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Q: Can GXT and AutoBeans process XML when the root node has a namespace declaration? I have an XML message I am attempting to parse using GXT and AutoBeans.  The root node of my XML has a namespace declaration and it appears that the AutoBean parser cannot read the XML.
I set up the root of the AutoBean object graph with a PropertyName specification:
@PropertyName("record")
RecordObject getRecord();

But when my XML looks like this:
<record xmlnms:ab="http://anynamespace.com">
<ab:name>SampleName</ab:name>
<ab:email>sample@email.com</ab:email>
</record>

The AutoBean can't seem to decode the XML.  If the namespace declaration is not present, the AutoBean can find the root record object.  Is there some other argument or something I can specify to tell the AutoBean to only look at the element name?
What I have tried
I tried to parse with the namespace stripped out and it works but in my real use case I am not able to remove the namespace declaration. I have also tried to specify the namespace in the @PropertyName attribute - @PropertyName("record xmlnms:ab=\"http://anynamespace.com\"") - but that does not work (nor did I expect it to).
EDIT
I am using GXT's XmlReader to try and parse the XML.

A: GXT's XmlReader sits on top of the build in XML parser that exists in the browser itself. It uses the com.google.gwt.xml.XML module in GWT to gain relatively consistent access to the XML nodes across all browsers, rather than building its own XML parser. By using the built-in implementation in the browser, GXT gets access to the native parser - and it turns out browsers are very good at parsing XML, since that's what they do all day, loading webpages.
Then, GXT has its own query engine to find nodes, in a query language that uses a combination of XPath and CSS3. This mix is to allow it to work well for looking for nodes in the html itself, as well as looking for nodes in xml documents. This is designed to be consisten
However, browsers have inconsistent support (I'm looking at you, IE) for namespaces, and so the XML module in GWT doesn't know how to talk about namespaces, and the DomQuery engine doesnt really either. Additionally, the : operator, which in XML means 'namespace', is used to mean 'psuedo-selector' in CSS, so the query language would be a little vague if it supported this directly: The string foo:bar could either mean "All elements with name foo that match psuedo-selector bar", or "All elements with name bar in the namespace foo".
So enough with the problem: whats the solution? At present, there isn't a good one for namespaced elements in IE6/IE7/IE8 - one part inconsistencies in the browsers and one part lack of ugly workaround in GXT means that you can't read out the elements directly. For all other browsers, to select elements like namespace:eltname, just use @PropertyName("eltname").
One other note: Due to the fact that attributes don't have psuedo-selectors, you can select them - @PropertyName("namespace:attrname") will correctly read out values in the attribute in <element namespace:attrname="value">.


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Microsoft Releases The First Xbox Play Anywhere Title: Recore
by Brett Howse on September 12, 2016 8:00 AM EST
At E3, Microsoft announced a new feature to bring together their Xbox ecosystem with the much larger, and more diverse, Windows 10 user base. The initiative was called Xbox Play Anywhere, and amazingly the name is quite appropriate. The idea is that you can purchase a supported game on either the Xbox One, or Windows 10 store, and you would get the version for the other platform at no cost. In addition, game saves would be synchronized between the two platforms, making for a seamless experience.
The move makes a lot of sense for the company, especially with the Xbox One sales falling short of their chief rival, Sony's PlayStation 4. This is a way to more closely tie the two previously separate platforms. It's taken a lot of work on the platform side to enable this, because only a couple of years ago Microsoft would have had no way to even distribute the game on Windows.
That has changed with Windows 10's Universal Windows Platform, and the Windows Store, which has opened up this possibility. Changes brought in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update have enabled this game sharing, and tomorrow we will see the first Xbox Play Anywhere title launching with Recore, developed by Comcept and Armature Studio and published by Microsoft Studios. This is certainly not going to be the last title either, with all of the games Microsoft announced at E3 also supporting this.
For those interested in trying out Recore, it's a third person action-adventure game, and I've had a chance to play it over the last couple of days on both the Xbox One and the PC. I'm not going to do any plot reviews or anything, but the core game mechanics are one of the few to pull me in this year, and the inclusion of many puzzles as well as combat make for a pretty fun game. Xbox Play Anywhere has worked as advertised, with game saves quickly syncing between the two platforms, and it truly is a seamless experience quitting the game on one platform and picking it up on the other.
To get the best experience on the PC, a pretty beefy system is needed. The Recore team announced the specifications:
On my desktop system, with a Core i7-6700K and GTX 760, I was able to play with decent framerates on their medium setting, but for better graphics a bigger GPU would be recommended. On the Xbox One, my only issue was very long load times, but I did store the game on an external USB hard drive, which likely didn't help. On my desktop, the same level load times went from minutes to seconds thanks to a Samsung 950 Pro.
I think this is a smart move by Microsoft for a couple of reasons, and in hindsight it's a feature that they likely should have added a long time ago, but they didn't have any sort of distribution system that would have worked for something like a PC game before the Windows 10 Store came along. On the sales side, it not only competes with Sony, but also with Steam, especially since the Steam Machine has yet to make a big impact in the console market. Microsoft has done a nice job bringing the console together with Windows 10, with the Xbox app, game streaming, and now Xbox Play Anywhere. They have a lot of work on the hardware side to catch up to Sony, especially with the new PS4 Pro. On the software side, they have a stronger hand.
althaz - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
As long as you don't count iOS or Android you mean?
aliquis - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
To be fair I wish we had .. What was it called? The indie store one? Which is dead now ..
Anyway. I wish the Greenlit CRAP wasn't on Steam.
I would be fine with them calling it "Steam Gold" for the very popular stuff, Steam Silver for older stuff and slightly lower ranked stuff, Steam Bronze for most of the rest and then .. Steam Paper or whatever for the Greenlit key giveaway spam shovel-ware trash.
bug77 - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
You're probably thinking Impulse, from Stardock. Gog is filling that gap now (and is my go to store).
The good thing is that it was what everyone else used.
Now I use it because of bundles but they could of course had used whatever.
GOG would technically possibly had been the best option but since it has so little content ..
Michael Bay - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
"Little"?
Since current games are trash, GOG library is a goddamn goldmine.
bug77 - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Put the hate aside for a moment and read my argument.
The author says Microsoft couldn't have offered this feature before, I said I disagree.
And I have no special love for Steam, I don't even have a Steam account.
Alexvrb - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Maybe but it would have been a mess if they tried to shoehorn it into their older platforms. They were right to wait until they had better UWP and Store support for full PC titles. It isn't perfect but it's decent and the syncing works well.
All that was required was for Steam to let you redeem an Xbox code and some tag telling you which games were cross-platform. I don't see any mess.
inighthawki - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
I imagine the bigger issue is for piracy concerns - how to ensure that you don't unlock the key on steam and give the xbox key to your friend. You need to coordinate between the two services steam and xbox live) to ensure that the same key is not used simultaneously.
Alexvrb - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
It's silly to use a competitor's service. Who pays for the Steam key? Valve wants their cut too. No, the most logical option is to make it all in-house. Also makes synchronization easier for saves, achievements, etc. They can also share the majority of the code this way.
Also developers have to opt-in on this. Some developers will NOT get on board, if you want it on PC and Xbox, you're paying twice. Anyway while I see play anywhere as being pretty nice, it's not must-have for me.
inighthawki: This is true to some degree. I suspect they would have to link an MS account to a Steam account. Either way, in-house is a lot easier.

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 How to Install a 10G XFP Transceiver Module?
How to Install a 10G XFP Transceiver Module?
•Wrist strap or other personal grounding device to prevent ESD occurrences.
•Antistatic mat or antistatic foam to set the transceiver on.
The XFP transceiver module is a static-sensitive device. Always use an ESD wrist strap or similar individual grounding device when handling XFP transceiver modules or coming into contact with system modules.
Step 1 Remove the XFP transceiver module from its protective packaging.
Step 2 Check the label on the XFP transceiver module body to verify that you have the correct model for your network.
Step 3 Position the XFP transceiver module in front of the XFP socket opening on the line card. Slide the XFP transceiver module part of the way into the transceiver socket on the line card front panel.
Step 4 Remove the optical bore dust plug from the XFP transceiver module.
Step 5 Pivot the bail clasp up so that it is parallel with the transceiver module body.
Step 6 Continue sliding the XFP transceiver module into the socket until the XFP transceiver module is mated with the socket connector.
Step 7 Latch the XFP transceiver module in the transceiver socket by pivoting the bail clasp down so that the bail clasp is perpendicular to the transceiver body.
Caution:If the latch is not fully engaged, you may accidently disconnect the XFP transceiver module.
Step 8 Immediately reinstall the dust plug in the XFP transceiver module optical bores. Do not remove the dust plug until you are ready to attach the network interface cable.
–Keep the protective dust plugs installed in the unplugged fiber-optic cable connectors and the transceiver optical bores until you are ready to make a connection.
–Inspect and clean the LC connector end faces just before you make any connections. See the Tip on this page for a pointer to a fiber-optic inspection and cleaning white paper.
–Grasp the LC connector only by the housing to plug or unplug a fiber-optic cable.
a. Remove the dust plugs from the optical network interface cable LC connectors. Save the dust plugs for future use.
b. Inspect and clean the LC connector's fiber-optic end faces.
c. Remove the dust plugs from the XFP transceiver module optical bores.
d. Immediately attach the network interface cable LC connectors to the XFP transceiver module.


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East London's New Lesbian Scene Is Hot, Dark And Sticky
LGBT venues are closing all over London, but in the East End, nights for lesbian, bi and queer women are exploding. BuzzFeed News went along to capture the scene. It's dark, it's cramped, and it's sticky.
By Eleanor Margolis
Eleanor Margolis BuzzFeed Contributor
Posted on August 6, 2015, at 10:45 a.m. ET
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On the Kingsland Road, down through an anonymous-looking doorway, a basement-full of girls is getting sweaty to Nicki Minaj. As Minaj thumps on about butts and whatnot, the sea of thrashing lesbians becomes increasingly choppy.
The concept of "delightfully dank" is hard to explain to anyone unfamiliar with east London's lesbian scene. But down here, it's dark, cramped and sticky. In a fun way. The bare brick walls and concrete floor are part of the charm; a kitschy throwback to the days when queerness only existed underground and you wouldn't regularly see other lesbians in Boots, bulk-buying Gaviscon.
At Lemon Juice, expect to hear everything from Britpop to hip-hop, with a lot of dancy stuff in between. The crowd, although mixed, is young and arty: early twenties, with way more interesting hair than you.
"Lesbian nights are definitely on the up," says Roshana Rubin-Mayhew, 28, one of the four women behind Lemon Juice. Her and friends Jessie McLaughlin, Giulia Astesani and Lalu Delbracio form a collective of local artists – all in their mid twenties to early thirties – who use the money raised by their club night to put on exhibitions.
"When we started going out around here, it was all boys," says McLaughlin. "Gay venues may be going down now, but girl nights are going up."
Lemon Juice has been going since last year, and it now runs every three months in venues around Dalston. This, the fourth instalment, is in the basement of Ivy's Mess Hall – one of those avocado, sourdough and reclaimed-wood-type cafés along Kingsland Road.
Tentatively, I ask what the deal is with the name "Lemon Juice". Rubin-Mayhew, originally from Manchester, explains that up north, a lemon is a lesbian. So, there you go, it's actually pretty filthy.
Astesani tells me that Lemon Juice is supposed to feel a bit like a house party. And it does. A bit like one you end up at while at university, where you arrive knowing no one and leave, with a snail trail of beer cans, knowing everyone.
Who: Arty lesbians and their fans
What: Dancing to cool music in a hot basement
When: Every three months
Where: Venues around Dalston
Website: cargocollective.com/GJRL
APHRODYKI
It's sweaty basement time again. This one's a bit further north, in ultra-lesbian Stoke Newington, below the Marquis of Lansdowne (another nice old pub). The crowd at Aphrodyki, by far the newest lesbian night on this list, is conspicuously femme. It's rare to spot a handbag at any lesbian event, but tonight there are several of them floating about, lost and frightened.
Darkness and dankness are all too familiar on the lesbian scene. But the pure basementness of this basement is, for the most part, eclipsed by upbeat girl pop (Taylor Swift, Destiny's Child, Britney) and the many hot femmes dancing to it. Like lots of these packed-out nights, getting a drink is an ordeal – but drinks queues are prime lesbian flirting ground, so make the most of your wait for a can of Red Stripe.
Same goes for toilet queues. In fact, queuing has become such a fixture at lesbian nights, it's pretty much achieved ritual status. By the end of the night, if you haven't discussed periods or Nietzsche with at least four people while in a toilet queue, you've failed miserably.
Outside the pub, a few covens of queer girls from downstairs are smoking while talking about Orange Is the New Black and their cats' diets.
"I like how inclusive this scene is," says Claire, who, having just finished her finals at Oxford, has come to London to party lesbian-style. "I feel like, in a lot of other places, if you go out and you're trans, or you have a really dykey look, you'll get stared at. But at nights like this, there's no set aesthetic."
Bex Wade
For fans of femmes, accessible music and queuing, Aphrodyki is on monthly in Stoke Newington, and well worth the wait for the Red Stripes.
Who: Young femmes, although all lesbian "types" are represented.
What: Guilty pleasures in a basement. Although not as dirty as that sounds…
When: Once a month
Where: The Marquis of Lansdowne
Website: facebook.com/aphrodyki
Aphrodyki is co-run by Flo Perry, a BuzzFeed staff writer
CLAM JAM
In the Dalston Superstore, another Kingsland Road venue, a visiting DJ from Brooklyn (of course) is playing a dance remix of "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega, while two girls who look like American Apparel models make out in a corner. The Superstore is a café by day and a gay party hub by night. Seeing as lesbians love coffee and dancing in equal measure, you'll find them here both a.m. and p.m. But mostly on Thursday evenings, like this one, because of Clam Jam.
Throughout the Superstore, which is long and thin, a trail of lesbian hipsters and their friends, who are just hipsters, are flapping their vintage threads to R&B, hip-hop and obscure remixes of things. Others are sprawled out on leather sofas, attempting to hold conversations. The walls are covered in artwork (mostly a bit erotic) by local artists.
But what's a "clam jam" when it's at home? There's actually some controversy over this. Some will tell you it's the female version of "sausage fest" (a space containing too many dicks). Others insist that it's a verb, along the same lines of "cock block", i.e. to clam jam someone is to – deliberately or otherwise – prevent a female friend from getting off with someone.
Anyway, if long-haired girls in backwards caps (think Cara Delevingne) are your thing, you should probably get your butt down to Clam Jam.
From the tiny smoking area, I watch the bouncers turn away a middle-aged man in a suit.
"We have a no suit policy at the Superstore, anyway," says Bica Stanisavljevic, 35, one of Clam Jam's DJs and organisers, "but because this is a lesbian night we like to keep it safe for the girls. There have been times I've let in groups of straight guys and they've done some weird shit. Harassing women and stuff."
Stanisavljevic, originally from Serbia, has lived in London for 14 years, and started Clam Jam in 2013 as part of a mission to promote female DJs and inject some new and interesting music into the (often quite samey) lesbian scene.
"I feel like everything's moving east," says IJ, 25, a designer who's been going out on the lesbian scene for about four years. "It's more laid-back and easy-going out here, and the music is much better than in Soho."
Who: Lesbians, hipsters and hipster lesbians
What: Some of the best lady DJs, in a fairly small venue
When: Weekly
Where: The Dalston Superstore
Website: dalstonsuperstore.com/events/clam-jam-57
I'm in yet another basement. This is quite clearly where people like putting lesbians. But this basement differs from the other dyke basements in one major way: it has lasers in it. So, to be fair, it's less dyke basement and more psychedelic lesbian dungeon. Or, as stand-up/comedy writer Sarah, a regular, puts it, "Laser Quest with wine." And if you don't like the sound of that, someone has clearly hurt you, and for that I'm sorry. This basement is in Haggerston, the slightly bleak no man's land between Shoreditch and Dalston, at gay/drag pub The Glory.
I've been at Kitten for five minutes and already I've spotted my first celesbian: Romy from The xx. But then The Glory, which opened last year, is a bit of a gay-famous hub. This is the first lesbian night to be held here.
Upstairs, in the rather genteel (apart from all the drag queens) pub, the crowd is mostly male. But in the sizeable concrete bowels of The Glory, some of London's finest lesbians are having a rave. It's a slightly older crowd than most of the other nights. These women know the scene. And subsequently everyone seems to know each other – although this isn't at all unusual on the lesbian scene.
Kitten began in 2011 but, so far, has only run once a year. It's an elusive one, so catch it while you can. It doesn't have a website, but I recommend keeping an eye on London lesbian bible The Most Cake's super-handy calendar to find out when and where it's happening again.
Anyway, fittingly, because of the lasers, the music is mostly '90s house. Which is cool because, sadly, I spent all of the '90s being too young to go to a rave. Now I'm at something that vaguely resembles one, except with loads of gay women who are famous on Twitter.
"I started Kitten back when there was a serious lack of girl nights," says DJ and organiser Rose Pilkington. "I was also single at the time, so that may have had something to do with it."
See, before Tinder, if lesbians wanted to hook up, they had to start entire club nights. Meditate on that one during your next relentless streak of left swipes.
Alarmingly, Pilkington explains, Kitten wasn't named after every lesbian's favourite baby animal. It's actually a joke about the object that, more than anything else in the world, amuses and repulses gay girls in equal measure: the kitten heel. We may have handbags now, but show me a member of the sisterhood in a pair of slingbacks and I'll eat one of my DMs.
Who: Celesbians, people you know off Twitter, gay men who appreciate lesbians
What: A lesbian rave
When: About once a year
Where: Check the TMC calendar themostcake.co.uk/cake-calendar-2/
Website: None. It's way too exclusive.
UNSKINNY BOP
If you can see someone with three different shades of purple in their hair, a cute butch girl in a bowtie and a Kathleen Hanna lookalike dancing, with reckless abandon, to Britney, you may well be at Unskinny Bop. And OK, it may not be new like the others, but by God it's good, and thus deserves a mention.
This monthly night is usually at the Star of Bethnal Green – ostensibly one of the traditional pubs lining Bethnal Green Road. But the Star is everything you'd want from both an old-fashioned boozer (cosiness, decent beer, wood) and a queer venue (disco balls, bunting, Beyoncé).
The night starts off chilled and conversation-friendly, but by around 1am has escalated into a heaving riot grrrl disco. Music-wise (aside from the likes of Bikini Kill, of course) I've heard everything from rockabilly to Girls Aloud. And all within a few metres of a Tesco Express (which is super-handy, by the way, if you run out of fags before midnight).
Unskinny Bop is friendly, inclusive and far less like a meat market than a lot of other queer nights. Generally speaking, it's more about making friends and dancing stupidly than sourcing your next fuck.
Out of east London's entire catalogue of LGBT nights, Unskinny is probably the most loved and, since it's been running for 10 years now, the most historic. What began as a body-positive party for queers is now a sort of everything-positive party for, well, everyone.
Although not strictly a girls' night – all of the genders ever are welcome at Unskinny – it's popular with lesbians. You are, for example, 100% guaranteed to hear Dancing On My Own by Robyn (the lesbian national anthem) at some point during the night.
"I've been going out on the scene around here for about four years," says Juliet, 27, who works for Stonewall. "I've been to a few of the Dalston nights, but Unskinny is consistently good, so I always come back here."
"I think this is one of the only club nights in London that actually brings together gay guys and lesbians," says Alex, 33, who's been DJ'ing at Unskinny for nine years. "It's such a rare thing."
He explains that, at one point, fashion-y gay boys would queue around the block to get into Unskinny, and it would be pretty normal for someone like fashion designer Henry Holland to pop in. But these days it's a far more mixed crowd in terms of gender and dress sense.
"There isn't exactly a dearth of nights for white gay men," says Sean, 29, a PhD student and an Unskinny regular, "but there is a dearth of queer nights. So, for me, a night like this feels really warm and lovely."
For Sean, who is genderqueer and prefers the pronoun "they", the more vanilla central London gay scene is of very little interest. "I'll occasionally go to Soho for a Nando's," says Sean, "but that's about it, really. I've been turned away from G-A-Y because I don't look 'right'." (Sean rocks a purple undercut and heavy eyeliner).
Who: Queers, unashamed freaks, riot grrrls and everything in between
What: Eclectic music in a completely friendly setting
Where: Mostly the Star of Bethnal Green
Website: www.unskinnybop.co.uk
Other East End lesbian nights worth visiting include Holla, Lazertitz, Hot Snatch, MissFit.
Contact Eleanor Margolis at eleanormargolis@me.com.


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Otvești (deutsch: Ötwösch, ungarisch: Ötvösd) ist ein Dorf im Kreis Timiș, in der Region Banat, im Südwesten Rumäniens. Otvești gehört zur Gemeinde Sacoșu Turcesc.

Geografische Lage
Otvești liegt in 25 km Entfernung von Timișoara, an der Kreisstraße (drumul județean) DJ 609.

Nachbarorte

Geschichte
Infolge des Österreichisch-Ungarischen Ausgleichs (1867) wurde das Banat dem Königreich Ungarn innerhalb der Doppelmonarchie Österreich-Ungarn angegliedert.
Das Dorf wurde 1868 von ungarischen Kleinpächtern gegründet.
Die neu gegründete Ortschaft erhielt den Namen Eötvösfalva, später Eötvös bzw. Ötvösd, zu Ehren des Barons und Ministers Joszef Eötvös.

Der Vertrag von Trianon am 4. Juni 1920 hatte die Dreiteilung des Banats zur Folge, wodurch Ötvösd an das Königreich Rumänien fiel.
In der Zwischenkriegszeit wurde der Ortsname romanisiert, zuerst in Ivești und später in Otvești. Die Mehrheitsbevölkerung blieb jedoch weiterhin ungarisch.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Weblinks
 iskolakveszelyben.ro, Bildung in ungarischer Sprache im Kreis Temes
 magyarvagyok.hu, Ötvösd
 upm.ro, Ungarische Ortschaften im Banat
 banaterra.eu, Ötvösd

Einzelnachweise

Ort im Banat (Rumänien)

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Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act
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Updated at 10:41 a.m. The Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Affordable Care Act. NHPR continues to bring you coverage throughout the day, and reports tonight on All Things Considered.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule today in the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Today is the last day of the Court's current term, and the ruling is expected to be released not long after 10 a.m.
NHPR will bring you coverage through the day and the days ahead of what this highly-anticipated decision will mean.
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A crowd of 27,402 witnessed a 0-0 draw between Nottingham Forest and Doncaster Rovers at The City Ground this afternoon.
The Reds had several chances to take the lead in the first half but were unable to break the deadlock. Rovers produced a strong second half display and at one stage looked the likelier winners, but in the end both sides had to settle for a point.
Billy Davies made two changes to the side which drew at Middlesbrough on Tuesday night. Andy Reid, who came off the bench to claim an assist at The Riverside, was handed his first start since undergoing a hernia operation. Greg Halford was rested in midweek but came back into the side this afternoon, partnering Simon Cox up front. Jonathan Greening kept his place in midfield while Djamal Abdoun dropped to the bench. Former Forest loanees Billy Sharp and James Coppinger lined up in Rovers' attack.
Any hopes of a high-tempo start for either side were quashed in the first minute when Paul Quinn suffered a head injury after a tangle with Halford. Quinn received treatment before returning to the field sporting a bandage, and The Reds took the game by the scruff of the neck soon afterwards.
Halford's cross towards the back post found Cox, who nodded the ball down for Jamie Paterson. The midfielder couldn't get there before the bounce and was unable to generate sufficient power to beat Rovers keeper Sam Johnstone, who held the ball comfortably.
Forest were controlling the early stages and it was from another cross they carved out their next opportunity. Reid's raking ball out to the right was taken down by Gonzalo Jara, the Chilean drilling the ball dangerously into Doncaster's box. Cox had made a run to the near post but was unable to make contact and it ran all the way through and away from danger.
Doncaster had offered very little threat in the opening stages and the home side pressed forward again on the quarter-hour mark. Reid dinked the ball delightfully into the area from a central position. Cox controlled it and spun away from goal to shield it from his marker before laying it off to Paterson once more. Again the former Walsall man couldn't capitalise, sending the ball high over the bar with his left foot.
The visitors did test Karl Darlow five minutes later. Danny Collins had to leap high to head away Coppinger's cross and Richie Wellens was first on the scene to pick up the scraps, volleying the ball towards Karl Darlow's bottom-left corner. The keeper pushed it behind before he was forced to make a similar stop seconds later as Coppinger met the subsequent set piece.
Forest quickly reestablished their dominance, carving out another good opportunity as Cox led a quick break. He slid a lovely through ball to Halford who, running away from goal, could only bobble the ball straight at Johnstone with his weaker left foot.
Halford was involved again five minutes later when he was awarded a free-kick after being blocked off by Wellens 25 yards out. Reid curled the ball over the wall but Johnstone dived to his left and held onto it comfortably.
Danny Fox was the first name in referee Eddie Ilderton's notebook for a foul on Wellens, and the former Leicester midfielder spun away from Majewski three minutes later to hand David Cotterill an opportunity to open the scoring. Cutting in from the left, Cotterill reached the edge of the area before dragging his effort wide of Darlow's near post.
But Forest were straight back on the offensive and twice went close in quick succession on 35 minutes. Majewski found the ball at his feet on the right side of the area before seeing his shot blocked. The ball dropped for Cox who, after adjusting his body, struck the ball cleanly towards goal, bringing out a fine save by Johnstone. Donny somehow cleared the danger.
Two minutes later Paterson won a free kick on the corner of the box. After remonstrations that the foul had occurred inside the area, Reid's pinpoint delivery was perfect for Lascelles. The young defender rose brilliantly but could only head the ball over the bar from six yards out.
The Reds had dominated the first half but had some defending to do before the break. They had Paterson to thank for an excellent block to deny Paul Keegan after the midfielder had latched onto Chris Brown's knockdown on the edge of the area.
Rovers did get a shot away minutes later when Mark Duffy showed excellent determination to keep possession after he cut into the box from the right. He sent the ball over the bar with a snapshot.
Reid's inswinging corner in the second of two added minutes gave Forest hope of taking the first-half lead their performance deserved, but they were left ruing Mr Ilderton's decision not to award a penalty despite Collins appearing to be hauled down in the middle.
There were no changes at the break for either side and it was the visitors who began the brighter - James Husband and Wellens both sending the ball over Darlow's bar within two minutes of the restart.
Forest's response came on 54 minutes when Halford nodded the ball onto the roof of the net after Abdoulaye Meite had failed to clear Collins' lofted pass into the area.
Paterson was next to have a go, seeing his shot blocked after he had cut in from the left, before Reid was replaced by Jamie Mackie.
Darius Henderson followed Mackie into the fray with 24 minutes to play, replacing Cox before Rovers pressed forward. Fox was tested twice in quick succession - firstly being twisted inside out by the nimble Duffy - the winger's shot was easily saved - before positioning himself well to block Sharp's close-range volley.
The Reds were struggling to make an impact and, after an attempt to play the ball out from the back broke down, Duffy was presented with another opportunity to open the scoring. Space opened up for him on the edge of the area but he could only bobble the ball harmlessly wide.
And the visitors were left to rue another missed opportunity 12 minutes from time when, after Cotterill produced a brilliant cross from the right, Sharp dived in to head the ball just wide wide.
created another opening as the game entered its final stages, Husband bursting into the box before drawing a good save from Darlow.
The Reds, who had perhaps been impacted by the absence of playmaker Reid, did manage to test Johnstone again with five minutes left. Greening's lofted free-kick found Lascelles at the back post but the defender could only head the ball straight at the keeper amid a crowd of bodies.
Another half chance presented itself moments later when Fox's knock-down looked like it would present Henderson with a chance to flick the ball into the net at the near post. A Doncaster defender did brilliantly to get in the way and put it out for a corner, from which Collins was unable to get enough power on his header to trouble Johnstone.
The visitors responded through Cotterill, who cut across his right-footed shot, sending the ball a couple of yards wide.
But with a minute of normal time remaining The Reds almost had a winner. Radoslaw Majewski's piledriver moved dramatically around in the air with Johnstone rooted to his line, where he could only punch it away one-handed.
The final chance fell to Derbyshire, on for Halford, but he could only head the ball over from Fox's corner.


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Envoy's local gamer, Mike will be here to lead this demo session of Unauthorized, a social deduction-style game about life around the underground church. Players are assigned public role cards that give them a unique ability to influence the other players. A player's loyalty is determined by the experience cards they hold in their hand. As their cards change, their loyalty may shift. The object of the game is to influence a majority of players to join your side (state or church). The church players must also have at least one player not imprisoned.


BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 20, 2007 -- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved UCB's leading anti-epileptic drug Keppra® (levetiracetam), as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of primary generalized tonic-clonic (PGTC) seizures in adults and children 6 years of age and older with idiopathic generalised epilepsy (IGE). In epidemiological studies generalized seizures account for about 40% of incidence cases, with generalized tonic-clonic seizures estimated at 23%. The new indication, which is the fourth for Keppra® tablets and oral solution in the US, and the second for a generalized seizure type confirms the broad spectrum efficacy of Keppra®. This US approval closely follows the European Commission approval for Keppra® in this debilitating generalized seizure type earlier this year.
In a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of Keppra® as add-on treatment in 164 patients (four-65 years of age) with refractory IGE, nearly a quarter (24.1%) achieved complete seizure freedom from all seizure types over the 20 week evaluation period . This compared with only 8.3% of those who received a placebo in addition to their usual treatment (p=0.009). Nearly three quarters (72.2%) of those who took Keppra® achieved a 50% reduction in weekly PGTC seizures, compared to less than half (45.2%) of those in the placebo group (p < 0.001). In this well-controlled clinical study, the most frequently reported adverse event was nasopharyngitis (14% in Keppra® patients compared with 5% in patients taking placebo).
'People with epilepsy want to be free to get on with their everyday lives. This latest indication for Keppra® supports its broad spectrum of efficacy across partial and generalised seizures types. We are pleased that there is now an opportunity for patients with one of the most debilitating seizure types - primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures - to benefit from Keppra®', said Troy Cox, President CNS Operations, UCB.
Keppra® tablets and oral solution are indicated as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of partial onset seizures in adults and children 4 years of age and older with epilepsy, as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of myoclonic seizures in adults and adolescents 12 years of age and older with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, and as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures in adults and children 6 years of age and older with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). Keppra® is associated with the occurrence of central nervous system adverse events including somnolence and fatigue and behavioral abnormalities, as well as hematological abnormalities. In adults experiencing partial onset seizures, Keppra® is also associated with coordination difficulties. In pediatric patients 4-16 years of age experiencing partial onset seizures, the most common adverse events associated with Keppra® in combination with other antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) were somnolence, accidental injury, hostility, nervousness and asthenia. In adults experiencing partial onset seizures, the most common adverse events associated with Keppra® in combination with other AEDs were somnolence, asthenia, infection and dizziness. In adults and adolescents 12 years of age and older with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, the most common adverse events associated with Keppra® in combination with other AEDs were somnolence, neck pain and pharyngitis. In adults and children 6 years of age and older with idiopathic generalized epilepsy experiencing primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures, the most common adverse event associated with Keppra® in combination with other AEDs was nasopharyngitis. Keppra® is also available as an intravenous formulation for the adjunctive treatment of partial-onset seizures in adults with epilepsy. Keppra® injection is an alternative for patients when oral administration is temporarily not feasible. The adverse events that may result from Keppra® injection use for partial onset seizures include all those associated with Keppra® tablets and oral solution. For the U.S., prescribing information is available at www.keppra.com.
Keppra® is indicated as monotherapy in the treatment of partial onset seizures with or without secondary generalisation in patients from 16 years of age with newly diagnosed epilepsy; as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of partial onset seizures with or without secondary generalisation in adults and children from 4 years of age with epilepsy; as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of myoclonic seizures in adults and adolescents from 12 years of age with JME and as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of PGTC seizures in adults and adolescents from 12 years of age with IGE. In monotherapy the most commonly reported side effects were fatigue and somnolence. As adjunctive therapy in adults with partial onset seizures the most commonly reported side effects were somnolence, asthenia and dizziness. As adjunctive therapy in paediatric patients (4-16 years of age) with partial onset seizures the most commonly reported side effects were somnolence, hostility, nervousness, emotional lability, agitation, anorexia, asthenia and headache. In adults and adolescents with myoclonic seizures the most common reported side effects associated with Keppra® in combination with other AEDs were headache and somnolence. In adults and adolescents with primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures the most common reported side effects associated with Keppra® in combination with other AEDs was fatigue. Keppra® is also indicated for intravenous administration and is available as 100 mg/mL concentrate for solution for infusion. The most common adverse events from Keppra® intravenous use were dizziness, somnolence, headache and postural dizziness. Please consult local prescribing information.
Headquartered in Brussels (Belgium), UCB (http://www.ucb-group.com) is a leading global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the research, development and commercialisation of innovative pharmaceutical and biotechnology products in the fields of central nervous system disorders, allergy/respiratory diseases, immune and inflammatory disorders and oncology - UCB focuses on securing a leading position in severe disease categories. Employing more than 8400 people in over 40 countries, UCB achieved revenue of 2.5 billion euro in 2006. UCB is listed on the Euronext Brussels Exchange and owns 87.6% of Schwarz Pharma.


Kazakhstan has detained Kuanysh Bashpayev for criticising the state-controlled Muslim Board, and Satymzhan Azatov for meeting Muslims without state permission. Both face criminal charges of "inciting religious discord", as does atheist Aleksandr Kharlamov facing a possible new trial. Bashpayev's trial opens 14 February.
KAZAKHSTAN: Sharing beliefs "grave crime" requiring detention?
Kazakhstan's KNB secret police has arrested two Jehovah's Witnesses for discussing their faith with KNB informers. Teymur Akhmedov and Asaf Guliyev are in two months' pre-trial detention, although Akhmedov needs hospitalisation for cancer treatment. The Judge claimed this was to defend a "civilised society".
"Anti-terrorism" legal changes ignoring OSCE recommendations impose foreign religious travel controls, restrict religion book imports "for personal use" to one copy per title, and reinforce state censorship of books and materials on religion. An "anti-extremism" campaign against freedom of religion and belief is planned.
Three pensioners were fined more than two months' pension for praying with hospice residents and offering New Testaments. Courts fined a yoga teacher and a bookseller for offering religious literature without compulsory state licences. But authorities abandoned attempts to restrict judges' freedom of religion.
KAZAKHSTAN: Trial if imam's Istanbul asylum bid fails?
Imam Abdukhalil Abduzhabbarov – in Istanbul Airport with his family since October after deportation from Saudi Arabia - faces criminal trial in his native Kazakhstan if asylum appeal in Turkey fails. The KNB secret police officer who launched the case refused to reveal the accusations.
KAZAKHSTAN: Judges' religious freedom to be restricted?
The draft Code of Judges' Ethics – likely to be adopted at a 24 November congress - proposes wide-ranging bans on exercising freedom of religion outside the professional setting. Judges "shouldn't be very active in their religious conduct", says the Union of Judges secretary.
Founder of Muslim WhatsApp group escapes criminal prosecution, but is fined for distributing uncensored religious literature. Baptists are fined for offering literature on the streets, while parents of one girl who did so are warned and father fined. The OSCE calls for end to religious censorship.
Sunni Muslim Baurzhan Beisembai was sentenced in Oskemen to two and a half years' imprisonment for alleged membership of Tabligh Jamaat missionary movement. Six others were imprisoned and two given restricted freedom. A further imprisonment in Aktobe means 41 such convictions since December 2014.


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Housed in a renovated 19th century manor house overlooking vineyards, the Six Senses Douro Valley offers an incredible blend of nature and luxury. From the moment you arrive on property, you can't help but feel at peace in the beautiful setting.
The sense of place. The hotel was designed in a way that brings the outside in. Large windows fill rooms with natural light and give you amazing views of the famed Douro Valley. And the gardens are amazing. Take time to wander through them and admire the beautiful setting.
A trip to the spa. The spa treatments are also inspired by the destination, and the therapists are top. For wellness beyond a massage or facial, you can do aerial yoga, follow a guided meditation in the woods, or sit down with an in-house expert for a personalized program.
If there's one thing every advisor agrees on, it is the exceptional dining at the Six Senses Douro Valley. Just as the interiors showcase the region's natural beauty, the cuisine celebrates local flavors and Portuguese dishes. Dine in the Vale de Abraao Restaurant and enjoy regional cuisine, or savor small bites in the Quinta Bar and Lounge. And for tapas and wine, head to the Wine Library & Terrace.
…and your tasting at the Wine Library. It is well-stocked with books so you can learn more about the region's wine, and you can partake in the evening wine tasting with the resort's sommelier.
The property is located on the Douro River surrounded by gorgeous vineyards. The closest town is Régua (10 minutes away), and from there you can visit numerous Douro wineries. You can also visit world-famous port houses in Porto, which is 90 minutes away.
Fly into International Airport Francisco Sa Carneiro in Porto and then it is a 75-minute drive to the property. You can rent a car or your Brownell Advisor can arrange a private transfer. If you're coming from Lisbon, it is a 4-hour drive.
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Q: Is there a better than O(N^2) Algorithm to take a set of colors and return colors that contrast or are dissimilar? I am trying to come up with an algorithm that can take a set of colors X and return a new set of colors X' that consists of only contrasting colors from the original set X. In other words I want to filter out similar colors from the passed in color set. If you would like to think in terms of color differencing, the problem can be thought of filtering out all colors that are <= some distance k from any color in the set.
Does anyone know of a way to do this in linear time or O(N). I am ok with other time complexities as well as long as it is not O(N^2), every solution I come up with takes polynomial time. I tried reducing the problem to the famous "find all pairs of integers in an array that sum to K" but that reduction did not work. I am using the deltaE metric to determine how far apart or dissimilar/contrasting two colors are.

A: Use a cover tree to store colors under the ∆E metric. For each color, do an O(log n)-time proximity search in the cover tree and reject it if the nearest color is too close.

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Q: Retrieve what video resolutions(quality) a youtube video with youtube api? A youtube video is usually with multiple video resolutions (quality) like 240p, 360p,720p,etc how can I retrieve what video resolutions(quality) a youtube video has are there any youtube api which can get this information?Google.Apis.YouTube.v3 Client Library does not give information.

A: If we look at the doc of YouTuve API V3 for videos

contentDetails.definition     Indicates whether the video is
  available in high definition (HD) or only in standard definition.
Valid values for this property are: hd sd

If you try in the google Api Explorer with a video of hight resolution you can see the result :
  "contentDetails": {
    "duration": "PT3M26S",
    "dimension": "2d",
    "definition": "hd",
    "caption": "false",
    "licensedContent": true
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definition": "hd"
You can't have highest resolution of the video, you can only know if it(s HD or not.
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Assessment summaries
Ambient Air Quality
Back to Themes
Effectiveness of atmospheric management
Ambient air quality (2016, 2011)
Effectiveness of management
Management of sources of pollutionManagement frameworkIndoor air quality
Ineffective Partially effective Effective Very effective
In Grade In Trend
To previous years
Industrial point sources of pollution
This assessment summary component has changed from 2011.
Title has changed since 2011 assessment
The original 2011 summary, grade, trend and confidence levels have been replicated here to assist comparison of changes between reporting cycles.
Pollution (industrial point sources)
Understanding: Generally very good understanding of air pollutants (types, amounts, sources and processes) from relevant industries, and of technologies and practices to prevent or control pollution
Year(s):
Confidence (in grade):
Confidence (in trend):
Comparability (to previous reports):
Approach/Process
Qualitative assessment based on expert opinion using peer-reviewed literature and publicly available reports referenced in the 'Management section'.
Data/Information sources
See Approach/Process
The assessment remains largely the same as in 2011.
Management of sources of pollution
Understanding: Very good understanding of air pollutants (types, sources and processes), of relevant industries and industrial processes, and of technologies and practices to prevent or control pollution
Planning: States and territories have well-established plans, policies, legislation and regulatory systems to monitor and control these sources
Qualitative assessment based on expert opinion using peer-reviewed literature and publicly available reports referenced in the 'Management' section.
Planning: States and territories have well-established plans, policies and regulatory systems to monitor and control these sources
Inputs: Levels of resourcing to support regulatory and nonregulatory programs vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, generally reflecting the nature and extent of industrial sources in the state or territory
See Approach/Process.
The assessment remains largely the same as in 2011
Processes: All jurisdictions have well-established processes to monitor and control these sources, including reporting, inspection and enforcement processes
Processes: All jurisdictions have well-established process to monitor and control these sources, including inspection and enforcement processes
Outputs and outcomes: Jurisdictions apply works approvals, licensing and related regulatory mechanisms to limit types and quantities of pollutant emissions. Although performance levels vary, inspection and enforcement by environmental regulators, together with emissions monitoring and reporting, provide a sound basis for ensuring effective control of these sources
Motor vehicle emissions
The original 2011 summary, grade, trend and confidence levels have been replicated here to assist comparison of changes between reporting cycles
Pollution - diffuse sources (motor vehicles)
Understanding: Good understanding of vehicle tailpipe emissions, and the relation of fuel quality and control technologies. However, differences between test and on-road emissions can be significant. No systematic verification of on-road emissions. Non-tailpipe emissions, such as dust from brake, tyre and road wear, are not as well quantified. Although non-tailpipe emissions are not projected to increase in absolute terms, they are becoming an increasing proportion of total vehicle emissions
Deteriorating
Understanding: Very good understanding of pollution types, sources and processes, and of interaction of fuels and control technologies
Planning: National and state governments cooperate in relation to planning introduction of improved fuel and engine technology. Introduction of Euro6 originally proposed for 2018 was postponed. Planning now through a new Ministerial Forum on Vehicle Emissions, a whole-of-Australian government approach that includes ministers for environment, infrastructure, transport, major projects, resources and energy
Planning: Australian Government and state governments cooperate in relation to planning introduction of improved fuel and technology standards. Appropriate policy and legislative standards in place at national and state and territory levels
Inputs: Government cutbacks and focus on deregulation has reduced financial and staffing resources to address management issues. Last national in-service vehicle emissions study was in 2008, leading to considerable uncertainty in emissions factors used in modelling the air quality impact of new motorways and road tunnels, and in urban airshed modelling
Inputs: Adequate resourcing at national level for development and enforcement of standards for fuels and new-vehicle technology. Resourcing for in-service vehicle testing and enforcement at state and territory level is variable
Processes: Well-established national processes for promulgating and enforcing fuel and new vehicle emissions-control standards. Improving coordination at the national level between departments with new Ministerial Forum on Vehicle Emissions. Disbandment of bodies such as Fuel Standards Consultative Committee has the potential to reduce input from independent experts in decision-making
Management framework
Processes: Respective roles of Australian Government and state and territory governments are clear. Well-established national processes for promulgating and enforcing fuel and new-vehicle emission-control standards, and good coordination between Australian Government and state and territory governments via ministerial councils and officials' working groups
Outputs and outcomes: New-vehicle emissions standards (Euro 5) introduced since SoE 2011. Generally cleaner vehicle fleet has seen reduction in total tailpipe emissions despite increases in total distance travelled
Outputs and outcomes: National fuel and new-vehicle emission technology standards continue to be tightened. Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics projections show continuing improvements in vehicle pollutant emissions until 2020
Domestic wood heater emissions
Understanding: There is a generally good understanding of the particulate emissions from well-operated domestic wood heaters, but incomplete information about real-world emissions and nonparticulate (gaseous) emissions. Strong evidence available on their significant contribution to poor air quality and related adverse health impacts in many rural towns and urban areas in cooler months. Many factors complicate effective policy action (e.g. socio-economic status, aesthetics, tradition, perceived individual freedom vs community benefit, entrenched attitudes, denial of the problem)
Domestic wood heaters
Planning: National emissions standards for domestic wood heaters revised in 2015. Some jurisdictions have legislated to allow local government to ban new wood heaters except with specific approval (e.g. NSW). Plans in National Clean Air Agreement to adopt the best practices across jurisdictions of stronger compliance and improved in-service maintenance by 2017
Inputs: Management is generally the responsibility of local government, which has insufficient financial and human resources to address pollution from each individual heater. Increasing recognition of the need to ban domestic wood heaters (and open fires) in high-density residential areas or in areas with poor dispersion (e.g. valleys) where neighbours are affected
Processes: Emissions standards for domestic wood heaters updated in 2015, but long life of units means many operate with higher emissions. Effective management systems not yet in place, inconsistent policies across jurisdictions. Unwillingness of politicians to bite the bullet on this complex and controversial issue
Outputs and outcomes: Poor compliance with standards and suboptimal in-service use reduce the effectiveness of the new standards. Little or no reduction since SoE 2011 in contribution of wood heater emissions to air pollution in many areas during winter
Commercial and other domestic services
Pollution - diffuse sources (commercial and domestic)
Understanding: Generally good understanding of these pollution types, sources and processes. Most emissions from these sources are estimated using emissions factors rather than measurements because of the large number of sources. However, there is considerable variability and uncertainty in emissions factors for many of these sources
Understanding: Generally sound understanding of pollution types, sources and processes (chiefly via the National Pollutant Inventory [NPI] and state agency emissions inventories), although the reliance on United States data for some NPI emission factors (in the absence of verification) raises concerns about the accuracy of some NPI data
Planning: State and territory, and (in some jurisdictions) local governments have established plans, policies and regulatory systems to monitor and control these sources. National Clean Air Plan includes establishing emissions standards for nonroad spark ignition engines (NRSIIE) such as gardening equipment (lawnmowers, brush cutters, leaf blowers, chainsaws, chippers) and recreational boating. Domestic wood heater emissions considered separately because, overall, they are such a major source of emissions
Planning: States and territories and (in some jurisdictions) municipalities have established plans, policies and regulatory systems to monitor and control these sources
Inputs: Resources tend to focus on the significant issues from an airshed or jurisdictional point of view, but are quite variable between jurisdictions. Limited resources and monitoring for localised issues and legacy sources seen by some in the community as leading to inadequate management (e.g. odour complaints)
Inputs: Resourcing levels to support regulatory and nonregulatory programs vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and among municipalities
Processes: Management systems in place or being developed (for NRSIIE). Division of responsibilities between jurisdictions and local government generally clearly defined, but not always clear to the community
Processes: All states and territories (and many municipalities) have well-established processes to monitor and control these sources, including inspection and enforcement processes
Outputs and outcomes: Generally effective control of emissions with limited impact on local and (generally) airshed air quality. Complaints about odour and dust continue to be a major air quality issue for local government and EPAs
Outputs and outcomes: Generally effective control of diffuse emissions such as volatile organic compounds from commercial premises and particles (wood smoke) from homes benefits air quality at both the airshed and local level. Ambient monitoring against the National Environment Protection (Ambient Air Quality) Measure standards shows that the standards are met on the great majority of days in all major cities. However, complaints about smoke and odour at the local level continue to be a major focus for investigation and enforcement action by state and municipal officials
Prescribed burning and bushfires
Pollution - diffuse sources (planned burning)
Understanding: Good understanding and greater awareness of air quality and health impacts of smoke from planned burns and bushfires on firefighters, local communities and more distant communities, which can include large populations in urban areas. Some understanding of the differences in emissions from low-intensity planned burns and high-intensity bushfires
Understanding: Recent work in Tasmania indicates that smoke from planned burns is a more significant source of diffuse particulate pollution than previously believed
Planning: Burning for fuel reduction and habitat management purposes, and for forestry regeneration and related operations is subject to various guidelines or codes of practice, and is usually well planned and executed. Uncertainty about the balance between health impacts and the effectiveness of realistic amounts of planned burning for reducing bushfire severity
Planning: Burning for forestry regeneration and related operations and for fuel reduction and habitat management purposes on public land is subject to various guidelines or codes of practice and is usually well planned and executed. Individual property managers make decisions on timing for planned agricultural burning, but must observe any local, regional and statewide restrictions
Inputs: Increasing resources being directed towards air quality issues in planning burns, especially in improving smoke-forecasting models
Not comparable
Highly variable; unable to assess
Unclear
Processes: In most states and territories, authorities responsible for planned burning on public and forestry land have formal arrangements with EPAs, health agencies and local councils, which cover peevious notification, suitability of local meteorological conditions, smoke forecasting (sometimes), monitoring and public health warnings
Processes: In most, if not all, states and territories, authorities responsible for planned burns associated with forest operations and management burns on public land have formal arrangements with environment protection agencies, health agencies and local municipalities, which cover prior notification, suitability of local meteorological conditions, monitoring and public health warnings
Outputs and outcomes: Improving cooperation between agencies responsible for planned burning, and environment and health authorities. Improvements in smoke-forecasting capability are being included in planning of operations and giving improved notification to affected populations
Outputs and outcomes: Although the position is variable among jurisdictions, there is anecdotal evidence indicating improved cooperation between agencies responsible for planned burning and environment and health authorities. There is also improved notification and greater recognition of the significance of local impacts on health, amenity, tourism and so on
Nonregulated diesel engines including shipping and nonroad transport
Understanding: Some understanding of emissions from these nonregulated transport sources, mainly large diesel engines, which have proportionately more particulate and NOx emissions than equivalent petrol engines. They include nonroad vehicles such as earth-moving and mining equipment, locomotives, and those used for commercial shipping and at ports
Nonregulated diesel engines, including shipping and nonroad transport
Planning: A national approach to manage these emissions sources is listed for development in the National Clean Air Agreement, following on from NSW's Diesel and Marine Emissions Strategy
Inputs: Resources currently being deployed to gather information, develop policy proposals and undertake impact assessments
Processes: Management systems are currently not in place, but are under development in some jurisdictions and listed in the work plan for the National Clean Air Agreement. Lack of consistency and integration of management activities across jurisdictions is a problem
Outputs and outcomes: Emissions from new nonroad diesel engines sold in Australia generally higher than in US or EU. Some engines poorly maintained and are very smoky. Regulation introduced in NSW in 2015 to reduce sulfur content of fuel used by cruise ships in Sydney Harbour, but this has since been deemed inoperative because of conflict with Commonwealth legislation. The issue is on the National Clean Air Agreement work plan
Stratospheric ozone
Understanding: High level of understanding of nature and sources of ozone depleting substances (ODSs) and of the chemical processes through which they impact on stratospheric ozone. Likely future effect of greenhouse gases on recovery of stratospheric ozone is not as well understood. Links between reductions in ozone in the stratosphere, increased exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation and health effects (notably increased risk of skin cancer) are well understood
Planning: Signatories to the Montreal Protocol have well-established planning, policy-setting and regulatory mechanisms to give effect to their obligations to phase out ODSs
Inputs: The necessary public and private sector resources are being applied to achieve phase-out schedules agreed under the Montreal Protocol. Assistance is available to developing nations to implement agreed phase-outs
Processes: A range of processes have been established under the Montreal Protocol to facilitate and monitor action by signatories to implement agreed phase-outs
Outputs and outcomes: World production of ODSs continues to decline, and monitoring shows that atmospheric levels of ODSs peaked in the mid-1990s
Understanding: Although understanding is improving as a result of recent studies, most have focused on particular problems, such as unflued gas heaters or environmental tobacco smoke
Planning: Although there are Australian standards for building materials and home heating devices, there is no national standard for indoor air quality
Inputs: Variable across jurisdictions. Attention is largely restricted to unflued gas heaters and environmental tobacco smoke
Processes: Unflued gas heaters are regulated in all jurisdictions. There has been significant growth in restrictions on smoking indoors
Outputs and outcomes: Some areas of significant improvement (e.g. restrictions on indoor smoking in public venues and workplaces; New South Wales phase-out of unflued gas heaters in public schools), but overall highly variable
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Adequate: Adequate high-quality evidence and high level of consensus
Somewhat adequate: Adequate high-quality evidence or high level of consensus
Limited: Limited evidence or limited consensus
Very limited: Limited evidence and limited consensus
Low: Evidence and consensus too low to make an assessment
Comparable: Grade and trend are comparable to the previous assessment
Somewhat comparable: Grade and trend are somewhat comparable to the previous assessment
Not comparable: Grade and trend are not comparable to the previous assessment
Not previously assessed
Keywood MD, Emmerson KM, Hibberd MF (2016). Ambient air quality: Effectiveness of atmospheric management. In: Australia state of the environment 2016, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra, https://soe.environment.gov.au/assessment-summary-39-effectiveness-atmospheric-management, DOI 10.4226/94/58b65c70bc372
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Response to last week's massacre of 17 people at a Parkland high school last week dominated the Sunday morning news shows.
While speaking on New York City's AM 970, Attorney General Pam Bondi urged individuals to report online threats and comments. The FBI admitted it failed to follow up on at least one report that 19-year-old gunman Nikolas Cruz posed a danger.
"What we need is congressional leaders, specifically in my party, to allow some of these bills to come to the floor for debate," Curbelo said.
Deutch said lawmakers need to listen to the students that survived the shooting, who have told him they want action.
"The difference this time is that these kids — you've spoken to them — the world has heard them, they're just not going to sit back after what they experienced, after what they saw, the worst things imaginable, they're not going to just sit back and take it," Deutch said.
Outspoken survivors of the rampage at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School — the second worst school shooting in the nation's history — have drawn international attention in their demands for lawmakers to do something about gun laws to prevent future tragedies like the one that took the lives of 14 of their classmates.
About 100 students are scheduled to take buses to Tallahassee Tuesday night, meet with state lawmakers on the following day and hold a rally on the steps of the Old Capitol at noon Wednesday.
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," David Hogg, a student at the Parkland high school, said he won't feel safe returning to class, calling out Congress to make "reasonable change" to the nation's gun laws.
"How many more students are going to have to die and have their blood spilt in American classrooms trying to make the world a better place just because politicians refuse to take action?" Hogg said.
Appearing on the same program as Hogg, Broward County School District Superintendent Robert Runcie said he'd support the use of student records as part of background checks.
Cruz, who has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the Parkland shooting, had been kicked out of school. The FBI has acknowledged a failure to follow protocols on a tip received about Cruz, while the Broward County Sheriff's Office is conducting an investigation into numerous calls it had received the past few years about Cruz.
Gov. Rick Scott has demanded FBI Director Christopher Wray resign.
Rush Limbaugh, a conservative radio host from Palm Beach, appeared on Fox News Sunday, where he called for the expansion of concealed-carry laws to allow people with permits to be armed in schools.
The state Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled Tuesday to hear a proposal (SB 1236) that would allow school principals or school superintendents designate people who could carry guns during school hours.
A separate measure (SB 1048), expected to go before the full state Senate on Wednesday, would alter the law that prohibits people with a concealed-carry permit from carrying at a religious facility on property that also includes a school. Currently, individuals with a permit are allowed to carry at churches and other religious institutions on property that doesn't have accompanying education facilities.
Posted in 2018 Elections, Florida Legislature, guns, health care, Rick Scott and tagged David Hogg, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Pam Bondi, Robert Runcie, Rush Limbaugh, school shooting, Ted Deutch on February 19, 2018 by Dara Kam.


However, I just watched a lecture from Stanford University on iTunes, and the lecture was talking about retrieving an array of dictionaries from Flickr to work with.
I presume the dictionaries would contain objects like photo name, photo description, Image, with keys for each. But why have an array of dictionary's? Why not have it set up like I have done above?
I'm struggling to understand these concepts. Please help.
Now, you might think, okay, so creating it looks more messy, not a big deal, right?
An array is an ordered container. A dictionary is not inherently ordered. If you want to have 1000 questions in an array you just add them. 10,000 questions, no problem. For a dictionary using a key to order the values the way you're doing is a stretch. Will you use a key of @"ninety-ninth"? when you get to that question number? While it's not completely odd to order the values in a dictionary you would normally do it with NSNumbers as the keys, not strings containing First, second, third, etc. You'll find that to be impossibly cumbersome.
Hey, guys. I think the OP was asking about an "array of dictionaries". So, then question, to me, is: What are the advantages of using an NSDictionary vs. a custom class? Discuss.
Using a NSDictionary with known names for the stored keys as opposed to a custom class with properties for these keys is generally not seen as such a good design. My understanding for this is that whilst you can use constants for the keys it does not require that the constants are used which can result in difficult to debug errors.
@dejo, I'm not certain that that was his question but what the hey?
I use dictionaries in this way an awful lot and it works well. I also sometimes use custom classes. The cases I use custom classes have included for efficiency reasons and because the object needed some more smarts than just being a bag of stuff.
In the efficiency case I had a data structure that contained a lot of dictionaries and each one had some numbers and a few points and rects that were stored as NSValues. Profiling told me that the code that accessed this data structure was slow and I changed it to a custom class where the CGPoints and CGRects were ivars, along with some strings, also as ivars. Profiling told me that this was much faster than getting/setting the rects and points from NSValue so I stuck with the custom class.
So the dictionary works well in the general case where you need a bag of stuff but if you need something special then a custom class may be required.
and use MyPerson everywhere in the code. This is self-documenting what the purpose of the object is, at least better than NSMutableDictionary, and if I decide after a while that I need a custom class it's easier to change the code.
I guess in the Sanford example they don't control the data source but they have a published format that can map to key / value pairs. The method sucking in the data doesn't need to care about what the data means beyond that. If more or less stuff arrives you end up with more or less pairs, if stuff could arrive in a different order then you don't have to determine that at dataloading the order.


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Navigating the Complex Terrain of Life
Mapping People and the Environment
The Health, Strength, and Vitality of a Democracy
Understanding the Invisible: Air Quality and Health
Lead exposure study shows how economics leads to understanding health at another level
A Spotlight on the Mental Health Struggles of Students of Color at CSU
Community Guide Project amplifies housing's impact on health for Fort Collins residents
Economic viability and the health of a community: Tackling wicked problems begins at the kitchen table
Finding Purpose: The Discipline of Spiritual Health
The Wicked Problem of Artist Wellness
Surviving an Invasion during a Pandemic in the 14th Century
Balancing our bodies: How people in early modern Spain approached health and medicine
Mental health, community-building, and the challenges of a global pandemic
Art is an Essential Part of the Human Experience
COVID-19: Stories from CSU Abroad
COVID-19 and Health: Why We Need an Interdisciplinary Approach to a Global Pandemic
In A Year of Challenges, SMTD Experiences Great Support
College of Liberal Arts Winter 2020/Spring 2021 News
Guest Column: Reaction to the Assault on the U.S. Capitol
by Lakin Dickson
Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts	| Students
2020has undoubtedly ushered in a world of change, from intense political conflict to the fierce Black Lives Matter protests that shook the nation; COVID-19 brought a wave of shock as it swept the world and forced us to alter our lifestyles in more ways than one. This pandemic has pushed us to rethink our own health, both physically and mentally, as scientists work on a way to end this pandemic. Although the future is uncertain, one thing is for sure: No one discipline can solve this problem. While we turn to the biological sciences to sequence the virus' genome and look to create a vaccine, we must also think economically, environmentally, psychologically, and sociologically about this viral attack. We are headed toward an answer – science tells us as much – but how do we wrap our heads around the economic, mental, social, and even environmental debris left in this pandemic's wake? In this case, Interdisciplinary Studies functions critically at the intersection of hope and health, transcending disciplinary walls to make connections across and between disciplines.
Introductory economics course at CSU focuses on the impacts of COVID-19
A group of seven Colorado State University faculty took a new approach to an Economics 101 course this fall, team-teaching the course with a focus on the impacts of COVID-19.
A snippet of the class in which students discussed the monetary value of a human life with Associate Professor Terry Iverson was featured in an article in The New Yorker in December.
The course, which was delivered remotely, was much more wide-ranging than that. The faculty from the Department of Economics each taught a section of the class, covering their particular areas of expertise which included impacts on marginalized groups, food production and agriculture, women, and higher education. There was even a section on "greening" the post-COVID economy with sustainability efforts.
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From an economic standpoint, this global virus has disrupted both supply and demand, domestically and internationally, in an interconnected world economy. Infections reduce labor and output while closures and the resulting job losses mean that there is no money to buy products. But economic charts cannot always predict human behavior and economists cannot always account for how individual personality functions to accept this "new normal."
College life is especially difficult. The psychological angst felt by many on campus, away from family, is palpable as young adults head to class (either online or in person) anxious about an uncertain future and their own mental health, a kind-of psychological "profits" and "loss" not addressed by conventional economics. In general, any topic related to health, whether it be the economy, the self, nutrition, the environment, and so on—necessitates that we not only consider individuals within their lived contexts, but recognize the limitations of singular disciplinary thinking.
Economics cannot fully flesh out the complexity behind COVID-19 anymore than psychology can. Interdisciplinary Studies, however, gets us closer. With a complex systems approach, Interdisciplinary Studies generates a better understanding of the world as it brings together researchers and experts from various disciplines to work together and tackle complex problems. Our current health pandemic makes this clear.
As an interdisciplinarian, I understand that today's health challenges require a synergistic approach. Understanding theoretical and methodological stances of other disciplines has helped me break down those disciplinary walls and open up a new space in which we can better understand our current health crisis. It is not just the health sector alone that will carry us through COVID-19 and beyond, but the integration of the economic, environmental, psychological, sociological, and political insights as well. Recently, interdisciplinary research has provided extensive insight into health inequalities, social stigmas of disease, religious and spiritual challenges to pandemics, and the effects of disease on natural habitats.
With a complex systems approach, Interdisciplinary Studies generates a better understanding of the world as it brings together researchers and experts from various disciplines to work together and tackle complex problems.
With many of the stay-at-home orders in mid-March, the stilled human activity has created a more peaceful world for animals and wildlife. For example, a study in Florida found that while female loggerhead turtles typically lay eggs around 50% of the time they crawl to shore, this rate has increased to 61% from the initial lockdown orders. Due to closures prohibiting people, dogs, and cars on the beach, and the limited use of bright lights and public resources, the lockdown has done some favors for our environment. Despite the drawbacks of this pandemic, it appears to have pushed us to re-trace and rethink how we interact with our surroundings, finding transformative ways to co-exist with other species and our environment.
Certainly, we are living in a world of greater interdependence that requires interdisciplinary solutions. The Coronavirus may have slowed things down, but it also gave us pause. Through interdisciplinary research, definitions are clarified, commonalities emerge, and intersections form. As a student whose academic focus is interdisciplinarity, I have been able to develop methods of integration and connection to heal, both personally and academically. I see the value of common ground and pulling together content from multiple disciplinary insights and perspectives to better understand our current health crisis. Interdisciplinary research is not only necessary, but foundational to providing innovative solutions to complex problems like health.
Lakin Dickson is a senior majoring in Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts.


Sometimes a critic thinks they know what they're getting only to have the rug pulled from under them and their expectations defied. 'Drawing Fashion', the current exhibition of fashion illustration at London's Design Museum, was a definitive "WTF?" moment for this reviewer. The warning signs had been there. In his opening speech, curator and esteemed fashion journo, Colin McDowell, had voiced his distaste for fashion photography and the fashion photography of the 70's in particular, and had laughingly referred to two high-profile magazine editors, one of which having declared fashion illustration dead and buried whilst the other admitting to him that she knew very little about the art form.
I was lulled into a false sense of security by the chosen venue and the archive footage played at the start of the show, films of vintage catwalk collections from the likes of Christian Dior, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Yohji Yamamoto, and Viktor & Rolf. A brief synopsis on the wall of the museum's stark, futuristic show space explained the nascent beginnings of fashion illustration following Conde Nast's acquisition of La Gazette du Bon Ton in 1921 and the creation of French Vogue. Following this were a series of drawings by the genre's forebears – Erte, Georges Lepape, George Barbier, and Eric.
The impossibly elegant depictions by Bernard Blossac of aristocratic ladies in their couture en repose began to inject some social commentary into the exhibition. It was at this point, as the illustrations became more and more stylised, where I had an inkling that something was not quite right…..
Onto the post-war period with Christian Berard, Rene Gruau, and the late 60's and Anna Piaggi's pet artist Antonio Lopez, who often utilised the styles of the fashionable artists of the day, such as Bridget Riley and Roy Lichtenstein, in his work.
Antonio, Joanne Landis, Carnegie Hall Studio 1967.
The modern section concentrated specifically on three main artists. Francois Berthoud, through his iconic commissions by Myla and Commes des Garcon, Aurore de la Morinerie, and Mats Gustafson.
Here the artists shunned traditional media, and whilst Gustafson's bright watercolour washes for Tiffany may have appeared prosaic, they were also beautiful pieces of art in their own right.
Herein lies the problem. As the exhibition progresses the artists' vision becomes so far removed from the designer's that by the end, when confronted with a dense, enamel rendering of a Viktor & Rolf piece, you realise that this show is not about design at all, and the initial films and early sketches mere red herrings. The later selection in the show is also curiously flat and devoid of texture, surely essential when depicting tactile forms such as clothes?
McDowell and his co-curator, Joelle Chariau of Galerie Bartsch & Chariau, have created a contradiction – simultaneously celebrating fashion illustration whilst also sentencing it to an old age of specialist publications and Taschen coffee table hardbacks. A eulogy in every sense. As you leave, a specially commissioned mural by Berthoud portraying Gareth Pugh's latest work covers the end wall, and you can't help but wish that this exhibition had been less about great art and more about good fashion design.
Have you seen the 'Drawing Fashion' exhibition yet and do you agree with Lee? Please leave a comment in the box below.
I see what you're saying, but I think you're missing the point. Fashion illustration is completely different to fashion design – and this is a celebration of the former, which is an artform, not the latter, which is design.
Fashion design – from concept to CAD, is much more technical and always refers to specifics – print, shape, cut, fabric. Fashion illustration is more of an interpretation of the finished garment or collection. Not always (but sometimes) as a tool to sell the individual pieces, more as a way to capture the essence of the collection or designer, to evoke that original concept, to celebrate the way the clothes accentuate the body and become art in themselves.
I haven't seen the exhibition yet so can't comment on the specifics on what's in there – but illustrators such as Rene Gruau etc, weren't involved in any way the design of the fashions – more from a magazine viewpoint, as an editorial or advertising piece to create beautiful art that would evoke the emotions/feel of the pieces – if that means forgoing small details as exactly what fabric or texture the garment is, then, yes, in order to create the overall bigger picture.
These days, especially, with the advent of photography, fashion illustration is even less important to evoke the details of the garments – as photos can capture that perfectly. It is therefore more of an extension of the essence of the piece or collections and an aspirational image to derive beauty from.
Nice to hear opinions on exhibitions though, and a good review 🙂 Like your stuff!
Thank you for kind comments.
I do understand the difference between fashion design and illustration, and I was probably at fault for not reading up on the exhibition before attending the private view.
I do feel, however, that the Design Museum is probably not the correct venue for this exhibit, and that possibly the exhibition name is a misnomer – as the only "fashion" explored is the changing styles of art and use of media whilst the focus, the actual clothing, feels secondary.
However, like I said, these works are beautiful pieces in their own right. Maybe fashion illustration has evolved beyond its subject matter?
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Q: Unit test Class in MVC I have following class in my project
 public class Data
    {
         public void Getdata(){
            var user =  HttpContext.User.Identity.Name;
        }
    }

It is showing null reference exception
It works nicely for Controller, but not for class as Class does not have ControllerContext . Any help?

A: You could restructure your class a little to test it in a similar way. One way would be to add a constructor that accepts an HttpContextBase:
public class Data
{
    private HttpContextBase contextBase;

    public Data(HttpContextBase context)
    {
        this.context = context;
    }

    public Data() : this(new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current))
    {
    }

    public void GetData()
    {
        var user = this.context.User.Identity.Name
    }
}

Then you could pass in your mocked HttpContextBase during your unit test.
[TestMethod]
public void Test()
{
    var fakeHttpContext = new Mock<HttpContextBase>();
    var fake = new GenericIdentity("user");
    var prin = new GenericPrincipal(fakeIdentity, null);

    fakeHttpContext.Setup(t => t.User).Returns(prin);

    var data = new Mock<Data>(fakeHttpContext.Object);

    // Now you can successfully call data.GetData()
}


As everyone gets back into the groove of school, schedules become more and more crowded. Packed schedules don't have to always mean that packed lunches get moved to the wayside. Step aside crustless PB&Js, we're here to make health taste great. Here are six new inspired lunch ideas your kiddos will love to eat and you'll be proud to make. Bonus: added notes with jokes or fun facts are always a hit.
It's time to get those little gears turnin'! Easy to assemble, the Brain Booster Lunch packs some nutritious punch with healthy fats from the eggs and a vitamin-rich berry medley.
Bursting with vitamin C, the colorful fruits and veggies in this lunch will help keep your kiddos' immune systems strong.
When your kid can't get enough of breakfast, pack it up again for lunch! Super easy to assemble in a snap, your kids will love the theme. Pro tip: cut the waffles into strips after you toast them so the pieces are easy to dip.
Almost too pretty to eat, these assorted colorful goodies are sure to put a smile on their faces. From the red cherry tomatoes to the purple wrap bites, these ingredients will provide natural antioxidants and nutrients that taste just as good as they look.
Check all the macronutrient boxes, with a plant-based lunch box. Proteins? Check. Healthy fats? Check. Complex carbs? Check. You probably already have most of these ingredients in your pantry!
Protein doesn't always have to come from meat. Your kids' favorite foods, like cheese and peanut butter, have plenty of protein too. The sharp taste of cheese goes just right with the sweet grapes.