Media are instruments for public informing, i.e. communication of any type, such as newspapers, magazines, radio and TV programs, teletext and other instruments for publishing editorially shaped content in written form, sound or picture, daily or periodically, in order to inform and satisfy the cultural, educational and other needs of the broader public. Media are not newsletters, catalogs or other publication forms, irrespective of the publishing instrument, intended solely for advertising in the education system or for business correspondence, the work of companies, facilities, associations, political parties, state and judicial bodies, public enterprises, legal entities with public authorizations and religious organizations.
This means that when one information is published identically as a certain political party has enunciated it (i.e. the entire content is a transmittal of a certain political party's publication, especially when such content advertises what the political party or some state body managed by the same political party has done), when questions related to the content of such publication are not asked, when the critical reassessment of what has been enunciated is absent (opposition of various opinions and arguments), it is most likely a matter of a situation in which the medium, as an informing instrument, has become a newsletter of a certain political party.
With each of these articles, the specific medium accepted the role of an advertiser of the messages of one political party, and instead of informing the public, it has turned into that party's megaphone.
What the aforementioned articles lack in order to become information instead of party reporting?
First, they lack questions regarding basic data offered in the articles. For instance: what's the basis for projecting the number of possible employments and the time period related to this projection? What's the background of every investor? Was there another way of restarting the old facilities or opening new, except giving them to a foreign investor?
Second, they lack questions related to the conditions under which the agreement has been concluded with the Macedonian Government. For instance: whether the state will participate in these investments (as in many others before) with stakes in the form of exemption from paying social and health insurance of workers? How are the obligations toward the workers (employees) and the state defined and what are the sanctions if the agreed is violated?
Third, they lack analysis on these new investments put in the context of the past investments and comparison with the past, identically announced investments.
Fourth, they lack analysis on the effects (short-term and middle-term) of the previous investments on the Macedonian economy and the employment level in the Republic of Macedonia and the negative experience and the ways these new investments will address them and dodge the familiar problems related to foreign investments.
Fifth, they lack elementary verification of the given data and putting the data entirely in context with the statement.
"In the discussion "160.000 new vacancies", the director of the Directorate for TIDZ, Viktor Mizo, emphasized that the foreign investments had an impact on the unemployment decrease.
The unemployment decrease from 38 to 24 percent is extremely important, Mizo emphasized and added that the unemployment decrease will be followed by salaries increase.
As he pointed out, the foreign companies have created 17.000 vacancies, and this number is expected to rise to 18.000 by the end of the year".
Nobody disputes the need and the possibility of the political parties to have their own public bulletins through which they will publish their own programmes, represent themselves in front of the citizens and propagate their activities. However, the citizens must not be deceived that they receive information, while, in fact they receive propaganda message.
Nobody disputes the factual situation, that certain media are closer to one or another political option. However, there are minimal standards that have to be met so one article can be accepted as an information, not as a propaganda message. In absence of minimal standards, it is a matter of conscious misinforming of citizens.
Citizen's confusion is "concreted" due to the fact that plenty of those megaphones are registered as "media", and what's more, with the so called "national broadcast licenses". On the other hand, the real media and journalists refer to these party megaphones as "media", albeit they are or they should have been, on the basis of Article 2, Paragraph 2 from the Law on Media, aware that it is a matter of propaganda centers. And they don't have to hesitate to address things in compliance with the factual situations. Or, as a response to the attacks of the party megaphones – and to degrade themselves to that level.


Mauricio "Shogun" Rua is an absolute icon in mixed martial arts. Ovince Saint Preux (pictured) made the 32-year-old look absolutely silly on Saturday at UFC Fight Night 56.
It took OSP all of 34 seconds to destroy the Brazilian in front of his hometown faithful.
Shogun has now lost four of his last five, including two straight inside the octagon.
Saint Preux, meanwhile, rebounded from August's lopsided defeat to Ryan Bader nicely and will likely shoot up the 205-pound rankings with this victory.
UFC Fight Night 56 took place inside Ginasio Municipal Tancredo Neves in Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.


For other uses, see Fax (disambiguation).
Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier), which processes the contents (text or images) as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap, and then transmitting it through the telephone system in the form of audio-frequency tones. The receiving fax machine interprets the tones and reconstructs the image, printing a paper copy. Early systems used direct conversions of image darkness to audio tone in a continuous or analog manner. Since the 1980s, most machines modulate the transmitted audio frequencies using a digital representation of the page which is compressed to quickly transmit areas which are all-white or all-black.
Scottish inventor Alexander Bain worked on chemical mechanical fax type devices and in 1846 was able to reproduce graphic signs in laboratory experiments. He received British patent 9745 on May 27, 1843 for his "Electric Printing Telegraph".
Frederick Bakewell made several improvements on Bain's design and demonstrated a telefax machine. The Pantelegraph was invented by the Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli. He introduced the first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon in 1865, some 11 years before the invention of the telephone.
In 1880, English inventor Shelford Bidwell constructed the scanning phototelegraph that was the first telefax machine to scan any two-dimensional original, not requiring manual plotting or drawing. Around 1900, German physicist Arthur Korn invented the Bildtelegraph, widespread in continental Europe especially, since a widely noticed transmission of a wanted-person photograph from Paris to London in 1908, used until the wider distribution of the radiofax. Its main competitors were the Bélinographe by Édouard Belin first, then since the 1930s the Hellschreiber, invented in 1929 by German inventor Rudolf Hell, a pioneer in mechanical image scanning and transmission.
The 1888 invention of the telautograph by Elisha Gray marked a further development in fax technology, allowing users to send signatures over long distances, thus allowing the verification of identification or ownership over long distances.
On May 19, 1924, scientists of the AT&T Corporation "by a new process of transmitting pictures by electricity" sent 15 photographs by telephone from Cleveland to New York City, such photos suitable for newspaper reproduction. Previously, photographs had been sent over the radio using this process.
The Western Union "Deskfax" fax machine, announced in 1948, was a compact machine that fit comfortably on a desktop, using special spark printer paper.
As a designer for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in 1924, Richard H. Ranger invented the wireless photoradiogram, or transoceanic radio facsimile, the forerunner of today's "fax" machines. A photograph of President Calvin Coolidge sent from New York to London on November 29, 1924, became the first photo picture reproduced by transoceanic radio facsimile. Commercial use of Ranger's product began two years later. Also in 1924, Herbert E. Ives of AT&T transmitted and reconstructed the first color facsimile, a natural-color photograph of silent film star Rudolph Valentino in period costume, using red, green and blue color separations.
Beginning in the late 1930s, the Finch Facsimile system was used to transmit a "radio newspaper" to private homes via commercial AM radio stations and ordinary radio receivers equipped with Finch's printer, which used thermal paper. Sensing a new and potentially golden opportunity, competitors soon entered the field, but the printer and special paper were expensive luxuries, AM radio transmission was very slow and vulnerable to static, and the newspaper was too small. After more than ten years of repeated attempts by Finch and others to establish such a service as a viable business, the public, apparently quite content with its cheaper and much more substantial home-delivered daily newspapers, and with conventional spoken radio bulletins to provide any "hot" news, still showed only a passing curiosity about the new medium.
By the late 1940s, radiofax receivers were sufficiently miniaturized to be fitted beneath the dashboard of Western Union's "Telecar" telegram delivery vehicles.
In the 1960s, the United States Army transmitted the first photograph via satellite facsimile to Puerto Rico from the Deal Test Site using the Courier satellite.
Radio fax is still in limited use today for transmitting weather charts and information to ships at sea. Also, it is also widely used within the medical field to transmit confidential patient information.
In 1964, Xerox Corporation introduced (and patented) what many consider to be the first commercialized version of the modern fax machine, under the name (LDX) or Long Distance Xerography. This model was superseded two years later with a unit that would truly set the standard for fax machines for years to come. Up until this point facsimile machines were very expensive and hard to operate. In 1966, Xerox released the Magnafax Telecopiers, a smaller, 46-pound facsimile machine. This unit was far easier to operate and could be connected to any standard telephone line. This machine was capable of transmitting a letter-sized document in about six minutes. The first sub-minute, digital fax machine was developed by Dacom, which built on digital data compression technology originally developed at Lockheed for satellite communication.
By the late 1970s, many companies around the world (especially Japanese firms) had entered the fax market. Very shortly after this, a new wave of more compact, faster and efficient fax machines would hit the market. Xerox continued to refine the fax machine for years after their ground-breaking first machine. In later years it would be combined with copier equipment to create the hybrid machines we have today that copy, scan and fax. Some of the lesser known capabilities of the Xerox fax technologies included their Ethernet enabled Fax Services on their 8000 workstations in the early 1980s.
Prior to the introduction of the ubiquitous fax machine, one of the first being the Exxon Qwip in the mid-1970s, facsimile machines worked by optical scanning of a document or drawing spinning on a drum. The reflected light, varying in intensity according to the light and dark areas of the document, was focused on a photocell so that the current in a circuit varied with the amount of light. This current was used to control a tone generator (a modulator), the current determining the frequency of the tone produced. This audio tone was then transmitted using an acoustic coupler (a speaker, in this case) attached to the microphone of a common telephone handset. At the receiving end, a handset's speaker was attached to an acoustic coupler (a microphone), and a demodulator converted the varying tone into a variable current that controlled the mechanical movement of a pen or pencil to reproduce the image on a blank sheet of paper on an identical drum rotating at the same rate.
In 1985, Hank Magnuski, founder of GammaLink, produced the first computer fax board, called GammaFax. Such boards could provide voice telephony via Analog Expansion Bus.
Although businesses usually maintain some kind of fax capability, the technology has faced increasing competition from Internet-based alternatives. In some countries, because electronic signatures on contracts are not yet recognized by law, while faxed contracts with copies of signatures are, fax machines enjoy continuing support in business. In Japan, faxes are still used extensively for cultural and graphemic reasons and are available for sending to both domestic and international recipients from over 81% of all convenience stores nationwide. Convenience-store fax machines commonly print the slightly re-sized content of the sent fax in the electronic confirmation-slip, in A4 paper size.
In many corporate environments, freestanding fax machines have been replaced by fax servers and other computerized systems capable of receiving and storing incoming faxes electronically, and then routing them to users on paper or via an email (which may be secured). Such systems have the advantage of reducing costs by eliminating unnecessary printouts and reducing the number of inbound analog phone lines needed by an office.
The once ubiquitous fax machine has also begun to disappear from the small office and home office environments. Remotely hosted fax-server services are widely available from VoIP and e-mail providers allowing users to send and receive faxes using their existing e-mail accounts without the need for any hardware or dedicated fax lines. Personal computers have also long been able to handle incoming and outgoing faxes using analog modems or ISDN, eliminating the need for a stand-alone fax machine. These solutions are often ideally suited for users who only very occasionally need to use fax services. In July 2017 the United Kingdom's National Health Service was said to be the world's largest purchaser of fax machines because the digital revolution has largely bypassed it. In June 2018 the Labour Party claimed that the NHS had at least 11,620 fax machines in operation.
There are several indicators of fax capabilities: group, class, data transmission rate, and conformance with ITU-T (formerly CCITT) recommendations. Since the 1968 Carterphone decision, most fax machines have been designed to connect to standard PSTN lines and telephone numbers.
Group 1 and 2 faxes are sent in the same manner as a frame of analog television, with each scanned line transmitted as a continuous analog signal. Horizontal resolution depended upon the quality of the scanner, transmission line, and the printer. Analog fax machines are obsolete and no longer manufactured. ITU-T Recommendations T.2 and T.3 were withdrawn as obsolete in July 1996.
Group 1 faxes conform to the ITU-T Recommendation T.2. Group 1 faxes take six minutes to transmit a single page, with a vertical resolution of 96 scan lines per inch. Group 1 fax machines are obsolete and no longer manufactured.
Group 2 faxes conform to the ITU-T Recommendations T.3 and T.30. Group 2 faxes take three minutes to transmit a single page, with a vertical resolution of 96 scan lines per inch. Group 2 fax machines are almost obsolete, and are no longer manufactured. Group 2 fax machines can interoperate with Group 3 fax machines.
A major breakthrough in the development of the modern facsimile system was the result of digital technology, where the analog signal from scanners was digitized and then compressed, resulting in the ability to transmit high rates of data across standard phone lines. The first digital fax machine was the Dacom Rapidfax first sold in late 1960s, which incorporated digital data compression technology developed by Lockheed for transmission of images from satellites.
Group 3 and 4 faxes are digital formats, and take advantage of digital compression methods to greatly reduce transmission times.
Group 4 faxes conform to the ITU-T Recommendations T.563, T.503, T.521, T.6, T.62, T.70, T.411 to T.417. They are designed to operate over 64 kbit/s digital ISDN circuits. The allowed resolutions, a superset of those in the T.4 recommendation, are specified in the T.6 recommendation.
Fax Over IP (FoIP) can transmit and receive pre-digitized documents at near realtime speeds using ITU-T recommendation T.38 to send digitised images over an IP network using JPEG compression. T.38 is designed to work with VoIP services and often supported by analog telephone adapters used by legacy fax machines that need to connect through a VoIP service. Scanned documents are limited to the amount of time the user takes to load the document in a scanner and for the device to process a digital file. The resolution can vary from as little as 150 DPI to 9600 DPI or more. This type of faxing is not related to the e-mail to fax service that still uses fax modems at least one way.
Computer modems are often designated by a particular fax class, which indicates how much processing is offloaded from the computer's CPU to the fax modem.
Class 1 fax devices do fax data transfer where the T.4/T.6 data compression and T.30 session management are performed by software on a controlling computer. This is described in ITU-T recommendation T.31.
Class 2 fax devices perform T.30 session management themselves, but the T.4/T.6 data compression is performed by software on a controlling computer. The relevant ITU-T recommendation is T.32.
Class 2.0 is different from Class 2.
Class 2.1 is an improvement of Class 2.0. Class 2.1 fax devices are referred to as "super G3"; they seem to be a little faster than Class 1/2/2.0.
Class 3 fax devices are responsible for virtually the entire fax session, given little more than a phone number and the text to send (including rendering ASCII text as a raster image). These devices are not common.
Several different telephone line modulation techniques are used by fax machines. They are negotiated during the fax-modem handshake, and the fax devices will use the highest data rate that both fax devices support, usually a minimum of 14.4 kbit/s for Group 3 fax.
Note that "Super Group 3" faxes use V.34bis modulation that allows a data rate of up to 33.6 kbit/s.
Later, other compression techniques were added as options to ITU-T recommendation T.30, such as the more efficient JBIG (T.82, T.85) for bi-level content, and JPEG (T.81), T.43, MRC (T.44), and T.45 for grayscale, palette, and colour content. Fax machines can negotiate at the start of the T.30 session to use the best technique implemented on both sides.
Modified Huffman (MH), specified in T.4 as the one-dimensional coding scheme, is a codebook-based run-length encoding scheme optimised to efficiently compress whitespace. As most faxes consist mostly of white space, this minimises the transmission time of most faxes. Each line scanned is compressed independently of its predecessor and successor.
Modified READ (MR), specified as an optional two-dimensional coding scheme in T.4, encodes the first scanned line using MH. The next line is compared to the first, the differences determined, and then the differences are encoded and transmitted. This is effective as most lines differ little from their predecessor. This is not continued to the end of the fax transmission, but only for a limited number of lines until the process is reset and a new 'first line' encoded with MH is produced. This limited number of lines is to prevent errors propagating throughout the whole fax, as the standard does not provide for error-correction. MR is an optional facility, and some fax machines do not use MR in order to minimise the amount of computation required by the machine. The limited number of lines is two for 'Standard' resolution faxes, and four for 'Fine' resolution faxes.
The ITU-T T.6 recommendation adds a further compression type of Modified Modified READ (MMR), which simply allows for a greater number of lines to be coded by MR than in T.4. This is because T.6 makes the assumption that the transmission is over a circuit with a low number of line errors such as digital ISDN. In this case, there is no maximum number of lines for which the differences are encoded.
In 1999, ITU-T recommendation T.30 added JBIG (ITU-T T.82) as another lossless bi-level compression algorithm, or more precisely a "fax profile" subset of JBIG (ITU-T T.85). JBIG-compressed pages result in 20% to 50% faster transmission than MMR-compressed pages, and up to 30-times faster transmission if the page includes halftone images.
JBIG performs adaptive compression, that is both the encoder and decoder collect statistical information about the transmitted image from the pixels transmitted so far, in order to predict the probability for each next pixel being either black or white. For each new pixel, JBIG looks at ten nearby, previously transmitted pixels. It counts, how often in the past the next pixel has been black or white in the same neighborhood, and estimates from that the probability distribution of the next pixel. This is fed into an arithmetic coder, which adds only a small fraction of a bit to the output sequence if the more probable pixel is then encountered.
The ITU-T T.85 "fax profile" constrains some optional features of the full JBIG standard, such that codecs do not have to keep data about more than the last three pixel rows of an image in memory at any time. This allows the streaming of "endless" images, where the height of the image may not be known until the last row is transmitted.
In "basic mode", the JBIG encoder must split the image into horizontal stripes of 128 lines (parameter L0=128), and restart the arithmetic encoder for each stripe.
In "option mode", there is no such constraint.
Group 3 fax machines transfer one or a few printed or handwritten pages per minute in black-and-white (bitonal) at a resolution of 204×98 (normal) or 204×196 (fine) dots per square inch. The transfer rate is 14.4 kbit/s or higher for modems and some fax machines, but fax machines support speeds beginning with 2400 bit/s and typically operate at 9600 bit/s. The transferred image formats are called ITU-T (formerly CCITT) fax group 3 or 4. Group 3 faxes have the suffix .g3 and the MIME type image/g3fax.
The most basic fax mode transfers in black and white only. The original page is scanned in a resolution of 1728 pixels/line and 1145 lines/page (for A4). The resulting raw data is compressed using a modified Huffman code optimized for written text, achieving average compression factors of around 20. Typically a page needs 10 s for transmission, instead of about 3 minutes for the same uncompressed raw data of 1728×1145 bits at a speed of 9600 bit/s. The compression method uses a Huffman codebook for run lengths of black and white runs in a single scanned line, and it can also use the fact that two adjacent scanlines are usually quite similar, saving bandwidth by encoding only the differences.
Fax classes denote the way fax programs interact with fax hardware. Available classes include Class 1, Class 2, Class 2.0 and 2.1, and Intel CAS. Many modems support at least class 1 and often either Class 2 or Class 2.0. Which is preferable to use depends on factors such as hardware, software, modem firmware, and expected use.
Fax machines from the 1970s to the 1990s often used direct thermal printers with rolls of thermal paper as their printing technology, but since the mid-1990s there has been a transition towards plain-paper faxes:- thermal transfer printers, inkjet printers and laser printers.
One of the advantages of inkjet printing is that inkjets can affordably print in color; therefore, many of the inkjet-based fax machines claim to have color fax capability. There is a standard called ITU-T30e (formally ITU-T Recommendation T.30 Annex E ) for faxing in color; unfortunately, it is not widely supported, so many of the color fax machines can only fax in color to machines from the same manufacturer.
Stroke speed in facsimile systems is the rate at which a fixed line perpendicular to the direction of scanning is crossed in one direction by a scanning or recording spot. Stroke speed is usually expressed as a number of strokes per minute. When the fax system scans in both directions, the stroke speed is twice this number. In most conventional 20th century mechanical systems, the stroke speed is equivalent to drum speed.
As a precaution, thermal fax paper is typically not accepted in archives or as documentary evidence in some courts of law unless photocopied. This is because the image-forming coating is eradicable and brittle, and it tends to detach from the medium after a long time in storage.
One popular alternative is to subscribe to an Internet fax service, allowing users to send and receive faxes from their personal computers using an existing email account. No software, fax server or fax machine is needed. Faxes are received as attached TIFF or PDF files, or in proprietary formats that require the use of the service provider's software. Faxes can be sent or retrieved from anywhere at any time that a user can get Internet access. Some services offer secure faxing to comply with stringent HIPAA and Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act requirements to keep medical information and financial information private and secure. Utilizing a fax service provider does not require paper, a dedicated fax line, or consumable resources.
Another alternative to a physical fax machine is to make use of computer software which allows people to send and receive faxes using their own computers, utilizing fax servers and unified messaging. A virtual (email) fax can be printed out and then signed and scanned back to computer before being emailed. Also the sender can attach a digital signature to the document file.
With the surging popularity of mobile phones, virtual fax machines can now be downloaded as applications for Android and iOS. These applications make use of the phone's internal camera to scan fax documents for upload or they can import from various cloud services.
T.4 is the umbrella specification for fax. It specifies the standard image sizes, two forms of image-data compression (encoding), the image-data format, and references, T.30 and the various modem standards.
T.6 specifies a compression scheme that reduces the time required to transmit an image by roughly 50-percent.
T.30 specifies the procedures that a sending and receiving terminal use to set up a fax call, determine the image size, encoding, and transfer speed, the demarcation between pages, and the termination of the call. T.30 also references the various modem standards.
V.21, V.27ter, V.29, V.17, V.34: ITU modem standards used in facsimile. The first three were ratified prior to 1980, and were specified in the original T.4 and T.30 standards. V.34 was published for fax in 1994.
T.37 The ITU standard for sending a fax-image file via e-mail to the intended recipient of a fax.
G.711 pass through - this is where the T.30 fax call is carried in a VoIP call encoded as audio. This is sensitive to network packet loss, jitter and clock synchronization. When using voice high-compression encoding techniques such as, but not limited to, G.729, some fax tonal signals may not get correctly transported across the packet network.
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Robust Responses With ROCK2 Inhibition Are Seen in Chronic GVHD
Audrey Sternberg
Clinically meaningful outcomes in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease were observed with administration of the selective ROCK2 inhibitor KD025, according to interim results of the phase II ROCKstar trial presented at the 2020 Transplant and Cellular Therapies Meetings in Orlando, Florida.
Corey S. Cutler, MD, MPH
Clinically meaningful outcomes in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) were observed with administration of the selective ROCK2 inhibitor KD025, according to interim results of the phase II ROCKstar trial presented at the 2020 Transplant and Cellular Therapies Meetings in Orlando, Florida.
The analysis indicated that KD025 produced statistically significant responses in patients treated at 2 different dose levels. In total, 3 patients out of 132 achieved a complete response to therapy.
"Approximately two-thirds of patients had a clinical response, defined as either a PR or CR at this early time point," Corey S. Cutler, MD, MPH, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, said during a presentation of the results. "There is some expectation that the response rate will continue to rise slightly over time."
The ongoing trial includes patients aged ≥12 years who had received 2 to 5 prior lines of therapy and for whom systemic therapy for cGVHD was indicated. Patients were treated by 1 of 2 dosing strategies; those in arm A received KD025 mg once daily (n = 66), or the same dose twice per day in arm B (n = 66). The primary end point was overall response rate (ORR) by the 2014 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Response Criteria. By sample size calculations, a 30% clinical response rate was considered meaningful. The trial was designed with a 90% power to exclude 30% as the lower bound of the 95% confidence interval for the ORR. The results presented focus on a protocol-specified interim analysis occurring when the last accrued patient had been followed for 2 full months.
In patients treated on arm A, the ORR was 64% (95% CI, 51%-75%). For arm B, that rate was 67% (95% CI, 54%-78%).
"The results were statistically significant because the lower bounds of the confidence interval exclude 30%," Cutler said. "In fact, the lower bounds exclude 50%, suggesting that these results are quite robust."
Evaluating data by key patient subgroups, trends toward better responses were observed in patients with less severe and shorter duration cGVHD, but the number of involved organ sites failed to indicate a significant difference.
"It is worth noting that even with NIH-severe or longer-duration cGVHD, responses were observed in 50% to 60% of subjects," Cutler said, adding that the lower bounds for the confidence interval in these groups was above 30%.
Stratifying patients by prior therapies, there were no statistically significant differences in response based on the number of prior therapies, best response to prior therapy, prior ibrutinib (Imbruvica), or prior ruxolitinib (Jakafi).
At a median duration of follow-up of 5 months, 44 patients in arm A and 43 in arm B remained on therapy. Reasons for discontinuation included progression, adverse events (AEs), decision by the investigators, and death.
The adverse event profile of KD025 was consistent with cGVHD treated with corticosteroids and other immunosuppressants. There was no apparent increased risk of infection and no cytomegalovirus reactivation.
Any-grade adverse events occurred in 95% of the patient population, with 38% and 28% experiencing grade 3/4 and serious AEs, respectively. Drug-related AEs occurred in half of the patients on the study. Five patients died during the study period.
All-grade AEs that occurred in ≥10% of patients included fatigue (24%), diarrhea (21%), nausea (21%), liver-related investigations (20%), peripheral edema (20%), cough (16%), and dyspnea (16%). Grade ≥3 AEs included hypertension in 5% of patients; hyperglycemia and pneumonia in 4% each; and glutathione S-transferase (GST) increase, nausea, and vomiting in 3% each.
Baseline characteristics were evenly distributed between the 2 arms. Overall, patients were a median of 56 years old (range, 21-77), 57% were men, 52% had more ≥4 organ involved, and 66% had NIH severe cGVHD. The median number of prior lines of therapy was 4 with 34% having received prior ibrutinib; 73% were refractory to their prior line of therapy. The median time between diagnosis of cGVHD and enrollment was 28 months.
In describing the rationale for ROCK2 inhibition for cGVHD therapy, Cutler explained the compounds ability to regulate immunity and treat fibrosis.
"While T-cell—mediated inflammation is the end point of acute GVHD, fibrosis is often the final outcome of chronic GVHD."
ROCK, or Rho-associated coiled-coil kinase, is a serine/threonine kinase that is a critical regulator of inflammation of the level of the T follicular—helper and T follicular–regulatory cells. ROCK2 inhibition selectively downregulates Th17 cells via STAT3 signaling while increasing T regulatory cells through enhanced STAT5 signaling.
"The ROCK kinase system is critical as the common final pathway in fibrosis. Pan-ROCK inhibitors, which are in development, can prevent fibrosis in experimental models," Cutler said. "Selective ROCK2 inhibitors can also prevent collagen deposition, fibrosis, and scarring."
KD025 has been granted breakthrough therapy designation by the FDA for the treatment of adults with cGVHD after failure of 2 or more lines of systemic therapy.
Primary analysis of the trial will occur 6 months following the completion of enrollment, with a follow-up analysis occurring at 12 months. Secondary end points that will be evaluated include safety, duration of response, failure-free survival, and overall survival.
"After 2 dosing strategies of KD025, we know that excellent tolerance of the study compound and a robust response rates were seen in all patients and patient subgroups," Cutler concluded.
Cutler CS, Lee S, Arai S, et al. Interim analysis of KD025-213: a phase 2, randomized, multicenter study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of KD025 in subjects with chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD) after at least 2 prior lines of systemic therapy (The ROCKstar study; NCT03640481). Presented at: 2020 Transplant and Cellular Therapies Meeting; February 19-23, 2020; Orlando, FL. Abstract LBA2. bit.ly/2SQF8Os.

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Adam Polewka (ur. 4 marca 1903 w Krakowie, zm. 1 października 1956 tamże) – polski publicysta, pisarz, tłumacz, lewicowy działacz polityczny, poseł do Krajowej Rady Narodowej, na Sejm Ustawodawczy oraz na Sejm PRL I kadencji.

Życiorys
Należał do Polskiej Partii Socjalistycznej, a od 1932 do Komunistycznej Partii Polski. Po II wojnie światowej działał w Polskiej Partii Robotniczej i w Polskiej Zjednoczonej Partii Robotniczej.

Absolwent Gimnazjum św. Jacka w Krakowie. W latach 1928–1929 był dyrektorem Teatru Robotniczego w Sosnowcu. Był współtwórcą Teatru Cricot, publikował między innymi w "Gazecie Literackiej". Jeden z inicjatorów imprezy "Dni Krakowa". Był również redaktorem dziennika popołudniowego "Echo Krakowa". Był stypendystą Funduszu Kultury Narodowej we Francji, Belgii i Niemczech. Od 1935 do 1936 był kierownikiem literackim, reżyserem oraz autorem kabaretu "Bury Melonik" w Krakowie.

19 listopada 1939 podpisał oświadczenie pisarzy polskich witające przyłączenie Zachodniej Ukrainy do Ukrainy Radzieckiej.

W latach 1947–1954 był wykładowcą krakowskiej Szkoły Dramatycznej. W 1953 podpisał rezolucję ZLP w sprawie procesu krakowskiego.

Został odznaczony Orderem Sztandaru Pracy II klasy, Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (1946) oraz Medalem 10-lecia Polski Ludowej (1955).

Pochowany został w Alei Zasłużonych Cmentarza Rakowickiego w Krakowie (kwatera LXVII-płd. 2-5).

Imieniem Adama Polewki nazwano jeden z krakowskich parków. Znajdował się on na Krowodrzy, przy ul. Dzierżyńskiego (obecna ul. Lea). Stojący tam pomnik usunięto po 1989, a park uchwałą Rady Miasta Krakowa w 1991 został parkiem im. Wincentego á Paulo.

Jego synowie to Andrzej (1941–2021, lekarz psychiatra) i Jan (ur. 1945, scenograf, reżyser i malarz).

Twórczość
 Kocham i nienawidzę – zbiór felietonów
 Igrce w gród walą – widowisko
 przetłumaczył starofrancuską farsę Mistrz Piotr Pathelin

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Encyklopedia Krakowa, PWN, Warszawa-Kraków 2000, s. 564. .

 Uchwała Nr XXV/170/91 Rady Miasta Krakowa z dnia 14 czerwca 1991 r. w sprawie zmian nazw ulic i placów.

Działacze Komunistycznej Partii Polski
Działacze PZPR
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (Polska Ludowa)
Odznaczeni Medalem 10-lecia Polski Ludowej
Odznaczeni Orderem Sztandaru Pracy II klasy
Ludzie urodzeni w Krakowie
Pisarze związani z Krakowem
Pisarze związani z Sosnowcem
Pochowani na Cmentarzu Rakowickim w Krakowie
Politycy Polskiej Partii Socjalistycznej (1919–1939)
Politycy PPR
Polscy pisarze współcześni
Polscy posłowie do parlamentów radzieckich
Polscy publicyści
Polscy tłumacze literatury francuskojęzycznej
Posłowie do Krajowej Rady Narodowej
Posłowie na Sejm PRL
Posłowie na Sejm Ustawodawczy (1947–1952)
Stypendyści Funduszu Kultury Narodowej
Sygnatariusze rezolucji Związku Literatów Polskich w Krakowie w sprawie procesu krakowskiego
Urodzeni w 1903
Wykładowcy uczelni w Krakowie
Zmarli w 1956

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Remote Control Technology
The use of remote control, or radio controlled systems for model aircraft has come a long way. In general, the principle and technology is identical to that of it's smaller scale brethren. There are many applications where full size aircraft and other vehicles can benefit greatly from the possibility of remote operation. Military and industrial applications permit the large budgets required to operate such devices on full scale vehicles. This has been a growing industrial and military application since the early 1970s, springing partly from remote controlled hobby aircraft technologies.
Today the applications are significantly further reaching – including Smart Bombs (see reference section below), or radio controlled operaton of a broad selection of vehicles. The range extends even to 'radio controlled animals' – using nerve or neurological implants actuated by servos or electrical stimulus to have animals perform espionage functions, as they would be unlikely to be suspected. Applications of this have been using birds (pigeons, falcons etc) for video surveillance duties and cats or other household pets for audio and video surveillance.
PRINCIPLES RADIO CONTROL SYSTEMS – DIAGRAM
All radio control / remote control systems share most of these elements in common. Whether a model airplane or a large scale military remote controlled operation, consists of a ground station with manual controls of some kind and a transmitter. The remote vehicle contains a receiver, data processing module and servo actuators for controlling motors and control surfaces.
Data Acquisition Module: Collects data from TAM, IMU, GPS and receiver and formats for processing by CPU.
Receiver: picks up control signals from base station for processing by CPU on vehicle.
Servo: Motor used to effect actuation of control surfaces (i.e. – on an airplane pushes rod to move rudder right or left according to how much voltage is applied to it)
Servo Control Unit: Distributes actuator control signal voltages directly to servos.
TAM (Three Axis Magnetometer): Magnetic compass that uses the earth's magnetic field for orientation. Necessary for absolute positioning.
IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit): Accelerometer that senses rapid changes in position (acceleration) in three dimensions.
GPS (Global Positioning System): Absolute position reference triangulated by orbiting extraterrestrial satellite stations
The Chernobyl Disaster's Remote Controlled Robot
A fairly early industrial prototype used to manipulate pieces of carbon reactor rod that would be instantly lethal to human beings – on the roof of the ill fated nuclear facility. The ability to have a remote controlled machine serving this purpose saved many lives. However – ultimately the radiation levels were so high the heavily shielded robot itself was affected after a few hours and drove itself off the edge of the building in an act of machine protest.
VIDEO: Remote Controlled Boeing Passenger Aircraft
A NASA-outfit Boeing passenger airliner retrofitted with full remote controls prove useful in situations where it would otherwise be hazardous to empoly human operators. This particular instance is a crash test to discover the airliner's vulnerabilities when used for military purposes.
Wikidpedia's Page on Radio and Remote Controlled Technology
Remote Controlled Vehicles for Miltary and Other Applications
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Reference
Remote Controlled Animal Technology for Espionage
Radio Controlled Guided Weapons Technology


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package org.infinispan.hadoop.testutils.domain;

import org.infinispan.commons.marshall.Externalizer;
import org.infinispan.commons.marshall.SerializeWith;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInput;
import java.io.ObjectOutput;

/**
 * // Another simple domain for testing the multiple objects filtering using Hadoop IO.
 *
 * @author amanukya
 */
@SerializeWith(value = SimpleDomain.CustomExternalizer.class)
public class SimpleDomain {
    private String value;

    public SimpleDomain(String value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

    public String getValue() {
        return value;
    }

    public void setValue(String value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) return true;
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;

        SimpleDomain that = (SimpleDomain) o;

        return value != null ? value.equals(that.value) : that.value == null;

    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return value != null ? value.hashCode() : 0;
    }

    public static class CustomExternalizer implements Externalizer<SimpleDomain> {
        @Override
        public void writeObject(ObjectOutput output, SimpleDomain page) throws IOException {
            output.writeUTF(page.value);
        }

        @Override
        public SimpleDomain readObject(ObjectInput input) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
            String category = input.readUTF();
            return new SimpleDomain(category);
        }
    }
}

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The Carpenter's Problem as a solution framing tool is quite flexible. It permits a spacious solution space in the shaded area of the graph, that allows for localization and customization for best fit to particular region or geography.
For instance, the challenge of designing the most inclusive internet for all the newcomers from emerging economies, must map against the minimum viable and optimal solution.
Is access to a signal the actual problem to be solved?


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Q: How to define workspace volume for jenkins pipeline declarative I am trying to setup declarative pipeline where I would like to persiste workspace as volume claim so large git checkout can be faster. Based on doc there are options workspaceVolume and persistentVolumeClaimWorkspaceVolume but I am not able to make it work - jenkins always does following:
volumeMounts:
 - mountPath: "/home/jenkins/agent"
   name: "workspace-volume"
   readOnly: false
volumes:
  - emptyDir: {}
    name: "workspace-volume"

A: Try something like
podTemplate(
    containers: [
        containerTemplate(name: 'tree', image: 'iankoulski/tree', ttyEnabled: true, command: 'cat')
    ],
    workspaceVolume: persistentVolumeClaimWorkspaceVolume(claimName: 'workspace', readOnly: false),
) {
    node(POD_LABEL) {
        stage('read workspace') {
            checkout scm
            container('tree') {
                sh 'env'
                sh 'tree'
                sh 'test -f old-env.txt && cat old-env.txt'
                sh 'env > old-env.txt'
            }
        }
    }
}

A: Here is an example for declarative pipeline:
pipeline {
agent {
    kubernetes {
        yamlFile 'jenkins/pv-pod.yaml'
        workspaceVolume persistentVolumeClaimWorkspaceVolume(claimName: 'workspace', readOnly: false)
    }
}

A: If you post your jenkins deployment then I might help in that.
Mean while you can visit this yaml that I used and worked very well for me.
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: jenkins
spec:
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: jenkins
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: jenkins
        image: jenkins:2.32.2
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
        volumeMounts:
          - name: jenkins-home
            mountPath: /var/jenkins_home
      volumes:
        - name: jenkins-home
          emptyDir: {}

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Freiermuth Evaluated for Concussion
Justin McGonigle, Owner
The Steelers took an unbelievably horrible loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, but they could have potentially lost their starting tight end.
Rookie Pat Freiermuth took a shot to the head on his late game touchdown catch from Ben Roethlisberger.
Pat Freiermuth's sixth touchdown of the season was an absolute beaut 🤤 pic.twitter.com/czchj8F1Kw
— Onward State (@OnwardState) November 28, 2021
He was absent from the Steelers last possession as time ran out in the fourth quarter. After the game Coach Mike Tomlin said that Freiermuth was being evaluated for a possible concussion.
There's been no announcement on his health yet, but fingers crossed he's okay.
Related TopicsBen RoethlisbergerfeaturedPat Freiermuth
The Steelers have always been a central part of my life. I grew up listening to WDVE tapes recorded off of the radio of Steelers fight songs, and wearing Steelers jerseys as a fashion statement. I joined the SteelerNation.com message board when I was 12, and this site has been a big part of my life ever since. I've found life long friends and met some of the best people on earth through this site. In 2015, I was able to help revive the site and develop a news website and all of our social media platforms. I can't wait to continue to grow with all of you. Go Steelers!
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The Weary Blues Essay
Poets having been creating enjoyable, but controversial poems for as long as records have been kept. Hughes was no different from any of the past poets. Although The Weary Blues has some critics, the poem is written how Hughes wanted it to be wrote, with his jazz style, and for that reason Cullen is incorrect in her criticism of the poem. A genre completely up to perspective, poetry is a vivid and ever evolving entity, and The Weary Blues can be interpreted in many different ways while still telling a moving story. Simply put, perspecive is everything when analyzing poetry. One person may see The Weary Blues in a completely different light than another. As a result, Cullen's concern of the pooem having "too much emphasis on strictly Negro themes" is only based on what she thinks, and not on the millions of other people who have read it and put themselves in the "negro" postion, changing the audience. Thus, the themes are not soley negro. The themes are fluid between race and may vary from person to person. For example, "Ain't got nobody in all this world, Ain't got nobody but ma self. I's gwine to quit ma frownin' And put ma troubles on the shelf." , is a song that is sung by the man in the poem, but this song can be translated into anyones life. Anyone with…show more content…
Poetry is defined as a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. The genre of poetry extends to many different forms of art today, such as rap, country, or even rock music. With this in mind, The Weary Blues is undoutably poetry, and all jazz poetry should be considered as so. With lines like "The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.", The Weary Blues conveys very strong emotions to the reader. Thus sealing it's spot in being called
Essay Comparing Sonny's Blues And The Weary Blues
that anyone can understand and relate to, transcending any singular tongue. In "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin, and "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes, music is portrayed as being a connection to the happenings of character's lives, a way of channeling and expressing their emotions as something physical. Both of the characters are going through difficult times during their separate works. In "Sonny's Blues," the brother of the main character, Sonny, tells his story, from the time they were
Essay on Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues Jazz music is often associated with long, lazy melodies and ornate rhythmical patterns. The Blues, a type of jazz, also follows this similar style. Langston Hughes' poem, "The Weary Blues," is no exception. The sound qualities that make up Hughes' work are intricate, yet quite apparent. Hughes' use of consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia, and rhyme in "The Weary Blues" gives the poem a deep feeling of sorrow while, at the same time, allows the reader to feel
Langston Hughes The Weary Blues Analysis
On Langston Hughes's The Weary Blues Kevin Young, a graduate of Harvard University and one of the winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship, writes the historical perspective of Langston Hughes. He discusses the flowering of the African American literature and culture and how it is actually just the extension of the New Negro movement. From the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is able to represent "different things" for "different men." The uprising of Hughes's poems are the result of their hardships
Essay about Harlem Renaissance Poets: Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes
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heritage. This movement is well-known as the Harlem renaissance. It was accompanied by new lifestyle, music styles, and plenty of talented writers. This paper discusses two poems from this period: Heritage, written by Countee Cullen, and The Weary Blues, written by Langston Hughes. There is a lot of mystery about the early life of Countee Cullen. He was adopted at age fifteen, and liked a singing of his adopting mother. According to Nelson (2000), that might be the reason why Cullen perceived
Essay on James Langston Hughes
Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and writing poetry. Through these experiences a new rhythm emerged in his writing, and a series of poems such as "The Weary Blues" were penned. He returned to Harlem, in 1924, the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. During this period, his work was frequently published and his writing flourished. In 1925 he moved to Washington, D.C., still spending more time in blues and jazz clubs. He said, "I tried to write poems
Essay on Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was one of the first black men to express the spirit of blues and jazz into words. An African American Hughes became a well known poet, novelist, journalist, and playwright. Because his father emigrated to Mexico and his mother was often away, Hughes was brought up in Lawrence, Kansas, by his grandmother Mary Langston. Her second husband (Hughes's grandfather) was a fierce abolitionist. She helped Hughes to see the cause of social justice. As a
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James Mercer Langston Hughes
My essay is on James Mercer Langston Hughes . He was born February 1st ,1902 and passed away May 22nd ,1967 the cause of death was prostate cancer . He was born in Joplin ,Missouri his parents name was James Hughes and Carrie Langston, sadly not to long after Langston was born his parents got a divorce ,also his father moved away to Mexico and his mother moved around a lot when he was little . Because of his is parents were barely in his life, his grandmother was kind enough to take care of him
James Mecer Langston Hughes: Literary Genius
started writing poetry ("James Mercer…" par. 2). Langston had many influential poets that he looked up too such as Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman ("James Mercer…"par. 2). Langston Hughes, a gifted African-American poet, whose poetry was driven by blues, jazz, and other prominent ideas of the
The Harlem Renaissance Movement By Zora Neale Hurston
education, experiences and overall point of view. This essay will outline the similarities and differences in subject matter, tone and imagery of these two artists' bodies of work. In Hurston's first piece of work, "Spunk", won second place in an Opportunity magazine's literary contest used a woman's love triangle. Subsequently, in 1925, Hughes also won first place in the same Opportunity magazine's contest for "Weary Blues", a musical poem (blues) about a man playing his piano sullenly. The authors'
The American Dream Through Literature
Despite it not having a name until 1931, since the birth of our nation, there has been a concept of the American Dream. That is, that any person regardless of circumstances of birth can become successful through hard work and persistence, regardless of where they came from. Despite many arguments on whether that's achievable or not, it continues to be a persistent topic in American culture. As such, the American Dream can be seen though literature, which often is a lens into life during the time
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Two PVCu double glazed windows, two central heating radiators, laminate floor, coving to ceiling, TV point, positioned to the front.
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PVCu double glazed window, central heating radiator, laminate floor, positioned to the rear.
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After Saturday's 1-1 draw the 2 sides will meet again in a 4th round replay. Thank you once again to every Warrior who turned up to support the team at Pittodrie.
Stenhousemuir supporters will be situated in the Norway Stand and East Terracing (uncovered).
A Priority Sale will take place as follows for Season Ticket holders and those fans that traveled to the Aberdeen away game.
Individuals can purchase as many tickets as they wish within the priority sale.
Season ticket seats will be reserved until 8pm on Thursday evening to allow season ticket holders to buy their own seat. As of 9am on Friday any season ticket seats that have not been purchased will be released to general sale.
Aberdeen will receive their allocation of tickets by Friday.
All away ticket sales will be through Aberdeen FC, please contact the club for further details.
Aberdeen supporters will be situated in the West Terracing. A small number of seats will be available in the Norway Stand for Aberdeen supporters who are unable to stand for 90 minutes. A small number of disabled seats are also available within the Norway Stand.
Details to follow. To register your interest please email info@stenhousemuirfc.com or call 01324 562992 during office hours.


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Why TDD is Faster than Unit Testing
In this article, I'll try to prove that TDD (Test Driven Development) can be faster than just Unit Testing.
For clarity, by TDD I mean writing unit tests before the code. And I will refer to unit tests that are written after the code as just "unit tests" or "regular unit testing".
Note about accuracy of the information: I personally follow TDD on daily basis, and I have followed regular Unit Testing as well in the past, just before I matured into TDD. So, let's agree, I know what I'm talking about.
Side by Side - TDD vs. Unit Testing
I won't go into details about the process behind TDD or Unit Testing, but I will provide visuals representing these processes. This will serve as a vocabulary afterwards.
As you can see, I tried to be consistent when naming steps of both these approaches. This shows there are similarities, and the number of steps is somewhat equal, too. But those steps mean slightly different things for each approach. That's where I want to dig to reveal the truth.
Down to the Weeds
I'll pick each step from TDD and will compare it to the same step from regular unit testing process.
Decide What You Are Going to Write
Let's swallow the frog and say that TDD loses right away with the first step.
While with regular unit testing you don't need to think too much and can jump right to coding, you can't do so with TDD. Thought process is slightly different, and requires more discipline and more skills. You need to do one of the following:
Skatch what you are going to touch, and how classes and interfaces are going to collaborate (difficulty level - advanced).
Imagine the code you are going to write, but just don't write it (difficulty level - intermediate).
Write the code and then comment it out; be ready to throw it away or rewrite after unit test is written (difficulty level - beginner).
Regardless of which trick you use, it will take more time than it took for regular Unit Testing. The more advanced approach you take, the more time it will take to accomplish.
But don't judge too early. The more you practice TDD, the faster you will be handling this step in more advanced ways. Eventually, you'll start loving yourself for being so good at it.
Besides, while you can jump to coding right away with regular unit testing, who said that it's a good idea? It's like acting without thinking, so maybe TDD does not really lose at all...
Write Unit Test
Now, you need to write unit test. It's much easier to write unit test when you don't need to study the code which you are going to cover. There is no code - there is no headache. Just write unit test the way you want it to be. TDD catches up on this step quite rightfully.
With regular unit testing, you not only need to study the code that you need to cover (even though you probably just wrote it), but you also need to fix the code from time to time to make it unit testable. There are always some small things that you cannot think of when you are writing code - while being so excited that you don't want to bother with thinking about unit tests. And one more issue - now the code is written, so you also need to fight the procrastination and be bored to death to write the unit test for already working code.
Write Code to Pass Unit Test
That's straightforward with TDD. You just need to stop your temptation from writing too much, but that's not too difficult, because at this point it has become almost like a game with yourself.
With regular unit testing, you are writing code in about the same way. Except - you probably write more code than you need to (again, developer's excitement, or better - anxiety). Not only did you introduce some potentially dead code (which real use cases never needed), but you also need to cover that with unit tests later on - so yes, you just added overhead to unit testing as well.
So, on this step, TDD wins.
Run Unit Tests to Verify They Pass
Both processes require about the same effort to run unit tests for verification purposes, but regular unit testing should lose a bit here. That's because you will need to keep adjusting unit tests to make them pass finally. Changing the working code is the last thing you want to do at this point. If you do change the working code, then you have to ensure it still works now, so no way.
With TDD, the test is already written, the way it should be. You just expect it to pass now that the code is written.
Run Program to Verify Code
Final step, and the biggest advantage of TDD - running program to verify the code correctness.
With TDD, you probably have to run 1-2 times. And in most cases, it will work fine, because the unit test has already passed as a verification of that exact code.
With regular unit testing, on the other hand, you are doing this exercise while writing code. You can either write too much code and then debug every single step and keep fixing it, or you can write small piece at a time and run it. Either way, running, debugging, and fixing is much slower than just executing unit tests.
So in this step again, TDD takes over.
If you read all this and kept open minded, and if you have not started practicing TDD yet, it's about time now.
Unit testing, TDD, and other Test-First approaches are some of the great ways to increase the development skills and get into the next level of engineering. I can help with this - I provide a training course about Test-First Development practices for groups.
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Reporting on Corruption: A Resource Tool for Governments and Journalists
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has developed a new Resource Tool for Governments and Journalists, entitled Reporting on Corruption. The official launch of the Tool took place during the 5th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (COSP5), held from 25 to 29 November 2013 in Panama City.
In its eight chapters the Tool covers a wide range of subjects, including the protection of the anonymity of sources, the right of access to information, and self-regulatory measures. It offers information and experiences provided by States parties, and also highlights various international standards, case-law and recommendations from international experts.
The preparation of the Tool included interviews with dozens of investigative journalists, editors, governmental experts, scholars, attorneys and law enforcement officers. Additionally, an Expert Group Meeting was held from 10 to 12 April 2013 in Vienna, which brought together more than 40 experts from over 20 countries across the globe to discuss and provide input to the topic.
The Tool is based on the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and focuses particularly on article 13, paragraph 1 (d) which calls States parties to respect, promote and protect the freedoom to seek, receive, publish and disseminate information concerning corruption. Mirroring the language of international human rights instruments, the article highlights that this freedom may be subject to certain restrictions, but only if these are provided for by law and necessary for respect of the rights or reputations of others, for the protection of national security, public order, public health or morals.
Not only in article 13, but throughout its chapters, UNCAC encourages the dissemination of information and open discourse, with the understanding that anti-corruption efforts flourish best with the help of an informed citizenry.
Journalists play a key role in raising awareness of corruption at all levels of society and, in particular, showing how it affects the daily lives of ordinary citizens. Examples of growing transparency are seen in virtually every region of the world and investigative journalists increasingly use state business registries, stock exchange records and other public documents to expose corruption cases which deprive States of much-needed funds.
At the same time, trust in the media has been challenged in recent years, with journalists in many countries accused of blackmail, extortion, telephone hacking, bribery, and more. Such cases have had an impact on the public's perception of the quality and credibility of the media.
Investigations by journalists around the world are important not only for their findings, but for their ability to provoke broad public reaction through highlighting the problems. The Tool outlines major challenges to the promotion of professional, scrupulous, uncompromising and fair reporting on corruption and showecases that a vigorous implementation of UNCAC can greatly contribute towards a legal framework that allows journalists to fulfill their role.
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"If he runs a marathon now, he won't be able to run in any indoor meets. It's going to take a long time to recover. We wouldn't be able to get back to work on his speed until March or April."
- Alberto Salazar talking about why his star pupil Galen Rupp will not race the Olympic Marathon Trials next weekend.
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Galen Rupp Says He'll Pull Out Of Olympic Marathon Trials We're sure many Olympic hopefuls are breathing a huge sigh of relief as the debate as to whether Rupp would run, rabbit if he did start or go all out is over a week before the starting date, as his coach Alberto Salazar wants him to work on his speed by racing indoors. We'd argue that by training for the marathon and getting stronger, Rupp just did a ton for his speed. Kudos to Rupp to not waiting until the last minute to decide. Rupp: "It would be difficult to do all the speedwork for (the 10k), and still train for the marathon."
Ryan Hall Blogs On Training The Last Two Weeks Before A Major Marathon Hall's thoughts 3 days before Boston: "I am so screwed."
Need Help With Your LRC Puma Prediction Contest?: Olympic Marathon Trials "Cheat Sheet"
Who's Going to Win the Trials? Poll Results From Some Experts Didn't really need to ask the experts to choose the top 3 favorites.
A Brief Update From Meb He says that if he's not in the top 3, he will run some track races in the spring but the Trials could be his last marathon. He says this is his almost certainly his last OT marathon.
RR: Profile On 1:05:00 Half Marathon Runner Tommy Neal, Who Was Diagnosed With Type 1 Diabetes Just A Month Before The Trials On moving to Colorado to train he said, "I pretty much moved out there in a leap of faith. I had no job, nowhere to live, and I knew one person who I had met one time, and I was living in his apartment because he let me while he was out of town."
Who Are Some Of The "Underdogs" At The Olympic Marathon Trials? This article highlights a few who are definitely not outright favorites, but definitely threats.
Training Update From US World Championships Marathoner Mike Sayenko More updates on his site here.
Interviews With Men's '88 / Women's '96 Surprise Marathon Trials Winners, Mark Conover And Jenny Spangler Spangler: "After I had been in the lead for a few minutes and no one had caught up with me yet I remember panicking for a minute and thinking to myself, 'What do you think you are doing? You are leading the Olympic trials marathon!!'"
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Brent Vaughn Says He's Enjoying Running More Than Ever And Is Upbeat Now That Stomach Issues Are Behind Him "I have enjoyed running more than ever before. I have big dreams going into next weekend, no different than most men who will start the race."
MB: Why is Scott Bauhs running the Houston half marathon on Sunday instead of the Trials Marathon on Saturday?
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Interesting Analysis Of How Top Japanese University Teams Compare To The Top Teams In The NCAA Basically, as far as 5k PRs go, the US is stronger up front (13:30s or faster), but Japan is much deeper in the 13:40-50 range.
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I'm trying to implement pagination for an API. Trying to put this logic in Dataweave.
See the code below, i want to pass in the pageIndex and pageSize eventually. For now to test i use the static values and then calculate the resultStart and resultEnd.
I'm not able to use those variables in a range. It' s a bit similar to this question where flowVars are used.
Maybe @manik also has an idea on this one ?
So i'm trying to fix the range someway that Dataweave understand and accepts the range with dynamic values from my variables in the DW script.
%function endTime(startStamp) (startStamp + (|PT0H15M| as :period)) when interval == "Quarterly"
otherwise ((startStamp + (|PT0H60M| as :period)) when interval == "Hourly"
otherwise ((startStamp + (|P1D| as :period)) when interval == "Daily"
@Joost Damen Please check the workaround posted in answer. Hope it helps.
I will try it in sometime.
Yes. [resultStart .. resultEnd] This doesnt work in 3.8.0. But got following work around which works fine.
Means instead of data [resultStart .. resultEnd] , data[[startIndex] .. [lastIndex]] just works fine.
Just for the people who are coming here with the same problem, you can do this two ways - 1) payload[resultStart .. resultEnd] - mind the space between the index and the range selector operator.
You are right, i'm using in on the 3.7.3 runtime now and that works fine.
As @Manik and @Dattathri showed you how the dataweave range map is resolved doing result[resultStart .. resultEnd], but you should also consider the collectionSize when getting the resultEnd so it won't get OutOfBounds.
Below code in 3.8.3 should work.
@ Dattathri Ksheersagar Dattathri Ksheersagar Did you get any solution for the above issue, I got stuck on the same problem, appreciate any help..
How would it be possible to define the end index by using the variables array size?