Anbalagan S, Gordon L, Blechman J, Matsuoka R, Rajamannar P, Wircer E, Biran J, Reuveny A, Leshkowitz D, Stainier D.Y.R, Levkowitz G. (2018). Pituicyte cues regulate the development of permeable neuro-vascular interfaces. Developmental Cell 47, 711–726.
* Highlighted in a Dev. Cell Preview by Thomas, J.L. and Eichmann, A. (2018). To BBB or Not to BBB. Developmental Cell 47, 689-691.
* Highlighted in Advanced Science News: "Fishing for the Structure of the Iris"
* Special Issue on "Developmental Biology in Israel"
Biran J, and G. Levkowitz. (2016). Zebrafish reel in phenotypic suppressors of autism. Neuron 89:673-675.
Biran J, Tahor M, Wircer E and G. Levkowitz. (2015). Role of developmental factors in hypothalamic function. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 9:47. doi:10.3389/fnana.2015.00047.
Blechman J. and G. Levkowitz. (2013). Alternative splicing of the pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide receptor PAC1: mechanisms of fine tuning of brain activity. Frontiers in Endocrinology. May 21;4:55. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2013.00055.
Gutnick A. and G. Levkowitz. (2012). The neurohypophysis – fishing for new insights. J. Neuroendo. 24(6):973-974.
* Also published as Topical Briefings of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology.
Amir-Zilberstein L., J. Blechman, Y. Sztainberg, W.H.J. Norton, A. Reuveny, J.L., N. Borodovsky, M. Tahor, Bonkowsky, L. Bally-Cuif, A. Chen and G. Levkowitz. (2012). Homeodomain protein Otp and activity-dependent splicing modulate neuronal adaptation to stress. Neuron 73:279-291.
* Selected for Neuron's cover illustration (Jan. 26 issue) and highlighted in Neuron's Spotlight On Disease – Regulating Stress through Splicing.
Blechman J., A. Gutnick, L. Amir-Zilberstein and G. Levkowitz. (2011). The metabolic regulator PGC-1α directly controls the expression of the hypothalamic neuropeptide oxytocin. J. Neurosci. 31(42):14835-14840.
* Highlighted in This Week in the Journal (October 19, 2011) – PGC-1α may suppress eating while increasing metabolism.
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Year 3 of giving up fantasy football and sports radio during my commute to read/listen to more books instead. Finished 23/25 I started this year. Asterisks* note my top recommendations, but everything in the first tier below is really solid. DNF means Did Not Finish.


To me, these are not mutually exclusive identities, but rather ones that are intricately linked in the same pursuit: of equality and equity.
As a part of my work to achieve full legal equality for LGBTQ Alabamians, I prioritize the value of dialogue and conciliation above drawing hard lines, particularly related to theological differences. But there is no room to do that with this week's "Nashville Statement."
On Tuesday, a group of more than 150 conservative Evangelical Christian leaders gathered at the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission national conference - including prominent members of the Trump-Pence administration's Evangelical Advisory Board - released a vicious, anti-LGBTQ manifesto attacking LGBTQ people as immoral and sinful, asserting their opposition to marriage equality and denying the dignity of transgender people.
The ugly manifesto was released as the attention of most of the nation's religious leaders was focused on helping victims of Hurricane Harvey. Although the statement received immediate and widespread condemnation from scores of national religious and political leaders, my heart broke as I read the document early Wednesday morning.
My heartache was not so much for myself; I've heard all of these condemnations (and then some) before.
Instead, I ached for the thousands and thousands of LGBTQ youth across Alabama—in every town, county, and legislative district—who are suffering, even to the point of death, as a result of the communal shame and self-hate nurtured by theology at the heart of the "Nashville Statement."
The national statistics on LGBTQ youth harassment and self-harm are sobering. In 2012, HRC's Growing Up LGBT in America found that LGBTQ youths' three top concerns were non-accepting families, school bullying problems, and the fear of being out or open. In 2017, an HRC Foundation post-election survey of more than 50,000 youth found that 70 percent of respondents reported witnessing bullying, hate messages, or harassment during or since the 2016 election, and that half of transgender youth reported feeling hopeless or worthless most of the time.
The Trevor Project reports that for LGB youth, the rate of suicide attempts is 4 times greater than non-LGB youth. 40 percent of transgender adults report having made a suicide attempt; 92 percent of those individuals reported having attempted before the age of 25.
Studies also tell us, however, that family and community acceptance can literally save the lives of LGBTQ youth and young adults.
The Family Acceptance Project has found that LGBTQ youth with highly affirming families have a low risk for suicide attempts, while LGBTQ youth who face high levels of rejection are eight times more likely to attempt suicide in their lifetimes.
Growing up, I knew I was gay around age 12 and understood in my early teens that if I came out, I would likely never be accepted by my family of faithful Christian ministers. In fact, the only story I'd ever heard about another LGBTQ person in my family was of a family member who committed suicide in the 1970s. The unintentional message was that if I came out, suicide might be the way my life ended, too.
Whether the "Nashville Statement" intends it or not, their message to LGBTQ persons and their families is similar.
Thankfully, my family has been gracious and generous in their willingness to journey with me and reach their own places of understanding and acceptance around my sexual orientation, marriage, and career.
Their steadfast love has made all the difference. I am lucky.
September marks the start of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. My prayer is that the "Nashville Statement" will be a challenge to all LGBTQ-affirming Alabamians that it is more essential than ever to speak up and stand with your LGBTQ family and friends, and to love your neighbors as yourselves. You may save a life.
If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. If you're a young person and need to talk to someone, call The Trevor Project's 24-hour crisis hotline for youth at 1-866-488-7386.


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The business world will be totally different after the pandemic
News -	Dec 04, 2020
After the coronavirus pandemic, there will be up to 50% less business travel than before, with a growing number of people working from home, estimates one of the wealthiest people in the world, Bill Gates.
He said for Business Insider that office jobs will be cut by 30% after the pandemic.
The Microsoft founder believes that companies will increase the threshold for business trips after the health crisis, and that private meetings will be held only in case of urgency.
Last month, Microsoft announced that it would cancel a half of its business flights after the pandemic and that it is much less likely that its employees will work in office, namely they will more often work from home.
Introduction of a similar hybrid model is also announced by other tech companies such as Twitter and Facebook.
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Bellman Equation Derivation
Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning
课程 1(共 4 门,强化学习 专项课程)
Reinforcement Learning is a subfield of Machine Learning, but is also a general purpose formalism for automated decision-making and AI. This course introduces you to statistical learning techniques where an agent explicitly takes actions and interacts with the world. Understanding the importance and challenges of learning agents that make decisions is of vital importance today, with more and more companies interested in interactive agents and intelligent decision-making. This course introduces you to the fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning. When you finish this course, you will: - Formalize problems as Markov Decision Processes - Understand basic exploration methods and the exploration/exploitation tradeoff - Understand value functions, as a general-purpose tool for optimal decision-making - Know how to implement dynamic programming as an efficient solution approach to an industrial control problem This course teaches you the key concepts of Reinforcement Learning, underlying classic and modern algorithms in RL. After completing this course, you will be able to start using RL for real problems, where you have or can specify the MDP. This is the first course of the Reinforcement Learning Specialization.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Function Approximation, Intelligent Systems
An excellent introduction to the subject of Reinforcement Learning, accompanied by a very clear text book. The python assignments in Jupyter notebooks are both informative and helpful.
One of the best courses I finished on Coursera, I really like the structure of the course. Textbook is also provided which really helps. Looking forward to next course in the series.
Value Functions & Bellman Equations
Once the problem is formulated as an MDP, finding the optimal policy is more efficient when using value functions. This week, you will learn the definition of policies and value functions, as well as Bellman equations, which is the key technology that all of our algorithms will use.
Bellman Equation Derivation6:09
Why Bellman Equations?5:22
In everyday life, we learn a lot without getting explicit, positive, or negative feedback. Imagine for example, you are riding a bike and hit a rock that sends you off balance. Let's say you recover so you don't suffer any injury. You might learn to avoid rocks in the future and perhaps react more quickly if you do hit one. How do we know that hitting a rock is bad even when nothing bad happened this time? The answer is that we recognize that the state of losing our balance is bad even without falling and hurting ourselves. Perhaps we had similar experiences in our past when things didn't work out so nicely. In reinforce and learning a similar idea allows us to relate the value of the current state to the value of future states without waiting to observe all the future rewards. We use Bellman equations to formalize this connection between the value of a state and its possible successors. By the end of this video, you'll be able to derive the Bellman equation for state value functions, define the Bellman equation for action value functions, and understand how Bellman equations relate current and future values. First, let's talk about the Bellman equation for the state value function. The Bellman equation for the state value function defines a relationship between the value of a state and the value of his possible successor states. Now, I'll illustrate how to derive this relationship from the definitions of the state value function and return. Let's start by recalling that the state value function is defined as the expected return starting from the state S. Recall that the return is defined as the discounted sum of future rewards. We saw previously that the return at time t, can be written recursively as the immediate reward plus the discounted return at time t plus 1. Now, let's expand this expected return. First, we expand the expected return as a sum over possible action choices made by the agent. Second, we expand over possible rewards and next states condition on state S and action a. We can break it down in this order because the action choice depends only on the current state, while the next state and reward depend only on the current state and action. The result is a weighted sum of terms consisting of immediate reward plus expected future returns from the next state S prime. All we have done is explicitly write the expectation as it's defined, as a sum of possible outcomes weighted by the probability that they occur. Note that capital R_t plus 1 is a random variable, while the little r represents each possible reward outcome. The expected return depends on states and rewards infinitely far into the future. We could recursively expand this equation as many times as we want, but it would only make the expression more complicated. Instead, we can notice that this expected return is also the definition of the value function for state S prime. The only difference is that the time index is t plus 1 instead of t. This is not an issue because neither the policy nor p depends on time. Making this replacement, we get the Bellman equation for the state value function. The magic of value functions is that we can use them as a stand-in for the average of an infinite number of possible futures. We can derive a similar equation for the action value function. It will be a recursive equation for the value of a state action pair in terms of its possible successors state action pairs. In this case, the equation does not begin with the policy selecting an action. This is because the action is already fixed as part of the state action pair. Instead, we skip directly to the dynamics function p to select the immediate reward and next state S prime. Again, we have a weighted sum over terms consisting of immediate reward plus expected future return given a specific next state little s prime. However, unlike the Bellman equation for the state value function, we can't stop here. We want to recursive equation for the value of one state action pair in terms of the next state action pair. At the moment, we have the expected return given only the next state. To change this, we can express the expected return from the next state as a sum of the agents possible action choices. In particular, we can change the expectation to be conditioned on both the next state and the next action and then sum over all possible actions. Each term is weighted by the probability under Pi of selecting A prime in the state S prime. Now, this expected return is the same as the definition of the action value function for S prime and A prime. Making this replacement, we get the Bellman equation for the action value function. So we have now covered how to derive the Bellman equations for state and action value functions. These equations provide relationships between the values of a state or state action pair and the possible next states or next state action pairs. You might be wondering why we care so much about these definitions and relationships. The Bellman equations capture an important structure of the reinforcement learning problem. Next, we will discuss why this relationship is so fundamental and reinforcement learning and how we can use it to design algorithms which efficiently estimate value functions.


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An absolute majority of the Baltic List stocks saw their prices, in euros, rise in the outgoing week, pushing the Baltic index up 1.2 percent to 130.08. Of the 15 blue chips comprising the list, shares of the Estonian retail chain Tallinna Kaubamaja ended the week as the only loser, in volatile trading. Nonetheless, there was very little real price growth for Latvian and, in particular, Lithuanian Baltic List stocks in local currencies, as the price gains in euros were mostly due to a weaker euro exchange rate against the lat and the litas.
Rising prices for the largest Estonian companies, Hansapank and Eesti Telekom, boosted the Baltic List capitalization by 2.3 percent, to 2.62 billion euros ($2.30 billion) as of May 11. The total Baltic List turnover was 6.25 million euros, as compared to 5.6 million euros the previous week. Estonian stocks contributed 96.4 percent, Lithuanian stocks 2.2 percent and Latvian stocks only 1.4 percent of the weekly turnover. Estonia's Hansapank accounted for over 50 percent of the total Baltic List turnover. Baltic List stocks led trading on the Estonian stock market, where they generated over 80 percent of total volume. In Latvia this figure was 30 percent, while in Lithuania the Baltic List volume was 5 percent of the total.
A positive mood engulfed the Tallinn Stock Market last week, particularly in terms of the major shares, in spite of EVP privatization vouchers losing nearly a fifth of their value. The TALSE stock index climbed 3 percent to 138.80 on a total turnover of 117.4 million kroons ($6.57 million), in 626 deals. The price euro index of the six Estonian Baltic List shares posted a moderate increase of 1 percent, ending at 126.07. A slide in Tallinna Kauba-maja's shares limited a stronger performance.
Analysts believe that the market mood was much better than could be expected. "The market was strong, sometimes even surprising," Uhis-pank broker Jaanus Sarv said. "Previously, our market went along with falls on Western markets; this did not happen during the week and the market moved up," Sarv told BNS.
Hansapank stock gained 3.6 percent, ending at 148.25 kroons, a new yearly high. Deals in Hansa shares accounted for slightly less than half the week's trading turnover, nearly 55 million kroons.
The price of EVP privatization vouchers suffered a big fall, plummeting 18.4 percent to 0.501 kroons. Total turnover of the deals was 3.1 million kroons. Voucher prices went into a free fall after the Finance Ministry announced that if the land reform continued at the present slow pace, it was possible that the effective term of the vouchers would be selectively extended. Selective extension of voucher terms means that, upon the date of the current deadline, use of the vouchers will halt in all spheres except in the privatization of profit-yielding land and perhaps also in the acquisition of apartments. The opinion of the Finance Ministry is that such a step may lower the EVP vouchers' market price and make them available to buyers of agricultural and forest land. At present, the official deadline of the EVP vouchers' validity is July 1, 2002. "In the case of EVPs, a lot will depend on the government's further decisions," Sarv said. The broker noted that the EVP was a sensitive instrument, particularly to information published in the media.
Eesti Telekom ended the week 2.6 percent higher at 78.50 kroons on a 15 million kroon turnover.
The Latvian stock market saw a rather sluggish response to news concerning its leading shares. Nevertheless, substantial price gains by low-liquidity stocks on the second list boosted the price index RICI by 3.7 percent, to 156.88. The Dow Jones Riga Stock Exchange capitalization index was up just 0.5 percent over the week, to 135.44, and the price euro index of the three Latvian Baltic List stocks inched up 0.9 percent to 161.08, mostly due to the falling euro exchange rate against the lat. Total stock market turnover increased slightly over the week, but still remained extremely low at 168,000 lats ($265,000).
Slow trading in shares of such large and popular companies as the oil terminal Ventspils Nafta, Latvijas Gaze and the insurance company Balta can be explained by the market being dominated by several large shareholders, who have already accumulated almost all available outstanding shares.
In the given situation, shares in stable companies on the second list may bring out interest among small investors. The fiberglass producer Valmieras SS was the stock market leader by turnover, generating 53,500 lats in trade, while its price per share climbed 2.1 percent to 0.48 lats. Latvijas Unibanka analyst Arnis Skapars believes that heightened interest in Valmieras SS shares is due to better financial results and to reports that the owners of the controlling stake intend to make a buyout offer to small shareholders.
Active trade continued in shares of the distillery Latvijas Balzams, shares which sold for a total of 36,000 lats and lifted 10.8 percent to 0.41 lats. "The gains by this stock are quite logical, considering that these shares are the most undervalued on the stock exchange, with an expected change of ownership," said Skapars.
Latvijas Gaze saw trade of 42,000 lats, with the price per share up 0.5 percent to 3.77 lats. The gas company is likely to see share strength into the future, as its 2000 results turned out to be better than earlier estimates and, at week's end, the council raised its proposed dividend payout, from 0.12 to 0.13 lats per share, though this must still be submitted at the shareholders meeting. At the same time, the situation with gas rates for large customers still remains unclear, as Latvijas Gaze's council resolved to file in court a complaint against the government, which for now will not allow for unregulated rate increases. The sale of 8 percent of state-held shares in the gas company also is uncertain because the Latvian Privatization Agency for weeks has been unable to make any decision on the matter.
Ventspils Nafta's share price remained flat at 0.6 lats amid trade of only 5,700 lats, ahead of the shareholders' meeting, scheduled for May 17. Additionally, in a few days the LPA will finally sign an agreement with the consortium led by investment bank Raiffeisen Investment AG, approving it as the financial adviser in the privatization of 38.62 percent of the oil terminal's shares currently held by the state.
Trading was subdued amid a lack of market-moving news on the Lithuanian stock exchange; most share prices were stable or drifted lower. The bourse's benchmark price index Litin-10 edged down 0.18 percent to 1,060.18, the blue chip official list index Litin was off 0.39 percent to 383.18, and the broad index Litin-G edged down 0.5 percent to 947.52. The price euro index of the six Lithuanian blue chip Baltic List shares rose 1.5 percent to 118.61. However, this growth was fully attributed to the weakening of the euro against the litas. The bourse's equity turnover reached 8.88 million litas ($2.22 million). The bourse's overall turnover reached 26.87 million litas, of which 1.27 million litas were generated through T-bill trading.
It seemed like the nice weather lulled investors to sleep as the summer season began on the stock exchange. Besides, with the most recent round of corporate shareholder meetings ended, there was a lack of news for the market, brokers said. On the official list, blue chip Lietuvos Telekomas generated a turnover of 380,600 litas. Telekomas slid to 1.77 litas on May 10, its all-time low, so for the week it fell 0.5 percent to 1.79 litas.
Other stocks of the official list met with even less investor interest. The brewer Kalnapilis was up 0.9 percent to 4.16 litas on a 44,600 litas turnover; the TV-tube producer Ekranas was off 0.3 percent to 6 litas in trade worth 17,000 litas and the cheese maker Rokiskio Suris closed flat at 18 litas on a 42,700 litas turnover. The refrigerator producer Snaige was steady at 34.50 litas with 3,100 litas' worth of shares traded; the knitwear maker Utenos Trikotazas ended without trade.
On the current list, the shipping company LISCO climbed 3 percent to 3.40 litas with 195,700 litas' worth of shares traded amid expectations that the Danish company DFDS Tor Line will soon announce its position regarding a possible minority shareholder buyout in June. The paper producer Grigiskes sank 8.3 percent to 0.22 litas amid a 12,900 litas turnover; the gas company Lietuvos Dujos edged up 0.6 percent to 1.56 litas in trade worth 12,800 litas.
The electronics component maker Vilniaus Vingis was off 0.6 percent to 5 litas with 178,600 litas' worth of shares traded. Another 32,500 litas' worth of shares changed hands via block trades. Investor interest in Vilniaus Vingis has been fueled by the company's upcoming shareholders' meeting, where plans to lower the face value of the company's shares are likely to be approved. The shareholders should receive 1 litas per share in a special payout as a result of this move.
The apparently good news for investors has been overshadowed by unwarranted worries that Vilniaus Vingis will have to borrow funds after the authorized capital reduction is approved. If Vilniaus Vingis currently has little in the way of new investment projects, and is currently running a strong and stable positive cash flow, this is a good way to take cash out of the company and allow owners to reap the rewards of their investment, and it will have absolutely no effect on operating risks. Investors also worry that the problems the TV-tube producer Ekranas, which is one of the major buyers of Vilniaus Vingis' beam-deflection systems, is facing in Turkey might hurt Vilniaus Vingis as well.
The savings bank, Lietuvos Taupomasis Bankas, edged up 0.1 percent to 9.51 litas amid a 103,700 litas turnover; the oil concern Mazeikiu Nafta sank 3.3 percent to 0.57 litas in trade worth 106,600 litas as its public row with the Russian firm LUKoil continued to spread. In block trading, 7.2 million litas' worth of shares in the furniture maker Klaipedos Baldai changed hands.


With the many concerts, festivals, and other performances, December is a wonderful month for special events.
In addition to activities like ice skating in Elmwood Park at Elmwood on Ice or checking out the beautiful trees at Fashions for Evergreens at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center, there are many fun things on the calendar to incorporate into your Blue Ridge Day!
Here are 20 events to check out this month in Virginia's Blue Ridge.
Note - The following is a sampling of holiday events in the region. For a more comprehensive list of holiday-themed fun, don't miss our guide to 2017 Holiday Events in Virginia's Blue Ridge.
Back for its 35th year, The Roanoke Times Dickens of a Christmas Festival is an iconic event in Virginia's Blue Ridge. The festival takes place in Downtown Roanoke during the first three Friday evenings of December and includes performances, tree lighting, caroling, shopping, carriage rides, and more.
The Booker T. Washington National Monument introduces visitors to an "Old Virginia Christmas" with the experience of what life was like for residents, both free and enslaved, on a 19th-century tobacco plantation that was the birthplace of Booker T. Washington.
Culinary art is on full display at the annual Gingerbread Festival in the Salem Public Library. The main feature is the gingerbread house competition, but there are also kid-friendly crafts activities, marshmallow roasting, food vendors and more.
The Starr Hill Pilot Brewery & Side Stage is one of multiple new spots to enjoy great craft beer in Virginia's Blue Ridge, and they also plan to regularly feature live music. On December 2, there will be a free concert by Tara Dente, a folk/alternative guitarist and singer/songwriter from New Jersey.
Hop aboard the Candy Cane Express at the Virginia Museum of Transportation! The two-day event will have photo opportunities with Santa, face painting, scavenger hunts, train rides, and all the great exhibits at the museum.
This holiday home tour is a great way to see and learn about the architecture in many of the historic homes in Roanoke's Old Southwest Neighborhood. 7 historic properties are decorated for the holidays and showcased in this walking tour.
Of course we incorporate biking into the holiday fun in Virginia's Blue Ridge! RIDE Solutions hosts the Roanoke Holiday Lights Tour as a way for people to join together with a bike ride through the city to take in some of the local holiday decorations and lights. There's even a Zagster bike share station near the start & finish point of the ride, offering a great option for anyone who doesn't own their own bike.
Nothing will stop Ralphie Parker from his dream of owning a Red Ryder BB Gun, even if it means he'll shoot his eye out! "A Christmas Story" is a classic Christmas movie that has become a holiday tradition for many, and this year Mill Mountain Theatre presents the theatrical production of the story.
10. Roanoke Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Pops!
Sing along to all your holiday favorites and learn a few new ones at the annual Holiday Pops performance by the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. The group performs at the Salem Civic Center on December 8 and at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech on December 9.
There are over two centuries of history in the Town of Fincastle in Botetourt County, with some homes dating back to construction in the 1770s. The town's historic district has over 100 buildings and the annual holiday home tour is a wonderful way to take in the history of the community while also supporting the local businesses.
The Southwest Virginia Ballet has entertained locals and visitors for years with its annual presentation of The Nutcracker. You'll be lead on a journey of sugar plum fairies and the Land of Sweets for one magical night in this show that is made up of performers from over 15 dance schools throughout the region.
Things are heating up on the Berglund Center ice with the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs! The Dawgs have multiple home games this month, including a New Year's Eve contest against Knoxville at 6:05 p.m. - a perfect way to begin your evening before you ring in the arrival of 2018.
It's an old-fashioned Christmas in Downtown Salem at the Ye Olde Salem Christmas celebration. There will be festive decorations, baked goods, various art & craft vendors, and a merchant open house for all kinds of holiday shopping.
15. Ring in the Season! Ladies A Capella Barbershop!
The Star City Sounds Chorus presents a night of holiday a capella music at the Showtimers Community Theatre! Get your tickets now to make sure you don't miss this opportunity to listen to the music of the season.
Put on your tackiest Christmas sweater and get ready to deck the halls at Big Lick Brewing Company's Ugly Sweater Holiday Party. There will be costume contests, live music, food by 2Dye4Que and great beer on tap, all at Big Lick's beautiful new facility.
The NCAA Division III Football Championship returns to Salem Stadium in Virginia's Blue Ridge with the 2017 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. A champion will be crowned in what should be a fantastic atmosphere for this nationally televised game.
The Herdman kids ruin everything. What will happen when they take part in the church Christmas pageant? Find out as the Roanoke Children's Theatre presents The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical, a family-friendly show full of laughs, shenanigans, and holiday spirit.
There's something magical about the Christmas glow of the Town of Buchanan with its annual Christmas Eve Luminary Display. Hundreds of candles are lined up along the historic town's streets in this charming holiday display.
The Big Lick Downtown Countdown New Year's Eve festival returns to Downtown Roanoke for its 5th year! We'll celebrate with live music, food and drinks, and a family-friendly party to end 2017 in style. Get your tickets now as this event sells out every year.
Visit our Calendar of Events for a complete list of what's going on in Virginia's Blue Ridge. You can also check out our Holidays section for more ideas of things to do during the holiday season.
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Raging floods have swept through northwest Pakistan, causing death and destruction on a disastrous scale. More than 1,600 people have been killed so far and some 12 million affected by the devastation. With monsoon rains continuing to fall, this figure is expected to rise as the worst floods to hit Pakistan in 80 years, threaten the southern Sindh province.
More than half a million people are being evacuated by the Pakistani authorities in anticipation of this, but with roads and bridges destroyed and many areas submerged, relief efforts have struggled to reach those in need.
Muslim Aid has launched an Emergency Appeal in order to provide medicines, clean water, tents and emergency items and are currently on the ground helping to distribute this much needed relief.
* 650 flood affected people treated in two days at medical camps in sub-districts of Rajarr, Utmanzai and Tangi of district Charsadda.
* 12,000 litres clean drinking water distributed among the 500 families of district Charsadda and Nowshera.
* 200,000 Aqua Tabs distributed in Rajarr and Utmanzai of Charsadda and 2 sub-districts of Nowshera Kalaan of district Nowshera.
* To date, 750 jerry cans (10 litres) and buckets (10 litres) have been distributed amongst 750 families.
* Juice and biscuits were distributed among 4,000 people over one weekend.
We at the Muslim Aid still welcomes donations to help reduce the suffering of our brothers in Pakistan. For every contribution is distributed, we will provide a receipt for tax exemption.
To further inquiries, please contact the Muslim Aid office at 03-2282 1996 or 03-2288 1996.


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Пралине́ () — густая жирная масса из перетёртых жареных орехов и сахара, с возможными дополнительными компонентами (кондитерским жиром, какао-маслом, ванилином), с массовой долей орехового жира не менее 10 %. Пралине в основном используют для начинки конфет и шоколада.

По преданию, в 1671 году повар графа дю Плесси-Пралена, французского посланника в Испанских Нидерландах, впервые создал сладкий десерт, который позже назвали «пралине». Фирменный десерт содержал тёртый миндаль с другими орехами, перемешанный с засахаренным мёдом и комочками шоколада, затем начинка обливалась жжёным сахаром (подобием карамели) и подавалась к столу.

Технология изготовления
Орехи или семена обжаривают, добавляют сахар и интенсивно перемешивая нагревают до расплавления сахара. Полученную массу выливают на смазанный маслом стол или противень и ожидают её остывания и затвердения, после чего дробят в ступке или на специальной машине меланжере. Затем растирают на вальцовке, при помощи мясорубки или другим способом.

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Q: How to avoid vector search in data.table I have a data.table X that I would like to create a variable based on 2 character variables
   X[, varC :=((VarA =="A" & !is.na(VarA))
               | (VarA == "AB" & VarB =="B" & !is.na(VarA) & !is.na(VarB))
                )
      ]

This code works but it is very slow, because it does vector scan on 2 char variables. Note that I don't setkey claims4 table by VarA and VarB. Is there a "right" way to do this in data.table?
Update 1:  I don't use setkey for this transformation because I already use setkey(X, Year, ID) for other variable transformations.  If I do, I need to reset keys back to Year, ID after this transformation.
Update 2: I did benchmark my approach with Matthew's approach, and his is much faster:
          test replications elapsed relative user.self sys.self user.child sys.child
2 Matthew               100   3.377    1.000     2.596    0.605          0         0
1 vectorSearch          100 200.437   59.354    76.628   40.260          0         0

The only minor thing is setkey then re-setkey again is somewhat verbose :)

A: How about :
setkey(X,VarA,VarB)
X[,varC:=FALSE]
X["A",varC:=TRUE]
X[J("A","AB"),varC:=TRUE]

or, in one line (to save repetitions of the variable X and to demonstrate) :
X[,varC:=FALSE]["A",varC:=TRUE][J("A","AB"),varC:=TRUE]

To avoid setting the key, as requested, how about a manual secondary key :
S = setkey(X[,list(VarA,VarB,i=seq_len(.N))],VarA,VarB)
X[,varC:=FALSE]
X[S["A",i][[2]],varC:=TRUE]
X[S[J("A","AB"),i][[3]],varC:=TRUE]

Now clearly, that syntax is ugly. So FR#1007 Build in secondary keys is to build that into the syntax; e.g.,
set2key(X,varA,varB)
X[...some way to specify which key to join to..., varC:=TRUE]

In the meantime it's possible, just manually, as shown above.

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Dave Grohl Says Nirvana May Change 'Nevermind' Album Cover After All
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Dave Grohl says Nirvana may change its controversial Nevermind album cover in the future.
Universal Music Group has prepped a 30th-anniversary edition of the album – featuring the original artwork. But Spencer Elden, the baby on the cover has filed a lawsuit against the estate of the band, alleging that distributing the album amounts to "commercial child pornography."
"Neither Spencer nor his legal guardians ever signed a release authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him," the lawsuit obtained by Digital Music News reads.
There are no changes planned for the 30th-anniversary re-release coming on November 12. But future releases are on the table.
Dave Grohl has stated that future releases of Nevermind may have different album art.
"I have many ideas of how we should alter that cover, but we'll see what happens," Grohl told The Sunday Times. "We'll let you know. I'm sure we'll come up with something good." Grohl appears to be tired of being in the legal crosshairs over the album cover.
"At some point, unfortunately, it just becomes par for the course," Grohl adds. "I think that there's much more to look forward to and much more to life than getting bogged down in those kinds of things. And, fortunately, I don't have to do the paperwork."
The 30th-anniversary Nevermind album cover may be the last to feature the naked baby. The Nevermind special edition features a total of 94 audio and video tracks – 70 of which are previously unreleased. A 5-CD super deluxe version of the album includes:
The remastered album.
Live Nirvana concerts.
A Blu-Ray of a live Amsterdam show.
A 40-page hardcover book full of unreleased photos.
A $260 variation comes with a seven-inch vinyl, the book, and 8 180-gram LPs of the remastered album. However, this more expensive version of the album won't be made available to fans until May 27, 2022.
The child pornography lawsuit names not just Nirvana, but also the photographer, the album's art director, Geffen Records, Nirvana LLC, and the estate of Kurt Cobain. Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and several other record labels are named.
Jimi Hendrix Estate Preemptively Sues Estates of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell Over Copyright Infringement Notice
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Motivated by the need for affordable, high-performance fiber-optic microwave links in fiber-fed microcellular networks and radar systems, we have performed a comprehensive experimental evaluation of the microwave modulation characteristics of high-speed oxide-confined vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) emitting at 840 inn. VCSELs with different oxide aperture diameters, including both single- and multimode lasers, have been used to track the dependence on modal behavior. The study includes both static and dynamic characteristics, with an emphasis on those of major importance for analog modulation. This includes the small-signal modulation response (S-11 and S-21), the relative intensity noise (RIN), and the intermodulation distortion. From this, we determine the spurious free dynamic range, the impedance characteristics, and the speed limitations.
We investigate the bandwidth limitations and the analog modulation characteristics at microwave frequencies (0.1 to 10 GHz)of a low-capacitance oxide-confined 670-nm InGaAIP vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). A maximum modulation bandwidth of 6.3 GHz, limited by thermal effects, is achieved. From measurements of distortion and noise, a spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) of 100 dB Hz(2/3) is obtained at frequencies up to 2 GHz, rendering such VCSELs useful for transmission of analog signals. At higher frequencies, the SFDR drops due to the thermally limited resonance frequency.
The dynamic performance of the modulated-grating Y-branch laser is presented. In order to reach over 40-nm tuning range, the devices utilize an additive Vernier effect and relative tuning of two reflecting gratings. The device shows high (> 13 dBrn ex-facet) and uniform (< 1.2-dB variation) steady state output power over the tuning range, and sidemode suppression ratio > d40 dB. The laser behavior under small- and large-signal operation conditions is investigated. The laser exhibits a resonance frequency of 7.4-8.8 GHz at 80-mA bias. A 10-Gb/s eye diagram measurement showed, high extinction ratio and signal-to-noise ratio.
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A simple integrated tunable wavelength converter is presented. 10 Gb/s XGM conversion of signals at wavelength 1530-1560 nm to 1531-1556 nm and transmission at 2.5 Gb/s over 25 km SSMF of the converted signals were achieved.
The modulation bandwidth and linewidth enhancement factor were investigated and found to be strongly dependent on the position of the lasing mode on the Bragg reflection peak.
Electro-Absorption-Transceiver (EAT) structures used as efficient Travelling-Wave Electro-Absorption-Modulator (TWEAM) as well as Travelling-Wave-Photo-Detector (TWPD) are investigated. Clear eye-openings at 50Gb/s for modulation and for detection are presented. Transmission over 2.2km and 5km SSMF were achieved.
Long wavelength monomode InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) distributed feedback (DFB) lasers with emission wavelength around 1325 ran are presented. Threshold currents below 19 mA for operating temperatures up to 70 degrees C and Output powers of 10 mW at 25 degrees C (6 mW at 70 degrees C) are observed. Error-free 10 Gbit/s transmission over 21 kin fibre with an extinction ratio of 8.5 dB at room temperature (5.1 dB at 70 degrees C) is demonstrated. The low threshold, low temperature sensitivity and high modulation speed were realised using complex coupled DFB lasers with ten stacks of self-organised MBE-grown QD layers and p-type modulation doping.
Round-robin measurements on the linewidth enhancement factor are carried out in many laboratories participating to EU COST 288 Action. Up to 7 different techniques are applied to DFB, VCSELs, QCL, and QD lasers, and results are compared.
The dependence of the frequency noise on the output power, the tuning current and the current modulation has been measured in a two electrode DBR laser from 30 MHz to 8 GHz. The frequency noise spectrum was fairly flat and decreased with increased output power at a rate faster than 1/P. At certain biasing levels, the noise increased and the relaxation peak was shifted towards lower frequencies when current was injected into the passive waveguide. Furthermore, the frequency noise was not affected by the current modulation.
The modulation properties of a laser structure which consists of an active Bragg reflector (300 mu m) integrated with an uncorrugated gain region (600 mu m) have been measured. The laser exhibited a flat FM response and very low spurious intensity modulation when modulating the current in the Bragg reflector. Furthermore, broadband intensity modulation with suppressed frequency chirp could also be achieved. An inhomogeneous linewidth enhancement factor alpha caused by the uneven carrier density distribution between the two sections gives a qualitative explanation to our results.
High speed properties of a directly modulated widely tunable MG-Y laser have been evaluated. Small signal response and 10 Gb/s NRZ modulation were performed within the 40 nm tuning range.


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Students will stay after school - practice, have supper (pizza) and then head to RDC.
The bus will take students to the game and back to Fox Run. We should be back about 10- 10:30 pm to Fox Run for students to be picked up.
Thank you so much to all of the AMAZING athletes who tried out for the SR. Boys Volleyball team. We had 25 boys tryout for the team, which was very impressive and made my decision very difficult. After discussions, I have decided to take 13 players to give more opportunity for development.


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The Spring Fling 5k is just a little over 4 weeks away and there is still lots that needs to be done.
Register - Runners, get registered asap so that you're assured of getting a race shirt in your size. You can register online at Macs Race Timing.
Volunteers - We are still needing a few volunteers for various positions. Some positions will allow you to volunteer and also run the race. Please contact Brenda at ransombt@aol.com if you can help out.
Sponsors - This is a big one. We need sponsors ASAP. If anyone would like to be a sponsor or know someone that you think might be interested please email Jane at jgunter@alz.org. This is a great way to support your community and the Spring Fling race shirts are seen all over the state. All proceeds from the Spring Fling 5k go to the Cabot School Districts PE for Life program.
For all the latest race info go to the Spring Fling website at http://springfling5k.com.


CAN ANYONE SEEK HEALTHCARE SERVICES FROM A COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER?
YES, anyone can become a patient of a community health center, regardless of his or her ability to pay. Insured or uninsured, low-income or high-income -- all can receive primary and preventive health care from a community health center.


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Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered Details Revealed
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Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Insomniac Games have released the first details today about the upcoming Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered for PlayStation 5.
The remastered version now includes ray-tracing, improved assets, a 60 frames-per-second performance mode, and a brand-new character model for Peter Parker. The game will also include three new suits including The Amazing Spider-Man suit.
The remaster will be included in the Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition for $79.99 on PlayStation 5. If you buy the standard edition, you'll also have the option to upgrade to the Ultimate Edition to get the remaster. The game launches on November 12 alongside the PlayStation 5. Below you can see videos for the new Peter Parker and the 60fps performance mode.
Graphical Updates
The team has done the painstaking work of updating the city's environment to take advantage of the new console. Beyond improved models and materials, one of the biggest things we have brought to the game is ray-traced reflections and ambient shadows. We now have true reflections on the windows of buildings, and it looks stunning with our new skies and weather.
But it's not just the environments; our characters have also gotten a huge upgrade. From higher fidelity skin, eye, and teeth shaders to individually-rendered strands of hair, the new tech and detail brings our characters and their performances to new life.
Peter Parker's New Face Model
This does bring us to one of the bigger changes. In order to bring the best performances to players with our next-generation Marvel's Spider-Man games, we have recast the face of Peter Parker. We loved working with John Bubniak on the original game; however, to get a better match to Peter Parker/Spider-Man actor Yuri Lowenthal's facial capture, we have cast Ben Jordan to be the face model for Peter Parker on the PlayStation 5 console. He looks incredible in-game, and Yuri's moving performances take on a new life.
Additionally, thanks to the power of the PlayStation 5 console, we're now able to offer a high frame rate through Performance Mode, which targets a 60 frames per second frame rate! This allows you to experience the beginning of the Marvel's Spider-Man storyline like never before. It feels amazing to play.
Other PlayStation 5 Features
That's not all! We take full-advantage of other next-generation PlayStation features like near-instant loading (don't worry, you can turn back on those humorous fast-travel animations if you miss them), Spatial 3D Audio on compatible headphones, and the revolutionary DualSense controller's haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. We've also brought new photo mode features to the game that we developed for Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales: you can now place lights in the environment and change your Spider-Suit after you've lined up your shot!
First of Three New Suits
That's right, The Amazing Suit has arrived as one of three new suits in the game. It's the perfect suit to wear as you attempt to earn the Platinum trophy in Marvel's Spider-Man: Remastered.
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This month's theme is in-season training since the spring sports are starting up. All the practices, games, and tournaments start to add up to over time, not to mention any weight room sessions the coachs' require of their athletes. Lack of proper awareness and management of physical stressors can lead, very quickly in some cases, to overtraining... which leads to poor performance, lost games, increase risk of injury, and a rather unpleasant season.
The subject of overtraining is a vast one and we won't be able to cover all the aspects that contribute, but by the end of this two part series, you should have a decent grasp on what overtraining is and how to avoid it. Today's post will be about recognizing the symptoms of overtraining while next post will offer techniques and training advice to avoid the dreaded state of overtrained-ness. (Yes, I made that word up.) Li'l food for thought: quite often the strength and conditioning aspect of in-season training is the cornerstone of maintaing the health of the athlete. Too much, and the athlete breaks, but administered intelligently, a strength program can restore an athlete's body and enhance overall performance. Right, let's dive in!
We all want a to feel like you've conquered something, I know I do!
However, sadly, there can be too much of a good thing. We may be superheroes in our minds, but sometimes our bodies see it differently. Outside of the genetic freaks out there who can hit their training hard day after day (I'm a bit envious…), most of us will reach a point where we enter the realm of overtraining. I should note, that for many competitive athletes (college, elite, and professional levels) there is a constant state of overtraining, but it's closely monitored. But, this post is designed for the rest of us.
Now, everyone is different and not everyone will experience every symptom or perhaps experience it in varying degrees depending on training age, other life factors, and type of training. These are merely general symptoms that both athletes and coaches should keep a sharp eye out for.
1. Repeated failure to complete/recover in a normal workout- I'm not talking about a failed rep attempt or performing an exercise to failure. This is a routine training session that you're dragging through and you either can't finish it or your recovery time between sets is way longer than usual. For distance trainees, this may manifest as slower pace, your normal milage seems way harder than usual, or your heart rate is higher than usual during your workout. Coaches: are you players dragging, taking longer breaks, or just looking sluggish? Especially if this is unusual behavior, they're not being lazy; it might be they've reached stress levels that exceed their abilities to recover.
2. Lifters/power athletes (baseball, football, soccer, non-distance track, and nearly all field sports): inability to relax or sleep well at night- Overtraining in power athletes or lifters results in an overactive sympathetic nervous response (the "fight or flight" system). If you're restless (when you're supposed to be resting), unable to sleep well, have an elevated resting heart rate, or have an inability to focus (even during training or practice), those are signs that your sympathetic nervous system is on overdrive. It's your body's response to being in a constantly stressful situation, like training, that it just stays in the sympathetic state.
3. Endurance athletes (distance runners, swimmers, and bikers): fatigue, sluggish, and weak feeling- Endurance athletes experience parasympathetic overdrive (the "rest and digest" system). Symptoms include elevated cortisol (a stress hormone that isn't bad, but shouldn't be at chronically high levels), decreased testosterone levels (more noticeable in males), increase fat storage or inability to lose fat, or chronic fatigue (mental and physical).
4. Body composition shifts away from leanness- Despite training hard and eating well, you're either not able to lose body fat, or worse, you start to gain what you previously lost. Overtrained individuals typically have elevated cortisol levels (for both kinds of athletes). Cortisol, among other things, increases insulin resistance which, when this is the chronic metabolic state, promotes fat storage and inhibits fat loss.
6. Getting sick more often- Maybe not the flu, but perhaps the sniffles, a sore throat, or a fever here and there; these are signs your immune system is depressed. This can be a sneaky one especially if you eat right (as in lots of kale), sleep enough, and drink plenty of water (I'm doing all the right things! Why am I sick??). Training is a stress on the system and any hard training session will depress the immune system for a bit afterwards. Not a big deal if you're able to recover after each training session… but if you're overtraining, the body never gets it's much-needed recovery time. Hence, a chronically depressed immune system… and that's why you have a cold for the 8th time in two months.
Those are some of the basic signs of overtraining. There are more, especially as an athlete drifts further and further down the path of fatigue, but these are the initial warning signs the body gives to tell you to stop what you're doing or bad things will happen.


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Controversial "Mansized" Tissues Pulled from U.K. Stores Amidst Complaints of Sexism
When searching for a trademark, one should consider all connotations, and potential public outcry, stemming from the use of the mark. Kleenex learned that lesson first-hand over the last few weeks after their use of the term "Mansize" to describe extra-large tissues faced consumer complaints of being sexist.
Kleenex went on to pull all the product from shelves in the United Kingdom (the only country where these tissues are sold), and will re-brand the "Mansize" tissues as "Kleenex Extra Large." The packaging referred to the "Mansize" tissues as "confidently strong and comfortingly soft." Kimberly-Clark, the company behind Kleenex, told the media that the use of the term in no way suggests that being both soft and strong was an "exclusively masculine trait, nor do [Kimberly-Clark] believe that Mansize branding suggests or endorses gender inequality."
The extra-large tissues have featured on shelves for sixty years, and were launched during a time where many still carried large cotton handkerchiefs. The brand therein developed these "Mansize" tissues to provide a "unique disposable alternative"; with 3.4 million people buying the tissues annually.
The issue came about after a UK resident tweeted @Kleenex_UK about a conversation the woman had with her son after her son asked whether girls, boys, and mothers can use the "Mansize" tissues, or not. The company, via its @Kleenex_UK twitter account replied to the tweet a few days later stating that they have made changes to the "Mansize" branding and have relabelled the tissues as "Extra Large."
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How to display custom error message in laravel ?
Laravel provides a set of rules and associated error messages for form input validation. We can use rules to check validity of the user inputs and display messages in case of invalid input. In order to display custom message, we need to create custom request class where we will define rules and messages.
We are using following artisan command to create custom request class.
After executing above command, a request class will be created inside App/Http/Requests/ directory.
Now, we have to return true in the authorize function. After that, we need to add rules and custom messages.
Suppose, email should be unique and all fields must be filled in our scenario. So, we need to add following rules and associated error messages to our request class.
Now, we have to specify the request class in controller function.
In order to display error messages, we need following code in our view.
In this way, we can display custom error message after validation in laravel.
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Q: Sass Mixin linear gradient with image (url) I'm trying to create a mixin in Sass in order to get both a gradient linear from top to bottom within a svg image on a div.
First I tried with a linear gradient mixin like this:
@mixin linear-gradient($fromColor, $toColor) {
  background-color: $toColor;
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from($fromColor), to($toColor));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, $fromColor, $toColor);
  background-image:    -moz-linear-gradient(top, $fromColor, $toColor);
  background-image:     -ms-linear-gradient(top, $fromColor, $toColor);
  background-image:      -o-linear-gradient(top, $fromColor, $toColor);
  background-image:         linear-gradient(top, $fromColor, $toColor);
  filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(GradientType=0,StartColorStr='#{$fromColor}', EndColorStr='#{$toColor}');
}

Then I'm using it in the code with severals attempts without any success:
.class { @include background(url("../img/cryptocurrency.svg") no-repeat, linear-gradient(#5BFE77, #00B807)); }

Then,
.class { @include linear-gradient(#5BFE77, #00B807), url("../img/cryptocurrency.svg") no-repeat; }

At last,
.class { @include linear-gradient(#5BFE77, #00B807); background: url("../img/cryptocurrency.svg") no-repeat; }

Nothing worked. So I started to look around the web (even on Stackoverflow) and I tried to add the Bourbon mixin on my toolsets (I didn't installed Bourbon or Compass):
@mixin background-image($images...) {
  $webkit-images: ();
  $spec-images: ();

  @each $image in $images {
    $webkit-image: ();
    $spec-image: ();

    @if (type-of($image) == string) {
      $url-str:       str-slice($image, 1, 3);
      $gradient-type: str-slice($image, 1, 6);

      @if $url-str == "url" {
        $webkit-image: $image;
        $spec-image:   $image;
      }

      @else if $gradient-type == "linear" {
        $gradients: _linear-gradient-parser($image);
        $webkit-image:  map-get($gradients, webkit-image);
        $spec-image:    map-get($gradients, spec-image);
      }

      @else if $gradient-type == "radial" {
        $gradients: _radial-gradient-parser($image);
        $webkit-image: map-get($gradients, webkit-image);
        $spec-image:   map-get($gradients, spec-image);
      }
    }

    $webkit-images: append($webkit-images, $webkit-image, comma);
    $spec-images:   append($spec-images,   $spec-image,   comma);
  }

  background-image: $webkit-images;
  background-image: $spec-images;
}

+
@mixin linear-gradient($pos, $g1, $g2: null,
                       $g3: null, $g4: null,
                       $g5: null, $g6: null,
                       $g7: null, $g8: null,
                       $g9: null, $g10: null,
                       $fallback: null) {
  // Detect what type of value exists in $pos
  $pos-type: type-of(nth($pos, 1));
  $pos-spec: null;
  $pos-degree: null;

  // If $pos is missing from mixin, reassign vars and add default position
  @if ($pos-type == color) or (nth($pos, 1) == "transparent")  {
    $g10: $g9; $g9: $g8; $g8: $g7; $g7: $g6; $g6: $g5;
    $g5: $g4; $g4: $g3; $g3: $g2; $g2: $g1; $g1: $pos;
    $pos: null;
  }

  @if $pos {
    $positions: _linear-positions-parser($pos);
    $pos-degree: nth($positions, 1);
    $pos-spec:   nth($positions, 2);
  }

  $full: $g1, $g2, $g3, $g4, $g5, $g6, $g7, $g8, $g9, $g10;

  // Set $g1 as the default fallback color
  $fallback-color: nth($g1, 1);

  // If $fallback is a color use that color as the fallback color
  @if (type-of($fallback) == color) or ($fallback == "transparent") {
    $fallback-color: $fallback;
  }

  background-color: $fallback-color;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient($pos-degree $full); // Safari 5.1+, Chrome
  background-image: unquote("linear-gradient(#{$pos-spec}#{$full})");
}

Then I fixed my code compared to what the doc said:
.class { @include background-image(url("../img/cryptocurrency.svg"), linear-gradient(white 0, yellow 50%, transparent 50%)); }

As a result nothing works.
Here's the errors my compiler showed. If someone want to Backtrace feel free to ask.
Error: $map: "_linear-gradient-parser(linear-gradient(white 0, yellow 50%, transparent 50%))" is not a map for `map-get' on line 120 of /Library/WebServer/Documents/eureka/template/css/mixins.scss, in `background-image' from line 331 of /Library/WebServer/Documents/eureka/template/css/main.scss from line 13 of /Library/WebServer/Documents/eureka/template/css/layout.scss Use --trace for backtrace.

TL;DR: I'm looking for a custom mixin for gradient which support background image url in order to display a picture behind the gradient.
Help would be gratefully appreciated.
[EDIT] 1: I didn't installed Bourbon or Compass. I copied pasted the mixin code from their Github Background Image and Linear Gradient. I don't want to install any of them. I'm just looking for a custom mixin that work fine with both gradient and background image.
[EDIT] 2: In this thread I'm explaining who I tried to achieve my goal. It doesn't mean I want to use Bourbon's code or even Compass. I meant I'm looking for a mixin (custom) that works. I searched the web without any clue. The only answer I had was about Bourbon and Compass that's why I tried to copy paste the code.


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Q: UIWebView Delegate Deallocates in the Middle of didFinish Handler My UIViewController is getting deallocated in the middle of a delegate callback.  Here's what happens:

*

*UIWebView begins loading

*User presses cancel

*UIWebView begins sliding out

*The request finishes, calls the didFinish handler

*IN THE MIDDLE of the didFinish handler (like right between two lines of code) the viewcontroller runs dealloc

*Everything is deallocated, delegates cleared, web requests stopped

*The handler resumes in a deallocated state, causing a BAD_ACCESS exception

I've checked - everything is running on the main thread.
How do I make sure dealloc isn't called in the middle of my handler?
Side question - how is this not a problem with all delegates? This terrifies me.

A:
How do I make sure dealloc isn't called in the middle of my handler?

Don't release it in the middle of that callback. I would guess you're setting self.myWebView = nil, that releases the reference (unless it's declared assign), and if that is the end of its life cycle, i.e. would drop the retainCount to 0, it is deallocated immediately, in the middle of the callback. You can get around this by retaining the web view at the beginning of the method (or at least before you nil it) and autoreleaseing just before returning from the callback. The autorelease will wait until the callback finishes before processing the release. Or you can just not set that property to nil until some later time when you know it's safe.

A: Check if your webview is nil before releasing it.
if(_webView !=nil){
  if (_webView.isLoading) {
    [_webView stopLoading];
  }
    [_webView removeFromSuperview];
    _webView.delegate = nil;
    [_webView release];
    _webView = nil;
}


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.factory("cart", function () {
	var cartData = [];
	return {
		addProduct: function (id, name, price) {
			var addedToExistingItem = false;
			for (var i = 0; i < cartData.length; i++) {
				if (cartData[i].id == id) {
					cartData[i].count++;
					addedToExistingItem = true;
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!addedToExistingItem) {
				cartData.push({
					count: 1, id: id, price: price, name: name
				});
			}
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		removeProduct: function (id) {
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				if (cartData[i].id == id) {
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				}
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		getProducts: function () {
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This is a technique which is used mostly for shooting moving objects like sports cars. It involves rotational, horizontal, and vertical movements of images or videos. In order to get the best possible results, you must stay with the object while pressing the shutter button. It's a very old technique and requires a lot of patience to become an expert at.
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