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Q: NodeJs + Request-promise - error catching I'm having trouble with error handling with my function in my bot for Discord. What I've got right now is a command that scraps information from a website, I want to make it so if there is an error (404), the user will get some feedback. How would I go about doing this? Right now I currently have something, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here is a snippet of code:
//modules used
const rp = require('request-promise-native');
const errors = require('request-promise/errors');
const cheerio = require('cheerio');

if (message.content.startsWith(prefix + 'latest')) {

    //website url variables
    const website_domain = "https://hypebeast.com/";
    let website_path = args[0];
    let website_url = website_domain + website_path;

    //extra arguments variable
    let extra_arg = args.slice(1).join(" ");

    if (extra_arg.length > 0) {
        message.reply('too many arguments! Please refer to `h.help` for correct usage.');

    } else {

        //opening url and scrapping elements
        function scrapData(website_url) {
            return rp(website_url)
                .then(body => {
                    let items = [],
                        $ = cheerio.load(body).catch(errors.StatusCodeError, function (reason) {
                            console.log(reason);
                        });

                    //web scrapping here
                    $('.post-box').each(function() {
                        let title = $(this).find($('.title h2 span')).first().text(),
                            caption = $(this).find($('.post-box-excerpt p')).first().text(),
                            article_url = $(this).find($('.col-hb-post-image a')).first().attr('href'),
                            thumbnail_long = $(this).find($('.thumbnail img')).first().attr('src');

                        //adding title, caption, etc to list
                        items.push({title, caption, article_url, thumbnail_long});

                        //check items in console
                        console.log(items);
                    })
                    return items;
                })
        }

A: I have just modified your code little try this below code.
//modules used
 const rp = require('request-promise-native');
 const errors = require('request-promise/errors');
 const cheerio = require('cheerio');

 if (message.content.startsWith(prefix + 'latest')) {

//website url variables
const website_domain = "https://hypebeast.com/";
let website_path = args[0];
let website_url = website_domain + website_path;

//extra arguments variable
let extra_arg = args.slice(1).join(" ");

if (extra_arg.length > 0) {
    message.reply('too many arguments! Please refer to `h.help` for correct usage.');

} else {

    var options = {
        uri: website_url,
        transform: function (body) {
            return cheerio.load(body);
        }
    };
    rp(options)
    .then(function ($) {
        // Process html like you would with jQuery...
        $('.post-box').each(function() {
                    let title = $(this).find($('.title h2 span')).first().text(),
                        caption = $(this).find($('.post-box-excerpt p')).first().text(),
                        article_url = $(this).find($('.col-hb-post-image a')).first().attr('href'),
                        thumbnail_long = $(this).find($('.thumbnail img')).first().attr('src');

                    //adding title, caption, etc to list
                    items.push({title, caption, article_url, thumbnail_long});

                    //check items in console
                    console.log(items);
                });
    })
    .catch(function (err) {
        console.log(err);
    });

}


Peres visits wounded soldiers, says countries hit by terrorism "completely understood Israel's policy."
While the Foreign Ministry is working with numerous institutions, organizations and individuals in a desperate attempt to salvage Israel's image in the wake of Operation Cast Lead, President Shimon Peres believes that saving lives is more important. He said as much on Monday in reply to a question from the parents of Sec.-Lt. Aharon Karov, who was seriously wounded in Gaza only two weeks after getting married. Rabbi Ze'ev Karov and his wife Chaya, referring to the lightning visit on Sunday by several heads of European nations, asked Peres, who was visiting wounded soldiers at Petah Tikva's Beilinson Hospital, why a group of world leaders had chosen to come to Israel now instead of during the past eight years, when Kassam rockets were landing in Israel. Peres did not answer the question per se but said that if all those now demonstrating against Israel had demonstrated against Hamas during the past eight years, there would have been no need for Israel to launch Operation Cast Lead. "Our image is important, but not as important as defending our lives," he said. In various meetings over the past week, Peres has reiterated several times that in its media campaign, Israel could not compete with the gruesome images coming out of Gaza. While Israel strongly regretted civilian casualties, he said, it was very difficult to convince people that women and children had been killed because Hamas used them as human shields. On Monday he again made the point that there was more to world opinion than CNN or the BBC, and that countries hit by terrorism completely understood Israel's policy. "We have support from the United States, India and various European countries," he said. "The Americans were always with us, as were many European leaders. There are some strange people like Chavez against us, but I wouldn't pay too much attention to him."


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Mystery over 'female' remains found on male-only Greek mountain
Discovery of remains in all-male monastic community in northern Greece poses questions
Archaeologists say the bones at the site in Mount Athos are so small they could belong to a woman. Photograph: Phaidon Hadjiantoniou
Mon 16 Dec 2019 00.00 EST
Last modified on Tue 17 Dec 2019 05.00 EST
Laura Wynn-Antikas specialises in bringing bones to life. Decades spent studying skeletal remains across Greece, in subterranean vaults, tombs, chapels and archaeological sites, have yielded a host of unexpected discoveries. "You never know what you are going to find," the American-born anthropologist said. "Bones don't lie. They will tell you how a person lived and perhaps even how they died. You go in prepared to see everything."
But when Wynn-Antikas was called to examine bones unearthed beneath the stone floor of a Byzantine chapel in the all-male monastic republic of Mount Athos even she was surprised. Some were so small they bore little resemblance to men's at all.
"Among them were a forearm, shinbone and sacrum that were just so different in their morphology," added the academic. "While the others were more robust and had clearly belonged to the frames of men, these had measurements that noticeably fell in the range of a female. They were markedly different in size."
Found embedded in the subsoil of the chapel, the bones were also clearly a secondary burial although they had been transferred from original tombs with the utmost of care. Intrigued, the monastery of Pantokrator to which the chapel of St Athanasios belongs, proposed that the samples undergo radio carbon dating.
"If we are talking about a woman, or indeed more than one woman, it will raise a lot of questions," Wynn-Antikas said. "Starting with who could she have possibly been."
Few are more eager to learn the truth than the monks themselves.
The chapel of St Athanasios where the bones were found. Photograph: Phaidon Hadjiantoniou
Women have been barred from the rugged peninsula in northern Greece since the foundation of the autonomous monastic community in the 10th century. Even female animals – with the exception of cats – are banned.
Despite the EU declaring the prohibition illegal, the measure is rigorously upheld, extending up to 500 metres of Athos's coastline, even if in modern times there have been cases of women deliberately trying to break it.
For the estimated 2,500 monks living in caves, shacks or some of the 20 monasteries dotted around the 400-square mile peninsula, the Virgin Mary is the only acceptable female presence.
"If a woman is found among the bones it will be the first known incident of a female finding her final resting place on Mount Athos," said the architect restorer Phaidon Hadjiantoniou, who discovered the remains while conducting conservation at the chapel.
"There are times during pirate raids and hostile incursions that monks are known to have opened their doors to women but it is very rare," he said. "There is a famous tale of a Serbian king who brought his wife to Athos but, throughout, she was carried and never allowed to step on Athonite soil. Carpets were placed in all the monastery rooms to ensure that even there she didn't touch the ground."
In nearly 40 years overseeing restoration works in the region, Hadjiantoniou said he has never encountered anything like it. The discovery instantly put him in "detective mode".
The bones found at the Chapel of Athanasios. Photograph: Phaidon Hadjiantoniou
"This is the first time I have ever seen bones placed under a chapel floor. I was immediately curious and got in touch with specialists including Laura. What is sure is that they wouldn't be there if these people weren't significant to the monastery."
At least seven individuals were reburied in the spot, according to Wynn-Antikas, who said that, while no skulls were found in the pit, seven jawbones, or mandibles, were present. "Secondary burials, like this one, are not easy because the bones have been moved from their original burial, so information has been lost," she noted. "But it also tells us that these people were important enough to dig up a floor in an important church and place them there. That takes a lot of effort by the living."
Why they were moved from their original resting place remains a mystery. But what was also evident was the care with which the skeletal remains had been transferred. Smaller bones that could easily have been missed or overlooked – including three ossified thyroid cartilage – were among the fragments.
Laura Antikas-Wynn and Yannis Maniatis inspect the bones. Photograph: Phaidon Hadjiantoniou
"Once we get the dating, another piece of the puzzle will have been solved," she said. "It will be crucial in giving us information about who these people were."
Wrapped in aluminium foil in hardboard boxes, the bones were transported to Greece's Demokritos research centre in Athens in the autumn. They will remain there while Dr Yannis Maniatis, Greece's foremost leader in the field of archaeological science, conducts carbon dating to determine the date of death.
Workers at the site of the chapel. Photograph: Phaidon Hadjiantoniou
The painstaking business of dating the bones involves first dissolving the inorganic parts in acid so that collagen can be extracted after which it is cleaned, combusted and converted into CO2 and then measured either as gas or graphite.
"The entire process is likely to take three months," Maniatis said. "But if we can date the bones to a time relevant to events that are both specific and known then DNA testing will become necessary to confirm whether, as seems likely, a woman is among the buried."

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neuroscienceCME - Activity Details - 2019 Management of Ulcerative Colitis: Where, When, Who, and What Now?
Dr. Rubin reports that he receives grants from Abbvie Inc.; Genentech, Inc./Roche; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Prometheus Laboratories Inc.; Shire; and Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. He is a consultant for Abbvie Inc.; AbGenomics; Allergan; Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Biomica; Genentech, Inc./Roche; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Eli Lilly and Company; Merck & Co., Inc.; Medtronic; Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pfizer Inc.; Shire; Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.; and TARGET PharmaSolutions, Inc. He receives other financial or material support as a member of the Board of Trustees: American College of Gastroenterology; the Co-Founder, CFO: Cornerstones Health, Inc. (non-profit); and as Co-Founder: GoDuRn, LLC.
Dr. Regueiro reports that he receives research support form Abbvie Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. He receives unrestricted educational grants from Abbvie Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pfizer Inc.; Salix Pharmaceuticals; Shire; Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.; and UCB, Inc. He is on the advisory boards and a consultant for Abbvie Inc.; Allergan; Amgen Inc.; Celgene Corporation; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Miraca Laboratories; Pfizer Inc.; Seres Therapeutics; Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.; and UCB, Inc.
This program is not afiliated with the Crohn's and Colitis Congress�.


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Selected Journals Image
One of several gangs of men who dug many of the drains on the Hauraki Plains.
From Swamp to Farm Land
Ohinemuri Regional History Journal 55, September 2011
One of several gangs of men who dug drains
►Images Journal 34
Accolade for a Popular Lady
Black Hill Walkway
Harvest Days at "Mt Stewart" 1918
Headmasters of Paeroa District High School 1912-1957
How Far Can a Rooster Fly
Karangahake School
Karangahake School Centennial
Kings Empire Veterans Association
Mayor's Tokotoko
Mining Relics Displayed
Morrison Family Reunion
Netherton School and District Centennial
Obituaries: Scanlan, Worth
Ohinemuri Gold Rush
Paeroa Library
Paeroa Market Day Silver Jubilee
Railway Bridge Opened
Return of Salvation Army to Paeroa
The Rise and Fall of Waihou River
The Station Master and the Bus Driver
Valedictory
Waihi's Mayoral Chain
Journal 1, June 1964
Journal 2, October 1964
Journal 3, April 1965
Journal 4, September 1965
Journal 5, May 1966
Journal 10, October 1968
Journal 11, May 1969
Journal 15, June 1971
Journal 24, July 1980
Journal 25, November 1981
Journal 27, September 1983
Ohinemuri Regional History Journals
Black Hill in Waihi has for many years challenged the youth of the town to climb from various points to reach the summit. Thanks to the efforts of Waihi Lions Club members, there is now a clearly defined track to the top.
Just six months after the Lions Club began clearing the way, the Ngatikoi Reserve Walkway was declared open by Waihi Mayor, Owen Morgan. As a member of the South Auckland Walkways Committee, Mr Morgan said that nothing gave him greater pleasure than opening a track on the town's doorstep.
He described Black Hill as one of the area's geological oddities. The andesite knoll was dubbed Black Hill because its rock was a dark colour. Unlike the gold-bearing quartz hills around it, it will not be mined. According to old maps, the hill was originally known as Motukeo.
The area at the start of the track was, in the early days of Waihi, known as Worth's Paddock and was a favourite spot for Sunday School Picnics, bands played and there was a deep pool in the Ohinemuri River which was in constant use by the young people as a swimming pool. In later years the Boy Scouts established group bases and it was also used by motor-cycles and go-carters. Now, after more than a few decades, the reserve had gone full cycle and was once again a public amenity to be enjoyed.
After homing pigeons had been released, more than 100 members of the public climbed to the summit 439 feet above and enjoyed superb views of the township on one side and the Karangahake Gorge towards the faint traces of the Hapuakohe Range on the other side of the Hauraki Plains. To the seaward side could be seen the Waihi Gold Company's tailings dam directly below and in the distance the sea, with the Bay of Plenty and East Coast ranges being clearly visible.
The walk was comparatively easy with the steepest part being just below the summit, and can be done in just over half an hour.


Bizantina's music is clearly steeped in Southern Italian roots, despite the band being based in Florence. Their latest album is a bit different, as it is the soundtrack to a theatre show. I am not sure what the show is about, but listening to the music, the show must be more of a folk musical, giving that the numbers on the CD are predominantly songs. And it appears from the little pictures on the album that the show is based on some story set in the past, with knights, kings and men fighting with long swords - and I would love to understand Italian to get the full story.
Musically, the overtoure on the album sounds very promising - instrumental folk rock based on old themes. The songs that follow vary in style between cabaret/chanson, traditional Southern Italian music and contemporary folk rock influences. The songs are all dominated by singer Michaela D'Astuto, with her somewhat high pitched, very intense and often doleful voice. The instrumentation is great, with particularly clarinet and accordion taking often centre stage, making the music atmospheric and exciting. But with that voice, it is all a bit too intense for my liking.


I finally enjoyed my "first" day of summer yesterday. School let out on the 10th…. but I haven't had a chance to just sit and veg until yesterday. It was wonderful. And, how did I spend my day? Reading a math PD book, ofcourse!
If you haven't had a chance to join us in our double book study yet, you aren't too late! You can pick up the two books by clicking the links below AND the past two weeks posts are at the end to help you catch up!
Okay, here's how it will work – each week one of the four of us will "host" a section on our blog. This week's section will be from the 5-8 book and will be hosted by Jennifer from Teaching to Inspire in 5th Just head over there, read her post, and comment with your thoughts on the section. Jennifer will lead the discussion and the other three of us will chime in and try to keep the discussion rolling! We'd LOVE to have you join us!!
Make sure to head over to Jennifer's blog today (link above and below!) or Jenn's /Meg's blog post from past weeks and chime in!


Deep And Dark And Dangerous is about a thirteen year old girl named Ali, who finds a mysterious photo of her mother and aunt as children. Another girl was once in the photo- a girl who's image has been torn out. All that's left of the girl is the letter "T" written on the back. Ali questions her mother and aunt about the identity of "T," but no one will tell her. They say they can't remember, but Ali suspects that they just don't want to remember.
Then, Ali's aunt invites her to stay at the family's cabin by the lake for the Summer. The same cabin where the mystery photo was taken. Ali jumps at the chance, despite her mother's fears. When they arrive at the cabin, things seem normal. Ali spends her time at the lake playing with her cousin Emma, and the lazy Summer days take her mind off of the girl in the photo. But then, they meet an unfriendly girl named Sissy who seems to have a frightening affect on Emma, and an irrational hatred for Ali. Ali thinks Sissy's games and teasing are getting dangerous, but Sissy may be hiding a secret that's even more dangerous, and Ali sets out to find out just what that secret is.
This book was so good! It had the makings of a perfect mystery- a hidden family secret, a mysterious stranger, and a spooky setting. I really enjoyed it. The descriptions of the lake and the cabin, and Ali's frustration at trying to uncover a family secret really drew me in. It's a great book to read on a dark and stormy night. It was full of suspense, kept me guessing until the end, and I loved it! I think anyone who likes mysteries and ghost stories would also love this book.


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Staff Valentine Book Picks
by michaeld | Feb 14, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Spoiler Alert! Love Comes From the Heart!
By Milena Kirkova
Accord Publishing, $9.99, 16 pages
This sweet children's book, Where Does Love Come From? takes our early readers on a colorful and attractive journey to discover the origins of love. Illustrator, Milena Kirkova is brilliantly gifted implementing cutout hearts on every page with bright colors, rounded shapes, and lovable funny faces that covers every season and corner of the world. The text asks many questions inspiring a young one to think about love and discover its place and its source. This is a children's book that you'll have memorized from all the readings it will bring!
Reviewed By M. Chris Johnson
By Katie Ganshert
Waterbrook, $9.99, 316 pages
There seems to be a growing trend in the world of romantic fiction; combining religion and traditional romance plots. This is the case from new author Katie Ganshert, who combines finding faith and romance into one novel. The book takes place in rural Iowa, when Bethany Quinn comes back to town from Chicago. She must attend the funeral of her beloved Grandfather. When she gets back to Chicago, her world is turned upside down after she loses her job. With nothing else she moves in with her best friend. Slowly reawakening to a long buried faith. Along the way she reconnects with her best friend from high school, and slowly falls for Evan Price. The strikingly handsome rancher, who has a past of his own. For a debut novel this is not that bad. While the minor characters are one note, and easily forgotten; the story moves along at a brisk pace. You also really get to know the main characters by the end of the book. Mrs. Ganshert skates by the pitfalls that hurt most first time authors. She is able to combine romance, and faith, into one book and makes it work.
Reviwed by Kevin Winter
By Tessa Dare
Avon, $7.99, 379 pages
Tessa Dare's A Week to be Wicked won't take you more than a week to finish. The pacing is such that it is nearly impossible to put down. You just won't want to wait to see what horrible calamity happens to the characters next. In true Odyssey form, the characters set out on a quest that seems quite achievable and are met with challenge after challenge, most of them completely absurd and absolutely hilarious. Even when Lord Payne, the main character, describes the adventures, it sounds absurd. "I'm a rather useless viscount and my companion here is a brilliant geologist. We need to get to Edinburgh by tomorrow so she can present her findings about giant lizards…" Throw in some steamy romance that Homer himself never dreamed up and you have an epically enjoyable romp indeed. Minerva Highwood and Colin Sandhurst Lord Payne are characters you can't keep yourself from liking. Their love story will give you belly laughs and satisfaction to the very last page.
Reviewed by Rachelle Barrett
By Victoria Alexander
Zebra, $7.99, 374 pages
Victoria Alexander introduces us to a new family, the Hadley-Attwaters, in the first book in her new series all about sinful secret lives. What is unique is that the story begins two years after happily-ever-after with married couple, Adrian and Evelyn, who are still very much in love. Evelyn is a smart fearless female protagonist who married her husband because she was tired of excitement and instead wanted stability. Adrian, the head of the Hadley-Attwaters, with several siblings that are sure to dominate the following books in the series, seemed to offer just what Evelyn needed. The thing about a good marriage, that this couple fails to realize, is that a spouse is more than a lover; they are also a confidante and partner. While their marriage seems perfect, even to them, it is lacking in fundamental trust. So it is no surprise that things get hairy when each of their past lives, which they have agreed never to talk about, invades their current lives. This book is not about falling in love like so many other romance novels, it is really about how to be in love. While not particularly suspenseful or steamy, My Wicked Little Lies is a charming introduction to what promises to be a complex series. And of course it contains the humor and close knit family that Alexander's fans have come to expect.


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For three decades, the work of Kathy Kolbe has transformed how we understand human performance. By identifying the conative, instinctive talents within each of us, she has provided an integrated, powerful and practical theory to improve productivity. She has provided the language necessary for the profound truths in the Kolbe Theory of Conation to be accessible and understandable.
Unlike most theorists who develop a theory and spend their lives codifying and defending it, Kathy continually questions assumptions and delves more deeply into how we do what we do. It is a living theory.
Powerful new vocabulary for the React Zone (aka Accommodating), and for the CounterAct Zone (aka Prevent).
Expanded insights and new terminology for previously called Natural Advantages – now CoActions.
Important depth and breath of new language to describe Implementor strengths – in all three Zones.
Clearer understanding of the Facilitator results as an important example of a CoAct, with a dynamic title and descriptors.
A summary of the vocabulary for The Kolbe Theory of Conation, 2015.
Those who overthink a problem rarely take enough #conative action to solve it.
"I finally understand myself (my mode of actions!), the situation I have created and the next actions I must take in order to produce the powerful team I want to help grow my business. I have been crashing into my ceiling of complexity for years, and now I understand why and what I must do next."


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package com.intellij.ide.util.frameworkSupport;

import com.intellij.facet.ui.libraries.LibraryInfo;
import com.intellij.ui.ListCellRendererWrapper;
import com.intellij.openapi.module.Module;
import com.intellij.openapi.roots.ModifiableRootModel;
import com.intellij.openapi.roots.libraries.Library;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * @author Dmitry Avdeev
*/
public class FrameworkSupportConfigurableBase extends FrameworkSupportConfigurable {
  private JComboBox myVersionComboBox;
  private final FrameworkSupportProviderBase myFrameworkSupportProvider;
  protected final FrameworkSupportModel myFrameworkSupportModel;
  private final List<FrameworkVersion> myVersions;
  private JPanel myMainPanel;
  private JLabel myDescriptionLabel;

  public FrameworkSupportConfigurableBase(FrameworkSupportProviderBase frameworkSupportProvider, FrameworkSupportModel model) {
    this(frameworkSupportProvider, model, Collections.<FrameworkVersion>emptyList(), null);
  }

  public FrameworkSupportConfigurableBase(FrameworkSupportProviderBase frameworkSupportProvider, FrameworkSupportModel model,
                                          @NotNull List<FrameworkVersion> versions, @Nullable String versionLabelText) {
    myFrameworkSupportProvider = frameworkSupportProvider;
    myFrameworkSupportModel = model;
    myVersions = versions;
    myDescriptionLabel.setText(versionLabelText);
    myVersionComboBox.setRenderer(new ListCellRendererWrapper() {
      @Override
      public void customize(JList list, Object value, int index, boolean selected, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (value instanceof FrameworkVersion) {
          setText(((FrameworkVersion)value).getVersionName());
        }
      }
    });
    updateAvailableVersions(versions);
    myVersionComboBox.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      @Override
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        fireFrameworkVersionChanged();
      }
    });
  }

  protected void updateAvailableVersions(List<? extends FrameworkVersion> versions) {
    if (versions.size() > 0) {
      String maxValue = "";
      ((DefaultComboBoxModel)myVersionComboBox.getModel()).removeAllElements();
      FrameworkVersion defaultVersion = versions.get(versions.size() - 1);
      for (FrameworkVersion version : versions) {
        myVersionComboBox.addItem(version);
        FontMetrics fontMetrics = myVersionComboBox.getFontMetrics(myVersionComboBox.getFont());
        if (fontMetrics.stringWidth(version.getVersionName()) > fontMetrics.stringWidth(maxValue)) {
          maxValue = version.getVersionName();
        }
        if (version.isDefault()) {
          defaultVersion = version;
        }
      }
      myVersionComboBox.setSelectedItem(defaultVersion);
      myVersionComboBox.setPrototypeDisplayValue(maxValue + "_");
    }

    final boolean hasMoreThanOneVersion = versions.size() >= 2;
    myDescriptionLabel.setVisible(hasMoreThanOneVersion);
    myVersionComboBox.setVisible(hasMoreThanOneVersion);
  }

  @Override
  public JComponent getComponent() {
    return myVersions.size() > 1 ? myMainPanel : null;
  }

  protected void reloadVersions(List<? extends FrameworkVersion> frameworkVersions) {
    myVersions.clear();
    for (FrameworkVersion version : frameworkVersions) {
      myVersions.add(version);
    }
  }

  @Override
  @NotNull
  public List<? extends FrameworkVersion> getVersions() {
    return myVersions;
  }

  @NotNull
  public LibraryInfo[] getLibraries() {
    return getSelectedVersion().getLibraries();
  }

  @Override
  public void addSupport(@NotNull final Module module, @NotNull final ModifiableRootModel rootModel, final @Nullable Library library) {
    myFrameworkSupportProvider.addSupport(module, rootModel, getSelectedVersion(), library);
  }

  @Override
  public FrameworkVersion getSelectedVersion() {
    return (FrameworkVersion)myVersionComboBox.getSelectedItem();
  }
}

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El Campo de Boyacá, comúnmente conocido como el Puente de Boyacá, es un monumento declarado Patrimonio Cultural de la Nación y pertenece al Distrito Histórico y Cultural de la ciudad de Tunja  en el municipio de Ventaquemada en el centro de Colombia. Está situado sobre los Andes colombianos a un lado de la Ruta Nacional 50, 8 kilómetros al suroeste de la zona urbana de la ciudad de Tunja, en un valle atravesado por el río Teatinos.

Numerosos monumentos se han erigido en los alrededores para conmemorar la histórica victoria de los independentista del 7 de agosto de 1819, conocida como batalla de Boyacá, la cual concedió la definitiva independencia a Colombia. El pequeño puente fue construido a principios del siglo XVIII y declarado como Monumento nacional de la independencia en 1920.

Esculturas y  monumentos históricos
En el sector del Puente de Boyacá se conservan los siguientes monumentos:

 El monumento a Simón Bolívar: situado en la zona sur sobre una colina, es la estatua de Bolívar con la bandera de Colombia sobre su pecho, sobre un pedestal sostenido por cinco mujeres haciendo alegoría a las cinco naciones libertadas por el prócer: Colombia, Venezuela, Perú, Ecuador y Bolivia, además teniendo en cuenta el territorio de Panamá que pertenecía al territorio colombiano. En frente se encuentra la estatua de Clio, la Musa de la Historia quien sostiene un manuscrito.

 La estatua a Francisco de Paula Santander.

 El Arco del Triunfo se encuentra al noroeste, este representa las tres principales razas de la nación en el mestizaje;

 El Obelisco Victoria de Boyacá;

 La Plaza de Banderas con la llama perpetua de la Libertad;

 Las banderas de los 123 municipios del departamento

 Monumento a Pedro Pascasio Martínez.

 Las Piedras de Barreiro ubicadas cerca a la sede de secundaria de la Institución Educativa Panamericano Puente Boyacá: en donde el coronel español José María Barreiro Manjón intentó sobornar al joven Pedro Pascasio Martínez para poder escapar del ejército patriota.

Una parte se encuentra ubicada dentro de terrenos de la Vereda La Bajita al oriente del río Tea tinos , perteneciente a la ciudad de Tunja y haciendo parte del Conjunto Monumental y Turístico de la capital boyacense.

 Al occidente del río Teatinos, pertenece a terrenos del municipio de Ventaquemada en donde se encuentra la mayoría de los monumentos, la Parroquia San Miguel Arcángel Puente de Boyacá  y la Institución Educativa Panamericano Puente de Boyacá  con sus cuatro sedes.

Centro religioso y patriótico
La  Parroquia  San Miguel Arcángel Puente de Boyacá, inaugurada el día 8 de diciembre de 1963. Donde el actual párroco es  el  padre Carlos Arturo Rodríguez, antes en este cargo, el padre Manuel Alfonso Reina Gil.

Centro educativo de carácter patriótico
En el sector está presente la Institución Educativa Panamericano Puente Boyacá con cuatro sedes:

 Sede Panamericano o Central de grados 6° a grados 11°, en el Campo de Boyacá.
 Sedes Bolivariana , Chorro Blanco y Puente Boyacá de preescolar a 5°.
 "Es destacada por su sana convivencia y su buen promedio educativo de carácter rural".

Véase también
Anexo:Monumentos nacionales de Colombia
 Lanceros del Pantano de Vargas

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Puentes de Colombia
Puentes de Colombia del siglo XIX
Lugares conmemorativos de la independencia de Colombia
Monumentos conmemorativos
Monumentos nacionales de Colombia
Monumentos de Boyacá
Batalla de Boyacá
Puentes inaugurados en 1818
Escultura en bronce

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Q: How to make a part of context to other colors in Word Cloud using R language? I have a CSV file need to use Wordcloud to show the result, but I got some problem cannot to solve.
Although I can set a single color, I cannot make specific text to other colors.
For example, I want to make "369" to other colors.
The following is my WordCloud Picture.

However, I can set only single color......
The following is my code, I can set only a single color......
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Effective renal plasma flow (eRPF) is a measure used in renal physiology to calculate renal plasma flow (RPF) and hence estimate renal function.

Because the extraction ratio of PAH is high, it has become commonplace to estimate the RPF by dividing the amount of PAH in the urine by the plasma PAH level, ignoring the level in renal venous blood. The value obtained in this way is called the effective renal plasma flow (eRPF) to indicate that the level in renal venous plasma was not measured.

The actual RPF can be calculated from eRPF as follows:

where extraction ratio is the ratio of compound entering the kidney that is excreted into the final urine.

When using a compound with an extraction ratio near 1, such as para-aminohippurate (PAH), eRPF approximates RPF. Therefore, PAH clearance can be used to estimate RPF.

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 Renal Clearance Techniques

Renal physiology


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When you learn how to work in the same way as your memory, you will be amazed at how easily and quickly your memory can lock onto new information. So when memorising scripture, create a story a narrative a video unfolding in your head. This is the best way to memorise Bible scripture. What are the best Bible verses to commit to memory?
7/16/2017 · Or play a good 'ole game of Charades with your memory verses. Bible Verse Songs to Help Kids Memorize Bible Verses. Music is an exuberant and effortless way to turn Bible memory into a game for kids! Check out these terrific word-for-word Scripture CDs. They'll put a skip in your step, a smile on your face (and God's Word in your heart).
11/1/2018 · 16 games and ideas to help memorise the Bible. Want to help your youth remember the word? Check this out. ... they've got to learn somewhere!). 16. Memory verse challenge ... and even get them to do it in groups sometimes so they can work out the memory verses together by writing down as many as they can recall on a piece of paper.
8/15/2013 · I want to be someone who loves the way Jesus loves. And I want to teach my children to do the same. We still practice our memory verses. But we also talk about the meaning of those verses and how we can apply them to our lives. Here are seven ways to help kids memorize Scripture: 1. Select one longer passage instead of many short memory verses.
My preference over the years has become key sections (say four to seven verses, like Titus 3:1–7) that I come across as I'm moving through a Bible-reading plan. It's often a section I find so densely rich that meditating on it for just a few minutes feels woefully inadequate. To enjoy more of its goodness, I need to put it to memory.
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We also are starting to learn large swaths of Scripture. The idea of reading through several times before committing to memory sounds like a great way to grease the skids. I really appreciate your suggestions of fruitful scriptures to commit to memory. Latoya Johnson Phillips May 31, 2016 at 6:01 AM. Thank you I will get started on that.
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On Capote: Writing is a Dangerous Business
On November 16th, 1959, Truman Capote read a New York Times article with only 300 words that would change his life, and American literature, forever. The article began:
A wealthy wheat farmer, his wife and their two young children were found shot to death today in their home. They had been killed by shotgun blasts at close range after being bound and gagged. The father, 48-year-old Herbert W. Clutter, was found in the basement with his son, Kenyon, 15. His wife Bonnie, 45, and a daughter, Nancy, 16, were in their beds. There were no signs of a struggle and nothing had been stolen.
It's ironic that it's on American Independence Day that I'm watching Capote, the film of how the book Capote would write transpired.
An early cover from Penguin's release of In Cold Blood.
I'm starting to realize what an important movie it is in my collection, from a million different perspectives, almost all of them to do with writing and what it means to me or what I feel it says about writing.
And in that realization, I found myself at a loss for a brief moment there, "pause" frozen on my screen, pondering what effect Truman Capote's original book, In Cold Blood, must've had on the mindset of America.
The murders themselves, of course, resonated with the country then, but I wonder who, other than Capote, realized what it meant in the adolescence of his country. These days, it would seem he was ahead of the pack in those observations.
In the five decades since the Clutter Killings, one could say we've witnessed the death of the American Dream. With a look across the cultural landscape, one can't ignore the economic strife America's battling, the crime that has redefined the geography of the land, and the loss of the Here-vs-There that once existed — the "safe"-country-versus-the-"bad"-city mentality.
Where is the America that existed before it all? Gone, like any culture any other place in the world — a victim of modernity and technology?
About In Cold Blood, Wikipedia says:
The book examines the complex psychological relationship between two parolees, who together commit a mass murder, an act they were not capable of individually. Capote's book also explores the lives of the victims and the effect of the crime on the community where they lived. In Cold Blood is regarded by critics as a pioneering work of the true crime genre.
It's safe to say that In Cold Blood was one of the first mass killings in which the rest of the country had to say, "My god, if it could happen to them, it could happen to us."
With that came fear, a fear that's forever stained the fabric of America.
Anyone who's paid attention to USA's politics since 2001 knows just how destructive it can be to adapt to life under a regime of fear.
Well, by 1960, America had inklings of what "fear" was. It was the time of McCarthy and the Cold War, and a decade-plus of post-Holocaust reality that, out there, Evil existed.
And now, with the handiwork of killers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, the fear lived at home, too.
Capote's true-crime masterwork is a book widely accepted to be a jumping-off point for what fine literature was able to do to real-life on the pages.* In it, a real and tangible look was given into the headspace of these killers — one of whom had very much the same sort of horrible childhood of abandonment and abuse as Capote, offering this brilliant author the opportunity to internally juxtapose the life he'd been able to create for himself despite his tragic beginnings, versus the horror Smith wreaked upon others as a result of his own.
And that, friends, is often what brilliant writing is — the seeking of truth in everything, and the ability to own it within yourself. The inability to do the latter in a lasting way, however, can be devastating to a writer, and Capote's decline should be a warning to all writers.
Reading In Cold Blood was a defining point in my life as a writer/reader. True life's tragedies could be rendered in beautiful language that conveyed so much more than just photographic evidence of its horrors.
I doubt it was Capote's work alone that stirred a new consciousness of the possibility of Evil Within amongst Americans — much of society was headed in that direction at the time, powered by media and politicans.
But Capote did what I love that good writers can do: Through a seemingly miniscule event, he correctly understood the quickening pulse of his country, and that this event — a seemingly small rural tragedy, buried a few pages into the newspaper on his morning read — was something that spoke of a world to come, of changes that loomed in his country's previously untouchable heartland.
As much as this film makes me want to be a writer, it terrifies me — the price it suggests one would pay for being great seems far too high.
Capote, I feel, was destroyed by his subject (and himself).
A young Truman Capote by Irving Penn.
With his book's success bound to his subject's journey to the electric chair, and his need to understand the parallels in their lives, Truman Capote slipped into depression and guilt. He almost certainly was traumatized by the reality that he knew Smith's execution was necessary for his book to be the brilliance it could be.
Deep down inside, I'm sure Capote realized having Smith living would contradict the "truths" the writer would write in the book, that it might be dangerous to his masterwork's longevity. No one wants to think like that, but I guarantee you the thought would occur to any intelligent writer. What if…
Today, speculation does exist that Capote fictionalized entire passages of what was boasted to be true in every word. Evidence of the fictionalizing has been hard to come by.
Having that "what if" of execution work out in your favour — guaranteeing the "truthfulness" of what would be your masterwork — standing there to bear witness as the noose snaps the neck of the man who is all that's wedged between you and literary immortality, that must induce some pretty horrific guilt-laden realities for a writer.
In the end, it took him 4 years to write the book, and 18 years to drink himself to death before his 60th birthday in 1984.
The book came out in '65, and Capote became somewhat a mockery of himself within the next seven years. He would never again write anything considered "great" and, by 1978, was comfortably threatening suicide on national television, the punchline of many a joke.
I believe, ultimately, that his willingness to go as far as he could to write about those murders and to draw parallels between his life and the life of Perry Smith is what drove him into his alcoholic haze that choked the greatness from him.
Writing is a dangerous business.
The choices we make of holes to dig and skeletons to reveal, they define who we writers are in that moment and who we'll become down the line. Writers must accept that these words they trifle with hold powers they maybe don't expect, and the journeys taken to weave words can burrow deep into a writer.
Some opened doors will never be closed.
Capote couldn't close his, so he drank to numb the opened doors away.
One could say he should have truly dived into the abandonment he felt as a child — that he was only comfortable peeling away the truths about others but terrified what doing so might reveal of him.
After all, he was an openly gay Southern man when being gay still meant being "one of them". He was an outsider, born poor, spent a lonely childhood never belonging anywhere, and found his solace in writing.
When he stopped pushing envelopes and didn't publish anything of significance beyond In Cold Blood, I would suspect he lost that solace and instead felt as though he had betrayed some part of who he was.
Not having been true in life and now not on the page, I'm certain Capote probably felt like a fraud and found himself seeing life through the eyes of Perry Smith, believing he could never really belong where he socially was perceived to be.
In my lowly opinion, the greatest, most tragic men in "big" American literature in the last 100 years were Hemingway, Capote, and Hunter S. Thompson.**
Each searched for an ideal, a life they felt obliged to enjoy or a dream they held about Their America and what the modern world could be. Each never found what they sought. Each engineered his own demise.
Ironically, though, Capote did achieve what he sought — the execution of a man he fell in love with after identifying with everything that made Smith the monster America believed him to be, a monster Capote possibly wondered if he himself had inside — and it gave him the book he dreamed he could write, solidified his placed as a master of American English literature, and it is, one could argue, that achievement (and guilt for it) which destroyed him.
*Some would argue too that Capote's take on the killings romanticized and even justified the murders from a sociological point of view, and that the "literary" non-fiction approach may have led to the erosion of facts and journalistic irresponsibility. These aren't entirely wrong, nor right.
**Without getting into a lengthy debate with hugely relevant but lesser-knowns like David Foster Wallace & John Kennedy Toole. Just of the "big scene" American writers.
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My Culture of Disconnect
I don't want to read the news today.
Or have conversations of consequence with friends.
Or watch TV or movies that require braincells.
I sure as hell don't want to read.
I want to drift away and disconnect. Be anywhere but here.
Heavy shit's coming down, again. Dad's lined up for serious surgery three provinces away. For anyone else, it'd be a major-but-fine surgery. For him, much risk comes with.
I mean, hey, cancer, diabetes, heart disease — which one do you think offers the best chance of surgical complications?
Sometimes, there's only so much space you've got for matters outside the personal realm. Sometimes, thinking about things in the world just gets overwhelming in the face of the struggles you're wading through on a daily basis.
I don't think I'm at that point. Not about this. I've been to the sick-dad rodeo one time too many. Sad as I am, weary as I am, I'm pretty much prepared for whatever comes.
I fucking hate that I feel that way. But I do. There's only so many times you can stand peering over the edge and be terrified.
Sooner or later, you just get to knowing what it's like, and the fear's there, but it's a fear you've metabolized now.
Sort of where I am with Dad. I've metabolized my terror. Don't tell my shaking leg or queasy stomach that, but it's true. I'm a pretty passionate girl. This is Stress-For-a-Loved-One Lite™.
Part of that is just me being older, wiser, more worn, jaded, and exposed. I done been around, man. Heart's been broken more times than I need to count from life and its woes. That's just my experience on planet earth.
It takes a lot to break me down, now. I take body blows like a heavyweight champ. With that shock-absorbing tendency comes the ability to not react much anymore.
As an example, the other day, this dude keeps cracking his little one liners at a pub. Eventually he's all flustered because I'm not laughing at his jokes.
Well, I don't laugh easily. I'm funny as hell, man, but making me laugh takes something unexpected or just flat-out smart. I'm a student of comedy. I've heard it ALL. I smile, or grin. Now and then? A full-on laugh.
But just because I don't "react" doesn't mean I'm not dialed in. I'm removed, but I'm listening. I'm probably thinking why your joke failed, where you went wrong with timing, or where I've heard a variation of it before, but, you know, I'm listening.
And we're all sort of doing that these days. Most of us, anyhow. Dialed in but not. Listening but disconnected.
We're sponges. Taking from society but never giving back. Surfacing.
My life of the last decade has been much like that.
One day, I stopped reading my three or so newspapers daily. Eventually, I fell away from reading books.
What came first, the head injury or my apathy? I don't know, I don't even remember anymore.
Things have changed.
Apathy isn't enough. It's not a meal that's filling. Its price is too high. All the things it's cost me, man…
I feel like a spectator in the intellectual world, and I'm more than that. I'm a smart woman with a unique world-view. I can't just watch and not contribute.
To be a part of it requires I be of it, that I be immersed in it, be surrounded by it.
So, somewhere inside, I feel like the joke has been on me.
Sure, I've survived everything I've been through. But for what?
I fell out of touch and love with music. I stopped being clued into the political, cultural, and societal happenings, something I'd been very much in tune with since I had my first newspaper addiction at the age of 9. I stopped seeing movies. I mean, I'm the kind of girl who plans the music in advance for roadtrips — what works with what stretches of highway, what tracks tie into what scenery.
Or, I used to be.
What's the fucking point in surviving if you're not gonna thrive as who you are, right?
It's what happens to a lot of us, I guess. I've got pretty good excuses, but they're still just excuses, and I still feel like a cop-out.
It's like the themes explored in Fight Club and American Beauty, the disappearing of identity and the cover-up of disconnect by way of commercialism and cluelessness.
We think we're growing up as we fall away from our youthful passions of music and movies, politics and society, growing jaded and distant.
We're not. We're not "growing up". We're losing our leisure, thus losing our souls, as Virginia Woolf once wrote.
I want the happy medium between my savvy survivalist self, and the jazzed-up involved youth I was.
Some people I know still balance these things well, and maybe if life hadn't gotten in the way, I might be the poster-girl for being a plugged-in hipster, too.
But I'm not.
I'm a part of the problem. I've joined the throngs of the Great Ignoring.
It's not cool. It's selfish. It's not helping.
The disconnect isn't working anymore. Not for me. Not for you. Sure as shit not for society.
It's not really about "movies" and "music" and "news".
It's our soul as a society. Who are we if we're just a bubble-gum-chewing collective dying to swallow the next reality show?
Art, culture, it was my soul, it was who I am. At my core, I'm an invested, impassioned, intelligent person, and living any way but that is antithetical to who I need to be.
My father's disconnect has him at 350 pounds, with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, while awaiting major surgery. I'm pretty sure "disconnect" is not working for him, either.
I imagine my father would approve of my learning this lesson this week. I'm hoping he survives the week so we can have a talk about that.
Either way, it's time I suck a little more cultural marrow out of life, because what I got ain't sustaining much.
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from __future__ import unicode_literals

"""
OdhQL string functions
"""

import pandas as pd
from defusedxml import lxml
import types

from hub.odhql.functions.core import VectorizedFunction, OdhQLExecutionException
from hub.structures.frame import OdhType

class Concat(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Konkateniert eine Liste von TEXT-Spalten oder Werten.

    Parameter
        - `args`: Liste von TEXT-Spalten oder -Werten

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            CONCAT(ODH5.given_name, ' ', ODH5.surname) AS name
    """
    name = 'CONCAT'

    def apply(self, a, b, *args):
        args = [self.expand(arg) for arg in [a, b] + list(args)]
        for arg in args:
            self.assert_str('string', arg)
        return args[0].str.cat(args[1:])

class Trim(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Entfernt White Space vom Beginn und Ende der Spalte oder des Wertes.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            TRIM(ODH7.strasse) AS strasse
    """
    name = 'TRIM'

    def apply(self, strings):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        return strings.str.strip()

class RTrim(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Entfernt White Space vom Ende der Spalte oder des Wertes.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            RTRIM(ODH7.strasse) AS strasse
    """
    name = 'RTRIM'

    def apply(self, strings):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        return strings.str.rstrip()

class LTrim(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Entfernt White Space vom Beginn der Spalte oder des Wertes.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            LTRIM(ODH7.strasse) AS strasse
    """
    name = 'LTRIM'

    def apply(self, strings):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        return strings.str.lstrip()

class Upper(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Konvertiert alle Buchstaben in Grossbuchstaben.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            UPPER(ODH7.ort) AS ort
    """
    name = 'UPPER'

    def apply(self, strings):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        return strings.str.upper()

class Lower(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Konvertiert alle Buchstaben in Kleinbuchstaben.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            LOWER(ODH7.ort) AS ort
    """
    name = 'LOWER'

    def apply(self, strings):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        return strings.str.lower()

class Length(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Liefert die Länge des TEXTs.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            LEN(ODH7.description) AS description_length
    """
    name = 'LEN'

    def apply(self, strings):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        return strings.str.len()

class Extract(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Wendet einen Regulären Ausdruck (Regex) auf die angegebene Spalte oder den Wert an und liefert das Resultat
    der angegebenen Gruppe zurück.

    Da Backslashes ('\')

    Parameter
        - `strings`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert
        - `pattern`: Regulärer Ausdruck. Siehe Regex-Dokumentation_.
        - `group`: Optional. Gruppe, welche ausgewertet werden soll. Default: 1.

        .. _Regex-Dokumentation: https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            EXTRACT(t.text, '\\|([^|\\.]+)') AS title
    """
    name = 'EXTRACT'

    def apply(self, strings, pattern, group=1):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)

        self.assert_regex('pattern', pattern)
        self.assert_value('pattern', pattern)

        self.assert_int('group', group)
        self.assert_value('group', group)

        if group < 1:
            raise OdhQLExecutionException('Invalid parameter: group can not be smaller than 1')

        try:
            res = strings.str.extract(pattern)

            if isinstance(res, pd.Series) and group > 1:
                raise OdhQLExecutionException('Error in regular expression: Only 1 group')
            elif isinstance(res, pd.DataFrame):
                if group > len(res.columns):
                    raise OdhQLExecutionException('Error in regular expression: '
                                                  'Requested group {} > {} groups returned'
                                                  .format(group, len(res.columns)))

                res = res[group - 1]

            return res
        except ValueError as e:
            raise OdhQLExecutionException(e.message)

class StartsWith(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Prüft ob ein Text mit einer angegebenen Zeichenkette anfängt.

    Kann als Bedingung verwendet werden.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert
        - `start`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            STARTSWITH(ODH7.ort, 'Zürich') AS in_zurich
    """
    name = 'STARTSWITH'

    def apply(self, strings, start):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        self.assert_str('start', start)
        return strings.str.startswith(start)

class EndsWith(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Prüft ob ein Text mit einer angegebenen Zeichenkette endet.

    Kann als Bedingung verwendet werden.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert
        - `end`: TEXT-Spalte oder -Wert

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            ENDSWITH(ODH9.haltestelle, 'Flughafen') AS ist_flughafen
    """
    name = 'ENDSWITH'

    def apply(self, strings, end):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        self.assert_str('end', end)
        return strings.str.endswith(end)

class Get(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Liefert das Zeichen an der angegebenen Stelle im Text (0-basiert).

    Parameter
        - `strings`: Spalte oder -Wert
        - `index`: Spalte oder Wert.

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            GET(ODH12.country, 1) AS c
    """
    name = 'GET'

    def apply(self, strings, index):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        self.assert_int('index', index)
        return strings.str.get(index)

class Contains(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Prüft ob eine Zeichenkette in einem Text enthalten ist.

    Kann als Bedingung verwendet werden.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: Spalte oder Wert in welchem gesucht werden soll
        - `pattern`: Spalte oder Wert welcher gesucht werden soll
        - `match_case`: Optional. Gibt an ob Gross- und Kleinschreibung beachtet werden soll. Default: True.

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            CONTAINS(ODH9.haltestelle, 'Hauptbahnhof') AS ist_hb
    """
    name = 'CONTAINS'

    def apply(self, strings, pattern, match_case=True):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)

        self.assert_regex('pattern', pattern)
        self.assert_value('pattern', pattern)

        self.assert_bool('match_case', match_case)
        return strings.str.contains(pattern, match_case)

class Replace(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Ersetzt die angegebene Zeichenkette im Text.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: Spalte oder -Wert in welchem gesucht werden soll
        - `pattern`: Spalte oder -Wert welcher gesucht werden soll
        - `replace`: Ersatz-Spalte oder -Wert
        - `match_case`: Optional. Gibt an ob Gross- und Kleinschreibung beachtet werden soll. Default: True.

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            REPLACE(ODH12.strasse, 'str.', 'strasse') AS strasse
    """
    name = 'REPLACE'

    def apply(self, strings, pattern, replace, match_case=True):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)

        self.assert_regex('pattern', pattern)
        self.assert_value('pattern', pattern)

        self.assert_str('replace', replace)
        self.assert_bool('match_case', match_case)
        return strings.str.replace(pattern, replace, case=match_case)

class Repeat(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Wiederholt die Zeichenkette eine bestimme Anzahl mal.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: Spalte oder Wert welcher wiederholt werden solle
        - `times`: Anzahl Wiederholungen

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            REPEAT('Lorem ipsum dolor... ', 20) AS filler
    """
    name = 'REPEAT'

    def apply(self, strings, times):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        self.assert_int('times', times)
        return strings.str.repeat(times)

class Pad(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Füllt die Zeichenkette auf die angegebene Länge mit Leerzeichen auf.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: Spalte oder Wert
        - `width`: Gewünschte Länge
        - `side`: Seite. Kann 'left', 'right' oder 'both' sein.

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

            PAD(ODH4.name, 20, 'right') AS name
    """
    name = 'PAD'

    def apply(self, strings, width, side):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        self.assert_in('side', side, ['left', 'right', 'both'])
        self.assert_int('width', width)
        return strings.str.pad(width, side)

class Count(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Zählt die Anzahl Vorkommnisse des Musters im Text.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: Spalte oder Wert
        - `pattern`: Regulárer Ausdruck. Siehe Regex-Dokumentation_.

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

         COUNT(ODH30.description, '\\d') AS numbers
    """
    name = 'COUNT'

    def apply(self, strings, pattern):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)
        self.assert_regex('pattern', pattern)
        self.assert_value('pattern', pattern)

        return strings.str.count(pattern)

class Substring(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Liefert den angegebenen Teil des Texts.

    Parameter
        - `strings`: Spalte oder Wert
        - `start`: Startposition (startet bei 1)
        - `length`: Gewünschte Länge. Ohne Längenangabe wird der Rest des Texts zurückgegeben.

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

         SUBSTRING(ODH30.description, 1, 100) AS title
    """
    name = 'SUBSTRING'

    def apply(self, strings, start, length=None):
        self.assert_str('string', strings)

        self.assert_int('start', start)
        self.assert_value('start', start)

        if length:
            self.assert_int('length', length)
            self.assert_value('length', length)

        if start < 1:
            raise OdhQLExecutionException('Invalid start position: Must be at least 1')
        if length < 1:
            raise OdhQLExecutionException('Invalid length: Must be at least 1')

        return strings.str.slice(start - 1, start - 1 + length if length else None)

class ToChar(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Konvertiert eine Spalte oder einen Werte zu TEXT. Für DATETIME-Spalten/Werte kann ein Format angegeben werden.

    Parameter
        - `values`: Spalte oder Wert
        - `format`: Falls `values` vom Typ DATETIME ist. Siehe
          `Dokumentation <https://docs.python.org/2/library/time.html#time.strftime>`_.

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

         TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(ODH30.baubeginn, '%d%m%Y'), '%Y-%m-%d') AS baubeginn
    """
    name = 'TO_CHAR'

    def apply(self, values, format=None):
        with self.errorhandler('Unable to convert to string ({exception})'):
            if values.odh_type == OdhType.DATETIME:
                self.assert_str('format', format)
                return values.apply(lambda d: d.strftime(format))
            else:
                return OdhType.TEXT.convert(self.expand(values))

class XPath(VectorizedFunction):
    """
    Wendet den XPath-Ausdruck auf die Spalte oder den Wert an.

    Parameter
        - `values`: Spalte oder Wert mit gültigem XML in TEXT-Form.
        - `path`: XPath-Ausdruck. Zu beachten: Der Ausdruck darf genau ein Resultat pro Zeile in `values` liefern.

    Beispiel
        .. code:: sql

         XPATH(t.description, '//tr[1]/td[2]/text()') AS abschnitt
    """
    name = 'XPATH'

    def apply(self, values, path):
        self.assert_str('values', values)
        self.assert_str('path', path)
        self.assert_value('path', path)
        return values.apply(self._extract(path))

    def _extract(self, path):
        def extractor(v):
            res = lxml.fromstring(v).xpath(path)

            if isinstance(res, types.ListType):
                if len(res) == 0:
                    return None
                if len(res) > 1:
                    raise OdhQLExecutionException('Error in xpath expression: Result must be a scalar')

                res = res[0]

            if isinstance(res, basestring):
                return unicode(res)

            return res

        return extractor


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Posted on March 2, 2018	by Derek Felix
Imagine living a dream as reality. That's exactly what Stan Fischler has accomplished. Known as "The Hockey Maven," Fischler has covered the sport since he worked for the Rangers in 1952. A inspiration to many including this writer who was one of those lucky kids who interned for him, he has done everything.
With the announcement that he'll be retiring his microphone after more than four decades, I can only reflect back on what this man means to me and over 20,000 who interned for him at Fischler Hockey in Upper Harlem. He is a proud and dedicated person who's always brought tremendous dedication, pizazz, pride and professionalism to each MSG broadcast.
Whether it's been broadcasting the Islanders at the start or bringing his unique combination of humor and wisdom to the many Islanders and Devils telecasts on first Sports Channel and then later Fox Sports New York before becoming MSG or MSG-Plus, he's always brought his A Game.
It hasn't mattered which team he covered. Though more synonymous with the Devils and Islanders, Fischler had his share of Ranger games too. The thing about Stan The Man is he always has that schtick which works so well when you're watching him. I think having the chance to see him up close when I was driving out to South Mountain at the old Devils practice facility in West Orange and later the former home of the Devs at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, was that I learned not to take everything he said literally.
That's the misconception of Stan. My close friends didn't fully understand who the man was. Heck. I didn't either until I made the phone call that changed my life when I was fresh out of school with a Bachelor's Degree in Sports Management looking to break into the industry.
Being from Staten Island living on the South Shore, I made the long drive to Fischler's apartment up on 110th street off the West Side Highway each morning during the week. Of course, I learned to use the Lincoln Tunnel and take the West Side all the way down before exiting and driving up several streets before making that right turn. Then it became about finding a spot which like my father, I became good at.
The first time I was buzzed up into Stan's building, I can remember walking into this hockey cathedral that also included plenty on the New York City Subway being wowed. It was like being in a mini museum devoted to Fischler's favorite two pastimes. Hockey and trains. A unique combo that also appealed to me. There was a time when I was a teenager that I used to go on subway trips around the city with close pal Ivan. We would embark on our long journey taking the S74 bus in Staten Island all the way to the Ferry before catching the local 1 or 9 train. In many ways, I could relate to Stan.
Even though I've driven a car since I got my license as a senior in high school at 17, buses, the Staten Island Ferry and trains have always appealed to me. On one old job in Jersey City working for Sports Ticker, I would drive into Bayonne and catch the light rail at 34th Street station and take it to work. I usually did a lot of reading always bringing fun novels I enjoyed. Something I need to get back to.
If you've ever interned for Stan, you know what I'm talking about. That apartment was like a library. He's published so many books on hockey and the subway that it was truly mesmerizing. It's amazing he and wife Shirley could fit all that and a computer in that place. But they managed just fine. It was amazing. I contributed my observations to The Fischler Report and helped write some bios on a Red Wings book. I still have some old print outs from 17 years ago on Igor Larionov, Darren McCarty and a few others that I saved. I guess you could call me a hoarder too. My old work is priceless.
Thanks to this man, I worked as a production assistant on Devils home games during the '00-01 season. What a experience that was. Even though I bled Ranger blue, I got to see how much preparation and work went into their telecasts. Seeing director Roland Dratch and producer Larry Gaines in the truck or at production meetings was always fun. There was so much to learn from pros including legendary Hall of Fame play by play man Doc Emrick and old sidekick Glenn "Chico" Resch. I'm glad Chico is back on the radio side with Matt Loughlin.
My favorite part of those meetings had to be at the start when Stan would tell a joke which would crack everyone up to lighten the mood. Sitting in, I got to see them go through the rundown on the pregame and game, etc. There's one thing you learn right away. In TV or radio, every second counts. One screw up and things can get pretty hairy.
Even though I was a runner bringing old game tapes or highlights to Gaines for pieces or even being the Good Samaritan and doing coffee or lunch runs if there was time, I took my job seriously. During third periods, they would have me log timecodes of highlights for a melt. I don't mean the kind that has to do with food. If you learn the business, it refers to reels they use for future reference.
The fun thing was I got to see morning skates at times and peak in on players from both teams headed into their locker rooms while also studying the hockey stats they provided us. Once, it came in handy. In a game between the Devils and Thrashers, I noticed that both teams were at the top in hat tricks. Something I pointed out to Resch. It came to my surprise that they used it during the third period. As I was logging highlights, it was Chico who mentioned my name on air. What a cool moment. I thanked him afterwards before making the trip home on I-95 to Exit 13 and the Goethals Bridge and then the West Shore Expressway.
Seeing such a great hockey team had its benefits. The Devils were defending champs featuring Hall of Famers Martin Brodeur, Scott Niedermayer and Scott Stevens. They had Mr. Devil, Ken Daneyko who now works as the color analyst on TV with Steve Cangialosi. There was Patrik Elias. The all-time franchise scoring leader as part of the famed A Line with Jason Arnott and Petr Sykora. Elias' Game 7 winner with over two minutes left to beat the Flyers in the Conference Finals and his brilliant backhand feed for Arnott's memorable Cup winner to beat the Stars are highlights that they showed during his jersey retirement in a great night last Saturday that blogger Hasan witnessed. Maybe one day Elias will join the other greats in Toronto.
What I admired most was how professional the players were after games. I got to go into the room sometimes and see them do interviews. That included the legendary Brodeur who would go on to win the most games and record the most shutouts in NHL history. I could go on about how special a group that was. Ultimately, they would lose a crushing seven-game series to the Avalanche in June 2001. A series they should've won.
For me personally, I owe so much to Fischler. It was also under him that I made a contact and landed a interview with ESPN for a job as a NHL hockey researcher on their telecasts. You know. Back then, they still cared about hockey. I was there from March through May 2001 and then moved to Bristol, Connecticut on New Year's Eve for the rest of the '01-02 season.
None of it would've been possible without Stan. I have done some good things in sports. Even though I didn't wind up staying with ESPN after just missing out on a Sportscenter Researcher for a permanent position, I had a great experience and time contributing stats paks for graphics that were built or referenced by production talent during games on ESPN and ABC. I also got to work as a WNBA researcher which I had no experience prior but did a great job and enjoyed my summer so much. I even got to come home to MSG for the WNBA Finals which the New York Liberty lost to the Los Angeles Sparks in 2002.
It really was memorable. Though some of it cannot be told following the game. 😂
I went onto blogging. Something I was familiar with due to my unique writing skills. Even though I never fully got back into sports professionally, I still am here contributing pieces like this that inform so many of my time.
Why didn't I go for it? To quote favorite baseball movie character Roy Hobbs played expertly by Robert Redford in The Natural, "I sorta got sidetracked."
Sometimes, there are more important things going on at home. I'll leave it at that. I'm a family oriented guy who was raised right by two caring and wonderful parents with a younger brother who needed me. That will never change.
So now, I embark on subbing in my first year working for the Department of Education bringing all my experiences with me. I like helping others. So, it's perfect.
That was always Stan. He helped so many into career paths. If you know him, then you are appreciative of what he did for you. Now, he'll wrap up a brilliant Hall of Fame career with the remaining games he is on with the Islanders and Devils if he gets any playoffs. Though they're well covered with Deb Placey and Bryce Salvador.
I'm only going to say this once. Not to take away from the job they've done during intermission segments. I will always love Matt and The Maven. Two of a kind.
Thank you to Stan for being real and critical when it was needed. All the best to you, your family and grandchildren.
A true legend.
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3 Responses to Stan The Man
People bag on him a lot for whatever reasons but I'll miss the old curmudgeon when he's gone. He had personality and knew his stuff. Never seemed like he aged a day from the mid '90's, of course he looked old then hehe
Lol and don't forget the Fishsticks logo Jersey. He even commented on it in a Worst Jersey's segment.
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The headline sponsor of the Washington Redskins, Fedex, has called on the American football team to change its controversial name.
The Washington DC-based team has faced repeated calls to change its name, which is considered offensive to Native Americans.
After pressure from investors, FedEx on Thursday added its voice to the calls.
"We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name," it said in a statement.
At the turn of the millennium, FedEx paid $205m (£165m) for the naming rights to the Redskins' 82,000-seat stadium in Maryland. The deal expires in 2025.
But that is not the delivery giant's only tie to the team. The boss and founder of FedEx, Frederick Smith also owns a minority stake in the Redskins.
The team has come under sustained pressure to change its name for decades.
Image caption Native Americans and supporters protesting against Redskins' name and logo
Six years ago FedEx shareholders voted to allow the Redskins to keep its name after the shipping giant received a complaint from the Wisconsin-based Oneida Indian tribe.
But as firms assess their stance on issues around race, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, FedEx has now called for the team to rebrand.
Last week, 87 investment firms and shareholders wrote to FedEx, along with fellow Redskins' sponsors Nike and PepsiCo, calling on the firms to sever ties with the Redskins, according to AdWeek.
"'Redskins' remains a de-humanising word characterizing people by skincolour and a racial slur with hateful connotations," the letter written to PepsiCo said.
As of Thursday, Nike's website did not display any Redskins merchandise. The Washington-based team was the only one of the 32 NFL teams no longer listed in the site's index. Nike did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In the past, the team's owner Dan Snyder has remained steadfast on keeping the name, calling it a "badge of honour".
The team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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