions in the areas of Investment Risk Analytics, and Performance Attribution to some of the largest capital markets customers worldwide. Based on its Precast Components that include Data Management Software, Workload Automation, and Entity Lineage, etc., Kuberre's solutions are the perfect medium between a buy and build option. For more information on Kuberre Systems, visit: www.kuberresystems.com.


Sites on rose.mayfirst.org are throwing 500 errors.
I suspect this has been resolved and was due to #6989 causing numerous restarts of fcgi.
I'm a little confused by this -- comment:1 seems to be a self-reference, which leaves me no more enlightened about what is happening.
How ever, after the server came back all my services broke due to file/folder permissions being reset.


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import 'reflect-metadata';
import { ServiceDescriptors } from '../descriptions/serviceDescriptions';
import { QueryOperationDefinition, QueryDefinition } from './definitions';
import { Preloader } from '../../../preloader';
import { Service } from '../../../globals/system';
import { IContainer } from '../../../di/resolvers';
import { DefaultServiceNames } from '../../../di/annotations';
import { Utils } from '../utils';
import { DefaultQueryHandler } from '../../../defaults/crudHandlers';

const symActions = Symbol.for("handler:actions");
const symMetadata = Symbol.for("handler:metadata");

/**
 * Define a query handler class
 *
 * @export
 * @param {QueryMetadata} def
 * @returns
 */
export function QueryHandler(def: QueryDefinition, metadata?: any) {
    return function (target: Function) {
        if (def.enableOnTestOnly && !Service.isTestEnvironment)
            return;
        def.scope = def.scope || "?";
        def.metadata = metadata;

        Preloader.instance.registerHandler((container: IContainer, domain) => {
            const symModel = Symbol.for("design:model");
            let modelMetadatas = Reflect.getOwnMetadata(symModel, target);
            if (modelMetadatas) {
                // QueryHandler targets a model
                def.schema = modelMetadatas.name || target.name;
                let newName = '$$' + target.name + 'QueryHandler';
                target = class extends DefaultQueryHandler<any> { };
                Object.defineProperty(target, 'name', { value: newName, configurable: true });
            }
            let descriptors = container.get<ServiceDescriptors>(DefaultServiceNames.ServiceDescriptors);
            let actions = Utils.getMetadata(symActions, target);
            descriptors.register(container, domain, target, actions, def, "query");
            // DefaultHandler
            target.prototype.defineCommand && target.prototype.defineCommand.call(null, def);
            Reflect.defineMetadata(symMetadata, def, target);
        });
    };
}

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Professor David Hahn > Gross Law Firm – GKH > Tel Aviv 670, Israel > Lawyer Profile
Gross Law Firm – GKH Offices
Select office Tel Aviv 670
Gross Law Firm – GKH
ONE AZRIELI CENTER
ROUND BUILDING
TEL AVIV 670 1101
Email firm Visit website 972 3 607 4444 972 3 607 4422
Professor David Hahn
+972-3-6074463 davidh@gkh-law.com
Insolvency, Corporate and Debt Restructuring
Prof. David Hahn is a prominent expert on insolvency law, secured transactions and corporate law. Prof. Hahn served as the Guardian General and the Official Receiver of Israel. Previously, he was retained as an academic counsel to the Attorney General for insolvency law. Prof. Hahn was also a member of the audit committee in the liquidation case of the Trade bank.
During his tenure as the Official Receiver, Prof. Hahn served as the liquidator of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) – the largest and state owned media entity in the country. Prof. Hahn managed the IBA's operations and broadcastings, which lasted three years, until their termination. Additionally, in his capacity as the Official Receiver, Prof. Hahn monitored and accompanied the largest debt and recovery arrangements in the market, including 'Hadassah' medical center, IDB and Elbit Imaging.
As the Official Receiver of Israel, Prof. Hahn spearheaded and advanced the introduction of The Insolvency and Economic Rehabilitation Bill, in collaboration with the Attorney General's office. In 2018 this bill was enacted into law, replacing old British Mandate legislation. Previously, he conceived and executed the Reform in Practicing Individual Bankruptcy Cases, which created timelines for all individual bankruptcy cases and promoted the discharge for such debtors in order to facilitate a fresh start in their lives.
Prof. Hahn has served for many years as an advisor to many large corporations in Israel's capital market on various issues associated with corporate and insolvency law, including matters of corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, liquidation, reorganization, receivership, debt arrangements, corporate bonds, dividend distributions, and more.
During his years in the Government, Prof. Hahn has worked to improve and make the public service accessible to the citizens by developing and implementing online systems, as well as shortening and expediting bureaucratic procedures relating to rights of debtors and creditors, issuing inheritance orders and the probation of wills.
Professor Hahn serves as a member in the leading international organizations specializing in insolvency, namely the International Insolvency Institute (III) and INSOL International.
Recently, Prof. Hahn was appointed by the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) to prepare a special report on cross-border insolvency aspects of foreign corporations that offer bonds on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange.
In 2017, Prof. Hahn was a lead nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel.
Prof. Hahn is a Faculty Member at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, and frequently publishes academic papers on various subjects. Among his notable publications are the book The Law of Insolvency (2018), "The Liability of Directors upon the Insolvency of a Corporation under the New Israeli Insolvency Act" (forthcoming, 2020, Hebrew), "Concentrated Ownership and the Control of Corporate Reorganizations", 4 J. Corp. L. Stud. 117-154 (2004) and "The Financial Crisis on 2009- Have Reorganization Proceedings in Emerging Markets Gone Bankrupt? Israel as a Case Study", 12 U. Penn. J. Bus. L. 731 (2010).
Hebrew, English
Israel Bar Association, 1994
New-York State Bar Association, 1995
1997- NYU School of Law, J.S.D.
1995- NYU School of Law, L.L.M. (Corporations)
1993- Bar-Ilan U. School of Law, L.L.B. (Magna Cum Laude)
Israel > Restructuring and insolvency
Gross Law Firm – GKH is well versed in all aspects of restructuring and insolvency work, including debt restructurings, distressed M&A and liquidations. The team is equally adept in representing creditors and debtors and is frequently involved in significant cases, such as its ongoing advice to Alon Israel Oil Company on the implementation of its debt arrangement, which involved debt of around ILS2.3bn. David Hahn has an impressive track record in headline-grabbing insolvency matters and formerly served as the Guardian General and the Official Receiver of Israel. Capital markets head Aya Yoffe specialises in debt restructuring.
Restructuring and insolvency - Israel
Commercial, corporate and M&A
Hi-tech and start-ups
Intellectual property > Intellectual property: commercial/transactions
Investment and venture capital funds
Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: class actions (including derivative actions)
Dispute resolution: local litigation and arbitration


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Q: Conjugate points in do Carmo's Riemannian Geometry Picture below is from the do Carmo's Riemannian Geometry.
First, what is the mean of "not identically zero" ?   Does it mean that $J(t)\neq 0~~~\forall t\in [0,a]$ ? If so, it is contradictory with $J(0)=0=J(t_0)$. Therefore, I think it means that there is at least $\tilde t\in [0,a]$ such that $J(\tilde t) \ne 0$, yes or no ?
Second, why $J$ is non-zero if and only if $\omega \ne 0$ ?  Seemly, it should be got from $J$ is a non-zero Jacobi field along $\gamma$. But it is also contradictory with $J(0)=J(t_0)=0$. So, how to understand it ?
PS: I feel my English is too poor to misunderstand the author, but I really don't know the mean of it.

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*For a function $f$ to be identically zero means that for every entry of that function, the result is zero, or in other words, $f$ is the zero function. Hence, $J$ is identically zero if $\forall t \in [0,a], J(t) = 0$. Its negation in english is "$J$ is not identically zero" and in mathematical language is "$\exists t \in [0,a], J(t) \neq 0$".

*Recall that a Jacobi field $J$ along a geodesic $\gamma$ is a solution to the second order linear differential equation $J'' + R_{\gamma}J = 0$. A solution $J$ to this second order linear differential equation is uniquely determined by its initial data $J(0)$ and $J'(0)$. As $J_0(t)=0$ is solution to the Jacobi fields equation and satisfies $J_0(0) = J_0'(0) = 0$, it is the only solution with these initial data. It follows that if one requires $J(0)=0$, then $J$ is identically zero if and only if $J'(0) = 0$.


The closest airport to Newport is Bristol Airport (BRS). Distance from Bristol Airport to Newport is 18.6 miles / 29.9 kilometers.
Distance from Cardiff Airport to Newport is 19.9 miles / 32.0 kilometers. Cardiff Airport is located approximately 2.6 miles / 4.1 kilometers west of Barry and about 7.9 miles / 12.7 kilometers west of Penarth. IATA airport code is CWL.
Distance from Exeter Airport to Newport is 61.7 miles / 99.3 kilometers. Exeter Airport is located approximately 3.7 miles / 6.0 kilometers east of Heavitree and about 5.0 miles / 8.1 kilometers east of Exeter. IATA airport code is EXT.
Distance from RAF Brize Norton to Newport is 61.7 miles / 99.3 kilometers. RAF Brize Norton is located approximately 0.8 miles / 1.2 kilometers southeast of Carterton and about 11.9 miles / 19.2 kilometers northwest of Grove. IATA airport code is BZZ.


I would highly recommend Bay Shore Movers to any of our friends and if needed we will use your firm in the future.
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They moved everything carefully, quickly, and efficiently.
The team with Pedro was excellent. They moved everything carefully, quickly, and efficiently. They paid attention to details like ensuring the pleats on the furnuture were straight as they were wrapped. Everything came through great!
I'd like to recommend your company to friends and/or family who might be in need of a move.


TORONTO, ON and TAMPA, FL–(Dec 5, 2016) – Cott Corporation (NYSE: COT) (TSX: BCB) (the "Company" or "Cott") announced that its CEO Jerry Fowden received the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2016 National Category Award for Retail and Consumer Products. Now in its 30th year, the award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Mr. Fowden was selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at EY's Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, CA on November 19.
"Since I became CEO at Cott, we have seen significant changes in the beverage market as consumers have become increasingly health conscious. In response to these changes we developed a strategy to diversify Cott towards a lower risk, higher margin business focused on better for you beverages and healthy hydration," commented Jerry Fowden, Cott's Chief Executive Officer. "I am pleased to be recognized for Cott's achievements and success and I want to thank all of our employees, Board of Directors and shareholders for their work and support over the last few years," continued Mr. Fowden.
Since 1986, EY has honored entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, spirit of innovation, and discipline have propelled their companies' success, invigorated their industries, and benefited their communities. Now in its 30th year, the program has honored the inspirational leadership of entrepreneurs including Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee Company, Robert Unanue of Goya Foods, and Mindy Grossman of HSN. Recent US national winners include Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn; Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of Chobani; and 2015 winners Andreas Bechtolsheim and Jayshree Ullal of Arista Networks.
Over the last 30 years, the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award program has demonstrated a unique ability to identify the traits that lead companies to join the ranks of the some of the world's most successful companies. The vast majority of winners have far outpaced the US market in terms of stock price returns, job creation, and longevity. EY examined the attributes of these businesses in a recent report, Lasting Legacies on November 19.


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Home H Military Yakovlev Yak-24: Father of the Famous CH-47 Chinook?
Yakovlev Yak-24: Father of the Famous CH-47 Chinook?
Posted By stdaily
Perhaps the inspiration for American designers came from the Soviet Union, the Yakovlev Yak-24
The CH-47 Chinook is so famous, and is a symbol of the US military's airlift capabilities. But perhaps the inspiration for American designers came from the Soviet Union, the Yakovlev Yak-24, a twin-rotor helicopter similar to the CH-47, but with very limited production and service. Born in the 1950s, the Soviet Yakovlev Yak-24 is considered the world's first operational tandem rotor helicopter.
The Yak-24 had its first flight in July 1952, and was officially put into service in 1955. The helicopter was created in response to a Request for a larger helicopter capable of transporting 24 people, was given to the Yakovlev Design Bureau under Alexander Yakovlev. It was powered with two 1,700 hp Shvetsov ASh-82V radial engines and was built in a tandem rotor layout, which was not typical for Soviet helicopters.
The engines and transmission system were identical to the already-proven single-engine Mil Mi-4, but the Yak-24 proved to be less successful. Its engines were linked together so each could drive one or both rotors, but such an arrangement caused strong vibrations in the airframe. After the problems were partially solved, the new helicopter was ordered for production by the Soviet Air Force, which began in 1955 at Factory No. 272 in Leningrad.
The Yak-24 could carry up to 19 airborne troops, 12 stretchers or 2,000 kg of cargo, including field guns or GAZ-69 army car. In the nose was a 12.7 mm machine gun mounting, manned by radio operator. Yak-24 was also used as a flying crane, lifting an external load of 4,000 kg.
In 1957, the improved model Yak-24U was developed, rebuilt from serial helicopter, with all-metal rotors of larger diameter, and an all-metal wider fuselage. It could carry 40 soldiers or 3,500 kg of cargo, including ASU-57 tank destroyer. It completed test program in 1958, but did not enter production. A civilian variant for Aeroflot for 30 passengers was the Yak-24A of 1960, but it was not produced either.
Data on the Yak-24 is inconsistent and sometimes contradictory, the exact number of helicopters produced is unknown, with estimates ranging from 40 to 100 units depending on the source of the data. According to newer Russian sources, only 35 series helicopters were built in 1956–1958 in Leningrad, in addition to two prototypes and three pre-series helicopters.
All sources agree that production of the Yak-24 was curtailed due to technical problems, and the need for a heavy transport helicopter was fulfilled by the successful Mil Mi-6. Other than its excellent carrying capacity, the maximum speed of the Yak-24 was quite low, only about 175 km/h and a range of 265 km. With a country as large as the former Soviet Union, this range is clearly too meager.


Kathleen Bostrom sees parallels between shoes and writing.
"Sometimes we writers have to try on a lot of shoes until we find the ones that fit," she said Thursday during the Presbyterian Writers Guild lunch at the 221st General Assembly (2014) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), adding that it took some years for her to find her niche as a writer.
Bostrom, whose works have been translated into 17 languages around the world, received the Guild's 2014 David Steele Distinguished Writer Award.
Bostrom said she first tried on "the soft leather shoes of a poet." She tried the running shoes of a short story writer, then the hiking boots of a novelist, and then the "sensible sturdy shoes of a nonfiction writer." None of these felt right.
"The shoes I ended up going back to time and time again were the playful shoes of a children's book writer," she said. After four-and-a-half years and hundreds of rejection letters, Bostrom finally had her first children's book accepted for publication.
The distinguished writer award is named for the late David Steele, Presbyterian poet and essayist best known for his "Tuesday Morning" column in The Presbyterian Outlook. The award is given biennially to a Presbyterian writer who blessed the church with his or her writing over the course of a career.
Bostrom, who served as co-pastor of Wildwood, Illinois, Presbyterian Church for 22 years, has published numerous articles and more than three dozen books, most for children. Her book Who is Jesus? was a finalist for the 2000 Gold Medallion Award and What About Heaven? was nominated for the People's Choice Award.
At its luncheon, the Presbyterian Writers Guild also honored Robert John Andrews, a pastor in Danville, Pennsylvania, as recipient of this year's Presbyterian Publishing Corporation First Book Award for Nathaniel's Call, his novel set during the Civil War. The award honors the best first book by a Presbyterian author published during the calendar years of 2012–2013.
Andrews' book, self-published in 2012, was selected from among 17 entries in a variety of genres to receive the biennial award. His novel is told from the point of view of a Presbyterian chaplain and a physician attached to a Pennsylvania regiment during the Civil War.
Andrews has been the pastor of Grove Presbyterian Church in Danville since 1989. He has been moderator of Northumberland Presbytery and writes a weekly column for the Danville News.


Herman Miller / George Nelson Wood Serving Tray. Fresh from a Dallas Estate comes this wood serving tray by George Nelson for Herman Miller.
This example features great grain with no chips, no dry spots, no cracks, splits, separations but it does have some visible scratches visible under bright light. Nothing too distracting but they are there. No foil label but guaranteed Herman Miller. The tray measures approx 18 inches across.
All photos are of actual item offered. I'm on top of it :. The item "Vintage Herman Miller George Nelson Round Wood Wooden Serving Tray 18 Inches" is in sale since Sunday, April 15, 2018. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Decorative Collectibles\Trays, Platters".


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Q: Dynamically update equation using vectors I was hoping to automate the following process but have been unable to find a solution. The aim is to use vectors height and area to update each if equation in the function. The function would then use depth (x) to convert to volume.
The equation for each if statement would use the following syntax:
for (i in 2:length(height) {

(x >= height[i - 1] &&
               x <= height[i]) {
      (((area[i] - area[i - 1]) * (x - height[i - 1]) /
          (height[i] - height[i - 1]) + area[i - 1]) * x)
}

Manual method:
height <- c(0.01, seq(0.05, 0.5, by = 0.05))
area <- c(8, 210, 300, 350, 400, 440, 470, 500, 535, 570, 610)

# Height values
Hmin <- min(height)
Hmax <- max(height)

for(i in 2:(length(height) - 1)) {
  assign(paste0("H", i-1), height[i])
}

# Area values
Amin <- min(area)
Amax <- max(area)

for(i in 2:(length(area) - 1)) {
  assign(paste0("A", i-1), area[i])
}

volume.fn <- function(x) {
  if (x < Hmin) {                                             # if less than min height value
    x <- 0                                                    # x <- 0
  } else if (x >= Hmin &&                                     # if between min height and next height value
             x <= H1) {
    (((A1 - Amin) * (x - Hmin) / (H1 - Hmin) + Amin) * x)     # apply this linear interpolation equation to depth column (x)
  } else if (x >= H1 &&                                       # if x between height1 and height 2
             x <= H2) {
    (((A2 - A1) * (x - H1) / (H2 - H1) + A1) * x)             # apply this linear interpolation equation to depth column (x)
  } else if (x >= H2 &&
             x <= H3) {
    (((A3 - A2) * (x - H2) / (H3 - H2) + A2) * x)
  } else if (x >= H3 &&
             x <= H4) {
    (((A4 - A3) * (x - H3) / (H4 - H3) + A3) * x)
  } else if (x >= H4 &&
             x <= H5) {
    (((A5 - A4) * (x - H4) / (H5 - H4) + A4) * x)
  } else if (x >= H5 &&
             x <= H6) {
    (((A6 - A5) * (x - H5) / (H6 - H5) + A5) * x)
  } else if (x >= H6 &&
             x <= H7) {
    (((A7 - A6) * (x - H6) / (H7 - H6) + A6) * x)
  } else if (x >= H7 &&
             x <= H8) {
    (((A8 - A7) * (x - H7) / (H8 - H7) + A7) * x)
  } else if (x >= H8 &&
             x <= H9) {
    (((A9 - A8) * (x - H8) / (H9 - H8) + A8) * x)
  } else if (x >= H9 &&
             x <= Hmax) {
    (((Amax - A9) * (x - H9) / (Hmax - H9) + A9) * x)
  } else {
    NA
  }
}

A: Using findInterval you could do:
volume.fn1 <- function(x, height, area) {
  volume <- if (x < min(height)) {
    0
  } else if (x > max(height)) {
    NA
  } else {
    i <- findInterval(x, height, rightmost.closed = TRUE) + 1
    ((area[i] - area[i - 1]) * (x - height[i - 1]) /
      (height[i] - height[i - 1]) + area[i - 1]) * x
  }

  return(volume)
}

volume.fn(.32)
#> [1] 154.24

volume.fn1(.32, height, area)
#> [1] 154.24

volume.fn(.48)
#> [1] 285.12

volume.fn1(.48, height, area)
#> [1] 285.12


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Calendar Gadget: download or copy from other PC?
I've built an ISO of Windows Starter using RT Seven Lite, and stupidly I deleted the Calendar Gadget from the build. Is there a way to download this, or copy it from another PC?
Hey folks -- I've been looking at switching to AHCI mode for our two machines at home. My wife's is running Windows 7 and mine is Win 8. Both of them were installed with legacy IDE running, so I've had to investigate how to make the change after-the-fact. With the Win 7 machine, I found and installed the correct drivers for the motherboard, did the registry hack, etc. It wasn't as simple as it was supposed to be, but it did finally work. That last boot, Win 7 grabbed onto the drivers and ran with them, and now the machine is humming along in AHCI mode.
No BIOS on Windows 8? Impossible to boot from other devices.
I have purchased a Key for Windows 8 Pro, and used the download assistant, i downloaded the file and tried to install , but unfortunately the tablet i am using to install win 8 Pro is a product of china. It seems that although i was using English ( UK ) before installing, the install file is in chinese language and i can not understand how to proceed, plus i can not find out how to change the language to english. The other problem now is that the Windows 7 Ultimate seems to be corrupt so it looks as if i need a clean install. where can i find an 32bit ISO install file for the Windows 8 Pro, as i need to install via a usb stick. I hope some one will be able to answer this problem.


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May 1 Day of Action Live Blog
Gracie Malley/Staff
By Adelyn Baxter | Senior Staff
Groups from around the Bay Area and nationwide have planned demonstrations, rallies and strikes to coincide with Tuesday's international May Day of Action and general strike.
May 1 is International Workers' Day, an official holiday in many countries around the world and a day to recognize the international labor movement. In the Bay Area, marches throughout the day have been organized by labor unions and occupy protesters in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and elsewhere.
Staff writer Afsana Afzal reporting from the field.
The group of protesters demonstrating outside UCOP has dwindled as some head to Fruitvale for a protest for immigrant rights, although some police officers remain outside the office.
Protesters have gathered outside a downtown Oakland Wells Fargo. UC Regent Russell Gould was a former executive at Wachovia, which merged with Wells Fargo in 2008.
The March 1 General Strike protesters are marching from outside the UC Office of the President to Wells Fargo.
About 25 people are currently gathered outside of the University Office of the President chanting for workers rights.
Read our update on the march by union workers and Occupy Cal protesters to the Tang Center that took place earlier today.
San Francisco Chronicle reporter Demian Bulwa recently tweeted that Oakland Police Department spokesperson Johanna Watson confirmed that tear gas was used earlier on demonstrators in Oakland who were allegedly surrounding officers.
PIO Watson confirms tear gas was used on #oo "to gain the attention of the crowd" that surrounded officers "which was effective"
— Demian Bulwa (@demianbulwa) May 1, 2012
As of 1:00 p.m., protesters and union workers had dispersed from outside the Tang Center. They plan to march to UCOP in downtown Oakland at 4 p.m.
Reports via Twitter are saying that protesters and police are facing off at 14th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland. BART just tweeted that the Frank Ogawa Plaza entrance/exit at 14th Street end of 12th Street is closed due to police activity for a protest.
Ogawa Plaza entrance/exit at 14th St end of 12th St. closed due to police activity for a protest. Other exits open at 12th St.
— SFBART (@SFBART) May 1, 2012
Protesters are standing in front of the Tang Center along Bancroft Way chanting and holding signs in support of UPTE workers.
At UC Berkeley, protesters and union organizers are holding a rally at noon at the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Bancroft Way to kick off AFSCME-3299 contract negotiations, after which they will march to the Tang Center to support healthcare professionals who are negotiating new contracts through UPTE-CWA 9119.
At 4 p.m. demonstrators will march to the UC Office of the President at 1111 Franklin St. in downtown Oakland for a rally and picket organized by SEIU 1021 and AFSCME-3299.
Nurses striking at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley held a rally to protest ongoing cuts to patient services by Sutter Health.
Follow us on twitter at @dailycal.
Adelyn Baxter is the news editor.
AFSCME, International Workers' Day, May Day of Action, Occupy Cal, Occupy Oakland


Looking to bring a little more wellness into your life? Whatever your needs are it is safe to say that there are so many wonderful, holistic things out there to do for yourself to cultivate self-care. It could be in the form of ritual, participating in your own unique ceremony, creating and enjoying your favourite food, expression through embodied movement, treating yourself to a special trip, grounding yourself in nature or simply reading a good book. Below, Vogue has created the ultimate guide to interesting retreats, experiences and purchases to treat your mind, body and soul and bring wellness into your new year.


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Franklinton wins against Fontainebleau
Published 10:35 pm Friday, September 16, 2022
DAILY NEWS PHOTO/Chris Kinkaid Franklinton's Timarion Partman begins a sack of Fontainebleau's quarterback as teammates come in for assistance in Friday's game.
MANDEVILLE — Franklinton's defense was tough all night, as they pitched a shutout and had a pick six in a 41-0 win over Fontainebleau on the road Friday night.
"Defense has been playing well and they've gotten better each week," Franklinton coach Guy LeCompte said. "Coach (Jonathan) Barber, coach Josh (Dunmiles) and coach (Brad) Penny have done a phenomenal job and they did a great job last week as well."
Fontainebleau got the ball to start the game and attempted to punt, but a high snap out of bounds gave Franklinton possession at Fontainebleau's 46.
Zion Anders connected with Micah Hart for 42 yards on the first play and then Hart scored from the 4 on the next for a 6-0 lead with 8:34 left in the first quarter.
The Demons were back in the end zone at the 1:49 mark when Rayshone Manuel ran it on from the 14.
Franklinton tallied again late in the second.
The Demons drove 59 yards in 11 plays, capped off by Anders' 3-yard run for an 18-0 lead at halftime. The three extra points were no good.
Franklinton made it 21-0 in the third quarter with Kade Lavigne splitting the uprights on a 30-yard field goal with 9:04 to go in the third quarter.
Late in the third, Anders found Hart on a 5-yard touchdown pass to make it 27-0 with 53 seconds left in the third period. The extra point was missed, keeping it 27-0.
Franklinton posted two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
Jacob Crain completed a screen pass to Kelly Daniels, who broke free and raced to the end zone for the 59-yard score. Lavigne was good on the extra point to put the Demons up 34-0 with 6:19 to go in the fourth quarter.
Franklnton's final tally came at the 3:35 mark when Christiun Martin intercepted a pass and returned it about 40 yards for a touchdown. Lavigne added the extra point for the 41-0 final.
"I'm proud of our guys' effort," LeCompte said. "We had a lot of penalties that we need to clean up. I don't want to take anything from the win. Certainly that's been something we needed, but there's a lot of things we need to clean up. There's a standard we want to achieve and get to, and so again, our motivation is not the scoreboard, but it's how well we play and so I want to make sure that we clean up the mistakes. We had a lot of penalties and I want to look at those on film and see if we can clean that up."
Franklinton's next game will be against Denham Springs at home on Thursday.


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Q: How to remove moment-locale from main bundle I am using webpack-analyzer to check the main bundle size and what are in that. As I can see there is moment which is included in main bundle, and there is locale also included in the bundle unnecessarily. I am using moment/locale/fr , but all the other locale is also part of it. How can I remove all the non-required packages from moment.js
I tried this tsconfig.json
"compilerOptions": {
   "paths": {
      "moment": [
        "./node_modules/moment/min/moment.min.js",
        "./node_modules/moment/locale/fr.js",
      ]
    }
}

I am also using moment-timezone.
But when I am doing ng build --prod I am getting an error:
This module can only be referenced with ECMAScript imports/exports by turning on the 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports' flag and referencing its default export.

5 import * as moment from 'moment-timezone';


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Home Open Access News Workplace News Why draconian workplaces are damaging mental health
Why draconian workplaces are damaging mental health
© Martin Novak
Mental health has been a prominent topic in the UK media during 2019, and yet in the draconian workplace, it appears the struggle continues despite the high profile campaigns
Throughout this year we have seen bold mental health campaigns from the UK charity Mind, the Mental Health Foundation and the launch of Heads Together, a mental health charity set up by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry.
According to research by the Mental Health Foundation, 1 in 6 people experience mental health in the workplace, and 12% of all sickness absence in the UK is attributed to mental health conditions.
The truth is, these statistics could be much higher as there are still fears attached to openly admitting to employers when people are struggling with mental ill-health.
While 1 in 3 sick notes in the UK are related to mental health conditions, some GP's have openly commented that many patients prefer their GP not to claim that it is relating to mental health, instead requesting that it is put down to fatigue or migraines.
Which means the real statistics for those taking sick leave for mental ill-health could be far higher.
It seems that in the UK we're still not feeling safe enough to discuss these critical issues in the workplace, or with employers.
But could this be due to the draconian approach that many organisations continue to push on employees?
People are afraid to talk
A survey by the mental health charity Mind found that 1 in 3 people in the UK are afraid to talk to their line managers about their mental health.
When questioned further on the reasons, employees stated that they feared being judged, with 1 in 5 reporting they would feel ostracised from the larger organisation.
Sadly 4 in 10 people felt that it would be better to suffer in silence than to openly admit to their struggles.
In a time where mental health is now becoming more understood, it appears that in the workplace, the culture of empathy remains void.
For people to feel they can talk about their problems without the risk of losing their job or becoming alienated from the company, we have to breed a culture of compassion.
There are great risks to an individual's personal wellbeing when you create a workplace environment that stifles open conversation.
People who are struggling with mental ill-health can already begin to separate themselves from their existing relationships with friends and family. When it happens in the workplace, this may not be obvious if a cold culture exists, so when they reach critical condition, it can not be as quickly noticed.
Stigma still exists
Research from Mind UK has shown that 17% of people who have talked to their boss about their mental health issues feel they were misunderstood.
For all the progress we are making as a society to bring mental health awareness out of the dark ages, many employers continue to dismiss those struggling with conditions. This only strengthens the stigma that exists within a workplace culture.
The fear of discrimination holds people back from openly talking about mental health at work, which only causes more harm to employees and organisations in the long-term.
Presenteeism hit a record high in the UK during 2018, with more employees reporting that they have worked while feeling unwell. The report by the CIPD revealed that the increase was due to mental health conditions, with employees not feeling that they could request time off.
If employees feel that they must work while stressed or depressed, this is a sign that the organisation is not supporting individuals with mental health conditions.
Workplaces that ignore mental health issues, or downplay the impact it has on individuals lives are operating a company culture that severely damages the health and wellbeing of employees.
Outdated attitudes cause harm
Language plays a key role in supporting those struggling with mental health conditions. How people are treated can make a mental health condition much better, or far worse.
However, in the workplace physical illness is still taken more seriously than a mental health illness. In a survey conducted by the Mental Health Foundation, 65% of line managers felt that taking time off for a physical illness was treated more actively than taking time off for mental health.
A core part of improving the workplace culture around mental health is becoming more mindful about the language we use and ensuring that a culture of openness is generated.
Workplaces can help employees think about mental illness as they would any other disease, yet we still see more empathy for those with a physical condition than with a mental health condition.
Mental wellbeing is not a priority
Many organisations pay lip service to the changes they are making when it comes to supporting employees with mental ill health, but it seems few are taking real action.
In the Workplace Wellbeing Report, only 24% of line managers have received any mental health training, and in a review by the CIPD, only 25% of employees say their organisation has taken steps to improve mental wellbeing over the last year.
Despite the staggering amount of research indicating the impact of positive workplace culture on mental health, few organisations are really taking the necessary action to support employees.
Creating mentally healthy workplaces must be seen as a priority if we as a society are to overcome the stigma that surrounds mental ill-health.
Poor attitudes, bad language and discriminating employees due to mental ill-health must stop if we are to save lives.
As we spend the majority of our lives at work, organisations need to realise their responsibility for employee wellbeing and take action to support the people they employ.
Organisations that believe they can continue in this way will become obsolete, as more people are making the choice to work for employers who value wellbeing, and invest in initiatives that support mental health.
Lizzie Benton
Liberty Mind Ltd
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Investors and Italy's European partners are worried, says John Follain on Bloomberg Politics. The populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and Matteo Salvini's anti-migrant Northern League party were the two big winners from this month's general election, but each is short of a majority. Now the two have ganged up to sideline Salvini's centre-right ally Silvio Berlusconi in votes for parliamentary speakers. The pact has sparked talk of a populist coalition. The snag is that both the League's Salvini and Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio want to be prime minister.
"Ego is Italy's main barrier to a radical government," says Lisa Jucca for Breakingviews. Salvini "does not want to risk playing second fiddle" by jumping into an alliance without Berlusconi's Forza Italia, his main political ally. Yet Five Star is "reluctant " to work with Berlusconi, whom they consider emblematic of a corrupt political elite. The two sides should be able to iron out any policy differences, however. They have both pledged to limit immigration and "unravel Italy's retirement rules".
A coalition of the League and the M5S could produce a stable government with "clear majorities in both houses" of parliament, says The Economist.Yet there would be "tremors of apprehension" in markets. Both parties have "vowed to defy the eurozone's budget-deficit limits" and would likely "add tens of billions of euros" to Italy's "worryingly high public debt", which is already north of 130% of GDP.
Financial markets, hitherto calm, are in denial, says Wolfgang Münchau for the FT. Populist parties already account "for some 60%" of Italian lawmakers, not a bloc likely to approve another austerity budget. The election result was "the predictable response to two decades of economic policy that failed to produce jobs for young people". If things go south we may soon discover that "a time of economic stability" can be defined as "the period between two crises".


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The 30 Best Songs Of The Year 2017
Indie anthems, 80s-themed bangers, big songs, big riffs and more - it's been a hell of a year, from The Killers to Foo Fighters, Alt-J to The xx. Your perfect playlist for 2017.
The Killers - The Man
Back in the saddle with a new angle, Brandon Flowers struts through an ironic look at masculinity - KER-CHING!
Liam Gallagher - Wall Of Glass
Liam's debut solo outing featured scorching vocals and searing guitar and proved that one of Britain's biggest stars was back in the game.
Queens Of The Stone Age - The Way You Used To
Josh Homme joins forces with Mark Ronson and the result is a twisting, jazzy tune that gives QOTSA's trademark guitar attack a smooth polish.
Gorillaz - We Got The Power
Damon's positive anthem for the troubled year of 2017, complete with rabble rousing guest appearance from Jehnny Beth of Savages.
Foo Fighters - The Sky Is A Neighbourhood
Dave Grohl goes BIG with the help of producer Greg Kurstin: a huge singalong chorus proves a smoother alternative to the raucous single Run.
Alt-J - In Cold Blood
Only Alt-J could include a lyric that uses binary notation… and only Alt-J could make it into a brilliant tune.
Radiohead - Man Of War
Hidden for 20 years, released as part of the OKNotOK reissue of 1997's OK Computer, this is the best new old song of the year.
Elbow - Golden Slumbers
A fragment from The Beatles' Abbey Road album medley turns into a festive dream, courtesy of Guy Garvey and the John Lewis Christmas ad.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Holy Mountain
The Guv'nor returns with a rollicking clash of influences, a naggingly addictive whistle sample and a chorus to die for.
Biffy Clyro - Friends And Enemies
From the Scottish trio's sixth album Ellipsis, this is one of the epic standout tracks, released as a single in 2017.
Liam Gallagher - Come Back To Me
One of the singles from the strident As You Were album, this is a Dylanesque rant with a winning chorus.
The xx - On Hold
Jamie samples Hall And Oates, the others continue the fragile psychodrama… it's pure xx.
Kasabian - Bless This Acid House
Rambunctious rock 'n' roll from Tom and Serge, summing up the mood of 2017 perfectly.
Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still
Intriguing Motown-influenced alt.pop from Portaland, Oregon. One of the brightest, catchiest songs of the year.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - It's A Beautiful World
Hooking up with producer David Holmes has seen Noel take a turn into more ambitious, adventurous areas - and this is a prime example.
How do you top one of the most brilliant debut albums of the 21st Century? Like this!
Kasabian - You're In Love With A Psycho
Singalong, knockabout fun from the Leicester lads. Great video, too.
Blossoms - Honey Sweet
Stockport's Blossoms have had a fine 2017, thanks to huge songs like this. 2018's gonna be even bigger.
Arcade Fire - Everything Now
Abba meets The Gypsy Kings (possibly), with disco, pan pipes and a satirical angle to the lyrics.
Royal Blood - I Only Lie When I Love You
Piercing, ironic and unforgettable, this single shows what an unstoppable force Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher are.
Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
An atmospheric, ethereal modern love song from the band's confident second album.
Lorde - Green Light
The New Zealand singer-songwriter released her second album, Melodrama, in 2017 and it's an instant electropop classic.
Courteeners - Modern Love
2017 proved quite bittersweet for Liam Fray, with the Manchester terror attack adding poignancy to the band's hometown show in the summer. But he still can turn his hand to an uplifting tune.
The Amazons - Black Magic
Anthemic rock from this brilliant new outfit from Reading. Gets into your brain and stays there.
Stereophonics - Caught By The Wind
A yearning track by Kelly Jones from Stereophonics' reliably consistent tenth album, Scream Above The Sounds.
The War On Drugs - Holding On
Adam Granduciel channels classic Americana in this chugging, inspiring tune.
London Grammar - Big Picture
Their second album, Truth Is A Beautiful Thing, fulfilled the promise of the debut, as this delicate, gorgeous song shows.
Elbow - Magnificent (She Says)
Still the emotional heart and soul of indie rock, Guy Garvey and his comrades prove why they're one of our most beloved bands.
He's back, with a brighter sound and a hot take on modern pop rock, thanks to collaborating with producer Greg Kurstin.
The xx - Say Something Loving
Another devastating sample (this time 70s hearthrobs Alessi) forms the backbone to a heartbreaking lyric.


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The 10 Greatest Books of All Time by TIME magazine
The novel is currently enjoying popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in "The Top Ten" in Time (the American weekly news magazine published in New York City, United States), which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written"
The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was a notorious perfectionist and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the right word")
War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature.
This book from The 10 Greatest Books of All Time isn't public domain.
Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism.
The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
The book is widely regarded as a "Great American Novel" and a literary classic, capturing the essence of an era and the post-war "carefree madness" of a nation hungry for life. The Modern Library named it the second best English language novel of the 20th Century.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a novel in seven volumes. The novel had great influence on twentieth-century literature; some writers have sought to emulate it, others to parody it.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history.[Encyclopædia Britannica]
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
Middlemarch is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. Subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life," the novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 1830–32. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. The pace is leisurely, the tone is mildly didactic (with an authorial voice that occasionally bursts through the narrative), and the canvas is very broad.
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Tour the Molly Brown House at 9 a.m. on Tuesday and learn about the fascinating life of Margaret Tobin Brown. Lunch is on your own after the tour. The fee is $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers.
Enjoy a day at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science at 9 a.m. March 31. See the IMAX film, "The Ring of Fire," and browse the museum exhibits. Registration fees are $10 for members or $15 for nonmembers. Bring $9 exact change on the day of the trip for museum admission.
Partners will be drawn for each game during the Pickle-ball Doubles Mixer from noon-5 p.m. on April 4. Enjoy refreshments between games. Prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers. The entry fee is $3 per person. For the Pickle-ball Mixer you can create an account PIN and then register online by visiting http://online.active communities.com/Greeley.
Writing Your Life III is designed to help you write about being a grandparent, retiree " or even your philosophy on life. The class meets at 1 p.m. on Thursdays beginning this week. The fee is $50 for members and $55 for nonmembers.
Broaden your artistic horizons during Explorations in Creativity taught by Barb Wolf on Fridays at 8:30 a.m. beginning this week. The fee is $35 for members or $40 for nonmembers.
Shape Up Exercise is offered Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning March 30. Sessions are offered at 8-9 a.m., 9:15-10:15 a.m. and 10:20-11:20 a.m. The fee is $33 for members and $38 for nonmembers. Shape Up is on break this week.
Learn about circuit training at 8 a.m. on March 31 or April 2. The fee is $2 per person and includes both days.
50+ Circuit Training Class is an eight-week class featuring low-impact exercises that provide a full-body cardiovascular workout. The class meets at 8 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning March 31. The fee is $43 for members and $48 for nonmembers.
Are you tired of spending money on stamps? Set up an e-mail account at 10 a.m. on Friday and become a more efficient and knowledgeable communicator. The fee is $3 for members and $5 for nonmembers.
Bring your questions to the Blindness and Low Vision Support Group from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday. The monthly speaker is Jim Conant. There is no fee.
Thank you to New Frontier Bank for the donation of refreshments to the senior dance, to Kenton for the delicious cake, Schmidt's Bakery for the wonderful sheet cake and Bright Star for the entertainment at the St. Patrick's Day lunch!