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Q: Recommended Practice with Zend Framework's DB components? Here's a bit of context first:
I am writing a project in PHP using Zend Framework and I have some E/R diagrams from past meetings with the client. The database schema was written for MySQL and now it is time to implement my models in Zend. I am fairly new to Zend so I do not know how to start writing this code nicely.
The first thing I noticed while reading their documentation is that the quick guide used a data gateway pattern, but their Zend_DB reference page did not.
// Data Gateway Sample
// <application/models/UserMapper.php>
class Application_Model_UserMapper()
{
    // ... Methods to read/write from DB
}

// <application/models/DbTable/Users.php>
class Application_Model_DbTable_Users
{
    // Relationship infromation etc.
}

// <application/models/User.php>
class Application_Model_User
{
    // At last, model specific data
    // using UserMapper->find($id, $model);
}

After browsing stackoverflow for a little while in hope of finding pointers in how to most efficiently organize the models, I came across yet another different recommended solution.
Now the solution linked above looks very clean, but it still leaves a single question in my mind before I set off to write my code:
Should I use Row_Abstract subclasses to store the data model, or should I make separate models that have no other purpose but store data retrieved?
The latter one seems like a lot of duplicate effort (Model_DbTable, Model, Mapper, [Row?])
// What I have in mind
 // <application/models/DbTable/Users.php>
class Application_Model_DbTable_Users
{
    // Relationship infromation etc.
}

// <application/models/User.php
class Application_Model_User extends Zend_Db_Table_Row_Abstract
{
    // Model stuff here
    // Relationship fetch helpers here
    // ...?
}

// Perhaps a Rowset_Abstract class if it is ever needed?

A: The best practice I can recommand with Zend DB is ... don't use it. The components are very basic and do not help much. If you can, use Doctrine instead, which is a lot better.

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For a crunches ab workout, the technique is imperative in order for you to get the maximum work done. You don't want to cheat on the form and be just using your lower back when doing crunches.
The following are three easy steps to help you get the most out of doing crunches.
Step one, add some weight over the feet. This could be a plate, kettlebells, or dumbbells. We are using the weight to keep the hips and feet planted down to lift the upper body without our feet rocking up or down.
Step two, focus on a small range of movement. We aren't going all the way up or all the way down. You can place your hands up by your head or crossed your arms on the chest. And for more of a challenge, you can place a plate in your hands.
Step three, focus on your breathing. To get maximum results, it's important to focus on breathing. Exhale on the way up and inhale on the way down.
You can also add in a rotation.
This is a very simple exercise and very effective when you perform it correctly.
15 to 20 repetitions for each side if you are rotating. 30 to 50 if you are just moving straight up and down.
I'll going to break down the typical abdominal crunch and show why I think it's a great exercise and also why it may not be the best exercise when it comes to working the abdominals.
I'm also going to show you 6 other exercises that focus on different areas of the abdomen.
Let's take a look at a typical crunch and how it works the abdominals.
Typically, people end up doing crunches like they do sit ups. They tend to come all the way up and the go all the way back down. Done this way, you end up using a little bit of momentum and other muscle groups to pull yourself up. This isn't the best way to do a crunches ab workout. The problem with this is, you use muscles to lift the shoulder girdle up, but then you start to use other muscle groups to finish off the movement and take away some of the contraction on the abdominals.
When you do a crunch, focus on contracting the abdominals as if someone was about to punch you in the gut. Just go up so high as to take the shoulders off the mat. The abdominals are fully contracted here.
The crunch is a good exercise, but can be a little tricky to execute correctly when first learning to train the abs.
The following exercises are important for abdominal conditioning, core strength, and great for helping fix issues with posture and making sure you are fully training the abdominal region. These are good for if you play sports or just want to have more abdominal definition and shape in the abdominals.
The first exercise of the crunches ab workout is a cable pull down.
It may not look like I'm moving all that far here. I'm actually activating all the abs. Don't just pull all the way down to the ground. You want to just isolate the abs. So, it's a short movement that just works the abs. Exhale on the way down, inhale on the way up.
The next exercise of the crunches ab workout is for the lower abdominals. Working the lower abs can really help get you the v-shape.
This exercise works more the hips. Lay flat on the back and come straight up. The goal isn't to push the legs up. The point is to keep the legs up to add resistance. Pull the abs inward so that the hips curl up off the floor. Get the toes over the eye line level. You aren't using momentum here. The abs pull the hips forward.
Keep the hips fixed and rotate the upper torso. You could also use a cable or bands.
Next progression would be to keep the feet up in the air.
First, start with feet planted on the ground. You are working the internal and external obliques. This works to get a v-cut or tapering of the waist. Exhale and squeeze on each rep.
Use a swiss ball or stability ball to help stabilize the movement. We are moving away from a solid sturdy ground on the floor to now adding in an element that you need to control by stabilizing the muscles. You're working the key muscles that help you become more stable.
Sit about two thirds up on the ball so you can stretch out the abdomen. Do the same movement curling the hips.
The purpose of this exercise is to get the hips moving in the right way. Have the knees bent and bring the knees to chest.
Use a light weight and focus on good technique. You aren't using the arm to pull the arm down. Keep the arm fixed and focus on using the abs and obliques. This is just a small lateral motion.
Group these exercises together into a circuit. For example, Monday you could do Rope Pull Downs, Lying Leg Lifts, and Medicine Ball Rotations. Two to three sets of each. 20 to 30 repetitions. Then on Wednesday you could do the next 3 exercises - Balance Ball Crunches, Hanging Leg Raise, Side Cable Lateral Pull Downs. This allows your abs to work a variety of movements at different angles.


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Sharon Maria Suzanne Jaklofsky (born 30 September 1968 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a retired Dutch long jumper, who was born in Australia. A former heptathlete, she represented the Netherlands at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. There she reached the final, where she didn't manage to earn a correct jump.

Between 1994 and 2000 Jaklofsky gathered fourteen Dutch titles, mainly in the hurdles and long jump events, at indoor and outdoor championships.

Jaklofsky ran track collegiately at Louisiana State University.

Competition record

1No mark in the final

References
  Dutch Olympic Committee

External links

1968 births
Living people
Dutch female long jumpers
Dutch female hurdlers
Australian female long jumpers
Australian heptathletes
Australian people of Dutch descent
Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Dutch people of Australian descent
LSU Lady Tigers track and field athletes
Olympic athletes of the Netherlands
Athletes from Brisbane
World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia
World Athletics Championships athletes for the Netherlands
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade silver medalists for the Netherlands
Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games

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This property is downtown living at its finest. Located on Tarpon Ave it is a 5-minute walk to local restaurants, a wine bar, antique shops and more! Every first Friday of the month, Tarpon Ave. is filled with live music, vendors and more, bringing the community together for a fun event. If you want to spend the day at the beach, Fred Howard Park is only a 15-minute bike ride and one can get to the Pinellas bike trail within minutes. This neighborhood is safe, and jam packed with things to do from the Aquarium to spending the day at the historic Sponge docks. The property consists of 2 separate buildings. One is a single-family residence and the other structure on the property is a 4-plex building. Recent 4-points done showing all in great condition. Zoned for daily rentals as well so can be used at Air BnB. Not in a flood zone! The single-family residence is a 1080 sq ft one bedroom one bath completely renovated home that is referred to as "The Cottage". No detail was overlooked when this unit was remodeled including a New Roof that was installed June 2022! New flooring, stainless steel appliances, remolded kitchen and the furnishings convey with the sale. On the first story of the single family residence you also have a laundry room and a workshop/storage area. This home has also been recently painted both inside and out! The second building on the property is 3, 542 sq ft and consists of 4 units all currently rented. Three units are on annual leases and one that is rented as a vacation unit. The three units on annual leases consists of a 3/2, 2/1 and 1/1. The vacation unit is a 1/1. All units have its own private separate entrance. The landlord has never allowed smoking in any of the units, and all are pristine. The 3/2 bath unit has new stainless-steel appliances, a new shower, new fans and new counter tops. It also has been recently painted. This unit is on a two-year lease that ended 4/2024 and rents for $1900 a month. This unit also has its own porch giving the tenants the ability to sit outside while enjoying the sunset as well as central heat and a/c. The 2/1 bath unit has a long-term tenant that currently pays $1, 400 a month. This unit has been completely remodeled and also has its own laundry room as well as central heat and a/c. The 1/1 rents for $1, 100 a month and has long term tenants that have been renting the unit for over three years. The final unit in the main building is a fully furnished 1/1 with new flooring and has an 80% occupancy rate. Stainless steel appliances, a dishwasher and recently remodeled this unit must be seen. Average rent for this unit is $110 a night but during peak season it is $120 a night. Cap rate as presented is based on 80% occupancy rate at $110 a night. Plenty of off-street parking, 6 spaces total, as well as plenty of available street parking.
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Els regnes mitjans de l'Índia eren els ens polítics establerts a l'Índia a partir del , marcat per la continuïtat d'onades d'invasió dels pobles de l'Àsia Central i per l'expansió del budisme i que finalitzaren amb la conquesta islàmica.

Invasions del nord-est
A conseqüència de la desintegració de la dinastia Màuria durant el , el sud de l'Àsia es va convertir en una barreja d'estats. La Vall de l'Indus i el Ganges van atraure tot un seguit de pobles invasors entre els 200 aC i 300 dC. Els puranes (antics texts escrits en sànscrit) parlen de moltes d'aquestes tribus, estimades estrangeres i bàrbars impurs. En primer lloc els Satavahana i més tard l'imperi gupta, estats successors a l'imperi Màuria, van mirar de contenir l'expansió per alliberar-se de la pressió exercida per aquests nouvinguts.

Les tribus invasores van ser influenciades per la societat i les doctrines budistes del Ganges i van adoptar-les, cosa que va generar un pont cultural entre les dues cultures, la dels invasors i la dels satavahana i guptes. Aquest període està marcat pel creixement intel·lectual i artístic, inspirats per la difusió del sincretisme cultural, en l'inici de la Ruta de la Seda.

Regne indogrec

Al començament del 180 aC els indogrecs de Bactriana, es van instal·lar al Regne Indogrec i van ser coneguts com a iavanes (segurament per una manera de pronunciar ionis). Varen contribuir al desenvolupament de les arts, la religió i la numismàtica.

Poble escita

Els saces (o indoescites) van aconseguir arribar des de les estepes de l'Àsia central fins al riu Indus.

Regne indopar
Amb l'ascens dels parts, la Vall de l'Indus va caure novament sota la influència de Pèrsia, que van aconseguir conquistar el Regne Indoescita. El regne indopart fou fundat per Gondophares al voltant del 20 dC quan es va independitzar dels parts. Aquest darrer regne va durar poc temps, sent conquistat pels kuixans al 75 dC.

Les satrapies occidentals
Les dinasties occidentals governades pels sàtrapes sota els parts van exercir el control conservat en regions importants de l'oest eventualment governades en competència amb els kuixans i els satavahana.

Història de l'Índia
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Mane nobiscum Domine (pol. Zostań z nami, Panie) − list apostolski papieża Jana Pawła II z 7 października 2004, napisany z okazji Roku Eucharystii (październik 2004-październik 2005).

Treść
Papież zaadresował list o Eucharystii do biskupów, duchowieństwa i wszystkich wiernych. Dokument składa się z wprowadzenia, czterech rozdziałów i zakończenia:
 Wstęp
 Śladami Soboru i Jubileuszu
 Eucharystia Tajemnicą Światła
 Eucharystia źródłem i objawienie komunii
 Eucharystia początkiem i programem «misji»
 Zakończenie
Tytułem dokumentu autor uczynił słowa zaczerpnięte z Ewangelii według św. Łukasza z rodz. 24, werset 29. We wprowadzeniu papież podał powody napisania listu i zarazem ogłoszenia Roku Eucharystii: Międzynarodowy Kongres Eucharystyczny w Guadalajarze w Meksyku, Zgromadzenie Zwyczajne Synodu Biskupów w Rzymie oraz Światowy Dzień Młodzieży w Kolonii. Zgromadzenie synodalne miało odbyć się pod hasłem «Eucharystia źródłem i szczytem życia i misji Kościoła». Papież pragnął również, by młodzież gromadziła się wokół Eucharystii, która jest ośrodkiem życia, dla ożywienia swej wiary i entuzjazmu. List nie miał być próbą refleksji nad sakramentem, co papież uczynił już w encyklice Ecclesia de Eucharistia z 2003. Papież pokusił się o wytyczenie drogi, ukazanie perspektyw, które mogły pomóc w dobrym przeżyciu Roku Eucharystii. Dla Jana Pawła II ważnymi aspektami Eucharystii, na które należy zwrócić uwagę podczas trwania Roku Eucharystii, są: wymiar tajemnicy, wymiar proklamacji Słowa, wymiar uczty (celebracji), wymiar obecności i jej odczuwania, wymiar komunii wiernych z Chrystusem i między sobą, wymiar misyjny (dziękczynienie, solidarność, braterska służba). W zakończeniu papież przywołał postać Maryi, która całym swoim życiem ucieleśniała tajemnicę Eucharystii.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Polski tekst listu papieskiego

Listy apostolskie Jana Pawła II
Utwory literackie z 2004


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Rules of the Wild
In an excerpt from her first novel, "Rules of the Wild," Francesca Marciano portrays the seductive subculture of whites in Kenya -- and the addicting allure of Africa's vastness.
By Francesca Marciano
In a way everything here is always secondhand.
You will inherit a car from someone who has decided to leave the country, which you will then sell to one of your friends. You will move into a new house where you have already been when someone else lived there and had great parties at which you got incredibly drunk, and someone you know will move in when you decide to move out. You will make love to someone who has slept with all your friends.
There will never be anything brand-new in your life.
It's a big flea market; sometimes we come to sell and sometimes to buy. When you first came here you felt fresh and new, everybody around you was vibrant, full of attention, you couldn't imagine ever getting used to this place. It felt so foreign and inscrutable. You so much wanted to be part of it, to conquer it, survive it, put your flag up, and you longed for that feeling of estrangement to vanish. You wished you could press a button and feel like you had been here all your life, knew all the roads, the shops, the mechanics, the tricks, the names of each animal and indigenous tree. You hated the idea of being foreign, wanted to blend in like a chameleon, join the group and be accepted for good. Didn't want to be investigated. Your past had no meaning; you only cared about the future.
Obviously, you were mad to think you could get away with it without paying a price.
It's seven o'clock in the morning, and I smoke my first cigarette with sickening pleasure at the arrivals hall of Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi.
She is on the early-morning British Airways flight.
Her name is Claire, I have never seen her. I was told that she is blond, long-legged and sexy. She will be looking for me. She has probably been told to watch out for a dark-haired chain smoker with the look of a psychopath, or at least this is the only honest description that would fit me today.
I hate Claire, she is my enemy, even though we have never met. Yet I am here to greet her and welcome her as part of our family, the baboon group whose behaviour I have finally managed to make my own. I guess this is my punishment.
She has never lived here before, but she is coming to stay for good. She will eventually learn all the rules and turn into another specimen, like all of us. That is what everyone has to learn in order to survive here. She is coming to live with the man I am in love with, a man I haven't been able to hold on to. Another possession which slipped out of my hands to be snatched up by the next buyer.
The tourists start pouring through the gate, pushing squeaking carts loaded with Samsonite suitcases. They all wear funny clothes, as if each one of them had put on some kind of costume to match the ideal self they have chosen to be on this African holiday. The Adventurer, the White Hunter, the Romantic Colonialist, the Surfer. They are all taking a break from themselves.
She comes towards me looking slightly lost. I notice her long thin legs, her blond hair pulled tightly into a braid. Her skin is pale, still made up with London fog. She is wearing a flowery dress and a thick blue woolen sweater that makes her look slightly childlike. I wave my hand and she lights up. It's true: she is beautiful. She has destroyed my life.
It's like musical chairs, this secondhand game. When the music stops, one of us gets stuck with their bum up in the air. This time it must have been my turn.
I steer her cart out of the airport towards my old Landcruiser.
"Did you have a good flight?" I try a motherly tone.
"Oh God, yes. I slept like a log. I feel great." She smells the air. "Thank you so much for coming to pick me up at this hour. I told Hunter that I could have easily gotten a taxi --"
"Don't even say that. There's nothing worse than arriving in a place for the first time and having to start haggling for a cab. I believe in picking up people at airports. It's just one of those rules."
"Well, thanks." She smiles a friendly smile. "Wow, you drive this car?"
"Sure." I hop in and open the passenger seat while I hand a ten-shilling note to the porter. "Watch out, it's full of junk. Just throw everything on the back seat."
Claire looks slightly intimidated by the mess in the car. Tusker beer empties on the floor, muddy boots, a panga on the dashboard, mosquito nets, dirty socks, rusty spanners.
"I just came back from safari," I say matter-of-factly as I pull out on the main road.
She looks out the window at the grey sky hanging low over the acacias. Her first impression of Africa.
"What a nice smell. So fragrant."
She sits quietly for a few seconds, letting it all sink in, her weariness mixing with her expectations. Her new life is about to begin. I feel a pang in my stomach. I didn't think it would be this hard. As usual, I overestimated my strength.
"Have you heard from Hunter? He's still in Uganda, right?" I ask, knowing perfectly well where he is; I have memorized the hotel phone number.
"Yeah. He thinks he'll be back next week, unless there are problems at the border with the Sudanese troops. In which case he will have to go in."
She sounds so casual, the way she has picked up that hack slang, as if the outbreak of a war was the equivalent of a night club opening. Just something else to report, another two thousand words in print.
"Let's hope not." I add more of the motherly tone. "I'm sure you don't want to be left here alone for too long."
"I'll be all right. It's all so new, I'm sure I won't be bored." She turns to me and I feel her eyes scanning me. "I knew when he asked me to come here that he wouldn't be around a lot of the time," she adds nonchalantly.
She's tough, I can tell already, hard inside, under the fair skin and that blondness. She'll get what she wants.
"You live with Adam right?" -- to put me back in my place.
"Yes. He's still at the camp up north with the clients. I've just come back from there. You'll meet him when he comes down on Saturday."
"I've heard so much about him from Hunter. He sounds wonderful."
"He is wonderful."
We take the Langata road towards Karen. She looks out the window taking everything in: the tall grass shining under the morning sunlight that has pierced the clouds, the old diesel truck loaded with African workers which spits a cloud of black smoke in our face, the huge potholes. She will learn how to drive a big car, find her way around town, she will learn the names of the trees and the animals.
"I'll drop you at home, show you how to turn on the hot water and things like that, and then leave you to rest. If you need anything just call me, I live right around the corner from you."
"Thank you, Esme, you are being so kind."
She will fall asleep in the bed I know so well which is now hers.
I am glad to hate her. Now I will go home and probably cry.
This is a country of space, and yet we all live in a tiny microcosm to protect ourselves from it. We venture out there, and like to feel that we could easily get lost and never be found again. But we always come back to the reassuring warmth of our white man's neighbourhood in modern Africa. It's right outside Nairobi, at the foot of the Ngong hills where Karen Blixen's farm was. It's called Langata, which in Masai means "the place where the cattle drink."
There's no escape; here you know what everybody is doing. You either see their car driving around, or hidden under the trees in their lover's back yard, parked outside the bank, the grocery shop, filling up at the gas station. A lot of honking and waving goes on on the road. You bump into each other at the supermarket while you are shopping, the post office while paying your bills, at the hospital while waiting to be treated for malaria by the same sexy Italian doctor, at the airport where you are going to pick up a friend, at the car repair shop.
Even when you are out on safari, thousands of miles away from everybody, if you see a canvas green Landcruiser coming the other way, you look, assuming you'll know the driver, and most times you do. It's a comforting obsession. So much space around you and yet only that one small herd of baboons roaming around it.
This is our giant playground, the only place left on the planet where you can still play like children pretending to be adults.
Even though we pretend we have left them behind, we have very strict rules here. We sniff new entries suspiciously, evaluating the consequences that their arrival may bring into the group. Fear of possible unbalance, excitement about potential mating, according to the gender. Always a silent stir. In turn each one of us becomes the outcast and new alliances are struck. Everyone lies. There's always a secret deal that has been struck prior to the one you are secretly striking now. Women will team up together against a new female specimen if she's a threat to the family, but won't hesitate to declare war against each other if boundaries are crossed. It's all about territory and conquest, an endless competition to cover ground and gain control.
You always considered yourself better than the others, in a sense less corrupted by the African behaviour. You thought of yourself as a perfectly civilized, well-read, compassionate human being, always conscious of social rules. The discovery that you too have become such an animal infuriates you. At first you are humiliated by your own ruthlessness, then you become almost fascinated by it. The raw honesty of that basic crudeness makes you feel stronger in a way. You realize that there is no room, no time for moral indignation.
That this is simply about survival.
Nicole and I are having lunch in a joint off River Road, where you can get Gujarati vegetarian meals. You have to eat off your aluminum plate with your fingers. There is a lot of bright coloured plastic panelling, fans, flies, and a decor straight out of some demented David Lynch set. Wazungus, white people, never dream of coming here and that is exactly why we do, because we like the idea of two white girls having a lunch date on the wrong side of town.
"You look sick," Nicole says, gulping down chapati and dal. Her skin is a shade too pale for someone living in Africa and covered in a thin film of sweat. She's angular, beautiful in an offbeat way.
"I am sick."
"You have to get over it. I can't stand to see you like this."
She has just had a manicure at the Norfolk Hotel beauty salon and her nails are painted a deep blood red. She's wearing the same colour lipstick which is rapidly fading onto the paper napkin and the chapati, a skimpy skirt and a gauze shirt. Looks like she has just walked out of an interview for an acting job at the Polo Lounge in Hollywood and driven all the way to the equator in a convertible sports car.
"You didn't have to go pick her up at the airport. I mean, someone else could have."
"I guess I wanted to test myself. And in a way it was symbolic."
"Did Hunter ask you to do it?"
"Yes." I nod quickly. But it's a lie.
"I can't believe it. He's such a--"
"No. Actually it was my idea."
"You are sick."
"True. But it's all part of our private little war."
Nicole sighs and takes another mouthful of vegetable curry, her wavy hair hanging over the food.
"What does she do? I mean what is she planning to do here?"
"I haven't a clue. Articles for House and Garden? Maybe she will start a workshop with Kikuyu women and have them weave baskets for Pier One. She looks like she could be the crafty type ..."
"Oh please." Nicole laughs and lights a cigarette, waving her lacquered nails in the air. "She must be better than that."
I take a deep breath, fighting the wave of anxiety which is about to choke me. I am actually drugged by the raw pain. It is almost a pleasure to feel it inside me, like a mean wind on a sail that any minute could wreck me. If I survive it it will eventually push me to the other shore. If there is another shore.
I feel as if I have lost everything. It isn't just Hunter. I have also lost Adam, myself, and most of all I have shattered the silly dream I had about my life here: I have lost Africa.
"When I saw her this morning" -- I have to say this, to get it out of my system -- "the way she was looking at things, so full of excitement ... you know, everything must have seemed so new and different ... it reminded me of myself when I first came down here. Of the strength I had then. I felt like Napoleon on a new campaign, I wanted to move my armies here, you know what I mean?"
She nods; she's heard this a million times, but has decided to be patient because I guess she loves me. She knew beforehand that this lunch would require an extra dose of tolerance.
"She'll fight her battle, and learn the pleasure of annexing new territories. And I don't mean just sexually. She will start to feel incredibly free. Whereas I am already a prisoner here. Like you and all the others. We fought, we thought we had won something, but in the end we are all stuck here like prisoners of war. And we still can't figure out who the enemy was."
"Oh please, don't be so apocalyptic. You are just in a seriously bad mood. I think you need a break. Maybe you should go back to Europe for a while."
"Nicole, why is it that after so many years we don't have any African friends? Can you give me an answer? I mean, if you think about it --"
"What does that have to do with --"
"It does. We're like ghosts here; we can't contribute to anything, we don't really serve any purpose. We don't believe in this country. We are here only because of its beauty. It's horrifying. Don't you think?"
Nicole picks up my dark glasses from the table and tries them on, looking nowhere in particular.
"Look, there's no use talking about this again. I hate it when everybody gets pessimistic and irrational and starts ranting about living here."
She stares at me from behind the dark lenses, then takes them off and wipes them with a paper napkin.
"Haven't you noticed the pattern? We're like this bunch of manic-depressives. One moment we think we live in Paradise, next thing this place has turned into a giant trap we're desperate to get out of."
"Yes," I say, "it's like a roller-coaster."
"I think what we all do is project our anxieties onto the whole fucking continent. This has always been Hunter's major feature and you've just spent too much time listening to him. He loves to ruin it for everyone else because he hates the idea of being alone in his unhappiness. He will ruin it for Claire as well, just wait, you'll see."
This thought makes me feel slightly better. I am not in a position to rejoice at anybody's future happiness at the moment, I feel far too ungenerous. I am acting just like Hunter: working to create as much misery around me so that I don't feel completely left out.
Nicole smiles.
"Come to the loo. Then I'll take you to Biashara street. You need a bit of shopping therapy."
Nicole is cutting a line of coke on her compact mirror inside the pink Gujarati washroom. I envy the way she always seems to be completely unaffected by her surroundings and carries on living in the third world as if she's simply browsing through an ethnic sale at Harrod's.
She snorts quickly, holding back her curls.
"Wow! It's such bad stuff, but what the hell ..."
She watches me while I inhale my portion of rat poison, then puts on a naughty smile.
"We'll turn Claire onto this really bad coke and transform her into an addict, that's how we're going to get rid of her. We'll persecute her till she gets a bleeding nose."
I finally laugh. The rush makes me feel warmer. I'd like to hug Nicole now, but she is suddenly looking serious.
"You know, Esme, I never told you, but in a way I feel like I should tell you now ..."
"I did sleep with Hunter as well. Long before you came out here."
Her cheeks are lightly flushed. I drop my eyes from her face.
"I had a feeling you had," I say. But the revelation hasn't shocked or hurt me.
"Just because ... oh I don't know. Because of a certain intimacy you two always had."
"Do you mind me telling you only now?"
"No. It doesn't make any difference. Really."
We pause and smile at each other. I feel my heart hammering wildly, and the sudden urge for a cigarette. But I know it must be the cocaine, not her revelation. Strangely, if anything it makes me feel closer to her. She lights two cigarettes and hands me mine. We stand, our backs against the pink tiles, inhaling smoke and scouring powder.
"I am not unaware of what you said before, you know. We are all trapped in some kind of crazy white-people's game here," she says in a soft voice. "I just don't want to get completely engulfed in that kind of dissatisfaction because I don't have any alternatives."
"I wouldn't be able to go back to Europe and function at this point. That's what made me so unhappy about sleeping with Hunter, now that I think of it. I felt he was constantly drawing energy out of me. His bitterness was poisoning me; that's what made me get away from him."
"Hmmm ... I guess I am the one who has been poisoned now."
We stand in silence, smoking our cigarettes.
"I'll tell you exactly what it is that hurts, Nicole. The absolute certainty that I don't, and probably you don't either, have the determination, no, wait -- the faith -- to redeem someone like Hunter. We both would rather be poisoned than try to detox him. I never believed I had the power to make him happy. Isn't that stupid?"
"Why, what makes you think this girl will?"
"She has that strength. She will simply drive him out of whatever hole he's trapped in and bring him to the surface. She will love him, it's as simple as that."
"You love him too."
"But she's fearless. Young. And she will have his children."
"Yes. She's a breeder ..."
"Right. We are not."
"No. We'd rather snort coke in the loo."
We pause, meditate for a few seconds. Then we do another line and go shopping.
I have to go one step back and try to put things in order. To fabricate some excuses for myself.
You have tried to leave before.
You have woken up in your bed in the middle of the winter, rain furiously pounding on the mabati roof, and felt like everything including your brain was turning to mould. You hate the idea of being so far away, forgotten by your friends at home, oblivious to the political changes in the world. You are starved for magazines, sophisticated conversation, films and good clothes. The person lying next to you is a man who was born here, for whom all that is simply nonexistent. Before falling asleep he has told you how much he loves the sound of the rain pounding on the tin roof at night, how it reminds him of his childhood. You hear him breathing peacefully, wrapped up in the blanket while you are going mad. In the morning you walk out in the garden, holding your hot mug of coffee close to your chin, your last good pair of boots deep in the thick mud. You feel as if your entire soul is going under. Everything around you has the bitter taste of decay: the mangoes rotting in the basket, the corrupted policeman at the roadblock who wants a bribe to let you pass, the headlines in the paper about new tribal massacres in the desert and piles of bodies liquefying in the heat. Suddenly the hardness of Africa reveals itself to you. Senseless and without redemption.
When you look in the mirror your face looks drained, armored, no trace of lightness left. You look older. That's when you think there may still be time to save yourself.
You want to leave. And you believe you will never come back.
Nobody is happy to let you escape, since everyone shares the symptoms of your disease. Someone will take you malcontentedly to the airport, in full Kenyan style, still wearing shorts and sandals, opening one Tusker beer after another, hitting the cap on the door handle and throwing the dripping empties on the back seat. They will sway and swear overtaking matatu buses on the way, they will be rude with the porters who are too slow to take your luggage.
You don't care.
You are already on the other side of the ocean, shielded by what's left of your good European clothes, the list of phone calls you have to make tomorrow.
You are out of here.
You check in with a smile, handing your ticket to the pretty stewardess in flawless uniform, the efficiency of Europe already welcoming you behind the airline counter.
You think you will come back, sure, but just as a tourist, to see your friends and your ex-lovers. To see all the places you loved. The Chyulu hills, Lake Turkana, the beach of Lamu, the Ewaso Nyiro River.
You don't know yet that you won't be able to get away.
So many people have tried to define the feeling the French call mal d'afrique which in fact is a disease. The English never had a definition for it, I guess because they never liked to admit that they were being threatened in any way by this continent. Obviously because they preferred the idea of ruling it rather than being ruled by it.
Only now I realize how that feeling is a form of corruption. It's like a crack in the wood which slowly creeps its way in. It gradually gets deeper and deeper until it has finally split you from the rest. You wake up one day to discover that you are floating on your own, you have become an independent island detached from its motherland, from its moral home base. Everything has already happened while you were asleep and now it's too late to attempt anything: you are out here, there's no way back. This is a one-way trip.
Against your will you are forced to experience the euphoric horror of floating in emptiness, your moorings cut for good. It is an emotion which has slowly corroded all your ties, but it is also a constant vertigo you will never get used to.
This is why one day you have to come back. Because now you no longer belong anywhere. Not to any address, house, or telephone number in any city. Because once you have been out here, hanging loose in the Big Nothing, you will never be able to fill your lungs with enough air.
Africa has taken you in and has broken you away from what you were before.
This is why you will keep wanting to get away but will always have to return.
Then, of course, there is the sky.
There is no sky as big as this one anywhere else in the world. It hangs over you, like some kind of gigantic umbrella, and takes your breath away. You are flattened between the immensity of the air above you and the solid ground. It's all around you, 360 degrees: sky and earth, one the aerial reflection of the other. The horizon here is no longer a flat line, but an endless circle which makes your head spin. I've tried to figure out the trick that lies behind this mystery, because I don't see any reason why there should be more sky in one place than in another. Yet I haven't been able to discover what is the optical illusion that makes the African sky so different from any other sky you have seen in your life. It could be the particular angle of the planet at the equator, or maybe the way clouds float, not above your head, but straight in front of your nose, sitting on the lower border of the umbrella, just on top of the horizon. Those drifting clouds which constantly redesign the map: in one glance you can see a rainstorm building up north, the sun shining in the east, and grey sky in the west which is bound to turn blue any minute. It's like sitting in front of a giant TV screen looking at a cosmic weather report.
You are travelling north, towards the NFD, the legendary North Frontier District, and suddenly it's as if you were looking at the landscape through the wrong side of binoculars. The ultimate wide-angle lens, which compresses the infinite within your field of vision. Your eyes have never cast a glance so far.
Flat land that runs all the way to the distant purple profile of the Matthews Range and then, just when you thought you had reached an end to the space, right when you imagined that the landscape would close itself around you again, that you would feel less exposed, another curtain lifts up to reveal more vastness, and your eyes still can't catch the end of it.
More land stretching obediently under your tires, offering itself to be crossed. Your tracks become the endless flag of your conquest. You fill your lungs with the dry smell of hot rocks and dust, and you feel like you are breathing the universe.
You see yourself as you are driving into this grandiose absolute geometry: you are just a tiny dot, a minuscule particle advancing very slowly. You have now drowned in space, you are forced to redefine all proportions. You think of a word that hasn't occurred to you in years. It sprouts from somewhere inside you.
You feel humble. Because Africa is the beginning.
There is no shelter here: no shade, no walls, no roofs to hide under. Man has never cared to leave his mark on the land. Just tiny huts made of straw, like birds' nests that the wind will easily blow away.
You can't hide.
Here you are, under that burning sun, exposed. You realize that all you can rely on now is your body. Nothing you have learned in school, from television, from your clever friends, from the books you have read, will help you here.
Only now do you become aware that your legs are not strong enough to run, your nostrils can't smell, your eyesight is too weak. You realize you have lost all your original powers. When the wind blows the acrid smell of the buffalo in your nose, a smell you had never smelled before, you recognize it instantly. You know that its smell has always been here. Yours on the other hand is the result of many different things, from sunblock to toothpaste.
Le mal d'afrique is vertigo, is corrosion, and at the same time is nostalgia. It's a longing to go back to your childhood, to the same innocence and the same horror, when everything was still possible and every day could have been the day you die.
As I said, I am making excuses for myself.
I am trying to put everything on a grander scale, in order to feel that I haven't lost all I have lost for nothing. I have been driven out of the Garden of Eden but the apple wasn't something I wanted to eat out of simple greediness. Now I know that no human being will ever resist that temptation.
Francesca Marciano
Francesca Marciano is a documentary filmmaker who divides her time between Kenya and Italy. "Rules of the Wild" is her first novel. This excerpt was published with permission of the author and the publisher from "Rules of the Wild," by Francesca Marciano, published by Pantheon Books, ) 1998 by Francesca Marciano.
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Smalt is a blue pigment composed of cobalt-containing glass ground into a powder. Recent research at the National Gallery, studying the elemental composition of smalt in paintings in the collection through quantitative analysis, has raised new research questions. Some interesting differences in cobalt content that show trends over time were observed, as well as variations in the elements associated with it, both of which may perhaps relate to aspects of the history of its manufacture, such as preparation of the ore, or different recipes. Other variations in composition that seem to correlate with differences in its stability between different batches of smalt on the same paintings have been noted on paintings.
This project will help us better understand the history of this pigment, and ultimately the implications for interpretation of results from examination of smalt in National Gallery paintings, in terms of dating, but also in terms of artists' intention, by being able to define more effectively the choices that were made, such as the use of different grades of the pigment either for aesthetic or economic reasons.


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Books, articles, and a blog by the music critic of The New Yorker
Blogs (All-Over)
Blogs (Music)
CD Picks
Critics and Music Sites
New Music Links
New Yorker Culture Desk
NewMusicBox
NPR Classical
NY Times Music
For an Audio Guide, go here.
Best Books of Fall — Time
"A joy for a pop fan or a classical aficionado. " — New York Times
"A celebration of what it means to be alive in a world of great music." — Kirkus Reviews
"He avoids jargon, he explains, he writes in real language. He reminds me of my other favorite music critic, Bernard Shaw." — Roger Ebert
My second book, Listen to This (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Picador, Fourth Estate/HarperCollins), offers a panoramic view of the musical scene, from Bach to Björk and beyond. In the Preface, I say that the aim is to "approach music not as a self-sufficient sphere but as a way of knowing the world." I treat pop music as serious art and classical music as part of the wider culture; my hope is that the book will serve as an introduction to crucial figures and ideas in classical music, and also give an alternative perspective on modern pop. Listen to This includes material already published in The New Yorker as well as pieces written or heavily revised for the occasion. The first chapter, from which the title comes, appeared in the magazine in 2004. The second chapter, "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," is entirely new—a rapid-moving history of music told through bass lines. The third chapter, "Infernal Machines," weaves together various thoughts on music and technology. And it goes from there, touching on Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Brahms, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Sonic Youth, Cecil Taylor, and a dozen others. At the back of the book is a 4000-word survey of recommended recordings. The audiobook version, which I recorded myself, contains more than thirty musical selections. Translations are available from Bompiani in Italy (Senti questo), Seix Barral in Spain (Escucha esto), Companhia das Letras in Brazil (Escuta só), and Actes Sud in France. The book has won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for music writing and the 2015 music-book prize from the Syndicat de le Critique, and was a runner-up for the PEN Art of the Essay award.
Click here for twenty pages of audio samples.
Click here to read about my bass-lines lecture.
Click here for a Glossary of Terms.
Click here for reviews.
An explanatory video with Ethan Iverson, Rebecca Ringle, and Tyondai Braxton:
1. Listen to This: Crossing the Border from Classical to Pop
2. Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History
3. Infernal Machines: How Recordings Changed Music
4. The Storm of Style: Mozart's Golden Mean
5. Orbiting: Radiohead's Grand Tour
6. The Anti-Maestro: Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles Philharmonic
7. Great Soul: Searching for Schubert
8. Emotional Landscapes: Björk's Saga
9. Symphony of Millions: Classical Music in China
10. Song of the Earth: The Arctic Sound of John Luther Adams
11. Verdi's Grip: Opera as a Popular Art
12. Almost Famous: On the Road with the St. Lawrence Quartet
13. Edges of Pop: Kiki and Herb, Cecil Taylor and Sonic Youth, Sinatra, Kurt Cobain
14. Learning the Score: The Crisis in Music Education
15. Voice of the Century: Marian Anderson
16. The Music Mountain: Mitsuko Uchida at Marlboro
17. The End of Silence: John Cage
[chapter added for paperback and European editions]
18. I Saw the Light: Following Bob Dylan
19. Fervor: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
20. Blessed Are the Sad: Late Brahms
Audio Guides for Books
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Q: connect to sql server 2008 r2 FILESTREAM from remote system I'm developing a online document management application for my client using the following technologies

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*Front End - VB.Net 2010 (Windows Forms)

*Back End - SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (FILESTREAM enabled to level 3)

I wanted to store the files (*.pdf, *.doc, *.exe, .) using the FILESTREAM feature in SQL Server 2008 R2.
I prefer FILESTREAM because sometimes the file size exceeds 2GB.
I'm able to save and retrieve file with FILESTREAM (using Windows Authentication/Integrated Security).
But my client wants to save or retrieve the file from different PC.
So I'm in need of accessing the FILESTREAM BLOB from remote systems.
Kindly help me to achieve my requirement.
Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestions.

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*An Introduction To SQL Server FileStream

*FILESTREAM Overview
Like any other feature in SQL Server, once you've connected to the SQL Server from any machine, you can use its features. There's no difference between "local" and "remote" systems...... all client machines are "remote" as far as the SQL Server machine is concerned....


Following 2009's highly acclaimed "Art of Invention" and the earth shattering "My Style", Jair Dynast's introduces his tribute to talented people worldwide with his new music single "The Gifted Kids". Sharing his past and present as one of "the gifted kids" Jair implores talented kids everywhere to embrace their talents and carve a path for themselves like those before them.
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import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import * as D3 from 'd3'
import * as ChartClient from '../../ChartClient'
import * as Navigator from '@framework/Navigator';
import { ColumnOption, FilterOptionParsed } from '@framework/Search';
import { hasAggregate } from '@framework/FindOptions';
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import { parseLite, SearchMessage } from '@framework/Signum.Entities';
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import { useThrottle, useSize, useAPI, areEqual } from '@framework/Hooks';
import { ChartRequestModel } from '../../Signum.Entities.Chart';
import { DashboardFilter } from '../../../Dashboard/View/DashboardFilterController';

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Hairtrigger lake is one of those rare jewels of a lake. The fishing is only adequate and the hike is long one, but take a look folks. Its got to be one of the prettiest lakes on the island and a bright jewel in the crown of strathcona park. This is one of the premier spots on the whole plateau, the journey is worth it, the end result is incredible.
Hairtrigger lake is located in the forbidden plateau area of strathcona park. The scenery is absolutely stunning, breath taking even. The trees, the meadows, the mountains and snowfields are just beautiful. Take a walk and see nature at its finest.
The lake is stocked with rainbows every few years and there are a few campsites for your use. The fish are small but tasty, the campsites are rough but that's OK. This is a great spot to make a base camp, from here you can head up onto the Comox glacier or into many other deeper areas of the plateau.
The views from this lake of the mountains and Ice fields will stop you in your tracks and take your breath away, looking towards the mountains, the end of the lake seems to just drop off into space and you wonder what's holding the lake in. The first time i saw this, i had to sit and stare with wonder at its awesomeness. Its quite the view.
This is one of the prettiest lakes on the forbidden plateau. When you are at this lake, watch for the whiskey jacks, they will eat out of your hand, they will eat almost anything, but i have found they really enjoy pepperoni and granola bars, so stock up on these before heading up.


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Marco Rubio: The State of the Union Is Glurge
Filed to: America's screaming conscience
America's screaming conscience
Kendrick Meek
Last night, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) got cottonmouthed, wiped and licked his lips and finally interrupted his delivery of the GOP response to the State of the Union to bend over and drink some water. By now, you've read someone explaining why this proves Rubio is not presidential material. Or is. Whatever.
Marco Rubio's Nervous Sip of Water Is the Only Thing Anyone Will Remember About His State of the Union Response
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio gave the Republican response to Obama's State of the Union speech…
Rubio looked goofy. It was funny. Looking goofy isn't really a big deal, though. Liberals spent the last decade cheering the elfin Dennis Kucinich, while conservatives embraced Texas patriot-leprechaun Ron Paul. The goofiest-looking motherfucker in American history was Abraham Lincoln. The guy was made out of seven feet of beard, bones, and hat blocking. Goofiness is a small hurdle for people with ideas. Rubio's speech proved that he doesn't have any.
This was supposed to be Rubio's coming out party. Beltway handicapping figures that Rubio stands a good shot in 2016, so this was a moment for him to evoke big ideas and inspire feelings. He was potentially enough of a savior for the Republican Party that he felt compelled to deny it:
There is only one savior, and it is not me. #Jesus
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 7, 2013
Two more denials and he could worry less about the Jesus comparisons and more about Caesar.
Rubio needed this speech to live up to the story spun about him, but the "chosen one" narrative has always obscured a weird story. Rubio's ascent to the Senate wasn't so much a matter of destiny as it was a series of lucky breaks. He won in a year of depressed voter turnout. He faced a Democratic opponent, Kendrick Meek, who was, at best, probably the fourth choice of the state Democratic Party (after Alex Sink, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and a handful of third-stringers). Then there was the independent candidate, Charlie Crist, who bowed out of the GOP primary after Rubio posed a strong challenge.
Crist kneecapped himself among Republicans by supporting Obama's 2009 stimulus bill at the moment Florida most needed it but also at the moment that paranoia about Obama was at its zenith. For whatever reason—that he's black, a Democrat, a Yankee—Obama was anathema, and Crist did a deal with him. It didn't matter that Crist was still the state's chief executive and that Obama was someone sitting in Washington. Florida's current governor spent more time running for the office in 2010 against Obama than against Democratic candidate Alex Sink. It didn't matter that it didn't make sense.
Into this mess strode Rubio, first as Crist's primary opponent and then as the GOP nominee. And from the moment it was officially a three-way race between Crist, Rubio, and Meek, plenty of Florida wonks assumed Crist was doomed. Lefties stung by Crist's crippling property tax cuts (Florida has no income tax) bore him no love, and the deal with Obama was a final shove rightward for conservatives. The Tea Party gathered around Rubio, and he was only too happy to smile and pretend to not be scared shitless by people carrying around papier-mâché TREES OF LIBERTY soaked with the POSTER PAINT OF TYRANTS.
Rubio got lucky in other ways. Despite being Speaker of the Florida House when it was among the most corrupt state governments in America, despite thousands of dollars of potentially misused campaign funds being paid out to his family, despite abusing state GOP credit cards, despite being best buddies with a man accused of bribery and misuse of funds, and despite being the sort of "fiscal restraint" wizard who defaulted on a mortgage during the campaign, nothing touched him. No one was paying attention to Kendrick Meek, and the corruption investigation into former Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer overshadowed any interest in Rubio's potential sins with its "Borgia popes" levels of excess. (The Greer saga was still going on as of Tuesday.)
So when Rubio's speech started to falter last night, it was easy for people who follow Florida politics to shrug and say, "What did you expect?" The destiny storyline was always bullshit. Rubio is a career hack who won a deeply paranoid election against two guys who couldn't win, in a state so fucked up that almost no sub-Greer level of venality would be broadly objectionable. And after you strip away the investigations, there's not much left to the man. Rubio's always been described as a kind of visionary or idealist about the party, someone who gets a lumpy throat thinking about America. You can even read a book he wrote sort of on the subject, 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future, which he crowdsourced by conducting town halls ("Idearaisers") around the state. It's atrocious, but more to the point, it's a huge collection of generic GOP boilerplate, vague aspirations, and piddly shit. State budget amendments and energy-based tax incentives! Florida should have, like, a really good university! Let's make it hard for sex offenders to nab kids on MySpace!
100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future
All that visionary stuff thrown his way mostly boils down to his way of sounding deeply moved when saying keywords like "freedom" and "America." You saw it last night, where Rubio almost instantly came out of the gate with glistening eyes, already overwhelmed. If you ever saw a Prose Interpretation in a high school forensics tournament, you know exactly what it sounds like: that one girl who always put on a southern accent and read that story about speaking to the flowers like they were her dead daddy and asking, "D'yuh still luv me daddeh? D'yuh still luv Amerca? Sing to me, daddeh, through thuh peregrinatin' cry of that Cooper's Hawk."
It went on in this leadenly tacky way for 2,600 words. Rubio opened by tying the desire of the impoverished to immigrate to America with anti-abortion sentiment, claiming that "America is exceptional because we believe that every life, at every stage, is precious, and that everyone everywhere has a God-given right to go as far as their talents and hard work will take them." America is different from another nations, because our economic engine is driven by creating opportunity every time we de-fund access to birth control.
Most of it could have been 2012 campaign boilerplate. We must lower the farcically loophole-ridden corporate tax rate. Obama hates rich people, and taxing rich people will hurt the middle class more than cutting middle-class services and raising middle-class taxes would, so let's do that instead. Obamacare kills businesses. Obama will destroy Medicare and Social Security. All this could have come from Googling anything Paul Ryan has said in the last nine months. Rubio claimed that Obama "believes [free enterprise is] the cause of our problems," the sort of reductively hacky portrayal of Obama's attitude toward the 2007-8 financial crisis that Ryan was selling. America needs middle class jobs but not regulation, despite the fact that working in regulation is a solidly middle class job. In fact, a great deal of government work is. These are phantom jobs. They don't count, because Marcopaul Ryanubio looked sternly at them and said, "Nuh-uh."
But the real money shot of the night—aside from that silliness about a water bottle—was Rubio declaring, "More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them." Minutes later Rubio sang the praises of the federal financial aid that sent him to college, and the Medicare that "provided [his] father the care he needed to battle cancer and ultimately die with dignity. And it pays for the care [his] mother receives now." Okay!
The bottled water moment offered the D.C. commentariat the worst kind of low-hanging fruit, yielding a ton of easy jokes and no actual thinking. "GAFFE BAD," screamed Beltway Twitter, before stalking off on the unbent Frankenstein legs of a creature that just took a lightning bolt to the head. For a political class demanding substance instead of shallow observation, it giddily embraced the latter, even nonsensically. Leaving aside that this was Rubio's big test, his big moment, the unofficial kickoff to his 2016, the man got cottonmouth—big deal. If you insist on hammering him on the basis of "optics," maybe focus on the fact that he spent 10 minutes reading a recycled 2012 Paul Ryan stump speech while threatening to weep at America until it rescued itself.
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The Seven Deadly Sins Season 4- Release Date, Trailer and More Info
The Seven Deadly Sins Season 4
The Seven Deadly Sins: Season 3 Recap
Will there be a season 4 of The Seven Deadly Sins?
What's in store from season 4 of The Seven Deadly Sins
Following a long three-year pause, the raving successful anime – The Seven Deadly Sins returns for a full season. With fans binge watching their way through season 3, we're as of now being asked when season 4 will get released. Here's all that we think about season 4 of The Seven Deadly Sins.
The Seven Deadly Sins depends on the manga novels of a similar name. Written by writer Nakaba Suzuki, the story is set in an anecdotal adaptation of the British Isles. In the kingdom of Liones, the residents of the land are ensured by the 'Holy Knights'. The request for the Holy Knights has the absolute most noteworthy and most grounded heroes of the land. The story starts 10 years after a gathering of Holy Knights is framed for organizing a coup against the crown.
In the endeavor to reestablish harmony to the land, Princess Elizabeth searches out The Seven Deadly Sins: exactly the same knights that had been on the run for as long as 10 years. With their assistance, Elizabeth accepts she can take harmony and flourishing back to the kingdom of Liones. You can watch this and many other shows on any good online streaming site as well.
To dodge disarray Netflix recorded the 4 OVA episodes as Season 2, some will argue what has been recorded as season 3 is in truth season 2 however we're following the format that Netflix has chosen to follow.
After The Seven Deadly Sins had crushed Hendrickson he wasn't vanquished. Doing the strategic was set, Hendrickson free's the trapped members of the demon clan known as 'The Ten Commandments'. The commandments before long sent Brittania into tumult as they attacked the kingdoms of Liones and Camelot. In case you have missed the season 3 then you can stream or download torrent from various websites as well.
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The season ended with Meliodas returning and savagely killing Fraudrin the caring leader of the Ten Commandments. It was uncovered that Melodias is reviled with everlasting status and is the child of the Demon King. The plan of the demon lord is to benefit from the feelings of Meliodas therefore picking up the power he needs to return and conquer the human domain. You can read about the season 3 episode 6 details as well to know more!
After his fight with Fraurdrin, Meliodas is upset by the response Ban gave him after his triumph. After the devastation of the Boar's head, Meliodas discovers some meat and liquor to appreciate alone however he is joined by Elizabeth. He communicates his anxiety to her that he delighted in killing Fraudrin. And is stressed that to save Elizabeth's life he may need to return to the demon he used to be. Holding him in her arms Elizabeth discloses to him that regardless of what happens she will never walk out on him.
There will be a fourth season of The Seven Deadly Sins because of the measure of story left to cover. For those fully informed regarding the Manga will have had their brains passed up the 'ending' to The Seven Deadly Sins manga…
It's muddled if the fourth season will turn into the last season of The Seven Deadly Sins considering there are a little more than 110 chapters remain. Be that as it may, if we are to consider the measure of story and all the fighting compacted into those chapters. Then there's no motivation to accept why every last bit of it can't be condensed into two additional seasons.
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A fourth season has formally been affirmed on account of the announcement made in Chapter 310 of the manga! This implies we were pretty spot on with our forecast for a potential Netflix release date. The fourth season will be known as The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods.
It's difficult to broadly expound to what is expected of season 4. That too without dropping spoilers from the manga. However the following can be expected:
The kingdom of Camelot has tumbled to Zeldris and different commandments. With King Arthur in hiding is this the end of Camelot? Numerous insider facts and disclosures will be uncovered as Meliodas' relationship with Elizabeth takes an unexpected turn. As Meliodas faces more challenges to secure Elizabeth will we see him at long last surrender to his demon structure? With the Seven Deadly Sins isolated over the kingdom, they should join indeed to assume the waiting risk of the demon clan.
Watch the amazing trailer-
When will season 4 of The Seven Deadly Sins be released on Netflix?
The fourth season of The Seven Deadly Sins is part of the way through broadcasting in Japan, taking a short break over the holidays, with the staying planned to be communicated from the eighth of January, 2020.
Like the past season, The Seven Deadly Sins will air the latest episodes weekly in Japan. This starts on the 22nd of September and with the 2-week Christmas break. The season finale will air on March 25th, 2020. Let's hope the season 4 brings a lot of amazing action to us!
Seven Deadly Sins Season 4
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The first B2Q mode, wanshang remit to new tricks in the B2B field
Apr 10, 2018 Scott MacomberIndustry
(text/Zhang Huiqian)
B2B, B2C, O2O… In the Internet industry, these words are quite familiar. Right now, wanshang hui has come up with a new word — B2Q, what is the meaning of this? B2Q pattern namely Enterprise online shopping introduce quality control, is the Enterprise introduces quality control of online shopping. Specific operation way is online first intention deal contract, both parties sign the bill can be introduced into the third party according to the needs of the buyer after (inspection, inspection, equipment debugging) engineers commodity quality inspection and after-sale installation services. This is a new service model based on e-commerce platform, the concept first proposed by wanshang remit, wanshang exchange platform itself also adopt the B2Q mode.
wanshang remit guo-jian Yang was born in the 70 s, the founder of the entity enterprise, beginning in 2003, he founded a fire-fighting equipment production company, currently has 70 patents and three confidential technology, sinopec, petrochina, the suppliers of companies such as baosteel, the momentum of development is still in good condition. Before it can be said that his career is quite a successful, why will shift to set up an Internet project? Guo-jian Yang tell hunting cloud network, open his own company ten years, think found many problems, also hope I can try my best to solve problems.
it is in the field of commodities trading, most people like to form a circle, find relatively familiar counterparties, guo-jian Yang hopes to change the status quo of the relational social marketing, so there is a possibility of development. Second, in the Internet boom now, a lot of small and medium-sized enterprises are hard to blend in the Internet, really rely on the Internet to solve practical problems, wanshang remit hope to provide a platform for the small and medium-sized enterprises, and B2Q pattern is to make this platform will be more sincere and effective.
wanshang hui business is the basis of electricity, on the basis of this to B2Q mode. In the process of trading, the buyer may choose to have aptitude in the platform according to need of third-party engineer, the deal on both the buyer and the seller to check goods, third-party engineers use their expertise and experience to provide goods to the buyer to a great extent quality after checking information to get the commission. The seller can counter to different goods to hire professional engineers to provide on-site installation, commissioning and subsequent equipment after-sales service, save a lot of manpower material resources. For the occupancy of the third party engineer, wanshang hui will pass qualification, registered engineers are cooperating with platform, in the form of part-time distribution throughout the country. Through the platform to realize the online order, offline for an employer to provide professional and efficient service.
wanshang gathered into officially launched on September 25, 2014, on the platform at present existing supplier about a player, twelve thousand registered engineers, has completed 14 million turnover, now site visits at around $ten thousand a day on average. Wanshang hui also opened a Chinese bank cicc pay as a means of payment platform, can undertake large pay, and in order to restrict the buyer and the seller, you can pay by instalments, provides the convenience for both parties. Guo-jian Yang told cloud network hunting, wanshang collect later goal is to do a one-stop full service platform, but now need to do B2Q business well.
at present, the company has a total of 16 people, guo-jian Yang personal investment accounts for most of the proportion, and another shareholder's 5 million shareholders of a company is only two of them now. Founder said current seeking financing, but the main is hoping to find partners in the Internet resources, fund out of place in the key consideration.


Really? My car has apparently now become a bee's nest.
FYI – it isn't the greatest photo because I was freaking out a little and wanted to make sure that these two (and the others flying around them) were definitely on the outside. Note Angry Bee #1 in lower left corner and Angry Bee #2 in upper right corner. It is not on the tree in the background. It is viciously attacking my driver-side window. Ok I'm being a baby.
So is my car doubling as a bee apartment complex now? I don't think so.
What is going on with my windshield?
Have I turned into an insect Über driver?
Even on WordPress/Gravatar I worry about my profile pic. I started out as a duck. That's not exactly true. I have always been a human. But I started out with a profile pic of a duck, thinking that my blog will be anonymous. The anonymity lasted about a week, but the duck stayed longer.
Here was, and still is, my dilemma. Have people associated me with a duck? If I post and change my photo will readers still know who I am or will they drop me like a hotduck? I mean a hotcake?
At some point, I decided to be a human on my blog. I couldn't quite bring myself to be really me, so I used a cool filter that I've already forgotten where I found, so you see a version of me with what at the time was a new haircut/style.
It's only a couple of years old, but already doesn't look like me. Even without the filter.
What do you do? I see a lot of people with old photos, or cartoon photos, or flowers. How and why did you pick those? Do you feel it's too arrogant to post a pic of yourself as your profile photo? Do you not like how you look?
Let's face it. No one says "Wow here's an idea. I'll find my worst picture ever and make that my profile pic." Which, now that I think of it, would be kind of fun. But only if someone else did it. I'm way too insecure for that.
How often do you change your photo? And why? These aren't rhetorical questions, I really want to know.
On social media, it's completely different for me. I change my profile and cover photos on Facebook all the time. Sometimes they are me, sometimes they are of a place I've visited, sometimes they are a saying. Like GO ARMY BEAT NAVY.
On Google at work, I made my profile pic a crazy photo of me at my baptism.
I think this is hysterical and wonder why my parents ever chose the one where I'm thinking WHAAAAAAA? But for my non-English speaking students, it's easy to find my page. If they spell Knowles wrong (the kn combination tends to throw non-English speakers for a loop), they can still find me. A unique baby picture is not the one most teachers choose as their profile pic on Google.
Sidenote: One thing I hate about getting older is driver license photos. The photo I thought was horrid eight years ago looks great to me now.
To change or not change one's profile pic…..that is the question.
Sometimes, when I'm driving my husband crazy, I think the world is divided into two halves. Those who have ADHD and those who live with those wild, crazy and fun-loving people who don't. You can tell which half I belong to.
It can be so frustrating to be on either side of this equation. It feels liberating to me to leave for work and get in my car and go wherever I'm intending to go and actually have everything I need with me. I don't even mind going back inside once for my keys. I'll roll my eyes when going back again for my phone. I'm furious at myself when I have to make my third trip back for my travel mug of coffee. Then I'm disgusted with myself when I'm at work and realize my lunch bag is on the kitchen table at home.
So imagine how my husband feels? Actually, I can't. It was probably cute on our first couple of dates. And an eccentricity which wasn't a big deal until we lived together. I bet he can count on one hand the number of times he has had to go back into the house because he has forgotten something. His ability to get everything together in one shot is rather annoying, actually.
By the way, I'm just referring to walking to the car, getting in it, turning it on (if I haven't left the keys inside) and then realizing something that I need, like my phone/bag/lunch bag/coffee/work papers/gloves/brain are still inside.
On my commute, I have a traffic light that I use as my last opportunity to turn around and return to the house to get something I left. Literally the point of no return.
Right now I am visualizing the ADD/ADHD readers nodding their heads and saying Yesssss! And the family members of the ADD/ADHD wonderful people, sighing and thinking how even reading this is putting them in a bad mood.
Oh I'm assuming that everyone knows that ADD is attention deficit disorder and ADHD is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. I think I'm in the first category. I can sit still for 45 minutes to an hour. While mentally going through everything I've forgotten.
I'm getting a little better. Forget my iPhone, though. I rarely remember to put anything in the calendar on the phone. Unless it's something that repeats daily. Like my noon prayer. But even with the home calendar, it's a challenge to remember walking from one room to the next what I want to jot down on the kitchen calendar.
I never did remember what I was supposed to do a couple of weeks ago on the 11th. But I haven't received any phone calls so I guess I'm in the clear.
Colleague: Do you have your keys? Do you have your bag? Do you have your coffee? Do you have your phone?
To all family members, friends and colleagues of ADD/ADHD people, thank you for your patience. Or for however much patience you are able to summon.
We don't do it on purpose.
This is a good news/bad news post.
Good News: My car hasn't been hit in at least two weeks.
Bad News: Now it's being eaten.


Is carving pumpkins one of your October/Fall traditions? If so have you carved any yet? What did you carve?
If carving is not one of your traditions, what is? I would love to know what other people do this time of year.
He's just a spooky face. I need to get a candle for him so you can really see the details. I think I did a fantastic job, lol.
This is the first year we aren't carving pumpkins. I think the kids are finally getting over it. But they are getting more and more into scary movies ~ which is great because that is my favorite part of the season!


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Hannibal gone astray ? A critical comment on W. C. Mahaney et al. : "The Traversette (Italia) Rockfall: Geomorphological indicator of the Hannibalic invasion route" (Archaeometry, 52, 1  156-72).
Comments on M. Kuhle and S. Kuhle (2012): 'Hannibal Gone Astray? A Critical Comment on W. C. Mahaney et al., "The Traversette (Italia) Rockfall : Geomorphological Indicator of the Hannibalic Invasion Route" (Archaeometry, 52, 1  156–72)'.


Canadian Space Agency: The Economic Action Plan also provided $110 million over three years to the Canadian Space Agency to support Canada's continued leadership in the design and construction of space robotics. Of this amount, approximately $36 million will be spent in 2010–11 on the development of the Next Generation Canadarm and Exploration Surface Mobility projects. This funding supports new opportunities for innovative Canadian companies and provides jobs for highly skilled employees. This new support will also help prepare Canadian astronauts to participate in future international space missions, similar to those in which astronauts Robert Thirsk and Julie Payette recently participated.
I don't care what it's used for, it's good news.
I am still concerned with the efforts MDA (Canada) has put into the lunar rover & associated items. Unless that aspect is persued in a purely robotic form, it seems unlikely it will come to fruition anytime soon with budget announcement.
Very interesting. I wonder what the usefulness of a next-gen Canadarm would be attached to Bigelow modules, crew taxis, space tugs, Orion, etc. It seems that at least a few planned crew vehicles require a Canadarm for docking.
Well, it puts them well-placed to partner with a US firm (LM, probably) in building any robotic lunar precursors (which, IIRC, are in both the WH and Congressional versions). Ninety percent of lunar surface systems is understanding the environment, and so any preliminary work should carry over.
Brampton, Ontario, September 27, 2012 – Today, on behalf of the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), participated in the unveiling of the Next-Generation Canadarm project (NGC).
The NGC consists of four versatile state-of-the-art robotic prototypes and a mission control station. Minister Goodyear, accompanied by Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield toured MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates' facilities in Brampton, Ontario, where the NGC prototypes, Canadarm2 and Dextre were designed and built for the CSA. The Brampton facility is also preparing the original Canadarm for its future public display.
In 2009, Canada's Economic Action Plan allocated $53.1 million over three years to the Canadian Space Agency to maintain Canada's leadership in the design and construction of the next generation of the Canadarm. The resulting robotic systems provide Canada the capability to study solutions for potential future missions or to service several types of spacecraft—from space telescopes to refueling satellites. NGC's 15-metre robotic arm can fit inside the average mini-van and will fit onboard future smaller spacecraft. A smaller, 2.5 metre robotic arm is equipped with its own set of sophisticated tools and was designed to repair satellites in space. A test-bed allows engineers to simulate bringing two spacecraft together for operations in close-contact. A second test facility simulates the steps required to dock two vehicles together and a mission operations station allows all NGC's systems to be operated remotely.
Since 2006, the Government of Canada has invested nearly $8 billion in initiatives supporting science, technology and the growth of innovation firms in Canada, including $5 billion for advanced research, education and training; $2 billion for post-secondary infrastructure; and $1 billion for applied research and financing. This funding has helped to make Canada a world leader in post-secondary education research and to create the knowledge and highly skilled workforce that are required for a more prosperous economy.


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Q: Laravel 8 Socialite check login is there a way to check if the user has logged in with a Socialite?
because i want to create a post based on this authentication.
what i have done
if (!empty(Socialite::driver('linkedin')->stateless()->user()))
        {
            $linkedinuser = Socialite::driver('linkedin')->stateless()->user();
            dd($linkedinuser);
        }

        return redirect('/profile/');

i expect to get the dump if user has authenticated with linkedin, or else return profile. Instead, i get an error
GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException
Client error: `POST https://www.linkedin.com/oauth/v2/accessToken` resulted in a `400 Bad Request` response: {"error":"invalid_request","error_description":"A required parameter \"code\" is missing"}

how can this be checked ? thanks.


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Financial news releases cause the markets to be very volatile. Whenever a very important news release is mad the markets will tend to make extraordinary movements.
If caught on the wrong foot during news releases, then you will be in for a rude shock. The markets can move with over 150 pips within seconds and you can imagine what would happen if you had a wrong trade during such a time. It would not be a wonder for you to receive a margin call.
Also, for some brokers, the markets seem to freeze during market releases and if you were placing an order at such a time, your order would end up being slipped to a level that you didn't anticipate depending on the market movement at the time. Once a slippage occurs, the market will allow you back in after the volatility settles down and it might be too late since the market may be retracing back after the movement caused by the news. This could cause losses.
Another thing to be cautious about is the spreads. During news releases, the spreads tend to become over exaggerated and if not careful this would result to your order being stopped out to prevent your account from getting a margin call. Actually, due to the large spreads, it is usually not possible to have too many running order during the news since most of the order may turn negative especially during the initial moment when the market tend to get confused on which side to go. When the news are just about to get released, the spreads all of a sudden become large and if you got many trades, it is usually advisable to close them.
To avoid being caught off guard by news releases, you should ensure that you are updated about the news which will be released every day. To do that you can look for websites which give Forex economic calendars which captures every news releases contains all the economic news releases which are set to happen during the week with some even rating the news as strong/high to low/week.
Not have slippages. You should avoid market makers in news trading.
This is a strategy where you get to hedge the market on both sides. By hedging, I mean placing two limit orders at the same time but of cause at different levels. The sell order will be below the current market price while the buy order will be above the current market price.
When placing the buy and sell limit orders, you should ensure you do it like 5-10 minutes before the news release starts. This will give you ample time to set everything up.
You should also ensure to give the market some free space to oscillate before making a decision on which direction to take. Remember that the markets become very volatile at such times and if you place the orders to close to the current market price, both orders may be activated and it may result to losses since one of the order will have to make a loss as the other one makes a profit.
Every order that you place during news releases should have stops. You should place a stop loss and a take profit on each trade so as to minimize the risks.
With the take profit, you are guaranteed that you will get out of the market at your guaranteed level and even if the markets misbehave after that you are not worried.
The stop loss on the other hand ensures that your losses don't go beyond what you can handle.
You should learn to place the stop levels at reasonable levels which are not too close and yet not too far.
Different currency pairs will tend to collate. That means when one currency pair is behaving this way you expect the other currency pair to behave in a given manner.
This helps in choosing the pairs to trade during forex trading. If the news release involves USD, then you should expect all currency pairs with USD to be affected.
After the news release is over and the market have stabilized, you should use the Fibonacci indicator to draw the retracement levels, since the market will most likely move back to its initial level before the news releases.
You should however, be very careful since the markets may take some time to retrace, with some taking even a week. So you should be ready to hold such order for a long time. But you should place a stop loss and a take profit. You should target a take profit at around 50-60% retracement level.


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Q: removing characters like '\u0152\xe6' from string I am trying to convert a string just with English characters, numbers and punctuations but facing an error with encoding and decoding.
The original string is: "DD-XBS 2 1/2x 17 LCLξ 3-pack"
The code I wrote to tackle this issue is:
try:
    each = str(each.decode('ascii'))
except UnicodeDecodeError:
    each = str(each.decode('utf-8').encode('ascii', errors='ignore'))

but I am getting an error:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8c in position 16: invalid start byte

How can I solve this?

A: As it follows from your question, I assume that you use Python 2.7.

The reason of the error is:

*
*Your source code is not in UTF-8 and almost certainly in cp1252.

*In cp1252 the 'Œ' character is the byte '\x8c', and that byte is not valid in UTF-8.

*You specified UTF-8 as the encoding to decode your string in 'except' part.

For better understanding look at that:
>>> u = '\x8c'.decode('cp1252')
>>> u
u'\u0152'

So, when we decode '\x8c' byte with cp1252, there is the Unicode code point, which is:
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.name(u)
'LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE'

However, if we try to decode with UTF-8, we'll get an error:
>>> u = '\x8c'.decode('utf-8')
...
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8c ...

So, '\x8c' byte and UTF-8 encoding are incompatible.

To fix the problem you can try this:
each = str(each.decode('cp1252').encode('ascii', errors='ignore'))

Or this:
each = str(each.decode('utf-8', errors='ignore').encode('ascii', errors='ignore'))

Also in your case you can use ord():
my_str = 'DD-XBS 2 1/2x 17 LCLξ 3-pack'
ascii_str = ''

for sign in my_str:
    if ord(sign) < 128:
        ascii_str += sign

print(ascii_str) # DD-XBS 2 1/2x 17 LCL 3-pack

But possibly the best solution is just to convert your source to UTF-8.